| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | FIVE GUYS $400: Pierpont is the middle name of this mogul who arranged the merger of 2 companies to form General Electric in 1892 Morgan |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $800: Many North American lakes are named for this bird; in 1892 Pres. Harrison stayed at one in the Adirondacks & heard the bird's mad laugh a loon |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | PAINT, BY NUMBERS $400: In 2015 "Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)", his 1892 oil painting, sold for more than $200 million Gauguin |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1200: Irish teenager Annie Moore made history here January 1, 1892 Ellis Island |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | HEY, LAD-"E" $400: In 1892 this founder of Christian Science moved to a house called Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire (Mary Baker) Eddy |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $400: In 1892 this party probably didn't raise a glass to getting 2.2% of the popular vote; 3 decades later, its cause was law the Prohibition Party |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | FINNISH HIM! $1000: "The Kullervo Symphony" sounds like a thriller novel but in 1892, was this man's first large-scale orchestral piece Sibelius |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On January 1, 1892 the first of millions of immigrants was processed here Ellis Island |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | A COLLEGE / TOWN $600: The University of New Mexico, where classes began in 1892, before statehood Albuquerque |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | THE 1890s $600: Dedicated to protecting the environment, the Sierra Club was founded in 1892 with this naturalist as its first president Muir |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LETTER PERFECT $800: Chicago's rapid transit system; the South Side section opened in 1892 the L |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | LET'S GET HISTORICAL $1000: At Homestead, Penn. in 1892, striking steelworkers fought a gun battle with hired guards of this detective agency the Pinkertons (the Pinkerton National Detective Agency) |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER? $1200: Social studies:
It first appeared in "The Youth's Companion" only 13 years ago in 1892 & we say it in class every day the Pledge of Allegiance |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): This world capital began hosting Holmenkollen ski jump competition in 1892 Oslo |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $400: David Moishele is an aging wealthy merchant with problematic children in the 1892 play "The Yiddish" this Shakespeare tragedy King Lear |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | CLUBS $600: Fittingly, this organization was founded in 1892 for outings in "mountain regions of the Pacific coast" the Sierra Club |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $400: Tchaikovsky had a double premiere on Dec. 18, 1892: his opera "Iolanta" & this ballet The Nutcracker |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $400: The flying wedge was first used in this sport by Harvard in 1892 but became illegal due to players being brutalized football |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $400: In 1892 Buenos Aires & Bogota both hoped to open new opera houses named for this explorer; only Bogota's was inaugurated on time Columbus |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN $600: Gentleman Jim Corbett picked up this sporting title in New Orleans in 1892 but lost it in Nevada 5 years later heavyweight champion |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN $1000: We're big fans of this 1892 Oscar Wilde title character who has some serious mother issues Lady Windermere |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | PRIZED POSSESSIONS $800: In 1892 John Hitz, from Alexander Graham Bell's Institute for the Deaf, gifted her a very special "touch watch" Helen Keller |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE WILD WEST $1000: On Oct. 5 1892, Bob, Grat & Emmett, this gang of brothers who ran with Bill Doolin, tried to rob 2 Kansas banks; only Emmett lived Dalton Gang |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | HISTORICAL NONFICTION $1200: Did she murder her dad & stepmom in 1892? Decide for yourself with new evidence revealed in Cara Robertson's "The Trial of" her Lizzie Borden |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ON THE CALENDAR $2000: In the anniversary year 1892, Benjamin Harrison urged observance of a holiday honoring this "pioneer of progress" Christopher Columbus |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE NOT-SO-WILD WEST $1000: An army post & then a cowtown, this Texas city got some culture in 1892 when 25 ladies founded its art gallery Fort Worth |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $400: U.S. schoolkids began reciting this as part of Columbus Day observances in 1892 The Pledge of Allegiance |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $1600: In 1892 John Muir co-founded this organization dedicated to protecting the great outdoors the Sierra Club |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ALLITERATIVE BUSINESS $800: Asa Candler bought out John Pemberton & his partners & established this company in Georgia in 1892 Coca-Cola |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | SPEED READING $1600: Oddly, "Never act in haste" is the moral of the 1892 adventure novel "The Dash for" this Sudanese capital Khartoum |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | IT'S A STRIKE $1000: An 1892 strike at this man's Homestead Steel Mill outside Pittsburgh led to a deadly confrontation between workers & strikebreakers Andrew Carnegie |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $1200: Mark Haddon got the title of this novel from an observation made by Sherlock Holmes in an 1892 story The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | FUN WITH ZIP CODES $1000: The ZIP Code 12345 in Schenectady, New York lights up this company that began operations there in 1892 General Electric |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | PAC-12 SCHOOLS $2000: In 1892 the University of Deseret got this new name the University of Utah |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | LET'S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR 'EM $200: In 1892 baking powder salesman William Wrigley began throwing in 2 packages of this with each can, which worked out okay chewing gum |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | NON-POLITICAL PRESIDENTS $2000: In 1892 he founded the Sierra Club & served as its first president John Muir |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE IDES OF MARCH $600: On March 15, 1892 Jesse Reno patented the first of these transports, the Reno inclined elevator the escalator |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | A TROPHY CATEGORY $400: This college football trophy is named for a coach who got his law degree from Penn in 1892 the Heisman Trophy |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $800: Carnegie chairman Henry Clay Frick survived being shot & stabbed during an 1892 labor dispute in this industry the steel industry |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | BRAND AWARENESS $1600: The name of a hotel in Monterey became this brand name that first appeared on canned peaches in 1892 Del Monte |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $600: This corporation founded in 1892 wants you to know it's an urban myth that its product can dissolve a tooth overnight Coca-Cola |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $200: In 1892 Edison's Light Company became this entity that is still a big deal today General Electric |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE $2000: You can see why an 1892 building at the University of Liverpool inspired this term for a university other than Oxford or Cambridge red brick universities |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | THE SHOE MUST GO ON $1000: Comfortech is a line from this family-named men's shoe brand that began in Chicago in 1892 Florsheim |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | 19th CENTURY SPORTS $1200: On June 6, 1892 he became the first president to attend a major league baseball game while in office Benjamin Harrison |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | 19th CENTURY SPORTS $1600: On Nov. 12, 1892, $500 from this city's Allegheny Athletic Assn. made Pudge Heffelfinger the 1st known pro football player Pittsburgh |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $1600: His tenure as poet laureate was the longest at 42 years, 1850 to 1892 Lord Tennyson |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | YOU'RE SUCH A HOMER $1000: In 1892 he bought a first-class ticket on the E. Louisiana Railroad; later, he found himself in front of Judge John Ferguson Homer Plessy |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | TRUE STORY $200: Frank Spiering titled his in-depth story of an alleged 1892 double murderer this, just her first name Lizzie |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $800: By 1892 this former fort in upper New York Bay had become the USA's main immigration reception center Ellis Island |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: As architect Louis Sullivan wrote, Chicago's Masonic Temple "raised its head" 22 stories in 1892 & this word "came into use" skyscraper |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | OF INDUSTRY $400: In 1892 this large modern corp. resulted from a merger of 3 entities including Thomas Edison's company General Electric |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | LANDMARKS $800: A statue in Cork honors an Irish teenager who was the first immigrant processed through this landmark on January 1, 1892 Ellis Island |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | ANOTHER DAY OLDER $200: One more patent... on April 12, 1892 he received his 717th, for an ore-screening apparatus Edison |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS $400: In Halifax' Holy Cross Cemetery, you can visit Sir John Thompson, who in 1892 became the first PM of this religion Catholicism |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | ELLIS ISLAND $2000: On January 1, 1892 15-year-old Annie Moore from this largest Irish county became the first processed & that's no blarney County Cork |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | CRIME WAVE $600: The first criminal caught via the use of these was murderer Francisca Rojas in Argentina in 1892 fingerprints |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | A LIFETIME OF SERVICE $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1850 to 1892 Tennyson scribbled away as the holder of this post Poet Laureate |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | 1890s AMERICA $1600: In 1892, this firm's detectives were management muscle during a strike at Homestead Steel in Pennsylvania the Pinkerton agency |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | THE MONEY MAN $200: An 1892 half-dollar commemorated this explorer Columbus |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | KANSAS $1000: John Kloehr & other citizens of Coffeyville, Kansas made sure that this gang's Oct. 5, 1892 raid was its last the Dalton Gang |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | "SHO" TIME $800: Wild Bill Hickok never knew this word for a face-off--it dates only to 1892, pardner showdown |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | MURDERED TO DEATH $800: The prosecution said this Mass. woman tried to buy poison on Aug. 3, 1892, the day before the murders of 2 family members Lizzie Borden |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | FINNISH HIM! $1600: He studied law in Helsinki before completing his first large-scale orchestral work, 1892's "Kullervo Symphony" Jean Sibelius |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | TOOTHPASTE $400: Inspired by artists' paints, in 1892 Dr. Washington Sheffield was the 1st to sell tooth-paste in these tubes |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | THE LATE 19th CENTURY $1200: In 1892 astronomer E.E. Barnard discovered Amalthea, the 5th moon of this planet; the first 4 were found in 1610 Jupiter |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | CELEBRITY ORIGINS $1000: (I'm George Stephanopoulos.) Like many Greek-Americans before them, my parents settled in Massachusetts & I was born in this city, site of an infamous double murder in 1892 Fall River |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE ARTS $400: December is a good time to see this 1892 ballet that features the Sugar Plum Fairy The Nutcracker |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | EXPLORATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1892, 17 years before his North Pole fame, Robert Peary proved this was an island, not part of a continent Greenland |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DOES HOLD WATER $200: This container named from the Greek for "hot" was invented in 1892 thermos |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | THE OLD WEST $2000: No Doolin around, it's the last name of outlaws Bob, Grat & Emmett, whose 1892 dual-bank heist left Bob & Grat breathless Dalton |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | BALLET BELLES $400: A dancer called "The Accused" uses an axe in "Fall River Legend", based on 1892 murders she was charged with Lizzie Borden |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | BOXING DAY $1200: The first heavyweight match in the U.S. fought under these rules was in 1892 when Jim Corbett beat John L. Sullivan Queensberry Rules |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Launched in 1892, the Olympia soon sailed to the Pacific, where she fought at Manila Bay, the first battle of this war, of which Olympia is the last surviving ship the Spanish-American War |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | LIKE WE DID LAST SUMMER $600: On Aug. 4, 1892 the parents of this Mass. woman were found dead; the suspected weapon was an axe in the basement Lizzie Borden |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | DAYS $400: May 28, 1892 is the founding day of this conservation club the Sierra Club |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | HEY, LAD-"E" $800: In 1892 this founder of Christian Science moved to a house called Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire Mary Baker Eddy |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | PIN THE TALE ON THE WRITER $800 (Daily Double): "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
(1892) Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | EDITOR $1600: In 1892 Francis Bellamy, editor at The Youth's Companion, penned this, spoken by U.S. youth every school day the Pledge of Allegiance |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $800: Joshua Pusey patented these in book form in 1892 but didn't "strike it" rich until several years later matches |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | 1892 $200: On January 20 this sport's first official game was played at the Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium basketball |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | 1892 $400: On January 1 teenager Annie Moore from Ireland became the first of millions of immigrants to pass through here Ellis Island |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | 1892 $600: This cotton pest first reached the U.S. when it crossed over the Mexican border into Texas the boll weevil |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | 1892 $800: The Homestead Strike at one of this tycoon's steel plants was broken, setting back the union movement Carnegie |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | 1892 $1000: Homer Plessy was arrested in June for sitting in a whites-only R.R. car, leading to this Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | A LIFE IN BRIEF $1000: Born in 1892, military man, into Spain management, still dead since 1975 (Francisco) Franco |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHARLES DISCHARGED $1000: This man who muscled his way into the world as Angelo Siciliano in 1892 left his well-built body Dec. 23, 1972 Charles Atlas |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $800: Beppe, a harlequin, is a character in this 1892 opera Pagliacci |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | FAMOUS IVY LEAGUERS $600: Name this college football coach who got his law degree from Penn in 1892 & we'll give you $600, but no trophy (John) Heisman |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | POLAR EXPLORATION $1200: In 1892 Robert Peary proved that this was an island, not an Arctic continent, by traversing its northeast corner Greenland |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | WHAT'S UP, PIERRE? $400: In 1892 Pierre de Coubertin first proposed reviving this competition; 4 years later (fittingly), it happened the Olympics |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | NOTEABLE NAMES $1000: This Chinese president graduated from medical college in 1892 Dr. Sun Yat-sen |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | U.S. COINS $200: Produced in 1892, the first commemorative U.S. coin featured this non-American Christopher Columbus |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $2000: Founded a sporting goods & apparel store in 1892 that today focuses on casual wear Abercrombie & Fitch |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | THE 1890s $200: In 1892 this Chicago company began offering free chewing gum with each can of baking powder sold Wrigley's |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: From 1892 to 1895 this Czech served as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City Dvorák |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | WHO PAINTED WHOM? $400: 1892:
"Vahine no te vi" or "Woman with Mango" (Paul) Gauguin |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | WHO PAINTED WHOM? $600: 1892:
"Two Women Dancing at the Moulin Rouge" Lautrec |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | WORLD LEADER CIA FILES $800: Born Dec. 4, 1892 El Ferrol, Spain... made general at 34... extensive death coverage after fact... (Francisco) Franco |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | BLUE LITERATURE $400: In this detective's 1892 "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose Sherlock Holmes |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | THE OLD WEST $2000: The gang including these brothers tried to rob 2 Kansas banks Oct. 5, 1892, but ran into bullets from the locals the Dalton brothers |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | MEET ME IN THE "QUAD" $600: The 1892 celebration of Columbus' discovery of America quadricentennial |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | WORLD RELIGIONS $2000: The founder of this Persian-based religion died in 1892 in a prison colony Baha'i |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | LENIN $400: Vladimir Lenin was admitted to the bar & practiced this profession in Samara in 1892; many of his clients were peasants law |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | ISLAND HOPPING $400: Between 1892 & 1924 most immigrants to the U.S. came through facilities on this island Ellis Island |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | INDIANA JONESING $2000: Born in Elwood in 1892, this folksy Republican presidential candidate lost to FDR in 1940 Wendell Willkie |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $1200: In this 1892 Leoncavallo opera, the clowns enter an Italian village in a parade led by a donkey cart Pagliacci (Il Pagliacci accepted) |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | PRIMARY COLORS $800: In the election of 1892, the Populist Party supported "free" this mineral (also a color) silver |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $3,000 (Daily Double): After moving to the South Seas, he wrote the 1892 South Seas-set adventure story "The Beach of Falesa" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | MICROBIOLOGY MILESTONES $200: In 1892 Dimitri Ivanovski showed there were agents smaller than bacteria causing disease; we know them as these viruses |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | ALTERNATE LITERARY TOMBSTONES $400: 1892-1973:
I journey to the uttermost west of "The Undying Lands" where elves, I hope, will welcome me Tolkien |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | HISTORY CLASS $800: This N.Y. Island, a reception center for immigrants from 1892 to 1954, is named for a man who once owned it Ellis Island |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | THIS AMERICAN LIFE $800: First edition May 31, 1819, waxes poetic, is under leaves & grass March 26, 1892 Walt Whitman |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | OPERAS BY CHARACTERS $2000: 1892: Tonio & Beppe, a couple of clowns Pagliacci |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | CENTRAL PARK STATUES $200: Funded by subscriptions to NYC's Il Progresso newspaper & unveiled in 1892, his memorial depicts his 3 ships Columbus |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | HEY 19 $2000: At age 19 in 1892, this Russian pianist wrote his "Prelude in C-Sharp Minor", which helped launch his career Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | BALLETS THAT TEENS LIKE $400: In many versions of this classic 1892 holiday ballet, Clara rides off to the Kingdom of Sweets in a magical sleigh The Nutcracker |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | HALLOWEEN: TRICK OR TREAT $800: The great sleuth gets tricked in the first story in these "of Sherlock Holmes", published on Halloween 1892 The Adventures |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FRENCH ARTISTS $400: His 1892 work "Manao Tupapau" shows a superstitious Tahitian girl who is terrified of a dead spirit Gauguin |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | AND THEN YOU "DY" $800: Around 1892 Nikola Tesla invented one that used alternating current a dynamo |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | AMERICANA $2000: Wyoming county known for its cattle war of 1892 Johnson County |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1600: Appropriately, this Russian playwright wrote an 1892 story called "After the Theater" Chekhov |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | BOXER $1600: He won the heavyweight title in 1892 & was known as "Gentleman Jim" for his fancy style of dress "Gentleman Jim" Corbett |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1892 to 1895 he headed NYC's National Conservatory of Music; he returned to Bohemia due to homesickness (Antonin) Dvorák |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): This 1892 Leoncavallo work has a play within the opera Pagliacci |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | MORTAL MATTERS $1600: His "Song Of Myself" ended on March 26, 1892 Walt Whitman |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | A LIFE OF "ESE" $1200: Internal combustion engine patented in Germany in 1892 Diesel |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | HISTORIC PERSONALIZED PLATES $2000: 1892-1975 Francisco Franco |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1000: This name for a type of flask invented by James Dewar in 1892 became a trademark a Thermos |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | BEVERAGES $400: In 1892 Asa Candler remarketed a medicine as this soft drink, & the rest is history Coke (or Coca-Cola) |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | ALL CROATIA GREAT & SMALL $1,500 (Daily Double): Better-known name of the man born Josip Broz in Kumrovec, Croatia May 7, 1892 Tito |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | MINNESOTANS $800: Reportedly the richest man in the world when he died in 1976, he was born in Minneapolis in 1892 Jean Paul Getty |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR $200: Ellis Island opened Jan. 1, 1892 & the first immigrant was from County Cork on this island Ireland |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | SHIPWRECKS $400: Built in 1892 but with a hull still made of this, the 300-foot Frank O'Connor sank in Lake Michigan in 1919 wood |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | COMPOSERS $400: This composer & conductor gave his last performance with the Marines in July 1892 & formed his own band in Sept. (John Philip) Sousa |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | THE 5 BEETLES $1600: This desctructive beetle spread into Texas in 1892 the boll weevil |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | FOUNDERS $2000: In 1892, in exile in the U.S., he founded Patria, the journal of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (Jose) Martí |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | OLD WEST DESPERADOES $3,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 5, 1892 5 members of this gang entered Coffeyville, Kansas to rob 2 banks; only Emmett survived the Dalton Gang |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | THE MALE IS IN THE CZECH $1,800 (Daily Double): In 1892 this composer became director of New York's National Conservatory of Music (Antonin) Dvorak |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | GROVER CLEVELAND ROCKS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this year Grover won the presidential election with 58 more electoral votes than he'd won with in 1884 1892 |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | AMERICANA $200: It opened its doors as an immigration station on January 1, 1892 Ellis Island |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: 1980s sportswear designer who began use as an immigration center near the Statue of Liberty in 1892 Perry Ellis Island |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | OF CHAMPIONS $600: In 1892 this gentleman knocked out John L. Sullivan to become the new heavyweight champion Corbett |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | SHOCKING ART $1200: In 1892 Berlin authorities screamed & closed the exhibit by this Scandinavian artist (Edvard) Munch |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | KANSAS $1000: A Coffeyville museum tells of the 1892 attempted bank robbery by this gang & how they got shot up by the citizenry the Dalton Boys |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | FASHIONABLE STORES $1600: This chain founded as a sportswear & camping store in 1892 publishes a cool quarterly magazine Abercrombie & Fitch |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,600 (Daily Double): His running mates were Thomas Hendricks in 1884, A.G. Thurman in 1888 & Adlai Stevenson in 1892 (Grover) Cleveland |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: This naturalist helped found the Sierra Club in 1892 & served as its first president John Muir |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | SHOCKING! $600: This huge electric company was formed in 1892 by the merger of Thomas Edison's company with its main rival General Electric |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | ON THE "M"AP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew flies over a glacier in Alaska.) This glacier, 13 miles from downtown Juneau, was called Auk Glacier by naturalist John Muir; the name was changed in 1892 the Mendenhall Glacier |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | LAST WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): This 1892 Leoncavallo opera ends with "La commedia e finita", or "The comedy is finished" I Pagliacci |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | J.R.R. TOLKIEN $400: Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in 1892 in this country & lived there until he was 4 South Africa |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | "W"RITERS $400: In 1892 rehearsals of his play "Salome" were halted by the censor Oscar Wilde |
| #4515, aired 2004-04-02 | ROYAL LANDMARKS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, Germany.) The Emperor's Pew is where this German emperor sat when the castle church was rededicated in 1892 Kaiser Wilhelm (II) |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | ELLIS ISLAND $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew) On January 1, 1892 Annie Moore, a 15-year-old lass from this country, was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island Ireland |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | GO FORTH ON AUGUST FOURTH $800: Aug. 4, 1892:
She allegedly axes her father & stepmother to death in Fall River, Massachusetts Lizzie Borden |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1892 this party met in Omaha; its plank called for the secret ballot & the unlimited coinage of silver at a 16:1 ratio Populist Party |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | TRANSPORTATION $1200: According to a classic 1892 song, it's what I couldn't afford that caused me to get a bicycle built for 2 carriage |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | COFFEE BRANDS $600: In 1892 Joel Cheek developed a blend of coffee for a Nashville hotel, hence this coffee's name Maxwell House |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | VICTIMS $1,400 (Daily Double): Last name of 1892 axe murderees Andrew & Abby Borden |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | MOTHER'S DAY $800: Believing true healing came from God's power, she formed the Mother Church in 1892 to promote her "Science" Mary Baker Eddy |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | STATION $200: On January 1, 1892 this receiving station for immigrants in Upper N.Y. Bay opened its doors for the first time Ellis Island |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | USURPED IDEAS OF 3rd PARTIES $200: These taxes that came with the 16th Amendment in 1913 were proposed by 3rd parties in 1892 income taxes |
| #4019, aired 2002-02-07 | INVENTORS $600: In 1892 they opened a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio the Wright brothers |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): This Leoncavallo opera of 1892 has a Commedia Dell'Arte playlet within it Pagliacci |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | REWRITTEN TOMBSTONES $500: 1809-1892:
"A poet laureate who wouldn't lord it over you" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | BALLET $200: Herr Drosselmeyer brings Clara a special Christmas gift in this 1892 ballet The Nutcracker |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | THE FOOD BUSINESS $200: The original shredder was Henry Perky, who in 1892, "shredded" this for breakfast cereal wheat |
| #3896, aired 2001-07-09 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $200: The first person to pass through this immigrant processing facility was Ireland's Annie Moore in 1892 Ellis Island |
| #3886, aired 2001-06-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: He began selling his first gum brands, Lotta & Vassar in 1892; Juicy Fruit came a year later William Wrigley |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Toulouse-Lautrec's 1892 painting "At" this music hall features portraits of himself, his cousin & other patrons Moulin Rouge |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | TO THE CORPS $200: From 1880 to 1892, this patriotic composer directed the U.S. Marine Corps Band John Philip Sousa |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | FICTIONAL NOBILITY $400: Mrs. Erlynne turns out to be the mother of this Wilde woman in an 1892 play Lady Windermere |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | JUNE 26 $200: This "Good Earth" author was put on the good earth on June 26, 1892 Pearl S. Buck |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | STRIKING $400: In 1892 a workers' strike at this steel magnate's Homestead, Penn. plant led to several injuries & deaths Andrew Carnegie |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | HEY "LADY"! $800: First performed in 1892, this comedy of manners by Oscar Wilde is a study in human jealousy "Lady Windermere's Fan" |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | 1890s SCIENCE $500: In 1892 Jupiter's moon Amalthea became the last satellite discovered without using this process photography |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: In 1892 the Illinois legislature made this president's birthday a legal holiday Abraham Lincoln |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | ODDS & ENDS $400: A little hobbit told us this author was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1892 J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: The music of this Tchaikovsky "Suite" comes from his 1892 ballet, popular at Christmas "The Nutcracker" |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | SHORT BIOS $800: Born 1892 in Germany, shot down 80 enemy planes in WWI, himself shot down in 1918 Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron") |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A BALLET DANCER $200: Learn to do your shopping early; Decembers will be spent rehearsing this ballet that premiered in December 1892 "The Nutcracker" |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | MAGAZINES $1000: This man's "Lady's Book" was published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1892 Louis Godey |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1892, a national alliance of men in this job formed the Populist Party farmers |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | SUITE TALK $400 (Daily Double): This famous 1892 Tchaikovsky suite features the "Miniature Overture" the Nutcracker Suite |
| #3226, aired 1998-09-21 | DO YOU HAVE ANY KINGS? $300: Born in 1892, this future Ethiopian king became governor of Harar as a teenager Haile Selassie |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | WALL PAINTERS $600: In 1892 the World's Columbian Expo in Chicago hired this woman impressionist to paint a mural Mary Cassatt |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | BETTER MOUSETRAPS $200: Keep your coffee warm in one of these bottles invented by Sir James Dewar in 1892 Thermos |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | THE BUSINESS WORLD $5,000 (Daily Double): Because many of these have happened to GE stock, 1 share bought in 1892 would be 1,536 today Stock splits |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | FAIRIES $300: In December 1892 "The Nutcracker" was first produced with Antonietta Dell'era in this role Sugar Plum Fairy |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | WILDE $200: Wilde's first stage success was the tale of this woman's fan in 1892 Lady Windermere |
| #3059, aired 1997-12-11 | 19th C. AMERICA $1000: In 1892 farm leaders from this new political party nominated James B. Weaver for the presidency Populist Party |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | ART & ARTISTS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1892 this French artist painted the nightclub waltzers seen here: Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | SHRED THIS! $100: Henry Perky turned out his first batch of this cereal in 1892; in 1928 Nabisco bought his company Shredded wheat |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | GOOD IDEAS $200: In 1892 Dr. Washington Sheffield first sold his cream dentifrice in a collapsible one of these Tube |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | AMERICAN MUSIC $400: After resigning as director of the Marine Band, he gave his first concert with his own band Sept. 26, 1892 John Philip Sousa |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | ODDS & ENDS $100: In 1892 a Dr. Sheffield first put this hygiene product in a tube Toothpaste |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: In 1892 this New Haven, Connecticut university first admitted women to its graduate school Yale |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLUE LITERATURE $200: This detective solved 1892's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", but didn't have the guilty party arrested Sherlock Holmes |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: His 1892 painting "Manao Tupapau" depicts a young Tahitian girl & a scary-looking spirit Paul Gauguin |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: This island in New York Harbor began operating as an immigration station January 1, 1892 Ellis Island |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | GOOD THINKING $400: In 1892 Henry Perky invented a machine to shred this grain & form it into little pillow-shaped biscuits wheat |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $800: In 1892 this Finn married Aino Jarnefelt, sister of the Finnish-born composer Armas Jarnefelt Jean Sibelius |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | ART $200: In 1892 he painted "Vahine No Te Vi. Woman With Mango" Paul Gauguin |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | NATURE $200: This cotton pest first reached the U.S. at Brownsville, Texas around 1892 the boll weevil |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THEATRE $1000: The Irish Literary Theatre's first production was this poet's 1892 play "The Countess Cathleen" William Butler Yeats |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 1892 the Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company adopted this name Eastman Kodak |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: This Norwegian's play "Bygmester Solness", or "The Master Builder", was published in 1892 Henrik Ibsen |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | NEWSPAPERS $400: It's said that "The Little Bears", run by this San Francisco paper in 1892, was the first comic strip The San Francisco Examiner |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $100: This pledge to the flag first appeared in print in 1892, but the words "under God" weren't added until 1954 Pledge of Allegiance |
| #2703, aired 1996-05-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Created by a merger in 1892, this company has been bringing "good things to life" for 100 years General Electric |
| #2628, aired 1996-01-24 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $1000: This "Finlandia" composer evoked the mood of Scandinavian sagas in his 1892 tone poem "En Saga" Jean Sibelius |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | POETS $1000: His 1892 work "Barrack-Room Ballads" included such poems as "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" & "Danny Deever" Rudyard Kipling |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: His 1892 comedy "Lady Windermere's Fan" inspired the 1960 musical "A Delightful Season" Oscar Wilde |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: His first flavors in 1892 were Lotta Gum & Vassar; Juicy Fruit appeared the following year Wrigley |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | ART $1000: This Frenchman put himself & his cousin Tapie in his 1892 painting "At the Moulin Rouge" Lautrec |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | ART $600: In 1892 he painted Jane Avril entering & leaving the Moulin Rouge Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | ART $1000: In 1892 this Impressionist began his series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral Claude Monet |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | TRANSPORTATION $800: In 1892 this German patented an internal-combustion engine that didn't use spark plugs Diesel |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | COMPOSERS $200: This Tchaikovsky suite was first played in March 1892, about 9 months before the ballet of the same name The Nutcracker |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: It's been a legal holiday in the U.S. since 1892; some folks call it Discovery Day Columbus Day |
| #2381, aired 1995-01-02 | WORLD MONEY $1000: The first Dutch coins to depict this queen were used in 1892, when she was 12 years old Wilhelmina |
| #2351, aired 1994-11-21 | ART $600: In 1892 this French artist portrayed dancer La Goulue entering the Moulin Rouge Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $300: From 1892 to 1900 she was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Susan B. Anthony |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | WORLD ALMANAC 1893 $300: Chicago packed & marketed 5,249,798 of these animals in the year ending March 1, 1892 hogs |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | WORLD ALMANAC 1893 $400: A fifth satellite was found orbiting this planet by E.E. Barnard in 1892; the others were found by Galileo Jupiter |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | THIRD PARTIES $800: Among parties wanting "cheap money" were the Populists in 1892 & this party in 1876 the Greenbacks |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | THE 1890s $200: On Feb. 12, 1892 his birthday became an official holiday in Illinois Abraham Lincoln |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | THE 1890s $1000: In 1892 the cornerstone for this NYC cathedral was laid on Dec. 27, its patron saint's feast day St. John the Divine |
| #2255, aired 1994-05-27 | 1890s AMERICA $500: This poet died March 26, 1892 in Camden, New Jersey Walt Whitman |
| #2251, aired 1994-05-23 | MINNESOTANS $400: This oilman who founded a Malibu, California museum was born in Minneapolis in 1892 (John Paul) Getty |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | 19th CENTURY POLITICIANS $600: In 1892 this Ohio governor was third in delegate votes at the GOP Nat'l Convention; he won in 1896 McKinley |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: This woman who allegedly murdered her parents with an ax in 1892 died in 1927 (Lizzie) Borden |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | COMPOSERS $600: Born in 1892, he was given the first name Ferdinand but you probably remember him as Ferde (Ferde) Grofe |
| #2172, aired 1994-02-01 | U.S. COMMEMORATIVE COINS $200: Sold during an 1892-93 exposition, America's first commemorative coin depicted this explorer Columbus |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 1892 a Denver lawyer created this breakfast cereal, using a machine that pressed wheat into thin strips Shredded Wheat |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | GROVER CLEVELAND $800 (Daily Double): Cleveland was defeated for president by this man in 1888 & defeated him in 1892 Benjamin Harrison |
| #2102, aired 1993-10-26 | ARTISTS $200: His 1892 work "Manao Tupapau" depicts a Tahitian girl terrified by a dead spirit Gauguin |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $400: He was born Josip Broz in 1892 in Kumrovec, Croatia Tito |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | THE 1890s $200: This oath to Old Glory was unfurled in 1892 to honor the 400th anniversary of America's discovery the Pledge of Allegiance |
| #2077, aired 1993-09-21 | LITERATURE $200: In 1892 this poet & his future wife were co-valedictorians of their Lawrence, Mass. high school class Robert Frost |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | MOVIE 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 |
| #2051, aired 1993-07-05 | RULERS $400: Born Tafari Makonnen in 1892, he took a name which means "power of the Trinity" Haile Selassie |
| #2030, aired 1993-06-04 | AUTHORS $400: In 1892 this author of "The Mysterious Island" was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor Jules Verne |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1,200 (Daily Double): From 1892 to 1894 this Bohemian composer directed the National Conservatory in New York Antonín Dvořák |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | THIRD PARTIES $1000: This farmer-backed party that advocated free silver coinage received 22 electoral votes in 1892 the Populist Party |
| #1892, aired 1992-11-24 | MUSIC $200: He wrote the 1892 operetta "Haddon Hall" with Sydney Grundy after quarrelling with W.S. Gilbert (Sir Arthur) Sullivan |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | OPERA $800: The tenor aria "Vesti La Giubba" is one of the highlights of Act I in this 1892 opera Pagliacci |
| #1860, aired 1992-10-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Last name of Andrew & Abby of Fall River Massachusetts, victims of a celebrated 1892 murder Borden |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | BALLET $200: As you might expect, "The Nutcracker" premiered in this month in 1892 December |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | GEORGE V $1000: George's career in this branch of the service was cut short when he became heir to the throne in 1892 the (Royal) Navy |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | 1892 $100: The Illinois legislature made the anniversary of his birth, February 12, a holiday Abraham Lincoln |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | 1892 $200: The final edition of his "Leaves of Grass" was published Walt Whitman |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | 1892 $300: This beetle, later to devastate the cotton crop, was first seen in Texas boll weevil |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | 1892 $400: This future Spanish "Caudillo" was born in El Ferrol, Galicia on December 4 Francisco Franco |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | 1892 $500: Harry Dacre's song "Daisy Bell" cashed in on the popularity of this new pastime bicycle riding |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | COINS $800: The commemorative Columbian Exposition coin of 1892 & 1893 bore an engraving of this ship Santa Maria |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | MYSTERIES $100: "The Five Orange Pips" was one of the "Adventures of" this detective published in an 1892 collection Sherlock Holmes |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | NEW YEAR'S DAY $100: This U.S. island opened its "Golden Door" to immigrants New Year's Day, 1892 Ellis Island |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | THE 1890s $200: Under the Sherman Act, his Standard Oil trust was dissolved by the Ohio Supreme Court in 1892 Rockefeller |
| #1681, aired 1991-12-16 | BALLERINAS $300: Antoinetta Dell'era was the 1st ballerina to play the role of this fairy in "The Nutcracker", in 1892 the Sugarplum Fairy |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $100: This Walt Whitman work began as a collection of 12 poems in 1855; by 1892 it contained hundreds Leaves of Grass |
| #1591, aired 1991-07-01 | QUOTES $200: In an 1892 song, Harry Dacre implored her,
"give me your answer,
do" Daisy |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | BIRTHPLACES $400: This movie Sherlock Holmes was born to British parents in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1892 Basil Rathbone |
| #1573, aired 1991-06-05 | NEW JERSEYIANS $1000: This poet died at 330 Mickle St. in Camden in 1892 Walt Whitman |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Raintree County" opens in this Hoosier State in 1892 & then flashes back to pre-Civil War days Indiana |
| #1558, aired 1991-05-15 | POETRY $600: His 1892 collection, "Barrack-Room Ballads", included "Fuzzy Wuzzy" & "Gunga Din" Rudyard Kipling |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | POLITICS $600: Also called The People's Party, it held its first convention in 1892 and ran James B. Weaver for President the Populist Party |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: She began her crusade against liquor in Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1892 Carrie Nation |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This man defeated Grover Cleveland in 1888 & lost to him in 1892 Benjamin Harrison |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: Not surprisingly in 1892, this state became the first to make Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday Illinois |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | ART HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Painter of the 1892 work seen here (Henri de) Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $100: 1st published in "The Youth's Companion" in 1892, since then, millions of kids have recited it Pledge of Allegiance |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Woods north of San Francisco are named for this naturalist who founded the Sierra Club in 1892 John Muir |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $100: This American's birthday was 1st observed by New York City's Republican Club in 1887 & by Illinois in 1892 Abraham Lincoln |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | SPORTS $400: "Gentleman" who in 1892 won boxing's first heavyweight title under Queensberry rules "Gentleman Jim" Corbett |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1892 the Edison Co. merged with the Thomson-Houston Electrical Co. to form this company General Electric |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: These were 1st used in an election in Lockport, N.Y. in 1892 voting machines |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICANS $600: Nicknamed "Gentleman Jim", this bank teller won the heavyweight boxing title from John L. Sullivan in 1892 Jim Corbett |
| #1190, aired 1989-11-03 | FOOD & DRINK $500: Escoffier came up with this fruit & ice cream dish in 1892 to honor a star of "Lohengrin" Peach Melba |
| #1164, aired 1989-09-28 | U.S. HISTORY $200: This receiving station for immigrants in New York Bay opened January 1, 1892 Ellis Island |
| #1046, aired 1989-03-06 | COMPOSERS $600: Shortly after his arrival in America in 1892, Dvorak set to work on this, his final symphony the New World Symphony |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | NEW JERSEY $500: Elected president in 1884 & 1892, he was the only U.S. president born in New Jersey Grover Cleveland |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | PLACES OF WORSHIP $800: Many call this city's Episcopal Cathedral, under construction since 1892, St. John the Unfinished New York City |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | NOTORIOUS $300: On October 5, 1892, this gang robbed 2 Coffeyville, Kansas banks at the same time Daltons |
| #745, aired 1987-11-27 | STAMPS & COINS $300: Commemorative with her portrait issued for 1892 Expo is only U.S. coin depicting a Spanish monarch Queen Isabella |
| #649, aired 1987-06-04 | WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP $1000: After his 1st wife died in the White House in 1892, this 23rd President married her niece Benjamin Harrison |
| #602, aired 1987-03-31 | INVENTIONS $300: According to AT&T archives, "dialing" by use of this system was 1st tried in 1892 push-button dialing |
| #529, aired 1986-12-18 | LITERARY "LADY"s $600: Oscar Wilde's "fans" favor this 1892 comedy Lady Windermere's Fan |
| #495, aired 1986-10-31 | 1890's $200: In 1892, at age 53, WCTU founder Miss Frances Willard learned to ride one of these bicycle |
| #472, aired 1986-09-30 | 19th CENTURY $200: In 1892, it replaced Castle Garden as New York's immigration depot Ellis Island |
| #420, aired 1986-04-18 | 1890's $1000: After 1892, this New York City harbor site was called in several languages "the Isle of Tears" Ellis Island |
| #382, aired 1986-02-25 | JOURNALISM $600: This racy monthly which promoted 1892 Corbett-Sullivan fight was a barbershop favorite Police Gazette |
| #327, aired 1985-12-10 | SPORTS $600: In 1892, John Doyle of Cleveland got the 1st base hit for this type of hitter in N.L. history pinch-hitter |
| #189, aired 1985-05-30 | NATURE $500: A redwood forest near S.F. is named for this naturalist who founded the Sierra Club in 1892 John Muir |
| #104, aired 1985-01-31 | 1890S $400: A 4-1 favorite, John L. Sullivan lost 1892 championship bout to this "Gentleman" Jim Corbett |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | ECOLOGY $400: Founded in Calif. in 1892, this pro-environment group now has 180,000 members nationwide the Sierra Club |
| #89, aired 1985-01-10 | HISTORIC SITES $400: Called "Gateway to the New World", 12 million immigrants passed thru it from 1892-1954 Ellis Island |
