| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In 1945 Steinbeck took us to Monterey with this book whose title is now a street name Cannery Row |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground Dresden |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $400: In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy Stuart Little |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BRIDGERS $800: Named for their designer, Bailey Bridges moved Allied troops, trucks & tanks; an 1,800-foot one was built over this German river in 1945 the Rhine |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): This hard black wood from trees of the Diospyros genus shares its name with a magazine founded in 1945 ebony |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $1200: Following a conference, these 3 leaders signed the Yalta agreement in February 1945 Churchill, FDR & Stalin |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: A longtime member of FDR's cabinet, Cordell Hull won the award in 1945 & was known as the "father of" this international org. the United Nations |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $800: A 1945 charter says, "We the peoples of" these "determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war" the United Nations |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $800: Perhaps the greatest loss of life at sea, over 5,000, came in 1945 when this type of vessel sank the Wilhelm Gustloff a submarine |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ON THE OLD MAP $800: Here is a map of this former country in 1945; now the region today Czechoslovakia |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $100: 1945:
"Eva Duarte! ¿Qué pasa?"
"I just got married"
"Who's the hombre?"
"His last name is" this Perón |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE WORLD SERIES $1200: This team refused admission to a local tavern owner's billy goat in 1945, & the ensuing curse lasted until the 2016 World Series the Cubbies |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $400: The third one of these existed in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945 the Third Reich |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $2,000 (Daily Double): In February, 1945, FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at the Livadia Palace near this Black Sea resort Yalta |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $800: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) "I feel I have blood on my hands", said a troubled Oppenheimer in a tense October 1945 meeting with this man, who replied that the blood was on his own instead Truman |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | RANDOM STUFF $1000: On Sept. 2, 1945 Japan formally surrendered & ended World War II aboard this battleship the Missouri |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A SPECIAL TRAIN CAR $800: The rail car named Ferdinand Magellan carried FDR 50,000 miles in 2 years; his last journey was to this state in late March 1945 Georgia |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $400: "We the peoples" begins the preamble to this founding U.N. document that took effect October 24, 1945 the Charter |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD $1600: Dalí created the weird dream imagery used in this director's 1945 film "Spellbound" Hitchcock |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | GEOMETRICAL GEOGRAPHY $200: On Dec. 5, 1945 5 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers making up flight 19 vanished without a trace in the area called this the Bermuda Triangle |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | "Y" ON THE MAP $1,600 (Daily Double): Site of a historic 1945 conference, this city on the Crimean Peninsula is known for its many health resorts Yalta |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS $1000: French Lit 1000:
A look at the works of this writer, including Les Temps Modernes, a monthly review she founded with Sartre in 1945 Simone de Beauvoir |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $800: February 1945:
Allied forces under this commander return to retake Manila MacArthur |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | MODERN EGYPT $1200: Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi, Alexandria's largest of these buildings, was designed in current form by Italians & inaugurated in 1945 a mosque |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | CHAO! $200: With a preface by Pearl Buck, a 1945 book by Buwei Yang Chao taught Americans this 2-verb basic method of Chinese cooking stir frying |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | U.S. TERRITORIES $1000: On Aug. 6, 1945 this plane took off from a now-abandoned airfield on Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands the Enola Gay |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $400: Both Americans & Europeans were jubilant on May 8, 1945, called this "Day" V-E Day |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | FEELIN' INDEPENDENT $400: This Asian country, not yet divided into North & South:
From France, 1945 Vietnam |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $1200: This split of the Korean Peninsula took place in August 1945 the partition |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN $1200: Harlon Block, Michael Strank, Ira Hayes & 3 other servicemen were famously pictured on this island on Feb. 23, 1945 Iwo Jima |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | I'LL HAVE THIRDS $800: This general who died late in 1945 led the U.S. Third Army on major campaigns of World War II including Normandy (George S.) Patton |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S MAY 23rd! $1000: This former head of the SS committed suicide May 23, 1945 in Allied custody Heinrich Himmler |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | THE NUREMBERG TRIALS $400: (Sarah presents the clue.) From November 1945 to October 1946, Courtroom 600 was the site of an International Military Tribunal that arraigned 24 Nazis on charges of conspiracy, war crimes, crimes against peace & offenses such as persecution, enslavement & murder--classed as crimes against this humanity |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | CROSS THAT BRIDGE $1200: In March 1945 German troops failed to blow up the bridge at Remagen over this river, allowing U.S. troops an unexpected dry crossing the Rhine |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The "Big 3"--FDR, Churchill & Stalin--had a working vacation at the Feb. 1945 conference at this Black Sea resort Yalta |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $800: Here's a look at a Canadian regiment moving along the road from Holten to Rijssen in 1945 while liberating this Low Country the Netherlands |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | NATIONAL DAYS $800: September 2 is the day to celebrate Vietnam's 1945 declaration of independence from this European country France |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $2000: John Hersey won a 1945 Pulitzer Prize for his tale of Allied-occupied Italy called "A Bell for" this town Adano |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: Something is happening here in the barn in this 1945 anti-utopian satire but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones? Animal Farm |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $400: As this group was forming in 1945, Brazil & China asked for a global health organization; the W.H.O. would show up in 1948 the UN |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | HOLLAND $800: The International Court of Justice, headquartered in this Dutch city, got its current name in 1945 The Hague |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $400: & All the rooblicks & yooblicks / Ev'ry 'blick alive / Knew he wrote "Your Job in Germany" / Frank Capra directed! / In 1945! (Dr.) Seuss |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WE'VE GOT THAT BAND'S NUMBER $4,000 (Daily Double): Matty Healy, lead singer of these Brit rockers, was born 14 years after the year in their name The 1975 |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | THE REST IS HISTORY $600: In 2019 it was revealed Harold "Pie" Keller was one of 6 Marines raising the flag in a photo taken Feb. 23, 1945 on this island Iwo Jima |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $200: When the U.N. was founded, Gladwyn Jebb of the U.K. did this job in an acting capacity from October 1945 through January 1946 Secretary-General |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $200: It took until 1954 for this practice that began with wartime shortages to end; here's one woman celebrating rationing |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $400: In a June 2016 referendum, 52% voted for the policy soon universally known by this one word Brexit |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $600: Ending a 77-year drought for a U.K. male, in 2013 this tennis player won the Wimbledon Men's Singles Andy Murray |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $800: In 1951 the Conservative Party won a majority in Parliament & this man returned to the job of PM at the age of 76 Winston Churchill |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $1000: A few years after the worst of mad cow, a 2001 epidemic of this disease led to the culling of millions of animals hoof-and-mouth disease (foot-and-mouth disease) |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN $400: In 1919 Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat in this body & kept the chair until 1945 House of Commons |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | WORLD WAR II $400: Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker on the last day of this 1945 month; 9 days later, the war was over in Europe April |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS $2000: Winning a 1945 Pulitzer for music put an "Appalachian Spring" in this composer's step Copland |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $400: "There is no God... man simply is", Jean-Paul Sartre said in a 1945 lecture defending this philosophy existentialism |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg, Germany.) At a 1934 Nuremberg rally, the Nazis proclaimed that this German empire would last a thousand years; but in 1945, U.S. troops helped put the finishing touches to it after little more than a decade the Third Reich |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DEAR DIARY $400: Harry Truman's 1945 diary: This man "said he was grossly misunderstood in U.S. and I was misunderstood in Russia" Stalin |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | U.N. ANNIVERSARIES $400: In 2020 the U.N. celebrated the 75th anniversary of its October 1945 founding in this U.S. West Coast city San Francisco |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | MEDICAL MILESTONES $800: In 1945 this treatment utilizing a rotating drum kidney was successfully used to treat a patient with acute kidney failure dialysis |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | JUST GOT REAL $200: In 1945 a Raytheon engineer made history when he used microwaves to fittingly prepare this cinematic snack popcorn |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $800: In late 1945 Indianapolis was considered as a site for this org. that held its first meeting (not in Indy) Jan. 10, 1946 the UN |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | FIVE SUMMONER'S TALES $800: On April 12, 1945 he was drinking with Sam Rayburn after a day presiding over the Senate when he was summoned by the White House Truman |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | HISTORY $2000: On June 15, 1945 he left a British jail for the ninth & last time; 2 years later he was India's first prime minister Nehru |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE 5 W's, HISTORICALLY $200: Where: every Aug. 6, a service is held in this city for the estimated 70,000 people who were killed there on that date in 1945 Hiroshima |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $800: In a 1945 E.B. White kids' book, Eleanor is the mom of this tiny title character who can crawl inside a piano to fix keys Stuart Little |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Ward Greene's "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" became this 1955 animated Disney film the Lady and the Tramp |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Budapest, Hungary on the Széchenyi Chain Bridge.) In 1945, the Chain Bridge was blown up by the Nazis as this army advanced from the east; but it was rebuilt and reopened for its 100th anniversary in 1949 the Red Army |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | HALL MONITOR $400: Lord Stanley & Georges Vezina were 2 of the first inductees into this sport's hall of fame in 1945 hockey |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | LAB PARTNERS $800: Howard Florey & Ernst Chain followed up Alexander Fleming's work on this antibiotic & they all shared a Nobel Prize in 1945 penicillin |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $1000: This Republican ex-Speaker of the House co-wrote the alternate history novel "1945", published in 1995 Gingrich |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | POETRY FOR PHYSICISTS $800: An atomic bomb test in 1945 made Oppenheimer think of a line from the "Bhagavadgita", a sacred poem in this religion Hinduism |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $2000: Some of this American poet's "Pisan Cantos" was penned in 1945 while he was in prison for fascist radio broadcasts (Ezra) Pound |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $800: With help from TWA, Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 by this leader to modernize the country Haile Selassie |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Nicknamed "Uncle", this Communist was a leader in Vietnam from 1945 to 1969 Ho Chi Minh |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | GOATS (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $400: In this year, Alfred Eisenstaedt captured what became one of the most iconic photos of all time 1945 |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: "Attlee, Clement", "Bergen-Belsen, Liberation of" & "Nagasaki" are index entries in Ian Buruma's book about this year 1945 |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1,000 (Daily Double): A 1945 telegram from Churchill to Truman mentioned Soviet power & "the descent of" this "between us and everything to the eastward" the Iron Curtain |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | SYNONYMS FOR BLACK $400: 5-letter magazine founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson Ebony |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | NAVAL GAZING $1600: Gaze upon the deck of this battleship as it looked on September 2, 1945 the Missouri |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $400: Attended by 46 delegations, the San Francisco Conference of 1945 gave birth to this international organization the United Nations |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents in front of a display monitor.) In 1945, a five-bomber squadron took off from Fort Lauderdale headed into this area bounded by Florida, Puerto Rico and the northernmost point for which it is named. After a compass failure, the planes disappeared and were never found. the Bermuda Triangle |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | FALL-POURRI $1200: 1978's "Autumn Sonata" was the last feature film for this actress who won her first Oscar for "Gaslight" in 1945 Ingrid Bergman |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $4,000 (Daily Double): The first book in a series, it opens in Inverness in 1945 & begins. "It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances" Outlander |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | INFAMOUS WOMEN $800: She was Hitler's longtime mistress & for a day in 1945 his wife (Eva) Braun |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | THINKING OUT LOUD $400: In a 1945 speech this physicist said, "The war is won, but the peace is not" Einstein |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | FILL IN THEIR DATES $1200: Anne Frank:
June 12, 1929 -
the early part of this year 1945 |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | THEY PLANNED THEIR OWN FUNERAL $1000: Instructions by this American that his body was not to lie in state were found a few days too late in 1945 Franklin Roosevelt |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | HUGS & KISSES $2000: The photo here was taken August 14, 1945, the day this was announced the end of World War II or V-J Day |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 1940s AMERICA $800: In 1945 Grand Rapids became the first city to do this to its drinking water, revolutionizing dental care to fluoridate |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS $800: On Aug. 15, 1945 he told his subjects Japan would surrender Hirohito |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS $2000: He ran things in Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980 Tito |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $800: Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871, wrote naturally & died Dec. 28, 1945, "An American Tragedy" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | COME UP TO THE LAB $400: In 1945 more than 5,000 people lived at the top secret lab in this town in New Mexico Los Alamos |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR SHELF? $600: Is that the actual flag that was raised in Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer-winning pic taken on Feb. 23, 1945 at this place? Iwo Jima |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $2000: He said overseeing writing of the war history in Europe in 1945 was like being an "undertaker at my own funeral"; it wasn't far off Patton |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $600: On August 10, 1945 this former First Lady wrote, "The times now call for mankind as a whole to rise to great heights" Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WORLD WAR II TIMELINE $2000: June 21, 1945:
The long, bloody U.S. campaign for this Japanese island in the Ryukyus ends Okinawa |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FAMOUS JEWISH AMERICANS $800: Later active in New York City government, on September 8, 1945, Bess Myerson became the first & so far only Jewish holder of this title Miss America |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | THE BOUNCY CASTLE $800: The Nazis made Saxony's Colditz Castle a prison; U.S. troops liberated it in April 1945 & in May, handed it over to this army the Red Army |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN $1200: Henry Wallace's term as this, 1941-1945, is perhaps best remembered for his "Century of the Common Man" speech vice president |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | DIMES $2000: The 1916-1945 dime known as this actually showed Lady Liberty with wings, symbolizing freedom of thought the Mercury dime |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | 6 PENS $400: Salute this man for holding two pens used for signing the German surrender at Reims in 1945 Eisenhower |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $800: Famous for its August 6, 1945 mission, this B-29 bomber was named after the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets the Enola Gay |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | I GET A KICK OUT OF HISTORY $600: A 1945 Medal of Honor-winning effort by Russell Dunham including kicking away one of these that landed at his feet a grenade |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | FRENCH HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Awarded to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, these paired regions became part of France for good in 1945 Alsace and Lorraine |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | KICKING AXIS $1200: Gen. Jodl signed capitulation papers in Reims on May 7, 1945; May 8 has become known as this day V-E Day |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: Don't ask a librarian for Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead"; this 1945 novel is not actually a sequel Brideshead Revisited |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $2000: A spot of light on a radar screen, it appeared in a 1945 issue of Electronic Engineering Magazine a blip |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | THE COMPOSER PORTRAYED $400: Robert Alda in "Rhapsody in Blue"
(1945) Gershwin |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | KABOOM! $800: On July 16, 1945 this secret project got big results near Alamogordo, New Mexico the Manhattan Project |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE THRILL OF VICTORY $400: The Allies sealed victory in Europe in the spring 1945 battle of this city by defeating 750,000 desperate German troops Berlin |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1945 scientists in this state witnessed the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb New Mexico |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | AYE, AYE, ADMIRAL $1000: It was aboard this flagship of Admiral Halsey that the Japanese surrender was signed in 1945 the U.S.S. Missouri |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | ART "C" $400: The picture of Dorian Gray from the 1945 movie hangs at the Art Institute of this U.S. city Chicago |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | EUROPE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Czechoslovakia once consisted of four historical regions; in 1945, Ruthenia was given to the Soviet Union, leaving Slovakia, Moravia & this region Bohemia |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | MOVIE ADJECTIVES $1000: 1945 Oscar winner:
"The ____ Weekend" The Lost Weekend |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT $200: Sean Thomas O'Kelly (1945 to 1959); we truly defy you to get this one wrong Ireland |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $2000: January 21, 1945:
"Roosevelt Sworn in for Fourth Term; Extends" this "Policy to World" the Good Neighbor policy |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | TENNESSEE HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1945 this atomic research city had a population of 75,000 but it wasn't open to walk-in visitors until 1949 Oak Ridge |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM $600: Photography, 1945: Joe Rosenthal, for this image of Marines doing this on Mount Suribachi the flag raising of Iwo Jima |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | LETTER PERFECT $800: A book about these movies is subtitled "An Informal Survey of the American Low-Budget film, 1933-1945" B-movies |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | FORT-ITUDE $800: Treasures of Hungary's St. Stephen, including his crown & orb, were stored at this Kentucky facility from 1945 to 1978 Fort Knox |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $400: In 1945 ex-Attorney General Robert Jackson served as chief U.S. prosecutor in this German city Nuremberg |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | ON YOUR SLEEVE $400: On an Army patch for a special 1945 project, a question mark represents secrecy with the tail splitting this the atom |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | INVASIONS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from USS Intrepid in New York.) In April 1945, USS Intrepid supported the last major land campaign of the Pacific war, the invasion of this largest of the Ryukyu Islands, just 350 miles from the Japanese mainland Okinawa |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: This general was the Allied commander of the Japanese occupation from 1945 to 1951 MacArthur |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | DON'T YOU KNOW $400: Because of metal shortages, from 1943 to 1945 these famous award statuettes were made of plaster Oscars |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | PALINDROMES $400: Helene Gordon introduced this fashion magazine in 1945 on paper she said was as coarse & yellow as "French bread" Elle |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1945's "Spellbound", Alfred Hitchcock filmed a trippy dream sequence designed by this Surrealist (Salvador) Dalí |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: In 1945 she & Jean-Paul Sartre founded a monthly review called Les Temps Modernes Simone de Beauvoir |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | SOUNDS LIKE A COLOR $1200: She was married in Berlin April 29, 1945 but never got a honeymoon (Eva) Braun |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | ERAS OF HISTORY $600: The Cold War is often said to have begun in this year when a war ended & the Cubs played in the World Series 1945 |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Lucy Bustamante from 13 News Now.) Today the guns of the battleship Wisconsin are silent on Norfolk's waterfront--but in 1945 they were fired on Okinawa as part of Admiral Raymond Spruance's Fifth this Fleet |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | NFL TEAM NAMES $600: The Cleveland team's name was decided by a 1945 fan contest; the winning submission honored this first coach the Browns |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $800: It wasn't until 2005 that the Dutch recognized August 17, 1945 as the independence day for this Asian island nation Indonesia |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | AMERICA THE HISTORICAL $400: In 1940, $6,000 was put into research for what would be this project--by the time of its 1945 success, the no. was $2 billion the Manhattan Project |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | PUP QUIZ $800: Mickey Mouse's companion, he had his own cartoon shorts including 1945's "Canine Casanova" Pluto |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: On April 28, 1945 this world leader very suddenly could no longer enjoy Italian Mussolini |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $1600: Its website says, "Since 1945" this company "has been serving do-it-yourself movers and their households" U-Haul |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | TECHNOLOGY $600: The first atom bomb using this transuranium element was detonated on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico plutonium |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | CALIFORNIA CITY‑"O" $600: In 1945 the U.N. was organized in this city built on & around more than 40 hills San Francisco |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | FOUND IN GERMANY $1000: Destroyed in a terrifying 1945 air raid, this city's best-known church was rebuilt & reopened 60 years later Dresden |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A LITTLE READING $200: First & last name of E.B. White's adventurous mouse-like boy from a 1945 story Stuart Little |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: This former haberdasher was Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1945 & 1948 Harry Truman |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | "P"s ON EARTH $800: In 1945 Churchill, Truman & Stalin met in this city near Berlin to determine the structure of a post-Nazi Europe Potsdam |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | MARK YOUR CALENDARS $1000: October 24 is this international organization's day, commemorating the effective date of its charter in 1945 the United Nations |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $1600: On August 14 & 15 respectively, Pakistan & India mark their independence that happened in this post-WWII year 1947 |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | EASY SCIENCE $400: The N.Y. Times' 1945 Hiroshima story mentioned "scientists' long-held dream of" doing this to "the atom" splitting |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | "SHO" TIME $400: In 1945 Variety coined this 7-letter term for what it covers showbiz |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | DRUNK HISTORY $7,500 (Daily Double): This U.S. artist's 1945 marriage to Lee Krasner was a stabilizing factor he needed against his drinking (Jackson) Pollock |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | "BIG" WORDS $2000: Ruth of this last name began blending her own tea in 1945 Bigelow |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE TITAN MISSILE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona.) Deployed in the 1960s, the Titan II had what's still the largest warhead ever on a U.S. missile--9 of these explosive units, or 600 times the force of the 1945 Hiroshima bomb megatons |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | RESISTANCE IS UTILE $400: In 1945 Italian partisans caught this man as he tried to cross into Austria disguised as a German soldier Mussolini |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | NAME BRAND NAMES $1000: A Wisconsin-based chain started in 1945:
____ Furniture Ashley |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | LET'S TAIWAN ON $800: From 1895 to 1945 Taiwan was under this country's control Japan |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Clement Attlee succeeded Churchill in the middle of the 1945 conference of allied leaders held in this German city Potsdam |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) In 1945, the Quonset hut here was used to assemble the implosion type atomic device called "Fat Man" that would explode over this city days after Hiroshima was bombed Nagasaki |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) The stress of running the administrative & scientific size of the project of producing the bomb wore this Los Alamos lab director down to 116 pounds by July 1945 Robert Oppenheimer |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | FEEL-GOOD MOVIES $2000: 1945, starring Rex Harrison:
"___ Spirit" blithe |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $800: Mary Coyle Chase wrote this 1945 play involving an imaginary giant rabbit Harvey |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | DATE NUT $400: On Feb. 23, 1945 6 U.S. servicemen raised the American flag on this island; sounds like a good photo op Iwo Jima |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | BEAUTY & SKIN CARE PRODUCTS $1000: Aveeno began in 1945 with a special process to mill this grain so it soothes dry skin oatmeal |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | AS SEEN ON TV $200: This long-running Sunday morning news show originally aired on radio in 1945 Meet the Press |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | 1940s NEWSMAKERS $1600: Convicted of high treason, he was shot by a firing squad at Akershus Fortress in Oslo on October 24, 1945 (Vidkun) Quisling |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | I WILL SURVIVE! $1200: The survivors of 1945's Gremlin Special crash in New Guinea ran into a tribe-of these; luckily they only ate enemies cannibals |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | HISTORIC DAYS $800: August 15, 1945 V-J Day |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | COLORFUL SPORTS TEAMS $800: A fan contest in 1945 helped name this pro football team after its first coach the (Cleveland) Browns |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | SHIP SHAPE $2000: This ship named for a Midwest capital was sunk after delivering A-bomb parts in 1945; nearly 600 died awaiting rescue the Indianapolis |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | SEOUL $800: Officially called Kyongsong when Korea was ruled by this nation, the city became Seoul for good in 1945 Japan |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | HISTORIC DAYS $400: May 8, 1945 VE day |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | A LEAGUE $2000: It was formed in March 1945; original members include Egypt, Lebanon & Iraq the Arab League |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | VIENNA CALLING $100 (Daily Double): The cathedral named for this saint was burned out during the Battle of Vienna in 1945 & rebuilt by 1952 St. Stephen |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $1000: This 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel is subtitled "The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder" Brideshead Revisited |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | PARTY ON! $1600: 1945:
Winston Churchill Conservative |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: He served as vice president from January 20 to April 12, 1945 Truman |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | HISTORIC CARS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a car at Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) This specially made armored limousine was made for Franklin Delano Roosevelt & used as he hammered out issues at this Crimean conference in 1945 Yalta |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $400: The third one of these existed in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945 reich |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | M TO M $800: Cloud type observed over Hiroshima in August 1945 a mushroom cloud |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | WORD ORIGINS $1200: The word for this crime against humanity was coined in the 1940s; it was used in the official indictment of Nazis in 1945 genocide |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | SEND IN THE MARINES $200: Pima Indian Ira Hayes joined the Marines in 1942 & was part of a famous photo taken here in February 1945 Iwo Jima |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | MILITARY GOVERNORS $400: This Allied Supreme Commander became military governor of the U.S. occupied zone in Germany in May 1945 Eisenhower |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | AP FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR $1600: 1932, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 & 1954:
Her Babe Didrikson |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $800: The programs of this mayor of NYC from 1934 to 1945 included slum clearance & airport construction La Guardia |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $6,000 (Daily Double): William Schuman, who won the first Pulitzer Prize for Music, served as president of this NYC school, 1945-1961 the Juilliard School |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | BEST ACTOR OSCARS $2000: 1945:
Ray Milland as alcoholic Don Birnam The Lost Weekend |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY $800: October 5, 1945:
A film industry strike turns into a bloody riot in an incident known as this community's Black Friday Hollywood |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | WATCH THOSE RATS & MICE $400: "Quiet Please!", starring this feline & mouse duo, won the 1945 Oscar for best cartoon short subject Tom & Jerry |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | WORLD "P"s $2000: At a July 1945 conference in this city, the Allies set forth a policy to occupy Germany & outlaw the Nazi Party Potsdam |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | IN THE CAPITAL CITY $400: April 29, 1945:
Eva Braun gets married Berlin |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | THE COLD WARS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lasting from December 16, 1944 to January 16, 1945, this critical WWII battle was fought in freezing mist & snow the Battle of the Bulge |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | HANOI $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Hanoi.) The words "Chu Tich" mean this office held by Ho Chi Minh in North Vietnam from 1945-1969. It's still the title of Vietnam's head-of-state today President |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | LABOR $2000: The Dept. of Labor is headquartered in a building named for this female secretary of labor who served from 1933 to 1945 Frances Perkins |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $800: Born 1945 in St. Ann, Jamaica; died 1981 in Miami Bob Marley |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1200: At Walt Disney's request, in 1945 this "Brave New World" author did some preliminary work on "Alice in Wonderland" (Aldous) Huxley |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | THE HEALTH BUSINESS $800: The not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation is partnered with this definitely for-profit medical group opened in 1945 Permanente |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $1000: This is the year that was 1945 |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE CITY IN QUESTION $200: 12 got death, 7 got prison & 3 were acquitted at the first of these trials, held from Nov. 1945 to Oct. 1946 Nuremberg |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | WEB CEREALS $1000: The co. history at this cereal's .com tells of its 1945 name change--it used to end in "-oats" but lost the "at" Cheerios |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BIRTH OF A NATION $2000: Indonesia: August 17, 1945, though this nation that had ruled it didn't recognize it until 1949 the Netherlands |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | WHAT HAPPENED? $1600: March 7, 1945:
At Remagen, U.S. forces make their first bridgehead across this river the Rhine |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | TOY STORY $800: In 1943 Richard James worked on a set of springs to stabilize items in rough seas; that became this toy in 1945 Slinky |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | QUICK HISTORY $200: The scene here took place during this year 1945 |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | RUSSIAN NOVELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1945 to 1953 he was imprisoned in labor camps for writing a letter critical of Stalin Solzhenitsyn |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $1600: In February 1945 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at this Black Sea resort in the Livadiya Palace Yalta |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | STILLS $200: It's the year this still photograph was taken 1945 |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE HUDSON RIVER $600: In 1945 this First Lady moved from the White House to Val-Kill, a mansion near the Hudson Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | MY SON, THE ARTIST $800: Last name of illustrator N.C., who left a mural unfinished when he died in 1945; son Andrew completed it Wyeth |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | THE ADMIRALS CLUB $1600: The Japanese capitulation was signed on Sept. 2, 1945 on the USS Missouri, the flagship of this fleet admiral Nimitz |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $2000: 1945's makes you wish it was Monday: "T.L.W." The Lost Weekend |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | LETTER-HEADS $200: Back when the company was launched in 1945, you could rent one of these do-it-yourself movers for $2 per day U-Haul |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | THE RIVER OF HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) Depicted here is the historic moment when American & Russian forces met on April 25th, 1945, at Torgau, Germany, on this river the Elbe |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $2000: The iconic flag raising on Iwo Jima in 1945 took place on this hill (okay, "mount") Suribachi |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | AXIS & ALLIES $1000: "Terminal" was the code name for the final Allied wartime conference, held in 1945 in this German city Potsdam |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | WHAT'S UP, PIERRE? $800: This 2-time Canadian prime minister got his master's in political economy from Harvard in 1945 Pierre Trudeau |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | FAMOUS MENUS $2000: In 1945 this ex-heavyweight champ's NYC restaurant offered a $1.75 roast prime sirloin dinner Jack Dempsey |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | AMERICAN "H"ISTORY $1000: In 1945 this recently retired Secretary of State was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping establish the U.N. Cordell Hull |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | COUNTRY GROUPS $1200: In 1945 Iraq became a founding member of this regional association of sovereign states the Arab League |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | NICKEL & DIMED $400: The name of his pet charity made the dime an obvious choice in 1945 when a grieving nation said, "put him on a coin!" FDR |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | SCHOOLS OF THE HEISMEN $200: 1945 & 1946:
Doc Blanchard & Glenn Davis of this service academy Army |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: In 1945 in Newport, Arkansas, he opened his first store, a Ben Franklin variety store Sam Walton |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE $800: A burned man is the title figure of this novel by Michael Ondaatje that's set in 1945 The English Patient |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | CRASHING THE PARTY $400: In 1945 this political party crashed in a big way, getting banned in Germany the Nazis |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER $400: Sir Alexander Fleming,
1945 Medicine |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | JERSEY SURE $2000: In 1945 New Jersey said yep, we'll take full responsibility for this university, founded as Queen's College in 1766 Rutgers |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | WORLD LEADER CIA FILES $200: Entered Univ. of Havana Law School 1945... became premier 1959... poison?!... shh!... Fidel Castro |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | U.N. OBSERVANCES $1000: International this Remembrance Day, January 27, commemorates the 1945 date on which Auschwitz was liberated Holocaust |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE KING'S SPEECH $2000: In an Aug. 15, 1945 broadcast, this emperor said, "we have ordered the acceptance of the provisions of the joint declaration" Hirohito |
| #6134, aired 2011-04-21 | I'M GETTING MARRIED! $400: Adolf Hitler (1945) Eva Braun |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | THE MANSION FAMILY $1000: 269-room Villa Hugel in Essen, Germany was home to this arms & steel industry family until 1945 the Krupps |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1000: 1945:
This singer & star of the film "The Emperor Jones" Paul Robeson |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | HOMECOMING KINGS & QUEENS $1600: In 1945, after the wartime years in England, Queen Wilhelmina crossed the North Sea & returned to this country the Netherlands |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | LAST OF THE COMPOSERS $1600: This Hungarian was just measures away from finishing his "Piano Concerto No. 3" when he died in New York in 1945 Béla Bartók |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | A "BACH" OF CLUES $1,000 (Daily Double): Made famous in 1945, it's an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima Mount Suribachi |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | HOLIDAY ALBUMS $400: This crooner's 1955 album "White Christmas" consisted of 10 songs recorded in 1945 Bing Crosby |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Temperance groups & the liquor industry both pleaded with Paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner The Lost Weekend |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | ANYONE FROM TENNESSEE? $400: For his actions during the invasion of the Philippines in 1945, Sgt. Raymond Cooley of Dunlap received this high award the Medal of Honor |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | A NATION DIVIDED $200: From 1945 to 1990, it was gesplit into Osten & Westen Germany |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | MEDAL OF HONOR CITATIONS $600: This future Hawaiian senator, for actions in Italy in 1945 that cost him his right arm (Daniel) Inouye |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | THE UNICORN $800: The "Gentleman Caller" breaks Laura's prized figurine in this play from 1945 The Glass Menagerie |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | DIARIES $400: On July 25, 1945 this president wrote, "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world" Harry Truman |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS $600: On April 12, 1945 he asked Eleanor Roosevelt, "Is there anything I can do for you?" Harry Truman |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $600: In 1945 Virginia Gildersleeve was the only female U.S. delegate to the conference that drafted this charter the United Nations |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | WORLD WAR II $3,000 (Daily Double): The final land battle of WWII was fought on this island in the Ryukyus in June 1945 Okinawa |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | EVEN MONEY $400: Big Bill McKinley was on this big bill last issued in 1945; it's worth 5 Franklins the $500 bill |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | HISTORIC PLACES $400: The Japanese structure seen here has been preserved as a memorial to an August 6, 1945 event in this city Hiroshima |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | NUCLEAR WEAPONS 101 $200: The only wartime use of nuclear weapons occurred in this year 1945 |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1200: 1945 for music:
This composer for his "Appalachian Spring" (Aaron) Copland |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $600: In April 1945 this leader & his mistress were executed at Lake Como Mussolini |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | DONKEY $2,400 (Daily Double): In this 1945 novel, Benjamin the Donkey says, "Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey" Animal Farm |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | SLOVAKIAN HISTORY $400: A Slovak state was nominally independent during WWII, but collapsed when this army arrived in April 1945 the Red Army |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | GOD BLESS NEBRASKA $800: In 1945 the state nickname was changed from "The Tree Planter State" to this the Cornhusker State |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | THE AUTHOR TWITTERS $600: What am I doing?! Screaming! Itz 1945 & I'm U.S. soldier @ bombing of Dresden! (Will write 1969 novel about it) Vonnegut |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | THE KISSING BOOTH $1600: In 2008 90-year-old Edith Shain re-enacted a famous kiss, claiming she's the one in that 1945 V-J Day pic by this photographer Eisenstaedt |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | THE UNITED NATIONS $2000: The signing of the U.N. Charter took place in this West Coast city in June 1945 San Francisco |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | MOVIE OBJECTS $600: At the beginning of "Close Encounters", a bunch of these, missing since 1945, are found in the Sonoran Desert airplanes |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | IWO JIMA $400: The American amphibious assault on Iwo Jima began on Feb. 19 of this year 1945 |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Communication satellites orbit in a belt 22,300 miles above the Earth; the belt is named for this science fiction writer who proposed geostationary orbits in 1945 Arthur C. Clarke |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | U.S. TERRITORIES & AREAS $400: Tiny Wake Island in the Pacific was attacked by the Japanese on December 8, 1941 & held until Sept. of this year 1945 |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | ALL THINGS JAPANESE $1600: This island invaded by U.S. troops in April 1945 has a long martial arts tradition & may be the birthplace of nunchaku Okinawa |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | LETTER-WORD $400: This shortened term for a weapon appeared as early as August 1945 A-bomb |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | MICHIGAN MUSICIAN MISHMASH $2000: Dearborn-born in 1945, this singer/songwriter sure liked "Old Time Rock & Roll" in 1979 Bob Seger |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | HISTORY VIA STICK FIGURES $800: Joe Rosenthal took the original February 1945 picture at this place--here's our take Iwo Jima |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | HARRY TRUMAN $200: In 1945 Harry served just 83 days in this job vice president |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | HARRY TRUMAN $800: It's the month Truman began a famous speech with the line "We have just dropped a new bomb..." August (of 1945) |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MARINE CORPS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, VA.) Immortalized in a photo, here is the actual flag raised on this island on February 23, 1945 Iwo Jima |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $200: The Cold War between the U.S. & the Soviet Union is said to have begun in this year a major hot war ended 1945 |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE $400: The number of U.S. colonies of Apis mellifera, this type of bee, declined by about 50% from 1945 to 2005 honeybees |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | DAY PLANNERS OF THE STARS $200: May 10, 1945: Divorce wife No. 3.
May 21, 1945: Marry wife No. 4, Lauren Bacall, & call more people "sweetheart" Humphrey Bogart |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | ADAM $800: In 1945 this African American was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from Harlem Adam Clayton Powell |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | AROUND THE U.N. $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from outside the U.N.) In 1945, there were 51 U.N. members including Yugoslavia; as of 2008, there are 192 including this newest entry, once part of Yugoslavia Montenegro |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | PRESIDENTIAL BRANGELINAS $1000: Their ship came in in 1945:
Barge Bushes |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from France.) This date in 1945 is still observed in France each year to celebrate victory & liberation May 8th |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | HELLO, DALI $600: This director admired Dali's work & used him for the dream sequences in the 1945 film "Spellbound" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | TRANSPLANT $1200: Born in Tel Aviv in 1945, this violinist was awarded a Medal of Liberty by President Reagan Itzhak Perlman |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | WHAT A CONCEPT $400: A Sicilian separatist movement in 1945 campaigned for the island to become the 49th of these a U.S. state |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | TIME TO SURRENDER $1200: Japan surrendered to the Allies on the deck of this battleship in September 1945 "Missouri" |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK... OF WATER $1,500 (Daily Double): The American Dental Association is all for this process, practiced by cities since 1945 fluoridation |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | VERY PUNNY $400: The folks who made Bugs Bunny cartoons were rabbit punsters who came up with titles like 1945's this "Trigger" Hare |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | A LINE $800: The Curzon Line, proposed in 1919, became essentially the boundary between Poland & this country in 1945 Russia (the Soviet Union) |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | NEW MEXICO $800: On July 16, 1945 the Nuclear Age began when this govt. project exploded the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo the Manhattan Project |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | THE 5-YEAR PLAN $200: The AP's Edward Kennedy was fired for prematurely reporting this happy event of May 1945 V-E Day (or Germany's surrender) |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $400: He completed a sci-fi trilogy in 1945, a few years before taking us to Narnia C.S. Lewis |
| #5480, aired 2008-06-06 | 2 TYPES OF CHINA $600: In the Chinese Civil War, 1945 to 1949, it was the Communists versus these the Nationalists |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | REVIVALS $1600: This 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein show came "around" again to win the first Tony for Best Musical Revival, in 1994 Carousel |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: This name given to the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 reflects 2 others before it the Third Reich |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | HISTORICAL DIARIES? $2000: April 27, 1945: Ex-world leader now. Bummer! Today, I'll escape Italy & live like it's the 2nd-to-last day of my life Mussolini |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AN HISTORIC OCCASION $200: This organization was formally born Oct. 24, 1945 with Soviet ratification of the charter the United Nations |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | AVIATION $800: Col. Paul Tibbets commanded the bomber nicknamed this over Japan in August 1945 Enola Gay |
| #5451, aired 2008-04-28 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $600: In 1945 John Johnson launched this monthly, which he considered the black equivalent of Life magazine Ebony magazine |
| #5441, aired 2008-04-14 | FIRST BASE $2000: In 2003 Buckley in Colorado was the first Air Force base to fly the U.S. flag raised on this Pacific mountain in 1945 Mount Suribachi |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | IKE SPEAKS $400: Ike telegrammed that the mission of "Allied force was fulfilled at 0241 hours local time" in this month, 1945 May |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | MARCH! $800: In the month of March 1945 alone, Leroy Grumman's corporation built a total of 664 of all types of these airplanes |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | PRESIDENTS $400: Harry Truman was a real card, but he had to cancel his poker party on April 12, 1945, the day this man died FDR |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | CURSES $400: This Chicago team hasn't been in a World Series since 1945, when Billy Sianis cursed them for ejecting him & his goat the Chicago Cubs |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $2000: At Remagen on March 7, 1945, American forces made their first bridgehead across this river the Rhine |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | LEADERS OF WORLD WAR II $1200: He was German propaganda minister from 1933 to 1945 Joseph Goebbels |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | THE JIMMY CARTER LIBRARY & MUSEUM $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew checks in from the Jimmy Carter Library in Atlanta, GA.) "ILYTG", "I love you the goodest", is a favorite Carter Family inscription, & Jimmy gave this compact to this woman for Christmas in 1945 Rosalynn Carter |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | HERSHEY'S $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew holds some chocolate at the Hershey's Museum in Hershey, PA.) As well as the K type, World War II G.I.s got Hershey's D type of this; in 1945 the company was producing 24 million a week rations |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: 26 nations united to draw up a Jan. 1, 1942 declaration that led the way for the creation of this in 1945 United Nations |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE NEW MEXICO DESERT $1,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the White Sands National Monument.) On July 16, 1945 the world's first test of an atomic weapon took place in the desert of New Mexico; J. Robert Oppenheimer gave the site this code name Trinity |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | REAL CASTLES & PALACES $1600: Churchill, Stalin & FDR hung out in the Livadia Palace during this 1945 conference Yalta |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | 20th CENTURY COMPOSERS $2000: He was buried in New York in 1945 & reburied in his beloved Hungary in 1988 Béla Bartók |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | THE HOUSE OF BURGESS MEREDITH $2000: In 1945's "Story of G.I. Joe", Burgess played this Pulitzer-winning war journalist who was killed by a sniper that year Ernie Pyle |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | BOOK LEARNIN' $1200: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" in a 1945 book by this author (George) Orwell |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | PROMENADE DATES $1000: Seen here are men in Times Square celebrating V.J. Day in August of this year 1945 |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | TO INJURY $600: A WWII platoon leader in Italy, this future presidential candidate was severely wounded in April 1945 Bob Dole |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | PLANE CRAZY $600: On August 6, 1945 this B-29 airplane became the first to drop an atomic bomb in warfare the Enola Gay |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | HISTORICAL BLOGS. $800: 1945: I'm just a colonel.
1946: Stand back, Buenos Aires! Call me Mr. President! Juan Peron |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | BIOGRAPHIES $2000: Eric Enno Tamm's "Beyond the Outer Shores" is about Ed Ricketts, the model for Doc in this 1945 Steinbeck novel Cannery Row |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | MAGAZINES $1000: In 1945 John H. Johnson began publishing Ebony; this weekly news magazine of his debuted 6 years later Jet |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $1200: Here Einstein is welcomed to Los Angeles by Robert Millikan, a top scientist at this school from 1921 to 1945 Caltech |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | KISS ME! $3,000 (Daily Double): Month & year of the historic kiss seen here August 1945 |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | STATES FREAK $400: In 1945 the first atomic bomb was exploded in this state; how enchanting New Mexico |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2000: In 1945 this poet laureate of Illinois published her first volume of poetry, "A Street In Bronzeville" Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $2,300 (Daily Double): 1945:
"Saturday & Sunday Gone Astray" Lost Weekend |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | YOU MUST BE FROM DALLAS $200: Not Crosby or Nash but this supergroup member was born in Dallas Jan. 3, 1945 (Stephen) Stills |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | BEGINS & ENDS IN "G" $200: Alexander Solzhenitsyn spent 1945 to 1953 in one of these places for a letter critical of Stalin a gulag |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | A BOY NAMED SUE, ET AL. $2000: In 1945 he wrote "Brideshead Revisited"--& FYI, the "e" that starts his 1st name is pronounced "ee", not "eh" Evelyn Waugh |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lee Krasner, whose work is seen here, married this man in 1945 & they influenced each other's art Jackson Pollock |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | 1945 $200: In August this country was divided in two at the 38th parallel Korea |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | 1945 $400: Tragically 14 people were killed when a B-25 crashed into this building, between the 78th & 79th floors the Empire State Building |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | 1945 $600: He married a young actress named Eva Duarte Juan Perón |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | 1945 $800: Still on NBC-TV today, it began as a radio show hosted by Lawrence Spivak in 1945 Meet the Press |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | 1945 $1000: Sir Alexander Fleming was one of 3 men awarded the Nobel Prize for their work with this substance penicillin |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | WAR MOVIE LOCATIONS $800: 1945's "Back To Bataan" the Philippines |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: Stravinsky's 1945 "Ebony Concerto", written for Woody Herman, was primarily for this instrument & jazz band clarinet |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | "E" BAY $1200: Colonel Paul Tibbets was at the controls of this B-29 bomber on August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | HUMPHREY BOGART $200: On May 21, 1945 Humphrey Bogart married her Lauren Bacall |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | 1491 $600: This German city & capital of Saxony was destroyed by fire in 1491 & by Allied firebombing in 1945 Dresden |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER $400: Memorably coifed female star of 1945's "Hold That Blonde" Veronica Lake |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $600: Byron Nelson won the PGA championship in 1945; this Nelson helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797 Admiral Nelson |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | THE BRIT PIC $2000: This general & war hero slowed down long enough to be captured (on film) around 1945 Montgomery |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $800: A famous trio is seen here at this Ukranian resort city in 1945 Yalta |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | DOCUMENTARIES $800: A 1945 Hitchcock film shares its name with this 2002 documentary about the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition Spellbound |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $400: "Relax, said the nightman" of S.F.'s Fairmont Hotel to the men who chartered this world group there in 1945 the United Nations |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | THE DAYS OF WORLD WAR II $600: On April 28, 1945 Clara Petacci died alongside this man, her lover for more than a decade Mussolini |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | THE DAYS OF WORLD WAR II $1000: At 8:15 A.M. on the 6th of this month in 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima August |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $400: This country celebrates its 1945 independence from Fascism on April 25th Italy |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | GREAT BRIT $800: In July of 1945 England said, "Thanks, we'll take it from here" & booted this prime minister from office Winston Churchill |
| #4936, aired 2006-02-13 | HOW DO YOU... $200: Hold the ends of the coiled toy first sold in 1945, then raise & lower each hand in a rhythmic motion work a Slinky (a Slinky accepted) |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | JAPANESE GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): The seaport of Naha is on this Japanese island that was the site of a fierce WWII battle in April 1945 Okinawa |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | SOVIET MAN $800: Marshall Zhukov directed the defense of Moscow in 1941 & must have enjoyed capturing this city in April 1945 Berlin |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO... $1000: ...served from 1941 to 1945 Henry Wallace |
| #4906, aired 2006-01-02 | DENMARK'S THE SPOT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Bornholm Island in the Baltic.) Germans here on Denmark's Bornholm Island fought on past VE day in this month & year; then, once the Soviets dislodged them, they stayed for a year May 1945 |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Riga, Latvia.) In 2005 here in Riga, President Bush honored the end of World War II, but also regretted this February 1945 pact that lead to the Iron Curtain the Yalta Pact |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: 20 years after attending Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, he won an Oscar in 1945 Bing Crosby |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WWII NAMES $600 (Daily Double): In 1945 he was exiled to the French Ile d'Yeu, where he died 7 years later at age 95 Pétain |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | 1945 $400: In 1945 Grand Rapids, Mich. & Newburgh, N.Y. became the first 2 cities to add this chemical to the water supply fluoride |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | 1945 $800: "I have a terrific headache" were reportedly his final words, spoken on April 12 FDR |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | 1945 $1200: Les Brown earned some renown for this tune popularized in 1945 "Sentimental Journey" |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | FICTIONAL BATTLES & WARS $1,500 (Daily Double): The Battle of the Cowshed & the Battle of the Windmill are waged in this 1945 work Animal Farm |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | 1945 $1600: In October this man who had declared himself "Norway's Martyr" died by firing squad Quisling |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | 1945 $2000: Arrested near Genoa in May, this American poet would be declared insane & mentally unfit in December (Ezra) Pound |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | "T" ZONES $800: Following 50 years of rule by Japan, this island was returned to China in 1945 Taiwan |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | NAME THE YEAR $1,400 (Daily Double): The United Nations officially came into existence on October 24 of this year 1945 |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS $1,400 (Daily Double): Guideposts magazine was founded in 1945 by this "positive" minister & his wife Ruth Norman Vincent Peale |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | NAME THAT AUTOCRAT $600: Norway
1942-1945 Vidkun Quisling |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $1200: This Best Picture Oscar winner of 1945 was filmed in part in the alcoholic ward of NYC's Bellevue Hospital The Lost Weekend |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1200: War correspondent Martha Gellhorn was married to this author from 1940 to 1945 Hemingway |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | APRIL $400: On April 3, 1945, an all-black platoon called the Dusty Devastators saw action for the first time in this country Germany |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, KS.) In 1945 Eisenhower became the only American ever to be awarded this nation's Order of Victory the Soviet Union |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | THE QUIRKS OF HISTORY $1000: In 1945 a U.S. unit saved the life of this Vietnamese guerrilla leader then helping the Allied cause Ho Chi Minh |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | USA $400: Virginia Gildersleeve signed its charter for the U.S. June 26, 1945 the United Nations Charter |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | WORLD WAR II $1600: On May 7, 1945 Germany signed the Articles of Surrender in this city, the coronation place of French kings Reims |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | C'MON, YOU HAD TO EXPECT NEBRASKA $600: Officially "The Tree Planters' State" in 1895, in 1945 it became this "State" to honor the U. of Nebraska athletic teams the Cornhusker State |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | NAME THAT DICTATOR $3,000 (Daily Double): Indonesia
1945-1967 Sukarno |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | I READ THE ARTICLES, TOO $600: In the 1945 magazine article "Extra-Terrestrial Relays", Arthur C. Clarke suggested these devices be used satellites |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1000: 1945:
An actor, singer, activist & football All-American Paul Robeson |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | IT HAPPENED ONE FEBRUARY $1000: The most famous photo of World War II, seen here, shows U.S. marines on Feb. 23, 1945 on this Pacific island Iwo Jima |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | CALM DOWN, YOU'RE HISTORICAL! $1200: On April 27, 1945 Italians captured this fascist leader trying to escape to Switzerland Benito Mussolini |
| #4676, aired 2004-12-27 | TIMES SQUARE AT 100 $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Times Square.) On the night of August 14th of this year, an estimated 2 million people spontaneously celebrated in Times Square 1945 |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | WORLD ATHLETES $800: Nicknamed "The Rocket" in 1945 he became the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season (Maurice) Richard |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Entranced, or a 1945 Hitchcock film spellbound |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | THE TRUMAN LIBRARY $400: See the satchel Truman took when he signed the charter for this organization on Jun 26, 1945, in San Francisco the U.N. |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | THE TRUMAN LIBRARY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Truman Library in Independence, MO.) Among the library's historic artifacts is the safety plug from the bomb dropped on this city on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki |
| #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 |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | POLL VAULT $400: In a 1945 poll this advertising symbol ranked as the best-known woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt Betty Crocker |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | BAHRAIN $1000: In 1971 Bahrain joined this regional organization that was formed in Cairo in 1945 the Arab League |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | THE COIN BOX $2,100 (Daily Double): For luck on his 1961 space flight, Gus Grissom took along some of these dimes last produced in 1945. Mercury dimes (or winged liberty dimes) |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | LOTS OF SPACE $1600: In 1945 this "Space Odyssey" author suggested a space-based telecommunication system Arthur Clarke |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | NOVEL QUOTES $600: (1945)
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" Animal Farm |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: She was the Associated Press' Female Athlete of the Year for 1932, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 & 1954 (Babe Didrikson) Zaharias |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | NUMBERS GAME $400: Big number represented at the 1945 Yalta Conference three |
| #4564, aired 2004-06-10 | PULITZER PRIZES $1600: This "seasonal" ballet earned Aaron Copland the 1945 prize for Music Appalachian Spring |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1200: 1945:
Mildred Pierce Joan Crawford |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $2000: Laura Wingfield lives in a fantasy world populated by her collection of fragile animals in this 1945 play The Glass Menagerie |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | MILITARY MEN $100 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Martha's Vineyard, MA.) The When and If was built for this general to sail, when & if he came back from Europe, but he died in a 1945 accident George Patton |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | SHIPS $800: Perhaps the greatest loss of life at sea, over 5,000, came in 1945 when this type of vessel sank the Wilhelm Gustloff submarine |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $500 (Daily Double): On April 12, 1945 she told Truman, "Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now" Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | THE ARABS $800: The first Gulf War caused a rift in this organization of which Iraq was 1 of 7 founding members in 1945 the Arab League |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | THE END $800: He was having his portrait done in 1945 when he declared, "I have a terrific headache"; within hours he was dead FDR |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | OF THE "THIRD" KIND $400: It rose in Germany in 1933 & fell in 1945 the Third Reich |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | TOYS & GAMES $400: Introduced as a doll for boys, this action figure was named after a 1945 WWII movie G.I. Joe |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | GEORGE ORWELL $2,000 (Daily Double): Orwell's classic 1945 satire on the Stalinist dictatorship; 4 publishers turned it down Animal Farm |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $200: Bill Mauldin in 1945 & 1959 Cartooning |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $400: Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima Photography |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | SHOW $2000: This musical with Billy Bigelow, based on "Liliom" by Ferenc Molnar, has been making the rounds since 1945 Carousel |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | HISTORY HAPPENED HERE $1,200 (Daily Double): On Aug. 6, 1945 this plane flew into history from tiny Tinian Island in the Pacific the Enola Gay |
| #4403, aired 2003-10-29 | SCIENTISTS $800: Between 1943 & 1945, he took a leave from Cal Tech & Berkeley to direct the Manhattan Project Oppenheimer |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | MUSIC MEN $800: "Rhapsody in Blue", a piece by this composer, was used as the title of a 1945 movie biography of him George Gershwin |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | MR. BUSINESSMAN $200: In 1945 he became president of a Dearborn, Michigan car company started by his grandfather Henry Ford II |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $200: 1933-1945 Franklin Roosevelt |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | CRIMEA RIVER $1600: This resort straddling the Bystra River was the site of a historic meeting of the Big 3 in February 1945 Yalta |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In 1945 this existentialist founded "Les Temps Modernes", a monthly literary review that he also edited Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1200: At its charter conference in 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune was a consultant for interracial affairs the United Nations |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | "POW"! $1000: He was Harlem's congressman from 1945 to 1971 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | AT THE "Y" $800: The 1945 conference in this Crimean city determined that a defeated Germany would be divided into 4 zones Yalta |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | THE MIGHTY U.S.S. MISSOURI $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Hawaii.) On September 2, 1945, World War II ended when representatives of Japan surrendered right here to this commanding American general Douglas MacArthur |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | "POT" LUCK $1600: The Big 3's last meeting during World War II took place in July 1945 in this city near Berlin Potsdam |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | "Z"-ING IS BELIEVING $2000: This city was the capital of the Axis puppet state of Croatia from 1941 to 1945 Zagreb |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | GRANDFATHERS $200: His grandson, the II, took over as president of his auto company in 1945 & ran it until 1980 Henry Ford |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY $800: On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on this Asian city on the Ota River in western Honshu Hiroshima |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Tiny Bubbles" singer who began serving as president of North Vietnam in 1945 Don Ho Chi Minh |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $2000: Musical numbers in this 1945 film include "All I Owe Ioway" & "It's a Grand Night for Singing" State Fair |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | DRUGS $400: Sharing the 1945 Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey & Ernst Chain developed this antibiotic drug penicillin |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | "H" CITIES $1000: It served as a dynastic capital in the 1800s & continued as the royal capital of Vietnam until 1945 Hue |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | PADRES $400: He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for 1944 & 1945 for playing the same role: Father Chuck O'Malley Bing Crosby |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | POP MUSIC DECADES $3,800 (Daily Double): A bestselling album of 1945 was from this bandleader who'd died the previous year Glenn Miller |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | "O" WHEREFORE ART THOU? $1,000 (Daily Double): Between April & June of 1945, one of WWII's bloodiest campaigns was fought on this Pacific island Okinawa |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | PLANE & SIMPLE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside an airplane at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.) It's the alphanumeric designation of this type of plane, which made history on August 6, 1945 B-29 (the one that carried the atomic bomb) |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | ACTIVITIES $1000: Kids can be the ambassador from Kenya or Bulgaria in the "model" version of this organization founded in 1945 the United Nations |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.) The Garden Court was the site of the official 1945 banquet honoring the opening session of this organization United Nations |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | STATE OF THE UNION $200: In 1945 the world's first atomic bomb was tested in this state New Mexico |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | "J"EOGRAPHY $1600: In 1945 Sukarno proclaimed independence for his country in this city Jakarta |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $400: He completed a sci-fi trilogy in 1945, a few years before taking us to Narnia C.S. Lewis |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | FOUR $800: After liberation from Nazi forces in 1945 this nation declared its government the Fourth Republic France |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | MILITARY MEN $2000: Commander of the Pacific Fleet, this American signed the Japanese surrender in 1945 Nimitz |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | BADA BING $1600: Bing reprised the role of Father Chuck O'Malley in this 1945 sequel to "Going My Way" The Bells of St. Mary's |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | WOMEN IN LABOR $1600: From 1933 to 1945 she had her work cut out for her as the U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: After being sworn in April 12, 1945 he said he felt as if "The moon, the stars, and all the planets" had fallen on him Truman |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | "COP"ING $2000: He won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Music for the ballet "Appalachian Spring" Aaron Copland |
| #4061, aired 2002-04-08 | VICE PRESIDENTS $200: In 1945, at age 60, he became the oldest veep to succeed to the presidency upon the death of the president Harry Truman |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PURPLE HEART WINNERS $2000: Killed near Okinawa in 1945, this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was awarded a posthumous Purple Heart Ernie Pyle |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | ARTHUR-IAN LEGENDS $400: Arthur Vandenberg helped found this in 1945; Arthur Goldberg was a representative to it in the '60s the United Nations |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | MARCH: IN LIKE A LION $1600: The perfume of victory was sweet as allied troops captured this German city March 6, 1945 Cologne |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | HE'S THE MAYOR $400: (Hi, I'm Rudy Giuliani.) I'm at the desk of one of my heroes--this "Little Flower", who was mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945 (Fiorello) La Guardia |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | NEW YORK SCHOOLS $800: Nicholas Murray Butler was president of this Manhatfan Ivy League school from 1902 to 1945 Columbia |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | EERIE $200: In 1945 Flight 19, consisting of 5 torpedo bombers, disappeared in this infamous area of the Atlantic Bermuda Triangle |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | NOT THE BEATLES $1600: Serving in the British parliament from 1890 to 1945, he was prime minister during WWI David Lloyd George |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: A society is named for this Army captain who was killed by Chinese Communists in 1945 John Birch Society |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | SURREALISM $1,400 (Daily Double): He designed the dream sequence for the 1945 Hitchcock film "Spellbound" (Salvador) Dali |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $800: His daughter Anna accompanied him when he went to Yalta in 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | A DATE WITH DESTINY $800: 3 years after being forced out by the Japanese, MacArthur returned to this capital city on Feb. 7, 1945 Manila |
| #3967, aired 2001-11-27 | THE SANDBOX $600: In 1945 the first atomic bomb explosion occurred at this "colorful" New Mexico missile range White Sands |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | ROBERT SCHUMANN $600: Robert's demons were at bay during 6 years in this Saxony city that was firebombed in 1945 Dresden |
| #3964, aired 2001-11-22 | 20th CENTURY LIVES $800: This clubfooted Nazi propagandist was born in Rheydt in 1897 & died in 1945 Joseph Goebbels |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | ECONOMICS $100: The International Monetary Fund, established in 1945, is a specialized agency of this organization United Nations |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | THAT WAS MY WIFE $400: Eva Duarte
(1945-1952) Juan Peron |
| #3936, aired 2001-10-15 | PRESIDENTIAL LIFETIMES $200: 1882-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $100: In 1945 she became the first former first lady to serve as a delegate to the U.N. Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | DISABILITY AWARENESS $100: Congress first designated Disability Awareness Month in 1945, the year of this U.S. president's death Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | "E.T." $600: In 1945 this Hungarian-born physicist helped construct the first atomic bomb Edward Teller |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | WORLD WAR II IN PICTURES $100: It's the Japanese city seen here in September 1945 Hiroshima |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | TRUE STORY $100: John Hersey wrote about 6 survivors of an August 6, 1945 explosion in this title city Hiroshima |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | "FUL" HOUSE $1000: Arkansas senator from 1945 to 1974, he sponsored a program of international educational exchanges J. William Fulbright |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $600 (Daily Double): Lt. Col. Paul Tibbetts commanded this bomber over Japan in August 1945 the Enola Gay |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MAJOR GENERALS $600: Eisenhower, MacArthur & Marshall all got big promotions in December of this year 1944 |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | BEASTLY LITERATURE $400: Moses, a raven, tells the other creatures about a better life to come on Sugar-Candy Mountain in this 1945 novel Animal Farm |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | FRANCO, MY DEAR $500: Franco's regime was ostracized for its Fascist policies by this organization formed in October 1945 United Nations |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | DA BOMB $400: Using Pu-239, an isotope of this element, the atomic bomb was tested at Alamogordo in the summer of 1945 plutonium |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $500 (Daily Double): In 1933 this president left a will consisting of a single sentence, leaving everything to his wife Calvin Coolidge |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | ENDS IN "EE" $1000: He led Britain's Labour Party from 1935 to 1955 & succeeded Winston Churchill as prime minister in 1945 Clement Attlee |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | THE TRUMAN SHOW $1000: In 1945 Truman attended this German conference, the last meeting of Allied leaders during WWII Potsdam |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | FOODS OF THE '40s $1000: Jeno Paulucci started selling his canned chicken chow mein under this label in 1945 Chun King |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | YMCA $900 (Daily Double): Cordell Hull won this prize in 1945; the next year it went to YMCA leader John Mott Nobel Peace Prize |
| #3748, aired 2000-12-13 | IT'S YOUR DIME $100: This man who died in 1945 is immortalized on the coin Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3742, aired 2000-12-05 | WHERE THERE'S A HILL $1,000 (Daily Double): On February 23, 1945 U.S. Marines raised the American flag on this Iwo Jima hill Mount Suribachi |
| #3739, aired 2000-11-30 | MAGAZINES $3,200 (Daily Double): John H. Johnson founded Ebony in 1945, Tan in 1950 & this magazine in 1951 Jet |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | MAGAZINES $800: In Ebony's first 50 years, 1945 to 1995, this pop superstar graced the cover a record 17 times Michael Jackson |
| #3731, aired 2000-11-20 | POETS & POETRY $400: In 1945 this South American country's Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature Chile |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | POETS & POETRY $800: In 1945 this poet was elected a senator in Chile Pablo Neruda |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: The slogan "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad" appears in this 1945 novel Animal Farm |
| #3717, aired 2000-10-31 | METHOD OF EXECUTION $900 (Daily Double): Pvt. Eddie Slovik, 1945 Firing Squad |
| #3710, aired 2000-10-20 | NUMBER, PLEASE $100: States in the United States in 1945 48 |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | CINEMATIC TITLE PAIRS $400: 1945:
"...and the Amazons" Tarzan |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | PRESIDENTS IN IOWA $500: In 1975 Ford attended this, the subject of a 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein film musical Iowa State Fair |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $100: "I Think I Can" is a lesson & a quote from this 1945 story "The Little Engine That Could" |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | LORRAINE CHECK $500: Disputed by France & Germany between 1871 & 1945, this 13,000-square-mile region contains Moselle & Bas-Rhin Alsace-Lorraine |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | JUNE 26 $100: On June 26, 1945 delegates of 50 countries signed a charter in San Francisco establishing this body United Nations |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $500: On April 1, 1945 U.S. forces landed on this largest of the Ryukyu Islands; in 1972 we gave it back to Japan Okinawa |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | TELL IT TO THE MARINES $500: The conquest of this Pacific island in February & March 1945 was the largest all-Marine battle in U.S. history Iwo Jima |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | GOLFERS $500: In 2000 Tiger Woods' winning streak brought new attention to this man's record 11 straight wins in 1945 Byron Nelson |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | OLD MOVIES $1000: "Corny" 1945 film with Bette Davis as a devoted Welsh schoolteacher The Corn Is Green |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | MAGAZINES $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1945 John Johnson launched this monthly which he considered the black equivalent of Life magazine Ebony |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | WORLD OF BUSINESS $200: (Hi, I'm Deidre Hall from "Days of Our Lives") This California company that began in 1945 turned Erica Kane & my character, Marlena Evans, into dolls Mattel |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | NOTABLE NAMES $600: This "uncertain" man was director of Berlin's Max Planck Physics Institute from 1942 to 1945 Werner Heisenberg |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | U.S.A. $100: Val-Kill Cottage near Hyde Park was the main residence of this first lady after her husband died in 1945 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #3566, aired 2000-02-21 | TIME QUOTES $600: Tennessee Williams wrote that "Time is the longest distance between 2 places" in this 1945 play "The Glass Menagerie" |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | FILM ROLES IN COMMON $600: Laurence Olivier reigned as this warrior king in 1945; Kenneth Branagh took the throne in 1989 Henry V |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | JUAN $100: Days out of prison in 1945, he married Maria Eva Duarte; we now know her as Evita Juan Peron |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $600: He published the children's classic "Stuart Little" in 1945 E.B. White |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | THE PLOT THICKENS $400: Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in 1945 for involvement in a plot to kill this man Adolf Hitler |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 1 $400: This "Divine" singer-actress was born Dec. 1, 1945 & named for actress Davis Bette Midler |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THEATRE $400: Ferenc Molnar's Hungarian drama "Liliom" inspired this "merry-go-round" of a musical that debuted in 1945 Carousel |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Yugoslavia:
1945-1980 Marshal Tito |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | QUOTATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): This American said of April 12, 1945, "I felt like the moon and the stars and all the planets had fallen on me" Harry S. Truman (on the death of FDR) |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | "GAY"IETY $400: In August 1945 the B-29 named this dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Enola Gay |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | THE ARMY-NAVY GAME $1000: The 1945 Army win was led by running backs Doc Blanchard, "Mr. Inside", & Glenn Davis, nicknamed this "Mr. Outside" |
| #3429, aired 1999-07-01 | BRAND NAMES $500: An Indian was on this suntan lotion's first bottles in 1945 with the slogan "Don't Be A Paleface" Coppertone |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ALL MY CHILDREN $600: The "Dearest" children of this 1945 Oscar winner were Christina, Christopher, Cathy & Cindy Joan Crawford |
| #3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $100: 1940-1945,
1951-1955 Winston Churchill |
| #3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $500: 1945-1951 Clement Attlee |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS $100: 1945:
"I have a terrible headache" Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | FAMOUS DATES $400: A Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Joe Rosenthal served as a model for this memorial depicting a famous February 23, 1945 event Battle of Iwo Jima |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | 1945 $200: On October 24 this organization came into existence with the ratification of its charter by 29 countries United Nations |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | 1945 $400: In February 1945, the "Big 3" met in this Crimean resort to work out the fate of the postwar world Yalta |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | 1945 $600: A Mannheim, Germany traffic accident claimed the life of this controversial U.S. general in December 1945 George S. Patton |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | 1945 $800: In 1945 John Steinbeck published this novel about life on the Monterey waterfront Cannery Row |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | 1945 $1000: On January 31, 1945 this U.S. Army private was executed for desertion Eddie Slovik |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | 20th CENTURY LIT $1000: She edited "The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald" in 1945, & her own "Portable" collection in 1944 Dorothy Parker |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | WE SURRENDER $200: This country officially surrendered on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2, 1945 Japan |
| #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 |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | THE 50 STATES $400: The atomic age began with a blast on July 16, 1945 in this state New Mexico |
| #3334, aired 1999-02-18 | "N" THE ATLAS $300: This city was bombed by "Bock's Car" on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | VICE PRESIDENTS' TERMS OF SERVICE $400: 1945 Harry S. Truman |
| #3310, aired 1999-01-15 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $100: He graduated from West Point in 1915 as a second lieutenant; in 1945 he was chief of staff of the U.S. Army Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $400: 1945's patriotic version of "Henry V" was directed by this actor Sir Laurence Olivier |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | WHEN WAS THAT, PIERRE? $200: C'est tout! The armistice ending "La Grande Guerre" was signed in the Compiegne Forest in this year 1918 (World War I) |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | NAME THE YEAR $100: The warring was done & it was time for fun in this year (end of WWII) 1945 |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: The 1945 headline "Bomber Hits" this skyscraper meant a plane, not a person Empire State Building |
| #3248, aired 1998-10-21 | WORLD WAR II $500: In early 1945, 6,800 Marines were killed while seizing Mount Suribachi & the rest of this island Iwo Jima |
| #3248, aired 1998-10-21 | IN THE YEARBOOK $800: This leader's 1945 yearbook caption reads, "Distinguished student - will have a brilliant future." Fidel Castro |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | I FORGET $800: In this 1945 Hitchcock classic, Gregory Peck doesn't remember if he committed a murder Spellbound |
| #3242, aired 1998-10-13 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $600: In 1945's "The Story Of G.I. Joe", Burgess Meredith played this war correspondent Ernie Pyle |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | TO SERVE $100: You can serve your leftovers directly from this brand of tight-sealing food containers introduced in 1945 Tupperware |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | NAME THE YEAR $200: It was the beginning of a new "age" in this year when the picture seen here was taken 1945 |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | SORE-SEAT CINEMA $1000: Despite its title, this Bertolucci film that has 4- & 5-hour versions covers the period of 1901 to 1945 1900 |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | CELEBRATIONS $1000: This date on which WWII ended in Europe is a legal holiday in France May 8, 1945 |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | SCOOPS $400: In 1945 reporter William Laurence got to fly over this city for the second A-bomb drop Nagasaki |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | MOVIE DEBUTS $500: The 1945 film "Rhapsody in Blue" introduced Alan Alda's dad Robert Alda as this composer George Gershwin |
| #3105, aired 1998-02-13 | 20th CENTURY POLITICIANS $100: In 1945 he became the oldest veep to succeed to the presidency upon the death of a president Harry Truman |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | THE BOOK BIZ $300: Last name of Richard, who co-founded a publishing house in 1924 & fathered a singer named Carly in 1945 Simon |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | RELIGION $1,500 (Daily Double): In Dec. 1945 the supreme commander of the Allied Powers in Japan disestablished this religion Shinto |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | FILMS OF THE 1940s $700 (Daily Double): Ray Milland played an alcoholic terrorized by a hallucinatory bat in this 1945 film The Lost Weekend |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | 1945 $100: He was preparing for the U.N. conference in San Francisco when he died in Warm Springs, Ga. on April 12 Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | 1945 $200: Since "It's the Real Thing", this 4-letter name was registered as a trademark in 1945 Coke |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | 1945 $400: In May he announced that he wouldn't seek a fourth term as mayor of New York City Fiorello LaGuardia |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | 1945 $500 (Daily Double): 3-word phrase repeated in the title of this favorite holiday song from 1945:
[Instrumental] "Let It Snow" |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | 1945 $500: In a surprise coup, he overthrew Argentina's new government & set up his own cabinet Juan Peron |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | HISTORIC DATES $100: In 1945 May 7 was called V-E Day & September 2 was called this V-J Day |
| #3027, aired 1997-10-28 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: In April 1945 this dictator, his mistress Clara Petacci & more than 10 of his henchmen were executed Benito Mussolini |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $400: In 1945 representatives from 50 nations met in this U.S. city to draw up the U.N. charter San Francisco |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | BLASTS FROM THE PAST $600: Trinity Site July 16, 1945 the first nuclear blast |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | SUMMIT MEETINGS $500: In 1945 Truman conferred with Stalin & with British leaders Churchill & Attlee at this Berlin suburb Potsdam |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | AUTHORS $1000: This "Lord of the Rings" author served as Merton professor of English at Oxford from 1945 to 1959 J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #2936, aired 1997-05-12 | NONFICTION $600: "Black Boy" is a 1945 autobiography by this "Native Son" author Richard Wright |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | CANTANTES $500: A school in East Harlem was named for this singer born blind in Puerto Rico in 1945 Jose Feliciano |
| #2921, aired 1997-04-21 | ART $200: This beloved folk artist painted "Look, It's A New Little Colt" in 1945, when she was in her '80s Grandma Moses |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | JAPAN $400: In 1995 Premier Murayama apologized for Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of this peninsular country Korea |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $200: Tennessee broke onto the Broadway scene in 1945 with this play with a "breakable" title The Glass Menagerie |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | THE "U"SUAL PLACES $1000: Now the second-largest country in Europe, it hosted the Yalta Conference in 1945 Ukraine |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | HUSBAND & WIFE $500: This "Fantasia" conductor was a vigorous 63 when he married 21-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt in 1945 (Leopold) Stokowski |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1945 Heitor Villa-Lobos founded this South American country's academy of music Brazil |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AVIATION $300: Superfortress was another name for this type of plane that dropped the atomic bombs in 1945 the B-29 |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: While serving in this cabinet post, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. signed the U.N. charter for the U.S. June 26, 1945 Secretary of State |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | THE 1940s $300: In 1945 Charles De Gaulle became provisional president of France & he became head of Yugoslavia Marshal Tito |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | MAY 6 EVENTS $600: This leader of the Silver Bullet Band was born on May 6, 1945 in Michigan Bob Seger |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | HISTORY $200: On July 5, 1945 he announced that "The entire Philippine Islands are now liberated" Douglas MacArthur |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | THE UNEXPLAINED $100: In 1964 Vincent Gaddis coined this term for the area in which Flight 19 disappeared in 1945 "The Bermuda Triangle" |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | NOTABLE NONHUMANS $800: In 1945 this famous scottie was injured in a fight with Blaze, Elliott Roosevelt's mastiff Fala |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | HISTORY $400: In 1945 & 1946 the major WWII war crimes trials were held in this German city Nuremberg |
| #2787, aired 1996-10-15 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: In 1981 Giovanni Spadolini became the first non-Christian Democrat premier of this country since 1945 Italy |
| #2777, aired 1996-10-01 | WE'RE NO. 1 $300: Nicaragua was the first country to ratify this charter in 1945; the U.S. took another 3 weeks U.N. Charter |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | WORLD HISTORY $100: It officially ended September 2, 1945 World War II |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | BASKETBALL $300: Number 14 on the 1945–46 NBL champion Rochester Royals, he went on to play "The Rifleman" Chuck Connors |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | WWII PEOPLE $200: In April 1945 this former world leader was caught, executed & hung by his heels in a Milan square Mussolini |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | WWII PEOPLE $400: A speech transmitted by him Aug. 15, 1945 was the 1st time a Japanese emperor addressed his people directly Hirohito |
| #2739, aired 1996-06-27 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In the Potsdam Declaration of July 26, 1945, the Allies asked for this country's unconditional surrender Japan |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | HISTORY $500: From 1910 to 1945 this country was under the control of Japan, which renamed it Chosen Korea |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: She painted "Red Hills and Bones" in 1941 & "Red Hills and Sky" in 1945 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: In 1945, 7 Mideast countries signed a charter forming this organization headquartered in Cairo the Arab League |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1945 this American won the Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring" (Aaron) Copland |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | SATIRE $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1945 novel is a beast-fable attacking Stalinism Animal Farm |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | THE 1940s $500: On Oct. 11, 1945 these 2 Chinese leaders jointly pledged their mutual desires for peace & unity Mao Tse-tung & Chiang Kai-shek |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | WOMEN $500: She married Adolf Hitler in a Berlin air raid shelter on April 29, 1945 & killed herself the next day Eva Braun |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | THE 1590s $200: This Japanese city on which an atomic bomb was dropped Aug. 6, 1945 was founded in 1593 around a castle Hiroshima |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: Shortly after this Hungarian's 1945 death, 2 of his concertos were completed by Tibor Serly Bela Bartok |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | LAKES & RIVERS $1000: The 1945 Potsdam Conference set the Oder & Neisse Rivers as the border between Germany & this country Poland |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1000: Appointed by FDR, she was the 1st female cabinet member, serving as Secretary of Labor until 1945 (Frances) Perkins |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | GEORGE BUSH $100: George met her at a 1941 Christmas dance, became engaged to her in 1943 & married her in 1945 Barbara Pierce |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | WORLD WAR II $600: This battle, also called the Battle of the Ardennes, lasted from Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 31, 1945 the Battle of the Bulge |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | THE COLD WAR $200: In a 1945 telegram to Truman, Churchill first used this 2-word term for a line dividing east & west the Iron Curtain |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $100: She based her 1945 play "Appointment With Death" on her mystery novel of the same name Agatha Christie |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $500 (Daily Double): The "Voice of Harlem"; he served in the House of Representatives from 1945-67 & 1969-1970 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): The first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 near Alamogordo in this state New Mexico |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | POTPOURRI $200: The "peace", introduced in 1945, is one of the most famous hybrid tea varieties of this flower a rose |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: In 1945 it was designated the state university of New Jersey Rutgers |
| #2544, aired 1995-09-28 | INDIA $300: The British jailed him 9 times between 1921 & 1945; in 1947 he became prime minister (Jawaharlal) Nehru |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | HISTORY $1000: in July 1945 this former French chief of state went on trial for treason (Marshal) Pétain |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: This man who became Canada's P.M. in 1968 earned a master's degree from Harvard in 1945 Pierre Trudeau |
| #2531, aired 1995-09-11 | THE SUPREME COURT $300: In 1945 Justice Robert H. Jackson went on leave to prosecute war criminals in this city Nuremburg |
| #2525, aired 1995-07-21 | FIRST LADIES $400: She was a delegate to the U.N. twice, 1945-1952 & 1961-1962 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2521, aired 1995-07-17 | PEOPLE $400: John Bradley, the last survivor of 6 servicemen who raised the flag on this island in 1945, died in 1994 Iwo Jima |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | SPORTS $400: From 1927 to 1945, this World War I flying ace owned the Indianapolis Speedway Rickenbacker |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | FAMOUS FRENCHMEN $400: In 1945 he founded the French Navy's Undersea Research Group Jacques Cousteau |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1945 he founded the Brazilian Academy of Music Villa-Lobos |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | HISTORY $1000: This eastern German city was destroyed by fire in 1491 & 1685 & by Allied bombers in 1945 Dresden |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | BUSINESS LOGOS & TRADEMARKS $100: This trio made its debut in 1945, noisily touting Rice Krispies Snap, Crackle & Pop |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | AWARDS $1000: In 1945 this scientist received the Rumford Medal for new applications in polarized light Edwin Land |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | FIRST LADIES $500: She got angry if old friends treated her differently after she became first lady in 1945 Bess Truman |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | FRANK SINATRA FILMS $500: In this 1945 film, Sinatra & Gene Kelly played 2 sailors on shore leave in Hollywood Anchors Aweigh |
| #2418, aired 1995-02-22 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $400: In 1945 he told us, "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima" Truman |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | POLITICIANS $200: In 1945 this Kansas senator's right arm was permanently disabled in combat in Italy Bob Dole |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHs $1000: This American photographer worked for Harper's Bazaar 1945-1965 & on staff for Vogue 1966-1970 (Richard) Avedon |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | GEORGIA $500: FDR first visited this resort in 1924; he died there in 1945 Warm Springs |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He broke the tradition of serving only 2 terms as president & in 1945 was sworn in for a 4th Franklin Roosevelt |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Briefly, in 1945, Karl Doenitz succeeded this man as Fuhrer of Germany Hitler |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | MILITARY MEN $1000: In 1945 this U.S. private became the 1st American executed for desertion since the Civil War (Eddie) Slovik |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: In 1945 Vidkun Quisling was executed for treason at Akershus Castle in this capital city Oslo |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | TRANSPORTATION $600: Introduced in 1945, this car became the USA's bestselling import the Volkswagen (Beetle) |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | THE 1940s $400: In 1945 he set up a Communist government in Yugoslavia Tito |
| #2289, aired 1994-07-14 | KOREA $600: During the occupation by this country, 1910-1945, the Korean language was banned Japan |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: In 1945 a former Du Pont chemist invented these airtight containers typically sold at parties Tupperware |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1945 this educator became the 1st Black person elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans Booker T. Washington |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | WORLD LEADERS $800: He & many of his former cabinet members were executed at Lake Como in 1945 Mussolini |
| #2270, aired 1994-06-17 | THE 1940s $800: In 1945 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met in Yalta & Truman, Churchill & Stalin met here Potsdam |
| #2255, aired 1994-05-27 | FIRST LADIES $600: She dropped out of Smith College before marrying a Navy fighter pilot Jan. 6, 1945 Barbara Bush |
| #2240, aired 1994-05-06 | RULERS $300: Peter II, the last king of this country, was dethroned when Tito came to power in 1945 Yugoslavia |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | NOTORIOUS $800: In 1945 this gangster began building the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (Bugsy) Siegel |
| #2202, aired 1994-03-15 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1945 South African leader Jan Smuts helped draft this in San Francisco the U.N. Charter |
| #2192, aired 1994-03-01 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $500: Rex Harrison ends up as a ghost in this 1945 film based on a Noel Coward comedy Blithe Spirit |
| #2174, aired 1994-02-03 | JULY $200: On July 28, 1945 a plane crashed into this building, lodging in the 79th floor Empire State Building |
| #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 |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | NEW MEXICO $600 (Daily Double): Twice a year you can visit the site outside Alamogordo where this happened on July 16, 1945 the detonation of the first atomic bomb |
| #2147, aired 1993-12-28 | COMPOSERS $200: The 1945 film "Rhapsody in Blue" is a biography of this composer (George) Gershwin |
| #2145, aired 1993-12-24 | HISTORY $400: In 1945 7 countries, including Iraq & Syria, formed this league the Arab League |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | MODERN HISTORY $200: Rudolf Hess was among the war criminals who were tried in this city in 1945 & '46 Nuremberg |
| #2141, aired 1993-12-20 | COMPOSERS $1000: On his 80th birthday in 1945, the Finnish government issued a stamp bearing his likeness Sibelius |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | PHILOSOPHY $800: This Frenchman later said that his 1945 lecture on "Existentialism and Humanism" was a mistake Sartre |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $1,000 (Daily Double): He headed Norway's delegation to the 1945 U.N. Conference in S.F. before becoming secretary-gen. Trygve Lie |
| #2109, aired 1993-11-04 | MARINE DISASTERS $800: The U.S. Cruiser Indianapolis was torpedoed in 1945 after delivering this weapon to the Marianas an atomic bomb |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | MUSICIANS $600: Jose Iturbi played the music of this composer in the 1945 movie "A Song to Remember" Chopin |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $800: Jazz pianist Hazel Scott married this flamboyant Harlem congressman in 1945 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | '40s FILM FACTS $500: This 1945 film was shot mainly in black & white, but the Metamorphic title portrait is in color The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | CHINESE HISTORY $400: In the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, China ceded Taiwan to this country that held it until 1945 Japan |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $600: He directed his wife Vivien Leigh in the 1945 London production of "The Skin of Our Teeth" Laurence Olivier |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | WORLD HISTORY $500: This traitorous Norwegian leader was executed in Oslo on October 24, 1945 (Vidkun) Quisling |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | WORLD WAR II $200: During the Potsdam Conference of 1945, this British prime minister was replaced by Clement Attlee Winston Churchill |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS $200: The office remained vacant for over 3 years after he moved to the presidency in 1945 Harry Truman |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | WORLD CITIES $1000: Frederick the Great built the Sans Souci Palace in this German city, site of a 1945 conference Potsdam |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | RELIGION $600: In 1945 Gen. MacArthur ordered Japan's gov't to end all financial support of this state religion Shinto |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | THE 1990s $400: On May 24, 1990 Emperor Akihito expressed regret over Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of this peninsular country Korea |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Napoleon, a boar, becomes dictator in this 1945 George Orwell novel Animal Farm |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | HISTORY $400: At a 1945 conference in this Crimean city, it was decided that Germany would be divided into 4 zones Yalta |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THEATRE $200: In 1945 this playwright won his first N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, for "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | NOTABLE NAMES $300: He married Evita in 1945 & Isabel in 1961 Juan Perón |
| #2037, aired 1993-06-15 | WORLD WAR II $800: His cartoons & sketches of the war won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1945 Bill Mauldin |
| #2035, aired 1993-06-11 | DISASTERS $800: In 1945 a U.S. Army bomber crashed into this skyscraper, leaving 13 dead the Empire State Building |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | AWARDS $400: In 1945 Sir Alexander Fleming was 1 of 3 men to win the Nobel Prize in this category medicine |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | AWARDS $1000: For his part in organizing the U.N., this Secretary of State under FDR won the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize (Cordell) Hull |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | HEADLINES $800: May 3, 1945:
This capital "captured by Russians... 1,000,000 Italy and Austria Nazis Surrender" Berlin |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | MAGAZINES $600: This magazine for Black Americans was founded in Chicago in 1945 by John H. Johnson Ebony |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1945 war crimes trials began in this city that was a Nazi headquarters in the 1930s Nuremberg |
| #1965, aired 1993-03-05 | JAPAN $500: One of Japan's first ports to open to Western trade, about half of it was destroyed August 9, 1945 Nagasaki |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: This 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was based on "Liliom", a Hungarian play by Ferenc Molnar Carousel |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | FIRST LADIES $400: She was attending a charity function in Washington when her husband died in Warm Springs, Georgia in 1945 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #1941, aired 1993-02-01 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian, was one of the Americans who raised the flag over this island in 1945 Iwo Jima |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | 1955 $500 (Daily Double): This chief of the U.S. Army Guided Missile Development Division said space travel will be possible "in our time" Werner von Braun |
| #1905, aired 1992-12-11 | U.S. STAMPS $600: As a tribute to WWII Marines, the Post Office issued a 1945 stamp depicting this event the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | U.S. COINS $300: Winged Liberty head dimes, minted from 1916 to 1945, were also known by this name Mercury dimes |
| #1878, aired 1992-11-04 | TRANSPORTATION $500: The National Air & Space Museum is restoring this plane that dropped an atomic bomb August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | THE UNITED NATIONS $800: In 1945, Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin set up Security Council voting rules at this Crimean resort Yalta |
| #1869, aired 1992-10-22 | "HI"s & "HO"s $100: In 1945, he became president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | THURBER $1000: His 1945 collection was called "The Thurber" this Carnival |
| #1846, aired 1992-09-21 | COMPOSERS $1000: In 1945 he won a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring" Aaron Copland |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: Pat Conroy was born in this city in 1945, Margaret Mitchell, in 1900 Atlanta |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | MAYORS $400: In 1945 Hubert Humphrey was elected mayor of this Minnesota city Minneapolis |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | PRIME MINISTERS $600: After Japan surrendered to the U.S. in 1945, this PM was arrested as a war criminal Tojo |
| #1806, aired 1992-06-08 | THE 1940s $300: In 1945 this government agency set aside 13 channels for commercial TV broadcasting the FCC |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | NEWSPAPERS $200: Erwin D. Canham edited this paper, founded by Mary Baker Eddy, from 1945-1964 The Christian Science Monitor |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | THE U.N. $1000: 1 of 2 Soviet republics that became charter members of the U.N. in 1945 Ukraine |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $1000: In 1945, 5 months before Churchill, St. Vincent Troubridge told us about one of these "across Europe" the iron curtain |
| #1689, aired 1991-12-26 | U.S. STATES $600: The first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945 at the Trinity site in this state New Mexico |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $400: Joe Rosenthal won for news photography in 1945 for his photo of this even the Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | THE U.N. $400: 50 nations signed the U.N. Charter on June 26, 1945 at this city's War Memorial Opera House San Francisco |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | IOWA $400: A 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein film was set at this annual event in Iowa state fair |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | MODERN HISTORY $200: In November 1945 some 55 deputies unanimously declared him president of France de Gaulle |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | MODERN HISTORY $400: In 1945 he declared Indonesia's independence & became its first president Sukarno |
| #1649, aired 1991-10-31 | WILLIAM FAULKNER $600: Faulkner collaborated on the screenplay for this 1945 film, the 1st to team Bogart and Bacall to have & have not |
| #1647, aired 1991-10-29 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: Karl Doenitz briefly led this country in 1945, presiding over its surrender Germany |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | WORLD CITIES $1000: While under Japanese control from 1904-1945, this South Korean seaport was known as Jinsen Incheon |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $500: This Crimean town where the "Big Three" met in 1945 had been occupied by the Nazis from 1941-44 Yalta |
| #1608, aired 1991-09-04 | ISLANDS $800: On Aug. 6, 1945, Tinian Island, a small U.S. possession, was the starting point for this WWII mission the bombing of Hiroshima |
| #1593, aired 1991-07-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1945 Grand Rapids, MI & Newburgh, NY became the first U.S. cities to add this to drinking water fluoride |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | NOTABLE DAVISES $200: This trumpeter studied at Juilliard & joined Charlie Parker's bebop band in 1945 Miles Davis |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | HISTORY $200: The first 29 countries joined this on Oct. 24, 1945 the United Nations |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | ROYALTY $100: In 1945, the Russians captured Puyi, the last emperor of this country, & sent him to Siberia China |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | SIXTH SENSE $500: This southern seer, who died in 1945, was famous for making medical diagnoses while in a trance Edgar Cayce |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | WOMEN $1000: She and Harold Ickes were FDR's only original Cabinet members to serve to 1945 Frances Perkins |
| #1431, aired 1990-11-19 | ITALY $1000: On April 28, 1945 Mussolini & this woman, his mistress, were executed by partisans near the Swiss border Clara Petacci |
| #1412, aired 1990-10-23 | MEN OF MEDICINE $500: This discoverer of penicillin shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine (Sir Alexander) Fleming |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | NOTORIOUS $200: This Nazi minister of propaganda & his wife killed themselves & their children on May 1, 1945 Goebbels |
| #1373, aired 1990-07-18 | FILMS OF THE '40s $200: This 1945 film, based on a novel by James M. Cain, earned Joan Crawford a career boost & her only Oscar Mildred Pierce |
| #3, aired 1990-06-30 | "H"ISTORY $200: This Communist revolutionary founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 Hồ Chí Minh |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1945-46 the number of these government employees dropped from 12 million to less than 3 million Armed Forces/Servicemen & women |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | "BLUE" MOVIES $300: George Gershwin's songs were featured in this 1945 biographical film Rhapsody in Blue |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | THE FAR EAST $500: The 2 countries whose shared border, set in 1945, roughly follows the 38th Parallel North & South Korea |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | THE FAR EAST $1,200 (Daily Double): A Japanese military center from 1868 to 1945, this city is now home to Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | THE FAR EAST $800: In 1945" the Netherlands East Indies became this country Indonesia |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | THE FAR EAST $1000: In 1945 the U.S. occupied South Korea & this nation occupied the North the USSR (the Soviet Union) |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $100: It was divided into American, British, French & Soviet sectors in 1945 Berlin |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | HISTORY $800: It was only after the Yalta Conference in 1945 that this country agreed to enter the war against Japan Soviet Union |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | ISLANDS $5,000 (Daily Double): The island on which this 1945 event took place: Iwo Jima |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | THE 20TH CENTURY $200: In 1945 Chinese troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek occupied Formosa and changed its name back to this Taiwan |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: He replaced Winston Churchill as prime minister after the 1945 elections in Great Britain (Clement) Attlee |
| #1223, aired 1989-12-20 | FAMOUS HILLS $300: On Feb. 23, 1945 6 Marines raised the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, a hill on this island Iwo Jima |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | MOVIES $800: 1945 film in which the leading character kills himself by stabbing his own portrait The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | "POT"s $300: The last meeting of the Big 3 Allied leaders of WWII took place in July & August 1945 in this German city Potsdam |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | "BELL"s $400: Bing Crosby starred as Father O'Malley in both "Going My Way" & this 1945 sequel The Bells of St. Mary's |
| #1175, aired 1989-10-13 | RESORTS $800: In 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin met at this site, now a favorite resort of Soviet citizens Yalta |
| #1171, aired 1989-10-09 | MAGAZINES $500: In 1945 George H. Johnson launched this "Life"-like magazine aimed at a black audience Ebony |
| #1141, aired 1989-07-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: FDR dumped this vice president from his ticket in 1944 but made him Commerce Secretary in 1945 Henry Wallace |
| #1123, aired 1989-06-21 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $300: A popular kids' song written back in 1945 is about a tuba named this Tubby |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: Between 1945 & '75 this House committee searched for Communist influence in & out of the gov't the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | MOVIES $800: This 1945 film begins with gunshots & a dying man's last word: "Mildred" Mildred Pierce |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | MAGAZINES $400: "Guideposts" magazine, which features stories of faith, was founded in 1945 by this positive thinking minister (Norman Vincent) Peale |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | BROOKLYN $100: Peggy Ann Garner received a special Oscar for her work in this 1945 film based on a book by Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #1086, aired 1989-05-01 | LANGUAGES $100: Differences in vocabulary & usage have evolved in the east & west of this country divided in 1945 Germany |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | WORLD WAR II $800: On February 13 & 14, 1945 over 600,000 bombs destroyed this German city Dresden |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | HISTORIC DATES $1,300 (Daily Double): April 12, 1945 is remembered in history as the day this man died FDR |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $500: In 1945 Truman increased the number of stars on the Presidential Seal from 4 to this many 48 |
| #971, aired 1988-11-21 | THE 1940s $400: The International War Crimes Tribunal began hearings in this city November 20, 1945 Nuremberg |
| #959, aired 1988-11-03 | FRANCE $500: Between 1871-1945 ownership of this disputed region passed back & forth between Germany & France Alsace-Lorraine |
| #934, aired 1988-09-29 | HISTORIC QUOTES $200: "The decision was mine alone," said Truman of this monumental event in 1945 dropping the atom bomb |
| #933, aired 1988-09-28 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: He became Indonesia's 1st president in 1945 Sukarno |
| #923, aired 1988-09-14 | WORLD WAR II $200: Col. Paul Tibbits & Major Thomas Ferebee made history on August 6, 1945 by dropping this the atomic bomb |
| #919, aired 1988-09-08 | AMERICAN MUSIC $300: In 1945 this composer won a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring" Aaron Copland |
| #911, aired 1988-07-18 | WORLD HISTORY $500: A 1945 conference in a suburb of this Crimean city cleared the way for creation of the U.N. Yalta |
| #907, aired 1988-07-12 | ONE TOY $100: Name of this toy, 1st introduced in 1945: a Slinky |
| #907, aired 1988-07-12 | WORLD WAR II $400: In 1945, nationwide restrictions were placed on display lighting to conserve this solid fuel coal |
| #907, aired 1988-07-12 | WORLD WAR II $600: In 1945, in this "equine" fighter, Lt. Col. J.C. Meyer took off & shot down 2 planes within 90 secs. the Mustang |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | BEST SELLERS $100: While none of the 10 fiction best sellers of 1945 dealt with this subject, 4 nonfiction books did World War II |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | TRUMAN SPEAKS $100: Despite his 1945 decisions, he warned in 1946 that "civilization cannot survive" this kind of war a nuclear war |
| #815, aired 1988-03-04 | ROYS & RAYS $500: Marine zoologist at U, of Wash. from 1945-72, head of AEC from '73-75, & Governor of Wash. '77-81 Dixy Lee Ray |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | THE '40s $400: The Big 3 Conference in July 1945 was delayed a day because he was late Stalin |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | HISTORY $500: WWII ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945 in a ceremony presided over by this general Douglas MacArthur |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: Russian Igor Stravinsky became a French citizen in 1934 & a citizen of this country in 1945 United States |
| #787, aired 1988-01-26 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: In July 1945, British voters turned Winston Churchill out of office in favor of this man Clement Attlee |
| #758, aired 1987-12-16 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: Because this Mississippi stronghold fell on July 4, Independence Day wasn't observed there until 1945 Vicksburg |
| #752, aired 1987-12-08 | JAPAN $500: Year in which, for the 1st time in history, Japan found itself under control of foreign conquerors 1945 |
| #743, aired 1987-11-25 | WORLD WAR II $100: While V-E Day was celebrated May 8, 1945, this was celebrated September 2, 1945 V-J Day (victory in [over] Japan) |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | GENERALS $500: US general who in 1945 told his wife "Peace is going to be hell on me!" George Patton |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | STARTS WITH "C" $100 (Daily Double): 1945 Broadway musical which featured the following waltz: Carousel |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | 1945 $200: Because of rationing, U.S. citizens crossed into this country at Windsor to buy meat & eggs Canada |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | 1945 $400: On May 8, Allied forces celebrated V-E Day, which stood for this Victory in Europe |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | 1945 $600: Harlan Fiske Stone administered oath of office to both these presidents in 1945 FDR & Harry Truman |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | 1945 $800: Time said this Joe Rosenthal photo was easily the most widely printed of WWII the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | 1945 $1000: 101st Airborne Division put on display the $200 million art collection looted & hoarded by this Nazi (Herman) Goering |
| #726, aired 1987-11-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: E.B. White's "Little" mouse who made his debut in 1945 Stuart Little |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | WORLD WAR II $1,400 (Daily Double): The last European capital "liberated", was this city on the Moldau, freed by the Russians in May 1945 Prague |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | GERMANY $600: Considered East Germany's "Hollywood", it's the city where the 1945 Allied Conference took place Potsdam |
| #708, aired 1987-10-07 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Its charter came into force on October 24, 1945 the U.N. |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | KITCHEN FIRSTS $400: In 1945, a former Du Pont chemist started his own company to make these "burping" bowls Tupperware |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: 1945's "The Bells of St. Mary's" was the sequel to this 1944 film Going My Way |
| #625, aired 1987-05-01 | BEST SELLERS $200: Books, on this subject took 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 7th place on 1945's non-fiction bestseller list World War II |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1945, John Johnson began publishing this "Life"like magazine Ebony |
| #596, aired 1987-03-23 | BOOKS OF THE '80s $800 (Daily Double): He wrote "Eisenhower At War 1943-1945" while she, his wife, wrote "Pat Nixon: The Untold Story" David & Julie Nixon Eisenhower |
| #544, aired 1987-01-08 | THE 20TH CENTURY $100: One was 1st detonated on July 15, 1945, just 12 days before Hiroshima atomic bomb |
| #532, aired 1986-12-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Author of "No Exit" in 1945, he said no thanks to a Nobel Prize in 1964 (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #526, aired 1986-12-15 | AUTHORS $200: Though his novels were nearly out of print by 1945, Wm. Faulkner won this in 1949 the Nobel Prize |
| #523, aired 1986-12-10 | THE U.N. $400: Jan Smuts, PM of this country now suspended from gen. assembly, authored 1945 preamble of U.N. charter South Africa |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | "GREEN" $800: Emlyn Williams play filmed in 1945 with Bette Davis & in 1979 with Katharine Hepburn The Corn Is Green |
| #508, aired 1986-11-19 | EGYPT $500: Though founded in Cairo in 1945, in 1979 this organization suspended Egypt's membership the Arab League |
| #504, aired 1986-11-13 | 20th CENTURY $600: It's where the U.S.S. Missouri was "parked" September 2, 1945 Tokyo harbor |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | "B" MOVIES $400: In 1985 version, Richard Pryor had to spend $29 mil. more than Dennis O'Keefe had to spend in 1945 Brewster's Millions |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | SPICY NAMES $800: Once the Charleston champ of Texas, in 1945 she was highest-paid performer in Hollywood Ginger Rogers |
| #467, aired 1986-09-23 | MEDICINE $200: Though Fleming discovered this 1st modern antibiotic in 1928, his Nobel Prize for it came in 1945 penicillin |
| #445, aired 1986-05-23 | "LONG" MOVIES $800: This 1945 Gary Cooper Western inspired 1959 Coasters' hit about a "Slow talkin', slow walkin'" hero Along Came Jones |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | STATE CAPITALS $400: From 1945 to 1980, this southwest capital jumped from 99th to 9th in size among U.S. cities Phoenix, Arizona |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | 20th CENTURY $200: In 1945, manufacturer Milton Reynolds developed 1st practical model of this writing implement a ballpoint pen |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | MODERN HISTORY $300: On August 8, 1945, 2 days after Hiroshima was bombed, Russia declared war on this country Japan |
| #306, aired 1985-11-11 | "SOUTH" $600: Except for Thailand, all independent states in this area have won their freedom since 1945 Southeast Asia |
| #298, aired 1985-10-30 | WWII $1000: 20,000 Russian guns opened fire on this city in April of 1945 Berlin |
| #269, aired 1985-09-19 | HISTORY $200: In 1945 Clement Attlee defeated him, becoming British prime minister Winston Churchill |
| #265, aired 1985-09-13 | THE 20th CENTURY $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1945, Britain's 19-year-old Princess Elizabeth chose him her favorite crooner Bing Crosby |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | THE '40S $200: This right-wing group was named for the 1st victim of the "Cold War", killed in China in 1945 the John Birch Society |
| #169, aired 1985-05-02 | BASEBALL $300: During 1945, this team hit only 1 home run in its D.C. stadium the Washington Senators |
| #168, aired 1985-05-01 | MOVIE MOTTOS $300: Ads for 1945's "Adventure" announced he's "back & Garson's got him" Clark Gable |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | 1945 $100: American Legion officials ruled these members of K-9 corps couldn't join dogs |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | 1945 $200: He "was here" in graffiti on the bathroom walls of the world Kilroy |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | 1945 $300: One writer said, "unlike a white player", this first black in a major sport "can never afford an off day" Jackie Robinson |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | 1945 $400: Winner of British contest on "What To Do With this leader" said, "Let him live with my in-laws for a month" Hitler |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | 1945 $500: Alger Hiss was secretary-gen. of San Francisco conference to set up this international organization the United Nations |
| #154, aired 1985-04-11 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: Instrument played by Jack Benny in his famous 1945 film a trumpet |
| #151, aired 1985-04-08 | FIRST LADIES $300: From 1945 to 1951, Eleanor Roosevelt was a delegate to this U.N. body the General Assembly |
| #145, aired 1985-03-29 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1000: Jean-Paul Sartre made a grand "entrance" into the world of drama with this 1945 play No Exit |
| #118, aired 1985-02-20 | SPORTS $300: Unusual characteristic of outfielder Pete Gray who played for the St. Louis Browns in 1945 having one arm |
| #118, aired 1985-02-20 | WORLD WAR II $400: This country's forces captured Berlin in 1945 Russia |
| #114, aired 1985-02-14 | CHEMISTRY $400: In 1945, Grand Rapids, MI & Newburgh, NY became 1st U.S. cities to add it to their water fluorine |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 1945 $100: Truman's state or battleship site of Japan's surrender Missouri |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 1945 $200: Developed from radar research, it was first marketed for fast food preparation in '45 microwave creation |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 1945 $300: Number of stars in U.S. flag raised over Iwo Jima 48 |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 1945 $400: Rejected as movie script, Broadway loved this fragile Tennessee Williams drama The Glass Menagerie |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | 1945 $500: He "lost" a "weekend" but won an Oscar Ray Milland |
