| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $400: Unfortunate Martha Corey was one of "The Witches" in Stacy Schiff's narrative of events surrounding this village in 1692 Salem |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $800: From the ancient Maya to the 21st century, "The Smoke of the Gods" is Eric Burns' history of this plant & its effects upon society tobacco |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $1200: "Blood & Iron", a history of Germany 1871-1918, gets its title from a quote by this chancellor who's big in the book Bismarck |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $1600: Reversing a phrase from the book of Isaiah, Arno Mayer's history of the state of Israel is titled these "into Swords" Plowshares |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Rise & Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors" is the subtitle of a recent history of this medieval order of knights the Knights Templar |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $200: In "The Moth and the Mountain", the Moth is a Gipsy Moth, one of these Maurice Wilson used to get to Everest in the 1930s a plane |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $400: "The Great Secret" tells how a military doctor found cancer-fighting uses in this type of poison gas mustard gas |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $600: In Isabel Wilkerson's book, this 5-letter title doesn't refer to India's social hierarchy, but America's Caste |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $800: "Islamic Empires" follows the rise of the religion from its birth in Mecca to modern cities like Doha in this country Qatar |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $1000: "Sicily '43" sees the Allied invasion of the island through the eyes of men like Patton & this British field marshal (Bernard) Montgomery |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $400: "The Fall of Athens" is the 37th & final chapter in Donald Kagan's book named for this war the Peloponnesian |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $800: This Punic city "Must Be Destroyed" covers its epic battle with Rome Carthage |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: "The Story of a Sacred Landscape" is the subtitle of a history of this ancient monument on Salisbury Plain Stonehenge |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: A history of this 2-letter Sumerian city is subtitled "The City of the Moon God" Ur |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $400: "City of Dreams" is Tyler Anbinder's epic history of 400 years of this U.S. metropolis' immigrant experience New York |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $800: Anne Applebaum's "Red Famine" is a history of this Soviet leader's oppression of Ukraine in the 1930s Stalin |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $1200: 1930s interviews with these people have been mined for books including "Life Under the 'Peculiar Institution'" slaves |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $1600: "Imperial Twilight" by Stephen Platt takes a look at the relations between Britain & this nation during the Opium Wars China |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks Marathon |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $400: "Eden on the Charles" shows how the 19th century growth of this city influences us today Boston |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $800: It took Edward Gibbon 1.5 million words over 6 volumes to pen the "History of the Decline and Fall of" this the Roman Empire |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $1200: The subtitle to this book, a 2012 movie, is "How the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history" Argo |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $1600: This Watergate reporter examined how our leaders dealt with the recent economic woes in "The Price of Politics" (Bob) Woodward |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $2000: "The ten-year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to" this Pakistani city is detailed in "Manhunt" Abbottabad |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | HISTORY BOOKS $100: In a 1996 book Sophie & Michael Coe trace the 3,000-year history of this sweet Chocolate |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | HISTORY BOOKS $200: In a 1995 work Gar Alperovitz questions "The Decision To Use" this weapon The Atomic Bomb |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | HISTORY BOOKS $300: "Faith And Treason" is Antonia Fraser's 1996 book about this 1605 "plot" to blow up Parliament The Gunpowder Plot |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | HISTORY BOOKS $400: According to their subtitles, Studs Terkel's "Hard Times" & "The Good War" are this type of history Oral history |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | HISTORY BOOKS $500: Benzion Netanyahu, father of Israel's PM, wrote "The Origins Of" this tribunal "In 15th Century Spain" The Spanish Inquisition |
