| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $200: With collections of art & archaeology, the Nigerian National this was founded by Kenneth Murray, grandson of the OED's 1st editor a museum |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $300: When he's not searching for the Lost Ark or the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones teaches this subject archaeology |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Hittite Empire may have collapsed around 1200 B.C. due to a severe drought as indicated in the width of these from juniper trees tree rings |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Wooden furniture & a loaf of bread in an oven have been found preserved in this city 10 miles northwest of Pompeii Herculaneum |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: From the Arabic for "hill", it's an artificial mound created by many generations building & rebuilding on the same spot a tell |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: This culture named for a New Mexico city was known for its leaf-shaped spear points used to hunt mammoths & other big game the Clovis Culture |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Named for a mythic place of darkness, this ship commanded by Sir John Franklin has been yielding its secrets from Arctic waters the HMS Erebus |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | SOLVE FOR "EX" $400: Can you dig it? An archaeologist can, with this term for an archaeology dig an excavation |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $800: The name of this field of science means "ancient study" archaeology |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $400: The classical age often refers to the time of these 2 ancient Western civilizations Greece & Rome |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $1200: This end-of-the-alphabet word refers to tiered or terraced temple structures in Mesopotamia a ziggurat |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $1600: Seen here is a quartet of this type of jar used to hold organs during mummification a canopic jar |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $2,000 (Daily Double): Published in 1836, Christian Thomsen's "Three Age System" refers to the progression of early crafters using these 3 materials stone, bronze & iron |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $2000: This -ology is the term for dating events by counting the growth rings that trees add annually dendrochronology |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | HOLMES & WATSON $200: Artist-scientist William Henry Holmes painted cliff dwellings in the 1870s, & soon helped establish this -ology in America archaeology |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DIG THAT ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In the 1840s Giuseppe Fiorelli began modern-style excavations at this site where thousands died in 79 A.D. Pompeii |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DIG THAT ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In the 1930s Émile Baraize uncovered this statue at Giza so the whole paws showed for the first time in centuries the Sphinx |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DIG THAT ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Here are some of these around the time of their discovery in the Judean desert the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DIG THAT ARCHAEOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): Excavating on this island around 1900, Sir Arthur Evans identified an ancient palace & a possible labyrinth Crete |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DIG THAT ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Seen here is the Welsh quarry revealed as the source of some of the objects at Stonehenge known by this colorful name the bluestones |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Akrotiri, on the island of Santorini, is known as the Greek Pompeii, because it was also destroyed by this type of event a volcano |
| #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 |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Found in 1982, a ship that sank off Turkey c. 1300 B.C. carried 1 ton of tin & 10 tons of copper, the perfect mixture to make this alloy bronze |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: An instrument, named for this larger bone of the lower leg, has been reconstructed & as in the ancient artwork, it still bulges your cheeks the tibia |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Stone tools from Gabon have been dated to 850,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of humans in this African river basin the Congo River |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $2000: An 18th c. group of lovers of everything from archaeology to opera introduced this word for one who flits from one interest to another a dilettante |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: In the 1860s Giuseppe Fiorelli became the first serious excavator of this site destroyed more than 1,700 years before Pompeii |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: You know the big heads on this Pacific island? Jo Anne van Tilburg has shown that they have bodies, if you just dig Easter Island |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Supporting their origin in Asia, not Italy, a 4,000-year-old bowl of these made of millet was found in China in 2005 pasta (noodles) |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): The 1866 discovery & translation of "The Decree of Canopus" confirmed Champollion's work translating this other artifact the Rosetta Stone |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Hadar in Ethiopia is the site where the 3.2-million-year-old remains of an early hominid given this female name were found Lucy |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Evidence suggests that this ancient monument on Salisbury Plain was once a burial site for cremated remains Stonehenge |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Artifacts & the remains of colonial leaders have been found at the site of this first permanent English settlement in America Jamestown |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: Before massive digging began, Sir Arthur Evans bought the site of this Minoan city on the island of Crete Knossos |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The body of this 2,000-year-old man was discovered in a bog in Denmark in 1950 the Tollund Man |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $5,200 (Daily Double): In 2018 it was announced that the world's oldest intact shipwreck was found off the coast of Bulgaria, at the bottom of this sea the Black Sea |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Sarah Parcak discovers new sites from Newfoundland to Egypt using images from these orbiting eyes satellites |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Listing: this type of ancient Roman home in Sicily. 54,000 square feet with mosaics & kiln. Has taken 40 years to fully excavate a villa |
| #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 |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In this South Dakota city where Calamity Jane lived, a 2001-2004 dig found 250,000 artifacts just in Chinatown Deadwood |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Uncovered in 1928 by a peasant's plow, the city of Ugarit in Syria once thrived, with a big temple to this fertility god Baal |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In submarines these devices usually stick up, but Carlo Lerici used one that looked down to view Italian tombs a periscope |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 1922 Leonard Woolley began unearthing this Sumerian city, enhancing our knowledge of Mesopotamia Ur |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Danish archaeologist C.J. Thomsen split prehistory into these 3 ages named for tool materials Stone, Bronze, and Iron |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In 2018, a plaster cast was made of a horse just found in the volcanic ruins of this Roman city Pompeii |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Notoriously bad, these British body parts are giving University of York researchers knowledge about the Victorian diet teeth |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | -OLOGIES $1600: Archaeology is a subfield of this study of human beings' origins & cultures anthropology |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: 9 periods of habitation have been discovered in this ancient city of Anatolia; VIIa is the one written about by Homer Troy |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: A hill marking the site of an ancient city, it's found in the names of some Middle East cities, including one of Israel's largest tel |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Using traditional archaeology & 3D tech, scientists reconstructed a house in Pompeii as it looked before this 79 A.D. event the eruption of Mount Vesuvius |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A 2015 discovery of a Plains Indian site included a kind of mini-Stonehenge of these animals' bones the buffalo |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): Prior to his famous 1922 discovery, this Brit found the tombs of Hatshepsut & Mentuhotep, among others Howard Carter |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In the 1700s William Stukeley was the first to recognize that the objects of this British site were aligned on the solstices Stonehenge |
| #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 |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: In 1970 the wreck of the El Gran Grifon, part of this fleet, was found off Scotland 382 years after it sank the Spanish Armada |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: 3rd c. Roman soldiers found near sulfur crystals were apparently early victims of this type of warfare chemical warfare |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Robert Koldewey began excavating this 8th gate of Babylon; it was reconstructed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin the Ishtar Gate |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: This collection of nearly 1,000 religious texts was discovered beginning in 1947 at Qumran the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: An ancient stile, or large slab, depicts this man, who laid down the law way back when Hammurabi |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Art found in the Altamira cave in this country depicts wild animals from more than 20,000 years ago Spain |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: The temple pyramid known as El Castillo dominates the ruins of a city on this peninsula the Yucatán |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The mud of Novgorod has yielded hundreds of medieval letters on the bark of this tree, a Russian national symbol the birch tree |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Almendres Cromlech in Portugal is an ancient megalithic complex arranged in this shape, just like Stonehenge a circle |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 2013 the bones found under a parking lot in England were proven to be those of this king killed at Bosworth Field Richard III |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: The 2012 discovery of a girl's skull at this Virginia colony was the first evidence of cannibalism in the British colonies Jamestown |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The beginning of this metallic age varied geographically, with China being a latecomer in around 600 B.C. the Iron Age |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Discoveries such as yarn & whetstones on this largest Canadian island suggest that Vikings once settled there Baffin Island |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 2012 scientists in Guatemala unearthed the tomb of Lady K'abel, who ruled the Snake Dynasty of this civilization the Maya |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: For more than 100 years, archaeologists have explored this ancient city in South America Machu Picchu |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: This "man" named for a German university city was first known from a single bone called the Mauer jaw Heidelberg man |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2013 the stone paws of one of these creatures dedicated to Egyptian King Menkaure were found in Israel the sphinx |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | -OLOGIES $400: The study of ancient cultures by examining their material remains archaeology |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: An 1847 study of the mound builders of Ohio was the first publication of this Washington, D.C. institution the Smithsonian |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A coin of emperor Yongle found in Kenya shows this Asian nation was trying to become an economic power 600 years ago China |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: In 2009 the earliest known depictions of the Apostles from the 4th c. were found in these underground tombs in Rome the catacombs |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: An upright slab with writing, like the Merneptah one Stanley Kowalski--er, Sir Flinders Petrie--found in 1896 a stela |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: This financier of the King Tut excavation died 9 months before Tut's sarcophagus was discovered Lord Carnarvon |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | 3 STRAIGHT VOWELS $1200: Howard Carter & Heinrich Schliemann gained fame in this scientific field archaeology |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | MOVIE JOBS $800: In addition to his field work, he is a professor of archaeology at Marshall College in Connecticut Indiana Jones |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In 1870 Heinrich Schliemann began his excavation of Troy following the descriptions in this epic poem the Iliad |
| #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 |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: In 1978 she found at Laetoli, south of Olduvai Gorge, footprints in volcanic ash made by hominins living 3.5 mil. years ago Mary Leakey |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: Beginning in 1900 Sir Arthur Evans uncovered the Palace of Minos at Knossos on this island Crete |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: In 1923 this British archaeologist published "The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen"; fitting, 'cause he found it (Howard) Carter |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In August 2011 this 17th c. pirate captain's flagship was found in waters off Panama; as yet, no rum has been found Henry Morgan |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 1995 the body of Han dynasty king Liu Wu was found buried with a shroud made of this green gemstone jade |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Diego de Landa, bishop of Yucatan, helped decipher hieroglyphics of this culture & published his work in a 1566 book the Maya(ns) |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: Recent excavations on the site of this 1607 Virginia colony have discovered the walls & buildings of its fort Jamestown |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1902 German archaeologist Robert Koldewey unearthed the fabled Ishtar Gate in the ruins of this ancient city Babylon |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Hippos & baboons were part of the first known one of these, though no "please don't feed the animals" hieroglyphics a zoo |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A team in this Central American country found a 2,200-year-old visual depiction of the Mayan creation story "Popol Vuh" Guatemala |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In 2011 a 1-ton anchor was recovered from his ship & he turned up in the new "Pirates of the
Caribbean" movie Blackbeard (Edward Teach) |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The earliest known records of this Native American people's syllabary were found carved in a cave wall the Cherokee |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY $4,200 (Daily Double): Device used by Terry Herbert to find the "Staffordshire Hoard" of buried Anglo-Saxon gold metal detector |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: If an archaeologist is holding this 6-letter hand-held triangular digging tool, she might be going to a dig site a trowel |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Also a Keanu sci fi movie, it's the layers of rock surrounding fossilized bones a matrix |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: From the Latin for "made by skill", it's a portable object like a tool or a weapon made or used in the past artifact |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,600 (Daily Double): Also called "foragers", these hyphenated early nomadic people depended on wild food sources hunter-gatherers |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Meaning "in place", the term "in" this means the position in which a discovery is first uncovered situ |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | MUSEUMS $400: The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is at this Cambridge, Massachusetts institution Harvard |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | A CROCUS $2000: Early cultivation of crocus is depicted in frescoes found in this Mediterranean island's Knossos Archaeology Site Crete |
| #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 $400: 10,000-year-old seeds of this gourd have been found in Peru, where the veggie originated a pumpkin (or squash) |
| #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 |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Thermo-luminescence is a technique used to establish this for items exposed to heat, like fireplace stones its date |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a stone sculpture on the monitor.) At Saqqra, Egypt, & probably from around 2500 B.C., the seated this worker was found; he still has his papyrus roll, but someone took his brush a scribe |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: In 1996 Franck Goddio discovered her palace underwater in the harbor of Alexandria Cleopatra |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Rano Raraku, a quarry on this South Pacific island, produced about 900 moai, or statues, some over 30' tall Easter Island |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In 1865 John Lubbock became the first to use this term referring to the "Old Stone Age" paleolithic |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: The Clovis people, who date back 13,000 years, were named for the town in this state where artifacts were first found New Mexico |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): Carved in 196 B.C., its text was written by priests to honor Ptolemy V the Rosetta Stone |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: In 1974 farmers digging for water found an army of clay warriors "protecting" an emperor's tomb in this country China |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: This Andean civilization used knotted cords called quipus to store information the Incas |
| #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 |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Excavations of this neighbor of Pompeii show it to have been a secluded retreat of the leisure class Herculaneum |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In 1922 the remains of this 2-lettered Sumerian city & its cemetery were unearthed Ur |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Many of these subterranean Christian cemeteries in Rome have been found using written ancient guides catacombs |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 1947 2 shepherd boys found these in 8 large clay jars in a cave 7 miles south of Jericho the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: This Egyptologist first became associated with Lord Carnarvon in 1906 while excavating the Theban necropolis (Howard) Carter |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In the 1940s chemist Willard Libby discovered this method of dating ancient artifacts carbon-14 dating |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: In the 1869 work "Ithaka, der Peloponnes und Troja", he announced his theory that Troy was at Hissarlik (Heinrich) Schliemann |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES $600: (Ken shows another one for us.) In films like "The Civil War", the use of archival records & photos is what I call "emotional" this science, because it unearths the heart of our national experience archaeology |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | EARLS! EARLS! EARLS! $800 (Daily Double): The Earl of Carnarvon gave up race horses for archaeology & financed the 1922 discovery of this King Tutankhamen's tomb |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Digging in Jerusalem, Eilat Mazar believes she has found the palace of this 10th century B.C. king David |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The first ship completely excavated on the sea bed dates from 1200 B.C., this age; the metal was much of its cargo bronze |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The Acheulian (Bless me!) tradition of Paleolithic times had as its main tool a "hand" one of these an ax |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: The 1930s find of huge stone heads brought to light this Mesoamerican people, not to be confused with the Toltecs the Olmecs |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: The Zhoukoudian excavations in China led to debate to whether this homo erectus knew how to use fire Peking Man |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | COLLEGE SPORTS TEAM LOGOS $400: A football powerhouse, it's also famous for its archaeology museum Nebraska |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | A BEFORE E $800: We dig this scientific study of prehistoric people by analysis of their artifacts archaeology |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | DA OLOGY SHOW $800: The regional study of objects like the one shown here egyptology |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | YALE $800: Many of the fossils at the Peabody Museum were found by O.C. Marsh, the USA's first professor of this paleontology |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | VENTURE "A" $1000: Bartolomeo Eustachio is considered a founder of the modern version of this science anatomy |
| #4403, aired 2003-10-29 | PREFIX PLUS SUFFIX $400: Earth plus science equals can you dig it? geology |
| #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 |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In the 1860s Guiseppe Fiorelli made human body casts from the cavities the dead left in the ash in this city Pompeii |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The Stone of Destiny sits on the Hill of Tara in County Meath in this country Ireland |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: The bricks used around 2000 B.C. in Mohenjo-Daro, in Pakistan, were the standard size used all over this valley Indus Valley |
| #4240, aired 2003-01-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): The major evidence that these people visited North America has been found at L'Anse aux Meadows Vikings |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: These Biblical texts have been found at numerous sites, but Qumran has yielded the most Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: The ancient Clovis culture was named for a site in this SW state where artifacts were discovered in 1932 New Mexico |
| #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 |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: In 1911 explorer Hiram Bingham discovered this 15th C. Incan royal city that lies 50 miles northwest of Cuzco Machu Picchu |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ARCHAEOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): The term Chalcolithic Age refers to the period before the Bronze Age when tools were made of copper & this stone |
| #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 |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Kenneth Emory advanced the study of this archipelago with his work at the Kuli'ou'ou Rockshelter Hawaii |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Ancient dung of the bactrian type of this animal has been found in Iran--but was it hunted or domesticated? camel |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: The image seen here is from the Gundestrup cauldron, a 19th century find in Jutland in this country Denmark |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: An alternate spelling for this site, once an African city that battled Rome, is Q-R-T-H-D-S-T Carthage |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: 3-letter term for an archaeological work site; it's also a magazine trying to turn preteens on to archaeology a dig |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The 1978 discovery of footprints in Tanzania showed that hominids may have been doing this 3.6 million years ago walking upright |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: From the Greek meaning "rock carving", it's the type of artifact seen here a petroglyph |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): Made public in Niger in 1999, a carving of this animal is over 20 feet high--even taller than life size a giraffe |
| #3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: The Mauer mandible was the only piece of this German "man" who shares his name with a city Heidelberg |
| #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 |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW $400: The 2000 discovery of 7,500-year-old artifacts deep in this "colorful" Asian sea suggests a deluge-like flood the Black Sea |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW $600: A stele unearthed in 1993 in these "heights" bears the name of King David & may confirm his historic reality the Golan Heights |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW $800: Recent studies of this historic Biblical linen have focused on pollens imbedded in it the Shroud of Turin |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW $1000: The 1999 removal of tons of rock & soil from this Jerusalem "mount" caused great archaeological controversy the Temple Mount |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: Part of anthropology, it's the study of the remains of past societies archaeology |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | POPULAR SCIENCE TOP STORIES OF 2000 $800: A 170-room palace found in the rain forest of this country is a trove of Mayan archaeology Guatemala |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: Lennart von Post first counted grains of this from plants to reconstruct past vegetation Pollen |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: The Incan ice maiden seen here was preserved as one of these, more associated with Egypt Mummy |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | ARCHAEOLOGY $300: Meal sites of the Anasazi people have led to the controversial theory that they engaged in this horrific practice cannibalism |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In 1998 the world's oldest church was found in Jordan & the oldest of these, 300 years older, near Jericho Synagogue |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: In 1999 this university in Chapel Hill returned excavated human remains to the Cherokee nation North Carolina |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Surfacing in 1999, the "Angel Scroll" is either a hoax or part of these Jewish writings discovered in 1947 Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: What might be the earliest example of a phonetic alphabet was found in this African country in December 1999 Egypt |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Some yarn found on Baffin Island suggests these people visited there in the 13th century Vikings (Norse) |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): Anthropologists now argue over the gender of this famous Australopithecene once accepted as female Lucy |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In 1996 New Mexico wildfires damaged ruins of this tribe the Navajo called "The Ancient Ones" Anasazi |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: This boy pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922; that of his wet nurse, in 1999 King Tut |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: A fossil found in Portugal may have been the child of Neanderthals & these early modern humans Cro-Magnon |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $300: Otzi, a man found frozen in 1991, attempted to cross this European mountain chain 5,000 years ago Alps |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Italy is seeking a new caretaker for this historical site which, like Pompeii, was buried by Mount Vesuvius Herculaneum |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: Kennewick Man, discovered in 1996 in this state, has sparked a custody battle between Native Americans & scientists Washington |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY $100: She's the tragic Egyptian ruler depicted here, appropriately with cobras: Cleopatra |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Howard Carter could tell you it's the name for the style of script seen here, meaning "sacred inscriptions": Hieroglyphics |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY $300: The well-known tomb of this man is seen here: Cheops (Khufu) |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY $400: With enormous depictions of himself like the one seen here, this pharaoh showed he was "second" to none: Ramses II |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY $500: The obelisk seen here is part of an elaborate temple complex that shares its name with this Las Vegas hotel: Luxor |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: Anthropology, the study of mankind, includes this other -ology that digs up old artifacts Archaeology |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | NOTABLE WOMEN $100: Margrethe II studied archaeology at this British university before she became queen of Denmark Cambridge |
| #3034, aired 1997-11-06 | FROM A TO Y $1000: Field work in this field involves digging up the field looking for remains of past cultures anthropology (or archaeology) |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Some still believe a stone found in Kensington, Minn. proves these seafarers once visited there Vikings |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In 1996 Franck Goddio found the ruins of this queen's palace in the port of Alexandria Cleopatra |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In 1881 Claudius Rich surveyed this ancient city, including Nebuchadnezzar's summer palace Babylon |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): The piece seen here, found in Samothrace in 1950, is part of this ancient statue the Winged Victory of Samothrace |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In November 1996 remains believed to be this pirate's ship were found off North Carolina Blackbeard |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Scientists prefer to find dinosaur eggs that are cracked because these remains may be preserved inside embryos |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Diego de Landa, bishop of Yucatan, deciphered some of these people's hieroglyphics in the mid-16th century Mayans |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The Mother Goddess figurine found in Austria near Willendorf is named for this Roman love deity Venus |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In 1996 New Mexico wildfires damaged ruins of this tribe the Navajo called "the Ancient Ones" the Anasazi |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,400 (Daily Double): On his 1798 conquest of Egypt, this man brought many scholars to study its antiquities Napoléon |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: The remains of the Rose Theater & this one also associated with Shakespeare were uncovered in London in 1989 Globe Theater |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: The tomb of Han king Liu Wu yielded his body & a shroud made of this green gemstone Jade |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: A recent study suggests that this 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of a female is actually a male "Lucy" |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: The palace of this king who ordered the massacre of the innocents was discovered at Masada in 1955 Herod The Great |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: An age is named for this alloy of copper & tin, first made around 3500 B.C. bronze |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Around 1860 French naturalist Henri Mouhot discovered the ruins of Angkor Wat in this country Cambodia |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: A carved stone called an Intihuatana is a famous feature of this "Lost City of the Incas" Machu Picchu |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Keilschrift is the German name for this ancient system of wedge-shaped writing cuneiform |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: This "Great" ruler's tomb stands almost intact in Pasargadae, once capital of the Persian Empire Cyrus |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Fossils of this early man were first discovered in a German valley in 1856 the Neanderthal |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Scientists learn about ancient plant life by studying fossilized grains of this from flowers pollen |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 1995 it was announced that a tomb believed to contain 50 of this pharaoh's sons was found in Egypt Ramses II (Ramses the Great) |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): They were uncovered by a Bedouin boy exploring a cave at Qumran in 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In the 1870s he published some of his findings in "Trojan Antiquities" & "Troy and its Ruins" (Heinrich) Schliemann |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Alabastrons are ancient unguent jars often made of this, hence their name alabaster |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: It's the term for labyrinthine subterranean cemeteries such as the ones in Rome catacombs |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Human sacrifices were once thrown into the Cenote or Sacred Well at Chichen Ittza in this country Mexico |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Greek statues of this creature often have women's heads & wings, unlike the monument at Giza the Sphinx |
| #2599, aired 1995-12-14 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: He uncovered tombs of Mycenaean kings in 1876, a few years after finding ancient Troy (Heinrich) Schliemann |
| #2595, aired 1995-12-08 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Dendochronology uses the growth rings of these to date certain finds trees |
| #2595, aired 1995-12-08 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: This monument on Britain's Salisbury Plain is surrounded by a complex of cemeteries and ritual sites Stonehenge |
| #2595, aired 1995-12-08 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The Quipu, a device of knotted cords, was used to keep records in this South American civilization Inca |
| #2595, aired 1995-12-08 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Luxor is the modern town on the site of this ancient Egyptian capital Thebes |
| #2595, aired 1995-12-08 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Mohenjo-daro & Harappa were the twin capitals that flourished in this river valley the Indus |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: In 1955 & 1956 Thor Heyerdahl headed an expedition to study the giant stone statues on this island Easter Island |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In 1994 a dazzling display of these was found in France, including ones of horses & woolly rhinos cave paintings |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In 1901 a 7' high stone stela was discovered inscribed with this Babylonian's code of laws Hammurabi |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Jamestown & this city that replaced it as Colonial capital of Virginia are the sites of ongoing excavations Williamsburg |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): The earliest Stone Age artifacts date back to this period whose name means "ancient stone" Paleolithic |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: T'ao t'ieh are monster masks found on bronze objects of this country's Shang & Chou dynasties China |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: U.S. chemist Willard F. Libby developed this method of dating in the 1940s carbon-14 |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In 1912 a German expedition found the now-famous painted bust of this queen at Tell el-Amarna Nefertiti |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Archaeologists no longer believe the long-held theory that these ancient priests built Stonehenge the Druids |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1865 Sir John Lubbock coined this term to denote the "New Stone" Age the Neolithic Age |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | COLLECTIONS $1000: This Oxford museum of art & archaeology opened in 1683 as Britain's first public museum the Ashmolean Museum |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: The fallen walls of this town, discovered by Garstang, are too early to be associated with Joshua's attack Jericho |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Little of the language of these ancient inhabitants of present-day Tuscany can be translated the Etruscans |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | ARCHAEOLOGY $300: 25-ton blocks used to build this monument on Salisbury Plain came from about 20 miles away Stonehenge |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500 (Daily Double): This animal of the genus Ovis was one of the first animals domesticated for food sheep |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: The method of working this metal was not mastered until about 1500 B.C. under the Hittites iron |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: 2 main methods of making this, friction & striking sparks, were discovered just after the last glacial period fire |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: An undisturbed tomb from this civilization was discovered in Peten, Guatemala in 1984 the Mayan civilization |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | ARCHAEOLOGY $300: This basalt slab provided the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs the Rosetta Stone |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel was moved to higher ground when this dam flooded its site the Aswan (High) Dam |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: Ochre, a yellow or red oxide of this metal, was used as coloring matter in cave paintings iron |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Discovered in 1922, this king's tomb also contained the remains of 2 infants, probably his children Tut |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The discovery of these beginning in 1947 yielded fragments of all the Old Testament books except Esther Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In the 1980s over 80 skeletons of people who apparently died during this event were discovered at Herculaneum the eruption of Vesuvius |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Nicknamed "The Horse Emperor", 2 of his ships were raised from Italy's Lake Nemi in the 1920s Caligula |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In the 1960s the Leakey family found remains of this early human whose name means "Handy Man" Homo habilus |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200 (Daily Double): Scholars say Hissarlik, a mount near the mouth of the Dardanelles in this country, is the site of Troy Turkey |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Fossils of this primitive "man" have been found in France & Gibraltar as well as the Neander Valley the Neanderthal Man |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Perhaps this country's most remarkable archaeological find is the Anglo-Saxon ship burial of Sutton Hoo Great Britain (or England) |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Remains of this native dog are found in Australia but not in Tasmania the dingo |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: G.F. Grotefend and Sir Henry Rawlinson helped decipher forms of this wedge-shaped Sumerian writing Cuneiform |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | SCIENCE $400: Howard Carter & Heinrich Schliemann were 2 of the most famous names in this field archaeology |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Schliemann felt this city's 2nd settlement was the one of Homer's epics; now it seems to be the 7th Troy |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Cire perdue or "lost wax", a process of casting figures, was developed during this age the Bronze Age |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Common dating techniques are carbon-14, counting tree rings & analyzing grains of this pollen |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: This term covers anything made by man, from a needle to a pyramid artifact |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Sir Leonard Woolley is known for his excavations of this Sumerian city with a very short name Ur |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Similar artifacts found in Siberia & off Alaska indicate that a land bridge once existed across this strait the Bering Strait |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Bones dating from Mesolithic times indicate that this wolf relative was the first domesticated animal the dog |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In the early 1970s it was reported that the Gran Grifon, flagship of this fleet, was found in Scottish waters the Spanish Armada |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800 (Daily Double): In 1977 an archaeologist uncovered the possible burial site of this king, Alexander the Great's father Philip (of Macedon) |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Early in WWII fossils of this "Man" were lost in an attempt to smuggle them out of China Peking Man |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | -OLOGIES $400: Often associated with archaeology, it's the study of fossils paleontology |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: The Neolithic monument known as Woodhenge is located a few miles NE of this more famous attraction Stonehenge |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Charcoal is a particularly easy material for this type of dating carbon dating |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The Rongorongo hieroglyphs on this island named for a holiday have never been deciphered Easter Island |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 1709 this buried city named for a son of Zeus was discovered by chance when a well was dug Herculaneum |
| #1922, aired 1993-01-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): The citadel of this well-preserved Inca city NW of Cuzco was once surrounded by terraced gardens Machu Picchu |
| #1921, aired 1993-01-04 | WORLD HISTORY $600: What is known of this country's Aryan Period comes from archaeology & religious texts called Vedas India |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | ENGLAND $400: The Ashmolean museum houses this univ.'s collections of fine & applied arts, archaeology & numismatics Oxford |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: Archaeologists use "plaster of" this to cover delicate specimens for transport plaster of Paris |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Many prehistoric paintings are so deep inside caves early man must have used this to see them fire |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $300: A petroglyph is a picture or inscription carved into one of these a stone |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: You'll find the largest ancient ball court in this country at Chichen Itza Mexico |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: The word "tell", which is part of the name of many sites in the Middle East, means "hill" in this language Arabic |
| #1678, aired 1991-12-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: This monument near Salisbury, England is the best-known late Neolithic structure Stonehenge |
| #1678, aired 1991-12-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Dendrochronology uses the growth rings of these to try to determine a wooden object's age trees |
| #1678, aired 1991-12-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $300: A shard is a broken piece of this pottery |
| #1678, aired 1991-12-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: More than 600 statues or Moai have been found on this small Pacific island, most 12-25 feet tall Easter Island |
| #1678, aired 1991-12-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: In 1911 Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu, an Inca fortress city, in this country Peru |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $100: Completed circa 143, the Romans' Antonine Wall ran from the Firth of Forth to the Clyde in this country Scotland |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: The remains of this city's walls Kathleen Kenyon found in the 1950s weren't the ones that fell before Joshua Jericho |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $300: The term Chalcolithic Age refers to the transition time between the use of this & copper stone |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Found in the tomb of Fu Hao, a consort of Wu Ding, were 7,000 cowrie shells, used at the time as this Money |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $500: A systematic excavation of this 1607 British settlement was done between 1935 & 1957 Jamestown |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Fragments of poems about Baal were descovered in the early 1930s on tablets made of this clay |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The tall, large-headed statues on this Pacific island were carved from tuff, a volcanic rock Easter Island |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The House of the Deer is an unusual villa preserved in this once-buried city near Pompeii Herculaneum |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Ruins of Mayan temples & palaces have been found at Tikal in this country that borders Belize Guatemala |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: The ancient Clovis culture was named for a site in this SW state where its artifacts were discovered New Mexico |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: A synonym for the site of an excavation, it's also what archaeologists do there a dig |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: First used in the 1950s, this method of dating is accurate for remains up to 8,000 years old carbon-14 dating |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Begun in the 12th century as a Hindu temple, it's the centerpiece of a vast complex in Cambodia Angkor Wat |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Howard Carter, who discovered King Tut's tomb, was this kind of archaeological specialist an Egyptologist |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Sir Arthur Evans' claim to fame was the discovery of the palace he thought belonged to this Cretan king (King) Minos |
| #1321, aired 1990-05-07 | -OLOGIES $500: New finds of old fossils are studied by experts in this field archaeology or paleontology |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Built by the Romans to carry water near Nimes, France, the Pont du Gard is one of these structures an aqueduct |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In the 18th century William Stukeley of England suggested that this structure was used by the Druids Stonehenge |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The 3rd age of the 3 age system, technically we're still in this metallic age the Iron Age |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: King Nabonidus was so into archaeology, he ignored defense matters & this empire overran Babylon the Persian Empire |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Archaeologists have recently uncovered a Roman under the Piazza Della Signoria in this Italian city Florence |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Archaeologists learn about a culture by studying broken pieces of earthenware called this Shards |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Early man fashioned this silica rock into sharp tools & weapons; it was later used in firearms Flint |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: One of the largest Roman remains in England is this emperor's 73-mile-long wall of stone & turf Hadrian |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: This British earl who financed the King Tut excavation died 9 months before the sarcophagus was found Lord Carnarvon |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): In archaeology, this term refers to any object made by the hand of man Artifact |
| #1119, aired 1989-06-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Volcanic debris & ash up to 23 ft. deep helped preserve this city, 1st rediscovered in the late 16th c. Pompeii |
| #1119, aired 1989-06-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In examining mummies, archaeologists found that many Egyptians had this joint disease arthritis |
| #1119, aired 1989-06-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Using dendrochronology, an archaeologist can "date" objects made of wood by studying these rings |
| #1119, aired 1989-06-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: An old human skull & the jaw-bone of a modern orangutan were used to create this hoax of a "Man" Piltdown Man |
| #1119, aired 1989-06-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: It was written in 196 B.C. in Hieroglyphs, Demotic Egyptian & Greek Rosetta Stone |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: This city's walls tumbled down long before Kathleen Kenyon proved it's 1 of the oldest cities known Jericho |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: As Mexico City's subway system is being expanded, ruins from this Indian culture keep turning up Aztec |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: This method of dating can tell the age of an artifact that is up to 40,000 years old carbon-14 dating |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In the 1800s, the great library of Ashurbanipal was unearthed at Nineveh, last capital of this empire Assyrian Empire |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Sir L. Woolley is best known for his discoveries at Ur, a city in ancient Sumer, now part of this country Iraq |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: The Elgin Marbles were taken from this temple in Athens the Parthenon |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Bounty crew settled on this island on which they found ruined temples & stone images but no people Pitcairn Island |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: An estimated 300 of these are in the U.S., with Chicago's Field Museum a leader in the body count mummies |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A great mark in your life, or a rock the Romans marked to show the distance to the next town a milestone |
| #974, aired 1988-11-24 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Indonesian island well known to archaeologists for its remains of Homo erectus Java |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: In 1982, oldest "human" remains known to date were discovered in Africa in this drought-stricken country Ethiopia |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Carbon dating puts the building of this landmark on the Salisbury Plain back to about 1988 B.C. Stonehenge |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In 1940 in France, 4 kids looking for their dog discovered Lascaux Cave, famous for these (prehistoric) cave paintings |
| #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 |
| #869, aired 1988-05-19 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Inspired by Homer's epics, this German businessman discovered & excavated Ancient Troy (Heinrich) Schliemann |
| #741, aired 1987-11-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: A cromlech is a prehistoric monument of upright stones placed, like at Stonehenge, in this shape a circle |
| #741, aired 1987-11-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Relative & absolute dating are not terms for an archaeologist's social life, but for this dating for how old things are (age of a find, an artifact) |
| #517, aired 1986-12-02 | -OLOGIES $200: Indiana Jones' field of study archaeology |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: An archaeological excavation, or most common activity there a dig |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In D.C., exhibit of this king's "Treasures" drew 835,000, more than city's population King Tutankhamun |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Archaeologist Schliemann excavated ruins of ancient Troy in this country Turkey |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: These Inca ruins near Cusco, Peru weren't discovered until 1911 Machu Picchu |
