| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | "OH", YES! $2000: Now extinct, this earliest horse was a dog-sized ancestor that lived in North America 50 million years ago the eohippus |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 1972: 50 YEARS AGO $400: This Democrat from South Dakota came up short in his run for president McGovern |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 1972: 50 YEARS AGO $800: This company helped launch the video game industry with the release of Pong Atari |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 1972: 50 YEARS AGO $1200: Margrethe II took the throne of this country, its first queen since 1412 Denmark |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 1972: 50 YEARS AGO $1600: In this country Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law that lasted until 1981 the Philippines |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 1972: 50 YEARS AGO $2,000 (Daily Double): The U.S. returned the Ryukyu Islands to Japan, including this largest one, site of a bloody World War II campaign Okinawa |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | 1971: 50 YEARS AGO $400: Popularly known by this name, a report presented to the Secretary of Defense in 1969 appeared in newspapers in 1971 the Pentagon Papers |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | 1971: 50 YEARS AGO $800: The USSR's Salyut 1 was the first of these aloft; sadly, its only residents perished on the return trip space stations |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | 1971: 50 YEARS AGO $1200: This lead singer of The Doors was found dead in a Paris bathtub Jim Morrison |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | 1971: 50 YEARS AGO $1600: This first daughter with a name close to her mom's was a June bride Tricia Nixon |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | 1971: 50 YEARS AGO $2000: This general seized power in Uganda Idi Amin |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | 1970: 50 YEARS AGO $400: Both 27, this guitarist & Janis Joplin died of overdoses within weeks of each other in September & October Jimi Hendrix |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | 1970: 50 YEARS AGO $800: This Garry Trudeau comic strip debuted in 28 newspapers Doonesbury |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | 1970: 50 YEARS AGO $1200: National guardsmen shot & killed 4 people at a May protest at this Ohio university Kent State |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | 1970: 50 YEARS AGO $1600: After challenging King Hussein, this organization under Yasser Arafat was driven out of Jordan in "Black September" the PLO |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | 1970: 50 YEARS AGO $2000: In November U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley went on trial for his role in this 1968 massacre Mỹ Lai |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | A POWER CALLER $400: 10 years ago, it cost about $50,000 to install a system to power your house using this energy; now, a 6-kw system could go for $14K solar |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $400: With a $28,000-per-episode budget, this PBS kids' show made its debut on Nov. 10 & has stuck around for a few decades Sesame Street |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $800: Ironically, on Feb. 14 Pope Paul VI's edict removed the feast of this saint's day from the liturgical calendar Saint Valentine |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $1200: Called a sort of dress rehearsal, this space mission in May of 1969 sent the first color TV pictures of planet Earth Apollo 10 |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $1600: Student occupation of a Harvard building led to the end of this military education program at the school for 40 years ROTC |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $2000: Dismissed by de Gaulle in 1968, he returned to the "centre" of French politics, succeeding de Gaulle as president Georges Pompidou |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | THE VERY OLD EAST $400: This subcontinent collided with Eurasia some 40 to 50 million years ago India |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | NATURAL WONDERS $1200: Since its formation 10,000 years ago, this cataract has eaten away 7 miles of cliff; in 50,000 years, it will join with Lake Erie Niagara Falls |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | 1965 NO. 1 SONGS $800: It was 50 years ago, July 1965, when this quintessential Rolling Stones song hit No. 1 "Satisfaction" |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | 1964 -- 50 YEARS AGO $200: In 2014, the National Archives put this act in its Records of Rights exhibit, in time for the act's 50th birthday on July 2nd Civil Rights Act |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | 1964 -- 50 YEARS AGO $400: He became the first pope to fly when he visited Jordan & Israel on a "pilgrimage of prayer & penance" Pope Paul VI |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | 1964 -- 50 YEARS AGO $600: In March this school completed a 30-0 season & won its first NCAA title in men's basketball UCLA |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | 1964 -- 50 YEARS AGO $800: Thomas Berger died in 2014, the 50th anniversary of this novel of his about a 111-year-old survivor of Custer's army Little Big Man |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | 1964 -- 50 YEARS AGO $1000: Nine years before Skylab, this habitat to test human adaptation began operation under the waters off Bermuda SEALAB |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | 2014 ANNIVERSARIES $400: 50 years ago, February 9, it was live from New York as the Beatles played this TV show The Ed Sullivan Show |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | SOUTHERN BOOKSTORE $1200: Son, want to know what this South Carolina military college was like 50 years ago? Read Pat Conroy's "The Boo" The Citadel |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS $2000: Accompanying an article on bog bodies was a photo of this Danish man likely sacrificed over 2,000 years ago Tollund Man |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | 50th ANNIVERSARIES IN MUSIC $800: It was 50 years ago these Jersey boys hit No. 1 with both "Sherry" & "Big Girls Don't Cry" Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | 50th ANNIVERSARIES IN MUSIC $1000: Paddy Moloney founded this Irish folk band 50 years ago & they're still going strong today the Chieftains |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | 50 YEARS AGO--1962 $400: On February 20, after 10 previous delays, he became the first American to orbit the earth John Glenn |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | 50 YEARS AGO--1962 $800: Month in 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the U.S. & the Soviet Union to the brink of war October |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | 50 YEARS AGO--1962 $1200: We've had enough Shakespeare for one game; in 1962 this playwright's festival began at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario George Bernard Shaw |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | 50 YEARS AGO--1962 $1600: Passing away at 78 she was laid to rest beside her husband at Hyde Park Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | 50 YEARS AGO--1962 $2000: Katherine Anne Porter sailed up the bestsellers list with this top novel of 1962 Ship of Fools |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $200: That's a Cuban soldier standing on a U.S. B-26 in the aftermath of this failed April 1961 operation the Bay of Pigs |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $600: The 23rd Amendment, giving these people the right to vote, was ratified March 29, 1961 citizens of Washington, D.C. |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $800: This Nazi captured in Argentina was sentenced to death in Jerusalem on December 15 Eichmann |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $1,000 (Daily Double): Peter Benenson's 1961 news article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is considered the birth of this organization Amnesty International |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | 50 YEARS AGO--1961 $1000: In April he orbited the Earth once Yuri Gagarin |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | 50th ANNIVERSARIES $400: 50 years ago this trademarked material heard here started making opening packages a lot more fun Bubble Wrap |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | THE FORBES 2009 BILLIONAIRES LIST $2000: Ingvar Kamprad, who opened the first of these stores 50 years ago, was No. 5 IKEA |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | STELLAR! $1000: The veil one of these in Cygnus is the remnant of a star that may have exploded 50,000 years ago a nebula |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | THE ADLER PLANETARIUM $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the dome of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.) Weighing over a half ton, this visitor probably broke off from an asteroid before reaching earth 50,000 years ago a meteorite |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | DOWN TO EARTH $400: 100 million years ago this continent was connected to Antarctica; in 50 million more years, it'll hit Asia Australia |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | 50 YEARS AGO $100: This "Love"-able sitcom premiered on October 15, 1951 I Love Lucy |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | 50 YEARS AGO $200: On March 14, 1951 U.N. forces recaptured this capital city Seoul |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | 50 YEARS AGO $400: This country legend's "Cold, Cold Heart" hit No. 1 on the country charts on March 17, 1951 Hank Williams |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | 50 YEARS AGO $500: After 6 years of U.S. military government, this nation started to gain autonomy again in 1951 Japan |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | 50 YEARS AGO $600 (Daily Double): With the collapse of the Labour government in 1951, this man again became Prime Minister of Great Britain Churchill |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $200: Joseph L. Mankiewicz based his screenplay for this film on Mary Orr's story "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $400: This Spencer Tracy-Elizabeth Taylor film was followed 1 year later with a sequel, "Father's Little Dividend" Father of the Bride |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $600: Jose Ferrer won an Oscar for playing this 1950 title role Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $800: Harry James dubbed the trumpet playing for this actor in "Young Man With A Horn" Kirk Douglas |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | THE CINEMA: 50 YEARS AGO $1000: Judy Holliday reprised her stage role as Billie Dawn in this George Cukor-directed comedy classic Born Yesterday |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | 50 YEARS AGO $100: No sacraments for Sergei: The Vatican approved excommunication of those spreading this doctrine Communism |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | 50 YEARS AGO $200: Argentina's new 1949 constitution meant this incumbent president could succeed himself Juan Peron |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | 50 YEARS AGO $300: Ireland became a republic on this post-holiday Monday, the anniversary of the 1916 "Rising" Easter |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | 50 YEARS AGO $400: On July 20, 1949 this country signed the final armistice of its 1948 war of independence, with Syria Israel |
| #3348, aired 1999-03-10 | 50 YEARS AGO $500: Nathuram Godse was executed in November, almost 2 years after he assassinated this man Mohandas Gandhi |
| #1212, aired 1989-12-05 | FACTS & FIGURES $100: According to Maidenform, 50% of these sold today are underwire, compared to 20% 10 years ago bras |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: Now with 139 titles, his travel guide line began 50 years ago with "1936...On the Continent" Eugene Fodor |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | 50TH ANNIVERSARIES $300: If you were working when this gov't prog. was started 50 years ago, you're probably on it now Social Security |
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