| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $1200: This song shot to No. 1, 2, 3 o'clock after being featured in the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $800: In 1955 Texas judge Drummond W. Bartlett allowed this for the 1st time in a murder trial, & presumably combed his hair & adjusted his robe television cameras |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | KINDA RHYMES WITH KATIE $600: She's the pampered cocker spaniel who falls for a stray mutt in a 1955 animated film Lady |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | "LOL" $400: In 1955, a U.K. Sunday Express editor declared this novel by Vladimir Nabokov "the filthiest book I have ever read" Lolita |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $1000: In 1955, shortly after becoming chief justice of the U.S., he served as grand marshal Earl Warren |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In this 1955 novel the title character impersonates Dickie Greenleaf The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $600: Rosa Parks stays seated on mass transit & makes history 1955 |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $400: A famous scene from this 1955 Disney film is nicknamed the "spaghetti kiss" Lady and the Tramp |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $1000: This French couture designer's New Look included A-line skirts & dresses in his 1955 spring collection Christian Dior |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1200: In 1929 he wed Vivien Burey, who died in 1955, a year after he argued Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | FOUND IN ROY G. BIV $2000: Frank Sinatra covered this "emotional" Duke Ellington composition in 1955 "Mood Indigo" |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS $200: Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film the Mummy |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1600: TAI, the French abbreviation for "international" this "time", was introduced in 1955 atomic time (Temps Atomique International) |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE NEW YORK KNOCKS $400: The title of this Broadway musical that opened on May 5, 1955 makes its feelings about the local baseball team quite apparent Damn Yankees |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $800: Tom Swift Jr. had "his outpost in space" in 1955, 3 years before his "Race to" this the Moon |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $200: Che Guevara met these 2 Cuban brothers in Mexico in 1955 & enlisted in their cause Fidel & Raúl Castro |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | JOIN THE CLUB $400: "Hey there, hi there, ho there!" was a greeting in the theme song for this TV club that began in 1955 the Mickey Mouse Club |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THEIR OCCUPATIONAL SURNAMES $600: 4-time Kentucky Derby-winning jockey from 1955 to 1986 (Willie) Shoemaker |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | YOU CAN'T GO THERE $400: This military installation in southern Nevada was originally selected in 1955 to test the U-2 spy plane, not UFOs Area 51 |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | THE ELEMENTS $800: In 1955 a bunch of chemists created an element & named it for this chemist who devised the periodic table Mendeleev |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | "D" TOUR $400: When it opened in 1955, a one-day ticket cost $1 for adults & each ride was around 10 to 35 cents Disneyland |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): He worked to develop a flu vaccine before coming up with one for polio, declared safe on April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $1200: This title auntie of Patrick Dennis' novel was too irrepressible for more than a dozen publishers before it came out in 1955 Mame |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1000: She was arrested the evening of Dec. 1, 1955; next morning, fliers calling for a boycott were all over town Rosa Parks |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WHAT A STEAL! $400: After his 1955 death this physicist could not have sung "If I Only Had A Brain", as some of it went to a pathologist's home in Wichita Albert Einstein |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | RUSSIAN WRITERS $400: Vladimir Nabokov's books never earned more than a few hundred dollars until this 1955 novel about a young girl became a hit Lolita |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: A 2022 law that makes lynching a federal hate crime is named for this teen who was brutally murdered in 1955 Emmett Till |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | ANOTHER SHOT AT THE TITLE $600: After 5 previous World Series losses to these crosstown rivals, in 1955 the Brooklyn Dodgers finally beat them for the title the New York Yankees |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | YOU'RE ON A ROLL $200: A newspaper covering Congress since 1955, or the act of going down a list as you check class attendance Roll Call |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $400: Ford introduced a sporty car model in 1955 & gave it this name of an avian spirit of Native American mythology a Thunderbird |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In 1955 13-year-old Susie asked her dad about an easier way to treat her asthma; dad ran Riker Labs & presto! the metered dose this device an inhaler |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | REEL ESTATE $1000: The Cannes villa where Cary Grant romanced Grace Kelly in this 1955 thriller was being offered in 2016 for over $50 million To Catch a Thief |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO OGDEN $400: This country surrounded by China & India joined the United Nations in 1955 Nepal |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HISTORIC ALLIANCES $600: Created during the Cold War in 1955, this alliance joined together several countries including Bulgaria & Albania the Warsaw Pact |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE $1000: Among the most decorated soldiers of World War II, he played himself in the 1955 movie "To Hell and Back" Audie Murphy |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | TV $2000: This TV Western set in Dodge City, Kansas ran for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975 Gunsmoke |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | FROM SHE TO SHINING SHE $400: On Dec. 5, 1955 a Montgomery, Alabama court fined her $10 plus $4 in court costs for violating segregation laws (Rosa) Parks |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | HUNDREDS $200: In 1955 this magazine first published its list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations by annual revenue Fortune |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | METAPHORS $1600: Based on a 1955 speech by a Fed head, slowing the economy is known as taking this away just as the party is getting started the punch bowl |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | NATIONAL DAYS $1600: In Austria, October 26 commemorates the declaration of permanent this in 1955, when the country was caught between East & West neutrality |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | SUBURBS OF CHICAGO $400: In 1955 this man opened his first McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines Ray Kroc |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | JAZZ GREATS $400: This sax great's last public engagement was on March 5, 1955 at Birdland, a New York City club named for him Charlie ("Bird") Parker |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | HIS BIG PAINT SALE $400: This Spaniard's 1955 "Les Femmes d'Alger" sold for $179 million in 2015 Picasso |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $800: This German airline began flying in April 1955 Lufthansa |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $800: The Trask at hand is knowing James Dean starred in this 1955 film East of Eden |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | CANNES $3,600 (Daily Double): Trees like those seen here on the Promenade de la Croisette inspired this name of Cannes' top prize, first awarded in 1955 the Palme d'Or |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | IRON MAN $400: From 1955 to 1962 Glenn Hall started an NHL record 502 consecutive games at this position, playing some of it on his knees goalkeeper |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | GEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): The same substance may crystallize in 2 forms, like these 2 forms of carbon: one was first converted to the other in a lab in 1955 graphite into diamond |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $400: In 2013 a statue of this civil rights icon, appearing as she did on the bus that day in 1955, was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol Parks |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $400: Tom is the first name of this talented Mr., the villain of a 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel Mr. Ripley |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1000: 1955: "Teenage terror torn from today's headlines" Rebel Without a Cause |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | THE CARS $800: The adventures of this Ford model named for Ford's estate lasted from 1955 through 1970 when the name was dropped in the U.S. the Fairlane |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | HISTORY $1200: This agreement that began in 1955 allowed for Soviet military in constituent countries the Warsaw Pact |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR $400: 1955: Harlow Curtice, president of this automaker that was the first corporation to earn $1 billion in net profits in a year General Motors |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AROUND LOS ANGELES $600: Great views of L.A. can be had at lofty Griffith Park Observatory & great movie locations too, like in this 1955 James Dean film Rebel Without a Cause |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Jasper Johns completed the first of his paintings of this in 1955, so he only had to do 48 stars the U.S. flag |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | BUSINESS PAIRS $800: Berkshire Fine Spinning merged with this other textile firm in 1955; the combo's holdings have gone way beyond cotton Hathaway |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Ward Greene's "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" became this 1955 animated Disney film the Lady and the Tramp |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $1600: In 1955 Marty plays a Gibson ES-345 guitar, but that hadn't been made yet--maybe there was an extra trip in this 1985 pic Back to the Future |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ACTOR FACTS $400: Less than a year before this young actor's 1955 death, Dennis Stock took the photo of him known as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" James Dean |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) Damaged by World War II bombs, the State Opera House reopened with a production of this Beethoven opera in November, 1955, 150 years to the month of the work's premiere Fidelio |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In the 1930s the AFL expelled members of this group from its ranks; in 1955 the 2 organizations reunited the CIO |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | HERE'S THE PLAY $400: In this 1955 play Brick tells Maggie, "I don't want to lean on your shoulder, I want my crutch!" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1600: From April 1955: this man's "polio vaccine proves success; millions will be immunized soon" Jonas Salk |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $600: In 1955 this country's P.M. Ngo Dinh Diem printed his ballots on lucky red paper & his opponent's ballot on unlucky green paper South Vietnam |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | FACTS & FIGURES $600: Since its founding in 1955, this company with locations in all 50 states has prepared more than 800 million tax returns H&R Block |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | THE NIFTY '50s $2,000 (Daily Double): Many workers united in 1955 when these 2 labor unions merged the AFL and CIO |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | THE 1950s $200: In 1955 Ray Kroc opened his first of these restaurants with a goal of 1,000 based in the U.S. only; Ray exceeded that goal McDonald's |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | THE 1950s $600: The intersection of California highways 46 & 41 is where this young actor met his end in 1955 James Dean |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | TREES GROW ON MONEY $400: In 1955 a young tree symbolizing the healthy growth of Japan first appeared on the 1-this coin yen |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $800: From 1955 until Jerry became president, the Ford family lived in a 4-bedroom Colonial in Alexandria in this state Virginia |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | THE GREATEST CANADIANS OF ALL TIME $600: (Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) With a performing style that was, ah, quirky--he'd hum & sway as he played--this pianist leaped into international acclaim with his 1955 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" Glenn Gould |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $1600: John played Clarence when this other great 20th century Shakespearean actor directed "Richard III" in 1955 (Laurence) Olivier |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ALL IN THE FAMILY: GOVERNMENT EDITION $1600: Last name of John, who held a Michigan House seat from 1955 to 2015, & of his wife Debbie, who succeeded him Dingell |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BURIED IN GATE OF HEAVEN CEMETERY $400: Sal Mineo got the first of 2 Oscar nominations for this classic 1955 James Dean film about a juvenile delinquent Rebel Without a Cause |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | CIRCUMSTANCE $200: A 1955 sermon by Dr. King was about "looking beyond your circumstances", like "the tragic" one of this forced racial separation segregation |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | WINDY CITY POLITICS $800: For all but 12 years from 1955 to 2011, Chicago had a mayor with this last name Daley |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $1200: "Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.”said Delbert Mann who directed this actor as 1955's "Marty" Borgnine |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | THE EDGARS $1000: The Scotch was good. Too good. I tried to remember. It was 1955, & this writer had won for "The Long Goodbye". & now he had my gun (Raymond) Chandler |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | AWARDS & PRIZES $1600: This vaunted trophy is given out each year in the south of France; the first one went to Delbert Mann for his film "Marty" in 1955 the Palme d'Or |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | TRANSPORTATION $2000: This sporty Volkswagen coupe debuted in 1955 the Karmann Ghia |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | EXPENSIVE STUFF $1200: The white "subway" dress worn by this actress in a 1955 film was not marked down when it went for $5.6 million Marilyn Monroe |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | VEGANS & VEGETARIANS $1200: She refused to give up her seat in 1955 but easily gave up meat in her later years Rosa Parks |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | MAKING THE ZINE $200: "Zine" is a short form of "fanzine", first associated with this genre; the Hugo Awards have honored zines since 1955 sci-fi |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | OTHER LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $800: Lasting from 1955 to 1975, this TV western slung 635 episodes Gunsmoke |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NO OSCAR FOR YOU! $3,500 (Daily Double): Nominated 3 times but with no wins, this reclusive Swede didn't show up in 1955 to collect her honorary Oscar Greta Garbo |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | CHECK IN TO THE POP CULTURE HOTEL $600: A 1955 headline, "Story of a Person Who Walked Lonely Street", is thought to have inspired this Elvis hit "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | SIGNS & GESTURES $800: This gesture of support for the University of Texas at Austin was introduced at a 1955 pep rally Hook 'em Horns |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | WHAT A YEAR! $1000: Rosa Parks sat down for freedom 1955 |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1955 novel is responsible for popularizing the word "nymphet" Lolita |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | NOVELS ABOUT JESUS $1600: The Greek Orthodox church tried & failed to excommunicate Nikos Kazantzakis for writing this 1955 novel The Last Temptation of Christ |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | DISNEYLAND: YESTERDAY & TODAY $600: Original attractions from 1955 that are still around include Autopia & this boat ride in Adventure Land the Jungle Cruise |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | FOOD FRANCHISES $200: "America runs on" baked goods & coffee from this alliterative chain that began franchising in 1955 Dunkin' Donuts |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | SOME SERIOUS FOREIGN COIN $800: Redesigned in 1955, this coin was 100% aluminum a yen |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | JAY LENO'S GARAGE $200: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) First produced in 1955, the Citroen DS remains to this day the most innovative car ever designed... in 1962 it saved the life of this French president when its hydropneumatic suspension kept his car under control at 70 MPH when assassins shot out a tire Charles de Gaulle |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | HISTORIC BOYCOTTS $400: Her 1955 arrest led to a boycott in Montgomery that left buses running three-quarter empty for over a year Rosa Parks |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR $1600: The Karmann Ghia, 1955 to 1974 Volkswagen |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TREATIES $800: A Communist answer to NATO, it was agreed to in 1955 & lasted until 1991 the Warsaw Pact |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | PARTS OF SPEECH $600: Fraznat! I stubbed my toe on that statue of George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979!: fraznat an interjection |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | RUSSIA "N" $1200: After a 1955 novel brought him wealth, he lived in an elegant Swiss hotel (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | EUROPE "N" $400: Belgium & France were among this organization's 1949 founders; West Germany joined in 1955 NATO |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | BUSINESS NAMES $1000: The name of this Warren Buffett conglomerate goes back to 2 Massachusetts textile companies that merged in 1955 Berkshire Hathaway |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | BACK TO BACK TO THE FUTURE $400: As Marty McFly he went from 1985 to 1955 & back Michael J. Fox |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | BACK TO BACK TO THE FUTURE $1200: Marty impresses & distresses the kids of 1955 with his guitar work on this Chuck Berry classic "Johnny B. Goode" |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $200: He was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle Bill Gates |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | CHINESE HISTORY $1200: In 1955 the United States signed an agreement with this leader guaranteeing Taiwan's defense Chiang Kai-Shek |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: These theater awards were created in 1955 at the suggestion of Jerry Tallmer, an editor at the Village Voice the Obie Awards |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | NATO $400: It joined NATO in 1955; in 1990 it dropped the directional part of its name West Germany |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | NATO $600: The Soviets formed this Eastern bloc counterweight to NATO in 1955 the Warsaw Pact |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | THE LEADERS & BEST $600: Leading the fight against polio, his 1955 vaccine quickly dropped incidences of the disease from about 20 to 2 in 100,000 Jonas Salk |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $1000: In 1955, shortly after becoming chief justice of the U.S., he served as grand marshal (Earl) Warren |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | "ROCK" IT TO ME $400: This Bill Haley classic topped the charts in 1955 & hit the Top 40 again in 1974 "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $1200: From 1952 to 1955 Argentina's city of La Plata was named after this late beloved first lady Evita Perón |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | NUMERIC TERMS $2000: Well, that's the this amount of money "Question", the top prize on a quiz show when it debuted in 1955 $64,000 |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | EDUCATION $800: "Why Johnny Still Can't" do this by Rudolf Flesch was a 1981 follow-up to the original 1955 bestseller Read |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $1000: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Between 1921 & 1955 Italian immigrant Simon Rodia constructed a collection of 17 structures he called Nuestro Pueblo or "Our Town"; today, it's a National Historic Landmark known as this the Watts Towers |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | YELL IT LIKE IT IS $2000: In 1955 this conservative thinker & editor wrote that Natl. Review "stands athwart history, yelling stop" William F. Buckley |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN I DIED? $1,200 (Daily Double): James Dean Eisenhower |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | TAKE A LOOK AT THE MONITOR $1600: Introducing this daughter of a minister who earned an historic Oscar nomination in 1955 Dorothy Dandridge |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | LET'S TALK ABOUT "X" $800: It's prominently featured in Pierre Boulez' 1955 composition "The Hammer Without A Master" a xylophone |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | MOVIES' VILLAINS $1,400 (Daily Double): Biff Tannen, whether in 1955, 1985 or 2015 in this film series Back to the Future |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | HYPHENATED TERMS $1600: From 1955 until he retired in 1979, George Meany was the president of this union the AFL-CIO |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $200: Rosa Parks changed history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in this city Montgomery (Alabama) |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | VILLAINS IN THE COMICS $1600: This dick sent Benny the Grip to prison in 1955 Dick Tracy |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE BEST NEW THING IN THE WORLD $200: (Rachel Maddow delivers the clue.) In 1955 the best new thing in the world was Jonas Salk's vaccine for this, which saved hundreds of thousands of children from contracting the disease polio |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | CLOTHES $800: Christian Dior introduced the H-line, the Y-line & in 1955 this flared silhouette the A-line |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | HALT! $1,600 (Daily Double): This transit-based historic event began December 5, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | 5-LETTER FILM FEST $2000: 1955:
Butcher Borgnine balks at Bronx bachelorhood Marty |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | WALES $1600: Built on the site of an old Roman fort, it didn't become the capital of Wales until 1955 Cardiff |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | FOUND IN ROY G. BIV $2000: Frank Sinatra covered this "emotional" Duke Ellington composition in 1955 "Mood Indigo" |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | JAPANESE HISTORY $2000: Holding power for the majority of time since 1955, the dominant political party in Japan is this one, the LDP the Liberal Democratic Party |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER $800: He was minority leader for 2 years before becoming the majority man from 1955 to 1961 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | TEAMS ON THE MOVE $600: MLB: In 1955 the Philadelphia Athletics shifted to this town known for its style of barbecue Kansas City |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | THE CALDECOTT MEDAL $200: 1955's medal went to Marcia Brown for the illustrations of this tale subtitled "Or, the Little Glass Slipper" Cinderella |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS $200: Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film the Mummy |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | CURSES $1200: After this actor's 1955 death driving his silver Porsche Spyder, parts of the car brought disaster to the owners James Dean |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | I PREDICT YOU'RE WRONG $200: Show biz' Variety, referring to this style of music in 1955:
"It will be gone by June" rock 'n' roll |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $400: This Argentine, whose embalmed body was stolen in 1955 & secreted in Italy for 14 years:
"On 2nd Thought, Do Cry for Me" Eva Perón |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of a 1955 film, it's the inclination to become unfaithful after 84 months of marriage the seven-year itch |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: On Dec. 1, 1955 she stood up for many by refusing to stand up & give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery Rosa Parks |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | AT THIS HOUR $400: This 1955 hit begins, "One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock" "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | THE GOLDBERGS $800: Labor lawyer Arthur Goldberg was instrumental in the 1955 merger of the AFL & this union the CIO |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | WARSAW PACT ALUMNI NATIONS $400: This member nation hosted the 1955 meeting that produced the agreement Poland |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: An alcoholic ex-football star named Brick battles his brother for his father's fortune in this 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | DIE FLEDERMAUS $600: A 1955 film version featured the acting & singing of Michael, patriarch of this British acting family Redgrave |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | DIE ANOTHER DAY $2,000 (Daily Double): April 18, 1955
in Princeton, New Jersey Einstein |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | STATE THE SENATOR $600: In 1955:
Prescott Bush Connecticut |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | & NOW THIS UPDATE $2000: This 1955 Broadway baseball blockbuster was a reworking of the Faust legend Damn Yankees |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | THE MARIAN KIND $800: This contralto, seen here, is preparing for her historic 1955 debut at the Met Marian Anderson |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $2000: In 1955 this princess renounced the divorced RAF hero she loved; in 1960 she married the future Earl of Snowden Princess Margaret |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | SUN RECORDS ARTISTS $400: His 5 Sun singles were released in a 13-month period, the last being "Mystery Train" in August 1955 Elvis Presley |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | PLAY SETTINGS $2000: This 1955 drama:
In & around the Hillsboro Courthouse in July Inherit the Wind |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 1955 the Boyd was on the wing as Louise Boyd became the first woman to fly over this point the North Pole |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $800: This doctor's vaccine was declared safe & effective on April 12, 1955, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death (Jonas) Salk |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $1200: In 1955 Churchill left office as PM for good at this round age that no sitting U.S. president has reached 80 |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE "B.G."'s $600: In 2013 one of these worn by Jackie Robinson, possibly in the 1955 & '57 World Series, sold for $373,002 at auction a baseball glove |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | OLDIES $200: "Rock Around The Clock" by this man & His Comets was No. 1 for 8 weeks in 1955 Bill Haley |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE 1950s $400: On December 5, 1955 a bus boycott began in this Alabama city Montgomery |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 1950s EMMYS $1200: His 1954 & 1955 Supporting Actor Emmys were for "The Jackie Gleason Show" (Art) Carney |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES $200: On the first list, in 1955, this word followed "U.S.", "Bethlehem" & "Republic" in the top 30 Steel |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | IT WAS AN ACCIDENT $1000: A race car flew in to the crowd at the 1955 edition of the "24 hours of" this French town, killing dozens of spectators Le Mans |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | LET'S GO "C" A PLAY $1200: This 1955 play by Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | DETROIT ROCKS! $400: After the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, she moved to Detroit & worked for Rep. John Conyers Rosa Parks |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | STUDENT AID $600: The PSAT is the qualifying exam for this scholarship program that began in 1955 the National Merit Scholarship Program |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | BY JOHNNY CASH $1000: Pretty nice show! An Aug. 5, 1955 bill included Wanda Jackson, Johnny & Elvis, his bandmate on this "bright" label Sun (Records) |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | THE PALACE OF NATIONS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew talks to us from outside the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.) I'm on the same spot as the Soviet delegation at the 1955 Big Four Conference; the delegation was led by premier Nikolai Bulganin, but this man to Bulganin's right would later take over Nikita Khrushchev |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | THAT'S MY STORY $400: Published in 1955, his first volume of post-White House memoirs was titled "Year of Decisions" Truman |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | TIME'S 50 WORST CARS OF ALL TIME $800: The DMC-12 by this maker "was heavy, underpowered... and overpriced" & didn't really go back to 1955 when it hit 88 MPH Delorean |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | LADIES IN DIS-TRESS $800: In 1955's "The Virgin Queen", this actress didn't lose her head but lost a lot off the top in the title role Bette Davis |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: A 1955 call from Ray Kroc to Waddy Pratt of this Atlanta-based company began a relationship that's still going Coca-Cola |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | THIS SOUTH AMERICAN LIFE $1200: In 1955 the Roman Catholic Church broke with this Argentine leader after he legalized prostitution & a few other things (Juan) Perón |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | OLD YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS $1200: The practice of pre-authorizing presidential use of force dates to a 1955 resolution re: this island near mainland China Taiwan |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES $400: Since 1955 every Supreme Court nominee has testified before this Senate committee the Judiciary Committee |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | DEAD, BUT VERY BUSY $1000: This scientist died in 1955 but his good name (& image) raked in $10 million in 2011 Albert Einstein |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | AMERICAN MOVIE IDOL $1000: He became an idol after starring in only 3 movies, his life & career cut short in 1955 at age 24 James Dean |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | REMEMBERING ERNEST BORGNINE $600: You might say Borgnine really butchered this 1955 film & won a Best Actor Oscar for the effort Marty |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Norman Mailer was one of the founders of this alternative NYC tabloid in 1955 The Village Voice |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $2000: In 1955 Dwight Eisenhower was a losing nominee despite his 1953 U.N. speech known as these "for Peace" Atoms |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1,400 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) In 1955, the Met made history with the debuts of its first African-American singers; the first man was Bobby McFerrin's father Robert & the first woman was this great contralto of the day Marian Anderson |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | TRUE DAILY DOUBLES $1600: December 5, 1955:
The Montgomery bus boycott begins & 2 unions merge to form this organization the AFL-CIO |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | LONG-RUNNING TV $800: Set in post-Civil War Kansas, it ran from 1955 to 1975 Gunsmoke |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | CAPITAL STEPS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1955 it beat out Aberystwyth to become capital Cardiff |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BARONS & BARONESSES $2000: In 1955 this Woolworth heiress married her 6th husband, German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm Barbara Hutton |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | NEWSPAPERS $400: A career was born in 1955 when Esther Lederer took over the Ann Landers column of this city's Sun-Times Chicago |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | MURDER, SHE WROTE $2000: "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
(1955) Patricia Highsmith |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | A MOVIE & A MEAL $1600: For the "Moonglow" dance scene in this 1955 film, William Holden practiced his dance steps in Kansas roadhouses Picnic |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | SENATE MAJORITY LEADERS $800: This Texas Democrat was leader from 1955 to 1961 LBJ |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | '50s FICTION $400: In 1955 Kay Thompson checked in with her first story of this little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel Eloise |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | PLAY DATES $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1955 impatient Dodger fans got a title & the theater got this Tennessee Williams play about an impatient woman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | THE MIDDLE AGES $200: In 1955, 52-year-old Ray Kroc opened his first burger joint in the chain called not Kroc's but this McDonald's |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | STORAGE $1000: In 1955 the Sentry company made the first one of these classified as fire-resistant a safe |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $800: Led by this "Big O" of basketball, Crispus Attucks High in 1955 won the USA's first state title for an all-black team Oscar Robertson |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | MY SON, THE DOCTOR $400: This man who triumphed over polio in 1955 said his mother had no schooling & lived her ambitions through her kids (Jonas) Salk |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | EXPLORERS $1200: In 1955 this explorer published the aptly titled "High Adventure" Edmund Hillary |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | MAY I QUOTE YOU ON THAT? $1600: Variety in 1955 on this musical style:
"It will be gone by June" rock & roll |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | LYNDON JOHNSON $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1955 LBJ became the youngest Democrat ever to hold this Congressional leadership position Senate Majority leader |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | YOU'RE EXCOMMUNICATED $1200: He was excommunicated in 1955 for enacting an Argentine divorce law & expelling 2 priests (Juan) Perón |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | BESTSELLERS OF THE 1950s $1000: This work by Norman Vincent Peale had us all feeling good in 1955 The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #6134, aired 2011-04-21 | MOVIE NICKNAMES $800: A character nicknamed Nicely Nicely sings "Sit down you're rocking the boat" in this 1955 movie Guys and Dolls |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | PHILMOGRAPHIES $800: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum",
"It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"
(plus his own 1955-59 TV show) Phil Silvers |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YOU ARE SO OUTTA HERE $400: ...at least temporarily; in 1955 this Cuban went into exile in Mexico but forces led by him returned in Dec. 1956 Fidel Castro |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS $400: You knead to know that this product has been fun for kids since 1955, but only after it failed as a wallpaper cleaner Play-Doh |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: Of that bus incident in 1955, she once said, "All I was doing was trying to get home from work" (Rosa) Parks |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | DISNEYLAND RIDES & ATTRACTIONS $200: In a ride that dates from the park's 1955 opening, you spin in these teacups |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | HOLIDAY ALBUMS $400: This crooner's 1955 album "White Christmas" consisted of 10 songs recorded in 1945 Bing Crosby |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | ON OUR MONEY $200: A law passed in 1955 designated that this motto must appear on all U.S. coins & currency In God we trust |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | THE CITY'S MAYOR $200: Richard Daley (1955 to 1976) Chicago |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | EDUCATION $200: In 1955 Rudolph Flesch wrote "Why Johnny Can't" do this, attacking current teaching practices read |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | YANKEES, NO! $400: "Next year" finally came to this team's fans in 1955, when its "Bums" beat the Yanks in the Series for the first time in 6 tries the Brooklyn Dodgers |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV $400: In 1952 Mikhail Gorbachev hit this big city to enter its state university law school; he graduated in 1955 Moscow |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | MOVIES AT SEA $2000: Jack Lemmon was Ensign Pulver, in charge of laundry & morale aboard a ship called The Reluctant, in this 1955 film Mister Roberts |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | THE THINGS YOU SAY! $1200: "Speak" this "to power", meaning tell the mighty what they don't want to hear, was coined in a 1955 Quaker pamphlet truth |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | GETTING COZY WITH SARKOZY $200: French president Nicolas Sarkozy was born Jan. 28, 1955 in this city's 17th arrondissement Paris |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $200: He won in 1955 for his novel "The Long Goodbye" Raymond Chandler |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | TV SHOWS BY GROUPS $800: From 1955, the International Order of Friendly Sons of the Raccoons The Honeymooners |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | "M" & EMMYS $200: Oui! This legendary mime picked up a 1955 Emmy for Best Specialty Act Marcel Marceau |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $400: "Feeding your Baby and Child" was the 1955 follow-up to his more famous 1946 book (Benjamin) Spock |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | PLAY TIME $1600: This 1955 play was based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 Inherit the Wind |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | THE DIEDS OF MARCH $600: This Scotsman died March 11, 1955, 10 years after he won a Nobel Prize for his 1928 discovery of penicillin (Sir Alexander) Fleming |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | JUST HIT "PLAY" $400: This soft modeling clay for kids was introduced in 1955 Play-Doh |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | BEHIND THE SCENES $800: Seen here in 1955 director Nicholas Ray instructs these two young stars in the finer points of rebellion James Dean & Natalie Wood |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $400: Rosa Parks' 1955 arrest led to a yearlong bus boycott in this Alabama city Montgomery |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | SCIENTISTS $1200: Born in Germany in 1912, he co-developed the V-2 rocket against the Allies but became a U.S. citizen in 1955 Wernher von Braun |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | POLKA YOUR EYES OUT $1200: Between 1955 & 1982 a good polka was often on the program of this bandleader's wunnerful TV program Lawrence Welk |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | FILM SCHOOL $800: 1955:
James Dean gets in a knife fight on a school field trip to Griffith Observatory Rebel Without a Cause |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | I HAVE 5 KINGS $800: In 1955 this Atlanta-born man got a Ph.D. in theology from Boston University Martin Luther King |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $200: Be-bopped into the world Aug. 29, 1920; found the joy of sax & flew away March 12, 1955 Charlie Parker |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $800: In this 1955 film Marilyn Monroe says, "When it's hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the icebox!" The Seven Year Itch |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | SUNDAY NIGHT TV $1200: Choices from 1955 included "You Asked for It", "G.E. Theater" & this movie director "Presents" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $400: One of the 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won Pulitzers, in 1948 & 1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (or A Streetcar Named Desire) |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | TOON TUNES $600: 1955:
"The Siamese Cat Song" performed by Peggy Lee Lady and the Tramp |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | THE FORTUNE 500 $400: Since the Fortune 500 list began in 1955, only Exxon, Wal-Mart & this now-troubled auto co. have held the top spot GM (General Motors) |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | THE NUMBER 7 $800: The scene where the subway blows Marilyn's skirt up is in this 1955 film The Seven Year Itch |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $800: Declaring it permanently neutral, Western & Soviet forces withdrew in 1955 from this German-speaking nation Austria |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | ARNOLD PALMER $200: Arnie's first win as a professional was in 1955 at this PGA event north of the border the Canadian Open |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | MOVIE TITLES! $600: Wind! Sweeping down the plain! What more could Gordon MacRae & company ask for in this 1955 musical? Oklahoma! |
| #5601, aired 2009-01-05 | UNITE US $400: Now with about 10 million total members, these 2 unions united in 1955 the AFL & the CIO |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | THE LITTLE DRAMA BOY $2000: When "The Diary of Anne Frank" debuted on Broadway in 1955, David Levin played this boy who's in hiding with Anne Peter |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | AUF WIEDERSEHEN $1200: This German novelist's death was not in Venice but in Switzerland on Aug. 12, 1955 Thomas Mann |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $400: He earned his commission as a kids' show host on CBS from 1955 to 1985 Captain Kangaroo |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | COLORADO $400: On July 11, 1955 the first class of cadets for this academy was sworn in at its temporary location in Denver the Air Force Academy |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $1000: "I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by" Back to the Future |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1000: In 1955 physicists Owen Chamberlain & Emilio Segre discovered the antiproton, which has this kind of charge negative |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: In April 1955, Great Britain became the garden of this man, Churchill's successor as Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark Arena" (Mario) Puzo |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | ON THE "WAR"PATH $2,000 (Daily Double): In response to NATO, Eastern European nations including Poland & the USSR signed this 1955 treaty the Warsaw Pact |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | STATE FACTS $1000: A bus boycott in this state in 1955 helped launch the civil rights movement Alabama |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | AVIATION $1600: In 1955 West Germany's national airline resumed flights under this revived name Lufthansa |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | QUOTATIONS $1000: In 1975 she commented on a 1955 event by saying, "My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work" Rosa Parks |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | AT THE PHARMACY $800: This vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was tested on almost 2 million children from 1954 to 1955 the polio vaccine |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | THE MISFITS $400: In 1953 this big-screen misfit duo met Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde; in 1955 they met the mummy Abbott & Costello |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $800: In 1955 he was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal for "great achievement in field of medicine" Jonas Salk |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | JAPANESE CULTURE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Tokyo, Japan.) In addition to artists & dancers, the government of Japan has designated swordsmiths & sword polishers living national these, an honor introduced in 1955 treasures |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | MILITARY STUFF $400: Deployed in 1955, the MiG-19 was this nation's first supersonic jet fighter the Soviet Union |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | WHEN YOU WERE A TEENAGER, ALEX $800: I was 15 when Joe DiMaggio & this blonde movie legend were divorced on October 31, 1955; it was my big chance! Marilyn Monroe |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $1200: An actor, born Feb. 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana; died Sept. 30, 1955 near Paso Robles, California James Dean |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | SENATE MAJORITY LEADERS $400: 1955 to 1961: This Texan later to be president LBJ |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | "P"EOPLE $400: In 1955 this NAACP member was arrested & fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama Rosa Parks |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem became the first president of this country that no longer exists South Vietnam |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | MOVIE KISSES $600: A mutt & a cocker spaniel slurp spaghetti & smooch in this 1955 classic Lady and the Tramp |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | BASEBALL FRANCHISE SHIFTS $1200: In 1955 the Philadelphia Athletics moved to this city, where they remained for 13 seasons Kansas City |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | ELECTRONICA $800: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) Brando won the Oscar, the Dodgers won the World Series, Bill Haley & The Comets had a monster hit, and Sony introduced the first transistor radio, all in this year 1955 |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | A SIDE OF BACON $800: Kevin played Ensign Pulver in the TV remake of this 1955 movie Mister Roberts |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE FABULOUS FIFTIES $1600: This beauty is seen here, reigning as Miss America 1955, long before she co-starred on "Barnaby Jones" Lee Meriwether |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: In 1955 Congress raised this from 75 cents to $1; today you get more than that from the tooth fairy the minimum (hourly) wage |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | TAKE A PILL $2000: This tranquilizer that sounds like a village was introduced in 1955 & became the USA's bestselling drug Miltown |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | DR. SEUSS $1200: "The Cat in the Hat" was written in response to the literacy problem discussed in the 1955 book "Why" he "Can't Read" Johnny |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | MOMS' MONOGRAMS $800: Mom to Yolanda, born in Montgomery in 1955, & 3 others: CSK Coretta Scott King |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND $400: I'll feel like a kid again on this flying elephant ride, a fixture at Disneyland since 1955 Dumbo |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | BROADWAY'S HAL PRINCE $2000: Hal produced this 1955 musical about a big Washington Senators fan Damn Yankees |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | GIVING YOU THE MUSICAL TIME OF DAY $200: Bill Haley ran down a full 12-hour cycle in this 1955 No. 1 hit "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | DISNEY MOVIES BY CHARACTER $1000: 1955:
Jock Lady And The Tramp |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD $600: A choice she made on Dec. 1, 1955 would lead to a Supreme Court ruling & Martin Luther King's rise to fame Rosa Parks |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | RECORD LABELS $200: Between July 1954 & August 1955 this Memphis label released 5 Elvis Presley singles Sun Records |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On October 6, 1955 the U.S. Army comissioned its first male one of these nurses |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | OBIE WINNERS $400: 1955-56: Chekhov's "Uncle ____" Vanya |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | NASSAU $1000: Nassau's main hospital is named for this royal sister, seen here in the islands in 1955 Princess Margaret |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | NAME THE JAMES $1600: ...who established a cooking school in New York in 1955 James Beard |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | ALL KINDS OF MUSIC $2000: In 1955 Tennessee Ernie Ford sang, "You load" this much & "what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt" sixteen tons |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: This country admitted to NATO in 1955 had limits on its weapons production--bad memories, you know West Germany |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | CATALINA $1600: Catalina had Southern Calif.'s first golf course; from 1931 to 1955 it hosted a tournament named for this Ga. great Bobby Jones |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | LABOR $600: In 1955 2 labor organizations combined to form this; George Meany became its first president the AFL-CIO |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | BESTSELLERS $1200: His "Power of Positive Thinking" was among the top 10 nonfiction bestsellers each year 1952-1955 Norman Vincent Peale |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CARTOON MICE $400: This red-caped Terrytoons rodent has been saving the day on TV since 1955, with operatic flair Mighty Mouse |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | THE STARTING INFIELD $800: The 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers sent out Hodges, Gilliam, Reese & this groundbreaking infielder Jackie Robinson |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | HIT ME $400: The first song listed in the "Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits" is this "rockin'" Bill Haley song from July 1955 "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | ACADEMIA NUTS $200: This physicist worked at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 until his death in 1955 Einstein |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $400: Cyril Ritchard hooked a 1955 Tony for playing Captain Hook in this musical Peter Pan |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | FILMS OF THE '50s $800: Frank Sinatra played lovable gambler Nathan Detroit in this 1955 movie musical Guys & Dolls |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | "WA" THIS WAY $1000: After NATO admitted West Germany in 1955, the USSR & its satellites met & formed this the Warsaw Pact |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | ATTENTION, SPACE CADETS $600: This candy got ahead by placing heads on its dispensers, & in 1955 "Space Trooper" was one of the first Pez |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: A documentary feature on her won a 1955 Oscar; 7 years later, Patty Duke won an Oscar for portraying her Helen Keller |
| #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 | THIS MEANS TROUBLE $1200: Shirley MacLaine debuted in the 1955 film "The Trouble with Harry", directed by this man Alfred Hitchcock |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | FINALS $2000: In 1955 this admiral made his fifth & final expedition to Antarctica Admiral Byrd |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | BASIC TRAIN-ING $800: Inspired by the train in this 1941 film, the Casey Jr. Circus Train opened at Disneyland in its first year, 1955 Dumbo |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | NAME THAT AUTOCRAT $400: Argentina
1946-1955 (Juan) Perón |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | HITCHCOCK $1200: Cary Grant admires Grace Kelly's big diamonds in this 1955 caper To Catch a Thief |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | "WAR" $1600: In 1955 the West formed the Baghdad Pact & the Eastern Bloc formed this military alliance the Warsaw Pact |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | UNITAS AGAINST ALL ENEMIES $400: Johnny was considered "the Man with" this valuable type of appendage, like Frank Sinatra in a 1955 movie "the Golden Arm" |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | WHAT HATH TODD WROUGHT? $1200: He promoted the wide-screen process Todd-AO, first used in the 1955 movie "Oklahoma!" Mike Todd |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | "B" BOYS $800: His 1955 autobiography was titled "Four-Minute Mile" Roger Bannister |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | '50s TV $400: In 1955, 4 versions of the theme to this Disney series hit the Top 20, including one by its star, Fess Parker Davy Crockett |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | '50s TV $600: She won a 1955 Emmy for playing the title role in the "Producers' Showcase" presentation of Peter Pan Mary Martin |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $400: The first name of this cellist born in 1955 means "friendship" Yo-Yo Ma |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | 1955 $200: This Japanese company known for its musical instruments launched a new company to make its motorcycles Yamaha |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | 1955 $400: A popular song that year was this movie theme heard here "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | 1955 $600: Under the leadership of George Meany, these 2 bodies merged in 1955 the AFL & CIO |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | 1955 $800: Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer began having her say in the Chicago Sun-Times under this name Ann Landers |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | 1955 $1000: In Israel, it was shalom & welcome back to this first prime minister who took up that post for a second time Ben-Gurion |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | YANKEE MAGAZINE $400: A 1955 issue featured "A Walk With" this 81-year-old poet Robert Frost |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | MUSICAL TRAINS $800: During the 1954-1955 Sun sessions, Elvis climbed aboard this train "sixteen coaches long" the "Mystery Train" |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | SOUNDS LIKE A RAPPER $1000: Completed in 1955, this bridge crosses the Hudson near Nyack the Tappan Zee |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | THE FABULOUS '50s $2000: The accuracy of the Quartz clock was surpassed in 1955 by one using this element, Cs Cesium |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE OSCARS $1200: Paddy Chayefsky won an Oscar for his very first screenplay--this 1955 Ernest Borgnine film Marty |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | FESTIVUS $1000: In 1955 the Pope moved the service for this observance, including St. John's Passion, to the afternoon Good Friday |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | '50s TV $600: During the 1955-56 season, its episodes included "Alice and the Blonde" & "Bensonhurst Bomber" The Honeymooners |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | FIRST CLASS $200: Its first class of cadets was sworn in July 11, 1955 in Colorado the Air Force Academy |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | THE HISTORY OF DISNEYLAND $800: This man, who co-hosted the grand opening of Disneyland, later became the President of the United States Ronald Reagan |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | JAMES $400: According to Forbes, this actor who died in a 1955 car crash still managed to earn $5 million in 2003 James Dean |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | DRUGS IN THE MOVIES $600: 1955: Frank Sinatra as dope addict Frankie Machine The Man With The Golden Arm |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $800: One of the first British productions to play in the U.S. was a 1955 series about this 12th century outlaw Robin Hood |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | AWARDS $2000: Rickenbacker & Sikorsky were 2 of the first group who were each named "Elder Statesman of" this field in 1955 Aviation |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | "V" SHALL OVERCOME $1200: Forced into exile in 1955, Emperor Bao Dai was this country's last ruling monarch Vietnam |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | "SUMMER" FUN $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Caffe Florian in Venice, Italy.) It was right here at Caffe Florian in Venice where Katharine Hepburn met Rosanno Brazzi in this classic 1955 film Summertime |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | BLACK & WHITE TV $400: This CBS game show that first hit the air in 1955 gave away $1,000,000 in its first 17 months The $64,000 Question |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | YOU AUTO KNOW THIS $400: Every cloud has a silver lining, but not every driver has a Silver Cloud, launched by this co. in 1955 Rolls-Royce |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | HEAVENS TO BETSY! $800: Betsy Blair was nominated for a 1955 Oscar for playing Ernest Borgnine's shy girlfriend in this film Marty |
| #4555, aired 2004-05-28 | "G" WHIZ $600: Excluding noncopyrighted works, this book first published in 1955 is the bestselling book in the world The Guinness Book of World Records |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | MEET THE PRESS $1000: It calls itself "The newspaper of Capitol Hill since 1955" Roll Call |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1600: This 1955 play featuring Maggie, Brick & Big Daddy won the Pulitzer Prize Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $1200: Born in Ulm, Germany in 1879, he died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955 (Albert) Einstein |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | BOB HOPE $1000: This 1955 movie musical about Vaudevillian Eddie Foy & his performing family starred Bob Hope & Jerry Mathers The Seven Little Foys |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $800: On Dec. 1st, 1955, 4 blacks were asked to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery; 3 did, she didn't Rosa Parks |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | METALS $1000: Coffinite, discovered in Colorado in 1955, is an ore that's 60% this valuable radioactive metal uranium |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | RALPH $2000: Later SCLC President, he co-founded the Montgomery (Alabama) Improvement Assoc. in 1955 Ralph Abernathy |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | NOTHING BUT TIME $2000: The atomic clock introduced in 1955, as well as the more recent NIST F-1 model, use atoms of this element caesium |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | THE DEANS LIST $400: 1955's "East of Eden" launched the iconic status of this actor James Dean |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: Done in monochrome, "White Flag" from 1955 is the largest of his flag paintings Jasper Johns |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | MOVIE MUSICALS $600: This 1955 film about gamblers is tops on my list of Marlon Brando musicals Guys and Dolls |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $2000: This 1939 winner's debut at the Met in 1955 was the first for an African-American soloist Marian Anderson |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $200: Baseball was considered bad box office until this 1955 show hit one out of the park with a Best Musical Tony Damn Yankees |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $600: When it premiered in 1955, "A View from the Bridge" was a 1-act play; this playwright later expanded it Arthur Miller |
| #4326, aired 2003-05-26 | THE CANINE FILM FESTIVAL $600: A cocker spaniel & a mutt are the title characters of this 1955 animated classic Lady and the Tramp |
| #4323, aired 2003-05-21 | SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE $600: In 1955 he introduced an amendment for a new House office building; it was completed in 1965 & named for him Sam Rayburn (the Rayburn Building) |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $1000: Leo Szilard & this man finally got a patent for a nuclear reactor in 1955, but it was assigned to the U.S. Enrico Fermi |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC MAKERS $800: In 1955 this "royal" singer had 7 Top 40 hits, including "If I May" & "Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" Nat King Cole |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | TRUMAN $800: Truman celebrated his 71st birthday in 1955 by breaking ground for his presidential library in this Missouri city Independence |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | PUBLICATIONS $600: In 1955 Norman Mailer helped found this alternative NYC newsweekly the Village Voice |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | NOTABLE WOMEN $2000: A street in Montgomery, Alabama is named for this woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus Rosa Parks |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | 1950s MOVIE HOUSE $1600: In this classic 1955 film, James Dean gets in a fight at the Griffith Observatory Rebel Without a Cause |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | U.S. MONEY $600: Legislation in 1955 ordered this phrase on all coins & currency; it was made the national motto in 1956 "In God We Trust" |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | MOVIE MUSICALS $2000: We're sure that Vivian Blaine never lamented playing Adelaide in this 1955 hit Guys and Dolls |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | HI "YO" $1600: He was ordained as a minister in 1955; in 1977 he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Andrew Young |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | "LONG" FILMS $1600: This 1955 Fred Astaire movie had been filmed in 1919, 1931 & as "Curly Top" in 1935 Daddy Long Legs |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | INNOVATORS $200: Fred Morrison came up with the idea for the Frisbee & sold it to this company in 1955 Wham-O |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | CLASSROOM FILMS $400: 1955:
Idealistic Glenn Ford tries to reach troubled students like Sidney Poitier Blackboard Jungle |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | LUNAR TUNES $800: A 1955 film made this standard, heard here, a classic "Moonglow" (from Picnic) |
| #4205, aired 2002-12-06 | THE AFI'S 100 GREATEST LOVE STORIES $400: "Beauty and the Beast" & this 1955 Disney film about puppy love both made the list Lady and the Tramp |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | EUROPE $1600: In 1999 NATO welcomed 3 members of this organization, formed in 1955 to counter NATO the Warsaw Pact |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1955 for "Marty" Ernest Borgnine |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | FONDA THE MOVIES $600: In 1955 Henry recreated for the movies his stage role as this restless cargo officer Mister Roberts |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | 20th CENTURY BUSINESS $800: This company that brought out the TV dinner in the early '50s was bought by Campbell's in 1955 Swanson |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark Arena" Mario Puzo |
| #4110, aired 2002-06-14 | U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott split people apart & these 2 major labor groups merged AFL and CIO |
| #4106, aired 2002-06-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Born in NYC in 1955, this Oscar winner has played a thief, a nun, a psychic & an intergalactic bartender Whoopi Goldberg |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | GRAVE MATTERS $800: His grave in Fairmont, Indiana is marked by a simple stone with his name & the years 1931-1955 James Dean |
| #4089, aired 2002-05-16 | DOCTORS $1600: In 1955 this British physician published his autobiography, "Four-Minute Mile" Roger Bannister |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BRITISH ROYALTY $600: On Oct. 31, 1955 Princess Margaret announced that she was not going to marry the man she loved, this man (Peter) Townsend |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | CINEMATIC TITLE PAIRS $6,000 (Daily Double): 1955: "___ and Back" To Hell |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | MANLY TITLE MOVIE ROLES $800: 1955: "The Man with the Golden Arm" Frank Sinatra |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | THE NIFTY FIFTIES $200: The Dodgers were still based in this NYC borough when they won their first World Series in 1955 Brooklyn |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | TV PAST & PRESENT $1200: This big-bucks quiz show was the No. 1 series for the entire 1955-56 season The $64,000 Question |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | STARDUST MEMORIES $1200: The longest one of these celestial events in the 20th century occurred June 20, 1955 & lasted 7 minutes & 8 seconds eclipse |
| #4014, aired 2002-01-31 | AT HOME WITH THE EISENHOWERS $400: In Nov. & Dec. of 1955, the president spent 5 weeks at home in Gettysburg recuperating from this heart attack |
| #4014, aired 2002-01-31 | SCIENCE FICTION $2000: Books for kids by sci-fi masters include Asimov's "The Heavenly Host" & this author's 1955 "Tunnel in the Sky" Robert Heinlein |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | THE "L" IT IS! $600: In 1955's "Guys and Dolls", Marlon Brando belts out this "lucky" song "Luck Be a Lady' |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | THE MOVIES $1200: Marilyn Monroe's toe gets caught in a bathroom faucet in this 1955 classic The Seven Year Itch |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | ENTERTAINMENT MILESTONES $1000: In 1955 the Independent Television Authority broke this corporation's monopoly on TV in England the BBC |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | COUPLES $500: Rupert Pole married this diarist in 1955 even though she was still married to Hugo Guiler Anaïs Nin |
| #3938, aired 2001-10-17 | LAWRENCE $200: Running for almost 3 decades, this bandleader's TV show premiered in 1955 Lawrence Welk |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: In 1955 physicists Owen Chamberlain & Emilio Segre discovered the antiproton, which has this kind of charge negative |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: (Hi. I'm Martin Luther King III.) In 1955, my father led a bus boycott in Montgomery after this woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat Rosa Parks |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | TIME TO RETIRE $800: In 1955 this former GOP president completed a government commission and retired from public service Hoover |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1000: "A Fable" was a winner for this author in 1955 William Faulkner |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | THE FIRST PERSON $200: In 1955 Donald Campbell became the first person to surpass 200 mph on this surface & survive water |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | THE FILM VAULT $600: This 1955 James Dean classic was advertised with the tagline "Teenage Terror Torn from Today's Headlines" Rebel Without A Cause |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $1000: In January 1955 this great contralto integrated the Metropolitan Opera Marian Anderson |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | MADE-UP HISTORIC NICKNAMES $200: 1879-1955:
"Dr. Frizzyhead" Albert Einstein |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | DUKE $400: John Wayne introduced the first episode of this long-running TV western in 1955 Gunsmoke |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | WORLD OF ANIMATION $200: The first British feature-length cartoon was a 1955 version of this beastly Orwell novel "Animal Farm" |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | '50s TV $1,900 (Daily Double): On September 18, 1955 the "Toast of the Town" variety series changed its title to this The Ed Sullivan Show |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | "M" & EMMYS $200: Judith Anderson won Emmys in 1955 & 1961 for playing this Shakespearean lady Lady Macbeth |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | ENDS IN "EE" $1000: He led Britain's Labour Party from 1935 to 1955 & succeeded Winston Churchill as prime minister in 1945 Clement Attlee |
| #3807, aired 2001-03-06 | EAST TIMOR $200: Of 1955, 1975 or 1995, the year Indonesia invaded East Timor 1975 |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | BIG SCREEN ROYALTY $200: 1939 & 1955:
Bette Davis Queen Elizabeth I |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | "Z"EOGRAPHY $400: Its oldest state university was founded in 1955 as the University College of Rhodesia Zimbabwe |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | BIG SCREEN BIOGRAPHIES $400: 1955:
Audie Murphy Audie Murphy (in "To Hell and Back") |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | THE 1950s $400: The Warsaw Pact was created in 1955 to oppose this defense organization formed by the U.S. & European allies NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | LUCKY "SEVEN" $600: Tom Ewell fantasizes about Marilyn Monroe in this 1955 film The Seven Year Itch |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | FAMOUS FACES $800: First name of this Stooge who joined the act in 1955 Joe (Besser) |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | CATS UP $1,800 (Daily Double): This Tennessee Williams portrait of Southern degeneracy opened in New York on March 24, 1955 "Cat on A Hot Tin Roof" |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | AMERICAN EXPLORERS $300: In 1955 Louise Boyd sent a telegram to the Society of Women Geographers, "Flew over" this "yesterday" North Pole |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | HIS STORY $400: Smile! "Historian with a Camera" is a 1955 biography of this famous Civil War photographer Mathew Brady |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | THEIR FINEST "HOUR" $1000: Fredric March & Humphrey Bogart starred in this tense 1955 film about escaped convicts which terrorize a family The Desperate Hours |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | MISS AMERICA $300: These 3 words precede "Miss America" in the title of the coronation song first used in 1955 "There She Is" |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | AVIATION $400: In April 1955 West Germany revived this name for its national airline Lufthansa |
| #3690, aired 2000-09-22 | TOMMY ROT! $500: In 1955 this novelist wasn't buried at "Magic Mountain" but in Kilchberg, near Zurich Thomas Mann |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | 1950s EMMYS $1000: He won Writing awards for 1955, 1956 & 1957 for projects like "Requiem For A Heavyweight" & "Patterns" Rod Serling |
| #3683, aired 2000-09-13 | IT'S A BYRD $400: In 1955 & 1956, Byrd oversaw the establishment of his fifth Antarctic base to bear this name Little America |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | '50s FASHION $2,000 (Daily Double): Found in a 1955 Sloan Wilson novel title, it was the uniform of the businessman A grey flannel suit |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | QUOTATIONS $800: Of that famous incident in 1955, she said, "All I was doing was trying to get home from work" Rosa Parks |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | FOREWORDS $200 (Daily Double): This 1955 novel's foreword says, "I have no intention to glorify 'H.H.'....he is a shining example of moral leprosy" Lolita |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $400: This designer's Y-line dress, seen here, highlighted a show on the year 1955 Christian Dior |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | THE ALLITERACY RATE $600: The title character of a 1955 novel by Herman Wouk has this alliterative name Marjorie Morningstar |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $500 (Daily Double): A physicist, 1955:
"If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker" Albert Einstein |
| #3611, aired 2000-04-24 | THEY'RE BA-A-CK! $300: For 2001, Ford is bringing back this model, with more than a touch of 1955 styling: Thunderbird |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | HEY "LADY"! $200: A steamy spaghetti scene heats up the action in this 1955 Disney animated romance Lady and the Tramp |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | THE CINEMA $500: This dancer introduced "Something's Gotta Give" in his 1955 film "Daddy Long Legs" Fred Astaire |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | DISNEY DOGS $500: A genteel cocker spaniel finds romance with a mutt from the wrong side of the tracks in this 1955 classic Lady and the Tramp |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | PEOPLE IN VOGUE $400: The wife of a young senator, she appeared with her sister Lee in the March 15, 1955 issue Jacqueline Kennedy |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | THE GOBI DESERT $200: The big Gobi event of 1955 was the completion of one of these spanning the desert a railroad |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | CONDUCTORS $400: In 1955 Herbert von Karajan was named conductor for life of this German city's Philharmonic Berlin |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: A 1955 production of this play featured Roddy McDowall as Ariel, Jerry Stiller as Trinculo & Jack Palance as Caliban "The Tempest" |
| #3525, aired 1999-12-24 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In June 1955 the Argentine navy staged an unsuccessful revolt against this dictator Juan Peron |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | FIZZ-ICS $100: From 1915 to 1955, if you'd like to buy the world one of these it came in the classic 6 1/2-ounce bottle Coke/Coca-Cola |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ $600: Clint Eastwood appeared in the sixth film about this big screen equine in 1955 Francis the Talking Mule |
| #3515, aired 1999-12-10 | 20th CENTURY FACES $800: His first South American regime ended in September of 1955: Juan Peron |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 1 $200: In a famous incident on Dec, 1, 1955 she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat Rosa Parks |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | DON'T CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA $400: This army colonel was Argentina's president from 1946 to 1955 & again from 1973 to 1974 Juan Peron |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | NATO $800: To oppose NATO, in 1955 Communist nations formed the pact named for this city Warsaw |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | SEPTEMBER 30 $200: He was killed on Sept. 30, 1955 when his Porsche Spyder collided with another car James Dean |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS $400: This procedure to correct myopia was first performed in Japan in 1955 radial keratotomy |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | '50s POP MUSIC $200: As he first recorded it, "Tutti-Frutti" was a bit risque, so it was toned down when released as a single in 1955 Little Richard |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | TINSELTOWN TRAGEDIES $600: He was on his way to compete in a car race when he crashed Sept. 30, 1955 James Dean |
| #3432, aired 1999-07-06 | SPLIT $300: In 1955 a joint unity committee was formed to bring these 2 labor groups, split since the '30s, together AFL & CIO |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: You might say director Charles Laughton had a "love-hate" relationship with this 1955 Robert Mitchum film The Night of the Hunter |
| #3424, aired 1999-06-24 | MUST BE "LOVE" $1000: Choice that is the title of the 1955 Doris Day film about singer Ruth Etting Love Me or Leave Me |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: From 1952 to 1955 the Argentine city of La Plata was named temporarily for this woman Eva Peron |
| #3409, aired 1999-06-03 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $100: 1940-1945,
1951-1955 Winston Churchill |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | HISTORIC CHICAGO $200: A graduate of Chicago's De Paul University, he was mayor from 1955 to 1976 Richard J. Daley |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | STATE CAPITALS $100: In 1955 Martin Luther King, Jr. led a boycott of this Alabama capital's segregated bus system Montgomery |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | SPORTS STATS $300: From 1952 to 1955 this Phillie led the National League in wins, complete games & innings pitched Robin Roberts |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | HURRICANE NAMES $300: 1955:
Same as Reno & Jackson Janet |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | THE DAY THEY DIED $800: A movie "rebel":
September 30, 1955 James Dean |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | FRENCH FILM REMAKES $400: 1955 French thriller with Simone Signoret remade, but not retitled, with Sharon Stone in 1996 Diabolique |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | THE WORLD SERIES $200: In 1955 the series between the Yankees & dese Bums became the first televised in color Brooklyn Dodgers |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | EMMY HISTORY $1000: Giving away $1,000,000 in its first 17 months, it was 1955's Best Audience Participation Series The $64,000 Question |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | HE WAS IN THAT? $400: This young hunk wasn't a star yet when he was cast in the 1955 talking mule classic "Francis In The Navy": "Yeah, what the well-dressed boatswain mate wears when he impersonates an Army officer" Clint Eastwood |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | HE WAS IN THAT? $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1955 hit "Blackboard Jungle", this future sitcom actor was billed under his real name, Jameel Farah Jamie Farr |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $500: This 1955 film was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | ONCE UPON A DECEMBER $100: A 381-day-long bus boycott began in this city December 1, 1955 Montgomery, Alabama |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | TOUGH BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Late Kung Fu "dragon" who was crowned the 1955 Miss America Bruce Lee Meriwether |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MAY-DECEMBER MOVIES $1000: The 1955 film "Daddy Long Legs" paired Fred Astaire & this French actress 32 years younger Leslie Caron |
| #3278, aired 1998-12-02 | SPORTS $1000: This Milwaukee NBA team moved to St. Louis in 1955 & then to Atlanta in 1968 Hawks |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | THE WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $400: This member of the New York City Opera from 1955 to 1980 was inducted in 1998 Beverly Sills |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | SONGS BY THE NUMBER $400: In this 1955 hit Tennessee Ernie Ford owed his "soul to the company store" "Sixteen Tons" |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: He became the highest-ranking American at the U.N. in 1955 when he was named undersecretary Dr. Ralph Bunche |
| #3210, aired 1998-07-10 | BERLE $500 (Daily Double): Berle got a ratings blow in 1955 when this performer came on the air opposite him: Phil Silvers |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | BLACK AMERICANS $200: This Montgomery seamstress was thrown off a bus one other time before her famous Dec. 1, 1955 incident Rosa Parks |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | SO FUNNY IT'S SCARY $200: In a 1955 film set in Egypt, this monster chases Abbott & Costello after Lou eats its medallion the mummy |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | COMEDIES $800: From 1946 to 1955, the man seen here (Shemp Howard) was partnered with these two men in a series of comedy shorts: Moe Howard & Larry Fine |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | DEATH SENTENCES $200: Approaching another car near Paso Robles, Ca. in 1955, his last words were "That guy's gotta see us" James Dean |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | APRIL $400: The April 12, 1955 news of the Salk polio vaccine coincided with the 10th anniversary of this man's death FDR |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | FAMOUS LATINOS $200: This Emmy-winning "NYPD Blue" star was born in Brooklyn in 1955 Jimmy Smits |
| #3132, aired 1998-03-24 | SMILE! $1000: Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" was based on this 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night |
| #3121, aired 1998-03-09 | PERFECTION IN SPORTS $500: This Giants centerfielder hit more than 50 home runs in a season twice, in 1955 & 1965 Willie Mays |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD CINEMA $1000: Simone Signoret plots the death of her schoolmaster lover in this 1955 French classic Diabolique |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | SPORTS $400: This Milwaukee NBA team moved to St. Louis in 1955 & then to Atlanta in 1968 Hawks |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $500: In 1955 Arlington House was dedicated as a memorial to this Confederate general, who once lived there Robert E. Lee |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | MIND YOUR BUSINESS $200: In 1955, a transistor radio was one of the first products to carry this brand name founded by Akio Morita Sony |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | OCTOBER 1955 $200: After being moidered World Series after series, dese bums won in 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | OCTOBER 1955 $400: The Air Force released a 316-page report on an 8-year investigation that said there's no proof of these UFOs |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | OCTOBER 1955 $600: On Oct. 24, 1955 France recognized the Diem government in this country South Vietnam |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | OCTOBER 1955 $800: Andy Griffith & Don Knotts opened on Broadway October 20, 1955 in this play No Time For Sergeants |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | OCTOBER 1955 $1000: Joe DiMaggio & she were officially divorced October 31, 1955 Marilyn Monroe |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | ONE-HIT WONDERS $1000: 1955's "Earth Angel" was the only earthly hit for this ornithological quartet The Penguins |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | SCIENTISTS $1000: In 1955 this Danish physicist organized the 1st Atoms For Peace conference in Geneva Niels Bohr |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $300: "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by this Welsh poet was published in 1955, 2 years after his death Dylan Thomas |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | BEFORE YOU WERE BORN $400: In 1955 2 of the largest labor organizations in the U.S. merged, the AFL & this one CIO |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | POT LUCK $500: In 1955 he was elected to the first of 12 2-year terms as president of the AFL-CIO George Meany |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSEUMS $500: The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has an exhibit on this city's 1955 bus boycott Montgomery, Alabama |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | "HARRY" MOVIES $500: Shirley MacLaine made her film debut in this 1955 Hitchcock film that may have inspired "Weekend At Bernie's" The Trouble With Harry |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BLACK AMERICA $400 (Daily Double): The modern civil rights movement began in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus Rosa Parks |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HE WAS IN THAT? $1000: Peter Graves played the father of the children terrorized by preacher Robert Mitchum in this 1955 thriller "The Night of the Hunter" |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: The palace of this king who ordered the massacre of the innocents was discovered at Masada in 1955 Herod The Great |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $600: In 1955 this monthly founded by DeWitt & Lila Wallace was forced to accept advertising for the first time Reader's Digest |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | 1955 $200: This clergyman was asked to lead a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | 1955 $400: In 1955 this phrase became obligatory on all U.S. currency "In God We Trust" |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | 1955 $600: On September 20 Phil Silvers began playing this Army master sergeant on CBS Sgt. Bilko |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | 1955 $800: He began his tenure as editor-in-chief of National Review William F. Buckley |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | 1955 $1000: On April 5 this Democrat defeated Republican Robert E. Merriam in the Chicago mayoral race Richard Daley |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MOVIE CLASSICS $500: Susan Strasberg played Kim Novak's little sister in this 1955 film based on a William Inge play Picnic |
| #2800, aired 1996-11-01 | MEDICINE $100: He published "A Baby's First Year" in 1954 & "Feeding Your Baby and Child" in 1955 Dr. Spock |
| #2800, aired 1996-11-01 | ECONOMICS $200: John Kenneth Galbraith wrote a 1955 book on "The Great Crash" of this year 1929 |
| #2800, aired 1996-11-01 | ABDICATIONS $1000: In 1955 he abdicated the Cambodian throne in favor of his father & took charge of the country's affairs Norodom Sihanouk |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: George's dad on "Seinfeld" & Ben Stiller's father in real life, he played Trinculo in "The Tempest" in 1955 Jerry Stiller |
| #2784, aired 1996-10-10 | DRAMA $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1955 Lawrence & Lee play, high school teacher Bertram Cates is based on John Scopes Inherit the Wind |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | AWARDS $300: "Good grief"; this cartoonist won the Reuben Award twice, in 1955 & 1964 Charles Schulz |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $800: The colorized version of this 1949 film starring Orson Welles should use "Lime" green -- Harry Lime The Third Man |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $1000: Herb Stempel, a contestant in "Quiz Show", may be able to tell you this film won for 1955 Marty |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | CINEMATIC SIBLINGS $500: Richard Davalos' screen debut in this 1955 film was overshadowed by James Dean, who played his brother East of Eden |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: The Hawaii branch of this university was founded in 1955; the one in Provo, Utah dates back to 1875 Brigham Young |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | AMERICAN MOVIE STARS $800: This star of "East of Eden" & "Rebel Without A Cause" was only 24 when he died in a 1955 car crash James Dean |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | LABOR $1000: This man was head of the AFL-CIO from its merger in 1955 until he retired in 1979 George Meany |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On July 11, 1955 this military academy opened with temporary headquarters in Denver the Air Force Academy |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | SINGERS & THEIR FILMS $400: She earned a 1955 Oscar nomination for acting in "Pete Kelly's Blues" 3 years before she gave us "Fever" Peggy Lee |
| #2708, aired 1996-05-15 | THE 5th $600: Serving a total of 8 years, 7 months & 25 days, he resigned as British prime minister April 5, 1955 Churchill |
| #2684, aired 1996-04-11 | ABBOTT & COSTELLO $200: In 1955 Abbott & Costello met this Mack Sennett police group the Keystone Kops |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $200: Their 1955 show, "Pipe Dream", about the people of Cannery Row, was based on this author's "Sweet Thursday" John Steinbeck |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | COLUMNISTS $600: In 1955 she began her advice column by assuming the pen name of a columnist who just died Ann Landers |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | INVENTORS $100: His West Orange, New Jersey home was made a national historic site in 1955 Thomas Edison |
| #2659, aired 1996-03-07 | "CAT"s & "DOG"s $300: Maggie Pollitt is the high-strung title heroine of this 1955 Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | THE 1950s $100: Deposed as leader of Argentina in 1955, he fled to Paraguay & then to Spain Juan Perón |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | U.S. HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): Rosa Parks was on a bus in this city December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat Montgomery, Alabama |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | FILMS OF THE '50s $400: Clare Boothe Luce protested the 1955 Venice showing of this Glenn Ford-Sidney Poitier high school film Blackboard Jungle |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | BOGIE $500: Bogie's only dramatic TV performance was as Duke Mantee in this play shown May 30, 1955 The Petrified Forest |
| #2587, aired 1995-11-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1955 this Cook County clerk was elected Chicago's mayor Richard Daley |
| #2585, aired 1995-11-24 | WORLD HISTORY $1,111 (Daily Double): For his independence of Soviet influence, Imre Nagy was removed as this country's premier in 1955 Hungary |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | PIGS ON FILM $400: Maurice Denham voiced barnyard revolt leader Napoleon the Pig in a 1955 version of this Orwell classic Animal Farm |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: Roddy McDowall played this magical sprite in a 1955 production of "The Tempest" in Stratford, Conn. Ariel |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | THE MOVIES $100: In this 1955 film, Sal Mineo asks James Dean, "Jim, do you think the end of the world will come at nighttime?" Rebel Without a Cause |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: In 1955 & 1956 Thor Heyerdahl headed an expedition to study the giant stone statues on this island Easter Island |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | MOVIE DEBUTS $400: This "Unforgiven" star made his film debut as a lab technician in the 1955 3-D thriller "Revenge of the creature" Clint Eastwood |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | BIRTHPLACES $400: If you're a "Die Hard" fan of this actor, you might know he was born in Germany in 1955 Bruce Willis |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $800: Jack Palance had "a lean and hungry look" when he played this role in "Julius Caesar" in 1955 Cassius |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | '50s FILM FACTS $800: Jo Van Fleet won a 1955 Oscar for her 1st screen role, as James Dean's mother, Kate, in this film East of Eden |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | '50s FILM FACTS $1000: Kim Novak & William Holden danced to "Moonglow" in this 1955 film Picnic |
| #2516, aired 1995-07-10 | CROONERS $600: In 1955, when he crooned "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup", he was "Unforgettable" Nat Cole |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | SPORTS $500: During his 1955-1966 career, this Dodger pitcher averaged 9.28 strikeouts per 9 innings (Sandy) Koufax |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | THE OSCARS $400: A documentary about this woman won a 1955 Oscar, 7 years before Patty Duke won for playing her as a child Helen Keller |
| #2501, aired 1995-06-19 | POLITICIANS $2,200 (Daily Double): This Texan was Majority Leader of the Senate from 1955 to 1961 Lyndon Johnson |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | PHOTOGRAPHY $100: In 1955 Henri Cartier-Bresson became the first photographer to have an exhibit in this French museum the Louvre |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | NEWSPAPERS $400: Robert R. McCormick took control of this Chicago paper in 1910 & held it until his death in 1955 the Tribune |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | ART $400: This Spanish surrealist lived in the U.S. 1940-1955 Dali |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: In 1955 Dixie Home Stores combined with Winn & Lovett, becoming this company Winn-Dixie |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $100: William Shatner portrayed Lucius in a 1955 Canadian production of this play; Lorne Greene was Brutus Julius Caesar |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: Mass inoculations with his polio vaccine began in April 1954 & in April 1955 were deemed successful Jonas Salk |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $600: In 1955 she became the first black singer to perform opera on TV when she appeared in "Tosca" on NBC Leontyne Price |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $1,800 (Daily Double): From 1955 to 1971, this statesman served as an undersecretary of the U.N. Ralph Bunche |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | TRANSPORTATION $600: This Ford classic was introduced in the form of a two-seat sports car in 1955 the Thunderbird |
| #2404, aired 1995-02-02 | FEBRUARY 8 $100: In 1955 Nikolai Bulganin succeeded Georgi Malenkov as premier of this country the Soviet Union |
| #2400, aired 1995-01-27 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: A brewer began publishing this book in 1955 to help settle arguments in British pubs The Guinness Book of World Records |
| #2400, aired 1995-01-27 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: In 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois, he opened the first McDonald's franchise Ray Kroc |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | EUROPEAN HODGEPODGE $500: This city built on the site of a Roman fort became the capital of Wales in 1955 Cardiff |
| #2384, aired 1995-01-05 | HISTORY $200: He served as president of Argentina twice, 1946-1955 & 1973-1974 (Juan) Peron |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | POLAND $400: Treaty of friendship, cooperation & mutual assistance signed by Poland & 7 others in 1955 Warsaw Pact |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | THE COAT CLOSET $500: This great French couturier debuted his A-Line coat in 1955 (Christian) Dior |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | OPERA LIBRETTISTS $600: This late, great southern playwright wrote the libretto for the 1955 opera "Lord Byron's Love Letter" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $500: Jack Palance played the uncouth Caliban in a 1955 production of this Shakespeare play The Tempest |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | THE 1950s $300: His support waned after his wife Evita died in 1952 & he was forced into exile in 1955 (Juan) Peron |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | THEATRE $800: The Scopes Monkey Trial inspired this play that opened in 1955 Inherit the Wind |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | HIGH SOCIETY $500: In 1955 this five-and-dime heiress split from husband No. 5, playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, & married a baron Barbara Hutton |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: In 1955 he was given command of the Navy's expedition to Antarctica, Operation Deepfreeze Admiral Byrd |
| #2316, aired 1994-10-03 | THE CONGRESS $1000: She never missed a Senate roll-call vote from June 1955 to July 1968 (Senator) Smith |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | IDAHO $400: In 1955 Arco, Idaho became the first U.S. town lighted with electricity supplied by one of these a nuclear power plant |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $100: In 1955 this Anaheim attraction opened to become "The Happiest Place on Earth" Disneyland |
| #2270, aired 1994-06-17 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: He's the subject of a 1955 biography subtitled "Historian with a Camera" Mathew Brady |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | HISTORY $100: In 1955 this man formed the 26th of July movement & began planning his Cuban revolution Castro |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | THE MOVIES $300: This future "M*A*S*H" actor had a bit role in 1955's "The Blackboard Jungle", billed as Jameel Farah Jamie Farr |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BLACK AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): A major Detroit thoroughfare is named for this woman who sparked the civil rights movement in 1955 Rosa Parks |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $800: This New York City borough's Eagle newspaper folded in 1955 Brooklyn |
| #2237, aired 1994-05-03 | U.S. "A"s $200: In 1955 this union merged with its rival, the Congress of Industrial Organizations the American Federation of Labor |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | THE 1950s $200: In November 1955 rear admiral Richard E. Byrd was named to head the program concerning this continent Antarctica |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | POT LUCK $800: While governor of New York 1943-1955, he ran for president twice & lost Dewey |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | THE 20th CENTURY $300: He was forced to flee Argentina in 1955 when members of the navy joined an army revolt Juan Perón |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $800: Don Ameche & Hildegarde Neff starred in this 1955 Cole Porter musical named for fancy hosiery Silk Stockings |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | TOYS & GAMES $200: When introduced in 1955, this modeling compound came in 1 color, off-white, & was sold only to schools Play-Doh |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | AUTHORS $600: His famous story "Franny" was originally published in 1955; "Zooey" came along 2 years later J.D. Salinger |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: This 1955 Tennessee Williams play has a "feline" title Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | ARGENTINA $300: In September 1955 General Eduardo Lonardi succeeded this man as leader of Argentina (Juan) Peron |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | GUINNESS RECORDS $300: With over 300 million visitors since 1955, this is the world's most attended "amusement resort" Disneyland |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | '50s FILM FACTS $400: He portrayed King Henri II of France in the 1955 film "Diane" 18 years before we spied him as James Bond Roger Moore |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In this 1955 musical comedy, Joe Boyd's favorite baseball team was the Washington Senators Damn Yankees |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $400: In this 1955 film, Tom Ewell's character had a name, but Marilyn Monroe's didn't "The Seven Year Itch" |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Part of this poet's autobiography was reprinted in 1955 as "Prairie-Town Boy" Carl Sandburg |
| #2118, aired 1993-11-17 | 1950s WOMEN $600: On January 7, 1955 she made history as the first black in a major role at the Metropolitan Opera Marian Anderson |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $500: Born in Ulm, Germany March 14, 1879, he died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey Albert Einstein |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | ART $1000: This American artist painted his series of flags, targets & numbers in 1954 & 1955 Jasper Johns |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | WOMEN $100: Raisa Titorenko married this man in 1955 MIkhail Gorbachev |
| #2080, aired 1993-09-24 | OKLAHOMA! $800: In a 1955 production in Paris, Jack Cassidy played Curly to this future wife's Laurey Shirley Jones |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | NOTORIOUS $1000: This "Red Light Bandit" wrote 4 books while on Death Row, including "Trial by Ordeal" in 1955 Caryl Chessman |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | AWARDS $100: In 1955 this creator of Mickey Mouse was a recipient of the Audubon Medal for Conservation Walt Disney |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | THE 1950s $600: Among the top musicals of 1955 was this one combining baseball & the devil Damn Yankees |
| #2037, aired 1993-06-15 | PEOPLE $1000: A U.S. senator from Kentucky before becoming vice president, he returned to the Senate in 1955 Alben Barkley |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): On Nov. 2, 1955 President Eisenhower named this explorer to head Antarctic affairs Richard Byrd |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | SPECIALS $300: NBC had a couple of specials March 7, 1955: the 1st coast-to-coast Emmy show & this musical with Mary Martin Peter Pan |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | U.S.A. $800: In 1955 Arco, Idaho became the world's first community to be powered by this nuclear power |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | TV WESTERNS $100: On Sept. 10, 1955, John Wayne introduced the 1st episode of this western set in Dodge City, Kansas Gunsmoke |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | FILM BIOGRAPHIES $600: This World War II hero played himself in the 1955 film, "To Hell and Back" Audie Murphy |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | BLACK AMERICA $500: In 1955 she helped launch the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus Rosa Parks |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | SPENCER TRACY FILMS $800: This 1955 film was based on the story "Bad Time At Hondo" Bad Day at Black Rock |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | MODERN BLACK HISTORY $1000: It lasted from December 5, 1955 to December 21, 1956 the Montgomery bus boycott |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | AWARDS $500: In 1955 she won the first Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award Agatha Christie |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | MUSICIANS $1000: Born to Chinese parents in Paris in 1955, this cellist made his debut at Carnegie Hall when he was 9 Yo-Yo Ma |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | KENTUCKY $200: In 1955, many years before the nation followed suit, Kentucky lowered the voting age to this 18 |
| #1941, aired 1993-02-01 | HISTORIC NAMES $100: In 1955, at 80, he resigned as British prime minister because of age Churchill |
| #1937, aired 1993-01-26 | MASCOTS $500: In 1955 Mach 1 became the first Falcon mascot of this U.S. service academy the Air Force |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | 1955 $200: This actor, age 24, was killed in an auto accident September 30 James Dean |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | 1955 $400: In January the Chase National Bank announced its plan to merge with the bank of this borough Manhattan |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | TV ANIMALS $400: Gene Autry's "Wonder Horse", he starred in his own series in the 1955-56 season Champion |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | 1955 $500 (Daily Double): This chief of the U.S. Army Guided Missile Development Division said space travel will be possible "in our time" Werner von Braun |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | 1955 $600: At its founding convention in December, it elected George Meany president the AFL-CIO |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | 1955 $800: On September 19, after a 3-day revolt by his army & navy, this Argentine president resigned (Juan) Peron |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | POLITICIANS $400: From 1955 to 1961 this Texan was the Senate majority leader (Lyndon) Johnson |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | MYSTERIES $200: It's the last name of Tom, the psychopath Patricia Highsmith created in 1955: believe it or not! Ripley |
| #1873, aired 1992-10-28 | THE MOVIES $300: Ernest Borgnine & Paddy Chayefsky both won Oscars for this 1955 movie about a Bronx butcher Marty |
| #1862, aired 1992-10-13 | I LOVE LUCY $300: John Wayne made his TV acting debut in 1955 when Lucy stole his footprints from this locale Grauman's Chinese Theatre |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: John C. Lilly began his pioneering work on the brain of this sea creature in 1955 the bottlenose dolphin |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: He collaborated on the 1955 musical "Silk Stogkings" with Leueen MacGrath & Abe Burrows, not Moss Hart George Kaufman |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | CLASSIC PLAYTHINGS $400: In 1955 Rainbow Crafts, a soap & cleaning goods maker, came up with this bright, moldable stuff Play-Doh |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | IOWANS $200: John L. Lewis was the first president of this labor group that merged with the AFL in 1955 the CIO |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | HODGEPODGE $600: It's the village in the Village Voice, a weekly founded in 1955 Greenwich Village |
| #1729, aired 1992-02-20 | SCIENCE FICTION $100: The 1955 novel "The Body Snatchers" became a 1956 film with this slightly longer title Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| #1729, aired 1992-02-20 | THE ROYAL FAMILY $1000: On October 31, 1955 she announced that she had "decided not to marry" a divorced RAF fighter pilot Princess Margaret |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | EDUCATION $200: Teaching practices were attacked in Rudolph Flesch's 1955 book "Why" he "Can't Read" Johnny |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: Moderator of "Firing Line" who founded the Conservative journal National Review in 1955 (William) Buckley |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | PLAYS OF THE '50s $500: Shelley Winters & future husband Anthony Franciosa starred in the 1955 play "A Hatful of" this A Hatful of Rain |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | "YANKEE"s $500: The song "Whatever Lola Wants" was introduced by Gwen Verdon in this 1955 Broadway play Damn Yankees |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: 2 days after this president's heart attack Sept. 24, 1955, the N.Y. Stock Exchange lost $14 billion Eisenhower |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | QUOTES $300: In a 1955 interview John Mason Brown called it "chewing gum for the eyes" television |
| #1652, aired 1991-11-05 | NONFICTION $1000: A journal kept by this British adventurer & soldier was published in 1955 as "The Mint" T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: She joined the New York City Opera Company in 1955, & 24 years later became its director Beverly Sills |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | FASHION $600: In 1955, the boys were wearing coonskin caps, & the girls, these skirts named for dogs poodle skirts |
| #1573, aired 1991-06-05 | NEW JERSEYIANS $800: This scientist lived at 112 Mercer St. in Princeton from 1935 until his death in 1955 Albert Einstein |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | NEW MEXICO $400: The cutthroat species of this fish was adopted as the state fish in 1955 trout |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: In 1955, 2 brothers named Richard & Henry founded this famous tax accounting firm H&R Block |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | NOVELS $600: His first novel, "The Dark Arena", was published in 1955, 14 years before "The Godfather" (Mario) Puzo |
| #1522, aired 1991-03-26 | ART MOVEMENTS $600: This movement, which began about 1955, used advertising & the mass media as subjects pop art |
| #1465, aired 1991-01-04 | THE 1950s $1000: In 1955, he completed his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #1457, aired 1990-12-25 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The academy for this branch of the service opened in 1955 the Air Force |
| #1456, aired 1990-12-24 | DWIGHT EISENHOWER $800: In 1955, this event caused the sharpest drop in the stock market since the Great Crash Eisenhower's heart attack |
| #1406, aired 1990-10-15 | BURT LANCASTER $400: In a 1955 film based on a Tennessee Williams play, Burt sported this title tattoo on his chest a rose tattoo |
| #1396, aired 1990-10-01 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $300: Named "Most Promising Newcomer" in 1955, she won in 1989 for "Madame Sousatzka" Shirley MacLaine |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | 1955 $100: He celebrated his 71st birthday May 8 by breaking ground for his presidential library in Independence, Missouri Truman |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | 1955 $200: These 2 labor groups ended a 20-year division when they merged in December the AFL-CIO |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | 1955 $300: "The Ballad of" this man sold over 4 million copies on some 15 different record labels Davy Crockett |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | 1955 $400: Georgi Malenkov, who had succeeded this Soviet leader, was demoted to the Ministry of Power Stations Stalin |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | N.Y. YANKEES $300: This Yankee catcher was named the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1951, 1954 & 1955 Yogi Berra |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: "Gilligan's Island" co-star Jim Backus played James Dean's dad in this 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | MODERN HISTORY $800: He worked for Churchill during WWII & succeeded him as prime minister in 1955 Anthony Eden |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Arlington House in Arlington Nat'l Cemetery became a memorial to this general in 1955 Lee |
| #1339, aired 1990-05-31 | AUSTRIA $100: In order to gain independence in 1955, Austria agreed to observe this type of foreign policy Neutrality |
| #1339, aired 1990-05-31 | "PEN" PALS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1955 this group had its only Top 40 hit with the following song:
("Earth Angel, Earth Angel, will you be mine...") The Penguins |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | THE EMMYS $500: "Patterns", a 1955 episode of the "Kraft Television Theatre", won this writer his 1st of 6 Emmys Rod Serling |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | HISTORY $1000: He bankrupted his country & fell from power in 1955; in 1973 he was made president again (Juan) Perón |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | HISTORY $400: After this British bacteriologist died in March 1955 he was interred in a crypt in St. Paul's (Sir Alexander) Fleming |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | MARLON BRANDO $1000: He took a gamble & made his musical debut in this 1955 film, & he did his own singing, too "Guys And Dolls" |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | OPERA $800: Menotti's "The Saint of" this "Street" won the Drama Critics Award & a Pulitzer Prize in 1955 Bleecker |
| #1274, aired 1990-03-01 | FANTASTIC FILMS $100: Marty McFly traveled back to 1955 in a souped-up DeLorean in this 1985 film "Back To The Future" |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: He became Great Britain's 1st sea lord in 1955, 8 years after serving as viceroy of India Mountbatten |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | ROSES $800: In 1955 Mitch Miller knocked out "Rock Around the Clock" from the No. 1 spot with this song "Yellow Rose of Texas" |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: In 1955, the USSR & its satellites signed this pact in Poland after NATO admitted West Germany the Warsaw Pact |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | FAMOUS PAIRS $1,400 (Daily Double): These 1955 & 1957 short stories by J.D. Salinger were published in one book in 1961 "Franny" & "Zooey" |
| #1216, aired 1989-12-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $100: In 1955, for the 1st time, some 6.5 mil. children in the U.S. were vaccinated against this disease polio |
| #1209, aired 1989-11-30 | HISTORICAL FILMMS $200: The 1955 film "Prince of Players" featured John Derek as this "dramatic" assassin John Wilkes Booth |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | CLOTHING $400: Along with "S", Dior assigned these 2 letters to his "line" dresses in 1954 & 1955--& they didn't bomb A-line dresses & H-line dresses |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $800: Judy Garland & James Mason both won in 1955 for their roles as a married couple in this film A Star is Born |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $200: "The Long Goodbye", Raymond Chandler's 6th novel about this detective, was voted 1955's best mystery novel Philip Marlowe |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ACTORS & ROLES $600: Bette Davis has played this monarch in 2 films; 1st in 1939 & again in 1955 Queen Elizabeth I |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this 1955 novel, Humbert Humbert marries widow Charlotte Haze just to be near her Nymphet daughter "Lolita" |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | THE 1955 EMMYS $100: For his use & encouragement of television, this president got a special Governor's Award Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | THE 1955 EMMYS $200: He won the Emmy for "Best Male Singer" a week after "Hot Diggity" was released Perry Como |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | THE 1955 EMMYS $300: Set in a Kansas army camp, this show won 4 Emmys: Writing, Comedy Series, Director & Comedian You'll Never Get Rich or the Sergeant Bilko show (The Phil Silvers Show) |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | THE 1955 EMMYS $400: His current act could include mime of his picking up a "Best Specialty Act" Emmy Marcel Marceau |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | THE 1955 EMMYS $500: Choreographer Tony Charmoli waltzed away with an Emmy for this Lucky Strike music countdown show Your Hit Parade |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | THE "IN" CROWD $500: Paul Muni & Ed Begley starred as opposing lawyers in this 1955 play based on the Scopes trial Inherit the Wind |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS $300: Jimmy Stewart knows, from a 1955 film he did, that "SAC" stands for this the Strategic Air Command |
| #1107, aired 1989-05-30 | MARCH $300 (Daily Double): On March 26, 1955 this "Ballad" hit No. 1 on the charts & stayed there for 5 weeks:
"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee /
Greenest state in the land of the free /
Raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree /
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three..." "Davy Crockett", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In 1976 Mao, who ran China since 1949, & this man, who ran Chicago since 1955, both died (Richard) Daley |
| #1033, aired 1989-02-15 | EUROPE $1,000 (Daily Double): Common name of the treaty the Soviet Union & 6 of its satellites signed in Poland in May 1955 the Warsaw Pact |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | BRIDGES $400: Playwright who in 1955 described "A View From The Bridge" Arthur Miller |
| #968, aired 1988-11-16 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: In 1955 this miniskirt innovator opened her first shop on King's Road in Chelsea Mary Quant |
| #963, aired 1988-11-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: Ward Greene's story of the same name inspired this 1955 Disney doggie romance "Lady And The Tramp" |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | DRAMA $800: Susan Strasberg played the leading role in the original 1955 production of this play set in Amsterdam The Diary of Anne Frank |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | THE THREE R's $1000: The subtitle of this 1955 book by Rudolf Flesch is "& What You Can Do About It" Why Johnny Can't Read |
| #954, aired 1988-10-27 | SPORTS TRIVIA $300: Retiring in 1955, he became the only heavyweight champion who never lost a fight in his career Rocky Marciano |
| #928, aired 1988-09-21 | THE 1950s $300: In April 1955, for the 1st time in 33 years of publication, Reader's Digest carried these advertisements |
| #928, aired 1988-09-21 | THE 1950s $500: This industrialist sold RKO Pictures to General Tire in July 1955 Howard Hughes |
| #926, aired 1988-09-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $100: In 1955 Walter Matthau played Nathan Detroit in a revival of this Broadway musical Guys and Dolls |
| #926, aired 1988-09-19 | POLITICAL NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): In office from 1955 until his death in 1976, he was called "the last of the big-city bosses" (Richard) Daley |
| #906, aired 1988-07-11 | TV TRIVIA $500: From 1952-1955, the daughter of this prime minister was the 1st host of "Hallmark Hall of Fame" Winston Churchill |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $500 (Daily Double): New Yorker who topped pop charts in 1955 with the following song about a Texan:
"There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see / Nobody else could miss her..." Mitch Miller |
| #888, aired 1988-06-15 | EARLY EMMYS $200: Well I'll be doggone if it wasn't the "Best Children's" program of 1954 & 1955 Lassie |
| #878, aired 1988-06-01 | THE 1950s $400: In May 1955, this wife of the U.S. vice-president won a "Mother-of-the-Year" award Pat Nixon |
| #865, aired 1988-05-13 | SINGERS $100: In 1955, Marian Anderson became the 1st Black singer to perform at this U.S. opera house the Metropolitan |
| #863, aired 1988-05-11 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA $1000: This music maker's show originally debuted in 1955 as "The Dodge Dancing Party" Lawrence Welk |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | 1955 $200: Organization which held its 8th World Jamboree Aug. 18-28, 1955 at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario the Boy Scouts |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | 1955 $400: They held a 10th anniversary session in the S.F. opera house where they had drawn up their charter the United Nations |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | 1955 $600: After his death April 18, his brain was removed for scientific study, as he had wished Albert Einstein |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | 1955 $800: On March 2, King Sihanouk of this country abdicated the throne not to his son, but to his father Cambodia (now Kampuchea) |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | 1955 $1000: On November 3, 1955, he was confirmed as premier by the Israeli Knesset David Ben-Gurion |
| #809, aired 1988-02-25 | IDAHO $600: On July 17, 1955 Arco, Idaho became the 1st U.S. city to be lit by electricity from this source nuclear power |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | MOVIE TEENS $300: In a classic 1955 film, he was the "Rebel Without a Cause" James Dean |
| #776, aired 1988-01-11 | CZECH, PLEASE $800: Treaty of friendship, cooperations, & mutual assistance that Czechoslovakia signed in 1955 the Warsaw Pact |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | "ANGEL"IC SONGS $200: In 1955, both The Crew-Cuts & The Penguins asked her, "When will you be mine?" "Earth Angel" |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | 1955 $100: This nation walked out of the U.N. on November 9, 1955 over the issue of Apartheid South Africa |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | 1955 $200: U.S. government doctors claimed in November they had a "promising" vaccine for this "common" ailment common cold |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | 1955 $300: This borough of NYC, then known for its Navy yard, was among the 27% of the U.S. closed in '55 to Soviet visitors Brooklyn |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | 1955 $400: Lee Meriwether Miss America for that year |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | 1955 $500: In December, Martin Luther Kind Jr. led a boycott of this city's bus system Montgomery, Alabama |
| #723, aired 1987-10-28 | CINEMATIC ROSES $400: Anna Magnani won an Oscar for "Best Actress" in this 1955 film adaptation of a T. Williams play The Rose Tattoo |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | KITCHEN FIRSTS $500: In 1955, when Tappan introduced the 1st one for home use, it cost $1200 the microwave oven |
| #689, aired 1987-09-10 | SUDDEN DEATH $400: He died in a Porsche Spyder on September 30, 1955 James Dean |
| #677, aired 1987-07-14 | RELIGION $200: Between 1955-73, an annual Gallup poll showed this is the month when the most people attend church December |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | FURRY CREATURES $200: "The fastest mouse in all Mexico", his 2nd role was in a 1955 Oscar-winning cartoon Speedy Gonzales |
| #658, aired 1987-06-17 | FASHION DESIGNERS $1000: This Spaniard popularized the chemise dress in 1955, but his name is synonymous with his perfume Balenciaga |
| #655, aired 1987-06-12 | "JUNGLE" JIVE $300: "Rock Around the Clock" was theme song for this controversial 1955 film Blackboard Jungle |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | GOLDEN OLDIES $500: 1955 song title that falls between "My tears fell like rain" & "You're the 1 to blame" "Ain't That A Shame" |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | MISS AMERICA $200: 1955 pageant saw premiere of song "There She Is, Miss America" & this man as emcee Bert Parks |
| #634, aired 1987-05-14 | JULY $400: This "college" opened on July 11, 1955 at Lowry AFB before moving to Colorado Springs 3 years later Air Force Academy |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | DISNEYLAND $200: The July 17, 1955 opening day TV show was hosted by A. Linkletter, B. Cummings, & this future Calif. governor Ronald Reagan |
| #573, aired 1987-02-18 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: The top grossing film of 1985, not 1955 Back to the Future |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | FAMOUS PARKS $500: Refusing to give up her seat on the bus in 1955 got her a seat of honor in Atlanta's 1986 M.L. King Parade Rosa Parks |
| #532, aired 1986-12-23 | POP INSTRUMENTALS $1000: This 1955 hit by Billy Vaughn was in the Top 40 27 weeks, longer than any other pop instrumental "The Melody of Love" |
| #528, aired 1986-12-17 | QUOTES $500 (Daily Double): In 1955 play, Tennessee Williams wrote, "Nothing's more determined than..." this a cat on a hot tin roof |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | 1955 $200: Known as "Dem Bums", dey' defeated da Yankees in '55 to win deir 1st World Series the Brooklyn Dodgers |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | 1955 $400: In April, Queen Elizabeth named Anthony Eden to succeed him as prime minister Winston Churchill |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | 1955 $600: Millions of copies of his 1834 autobiography were printed in 1955 because of a kids' fad Davy Crockett |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | 1955 $1000: He was the presiding officer of the senate Richard Nixon |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | 1955 $1,500 (Daily Double): Alice, Brenda, Connie, Diane, Edith, Flora, Gladys, Hilda, Ione, & Janet the names of hurricanes |
| #512, aired 1986-11-25 | NEWSCASTERS $400: In April,1955, he went "Person to Person" with Marilyn Monroe Edward R. Murrow |
| #500, aired 1986-11-07 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $1000: I beat out Spencer Tracy to win the 1955 Academy Award Ernest Borgnine |
| #496, aired 1986-11-03 | FASHION DESIGNERS $600: This Frenchman won us over with his "New Look", but lost an Oscar in 1955 to Edith Head Christian Dior |
| #486, aired 1986-10-20 | CATS & DOGS $400: Cleo in 1955's "The People's Choice" & Beauregard on "Hee Haw" both had this unique ability the ability to speak (verbalize their thoughts) |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | U.S. HISTORY $400: This Confederate Civil War song became a hit single for Mitch Miller in 1955 The Yellow Rose of Texas |
| #446, aired 1986-05-26 | MODERN HISTORY $500: Though overthrown as Argentina's president in 1955, he returned to power in 1973 Juan Peron |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: 1955's "Guys & Dolls" was only film musical in which this lead actor ever sang Marlon Brando |
| #435, aired 1986-05-09 | FASHION HISTORY $400: 1955 Dior innovation, this flared skirt was named for its letter shape A-line |
| #429, aired 1986-05-01 | MOVIE ANATOMY $600: In this 1955 film, Fred Astaire takes Leslie Caron under his wing & onto the dance floor Daddy Long Legs |
| #424, aired 1986-04-24 | MOVIES $600 (Daily Double): For scene in this 1955 movie, William Holden had chest hair shaved to conform with motion picture code Picnic |
| #374, aired 1986-02-13 | #1 SONGS $100: Billboard says the Rock Era began July 9, 1955, when this Bill Haley classic hit #1 "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | THE SHORTEST $600: America's shortest-lived major TV network, it brought us Capt. Video until its demise in 1955 the DuMont Network |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | "CRY"ING SONGS $800: A Top 10 hit in 1955 for Julie London, it's not about the Thames "Cry Me A River" |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | FOOD $600: Italian for "all fruits", this dessert served up a juicy hit for Little Richard in 1955 tutti frutti |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | HEADLINES $600: October 1, 1955: "Film Star Dies in Auto Crash" James Dean |
| #342, aired 1985-12-31 | ODDS & ENDS $200: Studies are still being done on this genius' brain, saved from cremation in 1955 Albert Einstein |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | LOVE $600: 1955 Jennifer Jones-William Holden film whose title song became #1 for the 4 Aces Love is a Many-Splendored Thing |
| #303, aired 1985-11-06 | MICKEY MOUSE CLUB $200: The original Mouseketeers were introduced at this park's opening in 1955 Disneyland |
| #298, aired 1985-10-30 | INTERNATION'L ORGANIZATIONS $400: This mutual defense alliance, which dates from 1955, is headquartered in Moscow, not Poland the Warsaw Pact |
| #295, aired 1985-10-25 | THE '50s $200: In 1955, a Rudolf Flesch book explained "Why Johnny Can't" do this read |
| #279, aired 1985-10-03 | ZOOLOGY $400: Since 1955 ultrasonic vibrations have repelled these crusty creatures from ship hulls barnacles |
| #191, aired 1985-06-03 | THE '50s $200: It became a sovereign state in May 1955 with Bonn its capital West Germany |
| #191, aired 1985-06-03 | THE '50s $800: On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to do this in Montgomery, Alabama ride in the back of the bus (give up her seat) |
| #167, aired 1985-04-30 | HEADLINES $200: "Dream realized" reported the L.A. Times, when this "world of fantasy" opened in 1955 Disneyland |
| #105, aired 1985-02-01 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $500: In 1955, Beverly Hanson was 1st winner of this organization's championship LPGA |
| #104, aired 1985-01-31 | I LOVE LUCY $400: In 1955, Lucy recreated the mirror scene from "Duck Soup" with him Harpo Marx |
| #91, aired 1985-01-14 | 1955 $100: Film & TV cameras were allowed for the first time in this president's news conference Eisenhower |
| #91, aired 1985-01-14 | 1955 $200: This character's merchandising included soap & bikes as well as coonskin caps Davy Crockett |
| #91, aired 1985-01-14 | 1955 $300: Words that came to prominence in 1955 describing ads sent to "occupant" junk mail |
| #91, aired 1985-01-14 | 1955 $400: On Feb. 24, 1955, he was inaugurated president of Cuba (Fulgencio) Batista |
| #91, aired 1985-01-14 | 1955 $500: In September, America lost this fourth television network the DuMont network |
