#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $200: This longest tributary of the Mississippi River is known as "Big Muddy" the Missouri |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $400: The poet Tibullus called this city "Urbs Aeterna" Rome |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $600: Runnymede, England is sometimes referred to as the "Birthplace" of this document the Magna Carta |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $800 (Daily Double): The French are known to refer to this peak as "The White Lady" Mont Blanc |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1000: In 1914 Syria was one of the few remaining bits of this empire dubbed "The Sick Man of Europe" the Ottoman Empire |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $200: "Haggisland" Scotland |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $400: It's "The City of David" Jerusalem |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $600: It's "The Lost City of the Incas" Machu Picchu |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $800: "The Parnassus of Japan" Mount Fuji |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1000: German city that's "The Mother of Diets" Worms |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1200: Body of water called "The Main Street Of Russia" the Volga |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $2000: "Land Of The Leek" Wales |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): Mountain range that forms "the backbone of Italy" the Apennines |
#6465, aired 2012-10-26 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $400: "The Land of the Tulip" the Netherlands |
#6465, aired 2012-10-26 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $800: State capital that's "the Mormon Metropolis" Salt Lake City |
#6465, aired 2012-10-26 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1600: "The Bay of Giant Tides" the Bay of Fundy |
#6465, aired 2012-10-26 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Sicily's "Mountain of Fire" Mount Etna |
#6465, aired 2012-10-26 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $2000: A world capital since 1780, it's "The Venice of the East" Bangkok, Thailand |
#6088, aired 2011-02-16 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $400: Cape Hatteras is known as this cemetery synonym "of the Atlantic" a graveyard |
#6088, aired 2011-02-16 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $800: Appropriately enough, this New York metropolis is "Bison City" Buffalo |
#6088, aired 2011-02-16 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1200: This town is known as "Sin City" & its downtown is "Glitter Gulch" Las Vegas |
#6088, aired 2011-02-16 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1600: It's known as both "The Steel City" & "The Iron City" Pittsburgh |
#6088, aired 2011-02-16 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $2000: "The Coyote State" is an unofficial nickname of this 75,885-square-mile state South Dakota |
#5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $400: With its own Parthenon, Nashville, Tennesse is this Greek city "of the South" Athens |
#5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $800: Louisville is this "city", like the race that's run there Derby |
#5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1200: This Egyptian city earned the nickname "Mother of Books" from the library that was there in ancient times Alexandria |
#5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1600: Portland, Oregon is "The City of" these flowers Roses |
#5625, aired 2009-02-06 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $2000: Due to its sprawling area, the city of Lima is also called El Pulpo, or this sea creature an octopus |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $200: During the Civil War, this river was called the "Backbone of the Confederacy"; it was guarded by several forts the Mississippi |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $400: This "calm" lake village in New York State is often called "America's Switzerland" Lake Placid |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $600: Maryland is "the Old Line State"; this is "the Old Dominion" Virginia |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1000: The "Niagara of the South", this waterfall near Corbin, Kentucky shares its name with a famous "gap" Cumberland (Falls) |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $1,600 (Daily Double): Rapid City's nickname, "Gateway City to the Hills", refers specifically to these hills the Black Hills |