| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: West Papua became a part of this country in 1969 as its Irian Jaya province Indonesia |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $800: During the Vietnam War, this Asian city was the headquarters of American military operations Saigon |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $1200: Öz Beg was both great & powerful as khan of this group whose territory ranged from the Carpathians to Siberia the Golden Horde |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $1600: The Killing Fields of Cambodia got their name due to the brutality of this French-named Communist group Khmer Rouge |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $2000: This Sri Lankan Guerrilla force attacked Colombo's airport in 2001, destroying many of the country's commercial planes the Tamil Tigers |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $200: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Tom: The 1948 Costa Rican Civil War had a twist ending; José Figueres emerged at the head of this type of group, Spanish for "meeting".)
(Dominic: But surprise, he abolished the army, sex discrimination in voting rights & his own government & went back to democratic elections) junta |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $400: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: Our listeners have to deal with some Britishisms--in 1790, jailers were gobsmacked to find that Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette had scarpered.)
(Tom: They were trying to get to the protection of Marie's brother, Leopold II, of this country; but they were captured & really copped it) Austria |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $600: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: The French went their own way with the passengers on their early rockets, including the first catstronaut.)
(Tom: She was dubbed Félicette in honor of this star of early cartoons & had the distinction of actually surviving her sub-orbital flight) Felix the Cat |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $800: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: Despite her stature on the political & the Broadway stage, Eva Perón's career in public life only lasted six years.)
(Tom: Her first world exposure came when she made a rockstar-like rainbow tour in 1947, starting with a visit to this Spanish leader) Franco |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $1000: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Tom: The women of this city-state, the most powerful in Greece around 400 B.C., were as tough as the men.)
(Dominic: Plutarch reports that her mother would tell her son to come back from war carrying his shield or dead on top of it) Sparta |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $200: 1994?
"Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption" & this comedy about 2 numbskulls who drive a mini-bike to Aspen Dumb and Dumber |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $400: 1999?
"The Sixth Sense", "The Matrix" & this rom-com about a movie star who falls for a floppy-haired bookstore owner Notting Hill |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $800 (Daily Double): 2007?
"There Will Be Blood", "No Country for Old Men" & this drama starring George Clooney as a law firm fixer Michael Clayton |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $800: 1939?
"Ninotchka", "Gone with the Wind" & this Jimmy Stewart classic about a young senator who takes on corruption Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $1000: 1986?
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Aliens" & this coming-of-age drama about 4 boys who go looking for a dead body Stand By Me |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | HISTORY OF BRITAIN $400: Signed by Alexander II & Henry III, 1237's Treaty of York set the border between these 2 kingdoms England & Scotland |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | HISTORY OF BRITAIN $800: Britain finally began using this on September 14, 1752, resulting in a time jump of almost 2 weeks to catch up with other nations the Gregorian calendar |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | HISTORY OF BRITAIN $1200: In 1743 against the French, the second king of this name was the last British monarch to lead troops on a battlefield George |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | HISTORY OF BRITAIN $1600: Triggered by an unpopular tax & led by Wat Tyler, the "Great Uprising" of 1381 is better known by this "low class" name the Peasants' Revolt |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | HISTORY OF BRITAIN $2000: In the colonial era Brits picked up a few Hindi words, like this short one for their 1858-1947 rule over India raj |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | HISTORY $200: In 1724 he traveled from America to London for the first time to purchase printing equipment Ben Franklin |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | HISTORY $400: France's Minister of War between 1929 & 1932 advocated for this defensive barrier that would later bear his name the Maginot Line |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | HISTORY $800: The War of the Pacific grew out of a disagreement between Chile & Bolivia over a portion of this desert the Atacama |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Before a papal tribunal in 1633, he stated, "I abjure, curse & detest the aforesaid errors" Galileo |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | HISTORY $1000: Haters of Constantine V of this empire called him "the dung-named", due to an alleged accident at his baptism the Byzantine |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This half of an exploring duo was Thomas Jefferson's personal secretary & aide-de-camp; later, gov. of the Upper Louisiana Territory Lewis |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In his first State of the Union speech, President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on" this condition poverty |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Spain called dibs on this Pacific island in 1565 &, with some persuasion from the U.S.S. Charleston, gave it to the U.S. in 1898 Guam |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: More than 5,000 perished in the hurricane that struck this Texas island community in September 1900 Galveston |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: What the North called the Battle of Bull Run, the South called this for a town in Virginia Manassas |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Around 200 A.D. Axum in Ethiopia was a trading power using resources like rhino horn & more vitally, this material from a larger mammal ivory |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORD HISTORY $400: Going back to steam-engine cars, this word for a limo driver is from the French for "to heat" or "to stoke" a chauffeur |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORLD HISTORY $400: The Chinese invented this in the first millennium & suffered one of its deadliest explosions as noses rained on Beijing in 1626 gunpowder |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORLD HISTORY $600: Erzherzog, German for this, was a bad luck title for some, like Rudolph, the heir to the Austrian throne who died at age 30 in 1889 archduke |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORD HISTORY $800: We borrowed this word for a desire to travel from German Wanderlust |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORLD HISTORY $800: The historical play "The White Rose" is largely a conversation between an anti-Nazi student & a member of this police force the Gestapo |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: Starting in 1947, millions fled what's now Bangladesh to this capital of India's West Bengal state, increasing its crowding issues Kolkata |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORD HISTORY $1200: From the name of an ancient philosopher, it's someone with discriminating taste in food & drink an epicurean (epicure) |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORD HISTORY $2000: This silvery-white metallic element was named for an asteroid that bears the name of an epithet of Athena palladium |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | WORD HISTORY $2,800 (Daily Double): William Makepeace Thackeray coined both of these mashups of 2 top British universities Oxbridge & Camford |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | HISTORIC HISTORY $200: Most Chinese subjects were barred from entering this imperial palace complex in Beijing, hence its name the Forbidden Palace (or City) |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | HISTORIC HISTORY $400: This "Great" pharaoh battled the Hittites & was one of ancient Egypt's most prolific builders Ramesses |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | HISTORIC HISTORY $600: The plot to murder Abraham Lincoln included an attempt on the life of this secretary of state Seward |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | HISTORIC HISTORY $1000: "South" is this explorer's story of his 19-teens expedition: it was stranded for 2 years but his party lost none of its 28 men Shackleton |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | HISTORIC HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The 1973 Arab-Israeli War occurred during these 2 periods, one Jewish & one Islamic, both of which involve fasting Ramadan & Yom Kippur |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1839 it replaced Vandalia as Illinois' capital Springfield |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The 20th Amendment, which moved the presidential inauguration up from March to January, has this "avian" nickname Lame Duck |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $600: Located in Wyoming & of volcanic origin, it was the first U.S. national monument to be established Devils Tower |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): During his tenure as chief justice of the United States, he swore in 5 presidents, including Andrew Jackson John Marshall |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: On October 10, 1973, he resigned as vice president & pleaded no contest to one count of income tax evasion Spiro Agnew |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Founded in 1863, this international organization won its first of 3 Nobel Peace Prizes in 1917 the Red Cross |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Scotland's James II, who sided with Lancaster vs. York in these 15th c. wars, died when one of his own cannons blew up beside him War of the Roses |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Milton Obote returned as president of Uganda after the overthrow of this man in 1979 Idi Amin |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: After Alexander's death, one of his generals began this Egyptian dynasty that lasted about 300 years until Cleopatra's death the Ptolemaic Dynasty |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: Alberto Fujimori, a controversial former leader of this nation, passed away in 2024 & was buried after 3 days of national mourning Peru |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: Around 1475 William Caxton printed some of the first books in English, including a history of Troy & these Chaucer tales The Canterbury Tales |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: An 1806 duel involving this future president resulted in the death of Charles Dickinson Andrew Jackson |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: This firebrand of the American Revolution also defended the French one in "The Rights of Man" Thomas Paine |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Before an upgrade in title, he was the first bishop in France to implement the reforms laid out at the Council of Trent Richelieu |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: A 2018 N.Y. Times obit for this woman who died in 1852 said she "imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer" (Ada) Lovelace |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WHO WANTS HISTORY? $200: Thorkell the Tall led an invasion of England by these folks from Scandinavia in 1009 Vikings |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WHO WANTS HISTORY? $400: It preceded "of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" in the title of a document adopted in August 1789 Declaration |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WHO WANTS HISTORY? $600: On May 31 & June 1, 1921 a white mob in this city pillaged & burned a prosperous business district known as Black Wall Street Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WHO WANTS HISTORY? $1,000 (Daily Double): Last name of Gonzalo, who as governor of Peru took up arms against Spain after his half-brother Francisco's death Pizarro |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | WHO WANTS HISTORY? $1000: The black death hit this "colorful" Mongol group in 1346 & '47, & it was downhill from there the Golden Horde |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $400: The auto-da-fé, or act of faith, was the ceremony in which the sentences of this were pronounced & carried out the Inquisition |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $800: In business around 1070, Hereward the Wake was an Anglo-Saxon hero who rebelled against this other "the" guy William the Conqueror |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $1200: French army officer Hippolyte Charles, this woman's lover after her 1796 marriage, somehow lived until 1837 Josephine |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $1600: The ruins of the Iron Age city called "Great" this lie south of Harare in the country of the same name Zimbabwe |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $2000: Pushed out of Dacia by the Huns in 376, they moved in to Roman land, did some attacking of their own & went on west the Visigoths |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Building on 1936's Axis Agreement, in 1939 these 2 European nations signed the Pact of Steel Italy & Germany |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | WORLD HISTORY $400: An 1864 convention in this city was the first of several to define the proper treatment of POWs & civilians during wartime Geneva |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | WORLD HISTORY $600: This African kingdom, spelled with a "K" & not a "C" like 2 current nations, began around 1390 & lasted until 1914 Kongo |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Sir Thomas Hardy was flag captain of the HMS Victory for this commander mortally wounded in an October 1805 battle Nelson |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This man & his crew explored the eastern Canadian coast in the 1530s, laying the basis for French claims to the region Jacques Cartier |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On April 9, 1865 this general told his men, "The war is over--the Rebels are our countrymen again" Grant |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On March 20, 2003 U.S. troops invaded this country, eventually toppling the Ba'athist regime Iraq |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): The first third party movement in the U.S., it was formed in 1826 to oppose a certain secret order the Anti-Masonic Party |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1625 it became the first royal colony, with Sir Francis Wyatt the first crown-appointed governor Virginia |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On April 19, 1775 patriots turned back the advancing British at this bridge spanning the Concord River the Old North Bridge |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $400: On display at the National Museum of American History, his hat includes a mourning band for his son Willie Abraham Lincoln |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $800: The Babylonian map of the world, the oldest known map, includes this river, but not the Tigris the Euphrates |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $1200: Iron Age Nigerian Nok culture is known for this type of clay-based art, a term derived from Italian terracotta |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $1600: An artifact from Mycenaean Greece is called the Mask of this king from the "Iliad" & is also known as the "Mona Lisa of prehistory" Agamemnon |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $2000: This civilization that reached its height in the 6th century B.C. produced the Chimera of Arezzo, now on display in Florence the Etruscans |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act established the first federal this; it's been increased more than 20 times, but not since 2009 the minimum wage |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $800: Before it was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, it claimed a panhandle that extended up into Wyoming Texas |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: In 1974 the U.S. repealed a Depression-era ban on private ownership of this that had been meant to prevent hoarding gold |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: In 1899, New York City newsboys went on strike, refusing to distribute papers published by Joseph Pulitzer & this rival magnate Hearst |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): A December 2, 1954 resolution said the conduct of this man "is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned" (Joseph) McCarthy |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: Along with fighting for equal rights, Lucretia Mott was an abolitionist & her home was a station on this network the Underground Railroad |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Emily Warren Roebling was largely responsible for supervising the construction of this bridge built from 1869 to 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: In a 1998 presidential election, this world leader defeated a Yale-educated economist & a former Miss Venezuela Hugo Chavez |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600: In "Why Vietnam?" former OSS Chief of Indochina Archimedes Patti talks about his relationship with this "enigmatic revolutionary" Ho Chi Minh |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: 18th century B.C. man associated with quotes like "If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay 1/3 of a gold mina" Hammurabi |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | WORLD HISTORY $200: When it opened in 1869, it reduced the shipping distance between the United Kingdom & India almost by half the Suez Canal |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | WORLD HISTORY $400: This empire of the Americas that was conquered in the 1530s extended more than 2,500 miles the Incas |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | WORLD HISTORY $600: Sultan of Egypt & Syria, he captured Jerusalem in 1187 & later made a truce with Richard the Lionhearted Saladin |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: The second of his name, this "Great" 18th century Prussian King sent his army into Austria, leading to the Seven Years' War Frederick |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | WORLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This collective defense treaty between 8 nations was signed in Poland in 1955 the Warsaw Pact |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became the national anthem, more than a century after it was written during this conflict the War of 1812 |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: After providing $13 billion in aid to Europe, this recovery program officially ended in December 1951 the Marshall Plan |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: "Above & Beyond" is a true account of 2 pilots of these top secret aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis U-2s |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In the late 1980s government funds were used to bail out these failing financial entities to the tune of $132 billion savings & loan |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: The first African-American senator was Republican Hiram Revels, repping this Southern state in 1870 Mississippi |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | AGRICULTURAL HISTORY $400: Ash provides fertilizer in this hyphenated cultivation technique involving torching forestland slash-and-burn farming |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | AGRICULTURAL HISTORY $800: It's the shapely name for the agriculturally advanced region seen here that dates back to the 9th millennium B.C. the Fertile Crescent |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | AGRICULTURAL HISTORY $1200: He developed the cotton gin at Savannah's Mulberry Plantation & got a patent on March 14, 1794 Eli Whitney |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | AGRICULTURAL HISTORY $1600: Rome gets the credit for the name of these water channels, but qanat systems in the Middle East existed earlier aqueducts |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | AGRICULTURAL HISTORY $3,300 (Daily Double): This 13-letter process wasn't just for wild animals; it changed plants as well to suit human needs domestication |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $200: Before a revolutionary tribunal in October 1793, this queen was convicted of treason Marie Antoinette |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $400: Joining the House, a bipartisan Senate vote in October 2002 authorized the use of military force against this nation Iraq |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $600: In Boston Harbor on October 21, 1797, this 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate was launched into service the USS Constitution |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $800: In October 331 B.C. at the Battle of Gaugamela, Darius panicked & fled when this man's personal cavalry wheeled toward him Alexander the Great |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $1000: This empire declared war on Russia in October of 1853, igniting the Crimean War the Ottoman Empire |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY $200: The first of this pair of battles on April 19, 1775 lasted a few minutes around sunrise; the second took longer until around sunset Lexington & Concord |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY $400: Once he had 32 as a freezing point, he put the thermometer in his armpit & was happy to find his body temp was close to a neat 3 x 32 Fahrenheit |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY $600: This land's Choson Dynasty was troubled by Prince Sado, who kept killing eunuchs & was left to die in a rice chest Korea |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This North American colonial empire seen on 16th century maps as Gallia Nova ended with the fall of Quebec & Montreal New France |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY $1000: On April 28, 1789 Fletcher Christian of the Royal Navy embarked on this new car"eer" a mutineer |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS HISTORY $400: On May 26, 1991 Willy T. Ribbs became the first African American to drive in this auto race the Indy 500 |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS HISTORY $800: In 2021 this gymnast became the 1st woman to land a Yurchenko double pike in a competition; in 2023 it was renamed to honor her Simone Biles |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS HISTORY $1200: In 1957 she became the first African American to win Wimbledon singles; later she was the first Black woman to join the LPGA Althea Gibson |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS HISTORY $1600: When MLB included Negro League stats, this hitter came out on top with a career batting average 5 points over Ty Cobb's Josh Gibson |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS HISTORY $2000: In 1989, he became the NFL's first Black head coach of the modern era when he took over the Raiders, a team he had once played for Art Shell |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY $400: If you read Lisa Scottoline's bestsellers, it makes sense she graduated from this school at Penn & has taught there the Penn Law School |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY $800: A short story by Wyalusing-born Philip Van Doren Stern was the basis for this beloved Jimmy Stewart holiday movie It's a Wonderful Life |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY $1600: His first 4 novels, including "Rabbit, Run", all depict a fictional version of Berks County, where he grew up Updike |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY $2000: Before vast novelized histories of Hawaii & the Mideast, he put his Doylestown youth into "The Fires of Spring" James Michener |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): This playwright's childhood home in the historically Black Hill District of Pittsburgh has become an arts center August Wilson |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Established in the 1930s, this government agency has the "authority" to control floods & provide electricity down South the Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The first census, for this year, revealed that the population totaled 3.9 million 1790 |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1951 pastor, welder & dad Oliver Brown filed a suit against a board of education in this state that soon made history Kansas |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: George Dangerfield won a Pulitzer for a history of early 19th century America titled "The Era of" these Good Feelings |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $10,000 (Daily Double): Punning on a general's name & a Hugo title, glum Civil War soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia called themselves these Lee's Miserables |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | HISTORY $200: Before a March 12, 1933 radio broadcast, he portentously remarked, "I think this would be a good time for beer" FDR |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | HISTORY $400: 2 months before he lost his head in 1794, this leader established the Cult of the Supreme Being in France Robespierre |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | HISTORY $600: U.S. Army troops massacred hundreds of Lakota near this South Dakota creek on December 29, 1890 Wounded Knee |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | HISTORY $800: In 1411 Chinese admiral Zheng He captured the king of this island south of India & took him to China Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | HISTORY $1000: Others insisted they were just following orders, but this obese Nazi took "100% responsibility" at Nuremberg in 1946 Göring |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $400: Barack Obama & John Boehner, who held this post from 2011 to 2015, nearly reached a grand bargain on taxes & spending the Speaker of the House |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $800: George Washington set a precedent in 1796 when he decided not to do this; FDR broke with the precedent in 1940 by saying, I'm doing it run for a third term |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $1200: Many think Arthur Burns, chair of this body, cut interest rates under pressure from Richard Nixon, permitting inflation the Federal Reserve |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $1600: "Ignorant" nickname for the American Party, anthmmigrant, anti-Catholic & active in the 1850s the Know-Nothing Party |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $2000: Thomas Dewey was elected governor of this state 3 times New York |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | WE HAVE HISTORY $400: Relinquishing power to Emperor Meiji in 1867, Tokugawa Yoshinobu was the last ruler of Japan to bear this title shōgun |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | WE HAVE HISTORY $800: From 1948 to 1967 Jerusalem was divided between Israel & this country Jordan |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | WE HAVE HISTORY $1200: The resolution of this gulf in 1964 escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War Tonkin |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | WE HAVE HISTORY $1600: From 1516 to 1700 this dynasty ruled Spain, but a childless Charles II's death led to a war of succession Habsburg |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | WE HAVE HISTORY $2000: Italian for "rising again", it was the 19th century movement to unify Italy Risorgimento |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $200: After this couple's first date in 1894, she went home to Poland while he wrote her letters about his "dream for science" Marie Curie & Pierre Curie |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $400: In Tarsus in 41 B.C. Cleopatra wooed this beefy Roman by arriving to a date dressed as Venus Marc Antony |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $800: On one of this duo's early dates in 1930, he crashed on her couch & in the morning, the Dallas police arrested him Bonnie & Clyde |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the summer of 1989, this not-yet-famous couple went on a movie date in Chicago & saw a Spike Lee film the Obamas |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $1000: A tale of a medieval hookup: this pair met in Paris around 1115, had a son, but lived on separated as monk & nun Abelard & Héloïse |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: An 1882 Exclusion Act barred immigrants from this country, though many had built the Central Pacific Railroad China |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Before succeeding Thomas Jefferson as president, James Madison served for 8 years in TJ's Cabinet in this post Secretary of State |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This epidemic came to the U.S. in 1918 & spread rapidly in densely populated barracks, like at Fort Riley in Kansas the Spanish flu |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1916 this Mexican bandit & revolutionary attacked Columbus, New Mexico, killing 18 U.S. citizens Pancho Villa |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In the years before the Revolution, the colonies stayed in touch via the alliterative Committees of this Correspondence |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | FOOD HISTORY $400: It's not anything space-y but a malted dairy product that gave its name to this candy bar first sold in 1924 Milky Way |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | FOOD HISTORY $800: Sam Panopoulos gave this name to the pizza he created; it's been called a "Canadian treasure" & "a Polynesian perversion" a Hawaiian pizza |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | FOOD HISTORY $1200: This British dessert was first used to liven up some leftover cake with booze; its name also means "something of little significance" a trifle |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | FOOD HISTORY $1600: Andrew Zimmern's website notes that this portmanteau of a dish goes by the moniker "three-bird roast" in the United Kingdom the turducken |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | FOOD HISTORY $2000: A 1940 ad in the Australian Women's Weekly recommended one teaspoon of this spread "for good health & digestion" Vegemite |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: The 1746 Battle of Culloden in this country was the last major one fought on British soil Scotland |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: A big 19th c. issue was laws protecting farmers & increasing food prices; even when about wheat or other grains, they were these "laws" corn laws |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | BRITISH HISTORY $600: Pope Leo X gave this monarch the title "Defender of the Faith" in 1521 for his written work against Martin Luther Henry VIII |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | BRITISH HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this venue built in 1599 fit its circular shape, a "wooden O", some would say the Globe Theatre |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | BRITISH HISTORY $1000: Embalmers messed up the body after his 1658 death; in 1661 folks thought putting his head on a pole was a nice finishing touch Oliver Cromwell |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | HISTORY $400: Based on a concept agreed to at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, this intl. association was formed to maintain world peace the League of Nations |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1899 in his mid-20s, Winston Churchill was captured & imprisoned during this war, escaping a short time later the Boer War |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | HISTORY $1200: In August 1947 these 2 Asian nations gained independence from Great Britain Pakistan & India |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | HISTORY $1600: Succeeding his grandfather Maximilian in 1519, Charles I of Spain ascended to this more lofty imperial title as Charles V Holy Roman Emperor |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | HISTORY $2000: While searching for treasure, this explorer & conquistador became the first European to document the Mississippi River de Soto |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | WORLD HISTORY $400: At its completion a newspaper wrote, "The great continent of Africa is at length literally an island" the Suez Canal |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Woodrow Wilson tried to reshape international relations with this "numerical" 1918 program the Fourteen Points |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro were the first cities rediscovered from this ancient civilization on the Indian subcontinent the Indus Valley civilization |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In May 1954 this battle by a small mountain outpost near Laos effectively ended the First Indochina War Điện Biên Phủ |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: It's the rhyming, national nickname of Arminius, who defeated 3 Roman legions at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest Herman the German |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This marketplace for securities & other investments was formally constituted in the Big Apple in 1817 the New York Stock Exchange |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: One of the wealthiest widows in the colonies when she remarried, she was called "Patsy" by her new hubby George Martha Washington |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: 1649's Toleration Act passed by this colony's assembly was designed to ensure Catholics & Protestants could freely worship there Maryland |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Using an innovative boring technique in 1859, Edwin Drake had the first successful one of these & soon the boom was on an oil well |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: It's the CT in the WCTU, long headed by Frances Willard, but even drunk atheists admire Fran's push for voting rights & an 8-hour workday Christian Temperance |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | "I" ON HISTORY $200: This "Age" occurred in Europe around 1200 B.C.; it would hit the Far East some 600 years later the Iron Age |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | "I" ON HISTORY $400: A 1988 cease-fire ended the war between these nations, both of which fit the category Iraq & Iran |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | "I" ON HISTORY $600: This type of contract labor in which one worked for a period of time sent skilled crafters & criminals to Jamestown indentured |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | "I" ON HISTORY $800: Queen of Castile from 1474 to 1504, she sent Columbus on his way & also helped continue the Inquisition Isabella |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | "I" ON HISTORY $1000: Martin Luther protested against the system of these that could be purchased by church members indulgences |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | CRIME HISTORY $200: At the start of his crimes, this notorious serial killer was known as the Whitechapel Murderer Jack the Ripper |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | CRIME HISTORY $400: In 2009 Jon Stewart nicknamed this financial fraud man "Arthur Ponzarelli" Madoff |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | CRIME HISTORY $600: In 1950, over $2.5 million was stolen in a Boston robbery from this security firm, making it the largest such theft up to that time Brink's |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | CRIME HISTORY $800: Soon after her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army, she helped rob a bank (Patty) Hearst |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | CRIME HISTORY $1000: In 1922, the last man in Britain to be jailed for this was John William Gott, for comparing Jesus entering Jerusalem to a circus clown blasphemy |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | HISTORY, AMERICAN STYLE $200: He wrote the Massachusetts Constitution, signed the Treaty of Paris, then became vice president, which he did not enjoy John Adams |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | HISTORY, AMERICAN STYLE $400: In Feb. 1836 there were about 20 serviceable cannons & 150 men defending this landmark; that defense ended abruptly on March 6 the Alamo |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | HISTORY, AMERICAN STYLE $600: A prosperous neighborhood known as Black Wall Street was burned in a 1921 massacre in this city that left 10,000 homeless Tulsa |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | HISTORY, AMERICAN STYLE $800: In 1989, this tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil off Alaska; later, under the name "Oriental Nicety", it was sold for scrap the Exxon Valdez |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | HISTORY, AMERICAN STYLE $1000: In 1876, after escaping from a New York jail & fleeing the country, this corrupt politician was brought back to the United States Boss Tweed |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The A.M.A. fought against these 2 federal programs, 1 for the elderly & 1 for the poor, before they were enacted in 1965 Medicare & Medicaid |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On August 25, 1921 the U.S. signed a treaty restoring friendly relations with this country Germany |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Ratified in 1933 the Twentieth (or "Lame Duck") Amendment moved up the date of this event the inauguration of a new president |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The ACLU secured this attorney to defend John Scopes in 1925 Clarence Darrow |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1948 the U.S. was one of the 21 western hemisphere nations that banded together as the OAS, this the Organization of American States |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $200: AuctionWeb was an early name for this company founded by Pierre Omidyar eBay |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $400: This brand's LV monogram was designed by the son of its founder in 1896 Louis Vuitton |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $600: In 1953 it took this company more than 3 dozen tries to create a formula for rust prevention, now a popular lubricant WD-40 |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $800: Take a Walkman down memory lane to 1946 when this company was founded in Tokyo by 2 engineers Sony |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $3,400 (Daily Double): Originally an aerial crop-dusting company, it's named for the southern U.S. region it originally served Delta (Airlines) |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal, Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr shot it out at Weehawken, New Jersey, a quiet spot along this river the Hudson |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Rosa Parks was on the Cleveland Avenue bus in this city when she sat down for her rights in 1955 Montgomery |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Mathematician Gaspard Monge was on Napoleon's 1798 expedition to this country, where he studied the physics of mirages Egypt |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Before Hannibal could cross the Alps, he had to bring his army through this other European mountain range the Pyrenees |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: When it became historic in 1215, the name of this spot by the Thames meant "meadow on council island" Runnymede |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $400: In 1886, after 3 wars with the British, Upper Burma was made a province of this colony India |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $800: In 1649 this English king's disagreements with the Roundheads led to his little ol' round head rolling off the chopping block Charles I |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $1200: When founded in 1922, the USSR consisted of Russia, Belorussia, the Transcaucasian Federation & this Black Sea nation Ukraine |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $1600: A 1960s Florida society lady in the TV series "Palm Royale" is raising money for loyalists to this exiled Cuban dictator Batista |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $2000: An emperor of this Chinese dynasty at its height in the early 1400s took the reign name Yongle, "perpetual happiness" the Ming Dynasty |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | SENATE HISTORY $400: The only one of these to have been chosen by the Senate under the 12th Amendment was Richard M. Johnson, in 1837 a vice president |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | SENATE HISTORY $800: In 1935 Charles Watkins became the first official one of these experts who advise the Senate on its rules & procedures parliamentarian |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | SENATE HISTORY $1200: In 1834 the Senate censured President Jackson for pulling all federal money out of this the Bank of the United States |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | SENATE HISTORY $1600: On Nov.15, 1919, after 2 months debating the Treaty of Versailles, a fed-up Senate applied this rule for the first time cloture |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | SENATE HISTORY $2000: On October 25, 2001 the Senate approved this act by a vote of 98-1, with Wisconsin's Russ Feingold as the lone dissenter the Patriot Act |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | AVIATION HISTORY $400: Cleared by the FAA in 2021, the Terrafugia Transition is this, wished for by so many in bumper-to-bumper traffic a flying car |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | AVIATION HISTORY $800: In 1926 Charles Lindbergh was an airmail pilot flying the route between Chicago & this city whose name he'd later take aloft St. Louis |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | AVIATION HISTORY $1200: In 1914 Tiny Broadwick (she was 3 lbs. at birth) cut a tangled parachute line & made the 1st of these alliterative jumps a free fall |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | AVIATION HISTORY $1600: After many transatlantic crossings, the Hindenburg crashed & burned while landing at Lakehurst in this U.S. state New Jersey |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | AVIATION HISTORY $2000: It's the avian nickname for the SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft that could hit 2,200 miles per hour & an altitude above 85,000 feet a Blackbird |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: Disturbances in Dijon in 1788 were early signals of this event that really got going in 1789 the French Revolution |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: This name of seafaring warriors of around the year 1000 is from a Scandinavian word for "pirate" Viking |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: Symbolizing this new dual monarchy, in 1868, Empress Elisabeth, or Sissi, traveled to have her youngest be born a Buda baby Austro-Hungarian (Austria-Hungary) |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In politics it's someone who firmly supports one side; in WWII history, it refers to anti-Nazi resistance fighters a partisan |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: In 346 B.C., Athens made the Peace of Philocrates with this northern kingdom soon to spread to empire size Macedonia |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1609 Henry Hudson landed on what's now this NYC amusement park island, possibly named for its numerous rabbits Coney Island |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In the 1920s the real-life Untouchables frequently busted up these illicit saloons named for quiet conversation speakeasies |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: After an 1877 surrender, he made repeated pleas to the U.S. government for the return of the Nez Perce to their ancestral home Chief Joseph |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Cesar Chavez & this woman were instrumental in creating the United Farm Workers of America labor union Dolores Huerta |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In the 1850s Black historian William Cooper Nell wrote this man was "the first martyr in the Boston Massacre" (Crispus) Attucks |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | AFRICAN HISTORY $400: With hand bones that could have operated with precision, this first species in the genus Homo hung out in East Africa 2 million years ago Homo habilis |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: 1 of the 3 countries that border Liberia; all of them gained independence more than 111 years later, between 1958 & 1961 Sierra Leone (or Guinea or Côte d'Ivoire) |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1200: This Libyan port is known for its role in WWII: British troops captured it in January 1941, lost it & retook it in November 1942 Tobruk |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1600: This 6-syllable lifesaver of the Rwandan genocide was later imprisoned but released in 2023 after international pressure Rusesabagina |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | AFRICAN HISTORY $2000: This Congolese leader was such a world hero that a Moscow University was named for him in 1961, the year he was assassinated Lumumba |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The unusual first name of this preacher born in 1639 to the Mathers of Massachusetts was a Puritan virtue/command Increase |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1883 she added the words "With Key to the Scriptures" to the title of her book "Science and Health" Eddy |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1791 he sent Thomas Jefferson a copy of his almanac & a letter asking for better conditions for Black people Banneker |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1869 this explorer noted that the walls of the Grand Canyon were "2,500 feet tall" & of "vermilion gleams & rosy hues" Powell |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $14,000 (Daily Double): In 1805 a tributary of Montana's Musselshell River was named in her honor Sacagawea |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | POST-WWII ASIAN HISTORY $400: After signing a 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, Israel withdrew from this 23,000-square-mile territory linking Africa & Asia Sinai |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | POST-WWII ASIAN HISTORY $1200: Following the 1986 ouster of this longtime dictator, Corazon Aquino became the first elected woman president in Asia Marcos |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | POST-WWII ASIAN HISTORY $1600: In 1999, after 442 years, Portugal gave up control of this special administrative region on the Pearl River estuary Macau |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | POST-WWII ASIAN HISTORY $2000: Before gaining independence in 1971 following a civil war & an invasion by India, Bangladesh was known by this directional name East Pakistan |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | POST-WWII ASIAN HISTORY $10,000 (Daily Double): The Geneva Agreements of 1954 partitioned this country into North & South entities at the 17th parallel Vietnam |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: This 1811 battle ended Tecumseh's plans for a confederacy of tribes Tippecanoe |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Under federal law, members of the Native American church are allowed to ingest this hallucinogenic cactus in ceremonies peyote |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $1200: Quanah Parker was a leader of this Western tribe, perhaps the greatest horsemen of all native peoples the Comanche |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $1600: In 1998, this first woman to become principal chief of the Cherokee Nation was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom Mankiller |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $2000: The Iroquois League of New York was originally composed of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca & these 2 "on" the list the Onondaga & the Oneida |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1762 she helped overthrow her husband Peter III in order to take the Russian throne for herself Catherine the Great |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | WORLD HISTORY $800: On Aug. 26, 1789 the French National Assembly adopted this declaration, much to the chagrin of Louis XVI the Declaration of Rights of Man |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Reigning from 1851 to 1868, King Mongkut opened this country to Western influence & modernization Thailand (Siam) |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: More than 13,000 places were surveyed for this census compilation that William the Conqueror ordered in 1085 the Domesday Book |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: The name of this movement that began in Jamaica in the 1930s came from the birth name of Haile Selassie, venerated as the Black Messiah Rastafarianism |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $400: Physician William Gull & artist Walter Sickert have been accused of being this London killer Jack the Ripper |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $800: It's said when this leader died in 1227, those who carried his body to a hidden tomb were killed, & later those killers were also killed Genghis Khan |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $1200: Spanish for "the gilded one", it was imagined to be a city, a lake or a king El Dorado |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $1600: In 1959 Igor Dyatlov & 8 others were killed by a "compelling natural force" while camping in these Eurasian mountains in Russia the Ural Mountains |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Menelik, a son of Solomon, is said to have brought this lost artifact to Aksum in Ethiopia; tradition maintains it's still there the Ark of the Covenant |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $400: Shaping country music in its infancy was this family that included Mother Maybelle &, later, daughters Helen, June & Anita Carter |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $800: Called "the Mother Church of Country Music" & actually built as a church, this venue was home to the Grand Ole Opry 1943-1974 Ryman (Auditorium) |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $1200: In the 1960s, the face of country music was changed when this singer became country music's first Black superstar (Charley) Pride |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $1600: Paving the way for other Canadians like Shania Twain was this first female solo artist to win Best Album at the CMA Awards (Anne) Murray |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY $2000: It's no coin flip! This classic of '90s country by Jo Dee Messina was the subject of a 2022 song about hearing it in a karaoke bar "Heads Carolina, Tails California" |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: Busted! In 1912 her bust was discovered in what had once been the studio of the sculptor Thutmose Nefertiti |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: In 1822 Mary Ludwig Hays, known by this nickname, was awarded a yearly pension for her services during the Battle of Monmouth "Molly Pitcher" |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: Women still didn't have the right to vote nationally when this Montana woman was elected to Congress in 1916 (Jeannette) Rankin |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: With $1.50 & using elderberry ink, in 1904 this "Great Educator" & activist started what's now a university in Daytona Beach Bethune |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $2000: Around 60 A.D. this British warrior queen led a revolt against Roman rule, sacking & burning cities including London Boudica |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | DELETE MY HISTORY $400: A 1956 article on the renaming of a car factory said it was the first "major Soviet enterprise" to get rid of this man's name Stalin |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | DELETE MY HISTORY $800: Akhenaten, the father of this boy pharaoh, was scratched from the history papyrus, likely for his monotheistic beliefs King Tut |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | DELETE MY HISTORY $1200: This author wrote a letter asking a friend to burn all of his unpublished work, like "The Trial" & "The Castle" Kafka |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | DELETE MY HISTORY $1600: After Herostratus burned down this edifice in Ephesus it's no "wonder" the townsfolk banned mentioning his name the Temple of Artemis |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | DELETE MY HISTORY $2000: The Nazis tried to destroy copies of a propaganda film by this female director since it heavily featured a supposed Nazi traitor Leni Riefenstahl |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $400: He co-czarred with his half-bro Ivan V from 1682 to 1696, then got single billing until 1725 Peter the Great |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $800: Medieval popes called the Great included Gregory I & the first pope of this name who served from 440 to 461 & suppressed heresy Leo the Great |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $1200: Circa 1200, Queen Tamar the Great of this Black Sea nation presided when it dominated the Caucasus region Georgia |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $2000: Berengaria the Great was an advisor to her son Ferdinand III in this series of campaigns to regain Iberia from the Moors the Reconquista |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $3,400 (Daily Double): A 3rd century B.C. leader of this Punic city, Hanno the Great opposed costly wars & even negotiated peace with Rome Carthage |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Brazil's emperor Pedro II was on hand when he demonstrated his telephone at the Philadelphia exhibition in 1876 Bell |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: He escaped on a British ship, leaving John André to be hanged; unpopular in America & Britain, he'd die in London in 1801 Benedict Arnold |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1895 this Black educator said, "We can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" Booker T. Washington |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Starting in 1758 Francis Lightfoot Lee served in this assembly in Colonial Virginia the House of Burgesses |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Did he sell the item that is his first name in his Georgia mercantile store? No idea, but he did sign the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: The naval part of this lengthy war got started with an English victory over France at Sluys in 1340 the Hundred Years' War |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | FRENCH HISTORY $1200: In 1967 in Montreal this French president said, "Vive le Québec libre", or "Long live free Québec"; Canada wasn't amused de Gaulle |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | FRENCH HISTORY $1600: A 2023 coup, backed by protests, took over this country southeast of Algeria & French troops fighting Islamic terrorists said adieu Niger |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | FRENCH HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles of 1768, the Genoese ceded this island to the French Corsica |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | FRENCH HISTORY $2000: The name of this political club of the French Revolution refers to the Dominican monastery where members met the Jacobin Club |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $400: Persian settlers made the Comoros an island group in the Indian Ocean, Africa's southernmost nation, mainly of this religion Islam |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: With uses in the 19th c. compared to plastics' in the 20th, trade in this material led to exploitation of Africans & animals ivory |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1200: Long-time human rights abuses in this region are attributed to Sudanese fighters called the Rapid Support Forces Darfur |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1600: After a pilgrimage in 1324, Mali emperor Mansa Musa built the Great Mosque in this trading post Timbuktu |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $2000: This double-talk anti-colonial movement of the 1950s originated among the Kikuyu people of Kenya Mau Mau |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $400: Intellectuals change society in "What Is to Be Done?", an 1863 novel by Chernyshevsky that planted the seeds of this 1917 event the Russian Revolution |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $800: Alfred Thayer Mahan changed military thinking with his 1890 work on this type of power that he said had made Britain dominant sea power (the Navy) |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $1600: This 5-word phrase about people in a different income bracket from you is the title of an 1890 Jacob Riis expose of NYC's slums how the other half lives |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $2000: This Dutch scholar put out a 1516 translation of the Bible that made it more accessible & helped lead to the Reformation Erasmus |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $2,900 (Daily Double): Economist F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" came out in 1944 when this woman was at Oxford & was a huge influence on her later policies (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $200: In the early 1900s the park put up bleachers for folks to watch these cuddly carnivores eat from leftover picnic baskets bears |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $400: In 1919, the Sierra Club installed cables for climbers to get to the views of this landmark at 8,800 feet above sea level Half Dome |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $600: A Native American village in Yosemite has one of these dwellings named for their circular shape; it's still used by local tribes a roundhouse |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $800: As seen in an Oscar-winning documentary, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo this monolith El Capitan |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $1000: This man wrote of his ecological findings with a quill made from an eagle's feather found on Yosemite's Mount Hoffmann John Muir |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $400: Trying to go to 1492 but ending up in 1429, Val watches this peasant girl set out for the siege of Orléans--& glory--on April 27 Joan of Arc |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $800: Val wanted to visit the Moorish city in Spain in the 1400s but one misspelled letter has him on this isle of spice & a 1983 U.S. invasion Grenada |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1200: Val's not at the 1922 discovery of Tut's tomb in this 4-word area but 100 later, sees Rüfüs Du Sol win a Grammy for "Alive" the Valley of the Kings |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1600: Not great with numbers, Val doesn't end up in 1966 watching the launch of Gemini 10 but in London, in this year of the Great Fire 1666 |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $2000: "Where's the president?" a blundering Val asks this senator from Louisiana with a different middle name, church & party John Kennedy |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Now it's a structure where Olympic events are held; in early ancient Olympics, it was the 600-foot distance of the only event, a footrace a stadium |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Cultivation of this fruit dates back at least to the very pre-Columbian Mokaya people & it stood for the 14th month on the Maya calendar the avocado |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The Israelites' foes in the Book of Judges, these people were brought under Assyrian control by around 800 B.C. the Philistines |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: The Southern or Shan-Yang part of this waterway may date from the 500s B.C.; the adjective-worthy part wasn't dug until much later the Grand Canal |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Their name sounds like they wielded a reaping blade, but this people wowed ancient Asia with their riding prowess the Scythians |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $200: The 7-spotted type of this beetle was brought to North America in the mid-20th c. to control aphids & other plant-eating pests a ladybug |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $400: Grown together, "The 3 Sisters" of pre-Columbian Native American farming were beans, squash & this corn |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $600: The mold Phytophthora infestans caused this mid-19th c. farming disaster that resulted in a million deaths the Irish Potato Famine |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $800: In 1889 William Murchland forever changed the dairy industry by inventing a vacuum type of this apparatus a milker (a milking machine) |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $1000: This British agronomist perfected the seed drill in 1701 (Jethro) Tull |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $200: At the Democratic Convention in 1932, FDR promised one of these, part of a "crusade to restore America to its own people" a New Deal |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Also called the Old Pennsylvania State House, it's where John Hancock signed his John Hancock July 4, 1776 Independence Hall |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $600: McLean House, the site of a famous surrender, is part of this Virginia site that's now a national historical park Appomattox Court House |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $800: The War of 1812 ended when Great Britain & the U.S. came to terms in this Belgian city Ghent |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: H.R. Haldeman said that the shootings at this Ohio location in 1970 began the demise of the Nixon administration Kent State |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This man whose name went on 2 continents explored the coast of Suriname in 1499 (Amerigo) Vespucci |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Cemented in Argentine history is this man, whose 1986 World Cup goal was aided by the "Hand of God" Maradona |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Huascar co-ruled the Inca from Cuzco; his brother Atahualpa ruled from this city that also ends in "O" Quito |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Simon Iturri Patiño was once Bolivia's rey del estaño, king of this metal in which the land is rich tin |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This Venezuelan president said in 2019 that protesters would not go unpunished & accused the U.S. of plotting against him Nicolás Maduro |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: It's thought Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element that he believed would make him immortal mercury |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection included robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking with commoners the Code of Hammurabi |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is" Marcus Aurelius |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Praising the defense of democracy, Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict the Peloponnesian War |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: The Pyramids of Meroë in modern-day Sudan were built in the land of this 4-letter ancient kingdom Kush |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $400: The period of time from March to July of 1815 when Napoleon escaped Elba & ran wild in France is known as this the Hundred Days |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $800: "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" was perhaps sung by citizens of these ramshackle areas named for a Depression-era prez Hoovervilles |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1200: It's the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca's fall in the year 630 the Hijrah |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1600: What's known as this New England city's "Convention" was spurred by dissatisfaction in the War of 1812 Hartford |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $2000: The "March of the 10,000" involved the heavily armored Greek soldiers known by this name, trapped behind enemy lines Hoplites |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $200: Starting his career at the San Diego Zoo, he's "an embryonic Charles Chaplin in... feathers", says his biography the San Diego Chicken |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $400: From 1979 to 1981 the Yankees fittingly had a mascot named this, also a word for a well-dressed man Dandy |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $600: In 1979 Youppi! suited up for this MLB squad, prior to moving across town (& sports leagues) to the Canadiens the Montreal Expos |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $800: This NFL team notes mascot Captain Fear lamented his lost ship, but friends, it was found & rebuilt at Raymond James Stadium! the Buccaneers |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $1000: Since the 1990s Fred the Red has been a devil indeed for this team from the north of England Man U (Manchester United) |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $200: The 1924 Games saw the debut of the motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius"--faster, higher, this stronger |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $400: This sport got ugly in 1956 as recently invaded Hungary beat the USSR in the "Blood in the Water" match water polo |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $600: In 1912 Martin Klein pinned Alfred Asikainen after an epic 11-hour, 40-minute bout in this hyphenated wrestling style Greco-Roman wrestling |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $800: She took a silver medal in women's figure skating in 1994; Tonya Harding finished a medalless eighth Nancy Kerrigan |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $1000: In 1904 Ralph Rose & Martin Sheridan broke a tie with a "throw-off" in this field event; Sheridan won with a spin of 127' 10 1/4" discus |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $200: George III & George Washington figure prominently in the David McCullogh bestseller entitled this pivotal year 1776 |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $400: A recent bestseller by Kate Moore chronicles the struggles of the "Girls" who applied this element to watch dials radium |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $600: With 1920's "The Outline of History", this "Time Machine" man went from bestselling novelist to bestselling educator H.G. Wells |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $800: "The Broken Heart of America", about St. Louis & American violence, ends with a 2014 police shooting in this Missouri city Ferguson |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $1000: Edward Gibbon wrote "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"; William Shirer wrote "The Rise & Fall of" this sinister regime the Third Reich |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: A 2023 movie led to lively debate, e.g. historians: She died when Napoleon was on Elba, not on his way back; Ridley Scott: Shut up Josephine |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $800: The Vichy regime put these in public schools; the 2004 law banning head-scarves on students also banned large these on chains crosses |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $1200: In the 5th century this eastern city, today home to the European Union's parliament, was Strateburgum, "Crossroads" Strasbourg |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $1600: France's first socialist president, he served two terms from 1981 to 1995 Mitterrand |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $2000: In 1598 this edict named for the city where it was signed gave religious freedom to the French Protestants called Huguenots Nantes |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $200: Lasting from Aug. 1786 to Feb. 1787, Shays' Rebellion in our young republic was in protest of economic conditions, mainly high these taxes |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $400: The litter of broken glass in the streets of Germany gave this name to the pogroms of 1938 Kristallnacht |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $600: In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic Bible Trent |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $800: This Italian family gave the world 4 popes:
Leo X,
Clement VII,
Pius IV &
Leo XI the Medici |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $1000: Japan returned to the control of an emperor in the 19th century in what is called this 5-letter restoration Meiji |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: First elected to the House of Representatives in 1987, she became its first female speaker in 2007 Nancy Pelosi |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Clara Barton served as a nurse at this Sept. 17, 1862 Maryland battle where nurses were badly needed Antietam |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A century before she was on a dollar coin, she was convicted & fined for casting a vote in the 1872 pres. election Anthony |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first women's club in New York was La Liga de las Hijas de this island where a rebellion against Spain was sending refugees norte-ward Cuba |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Still going in Macon, a college with this Methodist-conscious name was the USA's first chartered to grant degrees to women Wesleyan College |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $400: A descendant of Tamerlane, Babur founded this dynasty that ruled in India from 1526 until 1858 the Mughal |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $800: Queen Anne was the first monarch of a united Great Britain & the last from this ruling house Stuart |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1200: The Aztecs claimed descent from these people who dominated Central Mexico from about 900 to 1200 the Toltecs |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1600: An estimated 36,000 people in & around Indonesia lost their lives due to the eruption of this volcano in 1883 Krakatoa |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $2000: While searching for the Northwest Passage, this British explorer & his crew perished during an expedition in 1847 Sir John Franklin |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $400: Peter the Great introduced regular minting of this currency in silver & here he is, on one of his coins the ruble |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $800: In 2021 El Salvador's govt. made all businesses accept this as payment & introduced the digital "Chivo Wallet" bitcoin |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1200: Unemployment is supposed to fall as inflation rises & vice versa; under Pres. Ford, both rose & economists coined this word stagflation |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1600: Casa Loma, in this city, a financial center, was the passion of Henry Pellatt, who had to sell it when the Home Bank of Canada collapsed Toronto |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $2000: In 1720 the value of this trading company's stock rose from 128 1/2 to 1,000, creating a disastrous "bubble" the South Sea Company |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $100: Located twelve miles outside of it, Villanova offers a course on the "History of" this Pennsylvania city Philadelphia |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $400: At Brown, the history course "Conspiracy?" includes this 1692 event dramatized by Arthur Miller in "The Crucible" the Salem Witch Trials |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $500: "The Wealth of Nations" & "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" are two texts assigned for a Duke seminar on this economist Adam Smith |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $300: February 18, 1930: self-taught astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers this distant heavenly body Pluto |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $600: July 11, 1804: Aaron Burr mortally wounds this Founding Father during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey Alexander Hamilton |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $900: May 21, 1927: Charles Lindbergh & this airplane complete the first nonstop, solo flight across the Atlantic ocean The Spirit of St. Louis |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1200: August 30, 1967: this civil rights lawyer is confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1500: November 11, 1620: before going ashore, Pilgrim leaders sign this agreement outlining self-rule in the New World the Mayflower Compact |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This largest Caribbean island's struggle for independence led to the Spanish-American War Cuba |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power Peter the Great |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1475 at Picquigny Edward IV & Louis XI agreed to a truce that seems to be holding in this war the Hundred Years' War |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1989 Japan got a new emperor for the first time in most of its citizens' lives, as Akihito succeeded this ruler Hirohito |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This mystical form of Islam began c. 800 in part with a woman from Basra who introduced a new concept of the love of Allah Sufism |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $200: In the 1990s this Chicago Bulls guard was the MVP of the NBA Finals a record 6 times Jordan |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $400: In June 2002 this Lakers coach became the all-time leader in playoff victories by winning his 156th game Phil Jackson |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $600: In 2001 the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to this U.S. city Memphis |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $800: In 1995 this Houston Rockets center scored a then-record 131 points in a 4-game NBA Finals Hakeem Olajuwon |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $1000: The NBA's Coach of the Year Trophy is named for this longtime Celtics coach Auerbach |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $400: These "States" ruled by His Holiness were created in 756 & lasted about 1,100 years Papal States |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $1200: Known as an "enlightened despot", Joseph II ruled as a member of this dynastic family aka the House of Austria the Habsburgs |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $1600: In the 10th century this kingdom "roared" as it allied with Castile to become a daunting force on the Iberian Peninsula León |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $2000: To link the Yangtze & Yellow Rivers, this was rebuilt during the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $13,200 (Daily Double): Around 1,000 years ago, this island's parliament, the Althing, said everyone is getting baptized Iceland |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $200: Barack Obama quickly resigns from the Senate for a very good reason 2008 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $400: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C. 1963 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $600: Rosa Parks stays seated on mass transit & makes history 1955 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $800: At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight 1962 |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $1000: Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball 1947 |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $400: This empire of the Andes had some 25,000 miles of roads & a relay system that was like the Pony Express but on foot the Inca |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $800: Canada's biggest city, Toronto once had this name, in honor of the same noble title as the USA's biggest city York |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $1200: In 1590 one of the only traces of the "Lost Colony" on this island off North Carolina was the word "Croatoan" carved on wood Roanoke |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $2000: El Pípila is the nickname of a Mexican folk hero who was said to have aided this revolutionary priest in 1810 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $3,600 (Daily Double): In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it Guyana |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $200: Medieval Timbuktu was a college town offering university education out of these Islamic houses of worship mosques |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $600: In 1975, both Angola and Mozambique gained their independence from this Iberian country Portugal |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: This country, where "Casablanca" is set, is often considered the first to have recognized the U.S. by a 1777 shipping decree Morocco |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Agojie, an all-female army corps in the Kingdom of Dahomey, is at the center of this Viola Davis film The Woman King |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1000: Seen here is the flag of this country where Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office as Africa's first elected female head of state in 2006 Liberia |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $200: Trace Jesus' steps in this city as he walked down the Via Dolorosa toward Golgotha Jerusalem |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East tube station Jack the Ripper |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $800: Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state Mississippi |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1000: Retracing this 1930s journey will take you thousands of miles from Ruijin to Yan'an the Long March |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): Starting at the Boston Common & ending at the Bunker Hill Monument is this 2-word path the Freedom Trail |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $100: January 9, 1863: London opens the world's first underground railway, now commonly known as this the Tube |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $200: October 4, 1957:
The Soviet Union launches this beach-ball-sized satellite into orbit, kicking off the Space Race Sputnik |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $300: February 22, 1997:
Scientists in Scotland introduce the first clone of an adult mammal, a sheep named after this country singer Dolly Parton |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $400: November 17, 1869:
After ten years of grueling construction, this country officially opens the Suez Canal Egypt |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): April 21, 1918:
World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, best known by this nickname, is shot down & killed the Red Baron |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $100: On a trip to Asia in 1492, he ended up thousands of miles away and still got a U.S. federal holiday in his honor Christopher Columbus |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $200: Comic Trevor Noah's biracial background proved that this system designed to keep races separate in South Africa just didn't work apartheid |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $300 (Daily Double): A poll of historical writers named this Tudor king the worst monarch in history and his six wives would probably agree Henry VIII |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $300: Understandably, noted traitor Benedict Arnold isn't buried in the U.S., but at St. Mary's church in this city London |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $500: Genghis Khan had a breakthrough when he "broke through" this fortified Asian structure that was built over 2000 years the Great Wall of China |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $400: We know the conqueror seen here by this name Genghis Khan |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $800: After being banished from Iceland, this colorful guy established a colony in Greenland around 985 Erik the Red |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1200: Irish teenager Annie Moore made history here January 1, 1892 Ellis Island |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1600: Around the 1850s archaeologists unearthed the great library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, capital of this ancient empire the Assyrians |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $2000: This 6th century Byzantine emperor, lawgiver & Christian expelled pagan teachers from the Athens Academy Justinian (I) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FRENCH HISTORY $0: Drink up! A famous New Orleans street is named after this dynasty that ruled France for most of the 17th & 18th centuries Bourbon |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $200: Thyme honey from the Iblei Mountains on this large Mediterranean isle has been a delicacy for centuries Sicily |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $400: On Dec. 31, 2005 a this second (not a this year) was added at 23:59:60, the first extra second in 7 years a leap second |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $400: Thyme is part of this plant family the mint family |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $600: This "Elder" Roman encyclopedist referred to thyme as a fumigant Pliny |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $800: In 1687 this Brit differentiated "absolute, true, and mathematical time" & "relative, apparent, and common time" Newton |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $800: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B Bénédictine |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $1000: Thyme contains about 1% this type of "oil" used in fragrances & pharmaceuticals essential |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1600: TAI, the French abbreviation for "international" this "time", was introduced in 1955 atomic time (Temps Atomique International) |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1,990 (Daily Double): An 1884 conference chose the meridian of this facility's transit instrument as the "prime" starting point for time zones the Observatory of Greenwich |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $2000: Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept "time" this dilation |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $400: In 1940, this odd couple comedy duo left Hal Roach Studios & soon signed with 20th Century Fox Laurel & Hardy |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $800: 10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $1200: This actor plies Zac Efron with showbiz dreams, shots of booze & dancing in "The Greatest Showman" Hugh Jackman |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $1600: The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this 2008 Baz Luhrmann epic Australia |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $2000: In this 1952 film assassins gun down the title Mexican revolutionary but miss his horse Viva Zapata! |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FASHION HISTORY $400: No spy should be without one of these aptly named outer garments worn by British soldiers in WWI a trench coat |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FASHION HISTORY $800: Although this company's name was trademarked in 1871, its logo didn't appear on men's underwear until many decades later Fruit of the Loom |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FASHION HISTORY $1200: From 1915 to 1947 the Tirocchi sisters brought haute couture to this capital of a tiny U.S. state Providence |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FASHION HISTORY $1600: This French designer's "New Look" for 1947 included a narrow waist & padded hips Christian Dior |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FASHION HISTORY $2000: In 1939, she closed her Paris shop & spent the rest of World War II in the Ritz hotel with her German boyfriend Coco Chanel |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $100: A children's book tells of how this emperor met his "Bunnyloo" in 1807 when he was forced to flee an attacking pack of rabbits Napoleon |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $200: Constructed for the 1889 World's Fair, this iconic structure was originally scheduled to be torn down by 1910 the Eiffel Tower |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $300: Known for her lavish spending sprees, this wife of Louis XVI must've lost her head after being nicknamed "Madame Deficit" Marie Antoinette |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $500: The peace treaty that ended World War I was signed here, in this stately residence's Hall of Mirrors Versailles |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): After being given the key to this prison overthrown in 1789, the Marquis de Lafayette re-gifted it to his pal George Washington the Bastille |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $400: When Queen Victoria's grand-daughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her hemophilia |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $800: Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease yellow fever |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $1200: In 1996, Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life Yeltsin |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $1600: Napoleon's invasion of Russia was partly doomed by epidemic typhus, primarily carried by bacteria on this parasite lice |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $2000: This Flemish anatomist served as court physician to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & then to his son, Spain's Philip II Vesalius |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: In 1066 William the Conqueror had the first documented coronation at this site Westminster Abbey |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: The last major conflict of the War of 1812, the battle of this city took place in January 1815, after the war had ended Battle of New Orleans |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: In 1309 Clement V moved the papacy to what is now this French city, using lack of security in Rome as an excuse Avignon |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): After taking up on another island, the Knights of Rhodes became the Knights of this place the Knights of Malta |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $200: William Hedley invented Puffing Billy, this type of locomotive, which began pulling coal cars in 1813 a steam engine (steam locomotive) |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $400: The 86th of these asked why the pope builds St. Peter's Basilica with the money of the poor & not his own the 95 Theses |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $400: As a verb, it means "to pawn"; as a noun, it comes after "ham" hock |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $600: In February 1846, over a thousand of these people began to trek west from Nauvoo, Illinois, eventually settling in Utah the Mormons |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $800: Born in Poland in 1686, he would heat things up by inventing a mercury thermometer in 1714 Fahrenheit |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $800: This "mind", collective consciousness seen in humans, also refers to sentience in bee colonies hive |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1000: After Richard II was deposed, this king took over, ushering in the House of Lancaster Henry IV |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1200: Mentioned more than 40 times in the Bible, they were a people of Asia Minor & Syria the Hittites |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1600: "Up until this time" is the meaning of this old-timey 8-letter word hitherto |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $2000: Cut out these melodramatic displays of emotion that seem insincere histrionics |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: After fleeing Philly in 1776, Congress entrusted newspaper publisher Mary Katharine Goddard with printing this document the Declaration of Independence |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Many scientists came from the Nazi rocket program to get NASA off the ground, like Kurt Debus, the first director of this space center from 1962 to 1974 the Kennedy Space Center |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In this presidential election year, U.S. women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment 1920 |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded what's now this Florida city St. Augustine |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Native American leaders at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn included Sitting Bull & this Oglala chief, killed the following year Crazy Horse |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $400: A participant in this Boston Harbor event said most of the people chosen were journeymen & apprentices the Boston Tea Party |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $800: In the 16th century an African man in Japan named Yasuke became the first recorded foreigner to join the ranks of this warrior class Samurai |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $1200: Oddly, the names of the agents involved in this 1798 scandal were Jean, Pierre & Lucien, not Xena, Yolanda & Zara the XYZ Affair |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $1600: This political organization was founded by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale in 1966 the Black Panthers |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $2000: A recent exhumation of this eccentric 16th century Danish astronomer found his prosthetic nose was more likely brass than gold Tycho Brahe |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Founded in 1908, this agency battled less glamorous issues like copyright violations until the gangsters came along the FBI |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A British Crown proclamation of 1763 forbade colonists from settling west of these mountains the Appalachians |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Sally Ride rocketed into orbit aboard this Space Shuttle that shared its name with a 19th century research vessel Challenger |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The daughter of an Italian immigrant, she had been a U.S. representative for 3 terms when tapped in 1984 to be a vice presidential nominee Ferraro |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1886 a riot in this city's Haymarket Square led to the deaths of several police officers & demonstrators Chicago |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $200: Last name of William Howard, the 27th president, & his brother Charles Phelps, owner of the Chicago Cubs Taft |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $400: The company founded by this publisher & politician still includes Men's Health, A&E & our own affiliate KSBW Monterey-Salinas Hearst |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $600: Marjorie Durant, who set out to popularize airplane travel in 1931, was the daughter of the founder of this Big 3 car company General Motors |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A week after this rich guy IV perished on the Titanic, an inquiry into the disaster began in a hotel with his name on it Astor |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1000: This old Boston family produced poet Robert & Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $400: The name of Shakespeare's acting troupe, the King's Men, honored this benefactor James I |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $800: This given name of Maimonides, Judaism's greatest medieval thinker, honors Judaism's greatest prophet Moses |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $1200: Last name of Bronson, a teacher & abolitionist who lived in poverty until his daughter made it big in books in the 19th century Alcott |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $2000: During World War II this Norwegian sold out his country & made his name a synonym for traitor Quisling |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Famed Roman talker Marcus Tullius, who ended up talking himself to death, was better known by this one name Cicero |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $200: In the Rebecca Riots of the 1840s, Welsh men dressed as women attacked the gates that levied these charges for using public roads a toll |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $400: An uprising of industrial workers, the Poznan riots of 1956 brought Wladyslaw Gomulka back to power in this country Poland |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $600: The 7th New York Infantry returned from this big battle to help deal with the July 1863 draft riots in New York City Gettysburg |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $800: The 1969 riots outside this Greenwich Village bar served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement Stonewall |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $1000: U.S. servicemen attacked young Latino men in 1943 Los Angeles riots named for this rhyming style of attire zoot suit |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $400: The Tin Lizzie was a nickname for this revolutionary car made from 1908 to 1927 the Model T |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $800: In 1962 John Glenn commanded Friendship 7 in a historic flight that was part of this program the Mercury Program |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $1200: Gold Beach was the middle of the 5 landing spots during this June 6, 1944 event D-Day (the Invasion of Normandy) |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $1600: Sebastian Cabot gave this body of water between Uruguay & Argentina its silvery name in the early 16th century the Rio de la Plata |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $2000: Otto von Bismarck's manner of rule led to him getting this nickname that includes an element & a title the Iron Chancellor |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. flag was flown at this location for the first time on July 20, 1969 & the original flag is still there the Moon |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal in New York, Burr & Hamilton had their deadly 1804 clash at a secluded spot in Weehawken in this state New Jersey |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The only signer of both the Declaration & Constitution to sit on this body, James Wilson, took his oaths on October 5, 1789 the Supreme Court |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The demand for decorations on women's hats led Theodore Roosevelt to set up the USA's first 50 reserves for these birds |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: A golden spike ceremony on May 10, 1869 near this Utah "Point" marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad Promontory |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $200: In 1434 this family wrested control of Florence from the rival Albizzi family & stuck around a bit the Medici |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $400: Last name of Albert, born in 1852 & the oldest of 7 siblings including Otto & Charles for whom life was truly a circus Ringling |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $600: Last name of Frank, who invented the Milky Way bar; his family is still one of the USA's richest Mars |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $800: Built in 1020, what's translated as "Hawk's Castle" gave this royal European dynasty its family name Habsburg |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $1000: In 1566 this "beefy" family got its estates included in the oprichnina, or in land run under the czar's personal hand Stroganov |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HISTORY HYSTERIA $200: On June 10, 1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged on Gallows Hill in this Mass. place; Bridget would be far from the last Salem |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HISTORY HYSTERIA $400: 400 people danced uncontrollably for days, some until death, in 1518's dancing plague in Strasbourg in this country France |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HISTORY HYSTERIA $800: In 1950 this senator said 205 Communists worked in the state department but later testifying in the Senate, couldn't document one McCarthy |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HISTORY HYSTERIA $1,000 (Daily Double): On the Daily News' Oct. 31, 1938 front page: "Fake radio 'war' stirs terror through U.S.", with a picture of this actor Orson Welles |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HISTORY HYSTERIA $1000: In 1483 he was made Grand Inquisitor for Castile & León & by 1498, an estimated 2,000 people had been burned at the stake Torquemada |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $400: To protect an ancestral cemetery, in 1910 attorney Lyda Conley became the 3rd woman & 1st Native American to argue a case here the Supreme Court (of the United States) |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $800: Fake guns nicknamed for this peaceful religious group fooled the Union into canceling an 1862 attack on Centerville, Virginia the Quakers |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $1200: The byname of this 11th century Castilian military leader, a national hero of Spain, is from Arabic for "lord" El Cid |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $1600: This paramilitary group of young people was used in the 1960s to enforce the Cultural Revolution the Red Guard |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $2000: A 6th c. outbreak of bubonic plague bears the name of this Byzantine Emperor; it nearly killed him & devastated his empire Justinian |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $200: This wedding tradition may have once had to do with sweeping away evil spirits & today symbolizes a new beginning jumping the broom |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $400: In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show Nat King Cole |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $600: While Ebony is for the black community in general, this magazine launched in 1970 is geared especially to black women Essence |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Seen here are these heroic aviators, the first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women Spelman |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $200: Developed from his senior thesis at Harvard in 1940, "Why England Slept" became a bestseller for this man JFK |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $400: These 3 words, a cliché about our first president, are really on a plaque about what he did at a Georgia inn on May 16, 1791 Washington slept here |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $600: Awakened at the 1862 Battle of Malvern Hill, Stonewall Jackson said this cautious Union Gen. was "only fighting to get away" McClellan |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $800: He died in his sleep after getting married in 453; his sons Ellac, Dengizich & Ernak would soldier on Attila the Hun |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $1000: By Georges, this orator & firebrand of the French Revolution said, "I shall go to sleep in glory" before he got the guillotine Georges Danton |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $400: Prior to becoming general of the Continental Army, George Washington caught this disease & bore the scars for life smallpox |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $800: In the 3rd century Ardashir became the king of Fars, & would found the Sasanian Empire, sometimes called the second this empire the Second Persian Empire |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $1200: Marco Polo made friends with this world leader, who asked him to bring back sacred oil from Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre Kublai Khan |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $1600: The switch to this in 1752 confusingly moved James Boswell's birthday 11 days later the Gregorian calendar |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $2000: After ceding João Franco immense power, in 1908 King Carlos I was assassinated in this capital along with son Luís Filipe Lisbon |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | HEADGEAR & HISTORY $400: In 2022 Iranians were posting video of themselves knocking this wrapped headgear off of clerics & running away turbans |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | HEADGEAR & HISTORY $800: In 1049 Pope Leo IX said, Eberhard, you can wear this high hat that curves to a point, & bishops still do a mitre |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | HEADGEAR & HISTORY $1200: Catherine of Aragon rocked the headwear called this type of hood because it looks like the triangular end of a roof a gable (a gabled hood) |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | HEADGEAR & HISTORY $1600: The feathers of this species, not the U.S. national symbol, are a symbol of prowess in war, as in the bonnet of an Arapaho chief a golden eagle |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | HEADGEAR & HISTORY $2000: The "steel pot" helmet of World War II had this more formal alphanumeric name, like the Garand rifle the M1 |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: She taught school in Milwaukee before moving to what was then Palestine, then eventually becoming prime minister of Israel Golda Meir |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: As part of a truce in the Hundred Years War, in 1445 Margaret of Anjou married him & became his queen consort Henry VI |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: Known for her extreme piety & care of Peru's needy, she was the first woman of South America to be declared a saint Rose of Lima |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: Last name of pioneering doctors & sisters Elizabeth & Emily, subjects of a recent biography on how they changed medicine Blackwell |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $2000: In 1996, Ann Richards eulogized this Texas congresswoman as "an American original... a national treasure" & a friend Jordan |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $400: The final scenes of the Bayeux Tapestry show the English fleeing this battle Hastings |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $800: Born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1872, she died in Yekaterinburg in 1918 Alexandra (the last Romanov czarina) |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1200: Greek for "upright slab", this type of decorated or inscribed stone marker was common in the ancient world a stele |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1600: This notorious ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv is the site of a mass grave of tens of thousands of Holocaust victims Babi Yar |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $2000: This historic kingdom of West Africa employed the Agojie, a force of female warriors Dahomey |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $200: Not long after British taxes led to U.S. independence, Congress passed a tax on liquor that led to this rebellion the Whiskey Rebellion |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $400: After being part of a failed wave of revolt in Europe in 1848, this political writer began a lifelong exile in England in 1849 Marx |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $800: After 4 years of negotiations, in 2016 the government of this South American country made a peace deal with FARC rebels Colombia |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $1000: The Mexican Revolution of 1910 would be televised in the miniseries this peasant leader: "Amor en Rebeldía" Zapata |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $4,400 (Daily Double): The Cranberries marked the date of Ireland's Easter Rising when they sang, "It's the same old theme since" this year 1916 |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $200: March 1, 1781: Finally!
The states fully ratified this document! No way it isn't a document guiding U.S. democracy forever! the Articles of Confederation |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $400: Oooof, this year: Matthew Flinders died.
The White House, set on fire. 1,200 killed by the Philippines' Mayon volcano eruption 1814 |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $600: Dec. 29, 1170: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?! I'm Henry II, for heaven's sake! You did? OK, awkward Thomas à Becket |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $800: July 28, 1794: Hold up, he dominated the Committee of Public Safety! Guillotine?! You just can't do that to this guy! Oh... I guess you can Robespierre |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $1000: 1494: This business league is comin' apart, man! Ivan III nixed Novgorod from being one of its kontors, or trading posts the Hanseatic League |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $400: Nickname of the First Volunteer Cavalry, which blazed into history books at the 1898 Battle of Santiago the "Rough Riders" |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $800: Born in Venetia, Italy, he began leading the Church around the year 140 Pope Pius |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $1200: In Roman history, young girls were chosen to be these priestesses who tended the eternal flame of a hearth goddess vestal virgins |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner were members of this "extreme" group in Lincoln's party advocating emancipation Radical Republicans |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2000: In the late 19th century, the Pinkertons infiltrated this cabal of coal miners named for a widowed Irishwoman Molly Maguires |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $400: Fought in 2 stages during the 1940s, the Greek Civil War saw those of this political philosophy try & fail to take control Communists |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $800: In 1967 Greece's politicians worried about a coup by generals, but a group of this lower rank took over for 7 years the colonels |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $1200: The cities of the Achaean League situated on the northern part of this peninsula met defeat in 146 B.C. at the hands of Rome the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $1600: In 1864 Britain ceded to the Greeks these islands off Greece's West Coast that bespangle the sea of the same name the Ionian Islands |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $2000: In 2010 Greece was on the financial brink dealing with these "measures" whose name comes from a word meaning "severe" austere measures (austerity) |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $200: This 19th century American's demand for "unconditional surrender" matched his first 2 initials Grant |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $400: This was invented during the Han Dynasty, which built an efficient civil service that needed plenty for its bureaucrats to push paper |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $600: Rasputin entered history when he was called in to help Czar Nicholas' son Alexei, who suffered from this hereditary bleeding disorder hemophilia |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $800: After losing power, this dictator fled in the Alfa Romeo seen here; at least he bought local Mussolini |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $1000: As king of these people, Clovis I united most of Gaul in the late 5th century the Franks |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth Cleopatra |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Elis, an ancient Greek polis, or this hyphenated type of community, won a struggle for control of the Olympic games city-state |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here the Bronze Age |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Mental Floss summed up the difference: "Neanderthals are more primitive but stronger"; these prehistoric humans "are us" Cro-Magnons |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $400: The Thirty Years' War began in 1618 as a conflict between these 2 major religious groups the Catholics & the Protestants |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $800: This good guy of Christmas carol fame was actually a duke of Bohemia; he was only declared a king (& a saint) after his death Wenceslas |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: During the Mexican Revolution, U.S. Marines seized this "true cross" port & occupied it for 7 months Veracruz |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In 1884 Hilary Richard Wright Johnson became this African country's first native-born president Liberia |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: The French did not allow the Germans to pass in this 1916 battle that lasted 10 months the Battle of Verdun |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $400: 1930s calamity:
O DESPERATE GRINS the Great Depression |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $800: Big deal in 1803:
A USUAL HIP SCENARIO the Louisiana Purchase |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $1600: 1794 uprising:
SOBER WHINE LIKELY the Whiskey Rebellion |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $2000: One was on the radio April 28, 1935:
CHIEFS TIRADE a fireside chat |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $12,400 (Daily Double): 1820s announcement:
NO CREDO ON MERIT the Monroe Doctrine |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $200: At Caracas in 1811 he said, "Let us lay the cornerstone of South American freedom without fear" Simón Bolívar |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $400: In 1617 a British diplomat promised "calm & halcyonian days" just before this decades-long conflict erupted the Thirty Years' War |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $800: In recent history, he announced in December 2016 that he'd run against Vladimir Putin; as it turned out, a dangerous decision Alexei Navalny |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $1000: In 1522 this "Magnificent" Ottoman man used more than 100,000 troops to besiege & finally capture Rhodes Suleiman the Magnificent |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): Between 1776 & 1783, Thomas Paine wrote "Crisis" papers, each signed with these 2 words from a familiar early pamphlet Common Sense |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $200: The U.S. had this kind of convention in 1787; the states later held hundreds, but the last full one was Rhode Island's of 1986 (a) constitutional (convention) |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In the 1930s, Charles Evans Hughes resisted FDR's ultimately failed plan to pack this body the Supreme Court |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $800: A 1915 article says of this modern type of woman, "her hair, newly coiled... exposed... her neck" a flapper |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: Starting in 1821 it was a commercial trail southwest from Missouri; in 1846 Stephen Kearny & his troops used it to invade Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $5,018 (Daily Double): Civil War generals issued a lot of general orders; this man's No. 9 of April 1865 sent the Army of Northern Virginia home Robert E. Lee |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $400: In the 1960s Benjamin Rubin of Wyeth Laboratories invented the 2-prong bifurcated one of these that helped eliminate smallpox a needle |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $800: This company still markets bananas from Guatemala; when it was United Fruit Co., it helped kill a 1950s land redistribution there Chiquita |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $1200: With this grain-cutting device, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. helped win the Civil War as Union grain exports kept Europe neutral the reaper |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $1600: The Universal Co. of the Maritime Canal of this place was formed in 1858 & nationalized by the government of Egypt in 1956 Suez |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $2000: This British company made treaties like the 1776 one of Purandar with the Maratha people of present-day Maharashtra state the British East India Company |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans a boycott |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $800: From around the mid-1910s, families vacationed in "Black Eden", Idlewild in the central region of this state's Lower Peninsula Michigan |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $1200: Ed Bradley & Bayard Rustin are alumni of Cheyney U., founded in 1837 & claiming the title first of these, often abbrev. to 4 letters HBCUs (historically black colleges & universities) |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $1600: Around 1910 there was no such thing as Chicago blues; this 2-word exodus of Black folks brought the music north the Great Migration |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $2000: The Boston Women's Memorial includes a bronze of this 18th century poet who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Phillis Wheatley |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $400: From 1588 to 1629 Abbas the Great was shah of this country & its empire Persia |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $1200: Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca, was captured & executed by this conquistador in 1533 Pizarro |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $1600: Greek cities of the 3rd century B.C. formed the Achaean League to expel invaders from this kingdom of Philip & Alexander Macedonia |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): These Easterners were poised to invade Western Europe in 1241 when the death of their supreme leader called them back the Mongols |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $2000: From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the Huron peoples were in conflict with this multi-tribe confederacy to the east the Iroquois |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: These essays were written "in favor of the new Constitution" the Federalist Papers |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: One month after this royal was killed in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1200: U.S., British & Iraqi forces retook this Iraqi city in the second battle of it at the end of 2004 the Battle of Fallujah |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1600: The son of Japanese immigrants, he was the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000; his daughter ran for the job 3 times Fujimori |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: Like a university, a river in British Columbia is named for this explorer who reached its mouth in 1808 Simon Fraser |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $200: Its website says it opened in 1864 in the South End to educate its city's "predominantly Irish, Catholic immigrant community" Boston College |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $400: In 1872 this New York school chose its official colors--pink & green; its students chose orange in 1890 Syracuse |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $800: The founder of this university willed his South Carolina home & 814 acres to start an agricultural college Clemson |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $1000: The founder of what would be this univ. petitioned the Pennsylvania state assembly & got the school started in a log cabin in 1787 Pitt |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $200: Norman Mailer added a suffix to "fact" to get this, now meaning a fact of little importance a factoid |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $400: We didn't have this word for a person who studies the natural & physical world until William Whewell invented it in 1834 a scientist |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $800: Translating a work by Goethe, Thomas Carlyle used this hyphenated term for forgetful, though not to describe a professor absent-minded |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Reviewing a murder mystery in 1930, Donald Gordon coined this inquisitive 3-words-in-one word for a detective story a whodunnit |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $1000: Lewis Carroll coined this word, perhaps as a portmanteau of "chuckle" & "snort" chortle |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On January 1, 1892 the first of millions of immigrants was processed here Ellis Island |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Approved by Congress in 1861 but not ratified, a proposed this number amendment would instead have protected slavery the 13th |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Thousands of this people also called the Keetoowah died during their forced 1830s relocation to Oklahoma via the "Trail of Tears" the Cherokee |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1672 Spain began building a large masonry fort on the shore of this city in Florida St. Augustine |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On November 21, 1620 41 male passengers signed this document while anchored at a Massachusetts harbor the Mayflower Compact |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $300: In 1935 Persia officially became this country Iran |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1922 Howard Carter made a huge discovery in Egypt, the tomb of this royal Tutankhamun (King Tut) |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $900: This French peasant girl is seen here as 3 saints appear to tell her to fight the English; now, she's a saint herself Joan of Arc |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Not too appealing, this king of the Huns was described as short & squat with a large head & a flat nose Attila |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $9,800 (Daily Double): This dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644 was noted for its arts & culture including, of course, ceramics & porcelain vases Ming |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $400: After decades as a member, in January 2020 the U.K. ceased its membership in this organization the EU |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $800: At the 2007 Macworld Conference in San Francisco, Steve Jobs introduced this product the iPhone |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $1600: A false emergency alert that a missile was headed for this U.S. state caused panic there in January 2018 Hawaii |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $2000: In 2009 Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned after the collapse of this European island nation's banking system Iceland |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $4,100 (Daily Double): In his 2002 State of the Union Address, George W. Bush used "axis of evil" to describe Iran, Iraq & this non-Mideast country North Korea |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $200: A new day dawned for civil rights in 1920 when the 19th one of these gave women the right to vote an amendment |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $600: This northeast state got its name in the 1620s from a county in England where the scene was dull--time for something "new" New Hampshire |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $800: Around 1001 a whole New World beckoned this Norse explorer who established a settlement in Vinland in North America Leif Erikson |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $1000: To get back in sync with the solar year, this new calendar named for a pope made Oct. 15, 1582 the day after Oct. 4 (the) Gregorian (calendar) |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): In January 1959 moderate liberal Manuel Urrutia was Cuba's new president, but by July, this man was fully in charge Fidel Castro |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $800: Having time to draw a cross of his own blood on the ground, Francisco Pizarro was killed in this city in 1541 Lima, Peru |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $1200: This gruesome weapon named for its smell that some called more like garlic was used in World War I, skirting an 1899 international treaty mustard gas |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $1600: In what's known as the South Sea this of 1720, stock in a British company skyrocketed, then crashed, "bursting" investors' hopes a bubble |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): He reunited the Eastern & Western Roman Empires in 324 A.D., & the new capital soon bore his name Constantine the Great |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $400: In 1685 this French king revoked the Edict of Nantes, banned Protestant worship & forced kids to be baptized as Catholic Louis XIV |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $800: Sultan Mehmed V, seen here, was ruling this empire in 1914, but time would soon be running out for both the Ottoman Empire |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $1200: Mary, Queen of Scots was the mother of King James I, the first king of England from this dynastic family the Stuarts |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $1600: Under the Kalmar Union, these 3 Scandinavian countries were under the rule of a single monarch from 1397 to 1523 Denmark, Norway & Sweden |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $2000: The establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613 ended the Russian "Time of" these, a period of political & social crisis Troubles |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $200: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My bestseller "The Devil in the White City" told the incredible true story of how a prolific serial killer lured his victims using the 1893 World's Fair in this Midwest city Chicago |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $400: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) In "Dead Wake", I explore the infamous 1915 torpedoing by a U-boat of this luxury liner; with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including some 130 Americans, that tragedy helped convince the U.S. to join World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies the Lusitania |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $600: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "The Splendid and the Vile", set during the early days of World War II, takes readers inside Chequers, this prime minister's country home where he figured out how to keep his family & his nation together Churchill |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $800: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "Thunderstruck" examines how in 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippen nearly committed the perfect murder & fled across the Atlantic, only to be captured later that year with the help of this man's invention of wireless telegraphy Marconi |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $1000: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) Do you know monsters when you see them? My book "In the Garden of Beasts" tells the story of Martha Dodd, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany & her affair with the first head of this political police organization the gestapo |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $400: In World War I the soldiers of the USA's all-Black 92nd infantry division put this animal on their patch buffalo |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $800: The 2020 killing of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani by a U.S. drone took place at the airport of this world capital Baghdad |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $1600: After continually losing elections for Israeli prime minister since 1948, he won the office in 1977 in what's known as "the upset" (Menachem) Begin |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $2000: This word meaning a spectacular mining find was given to the creek where gold was found in the Klondike in 1896 bonanza |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In exile in Jamaica in 1815, he wrote a letter outlining unity among the to-be-liberated nations of Spanish America Bolívar |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Havasupai are the "guardians of" this landmark & live on a reservation below its south rim the Grand Canyon |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $800: These residential "schools" like the Carlisle Indian School founded in 1879 suppressed the language & culture of Native kids the Indian boarding schools |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Shawnee leader Tecumseh sided with the British during this conflict, helping in the capture of Detroit the War of 1812 |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name Chief Seattle |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Osceola was a leader of this people who resisted removal from their land in Florida in the 1830s the Seminoles |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $200: A 2012 pilot program by police in Rialto, California used BWCs, body-worn these cameras |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $400: The genius & importance of Eli Whitney's cotton gin was that it easily removed these from raw cotton seeds |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $600: Early on Dec. 7, 1941, a new SCR-270 radar device detected but didn't recognize Japanese aircraft over this island Oahu |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $800: In 1998, Campbell Aird got what was called the first this arm, electronically controlled like on TV's "Six Million Dollar Man" a bionic arm |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $1000: Paul II, pope from 1464 to 1471, set up Rome's first of these new machines a printing press |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $200: On May 29, 1953 2 adventurers finished boldly going where no man had gone before & stood here the top of Mount Everest |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $400: On Dec. 16, 1773 this body of water sipped on 342 chests of tea formerly belonging to the British East India Company Boston Harbor |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $600: We keep it 100s (A.D.) as we talk about this landmark that ran 70+ miles from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth Hadrian's Wall |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $1000: You can visit the Central High School National Historic Site at 2120 West Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive in this city Little Rock |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): N.E. of Bilbao, this town was the site of tragedy on April 26, 1937, when 1/3 of its people were killed or wounded in a German attack Guernica |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $400: Charles Benazech painted 4 scenes in the life of King Louis XVI, the last showing him about to go to this device the guillotine |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $800: John Trumbull's painting in the Capitol titled this document shows the submission of a draft in June 1776, not the signing the Declaration of Independence |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1200: Neoclassical artist Vincenzo Camuccini went big; 13 x 23 feet, to depict this event from 44 B.C. the assassination of Julius Caesar |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1600: Benjamin West took artistic license in depicting "The Death of General Wolfe", an event from this 18th century war the French and Indian War |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $2000: Some depictions show the 1st century A.D. Trung sisters riding elephants to launch a Vietnamese revolt against this 3-letter dynasty the Han Dynasty |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $400: Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was the daughter of this royal couple Ferdinand & Isabella |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $800: The unanimous election of Martin V in 1417 led to the end of the reign of these alternate religious rulers the antipopes |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $1200: After Robert E. Lee told him to reorganize his men after an attack at Gettysburg, he replied, "General, I have no division" (George) Pickett |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $1600: To decide important matters of faith, in 325 A.D. this emperor called the Council of Nicaea Constantine the Great |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $2000: This activist with a parental nickname led a 1903 march to protest the evils of child labor Mother Jones |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $200: Arthur Miller & Pete Seeger were among those investigated for being this, the "U" in HUAC Un-American |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $400: A Black resident of Philadelphia, William still kept meticulous records of enslaved people he helped escape via this network the Underground Railroad |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $600: In 1369 the V pope of this name tried to pull off a union of the Eastern & western Christian churches Urban |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $800: This "Incident" resulted in the exchange of Rudolf Abel for Francis Gary Powers the U-2 Incident |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $1000: In what was meant to be a limited operation, in 1969 U.K. troops were sent to parts of this region as a result of "Troubles" Ulster |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $400: Just months after their 1862 battle ended in a draw, these 2 ironclad ships were underwater the Monitor & the Merrimack |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $800: Henri Bertrand stuck by Napoleon all through his 1814-1821 exiles on these 2 islands Elba & St. Helena |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $1200: In the 1990s these 2 territories were returned to Chinese control Hong Kong & Macau |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $1600: These 2 men who explored the Arctic in 1909 are buried next to each other at Arlington Peary & Henson |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $400: Makes sense--it once meant the piece of wood behind others in a fireplace; now it's a bunch of unfilled orders a backlog |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $800: Its obsolete meanings include meek & obedient; its solete meaning is bosomy buxom |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $1200: Originally liquid poured out as a sacrifice to a deity, now it's just a fancy word for an alcoholic drink libation |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $1600: It sounds odd now that in "Dracula" the count says, "You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your" this toilet |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $2000: From Greek for "people" & "leader", historically it meant any popular leader as well as one who misleads the people demagogue |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: This invader's brutal 1069-70 campaign to bring Upper Britain under Norman control was called "The Harrying of the North" William the Conqueror |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: The Marquess of Salisbury, who retired in 1902, was the last prime minister to lead a government from this body the House of Lords |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | BRITISH HISTORY $1600: Abbreviated NHS, this government agency created to provide free public medical care began in 1948 the National Health Service |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | BRITISH HISTORY $2000: The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in the Crystal Palace, built to house it in this London park Hyde (Park) |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | BRITISH HISTORY $9,000 (Daily Double): Alan Turing devised a method for breaking messages encrypted by this Nazi cypher machine Enigma |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This fort, built to protect Charleston, South Carolina, saw the first fatality of the Civil War Fort Sumter |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A 1965 civil rights march started in Selma & ended 54 miles & 4 days later in this city, where MLK spoke on the steps of its capitol Montgomery |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Named for a U.S. minister to Mexico, this 1850s purchase gave the U.S. an additional strip of land south of the Gila River the Gadsden Purchase |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The work of this New Deal program, CCC for short, included planting trees--more than 3 billion in all Civilian Conservation Corps |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): At this New York battle in the fall of 1777, nearly 6,000 British troops surrendered to Colonial forces Saratoga |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $400: Not a game show prize, the San Francisco Treaty of 1951 says in Article 1 the state of war between this country & the Allies is over Japan |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $800: As part of the 1994 peace process between Israel & this neighbor, King Hussein was allowed to fly over Jerusalem Jordan |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $1600: On March 27, 1802 Britain & France signed a treaty at this city whose name begins with "Ami"; they stayed friends for 14 months Amiens |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $2000: This late U.S. diplomat was the architect of the Dayton Accords that brought peace to the Balkans Holbrooke |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $10,000 (Daily Double): The 2006 Greentree Agreement, settling a fight by shifting a peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon, was brokered by this African (Kofi) Annan |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $400: An early experiment in representative government, the House of Burgesses met for the first time in 1619 in this settlement Jamestown |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $800: The assassination of James Garfield made this man the 21st president Arthur |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $1200: The Compromise of 1850 admitted this Western state to the Union, with slavery banned there California |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $1600: MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech called for freedom to ring from Stone Mountain in Georgia & this mountain in Tennessee Lookout Mountain |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $2000: An eyewitness account of the Boston Massacre said this man hit several soldiers with a club before he was shot Crispus Attucks |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $600: Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder gets involved in this type of one-on-one affair with the Duke of Wellington--to be fought with cannons a duel |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $900: Bob Newhart on the phone with Walter Raleigh about this stuff: "shred the leaves... between your lips... set fire to it!" tobacco |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $1200: On "Drunk History", he's "like, 'No... I'm not gonna defect to the British side!
That's insane! George Washington is my daddy, kind of'" Benedict Arnold |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $1500: On "Our Flag Means Death", Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet & Taika Waititi is this more notorious pirate Blackbeard |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $400: The Battles of Queenston Heights & Lake Erie were both fought during this war the War of 1812 |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $1200: In the 18th century the Apache lost dominance to this other people whose name ends with the same 3 letters a Comanche |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $1600: Giovanni Cornaro II, Doge of Venice until 1722, was the last one to rule over the Morea, an old name for this Greek peninsula the Peloponnesian |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $2000: This Zulu warrior & chief used amabutho, or age-based regiments, to unite & control his kingdom before his 1828 death Shaka |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $11,600 (Daily Double): Post-WWII British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said this Secretary of State threw "a lifeline to sinking men" Marshall |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Peregrine White was born on this ship, anchored in Provincetown Harbor in November 1620 the Mayflower |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The destruction of the battleship Maine in 1898 was a precursor to this war the Spanish-American War |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Naturally, IBM helped create the technology of this type of missile, one letter longer, first deployed by the U.S. in 1959 an ICBM |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Shantytowns that sprang up during the Great Depression were given this presidential nickname Hoovervilles |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1840 a U.S. judge ruled the unwilling passengers on this ship were kidnap victims, not merchandise the Amistad |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $200: O say can you see--OK, just say--the name of this fort that defended Baltimore from the Brits on Sept. 13 & 14, 1814 Fort McHenry |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: Yo, this Philly building dating back to 1732 hosted the adopting of the Articles of Confederation Independence Hall |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $600: In the 17th century Cardinal Richelieu began using this as a state prison; in the 18th, it drew a big crowd outside the Bastille |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Excavations showed that this English site begun around 3000 B.C. was connected to the Avon River by a paved avenue Stonehenge |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1000: & that's the ballgame for the Yorkists here at the 1485 Battle of this; Tudor's your winner, as Plantagenet takes a tough loss the Battle of Bosworth Field |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $300: On July 4, 1826 this ex-president declared independence from life in Monticello, Virginia Thomas Jefferson |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $600: In 2010 this nation paid off its war debt--that'd be its WWI debt--forking over the last 70 million euro in reparations Germany |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $1200: What became known as this atomic "Project" traces back to Feb. 1940, when 86,000 was given to start research the Manhattan Project |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $1500: A U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961 at the Bahía de Cochinos, or this, ended in failure the Bay of Pigs |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Parr became wife No. 6 to this man on July 12, 1543, & beating the odds, outlived him (but only by a year) Henry VIII |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $200: Though some was at first described as "of a byting tast", it became Colonial Virginia's No. 1 cash crop tobacco |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $400: In 1988 Benazir Bhutto became the first woman elected to lead an Islamic nation--this one Pakistan |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $600: In 1956 this Soviet leader made a secret speech to a party congress denouncing Joseph Stalin Khrushchev |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $800: This father of Alexander the Great was assassinated in 336 B.C. Philip of Macedon |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $1000: The job of emperor of this country was long dominated by the Amhara, who also gave their name to a major language there Ethiopia |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | POLISH HISTORY $200: In June 1979 his second trip abroad in his new job was to his homeland & encouraged many Poles to defy the Communist regime Pope John Paul II |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | POLISH HISTORY $400: This city was still the capital when Jagiellonian University, Poland's oldest, was founded there in 1364 Kraków |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | POLISH HISTORY $600: Weakened by Civil War, in 1772 Poland was partitioned by Austria, Russia & this German kingdom Prussia |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | POLISH HISTORY $800: In 1943 an uprising against the Nazis took place in this largest Jewish enclave in Poland Warsaw Ghetto |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | POLISH HISTORY $1000: This shipyard worker & labor union activist became president of Poland in 1990 Wałęsa |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Fort George one of these navigational aids was one of the gifts of Belize benefactor Baron Bliss a lighthouse |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Pineapples & bananas are now tops in Costa Rican exports, but historically this crop was their number one pick-me-up coffee |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: José Napoleón Duarte tried to end civil war in this country in the 1980s but pressure from rebels thwarted him El Salvador |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1979 this group overthrew Nicaragua's president, ending almost 50 years of dictatorship by the Somoza family the Sandinistas |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Beautiful port!" said Columbus, giving this Panama town its name, later applied to a London "Road" after the British captured it Portobelo |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $200: In 1880 this inventor was granted a patent for the first practical light bulb Thomas Edison |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $600: "Black Tuesday", October 29 of this year, was part of the stock market crash that helped set off the Great Depression 1929 |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $700 (Daily Double): Now a kids' swimming pool game, he was originally an Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century Marco Polo |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $800: Nobody expected the Spanish this notorious institution to be abolished in 1834, but everybody was glad it was the Inquisition |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $1000: A Paris airport is named for this general who led the Free French forces during WWII & later served as France's president Charles de Gaulle |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $200: In 1914 19-year-old Serb Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I by assassinating this man Franz Ferdinand |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $400: Also known as the Temple of Kukulcán, El Castillo was built circa 1000 AD in a city founded by these people, in the Yucatán Peninsula the Maya |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $600: Japan annexed this peninsula in 1910 & suppressed the March First Independence Movement in 1919 Korea |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $800: Babylonian king for 40 years, he is best remembered for his legal wisdom, known from an inscribed stone slab discovered in 1901 Hammurabi |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $1000: On Friday the 13th of October 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of this military group the Knights Templar |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: 1947's National Security Act established this government entity now based in Langley, Virginia the CIA |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: People who entered the Oklahoma District before the designated time were first called this about 6 months after the Land Run of 1889 Sooners |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This 1797 "Affair" in which 3 French diplomats demanded bribes led to the cry "millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" the XYZ Affair |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Speaking at the opening of a World's Fair, he was the first U.S. president to appear on television FDR |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: An early champion of free speech & religious liberty, Anne Hutchinson was put on trial in 1637 & banished from this colony the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $200: They let them eat cake at this royal palace when Marie-Antoinette married the dauphin in 1770 Versailles |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $400: Both Americans & Europeans were jubilant on May 8, 1945, called this "Day" V-E Day |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $600: In the 1820s Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs on this ancient object found in 1799 the Rosetta Stone |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $800: By 1834 this institution was abolished, though 8 years late for its last victim, a Valencia Teacher hanged for heresy the Inquisition |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $1000: On Nov. 9 of this year, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, the German Walter Cronkite, declared, "The gates of the wall are wide open" 1989 |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $400: Salmon P. Chase, before George Washington, was the first person on the face of this the dollar |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $800: In 1897 Boston opened the first of these in America, running from Park Street to Boylston Street a subway |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $1200: A 1785 scandal called the Affair of the Diamond Necklace unjustly discredited this queen; a few years later, she was executed Marie Antoinette |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $1600: Many of Shakespeare's history plays were based on the "Lives" of this ancient Greek Plutarch |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $2000: On August 20, 1741 this Dane sailed into the Gulf of Alaska (Vitus) Bering |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $200: Long before Netflix, in 1998 a Hong Kong company invested $1.5 billion in video on demand, pioneering this kind of service streaming |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $400: In 1991 this young broadcast TV network became the first in the U.S. to run a commercial for condoms Fox |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $600: In 1974 this Broadcasting System, Inc. shortened things up & became CBS Inc. Columbia |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $1000: A 1934 act of Congress established this agency, initially to regulate the radio, telephone & telegraph industries the FCC |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $400: Normally a dozy institution, this 105-member upper house of Parliament was news in 2012 with a housing expenses scandal the Senate |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $800: In 1880 the Arctic Islands became part of these territories between the Yukon & Nunavut the Northwest Territories |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $1600: Asked to yield this city to the English in 1690, Count Frontenac said, "My only reply will be from the mouths of my cannons" Quebec City |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $2000: A World Heritage Site, these Newfoundland meadows contain the first evidence of Europeans in the New World L'Anse aux Meadows |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): Founded by a royal charter, the company named for this body of water employed "voyageurs" who explored Canada by canoe Hudson Bay |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $400: Agrarian reforms in this country beginning in 1915 involved the turnover of lands from haciendas to ejidos Mexico |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $800: In 2001 55-year-old Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, this country's king, was assassinated in Kathmandu by his own son Nepal |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $1600: Dido was the legendary founder of this Phoenician city-state later ruled by the Romans & Vandals Carthage |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In January 1536 this royal gave birth to a stillborn male child; by May she was deceased Anne Boleyn |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $2000: A statue of a speakers' wagon stands in this Chicago square to commemorate the 1886 riot that occurred there Haymarket Square |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $200: In June 1215 King John accepted the Articles of the Barons, a basis for this document the Magna Carta |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $400: Around 630 B.C. this militaristic city-state basically turned Messenia's people into serfs Sparta |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $800: In 1586 the first colony on this island went back to England with Sir Francis Drake; no one knows where a later colony went Roanoke |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): From the 1600s to the 1780s, "guests" were sent to this structure, a state prison, via lettre de cachet, a direct order from the king the Bastille |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $1000: I am this pharaoh I, founder of the 19th Dynasty! How did my mummy spend years in the Niagara Falls Museum? Ramses I |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: Roman emperor Trajan made Dacia a Roman province, hence this country's very Roman name Romania |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Winston Churchill gave the speech that mentioned this ideological barrier that separated Eastern Europe the Iron Curtain |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: The Alma River entered history when Russia lost an 1854 battle there during this war the Crimean War |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest Cyrillic |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: Bulgaria is one of many countries on this peninsula that won freedom by breaking the cruel Ottoman yoke the Balkan Peninsula |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $200: Capone's guys dress like cops & kill Bugs Moran's men in a garage February |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $400: FDR reports "The attack yesterday... caused severe damage to American naval & military forces" December |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $600: Pre-20th Amendment, Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as president March |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $800: Guy Fawkes blows it--or rather, doesn't blow it--& gets arrested November |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $1000: The Tet Offensive begins, surprising U.S. commanders January |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $400: In 1474 at the age of 23, this queen began her rule of the Spanish kingdom of Castile Isabella |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $800: China pledged to leave this region's system in place for 50 years after 1997 Hong Kong |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $1200: In 1453 the fall of the city then called this marked the end of the Byzantine Dynasty Constantinople |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $1600: During this 1870-71 war, Napoleon III was captured & eventually deposed & Paris fell to a neighboring nation's army the Franco-Prussian War |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $2000: This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built Pericles |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $200: Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging fire |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $400: This group of 10 guarantees (out of the 12 sent to the states) was ratified in December 1791 a Bill of Rights |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there Copernicus |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $800: In the 1960s, Stanley Lebar of Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here the Moon |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $1000: In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel the Abraham Accords |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $400: 1821's "Three Guarantees" were independence, equality of Spaniards & Creoles & supremacy of this religion Catholicism |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $800: From the 1940s to the 1960s, millions of Mexicans known as braceros got temporary U.S. permits to work in this sector agriculture |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $1200: Selected for development using a computer, this Yucatan city got its first hotel in 1974 & is now Mexico's No. 1 beach resort Cancun |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $1600: The era of this man's late 19th & early 20th century rule is known as the Porfiriato Porfirio Díaz |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $2000: This 1860s presidente & national hero gave his name to a ciudad along Mexico's border with Texas Juarez |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Here's the path on which this duo led their expedition between 1804 & 1806, covering around 8,000 miles Lewis & Clark |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Mexican army's win in the spring of 1862 over Napoleon III's forces is still honored today with this annual celebration Cinco de Mayo |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In early 2022, things got eventful in this Canadian city with traffic-paralyzing protests Ottawa |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 2003 this Canadian territory dropped "Territory" to go by a single name Yukon |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Elected president of Mexico in 1833, this Alamo general would serve in the post 11 times over the next 22 years (Antonio López de) Santa Anna |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $400: When Pompey took this metropolis in 63 B.C., Judea fell under the heel of the Romans Jerusalem |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $800: In 1632 Maryland was granted to this lord, son of George Calvert, as a Catholic haven Baltimore |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $1200: The Yuan Dynasty was ousted in 1368 by this other 4-letter dynasty that would last a while the Ming Dynasty |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $1600: 18th century military prowess forced others to refer to this Prussian as "The Great" Frederick the Great |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $2000: Around 5,000 years ago bronze objects were being produced in this 2-letter Mesopotamian city Ur |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1915 the Revenue Cutter Service & the Life-Saving Service merged to create this branch of the military the Coast Guard |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $800: The Dorr Rebellion in 1842 was directed against the government of this "Ocean State" Rhode Island |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: In 1912, the U.S. flag gained its 47th & 48th stars after these two neighbors, highlighted here, joined the Union Arizona & New Mexico |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: In 1973 this retired Chief Justice returned to California to swear in Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles (Earl) Warren |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $2000: Known as "Mother", she emigrated from Italy in 1889 & in 1946 she became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint (Mother) Cabrini |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $400: At age 13 he married Kasturba, whom he would later call his teacher in nonviolence Gandhi |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $800: Seen here, Stokely Carmichael replaced John Lewis as head of SNCC, short for their Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Student |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $1200: St. Elizabeth of this country rode between 2 armies & quelled hostilities between her son Afonso & her husband, King Dinis Portugal |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $2000: This eldest son of Victoria was called "The Peacemaker"; the memorial here notes his Entente Cordiale with France Edward VII |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $2,200 (Daily Double): One story of this Lakota leader recalls him entering a battlefield, taking a seat & smoking a pipe Sitting Bull |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano (Mount) Vesuvius |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Consulting the oracle at this site was opened wide with the destruction of the nearby town of Krisa, which taxed visitors Delphi |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over Seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple Hanukkah |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses elephants |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa the Phoenicians |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $400: It went up in 1936 in Friedrichshafen, Germany & went down for good in Lakehurst, New Jersey a little over a year later the Hindenburg |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $800: Recent statue topplings by activists have included those of this explorer in St. Paul & in Richmond Columbus |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1200: Herod the Great died in this city whose wall came tumbling down in the book of Joshua Jericho |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1600: This country's flag was said to have fallen from heaven in 1219, a sign of support for Valdemar II in war with the Estonians Denmark |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1979 the S.F. Examiner awarded $10,000 to the first person who produced a piece of this, which had just fallen from the sky Skylab |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $200: In 1989 he became the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $400: This 29-year-old was made acting director of the Bureau of Investigation in May 1924; "acting" was gone by December (J. Edgar) Hoover |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $600: 1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these import duties... anyone? Anyone? By about... anyone? 20%, rattling Wall Street badly tariffs |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $800: Big from 1834 to 1854, this political party took its name from a British one opposed to royal prerogatives the Whigs |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $1000: On March 1, 2003 FEMA & 21 other organizations got a new boss with the creation of this department the Department of Homeland Security |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | QUICK HISTORY $200: In 1378 the French took issue with this & decided on their own anti-one--Clement VII the pope |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | QUICK HISTORY $400: Beijing fell to this big-time conqueror in 1215 Genghis Khan |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | QUICK HISTORY $600: A time of stability under Augustus is known by this peaceful name in Latin Pax Romana |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | QUICK HISTORY $800: Adding to the Winter Palace, Catherine the Great began this museum in 1764 Hermitage |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | QUICK HISTORY $1000: In 1840 the Boers helped Mpande oust Dingane from the throne of this people the Zulu |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $400: Despite the slogan "54-40 or" do this, in 1846 the U.S. settled for 49-00 as the northern border of the Oregon Territory fight |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $800: This waterway completed in 1825 helped connect the urban East to the newly settled lands of what was then the West the Erie Canal |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $1200: When the U.S. annexed this republic in 1845, it added about 390,000 square miles to the nation's territory the Republic of Texas |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Reflecting the name of Istanbul's harbor, c. 1846 the strait connecting this U.S. bay to the ocean was dubbed "Chrysopylae" the San Francisco Bay |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $2000: A 1787 land ordinance set policy & was named for this large region acquired in the Revolutionary War the Northwest Territory |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $400: Seen here is Washington's capture of these German mercenaries caught off guard after Christmas celebrations the Hessians |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $800: This Spaniard depicted a struggle in Madrid during the Dos de Mayo uprising in "The Second of May 1808" (Francisco) Goya |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $1200: Here's a depiction of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot & the containment of this conspirator (Guy) Fawkes |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $1600: Géricault's masterpiece called "The Raft of" this depicts the aftermath of a shipwreck, not a Gorgon Medusa |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $2000: Britain's National Maritime Museum has a painting showing this captain's 1779 death at the hands of Hawaiians (James) Cook |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $400: Revolutionary War heroine Margaret Corbin performed many valorous acts as part of this army the Continental Army |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $800: So many African Americans wanted to fight for this state's 54th Regiment in the Civil War, the 55th was created Massachusetts |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $1200: After this lengthy journey in 1935, Mao joined other Red Army soldiers with his surviving troops the Long March |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $1600: In 1298 the circular battle formations of this Scots hero held off the English at Falkirk, but only for a while Wallace |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $2000: An impressment ordinance got this author of "The Pilgrim's Progress" caught up in the English Civil Wars John Bunyan |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $400: Founded in 1252, this Swedish city is today the most populous in the Nordic countries with more than 1.5 million residents Stockholm |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $800: Around 1000 King Olaf underwent this rite, aiding the conversion of Sweden to Christianity baptism |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $1600: Queen Christina of Sweden was mentored by this French "cogito, ergo sum" man when he lived there in 1649 & 1650 Descartes |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Warrior King Charles XII did this in 1708 with 44,000 troops; as military wisdom would suggest, it didn't work invade Russia |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SWEDISH HISTORY $2000: "Talent & Taste" is the motto of the Swedish this institution, founded in 1786, which hands out the Nobel Prize for Literature the Academy |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The 1783 Treaty of Paris set the western boundary of the new United States in the middle of this river the Mississippi |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1846, Elias Howe patented one of these; his model is seen here a sewing machine |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans participated in this event for jobs & freedom the March on Washington |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): These 4 words of advice from newspaper editor Horace Greeley were followed by "and grow up with the country" Go West, young man |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Before becoming Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier governed this prospective state that existed for all of 4 years Franklin |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $400: According to tradition, this religion was introduced to Japan in 552 A.D. Buddhism |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $800: In 946 A.D. Suzaku abdicated in favor of his brother Murakami, who became the 62nd of these the emperor |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $1200: In 1964 Yoshinori Sakai, born the day Hiroshima was bombed, was chosen to carry this in Tokyo's national stadium the (Olympic) torch |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $1600: Certain World War II fighter planes were produced in the year 2600 of the Japanese empire, leading to this nickname the Zero |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $2000: By 1543 traders from this southern European nation had become the first Westerners to reach Japan Portugal |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $200: This capital was founded as Fort Nassau in the early 1600s Albany |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $400: In 1906 Willis Carrier of the Buffalo Forge Company patented an "apparatus for treating air", now known as this the air conditioner |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $600: Said to be the USA's oldest state park is the one encompassing this natural wonder formed about 12,000 years ago Niagara Falls |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $800: Making his name as a prosecutor, he was elected governor in 1942, 1946 & 1950 but lost twice for president in that time (Thomas) Dewey |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $1000: He was the governor of New Netherland before surrendering the region to the British in 1664 Peter Stuyvesant |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $400: One of the crimes for which this French saint was sentenced to death in 1431: dressing in men's clothes Joan of Arc |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $800: John Champe faked a desertion in 1780 to try to capture this traitorous general & served under him as part of his cover Benedict Arnold |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1200: Think of the name of Ho, its leader, to get the name of this organization that fought the French in Indochina in the 1940s the Vietminh |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1600: It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great the Persian Empire |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $2000: Operation Willi was a Nazi plot to restore this former king to the British throne Edward VIII |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $200: Hail! to the victors valiant--Charles Woodson, Desmond Howard & Tom Harmon, Heisman winners from this Big Ten school the University of Michigan |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $400: In 2019 this Clemson QB became the second true freshman to win a national title as a starter Trevor Lawrence |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $600: The 1951 Army football team that lost to Navy 42-7 had been decimated by cadet expulsions for this cheating on exams |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $800: From 2002 to 2008, this coach seen here led USC to seven straight BCS bowls & two title games Pete Carroll |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $1000: This Notre Dame hero who died at age 25 in 1920 helped pay his school expenses as a pool shark George "The Gipper" Gipp |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $800: In 1921 New Orleans became the first city in the U.S. to declare a historic district, this one the French Quarter |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $200: In 1922 the Bolsheviks let reporters try on this, made with 5,000 diamonds & a 400-carat spinel for Catherine the Great a crown (the Russian Imperial Crown) |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $400: A recent theory about this stone circle in England: it was part of a great raised altar with long-gone wooden ramps Stonehenge |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $600: In 1963, JFK, the first Catholic president, purposefully shook hands with the pope in place of doing this kissing the ring |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $1000: Paiute prophets saying the dead would return were part of this 19th c. Native American movement named for a circle dance Ghost Dance |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1989, Poland's regime & this union-based opposition movement held roundtable talks that led to the transition to democracy Solidarity |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $400: He was "lucky" to find Vinland after getting blown off course around the year 1000 (Leif) Erikson |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $800: Director John Ford said he based the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in "My Darling Clementine" on this man's recollections Wyatt Earp |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $1200: A successful capitalist by day, he gave his pal Marx a yearly stipend of 350 pounds Engels |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $1600: Robert Devereux, Earl of this, was one of Elizabeth I's favorites, but she had him beheaded for inciting rebellion Essex |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $2000: This great 16th century Dutch humanist was also known as Roterodamus Erasmus |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $400: Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians the plebeians |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $1200: In England's Civil War, barbers probably rooted for this Puritan group named for keeping their hair short the Roundheads |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $1600: Lower-class people eager to see aristocratic French heads roll were "sans" these fancy breeches culottes |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $2000: Abbreviated KMT, it once battled Mao & is now one of Taiwan's main political parties the Kuomintang |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Term for businessman like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of "The Modern" these who "Plunder at Will" Robber Barons |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1822 Brazil declared independence from this country, which recognized that action 3 years later Portugal |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1919 South America got its first commercial airline: Avianca, now headquartered in this capital of Colombia Bogotá |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead Paraguay |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba "Che" Guevara |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In the early 2000s this ex-president of Chile lost his immunity from prosecution & was charged with human rights abuses Pinochet |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $400: Rebellion is in the air & in the photo seen here, showing fighters in this 1900 uprising Boxer Rebellion |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $800: Ferdinand & Isabella wed in 1469, uniting these 2 kingdoms Castile & Aragon |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1642 Mongols deposed Tibet's ruling dynasty & gave rule to the man with this title the Dalai Lama |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1600: Abu Bakr became the first of these rulers in 632 after the death of Muhammad a caliph |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $2000: He tried to starve the colonists out but later let his daughter Pocahontas marry one Powhatan |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $400: Martin Luther King wrote his famous letter on the need for civil rights action from a jail in this city Birmingham |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $800: At the Waitangi Treaty House, Chiefs like Tamati Pukututu & Lt. Gov. William Hobson signed this country's founding document in 1840 New Zealand |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $1200: The Yusupov Palace on St. Petersburg's Moyka River was the location of the rather lengthy killing of this man in December 1916 Rasputin |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $1600: Paris' Hotel de Rambouillet was the site of a famous one of these female-run gatherings of artists & intellectuals a salon |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $2000: At Sengakuji Temple in Tokyo, visitors honor the 47 these, samurai who avenge their dead master & are buried there ronin |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: On December 2, 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte had this title officially bestowed upon him, by himself emperor |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: The Venice basilica named for this gospel writer & said to contain his earthly remains was rebuilt starting around 1063 Mark |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: The second Russian czar of this name had abolished serfdom but was assassinated by revolutionaries in 1881 Alexander |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1618 longstanding hostility between Protestants & Catholics in central Europe sparked this long war the Thirty Years' War |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: Back in 1688 Norway regulated many sawmills to fight this problem; in 2016 it became the world's first country to ban it deforestation (clear-cutting) |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $200: Vessels lost by this flotilla in 1588 included La Trinidad, El Gran Grifón & Castillo Negro the Spanish Armada |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $400: This colorful challenger to Sir Gawain turns out to be Sir Bertilak in disguise the Green Knight |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $400: In 1867 young Erasmus Jacobs found the "Eureka" this "upon which the future success of South Africa will be built" diamond |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $800: Crete's Bronze Age civilization is sometimes named for this king who ruled from Knossos King Minos |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Built by a Ming Dynasty emperor, this place is so named because most people in the empire were denied access the Forbidden City |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $1000: The USA's worst depression before the Civil War began with what's usually called this event "of 1837" the Panic |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $1200: Named parts of Arthur's fighting gear included "Excalibur" , his sword, "Ron", his lance, & "Pridwen", this his shield |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $1600: The son of Lancelot, this noblest of Arthur's knights was among the few virtuous enough to find the Holy Grail Sir Galahad |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $2000: Arthur's mother was Igraine, duchess of this peninsular region Cornwall |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The last claim awarded under this act was in 1988, 126 years after it passed, for a parcel of land in Alaska the Homestead Act |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | SUPER BOWL HISTORY: It's the only team to play in the Super Bowl before Neil Armstrong's Moon walk that has not been back to the Big Game since the Jets |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | HISTORY & THE MOVIES: This 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner tells of a 1789 event near the isolated Pacific volcano of Tofua Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | U.S. HISTORY: The largest land deal in U.S. history was formalized in a building at this spot, now named for a military hero & president Jackson Square |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WORLD POLITICAL HISTORY: William Whitelaw & John Peyton were also-rans in a 1975 leadership vote with this victor (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | HISTORY: A 1976 report initiated by Admiral Rickover found it was an internal, not external, explosion that caused the destruction of this the (USS) Maine |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | U.S. HISTORY: Challenged in a courtroom that same year, 1925's Butler Act in Tennessee outlawed this activity & wasn't repealed until 1967 teaching evolution |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | CINEMA HISTORY: Films made outside the U.S. in the '50s like "3 Coins in the Fountain" & "Quo Vadis" led to an era dubbed "Hollywood on" this river the Tiber |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY: "The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon", says "The Fire Next Time", published in this year 1963 |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | MILITARY HISTORY: A prototype of this craft was deployed in August 1955; it made headlines in May 1960 the U-2 |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ART HISTORY: The Royal Academy of Arts has this man's "La Fornarina" & in the 1800s the RAA's love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style Raphael |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | NAMES IN HISTORY: The scientific name of Jamaica's ackee fruit honors this captain who brought it to England in 1793 Captain Bligh |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979 Pol Pot |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | TELEVISION HISTORY: According to the BBC, this 1953 event "did more than any other to make television a mainstream medium" the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Before visiting Achilles' tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent "spear-won" Alexander the Great |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Established in 1963, this group had its conclusions questioned in books, reports & a special 1970s congressional committee the Warren Commission |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | WORLD HISTORY: This African capital renamed an area Mexico Square to honor Mexico's WWII-era support of its sovereignty during Italian occupation Addis Ababa |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BRITISH HISTORY: At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch Richard III |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (carrier or homing) pigeons |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | ART HISTORY: At the 1865 Paris Art Salon, the elder of these 2 men said if the younger were successful, it would be "because his name sounds like mine" Manet & Monet |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORY & NATURE: In March 1519, these were again seen in mainland North America for the first time in 10,000 years with the arrival of 16 of them horses |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | GROUPS IN HISTORY: The third-most famous group that invaded Britain in the 5th century, they gave their name to the continental part of Denmark the Jutes |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | OPERA & HISTORY: Appropriately, the last performance at the Vienna State Opera before it was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs was this opera from 1876 Götterdämmerung |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORY: His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, "Sometime general in the army of George Washington" Benedict Arnold |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | MEDICAL HISTORY: A vaccine against this respiratory illness came out in the U.S. in 1914 & eventually combined with 2 other vaccines whooping cough (pertussis) |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before Warner |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | TV HISTORY: The 1980s "Magnum, P.I." used a soundstage of this long-running drama that had just ended, & even referred to its lead character Hawaii Five-O |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | FASHION HISTORY: These decorative items get their name from their origin in the port city of Strasbourg, on the border of France & Germany rhinestones |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | CITY HISTORY: Over 700 years after its traditional 1252 founding date, this port city became associated with a psychological response Stockholm |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | U.S. HISTORY: An 1869 presidential pardon was granted to this man, due in part to a plea by the Medical Society of Harford County, Maryland Dr. Samuel Mudd |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: Until 1806, some German nobles included among their honors the title of "Elector" for their role in selecting this personage Holy Roman Emperor |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | THEATER HISTORY: In 1904, wearing a harness, actress Nina Boucicault became the first to play this character onstage Peter Pan |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | HISTORY: Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast Santa Maria |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that ten suspected" these "escape, than that one innocent person... be condemned" witches |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SECONDS IN HISTORY: The Fortune, the 2nd ship to land at this harbor, disappointed those already there, carrying 35 new residents & "not so much as bisket-cake" Plymouth |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow Wounded Knee |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Ben Franklin, John Adams & John Jay succeeded as a trio in this city, though Adams wrote of fearing the other 2 would gang up on him Paris |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | TECH HISTORY: For about 20 years after its invention, it had few practical uses; then suddenly it revolutionized grocery checkouts & home audio the laser |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | TELEVISION HISTORY: In the opening scene of its July 21, 1969 pilot episode, a man carves the letter D into wet cement Sesame Street |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BRITISH HISTORY: From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous" the monarchy |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A participant in this 1773 event recalled, "Some of our numbers jumped into the hold... I never labored harder in my life" the Boston Tea Party |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | HISTORY: Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war" the Seven Years' War |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 1960s HISTORY: After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again Eagle |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SONGS & U.S. HISTORY: Victory in 1805's Battle of Derna on the coast of North Africa inspired a lyric in this song made official in 1929 the "Marines' Hymn" |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | U.S. HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1788 William Maclay & Robert Morris, both of Pennsylvania, were chosen as the first 2 these (U.S.) senators |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | HISTORY: Completed around 1455, it sometimes gets another name because a famous copy was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin the Gutenberg Bible |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | COLORS & HISTORY: A blue pigment & a shade of blue popular in shirts are named for these, the 2 opposing nations in an 1870-71 war France & Prussia |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | U.S. HISTORY: On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before George Washington & John Adams |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | SHAKESPEARE & HISTORY: Macbeth has a vision of a line of 8 Scottish kings, the 8th holding a mirror to reflect this 9th in line who may have been in the audience James I of England (James VI of Scotland) |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds" |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | EARLY U.S. HISTORY: Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney & John Marshall were the diplomats in this 1797 incident that led to a quasi-war with France the XYZ Affair |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | BUSINESS HISTORY: David McConnell's cosmetics & perfume co. was rebranded in 1939 with this name, honoring the home of his favorite playwright Avon |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | POPES & HISTORY: Late 16th century Pope Sixtus V regarded this invasion force as a crusade & promised indulgences to all who participated the Spanish Armada |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BRITISH ARMY HISTORY: The Army's longest continuous campaign, 1969-2007, began in this Northern Ireland city known by either of 2 different names Londonderry/Derry |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE: 2020 marks the 55th birthday of the first piece of equipment dedicated to this process, now used for regular screenings mammogram |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | HISTORY IN THE MOVIES: Vehicles in "2001: A Space Odyssey" featured this airline's logo, but the company went bankrupt in 1991 Pan Am |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | MEDICAL HISTORY: One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks Julius Caesar |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: Once Europe's leading military power & later the largest state in Germany, it was abolished by the Allies in 1947 Prussia |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1711 bill cleared the names of 22 people who were tried in this town, including Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey & John Proctor Salem, Massachusetts |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY: He was the first president to deliver the State of the Union Address on television Harry Truman |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: 1946 was the last year this place, now a country, was represented in the U.S. House of Representatives the Philippines |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: After statesman & banker Robert Morris turned down a job offer from George Washington, this man took the job Alexander Hamilton |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY: At Harpers Ferry, John Brown & his rebels were defeated by troops commanded by this man who 2 years later led a rebel army himself Robert E. Lee |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century Democratic-Republican & Whig |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: It took the French army until 1995 to declare him innocent, 101 years after he was convicted of treason (Alfred) Dreyfus |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | 19th CENTURY HISTORY: Wanting more French influence in the area he called Latin America, Napoleon III installed an emperor in this country Mexico |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: Congress declared September 6, 2008 Louisa Swain Day because Louisa did this in Wyoming on that date in 1870 voted |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One a Civil War hero & one a U.S. Senator, brothers with this last name were both considered for the 1884 Republican presidential nomination Sherman |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY: According to Herodotus, a messenger was sent 150 miles from Athens to Sparta, just before this 490 B.C. battle the Battle of Marathon |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women's this Suffrage |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | THE HISTORY OF FRANCE: This modern regime that lasted 4 years changed the national motto to "Travail, Famille, Patrie"--"Work, Family, Fatherland" Vichy France |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | ENGLISH HISTORY: In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to "parts of Asia and Africa" in search of "trade and traffic" British East India Company |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | 1960s TV HISTORY: The 1967 finale of "The Fugitive" drew in 78 million viewers, surpassing the 73 million who tuned into this show Sunday, February 9, 1964 The Ed Sullivan Show |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | WORD HISTORY: This word for a bug or malfunction was popularized in the 1962 book "Into Orbit" by the Mercury astronauts glitch |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1869 these 2 men met at the White House, 4 years & 3 weeks after a more historic meeting between them Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: In 2000 the Russian Orthodox church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths the Romanovs |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: On June 6, 2018 the Chinese Theatre dimmed its lights to honor Jerry Maren, who lived to the greatest age of any of this 1939 group the Munchkins |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Constructed in the 1930s, it extended from La Ferté to the Rhine River, though it also had sections along the Italian frontier Maginot Line |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Interpreting for Vaclav Havel, future ambassador Rita Klimova gave us this phrase for a smooth change of government the velvet revolution |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | WOMEN IN U.S. HISTORY: In 1901 this activist was jailed for inspiring the assassination of William McKinley, but the charge was later dropped Emma Goldman |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY: This U.S. group was formed to protect settlers in an area that had recently gained independence from Spain the Texas Rangers |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | 1940s HISTORY: Air Force pilot Gail Halvorson earned the nickname "Candy Bomber" for his actions during this 1948-49 event the Berlin airlift (or Berlin air drop) |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: Legend says this, weighing 336 lbs., came from the Holy Land & Kenneth MacAlpin brought it to Perthshire c. 840 the Stone of Scone |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | MILITARY HISTORY: Prepared by the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, the "COSSAC Plan" outlined the details of this D-Day |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | CITIES IN HISTORY: The Cathedral of St. Pierre was the center of the Calvinist Reformation in this lakeside city Geneva |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 & more men marched at his funeral than fought with him the Battle of Lexington |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY: In 1794 George Washington selected this spot, where today 3 states meet, for the site of a new armory Harpers Ferry |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY: 230 miles long, it defined a boundary between a colony founded by Quakers & one founded by Catholics the Mason-Dixon line |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn't sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned a pocket veto |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899, a reunion of this alliterative squad took place, with the governor of New York fittingly on horseback the Rough Riders |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | U.S. STATE HISTORY: During Ulysses Grant's 2-term presidency, only one state joined the Union: this one Colorado |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | ROMAN HISTORY: Of this battle in 31 B.C., Virgil wrote, "Neptune's fields grow red with fresh slaughter" the Battle of Actium |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | OSCAR HISTORY: In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actor, director & writer for the same film Orson Welles |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | CABLE TV HISTORY: "You need us... for everything you do" was a slogan used by this channel, one of the first to customize content by location The Weather Channel |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | MUSIC & HISTORY: This 1880 piece was written more than 6 decades after the Battle of Borodino, the conflict it commemorates the 1812 Overture |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | U.S. HISTORY: Only 4 men have been both VP & president & served in both houses of Congress; 2 of them shared this last name Johnson |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MOVIE HISTORY: A 1947 FBI study chided this holiday film's "attempt to discredit bankers ...a common trick used by Communists" It's A Wonderful Life |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FASHION HISTORY: These pants first became popular when Pratap Singh, a maharaja's son, visited Queen Victoria with his polo team in 1897 jodhpurs |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | YEARS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: The representative body called the Estates-General met in 1614 & didn't meet again until this year 1789 |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | U.S. HISTORY: On Dec. 7, 1787 30 delegates at Battell's Tavern gathered & made history in what's now this state capital Dover |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Villages like Zalesye, Kopachi & Lubyanka remain abandoned 3 decades after this event nuclear disaster at Chernobyl |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | RECORDING HISTORY: Guinness recognizes his 1902 version of Leoncavallo's "Vesti La Giubba" as the 1st million-selling record Enrico Caruso |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | FOOD HISTORY: In 1525 Spanish New World official Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo wrote, "The flesh of these peacocks is very good" turkeys |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | HISTORY REPEATS: This practice officially began in Pakistan in 1977, 44 years after an amendment ended it in the United States Prohibition |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | CIVIL WAR HISTORY: Of the 4 prewar states that permitted slavery but did not secede, it was the largest in area & latest to join the Union Missouri |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ART HISTORY: "Escalier" is in the original title of a work by this artist that scandalized New York City's International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913 Marcel Duchamp |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1790 a deal made Washington the nation's capital; the room where it happened was at Jefferson's house & negotiators included Madison & this Cabinet member Alexander Hamilton |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY: "A stimulus to the courageous", the $25,000 Orteig Prize offer of 1919 resulted in his success 8 years later Lindbergh |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | BRITISH HISTORY: On January 1, 1801, George III relinquished this royal title claimed by English monarchs since the Hundred Years' War King of France |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1690s its legislature referred to this place as "his Majesty's ancient colony and dominion" Virginia |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | MOMENTS IN HISTORY: This word follows January (China, 1967); March (Germany, 1848); July (France, 1830) & famously, October Revolution |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Pantites, sent to recruit troops, & Aristodemus, sent off to treat his eye disease, were the only known Greeks to survive this event the Battle of Thermopylae |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: This president began a State of the Union Address by congratulating the historic 100th Congress Ronald Reagan |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | U.S. HISTORY: It's the only odd-numbered year in which a U.S. presidential election has been held 1789 |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | ART HISTORY: Although it's a statue of a giant's foe, an observer who saw its 1504 unveiling called it "the marble giant" David (Michelangelo's statue) |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | POP MUSIC HISTORY: Appropriately, this 1984 blockbuster was the first music CD mass-produced in the United States Born in the U.S.A. |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WORD HISTORY: From the Latin for "buy back", it once referred to buying a slave's freedom & today can refer to being saved from sin redeem (or redemption) |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | MILITARY HISTORY: This country smaller than England was a colonial rival with which England fought 4 wars, the last from 1780 to 1784 the Netherlands |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | HUMANITIES & HISTORY: Echoing the Morse code for V, in WWII the BBC's "V for Victory" campaign used this classical work as a theme Beethoven's Fifth Symphony |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world's most vast, & this one Belarus |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | BUSINESS HISTORY: Found near Amsterdam in 2010, a 1606 stock certificate from this long-defunct company has been valued at $750,000 the Dutch East India Company |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | FRENCH FOOD HISTORY: A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar Dijon |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | RELIGIOUS HISTORY: This term comes from a 1529 event in which a group of Lutherans formally disagreed with a decision by a Catholic council Protestantism |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | 19th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: A dignitary at the dedication of this said it was "keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America" The Statue of Liberty |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1945 this product added a plaid design to its "snail" dispenser Scotch Tape |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | U.S. HISTORY: Messrs. Gusenberg, Gusenberg, May, Weinshank, Clark, Heyer & Schwimmer famously died on this day in 1929 February 14 (or Valentine's Day) |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | SPORTS TERM HISTORY: After throwing a long, last-second touchdown in 1975, Roger Staubach said, "I closed my eyes & said" this Hail Mary |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | OLYMPIC HISTORY: In London in 2012, judo & the 800m run included the first female Olympians ever from this Mideastern country Saudi Arabia |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY: In 1948 he won South Carolina with 72% of the vote & 3 other states but finished a distant third overall Strom Thurmond |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | FRENCH HISTORY: Starting in 1349, this marine animal was on the coat of arms of the heir apparent to the French throne a dolphin |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | VIDEO GAME HISTORY: The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife The Legend of Zelda |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: In terms of British monarchs, it's next in the sequence Seventh, Fifth, Eighth, Sixth... Second |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber Louis XIV |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | U.S. HISTORY: Congress has passed 11 of these: the first in 1812, the last in 1942 declarations of war |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1938 his company began installing instruments in U.S. homes to record the frequencies to which a radio was tuned A.C. Nielsen |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | RUSSIAN HISTORY: Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger 5-year plan |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | PEOPLE IN BRITISH HISTORY: In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do" (Horatio) Nelson |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | BRITISH HISTORY: This 17th century king was the last British monarch to enter the House of Commons Charles I |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | BRITISH HISTORY: This appointed position first held by John Dryden echoes a "Versificator Regis" of Richard I in the 12th century Poet Laureate |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | AIRLINE HISTORY: Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991 Pan Am |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: When the future state of Iowa became part of the United States, this man was President Thomas Jefferson |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | OLYMPICS HISTORY: Besides Antarctica, the 2 continents that have never hosted the Summer or Winter Olympic Games Africa & South America |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776 New Jersey |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: The Catholic & Eastern churches separated in 1054, when the Pope & Patriarch did this to each other; it was undone in 1965 excommunicated |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY: The name of this assassin is Latin for heavy, dull, insensitive, oafish Brutus |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | COLONIAL HISTORY: A 1763 letter said that these 2 men were equipped with "instruments... to look at the posts in the line for ten or twelve miles" Mason & Dixon |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This volunteer group was born in May 1898 near the bar in San Antonio's Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days the Rough Riders |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | RULERS IN HISTORY: Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them Peter the Great |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | CALIFORNIA HISTORY: Surname of the employer of James W. Marshall, who found gold in a stream near the Sacramento River in 1848 Sutter |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | BUSINESS HISTORY: Crosby, Sinatra & Hope starred in the October 13, 1957 CBS-TV special that launched this short-lived product the Edsel |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | WORD HISTORY: A Roman legal term for a debtor sentenced to servitude is the origin of this term for a slave to a vice addict |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | FRENCH HISTORY: She said, "I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people" Charlotte Corday |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | REMEMBERING U.S. HISTORY: Issued in 2011, a stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of a major event in U.S. history depicts this stronghold Fort Sumter |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | WORLD HISTORY: Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C. an elephant |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | COMIC BOOK HISTORY: On the cover of the 1941 first issue of this comic book, the title hero punches Hitler in the jaw Captain America |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: On September 2, 1945 New Zealand Air Marshal Leonard Isitt put the final signature on the document that ended this World War II |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | MEDICAL HISTORY: In December 1967 Louis Washkansky, a patient in this country claimed, "I am a new Frankenstein" South Africa |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | WORLD HISTORY: Traditionally said to be founded in 421, this city was later built up on islands in a lagoon by refugees from invading Lombards Venice |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | WORD HISTORY: Since the 1600s this 8-letter word has meant men of letters; a punning form of it refers to celebrities literati |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | U.S. HISTORY: The day after the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st Afr. American to do this under its provisions vote |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | OLYMPICS HISTORY: In 1988 this country boycotted the Summer Olympics after its demand to co-host the games was refused North Korea |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | WORLD HISTORY: After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled Brazil |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | HOLIDAY HISTORY: Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man Pope John Paul II |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | SCIENCE HISTORY: This concept dates to a 1783 paper by John Michell, who theorized about a body with the sun's density & 500 times its diameter a black hole |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | BILLBOARD HOT 100 HISTORY: Besides Frank & Nancy Sinatra, they're the only other father & daughter who each had No. 1 solo hits Pat & Debby Boone |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | U.S. MILITARY HISTORY: This general commanded the first official American force to fight on the European continent John Pershing |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | FILM HISTORY: Written by Thomas Dixon, 1916's film "The Fall of a Nation" is considered the first of these ever made a sequel |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY: Immediately before the Caroline era came this one, also from the monarch's Latin name Jacobean |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | MOVIE HISTORY: During the making of this classic, sets from "King Kong" & "The Garden of Allah" were intentionally burned down Gone with the Wind |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | CANADIAN HISTORY: A river is named for this man born in Scotland in 1764, the first European known to have crossed Canada Alexander Mackenzie |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY: Joining such pop culture icons as Dorothy's ruby slippers, this was donated to the museum by Jerry Seinfeld in 2004 the puffy shirt |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | FASHION HISTORY: It was unveiled July 5, 1946, at Paris' Piscine Molitor & created a scandal the bikini |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | 1940s MUSIC HISTORY: While writing for Billboard, legendary producer Jerry Wexler coined this phrase to replace "race music" rhythm & blues |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | BRITISH HISTORY: Dying in 2009 at age 113, British WWI vet Henry Allingham was the last original surviving member of this group, formed 1918 the Royal Air Force |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | COLLEGE HISTORY: The Pittsburgh university named for Andrew Carnegie is the USA's first to offer a degree in this musical instrument the bagpipes |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | TV HISTORY: When this animated TV show premiered, it was sponsored by One-A-Day vitamins & Winston cigarettes The Flintstones |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | ART HISTORY: Unique quality of "First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow", shown at the 1883 Arts Incoherents exhibit it was all white |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | ROSE BOWL HISTORY: The only time the game wasn't held in Calif. was 1942, when it was in N.C., amidst fears of another event like this one Pearl Harbor |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln authorized this govt. agency; its main job then was to protect against counterfeiting the Secret Service |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself Gerald Ford |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | 17th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY: The lantern with which he planned to initiate his most famous act is in the possession of England's Ashmolean Museum Guy Fawkes |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | WORD HISTORY: Once a type of Roman arena, in the 18th century this 6-letter word gained its current meaning as a type of entertainment circus |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | BOOKS INSPIRED BY HISTORY: "Follow the Drinking Gourd" tells how slaves escaped to freedom guided by a song about this star group the Big Dipper |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The area that's now the State of Indiana was acquired in this war the Revolutionary War |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | U.S. TRANSPORTATION HISTORY: Not standardized as the shape we know, the first of these alliterative items, black on white metal, appeared in Detroit in 1915 a stop sign |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: History was made on December 1, 1955 when bus driver James Blake called the police & had this person arrested Rosa Parks |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | ENGLISH HISTORY: It was the "they" in the medal issued by Elizabeth I reading, "God breathed and they were scattered" the Spanish Armada |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT: In 1784 these 2 future presidents saw an early manned balloon flight in Paris &, in 1793, America's 1st, in Philadelphia John Adams & Thomas Jefferson |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing" Henry VIII |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BROADWAY HISTORY: On Oct. 30, 2008 Playbill changed its logo color to green for a special edition marking this show's 5th anniversary on Broadway Wicked |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | SCIENCE HISTORY: An experiment with mirrors on Mt. Wilson & Mt. San Antonio, Calif. determined what became an accepted figure for this the speed of light |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | FRANCO-AMERICAN HISTORY: After a large French army was wiped out by yellow fever on this island in 1802, Napoleon decided to sell Louisiana Hispaniola (or Haiti) |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | CULINARY HISTORY: This fruit dessert was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's decades on the British throne cherries jubilee |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: On April 13, 1895 he entered the Devils Island penal colony to serve a life sentence, but he was out by 1899 Alfred Dreyfus |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY: Due to the large numbers of men away from home, it was the first year a majority of states counted absentee votes 1864 |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | CIVIL WAR HISTORY: Though 1863's Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Confederacy, this Union state, one of the original 13, ended slavery November 1, 1864 Maryland |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | RECENT HISTORY: In 1986 & again in 2001, people power protests in this nation pushed out male presidents & replaced them with females the Philippines |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team the Chicago Cubs |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | WORLD HISTORY: One of history's largest refugee migrations, about 15 million people, took place 1947-1951 between these 2 countries Pakistan & India |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In the last week of the John Tyler administration, this republic was offered statehood Texas |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Circled 7 times by the Israelites in Joshua, it's said to be the world's oldest walled city Jericho |
| #5440, aired 2008-04-11 | WORLD HISTORY: Beginning in 1932 all this country's kings have been the country's founder or his sons Saudi Arabia |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | PROS & CONS IN HISTORY: The two 3-letter words applied to those for & against the 18th Amendment, & states with differing laws on the issue dry & wet |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | 1910s HISTORY: World Book said it "ranks as one of the greatest engineering achievements in the world" the Panama Canal |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | WORLD HISTORY: This world-changing event was first announced in a Barcelona banquet hall in April 1493 discovery of the New World |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | AVIATION HISTORY: He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Charles Lindbergh |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | FRENCHMEN IN HISTORY: He was nicknamed "The Robespierre of the Brush", but unlike his friend Robespierre, he was jailed but not guillotined Jacques-Louis David |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | WORD HISTORY: This term for a deadly substance may derive from the name of a love goddess venom |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Born an infanta in 1485, she died at Kimbolton Castle in England in 1536 with the official title Princess Dowager of Wales Catherine of Aragon |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY: It was the main cause of the 1803 jump in the national debt to $86.4 million the Louisiana Purchase |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | MUSICAL HISTORY: It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work London Bridge |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | U.S. HISTORY: A 1924 law gave citizenship to all these members of what were called "domestic dependent nations" Native Americans |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY: A patient who told this Frankfurt doctor "I have lost myself" was the basis for a paper he gave in 1906 Alois Alzheimer |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | FOOD & DRINK HISTORY: The world's first pure food & beverage law, one pertaining to beer, was proclaimed by the Duke of this region in 1516 Bavaria |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: So Prussia could dominate Germany, Bismarck excluded this country that lost the 1866 Battle of Koniggratz Austria |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | ART HISTORY: Carel Fabritius, whose self-portrait is seen here, is considered this man's greatest pupil Rembrandt |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | MUSIC HISTORY: In this building Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughan both won amateur talent contests, one in 1934 & the other in 1942 the Apollo Theater |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | OLYMPIC HISTORY: This event was inspired by a legend mentioned in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens" the marathon |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY: This 1943 musical is based on a 1931 play that featured Tex Ritter as a cowboy & Lee Strasberg as a peddler Oklahoma! |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY: Originally known as the Missouri Rockets, they performed at the opening of an East Coast theatre in 1931 the Rockettes |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | MOVIE HISTORY: Producer David Selznick was fined $5,000 by censors for using this word in a 1939 film damn |
| #5093, aired 2006-11-01 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: This phrase linking 2 entities was in Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, elaborating on the 1st Amendment separation of church and state |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | RELIGIOUS HISTORY: The 1549 Act of Uniformity imposed upon England this single liturgical volume to be used by everyone the Book of Common Prayer |
| #5044, aired 2006-07-13 | U.S. HISTORY: He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | MILITARY HISTORY: Lasting about a month, it's the battle for which the most marines earned the Medal of Honor Iwo Jima |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | WORD HISTORY: One Mongol tribe or army, it came to mean "a vast number" because the fierce Mongol warriors seemed so numerous a horde |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: In an 1863 essay Harriet Beecher Stowe called this woman whom she had met with "The Libyan Sibyl" Sojourner Truth |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | MILITARY HISTORY: In 2005 a single sapling was planted at an army barracks in Australia to mark the 90th anniversary of this battle Gallipoli |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Henry Laurens, Thomas Mifflin & Richard Henry Lee were presidents of this body that only lasted for about 15 years the Continental Congress |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This legislative body first met on March 4, 1789 in New York City, but only 8 of its 22 members were present the U.S. Senate |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | WORLD HISTORY: This person was the reigning monarch of Great Britain when the U.S. national anthem was written George III |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | LITERARY HISTORY: Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1930 mystery novel "The Door" turned blaming this character into a cliche the butler |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | SOVIET HISTORY: He died in Moscow September 11, 1971 following nearly 7 years of house arrest Nikita Khrushchev |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | SPORTS HISTORY: In a famous incident, it's the school at which William Webb Ellis disregarded the rules in 1823 Rugby |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: Of the 15 expulsions of senators in the Senate's 215-year history, 11 took place in this year 1861 |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY: He commanded the forces that rescued the survivors of the infamous Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 Robert Clive |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | RELIGIOUS HISTORY: From the Greek, the name of this movement of the early Christian era means that its members had knowledge of God Gnosticism |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: In 1959 the ad firm of Doyle Dane Bernbach began using the slogan "Ugly is only skin-deep" for this import model Volkswagen Beetle |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: On this date Philadelphia partied with fireworks & music from a Hessian band captured 6 months earlier July 4, 1777 |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | BUSINESS HISTORY: Last names of the 2 men, both engineers, who met & formed a partnership at England's Midland Hotel in May 1904 Rolls and Royce |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | 19th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: Of the 5 times Congress has declared war, the 3 during the 19th century were against these 3 nations Britain, Spain & Mexico |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | UNITED NATIONS HISTORY: In 1960 this new national leader made the longest speech in United Nations history, 4 hours & 29 minutes Fidel Castro |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | 19th CENTURY ART & HISTORY: The red sky in Munch's "The Scream" may be from the debris in the Oslo air from this volcano half a world away Krakatoa |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | WORD HISTORY: Circa 1860 Robert FitzRoy of Britain's meteorological office rejected prediction & prophecy in favor of this word forecast |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | BASEBALL HISTORY: On August 10th, 2003, Rafael Furcal of the Braves became only the 12th man in MLB history to perform this single-handedly a triple play |
| #4409, aired 2003-11-06 | SCIENCE HISTORY: It's the simple 6-letter name of the journal that published the 1953 paper revealing the structure of DNA Nature |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY: The spear that killed him in 1779 sold at auction in 2003 for over $400,000 Captain James Cook |
| #4373, aired 2003-09-17 | ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: "Chicago" was the first musical to win the Best Picture Oscar since this film won for 1968 Oliver! |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY: About the islands he discovered, he wrote, "To the first of these I give the name of the Blessed Savior" Christopher Columbus |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | U.S. HISTORY: For evading taxes on profits earned, former CIA agent Thomas Clines was the only one sent to prison over this scandal Iran-Contra |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | ECONOMIC HISTORY: Before the first income tax was levied, the U.S. government got 90% of its revenue in the form of these tariffs |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | MOVIE INDUSTRY HISTORY: The company that produced most of Marion Davies' films was named for this magazine; the same person owned both Cosmopolitan |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: Emperor Constantine commissioned several of these buildings, named from the Greek for "royal house" basilicas |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | LEGAL HISTORY: After killing his wife's lover in Washington, D.C. in 1859, Rep. Daniel Sickles was the 1st to claim this, a 2-word term temporary insanity |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Sept. 8, 1565 the first Catholic parish in what is now the U.S. was founded at this settlement St. Augustine (in Florida) |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | ACTRESSES IN HISTORY: She was born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the island of Jersey in 1853 Lillie Langtry |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | THE HISTORY OF CLIFFS NOTES: In 1985 Cliffs Notes' "The Scarlet Letter" retook the top-selling spot; this book had briefly replaced it "1984" |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1992 Nathan E. Cook, the last veteran of this war, died the Spanish-American War |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | COMPUTER HISTORY: IBM engineer Dave Bradley is called the father of this multi-key combination Control-Alt-Delete |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY: 5 of the women condemned in Salem in 1692 were finally exonerated by a bill signed on this day in 2001 Halloween (October 31) |
| #4144, aired 2002-09-12 | U.S. HISTORY: Dating back to the revolution, it's the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States West Point |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: When Washington took office on April 30, 1789, it was the largest state in area, covering what is now 3 states Virginia |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | TV HISTORY: The 1979 sequel to this miniseries is set in Henning, Tennessee, beginning in 1882 Roots |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | RECENT HISTORY: In 1993 this country of over 35 million people had 2 official languages; now it has 11 South Africa |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY: German officer Johann Rall led this group when they were defeated in battle in December 1776 the Hessians |
| #3991, aired 2001-12-31 | LAW HISTORY: In 1964 he was the prosecutor of Jack Ruby; in 1973 he was the defendant in a landmark Supreme Court case Wade |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This Ford with a name from Native American myth was the first model to be Motor Trend Car of the Year the Thunderbird |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | HISTORY & LITERATURE: At the beginning of "A Tale of Two Cities", these 2 kings sit on the thrones of England & France George III & Louis XVI |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | MILITARY HISTORY: This man commanded the last organized military force to invade the lower 48 states Pancho Villa |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | BUSINESS HISTORY: By the time it was disbanded in 1858, this company controlled an area the size of Europe & home to 200 million people The British East India Company |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | THEATRE HISTORY: This playwright died in 406 B.C., so he never saw his famous tragedy at Colonus produced Sophocles |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY: Ruth Perry, modern Africa's first female head of state, headed a transitional government in this country in 1996 Liberia |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | U.S. HISTORY: This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn't live to see its completion Abraham Lincoln |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | POLITICAL HISTORY: Between 1894 & 1901 adherents of this political theory killed the heads of state of France, Spain, Italy & the U.S. Anarchy |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY: By 1948, all but one of the 9 in this group charged in a 1931 crime had been freed the Scottsboro Boys |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1939 this state finally finished paying off a $12.4-million debt to the state from which it had separated West Virginia (paid debt to Virginia) |
| #3732, aired 2000-11-21 | COLLEGE SPORTS HISTORY: To prevent rivals from reading its hand signals, this university is said to have originated the huddle around 1892 Gallaudet University |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: The first African-American Best Actress nominee, her life was the subject of a 1999 HBO film Dorothy Dandridge |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | U.S. HISTORY: In 1965 President Johnson flew to this state to sign the Medicare bill with a former president as witness Missouri |
| #3635, aired 2000-05-26 | BASEBALL HISTORY: Current name of the National League team that started out in the 1870s as the Boston Red Stockings Atlanta Braves |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | ASIAN HISTORY: This peninsula of 85,000 square miles was ruled by a single dynasty from 1392 to 1910 Korea |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | FRONT PAGE HISTORY: An August 6, 1945 Associated Press story described this as a "Japanese army base" Hiroshima (story about the dropping of the first atomic bomb) |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | TELEVISION HISTORY: In the late '60s this character was created to show children it's okay to be grumpy Oscar the Grouch (from "Sesame Street") |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | MEDICAL HISTORY: Anne Miller, the first person whose life was saved by this drug, lived 57 more years, dying in 1999 penicillin |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | YANKEE STADIUM HISTORY: A plaque in Monument Park honors this ex-"Cardinal" for a 1979 event held at the stadium Pope John Paul II |
| #3513, aired 1999-12-08 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This man for whom a car is named previously worked for Daimler-Benz & designed the Volkswagen Ferdinand Porsche |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In 1672 Christiaan Huygens sketched its southern ice cap Mars |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | RELIGIOUS HISTORY: Anglicanism got its name from the Latin "Anglicana Ecclesia", a phrase in this 13th century document Magna Carta |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | ENGLISH HISTORY: 11th century England had 2 kings with this name, one a Dane & one a Saxon Harold |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY: As minister to Mexico, he was authorized by President Pierce to buy border land for the railroads James Gadsden |
| #3334, aired 1999-02-18 | MODERN AFRICAN HISTORY: Africa's newest independent state, it was an Italian colony until WWII, & later incorporated into another country Eritrea (formerly part of Ethiopia) |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | MEDICAL HISTORY: In the 1850s he held the posts of demonstrator of & lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital Henry Gray ("Gray's Anatomy") |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY: At the outbreak of hostilities of the Civil War, he was president of the Senate Hannibal Hamlin |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | ROCK & ROLL HISTORY: The name "Beatles" was inspired by the backup group of this singer Buddy Holly (his backup group was called The Crickets) |
| #3225, aired 1998-09-18 | SPORTS HISTORY: He was president of France the first time France won soccer's World Cup Jacques Chirac |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | TELEVISION & HISTORY: When "60 Minutes" premiered, this man was U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson (show premiered Sept. 24, 1968) |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | APRIL 1 IN HISTORY: April 1 is the anniversary of the Battle of Five Forks, the last decisive battle of this war the Civil War |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | FINANCE HISTORY: In the 19th c., selling stock you didn't yet own, hoping it would fall, was called selling this animal's skin a bear |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | TRANSPORTATION HISTORY: In 1807 he wrote, "The distance from New York to Albany is 150 miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours" Robert Fulton (of the steamship Clermont) |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | MOVIE HISTORY: This resort island lent its name to a 1948 Bogart film; the African Queen is now moored there Key Largo |
| #3072, aired 1997-12-30 | FOOD HISTORY: 13th century invading Asian people who brought the idea of eating raw, chopped meat into the Germany area the Tatars |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: It was the first, first, first, first film to use Cinerama's single-projector system It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: The NKVD, which liquidated its own first 2 chiefs in the 1930s, developed into this group in 1954 the KGB |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | MODERN U.S. HISTORY: This group consisted of the Chief Justice, 4 members of Congress, & ex-heads of the CIA & the World Bank The Warren Commission |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | FOOD & DRINK HISTORY: Its original name meant "bitter water" & it was made palatable to Europeans after the Spaniards added sugar chocolate |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | FASHION HISTORY: In 1849 Americans traveling to the California gold fields via boat popularized this hat the Panama hat |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | SCIENCE HISTORY: Announced by Ole Romer in 1676, the first measurement of this was 140,000 miles per second the speed of light |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | WORD HISTORY: Before this word came to mean an extraterrestrial, it was used as an adjective meaning "warlike" Martian |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY: Performed in England since the restoration of Charles II, shows featuring this pair often include a dog named Toby Punch & Judy |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Man with whom Cleopatra had the most children Mark Antony |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Some attribute these 1692 proceedings to the psychotic effects of ergot poisoning the Salem witch trials |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | TELEVISION HISTORY: Set in the 1870s, it ran from 1955 to 1975 Gunsmoke |
| #2807, aired 1996-11-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Lincoln said it was "the central act of my administration & the greatest event of the 19th century" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | TELEVISION HISTORY: On 1/19/96 in real life & fictionally on CBS, Marlee Matlin gave birth, duplicating this woman's 1/19/53 feat Lucille Ball |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | MODERN HISTORY: The airlift of aid to this city, which ran from July 3, 1992 to January 9, 1996, was the world's longest Sarajevo |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | BLACK HISTORY: In 1920 he was named provisional president of Africa with a mandate to free it from white domination Marcus Garvey |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henry's Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word Treason |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | ANCIENT HISTORY: He started the Third Servile War in 73 B.C. Spartacus |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | ART HISTORY: Prior to 1508 it was covered by Pier Matteo d'Amelia's representation of a starry sky the (ceiling of the) Sistine Chapel |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | ANCIENT HISTORY: In 41 B.C. Mark Antony named him tetrarch of Galilee Herod (the Great) |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In 1317 Pope John XXII called these people evil: "They present a false metal for gold and silver" alchemists |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This British monarch authorized the first English colony in North America Elizabeth I |
| #2414, aired 1995-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This South Dakota community was the site of 2 clashes between the U.S. gov't & Indians, in 1890 & 1973 Wounded Knee |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | U.S. HISTORY: John Sevier, the only gov. of the self-proclaimed state of Franklin, later became the 1st gov. of this state Tennessee |
| #2372, aired 1994-12-20 | HISTORY: The 7-year revolt by the Front de Liberation Nationale led this country to independence in 1962 Algeria |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Appointed minister to Mexico in 1853, he was recalled in 1856 James Gadsden |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | ART HISTORY: In 1894 Alphonse Mucha began designing posters of Sarah Bernhardt that popularized this decorative style art nouveau |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | HISTORY: Henry VIII made Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury; she had him burned at the stake for heresy Mary I (Bloody Mary) |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | BRITISH HISTORY: Over 300 years after his 1658 death, his head was laid to rest by his alma mater, a college at Cambridge Oliver Cromwell |
| #2174, aired 1994-02-03 | U.S. HISTORY: Laura Keene, who first came to the U.S. in the 1850s, was best known for her starring role in this play Our American Cousin |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | TELEVISION HISTORY: Connie Chung & Dan Rather are the 2nd male-female network news pair; Barbara Walters & this man were 1st Harry Reasoner |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | U.S. HISTORY: Frank Harris' 1908 novel "The Bomb" deals with this 1886 U.S. incident the Haymarket Riot |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1919 he became the first General of the Armies of the U.S. John Pershing |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | TELEVISION HISTORY: The Texaco Star Theater debuted on June 8, 1948, this day of the week Tuesday |
| #2030, aired 1993-06-04 | U.S. HISTORY: Albert Gallatin played the leading role in the negotiations that ended this war the War of 1812 |
| #1982, aired 1993-03-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY: The first triple transplant, performed in 1986, involved these 3 different organs the heart, the lungs & the liver |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Of the 9 tried for this 1770 event, 7 were acquitted & 2 charged with manslaughter, branded & let go the Boston Massacre |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | TELEVISION HISTORY: When this service hit the air August 1, 1981, the first act it presented was The Buggles MTV |
| #1950, aired 1993-02-12 | FASHION HISTORY: Listing the great men of the 19th century, Lord Byron ranked himself 3rd, Napoleon 2nd & this man 1st Beau Brummel |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: His left arm is buried at Ellwood Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia Stonewall Jackson |
| #1790, aired 1992-05-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY: John Alden was the last surviving signer of this the Mayflower Compact |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | AFRICAN HISTORY: Taitu, the wife of Emperor Menelik II, gave this capital city its name; it means "new flower" Addis Ababa |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | U.S. HISTORY: Ironically, U.S. Grant's 1854 resignation from the Army was accepted by this Secretary of War Jefferson Davis |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: In 1909 she became the 1st woman pres. of what later became the National Conference of Social Work Jane Addams |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | BRITISH HISTORY: The last name of Lord Darnley, whose son became King of England in 1603 Stuart |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | BRITISH HISTORY: In 1661, 2 1/2 years after his death, his body was exhumed & hanged at Tyburn Oliver Cromwell |
| #1552, aired 1991-05-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The only 1 to sign the Declaration of Independence, 1778 alliance w/France, peace treaty w/G.B. & Constitution Benjamin Franklin |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Her 1st husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, fought in both the American & French Revolutions Empress Josephine |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | FRENCH HISTORY: He was in his 70s when he commanded the French National Guard during the Revolution of 1830 Lafayette |
| #1491, aired 1991-02-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Edward Everett gave the principal speech here November 19, 1863 Gettysburg |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | WORLD HISTORY: On July 15, 1815 he surrendered to the captain of the Bellerophon Napoleon (I) |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | ANCIENT HISTORY: The group who fought over his empire after his death was called the "Diadochi", successors Alexander the Great |
| #1454, aired 1990-12-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY: 2 of the 4 Americans who negotiated the Treaty of Paris with the British in 1782 (2 of) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, or Henry Laurens |
| #1438, aired 1990-11-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was elected Governor of New York in 1817, right after the state agreed to finance his pet project Dewitt Clinton |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY: After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other Tennessee |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | WORLD HISTORY: The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947 Pakistan & India |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | HISTORY: It was the first elected legislative body in the New World House of Burgesses |
| #1392, aired 1990-09-25 | BRITISH HISTORY: She & her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, were executed on Tower Hill February 12, 1554 Lady Jane Grey |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1839 & '40 France & Great Britain signed commercial treaties with this new republic Texas |
| #1333, aired 1990-05-23 | BRITISH HISTORY: The 14th Earl of this was prime minister in 1852; the 12th Earl of this had a race named for him Earl of Derby |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | U.S. HISTORY: Some say he was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett, & other believe he killed himself John Wilkes Booth |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Virginia's motto since 1776; it was shouted in another context on April 14, 1865 "Sic Semper Tyrannis" |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | WORLD HISTORY: He became a nat'l hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s Gen. Francisco Franco |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | WORLD HISTORY: City that was the seat of government of the viceroyalty of New Spain Mexico City |
| #1266, aired 1990-02-19 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Crassus, Julius Caesar & this man formed the 1st Triumvirate Pompey |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859 John Brown |
| #1223, aired 1989-12-20 | MODERN HISTORY: In 1980 Vigdis Finnbogadottir became this country's 1st female president Iceland |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was captured near Irwinville, Georgia on May 10, 1865 Jefferson Davis |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | U.S. HISTORY: The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3 Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma |
| #1146, aired 1989-09-04 | SOVIET HISTORY: He was Premier when Yuri Gagarin, the 1st cosmonaut, went into space Nikita Khrushchev |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia was the only person to hold this office Vice President of the Confederacy |
| #1088, aired 1989-05-03 | HISTORY: At the request of the king of England, Pope Innocent III annulled this in 1215 Magna Carta |
| #1056, aired 1989-03-20 | BRITISH HISTORY: Since 1700 Britain has had only 3 reigning queens: Victoria, Elizabeth II, & this woman Queen Anne |
| #977, aired 1988-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Historically significant event of June 17, 1972 the Watergate break-in |
| #951, aired 1988-10-24 | WORLD HISTORY: On May 20, 1902 U.S. rule ended & this country became independent Cuba |
| #950, aired 1988-10-21 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: Germany's 3rd Reich was the Nazi regime, the 2nd was the 1871-1918 monarchy, while the 1st Reich was this Holy Roman Empire |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | WORLD HISTORY: An allied army of Americans, Britons, Germans, Frenchmen, Russians & Japanese ended this in 1900 Boxer Rebellion |
| #884, aired 1988-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY: With only 115 days of hostilities, it was the shortest declared war in U.S. history the Spanish-American War |
| #837, aired 1988-04-05 | U.S. HISTORY: Of those who served as president or vice president, more men have had this surname than any other Johnson |
| #831, aired 1988-03-28 | TELEVISION HISTORY: 2 of only 3 women who have been inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame (2 of) Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett & Mary Tyler Moore |
| #824, aired 1988-03-17 | WORLD HISTORY: 1st U.S. President to visit the U.S.S.R. Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #811, aired 1988-02-29 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Famous woman depicted on the Crimean monument in Waterloo Place, London Florence Nightingale |
| #783, aired 1988-01-20 | WORLD HISTORY: Ironically, the 1958 Communist Chinese economic drive that fell flat on its face was called this the Great Leap Forward |
| #771, aired 1988-01-04 | TELEVISION HISTORY: This variety show that replaced the Smothers Brothers on CBS 20 years ago is still in production Hee Haw |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | BRITISH HISTORY: The 1st Tudor monarch of England, he was grandfather of the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I Henry VII |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | RELIGIOUS HISTORY: Because founder George Fox told a judge to "Tremble at the word of the Lord", his sect was called this Quakers |
| #580, aired 1987-02-27 | U.S. HISTORY: The presidential message delivered to Congress December 2, 1823 is better known as this Monroe Doctrine |
| #573, aired 1987-02-18 | HISTORY: It arrived in the U.S. in June of 1885 in 214 cases aboard the French ship Isere Statue of Liberty |
| #511, aired 1986-11-24 | MILITARY HISTORY: The famous "Damn the torpedoes" command was shouted by a rear admiral during this war the Civil War |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | U.S. HISTORY: Of 9 "wars" in which the U.S. has been actively involved, these 2 lasted the longest Vietnam and the Revolutionary War |
| #488, aired 1986-10-22 | WORLD HISTORY: Its 25th anniversary, Aug. 13, 1986, was celebrated with parades to the east & mourning to the west the Berlin Wall |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: McLean House in Virginia was site of this event the Confederate surrender |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | RECENT HISTORY: Total number of men who have been U.S. President during the current British monarch's rule 8 |
| #300, aired 1985-11-01 | WORLD HISTORY: In 1794, 1830, 1846, 1848, 1861, & 1863 this neighbor unsuccessfully revolted against Russia Poland |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | RECENT HISTORY: President under whom the U.S. gave full recognition to Communist China Jimmy Carter |
| #187, aired 1985-05-28 | HISTORY: It was the world's largest city for the entire 19th century London |
| #173, aired 1985-05-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Cornelia was his 1st wife; Calpurnia his 2nd Julius Caesar |
| #145, aired 1985-03-29 | WORLD HISTORY: It's the oldest independent country in the Western Hemisphere the United States of America |
| #96, aired 1985-01-21 | HISTORY: In 1952, it became the 3rd country to test an atomic bomb Great Britain (England) |
| #87, aired 1985-01-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1945, Admiral Karl Doenitz assumed this office in Germany Fuhrer (or dictator) |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Arrested for voting in 1872 election, she died 14 years before the 19th Amendment Susan B. Anthony |
| #64, aired 1984-12-06 | WORLD HISTORY: In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule Haiti |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He served as congressman from 1 state, senator from another, governor of both & president of Texas Sam Houston |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | WORLD HISTORY: Country where Napoleon met his "Waterloo" Belgium |
