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#9068, aired 2024-03-27MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: A modification of a Portuguese guitar, it became popular in Hawaii in the late 19th century ukulele
#9067, aired 2024-03-26MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $1200: The complex called these museums, with crossed keys as its symbol, has a 19th century "new wing" full of Roman art the Vatican Museum
#9064, aired 2024-03-21HISTORIC FIRSTS $600: John Lombe stole silk secrets from Italy & built what's been called the 1st big factory in this period of 18th & 19th century Britain the Industrial Revolution
#9064, aired 2024-03-21ON THE NOSE $2000: In "The Nose" by this 19th century Russian author, a civil servant chases his schnozz around St. Petersburg Gogol
#9063, aired 2024-03-2019th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $400: Harrison Gray Otis served briefly as a brigadier-general in this 1898 war while still publisher of the Los Angeles Times the Spanish-American War
#9063, aired 2024-03-2019th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $800: In 1889 the new owners of this paper had John Philip Sousa write a march about it for an awards ceremony The Washington Post
#9063, aired 2024-03-2019th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $1600: Before he was the big name in New York newspaper publishing, he published "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" Pulitzer
#9063, aired 2024-03-2019th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $2000: Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was a founder of the G.O.P. & helped make these debates happen in 1858 the Lincoln-Douglas debates
#9063, aired 2024-03-2019th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $10,000 (Daily Double): In 1847 Frederick Douglass founded this antislavery paper whose name refers to what guided people escaping slavery The North Star
#9060, aired 2024-03-15EXTINCT ANIMALS $400: The Narragansett pacer, a breed of this, became extinct sometime in the 19th century a horse
#9060, aired 2024-03-15LOST WORKS $400: According to one guy who read the lost memoirs of this 19th century poet & lord, the book was "fit only for a brothel" Byron
#9058, aired 2024-03-13OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $400: Connecticut likes this burly beast as its state animal; Mocha Dick was a notorious 19th century one a sperm whale
#9055, aired 2024-03-08PAPER $1000: Collectors love prints made on this type of photographic paper from the 19th century named for the egg whites used to treat it albumen paper
#9054, aired 2024-03-07ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $2000: This line on the hull of a ship that indicates the depth to which it can be loaded is named for a 19th century British merchant the Plimsoll
#9046, aired 2024-02-26HISTORY $1000: Japan returned to the control of an emperor in the 19th century in what is called this 5-letter restoration Meiji
#9043, aired 2024-02-21ENDS IN "IR" $2000: This word can refer to a pirate in the Mediterranean Sea from the 16th to 19th century a corsair
#9033, aired 2024-02-07THE "ICK" $400: A 16-year-old wrote this 19th century waltz that shares its name with paired eating utensils "Chopsticks"
#9026, aired 2024-01-2919th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Victor Hugo urged the preservation of medieval architecture & his writing led to the restoration of this building from 1844 Notre Dame
#9026, aired 2024-01-2919th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: In Switzerland, you can visit the schoolhouse of little Johanna Spyri, best known as the author of this novel Heidi
#9026, aired 2024-01-2919th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: "Persuasion", the last book she completed before her death in 1817, was published posthumously Austen
#9026, aired 2024-01-2919th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Everyone "walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death" is a typical cheery line from him in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Hardy
#9026, aired 2024-01-2919th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,800 (Daily Double): The riverboat in Frontierland at Disneyland is named for him Mark Twain
#9017, aired 2024-01-16HALF A CATEGORY $800: Eng was half of the conjoined twosome who in the 19th century were billed as this pair Siamese Twins
#1, aired 2024-01-12OVER CASTE $2000: The mid-19th century "Caste War" of this peninsula pitted native Mayans against Ladinos of European descent the Yucatán Peninsula
#9010, aired 2024-01-05ALLITERATION $800: To get down to discussing the important point; it seems to come from a 19th century folktale about a hunting trip to talk turkey
#9009, aired 2024-01-04ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 19th century author of adventure novels suffered from tuberculosis & moved to the South Seas for his health, dying in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson
#23, aired 2024-01-02MAINE ATTRACTIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Portland's historic Abyssinian Meeting House was a hub for this secret 19th century network the Underground Railroad
#8986, aired 2023-12-04CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks (Lewis) Carroll
#8978, aired 2023-11-22BUILDING TERMS $800: From their ruddy facades, it's the colorful name for eastern U.S. apartment buildings built in the 19th century a brownstone
#8977, aired 2023-11-2119th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $400: This imposing American landmark is seen here as it looked in 1876 the Washington Monument
#8977, aired 2023-11-2119th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $800: Successful "Little" author seen here Alcott
#8977, aired 2023-11-2119th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $1200: A 19th century political cartoon by British cartoonist James Gillray shows this man cutting up a globe Napoleon
#8977, aired 2023-11-2119th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $1600: This Russian seen here set the table for future chemists Mendeleev
#8977, aired 2023-11-2119th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $7,000 (Daily Double): Pictured here around 1890, he was the original "Iron Man" Bismarck
#20, aired 2023-11-15ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $400: Annie Londonderry inspired the 2021 novel "Spin", about her historic 19th-century trip around the world on one of these bicycle
#8972, aired 2023-11-14ALSO A BEVERAGE $800: It's been used as a synonym for electric current since the 19th century juice
#8972, aired 2023-11-14A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $1000: This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century crochet
#8972, aired 2023-11-14BILLIONS & BILLIONS $2000: Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations the Franco-Prussian War
#8966, aired 2023-11-06HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $800: "Aurora Leigh", whoa! / 19th century lady / Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#8965, aired 2023-11-03FAMOUS PAIRS $800: Seen here, "Bringing Home the Logs, Winter Landscape" is a 19th century lithograph from this pair Currier & Ives
#18, aired 2023-10-25FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Featuring fried chicken pieces in a sweet sauce, this Chinese takeout favorite is named after a 19th century military leader General Tso's chicken
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ISMs $400: Late 19th century movement that characterizes the work seen here Impressionism
#8945, aired 2023-10-06DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $1,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century Italian physicist lends his name to a law & a number relating equal volumes of gases & molecules Avogadro
#8945, aired 2023-10-06THE VIRTUES $1000: It was the "T" in the 19th century's WCTU Temperance
#8943, aired 2023-10-04ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $200: Joseph Karl Stieler's early 19th century portrait of this man captures his energy & ferocity Beethoven
#8941, aired 2023-10-02NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: It was the "spectral" central ritual of the messianic 19th century religion founded by the Paiute Wovoka the Ghost Dance Movement
#8932, aired 2023-09-19WHAT COULD IT "B"? $800: The name of this street & area in Lower Manhattan comes from Dutch for "farm"; the area was a 19th century skid row the Bowery
#8930, aired 2023-09-15CAT LOVERS $400: Inky cat footprints are found in the writings of this 19th century British founder of modern nursing who owned dozens Nightingale
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FIRE Z $800: Deny the Z of a ballroom dance & it becomes this first name of a 19th century U.S. poet Walt (from waltz)
#8929, aired 2023-09-14HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES $400: In "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" , André 3000 says the drama at the club is "reminiscent of Charles", this 19th century author Dickens
#8927, aired 2023-09-12QUITE A FOX $2000: The 19th century Fox sisters played an important role in this -ism that gave people hope of communicating with the dead Spiritualism
#8926, aired 2023-09-11SCIENCE CLASS $400: Used as a common medical treatment in the 19th century, laudanum is a tincture of this narcotic dissolved in distilled spirits opium
#8926, aired 2023-09-11KIN $1000: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I descend from two U.S. presidents, my father & grandfather, but I'm also related to this 19th century president from New Hampshire though my grandmother, Barbara Bush; just think of her maiden name Franklin Pierce
#8922, aired 2023-07-25STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $400: Sam Houston, until 1859 Texas
#8922, aired 2023-07-25STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $800: Stephen A. Douglas, happy in 1858, sad in 1860, dead in 1861 Illinois
#8922, aired 2023-07-25STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $1200: Henry Clay--don't compromise on your response! Kentucky
#8922, aired 2023-07-25STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $1600: John C. Calhoun & John E. Colhoun, but what's in a name, Y'all? South Carolina
#8922, aired 2023-07-25STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $2000: Charles Sumner, a free stater nearly beaten to death on the Senate floor by a southerner Massachusetts
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Sally Ride rocketed into orbit aboard this Space Shuttle that shared its name with a 19th century research vessel Challenger
#8916, aired 2023-07-17FISH PEOPLE $200: A 19th century man named Preserved Fish was an early broker for what became NYSE for short the New York Stock Exchange
#8911, aired 2023-07-10WALLPAPER $2000: This 19th century Arts & Crafts movement designer, with a name fit for a Hollywood agent, made wallpapers like Rose & Jasmine (William) Morris
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $1200: Last name of Bronson, a teacher & abolitionist who lived in poverty until his daughter made it big in books in the 19th century Alcott
#8904, aired 2023-06-29BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: This songbird came in on a "Wrecking Ball" after inventing the mechanical reaper in the 19th century Miley Cyrus McCormick
#8888, aired 2023-06-07A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1200: An inspector never stops inspecting; a 19th century Gerard; the fugitive saves his life, he lets the guy go but meets a tragic end Javert
#8883, aired 2023-05-31LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN $800: When in Edinburgh, visit Princes Street Gardens & its 200-foot monument to this 19th century author Sir Walter Scott
#8882, aired 2023-05-30CZECH IT OUT! $1200: From the 19th century until 1918, the Czech lands were part of this empire the Austro-Hungarian Empire
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THESE BROS ARE LIT $400: Collectively, Dmitry, Ivan & Alyosha live up to the title of this 19th century novel The Brothers Karamazov
#8878, aired 2023-05-24STATE OF THE UNION $800: The 39th New York Infantry had soldiers from many lands, but was called the Guard of this Italian hero of the 19th century Garibaldi
#20, aired 2023-05-24THE 1960s $800: Last name of Henry, a 19th century governor; it follows "the" in the name of a San Francisco area where 1967 activities would not have pleased Henry Haight
#17, aired 2023-05-23IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $1000: This 19th century Englishman noted for his experiments in motion photography, as seen in the photos here (Edward) Muybridge
#8876, aired 2023-05-22AMERICANA $1000: A 19th century flirtation device, this type of bonnet was named for the way it would extend, protrude, to be precise, this verb beyond the face a poke bonnet
#16, aired 2023-05-22A LIFE IN SCIENCE $1200: Mary Anning found many fossils in the 19th century, including this long-necked marine one sketched here plesiosaur
#13, aired 2023-05-17FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $1200: The 19th century man honored in name by Nevada's capital & the fashion expert/TV star of "Queer Eye" & "How to Look Good Naked" Kit Carson Kressley
#13, aired 2023-05-17FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $2000: An early 20th c. female modern dance pioneer & a 19th century male master of cabinetmaking & neo-classical furniture Isadora Duncan Phyfe
#9, aired 2023-05-15ART & ARTISTS $1000: 19th century artists like Ingres & Renoir liked this subject, a French word for a woman who's part of a harem an odalisque
#8869, aired 2023-05-11HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $600: Britannica says during this mostly 19th century era, "Britain was a powerful nation with a rich culture"; the past tense... ouch the Victorian
#5, aired 2023-05-10NATIONAL FOUNDERS $1200: Iceland's National Day commemorates the birthday of Jon Sigurdsson, a 19th century president of this legislative body the Althing
#1, aired 2023-05-08ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2000: In the late 19th century, the Pinkertons infiltrated this cabal of coal miners named for a widowed Irishwoman Molly Maguires
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $200: This 19th century American's demand for "unconditional surrender" matched his first 2 initials Grant
#8845, aired 2023-04-07SCIENCE $800: Some confused 19th century guy named all the mammals in an order these shrews even though relatively few of them are arboreal tree shrews
#8841, aired 2023-04-03NATIONAL HEROES $800: A Canadian national hero, Laura Secord walked 20 miles to warn that the Yankees were coming in this 19th century war the War of 1812
#8835, aired 2023-03-24AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY $2000: This 4-time 19th century prime minister & rival of Disraeli Gladstone
#8832, aired 2023-03-212-WORD TERMS $5,800 (Daily Double): Until the end of the 19th century, this name for a horse racing achievement was only used to describe the papal tiara a Triple Crown
#8818, aired 2023-03-01BRIDGES $800: A feat of 19th century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge spans this river the East River
#8816, aired 2023-02-27THE GOLDEN AGE $2000: In the 19th century Soren Kierkegaard & Hans Christian Andersen were both active in this capital city Copenhagen
#8815, aired 2023-02-24I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $1000: He had a pretty good 19th century run, including saving France's beer, wine & silk industries Pasteur
#8813, aired 2023-02-22LITERARY MOVEMENTS $1600: Wordsworth & this sometime friend & writing partner were the big stars of the early 19th century Lake School of English poetry Coleridge
#8812, aired 2023-02-21HOME COMING $2000: The Breakers, once a Newport summer home of this 19th century transportation industry family, has 48 bedrooms & 27 fireplaces the Vanderbilts
#8809, aired 2023-02-16WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Bigamy, murder & insanity show up in Mary Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret", a huge bestseller in this proper 19th century era the Victorian Era
#8800, aired 2023-02-0319th CENTURY NAMES $200: This circus showman called himself the "Prince of Humbugs" P.T. Barnum
#8800, aired 2023-02-0319th CENTURY NAMES $400: Here's Walt Whitman as captured by this 19th century photographer Mathew Brady
#8800, aired 2023-02-0319th CENTURY NAMES $600: In 1844 he wrote, "Religion... is the opium of the people" Karl Marx
#8800, aired 2023-02-0319th CENTURY NAMES $800: During the Civil War he recruited for the all-Black Massachusetts 54th Infantry, in which 2 of his sons served Frederick Douglass
#8800, aired 2023-02-0319th CENTURY NAMES $1000: Part classicist, part romantic, this is the only one of the 3 "B"s of classical music who lived entirely in the 19th century Brahms
#8799, aired 2023-02-02SEVEN HEAVEN $800: An offshoot of the 19th century Millerites, this religious group observes the Sabbath on Saturdays Seventh-day Adventists
#13, aired 2023-02-02THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $600: These tall timepieces were named for a 19th-century song that said, "It stopp'd short--never to go again--When the old man died" a grandfather clock
#8795, aired 2023-01-2719th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 1803 a British meteorologist published new names for these, including cumulus & cirrus clouds
#8795, aired 2023-01-2719th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: In the 1870s a Swiss surgeon pioneered the surgical removal of this gland to treat goiter the thyroid
#8795, aired 2023-01-2719th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: Once thought to be a planet, the first asteroid was discovered in 1801 & named this after a Roman goddess Ceres
#8795, aired 2023-01-2719th CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: In 1859 Charles Darwin explained his theory of evolution in an important work commonly shortened to this title On the Origin of Species
#8795, aired 2023-01-2719th CENTURY SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): An 1813 work called "Elementary Theory of Botany" introduced this field, the classification of organisms taxonomy
#12, aired 2023-01-26A SIGN OF SHAME $900: The pointy hat worn by 19th century schoolkids to show supposed mental failings often bore a helpful "D", for this dunce
#8790, aired 2023-01-20AMERICAN LIT $800: This narrator in a 19th century classic says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave" Huck Finn
#8787, aired 2023-01-17"I" ON ART $800: 19th century artist William West dramatized the book of Exodus in these people "Passing Through the Wilderness" the Israelites
#8786, aired 2023-01-16DOG TALES $600: In a story set in the 19th century, a mad wolf with rabies is the last fight this faithful title canine has, & now I'm crying Old Yeller
#8785, aired 2023-01-13A LINEAR CATEGORY $800: Named for a 19th century British diplomat, the 1,640-mile Durand Line is today the border between these two nations Afghanistan & Pakistan
#10, aired 2023-01-12GLOOMY AUTHORS $200: "Everything is evil" wrote the 19th century poet Giacomo Leopardi, who exemplified this glass-half-empty -ism pessimism
#8777, aired 2023-01-03HERE'S LOOKING AT "U" $1000: The first Italian king of this name formed the Triple Alliance with Austria, Hungary & Germany in the late 19th century Umberto
#8777, aired 2023-01-03FUN WITH 21 $2000: In the 19th century this former gold coin of Britain was worth 21 shillings, one more than in a pound a guinea
#8775, aired 2022-12-30TALK DERBY TO ME $800: In the 19th century Edward Stanley, the 14th Earl of Derby, was British prime minister 3 times as a leader of this political party the Tory Party (Conservatives)
#8771, aired 2022-12-26WRITE PLACE $800: This 19th century author & satirist wrote the travel book "Roughing It" about spending time out West & away from the Civil War Twain
#8761, aired 2022-12-1219th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Stevenson novel finds himself on a ship he had no intention of sailing on--yup, he's been this title Kidnapped
#8761, aired 2022-12-1219th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: A work by James Fenimore Cooper sometimes called the first espionage novel has this simple title The Spy
#8761, aired 2022-12-12OUTBREAKS $800: A 19th century pandemic of this water-borne disease began in the delta region of the Ganges River cholera
#8761, aired 2022-12-1219th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: This oldest member of the 3 Musketeers in Dumas' novel is revealed to be the Comte de la Fere Athos
#8761, aired 2022-12-1219th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: The Duke of Ferrara is the possibly murderous narrator of this Robert Browning poem My Last Duchess
#8761, aired 2022-12-1219th CENTURY LITERATURE $4,600 (Daily Double): This Englishwoman wrote 1823's "Valperga"; her first novel also had a one-word title but is more famous Mary Shelley
#8756, aired 2022-12-05MYTH $1200: 19th century Norwegian artist Peter Nicolai Arbo tried to forge a national identity with works like "The Wild Hunt" of this top god Odin
#8754, aired 2022-12-01NICKNAME'S THE SAME $200: 19th century outlaw Cassidy & 21st century Idaho governor Otter Butch
#8754, aired 2022-12-01NICKNAME'S THE SAME $400: 19th century frontiersman Christopher Carson & 20th century Missouri Governor Christopher Bond Kit
#8753, aired 2022-11-30SOMETHING TO READ $800: Acclaimed as "The One-Eyed!" & "The Bandy-Legged!", this character in a 19th century novel is elected "Pope of the Fools" Quasimodo
#8752, aired 2022-11-29CAST UPON THE WATERS $2000: Joining Tom Holland & Chris Hemsworth for "In the Heart of the Sea", Ben Whishaw played this 19th century author Melville
#8727, aired 2022-10-25THE ELEMENTS $800: In the 19th century busy chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovered silicon, thorium & this element, symbol Se selenium
#5, aired 2022-10-23CATS THROUGH TIME $400: This big name in 19th century nursing cared for cats too--dozens, including Mr. Bismark, who ate rice pudding off china plates Florence Nightingale
#8723, aired 2022-10-19FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY $2000: This 19th century philosopher wrote in "Fear & Trembling" of a knight of faith who takes a mighty leap Kierkegaard
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY NOVELS $200: The original version of this novel made vampires seem a real threat; an editor said people are jumpy from Jack the Ripper--go easy Dracula
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mark Twain hero says, "Now, Old Jim, you're a free man again, and I bet you won't ever be a slave no more" Huckleberry Finn
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY NOVELS $600: In this Jane Austen novel, Elizabeth is the favorite daughter of Mr. Bennet, but airheaded Lydia is her mom's choice Pride and Prejudice
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY NOVELS $800: This 1851 novel mentions New Zealand Tom & Don Miguel, 2 famous contemporaries of the title sea creature Moby-Dick
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: France's 1812 invasion of Russia is the subject of this sprawling Tolstoy novel War and Peace
#8707, aired 2022-09-27THE 19th CENTURY $400: In December 1882 Edward Johnson, a VP under Thomas Edison, became the first person to put electric lights on this a Christmas tree
#8707, aired 2022-09-27THE 19th CENTURY $800: One report said that in December 1888, an injured van Gogh went to a brothel & said, "Guard this object carefully" his (left) ear
#8707, aired 2022-09-27THE 19th CENTURY $1200: Francis II was its final ruler in the early 19th c. when all roads stopped leading to this empire that ended after 1,000 years the Holy Roman Empire
#8707, aired 2022-09-27THE 19th CENTURY $1600: Anita, the wife of this Italian Redshirts leader, often fought side-by-side with him Garibaldi
#8707, aired 2022-09-27THE 19th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): Born almost with the century in 1800, he was executed in 1859 on charges including treason against Virginia, though he wasn't a Virginian John Brown
#8706, aired 2022-09-26HISTORIC NICKNAMES $800: "The Great Compromiser" was this 19th century U.S. senator (Henry) Clay
#1, aired 2022-09-25FASHION WITH BUZZY COHEN $1200: (Buzzy Cohen delivers the clue.) You can turn the brim up on a porkpie as well as this felt hat immortalized by Indiana Jones & actually named for a 19th century play character a fedora
#8704, aired 2022-09-22OLD FASHIONED $400: A 19th century depiction of this nursery rhyme character is seen here in all her austere predicament Old Mother Hubbard
#8698, aired 2022-09-14"CON"s $1000: Here's a typical early 19th century landscape by this British painter Constable
#8694, aired 2022-07-28GO IVth & RULE $1600: Reigning for 50 years in the 19th century, Pōmare IV was queen of this Polynesian island, resisting European influences there Tahiti
#8692, aired 2022-07-26MIDDLE NAMES $800: Finley & Breese were the middle names of this 19th century American inventor & painter (Samuel F.B.) Morse
#8690, aired 2022-07-22BRITISH FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $600: Jack, seen at the right in a 19th century illustration, is earning this title the Giant Slayer (a giant killer)
#8689, aired 2022-07-21BOTTOMS UP! $400: This 2-word term meaning the lowest spot you can "hit" originated in mining in the 19th century rock bottom
#8687, aired 2022-07-19INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS $1200: A sanctuary for moose, elk & bison, a Saskatchewan national park bears the name of this 19th century royal husband Prince Albert
#8685, aired 2022-07-15MEXICAN HISTORY $1600: The era of this man's late 19th & early 20th century rule is known as the Porfiriato Porfirio Díaz
#8677, aired 2022-07-0519th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $400: Born into slavery, Andrew Beard invented a steam engine & an automatic coupler, which joined these transports train cars
#8677, aired 2022-07-0519th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $800: Joseph-Marie Jacquard aided the textile industry by using punch cards to automate these machines loom
#8677, aired 2022-07-0519th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $1200: Ella Gaillard's invention of the eyeless this revolutionized surgery the surgical needle
#8677, aired 2022-07-0519th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $1600: In 1824 bricklayer Joseph Aspdin patented Portland this, stronger than traditional mortars cement
#8677, aired 2022-07-0519th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): Friedrich Koenig's improvements to this machine, not much changed since the 1450s, included self-inking the printing press
#8674, aired 2022-06-30JOURNALISM $400: Because they both attracted readers, a 19th century character in newspaper comics lent his name to this sensational type of journalism yellow (journalism)
#8671, aired 2022-06-27BUSINESS NAMES $1000: The company co-founded by this 19th century German chemical maker has relieved millions of headaches Bayer
#8671, aired 2022-06-27ART LOVERS $2000: "Love Among the Ruins" by Edward Coley Burne-Jones is an example of the works of this 19th century artistic brotherhood the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
#8668, aired 2022-06-22IN THIS ECONOMY? $1600: Late 19th century Greece depended heavily on exports of these fruits, which get their name from Corinth currants
#8657, aired 2022-06-07DEER-POURRI $2000: A popular painting of the 19th century was Sir Edwin Landseer's deer portrait, the "Monarch of" this, a narrow Scottish valley the glen
#8649, aired 2022-05-26ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $800: The 19th century railroad sleeping car named for this man was a symbol of splendor equal to the finest hotel Pullman
#8642, aired 2022-05-17COUNTRIES IN THE U.S. $800: In the 19th century William Holmes named a city in southern Minnesota this, after a river in the Holy Land Jordan
#8636, aired 2022-05-09PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $200: A boy comes of age during this 19th century conflict in Irene Hunt's young adult classic "Across Five Aprils" the Civil War
#8636, aired 2022-05-09YOU SAID IT! $800: This 19th century showman: "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived" (P.T.) Barnum
#8632, aired 2022-05-03MRS., MISS OR MR. $800: This title Mr. of 19th century lit "gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation" Mr. Hyde
#8631, aired 2022-05-02CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $400: A 24-7 Senate vote on Oct. 20, 1803 okayed ratification of a treaty that doubled the size of the nation by adding this territory Louisiana
#8631, aired 2022-05-02CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $800: In 1820 the North & South came to a compromise that enabled this to become our 24th state Missouri
#8631, aired 2022-05-02TEA TIME $1200: A 19th century British prime minister gave his name & rank to this tea flavored with oil of bergamot Earl Grey
#8631, aired 2022-05-02CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $1200: This Illinois debate master was elected to the Senate in 1846 & served until he died in 1861 Douglas
#8631, aired 2022-05-02CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $1600: In 1864 Congress repealed these acts from 1793 & 1850 providing for the seizure & return of those who ran away from bondage the Fugitive Slave Acts
#8631, aired 2022-05-02CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $2000: Latin for "force of the county", these 2 words titled an 1878 act that prevented the use of the army to enforce law in the South posse comitatus
#8620, aired 2022-04-1519th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On October 8, 1871, a fire broke out near the barn of Patrick & Catherine O'Leary; & the next morning this city was in ruins Chicago
#8620, aired 2022-04-1519th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On Sept.10, 1813 the U.S. had a naval victory on this lake Lake Erie
#8620, aired 2022-04-1519th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Laid down in 1823, this policy declared the U.S. would not allow new colonies to be created in the Americas the Monroe Doctrine
#8620, aired 2022-04-1519th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This literary movement arose in 19th century New England; some of its members experimented with utopian living at Brook Farm Transcendentalism
#8620, aired 2022-04-1519th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): On May 30, 1854 Pres. Pierce signed into law what was officially called "an act to organize the territories of" these 2 places" Kansas & Nebraska
#8619, aired 2022-04-14GEOGRAPHIC VERSE $2000: This 19th century British poet & literary critic wrote the poems "East London", "West London" & "Dover Beach" Matthew Arnold
#8616, aired 2022-04-11LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century Sir Walter Scott
#8610, aired 2022-04-01BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 19th century American's first novel, "Fanshawe", is set at Harley College based on his alma mater, Bowdoin College (Nathaniel) Hawthorne
#8608, aired 2022-03-30CONTRACTIONS $1200: In the 19th century "it's" gradually replaced this equivalent contraction 'tis
#8602, aired 2022-03-22NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS $800: The trail named for this 19th century service runs 1,900 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco the Pony Express
#8602, aired 2022-03-22NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS $2000: The website for this trail that traces a 19th century Cherokee route calls it "a journey of injustice" the Trail of Tears
#12, aired 2022-02-16HAIKU THAT NOVEL! $200: 19th century / Once titled "First Impressions" / Is Darcy the one? Pride and Prejudice
#8575, aired 2022-02-11ORDINAL PHRASES $1000: In the 19th century this phrase began its association with all things press-related the Fourth Estate
#8574, aired 2022-02-10WAR $800: In 19th century Mali, Umar Tal built an empire with a series of these holy wars jihads
#8560, aired 2022-01-21NONSENSE $1000: This 19th century giant of nonsense wrote of "The Owl & the Pussy-Cat" & also of nutcrackers running off with sugar tongs Edward Lear
#8560, aired 2022-01-21PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs $1200: This 19th century movement believed the dead could communicate with the living through mediums spiritualism
#8553, aired 2022-01-123 SHORT WORDS $1000: Samuel Butler's 19th century translation of the "Iliad" includes this phrase for "to die" more associated with the Old West bite the dust
#8552, aired 2022-01-11BOOK ALIKES $800: "Middlesex" is a 21st century novel by Jeffrey Eugenides; "Middlemarch" is a 19th century novel by her (George) Eliot
#8538, aired 2021-12-22NO DA $800: With no "Da", a 19th century photographer becomes this, French for "war" guerre (Daguerre)
#8536, aired 2021-12-20SALE OF THE CENTURY $400: 19th century: this deal that netted Uncle Sam 530 million acres at about 3 cents per acre the Louisiana Purchase
#8534, aired 2021-12-16SAY YOUR PRAYERS $1200: 19th century Shinto leader Hirata Atsutane laid out a list of morning prayers; No. 1 was worship of this human the emperor
#8531, aired 2021-12-1319th CENTURY LIT $200: This children's classic tells us that the title character was made from a very ordinary piece of firewood Pinocchio
#8531, aired 2021-12-1319th CENTURY LIT $400: The title of this Jules Verne tale refers to the distance traveled, not to how deep the characters go Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#8531, aired 2021-12-1319th CENTURY LIT $600: Title of the Emma Lazarus sonnet read at the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition in 1883 The New Colossus
#8531, aired 2021-12-1319th CENTURY LIT $800: This writer of poems like "Dover Beach" also worked as an inspector of schools Matthew Arnold
#8531, aired 2021-12-1319th CENTURY LIT $1000: This German's 1803 drama "The Natural Daughter" was not a success, though Schiller liked it Goethe
#8522, aired 2021-11-30ROMAN MYTHOLOGY $2000: Seen here in a 19th century depiction, this Roman goddess of fruit trees & orchards is one of a few without Greek counterparts Pomona
#8516, aired 2021-11-22MIX TAPE $600: Seen here is a 19th century bit of what's known as tape this lace
#8515, aired 2021-11-1919th CENTURY STUFF $400: Seen here is a key for this technological innovation that changed life in the 19th century a telegraph
#8515, aired 2021-11-1919th CENTURY STUFF $800: In the 1850s a gold rush slogan was this Colorado mountain "or Bust" Pikes Peak
#8515, aired 2021-11-1919th CENTURY STUFF $1200: The mortsafe bars were not meant to stop zombies, but to prevent these criminals from getting in grave robbers
#8515, aired 2021-11-1919th CENTURY STUFF $1600: Tchaikovsky guest conducted during the May 1891 opening week of this New York City concert hall Carnegie Hall
#8515, aired 2021-11-1919th CENTURY STUFF $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1899 the queen laid the cornerstone for this London arts & design museum the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V & A)
#8505, aired 2021-11-05COMPUTER HISTORY $800: How punk--considered the first computer, Charles Babbage's 19th century Analytical Engine was designed to be powered by this steam
#8504, aired 2021-11-0419th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she chose as her running mate this famed orator & activist Frederick Douglass
#8504, aired 2021-11-0419th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1870, Hiram Revels was elected to the United States Senate from this state once represented by Jefferson Davis Mississippi
#8504, aired 2021-11-0419th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: In 1870 Robert Fox' treatment on a segregated streetcar sparked protests & a boycott in this largest Kentucky city Louisville
#8504, aired 2021-11-0419th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 1898 Black troops known as Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside the Rough Riders during the battle of this hill San Juan
#8504, aired 2021-11-0419th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: In 2020, this journalist seen here was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer citation for reporting on the era of lynching Ida B. Wells
#8502, aired 2021-11-02THIS CATEGORY HAS LEGS $1200: Billy Bowlegs was a 19th century leader of this southern people who fought three wars with the United States the Seminoles
#8500, aired 2021-10-29LANDSCAPE-ING $2000: "Landscape at Chaponval" is by this 19th century French painter whose name sounds like a conquistador's Camille Pissarro
#8498, aired 2021-10-27ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Camille Claudel is quoted as saying, "Excuse the dust on my blouse; I" practice this art form in marble "myself" sculpting
#8498, aired 2021-10-27ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: "Modern Woman", a mural done for the 1893 Chicago Expo by this female American in Paris, no longer exists Mary Cassatt
#8498, aired 2021-10-27ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $1600: Helga von Cramm was a youngish maiden when she painted this Alp whose name means "young maiden" Jungfrau
#8498, aired 2021-10-27ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $2000: Felix Mendelssohn threatened suicide if this Swedish soprano did not run away to America with him Jenny Lind
#8498, aired 2021-10-27ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): Married last name of opera art director Cosima; two of her children were named Siegfried & Isolde Wagner
#8493, aired 2021-10-20"E"-MALE $200: A towering figure in 19th century engineering, this Frenchman was known as the "Magician of Iron" Eiffel
#8490, aired 2021-10-15HISTORIC POTPOURRI $400: The Risorgimento was the 19th century movement to unify this country Italy
#8483, aired 2021-10-06GET A HOBBY $200: Have I told you, philately, that I love you? One of these from 19th century British Guiana sold for $9.5 million in 2014 a stamp
#8474, aired 2021-09-23REVIVAL $800: 19th century news, like the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, inspired the style called this Revival Egyptian
#8462, aired 2021-08-1019th CENTURY MUSIC $400: An early song to be mastered on keyboards, this 1877 tune shares a name with a set of eating implements "Chopsticks"
#8462, aired 2021-08-1019th CENTURY MUSIC $800: The orchestra known as the Berlin this, meaning "lover of music", debuted in 1882 Philharmonic
#8462, aired 2021-08-1019th CENTURY MUSIC $1200: Invented in France in the 1820s, this instrument seen here gets its name from the Latin for "horn" a cornet
#8462, aired 2021-08-1019th CENTURY MUSIC $2000: The first music publisher to move to what was nicknamed this "Alley" in New York City was M. Witmark & Sons in 1893 Tin Pan
#8462, aired 2021-08-1019th CENTURY MUSIC $4,000 (Daily Double): A veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, this German who built his first piano in 1836 later made a grand turn to America Henry Steinway
#8460, aired 2021-08-06LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS $400: Thomas Hovenden concentrated on everyday people like "The Village" this worker, a subject of 19th century poetry as well blacksmith
#8447, aired 2021-07-20AMERICAN NICKNAMES $800: "The Great Orator" was a nickname for this 19th century New Hampshire-born congressman, senator & Secretary of State Daniel Webster
#8438, aired 2021-07-07CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $400: "Jo's Journal" Little Women
#8438, aired 2021-07-07CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $800: "Hester and the Physician" The Scarlet Letter
#8438, aired 2021-07-07CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $1600: In this "familial" work: "The First Interview with Smerdyakov" The Brothers Karamazov
#8438, aired 2021-07-07CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $2000: By H.G. Wells, "The Reversion of the Beast Folk" The Island of Dr. Moreau
#8438, aired 2021-07-07CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Siege of La Rochelle" & "Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword" The Three Musketeers
#8435, aired 2021-07-02THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $2000: 19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard" Lear
#8430, aired 2021-06-25AMERICAN FACTORY $2000: In the 19th century, these 2 men started a Rochester, New York factory to make eyeglass lenses; contact lenses came later Bausch and Lomb
#8428, aired 2021-06-23THE ARISTOCRATS! $400: This alliterative "sanguine" term dates back to when it described the early 19th century aristocratic families of Spain blue bloods
#8426, aired 2021-06-21QUITE A PARADOX $2000: William Stanley Jevons' 19th century paradox stated if you increase this fuel's efficiency, consumption of it will rise coal
#8421, aired 2021-06-14ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $1600: A collection of verses first translated into English in the 19th century, "The Rubaiyat" is by this Persian poet Omar Khayyam
#8420, aired 2021-06-11GHOST $2000: "Ghost shirts" that were supposed to protect believers were part of this 19th century Native American movement the Ghost Dance movement
#8419, aired 2021-06-10SHADES OF GREEN $400: In the 19th century a poisonous copper compound was used to make a green pigment named for this gem emerald
#8419, aired 2021-06-10SET $800 (Daily Double): This type of diagram that uses overlapping circles to illustrate 2 set relationships is named for a 19th century Englishman a Venn diagram
#8417, aired 2021-06-08KEEP THE FAITH $2000: Founded in Iran in the mid-19th century, this faith has no priesthood & believes in the unity of humanity the Baha'i faith
#8414, aired 2021-06-03FATHERS OF INVENTION $1000: Last name of the 19th century Belgian who never heard of jazz but invented one of its main instruments Sax
#8410, aired 2021-05-28MATH CHAMPS $2000: This 19th century German, whose name is a unit of magnetism, was known as Princeps mathematicorum, "Prince of Mathematicians" Gauss
#8408, aired 2021-05-263 "D" $2000: This breed of terrier was named for a character in a 19th century novel the Dandie Dinmont Terrier
#8402, aired 2021-05-18I'M ON A BOAT! $600: You're in a big argument with someone when you're "at" these, also posts found on 19th century whaling boats loggerheads
#8399, aired 2021-05-13FOR YOUR PIES ONLY $400: 19th century confectioner, Elizabeth Goodfellow introduced this sweet & tart delight to America lemon meringue pie
#8394, aired 2021-05-0612-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word for a guy who stays home & takes care of kids & chores dates back to the 19th century, but then it was a fictional idea a househusband
#8384, aired 2021-04-22PREMIERE EPISODES $5,000 (Daily Double): In Chicago, a 19th century kaleidoscope was one of the title artifacts on this PBS show's first episode in 1997 Antiques Roadshow
#8382, aired 2021-04-2017-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Critic Roger Fry coined this term for the late 19th century art style of Seurat & Gauguin Postimpressionism
#8380, aired 2021-04-16NATIVE AMERICANS $800: Sitting Bull was a chief of this people who united under him for survival in the late 19th century the Sioux
#8375, aired 2021-04-09HISTORIC PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): Florence Nightingale pioneered modern nursing while tending to wounded soldiers during this 19th century war the Crimean War
#8371, aired 2021-04-05BASEBALL MANAGERS $2000: The manager of 3 teams in the 19th century, he later owned the White Sox; for 8 decades the Sox' field was named for him (Charles) Comiskey
#8367, aired 2021-03-30HISTORY $800: This people who formed an empire in 19th century southern Africa bears the name of a ruler, the son of Malandela Zulu
#8351, aired 2021-03-08THE BOURGEOISIE $600: An essential part of the 19th century German decor called biedermeier was one of these, ein klavier a piano
#8343, aired 2021-02-24PAINTINGS $800: The Musee d'Orsay has this 19th century artist's "Dance at the Moulin Rouge" Toulouse-Lautrec
#8342, aired 2021-02-23DUNCAN $2000: The gilded armchair seen here is attributed to this 19th century furniture maker, a leader of neoclassicism Duncan Phyfe
#8333, aired 2021-02-103-NAMED AUTHORS $400: This 19th century New England thinker penned the "Concord Hymn" & the essay "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8333, aired 2021-02-10GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1200: This term arose from a 19th century cartoon of a twisted Massachusetts district gerrymander
#8332, aired 2021-02-09HISTORICAL PAIRS $400: 19th century Mexican president Benito Juárez began the separation of la iglesia y el estado, this pair church & state
#8331, aired 2021-02-08PEOPLE & PLACES $400: In the 19th century Wilhelm Bleek took Ntu, meaning "man", & created this word for a 100-million-strong linguistic group Bantu
#8329, aired 2021-02-04MAN'S PLAIN $600: Named for 19th century polymath Alexander von Humboldt, Mare Humboldtianum is a huge plain here the Moon
#8328, aired 2021-02-03A CANDY STORE $600: True Treats in W.V. sells candy from many eras, including peanut brittle from this 19th century horticulturist's recipe George Washington Carver
#8327, aired 2021-02-02OLD NEWSPAPERS $1200: The name of this 19th century William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist newspaper reminds us of Simon Bolivar The Liberator
#8324, aired 2021-01-28CLOTHING TIME $800: These wide & loose pants were named for a 19th century social reformer & feminist bloomers
#8321, aired 2021-01-25PHILOSOPHY $2000: Mohism, in 5th century B.C. China, argued for doing "what is beneficial to the world", like this -ism that arose in 19th c. Britain utilitarianism
#8318, aired 2021-01-20DON'T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) $1000: A precursor to war in the late 19th century was "Remember the Maine, to hell with" this country Spain
#8318, aired 2021-01-20GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE $1000: The portrait here is of 19th century French empress Eugénie surround by these ladies, you know it's true ladies-in-waiting
#8312, aired 2021-01-12NOTABLE WOMEN $400: A headlining star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the 19th century, she was a champion sharpshooter at age 15 Annie Oakley
#8312, aired 2021-01-12WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $2000: Late 19th century entertainers often toured the country this way, doing one-night shows in makeshift theaters barnstorming
#8308, aired 2021-01-0619th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In April 1877 Pres. Hayes withdrew federal troops from Louisiana, officially ending this post-Civil-War period Reconstruction
#8308, aired 2021-01-0619th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1801 this cotton gin inventor demonstrated his idea for interchangeable parts for guns Eli Whitney
#8308, aired 2021-01-0619th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: An 1842 attempt to move public records (& the capital) back to Houston caused the Texas Archives War in this city Austin
#8308, aired 2021-01-0619th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: For some reason the Anti-Masonic Party chose onetime Freemason William Wirt to challenge this incumbent president in 1832 Andrew Jackson
#8308, aired 2021-01-0619th CENTURY AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1857 this monthly magazine with an oceanic name was founded in Boston; it moved to D.C. 150 years later The Atlantic
#8305, aired 2020-12-18CHINESE HISTORY $1200: In the late 19th century, China was dominated by Tzu-hsi, known as this empress, the widow of an emperor the Dowager Empress
#8295, aired 2020-12-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: 'Twas 2 days before Christmas in 1823 that the poem "A Visit from" him was published anonymously in a New York newspaper St. Nicholas
#8295, aired 2020-12-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: This Stevenson classic is divided into 6 parts including "The Old Buccaneer" & "Captain Silver" Treasure Island
#8295, aired 2020-12-04MINING $1000: Barney Barnato, one of the 19th century's "Randlords", made his fortune in the 1870s mining these diamonds
#8295, aired 2020-12-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: In 1863 he published a novel about "The Cossacks", who also get plenty of mention in his next, more epic, work (Leo) Tolstoy
#8295, aired 2020-12-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): His adventure novel "Une Ville Flottante", "A Floating City", takes place on a steamship, not under the sea Jules Verne
#8295, aired 2020-12-0419th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: His first book of poems, "The Black Riders" was published in 1895, the same year as his "Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane
#8284, aired 2020-11-1919th CENTURY PLAYS $400: With an innocent bride & a scheming villain, 1860's "The Colleen Bawn" was this popular type of play with "drama" right in the word a melodrama
#8284, aired 2020-11-1919th CENTURY PLAYS $800: Guy ends his family line by picking this non-reproducing profession in "Guy Domville", a painful flop for playwright Henry James a priest
#8284, aired 2020-11-1919th CENTURY PLAYS $1200: Marie Duplessis, who died of this disease at age 23 in 1847, inspired Alexandre Dumas fils to write "La Dame aux Camelias" consumption (tuberculosis)
#8284, aired 2020-11-1919th CENTURY PLAYS $2000: His 1893 "A Woman of No Importance" has lines like "Never trust a woman who tells one her real age"; she "would tell one anything" Oscar Wilde
#8284, aired 2020-11-1919th CENTURY PLAYS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Scandinavian's last play, "When We Dead Awaken", ends with an avalanche burying the 2 main characters Ibsen
#8279, aired 2020-11-125-LETTER COUNTRIES $600: In the 19th century, this Mideast nation fell under the control of the Al Thani Dynasty, which still rules there today Qatar
#8278, aired 2020-11-11SET THE TABLE $400: These can be quite elegant as in the 19th century Venetian example here; tacos & fried chicken must have been popular in 19th century Venice a finger bowl
#8278, aired 2020-11-11SHE SHOOTS $600: 19th century rivals ridiculed Julia Margaret Cameron's blurry photos; she's now revered as a pioneer of soft "this" focus
#8262, aired 2020-10-20THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $200: The Era of Good Feelings was a period of post-war calm in the early 19th century, mostly during this man's presidency Monroe
#8260, aired 2020-10-16POETS & POETRY $400: In the 19th century Mary Sawyer claimed she was the inspiration for this nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb"
#8260, aired 2020-10-16FEEL THE POWER! $1600: California's Ivanpah plant focuses solar rays to heat tanks of water, spinning turbines with this 19th century type of power steam
#8260, aired 2020-10-16FEEL THE POWER! $2000: The metal cage named for this 19th century English physicist can shield a device from outside electrical fields a Faraday cage
#8252, aired 2020-10-06RELIGION $1200: In the 19th century Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri founded this faith in Iran Baháʼí
#8240, aired 2020-09-18NORSEMEN $400: Unlike Hägar's, the first complete Viking helmet ever found lacks these, largely an invention of a 19th century Wagner opera designer horns
#8237, aired 2020-09-15KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) In the 19th century, Mischief, Vigilant, and, appropriately, Defender kept this item in the hands of the U.S. for what eventually added up to 132 years and 24 defenses, including one led by Ted Turner--yes, that Ted Turner the America's Cup
#8234, aired 2020-06-11A RIVER RUNS UNDER IT $200: Covered over in the late 19th century, the Bievre runs under Paris before flowing into this river the Seine
#8231, aired 2020-06-0819th CENTURY NOTABLES $400: "Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!" Julia ward Howe wrote the words to this song, which was a Union Army standard during the Civil War “Battle Hymn Of The Republic”
#8231, aired 2020-06-0819th CENTURY NOTABLES $800: His operas "Il Trovatore" & "La Traviata" both premiered in 1853 Verdi
#8231, aired 2020-06-0819th CENTURY NOTABLES $1200: Mary Baker Eddy founded this religion after spiritual healing helped her recover from a serious fall Church of Christ Scientist
#8231, aired 2020-06-0819th CENTURY NOTABLES $1600: We wonder who snapped the photo of him as he was usually behind the camera Mathew Brady
#8226, aired 2020-06-0119th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Lewis Carroll mirrored the success of his "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with this 1872 sequel Through the Looking-Glass
#8226, aired 2020-06-0119th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: The painting seen here, depicts a scene from this Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop
#8226, aired 2020-06-0119th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: "Agnes Grey" is a novel by this lesser-known sister Anne Bronte
#8226, aired 2020-06-0119th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $1600: He wrote a critique of prison life, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", after spending time in the prison; it was his last published work Oscar Wilde
#8226, aired 2020-06-0119th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: The title gem in this Wilkie Collins novel was originally stolen from an Indian shrine The Moonstone
#8225, aired 2020-05-29RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF $1200: This 19th century poet, playwright and unsuccessful duelist is considered a founder of modern Russian literature Alexander Pushkin
#8211, aired 2020-04-27UH, PHRASING... $2000: This 2-word term for someone deemed attractive yet chaotic has origins in warm foods served in the 19th century a hot mess
#8209, aired 2020-04-23DRAW ME $2000: This early 19th century German author and thinker received more than 20,000 surviving letters; here he is with one of them Goethe
#8200, aired 2020-04-10LITERARY GENRES $1600: Penguin has a line of regency romance novels that are set during the regency of the soon-to-be George IV, in this century the 19th century
#8199, aired 2020-04-09PARTY IN THE USA $800: Historians paired this word with "Republican" in the name of an 18th & 19th century American party Democratic
#8187, aired 2020-03-24WHAT AN IDIOM! $1000: 19th century British PM Lord John Russell was jeered for writing nonsense when he coined "Conspicuous by its" this absence
#8187, aired 2020-03-24GET-TOGETHERS $1600: In 19th century England you might be invited to an unwrapping party for this item that had been brought from Egypt a mummy
#8184, aired 2020-03-19HISTORIC ELEMENTS & MINERALS $1600: In the 19th century Cornwall was a world leader in producing tin & tin's by-product, this poison with atomic number 33 arsenic
#8177, aired 2020-03-10POET-POURRI $200: Hailee Steinfeld plays this 19th century poet in an Apple TV+ series with lots of 21st century touches Emily Dickinson
#8168, aired 2020-02-26TRIUMPH OF ARCHES $2000: The Cuban Arch of Triumph is in a park honoring this 19th century Cuban hero José Martí
#8166, aired 2020-02-2419th CENTURY HISTORY $400: April 9, 1878 was a normal night in Dodge City; Jack Wagner killed marshal Ed Masterson & this brother of Ed's killed Jack Bat Masterson
#8166, aired 2020-02-2419th CENTURY HISTORY $800: Until 1875 the Suez Canal was owned by Egypt & France, then financial problems forced Egypt to sell its shares to this country the United Kingdom
#8166, aired 2020-02-2419th CENTURY HISTORY $1200: With a capacity of 7,000 barrels, the Charles of Antwerp shipped out in 1869 as the first this to sail an oil tanker
#8166, aired 2020-02-2419th CENTURY HISTORY $1600: Once known as Upper Peru, it changed its name upon independence in 1825 to honor the man who helped liberate it Bolivia
#8166, aired 2020-02-2419th CENTURY HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): After success at Second Bull Run, Confederate armies began an invasion of Maryland; this Sept. 17, 1862 battle stopped them Antietam
#8164, aired 2020-02-20LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $800: Seen here, 19th century's Spanish general Pablo Morillo was sent to South America to finish off this man but had to make peace with him (Simon) Bolivar
#8164, aired 2020-02-205 OF A KIND $1000: ["Flight Of The Bumblebee" plays] That music was by one of "The Five" mighty Russian composers of the 19th century--this man with a hyphenated name Rimsky-Korsakov
#8163, aired 2020-02-19POTPOURRI $400: This 19th century service used mochilas, especially designed saddlebags with mail pouches the Pony Express
#8155, aired 2020-02-07AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Damien Hirst & director Steve McQueen have won the British visual arts prize named for this 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner
#8154, aired 2020-02-06FIRST NAME $400: 19th century "Pathfinder" & politician Fremont John
#8153, aired 2020-02-05NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: In 2007 Rupert Murdoch bought this newspaper that was started by Charles Dow in the 19th century the Wall Street Journal
#8152, aired 2020-02-04AROUND OHIO $600: 30 miles of historic byway in Ohio are dedicated to this 19th century planter; the area includes some of his original nurseries Johnny Appleseed
#8149, aired 2020-01-30BOOTS $800: Familial name for the women's lace-up boots in imitation of a 19th century style granny boots
#8141, aired 2020-01-20FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) The 20th century painting here of southern France is by Jean, great-grandson of this 19th century French romantic author Victor Hugo
#8138, aired 2020-01-15TEAM AMERICA $200: The first Olympic Team USA, in this 19th century year, consisted of 14 athletes, who won 11 events 1896
#8, aired 2020-01-14PURPLE REIGN $800: Way back in the 19th century, the football team of this school that's now in the Big Ten was nicknamed "The Purple" Northwestern
#8, aired 2020-01-14VICE PRESIDENTS $1600: Hubert H. Humphrey had the monogram H.H.H.; for this 19th century veep, it was H.H. (Hannibal) Hamlin
#7, aired 2020-01-14BRITISH STUFF $4,800 (Daily Double): One of Britain's greatest minds was this 19th century physicist & author of "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" James Clerk Maxwell
#8133, aired 2020-01-08BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: At the end of the 19th century, this man started selling his "In-a-Dor" beds (William) Murphy
#3, aired 2020-01-08SHORT STORY SYLLABUS $1000: This 19th century French short story master is noted for twist endings, as in "The Necklace" Guy de Maupassant
#8123, aired 2019-12-25FACE THE AUTHOR $400: Many of the events of his novels were based on his own experiences as a 19th century sailor and whaler Melville
#8117, aired 2019-12-17FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at Grant's Tomb in New York City.) The tomb of Ulysses S. Grant, once New York City's most popular attraction, was partly inspired by the tomb of this other 19th century man who was both a great general and a head of state Napoleon Bonaparte
#8115, aired 2019-12-13FACTS $800: In the mid-19th century, the screw type of this took over from the paddle wheel as the way to make steamships go a propeller
#8113, aired 2019-12-11COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL $6,000 (Daily Double): Last name of British officer Henry, who invented a very destructive artillery shell at the beginning of the 19th century Shrapnel
#8108, aired 2019-12-04ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $2000: It's a thick cream soup, or unglazed porcelain popularly used to make dolls in the 19th century a bisque
#8095, aired 2019-11-15"R"CHITECTURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.) The Castle, the Smithsonian Institution's main building, was designed by this prolific 19th century architect, who would go on to design St. Patrick's Cathedral James Renwick
#8095, aired 2019-11-15"R"CHITECTURE $8,615 (Daily Double): As a style, it was early 19th century British; as a building, it's the Atlanta Hyatt that began the hotel atrium era Regency
#8085, aired 2019-11-01THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $1200: Colson Whitehead liberated the 2016 Fiction Award for his novel about this title 19th century "conveyance" The Underground Railroad
#8080, aired 2019-10-25KIDD STUFF $2000: This 3-named author went back to the 19th century in her novel "The Invention of Wings" Sue Monk Kidd
#8077, aired 2019-10-22BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1000: A giant of 19th century politics as well as a novelist, he was the first man of Jewish ancestry to be prime minister Disraeli
#8068, aired 2019-10-09LIFE ON MARS $2000: Keep your water supply handy--long, straight surface lines thought to be systems of these proved to be a 19th century myth canals
#8065, aired 2019-10-04FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY $1200: Clay held this congressional leadership post for 10 years, longer than anyone else in the 19th century Speaker of the House
#8055, aired 2019-09-20TRIAL OF THE CENTURY $3,000 (Daily Double): Amistad mutiny trial 19th
#8039, aired 2019-07-1819th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On July 24, 1866 this state volunteered to be the first Confederate one readmitted to the Union Tennessee
#8039, aired 2019-07-1819th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Born in Mass. in 1820, she had abolition & temperance as her main causes before focusing on women's rights (Susan B.) Anthony
#8039, aired 2019-07-1819th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1880 this was a gleam in the eye of William Sawyer & Albon Man; they filed a patent on it & got into years of struggle with Edison a light bulb
#8039, aired 2019-07-1819th CENTURY AMERICA $800: The Chickasaw & Choctaw were 2 of the quintet given this patronizing name, for their relatively assimilated ways the Civilized Tribes
#8039, aired 2019-07-1819th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This publisher founded the New York Tribune as a Whig paper & later helped start the Republican party in 1854 (Horace) Greeley
#8035, aired 2019-07-12TAKE ME TO YOUR LIEDER $400: Typically, 19th century lieder, or songs, were arranged for 1 vocalist & 1 accompanist on this instrument a piano
#8035, aired 2019-07-12MEN IN BLACK $400: 19th century artist Hokusai is credited with the first image of these stealthy warriors wearing black a ninja
#8030, aired 2019-07-05NATIONAL $2000: From the 19th century until they united in 1971, members of this national federation were known as the Trucial states the United Arab Emirates
#8026, aired 2019-07-01DANES $1000: For this 19th century philosopher, "Subjectivity... is truth" Kierkegaard
#8025, aired 2019-06-28POETEENS $800: John Keats, part of this passionate early 19th century movement, wrote his 1st known poem at about 18 & didn't live to see 26 Romanticism
#8024, aired 2019-06-27WOMEN SOLDIERS $1600: A comrade of Geronimo, Dahteste was a 19th century female warrior of this Native American tribe the Apache
#8023, aired 2019-06-26LEGENDARY! $2000: This end-of-the-alphabet vigilante of 19th century Calif. used 3 quick sword strokes to carve his favorite letter into his foes Zorro
#8013, aired 2019-06-12WAR IN LITERATURE $400: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recounted events from this 19th century war the Crimean War
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $3,800 (Daily Double): "The Road to Freedom" is the subtitle of Catherine Clinton's bio of this 19th century woman Harriet Tubman
#7996, aired 2019-05-20ART SCHOOL OF FISH $800: E.S. Hardy's 19th-century depiction of this Hans Christian Andersen character is seen here the Little Mermaid
#7996, aired 2019-05-20A PRINCE AMONG MEN $9,812 (Daily Double): In the mid-19th century, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg helped restore this Austrian line to prominence Habsburg
#7989, aired 2019-05-09LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: You'll find the Cheshire Cat (or at times only part of him) in this 19th century children's classic Alice in Wonderland
#7985, aired 2019-05-03THINGS THAT HAPPENED $400: In the mid-19th century, the U.S. Army imported these creatures from Africa as pack animals--it didn't last camels
#7985, aired 2019-05-03GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $800: This branch of zoology that focuses on insects emerged as a distinct field of study in the early 19th century entomology
#7984, aired 2019-05-02TORY SPELLING $7,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century Tory was nicknamed Dizzy D-I-S-R-A-E-L-I
#7972, aired 2019-04-16LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: A 19th century character gives us this word for a penny-pincher scrooge
#7957, aired 2019-03-26LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $800: Simon Legree is murderous slave owner in this 19th century bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin
#7957, aired 2019-03-26THE LAST TIME I SAW ENGLAND $1200: In Ford Madox Brown's "The Last of England", 19th century emigrants leave this landmark, receding behind them the cliffs of Dover
#7955, aired 2019-03-22HISTORICAL FICTION $800: Cora, a 19th century slave, escapes via this title transport system in a 2017 Pulitzer winner the Underground Railroad
#7953, aired 2019-03-20SHOPPING ABBREV. $400: Named for a 19th century trunk maker: LV Louis Vuitton
#7953, aired 2019-03-20SCI-FI SUBGENRES $800: Generally, steampunk science fiction is set in this century the 19th
#7953, aired 2019-03-20BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Late 19th century circus siblings who are the subject of Dostoyevsky's last, & some say greatest, novel Ringling Brothers Karamazov
#7949, aired 2019-03-14THAT'S MY MATH OR SCIENCE THING! $800: Here's our in-depth examination of cats and dogs in this diagram, named for a 19th-century English logician Venn
#7947, aired 2019-03-12A HOLE IN THE GROUND $400: 19th century County Supervisor Julian Chavez got this type of deep valley named for him in Los Angeles ravine
#7946, aired 2019-03-11CHANNEL SURFING $3,000 (Daily Double): Dusky dolphins surf this South American channel, named for a 19th century science ship the Beagle
#7943, aired 2019-03-0619th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: In 1899 this man for whom a military medical center is named finished his work on typhoid & turned to yellow fever Walter Reed
#7943, aired 2019-03-0619th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: At the first modern Olympics in 1896, Spyridon Louis won the epic running race for Greece the marathon
#7943, aired 2019-03-0619th CENTURY PEOPLE $1200: This man who made mail-order mighty met Alvah Roebuck in 1887 when Alvah answered an ad for a watchmaker (Richard) Sears
#7943, aired 2019-03-0619th CENTURY PEOPLE $2000: This novelist-turned-politician was a favorite of Queen Victoria's & twice served as her prime minister Disraeli
#7943, aired 2019-03-0619th CENTURY PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This Maine senator who became Lincoln's veep was named for an uncle who was named for a Carthaginian general Hannibal Hamlin
#7940, aired 2019-03-01TRAVEL $800: Check out one of the last great 19th century hotels, the colonial-style Raffles Hotel in this Asian island country Singapore
#7940, aired 2019-03-01HISTORY WITH LESSER-KNOWN PAINTERS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The scepter has symbolically fallen from King Robert's hand in a 19th-century painting by Jean-Paul Laurens titled after this action taken against the king by the pope excommunication
#7940, aired 2019-03-01"E"PONYMOUS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew swirls some liquids in a flask.) Liquids can be swirled & mixed without danger of spillage in this tapered laboratory flask, named for a 19th-century German chemist the Erlenmeyer flask
#7937, aired 2019-02-26THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $200: "Jude the Obscure"; remember to let it into your heart the 19th century
#7925, aired 2019-02-08THE NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME $200: Sitting Bull called her "Little Sure Shot' in the 19th century; N.J. called her Hall-worthy in 21st Annie Oakley
#7925, aired 2019-02-08THE NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME $1000: This 19th century author & creator of Natty Bumppo got the call in 2015 James Fenimore Cooper
#7922, aired 2019-02-05FROM B TO C $1000: He wrote more than 90 stories examining the complexities of 19th century French society Balzac
#7919, aired 2019-01-31SCRIBBLING SIBLINGS $400: This member of a 19th century sister act published her only novel under the name Ellis Bell Emily Brontë
#7917, aired 2019-01-29HAMBURGERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Hamburger was a virtuoso pianist as well as one of the 19th century's great composers Johannes Brahms
#7904, aired 2019-01-10OF CORSICA $1000: Gee, Corsica has a lot of these cute little caves--19th century poet-traveler Edward Lear said, "We have seen so many" grottoes
#7900, aired 2019-01-0419th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $200: While not as common today, throughout the 1800s, these women attended births & helped deliver the babies midwives
#7900, aired 2019-01-0419th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $400: A common last name, it was one who made & repaired casks & barrels a cooper
#7900, aired 2019-01-0419th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $600: Due to the smell, this person who cured animal hides into leather usually had his business on the outskirts of town a tanner
#7900, aired 2019-01-0419th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $800: Women's hats were all the rage & it was this person's job to make & sell them a milliner
#7900, aired 2019-01-0419th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $1000: He was the 5-letter guy laying the bricks a mason
#7899, aired 2019-01-03BRAND OF "BROTHERS" $800: In the late 19th century, George invited brothers Charles & Edward to join him in this board game company Parker Brothers
#7885, aired 2018-12-14GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $2000: Thandie Newton reads this 19th century gothic novel "Mr. Rochester!", I exclaimed, "Who is he?" "The owner of Thornfield," she responded quietly, "Did you not know he was called Rochester?" Jane Eyre
#7881, aired 2018-12-10EPONYMS $600: This tight-fitting garment was the last name of a 19th century French trapeze artist who wore one leotard
#7879, aired 2018-12-06MAN OF THE CENTURY $200: Victor Hugo wasn't always miserable in it the 19th century (or the 1800s)
#7875, aired 2018-11-30I GOT "U" BABE $400: The Portuguese introduced this instrument to Hawaii in the late 19th century the ukulele
#7869, aired 2018-11-22SOCIAL SCIENCE $400: In the 19th century Auguste Comte coined this "ology" for the study of human communities & institutions sociology
#7864, aired 2018-11-15FRESHWATER FISH $1600: This tiny aquarium fish was named for a British scientist who worked in Trinidad in the 19th century a guppy
#7861, aired 2018-11-12ECOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2018 the U.K. ran without this fossil fuel for 3 consecutive days for the first time since the 19th century coal
#7855, aired 2018-11-02IN THE ROOM $1000: A 19th century poem begins, "'Will you walk into'" this room, "said the spider to the fly" my parlor
#7833, aired 2018-10-03KARATE $800: This island conquered by Japan in the 19th century is often said to be karate's birthplace Okinawa
#7829, aired 2018-09-27BANDITS $800: 19th century Australian bandits were called these "rangers", referring to 4-letter wild country bush
#7825, aired 2018-09-21ONE GIANT LEAP $400: Raise a toast to this man for his 19th century discoveries in microbiology & for saving the French wine industry Pasteur
#7811, aired 2018-07-23HIT THE BEACHES $1600: This California beach town & surfing mecca is named for 19th century railroad magnate Henry Huntington Beach
#7805, aired 2018-07-13IRISH HISTORY $2000: Dublin's main thoroughfare commemorates this last name of 19th century Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell
#7804, aired 2018-07-12YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $800: The 19th century Industrial Age gave us roller milling, making white this more available to the masses bread
#7802, aired 2018-07-10FROM Z TO A $400: Scientists in South Africa are trying to bring back the quagga, a species of this that became extinct in the 19th century a zebra
#7801, aired 2018-07-09ANCIENT ROME $1,200 (Daily Double): A 19th century historian wrongly thought the emperor Severus built this divider Hadrian's Wall
#7798, aired 2018-07-04GREAT BRITS $1600: Many consider this artist with the given names Joseph Mallord William the greatest landscapist of the 19th century Turner
#7796, aired 2018-07-02DANISH FOOD & DRINK $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Torvehallerne Market in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In Denmark, a danish isn't a danish, but a wienerbrød, introduced by bakers who came to Copenhagen in the 19th century from this European city Vienna
#7793, aired 2018-06-27POET-POURRI $2000: This 3-named Amer. 19th century poet wrote, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" John Greenleaf Whittier
#7789, aired 2018-06-21PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $400: This Dane's "The Little Match Girl" is no fairy tale: the protagonist freezes to death Hans Christian Andersen
#7789, aired 2018-06-21PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $800: His 1835 "Young Goodman Brown" shows a dark side of New England Hawthorne
#7789, aired 2018-06-21PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $1200: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", called "the original American fright-fest" (Washington) Irving
#7789, aired 2018-06-21PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $1600: Last name on the fairy tale collection "Kinder- und Hausmarchen" Grimm
#7789, aired 2018-06-21PIN THE TALE ON THE 19th CENTURY WRITER $2000: This author of "The Awakening" also produced "Regret", a tale about a woman caring for her neighbor's children (Kate) Chopin
#7777, aired 2018-06-05I DON'T WANNA CRAMP $400: This 2-word "animal" term for a painful leg cramp traces back to 19th century baseball slang a Charley horse
#7776, aired 2018-06-04THE DISASTER ARTISTS $800: This Spaniard's 19th century series truly captures "The Disasters of War" Goya
#7770, aired 2018-05-25EARLY 19th CENTURY TIMELINE $400: July 13, 1836: The U.S. grants its first numbered one of these, for a new type of locomotive wheel a patent
#7770, aired 2018-05-25EARLY 19th CENTURY TIMELINE $800: August 6, 1806: Long declining, this empire falls completely the Holy Roman Empire
#7770, aired 2018-05-25EARLY 19th CENTURY TIMELINE $1200: January 1, 1801: The Act of Union unites Britain & this country Ireland
#7770, aired 2018-05-25EARLY 19th CENTURY TIMELINE $1600: 1822: Jean-Francois Champollion deciphers hieroglyphics using this stone the Rosetta Stone
#7770, aired 2018-05-25EARLY 19th CENTURY TIMELINE $2000: July 2, 1839: Erstwhile slaves take over this Spanish schooner the Amistad
#7765, aired 2018-05-18PUTTING THE VICE IN VICE PRESIDENT $800: A 19th century man on the go, he was indicted for murder & later tried for treason (Aaron) Burr
#7765, aired 2018-05-18HOME ROOM $800: About 19th century female writers, a 1979 classic of literary criticism is titled "The Madwoman in" this room the attic
#7759, aired 2018-05-10AN APPELLATION FOR THE TEACHER $2000: This 19th century educator became "the schoolmaster of the nation" for his "readers" that sold more than 100 million copies William McGuffey
#7752, aired 2018-05-01POTENT MEASUREMENTS $2000: In the 19th century, the U.K. designated 14 ounces as the size bearing the name of this ship a schooner
#7728, aired 2018-03-28LEAGUES $5,000 (Daily Double): In the 19th century the Land League on this island sought to gain more rights from their British landlords Ireland
#7722, aired 2018-03-20COMPOSERS $1200: In the 19th century composers like Mendelssohn & Weber were among the first to do this standing up lead the orchestra (or conduct)
#7722, aired 2018-03-20BOOKS ABOUT ASIA $1600: Simon Winchester's study of the 19th century eruption of this volcano is subtitled "The Day the World Exploded" Krakatoa
#7719, aired 2018-03-15LITERARY STYLES & MOVEMENTS $1200: Cyberpunk is sci-fi set in the future; this is sci-fi set in the 19th century steampunk
#7713, aired 2018-03-07LITERARY EPONYMS $800: This classic men's hat was named for a 19th century play whose title character was actually a woman fedora
#7703, aired 2018-02-21HODGEPODGE $1600: Dating back to the 19th century, it's a variation of volleyball where you catch the ball Newcomb ball
#7702, aired 2018-02-20OF DIMES $1000: Popular & cheap books of the late 19th century were called dime novels in the United States & by this other coin term in the UK penny dreadfuls
#7695, aired 2018-02-09PUN-ISHMENT $1000: Those wacky 19th century Democrats won with the campaign slogan "We Polked you in '44. We shall" do this to "you in '52" Pierce
#7689, aired 2018-02-01STAG, YOU'RE IT $2000: A famous 19th century image by Edwin Landseer is "Stag at" this, referring to being trapped, not the body of water bay
#7685, aired 2018-01-26THE FABRICS OF OUR LIVES $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.) For the ladies, 19th century New England stores, like in Old Sturbridge Village, had to stock the latest in this fabric named for a large Indian city; the fabric would vary between darker & lighter colors & busier & plainer prints calico
#7680, aired 2018-01-1919th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $400: Once cordwainers made shoes & these guys fixed them a cobbler
#7680, aired 2018-01-1919th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $800: A turnkey was a person who worked here a jail
#7680, aired 2018-01-19THE BOSTON TANGLER $800: This great 19th-century bare-knuckle heavyweight champ was known as the "Boston Strong Boy" John L. Sullivan
#7680, aired 2018-01-1919th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $1200: This person specialized in selling books as well as paper, pens, ink & other writing essentials a stationer
#7680, aired 2018-01-1919th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This person didn't drive trucks but rather horses or oxen hauling cargo a teamster
#7680, aired 2018-01-1919th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $2000: It was one of the 2 main products sold by a tallow maker a candle (or soap)
#7677, aired 2018-01-16GETTING POSSESSIVE $1000: With symptoms like dizziness & ringing in the ears, it's named for a 19th century French physician Ménière's disease
#7676, aired 2018-01-15SPEAKING ITALIANS $2000: This 19th century virtuoso: "When women hear me play (the violin), they come crawling to my feet" Paganini
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE 19th CENTURY $200: This Paris landmark was assembled from more than 18,000 prefabricated metal parts the Eiffel Tower
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE 19th CENTURY $400: Tradition said the Liberty Bell cracked when it tolled in 1835 for this chief justice's funeral Marshall
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE 19th CENTURY $600: Explorer Richard Burton disguised himself as an Afghan doctor to enter this holy city on Sept. 11, 1853 Mecca
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE 19th CENTURY $1000: After this project was completed in 1825, freight rates from Buffalo to New York City dropped from $100 to $10 a ton the Erie Canal
#7649, aired 2017-12-07THE 19th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1859 he became the only U.S. state governor who had previously been a foreign head of state (Sam) Houston
#7636, aired 2017-11-20COLORING BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): A quote from this 19th century novel: "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!" The Scarlet Letter
#7630, aired 2017-11-10CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This German-born composer was called the Mozart of the 19th century Mendelssohn
#7628, aired 2017-11-08BOATS & SHIPS $400: Here's the Flying Cloud, this type of speedy 19th century ship a clipper
#7627, aired 2017-11-07THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $400: The image of this character from a 19th-century work has become a symbol for opera from the Romantic era Brünnhilde
#7627, aired 2017-11-07THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $2000: Operas with subjects drawn from common life like "Pagliacci" were part of this "real life" 19th century movement verismo
#7625, aired 2017-11-03THANK YOU, SENATOR $2000: This 19th century California senator helped form the Central Pacific Railroad & founded a university (Leland) Stanford
#7623, aired 2017-11-0119th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1813 Baltimore seamstress Mary Pickersgill was commissioned to make the 30' x 42' garrison flag that flew over this fort Fort McHenry
#7623, aired 2017-11-0119th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The term "Era of Good Feelings" was first used in 1817 by a Boston newspaper after this president visited the city (James) Monroe
#7623, aired 2017-11-0119th CENTURY AMERICA $600: An 1878 novel about a cattle drive is considered the first fictional treatment of this archetypal Westerner a cowboy
#7623, aired 2017-11-0119th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1840 to 1860 this island of 8 million sent 1.7 million immigrants to the United States Ireland
#7623, aired 2017-11-0119th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: The body of this Sauk leader for whom an 1832 war is named was kept in an Iowa museum until 1855, when the museum burned Black Hawk
#7623, aired 2017-11-01OLD NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1600: In the 19th century this imperial nation used "Gott Erhalte Franz Den Kaiser", "God Save Emperor Francis" Austria
#7618, aired 2017-10-25FAIRY TALES $400: Here's a 19th century illustration of this character Puss in Boots
#7615, aired 2017-10-20DOING BUSINESS IN THE 1800s $1600: Early 19th century British textile makers saw their labor-saving machines smashed by these activists the Luddites
#7607, aired 2017-10-1019th CENTURY SPORTS $400: In 1878 the annual regatta between these 2 schools moved to the Thames River in Connecticut Yale & Harvard
#7607, aired 2017-10-1019th CENTURY SPORTS $800: Seen here is this man, who in 1891 came up with a new sport Naismith
#7607, aired 2017-10-1019th CENTURY SPORTS $1200: On June 6, 1892 he became the first president to attend a major league baseball game while in office Benjamin Harrison
#7607, aired 2017-10-1019th CENTURY SPORTS $1600: On Nov. 12, 1892, $500 from this city's Allegheny Athletic Assn. made Pudge Heffelfinger the 1st known pro football player Pittsburgh
#7607, aired 2017-10-1019th CENTURY SPORTS $2000: In 1895 this Rhode Island city's country club held the first US. Open Golf Championships won by Horace Rawlins Newport
#7605, aired 2017-10-0619th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Martha Finley wrote 28 novels about Elsie, a virtuous Southern girl who lives on these including the Oaks & Roselands plantations
#7605, aired 2017-10-0619th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Johanna Spyri spent summers in the Swiss Alps & used her memories in this book about an orphan girl sent to live there Heidi
#7605, aired 2017-10-0619th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Henrik Ibsen was influenced by Camilla Collett, a 19th c. novelist & women's rights advocate in this, their home country Norway
#7605, aired 2017-10-0619th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: Her "Silas Marner" is subtitled "The Weaver of Raveloe" George Eliot
#7605, aired 2017-10-0619th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 3-named "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author also penned "A Little Princess" Frances Hodgson Burnett
#7604, aired 2017-10-05BOOKS' FIRST LINES $1600: From 19th century England: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" Jane Eyre
#7599, aired 2017-09-28COUNTY SEATS $1200: 19th century toilets are part of the collection of Watertown's Plumbing Museum in this state's Middlesex County Massachusetts
#7597, aired 2017-09-26ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $400: Richard Pryor was the first recipient of this prize for American humor that's named for a 19th century novelist Mark Twain
#7596, aired 2017-09-25WORLD HISTORY $400: In the early 19th century, philhellenic groups sprang up across the world to aid this country's independence Greece
#7595, aired 2017-09-22"GEO" PARTY $400: 19th century Russian Nikolay Lobachevsky founded non-Euclidean this field geometry
#7591, aired 2017-09-18ISLANDS $1000: The Duke of York islands are coral islands in this South Seas archipelago named for a 19th century German statesman the Bismarck Archipelago
#7587, aired 2017-09-12WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $1600: I M4 this vehicle, named for a 19th century guy: SMARTEN ANKH Sherman tank
#7583, aired 2017-07-26CROOKS & NANNIES $400: Unscrupulous 19th century financiers like James Fisk were known as "robber" these barons
#7583, aired 2017-07-26BRITANNICA BYLINES $800: Noted anarchist Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin wrote a 19th century entry on this capital Moscow (or Saint Petersburg)
#7579, aired 2017-07-20FURNITURE $600: The office chair evolved in the mid-19th century, as seen here, when this British scientist fastened wheels to his chair Charles Darwin
#7556, aired 2017-06-19THE CENTURY OF THE FIGHT $400: The Battle of Secessionville the 19th century
#7553, aired 2017-06-14BIBLICAL PAIRS $1600: Here's a 19th century depiction of a discussion between these two Jesus and Peter
#7552, aired 2017-06-13THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $800: The mother church of the faith she founded in Boston is a monument to this 19th-century woman Mary Baker Eddy
#7536, aired 2017-05-2219th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $400: Before dealing with the wild frontier, Davy... Davy Crockett dealt with Congress for this southern state Tennessee
#7536, aired 2017-05-2219th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $800: There's no debating Illinois sent this state Supreme Court judge to the House in 1843 (Stephen) Douglas
#7536, aired 2017-05-2219th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $1200: James G. Blaine, former co-owner of the Kennebec Journal, repped this state Maine
#7536, aired 2017-05-2219th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): This man said that Massachusetts electing him to the House pleased him more than winning the presidency John Quincy Adams
#7536, aired 2017-05-2219th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $2000: He was a congressman from Georgia before & after his stint as vice president of the Confederacy (Alexander) Stephens
#7535, aired 2017-05-19ALTERNATIVE FACTS $2000: Here's a 19th century depiction of the practice of this science, proved to be utter malarkey phrenology
#7522, aired 2017-05-02SCIENCE & NATURE $200: In the 19th century the plant pest Phylloxera vitifoliae nearly wiped out this industry in France, Italy & Germany wine
#7519, aired 2017-04-27OLD JOBS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.) Blacksmiths might make machinery or repair tools, but perhaps their best-known job was this one, that required special nails and was essential to early 19th century transportation horseshoeing
#7504, aired 2017-04-06PUERTO RICAN HISTORY $400: Puerto Rico became part of the U.S. as part of the terms ending this 19th century conflict the Spanish-American War
#7503, aired 2017-04-05BEFORE & AFTER $1000: A "Little House" actress & sister of Sara gets operatic merging with a 19th century show-writing duo Melissa Gilbert and Sullivan
#7498, aired 2017-03-29ROCKS $400: This "colorful" stone was used to make (& describes) 19th century Eastern U.S. row houses brownstone
#7494, aired 2017-03-23POTPOURRI $400: This type of ship follows "prairie" in the name of a kind of 19th century wagon schooner
#7494, aired 2017-03-23RECENT BESTSELLERS $400: In Colson Whitehead's novel named for this 19th century path to freedom, it has actual tracks & engineers the Underground Railroad
#7491, aired 2017-03-2019th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: This author wrote that he "wept and laughed, and wept again" while creating "A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens
#7491, aired 2017-03-2019th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Her "Wuthering Heights" was published just 2 months after sister Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" Emily Brontë
#7491, aired 2017-03-2019th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: Look at the haunted eyes of this Russian author... why, he looks like one of the possessed Dostoevsky
#7491, aired 2017-03-2019th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: This English novelist introduced his semi-fictional county of Wessex in "Far from the Madding Crowd" Thomas Hardy
#7491, aired 2017-03-2019th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: This author known for such rags-to-riches stories as "Fame and Fortune" never quite attained riches himself Horatio Alger
#7478, aired 2017-03-01A SMALL COLLEGE $1000: In the 19th century this university in Oxford, Ohio was dubbed the "Yale of the West" Miami University of Ohio
#7474, aired 2017-02-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Until the California Gold Rush in 1849, this largest North Carolina city was the center of the USA's gold production Charlotte
#7474, aired 2017-02-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1895 Secretary of State Richard Olney said this doctrine allowed us to intervene in intl. disputes in the W. Hemisphere the Monroe Doctrine
#7474, aired 2017-02-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): On January 8, 1863 ground was broken in Sacramento for this; ground was broken for it in Omaha 11 months later the Trans-Continental Railway
#7474, aired 2017-02-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This "stately" act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise's restrictions on slavery the Kansas-Nebraska Act
#7470, aired 2017-02-17"T" TIME $2000: This windblown plant, a symbol of the Old West, was brought to the U.S. in the 19th century from Russia tumbleweed
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $400: In 1873 this Prussian-American founded a brewery on the banks of Clear Creek in Colorado Coors
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $800: He incorporated his San Francisco company in 1890, the same year his XX waist overalls were given the lot number 501 Levi Strauss
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $1200: This banker preferred to be called by his middle name, Pierpont, which was his mother's maiden name J.P. Morgan
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $2000: When cigarette makers formed the American Tobacco Company in 1890, this North Carolinian became its first president James Buchanan Duke
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): After selling his fur business in 1834, he devoted himself to real estate, building the world's biggest hotel in NYC John Jacob Astor
#7459, aired 2017-02-0219th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $400: In an 1819 tale this character awakens from a 2-decade nap to find his wife has passed on Rip Van Winkle
#7459, aired 2017-02-0219th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $800: Eliza escapes on the Underground Railroad & her husband George Harris later joins her in this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
#7459, aired 2017-02-0219th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $1200: In this author's "The Portrait of a Lady", Isabel has her pick of men & marries Gilbert; things go... poorly Henry James
#7459, aired 2017-02-0219th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $1600: Dorothea & Tertius each get married in this really long George Eliot "Study of Provincial Life"; things go... poorly Middlemarch
#7459, aired 2017-02-0219th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $2000: Charles, a simple widower, marries Emma, this title Frenchwoman; things go... poorly Madame Bovary
#7449, aired 2017-01-19ON THE LAOS $400: For most of the 19th century, Laos was dominated by this Western neighbor Thailand
#7448, aired 2017-01-18BIOGRAPHIES $1200: "Illustrations of Camp Life" is a chapter title in a biography of this 19th century photographer Mathew Brady
#7440, aired 2017-01-06JOB FAIR $1600: Our almanac of famous people has only this 19th century Brit listed under the occupation "dandy" Beau Brummell
#7438, aired 2017-01-0419th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: Jane, Lydia, Mary & Kitty Bennet Pride and Prejudice
#7438, aired 2017-01-0419th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Jack Dawkins, Old Sally Oliver Twist
#7438, aired 2017-01-04MARIE $800: Marie Laveau was a famous 19th century voodoo practitioner in this city New Orleans
#7438, aired 2017-01-0419th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS $1200: Lucy Westenra, Renfield Dracula
#7438, aired 2017-01-0419th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS $1600: Widow Douglas, the Dauphin The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
#7438, aired 2017-01-0419th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS $1,700 (Daily Double): Marius Pontemercy, Gavroche Les Miserables
#7436, aired 2017-01-02A PEEK AT THE PARANORMAL $400: Popular since the 19th century, spirit talking board were sold in 1966 in a Parker Brothers game version under this name Ouija boards
#7432, aired 2016-12-27WORKING ON THE RAILROAD $600: In the 19th century it was a railroad laborer who fed the furnace on a coal-fired train the stoker
#7428, aired 2016-12-21____ THE ____ $400: 19th century documents show pirates actually made victims do this, plunge to their death by stepping off a beam walk the plank
#7420, aired 2016-12-09PALMISTRY $600: This 19th century skeptical humorist said a celebrity palmist "exposed my character... with humiliating accuracy" Mark Twain
#7419, aired 2016-12-08POTENT QUOTABLES $800: This 19th century Irish wit said, "work is the curse of the drinking classes" Oscar Wilde
#7419, aired 2016-12-08BRIDGE-POURRI $2000: Think about who won the battle of Austerlitz & you'll know the 19th century Austerlitz Bridge crosses this river the Seine
#7417, aired 2016-12-06A BARRAGE OF BOOKS $600: Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe is a Saxon knight in a 19th century bestseller by this author (Sir Walter) Scott
#7417, aired 2016-12-06EVERY CLAIM YOU STAKE $1600: In the mid-19th century, Dumont d'Urville claimed Adelie Land, part of here, for the French Antarctica
#7416, aired 2016-12-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Born John Chapman, he spread religion as well as fruit trees throughout the Midwest Johnny Appleseed
#7416, aired 2016-12-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On "Juneteenth", June 19 of this year, the remaining slaves in the U.S. learned that the North had won the Civil War 1865
#7416, aired 2016-12-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Philly pharmacist Charles Hires claimed to have invented this beverage root beer
#7416, aired 2016-12-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Rep. Daniel Sickles shot & killed his wife's lover in 1859 but was found not guilty, in the first use of this defense plea insanity
#7416, aired 2016-12-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: A hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, this general and Whig candidate lost the 1852 presidential election Winfield Scott
#7414, aired 2016-12-01THE AGE OF WHALING $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) At the recreated 19th century seafaring village, see how these craftsmen made casks to store whale oil at sea coopers
#7397, aired 2016-11-08LOOK AT THAT "S" CAR GO $800: This classic U.S. automaker that started in a 19th century Indiana wagon shop went bye-bye in 1966 Studebaker
#7392, aired 2016-11-01THE 19th CENTURY $400: In 1805 a pharmacy assistant isolated morphine from this 10-times-weaker narcotic substance opium
#7392, aired 2016-11-01THE 19th CENTURY $800: Paul Kruger's 1899 ultimatum provoked this South African war with the British the Boer War
#7392, aired 2016-11-01THE 19th CENTURY $1200: What we call this 1853 "Purchase" is known in Mexico as La Venta de la Mesilla the Gadsden Purchase
#7392, aired 2016-11-01THE 19th CENTURY $1600: In 1893 his daughter Esther became the first child of a president to be born in the White House Cleveland
#7392, aired 2016-11-01THE 19th CENTURY $2000: The USA's first passenger RR track was started in 1828 in the harbor area of this mid-Atlantic city, then our second biggest Baltimore
#7388, aired 2016-10-26NUMERIC TERMS $800: Nudge, nudge--this phrase referring to a short nap dates back to the 19th century 40 winks
#7385, aired 2016-10-21ARCHITECTURE $1600: The 2016 Victorian Architecture Medal went not to a 19th-century styled building, but to the Geelong Library in Victoria in this country Australia
#7381, aired 2016-10-17CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $400: This 19th century Italian violinist designed his "Napoleon sonata" to be played on just one string Paganini
#7380, aired 2016-10-14THE COUNTY LINE $600: Montana's counties include Big Horn & this one named for a 19th century general who died in Montana Custer
#7379, aired 2016-10-13TRANSPORTATION $2000: To symbolize a pioneering spirit, in 1965 the 1st NASA mission patch ever featured one of these 19th century transports a covered wagon
#7372, aired 2016-10-04KEEP IT 100 $1000: In the 19th century this ancient Hellenistic monetary unit became equal to 100 lepta a drachma
#7366, aired 2016-09-26A CLOUDY CATEGORY $1000: This 19th-century British artist was known for his cloud studies, as seen here John Constable
#7351, aired 2016-07-25"M"PLACEMENT $800: The 19th century Pabst mansion is now a museum in this city Milwaukee
#7346, aired 2016-07-18MAN-AGRAMS $800: A 19th century president: RUN VIBRANT AMEN Martin Van Buren
#7343, aired 2016-07-13AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: This 19th century author of coming of age novels was featured on a 1940 postage stamp Louisa May Alcott
#7339, aired 2016-07-0719th CENTURY PEOPLE $200: The worse speller of a famous duo, in November 1805 he wrote in his journal, "Ocian in view! O! the joy" William Clark
#7339, aired 2016-07-0719th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: Seen here is an illustration of "The Frog Prince" in this duo's 1812 collection the Brothers Grimm
#7339, aired 2016-07-0719th CENTURY PEOPLE $600: A former slave, Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated in what's now this Caribbean nation in 1806 Haiti
#7339, aired 2016-07-07EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS $800: In the 19th century the city of Paris bought the land at the source of this river & erected a statue of the goddess Sequana the Seine
#7339, aired 2016-07-0719th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: Puttering about with peas, this monk laid the foundation for modern genetics (Gregor) Mendel
#7339, aired 2016-07-0719th CENTURY PEOPLE $1000: On a roll, this king of Prussia became the first kaiser of Germany in 1871 Wilhelm (I)
#7338, aired 2016-07-06BOTANY $3,000 (Daily Double): In the early 19th century, Scottish botanist Robert Brown showed how grains of this could be used to classify plants pollen
#7337, aired 2016-07-05IT'S ALL "APPLE" SAUCE $400: Born in Massachusetts, he spread religion as well as fruit trees throughout the U.S. Midwest in the 19th century Johnny Appleseed
#7337, aired 2016-07-05A NAME IN THE TITLE $1200: In a story of 19th century Wall Street, this title clerk famously replies, "I would prefer not to" Bartleby, the scrivener
#7335, aired 2016-07-01NICE LONG DANES $400: Gangly at 6'1", this 19th-century writer was considered one ugly duckling himself Hans Christian Andersen
#7331, aired 2016-06-27OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2004 Oprah reached back to this 19th century classic about an adulterous Russian wife Anna Karenina
#7329, aired 2016-06-23FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1600: The Musee d'Orsay houses a large collection of 19th century French art, including his scandalous painting "Olympia" Edouard Manet
#7327, aired 2016-06-21THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY $600: The Chicago fire, leaving 90,000 homeless the 19th century
#7327, aired 2016-06-21FAMOUS ELEPHANTS $1600: In the late 19th century a circus elephant named for this bare-knuckle champ boxed with a glove on his trunk John L. Sullivan
#7316, aired 2016-06-06ALL KINDS OF DRAMA $1200: Emphasizing violence & horror, Grand Guignol plays of the 19th century took their name from a theater in this city Paris
#7310, aired 2016-05-27NUMERICAL LIT $1000: Richard Henry Dana told of life aboard a 19th century ship in "Two Years Before" this the Mast
#7298, aired 2016-05-11LITERARY GROUPS $2000: The 19th century's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of artists & poets included a brother & sister of this family the Rossetti
#7292, aired 2016-05-03OPERATIC SETTINGS $800: Seen here is a 19th-century set for a production of this Verdi opera Aida
#7290, aired 2016-04-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Akela the wolf & Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories The Jungle Book
#7290, aired 2016-04-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: Early in this Jules Verne tale, professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew & a guide descend into a volcano Journey to the Center of the Earth
#7290, aired 2016-04-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: Wordsworth began a poem, "I wandered lonely as" this "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" a cloud
#7290, aired 2016-04-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: 2 expatriates come to Boston to visit relatives in his 1878 novel "The Europeans" Henry James
#7290, aired 2016-04-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Essays making up this 1854 work include "Reading", "Solitude" & "The Pond in Winter" Walden; or, Life in the Woods
#7284, aired 2016-04-21LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $800: E.L. Doctorow's "The Waterworks" is a Gothic thriller set during this man's corrupt 19th century rule of the city Boss Tweed
#7284, aired 2016-04-21WOMEN, IMMORTALIZED $1,600 (Daily Double): Greenville, Ohio honors this 19th century show biz woman & native of the state; note what she's holding Annie Oakley
#7281, aired 2016-04-18FIRST & LAST NAME, PLEASE $2000: 19th century Chief Justice: ____ P. ____ Salmon Chase
#7275, aired 2016-04-0819th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION $400: This author wrote about traveling from Missouri to Nevada on a stagecoach he called a "cradle on wheels" Mark Twain
#7275, aired 2016-04-0819th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION $800: This city's Market Street cable railway began running in 1883 San Francisco
#7275, aired 2016-04-0819th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION $1200: By 1886 you didn't have to ferry across the Mersey from this city to Birkenhead; you could take a train tunnel Liverpool
#7275, aired 2016-04-0819th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows photos of transports on the monitor.) The disparity in wheel sizes of a tricycle duplicates the differentiated wheel sizes of this adult transport that first rolled upon the world stage in the 1870s a penny-farthing
#7275, aired 2016-04-0819th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION $4,000 (Daily Double): The first production one of these in the U.S. was 1898's Orient-Aster, preceding the Indian brand by 3 years motorcycle
#7268, aired 2016-03-302 FIRST NAMES? $1600: Contemporaries of this 19th-century Senator for Illinois gave him the nickname "Little Giant" Stephen Douglas
#7265, aired 2016-03-25PHILOSOPHY $1200: This 19th-century German philosopher asked "Is man only a blunder of God, or is God only a blunder of man?" (Friedrich) Nietzsche
#7260, aired 2016-03-18BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $600: In a Patricia MacLachlan title, these 2 words describe Sarah, an American mail order bride of the 19th century plain & tall
#7259, aired 2016-03-17NEW ZEALAND $1600: In the 19th century New Zealand was governed as a part of this now most populous Australian state New South Wales
#7258, aired 2016-03-1619th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $200: "I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a crucifix--and so seal up the door of the tomb" Dracula
#7258, aired 2016-03-1619th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $600: "...fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!" The Scarlet Letter
#7258, aired 2016-03-1619th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $800: "She was only beginning to realize... she was... on her way home to grandfather, and would see the mountains" Heidi
#7258, aired 2016-03-1619th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $1000: "'Jarndyce of'" this residence, "said Mr. Kenge. 'A dreary name', said the Lord Chancellor" Bleak House
#7258, aired 2016-03-1619th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $1,800 (Daily Double): "'That's a fine death!' said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkonsky" War and Peace
#7227, aired 2016-02-02WHO SAID THAT? $800: A 19th century painter: "Ah, if only all artists had enough to live on" van Gogh
#7223, aired 2016-01-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Joining Great Britain, Congress passed an act in 1807 abolishing this international African trade slave trade
#7223, aired 2016-01-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 62,000 men in parallel corps columns covered up to 15 miles a day on their way to Savannah in this general's march to the sea Sherman
#7223, aired 2016-01-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: The Credit Mobilier scandal involved this "oceanic" railroad company the Union Pacific
#7223, aired 2016-01-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: This American naval hero wasn't killed in the Illinois city that bears his surname, but rather in a duel in Maryland Stephen Decatur
#7223, aired 2016-01-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1890 this bureau of the government reported that the West was so settled that no frontier could be said to exist the Census (Bureau)
#7217, aired 2016-01-19THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES $200: Part of this bridge built in the 19th century is in Kings County the Brooklyn Bridge
#7217, aired 2016-01-19THE ANNALS OF FASHION $2000: 19th century crinolines were made of cotton & this animal's hair, which is what "crine" means in Italian horse
#7213, aired 2016-01-13"M" IS FOR SHAKESPEARE $600: She's seen here with her father Prospero in a 19th-century production Miranda
#7211, aired 2016-01-11ART & ARTISTS $400: Franz Pforr was one of the 19th century Nazarenes, so called for their interest in the era of this book, as in Franz' work here the Bible (the New Testamanet accepted)
#7206, aired 2016-01-04STATE CAPITALS $600: Each September this Buckeye capital holds an Oktoberfest in its restored 19th century German village Columbus
#7204, aired 2015-12-31DANIEL DAY-LEWIS ON FILM $1600: 19th century high society lawyer Newland Archer The Age of Innocence
#7189, aired 2015-12-10BESTSELLERS $800: Mackinlay Kantor had a spot on the bestseller list locked up in the '50s with this book about a notorious 19th century prison Andersonville
#7181, aired 2015-11-30KID, NAPPING $1200: A 19th century painting is titled after this Victor Hugo character--look, it's baby Cosette! Fantine
#7175, aired 2015-11-20WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS $800: Charles Dickens & this "Vanity Fair" author were 19th century frenemies Thackeray
#7169, aired 2015-11-12OUTSIDE THE BACHS $400: Non-Bach German classical composers include this 19th century couple, Clara & Robert the Schumanns
#7169, aired 2015-11-1219th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Niagara Escarpment was a challenge in the building of this canal the Erie Canal
#7169, aired 2015-11-12CALIFORNIA WINE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Viticulture & Enology Dept. at UC Davis.) Grape growing is a constant battle against phylloxera, an insect that in the 19th century nearly wiped out the French wine industry; it's basically the vineyard equivalent of this garden plant louse an aphid
#7169, aired 2015-11-1219th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: During an 1840-41 trip to England, he persuaded many to move to Nauvoo, Illinois Brigham Young
#7169, aired 2015-11-1219th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: The 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa opening Japanese ports to U.S. ships is also known as this commodore's convention Perry
#7169, aired 2015-11-1219th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In 1882 Father Michael McGivney founded this Catholic fraternal organization Knights of Columbus
#7169, aired 2015-11-1219th CENTURY AMERICA $4,000 (Daily Double): While serving as Secretary of State 1861-69, he tried to annex the Dominican Republic & the Hawaiian Islands Seward
#7167, aired 2015-11-10NICKNAMES FOR FEMINISTS $1200: A biography of this 19th century woman includes the line "news of Vicky's candidacy traveled across the country" Victoria Woodhull
#7164, aired 2015-11-05GOTHIC LITERATURE $1600: Edgar Allan Poe fed a 19th century Gothic revival with stories like this supernatural tale about Roderick & his doomed family The Fall of the House of Usher
#7163, aired 2015-11-04MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a globe on the monitor.) In the northern hemisphere, a projectile moving north outraces Earth's rotation, so it will appear to be deflected to the right, thanks to this force named for a 19th century Frenchman Coriolis
#7160, aired 2015-10-30LORD OF THE JUNGLE $200: Lisbon-born Pedro I founded the 19th century empire of this giant jungle country Brazil
#7150, aired 2015-10-16HISTORICAL QUOTES $2000: This 19th century "Iron Chancellor" predicted a European war started by some "foolish thing in the Balkans" Bismarck
#7147, aired 2015-10-13NEW ENGLAND $800: This 19th-century Connecticut village, seen here, was recreated from actual shops transported there from all over New England Mystic Seaport
#7145, aired 2015-10-09BUILDING TERMS $600: From their ruddy facades, it's the colorful name for Eastern U.S. apartment houses built in the 19th century a brownstone
#7139, aired 2015-10-01THEORIES OF EVERYTHING $1600: Feminist standpoint theory is rooted in this "ism" named for a 19th century manifesto man Marxism
#7136, aired 2015-09-28THE BRADY BUNCH $1000: This flashy 19th-century financier was said to have bejeweled underwear Diamond Jim Brady
#7135, aired 2015-09-25HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $800: "Aurora Leigh", whoa! / 19th century lady / Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#7132, aired 2015-09-22PORTMANTEAU WORDS $400: In the late 19th century, new technology made possible this method of capital punishment electrocution
#7129, aired 2015-09-17PUBLIC DOMAIN RINGTONES $1000: This Christmas tone was written in the late 19th century "Away In A Manger"
#7124, aired 2015-07-30MEDICAL HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) 19th-century doctors thought that the brain shrank & grew with use, leaving corresponding contours on the skull, which were read to determine a person's abilities and traits, using the 3-D bust as a reference guide in this pseudo-science phrenology
#7117, aired 2015-07-21PRINCELY NICKNAMES $400: A 1994 biography of this 19th century showman was titled "Prince of Humbugs" (P.T.) Barnum
#7113, aired 2015-07-15SIX RHYMES $2000: He's the 19th century Quaker, ex-sign painter & folk artist whose work is seen here Edward Hicks
#7108, aired 2015-07-08STARTS & ENDS WITH DIFFERENT VOWELS $1600: Plurals end in J in this language devised in the 19th century Esperanto
#7103, aired 2015-07-01THE WRITE STUFF $600: This 19th-century author wrote steamy thrillers like "Behind a Mask", as well as books about young people Louisa May Alcott
#7102, aired 2015-06-30NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE $400: The Battle of Chattanooga the 1860s
#7102, aired 2015-06-30NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE $800: San Francisco's population of 1,000 grows to over 25,000 the 1840s
#7102, aired 2015-06-30NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE $1,000 (Daily Double): Colorado statehood the 1870s
#7102, aired 2015-06-30NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE $1200: General Kutuzov evacuates Moscow, which then burns the 1810s
#7102, aired 2015-06-30NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE $2000: Jack the Ripper makes himself known the 1880s
#7097, aired 2015-06-23NEW YORK POLITICIANS $600: This 19th century man's "ring" plundered NYC of sums estimated between $30 & $200 million ("Boss") Tweed
#7095, aired 2015-06-19WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $1000: Only 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems were published in her 19th century lifetime: "Homebody" Emily Dickinson
#7094, aired 2015-06-18THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $1600: This 19th century British painter, a master of light & atmosphere, was the subject of a 2014 biopic Turner
#7086, aired 2015-06-08THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME $600: Lewis Payne causes William Seward pain, but even wounding the Secretary of State is not the biggest crime that day the 19th century
#7082, aired 2015-06-02PHILOSOPHY $1200: In 14 years this 19th century Dane published 30 books, mostly about how to reach God Kierkegaard
#7078, aired 2015-05-27THE LATE 19th CENTURY $400: After the death of his cousin in 1889, this man became heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand
#7078, aired 2015-05-27THE LATE 19th CENTURY $800: In the 1860s he combined nitroglycerin with a chalky substance called Kieselguhr to make a safe explosive (Alfred) Nobel
#7078, aired 2015-05-27THE LATE 19th CENTURY $1200: This notorious political organization ran New York City from its headquarters at 141 East 14th St. Tammany Hall
#7078, aired 2015-05-27THE LATE 19th CENTURY $1600: Author Guy de Maupassant got some good story material as an army private during this 1870 war the Franco-Prussian War
#7078, aired 2015-05-27THE LATE 19th CENTURY $2000: In 1890 a mercenary force organized by Cecil Rhodes founded Fort Salisbury, today this national capital Harare (Zimbabwe)
#7072, aired 2015-05-19ETERNAL DAN NATION $400: 19th century nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell Ireland
#7069, aired 2015-05-14STEPHEN SONDHEIM $1600: This Sondheim musical about 19th century revenge takes place on London's Fleet Street Sweeney Todd
#7062, aired 2015-05-05AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $1600: (I'm He So.) One of the high points of any prima ballerina's career is dancing the role of Giselle, based in part on the poem from this 19th century French author's "Les Orientales" Victor Hugo
#7059, aired 2015-04-30PRESENTED IN 2D $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a globe and map on the monitor.) The curved surface of the Earth, represented on a flat sheet of paper, is called this; the Mercator one here is from the 19th century a projection
#7048, aired 2015-04-15"UBE" JOB $800: This 19th century song composer's "Serenade" is heard here "Leise flehen meine Liede..." (Franz) Schubert
#7047, aired 2015-04-14SCALING $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a scale on the monitor.) Devised by a Royal Navy admiral in the early 19th century, this scale for measuring wind ranges from calm to hurricane the Beaufort scale
#7045, aired 2015-04-10U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: The executive mansion in this state capital was the 19th century home of U.S. Senator James G. Blaine Augusta
#7027, aired 2015-03-17THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS $800: This 19th century author was not only related to one of the judges but some of the accused witches as well Nathaniel Hawthorne
#7022, aired 2015-03-10FICTION $800: This 19th century author is known for rags to riches heroes such as Luke Larkin, ambitious boy janitor Horatio Alger
#7015, aired 2015-02-27ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $1600: (Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gives the clue.) The justices' private dining room has portraits of these 2 early 19th century men, a reminder of the case that gave the Supreme Court authority to declare a law unconstitutional Marbury & Madison
#7012, aired 2015-02-24BIOGRAPHY $400: "Titan: The Life of" this 19th century oil baron gushes with the tale of history's first billionaire (John D.) Rockefeller
#7009, aired 2015-02-19LAMB-POURRI $400: This nursery rhyme about a little girl & her unusual pet served as a lesson in the 19th century McGuffey's Readers "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
#7009, aired 2015-02-19NICE BEARD $1000: Virginia Woolf said this 19th century Russian was the greatest of all novelists (Leo) Tolstoy
#7006, aired 2015-02-16THIS & THAT $600: The painting shows the retro interests of this 19th-century movement whose name suggests it harks back before the Renaissance the Pre-Raphaelites
#7005, aired 2015-02-1319th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $200: Pierre Auguste Bourguignon Derbigny, Henry Thibodaux & Andre Bienvenu Roman governed this state Louisiana
#7005, aired 2015-02-1319th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $400: What a name! Epaphroditus Ransom quit this Wolverine State's supreme court in 1848 after getting the guv gig Michigan
#7005, aired 2015-02-1319th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $600: At the turn of the 19th century, James Monroe was this state's leader; he'd leave the job but get re-elected in 1811 Virginia
#7005, aired 2015-02-1319th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $800: In 1882 this ex-vice president of the Confederacy was elected gov. of Georgia but died shortly after taking office Alexander Stephens
#7005, aired 2015-02-1319th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM.) His eventful career included preventing the capture of Washington, D.C. as a Civil War general & a stint living here as governor of New Mexico, during which he found time to write "Ben-Hur" Lew Wallace
#7003, aired 2015-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This composer learned the basics of music as a boy in 19th century Texarkana (Scott) Joplin
#6983, aired 2015-01-14THE 19th CENTURY $400: This ex-vice president's shady dealings forced him to go by the name Adolphus Arnot in 1812 (Aaron) Burr
#6983, aired 2015-01-14THE 19th CENTURY $800: The French capture of Algiers in 1830 ended a long run of preying on shipping by these Barbary-an guys the Barbary pirates
#6983, aired 2015-01-14JOBS IN ART $1200: 19th century art's focus on unglamorous work included Daumier's this -ess The Laundress
#6983, aired 2015-01-14THE 19th CENTURY $1200: Not a fan of abolitionists, he was a volunteer in the militia at the hanging of John Brown John Wilkes Booth
#6983, aired 2015-01-14THE 19th CENTURY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) An 1823 treaty assured the return of runaway slaves, & a move south to a 4-million-acre reservation by this Native American tribe the Seminoles
#6983, aired 2015-01-14THE 19th CENTURY $2,500 (Daily Double): Exiled from Prussia in 1849, this newspaper editor printed his final issue in red Karl Marx
#6979, aired 2015-01-08SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: For a brief period in the early 19th century, it was the capital of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata Buenos Aires
#6978, aired 2015-01-07THE $1 BILL $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) At the end of the 19th century, the U.S. issued a $1 bill featuring her, the only woman ever to appear on a U.S. currency note Martha Washington
#6975, aired 2015-01-02PENN. PALS $2000: This 19th century educator known for his "Readers" began teaching at age 14 with little formal education (William) McGuffey
#6971, aired 2014-12-29NOVELS BY CHAPTER $600: Set in the 15th century, but written in the 19th: "A Bird's Eye View of Paris" The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#6951, aired 2014-12-01KIDS IN LIT $4,800 (Daily Double): This 19th century character asked, "Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Tom Sawyer
#6949, aired 2014-11-27YO, JOHANN! $1600: 19th century pastor Johann David Wyss & his son wrote this children's book about a shipwrecked clan Swiss Family Robinson
#6948, aired 2014-11-26THE LATE 19th CENTURY $400: In 1889 this list of the 11 best college football players in the country first came out the All-American football team
#6948, aired 2014-11-26THE LATE 19th CENTURY $800: Londoner Marie Kelly, killed in 1888, is generally believed to be his last victim Jack the Ripper
#6948, aired 2014-11-26AMERICANA $800: This type of covered wagon used in the 19th century is named for a region of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Conestoga
#6948, aired 2014-11-26THE LATE 19th CENTURY $1200: In 1892 astronomer E.E. Barnard discovered Amalthea, the 5th moon of this planet; the first 4 were found in 1610 Jupiter
#6948, aired 2014-11-26THE LATE 19th CENTURY $1600: When P.T. Barnum purchased this animal from the London Zoo in 1882, the queen demanded the sale be stopped Jumbo
#6948, aired 2014-11-26THE LATE 19th CENTURY $2000: In 1898 gold was discovered on Anvil Creek near this future port on Alaska's Seward Peninsula Nome, Alaska
#6943, aired 2014-11-1912 LETTERS & STARTS WITH A VOWEL $800: General term for a 19th century U.S. antislavery advocate abolitionist
#6941, aired 2014-11-17THE 19th CENTURY $400: In the 1870s cowboy Frank Maynard turned an old ballad into the mournful song about "The Streets Of" this city Laredo
#6941, aired 2014-11-17THE 19th CENTURY $800: In the 1820s this monarch founded a Zulu empire, one of the largest in Africa Shaka
#6941, aired 2014-11-17THE 19th CENTURY $1600: These "monthly" rebels of 1825 Russia rose up in protest over Nicholas I's assumption of the throne the Decembrists
#6941, aired 2014-11-17THE 19th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): His industrial oxidation process was perfected around 1856, allowing the mass production of steel Bessemer
#6941, aired 2014-11-17IN "GREY" $2000: Vigilant 19th century Skye terrier of an Edinburgh graveyard Greyfriars Bobby
#6941, aired 2014-11-17THE 19th CENTURY $2000: Active during the Civil War, he spoke of an "obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers" Mathew Brady
#6939, aired 2014-11-13MOVIE CENTURY SETTINGS $400: "The Last Samurai" the 19th century
#6932, aired 2014-11-04BRIDGES $1000: In the 19th century this man designed both the Niagara & Brooklyn Bridges in New York John Roebling
#6929, aired 2014-10-30LEGO ART $1200: Feel the salt spray of "Breaking Wave" by Hokusai, a 19th-century artist in this country Japan
#6928, aired 2014-10-29LONG WORD, SHORT DEFINITION $2000: 19th century pic using silver & iodine (13) a daguerreotype
#6922, aired 2014-10-21THE STEAKS $1000: A 19th century doctor invented this oval beef patty "steak" served in brown sauce & prescribed it to ward off gout Salisbury steak (hamburger)
#6917, aired 2014-10-1419th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: Before his 1821 election to the Tennessee legislature, this frontiersman served as a justice of the peace Davy Crockett
#6917, aired 2014-10-1419th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1874 he invented the quadruplex telegraph, allowing 4 messages to be sent at a time, 2 in each direction Thomas Edison
#6917, aired 2014-10-1419th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Clue reports from Deadwood, South Dakota.) This is what it looks like now, but in 1875, Deadwood was just a mining camp that sprung up after this lieutenant colonel & his 7th Cavalry found that the Black Hills were rich in gold (George Armstrong) Custer
#6917, aired 2014-10-1419th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: In 1865 he & his brother William built an oil refinery in Cleveland they called Standard Works John D. Rockefeller
#6917, aired 2014-10-1419th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: This president was a supporter of the Pendleton Civil Service Act Chester Arthur
#6911, aired 2014-10-0619th CENTURY POLITICIANS $400: Taking office in 1809, he was the first U.S. president who had previously served in Congress Madison
#6911, aired 2014-10-0619th CENTURY POLITICIANS $800: Seen here, "Who Stole the People's Money?" was an 1871 Thomas Nast cartoon, depicting the corruption of this New York City politician Boss Tweed
#6911, aired 2014-10-0619th CENTURY POLITICIANS $1200: Before he became a U.S. senator, this stubby politician served on the Illinois Supreme Court from 1841 to 1843 Stephen Douglas
#6911, aired 2014-10-0619th CENTURY POLITICIANS $1600: This 1830s Secretary of War has a popular Christmas flower named for him; his name doesn't end "IA" Poinsett
#6911, aired 2014-10-0619th CENTURY POLITICIANS $2000: This Kentuckian known as the "Great Pacificator" served as Speaker of the House 3 times between 1811 & 1825 Henry Clay
#6907, aired 2014-09-30FABRICS $400: Mackinaw, a heavy water-repellent woolen cloth, originated in the early 19th century in this state Michigan
#6906, aired 2014-09-29"CAT" PEOPLE $2000: Much of our knowledge of 19th-century Native Americans comes from paintings & drawings by him George Catlin
#6903, aired 2014-09-24THAT OLD ____ MAGIC $1000: 19th century New Orleans voodoo queen: Marie ____ Laveau
#6884, aired 2014-07-17THE HIGHWAYMEN $800: 19th century highwaymen known as bushrangers terrorized this continent Australia
#6884, aired 2014-07-17THE HIGHWAYMEN $2000: This British highwayman & his horse black Bess became celebrated in 19th century pulp fiction Dick Turpin
#6881, aired 2014-07-14IT'S A BIRD $200: Bellicose 19th century southerners like Henry Clay were called war these hawks
#6878, aired 2014-07-09"Y": ME $2,200 (Daily Double): I was a humble 19th century Japanese organ maker, yet today my name is on guitars, MP3 players & motorcycles (Torakusu) Yamaha
#6877, aired 2014-07-08OH, LOOK AT THE TIME $2000: It's the 6-letter age in the late 19th century U.S. noted for an expanding economy & big plutocrats the Gilded Age
#6874, aired 2014-07-03SCIENTIFIC NON-AMERICAN $2000: A continuous loop of material with a half-twist is the "strip" named for this 19th century German (August) Möbius
#6869, aired 2014-06-26DOUGH NATION $500 (Daily Double): Venezuela uses this monetary unit named for a 19th century national hero the bolivar
#6866, aired 2014-06-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The first hotel to install one of these was a 6-story establishment in NYC in 1859; the cab had plush seats an elevator
#6866, aired 2014-06-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) While attacking Stonewall Jackson, Union General John Pope got outflanked by James Longstreet & lost the 1862 second battle of this Bull Run
#6866, aired 2014-06-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In the 1810s this industrialist later known as a railroad tycoon operated a ferry between Staten Island & Manhattan Cornelius Vanderbilt
#6866, aired 2014-06-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: On Dec. 29, 1890 more than 200 Lakota were killed by the U.S. Army near this South Dakota creek Wounded Knee
#6866, aired 2014-06-2319th CENTURY AMERICA $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1847 Marines stormed & secured Chapultepec Castle in this world capital Mexico City
#6865, aired 2014-06-20A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $1000: This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century crochet
#6862, aired 2014-06-17TRUE RELIGION $800: In the 19th century members of this celibate religion created a type of circular saw & invented the clothespin the Shakers
#6861, aired 2014-06-16BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $1200: In a 19th century song, it precedes "Wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee" "Beautiful Dreamer"
#6860, aired 2014-06-13BOROUGH IN! $1200: 19th century English reformers fought against "rotten boroughs", depopulated areas used to control seats in this Parliament
#6849, aired 2014-05-29SUFFIXES $1600: 19th century folks loved this suffix meaning "place for", adding it to terr-, insect-, etc. -arium
#6847, aired 2014-05-27MOVIES INSPIRED BY LITERATURE $600: You Goethe go back to this 2-part 19th century work to see the origins of "Damn Yankees" Faust
#6843, aired 2014-05-21"KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This detachable men's shirt front started to become popular in the 19th century a dickey
#6835, aired 2014-05-09CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: This 19th century composer's "Spring" symphony shows no signs of the mental illness that later overcame him (Robert) Schumann
#6834, aired 2014-05-08TOOLS OF THE KITCHEN $800: Do not even think about borrowing chef's Wüsthof set of these, made in Germany since the mid-19th century knives
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $400: At dinner on Nov. 30, 1809, he told his wife that he had to find a new one who could produce an heir Napoleon Bonaparte
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $800: Attending the 1867 Paris World's Fair, Jules Verne became fascinated with a navy exhibit on a submersible & wrote this novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $1200: In 1894 he was convicted of selling military secrets to the Germans but was exonerated 12 years later Dreyfus
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $1,500 (Daily Double): In June 1830 French troops seized this North African capital from the Ottomans & Berbers Algiers
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $2000: When this Paris dance hall opened in October 1889, its owners gave it the nickname "The First Palace of Women" the Moulin Rouge
#6826, aired 2014-04-28FASHION HISTORY $800: Chimney-pot is another name for this high silk top hat big in the 19th century a stove pipe
#6818, aired 2014-04-16IOWA $600: In 1991 Iowa led the nation in reviving the 19th century tradition of gambling aboard these riverboats
#6813, aired 2014-04-09SITTING IN JUDGMENT $1000: 19th century Texas frontier lawman Judge Roy Bean declared that he was the "law west of" this river the Pecos
#6811, aired 2014-04-07GUITARS $200: Since the early 19th century, it's been the number of strings on a standard guitar six
#6808, aired 2014-04-0219th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $400: (Alex reports from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.) In his series paintings, this artist concentrated on a single subject to show how the light changes depending on the time of day & the season; here is one of his 30 "Wheatstacks," in this case, on a winter morning Monet
#6808, aired 2014-04-0219th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $800: This Scandinavian's paintings of human emotions in the 1890s included "Anxiety" & "Jealousy" (Edvard) Munch
#6808, aired 2014-04-0219th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1826 Thomas Cole settled in Catskill, New York & started painting the works that launched this "School" the Hudson River School
#6808, aired 2014-04-0219th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: This artist who gained fame illustrating books by Owen Wister is seen here in a self-portrait on a horse Frederic Remington
#6808, aired 2014-04-0219th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $2000: Between 1819 & 1825 this British landscape artist painted a series of 6 scenes on the River Stour (John) Constable
#6791, aired 2014-03-10DIALECTS $1200: Braj Bhasha was the literary dialect of this language of India until the 19th century Hindi
#6790, aired 2014-03-07THE WORLD WIDE "WEB" $1000: 19th century treaty that settled the northern boundaries of Maine & Wisconsin the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
#6789, aired 2014-03-06WELCOME TO THE JUTE MILL $1200: A big 19th century discovery: jute makes good carpet backing if mixed with this politically incorrect oil whale oil
#6788, aired 2014-03-05"HANG" FIVE $400: 2-word nickname of 19th century Arkansas arbiter Isaac Parker, who favored capital punishment the "Hanging Judge"
#6785, aired 2014-02-28MEDICAL HISTORY $800: In the 19th century Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis "gave birth" to antisepsis in this medical field obstetrics
#6785, aired 2014-02-28THE COOKIE AISLE $1000: This shortbread cookie has a literary heritage--it's named for a 19th century novel heroine Lorna Doone
#6772, aired 2014-02-1119th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He noted, "I had sent my heroine... down a rabbit-hole... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards" (Lewis) Carroll
#6772, aired 2014-02-1119th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800 (Daily Double): Between 1872 & 1882 she wrote 6 volumes of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag" Louisa May Alcott
#6772, aired 2014-02-1119th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells
#6772, aired 2014-02-1119th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In 1863 he put out a book originally titled "Voyage au Centre de la Terre" Jules Verne
#6772, aired 2014-02-1119th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Before "Downton Abbey", there was this, the shortest of Jane Austen's 6 major novels Northanger Abbey
#6768, aired 2014-02-0519th CENTURY OPERA $400: We're not neutral about "Un ballo in maschera", about the assassination of a king of this Scandinavian country Sweden
#6768, aired 2014-02-0519th CENTURY OPERA $800: Smitten by Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner composed this lovey-dovey 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde
#6768, aired 2014-02-0519th CENTURY OPERA $1200: In an 1893 opera, Lescaut seems to have no first name, but this sister of his does Manon
#6768, aired 2014-02-0519th CENTURY OPERA $1600: One of the many composers to write a "Faust" opera, he was buddies with Bizet Gounod
#6768, aired 2014-02-0519th CENTURY OPERA $2000: Like its heroine, "The Italian Girl in Algiers" did some traveling as this composer's first opera staged in France & Germany Rossini
#6765, aired 2014-01-31AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $1000: After leaving office, this 19th century prez was elected a U.S. senator from Tennessee (Andrew) Johnson
#6761, aired 2014-01-27WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $200: Simon Legree is a brutal slave driver in this 19th century work Uncle Tom's Cabin
#6747, aired 2014-01-07PLAY THAT FIDDLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century virtuoso may have had Marfan syndrome, accounting for his elongated fingers Paganini
#6744, aired 2014-01-02AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) With Missouri as its starting point, the Great Plains, the Rockies & the present state capitals of Salt Lake City, Carson City & Sacramento were on the route of this 19th century service the Pony Express
#6736, aired 2013-12-23STREET SMARTS $400: In the 19th century Baron Haussmann created many of these wide streets in Paris; one is now named for him a boulevard
#6732, aired 2013-12-17O CHRISTMAS TREE $800: The Christmas tree was popularized in the mid-19th century by this Prince, husband of Queen Victoria Albert
#6725, aired 2013-12-0619th CENTURY NOTABLES $400: In 1883 this scout & showman debuted his first Wild West Show in Omaha (Buffalo Bill) Cody
#6725, aired 2013-12-0619th CENTURY NOTABLES $800: The Rochester, N.Y. home of this orator & former slave was a station on the Underground Railroad Frederick Douglass
#6725, aired 2013-12-0619th CENTURY NOTABLES $1200: In 1875 she published the main text of her movement, "Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy
#6725, aired 2013-12-0619th CENTURY NOTABLES $1600: Seen here, he was the last president born under British rule William Henry Harrison
#6725, aired 2013-12-0619th CENTURY NOTABLES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1890 this painter of the American West illustrated an edition of Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" Frederic Remington
#6721, aired 2013-12-02A CHRISTMAS STORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The popularity of reindeer as a symbol of Christmas probably only dates back to this 19th-century poem that also gave Santa's reindeer their names--Dasher, Dancer, etc. "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas" accepted)
#6716, aired 2013-11-25ALL SYSTEMS GO $1200: This emperor's early 19th century blockade called the Continental System hurt British commerce for a few years Napoleon
#6688, aired 2013-10-16HO CHI MINH CITY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Saigon's cathedral was built in the 19th century using bricks from Marseille & other material entirely imported from France; in 1959, the statue of the Virgin Mary was added, & the cathedral got this name, like another famous French church Notre-Dame
#6686, aired 2013-10-14THE U.S. OWES $800: 19th century decade that saw the U.S. debt grow from $65 million to $2.7 billion the 1860s
#6680, aired 2013-10-04I'M A CONNOISSEUR $1200: I'm a connoisseur of the works of Odilon Redon; he was part of this late-19th-century -ism, but what the eye represents--darned if I know symbolism
#6679, aired 2013-10-03INFLUENTIAL WRITING $1,000 (Daily Double): "A Winter Walk" & "Slavery in Massachusetts" are essays by this 19th century American Thoreau
#6676, aired 2013-09-3019th CENTURY BRIT LIT $400: He set many of his works, beginning with "Far From the Madding Crowd", in an area of England called Wessex Thomas Hardy
#6676, aired 2013-09-3019th CENTURY BRIT LIT $800: "Ivanhoe" was an immediate success when released in 1819, & this author soon became a baronet Sir Walter Scott
#6676, aired 2013-09-3019th CENTURY BRIT LIT $1200: "A Novel Without a Hero" is the subtitle of this Thackeray work Vanity Fair
#6676, aired 2013-09-3019th CENTURY BRIT LIT $1600: This author's 1860 novel "The Woman in White" was loosely based on a French case Wilkie Collins
#6676, aired 2013-09-3019th CENTURY BRIT LIT $4,400 (Daily Double): Amy is the real name of this Dickens title character who was born in the Marshalsea debtor's prison Little Dorrit
#6669, aired 2013-09-19THAT'S THE STORY $1000: This adjective follows "penny" in a term for a cheap lurid novel of 19th century England dreadful
#6660, aired 2013-07-26FASHION $2000: Cushionet & bum roll were earlier names for this 19th Century device that pushed a skirt out in back a bustle
#6650, aired 2013-07-12BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $400: World population hit 1 billion in this early 19th Century year that Thomas Jefferson was re-elected president 1804
#6649, aired 2013-07-1119th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES $400: "The least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea" Moby-Dick
#6649, aired 2013-07-1119th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES $800: "I shall be your Beth still, to love and help you more than ever. you must take my place, Jo" Little Women
#6649, aired 2013-07-1119th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES $1200: "Miss Havisham was alone. 'Well?' said she, fixing her eyes upon me. 'I hope you want nothing? You'll get nothing"' Great Expectations
#6649, aired 2013-07-11ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $1600: 12th: A dressing gown made of this, like a 19th century fop's silk
#6649, aired 2013-07-1119th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES $1600: "Mr. Earnshaw was sitting by the fire, deadly sick; his evil genius, almost as...ghastly, leant against the chimney" Wuthering Heights
#6649, aired 2013-07-1119th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES $2000: "Marianne... could only exclaim, in the anguish of her heart, 'Oh! Elinor, I am miserable indeed"' Sense and Sensibility
#6641, aired 2013-07-01AGELESS QUOTES $2000: This 19th century English poet penned the line "grow old along with me, the best is yet to be" (Robert) Browning
#6632, aired 2013-06-18THE GILDED PAGE $1000: Laura & Almanzo Wilder find love in the 19th century in "These Happy Golden Years", part of this series Little House on the Prairie
#6632, aired 2013-06-18PHILOSOPHY THROUGH THE AGES $2000: This 19th century German's theory of dialectical progression was a major influence on Karl Marx Hegel
#6623, aired 2013-06-05DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $400: In the 19th century Thomas Palmer told us what to do "if at first you don't" do this succeed
#6618, aired 2013-05-29THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $200: In 1866 these brothers began their criminal career with a bank robbery at Liberty, Missouri the James brothers
#6618, aired 2013-05-29THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $400: On Oct. 24, 1861 Western Union completed this coast-to-coast line the telegraph line
#6618, aired 2013-05-29THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $600: General Sheridan's plan to suppress Native Americans included killing all of these animals that supported their way of life the bison (or the buffalo)
#6618, aired 2013-05-29THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $800: In 1869 John Wesley Powell led the first recorded voyage through this gorge the Grand Canyon
#6618, aired 2013-05-29THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $1,800 (Daily Double): Texas joined the Confederacy in 1861 & forced this Unionist governor out of office Sam Houston
#6615, aired 2013-05-24GEE, 50 $1600: You're 50, but this clothing item just doesn't work for you, now or in the 19th century ascot
#6605, aired 2013-05-10CENTURY OF THE MAN $400: Millard Fillmore 19th
#6604, aired 2013-05-09COMPOSERS & THEIR MUSIC $1200: Even when poor, this 19th century opera composer made sure to dress exquisitely Richard Wagner
#6603, aired 2013-05-08THE BOOK BOOK $1200: 5 women & 1 man form a title "Book Club" that reads the novels of this 19th century woman Jane Austen
#6597, aired 2013-04-30ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $400: "Eden on the Charles" shows how the 19th century growth of this city influences us today Boston
#6587, aired 2013-04-1619th CENTURY SPORTS $200: In 1896, for the longest Olympic event in this sport the athletes were taken 1,200 meters out to sea by boat & left there swimming
#6587, aired 2013-04-1619th CENTURY SPORTS $400: On May 27, 1873 Survivor won the first running of this Triple Crown race in Baltimore by 10 lengths the Preakness
#6587, aired 2013-04-1619th CENTURY SPORTS $600: In the 1890s strategy in this sport included kicking opponents, & the flying wedge was a popular offensive play football
#6587, aired 2013-04-1619th CENTURY SPORTS $800: What's now this tennis tournament began as an event hosted by a Newport, Rhode Island casino in 1881 the U.S. Open
#6587, aired 2013-04-1619th CENTURY SPORTS $1000: Candy Cummings is credited with introducing this pitch in the 1860s; some thought it was an optical illusion a curve ball
#6585, aired 2013-04-12HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $600: 19th century Europeans called this Pacific chain the Sandwich Islands Hawaiian Islands
#6580, aired 2013-04-05MONOGRAMS OF THE FAMOUS & INFAMOUS $400: Hard-drinking 19th century poet & critic EAP Edgar Allan Poe
#6570, aired 2013-03-22COMPASS POINT MOVIES $800: A giant mechanical spider plays a key role in this 1999 Will Smith movie set in the 19th Century Wild Wild West
#6570, aired 2013-03-22WE'RE ON MARS! $2,000 (Daily Double): Valerie Ambroise won an essay contest & named this rover for a 19th-century African-American woman Sojourner
#6569, aired 2013-03-21CENTURY OF THE INVENTION $400: The Kodak camera the 19th century
#6550, aired 2013-02-22MONOLITHS $10,000 (Daily Double): 19th century Down Under explorer Ernest Giles called it "the remarkable pebble" Ayers Rock
#6546, aired 2013-02-18LITERARY TERMS $800: 9-letter subgenre of sci-fi whose name includes a 19th century form of mechanical power steampunk
#6537, aired 2013-02-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The words to this patriotic song first appeared in print in 1814 under the title "Defence of Fort McHenry" "The Star-Spangled Banner"
#6537, aired 2013-02-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $400: He's the abolitionist pictured here a few years before his raid on an arsenal & his hanging John Brown
#6537, aired 2013-02-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1857 the celebration of this day with a parade & floats became an annual New Orleans tradition Mardi Gras
#6537, aired 2013-02-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Asked to create a sport that could be played indoors during winter, James Naismith came up with this basketball
#6537, aired 2013-02-0519th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1854 this poet began writing "The Song of Hiawatha" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#6529, aired 2013-01-24LET'S MAKE A QUILT $400: The 19th-century style of quilt named for this Maryland city can fetch 6-figure sums at auctions today a Baltimore quilt
#6524, aired 2013-01-17THE STORY OF ENGLISH $1000: With the growth of the British Empire in this century, the number of native English speakers rose from about 26 mil. to 126 million the 19th century
#6518, aired 2013-01-09SUPERSTARS OF SCIENCE $600: This 19th century chemist saved France's beer, wine & silk industries Pasteur
#6515, aired 2013-01-04AFRICAN CITIES $1000: Named for a 19th century queen, this capital of the Seychelles has fewer than 30,000 people Victoria
#6506, aired 2012-12-24"DED" ENDS $1600: The unfortunately hairy Julia Pastrana gained fame in the 19th century as this type of sideshow lady the bearded lady
#6503, aired 2012-12-19HISTORIC NAMES $1600: This giant of 19th century water transport was nicknamed "Quicksilver Bob" Robert Fulton
#6497, aired 2012-12-1119th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: One of this circus man's 1st exhibits was Joice Heth, who claimed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington (P.T.) Barnum
#6497, aired 2012-12-1119th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1848 he sold his song "Oh! Susanna" for $100 (Stephen) Foster
#6497, aired 2012-12-1119th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: Hailing from New Hampshire, he's the orator & statesman seen here (Daniel) Webster
#6497, aired 2012-12-1119th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Last of the Whigs was a nickname of this president Fillmore
#6497, aired 2012-12-1119th CENTURY AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): An 1877 cartoon showed 12 widows crying in bed, mourning the death of this man Brigham Young
#6490, aired 2012-11-30BEER ME! $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis.) In the mid-19th century, Americans drank mainly heavy, top-fermented ales; the new, lighter lagers pioneered by Adolphus Busch were made possible by the new, European, bottom-fermenting types of this ingredient yeast
#6489, aired 2012-11-29RANDOMONIUM $200: Alexandre Godefroy invented this beauty device in the 19th century by attaching a hood to a chimney pipe hair dryer
#6481, aired 2012-11-19HERB & SPICE HISTORY $800: 19th century English pubs had containers of this spice from a root so that patrons could shake it into their ale ginger
#6475, aired 2012-11-09BOOK OF THE CENTURY $1000: 19th: This novel of greed & corruption that gave its name to an American age The Gilded Age
#6470, aired 2012-11-0219th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In an 1875 ceremony at St. Patrick's, Archbishop John McCloskey became the first in the U.S. to achieve this position Cardinal
#6470, aired 2012-11-0219th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In the 1812 election, President Madison defeated this man, the nephew of his first Veep George Clinton DeWitt Clinton
#6470, aired 2012-11-0219th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1872 this party had its first natl. convention & nominated James Black for Pres.; we assume no booze was served the Prohibition Party
#6470, aired 2012-11-0219th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Mandan, North Dakota.) In 1876, Lt. Col. George Custer left his home here at Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory with this regiment & led them into a battle from which they'd never return the 7th Cavalry
#6470, aired 2012-11-0219th CENTURY AMERICA $6,900 (Daily Double): On March 1, 1803 it became the 17th state & the first created from the Northwest Territory Ohio
#6464, aired 2012-10-25NAME THAT CENTURY $400: The USA's Free Soil Party peaks in popularity the 19th century
#6461, aired 2012-10-2219th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $400: Kate Chopin set many works in this city; her early story "A No-Account Creole" begins there New Orleans
#6461, aired 2012-10-2219th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $800: Many of her novels dealt with slavery, including "Dred" & a certain 1852 bestseller (Harriet Beecher) Stowe
#6461, aired 2012-10-2219th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $1200: Author Frances Hodgson Burnett based the long curls of this title pampered "Lord" on her son Vivian's Lord Fauntleroy
#6461, aired 2012-10-2219th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $2000: The youngest of the sisters, Anne Bronte penned "The Tenant of" this residence in 1848 but died from TB a year later Wildfell Hall
#6461, aired 2012-10-2219th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Amantine-Lucille-Aurore Dupin was the real name of this "manly" authoress whose love life scandalized Paris George Sand
#6448, aired 2012-10-03THE 19th CENTURY $200: Chester Arthur's legacy includes starting the tradition of adding these 4 words to the end of the presidential oath "So help me God"
#6448, aired 2012-10-03THE 19th CENTURY $400: In 1853 Sir Richard Burton made a dangerous journey in disguise to this city, now in Saudi Arabia Mecca
#6448, aired 2012-10-03THE 19th CENTURY $600: Captured & hanged in 1880, Ned Kelly was a legendary bushranger outlaw of this country Australia
#6448, aired 2012-10-03THE 19th CENTURY $800: Shaka reigned as the paramount chief of this people only to be killed by his own brothers in 1828 the Zulus
#6448, aired 2012-10-03THE 19th CENTURY $6,000 (Daily Double): A 20th century Italian dictator was named for this 1860s president of Mexico Benito Juárez
#6440, aired 2012-09-21IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW $400: The second law of this 19th century botanist is the law of independent assortment (Gregor) Mendel
#6425, aired 2012-07-20MILITARY MATTERS $600: The story goes that 19th century Marines wore collar protection from bayonets--hence this nickname leathernecks
#6416, aired 2012-07-09ALSO A BEVERAGE $800: It's been used as a synonym for electric current since the 19th century juice
#6399, aired 2012-06-14CRADLES $800: In the 19th century William Ross Wallace wrote, "the hand that" does this "is the hand that rules the world" "rocks the cradle"
#6379, aired 2012-05-17POLITICAL NICKNAMES $2000: A 19th century senator: "The Great Compromiser" Henry Clay
#6366, aired 2012-04-30WHAT A CENTURY $200: Edison's first U.S. power station lights 10,000 lamps the 19th century
#6366, aired 2012-04-30SCARY LITERATURE $2000: This 19th century American writer's scary short stories include "The Sphinx" & "The Oblong Box" Edgar Allan Poe
#6351, aired 2012-04-09TRANSPORTATION $800: This vehicle is seen in 19th-century Japan, the time & place it was invented a rickshaw
#6347, aired 2012-04-03A "LEG" TO STAND ON $1000: This sleeve style that sounds like a dinner roast was popular in the 19th century leg o'mutton
#6342, aired 2012-03-2719th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The earliest American play about this wife of John Rolfe was "The Indian Princess", performed in 1808 Pocahontas
#6342, aired 2012-03-2719th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On April 17, 1824 this country signed a treaty agreeing that 54 degrees, 40 minutes N. latitude was the southern limit of its claim Russia
#6342, aired 2012-03-2719th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1888 this type of ballot based on a type from overseas was first used in a U.S. local election in Louisville, Ky. the Australian or secret ballot
#6342, aired 2012-03-2719th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1866 the Supreme Court said this military rule may not be in place when the civil courts are functioning martial law
#6342, aired 2012-03-2719th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1816 this naval officer & victor against the Barbary pirates gave the toast "Our country, right or wrong" Stephen Decatur
#6336, aired 2012-03-19FAMILIAR PHRASES $2000: In the 19th century this phrase meant "neck and neck"; in the 20th, it was reinvented to mean a cosmetic surgical operation nip & tuck
#6330, aired 2012-03-09LITERARY CHARACTER RAP SHEET $800: Though innocent, this 19th century title tot gets popped for pickpocketing Mr. Brownlow Oliver Twist
#6324, aired 2012-03-01LET'S GET IN THE RV $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the RV Hall of Fame in Elkhart, IN.) After a rainy camping trip, Arthur Sherman built the most popular trailer brand of the '30s; his children named this after a 19th-century transport, & the name makes it clear that you'll stay dry Covered Wagon
#6321, aired 2012-02-27SOCIAL STUDIES $800: David S, Barnes' "The Making of a Social Disease" is subtitled this lung illness "in 19th century France" tuberculosis
#6306, aired 2012-02-06BATTLE OF THE CENTURY $200: The Battle of Waterloo 19th
#6305, aired 2012-02-03MUSEUMS $800: The Syracuse, N.Y. museum devoted to this 19th century waterway is in a building once used to weigh boats the Erie Canal
#6296, aired 2012-01-23PICTURE THE "S" $2000: The 19th century passage, "an old" this, in which my father had kept his private papers, refers to a desk like the one here a secretary
#6295, aired 2012-01-20CLEAN "X" $1000: 20 Mule Team this, a natural detergent booster, has been around since the 19th century Borax
#6293, aired 2012-01-18& HONEY $400: & Honey, if you get a chance, could you wash my favorite pants? You know, the ones named for that 19th century woman bloomers
#6283, aired 2012-01-0419th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $400: It wasn't "The Devil and" him repping Massachusetts in the House from 1823 to 1827--it was just him (Daniel) Webster
#6283, aired 2012-01-0419th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $800: No debate--this Illinois man, "The Little Giant", was elected to the House in 1843 & the Senate in 1847 (Stephen) Douglas
#6283, aired 2012-01-0419th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): In his diary, he wrote "My election as president... was not half so gratifying" as his later election to Congress in 1830 John Quincy Adams
#6277, aired 2011-12-27MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: This steam-whistle organ was often used on 19th century Mississippi steamboats to announce their arrival at ports a calliope
#6276, aired 2011-12-26FUN RAISERS $1200: Like a 19th century song says, you can float "through the air with the greatest of ease" on this piece of circus equipment a trapeze
#6273, aired 2011-12-21PHYSICAL SCIENCE $800: In the 19th century a unit of conductance was named the "mho" in tribute to this man who studied current flow Ohm
#6272, aired 2011-12-20WORD ORIGINS $800: This 19th century 2-wheeled cab was named for a Brit, not for its good looks a Hansom cab
#6265, aired 2011-12-09WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER $400: This French title character duels with a nobleman who has insulted his enormous nose Cyrano
#6265, aired 2011-12-09WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER $800: It's the noble title of Aleksei Vronsky, who has an affair to remember with Anna Karenina count
#6265, aired 2011-12-09WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER $1600: Playful Nora Helmer & her banker husband Torvald live in this author's "Doll's House" Ibsen
#6265, aired 2011-12-09WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER $2000: The besotted Hindley Earnshaw appears in this classic novel Wuthering Heights
#6265, aired 2011-12-09WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER $4,000 (Daily Double): Mr. Woodhouse, eternally preoccupied with health & food, is the father of this Austen title character Emma
#6251, aired 2011-11-21PICK A CARD $600: In the 19th century initial letters were added to cards' corners; to avoid confusion with the king, the knave became this a jack
#6240, aired 2011-11-04LITERARY TITLE OCCUPATIONS $1000: Conjuring up images of 19th century Poland, Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote of this title guy "of Lublin" the Magician
#6239, aired 2011-11-0319th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $400: James K. Polk is the only president to have previously held this position in the House of Representatives Speaker
#6239, aired 2011-11-0319th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $800: This U.S. president was named for his great-grandfather, a signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Harrison
#6239, aired 2011-11-0319th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $1200: The time of his administration was known as "the Era of Good Feelings" Monroe
#6239, aired 2011-11-0319th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $1600: Pre-Civil War president considered by some to have been the handsomest (Franklin) Pierce
#6239, aired 2011-11-0319th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $2000: On Nov. 2, 1880 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Ohio, a senator-elect & president-elect Garfield
#6237, aired 2011-11-01BALLET IT ON THICK $1,200 (Daily Double): Prince Siegfried finds romance is for the birds (like Odette) in this 19th century ballet Swan Lake
#6233, aired 2011-10-26AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Louis Maurer was the horse-drawing specialist in the stable of artists of this 19th century printmaking duo Currier & Ives
#6216, aired 2011-10-03ALL HAT $2000: A type of top hat popular in the 19th century was named for this "Iron Duke" (the Duke of) Wellington
#6216, aired 2011-10-03SOMETHING ABOUT MARY $3,500 (Daily Double): She co-wrote the popular 19th century work "Tales from Shakespear" with her brother Charles Mary Lamb
#6215, aired 2011-09-30"G" WHAT A COUNTRY $400: It was unified in the 19th century & reunified in the 20th Germany
#6202, aired 2011-07-26LETTERMAN $400: This 19th century showman's first successful exhibit at the American Museum was the Feejee Mermaid (yeah, it was fake) P.T. Barnum
#6182, aired 2011-06-2819th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $400: In 1853 Harriet Beecher Stowe published "A Key to" this novel, with facts & figures to back up its accuracy Uncle Tom's Cabin
#6182, aired 2011-06-2819th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $800: "The Fair God" by Lew Wallace tells of the conquest of Mexico by this explorer (Hernando) Cortes
#6182, aired 2011-06-2819th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1200: In an 1863 story by Edward Everett Hale, army officer Philip Nolan becomes "The Man Without" this a Country
#6182, aired 2011-06-2819th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1600: Chapter 1 of this Hawthorne novel is titled "The Old Pyncheon Family" The House of the Seven Gables
#6182, aired 2011-06-2819th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: In 1876 Mark Twain collaborated on a play, "Ah Sin", with this author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret Harte
#6173, aired 2011-06-15ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL $200: The shape of Illinois's 4th Congressional district is an example of this practice, named for a 19th century politician Gerrymander
#6163, aired 2011-06-01SIGHTSEEING $200: An Osawatomie, Kansas park is named for this 19th century abolitionist & includes the cabin where he lived John Brown
#6162, aired 2011-05-31"BULL"-Y! $1200: Developed in 19th century England, it's the breed of guard dog seen here a bullmastiff
#6158, aired 2011-05-25MILITARY NICKNAMES $200: The "Little Corporal" of the 19th century Napoleon
#6155, aired 2011-05-20THE ROLE IN COMMON $1600: Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Herbert Lom: A 19th century world leader Napoleon
#6151, aired 2011-05-16ARCHITECTURE $400: These overlapping pieces of material on roofs lent their name to a 19th century style of building shingles
#6149, aired 2011-05-12COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $400: This 1895 Stephen Crane work has been called the first modern war novel The Red Badge of Courage
#6149, aired 2011-05-12COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $800: The subtitle of this 1877 novel is "The Autobiography of a Horse" Black Beauty
#6149, aired 2011-05-12COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: A trip to Liverpool as a cabin boy on a merchant ship helped this man pen "Redburn"; it wasn't the last novel he set at sea (Herman) Melville
#6149, aired 2011-05-12COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $1600: The first chapter of this 1887 work is titled "Mr. Sherlock Holmes" A Study in Scarlet
#6149, aired 2011-05-12COLORFUL 19th CENTURY LIT $2000: In 1872 he published the first of his Wessex novels "Under the Greenwood Tree" (Thomas) Hardy
#6146, aired 2011-05-09KINDS OF SHIPS $3,000 (Daily Double): From its prey, it's the term for a 19th century vessel loaded with spermaceti a whaler
#6144, aired 2011-05-05U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: Nome, Alaska lies on this peninsula named for a 19th century Secretary of State the Seward peninsula
#6139, aired 2011-04-28BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2000: "We Two" calls this 19th century royal couple "rulers, partners, rivals" Victoria & Albert
#6138, aired 2011-04-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1803 this "Buckeye State" entered the Union, the first state in which slavery was illegal from the outset Ohio
#6138, aired 2011-04-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Years before his book of watercolors, he conducted America's first bird-banding experiments Audubon
#6138, aired 2011-04-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $600: About 4,000 Cherokee Indians died on the "Trail of" these in the late 1830s tears
#6138, aired 2011-04-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On May 11, 1894 workers at this Chicago railroad car plant began a strike that lasted almost 3 months the Pullman
#6138, aired 2011-04-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In an 1830 debate this senator said, "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable" Daniel Webster
#6136, aired 2011-04-25COUNT IT "OFF" $400: Rice or noodles traditionally accompany this beef dish named for a 19th century Russian diplomat Stroganoff
#6128, aired 2011-04-13PICTURE "D"IS $2,800 (Daily Double): This prominent 19th-century Englishman was an author as well as a politician Disraeli
#6123, aired 2011-04-06BETTER KNOWN AS $1600: 19th century actress Emilie Langtry Lillie Langtry
#6122, aired 2011-04-05FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Vance (of 19th century North Carolina politics), Pike (of geographic "Peak" fame) Zebulon
#6119, aired 2011-03-31THEY NAMED A MOUNTAIN FOR ME $800: The Agassizhorn in the Bernese section of these mountains is named for a 19th century scientist the Alps
#6116, aired 2011-03-28IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD $800: The Aztecs revered this dog; by the 19th century, it was nicknamed pelon, Spanish for "bald" a Mexican hairless dog
#6113, aired 2011-03-23FAMOUS PAIRS $800: Seen here, "Bringing Home the Logs, Winter Landscape" is a 19th century lithograph from this pair Currier & Ives
#6112, aired 2011-03-2219th CENTURY SCIENCE $200: Names for types of these, including cirrus & nimbus were coined in 1803 by British meteorologist Luke Howard clouds
#6112, aired 2011-03-2219th CENTURY SCIENCE $600: In 1881 he immunized farm animals from anthrax in Pouilly-le-Fort, on the outskirts of Paris Pasteur
#6112, aired 2011-03-2219th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: By 1880 both Edison & British physicist Joseph Wilson Swan had applied for patents on this type of electric lamp an incandescent light bulb
#6112, aired 2011-03-2219th CENTURY SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Physician Robert Graves described exophthalmic goiter, a condition now named for him, which affects this gland the thyroid
#6112, aired 2011-03-2219th CENTURY SCIENCE $1000: Georg Grotefend bet some drinking companions that he could decipher this wedge-shaped system of writing, & did in 1802 cuneiform
#6098, aired 2011-03-02WHO WROTE IT? $1000: A 19th century German philosopher: "God is dead" Nietzsche
#6098, aired 2011-03-02ART -ISMS $1600: In the 19th century Aestheticism said art exists to provide this, with no relation to society or morality beauty
#6096, aired 2011-02-28FAR EAST MOVEMENT $400: Led by a man professing to be Jesus' brother, the Taiping Rebellion roiled this nation in the 19th century China
#6096, aired 2011-02-28PLEDGES & OATHS $800: From the 16th to the 19th century, British office holders had to swear that they were members of this church the Anglican Church
#6091, aired 2011-02-21THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $4,200 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, IL.) Lincoln signed many important documents in his executive office, including this, which he called "the central act of my administration and the great event of the 19th century" the Emancipation Proclamation
#6071, aired 2011-01-24SLAV TO THE GRIND $200: This 19th century woman nee Sklodowska coined the word "radioactivity", of which she got a bit too much (Marie) Curie
#6066, aired 2011-01-17CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks Lewis Carroll
#6064, aired 2011-01-13TRANSPORTATION $1000: The Taiping, one of these fast 19th century ships, is seen here a clipper
#6060, aired 2011-01-07NECKWEAR $2000: In the 19th century, it was not considered proper for men to wear this, a false shirt front with attached collar a dickey
#6059, aired 2011-01-06PHYSICS $400: In the late 19th century, scientists postulated that this travels in waves through what they called luminiferous ether light
#6036, aired 2010-12-06PAINTERS $400: In the early 19th century, this Spaniard painted "The Clothed Maja" Goya
#6024, aired 2010-11-1819th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This character from an 1819 tale missed the American revolution; he was asleep Rip Van Winkle
#6024, aired 2010-11-1819th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Cassy & Emmeline escape from this slave owner after the 2 convince him his house is haunted Simon Legree
#6024, aired 2010-11-1819th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: Alphabetically last of the 3 musketeers, he has a "somewhat vainglorious strength" Porthos
#6024, aired 2010-11-1819th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: Alice questions reality after these 2 say she's only a character in the Red King's dream; ooo, 19th century "Inception"! Tweedledee and Tweedledum
#6024, aired 2010-11-1819th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: This "obscure" guy marries Arabella but really wants to revisit Sue Bridehead Jude the Obscure
#6007, aired 2010-10-2619th CENTURY INVENTIONS $200: Fewer babies were crying after 1849, when Walter Hunt invented this pin for diapers a safety pin
#6007, aired 2010-10-2619th CENTURY INVENTIONS $400: Joseph Niepce created the first permanent one of these images in 1826 a photograph
#6007, aired 2010-10-2619th CENTURY INVENTIONS $600: Thimonnier, like Singer, built a type of this machine, but his was destroyed by rioting tailors a sewing machine
#6007, aired 2010-10-2619th CENTURY INVENTIONS $800: Elevators date back to Roman times; in 1853 he showed off his safety device so passengers could ride on them Otis
#6007, aired 2010-10-2619th CENTURY INVENTIONS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew pushes an enclosed plunger.) Pushing a plunger compresses the air inside the cylinder, creating enough heat to ignite a piece of paper; the same principle is used in a type of engine invented by this man (Rudolf) Diesel
#5995, aired 2010-10-08NAME YOUR DISEASE $1600: Named for a 19th-century English physician, the most common lymphatic cancer is non-this lymphoma Hodgkin's
#5990, aired 2010-10-0119th CENTURY LIT $400: 1836's "O.T.: a Danish Romance" is a grownup novel by this man who'd soon turn his hand to fairy tales (Hans Christian) Andersen
#5990, aired 2010-10-0119th CENTURY LIT $800: "Monsieur LeCoq", about a Paris cop solving a mystery, is one of the earliest of this type of novel, also LeCoq's job detective
#5990, aired 2010-10-0119th CENTURY LIT $1200: Known for his gloomy novels, this Brit also published 9 volumes of rhyming verse starting in 1898 Thomas Hardy
#5990, aired 2010-10-0119th CENTURY LIT $1,500 (Daily Double): This "Old Ironsides" poet was also a doctor. You might recall that his son became a lawyer (Oliver Wendell) Holmes
#5990, aired 2010-10-0119th CENTURY LIT $1600: This author created the noble Indian Uncas & the slimy Indian Magua (James Fenimore) Cooper
#5990, aired 2010-10-01ART STYLES $2,000 (Daily Double): This art style that includes an artist's name was a "Brotherhood" in mid-19th century London Pre-Raphaelites
#5980, aired 2010-09-1719th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $400: He once said, "I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light" Edison
#5980, aired 2010-09-1719th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $800: On Dec. 2, 1859 this abolitionist told his hangman, "I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting" John Brown
#5980, aired 2010-09-1719th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $1200: This 1848 Whig candidate: "I will not say I would serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me" (Zachary) Taylor
#5980, aired 2010-09-1719th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $1600: In this 1841 essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist" Self Reliance
#5980, aired 2010-09-1719th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $2000: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Jordan.) The color of the sandstone in this ancient city in Jordan explains why, in the 19th century, John William Burgon called it "a rose-red city half as old as time" Petra
#5974, aired 2010-07-2919th CENTURY OPERA $400: When this opera opens, a cigarette girl tells soldiers she is looking for a corporal named Jose Carmen
#5974, aired 2010-07-2919th CENTURY OPERA $800: He began writing "Die Meistersinger" in 1845 as a companion piece to "Tannhauser", but didn't finish it until 1867 (Richard) Wagner
#5974, aired 2010-07-2919th CENTURY OPERA $1200: In this 1892 Leoncavallo opera, the clowns enter an Italian village in a parade led by a donkey cart Pagliacci (Il Pagliacci accepted)
#5974, aired 2010-07-2919th CENTURY OPERA $1600: This Rossini opera was first performed under an Italian title meaning "Almaviva, the useless precaution" The Barber of Seville
#5974, aired 2010-07-2919th CENTURY OPERA $2000: When 1st produced, this Verdi opera known as "the strayed one" was a failure, due in part to contemporary costumes La Traviata
#5968, aired 2010-07-21GOING FOR "WARD" $800: It precedes "Christian Soldiers" in a 19th century hymn "Onward"
#5963, aired 2010-07-14JACK $800: Fox-hunting dog breed named for a 19th century British clergyman Jack Russell
#5943, aired 2010-06-16TOO MUCH "SUN" $1600: In the 19th century Rudolf Wolf connected these solar phenomena to fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field sunspots
#5941, aired 2010-06-14ENDS IN "FF" $400: The use of this word as a slang term for a corpse dates back to the mid-19th century stiff
#5938, aired 2010-06-0920 IS PLENTY $400: In a 19th century story, he sleeps for 20 years Rip Van Winkle
#5938, aired 2010-06-09READ ALL OVER $2,000 (Daily Double): In Spanish speaking countries, this 19th century novel is "Historia de Dos Ciudades" A Tale of Two Cities
#5934, aired 2010-06-03HELLO, NATHANIEL $1600: Century in which Nathaniel Palmer made one of the first sightings of Antarctica the 19th century
#5932, aired 2010-06-01T-N-C $2000: The act of abstaining from excess or an anti-alcohol movement of the late 19th century temperance
#5928, aired 2010-05-26AS TIME GOES BY $1000: In a 19th century bestseller of men & the sea, Richard Henry Dana Jr. told of living this many "Years Before the Mast" Two
#5920, aired 2010-05-14THE AGRICULTURAL HALL OF FAME $1000: Oliver Kelley is in the Hall for creating this 19th century farmers' fraternal organization the Grange
#5916, aired 2010-05-10A VISIT TO ANTARCTICA $800: (Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from Antarctica.) Both the Antarctic sea we're in & the seal beside me are named for this famous 19th-century British explorer (James) Weddell
#5916, aired 2010-05-10CARRIAGES $2000: The name of a baron & political reformer was on a 19th century closed carriage & on 20th c. Cadillac car models Brougham
#5905, aired 2010-04-2319th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: This man considered a prophet by many was born in Sharon, Vermont in 1805 Joseph Smith

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (227 results returned)

#9043, aired 2024-02-2119th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp
#9018, aired 2024-01-1719th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney" the Washington Monument
#8973, aired 2023-11-15WASHINGTON, D.C.: It was proposed in Congress in 1926 in honor of a big 150th anniversary; it opened 17 years later the Jefferson Memorial
#8919, aired 2023-07-2019th CENTURY BRITISH POEMS: The author of this unfinished epic poem was unsure if he wanted the title character to "end in Hell--or in an unhappy marriage" Don Juan
#8902, aired 2023-06-2719th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling
#8899, aired 2023-06-22THE 19th CENTURY: In 1823 he wrote, "In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality" (James) Monroe
#8882, aired 2023-05-30LITERARY GROUPS: Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name the Lake Poets
#10, aired 2023-05-1519th CENTURY FIRST LADIES: After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress" Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy")
#8782, aired 2023-01-10CLASSIC TALE CHARACTERS: In one 19th century translation, she "perceived the dawn of day and ceased" speaking nearly 1,000 times Scheherazade
#8762, aired 2022-12-1319th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass
#6, aired 2022-10-3019th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1863 Walt Whitman wrote that this politician "has a face like a Hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful" Lincoln
#8725, aired 2022-10-2119th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off Madame Defarge
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY LITERATURE: William Brodie, an upstanding Scottish tradesman by day & leader of a gang of burglars by night, helped inspire these 2 title characters Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
#8696, aired 2022-09-1219th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#8668, aired 2022-06-2219th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe
#8665, aired 2022-06-1719th CENTURY CONTEMPORARIES: Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, "I have wrought in the day--you in the night" Harriet Tubman
#8653, aired 2022-06-01THE EARLY 19th CENTURY: Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve signaled "engage the enemy" around noon & surrendered at 1:45 PM during this battle the Battle of Trafalgar
#8615, aired 2022-04-0819th CENTURY LITERATURE: The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel Oliver Twist
#18, aired 2022-02-22THE 19th CENTURY: An 1873 book title gave us this phrase for the period in the late 1800s of growth & prosperity & also greed & corruption the Gilded Age
#8551, aired 2022-01-1019th CENTURY NOTABLES: On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever" Vincent van Gogh
#8530, aired 2021-12-1019th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley
#8521, aired 2021-11-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE: Its first line says, "The good people of Paris were awakened by a grand peal from all the bells in the three districts of the city" The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#8493, aired 2021-10-2019th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott
#8470, aired 2021-09-1719th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson
#8465, aired 2021-08-1319th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN: 2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020 (2 of) (Sojourner) Truth, (Susan B.) Anthony, or (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton
#8427, aired 2021-06-2219th CENTURY LITERARY CREATURES: The author said the name of this 10-letter creature in his poem meant "the result of much excited discussion" the Jabberwock
#8421, aired 2021-06-1419th CENTURY AMERICA: 2-word term for the statement saying U.S. policy is "to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope... other powers will (do) the same" the Monroe Doctrine
#8391, aired 2021-05-0319th CENTURY AMERICANS: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice Horace Greeley
#8365, aired 2021-03-2619th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today (John) Muir
#8354, aired 2021-03-11FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS: Representing its outspoken tone, this newspaper founded in the 19th century has the name of a free-spirited opera character Le Figaro
#8339, aired 2021-02-1819th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: The first campaign of this man, who at 36 was the youngest major party nominee ever, was supported by the silver mining industry William Jennings Bryan
#8294, aired 2020-12-0319th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1858 these 2 men faced each other in Alton, Freeport, Galesburg & 4 other nearby towns Lincoln & Douglas
#8265, aired 2020-10-2319th CENTURY SUPREME COURT CASES: Part of the dissent in this 1896 landmark case read, "In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law" Plessy v. Ferguson
#8238, aired 2020-09-1619th CENTURY AMERICANS: Obituaries called this man who died in 1820 a celebrated colonel, the first settler in Kentucky & a man who delighted in perils & battle Daniel Boone
#8219, aired 2020-05-21MILITARY SLANG: This word for high-ranking officials comes from a metal used in 19th century military insignia brass
#8213, aired 2020-04-2919th CENTURY NOVELS: Its first line ends, "the period was so far like the present period... for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only" A Tale of Two Cities
#8203, aired 2020-04-15PRESIDENTIAL GEOGRAPHY: This Midwest city is the burial place of one 19th century president & was named for a relative of another Cleveland, Ohio
#8177, aired 2020-03-1019th CENTURY PLAYS: From the title of a British-set comedy, it completes the final line "I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital..." The Importance of Being Earnest
#8155, aired 2020-02-07QUOTES ABOUT 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author "showed that abysses may exist inside a governess", a heroine who was a "commonplace spinster" Charlotte Brontë
#5, aired 2020-01-09U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century Democratic-Republican & Whig
#4, aired 2020-01-0819th CENTURY LEADERS: Tall, lanky Joel Barlow was an ambassador carrying messages between these 2 world leaders, both mocked for being short Napoleon & Madison
#8124, aired 2019-12-2619th CENTURY HISTORY: Wanting more French influence in the area he called Latin America, Napoleon III installed an emperor in this country Mexico
#8083, aired 2019-10-30WORLD CAPITALS: In 1865 this city named for an early 19th century British hero became a British colonial capital Wellington
#8081, aired 2019-10-2819th CENTURY AMERICA: Before its official opening on May 24, 1883 Emily Roebling became the first person to cross it in a carriage Brooklyn Bridge
#8023, aired 2019-06-2619th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: "Hard and sharp as flint... he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas" Ebenezer Scrooge
#8003, aired 2019-05-2919th CENTURY NOVELS: The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father Frankenstein
#7998, aired 2019-05-2219th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia
#7980, aired 2019-04-2619th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people The Deerslayer
#7976, aired 2019-04-2219th CENTURY BRITS: In a poem Lord Byron, a lover of Greece, calls this diplomat & fellow lord a "plunderer" (Lord) Elgin
#7957, aired 2019-03-2619th CENTURY AMERICANS: Though he became a Cabinet secretary & chief justice, once he wanted to change his name because of its "awkward, fishy" sound Salmon Chase
#7950, aired 2019-03-1519th CENTURY NAMES: In 1854 he became official musical instrument maker to Emperor Napoleon III; an instrument he invented is named for him Adolphe Sax
#7930, aired 2019-02-1519th CENTURY INVENTORS: He spent his life improving a plant-based substance he described as a "vegetable leather" or "elastic metal" Charles Goodyear
#7922, aired 2019-02-05THE 19th CENTURY: In his autobiography, Buffalo Bill Cody remembered this venture as "a relay race against time" the Pony Express
#7916, aired 2019-01-2819th CENTURY NOVELS: Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author "knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood" The Red Badge of Courage
#7901, aired 2019-01-0719th CENTURY NOTABLES: When he died in Samoa in 1894 his obituary said, "He loved Samoa better than any other place, except Scotland" Robert Louis Stevenson
#7884, aired 2018-12-1319th CENTURY AUTHORS: In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah Rudyard Kipling
#7863, aired 2018-11-1419th CENTURY NAMES: In the 1870s he wrote that "man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits" Charles Darwin
#7771, aired 2018-05-2819th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker" Mark Twain
#7753, aired 2018-05-0219th CENTURY AMERICANS: On July 10, 1804 he wrote a letter of goodbye, just in case, to "my dearest Theodosia"; he lived until 1836 Aaron Burr
#7733, aired 2018-04-0419th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSICIANS: The father of this future composer was a French teacher at the Warsaw Lyceum, where the child would later attend Frederic Chopin
#7684, aired 2018-01-2519th CENTURY EUROPEANS: In an 1889 letter to his brother, he wrote, “I wouldn’t exactly have chosen madness if there had been a choice” Vincent van Gogh
#7663, aired 2017-12-27PRESIDENTIAL HOMES: Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat" Hermitage
#7647, aired 2017-12-0519th CENTURY EUROPE: This 1814-1815 gathering of leaders prompted Beethoven to compose the cantata "The Glorious Moment" the Congress of Vienna
#7631, aired 2017-11-13VICE PRESIDENTS: A biography of this 19th century VP traces his family to a German town made famous in a folk tale about children Hannibal Hamlin
#7628, aired 2017-11-0819th CENTURY POETS: In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for "questionable morality"; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there Lord Byron
#7621, aired 2017-10-3019th CENTURY LITERATURE: This 1870 novel has a ship whose name is from the Greek for "sailor" & a captain whose name is Latin for "no one" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#7600, aired 2017-09-2919th CENTURY PEOPLE: On June 28, 1838 an archbishop jammed a ring made for her little finger onto her 4th; she had to soak it in ice water to get it off Queen Victoria
#7541, aired 2017-05-2919th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist" Lewis Carroll
#7536, aired 2017-05-22THE BRITISH EMPIRE: The city that some 19th century Englishmen called "Caranjee" is now the biggest city in this country Pakistan
#7515, aired 2017-04-2119th CENTURY EUROPE: Published in L'Aurore on January 13, 1898, it caused its author to be convicted of libel J'accuse
#7441, aired 2017-01-0919th CENTURY NOTABLES: Calling him a red-headed madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France Vincent van Gogh
#7440, aired 2017-01-06NAME THE 19th CENTURY WORK: "Modern bourgeois society... is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers... called up by his spells" The Communist Manifesto
#7380, aired 2016-10-1419th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character says, "Let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee" Captain Ahab
#7357, aired 2016-09-1319th CENTURY MILITARY MEN: In 1895 he wrote to his family that with "superhuman strength" he would "discover the truth... on the tragic affair" Alfred Dreyfus
#7331, aired 2016-06-27FRENCH MONARCHS: His reign was interrupted for "100 days" in the 19th century before he was restored & reigned for 9 years more Louis XVIII
#7319, aired 2016-06-0919th CENTURY NONFICTION: A 2014 bestseller, in 1853 it was called "more extraordinary" than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" because "it is only a simply unvarnished tale" Twelve Years a Slave
#7310, aired 2016-05-2719th CENTURY NOVELS: "The Gold Bug", Edgar Allan Poe's story about the search for Captain Kidd's buried loot, helped inspire this 1883 novel Treasure Island
#7307, aired 2016-05-2419th CENTURY NOTABLES: He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped Jefferson Davis
#7294, aired 2016-05-0519th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1855 he wrote, "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived" P.T. Barnum
#7285, aired 2016-04-2219th CENTURY BRITS: In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke Byron
#7283, aired 2016-04-20AT THE OLD BALLGAME: This word dates back to the 19th century & referred to what the Sun did to roofless seating bleachers
#7264, aired 2016-03-2419th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1872 he wrote his thesis "Diseases of the Teeth" & soon after moved west to a drier climate for his health Doc Holliday
#7255, aired 2016-03-1119th CENTURY DOCUMENTS: Its preamble substituted the words "a permanent federal government" for "a more perfect union" the Confederate Constitution
#7236, aired 2016-02-15FAMOUS PHRASES: In one version of a 19th century quote, "There is room and health... away from the crowds" so you're urged to do these 2 words Go West
#7229, aired 2016-02-0419th CENTURY BOOKS: "Instinct", "Hybridism" & "Geographical Distribution" are chapters in this book The Origin of Species (by Charles Darwin)
#7193, aired 2015-12-1619th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister "The Purloined Letter"
#7115, aired 2015-07-1719th CENTURY AMERICANS: An account of her historic trial noted, "It was conceded that the defendant was, on the 5th November 1872, a woman" Susan B. Anthony
#7110, aired 2015-07-1019th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" is spoken to this title character by his creation Frankenstein
#7091, aired 2015-06-1519th CENTURY POETRY: He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin" Lord Byron
#7074, aired 2015-05-2119th CENTURY AUTHORS: In an essay, he wrote, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion" Thoreau
#7001, aired 2015-02-0919th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat Lord Byron
#6921, aired 2014-10-20LITERATURE: A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character "one-eyed, lame", another calls him "deaf" The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#6920, aired 2014-10-17COATS OF ARMS: This country's coat of arms features a palm tree & a 19th century American sailing ship Liberia
#6893, aired 2014-07-30GREAT MOMENTS IN 19th CENTURY SCIENCE: Matthias Schleiden found plants are made up of these; at dinner he told Theodor Schwann who said, hey, so are animals cells
#6862, aired 2014-06-1719th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS: His "spinal column was curved"... the "head was between the shoulder-blades and... one leg was shorter than the other" Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame)
#6854, aired 2014-06-0519th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: A dignitary at the dedication of this said it was "keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America" The Statue of Liberty
#6850, aired 2014-05-3019th CENTURY POLITICS: A Senate seat from this Southern state sat vacant for 4 years; when it was filled, its ex-occupant had become U.S. president Tennessee
#6836, aired 2014-05-1219th CENTURY POEMS: Written about the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, a Kipling poem said, "Take up" this now-controversial phrase the White Man's burden
#6819, aired 2014-04-1719th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Good looks weren't enough as he became the only full-term president rejected in a bid for his party's 2nd term nomination Franklin Pierce
#6809, aired 2014-04-0319th CENTURY POLITICS: In 1884 George Pillsbury became mayor of this city Minneapolis
#6786, aired 2014-03-03PRESIDENTS: He is the only 19th century president to serve 2 complete terms with the same vice president James Monroe
#6781, aired 2014-02-2419th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown
#6776, aired 2014-02-1719th CENTURY NAMES: In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages Noah Webster
#6742, aired 2013-12-3119th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS: Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & "unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous" (Aaron) Burr
#6696, aired 2013-10-28LITERARY CHARACTERS: This 19th century character talks about his own writings about tattoo marks & on the tracing of footsteps Sherlock Holmes
#6631, aired 2013-06-17IN THE NEWSPAPER: Her pen name honored a wise woman from the Old Testament & a 19th century U.S. president Abigail Van Buren (or Dear Abby)
#6626, aired 2013-06-1019th CENTURY NAMES: This French engineer once asked, "Why should we disguise the industrial nature of iron, even in the city?" Gustave Eiffel
#6583, aired 2013-04-1019th CENTURY AUTHORS: His works include "Sylvie and Bruno", "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" & "Algebraic Formulae and Rules" Lewis Carroll
#6552, aired 2013-02-2619th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881
#6524, aired 2013-01-1719th CENTURY LITERARY INTRODUCTIONS: Title character who's "clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere" Dracula
#6512, aired 2013-01-0119th CENTURY AMERICA: Held in 1857, America's first national landscape design contest was for the creation of this place Central Park
#6501, aired 2012-12-1719th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Thoreau noted in 1854, it "resounds at every post. it is a harp with one string--the first strain from the American lyre" a telegraph
#6304, aired 2012-02-0219th CENTURY AUTHORS: One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "I want to write about a fellow who was two fellows" Robert Louis Stevenson
#6247, aired 2011-11-1519th CENTURY POETRY: He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die" Oscar Wilde
#6236, aired 2011-10-3119th CENTURY QUOTATIONS: "In this sense, the theory of" this group "may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property" communists
#6222, aired 2011-10-1119th CENTURY LITERATURE: "'How are you getting on?' said" this animal character, "as soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak with" the Cheshire Cat
#6197, aired 2011-07-1919th CENTURY NOVELS: This novel's first epilogue says, "The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful" War and Peace
#6159, aired 2011-05-2619th CENTURY MUSIC: Lyrics to an 1868 tune by this man began, "Guten Abend, Gut Nacht, Mit Rosen Bedacht" Johannes Brahms
#6118, aired 2011-03-30INFLUENTIAL 19th CENTURY THINKERS: At the University of Bonn in 1836, he was wounded in a duel with a member of an aristocratic Prussian fraternity Karl Marx
#6114, aired 2011-03-2419th CENTURY LITERATURE: Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author Mark Twain
#6092, aired 2011-02-2219th CENTURY NAMES: In an 1845 autobiography, he wrote, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" Frederick Douglass
#6088, aired 2011-02-1619th CENTURY NOVELISTS: William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel Bram Stoker
#6071, aired 2011-01-2419th CENTURY PEOPLE: After meeting him, Hawthorne said he had a "sallow, queer, sagacious visage" warmed by "homely human sympathies" Abraham Lincoln
#6057, aired 2011-01-04THE HALL OF PRESIDENTS: Of the 9 presidents whose images have a beard or mustache, this late 19th century man is the only Democrat Grover Cleveland
#6047, aired 2010-12-21THE 19th CENTURY: Thomas Huxley & Samuel Wilberforce were among the Oxford Museum speakers debating this theory June 30, 1860 evolution
#6035, aired 2010-12-03THE CABINET: These 2 Cabinet departments both depict 19th century plows on their official seals Agriculture & Labor
#5895, aired 2010-04-0919th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: In chapter 10, "The whole mystery of the handkerchiefs, and the watches, and the jewels... rushed upon" this title boy's "mind" Oliver Twist
#5886, aired 2010-03-2919th CENTURY LITERATURE: In an 1877 novel Mrs. Gordon initially suggests the name Ebony for this title character Black Beauty
#5844, aired 2010-01-2819th CENTURY ARTISTS: This Frenchman once said, "I will astonish Paris with an apple"--here are a few of them Paul Cézanne
#5842, aired 2010-01-2619th CENTURY LITERATURE: Chapter II of this novel says, "My eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians" Dracula
#5789, aired 2009-11-1219th CENTURY NOVELISTS: She wrote that "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" Jane Austen
#5743, aired 2009-07-2219th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: His letter accepting his nomination concluded, "Let us have peace", which became the GOP campaign slogan Ulysses Grant
#5728, aired 2009-07-01PHRASE ORIGINS: A 19th century gambling term meaning a desirable prize, its use in reference to NYC stems from a 1921 newspaper sports column the Big Apple
#5725, aired 2009-06-2619th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness" The Scarlet Letter
#5695, aired 2009-05-1519th CENTURY AMERICANS: This New Englander began building his house in March 1845 & later wrote that it cost exactly $28.12 1/2 Henry David Thoreau
#5660, aired 2009-03-2719th CENTURY CONSTRUCTION: It was first designed as "Egypt carrying the light to Asia", & its original intended site was Port Said in 1869 the Statue of Liberty
#5616, aired 2009-01-2619th CENTURY POETS: He wrote, "The mason singing... the boatman... the hatter... singing what belongs to him or her and to none else" Walt Whitman
#5593, aired 2008-12-2419th CENTURY BOOKS: Its author called it "a Ghostly little book... which shall not put my readers out of humour... with the season" A Christmas Carol
#5575, aired 2008-11-2819th CENTURY NOVELS: Its title refers to an imaginary place where things like "honors, preferments... silver, gold, pearls" are sold Vanity Fair
#5566, aired 2008-11-1719th CENTURY POLITICS: When the GOP convened in 1888, he became the 1st black man to earn a vote for president at a major party convention Frederick Douglass
#5561, aired 2008-11-1019th CENTURY INVENTIONS: When this was explained to Chief Sho-kup, he gave it a Shoshone name that means "wire rope express" the telegraph
#5519, aired 2008-09-11LINES FROM 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them" Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
#5490, aired 2008-06-2019th CENTURY SCIENCE: In 1824 Anglican priest William Buckland wrote a pioneering paper on Megalosaurus, a creature whose name means this lizard
#5392, aired 2008-02-0519th CENTURY POLITICIANS: As Territories Committee chair, this Midwest senator helped draw the borders of 7 territories, including Kansas & Nebraska Stephen Douglas
#5356, aired 2007-12-1719th CENTURY NAMES: He got his name because Mexican victims of his attacks would cry out in terror to St. Jerome Geronimo
#5344, aired 2007-11-2919th CENTURY BOOKS: "Political power... is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another" is from this work The Communist Manifesto
#5339, aired 2007-11-22FAMOUS NAMES: In the 19th century he created a new type of reference work, a dictionary named from the Greek for "treasury" Roget
#5338, aired 2007-11-2119th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1833 a French historian said that this author had built "a cathedral as solid as the foundations of the other (one)" Victor Hugo
#5293, aired 2007-09-1919th CENTURY INVENTIONS: One description of it said its "spokes look like cobwebs; they are after the fashion of those on the newest... bicycles" the Ferris Wheel
#5277, aired 2007-07-1719th CENTURY AMERICA: It was written for American schoolkids to recite on the dedication day of the Chicago World's Fair the Pledge of Allegiance
#5256, aired 2007-06-1819th CENTURY ROYALTY: "Imperial Adventurer", "The Last Emperor" & "The Cactus Throne" are books about this man who died at 34 Emperor Maximilian
#5247, aired 2007-06-05AMERICAN LITERATURE: Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include "A Tale", "The Inland Sea" & "The First War-Path" Leatherstocking Tales
#5236, aired 2007-05-2119th CENTURY INVENTORS: He wrote, "Isn't it the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitroglycerin to be taken internally" Alfred Nobel
#5233, aired 2007-05-1619th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: There were 5 living former presidents when this president was sworn in, none of whom was of his party Abraham Lincoln
#5217, aired 2007-04-2419th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..." Thoreau
#5214, aired 2007-04-19PRESIDENTIAL VETOES: Of the 21 regular vetoes by this 19th century president, 15 were overridden, the highest reversal total for any president Andrew Johnson
#5198, aired 2007-03-28LITERARY FIGURES: Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man Oscar Wilde
#5169, aired 2007-02-1519th CENTURY MEN: In 1813 Louisiana Governor William Claiborne put a $500 bounty on him; he responded by offering one for the gov.'s head Jean Lafitte
#5139, aired 2007-01-0419th CENTURY DEMOCRATS: In a famous speech he said, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns..." William Jennings Bryan
#5133, aired 2006-12-2719th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Against bitterly divided Democrats, he won with the second-lowest percentage of the popular vote in history, 39.8% Abraham Lincoln
#5069, aired 2006-09-28HISTORICAL TERMS: Historians refer to "the long 19th century", the 125-year span between these 2 events the French Revolution and World War I
#5031, aired 2006-06-2619th CENTURY GOVERNORS: To date, he's the only person to be elected governor of 2 different states Sam Houston
#5030, aired 2006-06-2319th CENTURY LITERATURE: "I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world", says this narrator Ishmael
#5006, aired 2006-05-2219th CENTURY AMERICA: Springs at Weston, Missouri provided water to wagon trains & McCormick's, now the USA's oldest continuously operating one of these a distillery
#4891, aired 2005-12-1219th CENTURY LIT: This work says, "Man is not truly one, but truly two... I learned to recognize the... primitive duality of man" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
#4855, aired 2005-10-2119th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: Hanged in an 1837 novel, he so angered some Londoners that his creator toned him down in future editions Fagin
#4765, aired 2005-04-2919th CENTURY AMERICAN ART: Some versions of this painting based on a Bible verse show William Penn making a treaty with the Indians in the background Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom
#4708, aired 2005-02-0919th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president Ulysses S. Grant
#4702, aired 2005-02-0119th CENTURY LITERATURE: "The Pastor and His Parishioner" is Chapter 17 of this classic novel The Scarlet Letter
#4673, aired 2004-12-2219th CENTURY SPEECHES: At Harvard, this writer proposed that we work 1 day & leave 6 free for the "sublime revelations of nature" Henry David Thoreau
#4655, aired 2004-11-2619th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: Of the 5 times Congress has declared war, the 3 during the 19th century were against these 3 nations Britain, Spain & Mexico
#4616, aired 2004-10-04POETS: Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful" Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman
#4613, aired 2004-09-2919th CENTURY NAMES: Once known as "the handsomest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865 John Wilkes Booth
#4528, aired 2004-04-2119th CENTURY ART & HISTORY: The red sky in Munch's "The Scream" may be from the debris in the Oslo air from this volcano half a world away Krakatoa
#4475, aired 2004-02-0619th CENTURY PHILOSOPHY: This 3-word quote, originally in German, comes soon after "We have killed him--you and I, all of us are his murderers" "God is dead"
#4435, aired 2003-12-1219th CENTURY BUSINESS: Frederic Tudor became wealthy marketing this, which he took from a pond called Fresh Pond in Massachusetts ice
#4405, aired 2003-10-3119th CENTURY NOVELS: In Chapter 1 of this novel, we find "a vast, ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light" Dracula
#4300, aired 2003-04-18ORGANIZATIONS: "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings" was a goal of this group at its 19th century founding Sierra Club
#4265, aired 2003-02-28THE USA: In area, they're the largest & smallest states that joined the Union in the 19th century Texas & West Virginia
#4125, aired 2002-07-0519th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president who never had a vice president John Tyler
#4112, aired 2002-06-1819th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character was inspired by Adam Worth, who masterminded crimes including tunneling into a bank vault Professor Moriarty
#4045, aired 2002-03-15FAMILIAR PHRASES: The phrase "to turn a blind eye" is said to have been inspired by a 19th century naval incident involving this man Admiral Lord Nelson
#4032, aired 2002-02-2619th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Peter Roget's new device for performing mechanically the involution & evolution of numbers the slide rule
#3995, aired 2002-01-0419th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Other than FDR, he's the only Democrat to receive his party's nomination in 3 straight elections Grover Cleveland
#3909, aired 2001-09-06HISTORIC NAMES: In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here Jefferson Davis
#3908, aired 2001-09-0519th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence called him "an adventurer into the vaults and... horrible underground passages of the human soul" Edgar Allan Poe
#3845, aired 2001-04-2719th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: In 1876 this German wired the king of Greece, "I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon" Heinrich Schliemann
#3831, aired 2001-04-0919th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: In 1859 he was knighted for offering his ships for service in the Crimean War Sir Samuel Cunard
#3815, aired 2001-03-16SPORTS NAME ORIGINS: This racket sport takes its name from the country home of the 19th century Duke of Beaufort Badminton
#3781, aired 2001-01-29SPORTS PHRASES: This phrase for the sport of Sugar Ray Robinson is attributed to 19th century writer Pierce Egan The Sweet Science
#3779, aired 2001-01-25SCIENTISTS: Bertrand Russell said that "What Galileo and Newton were to the 17th century," this man "was to the 19th" Charles Darwin
#3631, aired 2000-05-2219th CENTURY CRIMES: It resulted from the perpetrator's delusion that he was going to be ambassador to France The Garfield Assassination
#3626, aired 2000-05-1519th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Known to many as The Colossus, this man was elected to the Cape Colony Assembly in 1881 Cecil Rhodes
#3485, aired 1999-10-2919th CENTURY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This title horror character was created by its author at 6 Royal Crescent in the resort of Whitby in Yorkshire Dracula (created by Bram Stoker)
#3459, aired 1999-09-2319th CENTURY AMERICA: This politician died on June 3, 1861, 39 days after giving a speech in Springfield, Illinois supporting the Union Stephen Douglas
#3183, aired 1998-06-0319th CENTURY AMERICA: The 2 Civil War generals on the winning Republican presidential ticket of 1880 James Garfield & Chester A. Arthur
#3133, aired 1998-03-2519th CENTURY AMERICA: Graders, gaugers, spikers & bolters built these railroads
#3113, aired 1998-02-25ASIA: 19th century novelist Jose Rizal was a hero of this country's independence movement the Philippines
#3041, aired 1997-11-17FAMOUS SPEECHES: This 19th century speech included the line "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." the Gettysburg Address
#3003, aired 1997-09-2419th CENTURY FICTION: The 1853 novel "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" alleges that this man had an affair with a slave Thomas Jefferson
#2965, aired 1997-06-2019th CENTURY POLITICS: These 7 events occurred between August 21 & October 15, 1858 & each lasted 3 hours the Lincoln-Douglas Debates for Senator in Illinois
#2831, aired 1996-12-16BRAND NAMES: Common household product named for a 19th century surgical pioneer Listerine (named for Sir Joseph Lister)
#2807, aired 1996-11-12AMERICAN HISTORY: Lincoln said it was "the central act of my administration & the greatest event of the 19th century" the Emancipation Proclamation
#2801, aired 1996-11-04U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last president born in the 19th century Dwight David Eisenhower (1890)
#2779, aired 1996-10-0319th CENTURY AUTHORS: He rejected offers to run for Congress & Mayor of New York & to be Van Buren's Secretary of the Navy Washington Irving
#2600, aired 1995-12-1519th CENTURY NOVELS: Book 1, Chapter 4 of this 1880 work is entitled "The Third Son Alyosha" The Brothers Karamazov
#2545, aired 1995-09-2919th CENTURY ARTISTS: He sued a man for libel over a criticism of his painting "Nocturne in Black and Gold"--& won (James Abbott McNeil) Whistler
#2306, aired 1994-09-1919th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1864 the Comm. of Agriculture advocated that the government issue daily ones of these via telegraphs a weather report
#2292, aired 1994-07-1919th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence said he probably did "more than any writer to present the Red Man to the white man" James Fenimore Cooper
#2265, aired 1994-06-1019th CENTURY HUMANITARIANS: Like her sister Parthenope, who was named for Naples, she was named for the city of her birth Florence Nightingale
#2089, aired 1993-10-0719th CENTURY POLITICS: In 1872 he was the Liberal Republican Party's first & last presidential candidate; he lost Horace Greeley
#2031, aired 1993-06-0719th CENTURY ELECTIONS: In 1836 Van Buren ran against Harrison for U.S. president & these 2 ran for president of Texas Sam Houston & Stephen F. Austin
#1959, aired 1993-02-2519th CENTURY AMERICA: The execution of this man & his followers in 1859 is believed to be the only one for treason against a state John Brown
#1950, aired 1993-02-12FASHION HISTORY: Listing the great men of the 19th century, Lord Byron ranked himself 3rd, Napoleon 2nd & this man 1st Beau Brummel
#1924, aired 1993-01-0719th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1863 he published his rules for castle croquet, which he played with the Liddell Sisters Lewis Carroll
#1559, aired 1991-05-1619th CENTURY AMERICA: To keep a balance, an 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state & this as a free state Maine
#1515, aired 1991-03-15ELECTIONS: A Democratic slogan in the 1800s went "We Polked 'em in '44, we'll" do this to "'em in '52" Pierce
#1417, aired 1990-10-3019th CENTURY AMERICANS: When he died in New York City in 1848, this merchant was the richest man in America John Jacob Astor
#1344, aired 1990-06-0719th CENTURY AMERICANS: 1st & last name of the man who brought insanity proceedings against his famous mother in 1875 Robert Lincoln
#910, aired 1988-07-1519th CENTURY AMERICA: His 1889 book "The Gospel of Wealth" said it's the duty of the rich to share surplus wealth, & he did Andrew Carnegie
#870, aired 1988-05-2019th CENTURY AMERICA: Set in England, this play by Tom Taylor was probably the most talked-about play in 1865 Our American Cousin
#740, aired 1987-11-2019th CENTURY DEMOCRATS: He said, "I am the last president of the United States" James Buchanan
#689, aired 1987-09-10THE CENSUS: Last year in the 19th century in which a general census of the United States was taken 1900
#679, aired 1987-07-16AMERICAN LITERATURE: 19th century novel whose alternate title is "Life Among the Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin
#647, aired 1987-06-02SCIENCE: Of the 106 elements, the greatest #, incl. aluminum & silicon, were identified in this century the 19th century
#540, aired 1987-01-02AMERICAN LITERATURE: Inspirational 19th century song from which John Steinbeck got the title "The Grapes of Wrath" "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic"
#187, aired 1985-05-28HISTORY: It was the world's largest city for the entire 19th century London

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