| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $200: This document said George III "has made judges dependent on his will alone" & imposed taxes "without our consent" the Declaration of Independence |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $400: The 1928 act creating this project said it was for the "protection and development of the Colorado River basin" Hoover Dam |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $600: On June 5, 1944 he issued a printed order to Allied troops to "bring about the destruction of the German war machine" Eisenhower |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $1000: This 1890 legislation called itself "an act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies" the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $2,500 (Daily Double): The signers of this document pledged to "covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick" the Mayflower Compact |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: On Jan. 1, 1863 Lincoln issued this edict, & would later call it "the central act of my administration" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: A draft document called the Articles of the Barons preceded this one to which the king set his seal in 1215 the Magna Carta |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $600: Robert Livingston, U.S. minister to France, James Monroe & a French treasury minister signed the treaty for this 1803 deal the Louisiana Purchase |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $800: A 1945 charter says, "We the peoples of" these "determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" the United Nations |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: Name given U.S. Public Law 88-408, passed in 1964 giving LBJ the power to prevent further aggression the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | DOCUMENTS $400: Collective name for the essays published in New York newspapers in 1787-88 supporting ratification of the Constitution the Federalist Papers |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | DOCUMENTS $800: All about lumber, the Aroostook War between New Brunswick & this state was settled by 1842's Webster-Ashburton treaty Maine |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | DOCUMENTS $1200: 1965's "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World" came out of the second of these church gatherings an ecumenical council |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | DOCUMENTS $1600: One of the less earthshaking parts of this 13th c. document calls for the removal of fish weirs from the Thames the Magna Carta |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | DOCUMENTS $2000: 313's edict of this Italian city granted religious freedom to Christians throughout the Roman Empire Milan |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: This 1863 document allowed the Union to recruit black soldiers the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: A draft document called the Articles of the Barons preceded this one to which the king set his seal in 1215 the Magna Carta |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $600: Robert Livingston, U.S. minister to France, James Monroe & a French Treasury minister signed the treaty for this 1803 deal the Louisiana Purchase |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $800: This charter says, "We the peoples of" these "determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" the United Nations charter |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: Name given U.S. Public Law 88-408, passed in 1964 giving LBJ the power to prevent further aggression the Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: The 1534 Act of Supremacy established this church with Henry VIII at its head the Church of England |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: In 1948 this organization proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the United Nations |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $600: 14 pages & hundreds of names long, this title subject of an Oscar-winning film was put on eBay in 2013 Schindler's list |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: Watery charter of mutual support & postwar cooperation jointly declared by Churchill & Roosevelt in 1941 Atlantic Charter |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $2,200 (Daily Double): One of the oldest known legal codes is this Babylonian one from around 1760 B.C. the Hammurabi code |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | DOCUMENTS $400: I'm trying to get an initiative on the next ballot--excuse me, can you sign this for me? a petition |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | DOCUMENTS $800: The California DMV says drivers must carry proof of financial responsibility, "commonly known as" this car insurance |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | DOCUMENTS $1200: In 2012 Cuba announced it was dropping the requirement for this type of visa for its citizens exit visas |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | DOCUMENTS $1,400 (Daily Double): This 2-word term for freedom of action is used of a 1914 message from Germany to Austria about attacking Serbia blank check (or carte blanche) |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | DOCUMENTS $1600: 2-word term for a document specifying medical measures to be taken or not taken if one is comatose a living will |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $400: The 1803 treaty for this deal stated that France would give up all military posts in New Orleans Louisiana Purchase |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $800: This document remained in effect for 71 years, until Plymouth was incorporated into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 Mayflower Compact |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $1200: The 1947 speech that launched this plan said Europe must have help "or face economic social & political deterioration" Marshall Plan |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $2000: The 1872 act establishing this called it a "tract of land in the territories of Montana and Wyoming" Yellowstone National Park |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): This 1854 act introduced by Stephen Douglas created 2 new territories west of Missouri Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: The Mayflower ____
(a 7-letter word) compact |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: The Kellogg-Briand ___
(A 4-letter word) pact |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $600: The American Recovery & Reinvestment ___
(A 3-letter word) act |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $800: Starting in the late 1940's, the Marshall ____ plan |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: In English (not Latin) 1215's Great _____ charter |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union... establish" this document the Constitution |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $800: Lincoln's line "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place" refers to this battlefield Gettysburg |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1200: Beethoven wrote but never sent 3 letters addressed to a woman this way, also the title of a Beethoven biopic the immortal beloved |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.) "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here" is a line from this document written from confinement in April 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail" |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $2000: Article 17 of this U.N. document says, "Everyone has the right to own property alone" the Declaration of Human Rights |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS $400: 1863:
"All persons held as slaves within any state... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS $800: 1620:
"We whose names are underwritten... combine ourselves together into a civil body politick" the Mayflower Compact |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS $1600: 1781:
"Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence" the Articles of Confederation |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS $2000: 1783:
"His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said U.S. to be free, sovereign and independent" the Treaty of Paris |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS $3,200 (Daily Double): 1918:
"No. 2: Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters" Wilson's Fourteen Points |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS $400: From the Italian for "to make evident", there was a famous Communist one manifesto |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS $600: Signatures are put on these during drives to get a measure on a ballot petition |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS $800: Also called an armistice, it's the 5-letter term for a suspension of hostilities agreed to by both sides truce |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS $1000: As an agreement between 2 parties it's pronounced one way; the accent changes when it means "to draw together" contract |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: Much of this man's 1796 farewell address was Alexander Hamilton's work George Washington |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: Written in the 1860s, they allow a fallen boxer 10 seconds to get up again Marquis of Queensbury Rules |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $600: Pope John XXIII addressed "Pacem in terris", one of these letters, "To all men of good will" a papal encyclical |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $800: Muhammad promulgated the constitution of this city soon after he fled there from Mecca Medina |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: In the 1809 treaty of this fort, the U.S. acquired 2.5 million acres from Indiana's Indians Fort Wayne |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | DOCUMENTS $100: The U.S. government encourages traveling citizens to smile for their photos in these booklets passports |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | DOCUMENTS $200: Colorful term for a document allowing aliens to legally work in the United States a green card |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | DOCUMENTS $300: "To take" this often means to sign a document forswearing liquor the pledge |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | DOCUMENTS $400: After this proceeding is complete, a court issues the child a new birth certificate adoption |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | DOCUMENTS $500: Once, this document disposed of personal effects, while property was covered in the "last will" testament |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $100: The 1996 GOP platform proposed amending this to protect crime victims & the unborn the Constitution |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: In 1939 Albert Einstein wrote to Franklin Roosevelt urging development of this weapon the atomic bomb |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $300: An 1886 convention on copyrights & an 1864 convention on the rules of war were signed in this country Switzerland |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: In 1222 the Golden Bull of Hungary gave rights to nobles, like this English charter 7 years before the Magna Carta |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $500: In the 1850 Punctuation of Olmutz, this German-speaking country halted Prussia's aims to unite Germany Austria |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | DOCUMENTS $200: The U.S. government gets over 100,000 requests a year for these documents that protect inventors patents |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | DOCUMENTS $600: A "living" one gives family members the right to end treatment of a dying person will |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | DOCUMENTS $800: In countries under civil law, they can be real estate lawyers; in the U.S., they seal documents notaries |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | DOCUMENTS $1000: This synonym for "arranged" refers to documents designed as secret classified |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, influenced the writing of this "great charter" of liberties Magna Carta |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: Senate approval of the treaty to buy this area in 1867 may have been accomplished by Russian bribery Alaska |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $600: This legislation, officially the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, provided subsidies for college G.I. Bill |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $800: This country's prime minister & 10 provincial premiers signed the controversial Meech Lake Accord in 1987 Canada |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: The 1935 laws that deprived Jews of German citizenship were named for this city where they were decreed Nuremberg |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: In the November 1806 Berlin decree, this emperor blocked all trade between France & Great Britain Napoleon |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: Issued in final form January 1, 1863, it opened the Armed Services to former slaves the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $600: The Nyon Agreement was a 20th century attempt to combat this on the Mediterranean piracy |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $800: This country's Constitution of 1720 divided power among the king, the Council & the Riksdag Sweden |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: In 1945, 7 Mideast countries signed a charter forming this organization headquartered in Cairo the Arab League |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $100: The bill of sale for this was dated April 30, 1803 the Louisiana Purchase |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: Total number of theses nailed to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany October 31, 1517 95 |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $300: The last line of this 1848 tract has been translated as "Workers of the world, unite!" The Communist Manifesto |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $500: Japan signed its surrender for WWII aboard this ship the Missouri |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Adopted in March 1861, it was modeled on the U.S. Constitution the Constitution of the Confederacy |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $100: This French emperor decreed the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 Napoleon |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: The British North America Act of 1867 formed this dominion & divided it into 4 provinces Canada |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $300: Pope Paul VI's encyclical "Humanae Vitae" reaffirmed Cath. opposition to artificial forms of this birth control |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: The Swedish Conventicle Act of 1726 banned meetings of all religious denominations but this one Lutheran |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $500: John Graham Chambers drafted the 12 boxing rules published under the patronage of this marquess in 1867 the Marquess of Queensbury |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $100: The Berne Convention of 1886 was about these, symbolized by a C in a circle copyrights |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: Around 621 B.C. Draco, a chief magistrate, first codified the laws for this Greek city-state's people Athens |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $300: Only 1 volume of this Karl Marx 4-volume work was published before his death Das Kapital |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: The ABC treaty of 1915 was signed by these 3 South American countries Argentina, Brazil & Chile |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $500: After this 1215 document was declared void by Innocent III, it was reissued with changes in 1216, 1217 & 1225 the Magna Carta |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS $100: It grants a title of real estate; a villain might want the one to the ranch the deed |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS $200: For most states the minimum age to get one of these without parental consent is 18, male or female a marriage license |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS $300: An agreement between persons; the men on the Mayflower made a famous one a compact |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS $400: It's a command to come to court & testify a subpoena |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS $500: A decree, commandment or public act from the pope; it's marked with a lead seal a bull |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | LEGAL DOCUMENTS $200: Derived from the Latin for "under penalty", this is a legal notice to appear in court as a witness a subpoena |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | LEGAL DOCUMENTS $400: From the Latin, meaning "to enjoin", it can be issued to stop a person from committing an act an injunction |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | LEGAL DOCUMENTS $500 (Daily Double): This document notifies a person that he must come to court to answer a complaint against him a summons |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | LEGAL DOCUMENTS $800: An attorney prepares this document of his arguments in a case to give to the judge & opposing party a brief |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | LEGAL DOCUMENTS $1000: Used chiefly against debtors, this court order allows the seizure of one's property to pay a debt a lien (garnishment) |
