Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (310 results returned)

#9051, aired 2024-03-04A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $400: Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora Sleeping Beauty
#9036, aired 2024-02-12HOMES $800: In 1890 Claude Monet bought a farmhouse in this French town on the Epte River Giverny
#8977, aired 2023-11-2119th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $7,000 (Daily Double): Pictured here around 1890, he was the original "Iron Man" Bismarck
#8942, aired 2023-10-03THE CONGO RIVER $800: A harrowing voyage up the Congo River around 1890 by Joseph Conrad was the basis for this 1902 tale Heart of Darkness
#8876, aired 2023-05-22ART IMITATING LIFE $1000: This sculptor & painter of Western life took on Yankee football with the 1890 painting "Touchdown Yale vs. Princeton" Frederic Remington
#8865, aired 2023-05-05EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $200: Born in Boston in 1890, she had 9 children, including John, Robert, Edward & Eunice (Rose) Kennedy
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $400: In 1872 this New York school chose its official colors--pink & green; its students chose orange in 1890 Syracuse
#8796, aired 2023-01-30EXPLORATION $800: In 1889 & 1890 Nellie Bly did this in 72 days, 8 fewer than in the title of a popular novel of the day travel around the world
#8775, aired 2022-12-30THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $800: 1890: 14.8% are this, highest in history, finding the streets paved with gold immigrants
#8774, aired 2022-12-29THE HOUSE OF POWER $1600: William was a popular boys' name in this Dutch house, like of William III, king from 1849 to 1890 the House of Orange
#8671, aired 2022-06-27ART LOVERS $800: "Undergrowth with Two Figures" from 1890 is one of the last works by this artist van Gogh
#8621, aired 2022-04-18WORLD LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Otto von Bismarck was this Germanic nation's prime minister from 1862 to 1890, with a brief break around 1873 Prussia
#8568, aired 2022-02-02MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED $400: In 1890 they stole a player from Philadelphia's team & got this nickname the Pirates
#8519, aired 2021-11-25A MATTER OF TRUST $600: The U.S. government sued a sugar trust under the provisions of this 1890 act & lost in an 1895 Supreme Court decision the Sherman Antitrust Act
#8497, aired 2021-10-26LITERARY JOURNALISM $600: This newswoman chronicled her 1889-1890 adventures in the book "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" Nellie Bly
#8483, aired 2021-10-061800s U.S. HISTORY $800: Duties on imported goods upon entry, they were a big issue all century; an 1890 bill jacked them up tariff
#8479, aired 2021-09-30OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES $1200: But of course, this Postimpressionist posed in a beret for an 1890 selfie Cézanne
#8439, aired 2021-07-08STATE LICENSE PLATES $3,400 (Daily Double): A specialty plate from California supports conservancy programs here, a national park since 1890 Yosemite
#8435, aired 2021-07-02FAMOUS NAMES $600: His artistic career lasted just 10 years, from 1880 until his death from a gunshot in 1890 Vincent van Gogh
#8400, aired 2021-05-14SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $800: 1904's Northern Securities Company v. U.S. ruling said a holding company formed to eliminate competition violated this 1890 act the Sherman Antitrust Act
#8348, aired 2021-03-03ILLUSTRATORS $2000: Around 1890, Kate Greenaway illustrated the pages of a children's story by this British poet Robert Browning
#8267, aired 2020-10-27I'M POSTING THAT ON TELEGRAM $1000: A panicky telegram about Native Americans dancing in the snow brought an influx of troops & led to this 1890 massacre Wounded Knee
#8259, aired 2020-10-15WORLD HISTORY $800: This man who built a united Germany resigned as chancellor in 1890 after displeasing the kaiser Bismarck
#8223, aired 2020-05-27A WRITER'S LIFE $200: Born 1890, was a merchant of "murder" & "death", named a dame in 1971, & then there was none of her in 1976 Agatha Christie
#8215, aired 2020-05-01BOOKS OF THE DEAD $400: The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her (Emily) Dickinson
#8113, aired 2019-12-11ITALIAN AUTHORS $800: Giovanni Verga turned his own story "Cavalleria rusticana" into a play & it was famously turned into this in 1890 an opera
#8094, aired 2019-11-14LAWYERS, LAW & LEGALITY $1600: The Justice Dept. IDs violations of this 1890 act; timed, uniform price hikes by competitors are a sign of collusion the Sherman Antitrust Act
#7993, aired 2019-05-15STUDYING FOR THE TEST $2000: This bogus "test" many had to take starting around 1890 was designed to make it impossible for African Americans to vote a literacy test
#7946, aired 2019-03-11A COLONEL OF TRUTH $200: This restaurateur was born Sept. 9, 1890 in Indiana, not Kentucky, & his title was honorary Colonel Sanders
#7931, aired 2019-02-18TEXTBOOKS $1600: In 1890 this brother of novelist Henry published his classic textbook "The Principles of Psychology" William James
#7885, aired 2018-12-14CENTURY 19 REAL ESTATE LISTINGS $1000: Completed in 1890, get in quick--this New York City venue will be demoed in 1925, though it may be replaced Madison Square Garden
#7814, aired 2018-07-26ANTI UP $200: Enacted in 1890, the U.S. govt.'s first law of this kind was named for Ohio senator John Sherman anti-trust
#7773, aired 2018-05-30GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $1600: An 1890 LDS church manifesto mandated a halt to this practice polygamy
#7708, aired 2018-02-28NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: On a December day in 1890, about 200 Native Americans were slain by U.S. Army troops at this South Dakota location Wounded Knee
#7688, aired 2018-01-31A STASH OF MUSTACHES $200: The secret word is this guy, born Julius in New York City in 1890 Groucho Marx
#7661, aired 2017-12-25ROSE $1200: It was called the Battle of Flowers when it was first held on January 1, 1890 the Tournament of Roses Parade
#7580, aired 2017-07-21WEST VIRGINIA $600: This yellow apple had its origin in 1890 as a chance seedling in the Clay County farm of A.H. Mullins Golden Delicious
#7563, aired 2017-06-28PAINTINGS $600: His Wheatfield with Crows was painted in 1890, the last year of his life Van Gogh
#7561, aired 2017-06-26A WOMEN'S CATEGORY $1200: This lineage-based women's organization was founded October 11, 1890 the Daugthers of the American Revolution (or DAR)
#7534, aired 2017-05-18BALLET $1200: In a classic 1890 ballet, the fairy of the songbirds dances at the christening of this fairy-tale heroine Sleeping Beauty
#7477, aired 2017-02-28VALLEYS $400: Lincoln signed the bill protecting this Calif. valley in 1864 & Benjamin Harrison signed the bill making it a natl. park in 1890 Yosemite
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $800: He incorporated his San Francisco company in 1890, the same year his XX waist overalls were given the lot number 501 Levi Strauss
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $2000: When cigarette makers formed the American Tobacco Company in 1890, this North Carolinian became its first president James Buchanan Duke
#7459, aired 2017-02-02LINES ON THE MAP $800: Almost precisely straight lines mark the borders of these two states that joined the Union in 1876 and 1890 Wyoming and Colorado
#7401, aired 2016-11-14LET'S TRAVEL $1200: Visitors to this inventor's New Jersey lab can hear recordings from his 1890 talking doll, a costly failure Edison
#7398, aired 2016-11-09SCIENCE GUYS $800: Surely this rings a bell: the name of this physiologist who studied the secretory activity of digestion from 1890 to 1900 Ivan Pavlov
#7397, aired 2016-11-08CONTEMPORARIES $1200: In 1890 Sitting Bull was killed & this iron chancellor was forced out of office Bismarck
#7362, aired 2016-09-20NATIVE AMERICANS $600: In 1889 & 1890 a visionary named Wovoka taught this "spectral" dance to tribes to regenerate the earth the Ghost Dance
#7316, aired 2016-06-06ELLIS ISLAND $400: In 1890 Ellis Island doubled in size by using ships' ballast & dirt from the building of this transportation system the New York subway
#7310, aired 2016-05-27I'M SO JELLY $1000: Born Ferdinand LaMothe in 1890, this New Orleans pianist claimed to have invented jazz Jelly Roll Morton
#7309, aired 2016-05-26MOUNTAIN / MAN $1000: Around 1890 I.C. Russell named this mountain, the tallest in Canada, for a geologist Logan
#7271, aired 2016-04-04HE VARNISHED $1200: In 1890 he wrote that a study of his "Cypresses" could use a thick coat of varnish Van Gogh
#7247, aired 2016-03-01EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: In 1890 Wilhelm II forced the resignation of this notorious OVB, who was not Prussian around much after that Otto von Bismarck
#7223, aired 2016-01-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1890 this bureau of the government reported that the West was so settled that no frontier could be said to exist the Census (Bureau)
#7078, aired 2015-05-27THE LATE 19th CENTURY $2000: In 1890 a mercenary force organized by Cecil Rhodes founded Fort Salisbury, today this national capital Harare (Zimbabwe)
#7010, aired 2015-02-20AT THE MUSEUM $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Mass.) The saddle probably belonged to this great Sioux leader who got $50 each time he rode once around the ring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; preferring to die as an Indian rather than live as a white man, he returned to his people & was killed in 1890 Sitting Bull
#7009, aired 2015-02-19COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California) Punch-card tabulators vastly reduced the time needed to conduct the 1890 census and save taxpayers millions; They were created by Herman Hollerith, the father of modern automatic computation, who founded what is, today, this three-letter business giant IBM
#7002, aired 2015-02-10THE NAME OF THE BOARD GAME $600: The Sherman Act of 1890 was meant to combat this type of business Monopoly
#7000, aired 2015-02-06BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $200: In 1890 she was 4 years dead / & her 1st book of poems was read / It was a big hit & such / For a lady who did not get out much (Emily) Dickinson
#6971, aired 2014-12-29MEET THE DAKOTAS! $800: The site of a 1890 massacre & a 1973 incident is on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation Wounded Knee
#6866, aired 2014-06-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: On Dec. 29, 1890 more than 200 Lakota were killed by the U.S. Army near this South Dakota creek Wounded Knee
#6865, aired 2014-06-20WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME! $800: This artist died near Paris on July 29, 1890, but you could say a part of him would always be in Arles Van Gogh
#6853, aired 2014-06-04I'M A CHANGED MAN! $800: One minute, this 1890 title guy is young & handsome; the next, his old corpse is only I.D.'d by his rings Dorian Gray
#6823, aired 2014-04-23CONVERSIONS $400: Around 1890 this licentious Russian underwent change at a monastery at Verkhoture (Grigori) Rasputin
#6822, aired 2014-04-22ON MY HANDS $600: In 1890 Dr. William Halsted got gloves made of this for his scrub nurse (later wife), whose skin reacted to cleaning solutions latex (or rubber)
#6810, aired 2014-04-04THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $7,100 (Daily Double): In 1890 he became president of the American Tobacco Company in Durham, North Carolina (James Buchanan) Duke
#6788, aired 2014-03-05BRITISH AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an 1890 letter, he called himself "a Polish nobleman, cased in British tar" Joseph Conrad
#6754, aired 2014-01-16METROPOLIS $4,200 (Daily Double): In 1890 the population of this U.S. city bordering Mexico was 16,000; today it's 1.3 million San Diego
#6725, aired 2013-12-06RUSSIAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: The libretto for this composer's 1890 opera "The Queen of Spades" is by his playwright brother Modest Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#6725, aired 2013-12-0619th CENTURY NOTABLES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1890 this painter of the American West illustrated an edition of Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" Frederic Remington
#6706, aired 2013-11-11CARBONATION NATION $200: In 1890 it said it was "good for brain and brawn"; well, it should know--it is a "physician" Dr Pepper
#6671, aired 2013-09-23THE AGRICULTURAL HALL OF FAME $600: In 1890 Stephen Babcock devised a simple 10-minute test to determine the content of this in milk fat (butterfat)
#6668, aired 2013-09-18BUTTON HOOK $200: The original Levi's with a button fly have had this number since 1890 501s
#6627, aired 2013-06-11A ROUND OF GULF COAST $1000: By 1890 about 270 people lived in this "Sunshine City" at the tip of Pinellas Peninsula on Tampa Bay St. Petersburg
#6614, aired 2013-05-23GERMAN HISTORY $1600: Jealous of this chancellor's fame, Wilhelm II forced him to resign on March 18, 1890 Bismarck
#6580, aired 2013-04-05BENJAMIN HARRISON ADMINISTRATION $400: In 1890 President Harrison designated this the first federal immigration station Ellis Island
#6580, aired 2013-04-05BENJAMIN HARRISON ADMINISTRATION $1600: On July 2, 1890 Ben signed this act outlawing trusts or any other monopolies hindering trade the Sherman Antitrust Act
#6559, aired 2013-03-07LONDON TRANSPORTATION $600: The Underground has been known by this shorter nickname since 1890 when the first deep-level electric railway line opened The Tube
#6401, aired 2012-06-18EVERYONE'S AN ART CRITIC $400: An 1890 critique said "Sunflowers" is "powerful in color" but "the value of" his "other canvases... escapes us" van Gogh
#6385, aired 2012-05-25HISTORY $200: The German Empire had this "Iron Chancellor" from 1871 to 1890 Bismarck
#6348, aired 2012-04-04KISSING $200: In most versions of this tale, like Tchaikovsky's in 1890, a kiss awakens the princess "Sleeping Beauty"
#6317, aired 2012-02-21ACTS OF CONGRESS $800: This Ohio senator was busy in 1890, with his Silver Purchase Act as well as the more famous antitrust one (John) Sherman
#6292, aired 2012-01-17NORMAN INVASION $800: In 1890 British architect Norman Shaw designed the police headquarters known as "New" this Scotland Yard
#6191, aired 2011-07-11ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON $1000: Around 1890 Stevenson bought 300 acres in what's now this country, where he was called tusitala, or "teller of tales" Samoa
#6171, aired 2011-06-13NATIONAL PARKS A-Z $800: S: What is now this California national park was established in 1890 to protect a grove of big trees Sequoia
#6168, aired 2011-06-08THE '90s $600: On August 6, 1890 William Kemmler became the first criminal forced to sit in one of these--& he only did it once an electric chair
#6145, aired 2011-05-06DUTCH BOYS $400: This Dutchman died in July 1890; his brother Theo died 6 months later & was buried next to him Van Gogh
#6050, aired 2010-12-24FAMILY VALUES $400: By 1890 the 2nd John Jacob of this family had increased the family fortune to more than $75 million the Astors
#5999, aired 2010-10-14OHIOANS $1200: In 1890 Ohioan Caroline Harrison became the first president general of this org. that traces members' lineages to 1776 the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution)
#5945, aired 2010-06-18TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS $1600: Don't fret that the czar's only comment was "Very nice"; the music for this 1890 fairy tale ballet is danceable & enchanting The Sleeping Beauty
#5935, aired 2010-06-04RUSSIAN LITERATURE $800: By 1890 this author & playwright had written hundreds of short stories, including "The Steppe" Chekhov
#5930, aired 2010-05-28GETTING TICKED OFF $800: Jealous of this Prussian chancellor's fame, Wilhelm II sank him by forcing his resignation in 1890 Bismarck
#5922, aired 2010-05-18ALL ROADS LEAD TO CECIL RHODES $2000: In 1890 Rhodes became prime minister and virtual dictator of this South Africa "Colony" the Cape Colony
#5852, aired 2010-02-09SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $2000: After gold was discovered in 1890 in the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie mines, this capital of Western Australia grew rapidly Perth
#5839, aired 2010-01-21NUTS LANDING $200: A butter made from this nut (really a legume) was developed in 1890 & promoted as a health food at the 1904 World's Fair a peanut
#5807, aired 2009-12-0819th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $2000: Pictured here around 1890, he was the original "Iron Man" (Otto von) Bismarck
#5801, aired 2009-11-30QUEENS UP $1000: Had she been a man, this Dutch queen would have inherited Luxembourg in 1890 Queen Wilhelmina
#5799, aired 2009-11-26BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Lille, Nov. 22, 1890; said a general au revoir Nov. 9, 1970 Charles de Gaulle
#5798, aired 2009-11-25FOR THE BIRDS $2000: 100 of these European birds were released in Central Park in 1890; today, there are 200 million in North America starlings
#5792, aired 2009-11-17PATRON $400: Nadezhda von Meck gave him 6,000 rubles a year to devote himself to composing, but suddenly cut him off in 1890 Tchaikovsky
#5780, aired 2009-10-30JACKETS REQUIRED $400: Now meaning any sport coat, it was originally crimson colored when introduced in Great Britain in 1890 a blazer
#5773, aired 2009-10-21BATTLE DESCRIPTIONS $800: This 1890 massacre in South Dakota ends armed conflict between the Sioux & the Army Wounded Knee
#5730, aired 2009-07-03ON THE 3rd OF JULY $200: 1890: This territory, no small potatoes, joins the Union as the 43rd state Idaho
#5716, aired 2009-06-15BRIDE & GLOOM $800: An 1890 Ibsen play opens with this title character returning from her honeymoon, disappointed by her marriage Hedda Gabler
#5673, aired 2009-04-15ARTHUR-IAN AUTHORS $1200: In 1890 he gave up practicing medicine for full-time writing; in 1902, he was knighted (Arthur Conan) Doyle
#5654, aired 2009-03-19HARD STUFF $400: Around 1890 Thomas Edison schemed to have this invention named after his rival George Westinghouse the electric chair
#5649, aired 2009-03-12SHOW BUSINESS $2000: Started in 1890, this conglom shows off its products on the networks it owns, like Sci Fi, USA & Bravo GE
#5619, aired 2009-01-29THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $800: It's the decade the Statue of Liberty was dedicated & opened in New York harbor the 1880s
#5595, aired 2008-12-26THE CONSTITUTION TODAY $800: An influential 1890 article was titled "the right to" this, now seen as covered (though unnamed) by the Bill of Rights privacy
#5535, aired 2008-10-03BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT $800: October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas Eisenhower
#5530, aired 2008-09-26DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY $1600: Introduced in 1890, this product for little backsides advertises its "clean, classic scent" baby powder
#5444, aired 2008-04-17BALLET $3,000 (Daily Double): The 1890 premiere of this ballet included Enrico Ceccheti as the Bluebird & Carlotta Brianza as Aurora Sleeping Beauty
#5433, aired 2008-04-02MONOPOLY $1000: This antitrust act from 1890 was designed to prevent monopolies in American business the Sherman Antitrust Act
#5432, aired 2008-04-01BREAKFAST $800: In 1890 a woman named Nancy Green represented this character, the symbol for a pancake mix Aunt Jemima
#5428, aired 2008-03-26FRENCH BUSINESS $1600: This company, whose symbol is seen here, eagerly embraced the automobile around 1890 Peugeot
#5404, aired 2008-02-21THEM LITERATURE TYPE FACTS $1000: It's no mystery that she was born in 1890 in Devon, England, wrote 67 novels under this name & 6 as Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie
#5397, aired 2008-02-12FIRSTS $400: The Scott brothers sold rolls of this in 1890; 2-ply came later toilet paper
#5395, aired 2008-02-08AFRICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1890 this British financier & empire builder was elected prime minister of Cape Colony Cecil Rhodes
#5372, aired 2008-01-08U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1200: Ranchers formed the territory of Cimarron in 1887; it lasted until 1890 when it became this state's western panhandle Oklahoma
#5297, aired 2007-09-25INSECTS $800: This snout beetle reached Texas from Mexico around 1890 & spread into most cotton-growing areas of the U.S. the boll weevil
#5296, aired 2007-09-24"C"HEESE $800: This French cheese from the Normandy area was first packaged in small cylindrical boxes in 1890 camembert
#5284, aired 2007-07-26MUSIC CLASS $600: In 1890 this composer wrote a rousing number called "The High School Cadets", heard here (John Philip) Sousa
#5279, aired 2007-07-19TEEN QUEENS $1200: Wilhelmina of this country reigned as a teen after the last male in the house of Orange-Nassau died in 1890 the Netherlands
#5253, aired 2007-06-13FITZ $400: Robert E. Lee's nephew Major General Fitzhugh Lee was governor of this state from 1886 to 1890 Virginia
#5223, aired 2007-05-02TERM PAPYRUS $2,000 (Daily Double): A papyrus copy of "Constitution of Athens" by this tutor of Alexander the Great was discovered in 1890 Aristotle
#5209, aired 2007-04-1219th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: This Illinois girl died in 1835; in 1890, she was reburied in Petersburg, Ill. to drum up tourism there Ann Rutledge
#5103, aired 2006-11-15FUHGETTABOUDIT $800: Want to join this religion so you can have more than one spouse? Fuhgettaboudit! Canceled the practice in 1890 Mormon
#5090, aired 2006-10-27HOW GREAT THOU ART $2000: This "mama's boy" answered the art critics in his 1890 book "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" Whistler
#5078, aired 2006-10-11RELIGION IN ART $400: 1890's "Church at Auvers" is in the typical frenetic style of this artist (Vincent) van Gogh
#5066, aired 2006-09-25ORGANIZATIONS $200: Women 18 or older who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of this event can join a group founded Oct. 1890 the American Revolution
#5038, aired 2006-07-05CARE TO SEE MY ETCHINGS? $400: He created etchings of Paul Gachet, a doctor who in 1890 took him in & cared for him at Auvers van Gogh
#5012, aired 2006-05-30SHERMANS $5,000 (Daily Double): One of the 2 important "Acts" written by U.S. Senator John Sherman in 1890 the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (or the Sherman Silver Purchase Act)
#5006, aired 2006-05-22SIBLING REVELRY $800: By 1890 the Scott brothers rolled more of this paper product into U.S. homes than any other company toilet paper
#5000, aired 2006-05-12HISTORICAL TEXT MESSAGING $1000: 1890: wilhelm ii mkng me quit chnclr gig. off 2 est8s @ friedrichsruh, wch is impsbl 2 abbrv & b undrstd (Otto von) Bismarck
#4925, aired 2006-01-27AMERICANA $400: America's National Zoo was just 1 year old when it became part of this institution in 1890 the Smithsonian Institution
#4897, aired 2005-12-20GROUP THERAPY $400: This group officially ended its practice of polygamous marriage in 1890 the Mormons
#4890, aired 2005-12-09CHICAGO $800: In 1890 this department store founder donated the land for the University of Chicago Marshall Field
#4843, aired 2005-10-05BRANDS $600: This brand name was first put on sacks of generic "self-rising pancake flour" around 1890 Aunt Jemima
#4804, aired 2005-06-23DO YOU LIKE KIPLING? $2000: Military matters are included in 1886's "Departmental Ditties" & 1890's "Barrack-Room" these Ballads
#4789, aired 2005-06-02PICK ME A WIENER $400: Born in the metropolis of Vienna in 1890, he directed the movie "Metropolis" Fritz Lang
#4755, aired 2005-04-15OHIO BIO $800: Born in Columbus in 1890, he was a car-racing champion & a WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker
#4718, aired 2005-02-23J.R. $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a street in the Lower East Side, New York.) This reformer & photographer described the conditions of the Lower East Side in 1890's "How the Other Half Lives" Jacob Riis
#4692, aired 2005-01-18CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1200: In his early teens, around 1890, he studied cello in Barcelona with Jose Garcia (Pablo) Casals
#4607, aired 2004-09-21GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY $1600: In the 1890's William Painter invented the top, seen here, whose projections got it this "regal" name the crown bottlecap
#4541, aired 2004-05-10YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET! $1,000 (Daily Double): To star in this 1890 fairy tale ballet, you shouldn't have spindly legs but you will need a spindle Sleeping Beauty
#4485, aired 2004-02-2019th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: The 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee in this state was the last major conflict between Indians & U.S. troops South Dakota
#4466, aired 2004-01-26HODGEPOURRI $2000: Dentist Alfred Southwick developed this device used in 1890 on a convict named William Kemmler the electric chair
#4434, aired 2003-12-11SURVIVORS $1600: The statements of Louise Weasel Bear & other survivors of the 1890 massacre at this site were published in 1940 Wounded Knee
#4369, aired 2003-09-11SIOUX $1000: The last armed conflict of the Sioux Wars was at this creek in 1890 Wounded Knee
#4275, aired 2003-03-14ARTISTS IN FRANCE $1600: He was living in Auvers-sur-Oise when, despairing & lonely, he shot himself in 1890 Vincent Van Gogh
#4180, aired 2002-11-01NOTORIOUS $400: In 1890 William Kemmler, who had killed his mistress, became the first convict to be executed this way electrocuted
#4136, aired 2002-09-02LITERARY LINGO $400: The term "stream of" this first appeared in William James' 1890 textbook "The Principles of Psychology" consciousness
#4099, aired 2002-05-30INDIAN RESERVATIONS $1200: Somewhat oddly, Standing Rock Reservation in the Dakotas is where this Sioux leader was killed in 1890 Sitting Bull
#4074, aired 2002-04-25THEY LIVED PAST 100 $1200: She was born July 22, 1890 in Boston & died Jan. 22, 1995 in Hyannisport Rose Kennedy
#4065, aired 2002-04-12AMERICANA $1600: "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" was an 1890 memoir by this artist (& mama's boy) Whistler
#4039, aired 2002-03-07CRIME TIME $200: In the 1890's British police in Bengal, India were the first to use these "digital" impressions to identify criminals fingerprints
#4016, aired 2002-02-04"E"OPLE $600: This U.S. chief executive was born in Texas in 1890 Eisenhower
#4014, aired 2002-01-31THE GOOD OLD U.S. OF A. $200: Tombstone in this state was settled in 1879 & was a mining center right up until 1890 Arizona
#4008, aired 2002-01-23NOT THE BEATLES $1600: Serving in the British parliament from 1890 to 1945, he was prime minister during WWI David Lloyd George
#3966, aired 2001-11-26GOOD TOMES $1000: In 1890 Oscar Wilde painted this novel portrait of a man trying to stay forever young The Picture of Dorian Gray
#3927, aired 2001-10-02AUTHOR COUNTDOWN $200: "The Sign of Four" (1890) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#3918, aired 2001-09-19BISMARCK $1000: The 1890 cartoon seen here shows Bismarck & this man who dismissed him Kaiser Wilhelm II
#3917, aired 2001-09-18THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $300: In a 1929 bio on his brother Wilbur, he wrote that in 1890 Wilbur joined him in publishing a newspaper (Orville) Wright
#3897, aired 2001-07-10GRAPE JAM $400: This dentist & prohibitionist began selling his "unfermented wine" in 1869; in 1890 he renamed it "Grape Juice" Thomas B. Welch
#3867, aired 2001-05-29NO OIL PAINTING $200: This onetime freak show performer, whose head was 3 feet around, died in a London hospital in 1890 John Merrick ("The Elephant Man")
#3866, aired 2001-05-28FORMER CAPITALS $500: Guthrie (1890-1910) Oklahoma
#3824, aired 2001-03-29FAMOUS UKRAINIANS $800: Seen here, he was born in Kiev in 1890 & died in London in 1950 Vaslav Nijinsky
#3752, aired 2000-12-19THE "ANTI"-CATEGORY $600: Sherman's "Act" of 1890 Anti-Trust Act
#3708, aired 2000-10-18NAME THE ARTIST $200: 1890: "Starry Night" Vincent Van Gogh
#3666, aired 2000-07-10"DELTA" $300: Since 1890 this company has been carrying passengers on ships like its namesake seen here Delta Queen
#3601, aired 2000-04-10TRAINS $800: Around 1890 Eli Janney's automatic type of this replaced the dangerous link-&-pin type Coupler
#3574, aired 2000-03-021890s SCIENCE $200: In 1890 William Halsted became the first surgeon to wear these during an operation gloves
#3516, aired 1999-12-13FORMER BIGWIGS $600: Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890 Otto von Bismarck
#3479, aired 1999-10-21SOUTH DAKOTA $500 (Daily Double): A gruesome clash between the government & the Indians took place here on December 29, 1890 Wounded Knee
#3478, aired 1999-10-20EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Her son Willem-Alexander is the first male heir in the Netherlands' House of Orange since 1890 Queen Beatrix
#3477, aired 1999-10-19PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $600 (Daily Double): October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas Dwight D. Eisenhower
#3457, aired 1999-09-21AMERICAN POETRY $200: In 1890, 4 years after her death, the first volume of this "Amherst Nun's" poetry was published Emily Dickinson
#3430, aired 1999-07-02THE ARMY-NAVY GAME $200: In the first game in 1890, Navy's Red Emrich scored 4 of these, but they were only worth 4 points each touchdowns
#3418, aired 1999-06-16WHICH CAME FIRST? $800: Taft-Hartley Act, Voting Rights Act, Sherman Antitrust Act Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
#3367, aired 1999-04-06NAMES IN THE LAW $1000: The 1936 Robinson-Patman Act revived & revised this man's Anti-Trust Act of 1890 John Sherman
#3360, aired 1999-03-26CEDERS $600: This national park created in 1890 didn't have its spectacular valley until California ceded it in 1906 Yosemite
#3294, aired 1998-12-24LET'S GO TO A MUSEUM $400: The Ulster Museum in this capital city dates back to 1890 Belfast
#3281, aired 1998-12-07U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: In 1890, at age 6, he and his family moved to Independence, MO., his home for most of the rest of his life Harry S. Truman
#3281, aired 1998-12-07U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: From 1890 to 1902, he served as professor of jurisprudence & political economy at Princeton Woodrow Wilson
#3275, aired 1998-11-27U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1890 this senator's Anti-Trust Act was passed John Sherman
#3255, aired 1998-10-30CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $400: Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet Sleeping Beauty
#3216, aired 1998-09-07U.S. AT WAR $400: The Battle of the Little Big Horn was part of the Sioux Wars that also included the massacre here in 1890 Wounded Knee
#3150, aired 1998-04-17BRIT LIT $200: His own disastrous trip to the Congo in 1890 was the basis for his "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad
#3128, aired 1998-03-18COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Originally the colors of Syracuse were pea green & pink, but in 1890 this one color was chosen orange
#3082, aired 1998-01-13U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1890 William Kemmler was in the hot seat as he became the first criminal to die by this method Electric chair
#3053, aired 1997-12-03WHY, I OTTO... $400: Known as the "Iron Chancellor", he was forced out of power by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890 Otto von Bismarck
#2999, aired 1997-09-18WORLD HISTORY $800: Later the namesake of an African country, he served as prime minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896 Cecil Rhodes
#2991, aired 1997-09-08AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1890 this GOP senator from Ohio sponsored an antitrust act & the Silver Purchase Act John Sherman
#2977, aired 1997-07-08FAMOUS NAMES $1000: Though she became queen of the Netherlands in 1890, she wasn't crowned until September 6, 1898 Queen Wilhelmina
#2913, aired 1997-04-09AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1000: After moving to Europe, this New Yorker wrote his 1890 novel "The Tragic Muse" about the art world of Europe Henry James
#2905, aired 1997-03-28WINDMILLS $200: The first windmill built to produce this type of power was built in 1890 Electric
#2899, aired 1997-03-20U.S. CITIES $200: The famous Tournament of Roses Parade was first held in this California city in 1890 Pasadena
#2883, aired 1997-02-26WORLD CITIES $1000: The discovery of gold at Kalgoorlie in 1890 aided the growth of this capital of Western Australia Perth
#2879, aired 1997-02-20U.S. HISTORY $500: This 1890 act was designed in part to prevent monopolies Sherman Anti-Trust Act
#2869, aired 1997-02-06NATIONAL PARKS $1000: This California park, the site of El Capitan, was administered by the U.S. Army from 1890 to 1914 Yosemite
#2832, aired 1996-12-1719TH CENTURY AUTHORS $200: His first novel, "The Snake's Pass", was published in 1890, 7 years before "Dracula" Bram Stoker
#2828, aired 1996-12-11BALLET $200: Princess Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle in act one of this 1890 ballet "Sleeping Beauty"
#2815, aired 1996-11-22HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: In 1890 this German emperor forced Otto Von Bismarck to resign as chancellor Kaiser Wilhelm II
#2787, aired 1996-10-15EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: In 1890 this grand duchy ended its political ties to the Dutch royal family Luxembourg
#2744, aired 1996-07-04JULY $400: It wasn't "small potatoes" when this became our 43rd state July 3, 1890 Idaho
#2735, aired 1996-06-21VERMONTERS $400: George Franklin Edmunds wrote most of this antitrust act of 1890 the Sherman (Antitrust Act)
#2720, aired 1996-05-31AMERICAN INDIANS $400: A poignant marker stands at the South Dakota gravesite of the Sioux Indians killed here in 1890 Wounded Knee
#2690, aired 1996-04-19OLD GLORY'S STARS $200: The number of stars added in 1890, the most since 1818, or the number of points on each star 5
#2685, aired 1996-04-12OLD BASEBALL TEAMS $400: In 1890 this city had a team called the Bisons; a little redundant, don't you think? Buffalo
#2612, aired 1996-01-02AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In September 1890 this church discontinued the sanctioning of polygamy the Mormon Church
#2601, aired 1995-12-18NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1000: Native country of 1920 Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun, whose 1890 novel "Hunger" made him famous Norway
#2583, aired 1995-11-22FIRST LADIES $600: In 1890 at age 5, she met her future husband in an Independence, Missouri Sunday school class Bess Truman
#2566, aired 1995-10-30PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: For a brief time in 1890 this inventor made talking dolls, but their voices were "exceedingly unpleasant" Edison
#2549, aired 1995-10-05NONFICTION $1000: In 1890 this reporter shared her travel experiences in "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" Nellie Bly
#2539, aired 1995-09-21NOTORIOUS $100: From about 1873 to 1890, the famous feud between these 2 mountain families was at its worst the Hatfields & McCoys
#2506, aired 1995-06-26ARTISTS $200: During a one-year stay at an asylum in St.-Remy, 1889-1890, he produced over 150 paintings Vincent van Gogh
#2466, aired 1995-05-01BALLET $800: Varvara Nikitina played the enchanted princess when this Tchaikovsky ballet debuted in 1890 Sleeping Beauty
#2466, aired 1995-05-01BALLET $1000: Born in Kiev in 1890, this legendary ballet star was the son of celebrated Polish dancers Nijinsky
#2452, aired 1995-04-11NOTORIOUS $400: In 1890, at Auburn Prison, William Kemmler became the first American executed in this device the electric chair
#2438, aired 1995-03-22AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1890 Congress established this territory & added the Panhandle region to it Oklahoma
#2433, aired 1995-03-1519th CENTURY ASIA $200: In 1890, in its 1st national election, males over 25 who paid taxes of 15 yen or more were eligible to vote Japan
#2432, aired 1995-03-14AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1890 2 bituminous labor organizations merged to form this union the United Mine Workers union
#2417, aired 1995-02-21WOMEN AUTHORS $200: She was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, England in 1890 Agatha Christie
#2389, aired 1995-01-12ART & ARTISTS $200: This artist's devoted brother Theo died just 6 months after his 1890 suicide Van Gogh
#2373, aired 1994-12-21AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1890 Castle Garden closed as a New York immigration depot & 2 years later this one opened Ellis Island
#2328, aired 1994-10-19LITERATURE $800: Published in 1890, it was Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray
#2311, aired 1994-09-26WORLD HISTORY $600: On March 18, 1890 this German chancellor was forced to resign by Wilhelm II Bismarck
#2305, aired 1994-09-16EUROPEAN ROYALTY $800: She was only 10 when she became queen of the Netherlands in 1890, so her mother, Emma, served as regent Queen Wilhelmina
#2288, aired 1994-07-13ART $500: This Dutchman painted his famous "Crows Over a Wheatfield" in the last weeks before his 1890 suicide van Gogh
#2287, aired 1994-07-12WOMEN'S GROUPS $400: Members of this group founded in 1890 are direct descendants of people who helped free the colonies the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution)
#2272, aired 1994-06-21NATIONAL MONUMENTS $600: This city's Castle Clinton National Monument served as an immigration depot 1855-1890 New York City
#2245, aired 1994-05-13BALLET $500: When this Tchaikovsky ballet premiered in 1890, a male dancer played Carabosse the evil fairy Sleeping Beauty
#2244, aired 1994-05-12INVENTORS $600: This inventor founded an Association for the Deaf in 1890 & it was renamed in his honor in 1953 Alexander Graham Bell
#2205, aired 1994-03-18BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: He began his tea dynasty by sailing to Ceylon in 1890 & buying every tea plantation he could find (Sir Thomas) Lipton
#2178, aired 1994-02-09ARTISTS $1000: In 1890 he started a water-lily garden across the street from his house in Giverny Monet
#2160, aired 1994-01-14COMPOSERS $800: This Russian ballet composer was deeply hurt when his patron Madame von Meck cut him off in 1890 Tchaikovsky
#2150, aired 1993-12-31HISTORIC NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1890 this Ohio senator introduced a bill prohibiting the monopolization of a market (John) Sherman
#2135, aired 1993-12-10AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This battleship was launched from the New York Navy Yard in 1890; it blew up in 1898 the Maine
#2104, aired 1993-10-28ACT ONE, SCENE ONE $1,000 (Daily Double): At the beginning of this 1890 Ibsen play, the title character has just returned from her honeymoon Hedda Gabler
#2089, aired 1993-10-07FAMOUS NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Reporter Elizabeth Cochrane's pen name; she went around the world as a publicity stunt in 1889-1890 Nellie Bly
#2058, aired 1993-07-14MOVIE STARS $200: Half of this comedy team was born in England in 1890; the other half was born in Georgia in 1892 Laurel and Hardy
#2038, aired 1993-06-16BIRTHPLACES $400: This flamboyant female evangelist wasn’t American but Canadian; she was born in Ontario in 1890 Aimee Semple McPherson
#1927, aired 1993-01-12ACTS $400: This 1890 act was used in the early 1900s to break up Standard Oil & the American Tobacco Company the Sherman Antitrust Act
#1881, aired 1992-11-09THE 1890s $900 (Daily Double): In an effort to curb monopolies, Congress passed this act in 1890 the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
#1881, aired 1992-11-09CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: This Russian's popular Polovitzian dances are from his 1890 opera "Prince Igor" Alexander Borodin
#1869, aired 1992-10-22HISTORY $500: In 1890, General George Leo von Caprivi replaced this man as chancellor of the German Empire Bismarck
#1866, aired 1992-10-19FAMOUS SCIENTISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1890 he became professor of physiology at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia (Ivan) Pavlov
#1852, aired 1992-09-29CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: In 1890, a year after his "The Master of Ballantrae" was published, he settled in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson
#1844, aired 1992-09-17DISCOVERIES $400: He found a way to get bromine out of brine & in 1890 started his chemical company (Henry) Dow
#1837, aired 1992-09-08BALLET $5,000 (Daily Double): When this ballet premiered in 1890, Carlotta Brianza danced the role of Princess Aurora The Sleeping Beauty
#1826, aired 1992-07-06COMPOSERS $400: In 1890 he began work on "Suite Bergamasque" for piano, which includes the celebrated "Clair de Lune" Claude Debussy
#1755, aired 1992-03-27AMERICAN HISTORY $200: These service academies played their first football game on Nov. 29, 1890 Army & Navy
#1754, aired 1992-03-26POETS & POETRY $600: This Hoosier poet wrote his 1890 poem "The Raggedy Man" in Hoosier dialect James Whitcomb Riley
#1724, aired 1992-02-1319th CENTURY AMERICA $1,500 (Daily Double): This last major conflict between Indians & U.S. troops occurred Dec. 29, 1890 Wounded Knee
#1723, aired 1992-02-12ART $200: From 1880 to his death in 1890, this Dutch artist's brother Theo supported him financially Vincent van Gogh
#1693, aired 1992-01-01THE 1890s $400: During the Ghost Dance uprising in 1890, this Sioux leader was shot and killed Sitting Bull
#1626, aired 1991-09-30WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1890 this diamond king became prime minister of the Cape Colony in Africa Cecil Rhodes
#1625, aired 1991-09-27BIRTHPLACES $400: Nijinsky made his first appearance in this capital of Ukraine in 1890 Kiev
#1624, aired 1991-09-26NOTORIOUS $200: In 1890 William Kemmler became the first person executed in this shocking manner electrocution
#1594, aired 1991-07-04U.S. HISTORY $600: Passed in 1890, it didn't work too well as some 50 new trusts were formed by 1897 the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
#1566, aired 1991-05-27QUOTES $400: Jacob Riis' 1890 indictment of slum conditions was titled "How the Other Half" does this Lives
#1549, aired 1991-05-02RELIGION $200: The Mormons officially ended this practice in 1890 polygamy
#1547, aired 1991-04-30MEDICAL HISTORY $200: In 1890, William Halsted began the practice of wearing these rubber items during surgery gloves
#1541, aired 1991-04-22FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: By 1890, his company dominated America's sleeping car business (George) Pullman
#1522, aired 1991-03-26HISTORY $400: Kaiser Wilhelm II dismissed this man as Chancellor of Germany in 1890 Bismarck
#1476, aired 1991-01-21THE OCCULT $200: Now sold in toy stores, this occult communication device was invented by William Fuld in 1890 the Ouija board
#1394, aired 1990-09-27INVENTIONS $100: Invented in 1890 as a health food, it's been sticking to the roofs of mouths for a century now peanut butter
#1368, aired 1990-07-11AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: In 1890 about 200 Sioux were killed during the "Ghost Dance war" at this S. Dakota site Wounded Knee
#1353, aired 1990-06-20EUROPEAN ARTISTS $400: This troubled Dutchman's career lasted only 10 years; he shot himself in 1890 Van Gogh
#1304, aired 1990-04-121890 $100: These 2 service academies played the first of their annual football games West Point & the Naval Academy at Annapolis
#1304, aired 1990-04-121890 $200: For the first time members of this religious group didn't win all the council seats in Salt Lake City the Mormons
#1304, aired 1990-04-121890 $300: A monopoly was created for James Buchanan Duke when he formed this tobacco conglomerate American Tobacco Company
#1304, aired 1990-04-121890 $400: These 2 national parks were established in California Yosemite & Sequoia
#1304, aired 1990-04-121890 $500: This execution method was used for the first time in New York's Auburn Prison electric chair
#1286, aired 1990-03-19FILE UNDER "E" $200: Eritrea, now the northernmost province of this country, was an Italian colony from 1890-1941 Ethiopia
#1242, aired 1990-01-16BUSINESS HISTORY $800: In 1890 Congress passed this 1st antitrust act declaring combination in restraint of trade illegal Sherman Act
#1223, aired 1989-12-20WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: In 1890 this newswoman beat Phileas Fogg's record by going around the world in less than 80 days Nellie Bly
#1204, aired 1989-11-23ROYALTY $200: This country hasn't been ruled by a king since Queen Wilhelmina's father died in 1890 the Netherlands
#1075, aired 1989-04-14THE 19TH CENTURY $400: Talk about young--in 1890 this Dutch queen ascended the throne at age 10 Wilhelmina
#1046, aired 1989-03-06HISTORIC NAMES $600: Crazy Horse was killed in jail in 1877, & he was killed in a scuffle with Indian police in 1890 Sitting Bull
#1039, aired 1989-02-23PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $600 (Daily Double): He was the last president born in the 19th century Dwight Eisenhower (1890)
#977, aired 1988-11-29THE KENNEDY WOMEN $100: Daughter of Boston mayor John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, she was born July 22, 1890 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
#888, aired 1988-06-15U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1890, this senator from Ohio introduced the famous anti-trust bill Sherman
#762, aired 1987-12-22STARTS WITH "H" $300: When the bicycle became popular about 1890, long, upward curving mustaches came to be called this a handlebar
#700, aired 1987-09-25KITCHEN FIRSTS $200: Made by Henry Avery in 1890, the 1st saucepan made of this metal was used until 1933 by Mrs. Avery aluminum
#686, aired 1987-09-07U.S. MILITARY $300: Until 1890 when these vessels came into prominence, the Navy had consisted mainly of cruisers battleships
#640, aired 1987-05-22BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1890, John M. Kohler heated a cattle trough & sprinkled it w/enamel powder to create his 1st of these bathtub
#639, aired 1987-05-21FAMOUS FIRSTS $600: The 1st was played at West Point, November 29, 1890 Army-Navy football game
#618, aired 1987-04-22INDIANS $500: The Indian policemen who killed this legendary chief Dec. 15, 1890 were named Tomahawk & Bullhead Sitting Bull
#579, aired 1987-02-26TEEN CUISINE $100: In 1890, a doctor developed this as an easily digested high protein food, with or without jelly peanut butter
#552, aired 1987-01-20BASEBALL $100: Stealing a player from Philadelphia in 1890 earned Pittsburgh this team name the Pirates
#504, aired 1986-11-13AGRICULTURE $200: It wasn't until about 1890 that this pest invaded the U.S. & ruined cotton crops boll weevil
#501, aired 1986-11-10JOURNALISM $800: Purchased by Pope Leo XIII in 1890, in the 1930s it was the only Italian paper free of fascist control L'Osservatore Romano
#495, aired 1986-10-311890's $200: In 1892, at age 53, WCTU founder Miss Frances Willard learned to ride one of these bicycle
#495, aired 1986-10-311890's $400: In 1896, the director of the Sorbonne's psychology lab, Alfred Binet, devised this test I.Q. test
#495, aired 1986-10-311890's $700 (Daily Double): The Chicago Exposition celebrated the 400th anniversary of this discovery of America by Christopher Columbus)
#495, aired 1986-10-311890's $800: After previously suggesting that Jews convert to Catholicism, Theodor Herzl founded this movement Zionism
#486, aired 1986-10-20POETRY $600: The 1st volume of this American poet's works was published in 1890, 4 years after her death Emily Dickinson
#420, aired 1986-04-181890's $200: 1st ever was built by G.W. Gale Ferris for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 a Ferris wheel
#420, aired 1986-04-181890's $400: He survived Little Bighorn & a Wild West Show, but was gunned down by troops in 1890 Sitting Bull
#420, aired 1986-04-181890's $800: In 1891, this petite painter produced his first music hall posters Toulouse-Lautrec
#420, aired 1986-04-181890's $900 (Daily Double): 3 of original 5 prize categories established by Alfred Nobel's will after he died in 1896 (3 of) physics, physiology or medicine, chemistry, literature, & peace
#420, aired 1986-04-181890's $1000: After 1892, this New York City harbor site was called in several languages "the Isle of Tears" Ellis Island
#383, aired 1986-02-261890's $200: In 1890, a new sports arena opened in New York bearing this same name as its predecessor Madison Square Garden
#383, aired 1986-02-261890's $400: In 1895, this Irish playwright was sentenced to 2 years' hard labor on a morals charge Oscar Wilde
#383, aired 1986-02-261890's $600: In 1896 decision, Supreme Court said facilities could be racialy separate if they were this equal
#362, aired 1986-01-28FOOD & DRINK $600: It was grown in South Carolina in 1890, but was too costly to compete with Asian brews tea
#327, aired 1985-12-10INVENTIONS $600: Computers are successors to an invention used to count this in 1890 census
#104, aired 1985-01-311890S $200: Under pressure, the Mormons renounced it in 1890 polygamy
#72, aired 1984-12-18COLLEGES $1,000 (Daily Double): N.Y. State's Madison University changed its name in 1890 to honor this famous soapmaking family Colgate

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#8830, aired 2023-03-17STATEHOOD: Congress relented in 1890 after this prospective state said it would wait 100 years rather than come in without the women Wyoming
#8731, aired 2022-10-31PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow Wounded Knee
#17, aired 2022-02-22THE PERIODIC TABLE: By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France gallium
#8559, aired 2022-01-20WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier
#8551, aired 2022-01-1019th CENTURY NOTABLES: On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever" Vincent van Gogh
#8091, aired 2019-11-11FAMOUS PHRASES: In the title of a groundbreaking 1890 expose of poverty in New York City slums, these 3 words follow "How the" Other Half Lives
#7921, aired 2019-02-04THE U.S. SENATE: An 1890 resolution by Senator Aldrich was killed by this, the very technique it sought to limit; a 1917 rule set some boundaries on it the filibuster
#7339, aired 2016-07-07BRITISH LITERARY CHARACTERS: In an 1887 novel this narrator's old wartime injury is in his shoulder; in an 1890 novel by the same author, it's in his leg Dr. Watson
#7104, aired 2015-07-02EUROPEAN ARTISTS: In 1890 a critic said this artist "directs his brush with enormous dabs of impasto of very pure color in sinuous trails" Vincent van Gogh
#6480, aired 2012-11-16CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair" "Clair de Lune"
#6449, aired 2012-10-04AUTHORS: In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo River Joseph Conrad
#5879, aired 2010-03-18AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum
#5866, aired 2010-03-01NOTORIOUS: Often described as a redhead, this accused killer called her hair light brown on her 1890 passport application Lizzie Borden
#5583, aired 2008-12-10AMERICANA: An 1890 act of Congress says these can be redesigned no more than once every 25 years coins
#5503, aired 2008-07-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Her illustrations for 1890's "A Happy Pair" included elegantly dressed rabbits Beatrix Potter
#3940, aired 2001-10-19MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM NAMES: This team received its name after an 1890 incident in which it "stole" away an important player from another team Pittsburgh Pirates
#3190, aired 1998-06-12ORGANIZATIONS: This women's organization founded in 1890 was chartered by Congress in 1896 the Daughters of the American Revolution
#2801, aired 1996-11-04U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last president born in the 19th century Dwight David Eisenhower (1890)
#2695, aired 1996-04-26EUROPEAN DRAMA: In Act One of this 1890 play, the heroine has just returned from her honeymoon; at the end, she shoots herself Hedda Gabler
#2502, aired 1995-06-20ORGANIZATIONS: This national Patriotic Society was organized in 1890 by First Lady Caroline Scott Harrison (The National Society of) the Daughters of the American Revolution
#2414, aired 1995-02-16AMERICAN HISTORY: This South Dakota community was the site of 2 clashes between the U.S. gov't & Indians, in 1890 & 1973 Wounded Knee
#1903, aired 1992-12-09BALLET: The elaborate prologue of this 1890 ballet features a christening & a curse Sleeping Beauty
#1306, aired 1990-04-16BASEBALL: This major league manager was born July 30, 1890 in Kansas City, Missouri Casey Stengel

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