#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: Commemorated in a series of Giotto frescoes, this 13th century Italian saint from Assisi founded an order of Catholic monks Francis |
#4244, aired 2003-01-30 | HISTORY $1200: In 1497 John Cabot visited the area of this Newfoundland capital & named it for a beheaded saint St. John's |
#4161, aired 2002-10-07 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In 391 he was ordained a priest in Hippo in northern Africa; he served as the bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430 Saint Augustine |
#3466, aired 1999-10-04 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1000: As Bishop of Hippo, a Roman city in north Africa, this saint judged civil court cases Saint Augustine |
#3106, aired 1998-02-16 | HISTORY $800: We must confess, in 1161 this English king was made a saint Edward the Confessor (Edward III) |
#2556, aired 1995-10-16 | FASHION HISTORY $400: In 1958 Yves Saint Laurent introduced a wide dress named for this aerialist apparatus trapeze |
#2464, aired 1995-04-27 | FASHION HISTORY $300: In 1983 Yves Saint Laurent became the 1st living couturier honored with a retrospective at this NYC museum Metropolitan Museum of Art |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: Though a U.S. citizen & thus the 1st American saint, Mother Cabrini was born in this country Italy |