#9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MAMMALS $200: Today Native Americans use Styrofoam pads to collect its quills a porcupine |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $400: After 19 nominations, she won her first daytime acting Emmy & in '23, she was honored with a lifetime achievement award Susan Lucci |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $800: As director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, he became a fixture on TV during the COVID pandemic Fauci |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $1200: He's in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ice rink resurfacing machine Zamboni |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $1600: The screenwriting credits on the "Godfather" films are shared by these 2 men, the director & the original book's author Coppola & Puzo |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 1984 she made history as the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party Ferraro |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $800: Challenging to pre-Civil War Americans:
"Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | EXTREMELY RANDOM CALCULATIONS $2000: Forbes' annual wealthiest Americans minus Fortune's annual biggest U.S. companies by revenue -100 |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $1200: Nebraska honors Standing Bear, who won an 1879 ruling that this right of a prisoner to appear in court applied to Native Americans habeas corpus |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $800: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) When the U.S. entered World War I, some Black Americans enlisted thinking it would better their station in life; at the same time, President Woodrow Wilson was a supporter of having the armed forces enforce these segregation laws bearing the name of a stereotypical minstrel character Jim Crow |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $600: A yearslong FBI investigation that exposed a deep-cover Russian spy ring was the inspiration for this FX drama The Americans |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $600: Campaigns called Take Back the Tap, aiming to reduce Americans' passion for this, say it's not specially safe & bad for the planet bottled water |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: On May 21, 1932, 5 years to the day after Lindbergh, she became the second to fly solo & nonstop across the Atlantic (Amelia) Earhart |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: Not Mr. Fortune, but this flamboyant publisher of a major business magazine is seen here (Malcolm) Forbes |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: The 2nd Armored, "Hell on Wheels", was the 1st army division commanded by father & son: this Gen. in 1940 & George S. IV in 1975 Patton |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $5,000 (Daily Double): Mario Savio led the 1964 free speech protests at this California univ. & protested Sonoma State fee hikes late in his life in 1996 the University of California at Berkeley |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | STAY SAFE $400: Follow the rule don't be the tallest object in a storm to help avoid being killed by this, like 19 Americans in 2022 lightning |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WHERE'D YOU GO? $600: This "Great" northward move by Black Americans ramped up with the need for industrial workers in World War I the Great Migration |
#9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CHILD PERFORMERS $1200: On this FX series, Keidrich Sellati was Henry, the only Jennings who didn't know the truth about his family The Americans |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $200: Mescalero Apaches refer to this big predator as "my grandfather" & forbid bringing its claws or skins onto their reservation bears |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The people of Red Mountain are battling to protect their Nev. homeland at Thacker Pass from an open-pit mine for this battery element lithium |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: For 1968 actions at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, in 2022 Dwight Birdwell became the most recent of the 33 recipients of this the Medal of Honor |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: Mohawk "Skywalkers" helped build much of Manhattan's skyline & this bridge to Fort Lee, New Jersey the George Washington Bridge |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: Thunderbird Park in Victoria, B.C. is renowned for its collection of these monumental carvings, some more than 40 feet high totem poles |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $800: Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state Mississippi |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NAME THAT REBELLION $1600: Virginia, 1676:
A "hammy" colonist & his followers versus Native Americans & the governor Bacon's Rebellion |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $200: A member of the Kaw Nation of Kansas, Charles Curtis, was vice president under this man from 1929 to 1933 Herbert Hoover |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The book "Weaving the Dream" is the story of Mabel McKay, a renowned Pomo maker of these baskets |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: Big Cypress Reservation is home to this "tribe of Florida" the Seminoles |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: The most commonly spoken Native American language in the U.S. is this one famously used by "Code Talkers" in World War II Navajo |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: It was the "spectral" central ritual of the messianic 19th century religion founded by the Paiute Wovoka the Ghost Dance Movement |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $300: It's thought that about 40% of Americans can trace their ancestry through this immigration station, seen here Ellis Island |
#8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $5,000 (Daily Double): RFD, short for this, began in 1896; previously, about 65% of Americans lived in the "R" area & had to pick up mail at the P.O. Rural Free Delivery |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: In 1898, with a war looming with Spain, she wrote Pres. McKinley that she could supply him with "fifty lady sharpshooters" Annie Oakley |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Saying he was instructed by an angel named Moroni, he translated the "Book of Mormon" from a set of gold plates Joseph Smith |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: Before partnering with Henry Wells, he worked as an express messenger for Wells' company Fargo |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: After helping women gain the right to vote in her home state of Montana, she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress Jeannette Rankin |
#8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Soon after he lost his Supreme Court case, this enslaved American was emancipated by the son of his first owner Dred Scott |
#8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | FOOD STUFF $600: Americans think of this dish as a stew, but the authentic Budapest version is more of a soup goulash |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | OH, WE HAVE '80s POP CULTURE REFERENCES $200: On Nov. 21, 1980 76% of Americans watching television tuned in to finally find out "who shot" this character J.R. |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $200: It's the L-A in LULAC, a civil rights organization founded at Salon Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi in 1929 Latin American |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $400: A 2014 shooting in this St. Louis suburb marked a new era of protest against police treatment of African Americans Ferguson |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $600: Best known as the maker of Saran Wrap, this Michigan-based chemical company became the subject of protests for making napalm Dow |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $800: As Army Chief of Staff, in 1932 this general turned away veterans marching on D.C. for World War I bonuses MacArthur |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $1000: After silver was demonetized, the return of this coinage -ism became a populist cause of the late 1800s, even with protest songs bimetallism |
#8874, aired 2023-05-18 | RESTAURANTS $400: In 2003 this restaurant chain lost money when it underestimated how much "endless crab" Americans could eat Red Lobster |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $400: Called the first detective novel by a Black author, "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher is set in this Upper Manhattan area Harlem |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $800: In 1822, Black Nantucketer Absalom Boston captained an entirely Black crew scouring the seas in this profession whaling |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1200: Subject of a biopic, this actress began in vaudeville before starring in films like "Carmen Jones" Dorothy Dandridge |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1,400 (Daily Double): Known for skydiving while playing sax, aviator Hubert Julian went to fight for this African empire against Italy in the 1930s Ethiopia |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $1600: A note from Mary Ellen Pleasant, a millionaire & former slave, was found in the pocket of this abolitionist before his 1859 hanging John Brown |
#3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1600: King Philip's War, a bloody conflict between colonists & Native Americans in the 1670s, was led by Massasoit's son from this nation the Wampanoag Nation |
#8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: In 1809 this first lady hosted the first official Inaugural ball & gala at Long's Hotel for 400 guests Dolley Madison |
#8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1200: This banker had a hand in the initial financing of AT&T & General Electric & also helped reorganize many railroads J.P. Morgan |
#8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1600: In 1877 this Nez Perce chief tried to lead his followers into Canada when they were stopped about 40 miles from the border Chief Joseph |
#8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: In 1872, as a candidate of the new Equal Rights Party, she was the first woman to run for U.S. president Victoria Woodhull |
#8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $3,500 (Daily Double): As a Supreme Court justice for more than 2 decades, he was nicknamed "Mr. Civil Rights" (Thurgood) Marshall |
#8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $400: Oddly, the Colonel's recipes are overseen by this agency along with Americans' TVs & cell phones the KFCC |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS $1000: Native Americans who converted to Christianity at the missions were called these, from Greek for "newly planted" neophytes |
#8848, aired 2023-04-12 | OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $400: Famous Americans of this heritage include Barack Obama seen here on a visit to the old country Ireland |
#8848, aired 2023-04-12 | OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $800: The first of many Chinese Americans in the laundry business was Wah Lee, who began washing 12 shirts for $5 in this city in 1851 San Francisco |
#8848, aired 2023-04-12 | OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $1200: Among the few high-profile Beninese-Americans is this Oscar nominee for "In America" & "Blood Diamond" Djimon Hounsou |
#8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $800: This 1931 classic was rejected because Americans were "not interested in anything on China" The Good Earth |
#8831, aired 2023-03-20 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $800: His second inaugural marked the first time African Americans had been included in the inaugural parade Lincoln |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | STUDY: GUIDES $5,000 (Daily Double): From 1936 to 1967 this "colorful" guide aided African Americans in traveling safely during segregation the Green Book |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans a boycott |
#8808, aired 2023-02-15 | I HAVE AN IDEA $7,000 (Daily Double): S.D. state historian Doane Robinson's original idea for what became this was carvings of Western heroes, including Native Americans Mount Rushmore |
#8791, aired 2023-01-23 | MEDICATIONS $400: If restless, these body parts get their own syndrome affecting 3 million Americans yearly & the doctor may prescribe gabapentin legs |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | ELEMENTAL RESPONSES $1600: This herb that was used as a medicine by Native Americans is often paired with echinacea in herbal supplements goldenseal |
#8786, aired 2023-01-16 | TATTOOS $800: Far from keeping them secret, in the 1930s many Americans got tattoos of these recently issued identifiers Social Security numbers |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | CHAO! $200: With a preface by Pearl Buck, a 1945 book by Buwei Yang Chao taught Americans this 2-verb basic method of Chinese cooking stir frying |
#8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $400: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) In "Dead Wake", I explore the infamous 1915 torpedoing by a U-boat of this luxury liner; with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including some 130 Americans, that tragedy helped convince the U.S. to join World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies the Lusitania |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $400: 1900:
First count of Native Americans on these, not just in the general population reservations |
#8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THE SCALES $600: On the Fitzpatrick skin-tone scale, light-skinned type 1s are at high risk of this skin cancer that kills 10,000 Americans a year melanoma |
#8765, aired 2022-12-16 | ORNAMENTS OF YORE $800: With some help from porcupines, Native Americans produced highly ornamental quill work, like this type of shoe a moccasin |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $400: After seeing how the Wii got people to move, James Park took it a step further & co-developed this activity tracker a Fitbit |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $800: In 1997, aboard this space shuttle, Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian-born woman to travel in space the Columbia |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1200: Author Kevin Kwan was born in this southeast Asian city-state where "Crazy Rich Asians" is mostly set Singapore |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1600: This famed cellist has performed for 9 U.S. presidents, including Joe Biden Yo-Yo Ma |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 2022, this first Chinese-American movie star became the first Asian American featured on U.S. currency--a new quarter Anna May Wong |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $400: Seen here, this Brazilian-born woman says she launched the Luz Foundation to bring light into the world (Gisele) Bündchen |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $800: Ernesto was the real first name of this revolutionary leader; his famous nickname is an Argentinean interjection Guevara |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $1200: Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a founder of this "fantastic" literary genre magical realism |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $1600: As the fifth man in this job, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru helped end wars & helped get the Soviets out of Afghanistan the Secretary-General of the United Nations |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $2000: The documentary "The Judge & the General" is about Juan Guzman, who investigated this Chilean dictator & in 2000 indicted him Pinochet |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | TREE TIME $1200: Native Americans created an herbal sore throat remedy from the bark of the slippery species of this an (slippery) elm |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: On January 18, 2021 she officially resigned her California Senate seat; 2 days later, she made history (Kamala) Harris |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: Sadly, inventor Otis Boykin, who made improvements to this medical implant, died of heart failure at 61 a pacemaker |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION $800: Shocking Americans and beginning the Space Race when it was launched October 4, 1957, it weighed about as much as Mickey Mantle Sputnik |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 1986 she founded one of the most successful production companies in daytime TV, Harpo Productions (Oprah) Winfrey |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: A decade before writing "Their Eyes Were Watching God", she was Barnard's first Black graduate (Zora Neale) Hurston |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $5,000 (Daily Double): Seen here, this legendary blues singer & guitarist from Mississippi got his byname from playing in a creek as a boy Muddy Waters |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | HISTORIC EVENTS $1200: Thousands of Cherokee & other Native Americans died along the 1830s relocation route known by this sad name the Trail of Tears |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $800: Many students learn the history of African Americans from John Hope Franklin's antonym-titled history "From ____ to ____" From Slavery to Freedom |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | TRAVEL $1000: Eugene was the first name of this man, whose series of guides made travel feel accessible to mid-century Americans (Eugene) Fodor |
#8721, aired 2022-10-17 | SKIN CARE FROM A TO Z WITH MICHAEL STRAHAN $800: (Michael Strahan presents the clue.) Used as a remedy for skin ailments by Native Americans for centuries, this plant filed under "W" is still used as an astringent or a toner witch hazel |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | CRITICAL "MASS" $600: Home to 7 million Americans, it's from an Algonquian word for "at the large hill" Massachusetts |
#8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In "The Warmth of Other Suns", Isabel Wilkerson tells of the "Great" this, an Exodus of African Americans from the South to the North Migration |
#8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $400: Both Americans & Europeans were jubilant on May 8, 1945, called this "Day" V-E Day |
#8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $800: To paint this June 1876 battle, artist Edgar Paxson interviewed some of the Native Americans who fought in it Little Bighorn |
#8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TELEVISION $400: A 3-part documentary from Ken Burns titled "The U.S. &" this dispels the myth that Americans were unaware of Nazi atrocities the Holocaust |
#8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $1000: Like millions of other Americans with the mask known by this 4-letter name to combat my sleep apnea a CPAP |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | 40 YEARS OF USA TODAY $1000: USA Today's Leslie Cauley wrote about this agency storing Americans' phone records before Edward Snowden worked there the NSA |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: By age 75, half of white Americans have this eye condition that can feel like looking through a fogged-up window cataracts |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of this Hollywood icon's death at 36; she's only become more famous since her passing Marilyn Monroe |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: A star attraction of Wild West shows, she was once billed as "The Peerless Lady Wing-shot" Annie Oakley |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: San Francisco hosts a parade honoring this late labor union activist & champion of farm workers near his March 31st birthday Chavez |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: In 1916 this illustrator created his first of more than 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: In 1939, after she was denied a stage at Constitution Hall, she sang to a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial Marian Anderson |
#8682, aired 2022-07-12 | THE ALEXANDER FILES $1200: In 1943 Alexander Fleming urged the U.K. Health Ministry to fund research into this antibiotic so the Americans wouldn't get ahead penicillin |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS $400: Obamacare called for expanding it to more lower-income Americans; most states have Medicaid |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1200: When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat The Grapes of Wrath |
#8660, aired 2022-06-10 | U.S. DATES $1000: Date in 1865 on which Union General Gordon Granger told the African Americans of Galveston they were free June 19th (Juneteenth) |
#8656, aired 2022-06-06 | D-DAY, THE 6th OF JUNE $800: Oddly, Americans' first word of the invasion came from this capital, from sources like the news agency Transocean Berlin |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | ORANGES $1000: The there in "There There" by Tommy Orange is Oakland, where his characters are headed for this gathering of Native Americans a powwow |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $2000: Some Native Americans practiced skull binding for a rounded look; Lewis & Clark called the Salish this because they didn't the Flathead |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | ASIAN AMERICANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS $200: The first Asian-American Olympic medalist, Vicki Draves was also the first female to win gold in platform & springboard this diving |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | ASIAN AMERICANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS $400: The late poet & professor Haunani-Kay Trask was a leader of the movement seeking sovereignty for this state Hawaii |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | ASIAN AMERICANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS $600: Joe Hayashi & Sadao Munemori are among the 21 Japanese Americans who earned this decoration for valor during World War II the Medal of Honor |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | ASIAN AMERICANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS $800: Of Filipino ancestry, Nicole Scherzinger recorded the classic Filipino ballad "Pangako" in this language Tagalog |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | ASIAN AMERICANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS $1000: Terribly wounded while piloting an army helicopter in Iraq, she landed safely in the U.S. Senate, representing Illinois Tammy Duckworth |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: Before his raid on Harpers Ferry, this abolitionist consulted with Harriet Tubman (John) Brown |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: On this silversmith's death in 1818, one paper said, "Seldom has the tomb closed upon a life so honorable & useful" Paul Revere |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: A memorial park & museum in Alabama honors this track-&-field legend who made history at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin Jesse Owens |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: In 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross became America's first woman governor when she was sworn in to lead this Equality State Wyoming |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: Held as a P.O.W., this Apache warrior asked Theodore Roosevelt to be allowed to return home to the S.W. but was denied Geronimo |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $800: So many African Americans wanted to fight for this state's 54th Regiment in the Civil War, the 55th was created Massachusetts |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | THE AMERICAN RED CROSS $800: The Red Cross says many lives would be saved if Americans were trained & had access to an AED, an automated external one of these devices a defibrillator |
#8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans participated in this event for jobs & freedom the March on Washington |
#8635, aired 2022-05-06 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $400: Co-stars on "The Americans", she & Matthew Rhys officially became a real-life couple in 2014 Keri Russell |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $2000: 1 of the 2 Brits, a biologist & a political writer, in "The Four Horsemen of Atheism" with Americans Daniel Dennett & Sam Harris (1 of) Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins |
#8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN $1000: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) Many Europeans visited Franklin in France, asking for a chance to fight with the Americans; General Washington had to ask him not to send more losers, but Ben did also recommend great contributors, like this Frenchman who became like a son to George Lafayette |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | WHAT THE HILL? $2000: Pre-Columbian Native Americans of the Mississippi region have been called these builders for their still-standing earthwork mound builders |
#8602, aired 2022-03-22 | 1860s AMERICA $600: This amendment that granted citizenship & civil rights to emancipated African Americans was ratified in 1868 the 14th Amendment |
#16, aired 2022-02-18 | WORLD HISTORY $800: 52 Americans who were held hostage in 1979 & 1980 were seized from the U.S. embassy in this city Tehran |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | DESSERT $4,000 (Daily Double): What the French call an omelette norvégienne is what Americans call this dessert a baked Alaska |
#8578, aired 2022-02-16 | LOST $800: The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Americans of this ethnicity, rescued a "lost battalion" from the Germans during World War II Japanese(-Americans) |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: His national memorial in Washington, D.C. was unveiled in 2011 MLK (Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: Journalist & activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett helped found this civil rights organization in 1909 the NAACP |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: With justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing, he became the second-oldest member of the Supreme Court (Clarence) Thomas |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: In 2021 President Biden mourned this first black Secretary of State as a "dear friend" Powell |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: Published in 1773, her book of poems on various subjects religious & moral contained an endorsement from John Hancock (Phyllis) Wheatley |
#5, aired 2022-02-10 | U.S. STAMPS $2000: A stamp honors the 33,000 second-generation Japanese Americans, known by this Japanese word, who served in World War II Nisei |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in this year at the tail end of the baby boom 1961 |
#8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $400: In a comedy act Anne Sullivan asked her questions like "Do you close your eyes when you sleep?" (her answer: I never stayed awake to see) Helen Keller |
#8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $800: In 1885 he was allowed to leave the Standing Rock Lakota Reservation to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Sitting Bull |
#8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $1600: A decade after surviving the Titanic, she won awards in France for interpreting Sarah Bernhardt's classic roles (the Unsinkable) Molly Brown |
#8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1908, this author toured in a stage show called "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" L. Frank Baum |
#8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $2000: This buddy of Alexander Graham Bell toured as an actor & lectured on "The Birth & Babyhood of the Telephone" (Thomas) Watson |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: An American lawyer & political activist, James Otis died in 1783 after he was struck by this lightning |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Labor leader Eugene Debs ran for president 4 times as a candidate for this party, the last time in 1920, while he was in prison the Socialist Party |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: Nicknamed "The Angel of the Battlefield", she's the woman seen here; notice the emblem on her collar Clara Barton |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: The leading physicist on the Manhattan project, in 1963 he would receive the Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico Fermi Award Oppenheimer |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: This Native American finished devising a Cherokee syllabary of 86 symbols around 1821 Sequoyah |
#8518, aired 2021-11-24 | PRESIDENTIAL THIS & THAT $800: 3 recent presidents--Bush I, Clinton & Obama--shared this trait common to only about 10% of Americans left-handedness |
#8508, aired 2021-11-10 | MYTHICAL MISSES $800: This league of Native Americans celebrated Sky-Woman, whom they considered a mother goddess the Iroquois League |
#8505, aired 2021-11-05 | I GOT A STRAIT $200: Some ancestors of Native Americans are believed to have crossed from Asia over what's now this about 13,000 years ago the Bering Strait |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she chose as her running mate this famed orator & activist Frederick Douglass |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1870, Hiram Revels was elected to the United States Senate from this state once represented by Jefferson Davis Mississippi |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: In 1870 Robert Fox' treatment on a segregated streetcar sparked protests & a boycott in this largest Kentucky city Louisville |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 1898 Black troops known as Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside the Rough Riders during the battle of this hill San Juan |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | 19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: In 2020, this journalist seen here was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer citation for reporting on the era of lynching Ida B. Wells |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $1600: For years, Americans had two events each Sunday--church & the show hosted by this man who brought many new artists into their homes Ed Sullivan |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $400: Taiwan-born Jerry Yang co-created Jerry & David's Guide to the World Wide Web, which became this Internet giant! Yahoo! |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $800: Honored on a 2021 stamp, Chien-Shiung Wu was best known for her work on this secret program to build the first atomic bomb Manhattan Project |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $1600: She won Olympic gold in 1992 & in 1998 was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame Kristi Yamaguchi |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $2000: Steven Chu, who shared a 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, served as secretary of this cabinet department from 2009 to 2013 (Department of) Energy |
#8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $6,000 (Daily Double): Not a fan of rock music, he initially turned down the job of designing the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (I.M.) Pei |
#8470, aired 2021-09-17 | PEACE $800: Peace can refer to a multi-treaty event; at the 1783 peace of this city, Britain settled with Spain & the Dutch as well as the Americans Paris |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $600: Lyft says "45% of Americans have a gig on the side to" do this to their income supplement |
#8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TYPICAL JASON $800: Jason lives in this kind of 5-letter area, like 5% of Americans in the 1790 census but 75% in the 1990 census urban |
#8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TYPICAL JASON $1000: Pass Jason the cream--like most Americans, he is considered this sugar tolerant lactose |
#8455, aired 2021-07-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Established to help 4 million African Americans transition out of slavery, this bureau lasted from 1865 to 1872 the Freedmen's Bureau |
#8447, aired 2021-07-20 | 1876 $600: After an expedition was sent to subdue Native Americans led by Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse, this battle ensued on June 25 Little Bighorn |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $400: In an 1843 speech Henry Garnet told slaves to consider "the shedding of" this for freedom; Frederick Douglass disagreed blood |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $800: Dave the Potter engraved his work with poetry but not in part of the 1840s when this ability was extra dangerous for the enslaved literacy |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $1200: The first African American to fight in this corps, John Martin helped capture 5 ships in a Revolutionary War attack the Marine Corps |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $1600: In 1838, 272 slaves were sold to keep this D.C. Jesuit U. going; now a building is named for one of them, Isaac Hawkins Georgetown |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $2000: Richard Allen was honored on a 2016 stamp, 200 years after he founded the church commonly known by these three initials AME (African Methodist Episcopal) |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: In the 1930s this woman had her own fashion line with touches like propeller-shaped buttons Amelia Earhart |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: This man divided his library into history, philosophy & fine arts; the Library of Congress kept the system when it took it over Thomas Jefferson |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: This evangelist who founded a university in Oklahoma was called home in 2009 at age 91 Oral Roberts |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: This Army major & his 21 associates were recognized with congressional gold medals for their work on yellow fever Walter Reed |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: "Revelations", this man's signature dance piece, is set to African-American spirituals like "Wade in the Water" & "Sinner Man" Alvin Ailey |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American billionaire, launched this cable network back in 1980 BET (Black Entertainment Television) |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: An argument with her mother over money matters inspired this jazz great's lyrics to "God Bless The Child" Billie Holiday |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: Sadly, this rapper, activist & entrepreneur known for giving back to his South LA community lost his life there in 2019 Nipsey Hussle |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: This author who inspired generations to trace their genealogy is buried at his ancestral home in Henning, Tennessee (Alex) Haley |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: One of the great stunt pilots of the 1920s, she was the first African-American woman to earn her pilot's license Bessie Coleman |
#8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEVER ENOUGH $800: This letter blood type belonging to 45% of Caucasians but over 50% of African Americans is always in high demand O |
#8406, aired 2021-05-24 | FLAGS $1000: A domed dwelling of Southwest Native Americans, it's represented on Wichita's flag as a symbol of home a hogan |
#8402, aired 2021-05-18 | SOCIOLOGY $1000: In 1837 Harriet Martineau wrote of Americans' this uninterested quality "in citizenship", saying some don't even vote! apathy |
#8392, aired 2021-05-04 | AMERICAN MUSIC $800: The polka-influenced waila music of Arizona Native Americans is also known by this poultry term for bad handwriting chicken scratch |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The Chippewa originated this nighttime spirit stopper & in their language call it a "spider" a dream catcher |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: Sitting Bull was a chief of this people who united under him for survival in the late 19th century the Sioux |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1200: Of Sac & Fox descent, he won the 1912 men's Olympic pentathlon & decathlon Jim Thorpe |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: Native Americans in Canada like the Abenaki & the Odawa are today joined together under this ordinal term First Nations |
#8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: In 1973 this South Dakota massacre site was seized by Native Americans & held for 71 days Wounded Knee |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $200: In 1995 this future Supreme Court justice played serious hardball, helping end the Major League Baseball strike (Sonia) Sotomayor |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $400: In Puerto Rico 1/3 of fertile women were undergoing this, many without consent; Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias fought the practice sterilization |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $600: In 2021 Alejandro Mayorkas became the first Latino secretary of this cabinet department that deals with immigration the Department of Homeland Security |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $800: Oscar Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American to win a fiction Pulitzer, for the book called these fellows "Play Songs of Love" The Mambo Kings |
#8373, aired 2021-04-07 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $1000: Last name of twins Joaquin, in Congress since 2013, & Julián, formerly a mayor of San Antonio & HUD secretary Castro |
#8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $600: Turns out Henry Jennings is pretty good at algebra, to the surprise of his parents, spies for Russia on this show The Americans |
#8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1750 what's now this state had 300,000 Native Americans speaking 80 languages, with the Chumash the largest tribe California |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $400: In April 1830 this country passed a law aiming to curb illegal immigration of Americans over its border Mexico |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $1600: An 1856 act allowed Americans to take possession of unoccupied islands with deposits of this, bird droppings valued as fertilizer guano |
#8358, aired 2021-03-17 | THEY GO LOW $400: In 1923 more than 850,000 Americans had this job, often coming home with dirty faces; today, it's about 50,000 miners |
#8358, aired 2021-03-17 | POTENT POTABLES $600: Mexicans drink the most per capita of this spirit named for a Jalisco town; Americans, the most overall tequila |
#8334, aired 2021-02-11 | BEVERAGES $1000: Brandy distilled from the fruit in its name, long ago it was Americans' favorite booze applejack |
#8331, aired 2021-02-08 | FACTS & FIGURES $200: 36 million Americans are edentulous, meaning they have none of these teeth |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $400: July: JFK tells Americans "We cannot and will not permit the Communists to drive us out of" this city Berlin |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: This former slave & orator wrote, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" Frederick Douglass |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: As a kid, this G-man was nicknamed Speed; as an adult, The Director Hoover |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: Marian Wright Edelman, the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar, also founded the CDF, short for this the Children's Defense Fund |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: Her friendship with Robert Baden-Powell inspired her to establish the Girl Scouts Juliette Low |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $3,500 (Daily Double): His work on game theory earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize, which he shared with John C. Harsanyi & Reinhard Selten John Nash |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | THE BRITISH PANTRY $800: To Brits, it's coriander leaves; to Americans, it's this cilantro |
#8306, aired 2021-01-04 | REPLICAS $2000: In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl sailed from Peru to Polynesia on this raft, a replica of ones used by ancient south Americans Kon-Tiki |
#8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1832, hoping to reclaim land in Illinois, this Sauk leader led Native Americans against U.S. forces in a months-long war Black Hawk |
#8300, aired 2020-12-11 | BRITISH ENGLISH $400: The Brits put their trousers on one leg at a time; this 5-letter word that Americans use means underwear over there pants |
#8288, aired 2020-11-25 | THE AMERICAN LEAGUE $3,000 (Daily Double): nul.org is the website for this organization that's been working for African Americans & civil rights since 1910 the National Urban League |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM $400: This real-life doctor turned comedic actor is one of the panelists on "The Masked Singer" Ken Jeong |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | CHOCOLATE $600: Named for a port in Yemen, mocha is what Americans call the combination of chocolate & this coffee |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM $800: For 7 seasons she played Dr. Joan Watson on "Elementary" Lucy Liu |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM $1200: Of Indian descent, Kal Penn had roles on "Designated Survivor" & "House" & was one half of this movie duo opposite John Cho Harold & Kumar |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM $1600: This Japanese-American actor has more than 10 million followers on Facebook (George) Takei |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM $2000: This star of her own stand-up specials starred opposite Randall Park in the romcom "Always Be My Maybe" Ali Wong |
#8277, aired 2020-11-10 | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME $800: The statue seen here of Native Americans playing this sport stands near the Hall of Fame of this sport in Sparks, Maryland lacrosse |
#8273, aired 2020-11-04 | U.S. ISLANDS $200: Tradition says Peter Minuit bought this island from local Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 Manhattan |
#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 |
#8267, aired 2020-10-27 | I'M POSTING THAT ON TELEGRAM $1000: A panicky telegram about Native Americans dancing in the snow brought an influx of troops & led to this 1890 massacre Wounded Knee |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE $800: For the Fourth of July in 2012, an order was placed to deliver 30,000 12-inch these to Americans serving overseas pizzas |
#8248, aired 2020-09-30 | AMERICANA $2000: This Ohio city was named for a fort built by "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who boldly dared the English & Native Americans to take it Fort Defiance |
#8247, aired 2020-09-29 | HASH TAGS $600: This "steak", really a ground beef patty, is named for the doctor who thought Americans should eat it 3 times a day Salisbury steak |
#8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $400: In 1952 she & 2 French friends started a cooking school in Paris, L'ecole des trois gourmandes Julia Child |
#8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $800: His trips to Paris in the 1920s inspired his orchestral piece "An American In Paris" (George) Gershwin |
#8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1200: She ran a salon out of her home for some of the leading artists and writers of the day Gertrude Stein |
#8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $2000: In 1932 this author began a passionate love affair in Paris with Anais Nin that would last for years Henry Miller |
#8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1803 this American launched an experimental steamboat on a river in Paris Robert Fulton |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THE NAVAJO $3,000 (Daily Double): The unique complexities of the Navajo language made it perfect for Native Americans working as these during World War II code talkers |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: One who has left his or her native land; Americans living in, say, Ecuador form this "community" expatriate |
#8220, aired 2020-05-22 | TV $1000: Keri Russell was nominated for 3 straight Emmys playing spy on this FX drama The Americans |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Now 115 years old, the Chicago Defender isn't a Bears safety but one of the oldest of these for African Americans a newspaper |
#8211, aired 2020-04-27 | HOLY SMOKE $1200: Native Americans were fond of burning this plant in ceremonies, and the practice is now used to remove bad energy from home sage |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE VIETNAM WAR $400: This enemy "offensive" of January 1968 shocked Americans, especially the assault on the U.S. embassy in Saigon the Tet |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | REMEMBER JAMES GARFIELD! $2,000 (Daily Double): Garfield served 9 terms in Congress as one of these alliterative Republicans who wanted equality for African Americans Radical Republicans |
#8156, aired 2020-02-10 | WINTRY READING $2000: It's 1954 & tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these Cedars |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2020 $800: Both male & female Americans will celebrate the August 2020 100th anniversary of this amendment to the Constitution the 19th Amendment |
#8129, aired 2020-01-02 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $2000: J.D. Vance analyzes the culture of poor white Americans in this 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | HIS-TORY $1200: Tories, Americans opposed to the American Revolution, were also called Royalists or these (just change 1 letter) Loyalists |
#8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FBI HEADQUARTERS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) These passports belonged to Cynthia and Richard Murphy, real names Lidiya and Vladimir Guryev, who were among 10 foreign agents arrested in a 2010 operation that inspired this Emmy-winning FX series about Russian spies masquerading as U.S. citizens The Americans |
#8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) The Americans exhibit highlights Native Americans' role in American identity. One legend is Pocahontas' famous 1607 rescue of this man, a story some doubt, as he didn't tell it until 1624, though he had written about his time in Virginia before then John Smith |
#8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Soon after this 1876 battle, the U.S. had almost all the region's Native Americans confined to reservations, yet that one setback looms large and made the Sioux and other plains people the iconic image of Native Americans the Battle of Little Bighorn |
#8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Stick and ball games are common among many Native peoples, but the only nation with its own sports team on an international level is the Iroquois team, competing in this centuries-old sport lacrosse |
#8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Disputes over treaties between tribes and the U.S. may seem far in the past, but this mile marker says otherwise. It was part of the 2016 protest by the Standing Rock Tribe that claimed this pipeline violated an 1868 pact the Dakota Access Pipeline |
#8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Despite the legal veneer of the Indian Removal Act, forcing 100,000 Native Americans from the fertile southeast to the more arid lands west of the Mississippi, caused thousands of deaths from starvation, exposure, and disease, leading to this term the Trail of Tears |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: More Frenchmen than Americans participated in the 1781 siege of this town, the last major battle of the American Revolution Yorktown |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: This library pioneer shortened his first name from Melville to Melvil Dewey |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: In 1858 this man patented a new type of reusable jar with a screw-cap lid & partnered with glassblowers to produce them (John Landis) Mason |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: This New York Times crossword editor graduated from Indiana with a degree in enigmatology (the study of puzzles) Will Shortz |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: This author known for her gender-disparity test wrote the graphic novel memoir "Fun Home" (Alison) Bechdel |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Blitz, Edward R. Murrow borrowed this 5-word phrase from Londoners who weren't sure they'd survive the evening Good night, and good luck |
#8091, aired 2019-11-11 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: Title I of this, the ADA for short, deals with equal employment opportunities & benefits the Americans with Disabilities Act |
#8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE U.N. REPORTS $800: The 2018 World Drug Report said about 192 million people worldwide used this recreational drug, including 38 million Americans marijuana |
#8079, aired 2019-10-24 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $400: She was Americans' etiquette authority up to her death in 1960 and even beyond Emily Post |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SO LONG $400: Hallmark says sales of cards for this anniversary spiked in the early 1990s; Americans had rushed to marry before the boys went to WWII 50th anniversary wedding card |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: This Puritan minister is pictured with hair that's fluffy & white, just like his name Cotton Mather |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: "Professional Angel" is a biography of this "angel of the battlefield" Clara Barton |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: A memorial at Arlington Cemetery to this North Pole explorer bears a Latin motto that means "I shall find a way or make one" Peary |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: This newspaper magnate ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1904 (William Randolph) Hearst |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: Wondering how to help impoverished women, this woman (1879-1966) realized she had to remove legal barriers to birth control Margaret Sanger |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1908 he rolled out the first car affordable for most Americans, the Model T (Henry) Ford |
#8021, aired 2019-06-24 | DEBATE CLUB $200: In their 5th debate Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas argued whether this document's "all men" included African Americans the Declaration of Independence |
#8021, aired 2019-06-24 | MEMORIALS $1200: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in this Alabama city is dedicated to 4,000-plus African Americans killed by racist mobs Montgomery |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | SLEEPWALKING THROUGH LIFE $1600: A 2012 study found that 30% of Americans sleepwalk at some point & this condition where breathing pauses raises your chance sleep apnea |
#8007, aired 2019-06-04 | INTERNAL RHYME VERBS $800: This gathering of Native Americans is also a verb meaning "to confer" powwow |
#8006, aired 2019-06-03 | NIXON SAID IT $800: In 1969 Nixon asked for the support of a "silent majority of my fellow Americans" in regard to this foreign affairs issue the Vietnam War |
#8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOMEWHAT HISTORICAL TV $2000: The final season of this FX series begins with episodes set before Reagan & Gorbachev's 1987 meeting The Americans |
#7993, aired 2019-05-15 | STUDYING FOR THE TEST $2000: This bogus "test" many had to take starting around 1890 was designed to make it impossible for African Americans to vote a literacy test |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZES $2000: The 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by 2 Americans:
Nicholas Butler & this Hull House cofounder Jane Addams |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | HISTORY WITH LESSER-KNOWN PAINTERS $800: Robert Colescott expanded African Americans' role in history with works like this peanut scientist "Crossing the Delaware" George Washington Carver |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | GOOD FELLOWS $3,000 (Daily Double): Politicians draw us in with "my fellow Americans" to open a speech, like this 1952 one in which Nixon rejected talk of corruption the Checkers speech |
#7922, aired 2019-02-05 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: Elizabeth Jennings on "The Americans", & "Felicity" Keri Russell |
#7883, aired 2018-12-12 | A.M.A. $400: The A.M.A. strives to lower this for over 100 million Americans in the program called Target: BP blood pressure |
#7864, aired 2018-11-15 | CLASSIC TV $800: Before "Downton Abbey", Americans watched Brits with class on "Upstairs, Downstairs" & both shows aired on this U.S. network PBS |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.) In February 1963, months before his "I Have A Dream" speech, he delivered an early version of the speech right here at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn to a packed congregation Martin Luther King Jr. |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: Frank Petersen overcame fear of heights to be the Marine Corps' 1st black one of these, mastering the F-4 Phantom a pilot |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 2018 a pres. pardon was given to Jack Johnson, a champion in this sport whose 1913 conviction had racial overtones heavyweight boxing |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: The first African-American Secretary of State, he passed the baton to another, Condoleezza Rice (Colin) Powell |
#7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: Among this educator's many books is "Up from Slavery", his autobiography published in 1901 (Booker T.) Washington |
#7862, aired 2018-11-13 | SUMMER CAMP $1000: Founded in 1924, Camp Lakota has the name of a group with this native people the Sioux |
#7837, aired 2018-10-09 | WHAT TREE AM I? $1,000 (Daily Double): The Algonquin Native Americans made canoes from the bark of me, a fast-growing tree of the genus Betula the birch |
#7823, aired 2018-09-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: This medal awarded to African Americans for outstanding achievement is named for an early NAACP chairman the Spingarn Medal |
#7820, aired 2018-09-14 | TV GUIDE MAGAZINE 65th ANNIVERSARY $1000: A 2014 cover about this show featured an appropriate James Bond title as a caption The Americans |
#7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $1600: Mary Rowlandson wrote an account of her captivity by Native Americans during the 1676 war named for this Wampanoag "king" King Philip |
#7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $400: In 1917 African Americans marched in NYC silently to protest this then-epidemic type of extrajudicial capital punishment lynching |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FAMOUS JEWISH AMERICANS $400: "Rosie" Rosenthal was a decorated WWII aviator & part of the legal team that prosecuted Nazis in this city Nuremberg |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FAMOUS JEWISH AMERICANS $800: Later active in New York City government, on September 8, 1945, Bess Myerson became the first & so far only Jewish holder of this title Miss America |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FAMOUS JEWISH AMERICANS $1200: This scientist became an American citizen in 1940 but also retained his Swiss citizenship Einstein |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FAMOUS JEWISH AMERICANS $1600: A campaigner for immigrant rights, she penned a poem that is on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty (Emma) Lazarus |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FAMOUS JEWISH AMERICANS $2000: This early 20th c. Supreme Court justice got his name on the USA's only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored university (Louis) Brandeis |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | AD COUNCIL CLASSICS $400: In 1979 the Council unleashed McGruff the Crime Dog, who urged Americans to do this 6-word thing take a bite out of crime |
#7801, aired 2018-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $2000: A 1979 treaty says the use of this, where only Americans have ever been, is "the province of all mankind" the moon |
#7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE OLD 3, 4 $400: A 1932 speech presented this term, a Democratic promise for the "forgotten" Americans the New Deal |
#7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: An estimated 1 in 5 Americans suffer from these, be it to certain pollens, drugs or food allergies |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WE'RE ALL AMERICANS $200: She is a champion of tennis & for social justice Billie Jean King |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WE'RE ALL AMERICANS $400: Naturally, David Ritz titled his biography of this singer "Respect" Aretha Franklin |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WE'RE ALL AMERICANS $600: This actress & activist couldn't be more perfect for the category America Ferrera |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WE'RE ALL AMERICANS $800: This actress of Connecticut played Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1968's "The Lion in Winter" Katharine Hepburn |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | WE'RE ALL AMERICANS $1000: He's made his mark on American fashion Marc Jacobs |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ON WITH THE SHOW $2000: The Armory Show, a groundbreaking 1913 exhibition, introduced many Americans to the work of this impressionist Renoir |
#7725, aired 2018-03-23 | WHERE'D THAT HAPPEN? $400: Amid threats & violence, the 1964 Freedom Summer in this state registered a total of 1,200 African Americans to vote Mississippi |
#7708, aired 2018-02-28 | WHERE "RU"? $1200: Atop this monumental memorial known to Native Americans as the Six Grandfathers Mount Rushmore |
#7708, aired 2018-02-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The 1851 treaty of this Wyoming fort was an early attempt to resolve conflicts between Native Americans & settlers Fort Laramie |
#7708, aired 2018-02-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: On a December day in 1890, about 200 Native Americans were slain by U.S. Army troops at this South Dakota location Wounded Knee |
#7701, aired 2018-02-19 | TABLE TENNIS, ANYONE? $1000: Americans call a table tennis racket a paddle; Brits use this term familiar from cricket & another sport a bat |
#7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: 1971 events at this prison east of Buffalo were one of the bloodiest clashes between Americans in the 20th century Attica |
#7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE "DIS"PATCH $2000: It's the "dis" word in ADA, a law passed in 1990 prohibiting discrimination Disabilities |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | BRIT SPEAK $2000: The Brits refer to Heath Robinson, whose work is seen here, where Americans say this machine-crazy cartoonist Rube Goldberg |
#7691, aired 2018-02-05 | HISTORY NEAR & FAR $1600: By act of Congress on June 2, 1924, all members of this group were declared U.S. citizens Native Americans |
#7666, aired 2018-01-01 | POPCORN $200: Legend says in 1621 Native Americans introduced the Pilgrims to popcorn by bringing it to this celebration Thanksgiving |
#7637, aired 2017-11-21 | 20/20 AT 40 $200: (David Muir of 20/20 presents the clue.) In 2015 I had the honor of moderating a town hall with this man before his first visit to the U.S.; he asked Americans to pray for him Pope Francis |
#7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $1200: 1970s genre of film depicting African Americans in unrealistic & often violent situations blaxploitation |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CURRENT EVENTS $600: A hack of this credit reporting agency potentially compromised the information of 143 mil. Americans Equifax |
#7633, aired 2017-11-15 | RECENT TV EPISODES $2000: "Travel Agents" &
"The Rat" The Americans |
#7630, aired 2017-11-10 | INDIAN AMERICANS $400: Here's a "Project": name this sitcom star, with over 8 million Twitter followers, who wrote "Why Not Me?" in 2015 Mindy Kaling |
#7630, aired 2017-11-10 | INDIAN AMERICANS $800: A Forbes headline: "One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How" his academy "Is Reinventing Education" (Salman) Khan |
#7630, aired 2017-11-10 | INDIAN AMERICANS $1600: The daughter of Indian & Jamaican immigrants, she was elected to replace Barbara Boxer in the Senate in 2016 (Kamala) Harris |
#7630, aired 2017-11-10 | INDIAN AMERICANS $2000: In addition to live news coverage of the first operation of the Iraq War, he performed five brain surgeries in the desert Sanjay Gupta |
#7630, aired 2017-11-10 | INDIAN AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Sunday morning CNN host was only 28 when he was appointed as the managing editor of foreign affairs (Fareed) Zakaria |
#7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $200: Originally Native Americans used these runnerless sleds to transport game over the snow toboggans |
#7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $800: Well, kiss my grits! This dish of whole or ground hulled corn was a gift from Native Americans to the colonists hominy |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | THE CIA $800: (Alex gives the clue from the CIA.) Six Americans were rescued from revolutionary Iran in 1980, in a daring CIA plan using phony production materials like these, in this movie about a fake movie Argo |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | OPHTHALMOLOGY $2000: About half a million Americans a year have this surgery to improve their vision; its name is a 5-letter acronym LASIK |
#7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $400: In 1962 this man co-founded the Natl. Farm Workers Assoc. to help workers earn more than sub-poverty-level wages Cesar Chavez |
#7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $800: This senator & presidential candidate was born in Canada but moved to Houston around age 4 (Ted) Cruz |
#7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $1200: Mexican-born chemist Mario Jose Molina helped find that CFCs, these, damaged the ozone layer in our upper atmosphere chlorofluorocarbons |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The powder horn belonged to one of 10,000 African-Americans who fought at battles like Monmouth in this war; to them, liberty was not just an abstract concept, but something they personally craved and hoped would be granted by the winning side, and in some cases, it was the American Revolution |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Abbreviated the CBC, it was formed by 13 African Americans elected to the U.S. House in 1970 the Congressional Black Caucus |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | THE REVOLUTION $1200: In 1916 during the Mexican Revolution, this bandit leader raided New Mexico & killed 17 Americans Pancho Villa |
#7588, aired 2017-09-13 | HIGH WATER $1200: The Mississippi flood of 1927 helped spur the mass movement of African Americans north & west, the "Great" this migration |
#7585, aired 2017-07-28 | FROM OUTER SPACE $400: On TV in 1971 Alan Shepard called one of these a "little white pellet that's familiar to millions of Americans" a golf ball |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The first legal off-reservation Indian gaming site, the Potawatomi bingo casino in this largest Wisconsin city opened in 1991 Milwaukee |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1200: The Spaniards gave this tribe of the SW a name that means "town" because they were living in what looked like Spanish towns Pueblo |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: Ta-sunko-witko is the Sioux name of this Oglala chief who joined with Sitting Bull to defeat Custer & his men Crazy Horse |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): To mark a 1683 treaty, this tribe with a state-ly name gave William Penn a wampum belt of 18 strings of beads the Delaware |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: This Iroquois dwelling had no windows but did have a door at each end a longhouse |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1964 he embraced Sunni Islam & changed his name (again) to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Malcolm X |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: (I'm D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser.) On January 2, 1975 Walter Washington became D.C.'s first elected mayor in a century as he was sworn in by this fellow Howard University alumnus Thurgood Marshall |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: (I'm Melissa Harris-Perry.) My book "Barbershops, Bibles & BET" won a 2005 National Conference of Black Political Scientist Award named for this sociologist who helped create the NAACP in 1909 (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: This trumpeter's classic albums include "Kind of Blue" & "Sketches of Spain" Miles Davis |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Serving under George W. Bush, this soldier was the first person of Jamaican descent in the Cabinet (Colin) Powell |
#7556, aired 2017-06-19 | AN AVIAN CATEGORY $1600: Accordionist Werner Thomas composed the music for what most Americans know as this polka "The Chicken Dance" |
#7554, aired 2017-06-15 | "NME"s LIST $400: Heart Mountain in Wyoming was one of these World War II "camps" for Japanese Americans internment |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | OF SURPRISE $1200: This wave of attacks in early 1968 was a military defeat for North Vietnam but turned many Americans against the war the Tet offensive |
#7547, aired 2017-06-06 | TALK OF THE TOWN $600: Oscar Wilde wrote, "When good Americans die they go to" this world capital Paris |
#7546, aired 2017-06-05 | JUST WHAT I NEED $200: This object, carved by Native Americans, will teach me about their history and lore a totem pole |
#7538, aired 2017-05-24 | HEART SURGERY WITH DR. OZ $800: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) As director of a center for integrative medicine, I appreciate a pioneer of integrated medicine, the African-American surgeon Daniel Hale Williams, who in 1893 sutured a man's pericardium, becoming one of the first Americans to perform this then-risky type of surgery open-heart surgery |
#7538, aired 2017-05-24 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM $800: The character seen here made his public debut in January of 1963 to remind Americans to add this to each address the zip code |
#7534, aired 2017-05-18 | PRO RUSSELL-ING $1200: Sweet Keri Russell was deliberately cast against type as a tough Soviet spy on this TV drama The Americans |
#7532, aired 2017-05-16 | INFRASTRUCTURE $200: The 600,000 of these that Americans travel over average 40+ years old & 1 in 9 is structurally deficient bridges |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1200: Around 3,000 Americans lost their lives in the war, most to typhoid & this fever rather than combat yellow fever |
#7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The Supreme Court reached a low with its 1857 decision on this slave's case: African Americans were not & could not be U.S. citizens Dred Scott |
#7512, aired 2017-04-18 | BASEBALL $1200: Before the were named for their hosiery, this American League team was known simply as the Americans the (Boston) Red Sox |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | THE EXPLORERS CLUB $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Explorers Club in New York.) Using the Explorers Club globe, this Norwegian planned an expedition to show that South Americans could've settled Polynesia as early as 500 A.D.; on August 7, 1947, his balsa wood raft reached Raroia Atoll after 101 hazardous days at sea, proving his theory (Thor) Heyerdahl |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: In 1891 he applied for a patent on the first American motion-picture camera Edison |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: (I'm Chuck Todd.) Someone I would have loved to interview on "Meet the Press"' is this president who left office in 1861 & left the nation on the brink of civil war--where did it all go wrong? Buchanan |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1200: No grim reaper, in the 1850s his harvest machine company became the world's largest maker of farming implements Cyrus McCormick |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1600: Dubbed "The Father of American Music", he composed the song heard here Stephen Foster |
#7505, aired 2017-04-07 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: The first Southern black woman elected to the house, she represented Texas from 1973 to 1979 (Barbara) Jordan |
#7503, aired 2017-04-05 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2017 $200: Under surprising facts, Americans in 2016 paid an average of 25.6% of their earnings in income tax & into this fund Social Security |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF $1,401 (Daily Double): In 1913 federal law & the 16th Amend. levied this on many Americans; in 1954 a book called it the "root of all evil" income tax |
#7482, aired 2017-03-07 | AMERICAN LIVES $400: An obit said this "Laverne & Shirley" creator might have given Americans more laughs than anyone else over the last 50 years (Garry) Marshall |
#7478, aired 2017-03-01 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION $1200: Americans forgot their cares with this household item that was owned by 40% of families in 1930 & 90% in 1940 radio |
#7475, aired 2017-02-24 | THE 1970s $400: In 1979 the U.S. embassy in this nation was taken over & 66 Americans held hostage Iran |
#7475, aired 2017-02-24 | COINS FROM EVERYWHERE $800: In 2012 Canada minted its last of these coins; many Americans would like to see the same here a penny |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | YOU KIDS TODAY! $200: I think you like ink: 3 in 10 Americans have one of these today, up from 2 in 10 less than 5 years ago a tattoo |
#7466, aired 2017-02-13 | LANGUAGES $600: Almost extinct, the Coeur d'Alene language is spoken by a few Native Americans on a reservation in this U.S. state Idaho |
#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 |
#7448, aired 2017-01-18 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $800: Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state Mississippi |
#7442, aired 2017-01-10 | FORT-ITUDE $1600: A few Native Americans are buried at Fort Sill, Ok., including this Apache chief who lived at the fort in his later years Geronimo |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | U.S. MILITARY MEN $400: In 1997, Vernon Baker became one of only 7 African Americans & the only one living to receive this award for valor in World War II the Congressional Medal of Honor |
#7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DUMB DOWN THE SAYING $400: "Anchoring position at the bottom of a wooden sculpture carved by Native Americans of the Northwest" "the low man on the totem pole" |
#7438, aired 2017-01-04 | INTERVIEWS $800: On "20/20" in 1999 almost 50 million Americans tuned in to Barbara Walters' interview with this former intern Monica Lewinsky |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 2003 in Ohio, an overgrown tree touched a power line, causing this event that affected 50 million North Americans a blackout |
#7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $2000: L.A. Times reporter Ruben Salazar was killed during a 1970 protest by this community, a term for Mexican Americans Chicano |
#7423, aired 2016-12-14 | TREES $1000: Native Americans used the inner bark of the sugar type of this tree to make a tea to treat coughs maple |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: This publisher's New York Journal fought a circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World (William Randolph) Hearst |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: This general was the Allied commander of the Japanese occupation from 1945 to 1951 MacArthur |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Harry Truman appointed her a delegate to the U.N., where she chaired the Human Rights Commission from 1946 to 1951 Eleanor Roosevelt |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1600: In an 1896 speech William Jennings Bryan said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon" this a cross of gold |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: Here's a sculpture of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony & this woman, a Quaker & a suffragette (Lucretia) Mott |
#7415, aired 2016-12-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $2000: This site 90 miles east of Fresno was a WWII internment camp for Japanese Americans Manzanar |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE SOPRANOS $1200: Born in Laurel, Mississippi, she broke ground as one of the first African Americans to achieve world fame in opera Leontyne Price |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | SENATE COMMITTEES $1200: Reviewing Medicare on an "almost annual basis", this committee deals with "matters relating to older Americans" the Special Committee on Aging |
#7370, aired 2016-09-30 | EPONYMOUSLY YOURS $1600: More than 1 in 100 Americans over 65 have this condition including tremors, named for physician James Parkinson's disease |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature (Ernest) Hemingway |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: Mescalero & Chiricahua are spoken by members of this Native American people the Apache |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: In 1889 & 1890 a visionary named Wovoka taught this "spectral" dance to tribes to regenerate the earth the Ghost Dance |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian reservation has a 4-year college serving the Oglala branch of this tribe the Sioux |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $3,400 (Daily Double): Of Cherokee descent, Robert Owen was one of the first 2 senators from this state in 1907 Oklahoma |
#7357, aired 2016-09-13 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: In 1953 this Nation of Islam leader founded & was the minister of Boston Temple No. 11 Malcolm X |
#7357, aired 2016-09-13 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1908 this composer put out an instruction book called "School of Ragtime" (Scott) Joplin |
#7357, aired 2016-09-13 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: "How to Get Away with Murder" is but one part of her dominion as a TV writer-producer Shonda Rhimes |
#7357, aired 2016-09-13 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: Born Valerie Bowman, she's a longtime advisor to Pres. Obama, who has said she's like a sister to him Valerie Jarrett |
#7348, aired 2016-07-20 | TREES $400: Native Americans used the white, waterproof bark of the paper type of this for roofing & canoes birch |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | HOOSIER HISTORY $1600: A trail or "trace" across the state was first used by these animals it's named for, then Native Americans, then settlers buffalo |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS $800: During Joe Clark's tenure (1979-80), 6 Americans trapped in this country were able to escape using fake Canadian papers Iran |
#7318, aired 2016-06-08 | SURROUNDED BY STATISTICS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew does jumping jacks, lunges, and runs in place.) 30 minutes of exercise a day will improve this measure of vitality, marked for Americans at approximately 79 years lifespan |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1942 Charles Drew received a patent for preserving this, allowing it to be stored in "banks" blood |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: Harold Amos, the first black department chair at this Ivy League med school, taught there for nearly 50 years Harvard |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: The 2016 TV series "The People v. O.J. Simpson" put this late attorney, seen here at the trial, front & center Johnnie Cochran |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: As a mission specialist on STS-8 aboard one of these, Guion Bluford helped deploy INSAT-1B a Space Shuttle |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: James Armistead told Lafayette that the British were moving into this Va. town; siege & surrender soon followed Yorktown |
#7304, aired 2016-05-19 | LEGALIZE IT $200: A change in restrictions in 2015 means traveling to this nearby country is now legal for most Americans Cuba |
#7286, aired 2016-04-25 | SCIENCE UPDATE $1000: Kennewick Man, an 8,500-year-old discovery in this western state, is indeed related to Native Americans, who claim him Washington |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $1000: In 1812 this Shawnee leader came to Alabama to convince the Creek tribes to join the British against the Americans Tecumseh |
#7277, aired 2016-04-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $200: In 1839, after leading his people on the Trail of Tears, John Ross helped write a new constitution for this tribe the Cherokee |
#7277, aired 2016-04-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: To indicate this type of transport in Plains Indian sign language, combine the signs for boat & fire steamboat |
#7277, aired 2016-04-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: Baggataway is what Native Americans called this sport they played with balls of leather stuffed with animal hair lacrosse |
#7277, aired 2016-04-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: In an 1898 article in McClure's Magazine, Two Moon gave his account of what happened at this June 1876 battle Little Bighorn |
#7277, aired 2016-04-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: The name of this tribe, the USA's largest, comes from a word meaning "planted fields", since they were farmers Navajo |
#7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map-like diagram on the monitor.) Using barricades of earthworks & cotton bales, he set a defensive line on Rodriguez Canal to defend New Orleans; in a half-hour of fighting on January 8, 1815, British causalities were over 2,000; Americans?--fewer than 100 (Andrew) Jackson |
#7266, aired 2016-03-28 | REPUBLICANS $200: After the Civil War the "Radical Republicans" were committed to the enfranchisement of these people slaves (African-Americans accepted) |
#7256, aired 2016-03-14 | BEST DRAMA SERIES EMMY AWARDS $400: 1974 & '75: This class-conscious PBS show that wasn't even about Americans Upstairs, Downstairs |
#7250, aired 2016-03-04 | DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! $1200: In this group's "Meaning of Life", Death says, "You always talk, you Americans... well, you're dead now, so shut up" Monty Python |
#7241, aired 2016-02-22 | THE IMAGE AWARDS $200: Honoring African Americans in the arts, the Image Awards were established in 1967 by this organization the NAACP |
#7208, aired 2016-01-06 | REVOLUTIONARY QUOTATIONS $1200: On Jan. 2, 1776 this body passed the Tory Act, saying lock up "unworthy Americans as... have taken part with our oppressors" the Continental Congress |
#7202, aired 2015-12-29 | TV SETTINGS $400: "The Americans" & "Murphy Brown": this city Washington D.C. |
#7202, aired 2015-12-29 | THEMS $800: A colonial-era stereotype of Native Americans as uncorrupted is called this type of "savage" a noble savage |
#7199, aired 2015-12-24 | BANKING $400: The Americans with Disabilities Act says these must have Braille, even the drive-up ones an ATM |
#7156, aired 2015-10-26 | THE WAY WE "WAR" $800: Makeup applied before a battle by Native Americans war paint |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS $400: (Hi, I'm Mark Kelly.) My wife Gabrielle Giffords & I founded Americans for Responsible Solutions in response to the 2012 Sandy Hook tragedy in this Connecticut community Newtown |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | FIRST LADIES $200: (Hi, I'm Bellamy Young, and I play First Lady Mellie Grant on Scandal.) In 1962 millions of Americans tuned in as this First Lady took viewers on a televised "Tour of the White House" Jackie Kennedy |
#7146, aired 2015-10-12 | THE NORTH REMEMBERS $1000: ...about 100 Americans died in 1919 fighting this victorious communist faction in northern Russia the Red Army |
#7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: On January 20, 1801 he was nominated to be Chief Justice, a job he would retain for the next 34 years John Marshall |
#7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: On May 24, 1844 he sent the historic message "What hath God wrought" to his partner Alfred Vail Morse |
#7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1200: In 1866 she fell on the ice in Lynn, Mass. & her recovery led to the principles of Christian Science (Mary Baker) Eddy |
#7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: This Maryland physician hadn't practiced medicine primarily for years when he set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg (Dr. Samuel) Mudd |
#7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $6,000 (Daily Double): (Hi. I'm Ken Burns.) My film about this man who inspired Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" depicts his road to the White House cut short by an assassin in 1935 Huey Long |
#7128, aired 2015-09-16 | BREAKFAST $400: An iron with a large, deep grid is used to make these, introduced to Americans in the 1960s Belgian waffles |
#7108, aired 2015-07-08 | THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851 $1200: U.S. exhibitors included Cyrus McCormick & this photographer who displayed his daguerreotypes of famous Americans Mathew Brady |
#7068, aired 2015-05-13 | REMEMBER THE '80s? $800: This hyphenated scandal involved an arms-for-hostages deal designed to free 7 Americans in Lebanon Iran-Contra |
#7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $200: From 1933 to 1939 this was FDR's program to use government to help Americans through the Depression the New Deal |
#7039, aired 2015-04-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In the mid-1800s the Order of United Americans was big in this -ism, the promotion of the U.S.-born over immigrants nativism |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $400: Thai on his mom's side, he shot a 48 for 9 holes... at age 3! 12 years later, he was U.S. Jr. Amateur champ Tiger Woods |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $800: Jerry Yang put an exclamation point on co-founding this web directory in 1994; these days, Jerry's worth about $2.2 billion Yahoo! |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1200: The son of immigrants from India, this state governor got an Ivy League education at Brown University Bobby Jindal |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1600: This son of Chinese parents made his Carnegie Hall debut before his 17th birthday Yo-Yo Ma |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $2000: His resume includes first Asian-American 4-star general, Army Chief of Staff & Veterans Affairs Secretary (Eric) Shinseki |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | POTENT POTABLES $400: During prohibition this family of rum makers invited Americans to Cuba for weekend-long parties Bacardi |
#7012, aired 2015-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Americans were protesting a tax & a monopoly with this Dec. 16, 1773 event the (Boston) tea party |
#7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NON-FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $600: Though we link this alliterative 2-word action to Native Americans, China used them as a defensive system at the Great Wall smoke signals |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | "CIVIL" $2000: Title of a 1970s bestseller complaining about Americans' bad English--keep it "in your head" A Civil Tongue |
#6966, aired 2014-12-22 | THE OLD WEST $1000: This Chiricahua Apache leader's surrender to Gen. Nelson Miles in 1886 ended major military action with Native Americans Geronimo |
#6938, aired 2014-11-12 | CAUSE OF DEBT $4,000 (Daily Double): The National Council on the problem type of this activity says it affects 6 to 9 million Americans gambling |
#6933, aired 2014-11-05 | TV $600: On "The Americans" she stars as Elizabeth Jennings, just your KGB spy next door Keri Russell |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: Before his 1821 election to the Tennessee legislature, this frontiersman served as a justice of the peace Davy Crockett |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1874 he invented the quadruplex telegraph, allowing 4 messages to be sent at a time, 2 in each direction Thomas Edison |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Clue reports from Deadwood, South Dakota.) This is what it looks like now, but in 1875, Deadwood was just a mining camp that sprung up after this lieutenant colonel & his 7th Cavalry found that the Black Hills were rich in gold (George Armstrong) Custer |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: In 1865 he & his brother William built an oil refinery in Cleveland they called Standard Works John D. Rockefeller |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: This president was a supporter of the Pendleton Civil Service Act Chester Arthur |
#6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $2000: Much of our knowledge of 19th-century Native Americans comes from paintings & drawings by him George Catlin |
#6902, aired 2014-09-23 | CELEBRITY ORIGINS $1000: (I'm George Stephanopoulos.) Like many Greek-Americans before them, my parents settled in Massachusetts & I was born in this city, site of an infamous double murder in 1892 Fall River |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE AMERICANS $200: In between being president & chief justice, he taught constitutional law at Yale William Howard Taft |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE AMERICANS $400: He's the good-humor man seen here in 1925 doing one of his famous rope tricks Will Rogers |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE AMERICANS $600: Naturally this designer was born in NY, the daughter of a tailor & a model Donna Karan |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE AMERICANS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a flight path on the monitor.) In a 15-minute flight, Freedom 7 flew 303 miles, peaking at an altitude of just 117 miles, making this man the first American in space Alan Shepard |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Best known for a different work, in 1833 he produced a "Common Version" of the Holy Bible "with Amendments of the Language" Noah Webster |
#6897, aired 2014-09-16 | SHE'S HAD SOME WORK DONE $600: Grandma can now shower with ease since the bathroom became compliant with this act, the ADA the Americans with Disabilities Act |
#6897, aired 2014-09-16 | PLASTIC SURGERY $1,000 (Daily Double): This alliterative procedure is also called abdominoplasty tummy tuck |
#6892, aired 2014-07-29 | "MAC" OR "P.C." $1000: Latin phrase meaning "for each person", as in "Americans eat 85 pounds of chicken..." per capita |
#6883, aired 2014-07-16 | HEADLINE NEWS $2000: A front-page headline in Le Monde Sept. 13, 2001 read, "We Are All" these people Americans |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | HEADLINES FROM THE ONION $800: This government agency established in 1970 "Warns Americans Not To Breathe" the EPA |
#6850, aired 2014-05-30 | DESCRIBING THE TV CAST $1600: 2 KGB spies under deep cover in Reagan-era Washington, D.C. The Americans |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | ASIAN AMERICANS $400: At Harvard, Tony Hsieh sold pizzas out of his dorm room; today he's the CEO of this largest online shoe retailer Zappos |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | ASIAN AMERICANS $800: Penn.-raised Daniel Dae Kim had to relearn Korean to play Jin Kwon on this early 2000s adventure series Lost |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1200: Husband & wife Andrew & Peggy Cherng founded & run the 1,500-plus restaurants in this chain; who ordered orange chicken? Panda Express |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1600: This daughter of Chinese immigrants competed nationally as a figure skater before going into bridal wear design Vera Wang |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | ASIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 1989 he became the youngest male winner of tennis' French Open Michael Chang |
#6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: Famous or infamous? This NSA contractor made Hong Kong his first stop with classified data (Edward) Snowden |
#6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: In 1974 he broke Babe Ruth's home run record & in 2007 Barry Bonds broke his Hank Aaron |
#6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: On his 2012 death his family said on a clear night when the moon is smiling down at you, think of him & give him a wink Neil Armstrong |
#6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: Born in 1918, he's reportedly preached to more people live than anyone else in history, nearly 215 million people Billy Graham |
#6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: "A Magician Among the Spirits" is a 1924 book by this man Houdini |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $400: A food lover & avid gardener, Edmund McIlhenny created this sauce from plants that he cultivated himself Tabasco |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $800: Brace yourself! Edward Angle was the modern father of this branch of dentistry orthodontics |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1600: In the 1870s paleontologist Othniel Marsh discovered the first remains of this flying reptile in the United States a pterodactyl |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $2000: This man for whom a Philadelphia square is named was a clockmaker/astronomer who discovered Venus' atmosphere Rittenhouse |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $5,000 (Daily Double): With a mark of 5'6" in this event, in 1948 5'7" Alice Coachman became the first African-American woman to win Olympic gold high jump |
#6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WHICH NYC BOROUGH? $200: Was purchased from Native Americans for about $24 Manhattan |
#6827, aired 2014-04-29 | STATISTICS $800: According to a Pew report, today 20% of Americans 18-29 have this status; in 1960 it was 59% married |
#6823, aired 2014-04-23 | THE MAN OF THE HOUSE $2,000 (Daily Double): Tom Cole & Markwayne Mullin, the only Native Americans in Congress, are from this state's "Five Civilized Tribes" Oklahoma |
#6820, aired 2014-04-18 | "MM"! FOOD & DRINK! $800: Originating with Native Americans, this pasty, pulverized dried meat, berries & fruit dish is for those on the go pemmican |
#6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: This future Supreme Court justice became chief legal officer for the NAACP in 1938 (Thurgood) Marshall |
#6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: During a sentimental visit to the Philippines in 1961, he told a welcoming crowd at the airport, "I have returned" MacArthur |
#6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: This singer known as "Lady Day" took her first name from a favorite movie actress, Ms. Dove Billie Holiday |
#6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1958 this beloved author helped found Beginner Books Dr. Seuss |
#6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: At the time of his death, Charlie Chaplin was married to this playwright's daughter, Oona (Eugene) O'Neill |
#6793, aired 2014-03-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: Her descendants through her son Thomas Rolfe number in the tens of thousands Pocahontas |
#6793, aired 2014-03-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: Originally meaning a shaman or medicine man, it now refers to a Native American council or meeting powwow |
#6793, aired 2014-03-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1200: This people's Old Oraibi pueblo in Arizona, settled around 1150, may be the USA's oldest continuously inhabited village the Hopi |
#6793, aired 2014-03-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: This Ottawa chief's "drive" to capture Fort Detroit in 1763 might have been successful if he hadn't been betrayed Pontiac |
#6793, aired 2014-03-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: Taza, son of this chief, tried to honor his father's peace agreement with the Army but couldn't unite all the Apache bands Cochise |
#6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1600: This "New" city 20 miles from Newark served both the British & the Americans as a headquarters New Brunswick |
#6784, aired 2014-02-27 | "M" IN THE MIDDLE $2000: To the British, it's a blackberry; to Americans, it can be any rough, prickly bush bramble |
#6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later Woolworth's |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | LANGUAGES $1,200 (Daily Double): This language with a unique syllabary is now spoken by more than 10,000 Native Americans in North Carolina & Oklahoma Cherokee |
#6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: Before his days on the Supreme Court, he was chief of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Thurgood Marshall |
#6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: A little birdie told us he's the artistic naturalist seen here (John James) Audubon |
#6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: After he was kicked out of a town in Massachusetts, this leader of the Green Mountain Boys settled in what's now Vermont Ethan Allen |
#6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: Pioneering inventor seen here in 1926 ready to rocket (Robert) Goddard |
#6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2,015 (Daily Double): Like his cousin Charles, Thomas Pinckney served as governor of this state South Carolina |
#6769, aired 2014-02-06 | RARE BREEDS $800: Used by Native Americans of Washington & Oregon, the Cayuse breed of this has become rare a horse |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MEDICINE $1200: In 1910 physician James Herrick became the first to identify this blood disease that affects many African Americans sickle-cell anemia |
#6735, aired 2013-12-20 | ____ING THE ____ $700 (Daily Double): This African custom seen at many weddings of African Americans symbolizes sweeping away the old jumping the broom |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | D.C. TV $1000: On "The Americans" Matthew Rhys & Keri Russell live in the D.C. suburbs while working as spies for this Russian agency the KGB |
#6726, aired 2013-12-09 | THE ____ OF ____ $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Most Americans had never even heard of this body of water in August 1964, but that was all about to change the Gulf of Tonkin |
#6724, aired 2013-12-05 | DESERT LIFE $200: The tough, curved spines of the barrel type of this plant were once used by Native Americans as fishhooks cactus |
#6721, aired 2013-12-02 | WE PROTEST! $1200: A banner at the 1968 Miss America pageant taught many Americans the term "Women's" this 10-letter word Liberation |
#6720, aired 2013-11-29 | THE NIXON YEARS $400: With 2 Americans aboard, it's where Challenger came to rest in December 1972 the Moon |
#6713, aired 2013-11-20 | GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS $400: It's estimated that more than 40% of Americans visit this website on any given day; how very social! (& good for business) Facebook |
#6712, aired 2013-11-19 | TEXTING IN CLASS $1600: NK, this bureau sez 46m Americans now in poverty the Census |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | MILITARY NICKNAMES $1600: Native Americans called him "yellow hair" (George Armstrong) Custer |
#6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FRENCH DRESSING $2000: The Americans say "off the rack"; the French, this 3-word term meaning "ready to wear" prêt-à-porter |
#6658, aired 2013-07-24 | "AMERICAN" ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Luther Vandross sang back-up on the David Bowie song with this title the "Young Americans" |
#6645, aired 2013-07-05 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $800: 23,000 people in its 6.6 million square feet keep Americans safe the Pentagon |
#6633, aired 2013-06-19 | INTELLIGENCE $800: It's the guise under which a spy operates; the couple on FX' "The Americans" uses the "deep" type cover |
#6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Until it made the news in 1961, most Americans were unfamiliar with this body of water the Bay of Pigs |
#6618, aired 2013-05-29 | THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $600: General Sheridan's plan to suppress Native Americans included killing all of these animals that supported their way of life the bison (or the buffalo) |
#6606, aired 2013-05-13 | YOU DID GOOD $1600: Radical! Totally this 7-letter word urbandictionary.com says "Americans use to describe everything" awesome |
#6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: I may be nostalgic, but I still love the work of this man, such as Pride Of Parenthood Norman Rockwell |
#6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: Allen Dulles, John Foster's brother, was the first civilian director of this agency from 1953 to 1961 the CIA |
#6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: In 1853 he won $2 at an Illinois fair for the "best center draft plow" John Deere |
#6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: His life & music inspired the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (George M.) Cohan |
#6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: As well as writing her own poems like "The New Colossus", she also translated the works of other Jewish poets (Emma) Lazarus |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $400: In this last battle of the War, about 2,000 British were killed, wounded or captured; fewer than 50 Americans were killed The Battle Of New Orleans |
#6559, aired 2013-03-07 | THE 18th CENTURY $600: 1780s Americans who advocated a strong central government used this name, today associated with states' rights Federalists |
#6556, aired 2013-03-04 | 2 LETTERS, 1 WORD $800: A tent used by Native Americans teepee |
#6554, aired 2013-02-28 | CHEW, CHEW $200: This chewy snack is meat that has been cut thin & dried; Native Americans added berries to it to make pemmican jerky |
#6552, aired 2013-02-26 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: A pox on this disease also called Varicella; an estimated 90% of Americans over 15 have had it chickenpox |
#6540, aired 2013-02-08 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: She's added to her accomplishments with "Modelland", a novel for young adults Tyra Banks |
#6540, aired 2013-02-08 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled that, as a slave, he was not a citizen & therefore not entitled to sue in federal court Dred Scott |
#6540, aired 2013-02-08 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: 8 years before she won Olympic gold, this gymnast was a 2004 Virginia State champion Gabby Douglas |
#6540, aired 2013-02-08 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) In 1893 internal surgery was rare--most patients died of infection--but that year Dr. Daniel Hale Williams used antiseptic methods during one of the first successful open-heart surgeries suturing this sac around the heart the pericardium |
#6540, aired 2013-02-08 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Crispus Attucks, called the first American to die for independence, was killed in this 1770 incident the Boston Massacre |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: One of this circus man's 1st exhibits was Joice Heth, who claimed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington (P.T.) Barnum |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1848 he sold his song "Oh! Susanna" for $100 (Stephen) Foster |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: Hailing from New Hampshire, he's the orator & statesman seen here (Daniel) Webster |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Last of the Whigs was a nickname of this president Fillmore |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): An 1877 cartoon showed 12 widows crying in bed, mourning the death of this man Brigham Young |
#6490, aired 2012-11-30 | BEER ME! $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis.) In the mid-19th century, Americans drank mainly heavy, top-fermented ales; the new, lighter lagers pioneered by Adolphus Busch were made possible by the new, European, bottom-fermenting types of this ingredient yeast |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES $1200: In the U.S. the gin type of this game is popular; South Americans prefer loba or telefunken rummy |
#6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CONTAINERS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C..) This type of ceramic material gets its name from Italian for "baked earth"; its waterproof quality was as valuable to the Native Americans as it was to the Italians terra cotta |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: On Nov. 20, 1969 the "Red Power" movement occupied this island in San Francisco Bay, holding it until June 11, 1971 Alcatraz |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: After defending the Apache homeland against the U.S. Army, this warrior surrendered in 1886 Geronimo |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1,400 (Daily Double): On Feb. 11, 1805 Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born to this Shoshone woman at Fort Mandan, North Dakota Sacagawea |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: A Nebraska town is named for this Sioux chief & native son who had a twin brother named Roaring Cloud Red Cloud |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: In 1720 the Tuscarora tribe left North Carolina for N.Y. & soon became the 6th member of this confederacy the Iroquois Confederacy |
#6474, aired 2012-11-08 | FILL IN THE QUOTE $800: Richard Nixon: "It is time for the great ____ ____ of Americans to stand up and be counted" silent majority |
#6458, aired 2012-10-17 | WHERE'S WALDO $600: Waldo joins other Americans in pondering beside this body of water in Washington, D.C. the Reflecting Pool |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | ALLITERATIVE AMERICANS $400: She won an Oscar playing a nun in "Dead Man Walking" Susan Sarandon |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | ALLITERATIVE AMERICANS $800: A statue in Eugene, Oregon honors this "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author who lived in the city Ken Kesey |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | ALLITERATIVE AMERICANS $1200: In 1908, he became the first black heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | ALLITERATIVE AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Among the holdings in his financial empire were an aircraft company, RKO Pictures & lots of stock in TWA Howard Hughes |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | ALLITERATIVE AMERICANS $2000: Famous for his American flag paintings, he was saluted with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 Jasper Johns |
#6443, aired 2012-09-26 | "MAN"LY PLACES $2000: During WWII, an internment camp for Japanese Americans was at this California locale Manzanar |
#6418, aired 2012-07-11 | OXYMORONS $2000: At any time about 200,000 Americans are these, on the way to educating our youth student teachers |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: He worked on a Ford assembly line & as a prizefighter before founding Motown records Berry Gordy |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: This tennis player's memoir "Days of Grace" was published posthumously in 1993 Arthur Ashe |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: She read a poem at President Clinton's 1993 inauguration & in 2011 received the Medal of Freedom from President Obama Maya Angelou |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: Living in rags paid off--in 1976 he was honored with a special Pulitzer citation for his contribution to American music Scott Joplin |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: In 1990 he succeeded Ed Koch as mayor of New York City (David) Dinkins |
#6390, aired 2012-06-01 | THE WRIGHT STUFF $1600: This author's "12 Million Black Voices" is a pictorial history of African Americans Richard Wright |
#6382, aired 2012-05-22 | NATIVE AMERICANS BY TRIBE $400: Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Sioux |
#6382, aired 2012-05-22 | NATIVE AMERICANS BY TRIBE $800: Geronimo Apache |
#6382, aired 2012-05-22 | NATIVE AMERICANS BY TRIBE $1,000 (Daily Double): Osceola Seminole (or Creek) |
#6379, aired 2012-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $600: In depicting Native Americans, George Catlin often painted this beast, as in "Assiniboine Indians Pursuing" it "on Snowshoes" a buffalo |
#6376, aired 2012-05-14 | MILITARY OPERATIONS $400: Operation Frequent Wind, the largest helicopter evacuation, removed Americans from this country in 1975 South Vietnam |
#6367, aired 2012-05-01 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $1200: Gutzon Borglum's goal was to inspire Americans to go home better citizens after seeing this memorial Mount Rushmore |
#6360, aired 2012-04-20 | THE ACLU $800: In 1942 the ACLU denounced the internment of more than 100,000 Americans of this ancestry Japanese |
#6345, aired 2012-03-30 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Native Americans have used this malaria treatment from the cinchona tree for years before it reached Europe in 1642 quinine |
#6339, aired 2012-03-22 | HISTORIANS $400: In 2011 David McCullough took readers on "The Greater Journey: Americans in" this foreign city Paris |
#6339, aired 2012-03-22 | HISTORIANS $1600: The son of a historian, he co-founded Americans for Democratic Action & served in JFK's administration Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
#6310, aired 2012-02-10 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICANS $200: A flint spear point from an ancient Mexican civilization was found lodged between 2 ribs of one of these "woolly" animals mammoths |
#6310, aired 2012-02-10 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICANS $400: 2 major deities of the Zapotecs of Mexico: Coquihani, the god of light, & Cocijo, the god of this weather phenomenon rain |
#6310, aired 2012-02-10 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICANS $600: In some myths, Quetzalcoatl was identified with this planet, the Evening & Morning Star Venus |
#6310, aired 2012-02-10 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICANS $800: The Aztecs' main weapon, the macuahuitl, was a wooden club edged with sharp pieces of this volcanic glass obsidian |
#6310, aired 2012-02-10 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICANS $1000: In the 15th century the Inca conquered the Chimu Empire & moved its people to this capital Cuzco |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 2009 Charles Bolden, who'd commanded 2 shuttle missions, became administrator of this agency NASA |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: This businessman with a "9-9-9" tax plan made news in 2011 as a candidate for president Herman Cain |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 2011 this director & star of the "Madea" movies topped Forbes' list of the highest-paid men in entertainment Tyler Perry |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: This author of "Invisible Man" was named for another literary great, Emerson Ralph Ellison |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: His 1912 autobiography "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole" includes a foreword by Robert Peary Matthew Henson |
#6287, aired 2012-01-10 | SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY $1600: Almost half of North Americans have this kind of blood Type A |
#6277, aired 2011-12-27 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $200: John T. Dorrance, a chemist who studied cooking in Paris, developed the first canned soups for this brand Campbell's |
#6277, aired 2011-12-27 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $400: In the 1940s Stetson Kennedy infiltrated this group, whom he mocked as the "Dumb Klux" the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) |
#6277, aired 2011-12-27 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $600: In 1827 Joseph Dixon founded a factory to make stove polish & these from graphite pencils |
#6277, aired 2011-12-27 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $800: In 2003 this state replaced its statue of George Washington Glick in Statuary Hall with one of Dwight Eisenhower Kansas |
#6277, aired 2011-12-27 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1000: Katharine Drexel is only the second person born in the U.S. to be recognized as one of these; Elizabeth Ann Seton was 1st saints |
#6268, aired 2011-12-14 | THE 1890s $600: In 1895 this black educator delivered the Atlanta Compromise speech about improving the lot of African Americans (Booker T.) Washington |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN FOODS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Raw acorns can be poisonous but Native Americans found that, once cracked & cleaned, they could use the ground-up meal in breads & in soups for this purpose, like cornstarch a thickener |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN FOODS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Native Americans traditionally prepared salmon by splitting them & placing them on planks of this evergreen conifer cedar |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: His 1948 report on "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was based on over 5,000 case histories Kinsey |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | USDA FOREST SERVICE $400: In 1971 Woodsy Owl became a Forest Service spokesman urging Americans, "Give a hoot, don't" do this pollute |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1966 she helped found the National Organization for Women & became its first president (Betty) Friedan |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: In 1945 in Newport, Arkansas, he opened his first store, a Ben Franklin variety store Sam Walton |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: This Olympian was named to the National Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1974 Wilma Rudolph |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: This Pittsburgh-born financier & art collector was Secretary of the Treasury under Harding, Coolidge & Hoover (Andrew) Mellon |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA $800: In 1868 this amendment gave African Americans full citizenship the 14th |
#6235, aired 2011-10-28 | "SH"! $1600: Some Native Americans believe these medicine men have contact with the spirit world shaman |
#6225, aired 2011-10-14 | UNWANTED DISTINCTIONS $1600: Ireland (not us profligate Americans) is ranked highest in amount of this related to GDP: 1,305% debt |
#6215, aired 2011-09-30 | BLUE RAYS $2000: Blue light can worsen this type of degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 55 macular degeneration |
#6210, aired 2011-09-23 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $800: "Let the word go forth from this time and place... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans" JFK |
#6206, aired 2011-09-19 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $200: Setting sail for the Paris Peace Conference in December 1918, he became the first sitting president to cross the Atlantic Woodrow Wilson |
#6206, aired 2011-09-19 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $400: In 1855, when he was 21, he moved to Paris to study art; that painting of his mother would come later Whistler |
#6206, aired 2011-09-19 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $600: Familiar with France from experimenting there, in 1779 he became our first ambassador to France Benjamin Franklin |
#6206, aired 2011-09-19 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $800: He was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when he published "The Naked and the Dead" Norman Mailer |
#6206, aired 2011-09-19 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1000: Sadly, this dancer's 2 children drowned in the Seine years before that scarf cut her own life short Isadora Duncan |
#6202, aired 2011-07-26 | SANDWICHES $400: Kraft informs us that Americans eat 2.2 billion of these cooked sandwiches a year grilled cheese |
#6197, aired 2011-07-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $400: "I'm glad I met ya", this company providing medical insurance to more than 19 million Americans Aetna |
#6131, aired 2011-04-18 | REAL HISTORICAL HOUSEWIVES OF D.C. $200: In February 1962 millions of Americans tuned in to watch her TV "Tour of the White House" (Jackie) Kennedy |
#6116, aired 2011-03-28 | D-DAY $200: The deepest ground penetration on June 6 was not by Americans or Brits but by this country's forces at Juno beach Canada |
#6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $400: In November 1848, for the first time, it was the same for Americans in every state Election Day |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: In 2010 this Lakers guard became the youngest player in NBA history to reach 25,000 points Kobe Bryant |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: Of that bus incident in 1955, she once said, "All I was doing was trying to get home from work" (Rosa) Parks |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: The first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks won in this category in 1950 Poetry |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): On Forbes' 2008 list of the World's Most Powerful Women, this then Secretary of State ranked seventh Condoleezza Rice |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: This astronomer & mathematician helped survey the land that became Washington, D.C. (Benjamin) Banneker |
#6093, aired 2011-02-23 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: The "Great Migration" from the south brought 120,000 African Americans to this "Windy City" in the 1920s Chicago |
#6084, aired 2011-02-10 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: "All Hail the Queen" & "The Dana Owens Album" are releases by this actress & hip hop artist Queen Latifah |
#6084, aired 2011-02-10 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: An award for African-American authors & illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King |
#6084, aired 2011-02-10 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: Between the time this boxer retired in 1977 & again in 1997, he began hawking lean mean grilling machines George Foreman |
#6084, aired 2011-02-10 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 2005 Baltimore/Washington Intl. Airport was renamed for this late Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
#6084, aired 2011-02-10 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: Representing Texas from 1973 to 1979, she was the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in Congress Barbara Jordan |
#6083, aired 2011-02-09 | IOWA $4,000 (Daily Double): The first non-native Americans to travel in Iowa, this French pair explored the region in 1673 Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet |
#6082, aired 2011-02-08 | POPULAR NAMES FOR BOYS & GIRLS $200: Colonial Americans invented this girls' name by combining Sam from Samuel with the Greek for flower Samantha |
#6036, aired 2010-12-06 | PAINTERS $800: This female Impressionist helped Americans collect art, like the Havemeyers, whose collection went to the Met Mary Cassatt |
#6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 2010 20th ANNIVERSARIES $800: Representative Jim Langevin presided over the House of Representatives in recognition of the anniversary of this 1990 act the Americans with Disabilities Act |
#5981, aired 2010-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $400: A. Philip Randolph, who first proposed a march on this city in 1941, also helped organize the one in 1963 Washington, D.C. |
#5981, aired 2010-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $600: In 1945 Virginia Gildersleeve was the only female U.S. delegate to the conference that drafted this charter the United Nations |
#5981, aired 2010-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $800: Named for his cousin, James Buchanan Eads built the first bridge across this river at St. Louis the Mississippi |
#5981, aired 2010-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1000: Doris Eaton Travis, who passed away in 2010 at age 106, was the last surviving showgirl from these follies Ziegfeld |
#5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: 21 million Americans have this disease of the endocrine system & 6 million of them don't know it diabetes |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | DAYS OF THE WEEK $200: Unable to get over the hump, more Americans kill themselves on this than any other day, per a 2009 study Wednesday |
#5958, aired 2010-07-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In his inaugural address, he mentioned that "44 Americans have now taken the Presidential Oath" Obama |
#5951, aired 2010-06-28 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $1200: Kalpen Modi, who works for the Obama admin. doing outreach to Asian Americans, is better known to moviegoers as this Kal Penn |
#5949, aired 2010-06-24 | IRAQ'S PROVINCES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Sulaymaniyah Province, dominated by this ethnic group, is friendly ground for Americans--just don't get too close to Iran, as three hikers did in 2009 the Kurds |
#5943, aired 2010-06-16 | IMMANUEL CAN'T... $200: Immanuel can't have a milkshake: like 90% of Asian Americans, he has an intolerance to this sugar lactose |
#5943, aired 2010-06-16 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: In May 1844 he sent the first official message via telegraph (Samuel) Morse |
#5943, aired 2010-06-16 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1200: This Secy. of State had success in preventing foreign governments from giving official recognition to the Confederacy (William) Seward |
#5943, aired 2010-06-16 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1600: In the 1950s he made news as Adlai Stevenson's running mate & chair of a Senate committee on organized crime Estes Kefauver |
#5943, aired 2010-06-16 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: He eulogized George Washington as "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" Light Horse Harry Lee |
#5943, aired 2010-06-16 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1976 the U.S. posthumously restored the citizenship of this labor organizer & socialist leader who lost it in 1918 (Eugene) Debs |
#5936, aired 2010-06-07 | DOUBLE "C" $400: Some Native Americans decorated these shoes with porcupine quills, others with beads moccasins |
#5931, aired 2010-05-31 | COOKING WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: Americans using British cookbooks should know that a recipe calling for one of these is equivalent to 20 ounces, not 16 a pint |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | ADOPTION $600: For 2008 this Central American country passed China in the number of babies adopted by Americans Guatemala |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | ADOPTION $800: In 2008 Americans adopted 2 kids from this African country; Madonna has adopted that many by herself Malawi |
#5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR $400: This author of "Push" wrote a letter to the editor saying "Silence will not save African Americans" Sapphire |
#5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $400: He worked on his "An American in Paris" while staying with brother Ira at Paris' Hotel Majestic George Gershwin |
#5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $800: This statesman attended Masonic lodge meetings with the sculptor Houdon, who did the bust of him seen here Benjamin Franklin |
#5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1600: While minister to France, 1784-1789, this future president enjoyed Parisian culture, as well as the fine food & wine Thomas Jefferson |
#5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $2000: Sherwood Anderson & Ernest Hemingway were among the expatriate writers who hung out at her Paris salon Gertrude Stein |
#5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $3,000 (Daily Double): In March 1971 this rocker closed the door on his band & moved to Paris to focus on his poetry Jim Morrison |
#5902, aired 2010-04-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $200: Jumping Bull was the father of this more sedentary Native American chief Sitting Bull |
#5902, aired 2010-04-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: Originally called Curly, this "mad" guy was the battlefield leader during the Sioux Wars of resistance in the 1870s Crazy Horse |
#5902, aired 2010-04-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: Florida's Big Cypress Indian reservation is home to this tribe the Seminoles |
#5902, aired 2010-04-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: You auto know this chief of the Ottawa who fought against the British settlements in the 1760s Pontiac |
#5902, aired 2010-04-20 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: In the late 1800s the prophet Wovoka, a Paiute Indian, founded a religion based on this spectral "dance" a ghost dance |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: This New Yorker who fought at the battle of Gettysburg was once considered the inventor of baseball (Abner) Doubleday |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: This First Lady was born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16, 1912 in Nevada Mrs. Nixon |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: From 1935 to 1937 she worked at Purdue University as a career counselor & as an advisor in aeronautics Amelia Earhart |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: At his death in 1915, this educator was buried on the campus of his Tuskegee institute Booker T. Washington |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: He wrote a controversial report on urban poverty before being a democratic senator from New York, 1977-2001 (Daniel) Moynihan |
#5864, aired 2010-02-25 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $1200: It might be quite a "jar" to Americans visiting this Dutch city that there's a museum devoted to the Pilgrims Leiden |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: The first African American to play modern Major League Baseball, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 Jackie Robinson |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1,200 (Daily Double): A biography of this former Cabinet secretary is subtitled "Soldier and Statesman" Colin Powell |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: Her website calls her a Renaissance woman, poet, historian, author, actress & playwright Maya Angelou |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, was mayor of this Ohio metropolis from 1967 to 1971 Cleveland |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his play "Fences" & another for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990 (August) Wilson |
#5842, aired 2010-01-26 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION LORE $200: The first time African Americans marched in the parade was at Lincoln's second inauguration, in this year 1865 |
#5840, aired 2010-01-22 | MELON-CHOLY $800: Americans call an orange-fleshed melon with a netted rind this; charentais is a variety of the true one a cantaloupe |
#5835, aired 2010-01-15 | PASS-IVE $800: Daniel Boone led settlers into Kentucky through this pass that wasn't discovered by white Americans until 1750 the Cumberland Gap (the Cumberland Pass accepted) |
#5831, aired 2010-01-11 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $1000: Seen here, it's known to some Native Americans as Bears Lodge Devils Tower |
#5821, aired 2009-12-28 | FRANCE $600: (Sarah gives the clue from Omaha Beach.) The amphibious assault on Normandy took place at five beaches. The British landed at Gold and Sword, the Canadians at Juno, and the Americans at Omaha Beach and this beach to the west Utah |
#5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $400: The first American-born winner of this Nobel was Robert Millikan, for his study of the elementary electric charge Physics |
#5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $800: Sing the song of this poet, one of the Roughs, seen here Walt Whitman |
#5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $1200: A plaza in San Francisco is named for this politician who was a city supervisor when he was slain in 1978 (Harvey) Milk |
#5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $2000: This American lyricist collaborated with Frederick Loewe on the song "The Rain In Spain", among others (Alan Jay) Lerner |
#5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): He chaired the commission that investigated the deaths of JFK & Lee Harvey Oswald (Earl) Warren |
#5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $200: Term for the strings of tubular shell beads used by Native Americans in lieu of money wampum |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | ART HISTORY $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Edward Hicks' "Peaceable Kingdom" depicts a verse by Isaiah that begins, "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb"; the meaning is amplified by the inclusion of this Quaker colony founder making a treaty with Native Americans (William) Penn |
#5792, aired 2009-11-17 | TANK ARRAY $800: In this 1950s war the People's Army at first outgunned the Americans with Soviet-made T-34 tanks the Korean War |
#5785, aired 2009-11-06 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: On Feb. 1, 2009 an estimated 98.7 million Americans tuned in to watch this sports event the Super Bowl |
#5775, aired 2009-10-23 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $1,600 (Daily Double): This president told Americans, "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate" John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
#5765, aired 2009-10-09 | YORKS: OLDE, NEW & DICK $800: This N.Y. area that early Native Americans called Paumanok covers about 1,700 square miles; I'll see you in the Hamptons Long Island |
#5750, aired 2009-09-18 | THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) The Newport 28 is the model Alan Winslow & Douglas Campbell were flying in 1918 when they became the first Americans to shoot down enemy planes in combat over this country France |
#5701, aired 2009-05-25 | TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008 $600: No. 7 in "Quotes":
This politician, when told that 2/3 of Americans did not support the Iraq War--"So?" Dick Cheney |
#5700, aired 2009-05-22 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: Legendary General George Armstrong Custer first saw action in this war the Civil War |
#5700, aired 2009-05-22 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: He's the future governor & labor union president seen here around 1940 Ronald Reagan |
#5700, aired 2009-05-22 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: Today found on the $10 bill, he was an aide-de-camp to Washington & also served in his cabinet (Alexander) Hamilton |
#5700, aired 2009-05-22 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: In 1995 astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to board this Russian space station Mir |
#5700, aired 2009-05-22 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: Though the Constitution says the U.S. can't have one of these, it was the last name of Constitution signer Rufus King |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: African Americans, 13% of the U.S., were nearly twice that percentage of U.S. troops in this 1990-91 war the First Gulf War |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: As part of a 3-book deal, she'll soon write a memoir about her years as Secretary of State (Condoleezza) Rice |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 1962 he said, "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: Currently, he's the only African American on the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: In 1872 Victoria Woodhull chose this orator & former slave to be her running mate Frederick Douglass |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: Ernest Just, who received the first Spingarn Medal in 1915, was a biologist & professor at this D.C. university Howard |
#5682, aired 2009-04-28 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: In 1898 McClure's magazine published Two Moons' account of this June 1876 event the Battle of Little Big Horn |
#5682, aired 2009-04-28 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: In 1894 this Apache leader was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he farmed & joined the Dutch Reformed Church Geronimo |
#5682, aired 2009-04-28 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: In 1833 this leader of the Sac & Fox tribes for whom a war is named dictated his autobiography to Antoine LeClaire Black Hawk |
#5682, aired 2009-04-28 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: This name the Pilgrims used for a great Wampanoag chief means "great chief" Massasoit |
#5682, aired 2009-04-28 | NATIVE AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): In the mid-1830s Osceola, a leader in this tribe, waged guerrilla warfare against U.S. troops in the Everglades Seminole |
#5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WHAT THE '90s MOVIE TITLE MEANS $1200: Americans say "the whole enchilada"; Brits say this, a Best Picture Oscar nominee from 1997 The Full Monty |
#5632, aired 2009-02-17 | FOR GEOGRAPHIC VIOLENCE $800: 1,000 British & 450 Americans were killed or wounded at the June 1775 battle at this elevated Mass. place Bunker Hill |
#5629, aired 2009-02-12 | BRIT SPEAK $400: If mum takes little Alistair to a childminder, he's going to what Americans would call this type of "center" a day care center |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR $800: By presidential proclamation, October 9 is set aside to honor this Viking & all Americans of Nordic heritage Leif Ericson |
#5601, aired 2009-01-05 | UNITE US $800: In 1986 7 million Americans from coast to coast united these at the behest of USA for Africa hands |
#5581, aired 2008-12-08 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $800: When writing, many Europeans cross it; most Americans don't 7 |
#5556, aired 2008-11-03 | YOU, THE VOTER $400: The Supreme Court said of this 1965 law, "Millions of non-white Americans will now be able to participate..." the Voting Rights Act |
#5551, aired 2008-10-27 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK... OF WATER $200: This independent agency of the U.S. government is concerned with providing clean drinking water to all Americans the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) |
#5540, aired 2008-10-10 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $400: In August 1814 State Dept. Clerk Stephen Pleasonton hid these 2 documents from the invading British the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution |
#5540, aired 2008-10-10 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $800: The 1st execution in the American Colonies occurred in 1608 when Geo. Kendall was shot for spying for this kingdom Spain |
#5540, aired 2008-10-10 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1200: Called the "American Sherlock Holmes", William J. Burns solved the 1910 bombing of this Calif. newspaper the Los Angeles Times |
#5540, aired 2008-10-10 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1600: General Oliver Howard was the recipient of this Native American chief's "I will fight no more forever" message Chief Joseph |
#5540, aired 2008-10-10 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $2000: Listen my children & you shall hear of William Dawes & this other man who accompanied Paul Revere early on April 19, 1775 (Samuel) Prescott |
#5496, aired 2008-06-30 | THE ONION'S GLOSSARY OF ELECTION TERMS $800: This is referred to as a "process by which Americans are quadrennially reminded of Iowa's existence" the Iowa caucuses |
#5494, aired 2008-06-26 | CHRISTIAN $1600: This Welsh-born actor played Americans in "Batman Begins" & "3:10 to Yuma" Christian Bale |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $200: In the 1830s his telegraph proposals were helped by having Congressman F.O.J. Smith as a partner Morse |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: He was playing poker in a Deadwood saloon when he was shot dead by Jack McCall in 1876 Wild Bill Hickok |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $600: A cabinetmaker by trade, he developed the railway sleeping car dubbed the "Pioneer" in the 1860s (George) Pullman |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1881 this orator & former slave became Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C. Frederick Douglass |
#5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1,200 (Daily Double): In the essay "Friendship", this transcendentalist observed, "Thou art to me a delicious torment" (Ralph Waldo) Emerson |
#5474, aired 2008-05-29 | WE'RE IN BUSINESS $1200: One in 9 Americans has this type of insurance through WellPoint health insurance |
#5473, aired 2008-05-28 | FOOTBALL COACHES $200: Nickname of Glenn Warner, who coached such All-Americans as Jim Thorpe & Ernie Nevers Pop |
#5468, aired 2008-05-21 | POTPOURRI $1000: A G.I. Joe introduced in 2000 is supposed to be one of these Native Americans who were code talkers in WWII Navajo |
#5445, aired 2008-04-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: Meriwether Lewis named a tributary of the Musselshell River in Montana for her Sacagawea |
#5445, aired 2008-04-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: This Sioux chief is said to have received his name when an equine raced through camp at his birth, c. 1849 Crazy Horse |
#5445, aired 2008-04-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1200: B'gosh! A Wisc. city is named for this Menominee chief who helped the British capture Fort Mackinaw in 1812 Oshkosh |
#5445, aired 2008-04-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: A Cree Indian, this folk singer won a 1982 Oscar for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" from "An Officer and a Gentleman" Buffy Sainte-Marie |
#5445, aired 2008-04-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: This "royal" Wampanoag leader fought a 1675-76 war against colonists in what was New England's worst Indian war King Philip |
#5442, aired 2008-04-15 | APRIL 15: DAY OF DOOM $1000: An alleged double murder during an alleged robbery was allegedly done by these 2 Italian Americans April 15, 1920 Sacco & Vanzetti |
#5434, aired 2008-04-03 | THE QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE $1600: The rally cry of the Americans during the fight was "Millions for" this "but not one cent for tribute!" defense |
#5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE WORLD ALMANAC'S WIDELY KNOWN AMERICANS $200: This San Francisco-born woman is listed as "Former White House intern" Monica Lewinsky |
#5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE WORLD ALMANAC'S WIDELY KNOWN AMERICANS $400: The almanac notes of her:
"b 3/15/33
(Brooklyn, NY)
Sup. Ct. Justice" Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
#5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE WORLD ALMANAC'S WIDELY KNOWN AMERICANS $600: The naked truth about him:
"b 4/9/26
(Chicago)
Publisher" Hugh Hefner |
#5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE WORLD ALMANAC'S WIDELY KNOWN AMERICANS $800: This New Haven-born casino developer is nearly at the end of the list Steve Wynn |
#5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE WORLD ALMANAC'S WIDELY KNOWN AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): In order, you'll find Bob Costas, Ann Coulter, Katie Couric & this former TV anchor Walter Cronkite |
#5422, aired 2008-03-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $200: Algonquian for "to trade", this Native American tribe shares its name with Canada's capital Ottawa |
#5422, aired 2008-03-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The Pomo of California were particularly known for this art, an easy elective for college students basket weaving |
#5422, aired 2008-03-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: This tribe's name was first on a bay, then a colony, then a state (which put 2 Ts in it) Massachusetts |
#5422, aired 2008-03-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: This athlete's Inidan name was Wa-Tho-Huck, "Bright Path"; & boy, could he run quickly down it Jim Thorpe |
#5422, aired 2008-03-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1,600 (Daily Double): From the dark color they died their moccasins, the Siksika are also known as this the Northern Blackfoot Indians |
#5404, aired 2008-02-21 | CLASS TRIP TO WASHINGTON $700 (Daily Double): A memorial on the National Mall bears the names of nearly 60,000 Americans who died in this war the Vietnam War |
#5395, aired 2008-02-08 | EXITING GEORGE W. BUSH'S CABINET $1200: Resigning as Atty. General in 2004, he remarked, "The safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved" Ashcroft |
#5387, aired 2008-01-29 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: Her grave marker at Arlington bears only a cross, the years 1929-1994, & her full name, including "Bouvier" Jackie Kennedy |
#5387, aired 2008-01-29 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: Last name of the brothers whose "Of Thee I Sing" was the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize Gershwin |
#5387, aired 2008-01-29 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: This 19th century political cartoonist popularized the elephant & donkey as party symbols (Thomas) Nast |
#5387, aired 2008-01-29 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: After filling Joe McCarthy's Senate seat, this Democrat fought long & hard against wasteful govt. spending William Proxmire |
#5387, aired 2008-01-29 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $6,400 (Daily Double): This man who helped win ratification of the Constitution by Maryland gave his name to a famous fort (James) McHenry |
#5378, aired 2008-01-16 | ON AVERAGE $1000: According to the MPAA, Americans attend an average of 7.6 of these a year movies |
#5374, aired 2008-01-10 | MEAT ME $1600: Native Americans hunted bison & preserved the meat with berries & fat as this treat pemmican |
#5366, aired 2007-12-31 | MY DREAM HOUSE $200: In this style of pre-Revolutionary Americans, I like the Southern version with brick exterior & side chimneys Colonial |
#5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BRIT SPEAK $800: While Americans put gas in their cars, the British put in this 6-letter equivalent petrol |
#5339, aired 2007-11-22 | LET'S MEAT FOR BREAKFAST $600: What Americans call "Canadian" this is not truly Canadian; give me the "peameal" type, a real specialty of my homeland bacon |
#5332, aired 2007-11-13 | IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME $800: "My fellow Americans", this black & white cocker spaniel gave its name to a 1952 speech Checkers |
#5323, aired 2007-10-31 | ECONOMICS $2000: In 2005 Americans didn't put money away but spent all they earned & more, for the 1st negative rate of this since 1933 savings |
#5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1898 Americans were urged to "remember" this battleship that sank in Havana harbor, leading to war with Spain the Maine |
#5292, aired 2007-09-18 | THE RICH LIST $600 (Daily Double): In 2006 4 members of this family, including offspring Jim & Alice, were among the top 10 richest Americans the Walton family |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2007 $200: Of the 4 of these that will happen in 2007, Americans will see only the lunar ones an eclipse |
#5263, aired 2007-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $400: Familiar Inca name for the cat some Americans call the Florida panther puma |
#5260, aired 2007-06-22 | MUSICAL SYNOPSES $1000: 2 Americans are in a misty Scottish glen when they encounter a village that comes alive one day every century Brigadoon |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | LET'S GET MARRIED $2000: The marriage of this pair in 1614 brought peace between the Jamestown Colony & local Native Americans Pocahontas & John Rolfe |
#5255, aired 2007-06-15 | WORLD WAR II $1600: This heavy German offensive that began on December 16, 1944 took the Americans by surprise the Battle Of The Bulge |
#5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE ROARING '20s $1000: In 1925 Americans held their breath as sled dog teams raced 674 miles to this Alaskan city to deliver diphtheria serum Nome |
#5214, aired 2007-04-19 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $200: In January 1777 Mary Goddard printed up the first copies of this that also included the signers' names the Declaration of Independence |
#5214, aired 2007-04-19 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $400: Sidney Lenz, a president of the American Ping-Pong Association, was also an expert on whist & this card game bridge |
#5214, aired 2007-04-19 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $800: After meeting this woman at the Rockford Female Seminary, Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House with her Jane Addams |
#5214, aired 2007-04-19 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): One of this state's largest cities is named for steamboat builder & captain Henry Schreve Louisiana |
#5214, aired 2007-04-19 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $1000: This pioneer who gave his name to a pass, a trail & a Montana city was killed by Indians in 1867 John Bozeman |
#5213, aired 2007-04-18 | ELLEN $800: This First Lady's efforts resulted in a 1914 law improving housing for African Americans in Washington, D.C. Ellen Wilson |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: In 1839 he published "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" Poe |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: In 1838 congressman Jonathan Cilley engaged in this--& not a rhetorical one--with Rep. William Graves a duel |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: Later to dominate rail transport, this "commodore" was on the first train ever to have a passenger fatality Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: This Illinois girl died in 1835; in 1890, she was reburied in Petersburg, Ill. to drum up tourism there Ann Rutledge |
#5209, aired 2007-04-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Ann Eliza Webb was one of this 19th century Utah group that's sometimes counted at 27 women the wives of Brigham Young |
#5200, aired 2007-03-30 | FACTS & FIGURES $2,000 (Daily Double): Due partly to a policy of its govt., in 2005 this country led the world in foreign babies adopted by Americans China |
#5192, aired 2007-03-20 | 5 "CC"s $600: When Native Americans put on the old soft shoes, they are often these, made of soft leather or deerskin moccasins |
#5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400: One of the two African Americans to win the prize, one in 1950, the other in 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. (& Ralph Bunche) |
#5184, aired 2007-03-08 | GEORGIA ON MY MIND $600: In 1943 Georgia became the first state in the U.S. to allow these people the right to vote 18-year-olds |
#5178, aired 2007-02-28 | BURN $800: A popular WWI song urged Americans to keep these "burning" in support of the troops overseas the home fires |
#5177, aired 2007-02-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: On Feb. 9, 1861 he was elected provisional president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis |
#5177, aired 2007-02-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Alphabetically, he's the first U.S. vice president John Adams |
#5177, aired 2007-02-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: A slave called Isabella at birth adopted this unusual name in 1843 & became an itinerant preacher Sojourner Truth |
#5177, aired 2007-02-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: This American educator born in 1796 favored the abolition of corporal punishment in schools Horace Mann |
#5177, aired 2007-02-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: Farmer Jabez Stone sells his soul in his classic story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" Stephen Vincent Benét |
#5169, aired 2007-02-15 | WELCOME TO "HIGH" SCHOOL $800: Also known as hypertension, this condidtion affects far more African Americans on average than white Americans high blood pressure |
#5163, aired 2007-02-07 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: American Indians used this small ax or hatchet to chop wood & to chop down enemies in battle a tomahawk |
#5163, aired 2007-02-07 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: It's the Native American item seen here; you might have one hanging in your bedroom a dreamcatcher |
#5163, aired 2007-02-07 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1200: Cochise was a famous chief of this Native American people Apache |
#5163, aired 2007-02-07 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: The traditional Navajo home is this type of shelter, often 8-sided & made of logs & mud a hogan |
#5163, aired 2007-02-07 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2,400 (Daily Double): With some 280,000 members, this tribe, largely concentrated in Oklahoma, is the largest in the U.S. Cherokee |
#5147, aired 2007-01-16 | 1957 $400: The October 4 launch of this made Americans doubt their country's technological superiority Sputnik |
#5147, aired 2007-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: It sounds servile, but this 11,000-square-mile Canadian lake is actually named for a tribe of Native Americans Great Slave Lake |
#5143, aired 2007-01-10 | GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK $800: Winter guided tours are designed for people to clomp around in these, originally used by Native Americans snowshoes |
#5143, aired 2007-01-10 | THE STAMP ACT $800: The Distinguished Americans series has honored Jonas Salk & this virologist who also developed a polio vaccine (Albert) Sabin |
#5137, aired 2007-01-02 | RED, WHITE, OR BLUE $200: The teeth of this ferocious fish, Carcharodon carcharias, may have been used as arrowheads by Native Americans the great white shark |
#5129, aired 2006-12-21 | THE MACY'S PARADE: BEHIND THE SCENES $1000: (Kelly presents the clue from the workshop.) This 1947 movie which used footage of actual floats gave many Americans a love for the Macy's parade Miracle on 34th Street |
#5125, aired 2006-12-15 | BELT $1600: These polished shell beads were woven into belts by Native Americans & traded or used to send messages wampum |
#5120, aired 2006-12-08 | IT'S A DISASTER $200: Near the end of WWI, an outbreak of the "Spanish" type of this disease killed 500,000 Americans the flu |
#5120, aired 2006-12-08 | GEMSTONES $800: Native Americans believed this blue-green hydrous phosphate of aluminum & copper protected them turquoise |
#5117, aired 2006-12-05 | A NEW HAT $400: It's the name Americans gave to the British bowler hat a derby |
#5107, aired 2006-11-21 | THE LATE 20th CENTURY $400: The 1987 book "And the Band Played On" alerted many Americans to this disease AIDS |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: This hesitation word Americans spell U-H is spelled this way in Britain E-R |
#5083, aired 2006-10-18 | OCTOBERFEST $1000: Instead of Columbus Day, many Latin Americans celebrate their culture in "Dia de" this la Raza |
#5059, aired 2006-09-14 | SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN LIFE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds two bowls in the Besh-Ba-Gowah Museum in Arizona.) Though beans & corn are each incomplete these, Native Americans combine them to get a complementary one & stay healthy proteins |
#5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Americans began to occupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it Alaska |
#5047, aired 2006-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Disgusted by Americans' tobacco chewing, Dickens noted the prevalence of these vessels in public places spittoons |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: In the 1840s he opened a photographic portrait studio on Fulton & Broadway in New York City (Mathew) Brady |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded this woman as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Susan B. Anthony |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: A flag with a red cross on it flies over her Glen Echo, Maryland home, now a National Historic Site Clara Barton |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: We tell you no "tails": 19th c. astronomer George Phillips Bond discovered 11 of these celestial bodies comets |
#5046, aired 2006-07-17 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: Civil War veteran Ira Dutton became Brother Joseph & helped Father Damien care for the lepers on this island Molokai |
#5040, aired 2006-07-07 | MONTHS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the sign-in desk at Bally Total Fitness.) It's named for a god of doors, & it's the month the greatest number of Americans walk through that door & join a gym January |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS' HOMES $400: This humorist's California ranch house has a stuffed calf given by his friends so he'd lasso it, not them Will Rogers |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS' HOMES $800: This frontiersman died in 1820 at his family's limestone mansion near Defiance, Missouri Daniel Boone |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS' HOMES $1200: Born a slave around 1818, he bought a home in Washington, D.C. in 1877 & expanded it to 21 rooms Frederick Douglass |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS' HOMES $1600: New England's Inn on Covered Bridge Green was once this artist's home, & it would fit into his work Norman Rockwell |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | GIVE ME AN "E" $2000: Oui! It's the 10-letter French word Americans sometimes use for a writing desk escritoire |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS' HOMES $2,100 (Daily Double): If he could have gone home again, it might have been to his mother's Asheville, N.C. boarding house, now a landmark Thomas Wolfe |
#4987, aired 2006-04-25 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On Dec. 26, 1776 Americans killed Col. Johann Rall & captured about 1,000 Hessian troops in this battle the Battle of Trenton |
#4950, aired 2006-03-03 | CLASSIC SPORTS COMMERCIALS $800: In an ad for Nike, these 2 Americans played an epic game of tennis through the streets of NYC Andre Agassi & Pete Sampras |
#4935, aired 2006-02-10 | ISLANDS $1200: 12 million future Americans were inspected there Ellis Island |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: Since being introduced in 1974, his famous "maneuver" has saved thousands of choking people, & pets, too (Henry) Heimlich |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: Henry Ford, seen on the right in the photo, was long-time friend with this creative genius, the man on the left (Thomas Alva) Edison |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: In 1950 this U.N. mediator became the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Ralph Bunche |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: Famous for his chairs, in 1946 this designer had the first one-man furniture exhibit at MoMA (Charles) Eames |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: This department store founder was president of the Philadelphia YMCA from 1870 to 1883 (John) Wanamaker |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: He was an artist & a canal engineer before building his first steamboat (Robert) Fulton |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: A clerk in the U.S. patent office, this "angel" went on to become the superintendent of nurses of the Army of the James Clara Barton |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: From 1829 to 1832 this transcendental essayist was a minister at the Second Church of Boston (Ralph Waldo) Emerson |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: During the War of 1812, Put-in-Bay was the scene of his victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie Oliver Hazard Perry |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: In 1759 he served in the House of Burgesses; in 1776 he framed the Declaration of Rights of Virginia (George) Mason |
#4879, aired 2005-11-24 | NATIVE AMERICA $800: With close to 650,000, this state leads the U.S. in number of Native Americans, followed by Okla. & Arizona California |
#4863, aired 2005-11-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $600: Nicodemus in this "Jayhawk State" is the only remaining Western town founded by black Americans after Reconstruction Kansas |
#4855, aired 2005-10-21 | DISEASES $1600: Joint pain & fever are results of this 3-word blood disease occurring chiefly among African Americans sickle cell anemia |
#4847, aired 2005-10-11 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1492 this man landed on the island of San Salvador & came in contact with Native Americans called Arawaks Columbus |
#4835, aired 2005-09-23 | THE BAD NEWS BEARERS $200: After this 1968 Communist onslaught, Walter Cronkite told Americans Vietnam didn't look winnable the Tet Offensive |
#4791, aired 2005-06-06 | YOU DESERVE A SHOWBIZ AWARD! $1200: Starting in 1972, the ACT awards were handed out for achievement in television aimed at this demographic children |
#4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $1000: Photographer Robert Frank documented the people of the U.S. in a '50s book with this simple title The Americans |
#4732, aired 2005-03-15 | FROM THE CIA WORLD FACTBOOK $400: The IDF, this country's defense force, based at Keflavik, is manned by Americans Iceland |
#4731, aired 2005-03-14 | JOHN ADAMS $1000: This diplomatic "affair" led Americans to cry, "Millions for defense... but not one cent for tribute" the XYZ Affair |
#4729, aired 2005-03-10 | COME TO THE POINT $200: To North Americans, the sun reaches its vernal point in this month March |
#4708, aired 2005-02-09 | JAPANESE AMERICANS $400: L.A. trial judge Lance Ito |
#4708, aired 2005-02-09 | JAPANESE AMERICANS $800: Later to win Olympic gold, she won her first World Figure Skating Championship in 1991 Kristi Yamaguchi |
#4708, aired 2005-02-09 | JAPANESE AMERICANS $1200: Series regular who played a crewman on the original "Star Trek" George Takei |
#4708, aired 2005-02-09 | JAPANESE AMERICANS $1600: U.S. Army Chief of Staff 1999-2003 (General) Shinseki |
#4708, aired 2005-02-09 | JAPANESE AMERICANS $2000: Shuttle astronaut onboard the "Challenger" Ellison Onizuka |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $200: After this early battle, Americans retreated over Charlestown Neck The Battle of Bunker Hill (or Breed's Hill) |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: It was the pen name of beloved children's author Theodor Geisel Dr. Seuss |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: In 1844 he succeeded Joseph Smith as leader of the Mormon Church Brigham Young |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $1000: After the defeat at Yorktown, Gen. Charles O'Hara, acting for this man, gave his sword to the Americans Cornwallis |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew wearing goggles and parka stands before majestic mountains in the Sierra National Forest.) The forested area behind me is named for this nature photographer & conservationist Ansel Adams |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: At the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, one of his sewing machines won first prize Singer |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: He's the explorer seen here with a couple of his pals in 1909 Admiral Peary |
#4690, aired 2005-01-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: Leon Wagener's biography of him is entitled "One Giant Leap" Neil Armstrong |
#4690, aired 2005-01-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: He was the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell |
#4690, aired 2005-01-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: Before a famous 1973 tennis match between these 2 people, they exchanged a 6-foot lollipop & a live pig Bobby Riggs & Billie Jean King |
#4690, aired 2005-01-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: A famous line in one of his plays is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Tennessee Williams |
#4690, aired 2005-01-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: After helping Jefferson Davis make bail in 1867, this New Hork Tribune publisher lost about half his readers Horace Greeley |
#4684, aired 2005-01-06 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $1000: This war relocation center in California is 1 of 10 camps where Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII Manzanar |
#4681, aired 2005-01-03 | IT'S NOT CATCHING $200: Some 40 million Americans suffer from these that may be triggered by shellfish or pollen allergies |
#4677, aired 2004-12-28 | SPECS & THE CITY $400: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, this Michigan city has the highest percentage of African-Americans Detroit |
#4676, aired 2004-12-27 | HEALTH CARE $800: 43 million people is the figure you usually hear bandied about Number of uninsured Americans (Americans who don't have health insurance) |
#4675, aired 2004-12-24 | HOT DRINKS $800: Americans at a military base in Limerick help popularize this "national" drink that can be made with Jameson Irish coffee |
#4666, aired 2004-12-13 | RHYME TIME $200: One-word name of a portable dwelling of native Americans, especially on the great plains teepee |
#4631, aired 2004-10-25 | GARDENS $600: Term given the home vegetable gardens planted by patriotic Americans during WWII victory gardens |
#4628, aired 2004-10-20 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $2000: Born into slavery around 1818, this great orator helped recruit his fellow African-Americans for the Union army Frederick Douglass |
#4626, aired 2004-10-18 | ANYTHING BUT A's $1200: It's in the top 3 among foreign languages most studied by Americans in college today French |
#4621, aired 2004-10-11 | I NEED BACKUP $800: Before he stepped out front for "Love Power", Luther Vandross sang backup for this artist on "Young Americans" David Bowie |
#4615, aired 2004-10-01 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $200: The avant-garde author of "Three Lives", her home was a salon for emerging artists such as Picasso & Braque (Gertrude) Stein |
#4615, aired 2004-10-01 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $400: While in Paris, poet & critic Ezra Pound helped little-known talent T.S. Eliot edit this 1922 poem "The Waste Land" |
#4615, aired 2004-10-01 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $600: This "Fanfare for the Common Man" composer sold his first work while studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (Aaron) Copland |
#4615, aired 2004-10-01 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1,000 (Daily Double): Alexander Calder made one of his first wire sculptures in the image of this expatriate singer/dancer Josephine Baker |
#4615, aired 2004-10-01 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1000: During his self-exile, he voiced the strife of black Americans in books like 1961's "Nobody Knows My Name" James Baldwin |
#4600, aired 2004-09-10 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: On April 18, 1983 a terrorist bomb at the U.S. embassy in this Mideastern capital killed 63, including 17 Americans Beirut |
#4597, aired 2004-09-07 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: The type of car the Brits call an estate car, we Americans call one of these wagons a station wagon |
#4588, aired 2004-07-14 | AWARDS $400: The roughly 140 living recipients of this medal bestow the Patriot Award on Americans who advance freedom a Congressional Medal of Honor |
#4580, aired 2004-07-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: By age 13 this Microsoft co-founder had read the entire World Book Encyclopedia through volume P Gates |
#4580, aired 2004-07-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: In 2002 he became the first non-black inductee to the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Clinton |
#4580, aired 2004-07-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: In 1998 he was awarded posthumously a special Pulitzer Prize; his brother Ira won a Pulitzer in 1932 George Gershwin |
#4580, aired 2004-07-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: A statue of this man assassinated in 1935 represents Louisiana in National Statuary Hall Huey Long |
#4580, aired 2004-07-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: His newspaper column "On the Right" is syndicated to more than 300 papers William F. Buckley, Jr. |
#4568, aired 2004-06-16 | POLL $2000: A 2004 Gallup poll showed this East Asian country has the highest negative rating among Americans--83% North Korea |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: He once promised, "As long as there is imagination left in the world" his theme park would never be completed Walt Disney |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! They're the opposing minds seen here during the 1925 Scopes trial Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: Helen Keller's "Miracle Worker", this teacher was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2003 Annie Sullivan |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: California governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. went by the name Jerry; his father, also governor, went by this nickname Pat |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: In 1917 this Montanan became the first woman member of the U.S. House of Representatives Jeannette Rankin |
#4565, aired 2004-06-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written & directed by African Americans A Raisin in the Sun |
#4561, aired 2004-06-07 | THE WINTER OLYMPICS $400: 1 of only 2 Americans to win the men's figure skating gold medal since 1960 Scott Hamilton (or Brian Boitano) |
#4552, aired 2004-05-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: Henry Schoolcraft is mentioned in school books as the discoverer of the source of this long river the Mississippi |
#4552, aired 2004-05-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: Pretty Boy Floyd became the new public enemy number one after this man was killed in Chicago in 1934 John Dillinger |
#4552, aired 2004-05-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew feeds a four-legged friend in Alaska.) In June 1900, this man compared himself to the animal beside me Theodore Roosevelt |
#4552, aired 2004-05-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: Zebulon Pike was accused of having explored the West for this former VP who wanted to rule the area (Aaron) Burr |
#4552, aired 2004-05-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: Toynbee Hall in London was the model for Hull House, which she founded in 1889 Jane Addams |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: In August 1934 this president was made an honorary member of the Blackfoot tribe & given the name "Lone Chief" FDR |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: He had 2 adopted sons, One Bull & White Bull Sitting Bull |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1200: Major subgroups of this tribe of the American Southwest include Kiowa, Chiricahua & Mescalero the Apache |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: This Florida tribe lived in dwellings called chickees that had raised floors & open sides allowing the air to circulate the Seminoles |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: Gov. Bradford said that this Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn was an "instrument sent of God" Squanto |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: As a presidential nominee, this decorated WWII bomber pilot called for withdrawal from Vietnam (George) McGovern |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: Secretary of State John W. Foster was the grandfather of this secretary of state John Foster Dulles |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1600: Dissing the Supreme Court in 1832, Andrew Jackson said this man "has made his decision; now let him enforce it" John Marshall |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Historian John Jameson led the campaign to build this D.C. center to store historic documents The National Archives |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: A Falls Church, VA. high school is named for this 3-initialed Confederate cavalryman J.E.B. Stuart |
#4523, aired 2004-04-14 | B MINUS $1200: Groups of Native Americans have to drop a "B" in order to make these attempts tries (from tribes) |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | NATIVE AMERICANS $200: The book "Weaving the Dream" is the story of Mabel McKay, a renowned Pomo maker of these baskets |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: An annual commemoration held in Tahlequah, Okla. honors the Cherokee journey known as the "Trail of" these Tears |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | NATIVE AMERICANS $600: A member of the Kaw tribe of Kansas, Charles Curtis was vice president under this man from 1929 to 1933 (Herbert) Hoover |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: The most commonly spoken Native American language is this one famously used by "code talkers" in World War II Navajo |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1,800 (Daily Double): It was the "spectral" central ritual of the messianic 19th century religion founded by the Paiute Wovoka the Ghost Dance |
#4511, aired 2004-03-29 | SCIENTISTS $800: Richard Schultes, the father of ethnobotany, studied & sampled this cactus sacred to some Native Americans peyote |
#4510, aired 2004-03-26 | FACTS IN THE WORLD ALMANAC $200: Most Americans get most of their cheese from these, makers of which bought $2.5 billion of cheese in 2002 pizzas |
#4509, aired 2004-03-25 | MIND YOUR MANNERS $200: When "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played, foreigners as well as Americans should do this stand |
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: This man for whom a large city is named became governor of Tennessee in 1827 & governor of Texas in 1859 Sam Houston |
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: After winning the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, he got his own piano competition Van Cliburn |
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: In 1991 this archbishop of Los Angeles was elevated to cardinal Roger Mahony |
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: "The World's Greatest Gospel Singer", she sang at President Kennedy's inauguration & Martin Luther King's funeral Mahalia Jackson |
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: This author died in New Hampshire in 1864 during a visit with old school chum Franklin Pierce Nathaniel Hawthorne |
#4481, aired 2004-02-16 | NOT OUR CONSTITUTION $400: Its constitution bans foreign ownership of beach land, so Americans have bought in Baja through trusts Mexico |
#4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $1200: Being born in '46 would make you one of the first of the 75 million Americans part of this postwar generation the baby boomers |
#4473, aired 2004-02-04 | ANIMAL LORE $400: Native Americans called it "Night Eagle" & often dreamed about it the owl |
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is holding an aluminum bat.) The first national winner of Hillerich & Bradsby's Silver Bat Award in 1949 was this Dodger second baseman Jackie Robinson |
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $800: On Dec. 1st, 1955, 4 blacks were asked to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery; 3 did, she didn't Rosa Parks |
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $1200: This big band leader won 3 Grammys for his work on the 1959 courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Murder" Duke Ellington |
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $1600: The publisher of such abolitionist papers as North Star & New National Era, he later became a marshall in D.C. Frederick Douglass |
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $2000: A junior high school in Harvey, Illinois is named for this "In the Mecca" poet Gwendolyn Brooks |
#4441, aired 2003-12-22 | ___ & ___ $2000: The origins of tap lie in this dance created by 19th century African Americans the buck & wing |
#4433, aired 2003-12-10 | A LITTLE BIT OF COUNTRY $1000: (Hi, this is George Jones) My recent song "50,000 Names" speaks to the heartache of many Americans & refers to the names carved on this memorial the Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
#4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $400: "The Pink Panther" was one of 5 feature films released in 1964 with a score credited to this man Henry Mancini |
#4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $800: Poet Dana Gioia, the first in his family to go to college, heads this organization, the NEA the National Endowment for the Arts |
#4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $1600: This longtime New Mexico Senator legally changed his name from Pietro to Pete Domenici |
#4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): As a D.C. district court judge, this Watergate figure was known as "Maximum John" John Sirica |
#4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $2000: She's the highly regarded financial reporter seen here Maria Bartiromo |
#4414, aired 2003-11-13 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: n 1935, during the Depression, this reached an all-time high of 20.3 %, representing over 10 million Americans unemployment |
#4411, aired 2003-11-10 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $1600: Currently, they're the 2 highest-ranking African-Americans in President Bush's administration Condoleezza Rice & Colin Powell |
#4388, aired 2003-10-08 | THE QUOTABLE NIXON $800: 1969:
"It's time for the great" this "of Americans to stand up and be counted" the silent majority |
#4382, aired 2003-09-30 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $1200: On Oct.19, 1781, Gen. Charles O'Hara, acting for this General, handed his sword to the Americans, ending the war Cornwallis |
#4378, aired 2003-09-24 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: In September 1992 Mae Jemison blasted off aboard this as the first African-American woman in space the space shuttle |
#4378, aired 2003-09-24 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: In 1961 Fred Moore stood watch as the first black guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in this cemetery Arlington National Cemetery |
#4378, aired 2003-09-24 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: From 1969 to 1983 Shirley Chisholm served New York state in this U.S. Gov't. body that elects its members every 2 years the House of Representatives |
#4378, aired 2003-09-24 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: Now a member of President Bush's Cabinet, this Army man is the son of Jamaican immigrants Colin Powell |
#4378, aired 2003-09-24 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: Chemist Lloyd Quarterman worked on the 1940s "Manhattan Project" & helped build the first of these weapons an atomic bomb |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | EARLY AMERICANS $400: In 1803 he invited William Clark along on an enterprise fraught with fatigues, dangers & honors Meriwether Lewis |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | EARLY AMERICANS $800: The last work of the creator of Rip Van Winkle was a 5-volume bio of this man, the author's namesake George Washington |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | EARLY AMERICANS $1600: Hamilton used the 1786 Shays Rebellion & this 1794 rebellion as proof of a need for a strong central gov't Whiskey Rebellion |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | EARLY AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Some of his unaccepted spelling changes were hed for head, rong for wrong & iz for is Noah Webster |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | EARLY AMERICANS $2000: In May 1792 Robert Gray sailed up this "River of the West", naming it for his ship Columbia River |
#4349, aired 2003-06-26 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION $200: In the hardest times, this figure stood at over 25%, representing almost 15 million Americans unemployment rate |
#4344, aired 2003-06-19 | E BEFORE I $400: After a redefinition of terms in 1998, the Surgeon General now reports that about 60% of all Americans are this overweight |
#4340, aired 2003-06-13 | CALIFORNIA $1600: This internment camp for Japanese-Americans near Independence, California is now a national historic site Manzanar |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: Sidney Morse invented the bathometer, to explore the sea; this brother was a better-known inventor Samuel Morse |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) Some haunting tales might have been penned at the portable writing desk used by this writer who died in 1849 Edgar Allan Poe |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: Douglas Southall Freeman wrote a 4-volume biography of this Virginian & 3 volumes on his "Lieutenants" Robert E. Lee |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1600: He started his company in 1837 & by 1857 his annual output of plows had risen to 10,000 John Deere |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Stephen Douglas was nicknamed this for his small stature & great oratorical skill "The Little Giant" |
#4315, aired 2003-05-09 | RECONSTRUCTION $2000: This bureau, among others, built over 4,000 schools for African-Americans, including Howard University the Freedman's Bureau |
#4304, aired 2003-04-24 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: "Harambee!" & "Habari Gani!" are phrases used by African Americans during this 7-day celebration Kwanzaa |
#4302, aired 2003-04-22 | GOOD SPORTS $2000: Lance Armstrong & this man are the only 2 Americans ever to win cycling's Tour de France Greg LeMond |
#4286, aired 2003-03-31 | SHOP TALK $2000: A grocery store to Hispanic Americans, in Spain it means a facility for storing sherry bodega |
#4276, aired 2003-03-17 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Perhaps to keep Americans from thinking they'd missed parts 1&2, "The Madness of George III" was changed to this The Madness of King George |
#4275, aired 2003-03-14 | PORGY-POURRI $600: In 1936 this city's National Theatre was briefly desegregated so African-Americans could see "Porgy and Bess" there Washington, D.C. |
#4270, aired 2003-03-07 | THOSE FUNNY EUROPEANS $200: European workers average 6 weeks of this a year, 3 times what many Americans get -- maybe you don't find that so funny vacation |
#4256, aired 2003-02-17 | IT'S ALL A BUNCH OF LIES $1000: This early 20th century humorist quipped, "Income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf" Will Rogers |
#4254, aired 2003-02-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: In February 1865, 2 months before surrendering, he became general in chief of all the Confederate armies Robert E. Lee |
#4254, aired 2003-02-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: It was the famous nickname of frontiersman & scout Christopher Carson Kit |
#4254, aired 2003-02-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: Dismissed from West Point for "deficiency in chemistry", he went on to paint a famous portrait of his mother James Whistler |
#4254, aired 2003-02-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1981 to replace Potter Stewart was history-making Sandra Day O'Connor |
#4254, aired 2003-02-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1000: In one of its reading rooms, you can read up on Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this religion Christian Science |
#4250, aired 2003-02-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: More than 1 million Americans have Type 1, or the juvenile form of this insulin-dependent disease diabetes |
#4236, aired 2003-01-20 | WATERFOWL $800: Scientists classify ducks into 8 separate groups called these; Native Americans are classified in the same way tribes |
#4224, aired 2003-01-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The Mojave, who originally lived on this river, still have a reservation on it Colorado River |
#4224, aired 2003-01-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: Now usually meaning a conference, it has also meant to practice magic pow-wow |
#4224, aired 2003-01-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1200: From where they made their homes, the Anasazi, ancestors of the Pueblo, are called these cliff dwellers |
#4224, aired 2003-01-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1,400 (Daily Double): The Seminoles began as a branch (or is it tributary) of this tribe Creek Indians |
#4224, aired 2003-01-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: In an 1830 treaty, the Choctaw nation ceded all of its land east of this river to the U.S. Mississippi River |
#4222, aired 2002-12-31 | SPECIAL "K" $1200: Considering her an exemplary figure, George Bernard Shaw said to her, "I wish all Americans were as blind as you" Helen Keller |
#4220, aired 2002-12-27 | NATIONAL FOODS $200: This breakfast treat with deep pockets was introduced to Americans at the 1964 World's Fair Belgian waffles |
#4220, aired 2002-12-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $200: When asked how he became a hero, this president remarked, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat" John F. Kennedy |
#4220, aired 2002-12-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: At the time of her 1937 disappearance she was married to publisher George Palmer Putnam Amelia Earhart |
#4220, aired 2002-12-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: In 1881 Louis Tiffany & others decorated the first floor of this author's mansion in Hartford, Conn. Mark Twain |
#4220, aired 2002-12-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: In 1973 he resigned as governor of New York to found the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans Nelson Rockefeller |
#4220, aired 2002-12-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: This attorney was the only representative of New York to sign the U.S. Constitution Alexander Hamilton |
#4205, aired 2002-12-06 | FINANCIAL MATTERS $800 (Daily Double): This alphanumeric clause of the 1978 Tax Reform Act now enrolls over 40 million Americans 401(k) |
#4199, aired 2002-11-28 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $400: In August 1964, in a televised address, he told Americans, "We still seek no wider war" Johnson |