| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $1200: The Cooper's type of this bird of prey is soon to be the TBD type as American birds will no longer have people in their common names hawk |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: "Unbought and Unbossed" was a campaign slogan & an autobiography by this first African-American congresswoman Shirley Chisholm |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" Goddard |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $1200: The Ukrainian-American dancer & TV star seen here has this first name that means "greatest" Maksim |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS $400: Eugenio Montero Rios & William P. Frye were names on the 1898 treaty ending this war the Spanish-American War |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $9,200 (Daily Double): A South American cidade & estado both go by this name Rio de Janeiro |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $1200: First name of the philanthropist who has gone by the last names Tuttle, Bezos & now Scott MacKenzie |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: This Native American of the Patuxet people aided the Pilgrims at Plymouth & acted as an interpreter Squanto |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $400: The Wichita call themselves Kitikiti'sh, meaning this animal's "eyes", because of tattoos around their own eyes a raccoon |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $1200: The Winnebago of this state replaced that name, referring to "stinking water", with Ho-Chunk, "people of the big voice" Wisconsin |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $1600: Ca.'s Gabrielinos got that name after the San Gabriel Arcángel one of these, which their labor built; their self-name is Tongva a mission |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $2000: The Cayugas' self-name means "people of the great swamp", Cayuga being one of this group of lakes in New York State the Finger Lakes |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): This large southwestern people call themselves the Diné & named mystery writer Tony Hillerman special friend to the Diné the Navajo |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $400: This island seen here is about 30 miles south of Cape Cod Nantucket |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1200: This city, B'gosh, is located where the Upper Fox River enters Lake Winnebago Oshkosh |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1600: For a romantic getaway, some couples head to Hawley or Lakeville in these mountains within northeastern Pennsylvania the Poconos |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $2000: Located near the Oregon border, this Washington city with a double-talk name is famous for its wines & vineyards Walla Walla |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the capital of a state & the seat of Laramie County Cheyenne |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | MIDDLE NAMES $800: Finley & Breese were the middle names of this 19th century American inventor & painter (Samuel F.B.) Morse |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $200: A Wesleyan residence is named for this African-American leader; a cultural center at Mount Holyoke, for his wife Betty Shabazz Malcolm X |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $800: In 2021 this S.E.C. school in Alabama renamed Eagle Hall to honor Dr. Josetta Brittain Matthews, its first African-American graduate Auburn University |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | GEOLOGY $200: Types of lava include the smooth pahoehoe type & the rougher aa--both names come from this American island language Hawaiian |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | NAMES IN FASHION $200: The tennis shirt is now called a polo shirt thanks to this American designer Ralph Lauren |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: The U.S. Naval Academy is the final resting place of this "Father of the American Navy" (John Paul) Jones |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: An astronomer & mathematician, this African-American with an alliterative name helped survey they area that became Washington, D.C. (Benjamin) Banneker |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | NAMES OF WORLD WAR II $2000: This American officer led an air raid on Tokyo in April 1942 Jimmy Doolittle |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: One of the proposed names for what became this state capital was Missouriopolis Jefferson City |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $200: At the age of 12 this future Founding Father was apprenticed to his brother James, a printer Ben Franklin |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: Linus Pauling wrote a bestselling book called this vitamin "and the Common Cold" vitamin C |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $600: "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" is a 1971 collection of poetry by this African-American woman Maya Angelou |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $800: He failed in a few candy businesses before founding the Lancaster Caramel Company in 1886; later it was on to chocolate (Milton) Hershey |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $1,500 (Daily Double): The movie "Rope" was partly based on a murder committed by this pair, first names Nathan & Richard Leopold & Loeb |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | BRAND NAMES $800: In 1958 this credit card began as BankAmericard when cards with a $500 limit were sent out as an experiment Visa |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $200: After manually guiding the Eagle to the Moon, this first in command went on to get a Pres. Medal of Freedom that same year Neil Armstrong |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: In 1971 the president pardoned this man with the provision that he stay out of union affairs until 1980 Jimmy Hoffa |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $600: From 1985 to 1995 Wilma Mankiller was principal chief of this Native American nation based in Oklahoma the Cherokee |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $800: The London Times mocked his mechanical reaper as "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow & a flying machine" Cyrus McCormick |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $1000: Passions were inflamed in the 1940s when this researcher published his findings on Americans' sex lives (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ONCE-POPULAR FIRST NAMES $400: Jewish immigrant parents favored names that sounded more American like this one of Kubrick & Kramer Stanley |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $400: In 1904 she was the head of the U.S. delegation to the International Council of women Susan B. Anthony |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $800: At the age of 6 this Tuscumbia, Alabama girl was examined by Alexander Graham Bell Helen Keller |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $1200: As he traveled in the early 19th c., he planted medicinal herbs like catnip & wintergreen as well as the seeds that made him famous Johnny Appleseed |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $1600: This first casualty of the Boston Massacre lay in state at Faneuil Hall Crispus Attucks |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $2000: This artist who made mobiles went into the family business: his father & grandfather were both artists (Alexander) Calder |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: These are the last names of Felix & Oscar, the 2 mismatched roommates of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" Ungar & Madison |
| #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 |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | ABBREVIATED ABC $200: In names of U.S. TV networks, ABC stands for this company the American Broadcasting Company |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUIS $200: The real name of this marquis & American Revolution hero: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Lafayette |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES ON THE ROAD $1600: Taking you from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, the Commodore Barry Bridge celebrates a "Father of the American" this force the Navy |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | 3-WORD CITY NAMES $6,000 (Daily Double): The full name of this South American city begins with Cidade de Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES $400: These rodents of the American West don't just bark; their sounds can tell the colony, "Tall human in blue shirt approaching" a prairie dog |
| #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 |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WOMEN & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $200: Mary Goddard of Baltimore was the first to print this document & include most of the signers' names the Declaration of Independence |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $2000: American choreographer & ballet company founder Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan Robert Joffrey |
| #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 |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $600: The names of these 2 South American countries end in the same 4 letters Paraguay & Uruguay |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: This state name originally honored the queen whom Sir Walter Raleigh served Virginia |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: It's the only Great Lake whose name is not derived from a Native American language Superior |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $600: This state's Motley County was named for a physician killed in the Battle of San Jacinto Texas |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1000: This Ohio city is named for the Prussian who trained soldiers during the Revolutionary War Steubenville |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this Minn. waterfall is Dakota for "waterfall"; Longfellow named a Native American woman for it Minnehaha |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | BRAND NAMES AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Dutch have a flavor of these chips called Cool American, which is Cool Ranch to us Doritos |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | OFFICIAL NATIONAL NAMES $1000: The "Oriental Republic of" this small South American country borders Brazil Uruguay |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | THE "EX" FACTOR $400: In names of businesses, it follows both "American" & "Panda" Express |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | REDUNDANT SOUNDING NAMES $400: Last name of American general Arthur, father of American general Douglas MacArthur |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | REDUNDANT SOUNDING NAMES $1200: "The World from the Side of the Moon" is the debut album by this "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | RAP STAGE NAMES $600: This Cuban-American rapper named himself for the tenacious qualities of a certain dog Pitbull |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $1600: In 2013 these 2 airlines with homegrown names announced they would merge American & U.S. |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | NAMES IN AMERICAN LORE $200: Born in New England in 1774, he planted his way to central Ohio & beyond Johnny Appleseed |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | NAMES IN AMERICAN LORE $400: He said, "Before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, Lord, I'd die with this hammer in my hand" John Henry |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | NAMES IN AMERICAN LORE $600: This Sioux leader surrendered at Fort Buford in 1881, 5 years after winning a "little" battle Sitting Bull |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | NAMES IN AMERICAN LORE $800: It was the nickname of high-living turn-of-the-20th century financier James Brady Diamond Jim |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | NAMES IN AMERICAN LORE $1000: Known as "The King of the Keelboatmen", he was a leading pilot on the Mississippi River Mike Fink |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2 whose names come from Native American words Massachusetts and Connecticut |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | HORSE BREED NAMES $800: The name of this horse of the American plains comes from a Spanish word meaning "stray" the mustang |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1200: Manila, Utah receieved its name in 1898 to commemorate a victory by Admiral Dewey during this war the Spanish American War |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | INDIAN GAMING $1600: Baggataway was one of the original Native American names for this stick & ball game lacrosse |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | ANIMAL NAMES $2000: This South American monkey seen here is named for its soft, thick fur a wooly monkey |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: The name of this river that flows past Mount Vernon may mean "place where people trade" the Potomac |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: This capital city of Florida got its name from Creek words meaning "old town" Tallahassee |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1200: Merle Haggard sang, "I'm proud to be an Okie from" this place Muskogee |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1600: In 1863 a Civil War battle took place around Chickamauga Creek in this state Georgia |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Massai Point in this state's Cochise County was named for an Apache warrior Arizona |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | JOHNS' MIDDLE NAMES $1200: American economist John Galbraith Kenneth |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | MIDDLE NAMES $1200: An American naval hero: Hazard (Oliver Hazard) Perry |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | NOTABLE NAMES $800: During a trip to Europe in 1804, this South American liberator vowed to fight for independence from Spain Bolívar |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | FUN WITH AMERICAN IDOL NAMES $400: A sorcerer's apprentice? No, it's this stage star, reality TV star & winner of season 3 Fantasia Barrino |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | FUN WITH AMERICAN IDOL NAMES $800: This winner of season 8 sounds like he has 2 first names Kris Allen |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | FUN WITH AMERICAN IDOL NAMES $1200: Although he was a bartender before winning season 7, his name makes him sound more like a chef David Cook |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | FUN WITH AMERICAN IDOL NAMES $1600: "I wonder" if this country cutie from season 5 enjoys making her own dills Kellie Pickler |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | FUN WITH AMERICAN IDOL NAMES $2000: You might say this season 6 winner is so electrifying that she gives off discharges Jordin Sparks |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | REAL NAMES IN SPORTS $1000: Brooklyn Pope was a McDonald's High School All-American before playing for this state university of New Jersey Rutgers |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | FAMOUS NAMES IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE $400: The houseguests boot this American general who took over command of Philadelphia in 1778 for his dastardly double dealing (Benedict) Arnold |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | NOTABLE NAMES $2000: The U.S. embassy in London was designed by this Finnish-American architect (Eero) Saarinen |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1690 British navigator John Strong named the channel between 2 South American islands for Viscount this Falkland |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: Like its lengthy river, this state's name is Algonquian for "great water" Mississippi |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: Laugh all you like but Hiawatha's wife in a poem by Longfellow was named for this Minnesota waterfall Minnehaha |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: Although its name means "place of sandflies", we associate this Pennsylvania borough with groundhogs Punxsutawney |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Moving right along--this large Alabama city, as well as a river & bay, was named for an Indian tribe in the region Mobile |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1000: An RV maker based in Iowa shares its name with this large Wisconsin lake Winnebago |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | NOTABLE NAMES $800: Postage stamp glue is one of the more than 100 products this African American developed from sweet potatoes (George Washington) Carver |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | CELEBS' ORIGINAL NAMES $1200: "American Idol" heartthrob Clayton Holmes Grissom Clay Aiken |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | DOUBLE SAINT NAMES $1200: He started the American Fur Company in 1808 John Jacob Astor |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names The Miracle Worker |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | FIRST NAMES $1000: 19th century English illustrator Greenaway, or 19th century American author Chopin Kate |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | FAMOUS NAMES $2000: Pictured here, she was the first president of the American Red Cross Clara Barton |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | NAMES OF THE '60s $400: After leaving the Nation of Islam in March 1964, he formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity Malcolm X |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | INITIALLY YOURS $1000: An American pop singer has gone by this, among other names:
TAFKAP The Artist Formerly Known as Prince |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | NAMES OF THE '70s $1600: She's the North American political wife seen here consorting with royalty Margaret Trudeau |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1,500 (Daily Double): These largest cities of Michigan & Iowa were both given French names Detroit & Des Moines |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | DEAD GUYS WITH 3 NAMES $2000: This founder of The Liberator was president of the American Anti-Slavery Society from 1843 to 1865 William Lloyd Garrison |
| #4935, aired 2006-02-10 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: He was president of the United States during the Spanish-American War McKinley |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: In the 1670s, this Quaker preached in Germany, & many of his listeners later came to his American colony William Penn |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS $800: 1620:
"We whose names are underwritten... combine ourselves together into a civil body politick" the Mayflower Compact |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | NOTABLE NAMES $800: During the Civil War, this American painter known for his seascapes made drawings at the front for Harper's Weekly Winslow Homer |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | PEN NAMES $1200: This Russian-American novelist published his early Russian works as V. Sirin Nabokov |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: Immigrants from this country named a South Dakota county Haakon, in honor of King Haakon VII Norway |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: This Los Angeles suburb was named for a New Hampshire-born dentist, not the potato guy Burbank |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1200: George Vancouver named this volcano for the baronial title of Alleyne Fitzherbert, a British diplomat Mount St. Helens |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1600: This city's name is from the French for "strait"; it lies on a strait between Lake Erie & Lake St. Clair Detroit |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $7,000 (Daily Double): This Penn. city was named for 2 members of the British parliament who were sympathetic to the American Colonies Wilkes-Barre |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | BRAND NAMES $800: Founded in 1914, the American Pop Corn Company makes this "happy" brand of popcorn, America's first Jolly Time |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: This Kansas capital derives its name from the Siouan for "A good place to dig potatoes"; can you dig it? Topeka |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: "Buffalo Fish & Tyler Too" doesn't sound quite as poetic as this Indian name for the river Tippecanoe |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $600: As a child George W. Bush spent summers with his family at their home in this Maine town Kennebunkport |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: You'd have a whale of a good time visiting this Massachusetts island whose name may mean "the faraway land" Nantucket |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1000: Appropriately, this lake near the Everglades has a Seminole name meaning "big water" Okeechobee |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | PEAKING AT NAMES $1,200 (Daily Double): Appropriately, Pico Cristobal Colon is the highest peak in this South American country Colombia |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | BEASTLY NAMES $800: The paternal grandfather of this current Mexican leader was an Irish-American from Ohio Vicente Fox |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | BEASTLY NAMES $1200: "Whooping" it up at Christmas, 1899 helped finish off this tubercular American writer Stephen Crane |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NOTABLE NAMES $2000: A former slave, this man seen here was the most prominent African-American spokesman of the 1800s Frederick Douglass |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: This New York island is named for the Indians who sold it to Peter Minuit in 1626 Manhattan |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: Possibly meaning "great salt water" or "on the big bay", it's the big bay that divides Maryland Chesapeake Bay |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $600: Oh, b'gosh! This Wisconsin city bears the name of a Menominee chief who died in 1858 Oshkosh |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: Referring to its Platte River, this state's name is from an Indian word meaning "flat water" Nebraska |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Pennsylvania valley gave its name to the transport seen here Conestoga (Conestoga wagon) |
| #4184, aired 2002-11-07 | THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED $400: In bygone days this North American national capital was Bytown Ottawa, Canada |
| #4184, aired 2002-11-07 | THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED $600: In 1971 Norman Lear turned the British series "Till Death Us Do Part" into this American TV hit All in the Family |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: This king died in 1760, leaving it to his grandson & successor to lose the American colonies George II |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | AMERICAN POETS $1200: The park behind the New York Public Library is named for this poet whose given names were William Cullen Bryant |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BIG NAMES IN SPORTS $800: At Wimbledon 1969, aged 41, this Mexican-American saved 7 match points to beat Charlie Pasarell Pancho Gonzales |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1000: Albert Smith, mayor of this suburb, helped stop American Nazis from marching there in the late 1970s Skokie (Illinois) |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $600: Winning in 1948, he was the first American Olympic figure skating champion (Dick) Button |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1000: In 1992 he became the first African-American to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar John Singleton |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | FRAGILE-SOUNDING NAMES $2000: He's the American composer of "Einstein on the Beach" (Philip) Glass |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | AMERICAN MEMORIALS $200: This Washington D.C. memorial has over 58,000 names inscribed on it the Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | NAMES OF THE '80s $1600: In 1983 this flutist flaunted his anonymity in an American Express ad James Galway |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | NAMES OF THE '80s $2000: In 1986 Howard the Duck lost at the box office & this American won the Tour de France Greg LeMond |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names The Miracle Worker |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | VERB FIRST NAMES $1000: To bestow, like a "gothic" American painter from Iowa grant |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | BEFORE, AFTER $900 (Daily Double): They're the 2 different names of this city before & after the events seen here Saigon & Ho Chi Minh City |
| #3846, aired 2001-04-30 | PENN. NAMES $600: The origins of this city's name are fishy; it may be from the Latin altus for "high" or from a Native American word Altoona |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | HISTORIC NAMES $1,400 (Daily Double): American flags flew at half-mast when this Frenchman died in Paris May 20, 1834 Marquis de Lafayette |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: You're on the money if you know she's the Native American guide depicted on the new gold-colored dollar coin Sacajawea |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: This American businessman known as the "Pickle King" could have had 56 other varieties instead of nicknames H.J. Heinz |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $500: This comedian ran for president on the Straight Talking American Government, or STAG, party ticket Pat Paulsen |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1000: Laurent Clerc helped this man open the first free American school for the deaf in 1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: His 2 middle names were Scott & Key F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: He's the American hero seen here Charles Lindbergh |
| #3293, aired 1998-12-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: In May 1927 this American aviator became the first man to fly the Atlantic solo Charles Lindbergh |
| #3218, aired 1998-09-09 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $200: The 2 South American countries whose names end with the letters "guay" Paraguay & Uruguay |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | NOTABLE NAMES $1000: This caustic critic & expert on "The American Language" was associated with The Baltimore Sun for over 40 years H.L. Mencken |
| #3058, aired 1997-12-10 | PEN NAMES $500: American P.O.W.s called North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison this after the hotels known for better accommodations "The Hanoi Hilton" |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | NOTABLE NAMES $300: At Moscow's American National Exhibition in 1959, they engaged in an impromptu "kitchen debate" Richard Nixon & Nikita Khrushchev |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Some of the names in this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work were taken from tombstones in a Lewiston, Illinois cemetery Spoon River Anthology |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1996 this 20-year-old African-American golfer won a record third consecutive U.S. Amateur title Tiger Woods |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Bicycling Magazine named this American "Cyclist of the Year" in 1986 Greg LeMond |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | FAMOUS NAMES $1000: In 1817, with Laurent Clerc, he established what became the American School for the Deaf in Hartford (Thomas) Gallaudet |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Of American Indian ancestry, Colorado senator Ben Campbell adopted this middle name in 1980 Nighthorse |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): He published his "English Dictionary" more than 70 years before Webster's "American Dictionary" (Samuel) Johnson |
| #2561, aired 1995-10-23 | DIARISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Names in this French-born American woman's diaries include Henry Miller & Lawrence Durrell Anais Nin |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | POETRY $400: In "American Names", Stephen Vincent Benet said to "Bury" this "at Wounded Knee" My Heart |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | LAKES & RIVERS $200: The Spanish & Portuguese names are the same for this 3,900-mile-long South American river the Amazon |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | NOTABLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1951, this American biologist went to Cambridge, where his life became intwined with Francis Crick's James D. Watson |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | MIDDLE NAMES $600: It was the middle name of American sculptor Daniel French Chester |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Jose Napoleon Duarte was sworn in as president of this Central American country in June 1984 El Salvador |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: While in Paris in 1804, this South American liberator attended Napoleon's coronation Simon Bolivar |
| #2187, aired 1994-02-22 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: The house where she supposedly stitched the first American flag still stands in Philadelphia Betsy Ross |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | AMERICAN BUSINESS $800: Among the brand names owned by this firm are Meow Mix, Hostess Twinkies & Rye-Krisp Crackers Ralston Purina |
| #2046, aired 1993-06-28 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: Russian-American choreographer who was the brother of Soviet composer Andrei Balanchivadze George Balanchine |
| #2030, aired 1993-06-04 | MARQUIS ON THE NAMES $400: He was about 2 when he inherited the title & 19 when he went to fight with the American colonists Lafayette |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: A plane crash in March 1931 claimed the life of this "All American" football coach Knute Rockne |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: In 1992 this former Central American dictator was sentenced to 40 years on drug & racketeering charges Noriega |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: American gangster Jack Diamond got this nickname from his speedy escapes Legs |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | FAMOUS NAMES $500 (Daily Double): On Dec. 4, 1991, after 2,450 days, he became the last American hostage released by Lebanese captors Terry Anderson |
| #1815, aired 1992-06-19 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $200: Andrew Rowan carried a message to this man in Cuba at the start of the Spanish-American War García |
| #1625, aired 1991-09-27 | HISTORIC NAMES $500: In 1813 this American naval leader sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" Perry |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: This American composer & conductor did some work under the pseudonym "Lenny Amber" Leonard Bernstein |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | MIDDLE NAMES $400: Middle name of "First Lady of the American Theater" Helen Brown Hayes |
| #1435, aired 1990-11-23 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: He told the 1932 Democratic convention, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people" Roosevelt |
| #1344, aired 1990-06-07 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: This South American leader was the continent's first freely elected Marxist president Salvador Allende |
| #1282, aired 1990-03-13 | FASHION $200: The first names of the 2 "Kleins" in the forefront of 20th century American fashion Calvin & Anne |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | AUTOMOBILE NAMES $500: This American Motors car had the same name as an invisible being who causes mechanical problems Gremlin |
| #1035, aired 1989-02-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This wild frontiersman's first & middle names were James Butler; where Bill came from isn't known (Wild Bill) Hickok |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Australian-American media magnate who's been compared to Citizen Kane (Rupert) Murdoch |
| #990, aired 1988-12-16 | COUNTRIES $800: The 2 Central American countries that have 2-word names El Salvador & Costa Rica |
| #981, aired 1988-12-05 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: This "Father of the American Navy" later became a Rear Admiral in the Russian Navy John Paul Jones |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $400: In the Algonquian language, this historic North Carolina site was "Chickahauk" Kitty Hawk |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $600: Indian tribe that shares its name with a southwestern river & a venomous "monster" the Gila |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $800: A river, a lake & a city in Wisconsin were all named for this weapon a tomahawk |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $1000: The name of this southern state capital is a Creek Indian word for "old town" Tallahassee |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | RECENT HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Names of the Soviet & American spacecraft that docked in space on July 17, 1975 Soyuz & Apollo |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | PLACE NAMES $400: Despite its name, this South American body of water is an estuary, not a river of silver Rio de la Plata |
| #864, aired 1988-05-12 | ACTRESSES' REAL NAMES $400: Chinese-American actress of the '30s whose real name, Wong Liu Tsong, meant "frosted yellow willow" Anna May Wong |
| #822, aired 1988-03-15 | BEER $500: The names of more American brands of beer begin with this 3-letter word than any other old |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $100: It's the name of a Cherokee village in Louisiana & a Bankhead from Alabama Tallulah |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $200: The name of this huge southern swamp means "trembling water", as Pogo could tell you Okefenokee |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $300: Fort whose American Indian name means "between 2 waters", as Ethan Allen could tell you Ticonderoga |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $400: This town's name meant "land of the tobacco pipe", but it's better known as Frank Sinatra's birthplace Hoboken |
| #647, aired 1987-06-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of 7, 18 or 26, number of U.S. states that have Indian names 26 |
| #517, aired 1986-12-02 | OTHER NAMES $1000: Middle name of American dress designer Roy Frowick Halston |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Among his pen names were Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman & Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
| #313, aired 1985-11-20 | STARTS WITH "B" $200: The 2 South American countries whose names begin with “B” Brazil & Bolivia |
| #291, aired 1985-10-21 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Hopatcong, Hackensack, & Hoboken are Indian names of places in this state New Jersey |
