| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $500: This POTUS joined the Republican Unity Coalition, a gay rights organization, roughly 25 years after leaving the White House Gerald Ford |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $400: Made Henry Clay Secretary of State; 2 years after the White House, settled into a new House (of Representatives) John Quincy Adams |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Cincinnati Red with 4,256 hits who sits in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymus Bosch painting Pete Rose Garden of Earthly Delights |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | FIVE SUMMONER'S TALES $800: On April 12, 1945 he was drinking with Sam Rayburn after a day presiding over the Senate when he was summoned by the White House Truman |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | FETE OFFENSIVE $800: After this war hero's 1829 inauguration, crowds nearly crushed him & the White House was trashed Andrew Jackson |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | THE PRESIDENT HAD MONEY TROUBLES $600 (Daily Double): Living on a $112 per month pension after the White House, this ex-haberdasher refused any cashing in on the prestige of the presidency Harry Truman |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | CLUES ACROSS TEXAS $400: (I'm Anne Elise Parks with TXA 21.) The George W. Bush Presidential Library is in this city where the president moved back to after the White House Dallas |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | YOU KNOW MY NAME $800: Even after the White House, she continued her campaign to teach children to "Just Say No" to drugs Nancy Reagan |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $600: The president's mansion that also serves as the elected British parliamentary body the White House of Commons |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | PUPPY LOVE $200: Seen here shortly after arrival at the White House, Feller, Harry Truman's pup, was one of these small spaniels a Cocker spaniel |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $200: In 1965 LBJ invited this former president to witness the signing of the Medicare Act in Missouri (Harry) Truman |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $400: Since 1982 he's been a distinguished professor at Emory University (Jimmy) Carter |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $600: In 1878, a year after leaving office, he admitted, "The truth is I am more of a farmer than a soldier" (Ulysses) Grant |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $800: In 1841 he successfully argued for the freedom of the slave mutineers of the Amistad before the Supreme Court John Quincy Adams |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $1000: After leaving office, this 19th century prez was elected a U.S. senator from Tennessee (Andrew) Johnson |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | "WHITE" MATTER $800: Architect James Hoban modeled this building after Leinster House in Dublin the White House |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | LET ME MAKE A PREDICTION $2000: This seer became a celebrity in the 1960s after she predicted that a Democrat would win the White House but die in office (Jeane) Dixon |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LANDMARKS $400: Irish-born architect James Hoban designed this Washington, D.C. building; he had to rebuild it after an 1814 fire the White House |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES $400: John Quincy Adams loved to "rack 'em up" after buying the first one of these for the White House a pool table |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This president made a "clean sweep" of the White House from 1929 to 1933 (including the carpets) Herbert Hoover Vacuum Cleaner |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | PRESIDENTIAL PETS $1200: After the Clintons left the White House, they left this feline in the care of Betty Currie; he passed away in 2009 Socks |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | MAJOR BARBARAS $400: In 2003 she published "Reflections: Life After the White House" Barbara Bush |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | PENN. NAMES $600: After the White House, he retired to his Lancaster estate, where he died a bachelor in 1868 James Buchanan |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | DESPERATE WHITE HOUSE $800: Two days after Fort Sumter fell, this president called for 75,000 men for the army & got more than he could equip Abraham Lincoln |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | DO YOU COME HERE OFTEN? $200: Parents & kids gather each year at the White House for this event held on the Monday after Easter the Easter Egg Roll |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Edith Piaf tune that's at home in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymous Bosch painting "La Vie En Rose Garden Of Earthly Delights" |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARIES $1200: Pierre Salinger became the interim California senator 4 years after being made press secretary by this president JFK |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: Woodward & Bernstein's political detective story featuring agents J & K who unearth aliens in the White House All The President's Men In Black |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | WHITE HOUSE BEFORE & AFTER $400: 43rd president of the U.S. who flies supplies to remote Alaskan villages every week George W. Bush pilot |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | WHITE HOUSE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Nothing can succeed in this White House office where the president meets with his war council No-Win Situation Room |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | WHITE HOUSE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Traditional Southern "jumping" dish of black-eyed peas that became Attorney General of the U.S. in 2001 Hoppin' John Ashcroft |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | WHITE HOUSE BEFORE & AFTER $6,400 (Daily Double): "The Day of the Locust" author who works in the White House area for which a TV drama is named Nathanael West Wing |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $200: Just weeks after leaving office, he & son Kermit left on a year-long African hunting expedition Teddy Roosevelt |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $400: In July 2003 he returned to the White House for a special dinner in honor of his 90th birthday Ford |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $600: Though not in the best of health, in 1840 he went to New Orleans to celebrate his battle victory's 25th anniversary Andrew Jackson |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $800: On his 80th birthday, May 8, 1964, he became the first former president to address a regular Senate session Harry Truman |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $1000: In February 1930 illness forced him to resign as U.S. Chief Justice; he died a month later Taft |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | SPORTS QUOTES $800: Asked about his golf game after leaving the White House, this 34th Pres. said that "a lot more people beat me now" Eisenhower |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: On Jan. 20, 1977 he decided to walk from the Capitol to the White House after his inauguration Jimmy Carter |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Jerry Lewis' partner who occupied the White House from 1837 to 1841 Dean Martin Van Buren |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: TV show in which E.B. White's mouse-like boy lives with Laura Ingalls & her pa Stuart Little House on the Prairie |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | THE ROARING '20s $1600: After his death in 1923, it was revealed that he trysted with his mistress in the White House Warren G. Harding |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | PEARL HARBOR $400: Japan's message of war reached the White House after the attack, as the embassy took too long doing this to it translating (decoding) |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $1200: Contrary to its name, this manor where the Madisons lived after the White House was burned has 6 sides, not 8 Octagon House |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | JUST WRITE $600: "My First Days in the White House", by this Louisiana political legend, was published in 1935, after his death Huey P. Long |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $100: In 1999 he celebrated his 75th birthday by jumping from a plane over the grounds of his Texas library George H.W. Bush |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $200: He not only designed the buildings for the University of Virginia, he also chose the faculty & curriculum Thomas Jefferson |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $300: An avid golfer, he scored a hole-in-one during a round in Palm Springs in 1968 Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $400: In 1913 he headed to the Brazilian jungle for a 7-month-long expedition Theodore Roosevelt |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $500: He went on to preside over the American Bar Association & over the Supreme Court of the U.S. William Howard Taft |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Southern California beach town that once interned in the White House Santa Monica Lewinsky |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Mammoth 3 Little Pigs nemesis who's CNN's senior White House correspondent The Big Bad Wolf Blitzer |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $100: Returning to the Senate in 1875, he served with senators who had voted "Guilty" at his impeachment trial Andrew Johnson |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $200: In 1841 he represented the Amistad mutineers before the Supreme Court John Quincy Adams |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $300: He continued to support the political career of protege James "Young Hickory" Polk Andrew Jackson |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $400: Although he "crashed" in the election of 1932, he later led 2 commissions to reorganize the executive branch Herbert Hoover |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $500: In 1984 Jimmy Carter worked his first building project for this international organization Habitat for Humanity |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | CHESTER A. ARTHUR $400: Old Chet got quite a lift after he had the first one of these installed in the White House Elevator |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | CNN $800: After a tour as White House Chief of Staff, he became the "nunu" conservative voice on "Crossfire" John Sununu |
| #3039, aired 1997-11-13 | OUR NATION'S CAPITAL $200: Kids roll eggs across the White House lawn on the Monday after this holiday Easter |
| #2970, aired 1997-06-27 | PEOPLE $200: Diane Sawyer was a staff assistant to this president in the White House & after his resignation, in San Clemente Richard Nixon |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | THE WHITE HOUSE $200: James Hoban, the original architect, supervised the rebuilding of the White House after this war War of 1812 |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | FIRST LADIES $200: After leaving the White House, she helped plan her husband's presidential library in Atlanta Rosalynn Carter |
| #2275, aired 1994-06-24 | ANNUAL EVENTS $100: Traditionally, the egg roll on the White House lawn is the held the day after this holiday Easter |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | FIRST LADIES $200: 19 years after she left the White House in 1961, her Boone, Iowa birthplace was opened as a historic site Mamie Eisenhower |
| #1692, aired 1991-12-31 | HISTORIC HOMES $400: After the White House was set afire in 1814, this presidential couple moved to the nearby Octagon House the Madisons |
| #1596, aired 1991-07-08 | FIRST LADIES $400 (Daily Double): After Wilson's term ended, she reopened the White House to the public & began entertaining Mrs. (Florence) Harding |
| #1497, aired 1991-02-19 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: After his inauguration March 4,1817, he lived in a house on I Street; the White House was under repair Monroe |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | THE WHITE HOUSE $1000: He was the first president to live in the White House after it was burned down & rebuilt James Monroe |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | PRESIDENTS $1000: After Garfield's death, he refused to move into the White House until it was redecorated (Chester) Arthur |
| #649, aired 1987-06-04 | WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP $1000: After his 1st wife died in the White House in 1892, this 23rd President married her niece Benjamin Harrison |
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