| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of this tale of ancient Rome, became the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize in lit Quo Vadis |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $2000: One of the 7 Ancient Wonders was the statue of Zeus by this great Greek sculptor Phidias |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $800: Doors on ancient Greek temples were often fitted with grills made of this alloy of copper & tin bronze |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALLOYS $2000: Lydia in Asia Minor was the chief source in the ancient world of this naturally occurring alloy made of gold & silver electrum |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $800: Memphis harkens back to ancient times with a Bass Pro Shops in one of the world's largest of these, worthy of the mighty pharaohs pyramid |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Ancient geoglyphs of animals & figures, known by this name, were etched into the arid Pampa Colorada Plain of Peru more than 2,000 years ago the Nazca Lines |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $1200: "Pericles" is partly set in a palace in this ancient Phoenician seaport, now a World Heritage Site in Lebanon Tyre |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ONLY PARTLY TRUE $800: The mold Chares used to sculpt this 105' tall ancient wonder of the world is kept in a warehouse in Encino the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $800: This ancient sport also known as hawking is still popular in Saudi Arabia falconry |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | THE JEOPARDY! WORLD ORCHESTRA $800: This ancient instrument is sounded on a New Year's Day a shofar |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WORLD ROYALTY $600: The historian Tacitus says the ancient British queen Boudicca led a revolt that wiped out the 9th of these Roman units legions |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES $800: The archaeological site of this ancient city on Turkey's Mound of Hisarlik Troy |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1200: Greek for "upright slab", this type of decorated or inscribed stone marker was common in the ancient world a stele |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $800: The world's highest paved international road, the Karakoram highway between Pakistan & China follows this ancient trade route the Silk Road |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY $1200: Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, who captured this ancient capital from the Turks during World War I Jerusalem |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | WORLD TRAVEL $2000: The modern town of Wadi Musa, Jordan serves tourists visiting this ancient city built among sandstone cliffs Petra |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: Ancient Mesopotamia was the land "between rivers", these 2 to be exact the Tigris & the Euphrates |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $2000: Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C. Assyria |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | AN ANCIENT WONDER OF THE WORLD $200: Quality geometry; they still stand today; get the points the Great Pyramids |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | AN ANCIENT WONDER OF THE WORLD $400: A harbor guy; it took 12 years to build; kind of a Statue of Liberty vibe the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | AN ANCIENT WONDER OF THE WORLD $600: Halicarnassus, yes! A tomb with a view; built by the ruler's sister & widow (the same person... yipes) the Mausoleum |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | AN ANCIENT WONDER OF THE WORLD $800: Euphrates-irrigated; the turn of the Archimedes screw?; tend to them now the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | AN ANCIENT WONDER OF THE WORLD $1000: Ephesus! (Bless you!); temple of the goddess; went Goth in 262 & was never rebuilt Artemis |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IF ANCIENT GREEK DEITIES WERE AROUND TODAY $400: He rode a chariot pulled by fiery horses & brought daylight to the world; now he's a superchamp riding trotters in Yonkers Apollo |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AROUND ASIA $4,400 (Daily Double): The largest inland body of water in the world, it's named for an ancient people of Transcaucasia the Caspian Sea |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $200: The statue of this top Greek god at Olympia stood nearly 40 feet high & showed him seated on a gold- & jewel-encrusted throne Zeus |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: The only still-standing ancient wonder, they lie near Giza on a plateau on the Nile's west bank the pyramids |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: The temple of Artemis was wrecked by these invaders who sound like they were wearing black & listening to Joy Division the Goths |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): The Pharos of Alexandria was one of these that stood on an island in the city harbor, with a fire lit at the top every night a lighthouse |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1000: The ancient Greek Strabo said that this city's Hanging Gardens were watered from the Euphrates River Babylon |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: In the 200s B.C., the first Qin emperor ordered existing defensive structures to be linked, helping to create this Great Wall of China |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: After a bloody war in this country, Emperor Ashoka renounced force & adopted "conquest by dharma", or righteous conduct India |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: Megalopolis was a member of the Achaean League, a defensive alliance of city-states on this peninsula Peloponnesian |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: It was actually Marcus Agrippa, this future emperor's deputy, who commanded the fleet that defeated Mark Antony Augustus |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2000: In the 3rd century this became the state religion of Persia's Sassanian Empire Zoroastrianism |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SUN UP $800: One of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World, it was a giant statue of the Greek sun god Helios the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $400: This apostle & letter writer was a tent maker by trade, so he moved easily around the ancient world with tools & cloth Paul |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: This ancient Israeli fortress was the site of a 1st century siege after the fall of Jerusalem the Masada |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $600: This city has many ancient temples & the Hindu Akshardam one, completed in 2005 A.D. New Delhi |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: Scythians buried some women with weapons & likely inspired the Greek lore of these women warriors the Amazons |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: In Rome, saturnism, or poisoning by this metal, was sometimes caused by the practice of boiling down wine in vessels made from it lead |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: The remains of the Ludus Magnus, a gladiator training school, are just steps from this arena built in Rome about 70 A.D. the Colosseum |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: Over 2,000 years ago in India, iron & wood were combined to make wootz, an early version of this iron-carbon alloy steel |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2000: Tekhen, the Egyptian word for this type of pillar, comes from their word for "to pierce", like pierce the sky an obelisk |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | FANTASY FICTION $400: Set in ancient China, "A Hero Born" by Jin Yong takes place in a world where this martial art is practiced magically kung fu |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | THE ANCIENT MARINER $1000: Henry Allingham died aged 113 in 2009 as the last survivor of World War I's biggest naval clash, the battle of this Danish land the Battle of Jutland |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $800: 2002,
desert battles in the ancient world:
"The ____ King" Scorpion |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): This African capital due south of Sicily got its name from a region with 3 ancient Phoenician cities Tripoli |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The philosopher Anaximander was credited with making an early world map & one of these time-telling devices around 560 B.C. a sundial |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ANCIENT CITIES $400: The ruins of Pachacamac, an ancient American city later occupied by the Inca, lie just south of this world capital Lima |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: Kong qiu was the birth name of this Chinese philosopher of the 500s & 400s B.C. Confucius |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: Early Roman walls were named for these one-eyed giants, considered the only ones strong enough to lift the stones used Cyclopes |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: The Chi Rho symbol, combining two letters of Christ's name in Greek, appeared to this Roman emperor who converted to Christianity Constantine |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: In the 7th century B.C., Sennacherib of this front-of-the-alphabet empire made Nineveh his capital Assyria |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2000: For the Ancient Olympic games, the hellanodikai were folks chosen to do this, which is what hellanodikai means judge |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: In ancient times this capital of Jordan was one of several settlements called Philadelphia Amman |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | NUMBERS OF THINGS $600: This septet includes the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Plutarch wrote that the same day Alexander the Great was born, this temple, a wonder of the world, burned in Ephesus the Temple of Artemis |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | INVENTIONS $400: Often cited as the world's greatest invention, it was designed in ancient times, but probably just for pottery making the wheel |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | MUSEUMS $800: Ruins from 2 Ancient Wonders of the World, the Temple of Artemis & the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, are in London here the British Museum |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | EX-SPORTS $400: The UFC of the ancient world, pankration debuted at the XXXIIIrd of these in 648 B.C. the Olympics |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | OLD TIMES $1200: Around 539 B.C. Cyrus the Great of this land conquered Babylon, the greatest city of the ancient world Persia |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | WORLD OF WARCRAFT $800: A curved sword called the khopesh was a symbol of authority in this ancient civilization where Ramses II used one in battle Egypt |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | ANCIENT AGRICULTURE $400: This robust New World crop descended from teosinte, which only had about a dozen kernels per ear maize |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | A SCIENCE BOOK $1600: Subtitled "The Plant That Changed the World" in John Gaudet's study, this species was first widely used in ancient Egypt papyrus |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | NOT-SO-ANCIENT HISTORY $800: The Y2K bug scared the world in the 1990s because many feared computers would read the year 2000 as this year 1900 (or 00) |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The ancient world had 2 important cities named Thebes: one in Greece & one in this land Egypt |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | LET'S GET ORDINAL $800: Andre the Giant & the Astrodome have been touted as this, adding to an ancient list the eighth wonder of the world |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $400: To the Greeks the "navel of the world" was in this town where the oracle of Apollo spoke Delphi |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | TURNING PHILOSOPHICAL $400: Material, formal, efficient & final are the 4 types of cause this ancient Greek posited to explain the world Aristotle |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE AT BOWERY FARMS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Bowery Farms in Kearny, NJ.) The practice of vertical farming dates to antiquity, with historic examples including the 2000-year-old rice terraces of the Philippines & this possibly legendary one of the seven wonders of the ancient world the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | BALTIC BELIEFS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Gannarve Ship Grave on Gotland Island in Sweden.) At Gannarve, here on Gotland, and elsewhere in Scandinavia, it's thought that ancient seafarers were buried in ship-shaped stone settings, to ensure a safe voyage to the next world; recovered tools & urns date the graves to this first metallic age the Bronze Age |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | STATUES $800: Of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, one of the 2 that were statues the Colossus of Rhodes (or the Statue of Zeus at Olympia) |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: During the reign of Egypt's Ptolemy II around 280 B.C., Sostratus completed this ancient wonder the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: More than 2,000 years ago, the Zhou dynasty had this service, with couriers changing mounts regularly a postal service |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After the death of Alexander the Great, his generals divided his empire into four kingdoms; Ptolemy I took over this one & founded its Ptolemaic Dynasty Egypt |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: A divorced woman in ancient Rome would expect to get this back in full; if found to be an adulterer, often only half a dowry |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: The Hasmonean Palace was named for the dynasty of these Hanukkah heroes the Maccabees |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Nineveh was a huge city of this land which, if the first 2 letters were removed, would spell a current Mideast country Assyria |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: The Roman poet Horace was known for a series of witty works called not "parodies", but these satires |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: This religion of ancient Persia has a good god, Ahura Mazda & a bad spirit, Ahriman Zoroastrianism |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: In the "Bingfa" or "Art of War", this Chinese general laid out his battle strategies Sun Tzu |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): Don't be phobic about giving us this name for the central market & meeting place of many ancient Greek cities agora |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2000: Zoomorphic gods of ancient Egypt included this canine-headed one, who was prominent during the old kingdom Anubis |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | "C" THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): It's a small New Hampshire town as well as an ancient name for Palestine Canaan |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: After defeating the Shang dynasty around 1000 B.C., the Zhou dynasty ruled this empire for nearly 800 years ancient China |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: It was the chief city-state that whipped Athens in the Peloponnesian War Sparta |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: Tradition says Rome was founded by twins whose ancestors fled the Greek horseplay that destroyed this city Troy |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: They're the 2 calendar months named for Caesars July and August |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2000: Menes is credited with unifying the upper & lower sections of this kingdom around the 3rd millennium B.C. Egypt |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II $1000: The Lex Cornelia Majestatis was the ancient Roman & a Ghostbuster-ish way of saying "Don't cross this stream!" the Rubicon |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | WORLD LANDMARKS $3,000 (Daily Double): The El Caracol structure at the ruins of this ancient Mayan city in Mexico served as a 10th century observatory Chichen Itza |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | WORLD OF RELIGION $1000: The "I Ching" or "Book of Changes" is a divination tool & one of the 5 Classics of this ancient Asian religion Confucianism |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $400: This title character of a Coleridge poem must wander the world recounting the tale of his days at sea the Ancient Mariner |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | WORLD LIT $800: A collection of animal stories from India, the "Panchatantra" was originally written in this ancient language Sanskrit |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Found in North Africa, it gets its name from an ancient district that included 3 cities Tripoli |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | FROM WORLD BOOK: "U" $200: It "was the first planet discovered since ancient times" Uranus |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Consisting of 24 books, this ancient poem tells of a homecoming after the fall of Troy The Odyssey |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | YOU'RE ON THE LIST $200: The Pyramids are part of this septet the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | WORLD OF MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1993 Yanni returned to his homeland for a series of concerts & a live album recorded atop this ancient hill the Acropolis |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: The Mahabharata is an epic poem originally written in this ancient language Sanskrit |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $800: Kafka wrote "The Metamorphosis"; this ancient Roman wrote "Metamorphoses" Ovid |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | BELLA ITALIA $800: This Sicilian capital was founded by the Phoenicians & known to the ancient world as Panormus Palermo |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | BATTLE NATIONS $800: Ancient Callipolis is now this Turkish site of a World War I clash Gallipoli |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The ruins of ancient Carthage are found in what is today this North African nation Tunisia |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | ONLY PARTLY TRUE $800: The mold Chares used to sculpt this 105' tall ancient wonder of the world is kept in a warehouse in Encino, California the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS $400: No. 1 is the inner coffin of Hornedjitef, an ancient priest of this kingdom, from the 3rd century B.C. Egypt |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were spread out over three continents: 2 were in Africa, 3 in Asia, & the 2 in Europe were the Colossus of Rhodes & this other statue the Statue of Zeus (at Olympia) |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | ANCIENT WISDOM $800: Socrates once declared, "I am not" this "or a Greek, but a citizen of the world" Athenian |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Mediterranean region.) Legend says Zeus released two eagles, one from the east, & one the west; they met at the site of this ancient city, then considered the center of the world Delphi |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS? $800: Unconquerable & undefeated, he led Rome to victory in the Rugby World Cup championship Invictus |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This ancient city grew powerful in part because the Tiber provides a convenient route to the sea 15 miles away Rome |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Stretching from the Taurus Mountains in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, with its heart between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, is this ancient region, home to the world's first cities Mesopotamia |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | 2 OF THE 7 $400: The Temple of Artemis & the Statue of Zeus the Ancient Wonders of the World |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS $1200: In ancient times, the 4 basic constituent elements of the physical world wind, earth, fire and water |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | BEDTIME STORIES $2000: (Adam Sandler shills for his Christmas release.) To show kids the world of Ancient Rome the way I do in my new movie "Bedtime Stories", try the children's version of this author's "Parallel Lives" Plutarch |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | MEASURE FOR MEASURE $800: Noah must have read the World Almanac to know that 21.8 inches equals one of this type of ancient measure a cubit |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | THE WORLD OF SPORTS $800: Dating back to Ancient Egypt, this sport, also called kegling, can keep you in the gutter bowling |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | JEOPARDY! DITLOIDS $600: Includes an ancient temple:
T 7 W O T W the 7 Wonders of the World |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | "I" ON THE WORLD $200: In ancient times, Babylonia was located in the southern part of what is now this country Iraq |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD $800: The only one in Europe is this ancient arena the Colosseum |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a Wonder in Peru.) One of the most impressive & mysterious structures at this ancient site is the Intihuatana pyramid, whose name means "hitching post of the sun" Machu Picchu |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): The ancient Greeks founded this Italian city around 600 B.C. & gave it a name meaning "New City" Naples |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $400: In ancient times, the Pentelic quarries were a major source of this building material for Athens marble |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY: 2006 $1000: He led the French team to the finals of soccer's World Cup, only to be ejected after headbutting an Italian player (Zinedine) Zidane |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | COLOR MY WORLD $1000: Arausio is the ancient name of this French town that passed to the House of Nassau in the 1500s Orange |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | CONTINENTAL DRIFTING $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a globe of the geologically ancient world on the monitor.) Meaning "all earth", it's the term Alfred Wegener gave to an historic, theoretical supercontinent Pangaea |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | I'M INTO WORLD "P"s $200: Excavations of this ancient city began in 1748; it was buried under 20 feet of volcanic debris Pompeii |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS $1000: Of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, it's the one starring an over 100-foot guy in his birthday suit the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY: THE 1980s $400: In 1984 the world came to this West Coast city to compete in the Summer Olympics Los Angeles |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | THE GRATEFUL DEAD $800: In 1978 the last of 3 Dead shows near this Wonder of the Ancient World was timed to coincide with a lunar eclipse the Pyramids |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.) The Aswan High Dam gave Egyptians control over this annual event that dominated ancient agriculture the flooding of the Nile |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | STAMPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD $800: It's the ancient religious complex depicted on the stamp seen here Angkor Wat |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) Legend tells us that here on stage at the Theater of Dionysus, this man became known as the world's first actor Thespis |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | ANCIENT STRUCTURES $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Saqqara, Egypt with a step pyramid in the background.) Egypt's step pyramid, the world's oldest at 4,500 years, was designed by this architect, physician & sage Imhotep |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $200: The only one of these that still remains is the Pyramids of Giza the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | HISTORIC WOMEN $200: As one of these in ancient Egypt, Peseshet was maybe the world's first woman to say, "Turn your head & Khufu" physician (or doctor) |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | "C" WORLD $400: Taiwan honors this ancient philosopher every year on September 28 Confucius |
| #4511, aired 2004-03-29 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: In this Yucatan culture, caves were the portal between our world & Xibalba, the world of the gods the Mayan |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE JEOPARDY! WORLD ORCHESTRA $800: This ancient instrument is sounded on a new year's day the shofar |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | THE ART WORLD $1600: In 1930 Picasso created 30 etchings as illustrations for this ancient Roman's "Metamorphoses" Ovid |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: In ancient times this city in Campania was called Neapolis Naples |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: It's estimated that the largest of these contains 2.3 million stone block, each averaging about 2.5 tons the Pyramids |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: It's the only one of the ancient wonders that was located in present-day Iraq The Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: This wonder depicted a sun god shading his eyes & gazing out across the Aegean Sea Colossus of Rhodes |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Reportedly, a spiral ramp allowed wagons to carry fuel up to the constantly burning fire at its top the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #4439, aired 2003-12-18 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $2000: Tools & molds used by Phidias to sculpt this wonder have been discovered at Olympia Statue of Zeus at Olympia |
| #4380, aired 2003-09-26 | FORMER WORLD LEADERS $1200: The first 3 emperors of this ancient empire were Augustus, Tiberius & Caligula the Roman Empire |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | "RH" FACTOR $800: This island 12 miles off the coast of Turkey was the site of one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Rhodes (the Colossus) |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: The present-day version of this Ancient Greek town known for its regimented lifestyle was founded in 1834 Sparta |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | GODS & GODDESSES $2,500 (Daily Double): Dedicated to the goddess of the hunt, this wonder of the ancient world was found at Ephesus Temple of Artemis (Temple of Diana) |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 5 $200: In 1970 he crossed the Atlantic on Ra II to prove the ancient Egyptians could have sailed to America Thor Heyerdahl |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | ANCIENT TIMES $500: Greek city that claimed it was the omphalos, the navel or center of the world Delphi |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | THAT'S MY "BABY" $200: Site where 1 of the 7 wonders of the ancient world "hung around" Babylon |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This peninsula near Alexandria had a lighthouse on it that was 1 of the 7 wonders of the ancient world Pharos |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: In ancient times, this "mother" river of Russia was known as the Rha Volga |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: The number of days in a week times the number of ancient "wonders of the world" 49 (7 x 7) |
| #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 |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | IVORY $1000: Phidias' gold & ivory statue of this god was one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Zeus |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $100: They were ancient even before the other 6 wonders were built Pyramids |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $200: Its flowers & trees were irrigated by slaves turning screws to lift water from the Euphrates River Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $300: This ancient wonder is said to have worn a sun-ray crown & stand beside, not over, a harbor Colossus of Rhodes |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: Its light was created by fires of wood or oil intensified by several metal mirrors Lighthouse of Alexandria |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $500: In the 4th century, this ancient wonder was transported from Olympia to Constantinople Statue of Zeus at Olympia |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | IRAQ $500: It's the only one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World once found in Iraq the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #3462, aired 1999-09-28 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This system of ranking social orders was developed by the Aryans in ancient India the caste system |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | ROOF OF THE WORLD $800: The Tibetan alphabet is based on the alphabet of this ancient language of India Sanskrit |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | WORLD RELIGION $600: These 2 ancient & opposite forces are symbolized in China by a white tiger & an azure dragon Yin & Yang |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This ancient north African city-state was protected by a high wall about 23 miles in length Carthage |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | WORLD HISTORY 101 $600: From ancient times until 1935, Iran was known by this name Persia |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | THE WORLD OF ISLAM $800: This ancient city is the third holiest in Islam Jerusalem |
| #3183, aired 1998-06-03 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $400: Because oak was sacred in this ancient Celtic religion, rituals were usually held in forests Druidism |
| #3182, aired 1998-06-02 | WORLD TRAVEL $100: Pharaonic Village, which recreates life in ancient times, is on an island in this river Nile |
| #3169, aired 1998-05-14 | A LONG TIME AGO $1,200 (Daily Double): The statue of him, a wonder of the ancient world, marked the site of the original Olympic games Zeus |
| #3109, aired 1998-02-19 | HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $400: Constantine decided to build his new capital on the site of this ancient Greek city Byzantium |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | WORLD CITIES $400: Known as Panormus in ancient times, it's the largest city of Sicily Palermo |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | WORLD "C"ITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): The Coptic Museum in this city is noted for its collection of ancient Coptic textiles Cairo |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: The ancient poets of India called this longest river of Pakistan "King River" Indus |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | WORLD RELIGION $200: Sukkot & Shavuot were ancient pilgrimage festivals requiring males to visit this city Jerusalem |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: This second king of Egypt's fourth dynasty built one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Cheops |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Founded in the 200s B.C., this Egyptian city's library had the world's largest collection of scrolls Alexandria |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | SEAFARERS $1000: Encarta calls them "the most notable traders and sailors of the ancient world" the Phoenicians |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Since ancient times peridot has been mined on the island of Zabarjad off the coast of Egypt in this sea the Red Sea |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Calpe was the ancient name for this rocky promontory at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula Gibraltar |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This city was known as Serdica in ancient times, long before it became Bulgaria's capital Sofia |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Kush, an ancient trading land, lay south of the second cataract of this longest African river the Nile |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | WORLD CITIES $800: Legend says Ulysses founded this Portuguese city, hence its ancient name, Olisipo Lisbon |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | WORLD CITIES $200: The ancient Romans called the site of this Algerian capital Icosium Algiers |
| #2462, aired 1995-04-25 | WORLD TOWNS $400: The ancient name of this English Channel port was Dubris Dover |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | WORLD CITIES $200: The ancient Parthenon in this city was built of marble from Mount Pentelicus Athens |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: In ancient times, this Italian river was known as the Eridanus & the Padus the Po |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | WORLD CITIES $800: In 1754 the Royal and Ancient Golf Club was founded in this Scottish city St. Andrews |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $400: What we know about phylakes -- improvised plays from this ancient civilization -- comes from vase paintings Greece |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ANCIENT TIMES $500: At his death in 323 B.C., Alexander the Great's empire covered parts of these 3 continents Europe, Asia & Africa |
| #2334, aired 1994-10-27 | ANCIENT TIMES $100: Known in ancient times as Berytus, this Middle Eastern seaport is now a world capital Beirut |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: The Mouraria is the ancient Moorish quarter of this Portuguese capital Lisbon |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | WORLD FACTS $1000: To the ancient Romans, this bay north of Spain was the Cantabrian Sea the Bay of Biscay |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | FOODS OF THE WORLD $400: Garum, a pungent flavoring made from fermented fish, was a specialty of this ancient civilization the Roman Empire |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,200 (Daily Double): The ruins of ancient Carthage overlook this North African capital Tunis |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Royal & Ancient Golf Club is in this city named for Scotland's patron saint St. Andrew's |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Just as its ancient Middle Eastern namesake lay between 2 rivers, so does this subregion of north Argentina Mesopotamia |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Many descendants of the ancient Maya still live in the northern part of this Mexican peninsula Yucatan Peninsula |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: This ancient city, called Joppa in the Bible, merged with Tel Aviv in 1950 Jaffa |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | WORLD CITIES $200: This ancient city, once known as Constantinople, is the largest city in Turkey Istanbul |
| #2061, aired 1993-07-19 | WORLD FACTS $100: The earliest Ancient Egyptian boats were propelled by these; paddles & oars came later poles |
| #2039, aired 1993-06-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The ancient Mesopotamian city of Nineveh was on its East Bank the Tigris |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | LUCKY 7 $100: They included the Egyptian Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens & a statue of Zeus the (Seven) Wonders of the Ancient World |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | WORLD CITIES $600: Jaffa, now combined with this Israeli city, was founded by the ancient Phoenicians Tel Aviv |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $200: Greek tradition dates this war's end at 1184 B.C. the Trojan War |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: In 331 B.C. this Macedonian captured, looted & burned the palaces of Persepolis Alexander the Great |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $600: This small Italian river that Julius Caesar crossed in 49 B.C. was named for its reddish color the Rubicon |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: They were the only pre-Columbian people in the New World to have a true written language the Mayans |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): The Emperor Hadrian built this temple of all the gods to replace the one Marcus Agrippa built the Pantheon |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $200: Roman emperor Julian renounced this religion & tried to reinstate paganism Christianity |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: By the 3rd dynasty Memphis had become the preeminent city of this country Egypt |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $600: Ancient writers called this militaristic Greek state Lacedaemon Sparta |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: The wall in Britain named for this emperor ran from Solway Firth to Wallsend on the Tyne Hadrian |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1000: Cyrus the Great founded this empire by conquering Lydia & Babylonia in the 6th century B.C. the Persian Empire |
| #1887, aired 1992-11-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: In ancient times this Libyan capital was known as Oea Tripoli |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $200: Made of bronze & honoring the sun god Helios, it stood about 100 feet high in the harbor of a Greek island the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: To irrigate this ancient wonder, water from the Euphrates was pumped to the top of the hill the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $600: It was the earliest built of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World the Great Pyramid |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: Some sculptures from this marble tomb at Halicarnassus are in the British Museum in London the Mausoleum |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $1000: A fire burned day & night at the top of this ancient wonder the lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Jubayl, Lebanon is the site of this ancient city whose name gave us the word Bible Byblos |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | WORLD CITIES $200: The lighthouse on Pharos in the harbor of this Egyptian city was 1 of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Alexandria |
| #1788, aired 1992-05-13 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: The ancient land of Nubia was located mostly in what is now this country, not far from Khartoum Sudan |
| #1665, aired 1991-11-22 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $300: The ancient name of this Italian industrial city was Mediolanum Milan |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | UMBRELLAS $200: Umbrellas originated in the ancient world, where they 1st provided protection from this the sun |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | HODGEPODGE $800: Among the 7 ancient world wonders were 2 statues, Zeus at Olympia & this the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: In about 3100 B.C., King Menes united this country, forming the world's first national government Egypt |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | ANCIENT WORLD $200: The Flavian Amphitheatre came to be called this for a colossal statue of Nero at its entrance the Colosseum |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | ANCIENT WORLD $400: Lao Tzu, an archivist & contemporary of Confucius, is considered the founder of this religion Daoism |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | ANCIENT WORLD $600: Until 445 BC, plebeians were unable to marry this aristocratic class of Roman citizens patricians |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | ANCIENT WORLD $1000: King of Knossos who lent his name to a Cretan civilization Minos |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | ANCIENT WORLD $1,500 (Daily Double): Oedipus was a legendary king of this Greek city-state Thebes |
| #1497, aired 1991-02-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: This capital on the Attic Plain was an ancient city-state Athens |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $300: This city's name, Serbian for White Castle, refers to an ancient citadel above the Sava & Danube Rivers Belgrade |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This city's royal palace was built for Philip V on the site of an ancient Moorish fortress Madrid |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $100: Geographers still use this ancient name for the peninsula occupied by Spain & Portugal Iberia |
| #1413, aired 1990-10-24 | ANCIENT WORLD $200: Trying to get the people in his empire together, he had 10.000 Greeks & Macedonians wed Asian women Alexander the Great |
| #1413, aired 1990-10-24 | ANCIENT WORLD $1000: The Greek writer Longus wrote the 1st pastoral prose romance, the story of this goatherd & shepherdess Daphnis and Chloe |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): In 1926 Reza Shah Pahlavi began his modernization of this city by tearing down its ancient wall Tehran |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" is punished for shooting one of these an albatross |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: The Anchor Atlas of World History calls these 2 epics "the primer of Greek youth" The Iliad and The Odyssey |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | ANCIENT ROME $200: The Flavian Amphitheater, popularly known as this, is the world's largest standing ancient amphitheater Colosseum |
| #1338, aired 1990-05-30 | WORLD HISTORY $100: The ancient Greeks often referred to all of Africa by this name of Qadafi's country Libya |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | ANCIENT WORLD $200: In the 1st Century the Trung sisters headed Vietnam's revolt against the Han overlords from this country China |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | ANCIENT WORLD $400: Solon, the poet & statesman, revised the Draconian Laws in this Greek city-state Athens |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | ANCIENT WORLD $600: He died in 323 B.C. at age 32 when he took ill after a long party with heavy drinking Alexander the Great |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | ANCIENT WORLD $1000: In the "Aeneid" Virgil claimed Carthage was founded by this princess of Tyre who loved Aeneas Dido |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | ANCIENT WORLD $3,000 (Daily Double): Hammurabi conquered neighboring city-states & made this city capital of a kingdom Babylon |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | THE OCCULT $1000: The most famous one of these shrines in the ancient world was located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus an oracle |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | ANCIENT GREECE $300: The Greeks considered this site of the oracles the "Omphalus" or navel of the world Delphi |
| #1231, aired 1990-01-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $500: One of the world's oldest medical texts, circa 2500 B.C., was written in this wedge-shaped writing cuneiform |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | TECHNOLOGY $200: The 1st & tallest lighthouse ever, 1 of 7 Ancient Wonders of the World, was built in this country Egypt |
| #1209, aired 1989-11-30 | 7 WONDERS $800: The only 1 of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World that had a fire going at the top of it the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #1137, aired 1989-07-11 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: The book "Ancient World" calls these seagoing trading people the 1st middlemen the Phoenicians |
| #1123, aired 1989-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: Sappho of Lesbos was considered the best lyric poet of this ancient civilization the Greek civilization |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Ancient Egyptians never lived in this city near the Nile delta; Moslems founded it in 969 A.D. Cairo |
| #1084, aired 1989-04-27 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: The ancient Mayan city of Uxmal is on this Mexican peninsula Yucatan |
| #1037, aired 1989-02-21 | LIBRARIES $1,200 (Daily Double): It was the most famous library in the ancient world Alexandria |
| #1030, aired 1989-02-10 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: Alphabetically last of all the countries in the world, it was named for an ancient stone city Zimbabwe |
| #1004, aired 1989-01-05 | ANCIENT EGYPT $400: World Book calls it Ancient Egypt's most popular beverage - -they were such party animals beer |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: The whirlpool off Messina, Sicily, now called Galofalo, was known as this in ancient times Charybdis |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | ANCIENT QUOTES $800: Plato said this science "compels the soul to look upward & leads us from this world to another" astronomy |
| #944, aired 1988-10-13 | WORLD HISTORY $400: King Menes, who unified the upper & lower regions of this ancient country, was killed by a hippopotamus Egypt |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | WORLD CITIES $200: Using this town's ancient Roman name, Chaucer's work might have been called "The Durovernum Tales" Canterbury |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | ANCIENT TELEVISION $200: Because of material shortages caused by this war, the gov't froze TV station construction Second World War |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | ANCIENT VIPs $500: In the 6th century B.C., he conquered Babylon and made Persia the greatest empire in the world Cyrus the Great |
| #674, aired 1987-07-09 | GOLD $600: In ancient times, this country's Nubian Desert mines were the world's main source of gold Egypt |
| #628, aired 1987-05-06 | WONDERS $1000: According to World Book lists, it's the only continent w/out an ancient, man-made, or natural wonder Antarctica |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: World Book calls this toy, said to originate in China about 3000 years ago, the oldest form of aircraft kite |
| #568, aired 1987-02-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: World's most extensive archaeological dig is still being conducted at this ancient Italian site Pompeii |
| #500, aired 1986-11-07 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: The World Almanac says Judaism was founded "about 1300 B.C., reportedly at" this mountain Mount Sinai |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Sumer, home of world's earliest civilization, was located in what is now this modern country Iraq |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Norwegian who in 1970, crossed the Atlantic in reed boat to prove Egyptians may have reached New World Thor Heyerdahl |
| #367, aired 1986-02-04 | ANCIENT SCIENCE $400: Delta city with automatic door openers, washing machines, & a world-famous library Alexandria |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: "I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world," said this philosopher Socrates |
| #341, aired 1985-12-30 | ANCIENT WORLDS $800: World's earliest known dig was made at Ur by 6th century B.C. king of this ancient Mideast country Chaldea (Babylonia) |
| #300, aired 1985-11-01 | INTERIOR DECORATING $200: The ball & claw foot is believed to be ancient symbol of world power from this Asian country China |
| #185, aired 1985-05-24 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: Under the Ptolemies, this city had the greatest library in ancient world, over 700,000 scrolls Alexandria |
| #156, aired 1985-04-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $300: The ancient ruins of Carthage lie near this capital of Tunisia Tunis |
| #151, aired 1985-04-08 | ANCIENT LEGENDS $800: The principal river of the nether world the river Styx |
| #61, aired 1984-12-03 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Africa's northernmost country, it was once site of ancient Carthaginian empire Tunisia |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: The Greeks' word for world or Sagan's word for universe cosmos |
| #11, aired 1984-09-24 | LANDMARKS $800: Only 1 of the 7 wonders of the ancient world still standing the Great Pyramid |
