| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 $2000: A big assembly or diet took place in this German city in 1521 Worms |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Silver Pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.) Until the 1930s, the Silver Pagoda was used as a place where these people lived & studied monks |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 1990s HISTORY $1000: A 51-day standoff between the feds & Branch Davidians took place in 1993 near this seat of McLennan County, Texas Waco |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | FRENCH HISTORY $2000: The October 1415 battle of this fortress, lost to the English, actually took place in a nearby muddy field Agincourt |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | TREBEKS IN ART HISTORY $200: An anonymous ancestor of mine appears in one of the paintings in Niaux, this type of place a cave |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): Daniel Shays in 1787, like John Brown in 1859, tried to capture one of these storage places an arsenal |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | A "D" IN HISTORY $800: In 1952 the U.N. started a commission on this to make the world a less lethal place disarmament |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | A "D" IN HISTORY $1000: In the 16th century these assemblies of German potentates took place at Speyer, Augsburg & (yummy!) Worms a diet |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | HISTORY HAPPENED HERE $400: His March, 44 B.C. assassination took place in a temporary Senate House on the Campus Martius Julius Caesar |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1000: It's the mountain pass featured in the following:
It was the time & the place that would forever crystalize the essence of Sparta in a single event that future generations will turn to again & again Thermopylae |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | PLACE NAME PEOPLE $300: This early settler of Charlestown, Massachusetts got a hill named for him; a June 1775 battle was fought there George Bunker |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: A hood-like cap is named for this place in the Crimea where the Light Brigade made its charge Balaclava |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The first of these battles in America probably took place in Plymouth but not between Burr & Hamilton a duel |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | DANCE HISTORY $100: In the 11th & 14th centuries it was the macabre place where a "danse macabre" was preformed cemetery |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | THEATER $600: This Edward Albee play takes place in a history professor's living room at a small college Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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