#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | FIVE GUYS $1600: In 1959, this Japanese crown prince broke a 1,400-year tradition by choosing his own wife Akihito |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $1600: This comic book hero who battles the Romans with his pal Obelix was introduced in 1959 Asterix |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $1,600 (Daily Double): As an experiment in 1959, mail was dispatched by guided missile from one of these to a naval air station in Florida a submarine |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $400: From 1925 to 1959 J.R.R. Tolkien was a popular language & literature professor at this university Oxford |
#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | GAME SHOW $600: In 1959 this show with contestants from higher ed had "GE" in the title; more recently, "Capital One" College Bowl |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE $2000: Young, gifted & Black, this playwright poses with her typewriter for a Vogue shoot in 1959 Hansberry |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $2000: "The 400 Blows"
(1959) Francois Truffaut |
#8990, aired 2023-12-08 | GEOGRAPHIC TITLES $1000: Michener's one-word 1959 Polynesian title, "____" Hawaii |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $400: This man who seized power in his country in 1959 may have seen red when his sister Juanita sold her Miami pharmacy to CVS in 2006 Fidel Castro |
#8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $800: Frank Stella made a splash in 1959 with paintings of this kind of stripe, better known on men's suits pinstripes |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | HAPPY JULY 4th! $600: The new 50-star U.S. flag was officially flown for the first time on July 4th in this year, 10 months after Hawaii statehood 1960 |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SPORTS ROOKIES $1000: In 1959, long before he voiced "The King" in "Cars", this racing legend was NASCAR's Rookie of the Year Richard Petty |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG $800: The iconic chariot race in this 1959 epic was shot on an 18-acre arena track in Rome Ben-Hur |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $1,600 (Daily Double): Emmanuel Macron is the eighth president of France's Fifth Republic; this general & statesman was first in 1959 Charles de Gaulle |
#8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $800: Günter Grass' debut novel was 1959's "Die Blechtrommel", which translates to this instrumental title The Tin Drum |
#8806, aired 2023-02-13 | THEY'RE "N"TITLED $1600: William S. Burroughs admitted that he wrote this controversial 1959 novel under the influence of drugs Naked Lunch |
#8805, aired 2023-02-10 | BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: Tied for first in her Columbia law class in 1959 Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
#8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $400: This 1985 Top 10 hit by The Power Station shares its name with a 1959 Marilyn Monroe film "Some Like It Hot" |
#11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): In January 1959 moderate liberal Manuel Urrutia was Cuba's new president, but by July, this man was fully in charge Fidel Castro |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $1600: He was the center of attention as New York's governor from 1959 to 1973 & a year later, was selected to be vice president Nelson Rockefeller |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $2000: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) On December 31, 1959, Paul Westerberg entered the world in Minneapolis as the singer of this band; he'd comment on his birth date with the line, "Income tax deduction, one hell of a function" The Replacements |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY! $4,000 (Daily Double): In 2010 Abigail Breslin & Alison Pill played B'way roles originated by Patty Duke & Anne Bancroft in 1959 in this play The Miracle Worker |
#8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $600: Sorry, Hitch! A young extra puts his fingers in his ears before a "surprise" gunshot in this 1959 movie thriller North by Northwest |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | GOING GREEN $300: Coach Vince Lombardi took over this NFL team in 1959 & led them to greatness the Green Bay Packers |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: A-tisket a-tasket, in 1959 she won a Grammy for her basket, the first African-American woman to do so Fitzgerald |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Naturally, IBM helped create the technology of this type of missile, one letter longer, first deployed by the U.S. in 1959 an ICBM |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $100: Second City opened Dec. 16, 1959 in a converted laundry in this city Chicago |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $800: A rough New Year's Day in 1959 for Fulgencio Batista, who woke up as president of this country & went to sleep as an exile Cuba |
#8654, aired 2022-06-02 | 6 DRUGS $2000: Developed in 1959, this synthetic opioid is up to 100 times more potent than morphine, making it one of the most deadly drugs fentanyl |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | MENACE TO SOBRIETY $400: You're not exactly living like a monk when you fork over $84,000 for a bottle of rosé 1959 from this brand of champagne Dom Perignon |
#8635, aired 2022-05-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: From 1947 until 1959 this city just northwest of the Indus River delta was Pakistan's capital Karachi |
#8621, aired 2022-04-18 | PILLOW TALK $600: The 1959 romantic comedy "Pillow Talk" was the first on-screen pairing of these two actors Rock Hudson & Doris Day |
#8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $200: In 1959 methicillin was one of the first medications introduced to cope with bacteria resistant to these drugs antibiotics |
#8604, aired 2022-03-24 | CLASSIC CARS $1000: The take-off ready tail fins of a 1959 classic from this maker are seen here Cadillac |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SUCCESSION $200: 1959:
Après President René Coty De Gaulle |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 11 $600: This religious epic from 1959 was the first film to win 11 Academy Awards Ben-Hur |
#8580, aired 2022-02-18 | THE LANDING $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2019 China's Chang'e 4 probe made the first landing here, a place not even glimpsed by humanity until 1959 the dark (far) side of the Moon |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | JAZZ GREATS $800: Here's a bit of "So What", the lead track from this trumpeter's 1959 album "Kind of Blue" Miles Davis |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN? $2000: In a 1959 comedy these 2 actors donned dresses as members of Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra Lemmon & Curtis |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | COMMENCEMENT $200: In 1959 Arlene Pieper became the USA's first woman to finish one of these races, at Pikes Peak: Boston refused her entry the marathon |
#8568, aired 2022-02-02 | WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY $800: On Feb. 2, 1959 a school in Arlington was the 1st in this state to integrate, with no incidents except a firecracker in a bathroom Virginia |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: In 1959 she became president of India's Congress Party & would join Parliament 5 years later Indira Gandhi |
#8548, aired 2022-01-05 | MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $200: This violet-eyed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" actress left the single life in 1950, & 1952, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1975, 1976 & 1991 (Elizabeth) Taylor |
#8495, aired 2021-10-22 | IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? $800: I'm Roger Thornhill, an innocent guy being chased by shadowy forces in this 1959 Hitchcock film; now a plane's after me...! North by Northwest |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | ROYALTY AROUND US $600: In 1959 AT&T targeted women with this product that came in pastel colors the Princess phone |
#8474, aired 2021-09-23 | "DEF"INITIONS $1200: The Joint Chiefs of Staff coined this acronym for a state of alertness in 1959 DEFCON |
#8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $1600: As a student at Stanford in 1959, he was part of an army experiment on mind-altering drugs & later, worked in a hospital psych ward (Ken) Kesey |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS $1000: Romania's flag dates to 1861; the flag of this 4-letter African nation dates to 1959, just before its independence from France Chad |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | TITLE WAVES $600: They swept over the NBA, winning the title every year from 1959 to 1966 the Boston Celtics |
#8374, aired 2021-04-08 | TOP OF THE BILL $600: "Some Like It Hot", 1959: her Marilyn Monroe |
#8374, aired 2021-04-08 | PLACES IN TEXAS $3,000 (Daily Double): Brought from across the pond in 1959, a piece of this rock can be found on display in the town of Shamrock, Texas the Blarney Stone |
#8345, aired 2021-02-26 | TOYS & GAMES $800: Created in 1959, these dolls named for a creature of Scandinavian folklore were known for their unique hairstyles Trolls |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | ANTARCTICA $800: A 1959 treaty signed by 12 nations made Antarctica one of these regions, a DMZ a demilitarized zone |
#8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $600: "I", 1959: Karachi is designated to be out as capital as this city, yet to be built, gets the nod Islamabad |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | GEOGRAPHY $1600: Home of the Dalai Lama until he fled the Chinese occupation in 1959, Potala Palace towers over this city Lhasa |
#8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A DAY AT THE RACES $400: It took 3 days of looking at news pics, but Lee Petty was finally named the winner of the 1st 500 at this Fla. speedway in 1959 Daytona |
#8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1959 Tuscumbia-set play about a steadfast teacher & a stubborn young girl is the state's official outdoor drama The Miracle Worker |
#8261, aired 2020-10-19 | PRIMATES $1200: These monkeys normally live in the tropics of the Americas, but in 1959, one rode into space and returned safely a squirrel monkey |
#8246, aired 2020-09-28 | FOLLOW THE BUNNY $400: In 1959 Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh presented the Oscar won by a short cartoon featuring this classic critter & that's all, folks Bugs Bunny |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $1600: A towering story of biblical proportions, this author's "Exodus" won for 1959 (Leon) Uris |
#8236, aired 2020-09-14 | PRESIDENT & ACCOUNTED FOR $800: He was Cuba's defense minister from 1959 to 2006; then he became acting president Raúl Castro |
#8228, aired 2020-06-03 | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $1600: This future world leader was wounded in his attempt to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister in 1959 Saddam Hussein |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $1200: That's Fidel Castro on the left in 1959, sharing a laugh with this guerilla leader, his second in command Guevara |
#8191, aired 2020-03-30 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1959 he told Khrushchev it was better to discuss the merits of washing machines than the "strength of rockets" Richard Nixon |
#8190, aired 2020-03-27 | ORDINAL TERMS $400: What Hawaii became August 21, 1959 the 50th state |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $1600: William Burroughs credited Kerouac with the title of this 1959 novel that faced controversy upon publication Naked Lunch |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | HISTORY, BRIEFLY $1200: A 49-star U.S. flag was unveiled after this state got admitted in 1959 Alaska |
#8134, aired 2020-01-09 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: I'd like to thank the Recording Academy for handing out these awards, first presented in 1959 the Grammys |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | POND $600: "The world's largest open-air shopping center", ALA Moana in this city, has had koi ponds since it opened in 1959 Honolulu |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | BY POPE-ULAR DEMAND $2,000 (Daily Double): On Jan. 25, 1959 John XXIII called for this, the 21st ecumenical council of the church, but it sounds more like the 1st sequel Vatican II |
#8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2000: "1959" makes much of this Soviet craft, the first to escape Earth's gravity, though it didn't make it to the moon it was named for Luna (or Lunik) |
#8113, aired 2019-12-11 | NAVAL HISTORY $400: Launched in 1959, the USS Long Beach was the world's first surface warship powered by this nuclear power |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | THE NIFTY '50s $200: A toast to Coors, which started making its cans with this metal in 1959 aluminum |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $2000: 1959:
"____, My Love" or "mon amour", if you prefer Hiroshima |
#8069, aired 2019-10-10 | LET'S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR 'EM $800: Created to show girls they could be anything they wanted to be, this toy debuted--to some skepticism--at a 1959 toy fair the Barbie doll |
#8047, aired 2019-09-10 | THE 20th CENTURY $2000: In 1933 & in 1952 this Cuban toppled the regimes of other leaders; he himself was deposed in 1959 (Fulgencio) Batista |
#7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AMERICAN POETRY $1600: Frank O'Hara's most famous poem is "The Day Lady Died", in which he reads about this jazz singer's death in 1959 Billie Holliday |
#7966, aired 2019-04-08 | CAROL KAYE PLAYED BASS ON THAT $800: The score for this 1987 Ritchie Valens biopic; she'd played guitar on the 1959 song of the same title La Bamba |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | -"GRAM"S $2,100 (Daily Double): In 1959 Western Union began this service that included sweets with the message candygram |
#7945, aired 2019-03-08 | THE SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS $1000: A Senate office building is named for him, Senate Republican leader from 1959 to 1969 Everett Dirksen |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | TV $200: In 1959 there were more than 25 shows in this genre on TV, including "Rawhide" a western |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | THE SUPER BOWL $200: The Super Bowl trophy bears the name of this Green Bay Packers coach who won 5 NFL titles between 1959 & 1968 (Vince) Lombardi |
#7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BEARD MAN $400: In 1959 this new Latin American leader toured the U.S. but refused to shave his beard as his New York PR firm had advised Castro |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | U.N. NAMEABLE $1600: He's seen here with his shoes on his feet shaking hands with Dag Hammarskjold on arrival at the U.N. in 1959 (Nikita) Khrushchev |
#7904, aired 2019-01-10 | TECHNOLOGY $600: In 1959 the USPS tried sending mail via a cruise type of this--it never took off as a delivery method a missile |
#7900, aired 2019-01-04 | 2019 HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Celebrating an event from 1959, August 16 is Statehood Day in this state; the Bishop Museum will be open Hawaii |
#7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Chicago in 1888, made "The Long Goodbye" & went to "The Big Sleep" on March 26, 1959 Raymond Chandler |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | THE BROADWAY PLAY'S PREMIERE CAST $1200: 1959:
Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger, Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger A Raisin in the Sun |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $800: It opened its doors in Chicago in 1959 to become the world's premier comedy club & improv school the Second City |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | DEAL THE CARDS $1000: In 1959 a championship for this card game debuted on TV, with Charles Goren providing the play-by-play bridge |
#7811, aired 2018-07-23 | DIRECTOR CAMEOS $2000: He cast himself as a man reading a newspaper in 1959's "Plan 9 From Outer Space" Ed Wood |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | TRY "ME" A RIVER $400: The United Nations named a project involving hydroelectricity for this river, but war in 1959 changed plans the Mekong |
#7776, aired 2018-06-04 | LOOKIN' BACK TEXAS $1000: The era of the integrated circuit, AKA the microchip, began in 1959 when this company filed a patent for one Texas Instruments |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | LITERATURE IN SPANISH $400: Guillermo Cabrera Infante's "Infante's Inferno" captures this country before the 1959 Communist revolution Cuba |
#7753, aired 2018-05-02 | ASIAN CAPITALS $7,000 (Daily Double): In 1959 this city was designated to replace Karachi as the capital; its construction began 2 years later Islamabad |
#7750, aired 2018-04-27 | PRONOUNS $1200: To know this detergent introduced in 1959 is to know "everything" about laundry All |
#7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $800: (RuPaul presents the clue.) Billy Wilder hired famed drag artist Barbette to teach Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis how to move like women for this 1959 film Some Like It Hot |
#7716, aired 2018-03-12 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $400: When they met in 1959, Marilyn Monroe said this Soviet premier looked at her the way a man looks at a woman Khrushchev |
#7685, aired 2018-01-26 | THE THING'S THE PLAY $800: The title object of this 1959 Pinter play is a small freight elevator, not a stupid server The Dumb Waiter |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH $1600: She was first naked in the world sometime around 1912; getting naked later led to a 1959 Broadway musical based on her life Gypsy Rose Lee |
#7651, aired 2017-12-11 | BEST SHORT FILM OSCARS $400: He produced the 1959 winner "The Golden Fish", 9 years before entering his "Undersea World" Jacques Cousteau |
#7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $400: Pregnant in 1959, Sylvia Plath wrote "The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit" for these people children |
#7619, aired 2017-10-26 | DECADE, PLEASE $200: The 49th state joins the Union the '50s |
#7606, aired 2017-10-09 | SOMETHING ABOUT MARY $2000: In 1959 Mary Leakey found a 1.75-million-year-old skull in Olduvai Gorge in what's now this country Tanzania |
#7603, aired 2017-10-04 | CLASSIC POP $800: "Mack The Knife" (1959) Bobby Darin |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | RIGHT ON Q $1000: It may ring a bell that this Italian with a "Q" name won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | HOW INVENTIVE $1200: In 1959 this corporation introduced the first office copier based on Chester Carlson's instant copying technique Xerox |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | WE "LOVE" TO READ $1600: Teaching in London's East End inspired E.R. Braithwaite to write this 1959 book, later a Sidney Poitier film To Sir, with Love |
#7562, aired 2017-06-27 | A BUCKET LIST $1000: 1959's "A Bucket of Blood" was one of the movies that made this B-movie director "King of the Drive-Ins" Roger Corman |
#7550, aired 2017-06-09 | PEOPLE-POURRI $2000: In 1959 Archbishop Makarios was elected the first president of this Mediterranean country Cyprus |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | CASTRO'S CUBA: 1959-2016 $400: Fidel's efforts to export revolution to this continent cost the lives of more than 4,000 Cubans, half in Angola Africa |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | CASTRO'S CUBA: 1959-2016 $800: In 2015 in Havana he said, "Presidents Obama and Castro made a courageous decision to stop being the prisoners of history" John Kerry |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | CASTRO'S CUBA: 1959-2016 $1200: On January 25, 1998, 300,000 gathered in the Plaza de la Revolución for this man's Mass on the last day of his historic visit Pope John Paul II |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | CASTRO'S CUBA: 1959-2016 $1600: With new cars scarce, Cubans preserved classic U.S. models like the Bel Air from this automaker Chevrolet |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | CASTRO'S CUBA: 1959-2016 $2000: In 1980 Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez became the first Latin American in orbit aboard one of these Soviet spacecraft Soyuz |
#7526, aired 2017-05-08 | NEWSPAPERS $1000: One of Britain's "Big 3" newspapers, in 1959 it dropped Manchester from its name The Guardian |
#7516, aired 2017-04-24 | INVENTIONS $400: In 1959 Squibb introduced the first one of these with an electrical cord into the U.S. using the brand name Broxodent an electric toothbrush |
#7503, aired 2017-04-05 | THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT $200: Sean Thomas O'Kelly (1945 to 1959); we truly defy you to get this one wrong Ireland |
#7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PLAY TIME $2000: Childhood memories of racism provided the basis for her 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun" (Lorraine) Hansberry |
#7471, aired 2017-02-20 | PRESIDENT'S DAY $1200: October 13, 1959:
Flies to Kansas for the groundbreaking of his library Eisenhower |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $400: A 2016 remake of a 1959 epic: "Galley Slaves", "Dear Messala" Ben-Hur |
#7452, aired 2017-01-24 | PLAY SETTINGS $5,000 (Daily Double): From 1959:
In and around the Keller homestead in Tuscumbia, Alabama The Miracle Worker |
#7451, aired 2017-01-23 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $2000: In 1959 Young Oon Kim, known as Miss Kim, left South Korea to become this church's first missionary in the United States the Unification Church |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | SCENE IT $600: 1959:
Cary Grant gets his crop dusted North by Northwest |
#7374, aired 2016-10-06 | GREEK HISTORY $400: In 1959 Greece reached an agreement with Britain & Turkey to make this British Crown colony independent Cyprus |
#7333, aired 2016-06-29 | HISTORIC OOPSIES $800: By 1959 Ford had sunk $250 million into developing this model; 21st c. inflation adjusted, that's nearly $2 billion the Edsel |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | JAPANESE CITIES $800: Koromo got this new name in 1959 to reflect the importance of its major employer, an auto manufacturer Toyota |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1200: 1959 winner "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" tells a tale of a young man heading West as part of this 1849 frenzy the California Gold Rush |
#7300, aired 2016-05-13 | COUNTRY MUSIC $800: Chuck Berry,
1959:
"Back In The ____" USA |
#7295, aired 2016-05-06 | NON-ROCKET SCIENTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1959 she found a 1.75-million-year-old skull at Olduvai Gorge (Mary) Leakey |
#7293, aired 2016-05-04 | BESTSELLERS $400: When it was finally published in the U.S. in 1959, this D.H. Lawrence novel promptly became a bestseller Lady Chatterley's Lover |
#7253, aired 2016-03-09 | THE MARCH OF TIME $200: March 9, 1959:
The American Toy Fair is the coming-out party for this 11.5-inch blonde Barbie |
#7243, aired 2016-02-24 | DISNEY ANIMATED SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $200: 2006:
Luigi, a 1959 Fiat 500 Cars |
#7221, aired 2016-01-25 | TREATIES $800: 12 nations signed a 1959 treaty making this a demilitarized zone preserved for (chilly) scientific research Antarctica |
#7200, aired 2015-12-25 | KIDDY LIT $800: In this 1959 book whose title means a journey through the bush, 2 white children are saved by an Aboriginal boy Walkabout |
#7195, aired 2015-12-18 | PALACES $800: Lhasa's Potala Palace would be a nice place for this religious leader, who fled in 1959, to come home to, if he ever can the Dalai Lama |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | THE CALDECOTT MEDAL $800: "Chanticleer and the Fox", the 1959 winner, was adapted by Barbara Cooney from this 14th century work The Canterbury Tales |
#7177, aired 2015-11-24 | LEADER OF THE PACK $200: In 1959 this new coach of the Packers said, "Dancing is a contact sport; football is a hitting sport" (Vince) Lombardi |
#7127, aired 2015-09-15 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $2000: This singer bit the competition in 1959 with "Mack The Knife" Bobby Darin |
#7122, aired 2015-07-28 | "PAY" DAY $600: This 1-word 1959 scandal enveloped many prominent DJs payola |
#7121, aired 2015-07-27 | GERMAN LIT $1200: Oskar Matzerath is the musician who never grew up in this 1959 Gunter Grass book The Tin Drum |
#7097, aired 2015-06-23 | HISTORICAL FILMS $2000: In this 1959 film actress Millie Perkins claims, "I still believe... that people are really good at heart" The Diary of Anne Frank |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | "BREAK"-ING $200: Time magazine first highlighted this festive time with a 1959 article titled "Beer & the Beach" spring break |
#7077, aired 2015-05-26 | FAMILIAR NUMBERS $400: Title number of Truffaut "Blows" in a 1959 film 400 |
#7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ASIAN HISTORY $1000: In 1959 this crown prince married Michiko Shoda, becoming the first Japanese royal to marry a commoner Akihito |
#7072, aired 2015-05-19 | ETERNAL DAN NATION $5,400 (Daily Double): Dan Jacobson, author of 1959's "The Zulu and the Zeide" South Africa |
#7060, aired 2015-05-01 | RELIGION $2000: In 1959, the religious leader seen here brought this influential technique to the West Transcendental Meditation |
#7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POTPOURRI $1600: This Democrat's U.S. Senate service, from 1959 to 2010, was the longest in history (Robert C.) Byrd |
#7051, aired 2015-04-20 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $200: The Bates Motel was Norman's killing ground in a 1959 Robert Bloch novel made into this 1960 classic Psycho |
#7050, aired 2015-04-17 | LITERARY MEALTIME? $400: Made into a 1991 film, this 1959 William Burroughs novel is an autobiographical account of his addiction Naked Lunch |
#7039, aired 2015-04-02 | DIE ANOTHER DAY $1200: February 3, 1959
in an Iowa cornfield (one of 3 musicians) the Big Bopper (or Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens) |
#7029, aired 2015-03-19 | "G"-OLOGY $200: On May 4, 1959 Sinatra & Mancini wore black tie to the first of these events the Grammys |
#7022, aired 2015-03-10 | CALIFORNIA, HERE YOU COME! $200: In 1959 Pat Brown added a pool to the governor's mansion in this city; as governor his son refused to live in the house Sacramento |
#7012, aired 2015-02-24 | 1950s BESTSELLERS $400: "State" this title of James Michener's 1959 epic Hawaii |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $800: Nagoya, which in 1959 became L.A.'s first sister city, has some of the oldest shrines for this Japanese religion Shinto |
#7004, aired 2015-02-12 | REMEMBER MAINE! $800: Remember that in 1959 Maine's 190-mile mountain range was named for this "Evangeline" poet & native son! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
#7004, aired 2015-02-12 | SUCCINCT SILVER SCREEN SUMMARIES $1200: 1959:
Mob murder makes male musicians move, matronly makeover materializes Some Like it Hot |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | COTTON IS KING $1200: A 1959 ad shows one of this British company's cotton trench coats with its signature plaid lining Burberry |
#6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.) Alfred Hitchcock always wanted to do a chase scene across the faces of Mount Rushmore; that chase scene became the climax of this 1959 thriller North by Northwest |
#6915, aired 2014-10-10 | HISTORIC SHIPS $400: Launched in 1959, the Savannah was the first American merchant ship powered by this nuclear energy |
#6897, aired 2014-09-16 | GHOSTBUSTERS $1000: (Here's Sarah to wrap up the category.) Dan Aykroyd wanted it to be black, but because of all the night scenes, the 1959 Cadillac known as this-1 was painted white instead & the rest is history Ecto |
#6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $600: He turned on, tuned in & dropped out of college before becoming a Harvard lecturer in 1959 Timothy Leary |
#6865, aired 2014-06-20 | ON THE WHEATIES BOX $1000: 1959: this swimmer & star of movies like "Million Dollar Mermaid" Esther Williams |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE 1950s $200: In 1959 Daniel Inouye became this state's first representative in the U.S. House Hawaii |
#6859, aired 2014-06-12 | THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY $400: Both the 1925 & the 1959 versions of this biblical epic featuring a chariot race are on the National Film Registry Ben-Hur |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $400: When this musical premiered on Broadway in 1959, captain Georg Von Trapp was played by Theodore Bikel The Sound of Music |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | THE LEADER WHO... $3,000 (Daily Double): Fled Cuba for the Dominican Republic on Jan. 1, 1959 Fulgencio Batista |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | AUTH"ER"S $1200: This hard-boiled writer took the big sleep for real on March 26, 1959 Raymond Chandler |
#6828, aired 2014-04-30 | HOW THEY DIED $200: 1959:
Buddy Holly &
1968:
Yuri Gagarin plane crashes |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | THAT'S THE "WAY" $1600: It's kind of a canal on steroids; a famous one was completed in 1959 seaway |
#6799, aired 2014-03-20 | THE MERCURY ASTRONAUTS $2000: Usual nickname of Donald Slayton, who was one of the original 7 named in 1959 but didn't make a space flight until 1975 "Deke" |
#6795, aired 2014-03-14 | CLOSE QUARTERS $200: There's a "1959" above the sashimi-loving grizzly on this state's quarter Alaska |
#6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MASCOTS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a college mascot.) In 1914, a columnist wrote that this Southwestern college team showed the fight of wildcats, hence the team's name &, since 1959, Wilbur the Mascot Arizona |
#6746, aired 2014-01-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 1959 Philip Roth novella begins, "the first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" Goodbye, Columbus |
#6742, aired 2013-12-31 | NILE $400: A 1959 agreement divided the Nile's water between Egypt & this country the Sudan |
#6728, aired 2013-12-11 | THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY $2000: Sadly, in 1959 Buddy died in a plane crash along with the Big Bopper & this 17-year-old singer Ritchie Valens |
#6717, aired 2013-11-26 | DRIVING IN EUROPE $1200: In 1959 the cars of this Swedish company were the first to make a 3-point safety belt standard Volvo |
#6717, aired 2013-11-26 | DRIVING IN EUROPE $2,500 (Daily Double): This little 1959 car was built because of the Suez fuel crisis; a British race car driver soon put his own stamp on it the Mini (Cooper) |
#6706, aired 2013-11-11 | LITERARY PRINCIPALS & TEACHERS $1600: 1959 novel where you'll find inner city London secondary school teacher Mr. Braithwaite To Sir, with Love |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) As the U.S. expanded its territory westward,
this point moved from the east coast in 1776 to South Dakota in 1959 with the addition of Alaska & Hawaii geographic center |
#6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO... $1200: graduated tied for first in her Columbia Law class in 1959 Ginsburg |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | HO CHI MINH CITY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Saigon's cathedral was built in the 19th century using bricks from Marseille & other material entirely imported from France; in 1959, the statue of the Virgin Mary was added, & the cathedral got this name, like another famous French church Notre-Dame |
#6678, aired 2013-10-02 | BUDDHISM $600: In exile since 1959, he's the head of the Yellow Hat order of Tibetan Buddhists the Dalai Lama |
#6658, aired 2013-07-24 | COINS OF OUR REALM $2,000 (Daily Double): To mark the 150th birthday of the man on the front, this image was added to the back of the 1-cent coin in 1959 the Lincoln Memorial |
#6652, aired 2013-07-16 | PUSH & PULL $800: Having no opener for his beverage can at a picnic prompted Ernie Fraze to invent this in 1959 the pull top cap |
#6650, aired 2013-07-12 | OH, CANADA $1600: Hamilton & Thunder Bay are ports along this joint U.S./Canada project completed in 1959 the St. Lawrence Seaway |
#6593, aired 2013-04-24 | EUROPEAN LAKES $1600: Lake Marathon, an artificial lake, served as this capital's main water supply from 1931 until 1959 Athens |
#6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In 1959 NYC's Coronet Theatre was renamed to honor this "Iceman Cometh" dramatist Eugene O'Neill |
#6591, aired 2013-04-22 | SOUND $800: Rhyming term for the 1959 drink container invention heard here a pop top |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | BELA $400: This horror movie actor's last film, "Plan 9 from Outer Space", was released in 1959, 3 years after his death Bela Lugosi |
#6570, aired 2013-03-22 | COMPASS POINT MOVIES $1200: Hitchcock couldn't film inside the U.N. for this 1959 thriller, so he re-created its rooms on a soundstage North By Northwest |
#6556, aired 2013-03-04 | EXILED $400 (Daily Double): He's been in exile since 1959 after a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation the Dalai Lama |
#6555, aired 2013-03-01 | DRUMSTICKS $400: In 1959 he was the drummer for a Liverpool band called Rory Storm & the Hurricanes Ringo Starr |
#6541, aired 2013-02-11 | THEY'RE HISTORY! $1200: In 1959, he gave up the title of chairman of the People's Republic of China but kept control of the country Mao Tse-Tung |
#6535, aired 2013-02-01 | DISNEY MOVIES BY VILLAIN $1000: 1959:
Maleficent Sleeping Beauty |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $600: In a 1959 American kitchen exhibit in Moscow, he told Khrushchev, "In America, we like to make life easier for women" Nixon |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $2000: This chief port of Pakistan served as the country's capital from 1947 to 1959 Karachi |
#6453, aired 2012-10-10 | THAT BOOK WAS A HORROR! $1600: Shirley Jackson, 1959: "The Haunting of" this "House" Hill |
#6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $2000: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) This South African performed the first kidney transplant in his homeland in 1959 & in 1967 performed the first ever human heart transplant, catapulting him to worldwide fame (Dr. Christiaan) Barnard |
#6448, aired 2012-10-03 | LITERARY SEQUELS $800: Also set at the Devon School, "Peace Breaks Out" was John Knowles follow-up to this 1959 classic A Separate Peace |
#6418, aired 2012-07-11 | THE 50 STATES $400: It became the 49th state January 3, 1959 Alaska |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | AT THE BEACH $600 (Daily Double): The brand Gordon & Smith began by making these in a Pacific Beach, California garage in 1959 surfboards |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1600: This dashing "Captain Blood" star died in 1959 at the end of a week-long binge Errol Flynn |
#6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $200: More people know this name as a deformed French literary character than as the name of the Italian who won the 1959 prize Quasimodo |
#6390, aired 2012-06-01 | FRENCH FILMS $1600: 1959's "Black Orpheus" retold the tale of Orpheus & Eurydice set during this South American city's Carnival Rio de Janeiro |
#6368, aired 2012-05-02 | IT'S NOT A MESS, IT'S A COLLECTION $200: Introduced in 1959, the first of these collectible dolls sported a ponytail & a zebra-striped bathing suit a Barbie |
#6365, aired 2012-04-27 | NOVELTY SONG LYRICS $1600: 1959:
"Fe-fe, fi-fi,
fo-fo, fum,
I smell
smoke in
the auditorium" "Charlie Brown" |
#6320, aired 2012-02-24 | MOVIES IN REWIND? $1000: 1959: Cross-dressing musicians take off dresses, abandon love & go to Chicago to watch some mob resurrections Some Like It Hot |
#6260, aired 2011-12-02 | THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL $800: The title of his 1959 novel "The Mansion" refers to the de Spain home in Jefferson, Mississippi (William) Faulkner |
#6255, aired 2011-11-25 | IT'S NOT THE MIAMI HEAT $600: In every year but 1 between 1959 & '69, the rest of the NBA was green with envy because this was your NBA championship team the Boston Celtics |
#6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $800: This long-term Caribbean leader who came to power in 1959 is an accomplished ping-pong player Fidel Castro |
#6199, aired 2011-07-21 | THERE SHE IS, MISS AMERICA $800: 1959's Mary Ann Mobley played Maggie Drummond on this Gary Coleman sitcom Diff'rent Strokes |
#6194, aired 2011-07-14 | NFL COACH OF THE YEAR $200: In 1959 he took the honor as leader of the Green Bay Packers Vince Lombardi |
#6190, aired 2011-07-08 | NAME THE YEAR $2000: Hawaii becomes our 50th state 1959 |
#6178, aired 2011-06-22 | MOTOR SPORTS $800: In 1959 Lee Petty became the first to win the Daytona 500; this son later won the race a record 7 times Richard Petty |
#6165, aired 2011-06-03 | EXTRAORDINARY DENTITION $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a skull at the Smithsonian's Hall of Human Origins.) When Mary Leakey discovered Paranthropus boisei in 1959, her husband Louis saw the heavy teeth & jaws & nicknamed the species this man, like the title character of a Tchaikovsky ballet The Nutcracker |
#6164, aired 2011-06-02 | WORLD LEADER CIA FILES $200: Entered Univ. of Havana Law School 1945... became premier 1959... poison?!... shh!... Fidel Castro |
#6133, aired 2011-04-20 | THIS CATEGORY IS MURDER $200: The senseless murder of the Clutter family in 1959 prompted this man to pen "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
#6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YOU ARE SO OUTTA HERE $200: In 1959 this leader fled to Dharamsala, India in response to China's harsh rule of Tibet the Dalai Lama |
#6108, aired 2011-03-16 | LET'S KICK SOME NIXON AROUND $200: During the 1959 "Kitchen Debate" in Moscow, Nixon told this Soviet premier, "I have been insulted by experts" Nikita Khrushchev |
#6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $600: 1959:
This member of jazz "nobility" Duke Ellington |
#6104, aired 2011-03-10 | 4 LETTERS IN LENGTH $600: In 1959, due to "minor but troublesome discrepancies", the U.S. redefined this unit as .3048 meters a foot |
#6103, aired 2011-03-09 | WHO'S THE BOSS? $600: ...of Motown Records, 1959-1988 Berry Gordy |
#6088, aired 2011-02-16 | MAGICAL MOUSE-TERY TOUR $1200: This 1959 Daniel Keyes novella about Charlie Gordon & a smarter-than-average lab mouse won a Hugo Award Flowers for Algernon |
#6088, aired 2011-02-16 | NONFICTION $2,127 (Daily Double): The New Yorker's 1959 review of this said in its brevity & clarity it is "unlike most such manuals, a book as well as a tool" The Elements of Style |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | CHICKS DIG ME $1200: At the Olduvai Gorge in 1959, she & hubby Louis found a 1.75 million-year-old Australopithecus boisei skull Mary Leakey |
#6073, aired 2011-01-26 | ART QUOTES $400: In the 1959 book "Cubism", he is quoted as saying, "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them" Picasso |
#6067, aired 2011-01-18 | TEAM EDWARD $500 (Daily Double): His first play was 1959's "The Zoo Story", a one-act drama Edward Albee |
#6065, aired 2011-01-14 | DROP DEAD DIVA $1,400 (Daily Double): This jazz diva who sang "Strange Fruit" was just 44 and under arrest in her hospital bed when she passed away in 1959 Billie Holiday |
#6044, aired 2010-12-16 | THE AMERICAN RED CROSS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C.) Dedicated in 1959, the sculpture by Felix de Weldon, who's better known for the Marine Corps War Memorial, was given in memory of the 78 who lost their lives during this war while serving with the American Red Cross World War II |
#6026, aired 2010-11-22 | CUBA, SI! $800: Celebrated Jan. 1, Triumph of the Revolution, Cuba's national holiday, commemorates events of this 20th c. year 1959 |
#5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ALL ABOUT ANTARCTICA $200: (Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) The 1959 Antarctic Treaty opened the continent to science & made possible such findings as this hole in the atmosphere in the 1980s the ozone |
#5991, aired 2010-10-04 | CREATURE FEATURES $600: 1959 & 2006:
"The Shaggy ____" Dog |
#5979, aired 2010-09-16 | PUSH BY SAFIRE $1000: At the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, Safire corralled these 2 politicos into a mock kitchen & the 2 debated Nixon & Khrushchev |
#5948, aired 2010-06-23 | MATTEL-ICA $800: "Let's play house" & "Please change my dress" were 2 of the 11 phrases said by this talkative doll introduced in 1959 Chatty Cathy |
#5941, aired 2010-06-14 | NO. 1 SONGS $1000: Teacher Jimmy Driftwood wrote the lyrics to this song about the War of 1812; it topped the charts in 1959 "The Battle Of New Orleans" |
#5932, aired 2010-06-01 | THE GENGHIS KHAN FILM FESTIVAL $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1959 Japanese film about Genghis Khan starring Hashizo Okawa was titled "King of" this ethnic group the Mongols |
#5927, aired 2010-05-25 | BASEBALL ROOKIES OF THE YEAR $800: First baseman Willie McCovey
(National League, 1959) San Francisco Giants |
#5922, aired 2010-05-18 | DARWIN IN THE GALAPAGOS $800: Ecuador made the Galapagos its first national park in 1959, the centennial year of this seminal Darwin work The Origin of Species |
#5914, aired 2010-05-06 | SPOILER ALERT! $800: 1959:
Joe E. Brown discovers that "she" is really a guy Some Like It Hot |
#5907, aired 2010-04-27 | ZOMBIELAND $600: In this infamously awful numerical 1959 Ed Wood film, aliens "Plan" to turn all of Earth into zombieland Plan 9 from Outer Space |
#5905, aired 2010-04-23 | "TION" ME $200: One orbit around the sun, or what happened in Cuba in late 1959 revolution |
#5894, aired 2010-04-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: This composer of Armenian heritage won a 1959 Lenin prize for his ballet "Spartacus" Khachaturian |
#5883, aired 2010-03-24 | FAMOUS NAMES IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE $1000: Also pushed out by Castro in 1959, he tells Julie Chen, "I just didn't see the backdoor coming" (Fulgencio) Batista |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | "K" RATIONS $600: On July 24, 1959 he was the Soviet half of the "Kitchen Debate" Khrushchev |
#5854, aired 2010-02-11 | POWER TO THE STUDENTS! $200: Trinchera was an organization formed at the University of Havana in 1959 in opposition to this new leader Fidel Castro |
#5770, aired 2009-10-16 | NO. 1 SONGS WITH ONE-WORD TITLES $400: Frankie Avalon
(1959):
A plea to a goddess "Venus" |
#5735, aired 2009-07-10 | SUNDAY NIGHT TV $2000: From 1959 until 1963 the lead-in for "Ed Sullivan" was this Jay North sitcom about a mischievous boy Dennis the Menace |
#5732, aired 2009-07-07 | PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In 1959 she became the first black female playwright to have a drama produced on Broadway Lorraine Hansberry |
#5731, aired 2009-07-06 | MOONRAKER $400: In 1959 the Soviet Union launched the second craft appropriately bearing this name & crashed it into the Moon Luna |
#5714, aired 2009-06-11 | LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN $200: In 1959 this Cuban led the overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista Fidel Castro |
#5709, aired 2009-06-04 | CHILD'S PLAY $400: A deaf & blind girl gets help from a special teacher in this 1959 play The Miracle Worker |
#5707, aired 2009-06-02 | THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED $400: February 3, 1959, one of 3, in a cornfield in Iowa (Ritchie) Valens (or Buddy Holly or the Big Bopper) |
#5690, aired 2009-05-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959 Philip Roth |
#5673, aired 2009-04-15 | LIBYA, LIBYA, LIBYA $400: Libya's history & economy were forever changed when this was found there in 1959 oil |
#5667, aired 2009-04-07 | IT'S ME, MARGARET $400: She entered the House of Commons in 1959; a higher post awaited (Margaret) Thatcher |
#5659, aired 2009-03-26 | BOOK CROOK $1200: Auric is the first name of this 1959 Ian Fleming villain; he later got a snazzy movie theme song Goldfinger |
#5655, aired 2009-03-20 | FOREIGN EXCHANGE $400: A Cuban 1-peso note shows Jose Marti on the obverse & this man entering Havana in 1959 on the reverse Fidel Castro |
#5652, aired 2009-03-17 | MOVIE STUMPERS $400: In 1959's "Some Like It Hot", this then 30-year-old historic event begins the movie & sends our heroes into drag the St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
#5631, aired 2009-02-16 | LET'S VISIT CYPRUS $2000: This archbishop was the first president of modern Cyprus, off & on from 1959 to 1977 Archbishop Makarios |
#5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $200: 2005, it return to bestseller list after long time, about 1959 Kansas murders, Tarzan horrified yet can't put book down In Cold Blood |
#5604, aired 2009-01-08 | IT'S A FACT $800: In 1959 he gave up his title as Chairman of the People's Republic of China (officially) Mao |
#5597, aired 2008-12-30 | "KAR" $1000: In 1959 this conductor headed the Berlin Philharmonic, Salzburg Festival & Vienna State Opera Herbert von Karajan |
#5588, aired 2008-12-17 | YULETIDE FAVORITES $1600: This Brenda Lee perennial failed to chart in 1958 & 1959, but its re-release in 1960 reached No. 14 "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" |
#5578, aired 2008-12-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: Truman Capote wrote the text for this fashion photographer's 1959 collection "Observations" Richard Avedon |
#5574, aired 2008-11-27 | HAIL, CAESAR $400: The world's largest carry-out pizza chain, it was founded in 1959 in Garden City, Michigan Little Caesars |
#5551, aired 2008-10-27 | HEY, KIDS! LET'S LEARN THE ALPHABET! $200: In 1959 this company made the first automatic, plain-paper copier:
"X" is for... Xerox |
#5551, aired 2008-10-27 | TIBET YOUR LIFE $3,000 (Daily Double): After the Dalai Lama fled in 1959, this lama became titular spiritual leader of Tibet the Panchen Lama |
#5548, aired 2008-10-22 | MOTORIN' $200: This Super Mario raced from 1959 to 2000, winning 4 Champ Car titles Mario Andretti |
#5531, aired 2008-09-29 | FUN WITH OPERA $400: To play Sportin' Life in "Porgy and Bess", study the performance of this Rat Packer who played him in the 1959 film Sammy Davis, Jr. |
#5526, aired 2008-09-22 | THEY MADE THE TOP 40 $400: 1959:
This 375-voice group with "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" the Mormon Tabernacle Choir |
#5516, aired 2008-09-08 | YEARS $200: A House of Representatives vote of 323-89 helped make Hawaii the 50th state in this year 1959 |
#5509, aired 2008-07-17 | BELOVED BOSTON CELTICS $800: This "colorful" coaching legend led Boston to 8 NBA crowns in a row from 1959 to 1966 Red Auerbach |
#5501, aired 2008-07-07 | POP MUSIC $400: This Don McLean song was inspired by the 1959 death of Buddy Holly "American Pie" |
#5497, aired 2008-07-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: A third, more sexually explicit version of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was finally published in the U.S. in 1959 Lady Chatterley's Lover |
#5482, aired 2008-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $600: In 1959 Galina Ulanova in "Romeo & Juliet" was a highlight of this ballet company's first U.S. tour the Bolshoi |
#5481, aired 2008-06-09 | ALASKA $1200: The U.S. used a 48-star flag for 47 years until Alaska gained statehood in this year 1959 |
#5479, aired 2008-06-05 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names The Miracle Worker |
#5471, aired 2008-05-26 | HEAVYWEIGHTS $400: Ingemar Johansson won the heavyweight title from him in 1959 but lost 2 rematches Floyd Patterson |
#5455, aired 2008-05-02 | MIND YOUR BUSINESS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1959 the Ohio Art toy company got the rights to l'Ecran magique, the Magic Writer, & renamed it this the Etch A Sketch |
#5450, aired 2008-04-25 | MOUNTAINS $400: This California mountain is the USA's 17th highest; it was No. 1 until 1959 Mount Whitney |
#5438, aired 2008-04-09 | LITERARY SEQUELS $800: In 1959 Grace Metalious returned to this town, hoping to cash in on the success of her earlier novel Peyton Place |
#5438, aired 2008-04-09 | "T.W." $800: This Southerner wrote the 1959 classic "Sweet Bird of Youth" Tennessee Williams |
#5407, aired 2008-02-26 | CALIFORNIA ROLE $400: In a classic 1959 film, writer Joe Gillis moves into Norma Desmond's mansion on this title L.A. street Sunset Boulevard |
#5377, aired 2008-01-15 | LOOSE CHANGE $1000: On Feb. 12, 1959 a new design for the back of this coin was introduced the Lincoln penny |
#5374, aired 2008-01-10 | "L"ITERATURE $200: The ban on this D.H. Lawrence book was lifted in 1959 in the U.S. Lady Chatterley's Lover |
#5351, aired 2007-12-10 | WHEN DID IT HAPPEN? $200: JFK won the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in this year 1960 |
#5337, aired 2007-11-20 | THE COMICS $400: This "Peanuts" character got a sister named Sally in 1959 Charlie Brown |
#5329, aired 2007-11-08 | SEASONAL CINEMA $400: Quick! Name this seasonal 1959 Elizabeth Taylor film based on a Tennessee Williams play Suddenly, Last Summer |
#5324, aired 2007-11-01 | "L" ON EARTH $200: In 1959, a chapter of Gamblers Anonymous was formed in this city-- how apt! Las Vegas |
#5313, aired 2007-10-17 | JAZZ MUSICIANS $1200: His quartet's 1959 LP "Time Out" featured the classic hit "Take Five" (Dave) Brubeck |
#5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $400: You couldn't drag a Best Picture nomination out of the Academy for this 1959 Billy Wilder film; well, nobody's perfect Some Like It Hot |
#5296, aired 2007-09-24 | LITERARY LOCALES $1200: "Walkabout"
(1959) Australia |
#5283, aired 2007-07-25 | U.S. HISTORY $400: On August 21, 1959 it became our 50th state Hawaii |
#5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE FABULOUS FIFTIES $400: When the Monorail opened at Disneyland in 1959, it was dedicated by this man who was then the U.S. vice president Nixon |
#5271, aired 2007-07-09 | ACTORS ON LOCATION $400: In this 1959 film James Mason is a bad, bad man at the location shown here North by Northwest |
#5270, aired 2007-07-06 | LITERARY THEATRE $400: You may have seen one of these films but there is also a stage version of this 1959 novel, "The Manchurian" this Candidate |
#5259, aired 2007-06-21 | HELLO, MALI! $1,000 (Daily Double): This European power ruled Mali from 1895 to 1959, when Mali united with Senegal; independence came in 1960 France |
#5254, aired 2007-06-14 | OTHER BRITISH ISLES $2000: Akrotiri is an enclave the U.K. held onto in the 1959 agreement that made this Mediterranean island independent Cyprus |
#5248, aired 2007-06-06 | FAMOUS FLOPS $400: In 1959 only 2,846 of this oversized & overpriced car's 1960 line were made before it was discontinued the Edsel |
#5243, aired 2007-05-30 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: While he was in Spain in 1959, he wrote "The Dangerous Summer", a story about rival bullfighters Hemingway |
#5235, aired 2007-05-18 | BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $1200: No "bull"--this Fleet Admiral who won many battles during WWII was buried at Arlington in 1959 Halsey |
#5219, aired 2007-04-26 | BEFORE COMPUTERS $1000: One-time experiments in "express" delivery of this have included firing a guided missile from a sub in 1959 mail |
#5207, aired 2007-04-10 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: In 1959 this vice-president participated in an impromptu "kitchen debate" at a U.S. exhibit in Moscow Nixon |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | THE HISTORY OF APRIL 9th $600: 1959: NASA publicly introduces Messrs. Glenn, Shepard & the rest of this program's 7 astronauts Mercury |
#5202, aired 2007-04-03 | FOREIGN CINEMA $1600: Truffaut provided the story for this 1959 Godard film in which Belmondo plays a hood who kills a cop Breathless |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1000: In 1959 Barbara Hale won an Emmy for playing secretary Della Street on this long-running courtroom drama Perry Mason |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | FILM SCHOOL $2000: In this probing 1959 Preminger film, Jimmy Stewart's a lawyer defending Ben Gazzara in a murder trial Anatomy of a Murder |
#5150, aired 2007-01-19 | FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME $400: The first of these came out in 1959 & was named for Barbara Handler the Barbie doll |
#5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: A brutal 1959 mass murder was the basis of this Truman Capote nonfiction novel In Cold Blood |
#5136, aired 2007-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR $1000: On Jan. 1, 1959, suddenly out of power, he fled Cuba for the Dominican Republic (Fulgencio) Batista |
#5122, aired 2006-12-12 | ASIAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $200: The first Asian-American U.S. senator was Hiram Fong, who began representing this state in 1959 Hawaii |
#5122, aired 2006-12-12 | THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY $1600: In 1959 she found the skull of a human-like creature that lived about 1.75 million years ago in Olduvai Gorge Mary Leakey |
#5119, aired 2006-12-07 | DUOS $1000: In 1959 this pair gave would-be writers "The Elements of Style" Strunk & White |
#5110, aired 2006-11-24 | DEDICATED TO… $1000: Gunter Grass simply wrote that this 1959 novel was "For Anna Grass" The Tin Drum |
#5094, aired 2006-11-02 | MYSPACE.MAN $400: He elected to join the Mercury program in 1959; 15 years later, he'd be elected to join the Senate (John) Glenn |
#5091, aired 2006-10-30 | CABINET CLEANING $1600: In 1959 Christian Herter didn't "make a fool of himself over" this man; he just replaced him as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles |
#5089, aired 2006-10-26 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: In 1959 these two top of the alphabet monkeys were happy to be home after a 1700-mile flight in a Jupiter rocket Able & Baker |
#5083, aired 2006-10-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: One of the major hits of 1973, "Raisin" was a musical version of this 1959 Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun |
#5058, aired 2006-09-13 | IT'S A MAN, BABY! $800: This 1959 movie ends with Jerry saying, "You don't understand... I'm a man!" & getting the reply, "Well, nobody's perfect" Some Like It Hot |
#5054, aired 2006-07-27 | SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR $2000: 1959:
A Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson |
#5048, aired 2006-07-19 | YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR $1000: Shirley Jackson's "Haunting of" this title place has unnerved readers since 1959 Hill House |
#5047, aired 2006-07-18 | ADVERTISING $400: Advertising Age ranked the 1959 "Think Small" ads for this car the top campaign of the 20th century the (VW) Beetle |
#5025, aired 2006-06-16 | THE INDIE 5 $1600: 1959's "Shadows" was the groundbreaking debut of this actor/director John Cassavetes |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | 1959's BESTSELLERS $200: In a Paul Gallico title, "Mrs. 'arris Goes to" this European city Paris |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | FAMILIAR NUMBERS $400: Title number of "Blows" in a 1959 Jean-Pierre Leaud film 400 |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | 1959's BESTSELLERS $400: At No. 1, this Leon Uris book left the other works of fiction behind Exodus |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | 1959's BESTSELLERS $600: This book by Pasternak was No. 2 in the fiction bestseller rack Doctor Zhivago |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | 1959's BESTSELLERS $800: "Twixt Twelve and Twenty" was an advice book by this "April Love" singer Pat Boone |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | 1959's BESTSELLERS $1000: Please "state" the name of this James Michener book, No. 3 on Publishers Weekly's list for the year Hawaii |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | I GOT TO BOOGIE $1,000 (Daily Double): When Chinese troops invaded in 1959, this leader escaped through a Himalayan mountain pass the Dalai Lama |
#5001, aired 2006-05-15 | GONE TOO SOON $400: Heard here, he was the youngest of the 3 singers who perished in a February 1959 plane crash
"Para bailar la bamba /
Para bailar la bamba..." Ritchie Valens |
#5000, aired 2006-05-12 | 20th CENTURY FOREIGNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): He fled Iraq in 1959 after his attempt to assassinate Iraqi prime minister Abdul Kassim failed Saddam Hussein |
#4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $400: You're gonna need a bigger boat to top the record catch of 2,664 lbs. for one of these sharks caught off Australia in 1959 a great white |
#4931, aired 2006-02-06 | FLAG 'EM DOWN $1000: The first 50-star U.S. flag was officially raised on July 4 of this year 1960 |
#4911, aired 2006-01-09 | TAKING THE FIFTH $1000: On January 8, 1959 Charles de Gaulle took office as the first president of what was termed this French government the Fifth Republic |
#4907, aired 2006-01-03 | THE MUSICAL QUESTION $2000: Ray Charles wondered (repeatedly) about words he spoke to his "baby" in this 1959 tune "What'd I Say" |
#4903, aired 2005-12-28 | CLEVELAND ROCKS! $1600: The opening of this in 1959 made Cleveland an international seaport the St. Lawrence Seaway |
#4859, aired 2005-10-27 | THERE'S A "WAY" $800: This country singer gave up his seat to the Big Bopper on the 1959 flight that also killed Buddy Holly & Ritchie Valens Waylon Jennings |
#4842, aired 2005-10-04 | COMPANIES $1000: In 1959 Richard De Vos & Jay Van Andel founded this company that now has 3 million independent distributors Amway |
#4822, aired 2005-07-19 | APRIL $1200: This seaway that enables ocean vessels to reach inland ports on the Great Lakes opened to shipping April 25, 1959 the St. Lawrence Seaway |
#4772, aired 2005-05-10 | MOTHERS & SONS $400: On this popular TV show that premiered in 1959, Ben's 3 sons were born of 3 different mothers Bonanza |
#4769, aired 2005-05-05 | "O" BOY! $400: In October 1959, soon after being discharged from the Marines, this American applied for Soviet citizenship Oswald |
#4768, aired 2005-05-04 | HISTORIC ESPN $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) February 22, 1959:
So you say you can't go 135 mph in an Oldsmobile? Lee Petty did, winning the first running of this in Florida the Daytona 500 |
#4756, aired 2005-04-18 | YOUR NUMBER'S UP $800: Number of stars on the U.S. flag for the longest period of time 48 |
#4749, aired 2005-04-07 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: In July 1959, the U.S. & the U.K. finally agreed that an inch was equivalent to 2.54 of these a centimeter |
#4729, aired 2005-03-10 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: Italian poet who won 1959 Nobel Prize, or a Victor Hugo character Quasimodo |
#4721, aired 2005-02-28 | BRAND NAMES $1000: The name of this brand, introduced in 1959, implies that its elastic waistband holds the pants up without help Sansabelt |
#4718, aired 2005-02-23 | AMERICANA $800: Following 1912, it was the next year a star was added to the U.S. flag 1959 |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $2000: "The 400 Blows"
(1959) Truffaut |
#4691, aired 2005-01-17 | WORKING WITHOUT ANNETTE $800: Annette Funicello did not do backing vocals on this 1959 Frankie Avalon hit song about a Roman goddess "Venus" |
#4679, aired 2004-12-30 | IN HAVANA $1600: Until Castro's 1959 victory, what's now the Museum of the Revolution served as this man's presidential palace (Fulgencio) Batista |
#4678, aired 2004-12-29 | FILMS OF THE '50s $800: "You just can't imagine the thrill of shooting the curl", said this 1959 Sandra Dee character Gidget |
#4663, aired 2004-12-08 | RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH $800: Until 1959, this peak was the highest mountain in the United States Mount Whitney |
#4658, aired 2004-12-01 | DECEMBER 1st $400: 1959: 12 countries including the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. sign a treaty to keep this continent a scientific preserve Antarctica |
#4632, aired 2004-10-26 | 1959 $200: The FDA seized over 254,000 lbs. of cranberries contaminated by pesticides just before this holiday Thanksgiving |
#4632, aired 2004-10-26 | 1959 $400: In October Sam Rayburn started a drive to get this Senate Majority Leader, & fellow Texan, the presidency LBJ |
#4632, aired 2004-10-26 | 1959 $600: Valerie Harper is one of the chorus girls in this 1959 movie musical set in Dogpatch Li'l Abner |
#4632, aired 2004-10-26 | 1959 $800: In 1959 the first garment to be made of this new rubber-like material was a girdle Lycra |
#4632, aired 2004-10-26 | 1959 $1000: His first novel was 1959's "Die Blechtrommel", "The Tin Drum" (Günter) Grass |
#4630, aired 2004-10-22 | THE HISTORY OF DISNEYLAND $1600: Neuschwanstein Castle inspired the design of this heroine's castle in a 1959 film and at Disneyland Sleeping Beauty |
#4625, aired 2004-10-15 | "D" FACTO $600: In January 1959 he assumed the presidency of France's Fifth Republic De Gaulle |
#4601, aired 2004-09-13 | A PEANUTS TIMELINE $600: August 23, 1959:
She joins Charlie Brown's family as his younger sister Sally |
#4595, aired 2004-07-23 | "ROCK"Y $800: National Guard troops escorted black students to class in this southern state capital in August 1959 Little Rock |
#4585, aired 2004-07-09 | FILE UNDER "M" $1200: In Britain's M1, which opened in 1959 & links north to south, M stands for this motorway |
#4579, aired 2004-07-01 | DANGEROUS! $1000: The record for a single snowstorm was 189 inches in 1959 on this California mountain with a soda pop name Mount Shasta |
#4522, aired 2004-04-13 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: 1959:
"Now you've done it!" "Done what?" "You tore off one of my chests!" Some Like It Hot |
#4520, aired 2004-04-09 | FOOD FRANCHISE HISTORY $1000: With its food served "With the Speed of Sound", the Top Hat chain in Oklahoma changed its name to this in 1959 Sonic |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | FAMOUS JACQUES $400: His 1959 film "The Golden Fish" won him an Oscar (Jacques) Cousteau |
#4498, aired 2004-03-10 | CARS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) This legendary GM designer introduced tailfins in 1948 & saw them reach a peak with the 1959 Cadillac Harley Earl |
#4485, aired 2004-02-20 | POLITICIANS $1000: This West Virginian, who's been in the Senate since 1959, was President Pro Tempore of the Senate twice Robert Byrd |
#4484, aired 2004-02-19 | PLAY STATION $1600: This 1959 play is based on the true story of Helen Keller & the woman who taught her to communicate The Miracle Worker |
#4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $800: Born on or after Jan. 1, 1959? You can't remember a time when this dictator hasn't been in power Fidel Castro |
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $1200: This big band leader won 3 Grammys for his work on the 1959 courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Murder" Duke Ellington |
#4468, aired 2004-01-28 | THE SWEET SPOT $1000: In 1959 Elia Kazan directed this Tennessee Williams play Sweet Bird of Youth |
#4464, aired 2004-01-22 | SPORTS NUMBERS $400: Number in the name of a Florida auto race first run on February 22, 1959 (Daytona) 500 |
#4461, aired 2004-01-19 | MI CASA ES SU CASA $400: 7 Calle San Fermin in Pamplona was an address of this American author in 1959 Ernest Hemingway |
#4457, aired 2004-01-13 | NO. 1 HITS IN OTHER WORDS $400: (1959)
Frankie Avalon:
"Second Planet from the Sun" "Venus" |
#4449, aired 2004-01-01 | ASIAN HISTORY $1000: In 1959 this Japanese Crown Prince married a commoner, the first time ever for an heir to the throne Akihito |
#4441, aired 2003-12-22 | PULITZER PRIZE CATEGORIES $200: Bill Mauldin in 1945 & 1959 Cartooning |
#4436, aired 2003-12-15 | KIDDY LIT $800: A Disney film was based on this 1959 Margery Sharp tale of Miss Bianca & the mice of the Prisoners' Aid Society The Rescuers |
#4433, aired 2003-12-10 | "F" TROOP $1000: The Pope in 236 A.D., or the singing star of the 1959 film "Hound-Dog Man" Fabian |
#4432, aired 2003-12-09 | POLITICIANS & LEADERS $1600: In 1959 he got his butt booted out of office for a second time in Cuba Fulgencio Batista |
#4418, aired 2003-11-19 | IT OPENED IN NEW HAVEN $800: This ever-popular musical set in 1938 Austria debuted in New Haven in 1959 The Sound of Music |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | AMERICA'S MOST WANT ADS $400: Wanted: Any one of the remaining ones of this vintage toy in its original box from 1959 Barbie |
#4410, aired 2003-11-07 | GOOD HORSEKEEPING $1000: A name for any untamed western horse, or a 1959-60 TV Western starring Ty Hardin bronco |
#4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: A cabinet at the museum contains the skeleton of Able, one of these animals that went into space in 1959 a (rhesus) monkey |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | TRANSPORTATION $800: Offered since 1959, it gives you travel for a fixed time period on train systems in 17 European countries Eurailpass |
#4360, aired 2003-07-11 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Disney's first live-action comedy, this 1959 film starred Tommy Kirk as a boy who changes into a sheepdog The Shaggy Dog |
#4345, aired 2003-06-20 | ONE WORD ONLY, PLEASE $1600: On Jan. 9, 1959 Eisenhower told Congress, "America is best described by one word", this "ring"ing one Freedom |
#4328, aired 2003-05-28 | SENIOR MOMENTS $800: In his first encyclical, issued in 1959, this 77-year-old pontiff warned of TV's enticement to loose morality Pope John XXIII |
#4327, aired 2003-05-27 | HAWAII $400: Hawaii got this official nickname with statehood in 1959 "The Aloha State" |
#4289, aired 2003-04-03 | BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $400: Cary Grant's 1959 cross-country adventure North by Northwest |
#4275, aired 2003-03-14 | PORGY-POURRI $800: Bobby McFerrin's father dubbed the singing voice of Porgy when this leading man played him on film in 1959 Sidney Poitier |
#4266, aired 2003-03-03 | 1950s NEWS $2000: This man married his third wife in December of 1959 Shah of Iran |
#4262, aired 2003-02-25 | MOTOWN $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from in front of Motown Studios in Detroit.) In 1959, with $800 borrowed from his family, he founded Motown, which he dubbed "Hitsville, USA" Berry Gordy |
#4259, aired 2003-02-20 | FASHION DESIGNERS $1600: A swimsuit by this designer in 1959 featured a large cutaway; topless came later Rudi Gernreich |
#4230, aired 2003-01-10 | TOYS & GAMES $200: Ruth Handler named this doll, introduced in 1959 as a teenage fashion model, for her daughter Barbie |
#4218, aired 2002-12-25 | LET'S FOOL AROUND! $400: This swivel-hipped legend released "A Fool Such as I" in 1959 & just plain "Fool" in '73 Elvis Presley |
#4215, aired 2002-12-20 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $400: Mary Martin received a Tony Award for playing Maria in this 1959 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | A LITTLE R&R $400: On Feb. 3, 1959 a plane crash took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & this "Chantilly Lace" singer The Big Bopper |
#4207, aired 2002-12-10 | THE '50s $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle.) In 1959 Air Force One took President Eisenhower on his first jet flight to meet this German chancellor Konrad Adenauer |
#4178, aired 2002-10-30 | CAN I HAVE A DATE? $1600: Fidel keeps all the cigars for himself as Batista flees to the Dominican Republic 1959 |
#4162, aired 2002-10-08 | POP MUSIC DECADES $2000: In 1959 she had a hit with the following Dinah Washington |
#4151, aired 2002-09-23 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $600: The longest currently serving leader in the Western Hemisphere; he started in 1959 Fidel Castro |
#4150, aired 2002-09-20 | THE SPORTS CHANNEL $1600: It's the coastal Florida city that's hosted a famous 500-mile auto race every year since 1959 Daytona Beach |
#4149, aired 2002-09-19 | LOOSE CHANGE $400: In 1959 this building first appeared on the reverse of the penny Lincoln Memorial |
#4099, aired 2002-05-30 | REUBEN AWARD CARTOONISTS $800: In 1959 & 1977 he won for "Dick Tracy" Chester Gould |
#4095, aired 2002-05-24 | ASTRONOMERS $1000: In 1959 Martin Ryle, whose work led to quasars' discovery, became professor of this type of astronomy at Cambridge radio astronomer |
#4092, aired 2002-05-21 | JANUARY $200: On January 2, 1959, exactly 120 years after Daguerre took the first photo of it, Russia launched a probe to it the Moon |
#4081, aired 2002-05-06 | MOVIES BY CHARACTER $1200: In a 1959 film, Altair, Aldebaran, Antares & Rigel (total legs: 16) Ben-Hur |
#4047, aired 2002-03-19 | CHAIN LETTERS $800: In 1959 you got a penny from Coors if you returned one of these to the brewery a can |
#4036, aired 2002-03-04 | DAY $1600: In this 1959 classic Brad (Rock) & Jan (Doris) share a phone line Pillow Talk |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | ACT UP $1000: This folksinger & actor surely had "A Holly Jolly Christmas" in 1959, the year he won an Oscar for "The Big Country" Burl Ives |
#4027, aired 2002-02-19 | A DAY AT THE RACES $600: Andrew Marton won a special Golden Globe Award for directing this sequence in the 1959 film "Ben-Hur" chariot race |
#4021, aired 2002-02-11 | KNOW YOUR CONGRESS $400: In 1959 this state's Daniel Inouye became the first person of Japanese descent to serve in the House or senate Hawaii |
#4014, aired 2002-01-31 | AT HOME WITH THE EISENHOWERS $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Eisenhower's porch.) President Eisenhower felt most at home on his porch, where he visited with this Soviet leader in 1959 Khrushchev |
#4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THE GRAMMYS $600: This man won in 1959 for "Come Dance with Me" & in 1995 for "Duets II" Frank Sinatra |
#4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PERSON $400: This American "superbrat" of tennis was born in Wiesbaden, West Germany in 1959 John McEnroe |
#4007, aired 2002-01-22 | LIGHTNING SAFETY $1000: Based on data gathered from 1959 to 1994, this hurricane-prone state also has the most lightning fatalities Florida |
#4006, aired 2002-01-21 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names The Miracle Worker |
#3983, aired 2001-12-19 | YOU WEREN'T "THERE" $1000: Baby, this song was a top 10 hit for the Drifters in 1959 "There Goes My Baby" |
#3983, aired 2001-12-19 | ALONG COMES MARY $1600: In 1959 she & her husband found a skull at Olduvai Gorge dated at about 1.75 million years old Mary Leakey |
#3974, aired 2001-12-06 | THE MOVIES $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is in New York.) The Plaza Hotel was featured in this 1959 Hitchcock movie that starred Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint North by Northwest |
#3974, aired 2001-12-06 | HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPS $1000: Ingemar Johansson won the heavyweight title from him in 1959, but lost 2 rematches Floyd Patterson |
#3970, aired 2001-11-30 | COMPANY HISTORIES $2000: In 1959 a company in this state got the rights to L'Ecran Magique, the Magic Writer, & renamed it the Etch-A-Sketch Ohio |
#3964, aired 2001-11-22 | 20th CENTURY LIVES $400: Seen here, he "hacked" plenty of on & off-screen adventure into his life; 1909 to 1959 Errol Flynn |
#3937, aired 2001-10-16 | RHINOCEROS NOW $500: People turn into savage rhinos in this Romanian-born author's 1959 play Eugène Ionesco |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | BEACH BOYS $500: Fred Astaire's first dramatic role was in this 1959 post-nuclear war Nevil Shute drama set partly in Australia On the Beach |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | MUSICAL FLYERS $1000: This group was in the pink in 1959 with "I Only Have Eyes For You" The Flamingos |
#3916, aired 2001-09-17 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This firm began in 1897 as Nippon Gakki Company, an organ manufacturer; electronic organs came along in 1959 Yamaha |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | RUSSELING $300: On Nov. 7, 1959 he grabbed 35 rebounds in his first showdown with Wilt Chamberlain Bill Russell |
#3887, aired 2001-06-26 | PITCHES $100: In 1959 physicist Lyman Briggs determined that this pitch really does what its name says a curveball |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | NANCY $200: This famous daughter & singer made her national TV debut with dad & Elvis in 1959 Nancy Sinatra |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | SIN-EMA $300: Julie London copes with a jealous husband in 1959's "A Question of" this Biblical sin Adultery |
#3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $200: 1959 comedy in which 2 musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre & flee the mob by joining an all-girl band Some Like It Hot |
#3862, aired 2001-05-22 | MUSICALS! $600: This 1959 Broadway musical ends with the title character being elected mayor of NYC in 1933 Fiorello! (named for Fiorello LaGuardia) |
#3841, aired 2001-04-23 | CINEMATIC TITLE PAIRS $1000: 1959:
"....and the Little People" Darby O'Gill |
#3837, aired 2001-04-17 | PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $500: Speaking in exile in 1959, he reportedly said, "I give Castro a year. No more" Fulgencio Batista |
#3836, aired 2001-04-16 | NUMBERS $500: Title number of blows in a 1959 Truffaut film that could be described as quadrigenarious 400 |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | SLIPPERY "ROCK" $200: In 1959 this hunk starred in "Pillow Talk" with Doris Day Rock Hudson |
#3827, aired 2001-04-03 | '50s TV $200: This sci-fi anthology premiered on October 2, 1959 with the episode "Where Is Everybody?" The Twilight Zone |
#3811, aired 2001-03-12 | 1980s MUSIC $400: This singer heard here was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1959:
"When it get too much /
I need to feel your touch /
I'm gonna run to you..." Bryan Adams |
#3801, aired 2001-02-26 | 20th CENTURY STYLE $500: Harley Earl's designs for GM peaked with this 1959 Cadillac model Eldorado |
#3795, aired 2001-02-16 | THE 1950s $100: In 1959 this spiritual leader of Tibet fled to exile in India Dalai Lama |
#3793, aired 2001-02-14 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $800: Cuba's leader 1952-1959, his former presidential palace now houses Havana's Museum of the Revolution Fulgencio Batista |
#3793, aired 2001-02-14 | SHARK! $1000: 3-word title of the 1959 Bobby Darin hit that starts "Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear" "Mack The Knife" |
#3784, aired 2001-02-01 | THE CHANNEL HISTORY $600: These air-cushion vehicles that were "full of eels" in a Monty Python sketch first crossed the Channel in 1959 hovercraft |
#3780, aired 2001-01-26 | GONE TOO SOON $200: 2 of the 3 rock legends, aged 28, 22 & 17, who lost their lives February 3, 1959 (2 of) The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens |
#3768, aired 2001-01-10 | THE CINEMA $600: Some TV prints of this 1959 film expand to widescreen format for the chariot race only Ben-Hur |
#3757, aired 2000-12-26 | PRESENTS $200: (Hi, I'm Julie Pinson from "Port Charles") When I'm not acting, I collect these dolls introduced by Mattel in 1959 Barbie dolls |
#3718, aired 2000-11-01 | HE'S THE COACH $300: Green Bay Packers, 1959-1967 Vince Lombardi |
#3717, aired 2000-10-31 | IT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN $500: "I will never return to the United States", declared this ex-marine to Russian reporters on Oct. 31, 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald |
#3714, aired 2000-10-26 | FRENCH WHINES $500: Modern politicians? Poo! Bring back zis general who became premier in 1958 & president in 1959 Charles de Gaulle |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | MISS AMERICA $400: Seen here as Miss America 1959, she's now seen in mattress infomercials with husband Gary Collins Mary Ann Mobley |
#3693, aired 2000-09-27 | THE HISTORY OF LIBYA $200: This discovery in 1959 turned Libya from one of the poorest into one of the wealthiest countries in Africa oil |
#3689, aired 2000-09-21 | VICE PRESIDENTS $100: In July 1959 he traveled to the Soviet Union to open an American exhibit in Moscow Richard Nixon |
#3686, aired 2000-09-18 | GRAMPA & GRAMMYS $200: Grampa just wouldn't be Grampa if he wasn't always humming this 1959 winner by Bobby Darin "Mack The Knife" |
#3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: A third, more sexually explicit version of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was finally published in the U.S. in 1959 "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
#3660, aired 2000-06-30 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $600 (Daily Double): These islands, made a national park by Ecuador in 1959, were made a World Heritage Site in 1978 the Galapagos Islands |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | LORRAINE CHECK $400: "Raisin" is a musical version of a 1959 play by this woman Lorraine Hansberry |
#3634, aired 2000-05-25 | WRITERS $200: In November 1959 he arrived in Holcomb, Kansas to begin 6 years of research for "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote |
#3619, aired 2000-05-04 | MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS $400: This crooner's hits include 1971's "Where Do I Begin" & 1959's "Lonely Street" Andy Williams |
#3616, aired 2000-05-01 | COLLECTIBLES $100: An original 1959 Barbie with blonde hair goes for about $8,000; with this color, about $9,000 brunette/brown |
#3596, aired 2000-04-03 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $200: 1959 Billy Wilder comedy:
"Well, nobody's perfect" Some Like it Hot |
#3593, aired 2000-03-29 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1000: Truman Capote wrote the text for this Harper's Bazaar fashion photographer's 1959 collection "Observations" Richard Avedon |
#3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $400: Small-town lawyer Jimmy Stewart matches wits with prosecutor George C. Scott in this 1959 courtroom classic Anatomy of a Murder |
#3584, aired 2000-03-16 | AMERICAN DIPLOMATS $2,000 (Daily Double): Philip W. Bonsal, serving in 1959 & 1960, was the last U.S. ambassador to this country Cuba |
#3580, aired 2000-03-10 | MASONS $600: He led the cast of the 1959 film "Journey to the Center of the Earth", seen here: James Mason |
#3567, aired 2000-02-22 | "J.P." $400: (Hi, I'm Garry Marshall) When I was hired as a wrtiter for the "Tonight Show" in 1959, this host said he liked me because I thought like a 4-year-old Jack Paar |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA $1000: Honoring a rock idol of 1959, it's the school John Travolta attends in "Grease" Rydell High |
#3553, aired 2000-02-02 | IT HAPPENED ON GROUNDHOG DAY $100: In 1959 this state's schools were integrated as black students joined white in Norfolk & Arlington Virginia |
#3553, aired 2000-02-02 | IT HAPPENED ON GROUNDHOG DAY $300: In 1959 this 22-year-old singer played his last gig, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa Buddy Holly |
#3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SPACE EXPLORATION $100: In 1959 the Soviet Union's Luna 3 became the first space probe to photograph the far side of this celestial body Moon |
#3550, aired 2000-01-28 | ALL "DE" BEST PEOPLE $1000: An Easter Rebellion participant in 1916, he was president of Ireland from 1959 to 1973 Eamon de Valera |
#3533, aired 2000-01-05 | SCI FI-DELITY $400: Future citizens fight invading bugs in this 1959 Heinlein work "Starship Troopers" |
#3529, aired 1999-12-30 | CALLING ALL CARS $400 (Daily Double): One of the longest-lived model names, this Buick line dating from 1959 means "the sword" in French Le Sabre |
#3529, aired 1999-12-30 | CALLING ALL CARS $400: The name of this rear-engined Chevy model brought out in 1959 was originally on an experimental Corvette Corvair |
#3525, aired 1999-12-24 | PRO FOOTBALL COACHES $100: Green Bay Packers
1959-67 Vince Lombardi |
#3523, aired 1999-12-22 | BLACK AMERICANS $400: On March 11, 1959 her "A Raisin in the Sun" became the first play on Broadway written by a black woman Lorraine Hansberry |
#3516, aired 1999-12-13 | FORMER BIGWIGS $800: President of Cuba 1952-1959 Fulgencio Batista |
#3515, aired 1999-12-10 | 20th CENTURY FACES $1000: This priest won his island's presidency in 1959: Archbishop Makarios (of Cyprus) |
#3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: Ex-reporter Allen Drury wrote this 1959 novel about a Senate confirmation battle Advise and Consent |
#3500, aired 1999-11-19 | TV STUPID ANSWERS $100: From 1959 to 1963 John Smith & Robert Fuller starred in this western set in Laramie, Wyoming Laramie |
#3478, aired 1999-10-20 | FORGOTTEN MUSICALS $200: He hadn't moved to Mayberry yet when he played the Jimmy Stewart role in the 1959 musical "Destry Rides Again" Andy Griffith |
#3472, aired 1999-10-12 | 5 MOVIES $1000: Danny Kaye starred in this 1959 biography of Red Nichols named for his backing group The Five Pennies |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | IT'S A DRAG (MOVIE) $300: 1959, starring Lemmon & Curtis Some Like It Hot |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | "MIS" QUOTES $300: In 1959 Johnny Mathis sang he was "too" this "and too much in love" Misty |
#3463, aired 1999-09-29 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $200: Akiko Kojima became the first woman from this continent to win the Miss Universe pageant in 1959 Asia |
#3438, aired 1999-07-14 | THAT YEAR'S HEADLINE $300: Charlton Heston's "Ben-Hur" Premieres! 1959 |
#3435, aired 1999-07-09 | 40 YEARS OF BARBIE $100: Mattel introduced Barbie in 1959; this boyfriend came along 2 years later Ken |
#3429, aired 1999-07-01 | ENEMY LINES $400: In 1959 he said his revolution began "With 82 men. If I had to do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith" Fidel Castro |
#3426, aired 1999-06-28 | EX-MARINES $100: After his 1959 discharge, he moved to the Dallas area & got a fateful job at the Texas School Book Depository Lee Harvey Oswald |
#3414, aired 1999-06-10 | FILMS OF THE '50s $400: 1959 title character seen here:
Gee, If I had one of those boards, I could be a surfer too... Gidget |
#3413, aired 1999-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: The change in the American flag on July 4, 1960 was its first change since July 4 of this year 1959 |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | "DREAM"Y SONGS $400: In 1959 Bobby Darin wailed, "Every night I hope and pray", she "will come my way" "Dream Lover" |
#3404, aired 1999-05-27 | SECRETARIES OF COMMERCE $100: Though sworn in 7 months earlier, Lewis Strauss was denied confirmation by this body in 1959 Senate |
#3403, aired 1999-05-26 | FILM FACTS $600: "Titanic" tied this 1959 film's record of 11 Oscars but didn't overtake it Ben-Hur |
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 | MODERN AFRICAN WOMEN $600: This beautiful singer known by one name was born in Ibadan, Nigeria in 1959 Sade |
#3399, aired 1999-05-20 | KATHARINE HEPBURN FILMS $1000: In 1959 Hepburn did "Suddenly Last Summer"; 9 years later she did this historical film with another season in its title The Lion in Winter |
#3397, aired 1999-05-18 | SHOWBIZ TIMELINE $200: The music died when Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper & this "La Bamba" singer died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959 Ritchie Valens |
#3390, aired 1999-05-07 | IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK $400: It's not me in the 1959 photo seen here, but it is this debatable Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev |
#3390, aired 1999-05-07 | IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK $500: It's not me in the 1959 photo seen here, but it is this famous political pet Checkers |
#3374, aired 1999-04-15 | THE 1950s $100: In 1959 its "dark side" was seen for the first time Moon |
#3361, aired 1999-03-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: 1959 musical that introduced the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" Gypsy |
#3358, aired 1999-03-24 | NO. 32 $500: The 32nd Academy Award for Best Picture went to this 1959 epic Ben-Hur |
#3343, aired 1999-03-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: On December 1, 1959, 12 nations signed a treaty setting aside this continent as a preserve for scientific research Antarctica |
#3339, aired 1999-02-25 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICANS $400: In 1959 Khrushchev wanted this dome designer to come over & teach his engineers a thing or two Buckminster Fuller |
#3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BIOGRAPHY $100: Born an Air Force brat in Germany in 1959, he won his first Wimbledon in 1981 & married Tatum O'Neal in 1986 John McEnroe |
#3320, aired 1999-01-29 | "D"SERT $600: This Procter & Gamble line of desserts bears the name of a restaurant critic who died in 1959 Duncan Hines |
#3317, aired 1999-01-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: This actor starred as Tom Dooley in the film seen here in 1959, the same year he hit it big on TV Michael Landon |
#3317, aired 1999-01-26 | EERIE TV ANTHOLOGIES $1000: A 1959-1961 series based on true incidents took you this far "beyond" One step |
#3298, aired 1998-12-30 | BOWL GAMES $500 (Daily Double): It began in Philadelphia in 1959 & since 1965 has been played in Memphis the Liberty Bowl |
#3295, aired 1998-12-25 | PERFORMANCE ART $800: "What's" this? It's a term for a performance art event coined by Allan Kaprow in 1959 Happening |
#3287, aired 1998-12-15 | WHERE OH WHERE $600: In 1959 the car-making city of Koromo, Japan changed its nameplate to this Toyota |
#3278, aired 1998-12-02 | SPACE FLIGHT $100: In 1959 the Russian probe Luna 1 came within about 4,000 miles of this body & Luna 2 hit it The moon |
#3273, aired 1998-11-25 | CELTICS $800: From 1959 to 1966, the Celtics won 8 straight NBA titles led by this coach Arnold "Red" Auerbach |
#3269, aired 1998-11-19 | 10 YEARS LATER $100: In 1959 he was president of the Screen Actors Guild; 10 years later he was governor of California Ronald Reagan |
#3256, aired 1998-11-02 | WOMEN'S LIBERATION $400: Introduced in 1959, she got in trouble in 1992 for saying "Math class is tough" Barbie |
#3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $400: Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet Sleeping Beauty |
#3231, aired 1998-09-28 | JAPAN $400: By 1959, after just 11 years in business, it was the world's leading motorcycle manufacturer Honda |
#3212, aired 1998-07-14 | YOU LOSE! $800: He "lost" his seat to the Big Bopper as Buddy Holly & the others flew off February 3, 1959 Waylon Jennings |
#3183, aired 1998-06-03 | IT'S SUPERMAN! $300: Rumor says he was set to do another season of "Superman" when he was shot June 16, 1959 George Reeves |
#3174, aired 1998-05-21 | REPORTERS' QUESTIONS $500: In a word, it was the last No. 1 hit for Frankie Avalon in 1959 "Why" |
#3159, aired 1998-04-30 | MOVIE DEBUTS $200: Millie Perkins was a teenage model before she starred in "The Diary of" this famous teenager in 1959 Anne Frank |
#3144, aired 1998-04-09 | HELLO, DALAI $400: The Dalai Lama, in exile since 1959, lives in the Himalayan town of Dharmsala in this country India |
#3138, aired 1998-04-01 | DAY $900 (Daily Double): Doris earned an Oscar nomination for her chatty role in this 1959 film, seen here:
"Who is that woman?"
"Some little eavesdropper on my party line--she's always listening in. It's how she brightens up her drab, empty life."
"If I could get a call through once in a while, my life wouldn't be so drab!" Pillow Talk |
#3132, aired 1998-03-24 | NICK NAMES $400: He was still a student at Ohio State when he won his first U.S. Amateur Golf Championship in 1959 Jack Nicklaus (The Golden Bear) |
#3121, aired 1998-03-09 | COLORS $200: Before 1995 the last new color added to M&M's was this light brown in 1959 Tan |
#3112, aired 1998-02-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS $400: The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers Romeo & Juliet |
#3092, aired 1998-01-27 | THE FAB FIFTIES $800: In 1959 an ex-VP of Wurlitzer testified it was tough to sell these without an underworld connection Jukeboxes |
#3092, aired 1998-01-27 | THE FAB FIFTIES $1000: His resume:
May 31, 1958 -- made premier; Dec. 21, 1958 -- elected president; Jan. 5, 1959 -- "Time Man of the Year" Charles de Gaulle |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Anthropologists "gorged" themselves on the discoveries the Leakeys made at this African gorge in 1959 Olduvai Gorge |
#3069, aired 1997-12-25 | "G" MOVIES $300: Hey, dude, this 1959 Sandra Dee film led to the TV series that made Sally Field a star Gidget |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | THE BRITISH INVASION $800: When Gerry Marsden formed his new band in 1959, he didn't have the "heart" to call it anything but this Gerry & the Pacemakers |
#3058, aired 1997-12-10 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: In 1959 a disgruntled Buddhist monk assassinated this country's PM Solomon Bandaranaike Ceylon/Sri Lanka |
#3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE RAVEN $100: In 1959 Glen Raven Mills introduced these waist-high nylons that don't need garters or corsets Panty hose |
#3043, aired 1997-11-19 | INACTION MOVIES $400: This 1959 film based on a journal written during WWII is set largely in an attic The Diary of Anne Frank |
#3042, aired 1997-11-18 | "HOT" AIR $1,000 (Daily Double): For this 1959 film, a female impersonator taught actors Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis how to be girls Some Like It Hot |
#3038, aired 1997-11-12 | RAILROAD TIES $200: In 1959 this Calif. amusement park became the first locale in the U.S. to have an operating monorail Disneyland |
#2992, aired 1997-09-09 | ISLAND PRISONS $400: In the 1950s he did time on Isla de Pinos; since 1959, he's ruled a larger island Fidel Castro |
#2988, aired 1997-09-03 | THE MOON $200: 41% of the Moon's surface, it was unseen by humans until the USSR's Luna 3 photographed it in 1959 the dark side of the Moon |
#2987, aired 1997-09-02 | NAME THAT TOON $200: Until his death in 1959, Arthur Q. Bryan was the voice of this "Wabbit Hunter" Elmer Fudd |
#2984, aired 1997-07-17 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1959 Haydee Santamaria helped overthrow this country's gov't & subsequently set up the Communist regime Cuba |
#2981, aired 1997-07-14 | HOLLYWOOD HODGEPODGE $1000: Anne Bauchens edited films for this director of "The Ten Commandments" from 1918 until his death in 1959 Cecil B. DeMille |
#2955, aired 1997-06-06 | AUTHORS $1000: This "Lord of the Rings" author served as Merton professor of English at Oxford from 1945 to 1959 J.R.R. Tolkien |
#2950, aired 1997-05-30 | FAMOUS RUFFOS $1,500 (Daily Double): Albert II, current king of this country, married Paola Ruffo, an Italian princess, in 1959 Belgium |
#2949, aired 1997-05-29 | BUSINESS BENCHMARKS $600: In 1959 this company sold its billionth can of Spam Hormel |
#2948, aired 1997-05-28 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: In 1959 Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce applied for patents on the first integrated ones of these a circuit |
#2944, aired 1997-05-22 | LAWS $600: The Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 extended this 1947 act's restrictions on unions Taft-Hartley |
#2936, aired 1997-05-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $500: This secretary of state majored in political science at Wellesley, graduating with honors in 1959 Madeleine Albright |
#2933, aired 1997-05-07 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This French director appears as a passerby who points out Belmondo to the police in his 1959 film "Breathless" Jean-Luc Godard |
#2931, aired 1997-05-05 | NUMBER, PLEASE $500: From 1912 to 1959 there were this many states in the United States 48 |
#2927, aired 1997-04-29 | EASY HISTORY $400: He resigned as head of China's government in 1959 but remained head of the Chinese Communists Mao Tse-tung |
#2915, aired 1997-04-11 | NOTABLE NAMES $300: At Moscow's American National Exhibition in 1959, they engaged in an impromptu "kitchen debate" Richard Nixon & Nikita Khrushchev |
#2897, aired 1997-03-18 | THE 1950s $800: In November 1959 Ford announced it was ending production of this car that caused a $250 million loss Edsel |
#2866, aired 1997-02-03 | U.S. STATES $100: This state's port of Duluth greatly increased ocean traffic when the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 Minnesota |
#2839, aired 1996-12-26 | EXILES $600: This current world leader spent 1959-1963 in exile after trying to assassinate PM Abdul Karim Kassem Saddam Hussein |
#2839, aired 1996-12-26 | EXILES $800: After being overthrown by Castro in 1959, he spent his last 14 years in exile Fulgencio Batista |
#2836, aired 1996-12-23 | POLITICIANS $1000: This Illinois Republican served 8 terms in the House, & in 1959 became Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen |
#2825, aired 1996-12-06 | POETS $200: On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress Carl Sandburg |
#2819, aired 1996-11-28 | COINS $300: In 1959 the Vatican's 20-lire coin featured this pontiff Pope John XXIII |
#2815, aired 1996-11-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Irving Wallace wrote 1959's "The Fabulous Showman" about this "Prince of Humbugs" P.T. Barnum |
#2815, aired 1996-11-22 | SEAN CONNERY FILMS $500: Although he's Scottish, the luck of the Irish got Connery cast in this 1959 Disney film about the wee folk Darby O'Gill and the Little People |
#2814, aired 1996-11-21 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: In 1959 at age 99 Jason Betzinez wrote "I Fought with" this Chiricahua Apache, his cousin Geronimo |
#2804, aired 1996-11-07 | U.S. HISTORY $300: Workers at the 28 companies that produced 90% of this material in the U.S. went on strike July 15, 1959 steel |
#2767, aired 1996-09-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: In 1959 all uncolonized areas of this Ecuadoran island group were made a national park the Galapagos Islands |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In June 1959 its voters approved statehood by almost 17 to 1; it became the 50th state on August 21 Hawaii |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1959 a Dutch ship became the first oceangoing vessel to reach Chicago via this waterway St. Lawrence Seaway |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | SONGS OF THE '50s $200: In a song from 1959, it's where Paul Anka wanted you to "put your head" on my shoulder |
#2729, aired 1996-06-13 | QUOTATIONS $200: On Jan. 9, 1959 this U.S. president told Congress, "America is best described by one word. Freedom" Dwight D. Eisenhower |
#2717, aired 1996-05-28 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $400: In 1959 his wife Mary found a fossil of Australopithecus in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge Louis Leakey |
#2687, aired 1996-04-16 | WORLD BUSINESS $200: Since 1959 more than 500 million examples of this toy created by Ruth Handler have been sold the Barbie doll |
#2684, aired 1996-04-11 | PEOPLE $1000: His painting "Three Flags" sold for just $900 in 1959; in 1980 it was resold for $1 million (Jasper) Johns |
#2680, aired 1996-04-05 | "DAY" SONGS $1000: In 1959 Dinah Washington found this out "What A Diff'rence A Day Makes" |
#2671, aired 1996-03-25 | POTPOURRI $600: Ifs 1934 & 1959 Ecuador passed laws protecting wildlife on this Pacific island group the Galapagos Islands |
#2668, aired 1996-03-20 | SONGS $200: In 1959 Hank Ballard & the Midnighters introduced this song that Chubby Checker later took to No. 1 "The Twist" |
#2667, aired 1996-03-19 | NEWSPAPERS $1000: England's Guardian newspaper dropped this city's name from its title in 1959 Manchester |
#2663, aired 1996-03-13 | FILMS OF THE '50s $200: More than 300 sets were built for this 1959 classic, including the 18-acre Circus Maximus Ben-Hur |
#2660, aired 1996-03-08 | NEW JERSEY $200: The Savannah, the first merchant ship powered by this, was launched at Camden, New Jersey in 1959 nuclear power |
#2659, aired 1996-03-07 | GAME SHOWS $100: He hosted "Play Your Hunch" for Goodson-Todman in 1959, then created shows like "Wheel of Fortune" Merv Griffin |
#2652, aired 1996-02-27 | 1959 $100: In January the publisher of this city's Sun-Times bought a controlling interest in its Daily News Chicago |
#2652, aired 1996-02-27 | 1959 $200: At a state dinner Fred Waring played "Zip-A- dee-doo-dah" for this premier who couldn't visit Disneyland Khrushchev |
#2652, aired 1996-02-27 | 1959 $300: In terms of circulation, it was the top magazine in 1959 Readers Digest |
#2652, aired 1996-02-27 | 1959 $400: In August William F. Quinn was sworn in as its first governor Hawaii |
#2652, aired 1996-02-27 | 1959 $500: On June 26 this state's governor, Earl Long, was released from his week-long stay in a mental hospital Louisiana |
#2651, aired 1996-02-26 | AWARDS $300: This "Mood Indigo" composer was the NAACP's Spingarn Medal winner in 1959 Duke Ellington |
#2629, aired 1996-01-25 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: In 1959 Georges Vanier became the 1st Roman Catholic Governor General of this North American country Canada |
#2605, aired 1995-12-22 | TRANSPORTATION $600: In 1959 this type of transportation was installed at Disneyland; Seattle's came 3 years later a monorail |
#2599, aired 1995-12-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In 1959 this author of "The Natural" won a National Book Award for "The Magic Barrel" (Bernard) Malamud |
#2596, aired 1995-12-11 | HISTORY $200: This U.S.-Canadian waterway was formally opened at St. Lambert, Quebec June 26, 1959 the St. Lawrence |
#2570, aired 1995-11-03 | MIDDLE INITIAL C. $400: In 1959 he made his film debut in "The Hanging Tree" with his future "Patton" co-star Karl Malden George C. Scott |
#2558, aired 1995-10-18 | AUTHORS $800: In 1959 this "Farewell My Lovely" author became president of the Mystery Writers of America Raymond Chandler |
#2557, aired 1995-10-17 | LITERARY SEQUELS $600: Author Grace Metalious "returned" to this town for a 1959 sequel Peyton Place |
#2553, aired 1995-10-11 | ROYALTY $400: This British princess was 8 years old when she became a Brownie in 1959 Princess Anne |
#2549, aired 1995-10-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In April 1959 ill health forced him to resign as Secretary of State; he died a month later (John Foster) Dulles |
#2538, aired 1995-09-20 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: This company's revenues soared after the introduction of its model 914 copier in 1959 Xerox |
#2535, aired 1995-09-15 | THE 1950s $1,000 (Daily Double): On Jan. 7, 1959 this Texan began his record 47th year in the House of Representatives (Sam) Rayburn |
#2531, aired 1995-09-11 | ISLANDS $400: This republic's independence is guaranteed by a 1959 agreement among the U.K., Greece & Turkey Cyprus |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: She belted out "You'll Never Get Away From Me" with Jack Klugman in the 1959 musical "Gypsy" (Ethel) Merman |
#2517, aired 1995-07-11 | '50s FILM FACTS $400: In this 1959 comedy, Jack Lemmon compares Marilyn Monroe's walk to "Jello on springs" Some Like It Hot |
#2513, aired 1995-07-05 | POLITICIANS $800: This senator who represented Maine from 1959 to 1980 was later a member of the Tower Commission Edmund Muskie |
#2510, aired 1995-06-30 | THE OSCARS $100: The Oscar ceremony held in 1959 set this record: amazingly, it lasted only 1 hour & 40 minutes the shortest one on record |
#2502, aired 1995-06-20 | TELEVISION $400: On Sept. 12, 1959 this hour-long NBC series became the first Western to be televised in color Bonanza |
#2470, aired 1995-05-05 | LITERATURE $800: Mink Snopes plots to murder his cousin Flem in this southerner's 1959 novel "The Mansion" Faulkner |
#2464, aired 1995-04-27 | LITERATURE $1000: This 1959 Walter Tevis tale is set in the world of pool The Hustler |
#2442, aired 1995-03-28 | POLITICIANS $200: From 1959 to 1973 Nelson Rockefeller was governor of this state New York |
#2417, aired 1995-02-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In April 1959 Prime Minister Nehru met with this exiled Tibetan leader in India the Dalai Lama |
#2406, aired 1995-02-06 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1959 the Luna 2 spacecraft confirmed the existence of this flow of particles from the Sun's corona solar wind |
#2400, aired 1995-01-27 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: This defense "line" was expanded to the Aleutians in 1959 & across Greenland in 1961 the DEW Line |
#2396, aired 1995-01-23 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1959 he fled to Cairo after trying unsuccessfully to oust Iraqi dictator General Abdul Karim Kassem (Saddam) Hussein |
#2395, aired 1995-01-20 | POP MUSIC $500: His 1959 Top 10 hit "Oh! Carol" was dedicated to singer-songwriter Carole King Neil Sedaka |
#2357, aired 1994-11-29 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $200: She was elected president of India's Congress Party in 1959, while her father was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi |
#2355, aired 1994-11-25 | CELEBRITY MARRIAGES $400: Elizabeth Taylor converted to Judaism shortly before her 1959 marriage to this singer Eddie Fisher |
#2348, aired 1994-11-16 | GEOGRAPHY $600: A British colony until 1959, this island city-state is the smallest nation in southeast Asia Singapore |
#2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE OSCARS $200: These 2 Hepburns competed against each other for the 1959 & 1967 Best Actress Oscars Audrey and Katharine Hepburn |
#2336, aired 1994-10-31 | THE MOVIES $100: Famed stuntman Yakima Canutt taught Charlton Heston to drive a chariot for this 1959 film Ben-Hur |
#2328, aired 1994-10-19 | AWARDS $600: In 1959 & 1977, Chester Gould received the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist for this comic strip Dick Tracy |
#2324, aired 1994-10-13 | BRIDGES $300: Between 1959 & 1962, a lower deck with 6 more traffic lanes was added to this bridge over the Hudson the George Washington Bridge |
#2310, aired 1994-09-23 | MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH $100: Pioneer IV was supposed to fly by this in 1959, but missed it by so much that its instruments were useless the moon |
#2306, aired 1994-09-19 | CUBA $500: This man, overthrown in 1959, died in Spain in 1973 Batista |
#2289, aired 1994-07-14 | OREGON $500: Oregon's senior U.S. senator, he served as the state's governor from 1959 to 1967 (Mark) Hatfield |
#2279, aired 1994-06-30 | THE 1950s $300: On March 1, 1959 Archbishop Makarios returned from exile to this island Cyprus |
#2253, aired 1994-05-25 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $200: From the 1600s until 1959, Tibet was under the rule of this religious leader the Dalai Lama |
#2251, aired 1994-05-23 | '50s FILM FACTS $200: This "fair lady"s radiant performance in "The Nun's Story" earned her a 1959 Oscar nomination Audrey Hepburn |
#2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 1959 $100: Liu Shao-Chi was elected to succeed him as chairman of the People's Republic of China Mao |
#2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 1959 $200: On January 1 Fulgencio Batista, dictator of this country, was overthrown Cuba |
#2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 1959 $300: Then Japanese crown prince, he married commoner Michiko Shoda in Tokyo in April Akihito |
#2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 1959 $400: He retained his U.S. chess crown at the age of 15 Bobby Fischer |
#2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 1959 $500: This British ballerina was arrested in Panama in connection with an alleged plot by her husband (Margot) Fonteyn |
#2243, aired 1994-05-11 | ASTRONOMY $200: In 1959 the USSR's Luna 3 provided the first photos of this body's far side the Moon |
#2208, aired 1994-03-23 | HISTORY $400: He went to Moscow in 1959 as Vice President & again in 1972 as President Richard Nixon |
#2201, aired 1994-03-14 | SHIPS $200: In 1959 the N.S. Savannah became the first commercial ship powered by this nuclear power |
#2192, aired 1994-03-01 | MOUNTAINS $200: This California mountain is the USA's 17th highest; it was No. 1 until 1959 Mount Whitney |
#2174, aired 1994-02-03 | MUSIC TRIVIA $400: This onetime drummer with Benny Goodman was portrayed by Sal Mineo in a 1959 film biography Gene Krupa |
#2147, aired 1993-12-28 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1,300 (Daily Double): The father-in-law of Senator Howard Baker, he served as Senate minority leader from 1959 to his death in 1969 Everett Dirksen |
#2136, aired 1993-12-13 | HISTORIC PLACES $200: After the sub Nautilus passed under this geographic extreme, the Skate surfaced at it in 1959 the North Pole |
#2135, aired 1993-12-10 | ASTRONOMY $100: Mapping of its far side didn't begin until 1959 the Moon |
#2125, aired 1993-11-26 | AWARDS $200: It's the novel for which Leon Uris received a 1959 National Jewish Book Award Exodus |
#2118, aired 1993-11-17 | 1950s WOMEN $800: She served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy 1953-1956 & to Brazil for less than a month in 1959 Clare Booth Luce |
#2115, aired 1993-11-12 | THE "OSCAR"s $200: His last collaboration with Richard Rodgers was "The Sound of Music" in 1959 Oscar Hammerstein |
#2110, aired 1993-11-05 | HISTORY $200: In July 1959 he quit as premier of Cuba in order to remove the president Fidel Castro |
#2101, aired 1993-10-25 | THE SUPREMES $200: The group was formed in this city in 1959 as The Primettes; it became the Supremes in 1961 Detroit |
#2099, aired 1993-10-21 | SILENT MOVIES $600: William Wyler, a production ass't for the chariot scene of this 1920s film, directed the 1959 remake Ben-Hur |
#2093, aired 1993-10-13 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1,500 (Daily Double): Popular TV star heard here in a 1959 musical:
"I've always been shy / I confess that I'm shy / Can't you guess that this confident air / Is a mask that I wear 'cause I'm shy" Carol Burnett |
#2083, aired 1993-09-29 | AWARDS $1000: In 1959 Hermes Pan won an Emmy for choreographing "An Evening with" this dancer Fred Astaire |
#2082, aired 1993-09-28 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: From 1959 to 1967, Rawalpindi served as the interim capital of this country Pakistan |
#2080, aired 1993-09-24 | OKLAHOMA $300: The state didn't repeal this until 1959, years after the USA's 18th amendment was repealed prohibition |
#2066, aired 1993-09-06 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $200: In 1959 his New York City tomb became a National Memorial Ulysses S. Grant |
#2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): General Telephone added "Electronics" to its name after acquiring this light bulb company in 1959 Sylvania |
#2063, aired 1993-07-21 | THE 1950s $200: A Carpenter, a Cooper & a Shepard were among this famous septet chosen in 1959 the Mercury Seven astronauts |
#2063, aired 1993-07-21 | THE 1950s $800: In 1959 Prince Rainier III made this former king of Egypt a citizen of Monaco King Farouk |
#2058, aired 1993-07-14 | HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): He seized control of Cuba on March 10, 1952 & remained in power until deposed on January 1, 1959 Fulgencio Batista |
#2039, aired 1993-06-17 | U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1959 Walter Williams, said to be the last surviving veteran of this war, died at age 117 the Civil War |
#2034, aired 1993-06-10 | SPORTS $600: Before becoming a pro, this Ohio golfer won the U.S. Amateur title in 1959 & 1961 Jack Nicklaus |
#2027, aired 1993-06-01 | REPUBLICANS $1000: This deep-voiced Illinois senator was minority leader from 1959 to 1969 (Everett) Dirksen |
#2022, aired 1993-05-25 | GEOGRAPHY $500: The Potala & Nor-Bu- Gling-Ka were the Dalai Lama's Winter & Summer Palaces in this city until 1959 Lhasa |
#2003, aired 1993-04-28 | THE 1950s $600: Forced out by Castro, this leader fled Cuba January 1, 1959 (Fulgencio) Batista |
#1997, aired 1993-04-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: In June 1959 Queen Elizabeth II & Eisenhower presided over the opening of this waterway the St. Lawrence Seaway |
#1995, aired 1993-04-16 | "X", "Y" & "Z" $200: In 1959 this company introduced its first simplified office copier Xerox |
#1991, aired 1993-04-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: In 1959 this Greek Orthodox clergyman became the first president of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios |
#1972, aired 1993-03-16 | '50s FADS & FASHIONS $300: It might ring a "Ma" bell that this 1959 fad requiring groups of people began in South Africa stuffing telephone booths |
#1964, aired 1993-03-04 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: For outlets such as supermarkets, this greeting card co. introduced its Ambassador line in 1959 Hallmark |
#1956, aired 1993-02-22 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Organized as a territory in 1912, it became a state January 3, 1959 Alaska |
#1941, aired 1993-02-01 | 1959 $200: Fong & Long became the first senators from this state to sit in Congress Hawaii |
#1941, aired 1993-02-01 | 1959 $400: This building was put on the back of the penny the Lincoln Memorial |
#1941, aired 1993-02-01 | 1959 $600: After selling fewer than 110,000 of them, Ford discontinued this innovative car the Edsel |
#1941, aired 1993-02-01 | 1959 $800: Singer J.P. Richardson, nicknamed this, was killed in a small plane crash February 3 The Big Bopper |
#1941, aired 1993-02-01 | 1959 $2,000 (Daily Double): May 24, 4 days after receiving the Medal of Freedom, this former Secretary of State died John Foster Dulles |
#1938, aired 1993-01-27 | BOATS & SHIPS $300: In 1959 Mamie Eisenhower christened the N.S. Savannah, the first merchant vessel powered by this nuclear power |
#1935, aired 1993-01-22 | COUPLES $500: He announced his engagement to 21-year- old Farah Diba in November 1959 the Shah Pahlavi |
#1931, aired 1993-01-18 | ALASKA $200: On January 3, 1959 he signed the proclamation making Alaska a state Eisenhower |
#1926, aired 1993-01-11 | ROYALTY $600: This future emperor's 1959 marriage to a non-royal wife seemed to symbolize Japan's new democracy Akihito |
#1922, aired 1993-01-05 | MODERN HISTORY $400: Sentenced to death for a 1959 murder attempt on Iraq's PM, he became the country's pres. in 1979 Saddam Hussein |
#1921, aired 1993-01-04 | NONFICTION $600: In 1959 "I Remember" was published, a book of notes & reminiscences by this author of "Dr. Zhivago" Pasternak |
#1892, aired 1992-11-24 | COURTROOM DRAMAS $800: Noted lawyer Joseph Welch played a judge & Jimmy Stewart a lawyer in this 1959 drama Anatomy of a Murder |
#1878, aired 1992-11-04 | FAMOUS ANIMALS $100: In 1959 Cacareco, a rhinoceros, was elected to the Sao Paulo City Council in this country Brazil |
#1876, aired 1992-11-02 | BARBIE $400: The first Barbie doll introduced in 1959 came in a black & white striped one of these bathing suit |
#1861, aired 1992-10-12 | AUTHORS $300: The unexpurgated version of his "Lady Chatterley's Lover" couldn't be sold in the U.S. until 1959 D.H. Lawrence |
#1849, aired 1992-09-24 | HISTORY $1,100 (Daily Double): At a U.S. exhibit in Moscow in 1959, these 2 men held their famous kitchen debate Khrushchev & Nixon |
#1842, aired 1992-09-15 | '50s ROCK LYRICS $200: 1959 Coasters hit which contains the line "Fee fee fi fi fo fo fum" "Charlie Brown" |
#1842, aired 1992-09-15 | '50s ROCK LYRICS $300: In 1959 Ray Charles sang, "Tell your mama, tell your pa, I'm gonna ship you back to" this state Arkansas |
#1794, aired 1992-05-21 | WORLD CITIES $1000: Pakistan's largest city, it was the country's capital from 1947 to 1959 Karachi |
#1787, aired 1992-05-12 | COMIC STRIPS $200: This sister of Charlie Brown was introduced into the "Peanuts" comic strip in 1959 Sally |
#1765, aired 1992-04-10 | CLEVELAND $300: The opening of this international waterway in 1959 allowed oceangoing ships to reach Cleveland St. Lawrence Seaway |
#1752, aired 1992-03-24 | THE 1950s $100: While visiting Iowa Sept. 22, 1959, this Soviet premier ate his first hot dog Nikita Khrushchev |
#1748, aired 1992-03-18 | THE GREAT LAKES $200: The opening of this in 1959 allowed ocean shipping into the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This dictator has been in power since 1959, the longest of any current leader in the Western Hemisphere Fidel Castro |
#1724, aired 1992-02-13 | COFFEE $400: This coffee grower was invented by the NYC ad firm Doyle Dane Bernbach in 1959 Juan Valdez |
#1706, aired 1992-01-20 | CELEBRITIES $400: He played Chance Wayne in the original 1959 production of "Sweet Bird of Youth" & in the 1962 film Paul Newman |
#1697, aired 1992-01-07 | THE MOVIES $1000: In this 1959 film, Cary Grant played Lieutenant Commander M.T. Sherman, the skipper of a pink submarine Operation Petticoat |
#1689, aired 1991-12-26 | COINS $400: The Vatican's 1959 100-lira gold coin featured this new pope John XXIII |
#1683, aired 1991-12-18 | BASEBALL $100: In 1959 Harvey Haddix pitched one for 12 innings but lost the game in the 13th a no-hitter |
#1683, aired 1991-12-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: William Gibson wrote 1982's "Monday After the Miracle" as a sequel to this, his 1959 play The Miracle Worker |
#1667, aired 1991-11-26 | U.S. HISTORY $400: When this Vice President was Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade in 1959, the theme was "Tall Tales and True" Nixon |
#1653, aired 1991-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: It's Richard Condon's 1959 suspense novel about Raymond Shaw, an ex-POW programmed to be an assassin The Manchurian Candidate |
#1648, aired 1991-10-30 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $300: In the 1959 Sears, Roebuck catalog I modeled underwear; later I went on to host "That's Incredible!" John Davidson |
#1633, aired 1991-10-09 | AWARDS $400: This Dick Tracy creator won Reuben Awards for outstanding cartoonist of the year in 1959 & 1977 (Chester) Gould |
#1628, aired 1991-10-02 | HISTORY $400: The U.S. formally recognized the new regime in this Caribbean country on Jan. 7, 1959 Cuba |
#1627, aired 1991-10-01 | THEATER $300: Shirley Booth starred in the 1959 musical "Juno", based on this Sean O'Casey play Juno and the Paycock |
#1617, aired 1991-09-17 | OCCUPATIONAL NAMES $400: He won an Emmy in 1959 for his role as Chester Goode on "Gunsmoke" Dennis Weaver |
#1614, aired 1991-09-12 | 1959 $200: He was sworn in as Cuban premier on February 16th; he didn't become president until 1976 Castro |
#1614, aired 1991-09-12 | 1959 $400: Earl Long, the governor of this state, got out of a mental hospital by firing a couple of officials Louisiana |
#1614, aired 1991-09-12 | 1959 $600: Baudouin I, the 28-year-old King of this country visited the United States on a good will tour Belgium |
#1614, aired 1991-09-12 | 1959 $1000: The only New York City building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it opened officially after his death the Guggenheim Museum |
#1614, aired 1991-09-12 | 1959 $2,000 (Daily Double): The headline on the Times article about the Clutter family murder; Capote used it as the title of his book In Cold Blood |
#1582, aired 1991-06-18 | EXPLORERS $200: This undersea explorer won an Oscar for his 1959 short film "The Golden Fish" Jacques Cousteau |
#1580, aired 1991-06-14 | MUSICALS $500: 1959 musical based on the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea" Once Upon a Mattress |
#1576, aired 1991-06-10 | ROYALTY $400: Prince Albert of this country, brother of King Baudouin, married an Italian princess in 1959 Belgium |
#1570, aired 1991-05-31 | QUEENS OF ENGLAND $200: In 1959 she became the 1st reigning British sovereign to visit Chicago Queen Elizabeth II |
#1563, aired 1991-05-22 | 1959 $200: This VP engaged in the "Kitchen Debate" with Khrushchev at the U.S. exhibition in Moscow Nixon |
#1563, aired 1991-05-22 | 1959 $400: Chicago's city council raised this mayor's salary from $25,000 to $35,000 a year (Richard J.) Daley |
#1563, aired 1991-05-22 | 1959 $600: On March 26, Elizabeth Taylor, who was raised as a Christian Scientist, converted to this religion Judaism |
#1563, aired 1991-05-22 | 1959 $800: On Jan. 25 he announced plans to call an ecumenical council, the first in nearly a century Pope John XXIII |
#1563, aired 1991-05-22 | 1959 $1000: He remained British prime minister when the Conservatives won their 3rd election in a row (Harold) Macmillan |
#1558, aired 1991-05-15 | PARKS $600: In 1959, Ecuador made these islands a national park & wildlife refuge Galapagos Islands |
#1537, aired 1991-04-16 | U.S. HISTORY $500: From 1959-74, he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (William) Fulbright |
#1535, aired 1991-04-12 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: This Black Wimbledon champ appeared in the 1959 film "The Horse Soldiers" with John Wayne Althea Gibson |
#1534, aired 1991-04-11 | NEW YORK STATE $100: This Republican served as governor from 1959 to 1973; in 1974, he became Vice President Nelson Rockefeller |
#1533, aired 1991-04-10 | THE MOVIES $500: This 1983 Richard Gere film was a remake of a 1959 Jean-Luc Godard classic Breathless |
#1524, aired 1991-03-28 | MONEY $400: This structure first appeared on the back of the penny in 1959 Lincoln Memorial |
#1519, aired 1991-03-21 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This Englishman is said to have established his reputation with 1959's "The Caretaker" (Harold) Pinter |
#1478, aired 1991-01-23 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY $400: Inspired by the P-38 fighter plane, this design feature appeared in 1948 & reached its peak in 1959 tailfins |
#1477, aired 1991-01-22 | BASEBALL $500: Since 1959, center field fences in new Major League ballparks must be at least this far from home plate 400 |
#1474, aired 1991-01-17 | MUSICAL RHYME TIME $400: Freddy Cannon had a 1959 hit singing about this "Lassie" "Tallahassee Lassie" |
#1458, aired 1990-12-26 | SPORTS $500: Celtics guard known as Houdini of the Hardwood whose 1-game record of 28 assists held from 1959-78 Bob Cousy |
#1406, aired 1990-10-15 | GHOST STORIES $800: In 1959 Shirley Jackson wrote about "The Haunting of" this "House" Hill House |
#1363, aired 1990-07-04 | AUTHORS $200: British author Rebecca West was given this title in 1959 dame |
#1363, aired 1990-07-04 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: In a 1959 No. 1 Hit Elvis had this amount "o' Love" Big Hunk |
#1362, aired 1990-07-03 | THE GRAMMY AWARDS $400: Henry Mancini's music from this Craig Stevens TV series won "Album of the Year" in 1959 Peter Gunn |
#1359, aired 1990-06-28 | ANTARCTICA $300: The treaty the U.S. signed in 1959 banning this in Antarctica expired in 1989 nuclear testing (territorial claims) |
#1356, aired 1990-06-25 | PLAYS $1000: This 1959 musical was revived in 1974 with Angela Lansbury & in 1989 with Tyne Daly Gypsy |
#1341, aired 1990-06-04 | JAZZ $1000: Danny Kaye played this bandleader in the 1959 film "The Five Pennies" Red Nichols |
#1319, aired 1990-05-03 | DISNEYLAND $100: On June 14, 1959 this vice president & his family opened Disneyland's monorail Richard Nixon |
#1312, aired 1990-04-24 | LITERATURE ON FILM $1000: This 1880 novel by Lew Wallace was made into a film in 1907, 1926 & 1959 "Ben-Hur" |
#1300, aired 1990-04-06 | CINEMA $1000: Near the end of this 1959 Hitchcock film, Martin Landau falls off Mount Rushmore North By Northwest |
#1296, aired 1990-04-02 | PALACES $200: He fled the Potala, his palace in Tibet, when Chinese forces invaded Lhasa in 1959 The Dalai Lama |
#1291, aired 1990-03-26 | THE UNIVERSE $200: It wasn't until 1959 that the "far side" of this body was seen The Moon |
#1265, aired 1990-02-16 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: In 1959 this Swedish firm became the first to equip its cars with safety belts Volvo |
#1251, aired 1990-01-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: He resigned as Secretary of State April 15, 1959 & died a few weeks later John Foster Dulles |
#1245, aired 1990-01-19 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $200: Andrew Marton received a special award for directing the chariot race in this 1959 film "Ben-Hur" |
#1222, aired 1989-12-19 | U.S."A"s $200: In 1959 the 1st 7 of these were selected from hundreds of military test pilots the astronauts |
#1196, aired 1989-11-13 | FOREIGN FILMS $100: 1959 grand prize winner at Cannes, it set the legend of Orpheus & Eurydice during carnival in Rio Black Orpheus |
#1179, aired 1989-10-19 | THE 1950s $100: This tubby comedian, who made 36 films with partner Bud Abbott, died on March 3, 1959 Lou Costello |
#1134, aired 1989-07-06 | THE MOVIES $400: This Oscar-winning 1959 film is partially set in the Valley of the Lepers Ben-Hur |
#1126, aired 1989-06-26 | NAME'S THE SAME $500: A 1959 Top 10 hit by The Crests, or a 1984 film starring Molly Ringwald Sixteen Candles |
#1104, aired 1989-05-25 | DRAMA $1,000 (Daily Double): Sidney Poitier co-starred in this 1959 drama, the 1st play by a black woman produced on Broadway A Raisin in the Sun |
#1100, aired 1989-05-19 | IN THE OCEAN $600: In 1959 the 1st submersible designed for underwater exploration was built for this Frenchman Jacques Cousteau |
#1071, aired 1989-04-10 | DRUMMERS $500: Sal Mineo played this big band drummer in a 1959 biopic Gene Krupa |
#1070, aired 1989-04-07 | RELIGION $300: The current holder of this religious title was born in China in 1935 & fled to exile in India in 1959 the Dalai Lama |
#1068, aired 1989-04-05 | '50s TV $100: When this series debuted in 1959, Jay North, the boy playing the lead, was 7 Dennis the Menace |
#1065, aired 1989-03-31 | WEAPONS $300: 1959 was the 1st model year for the M60, one of these weighing 48 tons tank |
#1058, aired 1989-03-22 | AUTOMOBILE NAMES $100: Chevrolet combined the names of its Corvette & Bel Air to christen this car in 1959 Corvair |
#1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FOOTBALL $200: An era began when he was named head coach of the Green Bay Packers in 1959 Vince Lombardi |
#1015, aired 1989-01-20 | COUNTRY CROONERS $100: A top race car driver, he also raced to the top of the charts with "El Paso" in 1959 Marty Robbins |
#996, aired 1988-12-26 | THE '50s $1000: He talked to teenagers in the top-selling nonfiction book of 1959, "Twixt 12 & 20" Pat Boone |
#989, aired 1988-12-15 | COLORS $1000: Color title of the 1959 Sammy Turner hit song that's "Dilly Dilly" "Lavender Blue" |
#978, aired 1988-11-30 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: During his U.S. visit in 1959, Khrushchev visited her at Hyde Park Eleanor Roosevelt |
#965, aired 1988-11-11 | TRANSPORTATION $400: On July 21, 1959, the first cargo ship powered by this was launched at Camden, New Jersey Nuclear Power |
#959, aired 1988-11-03 | SHIPS $1000: Mamie Eisenhower christened this 1st nuclear powered merchant ship July 21, 1959 Savannah |
#936, aired 1988-10-03 | SPORTS TRIVIA $100: Until the speedway was built in 1959, the auto races were held on this Florida beach Daytona Beach |
#933, aired 1988-09-28 | TRIVIAL WORLD RECORDS $100: In 1959 Robert Foster held this for nearly 14 minutes underwater his breath |
#915, aired 1988-07-22 | MAUREEN STAPLETON $300: In 1959, she received an Oscar nomination in this category for her 1st film, "Lonelyhearts" (Best) Supporting Actress |
#901, aired 1988-07-04 | THE CONTINENTS $300: The 12 countries that signed the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 represent this many continents 6 |
#898, aired 1988-06-29 | U.S. CITIES $1,600 (Daily Double): City celebrated in song in both a 1959 Wilbert Harrison No. 1 hit & the following:
"Y' c'n turn the radiator on whenever you want some heat /
With ev'ry kind o' comfort ev'ry house is all complete /
You c'n walk to privies in the rain and never wet your feet! /
They've gone about as fur as they can go (Yes sir!) /
They've gone about as fur as they can go!..." Kansas City |
#885, aired 1988-06-10 | BODIES OF WATER $500: Its opening in 1959 made Cleveland an international seaport St. Lawrence Seaway |
#873, aired 1988-05-25 | THE 20TH CENTURY $300: Signed in 1959, the treaty concerning land claims on this continent will expire in 1989 Antarctica |
#870, aired 1988-05-20 | U.S. STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): Before 1959, a piece of this central state was the northernmost point in the U.S. Minnesota |
#868, aired 1988-05-18 | PAINTERS $600: In Cocteau's 1959 movie "Le Testament d'Orphee" this bald, easily recognized artist played himself Picasso |
#857, aired 1988-05-03 | CELEBRITIES $500: May West's 1959 autobiography or her response to the line, "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds" Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it |
#834, aired 1988-03-31 | SPORTS $500: He led the NBA in scoring 7 seasons in a row, 1959-66 Wilt Chamberlain |
#832, aired 1988-03-29 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $300: Born a commoner, Farah Diba married this man in 1959 the Shah of Iran |
#816, aired 1988-03-07 | CONNECTICUT $800: In 1959, Connecticut abolished local government on this level county level |
#761, aired 1987-12-21 | ASTRONOMY $100: In 1959, The Soviet spacecraft Lunik 3 took 1st pictures of its far side the moon |
#759, aired 1987-12-17 | BEAUTY QUEENS $500: This Miss Sweden of 1951 was Fellini's femme fatale in 1959's "La dolce vita" Anita Ekberg |
#749, aired 1987-12-03 | GEOGRAPHY $400: A 1959 treaty forbids war, nuclear explosions, & disposal of atomic wastes on this continent Antarctica |
#743, aired 1987-11-25 | "TIP" "TOP" $500: Laurence Harvey fought his way up in society in this 1959 film, but Simone Signoret got the Oscar Room at the Top |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | EUROPE ON FILM $300: This 1959 film set in Amsterdam won Shelley Winters her
first Oscar as Mrs. Van Damme The Diary of Anne Frank |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA $400: The 1959 to 1961 western, "The Rebel", was produced by this duo better known for game shows Goodson-Todman |
#712, aired 1987-10-13 | THE BLUE & THE GRAY $100: In 1959, the last 2 veterans of the war, both from this side, died Confederacy |
#710, aired 1987-10-09 | BOYS IN SONG $600: The Big Bopper made the Indian sounds in this 1959 Johnny Preston hit about a young Indian brave "Running Bear" |
#690, aired 1987-09-11 | SEALS $300: This U.S. state's seal features a king, a goddess of liberty, & the year 1959 Hawaii |
#672, aired 1987-07-07 | 20TH CENTURY $400: In 1959, posters of an actress in a bathing suit were painted over when this pope drove thru Rome John XXIII |
#654, aired 1987-06-11 | GOLDEN OLDIES $400: In 1959, Lloyd Price kept saying "over and over" --over and over-- "'cause you got" this personality |
#640, aired 1987-05-22 | ARTISTS $1000: The story of his romance with the Duchess of Alba was told in 1959 film "The Naked Maja" Goya |
#637, aired 1987-05-19 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: In the Chipmunks, it's Alvin's instrument, & he had a hit song with it in 1959 harmonica |
#626, aired 1987-05-04 | U.S. STATES $300: Reason why in 1959 the geographic center of the U.S. moved from Kansas to South Dakota Alaskan statehood |
#608, aired 1987-04-08 | MUSICAL QUESTIONS $400: In 1959, Ray Charles repeatedly asked this question, baby "What'd I Say" |
#584, aired 1987-03-05 | MOVIE AUTHORS $600: 1959's "Beloved Infidel" was Sheilah Graham's version of her affair with this novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#583, aired 1987-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $600: In 1959, the original 24 were removed from the East Front of our nation's capital (the Corinthian) columns |
#547, aired 1987-01-13 | CELEBRITY SECRETS $100: When this partner died in 1959, Bud Abbott was suing him for unpaid royalties Lou Costello |
#544, aired 1987-01-08 | THE 20TH CENTURY $400: Both Queen Elizabeth & Pres. Eisenhower were present at the opening of this waterway in 1959 Saint Lawrence Seaway |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | 1959 $200: Country whose rocket landed on the moon 9/14/59 -- ten years before man the Soviet Union |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | 1959 $400: The year's campus cramming craze "utilized" these phone booths |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | 1959 $600: John Foster Dulles, Errol Flynn, Lou Costello, & just 2 U.S. soldiers in South Vietnam died in that year |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | 1959 $800: Latin American country which started the year with a new government Cuba |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | 1959 $1000: The sponsoring gas assn. had a reference to Nazi gas ovens cut from a TV performance of this play Judgment at Nuremberg |
#527, aired 1986-12-16 | SITCOMS $800: On October 4th of this year, "Leave It to Beaver" & Sputnik were both launched 1957 |
#499, aired 1986-11-06 | SEPTEMBER $800: In Sept. 1959, this foreign leader visited Coon Rapids, Iowa Nikita Khrushchev |
#497, aired 1986-11-04 | THE TODAY SHOW $800: He was to be Dave Garroway's 1959 summer replacement till confessing that "Twenty One" was fixed Charles Van Doren |
#490, aired 1986-10-24 | STARTS WITH "J" $600 (Daily Double): It became the state capital January 3, 1959 Juneau |
#485, aired 1986-10-17 | THE EASTERN BLOC $800: In 1959, this leader bragged his country's standard of living would be world's highest by 1970 Nikita Khrushchev |
#477, aired 1986-10-07 | U.S. HISTORY $100: The Senate membership increased to this number with Hawaii's 2 senators added in 1959 100 |
#473, aired 1986-10-01 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1959, this play by Lorraine Hansberry was the first by a Black female writer to reach Broadway A Raisin in the Sun |
#463, aired 1986-09-17 | BOYS IN SONG $800: In a 1959 #1 hit, Billy was killed by him over an argument about a game of craps Stagger Lee |
#445, aired 1986-05-23 | "LONG" MOVIES $800: This 1945 Gary Cooper Western inspired 1959 Coasters' hit about a "Slow talkin', slow walkin'" hero Along Came Jones |
#438, aired 1986-05-14 | LEADERS $600: The exiled spiritual leader of tibet who fled to India in 1959 Dalai Lama |
#437, aired 1986-05-13 | THE 1950's $600: It wasn't until 1959 that full text of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was published in U.S. Lady Chatterley's Lover |
#437, aired 1986-05-13 | THE 1950's $800: In 1959, this int'l figure appeared on CBS' "Person to Person" in pajamas rather than fatigues (Fidel) Castro |
#428, aired 1986-04-30 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: Title of 1959 autobiography of E.R. Braithwaite, a Black teacher in London's East End To Sir, With Love |
#413, aired 1986-04-09 | 1959 $100: Millie Perkins starred in poignant film story of this little Jewish girl in Nazi Europe Anne Frank |
#413, aired 1986-04-09 | 1959 $200: When he announced for pres., Eleanor Roosevelt said this Minn. senator had the "spark of greatness" Hubert Humphrey |
#413, aired 1986-04-09 | 1959 $300: For security reasons, he couldn't visit Disneyland in September Nikita Khrushchev |
#413, aired 1986-04-09 | 1959 $400: For the 1st time since 1834, hard liquor was legally sold in this former Indian territory Oklahoma |
#413, aired 1986-04-09 | 1959 $500: Saying reporter Marie Torre was a "Joan of Arc", judge still gave her 10 days for her refusal to do this name her sources |
#394, aired 1986-03-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Our flag bore this number of stars only in 1959 49 |
#394, aired 1986-03-13 | SITCOMS $1000: After her dad was in the 1959 film "Operation Petticoat", she was in the 1977 series Jamie Lee Curtis |
#391, aired 1986-03-10 | BASEBALL $1000: In 1959, this eastern A.L. team became the last club to sign a black player Boston (Red Sox) |
#390, aired 1986-03-07 | FLOWERS $600: In 1959, life was "A Holiday" here for Jerry Wallace Primrose Lane |
#389, aired 1986-03-06 | FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT $200: Persona non grata at this film festival in 1957, Truffaut won "Best Director" there in 1959 Cannes |
#387, aired 1986-03-04 | MUSICAL QUESTIONS $200: According to The Playmates, in 1959 it was "5 feet of heaven & a ponytail" love |
#385, aired 1986-02-28 | 20th CENTURY $400: In 1950s, she worked in a plastics factory; in 1959 she was elected to House of Commons Margaret Thatcher |
#383, aired 1986-02-26 | MUSICAL QUESTIONS $800: For 11 weeks in 1959, Ray Charles asked this "What'd I Say?" |
#375, aired 1986-02-14 | MOVIE ANIMALS $400: He had 1959 title role, co-starring with Fred MacMurray The Shaggy Dog |
#370, aired 1986-02-07 | "B.O." $2,000 (Daily Double): The following was theme of this 1959 Best Foreign Film: Black Orpheus |
#359, aired 1986-01-23 | 1959 $100: His blunt encounter with Khrushchev was later called "The Kitchen Debate" Richard Nixon |
#359, aired 1986-01-23 | 1959 $200: Britannica said this kind of music "reached a new low of illiteracy, vulgarity, & dullness" rock and roll |
#359, aired 1986-01-23 | 1959 $300: To take 5 night photos of this ancient Mideast landmark, Sylvania mounted 6,500 flashbulbs on it the Great Pyramid of Cheops |
#359, aired 1986-01-23 | 1959 $500: Pope John XXIII announced plans to convoke this to "open the windows" in the Catholic church an ecumenical council |
#359, aired 1986-01-23 | 1959 $1,000 (Daily Double): Ethel Barrymore, George Reeves, Billie Holiday, Sax Rohmer, Frank Lloyd Wright, & Duncan Hines celebrities who died in 1959 |
#356, aired 1986-01-20 | "B" MOVIES $400: The record for most Oscars won, 11, is still held by this 1959 movie Ben-Hur |
#354, aired 1986-01-16 | DRAMA $800: This 1959 Black family portrait was 1st Broadway play written by a Black woman A Raisin in the Sun |
#351, aired 1986-01-13 | ROCK 'N' ROLL TRIVIA $500: Year in the '50s that the Beatles were formed 1959 |
#345, aired 1986-01-03 | WORLD HISTORY $200: In office from 1944-46 & 1959-69, this French president served longer than any other Charles de Gaulle |
#336, aired 1985-12-23 | "ROCKY"S $400: Sporting a pilot's helmet & June Foray's voice, he debuted in November, 1959 on ABC Rocket J. Squirrel (Rocky the Flying Squirrel) |
#314, aired 1985-11-21 | EATING IN AMERICA $500: Due to contamination of crops from N.W. states, growers of this small fruit had a bad Nov. in 1959 cranberries |
#293, aired 1985-10-23 | SONGS THAT "MAKE" IT $400: In 1959, "24 little hours" were important for Dinah Washington in this, her biggest hit "What A Difference A Day Makes" |
#278, aired 1985-10-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400 (Daily Double): "Instrumental" title of this, only instrumental no. 1 hit of 1959: "The Happy Organ" |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In 1959, Gov. Earl Long of this state was committed to a mental institution Louisiana |
#268, aired 1985-09-18 | SPORTS DATES $100: When he won the U.S. Amateur Golf title in 1959, this "Golden Bear" was just a cub Jack Nicklaus |
#193, aired 1985-06-05 | POTPOURRI $100: On a Monday in 1959 she legally changed her name to Tuesday Tuesday Weld |
#181, aired 1985-05-20 | EARLY MAN $1000: In 1959, his wife Mary literally stumbled upon "Zinjanthropus", believed to be 1,750,000 years old Dr. Leakey |
#167, aired 1985-04-30 | SPORTS STADIUMS $1000: 1959 Yankee/Dodger game drew 93,103, largest crowd in Major League history to this stadium the (L.A.) Coliseum |
#125, aired 1985-03-01 | TELEVISION $400: Now a CBS program executive, from 1959-1963, he was that network's "Dobie Gillis" Dwayne Hickman |
#105, aired 1985-02-01 | SHIPS $200: In 1959, the U.S. "Savannah" was 1st merchant ship to use this type of power nuclear power |
#100, aired 1985-01-25 | SPACE $100: In 1959, Frankie Avalon sang to this planet's goddess Venus |
#63, aired 1984-12-05 | HOTEL NAMES $800: In 1959, "Maverick" won the Emmy for this category, only year it was given Best Western |
#17, aired 1984-10-02 | 1959 $100: With this musical premiere, "The Hills Came Alive" The Sound of Music |
#17, aired 1984-10-02 | 1959 $200: Who Eddie left to marry Liz Debbie Reynolds |
#17, aired 1984-10-02 | 1959 $300: Shoe-pounding leader scandalized by high kicks in "Can-Can" (Nikita) Khrushchev |
#17, aired 1984-10-02 | 1959 $400: Uris #1 best-seller about Jewish refugees in emerging Israel Exodus |
#17, aired 1984-10-02 | 1959 $500: Became 1st major American city with a black majority Washington, D.C. |
#4, aired 1984-09-13 | TRIVIA $300: "Kingdom" that Khrushchev couldn't visit in 1959 U.S. trip the Magic Kingdom (Disneyland) |