| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $600: Mafioso Fat Tony Lauria (a real-life Fat Tony!) repurposed this inn into the gay bar that made headlines in 1969 the Stonewall Inn |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SCULPTURE $800: Richard Serra's 1969 sculpture "One Ton Prop", featuring 4 lead sheets leaning together, is also known as "House of" these Cards |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $800: In a 1969 film Maria Callas starred as this tragic woman that the Greek hero Jason discards Medea |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $400: The Murchison meteorite that hit Earth in 1969 was found to contain organic compounds like these building blocks of proteins amino acids |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $1000: In 1969 Nixon was referring to this Apollo mission when he said astronauts "flew over the Moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve" Apollo 8 |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $400: It's the year Apollo 11 put a man on the Moon, & not just one 1969 |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $2,000 (Daily Double): This astronaut who remained in orbit during a 1969 Moon landing, lost a camera during an earlier mission in 1966 (Michael) Collins |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $800: Yasir Arafat was the head of it from 1969 to 2004 the PLO |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $200: 1969 / Corleones are new / No horses were harmed / In making this clue The Godfather |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $3,000 (Daily Double): When the Eagle landed in 1969, this 11-letter word of peace was mentioned tranquility |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $2,600 (Daily Double): On July 24, 1969 the USS Hornet was in the Pacific waiting for this group of men the astronauts on Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins) |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $800: Be cool, man, & name this 1969 flick where Billy & Captain America hit the road, man; now those were some dudes, man Easy Rider |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $300: The historic year gay activists picketed outside LBJ's White House; MLK's March on Washington was two years earlier 1965 |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $400: The prize for this newest category was first awarded in 1969 -- roughly 68 fiscal years after all the others Economics |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $2000: He resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 amid criticism of his financial dealings Abe Fortas (Abraham Fortas) |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $400: 1969:
Ed Kranepool,
Bud Harrelson &
Tom Seaver... what an amazin' team the (Miracle) Mets |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $800: "Add Primer to Your Conestoga"--to this 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THIS IS MY COUNTRY $200: 1969-1974--Georges Pompidou France |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES $600: "X" marks the spot at this Jesuit Catholic university that officially went co-ed in 1969 Xavier |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | JOHN LENNON $1000: In 1969 a crowd of journalists & celebrities joined John & Yoko in a Montreal hotel room to record this anthem "Give Peace A Chance" |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: You can get a dining room table that easily converts for pool, Ping Pong & even this plastic puck game patented in 1969 air hockey |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $800: The 1969 riots outside this Greenwich Village bar served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement Stonewall |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SERENITY NOW! $400: This synonym for serenity is a "sea" on the Moon that made some waves in 1969 the Sea of Tranquility |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Irish playwright who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature wrote in both English & French Samuel Beckett |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | REMEMBER BASEBALL? $200: Remember 1969, when these New Yorkers became the first expansion team to win a World Series? the Mets |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. flag was flown at this location for the first time on July 20, 1969 & the original flag is still there the Moon |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $600: 45 million tuned in to the 1969 live, on-stage "Tonight Show" wedding of Tiny Tim & Miss Vicki, hosted by this legend Johnny Carson |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $400: In a 1969 novel Germans tell POWs that their residence is Schlachthof-Funf, this title place Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE YEAR THAT WAS $200: More than 300,000 rock fans attended Woodstock & Neil Armstrong pioneered the moonwalk--for real 1969 |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $1200: In a 1969 novel Sonny, Michael & Fredo are brothers in this family you should really never take sides against the Corleones |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | GEMS $400: In 1969 this actor bought the pearl La Peregrina for Elizabeth Taylor, who later lost it, only to find her dog chewing on it Burton |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | BURT BACHARACH $400: This 1969 Western about a pair of Old West outlaws won Burt 2 Oscars Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $200: In "War & Watermelon", a 12-year-old boy in 1969 goes along for the ride to this music fest & gains a new outlook on life Woodstock |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $2000: He saw 2024 as a hellish wasteland in his 1969 short story "A Boy & His Dog" Harlan Ellison |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THOSE DARN NEBRASKANS $1200: Poet John Trudell, who helped lead the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz, later became chairman of the AIM, this movement the American Indian Movement |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | SEVEN HEAVEN $200: Mickey Mantle's No. 7 jersey was retired in an emotional ceremony at this venue in 1969 Yankee Stadium |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $200: This brand of little breath mints was launched in 1969 Tic Tacs |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | SO THAT HAPPENED $400: July 20, 1969:
The world hears, "Houston", this "base here. The Eagle has landed" Tranquility |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: She helped found the State of Israel & in 1969, became its first female prime minister Golda Meir |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | EVERYDAY ROYALTY & NOBILITY $1000: We commission you to give the first & last names of this Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969 Earl Warren |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $1000: In what was meant to be a limited operation, in 1969 U.K. troops were sent to parts of this region as a result of "Troubles" Ulster |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | 1, 2 & 3 $600: In 1969 this sweet-sounding trio gave us "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" & an appeal to Nos. 2 & 3; 1 says he's sorry; please sing together again! Crosby, Stills & Nash |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $5,600 (Daily Double): Pitcher Jim Bouton issued 50 walks in the 1969 season, so 50 times he heard this title of his season diary Ball Four |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | HISTORIC CASTLES $800: Caernarfon Castle was the site for the investiture of him as Prince of Wales in 1969 (Prince) Charles (Charles III) |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: She served in the Senate from 2003 to 2009; her late husband served from 1969 to 1996 Elizabeth Dole |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $400: (Questlove presents the clue.) For the soundtrack album of my documentary, "Summer of Soul", I chose artists that are as relevant to our time as to 1969 when the concerts took place, including 2 songs by this singer and the Family Stone Sly |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | SECOND CHANCE SONGS $800: "Oh, baby, give me one more chance to show you that I love you", this quintet sang in 1969 The Jackson 5 |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | AMERICANA $100: In 1969, 108-year-old Vassar College began admitting these people, "sensitive & humble" ones men |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGAZINE COVERS $800: A 1969 Life cover showed Buzz Aldrin &, mirrored in Buzz' visor, this man who had taken the photo Neil Armstrong |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $800: (Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1969, the U.S. Navy opened its Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program at Air Station Miramar, better known as this school that inspired a 1986 movie title TOPGUN |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PRESIDENTIAL GLOBETROTTING $1600: Summer 1969 overseas trips by Richard Nixon saw him meet with Pres. Marcos in the Philippines & Pres. Ceausescu in this country Romania |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $200: On July 20, 1969 he famously declared:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" Armstrong |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE III $600: Harry Nilsson, born Harry Edward Nelson III, memorably sang "Everybody's Talkin"' for this 1969 Voight-Hoffman film Midnight Cowboy |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | CITY PARK-ING PLACES $400: On April 14, 1969 this city rejoiced as Jarry Park--in Jarry Park--became the first MLB ballpark outside the United States Montreal |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PALINDROMIC NUMBERS $400: Named the "City of Everett", the first of these Boeing jumbo jets took to the skies in 1969 747 |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | THE ZODIAC SIGN... $400: Mentioned in the title of a No. 1 hit from 1969 Aquarius |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $1600: Last name of Frank, the "How to Succeed in Business..." composer who died in 1969; Jo, his widow & collaborator, lived until 2019 Loesser |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES $400: (Mike Curkov of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) In 1969, Milwaukee Bucks management was excited to introduce this new player who soon led the team to its first championship; he lived in an apartment in Juneau Village with a specially raised doorframe Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | ROCK DOCS $400: Hofstra linguistics Prof Robert Leonard sang at this 1969 concert, where he & his band Sha Na Na opened for their pal Jimi Hendrix Woodstock |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | AVIATORS $600: AP's Athlete of the Decade for the 1960s, this golfer was an accomplished pilot; in 1969, he helped test fly the Boeing 747 (Arnold) Palmer |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $200: Some of the strongest of these events were 1969's Camille, with 175-mph winds & 1980's Allen, which hit 190 a hurricane |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SUCCESSION $1,000 (Daily Double): 1969:
The original Triple H, Hubert H. Humphrey, is wrestled out of the veep office Spiro Agnew |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FASHION $800: Men's Levi's jeans & recorded music were your only options when this store, now a chain, opened in San Francisco in 1969 the Gap |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES $400: In 1969 Francisco Franco closed the border with this territory Gibraltar |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | CAR"Z" $200: Chevy cut a new trail when it pioneered SUVs with the 1969 debut of this model the K5 Blazer |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Marvin Minsky built the first neural network simulator & won the Turing Award in 1969 for helping create this 2-word field artificial intelligence |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $200: This event off Huntington Beach in 2021 brought memories of the 3-million-gallon disaster off Santa Barbara in 1969 an oil spill |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THE WOMEN $200: Women in the U.S. House of Representatives had only worn dresses & skirts until Charlotte Reid put these on in 1969 pants |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BLUE $400: Until 1969 Project Blue Book investigated these phenomena; of the 12,618 sightings, only 701 have not been identified UFOs |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | IT'S A NEW MACHINE $1000: In 1969, Leonard Kleinrock & his team sent the first message over the internet with the first this, which now connects devices like modems router |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $400: Genre of music that completes the title of Isaac Hayes' 1969 album "Hot Buttered..." Soul |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1600: In 1969 Shirley Chisholm attacked the Vietnam War in the first floor speech of her 14-year run as a rep. of this state New York |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | BROADWAY ON THE POP CHARTS $400: In 1969 The 5th Dimension topped the charts with a medley of "Aquarius" & "Let The Sunshine In" from this musical Hair |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | FOWL BALLS $800: This Earl Weaver-managed American League team lost the 1969 World Series to the Amazin' Mets (Baltimore) Orioles |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MINNEAPOLIS: NEWS CLUES $800: (I'm Chris Lundeen.) A global center for healing since 1914, Minnesota's Mayo Clinic has had many medical successes, including in 1969, the first FDA-approved artificial replacement of this ball-&- socket joint a hip replacement |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | WE GUARANTEE IT $200: "For years politicians have promised" this, Nixon said in 1969--"I'm the first one to be able to deliver it" the Moon |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | JULY $600: Apollo 11 safely reached the Moon in July 1969, landing in this peaceful spot the Sea of Tranquility |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | THE DIRECTOR'S FIRST FEATURE FILM $1600: 1969's "Sweet Charity" (he also did the choreography) Fosse |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | IN A BOTTLE $800: Created in 1969, this drink is basically Manhattan-style chowder in a bottle Clamato |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | THE TERMS OF SERVICE $1200: She led Israel as the nation's 4th prime minister from 1969 to 1974 Golda Meir |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | THE "A" LIST $400: On July 20, 1969 he said, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed" (Neil) Armstrong |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS $1600: "Sick leaf & sorrow & pincers net-scissors" is from a 1969 song by this "subterranean" Lou Reed band The Velvet Underground |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | HISTORY ON ICE $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1969 the Manhattan broke through ice between Baffin Bay & Point Barrow, Alaska to traverse this Arctic passage the Northwest Passage |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | SHAKE! $600: When he opened his first restaurant in 1969, Dave Thomas called his "dairy dessert" not a shake but this a frosty |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | 1971: 50 YEARS AGO $400: Popularly known by this name, a report presented to the Secretary of Defense in 1969 appeared in newspapers in 1971 the Pentagon Papers |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | "HAND"Y PHRASES $800: Going back just to 1969, this hyphenated experience originally meant learning computers using a keyboard hands-on |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Chris Frye from WOIO presents the clue.) In 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River was so badly polluted that an oil slick on the river's surface caught fire, making national headlines & helping spark the 1970 creation of this federal agency the EPA |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s $2000: This 1969 song that mentions "joo joo eyeball" & "toe jam football" started out as a campaign song for Timothy Leary "Come Together" |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | ALL ROADS $200: A friend of John & Yoko's took the iconic picture that shows the Fab 4 crossing this thoroughfare in 1969 Abbey Road |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $1200: A 1969 memoir: "Sings" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $400: Before a big jump in a 1969 film, the Sundance Kid says, "I can't swim" & this character says, "The fall will probably kill ya" Butch Cassidy |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $800: This "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" señor was born March 1, 1969 in the Canary Islands Javier Bardem |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | SHE SHOOTS $400: While she was working on a kibbutz in 1969, this celeb photographer's boyfriend got her a subscription to Rolling Stone Annie Leibovitz |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | ON THE COVER $400: The July 1969 Esquire cover asked, "what words should the first man" here "utter that will ring through the ages?" the Moon |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | POLITICS: WHO SAID IT? $1000: 1969: "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full" Henry Kissinger |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | ROCK BANNED $800: 1969: New Jersey police seize 30,000 copies of this couple's "Two Virgins" album, which shows them nude on the cover John Lennon & Yoko Ono |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | OK BOOMER $2000: Bobby Muller, almost killed in action in 1969, became the first president of the V.V.A., these brave people of America the Vietnam Veterans of America |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | CAR "MA" $800: In 1969 Ford saddled up this Mustang stablemate Maverick |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | BRUSHING UP ON YOUR SPANISH HISTORY $1200: On Jan. 7, 1969 he said he would accept the Spanish throne if offered; 6 years later, he got the gig Juan Carlos |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPORTS UPSETS $400: On the arm of this quarterback in Super Bowl III in 1969, the Jets beat the heavily favored Colts, 16-7 Joe Namath |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: LGBTQ Pride Month is celebrated each June to commemorate the 1969 riots at this inn Stonewall |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | WHOSE NO. 1 ALBUM $800: 1969: "Green River", including the title song & "Bad Moon Rising" CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR $400: Linda Eastman, in 1969 Paul McCartney |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring was among Aug. 9, 1969 victims of the murderous gang controlled by this man the (Charles) Manson family |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Nicknamed "Uncle", this Communist was a leader in Vietnam from 1945 to 1969 Ho Chi Minh |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE OPERATING THEATER $1000: Stretchy & strong, the Prolene brand of these was invented in 1969 & is still used for bypass surgery sutures |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | A MILLION BUCKS AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE $400: In the first sale of a diamond for a mil, in 1969, the parent co. of this French jeweler outbid Richard Burton, then sold it to him Cartier |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | THE ____ OF ____ $200: On the Moon, it's where the Eagle landed July 20, 1969 the Sea of Tranquility |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS $800: In this 1969 classic Tralfamadorians abduct the protagonist who has unfortunately become "unstuck in time" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | ROCK BANDS $1600: Featuring Clapton, Winwood & Baker, 1969's Blind Faith has been described as the 1st rock band to be one of these special formations a supergroup |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $1600: In 1969 & 2017 famous trees of this type with a Native Amer. name fell in Calif.; it's bad to cut a driving tunnel through a tree sequoia |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | QUOTES OF NOTE $1200: In 1969 Curt Flood, a player in this sport, wrote to its commissioner, "After 12 years... I do not feel I am a piece of property" baseball |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ALLITERATION ON THE MAP $1600: This nickname for Dong Ap Bia mountain in Vietnam was inspired by a brutal battle that took place there in 1969 Hamburger Hill |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | '60s POP CULTURE $1000: At the Oscars in 1969, there was a rare tie for Best Actress between Barbra Streisand & this other legend Katharine Hepburn |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | HER STORY $800: In 1969 this young adult novelist published "The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo"; soon, God heard from Margaret Judy Blume |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | "MAN" UP $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the last word of a historic utterance made July 20, 1969 mankind |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | FESTIVALS $600: It was held Aug. 15-17, 1969 on Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York Woodstock |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | FAREWELLS $600: In 1969 the Department of the Treasury announced the end of currency above $100, including the $500 note, featuring this president President McKinley |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian.) On its way to the Moon & back in 1969, Apollo 11 carried a piece of wood from a craft employed by these two men for another famous flight 66 years earlier the Wright brothers |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $200: March 2, 1969 saw the first flight of this supersonic transport; it didn't hit 300 mph that day but went 1,350 eventually the Concorde |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | AN ALBUM COVER $5,000 (Daily Double): A 1969 cover featuring the Hindenburg disaster was this band's visual introduction to the world Led Zeppelin |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | A GAP YEAR $400: In this year Richard Nixon was inaugurated as president & the first Gap store opened 1969 |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | 5 NOBEL TRUTHS $400: The prizes originally came in 5 categories; this sixth, funded by the Bank of Sweden, was added in 1969 Economics |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | THE RULES THEY JUST MADE UP $800: In 1969 the U.S. said whiskey must be at least 51% corn & stored in charred containers of this wood to be considered bourbon oak |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | COMMON BLONDES $600: Maureen McCormick, Susan Olsen, Florence Henderson: this TV show that premiered in 1969 The Brady Bunch |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | NIXON SAID IT $800: In 1969 Nixon asked for the support of a "silent majority of my fellow Americans" in regard to this foreign affairs issue the Vietnam War |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | 5 "LASH"ES $1000: For the Apollo 11 astronauts, this occurred on July 24, 1969 in the Pacific Ocean, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii splashdown |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | LONG AGO, IN THE 20th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): On Sept. 1, 1969 King Idris suddenly became ex-royalty in this African country & a colonel took power Libya |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | FILM TEACHERS $1600: Audiences said "Goodbye" to this teacher played by Robert Donat in 1939 & Peter O'Toole in 1969 Mr. Chips |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $1600: It was the make & model of the General Lee, Bo & Luke's car on "The Dukes of Hazzard" a 1969 Dodge Charger |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | CONTROVERSIAL TV $2000: In 1969 CBS fired these politically outspoken comedy brothers from their own show Smothers |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE $2000: Led Zeppelin,
1969;
Matthew McConaughey,
1993 "Dazed And Confused" |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | MOVIE PICTURES $600: Best picture Oscar winner for 1969 Midnight Cowboy |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | THE SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS $1000: A Senate office building is named for him, Senate Republican leader from 1959 to 1969 Everett Dirksen |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | "SOCK" IT TO ME $400: In a 1969 video Jim Henson shows kids how to make a simple one of these a sock puppet |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | 1960s AMERICA $1600: In 1969 the trial regarding this "numeric" group began at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois the Chicago Seven (or Chicago Eight) |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $400: With a $28,000-per-episode budget, this PBS kids' show made its debut on Nov. 10 & has stuck around for a few decades Sesame Street |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $800: Ironically, on Feb. 14 Pope Paul VI's edict removed the feast of this saint's day from the liturgical calendar Saint Valentine |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $1200: Called a sort of dress rehearsal, this space mission in May of 1969 sent the first color TV pictures of planet Earth Apollo 10 |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $1600: Student occupation of a Harvard building led to the end of this military education program at the school for 40 years ROTC |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $2000: Dismissed by de Gaulle in 1968, he returned to the "centre" of French politics, succeeding de Gaulle as president Georges Pompidou |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Today Dodge sells the RAM this kind of truck; in 1969 it released one called the Dude a pickup |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | LIFE DURING WAR $1200: If you were a U.S. male with a birthday of September 14, you might get unlucky No. 001 in the Dec. 1, 1969 lottery for this the draft |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | ESSENTIAL EARLS $600: Frank & Brooks Robinson helped Earl Weaver guide this team to 3 straight pennants from 1969 to 1971 the Baltimore Orioles |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE VOYAGE OF A BEAGLE $1000: In 1969 Snoopy described this as looking like a "dirty beach"; not quite as eloquent as magnificent desolation" the Moon |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS $400: Joe Cocker sang & played air guitar in a memorable rendition of "With A Little Help From My Friends" at this 1969 festival Woodstock |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | CHARACTER MASHUPS $400: Fredo Baggins
(1969 & 1954) Fredo Corleone and Bilbo Baggins |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | SPORTS DRAFTS $800: In 1969 this 7'2" No. 1 draft pick of the ABA's New York Nets & the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks chose to live in Milwaukee Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (or Lew Alcindor) |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ACCIDENTS OF HISTORY $200: Jason Clarke played Ted Kennedy in a 2018 movie named for this island, site of a fatal 1969 accident Chappaquiddick |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | HISTORIC TRIOS $1200: Name & number of the 1969 moon mission with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins as the crew Apollo 11 |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | STATE FACTS $800: Here's a fact to gnaw on:
In 1969 it became Oregon's official state animal the beaver |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | WHOSE HIT ALBUM? $800: Released in 1969, "Abbey Road" The Beatles |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $400: Diabetics beware: the top-selling pop single of 1969 was this double-talk song from the Archies "Sugar, Sugar" |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $800: "We can't go on together" into the '70s, Elvis--your last No. 1 hit was this 1969 song "Suspicious Minds" |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | THE 5 Ws IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: Maya Angelou's 1969 autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FOREIGN FILMS $800: This 1969 French-language film with a 1-letter title was subtitled "Anatomy of a Political Assassination" Z |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | MOVIE! $200: Barbra Streisand played matchmaker (Ms. Levi, specifically) in this 1969 movie Hello, Dolly! |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | FLY, YOU FOOLS! $200: It's 120 degrees in this desert & you want to drive from L.A. to Vegas in your 1969 jalopy? Take a plane! the Mojave |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NOT MADE $1000: From 1969 to 1996 there was always room for the 1-2-3 variety from this food brand, but no longer Jell-O |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1969:
"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | PRO BASEBALL TEAMS $800: The team that began life in Canada in 1969 is today known as this the Washington Nationals |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | POP "STREET" $400: Small screen home for Bert & Ernie since 1969 Sesame Street |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | INTO THE "WOOD"S $400: On Aug. 15, 1969 Richie Havens kicked off this 4-day festival Woodstock |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | 20th CENTURY FACTS $600: Infamous for its Communist hunting in the '50s, HUAC, short for this, became the Internal security Committee in 1969 the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | CELEBRATING MISTER ROGERS $400: In 1969, Mister Rogers testified before the Senate to fight this president's proposal to cut federal grants to PBS in half--& won Richard Nixon |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | ANOTHER FINE MEZZO $2000: No relation to Lena, this mezzo made her La Scala debut in 1969 Marilyn Horne |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NAME THAT WORLD LEADER $400: France:
General-ly in charge from 1958 to 1969 General de Gaulle |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | COKE SLOGANS THROUGH THE YEARS $1000: 1969:
These 4 words, also heard in a jingle "It's the real thing" |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FILMS OF THE 1960s $800: The inspiration for this 1969 film was a photograph Peter Fonda saw of himself & Bruce Dern riding a motorcycle Easy Rider |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | RICKENBACKER GUITARS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Rickenbacker Guitars HQ in Santa Ana, California.) Rickenbacker-based guitars have provided the thunder for generations of rock bands; the bass here was played by John Paul Jones on this band's first US tour in 1969 Led Zeppelin |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 & spent some time "On the Road" before his death in 1969 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | THE REVOLUTION $400: In 2011 the spirit of revolt in the Arab world came to visit Muammar al-Qaddafi, in power in this country since 1969 Libya |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: In a 1969 address Richard Nixon characterized war supporters as this quiet, larger part of the U.S. population the silent majority |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $400: Sam Peckinpah. Lots of blood. This 1969 Western The Wild Bunch |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | PENNANTS $200: On Aug. 13, 1969 this team was 9.5 games back but somehow ended up winning the NL pennant; a miracle, perhaps? the Mets |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR $400: Its safe-ish Corvair was discontinued in 1969 Chevrolet |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG PERFORMERS $2000: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) B.J. Thomas |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CASINO ROYALE $1000: You can use this "Royal" company founded in 1969 to sail to King's Casino on Antigua Royal Caribbean |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | MARY TYLER MOORE $800: In 1969's "Change of Habit", Mary co-starred as a nun opposite this rock legend in the last of his 31 feature roles Elvis |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | A HERO $200: In 1969 he received a hero's welcome home after taking man's first steps on the moon Neil Armstrong |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $200: (I'm Mario Andretti.) Over the years I had bad luck at this famous American race, but I caught some breaks in 1969 when I won it in a backup car after a crash during practice the Indianapolis 500 |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | THE I.T. DEPARTMENT $1000: The staff was skittish during the transition to Linux from this O.S. that dates back to 1969 at Bell Labs Unix |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | OCCUPATIONS IN THE NEWS $1200: In 1969 the National Guard was unleashed on occupiers of this California university city's People's Park Berkeley |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1600: A 1969 novel says, "His reward...the respectful title of 'Don', and sometimes the more affectionate salutation of" this Godfather |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $400: This pair of charmers had the tile roles in 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Paul Newman and Robert Redford |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | MOVIE TIME $600: 1969:
"____ Cowboy" midnight |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $800: From 1969 Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" Easy Rider |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | OSCAR HOSTS $600: In 1969 this "Wild & Crazy Guy" won an Emmy for co-writing "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (Steve) Martin |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | FROM 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 |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WORDS OF PEACE $2,000 (Daily Double): When the Eagle landed in 1969, this 11-letter word of peace was mentioned tranquility |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | NFL QUARTERBACKS $400: (Mike & Mike from ESPN present the clue.) "The greatest Super Bowl had to be the 1969 game when Joe Namath led the Jets over the heavily favored Colts..." "That's not bad, but not up to the game when this guy marched the 49ers down the field in 1989 in a game-winning drive" Joe Montana |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | WAR! $2000: 1969:
the Soccer War between El Salvador & this northern neighbor Honduras |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | RECENT FICTION $200: Set in 1969 California, Emma Cline's "The Girls" focuses on one girl drawn into a cult, based on the one led by him (Charlie) Manson |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | INANIMATE OBJECTS? $1200: A magic hat animates this denizen of wintertime in a 1969 classic Frosty the Snowman |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | MUSICIANS' SIGNATURE MOMENTS $200: On Jan. 30, 1969 this band played for 42 minutes on the roof of a Savile Row building The Beatles |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS $800: July 20, 1969:
Become second guy to walk on Moon; celebrate communion there Buzz Aldrin |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ENDLESSLY ROCKING $400: This "Sharp Dressed Man" trio formed in 1969, but it took a while before the beards developed their full grandeur ZZ Top |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | EXPLORERS $800: In 1969 his autobiography of 57 years earlier was republished as "A Black Explorer at the North Pole" Matthew Henson |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $200: 1969:
Ed Kranepool, Bud Harrelson & Tom Seaver... what an amazin' team the Mets |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY $1000: Long before he was chief justice (1953-1969), he served in the army stateside during World War I (Earl) Warren |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | ROCKS $200: This master of suspense's 1969 film "Topaz" is a tale of Cold War defectors & double-dealing spies Hitchcock |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | EMMY TIME $2000: In 1969 Steve Martin & Bob Einstein (aka Super Dave Osborne) won for writing these rhyming siblings' "Comedy Hour" the Smothers Brothers |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | HALL OF FAME CATCHERS $400: In 1969 this Reds catcher received a baseball from Ted Williams inscribed, "A Hall of Famer for sure" Johnny Bench |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | TAKE A LOOK AT THE MONITOR $400: It's the year of the first-of-its-kind evidence of man seen here 1969 |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE MOVIE ACTOR'S ROLE $600: In this 1969 film Peter Fonda was marvelous as Captain America, man (no, not that one, man!) Easy Rider |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | NUMERICAL LIT $400: Partly autobiographical 1969 Vonnegut bestseller Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | "LIB"ERAL $1600: This country's first & only monarch was King Idris, who was deposed in 1969 Libya |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | SPEAKER'S CORNER $200: Nancy Pelosi was a mother of 5 when she moved to this state in 1969, just missing the Summer of Love California |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | FROM THE GERMAN $1000: In 1969 the first watch using this mineral to keep time came on the market quartz |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | LITERARY AWARDS $2000: First awarded in 1969, it's Britain's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the Man Booker Prize |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | IT WAS THE '60s $400: In 1969 Alain Poher stepped in for this French president, who said au revoir after a referendum didn't go his way (Charles) de Gaulle |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | TOYS & GAMES $600: It was introduced in 1969 as "the world's first indoor ball" the Nerf ball |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP $200: In 2015 rapper Young Thug said this man, born Shawn Carter in 1969, is too old to be a relevant hip-hop artist Jay-Z |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | I PREDICT YOU'RE WRONG $800: In 1969 she said ("iron"‑ically), "No woman in my time will be prime minister" (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 Time said, "Chocolate-brown, oily... it oozes rather than flows" after this Ohio river caught fire the Cuyahoga |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THAT'S A WRAP! $1000: 1969:
Captain America & Billy have a really bad trip Easy Rider |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | A PICTURE IS WORTH... $600: Six words:
This 1969 movie title Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | THE ART OF THE KISS $1600: It's hard to tell, but that's him & wife Jacqueline Roque entwined in "The Kiss", painted in 1969 when he was 88 Pablo Picasso |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | JULY $1200: July 23, 1969 was the last of these baseball "Midsummer Classics" played as an afternoon game the All-Star Game |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS $2000: "Satyricon"
(1969) Fellini |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SUPERATHLETES $600: In a sport where 1-0 finals are not rare, this man scored his 1000th goal in Rio in 1969 Pelé |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A MAN IN UNIFORM $400: You could say he went quite far with his career, especially in 1969 Neil Armstrong |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $1200: Apollo 11 landed in this sea on July 20, 1969 the Sea of Tranquility |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | THE BUSINESS OF TECH $800: Hold the phone! This began as a small export company in Korea in 1938; electronics fired up in 1969 Samsung |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | GROOVY MOVIE $2000: Peter Fonda & Dennis Hopper take a real trip, man, in this 1969 anti-establishment classic Easy Rider |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | EX-MEMBERS OF THE BAND $600: This multi-instrumentalist quit the Rolling Stones shortly before his 1969 death Brian Jones |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | 1960s QUOTATIONS $1200: It's the 1969 Oscar-winning film in which Dustin Hoffman declared, "I'm walkin' here!" Midnight Cowboy |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | WHAT ABOUT BOB? $400: But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get this man who gave us "Lay Lady Lay" in 1969 Bob Dylan |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | MOUNTAIN HIGH $600: From 1964 to 1969 3 noted Confederates were carved into this Georgia peak Stone Mountain |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | SKYFALL $2000: Perhaps caused by a tornado, a strange rain of these sporting objects fell on Punta Gorda, Florida in 1969 golf balls |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: John Fowles' best-known work is this 1969 novel that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | FOLK MUSIC $800: His song "Alice's Restaurant" was the basis of a 1969 film in which he starred Arlo Guthrie |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE TRANSPORTER $1200: On July 20, 1969 the world held its breath as 2 guys finally found a parking spot for this transport at 4:17 P.M. EDT the Eagle |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: 1969:
John Wayne as this grumpy U.S. marshal in "True Grit" Rooster Cogburn |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | THIS ONE'S FOR THE LADIES $1000: Before becoming Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she taught school in Milwaukee Golda Meir |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | COACHING IN THE NFL $1000: Since 1969 this team has had a grand total of just 3 head coaches, including Mike Tomlin the (Pittsburgh) Steelers |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | THAT WAS ON TV $400: Here's the story... this sitcom that premiered in 1969 left ambiguous the absence of the biological dad of the 3 girls The Brady Bunch |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | PARKS $400: Tranquillity Park in this Texas city was built to commemorate the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing Houston |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | LETTER PERFECT $600: 1969 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film Z |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | GETTING "ANCE"-Y $800: In 1969 Robert Redford founded this Utah ski resort at the base of Mount Timpanogos Sundance |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS $2000: (I'm Linda Greenhouse.) In 1969 my first Times article was about the municipal election that saw this Republican, soon to turn Democrat, re-elected mayor John Lindsay |
| #6923, aired 2014-10-22 | LIVING AT THE WATERGATE $400: Ironically, in 1969 Rose Mary Woods, this man's secretary, was the victim of one of the Watergate's first burglaries Richard Nixon |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $2000: Captain Jack Aubrey & surgeon Stephen Maturin first set sail in 1969 in this Patrick O'Brian novel Master and Commander |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME $400: In 1969 MLB adopted its first new statistic since 1920, this one for relief pitchers saves |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | TITLE MOVIE PAIRS $1200: 1969:
Paul Newman & Robert Redford Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WE GOT "AINT" FUN $1200: We discovered "Portnoy's" in 1969 complaint |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | DUSTIN HOFFMAN'S FILM ROLES $2000: Gimpy grifter Ratso Rizzo
(1969) Midnight Cowboy |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | GOOD TRY! $1000: In 1969 the Jets & Mets each upset teams from this city to win their respective championships Baltimore |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | REMEMBER THE ALIMONY $200: The 1969 family law act made California the first U.S. state to legalize this "blameless" form of divorce no-fault |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | HISTORIC DAYS $200: July 20, 1969 moon landing |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Year in which a U. S. president remarked, "this is the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation" 1969 |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | NBA FINALS MVPs $800: 1969:
This Laker had a few logo-worthy performances (Jerry) West |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $400: On Sept. 1, 1969 this young military captain deposed Libya's King Idris I (Mu'ammar) Gadhafi |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | THE LAST CENTURY $1200: In May 1969 he got within 10 miles of the lunar surface; in 1972 he was the last to walk on the Moon (Eugene) Cernan |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | "BED" $1600: In 1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono staged one of these "for Peace" a Bed-in |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BOOK COVERS $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1969:
The puppeteer's hand holds the control piece, with the strings attached to the title The Godfather |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | LITERARY QUOTES $2000: Kurt Vonnegut begins this 1969 novel by writing, "All this happened, more or less" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | THE NIXON YEARS $200: In 1969 this baseball team won a miraculous first World Series the Mets |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1969 the Alabama-born widow of this man became the first woman to preach in St. Paul's Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GRAPE JAM $600: Marvin Gaye's biggest hit, it topped the charts for 7 weeks in late 1968 & early 1969 "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | THE ROLLING STONES $1000: This multi-instrumentalist drowned in his own swimming pool in 1969 Brian Jones |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | MAGAZINES $2000: Nicknamed the "Crystal Ball of Pop", this magazine was created by Andy Warhol in 1969 Interview |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | THEY WILL SING COME $200: 1969:
"Come Together" The Beatles |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1969 Apollo 11 landed humans here for the first time ever the Moon |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) I'm in Bethel, New York, where this event took place
in 1969; the nearby town for which the event was named refused to give permission Woodstock |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | IN A CAN $400: This company can can chunky soups, & has since 1969 Campbell's |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY! $200: You're 2! Here's a video called "Learning About Letters", made in 1969 for this show & co-directed by Jim Henson Sesame Street |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $1600: 1969:
Johnny Fontane,
Luca Brasi The Godfather |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | MOVIE TITLE ADD A LETTER $1000: 1969 & 2010:
Rooster Cogburn helps a girl track down her father's killer & swindles folks out of money True Grift |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | APOLLO 11 $400: All 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes & 35 seconds of Apollo 11's mission took place in this month & year July, 1969 |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | LIFE OF BRIAN $600: This Rolling Stone who died in 1969 played marimba on "Under My Thumb" & sitar on "Paint It Black" Brian Jones |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | WORLD SERIES MVPs BY POSITION $2000: Donn Clendenon
(1969) &
Willie Stargell
(1979) first base |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | DIRECTIONAL PEOPLE $800: He played Pardner in 1969's "Paint Your Wagon"; go ahead, make my day... name him Clint Eastwood |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | HANOI $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Hanoi.) The words "Chu Tich" mean this office held by Ho Chi Minh in North Vietnam from 1945-1969. It's still the title of Vietnam's head-of-state today President |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | GRAPHIC NOVELS $1600: Not to gripe but in this 1969 Philip Roth novel, quite a time is had with a young lady known as "The Monkey" Portnoy's Complaint |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1969 black's opinion (Justice Hugo Black) was that this school practice should not "be tolerated another minute" segregation |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | LETTER SECRET IDENTITIES $400: "Z" is the title of the 1969 movie that won an Oscar in this category Best Foreign Film |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $800: "Chairman (1969-2004) of the Palestine Liberation Organization" Arafat |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $1200: "Died August 25, 2012...resigned from NASA in 1971...awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969" (Neil) Armstrong |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MRS. HIPPIE $800: A "bad trip" is an uncomfortable LSD experience, like the one Mrs. Hippie had at this August 1969 N.Y. music festival Woodstock |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | THIS REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED $800: In the 1969 documentary "Mao Tse-tung and the..." the Cultural Revolution |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: On Nov. 20, 1969 the "Red Power" movement occupied this island in San Francisco Bay, holding it until June 11, 1971 Alcatraz |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A YEAR TO REMEMBER $400: Apollo 11 lands on the moon 1969 |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | BUSINESS IS GOOD $1000: Don Fisher "couldn't find a pair of jeans that fit"; the result was this store, clothing us since 1969 Gap |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | ONE MAN, ONE BOAT $1200: In 1969 Robin Knox-Johnston sailed around the world solo & nonstop, earning a trophy called this, like an acting award Golden Globe |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | YOU HAD ME AT SHALOM $800: In 1948 she was appointed Minister to Moscow; in 1969 she became Israel's prime minister Golda Meir |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | WHOSE ALBUM? $800: 1969:
"Tommy" The Who |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON $2000: The set was banked with tulips when this "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me" singer wed Miss Vicki on the show in 1969 Tiny Tim |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | FIRST MUSIC, THEN A MOVIE $2000: 1969: Led Zeppelin
1993: An ensemble including Matthew McConaughey Dazed and Confused |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | WHAT YEAR WAS THAT? $800: The Constitution gets a 25th Amendment, the Six-Day War, "The Summer of Love" 1967 |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY $2,200 (Daily Double): Prince Charles traveled to Aberystwyth, where he learned this language to prep for a 1969 investiture Welsh |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | DIAL M FOR MURDER $200: He's still in prison for the murders his "family" committed in August of 1969 Charles Manson |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | ALMOST-FORGOTTEN WARS $400: After a hard-fought World Cup qualifier, in 1969 El Salvador & Honduras fought a brief war named for this sport soccer |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | COMPACT DISKS $200: "Touching You, Touching Me" (1969) &
"Hot August Night" (1972) Neil Diamond |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING AT 11 $800: It was the name of Michael Collins' mission in July 1969 Apollo 11 |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | TV GUIDE MOVIE SYNOPSES $2000: 1969:
"Sam Peckinpah's tale of aging gunmen in 1913 Texas" The Wild Bunch |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WE MAKE THAT! $800: 1969
always skinny
jeans Gap |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | TIME PIECES $2,000 (Daily Double): "The ghostly, white-clad figure descended the ladder" was the lead for a cover story in July of this year 1969 |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | BOW TIES ARE COOL $400: This food magnate ran track at Purdue & in 1969, launched his first popcorn brand (Orville) Redenbacher |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | TIME TO RESIGN $1600: April 28, 1969:
This Frenchman who'd just lost a constitutional referendum; c'est la vie! Charles de Gaulle |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | WE LOVE YOU, CONRAD $1,200 (Daily Double): As a part of this 1969 mission, Charles "Pete" Conrad became the third man to walk on the Moon Apollo 12 |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | HEY, MARTHA $1600: In 1969, the year she turned 75, she announced her retirement as a dancer but kept creating dances Martha Graham |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | THEME $1000: Rod McKuen wrote & sang "Jean", the theme song of this 1969 Maggie Smith film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | A ROCKIN' NUMBER $400: Three Dog Night (1969) & U2 (1992):
"____" One |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | "POST" GRADUATE $1,600 (Daily Double): William Barry in 1829 was the first & Winton Blount in 1969 was the last to be this as a cabinet member Postmaster General |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | EDITORS $2000: As fiction editor at Esquire from 1969 to 1976, Gordon Lish promoted this "scaled-down" style of writing minimalism |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | NORMAN INVASION $1000: In 1969 this author and New Journalist failed in his bid to become Mayor of New York City (Norman) Mailer |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | THE GREEN PAGES $2,000 (Daily Double): Victor Scheffer's "The Year of" this mammal is a 1969 classic study on the conservation of an ocean species the whale |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | HIGHEST-RATED TV SERIES OF THE SEASON $600: 1969-70:
This show featuring Goldie Hawn, Ruth Buzzi & Gary Owens Laugh-In |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | THE 1890s $1000: On June 2, 1899 Butch Cassidy & this gang, also a 1969 movie title, robbed their first train near Wilcox, Wyoming the Wild Bunch |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | HELP ME, FONDA $1200: In this 1969 film Peter Fonda helps a young Jack Nicholson loosen up Easy Rider |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: From 1969's "Take the Money and Run" through 2011, he has released a new film in all but 4 years Woody Allen |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | NEED A "LIFT"? $1000: At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, Jack King declared, "We have" this "on Apollo 11" liftoff |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | SEEING A BIT OF AMERICA $400: In 1969, it was no honeymoon when water was diverted from this landmark, but it'll be back to normal for our trip Niagara Falls |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THEIR ONLY TOP 10 POP HIT $400: 1969:
"A Boy Named Sue" Johnny Cash |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | I'M GONNA MOON YOU! $800: On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong radioed from the Moon, "Houston", this "base here. The Eagle has landed" Tranquility |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | NICE "BUN"s $400: In a 1969 Sam Peckinpah film, William Holden led a "Wild" one bunch |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | THIS YEAR IN HISTORY $200: 1969:
American Indians begin a 2-year occupation of this island in San Francisco Bay Alcatraz |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $600: Hey Michael, this Mario Puzo novel was published in 1969 The Godfather |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | CALL ME SHIRLEY $1200: In 1969 she became the first African-American congresswoman (Shirley) Chisholm |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $1600: In August 1969, after 34 years, Dorothy Hodgkin identified the atomic structure of this pancreatic hormone insulin |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | KIDNAPPED $400: On Dec. 2, 1969 Cindy Birdsong of this Motown group was kidnapped at knifepoint but escaped by jumping out of a car The Supremes |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | NAME THE YEAR $1600: The first astronauts walk on the Moon 1969 |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | JERSEY SURE $800: In 1969 New Jersey voters approved a state this to raise money for schools... Let's give 3, 9, 15, 17, 32 & 41 a whirl a lottery |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE KING'S SPEECH $800: In 1969 he said, "I receive from... Generalissimo Franco the political legitimacy born of 18 July 1936" Juan Carlos |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | Y'ALL FROM GEORGIA? $800: This Georgia-born Secretary of State served under 2 presidents from 1961 to 1969 Dean Rusk |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | & AFTER $1600: After leading a 1969 coup that deposed King Idris, he was named Commander in Chief of Libya's Armed Forces Gadhafi |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | SPORTS SPONSORSHIP $2000: In 2006 Marco Andretti finished 2nd at Indy for the Nyse: back in 1969, Mario Andretti won for this 3-letter oil treatment STP |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | 25-GAME WINNERS $600: Terrific! He racked up 25 wins for the Miraculous 1969 Mets Tom "Terrific" Seaver |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE $2000: The 1969 ballet "Trinity" was inspired by the peace movement in this California university city Berkeley |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | "AZ" I WAS SAYING $800: The title of this 1969 Alfred Hitchcock film comes from the code name of a French spy ring Topaz |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | ARTISTS' RETREATS $400: "Ariel", "Portnoy's Complaint" & this 1969 mob novel were all written partly in Yaddo in Upstate N.Y. The Godfather |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | MAN UP $800: On July 20, 1969 he was alone in the command module Columbia, circling the Moon at an altitude of 60-75 miles (Michael) Collins |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $1000: "Add Primer to Your Conestoga"--to this 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | NEIL, EARTHLING $400: This Ohioan who became a licensed pilot on his 16th birthday is remembered for the one small step he took in 1969 Neil Armstrong |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | COUNTRY FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $800: 1969:
"Stand By Your Man" Tammy Wynette |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | FACTS FROM THE WORLD ALMANAC $1000: An entry on Arizona says this man "was a leading conservative voice in the U.S. Senate (1953-1965, 1969-1987)" Barry Goldwater |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | WE MAKE THAT $800: This company's 1969 jeans seem like they could be found in 1,969 malls Gap |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | MOLLUSKS $200: This drink created in 1969 is basically a Bloody Mary mix with a tiny bit of mollusk broth in the recipe Clamato |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | LET''S HAVE A TICKER-TAPE PARADE! $3,000 (Daily Double): August 13, 1969:
For these 3 men following a quarantine Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | DUDE-ER-ONOMY $400: Be cool, man, & name this 1969 flick where Billy & Captain America hit the road, man: now those were some dudes, man Easy Rider |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | ELVIS $400: Elvis' 1956 gig at the New Frontier hotel in this city was badly received & cut short; it was a different story in 1969 Las Vegas |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | X-RATED $800: This 1969 buddy pic was the first X-rated film to win Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | "P.G." $1200: Serving from 1969 to 1972, Winton Blount was the last person to serve in this job as part of the cabinet the Postmaster General |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | DWIGHT EISENHOWER $1,200 (Daily Double): Eisenhower died in this year, the same year his vice president took up residence in the White House 1969 |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | CUBA, SI! $800: Celebrated Jan. 1, Triumph of the Revolution, Cuba's national holiday, commemorates events of this 20th c. year 1959 |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | ROOMMATES $400: These Sesame Street Muppet roommates have shared an apartment since 1969 Bert & Ernie |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | THE NUMBER OF YEARS FROM... $600: Lindbergh's most famous flight to the first manned moon landing 42 |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | ONLY YESTERDAY $600: This man crooned "Yesterday" on his 1969 album "My Way" Frank Sinatra |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | COMPUTER MILESTONES $2000: 1969: He develops the first supercomputer, the CDC 7600 (Seymour) Cray |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | HELLO CLEVELAND! $1000: Cleveland sits at the mouth of this river that caught fire in 1969; it's also the seat of the county of the same name Cuyahoga |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | McACTORS $200: This star of "Failure to Launch" was born Nov. 4, 1969, the same day as Diddy Matthew McConaughey |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $2000: "Mondo Trasho"
(1969) John Waters |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | PATRICK'S DAY $1000: Sept, 11, 1969:
His series "The Prisoner" airs its 17th & last episode... to return in 40 years Patrick McGoohan |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | KING & COUNTRY $1000: In 1969 the King released a version of "Gentle On My Mind", for which this singer had won a 1967 country Grammy Glen Campbell |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | THE AUTHOR TWITTERS $600: What am I doing?! Screaming! Itz 1945 & I'm U.S. soldier @ bombing of Dresden! (Will write 1969 novel about it) Vonnegut |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | ...& OTHER MUSES $1200: On her 1969 honeymoon, this inspiring conceptual artist staged a "Bed-in for Peace" Yoko Ono |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES $1200: (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) In 2009, I gave the commencement address at Barnard College; in 1969 I gave the first ever student commencement at this other women's college Wellesley |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | THE U.S. SENATE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the deck of the USS John C. Stennis.) Several aircraft carriers are named for presidents; this one's named for John C. Stennis, who chaired this defense-oriented U.S. Senate committee from 1969 to 1980 the Armed Services Committee |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | CHEWING THE "FAT" $1200: He was the head of the P.L.O. from 1969 to 2004 Yasser Arafat |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | CURSES $800: A black cat in 1969 & a fan's try for a foul ball (let him be, folks!) have been blamed for this team's woes the Cubs |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | FURNITURE $400: 1969 talks on this war were delayed ten weeks over--would the table be a rectangle, implying two sides, or round, implying four equal partners? Vietnam |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | CURRENT BIOGRAPHY: 1970 $2000: This publisher & philanthropist's bio mentions his 1969 swearing in as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Annenberg |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | I'M SPORTING SOME 7s $600: In 1969 this alliterative athlete's No. 7 was retired by the New York Yankees Mickey Mantle |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | 1969 $400: On January 20 he was sworn in as president of the United States Richard Nixon |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | 1969 $800: On July 20, 1969 some 600 million people around the world were glued to their TV sets watching this the man landing on the Moon |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | 1969 $1200: He was sentenced to death for the murder of Robert Kennedy; the sentence was later changed to life in prison Sirhan Sirhan |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | 1969 $2,000 (Daily Double): Though it made its maiden flight in March, it didn't break the sound barrier until October the Concorde |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | 1969 $2000: It was the bitter end for these artificial sweeteners, recalled after they were linked to cancer in rats the cyclamates |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | FRENCH HISTORY $1200: A wartime adviser to de Gaulle, he was at the "center" of French politics as president from 1969 to 1974 Pompidou |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | YORKS: OLDE, NEW & DICK $400: Dick York was "Bewitched" in this role from 1964 to 1969 Darrin Stephens |
| #5764, aired 2009-10-08 | HISTORIC FIGURES SPEAK $800: France, you refused my proposals for constitutional changes in 1969, so I quit as pres.! Bonne chance! de Gaulle |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | BYRON $1200: This church refused to accept Byron's body for burial in 1824, but a memorial to him was placed on its floor in 1969 Westminster Abbey |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | REMEMBERING MICHAEL JACKSON $200: In 1969 Michael & his brothers released their debut album: this Motown diva "Presents the Jackson 5" Diana Ross |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | NET WORKING $2000: In 1969 this precursor to the Internet first linked 4 educational institutions ARPANET |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | MOVIES BY SONGS $800: 1969:
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | WIMBLEDON SINGLES CHAMPS $1000: This Aussie lefty:
1961, 1962, 1968, 1969 Rod Laver |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | OUT IN THE STREET $400: This street, seen here, was crossed on a 1969 album cover Abbey Road |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | THE REPORT OF MY DEATH... $400: In 1969 the world was abuzz with rumors of this rock star's death; a barefoot album photo said it was so Paul McCartney |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $400: Released in 1969, it's the musical tale of a "deaf, dumb & blind kid" who "sure plays a mean pinball" Tommy |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $1000: 1969:
"We'll be in Miami in just a few minutes" Midnight Cowboy |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | HISTORIC NEWS PHOTOS $400: Month & year of the famous first seen here July 1969 |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | DEATH OF A PRESIDENT $600: He died of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center March 28, 1969 Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | BUTCH CASSIDY $600: Name of the gang Butch led on numerous rampages, or a 1969 Peckinpah film The Wild Bunch |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | THIS IS ONE SLIMY CATEGORY $200: Rains made a mess of this 1969 concert, but didn't dampen the spirits at Max Yasgur's place Woodstock |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS $600: In 1969 the "Miracle Mets" won the World Series & this star pitcher, "Tom Terrific", won the Cy Young Award Tom Seaver |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | SERENITY NOW! $400: From 1969: "Houston" this "Base here, the Eagle has landed" Tranquility |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | CALL IN YOUR "IOUS" $800: Meaning questionable or distrustful , it's found in the title of a 1969 Elvis hit suspicious |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | SEX & THE CITY $1000: Female; born Melbourne, 1969; specializes in playing Queen Elizabeth I on film Cate Blanchett |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $600: This 1969 novella by Harlan Ellison tells the story of Blood, a telepathic canine who teaches his master to read A Boy and His Dog |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | MOVIE TITLES! $800: In 1969 it was Bonjour, Babs! when Streisand & Matthau hit the screen in this film Hello, Dolly! |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | OVER-THE-COUNTER CULTURE $200: For just $450 an ounce, you can wear rich hippie's all-natural perfume named for this 1969 event Woodstock |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $800: Yasir Arafat was the head of it from 1969 to 2004 the PLO |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | AMERICAN GRADUATORS $400: This Poughkeepsie, N.Y. graduator was the first of the "7 Sisters" to go co-ed--in 1969, too late for me, darn it! Vassar |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | MOVIE MUSICALS $200: The title robot of this 2008 animated film learns about human emotion by watching a video of the 1969 film "Hello, Dolly!" WALL-E |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | SYMPHONY FOR THE DEVIL $800: It was a "Brave New World" for this Brit when his "The Devils of Loudun" was turned into an opera in 1969 Huxley |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDES $400: On Oct. 1, 1969 the Concorde broke this barrier for the first time the sound barrier |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 1969:
This playwright: did they keep him waiting? Beckett |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | REELIN' IN THE YEARS $1,500 (Daily Double): It's the year of the quote "Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins" 1969 |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | THEIR ONLY TOP 10 POP HIT $800: "Whole Lotta Love"
(1969) Led Zeppelin |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG $500 (Daily Double): In 2000 Clinton became the first sitting president to visit this country since Nixon visited the troops in 1969 Vietnam |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | I'M LIBYAN $200: In 1969 this 27-year-old seized power in a coup d'etat in Libya Qadaffi |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | THE PEARL $800: "La Peregrina" is a famous pearl bought by this man in 1969 & given to Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton |
| #5448, aired 2008-04-23 | I AM SAM, SAM I AM $1200: In 1969 this Irishman won the Nobel Prize for literature Beckett |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | TO RICHES $400: In 1969 he began Virgin, a mail-order business for discount records (Richard) Branson |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | MOVIE ADJECTIVES $800: 1969:
"The ___ Bunch" Wild |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | LAST WILLS & TESTAMENTS $600: This Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 left a self-written 176-word will with no provisions for estate taxes; oops Warren Burger |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $200: It's the mission that landed in the Mare Tranquillitatis in 1969 Apollo 11 |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHING LEGENDS $400: Bo Schembechler
(1969-1989) Michigan |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | LET'S GO TO OHIO $2000: In 1969 this river running through Cleveland actually caught fire the Cuyahoga |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | HITS OF THE '60s $800: Nilsson's 1969 hit "Everybody's Talkin'" served as the theme song to this Oscar-winning film Midnight Cowboy |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | GERMAN CITIES $2000: This city on the Elbe River was home to Kurt Vonnegut's title 1969 abattoir Dresden |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | WHAT A DICTATOR $600: One of his legacies was restoring the Spanish monarchy in 1969 Franco |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $400: Then-last name of the current U.S. senator who graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 Rodham |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | LOGOS $600: Would you like fries with this company whose logo, designed in 1969, is a pigtailed little girl? Wendy's |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | THE LBJ LIBRARY & MUSEUM $1200: (Kelly stands next to a big gray sphere.) This moon globe, a birthday gift to LBJ, was given to him in this year, a month after the first moon landing 1969 |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAPS $200: In 1969, National Geographic published a Moon map; here's this calm lunar feature the Sea of Tranquility |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | COUNTRY MUSIC STARS ON FILM $2000: In a 1969 film he showed some "True Grit" as John Wayne's young sidekick Glen Campbell |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | SITCOM SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $400: Rock me, Ann B. Davis! Ms. D played housekeeper Alice Nelson on this sitcom from 1969 to 1974 The Brady Bunch |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | THE TALES OF DUSTIN HOFFMAN $800: "Frankly, you're beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap", says Dustin in this 1969 film Midnight Cowboy |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $1000: This liberal arts college that went co-ed in 1969 is located in Poughkeepsie Vassar (College) |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $600: This famed labor leader is seen demonstrating in 1969 César Chávez |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | VOICES, I HEAR VOICES... $1200: He voiced Shaggy on the 1969-1972 TV series "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" Casey Kasem |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | ON THE ROAD $1600: Hey man, hit the road with Wyatt & Billy, man & check out Phil Spector as Connection in this 1969 film, man Easy Rider |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | "V" FOR VICTORY $400: Biologist Max DelBruck shared a 1969 Nobel Prize for his work on the genetics of these microscopic parasites viruses |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST $1200: More famous for songs like "Rocket Man", this songwriting duo wrote one of the songs for the U.K. effort in 1969 Elton John & Bernie Taupin |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FOOTBALL $1200: This Bo knew football, too; he went 194-48-5 as U-M's coach from 1969 to 1989 Schembechler |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | THE THIRD CATEGORY $1000: With Armstrong & Aldrin, he was the third man along for the journey to the moon in July 1969 (Michael) Collins |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | TV ROLES $800: In 1969 Robert Young came out of a 7-year retirement to play this TV doctor Marcus Welby |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | '60s MUSIC $800: "Looks like we're in for nasty weather" in this CCR hit from 1969 "Bad Moon Rising" |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR $400: The New York Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles to take their first World Series in this year 1969 |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $1600: He resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 amid criticism of his financial dealings Abe Fortas |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | JUDGES $500 (Daily Double): On Oct. 29, 1969 at a trial in this city, Judge Hoffman ordered Bobby Seale bound & gagged Chicago |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | BIRTHSTONES $800: In a 1969 Hitchcock film, a spy ring has this code name, also November's birthstone Topaz |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | TRY, TRY AGAIN $800: In 1969 the Supreme Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment's ban on this practice is binding on states double jeopardy |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | I STILL LIKE CARTOONS $400: This Great Dane was introduced in 1969, & you'd have gotten away with $400 if it weren't for those meddling kids Scooby-Doo |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | KHAAAAAAAAAN! $1000: A predecessor of Pervez Musharraf, Mohammad Ayub Khan was president of this country from 1958 to 1969 Pakistan |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | NAMES OF THE '60s $800: He first became head of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1969 Yasser Arafat |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | MY NAME IS EARL WARREN $1600: On June 23, 1969 I swore in this man as Chief Justice of the U.S. Warren Burger |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | WORLD MUSEUMS $400: Hanoi, where this man died in 1969, has a museum devoted to him Ho Chi Minh |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | WORLD MUSEUMS $1200: "ANZACs in France, 1969" was a 2006 exhibit at a war museum in this capital city Canberra |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | THE KING & I $800: In 1969 Franco said, "Here, king" & named him Spain's head of state upon Franco's leaving office Juan Carlos |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | R.C. $4,000 (Daily Double): This Texan was LBJ's Attorney General from 1967 to 1969 Ramsey Clark |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | MOVIE PEOPLE $800: His professional directorial debut was the 24-minute short "Amblin'", shown at the Atlanta Film Festival in 1969 Steven Spielberg |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | FAMOUS COUPLES $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria.) In 1969 they left their Amsterdam bed-in for a press conference in a bag held right here at Vienna's famous Hotel Sacher John Lennon & Yoko Ono |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | FIRE WHEN READY $400: This 1969 Vonnegut work takes place in part during the firebombing of Dresden Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | ALSO A PRESIDENTIAL NAME $400: Burn on, big river; in 1969 this city's Cuyahoga River actually caught fire Cleveland |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | MOVIE GUYS & GALS $1,200 (Daily Double): 1969:
"____ & ____ & ____ & ____" Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THIS CATEGORY GOES TO 11 $800: On July 20, 1969 Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon as part of the space mission with this name Apollo 11 |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | NEIL! PATRICK! HARRIS! $400: In 1969 he placed a seismometer meant to detect moonquakes Neil Armstrong |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | NEIL! PATRICK! HARRIS! $1600: After Buffalo Springfield broke up, this guy rejoined Stephen Stills & 2 others in 1969 Neil Young |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | STRAIGHT MEN $400: This Sesame Streeter & his pal Ernie debuted in 1969 & Carson, have Kyan help him with that unibrow! Bert |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 Thor Heyerdahl sailed the Atlantic in this reed boat Ra |
| #5093, aired 2006-11-01 | IDENTITY THEFT $600: On July 20, 1969 Ryan Seacrest described the lunar surface as "magnificent desolation"; 2nd man on Moon, out! Buzz Aldrin |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | NEWMAN'S OWN $400: 1969 film in which Paul Newman tells Robert Redford, "Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | SPACE EXPLORATION $600: On July 20, 1969 this lunar module separated from the Apollo 11 spacecraft & landed on the Moon the Eagle |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | LEAPING $800: Completes the famous 1969 lunar-based quote “One small step for a man…” “one giant leap for mankind” |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | QUOTHE THE FILM $1600: This 1977 film:
"The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea" Oh, God! |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In April 1969 he left the world stage & retired to his home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises Charles de Gaulle |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | THE JEP-TONES WORLD TOUR 2006 $1000: Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones Altamont |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT! $2000: A 1969 case said the phrase "with all" these 2 words from Brown v. Board of Education wasn’t being followed deliberate speed |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | A DAY IN JUNE $1000: June 28, 1969:
Riots at this Greenwich Village bar mark the beginning of the gay rights movement the Stonewall Inn |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | SUPREME COURT BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Jason Lee sitcom that served as Chief Justice from 1953 to 1969 My Name Is Earl Warren |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | MUSICALLY INCLINED $600: In 1969 Johnny Cash had a hit with this Shel Silverstein song "A Boy Named Sue" |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | CITY OF THE DAY: SAN FRANCISCO $400: Members of the American Indian movement seized this then-unoccupied island in 1969 & were forced off in 1971 Alcatraz Island |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | THE GRATEFUL DEAD $600: The Dead was scheduled to play at this group's ill-fated 1969 show at Altamont Speedway but refused to go on The Rolling Stones |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | MIDWAY ISLAND $400: In June 1969 President Nixon & this country's Nguyen Van Thieu met secretly in the Commanding Officer's house South Vietnam |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | INTO THE "WOOD"s $400: 1969 rock festival site Woodstock |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | GODZILLA $1200: In a quirky short film of 1969, this innocent Disney character faces off vs. Godzilla with predictable results Bambi |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | AMERICANA $1000: Love was in the air in 1969 when this state adopted the tourism slogan that says it "is for lovers" Virginia |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | TWELFTH NIGHT $600: Seen here, she represented New York's 12th District in the House of Representatives from 1969-1983 Shirley Chisholm |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | GET YOUR KICKS $600: The longest of these in NFL history was a 98-yarder by Steve O'Neal for the New York Jets in 1969 a punt |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | ELVIS FILM ROLES $1000: 1969:
Dr. John Carpenter, who works with Sister Michelle (Mary Tyler Moore) Change of Habit |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | WHICH CRAFT $800: Manned lunar module that landed on the Moon in 1969 the Eagle |
| #4918, aired 2006-01-18 | DOUBLE "L" $600: This 1969 hit by The Who was the first of 3 from their rock opera album "Tommy" "Pinball Wizard" |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | A SHORT HISTORY OF VEGAS $600: 1969:
His 57-show engagement at the International Hotel breaks existing Vegas attendance records Elvis Presley |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | JUST THE FACT, MA'AM $600: In 1969 he penned the famous line "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" (Mario) Puzo |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | MEN OF THE "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): He was one of 3 taken aboard the U.S.S. Hornet July 24, 1969 & immediately put into quarantine Michael Collins |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | KEEPING UP APPEARANCES $1600: Hopefully the Urban Decay make-up with the name of this 1969 film won't make you look like Ratso Rizzo Midnight Cowboy |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | IT WAS THE '60s $200: A July 21, 1969 Wapakoneta, Ohio Daily News headline about a local boy read, "Neil steps on" this the Moon |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $200: William Holden leads this 1969 title group of robbers & killers with a sense of honor The Wild Bunch |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | HEY, JUNIOR! $800: This famous Jr. re-created his WWII Dresden experience in a 1969 novel Kurt Vonnegut |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | NAME THAT MOVIE $800: 1969:
"Kid, the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | SCIENCE LAB $800: In 1969 Marcian Hoff Jr. condensed all of a computer's arithmetic functions to this one tiny chip a microprocessor chip |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: (Hi, I'm Bob Woodward,) One of the most influential women of the 20th century, she was publisher of the Washington Post from 1969 to 1979 & CEO until 1991 (Katharine) Graham |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | "POT" POURRI $2000: 1969's "The Promise" & 1990's "The Gift of Asher Lev" are sequels to 2 of this writer's earlier works (Chaim) Potok |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | RETIRED JERSEYS $200: No. 7 in pinstripes, this pride of Oklahoma was honored in 1969 Mickey Mantle |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | EAGLE-EYED $600: In 1969 he commanded the "Eagle" lunar module Armstrong |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | "COM" $1600: Controversial 1969 Philip Roth novel that was made into a 1972 film Portnoy's Complaint |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | MEMORIES OF VIETNAM $800: In December 1969 this Texas billionaire tried to send gifts, food & supplies to U.S. POWs in North Vietnam Ross Perot |
| #4829, aired 2005-09-15 | YEARS $400: It's the year the small step seen here was taken 1969 |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | THE SUPREMES $600: Though appointed by Nixon in 1969, this chief justice ruled that Nixon had no absolute right to privacy while in office Warren Burger |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT $600: This baseball team was honored with ticker-tape parades in 1962, 1969 & 1986 the New York Mets |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | NAME THAT MOVIE $1000: 1969:
"You know, Billy. We blew it" Easy Rider |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | VINCENT $2000: He was the New York Times' senior film critic from 1969 to 1993 Vincent Canby |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | COFFEE TALK $800: Carlos Sanchez, a Columbian coffee farmer, has portrayed this advertising icon since 1969 Juan Valdez |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | SARGENT/YORK $400: Dick York played this sitcom role from 1964 to 1969 Darrin Stephens |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | SARGENT/YORK $800: Dick Sargent played this sitcom role from 1969 to 1972 Darrin Stephens |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | THIS SONG'S ALL WET! $800: Though this 1969 No. 1 hit may occur, "that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red" "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | NAME THAT DICTATOR $400: Libya
since 1969 Qadhafi |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | THE NIXON LIBRARY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew poses with a green telephone in the Nixon Library.) In 1969, Nixon used this phone on what he called the most historic phone call ever made with these 2 men (Neil) Armstrong & (Buzz) Aldrin |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | DEEP PURPLE $400: To be "raised to the purple" is to become one of these, as Archbishop Terence Cooke did in 1969 a cardinal |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | "LOVE" ON TELEVISION $600: Yikes! Tiny Tim once played a suspected vampire on this comedy anthology series that debuted in 1969 Love, American Style |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | BEND IT LIKE BECKETT $800: Beckett won this big prize in 1969, but declined the trip to Sweden to avoid the public speeches at the ceremony the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: This song about precipitation won Burt Bacharach & Hal David a 1969 Oscar "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | A SIDE OF BEANS $1000: In November 1969 Pete Conrad & this man became the third & fourth humans to set foot on the Moon Alan Bean |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | MOVIE SONGS $1200: "Born To Be Wild"
(1969) Easy Rider |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | WORDS "INC" $1600: One of the laws of this 1969 book states that people are promoted until they reach their level of incompetence The Peter Principle |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | SUPER MARIO $800: In 1969 he won his only Indy 500 (Mario) Andretti |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | "EASY" FOR YOU TO SAY $800: Before he was TV's Grizzly Adams, Dan Haggerty helped build some of the custom motorcycles for this 1969 film Easy Rider |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1969 West Irians voted to remain a part of this nation, & the U.N. recognized its control of Irian Jaya Indonesia |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | NAME THAT WESTERN $400: 1969: "Kid, there's something I ought to tell you. I never shot anybody before" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | CARS $200: In a 1969 Disney film, Herbie was this model of car Volkswagen Beetle |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $400: In a November 3, 1969 speech, he used the phrase "The great silent majority" Richard Nixon |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | DECEMBER 1st $200: Dec. 1, 1969: the Selective Service conducts the first lottery for this since World War II the draft |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: In 1969 this French composer was selected to replace Leonard Bernstein as director of the N.Y. Philharmonic Pierre Boulez |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | LIVIN' LA VIDA YOKO $200: Yoko Ono married him in 1969 John Lennon |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DATE & PLACE $600: July 20, 1969, Mare Tranquillitatus:
These 2 men Armstrong & Aldrin |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: Golda Meir, a former school teacher, was prime minister of this country from 1969 to 1974 Israel |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | NOTHIN' BUT "A"s $1000: You could say we sent this Greek god to the Moon in 1969 Apollo |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | I NEED BACKUP $1200: Merry Clayton's stylings on "Gimme Shelter" are just "A Kiss Away" from perfection on this 1969 Stones album Let it Bleed |
| #4618, aired 2004-10-06 | SONG LYRICS $1200: This classic from 1969 says, "I feel that ice is slowly melting" "Here Comes The Sun" |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | PRO FOOTBALL $600: In 1969 he left the Packers & became the head coach, general manager & part owner of the Washington Redskins Vince Lombardi |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY $800: Discontinued in 1969, the $100,000 bill featured the portrait of this Democratic president Woodrow Wilson |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BASEBALL ROOKIES OF THE YEAR $600: This pitcher was Rookie of the Year in 1967; he won the Cy Young & a World Series ring in 1969 Seaver |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | THE TALES OF HOFFMAN $800: "Everybody's Talkin'" served as the theme to this 1969 film in which Hoffman played street hustler Ratso Rizzo Midnight Cowboy |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | THE ANATOMY OF EVEL $600: Alas, poor Yorick, do not leap forth at Caesars, for verily, Evel fractured this upon landing in the year 1969 his skull |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | BOX IT UP $400: This 1969 Simon & Garfunkel hit begins, "I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told" "The Boxer" |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | STAY-AT-HOME MOMS $800: We're sure this Ohioan's mother, Viola, was elated on July 20, 1969, but she kept her feet on the ground Neil Armstrong |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | '60s POTPOURRI $600: In 1969 this Surrealist created the logo for Chupa Chups, a Spanish brand of lollipops Dalí |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | 1969 $200: He was officially presented to the Welsh people on July 1 Prince Charles |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | 1969 $400: This supersonic airliner took off March 2, 1969 the Concorde |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | 1969 $600: She became Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | 1969 $800: He resigned as President of France Charles De Gaulle |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | 1969 $1000: On July 3, 1969 this British guitarist was found drowned in his swimming pool Brian Jones |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 university professors Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinbergen shared the first Nobel Prize for this Economics |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | OH, THE THINGS I KNOW! $2000: He was "On the Road" in 1957 but found the final exit ramp in 1969 Jack Kerouac |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | PROUD TO BE A SECRETARY $200: He resigned from Congress in 1969 to join the Cabinet; now he's the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | OUR FLAG $1000: On July 20, 1969 astronauts first planted the U.S. flag on the Moon in an area called the Sea of this Tranquility |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Wasn't Santana awesome at this event in August 1969? Woodstock |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | SHIPS $2,000 (Daily Double): On July 24, 1969 the U.S.S. Hornet was in the Pacific waiting for these men the crew of Apollo 11 |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | THEY REALLY SAID IT $1200: French president from 1958 to 1969, he observed, "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" Charles de Gaulle |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | ET AL $1200: His mesmerizing Broadway debut as a junkie in the 1969 play "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" won him a Tony Award Al Pacino |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | GIANT $400: Completes Neil Armstrong's July 20,1969 statement "That's one small step for man..." one giant leap for mankind |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | BEYOND REASON $1200: In 1969 Governor Jimmy Carter filed a report of sighting one of these luminous objects a UFO |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | THE '60s $800: In 1969 the title of chief justice passed from this Warren to Warren Burger Earl Warren |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: On June 4, 2002 the New York Times ran the obituary for Albin Krebs, 73, who wrote these from 1969 to 1989 obituaries |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | TURKEY $800: Roast turkey & all the trimmings was on the menu when these 2 men touched down on the moon in 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | WE "LOVE" LITERATURE $600: Modern lit just wouldn't be the same without such seminal works as this 1969 Jacqueline Susann novel The Love Machine |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | PEACE CORPS $800: We wonder if this TV personality helped Panamanians remodel old houses when he served in 1969-70 Bob Vila |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $800: 1965-1969 Hubert Humphrey |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | THE QUOTABLE NIXON $800: 1969:
"It's time for the great" this "of Americans to stand up and be counted" the silent majority |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: From 1969 to 1983 Shirley Chisholm served New York state in this U.S. Gov't. body that elects its members every 2 years the House of Representatives |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | I'VE GOT THAT ALBUM! $800: 1969:
"Something",
"Here Comes The Sun",
"Come Together" Abbey Road |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | NOVELISTS $400: In his 1969 novel he penned the famous line "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" Mario Puzo (from "The Godfather") |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | TO REMAIN "SILENT" $800: In a Nov. 3, 1969 speech, Richard Nixon referred to this large group that usually withholds its opinions silent majority |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | HIT ME WITH THE HITS $600: The Ventures had a Top 10 hit with this song in 1969 "Theme from 'Hawaii Five-O'" |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | I NEED MY SPACE $400: The first human to walk on the moon did it on July 20 of this year 1969 |
| #4351, aired 2003-06-30 | ANYTHING GOES $1600: In 1962 he became the first Australian to win the Grand Slam of tennis; he won it again in 1969 Rod Laver |
| #4333, aired 2003-06-04 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $800: 1969:
Paul Newman & Robert Redford Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | GEEK TRAGEDY $200: The rain leaked in & damaged your complete video collection of this sci-fi show that aired from Sept. 1966 to Sept. 1969 Star Trek |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SKI YOU AT THE MOVIES $400: This actor who owns his own ski resort did much of his own skiing in the 1969 film "Downhill Racer" Robert Redford |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SKI YOU AT THE MOVIES $1600: In a 1969 film, Dean Martin's daughter Claudia & this star of "Adam-12" got "Ski Fever" Martin Milner |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | LET'S ROCK! $200: In 1969 CCR had 3 No. 2 hits: "Bad Moon Rising", "Green River" & this one that kept on "rollin', rollin', rollin'" "Proud Mary" |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Times Square.) Times Square looked pretty seedy when Jon Voight hung out here in this 1969 film Midnight Cowboy |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS $1600: Published in 1969, "Setting Free the Bears" was the first novel by this author John Irving |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | SCRIPT TEASE $1,000 (Daily Double): 1969:
"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man" True Grit |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC MAKERS $400: Hits by this "Godfather of Soul" include 1969's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" James Brown |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | MARCH MADNESS $200: In March 1969 Baron Constantine, lawyer & cricket star, became the 1st black member of this house of Parliament House of Lords |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | COUNTRY SINGERS WHO ACT $600: Glen Campbell co-starred in this 1969 film, but unlike John Wayne, he didn't win an Oscar for it True Grit |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | "BU" WHO $1600: In the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", she played Anne Boleyn Genevieve Bujold |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | AL GORE RHYTHMS $800: The East Coast school where he got his B.A. in 1969 Harvard |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | AL GORE RHYTHMS $1000: The foreign country where he worked as a journalist from 1969 to 1971 Vietnam |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | VICTIMS $600: The last name of this family is often paired with Tate to identify the Manson family killings of 1969 LaBianca |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $400: Modern Library's pick as one of this century's top English-language novels is this 1969 Philip Roth book "Portnoy's Complaint" |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | SPACED OUT $600: On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong took "one small step" onto this "peaceful" lunar sea Sea of Tranquility |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | SHOPPING $800: This retail clothing chain started out as a single store in San Francisco in 1969 that sold jeans & records The Gap |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $1600: To prepare for his 1969 investiture, he spent a term at the University College of Wales learning to speak Welsh Prince Charles |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | THE ROLLING STONES $800: Footage from a deadly 1969 Stones concert at this speedway was released in 1970 as the documentary "Gimme Shelter" Altamont |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | WORLD SERIES HOMERS $600: One "Amazing" moment in this team's 1969 Series win was a homer by Al Weis, who hit 7 in his whole career New York Mets |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | FONDA THE MOVIES $200: In this 1969 film Peter Fonda & Dennis Hopper hit the road on their motorcycles to find America Easy Rider |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | THEY WILL "COME" $800: This Beatles song was No. 1 on the charts in 1969 "Come Together" |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | WAR & PEACE SONGS $600: John Lennon's 1st Top 40 hit without the Beatles was this 1969 song "Give Peace A Chance" |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $600: 1969:
"12 O'Clock Herdsman" Midnight Cowboy |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | HELLO, NEWMAN $200: Paul Newman's character kicks western outlaw Harvey Logan where it really hurts in this 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #4139, aired 2002-09-05 | ROLLING STONES HITS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1969:
"Cheap Nightclub Babes" "Honky Tonk Women" |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | CALIFORNIA PROPERTY $800: In May 1969 People's Park in this city was the scene of "Bloody Thursday" when police took on local activists Berkeley |
| #4116, aired 2002-06-24 | MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS $400: This show which opened on Broadway in 1993 originated as a 1969 rock opera album Tommy |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | THIS ONE GOES TO 11 $800: On July 20, 1969 the Eagle of this mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility Apollo 11 |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1000: He was expelled from the Soviet Writer's Union in 1969; in 1970 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature Solzhenitsyn |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | THE 1960s $600: Ironically, it was the year of the "Summer of Love" & the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War 1967 |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | PRINCESS, WHO'S YOUR DADDY? $1200: He's the father of Crown Princess Sayako, made in Japan in 1969 Akihito |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BIG NAMES IN SPORTS $800: At Wimbledon 1969, aged 41, this Mexican-American saved 7 match points to beat Charlie Pasarell Pancho Gonzales |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | DOLLAR $400: He died in 1969 but popped up on a U.S. dollar coin 2 years later Eisenhower |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS $1000: This seductive novel landed John Fowles on the best-seller list in 1969 The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONYS $800: "The Great White Hope"
(1969) James Earl Jones |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | MADE IN TAIWAN $400: Played in Williamsport, PA., this series was won by a Taiwanese team for the first time in 1969 Little League World Series |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A BOY! $600: "Giving Tree" author Shel Silverstein penned this 1969 Johnny Cash hit "A Boy Named Sue" |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | I PROTEST! $2,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Plaza Hotel.) In protest of the Oak Room's men-only lunch policy, this organization staged a sit-in at the Plaza on February 12, 1969 N.O.W. (the National Organization for Women) |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | FAMOUS J.P.'s $2000: This controversial Episcopal bishop left the U.S. & disappeared into the Israeli desert in 1969 (Bishop) James Pike |
| #4061, aired 2002-04-08 | WHAT'S "D" MATTER? $1600: (Cheryl is playing with her toys.) For tots with tiny fingers, Lego introduced these bigger bricks in 1969 Duplo |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | CHARLES IN CHARGE $200: Charles "Pete" Conrad (in 1969) & Charles Duke, Jr. (in 1972) are 2 of only 12 men in history to go to work here the moon |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | CHARLES IN CHARGE $800 (Daily Double): He was founding president of the Fifth Republic, serving from 1958 to 1969 Charles de Gaulle |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | THEIR LAST TOP 10 HIT $1200: "Touch Me"
(1969) The Doors |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING COUNTRY SONGS $1200: 1969: "A Boy Named Sue" Johnny Cash |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | SUDDENLY SUSAN $1600: This beauty seen here was voted Miss California, 1969 Susan Anton |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | THE DUSTIN HOFFMAN FILM FESTIVAL $800: 1969:
"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" Midnight Cowboy |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | "AMERICAN" A $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 the House Committee on these became the Committee on Internal Security House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | MODERN GREECE $1600: The murder of leftist politician Grigoris Lambrakis inspired this 1969 Costa-Gavras film Z |
| #4026, aired 2002-02-18 | I DO IMPRESSIONS $200: Well, Pilgrim (that's really all you need right?) I made over 175 films but only won 1 Oscar, for a 1969 film, a-yup John Wayne |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | EERIE $800: Project Blue Book was the Air Force's investigation of these from 1947 to 1969 UFOs |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | OSCAR ODDITIES $800: This 1969 Jon Voight film is the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture, although today it would be rated R Midnight Cowboy |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | ORIGINAL TITLES $600: Philip Roth, 1969: "A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis" Portnoy's Complaint |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | ALONG COMES MARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew on a paddle boat.) The big wheel kept on turning for Creedence Clearwater Revival when this tune hit number two in 1969 "Proud Mary" |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | CAMILLA $600: What Prince Charles is to Camilla's first-born son, or the title of a 1969 novel about Don Corleone "The Godfather" |
| #3944, aired 2001-10-25 | THIS YEAR'S HEADLINE! $600: Joe Namath & the Jets Win the Super Bowl! 1969 |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | '60s POP QUIZ $400: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" went to No. 1 after it was featured in this 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | THE REAL SLIM PICKENS $400: We got a laugh when Slim appeared on this comedy variety show hosted from 1969 to 1992 by Roy Clark Hee Haw |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | IF IT'S WEDNESDAY THEY MUST BE BELGIANS $400: Eddy Merckx won this noted bike race 5 times, the first in 1969 when he was 24 the Tour de France |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | AUTHOR COUNTDOWN $100: "Slaughterhouse Five"
(1969) Kurt Vonnegut |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | UP & ATOM $400: An honorary "Atoms for Peace" award went to this ex-U.S. president in 1969, the year of his death Eisenhower |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | TEAM PLAYERS, HALL OF FAME EDITION $200: Roger Staubach
(1969-1979) the Dallas Cowboys |
| #3900, aired 2001-07-13 | PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS $500: This absurdist playwright left them waiting for him at the 1969 Nobel Prize ceremony (Samuel) Beckett |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | READ $200: Word in common in Frank Herbert titles of 1965, 1969, 1976, 1981 & 1985 Dune |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | HOT "BUN"s $100: In a 1969 Sam Peckinpah film, William Holden & Ernest Borgnine were part of a "Wild" one Bunch |
| #3891, aired 2001-07-02 | JACK NICHOLSON $800 (Daily Double): In this 1969 film Jack wonders, "This used to be a fine country. What went wrong?" Easy Rider |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | MOVIE QUOTES $600: 1969:
"Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MOVIE LAST LINES $400: This 1969 western ends with John Wayne telling Kim Darby, "Well, come see a fat old man sometime!" True Grit |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | HARD ROCK CAFE $200: At No. 4, this Robert Plant band's highest-charting U.S. hit was 1969's "Whole Lotta Love" Led Zeppelin |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | DIRECTED & STARRED IN $800: "Easy Rider"
(1969) Dennis Hopper |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | "GENERAL" ASSEMBLY $1000: It was the nickname of Bo & Luke's fast-moving 1969 Dodge Charger on "The Dukes of Hazzard" "General Lee" |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | YASIR $300: In 1969 Arafat was named chairman of the PLO, which stands for this Palestine Liberation Organization |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | CALL ME SMITTY $400: The 1969 Oscar winner for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" was this future dame Maggie Smith |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | DUKE $300: This 1969 film earned John Wayne an Oscar; must have been the eye patch True Grit |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $500: On June 17, 1969 this controversial erotic revue opened off-Broadway; oh my! Oh! Calcutta! |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | DAWN $300: In 1969 the Fifth Dimension sang about "The Dawning Of" this & hit No. 1 "The Age Of Aquarius" |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | WE GET LETTERS $500 (Daily Double): Of all movies to win the Best Foreign-Language Oscar, this 1969 Costa-Gavras thriller has the shortest title Z |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | TO REMAIN SILENT $800: Sources say he wrote his November 1969 "Silent Majority" speech all by himself Richard Nixon |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | MOVIE SONGS $800: 1969:
"Everybody's Talkin'" Midnight Cowboy |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | GRAMMY-WINNING FEMALE SINGERS $1000: "Is That All There Is"
(1969) Peggy Lee |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | DIVA LAS VEGAS! $400: We've got nothing but "Respect" for this queen of soul who first played Caesars' Circus Maximus showroom in 1969 Aretha Franklin |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD $200: Appropriately, in 1969 the Apollo 11 crew listened to this Sinatra song, first titled "In Other Words" "Fly Me to the Moon" |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | WISH I'D SEEN THAT MUSICAL! $1000: The 1969 musical "Come Summer" reunited Ray Bolger with this Wicked Witch co-star from "The Wizard of Oz" Margaret Hamilton |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $300: The sexy 1969 musical "Canterbury Tales" marked the Broadway debut of this perky star seen here Sandy Duncan |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | NOTABLE NAMES $100: On July 20, 1969 at 10:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, he became the first man to set foot on the moon Neil Armstrong |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $500: 1969:
We're going to "Beat the Colts" on Sunday, "I guarantee it" Joe Namath (and they did in Super Bowl III) |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | SPORTS LEGENDS $300: (Hi, I'm NBA Hall-of-Famer John Havlicek) The Celtics have won 16 NBA titles, including 1968 & 1969 when we were led by this man, the NBA's first black head coach Bill Russell |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | SECONDS, PLEASE $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1969 Buzz Aldrin became the second to set foot here the moon |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | THE HISTORY OF LIBYA $800: In 1969 he led a military revolt that overthrew the ruling monarchy Muammar Gaddafi |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | HARRISON FORD $400: In 1969 Ford appeared on this comedy anthology series in the segment "Love and the Former Marriage" Love, American Style |
| #3691, aired 2000-09-25 | THE STONES $300: The Stones hired this motorcycle gang as guards at their 1969 Altamont concert for $500 in beer Hell's Angels |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | YEARS $100: Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon 1969 |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | YEARS $300: Jimi Hendrix performs at Woodstock 1969 |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | YEARS $400: Richard Nixon moves into the White House 1969 |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | YEARS $500: Atlanta hosts the Olympics 1996 |
| #3665, aired 2000-07-07 | AMERICAN INVENTIONS $200: This 1969 invention of Don Wetzel is associated with a P.I.N. ATM (Automated Teller Machine) |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | LET GEORGES DO IT $200: This president who made Georges Pompidou premier in 1962 was succeeded by him as president in 1969 Charles de Gaulle |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | VIVA LA REVOLUTION! $1000: The June 27, 1969 police raid at this Greenwich Village bar sparked a gay & lesbian revolution the Stonewall Inn |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | ED TV $400: In 1969 he did double duty as the host of "Concentration" & sidekick on "The Tonight Show" Ed McMahon |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | ROCK 'N' POP $300: In January 1969 the Beatles recorded "Get Back" on the roof of this record company's Savile Row Studio in London Apple Records |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY $400: On Friday, Aug. 15, 1969, faced with a crowd of 400,000, promoters of this event decided not to charge admission Woodstock |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | KAREEM $500: In 1969 this Midwest team chose Kareem as the NBA's No. 1 draft choice Milwaukee Bucks |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | STILL THE I $400: As Albino Luciani, he was patriarch of Venice from 1969 until being elected pope in 1978 John Paul I |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | ROUND FOOD $200: In 1969 Hasbro made a Mickey Mouse bank that dispensed these Gumballs |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | BOB DYLAN $500: Bob's "Lay Lady Lay" was considered for this 1969 Jon Voight film, but didn't make the soundtrack Midnight Cowboy |
| #3592, aired 2000-03-28 | POP SONGS BY THE NUMBERS $100: In a 1969 Three Dog Night ballad, this number is "the loneliest number that you'll ever do" One |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | INTERNATIONAL DATEBOOK $600: On Aug. 14, 1969 additional British troops arrived in this U.K. province, beginning a 30-year effort to quell sectarian conflict Northern Ireland |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | ALL THINGS BRITISH $100: In 1969 the Vatican removed this patron saint of England from the official calendar of saints Saint George |
| #3570, aired 2000-02-25 | THE CHIEF JUSTICE FILES $800: 1969-1986 Warren Burger |
| #3570, aired 2000-02-25 | THE CHIEF JUSTICE FILES $900 (Daily Double): 1953-1969 Earl Warren |
| #3566, aired 2000-02-21 | TIME QUOTES $700 (Daily Double): In 1969 this politician predicted, "No woman in my time will be prime minister"; she was wrong Margaret Thatcher |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | FIRST LADIES $100: In 1969 she graduated from Wellesley College where she was president of the student government Hillary Clinton |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES $500: (Hi, I'm Derrick Alexander of the Kansas City Chiefs; I played college football at Michigan) In 1969, his first of 21 seasons at Michigan, he was named Coach of the Year by his fellow coaches Bo Schembechler |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | POLAR EXPLORATION $600: In 1969, on dogsled, a British team made the first surface crossing of this ocean Arctic Ocean |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | VEEPS BY MIDDLE NAME $200: 1969-1973:
Theodore (Spiro T.) Agnew |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | HELLO, GUV $500: Texas
1963-1969 John Connally |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE SWINGIN' '60s $400: In 1969 the Supreme Court "tuned in" & overturned the conviction of this drug guru Timothy Leary |
| #3525, aired 1999-12-24 | PRO FOOTBALL COACHES $400: Oakland Raiders
1969-78 John Madden |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | UFO REVIEW $400: This future governor & U.S. president filed a report of a UFO sighting in 1969 Jimmy Carter |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | ORGANIZATIONS $100: In 1969 Al-Fatah leader Yasir Arafat became chairman of this group PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | STUFF $400: In 1969 Dalsey, Hillblom & Lynn founded this type of company Delivery/courier service (DHL) |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $800: She was the teen star of the 1969 film "A Walk with Love and Death", directed by her dad, John Huston Anjelica Huston |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | MR. CHICKEN $400: John Wayne played him twice, in 1969 & 1975 Rooster Cogburn |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | TV HOSTS $200: "Wonderful World of Color"
1961-1969 Walt Disney |
| #3482, aired 1999-10-26 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: In November 1969 American Indian Movement members began their 19-month occupation of this island Alcatraz |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): A 1969 war between Honduras & El Salvador followed a qualifying match for this sporting event World Cup (of soccer) |
| #3465, aired 1999-10-01 | "LITTLE" ROCK $1000: It's what Otis Redding in 1967 & Three Dog Night in 1969 wanted you to "try" "Try A Little Tenderness" |
| #3461, aired 1999-09-27 | THE "W.B." $400: In a 1969 film this title group included William Holden & Warren Oates The Wild Bunch |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | MUSIC OF THE '60s $100: In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for The Beatles George Harrison |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | MUSIC OF THE '60s $200: In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $800: He published "The Andromeda Strain" in 1969, during his last year in medical school Michael Crichton |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | HILLARY & JACKIE $400: Jackie earned her B.A. from George Washington University & Hillary graduated from this college in 1969 Wellesley |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | GOING "NATIONAL" $200: Lafayette in 1789 & Dan Quayle in 1969 each joined an organization called this National Guard |
| #3426, aired 1999-06-28 | EX-MARINES $500: A WWII Marine, this director earned the nickname "Bloody Sam" with films like 1969's "The Wild Bunch" Sam Peckinpah |
| #3426, aired 1999-06-28 | WESTERNS $600: "Rooster Cogburn" was a 1975 sequel to this 1969 John Wayne film True Grit |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | LABOR $400: The 1969 Nobel Peace Prize went to the Intl. Labor Organization, an agency of this body United Nations |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | DAYS OF OUR LIVES $1000: Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon on this date, exactly 6 months into Nixon's presidency July 20, 1969 |
| #3413, aired 1999-06-09 | LEGENDS OF SPORTS $600: Sadly, this undefeated boxing legend from Brockton, Massachusetts died in a plane crash in 1969 Rocky Marciano |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | THE '60s $500 (Daily Double): Sworn in March 17, 1969, she said she'd push for face-to-face talks with the Arabs Golda Meir |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $100: Hello out there... in 1969 this president placed the first telephone call to the Moon Richard Nixon |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS $400: 1969:
"I have always loved my country" Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3403, aired 1999-05-26 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $300: Since 1969 this Northern Ireland port city of 300,000 has been the site of violent religious conflict Belfast |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | FAMOUS DATES $100: The human race really spread its wings when the space vehicle "The Eagle" landed here July 20, 1969 the moon |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | "Y"s $300: First name used by the leader seen here back in 1969 Yasser |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | ROMANIA MANIA $800: Ilie Nastase, sometimes called "Nasty", led Romania to this sport's Davis Cup finals in 1969, 1971 & 1972 Tennis |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $100: This PBS children's program has been sponsored by letters of the alphabet since 1969 Sesame Street |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | WORD"ZZ" $200: In a 1969 No. 1 song, Tommy Roe was this, his "head is spinnin' around like a whirlpool, it never ends" "Dizzy" |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | PEOPLE $300: 2 moonwalkers:
July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin |
| #3374, aired 1999-04-15 | SAINTS $100: In 1969 the feast day of this patron saint of lovers was dropped from the liturgical calendar St. Valentine |
| #3373, aired 1999-04-14 | A WOMAN SCORNED $800: This lyricist was devastated in 1969 when her husband left her for Mia Farrow Dory Previn |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | POP MUSIC $100: 1969's Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year was this "King of Rock & Roll" Elvis Presley |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | POP MUSIC $500: Before recording their own songs in 1969, he & Bernie Taupin wrote for other artists Elton John |
| #3368, aired 1999-04-07 | SINGULAR NAMES $800: This "Principle"d author wrote a 1969 bestseller on the subject of human incompetence Laurence Peter |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | JOCKS ON FILM $400: In 1969, the same year he played the Sundance Kid, he played an egotistical skier in "Downhill Racer" Robert Redford |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | THE "6"th SENSE $300: Ah, yes, I remember it well, this year of the original "Woodstock Music & Art Fair" 1969 |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | CNN $400: In 1997 CNN became the first U.S. news organization since 1969 with a permanent bureau in this country Cuba |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | A VERY BRADY CATEGORY $1000: From 1969 to 1974, this young actress played eldest daughter Marcia Maureen McCormick |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | OXYMORONS $400: In 1969 Jerry Garcia's band released an album called "Live" this Dead |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THE OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1969 film was the first X-rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture Midnight Cowboy |
| #3283, aired 1998-12-09 | YALIES $1000: This Swedish-born sculptor erected a giant lipstick at his alma mater in 1969 Claes Oldenburg |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | HISTORIC FLORIDA $400: On July 16, 1969 a Saturn 5 rocket launched this mission into the skies & into history Apollo 11 |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | THE MOVIES $600: In this 1969 film Robert Duvall told John Wayne, "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man" True Grit |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | HE WAS IN THAT? $1000: In 1969, in his pre-"Phantom" days, he played Cornelius Hackl in the film version of "Hello, Dolly!" Michael Crawford |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | HORTON HEARS THE WHO $100: In 1969 The Who had a major hit with "Pinball Wizard", a track from this concept album "Tommy" |
| #3249, aired 1998-10-22 | THE SWINGIN' '60s $500: The 4 title characters of the 1969 movie seen here "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | THE WOMAN AT THE MIKE $200: New York City's Stonewall Riots began on the June 1969 night of this "Over The Rainbow" singer's funeral Judy Garland |
| #3225, aired 1998-09-18 | TV HAYSEEDS $100: From 1964 to 1969 Jim Nabors was semper silly as this Marine from Mayberry Gomer Pyle |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | NAME THE YEAR $100: Definitely a "Giant Leap" taken this year when the photo seen here was shot 1969 |
| #3213, aired 1998-07-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $100: His 1969 hit with the First Edition, "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", was written by Mel Tillis Kenny Rogers |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | THE NATIONAL GUARD $100: In 1969 this future vice president joined the Indiana National Guard Dan Quayle |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “HARD” & “EASY” MOVIES $200: I'm awfully Fonda Hopper in this 1969 classic Easy Rider |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $100: One of the signers of Israel's Declaration of Independence, she became prime minister in 1969 Golda Meir |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | LADIES' LOCKER ROOM $500 (Daily Double): Born in Mannheim, Germany in 1969, she's one of only 5 tennis players in history to win a Grand Slam Steffi Graf |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | '60s ROCK $500: This group's 1969 hit "These Eyes" featured Randy Bachman, later of B-T-O, on lead guitar Guess Who |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | THE '60s $200: Movie rating given "The Killing of Sister George" in 1968 & "Midnight Cowboy" in 1969 X |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | THE '60s $300: This couple, who appeared nude on their 1968 record cover, wed in 1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | MUSICAL THEATER $2,400 (Daily Double): This historical 1969 musical, revived on Broadway in 1997, features the following 1776 |
| #3157, aired 1998-04-28 | THE WONDER YEARS $100: "Cases of nudity" were reported at this music festival held near Bethel, New York in 1969 Woodstock |
| #3157, aired 1998-04-28 | "KID" STUFF $600: Robert Redford named a ski resort in Utah after a character he played in this 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | 1960s MUSIC $400: In 1963 Jimmy Gilmer hit No. 1 with "Sugar Shack"; in 1969 this group hit No. 1 with "Sugar Sugar" The Archies |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | MEET AL GORE $200: Enlisting in 1969, Gore served as an Army reporter in this foreign country Vietnam |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS $600: At his 1969 inaugural he said, "The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker" Richard Nixon |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | ON ST. PADDY'S DAY $100: Israel's fourth premier, she was sworn in March 17, 1969 Golda Meir |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | HAWN $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1969 film, seen here, wasn't Goldie's first, but it gave her her first major film role: Cactus Flower |
| #3121, aired 1998-03-09 | PERFECTION IN SPORTS $400: In 1969 this Jets QB "guaranteed" victory in the Super Bowl & delivered, beating the Colts, 16-7 Joe Namath |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | AT RANDOM $600: On Dec. 1, 1969 the first of these random drawings since 1942 took place Draft |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | '60s FLICKS $800: One book abbreviated this 1969 film "B&C&T&A" Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: This star of TV's "Prime Suspect" played a sexpot who agrees to pose for James Mason in 1969's "Age Of Consent" Helen Mirren |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE 1960s $200: Up to 400,000 fans attended this August 1969 folk-rock festival on Max Yasgur's farm near Bethel, N.Y. Woodstock |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | HOW “SWEET” IT IS $200: This 1969 hit was Neil Diamond's first million seller "Sweet Caroline" |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $500: For 1969 "Midnight Cowboy" won for its screenplay; for 1978 this "Midnight" movie won Midnight Express |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | THE FALL CLASSIC $400: Career .242 hitter Ron Swoboda hit .400 & made an amazin' catch in this team's 1969 Series win New York Mets |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | PRIME TIME TV $400: Cicely Tyson guest-starred on the first episode of this Chad Everett hospital series in 1969 Medical Center |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | SALUTE TO LABOR $200: In 1969 the brakemen, firemen & switchmen on these were "tied" together in one union railroads |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | WEATHER $100: In 1995, 11 tropical storms in the Atlantic strengthened to these, the most in one year since 1969 Hurricanes |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Nixon's running mate in 1960, he was named chief negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks in 1969 Henry Cabot Lodge |
| #2970, aired 1997-06-27 | WHEN YOU WERE A KID $500: Some 1969 Huffys, a brand of these, featured banana seats Bicycles |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | WORLD HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): On July 22, 1969 he designated Juan Carlos as his successor in Spain Francisco Franco |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1969 Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinbergen became the first to win in this newly established category Economics |
| #2931, aired 1997-05-05 | AFRICAN HISTORY $200: In 1969 General Siad Barre led a military coup in this country on the horn of Africa Somalia |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: Name given to the module that landed the first men on the moon July 20, 1969 the Eagle |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | QUOTATIONS $400: On July 21, 1969 newspapers quoted his "The Eagle Has Landed" Neil Armstrong |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: In 1969 he was succeeded as Maryland governor by Democrat Marvin Mandel Spiro Agnew |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | AUTHORS $300: In 1969 & 1970 this "Andromeda Strain" author was a fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies Michael Crichton |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | AUTO FIRSTS $500: It sold its 1st car in the U.S. in 1957; in 1969 it became the 1st Japanese car maker to sell 100,000 here in a year Toyota |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $500: At his birthplace at 224 S. 2nd St., Winterset, Iowa, you can see the eye patch he wore in a 1969 film John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | MOVIE DEBUTS $1000: He bounced onto the big screen in "The Big Bounce" in 1969, the year his TV series "Peyton Place" ended Ryan O'Neal |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | GUINNESS RECORDS $200: The longest of these ended after 67 years when Octavio Guillen & Adriana Martinez were married in 1969 Engagement |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | RECORD LABELS $100: On Jan. 30, 1969 the Beatles gave their last public performance on the roof of this record company's London offices Apple Records |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | JOHN WAYNE FILMS $200: John Wayne won his Oscar for playing marshall Rooster Cogburn in this 1969 film "True Grit" |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | HANNA-BARBERA DOGS $200: In 1969 he began traveling around in The Mystery Machine with Freddy, Daphne, Velma & Shaggy Scooby-Doo |
| #2847, aired 1997-01-07 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $500: Thor Heyerdahl's 1969 & 1970 expeditions to cross the Atlantic in reed boats were named after this god Ra |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | POP MUSIC $500: In 1969 this lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders began pursuing a solo career Mark Lindsay |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | HISTORY $400: In 1969 Georges Pompidou succeeded this man as president of France Charles De Gaulle |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | MODERN HISTORY $300: In 1969 after traveling about 2600 miles, he & his crew abandoned their Ra expedition Thor Heyerdahl |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He reduced U.S. troop strength in Vietnam from about 540,000 in 1969 to 25,000 in 1972 Nixon |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | COINS $200: This 1969 event was featured on the reverse of the Eisenhower dollar coin Moon Landing |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | PEOPLE OF THE '60s $100: Married for the 3rd time in 1995, his 1st marriage to Miss Vicki was performed on "The Tonight Show" in 1969 Tiny Tim |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 this country's Communist Party replaced leader Alexander Dubcek because of his liberal reforms Czechoslovakia |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | NUMERICAL TV TITLES $500: Room of Walt Whitman High featured in a 1969-1974 series 222 |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | GAME SHOWS $500: In 1969 this original "I've Got a Secret" host began an 8-season run as host of "To Tell the Truth" Garry Moore |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | LIGHT $300: In 1969 one of these beams was used to measure the distance between the earth & the moon a laser |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | "WILD" MOVIES $400: Sam Peckinhah's classic 1969 Western about a gang of aging outlaws The Wild Bunch |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | STATE CAPITOLS $800: This state's capitol building, dating from 1969, has legislative chambers shaped like volcanic cinder cones Hawaii |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $400: In 1969 Sly & the Family Stone had a hit with this "seasonal" song "Hot Fun In The Summertime" |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | FAMOUS MICHAELS $600: In July 1969 he flew alone around the Moon Michael Collins |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $100: This "Jeopardy!" creator played himself in the 1969 movie comedy "Hello Down There" Merv Griffin |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $1,500 (Daily Double): Serving from 1969-1986, he's alphabetically first among Chief Justices of the United States Warren Burger |
| #2749, aired 1996-07-11 | FAMOUS ITALIANS $600: Born in Montona, Italy in 1940, he won his only Indy 500 in 1969 Mario Andretti |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | PLAYS $400: Bogart is an advice-giving character in this 1969 Woody Allen comedy Play It Again, Sam |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | JULY $500: Richard Nixon made "the most historic telephone call ever made" to this place July 20, 1969 the moon |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Sarah Woodruff is the woman mentioned in the title of this 1969 John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POP MUSIC $200: This country star's only Top 10 hit on the pop charts was "A Boy named Sue" in 1969 Johnny Cash |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "Sour Land" was Wm. Armstrong's sequel to this 1969 book about a sharecropping family & their devoted dog Sounder |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | 1970s TELEVISION $1000: Oscar winner Miyoshi Umeki played housekeeper Mrs. Livingston on this 1969-1972 series The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | SINGERS & THEIR FILMS $300: She starred in the film "Chastity" in 1969 & gave birth to daughter Chastity the same year Cher |
| #2712, aired 1996-05-21 | WALES $100: Caernarvon Castle was the site of his 1969 investiture as Prince of Wales Prince Charles |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | OH, HENRY $400: Between 1953 & 1969, he served as ambassador to the U.N., South Vietnam & West Germany Henry Cabot Lodge |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | ROYALTY $200: Born in 1969, Princess Nori is the only daughter of this emperor Akihito |
| #2697, aired 1996-04-30 | FAMOUS EDITORS $600: In 1969 this Cosmopolitan editor published her "Single Girl's Cookbook" Helen Gurley Brown |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: In 1969 his "Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters" was published posthumously Steinbeck |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | 1960S POP PERSONALITIES $200: On March 20, 1969, he married Yoko Ono in the registrar's office in Gibraltar John Lennon |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | 1960S POP PERSONALITIES $800: CCR's 1969 hit "Proud Mary" was written by this man, the group's lead vocalist John Fogerty |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | REPUBLICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): This independent candidate for president was chairman of the House Republican Conference from 1969 to 1979 John Anderson |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | COMPOSERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 he was named Conductor Laureate for life of the New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | BLACK AMERICA $300: In 1969 she wrote "My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr." Coretta Scott King |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | "FLYING" THINGS $100: Between 1948 & 1969, the Air Force investigated over 12,000 sightings of these flying saucers |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | TRANSPORTATION $800: This bridge at Lake Havasu City, Arizona was reconstructed block by block 1969-1971 London Bridge |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In 1969 this Israeli leader visited the Milwaukee elementary school she had attended Golda Meir |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | POTPOURRI $300: On Jan. 16, 1969 Metroliner high-speed train service began between New York City & this city at the other end Washington, D.C. |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | HISTORY $200: From 1954 to 1969 he was president of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh |
| #2612, aired 1996-01-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: Margaret Truman wrote a 1969 book about pets who lived in this famous residence the White House |
| #2609, aired 1995-12-28 | THE 1960s $500: In 1969 this judge at the Chicago 8 trial ordered Bobby Seale bound & gagged to stop his disruptions (Judge) Hoffman |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | RIVERS $300: Ian Dunlop wrote the 1969 book "Chateaux of" this river the Loire |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | POP MUSIC $400: In 1969 Sam Phillips sold this Memphis-based record label to Shelby Singleton of Nashville Sun Records |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $500 (Daily Double): The "Voice of Harlem"; he served in the House of Representatives from 1945-67 & 1969-1970 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | DANCE $300: Ballerina Alicia Markova was director of this U.S. opera company's ballet from 1963-1969 Metropolitan Opera |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: She was born in Kiev in 1898, grew up in Milwaukee & in 1969 became prime minister of Israel Golda Meir |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1971 he published "The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969" Lyndon Johnson |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | AUTHORS $600: In 1969 this "The Naked and the Dead" author ran for NYC mayor, proposing statehood for the city Norman Mailer |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | THE 1960s $400: In 1969 he led the coup that overthrew Libya's King Idris & became the country's new leader (Muammar) Gaddafi |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | VICE PRESIDENTS $600: After leaving office in 1969, he returned to teaching at Macalester college in St. Paul, Minnesota Humphrey |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | THE ARTS $400: Introduced in 1969 as the first rock opera, it became a Broadway musical in 1993 Tommy |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | AWARDS $1000: Chief Justice 1953-1969, he was the first recipient of the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Earl Warren |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | NONFICTION $400: Robert Kennedy's book "Thirteen Days: A Memoir of" this "Crisis" was published posthumously in 1969 the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | "LOVE" ON FILM $100: This 1969 film about a Volkswagen named Herbie was one of Disney's most successful films The Love Bug |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | PETES & PETERS $1000: In 1969 Laurence J. Peter published this work on advancement in the workplace The Peter Principle |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | PEOPLE $300: From 1969-1979 he was editor of Icarus, the international journal of solar system studies Carl Sagan |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | THE MOVIES $1000: In this 1969 Western, Robert Duvall said, "Bold talk for a one-eyed fat man" True Grit |
| #2521, aired 1995-07-17 | THE 1960s $100: On Jan. 7, 1969 he resigned as governor of Maryland; he was sworn in as vice president January 20 Spiro Agnew |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | HARVARD TEACHERS $400: He began teaching at Harvard in 1954; in 1969 he left & became an assistant to Nixon Henry Kissinger |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | ASSOCIATIONS $100: In 1969 it adopted a comprehensive code of professional responsibility for lawyers the American Bar Association |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | WORLD HISTORY $100: In 1969 Lin Piao was designated successor to this man by the 9th Party Congress Mao Tse-tung |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: In 1969 this Spanish dictator named Prince Juan Carlos his eventual successor (Francisco) Franco |
| #2462, aired 1995-04-25 | KEN-FOLK $400: In 1969 this British art historian brought "Civilisation" to TV Kenneth Clark |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | U.S. HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): On June 23, 1969 this man took the oath of office as the USA's 15th Chief Justice Warren Burger |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | TV TRIVIA $400: In 1969 this "Twilight Zone" host entered a new dimension as host of the game show "Liars Club" Rod Serling |
| #2406, aired 1995-02-06 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $400: It occurred July 20, 1969 the first Moon landing |
| #2400, aired 1995-01-27 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: The main witness in a 1963 Senate investigation of organized crime, his "papers" were published in 1969 Joseph Valachi |
| #2381, aired 1995-01-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: In 1969 this "Rebecca" author was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Daphne du Maurier |
| #2379, aired 1994-12-29 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $500: In 1970 he again tried to cross the Atlantic in a reed boat; his first attempt in 1969 failed Thor Heyerdahl |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | FAMOUS AVIATORS $300: He landed the Eagle manually July 20, 1969 (Neil) Armstrong |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | POLITICIANS $200: In June 1969 this California governor gave the eulogy at the funeral of actor Robert Taylor Ronald Reagan |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | THE MOVIES $300: This one-letter Yves Montand film won 1969 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film & Best Film Editing Z |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | 20th CENTURY MONARCHS $600: Queen Ena of Spain, the last surviving granddaughter of this queen of England, died in 1969 Queen Victoria |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Until a 1969 coup by Muammar al-Qaddafi, King Idris had ruled this country for 18 years Libya |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | INTERNATIONAL GROUPS $1000: This body's international labor organization earned the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize the United Nations |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | HISTORY $600: In 1969 the U.N. declared Irian Jaya in west New Guinea this country's 26th province Indonesia |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $400: John Kennedy Toole, who died in 1969, won for "A Confederacy of" these in 1981 Dunces |
| #2316, aired 1994-10-03 | 1960s ROCK $300: In 1969 The Flying Machine told her to "smile a little smile for me" Rosemary |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | IN THEIR 80s $800: At 82 in 1969 he staged a Broadway revival of "Three Men on a Horse", which he 1st staged in 1935 George Abbott |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | POP MUSIC $300: Country singer Ronnie Milsap sang harmony with this artist on the 1969 hit "Don't Cry, Daddy" Elvis Presley |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: This "Waiting for Godot" playwright was one of the contributors to the 1969 revue "Oh! Calcutta!" (Samuel) Beckett |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | SPORTS $200: Janet Lynn won 5 U.S. Championships in this sport, from 1969-1973, but never the world title (women's) figure skating |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | THE MOVIES $400: In this 1969 musical co-starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood sang "I Talk To The Trees" Paint Your Wagon |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $400: In 1969 Dorothy Hodgkin revealed the structure of this protein used to treat diabetes insulin |
| #2251, aired 1994-05-23 | MINNESOTANS $300: This man, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1969-1986, graduated magna cum laude from St. Paul College of Law in 1931 (Warren) Burger |
| #2238, aired 1994-05-04 | SPORTS $500: In 1969 this New York Jets quarterback was the MVP of Super Bowl III Joe Namath |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | THE MOVIES $400: Blake Edwards married her in 1969; their first film together, "Darling Lili", was released the next year Julie Andrews |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | KINGS & QUEENS $600: Named Franco's successor in 1969, he became king in 1975 Juan Carlos |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | MOVIE SONGS $800: In 1969 Henry Mancini reached No. 1 with "A Time for Us", the love theme from this film Romeo and Juliet |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | HISTORY $300: A 1969 army coup in Libya put this colonel into power Colonel Gaddafi |
| #2177, aired 1994-02-08 | MUSIC FESTIVALS $200: Over 300,000 showed up for this August 1969 rock festival Woodstock |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | WOMEN $200: Israel's first minister to the Soviet Union, she became the country's prime minister in 1969 Golda Meir |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $100: In 1984 this "E.T." director formed a production company & named it for his 1969 short "Amblin'" Steven Spielberg |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | LEGAL EAGLES $300: In 1969 this lawyer became the first Philippine president to win a second term Ferdinand Marcos |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | SONGS OF THE '60s $200: A hit from this 1969 film begins "Everybody's talkin' at me, I don't hear a word they're sayin'" Midnight Cowboy |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | PEOPLE MOVERS $400: This "royal" liner made its first voyage in 1969, replacing one sold to inventors the QE2 |
| #2148, aired 1993-12-29 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES $600: She wrote a book called "White House Pets" in 1969, 11 years before "Murder in the White House" Margaret Truman |
| #2147, aired 1993-12-28 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1,300 (Daily Double): The father-in-law of Senator Howard Baker, he served as Senate minority leader from 1959 to his death in 1969 Everett Dirksen |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | SAINTS $600: After "carrying" this saint for years on the calendar, the Roman Catholics dropped his July 25 feast day in 1969 St. Christopher |
| #2144, aired 1993-12-23 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: From 1969–1975 this humorist wrote a column for "Good Housekeeping" called "Up The Wall" Erma Bombeck |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | FAMOUS JULIES $200: She was married Dec. 22, 1968; if she had waited until Jan. 21, 1969 she could have had a White House wedding Julie Nixon |
| #2127, aired 1993-11-30 | ROCK GROUPS $500: This group, formed by John Lennon, was introduced in 1969 on his "Give Peace A Chance" single The Plastic Ono Band |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | HISTORY $100: When this man died in 1969, Ton Duc Thang, his vice-president, became president of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | LAW & ORDER $500: Collective name given to the group defended by William Kunstler & Leonard Weinglass in 1969 & 1970 "Chicago Seven" |
| #2112, aired 1993-11-09 | MIDDLE NAMES $100: In 1969 this Beatle changed his middle name from Winston to Ono John Lennon |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | HISTORY $600: He helped form France's Fifth Republic in 1958 & served as its president until he resigned in 1969 de Gaulle |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | EXPLORERS $400: In 1969 he led his RA expedition from Morocco to within 600 miles of Central America Thor Heyerdahl |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | PREDICTIONS $500: She may have predicted her 1969 book "My Life and Prophecies" would be a bestseller Jeane Dixon |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | DISASTER MOVIES $400: The title of a 1969 film placed this famous volcano "east of Java"; it's actually West the Krakatoa |
| #2073, aired 1993-09-15 | CANADA $200: An act passed in 1969 made these the 2 official languages of Canada English & French |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Charles Evers, brother of this civil rights leader, was mayor of Fayette, Miss. from 1969-1981 Medgar Evers |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | JAZZ $400: In 1969 this drummer's "Buddy and Soul" album was nominated for a Grammy Buddy Rich |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | GOLDEN OLDIES $200: In November 1969 "Suspicious Minds" became the last of this performer's 18 No. 1 Hits Elvis |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1000: This Michigan governor became Richard Nixon's first Secretary of H.U.D. in 1969 (George) Romney |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | HISTORY $400: Because his proposals for constitutional change were defeated, this French president resigned in 1969 Charles de Gaulle |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $300: He & his sister Jane were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for Writing & she for Acting Peter Fonda |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $400: "Golden Palace" star who played Faye Precious in Oliver Hailey's "Who's Happy Now?" in 1969 Rue McClanahan |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | POP MUSIC $200: The last of this female group's 12 No. 1 hits was "Someday We'll Be Together" in 1969 the Supremes |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | REPUBLICANS $1000: This deep-voiced Illinois senator was minority leader from 1959 to 1969 (Everett) Dirksen |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: Echoing Walt Whitman, Ray Bradbury called his 1969 short story collection "I Sing the Body" this Electric |
| #2003, aired 1993-04-28 | "WILD" THINGS $1000: This 1969 western is considered Sam Peckinpah's best work The Wild Bunch |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | THE ROLLING STONES $500: Footage from a 1969 concert at this speedway was released in 1970 as the documentary "Gimme Shelter" Altamont |
| #1982, aired 1993-03-30 | SILENCE IS GOLDEN $400: In a November 3, 1969 speech, Richard Nixon asked this group for support the silent majority |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | AWARDS $400: James Earl Jones won a 1969 Tony for his role as boxer Jack Jefferson in this play The Great White Hope |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Carl Hayden represented this state in the House & Senate from statehood in 1912 until 1969 Arizona |
| #1971, aired 1993-03-15 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Undergraduate women weren't admitted to this New Haven, Conn. university until 1969 Yale |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | WORLD FACTS $400: One of these, the Sistema de Transporte Collectivo, opened in 1969 in Mexico City subway |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: She founded the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal in England in 1961& in the U.S. in 1969 Joy Adamson |
| #1939, aired 1993-01-28 | DE GUYS $1000: In 1969 this artificial heart pump inventor was appointed president of Baylor's School of Medicine (Michael) de Bakey |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | "UP"S & "DOWN"S $200: He hosted the daytime version of the game show "Concentration" from 1958 to 1969 Hugh Downs |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1969 the U.S. Destroyer Evans was cut in half by this country's carrier Melbourne Australia |
| #1932, aired 1993-01-19 | LYRICISTS $200: "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" won 1969 Oscars for Burt Bacharach and this lyricist Hal David |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | "MY" TV $200: During the 1969-'70 season on this show, Fred MacMurray married his son's teacher, Beverly Garland My Three Sons |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | BUSINESS LEADERS $800: In 1969 he became chairman & CEO of the Chase Manhattan Bank David Rockefeller |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | "CHIP"s $300: Peter O'Toole played the shy schoolmaster in a 1969 musical version of this James Hilton tale Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| #1916, aired 1992-12-28 | SPORTS $200: In 1969 the Milwaukee Bucks chose this UCLA player as the NBA's No. 1 draft pick Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) |
| #1915, aired 1992-12-25 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: In 1969 he said that TV's power over public opinion was in the hands of "a small and unelected elite" Spiro Agnew |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | DECEMBER 1969 $100: On December 15, 1969, this Israeli prime minister presented her new cabinet to the Knesset Golda Meir |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | DECEMBER 1969 $200: Gen. Torrijos was removed as this country's strongman on Dec. 15th & was restored on the 16th Panama |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | DECEMBER 1969 $300: On December 1, 1969 the U.S. held the first one of these since 1942; September 14 was drawn first a selective service lottery (or draft lottery) |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | DECEMBER 1969 $400: This rich Texan took 2 planes to N. Vietnam loaded with gifts for U.S. P.O.W.s but wasn't let in Ross Perot |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | DECEMBER 1969 $500 (Daily Double): The Nobel prize in this category was awarded for the first time & was won by a Norwegian & a Dutchman economics |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): He's the subject of the following song from a 1969 Broadway musical:
"He plays the violin /
He tucks it right under his chin /
And he bows, oh he bows /
For he knows, yes he knows..." Thomas Jefferson |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | ANTHROPOLOGY $600: In 1969 she served as president of the American Anthropologjcal Association Margaret Mead |
| #1901, aired 1992-12-07 | STATE CAPITALS $300: Until 1969 Iolani Palace in this city served as the state capitol building Honolulu |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $200: Originally rated X, this film starring Jon Voight in the title role won the 1969 Oscar Midnight Cowboy |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | MOVIE MISSES $300: In this 1969 film Maggie Smith held sway over a group of schoolgirls in Edinburgh The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | FASHION DESIGNERS $400: She was 86 when the Broadway musical about her premiered in 1969 Coco Chanel |
| #1864, aired 1992-10-15 | MOVIE MUSICALS $200: In this 1969 musical, Clint Eastwood & Lee Marvin were prospectors in No Name City, California Paint Your Wagon |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | "ROSE"s $100: This Cincinnati Reds player was the National League's batting champion in 1968, 1969 & 1973 Pete Rose |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | THE TONIGHT SHOW $400: On Dec. 17, 1969, their marriage on "The Tonight Show" drew an estimated 45 million viewers Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | THEATER $200: Sandy Duncan appeared in a 1969 musical based on this Chaucer work The Canterbury Tales |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Put on trial in 1969, Tom Hayden & Yippie Jerry Rubin were part of this group accused of inciting a riot the Chicago Seven |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | GENE KELLY MOVIES $300: Gene directed this 1969 musical that starred Barbra Streisand as a matchmaker Hello, Dolly! |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | TELEVISION $300: On December 2, 1969 astronaut Tony Nelson married her Jeannie |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | MODERN HISTORY $400: In 1969 he became chairman of the PLO Yasser Arafat |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | NONFICTION $2,500 (Daily Double): Publish posthumously in 1969, Robt. F. Kennedy's "Thirteen Days" was "A Memoir of" this event the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | U.S. CURRENCY $200: 2 of the 4 U.S. denominations of bills discontinued by Federal Reserve Banks in 1969 (2 of) $500, $1,000, $5,000 or $10,000 bills |
| #1753, aired 1992-03-25 | LATIN AMERICA $600: In 1969 this sport set off a war between El Salvador & Honduras soccer |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | KATHARINE HEPBURN $200: In 1969 Kate played this fashion designer in the Broadway musical "Coco" Coco Chanel |
| #1748, aired 1992-03-18 | SILLY SONGS $300: In a 1969 hit by Steam, this precedes "Kiss Him Goodbye" Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey Hey |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | POLITICIANS $1,500 (Daily Double): After serving as Richard Nixon's campaign manager in 1968, he was appointed attorney general in 1969 John Mitchell |
| #1729, aired 1992-02-20 | SPACE EXPLORATION $200: 1 of 3 astronauts to whom Richard Nixon awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 (Neil) Armstrong (or Buzz Aldrin or Michael Collins) |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | HISTORIC QUOTES $200: In a November 3, 1969 speech he spoke of "The Great Silent Majority" Richard Nixon |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | OLD GLORY $600: It was first planted in this sea July 20, 1969 the Sea of Tranquility (on the moon) |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1969 Dave Thomas opened his first restaurant called this after his 9-year-old daughter Wendy's |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | SCULPTURE $800: In 1969 a giant lipstick created by this Swedish-born pop sculptor was erected at Yale University Claes Oldenburg |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | JOHN HUSTON $100: Huston's 1969 film "A Walk with Love and Death" starred this 16-year-old actress, his daughter Anjelica |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | THE AUTO INDUSTRY $200: In 1969 this automaker bought controlling interest in Lancia & Ferrari Fiat |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: Since 1969 the figure for this has been set a $200,000 a year the presidential salary |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | SPORTS LEGENDS $500: In 1962 he won the tennis grand slam & in 1969 became the first man to do it twice Rod Laver |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | THE GRAMMYS $400: Her only Grammy came in 1969 for Best Contemporary Female Vocal for "Is That All There Is" Peggy Lee |
| #1658, aired 1991-11-13 | PRINCETON $300: Of 1769, 1869 or 1969, the year Princeton began to admit women as undergraduates 1969 |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | FASHION DESIGNERS $500: She founded the Betsey, Bunky & Nini Boutique with her partners in 1969; she got first billing Betsey Lee Johnson |
| #1654, aired 1991-11-07 | POETS $2,000 (Daily Double): This black poetess won a Pulitzer for "Annie Allen" & became Illinois' poet laureate in 1969 Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | SPORTS $200: On Nov. 19, 1969 he scored his "Milesimo", or 1000th goal, in Rio's Maracana Stadium Pelé |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | MAGAZINES $300: This founder of Seventeen was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain from 1969 to 1974 (Walter) Annenberg |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: After 10 unsuccessful attempts, U.S. forces captured this "meaty" hill May 20, 1969 Hamburger Hill |
| #1600, aired 1991-07-12 | THE '60s $300: Music & art fair held August 15-17, 1969 on a farm in New York state Woodstock |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: 1969 discoveries in the Queen Alexandra Range prove land vertebrates once lived on this continent Antarctica |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | TV TRIVIA $400: Between 1969 & 1973, four rotating shows, including "The Lawyers" & "The Doctors", aired under this name The Bold Ones |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | THE 50 STATES $400: In 1969 Charles Evers was elected the first Black mayor of a racially mixed city in this state Mississippi |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | FASHION $800: Don Fisher began this retail chain in San Francisco in 1969 when he couldn't find a pair of jeans that fit The Gap |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: Idris became the 1st king of Libya in 1951 & reigned until overthrown in 1969 by this man (Muammar) Gaddafi |
| #1571, aired 1991-06-03 | U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1969 this vice president said, those opposed to the Vietnam War were an "effete core of impudent snobs" Spiro Agnew |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | TELEVISION $500: They were married on
"The Tonight Show" in 1969 Tiny Tim & Miss Vicki |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1969 he received a 99-year prison sentence for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (James Earl) Ray |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Activists of the "Red Power" movement took over this abandoned island from 1969 to 1971 Alcatraz Island |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $600: The 1969 LP "Switched on Bach" proved this synthesizer's versatility a Moog synthesizer |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | CELEBRITY INVENTIONS $100: In 1969 a heartbeat alarm worn on the wrist was patented by Zeppo of this comedy team the Marx Brothers |
| #1520, aired 1991-03-22 | AWARDS $300: Among those receiving the Horatio Alger Award in 1969 were Thurgood Marshall & this California governor Ronald Reagan |
| #1492, aired 1991-02-12 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $100: On July 20, 1969 he took the first "small step for man" on the Moon Neil Armstrong |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | LAW $1000: In 1969, this Supreme Court justice resigned amid criticism of his financial dealings (Abe) Fortas |
| #1434, aired 1990-11-22 | GIRLS IN SONG $500: In a 1969 hit Neil Diamond told her "good times never seemed so good" Sweet Caroline |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | GIRLS IN SONG $200: In a 1969 hit Flying Machine told her to "Smile A Little Smile For Me" Rosemarie (Rosemary) |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | COUNTRY MUSIC $100: In 1969 Kenny Rogers pleaded with this girl "Don't take your love to town" Ruby |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | MAN IN SPACE $600: On July 21, 1969, NASA executed its first manned takeoff from this site from the Moon (Sea of Tranquility) |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | SEAS $600: In 1969 oil was struck in the Efofisk Field in Norway's sector of this sea North Sea |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | SAMMY DAVIS JR. $50 (Daily Double): This song, a hit for Sammy in 1969, was played at his memorial service: [Audio] Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong.. "I've Gotta Be Me" |
| #7, aired 1990-07-28 | BEST SELLERS $500: Completes the title of Thomas Harris' 1969 book "I'm OK..." You're OK |
| #5, aired 1990-07-14 | THE DODGERS $800: In 1969 this catcher, whose career was cut short by a 1958 auto accident, was voted into the Hall of Fame Roy Campanella |
| #1356, aired 1990-06-25 | AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES $100: She titled her 1969 book "My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr." Coretta Scott King |
| #1354, aired 1990-06-21 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Federico Fellini based a 1969 film on this first century satire by Petronius Satyricon |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | LESS-FAMOUS NAMES $1000: In November 1969 Alan Bean & Charles Conrad made news by doing this in the Intrepid landing on the Moon |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | JAZZ $400: In 1969 Richard Nixon presented the Medal of Freedom to this composer of "Mood Indigo" Duke Ellington |
| #1338, aired 1990-05-30 | POT LUCK $400: This Melville work inspired a 1969 musical called "Billy", which closed after its opening night Billy Budd |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $1000: Minister who founded the Martyr's Memorial Free Presbyterian Church in Belfast in 1969 Rev. Ian Paisley |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: '69 R. Moore book made into a film that's subtitled "The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation" The French Connection |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: His last play, "What The Butler Saw", was produced in 1969, 2 years after he was killed Joe Orton |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | SCREEN GEMS $400: The title of this 1969 Hitchcock film refers to the code name of a ring of spies Topaz |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: While it "will do" in a beggar's rhyme, this coin ceased to be legal tender in 1969 Half-penny |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | JUNE 1969 $100: J. Edgar Hoover said RFK authorized the FBI to tap this black leader's phone Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | JOURNALISM $100: As a free-lance reporter, Seymour M. Hersh broke the story in 1969 about the massacre in this village My Lai |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | JUNE 1969 $200: Riots that followed games in this sport set off a war between El Salvador & Honduras soccer/football |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | JUNE 1969 $300: The U.N. security council voted to keep peace-keeping forces on this island near Turkey another 6 months Cyprus |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | JUNE 1969 $400: Nixon became the 1st president to address the Supreme Court when this chief justice was sworn in Warren Burger |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | JUNE 1969 $500: This president emeritus of the United Mine Workers "kicked the coal bucket" John L. Lewis |
| #1236, aired 1990-01-08 | FAMOUS KANGAROOS $500: In 1969 this bush kangaroo got his own syndicated TV series Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo |
| #1232, aired 1990-01-02 | COLORFUL SONGS $300: The title of a 1969 hit by Tommy James & the Shondells combined this color with "Clover" crimson |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES $200: After 10 years of marriage to David McCallum, this actress married Charles Bronson in 1969 Jill Ireland |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: He was appointed to the Supreme Court by LBJ in 1965, but resigned in 1969 Abe Fortas |
| #1196, aired 1989-11-13 | ORCHESTRA CONDUCTORS $1000: This Russian-born cellist, who won the Lenin Prize in 1969, now conducts the National Symphony Orchestra Rostropovich |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | NOBEL PRIZES $500: The newest Nobel Prize, 1st awarded in 1969, is the prize given for this economics |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | BLACK AMERICANS $500 (Daily Double): The 1st black woman in Congress, she represented New York's 12th district from 1969-83 Shirley Chisholm |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | CELEBRITY ALMA MATERS $100: She dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College in 1957 & married John Lennon in 1969 Yoko Ono |
| #1152, aired 1989-09-12 | LANGUAGES $1,100 (Daily Double): At his 1969 investiture at Caernarvon Castle, Prince Charles spoke these 2 languages English & Welsh |
| #1137, aired 1989-07-11 | SPORTS $400: In 1969 Major League Baseball's Pilots played for one season in this city Seattle |
