| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $2000: The short story collection "Face to Face" was the first book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This mystical form of Islam began c. 800 in part with a woman from Basra who introduced a new concept of the love of Allah Sufism |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $400: Annie Londonderry inspired the 2021 novel "Spin", about her historic 19th-century trip around the world on one of these bicycle |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $200: She was in Kenya when she learned she had become queen on February 6, 1952 Queen Elizabeth II |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $400: An Asian prime minister for 15 years, she was called "Indu" for short Indira Gandhi |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $600: In 1767 this "Great" empress called a commission on legal reform Catherine the Great |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $1000: An exotic Dutch dancer & courtesan, she was executed by the French in 1917 on charges of spying for the Germans Mata Hari |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1993, True Path Party leader Tansu Ciller became the first female prime minister of this large Muslim country Turkey |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | WORLD OF RELIGION $400: Kept at Chartres Cathedral in France, the "Sancta Camisa" is a garment said to have been worn by this woman in childbirth the Virgin Mary |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | READ IT OR EAT IT? $2000: Just after World War II, a woman learns of a group of book lovers on one of the Channel Islands The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES $2000: 1942:
A British woman & her family work together to survive at the outbreak of World War II Mrs. Miniver |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $2000: On June 16th, 1963, she set off on a nearly 71-hour flight, becoming a Soviet hero and the first woman in space (Valentina) Tereshkova |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE U.S. WOMEN'S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM $1000: Here's this woman enjoying a lovely spot of imaginary tea after scoring the deciding goal in the 2019 World Cup semis vs. England (Alex) Morgan |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | RECENT KIDS' BOOKS $200: In the fantasy world of "Red Queen", a young peasant woman discovers she has the power to wield this, like Zeus lightning |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | NOTABLE WOMEN $200: Even after stepping down as a world leader, this woman stayed in Parliament and later moved on to the House of Lords Margaret Thatcher |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $800: In 1921 Bessie Coleman became the first black woman in the world to earn this type of license a pilot's license |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | THE END OF THE STORY $1600: "He brought back ...a charming woman...would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?" Around the World in 80 Days |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $800: A woman learns of family secrets back in China in this author's 2001 novel "The Bonesetter's Daughter" Amy Tan |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | PACIFIC STANDARD RHYME TIME $2000: A woman resembling a Roman love goddess in a California city, "the Salad Bowl of the World" a Salinas Venus |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | WHO'S THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL? $800: A 2005 "60 Minutes" story said the world's most beautiful woman is Aishwarya Rai, queen of this country's cinema India |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | WORLD OF DANCE $1200: The bullfight-based paso doble includes a move where the man turns the woman into this piece of apparel the cape |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Melbourne is in the Australian state named for this woman, a friend of Viscount Melbourne Queen Victoria |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall.)
I'm at the National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall in the cockpit of a Lockheed Electra, like the one that vanished with this woman who was trying to fly around the world in 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | AMERICAN IDOL SONGS $400: Keith Beukelaer's version of this woman's "Like A Virgin" moved Simon to call him maybe the world's worst singer Madonna |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | HISTORIC WOMEN $200: As one of these in ancient Egypt, Peseshet was maybe the world's first woman to say, "Turn your head & Khufu" physician (or doctor) |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $200: She was in Kenya when she learned she had become queen on February 6, 1952 Elizabeth II |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $400: An Asian prime minister for 15 years, she was called "Indu" for short Indira Gandhi |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $600: In 1767 this "Great" empress called a commission on legal reform Catherine the Great |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $800: In 1993 True Path Party leader Tansu Ciller became the first female PM of this large Muslim country Turkey |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $1000: An entirely female unit, the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon, helped win this country's 1956-58 socialist revolution Cuba |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | BALLET $1000: In 2003 the dance theatre of this N.Y. neighborhood presented the world premiere of "St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet" Harlem |
| #4311, aired 2003-05-05 | WORLD LIT $1200: A beso for you if you know that Manuel Puig's novel "El Beso de la Mujer Arana" has this title in English "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | VAUDEVILLE $400: The billing of Julian Eltinge, seen here, was "The most beautiful woman in the world is really" this a man |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | WONDERERS OF THE WORLD $600: In her quest for this, her last name, Sojourner asked, "I have plowed and planted...and aren't I a woman?" Truth |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | WORLD OF CHRISTMAS $300: In Great Britain, this woman gives a special Christmas Day message on TV The Queen |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | SNEEZING $800: This woman, seen here, says a doctor had to teach her how to sneeze--& laugh--properly Celine Dion |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $600: She was the first American woman to be pictured on a U.S. stamp & on U.S. paper currency: Martha Washington |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | MEN OF THE WORLD $200: Armando Munoz Garcia sculpted a 55' statue of a nude woman & lived in it in this Mexican city near San Diego Tijuana |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $1000: This cosmonaut, the first woman to travel in space, was named a hero of the Soviet Union Valentina Tereshkova |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | MRS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON $800: In 1961 this world leader called pro-nuclear Margaret "The devil in the disguise of a woman" Nikita Khrushchev |
| #1590, aired 1991-06-28 | WORLD LITERATURE $300: The father & 1 of the title siblings in this Russian novel are rivals for a woman named Grushenka The Brothers Karamazov |
| #934, aired 1988-09-29 | 20th C. AMERICANS $200: Flying a jet fighter in 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the 1st woman to do this fly faster than the speed of sound |
| #789, aired 1988-01-28 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: Subtitled "The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", in 1821 it became 1st book tried for sexual obscenity in U.S. Fanny Hill |
| #584, aired 1987-03-05 | "SOFT" $500: According to Elvis, type of person troubled by a "hard-hearted woman... ever since the world began" a soft-hearted man |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | SPORTS $1000: In 1953, Tenley Albright became the 1st U.S. woman to win a world title in this figure skating |
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