| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $200: Agatha Christie set part of this 1937 mystery at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan Death on the Nile |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Max Brod edited this author's letters & diaries & published a 1937 biography of him Kafka |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LECTURING YOU ON SCIENCE $1200: The 1937 Nobel chemistry lecture on "The Structure of" these explains the progress in understanding starches Carbohydrates |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: A humanitarian award presented at the Oscars is named for this actor who played the grandfather in the 1937 film "Heidi" Jean Hersholt |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: On July 2, 1937 in one of her final transmissions, she reported that "gas is running low" Earhart |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $400: A New York Times headline read this oil man's "gifts total $530,853,632", remarkably specific on the day after his death in 1937 (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $1200: This title of Edward Wadsworth's 1937 surrealistic work is a word for mystery & riddle used about Russia by Churchill around the same time Enigma |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE PAST, PRESENTLY $600: The 15th century Church of Santa María in this city endured through the 1937 attack that inspired a classic work of art Guernica |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $200: Lindbergh is mentioned in the first paragraph of her 1937 obit Amelia Earhart |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | SCULPTURE $2000: In 1937 this British sculptor said that he associated the openings in his hole-y works with caves Henry Moore |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $2,800 (Daily Double): This biologist first gained acclaim for writing in 1937 with her article, "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly Rachel Carson |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $400: Discovered in 1937, Caracol, Spanish for "snail" was a city of this Mesoamerican people & flourished in the 600s the Mayans |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | LET'S "T" UP THE MAP $2000: Saddam Hussein was born near this city on the west bank of the Tigris in 1937 & was pulled out of the ground in its vicinity in 2003 Tikrit |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! $800: Disney meets Kurosawa: An animated 1937 title woman "& the" title septet led by Takashi Shimura Snow White and the Seven Samurai |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE $200: Upon completion in 1937, it was the world's tallest & longest bridge of this type that uses cables above the span a suspension bridge |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | & SCENE $1600: In this 1937 tearjerker, Barbara Stanwyck in the title role watches through a window as her daughter gets married Stella Dallas |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | MAGAZINES $800: Launched in 1937, this similar 4-letter magazine gave Life some stiff competition before ending its run in 1971 Look |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $1600: In 1937 an honorary Oscar was named for this MGM "boy wonder" who died young, & oh--the building named for him is not far (Irving G.) Thalberg |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $1000: With proud daughters Elizabeth & Margaret, this king is seen at the time of his coronation--May 12, 1937 George VI |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | AIR TRAVEL $1200: The Hindenburg disaster in 1937 marked an end to regular passenger service aboard this type of rigid airship a zeppelin |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | DE-COMPOSING $800: This Frenchman died on Dec. 28, 1937, never knowing he'd play a crucial musical part in a Bo Derek film Maurice Ravel |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $200: She & co-pilot Fred Noonan were last heard from July 2, 1937 Earhart |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $400: 1937:
"The happiest, dopiest, grumpiest, sneeziest movie of the year" Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: She had completed some 22,000 miles of a 29,000-mile trip around the world when she disappeared in 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT $200: The Smithsonian exhibited a ticket costing a pricey 1,000 reichsmarks for the 1937 last flight of this transport the Hindenburg |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): N.E. of Bilbao, this town was the site of tragedy on April 26, 1937, when 1/3 of its people were killed or wounded in a German attack Guernica |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $800: In 1937 Walter Reuther of this union gained fame via photos of him being beaten up passing out leaflets at a Ford plant the (United) Autoworkers Union (UAW) |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | ALLITERATION $1200: Get 'em hot! Vernon Rudolph founded this donut chain in 1937 Krispy Kreme |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $200: Among her last confirmed words on July 2, 1937 were "We are on the line 157-337" (Amelia) Earhart |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | BYE, GEORGE $1000: On June 23, 1937 this American composer complained of headaches, & an L.A. hospital diagnosed hysteria; on July 11 he died George Gershwin |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TRANSPLANTS $800: Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, she brought her danse sauvage to Paris in 1925 & became a French citizen in 1937 Josephine Baker |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | CROSS THAT BRIDGE $400: San Francisco junior college track team member Don Bryant was the first of 200,000 to get across this on its 1937 opening day the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1937 this man took control of the Falange Española, soon to be the nation's only legal political party Franco |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $400: This tragic 1937 novella now looks kind of cute Of Mice and Men |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $200: Her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" commemorates their brief affair during his exile Frida Kahlo |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | IN THE CHEMISTRY LAB $400: In 1937 isotopes of this element, Cl, were separated using a vacuum ultracentrifuge chlorine |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS $1200: News coverage of the horrific bombing of a Spanish Basque city by the Germans in 1937 led Picasso to create this huge anti-war painting Guernica |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ON THE TRANSCRIPT... $1600: Of the radio broadcast of this 1937 disaster: "There's smoke and there's flames... Oh, the humanity" the burning of the Hindenburg |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | HOLMES & WATSON $400: At Jarama in 1937 anti-fascist Alonzo Watson became the first African American killed in this country's Civil War Spain |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | TRANSPORTATION $1200: In 1937 the XC-35 was the first plane with a pressurized cabin; before that everyone wore these, now used in emergencies oxygen masks |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | FINALS $800: Leaving from Frankfurt on May 3, 1937, its 63rd flight would be its last, ending in tragedy the Hindenburg |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BUSINESS HISTORY $800: This cookie company was founded in 1937 by a Connecticut woman & named for her family's country home Pepperidge Farm |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | MOVIE TIME $600: Marge Champion, the model for this title character of a 1937 Disney film, was briefly married to the animator who developed Goofy Snow White |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $200: In 1937 this future U.S. commander in chief made his film debut in "Love is on the Air" Ronald Reagan |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: The citric acid cycle also goes by the name of this German-born biochemist who discovered it in 1937 Krebs |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $400: 1937, starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: "Shall We ____" Dance |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: In this 1937 memoir Isak Dinesen told of her life in Kenya, where she managed a coffee plantation Out of Africa |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $1600: An essay that she wrote about marine life called "World of Waters" was published in 1937 as "Undersea" Rachel Carson |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $800: The black, white & gray imagery in this 1937 Picasso mural includes a braying horse that has stumbled over a fallen warrior Guernica |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE NEBULA AWARDS $200: The Dramatic Presentation Award is named for this Martian chronicler who joined the L.A. Science Fiction League in 1937 Bradbury |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | 1930s AMERICA $1000: In 1937 his theories on organic architecture came together beautifully with the completion of the Fallingwater house Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: Back in 1937 a magazine complained about the cliche "Working hard or..." this phrase hardly working |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1937:
"De ratones y hombres" Of Mice and Men |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | A TRIP AROUND THE LIBRARY $1200: An almanac in the reference section will tell us he served as British P.M. from 1937 to 1940; we'll tell you that did not go well Chamberlain |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | -OLOGIES $1200: Charles Richter taught this -ology at Caltech from 1937 to 1970 seismology |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | SPORTS JOES $600: He was world heavyweight champ from 1937 to 1949 (Joe) Louis |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $800: Walt Disney received a special Oscar for this 1937 film the Academy called "a significant screen innovation" Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | THE NOT-SO-ROARING '30s $800: Lakehurst, New Jersey was the scene of this 1937 disaster the Hindenburg |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | RADIO: THEN & NOW $2000: Following this radio inventor's death in 1937, stations in Italy, Britain & the U.S. observed several minutes of silence Marconi |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | AMERICANA $400: Naval Academy graduate Edward "Butch" O'Hare, class of 1937, had one of these named for him in 1949 an airport |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | BOULDER DASH $200: In this 1937 animated classic, the wicked queen tries to kill the title septet with a boulder, but it ends up backfiring Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | INSURED BY LLOYD'S $1600: Lloyd's insured many airships, including this one that came to a disastrous end in 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | STATE THE PROBLEM $1000: Company thugs assault UAW leaders in the 1937 "Battle of the Overpass" Michigan |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | "M"EN OF THE PAST $3,000 (Daily Double): On July 20, 1937 , we short-waved goodbye to this Italian inventor Marconi |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THIS & THAT $800: The U.S. Navy wanted to paint this bridge that opened in 1937 with yellow & black stripes so that it would be more visible in the fog the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | HISTORY, BRIEFLY $800: This rigid airship made its first Atlantic crossing in May 1936 & its last in 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $200: In 1937 a search party was sent for one of the goalies when a soccer game was stopped in England due to this weather condition fog |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $600: "The Good Earth", released in 1937 after his death, was the first film with the name of this MGM production head in the credits (Irving) Thalberg |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: C.S. Lewis' review of this 1937 work by pal J.R.R. Tolkien said, "Prediction is dangerous but" it "may well prove a classic" The Hobbit |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $800: About a dozen transatlantic trips were scheduled for this airship; after May 1937, tickets became void the Hindenburg |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | LET'S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Amelia Earhart left New Guinea on July 2, 1937, with but three more stops on her worldwide quest--Howland Island, this future state capital, and Oakland Honolulu |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | THEIR NAME IS LEGION $800: On April 26, 1937 the Condor Legion, a unit of the Luftwaffe, devastated this Basque city Guernica |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | AT THE BALLPARK $200: Ivy since 1937; lights since 1988 Wrigley Field |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | HOTELS $1600: Agatha Christie stayed at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan & used it as a setting in this 1937 mystery Death on the Nile |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $400: In the preface to this 1937 book, Tolkien explains that he is using "dwarves" instead of the preferred plural, "dwarfs" The Hobbit |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | DEPRESSION-ERA DINING $600: In 1937 Kraft changed everything by combining these 2 ingredients in a box macaroni and cheese |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | SIGH... POLI SCI $800: The Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937 represented this "-ism" in U.S. foreign policy in the run-up to World War II isolationism |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | DEATH ON THE NILE $400: This virus that kills both birds & humans was first isolated in Uganda in 1937 West Nile Virus |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $400: First discovered in 1937, the West Nile Virus is transmitted to humans by these mosquitos |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | I REMEMBER APRIL $800: As many as 300 civilians died during the April 26, 1937 bombing of this Basque city Guernica |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE 1930s $800: The German government founded this company in 1937 to produce a low-priced "people's car" Volkswagen |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE 1930s $1000: Orson Welles & John Houseman formed this theatre in 1937 Mercury Theatre |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | TITLES FROM POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men" Robert Burns and John Steinbeck |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | JOY TO THE WORLD $800: People with allergies could breathe easier in 1937 when Swiss doctor Daniel Bovet discovered the first of these an antihistamine |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $800: A statement against war, this giant painting was commissioned for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair Guernica |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN $1000: One estimate said this man's wealth near his 1937 death would be the equivalent of four times Bill Gates' wealth (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): The unfortunate Captain Max Pruss was in command of this vehicle over New Jersey on May 6, 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN IN THE PARK $600: Forsooth! in 1937 Bill Veeck put forth a noble idea he'd seen in 2 minor league venues; add this to thy field's walls, Mr. Wrigley! ivy |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $2000: This Dominican dictator fomented prejudice against migrants from Haiti & had thousands of them killed in 1937 Trujillo |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This first Disney animated feature had its world premiere on December 21, 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | FASHION $1200: In 1937 Elsa Schiaparelli's new color, a shocking shade of this, was the sensation of the fashion world pink |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | THE EXPLORERS CLUB $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Explorers Club in New York.) These seal-skinned mittens with polar bear fur inserts were made by an Inuit woman for this polar explorer, who in 1937 became the first African American admitted to the Explorers Club Matthew Henson |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1600: May 7, 1937:
It "Burns in Lakehurst Crash; 21 Known Dead, 12 Missing; 64 Escape" the Hindenburg |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | TV MOVIES $1600: This 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston was turned into a TV movie starring Halle Berry Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | EUROPEAN RULERS $1,000 (Daily Double): The May 12, 1937 coronation of this British king was on the date originally set for his brother George VI |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | BOOKS OF THE 1930s $800: This novel came out in 1936, was the No. 1 fiction bestseller of 1937 & hit the big screen in 1939 Gone with the Wind |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $4,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1937 novel about migrant laborers comes from a line in Robbie's poem "To a Mouse" Of Mice and Men |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | PILOT WEAR $400: Since 1937 Ray-Ban has been making these accessories that sound like they were custom made for piloting aviators |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | AMERICA SINCE 1900 $400: FDR dedicated the 1,450-foot-wide Bonneville one of these in 1937, pushing a button to start the first generator a hydroelectric plant (or dam) |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE AREN'T BIBLE BOOKS $1000: Stewart O'Nan's "West of Sunset" chronicles the life of this troubled writer in 1937 Hollywood F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $400: Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with a special 8-piece Academy Award honoring this 1937 release Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $600: Past KKK membership didn't stop Alabama's Hugo Black when he was appointed to this body in 1937 the Supreme Court |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | IN TROUBLE WITH THE FCC $600: The FCC rebuked NBC for a 1937 radio skit about Adam & Eve by this suggestive "I'm No Angel" blonde Mae West |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | THE TYPE OF TRANSPORT $400: The LZ 129, doomed in 1937 a Zeppelin |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | WHAT THE "H"? $400: Its deadly demise in 1937 marked the end of the use of airships for commercial air transportation the Hindenburg |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: A prominent member of the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Zora Neale) Hurston |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | ALWAYS READY: THE U.S. COAST GUARD $400: Her last radio communication was July 2, 1937 with the cutter Itasca, which immediately sped off to search for her Amelia Earhart |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | "G" WHIZZES $1600: In 1937 one of his rockets reached 1.8 miles; no projectile had ever gone higher (Robert) Goddard |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | HISTORIA $200: On April 19, 1937 this military man fused Spain's Fascist Party, the Falange, with the Carlists Franco |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2000: This November observance, when girls court guys, began with a 1937 Li'l Abner comic strip Sadie Hawkins Day |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | POP CULTURE FROM BARTLETT SHER $2000: Sher directed a revival of this playwright's 1937 drama "Golden Boy" (Clifford) Odets |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | WINTER IS COMING $1000: Stranded on his farm one winter around 1937, Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Quebec invented this transport the snowmobile |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, GA.) The runner-up for the Heisman in 1937 for his play at Colorado perhaps will see his judicial robes honored someday in the Supreme Court hall of fame Byron "Whizzer" White |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GETTING OFF THE GROUND $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Here's the route she took trying to fly around the world; in July 1937, she began the longest leg of the journey, 2,600 miles over open water to Howland Island; she never made it Amelia Earhart |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | GIVE ME A RING $400: In this 1937 Tolkien story, The One Ring was a magic ring of invisibility; in later tales it acquired darker powers The Hobbit |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | LIGHTHOUSES $800: In 1937 a lighthouse was constructed & named for her on tiny Howland Island, an island she never reached (Amelia) Earhart |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY $800: The Temple of Abu Simbel is one of the stops on a cruise in this 1937 mystery Death on the Nile |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | DISCOVERIES $1,500 (Daily Double): This dangerous virus transmitted by a mosquito was first discovered in Africa in 1937 the West Nile virus |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | LYRICISTS $800: Johnny Mercer came out here in 1935 & co-wrote the 1937 song "Hooray for" it "Hollywood" |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | EUROPE TO NO GOOD $800: Certainly up to no good were Hitler & this Italian leader, pictured together in 1937 Mussolini |
| #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 |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | CLASSICAL RADIO $400: This U.S. network created an orchestra in 1937; now it brings us "Celebrity Apprentice" NBC |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | THE '30s $800: On May 6, 1937 WLS radio reporter Herb Morrison cried that "it burst into flames" the Hindenburg |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | ON THE ROAD AGAIN $1000: This 717-mile road was built by the Chinese in 1937 & 1938 to transport war supplies from the country it's named for the Burma Road |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | COOL IDEA $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.) In 1937, a bill was introduced in Congress
to carve a fifth figure on Mount Rushmore, this suffragette, but it never happened Susan B. Anthony |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | MOVIEMAKERS $400: As supervising director on this 1937 film, David Hand had trouble getting Grumpy to be grumpy enough Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE THEATRE $2000: In 1937 John Houseman & Orson Welles founded this repertory company that did radio as well as stage the Mercury Theatre |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | OOO, SORRY $600: In 1998 the German parliament formally said "we're sorry" for the 1937 bombing of this Basque "holy city" Gernika |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE $600: A 1937 Tolkien tale:
Article The |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1937 short novel by Steinbeck:
Preposition Of |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $1000: In 1937 it was the Republicans over the Nationalists at the Jarama River near this European capital, but the Nats won the war Madrid |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | STATE OF THE ART $800: Georgia O'Keeffe's "My Backyard", painted in 1937 New Mexico |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | COMPOSERS $800: In 1918 he teamed with older brother Ira for the first time, a collaboration that lasted until his death in 1937 George Gershwin |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $400: Radio reporter Herbert Morrison cried, "oh, the humanity!" about this May 6, 1937 disaster (the crash of) the Hindenburg |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ACCESSORIES $800: In 1937, long before its instant cameras, Polaroid began making these sunglasses |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $200: This Hemingway novel takes place over 3 days near Segovia, Spain in 1937 For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | BIOLOGY CLASS $1000: In 1937 this German-born biochemist discovered the citric acid cycle that bears his name (Hans) Krebs |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | "ACA"DEMIA $200: Kraft first boxed it up with cheese in 1937 macaroni |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $2000: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Scenic spots in Palm Springs & a humongous set on a Columbia Pictures backlot were used to create this Utopian land in 1937's "Lost Horizon" Shangri-La |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | COLORFUL MOVIES $400: "Someday My Prince Will Come" is a song from this 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $200: A down under tradition since 1937 is these "by candlelight", with Aussies singing outdoors in the summer weather carols |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | 1930s ENGINEERING FEATS $200: On opening day in 1937, the San Francisco Chronicle referred to it as a "35 million dollar steel harp" the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | 1930s ENGINEERING FEATS $1000: Between 1937 & 1939 NYC's North Beach Airport was enlarged, becoming what's now this airport LaGuardia |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | BRITISH POETS $2000: This Brit's works included many political poems, including "Spain 1937" about the Spanish Civil War W.H. Auden |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | MAPPING THE NFL $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the US with a city marked.) Founded in Cleveland in 1937, this team moved west in 1946, and since 1995, has grazed over here the St. Louis Rams |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | ONE LOVE $800: In 1937 this man, the VIII no longer, wed his American bride; the 2 would be wed for 35 years Edward VIII |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | VERTICAL LANDMARKS $2,200 (Daily Double): The 2 towers of this bridge completed in 1937 are 746 feet high & 4,200 feet apart: that's about 4/5 of a mile the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | A BUNCH OF BOOKS $200: John Steinbeck, 1937:
"Of ___ and ___" Of Mice and Men |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | IT'S MAY $200: In May 1937 35 of the 97 aboard this German airship were killed after it exploded the Hindenburg |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $1600: The Necronomicon, an ancient evil Book of the Dead, wreaks havoc in several stories by this author who died in 1937 (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY $2000: Why:
Because it was filled with flammable gas that was ignited by electricity, said the report of August 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | WASHINGTON, D.C. SCULPTURE $600: A bronze boy scout stands on the site where the first of these national scout gatherings was held in 1937 a jamboree |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | COMPOSERS $400: This "Rhapsody In Blue" composer was just 38 when he died in 1937 following brain surgery Gershwin |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | 1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $400: Norman Haworth, who synthesized this vitamin aka ascorbic acid, won a 1937 Nobel Prize Vitamin C |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | GONE BABY GONE $200: She was last seen in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra in July 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | BESTSELLERS $400: In "Prague Winter" this former Secretary of State told "A personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948" (Madeleine) Albright |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | TITLE CHARACTERS $400: In a 1937 novel, Bilbo Baggins The Hobbit |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | KEYBOARD CATS $800: In 1937 this keyboard noble wrote & recorded what became his band's theme song, "One O'Clock Jump" Count Basie |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | I DON'T KNOW YOU FROM ADAMS $1600: Ansel Adams' 1937 portrait of this painter told me nothing new about her Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | BOOK LEARNIN' $2000: Want to know how it was for a European woman running an African coffee plantation in the 1920s? Read this 1937 book Out of Africa |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,800 (Daily Double): Although the first celebration of this holiday occurred in October 1792, it didn't become a federal holiday until 1937 Columbus Day |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | 1937 $200: On March 26 spinach growers in Crystal City, Texas dedicated a statue honoring this comic strip character Popeye |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | 1937 $400: This vessel that met disaster on May 6 had a frame of a lightweight alloy called duralumin the Hindenburg |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | 1937 $600: In December he was appointed U.S. ambassador to Great Britain; wife Rose & his large family accompanied him there Joseph Kennedy |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | 1937 $800: Soviet planes destroyed Italian tanks in the Battle of Guadalajara in this war the Spanish Civil War |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | 1937 $1000: In 1937 NBC Radio created a symphony orchestra for this Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | SAN FRANCISCO ATTRACTIONS $800: Take a scenic 1.75-mile walk across this landmark completed in 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM $800: In 1937 Texas created this "control district" to combat a disaster that wreaked havoc in 1929 & 1935 a flood control district |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | U.S. COINS $600: A 1937 Indian head nickel that featured this animal on the reverse with only 3 legs is a collector's item a buffalo |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | GLUTEN-FREE FOODS $400: This classic canned meat from Hormel that debuted in 1937 has no gluten Spam |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | FLOAT SAM & JET SAM $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1937 to 1940 Samuel Eliot Morison researched a 450th anniversary bio by retracing this man's voyages Christopher Columbus |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OPERA $1200: Alban Berg's 1937 opera is a real doozy, or a real this, the double-talk name of its title character Lulu |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | ORANGE YOU HUNGRY? $800: A Kraft favorite debuted in 1937 containing this food in orange powder form cheese |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | SCHOOLS OF THE HEISMEN $400: 1936 & 1937:
Larry Kelley & Clint Frank of this Ivy Leaguer--take that, Harvard! Yale |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | WALT DISNEY $600: Walt has more Oscars than anyone else in history, including the unique one for this 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | LATE MAN $2000: Professor Nicolae Popescu, 1937-2010, made many contributions to this branch of math with an Arabic name algebra |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | NOVEL QUOTES $400: 1937:
"A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart" The Hobbit |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | WHO PAINTED WHOM? $200: 1937:
"Portrait of Diego Rivera" (Frida) Kahlo |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | THE 1930s $800: This son of Man O' War, with "war" in his own name, won the Triple Crown in 1937 War Admiral |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $800: Completed in 1937, this span cost $35 million to build the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | IT'S A DISASTER $600: Spectacular May 1937 newsreel footage showed this New Jersey air disaster (the crash of) the Hindenburg |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | YOU SAY MYANMAR, I SAY BURMA $200: Until 1937, Burma was a province of this big neighboring current country India |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | NAME THAT PREZ $600: From 1937 to 1940 his father was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain JFK |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TALKIN' TOLKIEN $800: Tolkien insisted on spelling this plural with a "ves", not an "fs" as in a 1937 Disney fairy tale title dwarves |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $400: This 1937 film tells us, "The Prince, who had searched far and wide, heard of the maiden who slept in the glass coffin" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE WAR OF ART $2,000 (Daily Double): A dismembered hand clutching a sword in black & white is part of this 1937 work inspired by the bombing of a city Guernica |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | HAPPY TRAILS $400: Completed in 1937, this 2,000-mile hiking trail passes through 14 states the Appalachian Trail |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | WHAT'S THAT WAR? $1,500 (Daily Double): 1937:
German planes bomb Almeria the Spanish Civil War |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | LIVE LONG & PROSPER $200: When he died in 1937 at the age of 97, this oil man had given away more than $500 million; he still left his kids a few bucks (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | THIS... WAS... JEOPARDY! $400: On June 1, 1937, she took off from Miami to fly around the world, but that didn't work out so well Earhart |
| #5971, aired 2010-07-26 | ORIGINAL TITLES IN LITERATURE? $200: 1937:
"Ferris Bilbo's Day Off" The Hobbit |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | EXPO $800: It's the structure representing a country; at the 1937 Paris Expo, you could see "Guernica" at the Spanish one a pavilion |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: This 1937 Agatha Christie novel is set on the steamer Karnak as it cruises down an African river Death on the Nile |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | PAINTINGS $400: "Deer's Horns, Near Cameron" was the original title of her 1937 painting "From the Faraway, Nearby" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | THAT'S HOT! $400: This country's record high is 114 at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan in 1937 Canada |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $2000: In an attempt to write a hit to finance the Group Theatre, he wrote "Golden Boy" in 1937 Clifford Odets |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | DRAWN-OUT DRAMAS $1600: Debuting in 1937, "The Lost Colony" by Pulitzer winner Paul Green has been playing in Manteo in this state for 73 years North Carolina |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: From 1935 to 1937 she worked at Purdue University as a career counselor & as an advisor in aeronautics Amelia Earhart |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | LAST OF A DYING BREED $400: It's not so gr-r-reat that the last known member of the Balinese species of this big cat was killed in 1937 a tiger |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | WOMEN'S SPORTS HISTORY $800: 1937:
Entering a mostly male domain, Conchita Cintron begins her career as one of these in Mexico a bullfighter |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $1000: Many areas were indiscriminately bombed & destroyed, like this town seen in a famous 1937 painting Guernica |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BREAKFAST CEREALS $800: This cereal was introduced by General Mills in 1937; maybe you'll get it on Route 66? Kix |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | SERIOUS RADIO $800: In a May 6, 1937 radio broadcast, Herb Morrison said of it, "The frame is crashing to the ground... Oh, the humanity" the Hindenburg |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | COLIN POWELL $400: The son of Jamaican immigrants, Colin was born in this section of Manhattan in 1937 Harlem |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | ANDY IS DANDY $1000: Starting with 1937's "A Family Affair", Mickey Rooney played this movie character in 16 films Andy Hardy |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE NIFTY 1930s $2,600 (Daily Double): Agatha Christie set Hercule Poirot afloat on a boat called the Karnak in this exotic 1937 novel Death on the Nile |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $1600: "You Can't Take It With You" unless you're George S. Kaufman & this partner, who took home the prize in 1937 Moss Hart |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WHO'S THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL? $200: In a 1937 Disney film, the wicked queen is miffed when the mirror says the fairest one is this heroine Snow White |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | MMM...DONUTS $200: This chain known for its conveyor belts full of hot glazed donuts opened its first store in North Carolina in 1937 Krispy Kreme |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | WHAT A KNOCKOUT! $800: In 1937 he became the first African-Amer. heavyweight champ since Jack Johnson, with a K.O. of James J. Braddock Joe Louis |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MUSEUMS $1600: In 1937 the State Museum of Fine Art in Moscow was named for this man, though he was a poet, not a painter (Alexander) Pushkin |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | DAY PLANNERS OF THE STARS $600: Dec. 21, 1937: daughter Jane is born. Feb. 23, 1940: Son Peter is born.
Jan. 27, 1964: Granddaughter Bridget is born Henry Fonda |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | TRANSPORTATION $2000: Ernst Henne was "the fastest man on two wheels", hitting 173 mph in 1937 on a motorcycle from this company BMW |
| #5622, aired 2009-02-03 | GIVE THE BUCHAREST $1600: This star of 1937's "The Last Gangster" was born Emanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania Edward G. Robinson |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR $1000: On this November holiday created in 1937 by Al Capp in "Li'l Abner", unmarried women pursue bachelors Sadie Hawkins Day |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | GENIUS BY MUSE $1600: Singer Lotte Lenya, whom he married in 1926 & in 1937 Kurt Weill |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | VERY ANIMATED ACTORS $400: Pinto Colvig was the original voice of Goofy, but in this 1937 classic he got to be Sleepy & Grumpy Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | THEY GOT STRUCK $800: By the UAW in Flint, December 1936 to February 1937 General Motors |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | TRANSPLANT $2000: Born in England in 1937, this painter discovered sunny California in the 1960s & made it his home David Hockney |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY $800: From 1917 to 1937 he took more than 300 portraits of his wife, artist Georgia O'Keeffe Stieglitz |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | THE "7"-YEAR ITCH $1000: The fiery crash of the Hindenburg in this year ended the Zeppelin era 1937 |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: Richard Nixon graduated from this North Carolina university's law school in 1937 Duke |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | 25 $400: From 1937 to 1949, he successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title a record 25 times (Joe) Louis |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | WORLD O' FACTS $1200: A 1937 general strike in Trinidad is commemorated every June 19, celebrated as this day Labor Day |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE $600: It's much easier for me to drink your milkshake with the new type of this simple device patented in 1937 a (flexible) straw |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | HEAVYWEIGHTS $200: Between 1937 & 1942, he successfully defended his heavyweight title 21 times Joe Louis |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $1200: 1937:
"...and Daniel Webster" The Devil |
| #5448, aired 2008-04-23 | FUN WITH FASHION $400: Some of the new Disney Princess bridal gowns were inspired by this 1937 heroine (also an appropriate bridal color) Snow White |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | CENTRAL PARK $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew walks on the grass in Central Park.) The area that's hosted a mass by Pope John Paul II & a concert by Simon & Garfunkel has been called the "Great" this since it was planted with grass in 1937 the Great Lawn |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | NONFICTION $1200: In this 1937 memoir, Isak Dinesen wrote about life & love on her coffee plantation in Kenya Out of Africa |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $400: This Southern epic swept across the nation as the bestselling fiction book of 1936 & 1937 Gone with the Wind |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | NAME THE NOVEL $200: 1937:
"I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you" The Hobbit |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: In 1937 Carlo Perrier & Emilio Segre filled in no. 43 on this table, the first entry to be artificially produced the periodic table |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | CARPOOL TUNNEL SYNDROME $1200: NYC stockbrokers from Secaucus can carpool through this "presidential" structure that opened in 1937 the Lincoln Tunnel |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall.)
I'm at the National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall in the cockpit of a Lockheed Electra, like the one that vanished with this woman who was trying to fly around the world in 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | LE CINEMA $1600: This director, son of a famous impressionist painter, is perhaps best known for his 1937 film 'Grand Illusion" Jean Renoir |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | ENERGY $400: In 1937 an explosion of this, unodorized, killed 300 people in a New London, Texas school natural gas |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | "AA" $800: This Scandinavian auto company started out in 1937 as a national aircraft manufacturer Saab |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $800: Seen here is a dramatic 1937 photo of a tragedy in this New Jersey town Lakehurst |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | LET'S GET MARRIED $2,000 (Daily Double): This Baltimore divorcee's marriage to an Englishman on June 3, 1937 made headlines Wallis Simpson |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | HISTORICAL BLOGS. $1000: July 1, 1937: Fred & I are leaving New Guinea for Howland Island. 2,600 miles... wish us luck! Amelia Earhart |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | SHORT FICTION $1200: This 1937 Stephen Vincent Benet story was dramatized under the title "Scratch" "The Devil and Daniel Webster" |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | "P"AINTERS & "P"AINTING $800: In 1937 he painted a masterpiece that depicted the bombing of a Spanish town Picasso |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | THE KENNEDYS $600: Joseph Kennedy was appointed Ambassador to this country beginning in 1937 Great Britain |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $1600: Though he never won, he was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 & again in 1948 a few days before his assassination (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1937:
"A Biography Concerning Alfred Dreyfus' Defender" The Life of Emile Zola |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | "O"PERA $800: George finds out Lennie has a dead mouse in his pocket in this Carlisle Floyd opera based on a 1937 novel Of Mice And Men |
| #5141, aired 2007-01-08 | PLAY TIME $1200: This Neil Simon play takes place in 1937 at the Booklyn home of Jack & Kate Jerome Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | IT'S A DISASTER $400: 1937 disaster captured here the Hindenburg explosion |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | LIGHTHOUSES $400: In 1937 a lighthouse was built on Howland Island to honor this aviatrix Amelia Earhart |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: Some thought she was on a spy mission when her plane disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | OF THE WESTERN WORLD $400: Members of the Somoza family ruled this Central American country for 38 of the 42 years between 1937 & 1979 Nicaragua |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | I'M A WOMAN'S MAN $800: Actor born March 30, 1937: he's so vain, he probably thinks this clue is about him Warren Beatty |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | MOTHER RUSSIA $6,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from "poetic" Russia.) I'm here in the town originally called Tsarskoye Selo, which in 1937 was renamed for this great Russian poet Pushkin |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | WHAT A PIG! $1200: Introduced in 1937, she's Looney Tunes' longest-lived lady Petunia Pig |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | FRUITLESS SEARCHES $200: Either of the 2 people the Coast Guard cutter Itasca was unable to locate after they left from New Guinea in 1937 Amelia Earhart (or Fred Noonan) |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | EXECUTIVE JOHNS $400: In the 1890s this oil tycoon retired from actively running his business; he lived until 1937 John D. Rockefeller |
| #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 |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | SODA $600: This "paternal" brand of root beer has been a family favorite since 1937 Dad's |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | UNREAL ESTATE BROKERS $800: 1937:
Middle-earth J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | MIND YOUR BUSINESS $2000: In 1937 this French leather-goods maker produced its first silk scarf Hermes |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In 1935 this dramatist stopped "Waiting for Lefty" & in 1937 he married actress Luise Rainer Clifford Odets |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | MYSTERY HISTORY $2000: Agatha Christie was staying in Aswan when she wrote this 1937 mystery about a young woman's murder Death on the Nile |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: In 1937 this Malibu, Calif. university was established by & named for the founder of Western Auto Supply Company Pepperdine |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | DUKE UNIVERSITY $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Duke University in Durham, NC.) Entranced by Duke University during a 1937 visit, this author of "Brave New World" called it "a whole city of grey stone" (Aldous) Huxley |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT $600: On May 6, 1937 Herb Morrison described its demise on the radio saying, "It's burning, bursting into flames" the Hindenburg |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS $400: In this year FDR proclaimed December 15 as Bill of Rights Day; it was the 150th birthday of the document 1941 |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | BASEBALL HISTORY $800: Many balls have gotten lost in this, originally planted along Wrigley Field's outfield walls by Bill Veeck in 1937 the ivy |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | "OX" MARKS THE SPOT $400: Since 1937, it's been the location of the U.S. gold depository Fort Knox |
| #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 |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | THE THEATAH $200: A 1982 play by this man is set among the Jerome family of Brighton Beach in 1937 Neil Simon |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | THE SUPREMES $400: This "colorful" justice appointed in 1937 was an ardent New Deal supporter (Hugo) Black |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | SONG SUNG "BLUE" $1200: Bing Crosby introduced this song in 1937's "Waikiki Wedding" (Elvis sang it almost 25 years later) "Blue Hawaii" |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | NOODLE DISHES $200: This classic Kraft dinner was introduced in 1937 Macaroni & Cheese |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE "CAPTAIN" $1200: For his role as Manuel, Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for this 1937 fish story Captains Courageous |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | COMMUNICATION $2,000 (Daily Double): The 2-way field radio developed by Don Hings for bush pilots in 1937 soon got this snappier name walkie-talkies |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | STATES OF THE UNION $400: A Naval air station in the city of Lakehurst in this state was the site of the fateful 1937 Hindenburg explosion New Jersey |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | ART BIENNIALS $400: This country's first "Documenta" highlighted the artists of the "Degenerate Art" propaganda exhibit of 1937 Germany |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | DESIGN $800: Henry Dreyfuss' "300" of 1937 was one of these with the mouthpiece and earpiece in a single bakelite shell a telephone |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | SCULPTURE $1600: In 1937 this British sculptor said that he associated the openings in his hole-y works with caves Henry Moore |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | "N"TICE ME! $1,200 (Daily Double): As many as 300,000 may have died in the Japanese takeover of this city in December 1937 Nanking |
| #4672, aired 2004-12-21 | "G" FORCE $1000: A small Basque village immortalized in art in 1937 Guernica |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE $400: British Prime Minister 1937-1940 Neville Chamberlain |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $3,200 (Daily Double): From 1937 to 1954 he directed NBC's Radio Symphony Orchestra Toscanini |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | MUSIC IN "C" $400: He was exposed to a wide range of music at the Florida State School for the Blind, 1937-1945 Ray Charles |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $1000: This biologist first gained acclaim for writing in 1937 with her article "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly Rachel Carson |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $800: In 1937 this U.S. educator headed an inquiry to hear Trotsky's rebuttal of the Moscow charges against him John Dewey |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | SPAM $400: Created in 1937, Spam is a combination of these 2 words spiced ham |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | A BRAND NEW "YOU" $2000: This play won Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman a Pulitzer Prize in 1937 You Can't Take It With You |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THEATRE AWARDS $800: The British award named for him depicts him in the role of Henry V at the Old Vic in 1937 Olivier |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | NOVEL QUOTES $200: (1937)
"'It's me, Bilbo Baggins, companion of Thorin!'" The Hobbit |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | BOXING $800: In 1937 Joe Louis became heavyweight champ; in 1997 this Lewis wore the crown Lennox Lewis |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | POTPOURRI $2000: In 1937 Fred Noonan disappeared along with this person Amelia Earhart |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | POLL $800: Using faulty poll figures, Literary Digest predicted his defeat for President in 1936; the Digest folded in 1937 FDR |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | THE "7"-YEAR ITCH $800: The bombing of the Spanish village of Guernica took place in April of this year 1937 |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS $200: In 1937 he made his first movie Ronald Reagan |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $400: Nearly synonymous with the term "light plane", this Piper aircraft model first flew in 1937 the Piper Cub |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | INVENTION $1000: Edwin Land, seen here with one of his innovations, founded this company in 1937 Polaroid |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | CARY GRANT FILMS $800: Ghosts Cary Grant & Constance Bennett haunt a banker, the title character of this 1937 film Topper |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | GET THE MESSAGE $400: The last message from her in 1937 pertained to her location & an alternate radio frequency for communication Amelia Earhart |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Remarkably, there were more than 60 survivors when this Zeppelin crashed in New Jersey in 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | UNPOPULAR MECHANICS $800: This airship's tragic destruction in 1937 was a major factor in putting a stop to regular passenger airship service the Hindenburg |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | ALL THAT JAZZ $1200: This "timely" song, Count Basie's theme, was written & originally recorded by Basie in 1937 "One O'Clock Jump" |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $200: A 1937 ransom note for Charles Ross demanded $50,000 in 20s, 10s & 5s, bank-run, non-consecutive & this unmarked |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | MOVED TO FRANCE $1600: The story of this dancer who became a French citizen in 1937 was made into a telepic starring Lynn Whitfield Josephine Baker |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | AT THE MOVIES $800: In the 1937 film version, he's Snow White's only beardless dwarf Dopey |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | WELL, I'LL BE A '30s WORD $800: From 1937, it's an aimless or casual scribble, not necessarily done by a Yankee doodle |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1937:
Spencer Tracy for this rollicking adventure Captains Courageous |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | PORGY-POURRI $200: Sadly, "Porgy and Bess" was the only full-length opera this composer wrote; he passed away in 1937, at age 38 George Gershwin |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $200: You could say it was a "snow job" when teenage Adriana Caselotti was picked to play this heroine of a 1937 film Snow White |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | THE DIARY OF $800: "Last Flight", published by her husband George Putnam in 1937, was composed mainly of her diary entries Amelia Earhart |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: At the time of her 1937 disappearance she was married to publisher George Palmer Putnam Amelia Earhart |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | AIRLINE LOGOS $400: Its parent airline inaugurated service on September 1, 1937 with a flight from Vancouver to Seattle Air Canada |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | OH, WHAT A YEAR! $1600: Oh, the humanity! The Hindenburg crashed in New Jersey in this 8th year of the Great Depression 1937 |
| #4184, aired 2002-11-07 | E BEFORE I $1,200 (Daily Double): From 1937 to 1970 Charles Richter taught this science at Caltech seismology |
| #4136, aired 2002-09-02 | EYE ON ASIA $400: On Dec. 13, 1937 Japan took over the city of Nanking in this Asian country after heavy fighting China |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | FAIRY TALES $200: She lived with a septet of men who didn't even get names until 1937 Snow White |
| #4118, aired 2002-06-26 | BE VEWY, VEWY QUIET $1000: All radio stations in the world paid tribute with 2 minutes of silence when he died in Rome on July 20, 1937 Marconi |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | MALTIN ON THE MOVIES $200: (Leonard Maltin starts things off.) I once wrote that only a real-life Grumpy could fail to love this 1937 animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR $600: On January 4, 1937, this U.S. magazine chose the future Duchess of Windsor as its "Woman of the Year" for 1936 Time |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR $800: On June 3, 1937 the duke & duchess married at the Chateau de Cande near Tours in this country France |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | 1930-SOMETHING $800: In 1937 the FCC rebuked NBC for a program starring this lusty blonde Mae West |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $600 (Daily Double): Foul play occurs on the Karnak, a river steamboat in this 1937 novel Death on the Nile |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | FLIGHT $2000: On May 6, 1937 the Hindenburg burst into flames while trying to moor at this New Jersey city Lakehurst, New Jersey |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: An auto accident in 1937 cut short the life of this legendary blues singer Bessie Smith |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | MODEL RAILROADING $800: In 1937 Lionel introduced the Hudson, a famous steam one of these, at a steep $75 locomotive |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | THAT'LL BE THE "DAY" $2000: The Marx Brothers wreak havoc at a sanitorium in this 1937 release A Day at the Races |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | THE APOLLO THEATER $1000: (Cheryl wraps up the category and the round for us.) "God Bless the Child That's Got His Own" was the signature tune of this woman who appeared at the Apollo with Count Basie in 1937 Billie Holiday |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPS $600: Between 1937 & 1942, he successfully defended his heavyweight title 21 times Joe Louis |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $1200: In 1937 Paul Muni was this French novelist who played a key role in the Dreyfus Affair Emile Zola |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | "BEL"LISSIMO! $500: This 1940 novel is set near Segovia, Spain in 1937 For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | PLASTICS $800: In 1937 Du Pont introducted Lucite, & Rohm & Haas introduced this trademarked transparent material Plexiglas |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | FILM RENOIR $800 (Daily Double): Erich Von Stroheim played the pilot who becomes a P.O.W. camp warden in this 1937 Renoir classic Grand Illusion |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $200: Whittier,
1934;
Duke Law School,
1937 Richard Nixon |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA $1,800 (Daily Double): The orchestra is heard in the 1937 movie "100 Men and a Girl" & this 1940 Disney film Fantasia |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | THE MILLIONAIRE $600: On the advice of his publicist, this petroleum giant who died in 1937 gave out dimes to children on the street John D. Rockefeller |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | THE ART OF WAR $400: The bombing of this Spanish city in 1937 inspired a famous painting by Picasso Guernica |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | JAZZ $400: Recorded in 1937, "One O' Clock Jump" became this bandleader's theme Count Basie |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | LUCKY "SEVEN" $200: Only a real-life Grumpy wouldn't like this 1937 animated feature from Walt Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | 20 QUESTIONS $200: In 1937 he became the first man sworn in as U.S. president on a January 20 FDR |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | DICTATORS BY BIRTHPLACE $400: April 28, 1937:
Tikrit, Iraq Saddam Hussein |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | QUICK AS A FLASH $200: This futuristic hero "In the Caverns of Mongo" was a 1937 novel based on the comic strip Flash Gordon |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1937 FDR's opponents accused him of trying to "pack" this The Supreme Court |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | THE LIBRARY $200: First published in 1937, it was revised in 1951 to bring it into line with "The Lord of the Rings" "The Hobbit" |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | NAME THE NOVEL $300: 1937:
"Lennie spoke craftily, 'Tell me -- like you done before...about the rabbits.'" "Of Mice and Men" |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | 'TOON IN $100: In 1937 the spinach-growing town of Crystal City, Texas erected a statue of this animated character Popeye |
| #3695, aired 2000-09-29 | U.S. HISTORY $100: Since 1937 this military post has been the site of the United States' gold bullion depository Fort Knox, Kentucky |
| #3694, aired 2000-09-28 | THE SIMPSONS $200: In 1937 she received the title Duchess of Windsor as a wedding present Wallis Simpson |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | PICK ME, PICASSO $1,000 (Daily Double): This new work at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition showed Picasso's loathing of fascism for all to see Guernica |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | BEASTLY MOVIE TITLES $400: The 1937 film about this title "boy" was Sabu's film debut Elephant Boy |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: A 1937 riding accident left this "Anything Goes" composer permanently disabled Cole Porter |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | AROUND THE BLOC $400: In 1937 he became secretary general of the Yugoslav Communist Party, a position he later parlayed into prime minister Josip Broz Tito |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | EUROPEAN RIVERS $400: In 1937 this Russian river's first hydroelectric project was completed at Ivankovo Volga |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In 1937 this "Brave New World" author left Europe for a new home in the United States Aldous Huxley |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $200: In 1937 FDR saw this fraction "of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" one-third |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $600: In 1937 Gale Sondergaard became the first woman to win an Oscar in this category Best Supporting Actress |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $500: 1937:
"Either he's dead or my watch has stopped" A Day at the Races |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: Katharine Hepburn appeared in this 1937 theatrical drama & in a later film that added "Canteen" to the title Stage Door |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | PEOPLE IN VOGUE $1000: A 1937 article on "Senoras of Mexico" showed her as Mrs. Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | ROBERT REDFORD $200: On August 18, 1937 Robert Redford was born in this "saintly" California beach city that borders Los Angeles Santa Monica |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | LOST $300: Presumably she was lost at sea after vanishing in the central Pacific in July 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | NAME THE MOVIE $200: 1937:
"Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #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 |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FRED ASTAIRE FILMS $600: Appropriate title question of this 1937 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film Shall We Dance? |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A rum smuggler is the central character in his 1937 novel "To Have and Have Not" Ernest Hemingway |
| #3426, aired 1999-06-28 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $300: From 1935 to 1937 he served as director of the National Youth Administration in Texas Lyndon Johnson |
| #3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $300: 1937-1940 Neville Chamberlain |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: A pilot, 1937:
"Gas is running low...we are flying at 1,000 feet..." Amelia Earhart |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | LAVERNES & SHIRLEYS SING! $400: Last name of siblings Laverne, Maxine & Patti, who sang "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen" in 1937 the Andrews Sisters |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | ASTRONOMY $800: In 1937 in Wheaton, Illinois, Grote Reber built the first one of these telescopes using a parabolic dish a radio telescope |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Her first attempt to fly around the world ended in March 1937 when her plane crashed in Hawaii Amelia Earhart |
| #3309, aired 1999-01-14 | HAPPY $100: 1937 animated film whose characters include the Magic Mirror & Happy Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | SINGING THE "BLUE"S $200: Before Elvis sang this song in a 1961 movie, Bing sang it in 1937's "Waikiki Wedding" Blue Hawaii |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $400: In 1937 future Supreme Court justice Byron "Whizzer" White was runner-up for this best player award Heisman Trophy |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | WELLES $600: Welles & John Houseman launched this theater in 1937 with a modern-dress "Julius Caesar" Mercury Theater |
| #3244, aired 1998-10-15 | MIDDLE-EARTH $100: This type of creature supplies the title of a 1937 Tolkien work; Frodo Baggins is one Hobbit |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Born in Zlin, Czechoslovakia in 1937, his original surname was Straussler, not Rosencrantz or Guildenstern Tom Stoppard |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: In 1937 the government set aside this Georgia swamp as a national wildlife refuge Okefenokee Swamp |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | IN THE SPIRIT $300: Constance Bennett & Cary Grant appeared & disappeared in this 1937 film classic Topper |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | TRAGEDIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This May 6, 1937 disaster was broadcast live on radio The explosion of the Hindenburg |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | SNEEZING $200: For the voice of Sneezy in this 1937 classic, Disney "achoo"sed Billy Gilbert Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | A "B" CITY $200: In 1937 the Loyalists in Spain made this city their capital Barcelona |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | KIDDY LIT $400: In 1937 Tolkien published "The Hobbit" & this author put out "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street" Dr. Seuss |
| #3073, aired 1997-12-31 | BOWL GAME NAMES $100: The eyes of Texas have been on this Dallas "boll" game since 1937 Cotton Bowl |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $400: Since 1937 this world-famous tomb has been protected by an honor guard 24 hours a day Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | U.S. COINS $400: On the back of some of the Denver Mint's 1937 nickels, this animal is missing a leg Buffalo |
| #2927, aired 1997-04-29 | TOUGH HISTORY $800: The Newark Star Eagle of May 7, 1937 had the "Death List of Zep" accompanying an article on this disaster the Hindenburg |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: This photographer & her husband Erskine Caldwell published the 1937 work "You Have Seen Their Faces" Margaret Bourke-White |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | MAY DAY $300: On May 1, 1937, 5 days after the town was bombed, he began sketching "Guernica" Pablo Picasso |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | IRISH HISTORY $600: In 1937 the Irish Free State, a British dominion, changed its name to this Gaelic one Eire |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | SPORTS $300: Between 1937 & 1950, this American boxer fought in 27 heavyweight title fights, winning 26 Joe Louis |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | SCULPTURE $800: In 1937 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a native of this country, came to Chicago & founded the New Bauhaus Hungary |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | SWEET SONGS $200: This crooner's "Sweet Leilani" from the 1937 film "Waikiki Wedding" won an Oscar for best song Bing Crosby |
| #2804, aired 1996-11-07 | LITERATURE $600: J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel "The Hobbit" served as a prologue to this trilogy Lord of the Rings |
| #2784, aired 1996-10-10 | DRAMA $1000: Paul Lukas made his Broadway debut December 27, 1937, playing Dr. Rank in this Ibsen play A Doll's House |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | SONGS $400: The title song in an Elvis film, it was written for the 1937 Bing Crosby film "Waikiki Wedding" Blue Hawaii |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | THE 1930s $200: Its explosion, May 6, 1937, ended commercial airship transportation & development Hindenburg |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | AMERICAN FOOD HISTORY $500: The name of this Hormel product introduced in 1937 was chosen in a contest; the winner received $100 Spam |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | THE 1930s $600: Helen Keller brought the first of these Japanese dogs to the United States in 1937 the akita |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | MICHIGAN CITIES $1000: When GM workers struck in this city in 1936 & 1937, the "sparks" created got the UAW recognized Flint |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | U.S. HISTORY $400: FDR's proposal to increase this from 9 to as many as 15 was defeated by the Senate in 1937 number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | ARTISTS & SCULPTORS $600: Gala, this Spaniard's wife & muse, appears in his 1937 work "Inventions of the Monsters" Salvador Dali |
| #2720, aired 1996-05-31 | KANSANS $400: This inventor of basketball was head of physical education at the University of Kansas 1898-1937 Naismith |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | THE 20th CENTURY $700 (Daily Double): This 4,200-foot-long California landmark was completed in 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: On Jan, 20, 1937, this president said, "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" FDR |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | HISTORY $200: On a 1937 trip to Libya, this Italian dictator was declared a protector of Islam Mussolini |
| #2672, aired 1996-03-26 | CHICAGO $500: In 1937 the first large-scale bank for this substance was established in Chicago Blood |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | THE 1930s $200: This Communist leader divorced Ho Tzu-Chen in 1937 & married Chiang Ch'ing in 1939 Mao |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: In 1937 Maxwell House coffee began distributing free haggadahs for use on this holiday Passover |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | U.S. MONEY $1000: A commemorative half dollar was issued in 1937 to honor this bloodiest one-day Civil War battle Antietam |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | SONG STANDARDS $200: "Some Day My Prince Will Come" is from this 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | BRITISH ROYALTY $400: Cecil Beaton photographed this former king & his American-born wife on their 1937 wedding day Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor) |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1000: She danced in Antony Tudor's 1937 ballet "Dark Elegies" before she choreographed "Rodeo" Agnes de Mille |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | WORLD WAR II $800: Construction began in 1937 on this 700-mile road that connected Lashio with Kunming the Burma Road |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | FASHION HISTORY $400: The couturier Balenciaga moved to Paris in 1937 after Civil War broke out in this, his native country Spain |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: While landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937, this dirigible exploded the Hindenburg |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: From 1937 to 1979 a Somoza was president of this Central American country for all but 9 years Nicaragua |
| #2561, aired 1995-10-23 | DIARISTS $400: 1937's "Last Flight" included the diary she transmitted from points along her ill-fated trip Amelia Earhart |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | NEWSPAPERS $600: This St. Louis newspaper won Pulitzers for meritorious public service in 1937, 1941, 1948 & 1952 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | THE 1994 OSCARS $500: Tom Hanks became the first actor since this man in 1937-38 to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars Spencer Tracy |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: At Elsinore in 1937 Vivien Leigh played this role opposite Laurence Olivier's Hamlet Ophelia |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On July 2, 1937 radio contact was lost on her round-the-world flight (Amelia) Earhart |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In 1937 she painted a "Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettias" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | TRANSPORTATION $200: In 1937 36 lives were lost when this airship burst into flames over Lakehurst, New Jersey the Hindenburg |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | ART $600: In 1937 he completed "Dream and Lie of Franco", a series of etchings, as well as "Guernica" Picasso |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: The Old Vic's 1937 production of this play featured ballet dancer Robert Helpmann as Oberon A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | RIVERS $800: The Bonneville Dam was completed in 1937 on this U.S.-Canadian river & made it easier to navigate the Columbia |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | DISASTERS $300: It took about 30 seconds for this hydrogen-filled airship to burn in New Jersey in 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $300: Bette Midler's 1990 film "Stella" was a remake of this 1937 Barbara Stanwyck tearjerker Stella Dallas |
| #2413, aired 1995-02-15 | IN SEARCH OF ... $200: The official search for this missing aviatrix was called off July 19, 1937 (Amelia) Earhart |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | THEATRE $600: His play "Brighton Beach Memoirs" takes place in a small house in Brooklyn in 1937 Neil Simon |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: This Basque village was destroyed by German bombers during an April 26, 1937 air raid Guernica |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $1000: In 1937 this future GOP governor was elected District Attorney in New York County Thomas Dewey |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: He 1937 he partnered with John Houseman in the Mercury Theatre Orson Welles |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | ARTISTS $400: This surrealist depicted himself & his wife in his 1937 painting "Inventions of the Monsters" Dalí |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | PRO FOOTBALL $100: In 1937 the Boston Redskins moved their franchise to this city Washington |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | WORLD FACTS $200: Completed in 1937, the Bonneville Dam on this U.S.-Canadian river made it easier to navigate the Columbia River |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | miniatures $300: In 1937 the Minox was the first subminiature or "spy" one of these a camera |
| #2351, aired 1994-11-21 | VICE PRESIDENTS $500: He was Senate Majority Leader from 1937-1947 & vice president from 1949-1953 Alben Barkley |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $200: This novel that won the 1937 Pulitzer was originally entitled "Tomorrow is Another Day" "Gone with the Wind" |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | MILITARY MEN $200: This "Desert Fox" who once taught at the Dresden Infantry School published a textbook on tactics in 1937 Erwin Rommel |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $500: This woman was voted the world's leading aviatrix in 1937, the year Amelia Earhart disappeared Jacqueline Cochran |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: Between 1928 & 1937, this German aircraft, the LZ-127, traveled over 1 million miles the (Graf) Zeppelin |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | THE 1930s $200: In June 1937 he married the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson King Edward VIII |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | BRIDGES $400: From its opening in 1937 to 1964, this California bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: Alfred P. Sloan was president of this company 1923-1937 & chairman of the board 1937-1956 General Motors |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | HISTORY $400: After it crashed in 1937, this German dirigible burned well into the night the Hindenburg |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: In July 1937 papers headlined the disappearance of Frederick Noonan & this person Amelia Earhart |
| #2172, aired 1994-02-01 | DRAMA $400: In 1937 Thornton Wilder adapted this playwright's "A Doll's House" for Ruth Gordon Ibsen |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ARTISTS $400: The bombing of Guernica, Spain was symbolized in a 1937 painting by this artist Picasso |
| #2097, aired 1993-10-19 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In March 1937 U.S. Steel recognized this union headed by John L. Lewis the United Mine Workers |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | DISNEYLAND $500: Watch out for the evil queen from this 1937 film; she may stare at you out of a window in Fantasyland Snow White |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | THE MOVIES $400: The 1937 movie "A Family Affair", starring Lionel Barrymore & Mickey Rooney, was the 1st in this series Andy Hardy |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | POLITICIANS $200: This future President made his film debut in the 1937 Warner Bros. picture "Love is on the Air" Reagan |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: In 1910 this organization began instruction in first aid & in 1937 it created a blood-donor service Red Cross |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | MAGAZINES $500: From 1937 to 1971 Gardner Cowles spent his life publishing this weekly picture magazine Look |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | AUTHORS $1000: C.S. Forester introduced this naval hero in 1937's "The Happy Return" (Horatio) Hornblower |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | ESSAYS $800: This marine biologist's first book, "Under the Sea-Wind", grew out of her 1937 essay "Undersea" Rachel Carson |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: On June 3, 1937, at a French chateau, this American woman finally married an ex-king Wallis Warfield Simpson (Duchess of Windsor) |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | CONNECTIONS $400: Its May 1937 opening provided a more direct connection between S.F. & Marin County the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | CHINESE HISTORY $1000: Up to 250,000 people died during the December 1937 "rape" of this Chinese city Nanking |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | 5 CENTS $400: In 1937 the Denver Mint accidentally polished one of its legs off the die the buffalo |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | SEARCHES $200: Even the Japanese Navy took part in the search for her in July 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #1969, aired 1993-03-11 | "GOOD" MOVIES $400: Louis B. Mayer allegedly said of this 1937 film, "Who wants to see a picture about Chinese farmers?" The Good Earth |
| #1966, aired 1993-03-08 | ARTISTS $200: His first major mobile was displayed at the 1937 Paris World's Fair (Alexander) Calder |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | CARDS $500: In 1937 a fifth suit of these birds was added to the deck for 5-suit bridge in the U.S. eagles |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $200: Some believe she was on a spy mission for FDR when her plane disappeared in 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $500: The Mauch Twins played the title lookalikes in a 1937 film based on this Mark Twain novel The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1894, aired 1992-11-26 | FIRST LADIES $300: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent", she wrote in 1937 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: Fred Noonan was navigator on the 1937 around-the-world flight on which she disappeared Amelia Earhart |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES $800: In 1937 he wrote the play "Golden Boy" & married that year's Oscar winner, Luise Rainer Clifford Odets |
| #1878, aired 1992-11-04 | DISASTERS $600: St. Elmo's fire may have contributed to its explosion May 6, 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | DIVAS $600: She left the United States in 1937 to study with Elvira de Hidalgo at the Athens Conservatory Maria Callas |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS $400: In 1937 this "Sweater Girl" strutted across the screen in a sweater in "They Won't Forget" Lana Turner |
| #1864, aired 1992-10-15 | RICHARD NIXON $800: In June 1937, Nixon graduated 3rd in his law school class this Durham, N.C. university Duke |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $300: Hugo Eckener built 88 of these for the German Navy & once commanded the one that burned May 6, 1937 a dirigible (or zeppelin) |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | HISTORY $500: On December 12, 1937, planes from this nation sank the U.S. gunboat Panay Japan |
| #1841, aired 1992-09-14 | CARY GRANT FILMS $100: Grant & Constance Bennett played the ghostly George & Marion Kerby in this 1937 comedy Topper |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | U.S. HISTORY $300: Occurring between 1934 & 1937, these drove 60% of the population out of the Oklahoma-Tx. panhandle area dust storms |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | THE 1930s $400: Built to relieve crowding in the Holland tunnel, this one opened under the Hudson in 1937 the Lincoln Tunnel |
| #1773, aired 1992-04-22 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: In 1937 King Haakon made this figure skater a knight of the first class of the order of St. Olav Sonja Henie |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | WHISTLES $300: The 1937 film that featured the tune "Whistle While You Work" Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | DOGS $1000: Helen Keller is believed to have brought the first one of these Japanese dogs into the U.S. in 1937 the akita |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | THE 20th CENTURY $600 (Daily Double): The April 1937 bombing of this Basque village became the subject of a Picasso masterpiece Guernica |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | THE SOUTH $400: In 1937 most of this swamp in Florida & Georgia was turned into a national wildlife refuge the Okefenokee |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: William Walton wrote pieces for the coronation of George VI in 1937 & hers in 1953 Queen Elizabeth II |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | THE IDES OF MARCH $400: Dr. Bernard Fantus set up the 1st bank of this type in the U.S. March 15, 1937; it had no coins, just corpuscles a blood bank |
| #1657, aired 1991-11-12 | BOXING $300: He held the heavyweight title from 1937 to 1949, the longest reign Joe Louis |
| #1650, aired 1991-11-01 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: In 1937 this "Platinum Blonde" became the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine Jean Harlow |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | INVENTORS $1000: Wireless telegraph services in the U.K. observed a 2-minute silence after he died in 1937 Marconi |
| #1626, aired 1991-09-30 | WORLD HISTORY $4,600 (Daily Double): This dictator & his 2 sons ruled Nicaragua for all but 6 years between 1937 & 1979 Anastasio Somoza |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | CELEBRITY QUOTES $500: He said, "I came to Hollywood in 1937 to make 'The big broadcast of 1938' for Paramount" Bob Hope |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | THEATRE $1000: This Kaufman & Hart comedy about a madcap family won a 1937 Pulitzer Prize You Can't Take It with You |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | THE 1930s $200: American volunteers were heading to this country in 1937 to help the Loyalists in their civil war Spain |
| #1590, aired 1991-06-28 | MAGAZINES $600: In 1937 Cowles Communications founded it as a competitor to Life but it died in 1971 Look |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Between his retirement in the 1890s & his death in 1937, he gave away more than $500 million John D. Rockefeller |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | KIDDIE LITERATURE $300: He first enchanted children with 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" Dr. Seuss |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | SECOND PLACE $300: As a college football player, this Supreme Court justice was 2nd in the 1937 Heisman Trophy balloting Byron White |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | THE NORTH POLE $300: The Soviet North Pole station set up in 1937 drifted away & was rescued 9 months later off this island Greenland |
| #1515, aired 1991-03-15 | THE 1930s $200: In 1937 the Lincoln Tunnel was opened under the Hudson & this was opened over San Francisco Bay the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | BARBARA STANWYCK $100: First name of the suffering mom Stanwyck played in 1937 & Bette Midler played in the 1990 remake Stella |
| #1464, aired 1991-01-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: On December 12, 1937 the Japanese sank the U.S. gunboat Panay while it was in this country China |
| #1460, aired 1990-12-28 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $100: In 1937 one critic said Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile as this character and sank Cleopatra |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | MOVIE TRIVIA $100: Walt Disney received an Oscar with 7 miniature Oscars for this 1937 animated feature, his first Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #1433, aired 1990-11-21 | BEIJING $200: From 1937-45 this country controlled the city Japan |
| #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 |
| #1403, aired 1990-10-10 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In 1937 FDR made him ambassador to Great Britain, & he resigned the post in 1940 Joseph P. Kennedy |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | AUTHORS $300: In 1937, Paul Muni starred in "The Life of" this man, an author & an advocate of naturalism Émile Zola |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1937 Philadelphia threw a 4-month-long celebration to mark its 150th anniversary the Constitutional Convention |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | ANIMALS $400: First brought to the West in 1937, the Encyclopedia of Mammals calls it the "bamboo bear" a panda |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | MOVIE MUSICALS $500 (Daily Double): The only Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire film for which these 2 brothers wrote songs was 1937's "Shall We Dance" George & Ira Gershwin |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | HEADLINES $200: A July 3,1937 headline had her "Lost in Pacific; radio flashes faint SOS" Amelia Earhart |
| #1203, aired 1989-11-22 | TRANSPORTATION $400: From 1937-39 the Chinese built a famous road from Kumning in Yunnan Province to Lashio in this country Burma |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: In 1937, at the Crystal City, Tx. Spinach Festival, he became the 1st cartoon character to have a monument Popeye |
| #1192, aired 1989-11-07 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: Before he was appointed in 1937, the U.S. Supreme Court had only had 1 Brown, 2 Whites, & a Gray Hugo Black |
| #1169, aired 1989-10-05 | THE 20TH CENTURY $400: In May 1987 a monument was unveiled near Lakehurst, N.J. commemorating this 1937 disaster the Hindenburg |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | QUOTES $300: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent," wrote this first lady in 1937 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | THE OLD WEST $400: This outlaw's sister said he left South America & returned to the U.S., dying in Washington State in 1937 Butch Cassidy |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | ARTISTS $200: Combining her love of flowers & the desert, she painted "Mule's Skull with Pink Poinsettias" in 1937 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #1046, aired 1989-03-06 | HEMINGWAY $1000: Hemingway's minor novel of 1937 that became the 1st film to pair Bogie & Bacall To Have and Have Not |
| #1009, aired 1989-01-12 | CHOCOLATE $300: A top-ten selling candy in the U.S., Nestle introduced this rice-filled bar in 1937 Nestlé Crunch |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | AVIATION $600: In February 1988 the FAA retired N16020, the registration number on the plane she flew in 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | MAGAZINES $100: Founded in 1937 to compete with "Life", it died in 1971, was revived & died again in 1979 Look |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | TRANSPORTATION $800: Until 1937 the Lakehurst, New Jersey, naval air station was the U.S. transatlantic terminal for these craft Dirigibles |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | '30s TV $200: The 1st known adaptation of a story about this detective was 1937's "The 3 Garridebs" Sherlock Holmes |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | '30s TV $400: In 1937 it broadcast a coronation procession--live! BBC |
| #941, aired 1988-10-10 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: He starred in 1937's "Elephant Boy" & 1952's "Hello Elephant" Sabu |
| #912, aired 1988-07-19 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: 1937 film in which aspiring star Janet Gaynor 1st sees fading star Fredric March at the Hollywood Bowl A Star is Born |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | MOVIE AUTHORS $800: This 1937 film won Oscars for Best Picture, Screenplay & Supporting Actor but not for Paul Muni The Life of Emile Zola |
| #833, aired 1988-03-30 | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $100: Fitzgerald moved to this city in 1937 & began an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter Los Angeles |
| #824, aired 1988-03-17 | LYRICS $100: A 1937 song says "They all laughed at" this explorer "when he said the world was round" Columbus |
| #807, aired 1988-02-23 | MOVIE ROYALTY $200: Paul Robeson played an African chieftain in the 1937 film about the search for this king's mines King Solomon |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $200: The only pres. to hold a pilot's license, this military man got it in 1937, 16 years before becoming pres. Dwight Eisenhower |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | ACTORS & ROLES $400: Polly Rowles, Gene Autry's leading lady in a 1937 Western, now plays this role in Hanes' TV commercials Inspector 12 |
| #782, aired 1988-01-19 | SPORTS $200: He was world heavyweight champ from 1937-49, longer than anyone else Joe Louis |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | SPECIAL OSCARS $200: Appropriately, the statuette presented to Edgar Bergen was made out of this wood |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | HEMINGWAY $400: In 1937, he went as a war correspondent to this country to cover its war Spain |
| #752, aired 1987-12-08 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: From 1937 to 1949 this country referred to itself as "Eire" Ireland |
| #752, aired 1987-12-08 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: Formerly chancellor of this, Neville Chamberlain became British P.M. in 1937 the Exchequer |
| #741, aired 1987-11-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1937, Republicans angrily accused FDR of trying to "pack" this the Supreme Court |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | BASKETBALL $300: Before 1937, this game-opener was repeated after every score center jump (jump ball) |
| #709, aired 1987-10-08 | HISTORY $200: 1937's Battle of Guadalajara was fought in this country Spain |
| #706, aired 1987-10-05 | PICASSO $800: Picasso's will specified that this 1937 work stay in NYC's MoMA until democracy returned to Spain Guernica |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | MOVIE DETECTIVES $100: Calling all crimestoppers: This comic strip cop was 1st caught on celluloid in a 1937 serial Dick Tracy |
| #643, aired 1987-05-27 | MONEY $500: 1937 coins with King Edward VIII's likeness had already been minted when he did this in late 1936 abdicate |
| #641, aired 1987-05-25 | THE 1930s $800: Japan's 8-year war against this country began at the Marco Polo Bridge in July 1937 China |
| #627, aired 1987-05-05 | WORLD HISTORY $500: This country's forces sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in 1937 Japan |
| #602, aired 1987-03-31 | INVENTIONS $500: Shoppers 1st used these at Oklahoma City's "Humpty Dumpty Store" on June 4, 1937 shopping carts |
| #545, aired 1987-01-09 | U.S. HISTORY $500: Fraction of the nation Roosevelt saw as "ill-housed", "ill-clad", "ill-nourished" in 1937 one-third |
| #543, aired 1987-01-07 | ----------------------------- $200: Fred Noonan was with her in the plane when she disappeared near the Int'l Date Line in July 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | ART $800: In 1937, Andrew Mellon gave $5 million & 111 "old masters" to establish this in Washington the National Gallery of Art |
| #506, aired 1986-11-17 | LEADING MEN $600: He won the 1937 South American freestyle swimming championship & later married Esther Williams Fernando Lamas |
| #503, aired 1986-11-12 | WOMEN FIRST $100: The New York Times' Anne McCormick was 1st woman to win this for foreign correspondence Pulitzer Prize |
| #498, aired 1986-11-05 | BOTANICAL NAMES $800: With George S. Kaufman, he took the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for "You Can't Take It with You" Moss Hart |
| #489, aired 1986-10-23 | GOOD & BAD "GUY"s $100: Selling 400 million records from 1937-77, this bandleader never earned less than a million dollars a year Guy Lombardo |
| #449, aired 1986-05-29 | GOLF $200: In 1937, this singer & golf enthusiast put on the 1st celebrity pro-am match Bing Crosby |
| #445, aired 1986-05-23 | LINKS & TIES $500: In 1937, its last year of existence, this company produced 1st U.S. car with a supercharger the Cord |
| #411, aired 1986-04-07 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Last name of father & 2 sons who ruled Nicaragua between 1937 & 1979 Somoza |
| #406, aired 1986-03-31 | PEOPLE $100: Her name is now on a line of luggage, which is apt, since she's been missing since 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #405, aired 1986-03-28 | BUSINESSMEN $100: Hollywood make-up man who introduced false eyelashes in 1919, lip gloss in 1930 & pan-cake in 1937 Max Factor |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | MOVIE TRIVIA $200: In 1937, Walter Brennan in "Come & Get It" was the 1st to win this Oscar the Best Supporting Actor |
| #188, aired 1985-05-29 | GROUCHO $200: In 1937, Groucho & his brothers spent "a day" here on film A Day at the Races |
| #180, aired 1985-05-17 | ITALY $400: In 1937 NBC formed a symphony orchestra for this great Italian conductor to direct Toscanini |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | HISTORY $400: From 1937-45, Chiang-Kai-shek & Mao Tse-tung joined forces to fight these invaders the Japanese |
| #129, aired 1985-03-07 | THE '30S $600: On Dec. 12, 1937, they sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay" in Chinese waters the Japanese Air Force |
| #62, aired 1984-12-04 | BIG BANDS $400: In 1937 he was "in the mood" to start a band Glenn Miller |
| #5, aired 1984-09-14 | THE PRESS $600: Harvard Lampoon alumnus, by 1937 he owned 25 daily newspapers & a California castle William Randolph Hearst |
