| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $1200: Poor Geoffrey was on the menu at Pompeii; archaeologists have dug up a bone of this tall African animal in the ancient city a giraffe |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1600: Around the 1850s archaeologists unearthed the great library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, capital of this ancient empire the Assyrians |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $2000: Archaeologists are still struggling to decode the Phaistos Disc found in 1908 during an excavation of a palace of this culture on Crete Minoans |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | THROWING SHADE $1200: Archaeologists in Egypt found maybe the world's oldest this timepiece, missing its little shadow-casting doohickey a sundial |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | "EX"AM TIME $800: Archaeologists learn to do this, from Latin for "hollow out" excavate |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $1600: Archaeologists in Cork found Viking artifacts that threaten to shatter this city's "oldest in Ireland" status like its crystal Waterford |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | LOST & FOUND $1200: In 2019 archaeologists in Israel said they found the town of Ziklag, used by this Hebrew king for refuge from Saul King David |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: The Bruker Tracer 5 helps archaeologists with soil analysis: iron means the former presence of this, as at an altar or slaughterhouse blood |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS $400: "Pyramidiots" is the term Zahi Hawass of this country's antiquities council used for people who think aliens built ancient structures Egypt |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS $800: Kathleen Kenyon concluded that this biblical city was an abandoned ruin long before Joshua & his trumpets came around Jericho |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS $1600: In 1993 this South American country awarded Maria Reiche the Order of the Sun for her work on the mysterious Nazca Lines Peru |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS $2000: Sir Leonard Woolley thought that this 1 of the 7 Wonders was really a ziggurat with plants fed from water pumped from the Euphrates the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS $4,400 (Daily Double): William Stukeley thought this site was a Druid temple when he excavated it in the 18th century Stonehenge |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | YOU KNOW THE DRILL $2,200 (Daily Double): Archaeologists in Pakistan found neolithic bodies showing that drills were used to fix these more than 7,000 years ago teeth |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $1,500 (Daily Double): There's speed dating, online dating & this method developed in 1946 that can tell archaeologists an artifact's age carbon dating |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $2000: Archaeologists debate whether this city's walls fell due to an earthquake or siege tactics, as in Joshua 6 Jericho |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Incurring a curse, Tamerlane's tomb was opened in June 1941; on June 22 Hitler invaded this homeland of the archaeologists Russia |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | MUMMY DEAREST $800: Those who found the well-preserved Tollund Man in 1950 in this peaty type of swamp called the cops, not the archaeologists a fen (or a bog) |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS $1200: Archaeologists have recently identified the curia of Pompey, the room where this man was murdered Julius Caesar |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: 18th century archaeologists uncovered the Villa of the Papyri, an ancient library, in this neighbor to Pompeii Herculaneum |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: For more than 100 years, archaeologists have explored this ancient city in South America Machu Picchu |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | IN A ROW $1200: Archaeologists discovered 19 rows of stones extending below this alliterative holy landmark in Jerusalem the Western Wall (or the Wailing Wall) |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Archaeologists have found some remains of this structure mentioned in Genesis 11 (but it only had 7 stories) the Tower of Babel |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Archaeologists are busy on Mount Lykaion & in a cave on Crete, 2 supposed birthplaces of this Greek ruler god Zeus |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Archaeologists have found Vespasian's country house--or as he'd have called it in Latin, this 5-letter word a villa |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In 1932 Danish archaeologists uncovered the remains of a church near Erik the Red's farm on this island Greenland |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | PLANTS $600: Archaeologists have found that varieties of this grain, like Emmer & Einkorn, were grown in the 7th millennium B.C. wheat |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | HISTORIC VIRGINIA $8,200 (Daily Double): Archaeologists visit Hopewell to dig at Kippax, once the home of Jane Rolfe Bolling, this historic woman's granddaughter Pocahontas |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | STONEHENGE $800: Today some archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was used to track & observe these 2 heavenly bodies the sun & the Moon |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | DON'T GO TO PIECES $800: It's the term archaeologists use for those broken pieces of pottery found during digs sherds (shards accepted) |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | GORGE $1000: This gorge in Tanzania was made famous by the work of the archaeologists Louis & Mary Leakey Olduvai Gorge |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | BRAND NAMES $400: This brand of S.C. Johnson storage bags is indispensable to archaeologists in preserving small objects Ziploc bags |
| #4631, aired 2004-10-25 | GARDENS $200: Archaeologists found the remains of walls near the Euphrates that may have belonged to this famous project the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | THE "L" YOU ARE! $1200: This family of archaeologists has made many important fossil discoveries in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge the Leakeys |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Archaeologists in Peru are digging out Cerro Victoria, which may have been the last refuge of these people Incas |
| #4201, aired 2002-12-02 | SODOM & GOMORRAH $1200: Some archaeologists believe that the sites of Sodom & Gomorrah lie under this body of water the Dead Sea |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Archaeologists usually use this Greek word for the cemetery of an ancient city; it means "city of the dead" necropolis |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | FORMER APPRENTICES $2000: A grocer's apprentice at age 14, archaeologists were green with envy when he found Troy in the 1870s Heinrich Schliemann |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | DEAD SEA $200: Archaeologists began carefully excavating Qumran after the discovery of these in 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: This seismic event was bad for the port of Kourion in 365, but good for archaeologists in the 1980s earthquake |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW $200: Some archaeologists think the site of this first Biblical patriarch's home was in Iraq, some in Turkey Abraham |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | FOR OLD CRIME'S SAKE $500: Archaeologists excavating Pompeii have uncovered looters trapped by this volcano's eruption Mount Vesuvius |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | ANTEBELLUM $400: In the summer of 1998, visitors to this Andrew Jackson home could watch archaeologists at work the Hermitage |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE $500: In 1863 French archaeologists began uncovering this temple of Vishnu in the jungles of Cambodia Angkor Wat |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: In the 1870s the first monument archaeologists dug out at this site was the Temple of Zeus Olympia |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | GENERAL SCIENCE $200: Archaeologists measure the fluorine in these animal remains to determine their relative age Bones |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Archaeologists no longer believe the long-held theory that these ancient priests built Stonehenge the Druids |
| #1894, aired 1992-11-26 | 1956 $300: Archaeologists uncovered the spot where Cornwallis' men surrendered to Washington on this battlefield Yorktown |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | WORLD HISTORY $200: This Israeli mountaintop fortress, site of a 73 A.D. battle, was excavated by archaeologists in the 1960s Masada |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: Archaeologists use "plaster of" this to cover delicate specimens for transport plaster of Paris |
| #1354, aired 1990-06-21 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Mashkan-shapir, a city of this "land between 2 rivers", was recently rediscovered by archaeologists Mesopotamia |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: A synonym for the site of an excavation, it's also what archaeologists do there a dig |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Archaeologists have recently uncovered a Roman under the Piazza Della Signoria in this Italian city Florence |
| #1231, aired 1990-01-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Homer's "Iliad" directed archaeologists to the actual site of this ancient city Troy |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Archaeologists learn about a culture by studying broken pieces of earthenware called this Shards |
| #1119, aired 1989-06-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In examining mummies, archaeologists found that many Egyptians had this joint disease arthritis |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Indonesian island well known to archaeologists for its remains of Homo erectus Java |
| #946, aired 1988-10-17 | TRANSPORTATION $200: In answer to the age-old question, archaeologists believe it was invented by the Sumerians the wheel |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): In North America, most archaeologists receive their training in this academic dept. of a university anthropology |
| #726, aired 1987-11-02 | IN THE OCEAN $800: In May 1987, archaeologists began a study of this Union ship sunk 16.8 mi. off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina the Monitor |
| #501, aired 1986-11-10 | 1986 B.C. $600: Some archeologists figure this Biblical "father" was living at the time in Ur Abraham |
