| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $4,200 (Daily Double): Below the line on ancient coins, the exergue is the space with the alliteratively named this mark, here for the city of Siscia mint mark |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $400: A tiny silver denarius coin from around 32 B.C. depicts both Mark Antony & her Cleopatra |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $800: At this jewel-adorned site in Jerusalem, Jesus praised the widow who gave her last 2 mites, bronze coins the temple |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $1200: Around 43 B.C this assassin issued a coin with his image on one side & 2 daggers & "Ides of March" on the other Brutus |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $1600: Dating back to 2000 B.C., the first Chinese coins were known as cowrie money, meaning they were made of these shells |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $2000: A Roman coin of the 30s A.D. shows Drusilla, favorite sister of this cruel emperor, holding poppies & a scepter Caligula |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $400: Some Ancient Egyptian coins dating to around 40 B.C. show her as the goddess Isis Cleopatra |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $800: A coin from around 500 B.C. features this mythological monster on one side, the Labyrinth on the other the Minotaur |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $1200: This horn of plenty is often seen on ancient coins, including the Roman denarius a cornucopia |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $1600: A tetradrachm from 5th century B.C. Athens depicts Athena wearing a helmet on one side & this bird on the other the owl |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $2000: The first coins of this ancient land, roughly modern Lebanon, were minted around the 400s B.C. Phoenicia |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $600: The earliest coins of ancient Britain were made of speculum, this alloy containing 20 percent tin bronze |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | GODS AROUND US $5,000 (Daily Double): On January 1 in Ancient Rome, citizens gave each other small coins with an image of this god on them Janus |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $200: In 44 B.C. the senate of Rome wanted his head -- on all silver coins Julius Caesar |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $400: The animal featured on the electrum coin of Lydia, it got the world's coinage off to a roaring success Lion |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $600: Around 334 B.C. this Macedonian's stater became a world currency Alexander the Great |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $1,000 (Daily Double): A Knossos coin of the 4th century B.C. had this creature on the front & a labyrinth on the reverse Minotaur |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $1000: Smyrna, which claimed to be the birthplace of this poet, put him on a 2nd century B.C. coin Homer |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $300: Originally 6 obols equaled one of these coins a drachma |
| #3483, aired 1999-10-27 | GREEK ART $100: This symbol perverted by the Nazis is seen on ancient Greek coins Swastika |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: The Greeks were using rods as money until they appropriated the idea of these from the Lydians coins |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Coins celebrating Julius Caesar's murder had 2 daggers on them & "Eid-Mar", short for this the Ides of March |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | ANCIENT TIMES $1000: The Lydians used to mint gold coins about 560 B.C. under the reign of this rich king (King) Croesus |
| #1689, aired 1991-12-26 | COINS $600: Some ancient Greek coins featured an owl, the symbol of this city Athens |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: With his picture on them, Roman coins could have been considered two-faced Janus |
| #346, aired 1986-01-06 | COINS $200: Chickens appeared on ancient coins of this neighbor of Nepal India |
