| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $400: This supersonic aircraft's last commercial flight took place in October 2003 the Concorde |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $800: Promising to increase taxes & cut spending, in 2015 this Mediterranean nation received a 3rd international bailout, $95 billion Greece |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1200: The COVID-19 virus was first detected in 2019 in this Chinese city located at the confluence of the Yangtze & Han rivers Wuhan |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1600: At 11:35 PM EDT May 1, 2011 President Obama announced the death of this man in Pakistan bin Laden |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $2000: In 2022, he became the first Hindu prime minister of the United Kingdom Sunak |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | 21st CENTURY STUFF $400: Involved in hacking celebrities' phones, the British tabloid News of the World published its last issue July 10, 2011, this day of the week Sunday |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $200: A 2022 biography of this LIV Golf participant made news pre-publication with its quotes from him Mickelson |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE $1000: 21st century news quote time: Him in 2001--"We stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy" Blair |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $200: In 2006 Julian Assange founded this secret-busting group, much in the news in later years WikiLeaks |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $400: Uprisings in 2011 in Egypt & Libya were hallmarks of this pro-democracy "season" the Arab Spring |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $600: In 2003 billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky made the mistake of criticizing this leader, who then locked him up Putin |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $800: After being trapped in a cave for more than 2 weeks in 2018, 12 boys & their soccer coach were rescued in this country Thailand |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1000: In 2008 scientists ran the first experiments using this device, considered the biggest machine ever built the Large Hadron Collider |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $400: (Hi, I'm Kate Bolduan of CNN.) In 2013 I covered the birth of the first baby of this other Kate; in 2014 I had my own little princess, so maybe a playdate sometime Kate Middleton |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1200: Martin Winterkorn resigned as the CEO of this car company in 2015 amid an EPA cheating scandal Volkswagen |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1600: 88,000 people, the entire population of Fort McMurray in this Canadian province, were evacuated in 2016 due to a wildfire Alberta |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY $400: On June 5, 2012 Wisconsin made him the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall vote Scott Walker |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY $800: The largest ever marine oil spill happened when a rig leased to this company sank in 2010 BP |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY $1200: Firsts for this new German chancellor in 2005 included first East German in the post (Angela) Merkel |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Ending a 100-year dispute, in 2011 this univ. returned thousands of artifacts to Peru that were taken from Machu Picchu Yale |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY $2000: (ABC News anchor David Muir gives the clue.) As the Arab Spring made its way into Egypt in January of 2011, I reported from this pivotal public gathering place where protests eventually brought down 2 Egyptian leaders Tahrir Square |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $400: In 2010 this 4-year-old website published classified U.S. war documents & diplomatic cables WikiLeaks |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $800: Pope when you were born, he died in 2005 John Paul II |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1200: This Asian company surpassed Nokia as the world's largest mobile phone maker Samsung |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1600: In 2007 Israel bombed a Syrian site that intelligence showed was one of these built with North Korean help nuclear reactor |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $2000: A volcano called Eyjafjallajokull erupted in this island nation in 2010, leading to a disruption of air travel Iceland |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $400: A local news blog that debuted in 2007 is called this "room", conjuring up visions of fedoras & copy boys city room |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper.) This 21st century tragedy is one of the reasons I got back into news; its aftermath is powerfully dealt with in the novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" 9/11 |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | 21st CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 2006 she left the "Today" show to anchor the CBS evening news Couric |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | NEWS FROM THE 21st CENTURY $200: This governor of Louisiana gave the rebuttal to Barack Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress Bobby Jindal |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | NEWS FROM THE 21st CENTURY $400: In 2008 this top U.S. general in Iraq was named to an even bigger job, running Central Command Petraeus |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | NEWS FROM THE 21st CENTURY $600: This San Francisco Giant broke Mark McGwire's single-season home run record in 2001 (Barry) Bonds |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | NEWS FROM THE 21st CENTURY $800: In 2003, in one of the largest governmental reorganizations, 22 agencies were folded into this department Homeland Security |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | NEWS FROM THE 21st CENTURY $1000: In 2003 this moral crusader reportedly lost $8 million at casinos; he said he was "pretty close to even" Bill Bennett |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | 21st CENTURY TRENDS $1600: What news channels use to provide extra info, or what the info does along the bottom of the screen crawls |
