| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | FIVE GUYS $2000: This Spanish surrealist whose work is often exhibited with Dali's painted "Dog Barking at the Moon" in 1926 Joan Miró |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $200: This standardized test widely used in college admissions since 1926 is introducing a digital version in March 2024 the SAT |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | DECADES $600: A 1926 editorial in the Oakland Tribune put "rip-" before this timely phrase Roaring Twenties |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LITERARY GROUPS $1200: The 1926 literary magazine "Fire!!" featured Wallace Thurman & Countee Cullen, members of this New York movement the Harlem Renaissance |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | SCIENCE STUFF $800: A 1926 issue of Nature proposed this name for a quantum of light a photon |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $2000: This American woman went pro in 1916, founded a dance company in 1926, retired at 70 but choreographed until her death in 1991 Martha Graham |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $800: This American was a real rocket scientist, launching his first liquid-propelled one March 16, 1926 Goddard |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | HISTORIC GROUPS $2000: The 1926 Balfour report brought about this 12-letter group "equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another" the Commonwealth (of Nations) |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | AVIATION $1000: Cologne, Germany is the headquarters for this airline whose roots go back to one founded in 1926 Lufthansa |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THE NATION IN QUESTION $800: Established some boundaries in 1926; established a republic in 1967; you know what Amin? Uganda |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THEY WROTE 'EM $800: The 1926 poem
"Harlem Night Club" Langston Hughes |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1926 this magician spoke to Congress supporting a bill criminalizing fortune telling & mediums Harry Houdini |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $600: 1926's War Paint Club evolved into the Indian Actors Association, co-founded by this super-athlete Jim Thorpe |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | 4 WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL $1200: Mass hysteria ensued when this silent film star died at age 31; 100,000 mourners lined the streets outside his 1926 funeral Valentino |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $600: After this sharpshooter wife passed away in 1926, Frank Butler reportedly stopped eating & died 18 days later Annie Oakley |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $2,400 (Daily Double): This Bolshevik got exiled to Siberia twice, expelled from the Politburo in 1926 & the Soviet Union itself 3 years later Trotsky |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | THE VERB IN THE NOVEL TITLE $1600: 1926:
Hemingway's World War I vet has... medical issues rises |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SUCCESSION $1000: 1926:
After the passing of Yoshihito Hirohito |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | THE IDEAS OF MARCH $2000: To him, at his aunt's farm in Massachusetts, March 16, 1926 was the right time to launch the first liquid-fueled rocket Goddard |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: He won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Arrowsmith", but turned it down Sinclair Lewis |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE 1920s $400: His 1926 funeral was attended by many mourners & a wand was ceremonially broken on his coffin, beginning an annual tradition Houdini |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 5 BURROS $400: This melancholy donkey whose tail is attached by a nail debuted in a 1926 story Eeyore |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY $400: The original academy of higher learning in this city was founded by Plato, who has a statue at the modern academy founded in 1926 Athens |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | BUY ME $1000: How about a 60-year-old bottle of Macallan 1926, this booze? One sold at auction for $1.9 million scotch |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | DISASTROUS TEAMS? $200: ACC: the "Great Miami" one of these made landfall in September 1926 hurricanes |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Inspired as a boy by H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 (Robert) Goddard |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A half cocoon discovered in Shanxi Province in 1926 is evidence of Chinese cultivation of this fabric 6,000 years ago silk |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: French word for cherry that's also a shade of red (1926) cerise |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELS $1200: In 1926 "The Sun Also Rises" was one of the first novels mailed by this club that lets you discover new titles 12 times a year the Book of the Month Club |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | LONDON'S BLUE PLAQUES $400: A blue plaque shows the Soho location where John Logie Baird, a claimant as the inventor of this medium, first demoed it in 1926 television |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | LONG AGO, IN THE 20th CENTURY $800: Dateline: Chicago, 1926! Gunmen put 1,000 rounds into this mug's Cicero Hotel HQ, but he comes out smellin' like a rose! Al Capone |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | PUP CULTURE $600: Formal breeding of the Alaskan type of this 8-letter northern dog began in 1926 a malamute |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | DRUNK ON LITERATURE $2000: Jake Barnes notes, "I was a little drunk... just enough to be careless" in this 1926 Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | DATES $1600: 1926 date on which Houdini died October 31st |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | THE 1920s $600: After losing the heavyweight title in 1926, this boxer said, "Honey, I just forgot to duck" (Jack) Dempsey |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SUNNY "D" $800: In 1926 the city of Seabreeze became part of this Florida beach city Daytona Beach |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | GOTTA RUN! $800: With Gehrig on deck, Game 7 of the 1926 W.S. ended with this big-hitting Yankee legend getting thrown out trying to steal second Babe Ruth |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | IT'S A DATE $800: August 6, 1926:
Gertrude Ederle swims this the English Channel |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ROARING '20s READER $1600: Part of the Harlem Renaissance, his first poetry collection, "The Weary Blues", was published in 1926 Langston Hughes |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | KING OF THE CASTLE $400: The former Edo Castle, 1926-1989:
This emperor Hirohito |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | YOU SHOULD BE DANCING $1000: In 1926, this dance made the cover of an early version of Life magazine the Charleston |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ON WITH THE SHOW $1600: This 1926 novel chronicles 3 generations of a theatrical family who live & work on a steam-powered vessel Show Boat |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: The 1926 Rose Queen Fay Lanphier was also the winner of this pageant, the only holder of both titles at once Miss America pageant |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | HAIL! HAIL! CHUCK BERRY $200: Chuck was born in this Missouri city in 1926 & passed away nearby in 2017 St. Louis |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: She was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama & died there February 19, 2016 Harper Lee |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | BRITANNICA BYLINES $400: He conjured up the entry on conjuring for the 1926 edition, the same year as his untimely death Harry Houdini |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | ITALIAN COMPOSERS $2000: The discovery of a large quantity of manuscripts near Turin in 1926 created a renewed interest in this "red priest" Antonio Vivaldi |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | JUST WHAT I NEED $1000: Thanks for the stars & stripes Speedo for my attempt to match this woman's accomplishment at Dover in 1926 Gertrude Ederle |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum was built as a monument to the men and women who served in the war; in 1926, in front of a crowd of 150,000, this president broke his notorious silence to dedicate the memorial Calvin Coolidge |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS $1200: In 1926 this symphony that hatched the Pops became the first to play live on the radio Boston |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | IT'S IN THE BOOK $400: From 1926, the Hundred Acre Wood Winnie-The-Pooh |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $800: In 1926 Zane Grey built an elaborate home on this island off Los Angeles, where he spent most of the rest of his life Catalina |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | FAILED CHILDREN'S BOOK ANIMALS $400: Champion Slobbering Runaway has misadventures at this dog show's 50th edition in 1926 the Westminster Dog Show |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | MEL ON EARTH $1600: Born 1926:
"The Producers" producer Mel Brooks |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $2000: Some erasures & calculations in his 1926 notebook have cast doubt on whether he was the first to fly over the North Pole Richard Byrd |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | THE 1920s $2000: In 1926 she received the first NYC ticker tape parade just for a woman, after her memorable 35-mile swim (Gertrude) Ederle |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | RANDOM FACTS $200: (Hi, I'm Penn Jillette.) When a magician dies, a wand is sometimes broken at his funeral to symbolize his loss of magical power; the first broken wand ceremony was performed by the Society of American Magicians in 1926 at the memorial service for this famous escapologist (Harry) Houdini |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Bullfights & heavy drinking are the order of the day in this 1926 novel with a title from Ecclesiastes The Sun Also Rises |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | SKYFALL $800: In 1926, the year before his historic crossing, he twice parachuted to safety while delivering airmail (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | DIE ANOTHER DAY $1600: October 31, 1926
in Detroit, of peritonitis from a stomach injury Houdini |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | BRAVO $400: In 1926 this future First Lady started a furniture factory in Hyde Park to help the unemployed Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | WHEN I'M KING... $400: Japan, 1926-1989 Emperor Hirohito |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | COLD WORLD OUT THERE $600: You've been sent to Oymyakon in this 7-letter region of Russia, where it was a brisk -96 in January 1926 Siberia |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | CLASSICAL RADIO $800: "Choral Evensong", first broadcast from London in 1926, is still heard on this service's Radio 3 the BBC |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | AVIATION FIRSTS $600: The first successful all-metal U.S. transport plane was this auto pioneer's 1926 tri-motor (Henry) Ford |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | GRAB BAG $2000: In 1926 artist Walter Sickert won a Carnegie prize (yay); in 2002 Patricia Cornwell said Walt was this serial killer (boo) Jack the Ripper |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE ROARING '20s $1,800 (Daily Double): In May 1926 President Coolidge sent U.S. marines into this nation to quell an uprising led by General Augusto Sandino Nicaragua |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $600: In 1926 this rear admiral received the Medal of Honor for his "risk of life" flying over the North Pole Admiral Byrd |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1600: In 1926 George Minot & William Murphy reported that a diet of this raw organ meat could cure pernicious anemia liver |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: Pioneering inventor seen here in 1926 ready to rocket (Robert) Goddard |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1000: A sacrarium was one of these in a home or temple, smaller than the L.A. awards show venue dating from 1926 a shrine |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | NOVEL NARRATORS $400: We find out a surprise about the narrator at the end of her 1926 mystery "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" Agatha Christie |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | FEAT $1000: Floyd Bennett won a Medal of Honor for piloting himself & this explorer over the North Pole in 1926 Admiral Byrd |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | EDUCATION $1600: This test was developed in 1926 by Carl Campbell Brigham for the College Entrance Examination Board the SAT |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | BUSINESS HISTORIES $1000: In 1926 this guide to auto values was first published in Los Angeles; a 1921 Nash touring car with a clock was worth $50 Kelley Blue Book |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | LOOKING GOOD! $600: That little black dress from this French designer! It's so 1926, the year the dress was introduced (Coco) Chanel |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | IT BORDERS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN $2000: Dictators ruled this westernmost country of continental Europe from 1926 to 1974 Portugal |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): This character who debuted in 1926 is also called Edward Bear Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $200: Completed in 1926, Aloha Tower greets visitors to this city Honolulu |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of parts of England and France.) The crossing of the English Channel would have been 21 miles straight, but because of bad weather on August 6, 1926, a 35-mile route was swum by this Olympic gold medalist Gertrude Ederle |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | TOUCHÉ $800: Swordplay in movies like 1926's "The Black Pirate" earned this "senior" actor the title "king of the swashbucklers" Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | 1920s BESTSELLERS $1600: In 1926 Edna Ferber "cruised" up the bestseller list with this novel that became a musical Show Boat |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | SUCH A LITERARY CHARACTER! $400: It must have depressed Eeyore even more to realize he's not the title character in this 1926 work Winnie the Pooh |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Upon arriving in the U.S. from Russia in 1926, Alisa Rosenbaum took this name; the first name rhymes with "pine" Ayn Rand |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $1600: Let out his first "Howl" June 3, 1926, might have said, "I'm really Beat" April 5, 1997 (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | THEY WROTE FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA $200: Marie Curie's 1926 entry on this element said one could use it to make luminous paints to use in watches radium |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | THEY WROTE FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA $400: Almost half of his 1926 entry on conjuring was about himself, mentioning such tricks as the milk-can escape Houdini |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | WITHOUT MY PARTNER $1200: On December 3, 1926 he was arrested for the first time, in Dallas for auto theft Clyde Barrow |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | BEGGARS CAN'T BE BOOZERS $1000: In 2005 a Korean businessman paid more than $70,000 for one of the last bottles of 1926 Macallan, a brand of this Scotch |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | FAMOUS MENUS $800: A Christmas 1926 British army menu lists the food in small black type & this 4-letter beverage in much larger red type beer |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | GREAT ART $2000: Her 1926 painting "Black Iris" enlarged the petals of a flower to over-lifesize proportions Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #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 |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | LATE MAN $400: Photocopy pioneer Robert Gundlach, 1926-2010, helped transform the Haloid Company into this office-equipment giant Xerox |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | DAS KAPITALISTS $1600: His company merged with Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1926 (Karl) Benz |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | DAS KAPITALISTS $2000: This fighter-plane designer joined the Bavarian aircraft works in 1926; in 1938 the company took his name Messerschmitt |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | HOUDINI $400: Harry Houdini died on this day in 1926--spooky! Halloween |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | LET'S GO SHOPPING $600: In 1926 he published his first "Blue Book of Motor Car Values" (Les) Kelley |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | VENDING MACHINES $400: William Rowe's 1926 machine vended these by the pack; in the Depression a new machine sold them individually cigarettes |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $2000: This American playwright's 1926 work "The Great God Brown" was significant for its symbolic use of masks Eugene O'Neill |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $1200: The site where he launched the first liquid fuel rocket in 1926 is now part of a golf course fairway in Massachusetts (Robert) Goddard |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | YANKEES, NO! $800: The Yankees lost game 7 of the 1926 World Series when this portly gent was thrown out trying to steal second base Babe Ruth |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | YOU ARE THE JUAN $400: John Barrymore played this Spanish lover in a 1926 film & averaged about a kiss a minute Don Juan |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | I LOVE A MYSTERY $1200: This Agatha Christie spinster first appeared in print in the 1926 short story "The Tuesday Night Club" Miss Marple |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In 1926 this Belgian artist produced his first surrealist work, "Le Jockey Perdu" René Magritte |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE BIG UNIT $1000: In 1926 the queen of Romania flipped on the new 100,000-horsepower generator of New York this, now Consolidated this Edison |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | CALIFORNIA $1200: In 1926 Zane Grey built a home on this island off Los Angeles where he spent most of the rest of his life Catalina Island |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | ON HIS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUE $400: "Detroit - Philadelphia, A.L. - 1905-1926... retired with 4191 major league hits" (Ty) Cobb |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | WE HAWK OLD INVENTIONS $1200: We have a certain "view" of this guy who 1st perfected his "quick freeze machine" for fish in 1926; enjoy our 1/2-priced halibut! (Clarence) Birdseye |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Although founded in 1867, this Washington, D.C. school didn't have its first black president until 1926 Howard |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | LITERARY SEVENS $400: Lawrence of Arabia's wartime memoirs, published in 1926, were called "Seven Pillars of" this Wisdom |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: In 1926 a "beater bar" was added to this company's product; it tapped the carpet to loosen ground-in dirt Hoover |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | I HAVE 5 KINGS $1000: In 1926 W.L. MacKenzie King was prime minister of this country twice (he gave it up in June but had it back by September) Canada |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | CURLS GONE WILD $600: In 1926, women like Mrs. Margaret Wagoner Mitchell, seen here, got this type of wave by hooking up to a machine a permanent wave |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | I THINK I LOVE HUGH $400: This magazine man, born in 1926, claims to be a direct descendent of Puritan patriarchs John Winthrop & William Bradford Hugh Hefner |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | LITTLE WOMEN $200: This 4'10" author began her epic in 1926 after an injury; David O. Selznick bought the rights & the rest is history (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | THIS AMERICAN LIFE $400: Takes first "Sure Shot" at life Aug. 13, 1860, should have been NRA poster girl, gets holstered Nov. 3, 1926 Annie Oakley |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | SHEER CHAOS $800: In a 1926 letter this physicist wrote that he was convinced God "does not throw dice" Einstein |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $800: Returning from Samoa in 1926, she met fellow anthropologist Reo Fortune aboard ship; they married in 1928 (Margaret) Mead |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | LITERARY SETTINGS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew walks a walled street of Pamplona, Spain.) A passage reads, "Suddenly, a crowd came down the street. They were all running, and then the bulls galloping, tossing their heads up and down..." vividly capturing Pamplona in this 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | THE SOPRANOS $2000: Maria Jeritza sang the title role of this composer's "Turandot" at its U.S. premiere in 1926 Puccini |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | SEX & THE CITY $800: Male; born NYC, 1926; musically lost vital internal organ in S.F., 1962 Tony Bennett |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | GENIUS BY MUSE $1600: Singer Lotte Lenya, whom he married in 1926 & in 1937 Kurt Weill |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | POLITICAL PARTIES $600: In 1926 Benito Mussolini abolished all political parties except this one the Fascist Party |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | WE REWRITE HISTORY! $600: Lenny Dykstra became emperor of Japan in 1926 & his reign was designated Showa, or "Enlightened Peace" Hirohito |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | QUOTATIONS $600: After losing the heavyweight title to Gene Tunney in 1926, he told his wife, "Honey, I just forgot to duck" (Jack) Dempsey |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | U.S. HISTORY $2000: Charles Evans Hughes was picked to represent the U.S. at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in this city in 1926 The Hague |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | JAZZ HANDS $400: This trumpeter was born May 26, 1926; you could call it the "birth of the Cool" Miles Davis |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | IT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN $400: 1926: There's no escape for this magician who dies following a rupture of his appendix Harry Houdini |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | THE 1920s $2000: This evangelist made plenty of headlines in the 1920s, like in 1926 when she claimed to have been kidnapped Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $400: Hemingway got the title for this 1926 novel from Ecclesiastes The Sun Also Rises |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: One of the most popular organizations at this state univ. in Louisiana is the Tiger Marching Band, founded 1926 Grambling |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STORIED HOTELS $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter VI of this 1926 novel begins: "At five o'clock I was in the Hotel Crillon waiting for Brett" The Sun Also Rises |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | DRAFT PICKS $1000: A Belgian brewery created this beer for Christmas 1926 but started it year-round when it proved popular Stella Artois |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | A STEVE McQUEEN FILM FESTIVAL $2000: 1966:
Cynical sailor Steve patrols the Yangtze River during the Chinese Revolution of 1926 The Sand Pebbles |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | CATALINA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a hillside on Catalina Island, CA.) One of Catalina's most famous residents was this author of "Riders of the Purple Sage", who built a home here in 1926 (Zane) Grey |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | PUNCH LINES $400: After losing the title to Gene Tunney in 1926, he told his wife Estelle, "Honey, I just forgot to duck" Jack Dempsey |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | DEAD SCIENTISTS' SOCIETY $600: This American was a real rocket scientist, launching his first one March 16, 1926 Robert Goddard |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | CHEMISTRY $1600: To separate 2 liquids mixed together, use this device that helped Theodor Svedberg win a 1926 Nobel prize a centrifuge |
| #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 |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | JAPANESE HISTORY $400: Called Michinomiya as a child, he became Japanese emperor on Christmas Day, 1926 Hirohito |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $1600: In 1926 she told Ernest Hemingway, "You are all a lost generation" Gertrude Stein |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $2000: "People said women couldn't swim the Channel... I proved they could"; & so she did, in 1926 Gertrude Ederle |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | ANGOLAN HISTORY $2000: Angola's borders were not fixed until 1926 & the resolution of a dispute with what's now this nation due south Namibia |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | SOAP DISH $1600: Once "the soap of beautiful women", this fragrant bar with a French-sounding name was introduced in 1926 Camay |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | THE MISSIVES OF OCTOBER $200: Oct. 1, 1908: Dear Mom, this car's been introduced at $850 but I bet mass production can lower it to about $300 by 1926 the Model T Ford |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | THE ARTFUL $400: In 1926 this surrealist was expelled from art school for refusing to allow his professors to critique his work (Salvador) Dalí |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | YOU'VE GOT MAIL $1600: In 1926 he was hired as chief pilot to carry airmail between Chicago & St. Louis Lindbergh |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: 1926's top 2 fiction sellers were John Erskine's "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" & this Anita Loos book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | TAKE ME TO YOUR DIRECTOR $1200: (Anthony Daniels reads the clue.) C-3PO was modeled after a robot from the 1926 film "Metropolis" directed by this human Fritz Lang |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $6,000 (Daily Double): This member of a prominent Boston family won a 1926 Pulitzer for her poetry collection "What's O'Clock" Amy Lowell |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | I READ THE ARTICLES, TOO $800: You can't escape the fact that the 1926 Encyclopedia Britannica article on conjuring was done by him Houdini |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | HEY, J.D. $200: He forgot to duck in 1926 when he lost to Gene Tunney Jack Dempsey |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | THE ENGLISH CHANNEL $600: A song & a dance were named for this lady who swam the channel in 1926 & passed away at age 98 in 2003 Gertrude Ederle |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | THE CHANEL CHANNEL $800: In 1926, Coco introduced this classic wardrobe piece that Vogue called "the new uniform of the modern woman" the little black dress |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | MAGAZINES $800: Stories by Jules Verne & H.G. Wells graced the April 1926 premiere issue of this U.S. sci-fi pulp magazine Amazing Stories |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | 20th CENTURY FOOD $200: In 1926 Hormel's innovation was selling its flavor-sealed ham in these containers cans |
| #4564, aired 2004-06-10 | PULITZER PRIZES $800: When his "Arrowsmith" won for Fiction in 1926, he declined the prize Sinclair Lewis |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | IMMIGRANTS $3,600 (Daily Double): This woman who defended capitalism in her novels came to the U.S. from the USSR in 1926 Ayn Rand |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | MR. T $800: This Republican served in the Ohio house of representatives from 1921 to 1926 & the U.S. Senate from 1939 to 1953 Robert Taft |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $1,600 (Daily Double): Born in Paris in 1840, he got the final brush off at Giverny in 1926 Monet |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | JULIUS $400: Dairy Queen owns this drink created by Julius Freed back in 1926 Orange Julius |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | THE END $400: There was no escaping death for this magician; he died on Halloween night in 1926 Harry Houdini |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | GRAMBLING MARCHING BAND $400: Grambling first struck up the band in 1926 with 17 instruments obtained from this Chicago catalog company Sears |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | LORD OF THE RING $800: Early in his career Joe Louis boxed his way to become a champ in these amateur competitions that began in 1926 Golden Gloves |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | THE "SUN"s $1200: Ernest Hemingway's original title for this 1926 work was "The Lost Generation" The Sun Also Rises |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | GIRL SCOUT BADGES $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1926 a Girl Scout could earn a badge for this job, sung about on the 8th day of Christmas dairy maid ("eight maids-a-milking") |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | I'M A SPINELESS JELLYFISH $600: A lion's mane jellyfish is the means of death in a 1926 story featuring this British detective Sherlock Holmes |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | THE NHL $800: Without a home stadium in 1926, this American team played at Windsor's Border Cities Arena Detroit Red Wings |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | THE DIARY OF $1600: Erasures & alterations in his 1926 diary have thrown doubt on his claim to be first to fly over the North Pole Richard Byrd |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | BRAND NAMES $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 master chocolatier Joseph Draps began this company in Brussels, not Coventry Godiva |
| #4192, aired 2002-11-19 | I'M IN HEAVEN $800: The death of this silent film idol, seen here, inspired the 1926 song "There's a New Star in Heaven Tonight" Rudolph Valentino |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | THE LAST BOY SCOUT $400: This artist whose work is seen here illustrated the Boy Scout calendar from 1926-1976 Norman Rockwell |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | ENTERPRISE $800: Psst! Hey buddy! Check it out -- a watch from this company that made watches waterproof in 1926. Only 20 bucks Rolex |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | THE MEADIA $800: In 1926 she became curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History Margaret Mead |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | '20s TRANSPORTATION $800: 1926 saw the first flight over the North Pole by Byrd & the first liquid-fueled flight launched by this man (Robert) Goddard |
| #4110, aired 2002-06-14 | WHERE ARE YOU? $400: In this body of water, trying to reenact Gertrude Ederle's historic swim of 1926 English Channel |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | HOPE YOU LEARNED YOUR AFRICAN CAPITALS $800: In 1926 the capital of this republic of Northwest Africa was moved from Zinder to Niamey Niger |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | CHARLES IN CHARGE $400: He was flying mail between St. Louis & Chicago in 1926 when he heard about a prize for the 1st solo Atlantic flight Charles Lindbergh |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | THE 60s $400: The Chicago-to-L.A. highway route assigned this number in 1926 wasn't completely paved until 1938 Route 66 |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | A DATE WITH HISTORY $1600: At Auburn, Massachusetts on March 16, 1926 this man launched his first successful liquid-fuel rocket Robert Goddard |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | STAR WARS TRIVIA $1,100 (Daily Double): Scripted as a "used car salesman" type C-3PO was modeled after a robot in this 1926 Fritz Lang film Metropolis |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: Read all about it. His magazine cover "Little Spooners," or "Sunset,"
seen here, appeared in 1926 Norman Rockwell |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | WORLD LIT $1200: (Let's join Jimmy in New Orleans for this clue) This man from Mississippi wrote his first novel, the 1926 book "Soldier's Pay", while living in the building behind me Faulkner |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $200: 1926:
Piglet's friend, a bear of very little brain Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $200: As he found the time to write an article in 1926, Britannica found space for it under "space-time" Einstein |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | TIME TO RETIRE $1000: Born in Australia in 1926, this soprano retired from the stage in 1990 Joan Sutherland |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | CHURCH & STATE $300: City Methodist in this state's city of Gary, built for over $1 million in 1926, stands empty & needs restoration Indiana |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | LOUIS ARMSTRONG $600: Armstrong's 1926 recording heard here is one of the first examples of this technique Scat singing |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | SCIENCE CLASS $1,000 (Daily Double): John Abel, who produced insulin in a crystalline form in 1926, felt a rush when he isolated this hormone in 1897 Adrenaline |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | THE 1920s $1000: Some dispute it but Floyd Bennett & this man claimed to have been first to fly over the North Pole in May 1926 Richard Byrd |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | NOTABLE NAMES $600: Leader of this country from 1926 to 1989, this man seen here also had a lifelong interest in marine biology Emperor Hirohito |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | MAKE WAY FOR HEMINGWAY $500: This 1926 novel begins, "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton" "The Sun Also Rises" |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | LET'S TAKE A LITTLE TRIP $300: On May 9, 1926 Byrd & Bennett left Norway with a plan to fly over this & they claimed they did North Pole |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | RUSSIAN AUTHORS $1000: 1926's "Red Cavalry" is a famous collection of tales by this "tower"ing writer Isaac Babel |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | HARDPODGE $600: In 1926 the novel "Lolly Willowes" became the first selection this club sent to its members Book-of-the-Month Club |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | STRIKING $500: In May of 1926, unions in this nation banded together & quit work in support of striking coal miners Great Britain (Wales accepted) |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 1926 the Peet Bros. merged their soap company with this one, which then merged with Colgate Palmolive |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $500: Mourners at Monet's 1926 funeral included fellow artists & this WWI French premier known as "The Tiger" Georges Clemenceau |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | ILLINOISE $1000: This jazz trumpeter responsible for the "Birth of the Cool" was born in Alton, Illinois in 1926 Miles Davis |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | LITERATURE $200: His 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" has been published in England as "Fiesta" Ernest Hemingway |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | WILD WILD WEST $1,800 (Daily Double): 3-letter title of the 1926 Broadway play Mae wrote, produced, directed & served 10 days in jail for "Sex" |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE $1000: This "flashy" Spanish architect died in 1926, without finishing his masterpiece, seen here Antonio Gaudi |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | JIMMY $500: He was dyn-o-mite as mayor of New York from 1926 to 1932 Jimmy Walker |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $100: In 1926 this future first lady started a furniture factory at Hyde Park to help the unemployed Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | HISTORIC AMERICA $800 (Daily Double): A philanthropist & heir with this last name began restoring Williamsburg, Virginia in 1926 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | THE ARMY-NAVY GAME $2,200 (Daily Double): Army probably should have had the edge at the 1926 game, played at this newly dedicated Chicago field Soldier Field |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Former Premier Georges Clemenceau attended the 1926 funeral of this "Water Lilies" painter Monet |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | FAMOUS PARTNERS $100: In 1926 they were partnered by director Leo McCarey, & the rest is history; "a fine mess", but history Laurel & Hardy |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In January 1926 in London, John L. Baird demonstrated this new invention which used a cathode ray tube Television |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | STARS OF THE SILENT SCREEN $600: It's reported Francis X. Bushman refused the use of a stunt double in this 1926 classic's chariot race Ben-Hur |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | ENDURANCE $1000: In 1926 she swam the English Channel in 14 1/2 hours, breaking the men's record by 2 hours Gertrude Ederle |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | YANKEE INGENUITY $500: He launched the first liquid propellant rocket in 1926 at his Aunt Effie's Massachusetts farm Robert Goddard |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | MURDER, SHE WROTE $200: This crafter of murder mysteries seen here caused a mystery herself by vanishing for 10 days in 1926 Agatha Christie |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | I FORGET $400: Jack Dempsey in 1926 & Ronald Reagan in 1981 quipped they "forgot to" do this duck |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | INVENTORS $400: In 1926 he launched the world's first liquid fuel rocket Robert Goddard |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | SPORTS $400: On Sept. 23, 1926 this heavyweight boxing champ lost his title to Gene Tunney in a decision Jack Dempsey |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS $800: This Irishman's 1926 play "The Plough and the Stars" was so controversial it provoked riots Sean O'Casey |
| #3105, aired 1998-02-13 | "ROCK" & "ROLL" $300: For an incredible 50 years, 1926-76, he illustrated the official Boy Scout calendar Norman Rockwell |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | FLYBOYS $400: In 1926 Floyd Bennett piloted the plane in which this admiral flew over the North Pole Richard Byrd |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | BOOKS OF THE '20s $100: "The Sun Also Rises", which first saw the light of day in 1926, is considered to be his finest novel Ernest Hemingway |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | HUMORISTS $200: In 1926 this cowboy humorist's newspaper column went from weekly to daily Will Rogers |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | MUSEUMS $800: This team's hall of fame museum has Stan Musial trophies & film of the team dating back to 1926 St. Louis Cardinals |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Led by Bill Tilden, the U.S. won this trophy a record 7 straight times from 1920 to 1926 the Davis Cup (tennis) |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE BELLS $100: This city's second-most famous bell was cast in 1926 for Wanamaker's Department Store Philadelphia |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | THE LOWELLS $1000: Her "What's O'Clock" collection of verses won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 Amy Lowell |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1926 this automaker introduced the Imperial 80; the number refers to its top speed on a straightaway Chrysler |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | SOUTHERN HISTORY $200: After a real estate boom, one of these events struck Florida in 1926, 3 years before the "great" one Depression |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | 1996 BIOGRAPHIES $200: This escape artist who died in 1926 is called the "World's Handcuff King" in a new book by Kenneth Silverman Harry Houdini |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $200: In 1926 the Chicago Opera Co. presented Charles Cadman's "The Witch Of" this Massachusetts town Salem |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | SILENT MOVIES $800: In 1926 John Barrymore romanced Mary Astor as this swashbuckling Spanish lover Don Juan |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | SILENT MOVIES $1000: "The Torrent", released in 1926, was this Swedish actress' first American film Greta Garbo |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | BY GEORGE $400: Name shared by a 1926 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright & a 1930s gangster nicknamed "Machine Gun" George Kelly |
| #2905, aired 1997-03-28 | ALBUQUERQUE $200: In 1926 this famous highway passed through the city's central business district U.S. Route 66 |
| #2899, aired 1997-03-20 | EXPLORERS IN SCIENCE $400: In 1926 Drs. Murphy & Minot fed patients a half pound of this organ meat a day to treat pernicious anemia Liver |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: This Russian physiologist's major published work was "Conditioned Reflexes" in 1926 Ivan Pavlov |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | 20TH CENTURY INVENTIONS $200: In 1926 the 1st household pop-up one of these was marketed by the McGraw Electric Company Toaster |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | EXPLORERS $400: In 1926 this German airline commissioned Sven Hedin to survey China for proposed air routes Lufthansa |
| #2822, aired 1996-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: After Eugene Debs' death in 1926, Norman Thomas became the leader of this political party Socialist party |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | ART $500: Hats off to this Belgian whose 1926 painting "The Menaced Assassin" features men in bowler hats Rene Magritte |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | SUCCESSORS $600: Bao Dai, the last emperor of this country's Nguyen dynasty, succeeded his father, Khai Dinh, in 1926 Vietnam |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | CHARLES A. LINDBERGH $400: In 1926 Lindbergh showed "Spirit" as an air mail pilot between this city and Chicago St. Louis |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | MONTH-LONG OBSERVANCES $500: This month is Black History Month, originated by Carter G. Woodson in 1926 February |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | HOLLYWOOD HODGEPODGE $200: This hat-shaped restaurant was built in 1926 by Gloria Swanson's husband Brown Derby |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | COMPOSERS & THEIR MUSIC $1000: His 1926 symphonic poem "Tapiola" is named for Tapio, a forest god in Finnish mythology Sibelius |
| #2761, aired 1996-09-09 | ROCKS & MINERALS $300: Until about 1926 20-mule teams hauled this mineral from mines in Death Valley to the railroad borax |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | HISTORY $500: In January of 1926, Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator of this country - he was deposed in August Greece |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | EXPLORERS $500: In May 1926 Richard Byrd made the 1st flight over the North Pole, beating this Norwegian by 3 days Amundsen |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In May 1926 Roald Amundsen flew over the North Pole, from Spitsbergen in this country to Teller, Alaska Norway |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | PULITZER PRIZE POETS $400: In this family, Amy won in 1926 & her cousin Robert won in 1947 the Lowells |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | MAGIC $200: After his 1926 death, his widow Bess held a seance once a year until 1936 trying to contact him Houdini |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | COMPOSERS $1000: It was the native country of composer Zoltan Kodaly who wrote the 1926 opera "Hary Janos" Hungary |
| #2600, aired 1995-12-15 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS $600: In 1926 this botanist was buried under a cedar tree in the yard of his Santa Rosa, California home (Luther) Burbank |
| #2596, aired 1995-12-11 | HISTORY $1000: In 1926 this Norwegian & 2 companions became the first to fly from Europe to North America via the North Pole Amundsen |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A perjury charge growing out of this evangelist's 1926 disappearance was later dismissed Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | WOMEN NOVELISTS $600: This "Gigi" novelist wrote "Cheri" in 1920 & "The Last of Cheri" in 1926 Colette |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | HISTORY $400: In 1926 Roald Amundsen flew over the North Pole in the Norge, this type of craft a dirigible |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | THE ROARING '20s $200: In 1926 the "bee-stung" look was in for this part of a woman's body the lips |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | THE ROARING '20s $700 (Daily Double): 6-syllable word for the U.S. anniversary celebrated in 1926 the sesquicentennial |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | AUTHORS $400: In a 1926 letter to Ernest Hemingway, she wrote, "You are all a lost generation" Gertrude Stein |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | SILENT MOVIES $400: Lois Wilson played Daisy Buchanan in the 1926 silent version of this Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby |
| #2452, aired 1995-04-11 | SONGS $500: The 1926 song "There's a New Star in Heaven Tonight" was inspired by the death of this silent film idol Rudolph Valentino |
| #2442, aired 1995-03-28 | INVENTORS & SCIENTISTS $800: The first flight of his liquid-fueled rocket took place in 1926 on his Aunt Effie's Mass. farm (Robert) Goddard |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $800: In 1926 Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories, the first magazine in this literary genre science fiction |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | DRAMA $200: His first play, "The Trumpet Shall Sound", premiered in 1926, 12 years before "Our Town" Thornton Wilder |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | WORLD HISTORY $800: From 1926 to 1935, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski ruled this country as a dictator Poland |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | LITERATURE $200: After an ankle sprain confined her to her home in 1926, Margaret Mitchell began work on this novel Gone with the Wind |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | WORLD HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1926 Emiliano Chamorro briefly returned to power in this country but was then forced to resign Nicaragua |
| #2379, aired 1994-12-29 | HISTORY $1000: In her 1926 swim of the English Channel, she broke the men's record by almost 2 hours Gertrude Ederle |
| #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 |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | LITERATURE $800: "The Rich Boy", one of his best stories, appears in his 1926 collection "All The Sad Young Men" (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | THE 1920s $1,700 (Daily Double): In 1926, this Kuomintang leader launched the Northern Expedition against the warlords of Northern China Chiang Kai-shek |
| #2329, aired 1994-10-20 | MEDICAL HISTORY $600: In 1926 it was found that a diet rich in this raw organ meat could treat pernicious anemia liver |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Her 1926 work "Black Iris" is one of her most famous floral paintings (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | AWARDS $300: In 1926 Samuel Ryder donated a competitive cup for pros in this sport golf |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $100: In 1926 this cowboy humorist toured Europe as Calvin Coolidge's "ambassador of goodwill" Will Rogers |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | THE ROARING '20s $400: In a 1926 stunt he stayed underwater for 91 minutes with only about 5 minutes of air Houdini |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | ROCKS & MINERALS $200: Until about 1926 most of the borax in the U.S. came from this Calif. site, sometimes hauled out by 20-mule teams Death Valley |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | 20-SOMETHING $200: When he became emperor of Japan in 1926, he was 25 years old Hirohito |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | EVANGELISTS $800: Her 1926 disappearance led to a perjury trial Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: In 1926 Jozef Pilsudski took dictatorial control of this country Poland |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | U.S. COINS $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1926 commemorative half dollar depicted profiles of Washington & this president at the time Calvin Coolidge |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | HISTORY $100: This Ford cost $850 when introduced in 1908, but only $290 in 1926 the Model T |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: This company issued its first mail-order catalog in 1872 but didn't open its first retail stores until 1926 Montgomery Ward |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 1926 German automaker Daimler merged with this company Benz |
| #2118, aired 1993-11-17 | 1950s WOMEN $400: On August 8, 1950 Florence Chadwick broke her 1926 English Channel swim record Gertrude Ederle |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | HOLLYWOOD HODGEPODGE $1000: On August 23, the anniversary of his 1926 death, you may see a "Lady in Black" at his gravesite Valentino |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | OCTOBER 31 $200: This magician & escapologist couldn't escape death October 31, 1926 Harry Houdini |
| #2061, aired 1993-07-19 | MIDDLE NAMES $600: Her father was still Duke of York when she was given the middle names Alexandra & Mary in 1926 Elizabeth II |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | 30-SOMETHING $500: Madonna was 34 in 1992, when she published "Sex", & this actress was 34 in 1926, when she produced the play "Sex" Mae West |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | WORLD HISTORY $200: In 1926 this first crown prince to visit the West became emperor of Japan Hirohito |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | LITERARY DOCTORS $1,200 (Daily Double): Sinclair Lewis won a 1926 Pulitzer Prize for his novel about this doctor, but refused it Arrowsmith |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Theodor Svedberg, who developed the ultracentrifuge, won this prize for chemistry in 1926 the Nobel Prize |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | BY THE "BOOK" $600: In April 1926 "Lolly Willowes, or the Loving Huntsman" became its first selection the Book of the Month Club |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: From 1922-24 & 1926-34, he served as a judge in Jackson County, Missouri Truman |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | IN THE BEGINNING $500: Japan's Showa period began in 1926 with the accession of this emperor Hirohito |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | THEATRE $1,200 (Daily Double): These brothers wrote songs for the 1926 musical "Oh, Kay!", which was revived in 1990 the (George & Ira) Gershwins |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Part of this 1926 A.A. Milne children's book is set in the Hundred Acre Wood Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | THE SOUTH $400: In 1926 the Rockefellers began restoring the historic area of this colonial capital of Virginia Williamsburg |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | PLANES $100: In 1926 this automaker introduced his all-metal, 3-engine transport plane Ford |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | FOREIGN "LAND"s $800: Jozef Pilsudski seized power in this country in 1926 & ruled it until his death in 1935 Poland |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | THE ROARING '20s $800: In August 1926 it took this 19-year-old 14 hours & 31 minutes to swim the English Channel Gertrude Ederle |
| #1874, aired 1992-10-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Type of music that's the title of Toni Morrison's 1992 novel set in 1926 Harlem Jazz |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | ART $1,200 (Daily Double): Among this Belgian's first surrealist works is 1926's "The Menaced Assassin" René Magritte |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: "The House at Pooh Corner" was A.A. Milne's sequel to this 1926 book Winnie-The-Pooh |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | IDENTITY CRISIS $400: Female writer whose brief disappearance in 1926 was blamed on amnesia—what a "mystery" Agatha Christie |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | SHOW BIZ BIOGRAPHIES $500: Silent film idol whose 2nd wife, Natasha Rambova, published her book about him in 1926, the year he died Rudolph Valentino |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1926 Ibn Saud became King of Hejaz & later made it part of this kingdom Saudi Arabia |
| #1746, aired 1992-03-16 | HISTORY $1000: In 1926, this Norwegian, an Italian pilot & an American flew over the North Pole in a dirigible (Roald) Amundsen |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | NOTORIOUS $600: In 1926, 2 people died in California searching for this allegedly kidnapped evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | AROUND THE KITCHEN $100: Not marketed to households until 1926, the pop-up type of this was patented in 1919 a toaster |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | LANGUAGES $300: After 1926 Turkish switched from this script to the Roman alphabet Arabic |
| #1671, aired 1991-12-02 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: In 1926, this Olympic gold medalist became the first woman to swim the English Channel Gertrude Ederle |
| #1666, aired 1991-11-25 | FAMOUS NAMES $500: Beat poet who probably 1st "Howl"ed in 1926 when he was born in Newark Allen Ginsberg |
| #1651, aired 1991-11-04 | AUTHORS FROM GEORGIA $600: She left the Atlanta Journal in 1926 after injuring her ankle, & spent the next ten years writing a novel Margaret Mitchell |
| #1625, aired 1991-09-27 | HISTORIC NAMES $100: He ascended the throne upon the death of his father, Yoshihito, in 1926 Hirohito |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | 1926 $100: He helped pioneer the 40-hour work week by introducing it at his Michigan auto factories Henry Ford |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | 1926 $200: He fired the first liquid fuel rocket; it went up about 40 feet (Robert) Goddard |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | 1926 $300: A composite photo of this film star with Caruso in Heaven was circulated after he died on August 23 Valentino |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | 1926 $400: This "colorful" football star was paid $300,000 for his role in "One Minute to Play" Red Grange |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | 1926 $500: On November 1 this, company, the 1st radio network, was formed under Pres. David Sarnoff NBC |
| #1599, aired 1991-07-11 | CLASSIC COMEDY TEAMS $500 (Daily Double): They were married in 1926 in real life but not until the '40s on their radio show Gracie Allen & George Burns |
| #1599, aired 1991-07-11 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1926 he became Spain's youngest general Franco |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: He & Floyd Bennett made the first flight over the North Pole in 1926 in a Fokker-Tri-Motor Admiral Byrd |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | THE 1920s $400: In April 1926, members of this literary club received their first selection the Book of the Month Club |
| #1494, aired 1991-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: He refused the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded in 1926 for "Arrowsmith" Sinclair Lewis |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | THE 1920s $400: In 1926, he was removed from the Politburo; in 1929, he was banished from the USSR Trotsky |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | THE 1920s $1000: He demonstrated the first liquid fuel rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts in 1926 (Robert) Goddard |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $200: In 1926, Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, the forerunner of this current observance Black History Month |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | THE 1920s $800: Court-martialed for defiance of his superiors, he resigned from the Army in 1926 Billy Mitchell |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | DOGS $100: In 1926 England opened its first official racetrack for these dogs greyhounds |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | A.K.A. $300: This person was born George Jorgensen in the Bronx in 1926 Christine Jorgensen |
| #1407, aired 1990-10-16 | HISTORICAL TRIVIA $500: On August 6, 1926 Gertrude Ederle of New York spent 14 hours, 31 minutes doing this swimming the English Channel |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): In 1926 Reza Shah Pahlavi began his modernization of this city by tearing down its ancient wall Tehran |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | ART $1000: Impressionist born in Pennsylvania in 1844, she died near Paris in 1926 Mary Cassatt |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | LITERATURE ON FILM $1000: This 1880 novel by Lew Wallace was made into a film in 1907, 1926 & 1959 "Ben-Hur" |
| #1282, aired 1990-03-13 | AMERICAN ART $200: Charles Russell, who lived 1864-1926, is known for his paintings of life in this section of the U.S. the West |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | MONEY $400: In 1926 he became the only living president to appear on a U.S. coin, a sesquicentennial half dollar Calvin Coolidge |
| #1280, aired 1990-03-09 | THE ROARING '20s $300: When he was voted most popular film performer in 1926, Hollywood went to the dogs Rin Tin Tin |
| #1238, aired 1990-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1926 Lindbergh had to parachute out of planes 4 times while employed to do this flying the mail |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | WOMEN ATHLETES $400: Her hearing was permanently impaired after she swam the English Channel in 1926 Gertrude Ederle |
| #1126, aired 1989-06-26 | MYSTERIES $200: The 1926 novel "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" made this mystery author world famous Agatha Christie |
| #1126, aired 1989-06-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Members of this "club" that started in 1926 have to indicate when they don't want a selection the Book of the Month club |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | MEDIUM & MESSAGE $1000: Dale Carnegie taught this & wrote a text on it for businessmen in 1926 public speaking |
| #1070, aired 1989-04-07 | EMPRESSES $400: When he became emperor in 1926, his wife, Princess Nagako, became an empress Hirohito |
| #1053, aired 1989-03-15 | DRAMA $600: Set in 1926, this play tells the story of a mysterious woman who may be the daughter of Nicholas II Anastasia |
| #1052, aired 1989-03-14 | BRITISH HISTORY $600: This name for the organization of former crown colonies & dependencies was 1st used in 1926 the Commonwealth |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | SPORTS TRIVIA $100: A modified version of baseball was given this name in 1926 by a YMCA official softball |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: He's still listed as the winner for fiction in 1926 even tho he turned down the prize for "Arrowsmith" Sinclair Lewis |
| #1023, aired 1989-02-01 | MEDIUM & MESSAGE $800: Mediums still hope for a specially coded message from this man who died October 31, 1926 Harry Houdini |
| #1008, aired 1989-01-11 | CELEBRITY ROMANCES $400: Silent screen star Pola Negri collapsed at the 1926 funeral of this sex symbol who had been her lover Rudolph Valentino |
| #952, aired 1988-10-25 | AVIATION FIRSTS $800: On the 1st polar flight in 1926, Floyd Bennett was the pilot while this man was navigator Admiral Byrd |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | ROARING '20s $400: Of Ederle's channel swim, Boston Marathon winner's time or a U.S. Steel work day, the one that was 14h 31m in 1926 Ederle's channel swim |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | MOVIES $400: In 1926 John Barrymore kissed Mary Astor & Estelle Taylor a total of 127 times playing this lover Don Juan |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | MOVIE AUTHORS $600: Her mysterious disappearance in 1926 inspired a 1979 film starring Vanessa Redgrave Agatha Christie |
| #817, aired 1988-03-08 | TENNIS RECORDS $1000: From 1926-33, she won 229 straight matches, the longest winning streak ever in tennis Helen Wills Moody |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | TUNES OF THE '20s $100: 1926 song subtitled
"Will Ya Huh?" "Gimme A Little Kiss" |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | SPACE & AVIATION $200: Experts now dispute Adm. Byrd's claim that he was 1st to fly over this point in 1926 North Pole |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | NOTORIOUS $1000: In 1926, this black American danced at the Folies Bergere wearing only a belt of bananas Josephine Baker |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | THE 4TH OF JULY $500 (Daily Double): Date of the Sesquicentennial of the United States July 4, 1926 |
| #641, aired 1987-05-25 | SPACE & AVIATION $500: American who launched the 1st successful liquid-propelled rocket on March 16, 1926 (Robert) Goddard |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | BUSINESS TRIVIA $800: M.J. Holloway & Company introduced this candy in 1926 Milk Duds |
| #613, aired 1987-04-15 | MOVIE TRIVIA $600: Romantic idol who played Rudolph Valentino's father in his last film, 1926's "Son of the Sheik" Rudolph Valentino |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | GENERALS $400: Broadcasting network established in 1926 whose founder went on to become a general NBC |
| #560, aired 1987-01-30 | FAMOUS ROBOTS $500 (Daily Double): [Video] 1926 film which featured the robot pictured in the following: Metropolis |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | AUGUST $400: On Aug. 23, 1926, Italian-born R. Valentino died; exactly 1 year later, this Italian-born pair was executed Sacco and Vanzetti |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | BRITISH RULERS $1000: He lost at Wimbledon in 1926, but won the English throne when his brother abdicated George VI |
| #547, aired 1987-01-13 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: This "Little Chickadee" got thrown in jail for "Sex", a 1926 play she not only starred in, but wrote Mae West |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | OPERA $1000: At 1926 premiere of "Turandot", Toscanini ended at point where this composer died & left it unfinished Puccini |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | SPORTS GREATS $1000: It's said she lost 12 lbs. during her record-setting 1926 swim of the English Channel (Gertrude) Ederle |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | SEPTEMBER $600: It was formed Sept. 9, 1926, as a service of the Radio Corp. of America NBC (National Broadcasting Company) |
| #471, aired 1986-09-29 | ROARING '20s $1000: She re-enacted her May 1926 "kidnapping" & escape for the press Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #463, aired 1986-09-17 | HISTORY $100: In 1926, 6'4", 240 lb. Ibn-Saud became king & later unified this country Saudi Arabia |
| #435, aired 1986-05-09 | ROARING 20s $600: Hollywood evangelist who vanished in May 1926 & reappeared in June, claiming she'd been kidnapped Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #429, aired 1986-05-01 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: When he died in 1926, all movie studios suspended production for 2 minutes in his honor Valentino |
| #406, aired 1986-03-31 | 1920s TUNES $600: According to Rodgers & Hart in 1926, it's "where God paints the scenery" in our mountain greenery |
| #393, aired 1986-03-12 | TIME $200: 1st watch to "resist" this was made by the Rolex company in 1926 water |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | SPORTS $600: Finishing the Channel swim in 1926, Gertrude Ederle was met on beach by immigration officer demanding this a passport |
| #345, aired 1986-01-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1926, he declined a Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" Sinclair Lewis |
| #334, aired 1985-12-19 | CELEBRITY TRIVIA $800: When they learned of Valentino's death in 1926, 2 Japanese girls leaped into one of these a live volcano |
| #268, aired 1985-09-18 | FIRSTS $200: On April 16, 1926, a novel, "Lolly Willowes" was its 1st selection to be mailed the Book of the Month Club |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | SPORTS $500: This team's 39 winning seasons, from 1926 to 1964 is the longest in any pro sport the New York Yankees |
| #169, aired 1985-05-02 | "BLUE" SONGS $300: In 1926, they "gave out the news that the Southland" had done this they gave birth to the blues |
| #156, aired 1985-04-15 | THE '20s $300: Event Gertrude Ederle greased her body for in August, 1926 to swim across the English Channel |
| #154, aired 1985-04-11 | MOVIE PAIRS $200: First teamed in 1926, their trademarks were tie twiddling & head scratching Laurel & Hardy |
| #145, aired 1985-03-29 | GREAT LOVERS $400: In 1926 movie starring John Barrymore as this lover, he bestowed 191 kisses, one every 53 seconds Don Juan |
