| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $400: In 1249 King Alfonso III eliminated the last Moorish stronghold in this neighbor of Spain Portugal |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $800: Czar Alexander II signed the 1867 Treaty of Cession that gave this territory to the United States Alaska |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $1200: In 1513 Machiavelli was accused of conspiracy against this Florentine family & was tortured on the rack the Medicis |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $1600: In 1608 this captain & a few other colonists left Jamestown & explored the Chesapeake Bay & its tributaries (John) Smith |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1910 Louis Botha became this country's first prime minister, a post he held until 1919 South Africa |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | A HISTORY LESSON $400: Continent where the kingdom of New Granada was founded in the 16th century South America |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | A HISTORY LESSON $800: Under the Congress of this city, 1814-15, Denmark was forced to give Norway to Sweden Vienna |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | A HISTORY LESSON $1200: He led the 6,000-mile Long March from 1934 to 1935 & had to abandon 2 of his kids along the way Mao |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | A HISTORY LESSON $1600: In 1934 Augusto Cesar Sandino was assassinated by this Central American country's National Guard Nicaragua |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | A HISTORY LESSON $2000: No. 47 of these from 1517 reads, "Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will" the 95 Theses (of Martin Luther) |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ACTORS' HIT SONGS $800: Steve Martin gave us all a wacky history lesson about Egypt in this song "King Tut" |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A HISTORY LESSON $400: Under the leadership of this Polish electrician, some 17,000 workers went on strike in 1980 at the Lenin shipyard (Lech) Walesa |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A HISTORY LESSON $1200: In support of this Yugoslav province, NATO launched a 78-day air-strike campaign on Serbian targets in March 1999 Kosovo |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A HISTORY LESSON $1600: Athens was the chief city of this ancient district of Greece Attica |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A HISTORY LESSON $2000: In 1912 this last emperor of China abdicated, ending 268 years of rule by the Manchu Dynasty Puyi |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A HISTORY LESSON $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1703 John Sheffield, Duke of this, built a palatial estate on the former site of London's Arlington House Buckingham |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $2000: "Know the enemy & know yourself" is a lesson from this treatise, tactics from which were later used by Mao The Art of War |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | A HISTORY LESSON $200: Scotland acquired these islands known for their pony in 1472 when a Norse king didn't pay his daughter's dowry to James III the Shetlands |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | A HISTORY LESSON $400: Wellington defeated the French in 1813 at Vitoria, Spain in the Peninsular War, the peninsula being this one the Iberian |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | A HISTORY LESSON $800: In 1185 Minamoto Yoritomo defeated the Taira clan in Japan & later was given this title meaning "great general" shogun |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | A HISTORY LESSON $1,000 (Daily Double): The FSA & NYA were part of the "alphabet soup" of this 1930s U.S. government program the New Deal |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | A HISTORY LESSON $1000: In 1795 most of Lithuania came under Russia's rule after the third partition of this country Poland |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | A HISTORY LESSON $200: A monarch sometimes known as A-Ha was Egypt's first one of these rulers a pharaoh |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | A HISTORY LESSON $400: Nicholas Gilman, a signer of this historic document, helped get it ratified in his home state of New Hampshire the Constitution |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | A HISTORY LESSON $600: Prussian field marshal Gebhard von Blucher helped defeat this French leader at Waterloo in 1815 Napoleon |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | A HISTORY LESSON $800: The Civil Rights Act & the Watts Riots happened during this decade of hope & tragedy the '60s |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | A HISTORY LESSON $1000: Louis XIV turned this building into a royal palace & the official residence of the court of France Versailles |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | IMPORTED TELEVISION $2000: A presenter on the BBC version of this PBS show called it "a detective story, a game show, and a history lesson" Antiques Roadshow |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | MUSIC ON MY iPOD $1000: This group's song is more than great listening, it's a history lesson
"...Springsteen, Madonna /
Way before Nirvana there was /
U2 and Blondie..." Bowling for Soup |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | GIVE ME AN "H" $1200: James M. Barrie called life "a long lesson in" this humility |
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