#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | NEW YORKERS $200: Born in Southampton in 1929, this first lady studied at Vassar & at the Sorbonne Jackie Kennedy |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | NEW YORKERS $400: This NYC native based "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" on a German folk tale (Washington) Irving |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | NEW YORKERS $600: A New York Public Library for the Performing Arts exhibit on this man includes a self-portrait from when he helped write a failed musical Al Hirschfeld |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | NEW YORKERS $800: The NYC-born son of Jamaican immigrants, he took over the Army's largest command in 1989 Colin Powell |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | NEW YORKERS $1000: This "'S Wonderful" composer was a Brooklyn boy who died tragically young at age 38 (George) Gershwin |
#4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $400: "I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland", said this film director Woody Allen |
#4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $800: He became the state's chief justice in 1777 & later served as the nation's chief justice (John) Jay |
#4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $1200: A N.Y. senator from 1977 to 2001, he was Assistant Secretary of Labor under LBJ & Ambassador to India under Nixon Moynihan |
#4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $1600: Between 1797 & 1828, he held every major elective office in N.Y.: assemblyman, senator, mayor of NYC, lt. gov. & gov. DeWitt Clinton |
#4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $5,200 (Daily Double): He was the first president born in New York Martin Van Buren |
#3493, aired 1999-11-10 | FAMOUS NEW YORKERS $100: Actors born in Peekskill, N.Y. include Paul "Pee Wee Herman" Reubens & this "Road Warrior" Mel Gibson |
#3493, aired 1999-11-10 | FAMOUS NEW YORKERS $200: On "Celebrity Jeopardy!" this sportscaster from Queens won $25,000 for his charity Bob Costas |
#3493, aired 1999-11-10 | FAMOUS NEW YORKERS $300: In 1932 this New Deal Democrat went from the New York governor's mansion to the White House Franklin D. Roosevelt |
#3493, aired 1999-11-10 | FAMOUS NEW YORKERS $400: This infamous gangster seen here was born in Brooklyn January 17, 1899 Al Capone |
#3493, aired 1999-11-10 | FAMOUS NEW YORKERS $500: He's the innovative New Yorker whose 1924 composition is heard here
("Rhapsody in Blue") George Gershwin |
#1389, aired 1990-09-20 | NEW YORKERS $200: Bogie just called this actress, born Betty Joan Perske, "Babu" Lauren Bacall |
#1389, aired 1990-09-20 | NEW YORKERS $400: At different times he headed the programming departments at CBS & ABC & was president of NBC Fred Silverman |
#1389, aired 1990-09-20 | NEW YORKERS $600: This Watergate co-conspirator's 1980 autobiography was titled "Will" (Gordon) Liddy |
#1389, aired 1990-09-20 | NEW YORKERS $800: This former Baltimore Orioles pitcher has appeared in Jockey underwear ads Jim Palmer |
#1389, aired 1990-09-20 | NEW YORKERS $1000: 5 years after the publication of his "Daisy Miller", this author wrote a dramatization of the novel Henry James |
#1105, aired 1989-05-26 | NEW YORKERS $100 (Daily Double): Brooklynite Jennie Jerome was the mother of this famous statesman Winston Churchill |
#1105, aired 1989-05-26 | NEW YORKERS $200: Though he lived in many states, his body "lies a-moudering in the grave" south of Lake Placid John Brown |
#1105, aired 1989-05-26 | NEW YORKERS $400: This wealthy oil magnate was born in 1839 just outside the village of Richford (John D.) Rockefeller |
#1105, aired 1989-05-26 | NEW YORKERS $1000: This 19th c. politician was born at 1 Cherry Street, Manhattan & died in the Ludlow St. jail Boss Tweed |
#892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $100: Gimbel's made it policy not to fire anyone because of old age after his "Death of a Salesman" opened Arthur Miller |
#892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $200: His "Tropic of Cancer" was printed in English in Paris in 1934 but not in the U.S. until 1961 Henry Miller |
#892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $400: Barry Goldwater said he chose this man as his running mate because "He drives Johnson nuts" William E. Miller |
#892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $500 (Daily Double): New Yorker who topped pop charts in 1955 with the following song about a Texan:
"There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see / Nobody else could miss her..." Mitch Miller |
#892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $500: An economist, he headed the Major League Baseball players' union from 1966-83 Marvin Miller |