| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | 19th 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 2022-04-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On Sept.10, 1813 the U.S. had a naval victory on this lake Lake Erie |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | 19th 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 2022-04-15 | 19th 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 2022-04-15 | 19th 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 |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $2000: Felix Mendelssohn threatened suicide if this Swedish soprano did not run away to America with him Jenny Lind |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | 19th 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 |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FOR YOUR PIES ONLY $400: 19th century confectioner, Elizabeth Goodfellow introduced this sweet & tart delight to America lemon meringue pie |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In April 1877 Pres. Hayes withdrew federal troops from Louisiana, officially ending this post-Civil-War period Reconstruction |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1801 this cotton gin inventor demonstrated his idea for interchangeable parts for guns Eli Whitney |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | 19th 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 2021-01-06 | 19th 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 2021-01-06 | 19th 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 |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN 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 |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | LESSER-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 |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | TEAM AMERICA $200: The first Olympic Team USA, in this 19th century year, consisted of 14 athletes, who won 11 events 1896 |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On July 24, 1866 this state volunteered to be the first Confederate one readmitted to the Union Tennessee |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | 19th 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 2019-07-18 | 19th 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 2019-07-18 | 19th 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 2019-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This publisher founded the New York Tribune as a Whig paper & later helped start the Republican party in 1854 (Horace) Greeley |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | 19th 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 2017-11-01 | 19th 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 2017-11-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: An 1878 novel about a cattle drive is considered the first fictional treatment of this archetypal Westerner a cowboy |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | 19th 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 2017-11-01 | 19th 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 |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | 19th 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 2017-02-23 | 19th 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 2017-02-23 | 19th 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 2017-02-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This "stately" act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise's restrictions on slavery the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Born John Chapman, he spread religion as well as fruit trees throughout the Midwest Johnny Appleseed |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | 19th 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 2016-12-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Philly pharmacist Charles Hires claimed to have invented this beverage root beer |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | 19th 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 2016-12-05 | 19th 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 |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Joining Great Britain, Congress passed an act in 1807 abolishing this international African trade slave trade |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | 19th 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 2016-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: The Credit Mobilier scandal involved this "oceanic" railroad company the Union Pacific |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | 19th 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 2016-01-27 | 19th 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) |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Niagara Escarpment was a challenge in the building of this canal the Erie Canal |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: During an 1840-41 trip to England, he persuaded many to move to Nauvoo, Illinois Brigham Young |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | 19th 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 2015-11-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In 1882 Father Michael McGivney founded this Catholic fraternal organization Knights of Columbus |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | 19th 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 |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | 19th 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 2014-06-23 | 19th 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 2014-06-23 | 19th 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 2014-06-23 | 19th 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 2014-06-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1847 Marines stormed & secured Chapultepec Castle in this world capital Mexico City |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | 19th 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 2013-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: He's the abolitionist pictured here a few years before his raid on an arsenal & his hanging John Brown |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1857 the celebration of this day with a parade & floats became an annual New Orleans tradition Mardi Gras |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Asked to create a sport that could be played indoors during winter, James Naismith came up with this basketball |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1854 this poet began writing "The Song of Hiawatha" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | 19th 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 2012-11-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In the 1812 election, President Madison defeated this man, the nephew of his first Veep George Clinton DeWitt Clinton |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | 19th 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 2012-11-02 | 19th 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 2012-11-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $6,900 (Daily Double): On March 1, 1803 it became the 17th state & the first created from the Northwest Territory Ohio |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | 19th 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 2011-04-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Years before his book of watercolors, he conducted America's first bird-banding experiments Audubon |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: About 4,000 Cherokee Indians died on the "Trail of" these in the late 1830s tears |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | 19th 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 2011-04-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In an 1830 debate this senator said, "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable" Daniel Webster |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1848 the U.S. got 1/2 million square miles from Mexico, including land north of the Gila River & this Intl. border river the Rio Grande |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1864 this NYC politician set up a printing company, then assigned all city printing to it Boss Tweed |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: On Oct. 18, 1867 General Lovell Rousseau formally received this territory purchased 7 months earlier the Alaska Territory |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This Ill. senator sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing each territory to decide the issue of slavery Stephen Douglas |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In August 1812 this future president was put in charge of the Northwestern Army William Henry Harrison |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Formed in 1848, the Free Soil Party, which opposed extending slavery, was transplanted into this party in 1854 the Republican Party |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Francis Scott Key penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" after watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry in this year 1814 |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: A strike started by workers of this railroad co. paralyzed the U.S. economy in 1894 until broken up by government action the Pullman Company |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Henry Wirz, the commandant of this infamous prison, was executed for war crimes in 1865 Andersonville |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1822 he opened the western branch of his American Fur Company in St. Louis John Jacob Astor |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In a famous 1830 race, this little ol' locomotive lost to a horse "Tom Thumb" |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1888 he introduced a new shorthand system that would largely replace the Pitman system John Gregg |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): Built between 1817 & 1825, it was 363 miles long 40 feet wide on top & 4 feet deep the Erie Canal |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In 1835 he became Speaker of the House; 10 years later, he was occupying the White House Polk |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1883 Mark Twain published his autobiographical "Life on" this river the Mississippi |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Later our national motto, this phrase first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864 In God We Trust |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1849 & 1850, at least 80,000 people rushed to this state California |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1869 Uriah Stephens founded the Knights of this as a secret society Labor |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Amid the pomp & circumstance, Queen's College of New Jersey took this new name in 1825 Rutgers |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | FACES OF AMERICA $800: This influential 19th-century abolitionist & author co-founded the newspaper The North Star (Frederick) Douglass |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This Akron-based company got rolling in 1898, making bicycle & carriage tires, horseshoe pads, & yes, poker chips Goodyear |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Disgusted by Americans' tobacco chewing, Dickens noted the prevalence of these vessels in public places spittoons |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In 1815 he was appointed minister to Great Britain, a post held by his father &, later, by his son Charles John Quincy Adams |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1811 the Battle of Tippecanoe was fought in what is now this state Indiana |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The first Whig to be elected president, he was also the first president to die in office William Henry Harrison |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Battle of the Thames was fought during this war; by the way, that's the Thames in Ontario the War of 1812 |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: The U.S. abandoned the arsenal at this site in 1861, 2 years after a raid by John Brown Harper's Ferry |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: The Earp-Clanton confrontation near this site in 1881 has been called more slaughter than gunfight the O.K. Corral |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Longfellow's 1858 "The Courtship of" him sold over 10,000 copies in 1 day in London Miles Standish |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1868 Red Cloud agreed to accept for this tribe a reservation in the Dakota Territory nearly as big as Pennsylvania the Sioux |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1820 Edwin James climbed a Colorado peak that was then named for him; today we call it this Pikes Peak |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In August of 1807 this steamboat made its first run, traveling from NYC to Albany the Clermont |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: When completed in 1855, the Point Loma Lighthouse in this Southern California city was the USA's tallest at 462 feet San Diego |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1875 this Republican was elected governor of Ohio; 17 months later, he took the oath of office as president (Rutherford B.) Hayes |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: "My Life on the Plains" was an 1874 book by this "boy general" & Indian fighter Custer |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Reportedly, in 1854 Flora Temple broke the 2:20 minute mile; of course, Flora was one of these a horse |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This Californian died still trying to get congress to reimburse him for all that gold on his mill site he lost out on (John) Sutter |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1846 he tried to sue Eliza Emerson in St. Louis for his & his family's freedom Dred Scott |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: If Amelia Jenks hadn't married this man in 1840, women might have worn "Jenks" (Dexter) Bloomer |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Accepting the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 1858, he said "A house divided against itself cannot stand" Abraham Lincoln |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Completed in June 1854, the lighthouse on this island in San Francisco Bay was the West Coast's first active one Alcatraz |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In April 1824 the U.S. & this country agreed to 54 deg. 40 min. N. latitude as the southern limit of its west coast claims Russia |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: This 19th C. glass was named for the Massachusetts village where it was made, not for a club or a dagwood Sandwich glass |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: On July 4, 1828 President John Quincy Adams broke ground for this canal, known as the C&O the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | EARLY 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Meriwether Lewis served as the midwife when her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, was born on February 11, 1805 Sacagawea |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | EARLY 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1809 President Madison appointed this future president the first U.S. minister to Russia John Quincy Adams |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | EARLY 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: His 1809 work "A History of New York" was a tongue-in-cheek history of New Amsterdam (Washington) Irving |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | EARLY 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: On April 6, 1808 he obtained a charter for the American Fur Company John Jacob Astor |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | EARLY 19th CENTURY AMERICA $5,100 (Daily Double): On March 1, 1803 it became the first state created out of the Northwest Territory Ohio |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Built by the Franciscans around 1718, it was captured by Mexicans in 1836 the Alamo |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: You can tour this general's 1807 Virginia birthplace, Stratford Hall Robert E. Lee |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: California's first state prison, it was built with convict labor in 1852 San Quentin |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: Born in 1800, he believed God had chosen him to lead his fellow black slaves to freedom Nat Turner |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: From 1831 to 1865 William Lloyd Garrison published this crusading journal The Liberator |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This 1803 territorial acquisition from France doubled the area of the United States the Louisiana Purchase |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On July 24, 1847 this Mormon leader & his party of 143 reached the Great Salt Lake Valley Brigham Young |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: On October 22, 1819 the first boat travelled on this canal, from Rome to Utica, New York the Erie Canal |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: The 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee in this state was the last major conflict between Indians & U.S. troops South Dakota |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,006 (Daily Double): At noon on April 22, 1889 settlers rushed to claim land in this new territory: many entered "sooner" than noon Oklahoma |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 1, 1873 the first postcards at this postage rate were issued one cent (penny) |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1825 the Marquis de Lafayette laid the cornerstone for a monument to this battle Bunker Hill |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Name of the ship that James Lawrence urged his men, "Don't give up", it was also paired in a railroad with Ohio Chesapeake |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1863 he patented his popular folding upper berth (George) Pullman |
| #4396, aired 2003-10-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: 1889 event that caused the damage seen here the Johnstown Flood |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | SPELL THE LAST NAME $1200: 19th century "Birds of America" illustrator & naturalist John James... A-U-D-U-B-O-N |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: This "King of the Wild Frontier" served as a scout during the 1813-14 war against the Creek Indians in Alabama & Florida Davy Crockett |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Graduating from Geneva College in 1849, she became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Under the terms of this 1848 treaty, Mexico recognized Texas as a part of the United States Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1892 this party met in Omaha; its plank called for the secret ballot & the unlimited coinage of silver at a 16:1 ratio Populist Party |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): This was read to the cabinet on September 22, 1862 but it didn't go into effect until 101 days later Emancipation Proclamation |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On February 17, 1801 the House of Representatives declared him president on its 36th vote Jefferson |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On May 10, 1869 the Transcontinental Railroad was completed when the Central Pacific & this railroad met in Utah Union Pacific |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In 1886 in Columbus, Ohio, several trade unions merged to form the AFL, which stands for this The American Federation of Labor |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,600 (Daily Double): His Pacific Fur Company was founded on June 23, 1810, in order to extend his fur influence over the Northwest (John Jacob) Astor |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton & this woman established the National Woman Suffrage Association Susan B. Anthony |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In a famous duel July 11, 1804 he deliberately misfired; his opponent didn't Alexander Hamilton |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1851 he sold the first performance rights to his "Old Folks at Home" to Edwin Christy Stephen Foster |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Marshall Gold Discovery Park.) James Marshall found gold in California on January 24 of this year; I guess it took a few months for news to spread 1848 |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: She spent "Ten Days in a Mad House" before going "Around the World in 72 Days" Nellie Bly |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Those who left the Republican Party in 1884 were dubbed these, from a Native American term for "big chief" Mugwumps |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | LET'S TAKE A WORLD TOUR $800: Originally settled by the Dutch, this country of NE South America came under British control in the 19th century Guyana |
| #3891, aired 2001-07-02 | DIRECTOR DIRECTORY $500: This popular stencil-bearing wood chair of 19th century America can make a cameo in your house a Hitchcock chair |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: On February 28, the first of the Forty-Niners to arrive by ship docked at this California port city San Francisco |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1895 Brooklyn ground to a halt when workers on these electric vehicles went on strike trolleys |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: Savannah's antebellum Green-Meldrim House was built for a wealthy dealer in this "king"ly crop cotton |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1856 South Carolina Rep. Brooks gave Massachusetts Sen. Sumner a notorious beating with this a cane |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: George Root inspired the Union forces with his song "The Battle Cry Of" this Freedom |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1870 visitors to this city had fun strolling the first boardwalk in the U.S. Atlantic City |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Launched in 1807, Robert Fulton's North River steam boat was better known by this name Clermont |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This college was created in 1879 to provide instruction for women by the Harvard faculty Radcliffe |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): During George Clinton's last term as New York governor, this nephew became mayor of New York City DeWitt Clinton |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Despite the 1837 capture of Osceola, the 2nd war named for this Indian tribe lasted nearly 6 more years Seminole |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | ENGLISH $1000: This long word from 19th century America for "an extraordinary thing" was adopted by an all-day band fest Lollapalooza |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: He established his electric light company in 1878, a year before he perfected his bulb Thomas Edison |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: A strike for better pay by the workers of the B&O in July 1877 soon spread to other companies in this industry Railroads |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1853 she published a "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin", evidence to back up her earlier work Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Look up "orator" in the dictionary & you'll see a picture of this man, secretary of state to 3 presidents Daniel Webster |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This writ was suspended in 1861 & restored December 1, 1865 habeas corpus |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In the deal of the century, the U.S. made this $15 million purchase & doubled the size of the U.S. Louisiana Purchase |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1891 this sport got off to a bouncing start in Springfield, Massachusetts basketball |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: The Ferris wheel made its first rounds in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in this city Chicago |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: During the 1850s, these 2 inventors were on opposite sides of the "Sewing Machine War" Elias Howe & Isaac Singer |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: William Rufus King, elected to this post in 1852, died before he could fulfill his duties vice president |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: John Quincy Adams, who had left the White House in 1829, entered this "house" in 1831 the House of Representatives |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: A 1998 law authorized the Parks Service to spend $500,000 a year to link sites on this 19th c. escape route the Underground Railroad |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1860 Erastus Beadle began publishing a series of novels that sold for this price 10 cents |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In the 1880s N.Y. tried to close sweat shops making these, & Oscar Hammerstein made a machine to roll them cigars |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1892, a national alliance of men in this job formed the Populist Party farmers |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: This author's brother, Henry Ward Beecher, was involved in a sex scandal in 1874 Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1870 he published his "National Photographic Collection of War Views and Portraits...." Mathew Brady |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: This New York "boss" fled to Europe but was captured by Spaniards who recognized him from a cartoon Boss Tweed |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This lady bandit & her Cherokee husband lived in a cabin that served as a hideout for western outlaws Belle Starr |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: The provisional constitution of the Confederacy was adopted on February 8, 1861 in this city Montgomery, Alabama |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On July 24, 1858 he issued a formal challenge to debate U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas Abraham Lincoln |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1849 stagecoach mail delivery service was introduced on this trail between Missouri & New Mexico Santa Fe Trail |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: On Dec. 15, 1893 this Dvorak work, heard here, was performed for the first time by the N.Y. Philharmonic: New World Symphony |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On Mar. 29, 1882 this first fraternal society of Catholic men was founded in New Haven, Connecticut Knights of Columbus |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1803 case was the first in which the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional Marbury v. Madison |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The discovery of this in 1896 turned Seward's Folly into Seward's Good Fortune gold |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The 1866 Civil Rights Act was passed over this president's veto Johnson |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Kansas homesteader Bewster Higley's poem "The Western Home" was retitled this when set to music "Home On The Range" |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: To avoid Boss Tweed's graft, Alfred Beach secretly built one of these under Broadway in 1869-70 a subway |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: It wasn't incorporated as a city until 1836; perhaps witchcraft was to blame... Salem, Massachusetts |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: He compiled an 1850 volume of his photographic portraits called "A Gallery of Illustrious Americans" Mathew Brady |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: This great French actress made her triumphant New York debut in 1880 in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" Sarah Bernhardt |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This general's 1868 presidential campaign slogan was "Let Us Have Peace" Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: This "golden" era following the Civil War took its name from a novel by Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner "The Gilded Age" |
| #3079, aired 1998-01-08 | 19th CENTURY BIGWIGS $1000: This woman from Nantucket is often cited as America's first female astronomer Maria Mitchell |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On February 6, 1899 the Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris, ending this conflict Spanish-American War |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: He served as governor of the Utah territory until President Buchanan removed him in 1857 Brigham Young |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1888 this suffragette organized the International Council of Women Susan B. Anthony |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: To extend his influence over the Pacific Northwest, he founded the Pacific Fur Company in 1810 John Jacob Astor |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: His flagship, the Lawrence, was destroyed by British gunfire, September 10, 1813 Oliver Hazard Perry |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On July 4, 1828 construction began on this pioneering U.S. railroad, the B&O Baltimore & Ohio |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1839 the village of Waterloo was chosen as the Texas capital & its name was changed to this Austin |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: On January 24, 1848 carpenter James Marshall discovered gold on this man's California property John Sutter |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Known as the "Pathfinder", he was urged to run against Lincoln in 1864 but eventually stepped aside John C. Fremont |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1815 Congress purchased this ex-president's 6,000-book library for the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1835 the N.Y. Sun reported there were bat-winged creatures living on this heavenly body; it was a hoax the moon |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Originally this novel was published as a serial from 1851-52 in an anti-slavery paper Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: When farmers of the 1800s learned this color absorbed sunlight well, it became quite popular for barns red |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: "The Education of Mr. Pipp" is a book of satirical drawings of high society by this artist known for his "girl" Charles Gibson |
| #2918, aired 1997-04-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1861 this ex-president from Virginia was chairman of a peace convention that tried to avert civil war John Tyler |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: This island in New York Harbor began operating as an immigration station January 1, 1892 Ellis Island |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1856 John C. Fremont became this political party's first presidential nominee Republican |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: By 1857 he was producing 10,000 steel plows per year John Deere |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: The Black Hawk War of 1832 was an attempt by the Fox & this Indian tribe to regain land in Illinois Sauk |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This religion that promotes a universal faith was introduced to the U.S. from Persia around 1893 the Bahá'í Faith |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On Jan. 16, 1855 the first territorial legislature of Nebraska met at this city on the Missouri River Omaha |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: A stirring speech by Daniel Webster marked the dedication of this monument at Charlestown, Massachusetts the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In December 1875 this former commissioner of NYC's public works escaped from jail & fled to Cuba Boss Tweed |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Joel Poinsett, the 1st U.S. minister to this Latin American nation, opposed the war with it in 1846 Mexico |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | ART $300: This 19th century New York landscape school spread to Mexico & South America Hudson River School |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: The North & South Porticos were added to this famous residence in the 1820s the White House |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem", he wrote in a preface to "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: More than 13,000 Union prisoners died at this infamous Confederate prison camp Andersonville |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The state of Deseret was established in 1849, & this man became its governor Brigham Young |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: This clergyman, Harriet Beecher Stowe's brother, was so famous he endorsed Pears' soap in magazine ads Henry Ward Beecher |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Their famous duel took place on July 11, 1804 Burr & Hamilton |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On July 24, 1866 it "voluntarily" became the first Confederate state to rejoin the Union Tennessee |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Governor De Witt Clinton broke ground for the building of this waterway July 4, 1817 the Erie Canal |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In November 1881 Charles Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of this man Garfield |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 replaced this Act banning international trade by U.S. ships the Embargo Act |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1831 Robert E. Lee married Mary Ann Randolph Custis, great-granddaughter of this first lady Martha Washington |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: One of these brothers was born near New Castle, Indiana in 1867, the other in Dayton, Ohio in 1871 the Wright Brothers |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1820 Cahaba replaced Huntsville as capital of this state Alabama |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1858 humorist Charles Farrar Brown published his 1st Artemus Ward letters in this city's Plain Dealer newspaper Cleveland |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: Diamond Jim Brady was the longtime love of this singer known as "The American Beauty" Lillian Russell |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The Tremont House, the first modern first-class hotel, opened in this Massachusetts city in 1829 Boston |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: William Rufus De Vane King died in 1853 just 25 days after he was sworn into this office vice president |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1809 he published the comic work "A History of New York... by Diedrich Knickerbocker" Washington Irving |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This prestigious college for women opened outside Philadelphia in 1885 Bryn Mawr |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: By 1821 he developed the Cherokee alphabet that would enable thousands to read & write Sequoyah |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | SOUTH AMERICA $200: South America's cinchona trees were depleted by the 19th century due to the need for this malaria medicine quinine |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: This pair sent back a live, caged prairie dog to Thomas Jefferson Lewis & Clark |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: He never appeared at his 1868 impeachment trial (Andrew) Johnson |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1855 Congress allocated $30,000 to buy 33 of these to use as pack animals in the southwest desert camels |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: After U.S. forces burned York in April 1813, the British burned this city in reprisal in 1814 Washington, D.C |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: This institute that opened in Alabama in 1881 first emphasized farming & crafts Tuskegee |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In May of 1873 the Post Office issued postcards with postage of this value One cent |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In February of 1895 the U.S. reserves of this were down to a dangerously low $41 million dollars Gold |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1804, this vice president ran for governor of New York, and lost Aaron Burr |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): Davy Crockett was in this city March 6, 1836 San Antonio (site of the Alamo) |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: During an 1840 speaking tour in England, he persuaded thousands to emigrate to Nauvoo, Illinois Brigham Young |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | HISTORIC AMERICA $300: Old Deseret is a re-created 19th century pioneer community in this state capital Salt Lake City |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $100: Thaddeus Stevens, who led the fight for this pres.'s impeachment, was so frail he had to be carried to the trial Andrew Johnson |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1838 this man who later bought Alaska was elected governor of New York William A. Seward |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1856 the first bridge for these vehicles over the Mississippi opened between Rock Island, IL & Davenport, IA trains |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $500: Fur trapper & scout Jim Bridger discovered this body of water in late 1824 the Great Salt Lake |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600 (Daily Double): In the 1870s this party divided into 2 factions, the Half-Breeds & the Stalwarts Republicans |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | FAMOUS 19th CENTURY NAMES $200: Poet John Keats' brother lost all his money in a scheme by this "Birds of America" painter Audubon |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1822 a 280-mile section of this canal opened between Rochester & Albany, New York the Erie Canal |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This hero of the Battle of New Orleans served as provisional governor of Florida in 1821 (Andrew) Jackson |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This man who died in Philadelphia July 6, 1835 had been Chief Justice since 1801 (John) Marshall |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: He was in jail after destroying the printing press of dissident Mormons when killed by a mob in 1844 Joseph Smith |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): He didn't take the oath of office as president until 2 days after William Henry Harrison's death (John) Tyler |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The Comstock Lode was a lode of this metal silver |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This invention of the 1790s turned the Deep South into a one-crop economy in the 19th century the cotton gin |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This punishment was outlawed in the U.S. Navy September 28, 1850 flogging |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Between 1846 & 1848 the U.S. was at war with this country Mexico |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): After Dorr's rebellion in 1842, this 13th state got a new constitution Rhode Island |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: It was the most populous U.S. city for the entire century New York City |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Last name of the Michigan doctor who created Corn Flakes Kellogg |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: "Honest John" Kelly succeeded this man as chief of Tammany Hall Boss Tweed |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Thomas Jefferson considered this 1820 arrangement on states & slavery the death knell of the Union Missouri Compromise |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,100 (Daily Double): The last confrontation of the 19th century Indian Wars took place at this South Dakota site Wounded Knee |
| #2224, aired 1994-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Richard Olney is famous for an 1895 corollary to this 1823 doctrine the Monroe Doctrine |
| #2224, aired 1994-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1830 there was about 30 miles of this in the U.S.; by 1850 there was about 9,000 miles railroad tracks |
| #2224, aired 1994-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1837 he built his first steel-bladed plow at his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Illinois (John) Deere |
| #2224, aired 1994-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy versus this man condoned "separate but equal" practices Ferguson |
| #2224, aired 1994-04-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Lincoln's secretary, he went on to negotiate treaties with England's Julian Pauncefote John Hay |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Capitals of this republic included Washington-on-the-Brazos & Houston Texas |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1811 a subsidiary of his American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria on the Columbia River (John Jacob) Astor |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: On June 30, 1859 tightrope walker Charles Blondin crossed this site 160 feet above the water Niagara Falls |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This landmark in the nation's capital was dedicated on February 21, 1885 the Washington Monument |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $700 (Daily Double): In November 1899 Garret A. Hobart, this man's Vice President, died while in office McKinley |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: The War of 1812 began June 18, 1812 when the U.S. declared war on this country England |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: To avoid exploitation like that of Niagara Falls, Congress made this the first national park Yellowstone |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In July 1804 this vice president killed a man in a duel Aaron Burr |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: He negotiated the Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened Japan's ports to U.S. ships Commodore Perry |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: This state seceded almost 4 months before shots were fired on Fort Sumter South Carolina |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1824 Tallahassee became the capital of this territory Florida |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: By the end of April 1866, this former president was the only Confederate official still held prisoner Jefferson Davis |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: The first professional game in this sport was played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in August 1895 football |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1845 the congress of this republic approved annexation by the United States Texas |
| #2087, aired 1993-10-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: This first Chief Justice of the United States died in Bedford, N.Y. in 1829 John Jay |
| #1949, aired 1993-02-11 | SOUTH AMERICA $200: This 19th century general was known as the "George Washington of South America"' Simon Bolivar |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1876 he helped found the American Library Association & came up with a decimal system Melvil Dewey |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1868, his title was Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall Boss Tweed |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In February 1865 this Confederate vice president met with Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference (Alexander) Stephens |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1896 he was nominated for president by both the Democratic & Populist parties—& still lost William Jennings Bryan |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): It didn't agree to be annexed by the U.S. until months after its annexation in 1845 Texas |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1870 the first ocean boardwalk in the United States was completed in this city Atlantic City |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 1, 1898 Commodore George Dewey sailed into this bay Manila Bay |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: Julius Sterling Morton, who helped found Arbor Day, later held this cabinet post Secretary of Agriculture |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: He designed & constructed the Demologus, the first steam-powered warship; it was launched in 1814 Robert Fulton |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600 (Daily Double): On April 10, 1841 he began publishing the New York Tribune Horace Greeley |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): In 1920, the same year this number amendment was ratified, the National League of Women Voters was organized the 19th Amendment |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1851 he & Edward Clark opened a sewing machine factory in New York City Singer |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Last in the West Point class of 1861, 2 years later he was the youngest Union general (George) Custer |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1808 Tecumseh & his brother founded Prophet's Town where the Wabash & this river meet the Tippecanoe |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: A pass in the Sierra Nevadas is named after his party, trapped there in 1846 Donner |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In an 1830 debate with Senator Robert Hayne, he gave his "Liberty and Union" speech Daniel Webster |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: William Gillette's plays "Held by the Enemy" & "Secret Service" were set in this war the Civil War |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: After the Spanish-American war, the U.S. paid Spain $20 million for this Pacific island group the Philippines |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600 (Daily Double): In 1852 this party selected General Winfield Scott as its presidential candidate the Whig Party |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: On May 10,1876 the Centennial Exposition opened in Fairmount Park in this Pennsylvania city Philadelphia |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In the War of 1812 the British captured this ship captained by James Lawrence the Chesapeake |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The 13th Amendment, abolishing this, took effect Dec. 18, 1865 slavery |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1821 he became Florida's provisional governor; 8 years later he became president Andrew Jackson |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In the 1870s this philanthropist built the first U.S. factory to use the Bessemer steel-making process Andrew Carnegie |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On July 4, 1817 De Witt Clinton broke ground for this in Rome, New York the Erie Canal |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,500 (Daily Double): This last major conflict between Indians & U.S. troops occurred Dec. 29, 1890 Wounded Knee |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The Library of Congress has the 1st & 2nd drafts of this short November 19, 1863 speech the Gettysburg Address |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In the 1890s she took to the vaudeville circuit to promote her campaign of "Hatchetation" Carrie Nation |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: From 1883-91 Billy Sunday was a professional one of these before turning evangelist a baseball player |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In February 1805 Meriwether Lewis acted as midwife & delivered her baby Sacajawea |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,500 (Daily Double): It was caused by the collapse of a dam on the Conemaugh River May 31, 1889 the Johnstown flood |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: This boss of NYC's Tammany Hall was imprisoned 3 times in the 1870s & died in jail Boss Tweed |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Secretary of State who bought Alaska from Russia Seward |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Mass. social worker who, in a 3-year period in the 1840s, visited over 800 jails, asylums & almshouses Dorothea Dix |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1886 this cigar-maker was elected President of the American Federation of Labor (Samuel) Gompers |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,600 (Daily Double): Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas were vying for this office when they had their famous debates Senator from Illinois |
| #1610, aired 1991-09-06 | ALL AMERICAN FOOD $800: Invented in America, this cheese was named for a 19th century German-American choral society in New York Liederkranz |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The 1825 opening of this drastically reduced the freight rates between Buffalo & New York City the Erie Canal |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1845 this former commander of the Texas armed forces became 1 of that state's first 2 U.S. senators Sam Houston |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1819 this Chief Justice said, "The power to tax involves the power to destroy" (John) Marshall |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This country's King Mongkut offered Pres. Buchanan a herd of elephants to help develop U.S. transportation Siam |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This president replaced some officeholders with his own supporters, thus creating the "spoils system" (Andrew) Jackson |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: He was Sam Houston's Secretary of State & got the capital named after him (Stephen) Austin |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: 5 years after discovery of the Comstock Lode, it was let into the Union, though it still lacked the required population Nevada |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Edmund Ruffin is credited with doing this April 12, 1861; we don't know if he hit anything firing the first shot on Fort Sumter |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This man defeated Grover Cleveland in 1888 & lost to him in 1892 Benjamin Harrison |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This early labor organization began as a secret society of Philadelphia garment cutters in 1869 the Knights of Labor |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In its battle for independence from Mexico, this future state had its own navy Texas |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1889, in New York City, Otis Company installed the first electric one of these an elevator |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: A great fire in this city in 1835 destroyed almost 700 bldgs., including most of the old Dutch structures New York City |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1887 the govt. of Hawaii granted the U.S. rights to use this harbor to fuel & repair ships Pearl Harbor |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: Passports were issued by local governments until 1856, when this federal department took charge of them the State Department |
| #1498, aired 1991-02-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: 19th century term for the belief that U.S. expansion across North America was destined by God Manifest Destiny |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1860 this political party split into Northern & Southern factions Democrats |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: He donated over 2,500 buildings to communities that promised to maintain them as libraries (Andrew) Carnegie |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Peter Cooper built this locomotive for the B&O RR, which had been using horses to pull the trains Tom Thumb |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: After they were expelled from Ohio, the Mormons bought a town in this state & called it Nauvoo Illinois |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Robert Owen's utopian community of New Harmony in this state lasted for only 2 years Indiana |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1830 Daniel Webster called it "the gorgeous ensign of the Republic" the flag |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 3, 1802 it was incorporated as a city by an act of Congress Washington, D.C. |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In a ceremony in this city December 20, 1803, the United States took formal possession of the Louisiana Territory New Orleans |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In April 1841 this bigwig began publishing the New York Tribune Horace Greeley |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: Though he said, "Don't give up the ship", his ship the Chesapeake was captured by the British James Lawrence |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: P.T. Barnum purchased this pachyderm, billed as the world's largest, from the London zoo in 1882 Jumbo |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The National Republicans & Anti-Masons formed the nucleus of this party founded in the 1830s the Whigs |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: After his defeat for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1835, this frontiersman left for Texas (Davy) Crockett |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Lincoln, Grant & Jefferson Davis served in the military under this general who became president Zachary Taylor |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This 1803 case was the first in which the Supreme Court declared a law of Congress unconstitutional Marbury v. Madison |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Abraham Lincoln & Jefferson Davis were born in this state Kentucky |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This association was founded in 1871 by former Union officers who wanted to encourage marksmanship the NRA (National Rifle Association) |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This trail led from Nauvoo, Illinois to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah the Mormon Trail |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Woods north of San Francisco are named for this naturalist who founded the Sierra Club in 1892 John Muir |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Indian battles in Montana ended in 1877 when Chief Joseph & this tribe surrendered the Nez Perce |
| #1364, aired 1990-07-05 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $100: He was Thomas Jefferson's private sec'y before he & Clark went exploring (Meriwether) Lewis |
| #1364, aired 1990-07-05 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: The Wilmot Proviso tried to outlaw this practice in any territory acquired from Mexico slavery |
| #1364, aired 1990-07-05 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1869 the final link in the Transcontinental RR was completed in what's now this state Utah |
| #1364, aired 1990-07-05 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: He wrote, "I went to the woods because I wished...to front only the essential facts of life" (Henry David) Thoreau |
| #1364, aired 1990-07-05 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $500: The first official championship match in this sport in the U.S. was held at the Newport Casino in Rhode Island tennis |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $100: This means of transportation invented by Andrew Hallidie was first used in San Francisco in 1873 the cable cars |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: This 363-mile waterway opened on October 26, 1825 the Erie Canal |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $300: The first boardwalk in America was completed in 1870 in this resort city Atlantic City |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1854 this Ill. senator sponsored the Kan.-Neb. Act whose passage angered anti-slavery forces Stephen Douglas |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1,500 (Daily Double): When he didn't get along with this President, John C. Calhoun resigned as Vice President in 1832 Andrew Jackson |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: Hetty Green, the richest woman of her day, was known as the "Witch Of" this street Wall Street |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: On July 5, 1846 John C. Fremont was chosen to direct the affairs of this "Bear Flag" republic California |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1892 the Edison Co. merged with the Thomson-Houston Electrical Co. to form this company General Electric |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: 2 of the 4 people the Clanton gang went up against October 26, 1881 Morgan, Virgil & Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1887 while librarian at Columbia U., he founded the first school for training librarians Melville Dewey |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: The U.S. paid less than 2¢ per acre for the 586,000 square miles it purchased here Alaska |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: These were 1st used in an election in Lockport, N.Y. in 1892 voting machines |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: By 1833 this road, also called the National Road, was completed as far west as Columbus, Ohio the Cumberland Road |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: 1 of the 2 men who held joint command of the Alamo when it was attacked by Santa Anna (1 of) William Travis or Jim Bowie |
| #1284, aired 1990-03-15 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1867 Oliver Hudson Kelley & 6 associates founded this secret organization for farmers the Grangers (the Grange) |
| #1256, aired 1990-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On Jan. 23, 1845 Congress said from now on this will be held on the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in Nov. presidential elections |
| #1256, aired 1990-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Robert E. Lee graduated from here second in his class & later served as its superintendent U.S. Military Academy (West Point) |
| #1256, aired 1990-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: These for "The Star-Spangled Banner" & "America the Beautiful" were taken from other sources musical notes |
| #1256, aired 1990-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: He got the Missouri Compromise thru the House & helped arrange the Compromise of 1850 Henry Clay |
| #1256, aired 1990-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Though Eugene Debs had this lawyer defending him in 1894, he still got 6 months Clarence Darrow |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: On April 30, 1812, the territory of Orleans became this state Louisiana |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1816 this city replaced Chillicothe as capital of Ohio Columbus |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1838 a Mass. law banned sales of this in quantities of less than 15 gal. except for "medicinal purposes" alcohol |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400 (Daily Double): Fancy footwear in the title of the following hit from 1879: "(Oh, Dem) Golden Slippers" |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: N.Y. governor De Witt Clinton was considered the "father" of this massive project that opened Oct. 26, 1825 the Erie Canal |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: Can you beat that? in 1850 congress outlawed this form of punishment in the Navy flogging |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in this man's losing the 1804 race for governor of N.Y. Aaron Burr |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: In the mid 1890s this young publisher hired away the Sunday staff of Pulitzer's N.Y. paper William Randolph Hearst |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: On September 19, 1865 he received a patent for his sleeping car George Pullman |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This poem by Katherine Lee Bates was 1st published on July 4, 1895; the music came later "America the Beautiful" |
| #1064, aired 1989-03-30 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: In 19th century America, she was known as "The Moses of Her People" Harriet Tubman |
| #1009, aired 1989-01-12 | U.S. CITIES $400: In the late 19th century some called this Kansas cow town "The Wickedest Little City in America" Dodge City |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1887, 11 years before annexing Hawaii, the U.S. obtained exclusive use of this naval facility Pearl Harbor |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1874 this ex-president was elected to the Senate which had put him on trial 6 years earlier (Andrew) Johnson |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1872 the land near the headwaters of this Wyoming territory river was designated a public park Yellowstone |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On August 2, 1826 Daniel Webster delivered a eulogy on these 2 men at Faneuil Hall in Boston John Adams & Thomas Jefferson |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: Acquitted in 1807 of treason charges, he jumped bail before his trial for murder Aaron Burr |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1881 Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Inst. & Clara Barton founded this the Red Cross |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: The World's Fair, celebrating the U.S. centennial in 1876, was held in this city Philadelphia |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: Constitutional Union Party, which nominated John Bell for pres. in 1860, was the last remnant of this party the Whigs |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: At the Battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston captured this president Antonio López de Santa Anna |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): This president's withdrawal of all government funds from the Bank of the U.S. led to the bank's demise (Andrew) Jackson |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Its 1st collection of books was destroyed when the British burned the Capitol in 1814 the Library of Congress |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Taking 29 days in 1819, the Savannah was the 1st ship powered by this to cross an ocean steam |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: Wild Bill Hickok scouted for this flamboyant cavalry leader Custer |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Stamps with this on them were 1st available in 1847 glue |
| #905, aired 1988-07-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $500: At the end of the Civil War, this famous nurse helped inspect the notorious Andersonville prison Clara Barton |
| #718, aired 1987-10-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: President McKinley dedicated this president's NYC tomb in 1897 Grant |
| #718, aired 1987-10-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1842, after 7 years of battle, thousands of these Florida Indians were sent to Oklahoma Seminoles |
| #718, aired 1987-10-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $300: Following a precedent set by Washington, he was the 2nd President to choose not to run for a 3rd term Thomas Jefferson |
| #624, aired 1987-04-30 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: This 19th century American war created an enormous demand for rope Civil War |
| #624, aired 1987-04-30 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: It's said the Shakers were the 1st to sell these garden products in small, labeled paper packets seeds |
| #624, aired 1987-04-30 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: From 1801-1805, the Tripolian War was fought against them Barbary pirates |
| #624, aired 1987-04-30 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: Last Whig to be elected president, he refused postage due letter informing him of nomination Zachary Taylor |
| #624, aired 1987-04-30 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Begun in 1817, the Erie Canal was designed by this New York governor (DeWitt) Clinton |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | CORPORATE AMERICA $600: 19th century immigrant Eberhard Faber made his mark in the U.S. as a manufacturer of these pencils |
| #475, aired 1986-10-03 | HISTORY $1000: America's "Open Door Policy" of the late 19th century pertained to trade with this country China |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $100: While tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835, it cracked the Liberty Bell |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: Popular reading materials of 19th century were 2-cent newspapers & trashy "novels" at this price a dime |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $300: It was the 1st state admitted to the Union after the land purchase from France in 1803 Louisiana |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: There have been only minor changes in these pants since they were 1st marketed in 1873 Levi's |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $500: They're said to be the last words of the Chesapeake's commander James Lawrence, June 1, 1813 "Don't give up the ship" |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: Iowa feminist remembered for the Turkish pantaloons she wore but didn't invent Amelia Bloomer |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: During war with Spain, Andrew Rowan of Gap Mills, W.V. crossed Cuba with "a message for" this rebel Garcia |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): 20 some years after he helped it do both, he wrote "The Rise & Fall of the Confederate Government" Jefferson Davis |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: Historical markers indicate all 1,940 miles traveled by these explorers across Montana Lewis & Clark |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This Tennessee governor was later president of a country Sam Houston |
| #300, aired 1985-11-01 | LITERATURE $1000: 19th century poet who "heard America singing" in Brooklyn Walt Whitman |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: In the pre-Civil War south, this crop was more valuable than all others combined cotton |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: Wounded in Lincoln conspiracy, he survived & went on to arrange Alaska purchase Seward |
| #182, aired 1985-05-21 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: Though under the legal age at the time, this "Great Compromiser" was 1st elected to the Senate from KY in 1806 Henry Clay |
