#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: These essays were written "in favor of the new Constitution" the Federalist Papers |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: One month after this royal was killed in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1200: U.S., British & Iraqi forces retook this Iraqi city in the second battle of it at the end of 2004 the Battle of Fallujah |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1600: The son of Japanese immigrants, he was the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000; his daughter ran for the job 3 times Fujimori |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: Like a university, a river in British Columbia is named for this explorer who reached its mouth in 1808 Simon Fraser |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: The movie "The Revenant" is about Hugh Glass, who in 1823 went in search of these in the Dakotas furs |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: The debate between protectionism & this opposite has been ongoing since at least the 18th century free trade |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1200: In 1807 his ship was described as a "backwoods sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire" (Robert) Fulton |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1600: FDR called his domestic programs a "New Deal"; successor Harry Truman had this "Deal" Fair |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: This post-civil war bureau provided jobs, medical care & land to former slaves & destitute whites the Freedmen's Bureau |
#6643, aired 2013-07-03 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: From 1865 to 1871 this Tuscan city was the capital of Italy Florence |
#6643, aired 2013-07-03 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: Under feudalism, this was the land granted to a vassal by a lord in return for the vassal's loyalty & service a fief |
#6643, aired 2013-07-03 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1600: In 1858 Longfellow wrote, "if anyone wants to break a law, let him break" this one; the act was repealed in 1864 the Fugitive Slave Law |
#6643, aired 2013-07-03 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: Henry Kissinger is seen here failing to get this Saudi king to lift the 1973 oil embargo King Faisal |
#6643, aired 2013-07-03 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): His 2000 election as president of Mexico ended 71 years of uninterrupted control by the PRI party Vicente Fox |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $200: In 1506, 2 years after the death of his wife Isabella, this King of Aragon married Germaine de Foix Ferdinand |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: A group of these gold seekers reached San Francisco on the steamer California 13 months after gold was found the Forty-Niners |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): On July 3, 1754 Fort Necessity was surrendered in one of the first battles in this 9-year war the French & Indian War |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: From 1788 to 1790 Russia & Sweden fought over this country Finland |
#5566, aired 2008-11-17 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1000: In 1918 Woodrow Wilson proposed this numbered set of principles, one being the removal of trade barriers between nations the Fourteen Points |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $200: Harry Truman promised America this type of "Deal" a Fair Deal |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: The Third Republic was this nation's government from 1870 to 1940 France |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $600: John Glenn's capsule on his famous 1962 flight was called this, which an old saying called the "best ship" Friendship |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: In 2000 Tarja Halonen became the first female president of this nation Finland |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1000: This 13th president's wife Abigail loved books & began a library at the White House around 1850 (Millard) Fillmore |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $200: Mary Queen of Scots' first marriage was in 1558 to the Dauphin of this country France |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: Commemorated in a series of Giotto frescoes, this 13th century Italian saint from Assisi founded an order of Catholic monks Francis |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $600: In 1803 this American piloted a steam-driven paddlewheel boat on the Seine River at about 3 mph Robert Fulton |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: Home to the Lowell Observatory, this Arizona city was first settled in 1871 Flagstaff |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1000: In 1952 this King of Egypt was forced to abdicate Farouk |
#4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: This car company once used characters from the comic strip Peanuts in commercials for its Falcon Ford |
#4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: In June of 1752, this man famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm as part of an electricity experiment Ben Franklin |
#4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1200: First name of the famous nursing pioneer known as "The Lady with the Lamp" Florence (Nightingale) |
#4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1600: Don't slip as you name this Austrian doctor who founded the therapeutic method of psychoanalysis (Sigmund) Freud |
#4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: This Spanish king married Queen Isabella in 1469 & sent Columbus off to America in 1492 Ferdinand |
#4151, aired 2002-09-23 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $200: Soon after Ataturk became Turkey's president in 1923, he banned the wearing of this traditional hat fez |
#4151, aired 2002-09-23 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: He founded Philly's first police force Ben Franklin |
#4151, aired 2002-09-23 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $600: The longest currently serving leader in the Western Hemisphere; he started in 1959 Fidel Castro |
#4151, aired 2002-09-23 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: In 1976 Bob Dole was his running mate Gerald Ford |
#4151, aired 2002-09-23 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1000: It's the other political party that, like the Whigs, elected only 2 U.S. presidents Federalists |
#3540, aired 2000-01-14 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1878 an amendment for this was introduced in Congress; its adoption didn't occur until 1920 Women's suffrage |
#2423, aired 1995-03-01 | "F" IN HISTORY $500: Part of this group of Woodrow Wilson demands were an independent Poland & freedom of the seas the Fourteen Points |