#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 |
#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES $200: A 2022 population estimate by the Census Bureau lists this Lone Star capital as the 10th-largest U.S. city Austin |
#9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $400: This organization's New York City HQ was built on land bought in 1946 with an $8.5 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. the U.N. |
#9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $2000: The Rasmuson Wing contains the art of the North Galleries in the museum named for this U.S. city a 2,200-mile drive from Seattle Anchorage |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $1200: Get a kick out of some kicks at the Giant Shoe Museum in Pike Place Market in this Western city Seattle |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | 2-3 ZONE $400: Recently, the Green Zone, a fortified area with government buildings & the U.S. embassy, has opened up to this Mideast city's people Baghdad |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $1200: A small city of about 10,000, Wapakoneta, Ohio is famous for being the birthplace of this astronaut Armstrong |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $1600: Many a cruise leaves out of Port Everglades in this city, the seat of Broward County Fort Lauderdale |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Most city founders have been gone a while, but the man for whom this Nevada casino town is named, passed away in 2023 Laughlin |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $600: If Mo Rocca was unblocking a chakra in Opa-locka, he'd be doing yoga in a city in this southeasternmost U.S. state Florida |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1200: On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the Old Ursuline Convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns New Orleans |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | DOUBLE TALK GEOGRAPHY $800: A port city on Tutuila Island, Pago Pago is the capital of this U.S. territory in the South Pacific American Samoa |
#2, aired 2024-01-12 | NICKNAMES $1000: A Yat, as in "Where y'at?", is a person from this Southern U.S. city New Orleans |
#9013, aired 2024-01-10 | U.S. MONEY $600: In the late 18th century, the first U.S. coins were minted in this city, the capital at the time Philadelphia |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | DISASTER $200: The earthquake & ensuing fire that struck this U.S. city in 1906 had a 7.9 magnitude & claimed more than 3,000 lives San Francisco |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $400: Central U.S. state + "polis" = this capital city of that same state Indianapolis |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $7,000 (Daily Double): The first woman mayor of a major U.S. city was Bertha Landes in Seattle; soon after came Dorothy Lee in this city 172 miles south Portland (Oregon) |
#8936, aired 2023-09-25 | U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $400: LIT:
A wee city in this state Arkansas |
#8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $1000: In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sullivan the New York Times |
#8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $400: "Gone, Baby, Gone":
a wicked good read Boston |
#8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $800: "A Confederacy of Dunces":
not so easy for the Big Guy New Orleans |
#8878, aired 2023-05-24 | TO THE FORT! $2,000 (Daily Double): Now a city, it was founded in 1849 as a military outpost & named for a commander of the U.S. Army in Texas Fort Worth |
#6, aired 2023-05-10 | U.S. "BURG"S $1000: This South Carolina city was named for a local militia that helped win the Battle of Cowpens in the American Revolution Spartanburg |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | A GOVERNMENT OFFICE $200: Conveniently based in this U.S. city, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting provides uncensored information to the island Miami |
#8777, aired 2023-01-03 | THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $1200: This sizable city a bit south of Seattle has re-created Fort Nisqually, the first British outpost on Puget Sound Tacoma |
#8755, aired 2022-12-02 | HONORARY U.S. CITIZENS $100 (Daily Double): A city & a bay in this state derive their names from the most recent honoree, Revolutionary War hero Bernardo de Gálvez Texas |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $400: A suburb of Dallas, this city officially recognizes Rip Van Winkle's creator as its namesake Irving |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $800: Once a large Quaker community, this California city bears the last name of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $1000: River surfing is a big deal in this second-largest Montana city that's also home to the University of Montana Missoula |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $2000: Located near the Oregon border, this Washington city with a double-talk name is famous for its wines & vineyards Walla Walla |
#8710, aired 2022-09-30 | SANDWICHES $400: A muffuletta, with cold cuts, cheese & olive salad, is a specialty of this U.S. city New Orleans |
#8687, aired 2022-07-19 | UNDER QUARANTINE $1200: A 1793 yellow fever epidemic struck this city, then the U.S. capital, forcing the government to evacuate to Germantown Philadelphia |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | TUNNELS $800: A busy border crossing between the U.S. & Canada is the tunnel linking Detroit with this city in Ontario Windsor |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Named for a V.P. from Indiana, this Alaska city is home to the Goldpanners, who play an annual Midnight Sun Game at 10 P.M. Fairbanks |
#8660, aired 2022-06-10 | U.S. DATES $200: On this date each year moments of silence are observed in New York City at 8:46 & 9:03 A.M. September 11th |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $200: On San Antonio's flag, this structure is found in the middle of a white lone star the Alamo |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $600: After a less-than-stellar review of its previous flag, Rapid City, South Dakota put this landmark front & center Mount Rushmore |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $800: This North Carolina city is one of the few to have a double-sided flag; the reverse has the motto of the English sir it's named for Raleigh |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $1000: The unofficial flag of this very south Florida city bears the words "Conch Republic", a nation/state of mind set up in the area in 1982 Key West |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | U.S. BUILDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): A radiator cap design was fittingly incorporated into the corners of this Art Deco skyscraper in New York City the Chrysler Building |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | COUNTRIES IN THE U.S. $800: In the 19th century William Holmes named a city in southern Minnesota this, after a river in the Holy Land Jordan |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | COUNTRIES IN THE U.S. $2000: This city in Kansas that's just about the geographic center of the lower U.S. shares its name with a nation on the Mediterranean Lebanon |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THEY NAMED A CITY FOR HIM $200: This capital & second-largest city of Wisconsin was named for the fourth U.S. president Madison |
#8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Named for a European queen, Charlotte Amalie is the capital city of this U.S. possession east of Puerto Rico the U.S. Virgin Islands |
#8630, aired 2022-04-29 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $600: 5280 is the name of a magazine devoted to this U.S. city & its surrounding areas Denver |
#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 |
#8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CHANGES ON THE U.S. MAP $800: As part of a radio show promotion in 1950, the city of Hot Springs in this state renamed itself Truth or Consequences New Mexico |
#8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CITY FOLK $1600: This actress & daughter of director Ron was named for a Utah national park & a U.S. city Bryce Dallas Howard |
#8596, aired 2022-03-14 | A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE $600: Too-friendly-to-slavery Millard's name is being taken off things at UB, the U. at this city in New York where he was 1st chancellor Buffalo |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: Incorporated in 1911, this city 30 miles northwest of Hoover Dam has had a busy 111 years Las Vegas |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): "Take a ride" in this oft-mispronounced Pennsylvania city named for the ancestral hometown of the Penn family Reading |
#8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: This city in Westchester County, New York gets its name from a Dutch title basically meaning "squire" Yonkers |
#8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The first U.S. case study of a Black urban community was made in this city by W.E.B. Du Bois working for Penn in the 1890s Philadelphia |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN $1600: British-born, in 2020 she became a U.S. citizen--naturally, in the city of New York Kim Cattrall |
#8508, aired 2021-11-10 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $200: In 1873 this U.S. city became the first in the world to have a permanent cable car service San Francisco |
#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 |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $200: Things to do in this city include seeing its mint that opened in 1906 & taking in a game at Coors Field Denver |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $800: This large national memorial that's about 25 miles southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota was named for a New York lawyer Mount Rushmore |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $1000: Not to be confused with the Boston area's Mass Ave, Mass Street is a center of University of Kansas life in this city Lawrence |
#8473, aired 2021-09-22 | AIR TRAVEL $800: In 2019, the biggest new terminal opening in the U.S. in a decade was celebrated at this city's airport with a second line parade New Orleans |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS $2000: What's now a federal center in this Michigan city was once the sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg Battle Creek |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | OUT WEST IN THE U.S. $600: This California city known for its wineries was founded in 1847 & sits on a river of the same name Napa |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $800: A memorial in this Moroccan city remembers the U.S. Western Naval Task Force, not Rick helping Ilsa & Victor escape Casablanca |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Once a hat-making center, today this Connecticut city is known for its federal low-security facility housing female inmates Danbury |
#8399, aired 2021-05-13 | NUMBERING THE NONFICTION BOOKS $800: "13 Hours" is a tale of loss & heroism in the 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. compound in this Libyan city Benghazi |
#8393, aired 2021-05-05 | NON-ALEXANDER HAMILTON $800: U.S. figure skater Scott Hamilton took the gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics in this city that would later be a war zone Sarajevo |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $200: Despite what Ron Burgundy says, this city is named for a Spanish monk San Diego |
#8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $1000: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West is in this city, a resort suburb of Phoenix Scottsdale |
#8370, aired 2021-04-02 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $400: The corporate headquarters of 3M are in Maplewood, a suburb of this Minnesota city St. Paul |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | U.S. LANDMARKS $600: This Florida city's Castillo de San Marcos, a stone fort begun in 1672, replaced a series of wooden structures on the site St. Augustine |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | U.S. LANDMARKS $800: Several non-fabric "quilts" including a quilt of remembrance for the 1996 bombing were created in Olympic Park in this city Atlanta |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Named for a Native American game, it's Wisconsin's largest city on the Mississippi La Crosse |
#8329, aired 2021-02-04 | 30 SOMETHING $200: A university in this U.K. city consists of 38 colleges, including All Souls, St. John's & Trinity Oxford |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | U.S. CITIES $400: Near Lake Tahoe, this city named for a Civil War general became a gambling mecca after legalization widened in 1931 Reno |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: A 1920s song asked, "How ya gonna keep em down on" this place? Many didn't, as in that decade, the U.S. became majority city folk the farm |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING $200: The OED defines this phrase that includes a U.S. city as "a very short period of time" a New York minute |
#8128, aired 2020-01-01 | MAYORS $1200: Norman Mineta became the first Asian-American mayor of a major U.S. city when he took over this tech town near San Francisco in 1971 San Jose |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | WHERE AM I? $200: ( Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in a mailroom.) I'm with mail for ZIP Codes 60601 through 60827 at the United States Postal Services' main processing plant for this, the third most populous U.S. city Chicago |
#8082, aired 2019-10-29 | WOOD $2000: Visit Mandalay in Burma & you may come home with a table of this wood from which the city's U Bein Bridge is built teak |
#8012, aired 2019-06-11 | BIRTHPLACES $1200: Danny Trejo:
This U.S. city L.A. |
#7961, aired 2019-04-01 | AN APRIL TO REMEMBER $400: In April 1906 an earthquake hit this U.S. city followed by a massive fire & the loss of 3,000 lives San Francisco |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | THE WESTERN U.S. $600: If you're "standin' on a corner in" this city in Arizona, head 20 miles west to see a 550'-deep meteor crater Winslow |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $600: A type of oak tree appears on the official seal of this city where the Wolverines play their home games Ann Arbor |
#7935, aired 2019-02-22 | THE ARCTIC $2000: The largest on the Arctic Ocean, this Russian city was a base for the British, French & U.S. forces against the Bolsheviks Murmansk |
#7912, aired 2019-01-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: It sounds like a daily paper but this port city is actually part of a metro area that includes Norfolk & Virginia Beach Newport News |
#7874, aired 2018-11-29 | ELEMENTAL U.S. PLACES $400: Silver Spring, Maryland is a suburb of this city Washington, D.C. |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $600: Chamizal National Memorial, honoring a treaty that ended a U.S.-Mexican border dispute, is in this Texas border city El Paso |
#7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $2000: This largest city in the U.S. Virgin Islands was named for the wife of a Danish king Charlotte Amalie |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | NEON $800: This western U.S. city has a museum featuring a "neon boneyard", an outdoor exhibit of old signs dating back to the 1930s Las Vegas |
#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 |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | A STREETCAR $400: The Sun Link streetcars that take you to the U. of Arizona in this city are among the first U.S.-made ones in 60 years Tucson |
#7800, aired 2018-07-06 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: Rome & this city, whose name was drawn from a hat, form a metropolitan area in New York state Utica |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1200: Renee Zellweger hails from this Texas city that sounds like a girl's first name Katy |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $600 (Daily Double): This third-largest Montana city is named for a feature of the Missouri River Great Falls |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | U.S. CITIES $800: It might "rock" your world to take a tour of the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory in this Colorado city Boulder |
#7781, aired 2018-06-11 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $400: See the Montana legislature in session, January to April of odd-numbered years, at the capitol in this city Helena |
#7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $400: Nicknamed "The American Gentleman", this non-sporting breed from Mass. has a U.S. city right in its name the Boston terrier |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | GETTING HISTORICAL $2,800 (Daily Double): On Sept. 25, 1950 U.S. Marines retook this Asian capital city Seoul |
#7741, aired 2018-04-16 | FIRST IN YOUR CLASS $1200: Home to the oldest University of California campus, in 2014 it became the first city in the U.S. to approve a soda tax Berkeley |
#7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $1200: It's Paraguay's largest city A-S-U-N-C-I-O-N |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | U.S. GEOGRAPH"EE" $400: This Wisconsin city celebrates itself every April 14, a date based on its 414 area code Milwaukee |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | U.S. GEOGRAPH"EE" $3,600 (Daily Double): Booker T. Washington founded a school in this city in 1881 Tuskegee |
#7603, aired 2017-10-04 | WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES $1000: One of the largest city parks in the U.S., it's home to the L.A. Zoo & a famous observatory Griffith Park |
#7589, aired 2017-09-14 | U.S. BUILDINGS $400: Cue the choir! In 2007 this Salt Lake City building reopened after a 2-year renovation the Mormon Tabernacle |
#7589, aired 2017-09-14 | U.S. BUILDINGS $600: A sculpture in this New York City building depicts its founder holding one of the nickels used to create his five-and-dime empire Woolworth (Building) |
#7573, aired 2017-07-12 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at the U.S. Army garrison in this German city that was once a spa town where Goethe, Brahms and Dostoevsky all took the waters; the "baden" in its name means "baths" Wiesbaden |
#7551, aired 2017-06-12 | STRIKE! $2000: A protest against anti-strike police brutality led to the deadly 1886 Haymarket Riot in this U.S. city Chicago |
#7539, aired 2017-05-25 | U.S. SENATORS $800: For 24 years as a popular surgeon in this "ghostly" city, Sen. John Barrasso was "Wyoming's Doctor" Casper |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This Soap Box Derby city was co-founded in 1825 by Simon Perkins, an official with the Ohio Canal Fund Akron, Ohio |
#7444, aired 2017-01-12 | U.S. PLACES $2000: A walking tour of this "stately" Nevada city includes the Red Garter Saloon & the Territorial Enterprise Building Virginia City, Nevada |
#7409, aired 2016-11-24 | U.S. CITY SEALS $400: Chicago's seal includes a sheaf of wheat representing the Illinois plains & a ship for this body of water Lake Michigan |
#7409, aired 2016-11-24 | U.S. CITY SEALS $600: Adorning this state capital's seal are an Indian peace pipe & a stake symbolic of those who staked claims in an 1889 land rush Oklahoma City |
#7409, aired 2016-11-24 | U.S. CITY SEALS $1000: This state capital's seal features a deer, just like a major insurance company based there Hartford |
#7375, aired 2016-10-07 | BESSEMER MUCHO $800: A city was named for Bessemer in this U.S. state near another industrial center, Birmingham Alabama |
#7375, aired 2016-10-07 | BESSEMER MUCHO $1600: In 1847 William Kelly, a native of this U.S. city, independently conceived the same idea as Bessemer Pittsburgh |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | U.S. FIRSTS $1200: The first woman mayor of a major U.S. city was Bertha Landes in Seattle; soon after came Dorothy Lee in this city 172 miles south Portland |
#7371, aired 2016-10-03 | U.S. MUSEUMS $2000: The home in which John Paul Jones lived while his ship the Ranger was being built is now a museum in this N.H. city Portsmouth |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $400: On the first anniversary of his death, a memorial to Michael Jackson was unveiled in this Indiana city Gary |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature (Ernest) Hemingway |
#7347, aired 2016-07-19 | EXODUS $400: Due to a natural disaster in 2005, this U.S. city saw its population drop from 450,000 to about 230,000 New Orleans |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | IT'S ALL "APPLE" SAUCE $600: The first users of this nickname for a major U.S. city were jazz musicians & stable boys the Big Apple |
#7334, aired 2016-06-30 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm at Powell's Books, a 68,000-square-foot mecca for readers in this Western U.S. city Portland, Oregon |
#7321, aired 2016-06-13 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $400: President Obama's 2016 visit to this city was the first by a U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge showed up on a battleship Havana |
#7293, aired 2016-05-04 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1200: Once called Derryfield, this largest New Hampshire city was renamed in 1810 for a British city Manchester |
#7260, aired 2016-03-18 | LET'S RIDE THE WHEEL! $400: The 550-foot-tall "High Roller" is a landmark in this U.S. city Las Vegas |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | THE 1970s $200: The U.S. could have had a bicentennial Olympics, but voters of this Colorado city said no thanks to the 1976 Winter Games Denver |
#7222, aired 2016-01-26 | ALWAYS READY: THE U.S. COAST GUARD $800: Dutifully guarding this city's harbor in April 1861, the Harriet Lane fired a cannon shot, the first Civil War shot from a ship Charleston |
#7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THE WEEKEND IN POP CULTURE $1000: This band was No. 1 for one "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night" in 1975 the Bay City Rollers |
#7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LATIN AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $400: Mexico City has a memorial to the San Patricios, men mostly from this European island who fought the U.S. in the 1840s Ireland |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | IT'S JUST A STAGE $800: The Bathonian stage gets its name from a city in this country the U.K. (or England) |
#7173, aired 2015-11-18 | VIDEO GAME VILLAINS $800: A thief of epic proportions, she has a last name like the 8th-most populous U.S. city Carmen Sandiego |
#7135, aired 2015-09-25 | NICKNAMES $1000: A Yat, as in "Where y'at?", is a person from this Southern U.S. city New Orleans |
#7095, aired 2015-06-19 | U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $400: The name of this largest New Mexico city once had a second "R", but it was hard to pronounce that way Albuquerque |
#7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THAT'S SWELL $600: U.S. skier Gus Kenworthy won silver in the 2014 Olympics in this Russian city & also adopted a family of stray dogs Sochi |
#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 |
#7058, aired 2015-04-29 | INDIANAPOLIS $200: Known as "Circle City", Indianapolis is laid out in a wheel pattern inspired by the pattern of this eastern U.S. city Washington, D.C. |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1600: The most populated city in Central Oregon, it's a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts Bend |
#7012, aired 2015-02-24 | DRAWING A CROWD $2,200 (Daily Double): Attendance was still down some 20%, but 800,000 revelers jammed the streets of this U.S. city in February 2007 New Orleans |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the coast in Italy.) The U.S. has a naval support base at this southern Italian city; near here on September 9, 1943, about 500 Allied ships assembled for Operation Avalanche Naples |
#6968, aired 2014-12-24 | MAKING SOME COIN $1000: The U.S. Mint says modern facilities in Philadelphia & this city together have "produced as many as 28 billion coins in a single year" Denver |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $1200: This city, part of a metro area with Dallas & Fort Worth, was named for the Virginia home of Robert E. Lee Arlington |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $1600: Take a hike & get in touch with your spiritual side at Cathedral Rock in this Arizona city Sedona |
#6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $2,600 (Daily Double): A Montana city is named for a peak called "Big" this Butte |
#6952, aired 2014-12-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $2000: The government's largest mint is in this city that has been minting coins since 1792 Philadelphia |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $400: Mary Todd Lincoln was born in this Kentucky city, now a major center for horse breeding Lexington |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $600: That's a statue of Vulcan in this Alabama city Birmingham |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | U.S. CITIES $2,600 (Daily Double): British general John Forbes named this city for a certain William the Elder Pittsburgh |
#6871, aired 2014-06-30 | U.S. COLONY NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Massachusetts means "at the big" one of these; colony Gov. John Winthrop said, "we shall be as a city upon" one of these a hill |
#6864, aired 2014-06-19 | PUT ON YOUR NEON $2000: If you see the neon sign here, you're near the waterfront in this U.S. city Seattle |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $200: L'Enfant, but not L'Enfant Terrible, designed this U.S. city Washington, D.C. |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A "TON" OF CITIES $400: You'll find Transylvania U. & Henry Clay's old home, now a museum, in this city Lexington, Kentucky |
#6857, aired 2014-06-10 | NEVADA $400: From 1870 to 1893, after a gold & silver boom, this state capital was home to a U.S. mint Carson City |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $1,400 (Daily Double): The southernmost major city on the U.S. mainland, it had a population of only 343 when the railroad arrived in 1896 Miami |
#6847, aired 2014-05-27 | VISA $400: A passport & visa are all you need to get into Vietnam, but you're advised to tell the U.S. embassy in this city Hanoi |
#6842, aired 2014-05-20 | U.S. PLACES $2000: Though it has an Old Cowtown Museum, don't call this city of 385,000 southwest of Topeka a cowtown Wichita |
#6839, aired 2014-05-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Pasca, a Native American word for bread, gave this Gulf Coast city its name Pascagoula |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a map of the U.S.) From Los Angeles, take the I-10 transcontinental route, and you'll cross the USA all the way to this city Jacksonville |
#6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s $1,500 (Daily Double): "Accord Reached to End the War in Bosnia" in a 1995 story datelined this Midwest U.S. city Dayton |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $200: With a population of 104,000, this city indicated on the map is the smallest to boast an NFL franchise. Green Bay |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $1000: A memorial on the site of the former South Fork Dam commemorates the devastating 1889 flood in this Pennsylvania city Johnstown |
#6731, aired 2013-12-16 | 1930s ENGINEERING FEATS $800: A highway completed in 1938 allowed one to drive from Miami to this southernmost city in the continental U.S. Key West |
#6725, aired 2013-12-06 | PARTS OF THE CITY $2,000 (Daily Double): This Spanish word for "neighborhood" refers to a Latino enclave in a U.S. city barrio |
#6700, aired 2013-11-01 | U.S. FORCES OVERSEAS $1200: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Germany.) In 1948 & 1949, a lot of brave airmen flew some dangerous missions out of Wiesbaden Air Base in order to resupply this blockaded German city Berlin |
#6677, aired 2013-10-01 | MAPPING THE NFL $800 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the U.S. with a city marked.) The team that ended up here in the 1990s originated here under this name the (Houston) Oilers |
#6676, aired 2013-09-30 | U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS $800: Raleigh & Durham were named for people; this third leg of "the Triangle" got its name from a small church Chapel Hill |
#6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $2000: "Twilight" fans can see Bella's truck at this Washington city's Chamber of Commerce Forks |
#6649, aired 2013-07-11 | CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A "saintly" Southern California city becomes a senator who "fights" for the entire state Santa Barbara Boxer |
#6635, aired 2013-06-21 | THE U.S. CITY RAINS SUPREME $200: "The city so nice they named it twice", it gets nearly 50" of rain a year... good luck getting a cab! New York |
#6635, aired 2013-06-21 | THE U.S. CITY RAINS SUPREME $600: It's a wonder that more Kentucky Derbys aren't muddy, as this home city of the race gets 44.5" of rain annually Louisville |
#6635, aired 2013-06-21 | THE U.S. CITY RAINS SUPREME $800: Elvis got rained on when he moved to this city in 1948; it gets 54.7" a year Memphis |
#6635, aired 2013-06-21 | THE U.S. CITY RAINS SUPREME $1000: Flowers get plenty of chances to bloom in this Pacific Northwest "City of Roses" with 37" of rain a year Portland |
#6620, aired 2013-05-31 | THE VIETNAM WAR $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Reminders of the war are everywhere in Vietnam; a small lake in a quiet Hanoi neighborhood still holds wreckage of one of these giant U.S. bombers that attacked the city in December 1972 a B-52 |
#6571, aired 2013-03-25 | U.S. STAMPS $1000: This city's red sandstone rock formations are featured on a stamp celebrating Arizona's statehood Sedona |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $800: The art deco-style Union Depot & Phillips Oil "Philcade" suit this city in Oklahoma to a "T" Tulsa |
#6502, aired 2012-12-18 | TENNESSEE'S WILLIAMS $1000: A real-life "Bones", forensic anthropologist William Bass founded the "Body Farm" at the U. of Tenn. in this city Knoxville |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | BREAD $400: This U.S. city precedes "brown" in the name of a sweet, dark steamed bread Boston |
#6487, aired 2012-11-27 | U.S. MEMORIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Davenport Park in the city of Bangor is home to a memorial remembering this battleship the Maine |
#6402, aired 2012-06-19 | ITALIAN FOOD $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us ice cream at Eataly in New York City.) Frozen treats have been a favorite in Italy since at least around 1600, & just as small U.S. towns have an ice cream parlor, every Italian town has this equivalent establishment a gelateria |
#6385, aired 2012-05-25 | SPELLING WITH THE STARS $1000: It's the night the Bay City Rollers planned to rock it up, roll it up, do it all & have a ball S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | U.S. COMMUNITIES $200: Hey, y'all! The Deep Ellum Arts Festival, not far from the Tom Landry Freeway, is a 3-day "Street Party" in this city Dallas |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | U.S. COMMUNITIES $400: Do you know the way to this California city that topped a 2011 list of America's geekiest cities? San Jose |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1600: This New Mexico city on old Route 66 was named for a paymaster on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, not a pollster Gallup |
#6291, aired 2012-01-16 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $400: Bertha Landes, the first woman mayor of a large U.S. city, presided over this largest Washington city in the 1920s Seattle |
#6289, aired 2012-01-12 | U.S.A. $400: We'll gamble you know this N.J. city boasts a 4.5-mile-long boardwalk that continues on into Ventnor City Atlantic City |
#6289, aired 2012-01-12 | U.S.A. $800: This Michigan city is the former HQ of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church & is home to some famous cereals Battle Creek |
#6289, aired 2012-01-12 | U.S.A. $1200: There's no place like this Alaskan city, pop. 3,500, which faces Norton Sound of the Bering Sea Nome |
#6289, aired 2012-01-12 | U.S.A. $3,000 (Daily Double): From 1863 to 1865 this Northern Louisiana city served as the Confederate state capital Shreveport |
#6276, aired 2011-12-26 | U.S.A. $1600: With its Old World architecture, this California city is "The Danish Capital of America" Solvang |
#6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MAPMAKER, MAPMAKER $1200: A study says it's the most misspelled city in the U.S., but you got it right, with the final "H" Pittsburgh |
#6227, aired 2011-10-18 | EARTHQUAKE! $200: The Palace Hotel in this U.S. city had to be rebuilt after it was gutted by fire following a 1906 earthquake San Francisco |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This Missouri capital is one of the 4 named after a U.S. president Jefferson City |
#6165, aired 2011-06-03 | JERSEY SURE $1200: In 1784 this Jersey city said fine, we'll be the U.S. capital for a while; it would be the state capital 6 years later Trenton |
#6143, aired 2011-05-04 | SISTER CITIES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia.) In less than 13 1/2 hours, Qantas flies direct from Sydney, the home of the Harbour Bridge, to this U.S. sister city that also has a famous bridge San Francisco |
#6128, aired 2011-04-13 | THE BIGGEST U.S. CITY STARTING WITH... $1,600 (Daily Double): A
(Named for one of the founders of the state where it's located) Austin (Texas) |
#6128, aired 2011-04-13 | THE BIGGEST U.S. CITY STARTING WITH... $1600: R
(Bearing the name of a 16th century English explorer) Raleigh |
#6118, aired 2011-03-30 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1600: The Houston ship channel flows into this bay that shares its name with a city Galveston Bay |
#6114, aired 2011-03-24 | A FAIR TO REMEMBER $1,800 (Daily Double): This U.S. city's 1915 Panama Pacific Expo was held over a landfill made partly of earthquake debris San Francisco |
#6109, aired 2011-03-17 | OR THE HIGHWAY $2000: The eastern end of U.S. 30 is in Atlantic City; the western end is in Astoria, a continent away in this state Oregon |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | U.S. HISTORY $400: A devastating earthquake & fire in this city in 1906 caused 3,000 deaths & $400 million in damages San Francisco |
#6030, aired 2010-11-26 | TALL U.S. BUILDINGS $400: In the center of the picture is the Transamerica Pyramid, a real high point of this West Coast city San Francisco |
#6030, aired 2010-11-26 | TALL U.S. BUILDINGS $600: The tallest building in a state capital is the Bank of America Plaza on Peachtree St. in this city Atlanta |
#6000, aired 2010-10-15 | ZOOS $1200: One of the largest metropolitan zoos in the U.S., it opened in a New York City borough in 1899 the Bronx Zoo |
#5917, aired 2010-05-11 | A PRO BONO CATEGORY $600: At a 2007 ceremony at the National Constitutional Center, Bono received this U.S. city's Liberty Medal Philadelphia |
#5909, aired 2010-04-29 | SIR FRANCIS DRAKE $1200: 1 story says that in this U.S. city's bay, Drake claimed the west coast for the queen; the city boasts a hotel named for Drake San Francisco |
#5861, aired 2010-02-22 | U.S. COMMEMORATIVE COINS $1000: A silver dollar commemorating desegregation in education showed Central High in this city on the reverse Little Rock |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, was mayor of this Ohio metropolis from 1967 to 1971 Cleveland |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $400: This city's Haight-Ashbury District emerged in the 1960s as a mecca of the counterculture scene San Francisco |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $1200: The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker peace group, is headquartered in this city Philadelphia |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $1600: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a nonfiction book about events in this Georgia city Savannah |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Texas' "Sun City", it's a sister city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico El Paso, Texas |
#5820, aired 2009-12-25 | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE $1000: Toured the Burj in this U.A.E. city. They say it's the tallest tower in the world; looked over ledge & lost my lunch Dubai |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The U.S.A.F. Academy is located outside this Colorado city home to the main U.S. Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs |
#5786, aired 2009-11-09 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Florida city was first called Cowford but was renamed in 1822 for a man who would soon become president Jacksonville |
#5767, aired 2009-10-13 | THE "SEA" $800: This metropolis is the northernmost U.S. city with a population over half a million Seattle |
#5720, aired 2009-06-19 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Jestine's Kitchen is a soulful stop for catfish in this city, home of Catfish Row in story & opera Charleston |
#5712, aired 2009-06-09 | IN FLORIDA $600: In 1822 Isaiah Hart honored the provisional governor of Florida, later a U.S. president, in naming this city Jacksonville |
#5706, aired 2009-06-01 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $800: In the U.S., this river runs through the cities of Sioux City & St. Joseph the Missouri |
#5665, aired 2009-04-03 | THE CLASH $600: Site of a 2003 battleground for U.S. soldiers, a tomb in this country's city of Najaf is a major Shiite shrine Iraq |
#5638, aired 2009-02-25 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $400: Anthony, a city straddling Texas & New Mexico, celebrates only once every 4 years as this "Capital of the World" Leap Year |
#5629, aired 2009-02-12 | BUILT IN THE U.S.A. $1600: The first official flag of the U.S. was agreed upon in this building that has also served as the city dog pound Independence Hall |
#5606, aired 2009-01-12 | THE 19th CENTURY $2000: On January 17, 1878 the U.S. ratified a treaty with Samoa allowing the U.S. navy to use this city's harbor as a fueling station Pago Pago |
#5590, aired 2008-12-19 | BYPASS $1200: The extension of this city's U.S.-29 bypass will have a connector road to the University of Virginia Charlottesville |
#5587, aired 2008-12-16 | WASHINGTON STATE $600: In 1962 Seattle got one of the first elevated ones of these in a U.S. city; it carried people to the World's Fair a monorail |
#5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDES $800: When the Concordes were flying, a round-trip flight between Paris & this U.S. city cost about $8,700 New York City |
#5545, aired 2008-10-17 | INDIANA $200: This port city on Lake Michigan was founded by U.S. Steel & can produce 7 million tons of steel a year Gary |
#5504, aired 2008-07-10 | "JE"-PARDY $400: A U.S. state capital Jefferson City (Missouri) |
#5463, aired 2008-05-14 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: One of the world's largest steel plants can be found in this Indiana city named for a chairman of U.S. Steel Gary |
#5414, aired 2008-03-06 | ON THE U.S. MAP $400: Land o' Goshen! There's a city called Goshen in Elkhart County in this state Indiana |
#5413, aired 2008-03-05 | U.S. CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): If you're feeling a little "Rocky", run up the stairs to visit this city's museum at Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia |
#5413, aired 2008-03-05 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Mormons settled this city in 1855 but thought it was too much of a gamble & abandoned it in 1857 Las Vegas |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $400: Seen here, this city boasts a spectacular skyline, especially in the evening Seattle |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $600: This largest North Dakota city was named for a famous businessman Fargo |
#5387, aired 2008-01-29 | U.S. "C"ITIES $2000: An oil & gas center, this Texas city has a name that translates as "Body of Christ" Corpus Christi |
#5366, aired 2007-12-31 | "X" IN THE CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Averages for this U.S. city are 7.66 inches of rain, a daily high temperature of 85, & 325 sunny days per year Phoenix |
#5359, aired 2007-12-20 | HISTORIC U.S. BUILDINGS $800: A Library of Congress photo collection of buildings includes a 1910 1-room this in South Pass City, Wyoming a schoolhouse (school accepted) |
#5337, aired 2007-11-20 | MOVIE PREMIERES $2,000 (Daily Double): The premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's "Union Pacific" was a 3-day costume spectacle in this city where the U.P. railroad began Omaha, Nebraska |
#5320, aired 2007-10-26 | A FRUITY CATEGORY $1200: Named for a city in Morocco, it's the most common type of Mandarin orange in the U.S. the tangerine |
#5317, aired 2007-10-23 | U.S. MUSEUMS $2000: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama city contains a vast collection of rockets & space memorabilia Huntsville |
#5303, aired 2007-10-03 | U.S. CITY HISTORY $1200: It was Arizona's territorial capital from 1867 to 1877, & a university was founded there in 1885 Tucson |
#5303, aired 2007-10-03 | U.S. CITY HISTORY $1600: Indianapolis was laid out in a wheel pattern inspired by this other major city some 500 miles away Washington, D.C. |
#5303, aired 2007-10-03 | U.S. CITY HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): It was uninhabited when it was chosen as a terr. capital in 1836 & named for a president who died that year Madison, Wisconsin |
#5302, aired 2007-10-02 | U.S.A. $400: Caroling to the animals is a holiday tradition at the Lincoln Park Zoo in this midwest city Chicago |
#5274, aired 2007-07-12 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $1000: In 1967 Carl Stokes defeated Seth Taft to become the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, this one Cleveland |
#5238, aired 2007-05-23 | THE MAN OF STEEL $1000: In 1901 this Chicago lawyer for whom a nearby Indiana city is named helped organize the U.S. Steel Corporation (Elbert) Gary |
#5196, aired 2007-03-26 | "M"-BRACE ME $400: A native of Cuba, Manuel A. Diaz handles the heat as the mayor of this U.S. city Miami |
#5189, aired 2007-03-15 | U.S. LAKES & RIVERS $1200: In 1722 a French explorer on this river noticed the "Little Rock" that gave the city its name the Arkansas River |
#5182, aired 2007-03-06 | SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1200: A border city:
"The Passage" El Paso |
#5182, aired 2007-03-06 | SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1600: A California city:
"The Cats" Los Gatos |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | U.S.A. $200: The ski resorts Alta & Snowbird are within 30 miles of this capital of Utah Salt Lake City |
#5146, aired 2007-01-15 | U.S. PORT CITIES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a port city in Georgia.) This mother city of Georgia was known as the "pretty woman with a dirty face" until a preservation effort began in the 1950s Savannah |
#5146, aired 2007-01-15 | U.S. PORT CITIES $800: By containers handled, Los Angeles is the busiest U.S. port; the second-busiest is in this city just a few miles south Long Beach |
#5129, aired 2006-12-21 | U.S. CITY HISTORY $2000: This city on the Columbia River traces its origins to a fur-trading post established by a certain John Jacob's men Astoria |
#5129, aired 2006-12-21 | U.S. CITY HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): It was officially declared the capital of a kingdom 109 years before it became a state capital Honolulu |
#5103, aired 2006-11-15 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $200: North Little Rock is the sixth-largest city in this state Arkansas |
#5103, aired 2006-11-15 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $400: "I love" this city, America's biggest metropolis--doesn't everyone? New York |
#5103, aired 2006-11-15 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $800: Any Texan can tell you that this city is "Big D" Dallas |
#5050, aired 2006-07-21 | U.S. CITIES $400: President Taft wasn't a Communist, but he was from this city that's home to Reds Cincinnati |
#5039, aired 2006-07-06 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $600: Now famous for a golf tournament, it was the city where Georgia ratified the U.S. Constitution Augusta |
#5032, aired 2006-06-27 | BUGS $400: A species of fire ant that reached the U.S. at this Alabama port city around 1918 has been a pest to the Southern U.S. Mobile |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | CITY OF THE DAY: RALEIGH $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads.) This U.S. president was born in Raleigh in 1808; he never went to school but was apprenticed to a tailor at about 13 Andrew Johnson |
#4941, aired 2006-02-20 | U.S. CITIES $1600: This Nevada city that was little more than a bait shop on the Colorado River is now a gambler's mecca Laughlin |
#4924, aired 2006-01-26 | THE U.S. AIR FORCE $400: A vet who wears a little plane with an Army of Occupation medal helped resupply this city in 1948 & 1949 Berlin |
#4903, aired 2005-12-28 | CLEVELAND ROCKS! $2000: In 1967 voters elected him Cleveland mayor, making him the first black mayor of a major U.S. city Carl Stokes |
#4867, aired 2005-11-08 | U.S. CITIES $1000: A campus for the University of Alabama is here, nicknamed "Rocket City, U.S.A." Huntsville |
#4849, aired 2005-10-13 | STATE OF INTEREST $800: Middlesboro in this state of Abe Lincoln's birth promotes itself as the only U.S. city built within a meteor crater Kentucky |
#4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $1200: A U.S. county's equivalent of a capital, it's often shown on maps as a dot inside a circle the county seat |
#4845, aired 2005-10-07 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $400: (I'm John DeStefano, mayor of New Haven.) New Haven is known as "The Smart City", partly because it's home to this institution founded in 1701 Yale |
#4845, aired 2005-10-07 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $2,000 (Daily Double): Wilcox House, where Teddy Roosevelt took his presidential oath of office in 1901, is in this city Buffalo, New York |
#4782, aired 2005-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY IN SONG $400: In a 1964 hit, "I'm gonna have me some fun if it costs me my very last dime" in this title city Las Vegas |
#4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ON AVERAGE $600: At 51.1 years, a city in this state has the highest average age in the U.S. Florida |
#4740, aired 2005-03-25 | NEW YORK CITY MAYORS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Umbertos in New York City.) As part of a civil lawsuit, in 1987, the Feds took over Umbertos at the request of this U.S. attorney & future mayor, but couldn't make a go of it Giuliani |
#4735, aired 2005-03-18 | A ULYSSES S. GRANT QUICKIE $400: The U.S. city where he's entombed New York City |
#4723, aired 2005-03-02 | MILITARY HISTORY $800: On Nov. 8, 2004 U.S. & Iraqi forces entered this Sunni city of 300,000 beginning a fierce battle Fallujah |
#4715, aired 2005-02-18 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: Determined by a coin toss, this Oregon city's name honors the one in Maine Portland |
#4708, aired 2005-02-09 | WHERE AM I? $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a Navy yard.) I'm at the U.S. Navy's biggest West Coast base of operations, in this city San Diego |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | U.S. CITIES $600: Had this Michigan city kept its earlier name, there might have been a song "I've Got A Gal In Bronson" Kalamazoo |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | U.S. CITIES $800: A bay & a river bear the name of this city, Alabama's second largest Mobile |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | U.S. CITY-SCAPE $400: This Michigan city was incorporated in 1815; there must have been a recall, as it was reincorporated in 1824 Detroit |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | U.S. CITY-SCAPE $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands outside the Cathedral of Learning.) Beginning in 1787, in a frontier log cabin, this university is now symbolized by the 42-story Cathedral of Learning the University of Pittsburgh |
#4678, aired 2004-12-29 | U.S. NEWSPAPERS $200: The Oregonian is a Portland paper & the Tennessean is from this city Nashville |
#4677, aired 2004-12-28 | SPECS & THE CITY $1000: Home to the Air Force Academy, this city has the highest elevation of any city that's home to a U.S. service academy Colorado Springs |
#4672, aired 2004-12-21 | U.S. CITIES $200: Located 12 miles north of Mexico, this California city was a whaling port in the mid-1800s San Diego |
#4666, aired 2004-12-13 | I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE! $3,000 (Daily Double): "Vulcan", the U.S.A.'s largest cast-iron statue, is seen here, looking down on this Southern city Birmingham, Alabama |
#4648, aired 2004-11-17 | U.S. CITIES $800: The heart of French Louisiana & the unofficial capital of the Cajun country is this city named for a French patriot Lafayette |
#4636, aired 2004-11-01 | U.S. CITIES $400: Named for a slain political figure, Harvey Milk Plaza is in this city's Castro district San Francisco |
#4636, aired 2004-11-01 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Springtime is a nice time to visit this Texas city that boasts a 65-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower Paris |
#4623, aired 2004-10-13 | BYE BYE BIRDIE $600: This city's Bishop Museum has a princess' pa'u (skirt) made from feathers of the extinct mamo & 'o'o Honolulu |
#4582, aired 2004-07-06 | GIVE ME AN "A"! $600: In 2004 an Arctic Beauty wild hair contest became part of the famous Fur Rendezvous in this U.S. city Anchorage |
#4576, aired 2004-06-28 | MAIN STREET U.S.A. $800: In Salt Lake City take Main Street to this square to find the Mormon Tabernacle Temple Square |
#4576, aired 2004-06-28 | MAIN STREET U.S.A. $1600: Bob Seger was "down on Main Street" in this city, home to a university Ann Arbor |
#4576, aired 2004-06-28 | MAIN STREET U.S.A. $3,200 (Daily Double): Your feelings may run deep on historic Main Street in this city, home of Oklahoma State University Stillwater |
#4536, aired 2004-05-03 | RIGHT ON THE MONEY $1000: A "D" on U.S. coins indicates the coin was minted in Denver; a "P", this city Philadelphia |
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 | U.S.A. $1200: Popularly known as "The Oldest House", the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in this Florida city dates from around 1723 St. Augustine |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | U.S. CITIES $400: When Oregon became a state in 1859, this city on the Willamette River was already the capital Salem |
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Located in this city's Garden District, Commander's Palace features a jazz brunch on weekends New Orleans |
#4490, aired 2004-02-27 | DON'T LOSE YOUR TRAIN OF THOUGHT $800: In 1912 Henry Flagler rode the first train that linked the U.S. mainland to this, the southernmost city in Florida Key West |
#4465, aired 2004-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Kentucky city was founded in 1775 & named for a battle site in Massachusetts Lexington |
#4439, aired 2003-12-18 | U.S. CITY NICKNAMES $400: Huntington Beach, California has been nicknamed this, also the title of a 1963 Jan & Dean hit "Surf City" |
#4439, aired 2003-12-18 | U.S. CITY NICKNAMES $800: New Orleans was dubbed this city; when it was laid out, that was the shape the Mississippi formed around it "The Crescent City" |
#4439, aired 2003-12-18 | YULETIDE FAVORITES $1000: 6 years before "Seventy-Six Trombones", he wrote "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" Meredith Willson |
#4423, aired 2003-11-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1600: This city in Orange County, North Carolina was named for the location of a church building Chapel Hill |
#4421, aired 2003-11-24 | ART EXHIBITS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1999 this U.S. city's Museum of Art mounted a show of the work Edgar Degas did when he visited relatives there New Orleans, Louisiana |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | RHODE ISLAND $800: Built in 1828 & now a national landmark, The Arcade in this city is the oldest indoor shopping mall in the U.S. Providence |
#4395, aired 2003-10-17 | TRAVEL FRANCE $800: The name of this city in Burgundy has become a synonym in the U.S. for a cheap white wine Chablis |
#4390, aired 2003-10-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: The dome of the capitol building in this city 100 miles west of Philadelphia is a copy of St. Peter's in Rome Harrisburg |
#4388, aired 2003-10-08 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Connecticut's largest city, its Mountain Grove Cemetery has a life-size statue of Tom Thumb Bridgeport |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A U.S. "CITY" $400: It's tough to get out of this city on the Arkansas River if you're in its Boot Hill Cemetery Dodge City |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A U.S. "CITY" $800: It's a city in Tennessee, or the capital of neighboring Missouri Jefferson City |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A U.S. "CITY" $1200: In the 1960s this city, home to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, hired I.M. Pei to design part of its Myriad Gardens Oklahoma City |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A U.S. "CITY" $1600: Incorporated in 1917 & named for the land developer, it's in the mailing address for "Jeopardy!" Culver City |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A U.S. "CITY" $2000: The 1956 & 1964 Republican Conventions were held in the Cow Palace of this San Francisco suburb Daly City |
#4298, aired 2003-04-16 | MONDO GEO $800: Bermuda's capital city, it shares its name with the last name of a man on U.S. currency Hamilton |
#4256, aired 2003-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $1600: This Wisconsin city with a French name is home to a large Danish population & Johnson Wax Racine |
#4229, aired 2003-01-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: This city of over a million people lies 30 miles from Fort Worth Dallas |
#4177, aired 2002-10-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Otis Redding's No. 1 hit that's performed by a Scottish band on S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Night Sitting on the Dock of the Bay City Rollers |
#4163, aired 2002-10-09 | THE WEST COAST $400: Founded as a little pueblo in 1781, it grew up to become the second-largest city in the U.S. Los Angeles |
#4154, aired 2002-09-26 | THAT'S THE SPOT $1000: A sign that says "Get In Here" greets you at the Fog City Diner, located at 1300 Battery St. in this U.S. city San Francisco |
#4153, aired 2002-09-25 | EAT YOUR WAY ACROSS THE U.S.A. $400: Our head writer says the world's best pizza is from La Casa Pizzaria on Leavenworth St. in this largest Nebraska city Omaha |
#4153, aired 2002-09-25 | EAT YOUR WAY ACROSS THE U.S.A. $1000: Veal meatloaf & peach bread pudding are specialties of Buckhead Diner, in this city's upscale Buckhead district Atlanta |
#4099, aired 2002-05-30 | INDIAN RESERVATIONS $2000: Salamanca, N.Y., the only U.S. city that's part of a reservation, belongs to the Seneca tribe of this league Iroquois |
#4087, aired 2002-05-14 | U.S. CITIES $400: Dixieland refers to a style of jazz that originated in this Southern city New Orleans |
#4087, aired 2002-05-14 | U.S. CITIES $800: There's a tomb of the unknown soldiers of the Revolutionary War in this N.Y. city that wasn't built in a day Rome, New York |
#4062, aired 2002-04-09 | HOBBIES $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from a model train showroom.) Model railroading was popularized at the 1933 Century of Progress Expo, in this U.S. city, a longtime railroad hub Chicago, Illinois |
#4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TRAVEL THE U.S.A. $1200: With 45 million gallons, this city's Shedd Aquarium on Lake Michigan is the world's largest indoor aquarium Chicago |
#4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TRAVEL THE U.S.A. $2,000 (Daily Double): While traveling through the southwest, stop in at John Price's UFO Enigma Museum on Main Street in this city Roswell, New Mexico |
#4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TRAVEL THE U.S.A. $2000: The state capitol building in this U.S. city is decorated with murals by Thomas Hart Benton Jefferson City |
#4047, aired 2002-03-19 | TAKE A GAMBLE $1000: You'll find this U.S. gambling resort city on Absecon Island Atlantic City |
#4039, aired 2002-03-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: Talk about rapid transit! This city's monorail travels from Westlake Center to the Space Needle in 90 seconds Seattle |
#4039, aired 2002-03-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $800: The GREAT EscAPE is a simulated tropical forest full of apes at this state capital's zoo; sounds "OK" to me Oklahoma City |
#4039, aired 2002-03-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $1000: Visiting the Hayden planetarium in New York City? Don't miss the American museum of this--it's right next door Natural History |
#4020, aired 2002-02-08 | U.S. CITIES $200: Part of the San Andreas Fault line moved about 25 feet during a 1906 earthquake in this northern California city San Francisco |
#4020, aired 2002-02-08 | U.S. CITIES $400: This largest Tennessee city was named for a city in Egypt Memphis |
#4017, aired 2002-02-05 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $200: The New Mexico Military Institute is in this city (wonder if anyone from outer space is enrolled) Roswell |
#4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THE GOOD OLD U.S. OF A. $400: A biography of the young Elvis is titled "Last Train to" this Tennessee city Memphis |
#4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THE GOOD OLD U.S. OF A. $1000: What's said to be the USA's oldest Mardi Gras is held in this Alabama seaport city Mobile |
#3982, aired 2001-12-18 | U.S. CITIES $600 (Daily Double): It was laid out in 1847 in a grid pattern based on the 4 streets around Temple Square Salt Lake City, Utah |
#3982, aired 2001-12-18 | U.S. CITIES $800: General Cornwallis called this city a "hornet's nest", hence the name of its NBA team Charlotte |
#3968, aired 2001-11-28 | U.S. SKYLINE TOURS $600: This city has served as a federal & as a state capital New York City |
#3923, aired 2001-09-26 | RIGHT ON THE MONEY $200: The "D" on a U.S. coin represents this city where it was minted Denver |
#3912, aired 2001-09-11 | U.S. CITY SONGS $300: In a 1932 standard, it's the city you "shuffle off to" Buffalo |
#3902, aired 2001-07-17 | PLACES IN THE NEWS $100: Elian Gonzalez' relatives in this U.S. city were a regular headline presence in 2000 Miami |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | U.S. CITIES $400: Skinner's Mudhole is a nickname of this Oregon city; it was named for Mr. Skinner Eugene |
#3833, aired 2001-04-11 | U.S. CITIES $800: A gateway to Yellowstone, it's Montana's most populous city Billings |
#3833, aired 2001-04-11 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Nicknamed "Rocket City, U.S.A.", it served as Alabama's capital in 1819 Huntsville |
#3813, aired 2001-03-14 | U.S. LAKES $1000: Rather than Lake Sallier, Louisianans took a settler's first name & called their city this Lake Charles |
#3793, aired 2001-02-14 | ON VALENTINE'S DAY $500: Valentine's Day events in this U.S. city include a 1929 massacre & the 1920 founding of the League of Women Voters Chicago |
#3793, aired 2001-02-14 | GLOBAL WARMING $600: The U.S. & E.U. were represented at a December 1997 global warming summit in this Asian city Kyoto |
#3772, aired 2001-01-16 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $100: A type of treeless plain, or the oldest city in Georgia Savannah |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | TALL BUILDINGS $300: At 1,136 feet, the Amoco Building is the second tallest in this U.S. city Chicago (behind the Sears Tower) |
#3753, aired 2000-12-20 | 40 DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE $1000: This Ohio city, a center of aviation, is named for the youngest signer of the U.S. Constitution Dayton |
#3726, aired 2000-11-13 | AROUND THE USA $300: Holey Cow! The city of Monroe in this state calls itself the "Swiss Cheese Capital of the U.S.A." Wisconsin |
#3722, aired 2000-11-07 | STATELY HOMES $400: A house in this state's city of Hackensack was given to Baron von Steuben for service to the U.S.; he sold it New Jersey |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | AMERICA $800: A city named Beach is found in this landlocked U.S. state wedged between Montana & Minnesota North Dakota |
#3668, aired 2000-07-12 | SID & MARTY KROFFT TV $300 (Daily Double): In 1978 this Scottish band hosted the Krofft Superstar Hour on S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y nights the Bay City Rollers |
#3666, aired 2000-07-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: Col. Thomas Baker founded this city, a produce center & California's country music capital Bakersfield |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A stone obelisk dedicated to President William McKinley stands in this New York city's Niagara Square Buffalo |
#3651, aired 2000-06-19 | U.S.A. $100: Fillmore filled in as Utah's territorial capital until this city took over in 1856 Salt Lake City |
#3651, aired 2000-06-19 | U.S.A. $300: Music lovers know this city is home to the Rhode Island Philharmonic Providence |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | U.S. "CITY"s $100: In 1990 Donald Trump took a gamble & opened his Taj Mahal Casino in this city Atlantic City |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | U.S. "CITY"s $200: At Christmas, a dazzling light display lights up Temple Square in this city Salt Lake City |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | U.S. "CITY"s $300: In the 1870s Wyatt Earp was a lawman in this "Wickedest Little City in America" Dodge City |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | U.S. "CITY"s $500: A monument in this Iowa city honors Sgt. Charles Floyd, who died during the Lewis & Clark expedition Sioux City |
#3643, aired 2000-06-07 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: The city of El Paso in this state is a major gateway between the U.S. & Mexico Texas |
#3622, aired 2000-05-09 | U.S. RIVERS $300: It begins as a creek near an old mining town called Lulu City in Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado River |
#3618, aired 2000-05-03 | U.S. CITIES $200: With a new waterway, this Oklahoma oil center became an inland port in 1971 Tulsa |
#3618, aired 2000-05-03 | U.S. CITIES $400 (Daily Double): Butte is in Montana; a city named for this similar land form is in Arizona Mesa |
#3615, aired 2000-04-28 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $1000: A swank resort city:
NOT A COBRA, Florida Boca Raton |
#3609, aired 2000-04-20 | DIRIGIBLES, BLIMPS & ZEPPELINS $1,000 (Daily Double): L.A. & this N.J. city were the only U.S. stops the Graf Zeppelin made during its round-the-world trip in 1929 Lakehurst |
#3582, aired 2000-03-14 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: (Hi, I'm Jason Elam of the Denver Broncos.) In 1998 I earned a trip to the NFL's Pro Bowl, held each year in this city where I played college ball Honolulu |
#3577, aired 2000-03-07 | U.S.A. $300: In 1982 architect Helmut Jahn designed a dramatic 23-story addition to this Midwest city's Board of Trade Chicago |
#3577, aired 2000-03-07 | U.S.A. $400: Kids love to explore the Exploratorium inside this Northern California city's Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco |
#3573, aired 2000-03-01 | WHERE THERE'S A VILLE $1,500 (Daily Double): The seal of this Southern city shows the seventh U.S. president on horseback Jacksonville, FL (Andrew Jackson) |
#3556, aired 2000-02-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: You can ride a streetcar or a sternwheeler to this city's Audubon Zoo New Orleans |
#3552, aired 2000-02-01 | U.S. CITIES $300: In 1799, if you wanted to go to the nation's capital, you went to this city Philadelphia |
#3552, aired 2000-02-01 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Texas city's name refers to a pass or crossing of the Rio Grande El Paso |
#3548, aired 2000-01-26 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $200: Away down yonder in Louisiana you'll be drawn & French Quartered to this, its largest city in population New Orleans |
#3548, aired 2000-01-26 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $1000: The U.S. Coast Guard grounded its academy in this Connecticut city New London |
#3542, aired 2000-01-18 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $800 (Daily Double): This first seat of the U.S. Congress is a memorial in New York City Federal Hall |
#3540, aired 2000-01-14 | U.S. HISTORY $200: A 1906 disaster in this city destroyed about 28,000 buildings & killed hundreds, maybe thousands San Francisco |
#3529, aired 1999-12-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: The U.S. signed a famous treaty in this city December 24, 1814 Ghent, Belgium (treaty to end the War of 1812) |
#3528, aired 1999-12-29 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $600: The International Rose Test Gardens may be the most fragrant attraction in this, Oregon's "City of Roses" Portland |
#3528, aired 1999-12-29 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $1000: This Tennessee city boasts a 32-story pyramid with a base the size of 6 football fields Memphis |
#3507, aired 1999-11-30 | U.S.A. $200: This Wyoming city known for its planetarium was named for a cavalry lieutenant, not for a friendly ghost Casper |
#3507, aired 1999-11-30 | U.S.A. $800: This city is home to the University of Vermont Burlington |
#3483, aired 1999-10-27 | U.S. HISTORIC SITES $1000: Castle Clinton National Monument was originally a fort renamed in 1815 for this New York City mayor DeWitt Clinton |
#3471, aired 1999-10-11 | U.S. CURRENCY $300: An "S" on a U.S. coin indicates that it was minted in this city San Francisco |
#3462, aired 1999-09-28 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $200: "Music City, U.S.A." Nashville |
#3458, aired 1999-09-22 | U.S. MAYORS $100: In 1999 Oscar Goodman, once a lawyer for Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, was elected mayor of this Nevada city Las Vegas |
#3444, aired 1999-07-22 | CITY SOBRIQUETS $800: "The Marine Metropolis of Virginia" & "Vacationland, U.S.A." Norfolk |
#3428, aired 1999-06-30 | U.S. "O" TOUR $100: Since the opening of Walt Disney World, this city has become a booming metropolis Orlando |
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 | U.S. CITIES $100: When football's Saints go marching in for a home game, it's in this city New Orleans |
#3397, aired 1999-05-18 | U.S. HISTORY 101 $100: In 1779 this Pennsylvania city was a state capital as well as the national capital Philadelphia |
#3391, aired 1999-05-10 | U.S. CITIES $400: Nevada's second-largest city, it was named for a Union general killed during the Civil War Reno |
#3344, aired 1999-03-04 | CIVICS CLASS $200: In the most common form of U.S. city government, a council is balanced by this executive Mayor |
#3342, aired 1999-03-02 | STATE CAPITALS $400 (Daily Double): In the 1860s, it became the last of 4 capitals to be named for a U.S. president Lincoln |
#3333, aired 1999-02-17 | U.S.A. $100: If you live in this city that was founded in 1718, you're an Orleanian New Orleans |
#3333, aired 1999-02-17 | U.S.A. $200: Peter Demens, who built a railroad to this Florida city, named it for his hometown in Russia St. Petersburg |
#3333, aired 1999-02-17 | U.S.A. $300: Stand atop the state capital steps in this city & you'll be exactly 5,280 feet above sea level Denver, Colorado |
#3333, aired 1999-02-17 | U.S.A. $400: This California city's name anagrams to "No Serf", though "No Surf" would be more appropriate Fresno |
#3328, aired 1999-02-10 | U.S."A"s $200: While the Miss U.S.A. pageant moves around, the Miss America pageant is always held here Atlantic City |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MAIN STREET U.S.A. $200: You can ride this city's Main St. trolley across Beale St. en route to the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MAIN STREET U.S.A. $400: Established by Roger Williams, the oldest Baptist church in the U.S. is on this city's Main St. Providence |
#3302, aired 1999-01-05 | U.S. CITIES $300: The city known for its Mud Hens; it was named for a city in Spain Toledo, Ohio |
#3274, aired 1998-11-26 | SMALL U.S. CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): A U.S. Mint was established in this capital to handle the Comstock Lode's silver output Carson City, Nevada |
#3248, aired 1998-10-21 | WORLD WAR II $1,000 (Daily Double): The only "beach" in the D-Day invasion code-named for a U.S. city Omaha Beach |
#3228, aired 1998-09-23 | U.S. CRIME STATISTICS $100: The U.S. city with the most police officers, it has about 4 times as many as L.A. New York City |
#3220, aired 1998-09-11 | TOUGH U.S. CITIES $400: This Michigan city, a center of Dutch culture, holds an annual tulip festival Holland |
#3220, aired 1998-09-11 | TOUGH U.S. CITIES $1000: This southernmost Texas city is actually about 450 miles farther south than Tijuana Brownsville |
#3197, aired 1998-06-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1,500 (Daily Double): This large Connecticut city was named after a structure spanning the Pequonnock Bridgeport |
#3193, aired 1998-06-17 | U.S. CITIES $500: In 1972 a flash flood in this South Dakota city killed over 200 people Rapid City |
#3188, aired 1998-06-10 | U.S. MUSEUMS $400: The Buffalo Bill Museum in this small Wyoming city also displays some of Annie Oakley's possessions Cody |
#3143, aired 1998-04-08 | FRUIT $200: About 50% of the U.S. orange crop is of this variety that shares its name with a Spanish city Valencia |
#3134, aired 1998-03-26 | MUSEUMS $300: A museum in this southernmost city in the continental U.S. displays Florida's lighthouse history Key West |
#3129, aired 1998-03-19 | ON THE BOARDS $500: A city in Northern Indiana was named for this chairman of the board of U.S. Steel Gary (Elbert) |
#3126, aired 1998-03-16 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1915 he called San Francisco from New York City & spoke with Dr. Thomas A. Watson Alexander Graham Bell |
#3095, aired 1998-01-30 | "C" THE U.S.A. $200: An old U.S. Mint building in this city houses the Nevada State Museum Carson City |
#3095, aired 1998-01-30 | "C" THE U.S.A. $300: Alexander once ruled Egypt, so it's appropriate that this Illinois city is in Alexander county Cairo |
#3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $200: A city near L.A. is named for this novelist from New England; wonder how many "scarlet" women live there (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
#3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $300: This New Mexico city was named for a railroad paymaster, not for a pollster Gallup |
#3078, aired 1998-01-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $800: You can visit the Netherlands Museum without ever leaving the USA; it's located in this Michigan city Holland |
#3078, aired 1998-01-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $1000: For some fun in this Pennsylvania city, drop by the Dutch Wonderland Family Fun Park Lancaster |
#3065, aired 1997-12-19 | U.S. STATES $200: Its largest city is named for angels & was named for a mythical treasure-filled land California |
#3060, aired 1997-12-12 | U.S. CITIES $200: It's the only Maryland city not located within a county Baltimore |
#3060, aired 1997-12-12 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Arizona city's name comes from Chuk Son, Papago for "Spring at the foot of a black mountain" Tucson |
#3058, aired 1997-12-10 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $600: This California city hosts America's oldest continuously running jazz festival Monterey |
#3058, aired 1997-12-10 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $800: Now the second largest, Nashua is predicted to become this New England state's largest city by the year 2000 New Hampshire |
#3058, aired 1997-12-10 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $1000: The playing field for a popular outdoor game gave this Kentucky city its name Bowling Green |
#3049, aired 1997-11-27 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this western Wisconsin city on the Mississippi River honors a Native American sport Lacrosse |
#3031, aired 1997-11-03 | U.S. CITIES $400: To promote this local product, Crystal City, Texas erected a statue of Popeye spinach |
#3019, aired 1997-10-16 | U.S.A. $100: Aloha Tower stands at the entrance to the harbor of this city Honolulu |
#3019, aired 1997-10-16 | U.S.A. $400: "Rusticators" are city folk with a summer address in this Pine Tree State Maine |
#3016, aired 1997-10-13 | U.S. CITIES $200: Cornwallis once referred to this N.C. city as a "hornet's nest"; today the Hornets play there Charlotte |
#3016, aired 1997-10-13 | U.S. CITIES $400: In 1806, 100 years after its founding on the Rio Grande, this New Mexico city had only a few thousand people Albuquerque |
#2989, aired 1997-09-04 | SHOPPING U.S.A. $200: Elvis Presley Enterprises owns several gift shops in this city; they're all close to Graceland Memphis |
#2988, aired 1997-09-03 | WORLD CITIES $800: Site of a huge U.S. airbase in the '60s, this central Vietnamese port is now a city of over 300,000 Da Nang |
#2988, aired 1997-09-03 | OLD MONEY MEN $800: He arranged a $65 million loan to the U.S. government & guaranteed New York City $30 million J.P. Morgan |
#2984, aired 1997-07-17 | U.S. CITIES $800: You can see the oldest continuously used Mormon chapel in a "Trip To" this Utah city Bountiful |
#2978, aired 1997-07-09 | U.S.A. $100: If you visit this "colorful" Wisconsin city, "pack" in a visit to the National Railroad Museum Green Bay |
#2976, aired 1997-07-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: Completed in 1931, it rises over 1,400 feet at 350 Fifth Avenue in New York City The Empire State Building |
#2969, aired 1997-06-26 | U.S. CITIES $300: Located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass Region, it was named for a Massachusetts city Lexington |
#2963, aired 1997-06-18 | U.S. CITIES $200: This largest Nevada city was first settled by Mormons who maintained a colony there 1855-57 Las Vegas |
#2963, aired 1997-06-18 | U.S. CITIES $400: The Pier, which juts almost a half mile into Tampa Bay, is the center of this city's tourist life St. Petersburg |
#2963, aired 1997-06-18 | U.S. CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this N.Y. city may be derived from a mispronounciation of "Beau Fleuve", or "Beautiful River" Buffalo |
#2958, aired 1997-06-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Pennsylvania city's Civic Arena or "Igloo" has a retractable roof Pittsburgh |
#2958, aired 1997-06-11 | U.S. CITIES $800 (Daily Double): Northwest city seen here during a visit by a famous TV show: Seattle |
#2949, aired 1997-05-29 | SEE THE U.S.A. $100: St. Paul is famous for its winter carnival, & this city, its twin, has an aquatennial festival Minneapolis |
#2949, aired 1997-05-29 | SEE THE U.S.A. $500: Tennessee Williams lived in this Florida city for decades, & a fine arts center there is named for him Key West |
#2942, aired 1997-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $200: In 1904 a fire in this largest Maryland city nearly destroyed the entire downtown section Baltimore |
#2925, aired 1997-04-25 | PEOPLE & PLACES $100: A Gothamite is a resident of this U.S. city New York City |
#2920, aired 1997-04-18 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $500: Visitors to this Midwestern city may tour the Pabst Mansion, built in 1893 in the Flemish Renaissance style Milwaukee |
#2918, aired 1997-04-16 | SHOPPING U.S.A. $100: In 1996 Graceland Gifts in this city sold a limited edition Elvis Cabbage Patch Kid in a gold lame suit Memphis |
#2918, aired 1997-04-16 | SHOPPING U.S.A. $200: Rumors on Royal Street in this city specializes in hand-crafted Mardi Gras masks New Orleans |
#2918, aired 1997-04-16 | SHOPPING U.S.A. $400: J. Crew picked this city's South Street Seaport as the site for its first retail store, opened in 1989 New York City |
#2913, aired 1997-04-09 | THE "U"SUAL PLACES $600: Thermometer scale inventor Anders Celsius was a professor of astronomy at this Swedish city's university Uppsala |
#2912, aired 1997-04-08 | U.S. HISTORY $300: After the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Virgil Earp lost his job as this city's marshall Tombstone |
#2899, aired 1997-03-20 | U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): From Spanish, the name of this Texas city refers to the yellowish banks of a nearby stream Amarillo |
#2892, aired 1997-03-11 | U.S. CITIES $100: Members of a Spanish expedition named the site of this Texas city for Saint Anthony of Padua San Antonio |
#2892, aired 1997-03-11 | U.S. CITIES $500: This city, a suburb of Phoenix, is home to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West Scottsdale |
#2885, aired 1997-02-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: It's the oldest city in Kansas; a federal penitentiary lies within the city limits Leavenworth |
#2868, aired 1997-02-05 | MUSEUMS $400: There's a model railroad museum in the Casa de Balboa in this 2nd-largest city on the U.S. Pacific coast San Diego |
#2863, aired 1997-01-29 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $100: Wicker furniture maker Harry Shill built the rolling chairs used on this city's Boardwalk Atlantic City |
#2863, aired 1997-01-29 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: This Lake Havasu City landmark had to be trimmed 53 feet from its original length the London Bridge |
#2863, aired 1997-01-29 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: Houses you can visit in this city include Babe Ruth's & H.L. Mencken's Baltimore |
#2858, aired 1997-01-22 | U.S.A. $200: The Jackson Zoo Blues is an annual music festival at the zoo in this state's capital city Mississippi |
#2854, aired 1997-01-16 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Indiana's 2nd-largest city is on the site of this stockade built in 1794 & named for a "mad" general Fort Wayne |
#2852, aired 1997-01-14 | U.S. CITIES $200: Seattle's "gem" of a nickname, or Dorothy's destination the Emerald City |
#2844, aired 1997-01-02 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $100: Commander's Palace is an elegant restaurant in this Louisiana city's Garden District New Orleans |
#2844, aired 1997-01-02 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: Children can dress up in old clothes in The Dress Up Shop, part of this Mass. city's Children's Museum Boston |
#2836, aired 1996-12-23 | FLORIDA $300: The Spanish Beard Contest has been a hair-raising event at this oldest U.S. city's Days In Spain Festival St. Augustine |
#2833, aired 1996-12-18 | U.S. MUSEUMS $600: This Alaskan oil city's museum has a display of the effects of the big oil spill of March 1989 Valdez |
#2823, aired 1996-12-04 | U.S. CITIES $400: Steamboat builder & operator Henry M. Shreve has a city named for him in this state Louisiana |
#2823, aired 1996-12-04 | U.S. CITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): This Florida city was named by a railroad official for his boyhood home in Russia St. Petersburg |
#2809, aired 1996-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY $800: On April 19, 1993 the Branch Davidian compound near this Texas city burned to the ground after a 51-day siege Waco |
#2807, aired 1996-11-12 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: Sea World & the zoo are two highlights of this California city San Diego |
#2804, aired 1996-11-07 | TENNESSEE $400: It's been called "The Buckle on the Bible Belt" as well as "Music City, U.S.A." Nashville |
#2802, aired 1996-11-05 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: You can ride an elevator to the top of the 55-foot statue of Vulcan in this Alabama city Birmingham |
#2786, aired 1996-10-14 | U.S.A. $500: In 1989, to recapture the spirit of the old west, this South Dakota city legalized gambling Deadwood |
#2785, aired 1996-10-11 | U.S. CITIES $300: The name of this second-largest Arizona city is from a Papago Indian term for "spring at foot of black hill" Tucson |
#2779, aired 1996-10-03 | BLACK FIRSTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This former Cleveland mayor, the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city, died in 1996 (Carl) Stokes |
#2775, aired 1996-09-27 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $800: There's a 50' sculpture called TOTH—Tower on the Hill—in this South Dakota city; think "fast" Rapid City |
#2775, aired 1996-09-27 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $1000: Popular annual events in this city include the Mummers Parade & the Pulaski Day Parade Philadelphia |
#2769, aired 1996-09-19 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1666 Puritan families founded a village that later became this largest New Jersey city Newark |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $300: The French Quarter of this Louisiana city is world-famous for its nightlife New Orleans |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: When visiting this California city, take a cable car to Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco |
#2752, aired 1996-07-16 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $500: The Cherry Blossom Parade is a highlight of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in this city Washington, D.C. |
#2743, aired 1996-07-03 | U.S. CITIES $500: A Texas city was named for this Kansas city, the boyhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower Abilene |
#2726, aired 1996-06-10 | U.S. HISTORY $100: During a 1977 blackout, 9 million people in this city & its suburbs were plunged into darkness New York City |
#2712, aired 1996-05-21 | U.S. CITIES $200: The site of a major naval base, this city near the Mexican border is the "Birthplace of California" San Diego |
#2710, aired 1996-05-17 | 1995 $0: A November 1995 Bosnia peace accord is named for this U.S. city Dayton, Ohio |
#2708, aired 1996-05-15 | CAPITAL CITIES $200: This German city is serviced by a subway, the U-Bahn & an elevated train, the S-Bahn Berlin |
#2694, aired 1996-04-25 | WORLD'S FAIRS $2,500 (Daily Double): This city's 1876 fair, the first successful one in the U.S., displayed a new invention: the telephone Philadelphia |
#2690, aired 1996-04-19 | U.S.A. $100: Among the attractions you can visit in this city are Astrohall, Astroworld & the Astrodome Houston |
#2684, aired 1996-04-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: Nevada's largest city, it grew from a population of 8,500 in 1940 to 258,000 in 1990 Las Vegas |
#2671, aired 1996-03-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: This Minnesota "Twin City" derives its name from a chapel built there in 1841 St. Paul |
#2671, aired 1996-03-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: The name of this Iowa city refers to a meeting in 1804 between Indians & Lewis & Clark Council Bluffs |
#2670, aired 1996-03-22 | U.S.A. $100: A city in Utah is named for this Virginia home of Thomas Jefferson Monticello |
#2668, aired 1996-03-20 | MIDDLE EAST HISTORY $500: On Oct. 23, 1983 a truck loaded with explosives killed 241 U.S. servicemen at their barracks in this capital city Beirut |
#2659, aired 1996-03-07 | NEWSPAPERS $600: The Amsterdam News is a major Black weekly published in this U.S. city, not in Holland New York City |
#2648, aired 1996-02-21 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $100: The volcano in front of this Nevada city's Mirage Hotel erupts every 15 minutes from dusk to midnight Las Vegas |
#2646, aired 1996-02-19 | U.S. HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): Rosa Parks was on a bus in this city December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat Montgomery, Alabama |
#2642, aired 1996-02-13 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: You can reach this mountain's summit via a road owned by the city of Colorado Springs, 12 miles east Pikes Peak |
#2623, aired 1996-01-17 | U.S. CITIES $400: Hamar, Norway is a sister city of this largest North Dakota city Fargo |
#2623, aired 1996-01-17 | U.S. CITIES $500 (Daily Double): In 1799 this city became the seat of Kennebec County; 33 years later, it became a state capital Augusta, Maine |
#2622, aired 1996-01-16 | CALIFORNIA CITIES $200: This city near the U.S.-Mexico border is home to a naval base & a world famous zoo San Diego |
#2621, aired 1996-01-15 | U.S.A. $100: In 1978, this New Jersey city hit the jackpot with the opening of its first casino Atlantic City |
#2614, aired 1996-01-04 | U.S.A. $500: This city the starting point of the Santa Fe Trail & the home of President Truman Independence |
#2612, aired 1996-01-02 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: Cliff Walk, a dramatic 3-mile path along the coast, is a highlight of this Rhode Island resort city Newport |
#2601, aired 1995-12-18 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $100: Tea & cookies are served in the Japanese Tea Garden in this city's Golden Gate Park San Francisco |
#2596, aired 1995-12-11 | U.S. CITIES $100: The name of this largest Wisconsin city comes from an Algonquian word that may mean "a good place" Milwaukee |
#2593, aired 1995-12-06 | CARDINALS $500: Richard Cushing was named archbishop of this U.S. city 14 years before becoming a cardinal Boston |
#2564, aired 1995-10-26 | U.S. CITIES $200: This largest Maryland city was originally laid out in a meadow along Jones Falls Creek Baltimore |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | U.S.A. $300: This northeastern metropolis has been dubbed "The City of Brotherly Shove" New York City |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | U.S.A. $400: The Old Spanish Trail ran from this city, now a state capital, to Los Angeles Santa Fe |
#2539, aired 1995-09-21 | NOTORIOUS $400: In 1849 this U.S. city's bloody Astor Place riots began as a dispute over a performance of "Macbeth" New York |
#2533, aired 1995-09-13 | U.S. CITIES $800: Once known as Lake's Crossing, this large Nevada city was renamed for a Civil War general Reno |
#2532, aired 1995-09-12 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $100: After winding down Lombard Street in this city, you might dine at Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco |
#2523, aired 1995-07-19 | U.S. CITIES $500: In 1796 a director of the Connecticut Land Company founded this Ohio city on Lake Erie Cleveland |
#2514, aired 1995-07-06 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: This Alabama city has a collection of spacecraft at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Huntsville |
#2508, aired 1995-06-28 | U.S.A. $200: You'll find Minnehaha Falls on Minnehaha Creek in this city whose name also starts with "Minne" Minneapolis |
#2508, aired 1995-06-28 | U.S.A. $300: The name of Kissimmee, a city in this state, means "heaven's place" in the Caloosa Indian language Florida |
#2508, aired 1995-06-28 | U.S.A. $400: The Discovery Place is a museum for kids in this city that the Texas-Arkansas state line runs through Texarkana |
#2488, aired 1995-05-31 | U.S.A. $800: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in this city is famous for its circus galleries Sarasota, Florida |
#2488, aired 1995-05-31 | U.S.A. $1,500 (Daily Double): Northwestern University has 2 different campuses: 1 in Chicago & 1 in this city Evanston |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | JUST DESSERTS $200: This U.S. city's "cream pie" is actually a custard-filled cake Boston |
#2482, aired 1995-05-23 | MUSEUMS $600: The tour of this U.S. city's Kingdome includes a visit to the Kingdome Sports Museum Seattle |
#2475, aired 1995-05-12 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $100: Appropriately, the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum is located on Music Square in this Tenn. city Nashville |
#2475, aired 1995-05-12 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $500: You can take a tour of this city's Lafayette Cemetery, featured in Anne Rice's vampire novels New Orleans |
#2453, aired 1995-04-12 | SEE THE U.S.A. $200: You can visit Edgar Allan Poe's home on North Amity Street in this Maryland city Baltimore |
#2453, aired 1995-04-12 | SEE THE U.S.A. $500: Alexander Hamilton died in this city & is buried in its Trinity Church cemetery New York City |
#2441, aired 1995-03-27 | U.S. TRAVEL $300: The Royal Hawaiian, this city's famous Pink Hotel, serves a drink called the Pink Palace Honolulu |
#2438, aired 1995-03-22 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $600: This Colorado city just east of Pikes Peak is the site of the U.S. Olympic Training Center Colorado Springs |
#2413, aired 1995-02-15 | MODERN U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1967 this city's Haight-Ashbury District celebrated a "Summer of Love" San Francisco |
#2395, aired 1995-01-20 | U.S. CITIES $400: Cow Town, a tourist site in this largest Kansas city, is a reproduction of the early city Wichita |
#2392, aired 1995-01-17 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $500: You won't find London Bridge English Village in England; it's next to London Bridge in this resort city Lake Havasu City, Arizona |
#2380, aired 1994-12-30 | U.S. HISTORIC SITES $100: This Western mining town was named after a prospector nicknamed "Old Virginny" Virginia City |
#2375, aired 1994-12-23 | DECEMBER 25 $200: This U.S. city's stockyards opened Dec. 25, 1865 on a tract of reclaimed swampland SW of the city Chicago |
#2369, aired 1994-12-15 | U.S. "C"ITIES $300: This city's daily newspaper, a recent consolidation, is the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle Cheyenne |
#2347, aired 1994-11-15 | U.S. CITIES $500: Before a new facility was built, Love Field was this Texas city's main airport Dallas |
#2333, aired 1994-10-26 | U.S. CITIES $400: This second-largest New York city was named for a nearby stream Buffalo |
#2332, aired 1994-10-25 | U.S.A. $400: Branson, Missouri is located 200 miles south of this city that's nicknamed the "Heart of America" Kansas City |
#2332, aired 1994-10-25 | U.S.A. $800: Huron City in this state was destroyed twice by forest fires; what's left of it is preserved as a museum Michigan |
#2323, aired 1994-10-12 | U.S.A. $300: The National Aquarium is located in this Maryland city, not in Washington, D.C. Baltimore |
#2319, aired 1994-10-06 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: This most common mandarin orange in the U.S. is named for a city in Morocco a tangerine |
#2318, aired 1994-10-05 | FAMOUS FRENCH CANADIANS $400: Trapper Joseph Robidoux founded this U.S. city that was a terminus for the Pony Express St. Joseph |
#2264, aired 1994-06-09 | RESTAURANTS $400: Extra! Extra! Italianissimo is a newspaper-themed restaurant in this U.S. city's Daily News building New York |
#2249, aired 1994-05-19 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Since the 1880s cigar making has been a part of this 3rd-largest Florida city's economy Tampa |
#2244, aired 1994-05-12 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $1000: When she took office as mayor in 1991, she became the 1st black woman to preside over a major U.S. city (Sharon Pratt) Kelly |
#2238, aired 1994-05-04 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: Wondering what a million dollars looks like? It's on display at Binion's Horseshoe Casino in this Nevada city Las Vegas |
#2238, aired 1994-05-04 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $500: Of interest in & around this Minnesota city are the Mayo Clinic, Mayo Park & Mayowood Rochester |
#2226, aired 1994-04-18 | U.S.A. $200: Brigham City in this state is so proud of its peaches that it celebrates Peach Days every year Utah |
#2226, aired 1994-04-18 | U.S.A. $300: Old Original Bookbinder's, which opened in 1865, is this Pennsylvania city's most famous restaurant Philadelphia |
#2226, aired 1994-04-18 | U.S.A. $400: You'll find the Butler Institute of American Art in this "youthful" Ohio city Youngstown |
#2221, aired 1994-04-11 | U.S.A. $200: In terms of population, Erie is the third-largest city in this state Pennsylvania |
#2216, aired 1994-04-04 | U.S. CITIES $1000: With a population of over 39,000, Burlington is this state's largest city Vermont |
#2180, aired 1994-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $100: This city's seal features a canoe and diamond head, among other items Honolulu |
#2180, aired 1994-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $300: This East Coast city's Beacon Hill once served as a signaling station for ships Boston |
#2170, aired 1994-01-28 | U.S.A. $300: Roland Hinton Perry sculpted the lions for the Taft Bridge on Connecticut Avenue in this city Washington, D.C. |
#2170, aired 1994-01-28 | U.S.A. $400: Henry Flagler's fabulous mansion is now a musuem in this Florida beach city named for its coconut trees Palm Beach |
#2170, aired 1994-01-28 | U.S.A. $500 (Daily Double): This city, Oklahoma's second largest, hosts an annual chili cookoff & Bluegrass Festival Tulsa |
#2168, aired 1994-01-26 | U.S. CITIES $600: This New Hampshire city's name refers to the peaceful settlement of a border dispute Concord |
#2117, aired 1993-11-16 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: The area where William Penn came ashore in 1682 is now Penn's Landing, a park in this city Philadelphia |
#2117, aired 1993-11-16 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: The Truman Sports Complex in this city isn't home to the presidents, but to the Chiefs Kansas City |
#2117, aired 1993-11-16 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $500: Halls of fame in this city include those for softball & cowboys Oklahoma City |
#2095, aired 1993-10-15 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: In 1977 opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti founded this Southern city's Spoleto Festival U.S.A. Charleston, South Carolina |
#2091, aired 1993-10-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: A statue commemorating Terry's Texas Rangers stands in front of the state capital in this city Austin |
#2079, aired 1993-09-23 | U.S. CITIES $200: Chartered on Feb. 23, 1822, it was the first Massachusetts town to become a city Boston |
#2079, aired 1993-09-23 | U.S. CITIES $500: This Ohio city's Fountain Square includes a fountain cast by the Royal Bronze Foundry of Bavaria Cincinnati |
#2078, aired 1993-09-22 | U.S.A. $400: In the 1850s this "New" Massachusetts city was the whaling capital of the world New Bedford |
#2071, aired 1993-09-13 | U.S.A. $100: New Bern, N.C. was founded by European colonists in 1710 & named for a city in this country Switzerland |
#2071, aired 1993-09-13 | U.S.A. $300: J. Edgar Hoover was born in this city & a building there is named for him Washington, D.C. |
#2070, aired 1993-09-10 | GARDENS $300: It's a community near Atlantic City & the only property in the U.S. version of Monopoly not named for a st. Marvin Gardens |
#2069, aired 1993-09-09 | U.S.A. $100: In the 19th c. Schenectady in this state was nicknamed "The City that Lights and Hauls the World" New York |
#2069, aired 1993-09-09 | U.S.A. $200: Loretta Lynn, Ernest Tubb & Conway Twitty have stores named for them in this capital city Nashville |
#2069, aired 1993-09-09 | U.S.A. $400: There's a statue of Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, atop Vermont's state capitol in this city Montpelier |
#2066, aired 1993-09-06 | U.S.A. $200: Once a month bargain hunters head for the Rose Bowl Flea Market & Swap Meet in this Calif. city Pasadena |
#2066, aired 1993-09-06 | U.S.A. $300: The Cafe du Monde in this Louisiana city has been serving cafe au lait & beignets since 1862 New Orleans |
#2024, aired 1993-05-27 | U.S. CITIES $600: The Cuyahoga River divides this Ohio city into an east side & a west side Cleveland |
#2024, aired 1993-05-27 | U.S. CITIES $800: A Michigan city is named for this Ottawa chief who fought the British in the French & Indian War Pontiac |
#2022, aired 1993-05-25 | U.S.A. $200: The Old Water Tower in this city is one of the few structures to survive the 1871 fire Chicago |
#2010, aired 1993-05-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: If you like to revolve while you eat, head for the Space Needle in this city Seattle |
#2009, aired 1993-05-06 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Japan's oldest open port, it was the second city on which the U.S. dropped an A-bomb in World War II Nagasaki |
#1996, aired 1993-04-19 | U.S. CITIES $300: This city's Ghirardelli Square, once a chocolate factory, now has many shops & restaurants San Francisco |
#1990, aired 1993-04-09 | U.S. CITIES $100: A series of earthquakes in 1935 caused heavy damage to this capital city of Montana Helena |
#1990, aired 1993-04-09 | U.S. CITIES $400: The Coinage Act of 1792 established a national mint in this city Philadelphia |
#1968, aired 1993-03-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Followed by Beach, it's a city in California; followed by News, a city in Virginia Newport |
#1967, aired 1993-03-09 | U.S.A. $600: For many years, this New Jersey capital was the chief pottery city in the U.S. Trenton |
#1954, aired 1993-02-18 | U.S. CITIES $300: The U.S.S. Constellation, a nat'l historic landmark, is docket at Pier 1 in this Maryland city's harbor Baltimore |
#1954, aired 1993-02-18 | U.S. CITIES $400: This second largest Nevada city was name for a Union general killed in the Civil War Reno |
#1942, aired 1993-02-02 | U.S. CITIES $300: This city's Lincoln Park Zoo recently renovated its Kovler Lion House, creating a new area for big cats Chicago |
#1933, aired 1993-01-20 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Burlington is this state's only city with a population of over 30,000 Vermont |
#1922, aired 1993-01-05 | THE MINT $500: A mint museum is operated by the U.S. Mint in this West Coast city San Francisco |
#1917, aired 1992-12-29 | U.S.A. $300: This Alaskan city was named for a vice president, not for Mary Pickford's husband Fairbanks |
#1917, aired 1992-12-29 | U.S.A. $400: Charles Bulfinch built the Federal Street Theatre in this Massachusetts city in 1794 Boston |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | U.S. CITIES $400: Over twice as many people live in this most populous Missouri city as in the city that shares its name in another state Kansas City, Missouri |
#1904, aired 1992-12-10 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $100: The home of Jonathan Corwin, a judge in the 1690s witchcraft trials, can be seen in this U.S. city Salem (Mass.) |
#1870, aired 1992-10-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Named for a U.S. president, it's Florida's most populous city Jacksonville |
#1855, aired 1992-10-02 | U.S.A. $200: The curve of this river through New Orleans gave it the nickname Crescent City the Mississippi |
#1844, aired 1992-09-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: In 1854 this largest Neb. city was founded by a ferryman from Council Bluffs, Ia., across the Missouri Omaha |
#1839, aired 1992-09-10 | MAYORS $1,000 (Daily Double): The first Mexican-American mayor of a major U.S. city, Henry Cisneros was mayor of this Texas city 1981-89 San Antonio |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | U.S. CITIES $100: A tourist attraction in this capital is the Seagull Monument in Temple Square Salt Lake City |
#1779, aired 1992-04-30 | U.S. CITIES $400: This New Mexico City's nuclear research lab was designated a nat'l landmark in 1965 Los Alamos |
#1774, aired 1992-04-23 | SEE THE U.S.A. $400: You can have fun in the sun at the annual Sun Fun Festival in this S.C. city known for its beach Myrtle Beach |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: This Ohio city stands on land Congress gave Ebenezer Zane for clearing a road Zanesville |
#1765, aired 1992-04-10 | CLEVELAND $500: In 1967 he became mayor, the first African American to hold that office in a major U.S. city Carl Stokes |
#1748, aired 1992-03-18 | U.S. HISTORY $800: 90 black leaders were arrested in this city Feb. 22-24, 1956 for leading a bus boycott Montgomery, Alabama |
#1746, aired 1992-03-16 | FIRES $400: A 1990 fire at this city's Happy Land Club brought on the U.S.'s biggest mass-murder charge New York City |
#1727, aired 1992-02-18 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: The dam on the South Fork, a branch of the Conemaugh River, broke in 1889 & this U.S. city was flooded Johnstown |
#1712, aired 1992-01-28 | U.S. COAST GUARD $400: While in this city's harbor, the cutter Harriet Lane fired the Civil War's 1st shot from a vessel Charleston (South Carolina) |
#1708, aired 1992-01-22 | U.S. CITIES $200: Transpolar flights from Scandinavia to Japan usually include a stopover in this Alaskan city Anchorage |
#1708, aired 1992-01-22 | U.S. CITIES $800: Wyatt Earp was once a peace officer in this largest city in Kansas Wichita |
#1708, aired 1992-01-22 | U.S. CITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): This large Indiana city is named for its location near a curve of the St. Joseph River South Bend |
#1698, aired 1992-01-08 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The Potawatomi Indians called the site of this city "Mahn-a-waukee Seepe" Milwaukee |
#1698, aired 1992-01-08 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Named for a cascade on a nearby river, this is South Dakota's most populous city Sioux Falls |
#1696, aired 1992-01-06 | U.S. CITIES $800: A year after becoming mayor of this N.Y. city, Grover Cleveland became governor of the state Buffalo |
#1684, aired 1991-12-19 | U.S. CITIES $500: A cast-iron statue of Vulcan overlooks this city, Alabama's largest Birmingham |
#1673, aired 1991-12-04 | U.S.A. $600: Thomas Penn, William's son, settled this Pennsylvania city later known for its rail line Reading |
#1662, aired 1991-11-19 | U.S.A. $200: Most of this Pennsylvania city was destroyed by fire in 1845; it revived & became known for its "Golden Triangle" Pittsburgh |
#1644, aired 1991-10-24 | U.S. "C"ITIES $200: The original "Choo Choo" train station in this city is now a Holiday Inn Chattanooga |
#1644, aired 1991-10-24 | U.S. "C"ITIES $600: Lord Cornwallis called it a "hornet's nest", so this N. Carolina city put a hornet's nest on its seal Charlotte |
#1644, aired 1991-10-24 | U.S. "C"ITIES $800: Named for a frontier scout, this capital was founded by land speculator Abraham Curry in 1858 Carson City |
#1643, aired 1991-10-23 | U.S.A. $100: It's the largest city in Maine & in Oregon Portland |
#1643, aired 1991-10-23 | U.S.A. $500: Punchbowl, an extinct volcano in this capital city, contains a national cemetery Honolulu |
#1630, aired 1991-10-04 | U.S. CITIES $100: Alaska's most populous city; it was founded in 1914 as a construction base for the Alaska Railroad Anchorage |
#1605, aired 1991-07-19 | U.S. CITIES $100: Founded by George Rogers Clark in 1778, this Kentucky city was named for a French monarch Louisville |
#1601, aired 1991-07-15 | U.S.A. $300: To see the National Museum of Women in the Arts, go to 13th St. & New York Ave. NW in this city Washington, D.C. |
#1561, aired 1991-05-20 | U.S. CITIES $800: This Indiana city is selling itself with the slogan "A city built on sand, made of steel" Gary |
#1557, aired 1991-05-14 | STATE CAPITALS $300: It's not just a state capital; it's also "Music City, U.S.A." Nashville, Tennessee |
#1550, aired 1991-05-03 | U.S.A. $100: Originally called New York, this Northwest city was renamed for Chief Sealth Seattle |
#1550, aired 1991-05-03 | U.S.A. $400: Site of a Civil War battle, Lookout Mt. overlooks this Tenn. city Chattanooga (Tennessee) |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | SEE THE U.S.A. $200: This city is home to the Arizona Museum, the Arizona Mineral Museum, & the Arizona State Capitol Museum Phoenix |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | SEE THE U.S.A. $400: A 1990 ad for this city said, "Mikhail Gorbachev was in complete agreement with Tony Bennett" San Francisco |
#1533, aired 1991-04-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: A January film festival & skiing attract visitors to Park City, a suburb of this state capital Salt Lake City |
#1532, aired 1991-04-09 | COLUMBUS, OHIO $400 (Daily Double): Columbus was the first U.S. city planned & built to be one of these a state capital (a capital city accepted) |
#1518, aired 1991-03-20 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Fur trader Peter Ogden has a city named after him in this U.S. state Utah |
#1517, aired 1991-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $100: You can visit the house where George Herman Ruth was a babe in this Maryland city Baltimore |
#1517, aired 1991-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $300: In 1990, Jane Byrne announced she'd make a 4th run for mayor of this city; she won once in 1979 Chicago |
#1517, aired 1991-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $400: New Mexico's largest city was named for a viceroy of New Spain, the Duke of this Albuquerque |
#1517, aired 1991-03-19 | U.S. CITIES $500: George Eastman House in this city has a collection of over 400,000 photographs Rochester, New York |
#1491, aired 1991-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $400: This city got a park, a free hospital & a university from the generosity of Johns Hopkins Baltimore |
#1479, aired 1991-01-24 | U.S. CITIES $300: A city named Augusta is now Maine's capital; 200 years ago a city named Augusta was this state's capital Georgia |
#1479, aired 1991-01-24 | U.S. CITIES $500: This city named for a president is Florida's largest Jacksonville |
#1460, aired 1990-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $200: The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is in this city, not New York City Albany |
#1456, aired 1990-12-24 | U.S. CITIES $600: Now a ghost town, in the 1870s this Nevada locale had a population of 30,000 Virginia City |
#1456, aired 1990-12-24 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Alabama city on the Black Warrior River named for a Choctaw chief whose name meant "black warrior" Tuscaloosa |
#1427, aired 1990-11-13 | U.S. CITIES $500 (Daily Double): This 2nd largest Oregon city is named for 1 of its settlers, a certain Mr. Skinner Eugene |
#1425, aired 1990-11-09 | GEOGRAPHIC "SAINT"s $600: A steamboat on this U.S. city's seal symbolizes its growth St. Louis |
#1423, aired 1990-11-07 | U.S. CITIES $200: This Colorado resort city was named for a type of poplar tree growing in the area Aspen |
#1410, aired 1990-10-19 | U.S. CITIES $400: For a real Dutch treat head to this Michigan city famous for its tulip festival & windmill Holland |
#1407, aired 1990-10-16 | U.S. CITIES $200: A city in Washington shares this name with an island & much larger city in British Columbia Vancouver |
#1407, aired 1990-10-16 | U.S. CITIES $600: This Pennsylvania city got its name from a Christmas carol Bethlehem |
#1396, aired 1990-10-01 | U.S. HISTORY $200: 1924 was the last time a presidential nominee of this party didn't carry New York City the Democratic Party |
#1396, aired 1990-10-01 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: In 1933-4 this city staged a World's Fair to celebrate its 100th anniversary Chicago |
#1387, aired 1990-09-18 | U.S.A. $400: Antoine's, Arnaud's & the Commander's Palace are among the fine restaurants in this city New Orleans |
#1387, aired 1990-09-18 | U.S.A. $600: Water Tower Place, a 74-story hotel, office & shopping center boasts a great view of this Midwest city Chicago |
#1366, aired 1990-07-09 | U.S. CITIES $200: It was laid out according to Joseph Smith's plan for the city of Zion, with a temple in the center Salt Lake City |
#1366, aired 1990-07-09 | U.S. CITIES $600: This third largest city in Texas was founded in 1718 when a Spanish expedition built a presedio there San Antonio |
#1364, aired 1990-07-05 | THE SOUTHWEST $200: This city grew up around a flagpole erected to celebrate the U.S. Centennial of 1876 Flagstaff |
#1353, aired 1990-06-20 | U.S. CITIES $2,600 (Daily Double): To reach the top of this city's Mt. Washington, take the Monongahela incline, a funicular RR Pittsburgh |
#1338, aired 1990-05-30 | U.S. CITIES $200: Donald Macleay donated a park to this largest Oregon city provided no motor vehicle ever enter it Portland |
#1338, aired 1990-05-30 | U.S. CITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): This city, named for 2 British supporters of the American colonies, shares a metro area with Scranton Wilkes-Barre |
#1322, aired 1990-05-08 | U.S. CITIES $1,400 (Daily Double): This Alaskan city was named after a senator from Indiana who became vice president Fairbanks |
#1315, aired 1990-04-27 | ANIMAL TRIVIA $200: The only U.S. zoo with a permanent exhibit of giant pandas is in this city Washington, D.C. |
#1284, aired 1990-03-15 | MUSEUMS $200: The old U.S. mint in this city houses a fine collection of Mardi Gras regalia New Orleans |
#1279, aired 1990-03-08 | U.S.A. $200: On average this city packs more than 23,000 people into 1 sq. mile New York City |
#1269, aired 1990-02-22 | U.S. CITIES $200: The South Beach area of this city became a trendy hangout after a TV series brought it prominence Miami |
#1269, aired 1990-02-22 | U.S. CITIES $300: A 1989 Money magazine poll ranked this as the best big city in Pennsylvania in which to live Pittsburgh |
#1265, aired 1990-02-16 | U.S.A. $400: The official emblem of this city's police department is a witch on a broomstick Salem, Massachusetts |
#1228, aired 1989-12-27 | U.S. CITIES $100: This city's seal has an eagle, a sailor & a Manhattan Indian New York City |
#1228, aired 1989-12-27 | U.S. CITIES $500: Since 1931 this Tennessee city, a major cotton market, has held an annual Cotton Carnival Memphis |
#1226, aired 1989-12-25 | U.S.A. $200: City that's home to the largest cathedral, St. John the Divine, & synagogue, Temple Emmanu-El New York |
#1226, aired 1989-12-25 | U.S.A. $400: The Gator Bowl game is held in this city, Florida's largest Jacksonville |
#1226, aired 1989-12-25 | U.S.A. $1000: This city has been called "The Hub of the Universe" Boston |
#1217, aired 1989-12-12 | U.S. CITIES $800: The Breakers, a 70-room mansion built by Cornelius Vanderbilt, is not a museum in this R.I. city Newport |
#1217, aired 1989-12-12 | U.S. CITIES $1000: To live in 1 of these Del Webb communities, 1 member of the household must be at least 55 Sun City |
#1214, aired 1989-12-07 | U.S. CITIES $500: This Southern city's Herald prints a separate newspaper in Spanish Miami |
#1212, aired 1989-12-05 | U.S.A. $300: The only "skyscraper" in this Alaska city is a 14-story mining dredge, but "there's no place like" it Nome |
#1210, aired 1989-12-01 | WATERFALLS $800: Located in north central Texas, not Kansas, it's the largest U.S. city named for a waterfall Wichita Falls |
#1204, aired 1989-11-23 | U.S. CITIES $400: Tourist spots in this Wisconsin city include a bowling hall of fame & the Pabst Mansion Milwaukee |
#1204, aired 1989-11-23 | U.S. CITIES $800: This Indiana city is named for a "Mad" Revolutionary War general who built a stockade there in 1794 Fort Wayne |
#1190, aired 1989-11-03 | U.S. CITIES $200: Called the German Athens in the 19th century, this Wisc. city is a leading center of German culture in the U.S. Milwaukee |
#1190, aired 1989-11-03 | U.S. CITIES $600: An early visitor found Hohokam Indian ruins here & predicted a new city would rise from the ashes Phoenix |
#1170, aired 1989-10-06 | U.S.A. $600: With fewer people than Houston or Dallas, this TX city is still 1 of the 10 biggest in the U.S. San Antonio |
#1166, aired 1989-10-02 | U.S. CITIES $100: Built in 1742, Faneuil Hall was & still is a famous meeting place in this city Boston |
#1164, aired 1989-09-28 | U.S. HISTORY $800: An 1886 labor rally in this city's Haymarket Square turned into a riot Chicago |
#1137, aired 1989-07-11 | U.S. CITIES $200: William Penn's design for this city made it the1st in the U.S. to use a grid pattern for the streets Philadelphia |
#1137, aired 1989-07-11 | U.S. CITIES $600: Point Loma & Coronado Peninsulas shelter a natural deepwater harbor for this naval port city San Diego |
#1089, aired 1989-05-04 | CONNECTICUT $400: The oldest U.S. newspaper published continuously under the same name is this city's Courant Hartford |
#1072, aired 1989-04-11 | U.S.A. $500: Special agents of the FBI train at the FBI Academy in this Virginia city where Marines also train Quantico |
#1070, aired 1989-04-07 | U.S. CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): This city's name is a combination of the Sioux word for water & the Greek word for city Minneapolis |
#1067, aired 1989-04-04 | FLAGS $600: The flag of this U.S. city shows 2 beavers, an Indian, a Dutchman & the year of its founding, 1625 New York City |
#1060, aired 1989-03-24 | U.S. CITIES $400: North Dakota's largest city, it was named for one of the founders of a famous frontier stage line Fargo |
#1041, aired 1989-02-27 | U.S.A. $300: City in which you'd find the hotel claimed to be America's tallest, the 72-story Peachtree Plaza Atlanta |
#1041, aired 1989-02-27 | U.S.A. $400: As far as we know, it's the only city in the world with an 8 1/2-foot statue of Rocky Balboa Philadelphia |
#1041, aired 1989-02-27 | U.S.A. $500: The banquet following the Iditarod Dog Sled Race is in this city, but we doubt they serve mush Nome |
#1011, aired 1989-01-16 | U.S. CITIES $300: U.S. coins with the mint mark "CC" were made in this Nevada city from 1870-93 Carson City |
#1011, aired 1989-01-16 | U.S. CITIES $400: The Indian name for Mt. Rainier, it became the name of a city 40 miles away Tacoma |
#1010, aired 1989-01-13 | WORLD TRAVEL $1000: U.S. city in which you can follow cabbie Don Herron on a tour of the Dashiell Hammett Trail San Francisco |
#1009, aired 1989-01-12 | U.S. CITIES $100: Johnny Appleseed's grave is in this Indiana city that began as a fort Fort Wayne |
#1009, aired 1989-01-12 | U.S. CITIES $800 (Daily Double): City in the title of the following song, Glen Campbell's 1st Top 40 hit:
"By the time I make Oklahoma /
She'll be sleeping..." Phoenix |
#1005, aired 1989-01-06 | U.S. CITIES $200: Home of the Cotton Bowl, this city was a major cotton market long before it became an oil center Dallas |
#1005, aired 1989-01-06 | U.S. CITIES $300: The 1st night baseball game was in 1883 in this Indiana city named for a "mad" general Fort Wayne |
#1005, aired 1989-01-06 | U.S. CITIES $400: French for "mound", this Montana city is described as "a mile high & a mile deep" Butte |
#1004, aired 1989-01-05 | POLITICIANS $1000: 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Carl Stokes was elected by this Midwest city's voters in 1961 Cleveland |
#976, aired 1988-11-28 | WORLD'S FAIRS $600: The last city to host a World's' fair in the U.S. New Orleans |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1634 he founded Maryland for Catholic settlers, who in turn named a city after his title Lord Baltimore |
#955, aired 1988-10-28 | U.S.A. $400: 4 days after arriving in Salt Lake Valley, he marked the site for Salt Lake City's Temple Square Brigham Young |
#955, aired 1988-10-28 | U.S.A. $800: The tallest pueblos in the Southwest, 5 stories high, were built near this northern New Mexico city Taos |
#951, aired 1988-10-24 | DEMOCRATS $800: He was 33 when San Antonio voters elected him the 1st Mexican-American mayor of a major U.S. city (Henry) Cisneros |
#944, aired 1988-10-13 | U.S. CITIES $600: This city boasts the 1st subway system in a Southern state Atlanta |
#935, aired 1988-09-30 | U.S. CITIES $200: Almost named for Boston, this Oregon city was named for a city in Maine instead Portland |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | U.S. CITIES $100: A famed brand of tobacco is named for this N.C. city where it was produced, & that's no "bull" Durham |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | U.S. CITIES $200: This S. Dakota city was not named for growing swiftly but for a creek that runs through it Rapid City |
#911, aired 1988-07-18 | SPORTS TRIVIA $100: Aptly, the 1 U.S. city that has a Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit is this one most identified with autos Detroit |
#898, aired 1988-06-29 | U.S. CITIES $800: Alabama city named for the inventor of a process for manufacturing steel Bessemer |
#898, aired 1988-06-29 | U.S. CITIES $1,600 (Daily Double): City celebrated in song in both a 1959 Wilbert Harrison No. 1 hit & the following:
"Y' c'n turn the radiator on whenever you want some heat /
With ev'ry kind o' comfort ev'ry house is all complete /
You c'n walk to privies in the rain and never wet your feet! /
They've gone about as fur as they can go (Yes sir!) /
They've gone about as fur as they can go!..." Kansas City |
#875, aired 1988-05-27 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Originally called Eddy, this New Mexico city known for its caverns was named for a spa town in Europe Carlsbad |
#868, aired 1988-05-18 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: The son of Daniel Boone laid out this capital of Missouri, but it was named for a president Jefferson City |
#852, aired 1988-04-26 | U.S.CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): It was reportedly Dorothy Parker who called it "72 suburbs in search of a city" Los Angeles |
#842, aired 1988-04-12 | U.S. STATES $400: A city named for French-Canadian fur trapper Etiene Provost is in this state, far from French-speaking Canada Utah |
#838, aired 1988-04-06 | "WATER" $1000: A leading producer of brass in the U.S., this Connecticut city is called the "Brass Center of the World" Waterbury |
#835, aired 1988-04-01 | FOOD $1000: This pungent U.S. cheese got its
German name from a 19th century New York city choral society Liederkranz |
#824, aired 1988-03-17 | U.S. CITIES $200: This city north of Phoenix was founded in 1895 by a man named Winfield Scott Scottsdale |
#813, aired 1988-03-02 | ENGLISH CITIES $600: Shade of green associated with Robin Hood, it's named for a city in England, not a U.S. president Lincoln green |
#769, aired 1987-12-31 | U.S. COUNTIES $200: Term for the "capital" city of a county, it's where you find the main county courthouse the county seat |
#769, aired 1987-12-31 | U.S. CITIES $300: Russian immigrants nostalgically named this Texas city for a large seaport in the Ukraine Odessa |
#769, aired 1987-12-31 | U.S. CITIES $400: In 1889, the Sisters of St. Francis built a hospital for Dr. Wm. Mayo to administer in this city Rochester, Minnesota |
#746, aired 1987-11-30 | U.S. STATES $800: In 1986, both this state & its largest city celebrated a sesquicentennial Texas |
#745, aired 1987-11-27 | STAMPS & COINS $200: U.S. coins with a mint mark "S" were minted in this city San Francisco |
#709, aired 1987-10-08 | U.S. CITIES $200: The 1st major American city to elect a socialist mayor, this Wisconsin city had them for 38 years Milwaukee |
#709, aired 1987-10-08 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Tho many say this Texas city is named for our 11th VP, its founder said he named it for a friend Dallas |
#704, aired 1987-10-01 | U.S. CITIES $200: It's been called "40 suburbs in search of a city", "Smogville", & "La-La Land" Los Angeles |
#704, aired 1987-10-01 | U.S. CITIES $300: New England city in which about 1850, Ephraim W. Bull developed a popular table grape Concord |
#704, aired 1987-10-01 | U.S. CITIES $400: State which includes a port city named for co-founder Henry M. Shreve Louisiana |
#695, aired 1987-09-18 | TREES $400: The most populous U.S. city named after a tree is this one near San Francisco Oakland |
#673, aired 1987-07-08 | AUTOMOBILES $400: Hertz survey shows owning a car in this city is the most costly in U.S., but you gotta have one Los Angeles |
#666, aired 1987-06-29 | TRANSPORTATION $400: For air travelers, the 3 main U.S. gateways to S. America are L.A., NYC, & this city Miami |
#655, aired 1987-06-12 | U.S. CITIES $800: This city is home to the Texas Ranger Museum & a 202-room hotel called the Crockett San Antonio |
#651, aired 1987-06-08 | U.S.A. $200: A large sofa, or a large city in Iowa davenport |
#651, aired 1987-06-08 | U.S.A. $400: "Grant & Sherman used the governor's mansion in this Mississippi city as their headquarters Jackson |
#651, aired 1987-06-08 | U.S.A. $600: Because the Wright Brothers had their shop there, this city is known as the "Cradle of Aviation" Dayton |
#644, aired 1987-05-28 | U.S.A. $100: Montana's tallest building, an 18-story bank, is in this city that sounds like "buildings" Billings (Montana) |
#644, aired 1987-05-28 | U.S.A. $300: At "The Water Bar" in this affluent city surrounded by L.A., you can order 55 varieties of H2O Beverly Hills |
#644, aired 1987-05-28 | U.S.A. $400: Juarez, largest Mexican border city, lies across from this largest Texas border city El Paso |
#644, aired 1987-05-28 | U.S.A. $500: This "City o'Lakes", with 22 lakes inside city limits, is the largest in the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" Minneapolis |
#643, aired 1987-05-27 | MONEY $400: The U.S. mint in this Western city produces over 6 billion coins a year Denver |
#630, aired 1987-05-08 | U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): City in title of the following 1968 hit: "L.A. is a great big freeway / Put a hundred down and buy a car..." San Jose |
#590, aired 1987-03-13 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: In the late 19th c., a branch of the U.S. Mint was operated in this capital named for a famous frontiersman Carson City, Nevada |
#584, aired 1987-03-05 | FOREIGN U.S. CITIES $300: Michigan city in which Greeks might not be welcome if they're bearing a wooden horse Troy |
#584, aired 1987-03-05 | FOREIGN U.S. CITIES $400: Not even in 1948-49 was a major airlift needed to get into this Wisconsin city Berlin |
#584, aired 1987-03-05 | FOREIGN U.S. CITIES $500: While wearing a kilt is stylish in Scotland's largest city, don't try it in this Montana town Glasgow |
#577, aired 1987-02-24 | THE BOSS $800: Bruce was indeed born in the U.S.A.--in this town, in fact Freehold, New Jersey |
#566, aired 1987-02-09 | U.S. CITIES $200: Major city where Washington is a Square & Columbus is a Circle New York City |
#564, aired 1987-02-05 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: Named for rock formations in the area, this Colorado city gets its water from a glacier it owns Boulder |
#564, aired 1987-02-05 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $600: City where you can visit Minnehaha Falls, its name combines Indian & Greek words for water & city MInneapolis |
#547, aired 1987-01-13 | SPORTS TRIVIA $100: L.A. Times says more NBA coaches were born in this N.Y. borough than any other U.S. city Brooklyn |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | U.S. CITIES $700 (Daily Double): (Alex: Here comes the music.)
"Have you ever passed the corner of Fourth and Grand /
Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoe shine stand? /
People gather round and they clap their hands /
He's a great big bundle of joy /
He pops the boogie woogie rag..."
City in which you'd find title character of this song
"...Yeah, he charges you a nickel just to shine one shoe /
He makes the oldest kind of leather look like new /
You feel as though you wanna dance when he gets through..." Chattanooga (Shoe Shine Boy) |
#505, aired 1986-11-14 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Montana city is called "a mile high & a mile deep" for its elevation & its mine shafts Butte |
#483, aired 1986-10-15 | U.S.A. $100: Among the water stops along route of this city's 1st marathon was Frederick's of Hollywood Los Angeles |
#469, aired 1986-09-25 | U.S. CITIES $600: City that's home to the Schlitz Audubon Center, where a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the Busch Gardens Milwaukee |
#420, aired 1986-04-18 | U.S.A. $400: Entertainment in this city includes 1,272 bowling lanes, the Sabres & the Bills Buffalo |
#419, aired 1986-04-17 | U.S. CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Out of gratitude for French aid in the Revolutionary War, a Kentucky city was named this Louisville |
#408, aired 1986-04-02 | OPERA $600: Due to ban on public stage performances, this U.S. city heard its 1st opera in 1769 as a concert Boston |
#407, aired 1986-04-01 | NEWS '85 $500: Texas city that earned nickname of "Foreclosure City, U.S.A." because of high number of home foreclosures Houston |
#406, aired 1986-03-31 | U.S. CITIES $300: Ohio city known as the "birthplace of aviation" since Wright Brothers had a bicycle shop there Dayton |
#388, aired 1986-03-05 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: City whose attractions include the John Hancock Tower, Insurance Building, & grave Boston |
#388, aired 1986-03-05 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: It's said this Missouri city was named after a chief character trait of General Andrew Jackson Independence |
#388, aired 1986-03-05 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $500: Dedicated by Pres. Carter in '77, this Washington city's Riverfront Park was site of Expo '74 Spokane |
#387, aired 1986-03-04 | "GARY"s $600: Among 1st Blacks elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Richard Hatcher is a 5-term mayor here Gary, Indiana |
#369, aired 1986-02-06 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1782, a preliminary treaty ending the Revolution was signed in this European city Paris |
#368, aired 1986-02-05 | CORPORATE AMERICA $1000: In 1982, this huge city became #1 beer-producing area in U.S. L.A. |
#355, aired 1986-01-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Only city to span entire width of a state is Weirton, in 1 of this state's 2 panhandles West Virginia |
#332, aired 1985-12-17 | GEOGRAPHY $200: The U.S.S.R.'s 3rd largest city, or a stuffed chicken dish Kiev |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $600: Israel's Golda Meir at one time taught school in this U.S. city Milwaukee |
#293, aired 1985-10-23 | U.S. CITIES $400: Secret formulas of both Old & New Coca-Cola are kept in a bank vault in this city Atlanta, Georgia |
#281, aired 1985-10-07 | 20TH CENTURY $600: In 1968, the U.S. & North Vietnam opened peace talks in this city Paris |
#262, aired 1985-09-10 | U.S. STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): State in which this song takes place:
"And I dreamed about them cottonfields 'n' home /
I dreamed about my mother /
Dear old sister and papa and brother /
Dreamed about that sweetheart who's been waitin' for so long /
I wanna go home..." Michigan |
#185, aired 1985-05-24 | U.S. MAYORS $1000: One of the first Blacks to become a big city mayor, he's serving his 5th term as mayor of Gary, Indiana Richard Hatcher |
#157, aired 1985-04-16 | U.S. CITIES $800: The met. area of this East Coast city has the highest average cost for a home, over $160,000 Washington, D.C. |
#152, aired 1985-04-09 | U.S. BEACHES $100: So. California city that's home to the Queen Mary, the Spruce Goose & a lengthy swath of surf Long Beach |
#135, aired 1985-03-15 | MUSIC $400: "Music City, U.S.A." Nashville, Tennessee |
#115, aired 1985-02-15 | TRADE CENTERS $100: City that beer made famous, it still produces most in U.S. Milwaukee |
#115, aired 1985-02-15 | TRADE CENTERS $500: The south's "Rocket City, U.S.A.", it's the center of missile production Huntsville, Alabama |
#85, aired 1985-01-04 | U.S. CITIES $400: It proclaims itself, "The Biggest Little City in the World" Reno, Nevada |
#56, aired 1984-11-26 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Mountain range that surrounds city of Atlanta the Blue Ridge Mountains |
#2, aired 1984-01-01 | U.S. LANDMARKS $50: It scrapes the sky at 5th Avenue & 34th Street, New York City the Empire State Building |