| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $800: Val wanted to visit the Moorish city in Spain in the 1400s but one misspelled letter has him on this isle of spice & a 1983 U.S. invasion Grenada |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1200: Val's not at the 1922 discovery of Tut's tomb in this 4-word area but 100 later, sees Rüfüs Du Sol win a Grammy for "Alive" the Valley of the Kings |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $200: In the 1960s, Freedomland in the Bronx was built to rival Disneyland as a history-focused one of these a theme park |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Now it's a structure where Olympic events are held; in early ancient Olympics, it was the 600-foot distance of the only event, a footrace a stadium |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $200: The 7-spotted type of this beetle was brought to North America in the mid-20th c. to control aphids & other plant-eating pests a ladybug |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $600: The mold Phytophthora infestans caused this mid-19th c. farming disaster that resulted in a million deaths the Irish Potato Famine |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $800: In 1889 William Murchland forever changed the dairy industry by inventing a vacuum type of this apparatus a milker (a milking machine) |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: In 66 A.D. he took part in the Jewish revolt against Rome; later, he worked for the Romans writing the history of it Josephus |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | U.S. HISTORY $200: At the Democratic Convention in 1932, FDR promised one of these, part of a "crusade to restore America to its own people" a New Deal |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $1200: In 1986 Run-DMC collabed with Aerosmith on a version of this song that VH1 called history making "Walk This Way" |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $800: She took a silver medal in women's figure skating in 1994; Tonya Harding finished a medalless eighth Nancy Kerrigan |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $1000: In 1904 Ralph Rose & Martin Sheridan broke a tie with a "throw-off" in this field event; Sheridan won with a spin of 127' 10 1/4" discus |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $800: "The Broken Heart of America", about St. Louis & American violence, ends with a 2014 police shooting in this Missouri city Ferguson |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | HISTORY $600: In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic Bible Trent |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 1984 she made history as the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party Ferraro |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $400: One of the most famous errors in postal history occurred in 1918 when a Jenny biplane was printed on stamps this way upside-down |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE $1600: With a Russian name meaning "union" & launched in the '60s, it's the longest operational manned spacecraft program in history Soyuz |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A century before she was on a dollar coin, she was convicted & fined for casting a vote in the 1872 pres. election Anthony |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first women's club in New York was La Liga de las Hijas de this island where a rebellion against Spain was sending refugees norte-ward Cuba |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Still going in Macon, a college with this Methodist-conscious name was the USA's first chartered to grant degrees to women Wesleyan College |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $400: A descendant of Tamerlane, Babur founded this dynasty that ruled in India from 1526 until 1858 the Mughal |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1600: Casa Loma, in this city, a financial center, was the passion of Henry Pellatt, who had to sell it when the Home Bank of Canada collapsed Toronto |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $2000: In 1720 the value of this trading company's stock rose from 128 1/2 to 1,000, creating a disastrous "bubble" the South Sea Company |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $200: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) The 369th Infantry Regiment has its origins as the 15th New York Infantry Regiment of this reserve section of the Army; before the U.S. entered World War I, they trained in a second floor dance studio in Harlem the National Guard |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | COACHING BASKETBALL $800: Coaching 1899-1907, this pioneer of the sport is the only basketball coach in Kansas Jayhawks history with a losing record Naismith |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $100: Located twelve miles outside of it, Villanova offers a course on the "History of" this Pennsylvania city Philadelphia |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns |
| #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 |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $600: July 11, 1804: Aaron Burr mortally wounds this Founding Father during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey Alexander Hamilton |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1475 at Picquigny Edward IV & Louis XI agreed to a truce that seems to be holding in this war the Hundred Years' War |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1989 Japan got a new emperor for the first time in most of its citizens' lives, as Akihito succeeded this ruler Hirohito |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This mystical form of Islam began c. 800 in part with a woman from Basra who introduced a new concept of the love of Allah Sufism |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $200: In the 1990s this Chicago Bulls guard was the MVP of the NBA Finals a record 6 times Jordan |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $800: In 1995 this Houston Rockets center scored a then-record 131 points in a 4-game NBA Finals Hakeem Olajuwon |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $1600: In the 10th century this kingdom "roared" as it allied with Castile to become a daunting force on the Iberian Peninsula León |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $400: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C. 1963 |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $2000: El Pípila is the nickname of a Mexican folk hero who was said to have aided this revolutionary priest in 1810 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | STOCKS & INVESTMENTS $400: Also used in a different type of gambling, this colorful term describes a stock with a history of paying out a blue chip stock |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1000: In 2002, Halle Berry made history taking the Best Actress award for her role as a grieving mother in this film Monster's Ball |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | HOBBIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a period in British history, or a hobby involving refurbishing old cars the Restoration |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: The title of a novel about settler/indigenous conflict is from a quote about "a secret river of" this in Australian history blood |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East tube station Jack the Ripper |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $200: Partly set in Kingston, the plot of "A Brief History of Seven Killings" includes the attempted murder of this reggae singer Bob Marley |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | A MUSE ME $800: Need help in this subject in school? Call up Clio--as the muse of it, she'll fill you in on facts & dates history |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $6,000 (Daily Double): "I like to be in America, okay by me in America, everything free in America, for a small fee in America" West Side Story |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $300: February 22, 1997:
Scientists in Scotland introduce the first clone of an adult mammal, a sheep named after this country singer Dolly Parton |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $800: Showcasing life in the 18th century, this Virginia attraction calls itself "the world's largest living history museum" Colonial Williamsburg |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $1600: The AMA says, "physicians making" these "may sound like fabled history", but they have a place in medicine today house calls |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $100: On a trip to Asia in 1492, he ended up thousands of miles away and still got a U.S. federal holiday in his honor Christopher Columbus |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $300 (Daily Double): A poll of historical writers named this Tudor king the worst monarch in history and his six wives would probably agree Henry VIII |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $800: After being banished from Iceland, this colorful guy established a colony in Greenland around 985 Erik the Red |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $11,400 (Daily Double): Making comedy fans wait over 40 years for a sequel, this 97-year-old released "History of the World, Part II" in 2023 Mel Brooks |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $800: The most decorated figure skater in U.S. history, she started college in 1999 & returned to get her B.A. in 2009 Michelle Kwan |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $300: This company with a bumblebee-inspired name has the highest lifetime sales in "Shark" history; that's a lot of socks Bombas |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $400: On Dec. 31, 2005 a this second (not a this year) was added at 23:59:60, the first extra second in 7 years a leap second |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $800: In 1687 this Brit differentiated "absolute, true, and mathematical time" & "relative, apparent, and common time" Newton |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $800: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B Bénédictine |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $1000: Thyme contains about 1% this type of "oil" used in fragrances & pharmaceuticals essential |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1600: TAI, the French abbreviation for "international" this "time", was introduced in 1955 atomic time (Temps Atomique International) |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $2000: Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept "time" this dilation |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FASHION HISTORY $400: No spy should be without one of these aptly named outer garments worn by British soldiers in WWI a trench coat |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $100: A children's book tells of how this emperor met his "Bunnyloo" in 1807 when he was forced to flee an attacking pack of rabbits Napoleon |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $1200: In 1996, Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life Yeltsin |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: In 1066 William the Conqueror had the first documented coronation at this site Westminster Abbey |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: The last major conflict of the War of 1812, the battle of this city took place in January 1815, after the war had ended Battle of New Orleans |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: In 1309 Clement V moved the papacy to what is now this French city, using lack of security in Rome as an excuse Avignon |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): After taking up on another island, the Knights of Rhodes became the Knights of this place the Knights of Malta |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $200: William Hedley invented Puffing Billy, this type of locomotive, which began pulling coal cars in 1813 a steam engine (steam locomotive) |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $600: In February 1846, over a thousand of these people began to trek west from Nauvoo, Illinois, eventually settling in Utah the Mormons |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $800: Born in Poland in 1686, he would heat things up by inventing a mercury thermometer in 1714 Fahrenheit |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1200: Mentioned more than 40 times in the Bible, they were a people of Asia Minor & Syria the Hittites |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A DEEP DIVE INTO... $800: Movie history:
In 1939 Hollywood released 365 films, including all-time classics & this jungle hero "Finds a Son!" Tarzan |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $400: A participant in this Boston Harbor event said most of the people chosen were journeymen & apprentices the Boston Tea Party |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The daughter of an Italian immigrant, she had been a U.S. representative for 3 terms when tapped in 1984 to be a vice presidential nominee Ferraro |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | 4 LETTERS, ENDS IN "Y" $2000: This ancient scholar wrote a 142-volume history of Rome that includes accounts of the battles against Hannibal Livy |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1886 a riot in this city's Haymarket Square led to the deaths of several police officers & demonstrators Chicago |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $400: The company founded by this publisher & politician still includes Men's Health, A&E & our own affiliate KSBW Monterey-Salinas Hearst |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A week after this rich guy IV perished on the Titanic, an inquiry into the disaster began in a hotel with his name on it Astor |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1000: This old Boston family produced poet Robert & Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY $2000: This French thinker's multi-volume "History of Sexuality" discusses power dynamics in society Michel Foucault |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $800: This given name of Maimonides, Judaism's greatest medieval thinker, honors Judaism's greatest prophet Moses |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $1200: Last name of Bronson, a teacher & abolitionist who lived in poverty until his daughter made it big in books in the 19th century Alcott |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $2000: During World War II this Norwegian sold out his country & made his name a synonym for traitor Quisling |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $200: In the Rebecca Riots of the 1840s, Welsh men dressed as women attacked the gates that levied these charges for using public roads a toll |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $800: The 1969 riots outside this Greenwich Village bar served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement Stonewall |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $800: In 1962 John Glenn commanded Friendship 7 in a historic flight that was part of this program the Mercury Program |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal in New York, Burr & Hamilton had their deadly 1804 clash at a secluded spot in Weehawken in this state New Jersey |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $200: In 1434 this family wrested control of Florence from the rival Albizzi family & stuck around a bit the Medici |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $400: Last name of Albert, born in 1852 & the oldest of 7 siblings including Otto & Charles for whom life was truly a circus Ringling |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $400: To protect an ancestral cemetery, in 1910 attorney Lyda Conley became the 3rd woman & 1st Native American to argue a case here the Supreme Court (of the United States) |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT'S ADORABLE $1000: The cute critter on the left shares this name with the guy on the right, an important partner in retail history a roebuck |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $400: In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show Nat King Cole |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $200: Developed from his senior thesis at Harvard in 1940, "Why England Slept" became a bestseller for this man JFK |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | HEADGEAR & HISTORY $800: In 1049 Pope Leo IX said, Eberhard, you can wear this high hat that curves to a point, & bishops still do a mitre |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | HEADGEAR & HISTORY $1600: The feathers of this species, not the U.S. national symbol, are a symbol of prowess in war, as in the bonnet of an Arapaho chief a golden eagle |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: As part of a truce in the Hundred Years War, in 1445 Margaret of Anjou married him & became his queen consort Henry VI |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: Known for her extreme piety & care of Peru's needy, she was the first woman of South America to be declared a saint Rose of Lima |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: Last name of pioneering doctors & sisters Elizabeth & Emily, subjects of a recent biography on how they changed medicine Blackwell |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $2000: In 1996, Ann Richards eulogized this Texas congresswoman as "an American original... a national treasure" & a friend Jordan |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1200: Greek for "upright slab", this type of decorated or inscribed stone marker was common in the ancient world a stele |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1600: This notorious ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv is the site of a mass grave of tens of thousands of Holocaust victims Babi Yar |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $400: After being part of a failed wave of revolt in Europe in 1848, this political writer began a lifelong exile in England in 1849 Marx |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $800: After 4 years of negotiations, in 2016 the government of this South American country made a peace deal with FARC rebels Colombia |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $800: This 135-year-old magazine has helped fund more than 15,000 grants in its history; recipients include Richard Byrd & Jacques Cousteau National Geographic |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $1200: In Roman history, young girls were chosen to be these priestesses who tended the eternal flame of a hearth goddess vestal virgins |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner were members of this "extreme" group in Lincoln's party advocating emancipation Radical Republicans |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2000: In the late 19th century, the Pinkertons infiltrated this cabal of coal miners named for a widowed Irishwoman Molly Maguires |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | TAKE ME TO CHURCH $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2023 16th St. Baptist in this city marks 150 years of the congregation, a history marred by a 1963 bombing Birmingham, Alabama |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $800: In 1967 Greece's politicians worried about a coup by generals, but a group of this lower rank took over for 7 years the colonels |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $2000: In 2010 Greece was on the financial brink dealing with these "measures" whose name comes from a word meaning "severe" austere measures (austerity) |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth Cleopatra |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here the Bronze Age |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $400: The Thirty Years' War began in 1618 as a conflict between these 2 major religious groups the Catholics & the Protestants |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $800: Big deal in 1803:
A USUAL HIP SCENARIO the Louisiana Purchase |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $400: In 1617 a British diplomat promised "calm & halcyonian days" just before this decades-long conflict erupted the Thirty Years' War |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $800: In recent history, he announced in December 2016 that he'd run against Vladimir Putin; as it turned out, a dangerous decision Alexei Navalny |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $200: The U.S. had this kind of convention in 1787; the states later held hundreds, but the last full one was Rhode Island's of 1986 (a) constitutional (convention) |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: Starting in 1821 it was a commercial trail southwest from Missouri; in 1846 Stephen Kearny & his troops used it to invade Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $400: In the 1960s Benjamin Rubin of Wyeth Laboratories invented the 2-prong bifurcated one of these that helped eliminate smallpox a needle |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $800: This company still markets bananas from Guatemala; when it was United Fruit Co., it helped kill a 1950s land redistribution there Chiquita |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $1200: With this grain-cutting device, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. helped win the Civil War as Union grain exports kept Europe neutral the reaper |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans a boycott |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: Like a university, a river in British Columbia is named for this explorer who reached its mouth in 1808 Simon Fraser |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $1000: The founder of what would be this univ. petitioned the Pennsylvania state assembly & got the school started in a log cabin in 1787 Pitt |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $400: We didn't have this word for a person who studies the natural & physical world until William Whewell invented it in 1834 a scientist |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Reviewing a murder mystery in 1930, Donald Gordon coined this inquisitive 3-words-in-one word for a detective story a whodunnit |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $400: Chris Kyle's memoir & basis for a film is subtitled "The Autobiography of the Most Lethal" this "in U.S. Military History" American Sniper |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Approved by Congress in 1861 but not ratified, a proposed this number amendment would instead have protected slavery the 13th |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1672 Spain began building a large masonry fort on the shore of this city in Florida St. Augustine |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1922 Howard Carter made a huge discovery in Egypt, the tomb of this royal Tutankhamun (King Tut) |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $400: After decades as a member, in January 2020 the U.K. ceased its membership in this organization the EU |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $1600: A false emergency alert that a missile was headed for this U.S. state caused panic there in January 2018 Hawaii |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $200: A new day dawned for civil rights in 1920 when the 19th one of these gave women the right to vote an amendment |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | I AM A CHAMPION! $400: In 2019 she surpassed Vitaly Scherbo to become the most decorated gymnast in world championship history Simone Biles |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $600: This northeast state got its name in the 1620s from a county in England where the scene was dull--time for something "new" New Hampshire |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $800: Around 1001 a whole New World beckoned this Norse explorer who established a settlement in Vinland in North America Leif Erikson |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $1000: To get back in sync with the solar year, this new calendar named for a pope made Oct. 15, 1582 the day after Oct. 4 (the) Gregorian (calendar) |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY WINNERS $400: In 2022 Lee Jung-jae made Emmy history winning as Lead Actor for a non-English show, this Korean one Squid Game |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $800: Having time to draw a cross of his own blood on the ground, Francisco Pizarro was killed in this city in 1541 Lima, Peru |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $1200: This gruesome weapon named for its smell that some called more like garlic was used in World War I, skirting an 1899 international treaty mustard gas |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $1600: In what's known as the South Sea this of 1720, stock in a British company skyrocketed, then crashed, "bursting" investors' hopes a bubble |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): He reunited the Eastern & Western Roman Empires in 324 A.D., & the new capital soon bore his name Constantine the Great |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $2000: The establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613 ended the Russian "Time of" these, a period of political & social crisis Troubles |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $200: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My bestseller "The Devil in the White City" told the incredible true story of how a prolific serial killer lured his victims using the 1893 World's Fair in this Midwest city Chicago |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $400: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) In "Dead Wake", I explore the infamous 1915 torpedoing by a U-boat of this luxury liner; with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including some 130 Americans, that tragedy helped convince the U.S. to join World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies the Lusitania |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $400: In World War I the soldiers of the USA's all-Black 92nd infantry division put this animal on their patch buffalo |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $800: The 2020 killing of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani by a U.S. drone took place at the airport of this world capital Baghdad |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $800: 1890:
14.8% are this, highest in history, finding the streets paved with gold immigrants |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $1600: After continually losing elections for Israeli prime minister since 1948, he won the office in 1977 in what's known as "the upset" (Menachem) Begin |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $2000: This word meaning a spectacular mining find was given to the creek where gold was found in the Klondike in 1896 bonanza |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In exile in Jamaica in 1815, he wrote a letter outlining unity among the to-be-liberated nations of Spanish America Bolívar |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Osceola was a leader of this people who resisted removal from their land in Florida in the 1830s the Seminoles |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $200: A 2012 pilot program by police in Rialto, California used BWCs, body-worn these cameras |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $800: In 1998, Campbell Aird got what was called the first this arm, electronically controlled like on TV's "Six Million Dollar Man" a bionic arm |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): N.E. of Bilbao, this town was the site of tragedy on April 26, 1937, when 1/3 of its people were killed or wounded in a German attack Guernica |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $800: John Trumbull's painting in the Capitol titled this document shows the submission of a draft in June 1776, not the signing the Declaration of Independence |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $2000: Some depictions show the 1st century A.D. Trung sisters riding elephants to launch a Vietnamese revolt against this 3-letter dynasty the Han Dynasty |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: In 1271 this teen set out with his father & uncle on a journey from Europe to the Far East & into history Marco Polo |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $1600: To decide important matters of faith, in 325 A.D. this emperor called the Council of Nicaea Constantine the Great |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $400: A Black resident of Philadelphia, William still kept meticulous records of enslaved people he helped escape via this network the Underground Railroad |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $600: In 1369 the V pope of this name tried to pull off a union of the Eastern & western Christian churches Urban |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $1000: In what was meant to be a limited operation, in 1969 U.K. troops were sent to parts of this region as a result of "Troubles" Ulster |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $400: Just months after their 1862 battle ended in a draw, these 2 ironclad ships were underwater the Monitor & the Merrimack |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $400: Makes sense--it once meant the piece of wood behind others in a fireplace; now it's a bunch of unfilled orders a backlog |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORD HISTORY $1600: It sounds odd now that in "Dracula" the count says, "You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your" this toilet |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: The Marquess of Salisbury, who retired in 1902, was the last prime minister to lead a government from this body the House of Lords |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A 1965 civil rights march started in Selma & ended 54 miles & 4 days later in this city, where MLK spoke on the steps of its capitol Montgomery |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $400: Not a game show prize, the San Francisco Treaty of 1951 says in Article 1 the state of war between this country & the Allies is over Japan |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $1600: MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech called for freedom to ring from Stone Mountain in Georgia & this mountain in Tennessee Lookout Mountain |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $600: Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder gets involved in this type of one-on-one affair with the Duke of Wellington--to be fought with cannons a duel |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $1200: In the 18th century the Apache lost dominance to this other people whose name ends with the same 3 letters a Comanche |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $11,600 (Daily Double): Post-WWII British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said this Secretary of State threw "a lifeline to sinking men" Marshall |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $1200: (Questlove presents the clue.) In 1975, Parliament released the album "Mothership Connection", an early example of what's called Afro-this-ism, blending Black pride with history & science fiction Afrofuturism |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | RADCLIFFE COLLEGE $1000: A center of women's history studies, the Schlesinger Library opened at Radcliffe in 1943 on the anniversary of this amendment the 19th |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The destruction of the battleship Maine in 1898 was a precursor to this war the Spanish-American War |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1840 a U.S. judge ruled the unwilling passengers on this ship were kidnap victims, not merchandise the Amistad |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $200: O say can you see--OK, just say--the name of this fort that defended Baltimore from the Brits on Sept. 13 & 14, 1814 Fort McHenry |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: Yo, this Philly building dating back to 1732 hosted the adopting of the Articles of Confederation Independence Hall |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $600: In the 17th century Cardinal Richelieu began using this as a state prison; in the 18th, it drew a big crowd outside the Bastille |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Excavations showed that this English site begun around 3000 B.C. was connected to the Avon River by a paved avenue Stonehenge |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1000: & that's the ballgame for the Yorkists here at the 1485 Battle of this; Tudor's your winner, as Plantagenet takes a tough loss the Battle of Bosworth Field |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $300: On July 4, 1826 this ex-president declared independence from life in Monticello, Virginia Thomas Jefferson |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | AUTUMN $500: October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo & Jo Koy Filipinos |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $600: In 2010 this nation paid off its war debt--that'd be its WWI debt--forking over the last 70 million euro in reparations Germany |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In a history play a woman complains that this chubby knight "hath eaten me out of house and home" Falstaff |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $1500: A U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961 at the Bahía de Cochinos, or this, ended in failure the Bay of Pigs |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $600: In 1956 this Soviet leader made a secret speech to a party congress denouncing Joseph Stalin Khrushchev |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | SUBTITLED NONFICTION $1000: Yuval Noah Harari gives "A Brief History of Humankind" in this book with a one-word title Sapiens |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $300: (Ken delivers the clue.) Sometimes you become part of a show that's well into its history, like me & like this Muppet, who first appeared on "Sesame Street" in 1980 in the song "We Are All Monsters" Elmo |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | HELPFUL HISTORIC FIGURES $600: This man built a big racecar in 1902, & hired bicyclist Barney Oldfield to drive it; together, they would race into history Henry Ford |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $200: In 1880 this inventor was granted a patent for the first practical light bulb Thomas Edison |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $700 (Daily Double): Now a kids' swimming pool game, he was originally an Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century Marco Polo |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HISTORY $400: Also known as the Temple of Kukulcán, El Castillo was built circa 1000 AD in a city founded by these people, in the Yucatán Peninsula the Maya |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTOR $600: He takes liberties with history in the endings of "Inglourious Basterds" & "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Tarantino |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: 1947's National Security Act established this government entity now based in Langley, Virginia the CIA |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $800: By 1834 this institution was abolished, though 8 years late for its last victim, a Valencia Teacher hanged for heresy the Inquisition |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | FLAGS $2,000 (Daily Double): The blue & white in Somalia's flag were influenced by the flag of this body that has played a role in Somali history the United Nations |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $800: In 1897 Boston opened the first of these in America, running from Park Street to Boylston Street a subway |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $200: Long before Netflix, in 1998 a Hong Kong company invested $1.5 billion in video on demand, pioneering this kind of service streaming |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $400: In 1991 this young broadcast TV network became the first in the U.S. to run a commercial for condoms Fox |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $400: Normally a dozy institution, this 105-member upper house of Parliament was news in 2012 with a housing expenses scandal the Senate |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $2000: A World Heritage Site, these Newfoundland meadows contain the first evidence of Europeans in the New World L'Anse aux Meadows |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $1,800 (Daily Double): 55 mi. from Siberia, the westernmost point of the North American continent is on this peninsula named for a man big in Alaskan history the Seward Peninsula |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In January 1536 this royal gave birth to a stillborn male child; by May she was deceased Anne Boleyn |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $2000: A statue of a speakers' wagon stands in this Chicago square to commemorate the 1886 riot that occurred there Haymarket Square |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WEST VIRGINIA & REGULAR VIRGINIA $1000: Charleston's Intl. Airport is named for this test pilot, a West Virginian who sounded off & made history in 1947 (Chuck) Yeager |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $200: In June 1215 King John accepted the Articles of the Barons, a basis for this document the Magna Carta |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $800: In 1586 the first colony on this island went back to England with Sir Francis Drake; no one knows where a later colony went Roanoke |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest Cyrillic |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $200: Capone's guys dress like cops & kill Bugs Moran's men in a garage February |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $600: Pre-20th Amendment, Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as president March |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $400: This group of 10 guarantees (out of the 12 sent to the states) was ratified in December 1791 a Bill of Rights |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $800: In the 1960s, Stanley Lebar of Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here the Moon |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $1000: In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel the Abraham Accords |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $1200: Selected for development using a computer, this Yucatan city got its first hotel in 1974 & is now Mexico's No. 1 beach resort Cancun |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $800: Superman used a phone booth to change clothes; these 2 title guys, to totally go back in time to ace a history report Bill & Ted |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 2003 this Canadian territory dropped "Territory" to go by a single name Yukon |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $800: In 1632 Maryland was granted to this lord, son of George Calvert, as a Catholic haven Baltimore |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $1200: The Yuan Dynasty was ousted in 1368 by this other 4-letter dynasty that would last a while the Ming Dynasty |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THINK PINK $400: In 1939 Paul & Betty Pink began selling soda & these from a cart on La Brea & Melrose in L.A. & the rest is history hot dogs |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | U.S. HISTORY $2000: Known as "Mother", she emigrated from Italy in 1889 & in 1946 she became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint (Mother) Cabrini |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $400: At age 13 he married Kasturba, whom he would later call his teacher in nonviolence Gandhi |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano (Mount) Vesuvius |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses elephants |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $400: It went up in 1936 in Friedrichshafen, Germany & went down for good in Lakehurst, New Jersey a little over a year later the Hindenburg |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1600: This country's flag was said to have fallen from heaven in 1219, a sign of support for Valdemar II in war with the Estonians Denmark |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1979 the S.F. Examiner awarded $10,000 to the first person who produced a piece of this, which had just fallen from the sky Skylab |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $2,000 (Daily Double): Roll up, roll up for the history tour... "The Tragical History of doctor Faustus" is a play by this Shakespeare-era man (Christopher) Marlowe |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: To retcon is to go back & fill in a fictional character's history & comes from these 2 words of 4 & 5 syllables retroactive continuity |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | QUICK HISTORY $600: A time of stability under Augustus is known by this peaceful name in Latin Pax Romana |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $2000: A 1787 land ordinance set policy & was named for this large region acquired in the Revolutionary War the Northwest Territory |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $800: This Spaniard depicted a struggle in Madrid during the Dos de Mayo uprising in "The Second of May 1808" (Francisco) Goya |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: A memorial park & museum in Alabama honors this track-&-field legend who made history at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin Jesse Owens |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $1600: In 1298 the circular battle formations of this Scots hero held off the English at Falkirk, but only for a while Wallace |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1846, Elias Howe patented one of these; his model is seen here a sewing machine |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $400: According to tradition, this religion was introduced to Japan in 552 A.D. Buddhism |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $800: In 946 A.D. Suzaku abdicated in favor of his brother Murakami, who became the 62nd of these the emperor |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $800: Making his name as a prosecutor, he was elected governor in 1942, 1946 & 1950 but lost twice for president in that time (Thomas) Dewey |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $800: John Champe faked a desertion in 1780 to try to capture this traitorous general & served under him as part of his cover Benedict Arnold |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1200: Think of the name of Ho, its leader, to get the name of this organization that fought the French in Indochina in the 1940s the Vietminh |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | MIAMI NEWS CLUES $200: (I'm Nicole Perez.) 17-0 was Super Bowl terrific in 1973, & all Miami was cheering as the Dolphins became the first & only NFL team in history to have a perfect winning season, led by this coach who has the most NFL wins all time Don Shula |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $400: In 2019 this Clemson QB became the second true freshman to win a national title as a starter Trevor Lawrence |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $1000: This Notre Dame hero who died at age 25 in 1920 helped pay his school expenses as a pool shark George "The Gipper" Gipp |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $800: In 1921 New Orleans became the first city in the U.S. to declare a historic district, this one the French Quarter |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | THAT PAINTING HAS A TITLE $800: In 1851, this iconic painting of an incident from American history sold for what was then a huge sum--$10,000 Washington Crossing the Delaware |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $200: In 1922 the Bolsheviks let reporters try on this, made with 5,000 diamonds & a 400-carat spinel for Catherine the Great a crown (the Russian Imperial Crown) |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $400: A recent theory about this stone circle in England: it was part of a great raised altar with long-gone wooden ramps Stonehenge |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | FEUD ORIGINS $400: In 1878 a member of this family accused Floyd Hatfield of pig theft & the rest is violent history the McCoys |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1600: Abu Bakr became the first of these rulers in 632 after the death of Muhammad a caliph |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $400: Martin Luther King wrote his famous letter on the need for civil rights action from a jail in this city Birmingham |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $1600: Paris' Hotel de Rambouillet was the site of a famous one of these female-run gatherings of artists & intellectuals a salon |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Best known for his detective stories, in his later years, he gave lectures on spiritualism & wrote a 2-volume history of it (Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Built by a Ming Dynasty emperor, this place is so named because most people in the empire were denied access the Forbidden City |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $7,600 (Daily Double): The figure best known by this name appears in some versions as Ambrosius, a prophet & adviser to King Vortigern Merlin |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $1000: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) December 10, 2014 was a bright day in a long saga as Detroit officially exited the largest municipal one of these in the history of the United States, & emergency manager Kevyn Orr's resignation took effect a bankruptcy |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, the Pilgrims shared a feast with these native people of Massachusetts the Wampanoag |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A CAREER IN TECH $800: (Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) If you come to work at our campus, you'll be part of a history predating Google; this city, which has a strange name for part of a valley, was the home of Shockley Semiconductor, the area's first high-tech silicon-based manufacturer Mountain View |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | WORLD HISTORY $200: A government crackdown on protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989 took place in this square Tiananmen Square |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $200: Enrique Esparza was about 8 on March 6, 1836 & a witness who would "remember" the battle at this mission for decades; Enrique died in 1917 the Alamo |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $400: Akhenaten's son, he got the pharaoh gig at age 9 & benched Aten in favor of a return to the worship of Amun King Tut (Tutankhamun) |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $600: Saints be praised! On March 22, 1429 this feisty teen dictated a letter to English commanders, insisting they leave France Joan of Arc |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $800: In 1998 the 9 teens who integrated Central High in this Southern capital in 1957 were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Little Rock |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $1000: As a teen, this Frenchman whose name became a computer language wrote an essay on conic sections that impressed Descartes Pascal |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $800: (Andrew Dymburt delivers the clue.) At a little before 2:00 AM on June 17, 1972, sharp-eyed security guard Frank Wills noticed tape across a door latch in this Washington, D.C. office complex, changing the course of American history Watergate |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NONFICTION $800: He covered stuff like how did the universe begin in "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Anthony Kenny of "A New History of Western Philosophy" also covered it in books on Descartes, Wittgenstein & this 13th century saint Thomas Aquinas |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $1200: "Blood & Iron", a history of Germany 1871-1918, gets its title from a quote by this chancellor who's big in the book Bismarck |
| #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 |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now a university, this Alabama school opened in 1881 with about 30 students & one teacher, Booker T. Washington Tuskegee |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Favoring free silver, in a rousing 1896 speech this orator & statesman said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, she would later open a hospital for women & children with her sister Emily Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Killing 146 workers, mostly women, this tragic fire at a New York City garment factory in 1911 led to new safety laws the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: A natural history museum, the Koenig is in this city, once the capital of West Germany Bonn |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $800: In 1683, this leader of a neighboring colony decreed the founding of Dover, Delaware (William) Penn |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | AMERICANA $200: A bit confusingly, the first big attraction in the history of Florida's Gatorland was Bone Crusher, a 1/2-ton one of these a crocodile |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $200: Daniel Fahrenheit invented an alcohol one of these in 1709 & the mercury one 5 years later a thermometer |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: It took a while for people to become "stuck on" this brand introduced in 1921, because initially they were 18" long Band-Aid |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | MEDICAL HISTORY $600: In 1928 Alexander Fleming found that mold in a Petri dish had inhibited bacterial growth, leading to this antibiotic penicillin |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $800: One of Millard Fillmore's few marks on world history was in 1852 when he put this man in charge of a naval expedition to Japan (Matthew) Perry |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: Scholars struggle to decipher the language of the IVC, the civilization of this river valley, a power in south Asia in the 2000s B.C. the Indus River |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): Led by King Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden entered this decades-long European conflict, a major turning point in that war the Thirty Years' War |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: Before becoming the first American woman in space, she was a star tennis player at Stanford & Billie Jean King told her to go pro Sally Ride |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $800: Shimon Peres is a character in this J.T. Rogers play, named for a Scandinavian capital & its 1993 peace accords Oslo |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $1600: In Shakespeare's take on the life of this monarch who died in 1216, he is fatally poisoned by a monk King John |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1934 December was an apt month for the Broadway opening of a play about this Penn. place where George Washington was tested Valley Forge |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | QUICK HISTORY $1200: He launched a dirigible from a floating hangar in 1900 Zeppelin |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | QUICK HISTORY $2000: A big assembly or diet took place in this German city in 1521 Worms |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $1200: In the 1960s, many Indian farmers transitioned for a mix of crops to high-yield wheat as part of this colorful revolution the Green Revolution |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $2000: Today the victims of persecution in China, this Muslim group had a Central Asian empire from about 750 to 850 A.D. the Uyghurs |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | AVIATION $1600: In April 2021, this resourceful helicopter made history, taking off on Mars for a series of experimental flights Ingenuity |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: In 1773 an ex-officer of the Don Cossacks led a rebellion against this empress; in 1775 the ex-officer was headless Catherine the Great |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | NEW ORLEANS: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Kelsey Davis.) In 2007, this man who took his name from a "Brady Bunch" kid became the first Indian-American governor in Louisiana & in American history (Bobby) Jindal |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600: The Tehran tomb of this man is a pilgrimage site, such as on the 40th anniversary of his 1979 return from exile Khomeini |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $1000: These twins who ran a criminal empire in the east end in the 1950s were among the last prisoners to be held in the Tower of London the Krays |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $400: Founded in 1891 as a vocational & liberal arts school, this Pasadena college became famous for physics & space science Caltech |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $600: In the 1920s, author Zane Grey built a Pueblo-style house near Avalon Bay on this island Catalina |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $800: In 1769 in San Diego, this priest, now a controversial figure, founded his first California mission; he went on to found 8 more Serra |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $1000: This evangelist opened the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles & preached there to a flock of thousands Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | EXAM TIME $600: These exams are required for many Ph.D. degrees; for a Stanford history doctorate, you take them in your third year oral exams |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: As a result of his Munich conference with Hitler in 1938, this British leader promised, "Peace for our time" Chamberlain |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: In July 1776 he set sail from England aboard the Resolution in search of a Northwest Passage James Cook |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BUSINESS HISTORY $800: This cookie company was founded in 1937 by a Connecticut woman & named for her family's country home Pepperidge Farm |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $2000: After getting 17 publisher rejections, Irving Stone hit it big in 1934 with this "bio-history" of van Gogh Lust for Life |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $200: He shared "A Brief History of a Brief History" in his "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays" Hawking |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | DANCE IN HISTORY $200: In the Dakota Territory city of Medora, there was a real account of cowboys making new hands dance by doing this shooting at their feet |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | DANCE IN HISTORY $600: The hornpipe was associated with this British force & helped its men maintain fitness in a confined space the Navy |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | DANCE IN HISTORY $800: Now meaning an easy-to-win contest, it originated as enslaved peoples' mockery of their masters' elaborate dances a cakewalk |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | IT'S HISTORY $800: This dread tribunal passed its judgments in a ceremony called the auto-da-fé, or act of faith the Inquisition |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | IT'S HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1756 Voltaire wrote that this, which had lasted nearly a thousand years, was none of the 3 elements in its name the Holy Roman Empire |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | THE REST IS HISTORY $600: In 2019 it was revealed Harold "Pie" Keller was one of 6 Marines raising the flag in a photo taken Feb. 23, 1945 on this island Iwo Jima |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | THE REST IS HISTORY $800: In exile in Mexico, this Soviet bigwig survived a machine gun attack on his home in may 1940 but an axe did the trick a bit later Trotsky |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | COMPUTER HISTORY $400: In December 1998 the U.N. convened a conference on this alphanumeric computer "bug" that ended up getting squashed a Y2K (the Y2K bug) |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | JOKERS $1000: In a 1984 film Rob Reiner said they "earned a distinguished place in rock history as one of England's loudest bands" Spinal Tap |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $1000: A rip-ping storyteller, he covered "A History of New York" in 1809 under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | HISTORY $400: In 2007 King Abdullah met with Benedict XVI, the first meeting ever between a pope & a monarch of this country Saudi Arabia |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | POLITICAL NICKNAMES $1600: This senator remembered in history for a series of debates was nicknamed "The Little Giant" (Stephen A.) Douglas |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $2,200 (Daily Double): In the space of a few weeks in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott's trek to this landmark ended in death, then Titanic sailed into history the South Pole |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $1200: Historians have been confounded by the disappearance of Rome's ninth this, lost in the 2nd century A.D. legion |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | CONTAINERS $400: The history of this jar dates to a patent filed on Nov. 30, 1858 for "improvement in screw-neck bottles" a Mason jar |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In the mid-1800s Russia began building these routes with a 5-foot gauge, wider than the European standard railways |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $1000: He tinkers with history at the Ministry of Truth, gets a girlfriend & has a very bad year Winston Smith |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | 1800s U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1852 9 representatives of Jewish charities founded this New York City hospital with a biblical name Mount Sinai |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | 1800s U.S. HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The economy crashed when this type of financial crisis with a 5-letter name hit the U.S.in 1837 panic |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: With a 72-year reign over France from 1643 to 1715, he's the longest-ruling king in European history Louis XIV |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Seen here is a tsunami map of the great earthquake of this European capital that took place in 1755 Lisbon |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: In 2011, Czechs observed a period of mourning after the death of this president, poet & playwright (Václav) Havel |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: A famous one of these 4-letter groups assembled at Worms in 1521 a diet |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) You can't miss the 1973 Cadillac convertible, owned by this rock pioneer, who influenced so many early performers, including The Beatles, & he drove the car in "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll", a documentary that celebrated his 60th birthday Chuck Berry |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: As a result of the Mau Mau movement against colonial rule, a state of emergency was called in this country in 1952 Kenya |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | GREATS IN HISTORY $800: Here's a portrait of this empress of Russia, who did not go by her original name of Sophie Catherine the Great |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | GREATS IN HISTORY $7,000 (Daily Double): A great & prolific builder, this pharaoh dedicated one of his temples at Abu Simbel to his favorite queen, Nefertari Ramses (the Great) |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | HISTORIC GROUPS $1200: Rome was sacked at least 7 times in its history, including by Alaric & this Germanic people in 410 A.D. Goths |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | A VISIT TO THE ISS $1000: (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) One of the perks of working on the ISS is the incredible view; here's this cape from 250 miles overhead that's played a key role in the history of space flight (Cape) Canaveral |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $400: In the 1890s this was discovered in Western Australia; what a rush! gold |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: John Winthrop led many followers to this colony in 1630 & gave us the image of the "city upon a hill" Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | HISTORY $200: Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific saw the first use of this powerful new weapon in 1952 an H-bomb |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | HISTORY $800: Not Peter or Catherine but a "Great" ruler of this name won independence for Moscow from the Golden Horde in 1480 Ivan (the Great) |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 15 MINUTES OR LESS $600: Roger Bannister made history by becoming the first person to do this in less than 4 minutes run a mile |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ODD HISTORY $200: One of these took place on the Bounty in 1789; there was another of sorts on Skylab in 1973 when the radios were turned off a mutiny |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ODD HISTORY $600: A 1976 mission in which U.S. forces cut a poplar tree in Korea's DMZ was named for this legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | ISLAMIC HISTORY $1200: A caliphate established in Baghdad in the 8th century endured until the 1258 sack of the city by these Asian invaders the Mongols |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS $800: This European country's history of being permissive on soft drugs dates back to its 1919 Opium Act the Netherlands |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $400: In "We Didn't Start The Fire", Billy Joel sings of "trouble in" this Mideast canal region, the site of a 1956 crisis Suez |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $800: A Grateful Dead song plays fast & loose with the story of this heroic train engineer who died in 1900 Casey Jones |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $5,500 (Daily Double): "The water took its victim's name", goes a Vampire Weekend song about this English explorer who was set adrift by his crew in Canada Henry Hudson |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | A BRIEF HISTORY $600: "Lifeboat No. 8" by Elizabeth Kaye recounts this disaster in 70 pages from the point of view of a group of survivors the Titanic |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | OF "TIME" $1000: 2-word term referring to a period before recorded history; in law, a claim dating from then needs no proof time immemorial |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | HISTORY BEFORE 1738 $2000: Beginning in 1168 Calixtus III ruled as one of these in opposition to Alexander III an antipope |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Seen here is a depiction of this great guy, the ruler of the Persian Empire who defeated the Babylonians in 539 B.C. Cyrus (II the Great) |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: This barbarian ruler who had terrorized Europe died on his wedding night in 453 A.D. Attila the Hun |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Once a powerful republic, this Italian city lost 4 wars to Venice in the Middle Ages Genoa |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | U.S. HISTORY $400: A dynamite-filled wagon exploded in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on this NYC street in 1920 Wall Street |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | HISTORY $400: The Virginia Company was chartered by this king in 1606; he'd later have a New World colony named for him James I |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | HISTORY $2000: When he was broke after editing his "Encyclopedie", Catherine the Great bought his library in 1765 & also gave him a salary Diderot |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) During his forces' occupation of Vienna in 1805 & 1809, this emperor chose Schönbrunn as his headquarters & one of the rooms is now named for him Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Attending a concert at Schönbrunn Palace in June 1961 was part of JFK's first meeting as president with this Soviet premier; he sat next to Jackie Kennedy Khrushchev |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The iron bed at Schönbrunn Palace was where this 86-year-old emperor died in 1916; he barely left the palace the previous two years, but mainly did so to visit wounded soldiers Franz Joseph |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Bergl's wall art in the ground floor suite furnished for this Hapsburg queen in the 1770s was meant to merge with the real landscape outside Maria Theresa |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from outside Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) The gathering called this, which reshaped the map of Europe in 1814 through 1815 was noted for partying as much as negotiating; one highlight was a 33-sleigh convoy of princes & potentates to a ball at Schönbrunn Palace the Congress of Vienna |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $200: In "The Moth and the Mountain", the Moth is a Gipsy Moth, one of these Maurice Wilson used to get to Everest in the 1930s a plane |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $400: "The Great Secret" tells how a military doctor found cancer-fighting uses in this type of poison gas mustard gas |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,800 (Daily Double): The 1859 discovery of this near Titusville set off a boom in Pennsylvania oil |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | NUMBERING THE NONFICTION BOOKS $200: "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" says this drink kept workers alert & was key to Britain's Industrial Revolution tea |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1908 the first of these Ford models rolled out of a plant in Detroit a Model T |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1853 this 14th president was not sworn in--he was affirmed on a Bible Franklin Pierce |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s Chief Oshkosh stopped a U.S. attempt to move the Menominee people westward from this state Wisconsin |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | JUST GOT REAL $200: In 1945 a Raytheon engineer made history when he used microwaves to fittingly prepare this cinematic snack popcorn |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | POTENT HISTORY $1200: Vodka was involved in 1994 as this white-haired Russian leader was found on a D.C. street in his underwear hailing cabs to go get pizza Yeltsin |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | POTENT HISTORY $2000: In 1923 a beer hall called the Burgerbraukeller in this German city was the starting point of a failed putsch Munich |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | HISTORY $400: To see a transit of Venus by telescope in 1761, Harvard professor John Winthrop had to go behind enemy lines during this war the French and Indian War |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $400: During the Peloponnesian War, a plague killed 1/5 of this city; Thucydides survived it to write the war's history Athens |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Named for British Major James Abbott, this Pakistani city was in the news in 2011 as the last residence of Osama bin Laden Abbottabad |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Cleopatra & Mark Antony fought a doomed naval battle against Octavian at this Greek promontory Actium |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $1600: Legend says Charlemagne caught a fatal fever aafter bathing in the hot springs aat this city in 814 Aachen |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: Au jus is a way to serve meat; this is a similar-sounding region won by France from England in the early 1200s Anjou |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The first one of these was made in 1973 from a Motorola executive to his competitor at AT&T a cellular phone call |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 19th c. New York politics, a repeater was a man hired to do this several times in a day, shaving to change his identity vote |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | HISTORY $2000: A 4-term governor of New York, he lost his race in 1928 as the first serious Catholic candidate for president Al Smith |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): "Marching to Pretoria" was a folk song of this war, & here are British troops doing so in 1900 the Boer War |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | HISTORY ON ICE $400: The neolithic iceman nicknamed Otzi was found by a German tourist in the Otztal Range of these European mountains the Alps |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $800: In late 1945 Indianapolis was considered as a site for this org. that held its first meeting (not in Indy) Jan. 10, 1946 the UN |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $1200: The Ming bought horses on a huge scale from these previous rulers (it's hard to breed horses in China's selenium-poor soil) the Mongols |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1680 Spaniards chased off by a revolt left these animals the Indians called "sacred dogs", changing native life forever horses |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This Chiricahua Apache leader led a group that began fighting back against a forced move to Arizona in the 1870s Geronimo |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): At Sitka in 1804 the Tlingit lost a crucial battle to these invaders they called the Anooshee the Russians |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $400: In April 1830 this country passed a law aiming to curb illegal immigration of Americans over its border Mexico |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $800: This people who formed an empire in 19th century southern Africa bears the name of a ruler, the son of Malandela Zulu |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | HISTORY $600: Though often pushed into the Everglades, they claim to be "the only tribe in America who never signed a peace treaty" the Seminoles |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | HISTORY $400: Admitting to being a courtesan but not a spy, this exotic dancer was executed as a double agent by the French in 1917 Mata Hari |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | HISTORY $800: This imperial title, which had been around for quite a while, ended when Francis II abdicated it in 1806 Holy Roman Emperor |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | HISTORY $1600: Echoing a name from about 19 centuries before, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led a slave revolt in Haiti, was known as "The Black" this Spartacus |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Sued in 1455 by a man who had loaned him hundreds of guilders, he lost his printing equipment Gutenberg |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now a state capital, it beat out Golden to become the first city in the territory to connect to the Union Pacific railroad Denver, Colorado |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1791 this man beat Philip Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law, for a New York Senate seat Aaron Burr |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In November 1774, a year after the one in Boston, Charleston had one of these in its harbor tea party |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1840 this former president went to St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans to honor an event that occurred 25 years earlier Andrew Jackson |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: He founded Tuskegee University in 1881 & in 1940 was the first African American on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: She spent 2 years in exile in London before returning to Pakistan & winning a historic election Bhutto |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The town of Falaise in Normandy is home to a statue of this man who was born there around 1028 William the Conqueror |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: A chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota, he fled with his people to Canada in 1877 rather than surrender to the U.S. government Sitting Bull |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | HOPEFUL HISTORY $200: Starting in the 19th c., these agreements named for a Swiss city set humane norms for prisoners & noncombatants during wartime the Geneva Convention |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $1600: Probably the most famous bank robber in U.S. history, he was public enemy number one when he was killed outside a Chicago theater (John) Dillinger |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVELS $1600: Set in a world where Germany & Japan prevailed in WWII, "The Man in the High Castle" is a tale from this sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ASIAN HISTORY $600: A junta led by General Park Chung-hee took over this country, ending its second republic in 1961 South Korea |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | HISTORY $400: The weapon known as the "long" this played a decisive role in the 1346 Battle of Crecy a bow (the longbow) |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | HISTORY $1200: This writing system arose in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. & disappeared early in the 1st millennium A.D. cuneiform |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $600: (Kai Jackson of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Baltimore is steeped in history, much of it reported by The Baltimore Sun which was featured prominently in this HBO crime drama whose creator, David Simon, was a reporter there The Wire |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II called for the first of these a crusade |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: After Vaclav Havel resigned as president in 1992, a "Velvet Divorce" split this country in 2 Czechoslovakia |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1849 California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, leading to this complicated deal the next year The Compromise of 1850 |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | HISTORY QUICK SHOTS $400: The Clermont, this kind of vessel named for its type of engine, first puffed in 1807 a steamboat |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | HISTORY QUICK SHOTS $800: This Windy City lawyer went to Tennessee in 1925 to defend a teacher Darrow |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | HISTORY QUICK SHOTS $1000: 44 countries met in this Dutch city in 1907 to make a little more peace The Hague |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES $1600: Great wealth was held by but a few while large numbers of people lived in poverty in this 1800s "Age" with a novel name the Gilded Age |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HISTORY $600: One cemetery holds the remains of the first & the last British soldiers killed in WWI--the latter, at 9:30 A.M. on this date in 1918 November 11 |
| #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 |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $400: One chapter in this book by Stephen Hawking is "The Origin & Fate of the Universe" A Brief History of Time |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HISTORY OF FLIGHT $1600: While flying over Rogers Dry Lake in California in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first human to break this the speed of sound |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | A TRIP AROUND THE LIBRARY $2000: In nonfiction: "The Gulag Archipelago", a harrowing account of Soviet history by this man who lived it Solzhenitsyn |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This son of a president was the USA's ace diplomat in the 18-teens before becoming president himself John Quincy Adams |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The New-York Weekly Journal's criticism of a Colonial governor led to the 1735 trial of JPZ, this printer Zenger |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | CHINESE HISTORY $1600: Only a few thousand of the roughly 100,000 Communists survived the trek begun in 1934 & called this the Long March |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | CHINESE HISTORY $2000: A 1900 rebellion was settled by this same-named protocol in which China paid $330 million & executed some officials the Boxer Protocol |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, PA.) According to affidavits from Betsy Ross's relatives, this famous man came into her shop in 1776 to ask Betsy to make a new flag for our nation George Washington |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On June 17, 1972 a break-in at this office complex set off one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history Watergate |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1832, hoping to reclaim land in Illinois, this Sauk leader led Native Americans against U.S. forces in a months-long war Black Hawk |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $400: King Philip II of Spain sent it in 1588 to invade England the Armada |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $1200: McLean House in this Virginia village was the site of an 1865 surrender Appomattox (Court House) |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): One of Puerto Rico's largest cities is named in honor of a descendant of this Spanish explorer Ponce de León |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MUSEUMS $400: Found in the Bloomsbury District, this museum has a giant head from Easter Island & a Sutton Hoo burial helmet the British Museum |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | HISTORY: A LOOK BACK $600: In 1453 Sultan Mehmet II ended the Byzantine Empire by leading the Ottomans to the capture of this capital city, today's Istanbul Constantinople |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | HISTORY: A LOOK BACK $1000: In the 1820s he introduced a Cherokee syllabary of 85 characters Sequoyah |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The first book printed in what's now the United States was a 1640 translation from the Hebrew of the book of these songs Psalms |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Arturo Schomburg's collection in a branch of the N.Y. Public Library in this Manhattan area contributed to a renaissance there Harlem |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: E.E. Ward Moving & Storage is the oldest Black-owned co. in the U.S., dating to the 1840s when a Ward was a conductor on this the Underground Railroad |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1870 Hiram Revels was almost blocked as the first African-American in this job because he hadn't been a citizen for 9 years a senator |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line the Black Star Line |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | A SAINT IN HISTORY $400: Promising salvation, St. Bernard of Clairvaux got Europeans to go on the second of these & blamed their sins when it failed a Crusade |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | A SAINT IN HISTORY $800: One story of St. Boniface's conversion of the Germans involves cutting down a sacred oak of this thunder god Thor |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | A SAINT IN HISTORY $1200: As part of efforts to heal the church's rift with France, Pope Benedict XV canonized her on May 16, 1920 Joan of Arc |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | A SAINT IN HISTORY $1600: Thomas More wrote that "pilgrimage: bad" is one of these punishable beliefs for which he had 6 men burned heresy |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | A SAINT IN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1170 this Archbishop of Canterbury took the fatal step of excommunicating the Archbishop of York, infuriating the king (Thomas à) Becket |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1824 women walked off the job at a Rhode Island textile mill in what's considered America's first factory this a strike |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | U.S. HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1794 uprising in Pennsylvania was prompted by a tax on liquor the Whiskey Rebellion |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1600: He's taken us on "A Walk in the Woods" & given us "A Short History of Nearly Everything" Bill Bryson |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 2000 California declared the March 31 birthday of this Latino labor leader a state holiday César Chávez |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In the 1850s this state was "Bleeding" as pro- & anti-slavery forces met up in a preview of the Civil War Kansas |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE $2000: In 2019 the Defense Dept. placed the largest order in its history, $34 billion to this 2-named co. for a batch of F-35 fighter planes Lockheed Martin |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | WORLD HISTORY $800: This man who built a united Germany resigned as chancellor in 1890 after displeasing the kaiser Bismarck |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: Today, hearts being moved for transplant are kept pumping, after decades when they were carried on ice in these, like soda to a picnic coolers |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1200: For the first time, in 2018 the FDA approved a drug made directly from cannabis using this non-psychoactive compound CBD |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Tradition says here's the roughly 25-mile route Pheidippides ran in 490 B.C., bringing news of victory to Athens from this plain whose name is known beyond ancient history Marathon |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | HISTORY $800: In 1609 this English navigator sailed into the yet-to-be-named Delaware Bay; he'd sail in a river named for him the same year Hudson |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | HISTORY $2000: Her accession as ruler of Austria in 1740 touched off a war, but she stayed in power for 40 years Maria Theresa |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | EUROPEAN HISTORY IS A DOWNER $200: A lack of genetic diversity in this crop in 1840s Ireland was a major cause of disaster for the population a potato |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | EUROPEAN HISTORY IS A DOWNER $600: 1950-51 in the Alps was the "Winter of Terror" as these disasters destroyed buildings & killed more than 200 people avalanches |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from , Szentendre, Hungary at the Hungarian Open Air Museum.) A section of the Hungarian Open Air Museum is devoted to the Great Hungarian Plain where this group swept in around the year 895; they're still the majority in what's now Hungary the Magyars |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from , Szentendre, Hungary at the Hungarian Open Air Museum.) The ancient pagan goddess
Boldogasszony was merged with this woman who became the country's patroness at the instigation of its first king in 1038 the Virgin Mary |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A half cocoon discovered in Shanxi Province in 1926 is evidence of Chinese cultivation of this fabric 6,000 years ago silk |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Plutarch wrote that the same day Alexander the Great was born, this temple, a wonder of the world, burned in Ephesus the Temple of Artemis |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $800: Elizabeth Blackwell made history in 1849 when she became the first woman in the U.S. to receive a degree in this medicine |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | WORLD HISTORY $400: The Black Death that killed more than a third of the population of Europe in the 1300s was an epidemic of this infectious disease bubonic plague |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: From a word for "merchant", this econ. system big in the 1600s was about a favorable balance of trade & amassing precious metal mercantilism |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1960 at a segregated lunch counter in N.C., 4 African-American students staged one of these immobile protests a sit-in |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: M is for Methodist in this U.S. church that in 1820 launched a mission into West Africa the A.M.E. Church (African Methodist Episcopal) |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $2000: Ancient author of "From the Foundation of the City", a history of Rome in 142 volumes Livy |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: William Penn created Pennsylvania as a refuge for religious minorities, like this faith of his Quakers |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This Wild West frontiersman got his name on a state capital in 1864 Kit Carson |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | GIVE US A DATE $800: 1941: The minesweeper USS Condor sights a Japanese submarine, 4 hours before a pivotal moment in history December 7th |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | A HISTORY OF CHARITY $200: Founded in April 1919, this organization sold its first stamps or "seals" to help disabled children in 1934 the Easterseals |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $400: (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) 1972 was one of the biggest landslides in Electoral College history as Republican incumbent Richard Nixon piled up 49 states, and this antiwar Democratic senator captured only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, failing to carry even his home state of South Dakota McGovern |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | A HISTORY OF CHARITY $600: In 1942 this org. was founded in Oxford, England to feed hungry children in Greece; it has since branched worldwide Oxfam |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | A HISTORY OF CHARITY $800: In 1944 Tuskegee president Frederick Douglass Patterson started this scholarship organization the United Negro College Fund |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | A HISTORY OF CHARITY $1000: This philanthropic organization with a fez for a logo dates back to a meeting of Masons in 1870 the Shriners |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | A HISTORY OF CHARITY $3,400 (Daily Double): The people who founded this organization in 1976 had previously built a bunch of homes in Zaire Habitat for Humanity |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POSITIVE HISTORY $400: In 1796, to fight smallpox, Edward Jenner successfully used these, from the Latin for "cow" vaccines |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POSITIVE HISTORY $2000: A fundamental shift in government policy starting in 1990 led to the end of this policy of discrimination in South Africa apartheid |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Following the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845, Mexico said Texas' border ended here at the Nueces River; the U.S. said it was this river further south, and war soon followed the Rio Grande |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | HISTORY 101 $800: The 1st ex-pres. to serve as a rep., he had a stroke at his desk on the House floor in 1848 & died 2 days later in the Speaker's room John Quincy Adams |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | HISTORY 101 $1600: A pedestal honoring Agrippa, victor in the 31 B.C. naval Battle of Actium, is on this Athenian hilltop the Acropolis |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $1600: In this 19th c. year the USS President fought a battle with HMS Belvidera, which until then didn't know for sure there was a war on 1812 |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $2000: A 1513 map labeled America with this Latin phrase for "unknown land"; in a 1522 version that became "Terra Nova" terra incognita |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Pliny the Elder was among those who perished following the catastrophic eruption of this in 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | SPORTS HISTORY $1000: Leading his team to a come-from-behind victory, this 24-year-old Kansas City QB became the youngest Super Bowl MVP winner in 2020 Patrick Mahomes |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | OLD HISTORY $400: In 1187 Pope Gregory VIII called for the third of these military expeditions to the Holy Land a crusade |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | OLD HISTORY $1200: Built in the 3rd century B.C. on an island in the harbor, the Pharos of Alexandria was one of these structures a lighthouse |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $400: Not quite 5 inches tall, a statuette found in Austria is known as this love goddess of Willendorf Venus |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In 1654, the city of Delft was devastated by a gunpowder explosion depicted here; Rembrandt's student Carel Fabritius didn't survive, but this now-famous painting of his did, and went on to inspire a best-selling novel of the same name The Goldfinch |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | 150 YEARS OF NATURE $1000: A 1953 Nature paper, one of the most famous in the history of science, began, "We wish to suggest a structure" for this DNA |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | BRUSHING UP ON YOUR SPANISH HISTORY $2000: In 206 B.C., in the second of these wars, a Roman victory near Seville evicted Carthage from Spain for good the Punic Wars |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Kansas Territory had this man as governor in 1858 and what's now a state capital is named for him (James) Denver |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $1600: In high school, courses such as history, geography & civics come under this heading social studies |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 19th CENTURY HISTORY $400: April 9, 1878 was a normal night in Dodge City; Jack Wagner killed marshal Ed Masterson & this brother of Ed's killed Jack Bat Masterson |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 19th CENTURY HISTORY $1200: With a capacity of 7,000 barrels, the Charles of Antwerp shipped out in 1869 as the first this to sail an oil tanker |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | HISTORY TIMELINE $2000: In 73 A.D., during a siege of this fortress, Jewish Zealots took their own lives rather than be captured by the Romans Masada |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | OFFBEAT HISTORY $400: The Medians & Lydians who were on the battlefield in 585 B.C. saw one of these in the sky & laid down their arms an eclipse |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | OFFBEAT HISTORY $1000: Before his fatal 1863 wound, this Confederate general suffered a wound in his hand as he stretched it high to help his equilibrium Stonewall Jackson |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Say hey! This was used in the 1965 All Star Game by this Giant center fielder; in a 2016 85th birthday message, President Obama called him the greatest living ballplayer Willie Mays |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | EARTH HISTORY $400: Leading to the first animals, this element began to build up in the atmosphere 2 BYA as a product of photosynthesis oxygen |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | HISTORY, BRIEFLY $400: In 1227 this Asian conqueror was buried in a secret & still unknown location Genghis Khan |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | HISTORY, BRIEFLY $1200: A 49-star U.S. flag was unveiled after this state got admitted in 1959 Alaska |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $2000: Dionysus is a big factor in "The Secret History", this author's first novel (Donna) Tartt |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | HISTORY $1200: In 1976 a military junta seized power in Argentina not from Eva Peron but from this widow Isabel Perón |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | HISTORY $1600: A heroic last stand at the Battle of Camaron in Mexico holds a special place in the lore of this French group founded in 1831 the Foreign Legion |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | GLOSSARY OF HISTORY $200: Once used to authenticate documents, it's a device to leave an impression, usually in wax, or the impression itself a seal |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | JANUARY IN HISTORY $400: In 1914 this motor company instituted a wage of $5 per day & shortened the work day to 8 hours Ford |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | JANUARY IN HISTORY $600: In Jan. 1900 he got out of Siberian exile; in Jan. 1918 he abolished Russia's assembly & established a dictatorship Lenin |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | JANUARY IN HISTORY $800: The January 1870 cartoon "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" was this man's first use of a donkey to symbolize Democrats Nast |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $800: Edited by the author's son Christopher & published in 1977, it's a history of Middle-earth before "Lord of the Rings" Silmarillion |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): When Medgar Evers was gunned down in 1963, he was the Mississippi field secretary of this national organization the NAACP |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $800: A 1609 law in this country banned Moriscos (Muslims baptized as Christians) & shipped 300,000 of them to north Africa Spain |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $1200: In 1628 privateer Piet Heyn captured a Spanish fleet & put 12 million of these Dutch monetary units ($165 million today) in the treasury a florin (a guilder) |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | HISTORY $600: Splitting from Sweden in 1905, this nation got its monarchy restored; Haakon VII became king & reigned until 1957 Norway |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | WORLD HISTORY $800: The Treaty of Tordesillas, which split the New World between Spain & Portugal, was sanctioned by a man in this position pope |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A book titled this year is subtitled "The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry" 1066 |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | NAVAL HISTORY $800: Congress presented him a gold medal in 1787 for his naval leadership during the American Revolution John Paul Jones |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This man's 1825 inaugural address had to compete with a traveling circus performing in D.C. (John) Quincy Adams |
| #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 $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 |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HISTORY ON FILM $1200: (Woody Harrelson delivers the clue.) In a new historical film I play Admiral Nimitz, who made the decision to defend this island, also the title of the movie, leading to a U.S. victory that turned the tide of the war in the Pacific Midway |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HISTORY ON FILM $1600: Among this 1995 Oscar-winning film's less historically accurate moments--the Battle of Stirling Bridge is fought in a field Braveheart |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY $200: This British captain sighted New Zealand in 1769 & accurately charted its coast Captain Cook |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY $400: In 2011 & 2015 the New Zealand "All Blacks" became the first team to win back-to-back world cups in this sport rugby |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY $600: This 1915 military campaign in Turkey is regarded as New Zealand's coming of age in international affairs Gallipoli (the Dardanelles campaign) |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY $800: In 1642 this guy with an Australian state named for him was the first European to sight New Zealand Abel Tasman |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY $1000: Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior protest ship was sunk in this most populous New Zealand city's harbor in 1985 Auckland |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES $400: 13th: This document debuts in 1215 but is reissued with changes in 1216, 1217 & 1225 under a new king the Magna Carta |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES $1,000 (Daily Double): 17th: On this woman's death in 1617, a London writer referred to her as "The Virginian Woman" Pocahontas |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: When this beloved first lady died in Washington in 1849, the "ladies of Virginia" were urged to wear a black bow or ribbon in tribute Dolley Madison |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $4,133 (Daily Double): This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado Centennial |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $800: A probe designed to study Halley's Comet was one of the many casualties of this 1986 space program disaster the Challenger disaster |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This author can't have been surprised to die April 21, 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion (Mark) Twain |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $800: Anne Applebaum's "Red Famine" is a history of this Soviet leader's oppression of Ukraine in the 1930s Stalin |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: After hanging out with "Friends" in the '90s, she made some "Drunk History" in a "First Ladies" episode as Edith Wilson in 2014 Courteney Cox |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | A PAST-ICHE $600: Want to see a passionate history professor? Watch this late comic work himself up to a scream in "Back to School" Sam Kinison |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ART SUPPLIES... $1000: ...history lessons, as in Benjamin West's depiction of a 1755 battle in this North American war the French and Indian War |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1927 he made aviation history aboard a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis Lindbergh |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972 J. Edgar Hoover |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | BOOKS OF MYSTERY $800: In 2011 Ransom Riggs led us to an island with a mysterious history in "Miss Peregrine's Home for" these 2-word title folks peculiar children |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $600: "The Expanding Universe" is a chapter in his book "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AN EXPLOSIVE CATEGORY $1600: The largest explosion in earth's recorded history was from one of these on Indonesia in 1815 a volcano |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 1963 Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech at this Washington, D.C. landmark the Lincoln Memorial |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Morton Sobell, who got 30 years when tried as a spy along with this couple, died in 2018 at age 101 the Rosenbergs |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: A biography told of "The Prophet Outcast:" this October Revolution man & eventual Russian exile, "1929-1940" (Leon) Trotsky |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) The restaurant at the Parker House, specifically here at table 40, is one of a few places claiming to be where these two, a future President and First Lady, got engaged JFK and Jackie Kennedy |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Founded in 1855 and meeting on the last Saturday of the month at the Parker House, the Saturday Club included local literary giants like Whittier, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and this American scholar transcendentalist Emerson |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Working as a baker making Parker House rolls here at the hotel in 1912 was this future communist world leader Ho Chi Minh |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Moving to Boston in 1941, he found work here as a busboy; busted for burglary, he'd convert to Islam in prison and emerged with this new name Malcolm X |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This fort that successfully defended Baltimore in 1814 was built in the shape of a 5-pointed star McHenry |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A carpenter named James Marshall found this in a streambed on January 24, 1848; he tried to keep it a secret, but... gold |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1861 this Secretary of State suggested the U.S. provoke a foreign war to distract from civil discord at home (William) Seward |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: This tribunal targeting heretics reached a peak under Torquemada in the 1490s with about 2,000 burned at the stake the Inquisition |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This extreme right-wing ideology big in 1930s & '40s Europe gets its name from a Roman bundle of wooden rods Fascism |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE $2000: A malamute is on the flag of this Canadian territory to reflect the dog's important role in the history of the place the Yukon |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | SCI-FI STUFF $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Profiles in History in Calabasas, California.) This maquette was a model for the alien queen who in a classic movie moment faces off against this character, played so powerfully by Sigourney Weaver (Ellen) Ripley |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | SCI-FI STUFF $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Profiles in History in Calabasas, California.) Repurposed black, padded hockey gloves were part of a Cylon from this '70s sci-fi show, but balancing out the cool factor, the helmet is outfitted with the awesome red Cyclops eye Battlestar Galactica |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | HISTORY $2000: In ancient Rome if you were free but non-aristocratic, say a baker or an artisan, you were in this class a plebeian |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | GET YOUR KICKS $4,800 (Daily Double): The history of these New York City high kickers began with a troupe founded in St. Louis the Rockettes |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | ACM AWARDS $1600: In 2018 she won 3 awards including Song of the Year for "Tin Man", for a total of 32, the most of any artist in ACM history Miranda Lambert |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | MISSOURI HISTORY $600: These 2 men joined together as full partners in a Missouri brewery in 1873 Anheuser and Busch |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Seen in the training center & arena sequences in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire", this silver combat bow was a signature weapon of this heroine Katniss |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) I've got a golden ticket; they were issued by Willy Wonka, played by this actor in the 1971 film Gene Wilder |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WORD HISTORY $600: It was originally a string, perhaps to help find your way in a labyrinth; then it was a piece of evidence that helps solve a crime a clue |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1932 Italy issued a series of stamps honoring this hero of unification on the 50th anniversary of his death Garibaldi |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: Acting on his own, this Nazi deputy parachuted into Scotland in 1941 & spent the last 46 years of his life a prisoner Hess |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | HISTORY WITH LESSER-KNOWN PAINTERS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The scepter has symbolically fallen from King Robert's hand in a 19th-century painting by Jean-Paul Laurens titled after this action taken against the king by the pope excommunication |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: "World War Z" is Max Brooks' history of a global war in the near future against these zombies |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $600: Rob Ford, on the left, was a controversial Toronto mayor; brother Doug was elected premier of this province in 2018 Ontario |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | HISTORY $1000: Originally it was a fortress; Cardinal Richelieu began using it as a state prison in the 17th century the Bastille |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Bad weather & crop failure caused a "Great" one of these in the 1300s; the Irish also had a "Great" one, 1845-1850 a famine |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1869 the discovery of diamonds near what became the town of Kimberley in this nation led to quite a rush South Africa |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | WORLD HISTORY $600: A church in Greenland dating from around 1000 A.D. is named for Thjodhild, wife & mom of these 2 famous explorers Erik and Leif Erikson |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: Seen here in its launch year of 1954 is the U.S.S. Nautilus, the world's first one of these a nuclear submarine |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In November 1620 this document was signed onboard a ship off Cape Cod Mayflower Compact |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1792 Congress tried to increase judges' workload, leading to the 1st federal court decision voiding a law on this basis they declared it unconstitutional |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HISTORY TELLS US... $1200: In 1942 this general told his troops, "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood" (George) Patton |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $1200: In its long history, the Zytglogge Clock Tower in this Swiss capital has also served as a guard tower & a women's prison Bern |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $2000: The eventful history of this Balkan city includes being sacked in a Mongol invasion in the 13th century Zagreb |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | A SCIENCE BOOK $2000: In 2013 this late physicist released an autobiography titled "My Brief History" Stephen Hawking |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ACCIDENTS OF HISTORY $200: Jason Clarke played Ted Kennedy in a 2018 movie named for this island, site of a fatal 1969 accident Chappaquiddick |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ACCIDENTS OF HISTORY $1000: A result of this 1979 accident in Penn., the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations has made the industry safer Three Mile Island |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | THE OLYMPICS $600: This American is the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, winning 28 medals, including a record 23 golds Michael Phelps |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | NOT-SO-ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In 1995 Colin Firth played this character in "Pride & Prejudice" on a TV miniseries--ask your mom about it (Fitzwilliam) Darcy |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | NOT-SO-ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Boasting a whopping 32 MB of space, the first portable device that could play these music files came out in 1998 mp3s |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $1200: A 1614 truce ended 5 years of war between the settlers of this Virginia "town" & Powhatan Jamestown |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This Mongolian took a break from BBQ-ing China in 1218 to take out an empire in what's now Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan Genghis Khan |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 'TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: When the British burned the White House in 1814, she saved a portrait of George Washington that still hangs today Dolley Madison |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $1600: Built in the 1000s, the Golden Gate of Yaroslav the Wise is a bridge into the history of Kiev, capital of this nation Ukraine |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | YOU'VE GOT CLASS $1200: History will tell you that in 1864 this man became a lt. general & assumed command of all U.S. armies Grant |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $1600: Adjective for the architecture of that era in a nation's history when it was under another land's control colonial |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $2000: Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen said this event of mass hunger has never in history happened "in a functioning democracy" a famine |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | CONTRA $1200: These in American history include Whiskey & Shays' a rebellion |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | AVIATION HISTORY $1600: To get ready for space surgery, the first operation in conditions approximating this was in 2006 aboard a special Airbus jet weightlessness (or zero gravity) |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | HERSTORY $400: This woman in history is the subject of a biography called "Don't Ride the Bus on Monday" (Rosa) Parks |
| #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 |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | HISTORY $400: In 1931 the only dirigible to dock at this NYC building had a rough time, ending that idea the Empire State Building |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | A BOOK BY ITS COVER $1000: Cosmic bestselling nonfiction from 1988 whose cover featured its author in a wheelchair A Brief History of Time |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | SAILING INTO HISTORY $800: Tainted borscht led to a 1905 mutiny on this Russian battleship, an event made into a movie in 1925 the Potemkin |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | SAILING INTO HISTORY $1000: In 1717 Blackbeard converted a captured French slave ship & named it this late queen's "Revenge" Queen Anne's Revenge |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | TERMS IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This adjective meaning "Germanic" is the name of a medieval order of knights founded by Germans in the holy land Teutonic |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $800: A memorial in Canberra honors the 50,000 Aussies who served in this conflict in the 1960s & '70s Vietnam |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): 15-year-old Isabel Letham won fame as the 1st Aussie one of these after Duke Kahanamoku plucked her from a crowd in 1915 surfer |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $400: A brigadier gen. at 23, he distinguished himself at Gettysburg, but things didn't go as well for him in the Montana territory Custer |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Known by a "colorful" nickname, he got the rank of General of the Armies of the U.S. in September 1919 "Black Jack" Pershing |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | HISTORY IN BRIEF $600: 312:
Before a battle Constantine has a vision of one of these over the sun a cross |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | HISTORY IN BRIEF $1000: 1170:
This English archbishop returns from a 6-year exile Thomas à Becket |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1817, Congress divided a territory that became these two states that are practically mirror images of each other Alabama and Mississippi |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: On Feb. 1, 1960 4 students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this N.C. city in protest over segregation Greensboro |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HISTORY WILL NOTE $1,000 (Daily Double): On Dec. 2, 1954, at long last, decency prevailed in a 67-22 Senate vote condemning this member of the body (Joseph) McCarthy |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | HISTORY IN EUROPE $4,000 (Daily Double): A September 5, 1793 French decree officially started this; it lasted just under a year the Reign of Terror |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | IRISH HISTORY $1600: It was created in 1919 as a successor to a militant group called the Irish volunteers the IRA |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: "Anne's History" is a chapter in this book, the first in a series about an orphan Anne of Green Gables |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | THE REAL GAME OF THRONES $1600: "The Narrow Sea", next to Essos, is also a name for this real body of water as in the history work "Hold the Narrow Sea" the English Channel |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Around 200 B.C. an anonymous Chinese innovator froze rice, milk & spices in a paste, creating a type of this dessert ice cream |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1202 Leonardo of Pisa urged the use of Arabic numerals including this one originally called a zephyrum & it caught on zero |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | POLAR EXPLORATION $800: Britain's Natural History Museum houses an egg collected in Antarctica in 1911 from this "royal" bird the emperor penguin |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 400s B.C. Greek cities like Thebes & Megara had not a monarchy but this form of rule by a small group an oligarchy |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | "ZZ" MIDDLE $600: Spring buds were blooming, but "The Great" one of these of March 1888 was one of the worst ever in American history a blizzard |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | WRECKING THE CURVE $400: This slugger AKA Big Papi turned a hanging curveball into history with his 500th home run in 2015 (David) Ortiz |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In October of this year, a month after reaching an all-time high of 381, the stock market came crashing down 1929 |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | PLANET EARTH $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents a timeline on the monitor.) Chronologically, the major eras of Earth's history are the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic & this new animal era, in which we & the Earth live today Cenozoic |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: In 1465 the archbishop of Mainz granted this printer an annual pension of grain, wine & clothes Gutenberg |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | THE HISTORY BOOKSHELF $1200: "At the Crossroads of Central Asia" is a chapter in a history of this trade route named for a fabric the Silk Road |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | NEWS OF 2017 $800: Soprano Audrey Luna hit the note known as A above this, a first in Metropolitan Opera history high C |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | AVIATION HISTORY $1200: In the mid-1800s George Cayley sent a 10-year-old aloft on a "governable parachute", which we call this type of aircraft a glider |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: On a December day in 1890, about 200 Native Americans were slain by U.S. Army troops at this South Dakota location Wounded Knee |
| #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 |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: To protest taxes, Shays' Rebellion included a 1787 attack on the federal arsenal in this city in western Massachusetts Springfield |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | MEXICAN HISTORY $400: These people believed their god had told them to establish a new home & they did around 1325 in the valley of Mexico the Aztecs |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | MEXICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1810, in a sermon & early call for Mexican independence, Father Miguel Hidalgo issued the "Cry of" this town Dolores |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | PRIME "TIME" $1000: 1988 bestseller that was followed by the same author's "The Universe in a Nutshell" A Brief History of Time |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | HISTORY NEAR & FAR $800: Launched in 1960 to reflect radio signals, Echo was NASA's first of this type of satellite or satelloon a communications satellite |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $1200: In 1957, she became the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon Althea Gibson |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $2000: The subject of a TV movie and a Rockwell painting, in 1960 she made history by integrating an all-white school in New Orleans (Ruby) Bridges |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | THE PHARAOHS $400: At 9 he was the youngest pharaoh in history & his sarcophagus from the 1300s B.C. is a classic symbol of Ancient Egypt King Tut |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | HISTORY $2000: A 2017 U.N. report said it's plausible that another plane caused the crash that killed this secy.-general in 1961 (Dag) Hammarskjold |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): A 20-kiloton A-bomb was dropped on this atoll in a 1946 test, the first in peacetime Bikini Atoll |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY $1000: In 2011 Utah became the first state with an official this, a Browning; the bill's sponsor said it captures part of Utah's history a gun |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | A HISTORY OF VIOLINS $800: The first labels bearing the name of this man were placed on violins in 1666, when he was still a pupil of Nicolo Amati Stradivarius |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | A HISTORY OF VIOLINS $1600: In 2017 he marked 40 years of performing with fellow Israeli violin virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman Itzhak Perlman |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | EASTERN ASIAN HISTORY $2000: The Cambodian dictator died in a jungle hut in 1998 before he could stand trial for genocide Pol Pot |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | OREGON $1000: Around 1836 Washington Irving wrote a history of this man's successful fur trading business in Oregon John Jacob Astor |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | IOWA HISTORY $400: Since 1972 these Iowa candidate selection events have been a key first contest in the race for the White House the Iowa caucuses |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $800: Recalling a great moment in state history, bronze seagulls perch on a monument in this square named for a building Temple Square |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1830 at age 72 this hero of the American Revolution played a key role in France's July Rev. that changed kings Lafayette |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: In 1967, after a military takeover by Colonel George Papadopoulos, this Greek king fled to Italy King Constantine |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1600: Now heart disease & cancer are the most common ways to die; in 1900 it was pneumonia or this malady ending in "A" influenza |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MEDICAL HISTORY $2000: Here's Dr. Oz with the clue:
This compound has had many uses, like starting engines & as a popular drink among Catholics when the Church frowned on alcohol, medically it was used as an anesthetic starting in the 1840s & is still used in places where up-to-date equipment isn't available ether |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In old New England a regular use of the village green was training this body of men mentioned in the Second Amendment the militia |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1915 the 1st transcontinental telephone call was made when A.G. Bell called this former assistant in San Francisco (Thomas) Watson |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Following a military coup, in the mid-1970s this nation granted independence to all of its colonies except Macau Portugal |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | A TRIP TO ITALY $800: Lists of the great builders of history leave out Giovanni di Simone, chief engineer of this structure in the 1270s the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | U.S. LANDMARKS $600: A granite canopy in Massachusetts now protects this item of national heritage that entered history in 1620 Plymouth Rock |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | I GET A KICK OUT OF HISTORY $400: A memorial unveiled in 2014 honors the spontaneous soccer games of this war's Christmas truce World War I |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: As France fell in 1940, this general escaped to Britain, where he rallied the French people in a series of radio broadcasts de Gaulle |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | FRENCH HISTORY $800: In 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first man to fly a plane over this European waterway the English Channel |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | FRENCH HISTORY $2000: Founded in 1972 as a neo-fascist party, it's been led for most of its history by the Le Pens, father & daughter the National Front |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | HISTORIANS' TERMS $1200: It's quantitative history if you're basing a thesis on the U.K. producing a record 292 mil. metric tons of this fuel in 1913 coal |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | HISTORY, WITH SOUND EFFECTS $400: In 1800, 2 years before getting into steamboats, he had a different idea--build a sub that could dive down 25 feet (Robert) Fulton |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | HISTORY, WITH SOUND EFFECTS $1000: Though he turned out a dullard, hopes were high in 1661 when Louis XIV's first son was born & given this title as heir Dauphin |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | TECHNOLOGY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.) Seen here in a 2002 replica that's 7 feet high, 11 feet long & 5 tons, Difference Engine Number 2 was designed to remove human error from scientific tables; it was a groundbreaking computer concept by this British inventor back in the 1840s (Charles) Babbage |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | THEY'RE HISTORY! $600: Wounded in Florida in 1521 by what was possibly a poison arrow, this explorer was taken to Cuba & died shortly after Ponce de Leon |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND $2,000 (Daily Double): Edward the Confessor died with a direct heir to the throne in this crucial year of English history 1066 |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | SPORTS STUFF $1000: With his 1981 title, John McEnroe was the last in tennis history to win the U.S. Open with one of these a wooden racket |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Realizing those who'd had cowpox didn't contract smallpox, Edward Jenner saw causality & took material from the arm of a dairy maid who had cowpox, making the first of these recorded in Western medicine an inoculation (or a vaccine) |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The bus boycott protesting segregation in this Alabama city lasted for more than a year Montgomery |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | WORLD HISTORY $800: The ANC for short, it was founded in 1912, banned in 1960 & made a legal party again in 1990 the African National Congress |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: The first head of state of Chile in 1817, his baptismal certificate said he was the son of a Spanish officer of Irish origin (Bernardo) O'Higgins |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: You name it, they have it in these retail palaces like Wanamaker's, shown here, that saw big growth after the Civil War a department store |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | WORDS OF OPPOSITION $1600: In Hegel's thought history proceeds in a 3-phase pattern with this "A" word as the middle one antithesis |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | FASHION HISTORY $800: In the 1860s, Godey's Lady's Book set fashion trends, including this kind of skirt seen here, framed with whalebone a hoop skirt |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | FASHION HISTORY $1600: This artificial gem used for costume jewelry was originally made in Strasbourg on the river for which it's named rhinestone |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | KANSAS HISTORY $400: Kansas became the 34th U.S. state in this year that also saw the beginning of a war 1861 |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | KANSAS HISTORY $800: Kansas voters decide every 6 years whether to retain the members of this body; in 2016 all 5 survived a challenge the state supreme court |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS $800: Malcolm Gladwell "Re"examines an accepted view in the podcast called this type of "History" revisionist |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In 1933 a stretch of river rapids in Alabama called Muscle Shoals became an integral part of this multi-state project Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | PORTUGUESE HISTORY $800: In the Protocol of Lisbon, China recognized Portugal's sovereignty over this territory--for a while Macau |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | PORTUGUESE HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Threatened by Napoleon, the Portuguese royal family fled to this colonial capital & stayed there for 13 years Rio de Janeiro |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | GENRES $1600: Imagining the England lost WWII, "SS-GB" is a BBC show in this fantasy genre abbreviated A.H. alternate history |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $400: Sitric Silkbeard & his raiding friends from the north appear in Lars Brownworth's "The Sea Wolves: A History of" them the Vikings |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | GERMAN HISTORY $200: In 9 A.D. this empire tried to conquer the Germanic tribes but got crushed at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest the Roman Empire |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | GERMAN HISTORY $400: In June 1948 the Soviet Union began a rail, road & canal blockade of this city; Allied supplies had to be delivered by air Berlin |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.) In World War I, because of racial tensions within the Army, a black combat unit nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters was assigned to fight with the French, and because of their valor, the regiment was awarded this cross of war, one of France's highest honors the Croix de guerre |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $400: The first invasion with a main role for these troops was when the Nazi Fallschirmjäger descended from the sky on Crete the paratroopers |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $1200: From 1940 to 1944 this rate in the U.S. went down from 14.6 to 1.2% the unemployment rate |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | HISTORY $1000: On March 13, 1954 50,000 Vietminh attacked 10,000 French troops at a base in this village Dien Bien Phu |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TEXTBOOKS $400: Van Eyck's "Man in a Red Turban" is on the cover of the 7th edition of H.W. Janson's textbook on this subject art history |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | CASTRO'S CUBA: 1959-2016 $800: In 2015 in Havana he said, "Presidents Obama and Castro made a courageous decision to stop being the prisoners of history" John Kerry |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | AFRICAN HISTORY $2000: In 2003 this southern African country's army & a rival faction, Unita, signed a ceasefire, ending a 27-year civil war Angola |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1867 William Seward negotiated its purchase for about 2 cents an acre, totaling a cool $7.2 million Alaska |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1805 Lewis & Clark named a Mussellshell River tributary "Bird Woman's River" in her honor Sacagawea |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In a speech on June 5, 1947, this Secretary of State proposed his plan for European economic aid (George) Marshall |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $200: (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) I wasn't a politics or history major but graduated from this upstate New York Ivy League school with a degree in art history & wrote art reviews for the Sun Cornell |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | CHINESE HISTORY $400: In 1839 China destroyed more than 20,000 chests of this smuggled drug in Canton, leading to a 3-year war with Britain opium |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BLACK $600: A black monolith mysteriously appears at different times in human history in this classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | CHINESE HISTORY $2000: After a massive demonstration in Beijing in 1999, China banned this spiritual movement, calling it a heretical cult Falun Gong |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | HISTORY AT SEA $400: In 1854 the James Baines, this type of graceful sailing ship, "cut" the Atlantic crossing record to 12 days, 6 hrs. a clipper |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | HISTORY AT SEA $1,800 (Daily Double): In 1837 Britain's admiralty set up a committee to figure out how to ensure the accuracy of these aboard iron ships compasses |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | HISTORY AT SEA $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of the Lusitania on the monitor.) Torpedoed on May 7, 1915, the Lusitania sank in just 18 minutes, in part because these watertight internal divisions ran longitudinally, confining incoming water to one side and causing a huge list to starboard the bulkheads |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In the 1200s B.C., warring Egyptians & Hittites produced the document seen here, said to be the first of these in history a peace treaty |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | PUERTO RICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1951 Puerto Rico voted to become one of these as part of the U.S.; in 1967 & 1993, it voted to stay one a commonwealth |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On April 9, 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant in this Virginia village whose name sounds like a judiciary building Appomattox Courthouse |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: At a women's convention in Ohio in 1851 this former slave delivered her "Ain't I A Woman" speech Sojourner Truth |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | UNFORTUNATE HISTORY $400: Developed as a miracle insecticide in 1939, it was later discovered to cause damage to wildlife & was restricted in 1972 DDT |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | UNFORTUNATE HISTORY $800: Pressed into service during WWII, this "royal" luxury liner rammed a navy cruiser in 1942, cutting it in half the Queen Mary |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | UNFORTUNATE HISTORY $1200: This president from N.H. began his inaugural address in "bitter sorrow", his son having recently died in a train wreck Franklin Pierce |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | UNFORTUNATE HISTORY $1600: In 2003 this traditional French vacation month was marred by a heat wave that killed nearly 15,000 August |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: A group of loyal clergy & boyars called the Selected council helped this awful guy rule Russia in the 16th century Ivan the Terrible |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1571's Battle of Lepanto, a coalition defeated this empire's navy, saving Europe from invasion the Ottoman Empire |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: King Charles XII of this nation was a boy military genius who won battles against Russia, Poland & Denmark in the 1700s Sweden |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: Dolores Ibárurri, a heroine of the losing side in this 1930s war, remained honorary president of the Communist Party until 1989 the Spanish Civil War |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1000: In 1903 she starred in the play "Hatchetation" & got the chance to smash a saloon in one scene Carry Nation |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In late 1620 an Atlantic storm altered the course of history because this ship ended up in Cape Cod & not in Virginia as intended the Mayflower |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WHO IS OUR LEADER? $600: Founder & CEO of amazon.com, he's been a leader in "predictive analytics", which matches ads to browsing history Bezos |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | TENNESSEE HISTORY $400: Barbara Jo Walker from Memphis won this distinction in 1947 & was the last to be crowned in a swimsuit Miss America |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | TENNESSEE HISTORY $800: A donation of $1 million in 1873 helped establish Vanderbilt University, whose sports teams sail with this name the Commodores |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | TENNESSEE HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1945 this atomic research city had a population of 75,000 but it wasn't open to walk-in visitors until 1949 Oak Ridge |
| #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 |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $600: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayed here likely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831 Nat Turner |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is a railroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s Jim Crow laws |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) On Easter in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes & sang "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial Marian Anderson |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | FRENCH HISTORY $1000: In November 2016 a show by Sting reopened this Paris concert hall 1 year after a terrorist attack Le Bataclan |
| #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 $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 |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | "V"OCABULARY $200: It can mean the judgment of history as well as a decision in a court case a verdict |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: He received a presidential pardon in 1815, but soon returned to his pirating ways in the Gulf of Mexico (Jean) Lafitte |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the 1700s, stretching from Labrador through Montreal and all the way down into what's now Louisiana, was the territory known as New this country New France |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) At the gift shop, you can pick up a kinara, a candleholder that represents African roots; it'll hold candles in the symbolic colors of black for the people, red for their struggle & green for hope, all to help you celebrate this late December holiday Kwanzaa |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia Monticello |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among Harriet Tubman's most treasured possessions was a lace shawl she received in recognition of her heroic efforts from this woman, who was celebrating her diamond jubilee Queen Victoria |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) "Our feet are tired, but our souls are rested", said Martin Luther King, & then soaked his feet in the bucket on display here after leading thousands on a 5-day, 54-mile freedom march from Selma to the steps of the Capitol in this city Montgomery |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence" Malcolm X |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | VENICE $2000: The Museum of Glass Art in the Giustinian Palace chronicles this nearby island's glassmaking history Murano |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This disaster began on October 8, 1871 in a barn on DeKoven Street & left nearly 100,000 people homeless the Chicago fire |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: A tax on spirits caused this U.S. rebellion in 1794 the Whiskey Rebellion |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: In 2009 Sri Lanka's government defeated the insurgent group called these "Tigers" after a 25-year civil war the Tamil Tigers |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East Tube station Jack the Ripper |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Starting at the Boston Common and making its way past the Boston Massacre site, the Old North church, over the Charles to Old Ironsides and ending at the Bunker Hill Monument is this two-word path the Freedom Trail |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the College Football Hall of Fame.) The belt here had little handles, so other players could lock arms and move down the field in one of these formations, later outlawed by the NCAA due to death and injury the flying wedge |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | TOM & GERUND $1600: In history class, Tom learned that a 1965 "Rights Act" outlawed discrimination in this process voting |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 2003 in Ohio, an overgrown tree touched a power line, causing this event that affected 50 million North Americans a blackout |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): Charles Cotesworth Pinckney said no when French agents asked for a bribe in this 1797 "Affair" the XYZ Affair |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | TONY BENNETT $1000: (Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In 2015 the 20th edition of this Las Vegas gala doubled as my birthday party; with the same name as a Celine Dion love song, it has raised over $100 million in its history; wow! "The Power of Love" |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This great orator gave a 3 1/2-hour speech in favor of the Compromise of 1850; his fellow New Englanders didn't like that Daniel Webster |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | JAPANESE HISTORY $1200: This modernizing period of "restoration" with rule by the emperor lasted for about 40 years & began in 1868 the Meiji restoration |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | STUFF THAT EXPLODES $800: In one of the most violent eruptions in history, Huaynaputina, one of these in Peru, exploded in 1600 a volcano |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SOUTHERN HISTORY $200: This song was written in 1859 & by the end of the Civil War, its title was a nickname for the South "Dixie" |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | THE 2016 SUMMER OLYMPICS $2000: Known as "Chicken Legs" as a kid, she's now the most-decorated U.S. female track & field athlete in Olympic history (Allyson) Felix |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | AUTHORS WITH PRESIDENTIAL NAMES $400: In 1809 he published "A History of New York" under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In June 1877 a war began between this tribe & the U.S. in Idaho, ending when federal troops captured Chief Joseph the Nez Perce |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | WORLD HISTORY $400: After he became Aussie P.M. in 2007, Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology to this group for the policies of past governments the Aboriginals |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | HORRIBLE HISTORY $800: This woman worked as a cook in New York, spreading deadly disease to more than 50 people between 1900 & 1915 Typhoid Mary |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | HORRIBLE HISTORY $1200: Barely 20 minutes after a torpedo struck in 1915, it disappeared beneath the waves taking more than 1,000 souls with it Lusitania |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | GREEK HISTORY $800: In 2015 Greece signed a 3-year bailout program & this fund agreed to help if Europe restructured the debt the IMF (the International Monetary Fund) |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | GREEK HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. this son of Darius invaded Greece but the Greek navy defeated him at the Bay of Salamis & he returned to Persia Xerxes |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | GREEK HISTORY $2000: In the 5th century B.C., Sparta led a league of city-states on this peninsula to combat Athens' Delian League the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | HISTORY AS THEATER $800: "Murder in the Cathedral" by T.S. Eliot is about this man's slaying in 1170 Thomas à Becket |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | HISTORY AS THEATER $2000: Not compromising with Henry VIII proves fatal for Sir Thomas More in this Robert Bolt drama A Man for All Seasons |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MICHIGAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) In 2016, the Washington Post showed lead in parts-per-billion in Michigan; with the normal level of cause for concern being 5, in Troy, it was 1.1, in Detroit, it was 2.3, & in this city, a staggering 27 Flint |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RECENT BESTSELLING BOOKS $1200: Jean Stein has a touch of John Steinbeck in the title of a history of 5 big families in L.A. called "West of" this Eden |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | ERAS OF HISTORY $600: The Cold War is often said to have begun in this year when a war ended & the Cubs played in the World Series 1945 |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | "C-U" $200: It's a person in charge of a museum collection; Margaret Mead was one at the American Museum of Natural History a curator |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | HISTORY $400: In 1684 this Quaker said, "I have led the greatest colony into America that ever any man did upon a private credit" (William) Penn |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | HISTORY $2000: The discovery of gold near this double-talk Washington city made it a hotbed of activity in the 1860s Walla Walla |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | JEWISH HISTORY $800: In 1909 near the Sea of Galilee, European Jewish immigrants built Degania, the first of these collective farming villages a kibbutz |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | JEWISH HISTORY $1200: In the early 700s a "Golden Age" of Jewish life in what's now this European country began with the Muslim conquest Spain |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | HOOSIER HISTORY $400: This iconic track was built in 1909 as a testing facility for the local automotive industry the Indianapolis Speedway |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1200: In 1807 his ship was described as a "backwoods sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire" (Robert) Fulton |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1600: FDR called his domestic programs a "New Deal"; successor Harry Truman had this "Deal" Fair |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | HAPPY HISTORY $1200: In 1979 a Seminole chief used Indian sovereignty to offer healthy jackpots in this game also played in churches bingo |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | MOVIE MISTAKES $200: A white car makes a very surprise appearance in a battle scene in this Mel Gibson Scottish history pic Braveheart |
| #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 |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The last state to end prohibition was this "Magnolia State", which adopted a local-option law in 1966 Mississippi |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): This city once known as Beverwyck was made a state capital in 1797 Albany |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | HISTORY REPEATS $600: Like Abraham Lincoln, this president was also born in a log cabin & died from wounds inflicted by an assassin, in 1881 Garfield |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | HISTORY IN ART $200: Michelangelo took a stab at carving a bust of this slayer of Julius Caesar Brutus |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | HISTORY IN ART $1,000 (Daily Double): John Trumbull's painting of this event can be seen on the back of a $2 bill the signing of the Declaration of Independence |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS $1200: "Drawing Out the Man" by Henry Wise is a history of this military college in Lexington VMI |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | HAWAIIAN HISTORY $600: In 1898 a camera crew from this inventor's company filmed scenes in the Hawaiian Islands Edison |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION $200: If you master the history of the credit card, you'll discover the first purchase with this was at a Sears in 1985 a Discover Card |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Shortly before his execution, this abolitionist wrote in a letter that he was "content to die for God's eternal truth" John Brown |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: For this notorious Hun, the honeymoon was over before it began; he died in 453 A.D. on his wedding night Attila the Hun |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600: In 1994 Yitzhak Rabin & this king approved a treaty formally ending 46 years of war between Israel & Jordan King Hussein |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: A golden age of culture, the Age of him in Greece lasted from about 460 B.C. to 430 B.C. Pericles |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | STOPPED BREATHING IN THE 1800s $200: Philip, eldest son of this Federalist, died in a duel in 1801; sadly, dad would not learn from history Alexander Hamilton |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $800: (I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.) I got my first taste of stargazing as a 9-year-old kid in New York City when I took a trip to this facility at the American Museum of Natural History; later I took classes there & today I'm its director the Hayden Planetarium |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | ART HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) John Singer Sargent's use of subdued colors in his portrait of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, & his placement of them in a cavernous room were influenced by this Spaniard's "Las Meninas", which Sargent studied on an 1879 trip to the Prado (Diego) Velázquez |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $200: Rosa Parks changed history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in this city Montgomery (Alabama) |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II $600: In 1797, 3 French agents asked for a $250,000 bribe from the U.S. in what came to be known as this 3-letter "Affair" the XYZ Affair |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II $3,000 (Daily Double): A play in 5 acts, or a king in 2 years, 1483 to 1485 Richard III |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | JUDEAN HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Biblical Palestine was divided into two kingdoms--Israel in the north & Judea in the south, with this city that's still the main community of the Negev region as its southernmost town Beersheba |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: In May 2015 this prime minister & his Conservative Party defied the polls & won a clear majority in Parliament David Cameron |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BRITISH HISTORY $1000: In 598 St. Augustine built a monastery near this settlement, which became the main religious center of England Canterbury |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | THANK YOU, MA'AM $2000: A leading French existentialist, she explored sexism & history in works like "The Ethics of Ambiguity" Simone de Beauvoir |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | POLISH HISTORY $1600: Ignace Jan Paderewski, used to flattery in this profession, failed as PM in 1919 & lived in exile his last 22 years a pianist (or a musician) |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | POLISH HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1569, a jointly elected sovereign was a feature of the Union of Lublin, which merged Poland with this country, whose modern borders are seen here Lithuania |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1700 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all priests of this faith to hit the road Catholicism |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $400: After the Revolutionary War, this "Father of the American Navy" served as a rear admiral in Russia's fleet John Paul Jones |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $2000: In 2005, 350 years after this Dutch scientist discovered the moon Titan, a space probe named for him landed there (Christiaan) Huygens |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | NONFICTION $1200: (Hi. I'm Al Roker.) In my book "The Storm of the Century", I tell about the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, a monstrous hurricane in 1900 that nearly wiped this Texas seaport off the map Galveston |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: Never one to do things small, Napoleon in 1806 commissioned this 162'-high landmark as a memorial to his armies the Arc de Triomphe |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1526, control of Bohemia, the Archduchy of Austria & the Kingdom of Hungary belonged to the house of this family the Habsburgs |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A stop at Dr. Samuel Mudd's home, landing mistakenly in Maryland, & dying a few days later near Bowling Green were part of his ill-fated 1865 escape route John Wilkes Booth |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 $800: A "People Power" revolution in this country forced longtime leader Ferdinand Marcos into exile the Philippines |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | I'LL NEED A TRANSLATOR $1000: Literally German for "time ghost", it's the prevailing spirit or mood of a period in history a Zeitgeist |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 $1000: In January NASA's Stephen Nesbitt sadly reported "a major malfunction" with this Space Shuttle Challenger |
| #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 $1600: In 1934 Augusto Cesar Sandino was assassinated by this Central American country's National Guard Nicaragua |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | OTTOMAN HISTORY $2000: In 1354 Suleyman turned this peninsula on the Dardanelles into a strategic base; in 1915 it played a key role in WWI Gallipoli |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Joseph Cinque led a successful slave rebellion aboard this ship in 1839 the Amistad |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Marian Anderson made history in 1954 by signing a contract with this New York performing arts organization the Metropolitan Opera |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | CHICAGO HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) During Prohibition, which saw a rise in criminal activity, copper stills & buckets like these were used at home to make illegal high-proof whiskey known by this lunar name moonshine |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | CHICAGO HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) Made of wood & originally pulled by a steam locomotive, the car here, which transported passengers from the loop to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 is the last one remaining of Chicago's first fleet of railcars to be called by this nickname the "El" |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | CHICAGO HISTORY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) In 1924, in the crime of the century, Chicago teen Bobby Franks was brutally murdered; these glasses found near the body were traced back to this man, who soon confessed, as did accomplice Richard Loeb (Nathan) Leopold |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY $1200: This leader was born in a tent near Surt, Libya, the town where he would die in 2011 Muammar Gaddafi |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Devised in 46 B.C. & named for a Roman leader, it marked time for more than 1,500 years before being replaced Julian calendar |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | JUST IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS $600: In 2015 Greece became the first developed nation to miss a payment to this lending institution in its 70-year history the IMF (the International Monetary Fund) |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (I'm Misty Copeland.) In 2014 I made history as the first African-American ballerina to dance the role of Clara in American Ballet Theatre's production of this ballet, a holiday favorite The Nutcracker |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1947 this TV news show's first guest was former Democratic chairman & FDR campaign manager James A. Farley Meet the Press |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | ART & HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Charles Willson Peale's portrait shows George Washington after his victory in this battle; Nassau Hall, where the battle ended, is in the background the Battle of Princeton |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | HISTORY ON FILM $800: Seen here at Daytona beach in 1927, Henry Segrave became the first person to drive a car over this speed 200 miles per hour |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | HISTORY 101 $1200: Famous for his triumphal column, this emperor began an expansion of the Roman Empire in 101 A.D. Trajan |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | HISTORY 101 $1600: Around 101 the Moche began a great civilization on the west coast of South America in this country Peru |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Her, in 1869 in a women's suffrage newspaper:
"Join the union, girls, and together say equal pay for equal work" Susan B. Anthony |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: MLK: "I have a dream that one day... sons of former slaves & the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at" this the table of brotherhood |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Napoleon Bonaparte escaped imprisonment on this island in 1815 & briefly staged a comeback Elba |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: A marble throne believed to be used by him during his reign from 768 to 814 is in a cathedral in Aachen, Germany Charlemagne |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | "HOUSE" $1600: The AMA says, "Physicians making" these "may sound like fabled history", but they have a place in medicine today house visits |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | I AM HISTORY! $800: The only surviving son of a rector, this 17th century man went on to design more than 50 churches in London (Christopher) Wren |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | I AM HISTORY! $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Rhine, Danube & Volga Rivers provided the approximate empire borders of this ruthless warrior king in the 400s A.D. Attila the Hun |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | I AM HISTORY! $2000: Ukraine-born, she moved to the U.S. in 1906 & eventually became a world leader for Israel Golda Meir |
| #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 |
| #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" |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | COMPUTER HISTORY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew clicks the signaling device from behind a familiar lectern at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California; Jimmy is her sole human competitor.) The museum has an homage to this "Jeopardy!" cyber contestant, whose brilliance is now being put to work diagnosing illnesses, recommending better investments & helping researchers around the world find information faster Watson |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | COMPUTER HISTORY $400: The alternative to hard disk wasn't called soft disk but this, & 5 billion a year were sold in the mid-'90s floppy disk |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After World War I, this country gained new provinces, doubling its size; after World War II, it lost chunks in the northeast & southeast Romania |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This act that put a tax on playing cards in 1765 prompted the formation of the Sons of Liberty the Stamp Act |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: 146 workers died in a 1911 fire at this NYC sweatshop that made shirtwaists, which were high-necked blouses the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) At one time a piece of cutting-edge technology, the atomizer sprayed carbolic acid to provide this type of surgical environment, pioneered by Joseph Lister antiseptic (sterile accepted) |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) An earlier version of the Travenol used a Maytag washing machine as its tank--fitting, as it cleansed waste from a patient's blood, acting as an artificial one of these organs a kidney |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) It looks more like an old-fashioned sewing machine, but it's actually a 1920 model of this device that records the electrical activity of the heart EKG (electrocardiogram) |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) 19th-century doctors thought that the brain shrank & grew with use, leaving corresponding contours on the skull, which were read to determine a person's abilities and traits, using the 3-D bust as a reference guide in this pseudo-science phrenology |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) Sometimes during surgery, the heart convulses, loses rhythm & stops pumping blood; Cleveland surgeon Claude Beck used cardiac massage & applied electrical current directly to the heart to reverse the phenomenon using this device; those techniques led him to develop CPR a defibrillator |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $200: After months on the run, he was captured December 13, 2003 after he was found hiding in a hole near Tikrit Saddam Hussein |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $800: In China his Great Leap Forward program took a great leap back, contributing to a famine & millions of deaths Mao |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | "A"+ IN HISTORY $400: What's now Mexico City was once the capital of this empire the Aztec |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | "A"+ IN HISTORY $800: When he heard the North Pole had been reached, he changed his destination to the South Pole without telling his men Amundsen |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | "A"+ IN HISTORY $1200: The pact known as this document of Mudros marked the defeat of the Ottoman Empire Armistice |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | "A"+ IN HISTORY $2000: German for "union", it was advocated between Germany & Austria in 1919 but became a reality in 1938 Anschluss |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | "A"+ IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Flourishing between 3000 & 1100 B.C., Cycladic & Minoan were 2 of the cultures named for this sea the Aegean |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | HISTORY, OLD & NEW $200: In 1924 Howard Carter & the Egyptian government fought over the mummy case of this boy king King Tut |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | HISTORY, OLD & NEW $3,200 (Daily Double): In effect the last battle of the Wars of the Roses was on this field on August 22, 1485 Bosworth |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | FRIENDS $1600: Jimmy Fallon has a true bromance with this singer, his partner in crime in "The History of Rap" videos Justin Timberlake |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This Democratic senator faced off against Abe Lincoln in a series of 7 debates during the 1858 campaign (Stephen) Douglas |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Great White Fleet, 16 battleships that toured the world in 1907, were a show of TR's foreign policy called this the Big Stick |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Andrew Hamilton defended this New York printer in his 1735 libel trial, scoring a victory for freedom of the press (John Peter) Zenger |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX $400: In 1972 this Volkswagen surpassed the Model T as the most produced car model in history the Beetle |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | HISTORY $1600: In 1783 Catherine the Great made this city in the Crimea a base for the Russian navy Sevastopol |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: In 1917 the royal family took this new name, also a castle Windsor |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | BRITISH HISTORY $2000: He was PM from 1902 to 1905; later, a declaration supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine was named for him (Arthur James) Balfour |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: In 1860 she established a school for nurses at St. Thomas' hospital Florence Nightingale |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $600: Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of a corrupt man who got this title in 1492 pope |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1914 she began distributing a pamphlet called "Family Limitation" that outlined her views Margaret Sanger |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | HISTORY $200: After a 34-hour siege in April of this year, confederate forces captured Fort Sumter 1861 |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: In 1924 this country became a people's republic & dropped the "Outer" from its name Mongolia |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ASIAN HISTORY $600: A 2014 report says despite U.S. efforts, cultivation of this in Afghanistan is at an all-time high of 1/2 million acres poppy (or opium) |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ASIAN HISTORY $1000: In 1959 this crown prince married Michiko Shoda, becoming the first Japanese royal to marry a commoner Akihito |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | GREEN BOOKS $400: A nature trail in Van Cortlandt Park is named for John Kieran, author of "A Natural History of" this metropolis New York |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | FRENCH HISTORY $1200: France enjoyed a round of "Frere Jacques" in 1995 when he went from being mayor of Paris to the presidency Jacques Chirac |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | MOROCCAN HISTORY $800: Starting in the 1500s, Morocco was ruled by men with this title, like the one who "don't like it" in a Clash song sharif |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | MOROCCAN HISTORY $1200: These beasts helped make Morocco a key ancient trade route & one kissed Bob Hope in "Road to Morocco" camels |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $800: 8 American soldiers lost their lives in a failed attempt to rescue hostages held at the U.S. embassy in this city in April 1980 Tehran |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | USS INTREPID $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the USS Intrepid in New York.) In the biggest naval engagement in history, in October 1944, the USS Intrepid played a key role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Japan's desperate attempt to stop the U.S. invasion of this island nation it had conquered 2 years earlier the Philippines |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | HISTORY $1600: In 1912 an expedition found a painted bust of this Egyptian queen whose name means "the beautiful one has come" Nefertiti |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | BUSINESS HISTORY $1000: In 1917 a cookware salesman began giving customers soapy steel-wool pads, which he later sold under this name S.O.S pads |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Before he was the "Father of India", he led a nonviolent protest against an Asiatic registration law in South Africa (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On October 21, 1805, a combined fleet of 33 French & Spanish ships was defeated by the British in a famous naval battle off this sandy cape on Spain's southern coast Trafalgar |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Executed as a spy at Vincennes in 1917, she once said, "I never could dance well" Mata Hari |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: A 1913 amendment began direct election of this house; in 1914 all the incumbents running won despite the change the Senate |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1986 Reagan declared what became known as a "war on" these, saying, "Nancy had already made it her major role" drugs |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $1000: A flying penguin shows up in "Zero History", a cyberpunk opus from this author of "Mona Lisa Overdrive" William Gibson |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | COMPUTER HISTORY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.)
Ushering in the era of big iron was UNIVAC, which, in 1952, became a star during CBS election coverage; polls said the race would go to Adlai Stevenson, but UNIVAC predicted this man would win in a landslide; UNICAV was right Eisenhower |
| #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 $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 |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This composer learned the basics of music as a boy in 19th century Texarkana (Scott) Joplin |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $400: Bollywood wasn't even a gleam in Ashoka's eye when he ruled this island city in the 3rd century B.C. Mumbai |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | A MUSIC HISTORY TIMELINE $200: In 2003 this online music store was launched, allowing people to download songs for 99 cents each iTunes |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | A MUSIC HISTORY TIMELINE $400: Around 1666 the first violins with this man's label were created in Cremona, Italy Stradivarius |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | A MUSIC HISTORY TIMELINE $600: Designed by William Tuthill, this performance space opened in 1891 in Midtown Manhattan Carnegie Hall |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | A MUSIC HISTORY TIMELINE $800: In 1804 Beethoven composed his 3rd symphony, "Eroica", which heralded the dawn of this musical period the Romantic period |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | A MUSIC HISTORY TIMELINE $1000: Composed after the death of the writer Alessandro Manzoni, Verdi's "Requiem Mass" premiered in 1874 in this city Milan |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $800: Circa 45 B.C., Decimus Laberius & Publilius Syrus engaged in a mime contest at this man's command; Publilius won Caesar |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $1600: The first Greek mime is said to have been Telestes, a dancer in "Seven Against" this city Thebes |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $2000: With hundreds of performers in an evening, Victorian pantomime peaked at the theater named for this lane Drury Lane |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | CLASSIC GAME SHOWS $800: In 1980 Lt. Thom McKee made history & a whole lot of "Dough", $312,700, during his 46 days on this show Tic Tac Dough |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | LOWLY HISTORY $1600: The cliche "You'll drive me into" this place refers to a real home for the indigent; young Annie Oakley lived in one the poorhouse |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $400: In 1967 Australians approved a referendum to allow the census to count these people the Aborigines |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $1200: In 2014 a new, more conservative government made Oz the world's first country to repeal a tax on emissions of this carbon |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $2000: In February 1942 a Japanese air attack caused severe damage to this capital of the Northern Territory Darwin |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Before he was killed in the War of 1812, Zebulon Pike discovered a famous mountain peak in this state Colorado |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the Nat'l Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The museum has one of the original stuffed animals named for this president & avid hunter, after a story spread about him letting a bear go; although, in reality, all he did was refuse to shoot the bear when it was wounded Theodore Roosevelt |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: The Olympic Games began in 776 B.C., took a long break & reappeared in 1896 in this country Greece |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | U.K. BODIES OF WATER $5 (Daily Double): British history books include the story of King John losing the crown jewels in the Wash, a shallow bay on this sea the North Sea |
| #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 |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1949 this Central American nation abandoned its army & established a Civil Guard in its place Costa Rica |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: 2 British soldiers were found guilty in this 1770 Massachusetts riot; their thumbs were branded "M" for murder the Boston Massacre |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1976 John Warner married Elizabeth Taylor & served as administrator of this celebration the Bicentennial |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: America's first passenger line, this railroad began steaming along in 1830 the B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: A 1944 conference in this New Hampshire resort resulted in the creation of the IMF & the World Bank Bretton Woods |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | THE BALKANS $2000: Part of several empires in history, this nation had a taste of independence in 1878 Montenegro |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $4,600 (Daily Double): A governor's failure to stop Indian raids prompted this 1676 rebellion led by a Virginia planter Bacon's Rebellion |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | SPANISH HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) When the Armada was defeated in 1588, the Spanish Empire covered large areas of the New World; by 1825, only these two island possessions remained Cuba & Puerto Rico |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER $400 (Daily Double): After a decade-long preservation process, the flag is back on display in a new exhibition space at this Smithsonian Museum the Smithsonian Museum of American History |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | "B" + 3 $800: In a 1916 interview, Henry Ford said, "History is more or less" this bunk |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY $400: Eleanor's triumph, passage of the UDHR, got her the first standing ovation for a single delegate in this organization's history the United Nations |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY $1000: Before her death in 1962, Eleanor made a final visit to the old family summer home on this Canadian island Campobello |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | MONEY $1200: The Bank of Japan in Tokyo maintains a museum devoted to the history of this currency yen |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | MEDICAL HISTORY $2000: Using identical twins, Dr. Joseph Murray performed the first of these organ transplants in 1954 kidney |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | COMPUTER STUFF $200: A class in school, or a record of where you've gone in a web browser history |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | YOU'RE ON THE LIST $400: There are 9 of them, 6 men & 3 women; there have been 112 in U.S. history Supreme Court justices |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | BOOKS WITH SUBTITLES $2000: Earth is a scary place in this recent Max Brooks novel subtitled "An Oral History of the Zombie War" World War Z |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Its November 11, 1889 statehood filled in a corner of the Lower 48 Washington |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1916 German saboteurs blew up a New Jersey munitions depot, sending shrapnel into this nearby landmark's gown Statue of Liberty |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In order to gain military advantage, the ancient Romans were the first to build roads like the Via Claudia Augusta across this mountain system between central Europe & Italy the Alps |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | FATHERLY NICKNAMES $1000: In 735 this "Father of English History" died shortly after finishing a translation of the Gospel of St. John the Venerable Bede |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a portrait and a map on the monitor.) Huangdi won a great battle that consolidated his power among the tribes of the Huang He River, so it's fitting that he is referred to in English as the this emperor the Yellow Emperor |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $600: Canada's national animals are a horse & this one whose pelt played an important part in its history a beaver |
| #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 $1000: In 1795 most of Lithuania came under Russia's rule after the third partition of this country Poland |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Shihuangdi unified the Chinese empire but was paranoid & held a burning of these items in 213 B.C. books |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: Babylonia & Sumer were civilizations in this ancient region that gave us a little something called civilization Mesopotamia |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Meaning "hidden", this god's name is found in the name of a young pharaoh who restored worship of him Amun |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: The first Roman emperor born outside Italy, this slightly deaf & limping man took power in 41 A.D. Claudius |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: In 1975, after a long siege, Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge entered this capital & overthrew prime minister Lon Nol Phnom Penh |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $1000: Built for the emperor Shah Jahan, this throne named for a bird was stolen in 1739 by the Persians, who then lost it the Peacock Throne |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: According to tradition, in 490 B.C., Pheidippides ran 25 miles to announce a Greek victory in this battle Marathon |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: In France the Carolingian dynasty was followed by this one named for a guy named Hugh Capetian |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | YUCKY HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): As in the Western "Flesh & the Spur", Indians used staking people to these as a torture--or at least white settlers said so anthills |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY $200: His papacy lasted just over a month in 1978 John Paul I |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $400: In 1687 this Brit differentiated "absolute, true, and mathematical time" & "relative, apparent, and common time" Newton |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY $800: In Rome, 69 A.D. was "The Year of the Four" these, including Galba & Otho Emperors |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY $1000: This secessionist state of the Igbo people in eastern Nigeria lasted from 1967 to 1970 Biafra |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $2000: Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept "time" this dilation |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $3,400 (Daily Double): Following Einstein, in 1908 Hermann Minkowski proposed the idea of 4-dimensional this hyphenated term space-time |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | FASHION HISTORY $800: Chimney-pot is another name for this high silk top hat big in the 19th century a stove pipe |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | FASHION HISTORY $1200: Worn in the 1870s, a full sleeve tied at intervals was named for this wife of Louis XVI Marie Antoinette |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | FASHION HISTORY $1600: A clog of French peasants; add "-age" to get a type of destruction the peasants did by putting the shoes in machinery sabot |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | RECENT HISTORY $200: A massive December 26, 2004 earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered one of these that killed more than 200,000 a tsunami |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | RECENT HISTORY $400: (Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivers the clue.) The Court's legacy of civil rights cases includes Brown v. Board of Education & also Grutter v. Bollinger, a decision I wrote for the court allowing this race-conscious practice in law school admissions affirmative action |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $1600: In 38 A.D. this "little boot" emperor executed the Praetorian Guard prefect to whose support he owed his accession Caligula |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $2000: What a barbarian! In 450 he demanded the Roman emperor's sister as his wife & 1/2 of the Western Empire as dowry Attila the Hun |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $1600: This dictionary, still around, was spun off from a magazine of U.S. history that stopped printing in 2012 American Heritage |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Year in which a U. S. president remarked, "this is the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation" 1969 |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: His books include "The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" & "A Short History of Nearly Everything" Bill Bryson |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | BINGE WATCHING $800: The Scopes Trial judge was "prejudential", explains a sloshed narrator in this Comedy Central series Drunk History |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | SPORTS SUPERSTARS $800: In 2001 this Swede scored a 59 for 18 holes, the lowest score in LPGA history (Annika) Sorenstam |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: From April to July 1994, around 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi, were killed by Hutu militias in this country Rwanda |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | FLYING INTO HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) In the P-51 Mustang, the Allies finally had a fighter with the range to fly from England into the heart of Germany & back; when he saw mustangs over Berlin, this Luftwaffe chief reportedly said he knew that World War II was lost Hermann Goering |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In June 2013 this Islamic group governed Egypt; in September it was banned the Muslim Brotherhood |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1931, a year after taking the throne, he gave Ethiopia its first written constitution (Haile) Selassie |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | THE SONNET $800: This Lake Poet's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets" is a history of the church in England William Wordsworth |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: In March 1942 Anne Miller, suffering from a streptococcal infection, became the first person saved by this drug penicillin |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1200: Meaning "moulded vessel", this procedure to restore blood flow in a blocked artery was first performed in 1977 angioplasty |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | MEDICAL HISTORY $1600: In 1926 George Minot & William Murphy reported that a diet of this raw organ meat could cure pernicious anemia liver |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $200: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson designed this small portable desk; he used it for decades & then attached a note to it saying it might someday be of value because this important national document had been composed on it the Declaration of Independence |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The first transcontinental car trip was made by Horatio Nelson Jackson in this 1903 Winton at a time when America had few roads & little support for cars, so, whenever he had a breakdown & needed repairs, he would often have to rely on these workers that the automobile would soon put out of business blacksmiths |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later Woolworth's |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) Old 091 here took part in Operation Cedar Falls in January 1967, the largest offensive of the Vietnam War up to that point; she's a Bell UH-1, the workhorse helicopter of the war, known affectionately by this nickname a Huey |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: A hunting lodge begun by Louis XIII in 1624 eventually became this elaborate royal residence Versailles |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | FRENCH HISTORY $1600: In Feb. of this year France hosted the Grenoble Winter Olympics; in May protests nearly led to a leftist revolution 1968 |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State Rhode Island |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction the Scottsboro Boys |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): In 439 A.D. Genseric the Vandal captured this North African city, which became the Vandal capital Carthage |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Mayan hieroglyphics often used this type of symbolic puzzle in which drawn objects represented words a rebus |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Jan. 1, 1817, with a small force recruited in Haiti, he returned to Venezuela to drive out the Spanish (Simón) Bolívar |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This city named for Bolivia's first president was founded in 1538 on what had been a Quechua settlement Sucre |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1888 this country abolished slavery & freed about 750,000 slaves, many of whom worked on rubber plantations Brazil |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a map of Argentina and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean including a group of islands.) In 1982, British forces made a 200-mile war zone & landed near Port San Carlos in this territory to attack its capital over land, a winning strategy the Falklands |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | HISTORY $1600: In 1973 U.S. officials misread a Soviet message & went to level 3 in this system, 1 below the Cuban Missile Crisis DEFCON |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | VALLEY FORGE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) One of the great feats in military history was the training at Valley Forge, turning a ragtag army into a professional fighting force; the architect of the training was this Prussian who didn't even speak English von Steuben |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: A 1995 peace plan signed in Dayton, Ohio called for dividing this nation into 2 parts: a Croat federation & a Serb republic Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: The council of this Italian city was a series of conferences begun in 1545 to discuss Catholic doctrinal issues Trent |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | PORTRAITS IN HISTORY $400: His wife, Abigail, called the portrait of him painted by Samuel Morse "a stern, unpleasing likeness" John Adams |
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
|
"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
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"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
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Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
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"This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
|
"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
|
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
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Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California
|
"He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Tina Baybay-Bykov, an AP world history teacher from Orlando, Florida
|
"Ballet used to keep her on her toes. Now it's her...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
|
"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
|
"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
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Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
|
"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
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Bryan Givens, a history lecturer originally from Dallas, Texas
|
Season 20 player (2004-06-24). KJL game 17. At the time of...
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Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Kori Tyler, a high school history teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
|
Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Heather Menzel, a high school history teacher from South Fork, North Carolina
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $15,599 + $1,000. Won $68,500 on Who...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
|
"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
|
"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
|
\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
|
"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
|
"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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|
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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|
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
|
"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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|
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
|
"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
|
|
Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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|
Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
|
"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
|
2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Cypress, Texas
|
"He was a history professor when he became a 5-day champion...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
|
|
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
|
"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
|
"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
|
"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
|
|
Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
|
"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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|
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
|
"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
|
|
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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|
Martina Navratilova, a former tennis pro and novelist originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia
|
"With 9, she's won more singles titles at Wimbledon than any...
|
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
|
"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
|
|
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
|
"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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|
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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|
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
|
|
Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
|
\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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|
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky
|
"A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
|
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
|
2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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|
Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
|
"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
|
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
|
"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
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Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
|
"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
|
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
|
2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington
|
"Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
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|
Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey
|
\"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
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|
Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
|
"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
|
"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
|
|
Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
|
|
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
|
"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
|
|
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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|
Jeff Pandin, a history teacher from Alexandria, Virginia
|
Season 22 1-time champion: $18,000 + $2,000.
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|
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
|
|
Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
|
"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
|
|
William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
|
"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
|
|
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
|
|
Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
|
|
Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He won the Teacher\'s Tournament and the Tournament of Champions last...
|
|
Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
|
|
Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
|
|
Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
|
"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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|
Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
|
"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
|
|
Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
|
"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
|
|
Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
|
"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
|
|
Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
|
|
Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
|
"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
|
|
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
|
"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
|
|
Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
|
"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
|
|
Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
|
"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
|
|
Scott Montanaro, a high school history and psychology teacher from Portland, Oregon
|
2018 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 grant. At...
|
|
Tim Russert, a journalist from Meet the Press
|
"The host of the longest-running show in the history of television,...
|
|
Lisa McClain, a history professor and Director of Gender Studies from Boise, Idaho
|
Season 23 1-time champion: $20,500 + $2,000.
|
|
Stephanie Jass, a history professor from Milan, Michigan
|
"She is a history professor who won seven games last year...
|
|
Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
|
"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
|
|
Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland
|
2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
|
|
Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
|
"He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
|
|
Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York
|
"He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
|
|
Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York
|
"He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
|
|
Eli Barrieau, a high school history teacher from Hardwick, Massachusetts
|
"He found working in a window factory a 'pain'. Now it's...
|
|
Lucas Miner, a junior at Yale University from Miami, Florida
|
\"He finished third in the 2019 Teen Tournament as a junior...
|
|
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
|
"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
|
|
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
|
"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
|
|
Tessa Fleming, a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California
|
Season 31 player (2014-09-16). Tessa's father was a 2-time champion on...
|
|
Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
|
"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
|
|
Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
|
"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
|
|
Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
|
"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
|
|
Wilson York, a graduate student of history from Atlanta, Georgia
|
Season 24 player (2007-09-12).
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|
Brian Lamb, a teacher from Bakersfield, California
|
Season 23 player (2007-06-26). Season 22 2-time champion: $39,201 + $1,000....
|
|
Stephanie Pierson, a junior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from Macon, Georgia
|
"Originally competing as a high school junior from Macon, Georgia, she's...
|
|
Peter Buchholz, a 6th grade U.S. history and language arts teacher from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2016 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
|
|
Terrie Trebilcock, a high school history and economics teacher from Glen Rock, Pennsylvania
|
2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
|
|
Ian Miller, a high school history, government, and economics teacher from Woodland Hills, California
|
2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
|
|
Lauren Gilmore, a high school history teacher from Lake Wales, Florida
|
2016 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant...
|
|
Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
|
|
Eric LaForest, a high school history teacher originally from Jacksonville, Florida
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $9,762 + $2,000.
|
|
Sarah Workman, a history teacher from Pomona, California
|
Season 4 1-time champion: $9,400 + a trip to Florida on...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
|
|
Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
|
|
Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
|
|
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
|
|
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
|
|
Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
|
|
Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
|
|
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
|
2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
|
|
Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
|
2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
|
|
Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
|
"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
|
|
Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
|
2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
|
|
Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
|
"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
|
|
Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
|
|
Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
|
|
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
|
|
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
|
|
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
|
"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
|
|
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
|
|
Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
|
"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
|
|
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
|
2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
|
|
Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
|
|
Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
|
|
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
|
|
Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
|
|
Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
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Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Susan Lucci, an actress from All My Children
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"One of daytime TV's most beloved actresses, she's played Erica Kane...
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Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida
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\"A sophomore from Pensacola, Florida in the 2018 Teen Tournament, she\'s...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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• 19-game champion • 3rd longest winning streak 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational...
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Morgan Flood, a junior from Pequea, Pennsylvania
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Hank Robinson, a senior from Lithia Springs, Georgia
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Matthew Weiner, a series creator and executive producer from Mad Men
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"He is the creator and executive producer of one of the...
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Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
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Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Tim Cho, a senior at Columbia University from Champaign, Illinois
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\"When he first appeared on Jeopardy!, he was a senior in...
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Ike Barinholtz, an actor from Chicago, Illinois
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\"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he appeared on Fox\'s Mad TV,...
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Erhard Konerding, a librarian and instructor from Middletown, Connecticut
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Season 10 1-time champion: $6,002. Erhard appeared on Remember This in...
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Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
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Peter Ellis, a senior at North Carolina State University from Cary, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Darryl Scott, an Air Force lieutenant colonel originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 9 2-time champion: $13,402 + the Jeopardy! '92 home game....
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Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
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"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
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Chris Capozzola, a graduate student from Washington, D.C.
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"Ten years ago, he was a junior in Worcester, New York....
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Diane Armstrong, a consultant and retired Navy officer from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-09-21).
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Kim McShane, a freelance business writer from Tallahassee, Florida
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Season 20 player (2004-02-04).
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