| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MANY HANDS $1000: During this 1986 event, people all around the country held hands to help the homeless Hands Across America |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | ALL AROUND YOUTUBE $600: The directors of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" shaped their film to avoid being mocked by this fake coming attractions show Honest Trailers |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $2,000 (Daily Double): During their trip around S. America, Magellan's crew saw new creatures including this bird they called a black goose a penguin |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ALL AROUND AMERICA $400: Don't miss the truck-mounted giant potato at the spud drive-in in this state's town of Driggs Idaho |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ALL AROUND AMERICA $800: This 320'-wide Howard Hughes creation from 1947 today nests at Oregon's Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum the "Spruce Goose" |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ALL AROUND AMERICA $1200: John Milkovisch made the aluminum siding at his Houston home from 50,000 of these former cold ones beer cans |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ALL AROUND AMERICA $1600: Seen in many sci-fi movies, the VLA, this system, listens in from Socorro, New Mexico the Very Large Array |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ALL AROUND AMERICA $2000: The Lake Whitefish is often found in this lake where a 43-pounder was caught in 1918 Lake Superior |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: The tricorn, a 3-cornered one of these for men, was introduced around 1690 & soon all Colonial dandies had one hat |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | AROUND THE USA $400: The Boy Scouts of America headquarters is in this state where all of George Strait's ex's live Texas |
| #4207, aired 2002-12-10 | ROCK AROUND AMERICA $400: Dionne Warwick, the Ronettes & the Jackson Five are all past "Amateur Night" winners at this Harlem theatre Apollo Theatre |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | AROUND THE KITCHEN $300: Found in cookie jars all over America, this is the top-selling brand-name cookie in the U.S. the Oreo |
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