#2, aired 2024-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America MIT |
#8602, aired 2022-03-22 | 1860s AMERICA $400: This company, founded in 1865, began making iconic hats like the ones seen here & still does today Stetson |
#8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Liz Cho from ABC 7.) Mosaics in Ulysses S. Grant's New York City tomb depict the greatest moments in the general's career including the April 1865 surrender of Robert E. Lee at this Virginia site Appomattox |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $400: In this year our Civil War ended, South America was just beginning the War of the Triple Alliance 1865 |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On "Juneteenth", June 19 of this year, the remaining slaves in the U.S. learned that the North had won the Civil War 1865 |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | 1865 AMERICA $400: On July 21, 1865 this "wild" gunslinger & Dave Tutt engaged in what is regarded as the first true western showdown Bill Hickok |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | 1865 AMERICA $800: James H. Nason patented this type of coffee maker in which hot water flows through a tube to filter the grounds a percolator |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | 1865 AMERICA $1600: With $100 & 10 gallons of gumption, he founded his own hat company in Philadelphia (John) Stetson |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | 1865 AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): This agency was founded in 1865 to suppress counterfeit currency the Secret Service |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | 1865 AMERICA $2000: This 1865 children's story included such chapters as "Holland", "On the Canal" & "The Race" Hans Brinker |
#6594, aired 2013-04-25 | THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA $800: One of the Civil War's last battles was fought in May 1865 near the mouth of the Rio Grande in this state Texas |
#6069, aired 2011-01-20 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800 (Daily Double): Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
#5604, aired 2009-01-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Henry Wirz, the commandant of this infamous prison, was executed for war crimes in 1865 Andersonville |
#5561, aired 2008-11-10 | AMERICA IN THE 1800s $800: Edward Doherty commanded the cavalry unit that captured this assassin in 1865 John Wilkes Booth |
#4523, aired 2004-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: From 1831 to 1865 William Lloyd Garrison published this crusading journal The Liberator |
#4388, aired 2003-10-08 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: Including Lee's surrender, in a current title it was "The Month That Saved America" April 1865 |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | AMERICA SINCE 1865 $200: On August 26, 1958 it voted by a 5-1 margin for statehood Alaska |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | AMERICA SINCE 1865 $400: On January 20, 1997 he said, "At this last presidential inauguration of the twentieth century..." Bill Clinton |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | AMERICA SINCE 1865 $500 (Daily Double): On June 17, 1972 5 were arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ in this Washington, D.C. apartment complex the Watergate building |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | AMERICA SINCE 1865 $600: (Hi, I'm Christine King Farris) In Oslo, Norway, in 1964, my brother became the youngest recipient of this Nobel Peace Prize |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | AMERICA SINCE 1865 $800: On May 21, 1927 this American landed in Paris & was welcomed by a crowd of about 100,000 Charles Lindbergh |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This writ was suspended in 1861 & restored December 1, 1865 habeas corpus |
#2514, aired 1995-07-06 | ENGINEERING $600: Built in 1865, America's first successful oil pipeline was 2" wide & traveled 5 miles in this state Pennsylvania |
#1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In February 1865 this Confederate vice president met with Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference (Alexander) Stephens |
#1724, aired 1992-02-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The 13th Amendment, abolishing this, took effect Dec. 18, 1865 slavery |
#1665, aired 1991-11-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $400: Ezra Cornell, who endowed a university in 1865, was the chief stockholder in this telegraph co. Western Union |
#1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: On September 19, 1865 he received a patent for his sleeping car George Pullman |