| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | FROM THE NEWSPAPERS $800: From September 1933: "Nazi dominance... astounding to visitors"; this republic "irretrievably buried" Weimar |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | TOUCH SOME GRASS $200: That's bent grass on the greens of this famed Georgia golf course formally opened in 1933 Augusta |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALMOST ASSASSINATED $400: February 15, 1933 after making a speech in Miami FDR |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $1600: Born at Lourdes in 1844, she was canonized in 1933 Bernadette |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $2000: Survivors escape to Bronson Beta in the 1933 Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer novel "When" this happens Worlds Collide |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $400: The third one of these existed in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945 the Third Reich |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1200: Bertolt Brecht fled Germany in 1933 & left the U.S. in 1947 after being required to testify before this committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $1000: "Adding the Mallard to the Stock"--to this 1933 comedy Duck Soup |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $200: A member of the Kaw Nation of Kansas, Charles Curtis, was vice president under this man from 1929 to 1933 Herbert Hoover |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | "SPECIAL" DELIVERY $1600: With unemployment at 25% & banks on the verge of collapse, in 1933 FDR called Congress into the first of 3 of these gatherings a special session |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $1,600 (Daily Double): Secretary 1933-1944, Cordell Hull advocated respect for Central & South American nations, a policy known by this friendly nickname the Good Neighbor Policy |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $800: 1933:
"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast" King Kong |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FUN WITH 21 $800: Utah ratified the 21st Amendment, ending this on Dec. 5, 1933 around 3:30 PM local time, letting New Yorkers celebrate at dinner Prohibition |
| #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 |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $1000: A power-generating authority set up in 1933 serves the people of this valley in its name Tennessee Valley |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BUSINESS NAMES $200: Last name of brothers Ernest & Julio, who founded a California winery in 1933 Gallo |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | FINANCE BROS $400: Anderson Brothers Bank was founded in 1933 in the depths of this to give desperately needed support to South Carolina farmers the Great Depression |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | ORANGES $200: This football game was called the Palm Festival when first played in 1933 the Orange Bowl |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | THIS & THAT $800: Beginning with Frances Perkins in 1933, more women have served as secretary of this cabinet department than any other Labor |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $200: A lot of Fay Wray's lines as Ann Darrow in this 1933 monster movie are bloodcurdling screams King Kong |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $200: On December 5, 1933 FDR announced the repeal of this; cheers! Prohibition |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | BUILT IN THE 1800s $4,000 (Daily Double): A meeting place for the Bundestag, it was completed in 1894 & dramatically torched in 1933 the Reichstag |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | IN THE CURRICULUM $800: From a 1933 play, "When I hear" this artsy word "I reach for my pistol" is often wrongly attributed to Hermann Goering culture |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $1000: Knoxville Utilities Board, you get your power from this agency set up under the New Deal in 1933 the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | HISTORIC SPEECHES $10,000 (Daily Double): "My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States", began the first of these talks in 1933 fireside chat |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | HISTORIC GROUPS $800: You'd think just 46th staters, but folks from Kansas & Texas who went to California from 1933 to 1935 were also called these Okies |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | THE LAST WORD SAID IN CLASSIC FILMS $1600: "King Kong", from 1933 beast |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DRUNK HISTORY $3,400 (Daily Double): Year in which the photo here was taken 1933 |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): After a plane crash in the Himalayas, 4 people end up in Shangri-La in this 1933 novel Lost Horizon |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $600: In a 1933 collection by this New Yorker & New Yorker contributor, she seems to have coined "scaredy-cat" Dorothy Parker |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THAT'S TOTALLY LIT $600: Secretary Della Street is introduced in the 1933 first novel of this defense attorney who almost never loses a case Perry Mason |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | 1930s AMERICA $200: In 1933 the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th, which had federally imposed this dry period Prohibition |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | TO PHRASE A COIN $1600: "Don't take any" of these, like the commemorative souvenirs made for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair a wooden nickel |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN $800: Before George Cukor directed her in "Adam's Rib" & "The Philadelphia Story", he cast this actress as Jo for the 1933 film adaptation (Katharine) Hepburn |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $800: Born in 1903 with the initials E.A.B., took his pen name from an English river in 1933, passed away in 1950, 34 years early George Orwell |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | MOVIE MONSTERS $400: As Ann Darrow, Fay Wray got up close & personal with this Eighth Wonder of the World in 1933 King Kong |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | THE PRESIDENTIAL SWEET $200: FDR loved these holiday cakes & in 1933 received as a Christmas gift a 110-lb. one filled with wine-soaked raisins fruitcake |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $400: The town of Oymyakon, Russia in this proverbially cold region plunged to a mind-numbing -90 degrees in 1933 Siberia |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME $200: In 2004 an NCAA award was established in the name of this center on the 1933 Michigan team & future politician Gerald Ford |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Here's this Venezuelan landmark named for the American pilot who spotted it in 1933 Angel Falls |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) The ermine-trimmed velvet coronation robe from 1933's "Queen Christina" of Sweden was worn by this star of the silent screen who actually did speak in the film Greta Garbo |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: In 1933 his play "Ah, Wilderness!" opened in New York with George M. Cohan as one of the leads (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WOMEN $600: In 1989 Fay Wray visited the Empire State Building, the setting of the climax of this 1933 film that had made her a star King Kong |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | RANGER THINGS $200: In 1933 the Ranger was the U.S. Navy's first purpose-built one of these, but had trouble launching planes in rough seas an aircraft carrier |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | FERDINAND $600: Judge Ferdinand Pecora led a 1933 Wall Street investigation & later served on this newly created federal commission SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG LATIN $1000: Pig Latin cheered up the Depression--in 1933 a popular song debuted with a Pig Latin segment, "e'reway inay the" this "oneymay" |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | THE 20th CENTURY $2000: In 1933 & in 1952 this Cuban toppled the regimes of other leaders; he himself was deposed in 1959 (Fulgencio) Batista |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A DEGREE IN LITERATURE $800: Mary McCarthy graduated from this women's school in New York State in 1933 & wrote "The Group" about women who did too Vassar |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1600: Ruth Bryan Owen, U.S. minister to Denmark from 1933 to 1936, was the oldest daughter of this statesman William Jennings Bryan |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER, WHY? $1600: Ferries in local waters not being the smoothest ride, it was built starting in 1933 so you could drive from San Francisco to Oakland the San Francisco Bay Bridge |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | THE HODGEST OF PODGE $1000: Briefly at Atlanta U., Mary Spivey wound up as the last living female graduate of this college, getting her degree in 1933 Morehouse College |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1933 this new head of the Department of Labor became the first female cabinet member Frances Perkins |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $600: A landmark obscenity case in 1933 lifted a ban in the U.S. on this James Joyce work Ulysses |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER $2000: In the 1933 utopian work "Life in" this kind of -ocracy run by scientists, every citizen gets a yearly energy allotment in ergs technocracy |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | A POP CULTURE THANKSGIVING $600: A 1933 Popeye short is called "I ____ What I ____" yam |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | I'M A HUGE FAN! $1200: Sons of the Desert, a fan society of this comedy duo, is named for the pair's 1933 film Laurel and Hardy |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | THE LETTERS OF THE LAW $1600: A dam fine act from 1933:
TVA the Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | COMPAN"EE"S $1000: In 1933 R.G. Dun & Company merged with this rival Bradstreet |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On March 12, 1933 FDR warmed America with the first of these informal radio addresses a fireside chat |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | WHAT A YEAR! $600: The 21st Amendment scotched Prohibition 1933 |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | VINTAGE CARS WITH PEDIGREES $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Nethercutt Collection.) Exhibited at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair where it was the hit of the show, the SJ, a model of this car, was nicknamed the "Twenty Grand" for its asking price, making it a real doozy a Duesenberg |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARD $800: To combat the Depression, FDR moved the U.S. off the standard shortly after taking office in this year 1933 |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $200: His widow Elizabeth was lobbying Congress for a Little Bighorn museum when she died in 1933 at 90 Custer |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: The Christmas tree lighting at this New York City site has been taking place since 1933 & was first televised in 1951 Rockefeller Center |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TIME TO SAY GOODBYE $1000: Granddad, a lungfish that had been at this city's Shedd Aquarium since 1933, passed away in 2017 Chicago |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | NOTORIOUS $400: Upon his arrest in 1933, "Machine Gun" Kelly inadvertently gave this nickname to the FBI agents who nabbed him G-men |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In 1933 a stretch of river rapids in Alabama called Muscle Shoals became an integral part of this multi-state project Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | FREE RHYMES $400: Both syllables rhyme with "free" in the name of this tot left on Popeye's doorstep in 1933 and officially adopted in 2004 Swee'Pea |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | THE NEW DEAL $800: The Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 created this agency that insured bank accounts up to $2,500 originally the FDIC |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | WINNING THROUGH ALLITERATION $200: The 1933 film about this big ape won no Oscars, but both remakes did for their effects King Kong |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | TV FUNNY GUYS $600: The 1933 musical "Moonlight and Pretzels" featured William Frawley, who would later gain fame as this neighbor of Lucy's Fred Mertz |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TITLE ANIMALS $1000: As Rufus T. Firefly in 1933, Groucho doled out this avian potage duck soup |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 1930s AMERICA $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1933 Albert Einstein renounced his German citizenship & relocated to 2 Library Place in this U.S. city Princeton |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | THE MARCH OF HISTORY $1000: On March 23, 1933 this body passed the "Enabling Act" making Hitler absolute dictator the Reichstag |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | MADAM SECRETARY $400: The first madam in the Cabinet, Frances Perkins was named Secretary of Labor in 1933 by this president FDR |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | ALSO A CANDY BAR $1000: Born to Nathan & Celia Bader March 15, 1933 Baby Ruth |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | LETTER PERFECT $800: A book about these movies is subtitled "An Informal Survey of the American Low-Budget film, 1933-1945" B-movies |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $1200: This masked man first "led the fight for law and order in the early Western United States" in 1933 on WXYZ in Detroit the Lone Ranger |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | HISTORY $1200: Dams built by this government agency created in 1933 spawned "the Great Lakes of the South" the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: This tomboy who became an actress won an Oscar for playing a tomboy who becomes an actress in 1933's "Morning Glory" Katharine Hepburn |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | FOOD & DRINK HOLIDAYS $600: National Beer Day is held on April 7, the date in 1933 that the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted, limiting this Prohibition |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | ABBREV. $1000: Created by the Banking Act of 1933:
FDIC the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MEN OF STEEL $600: Winners of 6 NFL titles, this city's team was founded by Art Rooney in 1933 the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | WHO WANTS A BEER? $200: Clydesdales are true draft horses, appearing with this beer since 1933 Budweiser |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | BRANDED $600: Thanks for the super cool lighter from this brand that first began producing them in 1933 Zippo |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE DETERGENT SERIES $2000: Beneficent:
This detergent designed to make babies' clothes soft & fresh was introduced in 1933 Dreft |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | THE NON‑DEPRESSING 1930s $600: Hard work paid off for Frances Perkins--in 1933 she became Secretary of this, the first woman in the cabinet Labor |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | IT SHOULDA BEEN A CONTENDER $200: 1933:
The Academy didn't go ape for this RKO adventure starring Bruce Cabot & some gal King Kong |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $1000: The first volume of Allan Nevins' 1933 biography of this president ended with his loss of the presidency in 1888 (Grover) Cleveland |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $200: From 1933 to 1939 this was FDR's program to use government to help Americans through the Depression the New Deal |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | SMASH BROADWAY MUSICALS $1000: It's based on a 1933 movie musical & its title song says, "Come & meet those dancing feet, on the avenue I'm taking you to" 42nd Street |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | BUSINESS HISTORY $600: In 1933 W.G. Peacock created this drink consisting of tomatoes, celery, carrots, spinach, watercress, beets, lettuce & parsley V8 |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | POLITICIANS $400: John Nance Garner held this job 1933-1941 & said it isn't worth "a bucket of warm spit" (or something else, in other sources) vice president |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | THE TVA $200: First things first: created by Congress in 1933, TVA is short for this federal corporation the Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel, a character sets aside a small piece of land, the income of which is to go to the church God's Little Acre |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | AVIATION $800: The USS Macon, one of these, first flew in 1933 & was designed to launch & retrieve airplanes in flight a dirigible (or zeppelin) |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $2,000 (Daily Double): Born at Lourdes in 1844, she was canonized in 1933 Bernadette |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $5,800 (Daily Double): In 1933 the first of these addresses began, "I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the U.S. about banking" the Fireside Chats |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $600: In the 1933 film, King Kong climbs this skyscraper & bats down a biplane with his bare hand the Empire State Building |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $800: 1933:
Allan Nevins, writing about this pres. (hint: Nevins won in non-consecutive years, for 1937's "Hamilton Fish") (Grover) Cleveland |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | BEVERAGES $200: This brand's Cranberry Juice Cocktail first appeared in 1933 Ocean Spray |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THE MOVIES $400: In 1933's "Flying Down to Rio", Fred Astaire teamed with this lady for the first of 10 films Ginger Rogers |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: A sportswriter used the term "ivy colleges" in 1933 to describe 9 schools--the 8 current Ivies & this school in New York State the U.S. Military Academy at West Point |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | THE ATLANTIC $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1933 she wrote about what she'd look at if she had sight for 3 days: Rembrandts, Fifth Avenue, the face of her dog Helga... Helen Keller |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $400: In 1933 this country instituted the Order of the Aztec Eagle for foreigners who've given distinguished service to it Mexico |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | STATE BIRDS $1200: Texas adopted this mimic as its state bird in 1927; Tennessee mimicked the pick in 1933 a mockingbird |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $400: The third one of these existed in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945 reich |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | FASHION DESIGNERS $800: This Frenchman who founded a clothing line in 1933 featuring a famous logo had also gained fame
in an earlier field (René) Lacoste |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $800: In 1933 this mogul took a job at American Airways as a co-pilot using the pseudonym Charles W. Howard Howard Hughes |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In 1933 Will Rogers & Janet Gaynor starred in a non-musical version of this film set at the Iowa state fair State Fair |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | THE PRODUCERS $400: "My Fair Lady",
"Gold Diggers of 1933"--
Jack of these brothers Warner |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, banned in the U.S. until 1933, Molly Bloom & Stephen Dedalus represent Penelope & Telemachus Ulysses |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | LABOR $2000: The Dept. of Labor is headquartered in a building named for this female secretary of labor who served from 1933 to 1945 Frances Perkins |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | TRAITORS & TURNCOATS $2000: In 1933 he founded the National Union, a fascist party in Norway, & later received subsidies from Germany Quisling |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | THE 1930s $400: On April 3, 1933 Lord Clydesdale became the first to pilot a plane over this mountain, just clearing it Mount Everest |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | THE 1930s $1000: After a week-long fast, he was released from government detention in Aug. 1933, weighing about 90 pounds Gandhi |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $1200: Elmer Rice must have aced Constitution class, as he titled a 1933 play these first 3 words of the Preamble We the People |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | LITERARY WHOSE WHAT? $200: 1933:
His "Little Acre" God |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CHEMISTS $400: In 1933 Gilbert Lewis isolated Deuterium oxide, AKA this type of water, which is used in nuclear reactors heavy water |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In February 1933 gunman Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate FDR but instead killed this city's mayor Anton Cermak Chicago |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | A YEAR IN THE LIFE $800: 1933:
This "Untouchable" is in charge of the Treasury Department's alcohol-tax unit Eliot Ness |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $800: Between 1933 & 1943 Germany's Thomas Mann wrote a series of 4 novels about this Old Testament figure "and his brothers" Joseph |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | NEW DEAL PROGRAMS $800: The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established this government body, guaranteeing bank accounts up to a certain limit the F(ederal) D(eposit) I(nsurance) C(orporation) |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | 1933 $200: By year's end it was Germany's only political party the Nazi Party |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | 1933 $400: In California ground was broken for the building of this modern wonder the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | 1933 $600: Ratified in 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition, put into effect by this amendment the 18th Amendment |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | 1933 $800: After years of running reprinted, condensed articles, this magazine published its first original signed article Reader's Digest |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | 1933 $2,000 (Daily Double): He came to the U.S. in 1933 & helped found the School of American Ballet George Balanchine |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | THE ACLU $1200: The ACLU helped win a 1933 ruling overturning a ban on the sale of this James Joyce classic in the United States Ulysses |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | GOOD NEWS $400: For those wanting privacy to watch movies, the first of this type of theater opened in New Jersey on June 6, 1933 a drive-in theater |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SALUTE THE FLAGS $1000: Germany today uses the same flag it did under the 1919-1933 government called this the Weimar Republic |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | EDITORS $800: In November 2010 Tina Brown was announced as the editor-in-chief of this current events magazine founded in 1933 Newsweek |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $1000: On July 28, 1933 Western Union operator Lucille Lipps delivered the first one of these to Rudy Vallee on his birthday a singing telegram |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $600: This word for a large self-service store that sells household goods as well as groceries hit the shelves in 1933 a supermarket |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE 21st $400: Ratified in 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed this Prohibition |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL $800: A Michigan realtor claimed that this New Testament man (& his head) appeared to him 30 times between 1927 & 1933 John the Baptist |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | THE LIGHTER "SIDE" $200: FDR began giving these "chats" in 1933 fireside chats |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | THERE SHE IS, MISS AMERICA $600: In 2011 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan from this "Cornhusker State" became the youngest winner since 1933 Nebraska |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | 1923 TIME COVERS $400: July 23's cover showed Roy Asa Haynes, the U.S. commissioner of this unpopular program repealed in 1933 Prohibition |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | FACES $1600: This precocious little girl first appeared in the comics in 1933 as the niece of an aunt named Fritzi Nancy |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | MARCH 4th! $800: 1933: 5 years before the Anschluss, Prime Minister Dollfuss dissolves this nation's parliament Austria |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Dolores Del Rio was one of the stars of the 1933 musical "Flying Down to" here Rio |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | ONE OF THE 8 PLANETS $600: Popular chocolate bar made in England since 1933 Mars |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | THE ANHEUSER- BUSCH BREWERY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds the reins to a Clydesdale horse.) A symbol for over 75 years, the Budweiser Clydesdales were formally introduced on April 7, 1933 to honor the end of this 13-year period in American history Prohibition |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | LET'S PLAY TEXAS HOLD-EM $400: His brother Buck Barrow was released from a Texas prison in 1933; he was killed by Iowa police later that year Clyde Barrow |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1000: The Nazis may have contrived the February 1933 burning of this parliament building, giving them more control the Reichstag |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | KING KONG $800: In its last line the 1933 film stressed that "it wasn't the airplanes, it was" this that "killed the beast" beauty |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | WOULD-BE ASSASSINS $2000: in 1933 Guiseppe Zangara killed the mayor of Chicago but failed to kill this target FDR |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | ISSUE NO. 1 $1,000 (Daily Double): Logically enough, the 1933 cover of the first News-Week (sic) had not 1 but this many photos 7 |
| #5884, aired 2010-03-25 | I'M UNEMPLOYED $600: The nation's unemployment rate was 25% when FDR took his first presidential oath of office in this year 1933 |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: This 2009 film was based on a book subtitled "America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34" Public Enemies |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This president made a "clean sweep" of the White House from 1929 to 1933 (including the carpets) Herbert Hoover Vacuum Cleaner |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $1200: Since 1933 this hall has dazzled NYC with its Christmas Spectacular, featuring precision choreography & a living nativity Radio City Music Hall |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | FAMOUS O'BRIENS $1000: At the end of Prohibition in 1933, Pat O'Brien converted his speakeasy to a legal bar in this city New Orleans |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE NIFTY 1930s $600: This ski-nosed comic broke out of Vaudeville & made his Broadway acting debut in the 1933 musical "Roberta" Bob Hope |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | SOMEDAY THE SAINTS $400: Canonized in 1933, this French nun & visionary is the Patron Saint of Lourdes Bernadette (Soubirous) |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | THE 1930s $400: In 1933, after less than 3 years in the funnies, he married Blondie Boopadoop Dagwood Bumstead |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | THE 1930s $1600: The Century of Progress Exposition was held in this city during 1933 & 1934 Chicago |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | THE 1930s $2,000 (Daily Double): As a tie-in with the new president's programs, in 1933 Warner Bros. movies were advertised as this "in entertainment" a New Deal in entertainment |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $600: A New Deal agency created in 1933 sought to provide electricity for residents of this river's valley the Tennessee |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | 1930s CINEMA $800: (Film critic Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) "Three Little Pigs", a Disney Silly Symphony of 1933, introduced this song that became an anti-Depression anthem "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE $400: In 1933 aviator Wiley Post became the first person to do this twice fly around the world |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD $800: Nominated for an Oscar in 1998, this "Titanic" co-star was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933 Gloria Stuart |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: This name given to the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 reflects 2 others before it the Third Reich |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | BY, THE BOOK $400: False advertising alert! In 1933 she penned "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Gertrude Stein |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | HOW SOPHOMORIC! $1600: In 1933 Harvard hooligans fishnapped the "Sacred" this, a carving in the Massachusetts State House the Sacred Cod |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | MAJOR $400: In 1933 this major became the aide to Gen. MacArthur; later, he would become Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | MY DEAR WATSON $800: English astronomer Frank Watson Dyson was director of this observatory from 1910 to 1933 the Royal Observatory in Greenwich |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | VICE PRESIDENTS $600: John Nance Garner, this president's first vice president, served from 1933 to 1941 FDR |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | JUST PLANE FUN $2000: In Winnie Mae, his Lockheed Vega, this pilot known for his eyepatch became the first to solo around the world in 1933 Wiley Post |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $1200: He was German propaganda minister from 1933 to 1945 Joseph Goebbels |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | LOOSE CHANGE $400: The Denver Mint's first commemorative was a 1933 half-dollar depicting a Conestoga wagon on this trail the Oregon Trail |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | LOU D.O.B.s $1000: May 11, 1933,
The Bronx:
This guy who changed his name to Minister Louis X in the '50s Louis Farrakhan |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | A FEW GENTLEMEN OF VERONA $1200: Verona-born tenor Nino Martini performed brilliantly at this NYC location from 1933 to 1946 the Metropolitan Opera |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | & MARTINS $1600: In 1933 he became chief of staff to Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess Martin Bormann |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | POTENT QUOTABLES $400: In this first year of his presidency, FDR delivered his "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" line 1933 |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | ECONOMICS $2000: In 2005 Americans didn't put money away but spent all they earned & more, for the 1st negative rate of this since 1933 savings |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | LIKE, IT'S TOTALLY THE VALLEY $800: In 1933 FDR set up this agency to provide cheap power & flood control the Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | ENERGY $800: The Sequoyah 1 nuclear reactor near Chattanooga is operated by this agency established in 1933 the TVA |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | U.S. HISTORY $800: It's the period, 1920 to 1933, when alcoholic beverages were illegal Prohibition |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | STATE BIRDS $800: In 1933 the Tennessee Ornithological Society conducted a vote to select a state bird; this mimic barely won a mockingbird |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | ANTIQUES ROADSHOW TREASURES $200: I wonder what my leaded glass table lamp with a peony design is worth--it was made by this man who died in 1933 (Louis Comfort) Tiffany |
| #5249, aired 2007-06-07 | PUBLISHING $800: Since 1933 this publication called this "reviews" has provided pre-publication reviews to its subscribers Kirkus |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR $200: Prohibition was repealed in this year, the first year of FDR's first term 1933 |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | MONSTER MASH $1000: Jack Black brings this monster back to 1933 New York City in a 2005 Peter Jackson film King Kong |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | FAMOUS JEWISH ATHLETES $1600: In 1933 Max Baer wore a star of David on his boxing trunks when he beat this German champion Schmeling |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | GOLD $600: Issued from 1849 to 1933, it's a U.S. gold coin that was worth $20; it's also 3 under par on a hole in golf double eagle |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | FAMOUS CANADIANS $200: A native of Cardston, Alberta, she went native co-starring with King Kong in 1933 Fay Wray |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | DOGS $1,000 (Daily Double): This breed was launched in the U.S. with the gift of dogs from the Dalai Lama to an American traveler in 1933 the Lhasa Apso |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | FDR $800: In 1933 FDR wrote on the flyleaf of the English translation of this book that it gave a false view of Hitler's ideas Mein Kampf |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1000: In 1933 FDR appointed Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of this politician, the first U.S. woman diplomat William Jennings Bryan |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $1200: Still on a high from a 1933 win for a bio of this 22nd & 24th Pres., Allan Nevins won again in 1937 with "Hamilton Fish" (Grover) Cleveland |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | THE "GOOD", THE "BAD" & THE "UGLY" $800: In 1933 FDR espoused this policy in which the U.S. "respects the rights of others" the Good Neighbor Policy |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | ACADEMIA NUTS $200: This physicist worked at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 until his death in 1955 Einstein |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $400: 1933:
"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast" King Kong |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | A LIFE OF CRIME $1000: On Sept. 26, 1933 he dropped his namesake gun & told the police, "I've been waiting all night for you" "Machine Gun" Kelly |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM, CLASS OF '05 $800: He began his radio career in 1933 at KVOO-AM in Tulsa & we all know "The Rest of the Story" Paul Harvey |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $400: In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is" this fear itself |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | GET YOUR GROUP TOGETHER $200: This secret state police force was first established in Prussia in 1933 & later became an arm of the SS the Gestapo |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1000: Vice president from 1933 to 1941, he's best remembered for his acerbic quips about the job's worthlessness John Nance Garner |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | YES "I.M." $600: Claude Rains played this elusive fellow on the big screen in 1933 the Invisible Man |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | THERE'S A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING $1,500 (Daily Double): This overture, first heard on August 3, 1829 in Paris, debuted as a radio show's theme in 1933 the William Tell Overture |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | ALMOST ASSASSINATED $400: February 13, 1933 after making a speech in Miami FDR |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Friends" actor who traveled in time to become an Erle Stanley Gardner character in 1933 Matthew Perry Mason |
| #4798, aired 2005-06-15 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $400: Virgil Thomson's 1933 opera "Four Saints In Three" of these actually has 4 of them Acts |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | HENCE THE TITLE $1600: A character in this 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel sets aside land for the church--the poorest piece at a given time God's Little Acre |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | MEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1933 he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; he became a U.S. citizen in 1940 Albert Einstein |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | STATE FIRSTS $400: In 1933 this state ushered in the first drive-in movie theater; it was located in Camden New Jersey |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | ON THE GO $800: This airship, named for the Ohio city of its construction, sailed overhead during FDR's 1933 inauguration the Akron |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | THE ARTIST $400: In 1933 Otto Dix was charged with obscenity by this political party; he was later drafted to fight for them the Nazis |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | NICKS & RANGERS $400: The first radio program featuring this title character aired on Detroit's WXYZ on Jan. 30, 1933 the Lone Ranger |
| #4757, aired 2005-04-19 | AVENUE "Q" $800: He was Norway's minister of defense from 1931 to 1933 Quisling |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | "A.M"/"P.M." $1200: This popular character first appeared in 1933's "The Case of the Velvet Claws" Perry Mason |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | NAME THE JAMES $1600: ...who conjured up Shangri-La for a 1933 novel Hilton |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $600: 1933:
Claude Raines The Invisible Man |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | FRENCH LESSONS $800: Mon dieu! In 1933 this famous French cooking school opened a London branch Le Cordon Bleu |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | NFL $2000: In 1933 the first NFL championship tilt saw this team win 23-21 on a 4th quarter pass by Bronko Nagurski the Chicago Bears |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $600: In 1933 this man's mercantile agency merged with one run by competitor Robert Dun Bradstreet |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | BILLIE HOLIDAY $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1933 John Hammond signed her to this record company that shares its name with a state capital Columbia |
| #4617, aired 2004-10-05 | IN THE SMITHSONIAN $600: In 1933 Miss Mary McCabe donated the compass this pair used between 1804 & 1806 Lewis & Clark |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY $1200: Cheers to Congress for adopting this number amendment in 1933 to deal with a drier former one 21st |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | WE LOVE BROADWAY $200: Introduced in a 1933 film, this song heard here has become a toe-tapping favorite on Broadway "42nd Street" |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | BASEBALL: THE 1930s $800: On July 6, 1933 this city's Comiskey Park hosted the first All-Star Game; the American League won, 4-2 Chicago |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | ROOM $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Briefing Room at the White House.) The White House briefing room floor covers a swimming pool that was installed for this man in 1933 FDR |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1600: On May 3, 1933 this first woman governor of Wyoming became the first woman director of the U.S. Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | 3-D $2000: America took itself off this April 19, 1933 the gold standard |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | HOOVER DAM $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hoover Dam.) Between 1933 & '35, 4.4 million cubic yards of this were laid in the dam, enough to pave a highway from San Francisco to New York City concrete |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1600: 1933:
Henry VIII Charles Laughton |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | THE CONSTITUTION $600: The 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of this, was repealed in 1933 alcohol (or liquor) |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | "C" WORLD $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Berlin) The Nazis blamed the 1933 Reichstag fire on this political group that may well have set it themselves the Communists |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | FAIRBURY, NEBRASKA $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1933 the First National Bank was robbed by a gang that included Alvin Karpis & 2 sons of this female gangster Ma Barker |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: A member of the Kaw tribe of Kansas, Charles Curtis was vice president under this man from 1929 to 1933 (Herbert) Hoover |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | SCREEN PLAYS $2000: 1933's "Cavalcade", based on a drama--not a comedy--by this urbane British wit, won a Best Picture Oscar Noel Coward |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | HERE "WE" COME! $2000: From 1919 to 1933 Germany was known as this republic the Weimar Republic |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | LEGS & THE WOMAN $600: A 1984 video by this band featured some great legs, if you weren't distracted by the red 1933 coupe ZZ Top |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | OF THE "THIRD" KIND $400: It rose in Germany in 1933 & fell in 1945 the Third Reich |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | GEORGE ORWELL $600: According to the title of a 1933 work, 1 of the 2 cities in which Orwell was "Down and Out" London or Paris |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | SEEN IN THE MIDWEST $2,000 (Daily Double): The Berghoff Restaurant in Chicago displays one of these issued in 1933, bearing the number 1 liquor license |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | THE "WORLD" IS NOT ENOUGH $200: Millions of people attended these events hosted by Chicago in 1933 & New York City in 1939 world's fairs |
| #4432, aired 2003-12-09 | POLITICIANS & LEADERS $800: Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the son of this country's dictator, founded its Falange Party in 1933 Spain |
| #4430, aired 2003-12-05 | NEW DEAL PROGRAMS $2,000 (Daily Double): When it began in 1933, it protected bank accounts up to a whopping $5,000! the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | AVIATION FIRSTS $800: In 1933, 2 years before his death with Will Rogers, this pilot became the first to fly solo around the world Wiley Post |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | ME TARZAN $800: MGM rejected this Olympic swimmer for the role in 1931; in 1933 he played it for another film company Buster Crabbe |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS $200: In 1933 Dagwood's dad disinherited him for marrying this woman whose maiden name was Boopadoop Blondie |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $200: 1933-1945 Franklin Roosevelt |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | HISTORY $800: Sir Eric Drummond was the first to serve in this position at the League of Nations, doing so from 1919 to 1933 Secretary General |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | SEE "NN" $400: In 1933 Kraft introduced Miracle Whip as a better & lower cost alternative to this mayonnaise |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION $600: This "holiday" declared March 6, 1933 came with a $10,000 fine or 10 years in jail for violators bank holiday |
| #4331, aired 2003-06-02 | FOREVER 39 $400: Jack Benny turned 39 for real in this year, the year FDR first took office 1933 |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $800: Director Merian Cooper disliked the noisy EL trains, so he had this beast tear one down in 1933 King Kong |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | FROM MOVIE TO MUSICAL $400: This musical based on a 1933 film is currently tapping away on the NYC thoroughfare of the same name 42nd Street |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $1200: Survivors escape to Bronson Beta in the 1933 Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer novel "When" this happens "When Worlds Collide" |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1600: As part of his "New Deal", he took American currency off the gold standard in 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: Founded in 1933, the alliance of these Chinese businesses became a major NYC civil rights group laundries |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | THE OLD WEST $400: Authors held off on unfavorable comments on this man & his "Last Stand" until his wife died; she lasted until 1933 George Custer |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $800: If you think about it, you've really got to wonder what he saw in Fay Wray in 1933...I mean, think about it King Kong |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | TUNES FROM REVUES $1200: This composer's "Easter Parade" first turned up in 1933's "As Thousands Cheer" Irving Berlin |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | FRENCH HISTORY $1600: In 1933 when Cie. Internationale de Navigation merged with Air Orient & others, it took this name Air France |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | ANNE FRANK $800: Anne was born in this country in 1929; her family fled to the Netherlands in 1933 Germany |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | ROME-ANTIC MOVIES $1600: Rent the 1933 comedy "Roman Scandals" to see this beauty play a captive princess decades before "Titanic" Gloria Stuart |
| #4143, aired 2002-09-11 | THE TELEGRAM $800: Since telegrams were associated with WWI casualty news, these debuted in 1933 to show their fun side Singing telegrams |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | 20th CENTURY BUSINESS $1000: A dun deal of 1933 was Dun merging with this company Bradstreet |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS $1600: This H.G. Wells horror work was brought to the big screen in 1933 as "The Island of Lost Souls" The Island of Doctor Moreau |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | HUMPTY DUMPTY $800: This comedian played Humpty Dumpty in the 1933 Paramount film "Alice in Wonderland" W.C. Fields |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | WOMEN IN LABOR $1600: From 1933 to 1945 she had her work cut out for her as the U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $800: Regular use of this began in the magazine in 1933, but didn't hit the Times' front page photos until 1997 color |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | HOBBIES $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from a model train showroom.) Model railroading was popularized at the 1933 Century of Progress Expo, in this U.S. city, a longtime railroad hub Chicago, Illinois |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | BIG IN HOLLYWOOD $200: In 1933 it was said of this big simian, "Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." King Kong |
| #4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $2000: These 2 were first partnered in the 1933 film "Flying Down to Rio" Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: From 1933 to 1935 he was head of the music bureau of the Third Reich Richard Strauss |
| #3991, aired 2001-12-31 | PSYCH 102 $1200: You are getting sleepy, sleepy, you will buy Clark Hull's landmark 1933 book on this subject hypnotism |
| #3985, aired 2001-12-21 | A FAREWELL $1600: Claude Rains dies in this 1933 film saying, "I meddled in things that man must leave alone" The Invisible Man |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): His only comedy among his many plays was 1933's "Ah, Wilderness!" Eugene O'Neill |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | TIME $400: 1933 coverage of FDR usually mentioned this ivory accessory between his jaunty lips cigarette holder |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | SINGING STYLES $800: In 1933 it had to be Bing Crosby who introduced the song "Learn To" do this Croon |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MORE POWER TO YOU $500 (Daily Double): Founded in 1933, it's America's largest public power company TVA (the Tennessee Valley Authority) |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | MUSICALS! $600: This 1959 Broadway musical ends with the title character being elected mayor of NYC in 1933 Fiorello! (named for Fiorello LaGuardia) |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | THE "WEST" WING $500: Her films include 1933's "I'm No Angel" Mae West |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | LA LA $500: Before he was elected mayor of New York City in 1933, he served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives Fiorello LaGuardia |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $500 (Daily Double): In 1933 this president left a will consisting of a single sentence, leaving everything to his wife Calvin Coolidge |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | CHANGE THE VOWEL $100: In a 1933 film this creature climbed the Empire State Building King Kong |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | VISUALIZE THE VEEPS $500: Following 2 years as veep & 6 years as president, this man died in 1933 Calvin Coolidge |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | ATTORNEY AUTHORS $400: He published his first Perry Mason book in 1933, 22 years after he was admitted to the bar Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | BETWEEN WORLD WARS $500: In 1933 the League of Nations voted 42-1 to condemn the invasion of Manchuria, the 1 being this invader Japan |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1933 this "Sabre Dance" composer married fellow Russian composer Nina Makarova Aram Khatchatourian |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | BRITISH LITERATURE $300: In this 1933 novel survivors of a plane wreck seek refuge in a utopia run by a 250-year-old high lama Lost Horizon |
| #3683, aired 2000-09-13 | IT'S A BYRD $500: Known as a fiscal conservative, this brother of Richard Byrd served as a U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1933-1965 Harry Byrd |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | CLASSIC FILM MONSTERS $100: In a 1933 film this big ape was brought to America from his island home on a huge raft King Kong |
| #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 |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | BRIEF BIOS $600: Born Benjamin Kubelsky in Waukegan in 1894, married "Mary" in 1927, turned 39 in 1933, 1934, 1935.... Jack Benny |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $1000: In 1933 she became America's first woman cabinet member when FDR appointed her labor secretary Frances Perkins |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | STATE RIVERS $300: An authority set up in 1933 has extensively dammed this river that begins just east of Knoxville Tennessee |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | PURPLE MUSIC $400: Born in Chicago in 1933, he received an Oscar nomination for his original score for "The Color Purple" Quincy Jones |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | U.S. HISTORY $200: 8 days after his March 4, 1933 inauguration, he gave his first Fireside Chat Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | FUN WITH OPERA $200: Pride! Envy! Gluttony! Lust! All that & more are dramatized in a 1933 opera named for this septet of vices "The Seven Deadly Sins" |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $800: In 1933 Brit cinema enjoyed a boost with Alexander Korda's film "The Private Life of" this king Henry VIII |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | BORN IN THE WINDY CITY $500: You're keeping up with the Joneses if you name this producer of "Thriller" who was born in Chicago in 1933 Quincy Jones |
| #3374, aired 1999-04-15 | SAINTS $200: She was canonized in 1933, 89 years after her birth in Lourdes St. Bernadette |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | "AD"JECTIVES $800: Unfavorable, like some circumstances, or the last name of Anthony in a 1933 novel adverse |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | THE IDES OF MARCH $400: March 15, 1933:
This future Supreme Court justice makes her first strenuous objection in Brooklyn Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | VICE PRESIDENTS' TERMS OF SERVICE $500: 1933-1941 John Nance Garner |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | WHAT A YEAR! $100: Dewaele won the Tour de France, Coco Chanel was the toast of Paris & Sacre Bleu!, the market crashed in this year 1929 |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | FDR $200: FDR gave the first of these talks March 12, 1933 from the White House diplomatic reception room Fireside Chats |
| #3288, aired 1998-12-16 | PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $400: March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933 Herbert Hoover |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | ORIGINAL GANGSTERS $400: This daring public enemy's high-profile career lasted only from June of 1933 to July of 1934 John Dillinger |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | COMICS & COMIC BOOKS $800: Created in 1933, this title character is a caveman from the kingdom of Moo Alley Oop |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: From 1933 to 1935, he served as president of Germany's Reichmusikkammer, or chamber of state music Richard Strauss |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | EDUCATION $200: Past giants in this university's job include Harvard's James Conant, who served from 1933 to 1953 President |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Born in Tarlac province in 1933, her original name was Maria Corazon Cojuangco Corazon Aquino |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Founded in 1933, this bookstore chain was named for the Massachusetts pond that inspired Thoreau Walden |
| #3232, aired 1998-09-29 | NAME THE MOVIE $200: 1933:
"Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." King Kong |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | 1930S SCIENCE $200: With 4 patents in 1933, Edwin H. Armstrong is credited as the sole inventor of this radio system FM (Frequency Modulation) |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | IT USED TO BE ILLEGAL $100: Cheers! This became legal again on December 5, 1933 when Utah ratified the 21st Amendment Alcohol |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | FEAR $200: Thoreau & Francis Bacon said they feared fear itself long before this man said it in 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | "NATIONAL"ISM $800: This party gained power in Germany in 1933 with the support of about 44% of voters National Socialist Party |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | SAY IT AIN'T SO $1000: It's the "devilish" denial that's the title of a 1933 Mae West movie I'm No Angel |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 created this agency that guarantees bank accounts FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | CONNECTICUTIES $600: In 1933 Marion Bergeron of West Haven became the first & only Connecticutie crowned this Miss America |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | "WALK" $200: The U.S. Army Signal Corps developed this portable 2-way radio set in 1933. Over. a walkie-talkie |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #3103, aired 1998-02-11 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: A former foreign editor of Time magazine founded this rival of Time in 1933 Newsweek |
| #3084, aired 1998-01-15 | PEANUTS $800: In 1933 J.L. Rosefield left Peter Pan & hopped into the market with this brand of peanut butter Skippy |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | ON THE GO $300: The "RR" logo on this auto's radiator plate changed from red to black in 1933 after one of the founders died Rolls-Royce |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | THE 1930s $600: When created in 1933 it insured bank accounts up to $2,500 in the case of bank failure FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Commission) |
| #3055, aired 1997-12-05 | THE 1930s $1000: In 1933 the New York Society for the Prevention of Vice wanted his "God's Little Acre" declared obscene Erskine Caldwell |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | WHY, I OTTO... $1000: The conductor of the L.A. Philharmonic from 1933 to 1939, his son Werner gained fame as Col. Klink Otto Klemperer |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: This Mississippi-born novelist published his 2nd & last book of poems, "A Green Bough", in 1933 William Faulkner |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | BLACK AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1933 this future Supreme Court justice was first in his class at Howard University Law School Thurgood Marshall |
| #3027, aired 1997-10-28 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This traitor founded Norway's equivalent of the Nazi party in 1933 Vidkun Quisling |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | MOVIE QUOTES $200: As Carl Denham, Robert Armstrong calls this 1933 title character "The Eighth Wonder of the World" King Kong |
| #3002, aired 1997-09-23 | ATHLETES $200: In 1933 he hit in 61 straight games for the San Francisco Seals; he only reached 56 as the "Yankee Clipper" Joe DiMaggio |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THE 20th CENTURY $500 (Daily Double): This country withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933 after the league condemned its attacks on China Japan |
| #2921, aired 1997-04-21 | ART $1000: From 1912 to 1933 this "Bird In Space" sculptor created a series of abstract busts of "Mademoiselle Pogany" Constantin Brancusi |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1933 this Republican began serving the first of his 2 terms as governor of Kansas Alf Landon |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE 1930s $1000: In September 1933 he led a military coup against the government of Cuba Fulgencio Batista |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | HISTORY $500: Founded in 1933, this Spanish political party was named for a Greek military formation Falange |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | JAZZ SINGERS $200: Known as "Lady Day", she began her recording career with Benny Goodman in November 1933 Billie Holiday |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | CORPORATE AMERICA $300: This bookstore chain founded by Larry Hoyt in 1933 was named for an inspirational pond Waldenbooks |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | '30S FILM FACTS $600: Randolph Scott, Buster Crabbe & this "Shane" star played ape men in the 1933 horror film "Island of Lost Souls" Alan Ladd |
| #2822, aired 1996-12-03 | DECEMBER $200: This ended in the U.S. December 5, 1933 when a 36th state ratified the 21st Amendment Prohibition |
| #2800, aired 1996-11-01 | CRIME TIME $200: His brother Buck Barrow helped him & Bonnie Parker rob a Minnesota bank May 16, 1933 Clyde Barrow |
| #2787, aired 1996-10-15 | PAINTERS $1000: After the Nazis closed this design school in 1933, Josef Albers joined the faculty of Black Mountain College Bauhaus |
| #2761, aired 1996-09-09 | AUTHORS $400: In 1933 this Tarzan creator served as mayor of Malibu Beach, California Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | PEOPLE $600: The 1933 autobiography of this Louisianian known as the "Kingfish" was titled "Every Man a King" Huey Long |
| #2739, aired 1996-06-27 | ODDS & ENDS $800: In 1933 the Bible was first completely translated into this South African tongue Afrikaans |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | SIMIAN CINEMA $100: The last line in this 1933 film is "Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." King Kong |
| #2708, aired 1996-05-15 | THE 5th $2,000 (Daily Double): It ended December 5, 1933 after Utah ratified the 21st Amendment the Prohibition |
| #2695, aired 1996-04-26 | FIRST LADIES $600: During her term as First Lady, 1929-1933, she made several radio addresses Lou Hoover |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | THE MOVIES $200: This dancer first appeared with Ginger Rogers in the 1933 film "Flying Down to Rio" Fred Astaire |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | 1933 $100: On February 15 this president-elect survived an assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | 1933 $200: Federal judge John Woolsey lifted the ban on the importation & sale of this James Joyce book "Ulysses" |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | 1933 $300: The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established this corporation that guarantees the savings of bank customers FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | 1933 $400: Known as the "Little Flower", he left the House of Representatives in 1933 & became mayor of NYC Fiorello LaGuardia |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | 1933 $500: On March 23 this German parliament relinquished its power to Adolf Hitler Reichstag |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: On October 14,1933, Germany pulled out of this international organization the League of Nations |
| #2633, aired 1996-01-31 | THE 1930s $300: A 1933 New Deal measure set up this, the TVA, to provide rural electric power in part of the South Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: The first drive-in movie theatre opened in Camden in this state in 1933 New Jersey |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: He served in the House for 30 years before becoming FDR's first vice president in 1933 John Nance Garner |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WOMEN NOVELISTS $800: She was a member of Vassar's class of 1933, like the heroines of her novel "The Group" Mary McCarthy |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: In March 1933 Congress legalized beverages containing 3.2 percent this alcohol |
| #2587, aired 1995-11-28 | ART $400: In 1932 & 1933 this Mexican muralist created a 27-panel fresco called "Detroit Industry" Diego Rivera |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | ART & ARTISTS $500: Wassily Kandinsky joined Gropius at this design school in 1922 & remained there until 1933 Bauhaus |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | DANCE $300: In 1933 Charles Weidman based a full-length modern dance work on this Voltaire novel Candide |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | PSEUDONYMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Under the pseudonym Constant Reader, she wrote book reviews for The New Yorker 1827-1933 Dorothy Parker |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: This famous diarist & her family left Germany & settled in Amsterdam in 1933 Anne Frank |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | U.S. HISTORY $800: From May 1933 until April 1947, Hoover Dam was known by this name Boulder Dam |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | CIRCUS HISTORY $500: This animal trainer who had his own circus called his 1933 memoir "The Big Cage" Clyde Beatty |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | 1933 $100: On May 26 the Australian government laid claim to one-third of this continent Antarctica |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | 1933 $200: Members of a British expedition climbed to within 1,000 feet of the summit of this highest mountain Mount Everest |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | 1933 $300: Control of this historic Baltimore fort was transferred to the National Park Service Ft. McHenry |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | 1933 $400: He was elected mayor of New York on a Fusion ticket, combining Republicans & Reform groups Fiorello La Guardia |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | 1933 $500: Engelbert Dollfuss dissolved Parliament in this European country & began to rule by decree Austria |
| #2480, aired 1995-05-19 | FAMOUS PEOPLE $200: In 1933 this discoverer of the photoelectric effect moved from Germany to Princeton, N.J. Einstein |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $100: This weekly newsmagazine was founded in 1933 by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former editor of Time Newsweek |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $100: After becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Hitler withdrew the country from this league the League of Nations |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: At his inaugural on March 4, 1933, he said, "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work" Franklin Roosevelt |
| #2442, aired 1995-03-28 | THE COLD WAR $500: Lord Mayor of Cologne 1917-1933, he later became the first Chancellor of West Germany (Konrad) Adenauer |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $100: In 1933 Frank Shields, the grandfather of this actress, was ranked No. 1 in tennis in the U.S. Brooke Shields |
| #2418, aired 1995-02-22 | 20th CENTURY DESIGN $400: He displayed his Dymaxion car at the 1933 World's Fair, but it never took off like his dome did Buckminster Fuller |
| #2404, aired 1995-02-02 | BASEBALL HISTORY $100: On July 6, 1933 the American League faced the National League in the first of these annual games the All-Star Game |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY $200: This comedian turned 39 on Valentine's Day in 1933--& remained 39 for the rest of his life Jack Benny |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: On April 7, 1933 this St. Louis brewer sent FDR its first case of beer produced after Prohibition Anheuser-Busch |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | FIRST LADIES $400: In 1933 she graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Liberal Arts Lady Bird Johnson |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | BUSINESS HISTORY $300: This co. known for its yellow rental trucks began in 1933 with a 1931 black model a Ford truck Ryder |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Conquistador", about the conquest of this country, earned Archibald MacLeish a 1933 Pulitzer Prize Mexico |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: This Constitutional Amendment was proposed by Congress in 1917, ratified in 1919 & repealed in 1933 18th Amendment |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: The brother of this polar explorer was a senator from Virginia from 1933 to 1965 Byrd |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $300: On Dec. 5, 1933 at 5:32 p.m., drinkers toasted the end of this Prohibition |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: On Jan. 30, 1933 he became Chancellor of Germany Hitler |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | AVIATION $1000: It wasn't until 1964 that Jerrie Mock became the first woman to do this; Wiley Post did it in 1933 circumnavigate the globe solo |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | THE 1930s $100: Under President Roosevelt's New Deal, this agency, also called the TVA, was established in 1933 the Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: Adopted in 1933, the 20th Amendment moved the presidential inauguration from March to this month January |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | BLACK AMERICA $800: This Supreme Court justice began practicing law in 1933, after graduating from Howard University Thurgood Marshall |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | LIBRARIES $1000: Canada's first regional library system was established in this smallest province in 1933 Prince Edward Island |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | MOVIE MONSTERS $100: The 1933 film about this big ape is credited with saving RKO Studios from bankruptcy King Kong |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $400: In 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen, the daughter of this political leader, became America's 1st woman diplomat William Jennings Bryan |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $100: In 1933 Western Union dispatched its 1st singing one of these to Rudy Vallee, in honor of his birthday a telegram |
| #2204, aired 1994-03-17 | ART $600: In 1933 Ben Shahn collaborated with this Mexican painter on a series of murals in
Rockefeller Center Diego Rivera |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former editor of Time magazine, founded this rival in 1933 Newsweek |
| #2192, aired 1994-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In February 1933 gunman Joseph Zangara missed FDR but killed Anton J. Cermak, this city's mayor Chicago |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | FIRST LADIES $400: Before she became First Lady in 1933, she taught at Todhunter, a girls' school Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | COINS $1000: In 1933 New Zealand began minting coins featuring designs of this native people the Maori |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | JANUARY 30 $200: The "William Tell" overture was the theme to this radio show that debuted January 30, 1933 The Lone Ranger |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | HUMOROUS QUOTES $500: Told of this president's death in 1933, Dorothy Parker supposedly asked, "How can they tell?" Calvin Coolidge |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Though it ended nationally in 1933, Mississippi didn't repeal it until 1966 Prohibition |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $600: Rene Clair's 1933 film "Quatorze Juillet" revolves around this holiday's festivities 14th of July (Bastille Day) |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | TRADE & COMMERCE $2,000 (Daily Double): These 2 publishers of corporate credit ratings merged in 1933 & still lead the field Dun & Bradstreet |
| #2041, aired 1993-06-21 | THE MARX BROTHERS $300: In this 1933 film Groucho plays Rufus T. Firefly, dictator of Freedonia Duck Soup |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | ASSASSINATIONS $400: In 1933 Chicago mayor Anton Cermak was accidentally killed during an attempt on this president-elect's life FDR |
| #2014, aired 1993-05-13 | ART $1000: In 1933 this Grant Wood painting was a highlight of the Art Institute of Chicago's Century of Progress exhibit "American Gothic" |
| #1994, aired 1993-04-15 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: This wine company was founded in 1933 by 2 brothers in Modesto, California Gallo |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: In 1933 he became the last president whose term of office ended on March 4 Hoover |
| #1962, aired 1993-03-02 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Elected mayor of New York in 1933, he read the comics over the radio during a newspaper strike LaGuardia |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | THE 1930s $600: In December 1933 this lady of Lourdes was made a saint Bernadette |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | FIRST LADIES $300: She was in the top 10 of her graduating class at the University of Texas in 1933 Lady Bird Johnson |
| #1902, aired 1992-12-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1933 this Norwegian founded the National Unity Party based on the Nazi Party (Vidkun) Quisling |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | DRAMA $800: The name of this 1933 Eugene O'Neill comedy ends in an exclamation point, & it isn't a musical Ah, Wilderness! |
| #1883, aired 1992-11-11 | SCIENCE FICTION $200: Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer called their 1933 novel "When Worlds" do this Collide |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | RHYME TIME $500: She played the beauty in a classic 1933 film about a beast Fay Wray |
| #1841, aired 1992-09-14 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $600: In 1933 Japan withdrew from the league because its conquest of this Chinese region wasn't recognized Manchuria |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | THE 1930s $800: In March 1933 Engelbert Dollfuss dissolved this country's parliament & banned parades Austria |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | KIDDIE LIT $200: The 1933 book "Farmer Boy" describes the childhood of her husband, Almanzo Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #1773, aired 1992-04-22 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: This fan dancer who caused a sensation at the 1933 World's Fair continued dancing until 1978 Sally Rand |
| #1755, aired 1992-03-27 | MOVIE MEALS $800: Marie Dressler headed an all-star MGM cast in this 1933 version of a Kaufman-Ferber play Dinner at Eight |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BORN IN BROOKLYN $100: This comedienne was born in Brooklyn in 1933; we assume her first words were "Can we talk?" Joan Rivers |
| #1748, aired 1992-03-18 | MAGAZINES $300: This men's lifestyle magazine was founded in Chicago in 1933 Esquire |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: The Banking Act of 1933 established the FDIC, which stands for this the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| #1709, aired 1992-01-23 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: England observes one of these holidays in August; FDR declared one that began March 6, 1933 bank holiday |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Jody Tiflin gets a red colt named Gabilan in a 1933 work by this author John Steinbeck |
| #1686, aired 1991-12-23 | CUBA $500: As an army sergeant, he led a revolt to take over Cuba in 1933 Batista |
| #1685, aired 1991-12-20 | FAMOUS ARMSTRONGS $500: In 1933 American engineer Edwin Armstrong came up with this new radio system FM (frequency modulation) |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | "JACK"s & "JILL"s $300: This beloved comedian died in 1974 at age 39, his fixed age since 1933 Jack Benny |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | THE HIMALAYAS $800: 1933 novel by James Hilton set in a Himalayan monastery Lost Horizon |
| #1626, aired 1991-09-30 | FAMOUS DOUGLASES $1000: We like the title of his 1933 book "Precious Jeopardy", but "The Robe" is more famous Lloyd C. Douglas |
| #1609, aired 1991-09-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Archaeologist who published his 3-volume work "The Tomb of Tutankhamun" between 1923 & 1933 (Howard) Carter |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Completes the title of Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel "Imitation of..." Life |
| #1541, aired 1991-04-22 | THEATER $200: In 1933, George M. Cohan appeared in the first play he didn't write, this author's first comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | MAGAZINES $500: Men's magazine that featured an article by Hemingway in its first issue in 1933 Esquire |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | WORLD WAR II $400: He was minister of propaganda for the Nazi regime from 1933-45 Joseph Goebbels |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | HOUSES $500: In a song from 1933, it's the type of house I want to go back to in Kealakekua, Hawaii a little black shack |
| #1492, aired 1991-02-12 | FIRST LADIES $700 (Daily Double): She held the first news conference in the White House by a first lady on March 6, 1933 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | WORLD LEADERS $100: She was born near Manila in 1933 to a wealthy family named Cojuangco Corazon Aquino |
| #1484, aired 1991-01-31 | FLAGS $500 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 stars on this city's flag stand for the 1893 Columbian Exposition & the 1933 World's Fair Chicago |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | MUSIC $600: To protest Nazism, in 1933 Toscanini refused to conduct at this town's Wagner Festival Bayreuth |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | THEATER $1000: The tragic 1933 play "Blood Wedding" takes place in this country Spain |
| #1468, aired 1991-01-09 | U.S. MONEY $400: This $10 gold piece, issued from 1795-1933, was named for the bird on its back the eagle |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | 1933 $200: One of the two men named Max who slugged it out in a heavyweight bout in June Max Schmeling (or Max Baer) |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | 1933 $400: The day this New York City mayor was elected, he tried to chase Tammany thugs out of a polling place LaGuardia |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | 1933 $600: In the 1933 film, this actor, playing an actor, commits suicide & misses; "Dinner at Eight" John Barrymore |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | 1933 $800: This gangster who boasted he could write his name on a wall with bullets was captured on September 26 Machine Gun Kelly |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | 1933 $2,000 (Daily Double): Congress passed the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act, setting the terms for this country's independence the Philippines |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | VICE PRESIDENTS $800: Until this man was sworn in with F.D.R. in 1933, the vice president took the oath of office in the Senate John Nance Garner |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | "DOUBLE" TROUBLE $400: A U.S. $20 gold piece issued from 1849-1933 the double eagle |
| #1396, aired 1990-10-01 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: In 1933-4 this city staged a World's Fair to celebrate its 100th anniversary Chicago |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: For those who held some illegally, May 1, 1933 was the last day to return it to the Treasury gold |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | THE NEW DEAL $800: It was created in 1933 to insure the money in the accounts of approved banks the FDIC |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | 20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: This fifth child of Emperor Hirohito was born on December 23, 1933 Akihito |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | AVIATION FIRSTS $800: In 1933 he became the first man to fly solo around the world; 2 years later he died in a crash in Alaska Wiley Post |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS $200: The "Youth" group named for this man was organized after he came to power in 1933 Hitler |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | OPERA $200: 1933's "The Willow Tree" was the 1st opera commissioned for this medium the radio |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | LAST LINES FROM MOVIES $400: This 1933 title character was eulogized with "It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." King Kong |
| #1209, aired 1989-11-30 | HISTORICAL FILMMS $300: In 1933 this solitary Swede played "Queen Christina" of Sweden Greta Garbo |
| #1205, aired 1989-11-24 | MARYLAND $600: Because it resisted this U.S. amendment from 1920-1933, Maryland became known as the Free State" prohibition |
| #1203, aired 1989-11-22 | MONEY $400: From 1795-1933 the U.S. Mint made $10 gold coins called this, the name of the bird on the obverse gold eagles |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | RECORD ALBUMS $100: He's had the most Top 40 & Top 10 albums during the rock era -- not bad for a man who's been singing since 1933 Frank Sinatra |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: Japan withdrew from it in 1933 because this group refused to recognize Japan's conquest of Manchuria the League of Nations |
| #1169, aired 1989-10-05 | COSMETICS $200: When Charles Revson founded this company in 1933, it was a nail enamel corporation Revlon |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | NOTORIOUS $200: In 1933 Italian papers were forbidden to mention that this man had become a grandfather (Benito) Mussolini |
| #1167, aired 1989-10-03 | ENDS IN "ITZ" $500: Legendary Russian-born pianist who married Arturo Toscanini's daughter Wanda in 1933 (Vladimir) Horowitz |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | MOVIE TRIVIA $200: Ted Turner has restored lost footage to this 1933 ape movie now available colorized King Kong |
| #1135, aired 1989-07-07 | JUNE $200: With a 40 ft. x 50 ft. screen & parking for 400 cars, the 1st one of these opened in 1933 in Camden, N.J. a drive-in theater |
| #1133, aired 1989-07-05 | PRESIDENTS $300: On April 5, 1933 FDR issued an executive order prohibiting the hoarding of this metal gold |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | $100: The Movieland Wax Museum statue of this star of 1933's "The Invisible Man" is just clothes & a hat Claude Rains |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | FLOWERS $100: Twining flower that opens in the a.m., or the title of a 1933 film starring Katharine Hepburn morning glory |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Title hero of Nathanael West's 1933 tale who ends up murdered by one of his correspondents Miss Lonelyhearts |
| #1089, aired 1989-05-04 | THE '30s $300: This play about Georgia sharecroppers began its record-setting Broadway run in 1933 "Tobacco Road" |
| #1064, aired 1989-03-30 | NEW YORK CITY $500: In 1933 King Kong climbed the Empire State Building; in 1976 he climbed these twin skyscrapers the World Trade Center |
| #1034, aired 1989-02-16 | FEBRUARY $300: Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was killed in 1933 when Giuseppe Zangara fired at this president-elect FDR |
| #1025, aired 1989-02-03 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: Up through 1933, VPs normally took their oath in this chamber, now they usually join the President the Senate chamber |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | BASEBALL $100: This mid-season classic started as an event of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair All-Star Game |
| #965, aired 1988-11-11 | CHOREOGRAPHERS $300: In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight Parade", and "Gold Diggers of 1933" Busby Berkeley |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | THE 20TH CENTURY $800: Born in a Tennessee log cabin, Cordell Hull held this cabinet post from 1933-44 Secretary of State |
| #933, aired 1988-09-28 | THE 1930s $200: In 1933 the Mayo Clinic established the 1st "bank" of this type blood bank |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | 1933 $400: U.S. federal judge John Woolsey ruled this James Joyce novel did not "tend to be an aphrodisiac" Ulysses |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | H. G. WELLS $400: Completes the title of his 1933 look into the future of mankind, "The Shape of..." Things to Come |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | 1933 $800: Despite the Depression, this city staged its World's Fair, The Century of Progress Exposition Chicago |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | 1933 $1,000 (Daily Double): The pope proclaimed 1933 a Holy Year as it was believed to be the 1900th anniversary of this the crucifixion of Christ |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | 1933 $1000: On February 15, Giuseppe Zangara tried to do this assassinate Franklin Roosevelt |
| #878, aired 1988-06-01 | THE MOVIES $200: In this comedy based on a 1933 German film, Julie Andrews played a woman playing a man playing a woman Victor Victoria |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | GOVERNMENT $800: Adopted by Congress in 1913, this act completely reorganized the U.S. banking system the Owen-Glass Act (the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $300: U.S. recognized the Soviet Union, Prohibition was repealed, Hitler was appointed German chancellor 1933 |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | FAMOUS ALICES $800: Her "Autobiography", published in 1933, was actually written by a close friend Alice B. Toklas |
| #763, aired 1987-12-23 | RULERS $600: Though the 13th Dalai Lama died in 1933, it wasn't until 1940 that this country got a 14th Tibet |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | 1933 $200: Mahatma Gandhi's weight fell to 80 lbs. during a 3-week fast protesting ostracism of these "outcastes" the untouchables |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | 1933 $400: Time reported that children of Hameln, Germany proclaimed on his birthday in '33 "You are now our Pied Piper" Hitler |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | 1933 $600: On Dec. 5, when predominantly Mormon Utah became 36th state to consent, this came to an end Prohibition, or the Volstead Act |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | 1933 $800: Over 2 million New Yorkers turned out for election which chose him the city's 99th mayor Fiorello La Guardia |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | 1933 $1000: It was reported in June that Americans were hoarding $604 million worth of this, defying a 2-month-old law gold |
| #750, aired 1987-12-04 | ART $400: In 1933, the Nazis closed down this school of art & architecture founded in 1919 by Gropius Bauhaus |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | THE MOVIES $600: In the 1933 & 1949 versions of this kiddie classic, Katharine Hepburn, then June Allyson, played Jo Little Women |
| #706, aired 1987-10-05 | MAE WEST $400: She did Cary Grant right by insisting on him as her co-star in this 1933 classic She Done Him Wrong |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | KITCHEN FIRSTS $200: Made by Henry Avery in 1890, the 1st saucepan made of this metal was used until 1933 by Mrs. Avery aluminum |
| #693, aired 1987-09-16 | U.S. CURRENCY $100: Nickname of the U.S. $10 gold coin minted between 1795 & 1933, it also came in double & half varieties an eagle |
| #660, aired 1987-06-19 | "NEVER" & "EVER" SONGS $1000: Critic L. Maltin said this finale song of 1933 Ginger Rogers' movie "Sitting Pretty" saved the film "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking" |
| #659, aired 1987-06-18 | KITCHEN FIRSTS $100: Campbell's #1 selling soup, it was 1st available in 1933 chicken noodle |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | FIRSTS $400: The 1st modern strike of this type was held at a Hormel packing plant in 1933 a sit-down strike |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | BANKING $300: To stem a panic in 1933, FDR declared this, to begin March 6 bank holiday |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $300: Sociologist Frances Perkins, appointed labor secretary in 1933 first woman in the cabinet |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: From 1933 to 1987 this party won control of both houses of Congress 23 of 27 times the Democratic Party |
| #591, aired 1987-03-16 | MOVIE PAIRS $1000: They were 1st paired when "Flying Down to Rio" in 1933 Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire |
| #542, aired 1987-01-06 | SPORTS $100: 1st called "kitten ball," it was invented in 1887 as an indoor derivative of baseball softball |
| #518, aired 1986-12-03 | AVIATION $200: It's said that by 1933, world's busiest airport was Newark air terminal serving this metropolis New York City |
| #497, aired 1986-11-04 | PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED $800: In 1933, this 1-eyed Texan became the 1st man to fly solo around the world Wiley Post |
| #466, aired 1986-09-22 | BRIDGES $400: Construction started on both these major San Francisco area bridges in 1933 The Golden Gate & the (Oakland) Bay Bridge |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | MAY $300: The Hall of Science at the May 1933 Chicago expo was empty due to her fan dance at another exhibit Sally Rand |
| #391, aired 1986-03-10 | MISSISSIPPI $400: Though repealed nationally in 1933, it remained the law in Mississippi until 1966 Prohibition |
| #366, aired 1986-02-03 | JANUARY $200: On Jan. 30, 1933, "The Lone Ranger" debuted on radio, & this man became Chancellor of Germany Hitler |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $300: When told this president died in 1933, acerbic Dorothy Parker asked, "How could they tell?" Calvin Coolidge |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | PUBLISHING $1000: Publishers of Dr. Seuss, in 1933, they won the U.S.'s most famous censorship case on "Ulysses" Random House |
| #329, aired 1985-12-12 | ANGELS $300: In "She Done Him Wrong" & this other 1933 movie, Mae West got her 1st star billings I'm No Angel |
| #302, aired 1985-11-05 | A "FAIR" TO REMEMBER $500: Will Rogers starred in the 1st version in 1933, long before Rodgers & Hammerstein added music State Fair |
| #299, aired 1985-10-31 | PEOPLE $100: Lena Horne got her start in the chorus of this Harlem club in 1933 the Cotton Club |
| #290, aired 1985-10-18 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: Cary Grant played the Mock Turtle in this 1933 fantasy film classic Alice in Wonderland |
| #287, aired 1985-10-15 | PARKS $200: Baseball's first ever All-Star Game was played in 1933 in this Chicago stadium Comiskey Park |
| #160, aired 1985-04-19 | 1933 $100: You never saw FDR smoking a cigarette without one of these cigarette holder |
| #160, aired 1985-04-19 | 1933 $200: In Berlin, in May, this was done to works of Freud, Einstein and Thomas Mann, among others burning |
| #160, aired 1985-04-19 | 1933 $300: In the U.S., hoarders of this type of coinage were jailed & fined for refusing to surrender them gold |
| #160, aired 1985-04-19 | 1933 $400: Judge Joseph Davis ruled her Chicago World's Fair fan-dancing act legal Sally Rand |
| #160, aired 1985-04-19 | 1933 $500: Mae West told this British newcomer to "Come up & see me sometime" before "She Done Him Wrong" Cary Grant |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | SPORTS TRIVIA $500: The 2 Maxes who faced each other in a celebrated 1933 heavyweight bout Baer and Schmeling |
| #139, aired 1985-03-21 | AVIATION $400: In June 1933, Wiley Post was 1st to do it, landing only 11 times flying around the world |
| #129, aired 1985-03-07 | THE '30S $200: In Feb. 1933, he was appointed Chancellor of Germany Hitler |
| #90, aired 1985-01-11 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: "Holiday" FDR declared, March 6, 1933 the bank holiday |
