#9061, aired 2024-03-18 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $800: On June 22, 1804 this vice president wrote to his political adversary, "You have invited the course I am about to pursue" Aaron Burr |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: Pamplona's Museo de Navarra has an 1804 portrait of the Marquis of San Adrian, a masterpiece by this Spanish painter Goya |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $600: July 11, 1804: Aaron Burr mortally wounds this Founding Father during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey Alexander Hamilton |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $200: Born on the 4th of July, 1804 in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne had a scarlet birthstone: this one ruby |
#8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $200: In 1804 a steam carriage was first put onto one of these; it could haul 70 men & 10 tons of iron for 10 miles railroad |
#8949, aired 2023-10-12 | AARON BURR $600: The man he went to New Jersey to meet on July 11, 1804 Hamilton |
#8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal in New York, Burr & Hamilton had their deadly 1804 clash at a secluded spot in Weehawken in this state New Jersey |
#8777, aired 2023-01-03 | L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $800: 1804 to 1815 is known as the Empire Period; in the decorative arts it featured swans, a symbol of this empress Josephine |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | 4 WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL $400: She married Napoleon in a civil ceremony on March 9, 1796; the pair wed again with religious rites on December 1, 1804 Josephine |
#8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Here's the path on which this duo led their expedition between 1804 & 1806, covering around 8,000 miles Lewis & Clark |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | AMERICAN GRAB BAG $800: Weehawken, New Jersey is the place to see the dueling grounds where this statesman lost his life in 1804 Alexander Hamilton |
#8594, aired 2022-03-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: On December 2, 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte had this title officially bestowed upon him, by himself emperor |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT? $2000: Burr kills Hamilton non-musically; Lewis & Clark set out; Friedrich Schiller tells the tale of William Tell 1804 |
#8398, aired 2021-05-12 | NAPOLEON THE INNOVATOR $800: In 1804 Napoleon standardized all the laws of France, resulting in a civil code still used in places like this Canadian province Quebec |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | BLOW-POURRI $2000: In 1804 this admiral commiserated with the seasickness of an earl's nephew, writing, "I am ill every time it blows hard" Horatio Nelson |
#8374, aired 2021-04-08 | THE IVY LEAGUE $800: Chartered as Rhode Island College in 1764, it changed its name to this in 1804 to honor a major benefactor Brown |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): At Sitka in 1804 the Tlingit lost a crucial battle to these invaders they called the Anooshee the Russians |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | MECCA & MEDINA $1000: This fundamentalist branch of Sunni Islam that now controls Medina first took it in 1804 the Wahhabis |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $1000: Usman Dan Fodio, founder of Africa's Sokoto caliphate, made an 1804 trip from Gobir to Gudu called this, like Muhammad's journey hegira |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | 5-LETTER COUNTRIES $400: Gaining independence in 1804, it was the second country in the Americas to free itself from colonial rule Haiti |
#8191, aired 2020-03-30 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $400: In June 1804 he demanded that Alexander Hamilton face the consequences of his "base slander" (Aaron) Burr |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | 3-WORD CITIES $200: Before it was renamed in 1804, this Haitian capital city was known as Port-Republicain Port-au-Prince |
#8124, aired 2019-12-26 | "B" MY BABY $400: Isaac & Maria D'Israeli welcomed this bundle of joy December 21, 1804 Benjamin Disraeli |
#8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: His story began in Salem, Mass. in 1804 & ended 60 years later during a trip to New Hampshire with Franklin Pierce Hawthorne |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $4,000 (Daily Double): The National Intelligencer, July 23, 1804: this man "disavows all motives of predetermined hostility" Aaron Burr |
#8017, aired 2019-06-18 | GRAPHIC NOVELS $800: "Manifest Destiny" follows these 2 explorers on their 1804 journey across America & their encounters with nasty beasties Lewis and Clark |
#7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): Born in Paris in 1804, she's known for her novels, her lovers & writing under a masculine name George Sand |
#7842, aired 2018-10-16 | IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY $2000: MapQuest really helped Lewis & Clark when they set out from this Midwest city on the Mississippi on May 14, 1804 St. Louis |
#7819, aired 2018-09-13 | AT 35 $400: He was 35 when he crowned himself emperor in 1804 Napoleon |
#7689, aired 2018-02-01 | CIVIL LAW $800: This 1804 code contained French civil law Napoleonic Code |
#7538, aired 2017-05-24 | WHO SAID WHAT? $1600: On his crowning in 1804:
"I am the successor not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne" Napoleon |
#7418, aired 2016-12-07 | ON THE MONEY $400: The loser of an 1804 duel the $10 bill |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | NAPOLEON $800: In 1804 France enacted the "Napoleonic" this, still the basis for much of its law the Code |
#7315, aired 2016-06-03 | TAROT CARDS $800: No. 4:
Napoleon, starting on Dec. 2, 1804 emperor |
#7296, aired 2016-05-09 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN $200: The compass seen here was used on this pair's 1804-1806 expedition Lewis & Clark |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | CITY WALK $800: On May 14, 1804 Lewis & Clark departed this city to begin their expedition to the Pacific Northwest St. Louis |
#7147, aired 2015-10-13 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II $400: Francis II, who became emperor of Austria in 1804, was also the last emperor of this the Holy Roman Empire |
#7095, aired 2015-06-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC ADJECTIVES $2,600 (Daily Double): An 1804 symphony is "heroic" or this in Italian Eroica |
#7084, aired 2015-06-04 | LET'S DUKE IT OUT $1200: Second Consul of the French Empire, the Duke de Parme helped draft this egalitarian (for males) 1804 code the Napoleonic Code |
#6993, aired 2015-01-28 | A MUSIC HISTORY TIMELINE $800: In 1804 Beethoven composed his 3rd symphony, "Eroica", which heralded the dawn of this musical period the Romantic period |
#6919, aired 2014-10-16 | ALEXANDER HAMILTON, GRUMPY GUY $200: Hamilton thwarted the ambitions of this longtime enemy several times; enough was enough on July 11, 1804 Aaron Burr |
#6880, aired 2014-07-11 | 7-11 $400: July 11, 1804:
He kills a man & doesn't mention it when he goes home to NYC & has breakfast with a cousin (Aaron) Burr |
#6808, aired 2014-04-02 | AMERICAN IDYLL $200: This New York spot became popular after Napoleon's brother Jerome & his American bride honeymooned there in 1804 Niagara Falls |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | WHERE WERE YOU & WHEN? $2000: Aaron Burr,
July 11, 1804:
crossing this river to go fight a duel the Hudson River |
#6752, aired 2014-01-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: In 2011 Oxford's Bodleian Library acquired her handwritten draft for "The Watsons", a novel begun around 1804 Jane Austen |
#6709, aired 2013-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY: THE FIRST 100 YEARS $200: In 1804 a newspaper reported that Alexander Hamilton called him "a dangerous man" Aaron Burr |
#6664, aired 2013-08-01 | THIS & THAT $1000: After a deadly duel in 1804, this vice president fled to Philadelphia to escape arrest Aaron Burr |
#6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $400: World population hit 1 billion in this early 19th Century year that Thomas Jefferson was re-elected president 1804 |
#6618, aired 2013-05-29 | WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE $1600: We're meeting in this SW Iowa city named for a meeting between Otoes & the Lewis & Clark Expedition in 1804 Council Bluffs |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | FILL THE PRESCRIPTION $600: This extremely addictive pain-relieving drug was isolated from opium around 1804 morphine |
#6514, aired 2013-01-03 | CEMETERIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Soon after this cemetery opened in 1804, the remains of Moliere & others were moved to it, lending a bit of prestige the Père Lachaise |
#6491, aired 2012-12-03 | MILITARY MITE $800: Between 1799 & 1804, he lowered the French army's minimum height from 5'4" to 5'1" Napoléon |
#6423, aired 2012-07-18 | BEGINS & ENDS IN "K" $200: "Bear" down now--this Alaskan island was headquarters of the Russian-American Company until 1804 Kodiak |
#6340, aired 2012-03-23 | AUTHORS WITH MASS. APPEAL $800: Born July 4, 1804 in Salem, he added a w to his last name when he began publishing (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
#6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POTPOURRI $1200: In 1804 Andrew Jackson bought the Hermitage, his home & refuge in this state Tennessee |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1200: On Feb. 15, 1804 New Jersey became the last northern state to do this outlaw slavery |
#6195, aired 2011-07-15 | EMPIRE FALLS $4,600 (Daily Double): On May 28, 1804 he proclaimed what became known as the First Empire Napoleon |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | U.S. HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Returning from their 1804 through 1805 expedition, these two men split up: one sought a shortcut from the mountains to the Missouri; the other explored the Yellowstone River Lewis & Clark |
#6048, aired 2010-12-22 | LIFE IS SHORT $2000: This German epistemological philosopher who lived from 1724 to 1804 was categorically, exactly 5' tall (Immanuel) Kant |
#6017, aired 2010-11-09 | NOTABLE NAMES $800: During a trip to Europe in 1804, this South American liberator vowed to fight for independence from Spain Bolívar |
#5991, aired 2010-10-04 | MIXING APPLES & ORANGES $200: An apple & a crossbow play important roles in this 1804 Schiller tale William Tell |
#5952, aired 2010-06-29 | NOTRE DAME $600: In 1431 Notre Dame held the coronation of King Henry VI & in 1804, the coronation of this man Napoleon Bonaparte |
#5905, aired 2010-04-23 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, one of his ancestors was a judge at the Salem Witchcraft Trials in 1692 (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
#5781, aired 2009-11-02 | EXPLORATION $3,000 (Daily Double): Lewis & Clark began their expedition on May 14, 1804 by traveling up this river on a keelboat the Missouri |
#5641, aired 2009-03-02 | GENESIS $600: This duo's expedition began in Missouri in May of 1804; they got back 2 years later Lewis & Clark |
#5539, aired 2008-10-09 | DON'T SAY THE L-WORD $200: He co-led an 1804 expedition to explore the Pacific Northwest Clark |
#5514, aired 2008-07-24 | A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND $400: In 1804 French jeweler Marie-Etienne Nitot designed a sword that featured the Regent Diamond for this emperor Napoléon |
#5498, aired 2008-07-02 | MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU $1600: This "venerable" elite fighting force created in 1804 made Napoleon's last charge at Waterloo the Old Guard |
#5440, aired 2008-04-11 | THIS & THAT $800: On Feb. 16, 1804, in a daring act, this U.S. naval officer destroyed a frigate that Tripoli pirates had captured Stephen Decatur |
#5423, aired 2008-03-19 | SIMON BOLIVAR $800: With no help from the U.S., Simon turned for aid to this Caribbean nation that threw out the French in 1804 Haiti |
#5308, aired 2007-10-10 | HOW PRECIOUS! $800: A dollar dated 1804 made of this metal is now worth over a million dollars silver |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION $400: From October 1804 to April 1805 this pair camped in N.D. with the Mandan Indians before heading west to Oregon Lewis and Clark |
#5253, aired 2007-06-13 | CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS $200: Weehawken, site of an 1804 political duel, is in this state's 13th, represented by Albio Sires New Jersey |
#5238, aired 2007-05-23 | AMERICAN POLITICAL IDOL $400: In 1804 this guy killed a political foe with one shot in New Jersey... You're the V.P., not Tony Soprano! Act like it! Aaron Burr |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | 10 DOWNING STREET $2000: Styled "the younger", this youngest-ever British PM lived at No. 10 1783-1801 & again 1804-06 (William) Pitt |
#5187, aired 2007-03-13 | HISTORIC AMERICA $800: July 4 is a red-letter day at this author's birthplace in Salem, Mass.; that's the day he was born in 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#5159, aired 2007-02-01 | PISTOLS $2,000 (Daily Double): Prominent pair who dueled with pistols on July 11, 1804 Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr |
#5093, aired 2006-11-01 | IDENTITY THEFT $200: On Dec. 2, 1804 Regis Philbin crowned himself Emperor of France Napoleon |
#5055, aired 2006-07-28 | THAT'S POLITICS $200: In July 1804 in the same N.J. place where his son had died in a duel 3 years before, he did not take aim; oops (Alexander) Hamilton |
#5045, aired 2006-07-14 | ART-FULL $400: As official battle painter to this emperor, Antoine-Jean Gros painted "The Plague at Jaffa" in 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte |
#4946, aired 2006-02-27 | LEWIS & CLARK $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands next to a covered pile of crates in the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, Oregon.) A 5,000-sq.-ft. exhibit at the Columbia Gorge Museum shows the 30 tons of cargo Lewis & Clark took when setting out from this city in 1804 St. Louis |
#4924, aired 2006-01-26 | A DATE WITH HISTORY $800: On Jan. 1, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed this current nation independent Haiti |
#4921, aired 2006-01-23 | TEXTILES $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the goods from the NC State University's College of Textiles.) This 2004 model loom still uses a method of controlling individual yarns based on the one developed in 1804 by this French loom inventor Jacquard |
#4920, aired 2006-01-20 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: In 1804 fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau made her his wife Sacagawea |
#4889, aired 2005-12-08 | "J" WALKING THROUGH HISTORY $200: On Dec. 1, 1804 this Martinique-born beauty & an emperor-to-be had their second wedding Napoleon & Josephine |
#4766, aired 2005-05-02 | PHILOSOPHERS $1200: It may defy pure reason, but this philosopher seen here spent his whole life, 1724 to 1804, in Koenigsburg in East Prussia Kant |
#4738, aired 2005-03-23 | NATURE POETRY $800: Around 1804, this poet wrote of being lonely until he saw a mess of flowers like those shown Wordsworth |
#4718, aired 2005-02-23 | FURNITURE $800: Empire, the first major style of the 1800s, originated in this country during its First Empire, 1804-1814 France |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | AMERICANA $800: On May 14, 1804 this duo's Corps of Discovery started up the Missouri on a fact-finding mission Lewis & Clark |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | 1804 $200: This inventor's Feb. 7, 1804 birth made William & Sarah his plowed, er, proud parents John Deere |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | 1804 $400: In 1804 Rhode Island College was renamed this Brown |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | 1804 $600: Napoleon, who once remarked, "It is with baubles that men are led", presided over the first presentation of this in 1804 Legion of Honor |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | 1804 $800: A 2004 biography of this president born November 23, 1804 is subtitled "New Hampshire's Favorite Son" Franklin Pierce |
#4656, aired 2004-11-29 | 1804 $1,600 (Daily Double): This British chemist took his last breath of oxygen Feb. 6, 1804 (Joseph) Priestley |
#4617, aired 2004-10-05 | IN THE SMITHSONIAN $600: In 1933 Miss Mary McCabe donated the compass this pair used between 1804 & 1806 Lewis & Clark |
#4616, aired 2004-10-04 | AARON BURR $600: The man he went to New Jersey to meet on July 11, 1804 Hamilton |
#4616, aired 2004-10-04 | HOMOPHONIC NAMES $1200: A critiquer of pure reason who died in 1804, or a response indicating you're unable to grasp his philosophy Kant (or can't) |
#4434, aired 2003-12-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In June 1804 he wrote Alexander Hamilton for an explanation on some alleged slurs made on his character Aaron Burr |
#4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Years of political rivalry led to the July 11, 1804 duel between these 2 men Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr |
#4384, aired 2003-10-02 | WAYNE MAN $1000: Before the 1804 Lewis & Clark expedition, William Clark served as an Army officer under this "crazy" General Mad Anthony Wayne |
#4378, aired 2003-09-24 | EARLY U.S. $1600: In March 1804 Lewis & Clark were in this city ready to leave on their expedition when it became part of the U.S. St. Louis |
#4375, aired 2003-09-19 | WAY OUT WEST $200: This pair's 1804-06 "Expedition" handed out certificates to Indian chiefs they found hospitable Lewis & Clark |
#4374, aired 2003-09-18 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: 1804:
His first novel was "Fanshawe" & his last was "The Marble Faun" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#4367, aired 2003-09-09 | ISLANDS OF THE WEST INDIES $2000: This country has been independent since 1804, making it the 2nd-oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere Haiti |
#4351, aired 2003-06-30 | HISTORY $200: On December 2, 1804 this man crowned himself emperor Napoleon Bonaparte |
#4332, aired 2003-06-03 | BIOGRAPHY $400: Born in the West Indies in the 1750s, got involved in money matters, fatally wounded in a duel in 1804 Alexander Hamilton |
#4307, aired 2003-04-29 | JUST MARRIED $200: In 1804 Napoleon's brother Jerome & his Baltimore-bred bride honeymooned at this upstate New York site Niagara Falls |
#4265, aired 2003-02-28 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $200: Since 1804 the presidential inaugural parade has traveled up this street from the Capitol to the White House Pennsylvania Avenue |
#4225, aired 2003-01-03 | NAPOLEON'S RESUME $800: Awards & Honors:
Consecrated emperor December 2, 1804 by the man in this post pope |
#4196, aired 2002-11-25 | IRIDIUM $400: British chemist Smithson Tennant did it in 1804 discovered iridium |
#4159, aired 2002-10-03 | PORTS $600: Until Haiti became independent, this "Port" served as the capital of the colony of Saint-Domingue from 1770 to 1804 Port-au-Prince |
#4096, aired 2002-05-27 | DUELS $400: In 1804, 3 years after his son had been killed in a duel, this man was fatally shot on the same spot by Aaron Burr Alexander Hamilton |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | BAD NEWS $400: In 1804 it took just one economical shot by Aaron Burr to kill this ex-Treasury Secretary Hamilton |
#4011, aired 2002-01-28 | AMERICANA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from on a paddle-wheel boat.) While minister to France (1801-1804) Robert Livingston partnered up with this American to develop a paddle-wheel steamboat Robert Fulton |
#3945, aired 2001-10-26 | PHYSICISTS $200: In 1804 Joseph Gay-Lussac went up, up & away in one of these to research the atmosphere balloon |
#3941, aired 2001-10-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In a famous duel July 11, 1804 he deliberately misfired; his opponent didn't Alexander Hamilton |
#3928, aired 2001-10-03 | "HAM" IMPROVEMENT $500: Seen here, he died tragically on July 12, 1804 Alexander Hamilton |
#3922, aired 2001-09-25 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300 (Daily Double): In 1804 this man crowned himself Emperor of France Napoleon |
#3874, aired 2001-06-07 | IT'S ALL POLITICS $200: In July 1804 Alexander Hamilton ended up on the losing end of a duel with this politician Aaron Burr |
#3854, aired 2001-05-10 | 1801-1810 $200: In October 1804 Lewis & Clark prepared to spend the first winter of their trip near this present-day N.D. capital Bismarck |
#3854, aired 2001-05-10 | 1801-1810 $400: In 1804, under Dessalines, this island nation proclaimed itself the first black republic Haiti |
#3833, aired 2001-04-11 | EXPLORERS $200: Lewis & Clark began their trip by heading up this river May 14, 1804 Missouri |
#3736, aired 2000-11-27 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $1000: This future president must have made Dad proud with 1804's "Letters on Silesia" John Quincy Adams |
#3569, aired 2000-02-24 | GERMAN LITERATURE $200: Friedrich Von Schiller, of "Ode To Joy" fame, is famous for an 1804 tale about this archer William Tell |
#3556, aired 2000-02-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: He's the emperor portrayed here in 1804, clad in his elaborate coronation dress: Napoleon Bonaparte |
#3519, aired 1999-12-16 | DISCOVERY CHANNEL $100: En route to the Pacific from 1804 to 1806, this duo's expedition sang, played music & danced with the Indians they met Lewis & Clark |
#3483, aired 1999-10-27 | COLLEGE FOLK $100: Rhode Island College was renamed this in 1804 after a colorful grad of the Class of 1786 Brown University |
#3473, aired 1999-10-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1804 Justice Samuel Chase was impeached for comments critical of this president's administration Thomas Jefferson |
#3467, aired 1999-10-05 | SALEM $600 (Daily Double): It was a red letter day when this author was born in Salem July 4, 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#3426, aired 1999-06-28 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $200: From 1798 to 1804 this seventh president served as a judge on Tennessee's Superior Court Andrew Jackson |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $400 (Daily Double): The Elder,
1766-1768;
The Younger,
1783-1801,
1804-1806 William Pitt |
#3367, aired 1999-04-06 | NAMES IN THE LAW $200: The civil code set up in France in 1804 is also known by this name Napoleonic Code |
#3366, aired 1999-04-05 | FAMOUS PARTNERS $200: Meriwether Lewis & this man led the Corps of Discovery from 1804 to 1806 William Clark |
#3257, aired 1998-11-03 | THE JEFFERSONS $800: The 1804 death of daughter Polly led Thomas to reconciliation with this family, Abigail first Adams |
#3222, aired 1998-09-15 | DEEP THINKERS $1000: One of the most important philosophers, he spent his entire life, 1724-1804, in Konigsberg, East Prussia Immanuel Kant |
#3213, aired 1998-07-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: He earned his captain's commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804 Stephen Decatur |
#3090, aired 1998-01-23 | TEAMMATES $500: On May 14, 1804 their team of soldiers, French boatmen & a servant started up the Missouri Lewis & Clark |
#3020, aired 1997-10-17 | THEATER ALFRESCO $200: Schiller's 1804 play about this hero is presented outdoors every summer in Interlaken, Switzerland William Tell |
#3013, aired 1997-10-08 | MEN BEHAVING BADLY $100: In an 1804 duel Aaron Burr shot this man who had insulted him Hamilton |
#2992, aired 1997-09-09 | HISTORY $400: Jean Jacques Dessalines, brought to this island country as a slave, declared its independence in 1804 Haiti |
#2956, aired 1997-06-09 | "SAINT"LY CITIES $500: In 1804 this city became the seat of government of the Louisiana Territory Saint Louis |
#2915, aired 1997-04-11 | THE CABINET $800: From 1801 to 1804 Levi Lincoln was Attorney General; from 1881 to 1885 this Lincoln was Secretary of War Robert Lincoln |
#2874, aired 1997-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: From 1804 to 1806 this pair explored the area between the Mississippi River & the mouth of the Columbia River Lewis & Clark |
#2845, aired 1997-01-03 | HISTORY $600: In 1804 this city changed from the capital of the colony of St.-Domingue to the capital of Haiti Port-au-Prince |
#2838, aired 1996-12-25 | EXPLORERS $200: In 1804 this U.S. president hired George Hunter to explore the Red River Thomas Jefferson |
#2833, aired 1996-12-18 | HAITI $500: Made governor-general for life in January 1804, he declared himself emperor in September Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jean Jacques I) |
#2758, aired 1996-09-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Their famous duel took place on July 11, 1804 Burr & Hamilton |
#2747, aired 1996-07-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1804 Alexander Hamilton's derogatory remarks about this VP were published in a newspaper Aaron Burr |
#2723, aired 1996-06-05 | WORLD HISTORY $300: In 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines became the first president of this Caribbean nation Haiti |
#2706, aired 1996-05-13 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $200: The flag made its first crossing of the continent during this pair's 1804-06 expedition Lewis & Clark |
#2671, aired 1996-03-25 | TRANSPORTATION $400: The smokestack helped put this 1804 Richard Trevithick vehicle right on track the steam locomotive |
#2671, aired 1996-03-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: The name of this Iowa city refers to a meeting in 1804 between Indians & Lewis & Clark Council Bluffs |
#2614, aired 1996-01-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The steeple of this Boston church, where lanterns were hung April 18, 1775, blew down in 1804 the Old North Church |
#2583, aired 1995-11-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1804, this vice president ran for governor of New York, and lost Aaron Burr |
#2581, aired 1995-11-20 | EXPLORERS $200: They were the co-leaders of the Corps of Discovery that started up the Missouri River, May 14, 1804 Lewis & Clark |
#2564, aired 1995-10-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This Rhode Island Ivy League school was named for a donor who contributed $5,000 in 1804 Brown |
#2549, aired 1995-10-05 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1,000 (Daily Double): Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804 in this Massachusetts town Salem |
#2532, aired 1995-09-12 | THE 19th CENTURY $500: In 1804 the French colony of St. Domingue became this 2nd independent nation in the Americas Haiti |
#2490, aired 1995-06-02 | LETTERS $200: In June 1804 Aaron Burr sent him a letter which said, "You have invited the course I am about to pursue" Alexander Hamilton |
#2484, aired 1995-05-25 | CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS $1000: In 1804 he received a captain's commission for burning the Philadelphia in Tripoli's harbor Stephen Decatur |
#2442, aired 1995-03-28 | NORTH DAKOTA $300: A museum in Alexander has a scale model of Fort Mandan, where this duo spent the winter of 1804-05 Lewis & Clark |
#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 |
#2399, aired 1995-01-26 | NEBRASKA $200: In 1804 this pair became the first Americans to explore what became Nebraska Lewis & Clark |
#2350, aired 1994-11-18 | ART & ARTISTS $200: He commissioned Jacques-Louis David to paint his 1804 imperial coronation Napoleon Bonaparte |
#2341, aired 1994-11-07 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: His criticisms of Aaron Burr's character led to their fatal 1804 duel Alexander Hamilton |
#2319, aired 1994-10-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His novel "The Prairie" is set in 1804; Natty Bumppo is in his 80s James Fenimore Cooper |
#2246, aired 1994-05-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: While in Paris in 1804, this South American liberator attended Napoleon's coronation Simon Bolivar |
#2229, aired 1994-04-21 | EMPERORS $600: In 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines became Emperor Jacques I of this West Indies country Haiti |
#2222, aired 1994-04-12 | HISTORY $400: Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France in 1804 & king of this country in 1805 Italy |
#2183, aired 1994-02-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In July 1804 this vice president killed a man in a duel Aaron Burr |
#2148, aired 1993-12-29 | FRENCH HISTORY $200: Though revised, French civil law is still largely based on the code he enacted in 1804 Napoleon |
#2054, aired 1993-07-08 | BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY $200: He was born July 4, 1804 to Capt. & Mrs. Hathorne in Salem, Massachusetts Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#2050, aired 1993-07-02 | 30-SOMETHING $100: At age 33 in 1804, he started a new symphony, his 5th, with a Da-Da-Da-Duh Beethoven |
#2027, aired 1993-06-01 | NORTH DAKOTA $300: In 1804 this duo's expedition built Fort Mandan in North Dakota Lewis & Clark |
#2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Between 1804 & 1807, while Chief Justice, he published a 5-volume "Life of George Washington" (John) Marshall |
#1925, aired 1993-01-08 | CAPTAINS $800: Stephen Decatur won a captaincy in 1804 during the war against these pirates the Barbary Pirates |
#1881, aired 1992-11-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Beethoven originally dedicated his 1804 "Eroica" symphony to this world leader Napoleon |
#1856, aired 1992-10-05 | TELL $1000: This German cut down on the Sturm und Drang a bit for his 1804 play about the Tell legend (Friedrich) Schiller |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | WOMEN'S RIGHTS $1000: His 1804 code said under law women were dependents of their fathers or husbands & had no rights Napoleon |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | WORLD HISTORY $200: In 1804 Haiti declared its independence from this country France |
#1755, aired 1992-03-27 | U.S. STATES $200: From 1804 to 1812, this state was known as the Territory of Orleans Louisiana |
#1749, aired 1992-03-19 | COAL $200: In 1804 this pair made the first report of a coal discovery west of the Mississippi Lewis & Clark |
#1748, aired 1992-03-18 | THE GREAT LAKES $1000: The lakes' first lighthouse was built in 1804 at Mississauga Point on this lake Ontario |
#1732, aired 1992-02-25 | FAMOUS JOHNS $100: In 1804 this ornithologist became the first known person to band birds John Audubon |
#1688, aired 1991-12-25 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: While vice president in 1804, he was indicted for murder in New York & New Jersey Aaron Burr |
#1646, aired 1991-10-28 | AMERICANA $100: His family supplied the dueling pistols used July 11, 1804 by himself & Burr (Alexander) Hamilton |
#1586, aired 1991-06-24 | LAW $300: From its start in 1789 to 1804, the U.S. Supreme Court consisted of judges from this party Federalist |
#1555, aired 1991-05-10 | MAY $100: This pair set out west from St. Louis May 14, 1804 Lewis & Clark |
#1517, aired 1991-03-19 | PARKS $1000: A park in this Alaskan city commemorates the Tlingit Indians' 1804 stand against Russian settlers Sitka |
#1486, aired 1991-02-04 | FAMOUS QUOTES $400: When crowned in 1804, he told the Pope, "I am the successor of Louis XIV, not Charlemagne" Napoleon |
#1480, aired 1991-01-25 | WORLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Former slave Jean-Jacque Dessalines ruled this country as emperor Jacque I from 1804-1806 Haiti |
#1473, aired 1991-01-16 | DUELING $200 (Daily Double): In 1804, this state hosted the Hamilton-Burr duel New Jersey |
#1400, aired 1990-10-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1804, while still vice president, he ran for governor of New York & lost (Aaron) Burr |
#1391, aired 1990-09-24 | EXPLORERS $200: Congress appropriated just $2,500 to finance their 1804 expedition Lewis & Clark |
#1320, aired 1990-05-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: He died in 1804 the day after his duel with Aaron Burr Alexander Hamilton |
#1296, aired 1990-04-02 | ANDREW JACKSON $200: In 1804 & again in 1837 Jackson retired from public life to this estate The Hermitage |
#1174, aired 1989-10-12 | THE SUPREME COURT $600: In 1804 justice Samuel Chase was impeached for statements made against this president's administration Thomas Jefferson |
#1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in this man's losing the 1804 race for governor of N.Y. Aaron Burr |
#784, aired 1988-01-21 | FRENCH ROYALTY $400: This code was enacted in 1804, the 1st year its namesake was emperor Napoleon |
#661, aired 1987-06-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $100: Born in Vienna in 1804, his creations include at least 13 polkas, 24 galops, 136 waltzes & 1 Johann Jr. Johann Strauss Sr. |
#611, aired 1987-04-13 | FAMOUS NAPOLEONS $500: In 1804, this man crowned Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French Napoleon Bonaparte |
#563, aired 1987-02-04 | PENNSYLVANIA $1000: Discoverer of oxygen, he breathed his last in Pennsylvania in 1804 Joseph Priestley |
#407, aired 1986-04-01 | AUTOMOBILES $100: In 1804, Oliver Evans built a passenger vehicle in the U.S. powered by this steam |
#395, aired 1986-03-14 | EUROPE $1000: In 1804, the world's 1st steam locomotive pulled a train loaded w/coal from a mine in this country Wales |
#309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: In 1804, this merchant got Rhode Island College to rename itself after him by donating $5000 (Nicholas) Brown |
#278, aired 1985-10-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Though he said he found dueling abhorrent, he participated in one in 1804 Alexander Hamilton |
#275, aired 1985-09-27 | TRANSPORTATION $300: In 1804, this inventor's steamboat made its debut on the Seine in France Fulton |
#148, aired 1985-04-03 | ROYALTY $600: Taking the crown from the Pope, he crowned himself emperor in 1804 Napoleon |