| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RESISTANCE IS FUTILE $800: 1938's Munich Agreement basically had France's premier & this world leader leaving the Czechs defenseless against Hitler Neville Chamberlain |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $400: The litter of broken glass in the streets of Germany gave this name to the pogroms of 1938 Kristallnacht |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $1200: In 1887, 1931 & 1938 northern China was devastated by flooding of the Huang He, this colorful river Yellow |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $800: The long, strange trip of this drug began with its synthesis on Nov. 16, 1938 LSD |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1200: She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California Pat Nixon |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | ALSO A CANDY $1200: An article called the Chicago Bears of 1938 this kind of team since they set "a season's record of 56 fumbles" a butterfinger team |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | TALKING ABOUT WOMEN $400: In 1938 André Breton said the art of this Mexican painter "is a ribbon around a bomb" Frida Kahlo |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | MOMENTOUS DATES $1000: On April 10, 1938 this country approved political unification with Germany Austria |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HISTORY HYSTERIA $1,000 (Daily Double): On the Daily News' Oct. 31, 1938 front page: "Fake radio 'war' stirs terror through U.S.", with a picture of this actor Orson Welles |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $1000: In 1938 this doomed policy of placating Nazi Germany got a boost when Georges Bonnet became France's foreign minister appeasement |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | PICKING UP THE CZECH $1000: The 1938 Munich Agreement handed this then-largely German area of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis the Sudetenland |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NO, PRIME MINISTER $1200: In 1938 this prime minister abandoned British naval bases in Ireland & stood by as Italy took over Ethiopia... oops Chamberlain |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HOW DOES IT FASTEN? $800: Many backpacks since Gerry Cunningham's innovative 1938 design a zipper |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $200: If you've really got all that dough, why don't you buy Action Comics #1 from 1938, which saw the debut of this otherworldly hero Superman |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $600: A then-record crowd at Pimlico watched & FDR delayed a conference to listen on radio as this underdog horse beat War Admiral in 1938 Seabiscuit |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $800: Office chairs made by Knoll, founded in 1938, are an example of midmod design, short for this mid-century modern |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | POINTING OUT DECIMALS $200: In 1938 the AMA signed off on a legal limit for blood alcohol concentration of a rather startling .15; today it's this .08 |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | HOW TALL/LONG/HIGH? $800: 145-feet tall, the beloved white type of this tree called the Mingo one, which had to be cut down in 1938 a white oak |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BETTER CALL SAUL $800: Saul Dushman's 1938 text about the "Elements of" these "Mechanics" offered initial footing in the world of physics Quantum |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | OCTOBERFEST $2000: Led by Orson Welles, the Mercury Theatre panicked the U.S. with a live radio dramatization of this work on October 30, 1938 The War of the Worlds |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $1,000 (Daily Double): This wealthy man of many interests designed & flew his own planes, circled Earth in a record 91+ hours in 1938 & owned an airline Howard Hughes |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $800: In 1938, in one of the great races of the century, this grandson of Man o' War beat War Admiral in a one-on-one match Seabiscuit |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $800: Begun in 1938, his D.C. memorial is in the Roman style, in keeping with his love of classical architecture (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | SO THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE $4,000 (Daily Double): After a lifetime of farming, this woman was nearly 80 when a collector bought 15 of her artworks in 1938 Grandma Moses |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | FIBERS & FABRICS $400: In 1938 DuPont announced the invention of this first wholly synthetically created fiber nylon |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOTHERS OF INVENTION $400: In 1938, using a film made of layers of soap, Katharine Burr Blodgett made glass non-this non-reflective |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $600: Howard Hill did the archery stunts, including splitting one arrow with another, for 1938's "The Adventures of" him Robin Hood |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | MY GOVERNMENT JOB $2000: Political patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, from 1938 to 1940 ambassador to the U.K. |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won for this beloved 1938 novel whose title refers to the age of a pet fawn The Yearling |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: As a result of his Munich conference with Hitler in 1938, this British leader promised, "Peace for our time" Chamberlain |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | IN THAT COUNTRY $600: Villa Trapp, home of "The Sound of Music" family from 1923 to 1938, now a hotel Austria |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | '38 $200: The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act banned oppressive child labor, set the work week at 44 hours & established this, at 25 cents an hour minimum wage |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | '38 $400: In 1938 DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett accidentally discovered this, now used as a coating for nonstick cookware Teflon |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | '38 $600: On October 31, 1938 the New York Times reported, "Radio listeners in panic" after a broadcast of this H.G. Wells story The War of the Worlds |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | '38 $800: This organization was founded in 1938 to find a cure for infantile paralysis, also called polio the March of Dimes |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: "Thanks For The Memory", from "The Big" this "of 1938" Broadcast |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $400: In a 1938 tale the fictional cities of Thobos & Ashair are at war & this "ape man" is caught in the middle Tarzan |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $400: This dog "Come-Home" first appeared as a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story; a novel followed, then radio, movies & TV Lassie |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $600: 1938,
a Disney
"Silly Symphony":
"____ and the Flame" Moth |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | ROYALTY AROUND US $1000: A 1938 performance by this "King of Swing" with his band marked one of the first-ever major integrated concerts (Benny) Goodman |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $400: Saudi Arabia was changed in 1938 when Max Steineke insisted the 7th of these at Dammam be explored, though 6 had already flopped oil wells |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LEADERS $1000: In 1938 he was lead chair in the NAACP's legal office; nearly 30 years later, he began making supreme decisions Marshall |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: "Our Town" won him the 1938 Drama Prize (Thornton) Wilder |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUDIO DRAMAS $400: The infamous 1938 radio adaptation of this H.G. Wells novel moved the action from England to Grovers Mill, New Jersey The War of the Worlds |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | LITERARY VIDEO GAMES $200: "Alamut", a 1938 novel by Vladimir Bartol about fanatical killers, inspired the hit video game this "Creed" Assassin's Creed |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is outside the Frohnburg Palace in Salzburg, Austria.) "The Sound of Music" takes place in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938, and Frohnburg Palace was used as an exterior for this family's villa, which they fled the von Trapps |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | FILM COMPOSITION $7,400 (Daily Double): 1938 & 1972 films both called "The Great Waltz" focus on this composer Johann Strauss |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | A BOROUGH BURIAL $800: Quarantined on an island nearby from 1915 on, she was buried in the Bronx when she died in 1938 Typhoid Mary |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $800: "Thanks For The Memory" became his theme song after he & Shirley Ross introduced it in "The Big Broadcast of 1938" Bob Hope |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | THAT'S WHAT I'M WALKING ABOUT $400: The March for Babies is sponsored by this organization founded in 1938 to stamp out polio the March of Dimes |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Stations using this sensing technology installed on Britain's coast in 1938 detected German bombers a few years later radar |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | THE DAM BILL $400: In May 1938 congress authorized building the Kentucky Dam, soon the largest dam run by this New Deal agency the TVA |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | A MILLION BUCKS AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE $800: In 1938 this first Superman comic cost a dime; now a million bucks will get you a third of one copy Action Comics |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | HOUSE PAINTING $2000: He eschewed more familiar urban scenes as in his "Nighthawks" to paint "Vermont Sugar House" in 1938 Edward Hopper |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation eventually became this organization in 1938 the March of Dimes |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $800: With the 1938 Munich Agreement, this PM granted most of Hitler's demands & left Czechoslovakia to its fate (Neville) Chamberlain |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PSYCHOLOGY $1600: In 1938 Kurt Schneider defined hearing these as a first-rank symptom of schizophrenia auditory hallucinations (or voices) |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: 1938's "Uncle Tom's Children" was the first book by this "Native Son" author (Richard) Wright |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | MERCURY $800: Causing near-hysteria, it was presented on radio October 30 1938 by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre War of the Worlds |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS $400: Hitler takes all of Czechoslovakia 1939 |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | GENERATION "Y" $1200: A 12-month-old animal, or a Pulitzer-winning 1938 novel a yearling |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | HISTORY IN BRIEF $200: 1938:
"The Night of Broken" this in Germany glass |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | HISTORIC HISTORY FROM THE PAST $1000: Developed in 1938, this easily inhaled nerve agent that causes paralysis was used by Iraq against the Kurds sarin |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | KUWAIT, KUWAIT $200: Iraq first asserted a claim to Kuwait in 1938, the same year this was discovered in Burgan oil |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | HIS PANIC $600: After his 1938 broadcast, a listener ran into a church screaming "N.Y. has been destroyed! It's the end of the world!" (Orson) Welles |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | PERFECT RESPONSES FOR JEOPARDY! $200: Abbott & Costello first performed this baseball-themed routine on the radio in 1938 "Who's On First?" |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | 20th CENTURY REFERENCES $3,000 (Daily Double): It's come to mean immune to criticism; it was discovered by DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett in 1938 Teflon |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: In 1938 "Animals of the Bible" by Dorothy P. Lathrop became the first picture book to win this medal the Caldecott |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | IT'S HISTORICAL ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT $1200: This PM said a 1938 pact with Germany brought "peace for our time" (it didn't. Czech. soon got annexed, & he lost his job) (Neville) Chamberlain |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | THAT'S SOME SHAMELESS PANDERING $1000: Yielding to belligerent demands of a foe, like Britain's 1938 policy toward Hitler appeasement |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $1200: Here's "Red Hills with White Shell", a 1938 painting by her (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | AVIATION $400: In 1938 this future billionaire flew around the world in the then-record time of 3 days & 19 hours (Howard) Hughes |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | MOUNTAINS $800: In 1938 Greece created its first national park around this famed peak Olympus |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | THE COMPOSER PORTRAYED $1600: Fernand Gravet in "The Great Waltz"
(1938) Strauss |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | LASSIE $400: The 1938 short story that introduced Lassie appeared in this publication, with a Norman Rockwell cover The Saturday Evening Post |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | THEATER $600: This Thornton Wilder play premiered on Broadway in 1938 with Frank Craven as the Stage Manager Our Town |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY $800: 1938's "Fight of the Century" was the rematch between Germany's Max Schmeling & this American Joe Louis |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | MOURNING ASSEMBLY $400: In response to Australia's 1938 sesquicentenary, this group held a day of mourning that has since been a yearly event the Aborigines |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WRITTEN IN 18-SOMETHING $600: This 1898 science fantasy was brought to horrifying quasi-reality in a 1938 Orson Welles broadcast The War of the Worlds |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | DERBY $1600: In 1938 Damon Runyon suggested more contact between the players in this sport roller derby |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 1930s AMERICA $600: In 1938 Kate Smith gave the first public performance of this Irving Berlin song written 20 years earlier "God Bless America" |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 1930s AMERICA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a picture and a map on the monitor.) In July 1938, the aviator seen here was supposed to fly west from New York to California, but somehow ended up landing in Dublin, earning him this famous nickname "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Called the Night of Broken Glass in English, it's the German name for the terrible night of November 9-10, 1938 Kristallnacht |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED $1600: You believed Hitler when he said he'd take no more of Czechoslovakia after 1938? No, prime minister. You're fired! (Neville) Chamberlain |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $1600: The Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters came up with these radio awards in 1938 as the equivalent of a Pulitzer the Peabody Awards |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | ROADS SCHOLAR $1600: When this U.S. highway was extended to Key West in 1938, it completed a road all the way back to Maine U.S. 1 |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | MUSICAL SETTINGS $400: Act I of this musical starts in 1938 at Nonnberg Abbey in Austria The Sound of Music |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | 2-WORD RESPONSES $1600: In 1938 Seabiscuit had a match race against this Triple Crown winner with a military name War Admiral |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MEN OF STEEL $200: This man of steel made his heroic debut in Action Comics #1 in 1938 Superman |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | THE INDIAN OCEAN $2000: The Indian Ocean is home to the 2 known species of this "fossil fish" first discovered in 1938 a coelacanth |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | ON THE MOVE $400: Flown by this German airline, the first nonstop transatlantic commercial flight touched down in Brooklyn in 1938 Lufthansa |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $1200: Among the controversial choices:
1938, Hitler;
1939 & '42, this man Stalin |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | ON BROADWAY $1000: Ruth Gordon played Nora Helmer in this play in 1938; Liv Ullmann played her in 1975 A Doll's House |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | WHOSE LIFE IS IT? $400: Born Ohio, 1857,
went to court for the defense,
inherited the wind, Illinois, 1938 (Clarence) Darrow |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WOMEN ARTISTS $1600: In 1938, Alice Neel moved to this 2-word area of Manhattan & began to paint its Puerto Rican community Spanish Harlem |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | PAGING DR. FREUD $400: Escaping Nazi domination in 1938, Sigmund Freud left his longtime Vienna home to settle in this capital London |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | "A"+ IN HISTORY $2000: German for "union", it was advocated between Germany & Austria in 1919 but became a reality in 1938 Anschluss |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | THE NON‑DEPRESSING 1930s $1000: Following this 1938 radio broadcast, people were relieved to find out that America wasn't really attacked by aliens The War of the Worlds |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | FIGHT OR FLIGHT $2000: It's the last name of the Galveston man who took off for L.A. but went the wrong way & landed in Dublin on July 17, 1938 Corrigan |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | THE BUSINESS OF TECH $800: Hold the phone! This began as a small export company in Korea in 1938; electronics fired up in 1969 Samsung |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | THROUGH THE YEARS $200: In 1938 a final bid to avert war saw British PM Neville Chamberlain head to this city to meet Hitler Munich |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | THE NICK OF TIME $800: In 1938 Dashell Hammett created this amateur detective & husband in "The Thin Man" Nick & Nora Charles |
| #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 |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | AMERICANA $4,000 (Daily Double): Since 1938, this southern city has been deemed "the city that care forgot" New Orleans |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | DONALD DUCK $600: In a 1938 cartoon, Donald's sister Dumbella sent these 3 nephews to visit him; chaos ensued Huey, Louie, & Dewey |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | CZECHS MIX $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In September 1938, this land in Czechoslovakia, then containing a large population of German descent, was handed over to Germany to appease Hitler the Sudetenland |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $800: Selecting her for 1938, the Nobel committee cited her "rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" (Pearl) Buck |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | A REAL MAC DADDY $400: Arthur, his only child, was born in 1938 in Manila, where daddy was a military adviser (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | SHORT STORIES $1200: In 1938 he published "The Long Valley", a collection including "The Red Pony" John Steinbeck |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRANDS $800: Entrepreneur Herman, not Enron's Kenneth, launched this potato chip brand in 1938 Lay's |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | WE'VE GOT CHEMISTRY $1200: In 1938 a DuPont chemist's try at a gas refrigerant didn't pan out, but did lead to a solid non-stick polymer now known as this Teflon |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: This future Supreme Court justice became chief legal officer for the NAACP in 1938 (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | IT ALWAYS HAPPENS IN "THREE"S $200: In 1938 this trio soitenly made the short film "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb" the Three Stooges |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | NEW ORLEANS $800: This song, recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1938 & many times after, is played at every New Orleans NFL home game "When The Saints Go Marching In" |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | THE STAGE $600: Thornton Wilder himself played the role of the stage manager for 2 weeks during this play's 1938 Broadway run Our Town |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | CHIPPING IN $2,000 (Daily Double): Punning on a newsreel name, this charity that helped defeat polio made its first appeal in 1938 March of Dimes |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | GUESS WHAT I'VE GOT? $600: This style of nickel; 1.2 billion were struck between 1913 & 1938 buffalo head |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS $2000: 1938:
The daughter
of missionaries seen
here Pearl Buck |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | RADIOASTRONOMY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.) In addition to giant modern scopes, Green Bank houses the first radio telescope used in 1938 to confirm that mysterious static on phone lines was caused by radiation emanating from this, visible as a glowing band across the night sky the Milky Way |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | 1930s ENGINEERING FEATS $800: A highway completed in 1938 allowed one to drive from Miami to this southernmost city in the continental U.S. Key West |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | PUP FICTION $800: This iconic canine made her bow wow in a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story Lassie |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | ANOTHER JACKSON 5 $1000: This artist started to move from representation to abstraction after a 1938 nervous breakdown Jackson Pollock |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | ON THEIR TOMBSTONES $1200: 1938 to 2007:
"Explorer ", "Motorcyclist & Daredevil" Evel Knievel |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | COINS OF OUR REALM $1200: From 1913 to 1938 it featured a composite picture, possibly of men named Iron Tail, Two Moons & John Big Tree the buffalo or Indian head nickel |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | AUTHOR-IZED BIOGRAPHIES $200: She learned Chinese from her tutor Mr. Kung & went on to win the 1938 Nobel Prize & be active in civil rights Pearl Buck |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG $1000: Veterans met at Gettysburg one last time for the 75th anniversary in this year; 2013 is the 150th anniversary 1938 |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | CALIFORNIA $800: From 1934 to 1938 Al Capone enjoyed the California weather & lifestyle at this location Alcatraz |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BREAKING BAD $800: Germany broke the Munich Agreement of 1938 in March of 1939 by seizing the rest of this country that no longer exists Czechoslovakia |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | ORGANIZATIONS $600 (Daily Double): The March of Dimes was established by FDR in 1938 to put an end to this disease polio |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | TIE ONE $1000: Tie into a sturdy climbing rope from this 3-letter outdoor store founded in 1938 REI |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: German word for a political union, like the one that joined Germany & Austria in 1938 Anschluss |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | 1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $800: Introduced by DuPont in 1938, Dr. West's miracle toothbrush was the first made of this synthetic polymer nylon |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | PHYSICISTS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an atomic explosion photo and an atomic diagram on the monitor.) Leading to the development of the atomic bomb, an atom of this element was famously split by Otto Hahn in 1938 uranium |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | AFTRA $1000: In 1938 stars like Edgar Bergen supported a big deal with CBS & NBC; back then "AFTRA" was missing this letter T |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: Although this German company created an electric shaver in 1938, WWII delayed its introduction until 1951 Braun |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | AMERICAN BALLET $400: The same ballerina plays both the mother & Mexican sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him Billy the Kid |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | LITERARY VILLAINS $800: The sinister Mrs. Danvers torments the second Mrs. de Winter in this 1938 novel Rebecca |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | CAPES $1200: In 1938 the German ship Admiral Karpfanger was mysteriously lost off this Chilean cape Cape Horn |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | KING OF QUEEN $2000: Sofia of Greece, born 1938 Juan Carlos of Spain |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | FALL GUYS $800: This Daredevil was born in the fall of 1938, 36 years before his fall into the Snake River Canyon Evel Knievel |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | FACE BOOK $600: The original head shrinker, he fled to London in 1938 following the Nazi annexation of Austria Sigmund Freud |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | DAS KAPITALISTS $2000: This fighter-plane designer joined the Bavarian aircraft works in 1926; in 1938 the company took his name Messerschmitt |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS $200: In 1938 the Bill of Rights was transferred from this cabinet department to the National Archives the State Department |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LUCILLE BALL'S 100th BIRTHDAY $200: Like so many actresses in Hollywood, in 1938 Lucy tested for this coveted movie role that went to Vivien Leigh Scarlett O'Hara |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | VIRGIN BERTHS $800: Launched in 1938, it became a WWII troopship & then entered regular transatlantic service for Cunard in 1946 the Queen Elizabeth |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | "AZ" I WAS SAYING $200: From 1934 to 1938 it was "home" to gangster Al Capone Alcatraz |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: From 1938 to 1952 this Bauhaus creator headed Harvard's architecture department (Walter) Gropius |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | YAD VASHEM $800: (Alex shows us a large stone in Yad Vashem, Israel.) This stone comes from the central synagogue in Aachen, Germany, which was destroyed on November 9, 1938, in what became known as Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken this glass |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | U.S. HISTORY $200: When this federal standard went into effect in 1938, it was 25 cents per hour; today, it's $7.25 the minimum wage |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | TOYS & GAMES $1000: In 1938 William Gruber developed this 3-D viewer; it took off after he got the rights to use Disney characters View-Master |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | IT'S NOT UNUSUAL $800: From 1938 to 2003, Volkswagen hatched more than 20 million cars of this model the Beetle (or the bug) |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY $1600: On July 14, 1938 Abbie Hoffman was in short pants when this future "Chicago 7" leader made the scene as the "Cincinnati 1" Jerry Rubin |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | TO GET OURSELVES A TREAT $400: In 1938 Nestle added crisped rice to the chocolate & created this candy bar the Nestlé Crunch |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MR. OCTOBER $600: In 1938 Chester Carlson made the first photocopy, of the words "10-22-38 Astoria", in this NYC borough Queens |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | TREATIES $1200: The Munich Agreement of 1938 was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier & this British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | YANKEE STADIUM MOMENTS $400: June 22, 1938:
This German heavyweight boxer is beaten in the first round Schmeling |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | JOHN PAUL $800: Born 30 miles from this Polish non-capital, the future pope enrolled in its Jagiellonian University in 1938 Kraków |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | U.S. COMMEMORATIVE COINS $400: A 2001 commemorative depicting this animal was based on the design of a nickel that was produced 1913-1938 the buffalo |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: In May 1938 the League of Nations recognized this country as absolutely neutral Switzerland |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | THE '30s WEREN'T ALL DEPRESSING $800: In 1938 DuPont made toothbrushes, not stockings, its first product with this material nylon |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE $200: 1938:
"For her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" Pearl S. Buck |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | FATHER TIME $2000: In 1989 Father Time went to Switzerland to get Franz Josef II, prince of this small neighbor since 1938 Liechtenstein |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | VISUALLITERATION $1000: A trip from New York to Ireland earned Douglas Corrigan this nickname in 1938 "Wrong Way" |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | SHAM, WOW! $400: Wow--this "Citizen Kane" star's 1938 radio show had many convinced Martians had invaded New Jersey Orson Welles |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | DO-GOODERS $200: Created in 1938 to fight childhood polio, this organization now fights to prevent birth defects & premature births the March of Dimes |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | THAT'S HISTORIC $200: In 1938, 75 years after the historic battle, survivors met for the last time at this site in Pennsylvania Gettysburg |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMES MACHINE $400: It's the year of the futile effort headlined here 1938 |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | DISCOVERIES $1000: By an African trawler in 1938, this antediluvian fish coelacanth |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | JOURNALISTS $800: In 1938 H.V. Kaltenborn of CBS made 102 broadcasts in 18 days from this city as Hitler was being appeased Munich |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | I PROBABLY COULDN'T PAINT THAT $800: In 1938 this Mexican woman raised some eyebrows with her "Self-portrait with Monkey" Frida Kahlo |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Grand Central Terminal in New York.) In 1938 Grand Central sent off the inaugural run of the new streamliner version of this New York City-Chicago train, the Century for short the 20th Century Limited |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BY GEORGE $2000: In 1938 Eric Blair used this masculine pen name for "Homage to Catalonia" George Orwell |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | HALLOWEEN: TRICK OR TREAT $1000: On Oct. 31, 1938 this Wall Street institution treated investors to a 15-point protection plan the New York Stock Exchange |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | 70 YEARS AGO: 1938 $200: In an April vote in this country, 99.75% approved of Hitler marching in & taking over Austria |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | 70 YEARS AGO: 1938 $400: Striving for broader organization, this rival of the AFL met in Pittsburgh for its first convention the CIO |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | 70 YEARS AGO: 1938 $600: In 1938 this country nationalized its oil industry as PEMEX; in 2008 there was talk of privatization Mexico |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | 70 YEARS AGO: 1938 $800: This founder of modern Turkey died & was succeeded as president by Ismet Inonu Ataturk |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | 70 YEARS AGO: 1938 $1000: Strychnine-laced whiskey ended the life of this legendary blues guitarist before his 30th birthday Robert Johnson |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): She opened a 1938 novel with the line "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" Daphne du Maurier |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Hmm... a murderer has somehow escaped from a locked room in her 1938 mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" Agatha Christie |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | WHAT A CARD! $2000: Founded in 1938, this company developed Bazooka Bubble Gum & paired it with baseball trading cards Topps |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | BIOPICS $400: In 1938 Gary Cooper discovered spaghetti & gunpowder as this adventurer in the East Marco Polo |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | "C"LASSICAL MUSICIANS $2000: He composed the music for the 1938 ballet "Billy the Kid" (Aaron) Copland |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | HERSHEY vs. NESTLE $1000: In 1938 Nestle introduced its Crunch bar & Hershey introduced this rival Krackel |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | ORSON $400: This 1938 Orson Welles broadcast scared millions into thinking that a Martian invasion was happening War of the Worlds |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | LEADING MEN $400: In 1938 this prime minister returned to Britain from a meeting with Hitler saying, "I believe it is peace in our time" Chamberlain |
| #5410, aired 2008-02-29 | HEDY LAMARR-VELOUS $1600: In 1938 Hedy made her American film debut with Charles Boyer in this film bearing the name of an African capital Algiers |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AWARDS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2007 Doris Lessing became only the 11th woman to win this--Pearl Buck won in 1938 the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | LOOSE CHANGE $600: The bison depicted on this coin, 1913 to 1938, was Black Diamond, an animal on exhibit at the N.Y. Zoological Gardens the nickel |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | NOTORIOUS $1600: In a 1938 ballet, a symbolic character known as Alias is killed again & again by this title Outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a gym in Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) I'm at the spot where in a 1938 movie this actor, as Whitey Marsh, is elected mayor of Boys Town Mickey Rooney |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | FREUD $200: From 1902 to 1938 Sigmund Freud was psyched working as a professor at the University of this European Capital Vienna |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | WE'RE NUMBER 2! $2000: This horse finished in second place to Seabiscuit at Pimlico in 1938 War Admiral |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | STATE YOUR NAME $1200: The University of Iowa gave this future 2-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright a B.A. in 1938 Tennessee Williams |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | PACT OR FACTION $1200: A high point of German appeasement, 1938's Munich Pact was approved by this British prime minister Neville Chamberlain |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800 (Daily Double): The horn players took a break on Nov. 5, 1938 when the NBC Symphony premiered Barber's "Adagio for" these Strings |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS $400: In 1938 he said, "There has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor" (Neville) Chamberlain |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | THE BOOK OF RUTH $400: After retiring as a player, Babe Ruth was a first-base coach for this other New York City team in 1938 the Dodgers |
| #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 |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | NAME THAT MOVIE $1200: 1938 (full title!):
"Welcome to Sherwood, my lady!" The Adventures of Robin Hood |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | SEGAL, SIEGEL OR SEAGAL $800: In 1938 he & Joe Shuster sold the rights to their Superman creation for $130 Jerry Siegel |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $2000: In 1938 this playwright's "Our Town" had some Pulitzer with the voters (Thornton) Wilder |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | 20th CENTURY SPORTS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Yankee Stadium.) On June 22, 1938, in a famous rematch here at Yankee Stadium, Joe Louis KO'd this German heavyweight in the first round Max Schmeling |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | SIGMUND FREUD $800: Freud worked & lived at Berggasse 19, Vienna, from 1891 to 1938, when he fled from the Nazis to this world capital London |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1938 chemist Roy Plunkett invented polytetrafluorethylene, a nonstick substance better known as this Teflon |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | THE ORIENT EXPRESS $1600: (Jimmy walks down a hallway before disappearing into thin air.) You wouldn't think someone could disappear on a train, but it happens in this 1938 film set aboard the Orient Express The Lady Vanishes |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | COLLEGE HOOPS $400: Since 1938 the N.I.T. has played all its championship games at this New York City venue Madison Square Garden |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | ENDS IN "TH" $2000: This fish was thought to be extinct millions of years ago until one was found off South Africa in 1938 coelacanth |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | CHANGE THE WORLD $800: When this king married in 1938, Egypt issued a 100-piastre gold coin to commemorate the event King Farouk |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | APRIL FOOL'S DAY BABIES $400: Born April 1, 1938, this model & actress is best known for her starring role in "Love Story" Ali MacGraw |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LITERATURE $800: This author of "The Good Earth" based the heroine of her 1938 novel "This Proud Heart" on herself Pearl Buck |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | MEN OF THE "C" $2000: On July 18, 1938 he was questioned by police after a 28-hour, 13-minute airplane flight "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | DON QUIZ-OTE $1600: In 1938 he became the first player to win tennis' Grand Slam Don Budge |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | LET'S SPLIT! $600: Otto Hahn & Fritz Strassman got together long enough to split this in 1938 the atom |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | PACKAGING $200: In 1938 Clicquot Club Ginger Ale was the first soft drink sold in these cans |
| #4929, aired 2006-02-02 | I AM A CAMERA $600: Patented around 1938, Vladimir Zworykin's iconoscope was the first practical one of these TV camera |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | THE SPORT OF KINGS $1,500 (Daily Double): It's been said that this grandson of Man O' War had more newspaper coverage in 1938 than any public figure Seabiscuit |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | FASHION HISTORY $400: Although this company's name was trademarked in 1871, its logo didn't appear on men's underwear until 1938 Fruit of the Loom |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | PHILOSOPHERS $400: This existentialist gave the world "Nausea", a philosophical novel, in 1938 (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | A VERY SPECIAL PULITZER PRIZE $2000: 1938:
To this Alberta city's Journal newspaper, for its freedom of the press editorials Edmonton |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | STATE THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER $2000: Mercer County, which became the center for a Martian invasion in 1938 New Jersey |
| #4843, aired 2005-10-05 | FAMOUS PAINTERS $800: Although her hands were crippled with arthritis, she began painting in oils in 1938 at age 77 Grandma Moses |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS $2000: 1938:
P.S.B.,
United States Pearl Buck |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | THE BAD NEWS BEARERS $1000: From Germany, reporter Sigrid Schultz had the story of this deadly night in the Nov. 10, 1938 Chicago Tribune Kristallnacht |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN $800: In this "of 1938" Bob Hope introduced "Thanks For The Memory" The Big Broadcast |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | PHYSICS $200: In 1938 Otto Hahn & Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission by splitting atoms of this element uranium |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | RESCUE ME! $400: On Feb. 6, 1938 the lifesavers of Bondi Beach in this country rescued 300 people from freak waves Australia |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $200: His family was in exile, so this future king of Spain was born in Rome, on January 5, 1938 Juan Carlos |
| #4815, aired 2005-07-08 | SCIENCE GUYS $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1938 Mussolini let him travel to Sweden to receive his Nobel Prize for Physics; he then defected to the U.S. (Enrico) Fermi |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | PERU $600: Lima's Palacio de Gobierno was built in 1938 on the site of this Spanish conquistador's palace Pizarro |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Hit duet for Sonny & Cher that was a pro golfer who married a pro wrestler in 1938 "I Got You Babe Didrikson" |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | RONALD REAGAN WAS AN ACTOR $800: In 1938's "Brother Rat", Reagan acted with this woman who would become his first wife Jane Wyman |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | ALSO A PLANET $400: Founded in 1938, it was a Ford Motor Company brand name of semi-luxury models Mercury |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $400: The "Anschluss" was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938 Germany |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | THANK YOU, I PREFER NOT TO ROCK $1200: This much-married bandleader's 1938 hit "Begin The Beguine" set him up as a rival to Benny Goodman (Artie) Shaw |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | PILOTS $800: Pilot who made an "unplanned" trip to Ireland & got a parade for his trouble on August 5, 1938 "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | JAZZ $800: The 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert featuring this clarinetist's band is one of the great live recordings in jazz (Benny) Goodman |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | THE SUPREME COURT $1000: In 1938 this future Supreme Court justice was the first-round draft choice of the football Pittsburgh Pirates Whizzer White |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | A CUP OF KOFI $1000: The first U.N. head from Africa south of the Sahara, Kofi Annan was born in the city of Kumasi in this country in 1938 Ghana |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | WORKING WITHOUT ANNETTE $400: With no help from Annette, Frankie Avalon was born in this year in which Germany invaded Poland 1939 |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | PARENTING $2,500 (Daily Double): This 1938 Nobel Literature Prize winner's parents were Presbyterian missionaries Pearl Buck |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | HEIR OF THE DAG $800: Born in Ghana in 1938, this U.N. Secretary-General won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 Kofi Annan |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | BASEBALL: THE 1930s $2000: In June 1938 this Cincinnati Reds pitcher became the only man to pitch a no-hitter in 2 consecutive games Johnny Van Der Meer |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH! $800: Using Du Pont technology, the first one of these with synthetic bristles was introduced in 1938 a toothbrush |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | A CANDY-GORY $800: This Nestle candy bar, crisped rice in chocolate, was introduced in 1938 Crunch |
| #4498, aired 2004-03-10 | PICASSO $600: This Picasso masterpiece went on tour in 1938 & 1939 to raise money for Spanish relief Guernica |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | TECHIES $1600: In 1938 Roy Plunkett stuck with it & discovered this non-stick substance teflon |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $400: June Lockhart debuted as a Cratchit child in this 1938 film, with her real parents playing Mr. & Mrs. Bob Cratchit A Christmas Carol |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | AMERICAN SONGS $2000: In this 1938 song the title line is followed by "Where you're terrific if you're even good" "Hooray for Hollywood" |
| #4469, aired 2004-01-29 | YOU BETTER KNOW SOME SCIENCE $800: It was an atom of this element that Otto Hahn split in 1938 uranium |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | THE GENE POOL $1600: It was hard to beat this man, Benny Goodman's drummer from 1935 to 1938 Gene Krupa |
| #4430, aired 2003-12-05 | NEW DEAL PROGRAMS $800: Of 25 cents, $1.10 or $1.60, the hourly wage minimum set by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act 25 cents |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | COLLEGE PROFESSORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1938 he left the University of Rome, stopped in Sweden to pick up his Nobel Physics Prize, then moved to America Enrico Fermi |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | IT OPENED IN NEW HAVEN $800: This ever-popular musical set in 1938 Austria debuted in New Haven in 1959 The Sound of Music |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | COME WHAT MAY $400: On May 31, 1938 viewers saw what may have been TV's first game show when the BBC broadcast this type of "bee" a spelling bee |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | SHOW ME THE WAY $1200: In his 1938 book "Alone" he describes the 5 months he spent alone near the South Pole Richard Byrd |
| #4387, aired 2003-10-07 | HIGH SOCIETY $1600: In 1938, Brenda Frazier was the talk of society as this type of beginner a debutante |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | BALLET $800: The famous 1938 ballet about a western outlaw is named for this "kid", not the Sundance Kid Billy the Kid |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP $1600: In 1938 it became the first host country not to make it to the finals; it didn't make that mistake in 1998 (it won!) France |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | A STAR IS BORN $600: Elliott Goldstein, born Aug. 29, 1938, became this actor, Streisand's first hubby Elliott Gould |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | MR. JOHNSON $1600: This "King of the Delta Blues Singers" wrote classics like "Sweet Home Chicago" before dying young in 1938 Robert Johnson |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $800: Uta Hagen flew onto Broadway in 1938, debuting as Nina in this Chekhov play The Seagull |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | THE OTTO CLUB $1200: Otto Hahn & Fritz Strassman discovered this atom-splitting process in 1938 nuclear fission |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | CORNHUSKER CINEMA $1,500 (Daily Double): Spencer Tracy gave his Best Actor Oscar for this 1938 film set in Nebraska to Father Edward J. Flanagan Boys Town |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | WELL, I'LL BE A '30s WORD $2000: In 1938 Milton Sirotta coined this word for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes googol |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | WE NEED "ACTION" $800: It's where Superman made his debut in 1938 Action Comics |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | "K" RATIONS $2000: This Armenian's 1938 "Poem for Stalin" is less well-known than his "Sabre Dance" Aram Khachaturian |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | MERCURIAL $1000: The most famous broadcast of "The Mercury Theater on the Air" was this tale about Mars, broadcast October 30, 1938 War of the Worlds |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1938:
Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama Boys Town |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $400: She began painting in 1938 at age 78; a year later her landscapes were exhibited at NYC's Museum of Modern Art Grandma Moses |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | THE "WAY" WE WERE $800: In 1938 he flew out of New York & landed in L.A....uh, make that Dublin "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #4207, aired 2002-12-10 | ROMANCING THE THRONE $1000: Geraldine Apponyi, the 1st woman of American descent to become a queen, married King Zog I of this country in 1938 Albania |
| #4149, aired 2002-09-19 | LOOSE CHANGE $1000: The bison that appeared on this coin from 1913 to 1938 was modeled on one living in NYC's Zoological Gardens (buffalo) nickel |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | LET'S GET MARRIED $800: The first 2 acts of this 1938 play are titled "The Daily Life" & "Love and Marriage" Our Town |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | TIME $400: A famous one of these was torpedo-shaped & buried at a depth of 50 feet at Flushing Meadows, N.Y. in 1938 a time capsule |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | SOMETHING'S FISHY $1600: Until one was caught in 1938, it was thought that this fish had been extinct for more than 70 million years the coelacanth |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | "BOY" MOVIES $400: 1938:
Spencer Tracy Boys Town |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | '38 SPECIAL $400: The Oct. 30, 1938 broadcast adaptation of this book scared the pants off some folk The War of the Worlds |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | '38 SPECIAL $800: When this play opened on Broadway in 1938 it didn't have any scenery, just the way Thornton Wilder wanted it Our Town |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | '38 SPECIAL $1600: In 1938 you could read something new about the Dark Continent, this Isak Dinesen work finished the year before Out of Africa |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | '38 SPECIAL $2000: In 1938 he threw in the tutu as leader of the ballet at the Met George Balanchine |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BALLET $800: The 1938 premiere of this ballet featured Lew Christensen in the role of Pat Garrett Billy the Kid |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | IT HAPPENED ON APRIL FOOL'S DAY $800: This actress was born on April 1, 1938, we doubt her first words were "Love is never having to say you're sorry" Ali MacGraw |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | THE 60s $400: The Chicago-to-L.A. highway route assigned this number in 1926 wasn't completely paved until 1938 Route 66 |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | HARVARD UNIVERSITY $2000: This German-American who designed Harvard's Grad Center headed the Architecture Dept. from 1938 to 1952 Walter Gropius |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | IS SAID $800: In 1938 Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster said he could "run faster than a streamline train" Superman |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | WOODY ALLEN $400: Woody could say "Thanks for the Memory" to this star of "The Big Broadcast of 1938", an early comedy hero Bob Hope |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | THE "L" IT IS! $800: An old woman's disappearance on a train ride leads to a dizzying web of intrigue in this 1938 Hitchcock thriller The Lady Vanishes |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | WHAT ARE "YOU" DOING? $800: This 1938 James Stewart film won Best Picture & earned an Oscar for its director, Frank Capra You Can't Take It with You |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $300: Kate Smith blessed the world with the first public rendition of this Irving Berlin song in 1938 "God Bless America" |
| #3944, aired 2001-10-25 | DON'T LISTEN TO THEM! $1000: Returning from Munich in 1938 he predicted, "I believe it is peace in our time" Neville Chamberlain |
| #3936, aired 2001-10-15 | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ALUMNI $300: The "salesman" he created wouldn't die until 11 years after this author's senior year in 1938 Arthur Miller |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | NESTLE'S $600: Nestle's first non-milk product was an instant form of this in 1938 coffee (Nescafé) |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | DIXIE CHICKS $400: Born in Miami in 1938, she was the first woman appointed U.S. attorney general Janet Reno |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | HERSHEY'S $500: In 1938 Nestle introduced its Crunch bar & Hershey introduced this rival Krackel |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | CALL ME SMITTY $200: Her Armistice Day rendition of "God Bless America" in 1938 introduced the song to the world Kate Smith |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: This future justice was chief counsel for the NAACP from 1938 to 1950 Thurgood Marshall |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | IN THE BUTTE $400: Famous Butteites (Butte-ies?) include this motorcycle daredevil, born there in 1938 Evel Knievel |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | GIVING "THANK"S $100: From "The Big Broadcast of 1938", it's Bob Hope's theme song "Thanks for the Memories" |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $200: In 1938 a Fredericksburg, VA. college was renamed to honor Mary Washington, this relative of George His mother |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | SPORTS STATS $800: In 1938 Sam Snead was the PGA's money leader with $20,000; in 1998 it was this alliterative golfer with $2.6 million David Duval |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | 'TOON IN $200: A mint condition copy of the 10-cent comic book that featured this hero's 1938 debut is worth $185,000 today Superman |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY "X" $200: In 1938 Chester Carlson didn't copy off the guy sitting next to him when he invented this process Xerography/Xeroxy |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | LET'S TAKE A LITTLE TRIP $500: In 1938 this rich aviator took 4 assistants on a little round-the-world flight Howard Hughes |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | LITERARY QUOTES $500: For this 1938 story Hemingway wrote, "No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude" The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | GONE FISSION $200: In 1938 2 Germans bombarded this element, No. 92, with neutrons, but didn't realize they'd induced a fission reaction Uranium |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $200: A Communist, 1938:
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" Mao Tse-tung |
| #3601, aired 2000-04-10 | ACTOR-RIFIC $100: 1938's "Under Western Stars" helped launched the career of this big-screen singing sensation: Roy Rogers |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | "A.C." $600: The June 1938 issue No. 1 of this periodical included Superman's first appearance Action Comics |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | VOGUE'S CENTURY OF FASHION $200: In 1938 Vogue showed one of these cinchers as outerwear -- 1938's version of Madonna Bustier/corset |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | PEOPLE IN VOGUE $600: This show biz vet was 10 when Edward Steichen shot her for the December 1, 1938 issue Shirley Temple |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | KENNETHS $200: This country music Kenny was born Kenneth in Houston on August 21, 1938 Kenny Rogers |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | FILM ROLES IN COMMON $400: Wendy Hiller played her in 1938's "Pygmalion"; Audrey Hepburn had the role in "My Fair Lady" Eliza Doolittle |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | THE 1930s $300: It's the "U" in HUAC, a committee formed in 1938 Unamerican |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $800: Known as "Hammerin' Hank", this Hall of Famer hit 58 home runs in 1938 Hank Greenberg |
| #3525, aired 1999-12-24 | "PEACE" ON EARTH $500: It's what Neville Chamberlain promised on his return from Germany in September 1938 "Peace in our time" |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | HALLOWEEN $200: On October 31, 1938 he expressed "deep regret" for shocking the nation with his radio broadcast the night before Orson Welles ("War of the Worlds") |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | THE 20th CENTURY $4,000 (Daily Double): This aviator landed in Dublin in 1938; only problem was, he was supposed to be landing in California Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #3445, aired 1999-07-23 | FILE UNDER "Q" $100: Ship seen here, it was launched in 1967, the successor to one launched in 1938 QE2 |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | NICE BUNNIES $400: An as-yet-nameless prototype of this character appeared in the 1938 cartoon "Porky's Hare Hunt" Bugs Bunny |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BALLET $800: Traditionally, the ballerina plays the mother & the sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him Billy the Kid |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | DISNEYANA $200: This terrible trio hit the big screen for the first time in 1938 Huey, Dewey & Louie |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | SECRETARIES OF COMMERCE $500: Harry Hopkins directed the WPA, this program, before becoming commerce secretary in 1938 Works Progress Administration (or Work Projects Administration) |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | REDS $400: From 1934 to 1938 he was the voice of the Cincinnati Reds Red Barber |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | BOBs & JEFFs $200: He sang "Thanks for the Memory" in his first feature film, "The Big Broadcast of 1938" Bob Hope |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | THE 1930s $400: The first factory to make these cars was dedicated in Wolfsburg, Germany May 26, 1938 Volkswagen |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO $100: Orson Welles shocked the USA with his 1938 radio production of this novel The War of the Worlds |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | THEY REST IN NEBRASKA $200: Grover Cleveland Alexander was inducted into this sport's Hall of Fame in 1938 & interred in Nebraska in 1950 Baseball |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | ST. PATRICK'S DAY $500: Born on a train in Russia on March 17, 1938, he danced his way to the West in 1961 Rudolf Nureyev |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | TIME $800: A 1945 Sartre novel set in 1938, or a nickname for the 18th century The Age of Reason |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1938 he developed a way to electronically measure the size of a radio show's audience Arthur Nielsen |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | DOG TALES $100: It's what Lassie was asked to do in the title of the classic 1938 Eric Knight short story Come home |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | HISTORIC FLORIDA $100: The "Overseas Highway" linking these islands with the mainland was completed in 1938 Florida Keys |
| #3263, aired 1998-11-11 | THE KENNEDYS $400: Born in 1888, this patriarch was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain from 1938 to 1940 Joseph Kennedy |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | 1930S SCIENCE $300: In 1938 this company brought fluorescent lighting "to life" General Electric |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | 1930S SCIENCE $400: It was an atom of this element that Otto Hahn split in 1938 Uranium |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | BALLET $1000: The 1938 ballet named for this famous outlaw features a musical gun battle Billy the Kid |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | FOOD $400: In 1938 Herman Warden Lay started selling these under his own brand name Potato chips |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | FICTIONAL FOLKS $600: 1938 Daphne Du Maurier novel in which you find the second Mrs. De Winter of our discontent Rebecca |
| #3144, aired 1998-04-09 | IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT $800: Term for the night of Nov. 9, 1938 when Germany's Jewish shops & synagogues were destroyed Kristallnacht |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | 1930s TV $600: TV covered this PM's arrival from Munich September 30, 1938 live; the "Peace For Our Time" speech came later Neville Chamberlain |
| #3120, aired 1998-03-06 | IN THE GROUND $200: Westinghouse introduced this name for the container it buried in 1938, to be opened in 6939 a time capsule |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $400: In 1938 Hank Luisetti became the first college player in this sport to score 50 points in a game Basketball |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | THEY ALL PLAYED HAMLET $300: The role of Obi-Wan Kenobi was light-years away when he played Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1938 Sir Alec Guinness |
| #3072, aired 1997-12-30 | TO THE "NTH" DEGREE $600: Since the rediscovery of this ancient fish in 1938, only a few hundred have been caught coelacanth |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: Lise Meitner made atomic energy possible with her 1938 co-discovery of this nuclear process Nuclear fission |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | FOREIGN INVENTIONS $400: Today we'd be Bic-less without this 1938 invention from Hungary's Ladislao Biro Ball-point pen |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | INTO THE WOODS $500: Born Natasha Gurdin in 1938, she acted under this name Natalie Wood |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO $400: In 1938 2 Germans became the first to split this, producing barium & krypton from uranium an atom |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | AMERICANS $200: In 1938 Don Budge became the only American man to win the Grand Slam in this sport tennis |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 1938 this electronics firm was founded in David Packard's Palo Alto, California garage Hewlett-Packard |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | FOREIGN CURRENCY $800: From 1938 to 1950, this king was depicted on Egypt's 1 millieme coin King Farouk |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | SEA CREATURES $1000: This primitive fish was believed extinct until caught off the African coast in 1938 coelacanth |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: This Italian won the 1938 Physics Award for discovering radioactive elements beyond uranium Enrico Fermi |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: From 1902 to 1938, Sigmund Freud served as a professor of neuropathology at this university University of Vienna |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE 1930s $200: A factory to make these "People's Cars" was dedicated May 26, 1938 in Wolfsburg, Germany Volkswagen |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | JAZZ SINGERS $400: In 1938 she had her first smash hit with Chick Webb's band, "A-Tisket A-Tasket" Ella Fitzgerald |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | LITERATURE $600: 1938's "Out Of The Silent Planet" was the first sci-fi novel by this Narnia creator C.S. Lewis |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | LITERATURE $200: In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelist's "The War of the Worlds" on radio H.G. Wells |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | LITERATURE $1000: In his 1938 work "The Unvanquished", the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War William Faulkner |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: James Cromwell, Farmer Hoggett in this 1995 film, is the son of John Cromwell, who directed "Algiers" in 1938 "Babe" |
| #2820, aired 1996-11-29 | PLAYS $500 (Daily Double): This 1938 play depicts the romance & marriage of George Gibbs & Emily Webb "Our Town" |
| #2786, aired 1996-10-14 | SCIENCE $600: After escaping Nazi-occupied Austria with her father in 1938, she set up a child therapy clinic in London Anna Freud |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | GOLF $400: The Augusta National Invitation Tournament changed its name to this in 1938 The Masters |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: In 1938 this piano-making family gave the White House a piano with eagle-shaped legs Steinway |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | TELEPHONE HISTORY $300: On Oct. 30, 1938 phone traffic peaked in cities all over America as people discussed this broadcast the "War of the Worlds" |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: Later merged with the AFL, this federation of industrial unions was formed in 1938 CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | SATIRE $1000: This "Alexandria Quartet" author's first important novel was "The Black Book", a 1938 satire Lawrence Durrell |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $500: From 1938 to 1952 Walter Gropius served as chairman of this department at Harvard Architecture |
| #2677, aired 1996-04-02 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1000: This Ohio Republican won election to the U.S. Senate in 1938 & served until his death in 1953 Robert Taft |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | LITERATURE $800: This quartet of novels by T.H. White began with "The Sword in the Stone" in 1938 The Once and Future King |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | COMEDIANS $200: His first film, "The Big Broadcast of 1938", featured his future theme song—"Thanks for the Memory" Bob Hope |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | BALLET $200: In a 1938 ballet this "youthful" outlaw's mother & his Mexican sweetheart are played by the same dancer Billy the Kid |
| #2555, aired 1995-10-13 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In the Munich Pact of 1938 France & Britain turned over the Sudetenland area of this country to Germany Czechoslovakia |
| #2547, aired 1995-10-03 | WORLD HISTORY $300: This Egyptian president graduated from the military academy at Cairo in 1938 Nasser |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | 1938 $200: On December 10 he announced he'd leave his Hyde Park estate & its papers & books to the U.S. government FDR |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | 1938 $400: By accepting his membership dues, the League of Nations recognized him as emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | 1938 $600: 17 acres surrounding her cottage were transferred to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Anne Hathaway |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | 1938 $800: Returning from Ireland to NYC in August, this aviator was given a parade down…er, up Broadway "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | 1938 $1000: On April 27, 1938 Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary married King Zog of this country Albania |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | CHILD STARS $300: In 1938 this 10-year-old had the seventh-highest income in America Shirley Temple |
| #2477, aired 1995-05-16 | HISTORY $200: In 1938 France stopped sending prisoners to this brutal prison camp off the coast of French Guiana Devils Island |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | POTPOURRI $1000: In 1938 this tycoon beat Wiley Post's record for flying around the world by almost 4 days (Howard) Hughes |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | HISTORY $400: 1938's Anschluss combined this neighboring country with the Third Reich Austria |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Alice B. Toklas translated her 1938 book "Picasso" into English Gertrude Stein |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: This company introduced its Crunch bar in 1938 Nestle |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | LITERATURE $400: He wrote his first novel, "Murphy", in 1938, 14 years before his famous play "Waiting for Godot" (Samuel) Beckett |
| #2372, aired 1994-12-20 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $200: In 1938 he appeared with Susan Hayward in Warner Brothers' prison drama "Girls on Probation" Ronald Reagan |
| #2365, aired 1994-12-09 | FRENCH DISCOVERIES $200: Though Teflon was discovered in America in 1938, a Frenchman discovered how to coat one of these in 1954 a (frying) pan |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | THIS & THAT $500: In 1938 this country issued coins commemorating the marriage of King Zog Albania |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | "HEART"Y PHRASES $400: In the 1938 movie musical "Listen, Darling", Judy Garland sang, "Zing! Went" these "The Strings Of My Heart" |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $600: In 1938 a sample of this element symbolized U was split into smaller barium atoms uranium |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | THE 1930s $300: It was the Mercury Theatre On The Air's presentation on Oct. 30, 1938 War of the Worlds |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | MARCHING ORDERS $400: Established in 1938 as the Nat'l Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, it's known as this today the March of Dimes |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: His 1938 collection "The Long Valley" includes one of his most famous stories, "The Red Pony" (John) Steinbeck |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 eventually made this the standard number of hours for a work week 40 |
| #2289, aired 1994-07-14 | DINAH SHORE $500: Dinah majored in sociology at this Nashville university; she graduated in 1938 Vanderbilt |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1938 the Mexican government nationalized foreign holdings in this industry now run by Pemex the oil industry |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | THE MOVIES $600: Between 1938 & 1950, Penny Singleton played this comic strip character in 28 films Blondie |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | THE MOVIES $800: Joseph Ruttenberg's cinematography for "The Great Waltz", the film biography of this composer, won a 1938 Oscar Strauss |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $100: In 1938 FDR dedicated the Eternal Light Memorial on this Pennsylvania battlefield Gettysburg |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Thornton Wilder won in 1943 for "The Skin of Our Teeth" & in 1938 for this Play Our Town |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | LITERATURE $200: From his first Perry Mason novel in 1938 until his death in 1970, he wrote over 100 books Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | MARTINs $500: From 1938-1945 Texas congressman Martin Dies, Jr. served as the first chairman of this infamous committee The House Committee on Un-American Activities |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | MOVIE NUNS $400: This director's 1938 suspense film "The Lady Vanishes" features a mysterious nun in high heels Hitchcock |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | GENERAL SCIENCE $400: In 1938 Otto Hahn & Fritz Strassman discovered this process of splitting an atom nuclear fission |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | AIRCRAFT $800: This manufacturer's 1938 307 Stratoliner was the first pressurized airliner Boeing |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Turkey's first president, he served from 1923 until his death in 1938 (Kemal) Ataturk |
| #2075, aired 1993-09-17 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $300: This comic & Shirley Ross introduced the song "Two Sleepy People" in the 1938 film "Thanks for the Memory" Bob Hope |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $400: In 1938 Churchill told this prime minister, "You have chosen dishonor, and you will have war" Chamberlain |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | JAZZ $600: In 1938, she recorded her first hit "A-Tisket A-Tasket", with Chick Webb's band Ella Fitzgerald |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: The story of this beloved collie was published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 Lassie |
| #2041, aired 1993-06-21 | POETIC POTPOURRI $500: In 1938 Nikos Kazantzakis wrote a poetic sequel to this Homeric epic the Odyssey |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | LABOR $400: In 1938 this rival to the AFL was formed & John L. Lewis became its first president the CIO |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | THE 1930s $200: In June 1938 FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, establishing this at 40 cents an hour the minimum wage |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | SPENCER TRACY FILMS $400: Tracy gave his Oscar for this 1938 film to father Flanagan Boys Town |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: In 1938 the Queen Elizabeth was launched by this steamship company Cunard |
| #1982, aired 1993-03-30 | AUTHORS $400: Alice B. Toklas translated this author's 1938 book "Picasso" into English Gertrude Stein |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: In a 1938 novel, would- be polar explorer Mr. Popper raises a flock of these birds penguins |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: This 1938 winner written by Thornton Wilder was revived in 1991 with Alan Alda as the stage manager Our Town |
| #1920, aired 1993-01-01 | FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS $600: This Frenchman set forth his Existentialist ideas in his 1st major work, the 1938 novel "Nausea" Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $400: Though written in 1918, this song was introduced to the public in 1938 by Kate Smith "God Bless America" |
| #1878, aired 1992-11-04 | FAMOUS ANIMALS $200: A portrait of Black Diamond, a bison, appeared on the reverse of this U.S. coin 1913-1938 a nickel |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: This "Waiting for Godot" author later married a woman he met after he was stabbed in a 1938 attack (Samuel) Becket |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: Prince Franz Josef II became head of state of this tiny European country in 1938 Liechtenstein |
| #1747, aired 1992-03-17 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: This psychoanalyst left Nazi-dominated Austria in 1938 & moved to London Anna Freud |
| #1723, aired 1992-02-12 | THE 1930s $1000: What Wallace Carothers called Fiber 66 in 1938 is now known as this synthetic fabric nylon |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | HISTORIC QUOTES $400: This British P.M. ended his 1938 "Peace In Our Time" address with "Go home and get a nice quiet sleep" (Neville) Chamberlain |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | ACTION COMICS $100: This alien hero made his debut in Action Comics No. 1, June 1938 Superman |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | OPERA SINGERS $1000: This great Russian basso who died in 1938 was renowned for his interpretation of Boris Godunov Feodor Chaliapin |
| #1662, aired 1991-11-19 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: In 1938 he became chief counsel of the NAACP, a post he held for the next 23 years Thurgood Marshall |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | DANCERS $600: Eugene Loring choreographed the 1938 ballet about this youthful outlaw, & he starred in it, too Billy the Kid |
| #1659, aired 1991-11-14 | SCIENCE & NATURE $600: The coelacanth, thought to be extinct until one was caught in 1938, is this type of creature Fish |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BASEBALL $200: This former Yankee home run hitter served as the Dodgers first base coach in 1938 Babe Ruth |
| #1646, aired 1991-10-28 | TRANSPORTATION $600: The pair of "sister" ocean liners launched by the British, one in 1934, one in 1938 the Queen Elizabeth & the Queen Mary |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | AWARDS $200: In 1938, this American aviator was awarded a German medal
by Hermann Goering (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | U.S. COINS $400: Animal featured on the reverse of the Indian Head nickel from 1913 to 1938 a buffalo (or bison) |
| #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 |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | THE 1930s $400: On her Nov. 11, 1938 radio show she belted out the song "God Bless America" Kate Smith |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | FILMS OF THE '30s $200: He played a priest in "San Francisco" in 1936 & again in 1938 for "Boys Town" Spencer Tracy |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1938, Eugène Ionesco left Romania & went on to settle permanently in this country France |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | SPORTS TRIVIA $400: In 1938 Don Budge became the first player to achieve the Grand Slam in this sport tennis |
| #1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MEXICO $400: Of 1918, 1938, or 1958, the year Mexican women first voted for President 1958 |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | SEA LIFE $1000: Prior to being caught in 1938, this fish was known only from fossil records & believed to be extinct coelacanth |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | HISTORY $200: Kurt von Schuschnigg was Chancellor of this country when Hitler invaded in 1938 Austria |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | PLAYWRIGHTS $200: At 6'7", Robert Sherwood was 3 inches taller than this president he wrote a play about in 1938 Abraham Lincoln |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | FAMOUS QUOTES $400: This actor never said, "Come with me to the Casbah" in the 1938 film "Algiers"; his press agent made up the line Charles Boyer |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1938 this British P.M. used the expressions “Peace with honor“ & “Peace for our time” Neville Chamberlain |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | PSYCH 103 $500: In 1938 this biologist was asked to teach a course on sex & marriage at Indiana Univ. Kinsey |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: This Greek writer continued the story of Ulysses in his 1938 poem, "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel" Nikos Kazantzakis |
| #7, aired 1990-07-28 | NOTABLE WOMEN $500: U.S. News reports an April Gallup survey ranked her as Britain's least popular P.M. since 1938 (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | THE OSCARS $100: Edgar Bergen received an honorary Oscar in 1938 for creating this dummy Charlie McCarthy |
| #1303, aired 1990-04-11 | PEOPLE $600: In 1938 this wrestler married Babe Didrikson George Zaharias |
| #1283, aired 1990-03-14 | EASTERN EUROPE $2,500 (Daily Double): The 1938 Munich Agreement pressured this country into giving the Sudetenland to the Germans Czechoslovakia |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | FIRSTS $100: Dr. West's Miracle Tuft toothbrush of 1938 was the 1st to have bristles made of this nylon |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | 1930s BEST SELLERS $800: His 1938 book, "Alone", described his months alone in the Antarctic Byrd |
| #1196, aired 1989-11-13 | ORCHESTRA CONDUCTORS $400: He became conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra in 1938 & remained there for over 4 decades Eugene Ormandy |
| #1137, aired 1989-07-11 | BRITISH POLITICS $400: In 1938 this P.M. signed the Munich Pact, at which time Hitler promised to take no more European land Neville Chamberlain |
| #1098, aired 1989-05-17 | SHORT STORIES $800: 4 "Red Pony" stories are included in his 1938 work "The Long Valley" (John) Steinbeck |
| #1076, aired 1989-04-17 | ORGANIZATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Established in 1938, this foundation now fights birth defects the March of Dimes |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | ROYALTY $1000: Mussolini's son-in-law was best man when this country's King Zog married in 1938 Albania |
| #1046, aired 1989-03-06 | HEMINGWAY $800: In 1938 he wrote his only play, "The Fifth Column", which dealt with this war the Spanish Civil War |
| #1029, aired 1989-02-09 | PIANO LESSON $2,000 (Daily Double): Residence where you'd find the piano seen here, donated by the Steinway family in 1938 the White House |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | CURRENT EVENTS $600: 1938 Wadowice High School grad Karol Wojtyla hosted his 50th anniversary class reunion here the Vatican |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | CORPORATE AMERICA $800: In 1938 Pocket Books began publishing paperbacks by issuing this Pearl Buck novel The Good Earth |
| #971, aired 1988-11-21 | THE FUNNIES $200: 1938's "Best Actor" Oscar was mistakenly engraved to this comic strip cop instead of Spencer Tracy Dick Tracy |
| #934, aired 1988-09-29 | HISTORIC QUOTES $600: In 1938 this prime minister said the Munich Pact brought "peace for our time" Neville Chamberlain |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In July 1938, this pilot who couldn't get a flight permit to Europe "accidentally" landed in Dublin (Douglas G.) "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | SEA CREATURES $400: When a coelacanth fish was caught near Africa in 1938, scientists were interested for this reason because it was thought to be extinct |
| #890, aired 1988-06-17 | SHIPS $400: In 1938, this famous passenger liner crossed the Atlantic in just 3 days, 20 hrs. & 42 mins. Queen Mary |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: In 1938, his humorous "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" was 1 of few poetry books ever to make best-seller lists Ogden Nash |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $100: Bob Hope's theme song, he 1st sang it in "The Big Broadcast of 1938" "Thanks for the Memory" |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: In 1938, this businessman/aviator set a record flying around the world in 3 days, 19 hrs., 14.28 mins. Howard Hughes |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | "B" MOVIES $1000: 1 of 2 movie series titles that could be followed by "of 1936" or "of 1938" The Big Broadcast (or The Broadway Melody) |
| #763, aired 1987-12-23 | MOVIE TAP DANCERS $300: In "The Broadway Melody of 1938", Judy Garland danced with this future "Beverly Hillbilly" Buddy Ebsen |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | IN THE KITCHEN $400: In 1938, this co. marketed its 1st decorative plastic laminate, giving America's countertops a whole new look Formica |
| #721, aired 1987-10-26 | THE MOVIES $200: 1938 film "bio" of Sir Robin of Locksley (The Adventures of) Robin Hood |
| #704, aired 1987-10-01 | WORLD WAR II $1000: "Anschluss" was the term for the 1938 forced union of these 2 countries Germany & Austria |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | FIRSTS $600: The Information Please Almanac lists this as the 1st radio panel quiz show in America Information Please |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | FIRSTS $400: In 1938, Don Budge became 1st & only U.S. male to accomplish this feat in tennis winning the grand slam |
| #626, aired 1987-05-04 | BASEBALL $400: In 1938, pitcher Johnny Vander Meer became only man ever to do this in 2 consecutive games pitch no-hitters |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: Published in 1898, this Wells novel had its biggest impact when adapted by another Welles in 1938 The War of the Worlds |
| #598, aired 1987-03-25 | PEOPLE $500: Kenosha, Wisconsin native who masterminded an invasion of New Jersey October 30, 1938 Orson Welles |
| #556, aired 1987-01-26 | THE '30s $200: In 1938 & '39 alone, Mickey Rooney made 7 of the 15 films in this series Andy Hardy |
| #546, aired 1987-01-12 | THE 20TH CENTURY $600: Though written in 1917, this Irving Berlin tune wasn't heard until Kate Smith sang it in 1938 "God Bless America" |
| #514, aired 1986-11-27 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $600: He received a $1,000,000 trust fund from his father for his 21st birthday on May 29, 1938 John F. Kennedy |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | SPORTS GREATS $600: In 1938, Don Budge became 1st player ever to win this sport's 4 major championships in 1 year tennis |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | "B" MOVIES $300: 1938 movie whose title precedes what happens before boy loses girl Boy Meets Girl |
| #473, aired 1986-10-01 | COMIC BOOKS $200: In 1986, DC eliminated the original version of this hero Siegel & Schuster created in 1938 Superman |
| #460, aired 1986-09-12 | "DR." MOVIES $600: For 9 years L. Barrymore starred as the gruff Dr. Gillespie, starting with this film in 1938 Young Dr. Kildare |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | THE ARTS $200: Conducting only from memory, Eugene Ormandy led this city's orchestra from 1938-80 Philadelphia |
| #406, aired 1986-03-31 | CZECH, PLEASE $600: This German-speaking area of Czechoslovakia was ceded to Hitler in 1938 the Sudetenland |
| #393, aired 1986-03-12 | "SEA" WORDS $400: Horse of the year in 1938 Seabiscuit |
| #372, aired 1986-02-11 | SPORTS DATES $400: At a Penn. high school in Feb. 1938, this athletic event was called due to fog--in the gym! a basketball game |
| #364, aired 1986-01-30 | MUSICALS $1000: Memorable calendar song 1st sung in 1938's forgettable "Knickerbocker Holiday" "September Song" |
| #355, aired 1986-01-17 | HELL $1000: Olsen & Johnson's 1938 attempt to revive vaudeville Hellzapoppin' |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | HEADLINES $200: September 30, 1938 papers read "4-Power Peace Pact Signed, Sudetenland Given To" him Adolf Hitler |
| #346, aired 1986-01-06 | 20TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: Though not Southern, this tiny state sent no Republicans to the house from 1938 to 1980 Rhode Island |
| #344, aired 1986-01-02 | SHOW BUSINESS $500: Before "Broadway Melody of 1938" she sang "You Made Me Love You" at Gable's 36th b'day party Judy Garland |
| #336, aired 1985-12-23 | HODGEPODGE $200: His "War of the Worlds" broadcast, Sept. 30, 1938 had half of N.J. fleeing the Martians Orson Welles |
| #271, aired 1985-09-23 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1938, he said he had achieved "peace with honor" Neville Chamberlain |
| #175, aired 1985-05-10 | "BIG" $400: 1938 film in which Bob Hope first sang "Thanks for the Memories" The Big Broadcast |
| #173, aired 1985-05-08 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $200: In 1938, German chemists Hahn & Strassmann were 1st to do this to the atom split the atom |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: Empowered by a 1938 act of Cong., this agency guards against snake oil cures & excess rat hairs in food the Food and Drug Administration (the FDA) |
| #116, aired 1985-02-18 | '30s MOVIES $500: #1 box office star from 1935 to 1938 Shirley Temple |
| #105, aired 1985-02-01 | GABLE $500: In 1938, an Ed Sullivan poll overwhelmingly voted him this title The King (of Hollywood) |
| #21, aired 1984-10-08 | "MARCH" ON $200: Founded by F.D.R. in 1938, it works to prevent birth defects the March of Dimes |
