#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $400: Known simply as the Monument, a 200-foot London landmark was built in the 1670s, the decade after this event it commemorates the Great Fire of London |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Begun in 1885 & inaugurated in 1911, the Victor Emmanuel II monument commemorates the unification of this country Italy |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1,500 (Daily Double): The Washington, D.C. area memorial to this service branch depicts a flag-raising on Mount Suribachi the Marines (the Marine Corps) |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1600: A field of 168 empty chairs represents each of the victims in the bombing of a federal building in this city, April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $2000: A memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was dedicated in 2023 on Washington Place in the heart of this New York City area Greenwich Village |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $400: A real high point of this city is the nearly 360-foot-tall memorial to José Martà in Revolution Square Havana |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $800: This national monument & natural wonder attracts people from all over to Utah; the one for our dearly departed pets is different Rainbow Bridge |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $1200: Native American leaders want the name of this first U.S. natl. monument changed, saying it's offensive & based on a mistranslation Devils Tower |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $2000: Located on Israel's Mount of Remembrance, this memorial center commemorates the victims & the heroes of the Holocaust Yad Vashem |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $5,600 (Daily Double): Dedicated to the memory of great Frenchmen, it's the final resting place of women too, including Marie Curie & Simone Veil the Pantheon |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $200: These are named Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure, to correspond to the pharaohs whom they were built to honor the Pyramids |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) Here in Budapest is a memorial to the more than half million Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust; appropriately, the tree with the names of victims inscribed on its leaves is of this 2-word mournful variety a weeping willow |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $600: There's a memorial tower to this inventor at Menlo Park, New Jersey, site of his lab Edison |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Hanoi is home to this leader's mausoleum; visitors can see his preserved remains lying in a glass coffin Ho Chi Minh |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1000: A memorial to this president in a square across from the White House includes enemy cannons he captured in 1818 (Andrew) Jackson |
#8174, aired 2020-03-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $400: 2 Lady Libertys tall, a "Statue of Unity" depicts Sardar Patel, who helped unify this country upon independence India |
#8174, aired 2020-03-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Near the famous wall, a D.C. memorial to women's service in this war was unveiled on Veterans Day 1993 the Vietnam War |
#8174, aired 2020-03-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1200: Il Papa from 1978 to 2005, he's honored with a statue outside Rome's main train station Pope John Paul II |
#8174, aired 2020-03-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Paris' Chapelle Expiatoire, meaning the to-make-amends-for-executing-you chapel, is on the original 1793 burial site of this couple King Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette |
#8174, aired 2020-03-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $2000: At 500', the world's tallest cross stands over Spain's Valley of the Fallen but no longer over this dictator, moved elsewhere in 2019 Francisco Franco |
#8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $400: An early model shows what this South Dakota memorial might have looked like Mount Rushmore |
#8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $800: A British church damaged in the Blitz was moved stone by stone to Fulton, Missouri, as a memorial for this British prime minister Churchill |
#8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $1200: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in this Alabama city is dedicated to 4,000-plus African Americans killed by racist mobs Montgomery |
#8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $1600: The circles in the five pillars of the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Arizona are designed to line up on this fall date November 11th |
#8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $2000: The Lion's Mound is part of a memorial at the site of this 1815 battle that took down Napoleon Waterloo |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: Its black granite walls list the names of more than 58,000 killed or missing in action the Vietnam War Memorial |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $600: Chamizal National Memorial, honoring a treaty that ended a U.S.-Mexican border dispute, is in this Texas border city El Paso |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800: Federal Hall in this city commemorates the first seat of the U.S. Congress New York |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1000: The Lincoln Boyhood Memorial is in this state that borders both Abe's birth state & the state where he lived longest Indiana |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | MEMORIALS $400: The Arlington memorial to this military service is seen here the Marines |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | MEMORIALS $1200: In 1971 David Scott went more than 200,000 miles to leave a plaque with 14 names & a sculpture entitled "Fallen" this Fallen Astronaut |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | MEMORIALS $1600: 1-800-GANGWAY is the phone number for Battleship Memorial Park in this Alabama city Mobile, Alabama |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | MEMORIALS $2000: In 2002 Prague unveiled its memorial to the victims of this ideology Communism |
#7829, aired 2018-09-27 | MEMORIALS $3,000 (Daily Double): Pritzker Prize winner Kenzo Tange planned the reconstruction of this city as well as its Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEMORIALS $200: At the India Gate War Memorial, a flame known as the Amar Jawan Jyoti marks a tomb for this symbolic fighter the Unknown Soldier |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEMORIALS $400: A memorial for those aboard this United flight number can be found in Shanksville, Pennsylvania 93 |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEMORIALS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Copenhagen, Denmark.) The anchor honors the Danish navy, whose greatest triumph during World War II was sinking 32 of its own ships on August 29, 1943, as the Germans imposed this type of law & increased control martial law |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEMORIALS $800: Danvers, Massachusetts has a memorial for those who died after being accused of this in the late 17th c. witchcraft |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEMORIALS $1000: In Menlo Park, New Jersey you can see the memorial tower named for this man Thomas Edison |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: At their national memorial in North Carolina, kids can see a kite-building demonstration & learn about flight the Wright Brothers |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800: Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, overlooks this river the Potomac |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1200: Completed in 1941 during WWII, this Black Hills memorial wasn't formally dedicated until 1991 by George H.W. Bush Mount Rushmore |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1600: This word follows "Johnstown" in the name of a Pennsylvania national memorial Flood |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $2000: A park in the heart of Providence houses the memorial to this early champion of religious freedom Roger Williams |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $400: There's a memorial tower to him in Menlo Park, New Jersey, home to his lab from 1876 to 1886 (Thomas) Edison |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Akron, Ohio erected a monument to this abolitionist for the 50th anniversary of his hanging John Brown |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1600: His words "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope" are inscribed on his Washington, D.C. memorial Martin Luther King, Jr. |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $2000: 9/11 hero Todd Beamer is one of the passengers honored at this memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania the Flight 93 Memorial |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $5,400 (Daily Double): "Soul in Flight", a statue of a man serving a tennis ball, honors this late, great athlete Arthur Ashe |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $400: The memorial over this sunken battleship is officially part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument the USS Arizona |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Here's one of these Depression-era lines as depicted in bronze at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. a bread line |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1200: This monument in St. Louis gets its name from the city's role as one "to the West" the Gateway Arch |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1600: (Alex Trebek reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) The inscription "No day shall erase you from the memory of time" is from this work by Virgil about the legendary founder of what would become Rome the Aeneid |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $2000: A monument of Balto honors the sled dogs that brought a serum for this "d"isease during a 1925 epidemic in Nome diphtheria |
#6743, aired 2014-01-01 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $200: Justice & hope are forever enshrined in this man's Washington, D.C. memorial Martin Luther King, Jr. |
#6743, aired 2014-01-01 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: The memorial to veterans of this war was dedicated on July 27, 1995 by Bill Clinton & Kim Young Sam the Korean War |
#6743, aired 2014-01-01 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $600: Fittingly, a cultural center for this ethnicity is 5 blocks from Philadelphia's Kosciuszko National Memorial Polish |
#6743, aired 2014-01-01 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800: Chamizal National Memorial commemorates the settlement of a border dispute between this Texas city & Juarez, Mex. El Paso |
#6743, aired 2014-01-01 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1000: Daniel Chester French designed the statue in this memorial, but it was the Piccirilli Brothers of N.Y. who carved it the Lincoln Memorial |
#6487, aired 2012-11-27 | U.S. MEMORIALS $400: Memorials at Arlington National Cemetery remember the crews of these 2 Space Shuttles the Challenger & the Columbia |
#6487, aired 2012-11-27 | U.S. MEMORIALS $800: The May 4 memorial at this university commemorates those killed & wounded during a 1970 antiwar protest Kent State |
#6487, aired 2012-11-27 | U.S. MEMORIALS $1200: 2 of the largest manmade waterfalls in the U.S. flow into the reflecting pools at this memorial that opened in 2011 the 9/11 Memorial |
#6487, aired 2012-11-27 | U.S. MEMORIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Davenport Park in the city of Bangor is home to a memorial remembering this battleship the Maine |
#6487, aired 2012-11-27 | U.S. MEMORIALS $2000: The National AIDS Memorial Grove covers 7 acres at this park in San Francisco Golden Gate Park |
#6061, aired 2011-01-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $400: The National Vietnam Veteran's Art Museum in Chicago displays 58,000 of these identifiers in memory of those killed dogtags |
#6061, aired 2011-01-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: A white marble museum commemorating Queen Victoria stands in Kolkata in this country India |
#6061, aired 2011-01-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1200: The Scottish National Monument, started in 1826 and still unfinished, is modeled on this ancient building the Parthenon |
#6061, aired 2011-01-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1600: Following a name change, Taiwan's Democracy Memorial Hall once again bears this leader's name Chiang Kai-Shek |
#6061, aired 2011-01-10 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $2000: The statue here commemorates Colonel Seth Warner's role at the Battle of Bennington during this war the Revolutionary War |
#5654, aired 2009-03-19 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $200: Dedicated in November 1982, it now bears more than 58,000 names the Vietnam War memorial |
#5654, aired 2009-03-19 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: On March 25, 1961 Elvis Presley held a benefit concert in Honolulu for the building of this ship's memorial the Arizona |
#5654, aired 2009-03-19 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $600: A memorial near Shanksville, Pa., commemorates the passengers & crew who died on this flight thwarting an attack on 9/11 United 93 |
#5654, aired 2009-03-19 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800: Fort Caroline Natl. Memorial in Florida overlooks the site of a colony founded by these French Protestants Huguenots |
#5654, aired 2009-03-19 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1000: The Tampa Bay memorial named for this Spaniard has reenacted his coming ashore in 1539 (Hernando) de Soto |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | MEMORIALS $200: The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial stands near the north gate of this Virginia site Arlington National Cemetery |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | MEMORIALS $400: Fort Caroline is a memorial to this country's 16th c. attempt to establish a permanent colony in what's now Fla. France |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | MEMORIALS $600: On April 15, 1962 memorials were held in remembrance of this tragic event's 50th anniversary sinking of the Titanic |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | MEMORIALS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew provides the clue from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.) The Pearl Harbor memorial I'm visiting spans the hull of this battleship that was sunk December 7, 1941 the Arizona |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | MEMORIALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The national memorial that commemorates this 1889 disaster preserves what's left of the South Fork Dam the Johnstown Flood |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso honors the peaceful 1963 settlement of a border dispute with this country Mexico |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800: A monument to this duo atop a N.C. hill bears the words: "In commemoration of the conquest of the air ..." the Wright brothers |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1200: The bronze statue of him in his D.C. memorial depicts him wearing a coat given to him by his friend Gen. Kosciuszko Thomas Jefferson |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1600: The 1897 parade & dedication ceremony for this famous tomb attracted more than 1 million people Grant's Tomb |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $2000: (Cheryl of the clue Crew presents from Oklahoma City, OK) The National Memorial here in Oklahoma City stands on the spot once occupied by this building, named for an Oklahoma judge the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building |
#4047, aired 2002-03-19 | AMERICAN MEMORIALS $200: This Washington D.C. memorial has over 58,000 names inscribed on it the Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
#4047, aired 2002-03-19 | AMERICAN MEMORIALS $400: The Brigade 2506 Memorial in Miami commemorates this military action that took place in 1961 the Bay of Pigs |
#4047, aired 2002-03-19 | AMERICAN MEMORIALS $600: Felix de Weldon sculpted
the figure seen here to honor this branch of the armed forces the Marines |
#4047, aired 2002-03-19 | AMERICAN MEMORIALS $800: Arlington House at Arlington National Cemetery is a memorial to this general who used to live there Robert E. Lee |
#4047, aired 2002-03-19 | AMERICAN MEMORIALS $1000: Gutzon Borglum was the original sculptor for these 2 massive memorials built into the sides of mountains Mount Rushmore & Stone Mountain |
#3938, aired 2001-10-17 | U.S. MEMORIALS $200: A memorial to this day was dedicated June 6, 2001 in Bedford, Virginia D-Day |
#3938, aired 2001-10-17 | U.S. MEMORIALS $400: A memorial to him, seen here, is at the National Academy of Sciences Albert Einstein |
#3938, aired 2001-10-17 | U.S. MEMORIALS $800: The fisherman's memorial seen here is in this Massachusetts city Gloucester |
#3938, aired 2001-10-17 | U.S. MEMORIALS $1,000 (Daily Double): A memorial named for this fictional woman, symbol of WWII laborers, is at a former shipyard in Richmond, Calif. Rosie the Riveter |
#3938, aired 2001-10-17 | U.S. MEMORIALS $1000: Part of the new national memorial, in this state capital, is seen here Oklahoma City |
#3542, aired 2000-01-18 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $200: He's got a national memorial in D.C., one in Indiana & is on Mount Rushmore, to boot Abraham Lincoln |
#3542, aired 2000-01-18 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: This tragic flood of 1889 is commemorated with a memorial in Pennsylvania Johnstown |
#3542, aired 2000-01-18 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $600: A memorial in Arizona to this Spaniard commemorates the 1st European exploration of the Southwest Francisco de Coronado |
#3542, aired 2000-01-18 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800 (Daily Double): This first seat of the U.S. Congress is a memorial in New York City Federal Hall |
#3542, aired 2000-01-18 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1000: A huge Doric column at Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island, Ohio commemorates his naval victory Oliver Hazard Perry |
#2466, aired 1995-05-01 | MEMORIALS $100: This memorial consists of 4 sculpted heads, each 60 feet tall Mount Rushmore |
#2466, aired 1995-05-01 | MEMORIALS $200: Mostly torn down after November 1989, a few segments of this divider remain as memorials Berlin Wall |
#2466, aired 1995-05-01 | MEMORIALS $400: A national memorial to this pair is located in North Carolina's Kill Devil Hills Wright Brothers |
#2466, aired 1995-05-01 | MEMORIALS $500: This D.C. performing arts center was built as a memorial, using materials donated by many countries Kennedy Center |
#2466, aired 1995-05-01 | MEMORIALS $1,000 (Daily Double): At its headquarters you can find Barbara Hepworth's Dag Hammarskjold Memorial United Nations |
#2200, aired 1994-03-11 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $100: In 1938 FDR dedicated the Eternal Light Memorial on this Pennsylvania battlefield Gettysburg |
#2200, aired 1994-03-11 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $200: In Atchison, Kansas one of the original depots from this early railroad now stands as a monument to it the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe |
#2200, aired 1994-03-11 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $300: A bronze statue in New Rumley, Ohio marks the birthplace of this "Boy General" George Armstrong Custer |
#2200, aired 1994-03-11 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $400: A monument in Richmond, Va. honors this native son who danced with Shirley Temple in several films Bill "Bojangles" Robinson |
#2200, aired 1994-03-11 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $500 (Daily Double): The 4 states whose seals appear on the Four Corners Monument in the western U.S. New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado & Utah |
#2161, aired 1994-01-17 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $200: Fort Clatsop, Oregon, where these 2 explorers spent the winter of 1805-06, became a nat'l memorial in 1958 Lewis & Clark |
#2161, aired 1994-01-17 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: This 555-foot, 5 1/8-inch tall structure has a 9-inch solid aluminum tip the Washington Monument |
#2161, aired 1994-01-17 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $600: A memorial 10 miles east of this Pennsylvania city commemorates an 1889 flood that killed 2,200 Johnstown |
#2161, aired 1994-01-17 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800: A memorial shaft of granite atop this state's Kill Devil Hill honors the Wright brothers' achievements North Carolina |
#2161, aired 1994-01-17 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $1000: A nat'l memorial to this religious dissenter lies at the Rhode Island site where he settled in the 17th c. Roger Williams |
#2009, aired 1993-05-06 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $100 (Daily Double): Inlet in which you'd find the following U.S. memorial: Pearl Harbor |
#2009, aired 1993-05-06 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $100: What's believed to be the 1st monument of this war was dedicated in 1799 in Lexington, Massachusetts American Revolution |
#2009, aired 1993-05-06 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $200: This 151'-tall monument was presented to the U.S. in 1886 as a gift from France Statue of Liberty |
#2009, aired 1993-05-06 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $300: Francis Scott Key would be proud to know that this fort was designated a national monument in 1939 Fort McHenry |
#2009, aired 1993-05-06 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $400: Outside mag. says someday erosion will cause the presidents on this monument to look like bald little children Mount Rushmore |