| #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 |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | FARMING HISTORY $400: Grown together, "The 3 Sisters" of pre-Columbian Native American farming were beans, squash & this corn |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This man whose name went on 2 continents explored the coast of Suriname in 1499 (Amerigo) Vespucci |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Cemented in Argentine history is this man, whose 1986 World Cup goal was aided by the "Hand of God" Maradona |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Huascar co-ruled the Inca from Cuzco; his brother Atahualpa ruled from this city that also ends in "O" Quito |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Simon Iturri Patiño was once Bolivia's rey del estaño, king of this metal in which the land is rich tin |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This Venezuelan president said in 2019 that protesters would not go unpunished & accused the U.S. of plotting against him Nicolás Maduro |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $800: The newest wing of NYC's American Museum of Natural History includes the Davis family vivarium of these; some may land on you butterflies |
| #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 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $1000: The First Ladies' Hall was one of its original galleries when it opened to the public on January 23, 1964 the Museum of American History |
| #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 |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: First elected to the House of Representatives in 1987, she became its first female speaker in 2007 Nancy Pelosi |
| #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 | 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 |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton |
| #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 |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1200: August 30, 1967: this civil rights lawyer is confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This largest Caribbean island's struggle for independence led to the Spanish-American War Cuba |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | FAMOUS OBJECTS $1200: The National Museum of American History has this great swing bandleader's clarinet, though probably not his corset & pen (Benny) Goodman |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS $800: Not much is named for Eliot Spitzer, but the Hall of Human Origins in this Central Park West museum is named for his parents the Museum of Natural History |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NAME THAT REBELLION $2000: Virginia, 1831:
Led by this man, it was the bloodiest in the history of American slavery Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: After fleeing Philly in 1776, Congress entrusted newspaper publisher Mary Katharine Goddard with printing this document the Declaration of Independence |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Many scientists came from the Nazi rocket program to get NASA off the ground, like Kurt Debus, the first director of this space center from 1962 to 1974 the Kennedy Space Center |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In this presidential election year, U.S. women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment 1920 |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded what's now this Florida city St. Augustine |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Native American leaders at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn included Sitting Bull & this Oglala chief, killed the following year Crazy Horse |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Founded in 1908, this agency battled less glamorous issues like copyright violations until the gangsters came along the FBI |
| #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 |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Chinese-American female architect who brought Tony-winning hip-hop history to Broadway Maya Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: He made history in November 2008 when, as the New York Times reported, he swept away "the last racial barrier in American politics" Barack Obama |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. flag was flown at this location for the first time on July 20, 1969 & the original flag is still there the Moon |
| #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 $600: The only signer of both the Declaration & Constitution to sit on this body, James Wilson, took his oaths on October 5, 1789 the Supreme Court |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The demand for decorations on women's hats led Theodore Roosevelt to set up the USA's first 50 reserves for these birds |
| #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 |
| #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) |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Seen here are these heroic aviators, the first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $200: This 19th century American's demand for "unconditional surrender" matched his first 2 initials Grant |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $200: At Caracas in 1811 he said, "Let us lay the cornerstone of South American freedom without fear" Simón Bolívar |
| #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 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On January 1, 1892 the first of millions of immigrants was processed here Ellis Island |
| #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 $1200: Thousands of this people also called the Keetoowah died during their forced 1830s relocation to Oklahoma via the "Trail of Tears" the Cherokee |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | VIRGINNY & GEORGIA $500: You can experience early American history up close at the Virginia sites called "Historic Jamestowne" & "Colonial" this burg Williamsburg |
| #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 $800: These residential "schools" like the Carlisle Indian School founded in 1879 suppressed the language & culture of Native kids the Indian boarding schools |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Shawnee leader Tecumseh sided with the British during this conflict, helping in the capture of Detroit the War of 1812 |
| #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 |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $200: Arthur Miller & Pete Seeger were among those investigated for being this, the "U" in HUAC Un-American |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This fort, built to protect Charleston, South Carolina, saw the first fatality of the Civil War Fort Sumter |
| #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 |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The work of this New Deal program, CCC for short, included planting trees--more than 3 billion in all Civilian Conservation Corps |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): At this New York battle in the fall of 1777, nearly 6,000 British troops surrendered to Colonial forces Saratoga |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Peregrine White was born on this ship, anchored in Provincetown Harbor in November 1620 the Mayflower |
| #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 $600: Naturally, IBM helped create the technology of this type of missile, one letter longer, first deployed by the U.S. in 1959 an ICBM |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Shantytowns that sprang up during the Great Depression were given this presidential nickname Hoovervilles |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 $800: Pineapples & bananas are now tops in Costa Rican exports, but historically this crop was their number one pick-me-up coffee |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: José Napoleón Duarte tried to end civil war in this country in the 1980s but pressure from rebels thwarted him El Salvador |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1979 this group overthrew Nicaragua's president, ending almost 50 years of dictatorship by the Somoza family the Sandinistas |
| #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 |
| #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 $800: People who entered the Oklahoma District before the designated time were first called this about 6 months after the Land Run of 1889 Sooners |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This 1797 "Affair" in which 3 French diplomats demanded bribes led to the cry "millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" the XYZ Affair |
| #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 |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: An early champion of free speech & religious liberty, Anne Hutchinson was put on trial in 1637 & banished from this colony the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $400: FDR reports "The attack yesterday... caused severe damage to American naval & military forces" December |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Here's the path on which this duo led their expedition between 1804 & 1806, covering around 8,000 miles Lewis & Clark |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Mexican army's win in the spring of 1862 over Napoleon III's forces is still honored today with this annual celebration Cinco de Mayo |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In early 2022, things got eventful in this Canadian city with traffic-paralyzing protests Ottawa |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 2003 this Canadian territory dropped "Territory" to go by a single name Yukon |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Elected president of Mexico in 1833, this Alamo general would serve in the post 11 times over the next 22 years (Antonio López de) Santa Anna |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $200: In 1989 he became the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The 1783 Treaty of Paris set the western boundary of the new United States in the middle of this river the Mississippi |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1846, Elias Howe patented one of these; his model is seen here a sewing machine |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans participated in this event for jobs & freedom the March on Washington |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): These 4 words of advice from newspaper editor Horace Greeley were followed by "and grow up with the country" Go West, young man |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Before becoming Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier governed this prospective state that existed for all of 4 years Franklin |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1822 Brazil declared independence from this country, which recognized that action 3 years later Portugal |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1919 South America got its first commercial airline: Avianca, now headquartered in this capital of Colombia Bogotá |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead Paraguay |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba "Che" Guevara |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In the early 2000s this ex-president of Chile lost his immunity from prosecution & was charged with human rights abuses Pinochet |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: During this period that began in 1920, keg parties weren't for drinking but for the dumping of liquor Prohibition |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The tracks of the Central Pacific & this railroad met in Utah in 1869 the Union Pacific |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The "separate but equal" doctrine in the case of Plessy v. this judge upheld racial segregation for almost 60 years Ferguson |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS $800: "The Living" this document is part of "Magruder's American Government", written for decades after Magruder by William McClenaghan Constitution |
| #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 | 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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year (Gordon) Moore |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $1000: As many as 30,000 of these German mercenaries fought during the American Revolution & some were with Cornwallis when he surrendered Hessians |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Nichelle Nichols, who shared one of TV's first interracial kisses with William Shatner, & who would later help NASA recruit more women & minorities for the space program, wore this uniform as Lieutenant Uhura on this series Star Trek |
| #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 |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) This costume was worn by Diana Ross in her Oscar-nominated role as jazz great Billie Holiday in this film based on Holiday's autobiography of the same name Lady Sings the Blues |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The 1943 film, "Stormy Weather", featured some of the greatest Black entertainers of the day, including Bill Robinson, Dooley Wilson, & of course, this beloved actress & singer, then in her 20s, who wore this green velvet dress & sang the title song (Lena) Horne |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This historic American document was addressed to King George III of Great Britain the Declaration of Independence |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Dits & dahs were the keys to this system devised in the 1830s that revolutionized communication Morse Code |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: FDR's first inaugural address introduced this policy of treating Latin American nations with respect the Good Neighbor Policy |
| #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 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Established to help 4 million African Americans transition out of slavery, this bureau lasted from 1865 to 1872 the Freedmen's Bureau |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | THIS & THAT $800: The 1893 John Philip Sousa march heard here bears the name of this noisemaker of American history the Liberty Bell |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: "Our American Cousin" infamously plays at Ford's Theatre the 1860s |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The telephone is invented by Bell the 1870s |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic the 1920s |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The Civilian Conservation Corps gets started the 1930s |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: The Battle of Santiago goes all the way up San Juan Hill the 1890s |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Rope maker Samuel Gray & sailor James Caldwell were among the victims of this 1770 event the Boston Massacre |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: His assassin was an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz, who said, "I am not sorry for my crime" McKinley |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: It was the first Confederate state to secede from the Union South Carolina |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: The Great Sioux War of 1876 is also called this war, after the sacred region the Sioux were fighting for Black Hills War |
| #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 | 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 | 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 |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Before she made history in Congress, Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to this state's Senate Texas |
| #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 $1200: Although his Supreme Court case changed the way police talked to suspects, this Arizona man was retried & sent to prison in 1967 (Ernesto) Miranda |
| #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 |
| #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 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1585 John White drew the Algonquian village of Secotan with indications of "newly sprung", "green" & "ripe" this crop corn |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1750 what's now this state had 300,000 Native Americans speaking 80 languages, with the Chumash the largest tribe California |
| #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 |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Due to concerns with how this tally for 1920 was run, Congress was not reapportioned for the decade the census |
| #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 |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Seen here, the Lucas Gusher in Beaumont started gushing in 1901 & forever changed the economy of this state Texas |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1800 she became the first first lady to live in the White House Abigail Adams |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Here are John Young & Robert Crippen, the crew of the first of these missions in 1981 Space Shuttle |
| #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 |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): From 1953 to 1961 Allen Dulles was the director of this U.S. government agency CIA |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: One of the proposed names for what became this state capital was Missouriopolis Jefferson City |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1776 this school gave George Washington an honorary degree as thanks for pushing the British out of Boston Harvard |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1839 Samuel Morse met with this French innovator & set up his own photographic studio in America Daguerre |
| #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 |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $5,400 (Daily Double): Fighting the Bolsheviks, the American North Russian Expeditionary Force was better known by this ursine name the Polar Bears |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | POSSESSIVE HISTORY $1200: What's called this monument stands on Breed's Hill, the actual site of the first major battle of the American Revolution the Bunker Hill Monument |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: After the Revolution, this American naval hero became an admiral in the Russian navy John Paul Jones |
| #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 | 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1878, she got an equal rights amendment introduced, and appeared before senators who chatted & smoked as she spoke (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $6,400 (Daily Double): In 1871 this inventor began teaching instructors of the deaf in the Boston area Alexander Graham Bell |
| #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 $1200: The first state to ratify the 18th Amendment, Mississippi didn't repeal this statewide until 1966 Prohibition |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: With diplomas signed by President Grant, this school for the deaf & hard-of-hearing graduated its first 3 students in 1869 Gallaudet |
| #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 |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | AMERICAN ACCESSIONS $400: The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it "the greatest land bargain in U.S. history" the Louisiana Purchase |
| #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 | 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 |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $600: 2 English astronomers completed this line in 1767 the Mason-Dixon Line |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Leonard Calvert & friends landed in what's now this state in 1634 & held the first mass in the colonies Maryland |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Congress adopted these November 15, 1777, though they weren't ratified for another 4 years the Articles of Confederation |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $400: U.S. schoolkids began reciting this as part of Columbus Day observances in 1892 The Pledge of Allegiance |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $800: Term for the limited allocation of goods on the WWII home front; for gasoline & coffee, it began in fall 1942 rationing |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $1200: In the 1859 "Pig War", the U.S. & this country nearly came to blows over ownership of the San Juan Islands Great Britain |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $1600: In 1892 John Muir co-founded this organization dedicated to protecting the great outdoors the Sierra Club |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $2000: Known as the "Pathfinder", this soldier-explorer mapped most of the Oregon Trail in the 1840s with Kit Carson John C. Frémont |
| #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 | 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 |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 2005 80% of New Orleans was flooded by this cataclysm Hurricane Katrina |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: First lady Helen Taft arranged the planting of hundreds of these trees along the Potomac River in Washington (Japanese) cherry trees |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In the 1930s the AFL expelled members of this group from its ranks; in 1955 the 2 organizations reunited the CIO |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1951 Matthew Ridgway replaced this general as Allied Commander in the Far East MacArthur |
| #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 |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $400: (Michelle Marsh presents from outside the National Museum of African American History & Culture.) Hi, I'm Michelle Marsh from ABC7: this Georgia congressman and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement began pushing for an African-American History Museum in the 1980s, and at the 2016 dedication said he felt like singing Mahalia Jackson's "How We Got Over" John Lewis |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: At the First Continental Congress, all the original colonies were represented except for this southernmost one Georgia |
| #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 |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): The oldest continuously settled city in America, it was named for the Bishop of Hippo St. Augustine |
| #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 $1200: Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for pres. in 1872, but couldn't have taken office because she wasn't yet this age 35 |
| #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 |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | ALTRUISTIC ATHLETES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture.) The Game Changers Hall bears the name of this Chicago legend who donated $5 million to the museum; as of 2017, he was still ranked by "Forbes" as the highest-earning athlete of all time (Michael) Jordan |
| #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 $800: New York statesman DeWitt Clinton promoted the idea of this waterway & was the commissioner who oversaw its construction the Erie Canal |
| #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 |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This 2-word concept was used to justify the acquisitions of Oregon territory, California & Mexican land in the southwest Manifest Destiny |
| #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 |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The National Museum of African American History & Culture opened in 2016 as part of this museum complex the Smithsonian |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: These 2 Atlanta colleges were both founded soon after the Civil War & "Spelhouse" marriages between alums are not rare Morehouse & Spelman |
| #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 $400: The 2012 film "Red Tails" tells the story of the WWII African-American flyers known as these airmen the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #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 |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The public was intrigued when this man's November 1963 8mm film footage was shown on TV in 1975 Zapruder |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Message from Mrs. Madison. She sends her love to Mrs. Wethered" was Dolley's follow-up to this inventor's 1844 message Morse |
| #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 |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution set up this body to choose the president & vice president the Electoral College |
| #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 $600: In 1832 S.C. passed "an ordinance to" do this, void certain federal laws; Pres. Jackson said it's your ordinance that's void! nullify or nullification |
| #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 |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Thomas Jackson earned the nickname "Stonewall" at First Bull Run, called this by the Rebs Manassas |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | NON-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1953 Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay were on top of the world after reaching the summit of this mountain Mount Everest |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | NON-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Well, that takes the cake! In 1793 this queen was put in solitary confinement at the Conciergerie Marie Antoinette |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | NON-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1644 the Manchus ended this dynasty known for vases Ming |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | NON-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The 1970s Pres. of Equatorial this, Macías Nguema forced priests to recite, "There is no God other than Macías" Guinea |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | NON-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Joseph Stalin was an editor of this Bolshevik newspaper whose Russian name means "truth" Pravda |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | BRUSHING UP ON YOUR SPANISH HISTORY $1600: After taking the loss in the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded this easternmost island in the Greater Antilles Puerto Rico |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) In the 1960s, the rocket-powered North American X-15 went higher and faster than any other aircraft in history with eight pilots who flew it to the fringes of space earning designation as these astronauts |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In the Depression flour companies sold their product in bright print sacks as so many women were reduced to using them as these dresses |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: SCOTUS upheld the independence of corporations, ruling in 1819 that N.H. had wrongly replaced the trustees of this school Dartmouth |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: To help them fight Hitler, in 1940 the U.S. traded the British 50 of this type of warship for leases on British bases destroyers |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: About 380,000 Civil War soldiers, or 10% of those who served, ended up as these, choosing to fight another day (or never) deserters |
| #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 |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FEBRUARY $400: According to annual presidential proclamations, February is this month--not "Black" anymore African-American History Month |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: Edward Norton tries to convince his brother Edward Furlong not to hate or join up with mutants like Wolverine American History X Men |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track & field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority Jesse Owens |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier & became the first African-American to win the French & U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 & 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event Wimbledon |
| #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 $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Argubably "The Greatest" inside the ring & out, Muhammed Ali first won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston in 1964; in the next few days, publicly adopting Islam, he changed from this & became an example of Black pride & defiance of the establishment Cassius Clay |
| #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 |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: He was recovering from typhoid fever when he was inaugurated Vice President on March 4, 1865 Johnson |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This 3-named leader of the Free Silver Movement served as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson William Jennings Bryan |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This Great Compromiser introduced the Compromise Tariff of 1833 (Henry) Clay |
| #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 | 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 |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1940, for her role in this film, Hattie McDaniel became the first black performer to win an Oscar Gone with the Wind |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The 1st African-American woman to win Olympic gold, Alice Coachman cleared 5'6 1/8" in this track & field event in 1948 the high jump |
| #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 $2000: This 1960s alliterative slogan has roots in an 1858 speech that mentioned "rich color" & "full broad features" "Black is beautiful" |
| #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 |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This Virginia Native American died in 1618, but wars that bore his name were fought on & off between 1622 & 1646 Powhatan |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FBI HEADQUARTERS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) This phone and wiretapping device help set off one of the most notorious episodes in American history in the early morning hours of June 17, 1972 when five burglars were arrested in this Washington, D.C. hotel and office complex the Watergate |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | NEW MILLENNIUM TV $200: In 2018, for voting purposes, it became the first reality-competition series in TV history to air shows live, coast-to-coast American Idol |
| #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 $200: The 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act made residents of this Caribbean island American citizens Puerto Rico |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: More Frenchmen than Americans participated in the 1781 siege of this town, the last major battle of the American Revolution Yorktown |
| #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 |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Saying "I will make them twins", in 1889 President Harrison blindly signed these 2 states into the Union so no one knows which was first North & South Dakota |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Real name Mary, this "maternal" organizer of mine workers in the early 20th century was called the "Most Dangerous Woman in America" Mother Jones |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HISTORY ON FILM $800: In "American Made" it's the 1980s & Tom Cruise is flying guns to these Nicaraguans battling the Sandinistas the Contras |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: "Insure domestic tranquility" & "secure the blessings of liberty" are lines from this historic document the Constitution |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In the 1760s these 2 surveyors marked the boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania Mason and Dixon |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1868 the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach this man (Andrew) Johnson |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1863, George McClellan's military career was over, but this General George was on hand to defeat Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg Meade |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Woeful economic conditions helped reduce immigration from 4.2 million the decade before to less than 700,000 in this decade the 1930s |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Before the Naval Academy opened in this city in 1845, midshipmen were trained at sea Annapolis |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Most of the battle on June 17, 1775 took place on Breed's Hill, but it's this hill that gets the press Bunker Hill |
| #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 |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1947 Congress passed this act named for 2 politicians that banned using union dues in national election campaigns Taft-Hartley |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Suffering from tuberculosis, William Rufus DeVane King died in April 1853 before ever performing his duties in this post vice president |
| #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 |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $0: Types of it you could find in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773 included Souchong & Bohea tea |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1908 he rolled out the first car affordable for most Americans, the Model T (Henry) Ford |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This future presidential assassin made his acting debut in an 1855 Baltimore staging of "Richard III" John Wilkes Booth |
| #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 |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): After his first wife Miriam died in 1832, this religious leader wed as many as 56 more times Brigham Young |
| #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 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Around 1849 stagecoach mail delivery began on this trail between Missouri & New Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: 1996's Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was part of the reform of this social program welfare |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Accused Salem witch Giles Corey was executed with big stones in the method that's called this in "The Crucible" pressing |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): Ratified in 1913, the 17th amendment gave the selection of these to voters U.S. senators |
| #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 |
| #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 $600: This project to develop an atomic bomb got started in 1940 with $6,000 for research the Manhattan Project |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In addition to the cotton gin, he developed the idea of mass production of interchangeable parts Eli Whitney |
| #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 |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In July 1812 U.S. general William Hull launched an invasion of this country & was ignominiously repulsed Canada |
| #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 |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: On June 1, 1660 Mary Dyer, one of this religious sect's "Boston martyrs", was hanged on Boston Common the Quakers |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: It's believed that Scandinavians built the first log cabins in America on the Delaware River at Nya Sverige, or New this country Sweden |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Proof the U.S. had secretly bombed Cambodia was in these "Papers" that were first leaked on June 13, 1971 the Pentagon Papers |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1976, more than 175 years after his death, this man was promoted by Congress to general of the armies of the United States George Washington |
| #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 |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $14,600 (Daily Double): In 1904 Oklahoma City policeman Joe Burnett killed Ed O'Kelley, who had killed Robert Ford, who had killed this outlaw Jesse James |
| #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 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Mariana, the first name Charles I picked for this colony, was nixed as Juan de Mariana was an anti-royalist writer Maryland |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: JFK declined to change the name, chosen by his predecessor, of this retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains Camp David |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Alexander Hamilton Jr. got justice for his dad when Eliza Jumel hired him to handle her divorce from this man Aaron Burr |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This Michigan businessman once fired all his accounting staff, leaving others to figure income by weighing invoices (Henry) Ford |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: From 1821 until 1848 this country controlled what is today California Mexico |
| #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 $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1925 John T. Scopes was put on trial, convicted & fined for teaching evolution in this Southern state Tennessee |
| #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 |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1933 this new head of the Department of Labor became the first female cabinet member Frances Perkins |
| #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 |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: Containing concessions by the king, this 13th c. document is one of the foundations of English & American law the Magna Carta |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | CONTRA $1200: These in American history include Whiskey & Shays' a rebellion |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Heman Sweatt integrated the University of Texas Law after the Supreme Court ruled the Negro Law School was separate but not this equal |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Ron Brown in 1989 for the Democrats & Michael Steele in 2009 for the G.O.P. were the first black holders of this post chairman of the party |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1968 at this school, SFSU for short, Nathan Hare created the USA's first black studies program San Francisco State University |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Despite the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she made many trips back to Maryland to aid liberations Harriet Tubman |
| #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 |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Published in 1783, his "American Spelling Book" preceded his famous dictionary by 45 years Webster |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | HISTORY $800: The first capital of California following American occupation in 1846 was this city, today the "capital" of Silicon Valley San Jose |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | HISTORY IN EUROPE $800: Winston Churchill said this, AKA the Battle of the Ardennes, was the greatest American battle of World War II the Battle of the Bulge |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On April 19, 1995 2 homegrown terrorists bombed the U.S. Federal Building in this city Oklahoma City |
| #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 $1200: In 1859 future Civil War general Daniel Sickles shot & killed Philip Barton Key, the son of this songwriter Francis Scott Key |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1797 most of Congress counted themselves part of this party, but by 1827 it was dead the Federalist Party |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHE DID IT! $800: In 2015 she made history as the first African-American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater Misty Copeland |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Leaked to the press in 1971, the Pentagon Papers detailed America's involvement in this conflict the Vietnam War |
| #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 |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1590 English explorer John White returned with supplies to this colony only to find it gone Roanoke |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Pres. Lincoln said, "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY $400: William Henry Harrison gave the longest inaugural speech in history; this man in 1793 at his second gave the shortest Washington |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY $800: This keystone state's name is spelled incorrectly in the U.S. Constitution Pennsylvania |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY $1600: This man's political rise began when he was just 30 & the people of Nebraska elected him to Congress William Jennings Bryan |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY $2000: Military engagements authorized by Congress include the 1801 First & 1815 Second of these African wars the Barbary Wars |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY $6,200 (Daily Double): In 1999 the Senate voted 50-50 on the charge that Bill Clinton obstructed justice, this many votes shy of conviction 17 |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The 1851 treaty of this Wyoming fort was an early attempt to resolve conflicts between Native Americans & settlers Fort Laramie |
| #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 |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Brother to "The Prophet", this Shawnee leader organized 18th c. Native American resistance in Ohio & Indiana Tecumseh |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1817 ground was broken for this, derisively called "Clinton's Big Ditch" the Erie Canal |
| #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 $1200: Established in 1619, this representative body in Virginia originally had 22 members the House of Burgesses |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall was convicted of bribery in leasing out oil reserves in Elk Hills, Buena Vista & this site the Teapot Dome |
| #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 |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | 1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The 747 jumbo jet was introduced by this company on September 30 Boeing |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | 1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On September 24 this primetime show debuted on CBS; it's still ticking 60 Minutes |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | 1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In June this Chief Justice tendered his resignation Earl Warren |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | 1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In late January 70,000 troops directed by North Vietnam began simultaneous attacks in this operation Tet Offensive |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | 1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Ralph Abernathy took over as president of this organization and led the Poor People's March to Washington Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #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 |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | HISTORY ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm Danielle Niles from WBZ.) 16 months before he famously rode off into American history, this man joined the other patriots in the Boston tea party protest Paul Revere |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | HISTORY ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (I'm Patrice Sanders from Fox 45 News.) The American Revolution ended when, here in the Maryland State House, Congress ratified this peace treaty signed in Europe the Treaty of Paris |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1830 at age 72 this hero of the American Revolution played a key role in France's July Rev. that changed kings Lafayette |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. got involved in Vietnam by helping this nation try to regain control of its former colony France |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This period in the South can be divided into presidential (1865-1867) & Congressional or Radical (1867-1877) Reconstruction |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: First performed in 1897, this musical work was designated the official march of the United States in 1987 "Stars And Stripes Forever" |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In old New England a regular use of the village green was training this body of men mentioned in the Second Amendment the militia |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1915 the 1st transcontinental telephone call was made when A.G. Bell called this former assistant in San Francisco (Thomas) Watson |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FOSSIL FUELS $400: The U.S. has produced the most oil in history, but this South American nation has the world's largest store Venezuela |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The bus boycott protesting segregation in this Alabama city lasted for more than a year Montgomery |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The powder horn belonged to one of 10,000 African-Americans who fought at battles like Monmouth in this war; to them, liberty was not just an abstract concept, but something they personally craved and hoped would be granted by the winning side, and in some cases, it was the American Revolution |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Abbreviated the CBC, it was formed by 13 African Americans elected to the U.S. House in 1970 the Congressional Black Caucus |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This NYC venue where Ella Fitzgerald was discovered opened in 1914 as Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater the Apollo |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1985 this state elected Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder as its first African-American statewide officeholder Virginia |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: You name it, they have it in these retail palaces like Wanamaker's, shown here, that saw big growth after the Civil War a department store |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Soil Conservation Service was created to counter this disaster that struck the Great Plains in the 1930s the Dust Bowl |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: To combat fuel shortages, Congress enacted this for almost 10 months in 1974, from January to October Daylight Saving Time |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1873 borax was discovered at this California site, & in the 1880s the famous 20-mule teams began hauling it out Death Valley |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Officially known as the States' Rights Democrat Party, it carried 4 Southern states in 1948, winning 39 electoral votes the Dixiecrats |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1900 the U.S. went on this standard, setting its price at $20.67 an ounce the gold standard |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In 1933 a stretch of river rapids in Alabama called Muscle Shoals became an integral part of this multi-state project Tennessee Valley Authority |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1915, this author of Family Limitation was arrested for obscenity Margaret Sanger |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1832 this South Carolinian resigned as vice president; in 2017 his name came off one of Yale's colleges Calhoun |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On Dec. 24, 1814 in Belgium, the U.S. & Britain signed this treaty in which the British gave up their northwest territory claims the Treaty of Ghent |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $600: This story of the African-American women who helped launch the U.S. space program became a 2016 film Hidden Figures |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.) In World War I, because of racial tensions within the Army, a black combat unit nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters was assigned to fight with the French, and because of their valor, the regiment was awarded this cross of war, one of France's highest honors the Croix de guerre |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1858 British & American ships laid the first of these, as much as 2 miles down transatlantic cables |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1867 William Seward negotiated its purchase for about 2 cents an acre, totaling a cool $7.2 million Alaska |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1805 Lewis & Clark named a Mussellshell River tributary "Bird Woman's River" in her honor Sacagawea |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In a speech on June 5, 1947, this Secretary of State proposed his plan for European economic aid (George) Marshall |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The Supreme Court reached a low with its 1857 decision on this slave's case: African Americans were not & could not be U.S. citizens Dred Scott |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1845 John O'Sullivan wrote of our this "to overspread the continent allotted by Providence" Manifest Destiny |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | IT'S A TRAP! $2,000 (Daily Double): The Smithsonian's Natl. Museum of American History says more patents have been given to this device than any other a mousetrap |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | PUERTO RICAN HISTORY $400: Puerto Rico became part of the U.S. as part of the terms ending this 19th century conflict the Spanish-American War |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Seen here on a break is Billy Johnson, a celebrated rider for this service of the early 1860s the Pony Express |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On April 9, 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant in this Virginia village whose name sounds like a judiciary building Appomattox Courthouse |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: On April 9, 1979, 12 days after it began, the Nuclear Regulatory Comm. declared the crisis at this facility over Three Mile Island |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The son of Increase & grandson of Richard, this minister had 15 children but only 2 survived him Cotton Mather |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: At a women's convention in Ohio in 1851 this former slave delivered her "Ain't I A Woman" speech Sojourner Truth |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | "A" CAST $1200: 1998:
Edward Furlong,
Edward Norton American History X |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In late 1620 an Atlantic storm altered the course of history because this ship ended up in Cape Cod & not in Virginia as intended the Mayflower |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1579 during his trip around the world, he stopped near present-day San Francisco & named the area Nova Albion Drake |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The first Atlantic-crossing ship built in what's now the U.S. took French settlers home from this S.C. island now used by the Marines Parris Island |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1735 James Oglethorpe invited this founder of Methodism to evangelize in Georgia John Wesley |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Years before Coronado, a Moor named Estevanico searched for 7 wealthy cities he called this Cíbola |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $200: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop cotton |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $600: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayed here likely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831 Nat Turner |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is a railroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s Jim Crow laws |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) On Easter in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes & sang "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial Marian Anderson |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The only Constitutional amendment to be repealed, the 18th Amendment originally put this into effect Prohibition |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that this man acted alone in killing President Kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Under the Jones Act of 1917, residents of this Caribbean island gained U.S. citizenship Puerto Rico |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Introduced by Europeans, this disease that wiped out entire tribes had its last known U.S. case in 1949 smallpox |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: According to his N.Y. Times obituary, this Tammany Hall boss died in jail in the absence of nearly all family members (William) "Boss" Tweed |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1519 Spaniards found 200,000 people made up the city & suburbs of Tenochtitlan, the capital of this empire the Aztec empire |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Uh, this gen.? You slightly under-counted the no. of Indian warriors on June 25, 1876-- forgot to carry the 1, maybe? Custer |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1693 people jailed for this in Salem were finally free; families later got reparations witchcraft |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: He received a presidential pardon in 1815, but soon returned to his pirating ways in the Gulf of Mexico (Jean) Lafitte |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the 1700s, stretching from Labrador through Montreal and all the way down into what's now Louisiana, was the territory known as New this country New France |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) At the gift shop, you can pick up a kinara, a candleholder that represents African roots; it'll hold candles in the symbolic colors of black for the people, red for their struggle & green for hope, all to help you celebrate this late December holiday Kwanzaa |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia Monticello |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among Harriet Tubman's most treasured possessions was a lace shawl she received in recognition of her heroic efforts from this woman, who was celebrating her diamond jubilee Queen Victoria |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) "Our feet are tired, but our souls are rested", said Martin Luther King, & then soaked his feet in the bucket on display here after leading thousands on a 5-day, 54-mile freedom march from Selma to the steps of the Capitol in this city Montgomery |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence" Malcolm X |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. put down $11.25 million for this 1803 land deal, though the treaty didn't clearly describe the boundaries the Louisiana Purchase |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This disaster began on October 8, 1871 in a barn on DeKoven Street & left nearly 100,000 people homeless the Chicago fire |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The unexplained sinking of the USS Maine led the U.S. to declare war on this country on April 25, 1898 Spain |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: A tax on spirits caused this U.S. rebellion in 1794 the Whiskey Rebellion |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): This 4-word motto saying watch your step was on many early American flags don't tread on me |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | BOOKS BY PROFESSORS $1600: Illinois professor & librarian Dee Brown changed the field of Native American history with "Bury My Heart" here Wounded Knee |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy, founded the U.S. Naval Academy in this city Annapolis |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): Charles Cotesworth Pinckney said no when French agents asked for a bribe in this 1797 "Affair" the XYZ Affair |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Gerald Ford succeeded him as vice president of the United States Agnew |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: He was inaugurated the president of the Republic of Texas on October 22, 1836 Houston |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This great orator gave a 3 1/2-hour speech in favor of the Compromise of 1850; his fellow New Englanders didn't like that Daniel Webster |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1540 Garcia Lopez de Cardenas found this natural wonder; his men tried to climb down to the Colorado River but failed the Grand Canyon |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1974, over Ford's veto, Congress passed amendments to this act granting public access to government files the Freedom of Information Act |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This Nebraska Democrat lost an 1894 bid for the U.S. Senate but was nominated for president 2 years later William Jennings Bryan |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: A 1621 treaty with the Wampanoags gave the Pilgrims protection against this tribe from what's now Rhode Island the Narragansett |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On April 4, 1891 this brother of John Wilkes Booth ended his 40+-year acting career appearing in "Hamlet" in NYC Edwin Booth |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | "C-U" $200: It's a person in charge of a museum collection; Margaret Mead was one at the American Museum of Natural History a curator |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In March 1762 the first recorded parade of this type was held in New York City, by Irish soldiers serving in the British army St. Patrick's Day |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The last state to end prohibition was this "Magnolia State", which adopted a local-option law in 1966 Mississippi |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This song is from the movie "Chasing Rainbows" that unfortunately premiered just after the 1929 market crash "Happy Days Are Here Again" |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This terrifying economic event often involving runs on the bank precedes "of 1873" & "of 1907" a panic |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): This city once known as Beverwyck was made a state capital in 1797 Albany |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | HISTORY IN ART $1000: Benjamin West's "The Death of General Wolfe" depicts the 1759 battle of Quebec during this North American conflict the French and Indian War |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This Native American princess married an English colonist & visited England in 1616, meeting King James I Pocahontas |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1920 when an Equal Rights Amendment was 1st proposed, it was opposed by this group, the LWV the League of Women Voters |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This billionaire amassed his wealth through acquisitions like TWA & RKO Howard Hughes |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Washington, D.C. guest house of U.S. Presidents was named for an advisor to Andrew Jackson & built in 1824 Blair House |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Things went south, not west, for this presidential candidate in 1872; he lost to Ulysses Grant & died three weeks after the election Horace Greeley |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | D.C. HISTORY $1200: Recently, D.C.'s Latino population has grown with a very large number from this smallest Central American nation by area El Salvador |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $800: (I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.) I got my first taste of stargazing as a 9-year-old kid in New York City when I took a trip to this facility at the American Museum of Natural History; later I took classes there & today I'm its director the Hayden Planetarium |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | IN THE D.C. AREA $1,600 (Daily Double): The Bill of Rights & the Constitution are on display there the National Archives |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1700 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all priests of this faith to hit the road Catholicism |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Without the knowledge of Congress, James Madison took possession of West Florida from this country Spain |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: It was signed in 1620 to get the Pilgrims to pull together the Mayflower Compact |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: At the end of WWI the 2 major unions in this industry were the ACWA & the ILGWU garment workers |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1848 the campaign slogan for this political party included the words "free speech, free labor, free men" Free Soil |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $400: After the Revolutionary War, this "Father of the American Navy" served as a rear admiral in Russia's fleet John Paul Jones |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | A HISTORY LESSON $1600: In 1934 Augusto Cesar Sandino was assassinated by this Central American country's National Guard Nicaragua |
| #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 |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Joseph Cinque led a successful slave rebellion aboard this ship in 1839 the Amistad |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: A prominent member of the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Zora Neale) Hurston |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Marian Anderson made history in 1954 by signing a contract with this New York performing arts organization the Metropolitan Opera |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This phrase of protest coined by Alicia Garza has become a hashtag & a movement Black Lives Matter |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (I'm Misty Copeland.) In 2014 I made history as the first African-American ballerina to dance the role of Clara in American Ballet Theatre's production of this ballet, a holiday favorite The Nutcracker |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Beginning in 1867 school was in session for what is now Morehouse College & this university in Washington, D.C. Howard University |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Porter on the train cars named for him was a good middle-class job, though you got called "George" whatever your name was (George) Pullman |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: 2013 saw the first Congress with 2 African-American senators when Mo Cowan of Mass. served with Tim Scott of this state South Carolina |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 2001 this U.S. energy company's stock fell from over $90 per share to below $1 Enron |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: It was drawn in the 1760s to settle border disputes between Maryland & Pennsylvania the Mason-Dixon Line |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1947 this TV news show's first guest was former Democratic chairman & FDR campaign manager James A. Farley Meet the Press |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 2015, scientists displayed remains of four leaders of this Virginia colony, buried under America's first Protestant church Jamestown |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1778 Ohio Shawnee held this frontiersman captive for 5 months Daniel Boone |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On April 18, 1775, this man left Charlestown around 11:00 P.M. but was captured by the British after hitting Lexington, but before he got to Concord (Paul) Revere |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Head Start & Job Corps were programs in LBJ's "War on" this poverty |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: FDR touted this quartet in his 1941 State of the Union address the Four Freedoms |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Signed in Belgium, this 1814 treaty ended the War of 1812 the Treaty of Ghent |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,400 (Daily Double): This tycoon's Northern Securities company was dissolved in 1904 for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act (J.P.) Morgan |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | VETERANS $200: (Eric Stonestreet gives the clue.) More than half of America's presidents have been veterans; 7 of them served in the Army during this, the deadliest conflict in U.S. history the American Civil War |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Light Horse Harry Lee, eulogizing him:
"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" (George) Washington |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Her, in 1869 in a women's suffrage newspaper:
"Join the union, girls, and together say equal pay for equal work" Susan B. Anthony |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Gettysburg Address:
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not" do this perish from the Earth |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Thomas Paine:
"These are the times that" do these 3 words try men's souls |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: MLK: "I have a dream that one day... sons of former slaves & the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at" this the table of brotherhood |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This abolitionist's raid on Harpers Ferry made him a martyr to the antislavery cause John Brown |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: His "Icebox" & his "Folly" were nicknames for the purchase of Alaska (William) Seward |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The U.S. & the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war during this in October 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Selling more than a half million copies, this 50-page pamphlet paved the way for the Declaration of Independence "Common Sense" |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1921 Harding nominated him to be Chief Justice, an historic appointment William Howard Taft |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 gave the U.S. sole right to construct & control this engineering project the Panama Canal |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This act that put a tax on playing cards in 1765 prompted the formation of the Sons of Liberty the Stamp Act |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: It was also known as the Elk Hills scandal, for an oil reserve in California the Teapot Dome scandal |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This Nez Perce chief surrendered to U.S. forces in 1877, saying, "I am tired; my heart is sick and sad... I will fight no more forever" Chief Joseph |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: 146 workers died in a 1911 fire at this NYC sweatshop that made shirtwaists, which were high-necked blouses the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $400: This first African-American Attorney General said he was quitting in 2014 but was still on the job in 2015 Eric Holder |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | HISTORY, OLD & NEW $1000: Despite the name, this period of American history, around 1817-1824, was marked by complacency & isolationism the Era of Good Feelings |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This Democratic senator faced off against Abe Lincoln in a series of 7 debates during the 1858 campaign (Stephen) Douglas |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a battle map on the monitor.) A June 25, 1876, battle map shows Sitting Bull's camp next to Major Reno's skirmish line, with the Indian encampment separated from Last Stand Hill to the north by this river Little Big Horn |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1916 John J. Pershing fruitlessly searched for this Mexican bandit who had raided U.S. border areas Pancho Villa |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Great White Fleet, 16 battleships that toured the world in 1907, were a show of TR's foreign policy called this the Big Stick |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Andrew Hamilton defended this New York printer in his 1735 libel trial, scoring a victory for freedom of the press (John Peter) Zenger |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $200: From 1933 to 1939 this was FDR's program to use government to help Americans through the Depression the New Deal |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In September 1620 this merchant ship left England for America; instead of cargo, this time it brought 102 passengers the Mayflower |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $600: After making a mess during this December 16, 1773 event, protestors swept the ships' decks clean the Boston Tea Party |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $800: 8 American soldiers lost their lives in a failed attempt to rescue hostages held at the U.S. embassy in this city in April 1980 Tehran |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: April 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of these two Civil War foes shaking hands at Appomattox Grant & Lee |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: A 1913 amendment began direct election of this house; in 1914 all the incumbents running won despite the change the Senate |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: "Operation Inherent Resolve" was the 2014 name choice for the fight against this Mideast group ISIS (or the Islamic State) |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: On July 5, 1775 Congress adopted a petition named for this "branch", asking King George to reconcile; he refused to read it olive |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1986 Reagan declared what became known as a "war on" these, saying, "Nancy had already made it her major role" drugs |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In the mid-1800s the Order of United Americans was big in this -ism, the promotion of the U.S.-born over immigrants nativism |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Americans were protesting a tax & a monopoly with this Dec. 16, 1773 event the (Boston) tea party |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Depleted fields, drought & wind created the climate that led to this name for an area of the Great Plains in the 1930s the Dust Bowl |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1951 this married couple was tried under the Espionage Act of 1917 & found guilty the Rosenbergs |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: After shooting President Garfield, he surrendered to police & said, "I am a Stalwart. Arthur is now president of the United States" Charles Guiteau |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1820 agreement said there would be no slavery in the bulk of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30' the Missouri Compromise |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: African-American History Month is celebrated in this month February |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Freed slave Richard Allen was the founder & first bishop of the church known by these 3 initials for short AME |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This composer learned the basics of music as a boy in 19th century Texarkana (Scott) Joplin |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Around 1790 Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city Washington, D.C. |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented this state, but too late to be Jeff Davis' colleague Mississippi |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | OH, THE HUMANITIES! $600: For decades this alliterative anthropologist was a curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History Margaret Mead |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Ratified in December 1865, the 13th Amendment finally & formally abolished this slavery |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 2002, he became the third American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize Jimmy Carter |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This colony, established by Pilgrims in 1620, celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621 Plymouth |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: After a 13-day siege & a 90-minute battle on March 6, 1836, this San Antonio mission fell to Mexican forces the Alamo |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Before he was killed in the War of 1812, Zebulon Pike discovered a famous mountain peak in this state Colorado |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the Nat'l Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The museum has one of the original stuffed animals named for this president & avid hunter, after a story spread about him letting a bear go; although, in reality, all he did was refuse to shoot the bear when it was wounded Theodore Roosevelt |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1520 this Portuguese navigator became the first European to reach what is now Chile Magellan |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The 1881 addition of this region stretching south from Argentina's Colorado River expanded the nation's territory Patagonia |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Zapatista rebels seized towns in this Mexican state in 1994, protesting possible economic damage from NAFTA Chiapas |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: When Hugo Chavez died in 2013, this V.P. became president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1949 this Central American nation abandoned its army & established a Civil Guard in its place Costa Rica |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | A DOLL'S HOUSE $1600: This series of dolls has helped lots of girls learn about history the American Girl dolls |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | THE SMITHSONIAN FROM A TO Z $400: P:
A chunk of this piece of American history, chipped off by a descendant of William Bradford Plymouth Rock |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: 2 British soldiers were found guilty in this 1770 Massachusetts riot; their thumbs were branded "M" for murder the Boston Massacre |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1976 John Warner married Elizabeth Taylor & served as administrator of this celebration the Bicentennial |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: America's first passenger line, this railroad began steaming along in 1830 the B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: A 1944 conference in this New Hampshire resort resulted in the creation of the IMF & the World Bank Bretton Woods |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $4,600 (Daily Double): A governor's failure to stop Indian raids prompted this 1676 rebellion led by a Virginia planter Bacon's Rebellion |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER $400 (Daily Double): After a decade-long preservation process, the flag is back on display in a new exhibition space at this Smithsonian Museum the Smithsonian Museum of American History |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY $600: On accepting the 1932 nomination for president, FDR said, "I pledge you, I pledge myself to a" this "for the American people" a New Deal |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Its November 11, 1889 statehood filled in a corner of the Lower 48 Washington |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1856 William Dayton became the first vice presidential candidate of this new party Republican |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In Dec. 1941 the Declaration of Independence was packed up & sent to this gold depository for safekeeping Fort Knox |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1916 German saboteurs blew up a New Jersey munitions depot, sending shrapnel into this nearby landmark's gown Statue of Liberty |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: He founded the city of Savannah in 1733 & soon began serving as Georgia governor Oglethorpe |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | HISTORIC TV $1000: "I Spy" made the TV history books in 1965 when it cast this African American in one of the lead roles Bill Cosby |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon burned to the ground this first permanent English settlement in America Jamestown |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1851 The New York Times was founded to represent the views of this party that didn't last much longer the Whigs |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: On Oct. 3, 1993 rebels shot down 2 Blackhawk helicopters in this country; 18 U.S. soldiers were killed Somalia |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This 1972 pick for running mate told McGovern he had been treated for depression & withdrew from the race Thomas Eagleton |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On July 10, 1962 this satellite was placed in orbit & soon began relaying TV pictures between the U.S. & Europe Telstar |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: "The lure of the Arctic is tugging at my heart", says the headstone of this African-American explorer (Matthew) Henson |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Migrate north to this city to visit the largest museum of African-American history; it's named for Charles H. Wright Detroit |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The second African-American patent holder, Henry Blair got 2:
for devices to plant corn & to plant this crop cotton |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1993 Joycelyn Elders became the first African American to hold this government post Surgeon General |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Penned by James Weldon Johnson, the song do this "And Sing" became an African-American "National Anthem" "Lift Every Voice" |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | RECENT HISTORY $1000: In August 2009 Bill Clinton traveled to this country & helped win the release of 2 American journalists North Korea |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | TRUE "NORTH" $3,000 (Daily Double): This landmark took its place in American history on April 18, 1775 the Old North Church |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $1600: This dictionary, still around, was spun off from a magazine of U.S. history that stopped printing in 2012 American Heritage |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In January 1996 Bill Clinton challenged congress to "Never, ever" do this again; cut to October 2013 shut down (the government) |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Trying to cut the surplus in 1883, the government took the excise tax off everything but these 2 items tobacco and liquor |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The 1876 Centennial Exhibition in this city helped heal the wounds after the Civil War Philadelphia |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In July 1960 the U.S. stopped imports of sugar from this country that was cozying up to the USSR Cuba |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: He founded Rhode Island, the first colony in America to allow complete religious freedom Roger Williams |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | THE USS OLYMPIA $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from aboard the Olympia in the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.) On May 1, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the Olympia made history as Admiral Dewey's flagship, leading the U.S. fleet to victory in the decisive naval battle of this bay Manila Bay |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Feb. 29, 1704 in this queen's war, the French & Indians burned Deerfield, Massachusetts Queen Anne |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1638 Wilmington became the first permanent settlement in this colony then called New Sweden Delaware |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This settlement was founded in 1625 by Willem Verhulst & soon became the capital of New Netherland New Amsterdam |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Benjamin Harris of Boston published the Colonies' first newspaper as well as this book that taught millions to read The New England Primer |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Not Independence Hall but this Philadelphia hall was the site of the first meetings of the Continental Congress in 1774 Carpenter's Hall |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1000: This "tasty" author bakes her novels a while: 1992's "The Secret History" was her 1st, & "The Goldfinch" from 2013 is her 3rd Donna Tartt |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | MOUNT RUSHMORE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.) The four presidents chosen for Mount Rushmore symbolize the first 150 years of American history--Washington is the founding, Lincoln is preservation, Roosevelt is development, & Jefferson is expansion for his role in this 1803 land deal the Louisiana Purchase |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $200: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson designed this small portable desk; he used it for decades & then attached a note to it saying it might someday be of value because this important national document had been composed on it the Declaration of Independence |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The first transcontinental car trip was made by Horatio Nelson Jackson in this 1903 Winton at a time when America had few roads & little support for cars, so, whenever he had a breakdown & needed repairs, he would often have to rely on these workers that the automobile would soon put out of business blacksmiths |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later Woolworth's |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) I'm with one of the earliest locomotives of the U.S. railroad system--it looks like it could still run, doesn't it?--& it actually did in 1981 as it celebrated its 150th birthday; it was built in England, & it is named for this symbolic Englishman John Bull |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) Old 091 here took part in Operation Cedar Falls in January 1967, the largest offensive of the Vietnam War up to that point; she's a Bell UH-1, the workhorse helicopter of the war, known affectionately by this nickname a Huey |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State Rhode Island |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: It's Showtime at this Harlem theater that began hosting its amateur night in 1934 the Apollo |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction the Scottsboro Boys |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1773 she put out the first book of poetry by an African American Phillis Wheatley |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Jan. 1, 1817, with a small force recruited in Haiti, he returned to Venezuela to drive out the Spanish (Simón) Bolívar |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Following the 1973 coup that included an air strike on the presidential palace, this general seized control of Chile Pinochet |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This city named for Bolivia's first president was founded in 1538 on what had been a Quechua settlement Sucre |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In April 1992 this Peruvian president of Japanese descent suspended the constitution & dissolved the legislature Alberto Fujimori |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1888 this country abolished slavery & freed about 750,000 slaves, many of whom worked on rubber plantations Brazil |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) With Missouri as its starting point, the Great Plains, the Rockies & the present state capitals of Salt Lake City, Carson City & Sacramento were on the route of this 19th century service the Pony Express |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: With the consent of Massachusetts, this state was admitted to the union as part of the Missouri compromise in 1820 Maine |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1911 Wisconsin's Victor Berger became the first congressman of this party of Eugene Debs Socialist |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $5,600 (Daily Double): In May 1857, 2 months after his famous Supreme Court decision, he was freed by Taylor Blow of St. Louis Dred Scott |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $2000: In 1923 Henry Ford bought this Sudbury, Mass. inn popularized by Longfellow to make it a museum of American history Wayside Inn |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1907 Col. George Goethals was appointed chief engineer to build this Central American waterway the Panama Canal |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Chilly period of international relations from the mid-1940s to 1991 the Cold War |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: When it was founded as King's College in 1754, classes were held in a little schoolhouse in Lower Manhattan Columbia University |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1614 John Smith came to New England & got rich taking thousands of these fish to sell in Old England cod |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A scout for John C. Fremont's expeditions west, he later became a federal Indian agent in New Mexico (Kit) Carson |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1856 a storm felled this Connecticut tree in which the colony's document of rights was held 169 years earlier the Charter Oak |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On April 19, 1775 8 Minutemen lost their lives in Lexington; 2 more were lost at North Bridge near this town to the west Concord |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On Dec. 7, 1787 in a 30-0 vote, this state ratified the Constitution, the first state to do so Delaware |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This Quaker leader spent only 4 years in the colony & future state with his name on it, leaving for good in 1701 William Penn |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In the 1750s & 1760s the colonies were torn by this war known in Europe as the Seven Years' War the French and Indian War |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In print for about 25 years, this annual publication by Benjamin Franklin sold about 10,000 copies a year Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | 1983--30 YEARS AGO $200: Sally Ride rode into history aboard this as the first American woman in space the Challenger |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Nixon's press secretary Ron Ziegler called the break-in at this complex a "third-rate burglary" Watergate |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: By the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the French & Indian War, Britain got the land east of this river the Mississippi |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In his second inaugural, Pres. Obama name-checked this New York village, home to an 1848 women's rights convention Seneca Falls |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Feeling he had been called by God to lead his people out of bondage, he led an 1831 slave rebellion Nat Turner |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $8,000 (Daily Double): In 1977, on the 50th anniversary of their execution, a proclamation was issued saying this pair had been treated unjustly Sacco & Vanzetti |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | WEIRD HISTORY $400: Civil War opponents Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee fought on the same side in this war Mexican-American War |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In a 1784 letter Ben Franklin called this national symbol "a bird of bad moral character" the bald eagle |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Wyatt Earp reportedly called him "a loyal friend... a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler" Doc Holliday |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Stepping down as Speaker in 1998, this Republican said, "I'm not willing to preside over people who are cannibals" Gingrich |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: No. 35 of these 1780s essays says, "the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome" The Federalist Papers |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: During the Battle of Manila Bay, this commodore told his captain, "you may fire when you are ready, Gridley" (George) Dewey |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Built in the early 18th century as the mission of San Antonio de Valero in Texas, it made headlines in 1836 the Alamo |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Boston market & meeting hall known for its grasshopper weather vane opened on September 24, 1742 Faneuil Hall |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Permanent cultivation of this food in the Colonies began in the largely Irish area of Derry, New Hampshire in 1719 potatoes |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In July 1759, when the British took from the French a crucial New York fort, the headline could have read, this "falls" Niagara |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1677 he drafted the first charter guaranteeing separation of church & state in the Quaker Colony of West New Jersey William Penn |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1620 pilgrims established this colony, the first permanent English settlement in New England Plymouth |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: At least 50 of the 85 letters making up the "Federalist Papers" were written by this future treasury secretary Hamilton |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: For fiscal 2000, the U.S. had a $236 billion one of these, our largest ever a surplus |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: "His name is" this & in 1869 this doctor who had set John Wilkes Booth's leg was pardoned & freed from prison (Samuel) Mudd |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Selling out early, this prospector who gave his name to a mother lode of silver ended up broke & took his own life (Henry) Comstock |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: (Alex gives us the clue from the stage of the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.) I'm on the set of a Sherman Edwards musical set in this very significant year in American history 1776 |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1542 Francisco de Orellana began traveling down this river from Ecuador, reaching its mouth on the Atlantic the Amazon |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1953 the last inmates left this French penal colony that held some 70,000 prisoners over its 100-year existence Devil's Island |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: It's the Spanish acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, battling the government since 1964 FARC |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): Between 1833 & 1855, this general led Mexico 11 different times & was responsible for losing much land to the U.S. (Antonio López de) Santa Anna |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 2004 Martin Torrijos, son of former dictator Omar Torrijos, was elected president of this Central American country Panama |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On October 7, 2001 Operation Enduring Freedom began with a U.S. air assault on terrorist strongholds in this country Afghanistan |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1951, this man entered government service as an attorney in the Department of Justice Robert Kennedy |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: On Sept. 16, 1893 the Cherokee Outlet in this U.S. territory was opened to white settlement Oklahoma |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On August 14, 1941 FDR & Churchill issued this charter of cooperation the Atlantic Charter |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $5,400 (Daily Double): In a 1779 battle in the North Sea, he captured the Serapis, a British Man-of-War John Paul Jones |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | A PLETHORA OF PICTURE PLOTS $2000: 1998: Norton's neo-Nazi ne'er-do-well needs new notions American History X |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | MILITARY MITE $1600: This giant of early American naval history was called "little" by John Hancock & Abigail Adams John Paul Jones |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Jones Act of 1917 granted U.S. citizenship to residents of this Caribbean island Puerto Rico |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Financial vultures beware! In 2012 "Jeopardy!" champ Richard Cordray became 1st head of the CFPB, helping these "C"s consumers |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A recent drought recalls the 1930s, when part of the Great Plains turned into this, seen in Ken Burns' new film of that name the Dust Bowl |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1638 he organized the first Baptist church in America in Providence, Rhode Island Roger Williams |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In February 1933 gunman Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate FDR but instead killed this city's mayor Anton Cermak Chicago |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | QUICK HISTORY $1000: Party formed to oppose "King Andrew" Jackson the Whig Party |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY "Q" & "A" $200: On October 2, 1656 Connecticut enacted legislation to ban members of this religious group the Quakers |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY "Q" & "A" $400: In February 1864 this prison opened & into its mere 26 acres, 32,000 prisoners were jammed Andersonville |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY "Q" & "A" $600: In the 1970s this future vice president served as a publisher of the Huntington Herald-Press in Indiana Dan Quayle |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY "Q" & "A" $800: This British major who worked with Benedict Arnold was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780 Major Andre |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY "Q" & "A" $1000: In 1961 JFK initiated this U.S.-Latin America development program, but it failed in just over a decade the Alliance for Progress |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1,400 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) In 1955, the Met made history with the debuts of its first African-American singers; the first man was Bobby McFerrin's father Robert & the first woman was this great contralto of the day Marian Anderson |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In March 1964 this largest Alaska city was struck by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake Anchorage |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: After leaving Congress, this Tennessean left for Texas, where he was killed at the Alamo Davy Crockett |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Miles Standish was one of 41 male passengers who signed this document in 1620 the Mayflower Compact |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This pioneer route stretched more than 2,000 miles from Missouri northwest to near the Pacific Ocean the Oregon Trail |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In July 1787 Congress created this new territory in the area north of the Ohio River the Northwest Territory |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | THE RIVER OF HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) Depicted here is the historic moment when American & Russian forces met on April 25th, 1945, at Torgau, Germany, on this river the Elbe |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a medical device at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) French surgeon Alexis Carrel invented the perfusion pump, an early type of artificial heart, with the help of this American aviator, who was a mechanic from earliest boyhood (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In 1983 she made history as the first American woman in space Sally Ride |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $800: This place in New York Harbor is home to the American Family Immigration History Center Ellis Island |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | QUOTES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1957 this Teamsters president said, "I do to others what they do to me, only worse" Jimmy Hoffa |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | QUOTES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In March 1917 former president Teddy Roosevelt said this country "is already at war with us" Germany |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | QUOTES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The signers of this 1620 document pledged to "combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick" the Mayflower Compact |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | QUOTES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In a 1776 letter to Robert Morris, he wrote, "Without a respectable navy--alas! America!" John Paul Jones |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | QUOTES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): For working on the family homestead, Lincoln called it "that most useful instrument" an axe |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $2000: This planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History has a 10,000-volume library on astronomy the Hayden Planetarium |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The earliest American play about this wife of John Rolfe was "The Indian Princess", performed in 1808 Pocahontas |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On April 17, 1824 this country signed a treaty agreeing that 54 degrees, 40 minutes N. latitude was the southern limit of its claim Russia |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1888 this type of ballot based on a type from overseas was first used in a U.S. local election in Louisville, Ky. the Australian or secret ballot |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1866 the Supreme Court said this military rule may not be in place when the civil courts are functioning martial law |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1816 this naval officer & victor against the Barbary pirates gave the toast "Our country, right or wrong" Stephen Decatur |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | SIR WALTER SCOTT $600: In 1813 Sir Walter wrote a letter complimenting this American on his "History of New York" Washington Irving |
| #6309, aired 2012-02-09 | NONFICTION $1000: Dee Brown's classic "Indian History of the American West" is called "Bury my Heart at" this place Wounded Knee |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In December 1974 this former New York governor was sworn in as Vice President Rockefeller |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1951 he told a joint session of Congress that he "tried to do his duty as god gave him the light to see that duty" (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: His foes said that in 1877 he agreed to withdraw remaining federal troops from the south in return for electoral support (Rutherford B.) Hayes |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): This political party founded around 1789 stood for a strong central government the Federalists |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1917 the U.S. purchased the islands of St. Croix, St. John & St. Thomas from this country for $25 million Denmark |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | THIS YEAR IN HISTORY $200: 1969:
American Indians begin a 2-year occupation of this island in San Francisco Bay Alcatraz |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & GROUND ZERO $400: The tallest of the new buildings, first dubbed the Freedom Tower, will soar this many feet to signify a big year in American history 1,776 |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | WE GOTTA GO $4,000 (Daily Double): Catching up on Mayan history is a treat in this most populous Central American nation; about half of the people are Mayan Guatemala |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $400: History is riveting in "The Great Bridge", about the building of this American span opened in 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $600: A PBS "American Experience" film about his family describes him as "history's first billionaire" (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | OUR 1st ANNUAL HISTORY AWARDS $400: Worst Place to Catch "Our American Cousin":
This venue, for its April 14, 1865 performance Ford's Theatre |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY $400: After learning about the Intl. Red Cross while visiting Europe, she founded the American Red Cross in 1881 Clara Barton |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew describes a gray suit on a mannequin.) The suit here is typical of those worn by Red Cross nurses in the 1950s, who assisted in the conflict here, where Red Cross staff have been continuously since 1953 Korea |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY $1200: In 1889, in one of its earliest relief efforts, the Red Cross aided victims of the killer flood in this Pennsylvania city Johnstown |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands with a grey uniform on a mannequin at the American Red Cross.) Named for their dresses, gray lady volunteers provided hospitality services, especially to sick & wounded soldiers beginning in 1918 at this Washington, D.C. hospital Walter Reed |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks through the American Red Cross headquarters.) Depicting the theme of ministry to the sick & wounded through sacrifice, the windows at the Red Cross headquarters were commissioned in 1917 & created by this man's studio Tiffany |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE $400: The American Museum of Natural History in New York honors this president Theodore Roosevelt |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | THE ANHEUSER- BUSCH BREWERY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds the reins to a Clydesdale horse.) A symbol for over 75 years, the Budweiser Clydesdales were formally introduced on April 7, 1933 to honor the end of this 13-year period in American history Prohibition |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: By 1942 FDR had appointed 7 new men to this body: it took a while, but he got the packing he had wanted the Supreme Court |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Congress adopted this document in 1777, but it was not fully ratified by the states for another 4 years the Articles of Confederation |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Slaves, molasses & rum were exchanged in the 3 arms of the colonial practice known as this "trade" the triangle trade |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a map.) The Oregon Trail started at Independence, Missouri & crossed the Great Plains by following this river the North Platte River |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): "Our flag still waves proudly from the walls", William B. Travis said of it, "I shall never surrender or retreat" the Alamo |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On Nov. 9, 1906 Teddy Roosevelt left the U.S. to personally see the progress on this engineering project the Panama Canal |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The British party of this name aimed to limit the king's powers; the U.S. party hoped to limit "King Andrew" Jackson the Whigs |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of New England on the monitor.) In May 1643, to discourage attacks by the Dutch & others, the United Colonies of New England was formed by 4 Puritan colonies: Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven & this one Plymouth |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On May 15, 1972 while campaigning in Laurel, Md., this Alabama governor was shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer George Wallace |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1948 Whittaker Chambers implicated this State Department official as an espionage agent for the Soviets (Alger) Hiss |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MAJOR IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): William Dunlap, "the Father of American Drama", wrote a hit 1798 play about this British major who was hanged Major John André |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | JULIA CHILD $200: Memorabilia from "Julie & Julia" were recently added to Julia's kitchen exhibit at this Washington, D.C. complex the Smithsonian |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES $400: (Alex reports from the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) American history might have been very different if this future country had agreed to the offer of statehood contained in Article XI of the Articles of Confederation Canada |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: You're in the Army now--in 1940 FDR instituted the first peacetime one of these in U.S. history the draft |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This term for a mechanical device can also be an organization running city politics, like NYC's Tammany Hall a machine |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Edward Brooke was the first African American to hold this post for a state; Eric Holder is the first federal one Attorney General |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Buzz Aldrin & Jim Lovell do look like twins as they prepare for a mission in this 1960s program Gemini |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This man's 1807 steamboat run up the Hudson led to an 1824 Supreme Court decision on interstate commerce (Robert) Fulton |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1799 this man was eulogized by Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" Washington |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1732 this printer founded Philadelphische Zeitung, the first German-language newspaper in the English colonies Benjamin Franklin |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): On May 29, 1765 this patriot made a speech attacking the Stamp Act in Virginia's House of Burgesses Patrick Henry |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1612 this English captain published "A Map of Virginia" John Smith |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: After this war (1754-1763), Britain received all French land east of the Mississippi except New Orleans the French and Indian War |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | THIS AMERICAN LIFE $1200: Written into history June 14, 1811, cries uncle with "Cabin" tale, is history July 1, 1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | THE WORLD AT WAR $1000: Unprepared for this man leading an army force over the Andes in 1817, the Spanish Empire lost Chile & Argentina José de San Martín |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1818 U.S. troops sacked Pensacola as they marched into this Spanish territory; soon it was ours Florida |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: African Americans, 13% of the U.S., were nearly twice that percentage of U.S. troops in this 1990-91 war the First Gulf War |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1899 Secretary of State John Hay proclaimed this "welcoming" policy to preserve U.S. trading rights in China open-door policy |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1960 the last of these locomotives was retired from general use in the U.S. & Diesel ones took over steam engines |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In the 1600s most of New York State was occupied by this Native American confederacy the Iroquois |
| #5638, aired 2009-02-25 | THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $200: (Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives the clue.) In a recent essay, I cited the election of Barack Obama as one of the 4 "transformative moments" in African-American history; this 1863 event was the first the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration Mormonism |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, "The world must be made safe for" this democracy |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration busing |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: John O'Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA's right to cover the continent Manifest Destiny |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt. the Alien & Sedition Acts |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | "ECO" FRIENDLY $1200: This period in American history lasted from 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1821 Panama broke away from Spain & became a province of this country Colombia |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In October 1520 this Portuguese explorer became the first European to reach Chile & Tierra del Fuego Ferdinand Magellan |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This Indian civilization, probably the first in the Americas, lived in eastern Mexico from about 1200 to 400 B.C. the Olmec(s) |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1990 she defeated Daniel Ortega to become president of Nicaragua Violeta Chamorro |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Shipwrecked English sailors founded a settlement in 1638 in what is now this Central American nation Belize |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | CRAYOLA: A COLORFUL HISTORY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a packaging machine at the Crayola Museum & Factory in Easton, PA.) In the early 1900s, this "American Gothic" artist entered a Crayola coloring contest & won; he later said that's what gave him the encouragement he needed to pursue a career in art Grant Wood |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | DINOSAURS $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) The famous 50-foot in the American Museum of Natural History is a dinosaur whose name comes from the Greek for "weight", as in an atmospheric meter a Barosaurus |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | LITERARY LOCALES $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) This J.D. Salinger hero reminisces about seeing the Haida canoe on childhood field trips to the American Museum of Natural History Holden Caulfield |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | "ARM"s $2000: (Cheryl reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) A new pavilion features a 3500 lb. sculpture of one of these spheres used by early astronomers to represent the circles of the heavens armillary |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This state's been "on my mind" since it entered the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870 Georgia |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this income |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her Dolley Madison |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Guerrilla leader Francis Marion earned this nickname for his daring raids from the South Carolina marshes the Swamp Fox |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, "Free soil, free speech, free men and..." Fremont |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | FAMOUS FACES IN HISTORY $600: This American symbol is said to come from a N.Y. butcher who stamped his army supplies "U.S." in the War of 1812 Uncle Sam |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | INTERNATIONAL PARKS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) This diorama at the American Museum of Natural History depicts Virunga National Park in this African Democratic Republic the Congo |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | "O.L." $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports next to a giant cetacean at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) Featuring the world's biggest blue whale model, one of New York's most iconic spaces is the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall of this Ocean Life |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1771 this teenage Marquis became a musketeer--good training for the American Revolution the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY: 2006 $800: This famous American passed away the day after Christmas at the age of 93 Gerald Ford |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | AN "A" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On March 6, 1836 Jim Bowie, weak as a kitten from illness, was killed by Mexican troops while lying in his cot there the Alamo |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | AN "A" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This 3-word Virginia village, site of a surrender, was made a National Historic Park in 1954 Appomattox Court House |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | AN "A" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: On New Year's Day 1801, she opened the executive mansion to visitors for the first time Abigail Adams |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | AN "A" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1942 Japanese forces captured Attu in this Alaskan island group & relocated its inhabitants the Aleutians |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | AN "A" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $3,200 (Daily Double): Secretary of State under Truman, he negotiated the treaty that led to the formation of NATO in 1949 (Dean) Acheson |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | U.S. HISTORY $800: Franklin Pierce's hope for glory in this war ended when he was thrown from his horse & injured the Mexican-American War |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: When the British approached, the Concord Militia didn't know about the skirmish at this place earlier that day Lexington |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: WWI sales of "Liberty" these, whose posters showed the statue, raised more than $15 billion bonds |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: You didn't want to make the mistake of following the South instead of the North Platte on this pioneer trail the Oregon Trail |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): The U.S. supplied materiel to its allies during WWII through this 1941 Congressional act the Lend-Lease Act |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Now sounding oxymoronic, these alliterative Republicans were the party's anti-slavery wing in its early years the Radical Republicans |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1565 Portuguese knight Estacio de Sa founded this Brazilian city on Guanabara Bay Rio (de Janeiro) |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1541 Pedro de Valdivia, a soldier of this Inca conqueror, founded the city of Santiago in Chile Pizarro |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1957 this physician & patron of voodoo was elected president of Haiti, which he ruled with an iron fist for 14 years "Papa Doc" (Duvalier) |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In December 1980 a junta appointed Jose Napoleon Duarte president of this small Central American country El Salvador |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): By the 7th century this civilzation's city of Tikal in the Yucatan had a population of tens of thousands the Mayans |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reads from the marble-columned rotunda of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) The rotunda is named after this U.S. president who collected specimens for the museum Teddy Roosevelt |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reads underneath an ornamented hanging boat at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) This seaworthy 63-foot canoe was carved from a single tree trunk by the Haida, a native people from islands off this Canadian province British Columbia |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $1200: (Hi, I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.) I'm the director of this world-famous planetarium here at the museum, opened in 1935 & named for a philanthropist the Hayden Planetarium |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History.) One of the iconic exhibits in the Hall of Ocean Life is the coral reef diorama near a 30-times enlarged model of one of these creatures that make up reefs polyps |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $2000: The museum's 563-carat sapphire called the Star of India was actually found on this island Sri Lanka |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THEATRE HISTORY $2000: "Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience August Wilson |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: After General Cornwallis Surrendered at Yorktown, this American traitor accompanied him back to England Benedict Arnold |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This January 1, 1863 document liberated all slaves in regions still under Confederate control the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1609 this captain was injured in a gunpowder explosion & lost his leadership role in Jamestown John Smith |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The "New Deal" refers to the economic recovery & social reforms implemented by this U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1898 Americans were urged to "remember" this battleship that sank in Havana harbor, leading to war with Spain the Maine |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | AUSTIN $800: Austin's African-American history is chronicled in a museum named for this agricultural scientist George Washington Carver |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | RADCLIFFE GRADS $400: Graduating cum laude with a degree in American history, she'd later become First Lady--on "The West Wing" Stockard Channing |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | THEATRE HISTORY $2000: The play "Our Leading Lady" focuses on Laura Keene, who was starring in this play the night Lincoln was shot Our American Cousin |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | THE HISTORY OF APRIL 9th $1000: 1942: American & Philippine troops are overwhelmed by Japanese forces on this peninsula Bataan |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Witchcraft trials held in this town in 1692 led to the hangings of 19 people Salem |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname during the Battle of Manassas, also called the Battle of this creek Bull Run |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: These "Articles" served as the basis of our national government from 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: When the Mexican War began in 1846, the Army of the West used this trail to invade New Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Cleanup of this Pennsylvania nuclear power plant following the 1979 meltdown didn't end until 1993 Three Mile Island |
| #5161, aired 2007-02-05 | YOU GET AN "A" $400: ...in American History, if you know that this man was the only U.S. president named Chester Arthur |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Dec. 16, 1773 American patriots dumped 342 chests of tea into this city's harbor Boston |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Abraham Lincoln died across the street from this theatre on April 15, 1865 Ford's Theatre (the Ford Theatre accepted) |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In May 1844 he sent a telegraph message using the code he'd also invented Morse |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: John Rolfe came to the new world to grow this cash crop; picking up Pocahontas was a bonus tobacco |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This president said fear itself is "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts" FDR |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | WEBSITES $400: historywired.si.edu gives a glimpse of some of the 3 million objects in storage at the National Museum of this American History |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This famous transaction in 1803 doubled the territory of the U.S. the Louisiana Purchase |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In the 1760s these 2 surveyors used milestones to mark the boundary line between Maryland & Pennsylvania Mason & Dixon |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of this U.S. president in 1974 Nixon |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This 14-letter term refers to the period of readjustment & rebuilding after the Civil War Reconstruction |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Tragically, in the 1830s, some 4,000 members of this Indian tribe died during a forced march known as the Trail of Tears the Cherokee |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | SILENT K $800: President Polk's middle name Knox |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1899 President McKinley took a turn in the Locomobile, a car made by Stanley & propelled by this steam |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Andrew Jackson was one of the landowners who founded this Tennessee town overlooking the Mississippi in 1819 Memphis |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Victor Marie du Pont served as a captain of this state's volunteers in the War of 1812 Delaware |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Americans began to occupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it Alaska |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): When this convened in May 1787, Adams was in London, Jefferson was in Paris & Patrick Henry refused to attend the Constitutional Convention |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1663 John Eliot's translation of this, both the old & new parts, appeared in Algonquin The Bible |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The school in Ct. Eleazor Wheelock opened in 1754 to educate natives moved to N.H. in 1770, becoming this college Dartmouth |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Thomas Morton angered the Puritans when he put up a giant one of these for a spring celebration with merrymaking a maypole |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1811 De Witt Clinton went to Washington to try to get funds for this "ditch" the Erie Canal |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): Daniel Shays in 1787, like John Brown in 1859, tried to capture one of these storage places an arsenal |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On August 5, 1498 he landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula, becoming the first European to reach South America Columbus |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: During WWII this colonel amassed power in Argentina; in 1946 he was elected president Juan Peron |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1998 this commander-in-chief of Chile's army & former president was appointed to the Chilean senate Pinochet |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Just before this country gained its independence in 1975, thousands of its people emigrated to Holland Suriname |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1995 Javier Perez de Cuellar ran for president of Peru but was defeated by this man Alberto Fujimori |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1492 this man landed on the island of San Salvador & came in contact with Native Americans called Arawaks Columbus |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Pawtuxet Indian known as Squanto is famous for teaching the Pilgrims how to plant this crop aka maize corn |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew brings a Native American artifact for show and tell.) Warring tribes often used this ceremonial item to try to settle their differences a peace pipe |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WHERE AM I? $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew carries the Bunny Rabbit puppet from Captain Kangaroo through some archives.) I'm with a few of the 3 million objects in this museum of the Smithsonian, once the Museum of History and Technology the Museum of American History (the American History Museum accepted) |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This pact among the U.S., Mexico & Canada took effect in 1994 & aims to eliminate tariffs by 2008 NAFTA |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In the 1880s the Knights of this gave way to the American Federation of this representing workers Labor |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1849, Thomas Ewing, "The Logician of the West", became the USA's first Secy. of this Cabinet Dept. the Interior |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This committee that once claimed 800,000 members was dissolved Dec. 11, 1941 the America First Committee |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Gen. Charles Lee was relieved of command after ordering a retreat at this 1778 New Jersey battle Monmouth |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | ODD AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1833 this 35-inch-tall millionaire wed the 32-inch-tall Lavinia Warren (P.T. had his hand in it...) Tom Thumb |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | ODD AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Way before Ford, an assembly line was set up in Cincinnati in the 1800s to disassemble these animals pigs |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | ODD AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1801 this American boat designer tried to sell his submarine to Napoleon Fulton |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | ODD AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Dexter Pratt, a neighbor of Longfellow, had this job (& presumably, sinewy hands) blacksmith |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | ODD AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Declaring bankruptcy to get out of jail in 1819, he now had time to smell the roses & draw the birds Audubon |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Escaped slaves in the 1850s & draft dodgers in the 1960s mainly headed to this country Canada |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Feb. 15, 1901 Carry Nation wrecked one of these establishments with a hatchet a bar (or a saloon) |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: A fire in 1851 destroyed some 35,000 volumes in its collection the Library of Congress |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Seen here at a Senate hearing, he was the first U.S. Attorney General to be convicted of a felony John Mitchell |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): In the first census conducted in 1790, this state, with nearly 692,000 people, was the most populous Virginia |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | RED ALERT! $800: The 1999 Smithsonian symposium "Red, White, & American" was on the U.S. history of this beverage wine |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | HISTORY $3,200 (Daily Double): In the 1460s this South American people took the Chimu empire; within 100 years they were subdued by the Spanish the Incas |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $700 (Daily Double): This famous nurse was nearly killed when a bullet ripped through her dress at the battle of Antietam Clara Barton |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In the midst of writing his 5 Natty Bumppo tales, he paused to write a "History of the Navy of the United States" (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1682 the Spanish founded the village of Ysleta on the Rio Grande in what later became this state Texas |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Hernando De Soto died of a fever on May 21, 1542 & his body was sunk in this river to keep his death a secret from the Indians the Mississippi |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: He was known as "The One-Legged Governor of New Netherland" Peter Stuyvesant |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Members of the lower class, they were contracted to work without wages to pay for their passage to the New World indentured servants |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In October 1729 Benjamin Franklin purchased this one-year-old newspaper that had a subscription list of 90 the Pennsylvania Gazette |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: As a teen in the 1790's, this South American "liberator" was sent to Spain to complete his schooling Simón Bolívar |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On Nov. 11, 1918, Pvt. Henry Gunther became the last American casualty in this war World War I |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Remarkably, there were more than 60 survivors when this Zeppelin crashed in New Jersey in 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Elected the 19th U.S. president in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was a member of this political party Republican |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Ronald Reagan Library) This man awarded the Medal of Freedom to Ronald Reagan on January 13, 1993 George H.W. Bush |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This Indian "king" for whom a war against American colonists was named was tracked down & killed in 1676 Philip |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600 (Daily Double): Born in 1821, she's the only woman in modern history to have founded a major religion Mary Baker Eddy |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In the 1830s Isaac Dripps added the cowcatcher to this train (locomotive) |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In June 1804 he wrote Alexander Hamilton for an explanation on some alleged slurs made on his character Aaron Burr |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The U.S., though not a member, still sent delegates to this organization's disarmament conference in 1932 the League of Nations |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: John Scopes was fined $100 for his teachings in 1925; Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for doing this in 1872 voting |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $4,400 (Daily Double): Rather than pay a tax to support a war with this country, Henry David Thoreau went to jail Mexico |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: A 1928 campaign slogan promised this "in every pot and a car in every garage" a chicken |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Years of political rivalry led to the July 11, 1804 duel between these 2 men Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1776 this silversmith set up a mill to make gunpowder after the colonists ran out of it at Bunker Hill Paul Revere |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The Confederate States of America were established in 1861 in this city, the first Confederate capital Montgomery, Alabama |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This leader of the Green Mountain Boys was a champion for the creation of the Green Mountain State Ethan Allen |
| #4404, aired 2003-10-30 | CONGRESSIONAL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): When this group, the CBC, was founded in 1971, it aimed for 10% of the House to be African-American -- not there yet the Congressional Black Caucus |
| #4403, aired 2003-10-29 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $600: In 1803 this American piloted a steam-driven paddlewheel boat on the Seine River at about 3 mph Robert Fulton |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | BASEBALL HISTORY $1600: 2 of the 5 cities that had both National League & American League teams in 1903 (2 of 5) Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, or St. Louis |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On February 15, 1898 the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in this Cuban capital's harbor Havana |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This "King of the Wild Frontier" once claimed to have killed 105 bears during a few months in 1825 Davy Crockett |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The "War on" this, approved by Congress in August of 1964, included VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America poverty |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: What's known as the second of these programs began with FDR's January 4, 1935 message to Congress the New Deal |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: John Smith was among the early members on the Council of Seven that governed this Virginia colony Jamestown |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | RESEARCH $2000: "American Memory" is the History section of the website loc.gov, LOC standing for this Library of Congress |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | SEX IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Some New Yorkers c. 1910 wanted the Bunny Hug & Slow Rag, types of these, banned as dangerous to morals dances |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | SEX IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A 1934 set of standards for these said, "Excessive and lustful kissing... are not to be shown" movies |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | CRACK OPEN A U.S. HISTORY BOOK $800: In August 1900 in Chicago, this group, the GAR, held its 34th annual encampment Grand Army of the Republic |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: WAC, the Women's Army Corps, was created during this war World War II |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: What was once the proposed state of Franklin became part of this new state in 1796 Tennessee |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: After serving as postmaster general in 1921 & 1922 he became "czar" of the motion picture industry Will Hays |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1807 Congress passed this act that forbade American ships from trading abroad; it lasted just over a year Embargo Act |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1986 he became the first Italian-American to sit on the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: In 2002 she made movie history as the first African-American to win the Oscar for Best Actress Halle Berry |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This 1876 battle in Montana is also known as Custer's Last Stand Little Big Horn |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In the late 1600s this Asian grain became the main crop of the Carolina coastal lowlands rice |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1972 George McGovern called this president's administration the "most corrupt" in U.S. history Richard Nixon |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1813 this hero of Tippecanoe defeated Tecumseh at the Thames River in Canada William Henry Harrison |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1664 the Duke of York granted land west of the Hudson River to his supporters; it was named this New Jersey |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: This 1862 act gave American citizens 160 acres of land if they'd live on it for at least 5 years & improve it The Homestead Act |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The last of the 13 colonies to be founded, its "Mother City", Savannah, was settled in 1733 Georgia |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In the 1690s pirate captain Kidd was a big macher in this NYC church named for Father, Son & Holy Spirit Trinity Church |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Margaret Brent, America's first woman barrister, was executor of the will of this colony's governor Leonard Calvert Maryland |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1612 John Rolfe introduced a new type of Trinidad tobacco to this settlement Jamestown |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Although it was a separate colony, New Hampshire shared a governor with this colony from 1669 to 1741 Massachusetts |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | LA TRIVIA-TA $800: On May 5, 1904 he pitched the first perfect game in American League history; give that man an award! Cy Young |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Contrary to myth, Washington didn't throw one of these across the Potomac; there weren't any when he was young silver dollar |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1774 New Jerseyites dressed as Indians burned this in Greenwich; a similar "Party" occurred earlier in Boston tea |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1901 the Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, allowing the U.S. to build this in Central America the Panama Canal |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: On May 1, 1898 Commodore Dewey defeated the Spanish Pacific fleet at the battle of this Philippine bay Manila Bay |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On May 10, 1692 this colony founded by Cecil Calvert made the Anglican Church its official church Maryland |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | THE MEADIA $800: In 1926 she became curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History Margaret Mead |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1502, on his fourth voyage, he landed at what is now Trujillo, Honduras Columbus |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1889 this country became a republic when Pedro II gave up his throne Brazil |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1970 he became the first democratically elected Marxist to head a nation in the Western Hemisphere Salvador Allende |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: General Alfredo Stroessner ruled this South American country with an iron hand for 35 years, 1954-1989 Paraguay |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1519, when Cortes entered the capital then called this, many believed he was a god Tenochtitlán |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | MEL GIBSON MOVIES $800: Don't teach your kids history from this 2000 movie in which Mel fights the American Revolution The Patriot |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | A DATE WITH HISTORY $1200: Bobby Fischer became the first American world chess champion defeating this man on Sept. 1, 1972 Boris Spassky |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $1000: Visiting the Hayden planetarium in New York City? Don't miss the American museum of this--it's right next door Natural History |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1805 this territory was created from the Indiana one, with all or parts of the lower & upper peninsulas Michigan |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In May 1980 at least 26 people were killed when this volcano in Washington erupted Mt. St. Helens |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In September 1664 this governor of New Amsterdam surrendered to the British, ending Dutch power in the New World (Peter) Stuyvesant |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Gettysburg Cemetery.) In 1863, Lincoln dedicated this cemetery by saying that "we cannot consecrate--we cannot" do this to "this ground" hallow |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: A 1963 treaty with Mexico settled a boundary dispute between Ciudad Juarez & this Texas city El Paso |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A trusty member of this pair's "Corps of Discovery" was York, the slave of one of them Lewis and Clark |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Treasury Secretary urged force be used on those who protested the tax on whiskey he had imposed in 1791 (Alexander) Hamilton |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Year in which the writers of the Mayflower Compact set pen to paper 1620 |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Patrick Henry's "If This Be Treason" speech was provoked by this 1765 act the Stamp Act |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: The religious movement that began to sweep through the colonies in the 1730s was called the "great" this Awakening |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS $200: The history of evangelism is on display at a Wheaton, Illinois museum named for this evangelist Billy Graham |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: This nickname of a Native American woman, Chief Powhatan's daughter, means "playful one" Pocahontas |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: From 1757 to 1762 this man was ambassador extraordinaire of the American colonies to Great Britain Benjamin Franklin |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On Jan. 19, 1977 President Ford pardoned this woman who'd been convicted of treason in World War II Tokyo Rose |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Lanterns hung in this "Old" church warned patriots of an impending attack in April 1775 the Old North Church |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl is at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.) On November 28, 1946 the Allied Council adjourned their peace talks here at the Waldorf for a dinner of this turkey for Thanksgiving |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This N.Y. woman's 1970 campaign slogan was "This woman's place is in the House -- the House of Representatives!" Bella Abzug |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: Now a state, its independence came after the 20-minute-long 1836 battle of San Jacinto Texas |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Helen Hunt Jackson's 1881 "A Century of Dishonor" was on the government's mistreatment of this group Native Americans |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: There was an abundance of these "zones" in the U.S. until the railroads decided to standardize them in 1883 to 4 time zones |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This state paid to build the Erie Canal New York |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: In April 1682 La Salle claimed the area from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, dubbing it this for his king Louisiana |
| #3922, aired 2001-09-25 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: This 17th century English sea captain gave his name to a large North American bay, a river & a strait (Henry) Hudson |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | WHAT I DID ON SUMMER VACATION $500: Loved the Gown Gallery--an exhibit about the First Ladies--in this Smithsonian museum the Museum of American History |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $100: In 1989 Bertram Lee & Peter Bynoe became the first black owners of a major sports franchise, this city's NBA Nuggets Denver |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: (Hi. I'm Martin Luther King III.) In 1955, my father led a bus boycott in Montgomery after this woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat Rosa Parks |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1957 it became the USA's first major city with a black majority Washington, D.C. |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In the 1940s CORE pioneered sit-ins & also used these protests whose name in show biz means "substitutes" stand-in |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: After his 1859 hanging, Civil War troops sang of this abolitionist's body "mouldering in the grave" John Brown |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this income |
| #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 |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: During WWII America won its 1st major victory over Japan in this naval battle, about 1,200 miles from Hawaii Midway |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: Bushrod, the favorite nephew of this president, became a Supreme Court justice in 1798 George Washington |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | SHAKESPEAREANA $600: The American Film Institute says the oldest complete U.S. feature is a 1912 version of this hunchback history "Richard III" |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | FACES IN HISTORY $200: "Little Lady" depicted here who wrote the bestselling American novel of the 1850s Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | ENDS IN "EE" $600: First published in 1970, Dee Brown's classic "Indian History of the American West" is titled "Bury My Heart" here at Wounded Knee |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | FOOTNOTES IN HISTORY $100: In 1866 Henry Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of this (1)
(1) He also founded a similar society to protect children Cruelty to Animals |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Custer's Last Stand is also known by the oxymoronic name "Little Big" this Horn |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In the 1950s, if your button said, "I Like Ike", he was your man Eisenhower |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Born in Tennessee, Davy Crockett died in what's now this state Texas |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): William Cody's 2-word nickname, or perhaps what he sent out to his clients at the end of each month "Buffalo Bill" |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | AMERICAN BEER HISTORY $100: In 1864 this man joined his father-in-law Eberhard Anheuser in the brewing business Adolphus Busch |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | AMERICAN BEER HISTORY $200: In 1789 this president announced that he would henceforth only drink porter beer made in America George Washington |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | AMERICAN BEER HISTORY $300: In 1612 Adrian Block & Hans Christiansen established the New World's first known brewery on this island Manhattan |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | AMERICAN BEER HISTORY $400: Formed one year earlier, this "Service" began taxing beer at a dollar a barrel in 1862 to finance the Civil War Internal Revenue Service (IRS) |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | AMERICAN BEER HISTORY $500: Beverage World reports that in 1996 the U.S. exceeded this country in number of breweries for the first time Germany |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Famous 1863 speech by President Lincoln that began, "Four score and seven years ago..." the Gettysburg Address |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400 (Daily Double): During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 this 1st permanent English settlement in America was burned to the ground Jamestown |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: It's the year America celebrated its bicentennial 1976 |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Davy Crockett was among nearly 200 men who died defending this mission-fortress in San Antonio, Texas the Alamo |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: After journeying 4,000 miles, this pair's expedition finally reached the Pacific Ocean in November 1805 Lewis & Clark |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | A.A. $200: This tennis player published 1988's "A Hard Road to Glory", a 3-volume history of African-American athletes Arthur Ashe |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1921 the United States paid this country $25 million for its loss of Panama 18 years earlier Colombia |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Tikal & Piedras Negras were major cities of this civilization of northern Guatemala Mayans |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $800: Revolutionary inspiration whose work is read here
"These are times that try men's souls..." Thomas Paine ("The American Crisis") |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: I've had it "on my mind" that this state has joined the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870 Georgia |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: A federal law from 1950 prohibited the labeling of colored oleo as this Butter |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: The Dept. of Agriculture began a new version of this program in 1964; by 1975 it was helping over 17 million people food stamps |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This commodore became a friend to Japan in 1854, showing them the telegraph & a daguerreotype camera Matthew Perry |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, "Free soil, free speech, free men and ..." (John C.) Fremont |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: In September 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that he acted alone in JFK's assassination Lee Harvey Oswald |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On December 20, 1860, as a result of Lincoln's election, this state seceded from the Union South Carolina |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her Dolley Madison |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1916 President Wilson sent this brigadier general into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa John "Black Jack" Pershing |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: In 1932 this Republican was elected governor of Kansas; he won reelection in 1934 Alf Landon |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY "X" $200: In 1938 Chester Carlson didn't copy off the guy sitting next to him when he invented this process Xerography/Xeroxy |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY "X" $400: In 1954 he was appointed chief minister of the Nation of Islam's main temple in Harlem Malcolm X |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY "X" $600: Founded in 1831, it's the oldest Catholic institution of higher learning in what was the NW Territory Xavier University |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY "X" $800: This "affair" caused a quasi-war between France & America in 1798 "X Y Z" Affair |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY "X" $1000: On Aug. 22, 1963 Joe Walker took this rocket plane to a new record altitude of 66 1/2 miles X-15 |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | THAT'S HISTORY $200: This rebel group in Nicaragua was named for an anti-American rebel of the 1920s Sandinistas |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE $5,000 (Daily Double): Alphabetically, this Woody Allen film is last among the 500 films nominated as America's Funniest Zelig |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: 2 forts were founded in Idaho in 1834: Fort Hall & this one that bore the name of the future capital Fort Boise |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Decade that saw the Freedom Summer & the Freedom Riders 1960s |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The only state Reagan didn't carry in 1984 was this one, Mondale's home state Minnesota |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: It's the war that was opposed by some Copperheads Civil War |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The land purchase he negotiated with Mexico was in part intended for a cross-country railroad he wanted to build James Gadsden |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | ASIAN-AMERICAN ACHIEVERS $100: Gary Locke of this "Evergreen State" is the first Chinese-American governor in U.S. history Washington |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: In 1692 the Spanish regained control of this future New Mexico capital from the Pueblo Indians Santa Fe |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1639 the Court of Massachusetts ordered that "The Colledge...to bee built at Cambridg" be called this Harvard |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: The political slogan "As" this state "goes, so goes the nation" dates back to the 1880s Maine |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1857 antislavery forces were set back when the Supreme Court decided the case of this man vs. Sandford Dred Scott |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: On July 31, 1972 this Missouri senator withdrew as McGovern's running mate because of earlier psychiatric care Thomas Eagleton |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | NOTED NATIVE AMERICANS $600: Of Meadowlark, Geese or Curly, the Crow who served as a scout for Custer at Little Big Horn Curly |
| #3566, aired 2000-02-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: On April 18, 1775 he was captured by the British but released; he had to walk back to Lexington Paul Revere |
| #3566, aired 2000-02-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On September 8, 1974, he was granted "A full, free and absolute pardon" Richard Nixon |
| #3566, aired 2000-02-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: FDR's statement "The United States of America was...deliberately attacked by...Japan" was made on this date December 8, 1941 |
| #3566, aired 2000-02-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1824 Andrew Jackson received more popular & electoral votes, but the House declared this man president John Quincy Adams |
