| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZES $1600: This American took home the 2023 Economics Prize for her studies on women in the workforce & the wage gap (Claudia) Goldin |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1200: In 1924 she began working with the American Foundation for the Blind & for over 40 years was its leading ambassador Keller |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $2000: In 1972 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a founder of this organization's Women's Rights Project; full name, please the American Civil Liberties Union |
| #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 |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Britannica says this woman who wore turbans, gambled & took snuff "may be said to have created the role of the first lady" (Dolley) Madison |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was a key player in the design of this 1935 act creating a national pension system Social Security |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: She gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech at an 1851 women's rights convention, though she probably never used that phrase Sojourner Truth |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: This actor, philanthropist & Titanic survivor went by "Maggie"; her famous nickname was a posthumous invention (Molly) Brown |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $10,600 (Daily Double): She was the star of a 1903 vaudeville play titled "Hatchetation" Carrie Nation |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it three years later Margaret Mead |
| #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 |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | OFFICIAL NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): For 2020, the centennial year of American women getting to vote, Philadelphia got this altered nickname the City of Sisterly Love |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $2000: In one of his final posts before his death in 1895, this African American served as U.S. minister to Haiti Frederick Douglass |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $2000: Rigoberta Menchú of this country won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of Central American indigenous people Guatemala |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $1000: This American striker had a 5-goal game to begin the 2019 Women's World Cup, & it was USA all the way Alex Morgan |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Dorothy Andersen was the first to identify this disease, CF for short, & helped create the first tests to diagnose it cystic fibrosis |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In the 1950s, she broke the color barrier in tennis & became the first Black American to win a Grand Slam tournament (Althea) Gibson |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: For a 1915 exhibition to help raise money for women's suffrage, this Impressionist sent a number of her works from France Cassatt |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: She served in the Senate from 2003 to 2009; her late husband served from 1969 to 1996 Elizabeth Dole |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Many of her photos were published in the 1939 book "An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion" (Dorothea) Lange |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $1200: This Terry McMillan bestseller centers on 4 African-American women living in Phoenix & their challenges with men & life Waiting to Exhale |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $800: In 2015 this African-American prima ballerina made her Broadway debut in "On the Town" Misty Copeland |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $200: Susan La Flesche, the first Native person to get this kind of degree, had a solo practice covering the vast Omaha reservation an MD (a medical degree) |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 1613 the English kidnapped this daughter of Powhatan to use her as a hostage in negotiations Pocahontas |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $600: Sarah Winnemucca was the first Native woman to secure this protection, with 1883's "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims" a copyright |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Making-Out-Road divorced this frontiersman & state capital name source Cheyenne style, leaving his stuff outside her lodge Kit Carson |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: A mural in Oklahoma's capitol honors 5 Native American ballerinas, including these 2 sisters, Maria & Marjorie the Tallchief sisters |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | ETHNIC GROUPS $600: Meredith Vieira has been named Woman of the Year by PAWA, which stands for this "American Women's Association" Portuguese |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE LEAGUE LEADER $400: 6 months before the 19th Amendment was ratified, the Natl. American Woman Suffrage Association got reorganized under this name the League of Women Voters |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $1200: Seen here with husband David Foster, she first gained notice on "American Idol" & has been recording & acting ever since Katharine McPhee |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $1200: As runner-up on the Season 10 finale of "American Idol", country star Lauren Alaina got to sing with her idol, this season 4 winner Carrie Underwood |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "M"EDICINE $400: The American Cancer Society recommends this screening yearly for women aged 45 to 54 a mammogram |
| #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 |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | MAGAZINES $1000: "Lifestyle, fashion & beauty" is the nature of this "magazine for African-American women" Essence |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | AWARD-WINNING WOMEN $1600: At the Tokyo Olympics, this American swimmer won 2 golds & 2 silvers, bringing her total to 10 Olympic medals Ledecky |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: "Modern Woman", a mural done for the 1893 Chicago Expo by this female American in Paris, no longer exists Mary Cassatt |
| #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 |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1600: A troubled lifelong friendship between 2 women is at the heart of this Nobel Prize winner's novel "Sula" Morrison |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1000: This Swiss-born American psychiatrist who identified the 5 stages of grief Kübler-Ross |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 2019 former MVP Maya Moore stepped away from playing in this league to work on criminal justice reform the WNBA |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: "Torchy Brown" creator Jackie Ormes was the first African-American woman to have one of these published in a major newspaper a comic strip |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Hazel Scott briefly hosted her own TV show before this group, HUAC, set its sights on her the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: Fannie Lou Hamer's speech trying to integrate the Miss. delegation at this 1964 gathering made LBJ scramble to get her off the air Democratic National Convention |
| #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 |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $400: In 1907 as part of a Jamestown Exposition set, she became the first Native American woman on a U.S. stamp Pocahontas |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $800: The Legends of American Music series in 1994 included Ethel Waters & this Broadway Ethel Ethel Merman |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $1200: As part of a Great American series, this artist who made a big impression in France appeared on a 1988 stamp Cassatt |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $1600: This Latin American icon who made a big splash in U.S. movies appeared with her tutti-frutti hat on a 2011 stamp Carmen Miranda |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $2000: The first African American soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, this contralto was honored on a stamp in 2005 Marian Anderson |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | WOMEN IN CONGRESS $1600: Between her cabinet posts & repping N.C. in the Senate, she served as president of the American Red Cross from 1991 to 1999 Dole |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $800: Under the 1907 Expatriation Act, American women who married foreigners were stripped of this; the 1922 Cable Act gave it back citizenship |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | THE BEST OF TIMES $1000: In 2016, this American swimmer set an Olympic record in the women's 400-meter freestyle Katie Ledecky |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | RUTH BADER GINSBURG $600: As director of the Women's Rights Project for this "Union", Ruth argued cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | THE AMERICAN LEAGUE $800: This league that sponsored the 1976, 1980 & 1984 U.S. presidential debates celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020 the League of Women Voters |
| #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 |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: 4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel The Joy Luck Club |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $800: While working in Rome, American sculptor Harriet Hosmer befriended these married British poets and cast their clasped hands the Brownings |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: "The House on Mango Street" is the first book of fiction by this Mexican-American woman (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Mary Outerbridge brought this game to the U.S. in the 1870s, but Customs gave her trouble over her net, which was not for fishing tennis |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet secretary, was on the committee that designed this "security" blanket made law in 1935 Social Security |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: In Oct. 2019 I.S.S. astronauts Christina Koch & Jessica Meir made the 1st all-female this venture; on Jan. 15, 2020 they did it again a space walk |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: In 1904 Ida Tarbell set a "standard" for muckraking by helping to expose corruption in this industry oil |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Martha Washington often joined George at his wartime quarters & like the soldiers, was inoculated against this smallpox |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | AMERICA'S RICHEST SELF-MADE WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): Pleasant Rowland started this historical brand when she couldn't find suitable dolls for her nieces American Girl |
| #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 |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AMERICAN WOMEN & POLITICS $200: In 2008 she became the first Republican woman nominee for vice president (Sarah) Palin |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AMERICAN WOMEN & POLITICS $400: Her resume includes 32nd attorney general of California, U.S. senator, and recent presidential hopeful (Kamala) Harris |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AMERICAN WOMEN & POLITICS $600: In 1996 & again in 2000, Winona LaDuke was the vice presidential running mate of this Green Party candidate Ralph Nader |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AMERICAN WOMEN & POLITICS $800: As secretary of state, she was fourth in line to the presidency, but born in Prague, she was ineligible for the the office (Madeleine) Albright |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AMERICAN WOMEN & POLITICS $1000: So far, Christine Todd Whitman, in office from 1994 to 2001, has been this state's only female governor New Jersey |
| #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 |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | INSPIRING WOMEN $200: American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass was piloting one of the 38 planes that were diverted to Newfoundland on this date September 11th |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $1000: 7 of the top 10 books on the list were written by women, including this series by Diana Gabaldon Outlander |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $1600: The style Collegiate Gothic began with Pembroke Hall & other buildings at this women's college outside Philadelphia Bryn Mawr |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | WOMEN COMPOSERS $800: The first symphony by an American woman was Amy Beach's "Gaelic Symphony", first performed in 1896 by this group, the BSO for short the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: Carrie Chapman Catt founded this league in 1920 during the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association the League of Women Voters |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $200: Secretary of State 2005-2009, she was named to the college football playoff selection committee in 2013 Condoleezza Rice |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In the early 1920s she toured the vaudeville circuit where she told her life story translated by Anne Sullivan Helen Keller |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $600: In 2016, this animal expert & autism spokesperson was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Temple Grandin |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In 1777 the Pennsylvania State Navy Board paid her for making "ship's colours, &c" Betsy Ross |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: In addition to owning the company, she was the publisher of the Watergate-era Washington Post Katharine Graham |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | WOMEN SOLDIERS $400: In 1782 Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man & enlisted & served during this war the American Revolution |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | WOMEN SOLDIERS $1600: A comrade of Geronimo, Dahteste was a 19th century female warrior of this Native American tribe the Apache |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WOMEN OLYMPIANS $200: American saber specialist Ibtihaj Muhammad wore a hijab competing in this Olympic sport in 2016 fencing |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | AMERICAN GODS $400: Placed under a bed, figurines of the Maya goddess Ixchel protect women during this childbirth |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THIS IS 40: LITERARY EDITION $1600: Mrs. Wu turns 40 & changes her life in "Pavilion of Women", a China-set 1946 book by this American woman Pearl Buck |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: "The Minister's Wooing" & "Dread" are lesser-known novels written in 1850s by this American Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | WOMEN ON TV $200: At a reported salary of $25 million, in 2017 Katy Perry took a judging gig on this show American Idol |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Ex-slave & conductor on the Underground Railroad who served as a spy for the Union in the Civil War Harriet Tubman |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $800: This artist began living in New Mexico in the 1930s, eventually buying a hacienda in Abiquiu with a large garden Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: "Always, Rachel" is a collection of letters by this author of "Silent Spring" (Rachel) Carson |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: A 1917 Carnegie Hall audience heard her defend birth control, saying she was 1 of 11 kids, causing her mom to die young Margaret Sanger |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): She coined the term "Lost Generation" for expatriate writers like Ernest Hemingway Gertrude Stein |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $200: It's alternately titled "Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" Little Women |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | THE LOOK OF CULTURE $800: In this South American country, one body type for women is called "um corpo de violao", shaped like a guitar Brazil |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | SUFFRAGETTE CITY $200: The National American Woman Suffrage Association became the League of these in Chicago in 1920 women voters |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $2000: It was the field of Maria Mitchell, the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences astronomy |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Rewards totaling over $10,000 were reportedly offered for the capture of this woman called the "Moses of Her People" Harriet Tubman |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: After a 166-day confirmation process, she succeeded Eric Holder in a government job Loretta Lynch |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: This singer entertained us from the 1930s into the '90s; enjoy some of her genius now Ella Fitzgerald |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: In 1995, decades after the assassination of her husband Medgar, she became head of the NAACP Myrlie Evers |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Last name of N.Y. congresswoman Shirley, the first African American to mount a serious run for president from a major party Chisholm |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | A WOMEN'S CATEGORY $1200: This lineage-based women's organization was founded October 11, 1890 the Daugthers of the American Revolution (or DAR) |
| #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 |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $200: The hall is housed in Seneca Falls in this state, the birthplace of the American women's rights movement New York |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1000: 3 African-American women were in the first class of 1973: Mary Bethune, Harriet Tubman & this opera singer Marian Anderson |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1983, she went where no American woman had gone before Sally Ride |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: In "The Women of" this location, Gloria Naylor wove together the stories of 7 African-American women The Women of Brewster Place |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $2000: In 1979 the ashes of this renowned Greek-American soprano were scattered in the Aegean Sea Maria Callas |
| #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 |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 2016, 40 years after she became a "Today" show regular, she became the new host of CBS' "Sunday Morning" Jane Pauley |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In 1889 journalist Nellie Bly tried to beat the record of Phileas Fogg in this novel & did, by more than a week Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: This historian wrote the memoir "Wait Till Next Year" about her childhood as Brooklyn Dodgers fan Doris Kearns Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): After the Battle of Cedar Mountain in 1862, a surgeon wrote, "If heaven ever sent out a(n)...angel," she "must be one" Clara Barton |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: This New York-born Supreme Court justice was the first female U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Letter from Peking", she wrote of an American woman separated from her Chinese-American husband Pearl S. Buck |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: In 2015 she became the first African-American woman to win for Lead Actress in a Drama Series Viola Davis |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: In 1961 she topped Clare Boothe Luce & Jackie Kennedy to be named woman most admired by Americans for the 13th time in 14 years Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Gloria Steinem said, "A woman has two choices: either she's" this term "or a masochist" a feminist |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600: In 1967 Kathrine Switzer broke the gender barrier by becoming the first female runner to officially enter this race the Boston Marathon |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: "She guided Post through Pentagon Papers and Watergate", said the headline of her obituary in her own paper Katharine Graham |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: This "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" author was also the first president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association Julia Ward Howe |
| #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 |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WOMEN & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: In 1782 Betty Zane retrieved a cache of this explosive mixture & returned with it to save Fort Henry from a British siege gunpowder |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WOMEN & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: In 1776, she wrote to her husband that if attention wasn't paid to women's rights, too, they'd start their own rebellion Abigail Adams |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WOMEN & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: Ann Bates spied for the British & Lydia Darragh spied for the colonists in this city that was also Betsy Ross' home Philadelphia |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WOMEN & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1000: In April 1777 Sybil Ludington pulled a Paul Revere-style all-night ride to tell of a British attack on Danbury in this state Connecticut |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: In this 1997 play it's shampoo, set & socialize for a group of women passing time in a Louisiana beauty salon Steel Magnolias |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | WORKING WOMEN $200: The first African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company, Ursula Burns became its CEO in 2009; copy that! Xerox |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1600: In 1936, a year after she married publisher Henry Luce, her play "The Women" opened on Broadway Clare Boothe Luce |
| #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 |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | WOMEN IN CHARGE $400 (Daily Double): As CEO of Sam's Club, Rosalind Brewer became the first woman & the first African American to head a unit of this corp. the Walmart corporation |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | TARZAN REVIEW BOOKS $400: This "happy" 1989 Amy Tan novel give Tarzan interesting take on Asian-American women. Tarzan world view expanded The Joy Luck Club |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: The American Cancer Society now recommends women have this breast cancer screening yearly beginning at age 45 a mammogram |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATION $600: Women have to prove descent to belong to this organization, the DAR Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | STATUE-ESQUE WOMEN $200: The Jamestown statue honoring this Native American of the 17th century was erected in 1922 Pocahontas |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. was built in 1929 to house the annual convention for this women's organization the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | MARY, MARY $800: She was the first American to win the Olympic women's gymnastics individual all-around title Mary Lou Retton |
| #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 |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | AMERICAN LIT $800: In a post-Civil War novel by Allan Gurganus, the "Oldest Living" one of these women "Tells All" Confederate Widow |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | HEALTH-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS $200: Go Red for Women is a campaign created by this organization to encourage women to take charge of their cardio health the American Heart Association |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" rhymes, "In the room the women come and go talking of" this Italian artist Michelangelo |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | POETIC WOMEN $1600: This American's earliest poem, "Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine", dates to Valentine week 1850 Emily Dickinson |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | POETIC WOMEN $2000: Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature Gabriela Mistral |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | WOMEN OF CHINESE DESCENT $1200: Elaine Chao, the 1st Asian-American woman in the Cabinet, improved overtime protection as Secretary of this Labor |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | COATS & JACKETS $400: Complete with baby pouch, the amauti was the parka for women among this Native American group Eskimos (or Inuits) |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | EDUCATION $200 (Daily Double): This New Jersey-based organization says it's the world's largest provider of scholarships to young women the Miss America Organization (the Miss American Pageant accepted) |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | YOU CAN SEE IT ON PBS $1600: In 2013, after 27 years, "American Masters" profiled its first sports figure, this U.S. women's tennis star & activist (Billie Jean) King |
| #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 |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1200: American Claressa Shields won gold as the women's version of this sport made its Olympic debut in 2012 boxing |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $600: In a 1959 American kitchen exhibit in Moscow, he told Khrushchev, "In America, we like to make life easier for women" Nixon |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: When asked to describe herself, she says first & foremost, she is Malia & Sasha's mom Michelle Obama |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Bessie Coleman, the first black woman licensed as a pilot, landed a street named in her honor at this Chicago airport O'Hare |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: Rita Dove titled a collection of poems "On the Bus with" this woman Rosa Parks |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): In an essay defending this 2011 film, Myrlie Evers-Williams said, "My mother was" this film "& so was her mother" The Help |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA $1,600 (Daily Double): (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) Speaking on opening night of the 2008 Democratic Convention, I noted that our meeting marked the 88th anniversary of women's suffrage & the 45th of this immortal & profoundly American speech "I Have a Dream" |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | AMERICAN YEARBOOK $200: In 1920 the 19th Amendment gave this group the right to vote women |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $400: From 1951 to 1953 this future First Lady was an inquiring photographer for the Washington Times-Herald Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | BESTSELLERS $800: This Michael Crichton bestseller begins with a prologue, "The Bite of the Raptor" Jurassic Park |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In 1983 she made history as the first American woman in space Sally Ride |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: In 1920 this "Round Table" wit was fired as drama critic for Vanity Fair: they said her reviews were too harsh Dorothy Parker |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: This late activist in her own right was inducted posthumously into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 Coretta Scott King |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Her resume includes president of the American Red Cross & U.S. senator from North Carolina Elizabeth Dole |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $2000: Sophia Packard & Harriet Giles co-founded what became this Atlanta college for African-American women Spelman College |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | LESSER-KNOWN WOMEN $1,700 (Daily Double): Massachusetts' state heroine is Deborah Samson, who, disguised as a male soldier, fought in this war The American Revolution |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | VOCABULARY $400: This 8-letter word means the right to vote, not to endure pain; the 19th Amendment gave it to American women suffrage |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: This beauty seen here has been called the world's first supermodel Cheryl Tiegs |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: A view from Pikes Peak inspired Katharine Lee Bates to write the words to this patriotic song "America The Beautiful" |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: She's the woman seen here with some of her artifacts Margaret Mead |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: From 1978 to 1997 Nancy Kassebaum, daughter of Alf Landon, represented this state in the Senate Kansas |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $400: While writing "Little Women", she served as editor of a juvenile magazine, "Merry's Museum" Alcott |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $800: In the 1880s her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska, where her father opened an insurance & real estate office Willa Cather |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $1200: With money earned from "The Yearling", she bought a beach cottage just south of St. Augustine, Florida Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $1600: The author of "A Stranger is Watching", she's been called "America's Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $2000: Highly successful under her real name, as J.D. Robb she's written over 25 books about N.Y. Police Lt. Eve Dallas Nora Roberts |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | LAKE POET-RY $800: In the room the women come and go /
Talking of this largest Central American lake, amigo Lake Nicaragua |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | WOMEN'S GROUPS $200: Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. is part of a 3-building complex owned & operated by this lineage society the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | CENTRAL PARK STATUES $400: His monument, seen here, was sponsored by the Danish-American Women's Association Hans Christian Andersen |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: Edgar Leeteg, who painted Tahitian women on velvet, is considered the American equivalent of this French artist (Paul) Gauguin |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | WOMEN "R" US $200: In 1983 this California girl became the first American woman in space Sally Ride |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $600: She departed from the theme of Chinese-American mothers & daughters with 2005's "Saving Fish From Drowning" Amy Tan |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: This relative of a famed film director began choreographing for the Ballet Theatre before it was "American" Agnes de Mille |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $2000: Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to serve as principal chief of this Southeast Native American tribe the Cherokee |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $2000: In 1889 Susan la Flesche Picotte, a member of this Nebraska tribe, became the first Native American female doctor Omaha |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | FAMOUS WOMEN $3,000 (Daily Double): This first American woman in space heads a company geared to girls who are interested in science & math Sally Ride |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | JOHN LEGEND $2000: This 3-named American artist was known for portraits of socially prominent people, like the women seen here John Singer Sargent |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | EVERYONE'S A CRITIC $2000: Her 1991 book said "the undeclared war against American women" is the "backlash against the women's movement" Susan Faludi |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: She wrote her "Battle Hymn" during a visit to an army camp near Washington, D.C. in 1861 (Julia Ward) Howe |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: After vehemently opposing WWI, this Hull House founder was kicked out of the DAR Jane Addams |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a 1998 book by this author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe" Fannie Flagg |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: She and Lucretia Mott organized the first women's rights convention in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $5,000 (Daily Double): This democrat was elected to the House of Representatives from New York's 9th Congressional District in 1978 Geraldine Ferraro |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $2000: Appointed by President Carter to 2 different posts, she was the first African-American woman in the Cabinet Patricia Harris |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | AMERICAN PAINTERS $2000: John Sloane's "Women's Work" is an example of this "School" of down-to-earth art originally called "The Eight" the Ashcan School |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | SPORTS STARS $1600: This American won at least one Women's Grand Slam tennis title a record 13 straight years, 1974-1986 Chris Evert-Lloyd |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: Women 18 or older who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of this event can join a group founded Oct. 1890 the American Revolution |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | FAMOUS LASS WORDS $2000: This anti-ERA crusader said, "The claim that American women are downtrodden... is the fraud of the century" Phyllis Schlafly |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | THE JEOPARDY! MOVIE "CLUB" $400: 1993:
4 Asian-American women & their moms sit around talking The Joy Luck Club |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Her bestseller "Waiting to Exhale" focused on 4 black women living in Phoenix & hoping to find Mr. Right Terry McMillan |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | WOMEN ATHLETES $1600: She's the American Wimbeldon & U.S. Open champ seen here (Lindsay) Davenport |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | SINGLE WOMEN $800: "Free Yourself" & know that "Life is Not a Fairy Tale" for this third "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino |
| #4921, aired 2006-01-23 | MEDICAL PIONEERS $2000: In 1949 the American Medical Women's Assoc. named an award for this pioneer who got her degree in 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, this African-American woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Babette was the middle name of this American woman who moved to France in 1907 Alice B. Toklas |
| #4877, aired 2005-11-22 | AMERICAN WOMAN $600: This high-flying Atchison, Kansas native once remarked, "Women must try to do things as men have tried" (Amelia) Earhart |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | STAMPS $1200: 1 of the 2 women featured in the 2004 American Choreographers series (Martha) Graham (or Agnes de Mille) |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: "Brooklyn Bridge" was one of the last of her NYC paintings before she moved permanently to New Mexico (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: 6 years after Chuck Yeager, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to do this break the sound barrier |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: (Hi, I'm Bob Woodward,) One of the most influential women of the 20th century, she was publisher of the Washington Post from 1969 to 1979 & CEO until 1991 (Katharine) Graham |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, won for this category in 1950 Poetry |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Elected in 1993, she's the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate Kay Bailey Hutchison |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | AMERICAN HERSTORY $1600: The motto "semper paratus" game us this nautical acronym for the WWII Women's Coast Guard Reserve SPAR |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it 3 years later Margaret Mead |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: After her husband's death in 1968, she founded a center in Atlanta, Georgia for nonviolent social change Coretta Scott King |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Her on-air 50th birthday bash included guests Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner &, of course, Stedman Oprah |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: While Shirley Chisholm represented N.Y. in Congress, Barbara Jordan represented this state Texas |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Before becoming an advisor to President Bush, she served 6 years as provost of Stanford Univ. Condoleezza Rice |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1,400 (Daily Double): Arturo Toscanini once praised this contralto, saying she had a voice that comes "once in a hundred years" Marian Anderson |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: 1 of 2 women who represent the state of California in the U.S. Senate (1 of) Barbara Boxer & Dianne Feinstein |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Earlier in her career, this woman prosecuted juvenile delinquency cases in New York state Judge Judy (Sheindlin) |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600: In 1920 Juliette Gordon Low retired as president of this organization & was given the title of founder the Girl Scouts (of America) |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Let me interpret for you--this Shoshone woman's name meant "bird woman" Sacajawea |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: In a 1961 Gallup poll, this former First Lady topped the list of the most admired women for the 10th time Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A year before "Little Women" was published, she became editor of a juvenile magazine called Merry's Museum (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: In 2002 the people of this state said Aloha as they welcomed Linda Lingle, their first woman Governor Hawaii |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: It wasn't Mel Brooks' wife but another woman named this who was the first to cross the ice to the North Pole Ann Bancroft |
| #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 |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600: She painted "Hoosick River, Summer, 1952", seen here, when she was in her 90s Grandma Moses |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: After her daughter was killed by an inebriated motorist, Candy Lightner founded this organization MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: WAC, the Women's Army Corps, was created during this war World War II |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 1915 this Hull House founder created the Women's Peace Party, which sought an end to World War I Jane Addams |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: This controversial woman now represents Florida's 13th district in the U.S. House Katherine Harris |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: This daughter of William Booth composed many of the hymns sung by the Salvation Army Evangeline Booth |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: During the Civil War, this social reformer was superintendent of the U.S. Army women nurses Dorothea Dix |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: When she landed at Edwards AFB in 1986, she became the first woman to fly nonstop around the world without refueling (Jeana) Yeager |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: As head of Harpo Entertainment, she's the first African-American woman to own her own studios Oprah Winfrey |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1600: She answered an ad in her college paper looking for astronauts, & in 1983 became the first American woman in space Sally Ride |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: This American Red Cross founder personally directed the relief effort at the Johnstown Flood in 1889 Clara Barton |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Her book "The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult" contains notes on filming "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Her book "The Sea Around Us" was published in 1951 while she was chief biologist for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Rachel Carson |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: This wife of Rutherford B. Hayes originated the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn Lucy Hayes |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: The wife of Richard Byrd, she has an Antarctic "Land" named for her Marie Byrd |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In this Louisa May Alcott novel, Jo March writes a play, "The Witch's Curse" "Little Women" |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | HEY, DOC! $2000: The American Medical Women's Assoc. awards a medal named for this first woman graduate of a U.S. medical school Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: They're the two sisters seen here, celebrating a win Venus & Serena Williams |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Deborah Roberts of "20/20" always knows when to carry an umbrella; she's married to this NBC weatherman Al Roker |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: An auto accident in 1937 cut short the life of this legendary blues singer Bessie Smith |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Writer Zora Neale Hurston was the first black graduate of this college that's affiliated with Columbua Barnard |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: This author of "A Poem by Phillis" counted George Washington among her admirers Phillis Wheatley |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: This Ohio college was the first American college to grant undergraduate degrees to women Oberlin |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: This nickname of a Native American woman, Chief Powhatan's daughter, means "playful one" Pocahontas |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | BIG WOMEN ON CAMPUS $600: In 2001 Gao Zhan of American University was convicted of this in China, but released espionage |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | FEMINISM $300: This American tennis tournament evened men's & women's prize money in 1973; Wimbledon still hasn't the U.S. Open |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | HISTORIC WOMEN $400: She's the famous American folk artist seen here Grandma Moses |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | AMERICAN HERSTORY $600: In her efforts to gain equal rights for women, she founded NOW in 1966 & became its first president Betty Friedan |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | THE LAST AMERICAN TO WIN THE GOLD $400: Women's gymnastics all-around
(1984) Mary Lou Retton |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | THE LAST AMERICAN TO WIN THE GOLD $800: Women's 100-meter run
(2000) Marion Jones |
| #3891, aired 2001-07-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1949 this Nobel laureate founded Welcome House, an adoption agency specializing in Asian-American children Pearl Buck |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | WOMEN $800: "Mother And Child" was a constant theme in the art of this American woman in 1890s Paris Mary Cassatt |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | BEAUTY PAGEANTRY $500: Women representing this South American country have won 5 Miss World titles Venezuela |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | AMERICAN EXPLORERS $300: In 1955 Louise Boyd sent a telegram to the Society of Women Geographers, "Flew over" this "yesterday" North Pole |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | WOMEN'S RITES $500: Held in 1997 in Philadelphia by African-American women, it was the counterpart of a 1995 event in Washington the Million Woman March |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1000: "Linden Hills" was Gloria Naylor's second novel; her first was "The Women of" this "Place" Brewster Place |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: In 1986 she became the first black American to win a world championship in singles figure skating Debi Thomas |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | THE LAST AMERICAN TO WIN THE GOLD $800: Women's speed skating 1,000 meters
(1994) Bonnie Blair |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | THE LAST AMERICAN TO WIN THE GOLD $1,000 (Daily Double): Women's javelin
(1932) Babe Didrikson Zaharias |
| #3547, aired 2000-01-25 | THE SHORT VERSION $300: A women's society:
DAR Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | FAMOUS WOMEN $300: This 1992 Olympic figure skating gold medalist is a fourth-generation Japanese-American Kristi Yamaguchi |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $400: This Greek-American diva, born in 1923, was acclaimed for her portrayals of Norma & Anna Bolena Maria Callas |
| #3429, aired 1999-07-01 | GET INTO SHAPE $300: "Promenade" & "women star right" are calls in this type of American folk dancing square dancing |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $800: (Hi, I'm Kristi Yamaguchi) In 1992 I became the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating since this woman in 1976 Dorothy Hamill |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $900 (Daily Double): In 1989 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of this state became the first Cuban-American elected to Congress Florida |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | FRENCH FILM REMAKES $200: This American director of "10" remade Truffaut's "The Man Who Loved Women" Blake Edwards |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | NOTABLE WOMEN $300: Lynne Thigpen won a Tony in 1997 for acting in "An American Daughter" by this author of "The Heidi Chronicles" Wendy Wasserstein |
| #3256, aired 1998-11-02 | WOMEN'S LIBERATION $500: In 1972 this magazine appeared on American newsstands for the first time Ms. |
| #3244, aired 1998-10-15 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1997 Texas family physician Nancy Dickey became the first woman elected to head this organization the American Medical Association (AMA) |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | GIRL GROUPS $1000: Formed in 1920 this group grew out of the National American Woman Suffrage Association League of Women Voters |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $600: She was the first American woman to be pictured on a U.S. stamp & on U.S. paper currency: Martha Washington |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: In 1997 this 14-year-old American became the youngest women's world figure skating champion Tara Lipinski |
| #3047, aired 1997-11-25 | WOMEN AND SONG $500: In 1997 this singer of "You Were Meant For Me" won the American Music Award for New Pop-Rock Artist Jewel |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: A "Giant" among American women novelists, she wrote the play "Stage Door" with George S. Kaufman Edna Ferber |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1915 this Hull House founder helped establish the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom Jane Addams |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $300: In 1988 Golf Magazine named this Mexican-American "Woman Golfer of the Decade" Nancy Lopez |
| #2947, aired 1997-05-27 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $100: This American gymnast is nicknamed "Awesome Dawesome" Dominique Dawes |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1904 this American impressionist painter was awarded the French Legion of Honor Mary Cassatt |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This Amy Tan novel tells the stories of 4 Chinese-born women & their American daughters "The Joy Luck Club" |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | SPORTS STARS $200: On March 23, 1996 this 15-year-old American won the women's world figure skating title in Edmonton, Alberta Michelle Kwan |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Recent news of "The Inheritance", an unpublished novel by this "Little Women" author, had film studios buzzing Louisa May Alcott |
| #2806, aired 1996-11-11 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: In 1983 she became the first American woman & the youngest American to travel into space Sally Ride |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This African-American author set her first novel, "The Bluest Eye", in Lorain, Ohio, her birthplace Toni Morrison |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $200: In 1995 Roberta Cooper Ramo became the 1st female president of this legal association the American Bar Association |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $600: Now president of the American Red Cross, the 1st woman Secretary of Transportation was inducted in 1995 Elizabeth Dole |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $800: Membership tripled after Wilma Mankiller became the 1st woman chief of this Native American nation the Cherokee |
| #2756, aired 1996-09-02 | THE 1996 OLYMPICS $100: France's Marie-Jose Perec won the women's 200- & 400-meter runs, & this American became the 1st man to win both Michael Johnson |
| #2749, aired 1996-07-11 | WOMEN $400: Her "Live" album won a Grammy in 1994 for Best Mexican-American Album Selena |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | SPORTS STARS $500: She was the 1st Black American tennis player elected to the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame Althea Gibson |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $800: This American speed skater was the 1989 World Sprint Champion Bonnie Blair |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $500: His 1980 work "Of Women and Their Elegance" is an imaginary memoir by Marilyn Monroe Norman Mailer |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: "Jo's Boys" was her second sequel to "Little Women" Louisa May Alcott |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1000: In 1927 this American birth control pioneer helped organize the first world population conference (Margaret) Sanger |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $300: This American runner holds the world record in both the 100-meter & 200-meter sprints Flo-Jo |
| #2612, aired 1996-01-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): This American studied psychology with Wm. James before moving to Paris with her brother Leo in 1903 Gertrude Stein |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | WOMEN'S LANDMARKS $400: The American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Pacific Peoples is named for this anthropologist Margaret Mead |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $500: Second in all-time tournament victories, this American was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1995 Chris Evert Lloyd (or Chris Evert Mill) |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: This founder of the American Red Cross also founded one of New Jersey's first public schools Clara Barton |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon classified over 200,000 of these heavenly bodies by the spectra of their light stars |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 1921 this famous feminist was born Betty Naomi Goldstein in Peoria, Illinois Betty Friedan |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600: In 1979 her son Donald succeeded her as publisher of the Washington Post Katharine Graham |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: The American Museum of Natural History's Festival of Anthropological Films is named for her Margaret Mead |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: This first lady's father, Andrew Goodhue, was a steamboat Inspector on Lake Champlain Grace (Goodhue) Coolidge |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: She wrote what she called "rubbishy novels" before the success of "Little Women" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: In this novel the father of Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy is an Army chaplain in the Civil War Little Women |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | NOTABLE WOMEN $600: Kirsten is the middle name of this first American woman to go into space Sally Ride |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: Gloria Naylor's 1982 novel "The Women of" this "Place" won an American Book Award & became a TV miniseries Brewster Place |
| #2400, aired 1995-01-27 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS $400: In 1994 the L.A. County Museum of Art exhibited this Spaniard's "Weeping Women" Picasso |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | WOMEN POETS $1000: This Black American is the poet laureate of Illinois Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $300: From 1892 to 1900 she was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Susan B. Anthony |
| #2323, aired 1994-10-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1,900 (Daily Double): This American novelist published her "Oriental Cookbook" in 1972 Pearl S. Buck |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Orchard House in Concord, Mass., where she wrote "Little Women", was made a memorial in 1911 Louisa May Alcott |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | WOMEN'S GROUPS $400: Members of this group founded in 1890 are direct descendants of people who helped free the colonies the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | FAMOUS WOMEN $300: Tennis star Gabriela Sabatini is a native of this South American country Argentina |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: Shortly before her death, this American Indian had a reunion in England with Capt. John Smith Pocahontas |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: In 1970 she became the first American to win a medal at the World Gymnastics Championships Cathy Rigby |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: New York & Hollywood are the main settings for her sizzling novel "American Star" Jackie Collins |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | WOMEN $500: This former diva is on the boards of American Express & R.H. Macy Beverly Sills |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: American-born Lisa Halaby met this king while working for Royal Jordanian Airlines; they married in 1978 King Hussein |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: For women over 50, the American Cancer Society recommends having this breast exam once a year mammogram |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1848 Seneca Falls in this state became the site of the first women's rights convention in U.S. history New York |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $100: After earning her M.D. in 1874, Sarah Stevenson became the 1st woman admitted to this organization the AMA (American Medical Association) |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | NOTABLE WOMEN $200: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a founding member of this organization abbreviated ACLU American Civil Liberties Union |
| #2003, aired 1993-04-28 | WOMEN DISCOVERERS $300: Elizabeth Pinckney was the first colonial American to discover how to cultivate this blue dye plant indigo |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: Of Mexican-American descent, she was the LPGA's leading money winner in 1978, 1979 & 1985 Nancy Lopez |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | EXPLORERS $200: Francisco de Orellana claimed he battled "tall, fair, robust" women warriors on this South American river Amazon |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: The original Gibson Girl, Irene Langhorne Gibson, was an older sister of this American-born British "Lady" Lady (Nancy) Astor |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: In the 1932 Olympics this American set world records in 2 women's track & field events (Babe Didrikson) Zaharias |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Ringette, a sport for women that resembles ice hockey, was invented in this North American country in 1963 Canada |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Term for the women of the 1920s who wore bobbed hair, short dresses & long strings of beads flappers |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: During WWI this Illinois social worker was president of the International Congress of Women Jane Addams |
| #1792, aired 1992-05-19 | "KING"s $500: In 1968 she called upon American women to unite & fight the evils of racism, poverty & war Coretta Scott King |
| #1739, aired 1992-03-05 | CELEBRITIES $800 (Daily Double): American woman whose job is equivalent to that of each of the women from around the world seen here: Vanna White |
| #1710, aired 1992-01-24 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: In 1977 the American Foundation for Overseas Blind renamed itself after this woman, a key supporter Helen Keller |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: She was the only American woman to win Olympic gold in swimming in 1988 Janet Evans |
| #1609, aired 1991-09-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): The passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920 allowed this, regardless of state laws vote for women |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Anthropologist, who at age 72 became president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Margaret Mead |
| #1518, aired 1991-03-20 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: She wrote "Rubbishy Novels" under the pen name A.M. Barnard before & after "Little Women" Louisa May Alcott |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | HATS $300: American women buy one quarter of all their hats just before this holiday Easter |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | WOMEN $400: This American painter had her first one-woman show in the U.S. in 1940, when she was 80 years old Grandma Moses |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1945-46 the number of these government employees dropped from 12 million to less than 3 million Armed Forces/Servicemen & women |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | THE OLYMPICS $200: In 1932, when women could enter only 3 events, this American woman won 3 medals Babe Didrikson Zaharias |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $100: She's the only American in Olympic history to win the all-around gymnastics title Mary Lou Retton |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: This model & wife of Billy Joel says she was a chubby & self-conscious teenager Christie Brinkley |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 1984 she became the first woman nominated by a major party for Vice President of the U.S. Geraldine Ferraro |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600: Lynne Cheney chairs the Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities, & her husband, Richard, holds this cabinet post Secretary of Defense |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: She was the Ghostbusters' receptionist on film & plays cute little Mary Jo on TV's "Designing Women" Annie Potts |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: Appointed by Ronald Reagan, she was the first woman to head the U.S. delegation to the U.N. (Jeane) Kirkpatrick |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: She was called "Lady Lindy" & her last plane was a twin engine Lockheed Electra Amelia Earhart |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: First & last name of the chairman & CEO of Playboy Enterprises Kristi Hefner |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600: In 1851 Amelia Bloomer introduced Elizabeth Cady Stanton to this feminist in Seneca Falls Susan B. Anthony |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: For more than 30 years Marion Davies was the mistress of this married newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | SPORTS $400: In 1947 she became the 1st American woman to win the British Women's Amateur golf tournament Babe Didrikson Zaharias |
| #1229, aired 1989-12-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was known as Vincent to her family & friends Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #1229, aired 1989-12-28 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Oveta Culp Hobby became Colonel Hobby when this organization she headed became part of the Army WACs |
| #1223, aired 1989-12-20 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: She was a schoolteacher before she founded the American Red Cross Clara Barton |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $300: The 1st Olympic marathon for women was won by this American in 1984 Joan Benoit Samuelson |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $500: The 1st American woman to win the world title in this sport was Tenley Albright figure skating |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | COMMON BONDS $500: Virginia Apgar, Florence Sabin & Helen Brooke Taussig Doctors/American Women Physicians |
| #1177, aired 1989-10-17 | WOMAN IN SPACE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1984 Kathryn Sullivan became the 1st American woman to perform this feat take a walk in space |
| #1089, aired 1989-05-04 | CLOTHING $400: Many S. American women wear a shawl called this, not to be confused with Nixon's pal Bebe rebozo |
| #1060, aired 1989-03-24 | FAMOUS WOMEN $100: This American Indian was only about 22 when she died in England in 1617 Pocahontas |
| #1035, aired 1989-02-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: In 1848 Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the 1st U.S. convention to promote this women's rights |
| #978, aired 1988-11-30 | WOMEN IN THE NEWS $200: Raisa Gorbachev reportedly carries this credit card, even though we know who she is American Express |
| #971, aired 1988-11-21 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: Maria Callas wasn't born in Greece but in this American city where she often came to sing New York |
| #963, aired 1988-11-09 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1000: This American-born saint was a widow with five children when she converted to Catholicism Elizabeth Seton |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: VP of the Nat'l American Women's Suffrage Assn. but more famous for her work at Hull House Jane Addams |
| #918, aired 1988-09-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1858, at Mozart Hall in New York City, she presided over the National Women's Rights Convention Susan B. Anthony |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: This Smith graduate went to India to study politics before founding Ms. Magazine Gloria Steinem |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: She married a man named Fortune, but after a few anthropological field trips, they got divorced Margaret Mead |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: "Ramona" author Helen Hunt Jackson & this poetess were childhood playmates in Amherst, Mass. Emily Dickinson |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: She was a nurse, cook & spy during the Civil War, but was best known as the Moses of her people Harriet Tubman |
| #887, aired 1988-06-14 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Sadly, she died 14 years before the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote Susan B. Anthony |
| #832, aired 1988-03-29 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $500: The 1st president of the American Red Cross Clara Barton |
| #647, aired 1987-06-02 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: 1st American woman ever to win an individual Olympic gold medal in gymnastics Mary Lou Retton |
| #566, aired 1987-02-09 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: Though a U.S. citizen & thus the 1st American saint, Mother Cabrini was born in this country Italy |
| #545, aired 1987-01-09 | WOMEN IN THE NEWS $400: On May 20, 1986, Sharon Wood became 1st North American woman to reach the top of this Mount Everest |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: African-born Phillis Wheatley's 1st poems were published in 1770, though she was this an American slave |
| #523, aired 1986-12-10 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $200: In 1969, Barbara Jo Rubin became 1st American woman to ride to victory in this sport horse racing |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: "Little Women" is set during this war the Civil War |
| #469, aired 1986-09-25 | WOMEN FIRST $400: Catholic convert Kateri Tekakwitha was 1st. N. American Indian ever to be proposed for this sainthood |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN $200: Christine Craft's case alleged she was demoted from this job due to her appearance a TV newswoman |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN $400: As a foreign correspondent with the N.Y. Times, Anne McCormick was the 1st woman to win one a Pulitzer Prize |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN $600: In 1978, she became 1st Black woman ever honored on a U.S. postage stamp Harriet Tubman |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN $800: On Jan. 21, 1908, NYC enacted the Sullivan ordinance, prohibiting women from doing this smoking |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: In 1916, 4 years before all women "got the vote", she became 1st woman elected to the House Jeanette Rankin |
| #400, aired 1986-03-21 | ALL-"AMERICAN" $500 (Daily Double): Helen Keller,
Eugene Debs, &
Jane Addams were among liberals who formed this assoc. in 1920 the American Civil Liberties Union |
| #353, aired 1986-01-15 | 1939 $600: Because they kept Marian Anderson from performing, the 1st lady resigned from this women's club the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #331, aired 1985-12-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: According to legend she made 1st American flag, but there's no proof Betsy Ross |
| #331, aired 1985-12-16 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Spanish for "villages", women traditionally own the houses in these Hopi & Zuni communities pueblos |
| #292, aired 1985-10-22 | WOMEN FIRST $400: In 1876, Juliet Corson opened 1st American school to teach this domestic art cooking |
| #54, aired 1984-11-22 | WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): Largest American city to ever have a woman mayor Chicago |
