#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $400: Katrín Jakobsdóttir is prime minister of this island nation Iceland |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $800: From 2015 to 2023 Bidhya Devi Bhandari was president & head of state of this Himalayan nation Nepal |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $1200: Sheikh Hasina has been prime minister of this Indian subcontinent nation since 2009 Bangladesh |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $1600: In 2023, Nicola Sturgeon, best known for advocating this cause, announced she's stepping down Scottish independence |
#8872, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $2000: In 2023 this 42-year-old prime minister of New Zealand made the surprise announcement she's leaving the job Ardern |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Failing to win support for her Brexit deal, she stepped down as Tory leader in June 2019 & as prime minister in July Theresa May |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Shockingly assassinated in 2022, he was twice prime minister of Japan (Shinzo) Abe |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: From 1960 to 1977, Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios III was president of this island nation Cyprus |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: Hats off to this man who was chancellor of West Germany & then of a unified Germany from 1990 to 1998 (Helmut) Kohl |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | WORLD LEADERS $7,000 (Daily Double): After helping to establish this as an independent country, Eduard Shevardnadze became its president in 1995 Georgia |
#8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $200: The Truth & Reconciliation Commission set up by this man in 1995 investigated human rights violations under apartheid Nelson Mandela |
#8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The "Big 3"--FDR, Churchill & Stalin--had a working vacation at the Feb. 1945 conference at this Black Sea resort Yalta |
#8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1937 this man took control of the Falange Española, soon to be the nation's only legal political party Franco |
#8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Otto von Bismarck was this Germanic nation's prime minister from 1862 to 1890, with a brief break around 1873 Prussia |
#8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Volodymyr Zelensky was a comedian before becoming president of this neighbor of Russia the Ukraine |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | WORLD LEADERS $200 (Daily Double): At age 39 in 2017 he became the youngest president in the history of modern France Macron |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 2020 this P.M. credited the U.K.'s National Health Service for saving his life after he spent time in the ICU battling COVID Boris Johnson |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | WORLD LEADERS $400: One succeeding the other, these two brothers both led their country Fidel & Raul Castro |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who became the first female president of this African nation, is related by marriage to funny lady Retta Liberia |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with this Egyptian president Sadat |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $200: Nicknamed "Mutti", she said auf wiedersehen in 2021 after 16 years as chancellor (Angela) Merkel |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $400: He was interred in a giant mausoleum called the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid in 1975 but was moved to a family crypt in 2019 Franco |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $600: In June 2021 Naftali Bennett made news by replacing this man who had a 12-year run as prime minister Netanyahu |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $800: On Dec. 17, 1989 Nicolae Ceausescu had forces fire on demonstrators in this country; 8 days later it was Nicolae being fired on Romania |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $1000: In February 2011, this world leader refused to step down from power; he was dead by October Gaddafi |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | WORLD LEADERS $200: He reigned from 1066 to 1087 & one of those years should really help you William the Conqueror |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | WORLD LEADERS $600: He led from 1799 to 1814, took an unwanted vacation, returned & then was gone for good in 1815 Napoleon |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Nicknamed "Uncle", this Communist was a leader in Vietnam from 1945 to 1969 Ho Chi Minh |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Popular in 37 A.D., this man whose name means "little boot" was sent walking 4 years later Caligula |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | WORLD LEADERS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 2003 it all came crashing down around him, including his statue on April 9 Saddam Hussein |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1991 Helmut Kohl appointed her Minister for Women & Youth Angela Merkel |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WORLD LEADERS $800: This nation's President Dr. Arif Alvi was born in 1949, 2 years after his country achieved independence Pakistan |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: This media tycoon served as Italy's prime minister 3 times Berlusconi |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: The son of Greek & Hungarian immigrants, he was the president of France from 2007 to 2012 Sarkozy |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: After an attack at 2 mosques in this city, PM Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand banned most semi-automatic weapons in 2019 Christchurch |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS REVEALED $200: Here's President Obama at Sandy Beach in this state where he spends many Christmas vacations Hawaii |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS REVEALED $400: The real question is, when does this present-day leader actually wear a shirt? Putin |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS REVEALED $600: Sometimes you gotta play Ping-Pong shirt-free, like this guy (Fidel) Castro |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS REVEALED $800: A candid 1994 photo of Bob Hawke, ex-prime minister of this country, in his "swimmers", as they say, made a few waves Australia |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS REVEALED $1000: Here's King Henry II performing penance at the tomb of this archbishop, slain by Henry's own knights Thomas Becket |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $400: PM Robert Borden insisted that Canada join this new international organization on its own, separate from the British Empire League of Nations |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $800: President Raymond Poincaré of France was a firm believer in Germany's need to pay reparations as outlined in this document Treaty of Versailles |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $1600: In August Jan Smuts said, "a wave of the deepest emotion has passed over" this country at the news of PM Botha's death South Africa |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $2000: This dominating prime minister of Great Britain had a full name made up of three first names David Lloyd George |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $2,200 (Daily Double): Billy Hughes spent WWI advocating this wartime practice, which split Australia as it later did the U.S. in the 1960s the draft |
#7916, aired 2019-01-28 | WORLD LEADERS OF 2018 $400: He wasn't having it when a teen called him "Manu", a nickname for Emmanuel, saying call me M. President of the Republic Macron |
#7916, aired 2019-01-28 | WORLD LEADERS OF 2018 $800: In a 2007 miniseries, this prime minister played Talbot Papineau, one of his nation's first Rhodes Scholars (Justin) Trudeau |
#7916, aired 2019-01-28 | WORLD LEADERS OF 2018 $1200: Part of the Sandinistas who took power in '79, Daniel Ortega led this country in the '80s & again starting in 2007 Nicaragua |
#7916, aired 2019-01-28 | WORLD LEADERS OF 2018 $1600: It's easy to spot this country's Kolinda Grabar Kitarović at the 2018 World Cup final--she's in her nation's colors Croatia |
#7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 2017 protests & a puppy were among this Russian leader's 65th birthday gifts Putin |
#7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Normally it would be a secret-type thing, but South Korea has announced it has a hit squad for this man Kim Jong-un |
#7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 2017 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz said danke as this country made him one of the world's youngest leaders Austria |
#7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In New Zealand "Jacindamania" brought Jacinda Ardern to power in 2017 for this left-wing party (spelled with a "U") Labour |
#7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Yoweri Museveni, in power in this East African land since 1986, says he planted bananas & has to stay to see them bear fruit Uganda |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Second in command in this country is the secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin the Vatican City |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Before becoming president of this country in 2009, Jacob Zuma did exile time in Swaziland & Mozambique South Africa |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: Michel Temer took the reins of this country after the ouster of Dilma Rousseff Brazil |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: In 2016 Mexico's Enrique Peña Nieto tweeted, "Mission accomplished: we have him" as this guy was brought to heel El Chapo |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: In May of 2017, this new president of France shared a white-knuckle handshake with Donald Trump (Emmanuel) Macron |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | WORLD LEADERS $200: First name of the man who became Cuba's head of state in 2008 Raúl |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | WORLD LEADERS $400: She was the daughter of a Pakistani PM & after she was slain in 2007, her husband became president Benazir Bhutto |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 2017 Mark Rutte won a third term as this country's PM, defeating a right wing challenge from Geert Wilders the Netherlands |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: His father was purged in the 1960s but he became China's president in 2013 Xi |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | WORLD LEADERS $4,200 (Daily Double): Also MP for Wentworth, Malcolm Turnbull is PM of this, one of the world's 10 largest countries in area Australia |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In March 2017 President Trump & this German chancellor had their first face-to-face meeting at the White House Angela Merkel |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Baseball lover & fiery leftist Hugo Chavez led this country from 1999 to 2013 Venezuela |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Eamon de Valera, who led this country's fight for independence, was born in New York City Ireland |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: He died in Santiago in 2006, ending efforts to bring him to trial for human rights abuses (Augusto) Pinochet |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: In 1991, while campaigning to regain the prime ministership, this son of Indira Gandhi was assassinated Rajiv Gandhi |
#7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $400: Likely fraudulent 1924 Italian elections gave personal power to this fascist Mussolini |
#7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $800: Britannica, on this Ugandan:
"Noted for his abrupt changes of mood... often extreme in his nationalism" Idi Amin |
#7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $1200: On Dec. 17, 1989 security forces under Nicolae Ceausescu were ordered to fire on demonstrators in this country Romania |
#7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $1600: His radical reforms in Cambodia caused more than 1 million deaths from 1975 to 1979 Pol Pot |
#7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $2000: This Dominican dictator fomented prejudice against migrants from Haiti & had thousands of them killed in 1937 Trujillo |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $400: This European leader is seen here as she looked early in her political career (Angela) Merkel |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $800: Family name of the current president of South Korea, whose father was assassinated when he was president Park |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $1200: Nicknamed "Iron Erna", PM Erna Solberg is also the head of this political party in Norway the Conservative Party |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $1600: She was just 35 when she became prime minister of Pakistan (Benazir) Bhutto |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | WOMEN WORLD LEADERS $2000: In 2011 she succeeded her mentor Lula as president of Brazil (Dilma) Rousseff |
#7195, aired 2015-12-18 | ANAGRAMMED FORMER WORLD LEADERS $200: A sari wearer:
HI, GRAND INDIA! Indira Gandhi |
#7195, aired 2015-12-18 | ANAGRAMMED FORMER WORLD LEADERS $400: In Italy:
VIRILE SLOB COUSIN Silvio Berlusconi |
#7195, aired 2015-12-18 | ANAGRAMMED FORMER WORLD LEADERS $600: Uh oh! Panama!:
GENUINE AMORAL Manuel Noriega |
#7195, aired 2015-12-18 | ANAGRAMMED FORMER WORLD LEADERS $800: He Laboured over Britain:
BRAINY LOT Tony Blair |
#7195, aired 2015-12-18 | ANAGRAMMED FORMER WORLD LEADERS $1000: Late Israeli leader:
SOLAR HERNIA Ariel Sharon |
#7126, aired 2015-09-14 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Pierre Trudeau once led this land Canada |
#7126, aired 2015-09-14 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1977 this country's military ended Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's rule; in 1979, his life Pakistan |
#7126, aired 2015-09-14 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Though 20+ years older than his wife Eva, this Argentine leader outlived her by 20+ years Juan Perón |
#7126, aired 2015-09-14 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Clement Attlee succeeded a more famous man as this country's prime minister the U.K. |
#7126, aired 2015-09-14 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Recep Tayyip Erdogan was PM of this country from 2003 to 2014, then thought he'd give being president a try Turkey |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ANAGRAMMED CURRENT WORLD LEADERS $400: Russian around:
RIVAL DUMP IN IT Vladimir Putin |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ANAGRAMMED CURRENT WORLD LEADERS $800: Think of England:
RANDOM ADVICE David Cameron |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ANAGRAMMED CURRENT WORLD LEADERS $1200: Boss in Berlin:
MAKE ALLERGEN Angela Merkel |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ANAGRAMMED CURRENT WORLD LEADERS $1600: Oh, Canada:
PERHAPS RENT, EH Stephen Harper |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | ANAGRAMMED CURRENT WORLD LEADERS $2000: Havana bad time:
RURAL COAST Raúl Castro |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Neville Chamberlain wanted the foreign secretary to succeed him as P.M. but luckily this man got the post Churchill |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | WORLD LEADERS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Not wanting to lose sight of his origins, he refused to stay in the opulent presidential palace & instead had this humble stilt house built after becoming president of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | WORLD LEADERS $600: This leader of the Likud Party is the first prime minister born after the founding of Israel as a nation Netanyahu |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Last name of Corazon & Benigno III, mother & son presidents of the Philippines Aquino |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: On May 25, 1946 this grandfather of Hussein was crowned the first king of Jordan King Abdullah |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $400: The daughter of a president who was assassinated, Park Geun-Hye is the president of this country South Korea |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $800: Vigdis Finnbogadottir was president of this country for almost the entire 1980s Iceland |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $1200: Following her brother Thaksin, Yingluck Shinawatra is the first woman prime minister of this country Thailand |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $2000: This last name of Megawati, Indonesia's first female president, came from her father, ex-leader Sukarno Sukarnoputri |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $2,200 (Daily Double): Her husband's assassination & a People Power Revolution made her president in 1986 (Corazon) Aquino |
#6803, aired 2014-03-26 | WORLD LEADERS IN 1914 $400: Emperor Taisho Japan |
#6803, aired 2014-03-26 | WORLD LEADERS IN 1914 $800: Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith the United Kingdom |
#6803, aired 2014-03-26 | WORLD LEADERS IN 1914 $1200: Prime Minister Louis Botha South Africa |
#6803, aired 2014-03-26 | WORLD LEADERS IN 1914 $2,000 (Daily Double): Sultan Mehmed V (over a now-departed entity) the Ottoman Empire |
#6686, aired 2013-10-14 | EX-WORLD LEADERS $200: He entered the Venezuelan military academy (class of 1975) because it had a strong baseball team (Hugo) Chavez |
#6686, aired 2013-10-14 | EX-WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1972 he expelled more than 40,000 Asians from Uganda, leading to a breakdown of the economy Idi Amin |
#6686, aired 2013-10-14 | EX-WORLD LEADERS $600: In 2011 France extradited this man back to Panama, where he began serving time for crimes committed when in power (Manuel) Noriega |
#6686, aired 2013-10-14 | EX-WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1964 he was exiled from Iran; in 1979 he became the country's political & religious leader for life Ayatollah Khomeini |
#6686, aired 2013-10-14 | EX-WORLD LEADERS $1000: He was chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990, then of just plain Germany until 1998 Helmut Kohl |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $400: PM Johanna Sigurdardottir of this Atlantic island country is the world's first openly gay head of govt. Iceland |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $800: Dame Louise Lake-Tack is governor general of Antigua & this geographic partner Barbuda |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $1200: Once VP under president Oscar Arias Sanchez, Laura Chinchilla has the top job in this Central American country Costa Rica |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $1600: The grandmother seen here is Sheikh Hasina Wazed,
Prime minister of this
Indian subcontinent nation since 2009 Bangladesh |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $2000: Dilma Rousseff, now president of this South American country, was a student guerrilla in the 1970s Brazil |
#5979, aired 2010-09-16 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Elected in 2008, president Dimitris Christofias of this divided island nation is the EU's only communist head of state Cyprus |
#5979, aired 2010-09-16 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Lee Myung-Bak is its head of state; he makes the news a bit less often than his counterpart to the north South Korea |
#5979, aired 2010-09-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: Serzh Sargsian is its president, Tigran Sargsian is its prime minister Armenia |
#5979, aired 2010-09-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: Former Sofia mayor Boyko Borissov is now its prime minister Bulgaria |
#5979, aired 2010-09-16 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: It's prime minister Mr. Tuila'Epa, won a silver medal in archery at the 2007 South Pacific Games Samoa |
#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 |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Former electrician Lech Walesa became president of this country in 1990 Poland |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In August 2009 former President Clinton helped win the release of 2 journalists after meeting with this N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: It was on Lenin's orders that the last Russian czar, the second of this name, was executed with his family in 1918 Czar Nicholas |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: Since 1971 Syria has been ruled by men of this last name, father & son Assad |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | WORLD LEADERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1980 she became prime minister of her country for a fourth term Indira Gandhi |
#5773, aired 2009-10-21 | 21st CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $200: "Big Love" meets "The West Wing"? Pres. Jacob Zuma, who presides over this country from Pretoria, has 3 wives South Africa |
#5773, aired 2009-10-21 | 21st CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $400: Not many world leaders could say, "My wife once dated Mick Jagger & Eric Clapton"; this French president can Sarkozy |
#5773, aired 2009-10-21 | 21st CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $600: Nursultan Nazarbayev tries for make benefit glorious nation of this West-Central Asian one as its president Kazakhstan |
#5773, aired 2009-10-21 | 21st CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $800: In 2009 this Italian P.M. demanded an apology from his wife for publicly saying she wanted a divorce; good luck with that, sir Berlusconi |
#5773, aired 2009-10-21 | 21st CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1000: Despite rumors to the contrary, this Libyan leader never trained at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst (Mu'ammar) Gadhafi |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $400: Like mom like son: sadly, her son Rajiv was also assassinated Indira Gandhi |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1958 he launched his Great Leap Forward program; it was a great disaster Mao |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lima, Peru.) From 1990 to 2000, the palace behind me, here in Lima, was the home of this man, the first of Japanese descent to head another country (Alberto) Fujimori |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1600: Wearing the hat of Chancellor for over 15 years, he was Germany's longest-serving leader since Bismarck Helmut Kohl |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $2000: His original name was Tafari Makonnen, but he ruled his country under this name Haile Selassie |
#5384, aired 2008-01-24 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $400: For the duration of WWII, he was the supreme commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific Douglas MacArthur |
#5384, aired 2008-01-24 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $800: Lord Gort saved 200,000 British troops with his May 1940 decision to evacuate this port Dunkirk |
#5384, aired 2008-01-24 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $1,200 (Daily Double): Sharing a cocktail with this Soviet foreign minister could have been very dangerous during WWII Vyacheslav Molotov |
#5384, aired 2008-01-24 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $1200: He was German propaganda minister from 1933 to 1945 Joseph Goebbels |
#5384, aired 2008-01-24 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $1600: Karl Doenitz, who took over as leader of Germany after Hitler's suicide, was a high officer in this military branch Navy |
#5189, aired 2007-03-15 | WORLD LEADERS $200: This Prime Minster became the Labour Party's leader in 1994 after John Smith died Tony Blair |
#5189, aired 2007-03-15 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This French president's party is the Union for a Popular Movement, but what of the Unpopular Movement Party? Jacques Chirac |
#5189, aired 2007-03-15 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 2006 this Venezuelan president had a devil of a time at the U.N. (Hugo) Chavez |
#5189, aired 2007-03-15 | WORLD LEADERS $800: This president chaired the 2006 G8 conference in St. Petersburg (Vladimir) Putin |
#5189, aired 2007-03-15 | WORLD LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): The first female prime minister of her country, she held the post from 1966 to '77 & from 1980 to her 1984 death Indira Gandhi |
#5117, aired 2006-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $200: His removal of opposing Duma members & jailing of tycoons has made some fearful for democracy (Vladimir) Putin |
#5117, aired 2006-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The French don't seem to get tired of this man, first appointed prime minister in 1974 & now president Chirac |
#5117, aired 2006-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 2006 his Taepodong missile test had us wondering about looking for fallout shelters Kim Jong-il |
#5117, aired 2006-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $800: This general took power in Pakistan in a 1999 coup Musharraf |
#5117, aired 2006-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: The U.S. wishes this trained ophthalmologist could see his way to support our Mideast policy Bashar al-Assad |
#5073, aired 2006-10-04 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 2006 Stephen Harper of this North American country's Conservative Party became the prime minister Canada |
#5073, aired 2006-10-04 | WORLD LEADERS $700 (Daily Double): Hu Jintao became the General Secretary of the Communist Party in 2002 & leader of this country in 2003 China |
#5073, aired 2006-10-04 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Thabo Mbeki fought to eliminate apartheid & now leads this African country South Africa |
#5073, aired 2006-10-04 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: Angela Merkel is the first female chancellor of this once-divided European country Germany |
#5053, aired 2006-07-26 | WORLD LEADERS $400: He transformed his country into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere Fidel Castro |
#5053, aired 2006-07-26 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In April 1969 he left the world stage & retired to his home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises Charles de Gaulle |
#5053, aired 2006-07-26 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: This Caribbean leader's famous nickname was appropriate--he graduated from medical school in 1934 "Papa Doc" (Duvalier) |
#5053, aired 2006-07-26 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: This future king of Sweden received bricks, a trowel & a real yoke with 2 pails for his 5th birthday in 1951 King Carl Gustaf |
#5053, aired 2006-07-26 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: (Linda Park of Star Trek fame reads the clue.) I was born in Korea in 1978, the year before this dictator (no relation) was removed from power Park Chung Hee |
#5044, aired 2006-07-13 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The world leader & former judo champion seen here calls this world capital home Moscow |
#5044, aired 2006-07-13 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 2001 he was sworn in as his country's prime minister Junichiro Koizumi |
#5044, aired 2006-07-13 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: Seen here, he was his country's chancellor from 1998 to 2005 Gerhard Schröder |
#5020, aired 2006-06-09 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The man seen here was allegedly poisoned while trying to become president of this former Soviet republic the Ukraine |
#5020, aired 2006-06-09 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: This Venezuelan's close friendship with Fidel Castro has made him controversial in some quarters Hugo Chavez |
#5020, aired 2006-06-09 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: From 1952 to 1987 she was chief of state of Fiji Queen Elizabeth II |
#5020, aired 2006-06-09 | WORLD LEADERS $1,900 (Daily Double): After overthrowing Milton Obote in 1971, he had some 300,000 people killed Idi Amin |
#5020, aired 2006-06-09 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: Seen here is a prince & later king of this country, visiting President Carter Saudi Arabia |
#4959, aired 2006-03-16 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This African was a prisoner for 28 years, then a world leader for 5 Nelson Mandela |
#4959, aired 2006-03-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls through a shipyard in Gdansk, Poland.) I'm in what's in now simply called the Gdansk Shipyard; during Polish Communist rule, it was named for this man Lenin |
#4959, aired 2006-03-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: Prime Minister of this country under President Banana, Robert Mugabe became its president in 1987 Zimbabwe |
#4959, aired 2006-03-16 | WORLD LEADERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1920, 1922, 1926 & 1990 this country had a president with Chamorro in his or her name Nicaragua |
#4959, aired 2006-03-16 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: (Jimmy reads from the streets of Lubeck, Germany.) This Lubeck-born West German chancellor said, "I always carried a piece of Lubeck with me wherever I had to go" Willy Brandt |
#4900, aired 2005-12-23 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $200: He led his troops on a 6,000-mile march that began in October 1934 Mao Tse-tung |
#4900, aired 2005-12-23 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $400: A 1952 coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser forced this king's abdication King Faruk |
#4900, aired 2005-12-23 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $600: Swiss-educated & staunchly pro-Western, he ruled his Middle Eastern country from 1941 until his ouster in 1979 the Shah of Iran |
#4900, aired 2005-12-23 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1986 this president crossed the Pacific & went into exile in Hawaii Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines |
#4900, aired 2005-12-23 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1000: At age 84 in 1940 he was put in charge of the Vichy State in France Marshall Pétain |
#4726, aired 2005-03-07 | WORLD LEADERS: 1871 $200: In 1871 this man was President of the United States Ulysses Grant |
#4726, aired 2005-03-07 | WORLD LEADERS: 1871 $400: The liberal prime minister of Great Britain in 1871 (William) Gladstone |
#4726, aired 2005-03-07 | WORLD LEADERS: 1871 $600: In 1871 Leopold II began his seventh year as king of this country Belgium |
#4726, aired 2005-03-07 | WORLD LEADERS: 1871 $800: Abd-ul Aziz was this Empire's sultan the Ottoman Empire |
#4726, aired 2005-03-07 | WORLD LEADERS: 1871 $1000: The ninth Pope with this name was the pontiff Pius |
#4645, aired 2004-11-12 | RESUMÉS OF WORLD LEADERS $400: Law school grad; Parliament, 1983; youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years, 1997 Tony Blair |
#4645, aired 2004-11-12 | RESUMÉS OF WORLD LEADERS $800: Law school grad; KGB operative, 1975 to 1991; President, 1999 (Vladimir) Putin |
#4645, aired 2004-11-12 | RESUMÉS OF WORLD LEADERS $1200: B.S. from Egyptian Military Academy; air base commander, 1964; V.P, 1975 to 1981; president, 1981 (Hosni) Mubarak |
#4645, aired 2004-11-12 | RESUMÉS OF WORLD LEADERS $1600: Business degree, Universidad Iberoamericana; route supervisor for Coca-Cola; President, 2000 (Vicente) Fox |
#4645, aired 2004-11-12 | RESUMÉS OF WORLD LEADERS $2000: Political science degree; Mujahideen arms & money purveyor, 1980s; Transitional Head of State, 2001 Hamid Karzai |
#4490, aired 2004-02-27 | OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1899 future South Africa P.M. Louis Botha & his forces took this future British P.M., then a journalist, as prisoner Winston Churchill |
#4490, aired 2004-02-27 | OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS $800: Ptolemy I's improvements to this city included a library, a museum & a lighthouse Alexandria |
#4490, aired 2004-02-27 | OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS $1,200 (Daily Double): That Great Wall thing didn't work; this warrior's forces crossed it & went on to sack Peking in 1215 Genghis Khan |
#4490, aired 2004-02-27 | OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS $1600: In 1928 the empress Zauditu crowned this man king of Ethiopia Haile Selassie |
#4490, aired 2004-02-27 | OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS $2000: This great ruler of the Persian Empire got the job in part by exposing an imposter claiming to be Smerdis Darius |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $400: Former prime ministers of this country include Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath & John Major England |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $800: Indira Gandhi was the first & only female prime minister so far of this Asian nation India |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $1200: The first 3 emperors of this ancient empire were Augustus, Tiberius & Caligula the Roman Empire |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $1600: From 1953 until 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was the powerful leader of this large nation Russia |
#4161, aired 2002-10-07 | WORLD LEADERS $200: On November 22, 2001 he personally sent his first e-mail, a message to Roman Catholics in Oceania Pope John Paul II |
#4161, aired 2002-10-07 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1999 he was elected to his (wow!) fourth 6-year term as president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak |
#4161, aired 2002-10-07 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Eduard Shevardnadze had this former Soviet republic on his mind when he was reelected president in 1995 Georgia |
#4161, aired 2002-10-07 | WORLD LEADERS $800: After its president Fernando de la Rua resigned December 20, 2001, Adolfo Rodriguez Saa got the post & lasted a week Argentina |
#4161, aired 2002-10-07 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Dragon King, or as they say in Thimphu, druk gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck is its head of state Bhutan |
#3774, aired 2001-01-18 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $100: This man was the last president of his country
(Soviet Union) Mikhail Gorbachev |
#3774, aired 2001-01-18 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $200: He's the long-time prisoner seen here
(in South Africa) Nelson Mandela |
#3774, aired 2001-01-18 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $300: This prime minister was also the daughter of a prime minister & the mother of a prime minister Indira Gandhi |
#3774, aired 2001-01-18 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $400: He's the Canadian NAFTA signer seen here Brian Mulroney |
#3774, aired 2001-01-18 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $500: Dapper Downing Street denizen depicted here John Major |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Yugoslavia:
1945-1980 Marshal Tito |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | WORLD LEADERS $400: India:
1947-1964 Jawaharlal Nehru |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Egypt:
1970-1981 Anwar Sadat |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | WORLD LEADERS $800: West Germany:
1949-1963 Konrad Adenauer |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Zaire:
1965-1997 Mobutu Sese Seko |
#3149, aired 1998-04-16 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Elizabeth II has seen 10 different prime ministers com & go, from this man to Tony Blair Winston Churchill |
#3149, aired 1998-04-16 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Sir Muda Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzadin Waddaulah is the sultan of this country Brunei |
#3149, aired 1998-04-16 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Helmut Kohl has passed this man's record as the longest-serving chancellor of post-WWII Germany (Konrad) Adenauer |
#3149, aired 1998-04-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: This Peruvian president used to be a TV talk show host (Alberto) Fujimori |
#3149, aired 1998-04-16 | WORLD LEADERS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Tracy Bingham.) When Mike Wallace interviewed this Iranian president in March 1997, the topic of "Baywatch" came up Hashemi Rafsanjani |
#3109, aired 1998-02-19 | HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $100: Serving from 1789 to 1797, he wanted the U.S. presidency to be nonpartisan George Washington |
#3109, aired 1998-02-19 | HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $200: In August 1825 Upper Peru changed its name to honor this man, the liberator of South America Simon Bolivar |
#3109, aired 1998-02-19 | HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $300: He was the only king of England to have "The Great" tacked on to his name Alfred |
#3109, aired 1998-02-19 | HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $400: Constantine decided to build his new capital on the site of this ancient Greek city Byzantium |
#3109, aired 1998-02-19 | HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $500: He conquered more of the world than any other man in history Genghis Khan |
#2929, aired 1997-05-01 | WORLD LEADERS $100: She's the sovereign of Bermuda, Belize & Canada Queen Elizabeth II |
#2929, aired 1997-05-01 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In December 1996 Kofi Annan of Ghana was elected secretary-general of this organization United Nations |
#2929, aired 1997-05-01 | WORLD LEADERS $300: Now serving as president, this world leader spent 27 years in South African jails Nelson Mandela |
#2929, aired 1997-05-01 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This "Paramount Leader" of China died February 19, 1997 at age 92 Deng Xiaoping |
#2929, aired 1997-05-01 | WORLD LEADERS $500: This German chancellor led West Germany before unification in 1990 Helmut Kohl |
#2824, aired 1996-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In addition to serving as Iraq's president, he's chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Saddam Hussein |
#2824, aired 1996-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Before his 1979 election to Great Britain's parliament, he worked in banking for almost 20 years John Major |
#2824, aired 1996-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 1918 he was born the son of a Tembu chief in what's now Eastern Cape province Nelson Mandela |
#2824, aired 1996-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: She took over Nicaragua's La Prensa newspaper after her husband's assassination Violeta Chamorro |
#2824, aired 1996-12-05 | WORLD LEADERS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1992 this former Soviet prime minister was named chairman of the State Council of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | WORLD LEADERS $200: After a 5-year tenure, this Polish president was defeated for re-election in 1995 Lech Walesa |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | WORLD LEADERS $400: He was recently voted in as president of the new self-rule Palestinian government Yasser Arafat |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Once sentenced to life imprisonment, he was elected South Africa's first black leader in 1994 Nelson Mandela |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | WORLD LEADERS $800: After 18 years in exile, he returned to Argentina in 1973 Juan Perón |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1,100 (Daily Double): In failing health, he resigned as Greek premier in January of 1996 Andreas Papandreou |
#2649, aired 1996-02-22 | WORLD LEADERS $200: This current prime minister of Britain is also First Lord of the Treasury John Major |
#2649, aired 1996-02-22 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Heading the Czech Republic's government are Vaclav Klaus, the premier, & this Vaclav, the president Vaclav Havel |
#2649, aired 1996-02-22 | WORLD LEADERS $600: This South African president shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with future president Nelson Mandela F.W. de Klerk |
#2649, aired 1996-02-22 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1995 he succeeded Francois Mitterrand as president of France Jacques Chirac |
#2649, aired 1996-02-22 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Ion Iliescu became president of Romania following the 1989 trial & execution of this leader Nicolae Ceausescu |
#2632, aired 1996-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $100: As a teenager in the 1940s, this president of the Philippines attended convent schools in the U.S. Corazon Aquino |
#2632, aired 1996-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $200: She gave birth to her 1st child, a son, during her successful 1988 campaign to become P.M. of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto |
#2632, aired 1996-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $300: In 1956 Time reported that during the Suez crisis this Egyptian president attended a Jane Russell movie Gamal Abdul Nasser |
#2632, aired 1996-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This 1st president of Indonesia was the son of a Javanese school teacher & his Balinese wife Sukarno |
#2632, aired 1996-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $500: This was Jose Lopez Portillo's 1st elective office; he was sworn in in 1976 President of Mexico |
#2396, aired 1995-01-23 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1994 Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of this country, brought 5 neo-fascists into his cabinet Italy |
#2396, aired 1995-01-23 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Patricio Aylwin became president of this country in 1990; Pinochet remained army commander-in-chief Chile |
#2396, aired 1995-01-23 | WORLD LEADERS $600: This German chancellor received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1958 Helmut Kohl |
#2396, aired 1995-01-23 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1959 he fled to Cairo after trying unsuccessfully to oust Iraqi dictator General Abdul Karim Kassem (Saddam) Hussein |
#2396, aired 1995-01-23 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: As Army Chief of Staff, this current Israeli P.M. presided over the victory in the Six-Day War Rabin |
#2272, aired 1994-06-21 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1993, 4 years after his death, his body was returned to the Philippines for burial Ferdinand Marcos |
#2272, aired 1994-06-21 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In a 1991 TV interview, Boris Yeltsin admitted that "to a large extent" he didn't like this man Mikhail Gorbachev |
#2272, aired 1994-06-21 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 1989 Hashemi Rafsanjani succeeded Ali Khamenei as president of this country Iran |
#2272, aired 1994-06-21 | WORLD LEADERS $800: He & many of his former cabinet members were executed at Lake Como in 1945 Mussolini |
#2272, aired 1994-06-21 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: In October 1993 she was elected prime minister of Pakistan for the second time in 5 years Benazir Bhutto |
#2211, aired 1994-03-28 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1993 this king celebrated 40 years on Jordan's throne King Hussein |
#2211, aired 1994-03-28 | WORLD LEADERS $400: At President Carter's urging, these 2 world leaders met for peace talks at Camp David in 1978 Sadat & Begin |
#2211, aired 1994-03-28 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Alberto Fujimori, the 1st person of Japanese descent to lead a Latin American nation, leads this one Peru |
#2211, aired 1994-03-28 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1991 Carl Bildt became this Scandinavian country's youngest PM in over 150 years Sweden |
#2211, aired 1994-03-28 | WORLD LEADERS $1,500 (Daily Double): In March 1993 he was elected to a sixth consecutive term as president of Indonesia Suharto |
#2185, aired 1994-02-18 | WORLD LEADERS $200: This Cuban president is also the head of the Cuban Communist Party Castro |
#2185, aired 1994-02-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Francisco Franco is buried inside a mountain in this, his native country Spain |
#2185, aired 1994-02-18 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Evita must have been his good luck charm; he became president of Argentina 4 months after he married her Peron |
#2185, aired 1994-02-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: This Oxford-graduate was president of the Oxford Union 11 years before she became PM of Pakistan (Benazir) Bhutto |
#2185, aired 1994-02-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: He was just 17 when he was crowned king of Jordan in 1953 King Hussein |
#2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt & this Soviet leader met in Tehran, Iran Stalin |
#2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $400: He was born Josip Broz in 1892 in Kumrovec, Croatia Tito |
#2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 1989 this South African education minister succeeded P.W. Botha as the country's president De Klerk |
#2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki became this country's first non-Communist leader since World War II Poland |
#2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Turkey's first president, he served from 1923 until his death in 1938 (Kemal) Ataturk |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1980 Reykjavik Theater director VIgdis Finnbogadottir became this country's first woman president Iceland |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1977 Amnesty Int'l estimated that as many as 300,000 may have died under this Ugandan leader's rule Idi Amin |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Resisting Soviet control, this Yugoslavian leader broke with Stalin in 1948 Tito |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Li Peng, who became China's premier in 1987, was an adopted son of this 1st premier who died in 1976 Zhou Enlai |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Amin Gemayel became President of this country in 1982 after his brother, the president-elect, was assassinated Lebanon |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1981 Francois Mitterand became the first socialist president of this country's Fifth Republic France |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This dictator has been in power since 1959, the longest of any current leader in the Western Hemisphere Fidel Castro |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | WORLD LEADERS $600 (Daily Double): In 1984 this descendant of Irish immigrants became Canada's prime minister Brian Mulroney |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Chancellor of the Exchequer who succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Britain's PM in November 1990 (John) Major |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | WORLD LEADERS $800: This country's king, Juan Carlos, is descended from France's Louis XIV Spain |
#1730, aired 1992-02-21 | WORLD LEADERS $200: President Corazon Aquino the Philippines |
#1730, aired 1992-02-21 | WORLD LEADERS $400: President Hosni Mubarak Egypt |
#1730, aired 1992-02-21 | WORLD LEADERS $600: President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Nicaragua |
#1730, aired 1992-02-21 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson Sweden |
#1730, aired 1992-02-21 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: President Carlos Salinas de Gortari Mexico |
#1711, aired 1992-01-27 | WORLD LEADERS $200: His 1932 article on fascism appeared in the "Enciclopedia Italiana" Mussolini |
#1711, aired 1992-01-27 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This Libyan has no formal title but is called the country's "revolutionary leader" Qaddafi |
#1711, aired 1992-01-27 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 1982 West Germany's Bundestag replaced Chancellor Helmut Schmidt with this man Helmut Kohl |
#1711, aired 1992-01-27 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1978 this Jordanian king married Elizabeth Halaby, an American King Hussein |
#1711, aired 1992-01-27 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Between 1868 & 1894, this Liberal served as British prime minister a record 4 times Gladstone |
#1706, aired 1992-01-20 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1990, in Germany's first full national election since 1932, he was elected chancellor Helmut Kohl |
#1706, aired 1992-01-20 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This current Israeli PM fought the British as a member of the "Stern Gang" in the 1940s Yitzhak Shamir |
#1706, aired 1992-01-20 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Revered by Rastafarians, Ras Tafari was crowned Ethiopian "King of Kings" under this name in 1930 Haile Selassie |
#1706, aired 1992-01-20 | WORLD LEADERS $800: By his own account, this notorious Khmer Rouge leader spent 2 years as a Buddhist monk Pol Pot |
#1706, aired 1992-01-20 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: This former Italian prime minister was kidnapped & killed by Red Brigade terrorists in 1978 Aldo Moro |
#1695, aired 1992-01-03 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1973 he became prime minister of the Philippines; he was already the president (Ferdinand) Marcos |
#1695, aired 1992-01-03 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1988 an international panel reported that this Austrian president had concealed his war record (Kurt) Waldheim |
#1695, aired 1992-01-03 | WORLD LEADERS $600: A devastating earthquake in Armenia cut short this leader's 1988 visit to the U.S. Gorbachev |
#1695, aired 1992-01-03 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Even though he was "President for Life", he was forced to flee Haiti in 1986 "Baby Doc" Duvalier |
#1695, aired 1992-01-03 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: This Kenyan leader was probably at least 83 when he died in 1978; his birthdate was unknown Jomo Kenyatta |
#1649, aired 1991-10-31 | WORLD LEADERS $200: She is head of state of Canada & the Bahamas though she's represented by governors general Queen Elizabeth II |
#1649, aired 1991-10-31 | WORLD LEADERS $400: 2 Constantines lead this country; Karamanlis is president & Mitsotakis is prime minister Greece |
#1649, aired 1991-10-31 | WORLD LEADERS $600: 84-year-old Yang Shangkun is the president of this country (People's Republic of) China |
#1649, aired 1991-10-31 | WORLD LEADERS $800: He returned from exile in Mexico in 1956 & set up a guerrilla movement in Cuba's Sierra Maestra Fidel Castro |
#1649, aired 1991-10-31 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: President Mengistu Haile Mariam of this country fled to Zimbabwe in 1991 Ethiopia |
#1607, aired 1991-09-03 | WORLD LEADERS $200: He's the Fifth Republic's fourth president Mitterand |
#1607, aired 1991-09-03 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This Czech president's plays were formerly banned in his homeland Havel |
#1607, aired 1991-09-03 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Before becoming President of Syria in 1971, he was the country's Minister of Defense Assad |
#1607, aired 1991-09-03 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1990 this owner of La Prensa led an anti-Sandinista coalition to victory in Nicaragua Violeta Chammoro |
#1607, aired 1991-09-03 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma became president of this newly independent African nation in 1990 Namibia |
#1598, aired 1991-07-10 | WORLD LEADERS $100: Commander of the Egyptian Air Force from 1972-75, he became president in 1981 (Hosni) Mubarak |
#1598, aired 1991-07-10 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Queen Elizabeth II recently bestowed upon this former prime minister the Order of Merit (Margaret) Thatcher |
#1598, aired 1991-07-10 | WORLD LEADERS $300: In 1988 he celebrated his 35th anniversary as king of Jordan (King) Hussein |
#1598, aired 1991-07-10 | WORLD LEADERS $400: During most of WWII, these leaders were known as "The Big 3" Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin |
#1598, aired 1991-07-10 | WORLD LEADERS $500: In 1989, after a showdown with his cabinet, he stepped down as president of South Africa (Pieter) Botha |
#1521, aired 1991-03-25 | WORLD LEADERS $100: Due to a scandal, Sosuke Uno lost his job as this country's prime minister Japan |
#1521, aired 1991-03-25 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Before her death in 1978, this Israeli said, "I forbid any eulogies or anything named for me" Golda Meir |
#1521, aired 1991-03-25 | WORLD LEADERS $300: This debonair Canadian, a former P.M., has written several books, including "Two Innocents in Red China" Pierre Trudeau |
#1521, aired 1991-03-25 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1961 the Vatican excommunicated this Haitian president for harassing the clergy Duvalier |
#1521, aired 1991-03-25 | WORLD LEADERS $500: In 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark was elected king of this Scandinavian country Norway |
#1489, aired 1991-02-07 | WORLD LEADERS $100: She was born near Manila in 1933 to a wealthy family named Cojuangco Corazon Aquino |
#1489, aired 1991-02-07 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Before becoming president of France in 1981, he was first secretary of the French Socialist Party Mitterrand |
#1489, aired 1991-02-07 | WORLD LEADERS $300: To date, he's the only former U.N. secretary- general to be elected president of a country (Kurt) Waldheim |
#1489, aired 1991-02-07 | WORLD LEADERS $400: President Chaim Herzog is Israel's head of state, while this prime minister heads its gov't Shamir |
#1489, aired 1991-02-07 | WORLD LEADERS $500: In 1989 Alfredo Cristiani won election as this country's pres., succeeding Jose Napoleon Duarte El Salvador |
#1411, aired 1990-10-22 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Though this country is a major world power, few Americans could name its president, Yang Shangkun China |
#1411, aired 1990-10-22 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Though in office only 7 1/2 months, Pierre Mendes France extricated France from the war here in 1954 Indochina |
#1411, aired 1990-10-22 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Absolute monarchy ended in this country in 1932 during the reign of Prajadhipok Thailand |
#1411, aired 1990-10-22 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1971, this country's president William Tubman died before being inaugurated to a 7th term Liberia |
#1411, aired 1990-10-22 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: In the early 1960s he was president of the secessionist state of Katanga & later premier of the entire Congo, now Zaire Moïse Tshombe |
#1396, aired 1990-10-01 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1974 this Yugoslav leader was made president for life Tito |
#1396, aired 1990-10-01 | WORLD LEADERS $400: From 1968 until the treaty was signed in 1977, Gen. O. Torrijos led the campaign to get control of this from us the Panama Canal |
#1396, aired 1990-10-01 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Egon Krenz was East Germany's leader for 6 weeks after replacing this man in October 1989 Honecker |
#1396, aired 1990-10-01 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1977 this Soviet ruler became the first to hold titles as both head of the party & chief of state Brezhnev |
#1396, aired 1990-10-01 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: This former prime minister of Rhodesia lives in Zimbabwe Ian Smith |
#1381, aired 1990-09-10 | WORLD LEADERS $200: At 14, this future Cuban leader sent a letter to FDR asking him for a $10 bill because he'd never seen one Castro |
#1381, aired 1990-09-10 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This first Indian prime minister partly embraced the non-violent philosophy of Gandhi but not his asceticism Nehru |
#1381, aired 1990-09-10 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron mentions the court of Ali Pasha in this country Turkey |
#1381, aired 1990-09-10 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Though this 20-year-old may have resented his father Philip II, he took no part in his murder Alexander the Great |
#1381, aired 1990-09-10 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: In June 1943, he & Henri Giraud became co-chairs of the French Committee for National Liberation in Algeria de Gaulle |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Of Napoleon I, Napoleon II or Napoleon III, the one who never ruled France Napoleon II |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This man who punished traitors in WWII was made Soviet Premier in 1958 Khrushchev |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Party to which French president Francois Mitterand belongs the Socialist Party |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1983 Yitzhak Shamir replaced this man as prime minister of Israel Menachem Begin |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: On her death, James VI of Scotland moved to London & took over Elizabeth I |
#1301, aired 1990-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS $200: The "Youth" group named for this man was organized after he came to power in 1933 Hitler |
#1301, aired 1990-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1976 she was seized by Argentine Air Force officers & kept under house arrest for 5 years Isabel Peron |
#1301, aired 1990-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Idi Amin served in the British action against this country's Mau Mau rebels in the 1950s Kenya |
#1301, aired 1990-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: In 1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland became the 1st female P.M. of this Scandinavian country Norway |
#1301, aired 1990-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Middle East country whose current president was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland Israel (Chaim Herzog) |
#1286, aired 1990-03-19 | WORLD LEADERS $100: 2 Sikh bodyguards assassinated this Indian prime minister on Oct. 31, 1984 Indira Gandhi |
#1286, aired 1990-03-19 | WORLD LEADERS $200: The only presidents this nation has had are Sukarno & Suharto Indonesia |
#1286, aired 1990-03-19 | WORLD LEADERS $300: In 1970 Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed in a bloodless coup as head of state of this country Cambodia |
#1286, aired 1990-03-19 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1847 Virginia-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the first president of this black African nation Liberia |
#1286, aired 1990-03-19 | WORLD LEADERS $500: At 49, Margrethe II of this Scandinavian country is the world's youngest queen regnant Denmark |
#1283, aired 1990-03-14 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, was the 1st woman president of this organization's general assembly United Nations |
#1283, aired 1990-03-14 | WORLD LEADERS $400: A law student in the Philippines in the 1930s, he was found guilty of murder but later acquitted Ferdinand Marcos |
#1283, aired 1990-03-14 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 1948 she became Israel's 1st envoy to the USSR Golda Meir |
#1283, aired 1990-03-14 | WORLD LEADERS $800: At the time this prime minister separated from his wife in '77, she denied rumors linking her with Mick Jagger Pierre Trudeau |
#1283, aired 1990-03-14 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: He was deputy premier of Morocco before he succeeded his father as king in 1961 King Hassan |
#1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1963, 8 years after he resigned as British p.m., he was made an honorary U.S. citizen Winston Churchill |
#1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WORLD LEADERS $600: This Austrian president is of Czech descent & his family name was originally Waclawik Kurt Waldheim |
#1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1921 he became the first Japanese crown prince to travel abroad Hirohito |
#1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Mehmed VI, the last sultan of this empire, was forced to abdicate in 1922 Ottoman Empire |
#1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1,200 (Daily Double): Anwar Sadat was assassinated in this city Cairo |
#1252, aired 1990-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $100: His brother Raul is the 2nd most powerful government official in Cuba Fidel Castro |
#1252, aired 1990-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1960 Zulu chief Albert Lutuli became the 1st African to win this Nobel Prize the Nobel Peace Prize |
#1252, aired 1990-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $300: In 1979 rumors linked this 86-year-old Yugoslav leader with a 33-year-old pop singer Marshal Tito |
#1252, aired 1990-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This former premier of the Soviet Union was denied a state funeral when he died in 1971 Nikita Khrushchev |
#1252, aired 1990-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $500: This female president graduated from Mount St. Vincent College in the Bronx in 1953 Corazon Aquino (of the Philippines) |
#1219, aired 1989-12-14 | WORLD LEADERS $100: She's the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth |
#1219, aired 1989-12-14 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Philippine leader whose given name means "heart" in Spanish Corazon Aquino |
#1219, aired 1989-12-14 | WORLD LEADERS $300: In 1982 West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt was replaced by this Helmut (Helmut) Kohl |
#1219, aired 1989-12-14 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This president-for-life left Haiti for France in 1986 after his government was ousted "Baby Doc" Duvalier |
#1219, aired 1989-12-14 | WORLD LEADERS $500: This 1st president of Kenya, who died in 1978, has been revered as the father of his country Jomo Kenyatta |
#1177, aired 1989-10-17 | WORLD LEADERS $100: She is the first woman to head a British political party Margaret Thatcher |
#1177, aired 1989-10-17 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Despite the outcry over his indictment for drug trafficking, he's still in power in Panama Manuel Noriega |
#1177, aired 1989-10-17 | WORLD LEADERS $300: In the 1920s this N. Vietnamese leader worked as an assistant chef under the great Escoffier Ho Chi Minh |
#1177, aired 1989-10-17 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This political "strongman" was heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from 1951-60 Idi Amin |
#1177, aired 1989-10-17 | WORLD LEADERS $500: Between 1816 & 1830 he was at various times ruler of present-day Venezuela, Peru & Colombia Simón Bolívar |
#1012, aired 1989-01-17 | WORLD LEADERS $200: New Year's Day '86, President Reagan exchanged greetings with the leader of this country, 1st time since 1973 Russia (Soviet Union) |
#1012, aired 1989-01-17 | WORLD LEADERS $400: It's believed he ordered the bombing of a USO on the 2nd anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Libya (Muammar) Gaddafi |
#1012, aired 1989-01-17 | WORLD LEADERS $600: José N. Duarte's terminal cancer has the U.S. nervous about this country's democratic future El Salvador |
#1012, aired 1989-01-17 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: When this Chilean strongman recently asked voters if he should remain in office, most said no Pinochet |
#1012, aired 1989-01-17 | WORLD LEADERS $1,600 (Daily Double): China's new premier, Li Peng, is the foster son of this man who was premier for 27 years Chou En-lai |
#738, aired 1987-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS $200: He became a Bolshevik in 1918 & Soviet Premier in 1958 Nikita Khrushchev |
#738, aired 1987-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Robert Hawke is the current prime minister of this 3 million square mile country, the sixth largest in the world Australia |
#738, aired 1987-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS $600: This Costa Rican president's peace plan helped him win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Oscar Arias Sanchez |
#738, aired 1987-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: He told the US and the USSR in August of 1987 that he was willing to destroy the Pershing missiles in his country Helmut Kohl (of Germany) |
#738, aired 1987-11-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: On his way home from a Swedish comedy film, February 28, 1986, this world leader was assassinated Olof Palme |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORLD LEADERS $100: In 1950 he graduated with a law degree from the University of Havana Fidel Castro |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Shortly after the Russian Revolution, he became a library assistant at Peking University Mao Tse-tung |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORLD LEADERS $300: In 1951 he defeated Clement Attlee to become prime minister of Britain again Winston Churchill |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORLD LEADERS $400: World leader whose surname can be taken to mean "of France"--& it seemed he took it so (Charles) de Gaulle |
#668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORLD LEADERS $500: When Corazon Aquino visited this leader in 1986, they chatted about haiku poetry the Emperor of Japan (Hirihito) |
#655, aired 1987-06-12 | WORLD LEADERS $200: When he ran for president of Austria in 1971, he lost Kurt Waldheim |
#655, aired 1987-06-12 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The first British prime minister to visit Israel while in office since the British left in 1948 Margaret Thatcher |
#655, aired 1987-06-12 | WORLD LEADERS $600: To advertise his Australian visit in Nov. 1986, the sponsoring beer company put out special cans the Pope |
#655, aired 1987-06-12 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In November 1986, reports of the death of this North Korean leader were greatly exaggerated Kim Il-sung |
#655, aired 1987-06-12 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: After 21 years of military rule, Pres. Jose Sarney is changing this country to democratic rule Brazil |
#568, aired 1987-02-11 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1975-77, while Raul Castro was Gov. of Ariz., another Raul Castro was #2 man in this country Cuba |
#568, aired 1987-02-11 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Since this country has the world's lowest suicide rate, its king, Hussein, must be doing something right Jordan |
#568, aired 1987-02-11 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Jacques Chirac currently serves as both his country's prime minister & mayor of this city Paris |
#568, aired 1987-02-11 | WORLD LEADERS $800: For 3rd time in Spanish history the Bourbons returned to the throne in 1975 with crowning of this king Juan Carlos |
#568, aired 1987-02-11 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: According to its constitution, this country's supreme leader is the faqih, an Islamic scholar Iran |
#559, aired 1987-01-29 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Reagan said of him in January 1986, "I find he's not only a barbarian, but he's flaky" Qadhafi |
#559, aired 1987-01-29 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Re-establishing a free Poland was 1 of his 14 Points of 1918 Woodrow Wilson |
#559, aired 1987-01-29 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In later years, this Indian prime minister carried with him part of a poem by Robert Frost Nehru |
#559, aired 1987-01-29 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Born Ruhollah Mussavi, this world leader ironically spent 13 years of his exile in Iraq Ayatollah Khomeini |
#559, aired 1987-01-29 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Once a worker in a shaving brush factory, this diplomat shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Henry Kissinger |
#539, aired 1987-01-01 | WORLD LEADERS $100: Though he's no Benjamin Spock, this is Jean-Claude Duvalier's nickname Baby Doc |
#539, aired 1987-01-01 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Close, but no cigar: this Communist leader did a promo for CNN, but it was canned Castro |
#539, aired 1987-01-01 | WORLD LEADERS $300: Alleged war criminal who condemned anti-Semitism at inauguration as Austria's president in 1986 Kurt Waldheim |
#539, aired 1987-01-01 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The Reagans told Barbara Walters they do this "once or twice a week...on Friday or Saturday nights" Watch a movie |
#539, aired 1987-01-01 | WORLD LEADERS $500: Once his aide-de-camp in exile, Rosario Murillo is now this Nicaraguan president's 1st lady Daniel Ortega |
#529, aired 1986-12-18 | WORLD LEADERS $200: It is said this Dustin Hoffman/ Jessica Lange film is one of Mikhail Gorbachev's favorites Tootsie |
#529, aired 1986-12-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In July '86 this country ruled by King Hassan II became 2nd Arab nation to meet openly with Israel Morocco |
#529, aired 1986-12-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800 (Daily Double): The 2 heads of state who attended the Liberty Weekend opening ceremonies dinner Ronald Reagan & François Mitterand |
#529, aired 1986-12-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: On June 12, 1986, he issued a declaration of emergency rule for his country Botha |
#529, aired 1986-12-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: In Athens, he gets to park his car in the space reserved for the prime minister Andreas Papandreou |
#476, aired 1986-10-06 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Dumping this leader in 1986, Haitians also campaigned "Down with voodoo, free the zombies" "Baby Doc" Duvalier |
#476, aired 1986-10-06 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Honolulu's mayor suggested this deposed leader should buy the Hawaiian island used in "Gilligan's Island" Ferdinand Marcos |
#476, aired 1986-10-06 | WORLD LEADERS $600: First name shared by the last two chancellors of West Germany Helmut |
#469, aired 1986-09-25 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Just before Lenin died, he urged that this tyrant be deposed as Communist Party secy.-gen. Stalin |
#469, aired 1986-09-25 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1963, he resigned premiership of Israel & later moved to a kibbutz in the Negev Desert David Ben-Gurion |
#469, aired 1986-09-25 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Throughout its history as an independent country, it has been ruled by members of the Chiang family Taiwan |
#469, aired 1986-09-25 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Resigning under pressure in 1960, this South Korean leader went to live in Hawaii Syngman Rhee |
#469, aired 1986-09-25 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: After serving as president & dictator of this S. Amer. country for some 20 yrs., G. Vargas killed himself in 1954 Brazil |
#425, aired 1986-04-25 | WORLD LEADERS $100: At a White House dinner Nov. 9, 1985, president Reagan called this person Princess "David" Princess Diana |
#425, aired 1986-04-25 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Soviet who said in November 1963, "start throwing hedgehogs under me, I'll throw 2 porcupines under you" Khrushchev |
#425, aired 1986-04-25 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In a 1983 TV movie, Louis Gossett, Jr. portrayed this slain world leader Anwar Sadat |
#425, aired 1986-04-25 | WORLD LEADERS $500: His daughter was kidnapped Sept. 10, 1985 by the Pedro Pablo Castillo Front (José Napoleón) Duarte |
#425, aired 1986-04-25 | WORLD LEADERS $600 (Daily Double): Currently the only Muslim spiritual leader to head a country the Ayatollah Khomeini |
#268, aired 1985-09-18 | WORLD LEADERS $200: He was the last king of Egypt King Farouk |
#268, aired 1985-09-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Appropriately, Stanley Melbourne Bruce was its prime minister 1923-1929 Australia |
#268, aired 1985-09-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Albert, Henry, & George witnessed this king's abdication document Dec. 10, 1936 King Edward (VIII) |
#268, aired 1985-09-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): For the king of Thailand's birthday in '84, 1080 men underwent this surgery to help their country a vasectomy |
#268, aired 1985-09-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Countries whose leaders met in a "Shamrock Summit" in March, 1985 the United States & Canada |
#103, aired 1985-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $200: St. Peter was the first, John Paul II the latest the Popes |
#103, aired 1985-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $400: At age 27, he overthrew King Idris Muammar Gaddafi |
#103, aired 1985-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $600: The Earl of Beaconsfield, he was P.M. under Queen Victoria (Benjamin) Disraeli |
#103, aired 1985-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $800: At age 73, he became West Germany's 1st Chancellor & served 14 years Conrad Adenauer |
#103, aired 1985-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: In 1974, he addressed the U.N. General Assembly with a gun in his belt Yasser Arafat |
#59, aired 1984-11-29 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Won medals for helping British in South Africa but his opposition drove them from India Mahatma Gandhi |
#59, aired 1984-11-29 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Since independence in '45, Sukarno & Suharto have been this island nation's only presidents Indonesia |
#59, aired 1984-11-29 | WORLD LEADERS $500 (Daily Double): In 1946 Norway's Trygve Lie became 1st to hold this post Secretary General of the U.N. |
#44, aired 1984-11-08 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Israeli who shared ’78 Nobel Peace Prize with Sadat Menachem Begin |
#44, aired 1984-11-08 | WORLD LEADERS $400: She’s head of state of Australia, New Zealand & Canada, too Queen Elizabeth |
#44, aired 1984-11-08 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Deputy foreign minister under Stalin; still Russia’s foreign minister today Andrei Gromyko |
#44, aired 1984-11-08 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Though not a physician like his father Papa Doc, this Haitian leader is known as “Baby Doc” (Jean-Claude) Duvalier |
#44, aired 1984-11-08 | WORLD LEADERS $2,300 (Daily Double): Not president, premiere or party chief, he is still China’s top leader Deng Xiaoping |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | WORLD LEADERS $100: During '80s hostage crisis, dart boards bearing his face were a big seller Ayatollah Khomeini |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Britain's first female P.M., her popularity soared after Falklands War Margaret Thatcher |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | WORLD LEADERS $300: Ronald Reagan was also president of this union the Screen Actors Guild |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | WORLD LEADERS $400: D'Aubisson claimed Duarte fixed his election win in this country El Salvador |
#14, aired 1984-09-27 | WORLD LEADERS $500: Olympic pullout was ordered by this successor to Andropov Chernenko |