#11, aired 2022-02-16 | RECENT NEWS $800: Seen here, he became the first openly gay Cabinet secretary, after getting the Department of Transportation job Pete Buttigieg |
#8386, aired 2021-04-26 | THE CABINET $400: Established after 9/11, it's the newest cabinet department Homeland Security |
#8314, aired 2021-01-14 | 2-LETTER LIT $600: L. Frank Baum said he got the name for this after looking at his file cabinet Oz |
#7738, aired 2018-04-11 | TIME FOR CLASS $400: Poli sci:
In presidential succession, this Cabinet job comes right after the pres. pro tempore of the Senate Secretary of State |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BUSH I & II CABINET MEMBERS $400: After leaving W.'s Cabinet in 2009, she returned to Stanford as a senior fellow on public policy at the Hoover Institution (Condoleezza) Rice |
#7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $200: After his fifth heart attack, he co-wrote a book with his doctor called "Heart: An American Medical Odyssey" Dick Cheney |
#7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $400: In 1945 ex-Attorney General Robert Jackson served as chief U.S. prosecutor in this German city Nuremberg |
#7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $600: Ex-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a stormy tenure as president of this university Harvard |
#7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $800: (Presidential daughter Jenna Bush Hager delivers the clue.) Secretary of War under Garfield & Arthur, this son of Abraham Lincoln was also minister to Britain & ran the Pullman Company after the founder's death Robert Todd Lincoln |
#7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $1,000 (Daily Double): Her 2012 memoir details her family's experiences in Europe during World War II & the Holocaust Madeleine Albright |
#7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HAMILTON $800: "How does the bastard orphan immigrant decorated war vet unite the colonies through more debt?" is asked about Hamilton shortly after he begins to run this Cabinet department the Treasury |
#6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $400: In July 1789 Congress created this first cabinet department; Thomas Jefferson was selected to head it the State Department |
#5693, aired 2009-05-13 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $3,000 (Daily Double): After heading up 2 Cabinet departments, she represented North Carolina in the Senate from 2003 to 2009 (Elizabeth) Dole |
#5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GOVERNMENT $400: This Cabinet department was created in 1977, 4 years after the Arab oil embargo Energy |
#5408, aired 2008-02-27 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Watch as chef Gordon Ramsey uses a few choice words on Pres. Andrew Jackson's unofficial advisers Hell's Kitchen Cabinet |
#5036, aired 2006-07-03 | THE U.S. CENSUS $1200: The Census Bureau became an agency of this Cabinet department in 1913 after it was split with labor the Department of Commerce |
#4962, aired 2006-03-21 | EGGHEADS $500 (Daily Double): She went to the U. of Denver at 15 & got a Ph.D. there studying the USSR; she's now in the Cabinet Condoleezza Rice |
#4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BEFORE & AFTER JOBS $1200: Cabinet officer in charge of Boost & Red Bull the Secretary of Energy Drinks |
#4672, aired 2004-12-21 | THE LIQUOR CABINET $1000: Sercial is a madeira used as an aperitif & bual is one used as this type digestif (after-dinner accepted) |
#3794, aired 2001-02-15 | VOICE OF AMERICA $200: During WWII the VOA was in the Office of War Information; after the war it became part of this cabinet dept. State Department |
#3532, aired 2000-01-04 | LINCOLN'S CABINET $1000: John Usher was secretary of this in 1863, 2 years after Albert Fall, a later secretary, was born The Interior |
#2811, aired 1996-11-18 | LLOYDERING $800: After succeeding Herbert Asquith as P.M., he reduced the number of policy-making Cabinet members to 5 David Lloyd George |
#2751, aired 1996-07-15 | UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIES-GENERAL $1000: After he left office in 1953, he returned to Norway & later served in the cabinet Trygve Lie |
#2394, aired 1995-01-19 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $500: He appointed an entirely new cabinet on succeeding to the office after Zachary Taylor's death (Millard) Fillmore |
#366, aired 1986-02-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: After fall of Richmond, last Confederate cabinet meeting was held in this largest N.C. city Charlotte |