#8718, aired 2022-10-12 | "GO"ING PLACES $1200: Southeastern Wyoming is the land o' this county that shares its name with an ancient home of the Hebrews Goshen |
#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | EUROPEAN PLACES $1600: After being extended around 244 B.C., this famous ancient road ended in Brindisi in the "heel" of Italy the Appian Way |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $1000: The majestic buildings of this ancient city in Jordan are carved from its sandstone cliffs Petra |
#8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MATH IN THE OLD DAYS $800: An ancient Hindu text calculates the square root of this integer as 1.4142156, which is correct to 5 decimal places 2 |
#8325, aired 2021-01-29 | PLACES IN THE GOOD BOOK $600: Paul's epistle to the Ephesians was addressed to a people in an Ancient Greek city that is today in this country Turkey |
#8280, aired 2020-11-13 | ABANDONED PLACES $200: The ancient town of Craco in this country's boot was abandoned after a 1980 earthquake Italy |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $2000: Hattusa, a vast fortress city, served as the capital of this empire that covered most of ancient Anatolia the Hittite Empire |
#6117, aired 2011-03-29 | ANCIENT NAMES FOR MODERN PLACES $200: Once Lusitania, this country's modern name comes from the Roman name Portus Cale Portugal |
#6117, aired 2011-03-29 | ANCIENT NAMES FOR MODERN PLACES $400: "Helvetia" is still inscribed on this mountainous country's currency & stamps Switzerland |
#6117, aired 2011-03-29 | ANCIENT NAMES FOR MODERN PLACES $600: Greeks & Romans wrote about this island, Hibernia, though they never settled on it Ireland |
#6117, aired 2011-03-29 | ANCIENT NAMES FOR MODERN PLACES $800: The ancient name for this modern country's capital is Berytus Lebanon |
#6117, aired 2011-03-29 | ANCIENT NAMES FOR MODERN PLACES $1,800 (Daily Double): Tripolitania is now the northwestern part of this country Libya |
#5928, aired 2010-05-26 | HISTORIC PLACES $200: You can relive ancient debates in Rome's Curia or Senate house, part of this site that also includes the temple of Vesta the Forum |
#3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ANCIENT PLACES $200: This Greek city didn't allow deformed children to live & boys began military training at age 7 Sparta |
#3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ANCIENT PLACES $400: Around 480 B.C. this north African city-state was not so Puny-c;, it controlled most of the western Mediterranean Carthage |
#3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ANCIENT PLACES $500 (Daily Double): Not to inflate its importance, but this top city in Phoenicia was trading with Spain by 800 B.C. Tyre |
#3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ANCIENT PLACES $600: This first capital of ancient Egypt was at the apex of the Nile delta Memphis |
#3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ANCIENT PLACES $800: Lycia, like Nicaea, was in what's now this Eurasian country Turkey |
#2878, aired 1997-02-19 | PEOPLE & PLACES $200: The name of these ancient South American people came from Quechua for "prince" or "male of royal blood" Incas |
#2877, aired 1997-02-18 | ANCIENT ROME $200: These gathering places called thermae contained a laconicum or steam room baths |
#2764, aired 1996-09-12 | OLD PLACES $600: Tikal in Guatemala was home to these ancient people the Mayan |
#2764, aired 1996-09-12 | OLD PLACES $1000: One of these from Phrygia, an ancient country in Asia Minor, became a symbol of the French Revolution a hat |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | ANCIENT PLACES $200: In the 50s B.C. Julius Caesar conquered the last part of this region that now covers all of France Gaul |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | ANCIENT PLACES $400: This city near the Hellespont was known as Ilion when it faded into obscurity in the 4th century A.D. Troy |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | ANCIENT PLACES $600: This city on the Euphrates had at least 8 fortified gates, including Urash & Ishtar Babylon |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | ANCIENT PLACES $800: This largest Cretan city of the Bronze Age was the home of the legendary King Minos Knossos |
#2485, aired 1995-05-26 | ANCIENT PLACES $1,500 (Daily Double): This city named for Alexander the Great's father was the first European city visited by St. Paul Philippi |
#2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ANCIENT ROME $100: Romans swam & got steamed at these popular meeting places; the ones of Diocletian were the largest the baths |
#2316, aired 1994-10-03 | PHOBIAS $400: It's the fear of being in public places—perhaps in an ancient Athenian marketplace agoraphobia |
#2136, aired 1993-12-13 | HISTORIC PLACES $400: The ancient citadel of Masada is on the western shore of this sea the Dead Sea |
#1518, aired 1991-03-20 | MEETING PLACES $500: This city in the ancient kingdom of Bithynia was the site of ecumenical councils in 325 & 787 Nicea |
#927, aired 1988-09-20 | HISTORIC PLACES $200: In ancient times, criminals were thrown from the south face of this city's Capitoline Hill Rome |