| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $200: How modern! Queen Victoria proposed to him on October 15, 1839 (Prince) Albert |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $400: This power couple appealed to los descamisados (the shirtless ones) in 1940s Argentina Eva Perón & Juan Perón |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $600: In 1935 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a husband & wife, the son-in-law & daughter of this Nobel prize-winning couple Pierre & Marie Curie |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1,000 (Daily Double): Powhatan & Virginia's governor both gave their permission for this pair to marry Pocahontas & John Rolfe |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1000: Lee Krasner was married to this fellow abstract expressionist until his death in a 1956 car crash Jackson Pollock |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $400: In 2020 she topped John Waters & the Beastie Boys to win a Grammy for her spoken word album, an audio book of her memoir Michelle Obama |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $800: At Wellesley's 1990 commencement, this Texan said, "Someone in the crowd could also become a presidential spouse and I wish him well" Barbara Bush |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1200: She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California Pat Nixon |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1600: Half-brothers of this southern-born first lady fought for the Confederacy, which could have led to really awkward Thanksgiving dinners Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $200: When Dwight Eisenhower first met her in 1915, he thought she had a saucy "look about her face and in her whole attitude" Mamie |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $400: The former Ellen Herndon died in 1880, the year this future prez was elected veep Arthur |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $600: Reagan's first wife, she earned 4 Oscar nominations, the first for 1946's "The Yearling" Jane Wyman |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $800: Georgia belle Ellen Axson, a relative of Confederate Gen. James Longstreet, got to live in Princeton with this not yet president Wilson |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $1000: Although this president's wife, Martha (nee Wayles), served as first lady of Virginia, she never served as U.S. first lady Jefferson |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC WIVES $200: Legally bound to a man who ghosted her, Deborah Read was the common-law wife of this printer & statesman Benjamin Franklin |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC WIVES $400: The daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, Marie-Louise became his second wife in 1810 Napoleon |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC WIVES $800: This Catherine, Anne Boleyn's first cousin, was the fifth wife of Henry VIII; got it? Catherine Howard |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC WIVES $1,000 (Daily Double): Kasturba, who married him when both were under 15, became a leader in India's struggle for independence from British rule (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC WIVES $1000: The outspoken wife of President Nixon's attorney general, she was the Southern socialite who turned Watergate whistleblower Martha Mitchell |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $400: In 1479 this husband & wife (& cousin) team became king & queen of Aragon Ferdinand and Isabelle |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $800: Diego Rivera totally wanted to leave his wife, this artist, in 1939 & soon totally wanted her back, remarrying in '40 (Frida) Kahlo |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1200: Director Roman Polanski married this actress in 1968 but tragedy ended their romance the following year Sharon Tate |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1600: This leader & his first wife Evelyn were married from 1944 until she told him, it's the ANC or me! Mandela |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $2000: Perhaps the birth of their baby c. 1118 was enough of a hint for Abelard to wed this woman, but in secret; that did not end well Heloise |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ANAGRAMMED WIVES OF HENRY VIII $200: Mom of a queen:
ONENBY LANE Anne Boleyn |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ANAGRAMMED WIVES OF HENRY VIII $400: Mom of a king:
ENJOY A SERUM Jane Seymour |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ANAGRAMMED WIVES OF HENRY VIII $600: Born far away:
OATH ENFORCER AGAIN Catherine of Aragon |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ANAGRAMMED WIVES OF HENRY VIII $800: Less than advertised:
EVEN FLEAS CON Anne of Cleves |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MY EX-WIVES & ME $400: Ex-wife Madonna showed up with him at the 2016 benefit for his Haitian relief organization (Sean) Penn |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MY EX-WIVES & ME $800: Breaking (up) news... this longtime CNN host & wife No. 6, Julie Alexander Larry King |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MY EX-WIVES & ME $1200: In 2015 this TV grill master found his union with TV Assistant D.A. Stephanie March was done Bobby Flay |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MY EX-WIVES & ME $1600: He & wife No. 5, Angelina Jolie, were bound by blood--for a while (Billy Bob) Thornton |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MY EX-WIVES & ME $2000: His third wife was Mia Farrow, but she made a brand new start of it (Frank) Sinatra |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $400: On Nov. 20, 2014 Elizabeth II & this man celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary Prince Philip |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $800: She wived it merrily with George V & got a big luxury liner named for her Queen Mary |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $1,200 (Daily Double): Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married Albert in 1923, 13 years before he got this new name King George VI |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $1200: Welcome to the family! As a gift for her 1986 wedding, Sarah Ferguson got the title Duchess of this York |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $2000: In 1955 this princess renounced the divorced RAF hero she loved; in 1960 she married the future Earl of Snowden Princess Margaret |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | THE 6 WIVES OF HENRY VIII $400: She was born in the Citadel city of Alcala de Henares Catherine of Aragon |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | THE 6 WIVES OF HENRY VIII $1200: She secretly married the King on January 25, 1533 Anne Boleyn |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | THE 6 WIVES OF HENRY VIII $1600: The last 2, both Catherines; one was executed, one survived Henry Catherine Parr & Catherine Howard |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | THE 6 WIVES OF HENRY VIII $2000: This wife known as "The Flanders Mare" wasn't around long Anne of Cleves |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | THE 6 WIVES OF HENRY VIII $5,000 (Daily Double): She died 12 days after childbirth & is buried next to Henry Jane Seymour |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $400: His second wife was the former Nancy Davis Ronald Reagan |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) Nelson Mandela wrote, after his years of confinement,
"That night, I returned with her to number 8115 here in Soweto. I knew in my heart that I had left prison" Winnie Mandela |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1200: When he divorced first wife Mileva in 1919, he promised to give her the money if he ever won a Nobel Prize (he won & paid) Albert Einstein |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1600: He met Mary Godwin in 1812, but they didn't wed until 1816 because he was still married to his first wife, Harriet Percy Shelley |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $2000: In an HBO movie, Nicole Kidman played this war correspondent, Hemingway's third wife Martha Gellhorn |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | NOVEL WIVES $200: "The Emancipator's Wife" is a fictionalized account of her, both as First Lady & widow Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | NOVEL WIVES $400: "Above All Things" begins with wife Ruth asking husband George Mallory, "Tell me the story of" this mountain Everest |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | NOVEL WIVES $500 (Daily Double): "Z" by Therese Anne Fowler is a novel about this real literary wife Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | NOVEL WIVES $600: "The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B." ends with Josephine's marriage to him Napoleon |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | NOVEL WIVES $800: Sofya Andreyevna, wife of this great Russian novelist, is a narrator of "The Last Station", about his final year Tolstoy |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | MILITARY WIVES $200: Her married life began in military housing in San Antonio in 1916; 37 years & 22 moves brought her to the White House Mamie Eisenhower |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | MILITARY WIVES $400: Mary Custis had other suitors, like Sam Houston, but she was set on this soldier son of Light-Horse Harry; they wed in 1831 Robert E. Lee |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | MILITARY WIVES $600: In 1824 David Farragut married Susan Marchant of this Virginia city & made that port his home Norfolk |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | MILITARY WIVES $800: A few weeks before their 1864 wedding, his fiancee Elizabeth called him her "old fellow with the golden curls" (George Armstrong) Custer |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | MILITARY WIVES $1000: That's the former Beatrice Ayer, gazing up at this husband of hers (General) George Patton |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $400: Sybil Williams,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Susan Hunt,
Sally Hay Richard Burton |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $800: Donna Peele,
Denise Richards,
Brooke Mueller Charlie Sheen |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $1200: Randall Lee Gosch,
Casey Coates,
Mary Steenburgen Ted Danson |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $1600: Judy Nye,
Janie Shirley Smith,
Jane Fonda Ted Turner |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $2000: Melissa Lee Gatlin,
Toni Lawrence,
Cynda Williams,
Pietra Dawn Cherniak,
Angelina Jolie Billy Bob Thornton |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $400: When she failed to provide him with an heir, Napoleon divorced her Josephine |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $800: His first wife was Fadia; Octavia & Cleo came later Marc Antony |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $1200: This president's first wife, Ellen, replaced Edith Roosevelt's "Colonial" garden with a rose garden Woodrow Wilson |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $2,000 (Daily Double): His first wife was a physicist named Mileva Maric; after WWI he married his cousin Elsa [Albert] Einstein |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $2000: In 1814 he abandoned his pregnant wife Harriet to elope with 16-year-old Mary Godwin Shelley |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | PRESIDENTIAL WIVES $200: The death of 11-year-old son Willie in 1862 pushed her over the brink; she was inconsolable for months Mrs. Lincoln |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | PRESIDENTIAL WIVES $400: Her 2 children from a previous marriage, John & Patsy Custis, were "adopted" by the president Martha Washington |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | PRESIDENTIAL WIVES $800: In 1915, 16 months after the death of his first wife, Ellen, Woodrow Wilson married this descendant of Pocahontas Edith |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | PRESIDENTIAL WIVES $1000: John Philip Sousa provided the music for Grover Cleveland's White House wedding to this 21-year-old Frances Folsom |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | PRESIDENTIAL WIVES $1,800 (Daily Double): She met the future president in 1915 at Fort Sam Houston when introduced to him by the wife of a fellow officer Mamie Eisenhower |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $200: She was Robert Wagner's first wife as well as his third Natalie Wood |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $400: Art students when they met in the late '50s, Cynthia Powell was his first wife & the mother of his son Julian John Lennon |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $600: In a cameo in the movie "The First Wives Club", this wealthy ex advises, "Don't get mad, get everything" Ivana Trump |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $800: In Jewish folklore, before Eve, Adam was married to this she-demon Lilith |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $1000: If she was still married to this man, Julia Thorne might have hit the campaign trail, instead of Teresa Heinz John Kerry |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | PRESIDENTS' WIVES $200: Her maiden name was Martha Dandridge Martha Washington |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | PRESIDENTS' WIVES $400: He married Rachel Robards in 1791, but since her divorce was not yet final, they had to remarry on January 17, 1794 Andrew Jackson |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | PRESIDENTS' WIVES $600: The first lady who lived the longest, this native Missourian died in 1982 at age 97 Bess Truman |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | PRESIDENTS' WIVES $800: She & the future president spent part of their 1948 honeymoon at a Michigan-Northwestern football game Betty Ford |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | PRESIDENTS' WIVES $1000: Edith Galt, whom he married in 1915, was related to Pocahontas Woodrow Wilson |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $400: This man married Betsy Griscom of Philadelphia in 1773, perhaps due to her skill with a needle & thread (John) Ross |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $800: From the Latin for "sharer", it was Prince Albert's title as Queen Victoria's spouse Consort |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1200: Will Shakespeare's better half, she shares her name with the young star of "The Princess Diaries" Anne Hathaway |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1600: He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht on several works & with Lotte Lenya on 2 marriages (Kurt) Weill |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $2000: Appropriately, "Giulietta Degli Spiriti" was one of Giulietta Masina's films with this director husband Federico Fellini |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $400: Harlene Rosen,
Louise Lasser,
Soon-Yi Previn Woody Allen |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $800: Sasha Czack,
Brigitte Nielsen,
Jennifer Flaven Sylvester Stallone |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $1200: Peggy Harper,
Carrie Fisher,
Edie Brickell Paul Simon |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $1600: Joan Baim,
Marsha Mason,
Diane Lander,
Elaine Joyce Neil Simon |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | 3 OR MORE WIVES $2000: Anna Kashfi,
Movita Castenada,
Tarita Teripia Marlon Brando |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII $200: Convicted of treason, 1536 Anne Boleyn |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII $400: The Spaniard Catherine of Aragon |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII $800: Delivered the male heir Jane Seymour |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII $1000: Twice widowed & the last Catherine Parr |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII $2,000 (Daily Double): The German (who outlived them all) Anne of Cleves |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | MILITARY WIVES $100: In the spotlight for taping her friend Monica, she described herself as "A suburban mom...a military wife for 20 years" Linda Tripp |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | MILITARY WIVES $200: As both a military & a political wife, she was determined not to look "Dowd"y Mamie Eisenhower |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | MILITARY WIVES $300: This widow of a slain Israeli general & prime minister now speaks out on the need for Middle East peace Leah Rabin |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | MILITARY WIVES $400: In 1998 activist Doris Mozley testified on pensions before the House committee on these "Affairs" Veterans Affairs |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | MILITARY WIVES $500: This actress won an Oscar for playing a sexy & unstable military wife in "Blue Sky" Jessica Lange |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | DIRECTING THEIR WIVES $200: Julie Andrews performed a striptease in "Darling Lili", the first film this man directed her in Blake Edwards |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | DIRECTING THEIR WIVES $400: Mel Brooks cast Anne Bancroft in this 1976 comedy but didn't give her a single line of spoken dialogue Silent Movie |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | DIRECTING THEIR WIVES $600: "Double talk" title of the first film Paul Newman directed; it starred his wife, Joanne Woodward Rachel, Rachel |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | DIRECTING THEIR WIVES $1000: Gena Rowlands earned 2 Best Actress Oscar nominations for films directed by this spouse John Cassavetes |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | DIRECTING THEIR WIVES $1,500 (Daily Double): Director of the movie seen here, he was married to its star:
["The Lady From Shanghai"] Orson Welles (he was married to Rita Hayworth) |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | WIVES $100: In Geoffrey of Monmouth's version of this legend, this wife of King Arthur is called Guanhumara Guinevere |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | WIVES $200: In the Bible, Jesus cautioned his followers to "Remember" this man's "wife" who turned to salt Lot |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | WIVES $300: In memory of his wife Arjumand Banu Begum, who died in childbirth, Shah Jahan built this mausoleum the Taj Mahal |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | WIVES $400: In September 1991 this fourth & last wife of Charlie Chaplin died at age 66 Oona O'Neill |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | WIVES $500 (Daily Double): With her mother superior's blessings, Maria Kutschera became the wife of this Austrian baron in 1927 Baron von Trapp |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | HENRY VIII'S WIVES $200: Henry's 2nd wife, she was the sister of one of his former mistresses Anne Boleyn |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | HENRY VIII'S WIVES $400: She was the younger sister of the tragic Spanish queen known as "Joan the Mad" Catherine of Aragon |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | HENRY VIII'S WIVES $600: She was the 3rd Catherine who married Henry, I kid you not Catherine Parr |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | HENRY VIII'S WIVES $800: She was probably Henry's favorite wife because he was buried beside her at Windsor Jane Seymour |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | HENRY VIII'S WIVES $2,000 (Daily Double): Henry's rude nickname for her was "The Flanders Mare" Anne of Cleves |
