#26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton |
#8020, aired 2019-06-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: This 20th century president's middle initial "S" didn't stand for anything specific Truman |
#7930, aired 2019-02-15 | PRESIDENTS' DAYS $1600: A 2009 Illinois resolution made every February 6 this 20th century president's day Ronald Reagan |
#7245, aired 2016-02-26 | VICE PRESIDENTS $3,000 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 20th century VPs who had been governor of New York Teddy Roosevelt (or Nelson Rockefeller) |
#5958, aired 2010-07-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1600: This early 20th century president's foreign policy style was known as "big stick diplomacy" Theodore Roosevelt |
#5928, aired 2010-05-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: His first term saw the turn of the 20th century & the annexation of Guam & Puerto Rico McKinley |
#5545, aired 2008-10-17 | INDIANA $400 (Daily Double): U.S. Vice Presidents from Indiana include Charles Fairbanks, Thomas Marshall & this later 20th
century man Dan Quayle |
#4674, aired 2004-12-23 | PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES $600: 1 of the 2 presidents who have a Jr. in their names; they served consecutively in the 20th century (1 of) Ford or Carter |
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $200: To give the nominating speech for Al Smith in 1924, he rose from his wheelchair & made his way to the mike Franklin D. Roosevelt |
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $400: When President Kennedy was shot, Vice President Johnson was in this city Dallas |
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $600: He is the eldest of 4 children; he had 2 sisters, Gloria & Ruth, & one brother, Billy Jimmy Carter |
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $800: In 1962 he published a book on his career highlights to date -- "Six Crises" Richard Nixon |
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $1000: He climbed the Matterhorn, explored Brazil & practiced judo Theodore Roosevelt |
#4148, aired 2002-09-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: This man who served from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977, had the second shortest term of the 20th Century Gerald Ford |
#3777, aired 2001-01-23 | BRAINBUSTERS $400: 2 of the 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th century named William McKinley, Taft &/or Clinton |
#3573, aired 2000-03-01 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS $100: This president appointed the first female attorney general Bill Clinton |
#3573, aired 2000-03-01 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: During his term, the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 Richard Nixon |
#3573, aired 2000-03-01 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: At Stanford University, he majored in mining engineering Herbert Hoover |
#3573, aired 2000-03-01 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS $500: He wrote his 4-volume history "The Winning of the West" before winning the White House Theodore Roosevelt |
#3573, aired 2000-03-01 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS $800 (Daily Double): In 1957 he won a Pulitzer Prize John F. Kennedy (for "Profiles in Courage") |
#3209, aired 1998-07-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $100: His 1976 campaign plane was called Peanut One Jimmy Carter |
#3209, aired 1998-07-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $200: The Profile in Courage Award is presented on or near the anniv. of his birth; he would have been 80 May 29, 1997 John F. Kennedy |
#3209, aired 1998-07-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $300: His administration created a tempest in a teapot--whoops! Make that Teapot Dome Warren G. Harding |
#3209, aired 1998-07-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $400: Long before he was president, he taught debate & public speaking at Sam Houston High School from 1930 to 1931 Lyndon Johnson |
#3209, aired 1998-07-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $900 (Daily Double): He wrote an article "About Man-Eating Lions" for the November 1913 issue of Boy's Life Theodore Roosevelt |
#2653, aired 1996-02-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: He was the first president to serve in the 20th century McKinley |
#1621, aired 1991-09-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: He's the only 20th century president depicted on Mt. Rushmore Theodore Roosevelt |
#1418, aired 1990-10-31 | 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS $100: This conservationist created 5 new national parks, including Mesa Verde & Crater Lake Teddy Roosevelt |
#1418, aired 1990-10-31 | 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS $200: Once a New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps camp, it was called "Shangri-La" by FDR Camp David |
#1418, aired 1990-10-31 | 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS $300: He called himself "A lover of Bob Dylan's songs & Dylan Thomas' poetry" in "Why Not the Best?" Jimmy Carter |
#1418, aired 1990-10-31 | 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS $500 (Daily Double): In 1939 he became the first future president licensed to fly a plane Dwight D. Eisenhower |
#1418, aired 1990-10-31 | 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS $500: His given names were the same as the full name of a 16th century leader of the Protestant Reformation Calvin Coolidge |
#860, aired 1988-05-06 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $200: Only president to suggest a play that was used in the Super Bowl Richard Nixon |
#860, aired 1988-05-06 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $400: Woodrow Wilson was the 1st non-clergyman to become president of this school Princeton |
#860, aired 1988-05-06 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $600: With over 600, he vetoed more congressional bills than any other president Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
#860, aired 1988-05-06 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $800: He & Grant were the only men who had both parents alive to see them become president JFK |
#860, aired 1988-05-06 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $1000: The 1556 German science classic "De re metallica" was translated into English by this president & his wife Herbert Hoover |
#819, aired 1988-03-10 | ROSES $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 20th century presidents who have roses named for them (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy (or Herbert Hoover) |
#618, aired 1987-04-22 | FIRST LADIES $1,200 (Daily Double): Of all the wives of 20th century presidents, this one had the most children Eleanor Roosevelt |
#504, aired 1986-11-13 | 20th CENTURY $1000: 3 U.S. presidents attended this politician's Texas funeral November 18, 1961 (Mr. Sam) Rayburn |
#500, aired 1986-11-07 | PRESIDENTS $600: 20th century president whose actual 1st name was Thomas Woodrow Wilson |
#448, aired 1986-05-28 | PRESIDENTS $400: 1st president popularly known by his initials, he was 1st president elected in 20th century Theodore Roosevelt |
#113, aired 1985-02-13 | PRESIDENTS $600: 1st president born in the 20th century John Kennedy |
#8516, aired 2021-11-22 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He won an election in which both he & his Democratic opponent were from Ohio & both were wealthy newspaper publishers (Warren G.) Harding |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He took the Oath of Office twice 14 months apart Lyndon B. Johnson |
#7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
#6958, aired 2014-12-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man in the 20th century to hold all 4 federally elected offices: congressman, senator, vice president & president Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) |
#6609, aired 2013-05-16 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: These 2 men followed each other consecutively as vice president & later, in reverse order, as president Richard Nixon & LBJ |
#6345, aired 2012-03-30 | U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS: More VPs have been from this state than any other, including 2 20th century VPs who were its governor New York |
#5678, aired 2009-04-22 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Besides Carter, 1 of 2 20th century presidents to live at least 30 years past the day he entered office (1 of) Gerald Ford & Herbert Hoover |
#5188, aired 2007-03-14 | PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES: The last 2 U.S. presidents to have only one child; both served in the 20th century Clinton & Truman |
#4892, aired 2005-12-13 | FACTS ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who had previously served as U.S. House Minority Leader Gerald Ford |
#4870, aired 2005-11-11 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: His mother, Louise, said, "I do not want my son to be president... his is a judicial mind and he loves the law" William Howard Taft |
#4653, aired 2004-11-24 | 20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS: Aptly, his middle name contained the word "rich" Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: The 2 U.S. presidents whose middle names are also the last names of 2 other presidents Ronald Wilson Reagan & William Jefferson Clinton |
#4384, aired 2003-10-02 | U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS: He served 2 terms as Vice President & was the first Vice President who had been born in the 20th century Richard Nixon |
#4282, aired 2003-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He's the only U.S. president whose first, middle & last names each have the same number of letters Ronald Wilson Reagan |
#4213, aired 2002-12-18 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: This president shares his middle name with the name of a 1st c. Jewish theologian mentioned in the New Testament Warren Gamaliel Harding |
#3505, aired 1999-11-26 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS: 2 of the 4 20th century U.S. presidents after whom streets in Paris are named (2 of) Eisenhower, Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt & Wilson |
#2925, aired 1997-04-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 2 of the 5 presidents in the 20th century who were former U.S. senators (2 of) Warren Harding, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon |
#2453, aired 1995-04-12 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He said, "If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises" Gerald Ford |
#1992, aired 1993-04-13 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: President born the earliest in the 20th century (Lyndon) Johnson |
#1740, aired 1992-03-06 | 20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS: The only VP to become president not immediately after his vice presidential term Richard Nixon |
#852, aired 1988-04-26 | PRESIDENTS: 1 of 2 20th century presidents who were the only 2 ever sworn in during August (1 of) Gerald Ford or Calvin Coolidge |
#805, aired 1988-02-19 | VICE PRESIDENTS: 2 of 3 men in the 20th century who became president within a year of becoming vice president (2 of) Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman & Gerald Ford |
#751, aired 1987-12-07 | PRESIDENTS: This letter begins the last names of 3 20th century presidents, more than any other R |
#464, aired 1986-09-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The number of U.S. presidents in the 20th century to serve out at least 2 full terms 3 |