| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 50% "OFF" $300: Besides chocolate (of course), a key ingredient in the candy bar invented in 1928 by Bayard & Everett Heath toffee |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CORNERSTONES $400: The cornerstone for their monument was laid atop Kill Devil Hill on December 17, 1928 the Wright brothers |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $1600: In 1928 he won the general election for Louisiana governor using the slogan "Every man a king, but no one wears a crown" (Huey) Long |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $400: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the New York City Art Deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Chrysler |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HISTORICAL FILMS $400: One of the silent masterworks is 1928's "The Passion of" this 15th century woman Joan of Arc |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ALL SHAPES & SIZES $1000: The Bolex camera shooting in this size format was introduced in 1928 & used by many home movie enthusiasts 16-millimeter |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | SCULPTORS $1600: A 1928 court case determined that this Romanian's "Bird in Space" was a work of art, not a manufactured object Brancusi |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY $800: We have no pic of Margaret Mead / Sporting a blue feather boa / But things were great in 1928 / With "Coming of Age in"... Samoa |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $2000: In 1928 "The Threepenny Opera" sang out from composer Kurt Weill & this alliterative writer from Augsburg Bertolt Brecht |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $2000: This Norwegian ice skater & future movie star won the first of her Olympic gold medals at age 15 at the 1928 Games in St. Moritz Sonja Henie |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $1000: November 18, 1928 is considered Mickey Mouse's birthday; it's the date he debuted onscreen in this cartoon as a mischievous deckhand Steamboat Willie |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GOOD LUCK $800: From 1927 to 1928 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was the star of silent films created & produced by this man Walt Disney |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $900 (Daily Double): Alexander Fleming became Sir Alexander Fleming after his 1928 discovery of this antibiotic "wonder drug" penicillin |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... $1,200 (Daily Double): ...New York enjoy this 1,046-foot Art Deco skyscraper designed by William Van Alen & built between 1928 & 1930 the Chrysler Building |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $4,000 (Daily Double): Congressman Riley Wilson wanted to be governor of Louisiana in 1928 but lost out to this larger-than-life man (Huey) Long |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $600: This cartoon character was likely inspired by a reptile found alive inside a time capsule that was opened in 1928 Michigan J. Frog |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): Tired of having this guy talk to the animals, Hugh Lofting sent him to the moon in 1928 but fan demand had him "return" in 1933 (Doctor) Dolittle |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $1600: A gamekeeper takes the place of a baronet in this scandalous 1928 novel, written near the end of D.H. Lawrence's life Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WITH CREAM CHEESE $800: Kraft wants you to frost your carrot cake using this brand that Kraft took over in 1928 Philadelphia |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PRESIDENTIAL GLOBETROTTING $2,500 (Daily Double): He made Goodwill visits to 10 Latin American countries as president-elect in late 1928, but never left the country as prez (Herbert) Hoover |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | BASEBALL BABES $800: In 1928 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said this team's Babe Herman is "a great outfielder except for his inability to catch flyballs" the Brooklyn Dodgers |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | SAINTLY SPOTS $2000: Back before the jet set could jet there, this Swiss resort hosted the 1928 Winter Olympics St. Moritz |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT $800: What's known as this "Brotherhood" was formed in Egypt in 1928 with a goal of spurning Western influences the Muslim Brotherhood |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IT'S A NATIONAL THING $600: Roland-Garros has hosted this event since 1928 the French Open |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | LIGHTS! CAMERA! $200: The first clear showing that repeated or prolonged exposure to this type of light causes skin cancer came in 1928 UV sunlight (ultraviolet) |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $600: In 1928 Alexander Fleming found that mold in a Petri dish had inhibited bacterial growth, leading to this antibiotic penicillin |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STRIPES $600: Now in light & lemon varieties, Red Stripe beer was first brewed in this Caribbean nation in 1928 Jamaica |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE 1920s $200: The first volume of this reference work was published in 1884; it became complete with the tenth in 1928 the OED (the Oxford English Dictionary) |
| #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 |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Some people called this French composer Maurice; in 1928, his most famous work was performed as a ballet Ravel |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $400: Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play "Machinal" explores how a woman can be driven to murder & end her days in this seat the electric chair |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | "BR"ANDS $2000: Around since 1928, it now says, "One small dab and it shines, styles and conditions hair" Brylcreem |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | 5 FIRST DATES $1000: Possible first date chat, 1928--Anne: Nice car. Him: Oh, thanks, it's an Airman. The company named the model in my honor (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | HISTORY $2000: A 4-term governor of New York, he lost his race in 1928 as the first serious Catholic candidate for president Al Smith |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | MALFUNCTION $2000: This engineer's L.A. Aqueduct worked fine, but his St. Francis Dam north of the city collapsed in 1928, flooding Ventura County William Mulholland |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | LET'S DANCE! $1000: You can do this Spanish folk dance solo or as a couple, perhaps to Ravel's 1928 music of the same name bolero |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | ALL KINDS OF WINE $800: This title elixir is poured in Ray Bradbury's semi-autobiographical tale of a small-town summer in 1928 Dandelion Wine |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | HISTORICALLY BAD $1,000 (Daily Double): This began in Latin America in 1928, a little before it hit the United States the Great Depression |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $400: The mascot of this movie studio, began roaring in 1928 MGM |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $1600: "Bestsellers" says the paperback revolution of the '60s began with cheap copies of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FICTION $1600: Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title "Lover" in this scandalous 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FAMOUS MARGARETS $2000: This American anthropologist published "Coming of Age in Samoa" in 1928 (Margaret) Mead |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | THE "GENERAL" ECONOMY $800: It started as a group of flour-grinding companies in 1928 General Mills |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $200: How do you get to this building? Have your tone poem premiere there, like Gershwin in 1928... or just hop off the Q at 57th & 7th Carnegie Hall |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | NAMES OF THE 1920s $400: In June 1928 she gained fame for flying across the Atlantic as a passenger in a plane (Amelia) Earhart |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | IT'S A HAND! IT'S MICHIGAN! $2000: Near the tip of the pinkie is this Center for the Arts where parents have sent talented children since 1928 Interlochen |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Dorothy Parker wrote, "Tonstant weader fwowed up" in her 1928 review of the book "The House at" this place Pooh Corner |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | WE INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crews presents by a video monitor.) Bacteria will burst apart if the work of constantly renewing their cell walls is interrupted like by this first antibiotic discovered in 1928 penicillin |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | WHICH PRESIDENT? $400: Promised "the final triumph over poverty" in accepting the 1928 nomination Hoover |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | HOTELS $2000: This luxurious hotel in Paris opened in 1928 with a name honoring the British monarchy George V |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $400: Some say this 10-yr. economic slump could have been stopped by a strong leader--Benjamin Strong, the N.Y. Fed head who died at 55 in 1928 the Great Depression |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: In this controversial 1928 novel, passionate Constance is married to paralyzed Sir Clifford Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | 3 "I"s $200: Discovered by accident in 1928, it was the world's first true antibiotic penicillin |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Uncovered in 1928 by a peasant's plow, the city of Ugarit in Syria once thrived, with a big temple to this fertility god Baal |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | FRENCH MUSIC ABOUT SPAIN $6,800 (Daily Double): Maurice Ravel's Basque mother gave him a fondness for Spain most famously expressed in this 1928 work "Bolero" |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | THE STORY OF MY LIFE $3,000 (Daily Double): This bandmaster composed the 1928 autobiography "Marching Along" John Philip Sousa |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ON TOP OF THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1928 this Norwegian vanished while trying to rescue survivors of a Svalbard Archipelago crash (Roald) Amundsen |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S MARS $1600: Life found on Mars in 2042 turns out to be a deadly microbe that only responds to this antibiotic discovered in 1928 penicillin |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | HISTORY $200: The Equal Franchise Act of 1928 allowed this right to all British women 21 & over suffrage (or voting) |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | POTPOURRI $400: It was Ford's second big seller, starting with the 1928 model year the Model A |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $600: In 1928, 27 years after his assassination, he was put on the $500 McKinley |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $3,600 (Daily Double): We'd take a couple of $1,000 bills from 1928 featuring this president, even if they were in nonconsecutive order Grover Cleveland |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | VINTAGE CARS WITH PEDIGREES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Nethercutt Collection.) The Nethercutt's 1928 Pierce Arrow was bedecked with flowers to carry the grand marshal of the 2010 Rose Parade, this heroic airline pilot who fit the parade's theme, "A Cut Above the Rest" (Sully) Sullenberger |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | YOU STAY CLASSICAL, MUSIC $1600: Ravel's instructions for this 1928 work were to start softly & play the end as loudly as possible Boléro |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN $1200: The title character of this 1928 Virginia Woolf novel is male in the beginning, but that doesn't last... Orlando |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: No yolk, 1928's winning word was this white part of an egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | ANIMATED FELINES $600: The first TV image produced by RCA in 1928 was a 13-inch papier-mâché model of this cat seen here Felix |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | PLAN $4,000 (Daily Double): Comrade, the first of these was begun in 1928 & lasted until 1932 a Five-Year Plan |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | ORGANIZATIONS $2,600 (Daily Double): The organization of these bereaved mothers of armed service members dates back to 1928 the Gold Star Mothers |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ON THE BALLOT $400: It was almost every man for a kingfish in 1928-- he won a whopping 96% of the vote to be Louisiana's governor Huey Long |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | ANOTHER DAY OLDER $400: One more homer... on Aug. 30, 1928 he took Sad Sam Jones deep for his 463rd Babe Ruth |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS $1600: Sept. 3, 1928:
Discover mold juice... No, penicillin, that's a better name (Alexander) Fleming |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | CIRCUS PERFORMERS $1000: In 1928 the crowds went wild for the American debut of this family of high wire acrobats & its human pyramid the Flying Wallendas |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | LAZARUS $2000: "Lazarus Laughed", a 1928 play by this Pulitzer winner, was preceded by his similar "The Great God Brown" Eugene O'Neill |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | CITY HALL $600: Completed in 1928, Asheville, North Carolina's City Hall is a masterpiece of this style, named for a Parisian expo held in 1925 Art Deco |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II $200: The 1928 eruption of this Sicilian volcano buried the village of Mascali Mount Etna |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SONGS $1600: In 1928 this New York governor used "The Sidewalks Of New York" in a losing contest against Hoover Al Smith |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ROARING '20s READER $3,000 (Daily Double): "Connie, this is the new game-keeper" is a line from this scandalous 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | THE APOLLO $1600: This choreographer's 1928 ballet "Apollo" was the first work of his neoclassical style (George) Balanchine |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | HISTORICAL TRANSPORTS $1200: It made its final flight in April 1928 when Charles Lindbergh presented it to the Smithsonian the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | COBBLERS $200: In 1928 Trafton Cole & this partner began making men's footwear Haan |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | MR. SMITH GOES TO... $1000: St. James Parochial School; in 1928, he becomes the first major party presidential candidate of this faith Roman Catholic |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HEMINGWAY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1928 Hemingway went to a Princeton game with this author, who got drunk after the game (F. Scott) Fitzgerald |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | FOOD & DRINK $1000: During Hoover's 1928 presidential campaign, the Republicans promised one of these offerings a chicken in every pot |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | THE ART OF THE KISS $2000: "The (Kissing) Lovers" in his 1928 painting are wearing shrouds over their faces & heads, but no bowler hats (René) Magritte |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | POP CULTURE MICE $400: Mickey's better half, she's been with him right from the beginning in 1928's "Steamboat Willie" Minnie (Mouse) |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | GET UP & DANCE! $200: This intricate Spanish favorite with sudden pauses & sharp turns is also the name of a 1928 Ravel composition bolero |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | WHAT AN INVENTION $2000: This respirator for polio sufferers came along in 1928 the iron lung |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | ADVERTISING ICONS $200: Ho ho ho! Named after a variety of large peas, this character first appeared in ads in 1928 the Jolly Green Giant |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | THE PRESIDENT'S PLEASURE $800: He did not choose to run in 1928; he'd chosen daily 2-hour afternoon naps in the preceding 4 years, though (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | JEOPARDY! AROUND THE WORLD $1000: "Buyuk Risk" is in this language, written in a form of the Latin alphabet that replaced Arabic script in 1928 Turkish |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | RAGE FOR THE MACHINE $400: From 1928 to 1931 Ford built almost 5 million of these Model T successor cars the Model A |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | THE 1920s $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2012 the top 1% of earners had their biggest share of U.S. household income since this year just before a crash 1928 |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | RHYMING BRANDS $1600: It appeared in 1928 to challenge boring old Wrigley's, which you could only sit there & chew Dubble Bubble |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | BIRTH OF A VICE PRESIDENT $1200: January 5, 1928
in Ceylon, Minnesota (Walter) Mondale |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | NATIVE LANDS $800: Gabriel Garcia Marquez got written into the picture in 1928 Colombia |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE ROARING '20s $800: Bing Crosby hit No. 1 in 1928 with "Ol' Man River" from this Broadway musical Show Boat |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | THE STARS WRITE $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1928, in 2009 Dick Van Patten published a book titled this "Is Not Enough" Eighty |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | WHAT "ITIS" IS IT? $200: A politician's nightmare, it struck 1928 vice presidential candidate Charles Curtis laryngitis |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | IT ALWAYS HAPPENS IN "THREE"S $1000: This Kurt Weill musical drama was produced in German as "Die Dreigroschenoper" in 1928 The Threepenny Opera |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | WOMEN $800: She was a passenger on a flight across the Atlantic on June 17-18, 1928 Amelia Earhart |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $1600: In 1928 he won the general election for Louisiana governor with 96.14% of the vote Huey Long |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | INTO THIN AIR $200: Newlyweds Glen & Bessie Hyde vanished in 1928 trying to navigate the Colorado River through this natural wonder the Grand Canyon |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $800: In 1928 Arctic explorer Louise Boyd led an expedition in search of this missing Norwegian (Roald) Amundsen |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | TREES $2000: Discovered in the U.S. in 1928, this tree disease is caused by the fungus Ophiostoma ulmi Dutch elm |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $1600: In a January 1928 diary entry, she wrote about her future husband, "the flight gave him to the world" Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born June 2, 1840 in England; went far from the madding crowd Jan. 11, 1928 Hardy |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | PULITZER-WINNING NOVELS $400: 1928:
"The Bridge of" this place San Luis Rey |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | GOVERNORS $1200: In 1928, discontented rural voters helped make him Louisiana governor (Huey) Long |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | COMPACTS $400: In 1928's Kellogg-Briand pact, several nations renounced this "as an instrument of national policy"--didn't last war |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | YOU'RE GONNA NEED CAR INSURANCE $600: "We are" this company that began in 1928, bum badum bum bumbumbum Farmers |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | HIGH SCORERS $200: In 2001 this base-stealing wizard broke Ty Cobb's career runs scored record, which had stood since 1928 Rickey Henderson |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THE ARTS $800: In 1928 he composed "Bolero" as a ballet (Maurice) Ravel |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | FOOD STUFF $1200: During the 1928 presidential campaign, Republican ads promised this foodstuff a chicken in every pot |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | CALIFORNIA GIRLS $800: This child star & future ambassador was born in Santa Monica in 1928 Shirley Temple |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | SUB TITLES $1600: 1928's "Raiders Of The Deep" begins with a German submarine's controversial sinking of this passenger liner the Lusitania |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | AUNTIE HEROES $1600: In 1928 this great-aunt of Drew opened a theatre named in her honor in New York City Ethel Barrymore |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | LONG LIVE THE COMPANY $200: This company started by selling starch, soap & candles in 1806; it merged with Palmolive in 1928 Colgate |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | INVENTIONS FOR THE HOME $400: It's not shocking that in 1928, Philip Labre added a third prong, for grounding, to this an electrical plug |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? $6,000 (Daily Double): This 1928 title character begins as a man & ends, almost 400 years later, as a young woman (but not in Florida) Orlando |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $1200: (Mike & Mike deliver the clue.) My greatest inspirational moment ever was Lou Gehrig's farewell speech at Yankee Stadium in 1939, talk about class
Yes, very, very classy, but for pure inspiration, I'll take this coach telling his Notre Dame team to "win one for the Gipper" & then rallying to defeat Army in 1928 Knute Rockne |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | MY SON, THE DOCTOR $1600: His mother, Grace, passed away in 1928, the year he observed that a certain mold inhibited bacterial growth (Sir Alexander) Fleming |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | INCLUDES A PAPAL NAME $400: This frozen citrus mall favorite was first served in 1928 & now has a line of premium fruit smoothies Orange Julius |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | AN ERNEST CATEGORY $400: It was partly at the suggestion of fellow writer John Dos Passos that he moved to Key West, Florida in 1928 Hemingway |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $1000: Born: June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina. Died: Oct. 9, 1967, Bolivia Che Guevara |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YOU ARE SO OUTTA HERE $800: In 1928 this ex-commissar of war was full of Bolshevik & was exiled to Soviet Central Asia Trotsky |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE PRODUCER $200: "Ho, ho, ho!" This jolly guy has appeared in ads for vegetables since 1928; the company was named for him in 1950 the Jolly Green Giant |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This 1928 Republican campaign slogan originated with a hope that Henry IV had for French peasants "A chicken in every pot" |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | SMART ALEX $800: He won a Nobel Prize for his 1928 discovery of an early antibiotic Alexander Fleming |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | PRE-1929 U.S. PAPER CURRENCY $800: This 22nd & 24th president's portrait graced the $20 bill from 1914 to 1928, when Jackson replaced him Cleveland |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | STATE FAIRS $1000: F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" is set at this Midwestern state's fair Minnesota |
| #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 |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | MICHIGAN MANIA $200: This baby food company began operations in Fremont, Michigan in 1928 Gerber |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $200: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the NYC art deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Walter Chrysler |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | THE 1920s $400: In 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith went against his party's position by opposing this amendment the 18th Amendment |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This 1928 Ravel work was written on commission from ballet dancer Ida Rubinstein Bolero |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | THE DIEDS OF MARCH $600: This Scotsman died March 11, 1955, 10 years after he won a Nobel Prize for his 1928 discovery of penicillin (Sir Alexander) Fleming |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Originally, this 1928 Gershwin orchestral composition included real French taxi horns An American in Paris |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | SHIRLEY MacLAINE $200: Born in 1934, Shirley MacLaine was named after this film star born in 1928 Shirley Temple |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEVERAGES $2000: In 1928 Thomas Hargreaves Geddes & Eugene Desnoes began brewing this lager in Jamaica Red Stripe |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | I'M GETTING "HORSE" $600: Nickname of the man who led the American League in runs batted in for 1927, 1928, 1930 & 1934 "The Iron Horse" |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | LITTLE WOMEN $1000: In 1928 this diminutive daughter of an Albanian grocer joined the Sisters of Loretto in Ireland Mother Teresa |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | CHICKEN SOUP $800: This Republican Party slogan from 1928 also mentioned "a car in every backyard" "A chicken in every pot" |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | UPTON SINCLAIR $1600: The heroine of Sinclair's 1928 novel "Boston" meets this fellow boarder & through him, his pal Sacco Vanzetti |
| #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 |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BIRTH, ART, DEATH $400: Born Aug. 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh,
"Mao",
died Feb. 22, 1987 Andy Warhol |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | PRESIDENTIAL RUNNERS-UP $2000: 1928:
Al Smith Herbert Hoover |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | THEY GOT STRUCK $1600: By Colombian banana plantation workers in 1928 the United Fruit Company |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | I'LL GIVE YOU MY IMPRESSIONS $1000: "That's right, Minnie, my first animated talkie was 1928's 'Steamboat Willie'" Mickey Mouse |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: A third, more sexually explicit version of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was finally published in the U.S. in 1959 Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | "P" IN SCIENCE $1600: The antielectron predicted by Paul Dirac in 1928 was found by Carl Anderson in 1932 & named this a positron |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | PRODUCT PLACEMENT $800: Kraft's "cheese food", melting since 1928 Velveeta |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE $1600: This character first hit the radio in 1928 with his partner Andy Amos |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THEM LITERATURE TYPE FACTS $200: In 1928 A.A. Milne published "House at" this title character's "Corner" Pooh |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $600: Due to Australia's vast distances, in 1928 K. St. Vincent Welch became the 1st doctor to reach patients in this way by plane |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | AMELIA EARHART $400: In June 1928 Amelia became the first woman to fly across this body of water, though she was only a passenger the Atlantic |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $2000: A character known as "Man in Chair" plays the LP of a 1928 musical & voila! it comes to life in this "sleepy" hit The Drowsy Chaperone |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | YUM... CANDY! $1000: It was the last name of the brothers who perfected their now-famous English toffee bar back in 1928 Heath |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "B" WRITERS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1928 he moved to Paris & met fellow Irish writer James Joyce, with whom he formed a lasting friendship (Samuel) Beckett |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE CATS IN THE HATS $400: The guy seen here, William Van Alen, designed this in New York from 1928-1930 the Chrysler Building |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | COMPOSERS $400: On trips in the 1920s, he was an American in Paris, & he gave that title to his 1928 orchestral work (George) Gershwin |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $600: This antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 in a mold penicillin |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | LITERARY BROTHERS $1200: Alec Waugh's first novel was "The Loom of Youth" in 1917; this brother's was "Decline and Fall" in 1928 Evelyn Waugh |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | SCIENCE $2000: Predicted in 1928, the first known antiparticle was the anti-this, also called the positron the antielectron |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $1200: In 1928 this playwright had a "Strange Interlude" O'Neill |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | THEY RODE THE ORIENT EXPRESS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Orient Express.) On the "Orient Express", this title gal of a 1928 novel tells her dad she's pregnant & that her hubby isn't the father; actually, it's the gamekeeper Lady Chatterley |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | SMITH $1600: A New York City Fire Department fireboat is named for this 1928 pres. candidate known as the "Happy Warrior" Al Smith |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | MAGAZINES $1200: In 1928 Time magazine chose its first "Man of the Year"; in 1985 this magazine began crowning "The Sexiest Man Alive" People |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $400: 1928:
No yolk, just this white part of the egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The "Renaissance" Countee Cullen helped lead, or the area where he married W.E.B. Du Bois' daughter in 1928 the Harlem Renaissance |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $200: Walter Diemer, with the Fleer Co., invented the first commercially successful type of this chewing gum in 1928 bubble gum |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | GREAT BRITONS $800: Frank Whittle designed this type of propulsion in a thesis paper while at the RAF College in 1928 jet propulsion |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CARTOON MICE $200: On Nov. 18, 1928 this American icon made his film debut at NYC's Colony Theatre Mickey Mouse |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | THE ONION $1000: Sept. 12, 1928: This "It Girl" "to appear sleeveless in Oct. Collier's; 'Besleeve yourself, strumpet!' clergy urge" (Clara) Bow |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | ACADEMIA NUTS $800: In 1928, while a professor at the University of Rome, he published a textbook on atomic physics Enrico Fermi |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | WHAT A GOOD IDEA! $400: Chocolate lovers might say that the best idea of 1928 was the peanut butter cup invented by this man Reese |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | THAT IS SO "P.C." $400: In 1928 A.A. Milne published "The House at" this location Pooh Corner |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | LADY LOOKS LIKE A DUDE $1600: Tilda Swinton went on a gender-bender in 1992's "Orlando", based on this writer's 1928 novel Virginia Woolf |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | THAT IS LIKE SO LAST CENTURY $600: A patent for the first successfully manufactured electric razor was issued to this man in November 1928 Jacob Schick |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | ALIAS SMITH & JONES $1600: In 1928 he became the first Roman Catholic nominated for president by a major party Al Smith |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | WHERE THERE'S A WILLIAM $200: In 1928 William S. Paley bought a chain of 16 radio stations & created this broadcasting network CBS |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | WORLD AUTHORS $2000: This acclaimed author was born March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Colombia Gabriel Garcia Márquez |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | DUKE UNIVERSITY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Duke University in Durham, NC.) Later one of the most glamorous heiresses of her day, this member of the Duke family laid the cornerstone for Duke University in 1928 Doris Duke |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $400: A 1928 graduate of Bryn Mawr, she won her first acting Oscar in 1934 Katharine Hepburn |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | PLEASE, SIR, I WANT SAMOA $1000: It's the title of Margaret Mead's classic 1928 anthropological study of Samoan youth Coming of Age in Samoa |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING $400: Scored a 10 with "Bolero" for a ballet commission in 1928, clock struck 12 in Paris on Dec. 28, 1937 Ravel |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | TAKE ME TO YOUR DIRECTOR $800: Born NYC 1928; directed "2001" 1968; died England 1999 Stanley Kubrick |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | FOOD BRANDS $400: Kraft introduced this brand of processed cheese way back in 1928 Velveeta |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | ORLANDO BLOOMS $1200: Orlando is the title hero/heroine of this author's 1928 time-traveling, gender-bending novel Virginia Woolf |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | "N" THE BEGINNING $400: On July 4, 1928 Jean Lussier crawled inside a 6-foot diameter rubber ball & passed over this landmark Niagara Falls |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER $800: Marry anthropologist Reo Fortune in 1928, lose Fortune in '35, marry anthropologist Gregory Bateson in '36 Margaret Mead |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | MUSICALS OF THE '20s $1600: The saucy 1928 musical "Paris" introduced this composer's immortal song "Let's Do It" Cole Porter |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | FOUND IN SPACE $800: A.C. Crommelin proved that 3 of these, seen in 1818, 1873 & 1928, were really 1 of these visiting 3 times comets |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | THE ONION $600: April 17, 1928:
This author "grits teeth, beds nurse, fights in war, sits at bar, remembers nurse" Hemingway |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Louisiana's governor from 1928 to 1932 who was a one-legged pirate in "Treasure Island" Huey Long John Silver |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Discovered in 1928, it was the first successful antibiotic penicillin |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS $400: Champions of this governor running for president in 1928 included the New York Yankees (Al) Smith |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF HERBERT HOOVER $400: In 1928 Hoover won 444-87 in the Electoral College over Al Smith & his "Strange Interlude" opened in New York (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #4600, aired 2004-09-10 | TOYS & GAMES $400: Now called this, it was introduced around 1928 as Hop Ching checkers Chinese checkers |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $400: The first color TV transmission was produced by John Baird in this European capital in 1928 London |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: A cow-calling contest was among the events in 1928 at this state's first Upper Peninsula State Fair in Escanaba Michigan |
| #4535, aired 2004-04-30 | RHYMING BRANDS $1000: Walter Deimer invented this pink chewing gum in 1928 Dubble Bubble |
| #4526, aired 2004-04-19 | "ONE", "TWO", "THREE" $1600: It premiered at a Berlin theater in 1928 under the title "Die Dreigroschenoper" The Threepenny Opera |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | PRESIDENTIAL COUPLES... NOT! $1000: She sang "Higher & Higher"; he chose to go no higher than 1 term as president by not running again in 1928 Rita Coolidge & Calvin Coolidge |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS $1600: In 1928 the empress Zauditu crowned this man king of Ethiopia Haile Selassie |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2000: He carried 40 states in the 1928 election, 6 in 1932 (Herbert) Hoover |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | NOVEL TEASE $1000: 1928:
"She married Clifford Chatterley in 1917, when he was home for a month on leave" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | THE 1920s $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1928 24 couples trying to win $5,000 lasted 482 hours in one of these a dance marathon |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: A 1928 campaign slogan promised this "in every pot and a car in every garage" a chicken |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | SHOE BUSINESS $3,000 (Daily Double): During his 1928 coronation, this ruler stood on foot-high getas Emperor Hirohito |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | TV TRANSPORTATION $800: '60s sitcom in which Jerry Van Dyke heard his late parent's voice coming from a 1928 automobile My Mother the Car |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | 1920s BESTSELLERS $1200: Even if you get the full version of this 1928 bestseller by Thornton Wilder, it's a"bridge"d The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | SALMON FISHING $1600: The record for this salmon named for a body of water is a 79-pounder caught in Norway in 1928 Atlantic salmon |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | "POO"-POURRI $800: Tigger makes his first appearance in the 1928 book about "The House at" this location Pooh Corner |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | SILENT CAL SPEAKS! $400: Silent Cal shocked the nation on Aug. 2, 1927 when he said, "I do not choose to run for" this "in 1928" President |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | THE BOY SCOUTS $1600: In 1928 Boy Scout Paul Siple was chosen to go along on this admiral's Antarctic expedition Richard Byrd |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In this Belgian surrealist's 1928 work "Threatening Weather", the clouds have the shapes of a tuba, a chair & a torso Rene Magritte |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | FOREIGN FOLKS $2000: In 1928 this Norwegian died in a plane crash while trying to rescue a fellow explorer from another crash Roald Amundsen |
| #4278, aired 2003-03-19 | SPORTS $800: He was director of athletics at NYC's Downtown Athletic Club from 1928 to 1936 John Heisman |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | OPERA $1200: In 1928 he & Bertolt Brecht "jazzed" up "The Beggar's Opera" to create "The Threepenny Opera" Kurt Weill |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | FACTS FROM ALMANACS $800: Norman Thomas did this 6 times: in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 & 1948 run for president |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | SCULPTURE $200: In 1928 this cubist & Julio Gonzalez pioneered in welded sculpture: 1950's "She-Goat" is a famous example Pablo Picasso |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | EXPLORERS $400: In 1928 she wrote "20 Hrs. 40 Min.", an account of her recent flight from Newfoundland to Wales Amelia Earhart |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | THE OLYMPICS $600: A special event at the 1928 & 1948 Winter Games, this bare-bones sled slid back to the Games in 2002 the skeleton |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | NAME THAT PRESIDENT $800: Born in Iowa; helped feed the unfortunate; sucked up 444 electoral votes in 1928 Hoover |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | A DAY TO REMEMBER $800: On Oct. 15, 1928 this zeppelin that predated the Hindenburg completed its first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean Graf Zeppelin |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | COOL! $800: The Weathermaker of 1928 was an air conditioner from this company adapted for home use Carrier |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | THIS FAMILY MATTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1928 this family made its Madison Square Garden debut without a net--it had gotten lost in shipping the (Flying) Wallendas |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | MASS MEDIA $400: The January 2, 1928 issue of this magazine featured its first "Man of the Year", Charles Lindbergh Time |
| #3967, aired 2001-11-27 | ALL ABOUT KAZAKHSTAN $1000: In 1928 this rival of Joseph Stalin was banished to Kazakhstan Leon Trotsky |
| #3938, aired 2001-10-17 | LAWRENCE $600: He privately published "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in 1928 D.H. Lawrence |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | SO, COME HERE OFTEN? $1000: This "saintly" Swiss resort was the site of the Winter Olympic Games in 1928 & 1948 St. Moritz |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | AIRPORTS $600: What is now Miami International Airport was built in 1928 by this hemisphere-covering airline Pan American |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | BLACK AMERICANS $800: This poet was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri on April 4, 1928 Maya Angelou |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | THE 1920s $100: In 1928 Daniel Gerber introduced his new line of these to be sold through grocery stores baby food |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | KEMAL ATATURK $400: In 1928 Ataturk removed a Turkish constitutional provision naming this as the state religion Islam |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | CALL ME SMITTY $600: Governor of New York 4 times, he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1928 Al Smith |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | FAMOUS SCULPTORS $400: In 1928 this cubist & Julio Gonzalez pioneered the welded sculpture Pablo Picasso |
| #3770, aired 2001-01-12 | YES SIR, THAT'S MY SCIENTIST $100: Sir Alexander Fleming took a shot in the dark & discovered this in 1928 Penicillin |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | SHORT SCIENCE BIOS $400: Born Chicago 1928, radio Quiz Kid, cracked the DNA helix with Crick, still around on tape day James D. Watson |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | ACCUSTOMED TO PUBLIC SPEAKING $600: In a speech in Kulmbach, Germany in 1928 he said, "Struggle is the father of all things" Adolf Hitler |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | WATCH YOUR TONGUE $800: In 1928 this president of Turkey outlawed Ottoman Turkish & switched alphabets from Arabic to Roman Kemal Ataturk |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: A third, more sexually explicit version of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was finally published in the U.S. in 1959 "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1928 work heard here was written on a commission from Ida Rubenstein "Bolero" |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $500: Her close friend Vita Sackville-West inspired the gender-bender title character of her 1928 novel "Orlando" Virginia Woolf |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: Sick of this title doctor, Hugh Lofting sent him to the Moon in 1928, & grudgingly brought him back in 1933 Doctor Dolittle |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $500: In 1928 this finance minister grabbed power & began his 40-year rule as dictator of Portugal Antonio Salazar |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | SEEING "RED" $500: The title of a 1928 song Sophie Tucker introduced, it was also her nickname "The Last Of The Red Hot Mamas" |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | DANCE $200: An excellent example of music for this lively Spanish dance is the 1928 Ravel work of the same name Bolero |
| #3570, aired 2000-02-25 | A COMMUNIST PLOT $600: Buried in Santa Clara, Cuba this revolutionary leader was born in Argentina in 1928 Ernesto "Che" Guevara |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | MUSIC CLASS $200: In 1928 this American wrote his tone poem "An American in Paris" George Gershwin |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | BRIT LIT $600: His 1915 novel "The Rainbow" was declared obscene; so was his 1928 novel D.H. Lawrence |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $1000: Gloria Swanson won a 1928 Oscar nomination for her title role as this Somerset Maugham tart Sadie Thompson |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | BRAND NAMES $500: This sleek swimsuit brand got its start in Australia in 1928 Speedo |
| #3521, aired 1999-12-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: "The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune", said this aviator in 1928 Amelia Earhart |
| #3515, aired 1999-12-10 | EAST ASIAN CITIES $800: It was China's capital from 1928 until its brutal capture by Japanese forces in 1937 Nanking |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | PLAY TIME $1000: In 1928 writers Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur made big news with this play "The Front Page" |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | MR. CHICKEN $300: In a 1928 campaign slogan prosperity was defined as having a chicken here In every pot |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | PARTY OF "FIVE" $500: Stalin launched the first of these in 1928 Five Year Plan |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $400: Mickey Mouse found his voice in this 1928 cartoon, the first to feature synchronized sound Steamboat Willie |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BRIT LIT $1000: Published in 1928, "All the Conspirators" was the first novel by this British author of "The Berlin Stories" Christopher Isherwood |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | 20th CENTURY DESIGN $1000: After resigning as director of the Bauhaus in 1928, he designed car bodies Walter Gropius |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | SKATING ON FILM $800: Gold medalist of the 1928, 1932 & 1936 Olympics, she made her Hollywood debut in "One In A Million" Sonja Henie |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | BEANS $300: Born Dallas Burroughs in 1928, he's the actor seen here Orson Bean |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS $800: Langston Hughes translated this Spaniard's "Gypsy Ballads" of 1928 into English Federico Garcia Lorca |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | VIRGINIA WOOLF $600 (Daily Double): He/she is the sex-changing hero/heroine of a 1928 Woolf novel Orlando |
| #3248, aired 1998-10-21 | IN THE YEARBOOK $600: This man's first name is misspelled "Donald" in his 1928 high school yearbook Ronald Reagan |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | 1928 $100: During 1928 both the Graf Zeppelin & this woman made their first flights across the Atlantic Amelia Earhart |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | 1928 $200: After Coolidge chose not to run again for president, this man did & carried 40 out of 48 states Herbert Hoover |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | 1928 $300: This company drove up new business with the purchase of Dodge & the introduction of the Plymouth Chrysler |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | 1928 $400: Then in her mid 20s, Margaret Mead published this classic study of life in the Pacific "Coming Of Age In Samoa" |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | 1928 $700 (Daily Double): Haile Selassie was crowned king of Ethiopia under this name Ras Tafari |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $200: This antibiotic discovered by Fleming in 1928 was isolated & purified by Ernst Chain & Howard Florey Penicillin |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | VAULT DISNEY $200: It's the title mode of transportation for 1928's "Willie" steamboat |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | BUSINESS MEN $400: With a yardstick & a piece of plywood, Edwin Shoemaker felt inclined to design this recliner in 1928 La-Z-Boy |
| #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 |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS $400: Important songs in this Democrat's 1928 campaign included "Better Times With Al" & "The Sidewalks Of New York" Al Smith |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | HAIL, HAIL ALBANIA $1000: King Zog I ruled from 1928 until 1939, when this country annexed Albania Italy |
| #3139, aired 1998-04-02 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS $600: Babe Ruth & Gene Tunney were among the champions for this New York governor who ran in 1928 Al Smith |
| #3089, aired 1998-01-22 | NOT A DROP TO DRINK $200: This word used of Herbert Hoover in 1928 referred to his support of Prohibition, not his dull speeches dry |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | TECHNOLOGY $200: The IBM "computer" of 1928 stored its data on these Punch cards |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | SHRED THIS! $100: Henry Perky turned out his first batch of this cereal in 1892; in 1928 Nabisco bought his company Shredded wheat |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | DRUGS $200: Discovered in 1928, this antibiotic was first used to treat Alexander Fleming's assistant in 1929 penicillin |
| #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 |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | SCULPTURE $200: In 1928 this Spanish cubist artist pioneered welded sculptures with Julio Gonzalez Pablo Picasso |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $600: He narrowly won the New York governorship in 1928, but won the presidency by a large margin 4 years later Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | AUTHORS $400: In 1928 Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, a Transylvanian village in this country Romania |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | ART $400: Once a cubist, this Spaniard from Figueras turned to surrealism after going to Paris in 1928 Salvador Dali |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This American won a 1928 Pulitzer Prize for his very long, 9-act drama "Strange Interlude" Eugene O'Neill |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | AUGUST $500: On August 2, 1927 this president said, "I do not choose to run for president in 1928" Calvin Coolidge |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | HOLLYWOOD FAMILIES $1000: Buck Henry's mother, Ruth Taylor, played Lorelei Lee in the 1928 silent film of this Anita Loos play Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | WINTER OLYMPIC SITES $500: The men's 10,000-meter speed skating event was canceled at this Swiss resort in 1928; the ice melted St. Moritz |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: A 1928 biography on this religious figure was titled "Gotama The Man" Buddha |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | BOOKS ABOUT TEENS $400: Margaret Mead changed the field of anthropology with 1928's "Coming of Age in" this place Samoa |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): Discovered in 1928, it kills gonococci, meningococci & streptococci Penicillin |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: In 1928 physicist Walther Muller helped this man improve his radiation detector Hans Geiger |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: This British author dedicated her 1928 novel "Orlando" to Vita Sackville-West Virginia Woolf |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | SONNETS $1000: Irish poet & playwright who wrote the 1928 sonnet "Leda And The Swan" William Butler Yeats |
| #2820, aired 1996-11-29 | PLAYS $400: Editor Walter Burns schemes to hold on to reporter Hildy Johnson in this 1928 farce "The Front Page" |
| #2806, aired 1996-11-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Colgate merged with this soapmaker in 1928 Palmolive |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | BRAND NAMES $200: If you believe in peanut butter, clap your hands for this brand introduced in 1928 Peter Pan |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | HAROLDRY $400: This silent screen comedian published his autobiography, "An American Comedy", in 1928 Harold Lloyd |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | INVENTORS $400: Otto Frederick Rohwedder's 1928 invention of this machine made sandwich-making easier a bread slicer |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1000: This German physicist known for his constant taught at the University of Berlin from 1889 to 1928 Max Planck |
| #2720, aired 1996-05-31 | THE 1920s $300: In 1928 Ras Tafari was crowned King of Ethiopia & he was enthroned as emperor of Japan Hirohito |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | MODERN HISTORY $800: In 1928 Ataturk removed the constitutional provision that named this Turkey's state religion Islam |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: Soon after arriving in Key West in 1928, he completed "A Farewell to Arms" Hemingway |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1000: This N.Y. Democrat who ran for president in 1928 got his nickname "The Happy Warrior" from FDR Al Smith |
| #2668, aired 1996-03-20 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $300: In 1928 this lake, swollen by a hurricane, flooded southern Florida Lake Okeechobee |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | NOTABLE WOMEN $600: In 1928 Arctic explorer Louise Boyd assisted in the search for this missing Norwegian (Roald) Amundsen |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | HEADS $1000: Architect Walter Gropius founded this school of design in 1919 & headed it until 1928 Bauhaus |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | PIANISTS $200: Vladimir Horowitz made his U.S. debut in 1928 at this NYC auditorium Carnegie Hall |
| #2640, aired 1996-02-09 | LOVE SONGS $800: This composer's "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" was introduced in the 1928 musical "Paris" Cole Porter |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: The Catholic University of Valparaiso was founded in this South American country in 1928 Chile |
| #2585, aired 1995-11-24 | POLITICAL SCIENTISTS $200: Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in this capital city in 1928 Warsaw |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | EXPLORERS $1000: In December 1928 this future U.S. admiral established Little America in Antarctica Byrd |
| #2531, aired 1995-09-11 | MYSTERIES $400: Simon Templar, known by this nickname, made his first appearance in 1928's "Meet the Tiger" The Saint |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 1928 this Michigan-based company released its first line of strained baby foods Gerber |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: Antonio Salazar took control of this country in 1928 & ruled as a dictator for 40 years Portugal |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | POTPOURRI $600: In 1928 Shredded Wheat was bought by this baking company Nabisco |
| #2495, aired 1995-06-09 | BALLET $200: This composer attended the 1928 premiere of the ballet "Rhapsody In Blue", which is danced to his music (George) Gershwin |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $200: In 1928 she & her husband Alfred Lunt appeared simultaneously in plays by Eugene O'Neill Lynn Fontanne |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | DRAMA $600: Katharine Cornell starred in a 1928 play based on this author's novel "The Age of Innocence" Edith Wharton |
| #2476, aired 1995-05-15 | ART $600: In 1994 "Tete", a 1928 painting by this Spaniard, was stolen from a Chicago art gallery Picasso |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | NONFICTION $800: This bandmaster wrote instruction books for trumpet & drum, & a 1928 autobiography, "Marching Along" John Philip Sousa |
| #2461, aired 1995-04-24 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800: Campaigning for president in 1928, he described the American way of life as "rugged individualism" Herbert Hoover |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | AUTHORS $600: His novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was first published privately in Florence, Italy in 1928 D.H. Lawrence |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | EXPLORERS $500 (Daily Double): In 1928, while trying to rescue fellow explorer Umberto Nobile, this Norwegian vanished Amundsen |
| #2381, aired 1995-01-02 | THE 1920s $400: The forerunner of this British dictionary was published in 10 volumes in 1928 the Oxford English Dictionary |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $800: This "Happy Warrior" used "The Sidewalks of New York" as his 1928 presidential campaign theme Al Smith |
| #2365, aired 1994-12-09 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ANIMALS $400: This company's lion was first heard to roar in the 1928 talkie "White Shadows in the South Seas" MGM |
| #2355, aired 1994-11-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: This Italian maestro became conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony in 1928 Arturo Toscanini |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | ARTISTS $200: The details of this late pop icon's birth are disputed; it may have occurred on Aug. 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh Andy Warhol |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: Between 1928 & 1937, this German aircraft, the LZ-127, traveled over 1 million miles the (Graf) Zeppelin |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | THIRD PARTIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This party for which Norman Thomas ran 1928-1948 was looking for liberal reforms the Socialist Party |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Crowned in Kyoto in 1928, he vowed to work for world peace Hirohito |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: This rival of Stalin was exiled to Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan in 1928 Trotsky |
| #2229, aired 1994-04-21 | EMPERORS $800: In 1928 he took the title of Negus or King of Ethiopia; in 1930 he became emperor Haile Selassie |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | LANGUAGES $1000: Romansh is the main language of this Swiss ski resort, the site of the 1928 & 1948 Winter Olympics St. Moritz |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | 20th CENTURY TRIVIA $400: This comic strip boxer who first appeared in 1928 lent his name to any simple, lovable person Joe Palooka |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | CANADIAN ACTORS $1000: This tap dancer from Nova Scotia tapped her way into Al Jolson's heart & married him in 1928 Ruby Keeler |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | SPORTS $200: This general who vowed to return to the Philippines was president of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1928 MacArthur |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | FAMOUS PHYSICIANS $600: In 1928 he discovered penicillin in a culture of staphylococcus bacteria Alexander Fleming |
| #2122, aired 1993-11-23 | THE "BUCK" STOPS HERE $200: This spacehero was created by Philip Francis Nowlan in the 1928 story "Armageddon 2419 A.D." Buck Rogers |
| #2122, aired 1993-11-23 | THEATER $1000: He proposed to Helen Hayes the night "The Front Page" opened in 1928 Charles MacArthur |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | HISTORY $800: A 1928 treaty outlawing war was formulated by Frank Kellogg & this French foreign minister Aristide Briand |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | TV TRIVIA $600: Ann Sothern was the voice behind the 1928 Porter on this cult sitcom My Mother the Car |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1928 this Republican campaigned for president promising "a chicken in every pot" Hoover |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | COINS $600: In 1928 a Hawaiian sesquicentennial coin was issued with this explorer on the obverse Captain Cook |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | LITERARY DOCTORS $800: Hugh Lofting sent this doctor to the Moon in 1928, but brought him back 5 years later Doctor Dolittle |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1928 WGY in Schenectady, N.Y. became the first scheduled broadcaster in this medium television |
| #1964, aired 1993-03-04 | "HERB"s $100: When nominated by the GOP for the presidency in 1928, he was serving as Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: His "Bolero" was originally written in 1928 as a ballet (Maurice) Ravel |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: In 1928 this Barrymore starred in the play that opened the theatre named for her Ethel Barrymore |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | MGM $100: This trademark lion, alluded to in the TNT miniseries "When the Lion Roars", first roared on screen in 1928 Leo |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | FAMOUS SPEECHES $1000: In a 1928 speech he said, "I do not want any Catholic in the U.S.A. to vote for me...because I am a Catholic" Al Smith |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $200: Discovered in 1928, it was the first antibiotic penicillin |
| #1879, aired 1992-11-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 6 successive elections beginning in 1928, Norman Thomas ran for president on this third party ticket the Socialist Party |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | AVIATION $300: In 1928, this aviatrix became the first woman passenger aboard a transatlantic flight Amelia Earhart |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | THE OLYMPICS $400: This Norwegian won the women's figure skating gold medal in 1928, 1932 & 1936 Sonja Henie |
| #1842, aired 1992-09-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: She joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928 & founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1948 Mother Teresa |
| #1832, aired 1992-07-14 | "BIG" & "LITTLE" $400: In 1928 Commander Richard E. Byrd established this U.S. base on Antarctica Little America |
| #1815, aired 1992-06-19 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: Alcan, once a part of this aluminum company, has been on its own since 1928 Alcoa |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $200: In 1928 he noticed that a mold had killed staphylococcus bacteria on a culture plate Fleming |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | FAMOUS ALS $300: He ran on the 1928 Democratic ticket as the 1st major candidate for pres. who was Roman Catholic Al Smith |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | COMPOSERS $400: A trip to Europe inspired his 1928 piece "An American in Paris" George Gershwin |
| #1722, aired 1992-02-11 | TOYS & GAMES $400 (Daily Double): Donald Duncan adapted this Philippine weapon & toy & introduced it to America in 1928 the Yo-Yo |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | THE 1920s $400: He was elected governor of New York in 1928, 4 years before winning the presidency Franklin Roosevelt |
| #1688, aired 1991-12-25 | PEOPLE $1000: This late king of Norway won an Olympic gold medal for yachting in 1928 (King) Olav |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $800: Franklin Roosevelt titled his 1928 account of this New York governor "The Happy Warrior" Al Smith |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | AUTHORS $200: Etiquette expert who wrote in 1928 "How to Behave Though a Debutante" Emily Post |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | THEATRE $400: She starred in a 1928 production of "Strange Interlude" without her husband Alfred Lunt Lynn Fontanne |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: The acclaimed journalist Dorothy Thompson married this author of "Main Street" in 1928 Sinclair Lewis |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | RIVERS $1,400 (Daily Double): When this river flooded in 1928, the storerooms of the Tate Gallery were inundated the Thames |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | AGRICULTURE $600: This organization founded in 1928 prepares high school students for careers in agriculture the Future Farmers of America |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | FICTION $800: Title hero of a 1928 Virginia Woolf novel or a tourist city in central Florida Orlando |
| #1528, aired 1991-04-03 | LYRICISTS $100: Dorothy Fields' first big hit song was "I Can't Give You Anything But" this, "Baby" in 1928 Love |
| #1520, aired 1991-03-22 | AUTOMOBILE HISTORY $400: In 1928, Chrysler introduced the DeSoto & this low-priced model Plymouth |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $400: In August 1927 he passed out slips of paper saying, "I do not choose to run for president in 1928" Coolidge |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $500: He chose to run for president in 1928 & was elected Hoover |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | FAMOUS LIONS $100: This MGM lion's roar was first heard in the 1928 film "White Shadows in the South Seas" Leo |
| #1437, aired 1990-11-27 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: He used the expression "Rugged Individualism" while running for president in 1928 Herbert Hoover |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The director of Germany's Bauhaus school from 1919-1928, he took the chair of architecture at Harvard in 1937 Gropius |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | POETRY $900 (Daily Double): This 1928 poem by Stephen Vincent Benet includes lines from the song "Dixie" "John Brown's Body" |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | THE ROARING '20s $400: In February 1928 it said it was dropping the use of masks & renaming itself Knights of the Great Forest the Ku Klux Klan |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | THE ROARING '20s $1000: In 1928 this automaker announced plans to build the nation's tallest building in Manhattan Chrysler |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | CLASSIC COMEDY TEAMS $200: In 1928 F. Gosden & Chas. Correll renamed their Sam ’n’ Henry characters this, & the rest is history Amos ’n’ Andy |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A.A. Milne wrote the popular 1928 children's book called "The House at" this "Corner" Pooh |
| #1366, aired 1990-07-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1,100 (Daily Double): Composer of the following that debuted in Paris in 1928: (Maurice) Ravel |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | OPERA SINGERS $1000: Grace Moore of Slabtown, Tenn. made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1928 as Mimi in this opera La bohème |
| #1344, aired 1990-06-07 | FAMOUS NAMES $1000: His last stage appearance was in an act from "The Three Sisters" at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1928 Stanislavski |
| #1333, aired 1990-05-23 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1928 Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to write a ballet, so he created "Bolero" Maurice Ravel |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | POLITICS & GOVERNMENT $400: In 1928 he became the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party Alfred E. Smith |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | POLITICAL PARTIES $300: Norman Thomas was this party's presidential candidate in every election from 1928 to 1948 Socialist Party |
| #1231, aired 1990-01-01 | KIDDIE LIT $400: He got so tired of Dr. Dolittle he sent him to the Moon in 1928, but the public demanded a sequel Hugh Lofting |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | SPORTS $300: After winning 3 gold medals in swimming in 1924 & 1928, this Olympian advertised B.V.D. swimwear Johnny Weissmuller |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | TV TRIVIA $400: Ann Sothern provided the voice for the 1928 Porter featured in this series My Mother the Car |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | PLAYS $400: This 1928 Ben Hecht - Chas. MacArthur play influenced the public's conception of newspapermen "The Front Page" |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | POLITICAL LEADERS $2,500 (Daily Double): 4-time governor who used the following song in his 1928 presidential campaign: Alfred E. Smith |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: Maurice Ravel composed this classical piece for dancer Ida Rubenstein in 1928 Bolero |
| #1135, aired 1989-07-07 | JUNE $400: On June 17, 1928 she was the only woman on a flight that left Newfoundland & landed in Wales Amelia Earhart |
| #1088, aired 1989-05-03 | PUBLISHING $1000: He ran the Wall Street Journal from 1901 to 1928 & in 1921 began a magazine he named after himself Clarence Barron |
| #1023, aired 1989-02-01 | THE OLYMPICS $100: In 1984 he became the 1st man since 1928 to win both the platform & springboard diving events (Greg) Louganis |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | COLUMBIA $200: William Paley established this company in 1928 Columbia Broadcasting System |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: 1928 grad of Bryn Mawr, this star of "On Golden Pond" was once suspended for smoking Katharine Hepburn |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | CAMERAS $300: The twin-lens reflex camera under this brand name was introduced in 1928 Rolleiflex |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: The 1st of these long-term Soviet plans was instituted by Stalin in 1928 Five-Year Plan |
| #945, aired 1988-10-14 | ROARING '20s $1000: Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg & this French Foreign Minister drafted the 1928 Pact of Paris (Aristide) Briand |
| #930, aired 1988-09-23 | SWIMMING & DIVING $300: Reportedly, in 1928 Mercedes Gleitz became 1st person to swim this 8 mile Mediterranean passage Straits of Gibraltar |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: In 1928 he was appointed generalissimo & leader of China Chiang Kai‐shek |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | GEORGIA $200: The Cherokee Phoenix, printed at New Echota in 1928, was 1st Indian one of these a newspaper |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE $600: He lived till 1928 but wrote all his novels, including "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", in the 1800s Thomas Hardy |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1928, '32, '36, '40, '44 & '48, Norman Thomas ran for president of this party's ticket Socialist Party |
| #782, aired 1988-01-19 | LOUISIANIANS $200: In 1928, he was elected governor by the greatest margin in Louisiana history Huey Long |
| #769, aired 1987-12-31 | 1927 $200: "I do not choose to run for president in 1928," read slips of paper he handed to newsmen August 2 Calvin Coolidge |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | THEATRE $3,700 (Daily Double): 1928 play by Bertolt Brecht which featured the following: Three-Penny Opera |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TOUGH DISNEY $1,000 (Daily Double): Technical reason the 3rd Mickey Mouse cartoon "Steamboat Willie" was released 1st, on Nov. 18, 1928 because it had sound |
| #726, aired 1987-11-02 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $800: Coach who, in 1928, invoked he legend of halfback George Gipp Knute Rockne |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | WHITE HOUSE WHEELS $500: Perhaps as a back-up, this type of vehicle was kept at the White House until 1928 horse & carriage (horse drawn carriage) |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | KIDDIE LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the following 1971 tune or the classic 1928 children's sequel on which it's based: "Christopher Robin and I walked along / Under branches lit up by the moon / Posing our questions to Owl and Eeyore" "The House of Pooh Corner" |
| #705, aired 1987-10-02 | FAMOUS FLEMINGS $800: In 1928, he discovered the germ-killing power of the green mold penicillium notatum Alexander Fleming |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | FIRSTS $400: On July 4, 1928, Jean Lussier became the 1st to go over it in a rubber ball Niagara Falls |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | MEDICAL SPELLING $800: World Book calls this, discovered in 1928, "the least poisonous antibiotic available" P-E-N-I-C-I-L-L-I-N |
| #640, aired 1987-05-22 | ECONOMICS $800: 1928 presidential candidate who said U.S. economic system was based on "rugged individualism" Herbert Hoover |
| #623, aired 1987-04-29 | IF ANYONE ASKS $300: There are no standard running times on pre-1928 films because the image wasn't synchronized to this sound |
| #596, aired 1987-03-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: He established CBS in 1928, retired in 1983, but came back in 1986 (William) Paley |
| #529, aired 1986-12-18 | U.S. HISTORY $600: The main purpose of 1928's Kellogg-Briand pact was to outlaw this war |
| #526, aired 1986-12-15 | 20TH C. AMERICANS $200: She was a social worker before being 1st woman to fly the Atlantic Amelia Earhart |
| #518, aired 1986-12-03 | 20TH CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): It's reported that by the early '30s the author of this 1928 Rep. slogan was begging for food "A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage" |
| #488, aired 1986-10-22 | FACTS & FIGURES $600 (Daily Double): The highest toll it ever charged was $89,154.62 for the QE2 in '70, the lowest 36¢ for a swimmer in 1928 the Panama Canal |
| #467, aired 1986-09-23 | MEDICINE $200: Though Fleming discovered this 1st modern antibiotic in 1928, his Nobel Prize for it came in 1945 penicillin |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | THE 1950's $600: It wasn't until 1959 that full text of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was published in U.S. Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #425, aired 1986-04-25 | BREAD $1000: A 1928 merger of 26 millers made this company then the world's single largest miller General Mills |
| #351, aired 1986-01-13 | SCREENWRITERS $1000: C. MacArthur & B. Hecht adapted "Wuthering Heights" for film but not this, their own 1928 hit play The Front Page |
| #332, aired 1985-12-17 | TV COMEDY $200: 1965 sitcom in which Jerry Van Dyke co-starred with a 1928 Porter auto My Mother the Car |
| #306, aired 1985-11-11 | CHEWING GUM $100: 1st produced in 1928, manufacturers blew their wad making it bubble gum |
| #274, aired 1985-09-26 | NOTABLE ANIMALS $200: Buddy, the 1st dog trained as this, came to the U.S. in 1928 a seeing-eye dog |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | PRESIDENTS $400: In 1928 he said, "I do not choose to run" Calvin Coolidge |
| #156, aired 1985-04-15 | THE '20s $200: In 1928, as a passenger, she became the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Earhart |
| #78, aired 1984-12-26 | DOUBLE M $200: She came of age in Samoa in 1928 Margaret Mead |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed this war |
