#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | MONROE $200: At 16 James Monroe entered this college named for 2 royals but left after 2 years to fight in the revolution William & Mary |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | MONROE $400: When Monroe passed away in 1831, he became the third president to give up the ghost on this date July 4th |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | MONROE $600: Lt. Monroe crossed the Delaware with Washington to fight in the battle of this now-N.J. capital & got a near-fatal wound Trenton |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | MONROE $800: The J-Mo Doctrine said the Americas are "not to be... subjects for" this type of settlement by European powers colonization |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | MONROE $1000: Though he wrote against slavery, Monroe freed only 1 of his own slaves & went along with the 1820 deal admitting this slave state Missouri |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $400: The doctrine came about because the U.S. feared other nations' trying to take over this country's former colonies Spain |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $800: The Monroe doctrine was primarily the work of this Secretary of State, Monroe's successor as president John Quincy Adams |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $1,200 (Daily Double): James K. Polk cited the doctrine in getting sole control from Britain of this territory below the 49th parallel the Oregon Territory |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $1200: In 1915 U.S. Marines landed in this Haitian capital to prevent civil unrest & keep the Europeans from taking advantage Port-au-Prince |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $2000: The Monroe doctrine was invoked during this October 1962 incident the Cuban missile crisis |
#5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MONROE $200: See Marion Monroe train as a child psychology & co-write the books starring this unexciting boy-girl pair Dick & Jane |
#5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MONROE $400: In 1948 she had one line in "Love Happy", the last Marx Brothers movie Marilyn Monroe |
#5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MONROE $600: Forget DiMaggio and Berra-- the secret to the Yankees' 11 pennants from 1947 to 1960 was Lucy Monroe's singing of this The Star-Spangled Banner |
#5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MONROE $800: 1940s singing star Vaughn Monroe had a rich voice in this middle male range, hence the nickname "old leather tonsils" baritone |
#5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MONROE $1000: In 1912 Harriet Monroe launched the magazine simply called this; it soon published T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound Poetry |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $100: Before she was Marilyn, this was her name Norma Jean Baker |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $200: Marilyn played Sugar Kane, a singer & ukulele player in Sweet Sue's All-Girl Band, in this comedy Some Like it Hot |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $300: Monroe studied acting at his Actors Studio in New York for a year Lee Strasberg |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $400: This president's 1904 "Corollary" to the doctrine allows for U.S. intervention in Latin America Theodore Roosevelt |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $400: It's the movie with the famous scene of Marilyn standing on a subway grating with her dress billowing up The Seven Year Itch |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $500: He played the prince who romanced Marilyn's showgirl in 1957's "The Prince and the Showgirl" Sir Laurence Olivier |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $600: The doctrine might have been issued jointly with Britain but for opposition from John Quincy Adams in this post Secretary of State |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $800: This "Earthy" Kentucky politician was among those who wanted European hands off South America Henry Clay |
#3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $2,000 (Daily Double): This was the year Monroe proclaimed the doctrine, some could have said, "Two score and seven years ago..." 1823 |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MONROE $200: This capital of Liberia, a country he promoted as a haven for ex-slaves, was named for him Monrovia |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MONROE $400: One of the two Cabinet posts Monroe held under Madison Secretary of State (or Secretary of War) |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MONROE $600: He was heavily in debt when he retired to this, his home state, in 1825 Virginia |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MONROE $800: Passed in his administration, this agreement was credited with putting the Civil War on hold for 40 years the Missouri Compromise |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MONROE $1000: In the 1820 election, Monroe received all the electoral votes but one, which went to this man, his successor John Quincy Adams |
#1164, aired 1989-09-28 | MARILYN MONROE $100: Marilyn claimed to be a direct descendant of this U.S. president James Monroe |
#1164, aired 1989-09-28 | MARILYN MONROE $200: In the fall of 1953 Marilyn made her TV debut on this "stingy" comedian's program Jack Benny |
#1164, aired 1989-09-28 | MARILYN MONROE $300: In 1956 Marilyn converted to Judaism before she married this playwright Arthur Miller |
#1164, aired 1989-09-28 | MARILYN MONROE $400: At Marilyn's funeral, this director of The Actors Studio, with whom she once studied, gave the eulogy Lee Strasberg |
#1164, aired 1989-09-28 | MARILYN MONROE $500: Marilyn sang a sexy rendition of "Heat Wave" in this 1954 movie musical There's No Business Like Show Business |