| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $1000: Not in many wallets today but still a brand of Discover, in 1950 it was the first universal credit card Diners Club |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $800: They were still based in the Midwest when they won the first NBA title in 1950 the Lakers |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $1600: Anne Baxter played Evelyn Heath in "Guest in the House" & Eve Harrington in this 1950 film All About Eve |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OPERATION $800: Chromite:
The surprise 1950 U.S. landing at this Korean port Incheon |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $1200: 1950:
Joseph Mankiewicz, from the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | BYE, GEORGE! $400: On Jan. 21, 1950 the clock struck 13 for this novelist Orwell |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $600: Nat King Cole hits No. 1 with "Mona Lisa",
NATO turns one year old 1950 |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $400: This grouchy librettist won a 1950 Pulitzer for his work on "South Pacific" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | CANADIAN CITIES $800: Flooding in 1950 in Winnipeg by this river of the north led to the building of floodways there to bypass the city the Red River of the North |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | INDIANA WANTS YOU $1200: Nicknamed "Gus", this second U.S. astronaut in space graduated from Indiana's Purdue University in 1950 Grissom |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $800: (,)
It's the 1950 title trio that's part of the "Chronicles of Narnia" the Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $1000: Here's some news: born July 5, 1950, this singer let us know it was "Hip To Be Square" in '86 Huey Lewis |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | HAPPY JULY 4th! $1000: Later merged with Radio Liberty, it began broadcasting the message of liberty to Communist lands on July 4, 1950 Radio Free Europe |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HISTORY HYSTERIA $800: In 1950 this senator said 205 Communists worked in the state department but later testifying in the Senate, couldn't document one McCarthy |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ALL "IN" $200: Not a record to boast about, Jim Hardy threw 8 of these against the Eagles in a 1950 NFL game interceptions |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $800: A big heist needs someone to drive this--for the 1950 Boston Brink's job, it was Joseph Banfield a getaway car |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD $1200: Spencer Tracy has a surreal dream of crawling down the aisle in a sequence inspired by Dalí for this 1950 comedy Father of the Bride |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | WE QUOTE MR. Ts $400: Alan Turing, who could do this pretty well, wrote in 1950, "I propose to consider the question, 'can machines"' do this? think |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | PURE POETRY $2000: In 1950 "Bitter Strawberries" by this Boston-born woman became her 1st nationally published poem; not bad for a 17-year-old Sylvia Plath |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | DISNEY MOVIE TAGLINES $5,000 (Daily Double): 1950:
"Midnight never strikes when you're in love" Cinderella |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | DWIGHT EISENHOWER $600: In 1950, after retiring from active duty, Eisenhower was tapped to be supreme commander of this new military alliance NATO |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $800: Southwest of Seoul lies this big port city, site of a historic U.N. troop landing in 1950 Inchon |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $400: The title of this 1950 children's fantasy book concerns an animal, a person & a piece of furniture The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $2000: Census talk! 1950:
The first post-enumeration survey revealed this shortfall, more than 3 million people an undercount |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | DRIVING IN L.A. $1000: The 1950 movie with this title is about an hour & 50 minutes; it'll take about that long to drive the same-named 22-mile road Sunset Boulevard |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: In 1950 Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" helped launch what is now known as the "Theatre of" this the Absurd |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $1000: The recent release of the 1950 U.S. census is of special interest to devotees of this hobby of tracing one's family roots genealogy |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NFL OPENING WEEKEND $400: (Jason McCourty of the NFL Network presents the clue.) Quarterbacks, take note; don't start the season like Chicago's Jim Hardy did in 1950, when he threw a still-record 8 of these--maybe it was the wind interceptions |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL... $600: Symbol of the USA itself: In 1950 the nation said, "I want you" to this finger-pointer Uncle Sam |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $3,000 (Daily Double): Unearthed decades later a 1950 letter indicates happiness by Joseph Stalin that the U.S. was entangled in this war the Korean War |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK $800: In 1950 the Otis Company lost its trademark on this word derived from the Latin scala, "ladder" an escalator |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | STICKS & STONES $1000: In 1950 this 336-pound object was stolen by Scottish nationalists on Christmas, but it was recovered a few months later the Stone of Scone |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $1000: 1950: A screenwriter doesn't let being dead stop him from narrating a Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard |
| #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 |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE $2000: Her in a 1950 classic:
"I am big, it's the pictures that got small" Gloria Swanson |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CHANGES ON THE U.S. MAP $800: As part of a radio show promotion in 1950, the city of Hot Springs in this state renamed itself Truth or Consequences New Mexico |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A CAREER IN TECH $1000: (Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) Graduate school is a great route & my alma mater the Wharton School of Business also has alumni like J. Presper Eckert, who around 1950 designed this first U.S. commercial computer--OK, Eckert dropped out, but that's part of some people's process too UNIVAC |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $1000: In September 1950, United States troops made a surprise landing at this strategic port, changing the course of the war Inchon |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $400: Lucy steps into this part of the title in a 1950 tale & discovers a "second row of coats hanging up behind the first" a wardrobe |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | FROM THE BRITISH ROYAL WEBSITE $2,000 (Daily Double): On October 21, 1950 she was baptized in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace Princess Anne |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | 10 OF A KIND $200: The FBI introduced this compendium in 1950 to publicize dangerous fugitives in the United States Ten Most Wanted |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Pierre La mure's 1950 novel "Moulin Rouge" was based on the life of this artist Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | BALDERDASH $1000: This 1950 absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco consists mainly of meaningless dialogues between 2 couples The Bald Soprano |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $200: This violet-eyed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" actress left the single life in 1950, & 1952, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1975, 1976 & 1991 (Elizabeth) Taylor |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE $600: 1950's "Luci del varieta", or "Variety Lights", was his first feature film as director Fellini |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | EPONYMOUS -ISMs $5,000 (Daily Double): A 1950 L.A. Times column said the "defect of" this seemed to be the senator for whom it was named McCarthyism |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $400: The first program to incorporate this mirthful addition in the finished product was "The Hank McCune Show" in 1950 canned laughter |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT $400: Around 1950 Interior assumed jurisdiction over American Samoa & this U.S. territory, said to be "Where America's Day Begins" Guam |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | & I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY $800: In 1950 this U.S. "action painter" told Time magazine a previous article was incorrect, that his work was not chaotic Jackson Pollock |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: A Halloween tradition began in 1950 when trick-or-treaters in Philadelphia sent $17 to this organization UNICEF |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Liam Martin.) On January 17, 1950, a group of armed masked men pulled off the crime of the century, stealing more than $2.7 million from this company's armored car depot in Boston; only a small amount of the money was ever recovered Brink's |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1950 the inaugural charge of this first universal credit card fittingly paid for a meal in New York City Diners Club |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $2,000 (Daily Double): This acclaimed 1950 multi-perspective film is based on 2 Japanese short stories Rashomon |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | AMERICANA $600: 2021 marks the 90th birthday of this building which was already the world's tallest in 1950 when it added a 220-foot TV tower the Empire State Building |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $400: Robert Newton's 1950 performance as this rogue in "Treasure Island" is considered the source of the "pirate accent" Long John Silver |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | LET'S MAKE A PACT $200: The 1950 Delhi Pact aimed to ease tensions between these 2 neighboring countries India & Pakistan |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THE SQUAD $400: This part of the LAPD dates back to explosives expert DeWayne Wolfer joining the department in 1950 the bomb squad |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Black Elk, a holy man of the Oglala branch of these people, was at the battle of Little Bighorn & lived until 1950 the Sioux |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | '80s TALK $2000: A 1981 New York Times letter coined this hyphenated numerical term in reference to Wendy Wasserstein, born 1950 thirty-something |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $400: This 1950 Best Picture Oscar winner starring Bette Davis was based on "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | DOCUMENTARY NOW! $800: A PBS environmental doc examined this alliterative "problem"; since 1950 more than 9 billion tons of it have been made plastic pollution |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $5,000 (Daily Double): This South American capital is named for an event not mentioned in the Bible but declared dogma by Pius XII in 1950 Asunción |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | MAGAZINES' FIRST ISSUES $600: In 1950 Prevention devoted its entire first issue to this paralyzing disease, pre-vaccine in the United States polio |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | EUROPEAN HISTORY IS A DOWNER $600: 1950-51 in the Alps was the "Winter of Terror" as these disasters destroyed buildings & killed more than 200 people avalanches |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $2000: 1950 winner "The Wall" by John Hersey is about an escape from the ghetto of 400,000 Jews set up by the Nazis in this capital Warsaw |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | POLITICS: WHO SAID IT? $1,000 (Daily Double): 1950; "I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party" McCarthy |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $800: Born in 1903 with the initials E.A.B., took his pen name from an English river in 1933, passed away in 1950, 34 years early George Orwell |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | WE HAVE A SITUATION $1200: In 1950 he spoke about the situation in Korea: "A small country, thousands of miles away, but...important to every American" Truman |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | THE 1950s $1000: With U.N. approval, Truman put this general in charge of U.N. command forces on July 8, 1950; that didn't work out so well (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | STARTS & ENDS WITH B $1200: This title film creature was based on an actual 1950 police report about a mysterious gelatinous mass found in a field The Blob |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2020 $1000: In 1950 the U.S. manufactured more than 75% of the world's these; in 2018, 12% cars |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | COME TO YOUR CENSUS $2000: Not exactly a laptop with 5,000 vacuum tubes & weighing 16,000 pounds, this computer was utilized for the 1950 census UNIVAC |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $800: When CBS got FCC approval to broadcast in this in 1950, only about 2 dozen sets could receive it color |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: October 7, 1950 is the official founding date of her own order, the Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | "EL" OR "LA" $1200: Soprano Maria Callas made her debut at this Milan opera house in 1950 La Scala |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | NINE TALES $400: "The Settlers" &, naturally, "The Martian" are tales in this 1950 Ray Bradbury volume The Martian Chronicles |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | KLAUS ENCOUNTERS $400: Physicist & spy Klaus Fuchs was convicted in 1950 of supplying this country with secrets about the allies' atomic bomb research the Soviet Union |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | THE NIFTY '50s $2,600 (Daily Double): Eating out became easier with the introduction of this first multipurpose charge card in 1950 Diners Club |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | "SCHU" WHO $400: From 1950 to 2000 this cartoonist worked for "Peanuts" (Charles) Schulz |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $800: In 1950 Smokey got a living symbol: a bear cub that survived a forest fire in this state; his burns were treated in Santa Fe New Mexico |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK $1000: He "(1889?-1950), was the most famous male dancer of his time" Nijinsky |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MANY HANDS $800: In 1950 an Allstate general sales manager came up with this classic slogan "You're in good hands" |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | RANGER THINGS $1000: This atom spy was listening to the "Lone Ranger" radio show when nabbed by the FBI in 1950; they picked up his wife later (Julius) Rosenberg |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | BOOKS ABOUT CHINA $400: Published soon after he came to power, Robert Payne's 1950 study of this leader is subtitled "Ruler of Red China" Mao |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | THE EDGARS $800: This pseudonym of 2 authors got a special Edgar in 1950 for a "Mystery Magazine" Ellery Queen |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $800: In 1950 this sen. said there were 205 Communists in the State Dept. but in Sen. testimony gave no proof of a single card carrier Joe McCarthy |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS $1600: From 1943 to 1950 Milton, younger brother of this president, was president of Kansas State College (now University) Eisenhower |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The body of this 2,000-year-old man was discovered in a bog in Denmark in 1950 the Tollund Man |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $600: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) On TCM, I get to talk about my great-uncle Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who won Oscars for writing & directing this 1950 film, the ultimate backstage drama where Bette Davis memorably says, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" All About Eve |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRICKS OF THE MIND $1000: This 1950 Kurosawa movie portrays the phenomenon of different memories of witnesses to the same event Rashomon |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | BABY BOOMER SOONER $800: Born in Vinita, Oklahoma in 1950, this psychologist coached Oprah during a lawsuit & she made him famous Dr. Phil |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | DOMAIN $400: Though expelled from the area in 1912, China continued to consider this region part of its domain & invaded in 1950 Tibet |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | "INTER" $1200: Around 1950 these devices became common to talk to NYC apartment dwellers intercoms |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $1600: In 1950 "Crusader Rabbit" was the 1st cartoon made for TV; this 1960 show about a family was the 1st animated primetime series The Flintstones |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $1000: In 1950 this Southwest city ranked 99th in population; by 2010 it had risen from the ashes to No. 6 Phoenix |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | THE FBI's 10 MOST WANTED LIST $200: When this man introduced the list in 1950, Thomas Holden was at the top (Edgar) Hoover |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | GREAT BRITS $2,000 (Daily Double): This British philosopher & mathematician was the logical choice to win the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature Bertrand Russell |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: This "stately" element was discovered in 1950 californium |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | INVENTIONS $500 (Daily Double): In 1950 Zenith introduced the first one of these gadgets; it was called the "Lazy Bones" a (TV) remote control |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | SPY STUFF $1200: It's not just in movies: D.C.'s International Spy Museum has these disguised as pens, lighters & from around 1950, a watch a camera |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $1200: This became a territory on Aug. 1, 1950 & the focus of a possible nuclear confrontation in 2017 Guam |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | TWIN PEEKS $400: In 1950 two brothers set up McWhirter Twins Limited to sell facts to newspapers; soon, they created this record book the Guinness Book of World Records |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | GETTING HISTORICAL $2,800 (Daily Double): On Sept. 25, 1950 U.S. Marines retook this Asian capital city Seoul |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $2000: This evangelist's "Hour of Decision" was first broadcast on the radio in 1950 (Billy) Graham |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | EASTERN ASIAN HISTORY $400: It began on June 25, 1950--tens of thousands of soldiers crossed the 38th parallel heading south the Korean War |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | MUMMY DEAREST $800: Those who found the well-preserved Tollund Man in 1950 in this peaty type of swamp called the cops, not the archaeologists a fen (or a bog) |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | HOLIDAY SONGS $200: This "jolly happy soul" with a corncob pipe was first brought to life in song by Gene Autry in 1950 Frosty the Snowman |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $200: Mr. Christian, oh the time has come, to name this designer whose 1940s "New Look" made shoulders less NFL-like Dior |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $400: Spreading their "wings", '20s women known as these wore hems at (gasp!) knee level, with bobbed hair under a cloche flappers |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $600: It's the rhyming '40s ensemble seen here a zoot suit |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $800: In the 1930s this rigid undergarment spawned a lighter-weight elastic variety, the girdle a corset |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $1000: Get your knickers in a twist or really get 'em baggy like these numeric golfing pants of the '20s plus fours |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $800: They were still based in the Midwest when they won the first NBA title in 1950 the Lakers |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | SCIENCE FICTION $200: Published in 1950, these Ray Bradbury "Chronicles" begin in 1999, when men leave Earth to colonize a nearby planet The Martian Chronicles |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Flat roofs & lots of glass were a trend around 1950, thus the alliterative term this period "modern" mid-century |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | PLAN $1200: Named for the city where it began, the Colombo plan was created in 1950 to provide aid to the south of this continent Asia |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | COLLEGE SPORTS $400: Since 1950 Omaha has hosted what might be called the summer classic, the college version of this baseball event the World Series |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SCOT-POURRI $400: On Christmas Day 1950 a group of Scottish students "liberated" this rock from Westminster Abbey the Stone of Scone |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: As commander in chief of the U.N. command from July 1950 to April 1951, he didn't stay over in Korea a single night MacArthur |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): He ordered his country's troops into Korea in October 1950 to protect his 1-year-old Communist regime Mao Tse-Tung |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | THE KOREAN WAR $2000: Flown in from this nearby nation, American troops saw their first combat on July 5, 1950 Japan |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | JACQUES COUSTEAU $800: (Céline Cousteau presents.) In 1950 Cousteau took an old British minesweeper & outfitted it as an oceanographic research vessel with an undersea observation chamber; in November 1951 this ship sailed on its first scientific journey to the Red Sea to study coral the Calypso |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | CRY ME A WORLD RIVER $2000: Chinese soldiers entered the Korean War in October of 1950 crossing this river in support of North Korea the Yalu River |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: From 1950:
Bette does Broadway All About Eve |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | VALLEYS $1,600 (Daily Double): Once a national monument, this valley in Wyoming became part of Grand Teton National Park in 1950 Jackson Hole |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: In 1950 she published her first kids' book, "Henry Huggins"; in 2016 she celebrated her 100th birthday (Beverly) Cleary |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | GOOD CAUSES $600: In 1950 the Ecologists Union became the Nature this word for an assoc. dedicated to protecting the environment conservancy |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $2000: This writer from Lowell portrayed small-town Mass. & big New York City in his first novel, 1950's "The Town and the City" Jack Kerouac |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: During WWII the Pevensie children are evacuated from London to an old professor's country estate in this 1950 book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | NATO $800 (Daily Double): In 1950 NATO named this general its supreme allied commander in Europe; he'd had recent experience in the job Eisenhower |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | HISTORY $2000: In 1950 this Israeli parliament passed the Law of Return, allowing Jews to go to Israel & get immediate citizenship the Knesset |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | OPERATION $1000: Chromite: the surprise 1950 U.S. landing at this Korean port Inchon |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | QUARTERBACKS $600: In 1950 QB Jim Hardy had a record 8 of these turnovers in a 45-7 loss but the very next week, threw 6 TDs interceptions |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | THERE'S A WAR ON $200: A "conflict":
1950 to 1953 the Korean War |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | MAGAZINES $400: SA for short, in 1950 it published an article by Albert Einstein "On the Generalized Theory of Gravitation" Scientific American |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | SONG WORDS $800: Also a seasonal song, it was a top 10 U.S. girl's first name from 1936 to 1950, but not since carol |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | HERE'S TO 50 GREAT YEARS $800: 1950:
In Boston "Fats" Pino & 10 accomplices pull off the "Great" this company "Robbery" Brink's |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | CRIME WAVE $1000: On Nov. 1, 1950 Oscar Collazo & Griselio Torresola made an attempt on the life of this politician Harry Truman |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | A LIFETIME OF SERVICE $800: This basketball mastermind was associated with the Boston Celtics from 1950 to his death in 2006 Red Auerbach |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | WORD ORIGINS $400: The first "nerd" was probably the creature seen here, named by this author in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo" Dr. Seuss |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | THE MARCH OF TIME $800: March 26, 1950:
This man publicly accuses an innocent professor of being a Soviet spy McCarthy |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $800: This manager of the Philadelphia A's from 1901 through 1950 came into the world as Cornelius McGillicuddy in 1862 Connie Mack |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | WIDE WORLD OF PORTS $1600: In September 1950 a surprise landing at this port changed the course of the Korean War Incheon |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | DISNEY ANIMATED SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $1000: 1950:
Gus & Jaq, mice Cinderella |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | THE FIRST CHAPTER $800: 1950:
"Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe" The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | CAN I GET A WITNESS? $2000: Whittaker Chambers' testimony led to a perjury conviction in 1950 for this man believed to be a communist spy Alger Hiss |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | ASK THE NEAREST HIPPIE $400: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway? the VW Bus |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | THINK OF A NUMBER BETWEEN... $2000: 1900 & 2000:
Year in which the Korean War began 1950 |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Asimov's 1950 classic tale that gave us the 3 laws becomes a poultry-titled animated show on Adult Swim I, Robot Chicken |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $200: After months on the run, he was captured December 13, 2003 after he was found hiding in a hole near Tikrit Saddam Hussein |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $400: This first African-American Attorney General said he was quitting in 2014 but was still on the job in 2015 Eric Holder |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $600: More than 1,000 rebels captured during this 1961 invasion of Cuba were later freed in exchange for food & medicine Bay of Pigs |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $800: In China his Great Leap Forward program took a great leap back, contributing to a famine & millions of deaths Mao |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $1000: This country's first female leader, Khaleda Zia was prime minister in the 1990s & again from 2001 to 2006 Bangladesh |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS $400: "Rashomon"
(1950) Kurosawa |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1950 & then again in 1951, this capital city fell to invading forces who were evicted each time by U.N. troops Seoul |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | SIERRA $800: This New Mexico city renamed in 1950 for a radio game show is the seat of Sierra County Truth or Consequences |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | 3 CHEERS FOR THE BLUE, GREEN & YELLOW $800: After a defeat by Uruguay in 1950, this nation's soccer team switched to its now-famous yellow jerseys Brazil |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | THE WILD WEST $800: Walt Punteney, who died in 1950, is said to have been the last surviving member of this movie title pair's Wild Bunch Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | COMPLETE THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD TITLE $600: 1950:
"The Man with the ____ Arm" Golden |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | 1950s AMERICA $1600: In 1950 cartoonist Mort Walker introduced this character as a college student; a year later, he joined the army Beetle Bailey |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | CAPES $400: On July 24, 1950 a 2-stage rocket called Bumper 8 became the first rocket launched from this cape Cape Canaveral |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | TEAM AKAs $800: In 1950 this youthful MLB team was "The Whiz Kids"; in 1983, the not-so-youthful "Wheeze Kids" the Philadelphia Phillies |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 $800: By Jiminy! This actor attended his very first premiere on March 26, 1950 in Ontario, Canada Martin Short |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: Since 1950 this Caribbean capital has played host to an international Ernest Hemingway fishing tournament Havana |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | 1950s BESTSELLERS $2000: "Across the River & Into the Trees" was a 1950 bestseller by this giant of American literature Ernest Hemingway |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | LET'S TAIWAN ON $1600: After being driven from mainland China, he ruled Taiwan from 1950 to 1975 Chiang Kai-shek |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | CREATURE FEATURES $800: 1950:
"Francis the Talking _____" Mule |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: In 1950 Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony, for playing Bloody Mary in this musical South Pacific |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | VAMOS LA BRASIL $800: This venue of the 2014 World Cup final beat the previous most capacious stadium by 43,000 when it opened in 1950 the Maracana |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | HOLIDAY $800: The tradition of kids helping kids by collecting money for UNICEF on this holiday began in 1950 in Pennsylvania Halloween |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | 31 FLAVORS $800: A wall-sized work by this man titled "One: Number 31, 1950" is at MOMA in New York City (Jackson) Pollock |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $400: He's the president seen here signing into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Lyndon Johnson |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $800: In the early '80s it was sometimes called "GRID", gay-related immune deficiency AIDS |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On the morning of June 25th, 1950, forces in the north stormed across the 38th parallel, beginning this 3-year-long conflict the Korean War |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $1600: This senator from Wisconsin is best remembered for his Communist "witch hunts" of the 1950s (Joseph) McCarthy |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $2000: In 1972 terrorism by a group of Palestinians marred the Olympic Games in this German city Munich |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | NATIVE LANDS $600: In 1950 Nuri al-Maliki was born here; now he's the prime minister Iraq |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | I AM THE DANGER $800: The Consumer Product Safety Commission warns, "Houses built between 1930 and 1950 may have" this "as insulation" asbestos |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $800 (Daily Double): "War's End Near" said a jubilant U.S. headline on the capture of this metropolis October 19, 1950 Pyongyang |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE KOREAN WAR $1000: Protecting hydropower on this river was one reason China crossed it & entered the war in late 1950 Yalu River |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | AP FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR $1600: 1932, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 & 1954:
Her Babe Didrikson |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | FOR THE LAST TIME $800: The 54th of 56 children, Mabel Sanborn, his last surviving child, died in 1950 at age 87 Brigham Young |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $1200: 1950:
Joseph Mankiewicz, from the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | AUTHOR-IZED BIOGRAPHIES $800: This Dublin native moved to London, discovered socialism & playwriting & died aged 94 in 1950 (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | THE ARTS $200: Nearly 10 feet long, "Lavender Mist" from 1950 is one of his drip paintings Jackson Pollock |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | CLING-ONS $1000: A system introduced to model railroading in 1950 used these to keep the wheels on the track magnets |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | WORLD UNIVERSITIES $1200: Addis Ababa University was formerly named for this emperor who announced the founding of the school in 1950 (Haile) Selassie |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | MANAGE $600: He managed to manage the Philadelphia A's from 1901 until 1950, when he was 87 Connie Mack |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1600: In 1950 Patty Berg helped found this organization & served as its first president LPGA |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: In September 1950 this general led the amphibious landing on Inchon; 7 months later, he was removed from command (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | UCLA CELEBRITY ALUMNI $400: For the brief time he attended, he was a rebel with a cause, even landing a lead role in a 1950 stage production (James) Dean |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | TIME SPAN LANGUAGE $1600: In 1950 an Alpha Tau Omega master changed one letter in this to create a do-gooding "Help Week" Hell Week |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE LIVING ROOM $200: In 1950 10% of American living rooms had this device; by 1960 it was about 90% a television |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | GREAT IDEAS $400: The idea for the EU began in 1950 with the Schuman Plan that the coal & steel industries of France & this nation be joined Germany |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $1000: This 1950 Paul Brickhill book that inspired a film tells of a mass breakout from Stalag Luft III The Great Escape |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | LONG RUNS IN PRIME TIME $800: "Guess the occupation" was the concept on this prime-time game show that ran from 1950 to 1967 What's My Line? |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | AT THE MALL $2,000 (Daily Double): Get a birthday card for mom at this store chain founded in 1950 & named for an early form of paper Papyrus |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $800: "The Measure of a Man" is "a spiritual autobiography" by this actor whose distinguished feature film career began in 1950 (Sidney) Poitier |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | SUPERMODELS $1600: From 1950 to 1992 model Lisa Fonssagrives was married to Irving Penn, famous in this profession photographer |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | HERE COMES THE WEDDING MOVIE $1,200 (Daily Double): Spencer Tracy played the title role in this 1950 film with Liz Taylor as his affianced daughter Kay Father of the Bride |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | '50s FICTION $2,000 (Daily Double): His 1950 novel "Across the River and into the Trees" reflected a growing bitterness toward life Ernest Hemingway |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This was first imprinted in black on individual M&Ms in 1950 (the letter) M |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $800: Frank McNamara created this first multipurpose charge card in 1950 after finding his wallet missing at a restaurant Diners Club |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | GREAT COMEBACKS WITH DAN PATRICK $600: (Dan Patrick reads the clue from his studio.) In February of 1949, this golfer known as "Bantam Ben" fractured his ribs, pelvis, collarbone & ankle in a car accident; in 1950 he won the U.S. Open Ben Hogan |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | MICHIGAN $400: Population-wise, in 1950 this was the fourth-largest city in the U.S.; by 2000, it was eighth Detroit |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $800: C.S. Lewis dedicated this 1950 classic "to Lucy Barfield" from "your affectionate godfather" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES BY YEAR $1000: 1950, girls:
"Pretty" en español Linda |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | ONE-LINERS $400: Fred Allen, 1950:
This "is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well done" television |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this 1950 play, a dressmaker's deceased husband & her new boyfriend both sport the title art on their chests The Rose Tattoo |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | SURPRISE PARTY $1000: Cheers & glasses raised for this T.S. Eliot comedy that won the 1950 Tony for Best Play The Cocktail Party |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | IT'S A DOGFIGHT $800: In 1950 a U.S. F-80 shot down a Soviet-made MiG-15 in the first dogfight between 2 aircraft propelled by this engine type a jet |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | THEY HELD UP $200: In a 1950 speech he held up what he said was a list of 205 Communists in the State Department (Joseph) McCarthy |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $1600: This comic strip was the last one approved by William Randolph Hearst; he's been marching along since 1950 Beetle Bailey |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | INVENTED IN THE 20th CENTURY $2000: Using a rotating red, blue & green disk, Peter Goldmark invented a version of this approved by the FCC in 1950 a color television |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | SUMMER SCHOOL AT YALE $1000: "Modern American Literature, 1900-1950" looked at Cather, Eliot & this "Rose is a rose is a rose" writer, among others (Gertrude) Stein |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | BESTSELLERS OF THE 1950s $400: The "Picture Cook Book" attributed to this fictional woman rules the list in 1950 Betty Crocker |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | I KNEW IT WAS OVER WHEN... $800: I went in the post office & saw my own picture among those on this FBI fugitives list first issued in 1950 America's Most Wanted |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | CLASSIC MOVIE TRAILERS $1000: The trailer for this 1950 film describes Judy Holliday's character as follows
"Blonde, beautiful, brazen, and oh, brother!" Born Yesterday |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | LET'S KICK SOME NIXON AROUND $600: This Nixon nickname referred to subterfuges he employed in the 1950 Senate campaign Tricky Dick |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | AUTHORS $1200: On his 1950 death, this man who looked into the future was called "The Wintry Conscience of a Generation" George Orwell |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | A NON-SPELLING "BEE" $600: This paging device was invented around 1950 with doctors in mind a beeper |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: The first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks won in this category in 1950 Poetry |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE PRODUCER $200: "Ho, ho, ho!" This jolly guy has appeared in ads for vegetables since 1928; the company was named for him in 1950 the Jolly Green Giant |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | RESCUE ME $600: In 1950 this future symbol of fire prevention was rescued from a fire in a New Mexico forest Smokey the Bear |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | SCENE OF THE CRIME $400: On Jan. 17, 1950 robbers made off with $2.7 mil. from the Brinks Building near this city's Charlestown bridge Boston |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | SEASONAL QUOTES $2000: In 1950 Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "but I miss you most of all, my darling, when" these "start to fall" "The Autumn Leaves" |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: Around 1950 3 Southeast Asian states were given some autonomy, ending the union known as French this Indochina |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | BET YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING $1200: In 1950 this general & head of the U.N. military force led a surprise landing behind enemy lines at the Korean port of Inchon MacArthur |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $2000: (Dana Delany gives the clue.) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough Hollywood writer who loses his last chance at love with Gloria Grahame in this 1950 film In a Lonely Place |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | YANKEE MAGAZINE $1200: Athletes who've been featured naturally include Bob Cousy, a star on this team from 1950 to 1963 (Boston) Celtics |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | THE VOTES ARE IN $2000: In 1950 58% of this country voted in favor of the return from exile of King Leopold III Belgium |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | BIRTHQUAKES $400: An 8.6 quake in Tibet heralded the Aug. 15, 1950 arrival of this only daughter of Elizabeth II Princess Anne |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | COMMANDERS AT WAR $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) In June 1950, North Korea launched a surprise attack deep into South Korea; the tables turned in September, when MacArthur's UN forces made a surprise landing at this port city Inchon |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP $1600: He retired in 1949 after an 11-year reign as champ but came out of retirement in 1950, losing to Ezzard Charles Joe Louis |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ $400: Woz was born in 1950, the son of an electrical engineer at this co. that merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 Lockheed |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | HUEY, DEWEY OR LOUIS $2000: This oversized cartoon duckling debuted in the 1950 release "Quack a Doodle Doo" Baby Huey |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | GOD BLESS NEBRASKA $400: In 1950 Omaha became the home of this sport's men's college championship baseball |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | WOMEN'S SPORTS HISTORY $400: 1950:
12 year-old Kathryn Johnston becomes the first girl to play in this sports organization Little League (Baseball) |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | "U" COUNTRIES $1200: Its national team won soccer's World Cup in 1930 & 1950 Uruguay |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | MICHIGAN MUSICIAN MISHMASH $1200: This superstar was born in Saginaw in 1950 & by 1961, signed with Motown's Berry Gordy; isn't he lovely? Stevie Wonder |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | ALCOHOLICS UNANIMOUS $400: This author of the 1950 novel "Burning Bright" felt the wrath of grapes John Steinbeck |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | ALTERNATE LITERARY TOMBSTONES $1200: 1903-1950:
I bought the farm, animals not included (George) Orwell |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | NARNIA $200: This author's 7 "Chronicles of Narnia" novels came out between 1950 & 1956 C.S. Lewis |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | JUNGLE FEVER $1600: John Huston wrote & directed this 1950 jewel heist caper that starred Sterling Hayden & Marilyn Monroe The Asphalt Jungle |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | HAVOC $400: In the "Winter of Terror", 1950-51, hundreds of these killed 200 people & destroyed 1,500 buildings in the Alps avalanches |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | JOHNNY CASH $800: In 1950 Johnny joined the Air Force & published poetry in this military newspaper Stars and Stripes |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | WALTER CRONKITE $1600: In 1950 this legendary newsman persuaded Walter to leave radio journalism for television (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | RALLY TO THE CAUSE $400: It's to free this land invaded by China in 1950 Tibet |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $400: One of the largest conflicts in U.S. history, the Korean War started in this even-numbered year 1950 |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | THE MOST WANTED LIST $200: The FBI began publishing an official "Ten Most Wanted" list in 1950, while this man was director J. Edgar Hoover |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | JOE THE SENATOR $800: In 1950 he attracted national attention by accusing the State Department of harboring Communists Joe McCarthy |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | TCM WITH ROBERT OSBORNE $1600: (Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) Judy Holliday, reprising her stage role as ex-chorus girl Billie Dawn, beat Bette Davis & Gloria Swanson for Best Actress in this 1950 George Cukor film Born Yesterday |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | TONY-WINNING MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): 1950: "Fiji's Neck of the Ocean" South Pacific |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | SEND IN THE CLOWNS $200: Johnny Carson's future sidekick, he made his national TV debut in 1950 playing a clown on CBS' "The Big Top" Ed McMahon |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $800: 1950 Williams play in which a truck driver has the title body art on his chest The Rose Tattoo |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | NONFICTION $2000: This 1950 classic by Thor Heyerdahl is subtitled "Across the Pacific by Raft" Kon-Tiki |
| #5545, aired 2008-10-17 | THE TROPHY CASE $2000: Seen here in 1950, it's the oldest pro-league trophy in North America & gets to be taken home by each member of the winning team the Stanley Cup |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | ____ OF ____ $5,200 (Daily Double): In 1950 Scottish nationalists stole this object from under the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey the Stone of Scone |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1950, 2 years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea Kim Il-sung |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | H2O MUSIC $1200: One group found this bluesman's "Rollin' Stone" tune of 1950 inspiration enough for a band name Muddy Waters |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $600: This "Yankee Clipper" played his entire 13-year career in the outfield except for one game at first base in 1950 Joe DiMaggio |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | COUPLES $400: Last name of the hotel magnate Elizabeth Taylor married in 1950; the 2 would never have Paris Hilton |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | WHAT A DICTATOR $200: As the dictator of this country from 1950 to 1971, Walter Ulbricht oversaw the construction of a famous wall East Germany |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | ISLANDS $400: Though ceded in 1898, this Pacific island didn't become a U.S. territory until 1950 Guam |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S $400: This writer, "GBS", died on Nov. 2, 1950 George Bernard Shaw |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | SPORTS JOES $1000: In 1950 he became an assistant coach for Penn State football; in '66, he took over as head coach (Joe) Paterno |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $800: This "grouchy" librettist won a 1950 Pulitzer for his work on "South Pacific" Oscar (Hammerstein) |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | MIDWAY $2000: In the 1950's & '60s Midway was home to crews who flew radar aircraft in this Cold War detection line the DEW line |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | TIME FOR "UNCH" $400: Collection of coconuts in a 1950 novelty song a lovely bunch |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | JACKSON 5 $800: This New Orleans-born gospel singer seen here debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1950 Mahalia Jackson |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $200: September 15, 1950:
"U.N. Forces Land Behind Communists in" this peninsula, "Seize Inchon" Korea |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400: One of the two African Americans to win the prize, one in 1950, the other in 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. (& Ralph Bunche) |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | JOHNS IN FILM $1600: Between his 1950 & 1954 portrayals of this pirate, Robert Newton found time to play Blackbeard Long John Silver |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | WHERE AM I? $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.) I'm at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in this city that's grown from 45,000 people in 1950 to half a million today Tucson |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1950:
"Everything Concerning Adam's Wife" All About Eve |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | BOSTON LEGAL $600: The 1950 robbery of this armored car co. came to grief when "Specs" O'Keefe ratted out the rest of the gang Brink's |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | GRAB BAG $400: On Nov. 5, 1950 this evangelist began his radio program "The Hour of Decision"; it's still on the air Billy Graham |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | GRAB BAG $800: This term for a socially inept techie geek first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's "If I Ran The Zoo" a nerd |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | OCTOBERFEST $200: He first appeared in the comic strip "Peanuts" in October 1950 but didn't walk on 2 legs until 1956 Snoopy |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | A LITERARY TOUR $1000: Perhaps you'll draft your Nobel Prize acceptance speech at NYC's Algonquin Hotel, as this Mississippi man did in 1950 Faulkner |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | LET'S CELEBRATE! $800: Collecting money for UNICEF on this holiday was begun in 1950 by a Philadelphia Sunday school class Halloween |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | 1950s MOVIES $2000: People often cite this 1950 Japanese film when describing situations seen differently by different people Rashômon |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | THE FIRM $400: In 1950 the Minnesota Valley Canning Company changed its name to this 2-word one, after its "Jolly" brand Green Giant |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2,400 (Daily Double): This device was first developed by Zenith in 1950 under the name "Lazy Bones" a (TV) remote control |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | MOVIE CATCH PHRASES $800: 1950:
"I am big! It's the pictures that got small" Sunset Boulevard |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH $800: Poet Gregory Corso went on the beat path after meeting this poet in a Greenwich Village bar in 1950 Allen Ginsberg |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | BY THE NUMBERS $200: This country, the world's second-leading producer of cars in 2000 with over 10 mil., made only 32,000 of them in 1950 Japan |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $2000: A 1950 obit of this female poet said, "Greenwich Village & Vassar plus a gypsy childhood on the rocky coast of Maine" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $800: Bloody Mary was the girl the Tonys loved in 1950, when Juanita Hall won for playing her in this musical South Pacific |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | CELEBRITY HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK $1000: He's the 12-time Grammy-winning country music legend & 1950 Dyess High School graduate seen here Johnny Cash |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | BACK TO THE '50s $400: Joakim Lehmkuhl, who made timing mechanisms for WWII bombs, introduced this watch line in 1950 Timex |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | COLLEGE ATHLETICS $1000: Since 1950 this city's Rosenblatt Stadium has been host to the College Baseball World Series Omaha |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | SOAP DISH $1200: This soap brand sponsored a "Radio Theatre" from 1934 to 1955 & a "Video Theatre" on TV from 1950 to 1957 Lux |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | "PUT" SHOTS $400: The "silly" type of this product was introduced in 1950; don't use it to glaze windows putty |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: In 1950 this U.N. mediator became the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Ralph Bunche |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, won for this category in 1950 Poetry |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In England his 1950 science fiction novel "The Martian Chronicles" was titled "The Silver Locusts" Bradbury |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | OF CHAMPIONS $800: The author of about 40 books, he was world bridge champion in 1950 Charles Goren |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | CIRCUS SLANG $2000: Term for any dessert served in the cookhouse, or the kind of "honeymoon" Debbie Reynolds sang about in 1950 Abba Dabba |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $1600: When the ballet "Prodigal Son" was revived in 1950, this woman who was then Balanchine's wife played the siren Maria Tallchief |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | IKE-ONOGRAPHY $800: As commander of this alliance, 1950-52, Ike was hampered by the depleted condition of European armies NATO |
| #4676, aired 2004-12-27 | MAX-IMUM OVERDRIVE $1200: Man von Mayerling is the tense Teutonic butler to a faded star in this classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | NATIONAL FORESTS $400: In 1950 this animal that became the symbol of forest fire prevention was found in New Mexico's Lincoln National Forest Smokey the Bear |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | THE TRUMAN LIBRARY $1000: The library has the actual guns used by the men who tried to assassinate Pres. Truman at this residence in 1950 Blair House |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | '50s TV $800: In 1950 this comedian brought his radio program to TV along with Rochester & announcer Don Wilson Jack Benny |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | EVEs $800: In this 1950 film, Bette Davis told partygoers, "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night" All About Eve |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | U.S. MILITARY MEN $400: From July 1950 to April 1951 he served as U.N. Commander in Korea MacArthur |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | THE GODFATHER $2000: This British philosopher who won a Nobel Prize in 1950 was the godchild of John Stuart Mill Bertrand Russell |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | BEASTLY NOVELS BY CHARACTER $2000: 1950:
Mr. Beaver, the White Witch, Aslan The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| #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 |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | SOFT "C" $1200: In 1950 Chuck Cooper became the first African American drafted by an NBA team, this one the Celtics |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | FOOD ACROSS AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): Bill Rosenberg opened the first shop in this chain in 1950 in Quincy, Ma. (we don't know when the cops came) Dunkin' Donuts |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $800: At the first National Book Awards, in 1950, Ralph Rusk won for his biography of this other Ralph, an essayist Emerson |
| #4553, aired 2004-05-26 | TECHNOLOGY $800: Reportedly, the first call on a commercially sold radio pager was in 1950 to a doctor who was doing this at the time golfing |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | FILMS OF THE '50s $400: Bette Davis starred in this 1950 movie about theatrical backstabbing All About Eve |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | SEOUL TRAIN $2000: A seaport that supplies Seoul, it was the site of a famous 1950 amphibious landing Inchon |
| #4467, aired 2004-01-27 | MID-CENTURY MOMENTS $400: Joseph McCarthy looked into wallets in 1950 & saw this type of Communist in the State Department card-carrying Communist |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | RALPH $1200: He won the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a U.N. mediator resolving Arab-Israeli conflicts Dr. Ralph Bunche |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | SCREEN PLAYS $1200: Everyone "nose" that Jose Ferrer starred in this play on Broadway before he made the film in 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | U.S. "TOWN"S $1600: In 1950 Congress passed legislation to preserve the Heights area of this historic section of Washington, D.C. Georgetown |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | ROAD MOVIES $400: Classic 1950 film that includes the line "All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up" Sunset Boulevard |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | JOE COLLEGE $1600: Brown (not Penn State), 1950 Joe Paterno |
| #4338, aired 2003-06-11 | FILMED IN HAWAII $400: Set in Tahiti but filmed in Hawaii, 1950's "Pagan Love Song" featured this star doing one of her famous water ballets Esther Williams |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS $1000: In 1950 music stand maker Katsumi Yanagisawa started making these instruments under the Pearl brand name drums |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | MAGAZINES $800: "Natural Healing", "Food & Nutrition" & "Fitness" are regular features of this leading health magazine founded in 1950 Prevention |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | YESTERDAY'S NEWSPAPERS $1200: This paper went under in 1950, but a new version using the same logo seen here debuted in 2002 The New York Sun |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | TRUMAN $600: Nationalists from this U.S. possession tried to assassinate Truman in 1950 Puerto Rico |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | LITERATURE $2000: Nelson Algren won a 1950 Nat'l Book Award for this novel about card dealer & morphine addict Frankie Machine "The Man with the Golden Arm" |
| #4278, aired 2003-03-19 | TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS $1600: 1950:
"South Pacific" Richard Rodgers |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | STIFF SENTENCES $200: According to the Labor Department, in 1950 over 30% of working stiffs belonged to these; today, fewer than 15% labor unions |
| #4257, aired 2003-02-18 | SNICKERS $1000: 1950 film in which Judy Holliday tells Broderick Crawford, "You're just not couth!" Born Yesterday |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: Looking for a good reelection issue in 1950, this Wisconsin senator took up anti-Communism on the advice of friends Joseph McCarthy |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | FAMOUS ROBBERIES $400: In a 1950 armed robbery, nearly $3 million was stolen from this armored car company Brinks |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | FAMOUS ROBBERIES $1200: In 1951 investigators recovered this royal "stone" stolen from Westminster Abbey in 1950 Stone of Scone |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | CLASSIC FILMS $4,000 (Daily Double): Elizabeth Taylor's 1950 wedding to Nicky Hilton was worked into the publicity for this new comedy of hers Father of the Bride |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | NAME THE ARTIST $2000: "Lavender Mist"
(1950) Jackson Pollock |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | SCULPTURE $200: In 1928 this cubist & Julio Gonzalez pioneered in welded sculpture: 1950's "She-Goat" is a famous example Pablo Picasso |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | WASHINGTON $2000: President Truman visited Washington state in May 1950 to rededicate this large dam Grand Coulee Dam |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | TOUGH GEOGRAPHY $800: Seoul's chief seaport is this nearby city where MacArthur's troops landed in September 1950 Inchon |
| #4164, aired 2002-10-10 | CERTIFICATES $200: From 1950 to 1999 the most popular name on these certificates for newborn boys in the U.S. was Michael birth certificates |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | WILLIAM, TELL $1200: Receiving the Nobel Prize in 1950, this Southern author said, "I decline to accept the end of man" William Faulkner |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | THE FBI $200: (Sofia gives the clue from FBI HQ.) In 1950, he was the FBI director who instituted the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list J. Edgar Hoover |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Ray Bradbury's masterpiece, this 1950 work is a mostly optimistic account of man's colonization of another planet The Martian Chronicles |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | HOW ABOUT A REVIVAL? $800: With song like "And So He Died" & "A Cup Of Tea", 1950's "Happy as Larry"starred this man, later a penguin on TV Burgess Meredith |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | "J"EOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): Once a national monument, this high valley became a part of Grand Teton National Park in 1950 Jackson Hole |
| #4116, aired 2002-06-24 | MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS $1600: Anne Baxter, who played the title role in this 1950 film, also starred in "Applause", the musical based on it All About Eve |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | BABY BOOMER MEMORIES $800: Likely containing a sandwich, the first of these depicting a TV character came along in 1950 with Hopalong Cassidy a lunchbox |
| #4090, aired 2002-05-17 | MY PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT $600: Let's check the date book--got a 10:30 game of this, developed around 1950 as a cross between squash & handball racquetball |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $1000: She was the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize; she won in 1950 for her poetry Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800: The end to this man's trial was noted with the January 22, 1950 headline seen here Alger Hiss |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | THE CHORUS $800: In 1950's "What's Up, Doc?" he recalls his show biz start, singing, "OH, we're the boys of the chorus" Bugs Bunny |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | FILL IN THE BANK $600: Annexed by Jordan in 1950: _____ Bank the West Bank |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | CHARLES IN CHARGE $600: If you don't know this comic strip legend who began his famous strip in 1950, well, good grief! Charles Schulz |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | THE NIFTY FIFTIES $800: In the summer of 1950, this 70-year-old general became commander of U.N. forces in Korea Douglas MacArthur |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | COLOSSUS $2000: With works in the 1950's like the improvised "Blue 7", jazzman Sonny Rollins was known as the Colossus of this instrument the saxophone |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | DOWN THE VIDEO TUBE $9,000 (Daily Double): One version of this 1950's TV character had 48 freckles; one for each state in the Union at the time Howdy Doody |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | DAY $2000: Doris didn't star in "West Side Story", but did star in this 1950 similarly titled musical set in a military academy West Point Story |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | UNDER THE "C" $2000: This horse set a reord in 1950, running the mile in 1 minute 33 3/5 seconds Citation |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | WAR $200: On June 25, 1950 fighting broke out on the 38th Parallel, thus beginning this war the Korean War |
| #3967, aired 2001-11-27 | THE KOREAN WAR $200: Americans thought the war would end by Christmas 1950 -- until this country joined the fray China |
| #3967, aired 2001-11-27 | THE KOREAN WAR $1000: In 1950 the first all-jet dogfight saw Russell Brown in an F-80 shoot down one of these Soviet planes MiG |
| #3953, aired 2001-11-07 | SOCIOLOGY $800: Americans' need to conform was analyzed by the 1950 bestseller "The Lonely" this crowd |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $500: In 1950 this U.N. mediator became the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize Dr. Ralph Bunche |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | TIME TO RETIRE $600: She retired from the screen in 1934 but was ready for her close-up again in 1950's "Sunset Boulevard" Gloria Swanson |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | TEAM PLAYERS, HALL OF FAME EDITION $1000: Bob Cousy
(1950-1963) the Boston Celtics |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | HOLD THE MAYO CLINIC $600: In 1950 Mayo doctors Edward Kendall & Philip Hench won the Nobel Prize for their work with this steroid cortisone |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $600: In 1950 Gen. Walton Walker, the main U.S. field commander, was killed riding in this type of vehicle Jeep |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1950:
"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" All About Eve |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $400: Wilder directed this big 1950 film in which Gloria Swanson says, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small!" Sunset Boulevard |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1950 he threatened a music critic who had unkind words for daughter Margaret's singing Harry S. Truman |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | PRISON SENTENCES $100: Alger Hiss got 5 years after his 1950 perjury trial, thanks to this CA. Congressman who had his own legal issues in '74 Richard Nixon |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | FAMOUS UKRAINIANS $800: Seen here, he was born in Kiev in 1890 & died in London in 1950 Vaslav Nijinsky |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE CINEMA $400: In 1950 this comic pair were "In The Foreign Legion" Abbott & Costello |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: This future justice was chief counsel for the NAACP from 1938 to 1950 Thurgood Marshall |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | FORGOTTEN BUT NOT GONE $600: The U.S. Army still has units called this, though the actual horse-mounted forces were abolished in 1950 the cavalry |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | BIG SCREEN BUNNIES $400: Jimmy Stewart's 6' 3 1/2" invisible companion in 1950 Harvey |
| #3739, aired 2000-11-30 | MAGAZINES $3,200 (Daily Double): John H. Johnson founded Ebony in 1945, Tan in 1950 & this magazine in 1951 Jet |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | FAMOUS FRENCHMEN $1000: In 1950 he adapted his novel "Les Enfants Terribles" for the screen Jean Cocteau |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: A federal law from 1950 prohibited the labeling of colored oleo as this Butter |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $600: Jose Ferrer won an Oscar for playing this 1950 title role Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | 'TOON IN $500: Launched Oct. 2, 1950, it went on to achieve the largest & most devoted following of any comic strip in history Peanuts |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | LEGENDS OF BASEBALL $200: In 1950, 3 years after he entered the major leagues, he played himself in his own movie biography Jackie Robinson |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | 1950s EMMYS $400: The Best Game Show of 1950 was this, hosted by Ralph Edwards; Bob Barker came later Truth or Consequences |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: 3-letter word that begins the titles of all 3 Best Picture winners of 1930, 1949 & 1950 All |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: On May 11, 1950 President Truman traveled to Washington state to dedicate this dam northwest of Spokane Grand Coulee Dam |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | COCA-COLA $1000: Coca-Cola first advertised on live network TV in 1950 as a sponsor of this ventriloquist Edgar Bergen |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | HE DIRECTED THAT? $200: Liza's dad, he directed 1950's "Father Of The Bride" Vincente Minnelli |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | THE MAP OF 1950 $200: Today it's Brasilia, but a map from 1950 would have shown this city as its nation's capital Rio de Janeiro |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | THE MAP OF 1950 $400: This European nation occupied 42,000 square miles in 1949; 41 years later it ceased to exist East Germany |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | THE MAP OF 1950 $600 (Daily Double): In 1950 delegates from the Italian colonies Fezzan, Cyrenaica & Tripolitania met to discuss union as this nation Libya |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | THE MAP OF 1950 $600: Today known as Belize, this colony in Central America had a population of only about 70,000 in 1950 British Honduras |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | THE MAP OF 1950 $1000: Traveling to Timbuktu in 1950 would take you through French Sudan, today known as this country Mali |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | THE NATIONAL PASTIME $500: This Padres player's 1994 batting average of .394 is the highest since 1950 Tony Gwynn |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | 50 YEARS OF PEANUTS $100: This character is disparaged in the first "Peanuts" strip, which appeared October 2, 1950 Charlie Brown |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $200: Now shortened to 5 letters, this 11-letter word for a club where records play appeared around 1950 in English Discotheque |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: Actress seen here in her Oscar-winning 1950 performance: Judy Holliday |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Sadly, this studio fired Judy Garland after "Summer Stock" in 1950, & she never made another film there MGM |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | WILD WILD WEST $400: Mae turned down the part of faded movie star Norma Desmond in this 1950 film Sunset Boulevard |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | "CLUB" ME $1000: This very first multi-use credit card was originally used in New York City restaurants in 1950 Diners Club |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | THEY WERE TEENS IN 1950 $100: Time flies! This "Reds" actor-director & wife Annette Bening now have 3 kids Warren Beatty |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | THEY WERE TEENS IN 1950 $200: Ed Asner & Ted Knight co-starred, but it was this actress' "Show" from 1970 to 1977 Mary Tyler Moore |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | THEY WERE TEENS IN 1950 $300: Born in 1931, this Australian-born owner of Fox Broadcasting is now a U.S. citizen Rupert Murdoch |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | THEY WERE TEENS IN 1950 $400: This Arizona senator & presidential candidate was a P.O.W. for 5 1/2 years during the Vietnam War John McCain |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | THEY WERE TEENS IN 1950 $500: Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien, the 18th of 19 children, was born in this province in 1934 Quebec |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | TV HOSTS $400: "You Bet Your Life"
1950-1961 Groucho Marx |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | MYSTERY $600: In a 1950 Patricia Highsmith novel, strangers meet on one of these & plot to exchange murders Train ("Strangers on a Train") |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | SPORTS HISTORY $800: This golfer came back from a near-fatal car accident to win the 1950 U.S. Open Ben Hogan |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THE CINEMA $400: This actress gave birth to Robertino Rossellini in 1950 Ingrid Bergman |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | '50s POP MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1950 Patti Page had a No. 1 hit with this, later a state song "Tennessee Waltz" |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | NAME THE MOVIE $300: 1950:
"Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup" Sunset Boulevard |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $100: On July 8, 1950 he was named commander-in-chief of the United Nations command Douglas MacArthur |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $200: The Allies recaptured this South Korean capital on September 26, 1950 Seoul |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $500: The September 15, 1950 Allied amphibious landing at this South Korean port changed the course of the war Inchon |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | JUNE SWOON $400: This war began with an attack across the 38th Parallel on June 25, 1950 Korean War |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His 1950 classic "I, Robot" contains 9 related stories about (what else?) robots Isaac Asimov |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | FILM NARRATORS $600: 1950's
"Sunset Boulevard" William Holden |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | WE LOVE LUCY $300: Of 1950, 1953 or 1956, the year of Little Ricky's "birth" & Desi Arnaz Jr.'s birth 1953 |
| #3374, aired 1999-04-15 | THE 1950s $500: In 1950 the Diners Club card was introduced & this man's "Dianetics" was published L. Ron Hubbard |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | WE ARE AMUSED $800: The first one was added in 1950 by the producers of NBC's "The Hank McCune Show" Laugh track |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | THEY REST IN NEBRASKA $200: Grover Cleveland Alexander was inducted into this sport's Hall of Fame in 1938 & interred in Nebraska in 1950 Baseball |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $200: 1950:
"I am big. It's the pictures that got small" Sunset Boulevard |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | "IN" $500: This Korean port was the site of an important invasion by U.N. troops in September 1950 Inchon |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | RUDOLPH $500: Bravo! This man was the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972 Sir Rudolph Bing |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | GILLIS $200: Joe Gillis, played by this actor, gets involved with Norma Desmond in 1950's "Sunset Boulevard" William Holden |
| #3240, aired 1998-10-09 | MOVIE DEBUTS $1000: This blonde had a bit role in "The Petty Girl" in 1950; 13 years later she was attacked by "The Birds" Tippi Hedren |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | UR IN URUGUAY $200: A top sport in the country, Uruguay has won the World Cup in this twice, in 1930 & 1950 Soccer (Futbol) |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $400: Jimmy Stewart character speaking in the clip seen here: Elwood P. Dowd |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | MOM'S THE WORD $200: Ethel Skakel married this politician in 1950 & bore him 11 children, the last after his death Robert Kennedy |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | BERKELEY ALUMNI $800: This counterculture guru, Ph.D. 1950. "turned on, tuned in", but "dropped out" permanently in May of 1996 Timothy Leary |
| #3153, aired 1998-04-22 | UNSEEN TITLE CHARACTERS $600: Unseen for most of the film, he's the title character of a 1950 Jimmy Stewart movie Harvey |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | THE UNITED NATIONS $300: In 1950 this 39-story building was completed near the East River the Secretariat Building |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | THE MOVIES $1000: With 14 Oscar nominations, "Titanic" tied the record of this 1950 Bette Davis film All About Eve |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | MRS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON $200: In 1950 Sen. Margaret Chase Smith condemned this man for turning the Senate into a "forum for hate" Joseph McCarthy |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): The piece seen here, found in Samothrace in 1950, is part of this ancient statue the Winged Victory of Samothrace |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $500: On October 7, 1950 the U.N. approved the use of its troops north of this parallel the 38th parallel |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | GIANTS $400: In 1950 the Minnesota Valley Canning Co. took a new name from this, its symbol The Jolly Green Giant |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | 1999 $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1950 Ray Bradbury classic begins in 1999 with men blasting off for another planet "The Martian Chronicles" |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | ART $600: He poured & splattered paint onto the canvas to make his "Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950" Jackson Pollock |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | FOREIGN CURRENCY $800: From 1938 to 1950, this king was depicted on Egypt's 1 millieme coin King Farouk |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | POTPOURRI $300: In 1950 this former first lady won the second Four Freedoms Award Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This 1950 Ray Bradbury book collected 26 stories about Earth's colonization of Mars The Martian Chronicles |
| #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 |
| #2916, aired 1997-04-14 | AVIATION $1000: Famous for his 1942 raid on Tokyo, he was named Aviator of the Decade in 1950 Jimmy Doolittle |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: This winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize was a star on UCLA's basketball team in the 1920s Ralph Bunche |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | THE 1950s $200: In 1950 a live version of this symbol for forest fire prevention was found Smokey the Bear |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | THE 1950s $1000: 5 days before the statute of limitations ran out, the FBI solved this Jan. 17, 1950 robbery Brinks Robbery |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: In 1950 this world leader received a law degree from the University of Havana Fidel Castro |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1950 2 Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on this president's life Harry S. Truman |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | TELEVISION $300: For 3 months in 1950, this red-haired entertainer had a series on which he gave ukulele lessons Arthur Godfrey |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HE WAS IN THAT? $400: In 1950 he was starring in "Dragnet" on radio when he played Artie Green in "Sunset Boulevard" Jack Webb |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: Until 1950 this philanthropic org. founded by father & son automakers benefited mainly Michigan-based groups The Ford Foundation |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | SPORTS $300: Between 1937 & 1950, this American boxer fought in 27 heavyweight title fights, winning 26 Joe Louis |
| #2849, aired 1997-01-09 | POTPOURRI $1000: He was 4 1/2 years old when he became Sweden's crown prince in 1950; now he's king of Sweden Carl Gustav XVI |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $200: In 1950 Haifa & this Israeli city were incorporated as a single municipality Tel Aviv |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | GAME SHOWS $400: The theme to this game that premiered on TV October 5, 1950 was "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" You Bet Your Life |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | GUAM $400: Except for WWII, this U.S. armed service administered the island from 1898 to 1950 the U.S. Navy |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | AUTHORS $600: From 1950 to 1952, this "Catch-22" author taught English at Penn State Joseph Heller |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | GANGSTERS $800: "Trigger" Burke was hired to silence "Specs" O'Keefe, one of the gang involved in this 1950 Boston heist the Brinks Robbery |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | 1994 $300: Hank Ketcham announced his retirement from this comic strip which he'd drawn since 1950 Dennis the Menace |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1000: From about 1950 to 1952, this drip artist painted almost exclusively in black & white Jackson Pollock |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | ASTRONOMY $400: In 1950 Jan Oort proposed that these tailed bodies come from a cloud about 1 light year from the Sun comets |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | LITERATURE $200: This 1950 Ray Bradbury novel about life on Mars was titled "The Silver Locusts" in England The Martian Chronicles |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | THE 1950s $200: North Korean forces captured this South Korean capital city June 28, 1950 Seoul |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | WARS $200: This war began suddenly on June 25, 1950 the Korean War |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | CALL ME MR. $400: It's how you addressed Sam Rayburn in 1940, 1950 & 1960 & John McCormack in 1970 Mr. Speaker |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $600: On Wake Island in October 1950, President Truman met this general for the first time to discuss the Korean War MacArthur |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | 1950 $200: Ain Shams University was founded in this Egyptian capital Cairo |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | 1950 $400: Florence Chadwick swam this body of water from Cap Gris-Nez to Dover The English Channel |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | 1950 $600: This photographer's "My Camera in the National Parks" was released in 1950 Ansel Adams |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | 1950 $800: In January this country became a republic with Rajendra Prasad as president India |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | 1950 $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1950 this former Army chief of staff & secretary of state became secretary of defense George Marshall |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1950 eating out became easier with the introduction of this first credit card Diners Club |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | CATS & DOGS $400: The 1st Cornish Rex was a mutant kitten named Kallibunker who was born in this English duchy in 1950 Cornwall |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: On May 11, 1950 this president traveled to Washington State to dedicate the Grand Coulee Dam Harry Truman |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | FICTION $1000: In 1950 this playwright published his short novel "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" Tennessee Williams |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | THE GAME SHOW NETWORK $500: On its first show, February 2, 1950, the mystery guest was Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto What's My Line? |
| #2544, aired 1995-09-28 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: In 1950 Florence Chadwick swam this south to north; in 1951, north to south, the 1st woman to do both the English Channel |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | POETRY $200: In 1950 the U.S. Senate honored this "The Road Not Taken" poet Robert Frost |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | THE MOVIES $400: In 1950 he was "Father of the Bride" Spencer Tracy |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $300: James M. Cox bought this southern city's daily The Constitution in 1950 Atlanta |
| #2468, aired 1995-05-03 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: In 1950 this org. founded by Juliette Gordon Low was chartered by a special act of Congress the Girl Scouts |
| #2462, aired 1995-04-25 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: In 1950 this future Attorney General married Ethel Skakel Robert Kennedy |
| #2461, aired 1995-04-24 | FAMOUS MARIAS $600: When Jerome Robbins starred in the ballet "Prodigal Son" in 1950, this ballerina played the siren Maria Tallchief |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | U.S. HISTORY $600: On May 11, 1950 President Truman traveled to Washington State to dedicate this dam the Grand Coulee Dam |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | 1950 $100: In a publicity move, this agency issued its first list of the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" the FBI |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | 1950 $200: This increased from 40¢ to 75¢ an hour minimum wages |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | 1950 $300: In one of the biggest heists in history, over $2 million was stolen from this armored car company Brink's |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | 1950 $400: This 89-year-old woman's artwork was exhibited in Europe for the first time Grandma Moses |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | 1950 $500 (Daily Double): After 6 years in exile, this country's King Leopold III returned, only to abdicate a week later Belgium |
| #2437, aired 1995-03-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: His first short story collection, "I, Robot", was published in 1950 Isaac Asimov |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | FIDEL CASTRO $800: In 1950 Castro earned a degree in this from the University of Havana law |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In 1950 Giacomo Manzu won a commission to create bronze doors for this Roman basilica St. Peter's |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | LOST & FOUND $400: It was found on Samothrace in 1863 with no head or arms; a hand turned up in 1950 Winged Victory of Samothrace |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | ART $200: In 1950 Spanish painter Joan Miro created a mural for this Cambridge, Mass. university Harvard |
| #2413, aired 1995-02-15 | MODERN U.S. HISTORY $400: This U.S. general called for North Korea's forces to surrender in October 1950; didn't work MacArthur |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | ODDS & ENDS $200: In 1950 the Minnesota Valley Canning Co. took its name after this advertising symbol—Ho ho ho! Green Giant |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | ARTISTS $1000: His "Autumn Rhythm" drip painting of 1950 measures nearly 9 by 17 1/2 feet Jackson Pollock |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This 1970 show starring Lauren Bacall was based on the 1950 movie "All About Eve" Applause |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | THE FUNNIES $400: In 1950, at age 87, he approved his last strip for his papers, Mort Walker's "Beetle Bailey" William Randolph Hearst |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: After he denied passing documents to Whittaker Chambers, he was convicted of perjury in 1950 Alger Hiss |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | BALLET $600: Choreographer Birgit Kolberg based her 1950 ballet "Miss Julie" on an 1888 play by this fellow Swede August Strindberg |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | THE 1950 EMMYS $100: "You Bet Your Life" he was the "Most Outstanding Personality" Groucho Marx |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | THE 1950 EMMYS $200: Coverage of the departure of marines to this country won a special events Emmy Korea |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | THE 1950 EMMYS $300: In the Best Actor category, Jose Ferrer competed against Stan Freberg, the voice of this sea serpent Cecil |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | THE 1950 EMMYS $400: The best variety show was hosted by this man who later starred with "Mr. Ed" Alan Young |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | THE 1950 EMMYS $500: It was the first program to win as Best Game Show; host Ralph Edwards picked up the award Truth or Consequences |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In the Korean War, U.N. forces captured this North Korean capital October 19, 1950 Pyongyang |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $600: Bette Davis played aging actress Margo Channing in this 1950 film All About Eve |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | THE WILD WEST $200: One rumor says this outlaw escaped Pat Garrett, changed his name to Ollie & lived until 1950 Billy the Kid |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $300: In 1950 this future Supreme Court justice became resident counsel for the Mayo Clinic Harry Blackmun |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $400: From 1920-1950 Roger Baldwin was director of this legal group that participated in the Scopes Trial the American Civil Liberties Union |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | THE MOVIES $600: Between 1938 & 1950, Penny Singleton played this comic strip character in 28 films Blondie |
| #2251, aired 1994-05-23 | '50s FILM FACTS $1000: Dean Stockwell was a teenager when he played the title lad in the 1950 film of this Kipling classic Kim |
| #2249, aired 1994-05-19 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: This actress first appeared in "The Petty Girl" in 1950, 13 years before starring in "The Birds" Tippi Hedren |
| #2247, aired 1994-05-17 | POLITICIANS $400: In 1950 this Tenn. senator gained fame as head of a committee investigating organized crime Estes Kefauver |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | LEFTOVERS $300: On June 27, 1950 the U.N. Security Council voted to protect this country's independence with troops South Korea |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | POETRY $400: In 1950 he left his native Wales for his first American tour Dylan Thomas |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | U.S. HISTORY $300: On July 8, 1950 this American general was named commander of U.N. forces in Korea MacArthur |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | THE 1950s $1000: Truman was living here, not in the White House, when an attempt was made on his life November 1, 1950 Blair House |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In a 1950 poll he was voted the greatest track star of the first half of the century Jesse Owens |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | 1950 $100: In January this armored car company was robbed of $1.5 million Brink's |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | 1950 $200: In May this country crowned Phumiphon Adundet as Rama IX in a ceremony in Bangkok Thailand |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | 1950 $300: In October General MacArthur called on this country's forces to surrender—they refused North Korea |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | 1950 $400: The U.S. & Canada signed a 50-year agreement to protect this landmark's beauty & to develop its power Niagara Falls |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | 1950 $500: This country's Department of the Interior classified residents by color & issued ID cards South Africa |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $500: Often considered the greatest woman athlete in history, she helped found the LPGA in 1950 Babe Didrikson |
| #2172, aired 1994-02-01 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: U.N. forces captured this North Korean capital in 1950 Pyongyang |
| #2164, aired 1994-01-20 | HISTORY $300: In January 1950 President Truman authorized the Atomic Energy commission to develop this weapon the hydrogen bomb |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This toothpaste "with Flouristan" was advertised in the 1950's with special paintings by Norman Rockwell Crest |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: This ancient city, called Joppa in the Bible, merged with Tel Aviv in 1950 Jaffa |
| #2129, aired 1993-12-02 | AVIATION $1000: Named the Aviatrix of the Decade in 1950, in 1953 she became the 1st woman to break the sound barrier Jacqueline Cochran |
| #2118, aired 1993-11-17 | 1950s WOMEN $400: On August 8, 1950 Florence Chadwick broke her 1926 English Channel swim record Gertrude Ederle |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | 1950 $200: After passing the House, bills to extend statehood to these 2 territories were shelved by the Senate Alaska & Hawaii |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | 1950 $400: On September 26 this general announced that Seoul, Korea was again in friendly hands MacArthur |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | 1950 $600: This creator of Tarzan died in Encino, California on March 19 Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | 1950 $800: In a plebiscite over 57% of this country's voters favored the return from exile of King Leopold III Belgium |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | 1950 $1000: Her play "The Member of the Wedding" opened on Broadway on January 5 Carson McCullers |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | CHINESE HISTORY $200: In October 1950 masses of Chinese troops entered the fighting in this war the Korean War |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE EMMY AWARDS $500: This TV "Golden Girl" was nominated for the first "Best Actress" Emmy in 1950 but lost to Gertrude Berg Betty White |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | DICTATORS $200: In 1950 he graduated from the University of Havana with a law degree Castro |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | RICHARD NIXON $600: When Nixon became president, this Californian, who had refused to campaign for him in 1950, was chief justice Earl Warren |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | 1950s TV $600: Ward Bond starred in this Western as well as "Wagonmaster", the 1950 film on which it was based Wagon Train |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | THE 1950s $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1950 he became general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Rudolf Bing |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: In 1950 she started the Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: This vacation village empire was founded by Belgian Gerard Blitz in 1950 Club Med |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $600: Ingrid Bergman's relationship with this "Stromboli" director erupted into romance & they were married in 1950 Rossellini |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | REPUBLICANS $200: On Feb. 9, 1950 he told a Republican women's club that he had a list of known communists in the State Dept. Senator McCarthy |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | SAINTS $600: Her assumption was declared dogma for Catholics by Pope Pius XII in 1950 the Virgin Mary |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $1000: She was 24 when she played 12-year-old Frankie Addams in "The Member of the Wedding" in 1950 Julie Harris |
| #2004, aired 1993-04-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Douglas MacArthur personally planned the daring amphibious landing at this Korean port in September 1950 Inchon |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | THE 1950s $500: Tn 1950 he was named the greatest horse of the first half of the century by the Associated Press Man o' War |
| #1980, aired 1993-03-26 | HEADLINES $500 (Daily Double): November 2, 1950:
This "94-year-old... dramatist and wit passes after saying, 'I want to sleep'" George Bernard Shaw |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | FEMININE NAMES $1000: A Spanish word for "pretty", it was the top girl's name in the U.S. in 1950 Linda |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | DISNEY MOVIE MUSIC $500: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis sang this nominated song from "Cinderella" at the 1950 Oscars; it lost "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | LAST SURVIVORS $600: Said to be in her 90s, Kate Cross-Eyes, the last surviving wife of this Apache leader, died in 1950 Geronimo |
| #1941, aired 1993-02-01 | ROYALTY $600: This country's longest-reigning monarch, King Gustav V, ruled from 1907-1950 Sweden |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Bhumibol Adulyadej has been king of this Southeast Asian country since 1950 Thailand |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | LEFTOVERS $200: This 1950 film ends with Gloria Swanson saying, "All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up" Sunset Boulevard |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | STRINGED INSTRUMENTS $1000: In 1950 Anton Karas had a hit with his recording of "The Third Man" theme on this instrument the zither |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | BRITISH ROYALTY $200: This queen's first cousin, the Earl of Harewood, founded Opera Magazine in 1950 Queen Elizabeth II |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | RELIGION $1,500 (Daily Double): The 1st U.S. citizen canonized, in 1950 she was named the patron saint of emigrants by Pope Pius XII Mother Cabrini |
| #1865, aired 1992-10-16 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $800 (Daily Double): This 1st credit card, issued in 1950, could be used at 27 New York area restaurants Diners Club |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | FILE UNDER "O" $300: Du Pont began commercial production of this acrylic fiber in 1950 Orlon |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | ARTISTS $400: His "Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)" of 1950 was made by pouring & splashing paint on the canvas Pollock |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: This Herbert & Dorothy Fields play was produced in Paris in 1950 as "Annie du Far Ouest" Annie Get Your Gun |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | FAMOUS JAPANESE $200: His 1950 film "Rashomon" made him the 1st Japanese filmmaker to have an impact in Europe & the U.S. Kurosawa |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | POT LUCK $800: In 1950 he was named the greatest race horse of the first half of the 20th century Man o' War |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1950 he was named commander of NATO forces in Europe Eisenhower |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | THE MOVIES $300: Steve Martin starred in the 1991 remake of this 1950 Spencer Tracy film Father of the Bride |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | BLACK HISTORY $200: Wm. Thompson, killed in action in 1950, was the 1st Black to win the Medal of Honor in this war the Korean War |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | PRESIDENTIAL CHILDREN $400: A 1950 Washington Post review of her singing said, "She is flat a good deal of the time" Margaret Truman |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | MARINE BIOLOGY $200: He became a capitaine de corvette in the French Navy in the '40s * captain of the Calypso in 1950 Jacques Cousteau |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Arthur Miller's version of his play "An Enemy of the People" played on Broadway in 1950 Ibsen |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | NATIONAL LANDMARKS $400: This carmaker's Dearborn, Mich. home, Fair Lane, was occupied by the family until 1950 Henry Ford |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: A 1950 Ebony cover called this U.N. statesman "America's Most-Honored Negro" Ralph Bunche |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | WOMEN $200: In 1950 she was named AP Woman Athlete of the 1st Half of the 20th Century "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | RABBITS IN FILM $100: This 1950 Jimmy Stewart film could be titled "The Invisible Rabbit" Harvey |
| #1639, aired 1991-10-17 | SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE $1000: This general was Secretary of State from 1947-49 & Secretary of Defense from 1950-51 (George C.) Marshall |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | 1950 $100: Badly burned & found clinging to a tree, he became a symbol of forest fire prevention Smokey Bear |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | 1950 $200: In March, President Truman denounced this Wisconsin senator as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy Joseph McCarthy |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | 1950 $300: In the biggest armed robbery to date, close to $3 million was stolen from this armored car co. Brink's |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | 1950 $400: After 67 years in the majors, he announced his retirement as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics Connie Mack |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | 1950 $500: This author, whose latest works were "Go Down, Moses" & "Intruder in the Dust", won a Nobel Prize (William) Faulkner |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION $800: Ray Bradbury's 1950 collection of stories about the colonization of Mars The Martian Chronicles |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | WORLD CITIES $500: It merged with Jaffa in 1950 Tel Aviv |
| #1609, aired 1991-09-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: The lowlands of this country invaded by China in 1950 are over 12,000 feet above sea level Tibet |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: In 1950, this president authorized development of the hydrogen bomb Truman |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Thor Heyerdahl wrote of his rafting voyage from Peru to Polynesia in this 1950 book Kon-Tiki |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: In 1950, this playwright published his first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" Tennessee Williams |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: In 1950, this Nelson Algren novel about a drug addict won a National Book Award The Man with the Golden Arm |
| #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 |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | BLACK AMERICA $800: For supervising the Arab-Israeli armistice, he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize Ralph Bunche |
| #1520, aired 1991-03-22 | AUTOMOBILE HISTORY $200: A popular car among collectors is the 1950 model of this make's 88 the Olds |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | 1950 $100: When Margaret's singing was panned, this man said if he "met the critic, he'd need a new nose" Truman |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | 1950 $200: As UN commander-in-chief in Korea, he announced September 26 that Seoul had fallen MacArthur |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | 1950 $300: This senator kept changing the number of card-carrying communists he claimed were in the State Dept. (Joseph) McCarthy |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | 1950 $400: The French passed a bill aimed at banning this American soft drink Coca-Cola |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | 1950 $500: The 1950 film that tried to prove anything Ethel Merman could do, Betty Hutton could do better Annie Get Your Gun |
| #1465, aired 1991-01-04 | THE 1950s $400: A TV tower was added to this building in 1950, raising its height to 1,454' the Empire State Building |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: British philosopher & mathematician who won the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature Bertrand Russell |
| #1413, aired 1990-10-24 | THE '50s $200: Nationalists from this U.S. commonwealth tried to kill Truman in 1950, & in 1954 shot 5 congressmen Puerto Rico |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | THE 1950s $500: She divorced Dr. Peter Lindstrom in 1950, clearing the way to marry Roberto Rossellini Ingrid Bergman |
| #1379, aired 1990-09-06 | POETRY $600: Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black poet to win this award in 1950 for "Annie Allen" the Pulitzer Prize |
| #1372, aired 1990-07-17 | '50s TV $200: Frankie Thomas played this "Space Cadet" on 3 different networks from 1950-55 Tom Corbett |
| #1367, aired 1990-07-10 | SING-ALONG SONGS $700 (Daily Double): Title of the following, 1950's biggest hit: "Last Saturday night I got married / Me and my wife settle down / Now me and my wife are parted / I'm gonna take another stroll downtown" "Goodnight, Irene" |
| #1366, aired 1990-07-09 | U.S. CITIES $800: In 1950 Hot Springs, N.M. renamed itself for this game show Truth or Consequences |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | GEOGRAPHY $600: When China took over this country in 1950-51, it acquired a "roof" Tibet |
| #1337, aired 1990-05-29 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $500: In 1950 this team known as the "Whiz Kids" won the N.L. pennant but lost the World Series to the Yankees Philadelphia Phillies |
| #1289, aired 1990-03-22 | DECEMBER 25th $200: In 1950 Scottish nationalists stole the 336 lb. Stone of Scone from this British coronation site Westminster Abbey |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $400: She was voted "World Film Favorite" for 1950, & she's still going strong on "Falcon Crest" Jane Wyman |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | BRAZIL $500: 1950's president Juscelino Kubitschek is known as the "Father Of" this city Brasilia |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | ACADEMY AWARDS $800: "All about Eve" won "Best Picture" for 1950, but she took "Best Actress" for "Born Yesterday" Judy Holliday |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | "BELL"s $1000: This 1950 John Van Druten play told the tale of a witch who fell in love with a man & lost her powers Bell, Book and Candle |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | THE AUTO INDUSTRY $500: This Nash model, which came out in 1950, was the 1st American compact Rambler |
| #1134, aired 1989-07-06 | AMERICAN CITIES $300: From 1950-64 the population of this Alabama city "skyrocketed" from 16,000 to more than 123,000 Huntsville |
| #1133, aired 1989-07-05 | PRESIDENTS $100: In 1950 he became the 1st supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe Eisenhower |
| #1090, aired 1989-05-05 | FASHION HISTORY $200: This large shoulder scarf, sometimes made of mink, was the big fashion news of 1950 mink stole |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | ROYALTY $600: Princess Sirikit married the king of this country in 1950, a week before he was formally crowned Thailand |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | 1950 $100: A VW cost $1,280, a "starter home" cost $7,990 & this was increased to $.75 an hour the minimum wage |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | 1950 $200: Nationalists from this West Indies island tried to assassinate Pres. Truman Puerto Rico |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | 1950 $300: This man claimed Johns Hopkins professor Owen J. Lattimore was the "top Russian agent" in the U.S. Senator McCarthy |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | 1950 $400: This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical set during WWII won 9 Tonys & a Pulitzer Prize South Pacific |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | 1950 $500: Now a sports commentator for ABC, in 1950 he was the reigning men's figure skating champ Dick Button |
| #1066, aired 1989-04-03 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: This "Golden Girl" was nominated for the 1st "Best Actress" Emmy in 1950 but didn't win Betty White |
| #1061, aired 1989-03-27 | ZOOS $500: Back in 1950 he began hosting TV's "Zoo Parade" from Chicago Marlin Perkins |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | AMERICAN HEROES & LEGENDS $300: A 1950 commemorative 3-cent stamp honoring railroad engineers bore his portrait & Engine No. 382 Casey Jones |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | FOOD & DRINK $100: In 1950 President Truman signed the act ending discriminatory taxes on this butter substitute margarine |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $400: Consumption of this beverage peaked around 1950 when the average American downed 600 glasses a yr. milk |
| #989, aired 1988-12-15 | SPORTS $400: The 1950 U.S. defeat of England has been called the greatest upset in the history of this sport soccer |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | THE 20TH CENTURY $200: In 1950 its command in Korea included the U.S. 8th Army & the Republic of Korea Army the U.N. |
| #930, aired 1988-09-23 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $600: In 1950 the 1st measurements of this planet were made with the 200 inch telescope on Mt. Palomar Pluto |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: In 1950 his comic strip "Peanuts" was launched in 8 newspapers Charles Schulz |
| #911, aired 1988-07-18 | SPORTS TRIVIA $300: From 1950-1967, teams from this country won the Davis Cup in tennis 15 times Australia |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | REPUBLICANS $800: 1st elected to the state legislature in 1950, this Oregon senator has never lost an election (Mark) Hatfield |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | RADIO TO TV $800: This 1960s rural sitcom was based on a 1950 radio show starring Gale Gordon & Bea Benaderet Green Acres |
| #893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $800: In 1950, in a "Declaration of Conscience", she was 1 of the 1st Republicans to oppose Joseph McCarthy Margaret Chase Smith |
| #888, aired 1988-06-15 | EARLY EMMYS $600: Lucky Strike picked up an award for this in 1950, the only year it was given (Best) Commercial |
| #878, aired 1988-06-01 | THE 1950s $600: On Dec. 16, 1950, at age 22, she married Charles Black & announced her retirement from films Shirley Temple |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | LAST WORDS $1000: Dying in 1950, this 94-year-old playwright reportedly said, "Well, it will be a new experience, anyway" George Bernard Shaw |
| #839, aired 1988-04-07 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $300: Charles Black was dropped from the Social Register for marrying this ex-child star in 1950 Shirley Temple |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | WAR MOVIES $1000: In 1950, this pair was "At War with the Army" Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | SHIPS $500: In 1950, Admiral Radford directed that Old Glory be hoisted over remains of this ship each day U.S.S. Arizona |
| #815, aired 1988-03-04 | TELEVISION HISTORY $800: From 1950-53, this post-WWII economic policy was featured in a weekly prime time show the Marshall Plan |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BALLET $800: Legendary Russian who died in 1950, having spent some 30 yrs. in & out of mental institutions Nijinsky |
| #723, aired 1987-10-28 | U.S. HISTORY $500: Named Supreme Commander of NATO in 1950, in 1953 he became Commander in Chief of American Armed Forces Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Masked bandits stole over $2 million from the Boston office of this company, January 17, 1950 Brinks |
| #686, aired 1987-09-07 | SHAKESPEARE ON BROADWAY $800: She played Juliet on Broadway in 1951, 12 years after co-starring in "Gone with the Wind" Olivia de Havilland |
| #679, aired 1987-07-16 | THE MILITARY $1000: In 1950, the tide of Korean War was turned in favor of Allies when U.S. Marines made amphibious landing here Inchon |
| #676, aired 1987-07-13 | POLITICAL NICKNAMES $1000: Calling her soft on Communism in 1950 election, "Tricky Dick" dubbed her "the Pink Lady" Helen Gahagan Douglas |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | "GOOD", "BETTER" & "BEST" MOVIES $200: A 1950 film featured Jack Carson as one of these famous ice cream vendors The Good Humor Man |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | WORLD LEADERS $100: In 1950 he graduated with a law degree from the University of Havana Fidel Castro |
| #660, aired 1987-06-19 | RESORTS $200: In 1950, Alcudia, on Spain's Costa del Sol, was the 1st of these 106 clubs to open Club Med |
| #655, aired 1987-06-12 | NOVEMBER $400: While he was staying at Blair House, an attempt was made on his life, November 1, 1950 Harry Truman |
| #645, aired 1987-05-29 | THE COMICS $400: Though the strip started in 1950, he's still a private & only 22 years old Beetle Bailey |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | TECHNOLOGY $200: Manufactured by Seeburg, the M-100-B of 1950 was the 1st of these to play 45s jukebox |
| #572, aired 1987-02-17 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Said to be inspired by the "Ten Best Dressed Women" list, it was started by the F.B.I. in 1950 Ten Most Wanted list |
| #558, aired 1987-01-28 | TV NOSTALGIA $200: A recent book about this now-controversial early 1950's series is aptly titled "Holy Mackerel!" Amos 'n' Andy |
| #550, aired 1987-01-16 | POP MUSIC TRIVIA $400: After his death in 1950, his recording of "September Song" became a big hit Walter Huston |
| #543, aired 1987-01-07 | DEMOCRATS $1,500 (Daily Double): Hearing McCarthy's views on communism in 1950, this cong. & future pres. said, "He may have something" John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| #537, aired 1986-12-30 | WEATHER $500: Strange as it seems, in 1950, New York City hired Dr. Wallace Howell to make this Rain |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | ACTORS & ROLES $1000: 1950's "The Last Angry Man" was the last film for this Academy Award winner Paul Muni |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA $1000: This hero 1st appeared on TV in 1950 & then reappeared "5 centuries later" in 1979 Buck Rogers |
| #512, aired 1986-11-25 | OPERA $1000: General manager of the Met from 1950-72, his biography is titled "5000 Nights at the Opera" Rudolf Bing |
| #508, aired 1986-11-19 | MOVIE STUDIOS $400: They built their first soundstage in 1931 but didn't release a live-action feature until 1950 Disney |
| #441, aired 1986-05-19 | TV HISTORY $800: "One Hour in Wonderland", on Christmas Day, 1950, was his 1st TV production Walt Disney |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | THE 1950's $200: This comedy duo's split-up was big news in 1956 Martin & Lewis |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | THE 1950's $400: It's said the Beat Generation began in poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights" bookshop in this city San Francisco |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | THE 1950's $600: It wasn't until 1959 that full text of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was published in U.S. Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | THE 1950's $800: In 1959, this int'l figure appeared on CBS' "Person to Person" in pajamas rather than fatigues (Fidel) Castro |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | THE 1950's $1000: Ezra Taft Benson, now prophet & pres. of the Mormon church, held this cabinet post in the '50s Secretary of Agriculture |
| #431, aired 1986-05-05 | THEATER $600: On Broadway in 1950, you could have called her "Madam" Ethel Merman |
| #420, aired 1986-04-18 | CARTOONS $200: Star of 1950's Oscar-winning cartoon, he didn't speak words but made noises instead Gerald McBoing-Boing |
| #419, aired 1986-04-17 | THEATER $600: In title of 1950 play, "Come Back Little Sheba" what little Sheba is a dog |
| #410, aired 1986-04-04 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: Founded 1950, today this French "Club" has about 100 resorts worldwide Club Med |
| #352, aired 1986-01-14 | "BEAVER"s $400: Walt Disney's Oscar-winning true-life adventure from 1950 Beaver Valley |
| #339, aired 1985-12-26 | TV TRIVIA $100: In the 1950's his "Tonight's" were spent writing for Red Skelton Johnny Carson |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | THE 1950's $100: Mickey Spillane's violently anti-Communist private eye Mike Hammer |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | THE 1950's $200: In 1952, this plant substance was added to toothpaste, gum, soap, & many other things chlorophyll |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | THE 1950's $300: Howdy Doody host Bob Smith's real hometown Buffalo, New York |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | THE 1950's $400: In 1952, 12-year-old Jimmy Boyd earned a fortune with this Christmas song hit "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | THE 1950's $500: San Francisco police confiscated this beat poet's epic "Howl" when it first came out Allen Ginsberg |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | "YOUNG"s $300: She successfully sued NBC for circulating her 1950 shows without her okay Loretta Young |
| #297, aired 1985-10-29 | SONG BIRDS $200: In a 1950 hit Frankie Laine's heart flies where this bird flies Wild Goose |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | MOVIE TRIVIA $1000: In 1950, he debuted in film playing a paraplegic in "The Men" Marlon Brando |
| #285, aired 1985-10-11 | SPORTS TRIVIA $1000: With a win in this April tourney, Bernhard Langer became most famous German golfer since Hermann Tissies the Masters |
| #283, aired 1985-10-09 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Prime minister de Gasperi of this Mediterranean country was K.O.'d in a 1950 parliamentary brawl Italy |
| #272, aired 1985-09-24 | FOLK MUSIC $800: Formed in 1948 under the aegis of Pete Seeger, by 1950 they were "On Top of Old Smoky" & the charts The Weavers |
| #156, aired 1985-04-15 | RELIGION $600: He was both spiritual & political ruler of Tibet until the Chinese invasion in 1950 the Dalai Lama |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | U.S. HISTORY $200: On 2/29/50 he said, "I have the names of 205 Communist Party members... working in the State Dept." Joe McCarthy |
| #116, aired 1985-02-18 | WORLD CITIES $200: It incorporated with largely Arab Jaffa in 1950 to form one Israeli city Tel Aviv |
| #69, aired 1984-12-13 | TELEVISION $300: In 1950 his "Talent Scouts" cost only $2500 per show Arthur Godfrey |
| #61, aired 1984-12-03 | TV TRIVIA $500: In the spring of 1950 Arthur Godfrey gave TV lessons on playing this instrument the ukulele |
| #7, aired 1984-09-18 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: In 1950, they offered 1st all-purpose credit card Diners Club |
