| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $400: MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer Brutus |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $800: Paul Mescal is the fighter Lucius in "Gladiator II"; Russell Crowe is this super-sized fighter in the original Maximus |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $1200: Emil Jannings & Peter Ustinov both burned up the screen as this emperor in films based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' "Quo Vadis" Nero |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Centurion", the ninth of these army units is on a mission to Scotland to wipe out the Picts; it doesn't go well legion |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $2000: Who can forget Jack Palance as this invader whose army threatened Rome in the 5th century & in 1954's "Sign of the Pagan"? Attila the Hun |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | CHAPEL ROME $400: Sparkling in gold tesserae, the Chapel of Saint Zeno is known for this tile-y type of art from the early Christian era mosaic |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | CHAPEL ROME $800: The biggest in Rome in the 1580s, a chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore shares this name with a famous one across the Tiber the Sistine Chapel |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | CHAPEL ROME $1200: The church of the Gesù in Rome, the mother church of this order, includes the chapel of Ignatius of Loyola the Jesuits |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | CHAPEL ROME $1600: A Caravaggio painting in the Contarelli Chapel in Rome shows Jesus pointing at this tax collector turned Apostle Matthew |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | CHAPEL ROME $2000: The sancta sanctorum of the Lateran Palace was the private chapel of the papacy before the popes moved to this city in France Avignon |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $400: Most visitors to the Capitoline Museums don't turn to stone when they see Bernini's bust of this slithery gal Medusa |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $800: Legend says that if you toss a coin into this Baroque masterpiece, you'll return to Rome Trevi Fountain |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $1200: The Pinacoteca, a collection of religious paintings begun by Pius VI, is one of many museums in this enclave Vatican City |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $1600: Roman ceilings, walls & floors display this type of art made of bits of material; you can walk on fine examples in Ostia mosaic |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $5,000 (Daily Double): In the Gallery of Borghese, Caravaggio's portrait of this saint shows him with his head still on his shoulders John the Baptist |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $200: 390 B.C.:
These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome the Gauls |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $400: 410 A.D.:
Under Alaric, these "Westerners" sack Rome Visigoths |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $600: 455 A.D.:
These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage & destruction, sack Rome the Vandals |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $800: 1084 A.D.:
Having successfully invaded England 18 years before, they then sack Rome the Normans |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $1000: 1527 A.D.:
Spanish & German troops working for this "Empire" end the High Renaissance by sacking Rome the Holy Roman Empire |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WHEN IN ROME $400: Visit this monument, also called the Flavian Amphitheatre the Colosseum |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WHEN IN ROME $800: Take a day trip to Pompeii & visit the archaeological sites or hike up this volcano for the views Vesuvius |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WHEN IN ROME $1200: Get a little cardio bounding up the 138 of these, which lead to the upper piazza & the Trinita Dei Monti Church (the) Spanish Steps |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WHEN IN ROME $1,800 (Daily Double): Explore these underground passages that were used as ancient cemeteries catacombs |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WHEN IN ROME $2000: Stop by the Borghese Gallery to see this sculptor architect's different take on "David" Bernini |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $200: As a patrician, you could not do this with a plebeian until 445 B.C.'s Lex Canuleia marry |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $400: You could go to the July 23 festival of this sea god & hit his temple in the Circus Flaminius Neptune |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $600: Guess you couldn't be a gladiator judge if you were one of the Roman men who cut this off to avoid military service a thumb |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $800: The first stop when you went to these was the apodyterium & if you were rich enough, you brought a slave to watch your clothes the baths |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $1000: On Sept. 2, 44 B.C. you could take in the first of his 14 Philippic orations; he sure did love to orate, until it got him executed Cicero |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $200: This general & statesman became dictator in 46 B.C. but was assassinated on the ides of March by Brutus & others (Julius) Caesar |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $400: 4-letter word for the loose-fitting outer garment made from a single piece of cloth a toga |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $600: The poet Horace wrote "Carpe diem", meaning this; his quote continues on to say not to trust tomorrow seize the day |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: In the 70s B.C. this gladiator led a slave revolt; Kirk Douglas played him on film Spartacus |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $2,500 (Daily Double): Also known as the Flavian Amphitheater, this large arena could seat 50,000 spectators the Colosseum |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $400: A caldarium was a hot room section of one of these attractions bath |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $800: A slave who had been trained to be one of these was a paedagogus, related to an English word that ends -ogue teacher |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $1200: An occulus is a circular opening at the apex of a dome, like the one in the roof of this ancient building Pantheon |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $1600: An auspex read omens from watching the movements of these animals from which the word auspex partly derives birds |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $2000: Later a word for a record player needle, it was once a metal tool used to scratch words onto wax-covered tablets stylus |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | TO LEAD ROME $200: A funny thing happened in the 2nd c.: Trajan built a 900 X 600-foot one of these public gathering places--OK, not so funny a forum |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | TO LEAD ROME $400: After the regime known as the Roman this government came to an end, Augustus became the first emperor the Republic |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | TO LEAD ROME $600: This general of Rome's first triumvirate got the nickname Magnus, or "the Great", from his troops Pompey |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | TO LEAD ROME $800: After Caligula's murder, Claudius was made emperor by these guards the Praetorian Guard |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | TO LEAD ROME $1000: The infamous Commodus was the son of this "Golden Era" ruler Marcus Aurelius |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANCIENT ROME FICTION $400: Thornton Wilder's novel about the time of Julius Caesar in Rome has this title, like an unlucky date for Julius The Ides of March |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANCIENT ROME FICTION $1200: When the death of a popular politician threatens to destroy the Roman Republic, Gordianus the Finder must solve "A Murder on" this famous road the Appian Way |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANCIENT ROME FICTION $1600: In "The Eagle of the Ninth", a soldier seeks to discover what became of a legion that went missing in this faraway island Britain |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANCIENT ROME FICTION $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Gladiator" & "Rebellion" are the subtitles of Ben Kane's books about this man who led a slave army against Rome Spartacus |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANCIENT ROME FICTION $2000: This novel by Robert Graves is written as the memoir of a reluctant 1st century Roman emperor I, Claudius |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Now a term for any tyrannical leader, this title was given to Julius Caesar during a time of crisis dictator |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ANCIENT ROME $800: The legendary founders of Rome, Romulus & Remus had Rhea for a mother & this war god for a dad Mars |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ANCIENT ROME $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a general on the monitor.) An expression in ancient Rome to express danger or scare kids referred to the approach to Rome by this Carthaginian general, "____ ad portas" or him "at the gates" Hannibal |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: Agrippina's machinations led to this heir becoming Rome's first teenage emperor Nero |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ANCIENT ROME $5,600 (Daily Double): St. Ignatius of Antioch, who died around 110 A.D., was believed to be the first Christian to be martyred in this arena the Colosseum |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Around 509 B.C. the Romans formed this kingless type of government mentioned in the U.S. pledge of allegiance a republic |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $800: Constructed in 312 B.C., this major Roman road originally ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua in Campania the Appian Way |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1,200 (Daily Double): A 19th century historian wrongly thought the emperor Severus built this divider Hadrian's Wall |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1600: The Laws of 12 Tables may have settled disputes between the wealthy patricians & this class of common people plebeians |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: In 390 B.C. an army of this Celtic group had the distinction of being the first group to sack Rome the Gauls |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | ANCIENT ROME $400: A typical Roman home had a cubiculum, or bedroom & a culina, this a kitchen |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | ANCIENT ROME $800: This first emperor overhauled all aspects of Roman life in his regime, which he called the principate Augustus |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | ANCIENT ROME $1200: A retiarius was a gladiator who wore very little armor & fought with a trident & this to entangle his opponent a net |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | ANCIENT ROME $1600: With a population of more than a half million, this Egyptian seaport was the second-largest city in the empire Alexandria |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: By 23 A.D. the prefect Sejanus became the sole commander of these elite protectors of the emperor the Praetorian Guard |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $400: Most visitors to the Capitoline Museums don't turn to stone when they see Bernini's bust of this slithery gal Medusa |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $800: The Pinacoteca, a collection of religious paintings begun by Pius VI, is one of many museums in this enclave the Vatican |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $1200: The terracotta Sarcophagus of the Spouses reclines at Rome's National Museum of these darn ancient people Etruscans |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $1600: Roman ceilings, walls & floors displayed this type of art made of bits of material; you can walk on fine examples in Ostia mosaic |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $6,000 (Daily Double): In the Galleria Borghese, Caravaggio's portrait of this saint shows him with his head still on his shoulders John the Baptist |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ROME ANTICS $400: If you're running these steps found in Rome, be aware their Italian name is Scalinata della Trinita dei Monti the Spanish Steps |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ROME ANTICS $800: Gen. Mark Clark said that on seeing this in 1944, a G.I. said, "Gee, I didn't know our bombers had done that much damage in Rome" the Colosseum |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ROME ANTICS $1200: The capture of Rome in 1870 was the final phase in the Risorgimento, this important event for Italians the reunification of Italy |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ROME ANTICS $1600: This Bible book ends with Paul arriving in Rome & starting to preach there Acts (of the Apostles) |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ROME ANTICS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2015 this landmark reopened after a 17-month restoration--don't forget to bring coins to throw the Trevi Fountain |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | WHEN IN ROME... $400: See this amphitheater measuring about 1/3 mile around & having an approximately 160-foot facade the Coliseum |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | WHEN IN ROME... $800: Visit this country the city surrounds completely Vatican City |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | WHEN IN ROME... $1200: Bust out your Barnum & Bailey, combine that with some Latin & hit this chariot-racing arena said to hold 250,000 Circus Maximus |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | WHEN IN ROME... $1600: Enjoy this landmark completed in 1762. Rumor has it, if you throw a coin in, you'll return to the city the Trevi Fountain |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | WHEN IN ROME... $2000: Get an "E" for effort pointing out this ancient hill of Rome where you can see the Santa Maria Maggiore church the Esquiline Hill |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | ANCIENT ROME $200: The last emperor of Rome, who was overthrown in 476, shared his name with this legendary founder of the city Romulus |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Carved on stone or metal, the acta diurna was an early newspaper posted this often in a public area daily |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | ANCIENT ROME $600: Roman roads were built with concrete made from pozzolana, ash from these; the roads by Pompeii must've been good volcanoes |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | ANCIENT ROME $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) In ancient Rome, triumphant generals paraded into the city through the Campus Martius, which lay between Capitoline Hill & this river the Tiber |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: Latin for "father of the family", he was the oldest living male of the family & had total control of his household pater familias |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $400: During the siege of a city, the Romans might use an aries, one of these, to knock down the city's walls a battering ram |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $800: Ostia, a town lying 15 miles from Rome on the mouth of this river, served as Rome's port the Tiber |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $1200: This government body met in the Curia Julia, a rectangular brick building situated in the Forum the Senate |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $1600: On June 9, 68 A.D. this emperor told the centurion who'd come to arrest him, "this is fidelity" as he died by his own hand Nero |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) An emperor's visit to Britain in 122 A.D. led to the building of this defensive barrier that remained effective for almost 300 years Hadrian's Wall |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ROME, IF YOU WANT TO $400: 3,000 Romans at a time could clean up in this facility named for Diocletian the Baths |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ROME, IF YOU WANT TO $800: Rome lies on both banks of this roughly 250-mile-long river the Tiber |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ROME, IF YOU WANT TO $1200: Nicola Salvi won a 1732 competition by designing this Baroque fountain; it took 30 years to complete the Trevi Fountain |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ROME, IF YOU WANT TO $1600: The ruins of the Domus Aurea, this Emperor's "Golden House" built after the Great Fire, sit in a public park in Rome Nero |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ROME, IF YOU WANT TO $2000: This Roman street that runs
from the Villa Borghese
to the Piazza Barberini
was portrayed
in "La Dolce vita" Via Veneto |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | WHEN IN ROME? $400: The U.S. Fifth Army comes to town: June 4 of this year 1944 |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | WHEN IN ROME? $800: Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel: this century the 16th |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | WHEN IN ROME? $1200: Mussolini becomes prime minister: this decade the 1920s |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | WHEN IN ROME? $1600: Rome burns while an emperor relaxes in his villa at Antium: this century 1st (A.D.) |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | WHEN IN ROME? $2000: Charlemagne is crowned emperor by Pope Leo III: this day, 800 A.D. Christmas |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | ROME, THE ETERNAL CITY $200: Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers commemorates the Nile, the Danube, the Plata & this river of India the Ganges |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | ROME, THE ETERNAL CITY $400: You can see the rebuilt Ara Pacis, or Altar of this; ironically, it was built in the field of Mars Peace |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | ROME, THE ETERNAL CITY $600: This Roman arena was begun by Vespasian around 75 A.D. & dedicated by his son Titus in 80 A.D. the Colosseum |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | ROME, THE ETERNAL CITY $800: The Santa Susanna Church in Rome is considered the national church there for this country's Catholics the United States |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | ROME, THE ETERNAL CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): There are 138 of these "National" steps that lead up to the Trinita Dei Monti Church Spanish Steps |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | ANCIENT ROME $400: In the first Punic War, Rome conquered this island to the south, making it the first Roman province Sicily |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | ANCIENT ROME $800: A quarter of a million people crowded into this largest hippodrome to watch the chariot races the Circus Maximus |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | ANCIENT ROME $1200: The Curia was the meeting place of this most powerful political body in the Republic the Senate |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | ANCIENT ROME $1600: He was the first Roman emperor, & his 40-year reign marked the beginning of the Pax Romana Augustus |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: In 330 A.D. the capital of the Roman Empire moved from Rome to this city much farther east Byzantium |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | ROME $400: Roman candidates for public office made these whiter by rubbing them with chalk; black ones were worn at funerals togas |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | ROME $800: In the mid-1st century, Rome was trading one amphora of this for one slave from Gaul wine |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | ROME $1200: The domus was a single-family house, & insulae were a block or blocks of these apartments |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | ROME $2000: It's said Romulus founded Rome on this hill, found between the Circus Maximus & the Colosseum the Palatine |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | ROME $3,800 (Daily Double): Virgil tells of the travels of this vowel-heavy Trojan prince who laid the groundwork for Rome Aeneas |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Rome captured this largest Mediterranean island in the First Punic War & made it the first Roman province Sicily |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $800: King Ancus Marcius is said to have built the Sublician Bridge, the first bridge across this river, in the 7th c. B.C. the Tiber |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $1200: In 27 B.C. Octavian became the first Roman emperor & took this name that means "exalted" Augustus |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $1600: Members of Rome's oldest & richest families were called patricians; the rest of Rome's citizens were called this plebeians |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: The first book of this Roman poet's "Ars Amatoria", or "Art of Love", instructs its readers how to find a lover Ovid |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $400: This "Great" king of the New Testament became King of Judea with Rome's help in 37 B.C. Herod |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $800: Led by Bleda & his brother, this group attacked Rome in the 5th century A.D. the Huns |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $1600: In Cicero's day, this December Roman festival of unrestrained merrymaking lasted for 7 days Saturnalia |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "offspring", they were the lowest class of ancient Roman citizens the proletariat |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $2000: The most central of Rome's 7 hills; Nero & Augustus lived on it the Palatine |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | ROME $400: Site of many a great soccer match, Rome's Sports Palace was originally built for this 1960 event the Olympics |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | ROME $800: Rome lies on both banks of this river, 15 miles east of the Tyrrhenian Sea the Tiber |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | ROME $1200: Built during the 1400s, Rome's fabulous Venezia Palace served as this man's headquarters in the '20s & '30s Mussolini |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | ROME $1600: The headliner at the San Silvestro in Rome's Capite Church is the reputed head of this saint; bring it to me! John the Baptist |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | ROME $2000: Collective numeric name for the Roman features known as the Aventine, the Caelian & 5 others the seven hills of Rome |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $200: 390 B.C.: These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome the Gauls |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $400: 410 A.D.: Under Alaric, these "Westerners" sack Rome the Visigoths |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $800: 1084 A.D.: Having successfully invaded England 18 years before, they then sack Rome the Normans |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $1000: 1527 A.D.: French & German troops working for this "Empire" end the High Renaissance by sacking Rome the Holy Roman Empire |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $3,800 (Daily Double): 455 A.D.: These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage & destruction, sack Rome the Vandals |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | OLD ROME $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Colosseum.) The arena floor was originally made out of wood & was covered in this substance, "arena" in Latin sand |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | OLD ROME $2000: This poet of "Odes" & "Satires" was educated in Athens & owned a farm in the Sabine Hills Horace |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ANCIENT ROME $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome) This type of Colosseum combat was abolished in 404 A.D. after a monk died trying to separate two combatants gladiatorial combat |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Less valuable than the aureus, the denarius was a coin made of this silver |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ANCIENT ROME $600: In the Forum in 44 B.C., he gave a rousing speech that may have begun, "Friends, Romans, countrymen..." Mark Antony |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ANCIENT ROME $800: This highest social class, whose name still refers to aristocracy, once made up the entire Senate Patricians |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome) The water for the Trevi Fountain is supplied by one of these structures, completed in 19 B.C. aqueduct |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | ROME-ANTIC MOVIES $400: When she played this title role, Claudette Colbert barged in on Mark Antony & let Caesar seize her Cleopatra |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | ROME-ANTIC MOVIES $800: Warren Beatty sports an Italian accent as a gigolo romancing this "GWTW" star in "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" Vivien Leigh |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | ROME-ANTIC MOVIES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome) The Spanish Steps never looked more romantic than when Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck visited them in this 1953 film Roman Holiday |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | ROME-ANTIC MOVIES $1600: Rent the 1933 comedy "Roman Scandals" to see this beauty play a captive princess decades before "Titanic" Gloria Stuart |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | ROME-ANTIC MOVIES $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Rome.) Swedish actress Anita Ekberg made quite a splash here in the Trevi Fountain in this classic Fellini film La Dolce Vita |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $400: This landmark undergoing a big restoration was home in 2001 to the historical exhibit "Blood and Arena" the Colosseum |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $800: A podium & 3 columns remain from the temple he built to Venus for granting his win over Pompey Julius Caesar |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $1200: Of Keats, Shelley or Byron, the British poet whose remains are not buried in Rome Byron |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $1600: If you're Rome for the holidays, check out the Pope's balcony speech "Urbi et Orbi" at noon on this day Christmas |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $2000: You might stay at Le Grand Hotel, founded in 1894 by Cesar Ritz with this top chef in charge of the opening banquet Escoffier |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $100: Found in northwest Rome, it's Europe's largest Christian church St. Peter's Basilica |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $200: Examples of these in Rome include Il Messaggero, Il Tempo & La Repubblica Newspapers |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $300: It's the river that flows through the city Tiber |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $400: Built in celebration of military victories, it's the emperor's arch seen here Arch of Constantine |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $500: The seat of the Italian senate since 1871, Rome's Madama Palace was once owned by this powerful family Medici |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | ANCIENT ROME $100: The ides of this month was special; it honored not only Jupiter but the goddess Anna Perenna, too March |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | ANCIENT ROME $200: It's a cinch you'll know this toxic metal was used for water pipes lead |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Under Julius Caesar there were 900 of these, 9 times as many as Clinton has to deal with senators |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | ANCIENT ROME $500 (Daily Double): During a siege the Romans might have used an aries, one of these, to break into the enemy's fortifications a battering ram |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | ANCIENT ROME $500: In 20 B.C. the Curatores Viarum was a board set up to manage these highways (or roads) |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | WHEN IN ROME, N.Y. $200: In Rome you can visit the tomb of these nameless warriors of the revolution Unknown Soldiers |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | WHEN IN ROME, N.Y. $400: A drum & bugle corps contest held annually is called "Drums Along" this nearby river The Mohawk |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | WHEN IN ROME, N.Y. $600: Do as the Romans Ski-Doo & ride this type of vehicle across the Tug Hill Plateau Snowmobile |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | WHEN IN ROME, N.Y. $1,000 (Daily Double): In Rome you're in this county that shares its name with an Indian tribe, a silverware brand & utopian group Oneida |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | WHEN IN ROME, N.Y. $1000: You can ride a horse-drawn boat along a restored section of this waterway Erie Canal |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ANCIENT ROME $100: Term for the commander of a "century", a group of about 100 soldiers Centurion |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ANCIENT ROME $200: At the 31 B.C. Battle of Actium, this pair commanded the combined Roman-Egyptian fleets Antony & Cleopatra |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ANCIENT ROME $300: Marcus Gavius Apicius wrote one of these in the first century; that's why Apician means gourmet Cookbook |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ANCIENT ROME $400: This "Younger" orator & letter writer whose "Elder" was killed by Vesuvius was governor of Bithynia Pliny |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ANCIENT ROME $500: His second wife, Pompeia, was a granddaughter of Sulla who, like him, ruled Rome as a dictator Julius Caesar |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | ANCIENT ROME $100: In 48 B.C., while pursuing Pompey into Egypt, this Roman dictator met Cleopatra Julius Caesar |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | ANCIENT ROME $200: This most powerful government body of Ancient Rome passed decrees & handled foreign policy Senate |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | ANCIENT ROME $300: With a population of about 750,000, this Egyptian city was the second largest in the Roman Empire Alexandria |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Sicily became the first Roman province after it was conquered in the first of these wars against Carthage Punic Wars |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | ANCIENT ROME $500: The Roman home was built around this spacious hall that had an opening in the roof to let in air & light Atrium |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $200: These gathering places called thermae contained a laconicum or steam room baths |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $400: The Flavian Amphitheater got this name from a large statue of Nero that once stood nearby Colosseum |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $600: In 146 B.C. Scipio Aemilianus captured this African city & destroyed its walls Carthage |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $800: This stammering emperor, once thrown into the Rhine by Caligula, succeeded him Claudius |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: Lucius Aelius Sejanus served as prefect in these imperial guards from 14 to 31 A.D. Praetorian Guard |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | ANCIENT ROME $100: Suetonius says this emperor sang while Rome burned & his last words were "What an artist dies with me" Nero |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | ANCIENT ROME $200: In 313 Constantine declared this religion legal Christianity |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | ANCIENT ROME $300: About 40 of these underground cemeteries stretch approximately 350 miles around Rome catacombs |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Coins celebrating Julius Caesar's murder had 2 daggers on them & "Eid-Mar", short for this the Ides of March |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | ANCIENT ROME $500: There were few statues of this goddess of the hearth; she was represented by an eternal flame Vesta |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | WHEN IN ROME... $100: Visitors can get a panoramic view of Rome from the top of the dome of this Vatican City church St. Peter's |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | WHEN IN ROME... $200: The family tomb of Scipio Africanus is one of the sights along this ancient road the Appian Way |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | WHEN IN ROME... $300: In a city of many fountains, the most famous is this one dominated by Oceanus in a sea chariot Trevi Fountain |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | WHEN IN ROME... $400: On Capitoline Hill, a white marble monument to this king contains Italy's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Victor Emmanuel |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | WHEN IN ROME... $500: At the end of a fine Roman meal, try this anise-flavored liqueur served with coffee beans sambuca |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ANCIENT ROME $100: Romans swam & got steamed at these popular meeting places; the ones of Diocletian were the largest the baths |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ANCIENT ROME $200: A retiarius was a gladiator who tried to entangle his opponent in one of these a net |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ANCIENT ROME $300: This Roman river is named for a king of Alba Longa who drowned in it the Tiber |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Around 445 B.C. this class of free citizens won the right to marry patricians the plebeians |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ANCIENT ROME $500: 13-letter Latin term for the "father of the family" who had total power over everyone in his household paterfamilias |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $200: This largest Roman amphitheatre was flooded for mock naval battles called naumachiae the Colosseum |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $400: This "fiddling" emperor scandalized the populace by performing in public in female roles Nero |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $600: Early Christians hid in these underground tunnels during times of persecution catacombs |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $800: Statues depict Romulus & Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, with this animal that nursed them a wolf |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: The curia, which still stands in the Roman forum, was the seat of this powerful government body the Senate |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | ANCIENT ROME $200: Marcus Junius & Decimus Junius were "Et 2" people with this name in the plot to kill Caesar Brutus |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | ANCIENT ROME $400: = = |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | ANCIENT ROME $600: = = |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: = = |
| #1818, aired 1992-06-24 | ANCIENT ROME $1,100 (Daily Double): = = |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | ANCIENT ROME $200: The center of Rome since the 8th century B.C., Caesar added the law court to it the Forum |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | ANCIENT ROME $600: In a Roman domus or house, the atrium was the courtyard, the hortus was the garden & the culina, this the kitchen |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: He was the first emperor to be assassinated Caligula |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | ANCIENT ROME $2,000 (Daily Double): In addition to ruling Rome as its first emperor, he ended the reign of the pharaohs Augustus (Caesar) (Octavius) |
| #1526, aired 1991-04-01 | ANCIENT ROME $200: The games featuring these fighters began in the 3rd Cent. B.C. as part of funeral ceremonies the gladiators |
| #1526, aired 1991-04-01 | ANCIENT ROME $400: The 4th king of Rome, Ancus Marcus, is credited with building the 1st bridge across this river the Tiber |
| #1526, aired 1991-04-01 | ANCIENT ROME $600: He named himself princeps, or first citizen, but is known in history as the first emperor Augustus |
| #1526, aired 1991-04-01 | ANCIENT ROME $800: The 2 men in this post were responsible for counting the Romans & controlling moral conduct the censors |
| #1526, aired 1991-04-01 | ANCIENT ROME $1,400 (Daily Double): It's believed the Romans turned against the ruling Etruscans after Sextus Tarquinius raped her Lucretia |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | ANCIENT ROME $200: Though the marriage was stormy, Juno was the wife of this king of the gods in Roman myth Jupiter |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Tradition says Romulus & Remus did this April 21, 753 B.C. founded the new Rome |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | ANCIENT ROME $600: Created by the early kings as an advisory body, it originally numbered 100 the Senate |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | ANCIENT ROME $800: After the 1st 2 Punic Wars, this city paid big fines to Rome; after the 3rd war, in 146 B.C., Rome razed it Carthage |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: Emperor who rebuilt Lyon after the fire there in 59 A.D. & did the same for Rome 5 years later Nero |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | ROME $200: The famous street Via del Corso was once used as a course for racing these animals horses |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | ROME $400: During the Renaissance, stones from this largest Roman arena were used to construct other buildings the Colosseum |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | ROME $600: The water for this 200-year-old fountain comes from an aqueduct built by Agrippa in 19 BC the Trevi Fountain |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | ROME $800: Built in 312 BC & still used today, it's about 20 feet wide & paved with stone & basalt the Appian Way |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | ROME $4,000 (Daily Double): Roman emperor who built the huge tomb seen here for himself & his successors Hadrian |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | ANCIENT ROME $100: At least 19 of the first 50 of them, including Galba & Caligula, were assassinated emperors |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | ANCIENT ROME $200: The Flavian Amphitheater, popularly known as this, is the world's largest standing ancient amphitheater Colosseum |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | ANCIENT ROME $300: Roman life centered around these public facilities, called the "thermae" baths |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | ANCIENT ROME $400: This word for a popular vote comes from resolutions voted by the Plebeian Assembly of Rome plebiscite |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | ANCIENT ROME $500: Though it was considered unlucky, these priestesses could marry after 30 years of service Vestal Virgins |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | ANCIENT ROME $200: This church faced periodic persecution for 300 years, until Constantine's conversion the Christian Church |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | ANCIENT ROME $400: In 73 B.C. he escaped from a school for gladiators & gathered an army of 70,000 rebels Spartacus |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | ANCIENT ROME $600: Ironically, the last titular emperor of Rome bore this name, the same as Rome's founder Augustus Romulus |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | ANCIENT ROME $800: Admission was free at this huge arena, estimated to have been 3 times the size of the Colosseum the Circus Maximus |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: Emperor Julian, who sought to restore paganism in place of Christianity, was nicknamed this Julian the Apostate |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | ANCIENT ROME $200: Between January & March 49 B.C. he conquered all of Italy Julius Caesar |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | ANCIENT ROME $400: He gave Rome a permanent Praetorian Guard, public fire brigade, police force & its first emperor Caesar Augustus |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | ANCIENT ROME $800: The Punic Wars were called that after the Poeni, the Roman name for these people who founded Carthage the Phoenicians |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: Horace & Ovid were known for their poetry, Livy & Tacitus for their writings in this field history |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | ANCIENT ROME $1,800 (Daily Double): The temple of all the gods, it's the best preserved ancient building in Rome today the Pantheon |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ANCIENT ROME $200: Augustus was given the title "Pater Patriae", which meant this, a phrase later describing Washington "Father of Our Country" |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ANCIENT ROME $400: In early Rome the Plebeians were the lower class citizens & these were the upper class the Patricians |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ANCIENT ROME $600: The only battle Rome won against this general was at Zama, ending the 2nd Punic War Hannibal (Barca) |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ANCIENT ROME $800: This "elder" wrote a 37 volume scientific encyclopedia Pliny the Elder |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: In 330 A.D. he moved the capital of the empire from Rome to Byzantium, which he renamed Emperor Constantine |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME $200: The basic garment was a tunic, over which men of the upper classes wore one of these toga |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME $400: It was the term for an open marketplace, not an enclosed L.A. basketball arena forum |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME $600: The Christians called them "koimetaria" or "sleeping places", & built them under & about Rome catacombs |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME $800: The soldiers assigned this task around 27 B.C. were called "Praetorians" the task of protecting the emperor |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME $1000: Mighty Rome is said to have begun on this hill Palatine |
| #861, aired 1988-05-09 | ANCIENT ROME $200: The war season began with this month, then the 1st month of the year March |
| #861, aired 1988-05-09 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Made of wool, this garment was the mark of a Roman citizen toga |
| #861, aired 1988-05-09 | ANCIENT ROME $600: The Antoine Wall in Britain was further north than this more famous British Roman wall Hadrian's Wall |
| #861, aired 1988-05-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: Caligula was the 1st of several emperors murdered by these troops, bodyguards to the emperor Praetorian Guard |
| #861, aired 1988-05-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1,400 (Daily Double): The 2 assassins of Caesar defeated by Marc Antony & Octavian at the Battle of Philipi Brutus & Cassius |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | ANCIENT ROME $100: Month named for the Roman custom of striking women w/leather thongs to aid fertility, the "februa" February |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | ANCIENT ROME $200: According to Shakespeare, this man who killed Julius Caesar killed himself by running upon his sword Brutus |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | ANCIENT ROME $300: The first Roman circus, it was also the largest Circus Maximus |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | ANCIENT ROME $400: This gladiator school dropout led a slave revolt in 73 B.C. Spartacus |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | ANCIENT ROME $500: In 2 B.C., the Roman senate gave Augustus Caesar the title "Pater Patriae", which means this father of the country |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | ANCIENT ROME $200: This Roman slave is the subject of a Russian ballet & a Kirk Douglas film Spartacus |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | ANCIENT ROME $400: It's believed the 1st gladiatorial battles took place at these death-related rites a funeral |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | ANCIENT ROME $500 (Daily Double): Caligula's uncle Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus is usually known by this singular name Claudius |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | ANCIENT ROME $800: He married Calpurnia but was called "the husband of every woman & the wife of every man" Julius Caesar |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: Shakespeare's poem inspired by Sextus, son of King Tarquin, who attacked a Roman lady named Lucretia The Rape of Lucrece |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | ANCIENT ROME $100: He had affairs with Cassius' wife & Brutus' mother, giving the guys good reason to stab him Julius Caesar |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | ANCIENT ROME $200: What the Roman elite did with dormice, ostrich wings & flamingo tongues ate them |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | ANCIENT ROME $300: Roman historians usually wrote in this language until Cato the Elder wrote "Origines" in Latin Greek |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Among these, a sector was a light-armored version of the heavily armored Samnite gladiators |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | ANCIENT ROME $500 (Daily Double): On the earliest known Roman calendar, these were the 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th months September, October, November, & December |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | ROME $200: The major River that flows through Rome the Tiber |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | ROME $400: Quirinal,
Viminal,
Esquiline,
Caelian,
Aventine,
Capitoline, &
Palatine the hills of Rome |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | ROME $800: The 2 major English poets buried in Rome's Protestant cemetery Keats & Shelley |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | ROME $1,000 (Daily Double): Suburban Cinechta is the center of this industry in Rome the film industry |
| #397, aired 1986-03-18 | ROME $1000: He designed the interior of St. Peter's including the spiraled bronze columns around the altar Bernini |
