| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES $400: In 1997 Myron Scholes won the award for this field; in 1998 the hedge fund he co-founded lost around $4 billion economics |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES $800: Physics winners Penzias & Wilson had to shoo pigeons from their antenna to pick up background radiation from this "Big" event the Big Bang |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES $1200: Author Knut Hamsun tarnished his reputation when he gave his Nobel Prize medal to this Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES $1600: In 1949 Dr. Antonio Moniz was awarded a Nobel Prize for his development of this once common but now discredited brain surgery (frontal) lobotomy |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): 1948 had no Peace Prize winner; this man who was nominated that year was assassinated & Nobels are rarely given posthumously (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $200: In 2014 this supreme leader of North Korea won 100% of the vote in his district Kim Jong-un |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $400: The 1964 election to make Papa Doc Duvalier president for life of Haiti had this 3-letter French word already marked on ballots oui |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $600: In 1955 this country's P.M. Ngo Dinh Diem printed his ballots on lucky red paper & his opponent's ballot on unlucky green paper South Vietnam |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $800: In 19th c. New York the Dead Rabbits Gang used force to make people vote for candidates of this Boss Tweed political machine Tammany Hall |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $1000: In 1927 Charles King won the presidency by more than 200,000 votes even though this African country had only 15,000 registered voters Liberia |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | ANIMAL ODDITIES $200: A tropical tree frog that has a transparent belly & chest is named for this transparent material glass |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | ANIMAL ODDITIES $600: These Asian tree-dwelling great apes have been known to use large leaves as rain ponchos orangutans |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | ANIMAL ODDITIES $800: A 2010 study found that embryos of the spotted salamander employ this energy process typically seen in plants photosynthesis |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | ANIMAL ODDITIES $1000: A giant isopod, part of this subphylum that includes crabs, went 5 years without eating crustaceans |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | ODDITIES $200: A 2004 contest saw "Brain Freeze" beat out "Growling Stomach" & "Tennis Elbow" to be added to this electric game Operation |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | ODDITIES $400: Raise a glass to Angela Mount, who had her olfactory system insured for 10 million pounds while working evaluating this wine |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | ODDITIES $600: In 1986 a judge told the Library of Congress to resume producing pictureless Braille editions of this magazine Playboy |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | ODDITIES $800: Its nose is missing, but part of the beard of this ancient statue is in the British Museum the Sphinx (the Great Sphinx of Giza) |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | ODDITIES $1000: From 2007 to 2011 the president, V.P. & prime minister all had the same family name in this country of Indochina Vietnam |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | OLYMPIC ODDITIES $200: Milorad Cavic almost upset this man's perfect 2008 Olympics, losing to him by one hundredth of a second Michael Phelps |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | OLYMPIC ODDITIES $400: In 1908 in this city U.S. flag-bearer Ralph Rose caused controversy by not lowering the flag when passing the king London |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | OLYMPIC ODDITIES $600: A 1976 entrant in the "modern" this was kicked out for wiring his epee to score points without touching his foe pentathlon |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | OLYMPIC ODDITIES $800: In the 2004 opening ceremonies a sole member of this team opened the parade of nations; the rest of his team closed it Greece |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | OLYMPIC ODDITIES $1000: It was the anatomical oddity of U.S. gymnast George Eyser, who won a gold medal on the parallel bars in 1904 he's missing a leg |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | ROYAL ODDITIES $400: Strangely, Charles XIV John of this Scandinavian country had a "Death to all kings" tattoo Sweden |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | ROYAL ODDITIES $800: Emperor Menelik II of this African country once used an electric chair as his throne Ethiopia |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | ROYAL ODDITIES $1200: Although officially listed, this 18th century French king was never crowned & never ruled Louis XVII |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | ROYAL ODDITIES $1600: A spider that died by falling into a a poisoned drink saved the life of this "Great" Prussian king Frederick |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $400: Richard Burton & Liz Taylor were nominated for playing husband & wife in this 1966 film based on an Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $800: Katina Paxinou is the only Oscar-winning actress born in this country Greece |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $1200: For 1991 3 of the 5 nominated songs, including "Belle", were from this one film Beauty and the Beast |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $1600: (Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin.) For "Sense and Sensibility", she became the first actress to be nominated for both Best Actress & Best Screenplay Emma Thompson |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | OSCAR ODDITIES $2000: His 1925 silent "The Gold Rush" was reissued in 1942 with music & sound effects & nominated for Sound Recording Charlie Chaplin |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $200: A year after getting an honorary Oscar, he won his first acting Oscar for "The Color of Money" Paul Newman |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $600: At the 1980 show, this Supporting Actress winner for "Kramer vs. Kramer" left her statuette in the ladies' room Meryl Streep |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $800: This 1969 Jon Voight film is the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture, although today it would be rated R Midnight Cowboy |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): She won Best Actress Oscars in the 1930s, 1960s & 1980s Katharine Hepburn |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $1000: She was in almost every frame of "Paper Moon", but was nominated & won for Best Supporting Actress Tatum O'Neal |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | TELEVISION ODDITIES $100: Bush asked him, "How'd you like it if I judged your career by those 7 minutes when you walked off the set?" Dan Rather |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | TELEVISION ODDITIES $200: In L.A. on both Feb. 4 & 5, 1988, the 8:00 movie on 3 TV stations starred this man; talk about a death wish! Charles Bronson |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | TELEVISION ODDITIES $300: Kraft is using the song "New York, New York" in commercials for this brand of cream cheese Philadelphia brand cream cheese |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | TELEVISION ODDITIES $400: Todd Waring took over this actor's roles in the TV versions of both "Nothing in Common" & "Splash" Tom Hanks |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | TELEVISION ODDITIES $500: The title of this show stayed the same in 1982 even though half the title team left the show Laverne & Shirley |
