Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (1000 results returned) (search results maxed out)

#9065, aired 2024-03-22NONFICTION $1000: Published in 1962, it's Barbara Tuchman's acclaimed book detailing the first month of World War I The Guns of August
#9061, aired 2024-03-18HORRORS! $15,200 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with "by the pricking of my thumbs" Something Wicked This Way Comes
#9050, aired 2024-03-01THAT'S A LONG STORY $2000: A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published "The Golden Notebook", which runs to nearly 700 masterful pages Doris Lessing
#9032, aired 2024-02-06SOONER $400: Born in Tulsa in 1962, this country singer known for "The Dance" once tried his hand at baseball while already famous Garth Brooks
#9032, aired 2024-02-06FAMOUS PAIRS $800: This duo that figured out a double-stranded structure shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine with Maurice Wilkins Watson & Crick
#9028, aired 2024-01-31QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $600: In this 1962 film former child star Bette Davis lives in a crumbling Hollywood mansion with her invalid sister What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
#9023, aired 2024-01-24THE ERRORS TOUR $600: Thank you on behalf of this group, but the 15 songs they cut on Jan. 1, 1962 in London did not pass Decca Records' audition... D'oh! The Beatles
#9018, aired 2024-01-17U.S. STAMPS $200: Showing a wreath, a ribbon & 2 candles, the first USPS stamp celebrating this was controversial in 1962 for mixing church & state Christmas
#9012, aired 2024-01-09U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Before winning a Peace Prize in 1962, scientist & vitamin C advocate Linus Pauling won one in this category in 1954 chemistry
#9010, aired 2024-01-05BLACK HISTORY YEAR $800: At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight 1962
#9000, aired 2023-12-22CAROLS $400: Later to have a long-running TV variety show, she won her first Emmy in 1962 for work on "The Garry Moore Show" Carol Burnett
#8987, aired 2023-12-05ALMOST ASSASSINATED $1600: August 22, 1962 when his luxury Citroen was attacked near Paris Charles de Gaulle
#8977, aired 2023-11-21COMMUNICATION $2000: In 1962 NASA teamed with AT&T to create this, the first active communications satellite Telstar
#8969, aired 2023-11-09OPERATION $400: Breadbasket: Boycott of discriminatory businesses begun in 1962 by the SCLC, this the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
#8963, aired 2023-11-01RWANDA $1200: Rwanda & this neighboring nation were ruled by Belgium until 1962 Burundi
#8953, aired 2023-10-18IN CRISIS MODE $800: As part of this crisis, JFK announced a naval blockade Oct. 22, 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis
#8946, aired 2023-10-09I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE $2000: A classic logic puzzle from 1962 deals with the surnames of 3 train employees: the brakeman, the fireman & him the engineer
#8937, aired 2023-09-26NEXT STOP, VENUS $2,000 (Daily Double): We're not sure if it was "ancient" or not, but the first U.S. flyby of Venus was by this space probe in 1962 the Mariner (2)
#8933, aired 2023-09-20THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt
#8932, aired 2023-09-19PHRASES & IDIOMS $400: You don't have to be a Marvel hero to have this awareness of danger introduced in a 1962 comic book Spider-sense
#8931, aired 2023-09-18AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Many scientists came from the Nazi rocket program to get NASA off the ground, like Kurt Debus, the first director of this space center from 1962 to 1974 the Kennedy Space Center
#8923, aired 2023-07-26LONG MOVIES $1200: A 1962 review for this Best Picture winner called it a "camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly... into its third hour" Lawrence of Arabia
#8915, aired 2023-07-14DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $1200: Niels Bohr, quantum leaping in 1962 Copenhagen
#8902, aired 2023-06-27WAR FILMS $1,800 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 film starring John Wayne refers to June 6, 1944; clocking in at almost 3 hours, the title's accurate The Longest Day
#8898, aired 2023-06-21HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $800: In 1962 John Glenn commanded Friendship 7 in a historic flight that was part of this program the Mercury Program
#8879, aired 2023-05-25OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $1,000 (Daily Double): This man had the astronomical luck of being honored twice with a New York ticker tape parade, in 1962 & 1998 John Glenn
#8870, aired 2023-05-12A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $200: Her 1962 rendition of "Happy Birthday" included "Thanks, Mr. Pres., for all the things you've done, the battles that you've won" Marilyn Monroe
#8868, aired 2023-05-10WAY BACK IN THE 1900s $600: On Sept. 4, 1962 JFK warned the world--especially one part of the world--that no offensive weapons should be sent to this nation Cuba
#8867, aired 2023-05-09PEOPLE $200: In 1952, before Jonas Salk's vaccine for this became available, the number of U.S. cases surged to 57,000; by 1962, it was 910 polio
#8865, aired 2023-05-05QUICK PLANETS $600: It was the first planet explored by a spacecraft, 1962's Mariner 2 Venus
#8857, aired 2023-04-25WRITERS: BORN & DIED $800: From a southern family, his "Fable" began in 1897 & ended in 1962, both in Mississippi Faulkner
#8855, aired 2023-04-21A HARD BARGAIN $1000: In 1962 the Berlin Hilton bar was a headquarters for James B. Donovan in tough negotiations to get this American pilot released Gary Powers
#8854, aired 2023-04-20LITERARY FRUIT STAND $600: A vicious 15-year-old Droog is sent to a facility to be reformed in this 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange
#8841, aired 2023-04-03HORRORS! $600: This novelty song from 1962 contains the lyric "It was a graveyard smash" "The Monster Mash"
#12, aired 2023-01-26THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $1500: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) The Warriors came to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1962, bringing this superstar 7-footer who averaged an incredible 44.8 points per game in his 1st season by the Bay Wilt Chamberlain
#8791, aired 2023-01-23HEY... WHERE'D YA GO? $400: On June 12, 1962 folks at this island prison discovered John & Clarence Anglin & Frank Morris had checked out unexpectedly Alcatraz
#8791, aired 2023-01-23NOW THAT'S NOVEL $1600: In 1962, one month after publishing a novel about a trip from Mississippi to Memphis, he was dead of a heart attack William Faulkner
#11, aired 2023-01-19LANDMARKS $300: We'll point out this 605-foot landmark opened in 1962 for the World's Fair in Seattle & was built for a reasonable $4.5 million the Space Needle
#8782, aired 2023-01-10ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ $800: 1929: Bachelor's in bio from Penn. College for Women; 1962: published "Silent Spring", first serialized in the New Yorker (Rachel) Carson
#8768, aired 2022-12-21MACHINES $600: Not as famous as its chess-playing descendant, in 1962 an IBM 7094 beat a champion named Robert Nealey at this game checkers
#8754, aired 2022-12-01GEOGRAPHY $800: This continent-spanning road was officially opened at Rogers Pass, British Columbia in September 1962 the Trans-Canada Highway
#8748, aired 2022-11-23A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION $200: On Oct. 14, 1962 a ballistic missile was reported at a launch site in this island nation, triggering an international crisis Cuba
#5, aired 2022-10-23VARIETY $1000: In 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth; in 1998, he became the oldest person, at 77, to travel into space John Glenn
#8721, aired 2022-10-17TRYING TO GET SOME WORKS DONE $2000: "Child with Toy Hand Grenade" from 1962, a famous image by this woman who often photographed social outcasts (Diane) Arbus
#8697, aired 2022-09-131960s AMERICA $1000: In 1962 James Meredith became the first African-American student at this Southern university the University of Mississippi
#8667, aired 2022-06-21MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $2000: Ben Stiller cited this "international" thriller from 1962 as an inspiration for "Zoolander"; poor Derek is an assassination patsy The Manchurian Candidate
#8662, aired 2022-06-14COMMUNICATIONS $800: "Telstar", a 1962 instrumental hit, was named for a pioneering communications one of these a satellite
#8656, aired 2022-06-06D-DAY, THE 6th OF JUNE $3,200 (Daily Double): German Field Marshal Rommel predicted, "The first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive... it will be" this, the title of a 1962 film The Longest Day
#8644, aired 2022-05-19CONTAINERS $2,000 (Daily Double): 2 containers are in the name of this furniture store founded by Gordon & Carole Segal in 1962 Crate & Barrel
#8643, aired 2022-05-18SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $600: This musical gets its dance on in 1962 Baltimore Hairspray
#8615, aired 2022-04-08PULITZER-WINNING CHARACTERS $1000: Corporate bigwig J.B. Biggley & former window washer J. Pierrepont Finch (1962) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
#8604, aired 2022-03-2420th CENTURY FICTION $1200: His final novel, 1962's "Island", was about a different brave New World, a utopian society in the Pacific (Aldous) Huxley
#18, aired 2022-02-22A STATE CAPITOL IDEA $400: Rhode Island's Capitol has one of these last fired in 1863; until 1962 it was dangerously still loaded with gunpowder a cannon
#8572, aired 2022-02-08THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS $600: In 1962 Eduardo Mondlane led FRELIMO, the movement for this African nation (the "Mo")'s independence from Portugal Mozambique
#8558, aired 2022-01-19POTENT POTABLES $400: Ilchester is a cheese created in 1962 by adding this potent potable to Cheddar beer
#8558, aired 2022-01-19"BIG" TALK $1600: A 1962 article said JFK's Democratic Party was like one of these, "sheltering liberals and conservatives" a big tent
#8557, aired 2022-01-18NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY $400: Traffic is tricky on this bridge across the Hudson from Jersey to New York, so a lower deck with 6 more lanes was finished in 1962 the George Washington Bridge
#8553, aired 2022-01-12IRON MAN $400: From 1955 to 1962 Glenn Hall started an NHL record 502 consecutive games at this position, playing some of it on his knees goalkeeper
#8552, aired 2022-01-11JOHN F. KENNEDY $200: On Sept. 12, 1962, JFK said, "We choose to go" here; "It will be done. & It will be done before" the end of the decade the Moon
#8542, aired 2021-12-282-WORD BOOK TITLES $1600: Published in the U.S. in 1962, this William S. Burroughs "meal" was not easily digested by some Naked Lunch
#8524, aired 2021-12-02AIN'T THAT AMERICA $400: By 1962 this doc's injected vaccine helped reduce polio cases in the U.S. from more than 50,000 a year to fewer than 1,000 Salk
#8524, aired 2021-12-02AIN'T THAT AMERICA $800: Katherine Johnson was such a genius she made sure the computer was correct in planning the 1962 flight of Friendship 7 for this astronaut John Glenn
#8504, aired 2021-11-04RE-CHARTED $400: Come on, baby, & name this man seen here who had a No. 1 hit with "The Twist" in 1960 & again in 1962 Chubby Checker
#8504, aired 2021-11-04RE-CHARTED $800: Of course this novelty hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett was a hit for Halloween 1962, but why did it chart again in the summer of 1973? "Monster Mash"
#8496, aired 2021-10-25WHAT HAPPENED WHEN $800: Africa's largest country in area, it gained independence from France in 1962 after an 8-year-long revolution Algeria
#8490, aired 2021-10-15THE IMPASSABLE DREAM $800: In October 1962 the U.S. put a naval this, an 8-letter word meaning obstruction, around Cuba blockade
#8478, aired 2021-09-29I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1962 JFK nominated this first lady from an earlier administration for the Nobel Peace Prize Eleanor Roosevelt
#8473, aired 2021-09-22NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Sade Baderinwa.) As part of a New York City tradition that began in 1962, many movie stars, including James Earl Jones as Othello, & Meryl Streep in "Henry V", have interpreted the Bard as part of this project Shakespeare in the Park
#8462, aired 2021-08-10BOOKS FOR KIDS $400: This 1962 classic by Ezra Jack Keats has been praised for advancing multiculturalism The Snowy Day
#8459, aired 2021-08-05I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY $800: IMDb's summary of the 1958 to 1962 Hanna-Barbera show about this canine--"The adventures of a blue dog with a Southern accent" Huckleberry Hound
#8452, aired 2021-07-27SCIENCE FICTION $1200: A 1962 Brian Aldiss sci-fi work about a warming Earth isn't called "Greenhouse" but this similar structure hothouse
#8437, aired 2021-07-06RESISTING A REST $800: Machines making this "colorful" sound have been helping folks sleep since 1962, but mine isn't blocking out the jackhammers white noise
#8429, aired 2021-06-243-RING CIRCUS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York.) The three rings circling the 1964 Unisphere here in Queens represent the three famous orbits at the time--the Telstar satellite, Yuri Gagarin's flight & this American's February 1962 mission John Glenn
#8417, aired 2021-06-08WELCOME TO THE PARTY $400: In 1962 this future president said, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me" Ronald Reagan
#8401, aired 2021-05-17ACTUALLY, MONDAYS ARE PRETTY COOL $400: Shoppers in Rogers, Arkansas had a new option on July 2, 1962 as the first of these stores opened Walmart
#8363, aired 2021-03-24ABOUT THAT SONG $1000: Now considered a Christmas carol, the song "Do You Hear What I Hear" was written as a prayer for peace during this 1962 event Cuban Missile Crisis
#8354, aired 2021-03-11U.S. LANDMARKS $400: This Seattle landmark was topped by a gas-powered torch during the 1962 World's Fair the Space Needle
#8332, aired 2021-02-09NONFICTION $200: Milton Friedman's 1962 book titled this economic -ism "& Freedom" says that the first is tied to the second capitalism
#8324, aired 2021-01-28RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $1600: On Oct. 13, 1962 this Edward Albee play debuted on Broadway with Uta Hagen as Martha Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#8312, aired 2021-01-12NOTABLE WOMEN $800: Dolores Huerta co-founded this migrant laborers association in 1962 & served as its vice president for nearly 4 decades the United Farm Workers
#8294, aired 2020-12-03KEEPING IT 100 $600: This NBA center's 1962 scoring record of 100 points in a single game still stands today Wilt Chamberlain
#8285, aired 2020-11-205-LETTER WORDS $1200: Bike shorts are often made of this 5-letter fabric that DuPont began marketing in 1962 Lycra
#8261, aired 2020-10-19FIRST LADIES $400: She won a 1962 Emmy for "A Tour of the White House" Jackie Kennedy
#8257, aired 2020-10-13WOMEN IN LITERATURE $600: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who & Mrs. Which help Meg Murry & her brother in this 1962 novel by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time
#8244, aired 2020-09-24FAREWELL ADDRESSES $1200: She made her exit in 1962 after an overdose of sleeping pills at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles Marilyn Monroe
#8243, aired 2020-09-23JOURNALISTS $1200: From 1962 to 1981 he ended CBS Evening News broadcasts with the signoff "And that's the way it is" Cronkite
#8241, aired 2020-09-21AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Oct. 22, 1962 JFK announced a naval blockade of this country due to Soviet missiles being discovered there Cuba
#8220, aired 2020-05-22I'D RATHER HAVE $800: I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone Lawrence of Arabia
#8216, aired 2020-05-18ROCK BANNED $400: 1962: Buffalo, N.Y.'s archdiocese bans Catholic school students from dancing to this Chubby Checker hit "The Twist"
#8200, aired 2020-04-10"SPRING" BREAK $600: Biologist Rachel Carson wrote this 1962 environmental classic warning of the dangers of pesticides Silent Spring
#8142, aired 2020-01-21CHECK OUT THE CRITTER $200: Get me pictures of the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama, a lizard that looks like this Marvel superhero created in 1962 Spider-Man
#8123, aired 2019-12-25FACE THE AUTHOR $6,000 (Daily Double): This author based a 1962 novel on personal experience working in a hospital's psychiatric ward Ken Kesey
#8121, aired 2019-12-23CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS $400: In a 1962 game he had 25 rebounds to go along with 100 points Wilt Chamberlain
#8099, aired 2019-11-21NICKNAMES FROM TONY STARK $800: Tony refers to amnesiac assassin the Winter Soldier by the title of this 1962 Frank Sinatra thriller The Manchurian Candidate
#8080, aired 2019-10-25LET'S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB $200: Now on public display in Ohio, an aircraft popularly known by this name was used by JFK starting in 1962 Air Force One
#8078, aired 2019-10-23DOWN IN AFRICA $600: This north African country belonged to France for about 130 years, until 1962 Algeria
#8071, aired 2019-10-14AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $800: This "Chicago" poet was Illinois' poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967 Carl Sandburg
#8068, aired 2019-10-09A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 & 100 $800: This gasoline brand introduced its iconic orange ball in 1962 76
#8042, aired 2019-07-23GRAMMY FOR SONG OF THE YEAR $2000: In 1962 the Grammys honored the tune heard here & this man who composed it (Henry) Mancini
#8032, aired 2019-07-0965" $800: In a 1962 biopic 6'2" Peter O'Toole portrayed this 5'5" man whose height may have been stunted by mumps in childhood Lawrence of Arabia
#8012, aired 2019-06-11I'M ON THE MONEY $800: It's a scientific fact--this physicist, who died in 1962, was on a Danish note Niels Bohr
#7954, aired 2019-03-21THE SPORTING "NEW"s $400: In 1962 this MLB team lost an amazing 120 games the New York Mets
#7938, aired 2019-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $1600: Maidie Norman, the maid who got offed by Bette Davis in this 1962 film, rewrote her lines so they wouldn't sound so stereotypical What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
#7929, aired 2019-02-14KIND-OF-PERSON MAGAZINE $1600: A 1962 conversation Alex Haley had with Miles Davis became the first of this magazine's famous interviews Playboy
#7919, aired 2019-01-31BIO PICKED $1200: This 1962 film, based on a Broadway play, is about the woman seen here The Miracle Worker
#7910, aired 2019-01-18AFRICAN CAPITALS $800: Upon the independence of this nation in 1962, Kampala replaced Entebbe as its capital Uganda
#7909, aired 2019-01-17OF ALCATRAZ $1200: In a 1962 film, this actor played prisoner Robert Stroud, the famous birdman of Alcatraz Burt Lancaster
#7892, aired 2018-12-25YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I GOT! $1200: This U.S. military medal; since 1962, civilians who've sustained a wound are eligible for it too Purple Heart
#7890, aired 2018-12-21SENATORS WITH STAMINA $400: From 1962 to 2009 this Democrat with a good name for politics served Massachusetts Ted Kennedy
#7890, aired 2018-12-21FREE AT LAST $4,000 (Daily Double): 1962, after more than a century of struggle against European colonizers: this north African country Algeria
#7887, aired 2018-12-18AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Nicknamed the "Receiver", the Piasecki PV-14 saved hundreds of lives in search & rescue operations, and in 1962, one lifted this Friendship 7 pilot from his pickup ship to a waiting aircraft carrier John Glenn
#7880, aired 2018-12-07DAY ONE $800: A New York City art show that opened October 31, 1962 is credited with introducing the world to this style shown here pop art
#7868, aired 2018-11-21MUSIC OF YESTERDAY & TODAY $2000: This 1962 Tony Bennett classic was publicly crooned for the first time in the Fairmont Hotel "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
#7834, aired 2018-10-04AUTHORS BORN & DIED $600: Born in Denmark in 1885, she went into Africa in 1914 & out of this world Sept. 7, 1962 (Isak) Dinesen
#7833, aired 2018-10-03THE COLD WAR $1200: The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was resolved when this Russian leader blinked in his face-off with the USA Khrushchev
#7827, aired 2018-09-25FUN WITH TEAM NAMES $200: The 1962 groundbreaking ceremony for this Houston venue included guns, as the team was then the Colt .45s the Astrodome
#7811, aired 2018-07-23DIRECTOR CAMEOS $400: David Lean appears as a motorcyclist at the Suez Canal in this 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia
#7807, aired 2018-07-17CITING PRECEDENT $400: A 1962 case said a nonsectarian prayer read in school violated the Establishment Clause of this amendment the First Amendment
#7807, aired 2018-07-17A LIGHT CATEGORY $800: L.E.D.s, light-emitting these, were invented in 1962 but it took decades for them to come into wide use diodes
#7798, aired 2018-07-04AT THE MOVIES $2000: The queen of diamonds is a trigger for brainwashed sleeper agent Raymond Shaw in this 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate
#7777, aired 2018-06-05PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $1000: There are 8 words in the title of this Frank Loesser musical that won in 1962 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
#7775, aired 2018-06-01SPY STUFF $1600: On Feb. 10, 1962 convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel was exchanged for Frederic Pryor & this captured U-2 pilot Gary Powers
#7738, aired 2018-04-11TIME FOR CLASS $600: Art history: The soup cans by this artist were huge in 1962 but his wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes got ink, too Andy Warhol
#7738, aired 2018-04-11FIRST LADIES $1000: This First Lady's final acting role was in "The Sam Darland Story", a 1962 episode of the TV series "Wagon Train" Nancy Reagan
#7730, aired 2018-03-30HISTORIC FILL IN THE QUOTE $1000: At a 1962 press conference: "You won't have ____ to kick around anymore" Nixon
#7727, aired 2018-03-27ON WITH THE SHOW $800: On Oct. 24, 1962 it was showtime at the Apollo for this "Godfather of Soul" when he taped a live album James Brown
#7721, aired 2018-03-19WASHINGTON STATE HISTORY $400: The postmark for letters & postcards for the Seattle World's Fair in 1962 featured this landmark the Space Needle
#7705, aired 2018-02-23ROUGH WATERS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of San Francisco Bay on the monitor.) San Francisco Bay, with its strong currents & frigid water, was probably too much for three inmates who escaped this prison in June 1962 in a homemade raft Alcatraz
#7697, aired 2018-02-13JAY LENO'S GARAGE $200: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) First produced in 1955, the Citroen DS remains to this day the most innovative car ever designed... in 1962 it saved the life of this French president when its hydropneumatic suspension kept his car under control at 70 MPH when assassins shot out a tire Charles de Gaulle
#7689, aired 2018-02-01INTRODUCTION TO FILM $200: 1962: "Introducing Peter O'Toole" Lawrence of Arabia
#7687, aired 2018-01-30LOGO A-GOGO $400: Its red & white bullseye logo was born in 1962 along with this retailer's brand name Target
#7677, aired 2018-01-16THE BRITISH INVASION $600: On January 24, 1962 The Beatles signed a contract making this man their manager (Brian) Epstein
#7672, aired 2018-01-09WHAT "A" COUNTRY? $400: It became independent of France in 1962 Algeria
#7658, aired 2017-12-20FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $1200: Olaf the Snowman confessed he found this 1962 David Lean epic "hard to watch" Lawrence of Arabia
#7618, aired 2017-10-25NEEDLES $1200: Seattle's monorail was built to bring visitors to this landmark in 1962 the Space Needle
#7612, aired 2017-10-17A NOVEL IDEA $800: Pendleton Work Farm & an "institute of psychology" are settings in this 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#7606, aired 2017-10-09BOND BOMBSHELLS $400: In 1962 Ursula Andress was in a state of relative undress in the film about this title physician Dr. No
#7601, aired 2017-10-02HISPANIC AMERICANS $400: In 1962 this man co-founded the Natl. Farm Workers Assoc. to help workers earn more than sub-poverty-level wages Cesar Chavez
#7590, aired 2017-09-15GOVERNMENT FOLKS WITH 2 FIRST NAMES? $800 (Daily Double): After becoming the literal man who fell to Earth in 1962, he rose to serve Ohio in the Senate from 1974 to 1999 John Glenn
#7559, aired 2017-06-22QUESTIONING MOVIE TITLES $600: From 1962, "What Ever Happened to ____ ____?" Baby Jane
#7548, aired 2017-06-07THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.) On March 2, 1962, five Philadelphia Warriors combined to score 69 points; the sixth, this man, who wore this jersey that night, added another 100 Wilt Chamberlain
#7545, aired 2017-06-02CANDIDATE $1600: In 1962's "The Manchurian Candidate", this singer/actor tries to prevent a political assassination (Frank) Sinatra
#7544, aired 2017-06-01THIS IS 40 $200: At 40 in 1962 he decided once wasn't enough & decided to orbit the Earth a second & third time John Glenn
#7541, aired 2017-05-29THE CLASSICS $1000: Hopefully, he was content with "The Winter of Our Discontent"--it helped him win a 1962 Nobel Prize John Steinbeck
#7521, aired 2017-05-01AFRICAN HISTORY $400: The war for the independence of this nation from France lasted from 1954 to 1962 Algeria
#7515, aired 2017-04-21IT'S ALL SAM-ANTICS $800: In 1962 with his brother James, he opened the first of his discount stores in Rogers, Arkansas Sam Walton
#7500, aired 2017-03-31SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $200: Patty Duke as her in 1962's "The Miracle Worker" Helen Keller
#7490, aired 2017-03-17"I" TUNES $200: In 1962 Tony Bennett hit the Top 40 with this tune; he's sung it a few times since "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
#7481, aired 2017-03-06THE SUPREME COURT $1200: In the 1962 case Engel v. Vitale, the Supreme Court banned sponsored this in public schools sponsored prayer (or religion)
#7452, aired 2017-01-24A CAMEO APPEARANCE $800: Robert Mitchum, who co-starred as an ex-con in this 1962 film, had a cameo in its 1991 remake Cape Fear
#7451, aired 2017-01-23FROM CHUMPS TO CHAMPS $400: From 1962 to 1968, they never finished higher than 9th; in 1969, amazingly, they won the World Series the New York Mets
#7430, aired 2016-12-23PIECE $1200: In 1962 the IV version of this Soviet satellite burned up on re-entry--except a hunk that crashed in Manitowoc, Wisc. Sputnik
#7428, aired 2016-12-213-WORD BOOK SUMMARY $1200: 1962: Alex. Droogs. Nasty A Clockwork Orange
#7426, aired 2016-12-19TONY BENNETT $600: (Tony Bennett gives the clue.) On October 1, 1962 I joined Joan Crawford & Mel Brooks as the guests on this man's very first night as the host of the "Tonight" show Johnny Carson
#7418, aired 2016-12-07OPERATION $600: Breadbasket: boycott of discriminatory businesses begun in 1962 by the SCLC, this the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
#7416, aired 2016-12-05THE SPACE RACE $400: On Sept. 12, 1962 he proclaimed, "We shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away...a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall John F. Kennedy
#7403, aired 2016-11-16SCI-FI NOVELS $1,400 (Daily Double): Meg & Charles Murry travel the universe with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who & Mrs. Which in this 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time
#7401, aired 2016-11-14RUSSIAN HISTORY $400: Nikita Khrushchev was premier during the 1962 crisis over missiles in this country very near the United States Cuba
#7386, aired 2016-10-24VEEP $400: In 1962, astronaut John Glenn & his wife went for a ride with this vice president LBJ
#7376, aired 2016-10-10OBVIOUS BROADWAY $400: "My Boyfriend's Back" is one of the songs in this show that begins in New Jersey in 1962 Jersey Boys
#7366, aired 2016-09-26SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS $200: Do be careful, 007! Sean's first movie adventure as James Bond pitted him against this "physician" in 1962 Dr. No
#7364, aired 2016-09-22STARS & CAUSES $1000: In 1962 this entertainer founded St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Danny) Thomas
#7346, aired 2016-07-18FASHION $800: From 1962 to 1971 Diana Vreeland was this magazine's influential editor-in-chief Vogue
#7343, aired 2016-07-13BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES $400: As an actress, one of her last roles was in a 1962 episode of "Wagon Train" Nancy Reagan
#7341, aired 2016-07-11NO. 2 ON THE CHARTS $400: Nat King Cole's "Ramblin' Rose" reached No. 2 in 1962 & this group's "Ramblin Man" just missed the top spot in 1973 the Allman Brothers
#7335, aired 2016-07-01SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS $800: In 1962, after 70 years in Carnegie Hall, this orchestra moved to its new home in Lincoln Center the New York Philharmonic
#7326, aired 2016-06-20THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $400: No. 1: C'mon baby, let's do this Chubby Checker dance sensation that topped the chart in both 1960 & 1962 "The Twist"
#7323, aired 2016-06-15BESTSELLING BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Skeeter, Hilly & Aibileen are all characters in this Kathryn Stockett novel set in 1962 Mississippi The Help
#7320, aired 2016-06-10AWARDS $600: In 1962 Don Drysdale won the Cy Young Award; the next year it was this Dodgers teammate Sandy Koufax
#7317, aired 2016-06-07THEATRE TO THEATER $2000: A rough night at George & Martha's, this 1962 Broadway drama went 2-dimensional in '66 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#7316, aired 2016-06-06AIRCRAFT FOR THE AGES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the USS Intrepid in New York.) The speedy Vought Crusader served as both a fighter & reconnaissance plane; in 1962, the Crusaders flew at treetop level over this country to take crucial photos of Soviet missile installations Cuba
#7299, aired 2016-05-12NONFICTION $1200: This book by Rachel Carson was first published in 1962 as 3 serialized articles in the New Yorker Silent Spring
#7241, aired 2016-02-22LABOR $800: In 1962 Delores Huetra joined with him to create a farm worker's labor union Cesar Chavez
#7239, aired 2016-02-18ARCHIE: 75 YEARS $600: In 1962 Archie comics introduced this teenage witch who sometimes helps Archie & the gang with their problems Sabrina
#7223, aired 2016-01-27POP MUSIC $1600: This singer-songwriter reached the Top 10 twice with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", in 1962 & 1976 Neil Sedaka
#7216, aired 2016-01-18WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED $1000: He got 2 ticker-tape parades in NYC's Canyon of Heroes: one in 1962 & the other in 1998, after a 2nd trip to space John Glenn
#7211, aired 2016-01-11NOTORIOUS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1962 film made convicted murderer-turned-ornithologist Robert Stroud a household name Birdman of Alcatraz
#7203, aired 2015-12-30AVIATION $1,000 (Daily Double): The National Aviation Hall of Fame was founded in 1962 in this city, the "Birthplace of Aviation" Dayton, Ohio
#7176, aired 2015-11-23WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $800: This 1962 book warned that "chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil" Silent Spring
#7176, aired 2015-11-23BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 1962 the 5-mile-long Gen. Rafael Urdaneta Bridge was completed spanning the outlet of this Venezuelan lake Lake Maracaibo
#7158, aired 2015-10-28THE U.S. MARINE CORPS $2000: In 1962 he became the first Marine to orbit the Earth John Glenn
#7154, aired 2015-10-22AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The U.S. & the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war during this in October 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis
#7152, aired 2015-10-20FIRST LADIES $200: (Hi, I'm Bellamy Young, and I play First Lady Mellie Grant on Scandal.) In 1962 millions of Americans tuned in as this First Lady took viewers on a televised "Tour of the White House" Jackie Kennedy
#7147, aired 2015-10-13HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II $800: In 1962 Peter Fechter's pleas for aid went unanswered after he was shot while trying to climb over this the Berlin Wall
#7141, aired 2015-10-05NAME THAT BASEBALL STAT, STAT! $600: New York Mets, 1962: 120 these losses
#7136, aired 2015-09-28PLAYING POLITICS $800: This Northeastern man was 30, the minimum age for a U.S. senator, when he ran in 1962; he stuck around 47 years Ted Kennedy
#7125, aired 2015-07-312nd PERSON, ACTIVE $400: You are in prison from 1962 to 1990; 4 years after getting out, you lead your country Nelson Mandela
#7123, aired 2015-07-29INDEPENDENCE DAYS $800: After 7 1/2 years of fighting, this North African country gained its independence from France on July 5, 1962 Algeria
#7117, aired 2015-07-21I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE $800: A classic logic puzzle from 1962 deals with the surnames of 3 train employees: the brakeman, the fireman & him the engineer
#7112, aired 2015-07-14LET IT SNOW $1000: This state's 24-hour record for snowfall is 40 inches in Orono on Dec. 30, 1962 Maine
#7105, aired 2015-07-03CAR TUNES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a convertible with Sarah in the driver's seat at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Natalie Cole's hit song about a classic automobile, like the 1962 model we're in, was written by this New Jersey man who had a few hits of his own Bruce Springsteen
#7104, aired 2015-07-02U.S. MARSHALS $2000: In 1962 and 1963, Marshals gave round-the-clock protection to this University of Mississippi student James Meredith
#7099, aired 2015-06-25THE WORKING DEAD $200: Surprisingly busy since her 1962 death, she had a good financial report in 2014: $17 million Marilyn Monroe
#7096, aired 2015-06-22PLAY INTO FILM $3,000 (Daily Double): Patty Duke & Anne Bancroft re-created their stage roles to make this 1962 film The Miracle Worker
#7083, aired 2015-06-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $400: In 1962 James Brown recorded a live album in this NYC theater opened in 1914 the Apollo
#7080, aired 2015-05-29EX-MEMBERS OF THE BAND $800: From 1960 to 1962 he provided the backbeat for the Beatles but in their eyes, didn't live up to his last name Pete Best
#7077, aired 2015-05-261960s QUOTATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1962 she wrote, "As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life" (Rachel) Carson
#7065, aired 2015-05-08A. MILLER'S TALES $2000: "After the Fall" is set at this airport in 1962, before it was renamed for JFK Idlewild
#7064, aired 2015-05-07RWANDA $2,000 (Daily Double): Rwanda got its independence from this small European country in 1962 Belgium
#7047, aired 2015-04-14SPEECH! SPEECH! $600: On Sept. 12, 1962 JFK said America would achieve this within the decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard a Moon landing
#7036, aired 2015-03-30PRISON ESCAPES $400: In June 1962 Frank Lee Morris & the Anglin brothers floated on makeshift rafts away from this prison Alcatraz
#7030, aired 2015-03-20GOOD "EVENING" $1200: Walter Cronkite became its anchor in 1962 the CBS Evening News
#7024, aired 2015-03-12INTERIOR DESIGN $1200: This home furnishings chain founded in 1962 "imports" more than 70% of its merchandise from China & India Pier 1
#6999, aired 2015-02-0520th CENTURY EUROPE $1200: After this North African nation was given independence in 1962, some army officers accused de Gaulle of betraying France Algeria
#6991, aired 2015-01-26HOSPITALS $800: Since this pediatric hospital opened in Memphis in 1962, childhood cancer survival rates have improved from 20% to 80% St. Jude's
#6985, aired 2015-01-16COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1600: "Western" was attached to the name of this Pacific island nation when it gained independence in 1962 Samoa
#6965, aired 2014-12-19POINTS! $400: NBAer Al Attles joked about the night in 1962 that this man "& I combined for 117 points"; Al did score a solid 17 Wilt Chamberlain
#6945, aired 2014-11-21McWRITERS $7,000 (Daily Double): In 1962 Marshall McLuhan wrote "Electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global" this (a global) village
#6943, aired 2014-11-19A MASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ATTITUDE $800: Amid the threat of nuclear war, a U.S. invasion of this island was planned for October 1962 but never happened Cuba
#6926, aired 2014-10-27LAST COMPLETE NOVEL $2000: "The Reivers" (1962) William Faulkner
#6909, aired 2014-10-02AUTHORS $2000: "Pale Fire", a reference to moonlight in "Timon of Athens", is the title of a 1962 novel by this Russian-born man Vladimir Nabokov
#6908, aired 2014-10-01MERE MEREDITHS $1000: In 1962 he became the first black student at the University of Mississippi James Meredith
#6896, aired 2014-09-15THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY $1000: Before her death in 1962, Eleanor made a final visit to the old family summer home on this Canadian island Campobello
#6872, aired 2014-07-01CANYUCKS $400: This cable repairman/pet detective/grinch was born in Newmarket, Ontario in 1962 Jim Carrey
#6861, aired 2014-06-16NOOSE MEN $1600: His May 31, 1962 execution in Ramleh, Israel is the only time that Israel has carried out a death sentence Adolf Eichmann
#6844, aired 2014-05-22AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On July 10, 1962 this satellite was placed in orbit & soon began relaying TV pictures between the U.S. & Europe Telstar
#6840, aired 2014-05-16OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: 1962: The title theme from "Days Of Wine And Roses" by Johnny Mercer & him Henry Mancini
#6834, aired 2014-05-08MOVIES BY ONE-WORD QUOTE $600: 1962: "Aqaba!" Lawrence of Arabia
#6828, aired 2014-04-30BETWEEN $800: For the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine, his name comes between that of co-winners Francis Crick & Maurice Wilkins (James) Watson
#6815, aired 2014-04-11BACK TO BASEBALL $200: The 1962 "Lovable Losers" expansion team became the "Miracle" these by decade's end the Mets
#6801, aired 2014-03-24AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In 2009 his 1962 painting "200 One Dollar Bills" sold for a lot more than that; it fetched $43.8 million Andy Warhol
#6800, aired 2014-03-21SPORTS SUPERSTARS $1200: 36 points is a great night, but in a March 1962 NBA game he had 36 baskets from the field Wilt Chamberlain
#6794, aired 2014-03-13FILMED IN HAWAII $1200: Locations for this star's 1962 flick "Girls! Girls! Girls!" included the Bumble Bee tuna plant near Waikiki Beach Elvis Presley
#6790, aired 2014-03-07THE 2-DOORS $600: This sporty Triumph convertible that debuted in 1962 shares its name with a classic British fighter plane a Spitfire
#6788, aired 2014-03-05CARSON, DAILY $600: Johnny's "Tonight Show" debuted on Oct. 1, 1962; guests included Groucho & this "Mildred Pierce" actress Joan Crawford
#6782, aired 2014-02-25HISTORIC CARS $6,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us another car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) Inspired by the '56 Packard, the 1962 Chaika was a favorite of Nikita Khrushchev, who owned one himself & gave one as a present to this first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
#6757, aired 2014-01-21HISTORY $2000: In 1962 FRELIMO, the front for the liberation of this African country, began its war for independence Mozambique
#6754, aired 2014-01-16SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES $2000: 1962's "La Jetee", about a man sent back in time to avert apocalypse, was remade as this numeric Bruce Willis film 12 Monkeys
#6723, aired 2013-12-04BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1600: 1962: "'What's it going to be then, eh?' There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs" A Clockwork Orange
#6714, aired 2013-11-21ALL ABOUT ALGERIA $600: Ruled by this country for more than 100 years, Algeria finally won independence in 1962 France
#6711, aired 2013-11-18AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $400: An analyst said, "We've never seen this before", as Kennedy dealt with the situation in this country in October of 1962 Cuba
#6708, aired 2013-11-13U.S. LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): This landmark's SkyCity restaurant has been serving its Lunar Orbiter ice cream sundae since the 1962 World's Fair the Seattle Space Needle
#6705, aired 2013-11-08THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $1000: 1962: Atticus! Atticus! (Finch) Gregory Peck
#6695, aired 2013-10-251960s NEWSMAKERS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a globe on a monitor.) His February 20, 1962 trip, launching in Florida, orbiting the Earth 3 times at 17,000 miles per hour & splashing down in the Atlantic, made this man from Ohio a national hero John Glenn
#6694, aired 2013-10-24"P"OETS $800: She wrote most of the poems in her collection "Ariel" in the winter of 1962 after Ted Hughes left (Sylvia) Plath
#6641, aired 2013-07-01VERTICAL LANDMARKS $200: This 605-foot Seattle landmark opened on the first day of the 1962 World's Fair the Space Needle
#6627, aired 2013-06-11THE MONROE DOCTRINE $2000: The Monroe doctrine was invoked during this October 1962 incident the Cuban missile crisis
#6603, aired 2013-05-08YES, THEY WILL $600: This actress who died in 1962 left her personal effects to her mentor Lee Strasberg Marilyn Monroe
#6598, aired 2013-05-01THE ROOSEVELTS $800: From 1935 to 1962, 6 days a week, this member of the clan wrote the newspaper column "My Day" Eleanor
#6574, aired 2013-03-28THE WRITE OF SPRING $1200: It's the title of Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 work warning of the dangers of pesticide use Silent Spring
#6570, aired 2013-03-22IT WAS THE '60s $2000: Future Pope John Paul II was part of this 1962-65 council & helped draft its constitution on the church & the modern world Vatican II
#6560, aired 2013-03-08PINS & NEEDLES $800: The NASA lapel pin for his February 1962 Mercury flight depicts his capsule making 3 orbits of Earth John Glenn
#6529, aired 2013-01-24AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $800: His volunteering to take mind-altering drugs as a test subject at a hospital led to a 1962 novel, his best-known work Ken Kesey
#6529, aired 2013-01-24"L" CAN EAT $1000: Make sure you have plenty of schmear to go with this brand of bagels that went frozen in 1962 Lender's
#6474, aired 2012-11-0850 YEARS OF JAMES BOND FILMS $200: The franchise started in 1962 with James Bond facing off against this title villain Dr. No
#6468, aired 2012-10-31BASEBALL TIMELINE $1000: In 1962 this ex-Yankee manager known as the "Old Perfessor" became the first manager of the N.Y. Mets Casey Stengel
#6463, aired 2012-10-24TV THEME SONG HITS $200: 1962: "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" from this show The Beverly Hillbillies
#6458, aired 2012-10-17THE BEATLES: THE EARLY YEARS $400: In 1962, when this original drummer was replaced, fans chanted "Ringo never, Pete forever" Pete Best
#6458, aired 2012-10-17THE BEATLES: THE EARLY YEARS $1000: This man, who died in 1962, left the group to go to art college, which was just as well, as Paul wanted to move to bass Stu Sutcliffe
#6450, aired 2012-10-0550th ANNIVERSARIES IN MUSIC $200: The Rolling Stones formed in 1962, when this lead vocalist was a lad of 18 Mick Jagger
#6450, aired 2012-10-0550th ANNIVERSARIES IN MUSIC $600: On May 18, 1962 she took the mic to sing a solo "Happy Birthday" to JFK at Madison Square Garden Marilyn Monroe
#6446, aired 2012-10-01THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON $400: Johnny started his 30-year run as host on Oct. 1, 1962 with this "You Bet Your Life" comedian introducing him Groucho Marx
#6439, aired 2012-09-20BASEBALL STADIUMS $600: From 1962 through 1965, 2 California MLB teams shared this facility Dodger Stadium
#6423, aired 2012-07-18IT'S AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $2000: The U-2 incident; incidentally, U2's Bono is born 1960
#6406, aired 2012-06-25SINGERS' SONGS FROM THE HEART $200: "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" (1962) Tony Bennett
#6401, aired 2012-06-18A HARRISON FORD FIESTA $1000: Ford began his collaboration with George Lucas when he appeared as a hot rodder in this cruising film set in 1962 American Grafitti
#6400, aired 2012-06-1520th CENTURY WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1962 until his death in 1967, he was Poet Laureate of Illinois Carl Sandburg
#6396, aired 2012-06-11SEE-ATTLE $200: A real high point of Seattle is this 1962 landmark where you can enjoy a meal along with a 360-degree view of the city the Space Needle
#6393, aired 2012-06-06BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $800: Born September 1897 in Mississippi, was in Byhalia, Mississippi July 6, 1962 as he lay dying Faulkner
#6387, aired 2012-05-29COMIC BOOKS $600: The 1962 cover of the first issue of this irradiated guy asked, "Is he man or monster or... is he both?" the Hulk
#6384, aired 2012-05-2450 YEARS AGO--1962 $400: On February 20, after 10 previous delays, he became the first American to orbit the earth John Glenn
#6384, aired 2012-05-2450 YEARS AGO--1962 $800: Month in 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the U.S. & the Soviet Union to the brink of war October
#6384, aired 2012-05-2450 YEARS AGO--1962 $1200: We've had enough Shakespeare for one game; in 1962 this playwright's festival began at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario George Bernard Shaw
#6384, aired 2012-05-2450 YEARS AGO--1962 $1600: Passing away at 78 she was laid to rest beside her husband at Hyde Park Eleanor Roosevelt
#6384, aired 2012-05-2450 YEARS AGO--1962 $2000: Katherine Anne Porter sailed up the bestsellers list with this top novel of 1962 Ship of Fools
#6383, aired 2012-05-23COMPANY NAMES $400: Not H&J but this record company was founded in 1962 by Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss A&M
#6378, aired 2012-05-16POLITICAL CINEMA $400: "Thirteen Days", starring Kevin Costner, was based on the events surrounding this 1962 crisis the Cuban Missile Crisis
#6365, aired 2012-04-27NOVELTY SONG LYRICS $1200: 1962: "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight" "The Monster Mash"
#6361, aired 2012-04-23"HOW TO" ENTERTAIN $400: This musical won 7 Tonys as well as the 1962 Pulitzer for Drama How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
#6344, aired 2012-03-29THE FIRST EPISODE $200: 1962: "The Clampetts Strike Oil" The Beverly Hillbillies
#6341, aired 2012-03-26AMBASSADORS $2000: Anatoly Dobrynin held this job from 1962 to 1986, & knew how to get along with all kinds of people Russian Ambassador to the United States
#6325, aired 2012-03-02MEMPHIS $600: Addressing Memphis sanitation workers on April 3, 1962, he said he'd "seen the promised land" Martin Luther King, Jr.
#6316, aired 2012-02-20INDEPENDENCE DAYS $1200: Jamaica, August 6, 1962, from this country the Great Britain
#6300, aired 2012-01-27LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $400: Casey Stengel led this "Amazin'" 1962 team to a 40-120 record, 60.5 games back, but they were first in errors the Amazin' Mets
#6281, aired 2012-01-02JFK's CAMELOT $1600: JFK sent 3,000 troops to restore order after black student James Meredith attended this school in 1962 Mississippi
#6281, aired 2012-01-02JFK's CAMELOT $2000: In October 1962 this U.N. ambassador said he'd wait "until hell freezes over" for a Soviet reply to photos taken over Cuba Adlai Stevenson
#6264, aired 2011-12-08SCHOOLS OF THE HEISMEN $1000: 1962: Terry Beaver--er, Baker--of this Pacific Northwest university Oregon State
#6264, aired 2011-12-08ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A "nonexistent domain" error on a failed e-mail is kind of the new version of this 1962 Elvis song "Return To Sender"
#6263, aired 2011-12-07TIME FOR A CHANGE $400: In 1962 former pres. Eisenhower remarked that this dance craze represented "some kind of change in our standards" the twist
#6263, aired 2011-12-07I'M ON STRIKE $800: An early battle for this union formed in 1962 was when grape pickers went on strike for the minimum wage United Farm Workers
#6254, aired 2011-11-24HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA.) The Harvard Museum has part of the famous Zagami meteorite, which fell to the Earth in Nigeria in 1962; gases trapped inside match those found by Viking spacecraft, confirming the rock's distant origin on this planet Mars
#6252, aired 2011-11-22IS A DANGEROUS THING $800: In the Andes Mountains of Peru in January 1962, one of these destroyed 6 villages an avalanche
#6243, aired 2011-11-09BOND MOVIE BY BOND GIRL $200: 1962: Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder Dr. No
#6217, aired 2011-10-04THE STAN LEE CUP $200: He crawled out of Stan's head for "Amazing Fantasy" in 1962 before "spinning" off into his own comic book Spider-Man
#6193, aired 2011-07-13"EVER"S $1200: The answer to this title question of 1962: she cares for her crippled sister Blanche Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
#6182, aired 2011-06-28LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1000: Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with these 2 guys for determining the structure of DNA Watson & Crick
#6176, aired 2011-06-20NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $400: It was a military prison for over 70 years & a federal prison for less than 30, from 1934 to 1962 Alcatraz
#6151, aired 2011-05-16SHIP NAMES $1000: A white concrete & steel structure spans the hull of this sunken battleship, a national memorial since 1962 the Arizona
#6132, aired 2011-04-19FROM U.S. TO USSR $200: In 1962 this clarinetist decided to swing over to the Soviet Union & record a few concerts there Benny Goodman
#6131, aired 2011-04-18REAL HISTORICAL HOUSEWIVES OF D.C. $200: In February 1962 millions of Americans tuned in to watch her TV "Tour of the White House" (Jackie) Kennedy
#6114, aired 2011-03-24A 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 2011-03-22A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $800: "Mr. Negative Goes to Med School"--to this 1962 adventure Dr. No
#6108, aired 2011-03-16LET'S KICK SOME NIXON AROUND $800: "You don't have Nixon to kick around any more", Richard Nixon said after losing a 1962 race for this office governor of California
#6081, aired 2011-02-07LITTLE PEOPLE $2000: She hit No. 1 with "The Loco-Motion" in 1962 Little Eva
#6077, aired 2011-02-01AKA $400: A 1962 "first name" promotion gave this bald advertising icon a first name--Veritably Mr. Clean
#6073, aired 2011-01-26IN CRISIS MODE $800: As part of this crisis, JFK announced a naval blockade Oct. 22, 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis
#6072, aired 2011-01-25DEATH BY... $1200: An overdose of barbiturates, August 5, 1962, at her L.A. home Marilyn Monroe
#6064, aired 2011-01-13WEST POINT ALUMNI $400: In 1962 he "return"ed to West Point to give an emotional speech on "Duty, Honor, Country" Douglas MacArthur
#6060, aired 2011-01-07THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS $1000: He was director of the St. Louis Zoo in 1962 when he began working on "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" Marlin Perkins
#6051, aired 2010-12-27ELVIS $200: In 1962 The Everly Brothers were "Crying In The Rain" & 3 years later Elvis was "Crying" here "Crying In The Chapel"
#6030, aired 2010-11-26DEBUT ALBUMS $400: 1962: "Surfin' Safari" The Beach Boys
#6015, aired 2010-11-05"STAR" TREK $1600: On July 10, 1962 this low-orbit communications satellite was launched Telstar
#6000, aired 2010-10-151960s POLITICAL QUOTES $200: Concerning the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this Soviet leader said that "Human reason won. Mankind won" Khrushchev
#5989, aired 2010-09-30BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $1600: Great Dane born Oct. 7, 1885, built atomic models, died Nov. 18, 1962 (Niels) Bohr
#5972, aired 2010-07-27SUPERMARKET SWEEP $800: By 1962 this brand "summited" & became the best-selling toothpaste in the U.S.--guess I won't be setting a trend if I buy some Crest
#5951, aired 2010-06-28COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACHES $600: Dean Smith (1962-1997) University of North Carolina
#5949, aired 2010-06-24LET'S ALL GO TO THE LOBBY $400: In the lobby of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel is a mirror said to be haunted by this blonde who died in 1962 Marilyn Monroe
#5909, aired 2010-04-29WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $800: The photo seen here, taken from one of these planes, triggered an international crisis in 1962 a U2
#5899, aired 2010-04-15A LOAD OF LOBOS $800: The 1962 film "The Legend of Lobo" told the story of the life & adventures of one of these critters in the Southwest a wolf
#5893, aired 2010-04-07SPY VS. SPY $1600: In exchange for Russian spy Rudolf Abel, this U.S. pilot was released by the Soviets in 1962 (Francis Gary) Powers
#5883, aired 2010-03-24FAMOUS NAMES IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE $200: As he did after the 1962 Calif. governor's race, on eviction he says the house won't have him to kick around anymore Nixon
#5850, aired 2010-02-05TIME FOR THE "SAT" AGAIN! $400: Launched in 1962, Telstar was the first commercial one of these satellite
#5845, aired 2010-01-29HOLLYWOOD REMAKES $800: This waterlogged 1935 movie with Charles Laughton & Clark Gable was remade in 1962 & 1984 Mutiny on the Bounty
#5834, aired 2010-01-14BOXING MOVIES $400: Ed Asner made his big screen debut in "Kid Galahad", a 1962 film with this rock star in the title role Elvis Presley
#5834, aired 2010-01-14BOXING MOVIES $1600: Cassius Clay, playing himself, ends the career of Mountain Rivera in this 1962 "Requiem" Requiem for a Heavyweight
#5827, aired 2010-01-05"M" & "M" $600: Get the whole crypt to dance along to this Bobby "Boris" Pickett No. 1 song from Halloween 1962 "The Monster Mash"
#5806, aired 2009-12-07SUCH GOOD CHEMISTRY $600: He won 2 Nobel Prizes: one for Chemistry in 1954 & one for Peace in 1962 (Linus) Pauling
#5803, aired 2009-12-0220th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Citizen soldiers of the Revolutionary War couldn't have dreamed of this U.S. ICBM first deployed in 1962 the Minuteman
#5791, aired 2009-11-16TV REVEILLE $1600: 1962: Tim Conway as Ensign Charles Parker McHale's Navy
#5783, aired 2009-11-04TEEN LIT $600: In 2009 this 1962 classic by Madeleine L'Engle was still in Barnes & Noble's Top 20 list of teen bestsellers A Wrinkle in Time
#5759, aired 2009-10-01COLIN POWELL $800: In 1962 Colin was one of the 16,000 military advisers dispatched to South Vietnam by this president John F. Kennedy
#5752, aired 2009-09-22THIS & THAT $800: From 1954 to 1962 this "it" girl of the '20s was the second lady of Nevada as the wife of the lieutenant governor Clara Bow
#5750, aired 2009-09-18THE GODFATHER OF SOUL $1600: On Oct. 24, 1962 Brown's legendary stage act was taped for a live album at this iconic venue in Harlem the Apollo Theater
#5730, aired 2009-07-03ON THE 3rd OF JULY $600: 1962: After 132 years of French rule, this North African nation becomes independent Algeria
#5728, aired 2009-07-01BANNED BOOKS $1200: Anthony Burgess' 1962 tale of juvenile delinquency A Clockwork Orange
#5719, aired 2009-06-18WALTER CRONKITE $400: Cronkite anchored this network's Evening News from April 16, 1962 to March 6, 1981 CBS
#5715, aired 2009-06-12WIMBLEDON SINGLES CHAMPS $1000: This Aussie lefty: 1961, 1962, 1968, 1969 Rod Laver
#5696, aired 2009-05-18COLONIALISM IN AFRICA $600: France tenaciously tried to hold onto this African possession despite a bloody war that ended in 1962 Algeria
#5691, aired 2009-05-11AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 1962 he said, "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law" Martin Luther King, Jr.
#5677, aired 2009-04-21WONDERS OF THE MIDWEST $400: You can see a replica of a hunk of this Soviet craft; it crashed into Manitowoc, Wisc. in 1962 Sputnik
#5664, aired 2009-04-02THE PLAY'S THE THING $400: Don't fear! This 1962 Edward Albee play won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#5659, aired 2009-03-26LEAN SCREEN $400: King Hussein of Jordan offered David Lean camel-riders of the desert patrol as extras for this 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia
#5659, aired 2009-03-26BOOK CROOK $1600: A vicious teenage gang commits random acts of brutality in this 1962 Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange
#5643, aired 2009-03-04THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $1600: George Wendt played the Great White Way in 2008 as Edna Turnblad in this musical set in 1962 Hairspray
#5639, aired 2009-02-26THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) Ken Kesey
#5630, aired 2009-02-13RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS $1600: Lev Landau won a 1962 Nobel Prize for working in low-temperature physics, also known as this cryogenics
#5624, aired 2009-02-05BULL $800: This energy drink was originally developed by a Thai businessman in 1962 & sold under the name Krating Daeng Red Bull
#5622, aired 2009-02-03SPORTS FACTS $600: In 1962 this country's Dawn Fraser became the first woman swimmer to break one minute in the 100-meter freestyle Australia
#5613, aired 2009-01-21SEX & THE CITY $800: Male; born NYC, 1926; musically lost vital internal organ in S.F., 1962 Tony Bennett
#5587, aired 2008-12-16WASHINGTON STATE $600: In 1962 Seattle got one of the first elevated ones of these in a U.S. city; it carried people to the World's Fair a monorail
#5578, aired 2008-12-03AVIATION $1600: Flying this plane 59.6 miles up in 1962, Robert White became the first non-NASA American to qualify as an astronaut X-15
#5572, aired 2008-11-2575 YEARS OF ESQUIRE $800: Why is Tricky Dick laughing? Perhaps it's because he was part of the first of these awards begun by Esquire in 1962 Dubious Achievement Awards
#5572, aired 2008-11-25BIOPIC SUBJECTS $1000: 1962: "The Birdman of Alcatraz" Robert Stroud
#5560, aired 2008-11-07"BEST" SELLERS $1000: Brian Epstein was assigned to boot this drummer from the Beatles in 1962 Pete Best
#5543, aired 2008-10-15AT THE MOVIES $600: Richard Dreyfuss & Ron Howard are 1962 high school grads cruising around town in this 1973 film American Graffiti
#5539, aired 2008-10-09HISTORIC BINGO $800: "G" 1962: He orbited the Earth for the first time on Feb. 20 (John) Glenn
#5535, aired 2008-10-03MILITARY MOVIES $600: 1962: A young British officer leads the revolt against the Ottoman Empire Lawrence of Arabia
#5531, aired 2008-09-29FUN WITH OPERA $600: Composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco went "Wilde" & turned this Oscar Wilde play into a 1962 opera The Importance of Being Earnest
#5524, aired 2008-09-18KINGS & QUEENS $800: This king & his family have lived at La Zarzuela palace just outside Madrid since 1962 Juan Carlos
#5515, aired 2008-07-25I WON AN OSCAR, EMMY, TONY & GRAMMY $400: In 1962 Oscar loved her in "West Side Story" (& isn't she the first one you think of for the category?) Rita Moreno
#5505, aired 2008-07-11MINDBLOWERS $200: Decca Records rejected signing this band in 1962, saying, "we don't like their sound" & guitars are on the way out the Beatles
#5504, aired 2008-07-10STRIKE FORCES $2000: In 1962 India set up the Special Frontier Force made up largely of refugees from this lofty region Tibet
#5497, aired 2008-07-01SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $400: This 1962 graduate of Stanford Law filled a vacancy created by Justice Potter Stewart Sandra Day O'Connor
#5487, aired 2008-06-17FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $1000: This 1962 novel by Ken Kesey was adapted for the big screen in 1975 & won 5 Academy Awards One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#5482, aired 2008-06-1020th CENTURY BALLET $800: Margot Fonteyn first danced onstage with him on Feb. 21, 1962 at Covent Garden in a performance of "Giselle" Nureyev
#5441, aired 2008-04-14ROCK MUSIC $1000: This 1962 Roy Orbison hit is subtitled "How Long Must I Dream" "Dream Baby"
#5439, aired 2008-04-10'60s TV $2000: On July 10, 1962, this satellite relayed the first live TV images across the Atlantic from the United States to France Telstar
#5423, aired 2008-03-19FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD $200: In 1962 Andy Warhol gained fame by painting cans of this food brand Campbell's Soup
#5405, aired 2008-02-22THE 20th CENTURY $400: This Nobel Prize winner & world leader was imprisoned from 1962 to 1990 (Nelson) Mandela
#5405, aired 2008-02-22NAME THAT BOOK $1600: 1962: A teen hoodlum named Alex narrates this futuristic tale by Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
#5395, aired 2008-02-08BRIDGES $1000: Carrying traffic from Fort Lee to New York City since 1931, its lower level opened in 1962 the George Washington Bridge
#5379, aired 2008-01-17REDHEADS $1200: Totally cosmic, dude-- this redhead orbited the earth in 1962 & again in 1998 John Glenn
#5377, aired 2008-01-15LANDING AT JFK $2000: Gee whiz! In 1962 JFK appointed this man, then deputy attorney general, to the Supreme Court (Whizzer) White
#5362, aired 2007-12-25TO THE "LEFT" HAND SIDE $400: It's a 1962 Tony Bennett classic "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
#5361, aired 2007-12-24CLASSIC TV TOONS $800 (Daily Double): The first episode of this cartoon series to be broadcast was "Rosie the Robot" on Sept. 23, 1962 The Jetsons
#5359, aired 2007-12-20HISTORIC U.S. BUILDINGS $400: A centerpiece of the 1962 World's Fair, this tower had science-fiction art & a German TV tower as inspirations the Space Needle
#5341, aired 2007-11-26NOW PLAYING AT THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX $400: Though only 3 years older than Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury played his mom in this 1962 political thriller The Manchurian Candidate
#5336, aired 2007-11-19THANKS FOR THE MEMORABILIA $400: At close to $1.3 million, the most expensive dress ever sold was the one she wore to serenade JFK in 1962 Marilyn Monroe
#5335, aired 2007-11-16POMPIDOU & CIRCUMSTANCE $800: From 1962 to 1968 Pompidou held this job, just under president; no 5th Republic-an has held the post longer since prime minister
#5330, aired 2007-11-09AUTOBIOGRAPHERS $1200: A psychologist: 1962's "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" Carl Jung
#5325, aired 2007-11-02GOVERNORS $1200: A 4-time governor of Alabama first elected in 1962, he worked his way through law school by boxing professionally Gov. George Wallace
#5323, aired 2007-10-31OKLAHOMIES $400: Born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, this entrepreneur opened his first namesake "Mart" in 1962 (Sam) Walton
#5320, aired 2007-10-26IT'S BASEBALL $800: In 1962 this Dodger shortstop stole 104 bases, breaking Ty Cobb's 47-year-old record Maury Wills
#5310, aired 2007-10-12BOOKS $400: "The Big Honey Hunt", published in 1962, was the first in a series of books about this bear family the Berenstain Bears
#5305, aired 2007-10-05INTRA-VENUS $1000: We're not sure if it was "ancient" or not, but the first U.S. flyby of Venus was by this space probe in 1962 Mariner (2)
#5286, aired 2007-09-10SCOTT FREE $600: A skier in his free time, this Mercury 7 astronaut landed his Aurora 7 capsule 250 miles off course in 1962 Scott Carpenter
#5254, aired 2007-06-14BUSINESS $800: Future Michigan governor George Romney headed this merger-created car company from 1954 to 1962 American Motors
#5246, aired 2007-06-04BASEBALL: THE 1960s $1600: In 1962, in its first year in the National League, this East Coast team lost 120 regular season games the Mets
#5231, aired 2007-05-14TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $800: 1962: A pontiff Pope John XXIII
#5226, aired 2007-05-07CHINESE GEOGRAPHY $400: The border formalized between Mongolia & China in 1962 includes a 900-mile stretch through this desert the Gobi Desert
#5222, aired 2007-05-01THEATRE HISTORY $400: New York's Public Theater began staging Shakespeare in the Park in this park in 1962 Central Park
#5196, aired 2007-03-26WORLD HISTORY $200: In July 1962 this Soviet leader began building missile sites in Cuba; in October, the U.S. noticed them Khrushchev
#5194, aired 2007-03-22BROADWAY'S HAL PRINCE $1600: In 1962 Hal produced this comedy with characters named Pseudolus, Erronius & Hysterium A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
#5186, aired 2007-03-12OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: 1962: Atticus Finch Gregory Peck
#5185, aired 2007-03-09IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED... $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1962 his idea of putting big stores in small towns got zero response from the Ben Franklin retail chain Sam Walton
#5173, aired 2007-02-21WHAM-O $800: This 1962 Wham-O game named for a dance craze came with a moveable cross bar & 2 support stands Limbo
#5171, aired 2007-02-19GRAPES $1600: In 1962 this man organized migrant grape pickers into what became known as the United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) In 1962, federal marshals escorted James Meredith, the first black student at the university of this state in Oxford; in 1964, he graduated Mississippi
#5144, aired 2007-01-11A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES $1200: Ch. 3: Boy & girl have a family (well, an imaginary one, at least) & entertain Nick & Honey in this 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#5142, aired 2007-01-09FEEL THE "BURN" $800: JFK's 1962 State of the Union Address eulogized this Congressional legend known as "Mr. Sam" Rayburn
#5136, aired 2007-01-01MOVIE PEOPLE $1200: This great 1930s choreographer ended his career in 1962 with a circus flick, "Billy Rose's Jumbo" Busby Berkeley
#5121, aired 2006-12-11PISTOL PETE $2,800 (Daily Double): In a 1962 film, this actor says, "That was before Aqaba anyway, I had to execute him with my pistol" Peter O'Toole
#5119, aired 2006-12-07OBIE WINNERS $800: 1962-63, based on Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors": "The Boys From _____" Syracuse
#5114, aired 2006-11-30LIKE A ROLLING STONE $1200: Mick Jagger formed the Stones in 1962; this Mick, a drummer, formed his band in '67 Mick Fleetwood
#5112, aired 2006-11-28LEGENDS OF SPORT $2000: In 1962 this shortstop broke the single-season record by stealing 104 bases; it's still the Dodger record (Maury) Wills
#5111, aired 2006-11-27THE 5th BEATLE $400: After being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, this man got a job in a bakery & then became a civil servant Pete Best
#5111, aired 2006-11-27THE 5th BEATLE $600: In "Backbeat" Stephen Dorff played this alliterative bassist who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1962 (Stuart) Sutcliffe
#5099, aired 2006-11-09SPORTS $800: On March 2, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scored this unbelievable record point total in an NBA basketball game 100
#5094, aired 2006-11-02& SO I FACE THE FINAL CURTAIN $1200: This Lerner & Loewe musical had its "loverly" farewell in 1962, after 2,717 shows My Fair Lady
#5092, aired 2006-10-31LET'S "TRAVEL" $1000: This 1962 account of Steinbeck's tour of 38 states was subtitled "In Search of America" Travels with Charley
#5083, aired 2006-10-18OCTOBERFEST $600: Bringing the world to the brink of war, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during October of this year 1962
#5080, aired 2006-10-13WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA? $400: This first U.S. civilian airport designed specifically for commercial jets opened in Virginia in 1962 Dulles
#5071, aired 2006-10-02I'M BORED $1600: Maybe you can tesser & travel to new worlds like Meg, Calvin & Charles Wallace did in this 1962 L'Engle novel A Wrinkle in Time
#5066, aired 2006-09-25"I" TUNES $1000: In 1962 Ray Charles turned this country song into a No. 1 Pop & R&B hit "I Can't Stop Loving You"
#5061, aired 2006-09-18RONALD REAGAN $400: Reagan was in his 50s in 1962 when he joined this organization founded in 1854 the Republican Party
#5059, aired 2006-09-14NO TIME TO TALK $400: In 1962 her "Silent Spring" launched the environmentalist movement Rachel Carson
#5051, aired 2006-07-24AMERICAN BUSINESS $400: In 1962 the Dayton Company hit the bull's-eye when it opened the first of these discount stores Target
#5041, aired 2006-07-10BOBBLEHEAD REVISITED $800: This fictional mountaineer headed for the Hills way back in 1962 Jed Clampett
#5037, aired 2006-07-04AN "F" IN HISTORY $600: John Glenn's capsule on his famous 1962 flight was called this, which an old saying called the "best ship" Friendship
#5033, aired 2006-06-2850-50 $800: In exchange for more than 1,000 POWs, this country received about $50 million from the U.S. in December 1962 Cuba
#5003, aired 2006-05-17AMERICANA $400: Since 1962 it's been a tradition to dye the Chicago River this color for a special day in March green
#4980, aired 2006-04-14GOVERNORS OF CALIFORNIA $400: Nicknamed "Pat", he defeated Richard Nixon in 1962 to win reelection Pat Brown
#4961, aired 2006-03-20CITIES WITH HOSPITAL-ITY $1600: Since 1962: St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital Memphis
#4948, aired 2006-03-01THE KENNEDY YEARS $400: In October 1962 JFK was photographed in the Oval Office with Soviet leader who were unaware he already knew about this crisis the Cuban Missile Crisis
#4948, aired 2006-03-01THE KENNEDY YEARS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads next to a rocking chair in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) Because of his bad back, President Kennedy often sat in one of his famous rocking chairs, even when meeting with this future prime minister in 1962 Indira Gandhi
#4943, aired 2006-02-22NIXON'S THE ONE $200: In this year, Nixon faced off against JFK in the first presidential debates ever 1960
#4934, aired 2006-02-09JR.'s & SR.'s $400: This jr. was out of this world on Feb. 20, 1962; up to 162 miles, to be more precise (John) Glenn (Jr.)
#4914, aired 2006-01-12NEW -OLOGIES $400: "Green Coca-Cola Bottles" (1962) & other pieces of pop art are part of this science Warhology
#4896, aired 2005-12-19IT WAS THE '60s $600: On July 3, 1962 this European president proclaimed the independence of Algeria De Gaulle
#4896, aired 2005-12-19IT WAS THE '60s $1000: Seen here, his attempt to enroll at Ole Miss in 1962 led to riots but was ultimately successful James Meredith
#4894, aired 2005-12-15MY FAVORITE FILMS $400: The hero of this 1962 epic is worshiped by the men he leads, though they do call him "Orens" Lawrence of Arabia
#4882, aired 2005-11-29PLEASE, SIR, I WANT SAMOA $400: Eastern Samoa is "American Samoa"; Western Samoa won its independence from this island country in 1962 New Zealand
#4881, aired 2005-11-28AWARDS & HONORS $900 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands behind a statuette, the inscription blurred, and in front of the presidential seal.) This is the Emmy Award that this famous woman won in 1962 for giving a memorable tour of her home Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#4864, aired 2005-11-03BASKETBALL $800: This Warrior had 6 NBA games in which he scored 70 or more points, including a 100-point game in 1962 Wilt Chamberlain
#4857, aired 2005-10-25ALMOST ASSASSINATED $2,800 (Daily Double): August 22, 1962 when his limousine was attacked near Paris Charles de Gaulle
#4856, aired 2005-10-24HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES! $1600: A 1962 epic: David Lean, Maurice Jarre Lawrence of Arabia
#4853, aired 2005-10-19THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $800: Later Rose on "The Golden Girls", she blossomed as a senator in the 1962 drama "Advise and Consent" Betty White
#4841, aired 2005-10-03HARD "WORK" $800: In 1962 Cesar Chavez founded the union that is today known as this the United Farm Workers of America
#4832, aired 2005-09-20MAN IN SPACE $800: Deke Slayton, grounded from this program in 1962 for medical reasons, finally went into space in 1975 the Mercury program
#4829, aired 2005-09-1522 $600: He was just 22 in 1962 when he won golf's U.S. Open (Jack) Nicklaus
#4819, aired 2005-07-14POLITICAL CARICATURES $200: He was only 30 when he won his U.S. Senate seat in 1962 Ted Kennedy
#4819, aired 2005-07-14LEND ME YOUR "EAR"s $600: Robert Mitchum was in both the 1962 & 1991 versions of this film Cape Fear
#4816, aired 2005-07-11DODGER $400: In 1962 this ex-Dodger became the first African American elected to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame Jackie Robinson
#4811, aired 2005-07-04SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT $600: This baseball team was honored with ticker-tape parades in 1962, 1969 & 1986 the New York Mets
#4809, aired 2005-06-30IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $800: In 1962 this famed pediatrician joined the anti-nuclear group SANE Dr. Spock
#4801, aired 2005-06-20URBAN $2000: Site of a famous commando raid, it was the capital of Uganda until 1962 Entebbe
#4795, aired 2005-06-10"PEPPER" $600: In 1962 this baking company added Goldfish crackers to its product line Pepperidge Farm
#4795, aired 2005-06-10HARRISON FORD MOVIES BY ROLE $2000: 1962 cruiser Bob Falfa American Graffiti
#4792, aired 2005-06-07EDIFICE REX $200: The Palacio de la Zarzuela has been the residence of the king & queen of this nation since 1962 Spain
#4768, aired 2005-05-04HISTORIC ESPN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) March 2, 1962, the NBA: It's slamtastic as his dipper dunk brings him to 100 points on the night (Wilt) Chamberlain
#4754, aired 2005-04-14ALONG THE TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY $2000: The summit of Rogers Pass in British Columbia was the site of the 1962 opening of the highway by this Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
#4746, aired 2005-04-04ALTERNATIVE HISTORY NOVELS $1600: The Nazis & Japanese occupy 1962 America in Philip K. Dick's novel "The Man in " this place the High Castle
#4741, aired 2005-03-28TYLERS & TAYLORS $2000: He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-1964 Maxwell Taylor
#4728, aired 2005-03-09BALANCHINE BALLETS $800: Balanchine wrote that he played an elf in this Shakespeare play long before creating a 1962 ballet based on it A Midsummer Night's Dream
#4711, aired 2005-02-14A CUP OF KOFI $800: Kofi Annan's first job in the U.N. was in 1962 as an administrator & budget officer of this "organization" the World Health Organization
#4710, aired 2005-02-11MODERN QUOTATIONS $1000: Deng Xiaoping said in a 1962 speech, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it" does this catches mice
#4708, aired 2005-02-09CLEANING YOUR "CLOCK" $800: This 1962 novel was partly inspired by an assault on author Anthony Burgess' pregnant wife A Clockwork Orange
#4672, aired 2004-12-21MUG SHOTS $200: In 1962 he graduated from a military academy in Peru Manuel Noriega
#4653, aired 2004-11-24HIT TV THEME SONGS $200: The theme song for "The Beverly Hillbillies", "The Ballad of" this man, went to No. 44 in 1962 Jed Clampett
#4644, aired 2004-11-11THE 20th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): On Feb. 20, 1962 the destroyer USS Noa found him floating in the Atlantic after a journey of 75,679 miles John Glenn
#4635, aired 2004-10-29BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS $1600: For "A Man for All Seasons" (1962) Paul Scofield
#4634, aired 2004-10-28SURVIVOR: CONGRESS $200: The tribe has spoken to the 8 Republicans who have run against this Massachusetts senator since 1962 Ted Kennedy
#4625, aired 2004-10-15OCEANIA $200: When this nation gained independence in 1962, it had "Western" in its name Samoa
#4623, aired 2004-10-13DUMB CRIMINALS $600: A Georgia woman was surprised to find they don't take $1 million bills at this chain co-founded by Sam Walton in 1962 Wal-Mart
#4602, aired 2004-09-14OH, FOR PETE'S SAKE! $400: This man was the drummer for the Beatles before Ringo joined in 1962 Pete Best
#4602, aired 2004-09-14LET'S CUT TO THE CHASE $1600: 2-time Pulitzer winner, Mississippian, died in 1962 William Faulkner
#4566, aired 2004-06-14MEMORIALS $600: On April 15, 1962 memorials were held in remembrance of this tragic event's 50th anniversary sinking of the Titanic
#4565, aired 2004-06-11'60s POTPOURRI $200: This "Funny Girl" was just 19 when she made her Broadway debut in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" in 1962 Streisand
#4565, aired 2004-06-11'60s POTPOURRI $400: Sleep-eze mogul (& movie fan) Allen Parkinson founded this state's Movieland Wax Museum in 1962 California
#4564, aired 2004-06-10YOU'RE 21 TODAY $1000: Held between 1962 & 1965, the 21st Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church was popularly called this Vatican II
#4563, aired 2004-06-09MUSEUMS $400: The National Civil Rights Museum has an exhibit about the enrollment of James Meredith at this school in 1962 (the University of) Mississippi
#4562, aired 2004-06-08TV-PODGE $600: Mel Blanc supplied the voice of Cosmo Spacely when this cartoon debuted in prime time in 1962 The Jetsons
#4561, aired 2004-06-07'60s SITCOMS $600: The 1962 TV drama "Seven Against the Sea" with Ernest Borgnine became this sitcom a few years later McHale's Navy
#4561, aired 2004-06-07SECRETARIES OF STATE $1,800 (Daily Double): Dwight Eisenhower & JFK both attended the 1962 dedication of the airport named for him John Foster Dulles
#4554, aired 2004-05-27U.S. HISTORY $400: The U.S. blockade of this country was made public October 22, 1962 Cuba
#4526, aired 2004-04-1920th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $800: In 1962 he published a book on his career highlights to date -- "Six Crises" Richard Nixon
#4510, aired 2004-03-26FACTS IN THE WORLD ALMANAC $600: In an almost 5-hour flight in 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth a total of this many times 3
#4509, aired 2004-03-25PEABODY AWARD WINNERS $600: A tour she gave of her home in 1962 won a Peabody Jacqueline Kennedy
#4508, aired 2004-03-24BIBLE MOVIES $1000: Stewart Granger played Lot & Pier Angeli was his salty wife Ildith in the 1962 film about these 2 title cities Sodom and Gomorrah
#4503, aired 2004-03-17STUPID ANSWERS $800: Glen Bell founded this taco chain in 1962 Taco Bell
#4499, aired 2004-03-11FILMS OF THE '60s $1000: Ursula Andress made a memorable entrance in this 1962 film when she emerged from the water in a bikini Dr. No
#4478, aired 2004-02-11LOCK, STOCK OR BARREL $1200: In 1962 Gordon & Carole Segal founded Crate & this Barrel
#4477, aired 2004-02-10TALES OUT OF SCHOOL $1200: A case brought by New Hyde Park, N.Y. parents led to a 1962 Supreme Court decision banning this in public schools prayer
#4475, aired 2004-02-06"G" MEN $400: He said of the Mercury capsule that carried him into orbit in Feb. 1962, "You don't get into it, you put it on" John Glenn
#4455, aired 2004-01-09THE PRESIDENT'S ON TV! $1,400 (Daily Double): Month & year the following address was delivered "This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba..." October 1962
#4440, aired 2003-12-19CHINA $600: Introduced in 1962, a Royal Albert design featuring these flowers has sold over 100 million pieces roses
#4438, aired 2003-12-17THROW IT OVER HERE $1000: In a 1962 novelty hit, Charles Drake bemoaned that his this "won't come back" a boomerang
#4433, aired 2003-12-10HISTORY HAPPENED HERE $2000: On Feb. 10, 1962 this man & Soviet spy Rudolf Abel crossed the Glienicker Bridge in opposite directions Francis Gary Powers
#4394, aired 2003-10-16A CHURCH WEDDING $1600: In 1962 Prince Juan Carlos married Princess Sophia in a Catholic & also in an Orthodox cathedral in this city Athens
#4393, aired 2003-10-15100 $800: On March 2, 1962 this NBA superstar scored 100 points in one game Wilt Chamberlain
#4388, aired 2003-10-08THE QUOTABLE NIXON $600 (Daily Double): 1962: "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last" of these press conference
#4384, aired 2003-10-02THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1000: "King Rat" (1962) James Clavell
#4381, aired 2003-09-29HISTORY ON FILM $400: A tagline for "Thirteen Days" is: This island. "1962. You'll never believe how close we came" Cuba
#4366, aired 2003-09-08RWANDA $800: Rwanda & this neighboring nation were ruled by Belgium until 1962 Burundi
#4363, aired 2003-07-16TO REMAIN "SILENT" $1,000 (Daily Double): Influential 1962 work containing the line "The chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life" "Silent Spring"
#4360, aired 2003-07-11HIT ME WITH THE HITS $1000: Reaching No. 1 in 1962, this song was the first by a British group to top the U.S. charts "Telstar"
#4351, aired 2003-06-30ANYTHING GOES $1600: In 1962 he became the first Australian to win the Grand Slam of tennis; he won it again in 1969 Rod Laver
#4350, aired 2003-06-27STATIONERY $800: In 1962 the first practical fiber-tip pen was invented in this country where writing used ink-brush strokes Japan
#4330, aired 2003-05-30TV GAME SHOWS $200: On September 17, 1962 the parents of this first moonwalker appeared on an episode of "I've Got A Secret" Neil Armstrong
#4328, aired 2003-05-28IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: His short stories include 1962's "A & P" & his novels include 1960's "Rabbit, Run" John Updike
#4327, aired 2003-05-27LET'S HAVE A CONFERENCE $400: On Nov. 7, 1962 he famously declared, "Gentlemen, this is my last press conference" Richard M. Nixon
#4315, aired 2003-05-09FROM MOVIE TO MUSICAL $1600: It had to happen: this 1962 classic in which Bette Davis tormented Joan Crawford became a musical in 2002 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
#4313, aired 2003-05-07SCRIPT TEASE $600: 1962: "Bond. James Bond" Dr. No
#4310, aired 2003-05-02TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR $400: Pope John XXIII was Man of the Year for 1962; this pope was Man of the Year for 1994 Pope John Paul II
#4304, aired 2003-04-24FAMOUS FILMS $2000: This 1962 classic was narrated by Kim Stanley, who provided the grown-up voice of Scout To Kill a Mockingbird
#4296, aired 2003-04-14THE ANTHONY QUINN FILM FESTIVAL $400: In 1962 Anthony Quinn played a fierce Bedouin leader in this desert epic Lawrence of Arabia
#4296, aired 2003-04-14THE ANTHONY QUINN FILM FESTIVAL $2000: In 1962 Quinn played this title criminal set free so that Christ could be crucified Barabbas
#4295, aired 2003-04-11FAMOUS PAIRS $200: In 1962 on the 59th anniv. of their flight, they were posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame the Wright Brothers
#4285, aired 2003-03-28LETTER PERFECT $1000: Feng shui experts don't care for rooms shaped like this letter, like the one featured in a 1962 Leslie Caron movie L
#4284, aired 2003-03-27ON THE COVER OF TIME $400: One-year-old cover subject seen here in 1962 the Berlin Wall
#4283, aired 2003-03-26OLD MOVIES $800: This lepidopteran monster inadvertently destroys much of Tokyo in a 1962 film Mothra
#4273, aired 2003-03-12CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1200: In 1962 this author & illustrator published "The Nutshell Library", which includes the book "Chicken Soup with Rice" Maurice Sendak
#4270, aired 2003-03-07THE PHONE $800: Launched July 10, 1962, the first satellite in this series could handle up to 600 phone calls or 1 TV signal at once! Telstar
#4259, aired 2003-02-20FASHION DESIGNERS $400: The Pompidou Center held a 1962-2002 retrospective on this designer often known just by his initials Yves Saint Laurent (YSL)
#4235, aired 2003-01-17TEXAS TECH $600: Founded by Ross Perot in 1962, Electronic Data Systems got its first computer in 1965, this company's 1401 IBM
#4223, aired 2003-01-01ROCKET MAN $1000: After his splashdown 250 miles from the pick-up ship May 24, 1962, he never flew in space again Scott Carpenter
#4223, aired 2003-01-01MOVIE MUSICALS $1200: Natalie Wood does a mean striptease in this 1962 classic Gypsy
#4219, aired 2002-12-26"LONG" FILMS $400: Everyone from Sean Connery to Henry Fonda to John Wayne turns up in this 1962 WWII epic The Longest Day
#4219, aired 2002-12-26"LONG" FILMS $800: In this jolly 1962 film based on an O'Neill play, Hepburn's on dope, Robards is an alcoholic & Stockwell has TB Long Day's Journey into Night
#4211, aired 2002-12-16CHOCOLATE-COVERED CINEMA $800: In this 1962 film, boy with drinking problem, Lemmon, meets girl with chocolate addiction, Remick Days of Wine and Roses
#4210, aired 2002-12-13BARBRA STREISAND $1000: In 1962 Streisand played Miss Marmelstein in this garment industry Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale
#4201, aired 2002-12-02"WHO"s THERE? $1000: Albee play, 1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#4200, aired 2002-11-29"MAN"LY MOVIES $1200: 1962: With Jimmy Stewart The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
#4180, aired 2002-11-01THE 1960s $200: In 1962 this country swapped 1,113 prisoners it captured in the Bay of Pigs invasion for $53 million in aid Cuba
#4180, aired 2002-11-01RAY $400: In 1962 he won a Grammy for "I Can't Stop Loving You" Ray Charles
#4173, aired 2002-10-23COLORFUL BOOKS $4,000 (Daily Double): When we first met Alex in this 1962 novel, he's sitting with his 3 droogs in the Korova Milkbar "A Clockwork Orange"
#4158, aired 2002-10-02IF YOU BUILD IT... $800: A memorial dedicated in 1962 was built over this battleship sunk on December 7, 1941 USS Arizona
#4156, aired 2002-09-30HIDDEN $800: In 1962 a Louisiana company got a patent for a device that added these to motion pictures in theaters subliminal advertisements
#4128, aired 2002-07-10QUESTION MARK $1600: Bette Davis was a real rat to Joan Crawford in this creepy 1962 flick Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
#4127, aired 2002-07-09"GIRL" MOVIES $2000: 1962: Elvis Presley "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
#4121, aired 2002-07-01G-MEN & WOMEN $400: (Cheryl gives the clue from the National Air and Space Museum.) This is the actual Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, in which he orbited the Earth February 20, 1962 John Glenn
#4117, aired 2002-06-25PUT UP YOUR DUKES $800: "And-a you, you are my girl and no one can hurt you, oh no" because this 1962 title royal (& No. 1 hit) is around Duke of Earl
#4110, aired 2002-06-14THE 1960s $400: On March 26, 1962 this poet celebrated his 88th birthday at the White House, where he got a special medal Robert Frost
#4109, aired 2002-06-13ON YOUR TOES $800: Margot Fonteyn first danced onstage with him on Feb. 21, 1962 at Covent Garden in a performance of "Giselle" Nureyev
#4100, aired 2002-05-31FIRST LADIES $800: At this first lady's 1962 death, JFK ordered all U.S. flags flown at half-staff Eleanor Roosevelt
#4097, aired 2002-05-28A DAY TO REMEMBER $1200: This TV star began his most famous job October 1, 1962 & worked his last day on it May 22, 1992 Johnny Carson
#4093, aired 2002-05-22ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $400: 1962: "Group of Five Campbell's Soup Cans" (Andy) Warhol
#4089, aired 2002-05-16"CHECK" MATE $1200: In 1960 & 1962 he twisted his way into the No. 1 spot on the charts with "The Twist" Chubby Checker
#4078, aired 2002-05-01WAX MUSEUMS $600: In 1962 this reclusive silent film sweetheart emerged to read the dedication at Movieland Wax Museum's opening Mary Pickford
#4075, aired 2002-04-26TV ACTORS & ROLES $1000: This actor began starring on "Combat' in 1962, the year his daughter Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Vic Morrow
#4074, aired 2002-04-25GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $2000: This auto race card game with a French name has driven up sales for Parker Brothers since 1962 Mille Bornes
#4058, aired 2002-04-03AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $800: As a staunch ally of the U.S., Australia first sent troops to this Asian country in 1962 Vietnam
#4057, aired 2002-04-02BEFORE & AFTER $400: Eydie Gorme's spouse who is David Lean's epic 1962 film starring Peter O'Toole Steve Lawrence of Arabia
#4052, aired 2002-03-26ROCK HISTORY $400: (Hi. I'm Adrian Young, drummer for No Doubt.) In 1962, shortly after signing a contract with Parlophone, the Beatles fired this drummer & hired Ringo Starr (Pete) Best
#4047, aired 2002-03-19FAMOUS FRENCH FOLKS $2000: Georges Clemenceau became premier of France in 1906 & this George became premier in 1962 Pompidou
#4043, aired 2002-03-13LEGENDS OF SPORTS $200: One of the greatest athletes of all time, he led Brazil to World Cup soccer victories in 1958, 1962 & 1970 Pelé
#4038, aired 2002-03-06BEASTLY CINEMA $800: 1962: Gregory Peck pecks away at Southern injustice "To Kill a Mockingbird"
#4034, aired 2002-02-28THE '60s $1000: in his "Port Huron Statement" of 1962, Tom Hayden pledged this group, the SDS, to the New Left Students for a Democratic Society
#4032, aired 2002-02-26JUST WRITE $400: Like the title of a 1962 hit by Dion, they call an Old English poem about a homeless & kinless warrior this The Wanderer
#4022, aired 2002-02-12BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $1600: From 1962 to 1965 he was the host of TV's "Death Valley Days" Reagan
#4015, aired 2002-02-01THAT'S A PAULING $200: Linus Pauling received this in 1962; he was short a requirement when he was supposed to get it back in 1917 at 16 high school diploma
#4014, aired 2002-01-31THE GRAMMYS $800: Grammy's Best New Artist of 1962, he only had one Top 40 hit, but released more than 30 albums Robert Goulet
#4012, aired 2002-01-29THAT'S MY DEPARTMENT STORE $200: In 1962, the year the first Wal-mart opened, this 5-&-dime retailer launched its Woolco stores Woolworth
#4012, aired 2002-01-29NATIONS OF THE WORLD $800: This English-speaking island 100 miles south of Cuba gained its independence in 1962 Jamaica
#3999, aired 2002-01-10GONNA FLY NOW $2000: In 1962 Robert White, the first pilot to qualify as an astronaut, flew this experimental plane to over 50 mi. up X-15
#3983, aired 2001-12-19REMEMBER THE '60s? $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Apollo Theater.) This group appeared in a Motown review here in 1962 before their first number-one hit. Where did our love go? The Supremes
#3983, aired 2001-12-19REMEMBER THE '60s? $1000: On Oct. 23 of this year the New York Times proclaimed, "U.S. imposes arms blockade on Cuba" 1962
#3978, aired 2001-12-12LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES $400: Founded in 1962, this country's Kabul Times was its first English-language newspaper Afghanistan
#3975, aired 2001-12-07PARTY HOPPING $400: In 1948 this SAG president campaigned for fellow Democrat Harry Truman; in 1962, he turned Republican Ronald Reagan
#3969, aired 2001-11-29WB CARTOON STARS $1600: 1962: "The Slick Chick" Foghorn Leghorn
#3958, aired 2001-11-14GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: The title of this 1962 Faulkner novel refers to 3 young men who steal a car & take it for a joy ride The Reivers
#3953, aired 2001-11-07RANKS & TITLES $300: As of 1962 these high-ranking counselors to the pope must also be bishops cardinals
#3942, aired 2001-10-23OH, DANNY BOY $300: He was first elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Hawaii in 1962 Daniel Inouye
#3939, aired 2001-10-18ORANGE YOU GLAD? $400: From 1962 to 1971 Operation Ranch Hand used this notorious chemical defoliant agent orange
#3939, aired 2001-10-18ORANGE YOU GLAD? $600: This 1962 novel includes a glossary of Nadsat language A Clockwork Orange
#3932, aired 2001-10-09"NEW" GEOGRAPHY $500: This Connecticut city, one of the first planned communities, was also the first to have antipoverty programs, in 1962 New Haven
#3927, aired 2001-10-02AUTHOR COUNTDOWN $500: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) Ken Kesey
#3924, aired 2001-09-27IT HAPPENED IN SEPTEMBER $2,000 (Daily Double): On Sept. 4, 1962 this British rock group made up of John, Paul, George & Ringo went to Abbey Road to make an album The Beatles
#3910, aired 2001-09-07"WAL" STREET $200: In 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas he opened the first "Mart" in his empire Sam Walton
#3902, aired 2001-07-17ELVIS HITS IN OTHER WORDS $500: 1962: "Mail Back Towards The Dispatcher" "Return To Sender"
#3899, aired 2001-07-12'60s TV $200: In 1962 she was Lucy Carmichael; in 1968 she became Lucy Carter Lucille Ball
#3899, aired 2001-07-12'60s TV $600: Rudolf Nureyev made his U.S. TV debut in 1962 on this "Telephone Hour" Bell
#3893, aired 2001-07-04BETTY WHITE $400: When this man hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1957 to 1962, Betty White was a regular guest Jack Paar
#3891, aired 2001-07-02BOX-ING $200: In 1962 he reached No. 11 on the country charts with "Tennessee Flat-Top Box"; in 1988 daughter Rosanne hit No. 1 Johnny Cash
#3882, aired 2001-06-19THE ASTRONAUT HALL OF FAME $400: His historic 1962 orbital flight was marked by drama over a possibly loose heat shield John Glenn
#3879, aired 2001-06-14THEY WROTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: In 1962 the Times sent David Halberstam to this country, where he often challenged the official version of events Vietnam
#3873, aired 2001-06-06CLASSIC LOGOS $400: This automaking corporation got its Pentastar symbol in 1962 Chrysler
#3860, aired 2001-05-18POTENT PORTABLES $1000: The Bellboy, one of these introduced at the 1962 World's Fair, was the size of a brick & weighed almost as much a pager
#3859, aired 2001-05-17BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He wrote the screenplay to the 1983 Disney film "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which was based on his 1962 novel Ray Bradbury
#3859, aired 2001-05-17HOW HEAVENLY! $500: Shelley Fabares had a No. 1 hit with this song in 1962, long before she co-starred on "Coach" "Johnny Angel"
#3846, aired 2001-04-30LIT ON FILM $1,700 (Daily Double): Rumpelstiltskin is a character in the 1962 fantasy "The Wonderful World of" these German brothers the Grimm brothers
#3818, aired 2001-03-21"S.C." $300: In a 1962 movie he bonded with Ursula Andress Sean Connery
#3811, aired 2001-03-12WORD PLAY $400: In 1962 Urundi became independent & changed its name by adding this letter B (for Burndi)
#3811, aired 2001-03-12MONTHS $400: The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 occurred during this month October
#3798, aired 2001-02-21THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $900 (Daily Double): This Katherine Anne Porter novel "sailed" up the list in 1962 "Ship of Fools"
#3793, aired 2001-02-14ON VALENTINE'S DAY $200: On Feb. 14, 1962 the OAS formally excluded this Communist nation from participating in any of its activities Cuba
#3787, aired 2001-02-06THE RAT PACK $1000: This British Rat Packer with a reputation as a playboy was one of the "Sergeants 3" in a 1962 film Peter Lawford
#3773, aired 2001-01-17IT'S IMAGINARY $200: 1962 would have followed 1914 & 1939 in the sequence if this had resulted from the Cuban Missile Crisis World War III
#3771, aired 2001-01-15OLD MOVIES $1000: This director made a splash with the 1962 film "Noz W Wodzie" or "Knife in the Water" Roman Polanski
#3770, aired 2001-01-12"POMP" IT UP! $400: He was premier of France from 1962 to 1968 Georges Pompidou
#3751, aired 2000-12-18ANDY WARHOL $200: Because he had the same thing for lunch every day for 20 years, Andy Warhol painted these, beginning in 1962 Campbell's Soup cans
#3750, aired 2000-12-15SINGING TV STARS $400: He hit the pop charts with his own version of "Love Me Tender" in 1962, 21 years before "The Thorn Birds" Richard Chamberlain
#3719, aired 2000-11-025 DECADES OF TV $200: Ms. Ball's solo sitcom aired under this title from 1962 to 1968 The Lucy Show
#3718, aired 2000-11-0120th CENTURY NOVELS $300: Chief Bromden, a mental patient, narrates this 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#3710, aired 2000-10-20CLASSIC RECORD LABELS $1,200 (Daily Double): The 1962 hit "The Lonely Bull" was on this label formed by the man who performed it A&M Records (co-founded by Herb Alpert)
#3703, aired 2000-10-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $600: His 1962 novel "Another Country" is noted for its frank depiction of various sexual & interracial relationships James Baldwin
#3686, aired 2000-09-18GRAMPA & GRAMMYS $800: Grampa just went to the 40th anniversary tour of these winners for 1962 with "If I Had A Hammer" Peter, Paul and Mary
#3686, aired 2000-09-18GRAMPA & GRAMMYS $1,500 (Daily Double): Grampa said that he left a kidney in Sheboygan, sort of like what happened to this (Pop) Vocal Male winner of 1962 Tony Bennett ("I Left My Heart In San Francisco")
#3680, aired 2000-09-08MULTI-MILLION SELLING ALBUMS $200: This group's "1962-1966" album has sold 13 million copies, its "1967-1970" album, 14 million The Beatles
#3666, aired 2000-07-10CALVIN-ISM $100: He attended the High School of Art & Design & graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1962 Calvin Klein
#3661, aired 2000-07-03LET GEORGES DO IT $200: This president who made Georges Pompidou premier in 1962 was succeeded by him as president in 1969 Charles de Gaulle
#3660, aired 2000-06-30HODGEPODGE $400: In 1999 Crayola decided to rename its Indian Red crayon, the first renaming since 1962 when this became "Peach" Flesh
#3653, aired 2000-06-21DUKES & EARLS $300: "As I walk through this world, nothing can stop this" 1962 Gene Chandler No. 1 hit "Duke of Earl"
#3631, aired 2000-05-22ANTHOLOGIES $600: This company's "Anthology Of English Literature" has had 7 editions since 1962 Norton
#3624, aired 2000-05-11SWEET "VIRGINIA" $300: This noisy, soul-baring Edward Albee play premiered in 1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#3624, aired 2000-05-11NAME THAT FLICK $400: 1962: "Bond. James Bond." Dr. No
#3614, aired 2000-04-27"SEX" SELLS $400: The title to this 1962 runaway bestseller by Helen Gurley Brown was suggested to her by her husband "Sex and the Single Girl"
#3600, aired 2000-04-07ROCK MUSIC $100: In January 1962 they topped the first-ever "Mersey Beat" group popularity poll The Beatles
#3600, aired 2000-04-07ROCK MUSIC $500: This 1962 Roy Orbison hit is subtitled "How Long Must I Dream" "Dream Baby"
#3584, aired 2000-03-16"E"OGRAPHY $400: The site of a famous 1976 rescue, this city was the capital of Uganda from 1893 to 1962 Entebbe
#3573, aired 2000-03-01PEOPLE IN VOGUE $200: Bert Stein flew to Rome in 1962 to shoot her while she was shooting a movie with Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor
#3572, aired 2000-02-29POTPOURRI $1000: The 2 Best Musical Tony winners with the longest titles are "How to Succeed..." in 1962 & this one in 1963 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
#3571, aired 2000-02-28THEY'RE LYRICAL $500: Neil Sedaka co-wrote & sang this song that reached the Top 10 in 1962 & again in 1975 "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"
#3566, aired 2000-02-21MEN ON FILM $200: "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) Peter O'Toole
#3561, aired 2000-02-14IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $400: Americans fell in love with her when she gave a TV tour of the White House on Feb. 14, 1962 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#3560, aired 2000-02-11THIS OLD HAUNTED HOUSE $600: Her home for a time, Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel boasts the ghost of this sex symbol who died in 1962 Marilyn Monroe
#3554, aired 2000-02-03EXPRESS YOURSELF $200: Frequently late, this sex symbol quipped in 1962, "I've been on a calendar, but never on time" Marilyn Monroe
#3552, aired 2000-02-01TIME TO "D"ECIDE $400: Averaging just over 152 MPH, Fireball Roberts won this grueling Florida auto race in 1962 Daytona 500
#3546, aired 2000-01-24"ONE" PLANET $500: In 1962 Ken Kesey published this nonconformist classic "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
#3544, aired 2000-01-20AUTOBIOGRAPHERS $300: 1962: "Casey at the Bat" Casey Stengel
#3544, aired 2000-01-20ROBERT REDFORD $400: Early in his career, Robert Redford played Mr. Death in a 1962 episode of this TV anthology series The Twilight Zone
#3537, aired 2000-01-11SENIOR SENATORS $400: Politician seen here in 1962, the year he was first elected to the Senate: Edward (Ted) Kennedy
#3519, aired 1999-12-16BOOKS FOR YOUR DOG $750 (Daily Double): Your dog's reaction to this 1962 book may be "Less Steinbeck, more poodle" Travels with Charley
#3510, aired 1999-12-03"F.F." $800: He was a Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1962 Felix Frankfurter
#3500, aired 1999-11-19I LOVE NEW YORK $500: NYC's biggest ticker-tape parade occurred March 1, 1962 when over 3,000 tons were dumped on this astronaut John Glenn
#3473, aired 1999-10-13AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1962 the U.S agreed to give Cuba $53 million in aid for the release of 1,113 prisoners taken in this invasion Bay of Pigs
#3464, aired 1999-09-30SEPTEMBER 30 $600: U.S. marshals escorted James Meredith onto the campus of this school in 1962, breaking the color barrier University of Mississippi
#3454, aired 1999-09-16U.S. FIRSTS $800: On Aug. 2, 1962 the U.S. submarines Skate & Seadragon made a historic joint surfacing here North Pole
#3433, aired 1999-07-07GOING "NATIONAL" $400: The area seen here was established as one of these in 1962 a national seashore
#3430, aired 1999-07-02THE ARMY-NAVY GAME $400: Roger, we copy: this future Dallas Cowboys QB was the star as Navy upset Army in 1962 Roger Staubach
#3427, aired 1999-06-29CELEBRITY TRIVIA $200: After this legendary star died in 1962, David Cassidy acquired her pet canary; he named it Marilyn Marilyn Monroe
#3426, aired 1999-06-28"SOLDIER"S & "SAILOR"S $600: In 1962 the Shirelles remained at the top of the charts for 3 weeks with this hit "Soldier Boy"
#3425, aired 1999-06-25LABOR $100: In 1962 federal employees were given the right to organize, but not the right to do this, as other workers can strike
#3413, aired 1999-06-09ISLAND COUNTRIES $200: On Oct. 22, 1962 President Kennedy revealed that Russia had built missile bases in this country Cuba
#3410, aired 1999-06-04THEY MEANT BUSINESS $400: President Harry Cunningham opened this "K" company's first K Mart in Michigan in 1962 Kresge
#3403, aired 1999-05-26WORLD HISTORY $300: More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962 Algeria
#3401, aired 1999-05-24COURTROOM DRAMAS $600: In this 1962 classic, Gregory Peck's children watch him fight racial injustice in an Alabama courtroom To Kill A Mockingbird
#3391, aired 1999-05-10U.S. CITIES $500: The site of the World's Fair in 1962, it's flanked on the west by Puget Sound & on the east by Lake Washington Seattle
#3390, aired 1999-05-07IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK $100: It's not me seen here coming out of the voting booth in 1962, but it is this woman who would later become first lady Pat Nixon
#3383, aired 1999-04-28LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $1,600 (Daily Double): (Backstage at the Emmys: Hi, I'm Jay Leno, and the answer is:) My "Tonight Show" predecessor, Johnny Carson, became the full-time host after this man quit in March of 1962 Jack Paar
#3372, aired 1999-04-13THE SONGS OF BACHARACH & DAVID $500 (Daily Double): Burt & Hal were inspired by this 1962 movie starring John Wayne & Jimmy Stewart to write a song of the same name The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
#3371, aired 1999-04-12ALL THAT JAZZ $200: In 1962 this "King of Swing"'s band became the first U.S. jazz band to visit the Soviet Union Benny Goodman
#3371, aired 1999-04-12NAMES IN THE NOOSE $600: For his role in Nazi Germany's mass murder of the Jews, he was hanged in Israel May 31, 1962 Adolf Eichmann
#3357, aired 1999-03-23DON'T LISTEN TO THEM! $100: Rejecting this band in 1962, Decca Records said, "We don't like their sound & guitar music is on the way out" The Beatles
#3356, aired 1999-03-22WHERE WERE YOU IN '62? $500: In June 1962 the Supreme Court ruled that this in schools violated the First Amendment prayer
#3353, aired 1999-03-17CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1970 he revised his 1962 book "Young People's Concerts for Reading and Listening" Leonard Bernstein
#3329, aired 1999-02-11THERE GOES THE EMPIRE $200: Rwanda & Burundi were a single colonial possession of this country until 1962 Belgium
#3316, aired 1999-01-25GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Janet Leigh.) I romanced Frank Sinatra in this 1962 film about brainwashing, Communism & assassination The Manchurian Candidate
#3292, aired 1998-12-22'70s TV $800: In 1962 this pair was together at Carnegie Hall; 10 years later both had variety shows Carol Burnett & Julie Andrews
#3289, aired 1998-12-17MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $300: Carole King co-wrote this song that was a No. 5 hit for The Drifters in 1962 "Up On The Roof"
#3288, aired 1998-12-16TAKE A LETTER $800: In a 1962 film, Leslie Caron moved into a room of this shape in a London boarding house L (The L-Shaped Room)
#3248, aired 1998-10-21IN THE YEARBOOK $1000: A 1996 plane crash claimed the life of this cabinet member, seen here in a 1962 college yearbook Ron Brown
#3245, aired 1998-10-16SWEET GOSPEL MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): Fittingly, in 1962 this female singer won the first gospel Grammy Mahalia Jackson
#3243, aired 1998-10-14BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: In a famous 1962 film, Gregory Peck says it's "a sin to" do this kill a mockingbird
#3237, aired 1998-10-06DR. NO...GUCHI $200: Dr. Noguchi autopsied this actress whose death in August 1962 is still the subject of debate Marilyn Monroe
#3230, aired 1998-09-25BETTE DAVIS FILMS $200: Wheelchair-bound Joan Crawford squares off with screen sister Bette in this 1962 camp classic "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
#3211, aired 1998-07-13THE MOVIES $1000: This 1962 Cinerama epic had segments directed by George Marshall, Henry Hathaway & John Ford How the West Was Won
#3205, aired 1998-07-03CRITTER LIT $1000: John Steinbeck traveled across America in a 1962 bestseller, "Travels with" this title poodle Charley
#3189, aired 1998-06-11TRAVEL TEXAS $500: Much of this resort island's beachfront was designated a national seashore in 1962 Padre Island
#3181, aired 1998-06-01REVELATION $400: In 1962 Rachel Carson revealed the dangers of toxic pollution to a mass audience in this book Silent Spring
#3177, aired 1998-05-26THE WORST IN SPORTS $200: This team notched a modern record of 120 losses in 1962, its first season New York Mets
#3171, aired 1998-05-18IMPRESSIONS $500: In 1962 Vaughn Meader's recorded impressions of this man sold a million copies in 2 weeks John F. Kennedy
#3165, aired 1998-05-08COLLEGE ATHLETICS $400: From 1962 through 1997, this North Carolina men's basketball coach had an NCAA record 879 wins Dean Smith
#3138, aired 1998-04-01ATHLETIC CUPS $100: Pele scored 12 career goals in helping Brazil win this trophy 3 times: 1958, 1962 & 1970 the World Cup (in soccer)
#3132, aired 1998-03-24THE MOVIES $300: The Nabokov novel nymphet played by Sue Lyon in 1962 & Dominique Swain in 1997 Lolita
#3132, aired 1998-03-24THE MOVIES $400: This world-famous sitarist composed some Indian music for the 1962 film, "Tarzan goes to India" Ravi Shankar
#3117, aired 1998-03-03GOING CUCKOO $400: In this 1962 novel, McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
#3116, aired 1998-03-02FAST FOOD $600: In 1962 Glen Bell opened the first of these fast food restaurants in Downey, California Taco Bell
#3110, aired 1998-02-20MOVIE DEBUTS $1000: Robert Redford & this "Picket Fences" star both debuted as soldiers in the 1962 drama "War Hunt" Tom Skerritt
#3108, aired 1998-02-18NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: Oct. 2, 1962: "3,000 Troops Put Down... Rioting And Seize 200 As Negro Attends" this school the University of Mississippi
#3105, aired 1998-02-13LOVE SONGS $200: In 1962, his pop version of "I Can't Stop Loving You" was the No. 1 single of the year Ray Charles
#3101, aired 1998-02-09CANCELED CZECHS $200: In 1962 this nation canceled the Czechs' World Cup soccer dreams, winning without Pele Brazil
#3094, aired 1998-01-29AMERICAN AUTHORS $500: In 1962 this "Cardinal Sins" author received the Edison Award for his "Catholic Hour" radio broadcasts (Andrew) Greeley
#3090, aired 1998-01-23'60s ROLES $400: When Patty Duke won her Oscar for this 1962 role, she was the youngest person to win a regular Oscar Helen Keller
#3088, aired 1998-01-21ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: Peter Ustinov directed the 1962 film version of this Herman Melville novel & played Captain Vere in it Billy Budd
#3088, aired 1998-01-21CATHEDRALS & CHURCHES $800: This English city's modern cathedral, built in 1962, stands next to the bombed-out ruins of the old one Coventry
#3083, aired 1998-01-14TRANSPORTATION $200: Dedicated in 1962, the Thatcher Ferry Bridge spans the Pacific entrance to this canal Panama Canal
#3080, aired 1998-01-09FILM STARS $1,800 (Daily Double): She was born Demetria Guynes November 11, 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico Demi Moore
#3077, aired 1998-01-06HISTORIC JOHNS $400: During his 4 hour & 55 minute flight into space in 1962, he experienced 3 sunrises & sunsets John Glenn
#3076, aired 1998-01-05A LITTLE "R" & "R" $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1962 Nat King Cole sang the following to this title female: "Ramblin' Rose"
#3072, aired 1997-12-30FLICKS $200: Marlon Brando played Fletcher Christian to Trevor Howard's Captain Bligh in this 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty
#3065, aired 1997-12-19BEATNIK LIT $400: His "Naked Lunch" provoked an obscenity trial in 1962 William S. Burroughs
#3061, aired 1997-12-15WHERE "BABY"s COME FROM $1,000 (Daily Double): This Henry Mancini song comes from the 1962 film "Hatari!": The Baby Elephant Walk
#3053, aired 1997-12-03QUOTATIONS $500: Of her 1962 novel "Ship of Fools" she said, "I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul" Katherine Anne Porter
#3044, aired 1997-11-20ACTORS IN POLITICAL FILMS $600: Laurence Harvey & Frank Sinatra starred in this 1962 political thriller based on a novel by Richard Condon The Manchurian Candidate
#3026, aired 1997-10-27HISPANIC AMERICANS $200: In 1962 he used his life savings to form the National Farm Workers Association in Delano, Calif. Cesar Chavez
#3023, aired 1997-10-22BY THE "BOOK" $800: In 1962 he led the MG's to a Top 10 hit with "Green Onions" Booker T.
#3017, aired 1997-10-14FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $800: In 1962 she introduced Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh in her first novel, "Cover Her Face" P.D. James
#3003, aired 1997-09-24IRAQNOPHOBIA $100: This Iraqi president attended Cairo Law School in 1962 & 1963 while in exile Saddam Hussein
#2991, aired 1997-09-08PHOTO OPS $300: A glass elevator leads to the observation deck at the top of this 600' symbol of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair Space Needle
#2984, aired 1997-07-17AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1962 this Hawaiian became the first Japanese-American elected to the U.S. Senate Daniel Inouye
#2977, aired 1997-07-08COURT CASES $400: In 1962's Engel v. Vitale the Supreme Court eliminated this practice in New York State's public schools prayer
#2967, aired 1997-06-24COMPANY HISTORIES $400: This discount chain with a red & white bullseye logo was founded in 1962 Target
#2966, aired 1997-06-23COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: Canada's oldest agricultural school, St. Anne de la Pocatiere, became part of this province's Laval U. in 1962 Quebec
#2962, aired 1997-06-17TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Lee J. Cobb played judge Henry Garth, 1st owner of the Shiloh ranch, on this James Drury series 1962-66 "The Virginian"
#2956, aired 1997-06-09BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: This retailer opened its first "Discount City" in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas Wal-Mart
#2936, aired 1997-05-12THE 1960s $100: The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 addressed this church's role in the modern world Roman Catholic
#2921, aired 1997-04-21ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: This star of "The American President" was an assistant director on his father's 1962 film "Lonely Are the Brave" Michael Douglas
#2913, aired 1997-04-09HIGH SCHOOLS $100: Led by Lew Alcindor, Power Memorial in NYC won 71 straight games in this sport 1962-65 Basketball
#2901, aired 1997-03-24AVIATION $500: In 1962 the National Aviation Hall of Fame was established in this Ohio city Dayton
#2897, aired 1997-03-18EXPLORERS $200: In 1962 this future Apollo 11 commander was chosen by NASA as the first civilian astronaut Neil Armstrong
#2895, aired 1997-03-14ART & ARTISTS $200: This pop artist's 1962 painting "Green Coca-Cola Bottles" is in the Whitney Museum Andy Warhol
#2889, aired 1997-03-06THE STARS $1000: This star bought the island of Teti'aroa which he'd seen while filming a 1962 motion picture Marlon Brando (the film was "Mutiny on the Bounty")
#2888, aired 1997-03-05GAMBLING $400: Edward Thorp's 1962 book "Beat the Dealer" introduced many to the idea of card counting in this game blackjack
#2883, aired 1997-02-26BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: In 1962 this chain opened its first budget motel, a 52-unit complex in Santa Barbara, California Motel 6
#2877, aired 1997-02-18SHOW BIZ SIBLINGS $500: "Drop Zone" director John Badham is the brother of Mary Badham, who played Scout in this 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird
#2863, aired 1997-01-29HAPPY BIRTHDAY $200: This star of "Born On The Fourth of July" was actually born on the third of July in 1962 Tom Cruise
#2855, aired 1997-01-17RECORD LABELS $500: In 1962 Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss founded Carnival Records, later renamed this A&M Records
#2852, aired 1997-01-14FORMER CHILD STARS $1,000 (Daily Double): Former child star heard here in a 1962 movie musical; he now works behind the camera: Ron Howard (in The Music Man)
#2840, aired 1996-12-27WORLD CAPITALS $600: Built for the Asian Games in 1962, the Hotel Indonesia was this city's first high-rise Jakarta
#2822, aired 1996-12-03AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This "Crisis" officially ended October 28, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
#2816, aired 1996-11-25AWARDS $400: This first American in Earth orbit was given the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal in 1962 John Glenn
#2781, aired 1996-10-07WORLD CAPITALS $800: In 1962 Kampala succeeded Entebbe as the capital of this country Uganda
#2780, aired 1996-10-04FAMOUS SHIPS $300: The Pearl Harbor memorial built above this sunken battleship was dedicated in 1962 the Arizona
#2774, aired 1996-09-26AMERICAN HISTORY $1,300 (Daily Double): In July 1962 this communications satellite beamed the first live TV pictures from the U.S. to Europe Telstar
#2760, aired 1996-09-06HOSPITALS $200: On Feb. 14, 1962 the doors opened to this Memphis hospital founded by Danny Thomas St. Jude
#2751, aired 1996-07-15THE BEATLES $100: This drummer joined The Beatles in 1962, replacing Pete Best Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
#2749, aired 1996-07-11FAMOUS ITALIANS $800: She won an Oscar in 1962 & received an honorary one in 1991 Sophia Loren
#2741, aired 1996-07-01SALESMEN $500: He was an IBM salesman from 1957 to 1962, then formed his own company, EDS, & became a billionaire Ross Perot
#2732, aired 1996-06-18U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1957 he flew cross-country in 3 hr. 23 min.; in 1962 he made 3 orbits in 4 hr. 55 min. John Glenn
#2717, aired 1996-05-28NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: This 1962 Rachel Carson book first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker Silent Spring
#2716, aired 1996-05-271960s NO. 1 HITS $500: In 1962 this Four Seasons girl knocked Tommy Roe's "Sheila" from the top spot "Sherry"
#2712, aired 1996-05-21BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1962 this company opened Woolco, a U.S. & Canadian discount chain Woolworth
#2695, aired 1996-04-26MOVIE VILLAINS $800: Played by Laurence Harvey, Raymond Shaw is the brainwashed assassin in this 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate
#2689, aired 1996-04-18LITERATURE $600: Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel "Big Sur" continued the story started in this 1957 book On the Road
#2686, aired 1996-04-15ESPIONAGE $200: In 1962 the CIA enlisted the Mafia to assassinate this Cuban leader Fidel Castro
#2685, aired 1996-04-121960S POP PERSONALITIES $600: In 1962 this trumpeter & Jerry Moss founded A&M Records Herb Alpert
#2684, aired 1996-04-11JULY $600: On July 10, 1962 this communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Telstar
#2683, aired 1996-04-10THE PRISONER $600 (Daily Double): Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of this country, was imprisoned in France from 1956-1962 Algeria
#2682, aired 1996-04-09FILM EPICS $800: James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, & Henry Fonda were among the stars of this 1962 epic about a pioneer family "How the West Was Won"
#2674, aired 1996-03-28LITERATURE $800: James Jones' 1962 novel "The Thin Red Line" was a sequel to this 1951 work "From Here to Eternity"
#2662, aired 1996-03-12HISTORY $100: In April 1962 a Cuban court sentenced 1,179 prisoners from this invasion to 30 years in prison the Bay of Pigs invasion
#2640, aired 1996-02-09VALENTINE'S DAY $200: On Valentine's Day 1962, this first lady took viewers on a televised "Tour of the White House" Jackie Kennedy
#2631, aired 1996-01-29BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: In 1962 he founded Electronic Data Systems after working for IBM for 5 years Ross Perot
#2629, aired 1996-01-25ART & ARTISTS $200: She's the subject of Andy Warhol's 1962 "Marilyn Diptych" Marilyn Monroe
#2625, aired 1996-01-19SMALL COUNTRIES $300: In 1962 Tobago & this larger neighbor won their independence from Great Britain Trinidad
#2614, aired 1996-01-0420th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: In 1962, the year he published "Travels with Charley", he won the Nobel Prize for Literature John Steinbeck
#2610, aired 1995-12-29VICE PRESIDENTS $400: In 1962 this future vice president was elected Baltimore County Executive (Spiro) Agnew
#2586, aired 1995-11-27BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS $100: Quick as you can say his name, in 1962 he was the first black player inducted Jackie Robinson
#2578, aired 1995-11-15MOVIE DEBUTS $300: Sydney Pollack, his co-star in 1962's "War Hunt", later directed him in "Out of Africa" Robert Redford
#2569, aired 1995-11-02NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV $200: In 1962 Khrushchev was forced to withdraw his missiles from this country Cuba
#2568, aired 1995-11-01BRITISH POSSESSIONS $200: This British crown colony absorbed over a million Chinese refugees between 1949 & 1962 Hong Kong
#2565, aired 1995-10-27RELIGION $800: This 1962-63 Roman Catholic council was the first in church history to issue no condemnations Vatican II
#2562, aired 1995-10-24THEATRE $600: This Robert Bolt drama about the final years of Sir Thomas More won the 1962 Tony for Best Play A Man For All Seasons
#2554, aired 1995-10-12THEATRE $600: This famous 1962 drama has only 4 characters: Martha, George, Nick & Honey Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
#2549, aired 1995-10-05AROUND THE WORLD $600: Itzhak Ben-Zvi was the only person chosen president of this country 3 times–in 1952, 1957 & 1962 Israel
#2534, aired 1995-09-14TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): Built in 1962 for the Seattle World's Fair, it's still in operation as public transportation the Monorail
#2534, aired 1995-09-14MUSICAL THEATER $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1962 Stephen Sondheim musical was based on works by Titus Maccius Plautus A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
#2533, aired 1995-09-13HALLMARK HALL OF FAME $1000: In 1962 Dorothy Stickney, Mildred Natwick, Boris Karloff & Tony Randall starred in this classic comedy Arsenic & Old Lace
#2529, aired 1995-09-07FAMOUS MEREDITHS $500: In 1962 James Meredith enrolled as the first black student at this university Ole Miss (Mississippi)
#2525, aired 1995-07-21FIRST LADIES $400: She was a delegate to the U.N. twice, 1945-1952 & 1961-1962 Eleanor Roosevelt
#2521, aired 1995-07-17THE 1960s $300: After orbiting the earth in 1962, he said, "Friendship 7 is just a beginning, a successful experiment" John Glenn
#2518, aired 1995-07-12MUSEUMS $200: The Queen's Gallery in this English palace has been open to the public since 1962 Buckingham
#2518, aired 1995-07-12CIRCUS HISTORY $300: Tragically, 2 members of this family died when their 7-man pyramid collapsed in 1962 the Wallendas
#2516, aired 1995-07-10CROONERS $200: He'd been recording for 12 years when he cut his theme, 1962's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" Tony Bennett
#2501, aired 1995-06-19MUSIC $400: Stravinsky wrote his 1962 opera "The Flood" for this medium television
#2498, aired 1995-06-14HISTORIC DOUBLE Bs $600: From 1894-1962 it was the capital of the British Uganda Protectorate Entebbe
#2483, aired 1995-05-24WORLD HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): On Nov. 30, 1962 the U.N. General Assembly elected this Burmese diplomat secretary-general U Thant
#2475, aired 1995-05-12AWARDS $600: In 1962 Congress gave this "Mending Wall" poet a gold medal in recognition of his poetry Frost
#2465, aired 1995-04-28POP MUSIC $400: In 1975 this performer released a slow version of his 1962 hit "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" Neil Sedaka
#2446, aired 1995-04-03AFRICAN CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): When this country became independent in 1962, Kigali became its capital Rwanda
#2430, aired 1995-03-10SPORTS $400: In 1962 this Philadelphia Warriors player set an NBA record with 36 field goals in a game Wilt Chamberlain
#2421, aired 1995-02-27FEBRUARY $400: On February 10, 1962, the Russians released this U.S. pilot Powers
#2419, aired 1995-02-23AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On Feb. 20, 1962 this Marine Corps lieutenant colonel orbited the Earth 3 times John Glenn
#2408, aired 1995-02-08SPORTS $200: In 1962 Marine Corps Corporal John Uelses became the first man to exceed 16 feet in this event the pole vault
#2394, aired 1995-01-19U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: In a 1962 Gallup poll, 77% of the people interviewed approved of the way he was handling his job Kennedy
#2389, aired 1995-01-12ROCK $500: 1962 Crystals hit that begins, "See the way he walks down the street. That's the way he shuffles his feet" "He's A Rebel"
#2381, aired 1995-01-02SPORTS $100: In 1962 baseball's National League expanded to 10 teams, adding the Houston Colt .45s & this N.Y. team the New York Mets
#2379, aired 1994-12-29HISTORY $200: In 1993 this country withdrew the remnants of a brigade sent to Cuba during the 1962 Missile Crisis Russia
#2346, aired 1994-11-14MOVIE THRILLERS $100: In 1988 this 1962 Frank Sinatra film based on Richard Condon's novel was re-released to the theatres The Manchurian Candidate
#2346, aired 1994-11-14MOVIE THRILLERS $300: Joseph Wiseman played the lanky title villain in this 1962 James Bond movie, the first in the series Dr. No
#2336, aired 1994-10-31THE MOVIES $500: He portrayed Lincoln in 1940's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" & 1962's "How the West Was Won" Raymond Massey
#2335, aired 1994-10-28AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On Oct. 1, 1962 James Meredith became the first black student enrolled at this university the University of Mississippi
#2324, aired 1994-10-13BRIDGES $300: Between 1959 & 1962, a lower deck with 6 more traffic lanes was added to this bridge over the Hudson the George Washington Bridge
#2320, aired 1994-10-07RELIGION $1000: The Roman Catholic Church has had 2 of these councils: one 1869-70 & one 1962-65 Vatican Councils
#2319, aired 1994-10-06COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: In 1962 this Barbary state won its independence from France Algeria
#2312, aired 1994-09-2720th CENTURY AMERICA $800: He & Frederic Pryor were prisoners exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel February 10, 1962 Francis Gary Powers
#2307, aired 1994-09-20GAMBLING $400: 1962's "Beat the Dealer" by Edward O. Thorp was about card counting in this game blackjack
#2297, aired 1994-09-06FAMOUS AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): This winner of the 1958 Int'l Tchaikovsky Piano Competition established his own contest in 1962 Van Cliburn
#2288, aired 1994-07-13ORGANIZED LABOR $400: The National Farm Workers Association he founded in 1962 later merged to form the United Farm Workers (César) Chávez
#2277, aired 1994-06-28THEATRE $200: This country's Shaw Festival was founded in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1962 Canada
#2276, aired 1994-06-27AWARDS $1000: This couple recieved a 1962 Hubbard Medal for their contributions to paleontology the Leakeys
#2275, aired 1994-06-24GREAT SCOTTs $800: In 1962 he became the second American astronaut to orbit the Earth Scott Carpenter
#2248, aired 1994-05-18THE BRITISH INVASION $200: In 1962 this group led by Gerry Marsden was signed by the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein Gerry & the Pacemakers
#2248, aired 1994-05-18THE BRITISH INVASION $300: Until Eric Burdon joined this group in 1962, it was known as the Alan Price Combo The Animals
#2244, aired 1994-05-12WASHINGTON, D.C. $800: The first civil airport designed to specifically handle jets, it's been serving the D.C. area since 1962 Dulles
#2227, aired 1994-04-19THE 1960s $1000: In October 1962 130 years of this country's rule over Western New Guinea ended the Netherlands
#2202, aired 1994-03-15FIRST LADIES $600: When she visited India in 1962 with her sister Lee, she rode an elephant Jackie Kennedy
#2179, aired 1994-02-10FACTS & FIGURES $300: In 1962 it reached a high of 726.01; in 1992, 3,413.21 the Dow Jones Average
#2179, aired 1994-02-10"LINE"s $500: It's James Jones' 1962 novel set on Guadalcanal during WWII The Thin Red Line
#2178, aired 1994-02-09ARTISTS $400: This Spanish artist won a Lenin Prize in 1962, when he was 80 Picasso
#2176, aired 1994-02-07SCIENCE FICTION $400: His last novel, 1962's "Island", is about a tropical utopia, sort of a "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley
#2166, aired 1994-01-24PAINTERS $400: In 1962 his filmmaker son Jean published a memoir about him Renoir
#2157, aired 1994-01-11SILLY SONGS $200: This rodent group gave us "The Alvin Twist:" in 1962 the Chipmunks
#2155, aired 1994-01-07CLASSIC CINEMA $300: Bette Davis played a deranged ex-child star in this 1962 film that co-starred Joan Crawford What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
#2151, aired 1994-01-03SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: Critics raved over Paul Scofield's 1962 performance as this raving mad king King Lear
#2140, aired 1993-12-17TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: The national seashore on this Texas island was established by Congress in 1962 Padre Island
#2128, aired 1993-12-01PHOTOGRAPHERS $400: Edward Steichen was director of this NYC museum's photography department from 1947 to 1962 Museum of Modern Art
#2122, aired 1993-11-23THEATER $400: His first musical, "Little Me", premiered in 1962, the year after his first play, "Come Blow Your Horn" Neil Simon
#2118, aired 1993-11-17POP MUSIC $200: In 1962 he teamed with Dee Dee Sharp to record yet another dance hit, "Slow Twistin'" Chubby Checker
#2085, aired 1993-10-01QUOTATIONS $500: On February 20, 1962, he said, "Cape is go and I am go" John Glenn
#2082, aired 1993-09-28THE SUPREME COURT $600: In Engel v. Vitale in 1962, the court prohibited this practice in public schools prayer
#2079, aired 1993-09-23ROCK TRIVIA $600: This Bobby "Boris" Pickett song was the No. 1 hit on Halloween in 1962 "Monster Mash"
#2072, aired 1993-09-14COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $200: In October 1962 the U.S. demanded the withdrawal of all offensive missiles from this country Cuba
#2053, aired 1993-07-07SPACE EXPLORATION $200: After his 3-orbit Mercury flight in February 1962, he was sweating profusely & appeared fatigued John Glenn
#2049, aired 1993-07-01AFRICAN HISTORY $400: This country's 1954-1962 struggle for independence caused a million Europeans to leave it Algeria
#2046, aired 1993-06-28AWARDS $1000: In 1962 this "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" was given the Fermi Award for achievement in Atomic Energy Edward Teller
#2033, aired 1993-06-09EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: In 1962 Prince Rainier granted this country a new constitution which gave women the right to vote Monaco
#2030, aired 1993-06-04FIRST LADIES $200: In 1961 & 1962 she received an estimated 8,000 fan letters a week Jackie Kennedy
#2030, aired 1993-06-04EYE TEST $400: In 1962 Dean Rusk said, "We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just" did this blinked
#2028, aired 1993-06-02THE ITALIAN CINEMA $400: This romantic leading man earned his 1st Oscar nomination in 1962 for "Divorce - Italian Style" Marcello Mastroianni
#2016, aired 1993-05-17FILM BIOGRAPHIES $800: Prisoner & ornithologist Robert Stroud was the focus of this 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster Birdman of Alcatraz
#2005, aired 1993-04-30ROCK TRIVIA $200: In 1962 this dance craze was banned in Buffalo at Catholic youth events the Twist
#1991, aired 1993-04-12THE CARIBBEAN $1,000 (Daily Double): 1 of the 3 independent nations in the West Indies prior to 1962 (1 of) Cuba (Haiti or the Dominican Republic)
#1987, aired 1993-04-06THE OSCARS $500: Mary Badham was such a good "Scout" in this Gregory Peck film that she received a 1962 Oscar nomination To Kill a Mockingbird
#1987, aired 1993-04-06BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In this 1962 book, Nixon said, "The Hiss case brought me national fame" Six Crises
#1985, aired 1993-04-02FILE UNDER "H" $800: Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" won this award for 1962 the Hugo
#1981, aired 1993-03-29POLITICS $200: Since 1962 this Massachusetts senator's lowest winning percentage was 61% in 1982 Edward Kennedy
#1973, aired 1993-03-17MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY $200: In 1962 the first eye surgery utilizing this technology was performed laser surgery
#1971, aired 1993-03-15QUOTES $200: In 1962 he said, "Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round" Muhammad Ali
#1969, aired 1993-03-11POLITICIANS $600: In 1962 he was 30, the minimum age necessary, when elected to the U.S. Senate from Mass. Ted Kennedy
#1964, aired 1993-03-04BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Cecil Woodham-Smith's 1962 book "The Great Hunger" was a study of this 1840s calamity in Europe the potato famine
#1955, aired 1993-02-19BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Polio Man", a 1962 biography, tells of this doctor who developed the first polio vaccine (Jonas) Salk
#1954, aired 1993-02-18U.S. CITIES $800 (Daily Double): The Pacific Science Center in this Northwest city was built for the 1962 world's fair Seattle
#1953, aired 1993-02-17U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: In 1962 Richard Nixon held his "last press conference" after losing a race for this California office governor
#1950, aired 1993-02-12THEATRES $800: This "Grand" Paris theatre closed in 1962, but its name is still synonymous with gruesome horror Grand Guignol
#1933, aired 1993-01-20AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This communications satellite was put into orbit July 10, 1962 Telstar
#1923, aired 1993-01-06MOVIE NOSTALGIA $200: This 1962 Peter O'Toole epic was re-released to great acclaim in 1989 Lawrence of Arabia
#1922, aired 1993-01-05POP MUSIC $1000: Glen Campbell played guitar on this 1962 No. 1 hit by Shelley Fabares "Johnny Angel"
#1921, aired 1993-01-04MADE BY WHAM-O $200: A 1962 Wham-O game involving this dance came with a crossbar & foot-shaped stands & featured Chubby Checker the limbo
#1913, aired 1992-12-23CHRISTMAS SONGS $300 (Daily Double): This record by the Harry Simeone Chorale reached the Billboard Top 40 5 times from 1958 to 1962 "The Little Drummer Boy"
#1903, aired 1992-12-09AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1962 Amb. Adlai Stevenson displayed aerial photos of missile bases in this country to the U.N. Cuba
#1902, aired 1992-12-081963 $200: The Jan. 4 issue of this magazine named Pope John XXIII its Man of the Year for 1962 Time
#1900, aired 1992-12-04BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: James Jones called his 1962 sequel to this novel "The Thin Red Line" From Here to Eternity
#1900, aired 1992-12-04FAMOUS SPEECHES $1,600 (Daily Double): In May 1962 he delivered his "Duty, Honor, Country" speech (Douglas) MacArthur
#1898, aired 1992-12-02BRITS $200: Prime minister Harold Macmillan turned diplomat to help resolve this 1962 international crisis the Cuban Missile Crisis
#1896, aired 1992-11-30U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1962 California surpassed this state as the most populous New York
#1876, aired 1992-11-02BARBIE $500: In 1962, many of Barbie's new fashions including a pillbox hat were influenced by this woman Jackie Kennedy
#1875, aired 1992-10-30SINGERS $500: She was nominated for a 1962 Tony for her Broadway debut in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" Barbra Streisand
#1873, aired 1992-10-28THE MOVIES $500: In this 1962 film, brainwashed Laurence Harvey is controlled by his spy mother, Angela Lansbury The Manchurian Candidate
#1870, aired 1992-10-23THE UNITED NATIONS $200: This Burmese served as permanent U.N. secretary general from 1962 to 1971 U Thant
#1858, aired 1992-10-07THE TONIGHT SHOW $200: On Oct. 1, 1962, this "You Bet Your Life" star introduced Johnny Carson as the show's permanent host Groucho Marx
#1853, aired 1992-09-30BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His 1962 novel, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", was published with Khrushchev's approval Solzhenitsyn
#1848, aired 1992-09-23THE SUPREME COURT $1,000 (Daily Double): Appointed in 1962, he is the longest serving member of the current court Byron "Whizzer" White
#1833, aired 1992-07-15FAMOUS SENIORS $200: Known as the "Ol' Perfesser", he became the 1st manager of the New York Mets in 1962 at age 70 Casey Stengel
#1830, aired 1992-07-10ACTORS & HISTORIC ROLES $600: Helen Hayes played this queen on Broadway in 1935; Julie Harris won an Emmy for the same role in 1962 Queen Victoria
#1792, aired 1992-05-19ALUMINUM $200: In 1962 Alcoa introduced pull tabs & aluminum ends on these cans
#1783, aired 1992-05-06BALLET $1000: When this ballet premiered in 1962, Edward Villella danced the role of Oberon A Midsummer Night's Dream
#1779, aired 1992-04-30U.S. CITIES $300: In 1962 this city in Washington State was the site of the Century 21 Exposition Seattle
#1773, aired 1992-04-22COMIC BOOKS $100: This web-slinging superhero made his debut in 1962 in "Amazing Fantasy" No. 15 Spider-Man
#1772, aired 1992-04-21ACTORS & WESTERN ROLES $800: Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, James Stewart & George Peppard were a few of the many stars in this 1962 epic How the West Was Won
#1768, aired 1992-04-15FINANCE $5,000 (Daily Double): Named for a N.Y. congressman, this pension plan was established in 1962 to benefit the self-employed Keogh (Plan)
#1753, aired 1992-03-25BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Carleton Beals' 1962 book "Cyclone Carry" told the story of this temperance agitator Carry Nation
#1706, aired 1992-01-20CELEBRITIES $400: He played Chance Wayne in the original 1959 production of "Sweet Bird of Youth" & in the 1962 film Paul Newman
#1704, aired 1992-01-16ISLANDS $800: This island along the Gulf Coast of Texas was designated a national seashore in 1962 Padre Island
#1698, aired 1992-01-08SUNKEN SHIPS $200: A monument above the final resting place of this battleship was dedicated at Pearl Harbor in 1962 the Arizona
#1675, aired 1991-12-06SPORTS LEGENDS $500: In 1962 he won the tennis grand slam & in 1969 became the first man to do it twice Rod Laver
#1669, aired 1991-11-28MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Diahann Carroll starred in this 1962 musical whose title referred to a lack of violins in its score No Strings
#1665, aired 1991-11-22FLAGS $100: Until 1962 the Sun & this heavenly body on the flag of Nepal had facial features the Moon
#1665, aired 1991-11-22HODGEPODGE $400: In 1962 Mt. Stalin, the USSR's highest peak, was renamed this, for the country's system of government (Mount) Communism
#1654, aired 1991-11-07FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: A 1962 Solzhenitsyn work describes one day in the life of this prisoner Ivan Denisovich
#1653, aired 1991-11-06SOPHIA LOREN $200: Loren married this producer in 1957, got an annulment in 1962 & remarried him in 1966 Carlo Ponti
#1648, aired 1991-10-30BASEBALL GREATS $300: Shortstop who stole 104 bases in 1962—a major league record at the time & still the Dodger record Maury Wills
#1641, aired 1991-10-21THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Francis Gary Powers was released by the Soviets in 1962 in exchange for this spy Rudolf Abel
#1639, aired 1991-10-17SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE $600: As Secretary of Defense, he made visits to South Vietnam in 1962, 1964 & 1966 McNamara
#1628, aired 1991-10-02THE SMITHSONIAN $400: The Friendship 7 capsule in which he orbited in 1962 is in the National Air & Space Museum (John) Glenn
#1626, aired 1991-09-30BASEBALL $200: When this National League team was founded in Houston in 1962, it was known as the Colt .45s Astros
#1612, aired 1991-09-10THEATRE $800: In 1962 William Inge reworked this Pulitzer Prize-winning play of his & called it "Summer Brave" Picnic
#1600, aired 1991-07-12THE '60s $500: He was president of American Motors when he threw his hat into the Mich. governor's race in 1962 (George) Romney
#1598, aired 1991-07-10ORGANIZATIONS $400: In 1962 Cuba was suspended from this union of Western Hemisphere nations the Organization of American States
#1594, aired 1991-07-04ROCK LYRICS $400: 1962 song which asks "Is it Mary or Sue" "What's Your Name?"
#1587, aired 1991-06-25GOLDEN OLDIES $100: His last solo No. 1 hit came in 1962 with a country song, "I Can't Stop Loving You" Ray Charles
#1587, aired 1991-06-25GOLDEN OLDIES $200: In January 1962, this twist song by Joey Dee and the Starliters replaced Chubby Checker's "The Twist" at No. 1 "The Peppermint Twist"
#1586, aired 1991-06-24DANCE CRAZES $500 (Daily Double): Dance meaning "the latest thing" in Portuguese that Stan Getz took from Brazil to the U.S. in 1962 Bossa nova
#1581, aired 1991-06-17THE EMMYS $100: In 1962 the heads of the news departments of ABC, CBS & NBC got a special award for coverage of his orbital flight John Glenn
#1576, aired 1991-06-10ARTISTS $200: One of his 1962 works is titled "Big Torn Campbell's Soup Can Vegetable Beef" Andy Warhol
#1571, aired 1991-06-03U.S. HISTORY $200: On Feb. 20, 1962 he took 4 hours, 52 minutes to orbit the Earth 3 times John Glenn
#1554, aired 1991-05-09THE 1960s $200: On October 1, 1962 this 2-word introduction was used for the first time on "The Tonight Show" "Here's Johnny!"
#1545, aired 1991-04-26AWARDS $200: In 1962, E.G. Marshall won his first Emmy for his role as attorney Lawrence Preston in this TV series The Defenders
#1542, aired 1991-04-23LABOR UNIONS $300: He's been president of the United Farm Workers since he founded it in 1962 Cesar Chavez
#1541, aired 1991-04-22POP SINGERS $400 (Daily Double): In 1975, he reached the top 10 with a remake of the following 1962 number one hit "Don't take your love away from me / Don't you leave my heart in misery" Neil Sedaka
#1537, aired 1991-04-16THE 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")
#1534, aired 1991-04-11THE 20th CENTURY $400: About 46 million people saw her TV tour of the White House in 1962 Jackie Kennedy
#1520, aired 1991-03-22ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: His common-law wife, Tarita, played his love interest in 1962's "Mutiny on the Bounty" Marlon Brando
#1485, aired 1991-02-01FAMOUS GEMINIS $300: JFK was a Gemini & this actress who sang "Happy Birthday" to him in 1962 was a Gemini, too Marilyn Monroe
#1467, aired 1991-01-08BOOKS & AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): The Nobel committee cited "The Winter of Our Discontent" in awarding him the 1962 Literature Prize John Steinbeck
#1460, aired 1990-12-28JOURNALISTS $2,500 (Daily Double): Editor-in-chief of "Vogue" from 1962-71, she coined the expression "beautiful people" Diana Vreeland
#1457, aired 1990-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This US chemist won the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded in 1963 Linus Pauling
#1452, aired 1990-12-181960s TV TRIVIA $500: In 1962, NBC ran a Western named after this Wyoming town, & ABC had one called "The Lawman" set there Laramie
#1435, aired 1990-11-23APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: In 1962 Smokey Robinson had 3 Miracles, & Frank Sinatra had this many a pocketful
#1432, aired 1990-11-20POP MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following 1968 hit, the 1st instrumental to make #1 since 1962's "Telstar" "Love Is Blue"
#1432, aired 1990-11-20POP MUSIC $500: In a 1962 hit, Claude King warned not to go to this mountain if you're looking for a wife Wolverton Mountain
#1421, aired 1990-11-05BLACK AMERICA $200: In 1962 this ex-Brooklyn Dodger became the first black elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Jackie Robinson
#1409, aired 1990-10-18PRO BASKETBALL $100: Nicknamed "The Stilt", this Philadelphia Warrior player scored 100 points in a game March 2, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain
#1390, aired 1990-09-21MUSICALS $100: He wrote the music & lyrics for "No Strings" in 1962 after the death of Oscar Hammerstein II (Richard) Rodgers
#1390, aired 1990-09-21THE 1960s $400: In 1962 18-year-old Peter Fechter became the first person to be killed trying to scale this the Berlin Wall
#13, aired 1990-09-08ART WORLD BLOCKBUSTERS $200: Assessed at $100 million in 1962, this da Vinci painting is believed to be the world's most valuable the Mona Lisa
#1373, aired 1990-07-18CRIME $800: Netting only £62,000 from a 1962 London airport holdup, the same gang carried out this job in 1963 the Great Train Robbery
#5, aired 1990-07-14COMMUNICATIONS $1000: Communications satellite launched in 1962 that was the first privately owned Earth satellite Telstar
#1368, aired 1990-07-11TV NEWS $500: In April 1962 Walter Cronkite replaced this man on the "CBS Evening News" Douglas Edwards
#2, aired 1990-06-23AFRICA $400: In 1962 the northern half of Ruanda-Urundi became Rwanda & the southern half became this nation Burundi
#1339, aired 1990-05-31WORLD NEWS $400: It gained independence from France in 1962; now a new constitution allows multiple political parties Algeria
#1333, aired 1990-05-23BETTE DAVIS $800: The scary 1962 film in which Davis sang, "I've written a letter to Daddy" Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
#1316, aired 1990-04-30SONGS BY THE NUMBERS $100: According to a 1962 Bobby Vee hit, "The night has" this many eyes a thousand
#1312, aired 1990-04-24NONFICTION $500: He won a 1962 Pulitzer Prize for "The Making of the President 1960" Theodore White
#1308, aired 1990-04-181962 $100: Rumors surfaced among Cubans in America that this premier had remarried, but they've never been confirmed Fidel Castro
#1308, aired 1990-04-181962 $300: Pope John XXIII opened this historic meeting in St. Peter's Basilica on October 11 the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)
#1308, aired 1990-04-181962 $400: On July 3 Charles De Gaulle proclaimed the independence of this African country Algeria
#1308, aired 1990-04-181962 $500 (Daily Double): It topped the pop charts in the summer of '62: "The Stripper" (by David Rose)
#1308, aired 1990-04-181962 $500: There were requiems for this author of "Requiem for a Nun" after he died July 6 William Faulkner
#1273, aired 1990-02-28WASHINGTON STATE $200: The country's 1st municipal monorail line was built for this 1962 event the 1962 Seattle World's Fair
#1245, aired 1990-01-19THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $800: Voted a "Promising Newcomer" in 1962, she won 10 years later for "Carnal Knowledge" Ann-Margret
#1242, aired 1990-01-16LETTER PERFECT $300: In 1962 the African land of Urundi added this letter to its name B
#1242, aired 1990-01-16FILMS OF THE '60s $400: In 1962 billboards asked, "How did they ever make a movie out of" this Nabokov novel Lolita
#1242, aired 1990-01-16FILMS OF THE '60s $600: Joan Crawford & Bette Davis played scary sisters Blanche & Jane Hudson in this 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
#1226, aired 1989-12-25SPY NOVELS $800: Laurence Harvey was a "brainwashee" in this 1962 film based on a novel by Richard Condon The Manchurian Candidate
#1220, aired 1989-12-15SONGS OF THE '60s $400: This dance was "a graveyard smash" & "caught on in a flash" in 1962 & again in 1973 "Monster Mash"
#1219, aired 1989-12-141962 $200: A proposal was made in Geneva for a phone or teletype link between the Kremlin & this building the White House
#1219, aired 1989-12-141962 $400: In 1962 NASA sent Mariner II off toward this planet; in 1989 they sent Magellan Venus
#1219, aired 1989-12-141962 $600: In 1962 Uganda became the 110th country to join the U.N., & this country cast its 100th veto the Soviet Union
#1219, aired 1989-12-141962 $800: Eisenhower said this dance craze represented "some kind of change in our standards" the twist
#1219, aired 1989-12-141962 $1000: French president de Gaulle named this man, later his successor, to succeed Michel Debré as premier (Georges) Pompidou
#1212, aired 1989-12-05SPACE EXPLORATION $200: In 1962 the Russians sent a probe toward this planet but lost contact with it; in 1988, same thing Mars
#1211, aired 1989-12-04TV GAME SHOWS $100: This Allen Ludden series that premiered in 1962 featured a "Lightning Round" Password
#1203, aired 1989-11-22TRANSPORTATION $500: Studebaker introduced this model in 1962; in 1989, 360 new ones will be built in Youngstown, Ohio the Avanti
#1200, aired 1989-11-17SLAVERY $200: This large Middle Eastern country did not abolish slavery until 1962 Saudi Arabia
#1196, aired 1989-11-13PRESIDENTS $200: Showing he'd rather switch than fight, this future pres. changed from Democrat to Republican in 1962 Ronald Reagan
#1195, aired 1989-11-10THE SOVIET UNION $1000: We gave the Soviets this spy in 1962 to get back U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers Col. Rudolf Abel
#1171, aired 1989-10-09"W"ORDS $1,300 (Daily Double): How Dion describes himself in this song that hit No. 2 in 1962: a wanderer
#1164, aired 1989-09-28U.S. HISTORY $600: In December 1962, this country agreed to let 1,113 POWs go in exchange for over $50 mil. in U.S. supplies Cuba
#1162, aired 1989-09-26BLACK AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): He won a 1962 Grammy for the following: "I can't stop loving you, I've made up my mind..." Ray Charles
#1133, aired 1989-07-05MAN IN SPACE $200: On Feb. 26, 1962 he told Congress that his flight "proved that man can operate intelligently in space" John Glenn
#1125, aired 1989-06-23"RIGHT" SONGS $500: In this 1962 Johnny Tillotson hit, he continues to suffer anguish "Since You've Gone" "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'"
#1105, aired 1989-05-26"MAN"LY MOVIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Film that inspired Burt Bacharach & Hal David to write this 1962 Top 10 hit: "Alone and afraid she prayed that he'd return that fateful night / Aw, that night / When nothing she said could keep her man from going out to fight..." The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
#1103, aired 1989-05-24SPIES $600: This American spy was exchanged for Rudolf Abel on February 10, 1962 (Francis Gary) Powers
#1081, aired 1989-04-24COUNTRY CROONERS $400: 1 of 2 singers who, in 1962 & 1982 respectively, had hits with "Break It To Me Gently" (1 of) Brenda Lee or Juice Newton
#1081, aired 1989-04-24THE UNITED NATIONS $1000: On United Nations Day in 1962 U Thant suggested ways to quell the trouble on this island Cuba
#1069, aired 1989-04-06SPORTS IN FILMS $800: Elvis Presley played a singing boxer in this 1962 title role Kid Galahad
#1040, aired 1989-02-24FAMOUS FOLKS $300: African National Congress leader arrested in South Africa August 5, 1962, he's been held ever since Nelson Mandela
#1015, aired 1989-01-2020th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: In 1962 he resigned as head of American Motors to successfully run for governor of Mich. George Romney
#987, aired 1988-12-13NEW JERSEY $400: Bell Labs in Holmdel designed & built this 1st communications satellite in 1962 Telstar
#982, aired 1988-12-06HISTORY $600: In 1962 India reversed policy & asked the U.S. for arms to aid in its border war with this country China
#979, aired 1988-12-01FAMILIAR PHRASES $1000: Phrase for a period of prosperity & happiness, or a 1962 Jack Lemmon movie days of wine and roses
#972, aired 1988-11-22OREGONIANS $1000: Noted for trying to end nuclear testing, this scientist won the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize Linus Pauling
#969, aired 1988-11-17WORLD HISTORY $1000: The Cuban missile crisis made this the tensest month of 1962 October
#960, aired 1988-11-04THE BEATLES $300: In August 1962 he was kicked out of the group Pete Best
#943, aired 1988-10-12BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Chapter 21, with the hero's redemption, was not included in U.S. editions of this 1962 A. Burgess book A Clockwork Orange
#929, aired 1988-09-22FIRST LADIES $100: On March 11, 1962 she became the 1st wife of an incumbent pres. to have a private audience with the pope Jackie Kennedy
#929, aired 1988-09-22RECREATION $500: Begun as a survival program for British sailors in WWII, 1st of these schools in the U.S. opened in 1962 Outward Bound
#897, aired 1988-06-28RECENT HISTORY $400: In 1962, the Dutch gave West New Guinea to the U.N., which then gave it to this island nation Indonesia
#890, aired 1988-06-171962 $200: He re-signed with the Yankees for $72,500, almost twice what he got in 1961, when he hit 61 homers Roger Maris
#890, aired 1988-06-171962 $400: He published the memoir "Six Crises"; if he had waited, he could have added a few more Richard Nixon
#890, aired 1988-06-171962 $600: The theme of the World's Fair was "Man in the Space Age" & its symbol was this the Space Needle
#890, aired 1988-06-171962 $800: A Senate subcommittee held hearings on the dealings of this Texas financier Billy Sol Estes
#890, aired 1988-06-171962 $1000: Named premier by de Gaulle April 14, he resigned October 6, & was reappointed November 27 Georges Pompidou
#889, aired 1988-06-16FAMOUS AMERICANS $300: In 1962, this att'y general sent Congress a civil rights bill aimed at curbing police brutality Robert Kennedy
#876, aired 1988-05-30GIVE ME A "BREAK" $400: Neal Sedaka's 1962 #1 hit that gave us the immortal phrase "Comma comma, down-doo-be-doo down down" "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
#870, aired 1988-05-20THE MILITARY $600: In 1962, this force's headquarters was moved from Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria to Aubagne, France French Foreign Legion
#844, aired 1988-04-14MOVIE TRIVIA $200: Appropriately, this 1962 WWII film has a long roster of stars as well as a long running time, 3 hours The Longest Day
#837, aired 1988-04-05WASHINGTON STATE $200: Seattle's famous Space Needle was originally built for this the (1962) World's Fair
#829, aired 1988-03-24MISSISSIPPIANS $1000: In 1962, he became the 1st black admitted to the University of Mississippi James Meredith
#820, aired 1988-03-11SPACE & AVIATION $1000: Year during which the 1st man went into outer space 1961
#817, aired 1988-03-08TENNIS RECORDS $800: This man from Down Under, the only player to win the Grand Slam in singles, did it twice, in 1962 & '69 Rod Laver
#794, aired 1988-02-04PRESIDENTS $200: In 1962, "Pat" Brown defeated him in race for governor of California Richard Nixon
#792, aired 1988-02-02JFK $1000: When companies in this industry raised prices in April 1962, he got them to back down steel industry
#791, aired 1988-02-01PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1000: This 1962 winner featured the songs "A Secretary is Not a Toy", "The Company Way" & "Coffee Break" "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying"
#776, aired 1988-01-11HISTORY $800: In 1962, this country became a constitutional monarchy under King Hassan II Morocco
#770, aired 1988-01-01MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $500 (Daily Double): Instrument heard here, in the bridge of a 1962 Joanie Sommers hit: a kazoo
#758, aired 1987-12-16POLITICAL FIGURES $200: In 1962 he went into space; in 1975, he went into the Senate John Glenn
#741, aired 1987-11-23AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The 1962 Cuban Crisis ended when the Soviet Union removed these missiles
#732, aired 1987-11-10MR. MOVIES $100: In 1962, "Mr. Hobbs Took" this A Vacation
#725, aired 1987-10-30WORLD HISTORY $200: In January 1962, this organization voted to exclude Cuba OAS (Organization of American States)
#721, aired 1987-10-26"GOOD" $600: He went to Russia as part of a 1962 cultural exchange program, licorice stick & all Benny Goodman
#716, aired 1987-10-19THE MOVIES $800: In 1962, he won the title as the title character in "Kid Galahad" Elvis Presley
#710, aired 1987-10-09FILMS! $500: 1962 Elvis film! film! film! in which he sings! sings! sings! "Return to Sender" Girls! Girls! Girls!
#702, aired 1987-09-29FIRSTS $800: In 1962, Telstar, the 1st private tele-communications satellite, was launched by this company AT&T
#687, aired 1987-09-08MUSICALS $200: 1962's racy Roman romp in which Zero Mostel played a "social zero" -- a slave A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
#681, aired 1987-07-20SITCOMS $400: A few months after Jed started "shootin' at some food" in 1962, this series was #1 The Beverly Hillbillies
#678, aired 1987-07-15AUTOMOBILES $400: A 1962 ad for this car showed a little picture of it with the slogan "Think Small" Volkswagen
#663, aired 1987-06-24'60s SONGS $100: In a 1962 hit, Neil Sedaka said this "is hard to do" breaking up
#660, aired 1987-06-19HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $200: In October 1962 the U.S. set up a naval blockade around this island Cuba
#660, aired 1987-06-19BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 guide for the unattached female Sex and the Single Girl
#640, aired 1987-05-22'60s TRIVIA $600: This 1962 musical picked up a Pulitzer Prize, & its star, Robert Morse, a Tony How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
#630, aired 1987-05-08COUNTRY MUSIC $600: In 1962, Roy Acuff became 1st person elected to Country Music Hall of Fame who wasn't this dead
#627, aired 1987-05-05SEE THE USA $600: While Seattle held a World's Fair in 1962, this 2nd-largest city in Washington held one 12 years later Spokane
#623, aired 1987-04-29POLITICAL QUOTES $1000: In 1962, he supposedly said, "We ought to saw off the eastern seaboard & float it out to sea" Barry Goldwater
#606, aired 1987-04-06GOLDEN OLDIES $500: His last hit song was in 1970 with "Groovy Situation", but he's best known for 1962's "Duke of Earl" Gene Chandler
#600, aired 1987-03-27ANIMALS IN SONG $400: In the Ray Stevens 1962 novelty hit, Ahab's camel was named this Clyde
#591, aired 1987-03-16COLORS $600: Color of the "Threads" & "Needles" in title of the Springfields' 1962 hit Silver and Gold
#562, aired 1987-02-03SWIMMING & DIVING $200: In 1962, Australian Dawn Fraser became 1st woman to break this time barrier in 100m freestyle less than a minute
#511, aired 1986-11-24ORGANIZED LABOR $200: His 1962 executive order gave federal workers collective bargaining rights JFK
#510, aired 1986-11-21GIRLS IN SONG $400: 1 of the 2 songs which topped the charts during Sept. 1962, both girls' names starting with "S" "Sherry" (or "Sheila")
#508, aired 1986-11-19"ON" & "OFF" SONGS $400: This 1962 #1 hit by Mr. Acker Bilk could be about an alien at the beach "Stranger On The Shore"
#504, aired 1986-11-13ROMAN EMPIRE $400 (Daily Double): A 1962 B'way hit featuring the following was based on the comedies of this Roman playwright: "Something familiar / Something peculiar / Something for everyone / A comedy tonight! / Something appealing / Something appalling / Something for everyone / A comedy tonight!" Plautus
#502, aired 1986-11-11ENGINEERING $1000: Costing about $1 billion & stretching from St. Johns to Victoria, it opened in 1962 the Trans-Canada Highway
#491, aired 1986-10-27RELIGION $100: In January of 1962, the Roman Catholic Church did this to Fidel Castro excommunicated him
#487, aired 1986-10-21DRAMA $200: After skipping her 1962 funeral, Arthur Miller exposed her fall in "After the Fall" Marilyn Monroe
#468, aired 1986-09-24HAVE A "HEART" $100: Though it's neighboring Stanford that's famous for transplants, Tony Bennett sang this in 1962 I Left My Heart in San Francisco
#468, aired 1986-09-24GOLDEN OLDIES $600: In 1962, 2 years before the Beatles' version, "Twist & Shout" was a hit for them The Isley Brothers
#459, aired 1986-09-11____ THE ____ $300: Written the night before it was recorded in 1962, it was Ray Stevens' 1st major hit "Ahab The Arab"
#459, aired 1986-09-11BROADCAST POLITICS $400: "Imprisoned island" which was the subject of presidential address televised on October 22, 1962 Cuba
#445, aired 1986-05-23"LONG" MOVIES $200: Darryl F. Zanuck's cinematic view of D-Day, it won 2 Oscars in 1962 The Longest Day
#432, aired 1986-05-06FOLK MUSIC $600: His "Funny Way of Laughin'" got him a Grammy in 1962 Burl Ives
#427, aired 1986-04-29SINGERS & SONGS $300: The Springfields used "Silver Threads" & these to sew up a hit in 1962 Golden Needles
#419, aired 1986-04-17TRAVEL & TOURISM $300: Sights seen by the Duprees in the 1st line of their 1962 hit "You Belong To Me" the pyramids along the Nile
#417, aired 1986-04-15GOLDEN OLDIES $500: 1962 Chubby Checker hit that asked, "How low can you go?" the "Limbo Rock"
#411, aired 1986-04-07PARKS $400: In 1962 Freddy Cannon had a hit about this now-defunct New Jersey amusement park Palisades Park
#411, aired 1986-04-07WORLD HISTORY $1000: In 1962, Ne Win overthrew U Nu to become this country's prime minister once more Burma
#391, aired 1986-03-10"LITTLE" SONGS $500: According to Burl Ives in 1962, this "got him down & spoiled his act like a clown" "A Little Bitty Tear"
#384, aired 1986-02-27INOPPORTUNE QUOTES $800: In 1962, 12 years early, he said, "This is my last press conference" Richard Nixon

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#8599, aired 2022-03-17NONFICTION: This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth" Silent Spring
#8512, aired 2021-11-16MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond"
#8398, aired 2021-05-12WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age
#8317, aired 2021-01-19THE BUSINESS OF TRAVEL: Adjusted for inflation, the nightly rate this company put in its name in 1962 is now $51 Motel 6
#8167, aired 2020-02-25FAST FOOD: This sandwich was 1st sold in 1962 as an attempt to give the many Catholics of Cincinnati something to eat on Fridays during Lent Filet-O-Fish
#8098, aired 2019-11-20MOVIE & BOOK TITLES: This title of a 1962 novel & 1975 film refers to the direction the last of 3 geese took in an old nursery rhyme One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#8039, aired 2019-07-18NOTORIOUS: The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law--in 1962, for this man Adolf Eichmann
#8014, aired 2019-06-13WORD HISTORY: This word for a bug or malfunction was popularized in the 1962 book "Into Orbit" by the Mercury astronauts glitch
#7559, aired 2017-06-22EUROPE 1962: Rudolf Abel & this American are most associated with Germany's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962 Francis Gary Powers
#7498, aired 2017-03-29WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016: NASA wished John Glenn this 8-letter word when he made the 1st U.S. manned orbital flight in 1962 & again upon his passing in 2016 godspeed
#7451, aired 2017-01-23ANIMAL SONGS: The title of this hit from a 1933 Disney "Silly Symphony" inspired a Tony-winning 1962 drama & an Oscar-nominated 1966 film "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?"
#7423, aired 2016-12-14AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck
#7363, aired 2016-09-21COLLEGE DISCIPLINES: Embracing the future & new technology in 1962, Purdue established the 1st college dept. in the U.S. for this 2-word discipline computer science
#6925, aired 2014-10-24TONY NOMINATIONS: Although she has appeared in only 2 Broadway musicals, she got Tony nominations for both, for 1962 & 1964 Barbra Streisand
#6760, aired 2014-01-24GROUNDBREAKING NONFICTION: Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing" Silent Spring
#6617, aired 2013-05-28AMERICAN ACTORS: Reflecting a long friendship dating to a 1962 film they did together, Brock Peters gave the eulogy at this star's 2003 funeral Gregory Peck
#6597, aired 2013-04-30CLASSIC HIT SONGS: In 1962 Chatham County, Georgia gave this name to a body of water flowing past Johnny Mercer's childhood home Moon River
#6495, aired 2012-12-0720th CENTURY PLAYS: This 1962 play takes place beginning at 2 A.M. in the living room of a house on a New England college campus Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
#6487, aired 2012-11-27BILLBOARD NO. 1 ALBUMS: The soundtrack for this film based on a play holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1, 54 weeks in 1962 & '63 West Side Story
#6266, aired 2011-12-12THE BILLBOARD TOP 40: Previously done by the Trapp Family, this song about an instrumentalist was a Top 40 hit every December from 1958 to 1962 "The Little Drummer Boy"
#6097, aired 2011-03-0120th CENTURY AUTHORS: A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962 John Steinbeck
#6010, aired 2010-10-29NO. 1 HITS: Topping the charts on Oct. 20, 1962, this novelty song is the only No. 1 hit to have the word "electrodes" in the lyrics "The Monster Mash"
#5843, aired 2010-01-27THE 1960s: In 1962 the people of Perth, Australia saluted this American by turning their lights on & off at the same time John Glenn
#5536, aired 2008-10-0620th CENTURY WOMEN: The state building that houses Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection is named in her honor Rachel Carson
#5431, aired 2008-03-31BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS: Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip John Glenn
#5334, aired 2007-11-15SCIENTISTS: In 2007 this 1962 American Nobel laureate became the first person to receive his own personal genome map James Watson
#5200, aired 2007-03-30'60s OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: Although 216 minutes long, this 1962 film had no women in credited speaking roles Lawrence of Arabia
#5107, aired 2006-11-21FROM BOOK TO FILM: Among the many movies that have premiered here at Radio City Music Hall was this 1962 film based on a novel by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
#4783, aired 2005-05-2520th CENTURY AMERICANS: These names of 2 original Mercury astronauts, who orbited Earth in May 1962 & May 1963, are also occupations Scott Carpenter & Gordon Cooper
#4638, aired 2004-11-04U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM: Souvenirs sold at this attraction include 1962 World's Fair glassware & mugs boasting "I made it to the top" the Space Needle
#4123, aired 2002-07-03U.S. LANDMARKS: Opened in 1962, its paint included Astronaut White for the supports & Re-entry Red for the "halo" the Space Needle (in Seattle)
#4054, aired 2002-03-28NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: Before the 1962 Peace Prize, this chemist won a 1948 Presidential Medal for developing armor-piercing shells Linus Pauling
#3929, aired 2001-10-04EXPLORATION: In February 1962 he said, "The sunset was beautiful. It went down very rapidly" John Glenn
#3745, aired 2000-12-08AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS: A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962 Alex Haley
#3661, aired 2000-07-031962: On October 28, 1962 this 68-year-old world leader "blinked" Nikita Khrushchev
#3350, aired 1999-03-12MOVIE QUOTES: First uttered in 1962, this 3-word self-introduction tops Guinness' list of the most famous movie quotes ever "Bond, James Bond"
#3303, aired 1999-01-06PEOPLE: He made the cover of Life magazine 3 times in February & March of 1962, & again in October 1998 John Glenn
#3193, aired 1998-06-17TELEVISION PERSONALITIES: He was ordained by Pittsburgh Presbytery in 1962 with a charge to work with children through the media Fred Rogers (host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
#3038, aired 1997-11-12SHOPPING U.S.A.: The first store of this giant chain opened in Rogers, Arkansas, population 5,700, in 1962 Wal-Mart
#3020, aired 1997-10-17CONGRESSMEN: He was the chief sponsor of the Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962 Eugene Keogh
#2934, aired 1997-05-08ROYAL COUPLES: Princess Sophia of Greece gave up her right of succession to Greece's throne before marrying him in 1962 King Juan Carlos of Spain
#2906, aired 1997-03-31SECRETARIES OF STATE: This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked" Dean Rusk
#2653, aired 1996-02-28AIRLINES: In 1962 this airline used the ad line "My son, the pilot" El Al
#2631, aired 1996-01-29HISTORIANS: In 1962 she said, "Nineteen-fourteen was the birthday of us all" Barbara Tuchman
#2372, aired 1994-12-20HISTORY: The 7-year revolt by the Front de Liberation Nationale led this country to independence in 1962 Algeria
#2316, aired 1994-10-03MODERN QUOTATIONS: In 1962 she wrote, "...the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life" Rachel Carson
#1655, aired 1991-11-08ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES: This American actress won a 1960 Tony & a 1962 Oscar for playing the same teacher Anne Bancroft
#1400, aired 1990-10-05BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This New York company introduced the direct-mail sweepstakes concept in 1962 Reader's Digest
#895, aired 1988-06-2420th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Johnny Carson became permanent host of "The Tonight Show" when this man was U.S. president John Kennedy
#871, aired 1988-05-23POP SINGERS: Only artist to hit Top 10 with a remake of his own #1 hit, the original in '62, the remake in '76 Neil Sedaka
#615, aired 1987-04-17WORLD LEADERS: In 1962, he asked "How can you... govern a country that has 246 different kinds of cheese?" Charles de Gaulle

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