| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $400: This organization's New York City HQ was built on land bought in 1946 with an $8.5 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. the U.N. |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | WE'RE GOIN' TO BROADWAY! $800: This actor could have been a contender for the busiest 1946--he was in at least 4 shows, including "Candida" as Eugene Brando |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $400: Ruth Benedict's interest in the culture of this country led to the 1946 book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" Japan |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BUSINESS TRAVEL $800: Let's give you the bird (word)! This rental car co. that bears its founder's last name began with an $85,000 investment in 1946 Avis |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | ALLITERATIVE TERMS $400: It's any American born between 1946 & 1964 a baby boomer |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $3,400 (Daily Double): Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program the CDC |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $1000: Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball 1947 |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $400: In 2007 the first of these, born 1 second after midnight January 1, 1946, filed for Social Security a Baby Boomer |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1600: He wed Marion Stearns in 1946, six years after he led the NFL in rushing (Byron "Whizzer") White |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $200: Put me, this nut, into a milk chocolate bar & you have the "Joy" I've provided since 1946 an almond |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $800: In 1946, in order to avoid execution, Hermann Goering picked his this poison (cyanide) |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $200: 1946:
"Julia McWilliams! What's cookin'?"
"I just got married"
"Tasty! To whom?"
"His last name is" this Child |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | THE CALIFORNIANS $600: "Yo" as in Yosemite, this bro established a gnarly photography department at the Cali School of Fine Arts in 1946 Ansel Adams |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $800: She dedicated 1946's "The Hollow" to "Larry & Danae, with apologies for using their swimming pool as the scene of a murder" Agatha Christie |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | HAPPY JULY 4th! $800: This new Asian republic was proclaimed July 4, 1946 with Manuel A. Roxas as its first president the Philippines |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | HISTORIC SHORTS $1600: It was no longer Short King Spring in May 1946 when King Victor Emmanuel III, aka "Little Saber", abdicated the throne of this country Italy |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | THAT'S OUR MOTTO! $200: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"; the phrase appears in its constitutions of 1946 & 1958 France |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $600: Reagan's first wife, she earned 4 Oscar nominations, the first for 1946's "The Yearling" Jane Wyman |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $800: His "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" came out in 1946; "Common Sense" left the title in later editions Dr. Spock |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES $2000: Between 1942 & 1946, the U.S. produced nearly 50,000 of these tanks named for a Civil War general Sherman tanks |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $200: 1946: This city is "Vacuum Tube Valley" when ENIAC, the 1st general purpose digital computer, is demonstrated at U. Penn there Philadelphia |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $200: February 1946:
After losing a vote for General Assembly president, Trygve Lie becomes the first man in this United Nations job Secretary-General |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $2000: Amputee Harold Russell, who played a returning serviceman in this 1946 classic, was an inspiration to fellow World War II vets & the disabled The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AT THE STORE $400: This convenience store took its name in 1946 from the extended hours between which its stores were open 7-Eleven |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $800: The 1946 murder noir "The Blue" this preceded the real-life murder case known as "The Black" this by a year Dahlia |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SCIENCE PROJECTS $400: In 1946 this project's property & personnel were transferred to to the newly created Atomic Energy Commission Manhattan Project |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | TROPHY HUSBAND $1200: Yvonne Molinaro married 2 winners of this gridiron trophy, 1954 honoree Alan Ameche & 1946's Glenn Davis the Heisman |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $2000: Known as "Mother", she emigrated from Italy in 1889 & in 1946 she became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint (Mother) Cabrini |
| #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 |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $800: Making his name as a prosecutor, he was elected governor in 1942, 1946 & 1950 but lost twice for president in that time (Thomas) Dewey |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | COLONEL KNOWLEDGE $1600: In 1946 U.S. Army Colonel Charles Kades drafted article 9 of this country's constitution, which renounces war Japan |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES $400: Later "The Rifleman" on TV, Chuck Connors was a Brooklyn Dodger & as a Celtic in 1946, became the first NBA player to shatter this the backboard |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES $600: She was an All-American hoopster, Olympic champ & in 1946, won 13 straight golf titles Babe Didrikson |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | AMERICAN LAW $4,000 (Daily Double): Lady Liberty is on the logo of the American Association of Lawyers in this field, founded in 1946 immigration |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | IT'S ALL GUCCI $800: Gucci is a corporate partner of this U.N. organization created in 1946 to help the world's children UNICEF |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | U.N. RESOLUTIONS $400: The General Assembly's first resolution, from Jan. 1946, set up a commission on problems raised by discovery of this discovery of atomic energy (the nuclear age) |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | DOUBLE TIME $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1946 article that coined this term for a brooding drama cited "Double Indemnity", starring Barbara Stanwyck, as an example film noir |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | HOW GREEN WAS MY FLAG $400: In 1946, after the war, a shield & cross were removed from the green-white-red tricolor of this country Italy |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2000: This 1946 novel based on the life of Huey Long won the Pulitzer Prize & the movie won the Best Picture Oscar All the King's Men |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $800: Named for an atoll, the site of nuclear testing, this then-daring 2-piece swimsuit exploded onto the scene in Paris in 1946 bikini |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | UP ALL NIGHT $800: In 1946 this chain of stores put its hours in its new name, but in 1963, some decided to go 24-7 7-Eleven |
| #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 |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS $2000: At one point in this 1946 film, Bedford Falls is renamed Pottersville It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY $800: Oui, in a 1946 essay I expounded on the idea that "Existence precedes essence" Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THERE IS AN "I" IN TEAM $1000: Gordie Howe played for this NHL team from 1946 to 1971 the Detroit Red Wings |
| #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 |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | POETS & POETRY $1600: A pioneer imagist, he spent 1946-1958 in St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital, future home of John Hinckley Ezra Pound |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $400: Here are the borders of this country in 1946; by mid-1992, four of its republics had gone independent Yugoslavia |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $800: Hercule Poirot was dropped from the 1946 play version of this cruise-set novel & "Death" in the title became "Murder" Death on the Nile |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | HAVE YOU HEARD MY THIRD? $2000: His 1946 Third Symphony incorporates his "Fanfare For The Common Man" in its finale Aaron Copland |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $2,400 (Daily Double): In April 1946 this international org. formally gave up the ghost, though it did give a lot of its stuff to its replacement the League of Nations |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | YOU'RE QUITE THE PAIR! $1200: Now its own country, it became one of 6 republics in Yugoslavia in 1946 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $1,500 (Daily Double): There's speed dating, online dating & this method developed in 1946 that can tell archaeologists an artifact's age carbon dating |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | GET SCHOOLED $800: The CIA for short (not that CIA), it was founded in 1946 to train returning WWII veterans in the art of cooking the Culinary Institute of America |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | CAPITAL ISLANDS $800: This city on Luzon became the Philippine national capital in 1946, took a break & was reinstated in 1976 Manila |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: It's a system of sending messages using flags (1946) semaphore |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: In 1946 Emily Greene Balch, a colleague of Jane Addams, was a co-winner of this award first given in 1901 the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | GRANNY SMITH $200: Rosalynn Smith got married in Plains, Georgia in 1946, took this new surname & went on to have 12 grandkids Carter |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | BUSINESS NAMES $200: In 1946 Tote'm Convenience Stores got this new name to reflect its new extended hours 7-Eleven |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | AS DESCRIBED IN THE PATENT $800: 1946:
"Propulsion aircraft systems in which thrust is developed by...the expulsion of a stream of gas through a nozzle" a jet engine |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | "PORTER" $600: Want a real Omaha steak in Omaha? Try the 23-ounce one of these at Cascio's, founded in 1946 a porterhouse |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | LEADERS $800: Walter Reuther ran this union's GM department from 1939 & the whole union from 1946 to 1970 United Auto Workers |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THIS IS 40: LITERARY EDITION $1600: Mrs. Wu turns 40 & changes her life in "Pavilion of Women", a China-set 1946 book by this American woman Pearl Buck |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | & EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD $1000: Last name of Maria & Marjorie, sisters of Osage descent who danced in different Ballets Russes in 1946 the Tallchief sisters |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | SLEIGHING SONGS $2000: Leroy Anderson began writing this Yuletide classic during a 1946 summer heat wave "Sleigh Ride" |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | HOORAY FOR BOLLYWOOD! $800: In 1946 "Neecha Nagar" shared the Grand Prix at the first of this French city's annual festivals Cannes |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 1940s AMERICA $400: Born 1 second into the year 1946, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling was the first kid in this huge wave the baby boom |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | HOPE $200: He was born in Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946 Bill Clinton |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HOW MANY? $1600: People in the Juilliard, a famed group of string players, when it was formed in 1946 four |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE BIG LEAGUES $1,000 (Daily Double): It was formally dissolved in April 1946 the League of Nations |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | PUB MED $800: Sections in his landmark 1946 book include "The Baby's Doctor", "Diapers" & Inoculations" Dr. Spock |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $800: 1946:
"I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | DIMES $4,800 (Daily Double): A new design for the dime was released on January 30, 1946, which would have been this man's 64th birthday Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | WRONG $200: In 1946 movie mogul Darryl Zanuck said this wouldn't last because people "will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box" television |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | U.N. MILESTONES $400: January 24, 1946:
This 51-member body adopts its first resolution, on the uses of atomic energy the General Assembly |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): A 20-kiloton A-bomb was dropped on this atoll in a 1946 test, the first in peacetime Bikini Atoll |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | ON BOXING DAY $800: The 1946 rematch of this "Brown Bomber" & Billy Conn was the first world heavyweight title fight available on TV Joe Louis |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $2000: Part of the Interior Dept. from 1849 to 1946 to aid settlement; if you're doing this type of "business", business is good land office |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | "IT'S" A MOVIE $400: 1946:
Mr. Potter commits grand theft It's a Wonderful Life |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | FOOTWEAR $200: Minnetonka has been making these soft leather Native American shoes since 1946 moccasins |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | THE 1940s $800: On July 4, 1946 the U.S. granted independence to this Asian country we had controlled since 1898 the Philippines |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | AMUSEMENT & THEME PARKS $800: After the original one closed in 1946, a new Luna Park opened here in 2010 Coney Island |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | A FILM CLASSIC $600: 1946:
George Bailey learns he's the richest man in town It's a Wonderful Life |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Harry Truman appointed her a delegate to the U.N., where she chaired the Human Rights Commission from 1946 to 1951 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | REQUIRED READING $1000: Though the play did not hit Broadway until 1946, "The Iceman Cometh" by him first cameth in 1939 (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE $600: This airline was formed in 1946 from the national airlines of Denmark, Sweden & Norway SAS (Scandinavian Airline Systems) |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE $800: This motor scooter got its name in 1946 when creator Enrico Piaggio claimed, "It looks like a wasp! " a Vespa |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | MONEY MATTERS $1200: Lady Liberty used to be on the obverse of this coin until a president began getting face time in 1946 dime |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | HISTORY IN ART $800: An official war artist for Britain, in 1946 Dame Laura Knight documented the trials in this German city Nuremberg |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | TAKE ME TO THE COMBAT PILOT $600 (Daily Double): Between 1941 & 1946, 992 pilots graduated from the training program in this Alabama city Tuskegee |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE $1600: In 1946 this federal state took up a big slab of the Balkans with 6 republics; in 2003, not so much Yugoslavia |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | NEWSPAPERS $800: In 1946 this Florida paper launched a "clipper" service for Latin America, named for the seaplanes that carried it the Miami Herald |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | WHEN THINGS WERE ROTTEN $800: In 1946 this economic measure made Hungary swap currencies, with 1 new forint worth 400,000 quadrillion of the old pengo inflation |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | THE NORTH PACIFIC $1000: Between 1946 & 1958, 23 nuclear tests were conducted in this tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands Bikini Atoll |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | FEMALE TITLE ROLES $1200: "Gilda"
(1946) Rita Hayworth |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | JAMES: THE FIRST OR LAST NAME $1000: In 1946 he began hosting the first cooking program on network TV James Beard |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | 1940s FICTION $2000: Jack Burden, a newspaperman & aide to politician Willie Stark, narrates this 1946 novel All the King's Men |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: In a 1946 novel an unnamed narrator heads to Crete & hires him, "the Greek", as a foreman & cook Zorba (the Greek) |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | GOOD CAUSES $1600: Improving the quality of life for the blind & visually impaired since 1946, a N.Y. foundation provides these free of charge seeing eye dogs |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | DIRECTORS BY FILM $400: 1946:
"It's a Wonderful Life" (Frank) Capra |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: In a Jan. 1, 1946 broadcast, he repudiated his semi-divine status as emperor Hirohito |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | RED-LETTER DAY $800: On July 4, 1946 the United States granted full independence to this Asian nation, with Manuel Roxas becoming president the Philippines |
| #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 |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: From 1946:
"I'm givin' out wings!" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | LITERARY SETTINGS $400: Eudora Welty set her 1946 novel "Delta Wedding" around the delta of this river the Mississippi |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | IT SHOULDA BEEN A CONTENDER $600: 1946:
Maybe the Academy thought the title of this Bogie & Bacall detective classic described the film too well The Big Sleep |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $2000: In 1946 this N.Y. university founded Utica College, which became independent in 1995 Syracuse University |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | 1990--25 YEARS AGO $1600: Winnie (Churchill) got a ticker-tape parade on March 15, 1946; this Winnie was in one with her husband on June 20, 1990 (Winnie) Mandela |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | THE ALLITERATI $1600: Let's play "The Glass Bead Game" & see if you can name this German 1946 Nobelist (Hermann) Hesse |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | THE SETTING, SON $1000: A 1946 film was titled after this London asylum, a synonym for lunacy; Boris Karloff is the sadistic head Bedlam |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | HISTORY $800: On Oct. 16, 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop was the 1st of 10 top convicted Nazis to be executed in this city Nuremberg |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $1200: Urged on by his priest, Billy Wilkerson of this Variety rival published "Billy's Blacklist" in 1946 Hollywood Reporter |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | SPIKE $400: From an average of about 2.3 million in the 1930s, births in the U.S. spiked to almost 3.5 million in this 1st baby boom year 1946 |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | COMMISSIONED ARTWORKS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.) In 1946, Rockwell got an actual lineman to pose at his studio on a pole fitted with cables & anchored to nearby trees for a commission for this phone company AT&T |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: On May 25, 1946 this grandfather of Hussein was crowned the first king of Jordan King Abdullah |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | WOMEN'S LIT $400: Like many of her works, this author's 1946 novel "Pavilion of Women" 'takes place in China Pearl Buck |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | LITERARY QUOTES $3,500 (Daily Double): In this 1946 novel, Old Major says that "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing" Animal Farm |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | ANTHROPOLOGY $10,000 (Daily Double): Ruth Benedict's "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" is a classic 1946 study of this country's culture Japan |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | BRAND NAMES $800: Treat your itchy eyes with this brand of antihistamine first marketed back in 1946 Benadryl |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | THE UNCIVIL WARS $1600: In 1946 troops of this "abbreviated" military corps were found guilty of shooting P.O.W.'s in the Malmedy Massacre the SS |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: By Leon Uris, it opens in 1946 Exodus |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | REJECTED SUPERVILLAIN NAMES $600: Alliterative phrase for someone born between 1946 & 1965; beware, it's the... baby boomer |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Year in which a U. S. president remarked, "this is the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation" 1969 |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | GO "LUCKY" $1600: Even after his deportation to Italy in 1946, he remained an influential American mob boss Lucky Luciano |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: His father, William Jefferson Blythe, died in a 1946 car accident before the future president was born Bill Clinton |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | SURREALISM $1200: This French surrealist made the 1946 film "Beauty and the Beast" (Jean) Cocteau |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | CAN'T STOP MESSIN' WITH TEXAS $800: On Nov. 4, 1946 she was born Laura Lane Welch in Midland; you may know her better by this name Laura Bush |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | "C" THE WORLD $200: This city's international film festival was first held in 1946 Cannes |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | EAT, DRINK $2000: Devised in Boston in 1946, the name of this juice brand combines patriotism & convenience Minute Maid |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | HISTORY OF CARS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) The 1946 Kurtis Ross Page Special that raced in the first Indy 500 after World War II had this clear plastic for its windshield, much lighter than traditional material Plexiglas |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | AP FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR $1600: 1932, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 & 1954:
Her Babe Didrikson |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $2000: During his 1946 run for Congress, the skinny JFK already suffered from this disease of adrenal insufficiency Addison's Disease |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG $400: The 19 Nazis convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg in October 1946 included this obese Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | LIKE WE DID LAST SUMMER $800: On July 7, 1946 this ultra-wealthy aviator wiped out 2 Beverly Hills homes in a crash of his XF-11 spy plane Howard Hughes |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | MAPPING THE NFL $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the US with a city marked.) Founded in Cleveland in 1937, this team moved west in 1946, and since 1995, has grazed over here the St. Louis Rams |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | NEWSPAPERS $2,900 (Daily Double): In 1946 financier Eugene Meyer turned over the operations of this newspaper to his son-in-law Philip Graham the Washington Post |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | YOU MUST BE PRESIDENT TO WIN $400: In 1946 he attended daughter Margaret's graduation from George Washington University & was awarded an LL.D. Truman |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | SAME ROLE, SAME FILM $800: Bobby Anderson & James Stewart as George Bailey (1946) It's A Wonderful Life |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS $800: Appropriately, this 4-letter organization started out in 1946 by sending packages to survivors of WWII CARE |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | LANGUAGES $2000: When the Philippines became independent in 1946, this was the official language; it's now called Filipino Tagalog |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | LAS VEGAS $800: In 1946 El Rancho Vegas started a tradition with this type of meal service, chuck wagon-style a buffet |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS $400: In 1946 this was described as having descended "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic" an Iron Curtain |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | LET US GO FOURTH $1000: After Charles de Gaulle resigned as president in 1946, France formed its "Fourth" this under Felix Goun Republic |
| #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 | WARDROBE $400: Though introduced in 1946, this 2-piece bathing suit didn't become popular in the U.S. until the 1960s the bikini |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | THE CALIFORNIANS $800 (Daily Double): Yo! (As in Yosemite!) This bro established a gnarly photography dept. at the Cali School of Fine Arts in 1946 Ansel Adams |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1200: This comic died of alcohol-related causes in Pasadena, not Philadelphia, on Christmas Day 1946 W.C. Fields |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | PRESIDENT OF THE YEAR $600: 1946 Harry Truman |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | ORGANIZATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): This international society for smarties was founded in Oxford, England in 1946 Mensa |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WE'LL LEAVE TONIGHT $2000: On Oct. 15, 1946, the night his execution was ordered, this No. 2 Nazi took a 1-way trip via poison in his Nuremberg cell Hermann Göring |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | PUT ME IN $200: Put me, this nut, into a milk chocolate bar & you have the "Joy" I've provided since 1946 an almond |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | LOOK AT ME $600: Politicians continue to debate the economic ideas of this Brit, who died in 1946 (John Maynard) Keynes |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $1600: Woody Strode, seen here in this Kirk Douglas film, helped integrate the NFL in 1946 with the Rams Spartacus |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1946: "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BABY, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT $800: Rachel Isum wed this baseball player in 1946 & after his 1972 death created his foundation Jackie Robinson |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | U.S. COINS $1,200 (Daily Double): A 1946 memorial half-dollar was the first U.S. coin to feature an African American, this educator Booker T. Washington |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $5,400 (Daily Double): This 1946 novel about a Southern politician takes its title from the "Humpty Dumpty" nursery rhyme All the King's Men |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | PLAY DATES $1200: Aptly, this O'Neill play debuted in 1946, as the Cold War was heating (or chilling) up The Iceman Cometh |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | ASIAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): 1946's Linggarjati Agreement gave grudging Dutch recognition to the autonomy of this island country Indonesia |
| #6286, aired 2012-01-09 | BEATLEWOMANIA $400: Ringo Starr wed first wife Maureen Cox in London in 1965; she'd been born in this Mersey River city in 1946 Liverpool |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $600: In 2007 the first of these, born 1 second after midnight January 1, 1946, filed for social security a Baby Boomer |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | A STONY CATEGORY $800: Serving from 1941 to 1946, Harlan Stone was the 12th guy to head up this important group the Supreme Court |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | SCHOOLS OF THE HEISMEN $200: 1945 & 1946:
Doc Blanchard & Glenn Davis of this service academy Army |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | WHERE YA FROM? $600: This president was born in 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut while his dad was a student at Yale George W. Bush |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $800: This U.N. agency, created in 1946 to aid children in Europe, won the 1965 Peace Prize UNICEF |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | THE "BEST" OF EVERYTHING $1000: 3 returning veterans from World War II readjust to civilian life in this Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Delegates from 34 countries attended this body's final session April 18, 1946 the League of Nations |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | MISSOURI LOVES COMPANY $400: At Westminster College, there's a memorial & library honoring this man who gave his "iron curtain" speech on campus in 1946 (Winston) Churchill |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $600: In 1946 Bugsy Siegel opened this future Hilton adorned with a big pink neon sign & replicas of wading birds The Flamingo |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | NATION STATION $1600: After Ananda Mahidol was found dead in 1946, Bhumibol Adulyadej became king of this Asian country Thailand |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | VIRGIN BERTHS $800: Launched in 1938, it became a WWII troopship & then entered regular transatlantic service for Cunard in 1946 the Queen Elizabeth |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1946 a Raytheon engineer's candy bar melted while he worked on a magnetron, leading to this; the first ones were 750 lbs. a microwave oven |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | FROM HERE TO THERE $800: In 1946 Churchill said, "From Stettin in" this north European sea "to Trieste... an iron curtain has descended" the Baltic |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $1000: In 1946, in order to avoid the noose, Hermann Goering picked his this poison pill (cyanide accepted) |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | HOMECOMING KINGS & QUEENS $2000: In 1996 King Simeon returned to Bulgaria; he had fled in 1946 after a takeover by this very anti-king political party the Communist Party |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | MOVIES WITH THE SAME NAME $2000: 1946: Ingrid Bergman;
2009: Jamal Woolard
(not saying which, but one is about rap music) Notorious |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | BOOK OPPOSITES $600: 1946:
"None of the Queen's Gals" All The King's Men |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | THEY WERE DROPOUTS $1200: This dropout & actress was married to the president of Argentina from 1946 to 1952 Eva Peron |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $600: Support from laborers called descamisados, "shirtless ones", brought him to power in Argentina in 1946 Juan Peron |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | THE ARTS $200: Modernist jeweler Art Smith opened his first shop in this New York City "Village" in 1946 Greenwich Village |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | DIVAS $400: Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi was chosen by Toscanini to sing at the reopening of this Milan opera house in 1946 La Scala |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | LENIN $1600: This military group formed under Lenin officially lost its colorful name in 1946 the Red Army |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | FIGHT LIKE A MAN $400: This "sweet" fighter held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | THE NP FOR L $1600: 1946:
H.H. from Switzerland, for his "inspired writings" (Hermann) Hesse |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | BOUNCE $2,000 (Daily Double): Radio signals were bounced off this object for the first time during Project Diana on January 10, 1946 the Moon |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | EVEN MONEY $1000: When this coin was redesigned in 1946, anticommunists alleged engraver John Sinnock's initials stood for "Joseph Stalin" the Roosevelt dime |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | MILITARY FIRSTS $600: On Oct. 16, 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop became the first of 10 condemned men hanged in this city for war crimes Nuremberg |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | BRAND "O" $1600: This blender came on the market in 1946 Oster |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | ART HEISTS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1976 she sued for the return of 3 paintings, claiming they'd been stolen from Alfred Stieglitz' gallery in 1946 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | FILM"Z" $1200: 1946:
Fred Astaire & Lucille Ball dance & sing their way into these title "Follies" of the 1920s Ziegfeld |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1,000 (Daily Double): He wed Marion Stearns in 1946, 8 years after he led he NFL in rushing Byron "Whizzer" White |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION $200: In 1946 author & chef James Beard became the first to do cooking instruction using this medium television |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $400: "Feeding your Baby and Child" was the 1955 follow-up to his more famous 1946 book (Benjamin) Spock |
| #5884, aired 2010-03-25 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $400: The League was dissolved in April of this year; the United Nations charter had been ratified the previous October 1946 |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | HISTORIC WOMEN $400: She was a teacher & administrator at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta for about 17 years until 1946 Mother Teresa |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1200: This 1946 winner was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 Thurgood Marshall |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | A DAY IN THE LIFE $1200: Aug. 29, 1946:
Files a patent for an instant camera Edwin Land |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | MICROBIOLOGY MILESTONES $400: The government's "Centers for" these 2 words "& Prevention" dates back to 1946 Disease Control |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | UNREAL ESTATE $200: Bedford Falls is the setting of this classic 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OH, BEE GEE $400: Barry Gibb was born in 1946; these 2 fraternal twins were born in 1949 Robin & Maurice |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | BAD TIME CHARLIE $800: As a consequence of his drug & alcohol problems, this jazz pioneer was confined to a mental hospital in 1946 Charlie Parker |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets a whiff of a holiday treat sold at a hot dog vendor's sidewalk stand in New York.) The aroma reminds me of one of the most popular holiday songs; written in 1946, it's simply called "The Christmas Song", but is better known by this first line "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | AN OCTOBER FIRST FEST $600: 1946:
An international military tribunal in this city sentences 12 Nazi leaders to death Nuremberg |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | HISTORICAL HOME SHOPPING $800: This world leader may have said he wasn't divine on Jan. 1, 1946, but the prices of his commemorative plates sure are! Emperor Hirohito |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | NAME YOUR BUSINESS $400: Convenience store chain named for its hours of operation in 1946; today you can get a Double Gulp there 24-7 7-Eleven |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WORLD OF LITERATURE $2000: Iraklion-born Nikos Kazantzakis is best known for this 1946 novel Zorba the Greek |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | ANGELS $400: After 200 years Clarence Oddbody finally gets his wings in this 1946 movie It's a Wonderful Life |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $400 (Daily Double): In a speech in Missouri in 1946, Winston Churchill declared that this division had fallen between East & West an Iron Curtain |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $1000: A seedy NYC hotel-saloon & the pipe dreams of its inhabitants are elements of this "cool" 1946 Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | KINGS $9,000 (Daily Double): A busy guy, he was King of Italy (1900 to 1946), Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 to 1941) & King of Albania (1939 to 1943) Victor Emmanuel (III) |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | THE WORLD COURT $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from The Hague in the Netherlands.) Though there were versions of the World Court in the early 20th century, the present body began work in 1946 as the ICJ, short for this the International Court of Justice |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | THE SECRET LIFE OF "B"s $400: 2-word term for the demographic surge in the U.S. from 1946 to 1964 baby boom |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | DAY PLANNERS OF THE STARS $1000: March 7, 1946: Win best actress for "Mildred Pierce".
March 8: Rethink position on wire hangers (Joan) Crawford |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | IT HAPPENED IN VIRGINIA $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Williamsburg.) In 1946 these 2 leaders who had been instrumental in ending WWII relaxed over drinks here at the Williamsburg Inn Eisenhower & Churchill |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | STAGE "RIGHT" $1000: This U.S. government scholarship program named for a senator began in 1946 Fulbright |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: She spent the summer of 1929 in New Mexico & moved there permanently after the death of her husband in 1946 (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $3,500 (Daily Double): Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | OPERATIONS $1600: Operations Crossroads was the code name of 2 nuclear tests performed in July 1946 at this Pacific atoll Bikini |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | "EX"ACTLY $2000: This existentialist drama closed after just a few weeks on Broadway in 1946, thus disproving its own title No Exit |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | NORDIC TRACK $400: In a 1946 book, this title girl of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren "Goes On Board"; 1948 found her "In The South Seas" Pippi Longstocking |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ALL IN THE "FAMILY" $800: This magazine was founded in 1932 & given away in grocery stores until 1946 Family Circle |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | THAT J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER $400: Oppie helped draft 1946's Acheson-Lilienthal Plan, which offered to have this body oversee world atomic research United Nations |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | GO AHEAD, MAKE MY "DAY" $200: It's the trademark name for the brand of really bright colors that was created in 1946 DayGlo |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | HASTA LA VISTA, BABY $400: This airline whose name is a Hawaiian term made its first flight on July 26, 1946 Aloha |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | HERSHEY vs. NESTLE $800: Now a Hershey's product, Mounds was introduced in 1920; this nutty counterpart didn't appear until 1946 Almond Joy |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | FORGOTTEN MUSICALS $1000: Orson Welles & Cole Porter collaborated on a 1946 musical adaptation of this "globe-trotting" Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | "BIG" LOVE $1200: Bogey played Philip Marlowe in this 1946 big screener The Big Sleep |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | POETS & POETRY $1200: His 1946 poem "Fern Hill" describes the joys of visiting a family farm in Wales as a child Dylan Thomas |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | "P"EOPLE $400: The 1946 film "Night and Day" was about this composer who wrote "Begin the Beguine" & "It's De-Lovely" (Cole) Porter |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BRAND NAMES $400: The company that sold Nikkor lenses in the 1930s started selling cameras under this brand in 1946 Nikon |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: In 1946 Vojvodina & this province were made autonomous within Serbia in Yugoslavia Kosovo |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | VIVA ITALIA $1600: Modeled in part on aircraft landing gear, this brand of motor scooter was first produced in Tuscany in 1946 Vespa |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | BOXER $800: 2 men named "Sugar Ray": one became welterweight champ in 1946, the other in 1979 Sugar Ray Leonard & Sugar Ray Robinson |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | OLD MAJOR $4,600 (Daily Double): In 1946 author Wallace Stegner founded this "inventive" 2-word program at Stanford creative writing |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | CAPITAL IDEA $1000: One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities, it became a capital in 1946 when Syria gained independence Damascus |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | LOOSE CHANGE $200: The first dime featuring his image was issued on Jan. 30, 1946, a little more than 9 months after his death FDR |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | IT HAPPENED ON CHRISTMAS DAY $200: 1946:
Ah yes, this big-screen comedian passes away at the age of 66 in Pasadena W.C. Fields |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | A FEW GENTLEMEN OF VERONA $1200: Verona-born tenor Nino Martini performed brilliantly at this NYC location from 1933 to 1946 the Metropolitan Opera |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: In December 1946 he attacked the French at Tonkin, beginning a war that ended 8 years later Ho Chi Minh |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | NASAL PASSAGES $1200: "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle", wrote this man in 1946 (not in "1984") (George) Orwell |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | UNREAL ESTATE $1600: Shellmound is the Fairchild Family plantation in this Mississippi woman's 1946 novel "Delta Wedding" Eudora Welty |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | LEONARD MALTIN'S FAVORITE FILMS $800: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) David Lean's 1946 British film of this Dickens tale is a real "Pip", & the opening graveyard sequence is a gem Great Expectations |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS $400: U.S. Naval Academy
(class of 1946) Jimmy Carter |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | WHAT'S IN A CELEBRITY NAME? $1,800 (Daily Double): This late, great comedienne was named for a character Rita Hayworth played in 1946, the year she was born Gilda Radner |
| #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 |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | FOR KING & COUNTRY $2000: 1946 to 1951:
Abdullah I (he cut "Trans" from the country's name mid-reign) Jordan |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | MAY 16, A DAY TO REMEMBER $200: This composer's musical "Annie Get Your Gun" premieres on Broadway May 16, 1946 Irving Berlin |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | YOU CAN CZECH OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE $800: This party got the most votes in Czechoslovakia's May 26, 1946 general election the Communists |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | WILLIAM FAULKNER $800: Faulkner worked uncredited on many movies but did get his name on this 1946 adaptation of a Chandler novel The Big Sleep |
| #5208, aired 2007-04-11 | ROLE $600: In the 1946 film "The Green Years", she played the daughter of her real-life husband Hume Cronyn Jessica Tandy |
| #5141, aired 2007-01-08 | KURDISH HISTORY $1000: This important political party, the KDP, was founded in 1946 the Kurdish Democratic Party |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | JEOP-POURRI $600: This artist moved to New Mexico after the 1946 death of her husband Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | PUNCH LINES $800: This heavyweight champ was referring to Billy Conn & their 1946 bout when he said, "He can run, but he can't hide" Joe Louis |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | MOVIE TWINS $2000: An Oscar nominee 10 times, she played twin sisters in 1946's "A Stolen Life" & 1964's "Dead Ringer" Bette Davis |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: William Laurence won a Prize in 1946 for his eyewitness account of the atomic bombing of this city, after Hiroshima Nagasaki |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THREE ON A MATCH $200: Names of the Three Stooges at the time of the 1946 film "Beer Barrel Polecats" Moe, Curly & Larry |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | POTPOURRI $800: In 1946 he won California's 12th district seat, in part by implying Democrat Jerry Voorhis had Communist ties Richard Nixon |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | "B-I" $1600: The first peacetime atomic weapons test was conducted here on July 1, 1946 Bikini Atoll |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | SIBLING REVELRY $1600: The United Business Company, begun by brothers Henry & Richard in 1946, is now filing under this name H&R Block |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ALMA MATER MATTERS $400: In 1946 Congress designated January 5 as the "Day" of this Tuskegee Institute agriculture professor (George Washington) Carver |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $2000: In 1946 he called the U.N. "a going organization" Trygve Lie |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOS $2000: The 1946 winner, "Son of the Wilderness", detailed the life of this Sierra Club founder John Muir |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | DEAR JOHN $800: In 1946 he gave the United Nations a gift of $8.5 million to buy land for its NYC headquarters (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | SPORTS QUOTES $200: Commenting on winning the Indy 500 in 1946, George Robson said, "All I had to do is keep turning" this direction left |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | "ZO" FAR SO GOOD $400: Title Greek character of a 1946 bestseller Zorba |
| #4977, aired 2006-04-11 | WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY $200: In 1946 Del Harder of this auto co. coined the term "automation" to describe the way its engines were assembled Ford |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | KICK THE CANNES $1000: The first festival in 1946 screened "The Lost Weekend" directed by this man Billy Wilder |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | SNOW BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS $600: A man runs through the snowy streets of Bedford Falls shouting, "Merry Christmas!" in this 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): This Asian island nation gained independence from the U.S. in 1946 but celebrates its 1898 freedom from Spain on June 12 the Philippines |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | ALL THAT JAZZ $2,000 (Daily Double): This bop saxophonist's 1946 tune "Ornithology" became a jazz standard Charlie Parker |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | "S"-ENTIAL KNOWLEDGE $200: Broadcast on the Dumont Network in 1946, "Faraway Hill" is considered the first TV show in this daytime genre a soap opera |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | GIVE US THE TIME OF DAY $1200: In 1946 Tote'm Convenience Stores went to these opening & closing hours & changed their name accordingly 7-11 (7:00 AM & 11:00 PM) |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | U.S. CITIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Because Malaria was still common in the South, the Communicable Disease Center was established in this city in 1946 Atlanta |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $600: Reginald Jackson, born in 1946, is nicknamed Mr. October; Thomas Jackson, born in 1824, was nicknamed this "Stonewall" |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | IN A MUSICAL MOOD $400: It's the 1946 Western that shares its name with the song heard here My Darling Clementine |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | NOT ADVERBS $400: Italy granted regional autonomy to this island in May 1946; the Lipari Islands are under its jurisdiction Sicily |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | ABBOTS & COSTELLOS $1200: When Lucky Luciano was deported in 1946, this closest aide of his took control of his crime syndicate Frank Costello |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $200: 1946:
This system of flag & arm position signals S-E-M-A-P-H-O-R-E |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | BRANDED $600: An ex-Dupont chemist from New Hampshire introduced this brand of popular food storage containers in 1946 Tupperware |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: Famous for his chairs, in 1946 this designer had the first one-man furniture exhibit at MoMA (Charles) Eames |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: During WWII this colonel amassed power in Argentina; in 1946 he was elected president Juan Peron |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | COMPANY SYMBOLS $200: In 1946 Chicago maitre d' Frank Brown posed for this rice brand's trademark picture Uncle Ben's |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1600: This 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis novel was narrated by a Crete mine owner who's drawn out of his shell by an elderly employee Zorba the Greek |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | NAME THAT AUTOCRAT $400: Argentina
1946-1955 (Juan) Perón |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | WHAT THE "ELL"? $800: FD&C Green No. 8 is one of the ingredients listed in this famous shampoo introduced in 1946 Prell |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $2000: Although this singer wanted to portray himself in a 1946 film biography, he was too old & Larry Parks was cast Al Jolson |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS $800: 1946:
H.H.,
Switzerland Hermann Hesse |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | WHERE HISTORY HAPPENED $200: Between Oct. 1946 & Oct. 1949, this international organization held its meetings in Flushing, N.Y. the United Nations |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | THE FUN '40s $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from beside a Blue Angels plane.) During a visit to this city in 1946 the Blue Angels took their name from a nightclub found there New York |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | HEY, "BOO" $200: Popular term for a person born in the U.S. between 1946 & 1965 a Baby Boomer |
| #4768, aired 2005-05-04 | HISTORIC ESPN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) June 19, 1946:
This heavyweight had warned Billy Conn "He can run but he can't hide"; eighth round, ooh!ouch! thhh--the running ceases Joe Louis |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | NYPD $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from outside an NYPD station.) On the narrow streets of Lower Manhattan police drive Piaggios, from the makers of this Italian scooter that debuted in 1946 the Vespa |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | LAS VEGAS CENTENNIAL $600: Bugsy Siegel opened this pleasure palace seen here on the Strip in 1946, long before it became a Hilton the Flamingo |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: The Gov. Bradford Compact held its annual meeting in this Mass. town from 1946 to 2003; it now alternates with Kingston Plymouth |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | LET'S MESS WITH TEXAS $200: Educated at Phillips Academy, Yale & Harvard, this part-time Crawford resident was born in Connecticut in 1946 George W. Bush |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | THE JIMMY CARTER EXPERIENCE $200: Jimmy Carter married this "Foxey Lady" on July 7, 1946 at the Plains Methodist Church Rosalynn Carter |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $800: In 1946 the name of Podgorica was changed to this for Yugoslavia's leader; it was changed back in 1992 Titograd |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | "R" MAN $400: He is the groundbreaking second baseman seen here in 1946 Jackie Robinson |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $1600: This bowl game has been held in Jacksonville, Florida since January 1, 1946 the Gator Bowl |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Hermann Muller won a 1946 Nobel Prize for proving that the use of these can cause mutations X rays |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | HEIR OF THE DAG $1200: Serving from 1946 to 1952, this Oslo University graduate was the first U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | "G" MOVIES $2000: 1946:
Rita Hayworth teases up a storm in South America Gilda |
| #4600, aired 2004-09-10 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: From 1920 to 1946 this Swiss city served as the seat of the League of Nations Geneva |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | SPORTS GIANTS $400: In 1946, Elmore Morgenthaler was the first NBA player with this physical distinction being 7 feet tall |
| #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 |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | SPORTS BIOS $600: A Detroit Red Wing from 1946 to 1971, it was his records that Gretzky broke Gordie Howe |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | THEY'RE SPORTY $1600: How sweet--he was the world welterweight champ from 1946 to 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | FAMOUS NAMES $2000: By 1946, he'd catalogued over 29,000 galaxies, almost 4,000 asteroids & 1 new planet--Pluto Clyde Tombaugh |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | GET YOUR PHIL $600: In the 1946 classic "The Big Sleep", he played Philip Marlowe Humphrey Bogart |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | PICTURE ME! $2000: An avid art thief, this high flyer committed suicide in Nuremberg in 1946 Hermann Goering |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | DYNASTY $1,000 (Daily Double): The House of Savoy-Carignano was shuttered up in this country in 1946 when Humbert II left the throne Italy |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | QUE SARAH, SARAH $1200: Her discography includes 1946's "The Divine Sarah" & 1956's "Sassy" Sarah Vaughan |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | JAILHOUSE $800: After 1946 this Berlin prison on the Wilhelmstrasse housed Nazi war criminals Spandau |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $1000: (Yankees manager, Joe Torre.) This previous Yankee manager named Joe ran the team from 1931 to 1946, winning 8 pennants Joe McCarthy |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | U.S. "TOWN"S $1200: When construction began on this planned community on Long Island in 1946, a house sold for $7,000 Levittown |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 2 MUCH $400: In 1946 Peter Paul introduced this 2-piece candy bar that people are still nuts over today Almond Joy |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA $400: In 1946 Warren Avis filled a need by opening up his car rental shop at one of these places an airport |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | PEOPLE $200: George Bailey was his character's name in 1946's "It's a Wonderful Life" James Stewart |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $400: A lawyer when he won in 1946, he went on to be the first African-American on the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | FLORIDA $2000: Harry Truman chose this Florida island locale for his "Little White House" in 1946 Key West |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | AMERICAN MOVIE IDOL $2000: A picture of this actress known as the "Love Goddess" adorned an atomic bomb tested on Bikini Atoll in 1946 Rita Hayworth |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | BIRTH OF A NATION $200: July 4, 1946:
The U.S. grants full independence to these Asian islands Philippines |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | MAGAZINES $600: American Turf Monthly has been following & promoting this sport since 1946 horse racing |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | SCRIPT TEASE $200: 1946:
"Every time you hear a bell ring, it means some angel's just got his wings" It's A Wonderful Life |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | PENGUIN CLASSICS $200: The first classic, issued in 1946, was this Homer tale of heading home "The Odyssey" |
| #4295, aired 2003-04-11 | A VERY BIZET MAN $800: This opera Georges Bizet composed in 1865 about the terrible czar wasn't performed until 1946 Ivan (the Terrible) |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | GOING WIRELESS $600: In 1946 this detective's 2-way wrist radio made its debut in the funnies Dick Tracy |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $1200: Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Uncle Remus tells his tales in this 1946 Disney classic Song of the South |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS $2000: Last name of wilderness lover Mark, whose strip was launched in 1946 Trail |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | YOU GLOW! $2,500 (Daily Double): Vivid fluorescent colors are also called by the name of this company, founded in 1946 DayGlo |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | FRENCH CLASS: POTPOURRI $1000: In use from 1852 to 1946, this notorious French prison settlement was located off French Guiana Devil's Island |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | BRITISH ART $2000: Here's the "Hole" truth: a retrospective of his sculpture at MoMA in 1946 firmly established his reputation Henry Moore |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ON THEIR TOMBSTONES $400: "1880 - 1946", not "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia" as rumored W.C. Fields |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT $200: August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas Bill Clinton |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | A NATIONAL ENQUIRER $1200: King Umberto II, son of Victor Emmanuel III, was this country's last monarch in 1946 Italy |
| #4149, aired 2002-09-19 | LOOSE CHANGE $600: In 1946, just one year after his death, this president's portrait began appearing on the dime Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 1946 this African American became director of the U.N. Trusteeship division Dr. Ralph Bunche |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | YANKEES' NUMBERS $400: 1946-1963:
No. 8 behind the plate Yogi Berra |
| #4106, aired 2002-06-10 | BUSINESS $1000: In 1946 this brand came in as the first laundry detergent to have a phosphate compound as a water softener Tide |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | SEE 'EM & WEEP $600: Who isn't moved to tears when the people of Bedford Falls come to George Bailey's rescue in this 1946 holiday classic? It's a Wonderful Life |
| #4095, aired 2002-05-24 | THE THREE STOOGES $1000: He was a member of the Stooges in their first film appearance in 1930, left, then rejoined the act in 1946 Shemp |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | BADA BOOM! $1600: During an atomic bomb test at this atoll in 1946 the U.S. sank the Nagato, a Japanese ship confiscated during WWII Bikini |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $600: In the January 11, 1946 headline "UNO Opened", UNO was short for these 3 words the United Nations Organization |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | OH, MY "LORD"! $1600: Hanged for treason in 1946, he broadcast anti-British propaganda from Germany during WWII Lord Haw-Haw |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | A DATE WITH HISTORY $2000: On April 26, 1946 The Bobby Soxers of America voted this star of "Gilda" their man of the year Glenn Ford |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | ARTS OF THE PEER $800: Henry V onscreen in 1946, he was made a life peer in 1970 Olivier |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | FREEDOM FIGHTERS $800 (Daily Double): This NAACP lawyer won a landmark decision in 1946 overturning segregation in interstate transportation (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | A DATE WITH DESTINY $200: On August 1, 1946 this president signed the McMahon Act creating the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Harry S. Truman |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl is at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.) On November 28, 1946 the Allied Council adjourned their peace talks here at the Waldorf for a dinner of this turkey for Thanksgiving |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | GEORGIE $200: Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1946, he grew up to be president of the United States George W. Bush |
| #3936, aired 2001-10-15 | SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN $400: In December 1946 this country rejected the USA's Baruch Plan for international control of atomic energy Soviet Union |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | 1946 $100: Boosting membership to 54, Afghanistan, Iceland & Sweden all joined this organization on November 11, 1946 United Nations |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | 1946 $200: Now docked in Long Beach, CA. this ship docked in New York on February 10, 1946 with 1,666 British war brides aboard the Queen Mary |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | 1946 $300 (Daily Double): This 50-year-old ex-colonel was elected president of Argentina on March 28, 1946 Juan Peron |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | 1946 $300: This former first lady suffered minor injuries when she crashed her car in Yonkers, N.Y. on August 14, 1946 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | 1946 $400: In 1946 this dictator said the world was divided into "two camps" & war was inevitable while capitalism existed Joseph Stalin |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | IF IT'S WEDNESDAY THEY MUST BE BELGIANS $200: In 1946 Belgian Paul-Henri Spaak became the first president of this organization's General Assembly the United Nations |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | RIGHT ON THE MONEY $300: Since 1946 a portrait of this president has appeared on the dime Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: The Times' 1946 coverage of its first session added an "O" to the initials familar today the U.N. (United Nations) |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $400: Bogie stars as Philip Marlowe in this 1946 film noir classic based on Raymond Chandler's first novel The Big Sleep |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | TEAM PLAYERS, HALL OF FAME EDITION $600: Gordie Howe
(1946-1971) the Detroit Red Wings |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | IBN SEARCHING SO LONG $500 (Daily Double): In 1946 Abdullah Ibn Hussein proclaimed himself king of this country Jordan |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | OLD RADIO ADVENTURES $800: "The Adventures of" this "Maltese Falcon" detective debuted in 1946, 5 years after the Bogart film Sam Spade |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | WELL, THAT'S OBVIOUS $300: The food item seen here is from this chain that opened its first location in 1946 Hot Dog on a Stick |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | MOVE "IT"! $800: This 1946 film was based in part on the story "The Greatest Gift" It's A Wonderful Life |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | GRUMPY OLD MEN $200: This comedian who also hated bankers & policemen died in 1946 on Christmas, a holiday he despised W.C. Fields |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | FOODS OF THE '40s $600: In 1946 the first frozen foods out of Mrs. Paul's kitchen were these, deviled crabs |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | THE CANDY COUNTER $100: While the Mounds bar was introduced in 1920, this nutty counterpart didn't appear until 1946 Almond Joy |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | ENDS IN "I" $300 (Daily Double): When Jacques Heim introduced this item of apparel in 1946, he called it the atome, for its tiny size Bikini |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | MS. PRESIDENT $800: In 1946 Sarah Blanding became the first woman president of this then 85-year-old New York women's college Vassar |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 3 $200: Elections held following WWII in 1946 made this group the dominant Czech political party Communist Party |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | COMIC GENIUSES $300: Legend of early TV seen here in his 1946 feature film debut:
(Imogene Coca was later his comic foil) Sid Caesar |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | ART HISTORY $700 (Daily Double): She vacationed in New Mexico & settled there after her husband Alfred Stieglitz died in 1946 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | ROAD TRIP $400 (Daily Double): In 1946 a chain of convenience stores in Texas adopted this name to reflect the hours they were open 7-11 |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $200: In 1946 Churchill warned that this "drapery" had descended over Europe an Iron Curtain |
| #3717, aired 2000-10-31 | METHOD OF EXECUTION $1000: Joachim Von Ribbentrop, 1946 Hanging |
| #3714, aired 2000-10-26 | TECHNOLOGY $800: This lifesaving device had its first live test in 1946 from a Gloster Meteor aircraft Ejection seats |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | LIFE OF A SALESMAN $200: Heavy equipment salesman William Jefferson Blythe didn't live to see this son of his born in 1946 Bill Clinton |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2,400 (Daily Double): From 1944 to 1946 he served as a naval historian in the south Pacific James Michener |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | THE ABCs OF THE CDC $300: At its inception in 1946, the CDC fought this mosquito-borne disease that was prevalent in the South at the time Malaria |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | OH WHAT A YEAR! $300: U.N. holds first session, Nuremberg trials held, Hirohito claims he is not divine 1946 |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | TITLE ROLES $400: "Gilda"
(1946) Rita Hayworth |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | WINDOWS $600: Useful at the drive-thru, they were pioneered by Daimler in 1946 Electric windows in your car |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | NAME THAT FLICK $200: 1946:
"I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all" It's A Wonderful Life |
| #3545, aired 2000-01-21 | FOR RICHARD $600: During his fourth Antarctic expedition, 1946-47, he flew over the South Pole a second time Admiral Richard E. Byrd |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | HIP "O"s $200: This sharpshooter performed with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show & inspired a 1946 musical Annie Oakley |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | NEW REPUBLIC $400: From 1946 to 1991, this nation on Greece's border was Yugoslavia's southernmost republic Macedonia |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | DON'T CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA $400: This army colonel was Argentina's president from 1946 to 1955 & again from 1973 to 1974 Juan Peron |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In 1946 Vojvodina & this province were made autonomous within Serbia in Yugoslavia Kosovo |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | WISH I'D SEEN THAT MUSICAL! $1000: This future first lady made her Broadway debut in 1946's "Lute Song" with Mary Martin Nancy Reagan |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | NOTABLE WOMEN $200: She was born in 1946, the year her mother Judy Garland starred in "The Harvey Girls" Liza Minnelli |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | CLASSIC MOVIES $100: In this 1946 Christmas weepie, George Bailey knew he existed when he found Zuzu's petals in his pocket It's A Wonderful Life |
| #3401, aired 1999-05-24 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: In 1946, hours before he was to be hanged, this 2nd highest-ranking Nazi official took his own life Hermann Goering |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $100: In 1946 Hans Frank, Rudolf Hess & Fritz Sauckel were among those convicted of war crimes in this city Nuremberg |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | WHERE THINGS HAPPENED $100: This British prime minister gave a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri March 5, 1946 Winston Churchill |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | FOREIGN CURRENCY $200: In 1946 the Communist government of Vietnam began issuing coins with a depiction of this man Ho Chi Minh |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | HISTORY OF PASSION $200: In 1946, this Indian leader revealed he'd taken many women to bed with him over the years to test his celibacy Mahatma Gandhi |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | FILMS OF THE '40S $600: He was the subject of the 1946 biopic seen here:
"You see, tomorrow I leave for Hollywood, according to what they call 'talking pictures', so what's going to happen to me?" Al Jolson |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | FILMS OF THE '40S $1000: Don't look for a mail carrier in this 1946 crime flick--he's only a metaphor The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #3256, aired 1998-11-02 | RING A BELL? $200: "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings" is a line from this 1946 classic film "It's A Wonderful Life" |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $300: This Montana site was designated a national cemetery in 1879; it became a national monument in 1946 Little Big Horn |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: The U.N. General Assembly held its first meeting on January 10, 1946 in this European capital London |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | IN LAS VEGAS $1000: This casino was a fatal flop for Bugsy Siegel when he launched it in 1946 Flamingo |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1000: Announced on February 14, 1946, this first electronic digital computer had 18,000 vacuum tubes ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | COMEDIES $800: From 1946 to 1955, the man seen here (Shemp Howard) was partnered with these two men in a series of comedy shorts: Moe Howard & Larry Fine |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | THE "BIG" SCREEN $600: Humphrey Bogart played Philip Marlowe in this 1946 film The Big Sleep |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In this 1946 novel, "There wasn't any Democratic Party. There was just Willie" Stark All the King's Men |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | MOVIE CO-STARS $200: His wife Lauren Bacall was his leading lady in the 1946 film noir "The Big Sleep" Humphrey Bogart |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: In 1946 the late Mother Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be designated this Saint |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | ESSAYS $600: He attacked poor writing in 1946's "Politics and the English Language" before inventing Newspeak George Orwell (Eric Blair) |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | ROYALTY $800: This country's King Carl XVI Gustaf was born Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus at Haga Castle in 1946 Sweden |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | QUOTH $200: On March 5, 1946 Winston Churchill remarked that this had "descended across the continent" Iron Curtain |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | 1970 $500: Walter Reuther, president of this union since 1946, died in a plane crash in May United Auto Workers |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $100: August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas Bill Clinton |
| #3002, aired 1997-09-23 | THAT'S MY BOY! $400: Constantine I's son George II fled this country during WWII; he returned to rule in 1946 Greece |
| #3002, aired 1997-09-23 | THE 1940s $500: On July 1, 1946 the U.S. detonated its first atomic bomb since WWII at this atoll Bikini |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR $600: In 1946 the Grazing Service was combined with another office to form the BLM, this Bureau of Land Management |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | POETS & POETRY $600: His classic 1946 poem "Fern Hill" was inspired by a relative's farm in Wales Dylan Thomas |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | HEADS OF STATE HEADLINES $400: January 1, 1946: This Japanese emperor tells his people he is not a god Hirohito |
| #2983, aired 1997-07-16 | NONFICTION $1000: This 1946 John Hersey book about WWII begins, "At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning...." "Hiroshima" |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | SCIENTISTS $400: Hermann Muller won a 1946 Nobel Prize for proving that these rays can cause genetic mutations X-rays |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: From 1946 to 1950 this future dictator was director general of Haiti's national public health service Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier |
| #2910, aired 1997-04-04 | EUROPEOPLE $600: Born in Barcelona in 1946, he's the youngest of the "Three Tenors" Jose Carreras |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | MUSEUMS $800: Nelson Rockefeller was president of this NYC art museum 1939-1941 & 1946-1953 MOMA (Museum Of Modern Art) |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | U.S. HISTORY $500: Successor to the Manhattan Project, this agency, the AEC, was established in 1946 Atomic Energy Commission |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | HISTORY $300 (Daily Double): In 1946 the Ivory Coast was made an overseas territory of this country; in 1960 it gained its independence France |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | SAINTS $500: She immigrated to New York from Italy in 1889 & in 1946 was the first U.S. citizen canonized Mother Cabrini |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Discharged from the military in 1946, this "Odd Couple" author worked in the Warner Bros. mailroom Neil Simon |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MOVIE CLASSICS $1,000 (Daily Double): Like "Evita", this 1946 film seen here is set in Buenos Aires:
"There's never been anybody but you and me."
"Not anybody?"
"Not anybody."
"What about your husband?" Gilda |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: In January 1946 this former first lady was the only woman on the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2804, aired 1996-11-07 | RAYMOND LOEWY DESIGNS $500: In 1946 Loewy added a "headlight" to this household device & made it sleeker vacuum cleaner |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | HISTORY $400: In 1945 & 1946 the major WWII war crimes trials were held in this German city Nuremberg |
| #2781, aired 1996-10-07 | COMEDIANS $100: His teaming with Dean Martin lasted 10 years - 1946 to 1956 Jerry Lewis |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | BILL CLINTON $1000: Clinton was born in this Arkansas hamlet in 1946 but grew up in Hot Springs Hope |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | FURNITURE $1000: In 1946 this New York museum gave furniture designer Charles Eames a one-man show the Museum of Modern Art |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | NARRATORS $1000: Jack Burden narrates his 1946 novel "All the King's Men" Robert Penn Warren |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | FORMER POSTAL WORKERS $500: In 1946 he worked days as a mailman in Winnetka, Illinois; later he starred with Doris Day Rock Hudson |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | AMERICAN MOVIE STARS $1000: Norma Jean Baker's name was changed to this, after she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1946 Marilyn Monroe |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | SOCIOLOGY $200: People born in the 1946-1964 birth explosion make up this generation Baby Boomers |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Strikes against these 2 "generals" ended March 13, 1946 General Motors & General Electric |
| #2698, aired 1996-05-01 | WORLD HISTORY $400: On February 24, 1946, he was elected president of Argentina in a landslide Juan Peron |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | THE MOVIES $500: This composer was played by Cary Grant in the 1946 musical "Night and Day" Cole Porter |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | GENE KELLY MOVIES $400: Kelly's first on-screen pairing with this dance rival was in "Ziegfeld Follies" in 1946 Fred Astaire |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $400: For 15 years, 1946-1961, this show set in Indian Territory was Broadway's longest-running musical "Oklahoma!" |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: In 1946 this tool company marketed its first electric drill for home use Black & Decker |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | VICE PRESIDENTS $300: This Gerald Ford vice president served as president of the Museum of Modern Art 1939-1941 & 1946-1953 Nelson Rockefeller |
| #2609, aired 1995-12-28 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $1000: This choral conductor formed his famous chorale in 1946 Roger Wagner |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | POTENT POTABLES $300: It's the liquor in a Moscow mule, a cocktail developed by Smirnoff in 1946 vodka |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | NEWSPAPERS $500 (Daily Double): In 1946 financier Eugene Meyer turned the operation of this newspaper to his son-in-law Philip Graham The Washington Post |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | WORLD HISTORY $100: German admiral Karl Doenitz was convicted at these war crimes trials in 1946 Nuremberg |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1930 this author dramatized her 1946 novel "The Member of the Wedding" Carson McCullers |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $100: Micheline Bernardi modeled the first of these in 1946, 4 days after an atomic bomb test a bikini |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | HUMPHREY BOGART FILMS $800: In this 1946 film, Bogart played gumshoe Philip Marlowe The Big Sleep |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | HISTORY $100: By order of George VI, a less nationalistic 2nd verse was substituted in this British anthem in 1946 "God Save The King" |
| #2501, aired 1995-06-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Gen. Lewis Hershey presided over this U.S. draft agency 1941-1946 & 1948-1970 Selective Service |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $1000: Garson Kanin wrote & directed this Judy Holliday comedy that opened on Broadway in 1946 Born Yesterday |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $400: This actress who played Phyllis on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was a runner-up for Miss America in 1946 Cloris Leachman |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | J LETTER MEN $1000: This Arkansas senator's 1946 act set up a student exchange program (J. William) Fulbright |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: On Jan. 1, 1946 this Japanese emperor renounced his divinity in an imperial decree Hirohito |
| #2384, aired 1995-01-05 | HISTORY $200: He served as president of Argentina twice, 1946-1955 & 1973-1974 (Juan) Peron |
| #2384, aired 1995-01-05 | DISNEYLAND $400: The 1946 film "Song of the South" inspired this log flume ride that features a 5-story drop Splash Mountain |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $500 (Daily Double): Her 1946 work "Brewsie and Willie" was about the young U.S. soldiers who visited her in Paris Gertrude Stein |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: A 1946 fire that destroyed her Connecticut home also claimed her unfinished book about Anne Sullivan Macy Helen Keller |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | OLD U.S. COINS $800: It currently has a torch on the back; prior to 1946 it had a fasces, a bundle of rods the dime |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | ASTRONAUTS $200: In 1946 Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka was born in Kealakekua in this state Hawaii |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | ISLANDS $600: Until 1946, automobiles were banned from this British crown colony, 650 miles from North Carolina Bermuda |
| #2351, aired 1994-11-21 | PEOPLE $400: This late "60 Minutes" reporter & ABC anchorman wrote a 1946 novel titled "Tell Me About Women" Harry Reasoner |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1946 musical that featured the following was Irving Berlin's biggest Broadway hit:
"I'm quick on the trigger /
With targets not much bigger /
Than a pinpoint, a number 1..." Annie Get Your Gun |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | 20th CENTURY MONARCHS $1000: This country's current king was born Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, at the Haga Palace in 1946 Sweden |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | FAMOUS LAWYERS $1000: Canadian lawyer Clarence Campbell served as the president of this sports league 1946-1977 the National Hockey League |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | THE MOVIES $200: 1946's "Dressed To Kill" was the last film in which Basil Rathbone played this role Sherlock Holmes |
| #2334, aired 1994-10-27 | MONTHS $200: Since 1946 the Kentucky Derby has been run on the first Saturday of this month May |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | HOLLYWOOD HODGEPODGE $400: Sadly, this popular nightclub that was nicknamed the "Troc" closed in 1946 & was torn down the Trocadero |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | BLACK AMERICA $600: In 1946 Judge William H. Hastie became the 1st Black governor of this U.S. possession in the Caribbean the Virgin Islands |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | POTPOURRI $1000: From 1946-1951 this New York City suburb was home to the U.N. Lake Success |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | 1946 $100: This "lucky" racketeer was deported to Italy in February "Lucky" Luciano |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | 1946 $200: This university announced it would continue allowing Radcliffe coeds in some classes Harvard |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | 1946 $300: In April this international organization expired, turning over its property to the U.N. the League of Nations |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | 1946 $400: In March France recognized the Republic of Vietnam with this man as president Ho Chi Minh |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | 1946 $500: This generalissimo completed editing a new Chinese translation of the New Testament Chiang Kai-shek |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $100: This former first lady won the first annual Franklin D. Roosevelt Brotherhood award in 1946 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | 1946 $200: This comedian known for his bulbous nose & penchant for liquor died on Dec. 25, 1946 W.C. Fields |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | 1946 $400: This invention of Fred Schmidt debuted at an American Bowling Congress tournament in Buffalo automatic pin setter |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | 1946 $800: This German-turned-Swiss author of "Steppenwolf" picked up the Nobel Prize for Literature Hermann Hesse |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | 1946 $1000: On Dec. 1, 1946 King Michael opened this country's new parliament Romania |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: This Roman goddess of wisdom wears a helmet because she's also the Roman goddess of war Minerva |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | 1946 $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1946 the Pope made Archbishop Spellman a cardinal & this American woman a saint Mother Cabrini |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | ORGANIZED LABOR $1000: Walter Reuther became president of this union in 1946 the UAW (United Auto Workers) |
| #2285, aired 1994-07-08 | MARCH $400: In March 1946 Hunter College in NYC became the temporary headquarters of this organization the United Nations |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $400: In 1946 it was discovered that this could be produced by seeding clouds with dry ice rain |
| #2268, aired 1994-06-15 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $100: A 1946 winner for "The Picture of Dorian Gray", she won again 39 years later for "Murder, She Wrote" Angela Lansbury |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | NOTABLE NAMES $1000: In 1946 this Norwegian statesman became the first secretary-general of the U.N. Trygve Lie |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | DANCERS $1000: Her great modern dance works include 1946's "Cave of the Heart", inspired by the legend of Medea Martha Graham |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | NOTABLE WOMEN $600: In 1946 Mother Frances Cabrini became the 1st U.S. citizen to be made this by the Roman Catholic Church saint |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | FIRST LADIES $500 (Daily Double): In 1946 she appeared in the Broadway musical "Lute Song" with Mary Martin & Yul Brynner Nancy Reagan |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | PERIODS & AGES $100: 2-word term for the period in the U.S. between 1946 & 1964, from the high number of births the baby boom |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | U.S. COINS $600: In 1946 the U.S. minted over 255 million of these new dimes the Roosevelt dimes |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | EUROPEAN CITIES $600: It's where the League of Nations met from 1920 to 1946 Geneva |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: Modeled in Paris in 1946, the 1st of these 2-piece bathing suits was cotton, with a newspaper design a bikini |
| #2218, aired 1994-04-06 | THE COLD WAR $300: In March 1946 Winston Churchill said that this "has descended across the continent" of Europe an Iron Curtain |
| #2211, aired 1994-03-28 | BALLET $1000: George Balanchine created many roles for this ballerina to whom he was married 1946-1952 Maria Tallchief |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | OPERA $1000: Bizet's 1860s opera about this cruel czar wasn't performed until 1946 Ivan the Terrible |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $600: Sydney Greenstreet appeared as Thackeray in "Devotion", a 1946 film about these British literary sisters the Brontes |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | HISTORY $600: 91 died in 1946 when the King David Hotel in this Middle Eastern city was bombed by terrorists Jerusalem |
| #2171, aired 1994-01-31 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $1000: This French company applied for a radial tire patent in 1946 Michelin |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $800: Alan Ladd got shanghaied in this 1946 film based on Richard Henry Dana's seafaring saga "Two Years Before the Mast" |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | WORLD HISTORY $400: On May 9, 1946 this country's King Victor Emmanuel abdicated in favor of his son Umberto Italy |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | DRAMA $600: Her 1946 play "Another Part of the Forest" is sometimes considered a prequel to "The Little Foxes" Lillian Hellman |
| #2112, aired 1993-11-09 | FIRST LADIES $300: She was married at the Plains Methodist Church in 1946 Rosalynn Carter |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | POPES $200: He was ordained a priest in 1946 in Krakow, Poland Pope John Paul II |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | NOTORIOUS $600: This "lucky" New York mafia boss was deported in 1946; we guess his luck ran out "Lucky" Luciano |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | THE MOVIES $200: This 1946 Jimmy Stewart-Donna Reed film was based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" It's A Wonderful Life |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | ART $800: She had a one-woman show at MoMA in 1946, the year her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, passed away Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | RELIGIOUS HISTORY $1000: This late Archbishop of New York became a cardinal in 1946 Cardinal Spellman |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $100: A new second stanza of this British anthem was adopted in 1946 "God Save The King" |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: This country was ruled by Umberto II for about a month in 1946 Italy |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | THEATRE $800: In 1946 this actress wrote a play called "Years Ago" & her husband Garson Kanin directed it Ruth Gordon |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | BILL CLINTON $500: Bill Clinton was born in this town on August 19, 1946 Hope, Arkansas |
| #2013, aired 1993-05-12 | FINALS $800: The 21st & final session of this international organization took place in April 1946 League of Nations |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | POT LUCK $800: Actor & war veteran Harold Russell recently sold one of his Oscars from this 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | BALLET $800: This ballerina who originated the role of the Coquette in "La Sonnambula" in 1946 is part Osage Indian Maria Tallchief |
| #1980, aired 1993-03-26 | THE MOVIES $500: As Wyatt Earp, Henry Fonda fought the Clantons at the O.K. Corral in this 1946 John Ford Western My Darling Clementine |
| #1964, aired 1993-03-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In 1946 this first woman cabinet member published "The Roosevelt I Knew" Frances Perkins |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | DISNEYLAND $500: The voice of Brer Bear on Splash Mountain was provided by the same actor who did it for this 1946 film Song of the South |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | GAMBLING $500: In 1946 Benjamin "Don't Call Me Bugsy" Siegel opened this first of the luxury hotel-casinos in Vegas the Flamingo |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | NUCLEAR ENERGY $600: The first underwater atomic explosion took place on July 25, 1946 off this Pacific atoll Bikini |
| #1869, aired 1992-10-22 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1,400 (Daily Double): Adopted in 1946, the anthem of this country is "Osterreichische Bundeshymne" Austria |
| #1830, aired 1992-07-10 | ACTORS & HISTORIC ROLES $800: Rosalind Russell played this Australian nurse known for her method of treating polio in a 1946 film Sister Kenny |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $800: In 1946 this Miami newspaper began an English international edition in Cuba the Herald |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1946 Bosnia & Hercegovina were combined as one of the six constituent republics of this country Yugoslavia |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | NEWSPAPERS $400: This syndicated editorial cartoonist has worked at the Washington Post since 1946 Herb Block |
| #1753, aired 1992-03-25 | THE 1940s $1000: On Jan. 1, 1946 this emperor declared that his divinity was a myth Hirohito |
| #1748, aired 1992-03-18 | BOGART FILMS $400: William Faulkner was one of the writers of this 1946 film based on a Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | COINS $200: In 1946 his portrait was first placed on the U.S. dime Franklin Roosevelt |
| #1722, aired 1992-02-11 | ISLANDS $400: In 1946 the U.S. removed about 200 inhabitants from this atoll in order to use it for A-bomb tests Bikini |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | THE MOVIES $300: He directed the classic 1946 espionage romance "Notorious" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | ODDS & ENDS $300: The Reverend Sun Myung Moon was born in this country where he began preaching in 1946 Korea |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | ARTISTS $400: She married photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1924 & settled in northern N.M. after his death in 1946 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | CARNEGIE HALL $1,500 (Daily Double): This Spaniard who revived interest in the classical guitar made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1946 (Andres) Segovia |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | SPRING $300: This organization held its final session in Geneva in the spring of 1946 the League of Nations |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | THE PHONOGRAPH $1000: Wurlitzer sold over 55,000 of these in 1946-47, the most it's ever sold in one model year a jukebox |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | THE TWENTIETH CENTURY $500: This Nazi war criminal committed suicide hours before his scheduled Oct. 16, 1946 execution Hermann Goering |
| #1591, aired 1991-07-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This president's son Elliot wrote about his experiences as an aid to his father in 1946's
"As He Saw It" FDR |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | FRENCH CITIES $200: In 1946 this city on the Riviera held its first international film festival Cannes |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | 1940s TV $100: Viewers in 1946-47 saw James Beard hosting one of these shows on NBC a cooking show |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | U.S. COINS $200: The dime with his likeness was introduced January 30th, 1946,
which would have been his 64th birthday FDR |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1946, the Southland Corporation renamed their Totem Stores this for their hours of operation 7-Eleven |
| #1558, aired 1991-05-15 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $100: This womens' two-piece swimsuit made its first appearance at a Paris fashion show in 1946 Bikini |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: She published “The Member of the Wedding” as a novel in 1946, then rewrote it as a play in 1950 Carson McCullers |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | PRESIDENTS $200: He was first elected to Congress in 1946 from Massachusetts' 11th district JFK |
| #1484, aired 1991-01-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: John Hersey's 1946 account of atomic bomb survivors that took up an entire issue of "The New Yorker" Hiroshima |
| #1461, aired 1990-12-31 | FAMOUS WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1946, she & her husband founded a cosmetics company that introduced the Clinique line Estée Lauder |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | FAMOUS TAURUSES $500: Fred Astaire co-starred with this fellow Taurus in "Holiday Inn" in 1942 & "Blue Skies" in 1946 Bing Crosby |
| #1426, aired 1990-11-12 | RULERS $1000: From 1887-1946 this triple-named family associated with Britain ruled Bulgaria Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
| #1385, aired 1990-09-14 | ARTISTS $800: After her husband's death in 1946, Georgia O'Keeffe settled permanently in this state New Mexico |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | EUROPE $500: The area named the "Free Territory of Trieste" by the U.N. in 1946 is now part of these 2 countries Italy & Yugoslavia |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days", JFK's story (Arthur) Schlesinger |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | LITERATURE $400: In a 1946 Carson McCullers novel, 12-year-old Frankie Addams wants to be a "Member of" this the Wedding |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | HISTORICAL FILMS $500: A 1946 Rosalind Russell film dramatized the life of this nurse famed for her work with polio patients Sister Elizabeth Kenney |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | IRVING BERLIN $800: Berlin's 1946 Broadway hit, it featured the songs "The Girl That I Marry" & "I'm An Indian Too!" Annie Get Your Gun |
| #1305, aired 1990-04-13 | THE 1940s $100: In 1946 AT&T offered this service in St. Louis, but it wasn't cellular back then mobile phones (car telephones) |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | POETS $600: "Weighty" name of the pro-Fascist American poet who was declared insane in 1946 Ezra Pound |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $400: He was called "The New World Superman" when he came to power in Argentina in 1946 Juan Peron |
| #1219, aired 1989-12-14 | ISLANDS $800: The U.S. began atomic tests on this atoll in the Marshall Islands July 1, 1946 Bikini Island |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WISCONSINITES $400: He was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, attended Marquette Univ. & was elected to the Senate in 1946 Joseph McCarthy |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | "LOCK"s $600: She played the 1946 title role in "The She-Wolf of London" & Timmy's mom on TV's "Lassie" June Lockhart |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | CARTOONISTS $400: In 1946 Milton Caniff left "Terry & the Pirates" to begin this comic strip about an aviator Steve Canyon |
| #1174, aired 1989-10-12 | NAME'S THE SAME $400: 1946 marked his 16th year as N.Y. Yankees manager, while this Wisconsinite ran for the Senate Joe McCarthy |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | MOVIE JUDGES $1000: In 1946's "Angel on My Shoulder", he played a dead convict who took over the body of a respected judge Paul Muni |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | SONG $200: Long before Roger Rabbit, Brer Rabbit hopped down the road with James Baskett in this 1946 film Song of the South |
| #955, aired 1988-10-28 | QUOTES $800: "Ticker tape ain't spaghetti", this former mayor said in a 1946 speech on war relief Fiorello LaGuardia |
| #944, aired 1988-10-13 | PEOPLE $200: In 1946 this future First Lady was in the Broadway musical "Lute Song" with Yul Brynner Nancy Reagan |
| #938, aired 1988-10-05 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: In 1946 this "Little Flower" served as director general of the U.N. Relief & Rehabilitation Administration LaGuardia |
| #907, aired 1988-07-12 | WORLD WAR II $1000: In 1946, George VI gave Montgomery the title 1st Viscount of there, in honor of his great African victory El Alamein |
| #888, aired 1988-06-15 | U.S. HISTORY $800: On January 25, 1946, the AFL voted to readmit this union led by John L. Lewis the United Mine Workers |
| #844, aired 1988-04-14 | MOVIE TRIVIA $300: In this '81 film, Jack Nicholson & Jessica Lange played the roles John Garfield & Lana Turner played in 1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #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 |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | ANCIENT TELEVISION $400: The 1946 series "I Love to Eat" was this type of show cooking |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | THE '40s $600: But most of all, I remember this play closed on Broadway in June 1946 after a record 713 performances I Remember Mama |
| #789, aired 1988-01-28 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: An ex-slave was hired to sit on a porch & tell folk tales for 1946 Georgia premiere of this Disney film Song of the South |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | THE '40S $100: This president tossed out the 1st ball of the 1946 baseball season Truman |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | "BLUE" MOVIES $400: 1946 musical with famed Irving Berlin songs in which Bing Crosby sang the title tune Blue Skies |
| #745, aired 1987-11-27 | WEST VIRGINIANS $800: Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, he was the big wheel of the UAW from 1946-1970 Walter Reuther |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | DECEMBER 7TH $400: On Dec. 7, 1946, John L. Lewis issued a back-to-work order to end a strike by these workers the United Mine Workers (coal miners) |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "The Odyssey" in 1946 the 1st book in this British company's paperback classics line Penguin |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | THE 4TH OF JULY $300: The United States granted independence to this country on July 4, 1946 the Philippines |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | "GOOD", "BETTER" & "BEST" MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1946 "Best Picture" also won Best Director, Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor Oscars The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #619, aired 1987-04-23 | FASHION $400: Newsweek joked a museum for this apparel invented in 1946 might consist of 2 domes & a pyramid the bikini |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | 1946 $200: Irving Berlin's 1946 musical that featured a rifle-totin' Ethel Merman Annie Get Your Gun |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | 1946 $400: Of 25%, 50%, or 75%, the percentage of veterans in the Sept. 1946 enrollment at Harvard 75% |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | 1946 $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2 future presidents who were 1st elected to the House of Representatives in November 1946 Nixon & John F. Kennedy |
| #606, aired 1987-04-06 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: After the League of Nations dissolved in 1946, their Geneva headquarters went to this group the United Nations |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | MONARCHS $600: Umberto II, a notorious playboy, reigned for about a month in 1946 at this country's last king Italy |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | JULY $300: Bread had to be rationed in England beginning July 21, 1946 due to worldwide shortage of this wheat |
| #515, aired 1986-11-28 | AUTHORS $200: From 1944-1946, while a doctor in the Navy, he wrote "The Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| #506, aired 1986-11-17 | INVENTIONS $600: In 1946, Percy LeBaron Spencer of Raytheon Corp. accidentally found you can cook with these microwaves |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | LABOR UNIONS $600: In 1946 Walter Reuther became president of this union, which he led until his death in 1970 United Auto Workers |
| #463, aired 1986-09-17 | REGULAR JOES $500 (Daily Double): After catching strikes from 1946-1954, he now helps game show contestants "Strike It Rich": Joe Garagiola |
| #442, aired 1986-05-20 | TRANSPORTATION $800: This most famous of Italian scooters was 1st made in 1946 Vespa |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | GOLF $200: In 1946, Byron Nelson lost the U.S. Open when his caddy accidentally kicked this his ball |
| #434, aired 1986-05-08 | ACTRESSES $500: "If I'd been a ranch they
would have called me the bar nothing" she said as "Gilda" in 1946 Rita Hayworth |
| #420, aired 1986-04-18 | THE BEST $300: This 1946 drama about returning WWII veterans got the Oscar as "The Best" Picture The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #400, aired 1986-03-21 | HISTORY $800: He was installed June 4, 1946 as the 29th president of Argentina Juan Perón |
| #393, aired 1986-03-12 | TECHNOLOGY $400: 1946 invention that provided a way-out experience for endangered jet crews an ejector seat |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | 1946 $200: Added to U.S. Nat'l Archives was marriage certificate of this ruler who'd killed himself the year before Adolf Hitler |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | 1946 $400: In its 2nd test, it sank 10 ships, including the battleship "Arkansas" an atomic test |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | 1946 $600: This crooner introduced the idea of transcribed rather than live broadcasts Bing Crosby |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | 1946 $800: A leading Shakespearean actor in the 1890s, this movie cowboy died June 23, 1946 William S. Hart |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | 1946 $1000: The U.N. voted 46-to-7 to accept this family's offer of a site in New York for permanent headquarters the Rockefeller family |
| #296, aired 1985-10-28 | DROPPIN' THE G $300: Danced to in films by Fred Astaire in 1946 & Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle in 1974 "Puttin' On The Ritz" |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | 1946 $200: College enrollment peaked as veterans returned with help of this legislation the GI Bill |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | 1946 $400: Comic strip writer who launched a new career with his book, "I, the Jury" Mickey Spillane |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | 1946 $600: On April 18, this ineffective world body was finally dissolved the League of Nations |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | 1946 $800: On 1st day of 1946, he announced that he wasn't divine Emperor Hirohito |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | 1946 $1,000 (Daily Double): Irving Berlin show that introduced this classic to Ethel Merman & Amer.:
"There's no business like show business / If you tell me it's so" Annie Get Your Gun |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $1000: Banned in St. Paul in 1946, this E. Caldwell novel was readily available across river in Minneapolis God's Little Acre |
| #282, aired 1985-10-08 | FICTIONAL ANIMALS $400: Major was a boar whose deathbed speech led to revolution in this 1946 George Orwell novel Animal Farm |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | THE '40s $400: Residents were moved off this atoll before the atomic weapons test of July 1946 Bikini |
| #187, aired 1985-05-28 | "BROWNS" $400: The Cleveland Browns were coached by him from 1946 to 1963 & may have been named for him Paul Brown |
| #183, aired 1985-05-22 | 20TH CENTURY $600: This world group dissolved in 1946, the same year the first U.N. General Assembly met the League of Nations |
| #72, aired 1984-12-18 | FOOTBALL $200: Their 1946 move from Cleveland to L.A. took the NFL coast-to-coast the Rams |
| #59, aired 1984-11-29 | WORLD LEADERS $500 (Daily Double): In 1946 Norway's Trygve Lie became 1st to hold this post Secretary General of the U.N. |
