| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $200: At the age of 15 this creator of Flopsy & Mopsy began keeping a journal in a secret code she invented Potter |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $400: On Sept. 2, 1666 Samuel Pepys walked to this prison fortress & "got up upon one of the high places" to watch his city burn the Tower of London |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $600: One 1835 entry in his diary reads, "I met two very large tortoises (circumference of shell about 7 ft.)" Darwin |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $800: On Dec. 24, 1943 she wrote, "I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young" Anne Frank |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $2,400 (Daily Double): On July 4, 1862 he made an entry in his diary saying he went "to Godstow with the 3 Liddells; we had tea on the bank there" Lewis Carroll |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $400: This naturalist wrote his 1830s voyage was to "survey the shores of Chile, Peru and of some islands in the Pacific" Darwin |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $800: The journals of their 1803-1806 expedition mention Sacagawea, not always by name & not always spelled the same Lewis & Clark |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $2000: Some erasures & calculations in his 1926 notebook have cast doubt on whether he was the first to fly over the North Pole Richard Byrd |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $3,600 (Daily Double): A 1666 entry in his diary read, "The churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once" Samuel Pepys |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $400: On June 10, 1805 the journal of this pair's trek recorded that "our Indian woman is very sick" Lewis & Clark |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $800: His Oct. 31, 1662 diary entry: "As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me" Samuel Pepys |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $1600: In a January 1928 diary entry, she wrote about her future husband, "the flight gave him to the world" Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $2000: This historian's journals covering 1952-2000 have plenty of material on the Camelot era Arthur Schlesinger |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $8,000 (Daily Double): In January 1770 this explorer wrote, "Natives brought... the heads of the men they had lately kill'd" Captain Cook |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $200: On June 20, 1942 she wrote that no one would be "interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl" Anne Frank |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $400: Julie Powell's book about mastering Julia Child's recipes began as this type of online journal a blog |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $600: In describing a species of tortoise of this island group, Darwin wrote that "some grow to an immense size" the Galapagos |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $1000: This "Life of Samuel Johnson" author also wrote "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides", an early travel diary James Boswell |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $1,600 (Daily Double): An 1855 entry in this Scottish missionary's African journal mentions the discovery of Victoria Falls (David) Livingstone |
