| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1200: Val's not at the 1922 discovery of Tut's tomb in this 4-word area but 100 later, sees Rüfüs Du Sol win a Grammy for "Alive" the Valley of the Kings |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $3,200 (Daily Double): "Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words Ulysses |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $1200: The "Angel of Rome", Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, was the last of these singers, many "sold" by poor parents castrati |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1200: The Ottoman Empire ended in 1922 when this man led a movement that established the Republic of Turkey Atatürk |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SOUND THE TRUMPET $400: On July 8, 1922 he played a New Orleans jazz funeral & took a train north to become a world-famous trumpeter Armstrong |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $5,000 (Daily Double): The 3-named British P.M. from 1916 to 1922 & the 3-named American scientist granted a 1925 patent for cosmetics made from peanuts David Lloyd George Washington Carver |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HISTORIC SHIPS $400: In 1922 the USS Langley was commissioned as the first of these big ships in the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 1920s SCIENCE $400: In 1922 Caltech got the Wood-Anderson torsion one of these instruments, a breakthrough in sensitivity & precision seismometer |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $800 (Daily Double): Bram Stoker's widow got a court order to have this 1922 German silent classic destroyed--but it survived, as vampires do Nosferatu |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1922 Howard Carter made a huge discovery in Egypt, the tomb of this royal Tutankhamun (King Tut) |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $2000: This author innovated stream of consciousness when she penned "Jacob's Room" in 1922 Virginia Woolf |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ $1000: 1916: University of Copenhagen, professor of theoretical physics; 1922: Nobel Prize Niels Bohr |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | A GARDEN PARTY $400: Launched in 1922, Fruit, Garden & Home Magazine got this new name, BHG for short, in 1924 Better Homes and Gardens |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | TRANSLATORS $2000: In 1922 C.K. Scott Moncrieff wrote a nice letter to the dying Marcel Proust explaining his translation choices, including this title Remembrance of Things Past |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $200: Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, delegate to Congress from this territory; Theodore Roosevelt wouldn't learn to say his name Hawaii |
| #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 |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $600: William Desmond Taylor, director slain in one of early Hollywood's great scandals, at a site that's now a this Dress for Less Ross |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $800: Surgeon William Stewart Halsted, who developed radical mastectomy to treat this disease breast cancer |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $1000: This man, who invented the landline in 1876 Alexander Bell |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $400: On the girls' side, this flower Rose |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $800: This name given to their son by the Schulz family of Minneapolis that November Charles |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $1200: Both Harry & this brother, soon to combine in a gift basket company David |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $1600: This name of the then-king of England George |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $2000: This name of the then-first lady, Mrs. Harding Florence |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | JEOPARDY! & THE 10 RINGS $500: When it was first published in 1922, The Ring called itself "The world's foremost" magazine about this sport boxing |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | DO YOU FEEL A FIRST DRAFT? $800: F. Scott Fitzgerald called his 1922 short story "Winter Dreams" "a sort of first draft" of the idea for this novel from 3 years later The Great Gatsby |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | THE ALEXANDER FILES $2000: American inventor Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847 & died in this country in 1922 Canada |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 2022 ANNIVERSARIES $200: 100 years ago, in November 1922 Howard Carter made this discovery, some 3,000 years after the death that caused its creation King Tut's tomb (King Tut's body as a mummy) |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TRANSPLANTS $1600: This artist who painted "Paris Through the Window" left Russia in his rear view in 1922 & went to see Paris through his window Marc Chagall |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | WASHINGTON SLIPPED HERE $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1922 the Interior Secretary gave an oil company exclusive rights in this Wyoming reserve & got a $200,000 payoff Teapot Dome |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | CATCHING YOU SHORT $1200: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 collection of short works called "Tales of" this era the Jazz Age |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $200: In 1922 the Bolsheviks let reporters try on this, made with 5,000 diamonds & a 400-carat spinel for Catherine the Great a crown (the Russian Imperial Crown) |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | IT HAPPENED IN '22 $2,500 (Daily Double): 1922:
this North African country gains independence from British rule with Fuad I as king Egypt |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BALLET $200: Stravinsky slyly used Russian folk idioms for the music of his 1922 ballet "Renard", with this animal being the title character fox |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | THROWING SHADE $2000: In a 1922 novel he wrote that Siddhartha grew up in the "shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree" Hesse |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | THE 1920s $800: At almost 80 years old, he attended the dedication of his father's memorial in 1922 Robert Todd Lincoln |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | 1922 $200: Speaking at a memorial dedication in the spring, this president became the first to be heard on radio President Warren G. Harding |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | 1922 $400: In late 1922 Ukraine became one of the founding members of this country the USSR |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | 1922 $600: The heart of the Wimbledon tennis championships, it's seen here under construction in April & opened in June Centre Court |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | 1922 $800: A 1922 compact divided the water of this river between Upper Basin states like Utah & Lower Basin ones like California the Colorado |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | 1922 $1000: 20 years before commanding a raid on Tokyo, he made the first U.S. coast-to-coast flight in under a day Doolittle |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE 1920s $800: October 1922 saw a march on Rome led by this fascist group called Camicie Nere, named for their colorful clothing the Blackshirts |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $600: It was a tempest in this govt. scandal, so large that Senate committees & a special commission looked into it from 1922 to 1928 Teapot Dome |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FAMOUS NAMES $7,000 (Daily Double): In 1922 this archaeologist sent a cable saying, "At last have made wonderful discovery in valley" (Howard) Carter |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This Margery Williams tale about a fuzzy herbivore has enchanted readers since 1922 The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | TALES OF HORROR $600: It's the title vocation of Herbert West in a 1922 H.P. Lovecraft tale, & he needs fresh corpses to do it to reanimator |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAGAZINES $400: As its name implies, this magazine founded in 1922 is full of ideas for sprucing up your indoor & outdoor spaces Better Homes and Gardens |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $800: Under the 1907 Expatriation Act, American women who married foreigners were stripped of this; the 1922 Cable Act gave it back citizenship |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | HISTORY: A LOOK BACK $400: Extreme nationalism & authoritarian government are features of this ideology, employed by Italy from 1922 to 1943 fascism |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | OK, BOOMERANG $600: The 1922 discovery of his tomb revealed a weapons stash including swords, bows, slingshots & boomerang-like throwsticks King Tut |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | MAGAZINES' FIRST ISSUES $800: In 1922 "Watch Your Dog and Be Wise!" was one of the condensed articles in its first issue Reader's Digest |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | ON THE MONEY $1600: A Washington, D.C. structure dedicated in 1922 is on the back of this bill the $5 bill |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | NAMES OF THE 1920s $1200: Her role in 1922's "Beyond the Rainbow" was cut from the film; it was restored after she became the "It" girl Clara Bow |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | NAMES OF THE 1920s $1600: With wonderful things before his eyes, this man broke through into the inner tomb of King Tut on November 26th, 1922 Howard Carter |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $1000: In 1922 London, over 50 companies were making this mechanical & musical wonder with no fingers on the keys player pianos |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $1200: Before leaving Russia in 1922, he designed some decorative panels for the Jewish Chamber Theatre in Moscow Chagall |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | MAGAZINE COLLECTION $1,600 (Daily Double): Founded in 1922, this magazine sold longer versions of its condensed articles to other magazines Reader's Digest |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | COTTON $600: This title creature from a 1922 tale with cotton fabric in his name also has thread whiskers & ears lined with pink sateen The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: Robert Flaherty spent a year in the Arctic shooting this 1922 landmark documentary that depicted an Inuit hunter & his family Nanook of the North |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE GOLDEN HOARD $800: In 1922 people in Kanab, Utah were convinced that the gold of this Aztec was in a mountain cave near their city...nope Montezuma |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) Beekeeping was practiced in ancient Egypt where honey was important not just in everyday life, but in the afterlife; the 1922 discovery of this king's tomb included jars of honey, still edible 3,000 years later King Tut |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $4,600 (Daily Double): The producer of this 1922 German silent film was accused of ripping off Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" Nosferatu |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | INSPECTORS $2000: In 1899 he was appointed chief inspector of antiquities of upper Egypt; his greatest fame came in 1922 Howard Carter |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BOXING $1000: Published since 1922, this authoritative boxing magazine is called "the Bible of boxing" Ring magazine |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | SOME SCIENCE, THEN DEATH $400: In the 1860s he did experiments on how vowel sounds are produced; he stopped phoning it in on Aug. 2, 1922 (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $600: An organized march on Rome in October 1922 brought this man & his Fascist Party to power Mussolini |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 1922 Leonard Woolley began unearthing this Sumerian city, enhancing our knowledge of Mesopotamia Ur |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ROARING '20s READER $2000: This play with a 3-letter title, the source of the word "robot", came to Broadway in 1922 R.U.R. |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | EMILYS $400: She began teaching us manners with 1922's "Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home" (Emily) Post |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | HOW CHEAP WERE THEY? $600: In 1922, as perhaps the world's biggest movie star, this comic had studio carpenters build his new home Charlie Chaplin |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | WORLD HISTORY $600: This empire that reached its height under Suleyman came to an end in 1922 the Ottoman Empire |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $2000: His second novel, "The Beautiful and Damned", was published in 1922 & deals with a rich & glamorous couple Fitzgerald |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | PUB MED $3,000 (Daily Double): Showing the nifty effects of insulin in 1922, Banting & Best published "The Internal Secretion of" this organ the pancreas |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | TRUE CRIME BOOKS, SWEETHEART $200: Including 1922's unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor, "Fallen Angels" spills secrets from this city Los Angeles |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NEWSPAPERS $800: This financial paper tore the lid off Teapot Dome with the 1922 headline "Sinclair Consolidated in Big Oil Deal with U.S." The Wall Street Journal |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $600: This famed amphitheater has been dishing out performances since 1922 the Hollywood Bowl |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 & spent some time "On the Road" before his death in 1969 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | INLANDER $1200: This longtime Cosmo editor was still a single girl when she was born in Green Forest, Arkansas in 1922 Helen Gurley Brown |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): Prior to his famous 1922 discovery, this Brit found the tombs of Hatshepsut & Mentuhotep, among others Howard Carter |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $1600: Pass the soy sauce to this creator of a famous comic strip dog, born in the year of the dog on Nov. 26, 1922 Charles Schulz |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $600: This 1922 Hermann Hesse novel about a young Brahmin in India parallels the life of Buddha Siddhartha |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HISTORIC OOPSIES $400: A 1922 deal dividing water among 7 states was based on a vast overestimate of the flow of this Southwest river the Colorado River |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES $1000: From 1922 to 1925, while her husband was Commerce secretary, she served as president of the Girl Scouts Lou Henry Hoover |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | -OLOGIES $600: Egyptology got a big push from the discovery of his tomb in 1922 King Tut |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | IT'S IN THE BOOK $800: From 1922, Dubliner Molly Bloom Ulysses |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | FIRST ISSUES $400: When it debuted in 1922, it promised 31 articles each month "in condensed and compact form" Reader's Digest |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | STATUE-ESQUE WOMEN $200: The Jamestown statue honoring this Native American of the 17th century was erected in 1922 Pocahontas |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | TINKERERS $600: On August 4, 1922 the telephone systems of the U.S. & Canada were silent for 1 minute in tribute to this late inventor (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | SHIP SHAPE $1000: A 1922 treaty limited these naval vessels to 35,000 tons displacement; the limit didn't last long battle cruisers (or battleships) |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | MOVERS & SHAKERS $400: In 1922 Stephen Poplawski introduced this appliance, putting milkshakes within easy reach a blender |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | THE 1920s $4,400 (Daily Double): "Undreamed of splendors", boasted newspaper headlines about this 1922 discovery the tomb of King Tut (Tutankhamen) |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | GIVE ME A RING $800: Founded in 1922, The Ring magazine is now owned by this boxing "Golden Boy" Oscar de la Hoya |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | DOG STARS $2000: This German shepherd's first role was in 1922's "The Man from Hell's River" Rin Tin Tin |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | THE 1920s $1200: In his 1922 "Testament" he worried about his heirs as Soviet leader; he died in 1924 & his worries were right Lenin |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $1000: T.S. Eliot divulged in a letter that a difficult marriage "brought the state of mind out of which came" this poem in 1922 "The Waste Land" |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | HISTORIC JOB TITLES $400: Stalin,
1922-1952:
This hyphenated title, but not at the United Nations secretary-general |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | AVIATION FIRSTS $400: Lieutenant Harold Harris bailed out in 1922 & became the first person in the U.S. whose life was saved using one of these a parachute |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: This British author's 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" is said to be a fictional biography of her brother Thoby Virginia Woolf |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | VAMPIRE FLICKS $1000: In 2000 "Shadow of the Vampire" gave a fictional account of the making of this classic 1922 German film Nosferatu |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | THE SONNET $2000: In 1922, 4 years before his death, this German-language poet produced the 55 "Sonnets to Orpheus" (Rainer Maria) Rilke |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS $800: Virginia Woolf said this 1922 Joyce novel was by "a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples" Ulysses |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Miskatonic University makes its "initial" appearance in this author's 1922 serial "Herbert West--Reanimator" (H. P.) Lovecraft |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | KING ME $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1922 King Victor Emmanuel III refused to proclaim martial law to stop this man's march on Rome Mussolini |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | ARCHITECTURE $800: John Howells & Raymond Hood won a 1922 contest to design this city's Tribune Tower; Eliel Saarinen Finnished second Chicago |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $1000: After the 1922 crash of the airship Roma, the U.S. Navy switched to this safer but more expensive gas helium |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | THE MACHINE $400: In 1922 Maytag introduced the agitator for moving water around in the drum in one of these a washing machine |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE $800: In 1922 Russian immigrant Morris Markin began making these famous taxis in Joliet, Illinois Checker cabs |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Since 1922 this medal has been awarded for excellence in American writing for children the Newbery |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $200: It gets hot in El Azizia, near Tripoli, in this country--hot like 124 degrees one day in 1922 Libya |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | 1920s NEWS FLASH! $800: 1922: It's the end of an empire! This empire, in fact! After 600 years, it's goodbye, this, hello, Turkish Republic! the Ottoman Empire |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | SOUND THE TRUMPET $400: On Aug. 8, 1922 he played a New Orleans jazz funeral & took a train north to become a world-famous trumpeter Louis Armstrong |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | A LITTLE LIT $2000: This 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse parallels the life of Buddha Siddhartha |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $1200: In 1922 Fridtjof Nansen beat out this Brit economist who'd opposed harsh economic reparations against Germany (John Maynard) Keynes |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $400: He popularized the term "The Jazz Age" in a 1922 book title Fitzgerald |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | THE SILENT MOVIE ERA $400: Robert Flaherty's 1922 documentary "Nanook of the North" was about a member of this Arctic people the Eskimos (or the Inuit) |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | SAN FRANCISCO ATTRACTIONS $2000: A stretch of this street featuring 8 hairpin turns was created in 1922 by engineers with a fiendish streak Lombard Street |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | A "NON" CATEGORY $600: In 1922 Gandhi called this "the first article of" his faith nonviolence |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | ABDICATIONS $400: Constantine I abdicated twice, in 1917 & 1922, as king of this country Greece |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD $800 (Daily Double): Charles I, who died in 1922, was the last emperor of Austria & as Charles IV, the last king of this country Hungary |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BABY, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT $1000: She partnered with George in 1922 & they married in 1926; after her 1964 death, George never remarried Gracie Allen |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | PLACES TO "C" $2000: You may want to bring a flak jacket if visiting this republic whose oblast was formed by the Bolsheviks in 1922 Chechnya |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | THE KILLING $1600: Played on screen by Liam Neeson, this leader of the Irish struggle for independence was ambushed & killed in 1922 Michael Collins |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | YOU'VE GOT THE WRITE STUFF, JAMES $1200: You suffered through glaucoma before publishing "Ulysses" on February 2, 1922, your 40th birthday (James) Joyce |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | MAGAZINES $400: In 1922 DeWitt & Lila Wallace published the first issue of this magazine that condenses articles Reader's Digest |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | LATE MAN $1200: "Piper Bill" Millin, 1922-2010, played "Hieland Laddie" while under heavy gunfire on Sword Beach on this day in 1944 June 6 |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | THERE SHE IS, MISS AMERICA $200: There she is, again & again--Mary Campbell, from this capital of Ohio, won in 1922 & '23 & was 1st runner-up in '24 Columbus |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | DAS KAPITALISTS $1200: In 1922 Haribo founder Hans Riegel made his first candies in the shape of these animals bears |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | A LITTLE OF THE BUBBLY $600: Roy Allen opened root beer stands in 1922 & introduced this brand name for his product A&W |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BACKSTAGE AT THE MET $1000: (Sarah reports from backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The jewelry here was worn by Elisabeth Rethberg, portraying this Verdi slave girl, a role in which she made both her 1922 met debut & her 1942 farewell Aida |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" $1,200 (Daily Double): Where Tut rested undisturbed until 1922 the Valley of the Kings (the Valley of Kings accepted) |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | TRANSPORTATION $400: In 1922 Warren Harding said that this "gauges the speed of our present-day life. It long ago ran down simple living" the automobile |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $400: It was a short interlude between his wins for "Anna Christie" (1922) & "Strange Interlude" (1928) (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | FLAGS & ANTHEMS $1600: In 1922, after 91 years as an instrumental, this S. Amer. country's anthem got words calling it "a brave colossus" Brazil |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This Russian-born French painter served as art director of the Moscow Jewish State Theater from 1919 to 1922 Chagall |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | 1920s LIT $600: On Feb. 2, 1922 this James Joyce book was published by American Sylvia Beach under her own imprint in Paris Ulysses |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | GERMAN LITERATURE $800: His 1922 novella "Siddhartha" tells the story of an Indian boy on a spiritual journey during the time of Buddha (Hermann) Hesse |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | LET'S GET DRESSED IN THE 1920s $400: Now for a dab of her No. 5 perfume, introduced in 1922 (Coco) Chanel |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1200: The Ottoman empire ended in 1922 when this man led a movement that established the Republic of Turkey (Mustafa) Kemal (or Kemal Ataturk) |
| #5884, aired 2010-03-25 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $1000: In 1922 the League's World Court held its first session in this city The Hague |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | THE NFL $800: Members of the NFL in 1922 & '23, the all-Native American Oorang Indians were led by this legend (Jim) Thorpe |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | MYSTERY FICTION $400: Although best known for his Pooh stories, he did publish "The Red House Mystery" in 1922 Milne |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | WORD-BY-WORD BOOK SUMMARIES $1000: 1922:
Dublin.
June.
Writer.
Bloom.
Intersection.
Yes Ulysses |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In 1922 he & Ub Iwerks started a business to make animated cartoon "Laugh-O-Grams", but it went bankrupt (Walt) Disney |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE $1000: Starting around 1922, this phrase meant something excellent or desirable the cat's meow |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | IT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER $1000: In Nov. 1922, after years of searching, Lord Carnarvon & Howard Carter made this discovery Tutankhamen's tomb |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | METAFICTION $600: This 1922 novel recasts the hero of Homer's "Odyssey" as an ad salesman in 1904 Dublin Ulysses |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In 1922 the remains of this 2-lettered Sumerian city & its cemetery were unearthed Ur |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $1600: He made his last major public appearance in 1922 at the dedication of his father's memorial in Washington, D.C. Robert Todd Lincoln |
| #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 |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Marcel Proust began writing this 7-part, 3,000-page novel in 1909 & continued working on it until his death in 1922 Remembrance of Things Past |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | PRESIDENTIAL SURNAMES $1600: This archaeologist opened the fabulous tomb of King Tut in 1922 (Howard) Carter |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | AMERICAN ARCHITECTS $400: The first geodesic dome was built in 1922 in Germany, but it was this man who received a patent for it 32 years later (Buckminster) Fuller |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | I NEED A HERO $1600: Preparing for one more Antarctic journey, this heroic explorer died on the isl. of S. Georgia in 1922 & is buried there Ernest Shackleton |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | SYMPHONIES ON FILM $1600: This 1922 film seen here was subtitled "A Symphony of Horror" Nosferatu |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | BORN TO BE MILD $1000: No "blockhead", this cartoonist drew his first breath in Minneapolis on Nov. 26, 1922 Charles Schulz |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: In 1922 Virginia Woolf wrote of his "Ulysses", "Never have I read such tosh" (James) Joyce |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | POETS & POETRY $200: He dedicated the 1922 poem "The Waste Land" to his friend Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: Her 1922 novel "One of Ours" tells the tale of a Nebraska farm boy who dies in WWI (Nebraska is your big clue) Willa Cather |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Much of "The Beautiful and Damned", his 1922 novel about a self-destructive couple, now seems autobiographical F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $1,200 (Daily Double): The Teapot Dome Scandal hit (Warren G.) Harding |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: This author of "Orlando" based her 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" on the life & death of her brother Thoby (Virginia) Woolf |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | "TWO""THOUSAND" & "EIGHT" $600: In effect from 1922 to 1944, it was the part of the army code that allowed them to kick you out for undesirable traits Section 8 |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AN HISTORIC OCCASION $400: It's not Hillary, it's Rebecca Latimer Felton, who on Nov. 21, 1922 became the first woman to serve in this body the Senate |
| #5440, aired 2008-04-11 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: A visit to India inspired his novel "Siddhartha", published in German in 1922 Hermann Hesse |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BLOOD $200: "Shadow of the Vampire" details the production of this 1922 F.W. Murnau film Nosferatu |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | NOTORIOUS $1600: After his manslaughter acquittal in 1922, this silent-screen comedian directed films under the name Wm. Goodrich Fatty Arbuckle |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | FURNITURE WORDS $800: This empire began around 1300 & lasted until 1922 the Ottoman Empire |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | THE STORY SFORZA $1600: Appointed Ambassador to France in 1922, Carlo Sforza resigned over this new Italian premier's policies Mussolini |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAPS $600: The 1922 Africa map differed from today's: notice French West Africa, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and this Congo Belgian Congo |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | MAGAZINES $1000: In 1922 sportswriter Nat Fleischer founded this magazine that's still making the "rounds" today The Ring |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | MAGAZINES $2,000 (Daily Double): The opening article in this magazine's first issue in 1922 was a condensed version of "How to Keep Young Mentally" Reader's Digest |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE HISTORY GAME $400: It's 1922 & the Black Shirts force King Victor Emmanuel III to appoint this far-right fielder as Prime Minister Benito Mussolini |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: In 1922 this poet & Lincoln biographer wrote "Rootabaga Stories" to entertain his 3 daughters Carl Sandburg |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | EARLS! EARLS! EARLS! $800 (Daily Double): The Earl of Carnarvon gave up race horses for archaeology & financed the 1922 discovery of this King Tutankhamen's tomb |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | I'M STARVING! $2000: This 1922 film subject "of the North" perished from starvation shortly after the film was completed Nanook |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: Until a law was passed June 20, 1922, a woman could lose this if she married a foreigner citizenship |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE ROARING '20s $400: In 1922 Margaret Gorman was retroactively crowned this for winning 1921's "Inter-City Beauty Pageant" Miss America |
| #5214, aired 2007-04-19 | IN NEED OF A DATE $2000: Irish leader Michael Collins had his last pint of Guinness in this year he was assassinated 1922 |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: D.H. Lawrence visited this country in 1922 & set his 1923 novel "Kangaroo" there Australia |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | A ROYAL SUM-UP $1,000 (Daily Double): King from about 1347 to 1339 B.C.; got famous (again) in 1922; got a CAT scan in 2005 (to see how he died) King Tut |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | DESERTS $1200: The highest temperature ever recorded was 136 degrees F. in 1922 at El Azizia near this Libyan capital in the Sahara Tripoli |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | WHAT A BOHR! $200: Niels Bohr toasted the Intl. Cooperation of Scientific Advancement when he received this prize in 1922 the Nobel Prize (in Physics) |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | LEGENDS OF SPORT $1200: In 1922 this future movie Tarzan became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under 60 seconds Johnny Weissmuller |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | YOUNG PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): He restored Thebes as capital of Ancient Egypt but is probably better known for being "discovered" in 1922 King Tut |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | LEGENDS OF THE SILENT SCREEN $1000: The title character of this 1922 film had trouble with his place in the sun Nosferatu |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | NONFICTION BEST SELLER OF THE YEAR $2000: 1921 & 1922: His "The Outline of History" H.G. Wells |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | FASHION DESIGNERS $600: In 1922 this French designer launched a perfume line that helped her financially through difficult years (Coco) Chanel |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | FOUNTAINS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Tivoli in Copenhagen, Denmark.) The famous bubble fountain here at Tivoli was co-designed by this Danish physicist who won a 1922 Nobel Prize (Niels) Bohr |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | DOCUMENTARIES $200: One of the earliest documentaries was Robert Flaherty's 1922 film about this title Eskimo "of the North" Nanook |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | WORLD LEADERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1920, 1922, 1926 & 1990 this country had a president with Chamorro in his or her name Nicaragua |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | LAST BUT NOT LEAST $1000: Deposed in 1922, Mehmed VI was this empire's last sultan the Ottoman Empire |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | THINK "TANK" $1600: Egyptian Pharaoh of the XVIII Dynasty whose tomb was opened in 1922 Tutankhamen |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | HAPPY "NEW" YEAR $2000: First awarded in 1922, this medal is given out for excellence in U.S. children's literature the Newbery |
| #4893, aired 2005-12-14 | CARY GRANT $400: In 1922 Grant worked as a stiltworker advertising Steeplechase Park at this Brooklyn attraction Coney Island |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $2000: This title adjective describes the "room" in the title of the 1922 e.e. cummings novel of WWI enormous |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | SPEECH! SPEECH! $800: In a 1922 speech he declared, "Nonviolence is the first article of my faith" (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | ALL'S PHARAOH $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew muses over the first glimpse at the boy king in Luxor, Egypt.) In this year, the view into Tut's tomb was glimpsed for the first time in over 3,000 years by Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon 1922 |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | A VISIT TO ANCIENT EGYPT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from an exhibit in Cairo.) This mask is from Tut's tomb, which this British archaeologist found in 1922, saying everywhere the glint of gold (Howard) Carter |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | THE SMART SET $600: In 1919 The Smart Set ran his first paid story, "Babes in the Woods"; in 1922, the classic "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | THE SMART SET $1000: His 1st published story, "The Parthian Shot", ran in The Smart Set in 1922, before he began doing his spadework Dashiell Hammett |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | THE JIMMY $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1922 he was the first pilot to cross the U.S. in under 24 hours Jimmy Doolittle |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | AUTHOR BIOS $800: Born in Prague in 1883, worked in insurance until 1922, died in '24, yet went on "Trial" in '25 (Franz) Kafka |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | SHOW BUSINESS GROUPS $400: Founded in 1922, the international brotherhood of these people opposes revealing their trade secrets magicians |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | KILL BILL: VOL. 2 $400: A bill granting a bonus to these men, backed by the American Legion, was vetoed by Harding in 1922 the WWI vets |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | I'VE GOT THE POWER $1000: In 1922, after his Fascisti marched on the capital, he became Italy's P.M. & most powerful politician Mussolini |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | MAGAZINES $600: (Hi, I'm Tucker Carlson of CNN's Crossfire.) One of the many publications I've written for is this "condensed" magazine that began publication in 1922 Reader's Digest |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | BOOK BINDINGS $400: O'Neill, 1922 & Tolstoy, 1875-77:
"Anna ____" & "Anna ____" Christie & Karenina |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $400: While in Paris, poet & critic Ezra Pound helped little-known talent T.S. Eliot edit this 1922 poem "The Waste Land" |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | THE ROARING '20s $1600: First published in 1922 as Fruit, Garden and Home, the magazine was retitled this in 1924; much more exciting Better Homes & Gardens |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | OLD BUSINESS $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1922 George Mecherle founded this insurance company for those in agriculture State Farm |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | GOD BLESS ARMENIA $800: In 1922 Armenia joined the Transcaucasian Republic, which then became part of this union the Soviet Union |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | BIO HAZARD $400: 1922:
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | THE 1920s $800: New York City's last horse-drawn one of these was retired in 1922 fire engine |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | PHYSICISTS $2000: This 1922 Nobel Prize winner was active in the Danish resistance to Nazi occupation Niels Bohr |
| #4421, aired 2003-11-24 | BELOVED BELARUS $400: In 1922 Belarus was one of the 4 founding republics of this political union the Soviet Union |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | THE SNACK FOOD GROUP $1000: What would you do for this ice cream treat introduced by the Isaly family in 1922 a Klondike bar |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | STAND BY YOUR BRAND $800: Roy Allen & Frank Wright formed this soft drink company in 1922 A&W |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: After serving as postmaster general in 1921 & 1922 he became "czar" of the motion picture industry Will Hays |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | DOUBLIN' $400: Mary Campbell is the only person to win this title twice, in 1922 & 1923 in Atlantic City Miss America |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | STAND BY YOUR MANNEQUIN $1000: A wooden torso mannequin was found near a clothing chest when this man opened King Tut's tomb in 1922 Howard Carter |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: This title star of 1922's "Oliver Twist" was the first child star to top a million dollars in film earnings Jackie Coogan |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | FAMOUS PAIRS $800: This acting couple who wed in 1922 starred in 1925's "Arms and the Man" & 1935's "Taming of the Shrew" Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | BAD NEWS $800: In 1922 the NAACP got the House to vote against this form of mob murder, but the bill died in the Senate lynching |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | FRENCH CLASS: POTPOURRI $600: In May 1922 in Washington, D.C. President Harding unveiled a statue of this man by Daniel Chester French Abraham Lincoln |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | LET'S GO WATERSKIING $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) In 1922 Ralph Samuelson invented waterskiing using 15-pound skis made of this, they've evolved since then wood |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | WORLD LIT $1200: The Awangarda Krakowska was an avant-garde literary movement begun in this country in 1922 Poland |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | 20th CENTURY BUSINESS $200: In 1922 this company peeled off 8 million Washingtons for a Lincoln-- Lincoln Motors Ford |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | WELCOME BACK, CARTER $800: This archaeologist made a great find in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 Howard Carter |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A BOY! $200: This "boy king" who reigned from 1333 to 1323 B.C. was in the news again in 1922 King Tut |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | VALENTINO'S DAY $400: In 1922 Joseph Stalin was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of this party the Communist Party |
| #3991, aired 2001-12-31 | LINKIN' WITH LINCOLN $800: In 1922 this company acquired the Lincoln Motor Co. Ford |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | GOOD TOMES $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.) This man's second novel, 1922's "The Beautiful and Damned", features scenes in the Plaza's Grill Room F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | REWRITTEN TOMBSTONES $300: 1847-1922:
"The inventor you've reached has been disconnected" Alexander Graham Bell |
| #3948, aired 2001-10-31 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $200: This author of "Orlando" based her 1922 novel "Jacob's Room" on the life & death of her brother Thoby Virginia Woolf |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | LITERATURE $600: F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 collection of stories was titled "Tales of" this "Age" the Jazz Age |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | INVENTORS $300: In 1922, he marketed quick-frozen fish, his first packaged frozen food product Birdseye |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | U.S. CITY SONGS $400: The song "Way Down Yonder In" this city goes way back to 1922 New Orleans |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | THIS & THAT $400: "The Future of Poison Gas" was among the condensed articles in this magazine's 1922 premiere issue Reader's Digest |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | THE 1920s $500 (Daily Double): Warren Harding was heard on the radio June 14, 1922 dedicating a Francis Scott Key memorial in this city Baltimore |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | LITERATURE $400: In 1919 Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer Prize for this "Magnificent" novel; in 1922 he won again for "Alice Adams" "The Magnificent Ambersons" |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | KEMAL ATATURK $800: From the Arabic for "ruler", it's the title held by the man overthrown by Ataturk in 1922 sultan |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | THE SILVER SCREEN $600: "Shadow of the Vampire" starring Willem Dafoe as actor Max Schreck was inspired by this 1922 German film Nosferatu |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | WOMEN $600: The association for this sport played by women in schools & colleges was founded in 1922 Field hockey |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: In 1922 Charles Granville Bruce led the second attempt to climb this mountain, reaching a height of 27,300 feet Mount Everest |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $600 (Daily Double): Roy Allen formed a partnership with Frank Wright & began using this name for root beer in 1922 A&W |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | ARCHITECTS $800: This Finn won 2nd prize in the Chicago Tribune building contest in 1922 & moved to the U.S. the following year Saarinen |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | MADAME $200: She created her No. 5 perfume in 1922 Coco Chanel |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | TEMPERATURE $400: At 136 degrees F., the hottest place ever recorded on Earth was near Tripoli in this country in 1922 Libya |
| #3770, aired 2001-01-12 | NEW MEXICO $500: D.H. Lawrence lived in this artistic city from 1922 to 1925 & his ashes were returned there for burial Taos |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $500: Opened in 1922 at 142nd & Lenox, this club generally banned black customers but welcomed black musicians Cotton Club |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | TAXI! $600: The sitcom “Taxi” used cabs from this famous company founded in 1922 Checker |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 3 $800: On August 22, 1922 gunmen took the life of this Irish leader played by Liam Neeson on the big screen Michael Collins |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | TURKEY LEFTOVERS $600: In the 1300s these Muslim Turks began to build a vast empire that would last until 1922 Ottomans |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | LEGENDS OF BASEBALL $300: This Detroit Tigers outfielder hit .401 in 1922 but lost the AL batting title to George Sisler, who hit .420 Ty Cobb |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | SCIENTISTS $300: This Nobel Prize-winning physicist received his doctorate from the University of Pisa in 1922 Enrico Fermi |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | THAT WAS ENTERTAINMENT! $600: In 1922 this trumpeter joined the Creole Jazz Band led by King Oliver, who became his mentor Louis Armstrong |
| #3651, aired 2000-06-19 | TERMS OF SERVICE $1000: Prime minister of Great Britain:
1916-1922 David Lloyd George |
| #3569, aired 2000-02-24 | GERMAN LITERATURE $400: A trip to India inspired his 1922 novel "Siddhartha" Hermann Hesse |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: This boy pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922; that of his wet nurse, in 1999 King Tut |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $400: Born in Green Forest, Arkansas in 1922, she became a Cosmo editor in 1965 Helen Gurley Brown |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OCTOBER FEST $200: In late October 1922, he became premier of Italy Benito Mussolini |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | THE LITERARY WORLD $1,400 (Daily Double): Barred from the U.S. as obscene for 15 years, this James Joyce work was originally produced in Paris in 1922 "Ulysses" |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THE CINEMA $800: Klaus Kinski played this title sucker in 1979; Max Schreck played him in 1922 Nosferatu |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | WALLACES $800: He & his wife Lila launched Reader's Digest in 1922 with a press run of 5,000 DeWitt Wallace |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: "Little Red Riding Hood", a film he animated in 1922, was found in London around 20 years ago Walt Disney |
| #3293, aired 1998-12-23 | GUINNESS RECORDS $200: Charles Osborne did this every 1 1/2 seconds from 1922 to 1990; what he needed was a good scare! hiccupped |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | "Y"s GUYS $500: This poet & playwright served as a senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928 William Butler Yeats |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $2,100 (Daily Double): This 1922 F.W. Murnau drama, seen here, was one of the world's first horror movies: Nosferatu |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | QUOTATIONS $1000: The last words of this 1922 novel are Molly's "Yes I said yes I will yes" Ulysses |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | FLYBOYS $100: In 1922 this "Lone Eagle" learned to fly at a Lincoln, Nebraska flying school Charles Lindbergh |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | DINOSAUR $400: In 1922 the first of these to be discovered came from a mommy protoceratops dinosaur eggs |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | BOOKS OF THE '20s $200: In 1922 she provided tips on "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home" Emily Post |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | WHY, I OTTO... $200: Today it's a couch without a back, but in 1922 it became an empire without a future Ottoman |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $400: In 1922 this novelist said of Ezra Pound, "He's teaching me to write, and I'm teaching him to box" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $1000: His expressionistic 1922 play "The Hairy Ape" opens in the firemen's forecastle of an ocean liner Eugene O'Neill |
| #2982, aired 1997-07-15 | LITERATURE $200: In 1922 he published "The Red House Mystery"; in 1928 "The House At Pooh Corner" A.A. Milne |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | AUTHORS $400: In order to write his 1922 novel "Babbitt", this author studied real estate Sinclair Lewis |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | REDHEADS $800: She had her say in a 1922 book, "Women, Morality And Birth Control" Margaret Sanger |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | NEWSPAPERS $200: In 1922 the South Bend Tribune established WSBT, this state's first radio station Indiana |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | TRANSPORTATION $500: In 1922 Russian-born American Morris Markin began making these cabs in Kalamazoo, Michigan Checker cabs |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: In 1922 it introduced the Gyrofoam, the first washing machine to clean with water action Maytag |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: The government leasing oil reserves to Mammoth Oil in 1922 caused this scandal the next year Teapot Dome |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | MUSIC $400: In 1922 Ravel orchestrated "Pictures at an Exhibition", a suite Mussorgsky wrote for this instrument piano |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This monument with a 19-foot seated statue was dedicated by President Harding May 30, 1922 Lincoln Memorial |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | DOCUMENTARIES $600: The first significant documentary was this 1922 classic about Eskimo life Nanook of the North |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | HISTORIANS $200: In 1922 James Truslow Adams' "The Founding of New England" won the fifth of these prizes given for history Pulitzer |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | AUTHORS $600: This creator of Father Brown converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 G.K. Chesterton |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Castle" worked for an accident insurance board from 1908 to 1922 Kafka |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: Thomas J. Pendergast, boss of Kansas City, launched the political career of this future president in 1922 Truman |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | THE 1920s $600: In November 1922 Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon made this famous discovery King Tut's tomb |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | MUSIC $200: In 1922 he wrote the opera "Blue Monday", but his 1935 "Porgy and Bess" is more famous George Gershwin |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1922 the USSR consisted of Russia, Belorussia, Transcaucasia & this republic Ukraine |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | SCIENCE $1000: This Danish physicist won a Nobel Prize in 1922 & his son won one in 1975 (Niels) Bohr |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | HISTORIC WOMEN $200: In 1922 she broke a women's shooting record by smashing 100 clay targets in a row Annie Oakley |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | LITERATURE $600: This James Joyce book was first published in France in 1922 "Ulysses" |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | LITERATURE $1000: This 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse is based on the early life of Buddha Siddhartha |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | ART $200: In 1922 he painted his 1st major mural, "Creation", at the National Preparatory School in Mexico City Diego Rivera |
| #2600, aired 1995-12-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1922 DeWitt Wallace & his wife Lila Acheson founded this monthly magazine Reader's Digest |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | SPORTS $100: On July 9, 1922 this future movie Tarzan became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under a minute Johnny Weissmuller |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | ART & ARTISTS $500: Wassily Kandinsky joined Gropius at this design school in 1922 & remained there until 1933 Bauhaus |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | POETS & POETRY $200: In 1922 this Illinois poet published a collection called "Slabs of the Sunburnt West" Carl Sandburg |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $300: The first free-fall jump using one of these devices was from a damaged airplane in 1922 Parachute |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | THE 1920s $200: Archaeological finds in 1922 included the Royal Tombs of Ur & the tomb of this boy king Tutankhamun |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | U.S.A. $200: This southern state's oldest radio station, WBT in Charlotte, began broadcasting in 1922 North Carolina |
| #2547, aired 1995-10-03 | WORLD HISTORY $100: Cardinal Achille Ratti was elected to this office Feb. 6, 1922, taking the name Pius XI pope |
| #2480, aired 1995-05-19 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Emperor Pedro II's body was returned to this South American country in 1922, 31 years after his death Brazil |
| #2392, aired 1995-01-17 | BASEBALL HISTORY $300: The oldest man to hit .400 was this "Georgia Peach", who accomplished it in 1922 at age 35 Ty Cobb |
| #2388, aired 1995-01-11 | U.S. STATES $400: The city of Bangor had this state's first radio station in 1922 & its first TV station in 1953 Maine |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | AVIATION FIRSTS $400: In 1922 Lt. Harold Harris became the 1st member of the Caterpillar Club, those whose lives have been saved by these parachutes |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | WORLD CITIES $400: From 1453 to 1922, it was the name of the capital of the Ottoman Empire Constantinople |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | SHORT STORIES $400: The 1922 play "Rain" is a dramatization of "Miss Thompson", this author's story about Sadie Thompson Somerset Maugham |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The high-living hero & heroine of his 1922 novel "The Beautiful and Damned" resemble him & his wife Zelda F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | DRAMA $800: In a 1922 Anne Nichols play, he marries an Irish girl named Rose Mary Murphy, starting a family feud Abie |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1922 film director Robert Flaherty made this man "of the North" famous Nanook |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | FAMOUS FRENCH CANADIANS $500: In 1922 this Beat author was born to French- Canadian parents in Massachusetts & baptized Jean-Louis Jack Kerouac |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | MAGAZINES $400: In 1922 former Secretary of Agriculture Edwin T. Meredith founded it as "Fruit, Garden and Home" Better Homes and Gardens |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | GEMS & JEWELRY $100: Many items made of lapis lazuli were found in this pharaoh's tomb, discovered in 1922 King Tut |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | MONTHS $300: Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel about this "Enchanted" month has been filmed twice April |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THE 1920s $400: Once a 97-pound weakling, he won the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" contest in 1922 Charles Atlas |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $100: In 1922, using the Pitman method of this, Nathan Behrin took down 300 words per minute for 5 minutes shorthand |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: In 1922 this creator of Winnie-the-Pooh wrote a detective novel called "The Red House Mystery" A.A. Milne |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Discovered in 1922, this king's tomb also contained the remains of 2 infants, probably his children Tut |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | TURKEY $500: After this empire's demise in 1922, Turkey became a republic the Ottoman Empire |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): From 1922-1924 he was Postmaster of the University of Mississippi William Faulkner |
| #2164, aired 1994-01-20 | HISTORY $200: In 1922 he was given control of Italy & by 1925 was ruling as dictator Mussolini |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1922 $200: This inventor of the telephone died in Nova Scotia on August 2 (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1922 $400: This empire came to an end in 1922 when Sultan Mehmed VI was deposed the Ottoman Empire |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1922 $600: This memorial designed by Henry Bacon was dedicated in Washington on May 30 the Lincoln Memorial |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1922 $800: On August 22 Michael Collins was ambushed by Independent Republicans in this country Ireland |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1922 $1000: This Indiana author won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Alice Adams" (Booth) Tarkington |
| #2145, aired 1993-12-24 | CITIES CALLED THEBES $200: His tomb in Thebes was discovered on the west bank of the Nile in 1922 King Tut |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | ARCHITECTURE $200: This American architect's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was completed in 1922 Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | AMERICAN BUSINESS $1000: This Iowa-based company developed the agitating washing machine in 1922 & a dryer 31 years later Maytag |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | SCIENCE $600: In 1922 this British archaeologist sponsored by Lord Carnarvon discovered King Tut's tomb Howard Carter |
| #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 |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: 1922 Nobel Peace Prize winner Fridtjof Nansen spent 1893-96 trying to reach this point on Earth the North Pole |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | FASHION $400: The discovery of this in 1922 led to a fashion trend of Egyptian motifs King Tut's tomb |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | ETIQUETTE $500: In 1922 Emily Post wrote, "A gentleman takes off" this "when a lady enters the elevator" his hat |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | WORLD CITIES $200: Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in this Japanese city was finished in 1922 & survived the 1923 earthquake Tokyo |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: From 1922-24 & 1926-34, he served as a judge in Jackson County, Missouri Truman |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | LITERATURE $400: Unimaginative conformists came to be called "Babbitts" after a character he introduced in 1922 Sinclair Lewis |
| #1998, aired 1993-04-21 | LIBRARIES $300: Opened in 1922, the 1st library for kids in the Brit. Commonwealth was Boys & Girls House in this Ontario capital Toronto |
| #1924, aired 1993-01-07 | SILENT MOVIES $100: F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic "Nosferatu" was based on this Bram Stoker work Dracula |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | THE ROARING '20s $600: A Jewish man falls for an Irish woman in this play that opened May 23, 1922 Abie's Irish Rose |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | ITALIAN HISTORY $200: In October 1922 he became the youngest prime minister in Italy's history Mussolini |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: "Like a good neighbor", this company has been selling folks insurance since 1922 State Farm |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | EDUCATION $800: In 1922 she became a government inspector of schools in Italy Maria Montessori |
| #1879, aired 1992-11-05 | NEWSPAPERS $100: The South Bend Tribune founded this state's first radio station, WSBT, in 1922 Indiana |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $400: In 1922, Jef Denyn established the first school to teach people how to play this set of tuned bells carillon |
| #1842, aired 1992-09-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $300: In 1922 bookstore owner Sylvia Beach published this James Joyce book when no one else would Ulysses |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | TALES $300: This author was one of the first to use the term "Jazz Age" in his "Tales of the Jazz Age" in 1922 Fitzgerald |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1922 Sinclair Lewis published this novel about an average American businessman Babbitt |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: After his Blackshirt brigade marched on Rome in 1922, this fascist became Italy's prime minister Mussolini |
| #1736, aired 1992-03-02 | TEENS IN HISTORY $100: In 1922 this Egyptian boy king's burial chamber was opened for the 1st time in over 30 centuries King Tut |
| #1704, aired 1992-01-16 | SCIENCE $800 (Daily Double): This 1922 graduate of the University of Pisa taught physics in Rome, Florence, & Chicago Fermi |
| #1688, aired 1991-12-25 | BROKEN $500: It was broken into in 1922 by Lord Carnarvon & Howard Carter the tomb of King Tut |
| #1681, aired 1991-12-16 | THE 50 STATES $800: This state's first radio station, WOK, began operating in Pine Bluff in 1922 Arkansas |
| #1652, aired 1991-11-05 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: Japan's Hosho, launched in 1922, was the first warship designed specifically for this use launching airplanes (aircraft carrier) |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $400: After his haberdashery failed in 1922, it took him 3 years to pay back creditors Truman |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: His short story collection "Mortal Coils" was published in 1922, 10 years before "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley |
| #1590, aired 1991-06-28 | MAGAZINES $1000: DeWitt Wallace & Lila Acheson published the 1st issue of this magazine in 1922 Reader's Digest |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | MAGAZINES $600: In 1922 Nat Fleischer founded this sports magazine that's still making the "rounds" today Ring magazine |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | MAGAZINES $100: In 1922, a former Secretary of Agriculture published Fruit, Garden & Home, which became this in 1924 Better Homes & Gardens |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | COLUMNISTS $400: Columnist whose 1922 “Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage” sold over half a million copies Emily Post |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | OH THOSE OTTOMANS $800: In 1922 he overthrew the last sultan & the history of modern Turkey began (Kemal) Ataturk |
| #1472, aired 1991-01-15 | CARNEGIE HALL $400: This British author's 1922 speech on spiritualism was probably far from "elementary" Conan Doyle |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: In 1922 she published her book on etiquette aftr reading one that was riddled with errors Emily Post |
| #1359, aired 1990-06-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: On April 7, 1922 the Mammoth Oil Company was granted a lease on these naval oil reserves Teapot Dome |
| #1326, aired 1990-05-14 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: He didn't lead the march on Rome in 1922; he waited in Milan until he got the "all clear" & then went Benito Mussolini |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | WORLD HISTORY $200: King Victor Emmanuel III appointed him prime minister of Italy in 1922 Benito Mussolini |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Mehmed VI, the last sultan of this empire, was forced to abdicate in 1922 Ottoman Empire |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | MAGAZINES $1000: This monthly, started in 1922, now sells over 29 million copies a month worldwide Reader's Digest |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | MODERN LITERATURE $3,600 (Daily Double): He died in 1922 before the last 3 volumes of his "Remembrance of Things Past" were published Marcel Proust |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | PEOPLE $500: Mary Pickford's stepson; he made his film debut at 13 in 1922, & in in 1989 he was a guest star on "B.L. Stryker" Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $400: Pres. of the MPPDA from 1922-45, he initiated a moral blacklist & was an author of the production code Will Hays |
| #1077, aired 1989-04-18 | THE 20TH CENTURY $600: Howard Carter's most famous Egyptian find of 1922 King Tut's tomb |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: Silent film director whose notorious 1922 murder was the subject of the best seller "A Cast of Killers" William Desmond Taylor |
| #1025, aired 1989-02-03 | MONEY $300: When a 16 month period of hyperinflation hit this country in Aug. 1922, prices increased 10 billion-fold Germany |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | TECHNOLOGY $300: The 1st public place to use this form of climate control was a movie house in 1922 air conditioning |
| #981, aired 1988-12-05 | QUOTES $600: In 1922 he said "Nonviolence is the 1st article of my faith" Gandhi |
| #965, aired 1988-11-11 | ARTISTS $400: In 1922 Marc Chagall left this country, his native land Russia |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: India, where his father & grandfather were missionaries, inspired this 1922 Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha |
| #862, aired 1988-05-10 | KING TUT $1000: His tomb was discovered in 1922, by this English archaeologist (Howard) Carter |
| #855, aired 1988-04-29 | ULYSSES $200: This author's 1922 "Ulysses" parallels Bloom's 1-day pilgrimage with Ulysses' years of wandering James Joyce |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | TITLE CHARACTERS $200: Abraham Levy's sweetheart Rosemary Murphy is the title character in this 1922 comedy Abie's Irish Rose |
| #831, aired 1988-03-28 | ANCIENT EGYPT $200: Among the things found in his tomb in 1922 were whips,fans, lots of great jewelry, & a gold mask Tutankhamun |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | TUNES OF THE '20s $200: Title girl to whom Jolson bid "Goo' Bye!" in 1922 "Toot, Toot, Tootsie!" |
| #743, aired 1987-11-25 | UTAHANS $600: In 1922 at age 16, high schooler P.T. Farnsworth discovered the principles of this communications medium television |
| #708, aired 1987-10-07 | OHIO $100: In 1921, an Ohioan was 1st to win this pageant, & in 1922, she became the only one to win 2 years in a row Miss America |
| #643, aired 1987-05-27 | SWEET SIXTEEN $800: In 1922 at age 16, Philo T. Farnsworth discovered principles of this communications medium television |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: At this site where tourists could see a chicken farm in 1922, they can see a "Kongflict" today Universal Studios |
| #506, aired 1986-11-17 | HISTORY $200: Tho this country was given independence in 1922 under King Fuad I, British troops remained Egypt |
| #474, aired 1986-10-02 | ACTORS & ROLES $1000: As an Indian in 1922's "Last of the Mohicans" he bared his chest, but he gained fame baring his fangs Bela Lugosi |
| #466, aired 1986-09-22 | JANUARY $200: This free state was established in January 1922--Erin go Braugh the Republic of Ireland |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | TRANSPORTATION $400: In 1922, Mack trucks adopted this trademark a bulldog |
| #412, aired 1986-04-08 | DOLLS $500: 1922's By-Lo Baby sold so well & was copied so widely, it earned this "valuable" nickname "The Million Dollar Baby" |
| #366, aired 1986-02-03 | JANUARY $600: In the winter of 1922, Christian Nelson got the patent for this chocolate covered block of ice cream an Eskimo pie |
| #341, aired 1985-12-30 | FIRSTS $100: 1st done over NYC in 1922 by an RAF captain, who spelled out "Hello U.S.A." skywriting |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | SEPTEMBER $1000: On Sept. 12, 1922 the Protestant Episcopal house of bishops voted to remove this word from the marriage rite obey |
| #301, aired 1985-11-04 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: In 1922, she wrote, "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, & at Home" Emily Post |
| #179, aired 1985-05-16 | "FRED"s $300 (Daily Double): Rock 'n' roll star who did this version of a 1922 jazz hit:
"Well, way down yonder in New Orleans / In the land of the dreamy scenes / There's a Garden of Eden, / Ah, you know what I mean" Freddy Cannon |
