#8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $400: Salmon P. Chase, before George Washington, was the first person on the face of this the dollar |
#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 |
#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 $800: A 15th & 16th century empire was named for these people also called Tenochca & Mexica the Aztec |
#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 |
#8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $2000: Pals with Charles de Gaulle, he was premier of France for much of the 1960s (Georges) Pompidou |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | HISTORY WITH LESSER-KNOWN PAINTERS $2000: Adolph Menzel painted a concert with this great Prussian king on Flute & C.P.E. Bach at the keyboard Frederick the Great |
#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 |
#7189, aired 2015-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On April 18, 1775, this man left Charlestown around 11:00 P.M. but was captured by the British after hitting Lexington, but before he got to Concord (Paul) Revere |
#6929, aired 2014-10-30 | THE SMITHSONIAN FROM A TO Z $400: P:
A chunk of this piece of American history, chipped off by a descendant of William Bradford Plymouth Rock |
#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 |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | "A" "P" HISTORY $200: The people of this empire called themselves the Mexica or Tenochca Aztecs |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | "A" "P" HISTORY $400: On converting to Christianity, this daughter of Powhatan took the name Rebecca Pocahontas |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | "A" "P" HISTORY $600: At age 20 he became king of Macedonia; by 32, his empire stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India Alexander the Great |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | "A" "P" HISTORY $800: Byblos, from which we got the word "Bible", was one of the foremost cities of these ancient seafaring people the Phoenicians |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | "A" "P" HISTORY $1000: In ancient Rome the 2 main social classes were the aristocratic patricians & these common citizens the plebeians |
#6273, aired 2011-12-21 | PETS IN HISTORY $2000: This little protege of P.T. Barnum led a playful attack on Queen Victoria's poodle after the dog barked at him Tom Thumb |
#3559, aired 2000-02-10 | ASIAN HISTORY $200: In 1934 he & his followers began a 6,000-mile march from Jiangxi province to the village of Yan'an in northern China Mao Tse-tung |
#2602, aired 1995-12-19 | SOAP OPERA HISTORY $200: Once Snapper on "The Young & the Restless", he's a lifeguard on "Baywatch" days & a P.I. on "Baywatch Nights" David Hasselhoff |
#2537, aired 1995-09-19 | U.S. HISTORY $600: At about 9:30 P.M. on Oct. 8, 1871, it was noticed by a lookout on top of the Chicago courthouse (The Great Chicago) fire |
#2210, aired 1994-03-25 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In December 1991 this A.P. correspondent became the last U.S. hostage released from Lebanon Terry Anderson |
#1736, aired 1992-03-02 | NONFICTION $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1958 this former British P.M. completed a four-volume "History of the English-Speaking Peoples" Winston Churchill |
#1087, aired 1989-05-02 | RATED "P.G." $300: The most famous one in baseball history was probably Don Larsen's in the 1956 World Series a perfect game |
#742, aired 1987-11-24 | FASHION HISTORY $100: The kimono was not originally Japanese but an adaptation of the p'ao, a robe from this country China |
#717, aired 1987-10-20 | U.S. HISTORY $300: John Paul Jones reply to Capt. Richard Pearson's Sept. 23, 1779 question "Have you struck?" I have not yet begun to fight! |
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