| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | MUSIC FROM 10 YEARS AGO $1600: This EDM duo with great "American Spirit" had a "Lucky Strike" with the addictive hit "#Selfie" The Chainsmokers |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | FUN FACTS $600: Mei Xiang, Tian Tian & their cub flew from Dulles to China on a flight nicknamed this, like an American Chinese restaurant chain Panda Express |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $600: A Native American village in Yosemite has one of these dwellings named for their circular shape; it's still used by local tribes a roundhouse |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $800: Jeff Fischer got the role he was born to play: Jeff Fischer, Hayley Smith's hubby & pal to a talking fish & an alien on this TBS cartoon American Dad! |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $400: Warily circling as hunters freeze & swear, the pintail type of this water bird is one of the most difficult to lure with a decoy a duck |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $1200: The Cooper's type of this bird of prey is soon to be the TBD type as American birds will no longer have people in their common names hawk |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $1600: The long-billed curlew is nicknamed this bird & its Bay Area habitat is said to have lent that name to a point & a ballpark candlestick |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $2000: John Cassin, from a Quaker family in Delaware County, became a famed ornithologist in this city & named a vireo after it the Philadelphia vireo |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $600: Her son Jean Baptiste served as a military guide in the American West before his 1866 death Sacagawea |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $2000: The theft of a fortune in gold in Victorian England is "The Great Train Robbery" by this late American thriller master Crichton |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $800: Stephen Hawking gave us "A Brief History of Time" & this American-born writer gave us "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (Bill) Bryson |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $1200: In 2016, NASA began testing a new prototype rover & its life-detecting instruments in this South American desert the Atacama |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $400: Harrison Gray Otis served briefly as a brigadier-general in this 1898 war while still publisher of the Los Angeles Times the Spanish-American War |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: 2024 marks 100 years of this group with a mission "to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke" the American Heart Association |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $1200: Native American leaders want the name of this first U.S. natl. monument changed, saying it's offensive & based on a mistranslation Devils Tower |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | "AI" $1600: Heads up! It's this South American cousin of the crocodile a caiman |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | 5 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $800: "The Broken Heart of America", about St. Louis & American violence, ends with a 2014 police shooting in this Missouri city Ferguson |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NEW U.S. STAMPS FOR 2024 $800: A guitar, fiddle, banjo & mandolin are all featured on the 2024 stamp celebrating this uniquely American genre of music bluegrass |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: "The Man Who Ate Too Much" is a biography of this American whose foundation gives awards to outstanding chefs James Beard |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA $400: The Sugar Act of 1764 included a 3-pence tax on each gallon of this imported from outside the British Empire molasses |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | 40 YEARS AGO: 1984 $800: At the Winter Olympics, this American won gold with a four-and-a-half minute program that featured multiple triple jumps Scott Hamilton |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 2023 this author of "Jazz" & "The Bluest Eye" was honored on a U.S. stamp, unveiled at Princeton, where she taught Morrison |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Early in his career, this author of "The Corrections" earned extra money working in a seismology lab at Harvard Franzen |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: There's a Colorado River in the U.S. & another one in this South American nation where it flows across the Pampas Argentina |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | TAKING FLIGHT $1600: The first African-American woman in space, on her first shuttle mission in 1992, she carried with her a photo of pilot Bessie Coleman Jemison |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $600: This cocktail may be dry, like the wit of H.L. Mencken, said to have called it "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet" a martini |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: As is often said when a Tony Award is given out, they're from this "American" organization the American Theatre Wing |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: "Unbought and Unbossed" was a campaign slogan & an autobiography by this first African-American congresswoman Shirley Chisholm |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" Goddard |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Chartered by Congress in 1919, it's the largest veterans' organization in the U.S., with nearly 2 million members the American Legion |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $2000: In 1972 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a founder of this organization's Women's Rights Project; full name, please the American Civil Liberties Union |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Clara Barton served as a nurse at this Sept. 17, 1862 Maryland battle where nurses were badly needed Antietam |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A century before she was on a dollar coin, she was convicted & fined for casting a vote in the 1872 pres. election Anthony |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first women's club in New York was La Liga de las Hijas de this island where a rebellion against Spain was sending refugees norte-ward Cuba |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $2000: The Midwest's 29th state & a Colorado county, both named after Native American peoples the Iowa & Kiowa |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Still going in Macon, a college with this Methodist-conscious name was the USA's first chartered to grant degrees to women Wesleyan College |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SIMPLE SPANISH $600: It's a form of "named", as in "Como se ____ usted?"; pronounced the Anglo way, it's a South American pack animal llama |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: If you know what a hungry Liz is, thank Jesse Sheidlower & colleagues in this job for the "Historical Dict. of American Slang" lexicographer |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $400: This Native American's depiction on a $20 banknote in the 1860s was the first time a real woman was seen on American currency Pocahontas |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $600: Between 1837 & 1840 this republic & future state issued a paper currency called star money for the small star on the bill's face Texas |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $200: In the early 1890s President Cleveland wasn't "sweet" on one company controlling 98% of American refining of this sugar |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $2000: Businessman & dad Swede Levov navigates the turbulent '60s in this Philip Roth novel with a calm title American Pastoral |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Up we go! There are more than a dozen old-school funiculars in Valparaíso on the coast of this South American country Chile |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $400: During 1965's Gemini 4 mission, Ed White lost a glove while conducting the first American one of these excursions a spacewalk |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $400: This president was the focus of a Time magazine article about the 1976 "SNL" episode "that changed American politics" Ford |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $1,200 (Daily Double): Drop "it" from a word for a hollow space to get this South American rodent a cavy (from cavity) |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $800: This nonfiction work by Eric Schlosser is subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" Fast Food Nation |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $800: In 1913 Lincoln Beachey became the first American to perform this repetitive-sounding maneuver, flying in a vertical circle loop the loop |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | ALLITERATIVE TERMS $400: It's any American born between 1946 & 1964 a baby boomer |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | U.S. STAMPS $1000: A one-cent stamp pays tribute to this American designer of lamps & much more Tiffany |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $400: During this "Show" seen by many on February 3, 2002, U2's Bono flashed his jacket's American flag lining the Super Bowl Halftime Show |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $800: Many North American lakes are named for this bird; in 1892 Pres. Harrison stayed at one in the Adirondacks & heard the bird's mad laugh a loon |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | DOUBLE TALK GEOGRAPHY $800: A port city on Tutuila Island, Pago Pago is the capital of this U.S. territory in the South Pacific American Samoa |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was a key player in the design of this 1935 act creating a national pension system Social Security |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: She gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech at an 1851 women's rights convention, though she probably never used that phrase Sojourner Truth |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: This actor, philanthropist & Titanic survivor went by "Maggie"; her famous nickname was a posthumous invention (Molly) Brown |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $10,600 (Daily Double): She was the star of a 1903 vaudeville play titled "Hatchetation" Carrie Nation |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | JUST DESERTS $1000: La Guajira desert is connected by gas pipeline to nearby Barranquilla in this South American country Colombia |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He was a newspaperman for the Chicago Daily Globe before penning "An American Tragedy" Dreiser |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | MUSIC $600: In 1953 he became the first American to conduct at La Scala in Milan; 4 years later, he helped tell a "West Side Story" Bernstein |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $2000: This American woman went pro in 1916, founded a dance company in 1926, retired at 70 but choreographed until her death in 1991 Martha Graham |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $1000: Road & Track said this 3-letter brand's Gremlin, launched on April Fools' Day 1970, "stretched the definition of car" AMC (American Motors) |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AFRICAN AMERICANA $800: The 2011 rom-com "Jumping the Broom" is named for a Black American tradition during this life event a wedding |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS $600: Richard Bellingham, a real governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, turns up in this novel & lets Hester keep her child The Scarlet Letter |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS $1000: On that fateful 1963 day in Dallas, this Texas governor suffered 3 broken ribs, a shattered wrist & a punctured lung Governor Connally |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | SAY, "BUSTER" $800: In the 1850s, it meant an American who caused conflict in Latin America; a bit later, it came to mean a tactic in a legislature a Filibuster |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | THE SEA'S BOUNTY $1200: Boquerones, which are these, are a favorite on tapas in Spain; they've fallen out of favor on American pizzas anchovies |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORKING ON A BUILDING $1200: 1941-43: 15,000 American workers labor day & night to turn swampland into this federal office complex the Pentagon |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $400: It's a symbol of the all-American way of life apple pi |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | I JUST WANT A LOVER LIKE ANY OTHER $400: Despite the pandemic & post-#MeToo caution, the organization SHRM says 1/3 of American workers have found love here at work (at the office) |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | A CHANGE OF "PACE" $300: The Daytona 500 is also known as "The Great American" this Race |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Historians cite this event that began in 1929 as one of the main reasons for the demise of the Harlem renaissance the Great Depression |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: A vacuum cleaner salesman & spy named Jim Wormold is the protagonist of this Graham Greene novel Our Man in Havana |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $1600: "City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country Brazil |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it three years later Margaret Mead |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020:
After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | LET'S GO LOBSTERING $800: The American lobster is basically differentiated from the Pacific one by having these big enough to eat claws |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $800: Born in Ukraine in 1920, this American violin virtuoso led a '60s fight to save Carnegie Hall from demolition Isaac Stern |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $900: Take a southwestern Native American tribe, move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this breakfast chain IHOP |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LET'S GET MEDICAL $1000: In July 1976 a form of pneumonia caused the deaths of 29 members of this organization in Philadelphia American Legionnaires (American Legion) |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | 'ROUND MIDNIGHT $1600: James Leo Herlihy wrote this 1965 novel about Joe Buck, who tries to make it in New York as a stud for hire Midnight Cowboy |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $400: I can name this Native American dwelling in 2 letters a tepee (T-P) |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $800: This American was a real rocket scientist, launching his first liquid-propelled one March 16, 1926 Goddard |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math West Point |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | COW COUNTRY $1200: Criollo cattle include Texas longhorns & a breed named for this South American country of champion beef eaters Argentina |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Damaged in a 1906 earthquake, the first lighthouse on the West Coast was located on this island Alcatraz |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SUPER TROUPERS $800: This Chicago comedy institution awards a fellowship named for Bob Curry, its first African-American mainstage performer Second City |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CAT LOVERS $800: This American author had a beloved pet named Catterina, who we hope was not the inspiration for his horror tale "The Black Cat" Poe |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $400: Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, of this NFC East team: "Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs & have some fun" the New York Giants |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $800: He went 36-44 as head coach of the Browns; he's had a bit more success in New England Bill Belichick |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $1000: Last name of the man who said, "Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble" but whose trophy carries the ball with one hand Heisman |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | SUCH COLORFUL LANGUAGE! $1600: The House Un-American Activities Committee inspired Hollywood to create one of these registers of disapproval a blacklist |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THIS AMERICAN LAKE $400: A 2023 report said that without emergency measures, this "Great" lake in Utah "would likely disappear in the next five years" Great Salt Lake |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THIS AMERICAN LAKE $800: Lying entirely in the U.S., this Great Lake that made Milwaukee famous reaches a great depth of 923 feet Michigan |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THIS AMERICAN LAKE $1200: The name of this freshwater lake shared by 2 western states is from a Washoe word for "lake"; hope you win big at Harrah's too Tahoe |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A British Crown proclamation of 1763 forbade colonists from settling west of these mountains the Appalachians |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Sally Ride rocketed into orbit aboard this Space Shuttle that shared its name with a 19th century research vessel Challenger |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The daughter of an Italian immigrant, she had been a U.S. representative for 3 terms when tapped in 1984 to be a vice presidential nominee Ferraro |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1886 a riot in this city's Haymarket Square led to the deaths of several police officers & demonstrators Chicago |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | STATE FLAGS $400: Wyoming's flag, adopted in 1917, bears the silhouette of one of these animals, just back from the brink of extinction the American bison (a buffalo) |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | TAKING A RIDE $1600: In 1961 he became the first American to ride into space; apparently enjoying the area, he took a walk on the Moon 10 years later Alan Shepard |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SCIENCE $2000: A 1957 Scientific American article called this "Mighty" organelle the "Powerhouse of the Cell" the mitochondria |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LADY "A" $1000: One of the original judges on "American Idol", she's also been a panelist on "The Masked Dancer" Paula Abdul |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Tracy Letts' play about a rundown food shop, its aging owner & his young African-American hire is called "Superior" these Donuts |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $2000: In 1976, Mario Vargas Llosa gave this other 3-named South American Nobelist a literal black eye Gabriel García Márquez |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE PLOT THICKENS $1200: An American fighting in the International Brigade enlists a band of guerrillas in a plot to blow up a bridge near Segovia For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal in New York, Burr & Hamilton had their deadly 1804 clash at a secluded spot in Weehawken in this state New Jersey |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: A golden spike ceremony on May 10, 1869 near this Utah "Point" marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad Promontory |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $600: This U.S. territory celebrates Flag Day on April 17, the day in 1900 that Old Glory was raised in Fagatogo on Tutuila Island American Samoa |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $1200: This aquatic creature with a name like a young dog dwells in caves; the Devils Hole species lives in areas only 10 feet wide a pupfish |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $1600: The Giant Dome & Twin Domes are quite a sight, & don't miss the Big Room when visiting this national park in New Mexico Carlsbad Caverns |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1000: Her "Everything I Never Told You" is a moving novel of a Chinese-American family in Ohio dealing with the loss of a child Celeste Ng |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $1600: This first name of American farmer Hanson was given to a type of grass often used for hay Timothy |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | 2 PARTS MAKE A WHOLE $1000: One of Santa's reindeer
+
a festive social gathering = this doomed group of American pioneers the Donner Party |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | HISTORY $400: To protect an ancestral cemetery, in 1910 attorney Lyda Conley became the 3rd woman & 1st Native American to argue a case here the Supreme Court (of the United States) |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT'S ADORABLE $200: A new carnivore species was announced in 2013--the olinguito, found in the cloud forest of this South American mountain chain the Andes |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $600: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) An inspiration for my character in "The American President" was this advisor to Bill Clinton, a spin doctor in his own right; he also made a cameo on my show "Spin City" Stephanopoulos |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | TV SITCOMS BY FAMILY $400: Pursuing the American dream, the Huang family Fresh Off the Boat |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $800: A shout-out from "Best American" these literary works made Joyce Carol Oates abandon her Rice University PhD in favor of writing short stories |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $200: It's the L-A in LULAC, a civil rights organization founded at Salon Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi in 1929 Latin American |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): A gigantic 3/4 dome, Montreal's biosphere was designed by this American for the city's 1967 Expo (Buckminster) Fuller |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | FIVE FOR FIGHTING $1600: This term for a brawl or donnybrook is also the title surname of an Irish-American cop played by John Wayne on film brannigan |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $800: Corning Tower & the American Italian Heritage Museum & Cultural Center Albany |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $800: In 1914 he directed the first feature-length movie made in Hollywood & cast a Native American actress in a major part Cecil B. DeMille |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $1000: Burbank grew around Lockheed, maker of this fighter that took part in World War II's first shoot-down of a German plane by an American one the P-38 (Lightning) |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $5,000 (Daily Double): The 3-named British P.M. from 1916 to 1922 & the 3-named American scientist granted a 1925 patent for cosmetics made from peanuts David Lloyd George Washington Carver |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $2000: In 1996, Ann Richards eulogized this Texas congresswoman as "an American original... a national treasure" & a friend Jordan |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER $400: Let's bring American history class to life! Take a look at this Revolutionary group pouring tea down the throat of a Crown official Sons of Liberty |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $9,200 (Daily Double): A South American cidade & estado both go by this name Rio de Janeiro |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: Located on a river of the same name, it's the South American natural wonder seen here Iguazú Falls |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | REVOLT-ING HISTORY $800: After 4 years of negotiations, in 2016 the government of this South American country made a peace deal with FARC rebels Colombia |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: In 2016, this beloved author of the "Fudge" books & her husband George opened a nonprofit bookstore in Key West, Florida Judy Blume |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: A story of love & racial injustice, his 1974 novel "If Beale Street Could Talk" was turned into a 2018 film Baldwin |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | U.S. "BURG"S $1000: This South Carolina city was named for a local militia that helped win the Battle of Cowpens in the American Revolution Spartanburg |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $800: This woman who founded a cosmetics giant took a French-looking name & helped fund a restoration of Versailles Estée Lauder |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $2000: A self-titled 1961 L.P. of arias sung by this great "L.P." is known to opera lovers as the "Blue Album" Leontyne Price |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $7,000 (Daily Double): Soon to mother a brood of actors of this last name, Georgiana Drew married actor Maurice in 1876 Barrymore |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $1000: This Aurora 7 astronaut, the second American to make an orbital spaceflight, is seen here with the first, John Glenn Scott Carpenter |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $1000: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Long before winning the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Richard Pryor wrote for this '70s sitcom; the star next to Richard is a big hint & man, its theme song was fantastic Sanford and Son |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $400: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) For a signature challenge, our bakers had to come up with an elegant cake assembled from no less than 20 layers of these French pancakes crepes |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $600: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) In one challenge, our bakers were asked to combine two classics--a chiffon cake with this citrus-based Florida dessert favorite key lime pie |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $800: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) During Pastry Week, we asked our bakers to make a dozen of these south-of-the-border treats made with a choux pastry & filled with a yummy chocolate ganache churros |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW WITH ELLIE KEMPER $1000: (Ellie Kemper presents the clue.) Our bakers made this sweet yeast bread that's braided & baked in a loaf pan &, as my cohost Zach explained, takes its name from the Polish word for "grandmother" babka |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $800: In 2022 John Lahr published a new bio of this American playwright who was Arty from a young age--that's what his mom called him Arthur Miller |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: An American truck & SUV maker becomes a world of entertainment that got started with "Iron Man" GMCU |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $200: The title of this Ken Kesey novel comes from a children's rhyme & follows "One flew east, one flew west" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $600: In a Mark Twain novel, thinking he's none too bright, the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Who is John Galt? He's the organizer of a strike of great minds in this novel Atlas Shrugged |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | A HARD BARGAIN $1000: In 1962 the Berlin Hilton bar was a headquarters for James B. Donovan in tough negotiations to get this American pilot released Gary Powers |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | REPTILES $3,200 (Daily Double): A kin of alligators & crocodiles, this Central & South American reptile lends its name to an island group near Jamaica a caiman |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $200: This country superstar & "American Idol" is a real Okie from Muskogee, where she was born in 1983 Carrie Underwood |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | WORLD FACTS $1200: This very large North American desert has a small dog in its name Chihuahua |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $1,600 (Daily Double): Secretary 1933-1944, Cordell Hull advocated respect for Central & South American nations, a policy known by this friendly nickname the Good Neighbor Policy |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $800: The Caribbean coast of this Central American country is indented by a gulf of the same name Honduras |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $800: "I'll keep you my" this, sang the All-American Rejects, though having a No. 1 hit might not be the best way to do that "Dirty Little Secret" |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BIG AMERICAN LANDOWNERS $400: Brad Kelley's holdings include this state's Calumet Farm, source of many a Derby winner Kentucky |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THE SUPERLATIVE EARTH $800: Oddly, the highest point on this continent is a mount named for a Polish patriot who fought in the American Revolution Australia |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | BRITISH TO AMERICAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR $200: A big dipper is more than a cluster of stars, it's also one of these amusement park attractions a roller coaster |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | BRITISH TO AMERICAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR $400: In the U.K., this part of your Rolls-Royce is called a mudguard the fender |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | BRITISH TO AMERICAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR $600: In Britain, a caravan behind your car isn't a line of vehicles, but just this one, & some pensioners choose to live in one a trailer |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | BRITISH TO AMERICAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR $800: On hot summer days in London, you'll welcome an ice lolly, or what we call this treat a Popsicle |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | BRITISH TO AMERICAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR $1000: A child's catapult may sound like an ancient war machine, but it's just one of these implements for flinging small projectiles a slingshot |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | I LIKE AMERICAN MUSIC $1200: This southern city is a hip-hop mecca & one of its temples is Lenox Square Mall, where the OutKast rappers met Atlanta |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $600: The colossal Christ the Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado towers over this South American city Rio de Janeiro |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $1200: It's a historic Irish coronation site, the O'Hara home in American lit, & the title "Road" where Maeve Binchy set a novel Tara |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | STANDING ON A BOARD SIDEWAYS $1000: Seen here is this American, the youngest woman ever at 17, to win Olympic gold in snowboarding Chloe Kim |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | A PLEASURE TO HAVE IN CLASS $800: A laborer in the feudal system; "Our American Cousin" author Tom Taylor titled a play about one, subtitled "Love Levels All" a serf |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $400: In 2016, aged 94, Pulitzer winner George Walker composed a tribute to the dead of the Emanuel AME Church in this S.C. city Charleston |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $600: A leader & producer of the Wu-Tang Clan, he composed music for "Kill Bill" & we can't help hoping he'll work on a song with SZA RZA |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | STUDY: GUIDES $2000: A guide app from this "Society" is free & has info on 800-plus species of North American birds, which should keep you busy the Audubon Society |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): It's a social ideal meant to motivate people toward success; a book by a N.Y. Times columnist is subtitled "Waking Up from" it the American Dream |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | LITERARY REUNIONS $2000: Some 20 books in, he won a Pulitzer for "American Pastoral", which delves deep into the psyche at a 45th high school reunion Philip Roth |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | TIME TO GO BIG $1200: Dubbed "The American Dream", the world's self-proclaimed longest car is a 26-wheeled, 100-foot limousine--naturally, this type a stretch limousine |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $1000: Included in a set of stamps celebrating American architecture was this Pennsylvania house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | PORTRAIT OF A LADY $1000: This 3-named American painter who lived abroad considered his portrait of "Madame X" to be his masterpiece John Singer Sargent |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $400: Chris Kyle's memoir & basis for a film is subtitled "The Autobiography of the Most Lethal" this "in U.S. Military History" American Sniper |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: You get an "A" for identifying this long desert that lies between the Andes & the Pacific the Atacama |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Approved by Congress in 1861 but not ratified, a proposed this number amendment would instead have protected slavery the 13th |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1672 Spain began building a large masonry fort on the shore of this city in Florida St. Augustine |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On November 21, 1620 41 male passengers signed this document while anchored at a Massachusetts harbor the Mayflower Compact |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | NUTS TO YOU! $800: When food was hard to find, American pioneers resorted to eating these nuts, perhaps from a white oak acorns |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | JUICE BAR $1000: The berries & juice of this Central & South American palm are touted as a superfood açaí |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | SEVEN HEAVEN $1000: The craft Freedom 7 took this American into space for a 15-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | BIG RIVER $8,000 (Daily Double): No respect! Though more than 2,300 miles long, this North American river is still just a tributary the Missouri |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | HEAD GEAR $800: A comb from Nigeria with fewer teeth than American combs gave Willie Morrow the idea for this item to style Black hair a (afro) pick |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $200: "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this circus showman, but there's no proof he ever really said or wrote it P.T. Barnum |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $400: A line from the screenplay for the Oliver Stone film "Wall Street" says that this "is good!" greed |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $800: Just one of the many witticisms from Dorothy Parker: "Brevity is the soul of" this, a fancy word for ladies' undergarments lingerie |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $2,400 (Daily Double): In a 2016 speech at the Democratic National Convention, she instructed, "When they go low, we go high" Michelle Obama |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $4,800 (Daily Double): Mark Kurlansky wrote a book titled this year of the Tet Offensive & 2 American assassinations 1968 |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | SAY IT WITH ADVERTISING $1000: This credit card has long lured you to be a "member" not a mere cardholder, as in the slogan "Membership has its privileges" American Express |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | "SIDE" EFFECTS $600: This American desert snake is a horned variety of rattlesnake a sidewinder |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $800: It took a phone call from Henry Kissinger & a doubling of the prize fund to get this tempestuous American to play his Soviet foe in 1972 Bobby Fischer |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: This narrator in a 19th century classic says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave" Huck Finn |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: Her poem "Daddy" with its Nazi imagery dramatizes the oppression she felt; her actual dad was a non-Nazi entomologist Sylvia Plath |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $1500: Though not about Wheaties, "Breakfast of Champions" by this American is still a very good read Kurt Vonnegut |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I THANK YOU ALL $200: Winning a Golden Globe for this 2006 film role, Sacha Baron Cohen said, "Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far" Borat |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | A TORY PARTY $100: Jonathan Boucher was a Loyalist or Tory during this event, but dedicated his history of it to his friend George Washington the American Revolution |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THEY CAME TO AMERICA $1500: Last name of the Maltese American once known as "Mayor Pete" & also of Paul, a mayor of Qala on Malta Buttigieg |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $800: John Lindqvist's novel "Let the Right One In", about Eli, who is one of these creatures, was made into Swedish & American films a vampire |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $400: The Wichita call themselves Kitikiti'sh, meaning this animal's "eyes", because of tattoos around their own eyes a raccoon |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $1600: Ca.'s Gabrielinos got that name after the San Gabriel Arcángel one of these, which their labor built; their self-name is Tongva a mission |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $600: A somewhat fancy wooden frame surrounds this Grant Wood picture of 2 people in front of a simple wooden frame house American Gothic |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $200: Here's this silversmith, a teapot in hand, in a portrait by John Singleton Copley Paul Revere |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $600: One of Albert Pinkham Ryder's best known works is the macabre-toned painting "The Race Track", or this "On a Pale Horse" Death |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In the 1930s this Iowa native designed a mural called "Breaking the Prairie Sod" for Iowa State University (Grant) Wood |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1000: Roy Lichtenstein's comic book style paintings include "Blam" & this! of 2 planes in combat, a title reminiscent of a pop music duo Whaam! |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | U.S. TERRITORIES $400: A Pacific island group is divided into the independent nation called this & a U.S. territory called "American" this Samoa |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE AGELESS DIANA ROSS $600: This co-star of TV's "black-ish" hosted the American Music Awards on a special evening when mom Diana got the Lifetime Achievement Award Tracee Ellis Ross |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ALBUM COVERS $800: The cover of Green Day's "American Idiot" shows a bloody hand holding a heart-shaped one of these--stand back! a grenade |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Havasupai are the "guardians of" this landmark & live on a reservation below its south rim the Grand Canyon |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name Chief Seattle |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Osceola was a leader of this people who resisted removal from their land in Florida in the 1830s the Seminoles |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | FOOD & DRINK $2000: Many Latin American dishes start with a base of tomatoes, onions & spices called this, from a Spanish word meaning "to fry gently" sofrito |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 2022, this first Chinese-American movie star became the first Asian American featured on U.S. currency--a new quarter Anna May Wong |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ANOTHER NAME FOR THAT CONDITION $7,000 (Daily Double): A form of pneumonia that can be spread by air conditioning got this name from a 1976 convention where it was first identified Legionnaires' disease |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: It didn't work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa George III |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $2000: The American author of this 1889 book wrote it after reading Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" but Malory didn't include time travel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | LET'S PLAY QUARTERS $800: The height of an American quarter horse can reach 16 of these, which is a little over 5 feet hands |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | OUR FLAG MEANS... $2000: This American territory mimics the Great Seal of the United States with a war club & fly whisk replacing arrows & an olive branch American Samoa |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $1000: This American striker had a 5-goal game to begin the 2019 Women's World Cup, & it was USA all the way Alex Morgan |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $400: In the first map of the new U.S.A. by an American, Pennsylvania doesn't have access to this lake which it got in a 1792 purchase Lake Erie |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In the 1950s, she broke the color barrier in tennis & became the first Black American to win a Grand Slam tournament (Althea) Gibson |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: For a 1915 exhibition to help raise money for women's suffrage, this Impressionist sent a number of her works from France Cassatt |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Many of her photos were published in the 1939 book "An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion" (Dorothea) Lange |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | PAINT SAMPLES $2000: In 2010 you could get a Rothko for 44 cents: "Orange and Yellow", in a stamp series honoring this 2-word movement in American painting abstract expressionism |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1600: For a romantic getaway, some couples head to Hawley or Lakeville in these mountains within northeastern Pennsylvania the Poconos |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $2000: Located near the Oregon border, this Washington city with a double-talk name is famous for its wines & vineyards Walla Walla |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the capital of a state & the seat of Laramie County Cheyenne |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A 1965 civil rights march started in Selma & ended 54 miles & 4 days later in this city, where MLK spoke on the steps of its capitol Montgomery |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Named for a U.S. minister to Mexico, this 1850s purchase gave the U.S. an additional strip of land south of the Gila River the Gadsden Purchase |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $300: A story goes that asked by his father if he'd chopped down a cherry tree, this boy admitted it, saying, "I cannot tell a lie" George Washington |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $600 (Daily Double): This giant lumberjack & hero of logging camps had a giant blue ox named Babe as a companion Paul Bunyan |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM $800: The National Air & Space Museum & the National Museum of the American Indian are part of this Washington, D.C. complex the Smithsonian |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $1200: William the this ruled England; High John the this is a figure of liberation in African-American folklore Conqueror |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $1500: This mythic animal of the West is usually depicted as a rabbit with antelope horns a jackalope |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SENIOR MOMENTS $200: As well as an adjective meaning "more aged", in Native American culture it's a person whose age gives them wisdom elder |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | SOMETHING THAT IS... $1600: Blue:
A crow was said to take a whole day to fly from one horn to the other of this American folklore creature Babe the Blue Ox |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE OED QUOTES $400: Weird: Charlotte Bronte provided the first known use of this alliterative 2-word term for a lawless section of American frontier Wild West |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | SLOGANS & MOTTOES $600: A flag of the American Revolution featured a coiled rattlesnake above this 4-word motto dont tread on me |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Her "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway (Lorraine) Hansberry |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | OUT OF THIS WORLD $1200: In 2018 one of this American aerospace company's Falcon rockets placed a Tesla roadster in orbit around the Sun SpaceX |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | CLASSIC TV $1200: With its iconic performances, his "really big show" on Sunday nights had a huge impact on American culture & careers Ed Sullivan |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: A-tisket a-tasket, in 1959 she won a Grammy for her basket, the first African-American woman to do so Fitzgerald |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: A Florida educator & college founder, she is the first African American to represent a state in Statuary Hall McLeod Bethune |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | LEARNED LEAGUES $1600: Contestants in LearnedLeague, a web-based trivia game, are called these South American animals llamas |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | A GREEN PARTY $800: After fighting for the U.S. in the American Revolution, this leader of the Green Mountain Boys tried to get Canada to annex Vermont Ethan Allen |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | AROUND PHILLY WITH RYAN LONG $600: (Ryan Long presents the clue.) Housed in its own center, this American icon is a must-see of Philly; we can get an insider view of it, literally: there are X rays of its famous crack the Liberty Bell |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The destruction of the battleship Maine in 1898 was a precursor to this war the Spanish-American War |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1840 a U.S. judge ruled the unwilling passengers on this ship were kidnap victims, not merchandise the Amistad |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | AMERICANA $600: Nan, sister of this painter, is next to a pitchfork-wielding gent in "American Gothic" Grant Wood |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | AUTUMN $500: October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo & Jo Koy Filipinos |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $2000: You can't do the category without "The Red Pony", a book of stories by this American Steinbeck |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $800: Though this nickname for a large American city dates to the 1920s, it really took hold after a '70s tourism campaign Big Apple |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | NATIONALLY MONUMENTAL $1200: The first African American honored by the U.S. with a national monument was this botanist in 1943 Carver |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $100: The Prime Video series "A League of Their Own" recreates the 1940s AAGPBL, the All-American Girls Professional this League Baseball |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | GO BLUE! $200 (Daily Double): In 1924 this American composer wrote "Rhapsody In Blue" in about 5 weeks to beat a deadline George Gershwin |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | INSIGNIFICANT IDIOMS $2000: This alliterative phrase for a negligible sum of money began as African-American slang chump change |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $3,400 (Daily Double): In "The Family Chao", author lan Samantha Chang reimagined this Dostoyevsky classic using a Chinese-American family The Brothers Karamazov |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Fort George one of these navigational aids was one of the gifts of Belize benefactor Baron Bliss a lighthouse |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Beautiful port!" said Columbus, giving this Panama town its name, later applied to a London "Road" after the British captured it Portobelo |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $400: Ford introduced a sporty car model in 1955 & gave it this name of an avian spirit of Native American mythology a Thunderbird |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $600: (Austin pours & garnishes a red cocktail in a Martini glass.) I really do tend bar at the Gaf East on 2nd Ave. in New York City, where of course we serve this classic geographically named cocktail made with vermouth & American whiskey a Manhattan |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THE EX-COUNTRY $600: Gran this was a South American republic from 1819 to 1830 whose land included the rough area of 4 present-day nations Gran Colombia |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | NON-NYE SCIENCE GUYS $4,000 (Daily Double): This American found variable stars in the Andromeda Nebula, helping him figure its distance from Earth & getting it renamed a galaxy Hubble |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $200: The American Kennel Club says these "colorful" dogs retain their puppyish behavior into adulthood a golden retriever |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $400: Teddy Roosevelt helped bring about independence for this Central American country in 1903 Panama |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: 1947's National Security Act established this government entity now based in Langley, Virginia the CIA |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Speaking at the opening of a World's Fair, he was the first U.S. president to appear on television FDR |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | GREAT AMERICAN PAIRS $600: A bestseller of 1814 was the "History of the Expedition Under the Command of" these 2 men Lewis and Clark |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | GREAT AMERICAN PAIRS $800: From when reference books ruled, a catchphrase on TV's "Laugh-In" was "Look that up in your Funk &" this partner Wagnalls |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | THE CALL OF THE WILD $2,000 (Daily Double): Named for its call, it's the tall North American bird heard here a whooping crane |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $1,800 (Daily Double): 55 mi. from Siberia, the westernmost point of the North American continent is on this peninsula named for a man big in Alaskan history the Seward Peninsula |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $200: These wide-legged pants resemble those worn by South American cowboys, hence their name gaucho pants |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $4,000 (Daily Double): This North American marsupial has a gestation period of as little as 12 days an opossum |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $400: FDR reports "The attack yesterday... caused severe damage to American naval & military forces" December |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: This private Catholic university in New Jersey was named for a woman who was one of the first American-born saints Seton Hall |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS $1000: Of the Huarizo, these 2 domesticated South American camelids a llama & an alpaca |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR $1200: The all-American tale "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"--with Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler Frank Capra |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | MAKING MONEY $800: The dollar sign is thought to have evolved from a Spanish-American symbol for these pesos |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | BYE, GEORGE $1000: On June 23, 1937 this American composer complained of headaches, & an L.A. hospital diagnosed hysteria; on July 11 he died George Gershwin |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 2003 this Canadian territory dropped "Territory" to go by a single name Yukon |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | MARINE BIOLOGY $2000: This smallest North American marine mammal is a key species in kelp forests, keeping consumers of the kelp in check the sea otter |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC CARS $1200: In 2018 this doozy of an American car sold for $22 million; previous owners include Gary Cooper a Duesenberg |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $1,000 (Daily Double): Oklahoma's Wilma Mankiller, the 1st female principal chief of this Native American nation, appeared on a U.S. quarter in 2022 the Cherokee |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $400: George Monroe & William Robinson: 2 African-American riders in this horsepowered mail service in the 1860s the Pony Express |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT $1200: The Roosevelt is a variety of this second-biggest North American deer also known as the wapiti an elk |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $2000: Theories on the origin of this word meaning A-OK include African-American slang & Italian cappo sotto copacetic |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | THE CABINET $400: In 1966 Robert C. Weaver became the first African-American cabinet member, heading this department known by a 3-letter acronym the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ON THE COASTER $2000: Have a drink on "Forbes" 6th richest American in 1918--this meat-packing magnate of hot dogs, his family's hot dogs J. Ogden Armour |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | APPLES $800: This apple with a Japanese name is actually a cross between 2 American varieties a Fuji |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | HISTORIA ESPAÑOLA $1200: Spain lost this North American territory to the Brits in 1763 but got it back in 1783 (at least for a while) Florida |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $800: This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for a former president of that country Sucre |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | THE AMERICAN RED CROSS $200: The Red Cross offers training to become a certified one of these who save people at pools & water parks a lifeguard |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | THE AMERICAN RED CROSS $800: The Red Cross says many lives would be saved if Americans were trained & had access to an AED, an automated external one of these devices a defibrillator |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | TAYLOR'S VERSION $600: This screen legend played Angela Vickers in "A Place in the Sun", the movie version of the novel "An American Tragedy" Elizabeth Taylor |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $200: Susan La Flesche, the first Native person to get this kind of degree, had a solo practice covering the vast Omaha reservation an MD (a medical degree) |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 1613 the English kidnapped this daughter of Powhatan to use her as a hostage in negotiations Pocahontas |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $600: Sarah Winnemucca was the first Native woman to secure this protection, with 1883's "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims" a copyright |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: A mural in Oklahoma's capitol honors 5 Native American ballerinas, including these 2 sisters, Maria & Marjorie the Tallchief sisters |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1846, Elias Howe patented one of these; his model is seen here a sewing machine |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JEWISH-AMERICAN TRADITIONS $200: Justice Kagan said of her whereabouts on Christmas Day, "Like all Jews, I was probably at" this kind of restaurant a Chinese restaurant |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JEWISH-AMERICAN TRADITIONS $600: Many Jewish homes contain a pushke, a little box with a slot in which to drop some coins for tzedakah, this charity |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JEWISH-AMERICAN TRADITIONS $800: 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of 12-year-old Judith Kaplan reading from the Torah, credited as the first of these events a bat mitzvah |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS $1000: A live American bison, Ralphie is the mascot of this school at the base of the Rocky Mountains CU Boulder |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JEWISH-AMERICAN TRADITIONS $1000: At an Ashkenazi one of these, guests dip a finger in wine for each of the plagues; Sephardim put a bit of wine in a bowl, then dispose of it a (Passover) seder |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | ALL ABOUT AMPHIBIANS $200: This largest North American frog makes its characteristic booming call to mark territory & attract mates a bullfrog |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | ALL ABOUT AMPHIBIANS $1000: From the mistaken notion that they could bark, some North American salamanders are called water dogs or these a mud puppy |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | AMERICAN GRAB BAG $400: Bigfoot Wallace, one of these Texas lawmen, once had to walk the mail to El Paso & had a 27-egg meal on the way a (Texas) Ranger |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | AMERICAN GRAB BAG $1000: Ground that's frozen year round is called this; for research in Alaska, the Army Corps of Engineers built a tunnel in it permafrost |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THEY NAMED A CITY FOR HIM $800: A town in Eastern Pennsylvania honors this Native American & all-around athlete who was laid to rest there Jim Thorpe |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | PETS $1200: The American Kennel Club's seven dog groups include this grounded one, which includes the Bedlington a terrier |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | MIAMI NEWS CLUES $800: (I'm Calvin Hughes.) In 1990 deposed Central American dictator Manuel Noriega was brought to Miami to face a host of charges including racketeering, money laundering & drug trafficking while running this nation Panama |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $1000: This treaty named for a Mexico City neighborhood ended the war Feb. 2, 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THAT'S NOT CANNON $200: Filipino-American martial arts master Dan Inosanto introduced Bruce Lee to this weapon, 2 rods connected by a chain nunchucks |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | 5-LETTER WORDLES $1600: A special privilege (the American spelling made some Brit players angry):
_ _ V _ _ favor |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $800: African-American actress & writer Alice Childress is known for her young adult novel "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But" this a Sandwich |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AROUND THE USA $2,000 (Daily Double): Southwest of Tallahassee, this community got the same name as a Central American capital in 1909 when its people were excited about possible trade Panama City |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | THAT PAINTING HAS A TITLE $800: In 1851, this iconic painting of an incident from American history sold for what was then a huge sum--$10,000 Washington Crossing the Delaware |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BIRTH OF A WRITER $3,400 (Daily Double): Georgia was the birthplace of this 1980s Pulitzer Prize winner, the 8th child of African-American sharecroppers Alice Walker |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $1000: Paiute prophets saying the dead would return were part of this 19th c. Native American movement named for a circle dance Ghost Dance |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HOOD ORNAMENTS $1200: This GM line with the name of a Native American chief had appropriate hood ornaments as here on a model called the Chieftain Pontiac |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $1200: In 1894 Eugene Debs led members of the American Railway Union in a strike against this company over wage cutbacks (the) Pullman (Company) |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $400: Seen here is a sample of the alphabet for the most popular American version of this shorthand |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | AMERICAN LAW $4,000 (Daily Double): Lady Liberty is on the logo of the American Association of Lawyers in this field, founded in 1946 immigration |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | SEISMIC ACTIVITY $2000: In 1960 an 8.1 quake that devastated Concepción in this South American nation was but a foreshock to a 9.5 event the next day Chile |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | MOVIE MADNESS $2000: In 2000 a murderous Christian Bale lived up to this Bret Easton Ellis title American Psycho |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES $1600: He was a favorite of Jackie Kennedy & Bill Blass called him "the quintessential American designer" Halston |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "M"EDICINE $400: The American Cancer Society recommends this screening yearly for women aged 45 to 54 a mammogram |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): 5 years before his famous ride, Paul Revere made a print depicting this bloody March 5, 1770 event the Boston Massacre |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, the Pilgrims shared a feast with these native people of Massachusetts the Wampanoag |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $200: In the 1970s East Germany came up with ketwurst inside a roll as an alternative to this American fare hot dog |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BROOM SERVICE $600: Running for pres. of this South American country, Janio da Silva Quadros used a broom as a symbol of his pledge to sweep out corruption Brazil |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel Guy Montag reads aloud from a book to his wife's shocked friends Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Canadian environmentalist Farley Mowat is best known for bringing sympathy to a predator in "Never Cry" this Wolf |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1991 novel by Canadian Douglas Coupland gave a name to a whole cohort born around the same time Generation X |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1947 play "All My Sons" is about a businessman whose substandard airplane parts cost young men their lives (Arthur) Miller |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this Laura Esquivel bestseller refers to a sweet recipe but also a state of passion or anger Like Water for Chocolate |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | THE FINE ARTS $0: A 1920s trip to France inspired him to compose "An American in Paris" (George) Gershwin |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ABBREV. $200: A regional alliance:
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $800: (Andrew Dymburt delivers the clue.) At a little before 2:00 AM on June 17, 1972, sharp-eyed security guard Frank Wills noticed tape across a door latch in this Washington, D.C. office complex, changing the course of American history Watergate |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | THAT'S SHOW BIZ $2000: Steven Yeun got a Best Actor nomination playing Jacob in this film about a Korean-American family in 1980s Arkansas Minari |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | WE'VE GOT THE RECEIPTS $1000: A congressional study estimated the 1898-1899 price of this conflict at $283 million, or nearly $9 billion today the Spanish-American War |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $200: He used 2 hammers to bore a 14-foot hole in rock & defeat a drill; however, he died doing it John Henry |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $800: "Stand in front of the bathroom mirror with a... candle & say" this witch's name "3 times"; if it works, you'll need that drink, too Bloody Mary |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $1000: Were you raised by coyotes?! Well, this cowboy was, after being lost by his parents near a certain Texas river Pecos Bill |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | ANGLES $400: American dentist Edward Angle is considered a father of this "correct teeth" specialty orthodontics |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | THE 1920s $1000: Gertrude Stein used this 2-word term to describe a group of disillusioned American writers in Europe the Lost Generation |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Guyana's capital was founded in 1781 & named for him, a far-off king at the time George III |
| #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 |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A Boston newspaper coined this phrase for the period of optimism during James Monroe's presidency the Era of Good Feelings |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | PIER 5 $1000: A pier in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba is named for this American author who was known to fish in its waters (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Favoring free silver, in a rousing 1896 speech this orator & statesman said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, she would later open a hospital for women & children with her sister Emily Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Killing 146 workers, mostly women, this tragic fire at a New York City garment factory in 1911 led to new safety laws the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | READ IT OR EAT IT? $1600: Play in which a working class African-American family moves into an all-white Chicago neighborhood A Raisin in the Sun |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $200: A Wesleyan residence is named for this African-American leader; a cultural center at Mount Holyoke, for his wife Betty Shabazz Malcolm X |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | ALLITERATION $1600: U.S. troops in the Spanish-American War carried a .30-caliber bolt-action this type of weapon weapon weapon a repeating rifle |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $400: Our road trip begins in a state capital 80 miles outside San Antonio & we go to another on the Atlantic coast Austin & Boston |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $800: From a New Mexico City at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, do you know the way to the seat of California's Santa Clara County? Santa Fe & San Jose |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $1600: Journey 300 miles west from a city where author Thomas Wolfe lived to a city known for music Asheville & Nashville |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $2000: It's quite a trek from the capital of New Jersey to the city that's home to Texas Woman's University Trenton to Denton |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $3,000 (Daily Double): Head west out of one state that borders Manitoba to enter a second state that also does North Dakota & Minnesota |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | ALWAYS BROADWAY $200: "Joseph Smith American Moses" is a song in this musical The Book of Mormon |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | A QUICK & DIRTY CATEGORY $2000: Harry Truman said, "It is not the American way to" this fancy word "the character of the innocent" besmirch |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: Before becoming the first American woman in space, she was a star tennis player at Stanford & Billie Jean King told her to go pro Sally Ride |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $1200: Ruth Ziolkowski kept working on a monument to this Native American warrior long after her sculptor husband died in 1982 Crazy Horse |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $200: James Merrill's "The Changing Light at Sandover" is conversations he had with the spirit world using one of these boards a Ouija board |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $600: In a Marianne Moore poem, "the lost battalion's gallant bird" is one of these title message carriers a carrier pigeon |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $1600: To manage the campaign of a major party presidential nominee, was this woman seen here Donna Brazile |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: A bullfight aficionado, he wrote about the subject in "Death in the Afternoon" Hemingway |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | I AM WOMAN $800: Korea-born Angela Buchdahl is the first Asian-American to be ordained a cantor, as well as this leader of a Jewish congregation rabbi |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | I AM WOMAN $1200: In 2020 this trailblazing African-American ballerina published a book for kids called "Bunheads" Misty Copeland |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This 3-named author of "Them" & "We Were the Mulvaneys" is a professor of creative writing, emerita at Princeton Joyce Carol Oates |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: A personal friend of this president, Nathaniel Hawthorne was appointed U.S. consul at Liverpool in 1853 Franklin Pierce |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $400: America welcomed him as a citizen in 1891, the year he invented a coil that's still used in electronics today Tesla |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING $400: A $200,000 horse of this breed from the American Stud Book--how kind, especially with the $50,000 annual upkeep thrown in a Thoroughbred |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $800: This man who gave his name to a scale of earthquake strength was an avid nudist & Trekkie Richter |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | "K" 9 $2000: It's what Russian-American inventor Vladimir Zworykin called his early TV picture tube a kinescope |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $2000: Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book (Rachel) Carson |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | MAMMALS $200: Seen here is a group of the most common North American bear, called this species even though they're brown a black bear |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | NEW ORLEANS: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Kelsey Davis.) In 2007, this man who took his name from a "Brady Bunch" kid became the first Indian-American governor in Louisiana & in American history (Bobby) Jindal |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN INSTRUCTOR $1000: A piece on sight-reading strategies was 2013's article of the year in the Journal AMT, American this Music Teacher |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: This Native American finished devising a Cherokee syllabary of 86 symbols around 1821 Sequoyah |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: In the 1800s this Michigan island was the headquarters for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company Mackinac |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The first U.S. case study of a Black urban community was made in this city by W.E.B. Du Bois working for Penn in the 1890s Philadelphia |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $600: This actress came by her all-American image honestly; her hometown of Denison, Iowa has been compared to Bedford Falls Donna Reed |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" is a book of poems by this man better known as a rapper Tupac Shakur |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | HUNTER/GATHERER $800: The Gathering of Nations is this type of Native American assembly with a rhyming name a powwow |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | PLAY CHARACTERS $600: In a classic American play, his first line is bellowing, "Hey, there! Stella, baby!" Stanley (Kowalski) |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | RUFF CROWD $600: When it was formed in 1884, this club created a constitution & rules for dog shows the American Kennel Club |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $400: In 2019 he & Camila Cabello gave a sizzling performance of their award-winning "Señorita" Shawn Mendes |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $600: A triple winner in 2018, she performed "I Like It" with J Balvin & Bad Bunny Cardi B |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $800: She lit up the stage with a medley of hits including "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" Shania Twain |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $400: This fourth season of "American Horror Story" is set at Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities in Jupiter, Florida Freak Show |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AMERICAN IDLE $200: Studies have shown that this online activity that sounds like a beach sport may help prevent dementia surfing (the web) |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | AMERICAN IDLE $600: Movie character Jeffrey Lebowski, a slacker mainly interested in drinking & bowling, prefers to be addressed as this "The Dude" (Duderino) |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | FRANCE VS. AMERICA $800: Colonial rule left Senegal in love with this loaf; France still tells the Senegalese it can't be made from American wheat a baguette |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | FRANCE VS. AMERICA $1600: As seen in the 2021 TV drama about him, this one-named fashion designer took part in a 1973 Franco-American runway battle at Versailles Halston |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: This word for a domed Native American dwelling is a borrowing from the Navajo language hogan |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | LANDSCAPE-ING $400: "The Oxbow" is by Thomas Cole, a leader of this school of American painters bearing the name of a New York River the Hudson River movement |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The southernmost point that's U.S. territory is Rose Atoll, a part of this "American" Pacific possession American Samoa |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | HANDY ANDY $800: The last American male to win a Grand Slam tennis event, he won the 2003 U.S. Open Roddick |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: "Modern Woman", a mural done for the 1893 Chicago Expo by this female American in Paris, no longer exists Mary Cassatt |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $800: "I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" is a classic number in this musical with Gene Kelly in France An American in Paris |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BIRD BRAINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Scientists think the corvids, including the American & carrion this, are the smartest of all birds a crow |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | NAMES IN FASHION $200: The tennis shirt is now called a polo shirt thanks to this American designer Ralph Lauren |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | 4,4 $400: A great American tradition: throw some clothes in the Chevelle, crank some tunes & go off on this, also a 2000 film road trip |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $800: In 1976 a large ruby was carved into a 4-pound replica of this historic American object, crack & all Liberty Bell |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $600: This city on the Lower Mississippi takes its name from a Native American people who once lived there Natchez |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $1200: Might seem that way, but it won't take a hundred years to read this 1974 James Michener bestseller about the American West Centennial |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Featuring an all-Black cast, songs like "Ease On Down The Road" & the costumes seen here, this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning 7 Tonys The Wiz |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) You can't miss the 1973 Cadillac convertible, owned by this rock pioneer, who influenced so many early performers, including The Beatles, & he drove the car in "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll", a documentary that celebrated his 60th birthday Chuck Berry |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $400: This word for pretending to be white is the title of a 1929 novel & the subject of the 2020 bestseller "The Vanishing Half" passing |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1200: He was the first African American to receive a Harvard Ph.D. & his book of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" was published in 1903 (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1600: A troubled lifelong friendship between 2 women is at the heart of this Nobel Prize winner's novel "Sula" Morrison |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $2000: The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, this Chicago poet was featured on a 2012 stamp Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $800: At this Latin American celebration the 15-year-old honoree gets her last doll, a symbol of the transition to adulthood quinceañera |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | WHAT A WEEK! $800: One sponsor of Banned Books Week, which opposes censorship & celebrates the right to read, is the ALA, short for this the American Library Association |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | AMERICAN LAKES $800: In honor of a first lady with a famous nickname, Town Lake in Austin, Texas got this new 2-word name in 2007 Lady Bird |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | AMERICAN LAKES $1600: A Seminole reservation & the communities of Belle Glade & Pahokee are found around the shores of this lake Okeechobee |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | AMERICAN LAKES $2000: Home to a wildlife refuge, this saline "sea" in the Colorado Desert is California's largest lake in surface area Salton |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: 1776 wasn't just a big year for us--Guatemala City was founded, 3 years after Antigua Guatemala was felled by one of these an earthquake |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: Belmopan, with a population about the capacity of Madison Square Garden, is the capital of this nation on the Caribbean Belize |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $1600: Poet Rubén Darío is honored with a park & monument in this city that became Nicaragua's permanent capital in 1857 Managua |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: It took 15 years to finish Panama City's Biomuseo, designed by this L.A. man; the nearby canal took 5 less, but he didn't design that (Frank) Gehry |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | COME OUT TO THE COAST $400: Bordering Central America, this South American country has a coastline on both the Atlantic & the Pacific Colombia |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | SOUVENIR $200: The Museum of the American Revolution sells a toy this instrument played by 2 marchers in the "Spirit of '76" painting the drum |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | SOUVENIR $400: "The Golden Door" is a spinner ornament to remind you of this great American landmark the Statue of Liberty |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | ANCIENT SYMBOLS $2,000 (Daily Double): The symbol seen here is a representation of this loud avian of Native American mythology thunderbird |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT $1000: Though her last name sounds like a European country, this Interior Secretary is the first Native American to head a cabinet department Deb Haaland |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | AMERICAN RIVERS $400: The largest river to empty into the Pacific in North America, it makes a huge gorge in the Cascades the Columbia |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | AMERICAN RIVERS $800: This river forms part of the border between Kansas & the state it shares a name with the Missouri |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | AMERICAN RIVERS $1200: This word comes before "Bow" in a Wyoming river & before "Lodge" in a Kansas river Medicine |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: John Winthrop led many followers to this colony in 1630 & gave us the image of the "city upon a hill" Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $2000: This South American poet is a character in "Il Postino" & his poems like "Ode to the Sea" are featured in it Neruda |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | '80s LADIES $400: In 1983 she not only became the first American woman in space, but also the youngest American in space, at age 32 (Sally) Ride |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | BUTTE OF COURSE $800: A place for vision quests & sun dances, Bear Butte in South Dakota is a sacred site to these Native American people who call it "Mato Paha" (the) Lakota (Sioux) |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BIRDING $800: A good beginner's sighting is this largest North American thrush, with its red breast & "cheerio, cheery-up" song a robin |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BIRDING $1200: birdwatchingdaily.com listed this majestic endangered raptor as a North American bird birdwatchers most want to see a California condor |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | AMERICAN NICKNAMES $800: "The Great Orator" was a nickname for this 19th century New Hampshire-born congressman, senator & Secretary of State Daniel Webster |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | PODCASTS $800: "The Empty Chair" & "Turkey in a Face Mask" are recent episodes of this show hosted by Ira Glass This American Life |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | "Z" IN THE MIDDLE $800: The American Epilepsy Society offers tips for observation & recording of this event a seizure |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: A British gov. of Massachusetts called him the "chief incendiary" but unlike cousin John, his contributions faded after 1776 Sam Adams |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $2000: British general Burgoyne's 1777 surrender after the second battle of this New York state site was a turning point in the war Saratoga |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | RESISTING A REST $200: Just my luck--the North American yellow-bellied sapsucker is this kind of bird, & its noisy headbanging is keeping me up a woodpecker |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $1200: The first African American to fight in this corps, John Martin helped capture 5 ships in a Revolutionary War attack the Marine Corps |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $800: A fungus is the culprit in white nose syndrome, killing more than 6 million of these animals in North American caves bats |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $800: This American Red Cross founder said she'd sometimes teach for free but if paid, "Never do a man's work for less than a man's pay" Clara Barton |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | AMERICAN FACTORY $2000: In the 19th century, these 2 men started a Rochester, New York factory to make eyeglass lenses; contact lenses came later Bausch and Lomb |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | AMERICAN FACTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2016 this company opened a 1.3-million square foot composite wing center Boeing |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown" James Abbott McNeil Whistler |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | SOME RANDOM INFO $600: The last person to receive a pension from this war died in 2020; the 90-year-old woman's dad changed sides midway through the American Civil War |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | A SPENDY LITTLE WAR $800: A 2010 congressional report estimated that this war cost the U.S. 1.1% of its 1899 GDP the Spanish-American War |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $200: This westernmost Canadian province has a northern border with, fittingly, the Northwest Territories British Columbia |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: This capital of Saskatchewan started out as a hunters' camp called Pile O'Bones due to all the buffalo parts lying around Regina |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | THE STAGE $2000: In this David Mamet play, a junk shop owner has sold a rare nickel for less than it's worth & plans to steal it back American Buffalo |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | EDUCATION $1000: To get into a school accredited by the American Bar Association, be prepared to take the entrance exam with this acronym LSAT |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: O. Henry called the fictional Central American country of Anchuria this 2-word entity, referring to an export a banana republic |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $400: Dartmouth, England has a memorial to the American role in this WWII invasion for which it was a major launching point D-Day |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $800: A memorial in this Moroccan city remembers the U.S. Western Naval Task Force, not Rick helping Ilsa & Victor escape Casablanca |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $1600: There is an American cemetery & monument with "crosses row on row" at this alliterative field near Ypres, Belgium Flanders |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This nation mainly of ethnic Albanians put up a statue of Pres. Clinton for helping it declare itself independent of Serbia Kosovo |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $400: In "My Beloved World", this first Hispanic American on the Supreme Court talks about growing up in a Bronx housing project (Sonia) Sotomayor |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | I'D LIKE TO BUY $800: Guess it's time I got around to reading "My American Journey", the 1995 autobiography of this Secretary of State Colin Powell |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | "A" VOWEL $1000: The name of this gourd rattle is from a South American Indian word maracas |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: One who wanders aimlessly, or the classic American Motors car seen here a Rambler |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | STAND-UP COMEDIANS $400: On the cover of this great African-American comic's 1968 debut album, his mustache is a shadow of what it would become Pryor |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,800 (Daily Double): The 1859 discovery of this near Titusville set off a boom in Pennsylvania oil |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1908 the first of these Ford models rolled out of a plant in Detroit a Model T |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Thomas Jefferson used this game board as a model for city planning with every other block left open a chessboard |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | "A" IS FOR WRITER $1000: "De amor y de sombra", "Of Love & Shadows", is a 1984 novel by this Chilean-American author Allende |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Nevada has a monument to this 1860s mail service, near the site where horses & riders fueled up before heading further west the Pony Express |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | 7-LETTER COUNTRIES $1200: In 2006 Evo Morales, a member of the Aymara people, became the first indigenous president of this South American country Bolivia |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1853 this 14th president was not sworn in--he was affirmed on a Bible Franklin Pierce |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s Chief Oshkosh stopped a U.S. attempt to move the Menominee people westward from this state Wisconsin |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $800: As an "American Werewolf" in this city, David Naughton is beckoned into a theater where he's confronted by his zombified victims London |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | SHORT STORIES $1600: This African American who sometimes lived in France wrote a 1965 collection called "Going to Meet the Man" James Baldwin |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | AMERICAN MUSIC $400: This 10-letter term for a mix of rock & roll & country was likely coined to describe the music of Elvis Presley rockabilly |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | AMERICAN MUSIC $2000: A type of choral music is called this-note singing, where the notes are printed as ovals, triangles, diamonds & rectangles shape-note singing |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: "Torchy Brown" creator Jackie Ormes was the first African-American woman to have one of these published in a major newspaper a comic strip |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $200: In "Up from Slavery" Booker T. Washington goes to this Alabama town expecting to find helpful things like a building to teach in, but no Tuskegee |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | RANKS & TITLES $400: Usually referring to a spouse, this 2-word term eventually replaced "presidentress" in American politics first lady |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $800: "Vernon Can Read!", the title of a memoir by this civil rights activist & advisor to Bill Clinton, was a quote from an old boss Vernon Jordan |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $1000: Framed as a letter to his son, "Between" these 2 things won Ta-Nehisi Coates a National Book Award the World and Me |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | TIGER $800: A group of volunteer American pilots recruited by Claire Chennault during World War II had this nickname Flying Tigers |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The first one of these was made in 1973 from a Motorola executive to his competitor at AT&T a cellular phone call |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 19th c. New York politics, a repeater was a man hired to do this several times in a day, shaving to change his identity vote |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: A 1621 treaty says English settlers & these native people led by Massasoit will "leave their bows & arrows" when visiting the other Wampanoag |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Platt Amendment of 1901 became a treaty between the U.S. & this new country & even became part of its constitution Cuba |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $2000: In 1998 the American Stroke Association was founded as a division of this other health organization the American Heart Association |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HISTORIC WEAPONS $1600: Used during the American Revolution, the brown Bess was a type of this weapon, a precursor to the rifle a musket |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $200: This type of bread made from a starter has been a San Francisco specialty since the gold rush days sourdough |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $400: I'll take this whiskey & vermouth cocktail that legend once said was created for a party given by Lady Churchill a Manhattan |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $600: On the East Coast it's Pat's vs. Geno's as to who makes a better one of these regional sandwiches Philly cheesesteak |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $1200: Rita Moreno starred as Cuban-American grandma Lydia Riera on this reboot of a 1970s sitcom One Day at a Time |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $400: In 1907 as part of a Jamestown Exposition set, she became the first Native American woman on a U.S. stamp Pocahontas |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $1200: As part of a Great American series, this artist who made a big impression in France appeared on a 1988 stamp Cassatt |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $1600: This Latin American icon who made a big splash in U.S. movies appeared with her tutti-frutti hat on a 2011 stamp Carmen Miranda |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $2000: The first African American soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, this contralto was honored on a stamp in 2005 Marian Anderson |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $800: Oscar Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American to win a fiction Pulitzer, for the book called these fellows "Play Songs of Love" The Mambo Kings |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS! $1600: On TV in 2020, Tom Ellis had a devil of a time doing double duty as Michael (with an American accent!) as well as this title character Lucifer |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A SWAMPY SITUATION $200: The immense wetland area called Pantanal, from Portuguese for "swamp", is mostly in this South American country Brazil |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1680 Spaniards chased off by a revolt left these animals the Indians called "sacred dogs", changing native life forever horses |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $400: Not quite as ferocious as in legend, this South American river dweller has a name from Tupi for "tooth fish" a piranha |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $800: This 2016 movie is about a young African American named Chiron, whom we see as a young boy, as a teen & as a 20-something Moonlight |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | FUNNY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): His memoir "Riding the Elephant" ranges from growing up in Glasgow to hosting a late night American TV show Ferguson |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This Chiricahua Apache leader led a group that began fighting back against a forced move to Arizona in the 1870s Geronimo |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): At Sitka in 1804 the Tlingit lost a crucial battle to these invaders they called the Anooshee the Russians |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | ABBREV. TV $800: A creepy anthology series:
"AHS" American Horror Story |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | GOOD "BI" $400: Zoologists don't consider the American buffalo a buffalo; they use this word instead a bison |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now a state capital, it beat out Golden to become the first city in the territory to connect to the Union Pacific railroad Denver, Colorado |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1791 this man beat Philip Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law, for a New York Senate seat Aaron Burr |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In November 1774, a year after the one in Boston, Charleston had one of these in its harbor tea party |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1840 this former president went to St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans to honor an event that occurred 25 years earlier Andrew Jackson |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: He founded Tuskegee University in 1881 & in 1940 was the first African American on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | TV FINALES $800: Andy & April have a baby; Tom Haverford publishes "Failure: An American Success Story" Parks and Recreation |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | A COLLEGE CONFERENCE CALL $800: Mid-American: the main campus of this university is in Athens, with a branch in Zanesville Ohio University |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | GRANT WOOD'S AMERICANA $800: Grant Wood won a $300 prize for this painting that mixes northern renaissance style with Iowa pitchforks American Gothic |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | U.S. COINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Old West artist James Earle Fraser designed this 1913 coin with a Native American design nickel |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | TITLES & HONORIFICS $1,000 (Daily Double): American legal eagles are commonly called this, but it also can refer to the eldest son of a baronet esquire |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Black Elk, a holy man of the Oglala branch of these people, was at the battle of Little Bighorn & lived until 1950 the Sioux |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $800: One Jack named this was the first African American heavyweight champ; the other, a surfer turned rocker Jack Johnson |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $800: German-born Paul Warburg was a board member of this American central banking authority the Federal Reserve |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Named for a Native American game, it's Wisconsin's largest city on the Mississippi La Crosse |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: Michelle & Barack Obama produced this 2019 documentary about an Ohio GM plant repurposed by a Chinese auto glass maker American Factory |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1849 California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, leading to this complicated deal the next year The Compromise of 1850 |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | IN CONCERT $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg, Germany.) The field where the Nazis once rallied became a sports & music venue; when this Jewish-American performer played here in 1978, he was told, "80,000 Germans turned their back to Hitler & their faces to you" Bob Dylan |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | 1930s AMERICA $1,600 (Daily Double): Accepting the Dem. nomination in 1932, FDR said, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to" this "for the American people" a new deal |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | ENGINEERING $2000: (Erica Joy Baker presents the clue.) Mae Jemison got her start in the sciences with a degree in chemical engineering before becoming the first African-American woman in space as an MS--this kind of astronaut conducting experiments aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour a mission specialist |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $200: At the age of 12 this future Founding Father was apprenticed to his brother James, a printer Ben Franklin |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: Linus Pauling wrote a bestselling book called this vitamin "and the Common Cold" vitamin C |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $600: "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" is a 1971 collection of poetry by this African-American woman Maya Angelou |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $800: He failed in a few candy businesses before founding the Lancaster Caramel Company in 1886; later it was on to chocolate (Milton) Hershey |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $1,500 (Daily Double): The movie "Rope" was partly based on a murder committed by this pair, first names Nathan & Richard Leopold & Loeb |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | BIOGRAPHIES $2000: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this atomic bomb scientist Oppenheimer |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | HODGEPODGE $800: In Europe moose are known as these, our word for a different big North American deer elk |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $1000: American football coach Jason Sudeikis manages a London soccer team Ted Lasso |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $400: This Laura Hillenbrand nonfiction bestseller about a racehorse is subtitled "An American Legend" Seabiscuit |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $200: A city of 7 hills, it's known for its sound, namely Puget--but also grunge Seattle |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The Magic Kingdom south, it was once known as Jernigan but got a name change in 1857 & a Wet 'n Wild water park, a bit later Orlando |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A very specific wooden post led to the naming of this southern state capital en Francais Baton Rouge |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: This artist depicted 3 customers in an all-night diner & "the loneliness of a large city" in his painting "Nighthawks" Hopper |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: He began as a graffiti artist in New York subways before graduating to large outdoor murals Keith Haring |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK $2,800 (Daily Double): In 2020 Charles Q. Brown got this 3-word title for the Air Force & is the 1st African-American general to lead a military branch chief of staff |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This son of a president was the USA's ace diplomat in the 18-teens before becoming president himself John Quincy Adams |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The New-York Weekly Journal's criticism of a Colonial governor led to the 1735 trial of JPZ, this printer Zenger |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | GEOGRAPHIC ETYMOLOGY $5,200 (Daily Double): Early Spanish settlers gave this South American city a name meaning "fair winds" Buenos Aires |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, PA.) According to affidavits from Betsy Ross's relatives, this famous man came into her shop in 1776 to ask Betsy to make a new flag for our nation George Washington |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On June 17, 1972 a break-in at this office complex set off one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history Watergate |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1832, hoping to reclaim land in Illinois, this Sauk leader led Native Americans against U.S. forces in a months-long war Black Hawk |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | BRAND NAMES $800: In 1958 this credit card began as BankAmericard when cards with a $500 limit were sent out as an experiment Visa |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | THE FOUNDING FATHERS SPEAK $600: Speaking to the First Continental Congress, Patrick Henry said, "I am not a Virginian" but one of these an American |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | YOU'VE GOT ANIMAL MALE $1000: The drake of this common North American duck is also called a greenhead a mallard |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On Dec. 16, 1773 during a wild night of partying, 342 chests of this were dumped into Boston Harbor tea |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | THE HIP-HOP ERA $400: This 2015 hip-hop biopic was for a time the highest-grossing film with an African-American director, F. Gary Gray Straight Outta Compton |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The first book printed in what's now the United States was a 1640 translation from the Hebrew of the book of these songs Psalms |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | ASTRONAUTS $800: A series of 2-man missions, this project saw Ed White get 20 minutes of serious me time as the first American to walk in space Gemini |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: One of the oldest repositories of African-American history, the DuSable Museum is a fixture of this Midwest city's South Side Chicago |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $600: Nominated for 2 awards in 2019, they made their first AMA appearance in more than 10 years with a special performance of "Only Human" the Jonas Brothers |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Arturo Schomburg's collection in a branch of the N.Y. Public Library in this Manhattan area contributed to a renaissance there Harlem |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: E.E. Ward Moving & Storage is the oldest Black-owned co. in the U.S., dating to the 1840s when a Ward was a conductor on this the Underground Railroad |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1870 Hiram Revels was almost blocked as the first African-American in this job because he hadn't been a citizen for 9 years a senator |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line the Black Star Line |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR $400: We wish you a merry isthmus as we travel from Las Tablas to Los Pozos in this Central American country Panama |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | ANAGRAMS $800: In the southwest, a Native American abode was commonly made of this adobe (from abode) |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: During the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, a tired and disorganized Continental Army was drilled into shape by this German Baron (von) Steuben |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | TAXES $600: In 1898 the federal government implemented a version of the estate tax to help finance this war the Spanish-American War |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BEVERAGE RHYME TIME $1000: Rather than espresso, a South American beverage made with leaves is frothed with milk a maté latte |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | PEOPLES $1200: Geronimo was a leader of these Native American people the Chiricahua Apache |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $1000: (Veronica Johnson presents from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Hi, I'm Veronica Johnson from ABC7: the atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian displays boats, including a birchbark canoe of this people of Lake Superior, also known as the Ojibwe; many of their customs are depicted in "The Song of Hiawatha" the Anishinaabe (Chippewa) |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Russian empress who covers 95,000 square miles of water as a North American quintet Catherine the Great Lakes |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $200: After manually guiding the Eagle to the Moon, this first in command went on to get a Pres. Medal of Freedom that same year Neil Armstrong |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $800: The London Times mocked his mechanical reaper as "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow & a flying machine" Cyrus McCormick |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ART APPRECIATION $2000: In 2014 a dealer paid $80 million for an abstract painting by this Russian American, then sold it for $189 million Mark Rothko |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $2000: An early literary reference to the martini is in this American's short story "Hostages to Momus"--it didn't come with a twist O. Henry |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | AMERICAN SUPERLATIVES $200: At more than 1,000 feet above the water, the highest of these in the U.S. spans Royal Gorge in Colorado a bridge |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $1000: Florida became an American territory due to the first of these wars in 1817 & 1818 the Seminole Wars |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $200: What is called the "Betsy Ross Flag" has the stars arranged in this configuration a circle |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $600: This president issued a 1916 proclamation to create a Flag Day on June 14, but it didn't become permanent until 1949 Wilson |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $800: In 1777 this governmental body passed a resolution creating an official national flag the Continental Congress |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 2000 California declared the March 31 birthday of this Latino labor leader a state holiday César Chávez |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Lyndon Johnson's 1965 State of the Union address renewed the War on Poverty by promoting a "Great" this Society |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In the 1850s this state was "Bleeding" as pro- & anti-slavery forces met up in a preview of the Civil War Kansas |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $800: This South American river predator is fearsome, thanks to its sharp teeth, seen here a piranha |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: The future of a family heirloom is at the heart of "The Piano Lesson", which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize August Wilson |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $800: Sarah M. Broom's New Orleans family home, this kind of narrow house with a firearm name, inspired her memoir "The Yellow House" a shotgun shack |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $2000: In the novel "Black Betty" by this author, P.I. Easy Rawlins is hired to find a missing woman Walter Mosley |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | A BUNCH OF SQUARES $1600: Home to the Palacio Nacional, this Latin American city's large square known as the Zocalo is a public plaza in use since Aztec times Mexico City |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | THE CUBISTS $5,900 (Daily Double): "Tender Buttons", written by this American expatriate while she was living in Paris, is a book of Cubist still-life prose-poems Gertrude Stein |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | I'LL TURN IT $1200: Before the steering wheel caught on, American cars of the 1890s were steered by turning this device, like on a boat a tiller |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $800: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Braving subzero temps on June 7th, 1913, Walter Harper was the first person to stand atop this 20,310-foot peak; Of Athabascan heritage, he was the one Native American member of the expedition, and the mountain itself is now known by its indigenous name Denali (Mount McKinley) |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $800: A 2019 book from this Indian-American author tells readers how to become "Metahuman" Deepak Chopra |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WAR, AMERICAN STYLE $800: During the Spanish-American War, with no casualties the USS Charleston took this Pacific island, today a U.S. possession Guam |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WAR, AMERICAN STYLE $1,000 (Daily Double): By a vote of 19-13, the Senate passed the declaration of war for what would be called this, aka "Mr. Madison's War" the War of 1812 |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | 3 VOWELS IN A ROW $1600: Hunkpapa & Oglala are branches of this Native American people Sioux |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1803 this American launched an experimental steamboat on a river in Paris Robert Fulton |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Oct. 22, 1962 JFK announced a naval blockade of this country due to Soviet missiles being discovered there Cuba |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: After a historic 1983 mission, this astronaut turned down flowers as her male counterparts weren't given any Sally Ride |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This 1620 document mentions "our dread sovereign Lord King James", "a voyage to plant the first colony" & "Cape Cod" the Mayflower Compact |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This president was said to regret his decision "not to hang John C. Calhoun" as a traitor Andrew Jackson |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | THIS AMERICAN CITY $800: In 1819 a newspaper in this Ohio city boasted that it was "justly styled the fair queen of the west" Cincinnati |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | THIS AMERICAN CITY $1600: Named for a capital of Ancient Egypt, this city is on a bluff on the Mississippi River's east bank Memphis |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale Rip Van Winkle |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death The Big Sleep |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon" (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $400: Stella could tell ya the action in "A Streetcar Named Desire" takes place in this city New Orleans |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | A NATIONAL MONUMENT-AL CHALLENGE $600: Including the nickname of African-American troops, an Ohio site is named Charles Young these Soldiers National Monument Buffalo |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: "Raisin" is a musical version of this classic drama Raisin in the Sun |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: The 1980 Tony winner for Best Play, this drama was specially written for deaf actress Phyllis Frelich Children of a Lesser God |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | THE NATURAL WORLD $800: You see females a lot more often than males of this North American venomous spider, hence its name the black widow |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) One of my heroes is Wild Bill Hickok, who before moving west & becoming a legendary lawman & gunfighter helped escaping slaves at his family's Illinois farm, which served as a stop on this the Underground Railroad |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The only clue to this colony's disappearance was the word "Croatoan" on a post; hasn't helped much Roanoke |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | AMERICAN HEALTH CARE $400: It's the "E" in EMTALA, a 1986 federal law that says a hospital must treat patients with serious conditions who can't pay emergency |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | AMERICAN HEALTH CARE $800: This children's research hospital in Memphis has a 94% cure rate of acute lymphocytic leukemia St. Jude |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | TV PERSONALITIES $400: He logs a lot of miles hosting "American Idol" on one coast & co-hosting with Kelly Ripa on the other (Ryan) Seacrest |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | WE HAVE A SITUATION $1200: In 1950 he spoke about the situation in Korea: "A small country, thousands of miles away, but...important to every American" Truman |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $400: "American Dirt" is about a mother & son fleeing the violence of this country Mexico |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | GEOGRAPHY $200: The Casiquiare River forms a link between the drainage systems of the Orinoco & this bigger South American river the Amazon |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $200: This team moved from the National League to the American League in 2013 & won a now-controversial title in 2017 the Houston Astros |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $400: The Boston Patriots were among the teams that moved out of this defunct league in a 1970 merger the AFL (American Football League) |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $2000: Tommyknockers are these underground guys who help miners; ex-mining engineer Herbert Hoover said so & had a statue of one gnomes |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $4,600 (Daily Double): This Texan cowboy hero tamed a mountain lion & rode it like a horse, using a rattlesnake as a lasso Pecos Bill |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $400: In a duet, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga sing, "and I seem to find the happiness I seek, when we're out together dancing" this way cheek to cheek |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $800: You might recognize the Eldon, Iowa house seen here from this famous 1930 painting of a farm couple posing in front of it American Gothic |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | HISTORIC HOMES $1200: Her home in Glen Echo, Maryland doubled as a headquarters for the American Red Cross Clara Barton |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $2000: Ella Fitzgerald sang, "It's only" this item "sailing over a cardboard sea" a paper moon |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | DA, YOU SPEAK RUSSIAN $400: A Russian monarch, or an American policy expert appointed by the government to tackle a particular problem a czar |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1960 at a segregated lunch counter in N.C., 4 African-American students staged one of these immobile protests a sit-in |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Now 115 years old, the Chicago Defender isn't a Bears safety but one of the oldest of these for African Americans a newspaper |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: M is for Methodist in this U.S. church that in 1820 launched a mission into West Africa the A.M.E. Church (African Methodist Episcopal) |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: William Penn created Pennsylvania as a refuge for religious minorities, like this faith of his Quakers |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This Wild West frontiersman got his name on a state capital in 1864 Kit Carson |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | WHAT SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT IS THIS? $600: If you encounter a meat & three establishment in the American South, the "three" refers to these the side dishes |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $2000: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 2020 I released a new album, "American Standard", putting my take on some of the songs & show tunes I grew up listening to like "Ol' Man River" from this musical Show Boat |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK $200: With 10.3 million, it's the largest American state by population according to the 1920 Census New York |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $200: Spirit or determination, & what the American Academy of Pediatrics says not to do to children as punishment spank & spunk |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | A HISTORY OF CHARITY $800: In 1944 Tuskegee president Frederick Douglass Patterson started this scholarship organization the United Negro College Fund |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK $1000: Best known for his many portraits, like the one seen here, this three-named American painter died in London in 1925 John Singer Sargent |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1,600 (Daily Double): (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) A third party candidate hasn't won a state in a presidential election since 1968 when this American Independent Party nominee carried Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and his native Alabama George Wallace |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $800: Mary Engle Pennington was an innovator in this, keeping milk & other stuff safely cold, & a VP of the American Institute of it refrigeration |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | COLLEGE LIFE $1000: The 2 major learning management systems for American colleges are canvas & this, another name for a slate blackboard |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Following the United States' annexation of Texas in 1845, Mexico said Texas' border ended here at the Nueces River; the U.S. said it was this river further south, and war soon followed the Rio Grande |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A new Quartering Act was the fourth of these punitive 1774 measures also known as the Coercive Acts the Intolerable Acts |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS $800 (Daily Double): A state capital in the Rockies bears the name of this Native American people once found in the region Cheyenne |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $400: South American cloak (6) a poncho |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $600: This American dropped his drip style for one dubbed "Black Pourings"; a 1951 show of them sold none (Jackson) Pollock |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: In Oct. 2019 I.S.S. astronauts Christina Koch & Jessica Meir made the 1st all-female this venture; on Jan. 15, 2020 they did it again a space walk |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: In 1904 Ida Tarbell set a "standard" for muckraking by helping to expose corruption in this industry oil |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: He wrote his first novel "A Time to Kill" while putting in 60 to 70 hours a week at a Mississippi law firm Grisham |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This novelist of the frontier died in 1851 in a village his dad founded, the future home of the Baseball Hall of Fame (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: William Kennedy was born in this state capital & set a trilogy there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed" Albany |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | ALL-AMERICAN STAMPS $200: In the 1930s, this landmark was seen erupting on a 5-cent stamp Old Faithful |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | ALL-AMERICAN STAMPS $400: The "Great Lakes Lighthouses" stamps of 1995 included New York's Thirty Mile Point on this smallest Great Lake Lake Ontario |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | ALL-AMERICAN STAMPS $1000: In 1999, a set of stamps celebrated the nature of this large desert in Mexico and the Southwestern U.S. the Sonoran Desert |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | AMERICAN POETRY $200: A poem by Edgar Allan Poe mentions silver & golden these, jingling, tinkling, chiming bells |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: "Birches" & "A Patch of Old Snow" are part of his 1916 collection "Mountain Interval" Frost |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: A long poem by Hart Crane was inspired by this structure seen from his apartment window the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (I'm Jerry Anderson
from WTOL 11. [He presents from Fifth Third Field in Toledo, Ohio.]) Since 1987 the Toledo Mud Hens have been a farm team of this American League team located about 60 miles to the northeast of Toledo the (Detroit) Tigers |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | REPORT CARDS OF HISTORICAL FIGURES $200: Civics: Speaks with confidence, especially in 1963 on having "a dream deeply rooted in the American dream" Martin Luther King |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $1600: Before Obama, the last sitting U.S. Pres. to visit was Coolidge; he spoke to a precursor org. of the OAS, short for this group the Organization of American States |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Kansas Territory had this man as governor in 1858 and what's now a state capital is named for him (James) Denver |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $1200: The Sugarcane Fair is a tourist draw in Cali in this country Colombia |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES $2000: This capital of Suriname was ceded by the English to the Dutch by the 1667 Treaty of Breda Paramaribo |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ENTERTAINMENT $800: In the 1980s Cyndi Lauper & Wham! were among the artists who made their early U.S. TV appearances on this Dick Clark series American Bandstand |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ENTERTAINMENT $2000: AFI's first "100 Greatest American Movies" list included this D.W. Griffith silent epic; on an updated list, it was gone Birth of a Nation |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | SNAKES! $500 (Daily Double): The yellow type of this South American snake can reach 15 feet long; its green cousin can reach 30 the anaconda |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | BEYOND MEAT $400: Like Hessians in the American Revolutionary War, it's a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army a mercenary |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Say hey! This was used in the 1965 All Star Game by this Giant center fielder; in a 2016 85th birthday message, President Obama called him the greatest living ballplayer Willie Mays |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1200: According to legend, he was blown off course around 1000 A.D. & landed on the North American continent (Leif) Erikson |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE NON-OPERATING THEATER $1600: In 1849 this showman turned the lecture room of his American museum into a full-scale theater but it all burned down in 1865 P.T. Barnum |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | OOTD $1000: 1940s Mexican-American men helped popularize this rhyming ensemble associated with jitterbug dancing a zoot suit |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | SPACES $800: It's a Spanish word for an interior courtyard, or an American word for a paved backyard area a patio |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LITERATURE: THE SUBTITLE $400: A 1970s special Pulitzer winner: "The Saga of an American Family" Roots |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | "P"ICTURE THIS $200: As a symbol of American success, it dates back to the Colonial Era a picket fence |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 8, 1871 a fire started on DeKoven Street, destroying more than 17,000 of this city's buildings Chicago |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: American poet of "The Red Wheelbarrow" who's also a store selling gourmet cookware William Carlos Williams-Sonoma |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This powerful union of the 1880s, KOL for short, began as a secret society modeled on the Masons the Knights of Labor |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | THE DAM BILL $1600: A 1973 act of Congress approved funding for a replacement dam at American Falls on this river in the Northwest the Snake |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | "B"EASTS $1000: You little weasel! The American species of this member of the weasel family is a carnivore & a good digger a badger |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $800: Big oil & gas are the subject of a 2019 nonfiction bestseller by this TV personality
In fact, it could be argued, the oil business as we know it today was the invention of one particular American, John D. Rockefeller Rachel Maddow |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | THEY'RE BACK! $800: This reboot made the divorced mom & her family Cuban American & moved the setting from Indianapolis to Los Angeles One Day at a Time |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | SHORT STORY SYLLABUS $200: "The Lone Ranger &" this man "Fistfight in Heaven" is the title story of a collection by Native American author Sherman Alexie Tonto |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This American pop artist used a comic book style in paintings like "Whaam!" & "Drowning Girl" Lichtenstein |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE CROWN $600: A 1961 visit to Britain by this American gives the queen something to think about Jackie Kennedy |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | SHORT STORY SYLLABUS $800: "Cathedral" is the title story of a 1983 collection by this American realist & onetime janitor (Raymond) Carver |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | ANAGRAMS $200: An American symbol:
BAGEL DEAL a bald eagle |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A 1957 study of the middle class, with the alliterative title "The Black" this group, traced it to 1865 & the Freedmen's Bank the Bourgeoisie |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): When Medgar Evers was gunned down in 1963, he was the Mississippi field secretary of this national organization the NAACP |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | AMERICAN IDOLS $200: (Lionel Richie delivers the clue.) In 2012 I had the honor of singing for my idol, Muhammad Ali, at a benefit for his center that fights this disease--we helped raise $9.1 million that night Parkinson's |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS $1000: "Kindred", about an African-American woman transported back to a plantation in antebellum Maryland, is a novel by this author (Octavia) Butler |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $2000: Sarah Paulson nabbed a trophy for playing this prosecutor in "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" (Marcia) Clark |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS $800: The graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy" is a memoir of this "Star Trek" actor's time in an American WWII internment camp George Takei |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | WHERE YA FROM? $1000: A Paceño is from this South American capital La Paz |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | MAYORS $1200: Norman Mineta became the first Asian-American mayor of a major U.S. city when he took over this tech town near San Francisco in 1971 San Jose |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $200: Edward Lansdale, a U.S. officer in Asia, was a model for the novel "The Ugly" this & possibly for "The Quiet" this also American |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $800: O! American clergyman Phillips Brooks wrote the words to this Christmas carol after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land "O Little Town of Bethlehem" |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE "LL", "LL" YOU SAY! $1000: The double-talk name of this Washington city may come from a Native American word meaning "small rapid rivers" Walla Walla |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) The Americans exhibit highlights Native Americans' role in American identity. One legend is Pocahontas' famous 1607 rescue of this man, a story some doubt, as he didn't tell it until 1624, though he had written about his time in Virginia before then John Smith |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AMERICAN HOMES $400: The Wrigley Mansion in this L.A.-area city is today the headquarters of the Tournament of Roses Association Pasadena |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AMERICAN HOMES $800: Hildene, a Georgian Revival mansion in Vermont, was built at the turn of the 20th century by this son of Abraham Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | NAVAL HISTORY $800: Congress presented him a gold medal in 1787 for his naval leadership during the American Revolution John Paul Jones |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This man's 1825 inaugural address had to compete with a traveling circus performing in D.C. (John) Quincy Adams |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | FROM G TO G $200: This North American rodent is classified as a marmot, but is basically a large squirrel a groundhog |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | PAMPAS $400: What the cowboy is to the American West, this heroic herder is to the Pampas a gaucho |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | GETTING COLT FEAT $800: Ending a 37-year drought, in 2015 this "American" colt won the Triple Crown & was unanimously named horse of the year American Pharoah |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | PAMPAS $1000: This flightless South American bird, a relative to the ostrich, lives on the Pampas the rhea |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AMERICAN CATHEDRALS $400: Downtown L.A. has the aptly named cathedral of Our Lady of these beings Angels |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AMERICAN CATHEDRALS $800: Indianapolis' Scottish Rite Cathedral is not a place of worship but a meeting place for this fraternal society the Masons |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AMERICAN CATHEDRALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Both Spanish & French governors worshipped at a church on the site of what's now this city's St. Louis Cathedral New Orleans |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $400: He opened the 2016 AMAs with a performance of his golden megahit "24K Magic" Bruno Mars |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $200: This Harper Lee classic topped the list & was the favorite book of 48 states as well To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $400: This Arthur Miller character makes his way "on a smile and a shoeshine" Willy Loman |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $800: The role of Pale, in "Burn This" by Lanford Wilson, is a showcase for young actors--John Malkovich in 1987 & this man in 2019 (Adam) Driver |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: In this Jason Miller drama, members of a high school basketball team celebrate the 20th anniversary of their state title That Championship Season |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: Junk dealer Harry Brock hires a tutor to give his mistress Billie Dawn some culture & class in this play Born Yesterday |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | BEASTLY NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: In the heart of the "Silicon Forest", Beaverton is a suburb of this Western U.S. metropolis Portland |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | BEASTLY NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: A gateway to Dinosaur National Monument is the town of Dinosaur in this state Colorado |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | BEASTLY NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: About 40 miles west of Regina, you'll find this Saskatchewan city that sounds like a deer facial bone Moose Jaw |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | TRUE STORY $400: Natalie Y. Moore examined "The South Side: A Portrait of" this city "and American Segregation " Chicago |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | A GENERIC TITLE $2000: The movie "A Place in the Sun" was based on this U.S. novel An American Tragedy |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: The ABA for short, it has a standing committee on legal aid & indigent defendants the American Bar Association |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | AMERICAN WORLD'S FAIRS $400: The 1974 Spokane World's Fair showed a film on the environment in this 4-letter big-screen format IMAX |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $800: This American's verses include "Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks" (Ogden) Nash |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $1200: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum is a neo-this ancient Greek stiff-upper-lip type, but Martha allows for more emotion stoic |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $1600: William James popularized this -ism that judges ideas by their usefulness, now a synonym for "practicality" pragmaticism |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Jonathan Edwards thought sin was restrained by God; otherwise the soul would be "a furnace of" these two things fire and brimstone |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $400: Gothic is common for churches, and, though much less common, was used for these, like the neo-Gothic Mickve Israel in Savannah a temple (synagogue) |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $800: In 1798's "Wieland", the 1st Amer. Gothic novel, a character seems to die from this: "In a moment, the whole was reduced to ashes" spontaneous combustion |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | COASTLINES $1000: It's the only Central American country without a coastline on the Pacific Ocean Belize |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $1200: Before he became an Oscar-winning film composer, he brought a Gothic feel to '90s hard rock Trent Reznor |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $3,000 (Daily Double): This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel "Wise Blood" about a preacher in the church without Christ Flannery O'Connor |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | GRANT $6,000 (Daily Double): Grant said, "I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than" this one, the first in which he fought the Mexican-American War |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | THE 2019 TIME 100 $800: Robert Downey Jr. called this Egyptian-American actor a "testament to hardworking immigrants raising their kids right" Rami Malek |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | FALL-POURRI $1600: The American Meteorological Society defines it as "a period, in mid- or late autumn, of abnormally warm weather" Indian summer |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE $400: The federal laureate position is technically called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" by this library the Library of Congress |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | & CARRIE $400: Andie MacDowell played Carrie, the American girl who captures Hugh Grant's heart, in this 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $800: A shell-like organ in its throat gives resonance to the voice of this South American monkey, leading to its name a howler monkey |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES ON THE ROAD $1600: Taking you from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, the Commodore Barry Bridge celebrates a "Father of the American" this force the Navy |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | SHIFT THE STRESS $600: To say no & a social loser (there's a band of All-American ones) Rejects & reject |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | HUNDRED "P"ERCENT $800: Crow Fair, Montana's largest Native American event, is this type of big chatty gathering; the 100th was in 2018 a powwow |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | FOOTWEAR $800: Originally worn by Plains Indians, these soft shoes get their name from a Native American language moccasins |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: From a Native American word, it was the term for Republicans who supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in the 1884 election the Mugwumps |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: When this beloved first lady died in Washington in 1849, the "ladies of Virginia" were urged to wear a black bow or ribbon in tribute Dolley Madison |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | CABLE TELEVISION $600: FX's "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" followed up with the story of this man's assassination (Gianni) Versace |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $800: This word for a fierce tropical storm comes from the Taino name for a turbulent god hurricane |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1600: Zucchini & pumpkins are both types of this vegetable, a gourd family from a Narragansett name squash |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $2000: From Salish, it can be a type of salmon of the Pacific Northwest, or a warm, dry wind Chinook |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | RECENT EVENTS QUIZ $400: This American rapper was tried for assault in Sweden, causing a diplomatic fuss A$AP Rocky |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | BOATS & SHIPS $2000: A September 1779 battle featured the British frigate Serapis & this American warship Bonhomme Richard |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $1000: Hull House is now a museum named for her, its founder & the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (Jane) Addams |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $1000: In "Grateful American" he tells how playing a movie lieutenant led to a mission of supporting troops & veterans Gary Sinise |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NEXT $600: World Series winners since 2016:
the Cubs,
the Astros,
this A.L. team the Red Sox |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | LET'S TALK ABOUT FLAGS $1200: "Sure, I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?" asked this actor, "The Duke" John Wayne |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress", a search for a missing woman in this West Coast city reveals scandalous secrets Los Angeles |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | LET'S MAKE A NEW DEAL $400: The Federal Theater Project mounted an all-African-American version of this Shakespeare play set in Haiti instead of Scotland Macbeth |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $400: In the South, the American Civil War is sometimes called the War of Northern this 10-letter word aggression |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $800: The Beaver Wars in Canada were also known as the French & this Native American league wars the Iroquois wars |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | A LA WHAT? $800: This American dish is chicken with a mushroom cream sauce; if you want to be fancy, you can call it "poulet royale" in French chicken a la king |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $200: The pen name he used for "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was a wink to his unfinished doctorate Dr. Seuss |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $800: In a story by this sci-fi master, "I Sing the Body Electric!" is the title of a pamphlet for a robot grandmother Ray Bradbury |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library.) This 9mm Glock pistol was held by this former world leader when he was found hiding in a hole in the ground by American forces in 2003 Saddam Hussein |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | FINISH THE CLASSIC AMERICAN LYRIC $800: "Doe, a deer, a female deer; ray, a drop of golden sun; me..." a name I call myself |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | ART SUPPLIES... $1000: ...history lessons, as in Benjamin West's depiction of a 1755 battle in this North American war the French and Indian War |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | WOMEN SOLDIERS $400: In 1782 Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man & enlisted & served during this war the American Revolution |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | WOMEN SOLDIERS $1600: A comrade of Geronimo, Dahteste was a 19th century female warrior of this Native American tribe the Apache |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1927 he made aviation history aboard a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis Lindbergh |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972 J. Edgar Hoover |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: A prize for American humor is named for this author of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Mark Twain |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $2000: This American artist said his painting "Hotel Window" was "lonelier than I'd planned it" Edward Hopper |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | THINKING OUT LOUD $1,000 (Daily Double): This orator, a former slave himself, asked, "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | EPONYMS $400: That number on the spine of a library book honors this father of American library science (Melvil) Dewey |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POP CULTURE FOOD & DRINK $2000: This 2001 book about the American quick meal became a movie drama with Bobby Cannavale as a meatpacking plant supervisor Fast Food Nation |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a device at the Mercer Museum.) In colonial America, practically every homestead had this device to turn apples into the nation's drink of choice, to the tune of 35 gallons per person per year a cider press |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $800: Hunter S. Thompson heads into the desert in this book subtitled "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a flail at the Mercer Museum.) A flail, which gave us the expression "to flail around" was used to beat the wheat in threshing, the age-old practice of separating it from this the chaff |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a wagon at the Mercer Museum.) This type of pioneer wagon curved up at the ends so goods wouldn't fall out on bad roads--it's named for the area where it was developed in southeast Pennsylvania, not far from here a Conestoga wagon |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | AMERICAN INGENUITY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a trade figure at the Mercer Museum.) Trade figures were designed to draw attention to stores; a popular one was this character every kid knew from puppet shows Punch |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 1963 Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech at this Washington, D.C. landmark the Lincoln Memorial |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTY FACTS $400: In 2014 a very big blossom by this American set a record for a female artist when it sold for $44.4 million Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | CROCS $200: The Lauren, carried by Ms. Hutton in "American Gigolo", is a croc one of these from Bottega Veneta handbag (or purse) |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $2,000 (Daily Double): A music competition named for him has been called "the most prestigious classical piano contest in the world" Van Cliburn |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Founded in 1855 and meeting on the last Saturday of the month at the Parker House, the Saturday Club included local literary giants like Whittier, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and this American scholar transcendentalist Emerson |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $400: "The New Negro" is "The Life of Alain Locke", the first African American to earn this honor that sent him to Oxford a Rhodes Scholarship |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $800: "Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" novelist James Baldwin |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $1000: Published in 2007, "Supreme Discomfort" is a portrait of this jurist Clarence Thomas |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This fort that successfully defended Baltimore in 1814 was built in the shape of a 5-pointed star McHenry |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A carpenter named James Marshall found this in a streambed on January 24, 1848; he tried to keep it a secret, but... gold |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1861 this Secretary of State suggested the U.S. provoke a foreign war to distract from civil discord at home (William) Seward |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | MURPHY, BROWN $800: He's a creator of "Glee" & "American Horror Story" Ryan Murphy |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | V.I.P.! V.I.P.! $3,000 (Daily Double): 3 North American bodies of water--a strait, a bay & a river--are named for this English captain last seen in 1611 (Henry) Hudson |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | NON-POLITICAL PRESIDENTS $400: In 2019 Randi Weingarten, pres. of this union, AFT for short, joined L.A. educators on the picket line the American Federation of Teachers |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $600: In January 2019 this South American country's national assembly declared its president a "usurper" & named its own replacement Venezuela |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WOMEN OLYMPIANS $200: American saber specialist Ibtihaj Muhammad wore a hijab competing in this Olympic sport in 2016 fencing |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | CENTRAL AMERICA $400: Oil tankers & other ships pay a fee to take this 50-mile Central American shortcut the Panama Canal |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | THINGS THAT HAPPENED $400: In the mid-19th century, the U.S. Army imported these creatures from Africa as pack animals--it didn't last camels |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $200: Lady Gaga gave a fine performance as a bloodsucking countess on the "Hotel" edition of this FX series American Horror Story |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | AMERICAN GODS $400: Placed under a bed, figurines of the Maya goddess Ixchel protect women during this childbirth |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | AMERICAN GODS $1600: Makunaima & his brother created the world, according to these West Indies people who lent their name to a big sea the Carib |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $1600: Some 800 American volunteers died fighting for the Loyalists, many as part of a battalion named for this 19th c. president the Abraham Lincoln battalion |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | THEY PLANNED THEIR OWN FUNERAL $1000: Instructions by this American that his body was not to lie in state were found a few days too late in 1945 Franklin Roosevelt |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | I WROTE IT $1200: "Invisible Man", a classic of African-American lit Ralph Ellison |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: He wrote a 1796 "Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation" before coming up with his steamboat Fulton |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: A 1975 N.Y. Daily News headline after this man opposed a federal bailout:
him "To City: Drop Dead" (Gerald) Ford |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A 1921 federal law put the first limits on the number of these, followed by 1924's National Origins Act immigrants |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $800: A dialysis section at the site for the AKF, or American this Fund, recommends a diet limiting potassium & sodium kidney |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: Her alter ego Jo March gets $100 for a story she has written (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "More obscene than anything is inertia" is a line from this Henry Miller book some consider obscene Tropic of Cancer |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This O. Henry story about a poor husband & wife trying to buy each other Christmas presents has a twist ending "Gift of the Magi" |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AMERICAN POETRY $2000: William Carlos Williams won a Pulitzer for "Pictures from" this Flemish artist--here's one of his pictures Pieter Bruegel |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: As a young man Frederick Douglass heard if he learned to do this "it would forever unfit him to be a slave"--so he did read and write |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | SMALL SCREEN SHOW TUNES $1600: On a memorable "American Idol", Jason Castro sang "Memory" from this Broadway musical Cats |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | THE WESTERN U.S. $400: A Montana memorial to the Native American participants of this battle was dedicated on June 25, 2003 Little Bighorn |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | INVENTED IN THE 1800s $200: By African-American dentist George Grant, a wooden one of these that "elevated" the game of golf a tee |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | 18th CENTURY NICKNAMES $800: This president was "The American Cincinnatus", after a Roman who answered the call to leadership but preferred farming George Washington |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1600: This South American rodent has velvety-soft fur & can be kept as a pet the chinchilla |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE IRISH-AMERICAN HALL OF FAME $1600: Last name of astronauts Eileen & Michael, back-to-back inductees in 2013 & 2014 Collins |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NONFICTION $400: Historian Holger Hoock's "Scars of Independence" pulls no punches & asserts that this conflict was not a festive musical the American Revolution |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | 1870s AMERICA $800: The Dec. 22, 1877 issue of Scientific American described this new Edison invention as a "sound writer" a phonograph |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | CHANNEL SURFING $3,000 (Daily Double): Dusky dolphins surf this South American channel, named for a 19th century science ship the Beagle |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | STEAMED PUNK $200: In 2004 a steamed-up Green Day didn't want to be an "American" this, the title of their No. 1 album idiot |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | NATIVE AMERICAN $1 COINS $400: The belt named for this Onondaga title character of a Longfellow poem symbolized the Iroquois Confederacy Hiawatha |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | SPEED OF SOUND $600: Scientific American said of this, familiar to ark raiders, that it was the loop, not the tip, that broke the sound barrier a whip |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $400: She's played a Desperate Housewife & the scheming Wilhemina on "Ugly Betty" (Vanessa) Williams |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $800: Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce & Anika Noni Rose are the singing trio in this film adaptation of a Broadway show Dreamgirls |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $1000: In 1902 Will Rogers joined Texas Jack's American circus as a bronco rider & trick artist using these a lasso |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $1200: The mom of TV's Huxtable family, in 2004 she became the first black actress to win the Tony for a leading role in a play Phylicia Rashad |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $2000: Awarded an honorary Oscar in 2018, she has a 6-decade acting career that includes "Roots" & "The Help" Cicely Tyson |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | IN PERPETUITY $600: Instead of merging with the NBA, owners of the St. Louis team in this league got a cut of NBA TV money in perpetuity--hello, $300 mil.! the ABA (or American Basketball Association) |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In one version the last speech of a play by him says, "Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: In a 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs tale, Civil War vet John Carter is magically transported here Mars |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | STILL I RISE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) The American Helicopter Museum is a treasure house of these craft, another name for helicopters from the propeller-like part that turns to give them lift rotorcraft |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | "URRY" UP $600: A singer & "American Idol" judge named her cat Kitty this Purry |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THIS IS 40: LITERARY EDITION $1600: Mrs. Wu turns 40 & changes her life in "Pavilion of Women", a China-set 1946 book by this American woman Pearl Buck |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | 5 DIAMONDS $1000: A scaled-down version of the one in Chicago, L.A.'s Wrigley Field was the first home of this American League team the Angels |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | ORGANIZATIONS $1200: "America's largest veterans service organization", it has a magazine exploring travel & health as well as military matters the American Legion |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | HISTORIC FAMILIES $200: Considered American royalty, this family would include senators, an attorney general, an ambassador & a president the Kennedys |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WHAT WE HAVE HERE $600: Need a good scrubbing? The volcanic islands of American Samoa are rich in this porous rock pumice |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | STAMPS $200: A pioneer of deaf studies, Robert Panara is showing "respect" in this language on a 2-ounce stamp American Sign Language |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | MISCELLANEOUS $200: The South American members of the camel family are the alpaca, guanaco, vicuna & this pack animal a llama |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $400: Mary Schmich's 1997 mock commencement address, which went viral as a real one, advised, "Wear" this sunscreen |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $800: In an 1862 speech in the Mississippi capitol, he said, "our enemies are a traditionless & a homeless race" Jefferson Davis |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): It was the married name of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt, who founded a museum of American art in New York City Gertrude Whitney |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | "ACE" SHOWING $600: There's a spud in the name of this classic American contest a potato sack race |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | SLOGANS & MOTTOES $2000: During the Revolutionary War, many American flags featured a rattlesnake with this 4-word motto don't tread on me |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $1000: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): After negotiations to end the American Revolution, Ben Franklin said, "There never was a good war, or a bad" this peace |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | LIFE DURING WAR $1600: During this war, inflation made paper currency worthless, inspiring the saying "not worth a continental" American Revolution |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | BUST A MOVIE $2000: In "Bustin' Loose" this late African-American comedian played an ex-con helping kids Richard Pryor |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FOREIGN MONEY $2000: Just like American kids save pennies, a father in Gogol's "Dead Souls" tells his son, "Keep and save your every" this kopeck |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | OF ALCATRAZ $800: In the late 1890s the population of a military prison on Alcatraz swelled to near 450 due to this war the Spanish-American War |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | BARTLETT'S, A TO Z $1600: P:
This American-born poet for remarking in a 1915 letter, "Poetry must be as well written as prose" (Ezra) Pound |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | ALLITERATION $1000: In other words, a Native American's calumet peace pipe |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: John Parker was assigned to guard this man on April 14, 1865, but stepped out at intermission to go to a bar Abraham Lincoln |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | GETTING SQUIRRELLY $800: The Siberian is the only non-North American type of this, a small, striped creature in the squirrel family a chipmunk |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | MONDAY NIGHT NON-FOOTBALL TV $1000: A cat-craving alien from Melmac was adopted by an American family on this sitcom ALF |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: He said he made "a naked stab at commercial fiction" with his second novel, "The Firm", & boy, did he succeed (John) Grisham |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Here's a portrait of this author during her own age of innocence (Edith) Wharton |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): He wrote 1899's "Father Goose"; he came up with a "Wonderful" adventure the following year L. Frank Baum |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $800: "The Times They Are A-Changin"', from his 1964 album of the same name, became an instant anthem Bob Dylan |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $1200: She penned "Fighting Angel," a biography of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, a missionary in China Pearl Buck |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This "colorful" Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty The Bluest Eye |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | TV BY THE NUMBERS $600: The reboot of this sitcom features a Cuban-American family & Gloria Estefan giving a Latin flair to its theme "This is It" One Day at a Time |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In November 1620 this document was signed onboard a ship off Cape Cod Mayflower Compact |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1792 Congress tried to increase judges' workload, leading to the 1st federal court decision voiding a law on this basis they declared it unconstitutional |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) On July 9, 1776, just hours after the Declaration of Independence was read publicly for the first time in New York, a patriotic mob tore down a gilded statue, recreated here of this reigning king; parts of it would be melted down and used as ammo against the British George III |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) The standard for military training in the United States through the War of 1812 was a manual of regulations written by this Prussian officer whom Washington employed to train and discipline the troops von Steuben |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) Here, you come face to face with some of the last survivors of the Revolutionary War photographed late in life, like Lemuel Cook, who lived past the age of 100, fought at Brandywine, and was present when Lord Cornwallis surrendered here Yorktown |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | VERY DEFINITELY FOR PROFIT $2000: Last name of American Tobacco's James B., who smoked up profits with American Cigar & American Snuff Duke |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Remote-controlled by radar, the torpedo-carrying Gyrodyne QH-50C was used in the 1960s as an anti-submarine weapon, making it one of the first of these now-ubiquitous unmanned vehicles a drone |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) With a fearsome armament that could include rockets, missiles, cannons, a Gatling gun & more, it's no wonder the "A" in the name of Army's Bell AH-1 Cobra stands for this, its primary mission attack |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Able to take off & land vertically & fly like a conventional airplane, the tiltrotor Osprey was the product of a long & controversial development process, inspired by the failure of Navy helicopters during the aborted 1980 hostage rescue in this country Iran |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Nicknamed the "Receiver", the Piasecki PV-14 saved hundreds of lives in search & rescue operations, and in 1962, one lifted this Friendship 7 pilot from his pickup ship to a waiting aircraft carrier John Glenn |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | THAT HAPPENED! $1200: This 3-word phrase preceded "To hell with Spain!" as a Spanish-American war rallying cry remember the Maine |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): A natural storyteller, Nick Offerman brings his talents to this classic of American lit
...appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush, he surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $1600: This South American capital is the only city planned & built in the 20th century to be made a World Heritage site Brasilia |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | INITIAL INITIALS $2,500 (Daily Double): A merger brought the "-CIO", but first there was the AFL, which stood for this American Federation of Labor |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | COMET $200: In 1847 Maria Mitchell became the first American to discover a comet using this, a 2 3/4-inch model a refractor telescope |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | MY ROLE ON TV $2000: Jimmy Tatro's Dylan Maxwell is accused of drawing some very unappreciated art on this 2017 true crime satire American Vandal |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: A biography of this burg is subtitled "Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West" Dodge City |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $800: In 2018 this actress added the prize to her record 6 consecutive Emmys for Best Actress in a Comedy Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1200: This "Shrek" & "Beverly Hills Cop" performer said the prize is actually an award, because a prize comes with money Eddie Murphy |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $2000: Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore & Dick Van Dyke were on hand to honor this writer/comedian in 2000 (Carl) Reiner |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | RIVERS OF CALIFORNIA $200: The region where this "capital" river meets the American River was the scene of the state's 1849 gold rush the Sacramento |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | HERE COMES THE CAVALRY! $400: The U.S. Army made its last horse-mounted cavalry charge on Bataan during this war World War II |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $200: A British effort to march on Concord & destroy colonial guns & ammo led to the first battle of the war, in April of this year 1775 |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: In May of 1780, the British captured this Southern city, forcing the surrender of 3,000 American soldiers Charleston |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ON TOP OF THE WORLD $1600: A diary discovered in 1996 cast doubt on whether this American actually flew over the North Pole 70 years earlier Richard Byrd |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | MUSIC OF YESTERDAY & TODAY $1200: In 2018 this "American Idol" winner & country star sang you can do a lot to cover stuff up, but you can't "Cry Pretty" Carrie Underwood |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Scout is a curious little girl still trying to figure out life in the American South in this classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | THE OLYMPICS $600: This American is the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, winning 28 medals, including a record 23 golds Michael Phelps |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Kidnapped & sold into slavery, Solomon Northup told of his experiences in this memoir that became a movie 12 Years a Slave |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | WOMEN ON TV $200: At a reported salary of $25 million, in 2017 Katy Perry took a judging gig on this show American Idol |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $600: FDR: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in" this infamy |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $1000: An 1844 campaign slogan was this number "or Fight", a reference to the northern border of the Oregon territory 54-40 or Fight |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $1,400 (Daily Double): A 1908 work called America "the great" this vessel, "where all the races of Europe are...reforming" melting pot |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: The American Dental Association recommends doing this with an interdental cleaner at least once a day flossing |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN $1000: Ingenuity ruled the day when construction began in 1817 on a canal named for this Great Lake the Erie Canal |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | THE TV SHOW'S CHARACTERS $2000: A divine series;
Laura Moon,
Mr. World,
Technical Boy American Gods |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | TAKE A "NEE" $600: A Native American people who lived on the Platte River, or Leslie Knope's fictional Indiana town Pawnee |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | FRENCH OFF THE BOAT $600: A few years after sailing here on the American Eagle, Irenee Du Pont opened a gunpowder mill in this state Delaware |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | CONTRA $1200: These in American history include Whiskey & Shays' a rebellion |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2016 Carla Hayden became the first woman & first African-American in this D.C. post & naturally was sworn in on a book the Librarian of Congress |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In a series, artist Jacob Lawrence depicted this "Great" movement of rural Southern blacks to the North in the 20th century the Great Migration |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | I'M OUTTA HERE $1600: In 2000 President Fujimori of this South American country sent his resignation via fax from a Tokyo hotel Peru |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $400: In 2015 she gave a powerful performance at a time of change in her life Gwen Stefani |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $1200: You could say her whole career has been a high wire act but she performed a literal one at the AMAs Pink |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $800: Later D.W. Griffith's D.P., Billy Bitzer worked for Hearst on the first film camera team to cover a war, this one the Spanish-American War |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | COBRA KAI $800: A reddish-brown Australian cobra family member is called this, like the American snake AKA the highland moccasin a copperhead |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | ENTERTAINMENT RITUALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Penned in 1880, this July 4th symphony staple touts a Russian victory, not an American one the 1812 Overture |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | CLUES ACROSS PHILADELPHIA $200: (I'm Melissa Magee from 6ABC.) A highlight of historic Philadelphia is this woman's home, known as the birthplace of the American flag Betsy Ross |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | THE UNSEEN $200: The late Sir Simon tries to frighten an American family in Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville" this spectre a ghost |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $1200: Alec Baldwin on this show: "Yes, my daughter is Canadian American but I'm going to treat her just like a human baby" 30 Rock |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Of the only 35 or so known paintings by this Dutch master, the Met has 5, including "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher", which was the first of his canvases to enter a public American collection Vermeer |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | MAMMALS $800: This largest South American member of the camel family makes a good guard animal for sheep & other livestock a llama |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | THE U.S. CONGRESS WITH NANCY PELOSI $2000: (Nancy Pelosi reads the clue.) In 2009, I proudly unveiled the Capitol portrait of this first African-American woman elected to Congress, who said she wanted to be remembered as a catalyst for change Shirley Chisholm |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | THIS CATEGORY IS "P.G." $2000: Now a museum, the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni in Venice houses the art collection of this American heiress Peggy Guggenheim |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $2000: One sign said, "The first blood for American independence was shed by a Negro"--this Boston Massacre victim Crispus Attucks |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $1600: Under this 3-letter word, a "Dictionary of American Regionalisms" has "Family, relations. 'He ain't no ____ of mine'" kin |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | MONKEY, SEE? $600: A South American tamarin is called this top, for the plant fiber it looks like it has on its head cotton |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | A NICE CUP OF COFFEE $1000: The USDA reports that 47% of the coffee we import is from these 2 South American countries Brazil and Colombia |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $2000: A true pioneer of robber baroning, he incorporated the American Fur Company way back in 1808 (John Jacob) Astor |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On March 12, 1933 FDR warmed America with the first of these informal radio addresses a fireside chat |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): The photo from a 1967 march on the Pentagon demonstrates this rhyming slogan of the time flower power |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | DEATH OF A SALESMAN $800: One of the play's main themes & Willy's main goals is to achieve this "national" ideal & make it real the American dream |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | REMEMBER THE LADIES $1000: The first drama by an African-American woman produced on Broadway was her "A Raisin in the Sun" Lorraine Hansberry |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1200: Also a senator from this state, Thomas Sumter was the last living general officer from the revolution South Carolina |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1600: These European soldiers were offered 50 acres, a cow & 2 pigs to desert & fight for America Hessians |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $800: Phillis Wheatley & W.E.B. Du Bois are part of African-American lit "From the Beginnings to" this area's "Renaissance" Harlem |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | REVOLUTION NOW! $600: "Power to the people!" was a slogan of this African-American revolutionary group co-founded by Huey Newton the Black Panthers |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Ex-slave & conductor on the Underground Railroad who served as a spy for the Union in the Civil War Harriet Tubman |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $800: This artist began living in New Mexico in the 1930s, eventually buying a hacienda in Abiquiu with a large garden Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: "Always, Rachel" is a collection of letters by this author of "Silent Spring" (Rachel) Carson |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: A 1917 Carnegie Hall audience heard her defend birth control, saying she was 1 of 11 kids, causing her mom to die young Margaret Sanger |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $200: The breed here didn't originate Down Under; it was called the California this before it was the Australian this a shepherd |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $400: Nicknamed "The American Gentleman", this non-sporting breed from Mass. has a U.S. city right in its name the Boston terrier |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $600: Developed in Wisconsin & seen here, the American water this is a rare breed; there are only about 3,000 in the world the American water spaniel |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $800: Bred for draft work, this state dog of New Hampshire shares its name with a wind, a salmon & a helicopter a chinook |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $1000: George Washington seems to also be the father of the American this breed, with two animals in its name a foxhound |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | A HARRY CATEGORY $1200: "I love a great love story", said this American actress about her engagement to Prince Harry Meghan Markle |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | AWARD-WINNING BOOKS $1200: In 2002 his "American Gods" was both a Hugo & a Nebula Award winner Neil Gaiman |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | A-1 ALPHANUMERICS 4U $2000: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) Designed by Rolls-Royce, the Merlin engine earned its reputation as "the engine that won World War II" by giving unbeatable performance to Allied planes like the British Spitfire & this famous American fighter plane the P-51 |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | "ZZ" MIDDLE $600: Spring buds were blooming, but "The Great" one of these of March 1888 was one of the worst ever in American history a blizzard |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: Overconfident, British Gen. Howe went into this 1775 Boston battle with a servant carrying wine on a silver tray Bunker Hill |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: A British band played a tune titled "The World Turned Upside Down" during the surrender here on Oct. 19, 1781 Yorktown |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $800: The first black winter Olympic gold medalist, Vonetta Flowers won as a brake woman in this event in 2002 bobsled |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1000: "The sun never shine on a cause of greater worth" than the colonists', wrote Thomas Paine in this 1776 work Common Sense |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $1600: In 1952 this Dodgers catcher became the first African American to be featured on a Wheaties box (Roy) Campanella |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $2000: The first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl was this man who led the Colts to victory in 2007 (Tony) Dungy |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | TRADEMARKS $2000: A 9-year-old moppet who was actually Irish American inspired this paint trademark in the early 1900s Dutch Boy |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MUSIC $400: This "Chained To The Rhythm" singer is a judge on the 2018 version of "American Idol" Katy Perry |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $600: Chief Bromden, a Native American who feigns muteness, is the narrator of this Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: This Heinlein novel begins, "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith" Stranger in a Strange Land |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | MEMORABLE MOVIE SCENES $800: 2015:
A captured Soviet operative & an American pilot walk carefully past each other in Berlin Bridge of Spies |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | SPEAK EASY $1000: In a great American novel this character says, "You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | GENIUS: PICASSO $1600: As a young man, Picasso lived in Catalonia with a friend, painting & avoiding service in this 1898 conflict the Spanish-American War |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: A year after his admission sparked a deadly riot, James Meredith became the first black graduate of this university University of Mississippi |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, in 1968 she was named poet laureate of Illinois Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | THE LOOK OF CULTURE $800: In this South American country, one body type for women is called "um corpo de violao", shaped like a guitar Brazil |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | NATURE $400: This South American fish can grow 9 feet long & deliver a jolting 650 volts an electric eel |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In October of this year, a month after reaching an all-time high of 381, the stock market came crashing down 1929 |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Not to be confused with the gap of the same name, America's first national highway--and for many years, the main route west--was this road that extended from Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois Cumberland |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $400: This Caribbean island that became a commonwealth in 1952 covers more than 3,400 square miles Puerto Rico |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $1200: This became a territory on Aug. 1, 1950 & the focus of a possible nuclear confrontation in 2017 Guam |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $5,500 (Daily Double): Annexed in 1867, this island may be only 2 square miles but a 1942 battle there proved to be a key moment in the Pacific in WWII Midway |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: One of his poems for kids begins, "There is a place where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins" Silverstein |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: He wrote, "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree" Kilmer |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | AMERICAN POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this poem as a call to help save the USS Constitution from demolition "Old Ironsides" |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | AMERICAN POETRY $1000: He wrote "Concord Hymn" for the dedication of a monument commemorating the 1775 battle Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: American daisy with dark center that was a leading U.S. suffragette black-eyed Susan B. Anthony |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $400: To scientists it's Canis latrans; in Native American myth it's a common trickster figure a coyote |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | ROADS SCHOLAR $1200: A part of the Pan-American Highway between Venezuela & Colombia is named from this "liberator" Simon Bolivar |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THE HOOPS DU JOUR $1000: "Loose Balls", a book about this league, details the 1976 slam dunk contest won by Dr. J, who got $1,000 & a stereo system the ABA (American Basketball Association) |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | CELEBRITY INVENTIONS $800: This singer & original "American Idol" judge patented a titling microphone stand--take that, Simon! Paula Abdul |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: "Snow-white Moslem head-dress around a dead black face" is from Margaret Walker's poem "For" this slain leader Malcolm X |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $1200: A proposal for a capital in the interior was made as early as 1789 but work didn't start on this city until 1956 Brasilia |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | 20th CENTURY REFERENCES $1600: This cowboy-hatted ad guy was first used in 1954 & became a symbol of the strong, silent American male the Marlboro Man |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1821 it was made the capital of Gran Colombia, it's still a capital today Bogota |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | ENTERTAINMENT 2017 $1200: Billy Eichner left the street for this show's "Cult" & played a game of what Billy liked to call "sawing off my boss' head" American Horror Story |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | YOU'VE GOT A POINT $400: The American Academy of Dermatology suggests tweezers or a needle for removal of these wood slivers a splinter |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: On a December day in 1890, about 200 Native Americans were slain by U.S. Army troops at this South Dakota location Wounded Knee |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | ROUGH WATERS $400: Many prefer the safety of the Panama Canal to dealing with this S. American cape rounded by a Dutch navigator in 1616 Cape Horn |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | A WRINKLE IN TIME $400: (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) "Love may be stronger than all fears" is how the book is summed up by the American Library Association, which awarded this author the prestigious Newbery Medal Madeleine L'Engle |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $1000: After March 6, 1935 this "Jr." Supreme Court justice no longer cared if you shouted "Fire!" in a crowded theater Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE $3,000 (Daily Double): We don't think this vice president had any inkling he'd be a character on Broadway 180 years after his Sept. 14, 1836 death Aaron Burr |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | TABLE TENNIS, ANYONE? $200: A 1971 visit by an American team led to the thawing of relations between the U.S. & this country China |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: 1971 events at this prison east of Buffalo were one of the bloodiest clashes between Americans in the 20th century Attica |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: To protest taxes, Shays' Rebellion included a 1787 attack on the federal arsenal in this city in western Massachusetts Springfield |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE CLINTON CABINET $800: The first Arab American to hold a Cabinet post, Donna Shalala headed this department abbreviated HHS Health and Human Services |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Before he ventured to Venus & Mars, he published a book called "What You Feel You Can Heal" John Gray |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | NASDAQ COMPANIES $2000: Buy a Driveluxe GPS from this company & you'll get free lifetime updates of North American maps Garmin |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | LOVE ACTUARILY $1600: The A.H.A., short for this, says having a dog lowers your risk of the type of disease it fights the American Heart Association |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BUD $400: The official flower of the District of Columbia is the American Beauty type of this a rose |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $1200: In 1957, she became the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon Althea Gibson |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Best known for a novel, she wrote at least 6 full-length plays & collaborated with Moms Mabley on a 1931 Broadway revue Zora Neale Hurston |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | ON VACATION IN ITALY: About 30 miles from Florence, a little hill gives this tiny Tuscan town its name, familiar to American visitors Monticello |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | AMERICAN MUSICIANS: Also an author, this singer who had 5 Top 40 hits in the 1970s was called the "Pirate Laureate" Jimmy Buffett |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: In the 1920s he used wire, string & other materials to fabricate "models in motion" for a miniature circus scene (Alexander) Calder |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Chapter 100 of this novel introduces the one-armed Captain Boomer of the Samuel Enderby Moby-Dick |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Established in 1963, this group had its conclusions questioned in books, reports & a special 1970s congressional committee the Warren Commission |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | MUSICIANS: An Esquire profile said, "The most distinguishing thing" about the face of this singer "are his eyes, clear blue & alert" Frank Sinatra |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" William Faulkner |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: Native Americans called it Okwa-ta, or "wide water"; Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville would rename it for a countryman Lake Pontchartrain |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORY: His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, "Sometime general in the army of George Washington" Benedict Arnold |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In a periodical in 1807, he called New York City "Gotham, Gotham! most enlightened of cities" Washington Irving |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letters, pocket knives, C rations & steel helmets are among the tangible items referred to in the title of this modern war classic The Things They Carried |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that ten suspected" these "escape, than that one innocent person... be condemned" witches |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death Evangeline |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | PLAYS: The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this "dashing comedy" to "a full and delighted house" Our American Cousin |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow Wounded Knee |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House (Scott) Joplin |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Ben Franklin, John Adams & John Jay succeeded as a trio in this city, though Adams wrote of fearing the other 2 would gang up on him Paris |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | TRAVEL: The 1948 edition of this publication said, "There will be a day... in the near future when this guide will not have to be published" the Green Book |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Delivered on January 8, 1790, the first of these was also the shortest, at 1,089 words the State of Union Address |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A participant in this 1773 event recalled, "Some of our numbers jumped into the hold... I never labored harder in my life" the Boston Tea Party |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | NOVEL TITLES: A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American A Farewell to Arms |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: In 1914 she received a patent on a trefoil emblem, which she would transfer to an organization a few years later Juliette Gordon Low |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | COMPOUND WORDS: The OED says this 9-letter word is literary & poetic, & it appears 11 times in an 1845 American poem, including as the last word nevermore |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | AMERICAN CITIES: Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks" San Diego |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: The Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends (Harper) Lee & (Truman) Capote |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: "Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author Mark Twain |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | REFERENCE BOOKS: Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion" (Noah) Webster |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 2004, after a century as a household name, its last model rolled off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan Oldsmobile |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | AMERICAN NAMES: One of the luminaries who drove in the "Golden Spike" in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university (Leland) Stanford |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One edition of this 1930s novella shows a farm within the silhouette of a rabbit Of Mice and Men |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | HISTORIC PLACES: 8 presidents have visited this battle site with an Algonquian name about 50 miles from Washington; for McKinley, it was a return visit Antietam |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | AMERICAN LIT: A book by him says, "From the forest came the call…distinct and definite as never before--a long-drawn howl" Jack London |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN MUSIC: The composer of this 1944 ballet piece said it "concerned a pioneer celebration... around a newly built farmhouse in the... hills" Appalachian Spring |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | THE GREAT LAKES: An 1855 poem gives us this Native American name for the 1 Great Lake not known to us today by a Native American word or a tribe's name Gitche Gumee |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1711 bill cleared the names of 22 people who were tried in this town, including Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey & John Proctor Salem, Massachusetts |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | CLASSIC AMERICAN NOVELS: Lady Duff Twysden was the basis for a character in this 1926 novel set partly in Spain The Sun Also Rises |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: After statesman & banker Robert Morris turned down a job offer from George Washington, this man took the job Alexander Hamilton |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY: At Harpers Ferry, John Brown & his rebels were defeated by troops commanded by this man who 2 years later led a rebel army himself Robert E. Lee |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | HISTORIC AMERICAN CITIES: Damage from Hurricane Matthew in this city in 2016 revealed a plot of colonist graves from perhaps as long as 430 years ago St. Augustine, Florida |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1947 she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on how the film "Song of Russia" was Communist propaganda Ayn Rand |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One a Civil War hero & one a U.S. Senator, brothers with this last name were both considered for the 1884 Republican presidential nomination Sherman |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS: President Johnson signed a law that added 2 words to the name of this museum established in 1946, D.C.'s most popular the Air & Space Museum |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | AMERICAN MUSIC LEGENDS: Steinbeck called him "just a voice and a guitar" but said his songs embodied "the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression" Woody Guthrie |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | POETRY & THE MOVIES: Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars Glory |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | AMERICAN PLAYS: A character in this 1944 play is said to be like a piece in her own collection, "too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf" The Glass Menagerie |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1869 these 2 men met at the White House, 4 years & 3 weeks after a more historic meeting between them Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The 1877 novel "Garth", about a New Hampshire family cursed by an ancestor's crime, is by Julian, son of this novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | AMERICAN WRITERS: In a twist of irony, he accidentally set fire to some 300 acres of woods at Fair Haven Pond near the Concord River in 1844 Henry David Thoreau |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 & more men marched at his funeral than fought with him the Battle of Lexington |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | AMERICAN QUOTES: In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new Constitution to these 2 things death & taxes |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | CENTRAL AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: One active, one dormant, Madera & Concepcion are volcanoes in this body of water that shares its name with a country Lake Nicaragua |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899, a reunion of this alliterative squad took place, with the governor of New York fittingly on horseback the Rough Riders |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTS: In 2017 this govt. agency dedicated a new computational facility named in honor of 99-year-old ex-employee Katherine Johnson NASA |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: A 2007 headline said after being ridiculed since the 1950s, it "takes its victory lap" & noted the auction of one for $184,000 the Edsel |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | ART: Perhaps bought from a Sears catalog, a window for an 1880s farmhouse inspired the name of this 1930 painting American Gothic |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: This artist from Iowa once said, "All the really good ideas I'd ever had came to me while I was milking a cow" Grant Wood |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN: A collection of her writings includes letters to her famous husband & articles like "Eulogy on the Flapper" Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS: This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy Cormac McCarthy |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Leviathan is a journal put out 3 times a year by an organization dedicated to this author & his works Herman Melville |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES: You have to go through military security to reach this town with a Marine base on 3 sides & the Potomac on the other Quantico |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864 |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | CITY NAMES: Cuba's second-most populous city & a South American capital share this name that refers to St. James Santiago |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world" Benedict Arnold |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY: "A stimulus to the courageous", the $25,000 Orteig Prize offer of 1919 resulted in his success 8 years later Lindbergh |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | AMERICAN ICONS: This WWII icon was created in a 1943 song that says, "That little frail can do more than a male can do" Rosie the Riveter |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | 20th CENTURY POETS: It was said "his accent which started out as pure American Middle West" became "quite British U" T.S. Eliot |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: He wrote, "As life and fortune are risked by serving his majesty, it is necessary that the latter shall be secured" Benedict Arnold |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: Ironically, this man worth tens of millions when he died in 1990 said his parents named him with a socialist logo in mind Armand Hammer |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: The theft alluded to in the title of this 1844 Poe story is committed by a government minister "The Purloined Letter" |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | MODERN AMERICAN POETRY: A critic said this 1956 poem was "a tirade... against those who do not share the poet's... sexual orientation" "Howl" (by Allen Ginsberg) |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN: U.N. delegate was one role of this woman who wrote, "I could not... be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside" Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | POETRY: Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man T.S. Eliot |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | AMERICAN PRODUCTS: In 1913 this cleaning item was born when its creators named it from a word meaning "bright" or "shining" Brillo |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | NORTH AMERICAN RIVERS: At about 100 miles it's not one of Canada's 100 longest rivers, but in the 1890s it became perhaps the most famous the Klondike River |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Published for the first time in 2014, her "Pioneer Girl" was initially rejected, revised & transformed into a fictional series Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published a year later, "Good Wives" was a follow-up to this 1868 novel Little Women |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BUSINESS: These 2 American businessmen are seen here in early 20th century photos Harley & Davidson |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AMERICAN POETRY: This 1883 poem says, "Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman..." "The New Colossus" |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | RIVERS: This North American river first sailed by Europeans in 1534 is named for a man who was martyred in Rome in the 3rd century the St. Lawrence River |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Celebrated in April, National Robotics Week honors this man who coined the word "robotics" in a 1941 story Isaac Asimov |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | COATS OF ARMS: This country's coat of arms features a palm tree & a 19th century American sailing ship Liberia |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013 The Great Gatsby |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | HISTORICAL NICKNAMES: Nickname shared by George Armstrong Custer, Native American chief Crazy Horse & a member of a 1930s comedy act Curly |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: A protege of Oscar Hammerstein, he's won Grammys, an Oscar, a Pulitzer Prize & the most Tony Awards by a composer Stephen Sondheim |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | BUSINESS: "The Everything Store" is a book about this company that in 2012 was home to 1% of all North American Internet traffic Amazon.com |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | AMERICAN THEATER: This 1949 drama that ends with a requiem asks, "Why did you do it? I search & search & I search, & I can't understand it" Death of a Salesman |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS: Tracing her family to William Hood of 18th century Pennsylvania, Karen Batchelor made news as this organization's first African-American member the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | AMERICAN ACTORS: Reflecting a long friendship dating to a 1962 film they did together, Brock Peters gave the eulogy at this star's 2003 funeral Gregory Peck |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: Referring to a 1955 incident, she said, "Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it" Rosa Parks |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | SONGS: This U.S. ceremonial song was written in 1811 about the head of a Scottish clan, not an American leader "Hail to the Chief" |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1925 she visited a floating theater docked in North Carolina to research her next novel (Edna) Ferber |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | AMERICAN SPORTS LEGENDS: A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can" Babe Ruth |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS: Thoreau noted in 1854, it "resounds at every post. it is a harp with one string--the first strain from the American lyre" a telegraph |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | AMERICAN ICONS: He has a Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Citation & membership in the Rock & Roll & Minnesota Music Halls of Fame Bob Dylan |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS: A publisher's note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "an enigma to book reviewers" E.E. Cummings |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it's now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history Chicago |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776 New Jersey |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | CURRENT AMERICAN COMPANIES: The name of a Kansas City-based consumer product company, it's also a term goldsmiths use to denote quality Hallmark |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS: A fellow author called him "a very unique cat--a French Canadian Hinayana Buddhist beat Catholic savant" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | 1930s NOVELS: An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic Johnny Got His Gun |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS: Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie Larry McMurtry |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | MODERN AMERICAN NOVELS: The title of this 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner comes from a Jonathan Swift line about how lesser minds unite to oppose genius A Confederacy of Dunces (by John Kennedy Toole) |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN: Geraldine Doyle, who in 1942 took a job at a Michigan metal factory, helped inspire the look & job of this iconic character Rosie the Riveter |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In the 1880s he developed Crystal A Caramels; a product under his own name came out in 1900 Hershey |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | AMERICAN WRITERS: In the 1840s he wrote, "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | AMERICAN POETS: "Bearing the bandages, water & sponge, straight & swift to my wounded I go", he wrote in "The Wound-Dresser" Walt Whitman |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: In 1909 he completed his last painting, a canvas called "Driftwood" Winslow Homer |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | BIOGRAPHERS: As many mourned, this minister wrote in a letter, "Washington is gone! Millions are gasping to read... about him" Parson Weems |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | AMERICAN LIT: He wrote, "The hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker & quicker, & louder & louder every instant" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | HORSE BREEDS: This American breed was named for its ability to race a distance of 1,320 feet quarter horse |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS: An advocate of capitalism, in 1982 she was laid out beside a 6-foot dollar sign made of flowers Ayn Rand |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | AMERICAN POLITICIANS: Frank Sinatra came out of retirement to sing their praises: "They're both unique... the Quaker & the Greek" Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | AMERICAN CITIES: 6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states California & Texas |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, "Who would have looked for... poetry in blubber?" Moby-Dick |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | FILM LEGENDS: His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic Charlie Chaplin |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | AMERICAN MUSIC: The brilliance of Anne Brown, a soprano, changed the title of a 1935 opera that was to be called simply this one name Porgy |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS: This bird is known for its size (5 feet tall), its call (carries 2 miles) & its rarity; in 1941 there were only 21 in the wild the whooping crane |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | NOTABLE WOMEN: When Galveston was devastated by a hurricane in 1900, she traveled 1,500 miles to head up the relief effort Clara Barton |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | POETS: In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines T.S. Eliot |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself Gerald Ford |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness" The Scarlet Letter |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: A 2007 book about these 2 men is subtitled "Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian" Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | AMERICAN LEGENDS: Chippewa legend says Nanabojo grew angry at this person for tearing up trees & beat him to death with a fish Paul Bunyan |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | FRANCO-AMERICAN HISTORY: After a large French army was wiped out by yellow fever on this island in 1802, Napoleon decided to sell Louisiana Hispaniola (or Haiti) |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 1945 Mr. & Mrs. Shoen founded it after no one locally would rent them a trailer for their move from L.A. to Portland U-Haul |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERARY SITES: In the 20th century it became a popular recreation site, with crowds of 25,000; its most famous visitor might disapprove Walden Pond |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | AWARD NAMESAKES: His "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" from 1744 was one of the 1st books published specifically for children John Newbery |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AMERICAN THINKERS: "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude", he wrote in a chapter on solitude in an 1854 work Henry David Thoreau |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: In 1954 he won a record 4 Oscars, including one for "Best Documentary Feature" for a film set in the American desert Walt Disney |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | PLAGUES & PESTILENCE: Having first escaped from a South American research lab in 1957, they became a threat to the U.S. in 1990 killer bees |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES: It "had been built... for pigs about to be butchered. Now it was going to serve as a home... for 100 American P.O.W.s" Slaughterhouse 5 |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | THE WORLD MAP: 1 of the 2 South American countries whose mainland you'll fly over when heading due south from Miami, Fla. Ecuador or Peru |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AMERICAN POETRY: Walt Whitman called this "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" grass |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | COMMUNICATION: A government website says it's "a complete, complex language... said to be the 4th most commonly used" in the U.S. American Sign Language |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | POETS: Fired from a job for laziness, he wrote, "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" Walt Whitman |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | CURRENT AMERICAN BUSINESS: This co.'s name is a variation on a word coined by Milton Sirotta & used in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination" Google, Inc. |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | COLONIAL AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: From the Latin for "fortified town", this term later referred to a person--the representative of a town or borough burgess |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include "A Tale", "The Inland Sea" & "The First War-Path" Leatherstocking Tales |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: This president said, "We remain accountable... for the reconstruction of Cuba as a free commonwealth" William McKinley |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Following "Gone with the Wind", it would be another 12 years before a color film won again: this foreign-set musical An American in Paris |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1839 Thomas Buchanan, cousin of a U.S. president, became the first governor of this future country Liberia |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | ORGANIZATIONS: The emblem seen here is now used in countries where this organization's original emblem was controversial the (International) Red Cross |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | AMERICAN PLAYS: This drama is set at a summer home in August 1912; Act 1 takes place at 8:30 A.M.; Act 4 is 15 1/2 hours later, at midnight A Long Day's Journey into Night (by Eugene O'Neill) |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | RECENT BOOKS: "American Vertigo" by philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy retraced a trip 175 years before by this man, his countryman Alexis de Tocqueville |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY: This 1943 musical is based on a 1931 play that featured Tex Ritter as a cowboy & Lee Strasberg as a peddler Oklahoma! |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | WRITERS: A memorial window near his grave at Winchester Cathedral was a gift from the fishermen of England & America Izaak Walton (author of The Compleat Angler) |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS: He announced to the American public, "The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed..." Harry Truman |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | LITERARY QUOTES: "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing" is a line from this 1952 work; like DiMaggio, it's an American classic The Old Man and the Sea (by Ernest Hemingway) |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | SCIENTISTS: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | AMERICAN POLITICIANS: In 2005 he took his first submarine dive since he left the Navy in 1953, on a new nuclear vessel that's named for him Jimmy Carter |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The grandson of a humorist, the son of a children's author, his first novel in 1974 was huge bestseller Peter Benchley |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1906 novel says, "Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no..." The Jungle |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN: She gave herself the third-person name "Phantom", the "no-person" she was from 19 months until she was almost 7 Helen Keller |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WORLD MONEY 2005: This U.S. sports figure (born 1940) became the only living person ever on a Scottish note besides the Queen & her mum Jack Nicklaus |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES: The only time 3 African-American women were nominated for Oscars for work in the same movie was for this film The Color Purple |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | AMERICAN DESIGN: A Phillips 66 in Cloquet, Minnesota is the only functioning gas station designed by this man Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | MILITARY TRADITIONS: At a military funeral, the American flag is folded this many times to resemble a Revolutionary War soldier's hat 13 |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN ART: Some versions of this painting based on a Bible verse show William Penn making a treaty with the Indians in the background Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | NEW LAWS: CEOs must personally certify their corporate books following a July 2002 law named for these 2 men Sen. Paul Sarbanes & Rep. Michael Oxley |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | HISTORIC BRITS: During the American Revolution, in his last moments he said, "It will be but a momentary pang" Major John André |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | THE U.S. CENSUS OF 1790: It was the only state in the 1790 census to claim a slave population of zero Massachusetts |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: On this date Philadelphia partied with fireworks & music from a Hessian band captured 6 months earlier July 4, 1777 |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | ISLANDS: Just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it became the first U.S. possession occupied by the Japanese Guam |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The image seen here is part of Faulkner's original text of this 1930 novel As I Lay Dying |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | HISTORIC AREAS: In 1893, as it was disappearing, F.J. Turner wrote a famous essay on "The Significance of" it "in American History" the Frontier |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | POETS: Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful" Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | '80s FILMS: The first film rated PG-13, its colorful title was used as the code name for a 2003 capture mission in Iraq Red Dawn |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS: "Evita"'s "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" was inspired by a 1969 concert of hers in London; she left the stage after 15 minutes Judy Garland |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | AMERICAN SLANG: This term for a small, out-of-the-way town is also the name of a long-gone Algonquian Indian tribe Podunk |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | AMERICAN WRITERS: In 1936 the San Francisco News sent this man to investigate living conditions among migrant workers John Steinbeck |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He called himself a "Cubano Sato", a phrase from the Cuban dialect meaning both "flirt" & "half-breed" Ernest Hemingway |
| #4401, aired 2003-10-27 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: The Boston Tea Party was planned at the house of Sarah Bradlee Fulton, a member of this splinter group Daughters of Liberty |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | POP MUSIC: Take 2 letters off a Beatles song title & you get this title of Paul McCartney's 2002 live CD of his American tour Back in the U.S. |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Sept. 8, 1565 the first Catholic parish in what is now the U.S. was founded at this settlement St. Augustine (in Florida) |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Of the Central American countries, it has the highest percentage of people of African descent Belize |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | AMERICAN NOVELS: Chapter III of this 1826 novel is prefaced by a quote from the poem "An Indian at the Burial-Place of His Fathers" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The narrator of this 1951 novel first appeared in the short stories "I'm Crazy" & "Slight Rebellion off Madison" "Catcher in the Rye" (the narrator being Holden Caulfield) |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY: 5 of the women condemned in Salem in 1692 were finally exonerated by a bill signed on this day in 2001 Halloween (October 31) |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | U.S. CITIES: Founded in 1758, it's named for a British prime minister who was a noted defender of the American Colonists Pittsburgh |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: 5 beekeepers near this Iowa city formed a honey co-op in 1921; they named it for the city, but later respelled it Sioux City |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The only 2 South American countries with both an Atlantic & a Pacific coast Chile & Colombia |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | CELEBRITIES: He describes himself as "Cablinasian", a hybrid of Caucasian, Black, American Indian & Asian Tiger Woods |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | POPULAR SONG: The lyrics to a song that went to No. 1 on the sales charts in Oct. 2001 were written by this 19th c. American Francis Scott Key |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: Rachmaninoff & Heifetz watched Paul Whiteman conduct the 1924 premiere of a milestone work by this composer Gershwin |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: "The Mute" was the working title of this 1940 novel by a female author The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers) |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This Ford with a name from Native American myth was the first model to be Motor Trend Car of the Year the Thunderbird |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: Around 1912, while recovering in a sanatorium, this former seaman decided to become a playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS: A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962 Alex Haley |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1939 this state finally finished paying off a $12.4-million debt to the state from which it had separated West Virginia (paid debt to Virginia) |
| #3742, aired 2000-12-05 | AMERICAN DRAMA: The entire action of this Eugene O'Neill play takes place in 1850 at a New England farmhouse flanked by massive trees Desire Under the Elms |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: The first African-American Best Actress nominee, her life was the subject of a 1999 HBO film Dorothy Dandridge |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | HISTORIC AMERICAN HOMES: In 1999 famous Shakespearean actors joined an effort to preserve this murderer's childhood home John Wilkes Booth (It's called Tudor Hall & it's near Baltimore) |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | 1999 BOOKS: This controversial biography of a famous American has a foreign nationality as its title "Dutch" (presidential biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris) |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | NAME'S THE SAME: Name shared by a British film company & an American who made millions in oil & pharmaceuticals Hammer (Hammer Films/Armand Hammer) |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | FAMOUS WOMEN: During WWI this American showed off her talents in a play called "The Western Girl" Annie Oakley |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | COMPOSERS: "Reaching for the Note" was the subtitle of a 1998 film about this American music legend who died in 1990 Leonard Bernstein |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | ORGANIZATIONS: In 1901 Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, D.C., Baltimore & Philadelphia made up this; Tampa Bay joined in 1998 the American League |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: A 1993 anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction is titled this character "is Dead" Charlie Chan |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | AMERICAN BUILDINGS: Once an art gallery, since 1961 it's been a shrine to the musical style said to have originated nearby Preservation Hall (in New Orleans) |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | ISLANDS: A species of mammal is named for this appropriate site of Russia's first American settlement Kodiak Island |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | 20th CENTURY POLITICIANS: Last name shared by 2 third party U.S. presidential candidates who ran 20 yrs. apart & each got over a million votes Wallace (Henry & George) |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: This author born in 1904 grew up near Mulberry Street in Springfield, Massachusetts Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | TELEVISION BIOGRAPHIES: The biography of this man on PBS' "American Masters" was subtitled "Submitted for Your Approval" Rod Serling |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He launched his lecturing career in 1866 with a talk later titled "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands" Mark Twain |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: One of the USA's greatest novelists, he lived most of his life, from 1876 to 1916, in England Henry James |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Some attribute these 1692 proceedings to the psychotic effects of ergot poisoning The Salem Witch Trials |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | THE MIDWEST: Of the 4 states that border Lake Michigan, the one whose name is not derived from a Native American word Indiana |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: French Catholic missionaries led by Father Edward F. Sorin founded this university in 1842 Notre Dame |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | PHOTOGRAPHERS: In 1851 this American won a medal for daguerreotypes at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London Mathew Brady |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | ARTISTS: His "Young Corn" painting is featured on a 1996 stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Iowa's statehood Grant Wood |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS: Capital nearest which you'd find a monument called Mitad del Mundo, or "middle of the world" Quito |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This first American writer to earn $1 million received only $2,000 for a 1903 novel set in the Klondike Jack London |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | INVENTORS: In 1911 Willis H. Carrier presented a paper on this subject to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers air conditioning |
| #2578, aired 1995-11-15 | SCULPTORS: This American remarked, "Disparity in form, color, size, weight, motion is what makes a composition" Alexander Calder |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | AMERICAN POETRY: In a famous poem, she's "the Arrow-maker's daughter...Handsomest of all the women" Minnehaha |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | ORGANIZATIONS: This organization was started in 1935 by William Griffith Wilson & Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Chapter XI of this 1826 novel is prefaced by a Shakespearean quote: "Cursed be my tribe, if I forgive him" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE: This Robert E. Sherwood play about a president won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: His "Triple Self-Portrait" was put on a 29¢ stamp in 1994 Norman Rockwell |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Appointed minister to Mexico in 1853, he was recalled in 1856 James Gadsden |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Famous story that contains the line "I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" The Man Without a Country |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | NOVELISTS: In 1918 he proudly wrote to his family "I'm the first American wounded in Italy" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | WOMEN ARTISTS: "Diego and I" by this artist was the 1st painting by a Latin American to sell for more than $1 million Frida Kahlo |
| #2048, aired 1993-06-30 | AMERICAN MUSICALS: A 1920s French production of this musical about 19th c. entertainers was titled "Mississippi" Show Boat |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1949 she founded Welcome House, a foster home for Asian-American children Pearl Buck |
| #1968, aired 1993-03-10 | ISLANDS: These islands about 400 miles from Cape Horn were named for a British treasurer of the Navy the Falklands |
| #1912, aired 1992-12-22 | THE OLYMPICS: In 1988 she became the first Black American to win a Winter Olympic medal Debi Thomas |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | AMERICAN STORIES: Story that begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains" "Rip Van Winkle" |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | THE 1970s: These documents revealed the Truman admin. gave military aid to France in its war against the Viet Minh Pentagon Papers |
| #1772, aired 1992-04-21 | AMERICAN ART: This painting commemorating the 100th anniv. of the American Revolution was inspired by a July 4th parade The Spirit of '76 |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The narrative in this 1851 novel contains a dissertation on cetology Moby-Dick |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES: This American actress won a 1960 Tony & a 1962 Oscar for playing the same teacher Anne Bancroft |
| #1598, aired 1991-07-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: A 40-year old widower, he was engaged to remarry when he died mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849 Edgar Allan Poe |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Named for a U.S. president, this author wrote a 5-volume biography of that president in the 1850s Washington Irving |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: 2 characters in this American classic were named for a king of Israel & the oldest son of Abraham Moby-Dick |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | ACTRESSES: In NYC in 1955 she said, "An actress's life is so transitory--suddenly you're a building" Helen Hayes |
| #1552, aired 1991-05-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The only 1 to sign the Declaration of Independence, 1778 alliance w/France, peace treaty w/G.B. & Constitution Benjamin Franklin |
| #1534, aired 1991-04-11 | AMERICAN DRAMA: 1 of the last 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays with a woman's name in the title; they won in 1988 & 1989 The Heidi Chronicles or Driving Miss Daisy |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | AMERICAN REVOLUTION: The bloodiest engagement of the war, it was fought a year before we declared independence the Battle of Bunker Hill (also the Battle of Breed's Hill) |
| #1491, aired 1991-02-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Edward Everett gave the principal speech here November 19, 1863 Gettysburg |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | THE AMERICAN FLAG: Total number of horizontal rows of stars on the U.S. flag 9 |
| #1468, aired 1991-01-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Name of the 1883 autobiographical work whose 6th chapter is titled "A Cub-Pilot's Experience" Life on the Mississippi |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | MUSICAL THEATER: This lyricist was the grandson of a German-American opera impresario whose name he shared Oscar Hammerstein |
| #1356, aired 1990-06-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote: "They spell it Vinci & pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce" Mark Twain |
| #1336, aired 1990-05-28 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: London's College of Heralds granted this American college a coat of arms in 1694 William & Mary |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years A Connecticut Yankee (In King Arthur's Court) |
| #1283, aired 1990-03-14 | AMERICAN POETRY: The poem that includes the line: "Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!" "The Raven" (by Edgar Allan Poe) |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | AMERICAN POETS: He wrote a biography that won Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940 & won for his poetry in 1951 Carl Sandburg |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: M. Stapleton,
Eli Wallach,
Jessica Tandy &
M. Leighton all won Tonys for performances in his plays Tennessee Williams |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: 1 of 2 current U.S. possessions acquired as a result of the Spanish-American War Puerto Rico or Guam |
| #1067, aired 1989-04-04 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Great American Smokeout, urging smokers to quit the habit, is held each year a week before this holiday Thanksgiving |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE OSCARS: This 1951 musical is the only movie with a world capital in the title to win "Best Picture" An American in Paris |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: This California teenager was the 1st American to win a regular gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics Janet Evans |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN: On Aug. 25, 1835, at age 22, she died in a farmhouse outside New Salem, Illinois Ann Rutledge |
| #800, aired 1988-02-12 | AMERICAN POETRY: This verb is the last word in Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" sleep |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Antilles are a group of islands that arc between Florida & this South American country Venezuela |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS: This famed Sauk Indian had both a war and a pro sports team named for him Black Hawk |
| #667, aired 1987-06-30 | ORGANIZATIONS: While Easter Seals is a group in itself, this group sponsors Christmas Seals the American Lung Association |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | N. AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: Only state east of the Mississippi that borders Canada but not the Atlantic or a Great Lake Vermont |
| #540, aired 1987-01-02 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Inspirational 19th century song from which John Steinbeck got the title "The Grapes of Wrath" "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #506, aired 1986-11-17 | AMERICAN MOUNTAINS: Of the more than 80 U.S. peaks over 14,000' that have names, most are in this state Colorado |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | AMERICAN STATISTICS: Highest birth rate in the U.S. is in this state, where almost 70% of the population has same religion Utah |
| #332, aired 1985-12-17 | THE 50 STATES: Besides X, Y, & Z, 3 other letters that do not begin the name of an American state (3 of) B, E, J & Q |
| #270, aired 1985-09-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Our 8th president, he was 1st to be born an American citizen & not a British subject Martin Van Buren |
| #106, aired 1985-02-04 | WORLD CAPITALS: A major foreign tourist center with many American-owned hotels & businesses, but only til '59 Havana |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | SPORTS: Only 2 cities with both a National & American League baseball team New York & Chicago |
| #44, aired 1984-11-08 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Along with president, these 2 must sign a bill for it to become law the speaker of the House & the vice president |
| #17, aired 1984-10-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: This country draws the most American tourists each year Canada |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Since 1970, the only cabinet department not headed by a secretary the Attorney General's Department |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | LITERATURE: Classic American novel which begins "Call me Ishmael" Moby-Dick |
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
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"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections
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"His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey
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"She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
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Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
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"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
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Nancy Grace, a TV legal expert from Headline News/Court TV
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"She hosts her own legal analysis program on Headline News and...
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Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars
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"He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
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Sunny Hostin, a senior legal correspondent and analyst from ABC News
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"She recently joined ABC News as their senior legal correspondent and...
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Jayce Newton, a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Jayce was 22 at the...
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Joel Kim Booster, a comedian from Chicago, Illinois
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"A comedian from Chicago, his movie Fire Island, which he wrote,...
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Michael Rankins, a customer service represenative from Rohnert Park, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,601. Lost to...
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,601. Lost to...
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Michael Rankins, a minister and sales representative from Rohnert Park, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,601. Lost to...
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Tim Russert, a journalist from Meet the Press
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"The host of the longest-running show in the history of television,...
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Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
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Timothy Shuker-Haines, a high school history teacher from Williamstown, Massachusetts
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"He teaches at a small school where the students chop the...
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Michael Rankins, a minister from Rohnert Park, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,601. Lost to...
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Chelan Allen, a home and family manager from Portland, Oregon
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Season 33 player (2017-04-26). First name pronounced like \"chuh-LANN\". Chelan said...
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Robert Guillaume, a winner of two Emmys from Benson
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"A Tony nominee and winner of 2 Emmys as Benson..." 1992...
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Francis Musella, a twelve-year-old from Boynton Beach, Florida
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"This member of the American Numismatic Association wants to be a...
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Al Michaels, a sportscaster from ABC's Monday Night Football
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"Named Sportscaster of the Year in 1996 by the American Sportscasters...
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Eytan Mirsky, an assistant film editor from Flushing, New York
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Season 4 player (1988-01-14). Eytan is now a New York-based power...
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