#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $800: Later D.W. Griffith's D.P., Billy Bitzer worked for Hearst on the first film camera team to cover a war, this one the Spanish-American War |
#7124, aired 2015-07-30 | POTPOURRI $1000: In the early 1800s Sequoyah created a syllabary of this Native American language Cherokee |
#6782, aired 2014-02-25 | WOLF POTPOURRI $400: Irish-American Denis Leary loves these huge Irish dogs, though one "scarfed down the headlights on an ATV" a wolfhound |
#6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POTPOURRI $2000: In 1993 the Library of Congress made Rita Dove the first African American to hold this position a poet laureate |
#6278, aired 2011-12-28 | POTPOURRI $600: The actress seen here, a star in Hong Kong & then on American TV, goes by this 1-letter last name Q. |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | MELTING POTPOURRI $600: Add melted cheese & chile peppers to tortilla chips & you get this Mexican-American appetizer nachos |
#5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $200: There are only 12 letters in the alphabet of these American islands Hawaii |
#5477, aired 2008-06-03 | POTPOURRI $400: In the American colonies in the 1770s, the British East India Company had a monopoly on the sale of this beverage tea |
#5468, aired 2008-05-21 | POTPOURRI $400: Contrary to its name, this yellow mustard brand introduced in 1904 is American French's |
#5048, aired 2006-07-19 | THE JEP-TONES WORLD TOUR 2006 $800: No way! The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is Green Day |
#4779, aired 2005-05-19 | 18th CENTURY POTPOURRI $400: The Sugar Act of 1764 taxed American importation of this liquid at 3 cents a gallon molasses |
#4086, aired 2002-05-13 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $1000: She was the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize; she won in 1950 for her poetry Gwendolyn Brooks |
#3572, aired 2000-02-29 | POTPOURRI $200: Contrary to its name, this yellow mustard brand introduced in 1904 is American French's |
#2924, aired 1997-04-24 | POTPOURRI $400: The National Air & Space Museum's planetarium is named for this German-American physicist Albert Einstein |
#2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $100: Known for his patriotic songs, this composer died in 1942, the year of Cagney's Oscar-winning portrayal of him George M. Cohan |
#2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $200: This family had a 70-room mansion in Newport & a chateau, the Biltmore, in North Carolina the Vanderbilts |
#2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $300: In the 1930s Harold Ickes said this Louisiana senator "is suffering from halitosis of the intellect" Huey Long |
#2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $400: In 1898 his New York Journal offered a $50,000 reward for detection of the "Maine Outrage" perpetrator (William Randolph) Hearst |
#2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $500: He was "The Sage of Baltimore" (H.L.) Mencken |
#2681, aired 1996-04-08 | POTPOURRI $500: Samuel Gompers was the first president of this labor organization founded in Ohio in 1886 the AFL (the American Federation of Labor) |
#2678, aired 1996-04-03 | POTPOURRI $200: In the U.S. these include the American Kennel, Boys and Girls, Lions & Sierra Clubs |
#2612, aired 1996-01-02 | POTPOURRI $300: It's the German-American name for Santa Claus Kris Kringle |
#2586, aired 1995-11-27 | POTPOURRI $400: Colorado Springs' museum of the American Numismatic Association has exhibits of medals & these coins |
#2554, aired 1995-10-12 | POTPOURRI $200: Some American Indians ornamented their moccasins with this rodent's quills a porcupine |
#2459, aired 1995-04-20 | POTPOURRI $600: This Chicago-based weekly medical magazine is known as JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association |
#2368, aired 1994-12-14 | POTPOURRI $200: Early North American settlers made this by boiling potash with animal fats soap |
#2341, aired 1994-11-07 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1803 this emperor's youngest brother, Jerome, married an American teenager in Baltimore Napoléon |
#2322, aired 1994-10-11 | POTPOURRI $800: General called "The Father of American Television" David Sarnoff |
#2309, aired 1994-09-22 | POTPOURRI $500: The dollar of this Central American nation is divided into 100 cents, not centavos Belize |
#2211, aired 1994-03-28 | DUCK POTPOURRI $300: Ducks are classified in separate groups called these, a term often associated with American Indians tribes |
#2193, aired 1994-03-02 | POTPOURRI $600: Many adult Africans, Asians & American Indians lack the enzyme used to digest this milk sugar lactose |
#2192, aired 1994-03-01 | WORLD POTPOURRI $500: This South American country ranks third in the world as a grower of cacao beans Brazil |
#2175, aired 1994-02-04 | POTPOURRI $200: Historian & columnist Pierre Berton has been called this North American country's most famous journalist Canada |
#2026, aired 1993-05-31 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $100: This holiday was named for Old Glory Flag Day |
#2026, aired 1993-05-31 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $200: The name of this city near Lexington, Kentucky is spelled the same way as a palace near Paris Versailles |
#2026, aired 1993-05-31 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $300: Before he was president, he was the "Scribe of the Revolution" Jefferson |
#2026, aired 1993-05-31 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $400: Larry McMurtry set "The Last Picture Show" in this, his home state; he was born in Wichita Falls Texas |
#2026, aired 1993-05-31 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $500: The Dismal Swamp covers hundreds of square miles in Virginia & this adjacent state--how dismal North Carolina |
#2019, aired 1993-05-20 | WORLD POTPOURRI $400: The name of this South American city is Portuguese for "River of January" Rio de Janeiro |
#1935, aired 1993-01-22 | EVEN MORE MOOSE POTPOURRI $400: This American novel tells how Tashtego, from a moose-hunting Indian tribe, turned to whale harpooning Moby-Dick |
#1921, aired 1993-01-04 | POTPOURRI $1000: The U.S. Embassy in London was designed by this fFnnish- American architect Eero Saarinen |
#8, aired 1990-08-04 | POTPOURRI $200: Organization which sponsors "The Great American Smokeout" the American Cancer Society |
#1306, aired 1990-04-16 | POTPOURRI $100: He could have used his middle name, but "Snavely's, the great American chocolate bar" doesn't work Hershey |
#471, aired 1986-09-29 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the 1st letter of alphabet that's not the 1st letter of a South American country D |
#358, aired 1986-01-22 | FEMININE POTPOURRI $200: In 1894, American Annie Londonderry became a big wheel by circling the globe on this a bicycle |
#284, aired 1985-10-10 | POTPOURRI $800: As 1 word it's an American Indian sport, as 2 a city in Wisconsin lacrosse (La Crosse) |