| #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 |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $400: In 1940, this odd couple comedy duo left Hal Roach Studios & soon signed with 20th Century Fox Laurel & Hardy |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $800: 10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $1200: This actor plies Zac Efron with showbiz dreams, shots of booze & dancing in "The Greatest Showman" Hugh Jackman |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $1600: The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this 2008 Baz Luhrmann epic Australia |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $2000: In this 1952 film assassins gun down the title Mexican revolutionary but miss his horse Viva Zapata! |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1986 it was the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, spreading radioactive material across Europe Chernobyl |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $1600: The era of this man's late 19th & early 20th century rule is known as the Porfiriato Porfirio Díaz |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: In the 20th century Portugal's Antonio Salazar created the "Estado Novo", or this New State |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $400: "Charlie Wilson's War" is about a Texas congressman's covert dealings to arm anti-soviet rebels fighting in this country Afghanistan |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $800: A monarch working to overcome his stammer is central to the plot of this Oscar winner The King's Speech |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1200: The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton Judas and the Black Messiah |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1600: Peter O'Toole played "the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey" in this epic film set in the Mideast Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $2000: Andrew Garfield played pacifist & Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in this movie set in part at the Battle of Okinawa Hacksaw Ridge |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $200 (Daily Double): Into the 20th century, Uzbekistan had rulers with this title reminiscent of the Mongols; the Soviets finally got rid of them khan |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DRUNK HISTORY $1200: This liqueur dates back to the 16th century; in the 20th, it was bottled with brandy as B&B Benedictine |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | HOPEFUL HISTORY $400: This disease that killed an estimated 300 million people in the 20th century alone was declared eradicated in 1980 smallpox |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HISTORY $800: This early 20th century leader advocated a more European & modernized Turkey, including in clothing, as you see (Kemal) Ataturk |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Real name Mary, this "maternal" organizer of mine workers in the early 20th century was called the "Most Dangerous Woman in America" Mother Jones |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $200: On December 19, 1984 Margaret Thatcher & Zhao Ziyang signed a joint declaration to end British rule in this place Hong Kong |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: The people seen here are forming this painful reminder of the 1930s a bread line |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $800: The 381-day bus boycott in this city was triggered by Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man Montgomery |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Queen Victoria's eldest son took the throne in 1901 with this name & number Edward VII |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In a series, artist Jacob Lawrence depicted this "Great" movement of rural Southern blacks to the North in the 20th century the Great Migration |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: 1971 events at this prison east of Buffalo were one of the bloodiest clashes between Americans in the 20th century Attica |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MEDICAL HISTORY $3,200 (Daily Double): In the 20th century hygiene in hospitals helped lower this, the IMR, from about 100 to 7 per thousand births infant mortality rate |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $200: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop cotton |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $800: In a 1916 interview this Michigan businessman said that "history is more or less bunk" (Henry) Ford |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 $400: This object reached its closest point to Earth in April 1986, its second visit to our skies in the 20th century Halley's Comet |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | HISTORY ON FILM $600: This British medical student made mid-20th century sports history Roger Bannister |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife Sophie were assassinated on June 28, 1914 while motoring through this city Sarajevo |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $800: This doctor's vaccine was declared safe & effective on April 12, 1955, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death (Jonas) Salk |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Clement Attlee succeeded Churchill in the middle of the 1945 conference of allied leaders held in this German city Potsdam |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1200: In a 1979 accident the temperature of fuel rods at this facility went from their normal 600 degrees to near 4,000 Three Mile Island |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1600: By 9 A.M. on April 15, 1912, this ship had rescued about 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster the Carpathia |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Enduring into the 20th Century, this last Chinese Imperial Dynasty is also called the Qing the Manchu Dynasty |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $200: On Feb. 6, 1971, using a makeshift 6-iron, Alan Shepard became the only man in history to play golf here the Moon |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $2,000 (Daily Double): Now hanging in the Capitol, the 20th-century work seen here depicts a scene in this building in 1787 Independence Hall |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $200: The British shortened this term to "bolshie", which also came to mean stubborn & uncooperative bolshevik |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: Around 1950 3 Southeast Asian states were given some autonomy, ending the union known as French this Indochina |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $600: Support from laborers called descamisados, "shirtless ones", brought him to power in Argentina in 1946 Juan Peron |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $800: The 1992 Olympics in this Spanish city were the first boycott-free summer games in 20 years Barcelona |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1000: The Nazis may have contrived the February 1933 burning of this parliament building, giving them more control the Reichstag |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: It's the city where the heroic action seen here took place in 1989 Beijing |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $800: He's the man seen here trying to reassure us in March 1981
"Now, I am in control..." Alexander Haig |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1600: Look to the heavens & name this duffer seen here in 1971 Alan Shepard |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $2000: He witnessed the ends of the Earth while accompanying seven expeditions to the Arctic Matthew Henson |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $3,600 (Daily Double): It's the year of the promised return seen here 1944 |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $400: 10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $800: In "History of the World, Part I" he plays a waiter at the Last Supper & asks if the diners want separate checks Mel Brooks |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $1600: The bombing of Pearl Harbor is featured in this Richard Fleischer epic! epic! epic! Tora! Tora! Tora! |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $2000: In this 1952 film assassins gun down the title Mexican revolutionary but miss his horse Viva Zapata! |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this Baz Luhrmann epic Australia |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 20th CENTURY CHINA $200: The founding of this party on July 1, 1921 opened a pivotal period in Chinese politics & history the Communist Party |
| #5451, aired 2008-04-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Called the "Sick Man of Europe" in the early 20th century, this empire collapsed just after WWI the Ottoman Empire |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: The diary that she received for her 13th birthday in 1942 became one of the most famous books of the 20th century Anne Frank |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | PROMINENT 20th CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 1979 she became the first woman in European history to be elected prime minister Thatcher |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | 21st CENTURY HISTORY $600: The first Republican senator from North Carolina in the 20th century, he left the chamber in 2003 Jesse Helms |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $400: In 1984, for $1.5 million, Ross Perot bought one of the only 17 known copies of this historic British document the Magna Carta |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $800: It "worked" out that in 1924 Ramsay MacDonald became the first prime minister from this party the Labour Party |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $1200: During Stanley Baldwin's term as P.M., this King of England abdicated King Edward VIII |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $1600: The only part of the U.K. occupied by the Germans in WWII; the French call them Iles Normandes the Channel Islands |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $2000: The Marquess of this had a large "steak" in British politics; he was the first 20th century prime minister Salisbury |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | 20th CENTURY SPORTS $500: Basketball history was changed October 30, 1954 with the introduction of this device 24-second shot clock |
| #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 |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | HISTORY ON THE SCREEN $800: He's the 20th century risk taker whose life is dramatized here:
"We must restore out Egyptian pride..." Anwar Sadat (played by Louis Gossett Jr.) |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $100: Founded by Jerry Falwell in 1979, this conservative group was soon a major political force the Moral Majority |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $200: A book by Jim O'Donnell chronicles July 6, 1957, the day these 2 Beatles first met John Lennon & Paul McCartney |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $300: In 1989 the name of this locale was made famous by footage like the following:
[In the middle of Beijing] Tiananmen Square |
| #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 |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $500: Event that erupted aboard the Potemkin in 1905 & at the Kiel Naval Station in 1918 Mutiny |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | U.S. HISTORY $500: The first major engagement for U.S. troops in this 20th century war was the Battle of Belleau Wood World War I |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $200: He first used "Fair Deal", the name of his domestic program, during the 1949 State of the Union address Truman |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: The 1920 Treaty of Tartu reaffirmed Finland's independence from this country Russia |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $600: The atomic pile built by this Italian physicist in Chicago in 1942 used pure graphite as a moderator Fermi |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $800: In 1904 Warren G. Harding became this state's lieutenant governor Ohio |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $1000: On her 1963 space mission, she completed 48 orbits of the Earth in her Vostok 6 capsule (Valentina) Tereshkova |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $100: The first tunnel under this Egyptian canal was opened in 1980 Suez Canal |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $200: This capital fell to Viet Cong & North Vietnamese troops April 30, 1975 Saigon |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $300: In 1952 Argentina's national congress approved this president's second 5-year plan Juan Peron |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: In 1904 torpedo boats from this country attacked Russian ships near Port Arthur, Manchuria Japan |
| #2798, aired 1996-10-30 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $500: Rafael Reyes became dictator of this country in 1904 after it lost Panama in 1903 Colombia |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1948 this Democrat was elected Illinois governor by the largest majority in the state's history Adlai Stevenson |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1979 it was the site of the worst nuclear accident in the history of the U.S. Three Mile Island |
| #1902, aired 1992-12-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: This ruler saw England into the 20th century Victoria |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: At 49 days, this 1981 sports strike was the longest in professional athletics history the baseball strike |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $300: In 1983, for the first time in its history, this organization agreed to cut the price of crude oil OPEC |
| #1471, aired 1991-01-14 | THE 20th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): He served on the Supreme Court from 1939-75 & his 36-year tenure was the longest in U.S. history (William O.) Douglas |
| #1455, aired 1990-12-21 | CHINESE HISTORY $200: 20th century conflict the Chinese call "The War of Resistance to Japanese Aggression" World War II |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This smallest Balkan country didn't become independent until the 20th century Albania |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | 20TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1904, Ida Tarbell published the muckraking history of this oil company Standard Oil |
| #982, aired 1988-12-06 | HISTORY $800: He said "The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in the 20th century" John F. Kennedy |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: Arnold Toynbee is best known for the work he did in this field history |
| #633, aired 1987-05-13 | HISTORY $1000: The century in which England last had any queen named Elizabeth prior to Elizabeth II 20th century |
| #382, aired 1986-02-25 | ENGLISH HISTORY $1000: He became prime minister in 1964, the youngest in the 20th century Harold Wilson |
| #381, aired 1986-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This 20th century president is the only president buried in Washington, D.C. proper Woodrow Wilson |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979 Pol Pot |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936 Gone with the Wind |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 20th CENTURY NONFICTION: "Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: 1946 was the last year this place, now a country, was represented in the U.S. House of Representatives the Philippines |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Constructed in the 1930s, it extended from La Ferté to the Rhine River, though it also had sections along the Italian frontier Maginot Line |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Interpreting for Vaclav Havel, future ambassador Rita Klimova gave us this phrase for a smooth change of government the velvet revolution |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Villages like Zalesye, Kopachi & Lubyanka remain abandoned 3 decades after this event nuclear disaster at Chernobyl |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: In terms of British monarchs, it's next in the sequence Seventh, Fifth, Eighth, Sixth... Second |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: On September 2, 1945 New Zealand Air Marshal Leonard Isitt put the final signature on the document that ended this World War II |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: These names of 2 original Mercury astronauts, who orbited Earth in May 1962 & May 1963, are also occupations Scott Carpenter & Gordon Cooper |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: The NKVD, which liquidated its own first 2 chiefs in the 1930s, developed into this group in 1954 the KGB |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | U.S. HISTORY: The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3 Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma |
| #366, aired 1986-02-03 | THE SUPREME COURT: This 20th century president was only 1 in history to serve full term but appoint no Supreme Court justice Jimmy Carter |
