#8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $200: At the gov.uk site in the Past Prime Ministers section, there is only one listed as "Baroness"--this person Margaret Thatcher |
#8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $400: Before his PM-ship Robert Peel organized the London police force & his nickname gave the cops this moniker Bobbies |
#8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $600: A few months after quitting as prime minister in 2016, this Conservative gave up his seat in the House of Commons (David) Cameron |
#8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $800: With the 1938 Munich Agreement, this PM granted most of Hitler's demands & left Czechoslovakia to its fate Chamberlain |
#8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1000: A giant of 19th century politics as well as a novelist, he was the first man of Jewish ancestry to be prime minister Disraeli |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS $200: John Turner is the only 20th century PM not born in Canada; he was born in this mother country Great Britain |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS $400: In Halifax' Holy Cross Cemetery, you can visit Sir John Thompson, who in 1892 became the first PM of this religion Catholicism |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS $600: I'd like to thank 1930s PM Richard Bennett; he established the commission that became this radio & TV entity the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS $800: During Joe Clark's tenure (1979-80), 6 Americans trapped in this country were able to escape using fake Canadian papers Iran |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS $1000: This 1870s PM had the same name as the Scottish explorer who mapped the longest river within Canada (Alexander) MacKenzie |
#7291, aired 2016-05-02 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $400: No wonder, with the headwear seen here, that the first British prime minister, Robert Walpole, led this party the Whigs |
#7291, aired 2016-05-02 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $800: In 2015 he apologized for "mistakes in planning" but found it hard to apologize "for removing Saddam" Tony Blair |
#7291, aired 2016-05-02 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1200: One of his infamous decisions was signing the Munich Agreement Neville Chamberlain |
#7291, aired 2016-05-02 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1600: This guy, the Younger, was prime minister during the French Revolutionary era William Pitt |
#7291, aired 2016-05-02 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $2000: He was prime minister while JFK was president; the two became friends & were sometimes known as "Mac and Jack" Harold MacMillan |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $400: Dispatched HMS Invincible to the South Atlantic under captain Jeremy Black Margaret Thatcher |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $800: Staged a comeback in 1951 at age 76 Churchill |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1200: Also met Mussolini on that fateful Munich trip Chamberlain |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $2000: Alternated with Gladstone from 1868 to 1880 Benjamin Disraeli |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $6,000 (Daily Double): The longest serving Labor prime minister ever Tony Blair |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | PRIME MINISTERS $200: Prior to becoming Britain's prime minister in 2007, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer (Gordon) Brown |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: This country's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki helped draft its new Constitution Iraq |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | PRIME MINISTERS $600: A devastating stroke in 2006 ended his tenure as prime minister of Israel (Ariel) Sharon |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | PRIME MINISTERS $800: Hassanal Bolkiah is the Minister of Finance & Defense, Prime Minister & Sultan of this country Brunei |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | PRIME MINISTERS $1000: At the funeral seen here, one of the mourners was this future prime minister, paying respects to his mother Rajiv Gandhi |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN $400: The day he left office after 10 years in 2007, he had a new job as a Mideast envoy (Tony) Blair |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN $1200: Harold Wilson of this party was the last PM to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms, 1964-70 & 1974-76 Labor |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN $1600: This man "the Younger" took over in 1783 & probably looked much older by 1801 William Pitt |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN $2,000 (Daily Double): This early 1830s PM lives on in the name of a popular tea Earl Grey |
#4971, aired 2006-04-03 | PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL $200: The only one commemorated with a one-woman Broadway play Golda Meir |
#4971, aired 2006-04-03 | PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL $400: The founding father after whom Tel Aviv's airport is named Ben-Gurion |
#4971, aired 2006-04-03 | PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL $600: This Nobel Prize winner was Prime Minister of Israel of twice: once in the '80s & once in the '90s Shimon Peres |
#4971, aired 2006-04-03 | PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2 Yitzhaks Rabin & Shamir |
#4971, aired 2006-04-03 | PRIME MINISTERS OF ISRAEL $1000: Then serving as prime minister, he was a mourner at Anwar Sadat's funeral in 1981 Begin |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: John Major as PM took his whole salary, not continuing the reduced rate this immediate predecessor took Margaret Thatcher |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | PRIME MINISTERS $800: The current PM of Bulgaria, Simeon Sakskoburggotski, used to be this (as Simeon II) king of Bulgaria |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | PRIME MINISTERS $1200: In 1984 in this country Pieter was Botha PM & president South Africa |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | PRIME MINISTERS $1600: John Turner's turn as this country's PM lasted a few months in 1984 Canada |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | PRIME MINISTERS $1,800 (Daily Double): Milos Forman is the movie director; Milos Zeman was prime minister of this republic the Czech Republic |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $100: 1940-1945,
1951-1955 Winston Churchill |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $200: 1990-1997 John Major |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $300: 1937-1940 Neville Chamberlain |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $400 (Daily Double): The Elder,
1766-1768;
The Younger,
1783-1801,
1804-1806 William Pitt |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $500: 1945-1951 Clement Attlee |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $200: Her title is Baroness of Kesteven Margaret Thatcher |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $400: Horses owned by the Earl of Rosebery won this Epsom race 3 times, twice while he was prime minister the Epsom Derby |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $600: Lloyd George's constituency was Caernarvonshire in this part of the United Kingdom Wales |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1000: His famous "declaration" was issued in November 1917, years after he was prime minister Arthur Balfour |
#3327, aired 1999-02-09 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1,500 (Daily Double): One of 11 children, this 26th prime minister could have formed a police force out of his family Robert Peel |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | PRIME MINISTERS $200: As prime minister of this country, Manuel Azana restricted the power of the church & gave Catalonia autonomy Spain |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: Jean Chretien, prime minister of this country, scuffled with a protester at a Flag Day celebration in February of 1996 Canada |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | PRIME MINISTERS $600 (Daily Double): He was prime minister of Syria before winning its presidency in 1971 Hafez al-Assad |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | PRIME MINISTERS $600: She & her mother assumed leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, following her father's 1979 execution Benazir Bhutto |
#2820, aired 1996-11-29 | PRIME MINISTERS $800: Solomon Bandaranaike switched this country's official language from English to Sinhalese Sri Lanka |
#2753, aired 1996-07-17 | PRIME MINISTERS $100: This current French president served as prime minister under both Giscard d'Estaing & Mitterrand Jacques Chirac |
#2753, aired 1996-07-17 | PRIME MINISTERS $200: Pham Van Dong served as prime minister of this country from unification until 1986 Vietnam |
#2753, aired 1996-07-17 | PRIME MINISTERS $300: Tunku Abdul Rahman was the 1st prime minister of the federation of Malaya & of this successor state Malaysia |
#2753, aired 1996-07-17 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: This Israeli prime minister signed the first peace treaty between Israel & an Arab country Menachem Begin |
#2753, aired 1996-07-17 | PRIME MINISTERS $500: He took power in 1993 when his Liberals won 177 of the 295 seats in Canada's House of Commons Jean Chretien |
#2536, aired 1995-09-18 | PRIME MINISTERS $200: Morarji Desai, imprisoned under her "emergency rule" of India, succeeded her as P.M. in 1977 Indira Gandhi |
#2536, aired 1995-09-18 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: This man who became Canada's P.M. in 1968 earned a master's degree from Harvard in 1945 Pierre Trudeau |
#2536, aired 1995-09-18 | PRIME MINISTERS $600: Under David Lange, this country was suspended from the ANZUS Pact New Zealand |
#2536, aired 1995-09-18 | PRIME MINISTERS $800: Lee Kuan Yew was its P.M. both before & after it was part of the Federation of Malaysia Singapore |
#2536, aired 1995-09-18 | PRIME MINISTERS $1000: This assassinated Swedish prime minister was a protege of previous P.M. Tage Erlander Olof Palme |
#1836, aired 1992-09-07 | PRIME MINISTERS $200: Once "Canada's Most Eligible Bachelor", he served from 1968-1979 & again from 1980-84 Pierre Trudeau |
#1836, aired 1992-09-07 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: This soldier & statesman who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo served as British PM from 1828-1830 the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley) |
#1836, aired 1992-09-07 | PRIME MINISTERS $600: After Japan surrendered to the U.S. in 1945, this PM was arrested as a war criminal Tojo |
#1836, aired 1992-09-07 | PRIME MINISTERS $1000: Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, the world's 1st female PM, twice led this island country Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |
#1836, aired 1992-09-07 | PRIME MINISTERS $1,200 (Daily Double): Polish-born Yithzak Jazernicki adopted this surname meaning "sharp thorn" or "thistle" (Yitzhak) Shamir |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | PRIME MINISTERS $200: This country's prime minister Charles Haughey is a son-in-law of it's former prime minister Sean Lemass Ireland |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected P.M. of Ceylon in 1960, 1 year after this relative was assassinated her husband |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | PRIME MINISTERS $800: David Lange, former P.M. of this island country, is famous for his anti-nuclear politics New Zealand |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | PRIME MINISTERS $1000: This country's prime minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd was stabbed to death in 1966 South Africa |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | PRIME MINISTERS $1,700 (Daily Double): She had never held public office before becoming Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto |