#8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $2000: Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations the Franco-Prussian War |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $1000: He had a pretty good 19th century run, including saving France's beer, wine & silk industries Pasteur |
#2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: France's 1812 invasion of Russia is the subject of this sprawling Tolstoy novel War and Peace |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | 19th CENTURY MUSIC $1200: Invented in France in the 1820s, this instrument seen here gets its name from the Latin for "horn" a cornet |
#8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 19th 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 |
#8141, aired 2020-01-20 | FRENCH 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 |
#7522, aired 2017-05-02 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: In the 19th century the plant pest Phylloxera vitifoliae nearly wiped out this industry in France, Italy & Germany wine |
#6829, aired 2014-05-01 | 19th 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 2014-05-01 | 19th 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 2014-05-01 | 19th CENTURY FRANCE $1200: In 1894 he was convicted of selling military secrets to the Germans but was exonerated 12 years later Dreyfus |
#6829, aired 2014-05-01 | 19th CENTURY FRANCE $1,500 (Daily Double): In June 1830 French troops seized this North African capital from the Ottomans & Berbers Algiers |
#6829, aired 2014-05-01 | 19th 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 |
#6768, aired 2014-02-05 | 19th 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 |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | HO 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 |
#6518, aired 2013-01-09 | SUPERSTARS OF SCIENCE $600: This 19th century chemist saved France's beer, wine & silk industries Pasteur |
#6321, aired 2012-02-27 | SOCIAL STUDIES $800: David S, Barnes' "The Making of a Social Disease" is subtitled this lung illness "in 19th century France" tuberculosis |
#5888, aired 2010-03-31 | THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $1600: In 19th century France, this aquatic worm was raised on farms by the thousands for medicinal purposes leeches |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 19th CENTURY FRANCE $200: Twain said of this dance, "I placed my hands before my face for very shame, but I looked through my fingers" the cancan |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 19th CENTURY FRANCE $400: We don't know if she was statuesque, but Rose Beuret was the longtime love of this sculptor Rodin |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 19th CENTURY FRANCE $800: In the 1870s this type of bon vivant, so called for the wide streets he frequented, came into vogue a boulevardier |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 19th CENTURY FRANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): He designed a towering Gallery of Machines for the Paris Exposition of 1867 (Gustave) Eiffel |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 19th CENTURY FRANCE $1000: This son of the King of Holland followed uncle Napoleon's example & became Emperor of the French in 1852 Napoleon III (or Louis-Napoleon) |
#5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $2000: Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations the Franco-Prussian War |
#4791, aired 2005-06-06 | THAT'S JUST CLASSIC! $1600: This group persecuted in France in the 16th century was the title subject of a 19th c. opera by Meyerbeer the Huguenots |
#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 |
#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 |
#4320, aired 2003-05-16 | OLD EUROPE $600: Written in 19th century France, it became the anthem of worldwide Marxism
[audio clue] "The Internationale" |
#4221, aired 2002-12-30 | FRENCH LIT $400: Begun in 1845 & published in 1862, this Victor Hugo work condemns the social injustices of 19th century France "Les Miserables" |
#3572, aired 2000-02-29 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 1848 a feminist paper called for this novelist, famous all over France, to run for office; she declined George Sand |
#3160, aired 1998-05-01 | THE 19th CENTURY $1000: In 1889 France's Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique went bust trying to build this the Panama Canal |
#2075, aired 1993-09-17 | THE 19th CENTURY $400: On October 4, 1830 Belgium declared its independence from this country Holland (or the Netherlands) |
#1600, aired 1991-07-12 | FOOD $500: Port Salut is one of these made originally by Trappist monks in 19th century France cheese |
#1400, aired 1990-10-05 | MUSICALS $400: 1 of the 2 current musicals on Broadway set in 19th century France (1 of) Les Misérables (or Phantom of the Opera) |
#606, aired 1987-04-06 | 19th CENTURY EUROPE $600: Ency. Americana says it was the cause of a cotton crisis in France during the 1860s the United States Civil War |
#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 |
#423, aired 1986-04-23 | THE 19th CENTURY $400: The 2-year war with this country from 1846-48 cost the U.S. almost $100 million Mexico |
#344, aired 1986-01-02 | SPORTS TRIVIA $1000: Type of wrestling developed in 19th century France, not in ancient times Greco-Roman |