| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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) |
| #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 |
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