| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE! $1000: This London bridge used hydraulic pumps driven by steam until 1976, when it went electric Tower Bridge |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $800: Formed in 1976, they're turning the Venetian in Vegas into a love shack with a 2024 residency The B-52s |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $2000: This, I call it this, that this "One Step Beyond" & "Our House" band formed in 1976 is still touring with its original members Madness |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY $1200: In 1976 the first of this type of rechargeable battery was developed in part by using layers of titanium disulfide lithium-ion |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | MIND THE GAP $400: The Gap stores hit Wall Street in 1976 with an IPO, short for this, of $18 an initial public offering |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | "N"OWLEDGE $2,000 (Daily Double): Henry Fonda played this admiral in the 1976 film "Midway" Nimitz |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $1600: The '70s totally rocked long hair, as seen on this rock & roll band from Massachusetts whose 1976 debut album included "Rock & Roll Band" Boston |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today" All the President's Men |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $400: Turns out his tongue had an eye for talent! This KISS bassist was an early Van Halen supporter, producing a demo for the band in 1976 Gene Simmons |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $400: This president was the focus of a Time magazine article about the 1976 "SNL" episode "that changed American politics" Ford |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $200: In 1976, this was June 8, when California, New Jersey & Ohio primary voters went to the polls Super Tuesday |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HAMMER TIME $400: Countless hammers have swung since this org.'s founding in 1976, helping to house millions worldwide Habitat for Humanity |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | BREAK-UPS $1000: This couple fell in love while filming "Cleopatra"; they wed in '64, divorced after a decade, remarried in 1975--& split again in 1976 Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $600: Heavyweight Tyson Fury was 277 pounds for a 2021 fight; this character weighed but 190 against heavyweight Apollo Creed in 1976 Rocky |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $600: Ernie Barnes' 1976 painting "The Sugar Shack" was used in the credits of this dyn-o-mite '70s sitcom Good Times |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $400: The Liberty Bell moves to a pavilion north of Independence Hall; Israeli commandos take on hijackers at Entebbe 1976 |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CRAFTS $1200: In 1976, with Gene Roddenberry looking on, this Space Shuttle was rolled out of an Air Force hangar Enterprise |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $200: It's the term for a 200th anniversary; the United States celebrated one in 1976 bicentennial |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $5,400 (Daily Double): 1976:
William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President's Men |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | THE JOKERS $600: This actor won an Oscar in 1976, '84 & '98 Jack Nicholson |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $600: 1976:
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $1000: In July 1976 a form of pneumonia caused the deaths of 29 members of this organization in Philadelphia American Legionnaires (American Legion) |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $2000: From 1976 to 1980 this alliteratively named Swede won 5 straight singles titles at Wimbledon Björn Borg |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $1200: This author of "The Year of Magical Thinking" helped write the 1976 version of "A Star Is Born" (Joan) Didion |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | JOHN LENNON $400: On July 27, 1976 John received one of these "colorful" items symbolizing victory in his long battle for U.S. residency a green card |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $600: The first outbreaks of this deadly hemorrhagic disease occurred in Africa in 1976, killing more than 400 people Ebola |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman at the Met with this job, helping Beverly Sills soar conductor |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $2000: In 1976, Mario Vargas Llosa gave this other 3-named South American Nobelist a literal black eye Gabriel García Márquez |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $400: The Eagles are No. 4 with 120 million album sales; this December 1976 release checks in with 26 million Hotel California |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | THOSE BALLS HAVE "I"s $800: After a century with its original supplier, in 1976 MLB said "Goodbye, Mr." this & made Rawlings its new official ball Spalding |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTOMOTIVE ALLITERATION $800: Sí, it was a real party as one of Detroit's big 3 made 7 generations of this little car from 1976 to 2019 the Ford Fiesta |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WAY BACK IN THE 1900s $800: Problems with debt were expo-sed when this city hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics Montreal |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1200: 1976: "This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings" Network |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ANNUAL EVENTS $2000: The jazz festival named for these L.A. towers built by Simon Rodia has been grooving annually since 1976 the Watts Towers |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $3,000 (Daily Double): This European city had the good fortune to host the Olympics twice--in 1964 & in 1976 Innsbruck |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | THE CLASSIC SONG IN QUESTION $1600: "Do You Feel Like We Do"? at least for the next 14 minutes or so? asked this virtuoso guitarist, coming alive in 1976 Peter Frampton |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | MUSIC ICONS $800: On a historic day in 1976, Joe Strummer met Mick Jones in London, calling their legendary band this came later The Clash |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ANOTHER NAME FOR THAT CONDITION $7,000 (Daily Double): A form of pneumonia that can be spread by air conditioning got this name from a 1976 convention where it was first identified Legionnaires' disease |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | 20th CENTURY CAMPAIGN SLOGANS $400: "Not just peanuts" & "A leader, for a change" for his 1976 campaign Carter |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A LOUD CATEGORY $800: A 1976 concert by this band is noted for playing songs like "Baba O'Riley" at a level comparable to a chainsaw The Who |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | DISNEY DO-OVERS $1600: 1976:
Barbara Harris &
Jodie Foster;
2003:
Jamie Lee Curtis & Lindsay Lohan Freaky Friday |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $400: 1976:
"His whole life was a million-to-one shot" Rocky |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | A WORD OF WARNING $200: It's something that portends a future event, as in the title of a 1976 horror film omen (The Omen) |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BETTER CALL SAUL $1000: In 1976 he was called on to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature Saul Bellow |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | QUICK LIT $800: Maxine Hong Kingston won over critics & fans with the 1976 memoir "The Woman" this Warrior |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | AROUND PHILLY WITH RYAN LONG $300: (Ryan Long presents the clue.) I'll take a video & hum "Gonna Fly Now" while you run up the 72 stairs that lead to the east entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, recreating an iconic scene from this 1976 movie Rocky |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD $800: The Pony was a 1976 model from this South Korean carmaker Hyundai |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD $1600: Still popular, this model was introduced in 1976 as a swankier alternative to the same company's Civic the Honda Accord |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | TENNIS ACES $600: Mark "Eddo" Edmondson in 1976 is the last men's singles winner of this major who's from the country where it's played the Australian Open |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for trying to end the violence here Northern Ireland |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | MAKING MONEY $400: In 1976 the back of this bill was changed from Monticello to the signing of the Declaration of Independence the $2 bill |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $1200: 35 years after the death of this beloved Yankee first baseman, his widow Eleanor is seen at a 1976 game Lou Gehrig |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | FEMALE PRESIDENTS $800: From 1974 to 1976 Isabel Peron was its president Argentina |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | LET'S GET HISTORICAL $200: The U.S. officially adopted this standard in 1900 & officially abandoned it in 1976 the gold standard |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GIMME SOME SPACE $400: In 1976, NASA released a photo of the "face" seen here, taken by the Viking I probe circling this planet Mars |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $400: In 1976 James Baldwin reviewed this book that "begins in Gambia West Africa in 1750 with the birth of... Kunta Kinte" Roots |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | GYMNASTICS $200: In 1976 Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast to achieve this score in the Olympics a perfect 10 |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $1000: One of Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 action & adventure movies is 1976's "Assault on" this unlucky police station Precinct 13 |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $200: This violet-eyed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" actress left the single life in 1950, & 1952, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1975, 1976 & 1991 (Elizabeth) Taylor |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL $800: Go to Nicaragua & help build a house through this global nonprofit founded in 1976 Habitat for Humanity |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | FRANCE VS. AMERICA $400: In the 1976 "Judgment of Paris", wines from this state shockingly outperformed French vintages in a blind taste test California |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | RE-CHARTED $1200: Aerosmith did indeed "sing for the years" with this song, re-charting in 1976 when it hit No. 6; it charted again in 2018 "Dream On" |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $2000: 1976:
Coach Buttermaker, Ogilvie,
Lupus The Bad News Bears |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $1200: This actor wanted to carry 120-lb. Butkus the dog up Philly's Museum of Art steps in 1976 but fearing "a terminal case of a hernia", did not Stallone |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $800: In 1976 a large ruby was carved into a 4-pound replica of this historic American object, crack & all Liberty Bell |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | COLOR ME GOOD $7,400 (Daily Double): On Oct. 2, 1976 the game was over for Dave Wagstaffe of the Blackburn Rovers, the first English player ousted with this red card |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | SCIENCE $800: This disease was first identified due to a 1976 convention in Philadelphia Legionnaires |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ODD HISTORY $600: A 1976 mission in which U.S. forces cut a poplar tree in Korea's DMZ was named for this legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | NOVELLAS $400: 3 astronauts are marooned in the future in the Nebula Award-winning 1976 novella this city, this city, "Do You Read?" Houston |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | CINEMAPOURRI $200: The 2 turtles Sylvester Stallone had in "Creed 2" are the same turtles he had in this 1976 movie Rocky |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | PLAY TIME IS OVER $200: In 1967, killjoys at the NCAA banned this crowd-pleasing basketball shot; they unbanned it in 1976 a slam dunk |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | WELCOME TO THE PARTY $200: She voted for Carter in 1976 as a registered Democrat, but soon switched & later served as Secretary of State under George W. Bush Condoleezza Rice |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $800: First sold in 1976, this gel-filled action figure can be twisted, pulled & tied in knots but always returns to its original shape Stretch Armstrong |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | MAKING & REMAKING ROBIN HOOD $1600: Sean Connery is an older Robin wooing Audrey Hepburn in the 1976 film "Robin &" this maid (Maid) Marian |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | HISTORIC SURVIVORS $1600: (Jeff Probst presents the clue.) This Austrian race car driver had expressed safety concerns about the 1976 Grand Prix race in which he crashed horrifically; though given last rites, he only missed two events that season & would go on to win two more F1 Grand Prix titles Niki Lauda |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $800: George H.W. Bush was director of it from January 1976 to January 1977 the CIA |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | BYGONE ABBREV. $1200: The New York Nets, the Virginia Squires & some guy named Dr. J played in this league that merged with its rival in 1976 the ABA |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | CHOREOGRAPHERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Though he didn't win for "Chicago" in 1976, this man has the record for most Tony Awards for choreography Bob Fosse |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | LIVE ALBUMS $2000: This British rocker showed us the way and came alive with a double live album that was No. 1 for 10 weeks in 1976 Peter Frampton |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | THE AMERICAN LEAGUE $800: This league that sponsored the 1976, 1980 & 1984 U.S. presidential debates celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020 the League of Women Voters |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | THE ACTOR WHO SAID IT $400: 1976: "You talkin' to me?" Robert De Niro |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | POLITICS: WHO SAID IT? $200: 1976: "The Iron Lady of the Western world... a cold war warrior... well, yes" (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | I'M FULL OF "N.V." $800: This country officially merged with its southern neighbor July 2, 1976 North Vietnam |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $200: Born 1890, was a merchant of "murder" & "death", named a dame in 1971, & then there was none of her in 1976 Agatha Christie |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A 1970s YEAR $1200: Atari's Pong is created & the last man walks on the Moon 1972 |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $600: When this team moved from the ABA to the NBA in 1976, Doug Moe, not Gregg Popovich, was its head coach the San Antonio Spurs |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $200: John Avildsen may have been an underdog, but he won a directing Oscar for this 1976 Sylvester Stallone movie Rocky |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HER MAJOR MOVIE DEBUT $2000: The female lead in the 1976 remake of "King Kong" Jessica Lange |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | A HISTORY OF CHARITY $3,400 (Daily Double): The people who founded this organization in 1976 had previously built a bunch of homes in Zaire Habitat for Humanity |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES $800: In a 1976 Clive Cussler book, Dirk Pitt attempts to "Raise" this doomed liner to get the rare element byzanium the Titanic |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | POSSESSIVE PHRASES $1000: This 1974 account of political chicanery in 1972 became a 1976 quadruple Oscar winner All the President's Men |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | THE PRESIDENTIAL SWEET $1000: From 1976, "The Peanut Cookbook" includes a recipe for "Jimmy Carter's Favorite" this crunchy confection peanut brittle |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | CAPITAL ISLANDS $800: This city on Luzon became the Philippine national capital in 1946, took a break & was reinstated in 1976 Manila |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | A CAPITAL CITY IDEA $800: In 1976 it became the capital of the reunified North & South Vietnam Hanoi |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | HISTORY $1200: In 1976 a military junta seized power in Argentina not from Eva Peron but from this widow Isabel Perón |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $200: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 2012 at age 82 I became the oldest winner of a competitive acting Oscar; the record for a male actor had stood for 36 years, since this beloved 80-year-old comedian took the honors in 1976 for "The Sunshine Boys" (George) Burns |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | PHYSICS $2000: A 1976 paper has one of the first mentions of this "Model" that accounts for 3 of the universe's 4 fundamental forces the Standard Model |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $1600: This 1862 law providing 160 acres, basically free after 5 years' residence, was still on the books in the lower 48 states until 1976 the Homestead Act |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HISTORY ON FILM $400: Watergate security guard Frank Wills played himself at the beginning of this 1976 film All the President's Men |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | & CARRIE $800: In a 1976 film, she played Carrie White, whose prom night was quite memorable Sissy Spacek |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | I BEAT MERYL! $600: In Meryl's one nomination for this drama award, she lost to Shirley Knight at the Shubert Theatre in 1976 a Tony |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | MEN OF SCIENCE $2000: His headstone in Germany reads "Physiker" with the dates 1901-1976; it does not say, "He lies here...somewhere" Heisenberg |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | SOLITARY SINGERS $800: In 1976 the NFL's Terry Bradshaw had a hit with Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could" do this cry |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | THE YEAR'S BIGGEST HIT SONG $800: 1976:
You'd think that people would've had enough of this Wings tune "Silly Love Songs" |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1976, more than 175 years after his death, this man was promoted by Congress to general of the armies of the United States George Washington |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | ACM AWARDS $1200: In 1976 she went from "Coal Miner's Daughter" to the first woman to win ACM Entertainer of the Year Loretta Lynn |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE DRY TORTUGAS $200: In 1976 Florida's Dry Tortugas were paired with these vast wetlands as a UNESCO biosphere reserve the Everglades |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | POP MUSIC ACROSS THE DECADES $1600: This punk band's 1976 self-titled debut album included "Blitzkrieg Bop" the Ramones |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: In 1976, after the parliament of this nation said having less than 5 grams of cannabis was legal, it was off to the "coffee shop" the Netherlands |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | ON BROADWAY $1600: Bryan Cranston was mad as hell as Howard Beale in the stage version of this 1976 film Network |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | ALL TELS $2000: The refugee camp of Tel El-Zaatar was the scene of a 1976 massacre early in this Mideast country's civil war Lebanon |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | TOP NON-SPORTS PROGRAMS OF ALL TIME $800: No. 4 & No. 5
(1976):
The first & second parts of this movie originally released in 1939 Gone With the Wind |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | SIGNATURE DRINKS OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: In a 1976 film this title boxer risks salmonella with his drink--5 raw eggs Rocky (Balboa) |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | DAY ONE $600: On July 1, 1976 the Smithsonian met the "lofty" goal of opening this museum's current building in time for the bicentennial the Air and Space Museum |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $1200: In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct at this NYC opera house the Met |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: It wasn't until 1976 that women were also awarded this scholarship to Oxford the Rhodes |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $2000: A 12-year-old Jodie Foster played a prostitute opposite Robert De Niro in this 1976 film Taxi Driver |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | DEFUNCT SPORTS FRANCHISES $1200: From 1974 to 1976, this city had a pro basketball team called the "Spirits of" it St. Louis |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | TV WITH HIGH RATINGS $800: This 1939 wartime epic was first shown on TV in 1976 to a 47 rating for each of 2 successive nights Gone With the Wind |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $600: I'm still mad as hell that this 1976 movie about the TV news business didn't win a Best Picture Oscar Network |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $800: The 1976 Summer Games in this Canadian city were boycotted by 22 African nations Montreal |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | DAYTIME TV MEMORIES $1000: When this game show debuted in 1976, it was hosted by Chuck Barris & its top prize was $516.32 The Gong Show |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PLACE IT $200: The 1976 Democratic National Convention:
this New York City arena Madison Square Garden |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $200: The 2018 Super Bowl victory parade ended at the museum steps made famous in this 1976 movie Rocky |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $800: 5 people, including Marvin Hamlisch, shared the 1976 Drama award for this musical A Chorus Line |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | FIRST IN YOUR CLASS $400: It wasn't until 1976 that the first women cadets were admitted to the U.S. military academy here West Point |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | SAVES $400: From 1976 to 2012 a Relief Man award from this antacid brand was coveted by MLB closers Rolaids |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THE HOOPS DU JOUR $1000: "Loose Balls", a book about this league, details the 1976 slam dunk contest won by Dr. J, who got $1,000 & a stereo system the ABA (American Basketball Association) |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | MARCH MADNESS CHAMPS $200: The last team to go undefeated in the regular season & win it all was this Bloomington bunch in 1976 the (Indiana) Hoosiers |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | AFRICA SINCE 1750 $1,000 (Daily Double): A series of anti-apartheid protests in this South African township in 1976 led to a larger uprising Soweto |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | NASDAQ COMPANIES $1200: Let's see... I need some gas, a patio set & 27 boxes of cereal at this retailer whose roots trace back to 1976 Costco |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | HISTORY NEAR & FAR $1200: In 1976 Operation Thunderbolt was the code name of the Israeli mission to free hostages held in this African country Uganda |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | INTRODUCTION TO FILM $800: A 1976 remake:
"Introducing Jessica Lange" King Kong |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | "ELECTRIC" DREAMS $2000: In 1976 Ric Silver created this line dance the electric slide |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | HALLS OF FAME $1600: In 1976 Gus Hall, General Secretary of the CPUSA, this party, got nearly 60,000 votes for president the Communist Party |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: It is the title of Loretta Lynn's 1976 autobiography & of her best known song Coal Miner's Daughter |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | SENATOR JOHN $800: Father & son, John & Lincoln Chafee represented this state from 1976 to 2007 Rhode Island |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | "R" MOVIES $800: 1976:
Co-starring Talia Shire Rocky |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | 1970s ALBUMS $2000: Queen followed up "A Night at the Opera" with this 1976 album, also the title of a Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND $1200: This grant that sends you to study in England was established in 1902; until 1976, candidates had to be male Rhodes Scholarship |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | FAKE NEWS $400: Peter Finch was mad as hell as deranged newsman Howard Beale in this 1976 film Network |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | COLLEGE STADIUMS & ARENAS $800: Opened in 1976, this university's basketball arena is named for legendary coach Adolph Rupp the University of Kentucky |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | ON JULY 4th $1000: Rescuing 103 hostages captured by terrorists, in 1976 Israeli commandos raided an airport in this Ugandan city Entebbe |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | POLITICAL CONVENTIONS $600: To secure the 1976 Republican nomination, incumbent Gerald Ford had to win a floor fight with this man Ronald Reagan |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | "I" THE WORLD $2,600 (Daily Double): This capital of the Tyrol Province hosted the 1964 & 1976 Winter Olympics Innsbruck |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | 1970s "SONG" TITLES $400: This 1976 Barry Manilow hit made "the whole world sing" & "the young girls cry" "I Write The Songs" |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | 1970s "SONG" TITLES $600: You'd think that people would have had enough of this 1976 Paul McCartney hit, but I look around me & I see it isn't so "Silly Love Songs" |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | IT'S DEBATABLE $1000: In a 1976 presidential debate, he said, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" Ford |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | BREAK-UPS $1000: This couple fell in love while filming "Cleopatra"; they wed in '64, divorced after a decade, remarried in 1975--& split again in 1976 Burton and Elizabeth Taylor |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CRAFTS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1976, with Gene Roddenberry looking on, this space shuttle was rolled out of an Air Force hangar the Enterprise |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | READING YOUR DIARY $800: On Nov. 25, 1976 this artist "Drove... to the Wyeths' door, with just one phone call for directions (phone $.10)" Andy Warhol |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES & TOES $600: A big tootsie sprain, this alliterative term was coined in 1976 for football injuries on an artificial surface turf toe |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE CHARACTER $800: Travis Bickle
(1976) Taxi Driver |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | AIRCRAFT FOR THE AGES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the USS Intrepid in New York.) Rolled out in 1976, the prototype for the Space Shuttle program was originally to be named the Constitution before a letter writing campaign by fans of a TV series prompted a change to this the Enterprise |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | MODERATES $2,000 (Daily Double): For Ford & Carter on Oct. 22, 1976, "The View" from their podiums was of this ABC newswoman, the moderator Barbara Walters |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR $800: In 1976 this man beat Gerald Ford to win the White House Jimmy Carter |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | OLYMPIC ATHLETES $800: Winner of 1976 Olympic gold, this American woman gained fame for her spins & her haircut Dorothy Hamill |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | 7 UP $800 (Daily Double): When the G7 economic group was formed in 1976, this was its only Asian country Japan |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE BEST NEW THING IN THE WORLD $1000: (Rachel Maddow delivers the clue.) In 1976 it was Muhammad Yunus' program of these, a credit system to help the impoverished become self-sufficient by borrowing as little as $30 microloans |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | ROLE & ROCK $800: In 1976 he was "The Man Who Fell to Earth"; that inspired "Lazarus", a musical he completed before he passed in 2016 David Bowie |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | PLAYBOY $1000: In this year Jimmy Carter revealed to Playboy that "I've committed adultery in my heart many times" 1976 |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | THE 1970s $200: The U.S. could have had a bicentennial Olympics, but voters of this Colorado city said no thanks to the 1976 Winter Games Denver |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | POP MUSIC $1600: This singer-songwriter reached the Top 10 twice with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", in 1962 & 1976 Neil Sedaka |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | GEOGRAPHICAL MUSIC GROUPS $1200: 1976's
"More Than a Feeling" Boston |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | MOVIE LIFE HACKS $200: Young boxers, consider sides of beef for your training needs, like Mr. Balboa in this 1976 movie Rocky |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | CALIFORNIA WINE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Viticulture & Enology Dept. at UC Davis.) UC Davis know-how contributed to the 1960s growth of the local wine industry, & alum Mike Grgich was one of the vintners who triumphed in the 1976 judgment of this city, where California wines outdid the French in a blind tasting Paris |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | WE ADMINISTER! $1200: Western Sahara, until 1976 Spain |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm in this city which was officially renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1976, but which everyone calls by this former, more familiar name Saigon |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | VERY INVENTIVE $1600: This man's first supercomputer was installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976 Seymour Cray |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | steve jobs| $600: Steve Jobs joined this other Steve in 1976 to design the logic board that would become known as Apple I Wozniak |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | COMEDIC TV PARTNERS $1000: Cindy Williams, from 1976 to 1982 Penny Marshall |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | MOVIE TITLE POSSESIVES $2000: 15 is middle-aged in this 1976 Michael York sci-fi flick; folks turning 30 don't turn 31 Logan's Run |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: A day after touching down on this planet in 1976, Viking 1 took the first color photos of its surface Mars |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $400: 1976:
Sylvester Stallone Rocky |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | CRIMINALITY... IN SONG $1000: In 1976 he sang, "Billy Joe shot a man while robbing his castle, Bobbie Sue took the money & run" Steve Miller |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Paradise Lost" poet who won who the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976 John Milton Friedman |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS $2000: In 1976 Science Magazine blamed the strange behavior of some on ergot, this type of organism that grows on grains a fungus |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | MOVIE TAGLINES $600: 1976:
"His whole life was a million-to-one shot" Rocky |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OLYMPIC SPORTS BY GOLD MEDALIST $600: 1976:
Michael Spinks boxing |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows three U.S. maps on the monitor.) On maps from 1920, 1976 & 2012 representing this 2-word system laid out in the Constitution, you can see the nation's political landscape change the Electoral College |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | IN BEVERLY HILLS $800: You may recognize the Beverly Hills hotel known as "The Pink Palace" from the cover of a 1976 album from this band the Eagles |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | ALAN OR DALE $1000: A 1976 car accident left this American artist blind in one eye; he then used assistant glassblowers to execute his designs Dale Chihuly |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1000: (I'm columnist Clarence Page.) As real-life TV has proven the movie prophetic to me, my favorite film is this 1976 drama about newscaster Howard Beale Network |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | SENATORS $2000: Defense expert & 1976 presidential hopeful Henry "Scoop" Jackson was a Democratic senator from this West Coast state Washington |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | SONG TITLE IN COMMON TO... $800: John Cougar Mellencamp (1987) & The Runaways (1976) "Cherry Bomb" |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | EYEBROW-BEATING YOU $1000: In 1976, he was made Marshall of the U.S.S.R., the only party leader after Stalin to hold the highest military rank Brezhnev |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1976 John Warner married Elizabeth Taylor & served as administrator of this celebration the Bicentennial |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | DUSTIN HOFFMAN'S FILM ROLES $400: Journalist Carl Bernstein
(1976) All the President's Men |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | PLANES OF YESTERYEAR $600: Known by this dark avian nickname, Lockheed's SR-71 still holds speed records for a manned jet set back in 1976 the Blackbird |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | DIALECTS $400: In 1976, this country standardized its language, basing it primarily on the Peloponnesian dialect Greece |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | THE STATE OF FILM TODAY $2000: Brando & Nicholson teamed up for this 1976 oater about horse thieves The Missouri Breaks |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: 1976:
"Evergreen",
the love theme from this movie remake A Star Is Born |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: "Harlan County, USA" from 1976 marched with striking coal miners in this state Kentucky |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | MUSICAL SPLITS $400: They had a second variety show in 1976, after they had divorced Sonny and Cher |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | ROCK & ROLE $1600: The title guy in 1976's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" David Bowie |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | NBA FINALS MVPs $1000: 1976:
He thought he was a loner but got back as the Finals MVP Jo Jo White |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | ALL SORTS OF SPORTS $400: In 1976 the scoreboard in Montreal didn't have enough spaces, so the perfect score of this gymnast read 1.00 (Nadia) Comăneci |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | BILL CLINTON $600: The first statewide office to which he was elected, in 1976 3 years out of law school attorney general |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction the Scottsboro Boys |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | SONG OF THE YEAR $400: The Bionic Man & the newly famous Jimmy Carter turn up in Alan Jackson's song about this year 1976 |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | NFL STADIUMS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the stands.) Raymond James Stadium is the home of this team that started out with a winless season in 1976, but won the Super Bowl held in 2003 Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | THE NAME OF THE ROSE $400: Introduced in 1976 for the bicentennial, the rose seen here is named "the stars 'n'" these the stars 'n stripes |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | 1970s NO. 1 HITS $1000: "You'd think that people would have had enough of" this 1976 hit, but Wings looked around & saw it wasn't so "Silly Love Songs" |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | BOXING DAY $2000: Last name of the 2 brothers who both won gold medals for the U.S. at the 1976 Olympics Spinks |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | DID YOU GET MY LETTER? $1600: In 1976 he wrote an open letter to members of the Homebrew Computer Club asking them not to steal his programs Bill Gates |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | RAID! $1600: Israeli forces brought a black Sedan just like Idi Amin's on the July 1976 raid on this airport to rescue hostages Entebbe |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | PLAY BALL MUSIC $2000: In the song "1976" indie supergroup The Baseball Project paid homage to this pitcher named "The Bird" (Mark) Fidrych |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $2000: You'll be nibbling on bacon & chewing on cheese if you can name this beastly 1976 hit from the Captain & Tennille "Muskrat Love" |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | LIFE IS A SOAP OPERA $800: From 1974 to 1976 he needed to be "Superman" on "Love of Life" as Ben, who loved life so much he had 2 wives at once! Christopher Reeve |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | LITERARY SELF-PORTRAITS $1200: Much of this 1976 novel is based on author Pat Conroy's family, especially his dad, a fighter pilot The Great Santini |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $1600: 1976:
William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President's Men |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | BACTERIA $400: In 1976 scientists discovered Legionella pneumophila, a new bacterium that causes this form of pneumonia Legionnaires' disease |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-winners for 1976, were both born in this troubled city Belfast |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: An outbreak of this disease during a military vets convention in Philadelphia in July 1976 killed dozens Legionnaires' disease |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | MOVIE SONGS $800: It's the 3-word title of the Oscar-nominated song from 1976's "Rocky" "Gonna Fly Now" |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | YES, "MASTER" $1200: Founded in 1976, this firm sold its first admissions the following year, to an Electric Light Orchestra concert Ticketmaster |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | WORLD SERIES MVPs BY POSITION $1200: Johnny Bench
(1976) &
Steve Yeager
(1981) catcher |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | GYMNASTICS $400: 7 perfect scores helped this Romanian girl win 3 gold medals at the 1976 Olympics Nadia Comaneci |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | GYMNASTICS $800: Despite a broken leg, Shun Fujimoto nailed the landing on this final move to help Japan win 1976 Olympic gold the dismount |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | SOWETO $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) Bringing Soweto to the world's attention, a march beginning here at Naledi High School was one of the dramatic moments in the 1976 protests against the forced teaching of this language Afrikaans |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | THEY RAN FOR PRESIDENT $200: He's a governor now, but here's how he looked running for president in 1976 Jerry Brown |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | WE'RE ON MARS! $2000: Seen here in a model, on July 20th, 1976, this first U.S. Mars lander successfully soft-landed Viking |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $600: The ace pitcher on a boys' Little League team is a girl (Tatum O'Neal) in this comedy from 1976 The Bad News Bears |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | TONY WINNERS FOR BEST MUSICAL $200: 1976:
It's about Broadway itself & its hopefuls A Chorus Line |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | HOW NOBEL OF THEM $600: For his work on monetary theory, Milton Friedman won the 1976 Nobel Prize for this Economics |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "R" $200: 1976 Stallone pug
(5) Rocky |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | A BUNCH OF "S.B." $1000: This author of "Herzog" received the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature Saul Bellow |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) In 1976, America was split straight down the middle; Jimmy Carter dominated the blue East, but the red West was solid for this man Ford |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | TV THEME SONG HITS $800: 1976:
"Making Our Dreams Come True" Laverne & Shirley |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | THAT BOOK WAS A HORROR! $400: Anne Rice, 1976: "Interview with" him the Vampire |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | IT'S AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $400: The Liberty Bell moves to a pavilion north of Independence Hall; Israeli commandos take on hijackers at Entebbe 1976 |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: Living in rags paid off--in 1976 he was honored with a special Pulitzer citation for his contribution to American music Scott Joplin |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | LUNAR FICTION $800: A 1976 Ben Bova novel envisions moonbases in this year that also followed "Space" in a 1970s TV show title 1999 |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | THE BRITISH ARE GOING! $1600: In 1976 a Colonel Swynnerton was the last British military presence on this island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula Singapore |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1000: You can get plush toys shaped like microbes, including this up-to-90% fatal virus that emerged in the Congo in 1976 Ebola |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS $400: 1976:
"He's making us proud again" Ford |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1200: 1976:
This big-league slugger Hank Aaron |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | HAROLDRY $2000: This British playwright wrote the screenplay for the 1976 Elia Kazan-directed film "The Last Tycoon" Harold Pinter |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | DREAM-Y SONGS $2000: This 1976 Gary Wright title, "I believe you can get me through the night" "Dream Weaver" |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | TV MEDICAL DRAMAS $800: Thomas Noguchi, "coroner to the stars", was said to be the inspiration for this 1976-1983 series Quincy |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | FROM JOCK TO POLITICIAN $800: Future congressman Steve Largent was for the birds as a member of this NFL team from 1976 to 1989 the Seattle Seahawks |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | THE BENJAMINS $2000: In 1976 this "Billy Budd" composer was made a British life peer Benjamin Britten |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $1000: In 1976 she began giving her "view" as the first woman co-anchor on a nightly network news show Barbara Walters |
| #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 |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | MORE 4 YEARS $2000: This Austrian city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 (& again in 1976) Innsbruck |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | AT WIDE RECEIVER FOR THIS TEAM... $800: 1976: Fred Biletnikoff, Cliff Branch (Fred's in the Hall of Fame; Cliff may get there, too) the (Oakland) Raiders |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | THE DE NIRO CODE $800: In this 1976 movie: "Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum" Taxi Driver |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: "His whole life was a million-to-one shot" was the tagline for this 1976 Best Picture winner Rocky |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | PROJECT RUNAWAY $400: Montreal's mayor said this 1976 event "can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby"; birth weight was over $1 billion the summer Olympics |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANYTHING BUT OPERA $1600: God I hope you get it, I hope you get it that this Broadway musical won a 1976 Pulitzer & 9 Tonys A Chorus Line |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | ACAPULCO $800: He spent his last days in Acapulco but died in flight on his private plane back to Houston in 1976 Howard Hughes |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT $400: 1976:
Nadia Comaneci;
2008:
Nastia Liukin (champions all-around) gymnastics |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | UNWANTED DISTINCTIONS $400: In 1976 "Home Sweet Homer", with Yul Brynner as this wanderer, tied a Broadway record by closing after one performance Ulysses |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER $600: Milton Friedman,
1976 Economics |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | JERSEY SURE $400: In 1976 Jersey said gambling was OK in this city, as long as each casino was part of a hotel with at least 500 guest rooms Atlantic City |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | SUPER BOWL MVPs $1000: In 1976, this Pittsburgh Steelers non-quarterback who became an ABC sportscaster Lynn Swann |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $2000: In a 1976 piece this former prime minister of her country stated simply, "We Dispossessed No Arabs" Golda Meir |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | SOUNDS GEOMETRIC $600: At the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comaneci got a perfect 10 on this uneven equipment the parallel bars |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: Born just days apart in 1951, in 1976 they opened their first ice cream shop in a renovated gas station in Vermont Ben & Jerry |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | TAKE A STAB $600: In a 1976 horror film, this telekinetic teen uses her powers to "throw" cutlery at her uber-religious mom Carrie |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: In their early 30s, Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan won the 1976 Peace Prize for trying to end strife in this U.K. country Northern Ireland |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | OLYMPIC ODDITIES $600: A 1976 entrant in the "modern" this was kicked out for wiring his epee to score points without touching his foe pentathlon |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | RESCUE ME $800: In July 1976 commandos from this country rescued 103 hostages being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda Israel |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | LYRICS OF NO. 1 HITS $1200: 1976: "You just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free" "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | MUSICAL LODGINGS $200: The Eagles checked into this structure in the title of their 1976 No. 1 album the Hotel California |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | THE CITY'S MAYOR $200: Richard Daley (1955 to 1976) Chicago |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | YANKEES, NO! $1200: A "Big Red Machine" from this city ran right over the Yankees in a 4-game sweep of the 1976 World Series Cincinnati |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | DAVID MAMET $800: In 1976 Mamet taught at the School of Drama at this Ivy League university whose alumni include Meryl Streep Yale |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | NFL CAREER PASSING LEADERS BY TEAM $800: Jets:
270.57 football fields
(1965-1976) (Joe) Namath |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS $400: In a 1976 Playboy interview, he said, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times" Jimmy Carter |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1976 this sports artist was presented with an award of merit from the American Athletic Union LeRoy Neiman |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | NAME THAT ELEMENT $1600: This synthetic element created in 1976 was named for a Danish pioneer of quantum physics bohrium |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | KING KONG $1000: In the 1976 version she spoke the lines "Oh, come on, Kong, forget about me. This thing's just never going to work" Jessica Lange |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $800: This 1976 Oscar winner used the tagline "You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest Bicentennial in history" Rocky |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ $200: In 1976 Steve Wozniak co-founded this company in his partner's garage; it went public in 1980 Apple |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACHES $800: Jim Boeheim
(1976-present) Syracuse |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1976 the U.S. posthumously restored the citizenship of this labor organizer & socialist leader who lost it in 1918 (Eugene) Debs |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | ART HEISTS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1976 she sued for the return of 3 paintings, claiming they'd been stolen from Alfred Stieglitz' gallery in 1946 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN $200: After a 1976 gig in Memphis, Bruce scaled the wall of this music icon's home & was busted by a security guard Elvis Presley |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG $800: From 1976:
These 2 Republicans "neck in presidential primary" Gerald Ford & Ronald Reagan |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $800: Founded in 1976, the AMF is this monetary fund with 22 African & Middle Eastern member nations Arab |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE SPIRIT OF 1976 $400: In January this then little-known governor won the Iowa Democratic Caucus Jimmy Carter |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE SPIRIT OF 1976 $800: In February the Winter Olympics opened in this Austrian mountain town Innsbruck |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE SPIRIT OF 1976 $1200: On Sept. 9 China's news agency announced the death of this "esteemed and beloved great leader" Mao Tse-tung |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE SPIRIT OF 1976 $1600: In March baseball's American League voted to award its first Canadian franchise to this city Toronto |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE SPIRIT OF 1976 $2000: On July 2 North & South this reunited to form a republic Vietnam |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | DISCO! DUCK! $400: This syndicated DJ & "Solid Gold" host hit No. 1 with "Disco Duck" in 1976 Rick Dees |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $800: Before "Welcome Back, Kotter" aired, Travolta played one of this title girl's tormentors in a 1976 horror film Carrie |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | FUN AT THE BALLPARK $200: In 1976 Chicago Cub Rick Monday prevented 2 people from burning this in the outfield, making him a hero coast to coast the American flag |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | "AIRE" TIME $400: This disease was identified in 1976 after 200 people became ill with pneumonia at a convention in Philadelphia Legionnaire's disease |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | FUN AT THE BALLPARK $600: A 1976 game in Cincinnati between the Giants & the Reds was stopped for 30 minutes when players were attacked by these bees |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | BOB MARLEY & ME $2,500 (Daily Double): "War", a song off Bob's 1976 album "Rastaman Vibration", had lyrics taken from a speech by this emperor Haile Selassie |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | OFF THE RECORD $600: 1976:
"Life In The Fast Lane",
"New Kid In Town" Hotel California |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION $2000: In 1976, within 3 months, 2 U.S. spacecraft by this name soft-landed on the surface of Mars Viking |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | I'M A "STAR" $1600: Both Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson won Golden Globe awards for their roles in this 1976 musical remake A Star Is Born |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | NAME THE FILM $600: 1976:
"You talking to me?" Taxi Driver |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | JIMMY $400: He was Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1976 Jimmy Carter |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | JIMMY $1200: This noted oddsmaker was seen on "The NFL Today" from 1976 to 1988 Jimmy the Greek |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | HAMMER TIME $3,800 (Daily Double): Countless hammers have swung since this org.'s founding in 1976, helping to house more than 1.5 million people Habitat for Humanity |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: On April 21, 1976 FDA administrator Harry Meyer got the first vaccination in the campaign against this piggish strain swine flu |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | FILM SCHOOL $1200: 1976:
A telekinetic Sissy Spacek gets her revenge on mocking classmates & a loony mom Carrie |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | TV REVEILLE $2000: 1976:
Robert Conrad as Major Gregory Boyington Baa Baa Black Sheep |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $800: "Family Plot"
(1976) Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | REAL PEOPLE IN BEATLES SONGS $800: From 1964 to 1976 Mr. Wilson & Mr. Heath, mentioned in "Taxman", held this post in England prime minister |
| #5760, aired 2009-10-02 | BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN $400: This actress & Don Johnson were wed in 1976, divorced in 1977, remarried in 1989 & split for good 7 years later Melanie Griffith |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | CLASSIC TV DRAMA EPISODES $800: 1976:
"The Pride of Walnut Grove" Little House on the Prairie |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | SCIENTISTS $800: "The Undersea World of" this marine explorer was a television fixture from 1968 to 1976 Jacques Cousteau |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | A ROUND OF GULF $1200: In 1976 a deadly tsunami swept through the Moro Gulf region of this country, killing thousands on Mindanao the Philippines |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | SUNDAY NIGHT TV $800: In 1976 CBS's Sunday night lineup was "60 Minutes", "Sonny & Cher", then "Who loves ya, baby?", this detective Kojak |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | FAMOUS TRIALS $1200: At her 1976 bank robbery trial, this heiress' lawyer used a brainwashing defense; the jury didn't buy it Patricia Hearst |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | MOVIES BY SONGS $600: 1976:
"Gonna Fly Now" Rocky |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | WIMBLEDON SINGLES CHAMPS $200: This Swede:
1976 through 1980 Bjorn Borg |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | UPPERS & DOWNERS $400: In 1976 news, these 1-syllable features were installed at the Lincoln Memorial ramps |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | THE DALLAS COWBOYS $400: The blue-white-blue stripe on the team's silver helmets was changed to red-white-blue for this year 1976 |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | BROWN $1600: Though Carter won the 1976 Democratic nomination, this Californian beat him in the Nevada primary Jerry Brown |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | CAMPAIGN TRAIL MIX $400: On the 1976 campaign trail, these 2 were called "Grits & Fritz" Carter & Mondale |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | EMMY-WINNING SITCOM EPISODES $400: "Welcome to Korea"
(Directing, 1976) M*A*S*H |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | 2 "B" OR NOT 2 "B" $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 "B":
Site of a July 4, 1976 hostage rescue by Israeli commandos Entebbe |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | ANIMATED VOICES $2000: In 1976 this singer "Fell to Earth"; in 2007, he fell below the waves, as Lord Royal Highness on "SpongeBob" David Bowie |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | WHAT AM I DOING IN NEW JERSEY? $200: In 1976 N.J. voted to permit gambling casinos here to raise money for the disabled & elderly; the first opened in 1978 Atlantic City |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $1600: This U.S. mayor who died in 1976 was called the "last of the big-city bosses" (Richard) Daley |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: Germany's worst terrorist gang finally disbanded in 1998, though Baader died in 1977 & this co-leader in 1976 Ulrike Meinhof |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $1000: This 1976 novel, Manuel Puig write, published as "El Beso de la Mujer Araña". Wait. Tarzan speak Spanish? Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | AMERICAN ARCHITECTS $1200: The firm of Pei & Partners designed this Boston landmark tower completed in 1976 the Hancock tower |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | OLYMPIC HEROES $800: This decathlete from Mount Kisco, N.Y. lit up Montreal's Olympic Stadium at the 1976 games (Bruce) Jenner |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | THEIR FIRST TOP 40 POP HIT $1000: "Over My Head"
(1976) Fleetwood Mac |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | NORDIC TRACKS $400: "I do, I do, I do, I do, I do" know this Swedish band hit No. 15 in 1976 with that song; I won't repeat the title, though ABBA |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | J.W.s $1200: In 1976 he won Elizabeth Taylor's vote & her hand Senator John Warner |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 20th CENTURY CHINA $600: In 1976 the downfall of the Gang of Four & the end of this revolution marked a new stage for China the Cultural Revolution |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1600: 1976:
"His whole life was a million-to-one shot" Rocky |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | "I" ON THE WORLD $400: In 1964 & 1976 this resort city in Austria hosted the Winter Olympics Innsbruck |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $800: In 1976 Judy Rankin became the first woman to win more than $100,000 in a year playing this pro sport golf |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | "CH"ECK THE NAME $1200: Diplomat & premier of China from 1949 to 1976 (one spelling) Chou En-Lai |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | THE RAIDERS $2000: On July 3, 1976, in a raid that lasted just 58 minutes, Israelis rescued 103 hostages held in this airport Entebbe |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | BOOKS OF THE '70s $200: This prolific British mystery writer's last published novel was 1976's "Sleeping Murder" Agatha Christie |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | TV & FILM FOOD $2000: The title character chugs raw eggs & punches slabs of beef in this 1976 Oscar winner Rocky |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In 1976 Marcel Marceau had the only spoken line in this otherwise silent movie Silent Movie |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | TEXAS $2000: In 1976 this Texas congresswoman became the first black keynote speaker at a Dem. National Convention Barbara Jordan |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | TRUMAN CAPOTE $800: Capote invites the world's greatest detectives to his house for a contest in this 1976 film spoof Murder by Death |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | THE CALENDAR $400: The Chinese assign each year an element as well as an animal; 1972 got rat & water & 1976, dragon & this fire |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | McCARTNEY $800: "Silly Love Songs" was a No. 1 hit for Paul & this band in 1976 Wings |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | SHERLOCK HOLMES $800: In a 1976 TV movie this "Spy Who Loved Me" actor played "Sherlock Holmes in New York" Roger Moore |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHING LEGENDS $800: Bobby Bowden
(1976-present) Florida State |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | ASIAN CAPITALS $200: This Philippine capital was so devastated during WWII that Quezon City served as interim capital from 1948 to 1976 Manila |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | CALIFORNIA ROLE $600: A beer-swilling pool cleaner coaches a misfit Little League team in sunny So. Cal. in this 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | THE LOSING TICKET $800: In 1976 Ford & this man were a pair of 4-letter words to voters (Bob) Dole |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $400: The "Good News" version of this "Good Book" debuted in 1976 the Bible |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1976:
"Follow the money" All the President's Men |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | THAT SOUNDS "GREAT" $400: Sharing its name with a Dickens novel, this dating service has been matching up couples since 1976 Great Expectations |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1200: On June 1, 1976 the United Kingdom & this Atlantic island nation agreed to end the "Cod War" Iceland |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | NO. 1 HITMAKERS OF THE '70s $800: 1976:
"(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" KC & the Sunshine Band |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | NO. 1 HITMAKERS OF THE '70s $1000: 1976:
"Afternoon Delight" Starland Vocal Band |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | ASIAN COUNTRIES $600: In November 1976 the U.S. vetoed this reunited country's admission to the U.N. Vietnam |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | LIVRES EN FRANÇAIS $400: 1976:
"Entretien avec un vampire" Interview with the Vampire (Interview with a Vampire accepted) |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $2000: Fitzgerald didn't finish this novel, so screenwriter Harold Pinter had to come up with an ending for the 1976 film The Last Tycoon |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | MANILOW! $1,000 (Daily Double): Despite the title of this 1976 No. 1 hit of Barry's, the words & music are by Bruce Johnston "I Write The Songs" |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | 20th CENTURY COMPOSERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Nickname of Roy Harris' Symphony No. 14, premiered in Washington, D.C. in 1976 "Bicentennial" |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | QUOTABLE NOTABLES $600: "1976 will not be a year of politics as usual" Jimmy Carter |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | THE HOUSE OF BURGESS MEREDITH $800: As Mickey, Burgess had some advice for this 1976 title guy: "Women weaken legs!" Rocky |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Houston in 1905, he died en route from Acapulco to Houston in 1976; his money couldn't save him Howard Hughes |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | LADIES' DAY $2000: Rina Messenger, Miss Universe of 1976, saw service in this country's army Israel |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S $1200: This WWII British commander who led the 21st Army Group at Normandy passed away on March 24, 1976 Montgomery |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S $1600: On Dec. 24, 1975 Bernard Herrmann died shortly after scoring this 1976 De Niro & Foster classic; it's dedicated to him Taxi Driver |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS $600: This 1976 presidential campaign button refers to these 2 men (Jimmy) Carter and (Walter) Mondale |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | I BEG YOUR PARDON $200: Gerald Ford issued 382 pardons but the one issued to this man in 1974 is said to have cost Ford the 1976 election Richard Nixon |
| #5302, aired 2007-10-02 | BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD $1600: This female cartoonist's self-esteem-challenged heroine Cathy was introduced in 1976 Cathy Guisewite |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | OH, CANADA $800: Toronto's CN Tower opened in this year in which Canada also hosted the Summer Olympics 1976 |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | WINE $800: Try my $3,000 1976 bottle from Romanee-Conti, the most famous estate in this area--oops, there goes the cork Burgundy |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain" Rocky |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | FAMOUS NICKNAMES $600: Jan. 12, 1976 news could say, "The Queen is dead!"--this mystery writer called the "Queen of Crime" Agatha Christie |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | 1976 $400: January 27:
Jury selection begins in the trial of this woman entangled with the SLA Patricia Hearst |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | 1976 $800: July 2:
This country formally ceases to exist as it is absorbed by its northern counterpart South Vietnam |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | 1976 $1200: February 4th:
The Winter Olympics heat up this Austrian city Innsbruck |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | 1976 $1600: June 27:
Palestinian terrorists hijack an Air France jetliner & force it to land in this Ugandan city Entebbe |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | 1976 $2000: March 24:
The Argentinean Military coups with delight as it overthrows this widow of Juan Peron Isabel |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKSTORE $1200: Kisses are in order for this 1976 Argentinian novel whose film version won William Hurt an Oscar Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Alex Haley described this 1976 blockbuster as "faction", a combination of fact & fiction Roots |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | '70s ALBUM COVERS $400: David Alexander photographed the Beverly Hills Hotel before a pretty sunset for this 1976 album Hotel California |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | THAT'S MY MOVIE! $1200: In 2005, Heath Ledger was this great lover; back in 1976, Donald Sutherland was the man in "Fellini's..." Casanova |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | MINNESOTANS $800: Reportedly the richest man in the world when he died in 1976, he was born in Minneapolis in 1892 Jean Paul Getty |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $2000: This champ gave birth to a "camel" & inspired a haircut during her 1976 Ice Capades Dorothy Hamill |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES $2000: "The Bird"--seen here--he was a national sensation in 1976 Mark Fidrych |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | MAO INHIBITORS $1200: Shortly after Mao's death in 1976, the National Party Congress declared this "Revolution" had ended the Cultural Revolution |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | 1970s ALBUMS $1200: This rocker "comes alive" in a 1976 LP that included 2 Top 10 hits: "Show Me The Way" & "Do You Feel Like We Do" (Peter) Frampton |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $1000: Ireland's tempestuous history has inspired many historical novels, like this author's 1976 book "Trinity" (Leon) Uris |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | SALUTE TO THE NBA $1600: In 1974 & 1976 this forward led the Nets to the ABA Championship, & in 1983 he led the 76ers to the NBA Championship Julius Erving ("Dr. J") |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | CHALLENGER $600: In 1976 Ford won primaries in Ohio, Oregon & Florida; this challenger won Texas, Indiana &, of course, California Ronald Reagan |
| #5093, aired 2006-11-01 | I WAS ON JEOPARDY! $800: The "Jeopardy!" whiz seen here played this TV sitcom role from 1976 to 1982 Lenny |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | GROUPS $1000: The congressional Hispanic one was founded in 1976 caucus |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | THE '70s $200: In a 1976 article in New York Magazine, Tom Wolfe dubbed the '70s this decade the "Me Decade" |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | SPORTS STARS $400: In 1976 Hungary's Miklos Nemeth won Olympic gold by throwing this over 300 feet, a feat not equaled in the games since the javelin |
| #5069, aired 2006-09-28 | ALBUMS $800: This 1976 Eagles album was the first to feature the "new kid in town", Joe Walsh, who replaced Bernie Leadon Hotel California |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s ROCK $800: In 1976 radio listeners were humming the melody to this song "Baby, I Love Your Way" |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | NON-BOND CONNERY $2000: 1976:
After returning home from the Crusades, Sean battles the Sheriff of Nottingham Robin and Marian |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | WORLD SERIES MVPs $200: 1976:
Johnny Bench the Cincinnati Reds |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE NAMES $400: Told his nose is broken, this 1976 title pugilist asks how it looks & gets the reply, "Ah, it’s an improvement" Rocky |
| #5028, aired 2006-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE NAMES $2000: It’s the name of the 1976 field-goal-kicking mule that got booted up to title billing Gus |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | JUNE SWOON $200: This Philippine city was proclaimed a capital on June 24, 1571 & again on June 24, 1976 Manila |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | NO. 1 ALBUMS $1600: 1976:
He "Comes Alive!" Frampton |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | MONEY MATTERS $400: In 1976 Bank Americard got this new name with an international flavor Visa |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $600: 1976:
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | I MARRIED ELIZABETH TAYLOR $800: This actor married Ms. Taylor in 1975 (& was divorced from her in 1976) Richard Burton |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | BORN TO RUN? $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1976 he fell 117 delegate votes short of defeating President Ford for the Republican nomination Ronald Reagan |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | LET'S GET ECONOMICAL $2000: In 1976 this author of "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960" won the Nobel Prize for Economics Milton Friedman |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | ED ASNER $800: Ed had the Axel Jordache look when he took home an Emmy for this 1976 Peter Strauss miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | FROM OUTER SPACE $800: The image seen here caused a lot of excitement following a 1976 exploration to this planet Mars |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | "SONG"S $400: The title of this 1976 No. 1 hit by Barry Manilow completes the line "I am music and..." "I Write The Songs" |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | FAMOUS FOLKS $400: In 1976, this high-flying woman was simply gym-dandy Nadia Comaneci |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | BRING OUT YOUR DEAD $400: She sold more than 100 million books before her non-mysterious Jan. 12, 1976 death in Wallingford, England Agatha Christie |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | MOVIE QUOTES $1200: (1976)
Laurence Olivier:
"Is it safe?" Marathon Man |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $600: 1976:
This condition, characterized by frequent & uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-Y |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | TOUGH TV $400: When this game show premiered on July 12, 1976, the Moseleys were pitted agains the Abramowitzes Family Feud |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | CELEBRATING THE NOBEL PRIZE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Stockholm, Sweden.) At the 1976 Nobel banquet here in Stockholm, this novelist humbly said, "I loved books, and I wrote some" Saul Bellow |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | THAT FUNKY MUSIC $800: In 1976 this fruitful band hit No. 1 with "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)" Wild Cherry |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | REVOLUTIONS $400: This leader's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, eliminated political rivals & threw Chinese cities into chaos Mao Zedong |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $600: This Provo, Utah school won 10 straight WAC football titles from 1976 to 1985 Brigham Young |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | NUMBER PLEASE $400: In a 1976 book, '60s activist Jerry Rubin quoted that era's slogan "Don't trust anyone over" this age 30 |
| #4858, aired 2005-10-26 | INGMAR BERGMAN $800: Bergman went into exile after a traumatic arrest for this in 1976 tax evasion |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | MOVIES TO THE MAX $1200: This former TV Hillbilly directed the 1976 film "Ode to Billie Joe" Max Baer (Jr.) |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT $600: There's no free land from the BLM; this practice enshrined in an 1862 law was abolished in 1976 homesteading |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | THE GREAT & NEAR-GREAT $400: This Minnesotan ran for the 1968 Democratic nomination & ran in 1976 as an independent Eugene McCarthy |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | A ROYAL VISIT $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Old North Church in Boston, MA.) The first reigning British monarch to visit Boston, she took part in a Sunday morning service here at Old North Church on July 11, 1976 Queen Elizabeth (II) |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | SEND IN THE MARINES $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew visits a training course at Parris Island, SC.) In 1976 with women in the Corps, the Marines phased out "We're looking for a few good men" & went to this recruiting slogan "The few, the proud" |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | CLARK GABLE $400: "They had more than love--they had fun" was the tagline for the 1976 biopic about Gable's romance with her Carole Lombard |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1000: In 1976 she became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera when she took the baton for "La Traviata" Sarah Caldwell |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | NO. 1 HITS OF THE '70s $800: Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots had a No. 1 hit in 1976 with this "fowl" song "Disco Duck" |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | DODGER $1000: In 1976 he replaced Walter Alston as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers Tommy Lasorda |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | EMMY-WINNING ROLES $400: For 1976-77:
Lindsay Wagner the Bionic Woman (Jaime Sommers) |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | THE JETS $1000: In 1976 this "dark" reconnaissance jet set a world speed record of 2,092.29 mph the (SR-71) Blackbird |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | DANCING BAREFOOT $1600: This modern choreographer, called a national treasure by Pres. Ford in 1976, had a career that spanned 70 years Martha Graham |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | OF CHAMPIONS $400: Now an actor, in 1976 he was the European Professional Karate Assoc. middleweight champion Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | PLAYBOY $600: In his famous 1976 Playboy interview, he spoke of lusting after women in his heart many times Carter |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | AP FEMALE ATHLETES OF THE YEAR $200: 1976:
This Olympian Nadia Comăneci |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | 1970s POP MUSIC $2000: "And if one night you hear crying from above, it's 'cause" of this, the title of a 1976 hit "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | REEL PEOPLE $800: Henry Fonda & Glenn Ford were Admirals Nimitz & Spruance in the 1976 movie about this crucial battle of World War II Midway |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | OLYMPIC MASCOTS $200: One of these with a carrot nose was the mascot of the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck a snowman |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | OLYMPIC BOXERS $600: Teofilo Stevenson of this country impressively won heavyweight gold in 1972, 1976 & 1980 Cuba |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | OLYMPIC BOXERS $800: Both the 1972 & 1976 Olympic light-welterwight gold medalists had this "sweet" nickname Sugar Ray |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | ROLLING STONE'S 500 GREATEST SONGS $2000: And finally... their 1976 hit with "More Than A Feeling" just made the list at No. 500 Boston |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | HARLEM GLOBETROTTIN' $600: It's a no-brainer that this Nobel laureate & Secy. of State was made an honorary Globetrotter in 1976 Kissinger |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | NEW YORK ON FILM $200: Robert De Niro played a Vietnam vet turned N.Y. cabbie in this 1976 film--"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | MIAMI $1200: Carl Hiaasen joined this publication in 1976 & has written a column for it since 1985 The Miami Herald |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $1000: Seen here in 1976, this playwright served prison time for his dissident views (Vaclav) Havel |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | CRAZY TOP 40 TUNES $600: In 1976, this Seattle band led by the Wilson sisters went "Crazy On You" Heart |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | GUITAR PLAYER $1600: In 1976 this guitarist's album "Breezin'" was the first to simultaneously top the jazz, R&B & pop charts George Benson |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THE 1970s MUSIC SCENE $600: In 1976 this Mothers of Invention leader produced Grand Funk's LP "Good Singin', Good Playin'" Frank Zappa |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | 1970s POP MUSIC $600: In 1976 this "wild" group topped both the Hot 100 & R&B charts with "Play That Funky Music" Wild Cherry |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | BOOK BINDINGS $1600: Fitzgerald, 1925 & Conroy, 1976:
"The Great ____" Gatsby & Santini |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | HIT TV THEME SONGS $800: Climbing to No. 25 in 1976, "Making Our Dreams Come True" was the hit theme song for this TV show Laverne & Shirley |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | HIT TV THEME SONGS $1000: Appropriately, his 1976 No. 1 hit "Welcome Back" was the theme song to "Welcome Back, Kotter" John Sebastian |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | FILMED IN HAWAII $1200: We assume that Jessica Lange was impressed by the size of her co-star in this 1976 remake filmed partly in Hawaii King Kong |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC $2000: Murtala Mohammed, this country's head of state, was shot dead in a Lagos traffic jam in 1976 Nigeria |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | DO "TELL" $600: It's the governmental organization headed by George H.W. Bush from 1976 to 1977 the Central Intelligence Agency |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | "DON'T" FORGET THIS SONG $800: In 1976 Elton John wrote & duetted with Kiki Dee on this world-conquering smash hit "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | NONFICTION $400: (Hi. I'm Bob Woodward.) In 1976 Carl Bernstein & I published "The Final Days" about his last days in office Nixon |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ENGLISH LIT $200: Published in 1976, her last Miss Marple case, "Sleeping Murder", was actually written during WWII (Agatha) Christie |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $800: In July 1976 a form of pneumonia caused the deaths of 29 members of this organization in Philadelphia the Legionnaires |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | THOSE ROCKIN' '90s $800: In 1996 Celine Dion recorded this 1976 Eric Carmen hit in both English & Spanish versions "All By Myself" |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | THE ANATOMY OF EVEL $200: In 1976 Evel Knievel had a farewell to these, breaking both in an attempt to jump a tank full of sharks his arms |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | THE TOWER $1200: Opened in 1976, it's the tallest structure in Canada the CN Tower |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $1000: One of the first TV miniseries was this 1976 adaptation of a bestselling Irwin Shaw novel about 2 brothers Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | GREETINGS FROM AMERICA STAMPS $800: It was the 5th time the Post Office has released a 50-state set; the 1st was in 1976 & featured these of each state flags |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | THE EMMYS $1000: 1976 Best Supporting Comedy Actress winner who played Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Betty White |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | LEMON AID $1200: This girl sold lemonade to reporters during her father's 1976 presidential campaign Amy Carter |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | GYMNASTICS $400: In 1976 this perfect 10 Romanian had to remind the persistent press she was only 14 Nadia Comaneci |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | SNL PRESIDENTIAL PLAYERS $600: In 1976 Dan Aykroyd did his first televised impression of this presidential candidate Jimmy Carter |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POLITICAL MOVIES $200: 2 reporters unearth a political scandal that goes all the way to the top in this 1976 film based on a book All the President's Men |
| #4515, aired 2004-04-02 | "V"ARIETY $800: It landed on Mars on July 20, 1976 Viking |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | '70s MUSIC $600: When it charted in 1976, this song first called "Cotton's Dream" was subtitled "The Young And The Restless" "Nadia's Theme" |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | '70s MOVIE THEMES $800: "Evergreen" is the love theme from this 1976 movie A Star Is Born |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | THE YEAR IN SPORTS $400: Bruce Jenner & Ray Leonard were American Olympic champs in this red, white & blue year 1976 |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | PLEASE TAKE DIRECTION $600: Established in 1802, it was the first school of engineering in the U.S. & women weren't admitted until 1976 West Point |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | MBAs RULE! $1600: This PM of Israel, 1996 to 1999, earned his MBA from M.I.T. in 1976 (Benjamin) Netanyahu |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | NATIVE AMERICAN ART $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Sitka Cultural Center in Alaska) The white man is depicted here on a totem pole commissioned for this 1976 event the Bicentennial |
| #4487, aired 2004-02-24 | HAIRY $800: This female ice skater lent her name to a wedge haircut she made popular during the 1976 Winter Olympics Dorothy Hamill |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS $600: (I'm Chris Jenkins of the NFL.) In 1993 NFL owners picked this team, based in Charlotte, as the first expansion team since 1976 the Carolina Panthers |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | MUSICAL NUMBERS $1200: It's the 1976 No. 1 pop hit heard here "A Fifth of Beethoven" |
| #4467, aired 2004-01-27 | BJORN AGAIN $400: He won 5 straight Wimbledon titles from 1976 to 1980 Bjorn Borg |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | THE END $5,000 (Daily Double): All the money in the world couldn't save him from dying on a plane en route to a Houston hospital in 1976 Howard Hughes |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | ONLY 351 SHOPPING DAYS TO XMAS $1200: The name of this kids' store founded in 1976 recalls a term for a Boy Scout gathering Gymboree |
| #4435, aired 2003-12-12 | AMERICAN WOMAN $400: U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, she was once Hollywood's biggest star Shirley Temple Black |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | SPORTS $200: This city's Nuggets have never won an NBA title since joining the league in 1976 Denver |
| #4404, aired 2003-10-30 | TV DETECTIVES $400: 2/3 of this title team that debuted in 1976 were played by a former Wella Balsam model & a former Breck Girl Charlie's Angels |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $200: "Interview with the Vampire" (1976) Anne Rice |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | THIS YEAR'S HEADLINE! $1200: Olympic Games begin in Montreal! 1976 |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | DA BRONX $1200: Formed in the Bronx in 1976, one of the first rap crews was this man & the Furious Five Grandmaster Flash |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $1200: Tatum O'Neal is a girl pitching ace on a boys' Little League team in this 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | PART: CHARLES $400: Judge Charles Older was a character in 1976's "Helter Skelter", but this Charles was a bigger role Charles Manson |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | NOVELISTS $1600: This Californian's last work was 1976's "The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights" John Steinbeck |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1200: 1976:
"His whole life was a million-to-one shot" Rocky |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | THE '76ers $800: It made news in Nov. 1976 when it was announced that this 9-year-old girl would attend a D.C. public school Amy Carter |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | CHINA $400: From 1949 to his death in 1976, he was chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Tse-tung |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1600: 1976's award went to dancer Ailey; 1977's went to this rhyming author Alex Haley |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | IRISH STARS $1000: In 1976 he returned as John Morgan in "The Return of a Man Called Horse" Richard Harris |
| #4333, aired 2003-06-04 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $1600: 1976:
Sean Connery & Audrey Hepburn Robin and Marian |
| #4333, aired 2003-06-04 | THE 1970s $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1976 Elias Sarkis became president of this Mideast country, then often described as "war-torn" Lebanon |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | LET'S ROCK! $400: The frenzy accompanying this Scottish band's U.S. tour in 1976 was nicknamed "Rollermania" Bay City Rollers |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | THAT '70s NEWS $2000: It's the name of the probe that sent back the 1976 images seen here Viking |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | HEIST-ERIA $400: She made national news when she was convicted March 20, 1976 for a San Francisco bank robbery Patricia Hearst |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | CAR TUNES $1000: In 1976 Rose Royce did the dirty work & went to No. 1 "employed" here (Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa!) "Car Wash" |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | REGIONAL THEATRE $1200: Fittingly, this Neil Simon play was booked into the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. for its premiere in April 1976 California Suite |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | SCANDALS $800: In 1976 this country's Prince Bernhard quit several posts due to his unseemly relationship with the Lockheed Co. The Netherlands/Holland |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | MOVIE SONGS $400: "Gonna Fly Now"
(1976) Rocky |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | OH, WHAT A YEAR! $400: Founded in 1845, the Naval Academy at Annapolis first admitted women in this U.S. bicentennial year 1976 |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: In 1976 Manila replaced Quezon City as the official capital of this country Philippines |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: He was teaching at the University of Chicago when he won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics Milton Friedman |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | CHIPS $800: Erik Estrada's salary dispute on the TV show "CHiPs" led to the hiring of this 1976 Olympic decathlon champ Bruce Jenner |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: Vermont, which didn't approve a lottery until 1976, was where she wrote "The Lottery" in 1949 Shirley Jackson |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | AEROSMITH $400: In 1986 rappers Run-D.M.C. remade this 1976 Aerosmith song "Walk This Way" |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | BARBRA STREISAND $400: 1976 love theme title that completes the lyric "Love, ageless and..." evergreen |
| #4202, aired 2002-12-03 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $1600: In 1976 this 14-year-old Romanian gymnast earned 7 perfect scores of 10 Nadia Comăneci |
| #4201, aired 2002-12-02 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $800: 1976:
Edward Herrmann as this Depression-era chief of state FDR |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | CAN I HAVE A DATE? $2000: It's the year the Summer Olympics were held in part at Parc Olympique, now a baseball stadium 1976 (in Montreal) |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | '70s U.S. $2000: A national inoculation campaign was held in 1976 to prevent an epidemic of this that never materialized swine flu |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | THE LAST BOY SCOUT $400: This artist whose work is seen here illustrated the Boy Scout calendar from 1926-1976 Norman Rockwell |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | NUMB WITH NUMBERS $800: In a 1976 song, the number of crew members who perished in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 29 |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: 1976:
"In our family there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing" "A River Runs Through It" |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The Wicked Witch of the West's skywritten demand of the 1976 ladies' Olympic figure skating champion Surrender, Dorothy Hamill! |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: In 1976 Bob Dole was his running mate Gerald Ford |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | BEASTLY MOVIES $2000: 1976:
Burt Reynolds as an ex-con with a personal vendetta against corrupt politicians Gator |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | SONGS OF THE '70s $800: This instructional 1976 song was Paul Simon's first No. 1 hit as a solo artist "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | SONGS OF THE '70s $2000: This 1976 song says, "We could make a lot of lovin' before the sun goes down" "Afternoon Delight" |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | THE SPIRIT OF '76 $200: In 1976 you could reassemble the painting from 3 of these, on sale for 13 cents each stamps |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | BROADCAST NEWS $2000: 1976: Led by this man the separatist Parti Québécois sweeps to power René Lévesque |
| #4118, aired 2002-06-26 | BE VEWY, VEWY QUIET $600: A wheelchair-bound Paul Newman was quietly chased by Mel Brooks in this 1976 film Silent Movie |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This prolific British mystery writer's last published novel was 1976's "Sleeping Murder" Agatha Christie |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $1000: "Let Your Love Flow" was a chart topper for these brothers in 1976 the Bellamy Brothers |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | HAIL, HAIL, ROCK 'N' ROLL $600: Nicknamed "The Killer", he was arrested in 1976 for brandishing a gun outside the gates of Graceland Jerry Lee Lewis |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | HYPHENATED-AMERICANS $400: In 1976 Charlie's Original Angels were Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson & this then-hyphenated actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $800: "The Final Days" (1976) Richard Nixon |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | THE ME DECADE $200: On July 20, 1976 in Milwaukee, he hit his 755th & last home run Hank Aaron |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | THE ME DECADE $600: It was the year in which Haile Selassie was deposed, Baryshnikov defected & Ford became president 1974 |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | THE ME DECADE $1000: In 1976 he was teamed with Barbara Walters on the "ABC Evening News" Harry Reasoner |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | THEIR ONLY TOP 40 HIT $2000: "Afternoon Delight"
(1976) Starland Vocal Band |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | GOTTA RUN! $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is joggin) When I run around Central Park, I feel just like Dustin Hoffman in this thrilling 1976 film Marathon Man |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | SEPTEMBER SONGS $400: According to the title of a September 1976 Bee Gees hit, "You Should Be" doing this Dancing |
| #4028, aired 2002-02-20 | REUNITED $1,000 (Daily Double): This pair had a memorable reunion, orchestrated by Frank Sinatra, during the MDA Telethon in 1976 Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | KNOW YOUR CONGRESS $2000: In 1976 this future Speaker of the House was Illinois' High School Wrestling Coach of the Year Dennis Hastert |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | THE MIDDLE EAST $1000: In 1976 Syria began positioning thousands of troops in this smaller neighboring country Lebanon |
| #4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THAT '70s MOVIE $1200: In 1976 this film became the first to win all 5 top Oscars since "It Happened One Night" in 1934 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | AFRICA $400: This former child star served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976 Shirley Temple (Black) |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | MARY, TYLER OR MOORE $1200: Name repeated in the title of a 1976-77 comedy soap Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY $400: A millionaire by age 24, this oil tycoon was considered the world's richest man at his death in 1976 Getty |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | TAKE A GANDER AT UGANDA $2000: Over 100 hostages were freed by Israeli commandos from this Ugandan airport in 1976 Entebbe |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1976 he was the first incumbent president to take part in a campaign debate with a rival candidate Gerald Ford |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | JIM-BOREE $600: In 1976 he said, "I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times" Jimmy Carter |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | U.S. BUILDINGS $1200: Until 1976 the stairwell of this building housed the Liberty Bell Independence Hall |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | A DATE WITH DESTINY $1000: Eric the Red would be pleased that this U.S. spacecraft landed on the Red Planet July 20, 1976 Viking |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1976 for "Network" Faye Dunaway |
| #3964, aired 2001-11-22 | LITERA-SEA $500: In a 1976 Clive Cussler novel, Dirk Pitt wants to raise this ship to recover a store of byzanium, a rare element the Titanic |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | THAT WAS MY WIFE $200: Elizabeth Taylor
(1964-1974, 1975-1976) Richard Burton |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THAT '70s SHOW $300: "The Bionic Woman", launched in 1976, was developed from this series The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY, PAGE 1 $200: He hit his last home run in 1976 Hank Aaron |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | BIG SCREEN BOXERS $400: Sly Stallone,
1976 Rocky Balboa |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | MORE OF "DE" BEST PEOPLE $1000: Among the films he's produced are "Conan the Barbarian" & the 1976 version of "King Kong" Dino De Laurentiis |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | WHAT'S UP, TV DOC? $500: In 1976 "The Practice" was a medical sitcom with this "Make Room for Daddy" star Danny Thomas |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | U.S. CITY SONGS $200: In 1976 Billy Joel was in this city's "state of mind" New York |
| #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 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $200: By 1976 these anabolic aids were banned from use by Olympic competitors steroids |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVES $200: In the fall of 1976, this star of "Fletch" became one of the first cast members to leave the show Chevy Chase |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | FACES IN HISTORY $400: This environmentally-minded Arizona Democrat's strongest run for the presidency came in 1976 Morris Udall |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ORIGINS $200: This ancient Oriental instrument was put to good use in 1976 by Chuck Barris Gong |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: After losing the GOP nomination to Ford in 1976, he began his successful effort to snag the 1980 spot Ronald Reagan |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | PRISON SENTENCES $500: Played by Mark Harmon in a movie, this serial killer received 1-15 years at a 1976 trial & a death sentence in '79 Ted Bundy |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | HOLLYWOOD'S BIGGEST GROSSERS $200: 1976:
"A Star Is Born",
"All The President's Men",
"Rocky" Rocky |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | GENE WILDER $500: Gene's first movie pairing with Richard Pryor came in this 1976 comedy thriller about a murder plot on a train Silver Streak |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | 25 YEARS AGO - 1976 $200: The NBA agreed to absorb 4 teams from this league, but not the Utah Rockies or the Kentucky Colonels ABA (American Basketball Association) |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | 25 YEARS AGO - 1976 $400: CB radio popularized this term for the highway patrol, derived from a renowned bear Smokey |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | 25 YEARS AGO - 1976 $500 (Daily Double): In the bicentennial year, a National Gallery of Art show honored the sesquicentennial of the death of this statesman Thomas Jefferson |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | 25 YEARS AGO - 1976 $600: This pair's book "The Final Days", on the end of Nixon's presidency, was a 1976 bestseller Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | 25 YEARS AGO - 1976 $800: This former Brandeis political theory student gained fame playing Mary Hartman Louise Lasser |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: In 1976 Marcel Marceau had the only spoken line in this otherwise silent movie Silent Movie |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $200: In April 1976 the Times said this billionaire died "as mysteriously as he had lived" Howard Hughes |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | ROCK & ROLL JEOPARDY! $100: The 1976 concert film "The Song Remains the Same" starred this "Stairway to Heaven" group Led Zeppelin |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | '70s SITCOMS $800: He starred as ballplayer Jim Barton in "Ball Four", the short-lived 1976 sitcom he created Jim Bouton |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | WALTER MATTHAU $200: Walter Matthau coached a ragtag Little League team with a girl pitcher in this 1976 film The Bad News Bears |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | 50 CENTS $800 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 years on the front of the 50-cent coin that displayed Independence Hall on the reverse 1976 (or 1776) |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | GEOGRAPH"IA" $200: In 1976 Nadia Comaneci scored perfect 10s & Olympic gold for this country Romania |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: Almost defeating President Ford in the 1976 GOP primary, he won the nomination & the presidency 4 years later Ronald Reagan |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: It's the year America celebrated its bicentennial 1976 |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | CLASSIC TV EPISODES $300: 1976:
"Angels in Chains" Charlie's Angels |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILMS OF THE '70s $800: (Hi, I'm Melody Thomas Scott from The Young and the Restless. The answer is:) In 1976 I appeared in John Wayne's final film, this Western in which he played a dying gunslinger The Shootist |
| #3742, aired 2000-12-05 | A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER $200: Patricia Harris, the first black woman in the cabinet, was named secretary of this "urban" department in December 1976 HUD (Housing and Urban Development) |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | CORPORATE AMERICA $500: According to the World Almanac, U.S. enrollment in these medical "organizations" grew tenfold from 1976 to 1998 HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations) |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | SPORTS LEGENDS $400: In 1976 this track star who won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Jesse Owens |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | SONGS BY THE NUMBER $400: A No. 1 hit in March, 1976, this "dated" song by the Four Seasons is subtitled "Oh, What A Night" "December, 1963" |
| #3717, aired 2000-10-31 | BUBBLES $600 (Daily Double): John Travolta played Tod Lubitch, a teen with no immunities, in this 1976 TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | RUNNING MATES $200: Ford gave him the nod in 1976 Bob Dole |
| #3710, aired 2000-10-20 | HEY, MIKEY! $800: He & his brother Leon both won Olympic boxing gold in 1976 Michael Spinks |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | MOSES $500: In 1976 & 1984 he won Olympic gold in the 400-meter hurdles Edwin Moses |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | A FILM ON YOUR TEETH $400: In this 1976 drama, Laurence Olivier checks out Dustin Hoffman's dental work Marathon Man |
| #3695, aired 2000-09-29 | DEAD LINES $1000: 1976:
"The pay phones he installed for guests at Sutton Place were legendary" Jean Paul Getty |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | VICE PRESIDENTS $500: In 1976 Bob Dole & this running mate of Jimmy Carter met in the first televised vice-presidential debate Walter Mondale |
| #3687, aired 2000-09-19 | OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS $300: 1964, 1968 & 1976:
Men's Basketball USA |
| #3687, aired 2000-09-19 | CABINET SECRETARIES $600: In 1976 this agriculture secretary lost his job after making crude remarks to John Dean & Pat Boone Earl Butz |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | CINEMATIC TITLE PAIRS $500: 1976:
"...and the Dirtwater Fox" The Duchess |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | CAR TREK $100: Of its own accord, in 1976 this motorcycle manufacturer introduced the Accord to the U.S. Honda |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | LET'S TAKE A LITTLE TRIP $100: In 1995 one of these craft that began passenger service in 1976 flew around the world in less than 32 hours Concorde |
| #3663, aired 2000-07-05 | 20TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1976 this former president was disbarred in New York State Richard Nixon |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | THAT'S HISTORY $300: In 1976 Spain ceded Spanish Sahara to Mauritania & this country Morocco |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | THE SOPRANOS $1000: In 1976 Gwyneth Jones sang Brunhilde in the centenary performances of this Richard Wagner tetralogy The "Ring" Cycle |
| #3651, aired 2000-06-19 | ALSO AT THE 2000 GRAMMYS $1000: Richard Burton won a Grammy in 1976; this man, no relation, won in 2000 for reading the words of Martin Luther King LeVar Burton |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | MOVIE QUOTES $1000: 1976:
"Follow the money" All the President's Men |
| #3640, aired 2000-06-02 | '70s LIT $1000: As this Gore Vidal novel came out in 1976, it has to wait until 2076 to celebrate its centennial 1876 |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | ANTHOLOGIES $400: This 1999 film was based on a short story by Isaac Asimov originally written for a--hint!--1976 anthology Bicentennial Man |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: This poet called her 1976 memoir "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas" Maya Angelou |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | TOUGH HISTORY $100: On September 9, 1976 this Communist chairman died Mao Tse-tung |
| #3609, aired 2000-04-20 | NAMED FOR THE STAR $400: Led Zeppelin appeared on U.S. TV in 1976 on this impresario's "Rock Concert" Don Kirshner |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | ROCK ALL OVER $1000: With Gwen Dickey's vocals, Rose Royce "cleaned up" with this No. 1 hit song in 1976 "Car Wash" |
| #3605, aired 2000-04-14 | CLASSIC ALBUM ART $800: The album art of Paul Anka's 1976 "The Painter" was by this pop artist who also did the Stones' "Sticky Fingers" Andy Warhol |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $500: She debuted as Sister Pia in the 1976 film "A Matter of Time", which starred her mother, Ingrid Bergman Isabella Rossellini |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | THE OLYMPICS OF 1980 $300 (Daily Double): This woman who had been perfect in 1976 fell off the uneven parallel bars in 1980 Nadia Comaneci |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | BOOKS OF 1970 $400: This 1970 Irwin Shaw book became a TV miniseries in 1976 Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY $500 (Daily Double): Paddy Chayefsky
(1976) Network |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | AMERICAN DIPLOMATS $200: In 1976 Robert P. Smith replaced her as ambassador to Ghana Shirley Temple Black |
| #3584, aired 2000-03-16 | "E"OGRAPHY $400: The site of a famous 1976 rescue, this city was the capital of Uganda from 1893 to 1962 Entebbe |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | ROCK & ROLL $1000: It's "More Than A Feeling" that this group's 1976 debut album was one of the biggest sellers in rock history Boston |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | FOOD ON FILM $100: The title character chugs raw eggs & punches slabs of beef in this 1976 Oscar winner Rocky |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: This country was officially reunified July 2, 1976, 2 days before the U.S. Bicentennial Vietnam |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In 1976 soccer's Diego Maradona joined this country's national team when he was only 16 years old Argentina |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | THE CANDIDATE $200: In 1976 this candidate's down-home mother "Miss Lillian" became a celebrity in her own right Jimmy Carter |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | KOREA $200: In 1976 this company produced the Pony, the first Korean car Hyundai |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $200: In 1976 Dustin Hoffman played Bernstein & this actor played Woodward Robert Redford |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | FILMS OF THE '70s $600: (Hi, I'm Stephen Collins of "7th Heaven") I began my film career playing Hugh Sloan, Richard Nixon's campaign treasurer, in this 1976 classic All The President's Men |
| #3512, aired 1999-12-07 | THAT SINKING FEELING $600: A 1976 Gordon Lightfoot song told the true story of the sinking of this ore vessel in Lake Superior Edmund Fitzgerald |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | MOVIE QUOTES $300: 1976:
"Is it safe?" Marathon Man |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | JOHNNY GILBERT ROCKS! $500: The title track of a 1976 album, this song topped the charts in 1977:
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" "Hotel California" |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $100: 1976-1985:
"Family Feud" Richard Dawson |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | GRAND HOTEL $1000: Legionnaires' Disease was identified after a 1976 outbreak at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in this city Philadelphia |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | PEOPLE $600: In 1976, at the ripe old age of 25, this future "Dateline" anchor succeeded Barbara Walters on "Today" Jane Pauley |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS $400: "Gonna Fly Now"
(1976) Rocky |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $100: 1976:
"Yo, Adrian" Rocky |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | JIMMY $200: He's won the U.S Open on 3 surfaces: grass (1974), clay (1976) & hard courts (1978, 1982, 1983) JImmy Connors |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTERS $600: 1976:
Ohio senator John Glenn |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | CHINESE LEADERS $200: Party chairman from 1949-1976 Mao Tse-tung |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $600: This heiress was tried for robbery in 1976 & got 7 years, but President Carter commuted her sentence Patricia Hearst |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $300: In 1976 an elector from the state of Washington cast a lone vote for this man; 4 years later he received 489 votes Ronald Reagan |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | BESTSELLERS $400: Leon Uris had a 1976 bestseller with "Trinity", a novel of this country Ireland |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | MAFIA FAMILY TIES $600: Powerful family leader Carlo Gambino was born on this island in 1902 & died on Long Island in 1976 Sicily |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $800: (Hi, I'm Kristi Yamaguchi) In 1992 I became the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating since this woman in 1976 Dorothy Hamill |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | "BLUE" $500: This hard rock group had a 1976 hit with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" Blue Öyster Cult |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | WEALTHY $300: Considered the world's wealthiest man when he died in 1976, this oil man's family is now buying Irish passports Jean Paul Getty |
| #3390, aired 1999-05-07 | THE LAST CATEGORY $800: This "Home Run King" played in his 3,298th & last game for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976 Hank Aaron |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | HISTORIC CHICAGO $200: A graduate of Chicago's De Paul University, he was mayor from 1955 to 1976 Richard J. Daley |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | CANDY LAND $1000: This brand debuted in 1976 in 8 different flavors including very cherry, cream soda, green apple & root beer Jelly Belly jelly beans |
| #3381, aired 1999-04-26 | NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE $400: In 1976 Soweto, near Johnannesburg, was the site of protests against the forced use of this language Afrikaans |
| #3372, aired 1999-04-13 | U.S. U.N. REPS $400: He went from the U.N. in 1976 to the U.S. Senate representing New York in 1977 Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS $400: 1976 Jimmy Carter |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | MIA FARROW $200: In a 1976 TV special Mia played this role to Danny Kaye's Hook Peter Pan |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | OLYMPIC MASCOTS $200: The 1976 Winter Games' mascot was Olympiamandl, one of these frosty guys Snowman |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | HEADS OF STATE $400: In 1976 this current president of France founded the Rally for the Republic Party Jacques Chirac |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On April 1, 1976 2 engineers with $1,300 in capital began this computer company in Cupertino, California Apple |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | TECHNOLOGY $800: Introduced in 1976, this "regal" brand of tennis racket with an oversized head revolutionized the game Prince |
| #3326, aired 1999-02-08 | GYM DANDY $600: She's the legendary gymnast famous for using "The Young and the Restless" theme song in 1976 Nadia Comăneci |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | SPORTS $2,000 (Daily Double): At Wimbledon in 1976, John Feaver set a record with 42 of these against John Newcombe but lost Aces |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300: Hua Guofeng is far less famous than this man he succeeded as chairman of China's Communist party in 1976 Mao Tse-tung |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | ARROWS $400: From 1976 to 1979, this automaker launched "Arrows" Plymouth |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | DOUBLE TALK NAMES $600: 1976's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was a No. 1 duet by Elton John & this woman Kiki Dee |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $400: 1976:
"You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?..." Taxi Driver |
| #3309, aired 1999-01-14 | GENETICS $200: Genentech, founded in 1976 with no products, genetically engineered this hormone for diabetics in 1978 Insulin |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $200: In a 1976 Playboy interview, Jimmy Carter said he'd committed this in his heart many times adultery |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | THEATRE $1000: Jules Feiffer & John Lennon contributed to this "clothing optional" revue on Broadway from 1976-1989 Oh! Calcutta! |
| #3292, aired 1998-12-22 | '70s TV $400: This brother & sister's variety show ran from 1976 to 1979; their talk show debuted in 1998 Donny & Marie Osmond |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | FORGOTTEN MUSICALS $600: In 1976 he starred in "Home Sweet Homer", a musical based on "The Odyssey"; he should have stayed in Siam Yul Brynner |
| #3286, aired 1998-12-14 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In March 1976 a Bay Area jury convicted this kidnapped heiress of bank robbery Patricia Hearst |
| #3273, aired 1998-11-25 | CELTICS $600: This Celtic horse goddess shares her name with a 1976 Fleetwood Mac hit Rhiannon |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | REUNIONS $800: Frank Sinatra brokered the reconciliation of these 2 on the 1976 Muscular Dystrophy Telethon Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | TRUTH OR DARE $500: Give me all your money, or name this aviation billionaire who died a recluse in 1976 Howard Hughes |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | FEELING POSSESSIVE $400: Jason Robards played editor Ben Bradlee in this 1976 film All the President's Men |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | '76 $100: In 1976 a separatist party led by Rene Levesque came to power in this Canadian province Quebec |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | AUTHORS $200: "Sleeping Murder", her last Miss Jane Marple novel, was published posthumously in 1976 Agatha Christie |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | '76 $200: In 1976 he appeared in "Car Wash" & "Silver Streak" & won a comedy album Grammy Richard Pryor |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | STEPHEN KING $200: This book, King's first published novel, hit the big screen starring Sissy Spacek in 1976 Carrie |
| #3232, aired 1998-09-29 | CBS TV AT 50 $1,000 (Daily Double): This CBS show was No. 1 in the primetime ratings for each season from 1972 to 1976 All in the Family |
| #3226, aired 1998-09-21 | BRIAN DE PALMA FILMS $200: 1976 classic about an unpopular but telekinetic teen girl "Carrie" |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | NAME THE YEAR $400: The woman seen here first won Olympic gold & our hearts in this year the photo was taken 1976 |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $100: His 1976 campaign plane was called Peanut One Jimmy Carter |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $100: In 1976 this service school in Annapolis admitted its first women the U.S. Naval Academy |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | SPORTS HEADLINES $1000: July 30, 1976: This American "Wins Decathlon" Bruce Jenner |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | SONGS $1000: In a 1976 Grammy-nominated song, Bobby Bare asked Jesus to "Dropkick Me" through these "The Goalposts of Life" |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | STAR WARS $500: In 1976 Carol Burnett sued this tabloid for libel; she won in 1981 The [National] Enquirer |
| #3140, aired 1998-04-03 | THEY COVERED THE BEATLES $1000: Written in 1966, this song was a Top 10 hit from the Beatles in 1976 & for Earth, Wind & Fire in 1978 "Got To Get You Into My Life" |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | THE 1970s $500: A deadly disease was identified after an outbreak at this group's 1976 convention in Philadelphia the American Legion |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $600: In 1976 David Birney of "Bridget Loves Bernie" played the 6th president in the PBS chronicles of this family Adams |
| #3097, aired 1998-02-03 | DEATH IN POP $800: In 1976 Blue Oyster Cult advised us, "Don't Fear" him the reaper |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | THE SUMMER OLYMPICS $100: 1 of 2 Spinks brothers to win boxing gold medals at the 1976 games Leon or Michael |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | THE SUMMER OLYMPICS $400 (Daily Double): In 1976 Hungary's Miklos Nemeth threw this farther than any field apparatus in Olympic history -- 310' 4" Javelin |
| #3082, aired 1998-01-13 | DIRECTING THEIR WIVES $400: Mel Brooks cast Anne Bancroft in this 1976 comedy but didn't give her a single line of spoken dialogue Silent Movie |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Date on which the U.S. celebrated its bicentennial July 4, 1976 |
| #3059, aired 1997-12-11 | ACTRESSES $600: Current biography says her "Film career began & nearly ended, with the 1976 remake of 'King Kong'" Jessica Lange |
| #3046, aired 1997-11-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: In 1976 this founder of the Opera Company of Boston became the first woman to conduct at the Met Sarah Caldwell |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | READ ANY GOOD BOOKS? $200: Alex Haley described this 1976 work as "faction": part fact, part fiction "Roots" |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | POWER PLAYS $800: A famous D.C. address, it was the title of a 1976 musical; Lerner felt low when it flopped 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | FAMOUS HALLS $400: As head of the National Theatre, Peter Hall oversaw its 1976 move out of this "old" home the Old Vic |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $300: In 1975 & 1976 this current U.S. senator from New York served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | PLAY SOME MUSIC $400: Wild Cherry's No. 1 request to "White Boy" in September 1976 "Play That Funky Music" |
| #3006, aired 1997-09-29 | INTERNATIONAL FILM STARS $400: He played Robin in 1976's "Robin And Marian" & King Richard in 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves" Sean Connery |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | 1966 $200: The U.S. Treasury discontinued this currency, though it made a comeback in 1976 the $2 bill |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | ONE-HIT WONDERS $400: Breaker, breaker, good buddy! This song by C.W. McCall topped the charts in 1976 "Convoy" |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer & Nobel Prizes in 1976 Saul Bellow |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | NAME THAT MUPPET $200: "The Muppet Show" debuted in 1976 with this Muppet as host Kermit the Frog |
| #2988, aired 1997-09-03 | POP ALBUMS $200: This guitarist came "Alive!" to millions of new fans in a 1976 No. 1 album Peter Frampton |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | FILMS OF THE '70s $800: In this 1976 thriller Laurence Olivier displayed his dental skills while asking Dustin Hoffman, "Is it safe?" Marathon Man |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | MONARCHS $200: In 1976 he became the first reigning king of Spain to visit the Americas Juan Carlos |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | MOVIE DEBUTS $800: Amy Irving & Betty Buckley debuted in this 1976 Brian De Palma film about horror at a high school prom Carrie |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | SPORTS $300: In 1976 a yacht named "Midnight at the Oasis" set a speed record of 88.4 mph on this surface land (a dry lake bed) |
| #2916, aired 1997-04-14 | GENEALOGY $300: This 1976 bestseller sparked interest in the subject, especially by African Americans Roots |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | TELEVISION $100: The top show of 1976-77 was "Happy Days"; the following season it was this "Happy Days" spin-off Laverne & Shirley |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | U.S. HISTORY $300: On December 6, 1976 this congressman was chosen to replace Carl Albert as Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | SON OF SIMIAN CINEMA $100: In 1976 this title character went "ape" for Jessica Lange in her first film King Kong |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | STADIUMS & ARENAS $200: A game was rained out at this enclosed Houston ballpark in 1976 because 10" of rain flooded the nearby area The Astrodome |
| #2885, aired 1997-02-28 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1000: She was the 1st woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar, for 1976's "Seven Beauties" Lina Wertmuller |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | SPORTS $200: On May 30, 1976 Johnny Rutherford won this rain-shortened auto race after driving only 255 miles The Indianapolis 500 |
| #2830, aired 1996-12-13 | BARBARA WALTERS' 20 YEARS $100: In 1976, in her first ABC special, Barbara interviewed the Carters & this superstar Barbra Barbra Streisand |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | 1996 OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS $400: He's the first American athlete to win the decathlon since Bruce Jenner in 1976 Dan O'Brien |
| #2822, aired 1996-12-03 | DANCE $400: In 1976 Ludmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov won the first Olympic gold medal in this event ice dancing |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | ALPHABET SOUP $400: The cities that hosted the summer Olympics in 1968, 1972, 1976 & 1980 all begin with this letter M |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | AWARDS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1976, this Connecticut governor was named "Woman of the Year" by Ladies' Home Journal Ella Grasso |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | POSTAGE STAMPS $400: This female gymnast was featured on a 1976 stamp celebrating Romania's Olympic medalists Nadia Comaneci |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | CURRENT KINGS $400: In 1976 Carl XVI Gustaf of this country married Sylvia Sommerlath, a West German commoner Sweden |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: The last film he directed was "A Matter of Time" in 1976; it starred his daughter Liza Vincente Minnelli |
| #2787, aired 1996-10-15 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $1000: In 1976 Elton team up with Kiki Dee for this No. 1 hit "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $400: Now cohost of "20/20", in 1976 she became the 1st woman to co-anchor the network evening news Barbara Walters |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $400: Occupation suffering the USA's highest homicide rate or title of the 1976 winner starring Robert De Niro Taxi Driver |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | BOB DOLE $600: Ronald Reagan's support helped get Dole the No. 2 slot on this man's 1976 ticket Gerald Ford |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | POP CULTURE $400: In 1976 this American became the first woman tennis player to reach $1 million in career prize money Chris Evert |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $200: George Bush served as director of this spy organization in 1976 & 1977 the CIA |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | TV NEWS NAMES $800: Her "Dateline" shows she started on the "TODAY" show in 1976, 5 yrs. after she graduated from college Jane Pauley |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | THE MOVIES $100: In a 1976 remake this title beast plummets to his death from atop the World Trade Center King Kong |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $200: In 1976 Romania named this gymnast a hero of socialist labor Nadia Comăneci |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | BOYS TOWN $100: In 1976 this Calcutta woman was awarded the Father Flanagan Award for service to youth Mother Teresa |
| #2723, aired 1996-06-05 | 1970s TELEVISION $1,000 (Daily Double): Crime series that debuted in 1976 & featured the theme heard here: Charlie's Angels |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | A IS FOR... $200: Aaron, who began his career with the Milwaukee Braves in 1954 & ended it with this Milwaukee team in 1976 the Brewers |
| #2703, aired 1996-05-08 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1976 this Libyan leader put forth his principles of Arab nationalism in "The Green Book" Qadhafi |
| #2701, aired 1996-05-06 | HISTORY $800: Between 1976 & 1989, this country's official name was Kampuchea Cambodia |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: In 1976 this sitting president sent condolences to China on the death of Mao Tse-Tung Ford |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | THE MOVIES $200: Clint Eastwood played this "Outlaw" in a 1976 film based on the novel "Gone to Texas" Josey Wales |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | "DAY" SONGS $200: The Crickets in 1957 & Linda Ronstadt in 1976 had a hit with it "That'll Be The Day" |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | APRIL FOOLS' DAY $200: The "core" of this computer company goes back to its founding, April 1, 1976 Apple Computer |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | MOVIE DEBUTS $500: She played a nurse in the 1976 film "A Matter of Time", which starred her mother, Ingrid Bergman Isabella Rossellini |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $200: In the 1976 Olympics, this Romanian received a perfect 10 on the uneven bars Nadia Comaneci |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1000: In 1976 these 2 Steves founded Apple Computer, Inc. Jobs & Wozniak |
| #2640, aired 1996-02-09 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $400: In 1976 this former child star became the 1st woman named Chief of Protocol for a U.S. president Shirley Temple Black |
| #2633, aired 1996-01-31 | POTPOURRI $1000: In 1976 the U.S. Mint issued a medal commemorating his flight through the sound barrier Chuck Yeager |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $500: This was Jose Lopez Portillo's 1st elective office; he was sworn in in 1976 President of Mexico |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THEATRE $200: The quarrelsome acting couple in his 1976 comedy "California Suite" reappears in his 1995 play "London Suite" Neil Simon |
| #2600, aired 1995-12-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In July 1976 this mystery ailment killed 29 people at a Philadelphia convention Legionnaires' disease |
| #2595, aired 1995-12-08 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: On July 15, 1976 Jimmy Carter selected this Senator as his Vice Presidential running mate (Walter) Mondale |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $400: This artist died in 1976, a year before the mobile he designed was hung from the gallery's roof (Alexander) Calder |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | THE 1970s $200: In 1976 Chinese premier Zhou Enlai died in January & this Chinese chairman died in September Mao |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | POLITICIANS $400: In 1976 he was elected Attorney General of Arkansas Bill Clinton |
| #2587, aired 1995-11-28 | 1970s BESTSELLERS $200: His 1976 book "Trinity" didn't make a quick exodus from the charts Leon Uris |
| #2575, aired 1995-11-10 | HISTORY $1000: On July 4, 1976 Jose Lopez Portillo was elected president of this country by a landslide vote Mexico |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | HISTORY $200: In 1976 this South American country nationalized 21 of its oil companies Venezuela |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | AWARDS $800: This Chinese-American was awarded the 1976 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture I.M. Pei |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | ECONOMICS $1000: Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago 1948-1982, he won a 1976 Nobel Prize Milton Friedman |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | WORLD CITIES $400: When Vietnam was reunified in 1976, Saigon was renamed this Ho Chi Minh City |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $400: Much of Stephen Sondheim's 1976 musical "Pacific Overtures" was modeled on this form of Japanese theatre kabuki |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | WORLD CITIES $400: After 22 years of separation, North & South Vietnam were reunited in 1976 with this city as the capital Hanoi |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | THE EMMYS $300: When accepting his Emmy for "Saturday Night Live" in 1976, he took one of his trademark pratfalls Chevy Chase |
| #2521, aired 1995-07-17 | ODDS & ENDS $600: The wedge made famous by Dorothy Hamill in 1976 was a type of this a haircut |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $800: In 1976 he was the candidate of the Social Democrats as well as the Democrats Jimmy Carter |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS $1000: Harvard gave this author of "The Tin Drum" an honorary degree in 1976 Gunter Grass |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $500: In 1976 Nadia Comaneci scored the 1st perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics in this city Montreal |
| #2480, aired 1995-05-19 | FAMOUS PEOPLE $300: In 1976 this reaper inventor was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame McCormick |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | THE OLYMPICS $300: This American won his first diving medal at the 1976 games when he was only 16 Greg Louganis |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: This author of "Herzog" was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature Saul Bellow |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | TELEVISION $100: Aired Nov. 7 & 8, 1976, this 1939 film is TV's highest-rated movie Gone With the Wind |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | FIRST LADIES $400: In 1976, she campaigned for son-in-law Charles Robb, who was running for Lt. Gov. of Virginia Lady Bird Johnson |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | MONARCHS $800: In 1976 this country's Carl XVI Gustaf married Silvia Sommerlath, a German Sweden |
| #2433, aired 1995-03-15 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $100: In 1976 this future president directed Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign in Arkansas Bill Clinton |
| #2421, aired 1995-02-27 | FILMS OF THE '70s $400: David Carradine starred in "Bound for Glory", a 1976 biography of this folk singer Woody Guthrie |
| #2413, aired 1995-02-15 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In 1976 this future Texas governor was elected a Travis County commissioner Ann Richards |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | THE SUPREME COURT $200: Between 1973 & 1976, she argued 6 women's rights cases before the court & won 5 (Ruth) Ginsburg |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | 1970s TELEVISION $400: An interview with Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter was featured on her first ABC special Dec. 14, 1976 Barbara Walters |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | THE EMMYS $400: In 1976 he won his only Emmy for hosting "Password" Allen Ludden |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | U.S. U.N. AMBASSADORS $800: He served as U.N. ambassador in 1975 & 1976; since 1977 he's been a New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $400: In 1975 & 1976 this Ugandan leader was chairman of the Organization of African Unity Idi Amin |
| #2389, aired 1995-01-12 | ROCK $400: In 1976 Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. sang, "You don't have to be" this "to be in my show" a star |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | CIVIL WARS $800: Syria's June 1976 intervention in this Mideast country's civil war was endorsed in October by the Arab League Lebanon |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | THE GRAMMYS $500: "This Masquerade" from this jazz guitarist's "Breezin'" LP was the 1976 Record of the Year (George) Benson |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | FAMOUS AVIATORS $400: This Spruce Goose pilot died during a flight from Mexico to Texas April 5, 1976 Howard Hughes |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | POLITICAL QUOTATIONS $800: In 1976 this vice president identified 3 periods in life: youth, middle age & how well you look Nelson Rockefeller |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS $800: Von Humboldt Fleischer is the title character of this 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Humboldt's Gift" |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This heiress was convicted March 20, 1976 for a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery Patty Hearst |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | MONEY $1,000 (Daily Double): During the 1976 Bicentennial, this bill with Thomas Jefferson's portrait was reissued the 2 dollar bill |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | PHILADELPHIA $100: In early 1976 this was removed from Independence Hall & moved across the street the Liberty Bell |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | SPORTS $400: This Swede won the men's singles title at Wimbledon 5 years in a row, 1976-1980 Bjorn Borg |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | U.S. CURRENCY $400: Prior to 1976, this presidential estate was featured on the back of the 2-dollar bill Monticello |
| #2315, aired 1994-09-30 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1976 this country gave Transkei its independence but other countries did not recognize it South Africa |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | STEPHEN KING FILMS $200: Among the actors playing teenagers in this 1976 King classic were Amy Irving & Sissy Spacek Carrie |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | THE CINEMA $400: In the 1976 film "Two-Minute Warning", this creator of "Jeopardy!" sang the national anthem Merv Griffin |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | COINS $500: Before adopting the pula as its unit of currency in 1976, Botswana used this country's rand South Africa |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | ASSASSINATIONS $300: Orlando Letelier, foreign minister of this country under Allende, was killed in Washington, D.C. in 1976 Chile |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | 1976 $200: This Californian lost the GOP presidential nomination to Ford by 117 delegate votes Reagan |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | 1976 $400: The North & South parts of this nation were officially reunited July 2, after 22 years of separation Vietnam |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | 1976 $600: In July commandos from this country rescued 103 hostages at Uganda's Entebbe Airport Israel |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | 1976 $800: On May 31 he signed a decree transferring the Philippine capital from Quezon City to Manila (Ferdinand) Marcos |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | 1976 $1000: Hundreds were killed in racial violence that began in this Black Township near Johannesburg Soweto |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | FAMOUS NAMES $400 (Daily Double): He was teaching at the University of Chicago when he was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics (Milton) Friedman |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $600: 13 Americans were among the 1st group of women awarded this scholarship to Oxford in 1976 the Rhodes Scholarships |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | AWARDS $200: Established in 1976, the Rocky Marciano Award honors outstanding achievement in this sport boxing |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | OBSERVATORIES $800: Until 1976 the Hale Telescope on this California mountain was the world's largest reflector at 200 inches Mount Palomar |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | FAMOUS PAIRS $300: They were first paired in 1976 for a local Chicago TV show, "Opening Soon at a Theatre Near You" Siskel & Ebert |
| #2209, aired 1994-03-24 | JAZZ $400: In 1976 the Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prize awarded this ragtime pianist a special citation Scott Joplin |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | PEOPLE $300: In 1976 Ludmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov won the 1st Olympic gold medals in this skating event ice dancing |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | THE 1970s $200: In 1976 this car company reduced the price of its Gremlin 7.8% to $2,995 AMC (American Motors Corporation) |
| #2197, aired 1994-03-08 | SPORTS $300: On Sept. 29, 1976 he was named to replace Walter Alston as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Tommy) Lasorda |
| #2176, aired 1994-02-07 | SONGS OF THE '70s $600: "Gonna Be Alright" is the subtitle of this 1976 Rod Stewart chart topper "Tonight's The Night" |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | THE 1970s $300: In May 1976 Clarence Kelley apologized for its "clearly wrong and quite indefensible" activities FBI |
| #2168, aired 1994-01-26 | SPY FICTION $800: It completes the title of a 1976 Len Deighton novel, "Twinkle, Twinkle,..." Little Spy |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | MODERN HISTORY $100: The Cultural Revolution launched by this Chinese leader didn't officially end until 1976 Mao Tse-tung |
| #2161, aired 1994-01-17 | THEATRE $600: This Michael Bennett musical received the 1976 Pulitzer Prize in Drama A Chorus Line |
| #2158, aired 1994-01-12 | U.S. COINS $300: There are no quarters dated 1975 & the 1976 quarters also have this year on them 1776 |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: In 1976 the home of this late U.N. diplomat was designated a national historic landmark Dr. Ralph Bunche |
| #2148, aired 1993-12-29 | LAKES & RIVERS $500: When completed in 1976, the Tarbela Dam on this Pakistani river was the world's largest earth-fill dam the Indus River |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | MUSIC MEN $400: In 1976 Leonard Bernstein took this orchestra on a bicentennial tour of Europe the New York Philharmonic |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | MUSIC MEN $1000: In 1976 a Spanish postage stamp commemorated what would have been this cellist's 100th birthday Pablo Casals |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | AWARDS $200: Long hailed as "Mr. Pops", he was honored with the American Symphony Orchestra League's 1976 Gold Baton award Arthur Fiedler |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | BLACK AMERICA $600: This Texas congresswoman gave the keynote address at the 1976 Democratic National Convention Barbara Jordan |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: It's the date on which America celebrated its bicentennial July 4, 1976 |
| #2109, aired 1993-11-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: In 1976 Nigeria announced plans to move the capital from this city to Abuja Lagos |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | THE 20th CENTURY $1,200 (Daily Double): Gus Hall was the presidential nominee of this U.S. party in 1972, 1976, 1980 & 1984 the Communist Party |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | CANADIAN CITIES $400: Left over from the 1976 Olympics, this city's velodrome is now an environmental museum Montreal |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | FRENCH FILM REMAKES $800: The Ted Danson film "Cousins" was based on this 1976 French hit Cousin cousine |
| #2080, aired 1993-09-24 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Once a private estate, it became capital of the Philippines in 1948 but was replaced by Manila in 1976 Quezon City |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | THE OLYMPICS $800: Named for a singer & nicknamed for another boxer, he won the 1976 light welterweight gold Sugar Ray Leonard |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $100: In 1976 he became the first Deep Southerner elected president since before the Civil War Jimmy Carter |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | OCTOGENARIANS $200: At 81 he conducted the Boston Pops in a July 4, 1976 concert in honor of the Bicentennial Arthur Fiedler |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | SPORTS $300: From 1976 to 1980, this Swede won 5 straight Wimbledon men's singles championships Björn Borg |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | AWARDS $400: In 1976 this former Atlanta Braves slugger received the NAACP's Spingarn Medal Hank Aaron |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | EUROPEAN TRAVEL $800 (Daily Double): An Olympic museum in this Austrian city features videotapes of the 1964 & 1976 Winter Games Innsbruck |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | BALLET $400: This dancer choreographed a new version of "The Nutcracker" in 1976, a "Turning Point" in his career Baryshnikov |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | AWARDS $200: Sylvester Stallone received "Best Actor" & "Best Original Screenplay" Oscar nominations for this 1976 film Rocky |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | THE ITALIAN CINEMA $800: The 1976 film "Seven Beauties" is considered this female director's masterpiece Lina Wertmuller |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | WRITERS $1,200 (Daily Double): This erudite conservative's first Blackford Oakes novel was the 1976 spy thriller "Saving the Queen" William F. Buckley, Jr. |
| #2021, aired 1993-05-24 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: At a 1976 convention in Philadelphia, 29 members of this group were felled by a flu-like disease Legionnaires |
| #2013, aired 1993-05-12 | FINALS $400: On July 20, 1976 this Milwaukee Brewer hit the final home run of his career, bringing the total to 755 Hank Aaron |
| #2013, aired 1993-05-12 | WAYNE'S WORLD $500: The soundtrack brought this 1976 Queen hit back to the charts "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #1995, aired 1993-04-16 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: This tycoon bought the New York Post from publisher Dorothy Schiff in 1976 Rupert Murdoch |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | THE 20th CENTURY $300: On July 3, 1976 Israeli commandos "raided" this Ugandan airport Entebbe |
| #1986, aired 1993-04-05 | "BI" WORDS $100: America celebrated it in 1976 a bicentennial |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $300: Harry Greenberg in "Bugsy", at the 1976 Oscars I gave the NCAA final score while presenting Elliott Gould |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | 1976 $100: This 34-year old fighter defended his heavyweight title against Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium Muhammad Ali |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | 1976 $200: In January Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life for attempting to kill this president Gerald Ford |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | 1976 $300: He was elected to his second term as Egypt's president with 99.9% of the vote Anwar Sadat |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | 1976 $400: Viking 1 showed surprisingly high levels of chemical activity in this planet's soil Mars |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | 1976 $500: This movie director of "M" & "Metropolis" died on August 2 at age 85 Fritz Lang |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | THE PLANETS $400: In 1976 the Viking I lander found that this planet had an atmosphere of 95% carbon dioxide Mars |
| #1969, aired 1993-03-11 | BALLET $1000: In 1976 Marcia Haydee became director of this German troupe where she'd been a dancer since the '60s the Stuttgart Ballet |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $600: With $1300, Stephen Wozniak & this partner formed the Apple Computer Company in 1976 Steve Jobs |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: John Chancellor reportedly turned down the role in this 1976 film that won Peter Finch an Oscar Network |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | POPULAR MUSIC $200: Though his version hit No. 1 in 1976, he didn't write "I Write The Songs"; Bruce Johnston did Barry Manilow |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | PLANES $200: This supersonic transport's 1st trip from London to Washington, May 24, 1976, cost passengers $801 one-way the Concorde |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | WORLD HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Both of these major Chinese leaders died in 1976 Mao Tse-tung & Chou En-lai |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | KINGS $300: In 1976 he became the first Spanish king to visit the Americas Juan Carlos |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | "SONG" $200: In 1976 Paul McCartney & Wings had a Number 1 hit with this song "Silly Love Songs" |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Li Peng, who became China's premier in 1987, was an adopted son of this 1st premier who died in 1976 Zhou Enlai |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1000: This Tyrolean city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 & 1976 Innsbruck |
| #1892, aired 1992-11-24 | INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $800: For his development of the neutronic reactor, this Italian-American was elected in 1976 (Enrico) Fermi |
| #1883, aired 1992-11-11 | HODGEPODGE $300: On his death in 1976 he left his museum $725 million dollars J. Paul Getty |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | FRENCH ACTRESSES $1000: In 1976 this star of Truffaut's "The Bride Wore Black" directed her first film, "Lumiere" Jeanne Moreau |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | AWARDS $500: This guitarist's "Breezin'" LP won a 1976 Grammy for Best-Engineered Recording George Benson |
| #1869, aired 1992-10-22 | GEOGRAPHY $400: Baron Friedrich von Steuben wintered here in 1777; in 1976, it was made a national historical park Valley Forge, Pennsylvania |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | PEOPLE $500: 20 years after they broke up their act, these 2 stars were reunited on the MDA Telethon in 1976 Martin & Lewis |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES $600: This little Southern girl sold lemonade to reporters during her father's 1976 campaign Amy Carter |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | RUNNING MATES $2,000 (Daily Double): Now the Senate Minority Leader, this Kansan ran as Gerald Ford's vice presidential nominee in 1976 (Robert) Dole |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | THE 1970s $1000: In 1976, Bolivian envoy to France, Joaquin Zenteno, was killed in retaliation for the death of this revolutionary Che Guevara |
| #1835, aired 1992-07-17 | U.S. STATES $300: In 1976 the Great Falls of the Passaic River, in this state were dedicated as a national historic site New Jersey |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $500: A few weeks after winning an Olympic gold medal in 1976, she won the women's world figure skating title Dorothy Hamill |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | COMPOSERS $1000: In 1976 the USSR issued a stamp bearing his picture & an excerpt from his "Leningrad Symphony" Dmitri Shostakovich |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | TELEVISION $400: A 1976 Writing Emmy was awarded for the "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of this series The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| #1772, aired 1992-04-21 | ACTORS & WESTERN ROLES $200: In 1976 Lauren Bacall co-starred with him in his last film, "The Shootist" John Wayne |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | "T" TIME $400: From 1976-78 he was Bishop of Lesotho (Desmond) Tutu |
| #1727, aired 1992-02-18 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: 2 college dropouts, Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak, founded this company in 1976 Apple Computer |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | AVIATION FIRSTS $400: In July 1976 it became the 1st supersonic transport to provide passenger service the Concorde |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | GIRLS IN SONG $500: In a 1976 Fleetwood Mac hit, she "rings like a bell through the night" Rhiannon |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | THE CABINET $1000: A controversial remark made by this Agriculture Secretary led to his resignation in 1976 Earl Butz |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $600: He was the 1st director of England's National Theatre; its theatre named for him opened in 1976 Laurence Olivier |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | SPORTS $400: In 1976 ABC-TV sportscaster Chris Schenkel was inducted into this indoor sport's Hall of Fame bowling |
| #1710, aired 1992-01-24 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: This Romanian gymnast earned 7 perfect scores & 3 gold medals in the 1976 Olympics Nadia Comaneci |
| #1707, aired 1992-01-21 | SPORTS $200: Already a world champion bicycle sprinter, in 1976 Sheila Young won a gold in this fast winter sport speed skating |
| #1704, aired 1992-01-16 | NONFICTION $600: Her 1976 book, "It Changed My Life," is an account of her years in the Women's Movement Betty Friedan |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In October 1976 the government began inoculations to prevent an epidemic of this flu swine flu |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $1,500 (Daily Double): A presidential advisor, he won the 1976 Prize for Economics Milton Friedman |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | OSCAR LOSERS $400: "Taxi Driver", "Network", "All the President's Men" & "Bound for Glory" were KO'd by this film for 1976 Rocky |
| #1671, aired 1991-12-02 | LEE REMICK $300: Lee & Gregory Peck were bedeviled by a little demon named Damien in this 1976 horror film The Omen |
| #1660, aired 1991-11-15 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: With help from Mitsubishi, this company manufactured the first Korean automobile in 1976 Hyundai |
| #1652, aired 1991-11-05 | FEMALE FIRSTS $100: In 1976 she became the first Romanian to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics Nadia Comaneci |
| #1652, aired 1991-11-05 | FEMALE FIRSTS $500 (Daily Double): She founded the Opera Company of Boston in 1957 & in 1976 became the first woman to conduct at the Met Sarah Caldwell |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | ART $600: In 1976 the Amateur Athletic Union honored him as the nation's outstanding sports artist LeRoy Neiman |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | PEOPLE $100: James Levine has been music director of this New York opera company since 1976 the Metropolitan Opera |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | THE 1970s $800: In 1976 Israeli commandos raided this Ugandan airport, freeing 100 hostages Entebbe |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | THE 1970s $1000: On July 2, 1976, these 2 Asian countries officially reunited North & South Vietnam |
| #1614, aired 1991-09-12 | 1959 $200: He was sworn in as Cuban premier on February 16th; he didn't become president until 1976 Castro |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | HODGEPODGE $200: Modern composer Philip Glass earned relative success with a 1976 opera about this scientist Einstein |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: Quezon City was the official capital of this country from 1948-1976 The Philippines |
| #1592, aired 1991-07-02 | WORLD HISTORY $200: In 1976, Pol Pot became prime minister of the new communist government in this country Cambodia |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | MEDICAL MATTERS $200: This form of pneumonia got is name when 29 members of the American Legion died in 1976 Legionnaires disease |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $200: The Olivier Theatre opened in this city in 1976 with a production of "Tamburlaine the Great" London |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | GYMNASTICS $200: At the 1976 Olympics she became the 1st gymnast to receive a perfect score Nadia Comaneci |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: In 1976 Cornelia Ender, an East German, became the 1st woman to win 4 Olympic gold medals in this sport swimming |
| #1546, aired 1991-04-29 | SPORTS RECORDS $200: In the 1976 Indianapolis 500, it took Bobby Unser a record 4 seconds to make one of these a pit stop |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | THE HALLMARK HALL OF FAME $100: Bette Davis played the mother of this evangelist in "The Disappearance of Aimee" in 1976 Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $400: Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway both won for this 1976 film Network |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In 1976 this Canadian-born author of “Herzog” won the Nobel literature prize Saul Bellow |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | WORLD CITIES $100: After hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, this city's Olympic Stadium became the home of the Expos Montreal |
| #1520, aired 1991-03-22 | AUTOMOBILE HISTORY $300: In 1976, Peugeot absorbed this other French automaker Citroen |
| #1514, aired 1991-03-14 | NEWSPAPERS $300: Until 1976 this Chicago paper called itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper" the Chicago Tribune |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | THE 1970s $400: This man who had led the People's Republic of China since 1949 died in September 1976 Mao |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | THE 1970s $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1976, for the 1st time in a decade, the U.S. issued money in this denomination the $2 bill |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: This Chicago mayor, who died in 1976, was considered the last of the big city political bosses Richard Daley |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | GREGORY PECK $600: Peck played an American ambassador who adopts a devilish little boy in this 1976 thriller The Omen |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | MOVIE TRIVIA $300: For a 1976 TV movie, she again played Etta Place, her role in "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" Katharine Ross |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | THE OLYMPICS $200: The brothers who won the middleweight & light heavyweight divisions of boxing in 1976 the Spinks brothers |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $600: This Gore Vidal book about America's Centennial was published in 1976 1876 |
| #1437, aired 1990-11-27 | STARTS WITH "Q" $200: In 1976 Jack Klugman began a 7-year run as this TV medical examiner Quincy |
| #1421, aired 1990-11-05 | LABOR $200: Fired in 1976, in 1980 striking workers got him reinstated at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk Lech Walesa |
| #1409, aired 1990-10-18 | PRO BASKETBALL $500: This professional league folded in 1976 with four of its teams joining the NBA the American Basketball Association (the ABA) |
| #1406, aired 1990-10-15 | AFRICA $400: In 1976 he declared himself Uganda's President for Life; 3 years later he fled for his life Idi Amin |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: This aviator & aircraft manufacturer died in an airplane en route to Texas April 5, 1976 Howard Hughes |
| #7, aired 1990-07-28 | JIM HENSON $200: While it ran from 1976-81, it was the world's most watched first-run syndicated TV show The Muppet Show |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | SPORTS $200: "Sweet" nickname of both the 1972 &1976 Olympic light welterweight boxing gold medalists Sugar Ray |
| #1366, aired 1990-07-09 | LANDMARKS $300: Celebration year in which the Liberty Bell was moved to its current site near Independence Hall 1976 |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | DEMOCRATS $2500: He lost the presidential nomination to Hubert Humphrey in 1968 & ran as an independent in 1976 Eugene McCarthy |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | SPACE EXPLORATION $1000: The 2 U.S. spacecraft that soft-landed on Mars in 1976 were both named this Viking |
| #1333, aired 1990-05-23 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This suburb of Manila was the official capital of the Philippines from 1948-1976 Quezon City |
| #1323, aired 1990-05-09 | ASIA $1,200 (Daily Double): On July 2, 1976 this country's national assembly proclaimed its own reunification Vietnam |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | THE EMMYS $400: She won her only Emmy for playing "Sybil", a woman with multiple personalities, in a 1976 TV movie Sally Field |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | THE TONY AWARDS $500: Marvin Hamlisch's only Tony came in 1976 for his score for this long-running Joseph Papp musical A Chorus Line |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | FICTION $1000: Leon Uris' "Novel of Ireland"; it was a bestseller in 1976 "Trinity" |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1976 she was seized by Argentine Air Force officers & kept under house arrest for 5 years Isabel Peron |
| #1283, aired 1990-03-14 | FADS & FASHIONS $100: The bobbed hair style of this skater known for her camel was the rage in 1976 Dorothy Hamill |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | WAX $400: This soap opera debuted in 1976 with its heroine worried about "waxy yellow buildup" Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | THE OLYMPICS $300: In 1976 these 2 brothers won gold medals in boxing & later both were champs in the pro ranks Michael & Leon Spinks |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | THE NAVY $100: While they've served in the Navy since before WWI, they weren't admitted to the academy until 1976 Women |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | BEST SELLERS $800: Pat Hackett has edited & published the diaries this artist kept from 1976-87 Andy Warhol |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | THE WINTER OLYMPICS $200: Country represented by 1976 champion figure skater John Curry Great Britain |
| #1236, aired 1990-01-08 | ASIAN CAPITALS $400: When North & South Vietnam were reunited in 1976, this city was designated the capital Hanoi |
| #1231, aired 1990-01-01 | THE OLYMPICS $400: Sport in which West Germany's Rosi Mittermaier won a gold medal in 1976 alpine skiing |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | SPORTS $200: This noted horsewoman who competed at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 is also a princess Princess Anne |
| #1227, aired 1989-12-26 | "BABY" SONGS $500 (Daily Double): A No. 12 hit in 1976, it reached No. 1 in 1988 as part of a melody:
"Shadows grow so long before my eyes, and they're moving, across the stage, suddenly, the day turns into night..." "Baby, I Love Your Way" |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | AUTHORS $1000: Many of his friends shunned him after part of his book "Answered Prayers" was published in 1976 Truman Capote |
| #1213, aired 1989-12-06 | "Mc" PEOPLE $1000: "Finding My Father" was a 1976 prose account of this poet-singer's search for his unknown father Rod McKuen |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Paul Simon had his only No. 1 hit in 1976 with a song about this many "Ways To Leave Your Lover" 50 |
| #1208, aired 1989-11-29 | FAMOUS NAMES $1000: In 1976 this Texas orator became the 1st black to give a keynote address at a Democratic Nat'l Convention Barbara Jordan |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | JAZZ $600: In 1976 this guitarist's "Breezin' " LP became the 1st record by a jazz musician to go platinum George Benson |
| #1203, aired 1989-11-22 | WOMEN $300: At the 1976 Olympics she scored 7 10.00s & took home 5 medals Nadia Comăneci |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $300: This 1976 film was based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel inspired by Irving Thalberg The Last Tycoon |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | INNS & INNKEEPERS $600: In 1976 "Legionnaires' Disease" killed 29 men staying at a hotel in this city Philadelphia |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | U.S. POLITICS $600: Had he won the 1976 GOP nomination, his running mate would have been Penn. Senator Richard Schweiker Reagan |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | THE MOVIES $1000: She received an Oscar nomination for directing the 1976 film "Seven beauties" Lina Wertmüller |
| #1182, aired 1989-10-24 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: Serving from 1976-86, his was the longest continuous term for any Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill |
| #1181, aired 1989-10-23 | BRITISH MUSICALS $200: "Liza of Lambeth", the 1st novel by this "Of Human Bondage" author, became a musical in 1976 W. Somerset Maugham |
| #1181, aired 1989-10-23 | DANCERS $400: The 1976 joint autobiography "The Two of Us" was written by singer Tony Martin & this dancer, his wife Cyd Charisse |
| #1178, aired 1989-10-18 | FEMALE FIRSTS $400: The first woman in this sport to win over $100,000 in a season was Judy Rankin in 1976 golf |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | FIRST NOVELS $800: Stephen King's 1st published novel, it was made into a 1976 movie starring Sissy Spacek Carrie |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | FILMS OF THE '70s $300: Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety" poked fun at the films of this director who made his last film in 1976 Sir Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | U.S.HISTORY $1000: In 1976's "Koreagate", the Justice Department investigated this South Korean businessman (Tongsun) Park |
| #1133, aired 1989-07-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1976 marine biologist Dixy Lee Ray was elected governor of this state Washington |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | 1976 $100: Sarah Caldwell became the 1st woman to conduct at this New York City opera house the Metropolitan Opera House |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | 1976 $200: Reclusive billionaire who died on April 5 on a chartered jet bound for Houston, Texas Howard Hughes |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | 1976 $300: She became the 1st anchorwoman on nightly network news & the top-paid newscaster up to that time Barbara Walters |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | 1976 $500: 2 of these jets, 1 from Paris & 1 from London, arrived in the U.S. for the 1st time on May 24 Concordes |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | 1976 $1,100 (Daily Double): Group heard here, singing the song for which they won a Grammy in 1976:
"If you leave me now /
You'll take away the biggest part of me / Ooh-ooh-hoo..." Chicago |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | FIRST LADIES $100: She was so popular in 1976 that some campaign buttons read "Elect Betty's Husband" Betty Ford |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | SINGERS & ROLES $1,500 (Daily Double): The 2 singer-actresses who played Esther in "A Star is Born", 1 in 1954 & the other in 1976 Judy Garland & Barbra Streisand |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AUSTRIA $400: The Winter Olympics have been held in this scenic city twice, 1964 & 1976 Innsbruck |
| #1098, aired 1989-05-17 | "A.C."/"D.C." $400: In November 1976 it was announced that this 9-year-old girl would attend a public school in Washington, D.C. Amy Carter |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In 1976 Mao, who ran China since 1949, & this man, who ran Chicago since 1955, both died (Richard) Daley |
| #1064, aired 1989-03-30 | NEW YORK CITY $500: In 1933 King Kong climbed the Empire State Building; in 1976 he climbed these twin skyscrapers the World Trade Center |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | '70s ADVERTISING $200: A lawsuit claimed this spokesman, a 1976 decathlon champ, didn't really eat Wheaties Bruce Jenner |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | SONGS $400: In 1976 Johnny Cash was building one of these "one piece at a time" Cadillac |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | SONGS $500: In the title of a 1976 hit, Lou Rawls said, "You'll never find" this another love like mine |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | ARTS & ARTHURS $200: In 1976 President Ford awarded this piano virtuoso the Medal of Freedom, highest U.S. civilian honor Arthur Rubinstein |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $1000: There had been epidemics of this lung disease before it was 1st identified in 1976 in Pennsylvania Legionnaire's Disease |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): The only 2 women ever to give Democratic Convention keynote speeches were these 2 Texans Barbara Jordan (1976) & Ann Richards (1988) |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | DOLLS $200: The 1976 "Baby Brother" Tender Love doll was controversial for this reason it was anatomically correct |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Movie which gave us the following No. 1 hit from 1976:
"Do you know where you're going to? / Do you like the things that life is showing you? / Where are you going to? / Do you know? / Do you get what you're hoping for? / When you look behind you, there's no open doors" Mahogany |
| #926, aired 1988-09-19 | POLITICAL NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): In office from 1955 until his death in 1976, he was called "the last of the big-city bosses" (Richard) Daley |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | WINTER SPORTS $800 (Daily Double): This figure skating event for couples made its Olympic debut in 1976 ice dancing |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | CHINA $500: These 2 Chinese leaders both died in 1976 Mao Tse-tung & Chou En-lai |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $200: This author of "Herzog" won both the Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes in 1976 Saul Bellow |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | BATTLES $400: In 1976, Sec'y of State Kissinger tried to negotiate an end to the guerilla war in this African nation Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) |
| #873, aired 1988-05-25 | SPORTS $200: Last year in which Soviet & American athletes faced each other in Summer Olympic competition 1976 |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | TV TRIVIA $500 (Daily Double): This sitcom topped the ratings for 5 seasons in a row, from 1971 to 1976 All in the Family |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1843, the gov't moved this from Jan. 1 to July 1, & in 1976 to Oct. 1 the beginning of the (government) fiscal year |
| #818, aired 1988-03-09 | FAMOUS LASTS $600: He hit his last Major League home run July 20, 1976, about 28 months after his most famous one Hank Aaron |
| #815, aired 1988-03-04 | TELEVISION HISTORY $600: In October 1976, she became the 1st network news anchorwoman Barbara Walters |
| #809, aired 1988-02-25 | DID YOU NOTICE? $700 (Daily Double): You may find in circulation a U.S. 25¢ or 5¢ piece with these 2 dates on its face 1776 & 1976 |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | OLYMPIC MEDALISTS $500: In the 400 meter hurdles, his 1984 gold medal time was only .11 of a second slower than in 1976 Edwin Moses |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $200: This 1976 winner is still playing on Broadway after over 5,000 performances "A Chorus Line" |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | "WISH"FUL SONG $300: Stevie Wonder's 1976 #1 song of nostalgia "I Wish" |
| #782, aired 1988-01-19 | AFRICA ON FILM $300: A TV movie with Charles Bronson dramatized the 1976 Israeli commando "Raid on" this Uganda airport Entebbe |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | SPECIAL OSCARS $100: In 1976, she was presented with a special Oscar at her home, Pickfair Mary Pickford |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | "LITTLE" $400: Now a Los Angeles newscaster, she was Miss America in 1976 Tawny Little |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | GUINNESS RECORDS $300: In 1976, a 4-woman team did this to 12 chickens in 32.9 seconds plucked them |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | SPORTS $800: In 1976, this bowl game was moved from Tulane Stadium to the Louisiana Superdome the Sugar Bowl |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: Because best known man to head this agency served 48 years, a 1976 law put a 10 year limit on terms FBI |
| #736, aired 1987-11-16 | SPORTS STADIUMS $200: In 1976, the name of this university's stadium was changed from Denny to Bryant-Denny Alabama |
