| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $400: Intellectuals change society in "What Is to Be Done?", an 1863 novel by Chernyshevsky that planted the seeds of this 1917 event the Russian Revolution |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SPEECHMAKING $200: In 1917 Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on this country that was practicing "cruel & unmanly" submarine warfare Germany |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | LOST WORKS $2000: This Frenchman's controversial urinal from a 1917 show is lost; you can look at (but not use) a replica at the Tate Modern Duchamp |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | SOUP'S ON $600: Vichyssoise, made with a base of potatoes & this onion relative, is said to date back to 1917 at the Ritz-Carlton leek |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES $400: Delivery of a message of critical importance is central to the plot of this 2019 Sam Mendes war film 1917 |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $600: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) After facing racial discrimination near their training facility in South Carolina in 1917, the Harlem Hellfighters were among the first U.S. units to ship to France as they joined this vast body of troops--AEF for short the American Expeditionary Force |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $1600: After some summer troubles in 1917, Lenin fled to Finland & this Bolshevik leader was in jail in August Trotsky |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $200: 3 children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 are among those who have had visions of this place of much fire & groaning hell |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: In 1917 he founded Boys Town in Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions Father Flanagan |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $1000: An exotic Dutch dancer & courtesan, she was executed by the French in 1917 on charges of spying for the Germans Mata Hari |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $1000: After the Communists came into power in 1917, this party of theirs ratified a "code of marriage, the family and guardianship" the Bolsheviks (Reds) |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | STATE FLAGS $400: Wyoming's flag, adopted in 1917, bears the silhouette of one of these animals, just back from the brink of extinction the American bison (a buffalo) |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $400: Until 1917, it was a Russian emperor; today, this title is used informally to mean someone in charge czar |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $8,600 (Daily Double): Since 1917 Columbia University has announced these awards for fields including journalism & literature the Pulitzers |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $400: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) In "Dead Wake", I explore the infamous 1915 torpedoing by a U-boat of this luxury liner; with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including some 130 Americans, that tragedy helped convince the U.S. to join World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies the Lusitania |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE FRIEND ZONE $600: Promoting peace & human rights since 1917, the American Friends Service Committee is guided by the principles of this religious group the Quakers |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | WE SPY $800: In 1917 a military tribunal took less than 45 minutes to find her guilty of espionage, & a firing squad would await Mata Hari |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $400: Pope Benedict XV, whose Peace Note of 1917 tried to end this terrible conflict World War I |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | COMPANY TOWNS $1200: Lynch, Kentucky was built in 1917 by U.S. Coal & Coke, a subsidiary of U.S. this (U.S.) Steel |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Its 1980 eruption was the first by a volcano in the continental U.S. outside Alaska since 1917 Mount St. Helens |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT'S ANARCHY $2000: In July 1917 Emma Goldman got 2 years in prison for opposing this wartime measure, authorized by Congress in May the draft |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $2000: St. Francisco Marto, one of 3 children who saw the Virgin Mary in this Portuguese town in 1917, died in the flu pandemic in 1919 Fátima |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: This future world leader with the maiden name Nehru was born in Allahabad in 1917 Indira Gandhi |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | TRUST FALL $800: The movie trust nicknamed for this inventor limited most films to 2 reels & was dissolved in 1917 Edison |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: Columbia University began handing out these awards in 1917 the Pulitzers |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | TO 5 DECIBEL PLACES $2000: In 1917 the army established this Maryland proving ground to test munitions Aberdeen |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | SCIENTISTS $1200: The title of this telescopic scientist's 1917 dissertation was "Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae" Hubble |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $200: Enrique Esparza was about 8 on March 6, 1836 & a witness who would "remember" the battle at this mission for decades; Enrique died in 1917 the Alamo |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | I DO DECLARE $1200: The 1917 Corfu Declaration called for the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes, which in 1929 became this Yugoslavia |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | ON THE "M"AP $5,600 (Daily Double): Known for coffee before 1917, this Venezuelan port city struck oil & became a big deal Maracaibo |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | EXAM TIME $800: To do your taxes, look for someone who passed this 3-letter exam first standardized in 1917 the CPA exam |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | OMAHA $1000: In 1917 this priest rented a boarding house in Omaha to care for 5 neglected boys; later, he bought a farm & it became Boys Town Father Flanagan |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | OVERSEAS TERRITORIES $1200: The U.S. Virgin Islands were purchased from this European country in 1917 Denmark |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | RED $200: The Comite International de la Croix-Rouge won the 1917 Nobel Peace Prize; we know them better as this the Red Cross |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION $1200: The Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is also named for this month October |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | DRAFTS $600: In his 1917 poem "Dulce et Decorum est", Wilfred Owen tried several verbs about being stricken by this: gargling, gurgling, goggling mustard gas |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | THRONE OUT $4,000 (Daily Double): This world leader renounced his throne on March 15, 1917; 16 months later, he was dead Nicholas II |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $1200: Edward Lear's nonsense poem "The Jumblies" is perhaps fitting amid the chaos of World War I in this Sam Mendes film 1917 |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | HERE'S JOHN $2000: This soldier fought the Spanish & Pancho Villa before taking charge of U.S. forces in Europe in 1917 Pershing |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): This monarchical title was relinquished for good in 1917 czar |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | BUSTERS $1600: Buster Keaton made his film debut in this portly silent comic's 1917 2-reeler "The Butcher Boy" (Roscoe) "Fatty" Arbuckle |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $1000: Cinematographer Roger Deakins didn't say exactly how many shots were in this 2019 WWI film, but the longest was about 7 minutes 1917 |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | HISTORY $400: Admitting to being a courtesan but not a spy, this exotic dancer was executed as a double agent by the French in 1917 Mata Hari |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: Thailand, then known by this name, entered World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies Siam |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | BUSINESSES $1000: If you need to know the history of this toilet co., I don't think we're in Kansas anymore --it was founded in Japan in 1917 Toto |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $800: On Dec. 6, 1917 the explosion of a munitions ship near this Nova Scotia capital was heard hundreds of miles away Halifax |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In 1917 this muckraker described coal mine conditions in "King Coal"; 10 years later, he dove into "Oil!" (Upton) Sinclair |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In December 1917 just one representative in Congress said no to war with this dual monarchy Austria-Hungary |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | HOW ARTSY $1600: It was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven who signed "R. Mutt" to a urinal in this French Dadaist's provocative 1917 artwork Marcel Duchamp |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 1917 $400: The Battle of Cambrai marked the 1st large-scale use of this motorized weapon, with more than 350 British Mark IVs deployed tanks |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 1917 $800: Led by Eddie Collins & Shoeless Joe Jackson, this team won baseball's World Series; they wouldn't win again until 2005 the White Sox |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 1917 $1200: "The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming" in this popular song of the day written by George M. Cohan "Over There" |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 1917 $1600: After 245 years, the colony called the Danish this directional name ceased to exist, becoming the U.S. Virgin Islands the West Indies |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 1917 $2000: Named for a British foreign minister, this declaration said the British government supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine the Balfour Declaration |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A FINE LINE $1600: In 1917 D.H. Lawrence wrote, "A fine" this "is blowing the new direction of time" wind |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | WORLD POLICE $600: The Okhrana's function was to stifle leftist activity in this country, at least until 1917 Russia |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $1000: Back in 1917 the president of Argentina announced an Oct. 12 holiday called not Columbus Day but this "Dia" Dia de la Raza |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | I'M SO THERE FOR IT! $1000: 1917 arrives soon, & I've got an invite to Prince Yusupov's! Sounds fun! He'd never try to poison, shoot & drown an ol' Siberian like me! Rasputin |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS $400: There was a pretty big revolution in 1905, but 2 bigger ones came in this year & saw Nicholas II get the boot 1917 |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act made residents of this Caribbean island American citizens Puerto Rico |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | WINDY CITY POLITICS $1600: From 1915 to 1917 Oscar de Priest sat on Chicago's city council after becoming the first African American elected to this post alderman |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | VISIONARIES $2000: Named for a 12th century Moorish princess, in 1917 this village was the site of visions of the Virgin Mary Fatima |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CLASSICAL DANCE $800: Between 1915 & 1917, after traveling among rural people, Bela Bartok wrote 6 "Romanian" these "Dances" Folk |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | THE 1600s $200: In 1613 the Romanov family came to power in this country & ruled until 1917 Russia |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | WHO ARE THEY? $400: Communist Party wing led by Lenin in 1917 the Bolsheviks |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | CHILDISH BAMBINO $200: In a 1917 game Babe Ruth argued with this official about balls & strikes & punched him in the head the umpire |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | TAURUS TYPES $1200: Born April 25, 1917 this jazz legend known for her sweet voice & her scat singing racked up 14 Grammy Awards Ella Fitzgerald |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | TORY SPELLING $2000: He's remembered for his 1917 "Declaration" about Palestine B-A-L-F-O-U-R |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | A SHORT STORY CATEGORY $1600: Competes the title of Susan Glaspell's 1917 tale with a feminist angle, "A Jury of..." of her peers |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | GOOD FELLOWS $1200: AKA Poputchiks, fellow travelers were writers Leon Trotsky considered to be neutral about this 1917 the Russian Revolution |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | CITIES THROUGH TIME $400: A brief civil war took place in this capital after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917 Helsinki |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | REFERENCE GOES DIGITAL $2000: This multivolume encyclopedia debuted in 1917, began "Childcraft" in 1934 & first went online in 1998 World Book |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | FREE AT LAST $800: 1917, from Russia:
this Nordic land Finland |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS $1600: In 1993, in what was reported as Moscow's fiercest fighting since 1917, this snowy-haired Russian president fended off a coup Yeltsin |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | ENGLISH MAJORS $800: A 1917 issue of the Arab Bulletin reported on this then-major & 3 others sharing an ostrich egg for breakfast Lawrence of Arabia |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $400: In 1917 African Americans marched in NYC silently to protest this then-epidemic type of extrajudicial capital punishment lynching |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $800: Thousands marched from 57th Street to 23rd Street down this numeric Manhattan avenue & famous parade route 5th Avenue |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $1200: One of the first major civil rights demonstrations, the parade was organized by this rights org. founded in 1909 the NAACP |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $1600: Paraders carried the flags of the U.S., Britain, Haiti & this West African country Liberia |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $2000: One sign said, "The first blood for American independence was shed by a Negro"--this Boston Massacre victim Crispus Attucks |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $1000: U.S. troops in Paris on July 4, 1917 visited his tomb, where Lt. Col. Charles Stanton famously said to him, "We are here!" Lafayette |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | REVOLUTION NOW! $200: This country's "February Revolution" of 1917 began on March 8 on the calendar we use today Russia |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: A 1917 Carnegie Hall audience heard her defend birth control, saying she was 1 of 11 kids, causing her mom to die young Margaret Sanger |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1917 it awarded the first Pulitzer Prizes Columbia |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | HISTORIC TRIOS $800: During the 1917 Russian Revolution, this faction promised the people "peace, land & bread" the Bolsheviks |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $1600: With her husband Leonard, she founded Hogarth Press in 1917 & published her own work with it (Virginia) Woolf |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | OLD NATIONAL ANTHEMS $400: From 1833 to 1917 Russia used the anthem "God Save" this personage the tsar |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | OCTOBER OCCURRENCES $1600: In October 1917 thousands in this Portuguese city claimed to have witnessed a miracle in which the sun "spun" Fatima |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | WEST VIRGINIA $400: Last name of the Republican governor from 1913 to 1917; to date no McCoys have been elected to that office Hatfield |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | HISTORY $800: This Siberian mystic didn't make it to New Year's 1917, getting poisoned, shot twice, tied up & drowned, all in 1 rough Dec. night Rasputin |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | 1917 -- 100 YEARS AGO $400: Theda Bara vamped on screen to big box office as this historic temptress Cleopatra |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | 1917 -- 100 YEARS AGO $800: The 100" Hooker telescope, the world's largest in 1917, began operating on Mt. Wilson above this Rose Bowl city Pasadena |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | 1917 -- 100 YEARS AGO $1200: The British rolled out these fearsome vehicles in their first massed use for the Battle of Cambrai tanks |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | 1917 -- 100 YEARS AGO $2000: In Russia this political faction overthrew Kerensky's short-lived provisional government the Bolsheviks |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | 1917 -- 100 YEARS AGO $6,000 (Daily Double): This muckraking author's novel "King Coal" exposed abuses in the U.S. mining industry Upton Sinclair |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | OF PENCIL MANIA $1600: After the 1917 revolution, this head of Occidental Petroleum controlled the USSR's pencil market Armand Hammer |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THE LAW $1600: The 1917 law under which Edward Snowden was charged in 2013 isn't called the Spying Act but this act the Espionage Act |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 1917 $400: In November the price of a first class one rose by 50% to 3 cents a stamp |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 1917 $800: This city's Love Field airport began in 1917 as an Army base to train pilots Dallas |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 1917 $1200: On August 10 this future president was appointed to serve as food administrator for the war effort Herbert Hoover |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 1917 $1600: Naturalist Charles Sheldon brought Pres. Wilson the bill making this Alaskan "Great One" part of a national park Denali |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 1917 $2000: In August this U.S. journalist sailed to Russia & joined the Bureau of International Revolutionary Propaganda John Reed |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | GROUPS $400: Hail, hail, since 1917 it's (they've?) been "all here" the gang |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Under the Jones Act of 1917, residents of this Caribbean island gained U.S. citizenship Puerto Rico |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | HUMANITARIANS $1600: In December 1917 this priest opened his first Boys Home in a Victorian mansion in downtown Omaha Father Flanagan |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $200: From 1917 to 1991 a federation of Russia & other Communist republics was known by this collective name the U.S.S.R. (or Soviet Union) |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | ACQUISITIVE PRESIDENTS $2000: The Virgin Islands Woodrow Wilson |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | TEEN LITERATURE $5,200 (Daily Double): A famous collection of Freud's theories was 1917's "Introductory Lectures on" this process psychoanalysis |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | IN THE CANADIAN PROVINCE $2000: St. Paul's, the country's oldest Protestant church, which preserves a broken window from the 1917 ship explosion Nova Scotia |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | COUNTRY FACTS $1000: From 1809 to 1917 Finland was controlled by this country Russia |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | 1890s AMERICA $800: This president from New York underwent secret jaw surgeries in 1893 that weren't revealed until 1917 Cleveland |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | RUSSIAN RULERS $800: This royal house began with the reign of Michael in 1613 & ended with Nicholas II in the revolution of 1917 the Romanov |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $400: The Russian people suffered greatly during the war & blamed this czar who was forced off the throne in early 1917 Nicholas II |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $1600: On July 4, 1917 this AEF leader marched his troops through Paris to lay a wreath on the tomb of Lafayette (John J.) Pershing |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | LITERARY DIRECTIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): "South" is this explorer's account of his efforts from 1914 to 1917 to become the first man to cross Antarctica Sir Ernest Shackleton |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | IN SINK $400: Irwin Cox answered a distress call when he invented this brand of steel-wool pads, found in kitchen sinks since 1917 S.O.S. |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | THE BRADY BUNCH $400: In a 1917 movie Alice Brady played this flag maker, with lines like "There can be no reward so great as the honor" Betsy Ross |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | 2nd PERSON, ACTIVE $1000: You are personal advisor to the Czar's wife in 1915 & many attempts are made on your life; you don't make it to 1917 Rasputin |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: In 1917 the royal family took this new name, also a castle Windsor |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LUCKY 13 $1000: The apparitions of the Virgin in this town in 1917 were said to occur on the 13th of each month for 6 months Fátima |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $400: Maud Howe Elliott & 2 sisters won the 1917 prize with a bio on this "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" writer, their mother Julia (Ward) Howe |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | BUSINESS HISTORY $1000: In 1917 a cookware salesman began giving customers soapy steel-wool pads, which he later sold under this name S.O.S pads |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Executed as a spy at Vincennes in 1917, she once said, "I never could dance well" Mata Hari |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | WHAT?!... WHEN?! $800: The last czar of Russia abdicated in this year 1917 |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1951 this married couple was tried under the Espionage Act of 1917 & found guilty the Rosenbergs |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY! $600: For your expose on the gov.'s mime shakedown, it's this, "Honoring excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917"! the Pulitzer |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $800: Around 1917 Northam Warren of Cutex created the first commercial version of this colorful cosmetic product nail polish |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | MEMORABLE METAPHORS $2000: In 1917 this future rival of Stalin told the Mensheviks, "Go where you belong... into the dustbin of history" (Leon) Trotsky |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | U.S. MILITARY MEDALS $2,800 (Daily Double): To be eligible for this medal, you must have been held captive after April 5, 1917 the Prisoner of War Medal (P.O.W. Medal) |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | BIG STUFF $600: This huge museum made up of 5 buildings, including the Czars' Winter Palace, became public property after 1917 the Hermitage |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | AVIATION FIRSTS $200: In 1917 Eugene Bullard became the first black combat pilot while flying for this country, receiving the Legion of Honor France |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | NOTORIOUS WOMEN $1000: She refused to wear a blindfold as she faced a firing squad in Paris on October 15, 1917 Mata Hari |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | REVOLUTIONARY COUNTRIES $1200: The October Revolution (1917) Russia |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | FINLANDIA $1,000 (Daily Double): One of the 2 countries that took turns controlling Finland from the 1100s to its 1917 independence Russia (or Sweden) |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | ON THEIR TOMBSTONES $1600: 1917 to 1995:
"Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" Dean Martin |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $3,000 (Daily Double): His autobiography was first published in 1917 under the German title "Der Rote Kampfflieger" Manfred von Richthofen, The Red Baron |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1917 in England;
died in 2008 (not 2001) in Sri Lanka (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | FLAVOR OF THE MONTH $800: Thanks to the old style calendar of this country, its "February Revolution" began on March 8, 1917 (to us) Russia |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | CLING-ONS $200: The work of Harry Coover, 1917-2011, led to the adhesive known as "The Original Super" this Glue |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $800: When the French realize you're a dancing double agent during WWI, Oct. 15, 1917 will be a bad day, female bro Mata Hari |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | FIRESTARTER $600: In 1917 a fire on a TNT-laden ship in this Nova Scotia capital led to the biggest pre-atomic man-made explosion Halifax |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | SHIP SHAPE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.) The CLS4 Carpenteria was built in 1917 to be a floating one of these; a sunlight-operated valve on the unmanned ship turned on the acetylene beacon a lighthouse |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Jones Act of 1917 granted U.S. citizenship to residents of this Caribbean island Puerto Rico |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | MIKHAILS $800: In 1613 Czar Michael (or Mikhail) started this dynasty that ruled Russia until 1917 Romanov |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | INKS & DYES $2000: "Never say dye... say" this 3-letter fabric dye company founded in 1917 Rit |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | ROYAL RELATIVES $800: Ivan the Terrible's first wife, Anastasia, was a member of this family that ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 the Romanovs |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | GIRL SCOUT COOKIES $200: The first recorded Girl Scout cookie sale occurred in December 1917 by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee in this state Oklahoma |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: In 1917, 3 years after "Tarzan of the Apes", he wrote "A Princess of Mars", the first of 11 John Carter novels Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | S'MOORS $600: This Portuguese town where visions were seen in 1917 was named for a count's wife, a Moor who became a Christian Fatima |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | QUOTES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In March 1917 former president Teddy Roosevelt said this country "is already at war with us" Germany |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM $600: A deadly riot took place in Houston in August of this year, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I 1917 |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: In 1917 he founded Boys Town near Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions Father Flanagan |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | ABDICATIONS $400: Constantine I abdicated twice, in 1917 & 1922, as king of this country Greece |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | A WELL-STOCKED LIBRARY $800: All 22 volumes of the current edition of this "global" work first published in 1917 the World Book Encyclopedia |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN WAR $1600: The first major use of these vehicles was at the 1917 Battle of Cambrai, leading to a rare breakthrough on the Western Front tanks |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | THAT'S BUSINESS $200: He started a book business from his home in 1873; his son William joined forces with G. Clifford Noble in 1917 (Charles M.) Barnes |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1917 the U.S. purchased the islands of St. Croix, St. John & St. Thomas from this country for $25 million Denmark |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE ECONOMY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) Enacted in 1917 for World War I bonds, the limit known as this has been raised by Congress many times, yet when reached in 2011, its need to be increased caused quite a stir the debt ceiling |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | E-I-O $1000: This synonym for spying was the name of a 1917 wartime Act of Congress espionage |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | MINER CLASSICS $3,000 (Daily Double): 1917's "King Coal" by this author was to the mining industry what an earlier work had been to the meat-packing industry Upton Sinclair |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | TAKE THE DAY OFF $400: April 22 is Earth Day & the birthday of this leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution Lenin |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | POLITICIANS $2000: Shortly after the fall of the Czar, the Bolsheviks overthrew this modern prime minister in late 1917 Alexander Kerensky |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $1200: This world leader was born in September 1917 on Luzon; he died in September 1989 in Honolulu (Ferdinand) Marcos |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | OUT OF JAIL $200: Arrested in 1902 & exiled to Siberia, this future dictator was freed in 1917, after the czar's overthrow Stalin |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE $600: This company's canvas All Star basketball shoe goes all the way back to 1917 Converse |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | "O" BROTHER $1200: In 1917, then known as Larry, he played Brutus in a school production of "Julius Caesar"; his brother Dickie got the lead (Laurence) Olivier |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks through the American Red Cross headquarters.) Depicting the theme of ministry to the sick & wounded through sacrifice, the windows at the Red Cross headquarters were commissioned in 1917 & created by this man's studio Tiffany |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | ETUDE, BRUTE $2000: From 1911 to 1917, this romantic Russian composed "Etudes-Tableaux" for piano Rachmaninoff |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE DIRECTOR $400: Born in this city in 1895, J. Edgar Hoover graduated from its National University law school in 1917 Washington |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS $2000: In 2010 MoMA put on this French artist: "Radical Invention, 1913-1917", including "The Moroccans" Henri Matisse |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | WHEN YOU WISH UPON A CZAR $600: He succeeded his dad, Alexander III, & ruled from 1894 to 1917 Nicholas II |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2000: In 1917 the son of an Illinois bookseller joined with a New York store & started this company Barnes & Noble |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | JERSEY GIRLS $800: This Algonquin wit was born in West End, N.J. in 1893 & was a drama critic for Vanity Fair by 1917 Dorothy Parker |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | LENIN $2000: In 1917 Lenin used the slogan "all power to" these, from the Russian for "councils" the soviets |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE FASTING & THE FURIOUS $1000: In 1917 Alice Paul, arrested while agitating for this constitutional amendment, was force fed to end her hunger strike the 19th Amendment |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $400: In May 1917 Wilson signed an act requiring U.S. males between the ages of 21 & 31 to do this on June 5 register with Selective Service (for the draft) |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): In March 1917 Wilson ordered the arming of U.S. merchant ships to defend them from these "wolves of the sea" U-boats |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Poker hand of 3 aces & 2 kings with a British royal family name adopted in 1917 that's a great way to tie a tie a full house of Windsor knot |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GET OUTTA TOWN! $1200: If you're in this capital of Nova Scotia Dec. 6, 1917; that ship full of ammo in the harbor is about to go boom Halifax |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | SONG STANDARDS $1000: This 1917 song's title was borrowed from the last line in "Shine On Harvest Moon" "For Me And My Gal" |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | THE DIEDS OF MARCH $1000: This British statesman whose 1917 declaration supported a Jewish homeland died in England March 19, 1930 (Arthur James) Balfour |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WORLD WAR I $400: On April 6, 1917 the U.S. declared war on Germany, but war wasn't declared on this dual monarchy until December Austria-Hungary |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | CAPITAL CITIES $600: It fell to British troops in 1917 & to U.S. troops on April 9, 2003 Baghdad |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | DOUGH! $1000: The dime known as this "Head" was designed by Charles Barber, the Mint's chief engraver from 1879 to 1917 the Liberty Head |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | DECEMBER 7 $1200: 1917:
The U.S. declares war on this hyphenated kingdom Austria-Hungary |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | JORDAN WITH QUEEN RANIA $1200: (Queen Rania of Jordan presents the clue.) Wadi Rum in southern Jordan is where Prince Faisal & this British officer played an important role in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1917 Lawrence of Arabia |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | THE TEENS $400: World War I ended in November of this year 1918 |
| #5764, aired 2009-10-08 | DUTCH & FLEMISH PAINTERS $2000: In 1917 this "square" Dutch Neoplasticist founded the art magazine De Stijl (Piet) Mondrian |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | TIME FOR CLASS $1000: English:
Learn that he left Princeton without a degree in 1917 & 8 years later penned "The Great Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | UPTON SINCLAIR $2000: Sinclair resigned from this politial party in 1917 in support of the U.S. entry into World War I the Socialist Party |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | LITERATURE $400: In 1917 L. Frank Baum wrote about "The Lost Princess of" this place Oz |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMES MACHINE $2,000 (Daily Double): The high hopes of this year are indicated here 1919 |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | MARCH $400: In a runup to the revolution, deadly food riots broke out in this Russian city on March 8, 1917 St. Petersburg |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, "The world must be made safe for" this democracy |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1000: King Constantine of this Balkan country was forced from his throne in 1917 & again in 1922 Greece |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY $800: From 1917 to 1937 he took more than 300 portraits of his wife, artist Georgia O'Keeffe Stieglitz |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | THE "7"-YEAR ITCH $600: The Russian Revolution began in this year, comrade 1917 |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT $400: May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts JFK |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | BLAME THE FRENCH $1000: A Canadian war memorial stands atop this French ridge where fighting raged in April 1917 Vimy Ridge |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | CZAR POWER $400: This last Romanov to rule Russia became the last czar when he was dethroned in 1917 Nicholas II |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | LEWIS OR CLARK $400: This "chocolately coated peanut butter crunch candy" has been around since 1917 a Clark Bar |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | THE MIDDLE EAST $1600: This 1917 British declaration favored "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people the Balfour Declaration |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | HISTORICAL DIARIES? $1600: 1897: I'm totally bummed--I've been exiled to Siberia! But diary, I swear that in 1917, I'll lead the October Revolution Lenin |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | DYNASTY $400: In 1613 Czar Michael founded this Russian dynasty that would last until 1917 the Romanovs |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | IT HAPPENED ON APRIL 2 $800: 1917:
He asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany Woodrow Wilson |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | LENIN $400: Lenin returned to Russia from Europe following the overthrow of the czar in this year 1917 |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | WORLD WAR I $400: In 1917 Allied troops from this North American country stormed up Vimy Ridge in a legendary charge Canada |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE HISTORY OF HOCKEY $200: It was founded on Nov. 26, 1917; its first president was Frank Calder, later of Cup fame the National Hockey League |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | "CHI" CHI $600: Under the name Nguyen Ai Quoc, he petitioned the Allies for Vietnamese self-determination in Paris in 1917 Ho Chi Minh |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | THE FEMININE MISTAKE $800: Maybe working as a double agent for France & Germany wasn't a good idea; she was executed on Oct. 15, 1917 Mata Hari |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION $400: It ended in 1917 with Nicholas II out on his czary... the Russian Revolution |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | JULY $4,000 (Daily Double): A July 17, 1917 royal proclamation changed the name of the British royal family to this, like a castle Windsor |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | FAMOUS CANADIANS $400: In 1917 & 1918 Ontario's Billy Bishop claimed 72 aerial victories as an Ace in this war World War I |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | HE'S DEAD, JIM $1600: On April 13, 1917 this U.S. businessman & lover of lavish meals found that diamonds weren't forever Diamond Jim Brady |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | "P"s ON EARTH $1200: The Jones Act of 1917 granted U.S. citizenship to inhabitants of this Caribbean island Puerto Rico |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $400: In a 1917 speech in Russia, he said, "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist Order" Lenin |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | "D" FACTO $1200: An announcement, like the one in 1917 wih Balfour's name on it a declaration |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $2,000 (Daily Double): This international organization won in 1917, 1944 & 1963 the Red Cross |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | LITERARY BROTHERS $1200: Alec Waugh's first novel was "The Loom of Youth" in 1917; this brother's was "Decline and Fall" in 1928 Evelyn Waugh |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | THAT'S GONNA COST YOU $400: In 1917 the U.S. ponied up 25 million bucks for these Caribbean islands & bought them from Denmark the Virgin Islands |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | "WINTER" WONDERLAND $600: Russian revolutionaries stormed it in November 1917 the Winter Palace |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE DUKES OF HAZARD $400: Grand Duke Michael wasn't rushin' to become czar after this brother of his abdicated on March 15, 1917 Nicholas II |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | CAN I GET YOUR LITERARY NUMBER? $1600: This John Reed title refers to the period following Nov. 7, 1917, when the Bolsheviks seized power Ten Days that Shook the World |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | WELCOME TO OMAHA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a scenic fountain in Omaha, NE.) It opened in downtown Omaha in 1917 with 3 lads in juvenile court & 2 homeless newsies; it's now on 900 acres near the city (Girls and) Boys Town |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | WELCOME TO OMAHA $800: Founded in 1917, the company Omaha these brings superb marbling to your dinner table Omaha Steaks |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | YEARS $600: The U.S. officially entered World War I in April of this year 1917 |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | DINOSAURS $800: Edmontosaurus, discovered in this Canadian province in 1917, was almost defenseless & was preyed upon by the T-rex Alberta |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | 1917 $200: Impeached as governor of this big state in 1917, James Ferguson later got his wife to run & she won Texas |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | 1917 $400: On Dec. 7 1 U.S. representative voted against declaring war on this dual monarchy Austria-Hungary |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | 1917 $600: On Dec. 17 128 U.S. representatives voted against this number amendment prohibiting liquor the 18th |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | 1917 $800: "Jerry of the Islands" by this "White Fang" author was published a year after his death Jack London |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | 1917 $1000: This revolutionary leader returned to Guangzhou to launch a new movement against the premier of China Sun Yat-sen |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $3,200 (Daily Double): Glory, Hallelujah! She was the subject of the first Pulitzer Prize-winning biography in 1917 Julia Ward Howe |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | DEAL OR NO DEAL $800: In 1917 the U.S. said "Deal!" when it acquired the Virgin Islands from this Scandinavian country Denmark |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | I CAN'T TELL YOU "Y" $2000: In the late 1917 battle for this town, the British lost 400,000 men & only gained about 5 miles of territory Ypres |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $1600: This North European country marks December 6 for its 1917 independence from Russia Finland |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | GET INVOLVED $800: Schedule a blood drive for this organization whose "junior" branch was founded in 1917 the American Red Cross |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | EPONYMOUS INVENTIONS $2000: In 1917 John Browning designed the "BAR", which stood for this Browning Automatic Rifle |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | THE WINTER PALACE $400: The storming of the Winter Palace in 1917 was immortalized in Eisenstein's film "October", or "Ten Days that" did this Shook the World |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | THE WINTER PALACE $1200: In 1917 Russia's provisional govt. met in the Winter Palace's Malachite Room after this parliament was dissolved the Duma |
| #4874, aired 2005-11-17 | PIERCED NAVAL HISTORY $1200: On Aug. 2, 1917, E.H. Dunning became the first man to do this on a moving ship, HMS Furious land an airplane |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | BASEBALL HISTORY $200: In a 1917 game Fred Toney & Hippo Vaughn both pitched these for 9 innings; Vaughn cracked in the 10th a no-hitter |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | SAINT PETERSBURG $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports again from St. Petersburg, Russia.) As prime minister of Russia's provisional government in 1917, this man moved into the Winter Palace & used the czar's private library as his office Kerensky |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | I READ THE NEWS TODAY $800: Political theorist Nikolai Bukharin edited this "truthful" Soviet newspaper from 1917 to 1929 Pravda |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WHERE HISTORY HAPPENED $600: In 1917 the British took the town of Al-Kut on the Tigris on their march to take this, now a capital city Baghdad |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | ARCHITECTS $400: Born in Canton, China in 1917, he designed Boston's John Hancock Tower I.M. Pei |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IT CHANGED THE WORLD $1600: The Bolsheviks took over Russia in the fall of 1917, removing this moderate socialist who had become P.M. in July Kerensky |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | LET'S FINNISH THIS $400: From 1809 until 1917, Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy of this country Russia |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | EUROPE $400: In 1917 the name of this castle that dates back to the 11th century was adopted by a royal house Windsor |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | J.R. $800: This American journalist was embedded in
Petrograd in 1917 during the "10 Days that Shook the World" John Reed |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | THE VILLAGE $200: Founded in 1917 by Father Flanagan for homeless & abused waifs, it was made a municipality in 1936 Boys Town |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | WORLD WAR I $400: Breaking a long stalemate in the fighting, this country entered the war in April 1917 the United States |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | WORLD WAR I $1000: In asking for a declaration of war in 1917, Pres. Wilson said, "The world must be made safe for" this democracy |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | THE UPPER CRUST $600: Ulysses Grant's granddaughter Julia married a prince from this country & had to flee its revolution in 1917 Russia |
| #4618, aired 2004-10-06 | ART APPRECIATION $2000: In 1917 this man sent a telegram to the German minister in Mexico, with a means for Mexico to reclaim lost Texas lands (Arthur) Zimmerman |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | CRIME TIME $400: He got his "Scarface" after being knifed by a drunk at Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn in Brooklyn in 1917 Al Capone |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | PLACES FOR PILGRIMS $2000: Places Mary has appeared include Tepeyac in Mexico in 1531 & this place in Portugal in 1917 Fátima |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: In 1917 this Montanan became the first woman member of the U.S. House of Representatives Jeannette Rankin |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1600: In 1917 the people of this U.S. commonwealth in the Caribbean became naturalized citizens Puerto Rico |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | THE LENIN CLOSET $1000: When Lenin returned to Russia in 1917, he did it in a "sealed" one of these railway car |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | PHOTO OP $400: Born in the Netherlands, she was executed as a German spy in 1917 Mata Hari |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Opened in 1917, the Museum of Fine Arts in this city was built in the Pueblo Revival style Santa Fe |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | MOUNTAINS $1600: The 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens in this Washington range was the first in the lower 48 states since 1917 the Cascades |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | THE MALL $200: In 1917, G. Clifford Noble & William Barnes formed a partnership & opened up this type of store a bookstore |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $2000: Old Mrs. Kerfuffle looks good for someone born in this year in which Pres. Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO DIE $1000: After a decades-long battle to reclaim her throne, this former queen died Nov. 11, 1917 in Honolulu, Hawaii Liliuokalani |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | PUERTO RICO $400: In 1917 the Second Organic Act, also called the Jones Act, gave this to Puerto Ricans citizenship |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | INSTRUMENTAL $1600: Free from worry about too-slow human hands, Stravinsky wrote a 1917 etude for this now seldom-seen instrument player piano |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | NOVEL TEASE $1000: 1928:
"She married Clifford Chatterley in 1917, when he was home for a month on leave" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #4444, aired 2003-12-25 | WWI $1200: In a popular American song of 1917, this line immediately preceded "You're not behind a plow" "You're in the Army now" |
| #4444, aired 2003-12-25 | WWI $1600: In December 1917, this country's one-month old government signed an armistice with the Central Powers Russia |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | OH BROTHER $2,000 (Daily Double): On March 15, 1917 he abdicated in favor of his brother Michael, who quickly refused the crown Czar Nicholas II |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | "FAT" CHANCE $1000: It's believed the Virgin Mary appeared near this Portuguese village in 1917 Fatima |
| #4387, aired 2003-10-07 | ON THE "TOWN" $800: Father Flanagan founded it in 1917 Boys Town |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | MILITARY HISTORY $1600: In 1917 the British battled this nation's army in the 3 Battles of Gaza Turkey |
| #4373, aired 2003-09-17 | KAFKA $400: After discovering his religious roots, Kafka began studying this language in 1917 Hebrew |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A U.S. "CITY" $1600: Incorporated in 1917 & named for the land developer, it's in the mailing address for "Jeopardy!" Culver City |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | LATIN AMERICA $800: This Venezuelan port grew slowly until oil was discovered at a lake of the same name in 1917 Maracaibo |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | INDEPENDENCE DAY $1600: After the czar was overthrown in 1917, Finland declared its independence from this country Russia |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | BALLET $200: This Cubist did set designs for 1917's "Parade" & had designs on its ballerina Olga Khoklova, later his wife Pablo Picasso |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | MOTHERS & FATHERS $200: Born in Ireland, he set up his home for homeless boys in Omaha in 1917 Father Flanagan |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | OH, WHAT A YEAR! $400: Once capital of a Russian duchy, Helsinki became capital of ind. Finland in this year of the Russian Revolution 1917 |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | GOOD BUY $400: In 1917 the U.S. purchased the Virgin Islands from this Scandinavian country for $25 million Denmark |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $800: Russians celebrate the October Revolution of 1917 during this month November |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2000: Education chief 1917-1929, Anatoly Lunacharsky was one of the first holders of this Soviet title for a department head commissar |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $1600: In 1917, after almost 30 years in love with Maud Gonne, this Irish poet proposed to her daughter William Butler Yeats |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $600: Johan Borgen's "Lillelord" Trilogy depicts life in this Scandinavian country from 1917 through WWII Norway |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | MILITARY MEN $1200: Upon arriving in France in 1917, this AEF commander laid a wreath on Lafayette's tomb Pershing |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | JANUARY $1000: The U.S. slapped down $25 mil to buy this island group from Denmark January 17, 1917 the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1000: A November 9, 1917 story said this Russian "in exile lived in the Bronx"; "real name is Braunstein" Trotsky |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A BOY! $800: In 1979 girls were first admitted to Boys Town founded by this clergyman in 1917 Father Flanagan |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | THAT'S A PAULING $200: Linus Pauling received this in 1962; he was short a requirement when he was supposed to get it back in 1917 at 16 high school diploma |
| #4003, aired 2002-01-16 | NOVELISTS $800: This Nero Wolfe creator made a fortune between 1917 & 1927 by devising a school banking system Rex Stout |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | SEÑOR $400: This early TV star & producer was born on March 2, 1917 in Santiago, Cuba Desi Arnaz |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | WWI $1600: During a "Welcome U.S. Soldiers" celebration in Paris July 4, 1917 Col. C.E. Stanton made this famous 4-word statement "Lafayette, we are here!" |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | SERGEI EISENSTEIN CINEMA $800: The title month "October" is the one in this revolutionary year 1917 |
| #3944, aired 2001-10-25 | THIS YEAR'S HEADLINE! $800: Bolsheviks Kill the Czar & His Family! 1918 |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | WE ARE THE WORLD $300: Published in 8 volumes in 1917, it went to 22 volumes in 1972, went on a CD-ROM in 1990 & online in 1998 World Book Encyclopedia |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | TRAIN STATIONS $400: St. Petersburg's Finland Station is famous as the site of this leader's return to Russia in 1917 Lenin |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | PRESIDENTIAL LIFE SPANS $100: 1917-1963 John F. Kennedy |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS $200: The "big cats" who founded this organization in Chicago in 1917 allow no business discussions at meetings Lions Club |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! $200: This leader in power from 1917 to 1924 founded Russia's Communist Party & the Soviet state V.I. Lenin |
| #3840, aired 2001-04-20 | IT'S A DISASTER! $100: In 1917 an ammunition ship explosion in this Nova Scotia capital leveled 2 square miles & killed 1,600 people Halifax |
| #3818, aired 2001-03-21 | THE 19-AUGHTS $800: This event of 1905 weakened Nicholas II; the same-named event of 1917 brought him down Russian Revolution |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT $400: May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts John F. Kennedy |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | CHEMISTRY $600: This creator of the Periodic Table directed the Bureau of Weights & Measures in St. Petersburg from 1893 to 1917 Dmitri Mendeleev |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | PORTUGAL $400: In 1917 3 children tending sheep had a vision of the Virgin Mary in this town, now a place of pilgrimage Fatima |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | DICTATORS BY BIRTHPLACE $800: September 11, 1917:
Sarrat, Philippines Ferdinand Marcos |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE HISTORY OF JANUARY $800: Following his assassination, this mystic's body was recovered from St. Petersburg's Neva River on Jan. 1, 1917 Rasputin |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | MEXICAN HISTORY $400: A new one of these was created in 1917, but the part threatening property rights proved hard to enforce Constitution |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | "G" MEN $200: This influential modern jazz trumpeter was born in Cheraw, South Carolina in 1917 Dizzy Gillespie |
| #3663, aired 2000-07-05 | 20TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1917 tons of fruit pits, especially peach pits, were collected to make filters for these gas masks |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | MARSHMALLOW CUISINE $300: This marshmallow sandwich from the Chattanooga Bakery, a favorite in the South with RC Cola, has been around since 1917 MoonPie |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: This Prussian was awarded the Blue Max in January 1917 for destroying 16 enemy planes Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron") |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $100: The first of these was printed in Italy in 1917 with the words "Esperimento Posta Aerea" on it Air mail stamp |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $200: Fitzgerald attended this New Jersey university but left for the Army in 1917 without a degree Princeton |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In 1917 Scottish immigrant Bertie Charles Forbes began publishing a journal & gave it this name Forbes magazine |
| #3521, aired 1999-12-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $300: He founded a "City of Little Men" on December 12, 1917 in Omaha, Nebraska Father Flanagan |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 'MEMBER NOVEMBER? $300: Later a prime minister, she was born November 19, 1917 in Allahabad Indira Gandhi |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 'MEMBER NOVEMBER? $500: On November 7, 1917 this "majority" political faction toppled the provisional Russian government Bolsheviks |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY $400: The price paid for these Caribbean islands in 1917 was $25 million, over 3 times what Alaska cost Virgin Islands |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | FILMS OF THE '10s $600: In 1917 this queen of the vamps was the Queen of the Nile -- Cleopatra Theda Bara |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $1000: Britain's most popular silent film star, this woman shares her last name with a 1917 "Declaration" Betty Balfour |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN $200: Dr. Mary Walker was awarded this for her Civil War work; Congress took it away in 1917 & restored it in 1977 Congressional Medal of Honor |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $400: He got his start in Sarrat in the Philippines in 1917 & died in Honolulu in 1989 Ferdinand Marcos |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | RUSSIAN HEADS OF STATE $200: 1894-1917 Czar Nicholas II |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | RUSSIAN HEADS OF STATE $300: 1917-1924 Vladimir Lenin |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | THE IDES OF MARCH $500: March 15, 1917:
The Romanov Dynasty ends when this czar abdicates Nicholas II |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | ADMIRALS $300: Although 79, this Spanish-American War hero was still considered on active duty at the time of his death in 1917 George Dewey |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $300: In 1917 he called for a declaration of war against Germany saying that "The world must be made safe for democracy" Woodrow Wilson |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | 20th CENTURY POETS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1917, at age 52, this Irishman got married & published his book "The Wild Swans Of Coole" William Butler Yeats |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1000: His famous "declaration" was issued in November 1917, years after he was prime minister Arthur Balfour |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | HEIFETZ $200: When Jascha debuted in this NYC hall in 1917, its steel-making benefactor was still alive Carnegie Hall |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | QUOTATIONS $400: In Russia in 1917 he said, "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order" Vladimir Lenin |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | HISTORIC NEBRASKA $100: Thousands receive care every year at this institution for homeless, neglected & abused children founded in 1917 Father Flanagan's Boys Town/Home |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | MORE FIRST LADIES $500: This first lady was born in 1917 on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, hence her nickname Pat Nixon |
| #3293, aired 1998-12-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: He abdicated the Russian throne in 1917, a year before he & his family were executed Nicholas II |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | OVER THE RIVER $100: Before its completion in 1917, the Quebec railway bridge over this river collapsed twice St. Lawrence River |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | WOMEN'S WORK $400: "America's Sweetheart", she was just 24 in 1917 when she commanded $350,000 per film Mary Pickford |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | FROM CLASSICAL TUNES $200: Hail, hail! The tune of Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" was used by Theodore Morse in 1917 for this tune "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here" |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | HISTORY $1000: In 1917 the U.S. acquired the U.S. Virgin Islands for $25 million from this country Denmark |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | AMERICAN GLADIATORS $500: In 1917 this general was selected to organize & lead WWI's American Expeditionary Force John "Black Jack" Pershing |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In 1917 he began "The Silmarillion", a history of Middle Earth before the Hobbits appeared J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | TEAMMATES $200: From 1917 to 1932 he & his sister Adele were a famous dancing team on Broadway Fred Astaire |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $800: It was no Dutch treat when this Dutch-born dancer was shot by a firing squad in Vincennes in 1917 Mata Hari |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | HISTORIC DATES $500: The Russian Revolution began Nov. 7, 1917, or Oct. 25 on this calendar named for Caesar Julian calendar |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | TECHNOLOGY $500: In 1908 a carbon tetrachloride gas type of this was invented; in 1917 a foam type Fire extinguishers |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $300: May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts John F. Kennedy |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | FAMOUS NAMES $1000: When he died in 1917 this hero of Manila Bay was president of the General Board of the Navy George Dewey |
| #2903, aired 1997-03-26 | AWARDS $200: This wild west showman's 1872 Congressional Medal of Honor was revoked in 1917 but restored in 1989 "Buffalo Bill" Cody |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He had one of his western novels in the Top 10 list every year from 1917 to 1924 Zane Grey |
| #2889, aired 1997-03-06 | THE 1910s $400: On May 13, 1917 3 children reported a vision of the Virgin Mary near this Portuguese city Fatima |
| #2757, aired 1996-09-03 | QUOTATIONS $400: In 1917 this Russian said "We shall proceed to construct the socialist order" Lenin |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | MEXICO CITIES $500 (Daily Double): The Mexican constitutions of 1857 & 1917 were proclaimed in this city of the "True Cross" Veracruz |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | JACKS $800: He was the youngest of the 4 brothers who opened their Hollywood film studio in 1917 Jack Warner |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH P.M.s $1000: His famous 1917 declaration came well after his 1902 to 1905 term as Prime Minister Balfour |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | FRATERNAL SOCIETIES $200: With its motto "We Serve", it got off to a "roaring" start in 1917 the Lions Club |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | BOYS TOWN $400: Father Flanagan opened his first home for boys in 1917 in this Nebraska city Omaha |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | THE 1910s $500 (Daily Double): The United States took over this island group from Denmark in 1917 the Virgin Islands |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR $600: In 1989 this wild west scout & showman's medal, revoked in 1917, was restored William "Buffalo Bill" Cody |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | PORTUGAL $500: Each year thousands make the pilgrimage to this town where the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared in 1917 Fatima |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: In 1917 all citizens of this island became naturalized citizens of the U.S. Puerto Rico |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $600: On April 6, 1917 America entered World War I & this composer wrote "Over There" George M. Cohan |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | POETS $400: He became a reporter for the Chicago Daily News in 1917, a year after his "Chicago Poems" was published Carl Sandburg |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | LITERATURE $400: His first volume of verse, "Prufrock and Other Observations", was published in 1917 (T.S.) Eliot |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | HISTORY $300: In 1917 this czar was forced to abdicate in favor of his brother Michael, who refused the crown Nicholas II |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | HODGEPODGE $800: This "Town" founded by Edward Flanagan in 1917 was incorporated as a village in 1936 Boys Town |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | WORLD WAR I $800: The Germans helped this Bolshevik leader return to Petrograd in 1917 Lenin |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: From 1917 to 1919 this poet from Maine was an actress & playwright with the Provincetown Players Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | HISTORY $400: The Russian Revolution of 1917 began with the overthrow of this dynasty the Romanovs |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1917 James Montgomery Flagg designed a famous recruitment poster depicting this U.S. symbol Uncle Sam |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | BIRDS $100: Between 1917 & 1954, Bounty hunters in Alaska killed more than 100,000 of these national birds bald eagles |
| #2452, aired 1995-04-11 | THE SUPREME COURT $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1917 the beginning of the court's term was changed from the 2nd to the 1st Monday in this month October |
| #2442, aired 1995-03-28 | THE COLD WAR $500: Lord Mayor of Cologne 1917-1933, he later became the first Chancellor of West Germany (Konrad) Adenauer |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in the U.S. Congress, represented this state 1917-19 & 1941-43 Montana |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | 1917 $100: The British royal family adopted this name, taking it from a castle Windsor |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | 1917 $200: These journalism prizes were awarded by Columbia University for the first time the Pulitzer Prizes |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | 1917 $300: Prince Georgy Lvov became head of Russia's provisional government after this emperor's abdication Nicholas II |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | 1917 $400: This painter & sculptor of ballet dancers died in France on September 27 Degas |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | 1917 $500: Maracaibo, Venezuela grew rapidly after this natural resource was discovered nearby in 1917 oil |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | MAGAZINES $400: It was founded in 1917 by B.C., Malcolm's father Forbes magazine |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | POETS & POETRY $400: The title of Hagiwara Sakutaro's 1917 book of poetry translates as "Barking at" this heavenly body the moon |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | GOVERNORS $800: George W.P. Hunt, who became this state's 1st governor in 1912, also served from 1917-19, 1923-29 & 1931-33 Arizona |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | THE MOVIES $100: He & Oliver Hardy appeared in 1917's "Lucky Dog" but didn't become a team until 1926 (Stan) Laurel |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | TRAINS $300: In 1917 a transcontinental RR was completed between Port Augusta & Kalgoorlie on this continent Australia |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: From 1917 to 1929, Nikolai Bukharin was editor of this official Communist Party newspaper Pravda |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: This Constitutional Amendment was proposed by Congress in 1917, ratified in 1919 & repealed in 1933 18th Amendment |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | WOODROW WILSON $800: In a speech Jan. 22, 1917, Wilson set force his goal of "a peace without" this victory |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | HISTORY $300: In late 1917 the Provisional Government in Russia was overthrown by this group, later called Communists the Bolsheviks |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This Finnish capital was under Russian rule from 1809 to 1917 Helsinki |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: This carmaker introduced its first truck, the one-ton Model TT, on July 2, 1917 Ford |
| #2172, aired 1994-02-01 | DRAMA $200: He played the title role in the 1917 play "Peter Ibbetson"; his brother Lionel was in it, too John Barrymore |
| #2172, aired 1994-02-01 | WORLD HISTORY $400: This Dutch dancer, executed as a spy in 1917, claimed she was actually aiding the Allied powers Mata Hari |
| #2166, aired 1994-01-24 | PATTON $1000: In 1917 he was sent to France, where he set up a school to teach soldiers to drive these vehicles tanks |
| #2153, aired 1994-01-05 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: On Dec. 6, 1917 this country on the Gulf of Bothnia declared its independence from Russia Finland |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | AWARDS $1000: The International Committee of this organization has won 3 Nobel Peace Prizes: 1917, 1944, & 1963 the Red Cross |
| #2122, aired 1993-11-23 | NONFICTION $200: John Reed's "Ten Days That Shook the World" is an account of this country's 1917 revolution Russia |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | HISTORY $800: On October 15, 1917 she was executed by a French firing squad as a spy Mata Hari |
| #2088, aired 1993-10-06 | HISTORY $400: This revolution was over in a day, November 6-7, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: In 1917 various factions of this religious group joined together to form the American Friends Service Committee Quakers |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | KINGS & QUEENS $600: Constantine I of this country went into exile in 1917, was recalled in 1920 & was exiled again in 1922 Greece |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: The Central Powers won World War I on the Eastern Front when this country stopped fighting in Dec. 1917 Russia |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: This future Israeli leader married Morris Myerson, a sign painter, in 1917 Golda Meir |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $400: In 1917 Trico electrified this auto accessory the windshield wiper |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | WEATHER $100: Most of these don't travel more than 20 miles, though in 1917 one went 293 miles across Illinois & Indiana tornadoes |
| #1994, aired 1993-04-15 | GREAT COMMUNICATORS $400: Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879, he was second only to Lenin in the 1917 revolution Trotsky |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | HISTORIC QUOTES $800: In 1917 this congresswoman said, "I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no" Jeannette Rankin |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | THE 20th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): An eyewitness to the 1917 October Revolution, he organized the Communist Labor Party in the U.S. in 1919 (John) Reed |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: In 1917 the British Royal Family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to this Windsor |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | RUSSIAN RULERS $600: Czar from 1613-1645, Michael founded this dynasty that ruled until 1917 Romanov |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Queen Liliuokalani died in this city in 1917, 42 years before it became a state capital Honolulu |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: The name of this woman who was executed at Vincennes in 1917 became a synonym for a seductive spy Mata Hari |
| #1862, aired 1992-10-13 | DYNASTIES $400: When Nicholas II abdicated in 1917, it brought an end to this Russian dynasty the Romanov |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: Herbert Bayard Swope of the New York World won the 1st of these prizes for reporting in 1917 the Pulitzer Prize |
| #1837, aired 1992-09-08 | WORLD FACTS $400: A basilica stands in this Portuguese village where the Virgin Mary purportedly appeared in 1917 Fatima |
| #1837, aired 1992-09-08 | ROYALTY $600: Between 1801 & 1917, all of Russia's czars were named Nicholas or this Alexander |
| #1832, aired 1992-07-14 | REVOLUTIONS & REBELLIONS $200: This "majority" party led by Lenin won the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolsheviks |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | POETS $800: Edna St. Vincent Millary graduated from this college in Poughkeepsie in 1917 Vassar |
| #1742, aired 1992-03-10 | CANADA $1000: In 1917 a ship collision at this Nova Scotia city led to an explosion that killed about 2,000 people Halifax |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | AWARDS $400: In 1917 the Columbia Univ. School of Journalism submitted its list of candidates for these awards the Pulitzer Prize |
| #1723, aired 1992-02-12 | THE GIRL SCOUTS $500 (Daily Double): In 1917 she became the 1st first lady to be honorary president of the Girl Scouts Edith Wilson |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | THE WHITE HOUSE $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1917 this first lady set up what is now the China Room to display the ever-growing collection Mrs. Woodrow Wilson |
| #1685, aired 1991-12-20 | WORLD HISTORY $600: Prior to independence in 1917, Finland had been a grand duchy of this country for 108 years Russia |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | THE IDES OF MARCH $500: On March 15, 1917 this czar abdicated in favor of Grand Duke Mikhail, who abdicated March 16 Nicholas II |
| #1671, aired 1991-12-02 | FORTS $800: A rest stop on the Chisholm Trail, oil was found 90 miles west of this Texas city in 1917 Fort Worth |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | ISLANDS $400: The United States agreed to buy this group from Denmark in 1902 but didn't get them until 1917 the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Pennsylvania-born expatriate author depicted here in a 1917 sculpture by Jo Davidson Gertrude Stein |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, she & her husband founded Hogarth Press in 1917 to publish her works Virginia Woolf |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | U.S. HISTORY $400: It was established in 1917; the gold depository wasn't built until 1936 Fort Knox |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | AWARDS $400: In 1917 Herbert Bayard Swope of the N.Y. World became the first man to win this prize for reporting the Pulitzer Prize |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | MONTHS $800: In this month in 1917 U.S. papers first printed reports of the Bolshevik Revolution November |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | THE SOVIET UNION $200: He led the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic Workers' Party that took power in 1917 Lenin |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | MEN OF LETTERS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1917 he published his first volume of poetry, "Prufrock and Other Observations" T.S. Eliot |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | BLACK AMERICA $400: The popularity of ragtime ended about the same time that this composer died in 1917 Joplin |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | WORLD WAR I $800: The U.S. declared war on Germany April 6th, 1917, but not on this country until December 7th Austria-Hungary |
| #1514, aired 1991-03-14 | "G" IN GEOLOGY $400: The Waimangu, one of these in New Zealand, killed at least 2 people when it erupted in 1917 a geyser |
| #1471, aired 1991-01-14 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: We bought these islands from Denmark in 1917 to prevent a German foothold in the Caribbean the Virgin Islands |
| #1471, aired 1991-01-14 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In 1917, the federal government ordered all businesses in the Storyville section of this city closed New Orleans |
| #1435, aired 1990-11-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On this date in 1917, the United States declared war on Austria-Hungary, so it lives in infamy too December 7 |
| #1435, aired 1990-11-23 | THE SOVIET UNION $400: The cruiser Aurora, which fired on the Winter Palace in 1917, is on display in this city Leningrad |
| #1426, aired 1990-11-12 | WORLD CITIES $100: This capital of El Salvador was ruined by earthquakes in 1854, 1873 & 1917 San Salvador |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | POT LUCK $1000: April 6, 1917 is important in history as the date the U.S. did this entered World War I |
| #1412, aired 1990-10-23 | FAMOUS ARTHURS $1000: His 1917 declaration expressed Britain's support for a Jewish national homeland (Arthur) Balfour |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | MODERN HISTORY $600: Aleksandr Kerensky led this country for 4 months until he was deposed Nov. 6, 1917 Russia |
| #1339, aired 1990-05-31 | WORLD NEWS $100: On March 26, 1989 the people of this country voted in their freest elections since 1917 Soviet Union |
| #1338, aired 1990-05-30 | WORLD HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): This organization founded in 1863 won Nobel Peace Prizes in 1917, 1944 & 1963 Red Cross |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | WORLD HISTORY $600: This N. European country was a grand duchy ruled by Russia before gaining its independence in 1917 Finland |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | HERSTORY $200: Alice Paul picketed the White House from 1917-19 until this amendment was passed the women's suffrage amendment (the 19th) |
| #1279, aired 1990-03-08 | AUSTRALIA $400: "Banjo" Paterson, known for his "bush ballads", wrote this song, 1st published in 1917 "Waltzing Matilda" |
| #1214, aired 1989-12-07 | SCANDINAVIA $800: In 1917 the U.S. bought these, our only territorial acquisition from a Scandinavian country the Virgin Islands |
| #1213, aired 1989-12-06 | HISTORY $800: Russian women were granted the vote in this history-making year for the USSR 1917 |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WISCONSINITES $200: Milwaukee native who met his British-born wife, Lynn Fontanne, in 1917 on Broadway Alfred Lunt |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | COMPOSERS $400: A. Khachaturian wrote his "2nd Symphony" for the 25th anniversary of this country's 1917 revolution Russia |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | THE MIDDLE EAST $800: In 1917 Britain issued the Balfour Declaration which called for the creation of this Jewish-Palestinian state |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | U.S. HISTORY $200: On July 4, 1917 an American colonel spoke these words at Lafayette's tomb in Paris Lafayette we are here |
| #1037, aired 1989-02-21 | EUROPE $600: Until it declared its independence December 6, 1917, Finland was a grand duchy in this empire the Russian Empire |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | SCIENTISTS $200: Back in 1917 George Hale showed off his new 100 inch reflecting one of these on Mt. Wilson telescope |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE 20TH CENTURY $400: In 1917, due to this, Mississippi called off the exposition marking its state centennial outbreak of World War I (U.S. involvement in World War I) |
| #1008, aired 1989-01-11 | EUROPE $1000: In 1917, 3 children reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary near Fátima in this country Portugal |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | WORLD HISTORY $400: During the 1917 revolution, this group's slogan was "Peace, Land & Bread" Bolsheviks |
| #970, aired 1988-11-18 | WORLD WAR I $400: In 1917 the U.S. entered the war and this large country stopped fighting Russia |
| #970, aired 1988-11-18 | WORLD WAR I $800: The U.S. declared war on Germany April 6, 1917, and on this country the following December 7 Austria-Hungary |
| #948, aired 1988-10-19 | AUTHORS $400: He was writing "This Side of Paradise" when serving under Capt. Eisenhower in 1917 at Ft. Leavenworth F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #933, aired 1988-09-28 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: In 1917 the British royal family's name was changed to this by King George V Windsor |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | MEXICAN HISTORY $400: In 1917, this country asked Mexico to enter WWI on its side to win back land Mexico had lost to the U.S. Germany |
| #874, aired 1988-05-26 | AMERICAN WARS $400: On July 4, 1917, newly arrived doughboys were wildly greeted while parading in this European capital Paris |
| #866, aired 1988-05-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Between 1905 & 1917, this Russian legislative body was dissolved 4 times Duma |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: This British Foreign Secretary's 1917 declaration promised the Jews a national home Balfour |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | THE RUSSIAN BALLET $600: Based in Leningrad, this ballet co. was named for an assassinated hero of the 1917 revolution Kirov |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | CZARS $600: The czars of this imperial family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 the Romanovs |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | EUROPE $1000: Country in which in 1917 at Fatima, a vision begged for peace & predicted a 2nd world war Portugal |
| #636, aired 1987-05-18 | RUSSIA $300: Name by which the Communists went in 1917 Bolsheviks |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | WORLD WAR I $400: In 1917, U.S. entered the war, but this power pulled out of it due to internal problems Russia |
| #546, aired 1987-01-12 | THE 20TH CENTURY $600: Though written in 1917, this Irving Berlin tune wasn't heard until Kate Smith sang it in 1938 "God Bless America" |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | ART $300: Words at top of 1917 James M. Flagg poster showing a bearded man pointing at the viewer I want you |
| #506, aired 1986-11-17 | HISTORY $400: Finland was never an independent country until 1917, when it broke away from this country Russia, U.S.S.R. |
| #504, aired 1986-11-13 | 20th CENTURY $200: This city's Storyville district famed for jazz & vice, was closed in 1917 at the navy's insistence New Orleans |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | WORLD WAR I $1000: Charles Stanton said this on behalf of Gen. Pershing & the U.S. forces in Paris, July 4, 1917 "Lafayette, we are here" |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | WORLD WAR I $400: When this country declared war on Germany in April 1917, it didn't have a single combat aircraft the USA |
| #420, aired 1986-04-18 | THE WORST $600: At Death Valley for 43 consecutive days in 1917 the worst recorded hot spell |
| #348, aired 1986-01-08 | HISTORICAL TRIVIA $200: Year the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded & the United States entered World War I 1917 |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | GREAT "SCOTT" $400: Ironically, by 1917, the year he died in a mental institution, ragtime was passe Scott Joplin |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | WORLD WAR I $200: Though the war began in 1914, America didn't enter until this year 1917 |
| #186, aired 1985-05-27 | HISTORY $800: Alexander Kerensky briefly led democratic government in this country in 1917 the Soviet Union |
| #115, aired 1985-02-15 | ROYALTY $800: In 1917, this surname replaced Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as Great Britain's royal surname Windsor |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | NATURAL DISASTERS $1000: The tallest, New Zealand's "Waimanga", killed 4 when it last erupted in 1917 a geyser |
| #92, aired 1985-01-15 | U.S. HISTORY $500: On 1/4/04 the Supreme Court ruled these islanders weren't aliens, but still not citizens Puerto Ricans |
| #16, aired 1984-10-01 | WORLD WAR I $400: This exotic-dancer-turned-spy was executed by the French in 1917 Mata Hari |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | AUGUST $500: Russia, France & Germany entered WWI in August of this year 1914 |
