#5, aired 2023-05-10 | NATIONAL FOUNDERS $400: Emperor Jimmu is the legendary founder of this country's first dynasty Japan |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | NATIONAL FOUNDERS $800: Mujibur Rahman, who led this country's breakaway from Pakistan, was killed in a 1975 coup Bangladesh |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | NATIONAL FOUNDERS $1200: Iceland's National Day commemorates the birthday of Jon Sigurdsson, a 19th century president of this legislative body the Althing |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | NATIONAL FOUNDERS $1600: In the 1950s Kwame Nkrumah led this country to its independence from Britain Ghana |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | NATIONAL FOUNDERS $2000: Last name of Józef, the leader of newly independent Poland after World War I Piłsudski |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $400: Once guardian to niece Gloria, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded one of these in New York, now located on Gansevoort Street an art museum |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $800: Following her husband's assassination in 1968, she founded a center for nonviolent social change in Atlanta (Coretta Scott) King |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $1200: In 1973, the year she beat Bobby Riggs, she founded the Women's Tennis Association Billie Jean King |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $1600: In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEMALE FOUNDERS $2000: In 1920, the year the 19th Amendment was ratified, Carrie Chapman Catt founded this, the LWV for short the League of Women Voters |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | RELIGION FOUNDERS $400: His death in 632 A.D. led to a dispute over whether Abu Bakr or Ali was his true successor Muhammad |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | RELIGION FOUNDERS $800: Joseph Smith said the angel Moroni told him of a set of golden plates that Joseph translated into this text the Book of Mormon |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | RELIGION FOUNDERS $1200: In founding Christian Science, she promoted the concept that sickness is spiritual, not material (Mary Baker) Eddy |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | RELIGION FOUNDERS $1600: Tradition says in the 500s B.C. this Iranian prophet learned of the spirits of truth & falsehood Zoroaster |
#8005, aired 2019-05-31 | RELIGION FOUNDERS $10,021 (Daily Double): A guiding principle of Mahavira, considered a founder of Jainism, was ahimsa, this principle also advocated by Gandhi non-violence |
#7247, aired 2016-03-01 | FOUNDERS $400: The "Wal" in Walmart comes from this last name of the chain's founder Walton |
#7247, aired 2016-03-01 | FOUNDERS $800: Last name of Arthur, the Irish gent who founded a brewery in Dublin in 1759 Guinness |
#7247, aired 2016-03-01 | FOUNDERS $1200: In 1914 Lilian Baylis founded a Shakespeare company at this "Old" London theatre the Old Vic |
#7247, aired 2016-03-01 | FOUNDERS $1,500 (Daily Double): Roger Baldwin, co-founder of this "Union", was its director when its clients included John Scopes & James Joyce the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union) |
#7247, aired 2016-03-01 | FOUNDERS $1600: Kemmons Wilson founded this motel chain & named it for a Bing Crosby film Holiday Inn |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FOUNDERS DAY $200: In 2013, when asked to name his greatest achievement, he said "CNN" Ted Turner |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FOUNDERS DAY $400: This church founder was born in Sharon, Vermont in 1805 Joseph Smith |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FOUNDERS DAY $1,000 (Daily Double): He didn't have the nicest things to say about Bill Gates in "Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft" Paul Allen |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FOUNDERS DAY $1000: In 1968 this Kennedy sister founded the Special Olympics Eunice |
#6456, aired 2012-10-15 | CITY FOUNDERS $400: Andrew Jackson was a co-founder of this largest Tennessee city Memphis |
#6456, aired 2012-10-15 | CITY FOUNDERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1839 John Sutter established the colony that became this state capital Sacramento |
#6456, aired 2012-10-15 | CITY FOUNDERS $1200: This home to the University of Oregon was founded by a Mr. Skinner & given his first name Eugene |
#5704, aired 2009-05-28 | FOUNDERS $200: This religion founder attained enlightenment under a bo tree & stayed near it 7 weeks to savor the experience Buddha |
#5704, aired 2009-05-28 | FOUNDERS $400: George Fox founded the religion nicknamed this because its followers trembled "at the word of the Lord" the Quakers |
#5704, aired 2009-05-28 | FOUNDERS $600: Elizabeth Glaser, wife of actor Paul Michael, helped start a foundation to battle pediatric this disease AIDS |
#5704, aired 2009-05-28 | FOUNDERS $800: Tradition says this "great" rival of Julius Caesar founded a colony in Pamplona in 75 B.C.; the city's name honors him Pompey (the Great) |
#5704, aired 2009-05-28 | FOUNDERS $1000: To support the Bill of Rights, Roger Baldwin co-founded this group in NYC in 1920 the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union) |
#5031, aired 2006-06-26 | FOUNDERS $400: The first school for these people in the U.S. was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet deaf people |
#5031, aired 2006-06-26 | FOUNDERS $800: Every trendy home should have a mozzarella slicer from this retailer founded by Chuck Williams Williams-Sonoma |
#5031, aired 2006-06-26 | FOUNDERS $2000: In 1892, in exile in the U.S., he founded Patria, the journal of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (Jose) Martí |
#3392, aired 1999-05-11 | COLLEGE FOUNDERS $800: Universalist Charles, who wanted to put "a light on the hill" in Medford, Massachusetts Tufts |
#3392, aired 1999-05-11 | COLLEGE FOUNDERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Massachusetts-born merchant William Marsh, who made a fortune in Houston Rice |
#3392, aired 1999-05-11 | COLLEGE FOUNDERS $1000: Omaha brothers & entrepreneurs Edward & John & their wives, sisters Mary Lucretia & Sarah Emily Creighton |
#3183, aired 1998-06-03 | FOUNDERS $200: Bernard Kroger founded a chain of grocery stores & Charles Walgreen founded a chain of these Drug stores |
#3183, aired 1998-06-03 | FOUNDERS $400: In 1958 former high school principal Dr. Ethel Andrus founded this group, the AARP American Association of Retired Persons |
#3183, aired 1998-06-03 | FOUNDERS $600: This Mass.-born businessman founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901 James Dole |
#3183, aired 1998-06-03 | FOUNDERS $800: Ernest K. Coulter, not George Orwell, helped start this organization that helps kids Big Brothers |
#3183, aired 1998-06-03 | FOUNDERS $1000: Born in Aspen, Harold Ross didn't found Aspener magazine, he went east & founded this one The New Yorker |
#3182, aired 1998-06-02 | BUSINESS FOUNDERS $200: In the 19th C. he fled the German military draft & went on to brew beer in Golden, Colorado Adolph Coors |
#3182, aired 1998-06-02 | BUSINESS FOUNDERS $400: Todd McFarlane's career drawing Spiderman for this comics line spawned his own private company Marvel Comics |
#3182, aired 1998-06-02 | BUSINESS FOUNDERS $600: In 1968 Robert Noyce & Gordon Moore founded this microchip company & soon brought Andrew Grove on board Intel |
#3182, aired 1998-06-02 | BUSINESS FOUNDERS $1000: "Uncle Herb" Kelleher founded this no-frills airline named for a quadrant of the U.S. Southwest Airlines |
#3182, aired 1998-06-02 | BUSINESS FOUNDERS $1,100 (Daily Double): The company founded by this man in 1876 developed insulin, many antibiotics & Prozac Eli Lilly |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | CITY FOUNDERS $200: Founded by Sweden's Gustav I Vasa in 1550, this city, Finland's largest, moved to its present site in 1640 Helsinki |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | CITY FOUNDERS $400: Tradition says Dido founded this north African city that suffered "Punic"tive damages from Rome Carthage |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | CITY FOUNDERS $800: French explorer Pierre Savorgnon de Brazza founded this current republic's city of Brazzaville in 1880 The Congo |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | CITY FOUNDERS $1,000 (Daily Double): The American Colonization Society founded this African city in 1822 Monrovia, Liberia |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | CITY FOUNDERS $1000: Historians believe the Roman gen. Pompey founded this Spanish city known for the running of the bulls Pamplona |
#2444, aired 1995-03-30 | FOUNDERS $200: In 1977 she founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families Hillary Clinton |
#2444, aired 1995-03-30 | FOUNDERS $400: In 1908, backed by Buick head William Durant, Albert Champion founded a company to make these spark plugs |
#2444, aired 1995-03-30 | FOUNDERS $600: Around 700 B.C. the Oscans founded this Italian city near Herculaneum & Stabiae Pompeii |
#2444, aired 1995-03-30 | FOUNDERS $800: 1 of the 3 Plymouth colonists who founded Duxbury, Massachusetts John Alden, Miles Standish, William Brewster |
#2444, aired 1995-03-30 | FOUNDERS $1000: Irish for "we ourselves", this party was founded by Arthur Griffith in 1905 Sinn Féin |
#2335, aired 1994-10-28 | FOUNDERS $200: The official name of Boys Town includes the name of this founder Father Flanagan |
#2335, aired 1994-10-28 | FOUNDERS $600: In the 5th century this saint founded a church in what's now the District of Down St. Patrick |
#2335, aired 1994-10-28 | FOUNDERS $800: In 1912 Henrietta Szold founded this women's Zionist organization Hadassah |
#2335, aired 1994-10-28 | FOUNDERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Singer heard here, she founded Humanitas, a human rights organization:
"The night they drove old Dixie down / And all the bells were ringing / The night they drove old Dixie down / And all the people were singing" Joan Baez |
#2335, aired 1994-10-28 | FOUNDERS $1000: This Mass. Ocean Institute was founded in 1930 with money from the Rockefeller Foundation the Woods Hole Institute |
#2301, aired 1994-09-12 | FOUNDERS $200: Now commonly called the Quakers, this group was founded by George Fox the Society of Friends |
#2301, aired 1994-09-12 | FOUNDERS $400: Charles Lubin named this baked goods company after his daughter Sara Lee |
#2301, aired 1994-09-12 | FOUNDERS $600: Rockwell Kent designed the original logo for this publishing company co-founded by Bennett Cerf Random House |
#2301, aired 1994-09-12 | FOUNDERS $800: He really had Georgia on his mind, since he founded the Georgia colony (James) Oglethorpe |
#2301, aired 1994-09-12 | FOUNDERS $1000: This dance group was founded in 1952 by Amalia Hernandez in Mexico City Ballet Folklorico |
#1918, aired 1992-12-30 | FOUNDERS $200: In the 1830s Henry Miller Shreve founded a port city in this state Louisiana |
#1918, aired 1992-12-30 | FOUNDERS $400: This movie studio was founded in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin & D.W. Griffith United Artists |
#1918, aired 1992-12-30 | FOUNDERS $600: He broke with Freud to found analytic psychology (Carl) Jung |
#1918, aired 1992-12-30 | FOUNDERS $800: In 1808 Louis Bonaparte founded what is now this Amsterdam museum the Rijksmuseum |
#1918, aired 1992-12-30 | FOUNDERS $1000: A group led in NYC by John Lamb & Isaac Sears, founded in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty |