#5505, aired 2008-07-11 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: For most of 1871, he was Marshal of Abilene, Kansas, one of the wildest towns in the Wild West Wild Bill Hickok |
#5505, aired 2008-07-11 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400 (Daily Double): This Mass. man is remembered for introducing a certain pear to the U.S. in the 1800s; he named it for himself (Enoch) Bartlett |
#5505, aired 2008-07-11 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: When the Paris stock exchange crashed in 1883, Paul Gauguin lost this day job, which changed his life a stockbroker |
#5505, aired 2008-07-11 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: Before he was king, William II of the Netherlands commanded the Dutch troops in this June 18, 1815 battle Waterloo |
#5505, aired 2008-07-11 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: In 1849 this "fishy" guy who would later be on the $10,000 bill was elected to the U.S. Senate Salmon P. Chase |
#2920, aired 1997-04-18 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: The kings of Belgium, Denmark & Greece once rode in the stagecoach in his wild west show, "Indian Attack" "Buffalo Bill" Cody |
#2920, aired 1997-04-18 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: Carlotta Grisi, one of the most famous of these performers, created the title role in "Giselle" in 1841 ballerina |
#2920, aired 1997-04-18 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: This legendary French actress was a teenager when she debuted with the Comedie-Francaise in 1862 Sarah Bernhardt |
#2920, aired 1997-04-18 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: This Hungarian piano virtuoso was scandalously involved with the married Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein Franz Liszt |
#2920, aired 1997-04-18 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): With a privateer's commission from the republic of Cartagena, he & his brother Pierre preyed on Spanish ships Jean Lafitte |
#2747, aired 1996-07-09 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Some say this country's Czar Alexander I didn't die in 1825 but lived until 1864 as Fyodor Kuzmich Russia |
#2747, aired 1996-07-09 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: In 1898 William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of this ringed planet Saturn |
#2747, aired 1996-07-09 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: This Norwegian playwright's wife Suzannah was the stepdaughter of novelist Magdalene Thoresen Ibsen |
#2747, aired 1996-07-09 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: This impressionist whose first name was Camille was born on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas in 1830 Pissarro |
#2747, aired 1996-07-09 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: In January 1893 Sanford Dole declared that she was deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii |
#2675, aired 1996-03-29 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati discovered 6 of these tailed bodies; one is named for him a comet |
#2675, aired 1996-03-29 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: In 1813 he recaptured his hometown, Caracas, from the Spaniards (Simón) Bolívar |
#2675, aired 1996-03-29 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $500 (Daily Double): Myra Bradwell, founder of the Chicago Legal News, got this famous woman's insanity verdict reversed in 1876 Mary Todd Lincoln |
#2675, aired 1996-03-29 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: Appropriately, this Bohemian composer wrote his symphony "From the New World" while living in the U.S. Dvořák |
#2675, aired 1996-03-29 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $1000: Dingane became King of the Zulu after taking part in the 1828 murder of this half-brother Shaka |