#7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PLACE NAMES $1600: This Southeast Asian island nation was named for a 16th century Spanish king the Philippines |
#2973, aired 1997-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $200: In his 1520 "Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation", he called for church reform Martin Luther |
#2973, aired 1997-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $400: In Russian this czar's nickname was Grozny, "The Dread" Ivan the Terrible |
#2973, aired 1997-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $600: This third wife of Henry VIII died in 1537 after giving birth to Edward VI Jane Seymour |
#2973, aired 1997-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $800: During his "magnificent" reign over the Ottomans, he conquered Hungary & much of Mesopotamia Suleiman |
#2973, aired 1997-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $1,300 (Daily Double): In 1578 this Flemish cartographer engraved a new set of maps for Ptolemy's "Geography" Gerardus Mercator |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $100: Rudolf II of this Austrian dynasty was crowned king of Bohemia in 1575 Hapsburg |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $200: This Scottish queen's mother was the daughter of France's Duc de Guise Mary, Queen of Scots |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $300: George Bernard Shaw sneered at the adulation of this 16th century man, calling it "Bardolatry" William Shakespeare |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $400: This emperor of the Aztecs presented Hernan Cortes with rich gifts, believing he was the god Quezalcoatl Montezuma |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $500: The model for this portrait was the 2nd wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo the "Mona Lisa" |
#2672, aired 1996-03-26 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $600: Sir Francis Drake looted & burned the Spanish fort at this Florida site in 1586 St. Augustine |
#2672, aired 1996-03-26 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $800: The Earl of Bothwell was created Duke of Orkney & Shetland one day before he married this queen in 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots |
#2672, aired 1996-03-26 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $1000: As a child, this Danish astronomer was abducted by his uncle & raised in a castle Tycho Brahe |
#2588, aired 1995-11-29 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $200: This fierce czar born in 1530 was a direct descendant of Alexander Nevsky Ivan the Terrible |
#2588, aired 1995-11-29 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $400: This queen's mother, Anne Boleyn, had been a lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon Elizabeth I |
#2588, aired 1995-11-29 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $600: In 1538 this conquistador's forces captured & executed his rival Diego de Almagro Pizarro |
#2588, aired 1995-11-29 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $800: This native of Crete studied with Titian in Venice before moving to Toledo El Greco |
#2588, aired 1995-11-29 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $1000: In 1503 this Dutch humanist published his "Handbook of a Christian Knight" Erasmus |
#1835, aired 1992-07-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $500: Alessandro, an illegitimate member of this family, was a 16th century Duke of Florence the Medicis |
#1418, aired 1990-10-31 | 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS $500: His given names were the same as the full name of a 16th century leader of the Protestant Reformation Calvin Coolidge |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: Hoping to stop Dominican friar Johannes Tetzel from preaching for indulgences, in 1517 he wrote a series of debate topics Martin Luther |
#7552, aired 2017-06-13 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so" Nostradamus |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathedral Nicolaus Copernicus |
#5319, aired 2007-10-25 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: Paul III roared at him, "I have waited 30 years for your services. Now I'm pope, can't I satisfy my desire?" Michelangelo |
#4753, aired 2005-04-13 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: As a foe of the Spanish, he's been called "The Queen's Pirate" & a "Gran Luterano" Sir Francis Drake |