| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $800: The "Educational Series" of silver certificates was issued in 1896; one featured Robert Fulton & this code guy Morse |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | FULL-COURT PRESS $1000: The Pittsburgh Courier told of Justice Harlan's lone dissenting opinion on this "separate but equal" case from 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SCIENTISTS $1500: When hired at Tuskegee Institute in 1896, George Washington Carver served as director of this department the Department of Agriculture |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $1,200 (Daily Double): McKinley wins term one; the Supreme Court rules on Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | METALLICA $600: This metal was discovered in 1789; it took until 1896 to find out that it was radioactive uranium |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | I'M ON THE CASE $2000: See how on Earth the justices voted 7-1 in this man v. Ferguson in 1896, advancing the "separate but equal" doctrine Plessy |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES $1200: Athens hosted the first Modern Olympics in 1896; this other European capital hosted the second games in 1900 Paris |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $2000: The pain of beast folk creations such as Leopard-Man means nothing to this 1896 title character, but that could prove... costly Dr. Moreau |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $5,000 (Daily Double): RFD, short for this, began in 1896; previously, about 65% of Americans lived in the "R" area & had to pick up mail at the P.O. Rural Free Delivery |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE BAR MITZVAH BOY $2000: This future author of unsettling tales became a man on June 13, 1896 in Prague Kafka |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1600: Instrumental in the revival of the Olympic games, this Frenchman served as president of the IOC from 1896 to 1925 de Coubertin |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $800: She claimed in her 1896 autobiography that she captured Jack McCall with a meat cleaver after he killed Wild Bill Hickok; not true Calamity Jane |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | TABLE TALK $1000: A table whose legs form its corners is named for this New York City design school founded in 1896 Parsons |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1896, this author was named for his distant cousin who penned the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | FLORIDA PLACES $200: In 1896 about 400 people lived in this city on Biscayne Bay; today, it's Florida's second-largest city, behind Jacksonville Miami |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | COOK, THE BOOKS $1000: Still around today, her original 1896 Boston Cooking School Cookbook contained at least 2 recipes calling for a calf's head Fannie Farmer |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | THE 1890s $3,600 (Daily Double): Returning after a 1,500-year break, these opened April 6, 1896 the (Modern) Olympic Games |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $2000: This word meaning a spectacular mining find was given to the creek where gold was found in the Klondike in 1896 bonanza |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | STANFORD ATHLETICS $400: (Haley Jones presents the clue.) In 1896, the first intercollegiate women's basketball game pitted Stanford against this team, our biggest rival; with only women allowed as spectators for modesty, Agnes Morley came up big, & we beat them 2-1 Cal (Berkeley) |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SUPREME COURT CASES $800: 1896's him (train passenger) v. him (judge) was decided 7-1 for the wrong guy Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE... $800: ...maybe stuck to the speaking circuit instead of making failed presidential runs in 1896, 1900 & 1908 William Jennings Bryan |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1200: Begun as a Saturday supplement in 1896, the first review included an update on this writer, incarcerated in Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Favoring free silver, in a rousing 1896 speech this orator & statesman said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | FINALS $1600: Premiering in 1896 "The Grand Duke" was the final one of their Savoy operettas Gilbert and Sullivan |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $1200: Russia's Black Sea coast includes this resort city that was established in 1896 & made international headlines in the winter of 2014 Sochi |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $400: With about 240 athletes from 14 countries, the modern Olympics began in this year in Athens, Greece 1896 |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MURDER, HE WROTE $1600: A body is found on a bridge in 1896 New York in this Caleb Carr novel whose title is an old term for a psychiatrist The Alienist |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | ANTON CHEKHOV $10,000 (Daily Double): In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", an albatross gets killed; in an 1896 Chekhov play, it's one of these birds seagull |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | WE GUARANTEE IT $1000: "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold", said this man in a fiery 1896 speech Bryan |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $1200: The Battle of Adwa in 1896 was fought between Italy & this Horn of Africa country Ethiopia |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | HISTORY $1600: Military mortality declined after the 1896 introduction of a vaccine for this fever which was spread by unsanitary conditions typhoid |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | AUTOMOBILES $600: In 1896, this automaker built his vehicle--the Quadricycle--& drove it around Detroit; it would be followed by others Ford |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | THE STATE WAS IN PLAY $800: Kentucky was in play in 1896, with William McKinley besting this noted orator by a mere 277 votes (William Jennings) Bryan |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ORIGINS $1000: This NYC school of design was founded in 1896 & became a division of The New School for Social Research in 1970 Parsons |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | 150 YEARS OF NATURE $400: An 1896 article in Nature was about "a new kind of rays" called these, "for the sake of brevity" x-rays |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS $400: As in ancient times, the first Modern Olympics, held in this country in 1896, had only male participants Greece |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | TEAM AMERICA $200: The first Olympic Team USA, in this 19th century year, consisted of 14 athletes, who won 11 events 1896 |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): Psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler & his team track down a brutal serial killer in this bestseller set in 1896 The Alienist |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $600: Lasting 40 minutes, an 1896 battle between Britain & this island, now part of Tanzania, is considered to be the shortest war Zanzibar |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | LEGAL BRIEFS $1000: 3-word principle established in 1896; overturned in Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Separate but equal |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | WOMEN COMPOSERS $800: The first symphony by an American woman was Amy Beach's "Gaelic Symphony", first performed in 1896 by this group, the BSO for short the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $400: On Feb. 1, 1896 this tragic Puccini opera with Rodolfo & Mimi was first performed at Turin's Teatro Regio La Boheme |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: At the first modern Olympics in 1896, Spyridon Louis won the epic running race for Greece the marathon |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | COLD PLAY $800: His 1896 play "John Gabriel Borkman" takes place on a winter evening near Oslo (Henrik) Ibsen |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | BYE AGAIN, GEORGE! $400: Since 1896 the Senate has marked Washington's birthday in this month with a reading of his farewell address February |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SUCCESSION $400: In 1896 the perhaps less skilled Alfred Austin succeeded Tennyson in this literary post poet laureate |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $200: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic nomination in 1896 with his defense of free silver: "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of" this metal gold |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | WEST VIRGINIA $1000: In 1896 the post office in Uvilla put this "R" in RFD, a mail service inaugurated in West Virginia rural |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 he became the first to use the telephone during a presidential election campaign, often calling GOP HQ William McKinley |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | FRIEND LIKE ME $400: This physicist wrote a foreword to the bio of his German pal Emanuel Lasker, world chess champ from 1896 to 1921 Einstein |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $200: Born in Connecticut in 1811, she went to that "cabin" in the sky July 1, 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER $400: In 1896 this man offered Carver a job teaching at the Tuskegee Institute Booker T. Washington |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $400: Appropriately, the modern Olympics began with the 1896 Games in this city Athens |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | AFRICA SINCE 1750 $1600: At 1896's Battle of Adwa, Menelik II, emperor of this nation, defeated an Italian army & kept the country independent Ethiopia |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | MYSTERY & CRIME NOVELS $200: Dr. Laszlo Kreizler of Caleb Carr's "The Alienist" is this type of professional tracking a killer in 1896 a psychiatrist |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $1000: At the first Olympics in 1896, winners received a silver medal & this natural symbol of peace an olive branch |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S A PLANE $400: With its pilot dangling beneath it, the 1896 Chanute aircraft was an early one of these gliders a hang glider |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS $200: In 1896 he paired with Charles Henry Dow to compute a daily industrials average (Edward) Jones |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | CLUES ACROSS OHIO $800: (Hi, I'm Jerry Henderson from WTOL 11.) One of minor league baseball's best-known teams, the Mud Hens of this Ohio city, got their unusual nickname in 1896 from the duck-like birds in a nearby marsh Toledo |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AVIAN LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): When this Anton Chekhov play debuted in St. Petersburg in 1896, it was a dismal failure The Seagull |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (Hi. I'm Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lived in this Hartford home from 1873 until her death in 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | ON EARTH $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 the mountain now called Denali was named for this man, 5 years before his death Mount McKinley |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TALES $2000: Men are just beasts--or is that beasts are just men?--in this 1896 H.G. Wells tale about the world's worst vet The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1600: In an 1896 speech William Jennings Bryan said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon" this a cross of gold |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $600: Crowned in 1896, Russian ruler Nicholas II was the last monarch to hold this imperial 4-letter title czar |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | THE SUPREME COURT $400: From 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of this 3-word doctrine of racial segregation separate but equal |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | VICTORIAN VERSE $2000: A.E. Housman hadn't visited Shropshire when he used it in the title of this 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | DIRTY BIRDS $600: Since 1896 a Toledo baseball team has been known as these swamp dwellers the Mud Hens |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | "FY" ON YOU $800: In 1896 William Jennings Bryan said "You shall not" do this to "mankind upon a cross of gold" crucify |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | FERGUSON $400: In this Supreme Court case from 1896, the court advanced the controversial "separate but equal" doctrine Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER $800: Otto Lilienthal, 1848-1896, made some 2000 flights in these--he could have really used an engine in 1896 a glider |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | OLYMPIANS $2,000 (Daily Double): The youngest medalist ever was 10-year-old gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, in his homeland in this year 1896 |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | MOUNTAIN HIGH $400: In 1889 prospector Frank Densmore named an Alaskan peak Densmore's Mountain; in 1896 it was renamed for this politician McKinley |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | BUSINESS HISTORY $400: Back in 1896, an insurance company started telling us it had the reliability of this landmark Gibraltar |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | & NOW THIS UPDATE $800: The Jonathan Larson musical "Rent" is largely based on this 1896 opera La Boheme |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | JOHN LAW $2,500 (Daily Double): In his dissent to this infamous 1896 decision, John Marshall Harlan wrote that "our Constitution is color-blind" Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NON-FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $1000: In 1896 this Italian received his first patent in wireless telegraphy Marconi |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | MILITARY MISTAKES $400: In 1896 an Ethiopian army defeated a force from this nation that had launched an ill-advised night attack Italy |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | SEE HOW THEY RAN $1000: During his successful 1896 front-porch campaign, he stayed home in Ohio & let the crowds come to him McKinley |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: The Olympic Games began in 776 B.C., took a long break & reappeared in 1896 in this country Greece |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS BY PARTIAL TITLE $800: "Moreau"
(1896) H.G. Wells |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | LITERARY QUOTES $800: In 1896 Ernest Dowson wrote, "They are not long, the days of" these 2 things (never imagining it as a film title) wine & roses |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $1,400 (Daily Double): The southernmost major city on the U.S. mainland, it had a population of only 343 when the railroad arrived in 1896 Miami |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400 (Daily Double): In 1896 this educator became the first woman in Italy to get a medical degree Maria Montessori |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | THE MISSING MAN $1000: On an 1896 Republican presidential ticket:
Garret A. Hobart McKinley |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST $5,000 (Daily Double): An Italian bid for empire was ended by defeat at the 1896 Battle of Adwa in this African country Ethiopia |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SAYS SO $200: "Its '57 varieties' slogan was devised in 1896, but today the company markets more than 5,700 products" Heinz |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | A USEFUL CATEGORY $200: Called a "torch" in England, this device was invented around 1896 with the advent of a portable battery power source a flashlight |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: An upright slab with writing, like the Merneptah one Stanley Kowalski--er, Sir Flinders Petrie--found in 1896 a stela |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 physician Pringle Morgan described this condition as "word blindness" dyslexia |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | IF EARLY INVENTORS USED KICKSTARTER $400: I will use the energy of Niagara Falls to carry power to Buffalo by 1896! C'mon, my coil worked! Trust me! (Nikola) Tesla |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | 19th CENTURY SPORTS $200: In 1896, for the longest Olympic event in this sport the athletes were taken 1,200 meters out to sea by boat & left there swimming |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | TRACK & FIELD $200: James Connolly was the 1st modern Olympic champion; in 1896 he won this event that then consisted of 2 hops & a jump the triple jump |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | NEWSPAPER MOGULS $2000: In 1896 he bought the New York Times for 875,000 & created its slogan "all the news that's fit to print" Adolph Ochs |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | CHEW, CHEW $600: Fannie Farmer's 1896 recipe for these chewy little baked treats didn't include chocolate; that came later brownies |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BRONZE AGE $200: Gymnast & native son Dimitrios Loundras was only 10 years old when he won a bronze in this city in 1896 Athens |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | GEORGE, UHHH... $1200: Oh, drat, him... chose his own famous middle name, taught agriculture at Tuskegee in 1896 George Washington Carver |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | I'M ON THE CASE $2000: See how on Earth the justices voted 7-1 in this man v. Ferguson in 1896, advancing the "separate but equal" doctrine Plessy |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | ALMOST HEAVEN: WEST VIRGINIA $800: On October 1, 1896 West Virginia became the first state to use RFD service, which stands for this Rural Free Delivery |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | RUNNING A MARATHON $200: The modern marathon race was first held at the revival of the Olympic games in 1896 in this city Athens |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | CENTENARIANS $200: This "Oh, God!" man (1896-1996): "If you live to the age of 100, you have it made, because very few people die past the age of 100" George Burns |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | LEGAL MATTERS $2000: The 1896 case of Homer Plessy v. this judge set the precedent of "separate but equal" facilities Ferguson |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | THE 1890s $800: John Philip Sousa sat down on Christmas 1896 & wrote this march, including the lyric "Hurrah for the flag of the free" "Stars And Stripes Forever" |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | NEWSPAPER HISTORY $400: In 1896 the Dow Jones Industrial Average officially appeared in print for the first time in this newspaper The Wall Street Journal |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT $1,000 (Daily Double): 1896:
Ellery Clark, 20' 10";
2000:
Ivan Pedroso, 28' 3/4" the long jump |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | PURSE-ONALITIES $800: The "LV" monogram canvas of this brand dates to 1896 Louis Vuitton |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | SCIENCE FICTION $800: The 1932 film "Island of Lost Souls" was based on this 1896 novel by H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | "PSYCH"! $1200: In 1896 Sigmund Freud coined this term for how he treated patients for mental illness psychoanalysis |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | BY THE "BOOK" $800: On October 10, 1896 the New York Times published a section devoted to these for the very first time book reviews |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in Sweden in 1823, he went out without a bang in San Remo, Italy in 1896 (Alfred) Nobel |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | JOHN PHILIP SOUSA $2000: In 1896 Sousa wrote an operetta set in Peru during Spanish occupation that featured this title march "El Capitan" |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | BOARDING SCHOOL $800: From 1896 to 1974 Choate was just for these; then it merged with Rosemary Hall boys |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | IT'S REIGNING MEN $600: On May 26, 1896 he was crowned czar in Moscow: for him it was pretty much downhill from there Nicholas II |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | PRE-1929 U.S. PAPER CURRENCY $600: In 1896 a $2 "Educational" Series Silver Certificate was issued featuring this steamboat designer Fulton |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | SHE'S A LADY $800: Abbey Theatre director Lady Augusta Gregory was the patron of this poet she met in 1896 Yeats |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS $800: Against Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oratory, in 1896 he said, "I am a tariff man standing on a tariff platform" William McKinley |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEGA-EVENTS $1200: In 1896 more than 2,000 were trampled in the stampede for free beer at the coronation of this doomed czar Nicholas II |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $1000: The Olympic record in this field event has more than doubled since 1896, from 29 meters to 70 meters the discus throw |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: He's the title guy who "spake" in an 1896 tone poem by Richard Strauss Zarathustra |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $400: By the time this Cleveland businessman retired in 1896, his company owned 3/4 of the USA's oil business (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | POETS $800: Many of the poems of his 1896 collection "A Shropshire Lad" were written prior to his ever having visited the county Housman |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | ECUADOR OF YORE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Parque Histórico in Guayaquil, Ecuador.) The Malecón, or river walk, was rebuilt on a more grand scale after the 1896 fire, which some said was set on purpose to keep President Alfaro from moving the capital here to Guayaquil from this city Quito |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | "CROSS" TALK $1000: At the 1896 DNC, William Jennings Bryan told delegates, "You shall not crucify mankind on" one of these a cross of gold |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | THE "SEA" $2000: In this 1896 Chekhov play, Treplev is a would-be author & Trigorin is a successful one The Seagull |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | "SEP"-TEMBER $800: This 3-word doctrine regarding segregation stems from the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson separate but equal |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | PUGILISM $800: In 1896 this former Tombstone lawman refereed a bout between Bob Fitzsimmons & Tom Sharkey in San Francisco Wyatt Earp |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | THIS AMERICAN LIFE $1200: Written into history June 14, 1811, cries uncle with "Cabin" tale, is history July 1, 1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OLYMPIC FACTS $2000: Divided into 1- & 2-handed events, these 1896 Olympic contests were won with marks of 157 & 246 pounds weightlifting |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | GOLDEN OLDIES $2000: "The Golden Spinning Wheel" is an 1896 symphonic poem by this Czech composer Dvorak |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | ROWING $200: In 1896 George Harbo & Frank Samuelsen rowed across this in 55 days the Atlantic Ocean |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1600: This capital's stadium was rebuilt of white marble for the Olympic Games of 1896 Athens |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | FANTASY ISLAND $2,200 (Daily Double): "The Reversion of the Beast Folk" is Chapter 21 of this 1896 H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | THE ELECTRIC COMPANY $600 (Daily Double): Still around today, this power company was one of the first 12 companies included in the DJIA in 1896 General Electric (or G.E.) |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD $800: She wrote the ever-popular "Boston Cooking School Cook Book" in 1896 Fannie Farmer |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | ON AVERAGE $800: Created in New York, it began May 26, 1896 as an average of just 12 numbers & came out to 40.94 the Dow Jones |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | CHECKING IN, CHECKING OUT $1200: This American came into focus in 1823; got the final picture on Jan. 15, 1896 Mathew Brady |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | MINORITY REPORT $2000: Justice Harlan was an honorable one-man minority in this 1896 decision that enshrined the "separate but equal" doctrine Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | THE SHORT FORM $400: The "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang" has an 1896 citation of "diff" as short for this difference |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | YOU GET A "D" $400: National Lead was one of the 12 companies tracked by this "average" when it debuted May 26, 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | BETTER, STRONGER $800: In 1896 Tom Burke set an Olympic record by going this distance in 12.0 seconds; in 2004, Justin Gatlin ran a 9.85 100 meters |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | AN OPERATIC CATEGORY $800: This Puccini opera set in Paris was first produced on February 1, 1896 in Turin with Arturo Toscanini directing La boheme |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | KISS ME! $800: The first kiss on film occurred in a short 1896 film by this American & was titled "May Irwin Kiss" (Thomas) Edison |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN $1000: The 20,320-foot mountain then known as Densmore's Mt. was renamed for this presidential candidate in 1896 McKinley |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $1200: After a bad performance of the play within a play in this 1896 Chekhov work, Trepilov kills a bird The Seagull |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $1000: During an 8-year Major League Baseball career, he batted .248; around 1896, he began holding revival meetings Billy Sunday |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | SIGMUND FREUD $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks by an exhibit in the Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria.) In 1896, Freud created this word for the technique we associate with couches psychoanalysis |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | FRANZ FERDINAND $1600: The empire to which Franz Ferdinand became heir in 1896 the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | WE LOVE BROADWAY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is upstaged by a chandelier in the Majestic Theatre in New York.) A real accident at the Paris Opera House in 1896 inspired the famous falling chandelier in this musical Phantom of the Opera |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | THAT'S SO CONVENTIONAL! $1600: He gave his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention William Jennings Bryan |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | WHERE THERE'S A WILLIAM $1000: After this man's speech at the National Convention in 1896, the Democrats came out pro-silver William Jennings Bryan |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from inside the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, AL.) Civil Rights activists fought segregation permitted by this 3-word slogan in an 1896 Supreme Court decision "separate but equal" |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | WHAT KIN ARE YOU TO ME? $400: Susy Clemens (1872-1896) was this to Mark Twain a daughter |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | "U" HAD TO BE THERE $400: It was admitted to the Union in 1896 under the condition it ban polygamy Utah |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | FINALS $1200: First performed in London in 1896, "The Grand Duke" was the final one of their Savoy operettas Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | NAME THE YEAR $800: Reborn after 1,500 years, the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in this year 1896 |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS $600: Adolph Ochs, who bought into the New York Times in 1896, "train"ed at this Tennessee city's Times Chattanooga |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS $400: The Olympics were reborn on April 6, 1896 with 14 national teams made up of 241 men & this many women 0 |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS $1200: As in 2004, in 1896 Panathenaic Stadium had the finish of this, won back then by national hero Spiridon Louis the marathon |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS $1,600 (Daily Double): Thomas Burke of the U.S. won this Olympic event in 1896 with a time of 12.0 seconds; the winning time in 2004 was 9.85 the 100 meter dash |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | METALLICA $1200: This metal was discovered in 1789; it took until 1896 to find out that it was radioactive uranium |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | PHYSICS $1600: In 1896 a physicist noticed uranium darkening a photographic plate even through a screen--this phenomenon radiation (or radioactivity) |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | THE CALENDAR $400: The U.S. team almost arrived late to the 1896 Olympics because this host country still used the old style calendar Greece |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS $800: He was called the poor man's candidate in 1896; a campaign button quoted his "Cross of Gold" speech William Jennings Bryan |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | THE VAST & THE FURIOUS $400: The shortest "war" in history, 45 minutes, occured in 1896 between Zanzibar & naval forces of this vast empire the British Empire |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | YOU'RE MAKING ME "MAD" $1000: The French made this island a colony in 1896 Madagascar |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | 3-LETTER PALINDROMES $2000: He's the gross & stupid king or "Roi" in an 1896 avant-garde work by Alfred Jarry Ubu |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | GRADUATE SCHOOL $2,600 (Daily Double): In 1896 Queen's University awarded Canada's first Ph.D. in this field that all Ph.D.s should be in philosophy |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | THE SUPREME COURT $200: 1896's Plessy v. Ferguson promoted the doctrine of "Separate but" this Equal |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | GOD BLESS ARMENIA $2000: In 1896 Armenian activists in Istanbul seized the bank that shared its name with this historic empire the Ottoman Empire |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $1600: Since 1896 the record in this event has more than doubled from 36 feet, 9.75 inches to 73 feet, 8.75 inches shot put |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | COOKBOOKS $800: Her classic cookbook was first published in 1896 as the "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" Fannie Farmer |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | AN OCTOBER FIRST FEST $1600: On Oct. 1, 1896 this service began as Harry Gibson carried mail through the West Virginia back country rural free delivery |
| #4373, aired 2003-09-17 | TURIN $600: This opera that made its debut in Turin in 1896 probably helped Puccini pay his "rent" La Boheme |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $800: He wasn't at ease writing 1896's "An Outcast of the lslands" in English, but by "Lord Jim", he had the knack Joseph Conrad |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! $800: When his play "The Sea Gull" premiered in 1896, it was a complete failure, & he vowed never to write drama again Anton Chekhov |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | THE 19th CENTURY $800: This man finished his first effort, seen here, in 1896 Henry Ford |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | "D" TALKS $2000: The "Motor Wagon Company" of these brothers produced 13 cars in 1896 Duryea |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | HOLY CROSS $1000: In an 1896 speech while running for president, William Jennings Bryan said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon" this a cross of gold |
| #4202, aired 2002-12-03 | MOUNTAINS $800: In 1896 an Alaskan mount was named for this man elected president that year William McKinley |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | GOLD & SILVER $1000: On August 17, 1896 gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of this Yukon Territory river the Klondike |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: In 1896 this "Scheherazade" composer reorchestrated Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov" Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | LEAP DAY BABIES $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1896 Herman Hollerith, born on Leap Day 1860, organized the Tabulating Machine Co., which evolved into this giant IBM |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | NAME THE OLYMPIC CITY $400: 1896 summer games
(an obvious choice) Athens |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | STATE OF THE UNION $800: In 1896 a gold rush took place in what is now this state Alaska |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | GENERAL SCIENCE $2000: In 1896 this French scientist accidentally discovered radioactivity while researching fluorescence Antoine Becquerel |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | WOMEN IN LABOR $2000: Formed in 1896, the Daughters of St. Crispin was a union for women in this trade shoemaking |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $400: The date on the first issue of the magazine, Sept. 6, 1896, was this day of the week Sunday |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: His 1896 work "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" was named for his villa outside Bergen, Norway Edvard Grieg |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | ARTFUL KNIGHTS $400: The operetta output of this beknighted pair runs from "Thespis" in 1871 to "The Grand Duke" in 1896 Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | RIVERS $800: Gold found in the Yukon in 1869 caused a little rush; gold found near this Yukon tributary in 1896 caused a big rush the Klondike |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $1000: (Hey, it's Gary Dell'Abate from The Howard Stern Show.) Before producing Howard's show I attended Adelphi University, which in 1896 became the first co-educational college in this state New York |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | COLONIAL COLLEGES $200: The College of New Jersey was 150 years old in 1896 when it got this new name for the city it was in Princeton |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESS LEADERS $100: On June 4, 1896 he completed assembly of his first auto, the quadricycle, in Detroit Henry Ford |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | FUN WITH OPERA $200: It was truly a red-letter day when an opera based on this Hawthorne novel premiered in Boston in 1896 The Scarlet Letter |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | LITERARY ISLANDS $1000: In this 1896 H.G. Wells story, a shipwrecked naturalist performs experiments to humanize animals The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $200: In 1896 Woodrow Wilson published a book on this man who was president in 1796 George Washington |
| #3705, aired 2000-10-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $100: In 1896, 20 years after the original work, he wrote "Tom Sawyer, Detective" Mark Twain |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | INDEPENDENCE! $400: In 1896, after losing a war Italy was forced to recognize the independence of this African country Ethiopia |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | NEWS FLASH 1896 $100: After renouncing polygamy, this admitted to Union as 45th state Utah |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | NEWS FLASH 1896 $200: Death claims this antislavery novelist whose most famous work was serialized in 1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe ("Uncle Tom's Cabin") |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | NEWS FLASH 1896 $300: Founded in 1746, the College of New Jersey renames itself this Princeton |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | NEWS FLASH 1896 $400: Using his daughter Clara's nickname to label it, Leo Hirschfield introduces this chewy "roll" Tootsie Roll |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | NEWS FLASH 1896 $500: A tale of doomed & impoverished artists, this Puccini opera premieres in Turin "La boheme" |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | LIFE OF A SALESMAN $600: Born in 1896, he followed his father, Jacob Winston, into the jewelry business Harry Winston |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | EARLS $1000: In 1896, commanding Egypt's army, Earl Kitchener invaded this country to the south Sudan |
| #3570, aired 2000-02-25 | IT'S "ALL" $800: It's been the motto of the New York Times since 1896 "All The News That's Fit To Print" |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $100: He was living in Tahiti when he painted "Poemes Barbares" in 1896 Paul Gauguin |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: In 1896 he became director of agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY $200: In 1896 George Carmack, Skookum Jim & Tagish Charlie found gold in this territory Yukon Territory |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In 1896 she had to pay to publish the first edition of "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" Fannie Farmer |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | THE YUKON $400: On August 17, 1896 gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, a tributary of this river the Klondike |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | SUMMER $1,200 (Daily Double): This country hosted the Summer Olympic Games only once, in 1896 Greece |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | "C" IN HISTORY $800: Sir Wilfred Laurier, prime minister of this country from 1896 to 1911, was nicknamed "Silver-Tongued Laurier" Canada |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | NAMES IN THE LAW $1,500 (Daily Double): He took on Ferguson in 1896 after refusing to sit in the railroad car for blacks only Homer Plessy |
| #3278, aired 1998-12-02 | U.S. FIRSTS $500: Henry Wells, in his Duryea, was probably at fault in the USA's first of these, in 1896 Automobile accident |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: His golden-voiced speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention clinched his nomination William Jennings Bryan |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | INVENTORS $100: In June 1896 he completed his first automobile at his home on Bagley Avenue in Detroit Henry Ford |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | INVENTORS $200: In 1896 he received his first patent for wireless telegraphy in England, not his native Italy Guglielmo Marconi |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Take a look at the monitor players: French ex-patriate who painted the following in 1896 Gauguin |
| #3166, aired 1998-05-11 | CHOCOLATE $400: Introduced in 1896, these chewy chocolates were the first wrapped penny candy Tootsie Rolls |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | THE 19th CENTURY $600 (Daily Double): In 1896 the first modern Olympics were held in this city Athens, Greece |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The discovery of this in 1896 turned Seward's Folly into Seward's Good Fortune gold |
| #3105, aired 1998-02-13 | INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS $800: The name of his 1896 painting "No Te Aha Oe Riri" means "Why Are You Angry"? Paul Gauguin |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | THE ART OF PEACE $1000: His 1896 illustrations of Aristophanes' anti-war classic "Lysistrata" were considered licentious Aubrey Beardsley |
| #3046, aired 1997-11-24 | PSYCHOLOGY $200: From 1896 to 1899 Freud might have spent some sleepless nights writing "The Interpretation Of" these Dreams |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: He retired about 1896 but remained president of Standard Oil until it was dissolved in 1911 John D. Rockefeller |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | IT'S MY PARTY $800: William Jennings Bryan was nominated for president in 1896 by both the Democrats & this "People's Party" Populist |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | NEW JERSEY BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Its trademark Rock of Gibraltar made its debut in 1896 Prudential |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Later the namesake of an African country, he served as prime minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896 Cecil Rhodes |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | AMERICAN LIT $200: In 1876 we saw "The Adventures Of" this character; in 1894 he went "Abroad" & in 1896 became a "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #2777, aired 1996-10-01 | LASTS $200: Their last joint operetta, "The Grand Duke", premiered in 1896 Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | OPERETTAS $200: You need a tenor to play the role of Ernest Dummkopf in this duo's 1896 operetta "The Grand Duke" Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | 19th CENTURY CINEMA $800: In 1896 a Biograph camera filmed this Republican presidential candidate at his Ohio home William McKinley |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | 1896 $100: In 1896 this candy-coated popcorn & peanut mixture got it's name Cracker Jack |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | 1896 $200: Prudential Insurance began using this landmark rock in its ads the Rock of Gibraltar |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | 1896 $400: U.S. triple jumper James Connolly wong the first Olympic gold medal at the games in this city Athens |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | 1896 $500 (Daily Double): On Aug. 17, 1896 gold was found in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike in this present territory the Yukon Territory |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | 1896 $500: England's first autos were built in this city famous for Lady Godiva's ride Coventry |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: In 1896 the U.S. Post Office established R.F.D., which stands for this Rural Free Delivery |
| #2697, aired 1996-04-30 | FAMOUS EDITORS $1000: This Omaha World-Herald editor was the Democratic candidate for president in 1896, 1900 & 1908 William Jennings Bryan |
| #2691, aired 1996-04-22 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1896 Adolph Simon Ochs gained control of this nearly bankrupt newspaper The New York Times |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | POTPOURRI $200: During the first week of April 1896, this athletic extravaganza opened in Athens the Olympics |
| #2647, aired 1996-02-20 | INVENTORS $100: This duo became interested in flying after reading of the 1896 death of gliding pioneer Otto Lilienthal Wright Brothers |
| #2598, aired 1995-12-13 | HISTORIC NAMES $500: Name given to the speech William Jennings Bryan delivered at the 1896 Democratic Convention "Cross of Gold" |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $100: This daily published by Dow Jones has been printing the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 26, 1896 The Wall Street Journal |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | GOLD RUSHES $300: In 1896 gold was discovered at Rabbit Creek in this area of the Yukon Klondike |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: Sadly, this celebrated photographer of the Civil War died in poverty in 1896 Mathew Brady |
| #2516, aired 1995-07-10 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: Since 1896 Prudential Insurance has used this as a symbol of its company Rock of Gibraltar |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): Henry Fleming, hero of a classic 1895 novel, is a grandfather in this author's 1896 story "The Veteran" (Stephen) Crane |
| #2477, aired 1995-05-16 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $1000: This doctrine upheld in 1896's Plessy v. Ferguson was denied in 1954's Brown v. Board of Education separate but equal |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | THE OLYMPICS $400: The first modern Olympic Games held in this city in 1896, had only 311 competitors, all men Athens |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $600: After this man's 1896 death, his relatives contested the will setting up his prize foundation Nobel |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: The 1st student union was established in 1896 at this oldest university in the Keystone State the University of Pennsylvania |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | COLORADO $1000: This Democratic presidential candidate carried Colorado 3 times: in 1896, 1900 & 1908 William Jennings Bryan |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 the College of New Jersey adopted this name Princeton |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | POTPOURRI $1000: "Museita's Waltz" is a highlight of this composer's 1896 opera "La boheme" Giacomo Puccini |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: This Republican defeated William Jennings Bryan in the elections of 1896 & 1900 McKinley |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | GOOD AS "GOLD" $400: In 1896 William Jennings Bryan said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon" this a cross of gold |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | THE 1890s $300: He put on an exhibition of the Vitascope projector April 23, 1896 at a NYC music hall Edison |
| #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 |
| #2224, aired 1994-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy versus this man condoned "separate but equal" practices Ferguson |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: In 1896 he coined the term psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | GUINNESS RECORDS $200: A colonel in Africa kept one of these journals the longest—91 years, 1896-1987 a diary |
| #2176, aired 1994-02-07 | SCIENCE FICTION $600: This author's 1896 classic "The Island of Dr. Moreau" inspired the 1980 novel "Moreau's Other Island" H.G. Wells |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | PHILOSOPHY $1000: Lewis Carroll's 1896 book on the symbolic type of this branch of philosophy was not intended for children logic |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | THIRTYSOMETHING $800: When he gave his "Cross Of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, he was 36 William Jennings Bryan |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | AUTHORS $400: This writer of "Riders of the Purple Sage" practiced dentistry from 1896 to 1904 Zane Grey |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1896 & 1900 this president's Democratic opponent was William Jennings Bryan McKinley |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | NOTORIOUS $600: By 1896 Robert Leroy Parker was using this name in honor of his mentor, a cattle rustler Butch Cassidy |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | THE 1890s $400: In 1896 this world capital hosted the first modern Olympics Athens |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | THE 1890s $500: On Oct. 25, 1896 the New York Times carried this motto for the first time "all the news that's fit to print" |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $500: In 1896 the Diamond Co. of Ohio became the first to put these in books matches |
| #2080, aired 1993-09-24 | NOVELS $1000: St. Peter appears as a character in this 1896 novel that's set in ancient Rome & has a Latin title Quo Vadis |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1000: This statesman argued for a bimetal monetary policy at the 1896 Democratic National Convention William Jennings Bryan |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | FAMOUS SPEECHES $1000: His "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896 helped him win the Democratic presidential nomination William Jennings Bryan |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Founded by an Austrian in 1896, the name of this candy roll co. was taken from his daughter's nickname Tootsie Roll |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | COMPOSERS $200: He wrote an operetta called "El Capitan" in 1896, around the same time as "The Stars And Stripes Forever" Sousa |
| #1986, aired 1993-04-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: In 1896 this company's Ribbon Dental Cream became the first toothpaste sold in a tube Colgate |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | LITERATURE $400: In an 1896 sequel, this Mark Twain title character turned "Detective" Tom Sawyer |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | TRANSPORTATION $200: In 1896 the first motor truck was built by Gottlieb Daimler in this country Germany |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | POLITICS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1896 this Ohio governor became the first presidential candidate to campaign by telephone McKinley |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CIVIL RIGHTS $1000: In 1896 Syngman Rhee joined a group that fought for civil rights in this country he later ruled Korea |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | U.S. STATES $300: California had a gold rush beginning in 1848 & what's now this state had one beginning in 1896 Alaska |
| #1937, aired 1993-01-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): In an 1896 novel by H.G. Wells, this doctor attempts to turn animals into men Dr. Moreau |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1896 he was nominated for president by both the Democratic & Populist parties—& still lost William Jennings Bryan |
| #1869, aired 1992-10-22 | HISTORY $300: Italy recognized the independence of this country in the 1896 Treaty of Addis Ababa Ethiopia |
| #1865, aired 1992-10-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $1000: This Republican stayed home in 1896 while his opponent, William Jennings Bryan, stumped across the country McKinley |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | SCIENCE $400: In 1896 this scientist became head of the Tuskegee Institute Dept. of Agricultural Research George Washington Carver |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | THE ELEMENTS $600: In 1896 future Nobel winner Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered this element was radioactive uranium |
| #1792, aired 1992-05-19 | NEWSPAPERS $200: On Oct. 25, 1896 this newspaper first used the slogan "All the news that's fit to print" The New York Times |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $400: In 1896 Antoine Becquerel first noticed radiation from this element uranium |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | RIVERS $300: In 1896 gold was discovered along the Klondike, a tributary of this nearly 2,000-mile-long river the Yukon River |
| #1705, aired 1992-01-17 | GOLD $600: Named for a river, this region of the Yukon was made famous by an 1896 gold strike the Klondike |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | HISTORIC QUOTES $800: In an 1896 speech, William Jennings Bryan said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon this" a cross of gold |
| #1665, aired 1991-11-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: In 1896 Leo Hirschfield "roll"ed some chocolate for this daughter of his Tootsie |
| #1665, aired 1991-11-22 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In 1896 the Democratic, Populist & National Silver parties all nominated him for president William Jennings Bryan |
| #1658, aired 1991-11-13 | PRINCETON $200: Princeton was given its name in 1896, the year this future Princeton student & Jazz Age author was born Scott Fitzgerald |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | WORLD FACTS $500: In 1896 this capital on the Danube became the 1st city in eastern Europe to have a subway Budapest |
| #1552, aired 1991-05-07 | INVENTIONS $300: In 1896 this Italian patented his wireless transmitter & receiver Marconi |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: In 1896, Dr. W.P. Morgan described this condition as "word blindness" dyslexia |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | GREAT DISASTERS $600: About 5,000 were trampled in the stampede for free beer at the coronation of this czar in 1896 Nicholas |
| #1457, aired 1990-12-25 | NEW YORK CITY $500: It was losing a reported $1,000 a week when Adolph Simon Ochs bought it in 1896 The New York Times |
| #1436, aired 1990-11-26 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: Sir Wilfrid Laurier held this office from 1896-1911, the first French-Canadian to do so Prime Minister of Canada |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | ATHENS $500 (Daily Double): The Panathenaic Stadium, built c. 330 B.C. by the orator Lycurgus, was restored in 1896 for this event the Olympics |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | RELIGION $800: After a schism in this group Ballington & Maud Booth founded the Volunteers of America in 1896 the Salvation Army |
| #1, aired 1990-06-16 | REFERENCE BOOKS $2000: Her "Boston Cooking-School Cookbook", first published in 1896, is still sold today Fannie Farmer |
| #1337, aired 1990-05-29 | THE 19TH CENTURY $500: In 1896 this presidential candidate ran on a platform advocating the free & unlimited coinage of silver William Jennings Bryan |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | THE OLYMPICS $100: Fittingly, this country was the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896 Greece |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | HEADLINES $600: New York, November 4,1896 "McKinley & Hobart will tame" this "Tiger" the Tammany Tiger |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | INSURANCE $100: Since 1896 it's used the Rock of Gibraltar in its ads Prudential |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | EDUCATION $7,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 the Supreme Court used this oft-quoted phrase to describe acceptable segregation separate but equal |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | STATE SEALS $600: A beehive, sego lilies, & the years 1847 & 1896 adorn its seal Utah |
| #1188, aired 1989-11-01 | PRESIDENTS $1000: This Ohio gov. ran his 1896 campaign from his front porch in Canton & won (William) McKinley |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | PUBLISHING $400: When Adolph Ochs bought the N.Y. Times in 1896, he adopted this motto which has been used in every issue All the news that's fit to print |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | NEWSPAPERS $400: Eliz. Meriwether Gilmer wrote the 1st advice column of this type in 1896 in the New Orleans Picayune advice to the lovelorn |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | LAW $1000: The 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson decision declared this legal discrimination, separate but equal facilities (segregation) |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | GUINNESS RECORDS $400: The shortest on record, lasting only 38 minutes in 1896, was between the United Kingdom & Zanzibar war |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | THE 1800s $400: The number of times the Olympics were held in the 1800s once |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | THE 1890s $400: On June 11, 1896, the government bought the D.C. house in which he died 31 years earlier Abraham Lincoln |
| #857, aired 1988-05-03 | GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE $400: Westinghouse's generators here began operation in November of 1896, supplying Buffalo with power Niagara Falls |
| #831, aired 1988-03-28 | FENCING $400: Modern fencing has been part of these since 1896, but women couldn't compete until 1924 the Olympics |
| #792, aired 1988-02-02 | WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Her 1896 "Boston Cooking School Cook Book" was 1st to use precise measures now common in U.S. cookbooks Fannie Farmer |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: In 1896, he became 1st pres. candidate to campaign by phone, tho probably not from his famous front porch William McKinley |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | 19TH C. AMERICA $1000: Henry Flagler extended his East Coast RR to this city in 1896, & the city was incorporated that same year Miami |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | THE 1890s $400: Going to road test his 1st car June 4, 1896, he found the shed door wasn't wide enough to get the car out Henry Ford |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | THE 1890s $800: Published in English in 1896, H. Sienkiewicz's best seller "Quo Vadis" was originally written in this language Polish |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Black author Julius Lester's new book retells animal folktales 1st collected in 1896 by this white author Joel Chandler Harris |
| #639, aired 1987-05-21 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: Though the modern Olympics began in 1896, 1st time they could compete was 1900 women |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | THE OLYMPICS $600: In 1896 games, only men in the navy of this host country could enter the 100m freestyle for sailors Greece |
| #613, aired 1987-04-15 | FAMOUS PAIRS $400: "The Grand Duke" was the last comic opera they wrote together, in 1896 Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | TRANSPORTATION $400: Opening in 1896, the 1st subway in eastern Europe was a trolley tunnel built in this Hungarian city Budapest |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | AFRICA $400: After mistakenly signing treaty agreeing to Italian control, this country defeated Italian army in 1896 Ethiopia |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | AUGUST $500: Gold was discovered in Aug. 1896 on a tributary of this Canadian river near Alaska the Yukon (or the Klondike) |
| #504, aired 1986-11-13 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $500 (Daily Double): In 1896, Thomas Sperry & Shelly Hutchinson started 1st independent Co. to provide these trading stamps |
| #495, aired 1986-10-31 | 1890's $400: In 1896, the director of the Sorbonne's psychology lab, Alfred Binet, devised this test I.Q. test |
| #485, aired 1986-10-17 | AUTOMOBILES $400: Started in 1896, this is oldest GM car still being produced the Oldsmobile |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | GOVERNMENT $200: Until 1896, majority in this branch of Congress were 1st termers, now less than 10% are the House of Representatives |
| #420, aired 1986-04-18 | 1890'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 |
| #408, aired 1986-04-02 | TENNIS $300: Yes, for the 1st 8 Summer Games, starting in 1896 Was tennis an Olympic sport? |
| #383, aired 1986-02-26 | 1890's $600: In 1896 decision, Supreme Court said facilities could be racialy separate if they were this equal |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | THE SHORTEST $200: Shortest on record lasted 38 minutes in 1896 & involved the United Kingdom and Zanzibar the shortest war |
| #164, aired 1985-04-25 | THE OLYMPICS $400: Year of the 1st modern Olympics 1896 |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | NOSTALGIA $300: Thomas Sperry began giving one of these for every 10¢ spent by a customer in 1896 green stamps (trading stamps) |
| #136, aired 1985-03-18 | QUOTE, UNQUOTE $600: Accepting Dem. nomination in 1896 he said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan |
| #118, aired 1985-02-20 | SPORTS $100: Sporting event held in years 392 & 1896 but not in between the Olympics |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | WARS $800: In 1896 this East African country defeated Italy Ethiopia |
| #9, aired 1984-09-20 | FOODS $400: On the market since 1896, it wasn't until 1912 that they included prizes Cracker Jacks |
