#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 |
#8225, aired 2020-05-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This education reformer took John Quincy Adams' seat in the House of Representatives, where he vigorously opposed slavery Horace Mann |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the case Brown v. the Board of Education of this city in Kansas Topeka |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THE AGE OF MANN $2000: A giant in the field of American public education, he took the congressional seat of John Quincy Adams in 1848 Horace Mann |
#7086, aired 2015-06-08 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $2000: John Adams wrote this "makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute" education |
#6718, aired 2013-11-27 | EDUCATION $200 (Daily Double): This New Jersey-based organization says it's the world's largest provider of scholarships to young women the Miss America Organization (the Miss American Pageant accepted) |
#6370, aired 2012-05-04 | MICHELLE OBAMA'S AMERICAN GROWN $600: (Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) Community gardens like those at the White House allow children to plant & harvest fresh fruits & veggies. In 2009 a formal farm to school initiative was established by this Cabinet department the Department of Agriculture |
#6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $200: Randi Weingarten, now president of this union, also serves on the executive council of the AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers (AFT) |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $200: From 1869 to 1939 education was administered by this cabinet department that manages national parks Interior |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $400: It can be a school of higher education for girls, or a school for training priests, ministers or rabbis a seminary |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $600: The NMSA is the "National" this type of "Association" for young adolescents middle schools |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $800: In August 1995 Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at this South Carolina military college The Citadel |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $1000: In 1838 this Massachusetts educator founded the biweekly Common School Journal for teachers Horace Mann |
#5211, aired 2007-04-16 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $200: Kansas' 10-member Board of this has made news for its doubts about Darwin Education |
#5176, aired 2007-02-26 | EDUCATION $1600: This union founded in 1916 also includes school custodians as well as the people in its name American Federation of Teachers (AFT) |
#5107, aired 2006-11-21 | GET AN EDUCATION! $400: In geography, you should know that this South American river has the world's largest drainage system the Amazon |
#4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EDUCATION $400: His famed "Blue-backed Speller" of 1783 helped standardize American spelling & pronunciation Noah Webster |
#4740, aired 2005-03-25 | A MANN CALLED HORACE $200: Horace Mann began his career as "The Father of American Public Education" in the 1830s in this "Bay State" Massachusetts |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: Plessy vs. Ferguson, which upheld segregation, was overturned by this 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education |
#3876, aired 2001-06-11 | MEDICAL EDUCATION $800: A 1983 invasion protected American med students on this Caribbean island Grenada |
#3281, aired 1998-12-07 | EDUCATION $800: On July 5, 1998 this largest teachers union rejected a merger with the American Federation of Teachers the NEA (National Education Association) |
#3044, aired 1997-11-20 | LOBBYISTS $400: Bob Chase, the president of this teachers' union, has a regular column in the Washington Post NEA (National Education Association) |
#2977, aired 1997-07-08 | COURT CASES $600: Founded in 1920, this organization has been involved with the Scopes trial & Brown v. Board of Education the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) |
#2965, aired 1997-06-20 | EDUCATION $400: "Lessons for Life" is a current campaign of this teachers' union, the A.F.T. the American Federation of Teachers |
#2750, aired 1996-07-12 | LABOR $400: In 1978 this education union, the AFT, established a division for health care professionals the American Federation of Teachers |
#2682, aired 1996-04-09 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS $400: The Enid A. Haupt garden sits atop this institution's underground museum, education, & research complex Smithsonian Institution |
#2675, aired 1996-03-29 | EDUCATORS $400: This Mass. educator & legislator was known as the "Father of American Public Education" (Horace) Mann |
#2258, aired 1994-06-01 | EDUCATION $800: This teachers' union affiliated with the AFL-CIO was founded in 1916 the American Federation of Teachers |
#2205, aired 1994-03-18 | EDUCATION $1000: This teachers' union affiliated with the AFL-CIO has more than 2,000 locals the American Federation of Teachers |
#2108, aired 1993-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This American novelist received her early education in Shanghai & later taught in Nanking Pearl Buck |
#1989, aired 1993-04-08 | EDUCATION $600: "Democracy in education, education for Democracy" is the motto of this teachers' union American Federation of Teachers |
#1724, aired 1992-02-13 | EDUCATION $1000: This American-born saint has been called the "mother of the parochial school system in the U.S." Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton |
#1670, aired 1991-11-29 | EDUCATION $600: His "American Spelling Book", published in 1783, standardized American spelling Webster |
#1605, aired 1991-07-19 | EDUCATION $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1783, while teaching in Goshen, N.Y., this educator first published his "American Spelling Book" (Noah) Webster |
#1400, aired 1990-10-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby became the 1st person to head this new Cabinet dept. in 1953 Health, Education & Welfare |
#1309, aired 1990-04-19 | EDUCATION $200: Type of American school that's equivalent to a European gymnasium high school |
#1270, aired 1990-02-23 | EDUCATION $400: This former grade school math instructor has been pres. of the American Federation of Teachers since '74 (Albert) Shanker |
#1241, aired 1990-01-15 | EDUCATION $1000: 19th century Massachusetts educator who's known as the "Father of American Public Education" Horace Mann |
#1134, aired 1989-07-06 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: "The education of" this man is an autobiography of a grandson & greatgrandson of presidents Henry Adams |
#991, aired 1988-12-19 | THE ADAMS FAMILY $1000: "The Education of" this "Adams" is considered a classic in American literature Henry Adams |
#730, aired 1987-11-06 | HIGHER EDUCATION $800: This school, Richard Nixon's alma mater, is named for a famous American Quaker poet Whittier College |
#598, aired 1987-03-25 | EDUCATION $800: Founded in 1826, American Lyceum was among 1st programs for the "continuing education" of these adults |
#124, aired 1985-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: Nickname shared by Auburn, Clemson, Memphis State, Missouri & Princeton the Tigers |
#15, aired 1984-09-28 | EDUCATION $200: First American home of higher education, it educated JFK Harvard |
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