| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $400: The Minneapolis Symphony's landmark 1954 recording of the "1812 Overture" used a muzzle-loaded one of these from West Point a cannon |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $800: The experiences of U.S. Marine Christian Ellis, suffering from this in the aftermath of deployment, inspired the opera "Fallujah" PTSD |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $1200: An amputee in World War I, Paul Wittgenstein commissioned several works afterward, including Ravel's concerto for this body part the left hand |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $1600: He said composers who lived during peace couldn't write good marches such as his Spanish-American War-inspired "The Man Behind The Gun" Sousa |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $2000: After capturing this city in 1809, Napoleon had a guard protect Haydn's house & a French officer sang his music to him Vienna |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $400: A twist on history, Harry Turtledove's "Days of Infamy" imagines Japan occupying Hawaii after the attack here Pearl Harbor |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $800: In a 2006 John Boyne novel, a 9-year-old German kid named Bruno sees a boy in these title clothes & makes friends with him the striped pajamas |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $1200: The bird in the title of this Kristin Hannah bestseller is young Isabelle Rossignol's code name in the French Resistance The Nightingale |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $1600: In this Markus Zusak novel, Liesel steals something belonging to a gravedigger & is seen doing so by the book's narrator, Death The Book Thief |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $2000: In this J.G. Ballard classic made into a 1987 film, young Jim is separated from his parents in 1941 Shanghai Empire of the Sun |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | THE TROJAN WAR $400: In John Dryden's translation of the "Aeneid", it was of "monstrous height" with "sides... plank'd with pine" the Trojan Horse |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | THE TROJAN WAR $800: A masterpiece of ancient sculpture shows the Trojan priest Laocoon & his sons being squeezed to death by "sea" these sea serpents |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | THE TROJAN WAR $1600: The "Iliad" ends with the lighting of this warrior's pyre after several days spent gathering wood Hector |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | THE TROJAN WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): In the title of a Shakespeare work, he is a son of King Priam & she is the daughter of Calchas Troilus & Cressida |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | THE TROJAN WAR $2000: This goddess of discord threw an apple intended for the fairest of the goddesses, leading to the Trojan War Eris |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | FACTS ABOUT WORLD WAR I $200: To confuse & thwart infiltrators, blind alleys with dead ends & zigzag patterns were used as part of constructing these trenches |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | FACTS ABOUT WORLD WAR I $400: In 1915, British troops landed at Cape Helles near Gallipoli to try to seize this strait whose old name may be an easier get the Hellespont (the Dardanelles) |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | FACTS ABOUT WORLD WAR I $600: British soldiers during the war were called Tommies & U.S. soldiers were called by this "flour"-y name Doughboys |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | FACTS ABOUT WORLD WAR I $800: Allied troops from this Western Hemisphere country stormed Vimy Ridge in 1917; they took it at a cost of nearly 4,000 men Canada |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | FACTS ABOUT WORLD WAR I $1000: To halt a German advance during 1914's First Battle of the Marne, 600 of these transports brought 3,000 French troops to the front taxicabs |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $200: It was the 3-word phrase for drills in which schoolkids crawled under desks to somehow protect themselves from a nuclear blast duck and cover |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $400: Numeric nickname of the group of imprisoned & blacklisted movie professionals who refused to testify to Congress the "Hollywood Ten" |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $600: The end of the Cold War was hastened by this 8-letter Russian policy that Mikhail Gorbachev promoted glasnost |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $800: In 1972 the U.S. & USSR took a first step toward reducing the threat of nuclear war via these "Talks" SALT |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLD WAR $1000: From the late 1940s through the 1980s, the U.S. pursued this "restrictive" strategy of curbing Soviet expansion containment |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $200: When he landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, J.D. Salinger is reported to have had 6 chapters of this work in his jacket The Catcher in the Rye |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: As a 2nd lieutenant in the czar's army, he saw the siege of Sevastopol & wrote about it in his "Sevastopol Sketches" Tolstoy |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $600: During World War II Frank Herbert served as a photographer in this U.S. Navy group that builds bases, airfields & bridges the Seabees |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1000: This author of "Going After Cacciato" was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade in Vietnam & received a Purple Heart Tim O'Brien |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground Dresden |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: 3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank Reb |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: In 1863 John Esten Cooke rushed into print with a biography of this Confederate general killed in May of that year Stonewall Jackson |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: Patented in 1862, this new weapon of war featured multiple barrels rotated by a crank a Gatling gun |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: The last battlefield death of the war was Union Pvt. John Williams, who was killed at Palmito Ranch in this state in May 1865 Texas |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $6,800 (Daily Double): When the war started, this future general was helping drill a volunteer company in Galena, Illinois Grant |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $400: War in Somaliland pitted the dervishes of Sheik Mohammed Abdullah Hassan against British troops mounted on this desert animal camels |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $800: The ruler with this title was forced by the Young Turk rebels to recall parliament, which he'd suspended 30 years earlier the Ottoman sultan (emperor) |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $1600: The czar had to sign off in 1906 when this nation, not Russia, became Europe's first to grant women the right to vote Finland |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $2000: Tough to win a race giving a 60-mile head start as Robert Scott did landing at McMurdo Sound when this man landed at the Bay of Whales Amundsen |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death) |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $200: The name of this art form means folding paper, which is how the crane seen here was made origami |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $400: Useful in electronics crafts, this process similar to welding joins circuit components using a low melting point alloy soldering |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $600: A simple method of printing and duplicating uses these cutouts; paint is sprayed through the removed areas a stencil |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $800: From the French for "to cut out", it's the craft of decorating a surface with paper shapes découpage |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $1000: This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century crochet |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $200: To combat malnutrition, in 1942 Tasmanian blue peas were added to the rations of this country's troops Australia |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $400: Pea soup was a staple in the ships of this navy that beat the French & Spanish at Trafalgar the English Navy (the Royal Navy) |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $600: During the Revolutionary War, Congress passed a resolution making peas a part of this army's rations the Continental Army |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $800: In the 1940s General Mills helped the war effort with dried pea soup; also, cereal bars for these "alphabetical" army rations the K-rations |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | WAR & PEAS $1000: Every Thursday, this country's armed forces get served a traditional pea soup called ärtsoppa Sweden |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $400: Historian Yakup Bektas called the war the "most illustrated war to date", mentioning this new tech less than 30 years old photography |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $800: This type of cold weather headgear takes its name from a battle site in the war where it was worn a balaclava |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $1600: Much of the war focused on an 11-month siege of this seaport that finally fell after the Russians retreated Sevastopol |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $2000: For throwing a live shell off the deck of HMS Hecla, Charles Davis Lucas was in the first group awarded these on June 26, 1857 a Victoria Cross |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE CRIMEAN WAR $5,400 (Daily Double): Stark "Sketches" that this Russian wrote from his experience in the war helped advance his literary career Tolstoy |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $400: "The mission is a man" was a tagline for this 1998 Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $800: In 2010 Kathryn Bigelow became the first female directing Oscar winner for this film set during the Iraq War The Hurt Locker |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $1200: Though only in his 30s, Martin Sheen suffered a near-fatal heart attack while making this Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $1,800 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 film starring John Wayne refers to June 6, 1944; clocking in at almost 3 hours, the title's accurate The Longest Day |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $2000: A story of World War I pilots, it won the first Best Picture Oscar Wings |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $400: Gore Vidal said he loathed this "In Cold Blood" writer "the way you might loathe... a filthy animal" Capote |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $800: Not the Pickwick but the Garrick Club was the site of conversations that caused a falling out between Thackeray & this author Dickens |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1200: Years before "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu", he fought a duel with a critic who had angered him; both shots missed Proust |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1600: Poet Wallace Stevens' feud with this novelist erupted into punches in a Key West street Hemingway |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $2000: In 1976, Mario Vargas Llosa gave this other 3-named South American Nobelist a literal black eye Gabriel García Márquez |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $400: Backing the slogan "Free trade and sailors' rights", this president signed the declaration of war against Britain Madison |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $800: U.S. forces killed Tecumseh & broke an Anglo-Indian alliance at the 1813 battle of this river (in Ontario, not London) the Thames |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1200: This U.S. ship, later nicknamed Old Ironsides, defeated the HMS Guerriere in quick fashion August 19, 1812 the Constitution |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2000: Signed December 24, 1814, the treaty of this Belgian city ended the war with no decisive gains for either side Ghent |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $8,400 (Daily Double): In 1814 U.S. forces under Gen. Jacob Brown invaded Canada by crossing this river between Lake Erie & Lake Ontario the Niagara |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $400: Army general Omar Bradley was the first to hold this position on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff a chairman |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $800: "War is cruelty, you cannot refine it", said this Civil War man (William T.) Sherman |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $1200: Lothar von Richthofen was a noted World War I ace; his brother, named this, was more famous Manfred |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $2000: WWII Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone, who served in the Philippines in the 1930s, had this "capital" nickname Manila |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | "MAN" O' WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, noted clockmaker Aaron Willard was one of these colonial militiamen a minuteman |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $400: Lysander, an admiral of this city-state, starved Athens into surrendering in 404 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War Sparta |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $800: To gain a port, Florence leaned hard into this nearby 4-letter city in the 14th century, finally taking it in 1406 Pisa |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $1600: In 732 he defeated an invading Muslim army in the decisive Battle of Tours, earning the nickname "The Hammer" Charles Martel |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $2000: Formed in the 14th century, this elite army corps of the Ottoman Empire had a name from Turkish, meaning "new troops" the Janissaries |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $2,500 (Daily Double): 1462's Battle of Piltown was the only major battle fought in Ireland as part of these dynastic civil wars the Wars of the Roses |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $400: The 1471 Battle of Barnet was decided when Lancastrians attacked their allies in the fog, thinking they were from this house York |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $800: The fog-shrouded island of Attu in this chain was the site of fierce fighting in 1943 the Aleutians |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $1600: "I had no real idea of what was going on", wrote Britain's Admiral Jellicoe after the Battle of Jutland, fought in the fogs of this sea the North Sea |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $2000: The fog that blanketed this Tennessee mountain during an 1863 fight led to the nickname "The Battle Above the Clouds" Lookout Mountain |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | THE FOG OF WAR $2,400 (Daily Double): At the 1776 Battle of Long Island, fog helped save the defeated Continental Army as it fled to Manhattan across this river the East River |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $200: The French take the duchy of Guyenne from England in 1337 & things get out of hand for a long while The Hundred Years' War |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $400: The destroyer HMS Sheffield is sunk by a missile but Argentina loses at least 20% of its planes the Falklands War |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $600: In 431 B.C., Spartan ally Thebes goes after Plataea, an Athenian pal, & it's on the Peloponnesian War |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $800: Michigan's territorial governor surrenders Detroit without a shot being fired the War of 1812 |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $1000: Israel quickly captures the Gaza Strip & Golan Heights the Six Days' War |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | PRISONERS OF WAR $400: Shown on TV in a North Vietnamese prison camp in 1966, Jeremiah Denton repeatedly blinked to spell "torture" in this system Morse code |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | PRISONERS OF WAR $800: Andrew Jackson was 14 when he & his brother were taken as prisoners during this war the American Revolution |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | PRISONERS OF WAR $1200: Heinrich Harrer's "Seven Years in" this locale began with his escape from a British prisoner of war camp in India Tibet |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | PRISONERS OF WAR $1600: A P.O.W. in Japan, James Clavell wrote the screenplay to this Steve McQueen film set in a German P.O.W. camp The Great Escape |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | PRISONERS OF WAR $2000: This Frenchman who wrote "Being and Nothingness" was a prisoner of war from 1940 to 1941 Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $400: Velazquez' "Surrender of Breda" shows a win for this country in its long war to prevent Dutch independence Spain |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $800: The British won the 1776 battle of the Manhattan fort named for this foe, who'd laugh last 7 years later George Washington |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $1200: At the Battle of Chancellorsville, he broke a basic military rule by splitting his forces but won anyway, for a while (Robert E.) Lee |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $1600: An early 1943 battle for Kharkov was the one of the last big wins for the Wehrmacht over this army the Red Army |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $2000: In 1879 this southern African kingdom wiped out a British force at Isandlwana but was soon wiped out itself the Zulu |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Confederate general Thomas Jackson gained this nickname at the first Battle of Bull Run in 1861 Stonewall |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: Abner Doubleday, purported inventor of baseball, ordered the firing of the first defensive shots of the war at this location Fort Sumter |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: In 1863 Congress passed the first act implementing this in the U.S., leading to riots in New York City & elsewhere conscription (the draft) |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: Resulting in almost 24,000 casualties, this 1862 battle in Tennessee has a name from Hebrew that is often translated as "peaceful one" Shiloh |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR $2,200 (Daily Double): Arthur MacArthur from Milwaukee won the Medal of Honor for a charge at Missionary Ridge shouting this, now a fight song title On, Wisconsin! |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | WORLD WAR II $200: In September 1939 this country was invaded from 2 fronts & the war was on Poland |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | WORLD WAR II $400: The 1943 Battle of Kursk was history's biggest battle of these machines, like the Soviet T-34 & the German Tiger tanks |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | WORLD WAR II $600: Also called the 900-day siege, the siege of this city on the Gulf of Finland saw 650,000 die in 1942 alone St. Petersburg (Leningrad) |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | WORLD WAR II $800: On June 6, 1942 Admiral Yamamoto's retreat ended this pivotal battle Midway |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | WORLD WAR II $1000: The Allied invasion of Italy began on July 10, 1943 with Operation Husky, a coordinated attack on this island Sicily |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $400: This French author's "From the Earth to the Moon" features a rocket ship shot out of a cannon Jules Verne |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $1200: 2 cousins vie for a noble lady's hand in "Castle Richmond" by Anthony Trollope, set in this nation during its 1840s famine Ireland |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $1600: His rags-to-riches tales about street urchins, newsboys & the like, included "Frank's Campaign" & "Paul Prescott's Charge" (Horatio) Alger |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $2000: A story of fortunes lost & attained, "The Adventures of Philip" was the last complete work by this "Vanity Fair" novelist William Makepeace Thackeray |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $4,000 (Daily Double): In addition to fiction portraying herself & her sisters, she penned "Hospital Sketches" from her time as a Civil War nurse Louisa May Alcott |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $400: This president made a secret deal to take U.S. nukes out of Turkey, helping end the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $1200: In this year the U.S. & others boycotted the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1980 |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $1600: The Stasi were a secret police force of this country that spied on its citizens & encouraged them to spy on each other East Germany |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $2000: Abbreviated M.A.D., this theory deterred the use of nuclear weapons by suggesting there would be no winners mutually assured destruction |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $3,000 (Daily Double): Unearthed decades later a 1950 letter indicates happiness by Joseph Stalin that the U.S. was entangled in this war the Korean War |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $400: The Roman war goddess Bellona was the chariot driver of this Roman war god Mars |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $800: The Hittite war god Jarri helped the king in battle, but uh oh! was also the god of this contagion plague |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $1200: M-O-double R-I-G-A-N spells Morrigan, a Celtic war goddess who turned into this ominous black bird a raven (a crow) |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $1600: Tanit was the goddess of love & war of this North African rival city of Rome Carthage |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $2000: Apedemak was a Sudanese war god depicted with the head of this powerful predator on a human body a lion |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | TROJAN WAR HANDBOOK $400: This Greek who took a long time to get home after the war came up with the idea for the Trojan Horse Odysseus (Ulysses) |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | TROJAN WAR HANDBOOK $1200: Homer describes weapons, armor & even chariot wheels as being made of this metal--that was the age they were in bronze |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | TROJAN WAR HANDBOOK $1600: Abducted by Paris, Helen of Troy had been the queen & wife of Menelaus, king of this Greek city-state Sparta |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | TROJAN WAR HANDBOOK $2000: This leader of the Greek forces foolishly angered Artemis by boasting of his hunting skills Agamemnon |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | TROJAN WAR HANDBOOK $8,000 (Daily Double): A prophecy said that Troy could not be taken without this warrior, so the Greeks tracked him down & brought him to the battle Achilles |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $200: This author was jailed in Concord in 1846 for refusing to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War Thoreau |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $400: The U.S. Army didn't have goons, but did have these--cavalrymen armed with both swords & firearms dragoons |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $600: Several future U.S. presidents served in the war; this man was president during it Polk |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $800: Shortly after the war, this 5-law deal "of 1850" tried to sort out the fate of slavery in the territories the U.S. gained the Compromise of 1850 |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $1000: This treaty named for a Mexico City neighborhood ended the war Feb. 2, 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $200: In "Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta", Kara Walker adds silhouettes to illustrations of this war the Civil War |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $400: One of his greatest & largest paintings was inspired by a newspaper article on the bombing of Guernica Picasso |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $600: The artwork here depicts this famous venture at the Battle of Balaclava the Charge of the Light Brigade |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $800: Miyamoto Saburo's painting of generals Yamashita & Percival & the British WWII surrender of this island was used as Japanese propaganda Singapore |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $1000: 2 black granite walls & a sculpture called "The Three Servicemen" are part of this Washington, D.C. memorial the Vietnam War Memorial |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $200: Nazi loot found in a salt mine included precious artworks, items stolen from concentration camp victims & more than 8,000 bars of this gold |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $400: When war broke out in September 1939, this country had tanks & a million-man army yet still relied heavily on cavalry Poland |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $600: Jimmy Doolittle's April 1942 air raid on this Axis capital raised Allied morale at a dark time in the war Tokyo |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $800: Here's a look at a Canadian regiment moving along the road from Holten to Rijssen in 1945 while liberating this Low Country the Netherlands |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $1000: In December 1940 Franklin Roosevelt proposed this alliterative system of aid to allies without immediate payment Lend-Lease |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $200: This capital of South Korea changed hands 4 times during the course of the war Seoul |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: With subzero weather at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, vets suffered the long-term effects of this cold injury, including gangrene frostbite |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $600: In 2018 South Korea's Moon Jae-in & this North Korean leader pledged to formally end the war but it hasn't happened... yet Kim Jong-un |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: Less than a year after he was chosen supreme commander of U.S.-led forces, he was relieved of all duties by President Truman MacArthur |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $1000: In September 1950, United States troops made a surprise landing at this strategic port, changing the course of the war Inchon |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $400: In the mid-1950s this country trailed its neighbor in development, but the '60s "Miracle on the Han River" changed that South Korea |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $800: The Republican-led laws guiding seceded states' return to the Union are known as these acts of 1867 & 1868 Reconstruction |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $1600: In 1992 the U.N. gave this country that had been occupied in the first Gulf War more land with more oil wells Kuwait |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $2000: The "Long Walls" of Athens were destroyed at this war's end to the accompaniment of flute music, but rebuilt in 393 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $6,000 (Daily Double): This war ended England's major claims in France & would have lasted longer but in 1475, an invading army was bribed to go home the Hundred Years' War |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | WAR $200: In 49 B.C., this Roman led his forces from Gaul into Italy, starting a civil war Julius Caesar |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | WAR $400: Ending the Napoleonic Wars, the Battle of Waterloo took place in what's now this country Belgium |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | WAR $600: These 2 members of OPEC were at war with each other from 1980 to 1988 Iran & Iraq |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | WAR $800: In 19th century Mali, Umar Tal built an empire with a series of these holy wars jihads |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): In 1814 this man later to be president helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | WAR MACHINE $200: Some ancient versions of this device could hurl a 170-pound boulder 100 yards catapult |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | WAR MACHINE $400: The iconic Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter first saw action in this war Vietnam |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | WAR MACHINE $600: On "My Grandparents' War" on PBS, Carey Mulligan learns about her grandpa, a specialist in this new technology to detect aircraft radar |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | WAR MACHINE $800: During World War II the Germans used this machine whose very name is a puzzle, to send & receive secret messages Enigma |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | WAR MACHINE $1000: Dubbed a "battle taxi", the M113 APC seen here can hold a dozen soldiers as this, what APC stands for armored personnel carrier |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR $200: This emperor III declared war after his advisers told him Prussia was no match for France; wrong! Napoleon |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR $400: French minister Léon Gambetta escaped the 1870 Siege of Paris by floating over the German lines in one of these a (hot air) balloon |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR $600: The French thought they had the upper hand with arms like the mitrailleuse, an early one of these rapid-fire weapons a machine gun |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR $800: This "Iron Chancellor" goaded France into war by publishing a misleading account of a diplomatic exchange Bismarck |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR $1000: The Germans got an early edge by being more efficient at this process of getting troops "on the move" & ready to fight muster(ing) (mobilization) |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Known as the C.S.S. Virginia when it fought the Monitor, the South's first ironclad was built from the captured U.S.S. this Merrimack |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: After a 47-day siege, this Mississippi River port fell to Union troops on July 4, 1863 Vicksburg |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: A poem about this prison said, "There's a graveyard near at hand... 12,000 Union men beneath the Georgia sand" Andersonville |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: This Louisianan had ill regard for Jeff Davis for making him a full general after New York-born Samuel Cooper P.G.T. Beauregard |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $6,000 (Daily Double): It was the largest & westernmost of the 11 Confederate states Texas |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | WORLD WAR II NAVAJO CODE TALKERS' DICTIONARY $200: This armored fighting vehicle was chay-da-gahi, a "tortoise" a tank |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | WORLD WAR II NAVAJO CODE TALKERS' DICTIONARY $400: These weapons were ni-ma-si, meaning "potatoes" grenades |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | WORLD WAR II NAVAJO CODE TALKERS' DICTIONARY $600: This enemy was besh-be-cha-he, or "iron hat" Germany |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | WORLD WAR II NAVAJO CODE TALKERS' DICTIONARY $800: A fighter plane was da-he-tih-hi, one of these hovering avians a hummingbird |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | WORLD WAR II NAVAJO CODE TALKERS' DICTIONARY $1000: These opposite military movements, toward & away from battle, were nas-sey & ji-din-nes-chanh advance & retreat |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | WORLD WAR II $200: In 1940 Spain's Franco declined to join this group, Germany, Italy & Japan's alliance during the war the Axis |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | WORLD WAR II $400: Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on the last day of this 1945 month; 9 days later, the war was over in Europe April |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | WORLD WAR II $600: The 5-month battle of this city on the Volga halted the Nazi advance into Russia & turned the war's tide in the east Stalingrad |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | WORLD WAR II $800: This battleship that participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima was the site of Japan's surrender the Missouri |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | WORLD WAR II $1000: Charged with defending Normandy, this former Afrika Korps commander was home in Germany on D-Day celebrating his wife's birthday (Erwin) Rommel |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $400: Herodotus wrote that the long run associated with this battle was actually from Athens to Sparta to ask for aid Battle of Marathon |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $1200: The Battle of Adwa in 1896 was fought between Italy & this Horn of Africa country Ethiopia |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $1600: The Natchez people were nearly wiped out by the French garrison at Fort Rosalie, now the site of Natchez in this state Mississippi |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $2000: After capturing Germans during the WWI campaign of Cambrai, several Canadians got this U.K. military honor created in 1856 the Victoria Cross |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $4,400 (Daily Double): The DMZ conflict of the late 1960s is sometimes referred to as the "Second" this Korean War |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg, Germany.) A final Nazi rally, ironically called the Party Rally for Peace, was scheduled for September 2, 1939, but never held, as Germany invaded this country & set off World War II the day before Poland |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg, Germany.) At a 1934 Nuremberg rally, the Nazis proclaimed that this German empire would last a thousand years; but in 1945, U.S. troops helped put the finishing touches to it after little more than a decade the Third Reich |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $600: During the Battle of Britain, brave engineers removed an unexploded bomb that would have devastated this London landmark St. Paul's Cathedral |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $800: U.S. troops marched into Germany through the dragon's teeth of this defensive line named for a legendary German hero the Siegfried Line |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $1000: Here's the view from one of these alphanumeric flying fortresses as it unleashed its bombs over occupied Europe in 1943 the B-17 |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | THIS MEANS WAR! $200: A proverbial weight-loss phrase is this "of the bulge" battle |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | THIS MEANS WAR! $400: A cornerback or safety goes after the quarterback sack when sent in on this defensive option a blitz |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | THIS MEANS WAR! $600: To come into conflict, as the same-named "Train In Vain" band members certainly did The Clash |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | THIS MEANS WAR! $800: Legally, lifting a fist in a threatening way can be this; battery takes things to the next level assault |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | THIS MEANS WAR! $1000: This 5-letter word borrowed from French describes hand-fighting done by scores of people melee |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A SPENDY LITTLE WAR $400: A short 1840s war with this country cost the U.S. an estimated $71 million, or around $3 billion today Mexico |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A SPENDY LITTLE WAR $800: A 2010 congressional report estimated that this war cost the U.S. 1.1% of its 1899 GDP the Spanish-American War |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A SPENDY LITTLE WAR $1200: In 1975 the New York Times reported that China & the U.S.S.R. had given $7.5 billion in aid to this country, 40% for its military North Vietnam |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A SPENDY LITTLE WAR $1600: $350 billion is one estimate for what these 2 Mideast countries spent fighting each other from 1980 to 1988 Iran & Iraq |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A SPENDY LITTLE WAR $2000: Britain's victory in this 1754-1763 war nearly doubled the national debt the French and Indian War |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: "High-ranking" name of the Confederate locomotive hijacked by Union troops in 1862 the General |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: The Dictator, an enormous one of these artillery weapons that fire high-arcing shells, was used in the Siege of Petersburg a mortar |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: At Gettysburg James Longstreet was actually in command of the disastrous Confederate attack known as this Pickett's Charge |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: After this bloody 1862 battle, President Lincoln visited McClellan on the battlefield & urged him to pursue retreating rebels Antietam |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: U.S. Grant got his "Unconditional Surrender" nickname at the 1862 capture of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in this state Tennessee |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | NAMES OF WORLD WAR II $400: The Forces Françaises Libres were led with panache by this man seen here (Charles) de Gaulle |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | NAMES OF WORLD WAR II $800: This politician who met with Hitler in 1939 earned the nickname "The Betrayer of Norway" Vidkun Quisling |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | NAMES OF WORLD WAR II $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is outside the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) Throughout Budapest, there are monuments & memorials, including this park, that honor the heroic deeds of this Swedish diplomat who helped save the lives of about 100,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II (Raoul) Wallenberg |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | NAMES OF WORLD WAR II $2000: This American officer led an air raid on Tokyo in April 1942 Jimmy Doolittle |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | NAMES OF WORLD WAR II $4,800 (Daily Double): In 1942 he combined 2 loves of his life--physics & New Mexico--in endorsing Los Alamos to be home of the Manhattan Project Oppenheimer |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $400: Here's something to chew on--this Civil War baby would grow up to create a chewing gum empire Wrigley |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $800: Ernest Lawrence Thayer, who was born in 1863, would hit a home run with this poem published in 1888 "Casey at the Bat" |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $1200: Across the pond Joseph Merrick developed deformities that cruelly earned him this nickname the Elephant Man |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $2000: The son of a Civil War officer, he would become famous for his Wild West artwork like "The Bronco Buster" (Frederic) Remington |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $4,000 (Daily Double): This president's first wife Alice & his second wife Edith were both born during the early days of the war in 1861 Theodore Roosevelt |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WAR $200: In the 1700-1721 Great Northern War, Russia, Denmark & Poland ganged up on this rival across the Baltic Sweden |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WAR $400: "International Brigades" of volunteers from the U.S. & Europe fought on the Republican side of this 1930s conflict the Spanish Civil War |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WAR $600: In the 1860s War of the Triple Alliance, Argentina, Brazil & Uruguay left this landlocked foe in ruins Paraguay |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WAR $800: In the 1700s there were Wars of the Austrian this & the Spanish this Succession |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WAR $1000: This prime minister successfully schemed to start the 1866 Seven Weeks' War & make Prussia Europe's big dog Bismarck |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WAR, AMERICAN STYLE $200: The battles of Bennington, Brandywine & Saratoga all occurred in the same year during this war the Revolutionary War |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WAR, AMERICAN STYLE $400: The USO was shut down in 1947 but was back in 1951 due to this conflict the Korean War |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WAR, AMERICAN STYLE $800: During the Spanish-American War, with no casualties the USS Charleston took this Pacific island, today a U.S. possession Guam |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WAR, AMERICAN STYLE $1,000 (Daily Double): By a vote of 19-13, the Senate passed the declaration of war for what would be called this, aka "Mr. Madison's War" the War of 1812 |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WAR, AMERICAN STYLE $1000: Well into 1941 this American hero was against the U.S. entering WWII, but he later flew 50 combat missions in the Pacific Charles Lindbergh |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $200: Due to his propensity for digging trenches, Robert E. Lee got the nickname "King of" this card suit Spades |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $400: Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson got his alias when he disguised stovepipes as these weapons on the battlefield cannons |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $600: Some call this Confederate cavalry general "Jeb", but others dubbed him "Beauty" during his early days ("Jeb") Stuart |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $800: For his uniform color & his spooky elusiveness, Confederate raider John Mosby was "The Gray" this Ghost |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): On his way to Savannah, you might have heard Union troops calling him "Uncle Billy" William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $200: An artillery piece called the "Swamp Angel", which shelled Charleston the Civil War |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $400: Mitsubishi Zeros & Panzer VI Tigers World War II |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $600: Big Bertha howitzers & Sopwith Pups World War I |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $800: F-86 Sabres & MiG-15s, which dueled over "MiG Alley" the Korean War |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $1000: The USS Massachusetts & the Cristóbal Colón, which exchanged fire outside Santiago de Cuba the Spanish-American War |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE VIETNAM WAR $400: This enemy "offensive" of January 1968 shocked Americans, especially the assault on the U.S. embassy in Saigon the Tet |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) During the Vietnam War, the major supply route from north to south that went through Laos and Cambodia in order to avoid U.S. forces, was named for this Communist leader Ho Chi Minh |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE VIETNAM WAR $1200: Secretary of State under Nixon, he shared a Nobel Prize for his efforts at peace negotiations Kissinger |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $400: Checkpoint Charlie was a heavily guarded crossing on this symbolic & physical barrier the Berlin Wall |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $800: In 1960 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union flying one of these spy planes a U-2 |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $1200: The situation where neither side will start a war because of the cost to itself is mutual assured this, MAD for short destruction |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $1600: The brief anti-communist period of liberalization in this country in 1968 was called the Prague Spring Czechoslovakia |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $2000: Soviet leader Gorbachev initiated policies in the 1980s of glasnost, "openness", & this, meaning "restructuring" perestroika |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: About 1,500 Union soldiers received this highest award for valor, instituted by Congress during the Civil War the Congressional Medal of Honor |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: The first amputee of the war, J.E. Hanger invented a prosthetic this that ones made today are still based upon a leg |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: With Atlanta burning in their wake, 62,000 soldiers under Gen. Sherman marched 300 miles to the sea in Nov. & Dec. of this year 1864 |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: George Stewart called his in-depth study of this disastrous charge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 a microhistory Pickett |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): Confederate troops used a high-pitched battle cry known by this 2-word name; it may have derived from fox hunting the rebel yell |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR $400: During the war Poland fought this country; the Polish king claimed to be its czar Russia |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR $1200: This French cleric and politician got France into the war in part to prevent Hapsburg dominance Cardinal Richelieu |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR $1600: Under the reign of King Gustavus Adolphus, this Nordic nation established itself as a major military power in the war Sweden |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1648 peace deal had Spain recognize the independence of this North Sea nation, ending both the Thirty & the Eighty Years' Wars the Netherlands |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | WORD WAR Z $400: Zywiec, a town in this Central European nation, is home to the Komorowski Castle Poland |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | WORD WAR Z $800: Car and Driver test drove one of these rink machines & said it had "the vague steering" of a '70s Cadillac a Zamboni |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | WORD WAR Z $1200: Zymosis is a type of this process that produces alcohol by the conversion of sugar fermentation |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | WORD WAR Z $1600: It's the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Zaire |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | WORD WAR Z $2000: Feeding on flies, zyzzyx is a sand type of this stinging insect a wasp |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WAR STORIES $400: "When Britain Burned the White House" by Peter Snow the War of 1812 |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WAR STORIES $800: "When the Emperor was Divine" by Julie Otsuka the Second World War |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WAR STORIES $1200: "The Green Berets" by Robin Moore the Vietnam War |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WAR STORIES $1600: "Copperhead" by Bernard Cornwell the Civil War |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WAR STORIES $2000: "The African Queen" by C.S. Forester World War I |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $200: The 1754-63 French & Indian War was the North American phase of this global conflict that was 2 years shorter Seven Years' War |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $400: Fort Ligonier was built in SW Pennsylvania to enable the Brits to capture France's Fort Duquesne, now this city Pittsburgh |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $600: The British deported French-speaking settlers from Acadia in Nova Scotia; many went south, where their descendants became these people the Cajuns |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $800: Algonquian-speaking peoples took France's side; this 6-nation confederacy was allied with the British Iroquois |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $1000: This European power came in on the losing side late in the war & lost Florida as a result Spain |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | SECRETARIES OF WAR $800: Last name of Alphonso & son William Howard, both Secretaries of War Taft |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | SECRETARIES OF WAR $1600: This Christmas plant with red leaves was named for Martin van Buren's Secretary of War a poinsettia |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | SECRETARIES OF WAR $2000: How awkward! John Floyd, this president's Secretary of War, resigned & quickly joined the Confederacy Buchanan |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | SECRETARIES OF WAR $4,000 (Daily Double): In early 1801 Sec. of War Samuel Dexter found himself acting as Sec. of Treasury & State for the last weeks of this president's term John Adams |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $400: In the South, the American Civil War is sometimes called the War of Northern this 10-letter word aggression |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $800: The Beaver Wars in Canada were also known as the French & this Native American league wars the Iroquois wars |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $1200: This country's 17th century civil wars are also known as "The Great Rebellion" England |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $2000: The Great Narragansett War is another name for this king's war King Philip |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $6,000 (Daily Double): The Ramadan War of 1973 is also called this, after a holiday of a different religion the Yom Kippur War |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $200: In "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, a soldier makes a perilous journey home in the end stages of this U.S. war the Civil War |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $400: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recounted events from this 19th century war the Crimean War |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $600: Family members fight on opposite sides of WWI in this Vicente Blasco Ibáñez novel that shares its title with a Biblical quartet The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $800: This oft-filmed second of the "Leatherstocking Tales" sees Natty Bumppo battle the Huron in the French & Indian War Last of the Mohicans |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $1000: This Boris Pasternak novel takes place against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution Doctor Zhivago |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE WAR ON BACTERIA $400: A guy named Louis came up with this process of heating & rapidly cooling liquids to kill disease-causing bacteria pasteurization |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE WAR ON BACTERIA $800: Hand sanitizers often contain the ethyl or isopropyl type of this to dissolve bacteria alcohol |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE WAR ON BACTERIA $1200: Examine the eggs you buy--cracked ones may contain the enteritidis species of these bacteria salmonella |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE WAR ON BACTERIA $1600: Sulfa drugs kill bacteria by preventing the production of this B vitamin acid that's crucial to life folic acid |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE WAR ON BACTERIA $2000: In bacterial cells tetracycline messes with this, the main site of protein synthesis in cells ribosomes |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $400: The war began in 1936 as a military uprising in what was called "Spanish" this African country Morocco |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $800: Pablo Picasso forbade this work depicting the war's horrors from being shown in Spain until the fascists were gone Guernica |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $1200: As fascist troops neared Madrid, Francisco Franco became commander in chief, or this word, "general" + 6 letters generalissimo |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $1600: Some 800 American volunteers died fighting for the Loyalists, many as part of a battalion named for this 19th c. president the Abraham Lincoln battalion |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $2000: This Spanish poet & playwright of the tragedy "Blood Wedding" was executed by a Nationalist firing squad Garcia Lorca |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | WAR OF THE BATTLE $200: The Battle of Breed's Hill, also called Bunker Hill the American Revolution |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | WAR OF THE BATTLE $400: The Battle of Manila Bay, starring George Dewey Spanish-American War |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | WAR OF THE BATTLE $600: The Battle of Kwajalein (an atoll) World War II |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | WAR OF THE BATTLE $800: The 5-month-long First Battle of the Somme World War I |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | WAR OF THE BATTLE $1000: The Battle of Stoney Creek, in Ontario the War of 1812 |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: On July 21, 1861 the Union attacked the Confederates near a stone bridge crossing this creek in the first battle of it First Battle of Bull Run |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: On April 3, 1865 its business district was aflame when this Confederate capital fell Richmond |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: The so-called necktie seen here, making sure the rails carried no Confederate trains, was named for this general on the march Sherman |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) Here's the Little Round Top location of the 20th Maine regiment; out of ammo & exhausted, the 20th led a bayonet charge to secure Meade's left flank & saved the day during this battle Gettysburg |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $9,200 (Daily Double): On March 9, 1862 ironclad warships met in battle for the first time as these 2 vessels clashed, with no clear victor the Monitor and the Merrimack |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | WORLD WAR II $400: Launching hostilities in 1939, the Germans used blitzkrieg tactics in their invasion of this country Poland |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | WORLD WAR II $800: These suicide plane attacks near the end of the war in the Pacific sank 34 ships & damaged hundreds of others the kamikaze |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | WORLD WAR II $1200: Walthère Dewé was a leader of this underground anti-occupation movement in Belgium in WWI as well as WWII the resistance |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | WORLD WAR II $1600: Many have seen Germany's decision to do this along with Italy 4 days after Pearl Harbor as a big mistake declare war on the United States |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | WORLD WAR II $3,000 (Daily Double): Rounds from the Katyusha rocket launcher made a howling sound; German troops called it this enemy leader's "organ" Stalin |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | LIFE DURING WAR $400: From 1941 to 1944 residents of this city named for a former Soviet leader endured a tragic 872-day siege Leningrad |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | LIFE DURING WAR $800: In 1941 the U.S. government began selling the Series E type of these to support the armed forces bonds |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | LIFE DURING WAR $1200: If you were a U.S. male with a birthday of September 14, you might get unlucky No. 001 in the Dec. 1, 1969 lottery for this the draft |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | LIFE DURING WAR $1600: During this war, inflation made paper currency worthless, inspiring the saying "not worth a continental" American Revolution |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | LIFE DURING WAR $2000: If you lived in Westphalia in 1633, you lived smack in the middle of this war Thirty Years' War |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | CIVIL WAR POETRY $400: Edgar Lee Masters' "Achilles Deatheridge" is a Union soldier who mistakenly arrests this cigar-toting general Grant |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | CIVIL WAR POETRY $800: Bret Harte tells of "John Burns", a senior citizen in this Pennsylvania town who took up arms in July 1863 Gettysburg |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | CIVIL WAR POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Whitman mourned Lincoln in "When" these flowers "Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd" lilacs |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | CIVIL WAR POETRY $1600: This poet famous for "The Wreck of the Hesperus" also depicted the 1862 sinking of the Cumberland Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | CIVIL WAR POETRY $2000: The subtitle to Herman Melville's poem about this man is "Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville" Stonewall Jackson |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | THE MEXICAN WAR $400: Early in the war, Mexican troops crossed this river to fight the battle of Palo Alto the Rio Grande |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | THE MEXICAN WAR $800: This exiled general offered help to the U.S., but double-crossed them--didn't they remember the Alamo? Santa Anna |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | THE MEXICAN WAR $1200: 2 future presidents fought in the Battle of Buena Vista:
Zachary Taylor & this Confederate man Jefferson Davis |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | THE MEXICAN WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1847 Mexico City had its independence day under occupation as this general took the city 2 days before General Winfield Scott |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $400: This theatre owner was jailed for 39 days following Lincoln's death & forced to sell his building (John T.) Ford |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $800: Capt. Tom Custer, who won 2 medals of honor during the war, joined his brother's unit & died with him at this 1876 battle Little Big Horn |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $1200: The grandson of a president, he served with Sherman & in 1888 was elected president himself Benjamin Harrison |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $1600: Clara Barton traveled to this Confederate prison to help gather evidence of missing & deceased soldiers Andersonville |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $6,000 (Daily Double): This Union general who lost the 1864 presidential race was later governor of New Jersey McClellan |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WORLD WAR I $200: The assassination that sparked World War I took place in this city Sarajevo |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WORLD WAR I $400: At Xmas in this year soldiers played soccer with foes; the next year orders were given to kill anyone trying the same 1914 |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WORLD WAR I $600: This fence material became a deadly instrument; the National WWI Musem sells a replica soldier hanging on it barbed wire |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WORLD WAR I $1000: Not to be confused with the Ardennes, this French forest was the site of the biggest WWI battle fought by the AEF the Argonne |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WORLD WAR I $2,000 (Daily Double): German forces gave units from this U.K. land the nickname "the ladies from hell" for their fighting spirit & uniforms Scotland |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | WAR FARE $200: World War II P.O.W.s looked forward to the arrival of food-filled parcels from this international organization the Red Cross |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | WAR FARE $400: In winter 1777 a quartermaster reported he had just 25 barrels of flour & a little pork to feed an army camped here Valley Forge |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | WAR FARE $600: Nikita Khrushchev wrote, "without" this Hormel product, "we wouldn't have been able to feed our army" in WWII Spam |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | WAR FARE $800: In 1918 U-boats cut food shipments to England, where even the king had this type of card allotting staples like milk & flour a ration card |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | WAR FARE $1000: Union soldiers of the Civil War subsisted largely on tough biscuits with this durable name hardtack |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $400: This U.S. president declared his "doctrine" in 1947 promising to help any country facing a Communist takeover Truman |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $800: In 1991 the USSR was dissolved & the flag nicknamed this for its 2 symbols was lowered for the last time the Hammer and Sickle |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $1200: The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was resolved when this Russian leader blinked in his face-off with the USA Khrushchev |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $1600: Rhyming name for competition over the heavens; the women of "Hidden Figures" helped win it, per the book's subtitle the Space Race |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $2000: In 1956 Soviet tanks rolled into this European capital city, suppressing a short democratic revolt Budapest |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WORLD WAR II TIMELINE $400: September 1, 1939:
German troops invade this country Poland |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WORLD WAR II TIMELINE $800: June 4, 1940:
The last of more than 300,000 Allied troops are evacuated from this port Dunkirk |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WORLD WAR II TIMELINE $1200: December 17, 1940:
FDR proposes this alliterative policy to help future U.S. allies pay for war materials lend-lease |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WORLD WAR II TIMELINE $1600: April 18, 1942:
Jimmy Doolittle & his raiders bomb this capital Tokyo |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WORLD WAR II TIMELINE $2000: June 21, 1945:
The long, bloody U.S. campaign for this Japanese island in the Ryukyus ends Okinawa |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | WORLD WAR II SLANG $400: A gravel agitator was one of these foot soldiers an infantryman |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | WORLD WAR II SLANG $800: A devil's piano was one of these automatic weapons a machine gun |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | WORLD WAR II SLANG $1200: Life jackets were called by this star's name, to her delight Mae West |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | WORLD WAR II SLANG $1600: A tin fish was a torpedo; an ash can was this other anti-submarine weapon a depth charge |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | WORLD WAR II SLANG $2000: Named for a series of popular drawings, an hourglass-shaped radio transmitter was one of these alliterative "girls" Gibson girls |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: On Sept. 2, 1864 this general's troops occupied Atlanta Sherman |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: In August 1862 the Yanks got beaten near this Virginia creek for the second time in a little over a year Bull Run |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: The Union won at Gettysburg on July 3 1863 & this other vital "burg" July 4, & the Confederacy was on the ropes Vicksburg |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: An 1865 photo shows the extent of destruction in this capital Richmond |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: A critical 1864 fight was known as the Battle of this, for the Virginia region of dense thickets where it was fought the Battle of the Wilderness |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $400: R.C. Sherriff's "Journey's End" is set in a dugout connected to one of these, which have come to symbolize the war a trench |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $800: "The Road Back" was Erich Maria Remarque's sequel to this novel All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $1600: This Michael Morpurgo novel showed the triumphs & the horrors of the war through equine eyes War Horse |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): Roald Dahl wrote, "Constant twitching & jerking & snorting" were all signs of this alliterative disorder shell shock |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS $400: Derisive nickname for the Hoa Loa prisoner of war camp in the capital of North Vietnam where John McCain was held the Hanoi Hilton |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS $800: Capturing as many as 200,000 enemy troops, the Brits built one of the 1st P.O.W. camps in 1796 at Peterborough during these wars the Napoleonic Wars |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS $1200: The prisoners at Japan's WWII Kanchanaburi camp in Thailand were there to build a railroad bridge over this river Kwai |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS $1600: This Georgia facility was designed for 10,000 men but held as many as 32,000 by the end of the Civil War Andersonville |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS $5,000 (Daily Double): The only president who had been a P.O.W., he was held in Camden, S.C. by the British while just a teenager in 1781 Andrew Jackson |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: Gore Vidal was born at this military academy & drew on his WWII experiences for his first novel, "Williwaw" West Point |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: The Marquis de Sade served as an officer during this 1756-1763 war the Seven Years' War |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1200: At the age of 40, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle volunteered as a military doctor during this war in Africa the Boer War |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1600: He fought & was wounded in the Spanish Civil War & wrote about it in "Homage to Catalonia" George Orwell |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $2000: Having served in Britain's RAF may have helped Arthur Hailey write this bestselling 1968 thriller Airport |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | WAR IS OVER $200: Syria agrees to a cease-fire, June 1967 the Six Days War |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | WAR IS OVER $400: George H.W. Bush calls a halt on February 28, 1991 the Gulf War |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | WAR IS OVER $600: To some historians--Gen. E. Kirby Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Department the U.S. Civil War |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | WAR IS OVER $800: Bordeaux falls to the French, 1453 the Hundred Years' War |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | WAR IS OVER $1000: A treaty is signed March 30, 1856 the Crimean War |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $400: On the morning of April 15, 1865 Dr. Samuel Mudd set this man's broken leg John Wilkes Booth |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $800: This super-nurse & her supply wagons gave aid to Union casualties & Confederate prisoners Clara Barton |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: This preacher, the brother of author Harriet, gave an oration at the raising of the flag over Fort Sumter at war's end Henry Ward Beecher |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1600: Asked why the Confederates lost Gettysburg, he "charge"d, "The Yankees had something to do with it" (George) Pickett |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $8,000 (Daily Double): In 1861 this future general received a commission in the Army from his brother John, a senator known for his anti-trust act William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE VIETNAM WAR $200: The origins of the conflict are deeply explored, including a pivotal incident in this body of water in August 1964 the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE VIETNAM WAR $400: Recordings of this 36th U.S. pres. are used to examine his handling of the war & the part it played in his misfortunes LBJ, Lyndon Johnson |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE VIETNAM WAR $600: The series shows North Vietnamese citizens trying to reconcile reality with this type of misinformation, from Latin for "to spread" propaganda |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: In a 1969 address Richard Nixon characterized war supporters as this quiet, larger part of the U.S. population the silent majority |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE VIETNAM WAR $1000: Bringing a measure of healing to the nation, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened in this year, 7 years after the end of the war 1982 |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: The Korean War was the first to use these units near combat, saving many lives MASH units |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: As commander in chief of the U.N. command from July 1950 to April 1951, he didn't stay over in Korea a single night MacArthur |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $1200: The USA's top ace, Captain Joseph McConnell shot down 16 of these Russian-built jets, 3 on the same day MiGs |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): He ordered his country's troops into Korea in October 1950 to protect his 1-year-old Communist regime Mao Tse-Tung |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $2000: Flown in from this nearby nation, American troops saw their first combat on July 5, 1950 Japan |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $400: After the fall of Yorktown, he drafted a letter of abdication but never presented it to Parliament King George III |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $800: At Valley Forge, Washington had all his soldiers inoculated against this disease, greatly reducing deaths smallpox |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $1600: The 59 cannon used to evict the British from Boston in 1776 were taken from this New York fort Fort Ticonderoga |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): The Treaty of Paris ending the war guaranteed America's right to fish in the Grand Banks & the nearby gulf of this river the St. Lawrence |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $2000: Last name of brothers Admiral Richard & General William who led the British sea & land forces in America the Howes |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $200: The medieval embroidery seen here depicts the events & personalities of this invasion the Norman invasion of England (or Norman Conquest) |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $400: Frederick Hart's sculpture in D.C. honors the soldiers of this war the Vietnam War |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $600: Depicting an ambitious nighttime crossing, the 1851 canvas seen here is known by this 4-word title Washington Crossing the Delaware |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $800: Tom Lea's World War II painting highlighting the problem of shell shock is titled "That 2,000 Yard" one of these a stare |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | THE ART OF WAR $1000: This Spanish artist's "Third of May 1808" depicts the tragic fate of some who resisted Napoleon's occupation Goya |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: More famous for a Montana battle, he & his men kept Jeb Stuart from attacking the Union rear at Gettysburg Custer |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: A devil fish was one of these weapons used by the Confederate navy a torpedo |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: On Nov. 1, 1861 this hero of the Mexican War resigned as general-in-chief of the Union armies General Winfield Scott |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: His son Custis served as an aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis during the war Robert E. Lee |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: Both neighbors of Illinois, these 2 border states did not secede but groups there sent delegates to the CSA Congress Missouri and Kentucky |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $400: U.S. forces along with the Cubans wrested control of this bay from the Spanish in June 1898; we've been there ever since Guantánamo |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $800: While Teddy Roosevelt did indeed saddle up in Cuba, most of this group of men under his charge fought on foot the Rough Riders |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1200: Around 3,000 Americans lost their lives in the war, most to typhoid & this fever rather than combat yellow fever |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $2000: In 1898 William Day gave up this Cabinet post to John Hay & went with Senator George Gray to negotiate a treaty Secretary of State |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): When the U.S. captured this Pacific island, the Spanish Marines stationed there were unaware they were at war Guam |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $400: (Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) Sure I direct, but I've also been in front of the camera, like when I acted in the epic named for this Civil War battle that included Pickett's Charge Gettysburg |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $800: Peter Weir made a film about this WWI debacle in Turkey; Russell Crowe set his directorial debut "The Water Diviner" there Gallipoli |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $1200: This 2016 film tells the story of Desmond T. Doss, the first conscientious objector to win the Medal of Honor Hacksaw Ridge |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $1600: In the movie "300" King Leonidas & his forces fight the Persians at this fateful battle in 480 B.C. Thermopylae |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $2000: A high adventure set in the desert, this "beautiful" 1939 film starred Gary Cooper as a French Foreign Legionnaire Beau Geste |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | WORLD WAR II $400: U-boats surfacing to attack couldn't be detected by this pinging device the British called ASDIC sonar |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | WORLD WAR II $800: The first major Allied victory over the Japanese was the Battle of this atoll northwest of Hawaii Midway |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | WORLD WAR II $1200: On January 29, 1944, this future presidential daughter seen here christened the battleship U.S.S. Missouri Margaret Truman |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | WORLD WAR II $1600: Under Ike's supervision, this British field marshal commanded all Allied ground forces on D-Day Montgomery |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | WORLD WAR II $2000: A World War I flying ace with 22 kills, he headed Hitler's Luftwaffe (Hermann) Goring |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $400: The first leg of the Pony Express included a ferry ride for horse & rider across this river to Elwood, Kansas the Missouri |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $800: Although he didn't create the phrase "Go West, young man", he did say, "Go to the great West" Horace Greeley |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $1200: It precedes "Gazette" in the name of the newspaper that Ben Franklin bought in 1729 & made into a leading paper Pennsylvania |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $1600: The British captured him on Sept. 21, 1776 on Long Island & hanged him as a spy Nathan Hale |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $2000: In 1811 the Pacific Fur Company established this fur trading post on the Columbia River Fort Astoria |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $200: In "Khaki Wings" a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war World War I |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $400: "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's look at life in this war-torn city's Green Zone Baghdad |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $600: "In Country" is Bobbie Ann Mason's novel of a young woman coming to terms with her father's death in this war the Vietnam War |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $800: "Rise to Rebellion" marks the start of the Revolution with this 1770 clash of British troops & colonists the Boston Massacre |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $1000: "The Winds of War" in the title of this man's 1971 bestseller blow the U.S. into World War II Herman Wouk |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THE WORLD AT WAR $400: In October 1940 Italy launched an invasion of this country only to get routed by the gyros of General Papagos Greece |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THE WORLD AT WAR $800: On Dec. 2, 1941 German troops who wished they'd packed heavier got to the suburbs of this capital but no further Moscow |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THE WORLD AT WAR $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) In July 1943, this U.S. general's Seventh Army swept through western Sicily, then turned east to help Montgomery's British Eighth Patton |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THE WORLD AT WAR $1600: On Oct. 20, 1944 Douglas MacArthur fulfilled this 3-word promise he'd made to the Philippine people in 1942 "I shall return" |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THE WORLD AT WAR $2000: This Japanese admiral planned and led the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor Admiral Yamamoto |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: Lincoln made George Meade the leader of the "Army of" this river in 1863 the Potomac |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: "Goober grabbers" were Civil War soldiers who hailed from this state Georgia |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) General Winfield Scott wanted to blockade the South in a siege-like fashion, control the Mississippi River & strangle the Rebels in his plan named for this South American serpent the Anaconda Plan |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 5 days after this 1862 Union victory in Maryland Antietam |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): U.S. Grant's initials came to stand for this after giving extremely limited capitulation terms to Gen. Buckner unconditional surrender |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | THIS IS "WAR"! $200: The lord of the lockup, the potentate of the pen a warden |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | THIS IS "WAR"! $400: This strip of dirt lets an outfield know he's approaching the wall the warning track |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | THIS IS "WAR"! $600: Phrase meaning "with flaws included" warts and all |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | THIS IS "WAR"! $800: A singer, or a songbird such as the yellow-breasted chat a warbler |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | THIS IS "WAR"! $1000: An area where rabbits live in burrows a warren |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: This "directional" trilogy by John Jakes looks at the Civil War from the viewpoints of 2 families on opposite sides North and South |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: "Manhunt" by James Swanson is an account of the multi-day chase to find this killer John Wilkes Booth |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1200: It's the "snaky" title of Bernard Cornwell's novel about a Confederate officer jailed as a Yankee spy Copperhead |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1600: Begun in 1863 & published in 1994, John Ransom's diary is his eloquent account of survival in this notorious prison Andersonville |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $2000: A Union officer is killed but not in warfare in "Murder at" this Virginia town, name of the war's first major battle Manassas |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | WAR! $400: 1870-71:
a coalition of German states vs. this country France |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | WAR! $800: June 5-10, 1967:
this war the Six-Day War |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | WAR! $1,000 (Daily Double): 1904-05:
Russia vs. this country Japan |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | WAR! $1600: 1932-35:
the Chaco War, between Paraguay & this northern neighbor Bolivia |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | WAR! $2000: 1969:
the Soccer War between El Salvador & this northern neighbor Honduras |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | 1812: THE WAR & MORE $400: Formerly the Orleans Territory, it became the 18th state Louisiana |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | 1812: THE WAR & MORE $800: The U.S. frigate Constitution's defeat of the Guerriere in 1812 earned it this famous nickname Old Ironsides |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | 1812: THE WAR & MORE $1200: Support of the Luddites was part of this poet's first speech before Britain's House of Lords (Lord) Byron |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | 1812: THE WAR & MORE $2000: This Shawnee chief fought for the British & led Native American allies but was killed in battle the next year Tecumseh |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | 1812: THE WAR & MORE $5,000 (Daily Double): This 11-letter political word entered our vocabulary after Massachusetts' governor signed a redistricting bill gerrymander |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | THERE'S A WAR ON $200: A "conflict":
1950 to 1953 the Korean War |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | THERE'S A WAR ON $400: 1846 to 1848:
Starring Zachary Taylor the Mexican-American War |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | THERE'S A WAR ON $600: 1618 to 1648:
Duh the Thirty Years' War |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | THERE'S A WAR ON $800: April-December 1898 the Spanish-American War |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | THERE'S A WAR ON $1000: In America:
1754 to 1763 the French and Indian War |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | WAR STARS $200: Cottage cheese was part of Michael Fassbender's Spartan diet to prep for this movie set at Thermopylae 300 |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | WAR STARS $400: A young woman secretly takes her father's place in the Chinese army & becomes a great heroine in this Disney film Mulan |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | WAR STARS $600: Agu is a child soldier in an African Civil War in this film that earned Idris Elba a Golden Globe nomination Beasts of No Nation |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | WAR STARS $800: As the first female trainee in the Navy's elite SEAL program, Demi Moore is determined to succeed in this film G.I. Jane |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | WAR STARS $1000: As General Kuribayashi, Ken Watanabe led the defense of an isolated Pacific island in this 2006 movie Letters from Iwo Jima |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: The 9 1/2-month siege of Petersburg resulted in the fall of Richmond & this Virginian's surrender Robert E. Lee |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: In 1863 he published the article "Men of Color, to Arms!", urging black enlistment in the army Frederick Douglass |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: The 1862 Battle of Sharpsburg was fought over a Maryland creek that gave the fight this other name Antietam |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: In December 1864 William T. Sherman wired Lincoln that he was presenting "a Christmas gift" of this port city Savannah |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $1,600 (Daily Double): These mountains divided the war into 2 main theaters: east to the Atlantic & west to the Mississippi River the Appalachians |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum was built as a monument to the men and women who served in the war; in 1926, in front of a crowd of 150,000, this president broke his notorious silence to dedicate the memorial Calvin Coolidge |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The German model 1902 field Howitzer could hurl a 95-pound shell nearly 5 miles; because of their power & black smoke, the incoming rounds got this nickname among the allied troops after the hard-hitting African-American heavyweight champion of the era Jack Johnson |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The museum's Horizon Theater features a vivid recreation of the dangerous battle-scarred landscape between opposing lines known by this 3-word name no man's land |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The tunic & cap belonged to this Prussian aristocrat who led Germany's wartime military dictatorship, gave his name to an ill-fated aircraft & appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's chancellor (Paul von) Hindenburg |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STORIES OF THE WAR $200: "Founding Brothers" &
"Founding Mothers" the American Revolution |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STORIES OF THE WAR $400: "All Quiet on the Western Front" &
"Parade's End" World War I |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STORIES OF THE WAR $600: "A Bridge Too Far" &
"Eye of the Needle" World War II |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STORIES OF THE WAR $1000: "The 13th Valley" &
"The Short-Timers" Vietnam |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STORIES OF THE WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): "Perilous Fight" &
"While Washington Burned" the War of 1812 |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $400: A public official might have this war word "of interest" & have to recuse himself a conflict |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $800: This word for a military fight can be found in front of "axe" or "cry" battle |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1200: This 4-letter word can mean a boxing match or a period of illness a bout |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): This old-timey term for hand-to-hand combat starts with a hand ready to strike a blow fisticuffs |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1600: 3 E's are the only vowels you need to spell this French word for a fight a melee |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $200: The Battle of Germantown,
1777 Pennsylvania |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $400: The Battle of Stones River, aka the Battle of Murfreesboro,
1862-63 Tennessee |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $600: The Battle of White Plains,
1776 New York |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $800: The Battle of Chancellorsville,
1863 Virginia |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $1000: The Battle of San Patricio,
1836 Texas |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | THE VIETNAM WAR ERA $400: Attacks on the U.S. destroyer Maddox in this gulf in August 1964 prompted LBJ to order air strikes against the North the Tonkin |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | THE VIETNAM WAR ERA $800: In 1964 this comedian performed the first of his 9 USO Christmas shows for American troops in 'Nam Bob Hope |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | THE VIETNAM WAR ERA $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) The muddy waters of the Mekong were the site of many actions involving small U.S. Navy vessels formerly called patrol fast craft, but better known by this nickname made famous during the 2004 presidential election swift boats |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | THE VIETNAM WAR ERA $2000: The 4-year tenure of this controversial general as commander of U.S. forces ended in 1968 Westmoreland |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | THE VIETNAM WAR ERA $9,700 (Daily Double): In 1968 this anti-war candidate vied with fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey for the Democratic nomination Eugene McCarthy |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORLD WAR II $400: After German paratroopers rescued him in 1943, he set up the Salo Republic, another fascist regime Mussolini |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORLD WAR II $800: Sword & Gold, 2 of the beaches at Normandy, were named for these creatures fish |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORLD WAR II $1200: Allied pilots flew a supply route to China called "The Hump" over these mountains the Himalayas |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORLD WAR II $1600: In 1944 this field marshal & Afrika Korps leader was implicated in a plot to assassinate Hitler Rommel |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | WORLD WAR II $2000: Scientists at a seed bank starved rather than eat the seeds in the siege of what was then this Soviet city Leningrad |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $400: In August 1812 General William Hull surrendered his army to the British at this Michigan city Detroit |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $800: She had the frame of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portrait broken so that the canvas could be taken for safekeeping Dolley Madison |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1600: In October 1814 Congress proposed moving the capital back to this city but the house rejected the bill, 83-74 Philadelphia |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2,000 (Daily Double): In September 1814 major George Armistead resisted an attack by the British navy on this fort Fort McHenry |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map-like diagram on the monitor.) Using barricades of earthworks & cotton bales, he set a defensive line on Rodriguez Canal to defend New Orleans; in a half-hour of fighting on January 8, 1815, British causalities were over 2,000; Americans?--fewer than 100 (Andrew) Jackson |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $400: The story of this brave engineer began in Missouri in 1863 Casey Jones |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $800: This manager of the Philadelphia A's from 1901 through 1950 came into the world as Cornelius McGillicuddy in 1862 Connie Mack |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $1200: "The Age of Innocence" had yet to begin when she was born into New York's high society in 1862 Edith Wharton |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WAR OF THE GENERALS $400: Burnside,
Hooker,
Stuart the Civil War |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WAR OF THE GENERALS $1200: Escobar on one side, Queipo de Llano on the other Spanish Civil War |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WAR OF THE GENERALS $1600: Falkenhayn,
Foch,
French World War I |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE $200: The Battle of Mobile Bay Alabama |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE $400: The Battle of Peachtree Creek Georgia |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE $600: The Battle of Antietam Maryland |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE $800: The Battle of Independence Missouri |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE $1000: The Battle of Petersburg Virginia |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $400: The Russian people suffered greatly during the war & blamed this czar who was forced off the throne in early 1917 Nicholas II |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $800: The May 8, 1915 headline in the N.Y. Times blared this ship "sunk by a submarine... twice torpedoed off Irish coast" the Lusitania |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $1600: On July 4, 1917 this AEF leader marched his troops through Paris to lay a wreath on the tomb of Lafayette (John J.) Pershing |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $2000: The Allies suffered around 250,000 casualties trying unsuccessfully to reopen this strait also known as the Hellespont the Dardanelles |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $3,200 (Daily Double): The Zimmerman Note encouraged this nation to ally with Germany, which promised to let it annex lost land in the U.S. Mexico |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: Not a single person was killed in the April 1861 battle over this fort, but it did launch the Civil War Fort Sumter |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: 2 half brothers of this First Lady died fighting for the Confederacy Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: In mid-1861 Montgomery, Alabama was out & this city was in as capital of the Confederacy Richmond, Virginia |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: A favorite of Lee, this general actually favored preservation of the Union but went with Virginia after secession Stonewall Jackson |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: In November 1861 this Union man became general in chief of all armies; by March 1862, he lost the gig George McClellan |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | THE WAY WE "WAR" $400: As a verb it can mean to leave a hive en masse swarm |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | THE WAY WE "WAR" $800: Makeup applied before a battle by Native Americans war paint |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | THE WAY WE "WAR" $1200: This "Rocky Horror" dance is also a sci-fi term the Time Warp |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | THE WAY WE "WAR" $1600: This word for the seats seen here can also mean foils or prevents thwarts |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | THE WAY WE "WAR" $2000: This 1973 "Act" requires the president to consult with Congress when deploying troops abroad the War Powers Act |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $400: Herman Wouk's book about this ship's mutiny was inspired by his experiences aboard a similar WWII vessel the Caine |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $800: In this young adult novel set during the war, "The Grave Digger's Handbook" is the first item Liesel Meminger steals The Book Thief |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $1200: Billy Pilgrim witnesses the firebombing of Dresden & subsequent killing of 135,000 in this Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $1600: His 1961 novel "Mila 18" tells of the 1943 Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto Leon Uris |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $2000: 50 years after he wrote it, Norman Mailer said he was still fond of this novel: "It has virtues, it has faults" The Naked and the Dead |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | WAR NOVELS $400: In 1777 a young loyalist questions his duty in this Bernard Cornwell novel titled with a slang term for a British soldier Redcoat |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | WAR NOVELS $800: "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford follows a member of this military branch, from basic training to war in Vietnam the Marines |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | WAR NOVELS $1200: In James Salter's "The Hunters", set during this war, USAF pilots face off against MiGs above the Yalu River the Korean War |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | WAR NOVELS $2000: This novel by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim tells the harrowing tale of a captain & his crew aboard a WWII German sub Das Boot |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | WAR NOVELS $5,000 (Daily Double): Paul Baumer is an idealistic enlistee until he sees the horrors of war firsthand in this 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $400: American general who became a traitor & a great golfer, winning the Masters 4 times beginning in 1958 Benedict Arnold Palmer |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Drag Race" host who had a dramatic horseback ride on the night of April 18, 1775 RuPaul Revere |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Formal agreement ending the Revolutionary War that's a hotel heiress & reality TV star the Treaty of Paris Hilton |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who was a 76ers player nicknamed "The Answer" Ethan Allen Iverson |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $2000: British military officer executed as a spy who was half of the music duo OutKast John André 3000 |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | BATTLES IN THE WAR $200: Cowpens &
Trenton the Revolutionary War |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | BATTLES IN THE WAR $400: Goose Green &
Darwin,
in 1982 the Falkland War |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | BATTLES IN THE WAR $600: Las Guasimas &
San Juan Hill the Spanish-American War |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | BATTLES IN THE WAR $800: Balaklava &
Sevastopol the Crimean War |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | BATTLES IN THE WAR $1000: St. Albans &
Towton
(near York) the Wars of the Roses |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $400: In the first of the wars named for this peninsula, Montenegro & its allies declared war on Turkey in 1912 the Balkan |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $800: The Greeks captured Salonika under this future king who shared his name with the namesake of ancient Istanbul Constantine |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $1600: At war's end in 1913, this country on the Adriatic achieved independence from Turkey after 4 centuries Albania |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $1,800 (Daily Double): An armistice ended when Turkey's government was overthrown by this "youthful" nationalist group the Young Turks |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $2000: Serbia won the Battle of Kumanovo in this region, now a republic also called FYROM Macedonia |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | WORLD WAR I $400 (Daily Double): British general Sir Ian Hamilton's amphibious assault on this peninsula in April of 1915 ended in a bloody 8-month stalemate Gallipoli |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | WORLD WAR I $800: One of these on the front lines was typically 6 to 8 feet deep & wide enough for 2 men to pass a trench |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | WORLD WAR I $1600: This British prime minister negotiated the Treaty of Versailles for his nation David Lloyd George |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | WORLD WAR I $2000: In early 1918 this French general was named Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces on the Western Front General Foch |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | THE VIETNAM WAR $200: The film "Last Days in Vietnam" details the fall of Saigon & the too-long-delayed evacuation of this facility the American embassy |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | THE VIETNAM WAR $400: A key U.S. aim was winning Vietnamese "Hearts and" these, the title of an Oscar-winning documentary opposing the war Minds |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | THE VIETNAM WAR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 1968 assault shown here is called this, after its namesake holiday; attacks ranged from Khe Sanh down to Saigon & Vinh Loi the Tet Offensive |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: This alphanumeric weapon became the standard U.S. infantry rifle in 1967 the M16 |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | THE VIETNAM WAR $1000: The first two names inscribed on the Memorial were not combat soldiers but military these, helping the South Vietnamese advisers |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $200: During his 1864 re-election bid, Lincoln said "It was not best to swap" these "while crossing the stream" horses |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $400: In 1861 Army Surgeon Bernard Irwin earned the 1st Medal of Honor in Hostilities vs. Chiricahua Apaches in this future state Arizona |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $600: In 1863 the Statue of Freedom designed by Thomas Crawford was placed atop this Washington, D.C. building the Capitol building |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $800: In the fall of 1861 this service delivered its last piece of mail the Pony Express |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $1000: This county with a famous Court House hosted the main event of April 9, 1865 & is reenacting it in April 2015 Appomattox |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $400: The second sentence of this speech begins, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war" the Gettysburg Address |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $800: This middle name of Civil War general Sherman honored a Shawnee chief Tecumseh |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $1200: Camp Sumter was the formal name for this Georgia prison, the largest in the South Andersonville |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $1600: In August 1863 he & his guerrilla band irregularly attached to the Confederate army sacked Lawrence, Kansas William Quantrill |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $2000: The Battle of the Monitor & the Merrimack is also called the Battle of this Virginia channel Hampton Roads |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES $400: On April 18, 1775, Massachusetts Governor Gage ordered British troops to destroy military stores in this town near Lexington Concord |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES $800: A plaque to him at West Point shows his birth year & rank, his name & date of death were removed long ago Benedict Arnold |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES $1200: This heroine of the Battle of Monmouth began receiving a $40 annual pension in 1822 for her war efforts Molly Pitcher |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES $1600: After the revolution this "Swamp Fox" became a state senator in South Carolina (Francis) Marion |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES $2,200 (Daily Double): In March 1775 he told the Second Virginia Convention, "We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm" Patrick Henry |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WAR $400: This WWI gas that sounds like a condiment is a vesicant, meaning it causes blisters mustard gas |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WAR $800: Some "general" info on this tank, the M4--it could go 25 mph & some had hedgerow cutters & rocket launchers a Sherman tank |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WAR $1200: AKA the M9A1 rocket launcher, this shoulder-held weapon could pierce 5 inches of armor plate, Joe a bazooka |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WAR $1600: Going quite a few leagues under the sea, it was the first sub powered by a nuclear reactor the Nautilus |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WAR $2000: Development of the MX missile, aka this somewhat contradictory term, began in the '70s the Peacekeeper |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: Fitzhugh Lee, U.S. Consul General in Havana, advised President McKinley not to send this ship to the city; he was ignored the Maine |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $400: This Assistant Secretary of the Navy resigned his office to fight the war on horseback Theodore Roosevelt |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $600: This "Red Badge of Courage" author covered the war in Cuba as a reporter for Pulitzer's New York World newspaper Stephen Crane |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $800: General Nelson Miles captured this future U.S. commonwealth & served as civilian administrator after the war Puerto Rico |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1000: During the Battle of Manila Bay, this captain of the Olympia was told by Dewey to fire "when you are ready" Charles Gridley |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: By June 1862 the Union held this river as far south as Memphis the Mississippi |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: After completing his "March to the Sea", this general led another march through the Carolinas Sherman |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated map diagram on the monitor.) Although he was but 1 of 4 division commanders with Trimble, Pettigrew & Anderson in an attack at Gettysburg, the charge is named for this general (George) Pickett |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: On Oct. 19, 1864 this Union general known as "Little Phil" made his ride to stop Jubal Early at Cedar Creek (Philip) Sheridan |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: In February 1865 Lincoln met with this Confederate vice president aboard the River Queen at Hampton Roads, Virginia Alexander Stephens |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WORLD WAR I SLANG $400: When kids accuse each other of having these, they don't know that WWI sanitation popularized it as slang for lice cooties |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WORLD WAR I SLANG $1,000 (Daily Double): The German gun "Long Max" was not as famous as this alliterative Krupp product Big Bertha |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | WORLD WAR I SLANG $2000: A German verb meaning "punish", by war's end it meant attacking with machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft strafe |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | AMERICAN WAR HEROES $800: Zachary Taylor's victory in the Battle of Buena Vista during this war made him a national hero the Mexican-American War |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | AMERICAN WAR HEROES $1200: He was frequently seen with his corn-cob pipe, but no button nose (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | AMERICAN WAR HEROES $1600: During the first Persian Gulf War, he commanded more than 540,000 U.S. troops & 200,000 allied troops (Norman) Schwarzkopf |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | AMERICAN WAR HEROES $2000: He's the highly decorated hero-turned-actor who played himself in the movie seen here Audie Murphy |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE CIVIL WAR $0: The battles of Shiloh & Collierville were fought in this state Tennessee |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? $400: This empire was victorious in wars Gallic & Punic the Roman Empire |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? $800: In 1949 this group won the Chinese Civil War the Communists |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? $1200: In the 1930s Fascist forces led by this general won the Spanish Civil War Franco |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? $1600: The English Civil War was Parliament vs. this king, who surrendered in 1646 Charles I |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? $2000: South America's War of the Pacific ended in 1883 with this winning nation cutting off Bolivia from the sea Chile |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $200: Kirigami is cutting & folding paper into objects or designs' this is doing it without cutting, pasting or decorating origami |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $400: A simple method of printing & duplicating uses these cutouts; paint is sprayed through the removed areas a stencil |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $600: Useful in electronics crafts, this process joins circuit components using a low melting point alloy soldering |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $800: From the French for "to cut out", it's the craft of decorating a surface with paper shapes decoupage |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $1000: This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century crochet |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE SECRETARY OF WAR $400: Last name of Secretary No. 3--the fort named for him played a "key" role in "The Star-Spangled Banner" McHenry |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE SECRETARY OF WAR $800: Pierce's War Secretary, he soon ended up in a war, all right... with the United States Jefferson Davis |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE SECRETARY OF WAR $1600: Nice balancing act! This future prez was Madison's Secretary of State & War at the same time James Monroe |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE SECRETARY OF WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A son of this president worked for Garfield & later became a wealthy corporate lawyer (Abraham) Lincoln |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE SECRETARY OF WAR $2000: Secretary during the Civil War, he died 4 days after Grant appointed him to the Supreme Court Edwin Stanton |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $200: In the Austro-Prussian War, "Austro" won a few battles, but this prime minister won the war Bismarck |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $400: Russia 1, Turkey 0
at Sinope;
Allies 1, Russia 0
in this 1853 to 1856 war the Crimean War |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $600: Around 428 B.C. Athens kept control of Lesbos but by 404 things had swung Sparta's way in this war the Peloponnesian War |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $800: The South took the Battle of this "ville" in 1863 but lost Stonewall Jackson Chancellorsville |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $1000: In 1937 it was the Republicans over the Nationalists at the Jarama River near this European capital, but the Nats won the war Madrid |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WAR STORIES $400: "Mister Roberts" &
"The Naked and the Dead" World War II |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WAR STORIES $800: "Gods and Generals" by Jeff Shaara the Civil War |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WAR STORIES $1200: "Rise to Rebellion" by Jeff Shaara the American Revolution |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WAR STORIES $1600: "The Last of the Mohicans" the French and Indian Wars |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WAR STORIES $2000: "Fields of Fire" &
"Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder" the Vietnam War |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $400: From the Latin for "life", vittles meant this food |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $800: A picket was someone on this duty guard duty |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $1200: A Confederate soldier could be called by this first name whether he was "marching home" or not Johnny |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $1600: A Union soldier could be called this, now found before "Trade Commission" Federal |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $2000: Now it's slang for any bad situation; back then it was a foraging soldier a bummer |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: As a lieutenant of engineers in the late 1830s, he supervised the engineering work for the harbor in St. Louis Robert E. Lee |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: Known for his scorched earth policy, this Union general worked as a banker & lawyer before the war (William Tecumseh) Sherman |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1200: Later a historical novelist, he presided over the court martial of the Lincoln conspirators Lew Wallace |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $2,000 (Daily Double): A Texas fort is named for this confederate general who led the Texas Brigade of the army of northern Virginia (John B.) Hood |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $2000: General Winfield Scott was so old that this other noted Civil War general was named for him (Winfield Scott) Hancock |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | THE CIVIL WAR IN 1864 $400: In February the first Northern prisoners arrived at Andersonville Prison in this state; more than 45,000 followed Georgia |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $400: The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French & Indian War as well as this larger global conflict the Seven Years War |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $800: The British won the 1759 battle for this Canadian city & protected it from recapture 7 months later Quebec |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $1600: In the 1750s the British expelled most of these French peasants from the maritime provinces the Acadians |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1758 the British captured Fort Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, thus gaining access to this vital river the St. Lawrence |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $2000: This Indian confederacy that controlled Upstate New York sided with the British the Iroquois |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $200: General Douglas MacArthur led the forces in support of South Korea until this president fired him in April 1951 Truman |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: U.S. General "Rosie" O'Donnell commanded operations of B-29s, this type of plane a bomber |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $600: The forces of this organization were Korean & American, supplemented by troops from 15 other countries the United Nations |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $800 (Daily Double): "War's End Near" said a jubilant U.S. headline on the capture of this metropolis October 19, 1950 Pyongyang |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $1000: Protecting hydropower on this river was one reason China crossed it & entered the war in late 1950 Yalu River |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $400: Known for his Gettysburg "Charge", after the War he sold insurance in Richmond (George) Pickett |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $800: It was at a victory that this CSA Gen. reportedly said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it" (Robert E.) Lee |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: Julia Ward Howe wrote this "Hymn", the semi-official song of the Union Army, after visiting an army camp near Washington, D.C. "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1600: After the War, this Union general known for his whiskers was elected Governor of Rhode Island 3 times (Ambrose) Burnside |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $2000: A former slave, she was appointed to the National Freedman's Relief Association in 1864; in your face, Tubman! Sojourner Truth |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT $400: The first non-food item rationed was this; citizens were asked to turn in hoses, raincoats & bathing caps for recycling rubber |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT $800: This Disney feature opened Aug. 13, 1942, & the mother's death couldn't have soothed many war-worried kids Bambi |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT $1200: A 1942 Supreme Court decision involving divorces granted in this state made a divorce in any state valid in all Nevada |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT $1600: In 1943 kids were enjoying Esther Forbes' novel about this title Johnny & the Revolutionary War Johnny Tremain |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT $2000: To reduce demand for commercial produce during the war, millions of people did their part by planting these gardens victory gardens |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $200: Petunia my lovely, this Pennsylvania battle goes on & we are to assault Culp's Hill! My life insurance policy is in the chifforobe Gettysburg |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $400: Darling Beatrice! The picture you sent of yourself in this 4-letter skirt! Be still my heart, you wild vixen! a hoop skirt |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $600: Ima, I fear we may be lost! We are in Encino in this state & it is eerily quiet California |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $800: My taste buds have been amputated, Ida, yet I yearn for your pies with this insect name with brown sugar, molasses & butter shoo-fly |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $1000: O fair Lulubelle, my pancreas lies somewhere in S.C. but its islets of this, whose beta cells make insulin, live in my mem'ry Langerhans |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WAR STORIES $200: "Redcoat" by Bernard Cornwell American Revolution |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WAR STORIES $400: "Rebel Train" by David Healey the War between the States (or the Civil War) |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WAR STORIES $600: "The Rough Rider" by Gilbert Morris Spanish-American War |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WAR STORIES $800: "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway World War I |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WAR STORIES $1000: "The Manchurian Candidate" by Richard Condon Korean War |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $400: Prior to being shot by a sniper, Union general John Sedgwick said, "They couldn't hit" this pachyderm "at this distance" an elephant |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $800: "I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union", wrote this Virginian Robert E. Lee |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $1200: Known for his "Charge" at Gettysburg, he was relieved of his command days prior to Appomattox Pickett |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $1600: In the spring of 1862, this naval hero & his fleet captured New Orleans Farragut |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $2000: Perhaps appropriately, the HQ of this general was called a "combination barroom and brothel" Joe Hooker |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $5 (Daily Double): Bolt to the top of the class if you know an arbalest is another name for this medieval weapon crossbow |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $400: This 4-letter word is a weapon in 2 senses: a club with a spiked head & a nonlethal spray mace |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) One way the trebuchet is different from a basic catapult is that this simple biblical weapon was added to aid in acceleration & range a sling |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $1200: This term that goes back to a word for "boy" or "youth" referred to those soldiers too inexperienced for the cavalry infantry |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Under Alexander the Great, the first five ranks in this military formation whose name comes from the Greek for "finger" held spears facing forward, while the rear rows likely held them aloft a phalanx |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | WORLD WAR II $400: This name for the group of countries that lost the war dates to a 1936 German-Italian pact the Axis |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | WORLD WAR II $800: In 1940 de Gaulle said, "the flame of French" this, the name of the anti-Nazi underground, "must never be quenched" the Resistance |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | WORLD WAR II $1200: This air marshal's Luftwaffe hammered England, resulting in nearly 40,000 civilian deaths Hermann Goering |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | WORLD WAR II $1600: On May 6, 1942 U.S. troops on this fortress island in Manila Bay surrendered to the Japanese Corregidor |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | WORLD WAR II $2000: This British field marshal was in charge of all Allied ground troops during D-Day Montgomery |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE VIETNAM WAR $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) On November 24, 1963, just two days after taking office, this man, who escalated the war, told his advisers, "I'm not going to lose Vietnam. I'm not going to let Vietnam go the way of China" Lyndon Johnson |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE VIETNAM WAR $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) For more than a decade, U.S. & South Vietnamese forces fought Vietcong guerrillas for control of Vietnam's rice bowl, this fertile region near the Mekong River's mouth the Mekong Delta |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Reminders of the war are everywhere in Vietnam; a small lake in a quiet Hanoi neighborhood still holds wreckage of one of these giant U.S. bombers that attacked the city in December 1972 a B-52 |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE VIETNAM WAR $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Only a small part of Hanoi's infamous Hoa La prison remains standing today; during the war, inmates such as John McCain gave it this ironic nickname, reflecting the lack of hospitality they found there the Hanoi Hilton |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE VIETNAM WAR $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) The climactic moment of the war came when, after more than 20 years of fighting, North Vietnamese tanks burst through the gates of Saigon's Presidential Palace on April 30th of this year 1975 |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $400: In this last battle of the War, about 2,000 British were killed, wounded or captured; fewer than 50 Americans were killed The Battle Of New Orleans |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $800: On April 27, 1813 American forces captured York, the capital of upper Canada; today York is known by this name Toronto |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1200: After the battle of Lake Erie, Congress gave this Naval hero a gold medal & $5,000, plus his share of prize money (Oliver Hazard) Perry |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2000: In Article X of this treaty, both the U.S. & Britain agreed to "use their best endeavours" to abolish slavery the Treaty of Ghent |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $3,000 (Daily Double): This Washington attorney was held prisoner aboard a British ship in mid-September 1814 Francis Scott Key |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Lincoln said of it, "That speech won't scour. It is a flat failure" The Gettysburg Address |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: The American flag was lowered in surrender at this fort on April 14, 1861 Fort Sumter |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) On May 2, 1863 Stonewall Jackson led his men on a 12-mile march to get into position for an attack on the unsuspecting federal troops. Lee remained behind for a frontal assault. This battle is considered Lee's greatest victory Battle of Chancellorsville |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: He said, "I can make the march" & show "the world... that we have a power which Davis cannot resist" Sherman |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) At dawn September 17, 1862, General Hooker began his attack to reach Confederate artillery gathered by Dunker Church just four hours into this battle; 13,000 were dead or wounded Antietam |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THIS MEANS WAR! $400: The assassination of Franz Ferdinand WWI |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THIS MEANS WAR! $800: The explosion of the USS Maine the Spanish-American War |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THIS MEANS WAR! $1200: Marshal Choe Yong Gun leads his troops across a border the Korean War |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THIS MEANS WAR! $1600: Egypt & Syria simultaneously attack Israel on 2 fronts, on a holy day the Yom Kippur War |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THIS MEANS WAR! $2000: Bismarck publishes the Ems telegram, royally peeving Napoleon III the Franco-Prussian War |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: In September 1950 this general led the amphibious landing on Inchon; 7 months later, he was removed from command (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: The Korean War was the first time that this type of aircraft was used to carry troops into combat a helicopter |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $1200: The U.S. Navy lost 5 ships in the war: 4 minesweepers & the Sarsi, one of these that tows larger vessels a tugboat |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $1600: Many jet dogfights took place in "MiG Alley" between the Yalu River & this North Korean capital Pyongyang |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $2000: A Security Council resolution issued when the war began demanded the Communists retreat to this parallel the 38th parallel |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WORLD WAR II $400: The Allies blew up an abbey en route to capturing Monte Cassino in this country Italy |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WORLD WAR II $800: The "Death March" from this Philippine peninsula cost the lives of thousands of Allied prisoners of war Bataan |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WORLD WAR II $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a naval animation on the monitor.) At the 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance, a line of Japanese ships received deadly raking fire from American Admiral Scott's fleet in a classic naval maneuver called "crossing" this the T |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WORLD WAR II $2,000 (Daily Double): Germany launched its ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union in June of this year 1941 |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WORLD WAR II $2000: The Spitfire & this lesser-known "stormy" fighter were the keys to the RAF's victory in the Battle of Britain the Hawker Hurricane |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: In 1575 this "Don Quixote" author's ship was overtaken by pirates; he spent 5 years as a captive in Algiers Cervantes |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $800: This author of "The Winds of War" served on 2 minesweepers Herman Wouk |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1200: This Russian count's "Sevastopol sketches" were based on his army experiences during the Crimean War Leo Tolstoy |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1600: During WWII, this Tarzan creator was the oldest war correspondent to serve in the Pacific theater (Edgar Rice) Burroughs |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | AUTHORS AT WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Auctioned in 2011, a letter by this author who satirized the military said, "In truth I enjoyed" fighting in WWII Joseph Heller |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS $400: Dec. 25, this year:
5 months into WWI, German & British troops emerge from their trenches for a game of soccer 1914 |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS $800: December 25, 1776:
2,400 U.S. troops cross this river for a surprise attack the Delaware |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS $1600: December 25, 1939:
The Battle of Jelja commences in the "Winter War" between these 2 foes Finland & Russia |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS $2000: December 25, 1944: The U.S. 101st Airborne repels a German attack on this town at the heart of the "Bulge" Bastogne |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS $3,000 (Daily Double): Dec. 25, 1837:
U.S. troops suffer heavy casualties fighting this Florida tribe at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee the Seminole |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: Michael Shaara's 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner "The Killer Angels" tells the story of this 3-day battle Gettysburg |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $800: This 1895 classic follows the story of a young man from naive patriotism to fear to bravery The Red Badge Of Courage |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Geraldine Brooks' "March" imagines the war exploits of Mr. March, the father of the 4 girls in this work Little Women |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1600: E.L. Doctorow's "The March" depicts this general's campaign through the South Sherman |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $2000: A 1952 novel by Shelby Foote recounts an 1862 battle at this title Tennessee place with a Biblical name Shiloh |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE WAR OF ...12 $400: In the War of the Holy League, a big deal in 1512, the man in this post assembled an alliance against France the pope |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE WAR OF ...12 $800: A Russian movie is titled "1612", the year Polish occupation of this Moscow central fortress ended the Kremlin |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE WAR OF ...12 $1200: In 1412 an uneasy truce in this long conflict was almost over the Hundred Years' War |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE WAR OF ...12 $1600: In 1912 Serbia was fighting this empire in the First Balkan War the Ottoman |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE WAR OF ...12 $2000: In 1212 victory at Las Navas de Tolosa ended Alfonso VIII's 40 years of warfare against them Moors |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | CIVIL WAR NAMES $400: He reached Savannah in time for Christmas 1864 & presented the city to the Pres., along with 150 captured cannons Sherman |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | CIVIL WAR NAMES $800: Of a doomed attack at Gettysburg, this Confederate made the charge that Lee "had my division massacred" (George) Pickett |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | CIVIL WAR NAMES $1600: This West Pointer threw out the first pitch, or rather, fired the first Union shot, in defense of Fort Sumter Abner Doubleday |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | CIVIL WAR NAMES $2000: This cavalryman twice led his troops in a ride around McClellan, boosting southern morale J.E.B. Stuart |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | CIVIL WAR NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Gen. Bee's comment about this man may not have been a compliment of steadfastness but a complaint about a lack of support Stonewall Jackson |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | NAME THAT WAR $400: The 3 Battles of Ypres World War I |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | NAME THAT WAR $800: The Inchon Landing the Korean War |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | NAME THAT WAR $1200: The Battle of Lookout Mountain the Civil War |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | NAME THAT WAR $1600: The 1356 Battle of Poitiers the Hundred Years' War |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | NAME THAT WAR $2000: The Battle of Tarawa World War II |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | THE CIVIL WAR BY THE NUMBERS $200: These 2 warring capitals were a mere 100 miles apart Washington & Richmond |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | THE CIVIL WAR BY THE NUMBERS $400: According to the prisoner exchange agreement of July 1862, 60 privates could be exchanged for one of these officers a general |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | THE CIVIL WAR BY THE NUMBERS $600: With a population of about 168,000 in 1860, this city on the Mississippi River was the largest city in the Confederacy New Orleans |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | THE CIVIL WAR BY THE NUMBERS $800: 12,000 men were involved in this ill-fated July 1863 "Charge" named for a general who sold insurance after the war Pickett's Charge |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | THE CIVIL WAR BY THE NUMBERS $1000: In March 1861 there were 7 Confederate states, so there were 7 stars on the flag with this rhyming nickname "Stars and Bars" |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: Gen. Beauregard wrote that Gen. Bee actually said, "Look at" this man's "brigade! It stands there like a stone wall" "Stonewall" Jackson |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Early models of the Gatling gun were manually operated using one of these a crank |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: A leader of Confederate guerrillas who were spookily hard to find & fight, John Mosby was aka the Gray this Ghost |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: In 1865 his pursuit hastened Lee's surrender; in 1866 he was sent west to deal with the Indians & passed into history (George Armstrong) Custer |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: This bloodiest 1-day battle of the Civil War stopped the first Confederate invasion of the North in 1862 Antietam |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | THE WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL $400: The flag seen here in a less dramatic setting was waving over this fort on September 14, 1814 Fort McHenry |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | THE WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL $800: The U.S. Navy won several famous duels between these warships bigger than sloops but smaller than ships of the line frigates |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | THE WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL $1200: One of the major causes of the war was this British practice of forcing U.S. merchant sailors into the Royal Navy press ganging |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | THE WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL $1600: Though fighting continued for several weeks, the Dec. 1814 Treaty of this Belgian city officially ended the war Ghent |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | THE WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL $2000: The name of this ship sunk by the USS Constitution in 1812 is French for "warrior" Guerriere |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WAR POETRY $200: Herman Melville's "Shiloh: a Requiem" the Civil War |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WAR POETRY $400: William Cullen Bryant's "The Green Mountain Boys" the Revolutionary War |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WAR POETRY $600 (Daily Double): Robert Bly's "At a March Against" this war Vietnam |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WAR POETRY $800: Dylan Thomas' "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" World War II |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WAR POETRY $1000: Quintus Smyrnaeus' "Posthomerica" the Trojan War |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $400: In October 1781 this British general tried to retreat from Yorktown, but a storm drove his forces back Cornwallis |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $800: In 1859 tightrope walker Charles Blondin carried a man on his back as he walked a cable 160 feet above this landmark Niagara Falls |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $1600: The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga & Seneca made up this Confederacy the Iroquois Confederacy |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $2000: In this 1797 "Affair", 3 French agents demanded a bribe in return for a commerce treaty the XYZ Affair |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri.) St. Louis's Old Courthouse was the scene of 2 trials involving this slave; he won his freedom in the second trial, but the Supreme Court held otherwise, helping spark the Civil War Dred Scott |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR $200: In a letter to Teddy Roosevelt, the U.S. ambassador to England wrote of this conflict, "It's been a splendid little war" the Spanish-American War |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR $400: The Rough Riders' famous charge actually took place up Kettle Hill, not this better-known neighbor San Juan Hill |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR $600: On May 1, 1898 a U.S. fleet under George Dewey destroyed a Spanish fleet in this bay Manila Bay |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR $800: African-American troops known as this animal type of "soldiers" played an important role in combat in Cuba Buffalo Soldiers |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR $1000: Teddy Roosevelt called the sound of these early machine guns "the only sound I ever heard my men cheer in battle" Gatling guns |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $200: Grease from fried strips of this was the basis of a mealy mush known as coosh bacon |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $800: A thirsty soldier might ask for apple lady, the "hard" type of this cider |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CIVIL WAR SLANG $1000: Troops from Alabama were known by this colorful term, also the state bird Yellowhammers |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | WAR, WHO YA GOT? $400: The Peloponnesian War:
Athens vs. ____ Sparta |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | WAR, WHO YA GOT? $1200: War of the Roses:
____ vs. York Lancaster |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | WAR, WHO YA GOT? $1600: Crimean War:
France, Britain & ____ vs. Russia Turkey |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | WAR, WHO YA GOT? $2000: The Peninsular War:
France vs. Britain, ____ & ____ Spain & Portugal |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | WAR, WHO YA GOT? $4,000 (Daily Double): Punic Wars:
Rome vs. ____ Carthage |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN WAR $400: At the 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads, these 2 vessels fought the first engagement between ironclad warships the Monitor & the Merrimack |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN WAR $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) Christian & Muslim lands are represented here on the eve of this series of wars--the first of which went from 1096 to 1099 the Crusades |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN WAR $1200: Charge! Composed of lesser nobles who could afford horses, weapons & armor, it first appeared around 1000 B.C. cavalry |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN WAR $1600: The first major use of these vehicles was at the 1917 Battle of Cambrai, leading to a rare breakthrough on the Western Front tanks |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN WAR $2,799 (Daily Double): The 1940 invasion of Norway saw the first combat use of these troops, the German Fallschirmjager paratroopers |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II $400: The British A22 Mark IV tank carried a 75-millimeter gun & this prime minister's name Churchill |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II $800: Ships in the U.S. Navy's Casablanca class of "escort" these were smaller than their big cousins like the Lexington aircraft carriers |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II $1200: Today, this Japanese car company makes the Galant; in WWII, it was better known for its A6M "Zero" fighter Mitsubishi |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II $1600: It was the alphanumeric designation of the U.S. Army's Garand rifle the M1 |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II $2000: "Hefty" nickname of the second & last atomic bomb used during the war Fat Man |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | "WAR" & "PEACE" $400: To sing like a bird warble |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | "WAR" & "PEACE" $800: The Pawnee & Crow crafted complex dances for this sacred item that produced smoke offerings to the almighty a peace pipe |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | "WAR" & "PEACE" $1200: In "The Green Mile" James Cromwell played the man in this job the warden |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | "WAR" & "PEACE" $1600: This word for a black-magic user comes from an Old English word meaning "oathbreaker" or "devil" warlock |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | "WAR" & "PEACE" $2000: Exodus 20:24 mentions these, to be placed upon an altar of earth peace offerings |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | WAR STORIES $400: "Shades of Gray" &
"Cold Mountain" the Civil War |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | WAR STORIES $800: "M*A*S*H" &
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri" the Korean War |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | WAR STORIES $1200: "All Quiet on the Western Front" World War I |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | WAR STORIES $2000: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" the Spanish Civil War |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | WAR STORIES $2,400 (Daily Double): "Rags of Glory" &
"Kruger's Gold" the Boer War |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERALS $400: In command when the war began, Artemas Ward was soon playing second fife to this man Washington |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERALS $800: In 2002 this French general became only the sixth person to be named an honorary U.S. citizen Lafayette |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERALS $1600: This general became our nation's first Secretary of War & had a Kentucky fort named in his honor (Henry) Knox |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERALS $2000: A statue of this "colorful" general in the U.S. Capitol represents the State of Rhode Island Nathanael Greene |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERALS $3,000 (Daily Double): This last surviving general who died in 1832 at 98, gave his name to a South Carolina site that later made big news (Thomas) Sumter |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WAR STUFF $400: Around 1250 B.C., with Moses dead, the Israelites, led by this man, conquered the land of Canaan Joshua |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WAR STUFF $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lafitte Nat'l Historical Park in New Orleans, LA.) Jean Lafitte changed from pirate to patriot when he & his men sailed out of these bayous in the national historical park named for him to aid the U.S. during this war the War of 1812 |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WAR STUFF $1200: This King Henry's marriage to Elizabeth of York in 1486 helped bring the Wars of the Roses to an end Henry VII |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WAR STUFF $1600: Most of the "French" troops besieged in this doomed Asian city in spring 1954 were foreign Legionnaires Dien Bien Phu |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WAR STUFF $2000: Led by Robert the Bruce, on June 24, 1314 the Scots won their greatest victory over the English in this battle the Battle of Bannockburn |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | WAR! $400: War was near on April 7, 1982 after the U.K. declared a 200-mile exclusion zone around this archipelago the Falkland |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | WAR! $800: The U.N. Security Council issued a resolution that one side retreat to the 38th parallel on the day this war began the Korean War |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | WAR! $1200: The Navy had fewer than 20 seagoing ships at the start of this war, also known as "Mr. Madison's War" the War of 1812 |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | WAR! $2000: On June 24, 1970 the Senate voted to repeal this 6-year-old resolution, helping end the Cambodian Campaign the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | WAR! $2,400 (Daily Double): The 431 to 421 B.C. Archidamian war, named for a Spartan king, was the first of 3 parts of this war the Peloponnesian War |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR $200: The Battle of Stalingrad World War II |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR $400: Quang Tri City; the cavalry was sent! the Vietnam War |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR $600: Quebec &, a year later, Trenton the Revolutionary War |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR $800: No one enjoyed the portions at Pork Chop Hill the Korean War |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR $1000: Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... Bosworth Field the War of the Roses |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Although the war began in April 1861, no major battles were fought until this one in Virginia 3 months later First Manassas (or Bull Run) |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: This biscuit fittingly had "hard" in its name; Union soldiers called it "sheet iron crackers" hardtack |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the Union's center line at Cemetery Ridge was hit by 12,000 Confederates who suffered 42% casualties in the skirmish known as this man's "charge" (Gen. George) Pickett |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: This 6-barreled, hand-cranked weapon was first used in war by Union troops at the Battle of Petersburg a Gatling gun |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: On July 4, 1863, after a 6-week siege, this last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi surrendered Vicksburg |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE GREAT WAR $400: Stanley Kubrick's WWI film "Paths Of Glory" is about a real incident involving this country's army France |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE GREAT WAR $1200: In the War's biggest naval battle, the British & German fleets fought to a draw off this Danish peninsula Jutland |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE GREAT WAR $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1916 some 10,000 British & Indian troops trapped in the Mesopotamian town of Kut surrendered to these foes the Turks |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE GREAT WAR $1600: The British & this ally took the German colony of Tsingtao in 1914; in 1941, the teams would be different Japan |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE GREAT WAR $2000: When war began, the Triple Alliance of Germany, Italy & Austria-Hungary faced the Triple this the Triple Entente |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | WAR $200: Of all the USA's wars, this one claimed the most American lives the Civil War |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | WAR $400: It was known as "the war to end all wars" World War I |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | WAR $600: During this 1967 war, Israeli troops under Moshe Dayan came within a stone's throw of Damascus, Syria the Six-Days War |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | WAR $1000: During this war, Major George Armistead wanted "a flag so large the British will have no difficulty seeing it" the War of 1812 |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): "Operation Rolling Thunder" was the 1965 U.S. bombing campaign designed in part to stop men & supplies coming south on this road the Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | CIVIL WAR DIARY $200: Dec. 20, 1860:
Privy to a special convention in this state. Looks like they're gonna be the first to secede South Carolina |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | CIVIL WAR DIARY $400: Feb. 18, 1861:
Dear Diary: At Montgomery for his inaugural. Ate some mighty fine hush puppies... Jeff Davis |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | CIVIL WAR DIARY $600: June 28, 1863:
Heard Meade is the latest in a long line of heads of the army of this river. I'd love some mead... the Potomac |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | CIVIL WAR DIARY $800: July 1, 1863:
Good news, get to keep leg; bad news, I'm going to Cemetery Ridge for this Penn. battle Gettysburg |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | CIVIL WAR DIARY $1000: Aug. 5, 1864:
At the battle of this city's bay, I heard a Union admiral curse torpedoes. He sounded mad Mobile (Bay) |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE DOGS OF WAR $400: The sniffer dog here has alerted his squad members to one of these alongside a road in Afghanistan a mine (bomb accepted) |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE DOGS OF WAR $800: The dog here is training with this branch of the military; in Florida, not Tripoli the Marines |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE DOGS OF WAR $1200: This colorful World War I flying ace is seen here with his dog Moritz the Red Baron |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE DOGS OF WAR $1600: For attacking a pillbox during the invasion of Sicily, Chips, seen here, got a Purple Heart & this precious medal for valor the Silver Star |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE DOGS OF WAR $2000: During World War I, Rags, a terrier, earned fame as an intrepid messenger dog for the AEF, this U.S. force the American Expeditionary Force |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE WAR OF ART $400: The 1869 Civil War lithograph seen here details the last meeting of this general & Jackson (Robert E.) Lee |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE WAR OF ART $800: Around 1492 he created the marble "Battle Of The Centaurs"; no ceiling on his genius! Michelangelo |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE WAR OF ART $1200: This 17th c. Flemish man got mythical with "Minerva Protects Pax from Mars ('Peace and War')" Peter Paul Rubens |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE WAR OF ART $2,000 (Daily Double): A dismembered hand clutching a sword in black & white is part of this 1937 work inspired by the bombing of a city Guernica |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE WAR OF ART $2000: This man's 1799 portrait of Napoleon crossing the Alps is seen here Jacques-Louis David |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | WHAT'S THAT WAR? $400: 1814:
Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Chippewa the War of 1812 |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | WHAT'S THAT WAR? $800: 1847:
Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Churubusco the Mexican-American War |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | WHAT'S THAT WAR? $1,500 (Daily Double): 1937:
German planes bomb Almeria the Spanish Civil War |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | WHAT'S THAT WAR? $1600: 1904-1905:
The siege of Port Arthur the Russo-Japanese War |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | WHAT'S THAT WAR? $2000: 1899:
The Battle of Magersfontein the Boer War |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | WORLD OF WAR FACT $400: The U.S. combat mission in this country ended in August 2010 Iraq |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | WORLD OF WAR FACT $800: Originally a cavalry officer, he transferred to the German air service in 1915 & shot down 80 planes the Red Baron |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | WORLD OF WAR FACT $1200: World Book says this 20th century so-called war that lasted decades was actually an "intense rivalry" the Cold War |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | WORLD OF WAR FACT $2000: Meaning "lightning war", it's the method of warfare Germany pioneered in the 1939 invasion of Poland Blitzkrieg |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | WORLD OF WAR FACT $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 days before this war was declared, the British said they'd repealed the laws that were the chief reason for fighting us the War of 1812 |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | CIVIL WAR QUOTES $200: Before marching to the sea, he said that "War is cruelty... the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over" Sherman |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | CIVIL WAR QUOTES $400: William Lloyd Garrison said, "In firing his gun", this abolitionist "has merely told what time of day it is. It is High Noon" John Brown |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | CIVIL WAR QUOTES $600: About this speech, Lincoln said, "I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it" the Gettysburg Address |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | CIVIL WAR QUOTES $1000: Giving aid to Union Army surgeons, she said, "while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them" Clara Barton |
| #6016, aired 2010-11-08 | CIVIL WAR QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): In his Feb. 16, 1861 inaugural address, he said, "The time for compromise has now passed" Jefferson Davis |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | COMMANDERS AT WAR $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C., the Macedonian cavalry attacked the Persian left flank, then wheeled around to complete a smashing triumph for this great general Alexander the Great |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | COMMANDERS AT WAR $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the 1805 Battle of Austerlitz, enticing the Allies to attack his right flank, this commander's army stormed the center high ground & smashed the Allies Napoléon Bonaparte |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | COMMANDERS AT WAR $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) In June 1950, North Korea launched a surprise attack deep into South Korea; the tables turned in September, when MacArthur's UN forces made a surprise landing at this port city Inchon |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | COMMANDERS AT WAR $2,400 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) Pilots still use the World War II weaving tactic by which a pilot lures a pursuing enemy plane into another plane's gun sights; it was invented to combat this highly maneuverable Japanese fighter the Mitsubishi Zero |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | WORLD WAR II $400: In March 1942 Hitler approved Operation Aida, an offensive by Rommel to cross North Africa to this river Nile |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | WORLD WAR II $800: To help the war effort, this composer wrote "Any Bonds Today?" for the Treasury Department Irving Berlin |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | WORLD WAR II $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) A panel honors the contribution of paratroop units like the 507th, which helped beat back this German counteroffensive of December 1944 Battle of the Bulge |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | WORLD WAR II $1600: In July 1942 the port of Sevastopol fell to the Germans & the rest of this peninsula soon followed the Crimean Peninsula |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | WORLD WAR II $3,000 (Daily Double): The final land battle of WWII was fought on this island in the Ryukyus in June 1945 Okinawa |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Lincoln wrote 5 different versions of this Nov. 19, 1863 speech & made several changes as he spoke; nice ad-libbing, Abe! the Gettysburg Address |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: From Nov. 1864 through April 1865, this Union general led a march of 62,000 troops through the South (General) Sherman |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: On Jan. 21, 1861 he made a moving farewell speech in the Senate pleading for peace; a month later, he was the Confederate Pres. Jefferson Davis |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: On July 21, 1861 Gen. Barnard Bee said, "There is Jackson, standing like" one of these & a nickname was born a stone wall (Stonewall) |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Site of the first battle, this fort was incomplete & its 60 guns pointed out to sea Fort Sumter |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I $400: A seaplane called the Campania was designed to take off from the deck of this; seems to defeat the purpose of a seaplane an aircraft carrier |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I $1200: Structurally, the Fokker Dr. I was this type of plane design (hint: the 320 built had a total of 960 wings) a triplane |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) The Newport 28 at the Museum of Flight was the model used by Quentin, the son of this U.S. president; Quentin was killed in aerial combat over France in July 1918 Theodore Roosevelt |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I $2000: Germany's Halberstadt CL IV was powered by this engine brand named for a girl Mercedes |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I $3,000 (Daily Double): The Schutte-Lanz company also made dirigibles in Germany, but it was this company whose airships terrorized London Zeppelin |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $400: In May 1917 Wilson signed an act requiring U.S. males between the ages of 21 & 31 to do this on June 5 register with Selective Service (for the draft) |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $800: In one of the first major U.S. actions, this military branch's 5th & 6th regiments drove the Germans out of Belleau Wood the Marines |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $1200: Take a number! In 1918 Wilson proclaimed his "Four Ends", "Four Principles", "Five Particulars" & 14 of these Points |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $2000: Ironically, Wilson narrowly won re-election in 1916 using this 6-word campaign slogan "He kept us out of war" |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): In March 1917 Wilson ordered the arming of U.S. merchant ships to defend them from these "wolves of the sea" U-boats |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $400: As war minister & prime minister of Japan, he ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor (Hideki) Tojo |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $1200: Affer Germany invaded the Netherlands, this queen, her family & cabinet fled to London Wilhelmina |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $1600: Though he kept this country neutral, Antonio Salazar did allow the Allies to establish bases in the Azores Portugal |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $2,000 (Daily Double): Forced into exile by an Italian invasion in 1936, this emperor returned to his homeland in January 1941 Haile Selassie |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $2000: In 1940, at age 84, he became premier of France; after the war he was tried for treason & sent to prison for life (Maréchal) Pétain |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WAR & PEAS $200: To combat malnutrition, in 1942 Tasmanian blue peas were added to the rations of this country's troops Australia |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WAR & PEAS $400: A Civil War song popular with Confederate troops celebrated goober peas, another name for these peanuts |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WAR & PEAS $600: Pea soup was a staple in the ships of this navy that beat the French & Spanish at Trafalgar the British navy |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WAR & PEAS $800: During the Revolutionary War, Congress passed a resolution making peas a part of this army's rations the Continental Army |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WAR & PEAS $1000: In the 1940s General Mills produced dried peas for these "alphabetical" (& infamous) army rations K-rations |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WORLD WAR I $400: On April 6, 1917 the U.S. declared war on Germany, but war wasn't declared on this dual monarchy until December Austria-Hungary |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WORLD WAR I $800: In 1915 the Allies failed by land & by sea to win control of this strait between the Aegean & the Sea of Marmara the Dardanelles |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WORLD WAR I $1200: Some gift! Nashville's Rotary Club gave this sergeant & hero a home, but he got saddled with the mortgage Sergeant York |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WORLD WAR I $1600: As a result of the war, Germany had to give North Schleswig to this nation Denmark |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WORLD WAR I $2000: In the 1916 battle of this French fortress city, France had more than half a million casualties Verdun |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) The fundraising campaign to build the memorial was led by this 1996 presidential candidate, decorated in World War II with a Bronze Star & Purple Heart Bob Dole |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) Engraved in the memorial granite is this man's quote, prior to D-Day, that begins, "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade" Eisenhower |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) "They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so, they changed the course of a war", reads an inscription about this decisive Pacific battle of June 4-7, 1942 Midway |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) A Quincy, Massachusetts ship inspector was the likely source of this 3-word phrase which was seen everywhere, often accompanying a cartoon figure during World War II Kilroy was here |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL $4,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) Bas-relief panels at the World War II Memorial also depict stateside heroes, like this symbolic gal with a pivotal role who represented thousands Rosie the Riveter |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: In 1863 he was made a brigadier general at age 23 (yay!); 13 years later Little Bighorn (oops) Custer |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: After basically setting Georgia on fire, he was the commanding general of the U.S. army from 1869 to 1884 Sherman |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1200: In the Shenandoah Valley in 1862, this "granite-like" Virginian's 17,000 men defeated 60,000 Union troops Stonewall Jackson |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1600: In 1862 Lincoln fired this general; adding insult to career injury, Lincoln then beat him in the 1864 pres. election McClellan |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $2000: The "eyes" of Lee's army, this cavalry man completely circled the federal army in 1862, returning with 1,200 enemy horses Jeb Stuart |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF WAR $400: Matt Damon finds out he's his family's only surviving brother in this war film Saving Private Ryan |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF WAR $1200: Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker have supporting roles in this Best Picture Oscar winner from 1986 Platoon |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF WAR $1600: The protagonist of this movie announces himself as "commander of the Armies of the North, general of the Felix Legions" Gladiator |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): Familiar from Hartford Insurance ads, Lawrence the Elk also played a part in this 1978 movie The Deer Hunter |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF WAR $2000: On film there were "The Guns of" this place & "Force 10 from" it Navarone |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $200: This company's VapoRub is a topical ointment to help with that cough Vicks |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $400: The Plus line from this plop, plop fizz, fizz brand offers relief from cold symptoms Alka-Seltzer |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $600: "Dr. Mom" recommends this brand's cold & cough syrups Robitussin |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $800: This herbal remedy used to treat colds comes from a plant also known as the purple coneflower echinacea |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE COLD WAR $1000: Linus Pauling wrote the 1970 bestseller called this "and the Common Cold" Vitamin C |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $200: This general eventually won the Civil War, toppling the elected Spanish government Franco |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $400: These 2 Axis powers backed & supplied the rebel Fascist revolt Germany & Italy |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $600: Supporters of the government were known as Loyalists or as these, also an American political party Republicans |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $800: The Civil War ended in March 1939 when Fascist forces finally succeeded in taking this city Madrid |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $1000: Many areas were indiscriminately bombed & destroyed, like this town seen in a famous 1937 painting Guernica |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $400: One of the last lines of this Vietnam War-set film is "The horror... the horror" Apocalypse Now |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Normandy American Cemetery in France.) Of the band of brothers here at the Normandy American Cemetery, 33 are side-by-side with their actual brothers, including Preston & Robert Niland, who inspired this Tom Hanks film Saving Private Ryan |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $1200: A riverboat captain (Bogart) & a missionary (Hepburn) use this title vessel to attack an enemy ship during WWI the African Queen |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $1600: Mel Gibson plays a veteran of the French & Indian War who wants no part in the war with Britain in this 2000 film The Patriot |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $2000: Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney & Ice Cube starred in this film that takes place at the end of the 1991 Gulf War Three Kings |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | THE MEXICAN WAR $400: An exile in Jamaica, this Mexican general who fought at the Alamo returned to his homeland to command the army Santa Anna |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | THE MEXICAN WAR $1200: In 1848 the Democratic Party lost the White House to this Whig & war hero Zachary Taylor |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | THE MEXICAN WAR $1600: Signed Feb. 2, 1848, the treaty of this city north of Mexico City brought an end to the war the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | THE MEXICAN WAR $2000: This U.S. general captured the port city of Veracruz on March 29, 1847, after 20 days of fighting General Winfield Scott |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | THE MEXICAN WAR $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1847 U.S. Marines occupied Mexico City's National Palace, called this in the Marine Corps Hymn the Halls of Montezuma |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: Chaos & crime led John C. Fremont to declare this type of law in Missouri Aug. 30, 1861 martial law |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: Irvin McDowell lost the first battle of this in July 1861 & also fouled up the second battle a year later Bull Run |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $600: Jeb Stuart led this type of force at Brandy Station, the biggest battle of these forces in the war cavalry |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: Gaines' Mill, in which he whupped McClellan, was his first major victory despite his 9,000 casualties in one day Robert E. Lee |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1863 the White House mourned a Confederate general, Benjamin Helm; he'd married into this Kentucky clan the Todds |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | OF WAR $400: Military Police System's AA12 is a new fully automatic 12-gauge type of this weapon a shotgun |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | OF WAR $800: Belleville springs & pressure plates are terms used when talking about these hidden weapons land mines |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | OF WAR $1200: This weapon created in 1947 has been featured on a Russian coin, Burkina Faso's coat of arms & Mozambique's flag the AK-47 |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: The war's first casualty, Daniel Hough, was killed in an accidental explosion at this fort Fort Sumter |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a flag on the monitor.) Replaced in 1863 because it was often confused with the U.S. flag in battle, the Confederacy's first flag, for obvious reasons, was known by this descriptive name the Stars and Bars |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: Though designed to hold 10,000 men, this notorious prison once held more than 32,000 Andersonville |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After capturing & burning Atlanta, General Sherman led his devastating march to the sea, ending at this port city; he offered it to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift in 1864 Savannah |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | THE CIVIL WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): The Union gained control of much of the N.C. coast after an attack on this island settled in the 1580s Roanoke Island |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | THE WORLD AT WAR $200: The Chinese Communist First Front Army staged the 6,000-mile retreat known as the Long March under this leader Mao Tse-tung |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | THE WORLD AT WAR $400: St. Louis, Missouri was named for King Louis IX of France, who led the Seventh & Eighth of these military debacles the Crusades |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | THE WORLD AT WAR $600: In 1619 Rene Descartes went to join the army of the Duke of Bavaria during this decades-long war the 30 Years War |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | THE WORLD AT WAR $1000: Unprepared for this man leading an army force over the Andes in 1817, the Spanish Empire lost Chile & Argentina José de San Martín |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | THE WORLD AT WAR $1,200 (Daily Double): The first British recipient of the Victoria Cross, a sailor, received it for actions in the Baltic Sea during this war the Crimean War |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: One of the largest conflicts in U.S. history, the Korean War started in this even-numbered year 1950 |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: This U.S. president agreed to the ceasefire that ended the conflict & that remains in effect to this day Eisenhower |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $1200: The wartime leader of North Korea, he remained in power until his death in 1994 Kim Il-sung |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): Initially the Allies repulsed the North Korean advance & crossed this parallel into enemy territory the 38th parallel |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $2000: Until replaced by General Matthew Ridgway, he was the commander of American forces in Korea (Doug) MacArthur |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $200: The Cold War between the U.S. & the Soviet Union is said to have begun in this year a major hot war ended 1945 |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $400 (Daily Double): In a speech in Missouri in 1946, Winston Churchill declared that this division had fallen between East & West an Iron Curtain |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $400: Ponds is a popular brand of this product for softening & cleaning the skin cold cream |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $400: The USA's long involvement in this country included an effort to prop up President Diem in 1961 Vietnam |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $800: Boundary between air masses characterized by changes in precipitation & temperature cold front |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $800: Declaring it permanently neutral, Western & Soviet forces withdrew in 1955 from this German-speaking nation Austria |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $1000: Tool nickname for the Soviet flag, lowered for the last time over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991 hammer & sickle |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $1200: The senseless, brutal murder of the Clutter family is at the heart of this work In Cold Blood |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $1600: The hypothetical mixing of atomic nuclei at a low pressure & near room temperature cold fusion |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE "COLD" WAR $2000: Pro wrestler Steve Austin's nickname Stone Cold |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: Originally President McKinley only wanted Luzon in this island group, but we ended up with the entire archipelago the Philippines |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $400: Jules Cambon, this country's ambassador to the U.S., served as an intermediary to begin peace talks France |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $600: General Nelson Miles led the invasion of this Caribbean island & reported that 4/5 of its people were thrilled Puerto Rico |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1,000 (Daily Double): On January 24, 1898 Captain Sigsbee was told to sail this battleship from Key West to Cuba to protect American interests the (USS) Maine |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1000: During the war he headed a committee to investigate the spread of yellow fever in military camps Walter Reed |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $400: An example of the wavering cry of this type of bird is heard here a warbler |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $800: Lech Kaczynski used the mayoralty of this city as a political springboard Warsaw |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $1,000 (Daily Double): This phrase is derived from Oliver Cromwell's request to be painted as he was, including blemishes warts and all |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $1200: Have some cherry pie & name this group Warrant |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a piece of materiel.) The energetic materials center at New Mexico tech is testing shape charges, a type of this that's formed for maximum impact a warhead |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | WORLD WAR II $400: On Oct. 20, 1944 he declared, "I have returned" MacArthur |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | WORLD WAR II $800: The Japanese plan in taking Kiska & Attu, islands in this U.S. chain, never really worked out the Aleutians |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | WORLD WAR II $1200: He flew 58 combat missions, was shot down once, crashed twice &, oh, yeah, later became President George H.W. Bush |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | WORLD WAR II $1600: No "bull"--the Japanese signed the surrender papers on this admiral's flagship, the USS Missouri Halsey |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | WORLD WAR II $2000: The U.S. Navy's F4F Wildcat fighter was succeeded by this other devilish feline, the F6F the Hellcat |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $400: The first edition of this homespun almanac was published in 1792; it's known for valuable weather data The Farmer's Almanac |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $800: He patented his mechanical reaper in 1834 but didn't sell the first one until 6 years later McCormick |
