| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $400: Robert Caro's 2002 biography of this Texan, "Master of the Senate", covers 1949 to 1960 LBJ |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $800: William Taubman brought home the award for writing about this shoe-slammin' Soviet premier Khrushchev |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Carleton Mabee won the 1944 prize for "The American Leonardo", a biography of this 19th century inventor & painter (Samuel F.B.) Morse |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Also a CCR song, the title of this memoir by Vietnam vet Lewis Puller Jr. refers to having a legendary general as a dad Fortunate Son |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $2000: The Pulitzer-honored bio of this late wide-ranging intellectual does not omit her many glamorous lovers Susan Sontag |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: A longtime member of FDR's cabinet, Cordell Hull won the award in 1945 & was known as the "father of" this international org. the United Nations |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: This politician shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness about global warming Gore |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Before winning a Peace Prize in 1962, scientist & vitamin C advocate Linus Pauling won one in this category in 1954 chemistry |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: His name is on a pact with Aristide Briand, but Aristide had won a Nobel Prize a few years before, so he got the 1929 prize alone Frank Kellogg |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $5,400 (Daily Double): "Soldier of Peace" is the subtitle of a biography of this general who helped Europe recover following World War II Marshall |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $200: The presidency may have eluded him in 2000, but on the bright side, he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 Al Gore |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $400: The prize for this newest category was first awarded in 1969 -- roughly 68 fiscal years after all the others Economics |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: The youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner is also a best-selling author, for her 2013 memoir titled "I Am" this Malala |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $1000: Each Nobel Prize winner receives a medal, a cash award, and this official title--leafy head wreath not included laureate |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize awarded not in Stockholm, but in this fjord-tastic neighboring capital Oslo |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $400: Katherine Paterson built a bridge to a Newbery Medal with a "Bridge to" this fantasy land Terabithia |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $800: Monkeys & rhinos were literally in the house & the game was afoot in this 1982 Caldecott Medal winner by Chris Van Allsburg Jumanji |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $1200: 1972's Nebula for Best Novel was "The Gods Themselves"; it was written by this prolific "master of science fiction" Asimov |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $1600: Hop to it! This John Updike character "is Rich" & also, a 1982 Pulitzer winner Rabbit |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $2000: The National Book Award decided they "Better Call" this author, a winner for "Herzog" & "The Adventures of Augie March" (Saul) Bellow |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: The last novel of 1998 winner Jose Saramago of Portugal portrayed this killer in Genesis as a rebel against god Cain |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This 1993 winner often focused on African-American culture in novels like "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" Morrison |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: This Dublin-born playwright got the nod in 1925 for works marked by idealism, humanity & stimulating satire George Bernard Shaw |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1988 winner Naguib Mahfouz set many of his works like "Palace of Desire" in this North African capital Cairo |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $12,400 (Daily Double): Greek author George Seferis, who won the award in 1963, wrote "Six Nights on" this hilltop the Acropolis |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $400: The 2021 Einstein Prize went to Clifford Martin Will & Saul Teukolsky for "contributions to observational tests of general" this relativity |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $800: Frederick Sanger is the only 2-time winner of the Nobel Prize in this, for work on proteins in 1958 & nucleic acids in 1980 the Chemistry Prize |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $1200: The Gonin Medal is awarded every 4 years for outstanding work in this medical specialty of the eye ophthalmology |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $1600: The 2016 Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize of computing", went to this hyphenated Brit "for inventing the World Wide Web" Berners-Lee |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $2000: Winners of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for popularizing science include this knighted narrator of BBC's "Life" (Sir David) Attenborough |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1989:
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th holder of this religious title Dalai Lama |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: 1999:
This medical organization founded in France Doctors Without Borders |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: 1997:
Jody Williams & the group she helped found, the International Campaign to Ban these weapons landmines |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 2015:
The National Dialogue Quartet, of this North African Arab Spring nation Tunisia |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1961:
This Swedish Secretary-General of the U.N., posthumously Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: Before Roger Ebert won the 1st Pulitzer for Movie Criticism, his paper-mate Ron Powers won the 1st as a critic of this medium television |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: Though these are traditionally unsigned, the Pulitzers usually name the recipient, like Buford Boone of the Tuscaloosa News editorials |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: A 2021 prize went to the Star Tribune, based in this city, for reporting on its police force, focus of national attention Minneapolis |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: Julia Keller won for her feature about the devastation of the town of Utica, Illinois in 10 seconds by one of these a tornado |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won for this beloved 1938 novel whose title refers to the age of a pet fawn The Yearling |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $400: How sweet! In 1919 Max Planck & this other German physicist nominated each other for Nobel prizes Einstein |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $800: Pearl Buck, W.H. Auden & C.S. Lewis all nominated this "North of Boston" poet for Literature, but he never won (Robert) Frost |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $1600: It might ring a bell that 33 people nominated this Russian for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901; he won it in 1904 (Ivan) Pavlov |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $2000: When Luigi Pirandello won in 1934, he was nominated by this countryman, a 1909 winner for physics Marconi |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1962 JFK nominated this first lady from an earlier administration for the Nobel Peace Prize Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | THE GERSHWIN PRIZE $400: Created in 2007 by the Library of Congress, the first prize went to this "One Trick Pony" singer Paul Simon |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | THE GERSHWIN PRIZE $800: Born in Saginaw, Michigan, this 2009 honoree was recording with Motown Records at age 12 Stevie Wonder |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | THE GERSHWIN PRIZE $1200: In 2013 this singer-songwriter became the first woman to get the prize thanks to her "Tapestry" of hits (Carole) King |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | THE GERSHWIN PRIZE $1600: The 2014 Gershwin Prize concert honoring him included Boyz II Men performing his doo-wop tribute "The Longest Time" Billy Joel |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | THE GERSHWIN PRIZE $2000: In 2012 this man was honored along with songwriting partner Hal David (Burt) Bacharach |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $200: Gotta fly now! Of course Aquila, this bird, had the stuff to make it in the starry night an eagle |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $400: You, the ram with the Golden Fleece, strong work! You're in the heavens now as this constellation Aries |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $600: Congrats, Sagitta! As one of these projectiles used by Hercules or Cupid, your place in the heavens is secured an arrow |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $800: Jason put in a good word for Vela, so you can hop on up there as the sail of this ship the Argo |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $1000: Our favorite Greek god of medicine, take your place in the sky as Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer Aesculapius |
| #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 |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS $400: The 1997 prize was awarded for using these intense beams to cool & trap atoms lasers |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS $800: Is that Dennis Gabor accepting the 1971 prize? Or one of these 3-dimensional images he invented? a hologram |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS $1200: Roger Penrose won in 2020 for showing these in space are a consequence of general relativity, though Einstein doubted they exist a black hole |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS $2,000 (Daily Double): Karl Ferdinand Braun & this man took the 1909 prize for the development of wireless telegraphy Marconi |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS $2000: Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz shared the 2019 award for discovering one of these "ex"cellent bodies orbiting a star an exoplanet |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: The New Yorker's Barry Blitt won the 2020 prize in the category called this type of cartooning that expresses a point of view Editorial |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: "Our Town" won him the 1938 Drama Prize (Thornton) Wilder |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Here he is leaving the luncheon after accepting his 2018 Music Prize Kendrick Lamar |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $2000: Bruce Catton took the 1954 History Prize for his book titled "A Stillness at" this fateful place Appomattox |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): The 2015 Biography Prize went to a study of Pope Pius XI's relations with this dictator down the street Mussolini |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $200: UNESCO's King Sejong Prize for promoting literacy is named for the monarch who created hangul, the Korean this the alphabet |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $400: We love you, Conrad, for using the wealth of this hotel chain for a $2.5 million prize to nonprofits that relieve human suffering Hilton |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $600: In 2015 malaria researcher Tu Youyou became the first winner of this prize since 1988 with no doctorate or medical degree the Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $1000: The prize steer at this annual Texas event routinely sells for 6 figures in the Youth Livestock Auction the state fair |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $1,600 (Daily Double): 300,000 euros go to the winner of the LVMH Prize for someone under 40 in this profession with at least 2 collections a fashion designer |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $200: The prize is for "life's spiritual dimension", but its creator stipulated the monetary award must always exceed this other prize's the Nobel Prize |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $400: Mother Teresa received the inaugural 1973 prize for her work with the children of this Indian city Calcutta |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $600: Physicist Bernard d'Espagnat, 2009's winner, explored the philosophical implications of these mysterious "mechanics" quantum mechanics |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $800: The 2013 prize went to this Cape Town man whose teachings combine Anglicanism with the concept of ubuntu, meaning humanity & kindness Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $1000: 1982's winner was this man from N.C. who "took his message of Christianity into the...world of radio and television" Billy Graham |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $200: midwestliving.com posted a mouth-watering slideshow of 12 foods that won this prize at state fairs--mmm, butterscotch pie a blue ribbon |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $400: For 300 years the French government gave young artists the prize of a stay in this city; one winner's work is seen here Rome |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $600: Tata Steel of India was a 2008 winner of the Deming Prize in the field of TQM, total this management quality |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $800: The Abel Prize in this field is named for Niels Abel, famed for his work on the quintic function math |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $1000: Seen at the ceremony of the Breakthrough Prize for scientific discoveries are co-sponsors Mark Zuckerberg and this physician wife (Priscilla) Chan |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $400: The L.A. Times took a 2004 prize for an in-depth look at the methods used by this retailer to become the largest in the world Walmart |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $800: A breaking news photo award went to Ryan Kelly for his shot of a 2017 car attack on protesters in this city in Va. Charlottesville |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $1200: In 1975 Pulitzer gave 2 thumbs up to the criticism of this Chicago Sun-Times movie reviewer Roger Ebert |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $2000: Chris Hamby won for showing how doctors & lawyers worked to deny benefits to miners with this disease gotten on the job black lung disease |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $4,000 (Daily Double): The Editorial Board of the New York Daily News was Prize-worthy for helping to save this theater in Harlem The Apollo |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $400: Ellen DeGeneres was proud to be honored in this center "where so many space shuttles have been launched" the Kennedy Center |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $800: In 2018 this actress added the prize to her record 6 consecutive Emmys for Best Actress in a Comedy Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1200: This "Shrek" & "Beverly Hills Cop" performer said the prize is actually an award, because a prize comes with money Eddie Murphy |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1600: Longtime employee Biff Henderson showed up with headset to help this late night host accept his trophy in 2017 David Letterman |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $2000: Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore & Dick Van Dyke were on hand to honor this writer/comedian in 2000 (Carl) Reiner |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $200: Of the 5 original prizes, it's been awarded the fewest times, sadly Peace |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $400: 2 generations of Nobel winners in one family is rare; the Curies did it, as did these Danish physicists, Niels & Aage Bohr |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $600: 3 laureates have been under arrest at the time of their awards: in 1935 in Germany, in 1991 in Burma & in 2010 in this country China |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $800: The youngest winner ever in this youngest Nobel category was 51-year-old Kenneth Arrow Economics |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $1000: John Bardeen was the 1st individual to win a 2nd Nobel in one category, for work on this absence of electric resistance superconductivity |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | PRIZE PACKAGES $400: A gold medal, a hand-lettered diploma & 9 million Swedish kronor the Nobel Prize |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | PRIZE PACKAGES $800: A sparkly crown, a $50,000 scholarship & a 6-figure salary for one year Miss America |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | PRIZE PACKAGES $1200: It's truly genius:
$625,000 in quarterly installments over 5 years, & no strings attached the MacArthur Genius award |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | PRIZE PACKAGES $1600: A gala dinner in NYC, & an award that shows "The University of Georgia" above George's profile the Peabody Award |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | PRIZE PACKAGES $2000: $100,000 & a bronze medal inscribed with the fundamental principles of the Roman architect Vitruvius the Pritzker Prize |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $200: They did not give out a Drama award in 1944, but this stately Rodgers & Hammerstein musical won a special award Oklahoma! |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $400: He had plenty of Tonys by then, but this composer finally won a Pulitzer in 1985 for "Sunday in the Park with George" Sondheim |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $600: Jonathan Larson posthumously won the 1996 Drama award for this musical Rent |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $800: 5 people, including Marvin Hamlisch, shared the 1976 Drama award for this musical A Chorus Line |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $1000: There are 8 words in the title of this Frank Loesser musical that won in 1962 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 2010 winner Liu Xiaobo was represented by an empty one of these, as he was in a Chinese prison a chair |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This sitting U.S. president won the 1919 prize for his efforts to make peace an part of international law Wilson |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 1947 winner the American Friends Service Committee is an arm of this religious group the Quakers |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: Aung San Suu Kyi is the author of "Letters from" not Myanmar but this other name Burma |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2,800 (Daily Double): These people are the "R" in UNHCR, which gives them shelter & helps them find a new permanent home refugees |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | PRIZE $200: Draw! Bill Mauldin was a 2-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial these cartoons |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | PRIZE $400: Tim Berners-Lee is a winner of the Draper Prize from the NAE, the National Academy of this engineering |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | PRIZE $600: He's seen here around the time he won the 1981 Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children" Salman Rushdie |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | PRIZE $800: The Indian Space Research Organization won the 2014 Peace Prize named for this Indian woman (Indira) Gandhi |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | PRIZE $1000: In 2016 this annual prize went to Alejandro Aravena, a Chilean architect known for innovative, low-cost housing the Pritzker Prize |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $400: The 2003 winner, covering Lyndon Johnson from 1949 to 1960, was "Master of" this political body the Senate |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $800: The first Pulitzer for Biography went to a book about this woman who wrote "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" Julia Ward Howe |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): Joseph Lash won for a dual biography of this presidential couple FDR & Eleanor |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $1600: Samuel Eliot Morison won a 1960 Pulitzer for his bio of this reformed slaver & 18th c. American naval hero John Paul Jones |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY $2000: Margaret Coit won for an "American Portrait" of this South Carolinian veep who resigned after the Eaton affair John C. Calhoun |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEES $400: This woman overcame blindness & deafness to be nominated 4 times in the 1950s Helen Keller |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEES $800: This Italian educator received nominations in each of the 3 years before her 1952 death Montessori |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEES $1200: The World Association for this new language received more than 100 nominations in the '50s & '60s, but it never won Esperanto |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEES $2000: More than a dozen people, including Albert Schweitzer, nominated this cellist Pablo Casals |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEES $2,600 (Daily Double): Many attempts to get this man the award for creating the Boy Scouts were unsuccessful (Lord Baden-)Powell |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 2007 winner Richard Rogers & 1998's Renzo Piano teamed up to design the Pompidou Centre in this city Paris |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1966 Jorn Utzon quit the opera house project designed for this city but today, that's his legacy Sydney |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Philip Johnson, the prize's very first winner in 1979, designed the Glass House in New Canaan in this state Connecticut |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1992 Michael Ondaatje did a Fiennes job with this novel about a burned, unnamed man being cared for at WWII's end The English Patient |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS $1200: In 1993 it was a laughing matter when Roddy Doyle got Booker-ed for "Paddy Clarke" these 3 words Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM $200: Local Reporting, 2012: the Patriot-News of this state capital for coverage of Penn State Harrisburg |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM $400: Intl. Reporting, 2015: The New York Times staff, for "courageous front-line reporting" on this African epidemic Ebola |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM $600: Photography, 1945: Joe Rosenthal, for this image of Marines doing this on Mount Suribachi the flag raising of Iwo Jima |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM $800: Editorial, 1929: The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot for "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery", about this form of race-based murder lynching |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM $1000: Feature, 2016: The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz, making Oregonians quake with a piece on the Cascadia this earth feature the subduction earthquake fault |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: For Peace,
Mohamed El Baradei Africa |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: For Literature,
Pablo Neruda South America |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: For Peace,
Lester B. Pearson North America |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: For Medicine,
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Australia |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: For Peace,
Tenzin Gyatso Asia |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: In 2015 the photography staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch won for capturing images of despair & anger in this city Ferguson (Missouri) |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: (I'm Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post.) As part of a New York Daily News team, I won a 1999 Pulitzer for an editorial series that helped rescue this historic Harlem theater from financial mismanagement that had threatened its survival the Apollo |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1600: The only U.S. president to win a Pulitzer is JFK, for this series of biographies Profiles in Courage |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $2000: Jennifer Egan won the 2011 Pulitzer for fiction for "A Visit from" this group the Goon Squad |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Washington Post shared a 2014 Pulitzer for revealing widespread secret surveillance by this govt. agency the NSA (National Security Agency) |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $200: Her citation mentioned "work in bringing help to suffering humanity" in Calcutta Mother Teresa |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400: 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo spent 2 years in prison for taking part in the 1989 student protests here Tiananmen Square |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $600: World leader & 1990 honoree seen here Gorbachev |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $1000: 2008 Nobelist Martti Ahtisaari helped end a long-running conflict in this country's Aceh province Indonesia |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $3,400 (Daily Double): The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize went to this man, "Africa's peace bishop" (Desmond) Tutu |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $400: In the 2013 winner "The Orphan Master's Son", young Pak Jun Do comes of age in this totalitarian nation North Korea |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $800: Chapter 1 of this winner introduces the Tarleton Twins, "born to the ease of plantation life" Gone with the Wind |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1200: 1959 winner "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" tells a tale of a young man heading West as part of this 1849 frenzy the California Gold Rush |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1600: In 2009 winner "Olive Kitteridge", 13 connected stories in this New England state pack a collective emotional wallop Maine |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $2000: Disorder wrought by 1960s radicalism tears apart a family in "American Pastoral" by this man Philip Roth |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $200: Shigeru Ban, a pioneer in the use of cardboard, won 2014's Pritzker Prize in this field architecture |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $400: The XPRIZEs include a $10 million competition to make this "Star Trek" diagnostic device a reality a tricorder |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $600: Writers who explore the human condition can win a Humanitas Prize; Larry Kramer did for this drama about AIDS The Normal Heart |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $800: Robert Edwards won the 2010 Nobel Medicine Prize "for the development of" this type of "fertilization " in vitro |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $1000: The 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction went to William Kennedy for this "I"-book Ironweed |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $400: (I'm Josh Haner.) I won the Pulitzer for Feature Photography for "Beyond the Finish Line", a photo essay on the recovery of Jeff Bauman, a survivor of the tragedy at this event on April 15, 2013 the Boston Marathon bombing |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $800: Designed a year after the prizes began, the Pulitzer Prize gold medal depicts this founding father & newspaper printer (Benjamin) Franklin |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $1600: Hopefully, he kept it clean when he won a Drama Pulitzer for his play "Glengarry Glen Ross" (David) Mamet |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $2000: The music prize went to composers of classical music until 1997, when he won for his jazz-tinged "Blood on the Fields" (Wynton) Marsalis |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $3,000 (Daily Double): Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer's will endowed the prizes & this university's School of Journalism Columbia |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: South African literature laureate Nadine Gordimer was part of the struggle against this policy of segregation apartheid |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: She was the first & the fourth woman to win a Nobel Prize (Marie) Curie |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Dorothy Hodgkin won 1964's Chemistry prize for using these rays to study compounds X-rays |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $200: In 1954 Charles Lindbergh flew away with the Pulitzer Prize for this autobiography The Spirit of St. Louis |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $400: Maud Howe Elliott & 2 sisters won the 1917 prize with a bio on this "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" writer, their mother Julia (Ward) Howe |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $800: Chapters in Robert Massie's 1981 biography of this Russian czar include "The Prince of Orange" & "Polish Quagmire" Peter the Great |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $1000: The first volume of Allan Nevins' 1933 biography of this president ended with his loss of the presidency in 1888 (Grover) Cleveland |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $1,500 (Daily Double): Forrest Wilson's 1942 winner "Crusader in Crinoline" tells the story of this 19th c. abolitionist & author Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $200: 1975:
Physicist & activist Andrei Sakharov the U.S.S.R. |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $400: 1971:
Chancellor Willy Brandt (be specific) West Germany |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $600: 1961:
U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold Sweden |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $1,000 (Daily Double): 2001:
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Ghana |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $1000: 1998:
Political leaders John Hume & David Trimble Northern Ireland |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $200: His experience teaching unruly boys helped inspire his book "Lord of the Flies" (William) Golding |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $400: The last name of this Mexican poet, a winner in 1990, means peace (Octavio) Paz |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $800: For his work with the French Resistance during WWII, this Irish playwright was awarded the Croix de Guerre Beckett |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1000: He said his novel "Main Street" was his first "to rouse the embattled peasantry" (Sinclair) Lewis |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This woman is truly "Beloved", winning a Pulitzer in 1988 & a Nobel in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE SAKHAROV PRIZE $400: The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights; still in prison in South Africa, this man won in 1988 Mandela |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE SAKHAROV PRIZE $800: Reporters sans Frontieres, or "Reporters without" these, was honored in 2005 Borders |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE SAKHAROV PRIZE $1200: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose children disappeared in this South American country's "Dirty War", won in 1992 Argentina |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE SAKHAROV PRIZE $4,000 (Daily Double): Alexander Dubcek was honored in 1989, 21 years after leading this city's brief "Spring" Prague |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $400: 1999's winner, Margaret Edson's "Wit", chronicles a female university professor's losing battle against this cancer |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $800: Mary Coyle Chase wrote this 1945 play involving an imaginary giant rabbit Harvey |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $1200: Zoe Akins won in 1935 for an adaptation of "The Old Maid" by this Pulitzer-winning female novelist of NYC (Edith) Wharton |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $1600: Beth Henley won in 1981 for this "heart"y play that centered on 3 maladjusted Mississippi sisters Crimes of the Heart |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $2000: Ketti Frings won in 1958 for her adaptation of this Thomas Wolfe novel Look Homeward, Angel |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $400: When this Tennessee Williams play debuted in 1947, the cast included Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter & Jessica Tandy Streetcar Named Desire |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $500 (Daily Double): This Wendy Wasserstein play follows the life of an art historian from high school through her 30s The Heidi Chronicles |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $800: The 2008 Pulitzer went to Tracy Letts for this month: "Osage County" August |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $1200: Jonathan Larson posthumously won a Pulitzer in 1996 for coming up with this Bohemian musical Rent |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $2000: This dramatist won 3 Pulitzers in the 1920s for "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie" & "Strange Interlude" Eugene O'Neill |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $200: Shirin Ebadi was the first Iranian woman & the first woman of this faith to win the Nobel Peace Prize Islam |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement works to prevent desertification & this, the loss of trees deforestation |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: Jody Williams helped found the ICBL, the International Campaign to Ban these, winning her the prize in 1997 landmines |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-winners for 1976, were both born in this troubled city Belfast |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Rigoberta Menchu kept her Nobel Prize in Mexico while in exile from her homeland, this Central American neighbor Guatemala |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | THE ABEL PRIZE $400: The Abel Prize, the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics", is presented annually in this city by the king of Norway Oslo |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | THE ABEL PRIZE $800: The 2009 prize went to Mikhail Gromov for his " revolutionary contributions to" this math branch pioneered by Euclid geometry |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | THE ABEL PRIZE $1200: 2011 laureate John Milnor won in part for "pioneering discoveries in" this, from Arabic for "reunion of broken parts" algebra |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | THE ABEL PRIZE $1600: Peter Lax won in 2005 for his "contributions to the theory and application of partial differential" these equations |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | THE ABEL PRIZE $2000: The first prize, in 2003, went to Jean-Pierre Serre, whose work helped Andrew Wiles prove this man's famous "last theorem" Fermat |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $400: This military man with a famous plan bested Albert Schweitzer, among others, to win the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize (George C.) Marshall |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $800: Nobody won the Peace Prize in 1939, but both Neville Chamberlain & this Munich Pact partner were nominated Adolf Hitler |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $1200: In 1922 Fridtjof Nansen beat out this Brit economist who'd opposed harsh economic reparations against Germany (John Maynard) Keynes |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $1600: Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler & this Hull House founder tied for first for the 1931 Peace Prize Jane Addams |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $2000: In 1955 Dwight Eisenhower was a losing nominee despite his 1953 U.N. speech known as these "for Peace" Atoms |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | YOU DESERVE A PRIZE $200: When Janet Gaynor won the first one of these for an actress in 1929, it was actually for 3 film roles an Oscar |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | YOU DESERVE A PRIZE $400 (Daily Double): In 2005 this sometime banjo player received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Steve Martin |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | YOU DESERVE A PRIZE $600: Zubin Mehta & this '70s Secretary of State were among the first recipients of Israel's Presidential Medal Henry Kissinger |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | YOU DESERVE A PRIZE $800: In 2012 he & Hal David became the first songwriting duo to win the Lib. of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Burt Bacharach |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | YOU DESERVE A PRIZE $1000: Apparently no one deserved the Pulitzer for fiction in 2012, but in 2011 Jennifer Egan won for "A Visit From" this group the Goon Squad |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $200: More people know this name as a deformed French literary character than as the name of the Italian who won the 1959 prize Quasimodo |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $400: The Nobel folks said the tales of Patrick White "introduced" this continent "into literature" Australia |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $600: Carl Spitteler of this Alpine country was honored in "appreciation of his epic, 'Olympian Spring'" Switzerland |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $800: Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson was recognized for his poems, one of which became this song of Norway the national anthem |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $1000: This country's Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 winner for her poetry, died in 2012 Poland |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | GIVE ME A PRIZE! $200: Carleton Mabee won this literary prize for his Samuel Morse biography "The American Leonardo" a Pulitzer |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | GIVE ME A PRIZE! $400: The most prestigious award for pitching in baseball is the one named for this man who hurled a record 511 wins Cy Young |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | GIVE ME A PRIZE! $600: He won a 1987 spoken word Grammy for "Lake Wobegon Days" Garrison Keillor |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | GIVE ME A PRIZE! $800: These "planetary" statuettes have been given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association since 1944 the Golden Globes |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | GIVE ME A PRIZE! $1000: This prestigious British prize for literature was started in 1968 as a counterpart to France's Prix Goncourt the Booker Prize |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE 20th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $200: In public health: "for determining by experiment that microbes cling to" scientists who grow these, like ZZ Top beards |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE 20th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $400: Peace: "for confirming the widely held belief that" this audible outburst relieves pain cursing |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE 20th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $600: Medicine: finding that this breathing disorder "can be treated with a roller-coaster ride"; Advair is more traditional asthma |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE 20th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $800: Engineering: "for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a remote-control" this (probably not a Black Hawk) a helicopter |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE 20th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $1000: Physics: showing that on icy paths, "people slip and fall less often if they wear" these over their shoes (under's OK, too) socks |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $400: This novel was a bestseller & won Pearl S. Buck a Pulitzer in 1932 The Good Earth |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $800: "Humboldt's Gift" earned this author the gift of a Pulitzer Saul Bellow |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1200: She gave readers "Breathing Lessons" & took home the prize for her efforts Anne Tyler |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1600: Junot Diaz won in 2008 for "The Brief Wondrous Life of" him Oscar Wao |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $2000: Jhumpa Lahiri won for her collection of stories called "Interpreter of" these Maladies |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE $400: Thomas Keneally won for a book about this title German man, an unlikely savior to Jews in WWII (Oskar) Schindler |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE $800: A burned man is the title figure of this novel by Michael Ondaatje that's set in 1945 The English Patient |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE $1200: Roddy Doyle, born in this city, won for "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha", set in a fictional part of that city Dublin |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE $1600: 1989's winner was this novel by Kazuo Ishiguro about a perfect English butler reflecting on his 30-year career The Remains of the Day |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE $2000: The 2002 Prize went to Yann Martel's bestseller "Life of" this Pi |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $200: In his acceptance speech, Pres. Obama quoted this 1964 American recipient saying, "Violence never brings permanent peace" (Martin Luther) King (Jr.) |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Nobel Peace Prize Center in Oslo, Norway.) Henry Dunant, who founded this international organization that works to relieve suffering, won a share of the first Peace Prize in 1901; since then, the organization itself has won an unprecedented three prizes the Red Cross |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $600: 1997's Prize went in part to an international group trying to clear these from the world land mines |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $800: This U.N. agency, created in 1946 to aid children in Europe, won the 1965 Peace Prize UNICEF |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $1000: This 1990 winner said it was "a recognition of what we call perestroika and innovative political thinking" Gorbachev |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER $200: Yitzhak Rabin,
1994 Peace |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER $400: Sir Alexander Fleming,
1945 Medicine |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER $600: Milton Friedman,
1976 Economics |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER $800: Richard Feynman,
1965 Physics |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER $1000: Dario Fo,
1997 Literature |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: Frederick Banting was just 32 when he shared the Medicine Prize for discovering this hormone that treats diabetes insulin |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: In their early 30s, Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan won the 1976 Peace Prize for trying to end strife in this U.K. country Northern Ireland |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1200: What a family! This husband-&-wife team were 44 & 36 when they won in 1903; their son-in-law & daughter won aged 35 & 38 the Curies (Pierre & Marie) |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1600: This 31-year-old won for the creation of quantum mechanics & not for his uncertainty principle Heisenberg |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Konstantin Novoselov, 36, shared the 2010 Physics Prize for his work on graphene, a form of this element carbon |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | "I"s IN THE PRIZE $200: The Seattle Times won one in 2010 for its breaking news reporting a Pulitzer |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | "I"s IN THE PRIZE $600: In 1971 Pope Paul VI created a peace prize named for his predecessor, John this number the XXIII |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | "I"s IN THE PRIZE $800: The only Nobel Prize that has 2 names is this "or medicine" physiology |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | "I"s IN THE PRIZE $1000: The Medal of Honor named for this island was "designed to pay homage to the immigrant experience" Ellis Island |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | "I"s IN THE PRIZE $2,400 (Daily Double): Created in 1949, the peace prize bearing this man's name was renamed the Lenin Prize in 1956 Joseph Stalin |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | THIRD PRIZE $800: He is No. 3 in all-time MLB home runs with 714; he hit one every 11.8 at-bats Babe Ruth |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | THIRD PRIZE $1200: Like his dad, this Giants QB went to Ole Miss & finished third in a vote for the Heisman Eli Manning |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | THIRD PRIZE $1600: In the 1924 Olympics she won bronze in the 100- & 400-m. Free; 2 years later, she swam the English Channel at age 19 Gertrude Ederle |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | THIRD PRIZE $2000: Walter Dix of the U.S. ran a 9.91 to take 3rd in the 100-m. at the Beijing Games; this Jamaican ran 9.69 to win (Usain) Bolt |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $400: It was a short interlude between his wins for "Anna Christie" (1922) & "Strange Interlude" (1928) (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $800: It was a picnic for him when he won in 1953 for "Picnic" William Inge |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $1200: For Frank Gilroy in 1965, the subject was winning when "The Subject Was" these took home a Pulitzer Roses |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $1600: Sadly, Jonathan Larson had died by the time this musical of his won the Pulitzer in 1996 Rent |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $2000: 1954's winner was John Patrick for "The Teahouse of" this The Teahouse of the August Moon |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY $400: In 1924 this New Englander won for "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes" Frost |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY $800: In 1923 this "Saint" of a woman won for work that included "Eight Sonnets in American Poetry" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY $1200: The "Complete Poems" of this "Chicago" man took the 1951 prize (Carl) Sandburg |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY $1600: The 1948 prize went to "The Age of Anxiety" by this poet, whose initials stood for Wystan Hugh Auden |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY $2000: This "All The King's Men" novelist won the poetry prize twice, for 1958 & 1979 Robert Penn Warren |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | THE 19th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $200: A physics prize was awarded for analytically determining why women in this condition don't tip over pregnancy |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | THE 19th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $400: A 2009 veterinary medicine prize was given for showing cows who have names give more of this than nameless ones milk |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | THE 19th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $600: A team from Mexico won in chem for creating diamonds from this Jalisco liquor distilled from fermented mash of an agave tequila |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | THE 19th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $800: A doctor won for cracking his left knuckles, but not his right, for 60 years to test a rumored cause of this disease arthritis |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | THE 19th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $1000: A math prize to this African country's reserve bank, for giving folks the chance to use big numbers like 100 trillion Zimbabwe |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1997 for biography:
This late author's "Angela's Ashes" (Frank) McCourt |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1200: 1945 for music:
This composer for his "Appalachian Spring" (Aaron) Copland |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 2006 for public service in covering Hurricane Katrina:
Mississippi's Sun-Herald & this New Orleans paper the Times-Picayune |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $2,000 (Daily Double): 1978:
This late language lover for his New York Times commentary (William) Safire |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1940 for drama:
This playwright's "The Time of Your Life" William Saroyan |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: Geneva-born Henri Dunant, a founder of this international organization, shared the first Peace Prize in 1901 the Red Cross |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1988 Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz is best known for tales of this African capital Cairo |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: 2 men received the 1909 Physics Prize for their work on wireless telegraphy: Karl Ferdinand Braun & this Italian Marconi |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: Willem Einthoven won for his galvanometer, better known as this device used to diagnose heart disease an electrocardiogram |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $2,000 (Daily Double): When the 1973 peace prize was awarded to 2 men, Le Duc Tho declined but this man accepted Henry Kissinger |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $400: One of the 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won Pulitzers, in 1948 & 1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (or A Streetcar Named Desire) |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $800: He won Pulitzers for "Our Town" & "The Skin of our Teeth" (Thornton) Wilder |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $1200: Horton Foote won a 1995 Pulitzer for his play "The Young Man from" this state capital Atlanta |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $1600: "You Can't Take It With You" unless you're George S. Kaufman & this partner, who took home the prize in 1937 Moss Hart |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $2000: It's the 3-letter title of Margaret Edson's play about a woman dying of cancer Wit |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $400: 6 of the first 9 winners wore these; Giosuè Carducci's was the bristliest & pointiest beards |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Like William Inge, Gao Xingjian wrote a play with this transport venue as its title, but his helped win him a Nobel Prize a bus stop |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1200: Writers from Norway, Sweden & Denmark had already won; in 1939 it was the turn of someone from this country Finland |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1600: Only Dag Hammarskjold & Erik Karlfeldt have been awarded a Nobel Prize this way; it's not allowed anyore posthumously |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | OBSCURE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $2000: The Asian travels of 1944 winner Johannes Jensen got him dubbed Denmark's this British writer who won in 1907 Rudyard Kipling |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1953:
This British politician (Winston) Churchill |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $800: 1995:
This non-heat-packing seamus from Ireland Seamus Heaney |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: 1957:
This Frenchman who wrote "The First Man" & "The Plague" Albert Camus |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 1969:
This playwright: did they keep him waiting? Beckett |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1978:
This Yiddish tale-teller Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE IG NOBEL PRIZE $200: An acoustics prize went to a study of why people hate the sound of fingernails interacting with this a chalkboard |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE IG NOBEL PRIZE $400: A physics prize went to Robert Matthews for demonstrating why buttered toast usually does this when you drop it falls on the butter side |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE IG NOBEL PRIZE $600: "Viva" this "love" drug! An aviation prize was awarded for discovering it aided in jetlag recovery in hamsters Viagra |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE IG NOBEL PRIZE $800: An Aussie woman's study of this 3-letter word & the alphabetical order problems it creates won a literature award "the" |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE IG NOBEL PRIZE $1000: A medical award went to a "penetrating... report" on this alliterative sideshow act "& its side effects" sword swallowing |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $200: This man shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Al Gore |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400: He felt honored & humbled that the Nobel committee gave the prize to "a simple monk from Tibet" the Dalai Lama |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $600: The Nobel committee felt solidarity in awarding the 1983 Peace Prize to this union leader Lech Walesa |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $800: F.W. De Klerk & this man went halfsies on the 1993 Peace Prize for the peaceful termination of apartheid (Nelson) Mandela |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue from inside the Jimmy Carter Library in Atlanta, Georgia.)
Jimmy Carter's library has his 2002 Nobel Peace Prize; he can also share the credit for the Peace Prize won in 1978 by these two men Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: This play that won the 1956 prize is set in the upper part of a building in Amsterdam The Diary Of Anne Frank |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: "We never had a losing season, boys; there's not many that can say that", says the coach in this Jason Miller play That Championship Season |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1200: In 2000 Donald Margulies won for serving us this meal "with friends" dinner |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1600: This partner of Lynn Fontanne got to star in "Idiot's Delight" after suggesting the idea for it to Robert Sherwood Alfred Lunt |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $2000: (Here's a friend of our show--Edward Albee.) In this play that won me my third Pulitzer Prize, all 3 of the title females are based on my adoptive mother Three Tall Women |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400: One of the two African Americans to win the prize, one in 1950, the other in 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. (& Ralph Bunche) |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $800: It's the number of U.S. presidents who've won the award three |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $1600: Though he never won, he was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 & again in 1948 a few days before his assassination (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $2,000 (Daily Double): This international organization won in 1917, 1944 & 1963 the Red Cross |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $2000: In 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi won the Peace Prize while living under house arrest in this nation Burma |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $400: The Pulitzer folks gave "A Delicate Balance" by this playwright a 1967 "Woolf" whistle Albee |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $800: David Mamet won in 1984 for this salesman drama whose title includes 2 4-letter words Glengarry Glen Ross |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $1200: In 1928 this playwright had a "Strange Interlude" O'Neill |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $1600: In 1989 her "Heidi Chronicles" was the story of the night; sadly she passed away in 2006 Wasserstein |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $2000: In 1938 this playwright's "Our Town" had some Pulitzer with the voters (Thornton) Wilder |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: William Laurence won a Prize in 1946 for his eyewitness account of the atomic bombing of this city, after Hiroshima Nagasaki |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: The Times won its first Pulitzer in 1918 for its coverage of this World War I |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: Max Frankel won a 1973 Prize for his reporting on President Nixon's trip to this country China |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1972 The Times won for meritorious public service for publishing these documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg the Pentagon Papers |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Wonder if he mentioned his 1979 win for his "Observer" column in his memoir "Growing Up"? Russell Baker |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $400: While recovering from back surgery, JFK penned this 1957 winner, the stories of 8 U.S. Senators Profiles in Courage |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $800: The winning book of 1978 was a bio of this man by W. Jackson Bate, not Boswell (Samuel) Johnson |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $1200: Still on a high from a 1933 win for a bio of this 22nd & 24th Pres., Allan Nevins won again in 1937 with "Hamilton Fish" (Grover) Cleveland |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $2000: The 1946 winner, "Son of the Wilderness", detailed the life of this Sierra Club founder John Muir |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $3,200 (Daily Double): Glory, Hallelujah! She was the subject of the first Pulitzer Prize-winning biography in 1917 Julia Ward Howe |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $200: Winners of the Templeton Prize for Understanding of this include Baba Amte, Rabbi Jakobovits & the Rev. Peacocke Religion |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $400: (Lech Walesa delivers the clue, speaking in Polish: I'm Lech Walesa,) In 1983 I was picking mushrooms near Gdansk when it was announced I had won this prize the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $600: In April 2002 at the age of 88, Henry Brant won this prize, also given to journalists, for music the Pulitzer Prize |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $800: The $100,000 Potamkin Prize is for research in this aging disease that afflicted Mrs. Potamkin Alzheimer's disease |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $1000: This famous British gallery that has lots of J.M.W. Turner works gives the Turner Prize for Contemporary Art the Tate Gallery |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | CELEBRATING THE NOBEL PRIZE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Stockholm, Sweden.) At the Nobel Prize banquet, these two people receive the guests of honor here in the Prince's Gallery the king & queen of Sweden |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | CELEBRATING THE NOBEL PRIZE $400: In 1901 the first Nobel Prize banquet had male guests only; this woman became the first female guest in 1903 Madame Curie |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | CELEBRATING THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Stockholm, Sweden.) This hall, home to the Nobel Prize banquet, was supposed to be its namesake color, but the architect didn't want to cover the red brick the Blue Hall |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | CELEBRATING THE NOBEL PRIZE $800: In the years from 1913 to 1936, Nobel Prize banqueters often feasted on a soup named for this reptile a turtle (turtle soup accepted) |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | CELEBRATING THE NOBEL PRIZE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Stockholm, Sweden.) At the 1976 Nobel banquet here in Stockholm, this novelist humbly said, "I loved books, and I wrote some" Saul Bellow |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | A VERY SPECIAL PULITZER PRIZE $400: 1984:
To this "physician", for his books of playful rhymes, nonsense words & strange illustrations Dr. Seuss |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | A VERY SPECIAL PULITZER PRIZE $800: 1960:
To Professor Garrett Mattingly, for his study of this 16th century Spanish fleet the Armada |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | A VERY SPECIAL PULITZER PRIZE $1200: 1978:
To Richard Lee Strout, for his body of work for this "Christian" publication the Christian Science Monitor |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | A VERY SPECIAL PULITZER PRIZE $1600: 1952:
To this Missouri city's Star newspaper, for its coverage of a series of natural disasters Kansas City |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | A VERY SPECIAL PULITZER PRIZE $2000: 1938:
To this Alberta city's Journal newspaper, for its freedom of the press editorials Edmonton |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $200: A. Scott Berg won in 1999 for a bio on this guy who won in 1954 with "The Spirit of St. Louis" Charles Lindbergh |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $400: Forrest Wilson's "Crusader in Crinoline" tackled the life of this novelist & abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $600: In 1944 Carleton Mabee dubbed this telegraph pioneer "The American Leonardo" Morse |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $1000: David Herbert Donald's 1988 winner "Look Homeward" was "A Life of" this author Thomas Wolfe |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $2,500 (Daily Double): Emory Holloway's sampler of this poet's life won for 1927 Walt Whitman |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $400: A reading room at the Lorain Public Library in Ohio is named for this "Beloved" prize-winner from 1988 (Toni) Morrison |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $800: In 1923 she won a Pulitzer for her novel "One of Ours", set where else but in Nebraska Willa Cather |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $1200: Her Cross Creek farmhouse where she penned "The Yearling" is part of a state historic site in Florida Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $2000: Sadly, like her friend & fellow poet Sylvia Plath, this winner for "Live or Die" died by her own hand, in 1974 Anne Sexton |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $6,000 (Daily Double): This member of a prominent Boston family won a 1926 Pulitzer for her poetry collection "What's O'Clock" Amy Lowell |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $400: "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $800: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" Thornton Wilder |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1200: "The Fixer" Bernard Malamud |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1600: "All the King's Men" Robert Penn Warren |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $2000: "A Confederacy of Dunces" John Kennedy Toole |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | WORLD OF NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $400: Jean-Paul Sartre France |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | WORLD OF NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $800: William Butler Yeats Ireland |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | WORLD OF NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1200: Knut Hamsun Norway |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | WORLD OF NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1600: Nadine Gordimer South Africa |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | WORLD OF NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $2000: Halldor Laxness Iceland |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $400: Frank D. Gilroy:
"The Subject Was..." Roses |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $800: Paul Zindel:
"The Effect of Gamma Rays on..." Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $1200: John Patrick:
"The Teahouse..." of the August Moon |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $1600: William Inge: Picnic |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $2000: Marsha Norman:
"'Night,..." Mother |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: Robert Engle & Clive Granger earned this prize for their new statistical models for financial data Economics |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: Of both Boer & English descent, J.M. Coetzee of this country won the Nobel for Literature South Africa |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: Abriskosov, Ginzburg & Leggett fielded this award for their work with quantum superconductivity Physics |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: John Paul II was the favorite, but Shirin Ebadi, a female Muslim from this country, took home the Peace Prize Iran |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur & Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel Medicine |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $200: 1979: A nun like none other Mother Teresa |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1990:
A Communist party head Mikhail Gorbachev |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $600: 1964: An American clergyman Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: 1978: An Israeli & an Egyptian Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1000: 1961:
A U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $200: Bill Mauldin in 1945 & 1959 Cartooning |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $400: Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima Photography |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $600: Robert Lowell in 1947 & 1974 Poetry |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $800: Samuel Barber in 1958 & 1963 Music |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $1000: David McCullough, twice Biography |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1980:
"A Hangman's Ditty" Executioner's Song |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1986:
"Friendless Pigeon" Lonesome Dove |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1968:
"Some Guilt Admissions from an Antislavery Rebellion Leader" The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS IN OTHER WORDS $1600: 1991:
"Bunny Napping" Rabbit at Rest |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1981:
"One Alliance Made from Morons" A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: In 2000 Gao Xingjian became the first writer from this country to win the Nobel Prize for Literature China |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $700 (Daily Double): It doesn't take a nuclear physicist to figure out that he won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize Andrei Sakharov |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: He was teaching at the University of Chicago when he won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics Milton Friedman |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1200: In 1943 the Nobel assembly gave a dam, Henrik Dam, a prize for discovering this vitamin which aids in blood clotting vitamin K |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1600: Willard Libby won a Chemistry prize for his method of using this radioactive isotope to date fossils & other objects carbon-14/radiocarbon |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $200: "Rabbit at Rest" John Updike |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $400: "Tales of the South Pacific" James Michener |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $600: "The Reivers" William Faulkner |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $800: "A Bell for Adano" John Hersey |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORS $1000: "Advise and Consent" Allen Drury |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $200: In 1993 the prize was given jointly to F.W. de Klerk & this leader who succeeded him Nelson Mandela |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: Afraid that Poland would bar his return from Oslo, he received his 1983 prize in absentia Lech Walesa |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: An advocate for human rights, Rigoberta Menchu of this Central American country won the 1992 prize Guatemala |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2,500 (Daily Double): 1 of only 2 U.S. presidents to win the prize Teddy Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | NOBEL PRIZE MEDALS $200: 3 men form a fraternal bond on the back of the medal for this Peace |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | NOBEL PRIZE MEDALS $400: The medal for this shows a singing muse & some lines from Virgil Literature |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | NOBEL PRIZE MEDALS $600: A sick girl's thirst is about to be quenched in the image on this medal Medicine |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | NOBEL PRIZE MEDALS $800: At the bottom of this discipline's medal, you can see crossed horns of plenty Economics |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | NOBEL PRIZE MEDALS $1000: The medal showing nature as a goddess is given for these 2 sciences Physics & Chemistry |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $200: He's the only British prime minister to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Winston Churchill |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $400: In 1901 he won the first prize for Physics for his discovery of x-rays Wilhelm Roentgen |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: This 1952 Peace Prize recipient used his prize to expand his hospital & found a leper colony in Gabon Albert Schweitzer |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $800: Gerard Debreu won this prize in 1983 for his mathematical model proving the law of supply & demand Economics |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $1000: The Royal Caroline Institute in Stockholm awards the Nobel Prize in this category Medicine |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | PULITZER PRIZE BIOGRAPHIES $200: 1954's winner was this man's book "The Spirit of St. Louis" Charles Lindbergh |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | PULITZER PRIZE BIOGRAPHIES $400: Marquis James won for 1930 with "The Raven", a biography of this Texas freedom fighter Sam Houston |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | PULITZER PRIZE BIOGRAPHIES $600: Walter Jackson Bate, not James Boswell, won in 1978 for a biography on this man Samuel Johnson |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | PULITZER PRIZE BIOGRAPHIES $1000: The 1995 HBO film "Truman" was based on this man's 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning book David McCullough |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | PULITZER PRIZE BIOGRAPHIES $1,800 (Daily Double): In 1944 Carleton Mabee won for "The American Leonardo: The Life Of" this artist & inventor Samuel FB Morse |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $400: In selecting her for the 1979 Peace Prize, the committee cited her work with refugees & children Mother Teresa |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: This Italian won the 1938 Physics Award for discovering radioactive elements beyond uranium Enrico Fermi |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $800: This Russian physiologist's 1904 Nobel Prize was for his work on the physiology of digestion Ivan Pavlov |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1969 Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinbergen became the first to win in this newly established category Economics |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: The 1960 Peace Prize went to Albert Luthuli, the first person from this continent to win it Africa |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: He became the first American to win the Literature Prize the year after his "Dodsworth" appeared Sinclair Lewis |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: This Vitamin C guru's "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" is one of the century's major scientific books Linus Pauling |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: Jules Bordet identified the bacillus responsible for this disease also called pertussis whooping cough |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Antony Hewish won the 1974 prize for discovering these stars that emit bursts of radiation pulsars |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: In this 1940 winner, Steinbeck alternates narrative with discussion of the problems of migrant workers The Grapes of Wrath |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: Will Durant shared a Pulitzer for "Rousseau and Revolution" with this woman, his wife Ariel |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: This American historian, born Barbara Wertheim in 1912, won 2 Pulitzers for general nonfiction Barbara Tuchman |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: James Michener won his only Pulitzer Prize for this, his first book of fiction Tales of the South Pacific |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: This Truman Secretary of State won for his autobiographical book "Present at the Creation" Dean Acheson |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $200: This Illinois poet's "Complete Poems" won in 1951; his "Corn Huskers" shared a 1919 prize Carl Sandburg |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $400: In this family, Amy won in 1926 & her cousin Robert won in 1947 the Lowells |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $600: He won 4 times in 3 decades: the 1920s, '30s & '40s Robert Frost |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $1000: 1979's winner, in 1986 he was made the first U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $2,500 (Daily Double): The 2 winners in the 1920s who had Vincent in their names Edna St. Vincent Millay & Stephen Vincent Benet |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $200: This novel that won the 1937 Pulitzer was originally entitled "Tomorrow is Another Day" "Gone with the Wind" |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $400: This 1932 winner begins with the marriage of Wang Lung & O-lan "The Good Earth" |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $600: Larry McMurtry won the 1986 prize for this novel "Lonesome Dove" |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $800: Von Humboldt Fleischer is the title character of this 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Humboldt's Gift" |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): She received a 1989 Pulitzer for her bestselling novel "Breathing Lessons" Anne Tyler |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $200: He won the Fiction prize for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" 10 years before his drama prize for "Our Town" Thornton Wilder |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $400: John Kennedy Toole, who died in 1969, won for "A Confederacy of" these in 1981 Dunces |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $600: She won for her only published novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $800: William Styron based this winner on a transcript of the testimony of the slave who led an uprising The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $1000: He won for "Alice Adams" 3 years after his win for "The Magnificent Ambersons" Booth Tarkington |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $200: He picked up the $3,000 prize for 1991 with "Lost in Yonkers" Neil Simon |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In 1956 Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett won for a play based on this girl's diary Anne Frank |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Thornton Wilder won in 1943 for "The Skin of Our Teeth" & in 1938 for this Play Our Town |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A famous line in one of his award-winning works is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Tennessee Williams |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: 1 of the 2 unrelated Millers who won the award 24 years apart (1 of) Arthur Miller (Jason Miller) |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $200: 3 of the 4 people honored in 1901 & 1902 were from this neutral country Switzerland |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $600 (Daily Double): After Andrei Sakharov in 1975, he was the next Russian to win Gorbachev |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $600: 1960 Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert John Luthuli was a chief of this African people the Zulu |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $800: This Holocaust survivor won the prize in 1986 Elie Wiesel |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $1000: Saying that peace had not been achieved, this North Vietnamese negotiator turned down the 1973 prize Le Duc Tho |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $200: Lee J. Cobb was just 37 when he played 60-something Willy Loman in this 1949 Prize winner Death of a Salesman |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: In 1992 "The Kentucky Cycle" became the first play to win without being produced in this city New York |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $600: He directed his wife Vivien Leigh in the 1945 London production of "The Skin of Our Teeth" Laurence Olivier |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: Jessica Lange played Blanche DuBois in this play 45 years after Jessica Tandy created the role A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: He received the Literature Prize primarily for "The Winter of Our Discontent", not "The Grapes of Wrath" Steinbeck |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: Simon Kuznets won in this category in 1971 for his concept of using GNP to determine growth economics |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: Bark if you know that this Russian won the Physiology or Medicine Prize in 1904 for work on digestion Pavlov |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: This West German leader who won the Peace Prize in 1971 died in 1992 Willy Brandt |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $2,800 (Daily Double): Seaborg & McMillan won the Chemistry Prize for discovering this element, named for the 9th planet plutonium |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $200: The color of the "pastures" in the title of Marc Connelly's 1930 prize winner Green |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: This 1938 winner written by Thornton Wilder was revived in 1991 with Alan Alda as the stage manager Our Town |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $600: Paul Newman appeared in the original cast of this William Inge play whose title could attract ants Picnic |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: Slinky Kathleen Turner slunk across the stage in a slip in a 1990 revival of this "feline" drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1000: Based on a nonfiction work, this play set in the Netherlands won a 1956 Pulitzer Prize The Diary of Anne Frank |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $200: 1960s winner "Fiorello!" opens when this title character is still a Greenwich Village lawyer Fiorello LaGuardia |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: The 1988 prize went to this Alfred Uhry play about a feisty old woman & her chauffeur Driving Miss Daisy |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $600: He won 3 times in the 1920s for "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie" & "Strange Interlude" (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: Inspired by a painting, this Sondheim musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Sunday in the Park with George |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $2,500 (Daily Double): The 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won Pulitzer Prizes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof & A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $100: The 2 Soviets to win a Nobel Peace Prize are Andrei Sakharov & this man Gorbachev |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $200: In 1983, he became the first Pole to win a Nobel Peace Prize Lech Wałęsa |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $300: Americans who won for their plans include Charles Dawes for 1925 & this man for 1953 (George) Marshall |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400: She lived through the Civil War & WWI, founded a settlement house, fought for peace, & won the prize for 1931 Jane Addams |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $500: In October 1961, the committee awarded the prize to this late United Nations leader (Dag) Hammarskjöld |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $200: In 1978 Menachem Begin shared the Nobel Peace Prize with this Egyptian president Anwar Sadat |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $400: In addition to the cash award, winners also receive a diploma & one of these a lovely gold medal |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: Dennis Gabor won the 1971 Physics Prize for his invention of this 3-D photographic process holography |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $800: For his work on digestion, this Russian physiologist won a Nobel Prize in 1904 Pavlov |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $1,500 (Daily Double): A presidential advisor, he won the 1976 Prize for Economics Milton Friedman |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $200: The N.Y. Times won in 1972 for publishing these purloined papers the Pentagon Papers |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $400: Joe Rosenthal won for news photography in 1945 for his photo of this event the Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $600: Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, he won a 1975 Pulitzer for his film criticism Roger Ebert |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $1000: He won for "A Death in the Family", which was left unfinished when he died James Agee |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $1,200 (Daily Double): The only work for which Hemingway won a Pulitzer was this 1952 novella The Old Man and the Sea |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $200: When he won in 1990, President Bush called him "a courageous force for peace in the world" Gorbachev |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: This U.S. president won the 1919 prize for advocating the League of Nations & world peace Woodrow Wilson |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $600: John Dunant won for organizing the convention here which set rules for treating war wounded Geneva |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: Better known for her Hull House, she won as President of the International League for Peace & Freedom Jane Addams |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1000: This former Berlin mayor won for improving East-West relations & lived to see the wall fall Willy Brandt |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: In 1943 he could have stopped by the Pulitzers on a snowy evening to pick up his 4th for poetry Robert Frost |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: He was awarded one Pulitzer for "The Dragons of Eden", not billions & billions Carl Sagan |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: He's still listed as the winner for fiction in 1926 even tho he turned down the prize for "Arrowsmith" Sinclair Lewis |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This university was given a special citation in 1947 for a job well done in giving out Pulitzers Columbia |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Berke Breathed, who draws this strip, won the 1987 Pulitzer for Editorial Cartooning Bloom County |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $200: Joseph P. Lash won for his biography of this historical couple, based on Eleanor's private papers The Roosevelts (Eleanor & Franklin) |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $400: He won a special citation in 1977 for "Roots" Alex Haley |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $600: TV astronomer who, in 1978, won a Pulitzer for "The Dragons of Eden" Carl Sagan |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $800: Thornton Wilder's prize-winning play about life & death in a small "corner" of New Hampshire Our Town |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $1000: Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden all won the prize for this type of literature poetry |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $200: This 1976 winner is still playing on Broadway after over 5,000 performances "A Chorus Line" |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: He won prizes for "Seascape" & "A Delicate Balance", but not for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Edward Albee |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $600: The play based on her diary won the Pulitzer in 1956 Anne Frank |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: The original cast of this prizewinner included Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter & Marlon Brando "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1000: This 1962 winner featured the songs "A Secretary is Not a Toy", "The Company Way" & "Coffee Break" "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $200: Pearl Buck's only Pulitzer-winning novel The Good Earth |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $400: John Steinbeck's 1940 novel about the Joad family's journey The Grapes of Wrath |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $600: Booth Tarkington won in 1919 for this novel, perhaps best known as an Orson Welles film The Magnificent Ambersons |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $800: He won 2 Pulitzer prizes for drama & 1 for a novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" Thornton Wilder |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $1000: Virginia-born Wm. Styron won for his book, "The Confessions of" this actual leader of a slave revolt Nat Turner |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZE $200: In 1903, she split a physics prize with her husband Pierre, but in 1911 got her own for chemistry Madame Curie |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZE $400: He picked up his Nobel Prize in 1904 in medicine, & if they rang a bell he would have done it again Pavlov |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZE $500 (Daily Double): 2 of 15 U.S. individuals to win or share a Nobel Peace Prize Kissinger & Bunche |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZE $600: The last category to be added; its current winner, Richard Stone, created a system to compute GNP economics |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZE $800: Winners receive a cash award, a medal & this to mark their graduation into the Nobel Prize ranks a diploma |
| #41, aired 1984-11-05 | NOBEL PRIZE $200: His Physics prize was for work on photoelectric effect, not theory of relativity Einstein |
| #41, aired 1984-11-05 | NOBEL PRIZE $400: This literature winner wrote "The Good Earth" in 3 months Pearl Buck |
| #41, aired 1984-11-05 | NOBEL PRIZE $600: Father & son physics winners Niels & Aage Bohr were from this Scandinavian country Denmark |
| #41, aired 1984-11-05 | NOBEL PRIZE $800: "Twisted ladder" model of this substance brought medicine award to Watson & Crick DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) |
