Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (224 results returned)

#9019, aired 2024-01-18THE WRITER'S STRIKE $2000: The striking miners have the sympathy of this French realist author in his 1885 novel "Germinal" Émile Zola
#2, aired 2024-01-12KIDDY LIT $200: This 1885 book is subtitled "Tom Sawyer's Comrade" Huckleberry Finn
#8998, aired 2023-12-20QUITE A SITE $200: Dynamite was used for 90% of the carving of this South Dakota landmark named for a New York lawyer in 1885 Mount Rushmore
#8983, aired 2023-11-29FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $2000: On July 23, 1885 just days after completing his memoirs, he died of cancer at his New York home Ulysses S. Grant
#8922, aired 2023-07-25JUST GOOGLY IT $1000: All eyes were on him when he gave his first presidential inaugural address in 1885 Grover Cleveland
#8903, aired 2023-06-28GEOGRAPHY "B" $2000: The Admiralty Islands were under German control from about 1885 until 1914, along with the rest of this sea in the southwest Pacific the Bismarck Sea
#8868, aired 2023-05-10BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $400: He published "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1885, a year before his novel "Kidnapped" (Robert Louis) Stevenson
#8785, aired 2023-01-13A SIDE OF FABERGÉ EGGS $600: Made in 1885, the egg seen here has a yolk that held this 3-letter creature with its own ruby pendant egg a hen
#8698, aired 2022-09-14PRIMING THE PUMP $2000: The first fuel pump in the U.S. was installed in Fort Wayne in 1885; it supplied this oil used mainly for lamps kerosene
#8606, aired 2022-03-28THE 1880s $400: Louis Riel led the 1885 North-West Rebellion, an unsuccessful effort to halt the expansion of this country Canada
#8606, aired 2022-03-28THE 1880s $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1885 the British captured Mandalay, ending the Konbaung Dynasty & the independence of this country Burma
#8547, aired 2022-01-04FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $800: In 1885 he was allowed to leave the Standing Rock Lakota Reservation to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Sitting Bull
#8488, aired 2021-10-13DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $3,000 (Daily Double): Moraine Lake is in this national park established in 1885 as Canada's very first Banff
#8471, aired 2021-09-20BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: An H. Rider Haggard novel from 1885 saw Allan Quatermain looking for this king's mines Solomon
#8323, aired 2021-01-27BOOKS BY PRESIDENTS $3,400 (Daily Double): His "Personal Memoirs", completed before his death in 1885 & "dedicated to the American soldier and sailor" (General) Ulysses S. Grant
#8307, aired 2021-01-05MAPS $1000: An 1885 map with sections like "Chickasaw Nation" & "Osages" shows why what's now this state was known as Indian Territory Oklahoma
#8, aired 2020-01-14WELCOME BACK BOYS! $200: Inconsistently consistent, he took the oath of office on March 4, 1885 & was back for more on March 4, 1893 Grover Cleveland
#8134, aired 2020-01-09MAGAZINE COLLECTION $1000: Founded in 1885, this magazine established an institute to test consumer goods, which might get its seal of approval Good Housekeeping
#8062, aired 2019-10-01CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Kris Radcliffe from KCEN 6.) In 1885, shortly after the Waco Suspension Bridge opened, pharmacist Charles Alderton created a soda locals call a "Waco"; we now know it as this, & for the record it contains no prune juice Dr Pepper
#8014, aired 2019-06-13RELIGION $1600: Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania was founded in 1885 by a member of this religious faith the Quakers
#7999, aired 2019-05-23MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $2000: The musical "Big River" was inspired by this novel first published in the U.S. in 1885 Huckleberry Finn
#7928, aired 2019-02-13THE IDES OF FEBRUARY $600: This future First Lady was born in Independence, Missouri February 13, 1885 Bess Truman
#7918, aired 2019-01-30FRENCH MUSIC ABOUT SPAIN $1600: Massenet's opera about this medieval Spanish hero premiered in 1885 with "Le", not "El", in the title El Cid
#7903, aired 2019-01-09THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Seen as obscene, Richard Burton's 1885 version of this book of Mideast fables was published with major cuts The Arabian Nights
#7834, aired 2018-10-04AUTHORS BORN & DIED $600: Born in Denmark in 1885, she went into Africa in 1914 & out of this world Sept. 7, 1962 (Isak) Dinesen
#7802, aired 2018-07-10LITERARY TYPES $2,000 (Daily Double): In Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a street (not Main Street), is named for this author born there in 1885 Sinclair Lewis
#7776, aired 2018-06-04LOOKIN' BACK TEXAS $200: This "medicinal" soft drink was created in 1885 at Morrison's old corner drugstore in Waco Dr. Pepper
#7670, aired 2018-01-05BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $400: Poor grammar was one reason the Concord, Mass. library banned this Twain novel 1 month after it was published in 1885 Huckleberry Finn
#7536, aired 2017-05-22RUSSIAN CULTURE $800: Made of gold & enamel, the hen egg was the first of some 50 creations he produced for the imperial family beginning in 1885 (Peter Carl) Fabergé
#7440, aired 2017-01-06U.S. MILITARY MEN $800: More than a million people attended his 1885 funeral in NYC & in 1897 a million attended the dedication of his tomb Ulysses S. Grant
#7357, aired 2016-09-13SUDAN IMPACT $400: British general Charles Gordon & many others died in the 1885 siege of this Sudanese city Khartoum
#7327, aired 2016-06-21FAMOUS ELEPHANTS $2000: After this elephant was killed in a railyard accident in 1885, P.T. Barnum continued to exhibit his skeleton Jumbo
#7207, aired 2016-01-05BARONS & BARONESSES $1000: In 1885 Nathan of this banking family became the first Jewish member of Britain's House of Lords Rothschild
#7145, aired 2015-10-09SCIENTISTS $1200: In 1885 young Joseph Meister was the first person on whom this man used his rabies vaccine Pasteur
#7143, aired 2015-10-07I PREDICT YOU'RE WRONG $400: Rockefeller's partner John Archbold sold at a loss in 1885, saying he'd drink all of this produced west of the Mississippi oil
#7087, aired 2015-06-09COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $2,000 (Daily Double): This Pennsylvania college opened its doors for women in 1885 but seems to frown upon the use of excessive vowels Bryn Mawr
#7053, aired 2015-04-22AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he died in 1951 near Rome Sinclair Lewis
#7044, aired 2015-04-09AMERICAN ARTISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): His 1885 work "The Fog Warning" shows a lone New England fisherman rowing a dory Winslow Homer
#7026, aired 2015-03-1619th C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $800: In 1885 bartender Harry Tammen & lottery promoter F.G. Bonfils founded this rival of the Rocky Mountain News The Denver Post
#6956, aired 2014-12-08POST OFFICE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the U.S. Post Office in Chicago, IL.) In 1885, it cost 2 cents to mail a letter; today, it's 49 cents--a 2,350% increase, but still a bargain, & any future increases will be indexed to this economic factor inflation
#6953, aired 2014-12-03CALIFORNIA $200: The oldest art museum in the western U.S., the Crocker Art Museum, opened in this state capital in 1885 Sacramento
#6898, aired 2014-09-17MILITARY FIRSTS $1600: The digger hat is synonymous with this nation's army, which first wore it in 1885 Australia
#6766, aired 2014-02-03BORN IN THE USA $1000: New York City, 1885: This "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" composer Jerome Kern
#6579, aired 2013-04-04MANHATTAN PROJECTS $1000: James Renwick designed this Gothic Roman Catholic church; the twin spires cost $200,000 & were added in 1885 St. Patrick's Cathedral
#6519, aired 2013-01-10VICTOR HUGO $800: After Hugo's death on May 22, 1885, his body lay in state for one night under this Paris landmark Arc de Triomphe
#6510, aired 2012-12-28VAN GOGH $2000: Van Gogh wrote that this 1885 painting of 5 peasants having dinner "is the best of all my work" The Potato Eaters
#6427, aired 2012-07-24NOTABLE NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Mark Twain published this man's memoirs in 1885 & called them "the best of any general's since Caesar" (Ulysses) Grant
#6351, aired 2012-04-09BUSINESS LETTERS $400: When incorporated in 1885, AT&T stood for this American Telephone & Telegraph
#6320, aired 2012-02-24HISTORIC LETTERS $1000: In 1885 he wrote to his father, "I am convinced that I could run a newspaper successfully"; he was right! (William Randolph) Hearst
#6295, aired 2012-01-20"U-R" THERE $1600: In 1989, the Union of this, it's official English name since 1885, was changed to the Union of Myanmar Burma
#6210, aired 2011-09-23MEDICAL MILESTONES $800: News of his rabies vaccine spread throughout the world after it proved successful in 1885 (Louis) Pasteur
#6165, aired 2011-06-03THE CHICAGO CODE $800: The 1893 novel "The Cliff-Dwellers" centers on this type of high-rise structure; Chi-town's first was completed in 1885 a skyscraper
#5994, aired 2010-10-07THE GREAT SEAL OF THE U.S. $800: The Great Seal in use today was engraved from an 1885 master made by this NYC jewelry firm Tiffany & Co.
#5989, aired 2010-09-30BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $1600: Great Dane born Oct. 7, 1885, built atomic models, died Nov. 18, 1962 (Niels) Bohr
#5988, aired 2010-09-29THE DOCTOR IS IN $400: This soft drink has been around since 1885--that makes it 125 Dr Pepper
#5900, aired 2010-04-16MOUNT RUSHMORE $400: Mount Rushmore is named for Charles Rushmore, a lawyer sent to check on land ownership in 1885 in what's now this state South Dakota
#5882, aired 2010-03-23PHONING IT IN $800: Reflecting the company's activities at its founding in 1885, it was the second "T" in AT&T Telegraph
#5805, aired 2009-12-04AMERICANA $200: In 1885 America got its first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, in this "Windy City" Chicago
#5764, aired 2009-10-08DUTCH & FLEMISH PAINTERS $400: He painted his first major work, "The Potato Eaters", in 1885 while living with his parents in Nuenen Van Gogh
#5723, aired 2009-06-24"BOT" OF COURSE $400: In 1885 Britain established this nation as a protectorate Botswana
#5693, aired 2009-05-13SCIENTISTS $1600: In 1885 he left Edison because he was refused a raise to $25 a week; 6 years later, he invented his coil Tesla
#5621, aired 2009-02-02THE 1880s $600: In 1885 Tiffany's revised the design of this: it's still seen on the reverse of the U.S. $1 bill the Great Seal
#5621, aired 2009-02-02THE 1880s $1000: This writer was born on Feb. 7, 1885 in Sauk Center, Minn. --perhaps on the town's "Main Street" Sinclair Lewis
#5599, aired 2009-01-01A LITTLE "B" BOP $1000: Established in Alberta in 1885, it's Canada's oldest national park Banff
#5589, aired 2008-12-18NOVELIST/POETS $800: A specialist in action-packed young people's novels, in 1885 he put out the quiet "A Child's Garden of Verses" Robert Louis Stevenson
#5552, aired 2008-10-28CRAYOLA: A COLORFUL HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands with machinery at the Crayola Museum & Factory in Easton, PA.) Edwin Binney & this cousin of his began their partnership in 1885 to sell carbon black & other pigments; Crayolas didn't come until 1903 (Harold) Smith
#5416, aired 2008-03-10WORD"Z" $3,000 (Daily Double): Last name of German engineer Karl, who in 1885 developed a 3-wheeled vehicle called the Motorwagen Benz
#5304, aired 2007-10-04DOG TAGS $1000: Born 1885, San Gabriel, Calif.; military pooch: Willie (aka William the Conqueror), a bull terrier (he never slapped him) Gen. George Patton
#5303, aired 2007-10-03U.S. CITY HISTORY $1200: It was Arizona's territorial capital from 1867 to 1877, & a university was founded there in 1885 Tucson
#5298, aired 2007-09-2619th CENTURY MEDICINE $200: In 1885 the first successful vaccine for this was tested on a boy who had been bitten by a dog rabies
#5296, aired 2007-09-24ID CARDS $1600: This controversial poet was born in Hailey in 1885 & later broadcast propaganda in WWII Ezra Pound
#5251, aired 2007-06-11MORTAL MATTERS $2000: Once fired by Lincoln, this Union General took a New Jersey exit on Oct. 29, 1885 (George) McClellan
#5245, aired 2007-06-01PART-LY CORRECT $1600: An 1885 British-German agreement dividing up part of Africa was the first to refer to these "of influence" spheres of influence
#5235, aired 2007-05-18WORLD HISTORY $1200: In 1885 this country's Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his own personal property Belgium
#5222, aired 2007-05-01THEATRE HISTORY $800: The students who founded this univ.'s Dramatic Society in 1885 included a future Archbishop of Canterbury Oxford
#5205, aired 2007-04-06I DO IMPRESSIONISTS $800: More a Neo-Impressionist, he painted Pointillist seascapes at Normandy each summer between 1885 & 1889 (Georges) Seurat
#5195, aired 2007-03-23AFRICAN CITIES $400: This Sudanese capital was destroyed by the Mahdists in 1885; Lord Kitchener began to rebuild it in 1898 Khartoum
#5180, aired 2007-03-02WHAT A BOHR! $400: Bohr was born in Oct. 1885 in this capital, where his father was a professor of physiology Copenhagen
#5041, aired 2006-07-10PHOTOGRAPHY $600: This businessman revolutionized photography in 1885 by selling roll film using a paper base George Eastman
#5029, aired 2006-06-22PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS $1000: In his 1885 inaugural address he said that "Every voter... exercises a public trust" Grover Cleveland
#5028, aired 2006-06-21PAINTERS $1200: The title of his 1885 work "Halibut Fishing" was changed to the more familiar title "Fog Warning" years later Winslow Homer
#5018, aired 2006-06-07THE DEADFUL GREAT $800: The self-penned epitaph of this president who died on July 23, 1885 reads, "Let us have peace" (Ulysses) Grant
#4944, aired 2006-02-23LESSER-KNOWN FOLKS $600: In 1885 Frank Ball found the patent had expired on the glass jars named for this man, so he began making them Mason
#4925, aired 2006-01-27BOTANY $800: In 1885 this horticulturist bought a farm in Sebastopol, California for his plant-breeding activities Luther Burbank
#4910, aired 2006-01-06TURKMENISTAN, MY LOVE $800: Between 1865 & 1885 this empire took over Turkmenistan the Russian Empire
#4894, aired 2005-12-15A FOXY CATEGORY $400: It follows "fox" in the name of a wire or smooth dog whose specialty club was founded in 1885 terrier
#4802, aired 2005-06-21WHAT'S UP, DUCK? $1000: This controversial social drama by Henrik Ibsen premiered in Norway in 1885 The Wild Duck
#4754, aired 2005-04-14"Z" BREEZE $1200: Between 1883 & 1885 Nietzsche turned out a 4-part work about this wandering teacher Zarathustra
#4750, aired 2005-04-08JON STEWART'S AMERICA $1000: 1885 "last words" from this president: "Bury me next to my wife. But nothing too fancy" Grant
#4722, aired 2005-03-01MEDICAL MILESTONES $200: In 1885, a French boy who'd been bitten by a dog got the first inoculation against this rabies
#4680, aired 2004-12-31HISTORY $1000: This Asian political party was founded in 1885 with "Indian National" as part of its name the Congress Party
#4613, aired 2004-09-29THE 3rd FILM IN THE SERIES $600: In a 1990 film in this series, Marty travels to 1885 to save Doc Brown Back to the Future
#4560, aired 2004-06-04AUTHORS $1000: This author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" served as U.S. consul in Germany & Scotland between 1878 & 1885 Bret Harte
#4549, aired 2004-05-20FRENCH LITERATURE $2000: Known as a master of the short story--he wrote over 300 of them--he did write 6 novels including "Bel-Ami" in 1885 Guy de Maupassant
#4526, aired 2004-04-19SCIENTISTS $800: In 1885 this French chemist first used his rabies vaccine, on a boy named Joseph Meister Louis Pasteur
#4507, aired 2004-03-23NANA $400: In 1885 Nana & this other Apache leader broke out of the San Carlos Reservation; they were caught & sent to Florida Geronimo
#4455, aired 2004-01-09NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $800: In 1885 Geronimo & others escaped from this tribe's White Mountain Reservation in Arizona; they were recaptured in 1886 the Apache
#4447, aired 2003-12-30NOVEL TEASE $200: 1885: "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" (The Adventures of) Huckleberry Finn
#4433, aired 2003-12-10PLAYWRIGHT $1200: His play "The Wild Duck" premiered in Bergen, Norway in 1885 Henrik Ibsen
#4430, aired 2003-12-05ISN'T THAT "SPECIAL"? $800: In 1885 the U.S. mail introduced this distinctive service special delivery
#4367, aired 2003-09-09SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $400: In 1885 one of these explosions, the brightest to appear for the next century, appeared in the Andromeda galaxy a supernova
#4367, aired 2003-09-09SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $2000: In 1885, 14 years after a more famous find, this German archaeologist excavated Tiryns in Greece Heinrich Schliemann
#4359, aired 2003-07-10SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885 $200: Developed by British inventor John Starley, the safety bicycle features these of equal size wheels
#4359, aired 2003-07-10SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885 $400: Anthropologist Francis Galton notes the uniqueness of these for every individual, a help to police fingerprints
#4359, aired 2003-07-10SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885 $600: Designed by William L. Jenney, the first of these buildings, the 10-story Home Insurance Co., goes up in Chicago skyscrapers
#4359, aired 2003-07-10SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885 $800: German engineer Carl Friedrich Benz develops the first working one of these powered by a gasoline engine automobile
#4359, aired 2003-07-10SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885 $1000: American electrical engineer William Stanley invents this device for changing energy from AC to DC transformer
#4319, aired 2003-05-15WORLD CAPITALS $800: Physicist Niels Bohr was born in this capital in 1885 Copenhagen
#4250, aired 2003-02-07HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1600: In 1885 this 22nd & 24th president said, "Office seeking is a disease...it is ever catching" Grover Cleveland
#4182, aired 2002-11-05BEVERAGES $400: This major soft drink brand was created in Waco, Texas in 1885 & named for a Virginia physician Dr. Pepper
#4145, aired 2002-09-13FIRST THINGS FIRST $800: After being bitten by a dog in 1885, Joseph Meister became the first person inoculated against this rabies
#4122, aired 2002-07-02ORCHESTRAS $400: This city's orchestra began its Pops Concerts in 1885 under the name Promenade Boston
#4070, aired 2002-04-19NEW JERSEY EXITS $1000: This Union general whom Lincoln relieved of command in 1862 gave up the fight in Orange in 1885 McClellan
#4046, aired 2002-03-18THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $3,000 (Daily Double): A 1/4 size model of the Statue of Liberty, presented by U.S. citizens in 1885, stands on an island in this river the Seine
#4004, aired 2002-01-17THE 1880s $800: The 1885 Congress of Berlin passed out slices of this continent like cake Africa
#3965, aired 2001-11-23REWRITTEN TOMBSTONES $100: 1822-1885: "I don't want to hear any jokes about who's buried in my tomb" Ulysses S. Grant
#3961, aired 2001-11-19OLD GLORY $200: Some say schoolteacher B.J. Cigrand began Flag Day on June 14, 1885 in this "Dairy State" Wisconsin
#3958, aired 2001-11-14THEY WERE EXPELLED $300: Once publisher of the USA's largest newspaper chain, he was expelled from Harvard in 1885 for insulting his professors William Randolph Hearst
#3939, aired 2001-10-18RAISING ARIZONA $200: Founded in 1885, this Tempe institution was originally called the Arizona Territorial Normal School Arizona State University
#3905, aired 2001-07-20POETIC LICENSE PLATES $400: 1885-1972 USA 16 OZ Ezra Pound
#3880, aired 2001-06-15THE OLD WEST $400: In 1885 this Sioux leader was allowed to leave the reservation to tour with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Sitting Bull
#3866, aired 2001-05-28FORMER CAPITALS $300: Wheeling (1863-1870 & 1875-1885) West Virginia
#3851, aired 2001-05-07LET'S GO PARK $200: Established in 1885, Niagara Reservation at Prospect Point in this state is the USA's oldest state park New York
#3778, aired 2001-01-24"V.H." ONE $2,000 (Daily Double): After his death in 1885, his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe Victor Hugo
#3718, aired 2000-11-01NEWSPAPER CITIES $800: The World-Herald, est. 1885 Omaha
#3718, aired 2000-11-01NEWSPAPER CITIES $1000: The Morning News, est. 1885 Dallas
#3633, aired 2000-05-24AROUND THE USA $100: The first skyscraper in the U.S. was built in 1885 in this city, now home to the USA's tallest Chicago
#3510, aired 1999-12-03ROYAL LITERATURE $600: One of the first African adventure stories, this 1885 novel chronicled the search for legendary diamond mines "King Solomon's Mines"
#3508, aired 1999-12-01MUSEUMS $400: In 1885 this Amsterdam art museum moved to its present structure which was designed by P.J.H. Cuypers Rijksmuseum
#3461, aired 1999-09-27AMERICAN HISTORY $200: When West Virginia became a state in 1863, Wheeling was its capital; this city became the permanent capital in 1885 Charleston
#3460, aired 1999-09-24EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $400: Of 1885, 1895 or 1905, the year Birt Acres launched the British film industry with his "Kinetic Lantern" 1895
#3456, aired 1999-09-20BROTHERS $400: Last name of British brothers William & James who began marketing their wrapped soap bars in 1885 Lever
#3437, aired 1999-07-13"W"RITERS $800: From 1881 to 1885 this "Ben-Hur" author served as the USA's minister to Turkey Lew Wallace
#3405, aired 1999-05-28PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS $300: 1885: "Water!" Ulysses S. Grant
#3333, aired 1999-02-17STATUES $200: In March 1885 Joseph Pulitzer launched a campaign to raise funds for the completion of its pedestal Statue of Liberty
#3327, aired 1999-02-09THE 1880s $400: This parent of the Bell System was incorporated in 1885 AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph)
#3225, aired 1998-09-18GETTIN' CATTY $200: This breed was introduced to the West around 1885 Siamese
#3202, aired 1998-06-30PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $100: March 4, 1885- March 3, 1889; March 4, 1893- March 3, 1897 Grover Cleveland
#3190, aired 1998-06-12CREATIONS $200: In Chicago in 1885, William Jenney rose to new heights when he built the first structure called this the skyscraper
#3085, aired 1998-01-16ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: This impressionist who lived in Giverny painted a "Poppy Field in a Hollow Near Giverny" in 1885 Claude Monet
#3057, aired 1997-12-09A BOOK OF VERSES $400: He dedicated his 1885 "A Child's Garden of Verses" to Alison Cunningham, his childhood nurse Robert Louis Stevenson
#3007, aired 1997-09-30THE 1880s $300: On February 21, 1885 this 555' memorial was dedicated in the nation's capital Washington Monument
#3006, aired 1997-09-29ARTISTS $400: He included sketches of Dutch rural scenes in a letter to his brother Theo sent around 1885 Vincent Van Gogh
#2950, aired 1997-05-30LETTERS $800: In 1885 he wrote to his brother Theo, "There is a school....of impressionists. But I know very little about it" Vincent Van Gogh
#2915, aired 1997-04-11THE CABINET $800: From 1801 to 1804 Levi Lincoln was Attorney General; from 1881 to 1885 this Lincoln was Secretary of War Robert Lincoln
#2915, aired 1997-04-11THE MIDWEST $800: From around 1885 to 1910 the political machine of George "Boss" Cox ran this southern Ohio metropolis Cincinnati
#2831, aired 1996-12-16AUTHORS $800: His 1885 work "King Solomon's Mines" was suggested by the ruins at Zimbabwe H. Rider Haggard
#2830, aired 1996-12-13HISTORY $1000: In 1885 this British governor-general was killed defending Khartoum from the Mahdi's forces Charles Gordon ("Gordon of Khartoum")
#2825, aired 1996-12-06POETS $400: Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his "Idylls of the King" Alfred Lord Tennyson
#2757, aired 1996-09-03U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: On March 4, 1885 this president took the oath of office for the first of his 2 nonconsecutive terms Cleveland
#2750, aired 1996-07-121885 $200: On March 14 this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta debuted in London, England, not Titipu, Japan The Mikado
#2750, aired 1996-07-121885 $400: In 1885 this city replaced T'ai-nan as administrative center of Taiwan Taipei
#2750, aired 1996-07-121885 $600: He first used his rabies vaccine on Joseph Meister, a small boy who had been bitten by a dog Louis Pasteur
#2750, aired 1996-07-121885 $800: This Amsterdam museum opened officially July 13 in a structure designed by P.J.H. Cuypers the Rijksmuseum
#2750, aired 1996-07-121885 $1000: In 1885 this "Old Ironsides" poet published a biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes
#2686, aired 1996-04-15THE 1880s $300: The Congo Free State was established in 1885, with this country's King Leopold II as ruler Belgium
#2681, aired 1996-04-0819th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This prestigious college for women opened outside Philadelphia in 1885 Bryn Mawr
#2633, aired 1996-01-31POTPOURRI $800: In 1885 this Nez Perce chief & his people were moved to a reservation in Washington where he died in 1904 Chief Joseph
#2588, aired 1995-11-29LITERATURE $600: This 1885 H. Rider Haggard story is narrated by Allan Quatermain, of Durban, Natal, gentleman King Solomon's Mines
#2494, aired 1995-06-08"MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $300: Myanmar's second-largest city, it served as the country's capital from 1860 to 1885 Mandalay
#2490, aired 1995-06-02LETTERS $400: A letter written to his brother Theo around 1885 included 2 sketches of Dutch rural scenes (Vincent) van Gogh
#2488, aired 1995-05-31HISTORIC MASSACRES $1000: In 1885 the entire Egyptian garrison under Charles Gordon was wiped out in this Sudan city Khartoum
#2420, aired 1995-02-241885 $200: When this arrived from France on June 19, its pedestal on Bedloe's Island wasn't finished the Statue of Liberty
#2420, aired 1995-02-241885 $400: The first U.S. street railroad employing this type of power opened in Baltimore on August 10 electricity
#2420, aired 1995-02-241885 $600: Chartered in 1880, Bryn Mawr College opened in this state in 1885 Pennsylvania
#2420, aired 1995-02-241885 $800: This 18th U.S. president & his vice president Schuyler Colfax both died during the year (Ulysses) Grant
#2420, aired 1995-02-241885 $1000: He completed his first important painting, "The Potato Eaters", in Nuenen Van Gogh
#2415, aired 1995-02-17THE 1880s $400: In 1885 this female sharpshooter joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Annie Oakley
#2409, aired 1995-02-09COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: This university was founded as the Arizona Territorial Normal School at Tempe in 1885 Arizona State University
#2406, aired 1995-02-06FAMOUS FIRSTS $100: In 1885 Gottlieb Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach mounted an engine on a bike, creating the first of these a motorcycle
#2384, aired 1995-01-05POTPOURRI $400: From 1877-1885, the Liberty Bell was hung in Independence Hall from a chain of this many links 13
#2365, aired 1994-12-09FRENCH DISCOVERIES $600: In 1885 he developed an anti-rabies vaccine Pasteur
#2349, aired 1994-11-17U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Albuquerque, New Mexico lies on this 1885-mile long river the Rio Grande
#2305, aired 1994-09-16COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: Founded in Atlanta in 1885, this university has one of the finest engineering schools in the country Georgia Tech
#2211, aired 1994-03-28THE 1880s $800: In 1885 followers of the Mahdi killed General Gordon at this Sudanese city Khartoum
#2195, aired 1994-03-0419th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This landmark in the nation's capital was dedicated on February 21, 1885 the Washington Monument
#2176, aired 1994-02-07HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: Shortly before his death in 1885, he was reinstated as a general & put back on the Army payroll Grant
#2099, aired 1993-10-21POETRY $1000: Hoosier poet who wrote his 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" in Hoosier dialect James Whitcomb Riley
#2081, aired 1993-09-27ART $600: This 1885 painting by van Gogh depicts peasants at their evening meal The Potato Eaters
#2026, aired 1993-05-31BRITISH HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Between 1868 & 1885, William Gladstone & this man alternated as prime minister of Britain Disraeli
#2024, aired 1993-05-27BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This company was named for the brothers who began making antiseptic surgical dressings in 1885 Johnson & Johnson
#2019, aired 1993-05-20U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1885 the Post Office began this service that sent mail more quickly for an extra fee special delivery
#1974, aired 1993-03-18HISTORIC NICKNAMES $800: Killed in Khartoum in 1885, this British general was nicknamed "Chinese" for his exploits in China (Charles George) Gordon
#1938, aired 1993-01-27MUSEUMS $1000: Petrus Cuypers designed the Gothic revival building that's housed this Dutch museum since 1885 the Rijksmuseum
#1904, aired 1992-12-10INDIANS $300: This leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux nation Joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885 Sitting Bull
#1899, aired 1992-12-03GILBERT & SULLIVAN $200: At its 1885 premiere, this show was billed as "An entirely new and original Japanese opera" The Mikado
#1890, aired 1992-11-20THE OLD WEST $200: Joseph Glidden wasn't the first to make this fencing material, but by 1885, his design was the top seller barbed wire
#1881, aired 1992-11-09HAIL TO THE CHIEF $200: He died on July 23, 1885 just 4 days after completing his Civil War memoirs Ulysses S. Grant
#1874, aired 1992-10-29MAGAZINES $100: This magazine was introduced in 1885; its seal came later Good Housekeeping
#1865, aired 1992-10-16ONTARIO $400: In 1885, the first league in this sport was formed at Kingston hockey
#1832, aired 1992-07-14FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: Completed in 1885, the 10-story Home Insurance Co. Building in Chicago was the 1st to be called this a skyscraper
#1827, aired 1992-07-07ART $200: The Detroit Institute of Arts, founded in 1885, features murals by this Mexican artist (Diego) Rivera
#1710, aired 1992-01-24FAMOUS WOMEN $200: This markswoman joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885 & was its star attraction for 17 years Annie Oakley
#1683, aired 1991-12-18MEDICAL HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1885 he administered the first inoculation for rabies (Louis) Pasteur
#1676, aired 1991-12-09AFRICA $800: In 1885 this Belgian king established the Congo Free State as his personal property Leopold
#1622, aired 1991-09-24PARKS $1,400 (Daily Double): Canada's National Park System began in 1885 with the establishment of this park in Alberta Banff (National Park)
#1572, aired 1991-06-04STATE PARKS $400: This state's Niagara Reservation, established in 1885, is the USA's oldest state park New York
#1548, aired 1991-05-01FAMOUS WOMEN $1,300 (Daily Double): This first lady was born on February 13, 1885 to David & Madge Wallace Bess Truman
#1495, aired 1991-02-15TOM & HUCK $100: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in 1885 was the 1st book issued by this man's publishing co. Mark Twain
#1425, aired 1990-11-09GILBERT & SULLIVAN $200: It's said that a Japanese sword dropping from Gilbert's library wall inspired this 1885 opera Mikado
#1412, aired 1990-10-23CANADA $600: This company completed Canada's first transcontinental rail line in 1885 the Canadian Pacific
#1384, aired 1990-09-13BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: 2 years after he was expelled from Harvard in 1885 his father gave him the San Francisco Examiner (William Randolph) Hearst
#1331, aired 1990-05-21THE AUTO INDUSTRY $200: Built by Carl Benz in 1885, the first internal combustion car had this many wheels 3
#1272, aired 1990-02-27FRENCH AUTHORS $200: When this author of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" died in 1885, his body lay in state under the Arc De Triomphe Victor Hugo
#1228, aired 1989-12-27PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $200: His "Personal Memoirs", including his account of the Civil War, were published in 1885 by Mark Twain U.S. Grant
#1193, aired 1989-11-08CANADIAN HISTORY $800: The last spike of this transcontinental railroad was driven on November 7, 1885 Canadian Pacific
#1071, aired 1989-04-10MOVIE TRIVIA $300: Charlton Heston starred in this film about the 1885 siege of the capital of the Sudan Khartoum
#1052, aired 1989-03-14BRITISH HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): Between 1868-1885 William Gladstone & this man alternated as prime minister Benjamin Disraeli
#1007, aired 1989-01-10FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: At the start of the 1885 novel he's living with the Widow Douglas & her sister Miss Watson Huckleberry Finn
#995, aired 1988-12-23HISTORIC DATES $400: This structure was dedicated on February 21, 1885 probably because February 22 was a Sunday the Washington Monument
#865, aired 1988-05-13AMERICAN ISLANDS $400: When the Statue of Liberty arrived from France in 1885, Liberty Island was called this Bedloe's Island
#809, aired 1988-02-25TECHNOLOGY $1000: In 1885, this U.S. inventor came up with the 1st practical adding machine William Burroughs
#773, aired 1988-01-06TRANSPORTATION $500: In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler & this fellow German built the 1st gasoline-powered vehicles (Karl) Benz
#719, aired 1987-10-22VAN GOGH $600: Vegetable in title of Van Gogh's famous 1885 painting of peasants potato
#661, aired 1987-06-22PRESIDENTS $200: He was inaugurated in 1885 at age 47, & again in 1893 at age 55 Grover Cleveland
#286, aired 1985-10-141885 $100: History says M. Fox introduced this game to America in 1885, not "fore" golf
#286, aired 1985-10-141885 $200: Begun on July 4, 1848, this monument in Washington was finally dedicated the Washington Monument
#286, aired 1985-10-141885 $300: This women's magazine celebrated its centennial in 1985, a seal of America's approval Good Housekeeping
#286, aired 1985-10-141885 $400: The 2nd volume of his "Das Kapital" was published Karl Marx
#286, aired 1985-10-141885 $500: A vine from Napoleon's grave was planted at this U.S. president's tomb (Ulysses) Grant
#282, aired 1985-10-08TECHNOLOGY $400: From 1801-1885, forerunners of the automobile had this low-pollution engine steam
#263, aired 1985-09-11BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In his spare time as a bookshop owner, he compiled his "Famous Quotations" in 1855 Bartlett
#189, aired 1985-05-301885 $400: Explorer Richard Burton published his translation of these 1,001 tales The Arabian Nights
#189, aired 1985-05-301885 $500 (Daily Double): Now costing over $2 extra, this service started nationwide at only 10¢ above postage Special Delivery

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#9001, aired 2023-12-25FAMOUS NAMES IN AMERICA: The name of this animal that died in 1885 after being struck by a train that subsequently derailed lives on as an adjective Jumbo
#7224, aired 2016-01-28BRITISH MUSICAL THEATRE: A critic said, "I doubt if there is a single joke in" this 1885 work "that fits the Japanese. But all the jokes... fit the English" The Mikado
#4242, aired 2003-01-28AMERICANA: In June 1885 it made a historic transatlantic voyage in 214 crates on the frigate Isere Statue of Liberty
#2860, aired 1997-01-24U.S. CURRENCY: Of men pictured on currently printed paper money, he's the one most recently deceased Ulysses S. Grant (on the $50 bill; died in 1885)
#573, aired 1987-02-18HISTORY: It arrived in the U.S. in June of 1885 in 214 cases aboard the French ship Isere Statue of Liberty

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