#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: Stations using this sensing technology installed on Britain's coast in 1938 detected German bombers a few years later radar |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS $200: John Turner is the only 20th century PM not born in Canada; he was born in this mother country Great Britain |
#6464, aired 2012-10-25 | NAME THAT CENTURY $1200: Gallipoli becomes an epic disaster for Britain's military the 20th century |
#6400, aired 2012-06-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1200: In 2005 Britain's National Portrait Gallery acquired the only known drawing of Ted Hughes by this writer, his wife Sylvia Plath |
#5490, aired 2008-06-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: In April 1955, Great Britain became the garden of this man, Churchill's successor as Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden |
#5090, aired 2006-10-27 | 20th CENTURY SPORTS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) In 1990, Karsten Solheim, founder of Ping Golf, created the Solheim Cup for women; as in the Ryder Cup, these are the 2 teams the U.S. & the Europeans |
#4534, aired 2004-04-29 | ROCKY $400: Until the 20th century, Great Britain led the world in the production of this fuel coal |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: He was 50 yards from victory in Britain's 1956 Grand National Steeplechase when his horse gave out Dick Francis |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | 20th CENTURY BRITAIN $400: He's the well-intentioned
1930s prime minister seen here Neville Chamberlain |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | 20th CENTURY BRITAIN $1200: In 1995 this oldest British merchant bank went bust after a trader lost $1 billion of its assets Barings |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | 20th CENTURY BRITAIN $1600: On August 3 of this year, British Diplomat Edward Grey said, "The lamps are going out all over Europe" 1914 |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | 20th CENTURY BRITAIN $2000: Conductor Neville Marriner founded this British musical "Academy" named for a church on Trafalgar Square the Academy of St. Martin in the Field |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | 20th CENTURY BRITAIN $5,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 31, 1956 British & French bombs destroyed much of this country's air force Egypt |
#4026, aired 2002-02-18 | KEEN ON KENYA $400: (Jeff Probst presents from Kenya.) In the early 20th century, Kenya was part of this country's East Africa. England (Great Britain) |
#3791, aired 2001-02-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Previous jobs on her resume would include research chemist, lawyer & prime minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher |
#3199, aired 1998-06-25 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $100: She practiced tax law after giving up chemistry & in 1979 became prime minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher |
#3196, aired 1998-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: In 1963 this French president rejected Britain for membership in the European Economic Community Charles de Gaulle |
#2555, aired 1995-10-13 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In the Munich Pact of 1938 France & Britain turned over the Sudetenland area of this country to Germany Czechoslovakia |
#2286, aired 1994-07-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $500: On Feb. 11, 1975 this person succeeded Edward Heath as leader of Britain's Conservatives Margaret Thatcher |
#2023, aired 1993-05-26 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: In 1963 this French leader rejected Britain for membership in the European Economic Community de Gaulle |
#1583, aired 1991-06-19 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: Anwar Sadat expelled all of this country's military advisors from Egypt July 18, 1972 the Soviet Union |
#1215, aired 1989-12-08 | THE 20TH CENTURY $700 (Daily Double): Britain issued only 4 different postage stamps during the reign of this king Edward VIII |
#265, aired 1985-09-13 | THE 20th CENTURY $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1945, Britain's 19-year-old Princess Elizabeth chose him her favorite crooner Bing Crosby |