#9285, aired 2025-03-07 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: It's home to several great art museums, including the Prado Madrid |
#9285, aired 2025-03-07 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1200: If you're enjoying beer & dumplings in Bratislava, you're in this country Slovakia |
#9285, aired 2025-03-07 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $2000: Once home to the grandmasters of the Knights of St. John, the Grandmaster's Palace is a must-see in this city Valletta |
#9285, aired 2025-03-07 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $2,800 (Daily Double): These 2 rhyming "B" capitals, each with close to 2 million people, are located about 500 miles apart Budapest & Bucharest |
#9248, aired 2025-01-15 | STATE CAPITALS $400: The birthplace of the Oldsmobile, it was first called the Village of Michigan Lansing |
#9248, aired 2025-01-15 | STATE CAPITALS $800: French explorer Bernard de la Harpe gave what's now this capital the name "La Petite Roche" in 1722 Little Rock, Arkansas |
#9248, aired 2025-01-15 | STATE CAPITALS $1200: Named for a German chancellor, this capital got a boost in popularity after gold was discovered in them thar Black Hills Bismarck |
#9248, aired 2025-01-15 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): This state capital lies where the Severn River flows into Chesapeake Bay Annapolis |
#9248, aired 2025-01-15 | STATE CAPITALS $2000: Named for a nearby mountain range, this capital is located on Budd Inlet Olympia |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $400: Like the "J" in its capital Guadalajara, this state's first letter "J" is also pronounced like an "H" Jalisco |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $800: The beautiful city of Villahermosa is the capital of this saucy state down south Tabasco |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Mérida is the capital of this southeastern peninsular state Yucatán |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $1600: Capital of the same-named state but sometimes followed by "de Zaragoza", it's the site of the 1862 battle on Cinco de Mayo Puebla |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $2000: Mexicali is the capital of this northwestern peninsular state Baja California |
#9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $400: Tourists in this Jamaican capital may want to visit the Bob Marley Museum & Liberty Hall, a museum devoted to Marcus Garvey Kingston |
#9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $800: The Almendares River traverses this Caribbean capital & empties into the Straits of Florida Havana |
#9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $1200: Gustavia, capital of Saint Barts, was named for this country's King Gustav III Sweden |
#9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $1600: This capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands was founded in 1666 as Taphus, Danish for "beer hall" Charlotte Amalie |
#9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $2000: In 1749 the French laid out this capital in a grid pattern around a port called L'Hopital Port-au-Prince |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | FORMER CAPITALS $400: To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, in 1987 Congress met in this former national capital Philadelphia |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | FORMER CAPITALS $800: In 1284 a parliament began meeting at Moot Hill in Scone; in 1452, it moved to this city Edinburgh |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | FORMER CAPITALS $1600: In 1991 newly built Abuja took the capital status from this much larger city to its northeast Lagos |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | FORMER CAPITALS $2000: This European city has only been a national capital since the 1250s; before that, you visited the King in Coimbra or Guimarães Lisbon |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | FORMER CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): Busan replaced this city as a national capital from 1950 to 1953 Seoul |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | CAPITALS & THEIR AIRPORTS $200: It's about 25 miles from Sphinx International Cairo |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | CAPITALS & THEIR AIRPORTS $400: It's served by Incheon International Seoul |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | CAPITALS & THEIR AIRPORTS $600: Ninoy Aquino International is nearby Manila |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | CAPITALS & THEIR AIRPORTS $1000: Its main airport is fittingly called El Alto & breathing may be hard upon landing La Paz, Bolivia |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | CAPITALS & THEIR AIRPORTS $2,800 (Daily Double): King Khalid International is its gateway Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS $400: This capital of Barbados does have the type of structure in its name, like the 1872 Chamberlain one Bridgetown |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS $800: The names of these 2 Central American capitals include the full names of their countries Guatemala City & Panama City |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS $1200: Though it's in the middle of the island, not a port, Antananarivo is this country's capital Madagascar |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS $1600: Alofi is the capital of this newly independent island state recognized by the U.S. in 2023 Niue |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS $2000: Bissau is the capital of Guinea-Bissau; this is the capital of regular Guinea Conakry |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: One of this Swiss city's most famous landmarks is a bear pit that displays live specimens; the original pit dates to 1513 Bern |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: Once this capital's largest temple, the Olympieion, or temple of the Olympian Zeus, took nearly 7 centuries to build Athens |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: This nation's capital, Ljubljana, was destroyed by Attila the Hun in the 5th century but eventually rebuilt 700 years later Slovenia |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: This capital founded by Norseman Ingólfur Arnarson in 874 is heated by water piped in from nearby hot springs Reykjavik |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1000: This city on the Danube that became a national capital in 1993 lies near Austria & Hungary & once served as Hungary's capital Bratislava |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This Kenyan metropolis outdoes Denver by a few hundred feet in the mile high capital city club Nairobi |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It was the capital of Gran Colombia before it was the capital of (regular) Colombia Bogotá |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: This capital of Cambodia is at the junction of the Mekong & the Tonlé Sap Phnom Penh |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: It's not just the capital--it's also one of Morocco's 4 imperial cities Rabat |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: Climbing up on Medvednica Hill, I could see this end-of-the-alphabet city's light & pictured its 13th c. invasion by Mongols Zagreb |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $400: We hear the waffles are good:
RUBS LESS Brussels |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $800: It's big in antiquity: HASTEN Athens |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $1200: It's called the "White City of the North":
SILKEN HI Helsinki |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $1600: It's on a horn:
BAA BAD SAID Addis Ababa |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $2000: Mexico adjacent:
MAP NOBLE Belmopan |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $400: The most populous city in India, this capital of Maharashtra state is also home to the country's leading stock exchange Mumbai |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $800: Formerly Calcutta, Kolkata is capital of "West" this state; the "East" part became its own country in 1971 Bengal |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $1200: You've probably talked to a call center in Karnataka's capital, this city known as the "Silicon Valley of India" Bangalore |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $1600: This capital of Madhya Pradesh state is known as the City of Lakes, but sadly also as the site of a Union Carbide disaster Bhopal |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $2000: Panaji is the capital of this 3-letter state, one of India's smallest & a possession of Portugal for more than 4 centuries Goa |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The capital of the Lazio region, this city is on the Tiber River Rome |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Only about 20 miles from the border with Iran, Ashgabat is the capital of this "stan" Turkmenistan |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Dodoma was designated the new capital of this country in 1973, replacing Dar es Salaam Tanzania |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Mexico City's main airport is named for this national hero & president of the country from 1861 to 1872 Benito Juárez |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,800 (Daily Double): These 2 capitals of Sierra Leone & Gabon have similar meanings, though one's in English & one's in French Freetown & Libreville |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: This crime is in Nevada's capital arson (in Carson City) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $800: This wind in Maine's a gust (in Augusta) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1600: This tree in Tennessee's ash (in Nashville) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1,800 (Daily Double): This noodle in California's ramen (in Sacramento) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $2000: This Roman poet in Rhode Island's Ovid (from Providence) |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $300: This Lone Star State capital moonlights as the "live music capital of the world" Austin |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $600: Home to General Dynamics electric boat, Groton, CT is the longtime "world capital" of these underwater vessels a submarine |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1200: If you like brats & getting barreled, head to Sheboygan in this state, the "world capital" of bratwurst & freshwater surfing Wisconsin |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1,500 (Daily Double): This Ohio city is the "rubber capital of the world" & the hometown of NBA icon LeBron James Akron |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1500: Once the "logging capital of the world", this city in Washington State is now best known as the setting of the "Twilight" saga Forks |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $200: Near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada:
MOST ARCANE Sacramento |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $400: On the eastern bank of the Missouri River:
RIB SMACK Bismarck |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $600: Probably from French:
SIDE OMENS Des Moines |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $800: Named for a princess:
PAIN SALON Annapolis |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $1000: Down south:
ASHES ATE ALL Tallahassee |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | STATE CAPITALS $200: It lies on the Kansas River Topeka |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's about 90 miles from San Francisco Sacramento |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | STATE CAPITALS $600: Daniel Boone's grave is in this Kentucky capital Frankfort |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | STATE CAPITALS $800: It's home to the Clinton Presidential Library & Museum Little Rock |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It's about midway between Yellowstone & Glacier National Parks Helena |
#8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Helena is the seat of Lewis & Clark County as well as the capital of this state Montana |
#8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $800: This Iowa capital began as a fort in 1843 & the Women's Army Corps began there a century later Des Moines |
#8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $1200: This city of 200,000 stands near where the Coosa & Tallapoosa Rivers merge to form the Alabama River Montgomery |
#8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center serves residents of this capital that hosted the 1st Whig Party convention in 1839 Harrisburg |
#8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $7,000 (Daily Double): The Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce is found in this New England state capital Augusta |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It was the birthplace of author James Joyce Dublin |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Indira Gandhi International Airport serves this capital New Delhi |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: It's home to Kim Il-sung University Pyongyang |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in this capital of the United Arab Emirates is an architectural masterpiece Abu Dhabi |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $3,000 (Daily Double): Of South Africa's 3 capitals, this judicial one is alphabetically first Bloemfontein |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $400: For info on this state capital, check out The Redstick Blog Baton Rouge |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $800: This capital was named for the man called "Old Hickory" Jackson |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $1200: Just 15 years after becoming a state capital, it became the first capital of the Confederacy Montgomery |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $1600: A former camp of de Soto, it was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union forces Tallahassee |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SOUTHERN CAPITALS $2000: The headquarters for the Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests are in this capital Columbia |
#8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Its thriving movie industry was once dubbed "Hollywood on the Nile" Cairo |
#8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Leveled during World War II, it was replaced as capital for nearly 30 years by Quezon City Manila |
#8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Your plane has touched down at Jose Marti International Airport--welcome to this world capital Havana |
#8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: When spelled as one word, this capital of Mongolia has 2 sets of double As Ulaanbaatar |
#8624, aired 2022-04-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Kigali is home to the university of this country Rwanda |
#8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $200: The Gulf of Finland causes a 50-mile gap between Tallinn & this capital of Finland Helsinki |
#8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $400: It's about a 50-mile jaunt from Damascus, Syria to this Lebanese capital Beirut |
#8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $600: It's a mere 2 miles from Kinshasa to Brazzaville, but there is no bridge joining them across this river--yet the Congo |
#8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $800: A ferry service runs between Buenos Aires & this nearby capital of Uruguay Montevideo |
#8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $1000: It's about 140 miles from Rome to the capital of this serene republic that is surrounded by Italy San Marino |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $400: Benjamin Lee Guinness was its Lord Mayor in the 1850s Dublin |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $800: Wenceslas Square is at its heart Prague |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Known as the "City of Columns", it's one of the oldest in the Caribbean Havana |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $2000: 3 A's are the only vowels in the name of this capital of Eritrea Asmara |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $2,500 (Daily Double): This European city is alphabetically last among world capitals Zagreb |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This South American capital was originally named for "Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds" or "Good Air" Buenos Aires |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: The Tigris River cuts through the center of this capital Baghdad |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): Get your Gangnam style on in the upscale Gangnam district of this city Seoul (Korea) |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This capital of Malta was named for a Grand Master of the Knights of St. John Valletta |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The Vardar River divides this capital of North Macedonia into old & new sections Skopje |
#8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: At about 10.5 degrees north latitude it's the northernmost of South America's capitals Caracas |
#8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Buenos Aires & Montevideo are situated on opposite sides of this "river of silver" estuary Rio de la Plata |
#8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Guyana's capital was founded in 1781 & named for him, a far-off king at the time George III |
#8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: Like our own capital city, this South American capital sometimes has "D.C." after its name Bogotá |
#8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: The world's highest national capital, La Paz, Bolivia lies on the edge of this Andean region, from the Spanish for "high plain" the Altiplano |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $400: Named for Ponce de Leon, Leon County Tallahassee |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $800: Maricopa County Phoenix |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $1200: Kent County (one of only 3 in the state) Dover, (Delaware) |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $1600: Merrimack County Concord, New Hampshire |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $2000: Travis County Austin, (Texas) |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: 1776 wasn't just a big year for us--Guatemala City was founded, 3 years after Antigua Guatemala was felled by one of these an earthquake |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Do you know the way to this capital of Costa Rica? If you do, check out its National Theatre, modeled after the Paris Opera San Jose |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: Belmopan, with a population about the capacity of Madison Square Garden, is the capital of this nation on the Caribbean Belize |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $1600: Poet Rubén Darío is honored with a park & monument in this city that became Nicaragua's permanent capital in 1857 Managua |
#8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: It took 15 years to finish Panama City's Biomuseo, designed by this L.A. man; the nearby canal took 5 less, but he didn't design that (Frank) Gehry |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $400: The U.N. says this capital of Bangladesh is the world's most crowded city Dhaka |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $800: This name of Ghana's capital is derived from nkran, a type of ant prevalent in the area Accra |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $1200: Some girls who share a name with this Eastern European capital spell it with a "PH" in the middle rather than an "F" Sofia |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $1600: The metropolitan area of this city, once a small fishing village named Edo, is home to 38 million people Tokyo |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): Roads from this capital directly lead to Kandahar & to Uzbekistan & Pakistan Kabul |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: As well as the capital, Kingston is also the commercial & cultural center of this country Jamaica |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: When figure skater Sonja Henie was born in this city in 1912, it was still known as Christiania Oslo |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: This capital of Belize starts with the same first 3 letters as the country Belmopan |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This capital of Latvia is the most populous city of the Baltic states Riga |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: This city's Chapultepec Park is home to museums, a zoo & an amusement park Mexico City |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This southern capital is known as "The Big Peach" Atlanta |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's home to the American Hockey League's Iowa Wild Des Moines |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $600: This capital's St. John's Church was the site of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" oration Richmond |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $800: The capitol building in this North Dakota capital is home to the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Hall of Fame Bismarck |
#8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: Founded around 1610, it once served as the seat of power for the Spanish empire north of the Rio Grande Santa Fe, New Mexico |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Although this is Chile's capital, the national congress meets in Valparaiso Santiago |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Attractions in this capital include Rajpath (meaning "king's way") & the Baha'i Temple New Delhi |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Rising out of a fjord, this capital city has an opera house that appeals to music lovers & skateboarders Oslo |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: New towers are changing the skyline of Amman, capital of this country Jordan |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $8,400 (Daily Double): Eucalypta, Kangaremu & Cookaburra were suggested names for this capital Canberra |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $400: In 1786 this state's senate voted & Columbia beat out Washington as the name of the new capital South Carolina |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $1200: This northern state capital bears the first name of Monsieur Chouteau Pierre |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: Ransom Eli Olds created 2 major car companies in this city Lansing |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is in the capital of this western state California |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | STATE CAPITALS $2000: Seen here is a train on this railroad whose name includes two state capitals & a third city the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's about 85 miles northeast of San Francisco Sacramento |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $800: 6 bronze stars on South Carolina's State House in this city mark where Sherman's cannonballs hit it during the Civil War Columbia |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: Penacook & Rumford are previous names of this capital located on the Merrimack River Concord |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's less than 15 miles from Hersheypark to the capitol building in this city Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) |
#8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $2000: Antislavery settlers from Lawrence chose the site for this city in the 1850s Topeka |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $200: Most locals call this capital on the east bank of the Nile "Masr" Cairo |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: A water hole called Enkare Nairobi, or "cold water", eventually became the capital of this country Kenya |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $600: The Indian Ocean seaport of Mogadishu is the capital of this nation Somalia |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $800: Upon the independence of this nation in 1962, Kampala replaced Entebbe as its capital Uganda |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $2,400 (Daily Double): The American Colonization Society founded this city that now neighbors Bushrod Island Monrovia |
#7883, aired 2018-12-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: If you really, really want to visit North Korea, you'll probably fly into this city's Sunan Intl. Airport Pyongyang |
#7883, aired 2018-12-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: In 1749 the French laid out this Caribbean capital in a grid pattern & called it L'Hopital Port-au-Prince |
#7883, aired 2018-12-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This South American capital is the only city planned & built in the 20th century to be made a World Heritage site Brasilia |
#7883, aired 2018-12-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Thimphu, capital of this Himalayan kingdom, is said to be the only world capital without traffic lights Bhutan |
#7883, aired 2018-12-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $4,600 (Daily Double): It's continental Europe's westernmost national capital Lisbon |
#7864, aired 2018-11-15 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: After deciding they didn't want that Ottoman in the living room anymore, Greeks made this city the capital in 1833 Athens |
#7864, aired 2018-11-15 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: Seen here is this London body of water on Lord Mayor's Day in the 1740s the Thames |
#7864, aired 2018-11-15 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1200: Bring some extra vowels if you visit the Vltava River in this Czech Republic capital Prague |
#7864, aired 2018-11-15 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1600: Built in the 1000s, the Golden Gate of Yaroslav the Wise is a bridge into the history of Kiev, capital of this nation Ukraine |
#7864, aired 2018-11-15 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $2000: This seat of Russian government in Moscow includes the bell tower of Ivan the Great the Kremlin |
#7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DOUBLE-LETTER STATE CAPITALS $200: It's been home to the Grand Ole Opry since 1925 Nashville |
#7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DOUBLE-LETTER STATE CAPITALS $400: It houses a 338-acre military academy founded there in 1845 Annapolis |
#7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DOUBLE-LETTER STATE CAPITALS $600: It's the hub of an urbanized area that includes the borough of Steelton Harrisburg |
#7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DOUBLE-LETTER STATE CAPITALS $3,200 (Daily Double): Named for a president, it was laid out by Daniel M. Boone, son of the famous frontiersman Jefferson City |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SCRAMBLED WORLD CAPITALS $400: Northern Europe:
MOCK SLOTH Stockholm |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SCRAMBLED WORLD CAPITALS $800: Way, way down south in the Pacific:
NO GENT WILL Wellington |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SCRAMBLED WORLD CAPITALS $1200: South America;
SERIOUS BEAN Buenos Aires |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SCRAMBLED WORLD CAPITALS $1600: The Middle East:
A DRY HI Riyadh |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | SCRAMBLED WORLD CAPITALS $2000: In Indochina:
AN INVITEE Vientiane |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Amstel flows under some 1,300 bridges & viaducts in this capital Amsterdam |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: You want pyramids, we got pyramids! Come to Teotihuacan near this capital & see the Pyramid of the Sun Mexico City |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Rent yourself a van in Yerevan, this country's capital, then shoot through Turkey to the Black Sea Armenia |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: At the foot of the Elburz Mountains lies this capital whose name you can spell with or without an "E" in the middle Tehran |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,500 (Daily Double): You need to use 2 hyphens when spelling the name of this Caribbean capital founded in 1749 Port-au-Prince |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: The tomb of the 12th century Muslim leader Saladin is located in this Syrian city Damascus |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | ASIAN CAPITALS $800: Klang Klang Klang went the river! The Klang & Gombak Rivers meet in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of this Malaysia |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1200: Dushanbe in Tajikistan means "Monday"--that was the day of this weekly event bringing buyers & sellers to town a bazaar (or market) |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1600: With upscale shopping & blazing lights, the Xinyi district in this island capital resembles Tokyo's Ginza Taipei |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | ASIAN CAPITALS $7,000 (Daily Double): In 1959 this city was designated to replace Karachi as the capital; its construction began 2 years later Islamabad |
#7751, aired 2018-04-30 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $200: Fulton County Atlanta |
#7751, aired 2018-04-30 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $400: Maricopa County Phoenix |
#7751, aired 2018-04-30 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $600: Anne Arundel County Annapolis |
#7751, aired 2018-04-30 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $800: Laramie County Cheyenne |
#7751, aired 2018-04-30 | STATE CAPITALS BY COUNTY $1000: Kennebec County Augusta |
#7718, aired 2018-03-14 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: The Museum of the Gaucho is an attraction in this Uruguayan capital Montevideo |
#7718, aired 2018-03-14 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: A proposal for a capital in the interior was made as early as 1789 but work didn't start on this city until 1956 Brasilia |
#7718, aired 2018-03-14 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1600: The Casablanca Valley between Valparaiso & this capital is known for its wineries & tasting tours Santiago |
#7718, aired 2018-03-14 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1821 it was made the capital of Gran Colombia, it's still a capital today Bogota |
#7718, aired 2018-03-14 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: Fort Zeelandia in this nation's capital of Paramaribo was built to protect the Dutch West India Company Suriname |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WORLD CAPITALS ALPHABETICALLY $200: This city Down Under is the filling between Cairo & Capetown Canberra |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WORLD CAPITALS ALPHABETICALLY $400: What comes between Dushanbe & Freetown? This U.K. city Edinburgh |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WORLD CAPITALS ALPHABETICALLY $800: This South American capital is alphabetically between Astana & Athens Asunción |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WORLD CAPITALS ALPHABETICALLY $1,000 (Daily Double): Right before Bern on the list is this city, just 600 miles away Berlin |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | WORLD CAPITALS ALPHABETICALLY $1000: Rounding out the list are Yerevan & this city on the lower slopes of Medvednica Hill Zagreb |
#7678, aired 2018-01-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Its monument to the discoveries on the Tagus depicts several explorers with Henry the Navigator leading the way Lisbon |
#7678, aired 2018-01-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Among the many sights to see in this capital is the home where Albert Einstein lived from 1903 to 1905 Bern, Switzerland |
#7678, aired 2018-01-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Valletta, this island country's capital, was planned as a refuge for injured soldiers & pilgrims in the Crusades Malta |
#7678, aired 2018-01-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident Nov. 24, 1982 in this city Nairobi |
#7678, aired 2018-01-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): This capital is just a 3-hour voyage cross the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires Montevideo |
#7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $200: MEALS Salem |
#7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $400: OXEN HIP Phoenix |
#7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $600: DOMAINS Madison |
#7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $800: FRINGED LIPS Springfield |
#7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $1000: I NEED MOSS Des Moines |
#7643, aired 2017-11-29 | CAPITALS IN OCEANIA $400: This capital is located on Cook Strait at the extreme southwestern tip of North Island Wellington |
#7643, aired 2017-11-29 | CAPITALS IN OCEANIA $1200: This capital of Norfolk Island shares its name with the capital of Jamaica Kingston |
#7643, aired 2017-11-29 | CAPITALS IN OCEANIA $1600: Only about 3,700 people live in this capital capital of American Samoa Samoa Pago Pago |
#7643, aired 2017-11-29 | CAPITALS IN OCEANIA $2,000 (Daily Double): Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, is part of this type of coral island that encloses a lagoon an atoll |
#7643, aired 2017-11-29 | CAPITALS IN OCEANIA $2000: This capital of French Polynesia has over half the population of the island of Tahiti Papeete |
#7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This South Korean capital is said to be the world's most wired city, with around 95% of households having broadband Seoul |
#7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The 2 main roads in this city are King Fahd Highway, running north-south, & Mecca Highway, running east-west Riyadh |
#7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: In 1957 urbanist Lucio Costa won a contest to design this new capital, which was dedicated 3 years later Brasília |
#7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This European capital city is served by 3 main ports: Piraeus, Rafina & Lavrion Athens |
#7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: 2 African capitals, Brazzaville & this one, lie across the Congo River from each other Kinshasa |
#7403, aired 2016-11-16 | STATE CAPITALS AKA $400: Legendary rising bird Phoenix |
#7403, aired 2016-11-16 | STATE CAPITALS AKA $800: A later apostle St. Paul |
#7403, aired 2016-11-16 | STATE CAPITALS AKA $1200: On "The Simpsons" it comes between C. & Burns Montgomery |
#7403, aired 2016-11-16 | STATE CAPITALS AKA $2000: A Plains-dwelling Native American tribe Cheyenne |
#7403, aired 2016-11-16 | STATE CAPITALS AKA $6,000 (Daily Double): Ancient Greek site of athletic fame Olympia |
#7383, aired 2016-10-19 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: A day trip from this capital might include hot springs & Thingvellir, once home to the parliament Reykjavík |
#7383, aired 2016-10-19 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: Hungry? Stop by Soren K, a restaurant on this city's harbor, & try the squid with cabbage Copenhagen |
#7383, aired 2016-10-19 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1600: In 1919 this Balkan city became capital of the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes Belgrade |
#7383, aired 2016-10-19 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $2000: This Belarus capital features an odd tourist sight, the apartment of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald Minsk |
#7383, aired 2016-10-19 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): This capital (& country) is served by the Nice, France airport Monaco |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This capital's Big Dam Bridge, almost a mile long, spans a dam on the Arkansas River Little Rock, Arkansas |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Although designated Delaware's state capital in 1777, it wasn't incorporated as a city until 1929 Dover |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | STATE CAPITALS $600: This capital's name is derived from a Hebrew word meaning "peace" Salem (Oregon) |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | STATE CAPITALS $800: While traveling Route 66 through this capital, you'll pass by the Will Rogers Theatre & its striking Art Deco sign Oklahoma City |
#7336, aired 2016-07-04 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: The state museum here is often called the William Penn Memorial Museum due to the statue of Penn in the central hall Harrisburg |
#7321, aired 2016-06-13 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $400: President Obama's 2016 visit to this city was the first by a U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge showed up on a battleship Havana |
#7321, aired 2016-06-13 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $800: The Hope Road Walking Tour in this capital begins at the Bob Marley museum Kingston |
#7321, aired 2016-06-13 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $1200: Bridgetown is the capital of this "Birthplace of Rum", the easternmost nation in the West Indies Barbados |
#7321, aired 2016-06-13 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $2000: Fort-de-France, capital of this French island, has a statue of the Empress Josephine, who was born on the island in 1763 the Island of Martinique |
#7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: This Costa Rican capital's Gold Museum has hundreds of pre-Columbian gold artifacts San José |
#7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Ruins from the Mayan city Kaminaljuyu can be found in this capital but much has been covered by urban expansion Guatemala City |
#7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): It shares its name with the lake on whose shores it is located Managua |
#7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: This Belize capital was named for a Mayan tribe that never surrendered to the Spanish Belmopan |
#7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: Port facilities serving this capital lie in the adjacent city of Balboa Panama City |
#7274, aired 2016-04-07 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: A brief rest in Maryland's capital a nap (in Annapolis) |
#7274, aired 2016-04-07 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $800: A payment in New Jersey's capital rent (in Trenton) |
#7274, aired 2016-04-07 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1200: A piece of jewelry in Illinois' capital a ring (in Springfield) |
#7274, aired 2016-04-07 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $2000: A foreign currency in Wyoming's capital a yen (in Cheyenne) |
#7274, aired 2016-04-07 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): A prohibition in New York's capital a ban (in Albany) |
#7272, aired 2016-04-05 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: Zagreb Croatia |
#7272, aired 2016-04-05 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: Nicosia Cyprus |
#7272, aired 2016-04-05 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1200: Minsk Belarus |
#7272, aired 2016-04-05 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1600: Valletta Malta |
#7272, aired 2016-04-05 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $2000: Podgorica Montenegro |
#7271, aired 2016-04-04 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $400: Henry IV designed the Place des Vosges, the focal point of this city's fashionable Marais District Paris |
#7271, aired 2016-04-04 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $800: This capital commands the main approaches through the Khyber Pass to Pakistan & India Kabul |
#7271, aired 2016-04-04 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $1600: The Postage Stamp Museum in this capital city tells the story of Liechtenstein's postal service over the years Vaduz |
#7271, aired 2016-04-04 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $2000: In the 1390s Yi Song-Gye began building this city to serve as the capital of Choson Seoul |
#7271, aired 2016-04-04 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): Lonely Planet says this capital has many wonderful restaurants but "the nightlife is not what it is in Casablanca" Rabat |
#7206, aired 2016-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS $200: In 1683 William Penn ordered that this Delaware capital be built as a site for a courthouse & jail Dover |
#7206, aired 2016-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This city southwest of Tacoma was named for some nearby mountains Olympia |
#7206, aired 2016-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS $600: Each September this Buckeye capital holds an Oktoberfest in its restored 19th century German village Columbus |
#7206, aired 2016-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Attractions in this capital include the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum & the First White House of the Confederacy Montgomery |
#7206, aired 2016-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): It was selected as a compromise between North Platters & South Platters, who each favored different locale Lincoln, Nebraska |
#7135, aired 2015-09-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $200: In 2010 a massive 8.8 earthquake damaged this Chilean capital city Santiago |
#7135, aired 2015-09-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: Stand back--it's the capital seen here Buenos Aires |
#7135, aired 2015-09-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $600: Oils well that ends well in this city by the Caribbean coast that became a capital in the 1820s Caracas |
#7135, aired 2015-09-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Universidad Catolica in Paraguay's capital is called Nuestra Senora de la, or Our Lady of, this Asunción |
#7135, aired 2015-09-25 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1000: It's roughly 300 miles from Panama, 200 miles from the Pacific & a mile & a half high Bogotá |
#7120, aired 2015-07-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Juneau had its beginning in 1880 when Richard Harris & Joe Juneau arrived in the area seeking this... what else? gold |
#7120, aired 2015-07-24 | STATE CAPITALS $400: In 1743 the site of this S.D. capital was claimed for France by the burial of a lead plate; the plate was found in 1913 Pierre |
#7120, aired 2015-07-24 | STATE CAPITALS $600: The only house Abraham Lincoln ever owned is located at Jackson & 8th Streets in this capital Springfield |
#7120, aired 2015-07-24 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Atlanta's seal features this mythic bird, which symbolizes its rebuilding that began in 1865 the phoenix |
#7120, aired 2015-07-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Parthenon in Nashville, TN.) The Parthenon in Nashville boasts one of the world's largest sets of doors made from this metal--24' high & 7' wide bronze |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS $800: Its Old City is divided into Jewish, Armenian, Christian & Muslim Quarters Jerusalem |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS $1200: This city on the Tigris river was founded in 762 as the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty Baghdad |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS $1600: This capital's KAFD World Trade Centre rises 994 feet in the King Abdullah Financial District Riyadh |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS $2000: This Omani capital is dominated by the sultan's palace & 2 Portuguese forts built in the 16th century Muscat |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Indonesia's capital, it's on the island of Java Jakarta |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Kenyatta International Conference Centre is in this city Nairobi |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Found in North Africa, it gets its name from an ancient district that included 3 cities Tripoli |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: The central part of this city has 2 main districts: Karkh & Rusafah, which lie on the west & east banks of the Tigris Baghdad |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: The Andes rise east of this 4-letter coastal capital Lima (Peru) |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: For a brief period in the early 19th century, it was the capital of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata Buenos Aires |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: It's the Andean capital city shown here Bogotá (Colombia) |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: High up & deep inland, it was isolated until the railway to Guayaquil on the coast opened in 1908 Quito |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1600: Sucre is Bolivia's judicial capital; this city, the legislative capital La Paz |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: This Guyanan capital received its name in 1781, when it was named for the British monarch then on the throne Georgetown |
#6943, aired 2014-11-19 | CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES $400: Argentines say Puerto Argentino; the British call the capital of this island group Stanley the Falklands |
#6943, aired 2014-11-19 | CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES $800: Douglas, the capital of this place, is called Doolish in the Manx language the Isle of Man |
#6943, aired 2014-11-19 | CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES $1200: Nuuk, the capital of this large island, was once known by its Danish name, Godthab Greenland |
#6943, aired 2014-11-19 | CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES $1600: Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel is the capital of this Portuguese archipelago the Azores |
#6943, aired 2014-11-19 | CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES $2000: Avarua on Rarotonga is the capital of this self-governing island group in association with New Zealand the Cook Islands |
#6890, aired 2014-07-25 | STATE CAPITALS $400: The USS Slater, a World War II destroyer escort, is a now a museum in this "Empire State" capital Albany |
#6890, aired 2014-07-25 | STATE CAPITALS $800: This capital's Kawaiaha'o Church is known as the "Westminster Abbey of the Pacific" Honolulu |
#6890, aired 2014-07-25 | STATE CAPITALS $1200: This Idaho capital has a Basque Museum & Basque language school Boise |
#6890, aired 2014-07-25 | STATE CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): Its Family History Library on NW Temple St. has over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records Salt Lake City |
#6890, aired 2014-07-25 | STATE CAPITALS $2000: It sits on the Mississippi across the river from the sugar plantations that gave the area the name "Sugar Bowl of America" Baton Rouge |
#6877, aired 2014-07-08 | CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS $200: Actually not in Hawaii: AAAEE Tallahassee |
#6877, aired 2014-07-08 | CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS $400: Nowhere near Hawaii:
OIE Boise |
#6877, aired 2014-07-08 | CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS $600: In the midwest, far from Hawaii:
IIAAOI Indianapolis |
#6877, aired 2014-07-08 | CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS $800: Distant from Hawaii:
AO OUE Baton Rouge |
#6877, aired 2014-07-08 | CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS $1000: OOUU Honolulu |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $400: Omaha
(1867) Nebraska |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $800: Knoxville
(1796) Tennessee |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $1200: Portland
(1820) Maine |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $1600: Chillicothe
(1803) Ohio |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $2000: Guthrie
(1907) Oklahoma |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: In 1973 this nation voted to move its capital from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma, a move some say is still going on Tanzania |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $800: With an elevation of over 5,400 feet, Windhoek is the mile-high capital of this neighbor to South Africa Namibia |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1200: Chosen in 1957 when France ruled the land, Nouakchott is just off the Atlantic in this country Mauritania |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1600: On the Ubangi River, Bangui is the capital of this 3-word nation the Central African Republic |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $2000: This capital city is on Cape Verde peninsula but not in the country of Cape Verde Dakar, Senegal |
#6825, aired 2014-04-25 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: Bratislava is the capital of this nation that Czeched out of a union with a neighbor Slovakia |
#6825, aired 2014-04-25 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: Sten Nordin is this city's mayor Stockholm |
#6825, aired 2014-04-25 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1200: Tirana in this country is not far from the Adriatic Sea & Italy beyond Albania |
#6825, aired 2014-04-25 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $2000: The oft-pillaged city of Minsk is the capital of this country Belarus |
#6825, aired 2014-04-25 | TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the closest mainland European capital to the United States Lisbon (Portugal) |
#6809, aired 2014-04-03 | small state capitals $200: It's the only state capital that's home to a U.S. military service academy Annapolis |
#6809, aired 2014-04-03 | small state capitals $400: Many of the state government offices in this capital are housed in the Harry S Truman state office building Jefferson City |
#6809, aired 2014-04-03 | small state capitals $600: Its Buffalo Trace bourbon distillery claims to be the USA's oldest distillery in continuous operation Frankfort |
#6809, aired 2014-04-03 | small state capitals $800: It got its name in 1765 to signify the peaceful settlement of a dispute Concord |
#6809, aired 2014-04-03 | small state capitals $1000: This capital on the Kennebec River traces its founding to 1628 Augusta (Maine) |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This Nepalese capital's name means "wood temple" & refers to a 400-year-old temple built from a single tree Kathmandu |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: About one third of Latvia's people live in this capital, the largest city in the Baltic states Riga |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: This capital's most-visited site is Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum on the edge of Ba Dinh Square Hanoi |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Yaounde, capital of this former French territory in Africa, was founded by Germans involved in the ivory trade Cameroon |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: Lonely Planet says this city 15 miles from the equator is the only world capital threatened by an active volcano Quito |
#6781, aired 2014-02-24 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: Most of this Chinese capital's people belong to the Han ethnic group; Manchus & Mongols are in the minority Beijing |
#6781, aired 2014-02-24 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1200: It's the capital of a Hashemite kingdom Amman |
#6781, aired 2014-02-24 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1600: It was founded in 1394 as the capital of the kingdom of Choson Seoul |
#6781, aired 2014-02-24 | ASIAN CAPITALS $2000: This port lies about 60 miles northwest of Damascus on the Bay of St. George Beirut |
#6781, aired 2014-02-24 | ASIAN CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): This capital is named for a religion Islamabad |
#6751, aired 2014-01-13 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: It has sprouts named for it Brussels |
#6751, aired 2014-01-13 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: You can see the two major airports, but fog obscures the lights of these surrounding suburbs of this city London |
#6751, aired 2014-01-13 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: This capital is divided into 18 districts including Wlochy, Bialoleka & Srodmiescie Warsaw |
#6751, aired 2014-01-13 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: This capital of Bosnia was once ruled by the Ottoman Empire, & its name is from a Turkish word for a palace Sarajevo |
#6751, aired 2014-01-13 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1000: This Mediterranean island's capital Valletta was planned by the Knights of St. John in the 16th century Malta |
#6750, aired 2014-01-10 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $400: This crop is king in Greenwood, Mississippi, its "capital of the world" cotton |
#6750, aired 2014-01-10 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $800: The amber rolling fields of Wellington, Kansas make it this grain "capital of the world" wheat |
#6750, aired 2014-01-10 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $1200: Palm Springs, Augusta, Naples, Pinehurst & Myrtle Beach all claim to be the "capital of the world" of this pastime golf |
#6750, aired 2014-01-10 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $1600: Have the vision to know that Holtville, Calif. makes its claim as this root vegetable "capital of the world" carrots |
#6750, aired 2014-01-10 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $2000: With 16 of them, Cedar Point Amusement Park in this Ohio city is the "roller coaster capital of the world" Sandusky |
#6706, aired 2013-11-11 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This Mississippi capital was named for a general who later became president Jackson (Mississippi) |
#6706, aired 2013-11-11 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Its National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific contains the graves of WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War dead Honolulu |
#6706, aired 2013-11-11 | STATE CAPITALS $600: This New England state capital lies on the main pass through the Green Mountains Montpelier |
#6706, aired 2013-11-11 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Huey Long's grave has an honored place on the grounds of this city's capital building Baton Rouge |
#6706, aired 2013-11-11 | STATE CAPITALS $3,800 (Daily Double): French-Canadian trappers named it for the tree-lined river that provided relief for those crossing the Snake River Plain Boise |
#6669, aired 2013-09-19 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $800: TORN NET Trenton |
#6669, aired 2013-09-19 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $1200: OILY MAP Olympia |
#6669, aired 2013-09-19 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $1600: LEG HAIR Raleigh |
#6669, aired 2013-09-19 | ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS $2000: SCARY TONIC Carson City |
#6655, aired 2013-07-19 | WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS $200: Poultry in Greece hens |
#6655, aired 2013-07-19 | WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS $400: A prohibition in Thailand ban |
#6655, aired 2013-07-19 | WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS $600: A container in Australia can |
#6655, aired 2013-07-19 | WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS $800: A journey in Libya trip |
#6655, aired 2013-07-19 | WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS $1000: A bad kid in Slovakia brat |
#6634, aired 2013-06-20 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $400: It's the capital of the state of New South Wales & it's Australia's largest city Sydney |
#6634, aired 2013-06-20 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This capital of Victoria was the first capital of Australia, serving from 1901 to 1927 Melbourne |
#6634, aired 2013-06-20 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1200: Brisbane, Queensland is home to the world's first sanctuary for these cuddly looking creatures koalas |
#6634, aired 2013-06-20 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1600: There are nudist tours of Mona, a new museum in this capital on an island Hobart |
#6634, aired 2013-06-20 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $2000: This capital of Western Australia is famous for the black swans along the Swan River Perth |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: During WWII Algiers was for a time provisional capital of this European country France |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1200: The Garesa Palace in this Somali capital was built for the representative of the sultan of Zanzibar Mogadishu |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1600: Once the capital of an Ethiopian province, Asmara is now the capital of this country Eritrea |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Located about 1,000 miles south of Cairo, it rose on the site of an Egyptian army camp in 1821 Khartoum |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $2000: Peanut oil refining was once a key industry in this capital of Senegal Dakar |
#6560, aired 2013-03-08 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $400: Spice baskets are popular gift items you can purchase in St. George's, capital of this island invaded by the U.S. in 1983 Grenada |
#6560, aired 2013-03-08 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $800: (I'm Anderson Cooper.) The morning after a catastrophic earthquake rocked Haiti, I, as the first American journalist on the ground, broadcast the devastation of this capital Port Au Prince |
#6560, aired 2013-03-08 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $1200: H.M. [Her Majesty's] Prison, which dates to the 1840s, is the oldest building in Road Town, the capital of this British island group the British Virgin Islands |
#6560, aired 2013-03-08 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $1600: This capital of Antigua & Barbuda shares its name with the capital of Newfoundland St. John's |
#6560, aired 2013-03-08 | CARIBBEAN CAPITALS $2000: Trinidad & Tobago's capital has this name; sounds like Barcelona or someplace Port of Spain |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Like Rome, this Portuguese capital was built on 7 hills Lisbon |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Landmarks in this capital include GUM department store & the bell tower of Ivan the Great Moscow |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: This Central American capital was named for its patron saint, Joseph San Jose (Costa Rica) |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This capital of Nepal was once an independent principality Kathmandu |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: Canals & Dutch architecture can still be seen in this city on the island of Java Jakarta |
#6530, aired 2013-01-25 | small state capitals $400: The dome of the state capitol in this Pennsylvania city is a copy of St. Peter's in Rome Harrisburg |
#6530, aired 2013-01-25 | small state capitals $800: Though small in population, it has an area of 3,248 square miles, part covered by an ice cap Juneau (Alaska) |
#6530, aired 2013-01-25 | small state capitals $1200: This South Dakota city was named for Monsieur Chouteau, a fur trader Pierre |
#6530, aired 2013-01-25 | small state capitals $1600: In an 1894 election to decide the state capital, the city of Anaconda near Butte lost out to this city Helena |
#6530, aired 2013-01-25 | small state capitals $4,400 (Daily Double): The completion of the DuPont Highway in 1924 was a catalyst in this capital's growth Dover, Delaware |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $400: This capital city on the Dnieper river lends its name to a high-calorie chicken dish Kiev |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $800: The name of this city comes from the Quechua word rimac, & it's on the Rimac River Lima |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Found on the Aare River, this Swiss capital was founded according to tradition in 1191 Bern |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Lome is the capital & largest city of this West African country whose name is also 4 letters long Togo |
#6519, aired 2013-01-10 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): Suva, the capital of this island nation, is a shipping & commercial center of the South Pacific Fiji |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $200: Home to the U.S. Naval Academy, it served as the U.S. capital from November 26, 1783 to August 19, 1784 Annapolis |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $400: In 1783 Nassau Hall on this Ivy League school's campus received the first foreign minister to the U.S., a delegate from Holland Princeton |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $600: Before it became capital of New Jersey, it was the U.S. capital for 2 months; Congress met at the French Arms Tavern Trenton |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $800: Pierre L'Enfant remodeled this hall in Lower Manhattan before it was the seat of government in 1789 & 1790 Federal Hall |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $1000: 1 of 2 Pennsylvania cities other than Philadelphia in which the Second Continental Congress met York & Lancaster |
#6493, aired 2012-12-05 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $200: Although Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island, this capital named for a queen is Victoria |
#6493, aired 2012-12-05 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $400: This provincial capital is home to Canada's tallest structure Toronto |
#6493, aired 2012-12-05 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $600: During WWII this capital of Nova Scotia was Canada's main naval base Halifax |
#6493, aired 2012-12-05 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $800: Its nicknames include "Oil City" & "E-Town" Edmonton |
#6493, aired 2012-12-05 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $1000: It's the capital & second-largest city of Saskatchewan Regina |
#6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: This crime is in Nevada's capital arson (in Carson City) |
#6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $800: This wind in Maine's gust (in Augusta) |
#6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1200: This noodle in California's ramen (in Sacramento) |
#6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1600: This tree in Tennessee's ash (in Nashville) |
#6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Roman poet in Rhode Island's Ovid (in Providence) |
#6457, aired 2012-10-16 | OLD STATE CAPITALS $1200: From 1818 to 1826 Tennessee's capital was this boro Murfreesboro |
#6457, aired 2012-10-16 | OLD STATE CAPITALS $1600: Named in 1775 after a battle, it was once Kentucky's capital Lexington |
#6457, aired 2012-10-16 | OLD STATE CAPITALS $2000: Vallejo & Benicia are former capitals of this state California |
#6376, aired 2012-05-14 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $400: Twiggy remembers that in the '60s this city was "swinging" London |
#6376, aired 2012-05-14 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $800: St. Basil's Cathedral is there Moscow |
#6376, aired 2012-05-14 | 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Keanu Reeves was born in this Lebanese capital Beirut |
#6366, aired 2012-04-30 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Until 1918 it was capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; today, it's just the capital of Austria Vienna |
#6366, aired 2012-04-30 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The coat of arms of this Ukraine capital depicts the Archangel Michael, its heavenly protector Kiev |
#6366, aired 2012-04-30 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: This capital on the Tigris river has 9 districts, including Karkh, Rusafa & Sadr City Baghdad |
#6366, aired 2012-04-30 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Originally founded in 1536, this Argentine city was abandoned & had to be refounded in 1580 Buenos Aires |
#6366, aired 2012-04-30 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: This Libyan capital's Arabic name is Tarabulus Tripoli |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Monrovia, Liberia is at the mouth of the Mesurado River on this ocean the Atlantic |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This Down Under capital city bears the name of the duke who defeated Napoleon Wellington |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: The Plaza de la Revolucion in this Caribbean capital was often the site of revolutionary speeches, including a 7-hour one Havana |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Share the love in Muscat, this Middle Eastern country's capital Oman |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Scandinavian capital's Kon-Tiki museum houses mementos of Thor Heyerdahl's voyages Oslo |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $200: The state capital out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean Honolulu |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This Missouri capital is one of the 4 named after a U.S. president Jefferson City |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $600: One of the 2 that end in "polis" Annapolis (or Indianapolis) |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $800: It's the northernmost state capital; it can get real cold there too Juneau |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: As governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger had his office in this state capital Sacramento |
#6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $400: A clock tower built in 1530 is a landmark in this Swiss capital city Bern |
#6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $800: One night in this Asian city makes a hard man humble, & with 38,850 people per sq. mile in its Sam Peng district, that's a lot of men Bangkok |
#6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $1200: An 1855 earthquake in this Kiwi city raised the harbor bed by over a yard, allowing land to be drained & reclaimed Wellington |
#6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $2000: The name of this Romanian capital first appears in a document of Vlad the Impaler Bucharest |
#6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $4,600 (Daily Double): It lies on the shore of its same-named bay, at the mouth of the Pasig River in Luzon Manila |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This African capital's environs include Gezira & Roda, 2 islands in the Nile Cairo |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: In 1857 this city was chosen to be the capital of what was then the United Provinces of Canada Ottawa |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Montparnasse is one of this capital city's Left Bank districts Paris |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: The Ginza is this Asian capital's shopping & entertainment center Tokyo |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: This port city became the capital of Jamaica in 1872, succeeding Port Royal Kingston |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | STATE CAPITALS $200: The key on this capital's corporate seal represents it beit the key to the Rocky Mountain region Denver |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | STATE CAPITALS $400: The official website of this capital city can be found at talgov.com Tallahassee |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | STATE CAPITALS $600: A sign in this Oregon capital marks the 45th parallel "half way between the equator and the North Pole" Salem |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | STATE CAPITALS $800: It began as a trading post called La Petite Roche to distinguish it from a high bluff farther upstream Little Rock |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1873 the town of Edwinton was renamed this by the Northern Pacific Railroad to honor the German Chancellor Bismarck |
#6047, aired 2010-12-21 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $200: It's home to the Krigsskolen, the Norwegian military academy Oslo |
#6047, aired 2010-12-21 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $600: When in this capital, you're between the Apennine Mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea Rome |
#6047, aired 2010-12-21 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $800: It serves as the capital of a Baltic republic Riga |
#6047, aired 2010-12-21 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This city is in the fertile northern foothills of the Alps on the Aare river Bern |
#6047, aired 2010-12-21 | 4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $1000: Callao is this South American capital's port Lima |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This capital of Israel is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world Jerusalem |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Its name ends in the same 3 letters as its country, Iran Tehran |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: It makes sense that this is the sea closest to Dublin the Irish Sea |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This capital of the Dominican Republic was founded by Columbus' brother Bartolome Santo Domingo |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: In 1949 it became the seat of the Chinese nationalist government Taipei |
#5996, aired 2010-10-11 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $200: New Haven Connecticut |
#5996, aired 2010-10-11 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $400: Knoxville Tennessee |
#5996, aired 2010-10-11 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $600: Wheeling West Virginia |
#5996, aired 2010-10-11 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $800: Huntsville Alabama |
#5996, aired 2010-10-11 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $1000: Guthrie Oklahoma |
#5987, aired 2010-09-28 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: John McCain was shot down over this capital in 1967 Hanoi |
#5987, aired 2010-09-28 | ASIAN CAPITALS $800: Oh, just one more thing, this island nation's capital is Colombo Sri Lanka |
#5987, aired 2010-09-28 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1200: You'll be the Sultan of "Jeopardy!" if you know Bandar Seri Begawan is its capital Brunei |
#5987, aired 2010-09-28 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1600: Have a dilly of a time in Dili, the capital of this new nation East Timor |
#5959, aired 2010-07-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Sphinx stands less than 10 miles from the center of this capital Cairo |
#5959, aired 2010-07-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This Philippine capital's intramuros, or walled city, was built on the design of a medieval castle Manila |
#5959, aired 2010-07-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: This Colombian capital sits over 8,000 feet up in the Andes Bogotá |
#5959, aired 2010-07-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: This Alpine city is the capital of a canton as well as the capital of a country, Switzerland Bern |
#5959, aired 2010-07-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,600 (Daily Double): This Scandinavian capital founded around 1050 lies at the head of a fjord Oslo |
#5919, aired 2010-05-13 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $400: In this capital of New South Wales, try the bridge climb, an exhilarating trek to the top of its Harbour Bridge Sydney |
#5919, aired 2010-05-13 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $800: It lies within the Australian Capital Territory Canberra |
#5919, aired 2010-05-13 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1200: The metro area of this Victoria capital contains more than 70% of the state's population Melbourne |
#5919, aired 2010-05-13 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1600: It was named for William IV's wife, who was queen when it was founded in 1836 Adelaide |
#5919, aired 2010-05-13 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $2000: ANZAC Square War Memorial in this Queensland capital honors Aussie war vets Brisbane |
#5890, aired 2010-04-02 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $200: OAK PET Topeka |
#5890, aired 2010-04-02 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $400: HEN ALE Helena |
#5890, aired 2010-04-02 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $600: RIB SMACK Bismarck |
#5890, aired 2010-04-02 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $800: SPIDER FLING Springfield |
#5890, aired 2010-04-02 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $1000: HAIR GEL Raleigh |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | CANADIAN CAPITALS, EH? $400: Victoria is the capital of this Pacific coast province British Columbia |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | CANADIAN CAPITALS, EH? $800: Halifax, the capital of this province, is the home port of the Canadian Atlantic fleet Nova Scotia |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | CANADIAN CAPITALS, EH? $1200: Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a bear owned by a WWI soldier from this Manitoba city Winnipeg |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | CANADIAN CAPITALS, EH? $1600: Charlottetown, the capital of this island province, is named for the wife of King George III Prince Edward Island |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | CANADIAN CAPITALS, EH? $2000: Iqaluit, the capital of this territory created in 1999, means "place of fish" in the Inuktitut language Nunavut |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This site was uninhabited woods when James Doty persuaded the Wisconsin legislature to put the capital there Madison |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's home to Grand Canyon university Phoenix |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $600: Troy & Schenectady are part of this state capital's metropolitan area Albany |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This capital closest to Sutter's Mill served as a supply center for the Forty-Niners Sacramento |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: This capital was created when adjoining settlements, East Alabama & Alabama, merged in 1819 Montgomery |
#5797, aired 2009-11-24 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It's located about 30 miles south of the DMZ Seoul |
#5797, aired 2009-11-24 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Until 1918 & the collapse of the dynasty, it was home base for the Hapsburgs Vienna |
#5797, aired 2009-11-24 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: It's the largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean, mon Kingston (Jamaica) |
#5797, aired 2009-11-24 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This South American capital's original longer name translated to "Saint Mary of the Fair Winds" Buenos Aires |
#5797, aired 2009-11-24 | WORLD CAPITALS $7,200 (Daily Double): On a plane trip to this capital, you'd likely land at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Jakarta |
#5795, aired 2009-11-20 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: Check out the Kokugikan Sumo Budokan Arena in this capital Tokyo |
#5795, aired 2009-11-20 | ASIAN CAPITALS $800 (Daily Double): Once the capital of the French protectorate of Tonkin, it's now the capital of an entire country Hanoi (Vietnam) |
#5795, aired 2009-11-20 | ASIAN CAPITALS $800: This capital lies on the north coast of West Java at the mouth of the Liwung River Jakarta |
#5795, aired 2009-11-20 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1600: Inhabitants of this Armenian capital can see Mount Ararat, which is 35 miles to the south in Turkey Yerevan |
#5795, aired 2009-11-20 | ASIAN CAPITALS $2000: The name of this capital is Mongol for "City of the Red Hero" Ulan Bator |
#5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $200: Tuscaloosa Alabama |
#5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $400: Murfreesboro Tennessee |
#5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $600: Augusta Georgia |
#5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $800: Poughkeepsie New York |
#5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $1000: Newport Rhode Island |
#5727, aired 2009-06-30 | MULTIPLE-WORD CAPITALS $400: This capital of the Dominican Republic is said to contain the remains of Christopher Columbus Santo Domingo |
#5727, aired 2009-06-30 | MULTIPLE-WORD CAPITALS $800: It's where you'd find the magnificent India Gate seen here New Delhi |
#5727, aired 2009-06-30 | MULTIPLE-WORD CAPITALS $1200: The first 2 letters are silent in the name of this capital at the junction of the Mekong & Tonle Sap Rivers Phnom Penh |
#5727, aired 2009-06-30 | MULTIPLE-WORD CAPITALS $1600: This country's capital is called either Abu Dhabi or Abu Zaby the United Arab Emirates |
#5727, aired 2009-06-30 | MULTIPLE-WORD CAPITALS $2000: This Tanzanian capital contains a word used in a common Muslim greeting Dar es Salaam |
#5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Biblioteca Nacional Venezuela is in this city Caracas |
#5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This Slovakian capital with "slav" in its name was occupied by the Slavs in the 8th century Bratislava |
#5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: One of the 2 world capitals on the Rio de la Plata estuary Montevideo & Buenos Aires |
#5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This capital of Bangladesh is just west of the Meghna River Dhaka |
#5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: This capital of Ghana is on the Gulf of Guinea Accra |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Australian War Memorial is in this city Canberra |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: In 1823 Costa Rica moved its capital from Cartago to this city where coffee plantations were prospering San José |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This capital city is on a railway line between Fez & Casablanca Rabat |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): This European capital lies on a plain near the southern end of the Attic Peninsula Athens |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: One way to see the sights on New Providence Island in the Bahamas is to get on a bus called a jitney in this port Nassau |
#5638, aired 2009-02-25 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $200: Overactors & others flock to Smithfield, Va., the capital of this, processing millions of lbs. of it every year ham |
#5638, aired 2009-02-25 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $400: Anthony, a city straddling Texas & New Mexico, celebrates only once every 4 years as this "Capital of the World" Leap Year |
#5638, aired 2009-02-25 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $600: Kansas City, Missouri & this Tennessee city both claim the tangy title "Barbecue Capital of the World" Memphis |
#5638, aired 2009-02-25 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $800: It's Crystal City, Texas vs. Alma, Arkansas for this title--they even have Popeye statues to back their claim spinach |
#5638, aired 2009-02-25 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $1000: Thanks to John Deere, this Illinois city is the "Plow Capital of the World" Moline |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Because of its altitude, this Kenyan capital rarely exceeds 80 degrees Nairobi |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: A statue of Czech theologian Jan Hus stands in front of this capital's Old Town Hall Prague |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This Central American capital, whose name means "holy savior", has a town center laid out in the form of a cross San Salvador |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: This capital of Belarus was on a great trade route, thus its Russian name, meaning "exchange" Minsk |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $3,400 (Daily Double): Around 1050 Harald Hardrade founded this city on a fjord Oslo |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | SMALL STATE CAPITALS $400: This capital on the Kentucky River was named after Stephen Frank, an early pioneer Frankfort (Kentucky) |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | SMALL STATE CAPITALS $800: It was laid out in 1858, & its growth was stimulated by the discovery the following year of the nearby Comstock Lode Carson City (Nevada) |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | SMALL STATE CAPITALS $1200: This small capital lies about 10 miles east of the Continental Divide & about midway between Butte & Great Falls Helena (Montana) |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | SMALL STATE CAPITALS $2000: It's the seat of Kennebec County Augusta (Maine) |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | SMALL STATE CAPITALS $3,000 (Daily Double): This city became a state capital in 1826, the same year the president for which it was named died Jefferson City, Missouri |
#5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Haneda Airport serves this Asian capital Tokyo |
#5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This new South American capital was dedicated on April 21, 1960 Brasilia |
#5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Major projects to reclaim land from the sea have thrived here since the 1850s, before it was N.Z.'s capital Wellington |
#5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: In the "Spring" of 1968, students in this capital were climbing on Soviet tanks & yelling, "USSR go home!" Prague |
#5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Minsk is the capital of this former Soviet republic Belarus |
#5407, aired 2008-02-26 | ASIAN CAPITALS $200: This Philippine capital was so devastated during WWII that Quezon City served as interim capital from 1948 to 1976 Manila |
#5407, aired 2008-02-26 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: Many canals called khlongs crisscross this Thai capital Bangkok |
#5407, aired 2008-02-26 | ASIAN CAPITALS $600: It was captured from the Rashid clan by Ibn Saud in January 1902; it became a capital 30 years later Riyadh |
#5407, aired 2008-02-26 | ASIAN CAPITALS $800: This island capital city's main gov't offices are located in the Greek sector, not the Turkish sector Nicosia |
#5407, aired 2008-02-26 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1000: Its monuments include an Arch of Triumph higher than the one in Paris & a statue of Kim Il Sung 66 feet high Pyongyang |
#5391, aired 2008-02-04 | TOURING EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: Walk across the Ha'penny Bridge at Liffey Street to get the trendy Temple Bar area of this capital Dublin |
#5391, aired 2008-02-04 | TOURING EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: Purchase some port at the Mercearia Liberdade in this city Lisbon |
#5391, aired 2008-02-04 | TOURING EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: Thrill to the history of Zamek Krolewski, this city's royal castle Warsaw |
#5391, aired 2008-02-04 | TOURING EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: Czech in for a luxurious weekend at the Grand Hotel Bohemia in this city Prague |
#5391, aired 2008-02-04 | TOURING EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): Chill out at the world's first permanent icebar, the Absolut Icebar in this city Stockholm |
#5309, aired 2007-10-11 | STATE CAPITALS $400: The Old Barracks in this New Jersey capital housed Continental Army troops during the Revolution Trenton |
#5309, aired 2007-10-11 | STATE CAPITALS $800: The site for this capital was chosen because of its location between Pensacola & St. Augustine Tallahassee |
#5309, aired 2007-10-11 | STATE CAPITALS $1200: In 1849 it replaced New Orleans as a state capital Baton Rouge |
#5309, aired 2007-10-11 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: At an elevation of about 7,000 feet, this city in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains is the highest state capital Santa Fe |
#5309, aired 2007-10-11 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): One of the 2 state capitals with "City" in their names that lie west of the Rocky Mountains Salt Lake City, Utah & Carson City, Nevada |
#5292, aired 2007-09-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Budapest is the capital of Hungary; this is the capital of Romania Bucharest |
#5292, aired 2007-09-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Laid out in 1874, the botanical gardens in this capital have an observatory with a statue of Tycho Brahe Copenhagen |
#5292, aired 2007-09-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: The capital of India is not pronounced Cal-cut-ah or Cal-eh-cut, but this way New Delhi |
#5292, aired 2007-09-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: This world capital is on the island of Java Jakarta |
#5292, aired 2007-09-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: This city on the Malay Peninsula is the capital of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS $200: In 1821 Mississippi named its capital for this hero of the War of 1812; he didn't become president until 8 years later (Andrew) Jackson |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS $400: When Kansas became a state in 1861, this city became capital Topeka |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS $600: This capital lies in the Eagle Valley about 30 miles south of Reno Carson City |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Tempe is a southern suburb of this state capital Phoenix |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | STATE CAPITALS $2,200 (Daily Double): A statue of Ethan Allen stands within the portico of the state capitol building in this city Montpelier |
#5264, aired 2007-06-28 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $200: A narrow peninsula called the Palisados protects this Jamaican port from the Caribbean Sea Kingston |
#5264, aired 2007-06-28 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $400: From 1936 to 1961 this capital was called Ciudad Trujillo after dictator Rafael Trujillo Santo Domingo |
#5264, aired 2007-06-28 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $600: This Bahamian capital took its name from the family name of King William III of England Nassau |
#5264, aired 2007-06-28 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $800: A 1634 Spanish decree declared it the "key to the New World and the bulwark of the West Indies" Havana |
#5264, aired 2007-06-28 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $1000: While in Oranjestad, capital of this Dutch island, you can book a tour aboard the Atlantis submarine Aruba |
#5263, aired 2007-06-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Proverbially speaking, "all roads lead to" this city Rome |
#5263, aired 2007-06-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Its name is Hebrew for "City of Peace" Jerusalem |
#5263, aired 2007-06-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: The first written mention of this capital's name was in a 1459 document of Vlad the Impaler Bucharest |
#5263, aired 2007-06-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): A castle in this world capital was once the home of the kings of Bohemia Prague |
#5263, aired 2007-06-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The name of this judicial capital of South Africa means "Fountain of Flowers" Bloemfontein |
#5239, aired 2007-05-24 | ENTERTAINING STATE CAPITALS $400: 1988 was a good year for this actress; she won a best supporting acting oscar & her cousin ran for president Olympia Dukakis |
#5239, aired 2007-05-24 | ENTERTAINING STATE CAPITALS $800: Oscar Goldman was this character's boss in a 1970s series Steve Austin |
#5239, aired 2007-05-24 | ENTERTAINING STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): One alive & one deceased, the 2 brothers who have been nominated for acting Oscars River and Joaquin Phoenix |
#5239, aired 2007-05-24 | ENTERTAINING STATE CAPITALS $1600: This actor who died at 45 starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place in the Sun" & "Suddenly, Last Summer" Montgomery Clift |
#5239, aired 2007-05-24 | ENTERTAINING STATE CAPITALS $2000: In one of her first big-screen roles, this actress played Lady Jane Grey in a 1986 film Helena Bonham Carter |
#5234, aired 2007-05-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Brandenburg Gate is a famous symbol of this city Berlin |
#5234, aired 2007-05-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: When the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, it forced most of this capital's people to evacuate Phnom Penh |
#5234, aired 2007-05-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Ernest Hemingway's Finca Vigia home on the outskirts of this city has since been turned into a museum Havana |
#5234, aired 2007-05-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Once a center of Jewish learning, this city was known as "The Jerusalem of Lithuania" Vilnius |
#5234, aired 2007-05-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,600 (Daily Double): It's the world capital named for our fifth U.S. president Monrovia |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $200: In South America:
MAIL Lima |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $400: In Western Europe:
RUBS LESS Brussels |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $600: In Northeast Asia:
LOUSE Seoul |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $800: In Northern Europe:
OPEN CHANGE Copenhagen |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $1000: A Mediterranean capital:
HASTEN Athens |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Pass the grape jelly & name this state capital of New Hampshire Concord |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's the capital of the Evergreen State Olympia |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | STATE CAPITALS $600: Much of the trendy Back Bay area of this state capital is built on a landfill Boston |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Because he believed God led him there, Roger Williams named a state capital this Providence |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It's where you'll find the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse Charleston |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: Its pride is the Prado Madrid |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: It's home to the Swiss Parliament Bern |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: Its aquarium is named for Vasco da Gama Lisbon |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: It's known for its nude statue of Paavo Nurmi Helsinki |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1000: King Christian VIII's birthplace Copenhagen |
#5210, aired 2007-04-13 | AMERICAN WORLD CAPITALS $400: As the birthplace of this company, Fremont, Michigan calls itself the "baby food capital of the world" Gerber |
#5210, aired 2007-04-13 | AMERICAN WORLD CAPITALS $800: Fresh or canned, Ketchikan, Alaska is known as this "capital of the world" salmon |
#5210, aired 2007-04-13 | AMERICAN WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Mattoon, Illinois declared itself the "bagel capital of the world" after this company opened a factory there in 1986 Lender's |
#5210, aired 2007-04-13 | AMERICAN WORLD CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): This Pennsylvania town is the "weather capital of the world", not just on February 2, but all year long Punxsutawney |
#5210, aired 2007-04-13 | AMERICAN WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Hey, dude!
Wickenburg in this southwestern state is the "Dude Ranch Capital of the World" Arizona |
#5208, aired 2007-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT $200: Dulles Washington, D.C. |
#5208, aired 2007-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT $400: Orly Paris |
#5208, aired 2007-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT $600: Templehof Berlin |
#5208, aired 2007-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT $800: Jose Marti Havana |
#5208, aired 2007-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT $1000: Schiphol Airport Amsterdam |
#5204, aired 2007-04-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: A Caribbean nation: Santo Domingo Dominican Republic |
#5204, aired 2007-04-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: A European republic: Sofia Bulgaria |
#5204, aired 2007-04-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: A Himalayan kingdom: Thimphu Bhutan |
#5204, aired 2007-04-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Bordering the Caspian Sea: Baku Azerbaijan |
#5204, aired 2007-04-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: A relatively new country: Dili East Timor |
#5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: No, Aretha Franklin is not the queen of this Asian city made a capital in 1394 Seoul |
#5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Frankly, my dear, this Syrian capital is only about 50 miles from Beirut Damascus |
#5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Let's talk turkey: since 1927, this city's province has grown from a pop. of about 400,000 to more than 4 mil. Ankara |
#5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Check our Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft in this city Oslo |
#5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): The name of this South American city translates to "fair winds" Buenos Aires |
#5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Juan Peron died in this city in 1974 Buenos Aires |
#5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1353 Bern |
#5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: The name of this Malaysian capital means "muddy confluence" Kuala Lumpur |
#5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Belize City, a port, was Belize's capital until a 1961 hurricane; then the capital moved to this inland city Belmopan |
#5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: It's home to King Rama IX Royal Park Bangkok |
#5164, aired 2007-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $200: We're not sure whether the Spanish ship on its city flag represents the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria Columbus (Ohio) |
#5164, aired 2007-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This capital was created by the Missouri legislature & laid out by the son of Daniel Boone in the 1820s Jefferson City |
#5164, aired 2007-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $800: One of the major attractions in this state capital is the tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Oak Ridge Cemetery Springfield |
#5164, aired 2007-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Mount Rainier is visible to the east from its state capitol building Olympia (Washington) |
#5164, aired 2007-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: This capital began as a small Dutch outpost, Fort Nassau, built on Westerlo Island in the Hudson River Albany (New York) |
#5126, aired 2006-12-18 | ASIAN CAPITALS $200: This capital of India was laid out in a series of geometric forms extending from a rock that was later destroyed New Delhi |
#5126, aired 2006-12-18 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: Higashi-Gyoen Garden is on the grounds of this city's Imperial Palace Tokyo |
#5126, aired 2006-12-18 | ASIAN CAPITALS $600: Its historic Toopkhaneh Square is now Imam Khomeini Square Tehran |
#5126, aired 2006-12-18 | ASIAN CAPITALS $800: In the 1620s the Javanese leader Sultan Agung tried unsuccessfully to capture this capital from the Dutch Jakarta |
#5126, aired 2006-12-18 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1000: This capital is served by King Khalid International Airport, which lies about 20 miles north of the city Riyadh |
#5101, aired 2006-11-13 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: In 1970 this capital's Place de L'Etoile was renamed Place Charles de Gaulle Paris |
#5101, aired 2006-11-13 | WORLD CAPITALS $800 (Daily Double): The Sphinx lies just a few miles southwest of this capital Cairo |
#5101, aired 2006-11-13 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This capital's Cathedral of the Archangel Michael is the burial site for many czars Moscow |
#5101, aired 2006-11-13 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Built on the site of the Aztecs' capital, it later served as the capital of New Spain Mexico City |
#5101, aired 2006-11-13 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The old part of this European capital has 3 main squares: Dam, Leidseplein & Rembrandtsplein Amsterdam |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $200: Philadelphia Pennsylvania |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $400: San Jose California |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $600: Lexington Kentucky |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $800: Natchez Mississippi |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $1000: Wheeling West Virginia |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: 90 miles from the equator, this mile-high Kenyan capital rarely exceeds 80 degrees in temperature Nairobi |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $800: Until 1974 much of the land in this capital belonged to Haile Selassie's family, members of the nobility & the National Church Addis Ababa |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1600: To reach this capital from Marrakech, hop on a train & travel about 200 miles northeast Rabat |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $2000: Bujumbura shares its first 2 letters with this small country of which it's the capital Burundi |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): They are the two capitals located on the banks of the Nile Cairo & Khartoum |
#4999, aired 2006-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It's served by Keflavik Airport Reykjavik |
#4999, aired 2006-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: It has a museum devoted to composer Zoltan Kodaly Budapest |
#4999, aired 2006-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: It's home to the Holmenkollen ski jump Oslo |
#4999, aired 2006-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: It's on the Suriname River Paramaribo |
#4999, aired 2006-05-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $3,400 (Daily Double): Guyanese capital named for a Hanoverian monarch Georgetown |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | 2-WORD CAPITALS $200: The name of this capital of El Salvador is similar to the name of the country San Salvador |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | 2-WORD CAPITALS $400: Of the capitals of South Africa, it's the only one that fits the category Cape Town |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | 2-WORD CAPITALS $600: Do you know the way to this capital of Costa Rica? San José |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | 2-WORD CAPITALS $800: This Ethiopian capital whose name means "new flower" was founded by Emperor Menelik II in 1887 Addis Ababa |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | 2-WORD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Asian capital was built between 1912 & '29 & designed by the British architect Lutyens New Delhi |
#4934, aired 2006-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: The oldest part of this Northern European capital lies on Stadsholmen, or "City Island" Stockholm |
#4934, aired 2006-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This South American capital's full name means "Our Lady of the Assumption" Asunción |
#4934, aired 2006-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Its Gaelic name, Baile Atha Cliath, means "town of the ford of the hurdles" Dublin |
#4934, aired 2006-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: The name of this capital in the North Atlantic is Old Norse for "smokey bay" Reykjavik |
#4934, aired 2006-02-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this Middle Eastern capital is Persian for "warm place" Tehran |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $400: This capital of New South Wales is the home of Opera Australia Sydney |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $800: Of all the world's urban centers exceeding 1 million in populatioin, this capital of Victoria is southernmost Melbourne |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $1200: This city's harbor was discovered in 1839 by John Stokes, surveyor aboard the HMS Beagle Darwin |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $1600: This capital of South Australia was named for a queen, the consort of King William IV Adelaide |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $2000: This capital was once the government seat of a British colony called Van Diemen's Land Hobart |
#4919, aired 2006-01-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Charing Cross, a traffic square near the Thames, is usually regarded as this city's center London |
#4919, aired 2006-01-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Founded as a railway settlement in Kenya in the 1890s, its name comes from the Masai for "cold water" Nairobi |
#4919, aired 2006-01-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Brittanica says its 4,082 streets range in size from 394-foot-wide avenue Foch to 8-foot-wide rue du Chat-qui-Peche Paris |
#4919, aired 2006-01-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: In 1861 it became the capital of the United Principalities of Walachia & Moldavia Bucharest |
#4919, aired 2006-01-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1619 the Dutch East India Company took it over & began rebuilding it in the form of a Dutch city with many canals Jakarta |
#4914, aired 2006-01-12 | CHINESE REGIONAL CAPITALS $400: This city is the capital of the high-altitude autonomous region that until 1965 was its own country Lhasa |
#4914, aired 2006-01-12 | CHINESE REGIONAL CAPITALS $800: Chengdu is the hot & spicy capital of this province that lends its name to a hot & spicy Chinese food variety Szechuan |
#4914, aired 2006-01-12 | CHINESE REGIONAL CAPITALS $1200: This capital of the island province of Hainan sounds like a short Japanese poem of 17 syllables Haikou |
#4914, aired 2006-01-12 | CHINESE REGIONAL CAPITALS $2000: This capital of Hubei province lent its name to a deadly flu virus Wuhan |
#4914, aired 2006-01-12 | CHINESE REGIONAL CAPITALS $5,000 (Daily Double): Its former capital was Victoria Hong Kong |
#4911, aired 2006-01-09 | STATE CAPITALS $200: One of its nicknames is the "City of Paul Revere" Boston |
#4911, aired 2006-01-09 | STATE CAPITALS $400: One of the world's largest pipe organs is found in the tabernacle in this state capital Salt Lake City |
#4911, aired 2006-01-09 | STATE CAPITALS $600: In 1860 & 1861 Pony Express riders carried the mail from St. Joseph, Mo. ending in this Western capital Sacramento |
#4911, aired 2006-01-09 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Rosa Parks helped make this city "The Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement" Montgomery |
#4911, aired 2006-01-09 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: 4 cities lie within this state capital's city limits: Beech Grove, Southport, Lawrence & Speedway Indianapolis |
#4866, aired 2005-11-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This capital of Venezuela has a population of about 3 million Caracas |
#4866, aired 2005-11-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Calcutta was once the capital of India; this "New" city was made the capital in 1931 New Delhi |
#4866, aired 2005-11-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: It's the northernmost capital city in mainland North America Ottawa |
#4866, aired 2005-11-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: One of the 2 national capital cities located on the island of Hispaniola Port-au-Prince (or Santo Domingo) |
#4866, aired 2005-11-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: South Africa actually has 3 capitals: Bloemfontein, Cape Town & this one Pretoria |
#4857, aired 2005-10-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: By population, it's the largest capital in the Western Hemisphere Mexico City |
#4857, aired 2005-10-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This capital is located on Luzon Island Manila |
#4857, aired 2005-10-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: The famous Gold Museum in this Colombian capital houses a large collection of pre-Columbian gold objects Bogota |
#4857, aired 2005-10-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: The world's largest govt. building after the Pentagon is this city's Parliament Palace, built by Ceausescu Bucharest |
#4857, aired 2005-10-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: It may ring a bell that this capital of Belize also starts with "Bel" Belmopan |
#4852, aired 2005-10-18 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $200: Augusta Georgia |
#4852, aired 2005-10-18 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $400: Portland Maine |
#4852, aired 2005-10-18 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $600: Huntsville Alabama |
#4852, aired 2005-10-18 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $800: Guthrie Oklahoma |
#4829, aired 2005-09-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: A 1972 earthquake destroyed most of the downtown area of this Nicaraguan capital Managua |
#4829, aired 2005-09-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This capital is surrounded by, but is not part of, the Flemish region of Brabant Brussels |
#4829, aired 2005-09-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Until 1924 this Mongolian capital was called Urga Ulan Bator |
#4829, aired 2005-09-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: It's the home of Belarusian State University Minsk |
#4829, aired 2005-09-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $5,400 (Daily Double): (Christiane Amanpour of CNN delivers the clue.) In 1992 I reported from the shores of this African capital when the U.S. military launched Operation: Restore Hope Mogadishu |
#4742, aired 2005-03-29 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $200: No vampires in Gilroy, California, the world capital of this, as a local farm ships 60 million pounds of it each year garlic |
#4742, aired 2005-03-29 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $400: Austin, Minnesota, capital of this, has Hormel as its largest employer; Hormel makes 396 cans of it per minute Spam |
#4742, aired 2005-03-29 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $600: With Maker's Mark & Jim Beam in the area, no wonder Bardstown, Kentucky is this potent potable capital bourbon |
#4742, aired 2005-03-29 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $800: The "1-800 centers" capital, we thought this Neb. city might be the insurance capital (but that's Hartford, Conn.) Omaha |
#4742, aired 2005-03-29 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $1000: Home to the Univ. of Okla. Sooners & the Nat'l Severe Storms Lab., it is the severe weather research capital Norman |
#4718, aired 2005-02-23 | small state capitals $400: Delaware's deed, given to William Penn in 1682, resides in the Hall of Records in this Capitol Dover |
#4718, aired 2005-02-23 | small state capitals $800: The name of this capital is another word for God's guidance Providence |
#4718, aired 2005-02-23 | small state capitals $1200: The homes of Mark Twain & Harriet Beecher Stowe can be found in this state capital Hartford |
#4718, aired 2005-02-23 | small state capitals $1600: The Old Barracks Museum in this capital was the location of a major turning point in the Revolutionary War Trenton |
#4718, aired 2005-02-23 | small state capitals $2,000 (Daily Double): A planetarium in this capital bears the name of Christa McAuliffe, who died in the 1986 Challenger explosion Concord |
#4710, aired 2005-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This Jamaican seaport was founded in the 1690s & became the capital in 1872 Kingston |
#4710, aired 2005-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: NATO is headquartered on Blvd. Leopold III in this European capital Brussels |
#4710, aired 2005-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Bratislava, on the left bank of the Danube, is the capital of this country Slovakia |
#4710, aired 2005-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The Praca Marques de Pombal is at the top of the Avenida da Liberdade, a main street in this city Lisbon |
#4710, aired 2005-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $5,400 (Daily Double): Emperor Menelik II established this city whose name means "new flower" Addis Ababa |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: Inchon, about 20 miles to the southwest, is this capital's seaport Seoul |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | ASIAN CAPITALS $800: The name of this capital of Bangladesh may derive from that of a tree once common in the area Dhaka |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1200: In 1776, during the reign of Timur Shah, the Durrani rulers moved their capital from Kandahar to this city Kabul |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): On Jan. 6, 2005 an international summit on tsunami relief opened in this city Jakarta |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | ASIAN CAPITALS $2000: This capital's famous avenue on the waterfront, Roxas Boulevard, was once known as Dewey Boulevard Manila (in the Philippines) |
#4683, aired 2005-01-05 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Nebraska Wesleyan University is in this state capital Lincoln |
#4683, aired 2005-01-05 | STATE CAPITALS $400: (Hi, I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) Before joining NBC News, I observed politics firsthand as a lawyer working in the N.Y. Governor's office in this state capital Albany |
#4683, aired 2005-01-05 | STATE CAPITALS $600: This state capital is home to one of the armed forces academies Annapolis |
#4683, aired 2005-01-05 | STATE CAPITALS $800: (Hi, I'm Tucker Carlson of CNN's Crossfire.) One of my first jobs in journalism was as a staff writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in this state capital Little Rock |
#4683, aired 2005-01-05 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It's the state capital whose major newspaper is a "Bee" Sacramento |
#4630, aired 2004-10-22 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This Nevada capital was founded by Abraham Curry, who named it for a famous frontier scout Carson City |
#4630, aired 2004-10-22 | STATE CAPITALS $400: More than half of all U.S. coins are made at the mint in this "Mile High City" Denver |
#4630, aired 2004-10-22 | STATE CAPITALS $600: This state capital was founded by John Sutter, Jr. a year after gold was discovered on his father's sawmill Sacramento |
#4630, aired 2004-10-22 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 20-foot tall statue that stands in this capital's City Hall Plaza was a gift from the citizens of Genoa, Italy Columbus (Ohio) |
#4630, aired 2004-10-22 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: Peter Stuyvesant gave it the name Beverwyck in 1652; 12 years later it was given its present name Albany (New York) |
#4623, aired 2004-10-13 | small state capitals $400: This capital was once known as Frank's Ford after Stephen Ford who was killed by Indians nearby in 1780 Frankfort (Kentucky) |
#4623, aired 2004-10-13 | small state capitals $800: The Johnson Victrola Museum in this Delaware capital tells the history of the Victor Talking Machine Company Dover |
#4623, aired 2004-10-13 | small state capitals $1200: Named for a French city, this smallest state capital commands the main pass through the Green Mountains Montpelier (Vermont) |
#4623, aired 2004-10-13 | small state capitals $2000: The Missouri River lies about 10 miles to the east of this capital, the Continental Divide about 10 miles west Helena (Montana) |
#4623, aired 2004-10-13 | small state capitals $4,000 (Daily Double): This capital lies about halfway between the North Dakota & Nebraska borders Pierre (South Dakota) |
#4614, aired 2004-09-30 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: This capital was founded by North American settlers in 1822 Monrovia |
#4614, aired 2004-09-30 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1200: This picturesque Moorish city lies about 60 miles northeast of Casablanca Rabat |
#4614, aired 2004-09-30 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1993 18 U.S. soldiers were killed in a fierce battle in this capital Mogadishu |
#4614, aired 2004-09-30 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1600: Tourist attractions in this city near Africa's northern tip include the ruins of Carthage & other Punic towns Tunis |
#4614, aired 2004-09-30 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $2000: Muhammad Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman was fought in this city, then the capital of Zaire Kinshasa |
#4602, aired 2004-09-14 | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS $400: In the mid-1880s, it was the capital of the Crown colony of Vancouver Island Victoria |
#4602, aired 2004-09-14 | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS $800: It's the only provincial capital that lies on the shore of one of the Great Lakes Toronto |
#4602, aired 2004-09-14 | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS $1200: Lying about 175 miles north of Calgary, it's known as the "Gateway to the North" Edmonton |
#4602, aired 2004-09-14 | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS $2000: It's the provincial capital closest to Europe St. John's |
#4602, aired 2004-09-14 | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): This capital's harbor is spanned by the Angus L. MacDonald & A. Murray MacKay suspension bridges Halifax |
#4599, aired 2004-09-09 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: Among its numerous city squares are Ledise, known for its cafes, & Rembrandt, known for its cabarets Amsterdam |
#4599, aired 2004-09-09 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: In Russian this Lithuanian capital is called Vilna Vilnius |
#4599, aired 2004-09-09 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: This city’s best-known thoroughfare is Trakt Krolewski, or Royal Way Warsaw |
#4599, aired 2004-09-09 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: This capital lies on the Attica Plain surrounded by mountains including Parnes & Hymettus Athens |
#4599, aired 2004-09-09 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1000: In the 15th century, Henry the Navigator founded St. Mary’s Chapel in Belem, now a part of this European capital Lisbon |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $400: This state didn't keepsie Poughkeepsie as its capital for very long New York |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $800: Opelousas, Donaldsonville & Shreveport are among the places that have been its capital Louisiana |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $1200: Figuring out the name of this capital of Alabama from 1826 to 1846 is like pulling teeth Tuscaloosa |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $1600: Before Dover took over you had to carry your coals to this capital of Delaware Newcastle |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $2000: Portland used to be a capital of Maine & Augusta used to be a capital of this state Georgia |
#4590, aired 2004-07-16 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $200: In South America:
TO A BOG Bogotá |
#4590, aired 2004-07-16 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $400: A European metropolis:
ADD RIM Madrid |
#4590, aired 2004-07-16 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $600: In the Western Hemisphere:
AT A TOW Ottawa |
#4590, aired 2004-07-16 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $800: Down Under:
BARN RACE Canberra |
#4590, aired 2004-07-16 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $1000: An Asian capital:
HELD WINE New Delhi |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $400: OXEN HIP Phoenix |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $800: IN SLANG Lansing |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $1200: OILY MAP Olympia |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $1600: ILL SHAVEN Nashville |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | SCRAMBLED STATE CAPITALS $2000: MACK RIBS Bismarck |
#4547, aired 2004-05-18 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Its 44-story office tower is the tallest structure in New York outside of Manhattan Albany |
#4547, aired 2004-05-18 | STATE CAPITALS $400: In 1819 East Alabama & New Philadelphia were consolidated into this Montgomery |
#4547, aired 2004-05-18 | STATE CAPITALS $800: It lies about 50 miles south of Portland on the Willamette river Salem(, Oregon) |
#4547, aired 2004-05-18 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This capital founded by gold miners has over 100 days a year of below freezing temperatures Juneau(, Alaska) |
#4547, aired 2004-05-18 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It lies about 50 miles northeast of Portland on the Kennebec river Augusta(, Maine) |
#4537, aired 2004-05-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: Most of this capital's drinking water comes from the Thames River with smaller amounts from the River Lee London |
#4537, aired 2004-05-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: Inhabitants of this European capital are called Madrilenos Madrid |
#4537, aired 2004-05-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1600: The column of King Sigismund in this Polish city honors the king who moved the capital there from Krakow in 1596 Warsaw |
#4537, aired 2004-05-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $2000: Romania's capital, Bucharest, is not to be confused with this capital of Hungary Budapest |
#4537, aired 2004-05-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): After World War II, this city was divided into 4 occupation zones: American, British, French & Russian Berlin |
#4488, aired 2004-02-25 | STATE CAPITALS $200: A bronze statue known as "The Independent Man" tops the Rhode Island state house in this city Providence |
#4488, aired 2004-02-25 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Opened in 1917, the Museum of Fine Arts in this city was built in the Pueblo Revival style Santa Fe |
#4488, aired 2004-02-25 | STATE CAPITALS $600: Hollywood Cemetery in this city is the final resting place of James Monroe, John Tyler & Jefferson Davis Richmond |
#4488, aired 2004-02-25 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This city dropped the word "Great" from its name in 1868, while it was still a territorial capital Salt Lake City |
#4488, aired 2004-02-25 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: The exterior of the gov.'s mansion in Tallahassee was inspired by the Hermitage in this other state capital Nashville |
#4480, aired 2004-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS $400: The farthest inland deep-water port on the Mississippi River, it became Louisiana's capital in 1849 Baton Rouge |
#4480, aired 2004-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Its original name was Michigan Lansing |
#4480, aired 2004-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS $1200: It became a state capital primarily through the efforts of Abraham Lincoln, who was then in the legislature Springfield |
#4480, aired 2004-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS $1,500 (Daily Double): Named for a 19th century German chancellor, it was founded as the northwest terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad Bismarck |
#4480, aired 2004-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: This capital lies on the Susquehana River about 36 miles northeast of Gettysburg battlefield Harrisburg |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Its name comes from Irish words meaning "black" & "pool" Dublin |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The mask seen here is in a museum in this capital Cairo |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $600 (Daily Double): It's the South American capital city that lies closest to the Equator Quito |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Appropriately, this Finnish capital lies on the Gulf of Finland Helsinki |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: In this city you can visit the Qianmen Gate & the Temple of Heaven Beijing |
#4460, aired 2004-01-16 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Before he was president, George W. Bush occupied the governor's mansion in this city Austin, Texas |
#4460, aired 2004-01-16 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's home to the NHL's Avalanche & also to a U.S. Mint Denver |
#4460, aired 2004-01-16 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Anthony Trollope called this capital "on the River Kentucky" "As quietly dull a little town as I ever entered" Frankfort |
#4460, aired 2004-01-16 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 state capitals with the word "City" in their names (2 of) Carson City, Jefferson City, Oklahoma City & Salt Lake City |
#4460, aired 2004-01-16 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: This capital is also the seat of Kennebec County Augusta, Maine |
#4446, aired 2003-12-29 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $200: NON OLD London |
#4446, aired 2003-12-29 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $400: IN VANE Vienna |
#4446, aired 2003-12-29 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $600: I RASP Paris |
#4446, aired 2003-12-29 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $800: APE RUG Prague |
#4446, aired 2003-12-29 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $1000: IN SILK, EH? Helsinki |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This city has the ruins of forums of 5 rulers still standing, including Trajan & Nerva Rome |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This capital is home to Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: This capital lies at the northernmost extremity of a 60-mile fjord Oslo |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Said to be 5,000 years old, this capital city lies between the Anti-Lebanon Mountains & the Syrian Desert Damascus |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: This capital lies near the junction of the Pilcomayo & Paraguay Rivers Asunción |
#4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: In February 2002 U.S. Marines were passing out toys & gloves to kids in this Afghan capital's Allauddin Orphanage Kabul |
#4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ASIAN CAPITALS $800: This capital in the valley of Nepal is at an altitude of about 4,000 feet Kathmandu |
#4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1200: According to legend, it was founded in 1122 BC; in 1948 became capital of North Korea Pyongyang |
#4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ASIAN CAPITALS $1600: With a name meaning "The End of Strife", this capital of Burma is naturally home to the World Peace Pagoda Rangoon (or Yangon) |
#4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ASIAN CAPITALS $2000: Now capital of Laos, back in the early 18th century it was capital of a same-named kingdom Vientiane |
#4379, aired 2003-09-25 | STATE CAPITALS $200: It rhymes with noisy Boise |
#4379, aired 2003-09-25 | STATE CAPITALS $400: If you go over to Dover, you'll be in the capital of this state Delaware |
#4379, aired 2003-09-25 | STATE CAPITALS $600: New York's Erie Canal extends from Buffalo to near this state capital Albany |
#4379, aired 2003-09-25 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Washington-on-the Brazos was the capital of Texas for a short time before this city became its permanent capital Austin |
#4379, aired 2003-09-25 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: Trenton, the capital of this state, was originally known as Trent's Town New Jersey |
#4327, aired 2003-05-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Population 7 million & lends its name to a type of bean Lima |
#4327, aired 2003-05-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Population 17 million & built on the ruins of Montezuma's capital Mexico City |
#4327, aired 2003-05-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Population 11 million & home to the "Gate of Heavenly Peace" Beijing (Peking) |
#4327, aired 2003-05-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: Population 1.7 million & host of the world-famous Chopin piano competition Warsaw |
#4327, aired 2003-05-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): Population 1.4 million & occupied by Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989 Kabul |
#4319, aired 2003-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Proverbially, it's where "all roads lead" to Rome |
#4319, aired 2003-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It's where the government of India meets New Delhi |
#4319, aired 2003-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: After the Khmer Rouge came to power, this city's population dropped from about 2 million to 20,000 Phnom Penh |
#4319, aired 2003-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Physicist Niels Bohr was born in this capital in 1885 Copenhagen |
#4319, aired 2003-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: The name of this South African capital means "fountain of flowers" Bloemfontein |
#4314, aired 2003-05-08 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $400: Its opera house lies on Bennelong Point in Port Jackson Harbour Sydney |
#4314, aired 2003-05-08 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $800: Named for a British naturalist, it's Australia's northernmost capital Darwin |
#4314, aired 2003-05-08 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1200: This capital of Victoria served as Australia's capital from 1901 to 1927 when the seat of govt. was moved to Canberra Melbourne |
#4314, aired 2003-05-08 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $1600: This capital of Queensland was founded as a convict colony in 1824 & named for a governor of New South Wales Brisbane |
#4314, aired 2003-05-08 | AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $3,200 (Daily Double): This capital of South Australia is the only Australian capital named for a woman Adelaide |
#4276, aired 2003-03-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: In 2004 this Portuguese city is set to host the European football championship Lisbon |
#4276, aired 2003-03-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400 (Daily Double): Commissioned by Malcolm III's wife, the Chapel of St. Margaret is the oldest surviving structure in this capital Edinburgh |
#4276, aired 2003-03-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Now Jamaica's capital, it was founded in 1693 to replace Port Royal, which was destroyed by an earthquake Kingston |
#4276, aired 2003-03-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: A landmark of this Uruguayan capital is The Cerro, or hill, for which it's named Montevideo |
#4276, aired 2003-03-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: It ranks as the second-largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca Rabat |
#4261, aired 2003-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: If you want to check out the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, go to this state capital Austin |
#4261, aired 2003-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Its name is French for "red stick" Baton Rouge |
#4261, aired 2003-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $800: With a population of over one million, this Southwestern city is the most populous state capital Phoenix |
#4261, aired 2003-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: Its Strom Thurmond Federal Building was completed in 1979 Columbia |
#4261, aired 2003-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Among its nicknames are "Zion" & "The New Jerusalem" Salt Lake City |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | STATE CAPITALS $400: No beans about it, this capital is the largest city in New England Boston |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | STATE CAPITALS $800: This twin city is the capital of Minnesota St. Paul |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: A 150-foot-high battle monument in this New Jersey capital marks the site of a famous Revolutionary War battle Trenton |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | STATE CAPITALS $2000: Every Memorial Day weekend, this city hosts its famous 500 auto race Indianapolis |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | STATE CAPITALS $2,400 (Daily Double): It's nicknamed the "Center of the Pineapple Industry" Honolulu |
#4141, aired 2002-09-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: The Hellenic Star is a leading newspaper in this European capital Athens |
#4141, aired 2002-09-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: With seating for 50,000, the world's largest arena for bullfighting is found in this Western Hemisphere capital Mexico City |
#4141, aired 2002-09-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Depending on the movie, Godzilla crushes either New York or this Asian capital of 8 million Tokyo |
#4141, aired 2002-09-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: In Mandarin, this city's name means "northern capital" Beijing |
#4141, aired 2002-09-09 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: A Pacino is an Oscar-winning actor; a paceno is a resident of this South American capital La Paz |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | STATE CAPITALS $200: The 2 most populous state capitals are Phoenix & this Hoosier city Indianapolis |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | STATE CAPITALS $400: In August Illinoisans attend the State Fair in this capital Springfield (Illinois) |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | STATE CAPITALS $600 (Daily Double): In 1786 it was chosen to replace Charleston as its state's capital Columbia (South Carolina) |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | STATE CAPITALS $600: You can see & hear one of the world's largest pipe organs at the Mormon Tabernacle in this city Salt Lake City |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: During the 1920s this city named for a president became the headquarters of the Progressive Party Madison (Wisconsin) |
#4121, aired 2002-07-01 | STATE CAPITALS $200: In the spring and summer, a million bats gather under the Congress Avenue Bridge in this "Lone Star State" capital Austin |
#4121, aired 2002-07-01 | STATE CAPITALS $400 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this capital built a full-scale replica of the Santa Maria in 1991 Columbus (Ohio) |
#4121, aired 2002-07-01 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This Alabama capital is home to the Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin Montgomery |
#4121, aired 2002-07-01 | STATE CAPITALS $600: The growth of this capital was stimulated by the discovery of the Comstock Lode Carson City (Nevada) |
#4121, aired 2002-07-01 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It's the only "burg" that's a state capital Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) |
#4113, aired 2002-06-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: The story of Hans Brinker is set in & around this capital Amsterdam |
#4113, aired 2002-06-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one of the Nobel Prizes that's awarded in this capital Oslo |
#4113, aired 2002-06-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: It was the birthplace of Samuel Goldwyn & Marie Curie Warsaw |
#4113, aired 2002-06-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the capital city where you'd find the Ministry of Defense building seen here Havana |
#4113, aired 2002-06-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: (Cheryl gives the clue from Washington, D.C.) The Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., was named for this ruler in 1751 George II |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: About one-third of Argentina's population lives within the metropolitan area of this capital city Buenos Aires |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Contemporary art from around the world is on display at this city's Salvador Allende Museum of Solidarity Santiago |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1600: La Guaira is its Caribbean sea port Caracas |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the closest capital to Lake Titicaca La Paz |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: Francisco Pizarro founded it in January 1535 & called it Ciudad de Los Reyes, or "city of kings" Lima |
#4078, aired 2002-05-01 | HOPE YOU LEARNED YOUR AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: Spread over 4 hills, this African country's capital of Kigali includes a Muslim Quarter, an airport & a technical college Rwanda |
#4078, aired 2002-05-01 | HOPE YOU LEARNED YOUR AFRICAN CAPITALS $800: In 1926 the capital of this republic of Northwest Africa was moved from Zinder to Niamey Niger |
#4078, aired 2002-05-01 | HOPE YOU LEARNED YOUR AFRICAN CAPITALS $1200: In its capital, N'Djamena, you might learn that this nation was once part of French Equatorial Africa Chad |
#4078, aired 2002-05-01 | HOPE YOU LEARNED YOUR AFRICAN CAPITALS $1600: On the northeast tip of Lake Tanganyika, Bujumbura is the capital of this African nation Burundi |
#4078, aired 2002-05-01 | HOPE YOU LEARNED YOUR AFRICAN CAPITALS $2000: Some go to the artisans' market in this country's capital of Bamako to look for monkey skulls & skins Mali |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $400: Omaha
(1854-1867) Nebraska |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $800: Natchez
(1798-1802 & 1817-1821) Mississippi |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $1200: Augusta
(1786-1795) Georgia |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $1600: Murfreesboro
(1819-1825) Tennessee |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $2000: Portsmouth
(1680-1775) New Hampshire |
#4028, aired 2002-02-20 | FORMER CAPITALS $400: In the early 1800s Turku lost both its capital status & its university to this Finnish city Helsinki |
#4028, aired 2002-02-20 | FORMER CAPITALS $800: In 1840, the building seen here, now in this U.S. state, was the capital of the Republic
of the Rio Grande. Texas |
#4028, aired 2002-02-20 | FORMER CAPITALS $1600: This former Philippine capital is named for former Philippine President Manuel Quezon City |
#4028, aired 2002-02-20 | FORMER CAPITALS $2000: This Central Asian city, once Tamerlane's capital, was anciently known as Maracanda Samarkand |
#4028, aired 2002-02-20 | FORMER CAPITALS $2,200 (Daily Double): You can see the Bath of Emperor Fasiladas in this African country's former capital of Gonder Ethiopia |
#4021, aired 2002-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This North American capital has the world's largest metropolitan area after Tokyo Mexico City |
#4021, aired 2002-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: It was the capital of Czechoslovakia & is now the capital of the Czech Republic Prague |
#4021, aired 2002-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): The Arab League has its headquarters in this capital, Africa's largest city Cairo |
#4021, aired 2002-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Listen carefully: You'll find this capital in Tunisia Tunis |
#4021, aired 2002-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: The inner workings of this "outer" Asian country take place in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia |
#4009, aired 2002-01-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: With 100 inches of snowfall each winter this Alaskan capital is a really cool place to visit Juneau |
#4009, aired 2002-01-24 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Everything's coming up roses at the famous Reinisch Rose Garden in this Kansas capital Topeka |
#4009, aired 2002-01-24 | STATE CAPITALS $600: St. John's Church in this capital city is where Patrick Henry gave his famous "Liberty or Death" speech Richmond |
#4009, aired 2002-01-24 | STATE CAPITALS $800: It's home to Red Earth Inc. & the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Oklahoma City |
#4009, aired 2002-01-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It lies at the confluence of the Mississippi & Minnesota rivers St. Paul |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | STATE CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $100: 25 miles north of Terre Haute in this state, you'll find Parke County, the Covered Bridge Capital of the World Indiana |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | STATE CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $200: Most cities would cringe, but Hidalgo in this U.S. state embraced being the Killer Bee Capital Texas |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | STATE CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $300: A killer place to visit is the Shark's Tooth Capital of the world in Sarasota County in this state Florida |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | STATE CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $400: Miss USA, not Al Gore, was grand marshal at this state's Mule-lennium Party in Columbia, the Mule Capital Tennessee |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | STATE CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $500: Vidalia is not only this state's official vegetable but the city that's the Sweet Onion Capital of the World Georgia |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This city was founded in 52 B.C. on the Ile de la Cite, an island in the Seine River Paris |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: This capital is a port lying on the straits of Florida Havana |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): This South American capital is home to the General Bernardo O'Higgins Military School Santiago |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: In 1898 Lord Kitchener & the British recaptured this African capital from the forces of 'Abd Allah Khartoum (capital of the Sudan) |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: This Azerbaijani capital might be a contraction of the Persian "bad kube", or "blown upon by mountain winds" Baku |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | STATE CAPITALS $100: The governor's mansion housing George Pataki is in this city Albany |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | STATE CAPITALS $200: In 1861 Abe Lincoln moved from this Illinois city and headed for D.C. Springfield |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | STATE CAPITALS $300: Think about it... this city was first settled by John Harris around 1718 Harrisburg |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | STATE CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Huey Long was shot at the state capitol in this city in 1935 Baton Rouge |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | STATE CAPITALS $500: It's known as "The Crossroads of the Pacific" Honolulu |
#3947, aired 2001-10-30 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: This wonderful, wonderful city is home to the world-famous Tivoli Gardens Copenhagen |
#3947, aired 2001-10-30 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: It lies at the mouth of the River Liffey Dublin |
#3947, aired 2001-10-30 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: This Dutch seat of government doubles as the capital of South Holland province The Hague |
#3947, aired 2001-10-30 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: It lies on the Danube River, about 135 miles southeast of Vienna Budapest |
#3947, aired 2001-10-30 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1000: It's alphabetically last among Europe's capital cities Zagreb, Croatia |
#3923, aired 2001-09-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This Spanish capital is the most populous city on the Iberian Peninsula Madrid |
#3923, aired 2001-09-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Extending from north to south on the east bank of the Nile, this capital's main thoroughfare is Al Kurnish Cairo |
#3923, aired 2001-09-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: After 3 years of construction, this new city became Brazil's capital on April 21, 1960 Brasília |
#3923, aired 2001-09-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Once closed to all but the imperial family, this Asian capital's Forbidden City was opened to the public in 1925 Beijing |
#3923, aired 2001-09-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: This New Zealand capital is named for Arthur Wellesley, a British duke Wellington |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This city is home to the Empire State Plaza Albany |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's named for the third president of the U.S. Jefferson City |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $600: While Portland is Maine's main city, this is the capital Augusta |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $800: The first capital of the Confederacy, it's nicknamed "The Cradle of the Confederacy" Montgomery, Alabama |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: Fall River, Massachusetts is part of the metropolitan area of this state capital Providence |
#3915, aired 2001-09-14 | ANAGRAMMED WORLD CAPITALS $100: In Asia:
OK TOY Tokyo |
#3915, aired 2001-09-14 | ANAGRAMMED WORLD CAPITALS $200: In South America:
AS I TANGO Santiago |
#3915, aired 2001-09-14 | ANAGRAMMED WORLD CAPITALS $300: In the Americas:
MY TOXIC ICE Mexico City |
#3915, aired 2001-09-14 | ANAGRAMMED WORLD CAPITALS $400: On the Mediterranean:
HE'S TAN Athens |
#3915, aired 2001-09-14 | ANAGRAMMED WORLD CAPITALS $500: In North Africa:
LIP RIOT Tripoli |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $100: King Juan Carlos' main home, Zarzuela Palace, lies just outside this capital Madrid |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea; this is the capital of South Korea Seoul |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $300: Augustus Caesar said he found it "A city of bricks and left it a city of marble" Rome |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: It's served by Saddam International Airport Baghdad |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | WORLD CAPITALS $500: This Ecuadorian capital is located near the foot of the volcano Pichincha Quito |
#3866, aired 2001-05-28 | FORMER CAPITALS $100: Tucson
(1867-1877) Arizona |
#3866, aired 2001-05-28 | FORMER CAPITALS $200: Savannah
(1777-1778) Georgia |
#3866, aired 2001-05-28 | FORMER CAPITALS $300: Wheeling
(1863-1870 &
1875-1885) West Virginia |
#3866, aired 2001-05-28 | FORMER CAPITALS $400: Sitka
(1867-1900) Alaska |
#3866, aired 2001-05-28 | FORMER CAPITALS $500: Guthrie
(1890-1910) Oklahoma |
#3855, aired 2001-05-11 | STATE CAPITALS $100: A statue of King Kamehameha I stands guard outside the judiciary building in this capital city Honolulu |
#3855, aired 2001-05-11 | STATE CAPITALS $200: From 1701 to 1875 New Haven & this city were twin capitals of Connecticut; today it's the only one Hartford |
#3855, aired 2001-05-11 | STATE CAPITALS $300: The capitol building in this city was designed by Thomas Jefferson Richmond |
#3855, aired 2001-05-11 | STATE CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): The French called a land formation La Petite Roche, thus giving this capital its name Little Rock |
#3855, aired 2001-05-11 | STATE CAPITALS $500: This state capital is in the Green Mountains along the Winooski River Montpelier |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: The 50-story Canary Wharf Tower in this capital is the U.K.'s tallest building London |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: Its famous avenue Unter Den Linden connects the Schlossplatz & the Brandenburg Gate Berlin |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $600: This city's Christianborg Palace houses parliament & the supreme court Copenhagen |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: To visit the National Museum in Bosnia, head to this capital Sarajevo |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): A castle on the Vltava River in this capital was once home to the kings of Bohemia Prague |
#3789, aired 2001-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $100: This Colorado capital was the first city to use the Community Chest to finance its charitable agencies Denver |
#3789, aired 2001-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This state capital is located about 2,500 miles west of Los Angeles Honolulu |
#3789, aired 2001-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $300: You'll find the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in this state capital Boston |
#3789, aired 2001-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): This state capital's metropolitan area includes the cities of Glendale, Scottsdale & Sun City Phoenix |
#3789, aired 2001-02-08 | STATE CAPITALS $500: This capital is the headquarters for UPS, the Turner Broadcasting System & Delta Air Lines Atlanta |
#3759, aired 2000-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Capitals with a capital "O" include Burkina Faso's Ouagadougou & this capital of Canada Ottawa |
#3759, aired 2000-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: We should all make a pact to meet one year from now in Warsaw, this country's capital Poland |
#3759, aired 2000-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Head to South America & you'll discover its capital is Bogota Colombia |
#3759, aired 2000-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: If "Baywatch" moved to the beach in Beirut it would be in this country's capital Lebanon |
#3759, aired 2000-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Nassau is the capital of this island group located between Florida & Haiti the Bahamas |
#3724, aired 2000-11-09 | STATE CAPITALS $100: In 1977 this Florida city replaced its old capitol building with a new high-rise capitol Tallahassee |
#3724, aired 2000-11-09 | STATE CAPITALS $200: The name of this Southwestern capital is Spanish for "holy faith" Santa Fe, New Mexico |
#3724, aired 2000-11-09 | STATE CAPITALS $300: Abraham Lincoln moved to this capital city in 1837 Springfield, Illinois |
#3724, aired 2000-11-09 | STATE CAPITALS $400: America's oldest public art museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, is in this city whose name contains the word "art" Hartford |
#3724, aired 2000-11-09 | STATE CAPITALS $500: In 1957 this city's Central High was at the center of a desegregation battle Little Rock, Arkansas |
#3711, aired 2000-10-23 | STATE CAPITALS $100: In the old railway line it fell between Atchison & Santa Fe Topeka, Kansas |
#3711, aired 2000-10-23 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Capitals named for women include the capital of Maryland & this Maine capital Augusta |
#3711, aired 2000-10-23 | STATE CAPITALS $300: It's the capital of the state nicknamed "Heart of Dixie" Montgomery, Alabama |
#3711, aired 2000-10-23 | STATE CAPITALS $500: A synonym for this New England state capital could be what's symbolized by the sign here
[Deer Crossing] Hartford, Connecticut |
#3711, aired 2000-10-23 | STATE CAPITALS $600 (Daily Double): In 1999 the team once known as the Houston Oilers made a slick move to this capital Nashville (Tennessee Titans) |
#3698, aired 2000-10-04 | STATE CAPITALS $100: Put on your sunscreen & head to Waikiki Beach, a popular tourist spot in this capital city Honolulu |
#3698, aired 2000-10-04 | STATE CAPITALS $200: It was the site of a famous "Tea Party", December 16, 1773 Boston |
#3698, aired 2000-10-04 | STATE CAPITALS $300: During the Civil War, Union troops led by Sherman captured & burned much of this Georgia capital Atlanta |
#3698, aired 2000-10-04 | STATE CAPITALS $500: It's the capital of the most populous U.S. state Sacramento (California) |
#3698, aired 2000-10-04 | STATE CAPITALS $600 (Daily Double): The capital of Mississippi was named for this man, even before he became president Andrew Jackson |
#3655, aired 2000-06-23 | FUN FACTS ABOUT STATES & CAPITALS $200: The only state capital whose name ends in 3 vowels, it's also the northernmost Juneau, Alaska |
#3655, aired 2000-06-23 | FUN FACTS ABOUT STATES & CAPITALS $400: The only state whose name ends in 3 vowels Hawaii |
#3655, aired 2000-06-23 | FUN FACTS ABOUT STATES & CAPITALS $600: One of the original 13, it's the only state whose name ends in 3 consonants Massachusetts |
#3655, aired 2000-06-23 | FUN FACTS ABOUT STATES & CAPITALS $800 (Daily Double): The only state capital whose name ends in 3 consonants, namely R, C & K Bismarck, North Dakota |
#3655, aired 2000-06-23 | FUN FACTS ABOUT STATES & CAPITALS $1000: It's the only state whose name begins with 2 vowels Iowa |
#3572, aired 2000-02-29 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $100: The Eiffel Tower is its most popular tourist attraction Paris |
#3572, aired 2000-02-29 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: The crescent-shaped plaza Puerta del Sol marks the center of this capital's downtown area Madrid |
#3572, aired 2000-02-29 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $300: This capital's transportation system includes the S-Bahn rapid transit line & the U-Bahn, its subway Berlin |
#3572, aired 2000-02-29 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: It lies on a plain at the south end of Attica, a peninsula that extends into the Aegean Sea Athens |
#3572, aired 2000-02-29 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $500: The free university of this capital is actually 2 schools: one for French-speaking students & one for Flemish Brussels |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $100: This capital is linked to the North Sea via the Thames River London |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Indira Gandhi International Airport lies just outside this capital New Delhi |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $300: As its name implies, this Middle Eastern capital was once known for its damascened steel sword blades Damascus |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $500: In this capital on the Danube you can stroll the Nagy Korut (Great Boulevard) or the Kis Korut (Small Boulevard) Budapest |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 capitals on South America's Rio de la Plata Buenos Aires/Montevideo |
#3558, aired 2000-02-09 | STATE CAPITALS $200: In the 1840s it succeeded Detroit as Michigan's capital Lansing |
#3558, aired 2000-02-09 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This capital city's metro region includes Tempe & Mesa Phoenix |
#3558, aired 2000-02-09 | STATE CAPITALS $600: It's nicknamed "The Green Mountain City" Montpelier, Vermont |
#3558, aired 2000-02-09 | STATE CAPITALS $800: It lies at the head of Narragansett Bay Providence |
#3558, aired 2000-02-09 | STATE CAPITALS $900 (Daily Double): Once called Edwinton, it was renamed for a German chancellor Bismarck, North Dakota |
#3537, aired 2000-01-11 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $200: It's the only provincial capital with its own Major League Baseball team Toronto (Blue Jays) |