| #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 |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $2000: This former state department official & accused spy leaves court in 1949 during one of his perjury trials, a big Cold War story Alger Hiss |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $1200: In the 1970s this future Secretary of State was a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (John) Kerry |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THOMAS HOBBES $200: Hobbes said life was "nasty, brutish, & short" in a state of this, which doesn't just mean battles but "every man against every man" war |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1600: In 1969 Shirley Chisholm attacked the Vietnam War in the first floor speech of her 14-year run as a rep. of this state New York |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | DEFINITELY NOT ONE OF THE 50 U.S. STATES $1600: The third book Bob Woodward wrote about the Bush administration's Iraq War failings is called "State of" this Denial |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $1600: The Natchez people were nearly wiped out by the French garrison at Fort Rosalie, now the site of Natchez in this state Mississippi |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $2000: British general Burgoyne's 1777 surrender after the second battle of this New York state site was a turning point in the war Saratoga |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | HISTORIC DECLARATIONS $400: Issued during this war, the Corfu Declaration called for a unified Slavic state following the collapse of Austria-Hungary World War I |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) Damaged by World War II bombs, the State Opera House reopened with a production of this Beethoven opera in November, 1955, 150 years to the month of the work's premiere Fidelio |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Lyndon Johnson's 1965 State of the Union address renewed the War on Poverty by promoting a "Great" this Society |
| #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 |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE VIETNAM WAR $1200: Secretary of State under Nixon, he shared a Nobel Prize for his efforts at peace negotiations Kissinger |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $2000: In 1898 William Day gave up this Cabinet post to John Hay & went with Senator George Gray to negotiate a treaty Secretary of State |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $200: The Battle of Germantown,
1777 Pennsylvania |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $400: The Battle of Stones River, aka the Battle of Murfreesboro,
1862-63 Tennessee |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $600: The Battle of White Plains,
1776 New York |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $800: The Battle of Chancellorsville,
1863 Virginia |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | A STATE OF WAR $1000: The Battle of San Patricio,
1836 Texas |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | A SPEECH TO CONGRESS $800: He gave the State of the Union address that called for a "War on Poverty" Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | 19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM.) His eventful career included preventing the capture of Washington, D.C. as a Civil War general & a stint living here as governor of New Mexico, during which he found time to write "Ben-Hur" Lew Wallace |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | THE 1920s $2000: Secretary of State Frank Kellogg & this French minister signed a pact with 13 other nations denouncing war Aristide Briand |
| #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 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $400: In 1825 this state university of New Jersey was renamed to honor a revolutionary war colonel Rutgers |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA $1200: On Dec. 20, 1860 it became the first state to leave the Union; a few months later, the Civil War would begin there South Carolina |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | BESTSELLERS $400: In "Prague Winter" this former Secretary of State told "A personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948" (Madeleine) Albright |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | THE RIVER OF HISTORY $2000: Many Civil War battles had 1 name from a river & 1 from a settlement, as in Stones River/Murfreesboro in this state Tennessee |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERALS $2000: A statue of this "colorful" general in the U.S. Capitol represents the State of Rhode Island Nathanael Greene |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | NAME THE DECADE $400: The Empire State Building opens & the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast causes a panic the 1930s |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $200: The 3-mile-long Freedom Trail (& a few other Revolutionary War bits of history, here & there) Boston |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | HEADS OF STATE $800: Hamid Karzai--we're fighting a war in his country Afghanistan |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | NORM! $200: The dad of this First Gulf War general was a N.J. State Police bigwig & worked the Lindbergh kidnapping case (Norman) Schwarzkopf |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In 1994 Jordan signed a peace treaty with this country, ending the official state of war between them Israel |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks atop a lush seaside hill.) I'm at this site in New York State bought by Congress for $11,085 in 1790 at the request of the Secretary of War West Point |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Victor Marie du Pont served as a captain of this state's volunteers in the War of 1812 Delaware |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $400: This Northern state had draft riots in July 1863 even as its industrial output exceeded that of the entire South New York |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $800: On September 17, 1862 Gen. Robert E. Lee's Northern march was halted in this slave-holding Union state Maryland |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $1200: What is now this state was briefly called Kanawha after it refused to secede from the Union West Virginia |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $1600: The USS Monitor sank off the shore of this state that supplied the most troops to the Confederate Army North Carolina |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $2000: The first major victories for the Union were at Fort Donelson & Fort Henry in this state Tennessee |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | small state capitals $1600: The Old Barracks Museum in this capital was the location of a major turning point in the Revolutionary War Trenton |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | PROUD TO BE A SECRETARY $1,400 (Daily Double): During the War of 1812, this future president pulled double duty as Secretary of State & of War Monroe |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: An ad for this oceanliner May 1, 1915 warned passengers there was a state of war; the ship was sunk May 7 Lusitania |
| #4311, aired 2003-05-05 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES $400: The Battle of Cowpens was fought in a cattle-grazing area in the north of this "Palmetto State" South Carolina |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | STATE CAPITALS $1600: A 150-foot-high battle monument in this New Jersey capital marks the site of a famous Revolutionary War battle Trenton |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $200: In the 1790s, Robert Carter, like Thomas Jefferson a planter in this state, freed hundreds of his own slaves Virginia |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET $1,000 (Daily Double): He wasn't a Secretary of State, he was Andrew Johnson's Secretary of War in 1867 & 1868 Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | A ROYAL PAIN $400: When assassinated in 1908, Carlos I of this Iberian country was in a virtual state of war with his subjects Portugal |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | ANCIENT GREEK SALAD $600 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Steve Smith, proud to have been a Michigan State Spartan) It's the name of a league the ancient Spartans founded, & of a war they fought against Athens Peloponnesian |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | SIX FLAGS $100: The two nations in a perpetual state of war whose flags are seen here North & South Korea |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | U.S.A. $500: Exeter, capital of this state during the Revolutionary War, has an American independence museum New Hampshire |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: In 1801 he ordered a blockade of Tripoli after that pirate state declared war on the U.S. Thomas Jefferson |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $200: Elihu Washburne, who sponsored a bill making this man a Civil War general, became his secretary of state Ulysses S. Grant |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $5,000 (Daily Double): Buttons stamped with a palmetto tree design were worn on the uniforms of this state's troops South Carolina |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | CIVIL WARS $1000: In a devastating 1960s civil war, this country recaptured the breakaway state of Biafra Nigeria |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: Braxton Bragg, one of the Confederacy's 8 full generals, has a fort named for him in this state North Carolina |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | HODGEPODGE $400: One of Alabama's nicknames, the "Yellowhammer State", refers to a color on uniforms worn during this war Civil War |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $100: The gravesite of Man O' War is located at a Lexington horse park in this state Kentucky |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In his 1964 State of the Union Address, Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on" this poverty |
| #1965, aired 1993-03-05 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: This Secretary of State was recovering from a carriage accident when he was stabbed on April 14, 1865 Seward |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: As a result of this war, Sparta became the strongest Greek city-state in 404 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863 West Virginia |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | WORLD WAR I $300: After the war this Medal of Honor winner settled on a Tennessee farm given to him by the state Alvin York |
| #1508, aired 1991-03-06 | THE CONFEDERACY $400: Judah P. Benjamin, a lawyer, was the 1st to hold this Confederate cabinet office attorney general |
| #7, aired 1990-07-28 | 1979 $600: A 31-year state of war between these 2 nations ended in March with a treaty signed in the U.S. Israel & Egypt |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | NEVADA $800: Though it had only about 20% of the required population, Nevada was made a state during this war Civil War |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: As secretary of state at the time, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation as a witness Seward |
| #963, aired 1988-11-09 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $300: The first page of this 1776 pamphlet reads, "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil" "Common Sense" |
| #789, aired 1988-01-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1843, Mexico said annexation of this as a U.S. state would be equal to a declaration of war Texas |
| #692, aired 1987-09-15 | WARS $1000: Secretary of State John Hay described it as "a splendid little war" the Spanish-American War |
| #641, aired 1987-05-25 | THE 1930s $1000: In October 1935, Roosevelt said "A state of war unhappily exists" between Italy & this country Ethiopia |
| #515, aired 1986-11-28 | THE CIVIL WAR $400 (Daily Double): When capital of Confederacy moved to Virginia, representatives of this state had best reason to complain Alabama |
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