#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#3129, aired 1998-03-19 | COURTS $100: This term for a crude or unfair tribunal was first recorded in mid-19th C. America, not in Australia kangaroo court |
#3059, aired 1997-12-11 | 19th C. AMERICA $200: The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo made the Rio Grande the border between Mexico & this state Texas |
#3059, aired 1997-12-11 | 19th C. AMERICA $400: This Tammany Hall "Boss" died in NYC's Ludlow Street Jail April 12, 1878 Boss Tweed |
#3059, aired 1997-12-11 | 19th C. AMERICA $600: The Treaty of Ghent, which ended this war, stopped the fighting but no territory changed hands War of 1812 |
#3059, aired 1997-12-11 | 19th C. AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): On Dec. 28, 1835 President Jackson appointed Roger B. Taney to succeed this chief justice John Marshall |
#3059, aired 1997-12-11 | 19th C. AMERICA $1000: In 1892 farm leaders from this new political party nominated James B. Weaver for the presidency Populist Party |
#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 |
#2861, aired 1997-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1856 John C. Fremont became this political party's first presidential nominee Republican |
#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 |
#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. |
#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 $400: On July 5, 1846 John C. Fremont was chosen to direct the affairs of this "Bear Flag" republic California |
#1063, aired 1989-03-29 | 19th C. AMERICA $200: In the early 1800s these runaways took refuge in Seminole territory escaped slaves |
#1063, aired 1989-03-29 | 19th C. AMERICA $400: In 1814 British officers ate in this famous residence--then burned it White House |
#1063, aired 1989-03-29 | 19th C. AMERICA $600: It was 1st used in the U.S. May 24, 1844 to send a message from D.C. to Baltimore telegraph |
#1063, aired 1989-03-29 | 19th C. AMERICA $800: This party gained control of both houses of Congress for the 1st time in the elections of 1840 Whigs |
#1063, aired 1989-03-29 | 19th C. AMERICA $1000: Noted for his triumph in Tripoli, this naval hero was killed in a duel in 1820 Stephen Decatur |
#1016, aired 1989-01-23 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: Probably America's best known 19th c. female poet, she was dubbed the "Moth of Amherst" Emily Dickinson |
#863, aired 1988-05-11 | PEOPLE & PLACES $200: Someone originally from Naples, or a 3-flavored brick of ice cream originally from 19th c. America Neapolitan |
#773, aired 1988-01-06 | 19TH C. AMERICA $400: Some Federalists felt acquisiton of this land in 1803 dissolved the original states' allegiance to the Union the Louisiana Purchase |
#773, aired 1988-01-06 | 19TH C. AMERICA $600: Wealthy fur trader who opened a fashionable NYC hotel in 1836 John Jacob Astor |
#773, aired 1988-01-06 | 19TH C. AMERICA $1000: Henry Flagler extended his East Coast RR to this city in 1896, & the city was incorporated that same year Miami |
#773, aired 1988-01-06 | 19TH C. AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): 1st heard in an 1823 play, this soon became America's most popular song as well as a popular 3-word sampler: "Home, Sweet Home" |
#98, aired 1985-01-23 | ART $600: This firm of lithographers published more than 4,000 different pictures of 19th c. America Currier & Ives |