| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | TAKE ME TO CHURCH $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2023 16th St. Baptist in this city marks 150 years of the congregation, a history marred by a 1963 bombing Birmingham, Alabama |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE $400: Her resumé includes 2 novels published 55 years apart & a 1983 essay about the history of Alabama Harper Lee |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: A memorial park & museum in Alabama honors this track-&-field legend who made history at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin Jesse Owens |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now a university, this Alabama school opened in 1881 with about 30 students & one teacher, Booker T. Washington Tuskegee |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1817, Congress divided a territory that became these two states that are practically mirror images of each other Alabama and Mississippi |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | AVIATION HISTORY $800: Benjamin Davis Jr. became the first to lead this all-black Alabama flying unit also known as the Red Tails the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The bus boycott protesting segregation in this Alabama city lasted for more than a year Montgomery |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In 1933 a stretch of river rapids in Alabama called Muscle Shoals became an integral part of this multi-state project Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $400: Bear Bryant led Maryland & 2 other schools before rolling to 232 wins at this university Alabama |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SOUTHERN HISTORY $400: In 1711 this Alabama city fittingly "moved" from 27 Mile Bluff to its current location Mobile |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $200: Rosa Parks changed history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in this city Montgomery (Alabama) |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $400: Alabama claims the USA's oldest of these pre-Lenten celebrations, & moon pies are more typical than beads on the floats Mardi Gras |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $600: Past KKK membership didn't stop Alabama's Hugo Black when he was appointed to this body in 1937 the Supreme Court |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $800: The August 1864 Battle of this body of water helped the Union enforce the blockade of the Confederacy Mobile Bay |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $1000: In 1812 this Shawnee leader came to Alabama to convince the Creek tribes to join the British against the Americans Tecumseh |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction the Scottsboro Boys |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | AUTHORESS! AUTHORESS! $1200: In 1983 those awaiting her 2nd novel made do with "Romance And High Adventure", an essay about Alabama history Harper Lee |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On May 15, 1972 while campaigning in Laurel, Md., this Alabama governor was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer George Wallace |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | HISTORY CLASS $1200: Founded in 1702, Mobile in this state became the "City of Six Flags" (but it doesn't have a Six Flags theme park) Alabama |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: In July 1881 this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first principal Tuskegee |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The Confederate States of America were established in 1861 in this city, the first Confederate capital Montgomery, Alabama |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $600: Autherine Lucy, this Tuscaloosa school's first black student, was admitted & expelled in February 1956 University of Alabama |
| #3554, aired 2000-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: During the naval battle for this Alabama bay, David Farragut uttered, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" Mobile Bay |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On August 5, 1864 David Farragut barreled full speed ahead into this Alabama bay, defeating the Confederate navy Mobile Bay |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY $500: An Alabama city gave its name to this group of 9 youths falsely accused of rape in 1931 The Scottsboro Boys |
| #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 |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: When this state entered the Union in 1819, Huntsville was its capital Alabama |
| #2122, aired 1993-11-23 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In March 1814 this general defeated the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend, in what is now Alabama Andrew Jackson |
| #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 |
| #1071, aired 1989-04-10 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Though his 1964 election was a landslide, his name didn't even appear on the Alabama ballot Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #841, aired 1988-04-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On January 16, 1967, she took office as Alabama's 1st woman governor Lurleen Wallace |
| #603, aired 1987-04-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: City to which Martin Luther King Jr. marched with over 25,000 people in March 1965 Montgomery, Alabama |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: At 1 time Alabama's state capitol building also served as capitol of this the Confederacy |
| #433, aired 1986-05-07 | FOOTBALL $1000: It's said more pro football players have come from this Southern university than any other Grambling |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Young pastor in Montgomery, Alabama who organized city-wide bus boycott protesting Rosa Parks' arrest Martin Luther King |
| #399, aired 1986-03-20 | ALABAMA $300: In 1967, she became only the 3rd woman governor in U.S. history Lurleen Wallace |
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