#15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $800: In 1998 the 9 teens who integrated Central High in this Southern capital in 1957 were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Little Rock |
#8306, aired 2021-01-04 | 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This son of a president was the USA's ace diplomat in the 18-teens before becoming president himself John Quincy Adams |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $400: Les bons temps started rouler-ing with the founding of this Southern city by Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville in 1718 New Orleans |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: A 1614 truce ended 5 years of war between the settlers of this Virginia "town" & Powhatan Jamestown |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: In 1513 this Spaniard led an expedition to what he'd name Florida, which he first assumed was an island Ponce de León |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This Mongolian took a break from BBQ-ing China in 1218 to take out an empire in what's now Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan Genghis Khan |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: When the British burned the White House in 1814, she saved a portrait of George Washington that still hangs today Dolley Madison |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: John XII was only about 18 when he was elected to this office in 955--that's a big step up from altar boy Pope |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: In 2005 CT scans confirmed that this "boy king" was about 19 when he was mummified Tutankhamen |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: She was around 16 when she led the French troops that raised the Siege of Orleans Joan of Arc |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TEENS IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): At 14, this future "Old Hickory" was captured & wounded by the British during the Revolution Andrew Jackson |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: Mary Shelley was just 19 when she wrote this horror classic Frankenstein |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: "America has been my favorite country since the age of 13 when I first saw it", said this naval hero of the Revolution John Paul Jones |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: In his teens, he became a teacher; too bad about that career change to "Fascist leader of Italy" Mussolini |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: He was a top student, & not yet a revolutionary, when his brother was executed for trying to kill the Czar in 1887 Lenin |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: King James VI of Scotland was kidnapped at age 15 while his mom, this queen, was a prisoner Mary, Queen of Scots |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: As a teen Walter Raleigh served with the armies of these French Protestants the Huguenots |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: The diary that she received for her 13th birthday in 1942 became one of the most famous books of the 20th century Anne Frank |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: Henry VIII's sister Margaret was a teen when she married King James IV of this British Isles country Scotland |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: This future wife of Napoleon spent her first 15 years on the island of Martinique Josephine |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: As a teen, this future inventor of the cotton gin had his own nail-making business Eli Whitney |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1771 this teenage Marquis became a musketeer--good training for the American Revolution the Marquis de Lafayette |
#5398, aired 2008-02-13 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $800: Angie Harmon was in history class when she found out that she'd won this teen magazine's cover model contest Seventeen |
#5161, aired 2007-02-05 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: By the time he was 13, Louis XV had already been king of this country for 8 years France |
#5161, aired 2007-02-05 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: When teen king Ptolemy XIV died in 44 B.C., it was rumored that this queen, his sister, had had him poisoned Cleopatra |
#5161, aired 2007-02-05 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: Augustus Caesar was just 18 when he learned he'd been named the heir to this Roman leader Julius Caesar |
#5161, aired 2007-02-05 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: In the 1460s this teen, the future husband of Queen Isabella, fought in the Catalonian Wars King Ferdinand |
#5161, aired 2007-02-05 | TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: By age 16, Nijinsky was already known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" as one of these performers a ballet dancer |
#4939, aired 2006-02-16 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: This telephone inventor was largely home-schooled before becoming a teacher himself at age 16 (Alexander Graham) Bell |
#4939, aired 2006-02-16 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: As a teen in the 1480s, this sculptor of "David" studied art at a school in the Medici Gardens Michelangelo |
#4939, aired 2006-02-16 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: Victoria Woodhull was a teen medium & fortune-teller before becoming the first woman to run for pres. of this country the United States |
#4939, aired 2006-02-16 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was born in NYC, but as a teen he lived in this Hungarian capital city Budapest |
#4939, aired 2006-02-16 | TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: He was a teen apprentice to a surgeon-apothecary before writing poems like "Ode to a Nightingale" Keats |
#4699, aired 2005-01-27 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: In 1468 this teen was recognized as heiress to the throne of Castile Queen Isabella |
#4699, aired 2005-01-27 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: She was a teenage farm girl when she beat the famous marksman Frank Butler in an 1870s shooting match Annie Oakley |
#4699, aired 2005-01-27 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: Betrothed as a teen to her creepy cousin in 1744, she later became a "Great" empress of Russia Catherine the Great |
#4699, aired 2005-01-27 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s this future sculptor failed the Ecole des Beaux-Arts entrance exam 3 times (think about it) Rodin |
#4699, aired 2005-01-27 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1000: Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific Captain Cook |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: Teenage Anne Boleyn was courted by the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, but fell head over heels for this king Henry VIII |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: At 19, this future spiritual leader of India went to Britain to study law (he also studied dancing & violin) (Mahatma) Gandhi |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: Jadwiga, a teen queen of this country, financed the restoration of a university in Krakow Poland |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: As a teen in the 1790's, this South American "liberator" was sent to Spain to complete his schooling Simón Bolívar |
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: In 1692, 14-year-old Madeline de Vercheres led the fight against an Iroquois attack in what is now this Canadian province Quebec |
#4462, aired 2004-01-20 | POP LIT $400: In a 1964 hit, the Reflections sang, "Our love's gonna be written down in history a-just like" these Shakespeare teens Romeo & Juliet |
#4016, aired 2002-02-04 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: 18-year-old Archduchess Marie-Louise married this 40-year old French emperor in 1810 Napoleon |
#4016, aired 2002-02-04 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: In his teens, he was apprenticed to a merchant; life got exciting later with that rescue by Pocahontus John Smith |
#4016, aired 2002-02-04 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: This British nurse was 16 when she believed she heard the voice of God tell her that she had a mission Florence Nightingale |
#4016, aired 2002-02-04 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: he was a teen when he left Britain to grow cotton in Africa; he later became the "colossus" of scholarships Rhodes |
#4016, aired 2002-02-04 | TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: Asa teenager this future admiral & hero of Trafalgar served on a dangerous voyage to the Arctic Nelson |
#3495, aired 1999-11-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: The stakes were high for this peasant girl who was burnt at the stake in 1431 Joan of Arc |
#3495, aired 1999-11-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: This teen "asp"ired to be Egypt's queen but had to share the throne with her little brother, Ptolemy XIII Cleopatra |
#3495, aired 1999-11-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $600: This "Good King" of Christmas carol fame was a teenage ruler of Bohemia Wenceslas |
#3495, aired 1999-11-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: This mystic's misspent youth in his native Siberia was noted for its debauchery Rasputin |
#3495, aired 1999-11-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1000: Isabella II, a teenage queen of this country, survived an assassination attempt in 1847 Spain |
#2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $200: One of history's most famous diaries was written by this Jewish girl in hiding during WWII Anne Frank |
#2867, aired 1997-02-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: In his teens he began helping Hasdrubal impose Carthaginian domination on the Iberian Peninsula Hannibal |
#2412, aired 1995-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $100: This saint was only 19 when she died at Rouen in 1431 Joan of Arc |
#2412, aired 1995-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: As a teen he performed the first American bird banding experiment, on some baby phoebes in 1804 Audubon |
#2412, aired 1995-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $300: At 15 she was betrothed to Grand Duke Peter; she later became a "Great" empress Catherine the Great |
#2412, aired 1995-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: He was a student in what is now Albania when he learned that his great-uncle Julius Caesar had been killed Octavian (Augustus) |
#2412, aired 1995-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $500: James IV, a member of the Stuart dynasty, was 15 when he became king of this country in 1488 Scotland |
#2182, aired 1994-02-15 | TEENS IN HISTORY $100: She was only about 17 when she began leading French armies against the English in 1429 Joan of Arc |
#2182, aired 1994-02-15 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: While visiting the Potomac Indians in 1613, she was captured by the English & taken to Jamestown Pocahontas |
#2182, aired 1994-02-15 | TEENS IN HISTORY $300: In her teens she fought Juana la Beltraneja for the succession to the Castilian throne Queen Isabella |
#2182, aired 1994-02-15 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: In 1774 at age 16, this marquis married Adrienne de Noailles, a member of a power French family the Marquis de Lafayette |
#2182, aired 1994-02-15 | TEENS IN HISTORY $500: This "Nine Days' Queen" was just 16 when she was beheaded on Tower Green in 1554 Lady Jane Grey |
#1953, aired 1993-02-17 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: He wasn't yet 20 when he died in the 1300s B.C.; he'd been pharaoh since he was 9 or 10 Tutankhamun |
#1953, aired 1993-02-17 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: When this 16-year-old graduated from Paris' Ecole Militaire in 1785, he ranked 42nd in a class of 58 Napoleon Bonaparte |
#1953, aired 1993-02-17 | TEENS IN HISTORY $600: As a 16-year-old in 1837, this British nurse heard God tell her she had a mission in life Florence Nightingale |
#1953, aired 1993-02-17 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: The Black Prince was only 16 when he commanded part of his father's army in this really long war the Hundred Years' War |
#1953, aired 1993-02-17 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): She was 19 when her half-sister Mary Tudor became queen of England in 1553 Elizabeth (the 1st) |
#1747, aired 1992-03-17 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1000: This soprano was in her teens when she debuted in her native Stockholm in 1838 Jenny Lind |
#1736, aired 1992-03-02 | TEENS IN HISTORY $100: In 1922 this Egyptian boy king's burial chamber was opened for the 1st time in over 30 centuries King Tut |
#1736, aired 1992-03-02 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: This Florentine's earliest surviving sculpture is a relief done when he was about 16 Michelangelo |
#1736, aired 1992-03-02 | TEENS IN HISTORY $300: In 1824 at only 15 years of age, he devised a 6-dot system of writing for the blind (Louis) Braille |
#1736, aired 1992-03-02 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: At age 16 this Macedonian served as regent during Philip II's absence in Byzantium Alexander the Great |
#1736, aired 1992-03-02 | TEENS IN HISTORY $500: In 1863 at age 16 this future inventor became a telegrapher at Stratford Junction, Canada (Thomas) Edison |
#1494, aired 1991-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: This "Great" czar was 17 when his mother arranged for him to marry a beautiful girl named Eudoxia Peter the Great |
#1494, aired 1991-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: Guinness says Henry Long, elected in the 15th c. at age 15, was the youngest member ever of this legislature the British Parliament |
#1494, aired 1991-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $600: By the time he was a teenager, Felix Mendelssohn was a respected composer from this country Germany |
#1494, aired 1991-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: He was a student in Appolonia when he heard that his great-uncle Julius had been assassinated Octavius |
#1494, aired 1991-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1000: This peasant girl was 14 when she saw her visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 Bernadette |
#1261, aired 1990-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: Isabella II, queen of this Iberian country, survived an assassination attempt in 1847 when she was 16 Spain |
#1261, aired 1990-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: He didn't meet his father until he was 15 or 16, but when he was 17 they left for China Marco Polo |
#1261, aired 1990-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $600: He was already an immensely wealthy nobleman when he joined Washington's army at age 19 Marquis de Lafayette |
#1261, aired 1990-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $800: From age 13-16 he studied with Aristotle; at 20 he was King of Macedon Alexander the Great |
#1261, aired 1990-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1000: 15-year-old "Lady" whose incredibly short reign in England lasted only 9 days Lady Jane Grey |
#1028, aired 1989-02-08 | TEENS IN HISTORY $100: At the age of 18 he robbed his 1st bank with a little help from his brother Frank Jesse James |
#1028, aired 1989-02-08 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: Father of Elizabeth I, he became king of England when he was only 17 Henry VIII |
#1028, aired 1989-02-08 | TEENS IN HISTORY $300: At age 13 Giovanni de' Medici, later Pope Leo X, was made one of these in the Catholic church a cardinal |
#1028, aired 1989-02-08 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: At 19 he went into exile after his parents broke up, but a few years later he was king of Macedonia Alexander the Great |
#1028, aired 1989-02-08 | TEENS IN HISTORY $500: Historians say she was about 18 when she guided Lewis & Clark across America Sacagawea |