| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | ASK FORGIVENESS $400: An older Elwin Wilson, once part of this notorious white-klad group, asked John Lewis to forgive him for a 1961 assault in S.C. the Ku Klux Klan |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | FEELING CHARITABLE $1000: Founded to protect places & species threatened by human development, it got its name & its giant panda logo in 1961 the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | FEELING CHARITABLE $6,600 (Daily Double): May 28, 1961, when the newspaper story "The Forgotten Prisoners" ran, is considered the founding date of this organization Amnesty International |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | LITTLE GNOME FACTS $800: On December 10, 1961 Project Gnome in this state's Eddy County became the first nuclear test designed for peaceful purposes New Mexico |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: In "The Fog of War" Errol Morris interviewed this man who was Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 McNamara |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | BREAK-UPS $400: This plastic couple got together in 1961; they split in 2004, but in 2011 she welcomed him back to her dream house Barbie & Ken |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1600: Dushanbe, capital of this landlocked "stan", was called Stalinabad until 1961 Tajikistan |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Called Ciudad Trujillo from 1936 to 1961 in honor of its dictator, this city returned to its old name after his assassination Santo Domingo |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $800: At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight 1962 |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | "THE" MOVIE $1200: "The Color of Money" was a sequel to this 1961 movie The Hustler |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | BACK IN THE DAY $2,200 (Daily Double): This U.S. agency began in 1961; its director Sargent Shriver said it had 15,000 volunteers in 50+ countries in less than 6 years the Peace Corps |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $400: May 1, 1961:
This victorious Cuban declares his nation a socialist state Fidel Castro |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $1000: After a hurricane & a tidal wave hit Belize City in 1961, the capital was moved 50 miles inland to this city to avoid flooding Belmopan |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | TAKING A RIDE $1600: In 1961 he became the first American to ride into space; apparently enjoying the area, he took a walk on the Moon 10 years later Alan Shepard |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | YOU JUST MADE THAT STUFF UP $2000: This super-bouncy stuff from Disney's much-loved 1961 "The Absent-Minded Professor" was the title of a 1997 remake flubber |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: This term for a tricky no-win situation comes from the title of a 1961 novel catch-22 |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PURE POETRY $2000: (Ada Limón reads.) Poets who have read at presidential inaugurations include Robert Frost in 1961 & Maya Angelou, who in 1993 recited this poem that implored, "Lift up your eyes upon / This day breaking for you" "On the Pulse of Morning" |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | EPISODE IV $400: Season 2, 1961: "Mayberry Goes Bankrupt" The Andy Griffith Show |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $2000: A self-titled 1961 L.P. of arias sung by this great "L.P." is known to opera lovers as the "Blue Album" Leontyne Price |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $200: We hope this Cordon Bleu alum didn't cut the Dickens out of her finger as she was "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in 1961 Julia Child |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $400: Born in 1899 in what is now Oak Park, Illinois, the bell tolled for him in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 Hemingway |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $2000: Introducing George Smiley,
"Call for the Dead" (1961) John le Carré |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | NUMBER "ONE" MOVIE $400: This animated Disney "tail" was first released in 1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | HANS, SOLO $2000: Famous for the citric acid cycle that bears his name, this German-born biochemist received the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1961 (Hans) Krebs |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | SEVEN HEAVEN $1000: The craft Freedom 7 took this American into space for a 15-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | LAUNDRY DAY $800: Concerns of the 1950s included segregation, fear of nuclear war & itchy, stiff clothes; in 1961 this brand came out to address one Downy (fabric softener) |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | SHEER MISERY $800: You're "in" this extreme body pain that's paired with "Ecstasy" in a 1961 book title agony |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | DISNEY DO-OVERS $1200: 1961:
Hayley Mills &
Hayley Mills;
1998:
Lindsay Lohan &
Lindsay Lohan The Parent Trap |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $400: After nearly dying in a car wreck in 1961, Mel Blanc, in a body cast at home, voiced this guy, Fred Flintstone's best pal Barney Rubble |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The seafood seasoning from the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba Old Bay of Pigs |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $800: After racing a rival to a cure, Dr. Albert Sabin got an oral vaccine for this approved in the U.S. in 1961 polio |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $1500: A U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961 at the Bahía de Cochinos, or this, ended in failure the Bay of Pigs |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | FOOD & DRINK $1200: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is the 1961 book that launched this chef's career Julia Child |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | ALL HANDS $200: From 1909 to 1961 the wonderfully named Learned Hand served as a federal one of these a judge |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 1960s AMERICA $800: 23 days after Gagarin's flight in 1961, Alan Shepard lit the candle on this NASA project with a 15-minute suborbital journey Mercury |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | PLACES FROM A TO A $1200: In 1961 4 French generals attempted a coup to prevent it from gaining its independence Algeria |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | HEMINGWAY $1000: Hemingway ate his last meal on July 1, 1961 at Michel's Christiania Restaurant, still a hangout for skiers in this Idaho city Ketchum |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1600: Seen here is the April 1961 first day of the trial of this man, one of the most important proceedings of the 20th century Adolf Eichmann |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ON A HOLIDAY $400: On May Day, 1961 this country's prime minister declared it a socialist nation Cuba |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1961:
This Swedish Secretary-General of the U.N., posthumously Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | WE'VE GOT THE BLUES $1600: More than 20 years after his death at about age 27, the 1961 album "King of the Delta Blues Singers" made him newly famous Robert Johnson |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | U.N. RESOLUTIONS $1200: A 1961 General Assembly resolution started the WFP, this anti-hunger "programme" that won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize the World Food Programme |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | COMMENCEMENT $4,800 (Daily Double): This first manned U.S. space flight program got off the ground with the 1961 launch of Alan Shepard in Freedom 7 Project Mercury |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THAT'S QUITE A DORM ROOM $400: I know you're not getting along with your roommate, but did you have to re-create this 27-mile barrier built in Aug. 1961? the Berlin Wall |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $200: 2 New York City gangs sing & dance in this top-grossing film of 1961 West Side Story |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in this year at the tail end of the baby boom 1961 |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $2000: NAM:
this "Movement" established in 1961 for countries that didn't ally themselves with the East or the West Non-Aligned |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | JOHN F. KENNEDY $600: Kennedy took "sole responsibility" for the April 17, 1961 disaster at this Cuban location the Bay of Pigs |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | A CUT ABOVE $600: In 1961 JFK said we live under a "nuclear sword of" him, "hanging by the slenderest of threads" Damocles |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $2000: He didn't use sci-fi in 1961's "Mother Night", about an American playwright spying on the Nazis. He passed away in 2007. So it goes Vonnegut |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $2,600 (Daily Double): Roald Dahl imagined the cherries in his Buckinghamshire orchard getting bigger & bigger, inspiring this 1961 novel James and the Giant Peach |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19something $400: On August 12, 1961 Walter Ulbricht, leader of the East German Communist Party, ordered this to be created; it went up overnight the Berlin Wall |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $1600: In 1961 Stalingrad was renamed this, for the river on which it lies Volgograd |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $200: Launched into space in 1961, Ham was one of these primates a chimp |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $800: Released in 1961, this live-action Disney film that was remade in 1998 was based on the German novel "The Double Lottie" The Parent Trap |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE COLLAGE $800: Electoral votes are tallied in Congress, with this official declaring the results; in 1961 Nixon announced his own loss to Kennedy the vice president |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $2000: The title of this 1961 novel is shorthand for a no-win situation Catch-22 |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | COOKBOOKS $600: She wrote her groundbreaking 1961 French cookbook "For the Servantless American Cook" Julia Child |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WALL-TO-WALL $400: An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the Volkskammer, or "peoples' chamber", led to the construction of this barrier the Berlin Wall |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | TV ANIMATION $400: Launched in 1961, "Davey &" this dog was originally produced by the United Lutheran Church Goliath |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOURNALISTS $2000: Before her career at PBS, NPR & CNN, she just went by her last name Hunter when she desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961 Charlayne Hunter-Gault |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Attending a concert at Schönbrunn Palace in June 1961 was part of JFK's first meeting as president with this Soviet premier; he sat next to Jackie Kennedy Khrushchev |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | JUST GOT REAL $600: This government program got off the ground when a group of volunteer teachers landed in Ghana Aug. 30, 1961 the Peace Corps |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | VICE $600: In this movie Paul Giamatti plays Miles, whose vice is wine, especially his prized 1961 Chateau Cheval Blanc Sideways |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $1200: Founded in London in 1961, this group campaigns "for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all" Amnesty International |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A SWAMPY SITUATION $600: In 1961 heir & explorer Michael Rockefeller vanished forever in the Asmat Swamp of this huge island north of Australia New Guinea |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | EUROPE $400: From 1961 to 1989 this capital city was divided by a wall Berlin |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): From 1953 to 1961 Allen Dulles was the director of this U.S. government agency CIA |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ASIAN HISTORY $600: A junta led by General Park Chung-hee took over this country, ending its second republic in 1961 South Korea |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | LARGE & IN CHARGE $1600: This giant female lepidopteran has been terrorizing Japan in monster movies since 1961 Mothra |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | DEAD PRECEDENTS $800: 1961's Mapp v. Ohio overturned a 1949 ruling & said this amendment bars illegally seized evidence from state courts the 4th Amendment |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $400: July: JFK tells Americans "We cannot and will not permit the Communists to drive us out of" this city Berlin |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $800: February: The Beatles are paid 5 pounds (total) for their first show at the Cavern Club in this city Liverpool |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $1200: April: this cosmonaut makes history when he takes Vostok 1 about 200 miles above the Earth Gagarin |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $1600: March: with other nations disapproving of apartheid, South Africa withdraws from this body rooted in the British Empire the British Commonwealth |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $2000: September: the Foreign Assistance Act gives birth to the agency known by this 5-letter name USAID |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | HISTORY $0: In October 1961 Stalin's body was removed from display in this other man's tomb Lenin |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s $800: A South African song became "Wimoweh" before it was turned into this hit song by The Tokens in 1961 "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $2000: 1961: "Fast" Eddie Felson vs. Minnesota Fats The Hustler |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | COLLABS $400: This company named for its 2 founders introduced its cordless electric drill in 1961 Black+Decker |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with this country January 3, 1961 Cuba |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $200: This novel about an Alabama rape trial won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | U.S. HOSPITALS $600: In 1961 California's Mount Sinai merged with the hospital known as these "of Lebanon" Cedars |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | SOVIET BLOC BUSTERS $800: In 1961 Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West as the Kirov Ballet played Paris; this dancer defected in Toronto 13 years later (Mikhail) Baryshnikov |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | MEDICAL HISTORY $2000: This gland was thought useless until 1961, when it was found that the T cells that come from it kill tumor cells the thymus |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS $600: West Wing crisis center since 1961 the Situation Room |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $400: This future vice president got a good Catholic education at Delaware's Archmere Academy, class of 1961 Joe Biden |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $800: On May 1, 1961 in the first major one of these in the U.S., a Miami-Key West flight made an unscheduled stop in Cuba a hijacking |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES! $800: Perhaps you might volunteer to aid developing countries as part of this U.S. government program established in 1961 the Peace Corps |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $600: Celebs began to walk a red carpet in 1961, but TV viewers may not have known because this didn't come to the Oscar telecast until 1966 color |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: This 1961 invasion was an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Cuba's government the Bay of Pigs |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $800: The Congress of Racial Equality planned these 1961 trips to enforce desegregation of interstate transportation Freedom Rides |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | HISTORY, BRIEFLY $2000: On April 12, 1961 this Soviet pilot made a single hour & a half orbit of Earth Yuri Gagarin |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $2000: In 1961 the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. became the longtime home of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra Lawrence Welk |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | THE ____ OF ____ $600: In the news in 1961, Bahía de Cochinos is better known to us as this Bay of Pigs |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE CROWN $600: A 1961 visit to Britain by this American gives the queen something to think about Jackie Kennedy |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | CREATURES OF THE DEEP? $1600: Calling TV "a vast wasteland" in 1961 was no less an authority than Newton Minow, chairman of this commission the FCC |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | NINE TALES $600: 2 supermarket tales: "Last Meal at Whole Foods" (2014) & this 1961 John Updike classic set in a letter-perfect store A&P |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: From 1961 to 1971 this Burmese statesman served as Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $1600: It's Roald Dahl's 1961 book about a boy crossing an ocean on a very unusual vessel James and the Giant Peach |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NUMERIC LIT $5,400 (Daily Double): The cover of the first edition of this 1961 military novel included a dancing figure & a little airplane Catch-22 |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $400: It was originally made of barbed wire on the night of August 12-13, 1961 the Berlin Wall |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY PROJECT $400: The project's most-viewed document is JFK's inaugural address from this year 1961 |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | LITERARY GREEN THUMB $1600: In a 1961 classic, 2 dogs--Old Dan & Little Ann--are buried next to "Where" this "Grows" the red fern |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | CLUES ACROSS TEXAS $600: (I'm Pooja Lodhia with ABC 13.) Opened in 1961, KTRK was the first large domed structure in Houston; a few years later its architect, Hermon Lloyd, designed this bigger one the Astrodome |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEHIND BARS $800: In 1961 Stokely Carmichael was on a bus tour as one of these "Riders", & later in the trip was jailed Freedom |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | NAME THAT TUNA $200: This tuna character first appeared in a Starkist commercial in 1961 Charlie |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | NAME THE VENUE $400: A Judy Garland show that wins 4 Grammys--this classy NYC hall, 1961 Carnegie Hall |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | MOVIE VOCATIONS $200: 1961's "The Absent-Minded ____" professor |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | MOVING THE CAPITAL $2000: After Hurricane Hattie devastated Belize City in 1961, the capital was moved inland to this city Belmopan |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ART $800: She completed "Rainbow", her final work of art, in 1961 at the ripe old age of 101 Grandma Moses |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | CHARACTER MASHUPS $800: Rhett Smiley
(1936 & 1961, '62, etc.) Rhett Butler and George Smiley |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1961 this private Texas school provided most of the land that became NASA's Mission Control Center Rice |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | 2-TERM CABINET OFFICERS $800: Ezra Benson was on this church's Council of the 12 Apostles when he served as Sec. of Agriculture 1953-1961 the Mormon church |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HISTORY WILL NOTE $200: An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the East German Volkskammer led to the start of building this land-mark that night the Berlin Wall |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800 (Daily Double): This quiet cove of southwest Cuba came to sudden world attention in the spring of 1961 the Bay of Pigs |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | THIS CATEGORY WILL BLOW YOU AWAY $1000: Sound the trumpets! In 1961 "Come Blow Your Horn" was his first comedy produced on Broadway Neil Simon |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | THE THIRD MAN $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a model of space flight on the monitor.) In a 15-minute trip from Cape Canaveral to the Atlantic Ocean on July 21, 1961, Liberty Bell 7 reached a height of 118 miles and traveled 303 miles carrying this alliteratively named astronaut, making him the third man in space Gus Grissom |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | I REMEMBER APRIL $400: 1,400 Cuban exiles landed at this location on April 17, 1961 to overthrow Castro, but failed quickly the Bay of Pigs |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $800: This character began traveling around in a large fruit in 1961 James |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | CORPS CURRICULUM $400: Established by Uncle Sam in 1961, this organization now has volunteers in more than 60 countries the Peace Corps |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $600: In 1961 he gave us "Hit The Road Jack" Ray Charles |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | THE COMPANY'S ANIMAL MASCOT $200: Introduced in 1961, Charlie was this type of fish who bizarrely wanted to end up as product for StarKist a tuna |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | HISTORY $2000: A 2017 U.N. report said it's plausible that another plane caused the crash that killed this secy.-general in 1961 (Dag) Hammarskjold |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | STAN LEE $1000: (Stan Lee presents the clue.) In 1961 I teamed up with Jack Kirby & told the story of this group of astronauts who gained superpowers after being bombarded by cosmic rays the Fantastic Four |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | AVIATION $1600: In 1961 this "Across the Globe" airline initiated in-flight movie service with "By Love Possessed" with Lana Turner TWA |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $2000: The 1961 documentary "Chronicle of a Summer" is said to have originated this 2-word French-named style cinéma vérité |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | THE CIA $200: (Alex gives the clue from the CIA.) In 1961, the CIA's historic mission of intelligence gathering and analysis took up residence in this community, named for the estate of an early colonial governor of Virginia Langley |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: Founded in London in 1961, it works to free political prisoners & protect human rights Amnesty International |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | "THE" MOVIE $2000: "The Color of Money" was a sequel to this 1961 movie The Hustler |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | "WORLD" OF ENTERTAINMENT $1200: This anthology of athleticism ran on ABC from 1961 to 1998 the Wide World of Sports |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $400: "Catch-22"
(1961) Joseph Heller |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $400: In this 1961 film Hayley Mills played twins separated as babies; LIndsay Lohan starred in the 1998 remake The Parent Trap |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | FAKE NEWS $2000: In 1961 a sculpture in New York's Met was exposed as modern & not the work of these Roman predecessors the Etruscans |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: No Richie or Fonzie in his 1961 play "Happy Days"; who will rid me of this meddlesome playwright? (Samuel) Beckett |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | WE'RE GIVING YOU A COMMISSION $800: In 1961 this 76-year-old former First Lady became the first chair of the President's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | WHAT'S THE SCORE? $600: Blackhawks 4, Flyers 3 on June 9, 2010, enabling Chicago to hoist this for the first time since 1961 the Stanley Cup |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | ART $400: She was already a centenarian in 1961 when she painted "Making Horseshoes", seen here Grandma Moses |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ROUTE '60-SOMETHING $200: Alabama stops for these Congress of Racial Equality riders in 1961 were in Anniston, Montgomery & Birmingham the Freedom Riders |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | CHEMISTRY $400: Melvin Calvin won a 1961 Nobel Prize for mapping the chemical reactions in this plant process photosynthesis |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ROUTE '60-SOMETHING $800: In the documentary "First Orbit", the I.S.S. matches its orbital path to the one taken by him in 1961 aboard Vostok 1 Yuri Gagarin |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | SLIDESHOW BOB $1600: In 1961 this Secretary of Defense was about to testify to Congress about Kennedy's civil defense plan Robert McNamara |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | LITERATURE $400: "Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause", the title of a 1961 novel Catch-22 |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: In 1961 she topped Clare Boothe Luce & Jackie Kennedy to be named woman most admired by Americans for the 13th time in 14 years Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | HISTORIC AMERICAN QUOTES $1000: After he splashed down in the Atlantic on May 5, 1961, he said, "Boy, what a ride!"--& he hadn't even orbited Alan Shepard |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | THE DEL-TONES $800: Del Shannon wondered in 1961 why--why, why, why, why, why "my little" this title person took off Runaway |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS $800: The USA bonded with Latin America through 1961's AFP, this for Progress Alliance |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | THE SPACE RACE $800: At the Kremlin you can see the Cosmos oak, planted by this Soviet space hero on April 14, 1961 Yuri Gagarin |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | BREAK-UPS $600: This plastic couple got together in 1961; they split in 2004, but in 2011 she welcomed him back to her dream house Barbie and Ken |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | "B"RANDS $400: This company introduced the world's first cordless electric drill in 1961 Black & Decker |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | PEACE $400: To join this group founded in 1961, you must commit to work in the host country for 2 years & learn its language the Peace Corps |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | IT HAPPENED ON MEET THE PRESS $1600: (Chuck Todd of Meet the Press gives the clue.) This labor leader's appearance on July 9, 1961 had to be fitted in between a string of indictments Hoffa |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $5,200 (Daily Double): For movie publicity photos in 1961, she wore the 128.5-carat Tiffany Diamond Audrey Hepburn |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | AMERICA SINCE 1900 $200: In 1961 these "Rides" across the Deep South protested segregation in interstate transportation Freedom Rides |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | FRIENDS $2000: In 1961 this "J. Alfred Prufrock" poet became pen pals with Groucho; the 2 finally met just before the poet's 1965 death T.S. Eliot |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Kidd O'Shea from ABC 7 News.) All vice presidents have worked out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, starting with this man, who in 1961 wanted an office in the White House but was moved next door as part of his sidelining by the administration Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | POLITICAL BOOKS $200: "The Craft of Intelligence" by Allen W. Dulles drew upon his years as the director of this from 1953 to 1961 the CIA |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | THE NEWS $1600: Pioneering all-news radio in 1961, XTRA broadcast to Southern California from this city just into Mexico Tijuana |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | GIVING EVERY "THING" $1000: In 1961 this small British coin ceased to be legal tender in the United Kingdom a farthing |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | GOVERNMENTAL LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: A current Supreme Court member & the Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 (Anthony and Robert) Kennedy |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | BIG BATS OF BASEBALL $600: This Yankee outfielder hit 52 home runs in 1956 & 54 in 1961 Mickey Mantle |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | "D.H." $1000: His 1961 N.Y. Times obituary called him "The dean of the so-called 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction" Dashiell Hammett |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | EXPERIMENTS $1200: In 1961 Claus Jonsson showed that like light, these subatomic particles can behave as waves, not as particles electrons |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | LIMITED TIME ONLY $1200: Seen here, hosted by this TV star, the game show "You're in the Picture" lasted but a single episode in 1961 Jackie Gleason |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | BESTSELLERS BY PARTIAL TITLE $800: An art-sy 1961 bio, "Ecstasy" The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | AMERICAN DIPLOMATS $400: Philip Bonsal was the last U.S. ambassador to this island nation before diplomatic ties were cut in 1961 Cuba |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $400: This book that won a Pulitzer in 1961 depicts racial injustice in a small Southern town To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: In 1961 this country's Tutsi monarchy was overthrown in a Hutu revolution Rwanda |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | FAQ $2000: Month & year that JFK invited us to "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" January 1961 |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | IT'S A LIVING $1600: This 2-letter abbreviation for a record spinner dates to 1961 a DJ |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | COIF MEDICINE $1000: Pyrithione zinc is key to this flake-fighting Procter & Gamble product introduced in 1961 Head & Shoulders |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | BETWEEN 5 FERNS $1000: In the 1961 novel "Where the Red Fern Grows", a boy's dogs are killed defending him from attack by one of these cats a mountain lion |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER $800: He was minority leader for 2 years before becoming the majority man from 1955 to 1961 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | IT WAS THE '60s $200: Tired of delays on the 1961 launch of this program, Alan Shepard snapped, "Why don't you fix your... problem & light this candle?" Mercury |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | BESTSELLERS $600: In 1961 after JFK listed "From Russia with Love" as a favorite, sales of this author's books rose Ian Fleming |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $1600: His 1961 novel "Mila 18" tells of the 1943 Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto Leon Uris |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | WHOSE LIFE IS IT? $1000: Born Finland, 1910,
designed for G.M., M.I.T. & J.F.K.,
met the big architect, Michigan, 1961 (Eero) Saarinen |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | SEE THE POP HIT $1000: A classic country hit of 1961 "I Fall To Pieces" |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $600: More than 1,000 rebels captured during this 1961 invasion of Cuba were later freed in exchange for food & medicine Bay of Pigs |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | OUR MISTAKE! $800: At this U.S. gov't agency, there's no getting away from our 1961 prediction that Castro's forces would disintegrate the CIA |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $400: Shortly after taking office, JFK established this international service program on March 1, 1961 the Peace Corps |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU $800: 1961:
The start of the first freedom ride, organized by the civil rights group "CORE", the Congress of this Racial Equality |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | STARTS WITH A VOW $800: Originally feting a Voortrekker victory, the Day of the Vow was used in 1961 as a day of uprising against this policy apartheid |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | APRIL $1000: At one point on April 12, 1961, this Soviet pilot was traveling more than 17,000 miles per hour Gagarin |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | LIFESTYLES $800: Retirees enjoy free time, aka this word before "world" in a retirement community empire founded in 1961 leisure |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | SOUL $1000: A 1961 album was the soul of this man & his wife; the later song "It's Gonna Work Out Fine" was not prophetic Ike Turner |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THEY SAID IT $200: This recently installed premier, 1961:
"A revolution is not a bed of roses" Fidel Castro |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | DISNEY MOVIES $600: This live-action favorite with versions in 1961 & 1998 was based on a German novel, "Das doppelte Lottchen" The Parent Trap |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | HORN $1200: Before "Barefoot in the Park" in 1963, this playwright struck gold in 1961 with "Come Blow Your Horn" Neil Simon |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $600: 1961:
U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold Sweden |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | HOMER $800: On October 1, 1961 Brooklyn truck driver Sal Durante snatched this player's 61st home run ball & then sold it for $5,000 Roger Maris |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $2000: A veteran of both world wars, this creator of Sam Spade was buried in Arlington in 1961 Dashiell Hammett |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | & THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON! $200: This talking title horse had his own CBS sitcom from 1961 to 1966, but work slowed down for him after that Mr. Ed |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | CLASSIC GAME SHOWS $400: Between 1961 & 1980 Allen Ludden hosted several versions of this game show Password |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $800: 1961:
"W.S.S.", see the Jets soar West Side Story |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | ERNIE $800: In 1961 Ernie Davis of Syracuse won this trophy; no African American had before, not even Ernie's idol Jim Brown the Heisman |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | NO. 1 ALBUMS OF THE '60s $800: This 1961 Elvis movie soundtrack LP contained the hits "Can't Help Falling In Love" & "Rock-A-Hula Baby" Blue Hawaii |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | NO. 1 ALBUMS OF THE '60s $1600: It was "wunnerful" when this bandleader known for his "Champagne Music" reached No. 1 with "Calcutta!" in 1961 Lawrence Welk |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $800: The highest point on this mountain was named Uhuru, or "freedom", in 1961 to celebrate Tanzania's independence Kilimanjaro |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | TRADEMARKS $200: This 3M brand dates to 1930; it became "Magic Tape" in 1961 Scotch |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $400: This brother of John Foster Dulles resigned as C.I.A. director in 1961 after the Bay of Pigs failure Allen Dulles |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | NOVELS $1600: This 1961 novel is about an Air Force bombardier named Yossarian Catch-22 |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | A DOLL'S HOUSE $400: Mattel introduced this doll in 1961;
Barbie needed some arm candy Ken |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | OSCAR SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1961:
Lunar brook "Moon River" |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | COMMANDER & CHEF $400: Appointed in 1961, Rene Verdon resigned when this President wanted him to cook Texas ranch style LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $800: This 1961 nominee about war crimes trials Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE SUPREME COURT $400: Mapp v. Ohio (1961) determined that a state prosecution couldn't introduce evidence obtained by a search without this a warrant |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | DONALD DUCK $800: Introduced on TV in 1961, this uncle of Donald was a professor who spoke with a European accent Ludwig Von Drake |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | INDIA $2000: In 1961 Indian forces invaded the territory of Goa & took it from this European power Portugal |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: Initially a barbed wire barrier, it began going up August 13, 1961 the Berlin Wall |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: In 1961 the ban on his "Tropic of Cancer" was lifted in the U.S., & soon many of his other banned books were issued (Henry) Miller |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: During a sentimental visit to the Philippines in 1961, he told a welcoming crowd at the airport, "I have returned" MacArthur |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | WHO SANG IT FIRST? $800: This song was a hit for Ben E. King in 1961, for John Lennon in 1975 & for Ben again in 1986 "Stand By Me" |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | SORORITY SISTERS $2000: Chi O! & Roll Tide! This author won a Pulitzer for fiction in 1961 Harper Lee |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | OTHER COLLEGES $200: Founded in 1961, Hamburger University is this chain's training center McDonald's |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: The Edsels' 1961 doo-wop hit is a song by Dorothy & the Munchkins celebrating a notable demise in "The Wizard of Oz" Rama Lama Ding-Dong! The Wicked Witch Is Dead |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | ADJECTIVAL COUNTRY NAMES $400: In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies South Africa |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | "O-M-G"! $600: In 1961 this upscale chain of department stores introduced the first designer shopping bags Bloomingdale's |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | I RESIGN! $2000: This British Tory government minister's 1961 "affair" with a young woman led to his resignation John Profumo |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | LITERARY PRINCIPALS & TEACHERS $1200: 1961 Muriel Spark novel about an Edinburgh educator in her "Prime" The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | BIRTH, SCHOOL, WORK, DEATH $600: 1961,
Rutgers,
dazzled us as Tony Soprano,
2013 James Gandolfini |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | 1960s NEWSMAKERS $2000: This Harvard teacher described his 1961 LSD trip as the "most shattering experience" of his life (Timothy) Leary |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | 1960s NEWSMAKERS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1961 this 2-time Democratic presidential nominee was appointed U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $2000: This U.N. Secretary-General was born July 29, 1905 in Sweden & died September 18, 1961 near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia Hammarskjöld |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $6,000 (Daily Double): William Schuman, who won the first Pulitzer Prize for Music, served as president of this NYC school, 1945-1961 the Juilliard School |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | IT'S NOT MATT LAUER $1000: Pictured here, he was the original host of "Today" from 1952 to 1961 Dave Garroway |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $800: From 1925 to 1961 Volgograd had this name, after a dictator Stalingrad |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | BEST ACTOR OSCARS $1600: 1961:
Maximilian Schell as German defense attorney Hans Rolfe Judgment At Nuremberg |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: In 1961 Algerians began training rebels from this West African colony who wanted independence from the Portuguese Angola |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Until it made the news in 1961, most Americans were unfamiliar with this body of water the Bay of Pigs |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: Allen Dulles, John Foster's brother, was the first civilian director of this agency from 1953 to 1961 the CIA |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1200: This 1961 Irving Stone novel is subtitled "A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo" The Agony & the Ecstasy |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | DIRTY 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: In 1961 sen. Robert Byrd opined that many novels "seem to be deliberately loaded with" this word for obscene material "smut" |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | DISNEY MOVIES BY VILLAIN $200: 1961 & 1996:
Cruella De Vil 101 Dalmatians |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | INDIA $1200: India's western state of Goa was a colony of this small Iberian country until 1961 Portugal |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | COMPUTING $800: In 1961 Les Earnest created the first program of this type, now a word processing tool, & yes, computer, his name is Les with 1 S a spell check |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | EUROPEAN RULERS $1000: In 1961 this future Dutch queen received a doctorate of law from the University of Leiden Queen Beatrix |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | CAPES OF ALL SHAPES $800: Alan Shepard left this Florida cape in a big hurry on May 5, 1961 Cape Canaveral |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Mess officer Milo Minderbinder profits by working both sides during World War II in this 1961 novel Catch-22 |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1000: (Hi. I'm Jane Kaczmarek.) I sometimes need a hankie watching the love of Warren Beatty & Natalie Wood hit every kind of obstacle in this 1961 film Splendor in the Grass |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | I WORKED FOR ROGER CORMAN $200: In 1961 this actor boldly went where a lot of actors had gone before--
starring for Corman--in "The Intruder" William Shatner |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $3,200 (Daily Double): Steinbeck didn't have to read much of "Richard III" to get the title of this 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | SIBLINGS $800: In 1961 Ray Kroc bought out these brothers for $2.7 million the McDonald brothers |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY "Q" & "A" $1000: In 1961 JFK initiated this U.S.-Latin America development program, but it failed in just over a decade the Alliance for Progress |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | SPACE FIRSTS $1000: On April 12, 1961 this Russian, the first man in space, said the earth had a "beautiful blue halo" Gagarin |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | OUR MUTUAL FIEND $400: In 1961 Betty Lou Gerson voiced this villainess in the original "101 Dalmatians"; in 1996 Glenn Close got the role Cruella de Vil |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $3,000 (Daily Double): Born 1894, became Hellman's man in 1930, case solved for good 1961 Dashiell Hammett |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | CENTENARIANS $400: This woman (1860-1961) painted "Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey" in the year she turned 83 Grandma Moses |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1000: "One-Eyed Jacks"
(1961) Marlon Brando |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | LAST COMPLETE NOVEL $1600: "The Winter of our Discontent"
(1961) John Steinbeck |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | SENATE MAJORITY LEADERS $800: This Texas Democrat was leader from 1955 to 1961 LBJ |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | JFK's CAMELOT $400: In March 1961 JFK issued an executive order creating this agency that sends volunteers to aid developing nations the Peace Corps |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | THE HOST WITH THE MOST $1600: Jim McKay,
1961-1998 ABC's Wide World of Sports |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $2000: A 1961 Gregory Peck film was shot on Rhodes, but it's about destroying guns on this other Aegean island Navarone |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL $200: A 9-letter word for one who attends a film, or the title of a 1961 prize-winning novel by Walker Percy moviegoer |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | LIBRARIES $2000: A library at the U.N. serves as a memorial to this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash Dag Hammarskjold |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | TURNING 50 IN 2011 $400: Born in Honolulu August 4, 1961, he was given the same Swahili name as his father; it means "blessed by God" Barack Obama |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | TURNING 50 IN 2011 $1000: The logo of this conservation group founded in 1961 was based on a real animal named Chi-Chi the WWF (the World Wildlife Fund) |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | THE STAN LEE CUP $800: D.C. Comics' "Justice League of America" was selling well, so in 1961 Stan helped create this Marvel superhero quartet the Fantastic Four |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $200: That's a Cuban soldier standing on a U.S. B-26 in the aftermath of this failed April 1961 operation the Bay of Pigs |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $600: The 23rd Amendment, giving these people the right to vote, was ratified March 29, 1961 citizens of Washington, D.C. |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $800: This Nazi captured in Argentina was sentenced to death in Jerusalem on December 15 Eichmann |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $1,000 (Daily Double): Peter Benenson's 1961 news article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is considered the birth of this organization Amnesty International |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $1000: In April he orbited the Earth once Yuri Gagarin |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $400: In a 1961 song, it's the question that precedes "Girls have picked them every one, oh, when will they ever learn?" Where have all the flowers gone? |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | "LAND", HO! $1600: In a 1961 speech FCC chairman Newton Minow called TV "a vast" this wasteland |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | PAPAL BULLS $1600: John XXIII's bull of December 25, 1961 summoned the second of these the Vatican Council |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $800: Barbara Walters started as a writer on this NBC morning show in 1961 & eventually became its first female co-host The Today Show |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | Y'ALL FROM GEORGIA? $400: From 1942 to 1961 it was the occupation of William Hartsfield, for whom Atlanta's Intl. Airport is named mayor |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | Y'ALL FROM GEORGIA? $800: This Georgia-born Secretary of State served under 2 presidents from 1961 to 1969 Dean Rusk |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | 25-GAME WINNERS $200: In 1961 Whitey Ford won 25 games for this American League team the Yankees |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | MAN UP $400: In 1961 he reached an altitude of 115 miles in the Freedom 7 Alan Shepard |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | A FAIR TO REMEMBER $600: The International Exposition Bureau didn't recognize the NYC World's Fair of this year; it was too soon after Seattle 1962 1964 |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | THE SUNSHINE STATE $3,000 (Daily Double): A monument to this ill-fated 1961 venture stands in the Cuban Memorial Plaza in Miami the Bay of Pigs |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | HERE COMES THE JUDGE $800: Werner Klemperer & Burt Lancaster are judges being judged in this 1961 post-WWII flick Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE KING & "I" $200: In a 1961 Elvis smash, this 8-word refrain follows, "wise men say only fools rush in, but" I can't help falling in love with you |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE PEACE CORPS $1600: At the invitation of President Nkrumah, the first overseas volunteers arrived in this country on the Gulf of Guinea in August of 1961 Ghana |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE WRITER $800: Muriel Spark's 1961 novel about an eccentric Edinburgh teacher detailed "The Prime of Miss" this Miss Jean Brodie |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | "ACTION"! $1000: For federal contracts, this 2-word employment term was first used in an order issued by JFK in 1961 affirmative action |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | OPERA $2000: In 1961, as Venus in "Tannhauser", Grace Bumbry became the first black diva to sing at this Wagner festival Bayreuth |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | BURGER JOINTS $200: Hamburger University, this chain's training center, opened in 1961 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois McDonald's |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | TEAM EDWARD $800: In 1961, JFK appointed this venerable newsman director of the U.S. Information Agency (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | I THEE DIVORCE $1000: 1961: Annette Kaye;
1963: Alene Akins;
1966: Mickey Sutphin;
1971: Alene Akins;
1992: Julie Alexander... Hello! Larry King |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | THEY CALL ME MISTER... $400: From 1961 to 1966 Allan "Rocky" Lane provided the voice of this talkative TV Palomino, of course, of course Mr. Ed |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: Riff & Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical West Side Story |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: Started in 1961 to stop human rights abuses around the globe, this organization lit its first candle the same year Amnesty International |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BALLET $1200: Soon after defecting to the West on June 17, 1961, he began performing with the Ballet of Marquis de Cuevas Nureyev |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | "PEACE", BRO $200: The first volunteers in this U.S. government humanitarian force went to Ghana & Tanzania in 1961 the Peace Corps |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | BREAKFAST BRANDS $1000: This syrupy married lady made her debut in TV commercials in 1961 Mrs. Butterworth |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | PICK A PART $400: 1961:
Holly Golightly Audrey Hepburn |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | FAIL TO THE CHIEF $200: In April 1961 he signed off on a disastrous invasion of a neighboring country John Kennedy |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | PLEASE BELIZE ME $800: On Oct. 31, 1961 Belize City was severely damaged by one of these; the capital was moved inland a few years later a hurricane |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS $1000: The 2008 film "The Express" told the story of this 1961 Heisman trophy winner, the first African American to win the award (Ernie) Davis |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | NO. 1 QUESTIONS $2000: In 1961 the Shirelles noted that "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes" but wanted to know this Will you still love me tomorrow? |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | MISSING PERSONS $1000: With a flick of the pen in 1961, this mystery man summoned Vatican II John XXIII |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP $1200: A NYC-set musical from 1961 becomes a member of Britain's Conservative Party West Side Tory |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $2000: Known as NAM, it was founded in 1961 by nations that wanted to stand apart from the Eastern & Western blocs the Non-Aligned Movement |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | HI, BOB $400: In April 1961 he played with John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City in New York Bob Dylan |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | 1961 $200: On August 4 he was born in Honolulu, & he has the papers to prove it Obama |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | 1961 $400: On January 3 the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with this nation Cuba |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | 1961 $600: In his January 17 farewell address, he warned about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex" Eisenhower |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | 1961 $800: On February 9 they made their first appearance at the Cavern Club The Beatles |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | 1961 $1000: While in Paris with the Kirov Ballet, this dancer requested asylum in France Rudolf Nureyev |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: In 1961 Nikita Khrushchev changed its name to Volgograd; this name had lasted almost 40 years Stalingrad |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | MOVIE SEQUELS $400: The Rydell High class of 1961 is the focus of this sequel Grease 2 |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII Catch-22 |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | OPERA OPERAS $800: This Spanish tenor made his operatic debut in a 1961 production of "La Traviata" Plácido Domingo |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | THE SECOND TIME AROUND $800: "Barbara Ann":
The Regents in 1961, this group in 1966 The Beach Boys |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | MICHIGAN MUSICIAN MISHMASH $1200: This superstar was born in Saginaw in 1950 & by 1961, signed with Motown's Berry Gordy; isn't he lovely? Stevie Wonder |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | SLIP-POURRI $800: Wham-O introduced this backyard strip of watery fun in 1961 Slip 'N Slide |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | THE RUSSIAN $400: He's the high-flying hero of 1961 seen here Yuri Gagarin |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | MOVIE DEBUTS $1200: In his 1961 debut he found "Splendor in the Grass" with Natalie Wood Warren Beatty |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $2000: Hemingway sadly ended his own life in Ketchum in this state in 1961 Idaho |
| #5764, aired 2009-10-08 | "FRAN"S $1600: This 1961 Salinger work was adapted from 2 New Yorker stories Franny and Zooey |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | IN THE NAVY $1200: Despite his Army-sounding 1st name, he was a Naval officer in WWII before leading the Peace Corps from 1961 to 1966 Sargent Shriver |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | HELLO, WALLS $2,500 (Daily Double): It was first erected on the night of Aug. 12-13, 1961, the result of a governmental decree the Berlin Wall |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | FATHER TIME $400: On Dec. 13, 1961 Father Time caught up with this 101-year-old artist with a relative in her nickname "Grandma Moses" |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: Perhaps you'd like to pick up his "Collected Plays: 1944-1961", which includes "The Crucible" & "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $400: On Sept. 25, 1961 he told the U.N., "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind" Kennedy |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | WIMBLEDON SINGLES CHAMPS $1000: This Aussie lefty:
1961, 1962, 1968, 1969 Rod Laver |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | I REMEMBER TELEVISION $1600: I remember these 2 hunky doctor shows that dueled on ABC & NBC from 1961 to 1966 Dr. Kildare & Ben Casey |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | REVOLVING RESTAURANTS $400: In 1961, La Ronde at the Ala Moana office tower in this state capital became the first revolving restaurant Honolulu |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | OLD HAT $800: She put a little dent in a pillbox hat she wore on January 20, 1961, & suddenly dented pillboxes were all the rage Jacqueline Kennedy |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | U.S. STAMPS $200: The Kansas Statehood stamp from 1961 featured what else but this state flower a sunflower |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | HEADLINES $2000: From the Sept. 16, 1961 N.Y. Times:
He "Dies in African Air Crash; Kennedy Going to U.N. in Succession Crisis" Dag Hammarskjold |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | AT BAY $600: Fighters at this Cuban bay in 1961 were ransomed back to the U.S. for $53 million the Bay of Pigs |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | OTHER FAMOUS CANADIANS $3,600 (Daily Double): It was only in the spring that Izzy Sharp created this luxury chain by opening his first hotel in Toronto in 1961 The Four Seasons |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | THE COLD WAR $400: The USA's long involvement in this country included an effort to prop up President Diem in 1961 Vietnam |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $400: On March 25, 1961 Elvis Presley held a benefit concert in Honolulu for the building of this ship's memorial the Arizona |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $200: 1961:
"Fat Man, you shoot a great game of pool." "So do you, Fast Eddie" The Hustler |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | 1961 $200: Ratified on March 29, the 23rd Amendment granted this U.S. district the right to vote in pres. elections Washington, D.C. |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | 1961 $400: On March 1 this helpful corps was created by presidential executive order the Peace Corps |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | 1961 $600: A bunch of Cuban exiles showed up unannounced here on April 17 the Bay of Pigs |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | 1961 $800: On May 5 he rocketed into space from Cape Canaveral Alan Shepard |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | 1961 $1000: Launching a 4-book series, John Updike published this novel in 1961 Rabbit, Run |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | MR. OBAMA GOES TO WASHINGTON $400: Barack Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961 in this state capital Honolulu |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | THE 1960s $1000: Rafael Trujillo's 30-year tyranny over this country ended with his assassination in 1961 the Dominican Republic |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | 50+ HOME RUNS $400: 61 in 1961
(with the New York Yankees) (Roger) Maris |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | DEATH BY... $600: By shotgun blast,
July 2, 1961,
in Ketchum, Idaho Ernest Hemingway |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | COURTROOM DRAMAS $600: Spencer Tracy played Judge Dan Haywood, sent to Germany, in this 1961 courtroom drama Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | TRANSPLANT $800: Disillusioned with America, W.E.B. DuBois joined this party in 1961 & moved to Ghana the Communist Party |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $200: Once upon a time she was born July 1, 1961 in Norfolk, England; the fairy tale ended in Paris August 31, 1997 Princess Diana |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1000: A defrocked priest is one of the characters at a seedy Mexican hotel in this 1961 play Night of the Iguana |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $1200: 1961:
O'Dell's "Island of" these colorful creatures the Blue Dolphins |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | COMPLETE THE HUGO AWARD-WINNING TITLE $2000: 1961:
"A ____ for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr. Canticle |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $600: 1961:
"Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office" Catch-22 |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | PAKISTAN LAURELS $1000: Construction of this Pakistani capital began in 1961 Islamabad |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | HAPPY 50th NASA $200: NASA took up JFK's 1961 challenge to do this by decade's end & met it with 5 months to spare put a man on the Moon |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA $400: 1961:
"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."
"So do you, Fast Eddie" The Hustler |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: In the 1960s only 3 men exceeded 50 home runs in a season: Maris & Mantle in 1961 & this S.F. Giant in 1965 (Willie) Mays |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | COLOR MY WORLD $400: In this 1961 No. 1 hit, "You saw me standing alone / Without a dream in my heart / Without a love of my own" "Blue Moon" |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $1600: The 1961 Grammy for Best Comedy Performance went to "An Evening with" him "and Elaine May" Mike Nichols |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1600: JFK played golf with Bing Crosby during his 1961 Easter vacation at the Kennedy family's home in this Florida town Palm Beach |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | "D" TALKS $600: A 1961 Disney film greatly contributed to an increase in this dog breed's popularity Dalmatian |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | BEVERAGES $600: This lemon-lime drink from the Coca-Cola Company was introduced in 1961 Sprite |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | PHYSICISTS $2000: An equation describing the behavior of particles is named for this physicist, 1887-1961 Erwin Schrodinger |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | TIME TO GET SIMON-IZED $1000: He was the head of Vienna's Jewish Documentation Center from 1961 to 2003 Simon Wiesenthal |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING $800: On April 14, 1961 this cosmonaut was awarded the honor "Hero of the Soviet Union" (Yuri) Gagarin |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | MAKE SOME NOISE! $2000: Year of the inspiring speech heard here:
"Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country" 1961 |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | HOW SOPHOMORIC! $1200: Seen here are Washington Huskies fans, victims of the old flip-card switcheroo, at this bowl game in 1961 the Rose Bowl |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $800: Someone left the cat out in the rain in this 1961 film (P.S.--it was Audrey Hepburn) Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $800: 1961:
"...and the Ecstasy" The Agony |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $2000: 1961:
"...and Zooey" Franny |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | BRANDED $800: Brother began by making sewing machines; it made its first portable one of these in 1961 a typewriter |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | '60s TV $400: In 1961 this Western expanded to an hour; half-hour reruns began airing under the title "Marshal Dillon" Gunsmoke |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | "I" ON THE WORLD $800: Construction of this Asian capital city near Rawalpindi began in 1961 Islamabad |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | THE "BAY" STATE $600: This Caribbean location was headline news on April 17, 1961 the Bay of Pigs |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | "W"ORDPLAY $1000: In 1961 Newton Minnow described television as a vast this wasteland |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | NONFICTION $2000: This British historian's "A Study of History" was published in 12 volumes from 1934 to 1961 Arnold Toynbee |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | NAME THE NOVEL $1000: 1961:
"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith" Stranger In A Strange Land |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ARTHUR MILLER $800: Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay for the 1961 film "The Misfits", this male superstar's last film Clark Gable |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | "SNOW" BALL $2000: Antony Armstrong-Jones was made the Earl of this in 1961 Snowden |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $800: An artist, born Sept. 7, 1860 in Greenwich, New York; died Dec. 13, 1961 in Hoosick Falls Grandma Moses |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | GROUCHY MARXISTS $400: Not a member of his country's Communist party, he forced the party & his 26th of July movement to merge in 1961 Castro |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | SENATE MAJORITY LEADERS $400: 1955 to 1961: This Texan later to be president LBJ |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | WHAT A FAMOUS HORSE RACE! $400: At the turn, it's this title horse, of course, of course; his show ran from 1961-66... & he's doing his own trash talking! Mr. Ed |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | LANDING AT JFK $400: In June 1961 JFK met with this rival world leader for 2 days in Vienna to discuss a growing crisis in Europe Khrushchev |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $800: "Camelot"
(1961) Richard Burton |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | TELLING TALES OUT OF SCHOOL $1600: "The Prime" of this female teacher in an Edinburgh school plays out in a 1961 Muriel Spark work Miss Jean Brodie |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $200: On July 4, 1961 this Colorado peak was designated a national historic landmark Pike's Peak |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | IT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN $800: 1961: This man's body is removed from Lenin's tomb Stalin |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | THE SPORTING LIFE $1600: This TV show debuted April 29, 1961 with Jim McKay as host The Wide World of Sports |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $600: The Academy must have been out to lunch not nominating this 1961 Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | MEXICAN MOVIE MAKERS $400: Ismael Rodriguez' 1961 film "Animas Trujano" starring Toshiro Mifune was Oscar-nominated in this category Foreign Language Film |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | BRAND NAMES $800: This furniture brand introduced its Reclina-Rocker in 1961 La-Z-Boy |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | WAR STARS $800: In a 1961 war film, Gregory Peck & David Niven set out to destroy "The Guns of" this location Navarone |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | OCTOBER 1 $1200: 1961:
This man hits his 61st homer of the season (Roger) Maris |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | WIMPY $600: In this 1961 war novel, you'll find a captain who doesn't want to fly & a major who hides from his men Catch-22 |
| #5295, aired 2007-09-21 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $600: Fort Necessity, the site of the first battle of this war on July 3, 1754, was designated a nat'l battlefield in 1961 the French & Indian War |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | ONE THING OR ANOTHER $400: On Oct. 31, 1961, the U.S. Navy discontinued its squadrons of these made for them by Goodyear Aircraft blimps |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | HOW SWEDE IT IS! $1600: This U.N. Secretary-General died tragically in Africa in 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $2,000 (Daily Double): Still in operation, the world's first pay-one-price theme park opened in this U.S. state in 1961 Texas |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $400: From 1936 to 1961 this capital was called Ciudad Trujillo after dictator Rafael Trujillo Santo Domingo |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | MODERN SCIENTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): On March 16, 1961 NASA dedicated its space flight center to this man on the 35th anniversary of a major feat of his Robert Goddard |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | TIME FOR "UNCH" $800: In a 1961 song it's what Ray Charles wanted done with his heart unchain |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | BASEBALL: THE 1960s $400: Known as the "M & M Boys", these 2 Yankees slugged a total of 115 regular season home runs in 1961 Mantle & Maris |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $1600: This gritty 1961 Tennessee Williams play unfolds in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED $400: Years that read the same upside down & right side up include 1881, 6009 & this year of the 1960s 1961 |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $2000: This Quebecois began teaching law at the University of Montreal in 1961 & became Canada's P.M. 7 years later Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | '60s MUSIC $2000: This 1961 hit by Dion begins, "Here's my story, sad but true, it's about a girl that I once knew" "Runaround Sue" |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | WOMEN IN SONG $2000: A 1961 Ricky Nelson hit went, "Hello" her, "Goodbye Heart" Mary Lou |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | ISLANDS IN LITERATURE $400: Joseph Heller used the Mediterranean island of Pianosa as the setting for this 1961 WWII novel Catch-22 |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Belize City, a port, was Belize's capital until a 1961 hurricane; then the capital moved to this inland city Belmopan |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | AMERICAN PAINTERS $800: In 1905 she & her husband bought a farm at Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where she stayed until her death in 1961 Grandma Moses |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | PUPPET-POURRI $1000: This late, great "Law & Order" star played the puppeteer who falls in love with Lili in the 1961 musical "Carnival" Jerry Orbach |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | EDWARD R. MURROW $400: In 1961 Murrow left CBS to become Director of the U.S.I.A., this agency the United States Information Agency |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | SPORTS BARRIERS $600: During the 1961-62 season, this Philadelphia Warrior became the first & only NBA player to score over 4,000 points in a season Wilt Chamberlain |
| #5134, aired 2006-12-28 | MILLER'S CROSSING $400: He wrote the script for the 1961 film "The Misfits" Arthur Miller |
| #5134, aired 2006-12-28 | FARGO $1600: This home run slugger's museum has his 1961 Hickok Pro Athlete of the Year Award & a replica of his Yankee locker Roger Maris |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | ____ING $800: This British coin was withdrawn from circulation in 1961 the farthing |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | IRAQ $3,400 (Daily Double): In 1961, this country was granted independence, & Iraq argued it had been separated illegitimately Kuwait |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | MYSPACE.MAN $600: On April 12, 1961, he took his 5 1/4-ton Vostok 1 for a spin at 9:07 A.M. Moscow time; he had it back by 10:55 (Yuri) Gagarin |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | MYSPACE.MAN $1000: Freedom 7's pilot in 1961, he also commanded Apollo 14, the 1st mission to land on the Moon & not on the lunar seas (Alan) Shepard |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | CORPORATE LOGOS $2000: In 1961 Paul Rand redesigned this company's logo, simplifying its shield & adding a rectangular package above it UPS |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | MOTHER RUSSIA $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is our girl in Moscow, Russia.) From 1953 to 1961, Lenin shared his tomb with this leader who was then moved to his present resting place in the Kremlin wall Stalin |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | MOVIE TWINS $1200: In the 1980s Hayley Mills starred in 3 TV sequels to this 1961 Disney film in which she played twins Sharon & Susan The Parent Trap |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $2000: 1961:
"___ and Zooey" Franny |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $400: A 1961 classic:
"West Side Story" Romeo and Juliet |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $2000: You'll need a contralto or a mezzo to play Tituba in the 1961 opera based on this Arthur Miller play The Crucible |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | GONE TOO SOON $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) The Oval Office was a place of sorrow when President Kennedy heard of the death of this Congolese leader in early 1961 (Patrice) Lumumba |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | FIRST LADIES $400: She appeared with her husband in a 1961 episode of "General Electric Theater" titled "Money and the Minister" Nancy Reagan |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | IT HAPPENED IN MAY $800: 1961:
Total length in time of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight; he was famous much longer 15 minutes |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | TV INSPIRATIONS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the JFK Library & Museum.) A famous 1961 photo of President Kennedy at his desk is echoed in the opening credits of this popular television series The West Wing |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | YOU BOT IT $200: In 1961 the world's first production-line robot was used by this U.S. automaker General Motors |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | BEASTLY LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): 1961:
A reptillion evening served up by Tennessee Williams The Night of the Iguana |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | THE DEANS LIST $800: It doesn't take a sausage to know that this country singer took "Big Bad John" to No. 1 in 1961 Jimmy Dean |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LARCENY DELL'ARTE $800: This Spaniard's portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from the U.K. in 1961 Goya |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER $400: In 1961 this country's P.W. Botha assumed his first cabinet position--Minister of Coloured Affairs South Africa |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | TAKE IT "EASY" $600: In July 1961 Billboard unveiled a new chart for this style also called "beautiful music" easy listening |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | REMEMBERING RICKY NELSON $600: Gene Pitney wrote this musical greeting that charted for Ricky in 1961
"Passed me by one sunny day /
Flashed those big brown eyes my way /
And ooh, I wanted you forevermore" "Hello Mary Lou" |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | EIGHTH NOTES $1000: Born in 1961, this famous woman was the daughter of the Eighth Earl Spencer Princess Diana |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | THE KENNEDY YEARS $1600: A 1961 Gallup poll named JFK the most admired man; on the female list, Jackie placed second, trailing this woman Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | HE WAS IN THAT? $200: In 1961 this future "Jeopardy!" announcer hit the big screen in "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" Johnny Gilbert |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | HISTORY $2000: In 1961 1,300 Cuban refugees invaded this "porcine" location, but without air cover; oops the Bay of Pigs |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | McDONALD'S SLOGANS $200: 1961:
"Look for the Golden" these Arches |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | ELVIS FILM ROLES $800 (Daily Double): 1961:
Chad Gates, son of a pineapple mogul Blue Hawaii |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | FAMOUS FOLKS $600: He's the famous Russian seen here in 1961 Yuri Gagarin |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | PREMIERE $600: On Dec. 14, 1961 this Spencer Tracy courtroom drama had its world premiere in Berlin Judgement at Nuremberg |
| #4893, aired 2005-12-14 | THE RUSSIANS IN SPACE $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Star City, Russia.) In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space & flew three times faster than anyone else had in a capsule called this, or East Vostok |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WATER WORKS $600: In 1961 Ferde Grofé conducted the Buffalo Phil. in the premiere performance of his suite about this waterfall Niagara Falls |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $1600: This word famously preceded "wasteland" in a 1961 speech about TV; we'll try not to take it personally vast |
| #4883, aired 2005-11-30 | CUBAN HISTORY $1000: The unsuccessful attack on Cuba known as the Bay of Pigs invasion began on April 17th of this year 1961 |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | "KING" OF THE TOP 40 $1200: "Stand By Me" hit the charts for him in 1961 & 1986 Ben E. King |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | DISNEY MOVIES BY CHARACTER $400: 1961:
Pongo,
Patch,
Cruella de Vil 101 Dalmatians |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | FUN WITH WORDS $1600: It's the 1-word title of the classic game show that debuted in 1961 in which you gave 1-word clues one at a time Password |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME! $800: In 1961:
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" John F. Kennedy |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | THE BAD NEWS BEARERS $800: John Howard Griffin darkened his skin to research this 1961 expose of racism Black Like Me |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew fawns over a metal-plated case in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This beautiful humidor, sans cigars, was given to John F. Kennedy by this cranky premier when they first met in Vienna in 1961 Nikita Khrushchev |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | "SUMMER" CINEMA $1600: Geraldine Page yearned for Laurence Harvey in this 1961 film based on a Tennessee Williams play Summer and Smoke |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | LETHAL WEAPONS $400: In the largest man-made explosion in history, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton one of these in 1961 a hydrogen bomb |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CORN $1600: In 1961, in ancient Mexican trash, R.S. MacNeish discovered tiny, cigarette-filter-sized ones of these corn cobs |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | LIBRARIES $600: The United Nations' library is named for this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash Dag Hammarskjold |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | SARGENT/YORK $1200: In 1961 Sargent & York appeared on this Richard Chamberlain medical drama in episodes airing a week apart Dr. Kildare |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | SARGENT/YORK $2000: You'll be "rollin', rollin', rollin'" if you know York guested on this TV western in 1961 Rawhide |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | LITERARY COLLABORATORS $1000: George S Kaufman died in June 1961; this man, his frequent collaborator, in December of that year Moss Hart |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | IT'S A TOUGH WORLD $600: Between 1961 & 1983, this nation sent numerous Venera probes to Venus to study its atmosphere & chemical makeup the Soviet Union |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | NAME THAT DICTATOR $1200: The Dominican Republic
1930-1961 Trujillo |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | THE ULTI-"MATE" $600: This Nestle product was introduced in 1961 Coffee-Mate |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | ELVIS $2000: Seen at a 1961 Honolulu press conference, Elvis performed a concert to raise money for this ship's memorial the Arizona |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | "KING" ME $1000: Jeffrey Hunter played Jesus & Rip Torn played Judas in this 1961 Bible big-screener King of Kings |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | MEDICAL MILESTONES $800: This type of surgery introduced in 1961 uses extreme cold to perform a "bloodless" operation cryogenic (or cryosurgery) |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | FEBRUARY IN HISTORY $1200: The U.S. ICBM with this "timely" nickname had its first successful launch February 1, 1961 the Minuteman |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | HIT TV $800: 4 of the top 10 shows since 1961 are telecasts of this sporting event in different years the Super Bowl |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | YOU GOT MY LITERARY NUMBER $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1961 title became a term for illogical bureaucratic rule Catch-22 |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | HOOSIER DADDY $1000: Indianan who on July 21, 1961 became the 2nd American in space & in 1965 flew in the first manned Gemini flight Gus Grissom |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | CRAZY TOP 40 TUNES $200: "Crazy" penned by Willie Nelson made the pop top 10 in 1961 for this singer Patsy Cline |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | YOUR NUMBER'S UP $400: In the last game of the 1961 season, Roger Maris swatted this number home run 61 |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | WORKING WITHOUT ANNETTE $1000: Annette Funicello was not on board when Frankie starred in this 1961 sci-fi "voyage" directed by Irwin Allen Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | THE GIANTS $2,500 (Daily Double): An adventurous boy takes a ride on a large fruit in this 1961 children's classic James and the Giant Peach |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | THIRD BASE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Berlin, Germany.) After East Berlin began to be walled off in 1961, this was the first entry checkpoint to be opened after Alpha & Bravo Checkpoint Charlie |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | MUSICAL TRAINS $2000: In 1961 James Brown announced "all aboard" for this train "Night Train" |
| #4670, aired 2004-12-17 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: Eisenhower didn't really send troops; by the time he left office in 1961 he'd sent in 900 personnel called these advisors |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | MY GIRL $400: In 1961 Marvin Gaye married Anna, sister of this Motown mogul Berry Gordy |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | SPORTS RECORDS $1200: In 1961-62 this ex-Globetrotter averaged (averaged!) 50.4 points per game Wilt Chamberlain |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | FILMED IN HAWAII $800: Part of this 1961 Elvis movie was filmed at the Hilton Hawaiian village, also the birthplace of the colorful cocktail Blue Hawaii |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | REPORTING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE $600: Our lead story for Jan. 21, 1961: this man, brother of the President, was sworn in as Attorney General Robert Kennedy |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | A HIT TWICE $2000: The 2 acts which had No. 1 hits with "Please Mr. Postman"--one (a Motown group) in 1961, the other (not) in 1975 The Marvelettes & The Carpenters |
| #4618, aired 2004-10-06 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In 1961 this Asian country invaded the small colonies of Daman, Diu & Goa, & defeated the Portuguese India |
| #4617, aired 2004-10-05 | THE DONALD $800: On Sept. 24, 1961 this professor uncle of Donald was introduced on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" Ludwig Von Drake |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1000: During his self-exile, he voiced the strife of black Americans in books like 1961's "Nobody Knows My Name" James Baldwin |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | THE COIN BOX $2,100 (Daily Double): For luck on his 1961 space flight, Gus Grissom took along some of these dimes last produced in 1945. Mercury dimes (or winged liberty dimes) |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | "P"EOPLE $2000: In 1961 this African-American soprano made her debut at the Met as Leonora in "Il trovatore" (Leontyne) Price |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | ROGER THAT $400: In 1961 his 61st home run not only broke the record but won a 1-0 game Roger Maris |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | FOLK MUSIC $400: In 1961 The Highwaymen urged him to "row the boat ashore, hallelujah" Michael |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | NAME THAT MOVIE $400: 1961:
"When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!" West Side Story |
| #4526, aired 2004-04-19 | "ONE", "TWO", "THREE" $2000: This 1961 Jimmy Cagney comedy used a fake Brandenburg Gate when the real gate closed mid-shoot One, Two, Three |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | THE L.A. COLISEUM $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) A new stadium was being built so this baseball team played in the Coliseum from 1958 to 1961 after moving to L.A. Los Angeles Dodgers |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | SIT, TAKE A LOAD OFF $600: 1961 saw a new ad slogan: "Let Hertz Put You in" this the Driver's Seat |
| #4520, aired 2004-04-09 | JOHNNY GILBERT, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $600: Johnny played a nightclub emcee in the 1961 film where this title female teenager "Goes Hawaiian" Gidget |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | 1961 $200: The U.S. breaks off diplomatic relations with this Caribbean country Cuba |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | 1961 $400: She releases the hit songs "Crazy" & "I Fall to Pieces" Patsy Cline |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | 1961 $600: In early 1961 the number of U.S. military advisors in this Asian country reaches around 2,000 (South) Vietnam |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | 1961 $800: This poet recites "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration Robert Frost |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | 1961 $1000: On May 5, 1961 he is launched from Cape Canaveral Alan Shepard |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | SCREEN PLAYS $800: John Osborne's 1961 play about this Protestant reformer became a 1974 film starring Stacy Keach Martin Luther |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $800: Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899; closed the book on himself in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | FILMS OF THE '60s $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Louisville, Kentucky) What's now the Oak Room of the Seelbach (Hilton) Hotel was once a gentlemen's billiards hall, seen in this classic 1961 film The Hustler |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM $800: (Cheryl) The Greyhound bus represents these riders who bravely tried to desegregate bus stations in 1961 the Freedom Riders |
| #4487, aired 2004-02-24 | ISRAEL $800: In 1961 this Israeli airline set a record for the longest nonstop commercial flight, New York to Tel Aviv El Al |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | NONFICTION $800: In 1961 Julia Child started a culinary revolution when she published "Mastering the Art of" this French Cooking |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: In a 1961 Gallup poll, this former First Lady topped the list of the most admired women for the 10th time Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | THE '60s $600: In a 1961 speech FCC chairman Newton Minow called television a "vast" this wasteland |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | FULL "MOON" $400: Mercer & Mancini composed this 1961 classic "Moon River" |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | MOVIE VILLAINS $2,500 (Daily Double): Betty Lou Gerson voiced her in 1961; Glenn Close played her in 1996 & 2000 Cruella de Vil |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | SIMPLY SIMON $200: His first Broadway success was 1961's "Come Blow Your Horn" Neil Simon |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | "G" MEN $1200: On April 12, 1961 this Soviet air force pilot made a trip around the world in 108 minutes Yuri Gagarin |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1000: 1961:
A U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | PIANISTS $800: With his quartet, this pianist took "Take Five" onto the pop charts in 1961 Dave Brubeck |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | TELEVISION & THE '60s $600: Barbara Walters started out as a writer on this morning show in 1961, eventually working her way up to co-host Today |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | GRENADA $400: Those who enjoy this activity can see the wreckage of the ocean liner Bianca C, which sank off Grenada in 1961 scuba diving |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $600: The Yankees' 2 big home run hitters in 1961 had this combined candy nickname the M&M boys |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | PAPERBACK WRITER $1000: This crime novelist wrote the 1961 paperback Western classic "Hombre" Elmore Leonard |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | THE FOOD BIZ $200: Peas & lima beans were among the first frozen foods sold by this Ho! Ho! Ho! company in 1961 Green Giant |
| #4401, aired 2003-10-27 | ROCK "AND" ROLL $600: This 1961 hit begins "I couldn't sleep at all last night" "Tossin' And Turnin'" |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $200: 1953-1961 Richard Nixon |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: "Catch-22" (1961) Joseph Heller |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: "Horseman Pass By" (1961) Larry McMurtry |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1961 Fred Moore stood watch as the first black guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in this cemetery Arlington National Cemetery |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | HERE PIG $400: In April 1961 a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles landed here in Cuba the Bay of Pigs |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | VIENNA-RAMA $400: When Kennedy & Khrushchev met in Vienna in 1961, JFK suggested the countries combine their efforts to go here the moon |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | JOE COLLEGE $1200: Attended Alabama 1961-1965; played some varsity football Joe Namath |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | LEGENDS OF THE GAMES $400: This slugger from Fargo, North Dakota hit 61 home runs in 1961 Roger Maris |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | LATIN AMERICA $2000: On August 17, 1961 this aid program for Latin America was signed in Punta del Este, Uruguay by the U.S. & 19 nations Alliance for Progress |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | SENIOR MOMENTS $200: In 1961, at age 79, he married 33-year-old Jacqueline Roque, the model in several of his paintings Pablo Picasso |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | MERCURIAL $800: This Mercury astronaut didn't make it into orbit when launched May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard |
| #4311, aired 2003-05-05 | GNOME-ENCLATURE $600: This man gave final approval to the "Project Gnome" Dec. 1961 test detonation of a 3-kiloton nuclear device John F. Kennedy |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | THE "WEST" WING $800: "Rumble" & "Maria" are songs from this 1961 movie West Side Story |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AMERICAN DREAMS $800: In May 1961 he vowed to land a man on the moon & return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade John F. Kennedy |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | WALLS OF FAME $400: The lifetime of this miles-long wall was 1961 to 1989 Berlin Wall |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | MOVIE SONGS $1200: "Moon River"
(1961) Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | WE'VE GOT ISSUES $1000: This 2-word phrase for policies assisting minorities is found in a 1961 executive order affirmative action |
| #4276, aired 2003-03-17 | AT THE MOVIES $800: One of the only 2 musicals to win 9 or more Oscars; one was in 1958 & one was in 1961 Gigi or West Side Story |
| #4265, aired 2003-02-28 | SCUBA DIVING $1200: This Lloyd Bridges TV show that ran from 1957 to 1961 helped to popularize the sport Sea Hunt |
| #4265, aired 2003-02-28 | "POCKET" CHANGE $2000: Ann-Margret made her movie debut in this 1961 film starring Bette Davis as Damon Runyon's Apple Annie Pocketful of Miracles |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | MOVIE MUSICALS $1600: George Chakiris played Riff in the West End production of this musical, but played Bernardo in the 1961 film West Side Story |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | PLAYING DOCTOR $800: Dr. Kildare
(1961 to 1966) Richard Chamberlain |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | ____ OF THE ____ $1000: In 1961 British critic Martin Esslin used this phrase to describe the plays of Beckett & Ionesco theatre of the absurd |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | THE 1960s $400: This now-popular term for a situation with no solution was also the title of a 1961 novel catch-22 |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | NEWMAN'S OWN "H" FILMS $400: Playing against Paul, Jackie Gleason racked up some points in this 1961 film The Hustler |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | NAME THE YEAR $200: It's the year JFK was sworn in as president 1961 |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | HISTORIC NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1961 scared villagers thought he was a downed U2 pilot until he removed his helmet & spoke Russian to them Yuri Gagarin |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | PEOPLE $400: He appeared on the February 8, 1961 "I've Got a Secret" with the secret "I've been hit in the face with 14,000 pies" Soupy Sales |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | A FEW GOOD MEN $800: In 1961 he rode in Vostok I Yuri Gagarin |
| #4110, aired 2002-06-14 | THE 1960s $800: If you include the World Series, he actually hit a total of 62 home runs in 1961 Roger Maris |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | SPORTS CHANNEL $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew flying above the water.) When this sport was invented in 1961, the flyer was originally towed behind a car parasailing |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | ENTERTAINMENT FIRSTS $200: This Beatle first sang lead vocals on vinyl in 1961 on "Ain't She Sweet" John Lennon |
| #4052, aired 2002-03-26 | OLD GLORY $1000: The first 50-star flag was raised at 12:01 a.m. on this date in Maryland, not Hawaii July 4, 1960 |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | AMERICAN MEMORIALS $400: The Brigade 2506 Memorial in Miami commemorates this military action that took place in 1961 the Bay of Pigs |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | BACK TO THE 1960s $800: The big sports news of 1961 was the battle between these 2 New York Yankees for the league home run crown Mickey Mantle & Roger Maris |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | THE '60s $800: In 1961 NASA sent Enos, one of these animals, into space, orbiting the Earth twice chimpanzee |
| #4029, aired 2002-02-21 | SAY THE MAGIC "WORD" $1600: The answer is... This show, hosted by Allen Ludden on CBS from 1961 to 1967 Password |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | NEW YORK STORIES $400: This musical "Story" about gangs in New York won 10 Oscars when it made it to the big screen in 1961 West Side Story |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | COLLEGE SPORTS $400: In 1961 this Ohio State golfer won the NCAA tournament; the following year he won the U.S. Open Jack Nicklaus |
| #4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THE GRAMMYS $200: Her winning for "Judy at Carnegie Hall" in 1961 broke Ella's 3-year streak Judy Garland |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | O BROTHER $400: In 1961 his brother John got him a new job--Attorney General Robert Kennedy |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | SPACE EXPLORATION $1600: This Russian woman had no experiences as a pilot prior to being trained as a cosmonaut in 1961 Valentina Tereshkova |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | ORGANIZATIONS $400 (Daily Double): Established in 1961, the John Muir Award is the highest honor given by the organization the Sierra Club |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $600: 1961: "...and the Ecstasy" The Agony |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $1000: 1961: "...and Zooey" Franny |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $2000: This glamorous First Lady redecorated the White House when she lived there, 1961-1963 Jackie Onassis |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $600: Assassinated in 1961, Rafael Trujillo had been dictator of this Caribbean republic for over 30 years Dominican Republic |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $600: In 1961 Soviet space officials held the first radio talks with a man in space, this cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | HELLO, GOOD BUY $800: This office equipment maker was first listed on the NYSE in 1961 & split 5 for 1 in 1963 Xerox |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | A DATE WITH DESTINY $600: After 8 years, this man's mummified corpse was removed from public display in Red Square Oct. 31, 1961 Joseph Stalin |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | 20th CENTURY JOURNALISTS $1200: His journals in 1960 on "The Making of the President" were turned into a book in 1961 Theodore H. White |
| #3969, aired 2001-11-29 | WB CARTOON STARS $1200: 1961:
"Beep Prepared" the Road Runner |
| #3964, aired 2001-11-22 | 20th CENTURY LIVES $600: He bought out the McDonald burger-making brothers in 1961 for $2.7 million Ray Kroc |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $100: In a 1961 Joseph Heller novel, "There was only one catch and that was" this Catch-22 |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | MADE THEM CRY $2,100 (Daily Double): "Poyekhali!" ("let's go!" in Russian) was his cry April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin |
| #3944, aired 2001-10-25 | THIS YEAR'S HEADLINE! $400: Soviets Send First Man Into Space! 1961 |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $400: Reading this 1961 novel by Irving Stone might inspire you to paint your ceiling The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | THE EARL SHOW $1000: Good Lord! Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones was made Earl of this in 1961 Snowdon |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | "SEVEN" ON YOUR SIDE $300: Group seen here in 1961 the Mercury Seven |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | '60s TV $400: In the fall of 1961 this collie and this moose went head to antlers Sundays at 7 Lassie and Bullwinkle |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | TWO OF A KIND $400: When the Washington Senators Major League Baseball team relocated in 1961, they became this team Minnesota Twins |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BASKETBALL $500: In 1961-62 this Philadelphia Warrior became the only man in history to score over 4,000 points in a season Wilt Chamberlain |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | THE VERY MODE "L" $400: In 1961 it followed "rama" & preceded "ding dong" in a song by the Edsels Lama |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | DRAMA & DRAMATISTS $600: This 1961 Tennessee Williams play takes place at the Costa Verde, a small Mexican hotel on a jungle-covered hilltop Night of the Iguana |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | SEEING DOUBLE $1000: This 1961 twin film, remade in 1998, was based on a German novel The Parent Trap |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | JACKIE GLEASON $300: Jackie learned his cues well & was Oscar-nominated for this 1961 pool-playing film The Hustler |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | CINEMATIC TITLE PAIRS $200: 1961:
"....and Goliath" David |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | '60s STUFF $200: In 1961 the Green Giant began to peddle his frozen Niblets & Coke introduced this lemon-lime drink Sprite |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | THE LAST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1961 military leaders killed this Caribbean nation's dictator Rafael Trujillo Dominican Republic |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | "M" & EMMYS $200: Judith Anderson won Emmys in 1955 & 1961 for playing this Shakespearean lady Lady Macbeth |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | MOVIE SPORTSMEN $400: 1961:
Jackie Gleason Minnesota Fats |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | "U" HAVE THE RIGHT $800: The union of Egypt & Syria that lasted from 1958 to 1961 was dubbed this United Arab Republic |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $400: He was TV's Opie when he co-starred with Johnny Cash in the 1961 thriller "Door-to-Door Maniac" Ron Howard |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | "X" CALIBER $100: Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, this photo copier company adopted its present name in 1961 Xerox |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE $400: This encyclopedia extended its "global" reach with a 1961 Braille edition & a 1980 audio edition World Book |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | NAME GAME $500: This Russian form of George was in the headlines in 1961 Yuri (as in Yuri Gagarin) |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1961 this president appointed his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver as director of the Peace Corps John F. Kennedy |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | '60s FASHION $200: The leading fashion influence of 1961, she picked Oleg Cassini to do her official wardrobe Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | THAT'S ENOUGH STALIN $1000: The city of Tsaritsyn, renamed Stalingrad in 1925, was renamed this in 1961 Volgograd |
| #3742, aired 2000-12-05 | A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER $400: On December 15, 1961 an Israeli court sentenced this man to death for World War II atrocities Adolf Eichmann |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | THE ROARING '20s $300: During the 1927 baseball season, Babe Ruth hit this many home runs, a record that lasted until 1961 60 |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | LIT-POURRI $200: This 1961 novel by Joseph Heller takes place on the island of Pianosa "Catch-22" |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | PARENT COMPANIES $200: In 1961 Castle & Cooke, founded by Hawaiian missionaries, became the parent company of this fruit giant Dole |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | WORLD HISTORY $500: In February 1961 violence erupted in this Portuguese possession in West Africa Angola |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | QUOTATIONS $200: In a 1961 speech he said, "...ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man" JFK (John F. Kennedy) |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | CALVIN-ISM $500: In 1961 biochemist Melvin Calvin won a Nobel Prize for identifying the intermediate reactions during this plant process Photosynthesis |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | RUSSIAN AUTHORS $800: This poet's 1961 work "Babi Yar" helped make him an international celebrity Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | "WORD" PLAY $300: This game show premiered on CBS Oct. 2, 1961 Password |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | REMEMBER 1999? $500: This craft that had its 15 minutes of fame in 1961 was recovered from the ocean floor in 1999 Liberty Bell (Gus Grissom's capsule) |
| #3651, aired 2000-06-19 | A CENTURY OF FOOD $1,500 (Daily Double): Reuben Mattus created this ice cream (& its Danish-sounding name) in the Bronx in 1961 Haagen-Dazs |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: Buried in 1953, this leader was moved in 1961 to a less prestigious grave along the Kremlin wall Josef Stalin |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | SPORTS SUPERSTARS $100: In 1961 Mickey Mantle & this teammate hit a total of 115 home runs--the most by 2 teammates in baseball history Roger Maris |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | COCA-COLA $200: This lemon-lime drink from the Coca-Cola Company was introduced in 1961 Sprite |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | NAME THAT FLICK $300: 1961:
"Top of the day, officer Krupke" West Side Story |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | "FALL" $200: In 1961 the Civil Defense Department required that signs showing the locations of these be posted fallout shelters |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | POPULAR MUSIC $500: This man with a 1961 No. 1 hit had a father with a 1935 No. 1 & 2 sons who teamed up for a 1990 No. 1 Ricky Nelson |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $500: Year featured in the episode of "Year By Year" seen here:
(Berlin Wall erected) 1961 |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | SPEECH! SPEECH! $800 (Daily Double): Speech on ending his fast, March 10, 1961, Delano, California Cesar Chavez |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | SPEECH! SPEECH! $1000: "A Vast Wasteland", May 9, 1961, Washington, D.C. Newton Minow |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: Replacing Kubrick as the director of 1961's "One-Eyed Jacks" was an offer this actor could not refuse Marlon Brando |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | OPTIMISTS $600: On May 25, 1961 JFK called for the U.S. to achieve this goal by decade's end to put a man on the Moon |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: In the judgment of the Academy, Maximilian Schell was 1961's Best Actor for this film Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #3578, aired 2000-03-08 | GIVE ME SOME DIRECTION $400: In 1961 the future sex counselor born Ruth Siegel married a man named this Manfred Westheimer |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | DISNEY DOGS $300: The Internet Movie Database says someone actually counted all the black spots in this 1961 film & found 6,469,952 101 Dalmatians |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 20th CENTURY MEDICINE $200: In 1961 U.S. physicians began using his oral polio vaccine Dr. Albert Sabin |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | DAN RATHER $400: Dan was upped to a national post by CBS after covering one of these natural disasters in September 1961 Hurricane |
| #3548, aired 2000-01-26 | THE 1960s $400: The 1961 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded posthumously to this U.N. secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold |
| #3545, aired 2000-01-21 | BLAST OFF! $100: This Russian's one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 was his first & only venture into space Yuri Gagarin |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $500: Robert Wise & choreographer Jerome Robbins shared the Best Director Oscar for this 1961 musical West Side Story |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | BIG WORDS $400: In 1961 Newton Minow described television as this type of "wasteland" Vast |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | BRANDED $800: Brother began by making sewing machines; it made its first portable one of these in 1961 Typewriter |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $500: 1961-1967:
"Password" Allen Ludden |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | TV HOSTS $200: "Wonderful World of Color"
1961-1969 Walt Disney |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | TV HOSTS $400: "You Bet Your Life"
1950-1961 Groucho Marx |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $600: "Moon River"
(1961) Breakfast At Tiffany's |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | THE FILM VAULT $400: Sidney Poitier starred in the 1961 film version of this Lorraine Hansberry drama about a black Chicago family A Raisin in the Sun |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $600: Of the 2 women to win acting awards for 1961, she was the Italian Sophia Loren (for "Two Women") |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | QUICK BIOS $800: Born near Gzhatsk in 1934; promoted to major in 1961 shortly before liftoff, just in case; died 1968 Yuri Gagarin |
| #3461, aired 1999-09-27 | MORTAL MATTERS $500: In 1961 Hassan II was crowned in this country after his father died following a minor nose operation Morocco |
| #3436, aired 1999-07-12 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $400: Trying to resolve problems in the Congo, this Swedish secretary-general died in a plane crash in Africa in 1961 Dag Hammarskjold |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | DISNEY CINEMA $1000: In 1961 Hayley Mills had a Top 10 hit with "Let's Get Together" from this Disney film The Parent Trap |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1936 to 1961 this Caribbean capital was known as Ciudad Trujillo in honor of dictator Rafael Trujillo Santo Domingo |
| #3401, aired 1999-05-24 | MODERN AFRICAN WOMEN $800: Lalla Latifa, not Queen Latifah, married King Hassan II soon after he ascended this country's throne in 1961 Morocco |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | LEADERS $200: U.S. president:
1961-1963 John F. Kennedy |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | "Y"s $100: Roger Maris hit his 61st home run in 1961 in this stadium Yankee Stadium |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | CRY $600: In 1961 Jimmy Stewart wept while accepting an Oscar for this terminally ill "High Noon" star Gary Cooper |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | ALL THAT JAZZ $1000: Paul Desmond is the alto saxophonist heard on this other jazz legend's 1961 hit "Take Five" Dave Brubeck |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | MR. MIKE $300: He became the lead vocalist of the Beach Boys in 1961 Mike Love |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | FIRST & LAST $200: A 1961 home run king,
5 letters:
M---s (Roger) Maris |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | CLASSIC CINEMA QUOTES $100: 1961:
"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool" The Hustler |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | WORDS $200: This word for a white wine & soda drink first appeared in Webster's in 1961 spritzer |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | ST. PATRICK'S DAY $500: Born on a train in Russia on March 17, 1938, he danced his way to the West in 1961 Rudolf Nureyev |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | A FEW GOOD DOGS $1000: A 1961 Disney classic was based on the true story of this Skye Terrier's 14-year vigil at his master's grave Greyfriars Bobby |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | MOVIE REMAKES $800: Lindsay Lohan pulled double duty as twins in the 1998 remake of this 1961 Hayley Mills comedy The Parent Trap |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | VICE PRESIDENTS' TERMS OF SERVICE $100: 1961-1963 Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | WHAT A YEAR! $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Tyler Christopher of General Hospital.) In this year, ABC gave "G.H." a shot on TV, "He's So Fine" shot up to No. 1 & JFK visited the Berlin Wall 1963 |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | EERIE TV ANTHOLOGIES $1000: A 1959-1961 series based on true incidents took you this far "beyond" One step |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | SINGING THE "BLUE"S $200: Before Elvis sang this song in a 1961 movie, Bing sang it in 1937's "Waikiki Wedding" Blue Hawaii |
| #3296, aired 1998-12-28 | NOTORIOUS $600: The U.S. supplied the weapons that killed this country's dictator Raphael Trujillo in 1961 Dominican Republic |
| #3290, aired 1998-12-18 | OUTDATED MAPS $400: After 1961, when its namesake fell out of favor, this city was known as Volgograd Stalingrad |
| #3288, aired 1998-12-16 | PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $100: January 20, 1953 - January 2, 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3286, aired 1998-12-14 | SPORTS LEGENDS $200: The jersey seen here was worn during the 1961 season by this slugger who led the majors with 126 walks Mickey Mantle |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: Jean Rouch's 1961 "Chronicle of a Summer" originated this style, French for "film truth" Cinema Verite |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | NEW FOOD PRODUCTS $200: A syrup named for this "Mrs." was introduced in 1961; a pancake mix with her name on it came out in 1982 Mrs. Butterworth |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $300: This 1961 film was the first to feature a magical substance called Flubber The Absent-Minded Professor |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $500 (Daily Double): In 1961 this soprano made her debut with the Metropolitan in "Il Trovatore" Leontyne Price |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | SHIPS $400: On March 25, 1961 Elvis Presley performed at Honolulu's Bloch Arena to raise money for this ship's memorial the Arizona |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | GUYS NAMED GARY $300: This South African won golf's Masters Tournament in 1961 Gary Player |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | GO PLAY OUTSIDE $100: In 1961 Wham-O introduced this 25-foot-long plastic sheet to America's backyards Slip 'n Slide |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | COME FLY WITH ME $400: Howard Hughes owned this airline when it introduced in-flight movies in 1961 TWA (Trans World Airlines) |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | SONGS ABOUT THE MOVIES $1000: Appropriately, in the title of a 1961 song Sue Thompson sang that these movies "make me cry" Sad movies |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | WHO "M I"? $200: From 1961 to 1964, I invited TV home viewers to "Sing Along with" me Mitch Miller |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | THE MOVIES $500: He played the absent-minded professor who invented Flubber in the original 1961 film Fred MacMurray |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | '60s TV $400: Dr. Kildare & this Vince Edwards doctor began practicing on TV in 1961 & both left in 1966 Ben Casey |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | '60s ROCK $400: In 1961 the Marvelettes asked him to "Look and see, is there a letter in your bag for me?" Mr. Postman |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | '60s ROCK $500 (Daily Double): In 1961 Del Shannon had his only No. 1 hit with this song heard here:
"I wonder..." "Runaway" |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: 1961 invasion of Cuba wrapped in a tasty pastry "Bay Of Pigs in a blanket" |
| #3176, aired 1998-05-25 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: In 1961 he & his first lady retired to their first permanent home, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Eisenhower |
| #3171, aired 1998-05-18 | ANIMALS $400: In 1961 a federal law banned the importation of this South American fish into the U.S. Piranha |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This group of volunteers, created on Mar. 1, 1961, works to improve living conditions in other nations Peace Corps |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | SAN FRAN CINEMA $600: This 1961 film set in San Francisco's Chinatown features the song heard here
"When I have a brand new hairdo / With my eyelashes all..." Flower Drum Song |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | THE UNITED NATIONS $400: In 1961 a new U.N. library was dedicated & named for this second Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | BASKETBALL $500: In the 1961-62 season, this Warrior had games of 100, 78 & 73 points Wilt Chamberlain |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | WHO $500: In 1961 he founded the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna to pursue his Nazi quarry Simon Wiesenthal |
| #3120, aired 1998-03-06 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1961 he might have taken highway 61 to New York City to meet his idol, folk singer Woody Guthrie Bob Dylan |
| #3105, aired 1998-02-13 | 20th CENTURY POLITICIANS $400: This Texan served a record 17 years as Speaker of the House between 1940 & 1961 Sam Rayburn |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB $400: He quit as the Beatles' bass player to become a painter in 1961 Stuart Sutcliffe |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | TV FACTS $200: Beginning in 1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports" captured "The thrill of victory" & this the agony of defeat |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | '60s FLICKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A top-grossing animated film of 1961, a live-action remake was released in 1996 101 Dalmatians |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | LEADING MEN $500: Jon Voight took over the role of Rolf, the young Nazi in love with Liesl, in this Broadway musical in 1961 The Sound of Music |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THEIR FIRST FILMS $600: In 1961 she made her film debut in the Charles Bronson movie "X-15" & began playing Laura Petrie on TV Mary Tyler Moore |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | MRS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON $800: In 1961 this world leader called pro-nuclear Margaret "The devil in the disguise of a woman" Nikita Khrushchev |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES $600: Hassan II has been the king of this country since 1961 Morocco |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | JOHN HUSTON FILMS $1000: Huston directed this 1961 cowboy film that Arthur Miller wrote for Marilyn Monroe The Misfits |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $100: In 1961 a phenomena investigation bureau was set up to find proof of this Scottish lake's "monster" Loch Ness |
| #3006, aired 1997-09-29 | INTERNATIONAL FILM STARS $800: In 1961 she won the Best Actress Oscar for "Two Women", becoming the first to win for a foreign language film Sophia Loren |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | O MINNESOTA! $200: In 1961 the Washington Senators moved to Bloomington & became this A.L. team Minnesota Twins |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | SUMMIT MEETINGS $400: A 1961 JFK-Khrushchev summit ended in an agreement on this neighbor of Vietnam & Cambodia Laos |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: An order was given in October, 1961 to remove this man's body from Lenin's tomb Josef Stalin |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | LITERARY DISGUISES $20 (Daily Double): John Howard Griffin chemically darkened his skin to research this 1961 bestseller "Black Like Me" |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1961 he became the first brother of a president appointed to a cabinet position Robert F. Kennedy (Attorney General) |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | HISTORY OF THE SEAS $300: On May 5, 1961 the Freedom 7 capsule splashed down in the Atlantic with this man inside Alan Shepard |
| #2970, aired 1997-06-27 | WHEN YOU WERE A KID $400: Introduced to American backyards in 1961, this 25' long sheet of plastic was attached to a hose Slip 'n Slide |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | FIRST NOVELS $800: He introduced intelligence agent George Smiley in 1961's "Call for the Dead" John le Carré |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | POTPOURRI $800: This president's 1961 farewell address warned of the influence of "The Military-Industrial Complex" Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | CINCO DE MAYO $200: Signed into law May 5, 1961, the Fair Labor Standards Act raised this to $1.15 Minimum wage |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | MONARCHS $800: In 1961 this current queen earned a doctorate in law from the University of Leiden Queen Beatrix |
| #2921, aired 1997-04-21 | LETTER PERFECT $200: This supposedly sullen generation, born in 1961 & after, was named by novelist Douglas Coupland Generation X |
| #2921, aired 1997-04-21 | SONGS $300: This 1993 hit by UB40 remained in the Top 40 for 23 weeks, almost twice as long as Elvis Presley's 1961 version "Can't Help Falling in Love" |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | APRIL $800: This invasion occured from April 17-19, 1961 the Bay of Pigs |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | APRIL $1000: On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin blasted off in a capsule called this, Russian for "east" Vostok I |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | HISTORIC EUROPEAN LEADERS $200: On June 15, 1961 Walter Ulbricht assured journalists that "No one intends to build a wall" dividing this city Berlin |
| #2889, aired 1997-03-06 | '60S BESTSELLERS $800: This Irving Stone book about Michelangelo was the fiction bestseller of 1961 The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | POLITICIANS $400: In January 1961 this Republican took his seat as a Congressman from Kansas' 6th district Bob Dole |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $500: Arthur Hays Sulzberger was publisher of this U.S. newspaper from 1935 to 1961 The New York Times |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | U.S. HISTORY $300: Robert McNamara served in this post 1961-68 Secretary of Defense |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | 20th CENTURY OPERA $400: American composer Robert Ward based a 1961 opera on this author's famous play "The Crucible" Arthur Miller |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | POP MUSIC $200: His 1961 hit "Let's Twist Again" received a Grammy for best rock & roll recording Chubby Checker |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | AUTHORS $400: After leaving the Mayo Clinic, this author committed suicide July 2, 1961 at his Ketchum, Idaho home Ernest Hemingway |
| #2830, aired 1996-12-13 | BARBARA WALTERS' 20 YEARS $200: During a visit to Fidel Castro, Barbara's crew became the 1st Americans to cross this bay since 1961 Bay of Pigs |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This "Picnic" playwright's screenplay for "Splendor In The Grass" won a 1961 Oscar William Inge |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | THE UNEXPLAINED $200: A 1961 book by Ivan T. Sanderson linked these 2 creatures of the Pacific Northwest & the Himalayas Sasquatch/Bigfoot & The Abominable Snowman/Yeti |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1961 this firm introduced its Selectric typewriter, which used a spherical typing element IBM |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | COINS $500: In 1961, this bronze coin, the lowest value in British currency at 1/4 of a penny, was withdrawn from circulation Farthing |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | HOME RUN SLUGGERS $300: When he slugged 61 home runs in 1961, his batting average was only .269 Roger Maris |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | REMBRANDT $200: "Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer" was purchased in 1961 by the friends of this New York City museum Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The "New Frontier" was the domestic program of his 1961-63 administration John F. Kennedy |
| #2777, aired 1996-10-01 | LITERATURE $400: Published in 1961, "The Winter of" this was John Steinbeck's last novel The Winter of Our Discontent |
| #2771, aired 1996-09-23 | 1961 $100: This sovereign visited several Commonwealth nations including India, Pakistan & Ghana Queen Elizabeth II |
| #2771, aired 1996-09-23 | 1961 $200: On April 17 about 1,500 exiles landed at this bay in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government the Bay of Pigs |
| #2771, aired 1996-09-23 | 1961 $300: On April 12 this Soviet air force major circled the globe in a record 1 hour, 48 minutes Gagarin |
| #2771, aired 1996-09-23 | 1961 $400: In 1961 Angola began a guerrilla war with this country from which it gained independence 14 years later Portugal |
| #2771, aired 1996-09-23 | 1961 $500: This playwright's first show, "Come Blow Your Horn", premiered on Broadway on February 22 Neil SImon |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | THE MOVIES $300: Jackie Gleason received an Oscar nomination for playing Minnesota Fats in this 1961 film The Hustler |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | TV LAW $500: In 1961 Martin Sheen had his first major TV role on this series starring E.G. Marshall & Robert Reed The Defenders |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | PEOPLE $800: Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of this country, now Zaire, was assassinated in 1961 the Congo |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | 1960s NO. 1 HITS $400: In February 1961 his "Calcutta" was a one & a two on the charts Lawrence Welk |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | HE WAS IN THAT?! $400: William Shatner appeared as Capt. Harrison Byers in this acclaimed 1961 film about war crimes trials Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | ROYALTY $100: This Princess of Wales was born in 1961 at Park House on the Queen's Estate at Sandringham Diana |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | BRITISH HODGEPODGE $400: When this princess' son David was born in 1961, he was given the title Viscount Linley of Nymans Princess Margaret |
| #2682, aired 1996-04-09 | FILM EPICS $1000: In a 1961 film, Charlton Heston portrayed this legendary Spanish hero El Cid |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $400: For 15 years, 1946-1961, this show set in Indian Territory was Broadway's longest-running musical "Oklahoma!" |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | SOUTH AMERICA $300: Sparked by an oil boom, the population of this Venezuelan capital tripled between 1961 & 1981 Caracas |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | SCIENCE $800 (Daily Double): In 1961 an isotope of this element replaced oxygen as the standard for determining atomic weight carbon |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: Volunteers in this U.S. agency established in 1961 live & work in other countries to improve living conditions the Peace Corps |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: In 1961 Coca-Cola introduced this, now the world's leading lemon-lime soft drink Sprite |
| #2612, aired 1996-01-02 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship over this nation lasted from 1930 until his 1961 assassination the Dominican Republic |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | SPORTS $400: Although he hit 61 home runs in 1961, he averaged fewer than 20 a year the rest of his career Roger Maris |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | BROADWAY $200 (Daily Double): Revival of a 1961 musical that has the following on its marquee: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In 1961 the first American edition of his "Tropic of Cancer" became a bestseller [Henry] Miller |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | MUSICAL FILMS $100: Marni Nixon dubbed Natalie Wood's singing voice for this 1961 musical about rival gangs West Side Story |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | THE 1960s $200: On Aug. 15, 1961 construction began on this German barrier that divided a city for 28 years the Berlin Wall |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS $400: His first words after being picked up in the Atlantic May 5, 1961 were "What a ride!" Alan Shepard |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: She was a textile worker & amateur parachutist when recruited into the cosmonaut program in 1961 Valentina Tereshkova |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: He's the only U.N. Secretary-General to win a Nobel Peace Prize, posthumously in 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #2525, aired 1995-07-21 | FIRST LADIES $400: She was a delegate to the U.N. twice, 1945-1952 & 1961-1962 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2521, aired 1995-07-17 | THE 1960s $500: In 1961 Hassan II succeeded his father, Muhammad V, as king of this North African country Morocco |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | POP MUSIC $100: This group's first recordings, cut in Germany in 1961, featured drummer Pete Best The Beatles |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | ASSOCIATIONS $300: In 1961 the Pope gave a new constitution to the Knights of this island nation, known for charitable work Malta |
| #2501, aired 1995-06-19 | POLITICIANS $2,200 (Daily Double): This Texan was Majority Leader of the Senate from 1955 to 1961 Lyndon Johnson |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | BREAKFAST CEREALS $300: As suggested by its name, this cereal, created in 1961, provides 100% of the U.S. RDA for vitamins & iron Total |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE $400: This Texan & Joseph Martin, Jr. alternated in the post 1940-1961 (Sam) Rayburn |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | ASSASSINATIONS $1000: Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of this country, Now Zaire, was assassinated in 1961 the Congo |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | POLITICS $800: "Whiz Kids" was the term applied to the young team Robert McNamara brought to this department in 1961 Defense |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | FIRST LADIES $300: In 1961 she said, "I feel as though I have just become a piece of public property" Jackie Kennedy |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | DOGS $100: A 1961 Disney film made this spotted dog even more popular Dalmatian |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | NOTORIOUS $1000: Gen. J.T. Diaz organized the army officers who killed this dictator of the Dominican Republic in 1961 (Rafael) Trujillo |
| #2453, aired 1995-04-12 | FAMOUS ANIMALS $300: In 1961 Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent this first family a puppy named Pushinka Kennedys |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | MODERN AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): A Scottish girls' school that Muriel Spark attended partly inspired this 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | LITERATURE $600: This 1934 Henry Miller book wasn't published in the U.S. until 1961 Tropic of Cancer |
| #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 |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1961 JFK proposed "The Alliance for" this to give economic assistance to Latin America Progress |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | LAURELS $300: This composer won a 1961 Grammy for his soundtrack album from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Henry Mancini |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1961 W.E.B. Du Bois joined this political party the Communist Party |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | SHORT STORIES $100: In 1961, she published "Thirteen for Luck", a selection of mystery stories for young readers Agatha Christie |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | THE 1960s $500: Rafael Trujillo, dictator of this country, was assassinated by military leaders in 1961 the Dominican Republic |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | QUOTATIONS $200: He was quoted April 14, 1961: "I could have gone on flying through space forever" Yuri Gagarin |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE OSCARS $400: 1961's Best Actor, Maximilian Schell, directed the 1984 Oscar-nominated film "Marlene", about this star Marlene Dietrich |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | WORLD CURRENCY $400: In 1961 the rand became legal tender in this country South Africa |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | ART $600: In 1961 the Met purchased his "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" for $2.3 million Rembrandt |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | ENCHANTED APRIL $400: In a flight lasting 148 minutes, he became the first man to orbit the Earth April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | HISTORY $200: In 1961 this Cuban leader said he had always been a Marxist-Leninist & would be one until he died Fidel Castro |
| #2336, aired 1994-10-31 | COMPOSERS $600: Ferde Grofe's suite about this waterfall was premiered by the Buffalo Philharmonic in 1961 Niagara Falls |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | BAYS $400: A famous April 17, 1961 incident occurred in this bay the Bay of Pigs |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | HISTORY $100: In April 1961 a group of exiles unsuccessfully invaded this Caribbean island Cuba |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | POLITICIANS $400: He was the Assistant D.A. of Suffolk County, Massachusetts from 1961-62, while his brother was president Ted Kennedy |
| #2314, aired 1994-09-29 | WORLD MAIL $1000: Issued in 1961, the Marianne stamp of France was designed by this author of "Les Enfants Terribles" Jean Cocteau |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | FRANCIS THE TALKING MULE $300: The 1st 6 films were directed by Arthur Lubin, who produced this talking animal TV series in 1961 Mr. Ed |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $200: This series was No. 3 for the 1961-62 season, while reruns titled "Marshal Dillon" ranked in the top 20 Gunsmoke |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | THE MOVIES $500: This 1961 western starring Marlon Brando & Karl Malden is the only feature directed by Brando One-Eyed Jacks |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | WORLD CITIES $200: From 1961-1989 a concrete wall separated the Eastern & Western sections of this German city Berlin |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1961 the Indian military forced this country out of its possessions of Goa, Daman & Diu Portugal |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | THE MOVIES $500: In 1961 this "Meet John Doe" director released his last feature, "Pocketful of Miracles" Frank Capra |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | BIOGRAPHIES $200: He's the subject of the 1961 biography "First American Into Space" Alan Shepard |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | OLD MONEY $1000: This British coin worth one-quarter of a penny was withdrawn as of 1961 a farthing |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | U.S. HISTORY $100: On June 3, 1961 JFK met with this Soviet premier in Vienna 7 Khrushchev |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | THE 1960s $400: In the 162nd & last game of the 1961 season, he hit his 61st home run Roger Maris |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | BALLET $400: Yves Saint Laurent designed the costumes for a 1961 ballet based on this Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | 1961 $100: In the U.S. this was raised to $1.25 an hour the minimum wage |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | 1961 $200: When the Navy decommissioned its fleet of these, they were deflated & packed away lighter-than-air ships (blimps) |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | 1961 $300: Newton Minow, chairman of this group, complained about many things, including game shows the F.C.C. (Federal Communications Commission) |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | 1961 $400: In March he was named director of the Peace Corps Sargent Shriver |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | 1961 $500: This Kenyan leader, imprisoned since 1952, was released on August 21 (Jomo) Kenyatta |
| #2220, aired 1994-04-08 | FOOD & DRINK $100: In 1961 Coca-Cola launched this soda with the "Great Lymon Taste" Sprite |
| #2218, aired 1994-04-06 | SPOTS $300: Canine spots turn into musical notes in the title sequence of this 1961 animated Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | THE 20th CENTURY $100: This Cuban premier won a Lenin Peace Prize in 1961 Fidel Castro |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $300: America's first reported skyjacking took place in 1961 when a plane was forced to this country Cuba |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | TV "ADVENTURES" $400: David's wife began appearing on this sitcom in 1961, Rick's wife in 1964 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: In 1961 this Minn. senator became Assistant Majority Leader; 3 years later, he was elected vice president Humphrey |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: On Oct. 31, 1961 his name was removed from Moscow's Red Square; his body was removed a day later (Joseph) Stalin |
| #2177, aired 1994-02-08 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: On Nov. 29, 1961 Enos was the last of these animals sent into space a chimpanzee |
| #2162, aired 1994-01-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $300: Though he lived until 1961, he didn't complete another novel until after 1934's "The Thin Man" Dashiell Hammett |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: Jeffrey Hunter played this, his most famous role, in the 1961 film "King of Kings" Jesus |
| #2151, aired 1994-01-03 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $100: She played the very driven Lady Macbeth in 1961, 28 years before "Driving Miss Daisy" Jessica Tandy |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1960s BROADWAY $500 (Daily Double): This musical with Robert Morse opened October 14, 1961 & closed in 1965 after 1,415 performances How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | THE 1960s $1,100 (Daily Double): Shortly after Kuwait was freed by Britain in 1961, this country claimed it Iraq |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | ROCK MUSIC $100: From 1961 to 1971, Smokey Robinson had 14 Top 20 hits with this group The Miracles |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool" is a line in this 1961 film The Hustler |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | TOSSED $700 (Daily Double): 1961 No. 1 hit that included the following line:
"I couldn't sleep at all last night..." "Tossin' And Turnin'" |
| #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 |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: On January 6, 1961 he had to tell Congress that his opponent won the electoral vote for president Nixon |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | AWARDS $200: In 1961 the Nat'l Geographic Society's Special Gold Medal was given to this undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | FIRST LADIES $200: 19 years after she left the White House in 1961, her Boone, Iowa birthplace was opened as a historic site Mamie Eisenhower |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In 1961 Sue Thompson sang that these "movies make me cry" sad |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $600: In a 1961 record Johnny Cash called this stringed instrument a "Tennessee flat-top box" guitar |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | JAZZ $800: In 1961 his quartet had a pop hit with "Take Five" Dave Brubeck |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | MODERN HISTORY $400: From 1961-65 this revolutionary served as Cuba's Minister of Industry Che Guevara |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | NOTABLE NAMES $300: He married Evita in 1945 & Isabel in 1961 Juan Perón |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | BODIES OF WATER $200: It's the better-known name of Cuba's Bahia de Cochinos, the site of a 1961 invasion the Bay of Pigs |
| #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 |
| #2030, aired 1993-06-04 | FIRST LADIES $200: In 1961 & 1962 she received an estimated 8,000 fan letters a week Jackie Kennedy |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | LONG LIVERS $1,000 (Daily Double): When she died in 1961 at 101, she left 2 children, 9 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren & 1500 paintings Grandma Moses |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | BALLET $800: He danced briefly with the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas after his 1961 defection from the USSR Nureyev |
| #2014, aired 1993-05-13 | ART $800: In 1961 the Yale University Art Gallery acquired one of this Dutch artist's most famous works, "The Night Cafe" Van Gogh |
| #2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On April 17, 1961 a force of about 1,500 exiled Cubans trained by the CIA landed at this site Bay of Pigs |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | "R.N."s $200: In 1989 he danced with the Kirov Ballet in Russia for the first time since his 1961 defection Rudolf Nureyev |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: When Dag Hammarskjold was killed in 1961, he became acting secretary-general of the U.N. U Thant |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | SPENCER TRACY FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): This courtroom drama had its world premiere on December 14, 1961 in Berlin Judgment at Nuremburg |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His last novel "The Winter of Our Discontent", was published in 1961 John Steinbeck |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | THEATRE $600: In 1961 Paul Scofield made his American stage debut as Sir Thomas More in this play A Man for All Seasons |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | LAST SURVIVORS $800: James L. Hanberry, who died in 1961, was the last of the soldiers who took part in this doctor's yellow fever experiment Walter Reed |
| #1969, aired 1993-03-11 | BALLET $600: "Leningrad Symphony" was first performed in Leningrad by this company in 1961 the Kirov |
| #1968, aired 1993-03-10 | FAMOUS BAKERS $500: Campbell's "Remembers" the acquisition of this baker in 1961 increased their line from soup to nut bread Pepperidge Farm |
| #1967, aired 1993-03-09 | JANUARY $200: On January 31, 1961 the U.S. sent Ham, one of these animals, into space a chimpanzee |
| #1960, aired 1993-02-26 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $200: In 1961 this city got what the locals called Schandmauer, "Wall of Shame" Berlin |
| #1952, aired 1993-02-16 | THE 1980s $300: In July 1980 President Carter signed a measure requiring 4 million men born in 1960 & 1961 to do this register for the draft |
| #1950, aired 1993-02-12 | FAMOUS MILLERS $100: On January 27, 1961 TV viewers began to "Sing Along with" him Mitch |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | MOVIE TRIVIA $300: Of bubble gum, flubber or blubber, the one Fred MacMurray invented in a 1961 film flubber |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: She founded the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal in England in 1961& in the U.S. in 1969 Joy Adamson |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: She started as a writer on "Today" in 1961; she became co-host in 1974 Barbara Walters |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1961 it became the first Japanese company to sell stock to U.S. investors Sony |
| #1939, aired 1993-01-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: In 1961 part of this Massachusetts cape was designated a National Seashore Cape Cod |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | MODERN THEATRE $1000: In 1961 he acted in his own play "The Caretaker"; in 1991 he directed a revival of it Harold Pinter |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | JUDGES $100: Before presiding over "The People's Court", he was a Ca. Superior Court judge from 1961 to 1979 (Judge) Wapner |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | MODERN HISTORY $600: After this 1961 invasion, Fidel Castro announced he would exchange prisoners for 500 U.S. bulldozers The Bay of Pigs |
| #1916, aired 1992-12-28 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: To halt a flood of refugees, East Germany built this barrier in 1961 the Berlin Wall |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Best known for 1961's "Stranger in a Strange Land", he sold his first story in 1939 to "Astounding" (Robert) Heinlein |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | SPY FICTION $400: This author introduced British agent George Smiley, in the 1961 novel "Call for the Dead" John le Carré |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | POLITICIANS $400: From 1955 to 1961 this Texan was the Senate majority leader (Lyndon) Johnson |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | POP MUSIC $500: This 1961 Lawrence Welk pop hit takes its title from the name of a city in India & features a harpsichord "Calcutta" |
| #1879, aired 1992-11-05 | DOLLS $400: When Mattel introduced this male doll in 1961 he had fuzzy hair that came off if it got wet Ken |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | BARBIE $300: A Barbie board game introduced in 1961 had players vying to become queen of this high school dance the prom |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | DIVAS $1000: In 1961, Grace Bumbry became the first Black singer to appear at this German city's Wagner festival Bayreuth |
| #1869, aired 1992-10-22 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Between 1925 & 1961, the city of Volgograd was known as this Stalingrad |
| #1869, aired 1992-10-22 | COUNTRY MUSIC $500: In 1961, 8 yrs. after he died at age 29, he became one of the 1st inductees in the Country Music Hall of Fame Hank Williams |
| #1867, aired 1992-10-20 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1961, his body was removed from the Red Square tomb where it had lain with Lenin's Stalin |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $500: In October 1961, the committee awarded the prize to this late United Nations leader (Dag) Hammarskjöld |
| #1841, aired 1992-09-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Construction of Islamabad, this country's capital, was started in 1961 Pakistan |
| #1819, aired 1992-06-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This first & only novel by Harper Lee won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #1783, aired 1992-05-06 | CLASSIC PLAYTHINGS $300: Since 1961, 82 million of these magic screen toys have been sold the Etch A Sketch |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | AUTHORS $200: After receiving electroshock treatment for depression, he took his own life in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 Ernest Hemingway |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | RIVERS $600: In 1961 the city of Stalingrad was renamed after this river the Volga |
| #1755, aired 1992-03-27 | MOVIE MEALS $400: Henry Mancini picked up a couple of Oscars for his work on this 1961 Blake Edwards film Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | 1966 $800: Sargent Shriver gave up the post of director of this program established in 1961 the Peace Corps |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | AWARDS $300: In 1961 this performer won a Grammy for best R & B recording for his song "Hit The Road Jack" Ray Charles |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | AUTHORS $600: This author was buried on July 6, 1961 at Ketchum, Idaho Ernest Hemingway |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | NEWFOUNDLAND $400: 1,000-year-old ruins from these European explorers were uncovered at L'Anse aux Meadows in 1961 the Vikings |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | ART $500: This woman died in 1961 at the age of 101 Grandma Moses |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | PEOPLE $1000: This tenor made his official debut in a 1961 Mexican performance of "La Traviata" Placido Domingo |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | RHODE ISLAND $200: A U.S. senator from Rhode Island since 1961, Claiborne Pell belongs to this party the Democrats |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | CARNEGIE HALL $400: This blue-eyed singer first appeared at Carnegie Hall his way, in a 1961 benefit for the SCLC Sinatra |
| #1671, aired 1991-12-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: Characters in this 1961 novel include Milo Minderbinder & Major Major Major Catch-22 |
| #1665, aired 1991-11-22 | POP MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): In 1961 this native of Vernon, Texas had his first No. 1 hit with the following:
"Yeah, running scared, what would I do / If he came back..." Roy Orbison |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | SOPHIA LOREN $300: Loren's 1st Oscar came for this 1961 Italian film co-starring Jean-Paul Belmondo Two Women |
| #1649, aired 1991-10-31 | THE MOVIES $400: "Twin Peaks" actors Richard Beymer & Russ Tamblyn played gang members in this 1961 movie musical West Side Story |
| #1646, aired 1991-10-28 | AUTHORS $400: In 1961 his short stories "Franny" & "Zooey" were published together in book form Salinger |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $400: Burt Lancaster played German Judge Ernst Janning in this 1961 film about war criminals Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | NO. 1 HITS OF THE '60s $100: In a 1961 hit, the Highwaymen asked him to "row the boat ashore, hallelujah!" Michael |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | "RAIN"Y SONGS $500: "So it must be" this Dee Clark hit from 1961 "Raindrops" |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | SCIENTISTS $400: Melvin Calvin won a 1961 Nobel Prize for his study of this biological process in plants photosynthesis |
| #1618, aired 1991-09-18 | DOUBLE TALK $400: In this 1961 Carl Reiner film, a Soviet submarine lands off the coast of a New England island The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
| #1600, aired 1991-07-12 | PRO BASKETBALL $200: During the 1961-62 season, this Warriors player set an NBA record by averaging 50.4 points a game Wilt Chamberlain |
| #1600, aired 1991-07-12 | THE '60s $200: In 1961 this electronics firm became the first Japanese co. to sell its common stock in the U.S. Sony |
| #1600, aired 1991-07-12 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: In 1961 JFK chose this man, his brother-in-law, to become the 1st director of the Peace Corps Sargent Shriver |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | WORLD HISTORY $500: In 1961 Syrian rebels put an end to this short-lived union of Egypt & Syria the United Arab Republic |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | OKLAHOMANS $300: This Yankee slugger hit over 50 home runs in a season twice, 1956 & 1961 Mickey Mantle |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | THE 20th CENTURY $300: On Halloween night 1961 the body of this Georgian was removed from display in Lenin's tomb Stalin |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $100: The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 was an attempt to topple the regime of this dictator Castro |
| #1554, aired 1991-05-09 | THE 1960s $600: The first man to orbit the Earth, April 12, 1961, he said, "I didn't just sit in my chair, I hung in space" Yuri Gagarin |
| #1545, aired 1991-04-26 | MODERN HISTORY $400: Under arrest and confinement from 1952 to 1961, in 1963, he became Prime Minister of Kenya; in 1964, President Jomo Kenyatta |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | THE MOVIES $200: The 1990 film "Everybody Wins" was the 1st feature this playwright wrote since 1961's "The Misfits" Arthur Miller |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | THE OSCARS $500 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 songs by Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer that won Oscars in 1961 & 1962 "Moon River" (or "Days Of Wine And Roses") |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1961 the Vatican excommunicated this Haitian president for harassing the clergy Duvalier |
| #1512, aired 1991-03-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: As part of the De-Stalinization program Stalingrad was renamed this in 1961 Volgograd |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | LATIN AMERICA $600: In 1961 JFK created the Alliance for this, to aid Latin American countries financially the Alliance for Progress |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | GREAT DISASTERS $1000: It took 20 years for this country to admit that 25 million died of famine there in 1961 China |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: From 1936-1961, this capital of the Dominican Republic was called Ciudad Trujillo Santo Domingo |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | GREGORY PECK $200: Peck said his 1961 film about "The Guns of" this Aegean island "was actually a comedy" Navarone |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $600: In 1961, he became the first director of the Peace Corps; 11 years later, he was McGovern's running mate Sargent Shriver |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | SPORTS $200: Some fans were angry that he broke Babe Ruth's record when he hit 61 home runs in 1961 Roger Maris |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | OPERA $600: This Black opera singer first appeared at the Met on January 27, 1961 as Leonora, in "Il trovatore" Leontyne Price |
| #1430, aired 1990-11-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: This Spanish cellist gave White House recitals for Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 & JFK in 1961 Casals |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | DESPOTS & DICTATORS $600: After his reelection in 1961, this Haitian leader named himself president for life Duvalier |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | THE 20th CENTURY $100: A resolution passed by Congress in 1961 established Sam Wilson as the namesake for this national symbol Uncle Sam |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | THE OSCARS $500: In 1961 he won Oscars for writing & directing "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #1403, aired 1990-10-10 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $300: Elvis Presley played the son of a pineapple executive in this 1961 film Blue Hawaii |
| #1379, aired 1990-09-06 | SHIPS $200: In 1961, the USS Long Beach became the 1st naval surface ship using this type of power nuclear power |
| #1377, aired 1990-09-04 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): It merged with American-Marietta Company in 1961 Martin |
| #1369, aired 1990-07-12 | EUROPE $400: In 1961 the Soviet Union broke diplomatic ties with this Balkan land due to its support of China Albania |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | DEMOCRATS $2000: He's been an Arizona congressman since 1961 when his brother vacated the seat to join JFK's cabinet Morris Udall |
| #1339, aired 1990-05-31 | ART $2,000 (Daily Double): Back in 1961 his "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" brought a record price of $2.3 million Rembrandt |
| #1336, aired 1990-05-28 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $200: In 1961 he described himself as "the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris" John Kennedy |
| #1317, aired 1990-05-01 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: Olympic ice skater Carol Heiss played Snow White in a 1961 film starring this wacky trio The Three Stooges |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | BASEBALL $400: In 1961 owner Calvin Griffith moved this team to Minneapolis where it became the Minnesota Twins Washington Senators |
| #1283, aired 1990-03-14 | EASTERN EUROPE $200: Albania broke diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1961 & became allied with this Asian power China |
| #1283, aired 1990-03-14 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: He was deputy premier of Morocco before he succeeded his father as king in 1961 King Hassan |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The 1961 comedy "Come Blow Your Horn" was his 1st Broadway play Neil Simon |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | SONGS OF THE '60s $100: In 1961 Ben E. King sang, "There is a rose in" this area of New York City Spanish Harlem |
| #1266, aired 1990-02-19 | CUBA $200: In the news in 1961, this bay in the Cuban province of Las Villas is also called Bahia de los Cochinos Bay of Pigs |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | FILMS OF THE '60s $1000: Buddy Ebsen played Audrey Hepburn's long-lost husband in this 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #1232, aired 1990-01-02 | QUOTES $800: This speaker of the House who resigned in 1961 is credited with the comment "To get along, go along" Sam Rayburn |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | FAMOUS PAIRS $1,400 (Daily Double): These 1955 & 1957 short stories by J.D. Salinger were published in one book in 1961 "Franny" & "Zooey" |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | SONGS OF THE '60s $500: Title of a 1961 hit, it's what Lonnie Donegan might have asked of Mr. Wrigley, had they met "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)" |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | ART $200: Born Anna Mary Robertson, this artist died in 1961 at age 101 Grandma Moses |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | 1930s BEST SELLERS $1000: Her soapy story "Back Street" was a 1931 best seller & was filmed in 1932, 1941 & 1961 (Fannie) Hurst |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | JAZZ PIANISTS $400: His quartet, featuring Paul Desmond on alto sax, reached the pop charts in 1961 with "Take Five" Dave Brubeck |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | PEOPLE $500: This dancer defected in Paris in 1961 & became director of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1983 Rudolf Nureyev |
| #1174, aired 1989-10-12 | GEOGRAPHY $600: In 1961, after Trujillo was assassinated, the Dominican Republic changed Ciudad Trujillo back to this Santo Domingo |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | MOVIE JUDGES $200: Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his role as a judge in this 1961 film of Nazi war trials Judgement at Nuremberg |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: These products have been a top-selling product since Proctor & Gamble 1st marketed them in 1961 Pampers |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | LBJ $400: To become vice-president in January 1961, Johnson resigned from this The Senate (Majority Leader) |
| #1141, aired 1989-07-17 | NEWSPAPERS $600: Title of W. A. Swanberg's 1961 biography of a publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Citizen Hearst |
| #1074, aired 1989-04-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: His 1961 book "The Agony & the Ecstasy" was a fictionalized biography of Michelangelo Irving Stone |
| #1057, aired 1989-03-21 | SEE THE USA $200: 1961 marked the opening of the 1st Six Flags theme park, "Six Flags Over" this state Texas |
| #1051, aired 1989-03-13 | THE U.N. $600: The U.N. Library is named for this secretary-gen. who was killed in a 1961 plane crash in Africa Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #1050, aired 1989-03-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Known in Spanish as the "Bahia de Cochinos", it achieved world wide notoriety in 1961 the Bay of Pigs |
| #1037, aired 1989-02-21 | NATIONAL SYMBOLS $100: Congress "wants you" to know in 1961 it resolved that this symbol's origin was a Mr. Wilson of Troy, N.Y. Uncle Sam |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | PRESIDENTS' WHEELS $400: The 1st presidential limo with complete air conditioning was a 1961 Lincoln he ordered John F. Kennedy |
| #1015, aired 1989-01-20 | FOOTBALL $100: In 1961 this Ohio city was chosen as the site for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Canton |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | THE WHITE HOUSE $400: In 1961 this First Lady had a fine arts committee restore rooms to their former appearance Jacqueline Kennedy |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | GOLDEN OLDIES $400: The 2 1961 hits with "River" in their titles, both begin with "Moo" "Moon River" & "Moody River" |
| #1004, aired 1989-01-05 | POLITICIANS $1000: 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Carl Stokes was elected by this Midwest city's voters in 1961 Cleveland |
| #983, aired 1988-12-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: To see the Wasa, a sunken 17th century warship salvaged in 1961, go to this Scandinavian capital Stockholm, Sweden |
| #968, aired 1988-11-16 | THE CABINET $400: In 1961 JFK invited our ambassador to this to attend the cabinet meetings United Nations |
| #932, aired 1988-09-27 | N. AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was dictator of this island country for 3 decades until his 1961 assassination the Dominican Republic |
| #923, aired 1988-09-14 | TV TRIVIA $400: From 1961-64 she worked for the Baxter family Hazel |
| #914, aired 1988-07-21 | "PLEASE"ING SONGS $400: A #1 hit for The Marvelettes in 1961 &, 14 years later, for the Carpenters "Please Mr. Postman" |
| #912, aired 1988-07-19 | FAMOUS LIONS $500 (Daily Double): The Tokens who formerly backed up Neil Sedaka had this No. 1 hit on their own in 1961:
"Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away..." "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $200: His "Tropic of Cancer" was printed in English in Paris in 1934 but not in the U.S. until 1961 Henry Miller |
| #890, aired 1988-06-17 | 1962 $200: He re-signed with the Yankees for $72,500, almost twice what he got in 1961, when he hit 61 homers Roger Maris |
| #877, aired 1988-05-31 | THE '60s $300: In 1961, while dealing with the Congo crisis, this U.N. Sec'y-General died in a plane crash Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #862, aired 1988-05-10 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS $400: Founded in 1961, this organization campaigns for the release of all non-violent prisoners of conscience Amnesty International |
| #862, aired 1988-05-10 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS $800: Since it began in 1961, this, the WWF, has helped stop or delay extinction of some 30 animal species World Wildlife Fund |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | TECHNOLOGY $200: In 1961, this company introduced a "type ball" in place of the bars on some of its typewriters IBM |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | BEST SELLERS $300: With her only novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird", she was only woman author on best seller list for 1961 Harper Lee |
| #843, aired 1988-04-13 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1961, part of this city's Stalinallee was renamed Karl-Marx-Allee East Berlin |
| #832, aired 1988-03-29 | MILITARY MEN $1000: An unsuccessful candidate for West Point, he was eventually named Air Force Chief of Staff in 1961 General Curtis LeMay |
| #831, aired 1988-03-28 | ARTISTS $200: In 1961 Georges Braque became the 1st living artist to have his works shown in this Paris museum the Louvre |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | SPACE & AVIATION $1000: Year during which the 1st man went into outer space 1961 |
| #815, aired 1988-03-04 | TELEVISION HISTORY $1000: Kennedy's FCC chairman who gave the famous "Vast Wasteland" speech in 1961 Newton Minow |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | ACADEMY AWARDS $400: In 1961, this winner of a 1934 miniature statuette presented Hayley Mills with one Shirley Temple |
| #794, aired 1988-02-04 | "B" MOVIES $400: Victor Herbert operetta that featured Laurel & Hardy in 1934, it was remade in 1961 Babes in Toyland |
| #789, aired 1988-01-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: His 16-minute flight on July 21, 1961 made him the 2nd American in space (Virgil "Gus") Grissom |
| #787, aired 1988-01-26 | BRITISH HISTORY $1000: At age 89, this philosopher-mathematician was jailed for his part in a 1961 anti-nuclear demonstration Bertrand Russell |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | TOUGH DISNEY $1000: Title character of this 1961 live-action hit was named Ned Brainard The Absent-Minded Professor |
| #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 |
| #725, aired 1987-10-30 | FAMOUS CANADIANS $300: In 1961, he was the singing M.C. of the Miss Canada pageant, but you won't hear him sing on "World News Tonight" Peter Jennings |
| #721, aired 1987-10-26 | "GOOD" $400: This ice cream company was bought by Lipton in 1961 Good Humor |
| #710, aired 1987-10-09 | KID STUFF $100: While Mattel denies she has a last name, USA Today says a 1961 book gave her one--Roberts Barbie |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | SOUTHERN AUTHORS $1000: Alabama-born Harper Lee won a 1961 Pulitzer Prize for this, her only published novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #629, aired 1987-05-07 | EXPLORERS $800: He went from 15 minutes in space in 1961 to walking on the moon in 1971 Alan Shepard |
| #623, aired 1987-04-29 | WHALES $300: Of 660, 6600 or 66,000, approximate # of whales killed in 1961-62 season 66,000 |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | RELIGION $600: In 1961. the Universalist church, which believes in the salvation of everyone, merged with this church Unitarians |
| #620, aired 1987-04-24 | NATIVE AMER. WOMEN $600: In 1961, Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson was the 1st Indian to be honored on a stamp by this country Canada |
| #618, aired 1987-04-22 | U.S. STATES $500: From 1961-1976, Alabama flew this flag above the U.S. flag on the State Capitol the Confederate flag (the Stars & Bars) |
| #606, aired 1987-04-06 | QUOTES $300: Lewis Mumford said in 1961, "Our national flower is" this type of highway interchange the cloverleaf |
| #599, aired 1987-03-26 | TOUGH DISNEY $1,000 (Daily Double): Some of the title characters in this 1961 cartoon feature watched 1932's "Flowers & Trees" on TV the One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| #590, aired 1987-03-13 | THE FAMILY JULES $600: Paul Mazursky's 1980 film "Willie & Phil" was based in part on this classic 1961 Truffaut film Jules and Jim |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA $800: In 1961, this youth-oriented work became 1st encyclopedia to be published in Braille The World Book |
| #579, aired 1987-02-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In April 1961, John F. Kennedy authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion of this country Cuba |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | PEOPLE $1000: A talk show host since Oct. 1, 1961, same day as Johnny Carson, he taped his last show Aug. 20, 1986 Merv Griffin |
| #526, aired 1986-12-15 | BOYS IN SONG $100: In 1961, Ray Charles told him to "Hit The Road" Jack |
| #524, aired 1986-12-11 | THE TONIGHT SHOW $400: In September of 1961, Jack Paar took a film crew to shoot this new German landmark Berlin Wall |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | THE JET SET $300: Russian dancer who leaped to freedom in France in 1961 & became a citizen of Austria in 1982 Nureyev |
| #510, aired 1986-11-21 | FAMOUS WALTERS $1000: In 1961 he ordered the building of the Berlin Wall Walter Ulbricht |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | TATTOOS $200: In 1961, NYC restricted tattooing to doctors because it can spread this liver disease hepatitis |
| #504, aired 1986-11-13 | 20th CENTURY $1000: 3 U.S. presidents attended this politician's Texas funeral November 18, 1961 (Mr. Sam) Rayburn |
| #488, aired 1986-10-22 | ANGELIC SONGS $400: In 1961, Curtis Lee described these as "Pretty Little" "Angel Eyes" |
| #486, aired 1986-10-20 | HISTORY $800: The day after Halloween 1961, his body was moved from public display & buried near the Kremlin Wall Stalin |
| #477, aired 1986-10-07 | U.S. HISTORY $300: In the 1st air hijacking in U.S., May 1, 1961, Antulio Ramirez forced a plane to go to this country Cuba |
| #471, aired 1986-09-29 | U.S.A. $300: From 1961 until it ended in 1975, this cost the U.S. about $28 million a day the Vietnam War |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | GOLDEN OLDIES $1000: 1961 Elvis Presley hit adapted from Italian song "Come Back To Sorrento" "Surrender" |
| #442, aired 1986-05-20 | POP MUSIC $800: In 1961, he told his jazz quartet to "Take Five" Dave Brubeck |
| #432, aired 1986-05-06 | WORLD HISTORY $800: U.N. Secretary-General killed in 1961 plane crash while dealing with Congo crisis Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #431, aired 1986-05-05 | VIRGINIA $1000: New city founded in 1961, 18 miles west of Washington, D.C., it's not "takin' it easy" Reston, Virginia |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | GAME SHOWS $200: In 1961, Bill Cullen hosted this, the last game show to hit the prime time top-10-of-the-year list The Price is Right |
