| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: In the 19-teens August Fruehauf attached trailers to cars to haul lumber & attached this prefix to "trailer" semi |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $800: In a famous photo taken in Hamburg in 1936, August Landmesser stands arms folded in a sea of people making this gesture the Nazi salute |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $1000: Published in 1962, it's Barbara Tuchman's acclaimed book detailing the first month of World War I The Guns of August |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | HAVE FAITH $400: Rick Warren's last one, to thousands at a Saddleback Church service in August 2022, was the same as his first one, to tens in March 1980 a sermon |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $600: The first Saturday in August is a national day for these, which get washed away despite our work, so go build another one! sandcastles |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | CHAINS $800: In August 1500 he & his brothers were sent back to Spain in chains for mismanagement & brutality in Hispaniola Columbus |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $600: Get to Edinburgh in August for this festival billed as the "world's greatest platform for creative freedom" the Fringe Festival |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $1200: On the gallows for witchery in August 1692, George Burroughs recited this, thought to be impossible for one such accused the Lord's Prayer |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $1600: After some summer troubles in 1917, Lenin fled to Finland & this Bolshevik leader was in jail in August Trotsky |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $2000: The largest of the Solomon Islands, it was the scene of an August 1942 U.S. offensive against Japan during World War II Guadalcanal |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $3,200 (Daily Double): In August 1957 Strom Thurmond filibustered for over 24 hours railing against this, signed into law the next month the Civil Rights Act |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1200: August 30, 1967: this civil rights lawyer is confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $200: It's home to over 250 kibbutzim Israel |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $1000: His acclaimed "Pittsburgh Cycle" explores the Black experience in 10 plays, including "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" & "Fences" August Wilson |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 2023 SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL $1000: In August, this YouTube star turned fighter beat MMA star Nate Diaz in a 10-round boxing match Jake Paul |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $400: Tragedy struck this island in August as wildfires ravaged the historic town of Lahaina Maui |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALMOST ASSASSINATED $1600: August 22, 1962 when his luxury Citroen was attacked near Paris Charles de Gaulle |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | BRITISH BANDS $800: Bananarama had a hit with this song, appropriately enough, in the mean, hot days of August 1984 "Cruel Summer" |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $1,800 (Daily Double): August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, California Harding |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LETTER & WORD $1000: Violinist August Wilhelmj's arrangement of the 2nd movement of Bach's "Suite No. 3 in D major" is known as "Air On" this the G String |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | THE COMETS $800: This meteor shower seen each August is from the rubble of the comet Swift-Tuttle the Perseids |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $200: Library card sign-up month occurs during this month of the year (yay! back to school!) September |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | FAMILY DRAMA $1200: In an August Wilson play, Troy Maxson builds these title structures around the family home fences |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $200: In August 1940 this Russian got the ice pick of the litter from a Spanish assassin Trotsky |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $400: In August 1578 this English navigator sailed around Cape Horn Francis Drake |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | "C"s THE DAY $400: August 4 celebrates the birth of this branch of the U.S. military the Coast Guard |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $2000: August Strindberg, going way heavy on the drama in 1912 Stockholm |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | HERE COMES THE SUMMER $600: Head to Rockland in this state for the August Lobster Fest & Coronation of the Sea Goddess Maine |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | NAMES OF THE 1990s $1600: In August 1990, with this small country under invasion, its emir Sheikh Jaber fled to Saudi Arabia Kuwait |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1200: This U.S. ship, later nicknamed Old Ironsides, defeated the HMS Guerriere in quick fashion August 19, 1812 the Constitution |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | STATE HOLIDAYS $800: In Arizona, August 14 honors this people's famed code talkers the Navajo |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $1000: In August 2003, both Pete Sampras & this other tennis champ hung up their rackets from tournament play Michael Chang |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $2000: "Married", an 1884 collection of stories by this Swede, got him prosecuted for blasphemy August Strindberg |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $2,800 (Daily Double): This August Wilson play about a trash collector & his family was turned into a 2016 film Fences |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | VERMONT $600: At 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923, this man was sworn in as president in the Vermont farmhouse seen here President Coolidge |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | BLOSSOM $800: The U.S. Botanic Garden noted the "powerful stink" of this flower that "opened in peak bloom" on August 9, 2022 the corpse flower |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $2000: Fish were thrown into a fire on August 23 during a festival honoring this Roman god of fire Vulcan |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $400: Just after his death in 2005, the Virginia Theatre on New York's 52nd Street was renamed for this man who wrote "Fences" August Wilson |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | INVASIONS $800: Germany's August 1914 invasion of this country, beginning with an assault on Liège, brought Britain into World War I Belgium |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $1000: Japan got right down to it for a Nevada-set film: "I'm Drunk & You're a Prostitute" Leaving Las Vegas |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $2000: One of August Wilson's plays to explore the Black experience in America is called this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $2000: On August 20, 1741 this Dane sailed into the Gulf of Alaska (Vitus) Bering |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $200: By August Wilson:
"The ____ Lesson" the Piano |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This actor/playwright won a Tony for "August: Osage County" & has been seen in "Homeland" & "Ford v Ferrari" Tracy Letts |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $1200: This split of the Korean Peninsula took place in August 1945 the partition |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: Per the Farmers' Almanac, the hot period from July 3 to August 11 the dog days |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans participated in this event for jobs & freedom the March on Washington |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | FREE AS A WORD $800: August 1944 brought this happy event for Paris; the French use the same word liberation |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | TO THE "N"s OF THE EARTH $800: A reconstruction law for this Japanese city went into effect August 9, 1949 Nagasaki |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $200: August's flowers are the gladiolus & this one that can be used in remembrance of those killed in war a poppy |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE 1880s $2000: Its eruption on August 27, 1883 has been estimated to have released 10,000 times the power of an atomic bomb Krakatoa |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU $600: Août is French for this traditional vacation time August |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $800: August Wilson got the title for his play about this singer from her song that became a dance craze, "The Black Bottom" Ma Rainey |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | COMMON COMMODITIES $200: It hit an all-time high in August 2020, when it was trading at more than $2,000 an ounce gold |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $800: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) At the White House on August 10, 1863, Lincoln met for the first time with this man to discuss the treatment of thousands of Black soldiers recently inducted into the Union army Frederick Douglass |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $2000: (Mona Kosar Abdi delivers the clue.) Vacationing on his family farm on an August night in 1923, this man was awakened with news that Warren Harding had died; by the light of a kerosene lamp, he was sworn in as president by his father, a justice of the peace (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | NAVAL CONFLICT $1,200 (Daily Double): On August 2, 1964 North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the Maddox, a U.S. destroyer, in this body of water the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1600: Admiral David Farragut saw his greatest victory in the August 1864 Battle of this body of water Mobile Bay |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | OUR GOVERNMENT $400: Set at $28 trillion since August 2021, this "D.C." is a big topic in D.C. & limits the amount the Treasury can borrow the debt ceiling |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | SPECIAL DAYS $200: August 15 is Assumption Day on the Catholic calendar, celebrating this figure being taken up into heaven Mary |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | U.S. STAMPS $1600: The picket fence in the background alludes to a play title by this man honored on the stamp seen here (August) Wilson |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | KILLER TV SHOWS $1600: The "Murders" in this British detective show take place in the fictional title county, not the dog days of August the Midsomer Murders |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | ROMA LIFE & CULTURE $800: The Roma were targeted by the Nazis & August 2 is a day of remembrance for almost 3,000 killed at this camp on that date in 1944 Auschwitz |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $2000: The title of this Salman Rushdie novel refers to Saleem Sinai & other babies born at the stroke of 12 on August 15, 1947 Midnight's Children |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | YOUR PARADE $400: In August 1929 this city's Defender newspaper began its Bud Billiken Parade, the largest African-American parade in the United States Chicago |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | U.S. COUNTIES $1000: This Oklahoma county is in the title of Tracy Letts' play about a dysfunctional family Osage County |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PRONOUNCE IT THE WAY WE WANT $800: A 2-syllable month becomes this majestic word august |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19something $400: On August 12, 1961 Walter Ulbricht, leader of the East German Communist Party, ordered this to be created; it went up overnight the Berlin Wall |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS $2000: 1803 Cliff Street:
the park named for this Pulitzer-winning Pittsburgh playwright & "Fences" author (August) Wilson |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | THE CITY HAS FALLEN $400: This world capital to the British in August 1814 Washington, D.C. |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | THE CITY HAS FALLEN $2000: This anthem-inspiring city to the Allies, August 28, 1944 Marseille |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | THE NON-COASTAL U.S. $3,800 (Daily Double): Oh, for an ocean breeze! In August 2020 the average high in this southwestern capital city was 111 degrees Fahrenheit Phoenix |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | WHAT A WEEK! $400: National Aviation Week takes place the week of August 19, the birthday of this younger & first airborne brother Orville Wright |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $200: August 1934: known as "The Rock", it opens & Frank Bolt gets prisoner number 1 Alcatraz |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $400: August 1935: Note the grinning 66-year-old as this act providing a system of benefits becomes law Social Security |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $600: August 1875: Matthew Webb makes the first unaided swim from this British town to Calais Dover |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $1000: August 1977, Arktika this appropriate type of vessel is the first surface ship at the North Pole an icebreaker |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | AN AUGUST CATEGORY $6,000 (Daily Double): August 1990: Sue Hendrickson discovers a 40-foot-long skeleton of this T. rex |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | SOMETHING $800: At its peak, usually in mid-August, you can see more than 60 shooting stars an hour during this meteor shower Perseids |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | 1876 $800: On August 2 Wild Bill Hickok played his last hand in this town in the Dakota Territory Deadwood |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES $1000: August 8, 1866: He is born to sharecropper parents in Maryland; the North Pole awaits Matthew Henson |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FAMILY BUSINESS $400: In 2006 the new CEO of this beverage company was August IV, great-great-grandson of co-founder Adolphus Anheuser-Busch |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | THE DAILY TRIPLE $200: After being fitted out at Palos, Spain, these 3 ships left for the New World on August 3, 1492 the Nina, the Pinta & the Santa Maria |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ALMOST PARADISE $2000: Of the 3 traditional birthstones for August, it's the green one peridot |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 2020 VISION $1000: In August an estimated 100,000 demonstrators took to the streets to protest against Pres. Lukashenko of this nation Belarus |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: These 4 words by which Martin Luther King's August 1963 speech is known come more than halfway through it I have a dream |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Faulkner used "Dark House" as a working title for this novel whose title went in the opposite direction Light in August |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HISTORIC SECONDS $1600: Union General John Pope lost about 15,000 troops & his reputation in the Second Battle of this, August 1862 in northern Virginia Bull Run |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | MONTH OF THE BOOK $1600: Knebel & Bailey's political thriller
"Seven Days in ____" May |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | MONTH OF THE BOOK $2000: Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie ____" March |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | FOREIGN ELECTIONS $2000: On August 15, 2004 this Venezuelan president won a recall election, garnering 59% of the vote Hugo Chávez |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | CORSICAN $400: He was born in Corsica's capital of Ajaccio on August 15, 1769, the same year the French took over Napoleon |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $1200: Set in the American south:
"Luz de agosto" Light in August |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK $200: In August 2020 Louis DeJoy, holder of this job, said his organization was ready to handle whatever volume of election mail postmaster general |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $1000: The dramatic Johan Strindberg August |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $400: Famous ones of these include the Perseids in July or August & the Leonids in November meteor showers |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | ON THE COVER $800: The plane flown by this alliterative man is seen here on the August 29, 1908 cover of "Scientific American" Wilbur Wright |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $1200: Al Pacino robs a bank & takes hostages in this 1975 film that sounds perfect for an August matinee Dog Day Afternoon |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: The future of a family heirloom is at the heart of "The Piano Lesson", which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize August Wilson |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY $800: August 13 is a special day for these folks, including Barack Obama, Paul McCartney & Clayton Kershaw southpaws (left-handers) |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | THEATER TIME $1200: His "Long Day's Journey into Night" begins on a morning in August 1912 Eugene O'Neill |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | IN THE YEAR 2000 $1000: After 136 years underwater, this Confederate submarine was raised intact to the surface in August the Hunley |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Frederick August Kittel was the given name of this "Fences" playwright August Wilson |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $1200: An eclipse in August 1142 may have been the impetus for the formation of this Native American confederacy the Iroquois |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $1600: Henry VII backdated his reign to August 21, 1485, essentially making all who supported this guy at Bosworth Field traitors Richard III |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ALPHANUMERICS $1000: In August 2019 France presided over this summit of world leaders the G7 |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THIS & THAT $400: By August 2018 ex-Maryland Rep. & presidential hopeful John Delaney had visited all 99 counties in this early caucus state Iowa |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | ORDINAL TERMS $400: What Hawaii became August 21, 1959 the 50th state |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | POET-POURRI $800: The August 1913 Poetry Magazine had "I Heard a Flute" by Ruth Gaines &, more famously, this Joyce Kilmer poem "Trees" |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $400: In July & August in ancient Rome, a piscina, one of these, might have proved quite popular a pool |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | NAMES OF THE 1920s $5,000 (Daily Double): These 2 Italian-born men were executed on August 23, 1927, still maintaining their innocence Sacco & Vanzetti |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2020 $800: Both male & female Americans will celebrate the August 2020 100th anniversary of this amendment to the Constitution the 19th Amendment |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | 2020 ANNIVERSARIES $800: August marks the 30th anniversary of Iraq invading this country, leading to the Persian Gulf War Kuwait |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | ENTERING THE LANGUAGE $400: From @stoweboyd on twitter.com August 25, 2007: this ubiquitous social media word derived from a keyboard symbol hashtag |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | A CAPITAL CITY IDEA $2,500 (Daily Double): Playwright August Strindbergs home, with rooms that he furnished like stage sets, is now his museum in this capital Stockholm |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | GOVERNMENT IN CRISIS $800: Last name of the man who dismissed prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953, with some outside help Pahlavi (the Shah) |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | CHEMISTS $400: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) August Laurent & Jean-Baptiste Dumas hated each other, but they worked together to pioneer this branch of chemistry that focuses on carbon & the carbon compounds found in living things organic |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | PROTESTS $1200: Among the first of many demonstrations to protest this conflict was in August 1963, part of a Hiroshima commemoration the Vietnam War |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $800: In August 2019, flowers were placed on the star of this "Easy Rider" actor who passed away at age 79 Peter Fonda |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | FLOWER POWER $800: Van Gogh captured these huge flowers in their August bloom; the yellow background makes the work almost monochromatic sunflowers |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | HODGEPODGE $1000: He used his antiseptic method for the first time operating on James Greenlees August 12, 1865 (Joseph) Lister |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His plays "The Piano Lesson" & "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" are both set in Pittsburgh August Wilson |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $400: It was originally made of barbed wire on the night of August 12-13, 1961 the Berlin Wall |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: A wondrous change, specifically Jesus' appearance in glory observed each August 6 transfiguration |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 1963 Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech at this Washington, D.C. landmark the Lincoln Memorial |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | THE MONTHLY MOVIE TITLE $1600: An all-star cast including Meryl Streep gathers for a funeral in this 2013 adaptation of a Pulitzer-winning play August: Osage County |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | WORLD OF SPORT $600: In August 2018 a Hawaiian squad beat the team of youngsters from South Korea to take this championship the Little League championship |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | THE LAST TIME I SAW ENGLAND $400: This Beatle left Heathrow Airport August 13, 1971, never to return John Lennon |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $1600: In August Jan Smuts said, "a wave of the deepest emotion has passed over" this country at the news of PM Botha's death South Africa |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | POLITICIANS $800: As he was president of this august body, it was only fair that John Hancock got to sign the Declaration of Independence first the Second Continental Congress |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | SAVING THE ANIMALS $1000: In August 2018 more than 85,000 pets were adopted during the national Clear these places campaign shelters |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | PRESIDENTS' DAYS $400: Starting in 1973, Texas recognized August 27 as this man's birthday statewide Lyndon Johnson |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | PRESIDENTS' DAYS $1200: This city celebrates McKinley Day in January & Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony in August Canton, Ohio |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS $2000: Often an occasion for an August getaway, in Italy Ferragosto is the Feast of this, Mary's entrance into heaven the Assumption |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | 2019 HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Celebrating an event from 1959, August 16 is Statehood Day in this state; the Bishop Museum will be open Hawaii |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | HETERONYMS $400: Majestic & a month of the year august [aw-GUST] and August [AW-gust] |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | "W"RITERS $1200: This playwright hit a homer with "Fences", which won him a Pulitzer (August) Wilson |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | HUGS & KISSES $2000: The photo here was taken August 14, 1945, the day this was announced the end of World War II or V-J Day |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | HOPE $200: He was born in Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946 Bill Clinton |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | IT'S A DATE $800: August 6, 1926:
Gertrude Ederle swims this the English Channel |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | SIBLING $1000: August 12 is the day to celebrate them, sometimes stereotyped as neglected, resentful victims of birth order the middle child |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $1200: On August 21, 2017 Bonnie Tyler was back in the spotlight as she regaled cruise ship passengers with this fitting hit "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | BROADWAY REPLACEMENTS $1200: The "monthly" Tracy Letts Pulitzer Prize winner was replaced by his own play "Superior Donuts" August: Osage County |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $600: On August 10, 1945 this former First Lady wrote, "The times now call for mankind as a whole to rise to great heights" Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | A VANILLA CATEGORY $400: August 6 is the national day for these floats, mixed with vanilla soft-serve at A&W restaurants root beer floats |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BOOK OF THE MONTH $400: "Light in ____" by William Faulkner August |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: In August 1862 the Yanks got beaten near this Virginia creek for the second time in a little over a year Bull Run |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | EARLY 19th CENTURY TIMELINE $800: August 6, 1806:
Long declining, this empire falls completely the Holy Roman Empire |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | AUDIBLE RECENT FICTION $800: This book for kids has a lesson for everyone: choose kind
"My name is August, by the way. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse..." Wonder |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $1600: Someone born in a fabulous Brazilian city in early August a Rio Leo |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NEWSPAPERS $400: It's the word blocked out here in the August 22, 2017 edition of a Midwest paper Sun |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES $1600: The Morning Tulsa Daily World, August 4, 1921:
"Baseball Scorns Freed Black ____" Sox |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2018 $1600: Named for a Gorgon-killer, in August the brightest meteor showers of the year will be these the Perseids |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $800: Famous for its August 6, 1945 mission, this B-29 bomber was named after the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets the Enola Gay |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEMORIALS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Copenhagen, Denmark.) The anchor honors the Danish navy, whose greatest triumph during World War II was sinking 32 of its own ships on August 29, 1943, as the Germans imposed this type of law & increased control martial law |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH $800: This magazine that pretty much owns the nude pregnant celebrity cover showcased Serena Williams in August 2017 Vanity Fair |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | ON BOXING DAY $1200: This UFC champion's crossover into boxing came up a bit short against Floyd Mayweather in August 2017 (Conor) McGregor |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MAKES SENSE $400: August 2017 marked 40 years for Leslie Charleson playing a doctor on this TV show General Hospital |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | COLD PLACES $200: In 2010 a brisk August day on the east plateau of this continent got down to minus 135.8 degrees Antarctica |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | THE EUROPEAN MIDWEST $1200: A Nebraska city named for this Bohemian capital has "Beer Barrel Days" in August--everybody polka! Prague |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI $800: Actor-writer Tracy Letts first mounted this "August" play at Steppenwolf & won a Tony & Pulitzer for it August: Osage County |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME $400: (Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight present the clue.)
(Nancy) It is August 15, 1939 & "E.T." is at the Hollywood premiere of "The Wizard of Oz"
(Kevin) We interview Judy Garland, & ask how it felt literally bringing down the house on this character & then stealing her shoes the Wicked Witch of the East |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $2000: We would attend this playwright's "Seven Guitars", about a 1940s blues musician, any month of the year August Wilson |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | THE HISTORY BOOKSHELF $1200: Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of" this month, 1914 August |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | LEAP YEARS $800: August 31:
Brazil's Senate impeaches Dilma Rousseff 2016 |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | OTHER HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: August 8 is National Sneak Some this summer squash (aka courgette) Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day zucchini |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | THE VIETNAM WAR $200: The origins of the conflict are deeply explored, including a pivotal incident in this body of water in August 1964 the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $600: Although the Union won the August 1864 Battle of this bay, the city itself remained in Southern hands Mobile Bay |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | HERE'S FINAL JEOPARDY $400: In London on August 13, 1910, it was good night, this nurse Florence Nightingale |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | 1817 $1000: Atomic No. 3, this lightest of the solid elements was discovered by Swedish chemist Johann August Arfvedson lithium |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: Over a million flower bouquets were laid at Britain's royal palaces following her death on August 31, 1997 Princess Diana |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | HEARST STORY $1000: The Los Angeles Examiner, August 20, 1953:
this man "Reveals 'Sex Life of Women'" Kinsey |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | MOURNING ASSEMBLY $1600: Throngs mourned August Spies, one of these no-government types hanged in 1887 for his role in the Haymarket riots an anarchist |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In August 1992 the U.S. military began relief efforts in this African nation but soon got involved in interclan fighting Somalia |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $400: He was shot dead in Deadwood August 2, 1876 (Wild) Bill Hickok |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: Each August, Wales holds the World Championships of Snorkeling in this 3-letter type of place a bog |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | DOG BREED NAMES $200: This sporting dog of Germany was selectively bred by Grand Duke Karl August of Weimar, thus its name Weimaraner |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | BRASIL, BRASIL! $2000: On August 22, 1942 Brazil did this; a 7-1 payback at the World Cup came 72 years later declared war on Germany and Italy |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | MOUNTAINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Pliny the Younger noted that on the morning of August 24, 79 A.D., a cloud appeared over the summit of this mountain Vesuvius |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | THE EXPLORERS CLUB $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Explorers Club in New York.) Using the Explorers Club globe, this Norwegian planned an expedition to show that South Americans could've settled Polynesia as early as 500 A.D.; on August 7, 1947, his balsa wood raft reached Raroia Atoll after 101 hazardous days at sea, proving his theory (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | BATTLE HIM $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2012 the remains of Richard III were found in Leicester not far from this August 1485 battlefield Bosworth |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | UNFORTUNATE HISTORY $1600: In 2003 this traditional French vacation month was marred by a heat wave that killed nearly 15,000 August |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $2000: Brand of laminate flooring for someone born between August 23 & September 22 Virgo Pergo |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 1917 $1200: On August 10 this future president was appointed to serve as food administrator for the war effort Herbert Hoover |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 1917 $2000: In August this U.S. journalist sailed to Russia & joined the Bureau of International Revolutionary Propaganda John Reed |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | REMEMBER 2016? $800: On August 17th, she was named Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | DE NERO $1200: Having had enough of Nero's antics, this august political body decreed his death; he fled the Senate |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ROUTE '60-SOMETHING $600: From August 1966 to May '67, Sir Francis Chichester did this alone, centuries after Sir Francis Drake did it with a crew sail around the world |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCANDINAVIAN CITIES $1600: Each August productions of "Hamlet" take place on Kronborg Castle in this Danish town Helsingør (or Elsinore) |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $600: Slugger Eddie Mathews of the Braves was on the cover of its first issue, August 16, 1954 Sports Illustrated |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: They're the 2 calendar months named for Caesars July and August |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | FOOD FESTIVALS $800: Each August, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, celebrates this favorite sausage with an annual festival a bratwurst |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | THEY COME IN THREES $600: In August 1492 Columbus & his crews set sail on the ocean blue on these 3 ships the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE $200: August 30 B.C.
in Alexandria Cleopatra |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | BASEBALL $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.) In San Diego on August 4, 2007, Barry Bonds hit this ball 382 feet to tie the all-time home run record of this man, technically Hank Aaron |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | FOOD & DRINK HOLIDAYS $200: Every dog has his day, including the hot dog (July 23); this condiment gets the first Saturday in August mustard |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | FOOD & DRINK HOLIDAYS $1000: This food is celebrated on August 24, the anniversary of the patent of the iron used for making them waffles |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS $1200: One of the 3 William Faulkner books Oprah picked for 2005 The Sound and the Fury (or Light in August or As I Lay Dying) |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | FIRST FAMILY PETS $800: Perhaps sensing something was wrong, his Airedale Laddie Boy howled for 3 days prior to his death in August 1923 Harding |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | NICE RED UNIFORMS! $1200: The annual August Apprentice Boys parade marks the 1689 lifting of the siege of Derry in what's now this country Northern Ireland |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | THE VIETNAM WAR ERA $400: Attacks on the U.S. destroyer Maddox in this gulf in August 1964 prompted LBJ to order air strikes against the North the Tonkin |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $800: It wasn't until 2005 that the Dutch recognized August 17, 1945 as the independence day for this Asian island nation Indonesia |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALABAMA HISTORY $800: The August 1864 Battle of this body of water helped the Union enforce the blockade of the Confederacy Mobile Bay |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $400: In August 1812 General William Hull surrendered his army to the British at this Michigan city Detroit |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | 20th CENTURY $1600: On August 23, 1927 these 2 Italian anarchists were executed, still maintaining their innocence Sacco and Vanzetti |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | COMPLETES THE TONY-WINNING PLAY TITLE $400: 2008:
"August: ____ County" Osage |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | HISTORY $600: An international force seized Beijing on August 14, 1900, crushing this rebellion the Boxer Rebellion |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | THE AMERICAN PAST $800: In August 1862 the Union had about 15,000 casualties & the Confederates, 9,000 in the Second Battle of this Bull Run |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | ASIA $400: In August of 2008, the venues in this city, seen here from space, were much in the news Beijing |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | ASIA $1000: In August 2009 Vladimir Putin traveled in a submersible 4,500 feet down to the bottom of this lake Lake Baikal |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | WHAT HAPPENED WHEN? $1600: This cowboy humorist & Wiley Post were killed on August 15, 1935 when Post's plane crashed in Alaska Will Rogers |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | TINKERERS $600: On August 4, 1922 the telephone systems of the U.S. & Canada were silent for 1 minute in tribute to this late inventor (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | MARK YOUR CALENDAR $1600: We take it for granted you can name this day celebrating the Virgin Mary's ascension on August 15th Assumption |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | "E" COMMERCE $1200: With an August 16, 1996 IPO, this online brokerage company swapped its private status for a public one E-Trade |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | DAY OF THE DEAD $600: August 13, 1995:
25,000 fans jam Golden Gate Park to celebrate this guitarist who'd passed away 4 days earlier Jerry Garcia |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | THE WORLD FACTBOOK SAYS... $600: It "was attacked and overrun by Iraq on 2 August 1990" Kuwait |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | TV $400: The hosts of the first GOP debate on Fox in August 2015 were Bret Baier, Chris Wallace & her Megyn Kelly |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE ____ OF ____ $1000: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) Even before you go through the front door at the Norton Simon Museum, you walk past a number of masterpieces by August Rodin, including this one, which depicts 6 townsmen who were willing to sacrifice their lives to help end the siege of their city by the English army The Burghers of Calais |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | ON THE ISLAND $800: Here's our proclamation: Every August 1 Jamaicans celebrate this day of freedom Emancipation Day |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $1600: On August 14 & 15 respectively, Pakistan & India mark their independence that happened in this post-WWII year 1947 |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | SUPPORTING ROLES $800: Barbara Weston in "August: Osage County" Julia Roberts |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | HISTORY, OLD & NEW $3,200 (Daily Double): In effect the last battle of the Wars of the Roses was on this field on August 22, 1485 Bosworth |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | HISTORIANS $800: Barbara Tuchman's first of 2 Pulitzer Prizes was for "The Guns of" this month, about the beginning of WWI August |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | WAY BACK IN 2012 $1000: From February to August, U.N. & Arab League envoy Kofi Annan tried to solve this country's civil war Syria |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | THE TONY AWARDS $800: This drama by August Wilson won for best revival of a play in 2010; stars Denzel Washington & Viola Davis also won Fences |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: He's seen here, August 26, 1944, the day he entered a newly liberated Paris (Charles) de Gaulle |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | THE WILD WEST $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Deadwood, SD.) In 1876, "Wild" Bill Hickok moved to Deadwood & became a regular at the poker tables where, on August 2nd, he was shot by Jack McCall holding the dead-man's hand, reportedly a queen or a 9 & these four cards aces & 8s |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | "L"ITERATURE $1000: Joe Christmas has an affair with Joanna Burden, kills her & sets her house on fire in this novel by Faulkner Light in August |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | SELFIE OF THE ARTIST $800: He completed the self portrait here in August 1889, less than a year before his death van Gogh |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | SKYFALL $1200: The Perseid meteor shower occurs each August, when the Earth passes through the orbit of Swift-Tuttle, one of these a comet |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | MOON WALKING $600: If I had one of these, I'd drop it on the Moon with a feather like Dave Scott did in August 1971 to test a Galileo theory a hammer |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | "RU" FOR REAL $200: From August 1942 to February 1943, much of Stalingrad was reduced to this, rough fragments of building material rubble |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $1600: In August 1863 he & his guerrilla band irregularly attached to the Confederate army sacked Lawrence, Kansas William Quantrill |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | DAVID MUIR REPORTING $400: (David Muir delivers the clue.) On August 29, 2005 I reported from inside this building where at one point 30,000 people were seeking shelter before the levees even broke the Superdome |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $1000: In August 1940 this Russian got the ice pick of the litter from a Spanish assassin Trotsky |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: This Verdi opera was inspired by a plot from French Egyptologist August Mariette Aida |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | SUN RECORDS ARTISTS $400: His 5 Sun singles were released in a 13-month period, the last being "Mystery Train" in August 1955 Elvis Presley |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | THAT'S NO LADY $600: Tracy Letts wrote this play whose title tells you it takes place in summer somewhere in Oklahoma August: Osage County |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1000: This Al Pacino movie was based on a botched bank robbery in Brooklyn in August 1972 Dog Day Afternoon |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | HAREM SHUFFLE $800: The sultan of this empire had August Wilhelmj play violin for his harem, allegedly the only non-castrated man ever invited in the Ottoman Empire |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | THE REAGAN LIBRARY $200 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA.) On August 19, 1981, an international incident occurred when two U.S. Navy F-14s flying patrol over the Gulf of Sidra were attacked by two fighter jets flown by this country; the Tomcats returned fire, downing both enemy aircraft Libya |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: Frankenstein Day is celebrated on August 30 in honor of her birthday Mary Shelley |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: A grave in Stratford says, "Heere lyeth interred the body of Anne wife of" him "who departed" August 6, 1623 Shakespeare |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | DATE NUT $600: Hard to believe it's been 40 years since Nixon resigned on the 9th of this month in 1974 August |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | SCIENTIFIC NON-AMERICAN $2000: A continuous loop of material with a half-twist is the "strip" named for this 19th century German (August) Möbius |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | SUMMER READING? $400: Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "August 1914" centers on a military defeat suffered by this country Russia |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | SUMMER READING? $1600: Despite this Faulkner novel's title, one of its main characters is Joe Christmas Light in August |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $800: The 2008 Pulitzer went to Tracy Letts for this month: "Osage County" August |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: Initially a barbed wire barrier, it began going up August 13, 1961 the Berlin Wall |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | HISTORIC DAYS $800: August 15, 1945 V-J Day |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | RECENT HISTORY $1000: In August 2009 Bill Clinton traveled to this country & helped win the release of 2 American journalists North Korea |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | I'VE GOT TIME $600: Claudius & Nero both had months named after them for a while, but only these 2 remain bearing the names of ancient Romans July & August |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $200: This is actually the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted--most of the signing was on August 2 July 4, 1776 |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | I AM THE DANGER $400: In August 2013 one of these heavy sugar-cane-cutting knives was used to rob an Australian convenience store a machete |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | HETERONYMS $600: A month, or an adjective meaning "eminent" August [AW-gust]/august [aw-GUST] |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | 2014 ANNIVERSARIES $1600: August 2014 is the 150th anniversary of his order, "Damn the torpedoes--full speed ahead!" Farragut |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | NEW ORLEANS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew displays a satellite image on the monitor.) On its way to New Orleans, this hurricane had 115-mile-per-hour winds & was Category 3 on August 27, 2005; the next day, it became a Category 5 Katrina |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | LOST & FOUND $400: In August 2011 an unknown 62-mile-long section of this landmark was discovered in the Gobi Desert the Great Wall of China |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | M TO M $800: Cloud type observed over Hiroshima in August 1945 a mushroom cloud |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | THE ____ OF ____ $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Most Americans had never even heard of this body of water in August 1964, but that was all about to change the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | ALLITERATION $1200: Named for the star Sirius, they're from July 3 to August 11 each summer the dog days |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | REMEMBER 1791? $5,000 (Daily Double): In August the Treaty of Sistova ended war between the Hapsburgs & this empire to the east the Ottoman Empire |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | WORLD HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): On August 26, 1789 France's National Assembly approved this "declaration" that proclaimed, "men are born and remain free" the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | STAND BY YOUR STAN $1200: In August 1991 Tajikistan's pres. Mahkamov quit after he was linked to the failed coup against this man in Russia Gorbachev |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $800: Captain JFK swam three miles while towing an injured crewman to shore after the August 2, 1943, sinking of this boat the PT-109 |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: In 2013 the annual August tribute week to him in Memphis included a Graceland trivia tour Elvis |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $1600: He was born in Sussex, England August 4, 1792 & died off the coast of Tuscany July 8, 1822 Percy Shelley |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | SPECIAL MONTHS $200: August:
Awareness of this; the shots for polio & measles are needed for kindergarten immunization (vaccination accepted) |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | PLACES IN THE NEWS $800: In August 2013 ex-president Pervez Musharraf of this country was charged with the murder of Benazir Bhutto Pakistan |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | IT HAPPENED ON AUGUST 1 $400: This western state was a mile high when it gained statehood on Aug. 1, 1876 Colorado |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | IT HAPPENED ON AUGUST 1 $800: On Aug. 1, 1981 this channel debuted with a video by The Buggles; the channel is still around, but not so much into videos MTV |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | IT HAPPENED ON AUGUST 1 $2,000 (Daily Double): This was abolished in Britain's Caribbean colonies on Aug. 1, 1834 slavery |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: In August 2008 the Summer Olympics took place in this Asian country China |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Built by August Henri Vildieu, Vietnam's Presidential Palace was originally the headquarters of the governor general of this now-defunct French region Indochina |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU $1000: You're ready for the giant annual August food fight in Bunol, Spain that uses these but just found out you're allergic! tomatoes |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | EUROPEAN POETS & POETRY $1600: In 1776 Karl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, appointed this poet to his cabinet as privy councilor Goethe |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | FLAVOR OF THE MONTH $2000: In 1987 this African-American playwright swung for the "Fences" & won a Pulitzer August Wilson |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | WRITERS AT REST $1000: This author of "Light In August" was laid to rest in Saint Peter's cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi (William) Faulkner |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | GERMAN HISTORY $1200: When Hitler declared himself der Fuhrer in August 1934, he repudiated this 1919 treaty & began rearmament (Treaty of) Versailles |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | JACKIE ROBINSON $2000: In August 1963 Jackie & his family took part in this event capped by Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech the March on Washington |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | WE'RE ON MARS! $400: The NASA video seen here shows this SUV-sized rover as it nears its landing in Gail Crater in August of 2012 Curiosity |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY $2000: Why:
Because it was filled with flammable gas that was ignited by electricity, said the report of August 1937 the Hindenburg |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | OUR STATE FAIR $200: Near Syracuse in late August-early September New York |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | OUR STATE FAIR $400: In Pueblo in late August- early September Colorado |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | OUR STATE FAIR $800: At Great Falls in late July- early August Montana |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On August 14, 1941 FDR & Churchill issued this charter of cooperation the Atlantic Charter |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | HOMECOMING $400: In August 2012, 19 months after she was shot, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned home to this state Arizona |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | POMPEII $400: Pompeii was a city of about 20,000 when this volcano erupted August 24, 79 A.D., burying the city under 20 feet of ash Vesuvius |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE CITY IN QUESTION $1000: It's August 1968, so you know this city's spring is over as Soviet tanks roll in Prague |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $400: The August 1819 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia convinced the bulk of the Spanish royalist army to surrender to him Bolívar |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of parts of England and France.) The crossing of the English Channel would have been 21 miles straight, but because of bad weather on August 6, 1926, a 35-mile route was swum by this Olympic gold medalist Gertrude Ederle |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | DIRECTOR $800: He joined Halliburton's board of directors in August 1995 & became CEO 2 months later Dick Cheney |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $1200: "Died August 25, 2012...resigned from NASA in 1971...awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969" (Neil) Armstrong |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $1200: On August 18, 1873 this mountain near Death Valley was first ascended Mount Whitney |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BIRTH OF A NATION $2000: Indonesia: August 17, 1945, though this nation that had ruled it didn't recognize it until 1949 the Netherlands |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MRS. HIPPIE $800: A "bad trip" is an uncomfortable LSD experience, like the one Mrs. Hippie had at this August 1969 N.Y. music festival Woodstock |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $200: Home to the U.S. Naval Academy, it served as the U.S. capital from November 26, 1783 to August 19, 1784 Annapolis |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. $1200: On August 1st, 2005, the President named this man to the job in a recess appointment (John) Bolton |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | DANCE COMPANIES $1200: The building housing this dance company opened August 20, 1856, in time for Czar Alexander II's coronation the Bolshoi |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? $200: August 25:
This young maiden Virgo |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | IN 1867... $800: August von Hofmann discovered this fluid; 25 years later it could have been used to embalm him formaldehyde |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | BUSINESS IS GOOD $400: In January 2009 a share in this tech co. was $82.33; In August 2012, after a court victory over Samsung, it opened at $680 Apple |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1200: On August 5, 1864 it was "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" into this bay with Admiral Farragut's flagship in the lead Mobile Bay |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | IT'S A FACT $2000: The Battle of Guadalcanal began in August of this year 1942 |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE FORMER EASTERN BLOC $400: In August 2008 the U.S. reached an agreement to base this type of system in Poland; the Russians weren't happy a missile defense system |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | GONE BABY GONE $1000: In August of 1590 2 words carved on trees--Croatoan & Cro--were the last traces of the 100 colonists on this island Roanoke |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | OVER MY DEAD BODY $800: Hers is in an English church, "F.N. Born 12 May 1820, Died 13 August 1910" Florence Nightingale |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | "&" MAGAZINES $1200: (First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the clue.) This magazine usually features living rooms, food & yards on its cover, so I was honored to be the first public figure on its cover since 1963 & the first First Lady ever to appear on the cover, for the August 2011 issue Better Homes and Gardens |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | GREAT BEGINNINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Following a crisis earlier in the decade, this cabinet department was created August 4, 1977 Energy Department |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | DIAL M FOR MURDER $200: He's still in prison for the murders his "family" committed in August of 1969 Charles Manson |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | A POP QUIZ $400: In August 1974 his younger daughter Julie left him a note: "Dear daddy, I love you. Whatever you do I will support" Richard Nixon |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | GOLDEN BOYS & GIRLS $400: In August 2008 he appeared on a Sports Illustrated cover with his 8 gold medals hanging from his neck Michael Phelps |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | COMPACT DISKS $200: "Touching You, Touching Me" (1969) &
"Hot August Night" (1972) Neil Diamond |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | COMPANY NAMES $1,800 (Daily Double): August Horch named his car company this after translating Horch, which means "hark!" or "hear", into Latin Audi |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $1600: Fodor's says that Paris is no longer deserted in this month as was traditionally the case August |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | HARDBALL $200: In August 2011 this shortstop surpassed Mickey Mantle for most career games played as a Yankee Derek Jeter |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | THE ELIZABETHAN ERA $400: By the time this circumnavigator reached the Pacific in August 1578, only his flagship remained of the 5 that left England Drake |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | LITERARY LINKS $4,500 (Daily Double): Light in
_____
1914 August |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM $600: A deadly riot took place in Houston in August of this year, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I 1917 |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | GOOD NEWS $600: To provide old-age retirement benefits & unemployment insurance, Congress passed this act on August 9, 1935 the Social Security Act |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | FAMOUS MENUS $1200: The August 23, 1941 menu from this Hollywood eatery named for a colored hat offered a 95-cent tenderloin steak the Brown Derby |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | YOUR BIRTHDAY HOROSCOPE $1000: August 28:
Deal with dichotomy today, as this sign is a symbol of fertility but famed for its chastity Virgo |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | EUROPEAN HOLIDAYS $2000: On August 1 the Swiss remember the day in 1291 when 3 of these territorial divisions made an alliance cantons |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $1200: Jamaica, August 6, 1962, from this country the Great Britain |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: In August 2011 this Arizona congresswoman returned to the House floor to cast her first vote since being shot Gabrielle Giffords |
| #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 |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | OCCASION $800: August 25, 1916:
An act of Congress establishes the U.S. NPS, this National Park Service |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | OCCASION $1200: August 12, 1851:
Isaac Singer gets a U.S. patent for this machine a sewing machine |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | ARMY STRONG $1000: In August 2010 General Zahir Azimi announced that its army had reached target strength of 134,000 2 months ahead of schedule Afghanistan |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | LAND O' LAKERS $800: The Nisei Week Festival is held every August in the section of Los Angeles known as "Little" this city Tokyo |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | A STONY CATEGORY $400: On August 5, 1884 the cornerstone for its pedestal was laid on Bedloe's Island the Statue of Liberty |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | RUSSIA THEN & NOW $1600: In August 2011 a retired cop was charged in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, of this profession journalism |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | I SAW IT ON TV $200: I saw this guy's "resigned" expression during his speech on August 8, 1974 Nixon |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | TURNING 50 IN 2011 $400: Born in Honolulu August 4, 1961, he was given the same Swahili name as his father; it means "blessed by God" Barack Obama |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $600: In August 1664 this governor was forced to surrender New Netherland to the British (Peter) Stuyvesant |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | REMEMBER 2008? $400: To correspond with a Chinese lucky number, the 2008 Summer Olympics opened on this date August 8 |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | CRASHING THE PARTY $800: Discredited by a failed August coup, it went out of business December 25, 1991 (include the country, please) the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | EARTHQUAKE! $800: The August 23, 2011 5.8 quake near D.C. really shook up the scientists in Reston, Virginia at the USGS, short for this the United States Geological Survey |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE Is HAVE IT $200: In August 2011 this hurricane had winds of 85 mph as it made landfall in North Carolina Irene |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | PROHIBITION $800: The St. Louis brewery--er, former brewery--headed by this man did just fine as a maker of malt extract (August) Busch |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $1600: In August 1969, after 34 years, Dorothy Hodgkin identified the atomic structure of this pancreatic hormone insulin |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $400: Her story began in Atlanta November 8, 1900 & ended there as well in August 1949 Margaret Mitchell |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $3,000 (Daily Double): These sultry days of July & August take their name from their association with the rising of the star Sirius the dog days (of summer) |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | THE '90s $600: On August 6, 1890 William Kemmler became the first criminal forced to sit in one of these--& he only did it once an electric chair |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $1200: The library has a loveletter to Fanny Brawne by this poet, from August of 1820; he died the following February Keats |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SUMMER READING? $400: Barbara Tuchman's history of the events that led to World War I is called these "of August" The Guns |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SUMMER READING? $2000: Joe Christmas, who doesn't know if he's black or white, is at the center of this Faulkner novel Light in August |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT! $1,000 (Daily Double): This Italian-born man began his brief tenure as pope on August 26, 1978 John Paul I |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | THE "L" YOU SAY $400: If you were born on August 15, you're this fire sign Leo |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | WHEN THE SAINTS $200: Santa Rosa de Lima is honored with festivals each August 30 in this country where she's patron saint Peru |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $800: In 1834 slavery was abolished in the British Empire as of August 1, long celebrated as this day Emancipation Day |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | 1911 $400: In August Vincenzo Perugia stole this portrait in Paris, leading to the closing of France's borders the Mona Lisa |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE PEACE CORPS $1600: At the invitation of President Nkrumah, the first overseas volunteers arrived in this country on the Gulf of Guinea in August of 1961 Ghana |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | OUT WEST $400: Famous for their yell, these Indians would attack during the full moon in August or September the Comanche |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | DEATH BY... $1200: An overdose of barbiturates, August 5, 1962, at her L.A. home Marilyn Monroe |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | LET''S HAVE A TICKER-TAPE PARADE! $3,000 (Daily Double): August 13, 1969:
For these 3 men following a quarantine Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | HETERONYMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Nobly distinguished, or a month august [aw-GUST]/August [AW-gust] |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In August 2009 country duo Brooks & this guy announced that they were done (Ronnie) Dunn |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | COUNTY CULTURE $2000: A 2008 Tony award went to Tracy Letts' dark family comedy "August:" this Oklahoma county Osage |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | PLAY PENNERS $2000: This playwright with a "monthly" name is the only Af.-Amer, dramatist to have a Broadway theatre named in his honor August Wilson |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | WORLD OF WAR FACT $400: The U.S. combat mission in this country ended in August 2010 Iraq |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | WHO WROTE IT? $800: "Light in August" Faulkner |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | SPACING OUT $2000: A spectacular show of summer is this meteor shower that peaks annually around August 13 the Perseids |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | COURT DECISIONS 2010 $2000: In August a Montana federal judge ruled that these predators may not be hunted wolves |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $2000: 1954's winner was John Patrick for "The Teahouse of" this The Teahouse of the August Moon |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | CREATURE FEATURES $1000: 1987:
"The ____ of August" Whales |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | ISLAND HOPPING $1200: Most of this island was destroyed by a volcanic explosion in August 1883 Krakatoa |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | FIRST & LAST KINGS $800: Boleslaw I & Stanislaw II August Poniatowski Poland |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | BOUNCE $400: In August 1812 a U.S. frigate got this nickname when British cannonballs were seen to bounce off its thick oak hull the Ironsides (Old Ironsides) |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | ANNUALLY OBSERVED $1000: This August 15 feast day commemorates the Virgin Mary's ascension to Heaven the Assumption |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | ATOLLS $1,800 (Daily Double): From April to August 1958 the U.S. conducted 22 of these on Enewetak Atoll to get them in before a ban took effect nuclear tests |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | 1984 $800: August 21:
Half a million people march through the streets of Manila protesting this president's rule Marcos |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | IRAQ'S PROVINCES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Though Iraq already had 18 perfectly good provinces, Saddam wanted a 19th, & on August 28, 1990, declared this was it, leading to war Kuwait |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN $800: On August 11, 1989 Bruce joined this noted drummer onstage for 4 songs, including "With A Little Help From My Friends" Ringo Starr |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | HISTORIC PLACES $400: The Japanese structure seen here has been preserved as a memorial to an August 6, 1945 event in this city Hiroshima |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1600: He wrote a 10-play cycle of the black experience, each covering a decade; "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" was set in the '20s (August) Wilson |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | 2009 MLB RECAP $800: On August 23, Philadelphia 2B Eric Bruntlett became the 15th major leaguer to pull off an unassisted one of these a triple play |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $1200: Choices for August include this flower; don't fall asleep in a field of them poppies |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | THE 1920s $600: No autopsy was done after this president died in San Francisco August 2, 1923; the doctor just said it was apoplexy Harding |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE $800: In August 2009 the sultan of this spent $21,000 to get a trim from his favorite hairdresser Brunei |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In August 2009 former President Clinton helped win the release of 2 journalists after meeting with this N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | SPORTS STARS $400: In August 2009 hundreds joined him for a bike ride in Glasgow after he issued an invitation via Twitter (Lance) Armstrong |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | 1961 $200: On August 4 he was born in Honolulu, & he has the papers to prove it Obama |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | 19th CENTURY AFRICA $1600: In August 1826 Gordon Laing became the first European to set foot in this Mali trading post Timbuktu |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his play "Fences" & another for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990 (August) Wilson |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In August 1812 this future president was put in charge of the Northwestern Army William Henry Harrison |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | FAMILY DRAMA $2000: In an August Wilson play, Troy Maxson builds these title structures around the family home Fences |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE LEGO ARTISTRY OF NATHAN SAWAYA $800: In August 2005, Nathan made a van Gogh of things with his Lego reproduction of this painting Starry Night |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | THE STATE OF THE STATE $200: Underwater--or 80% of its largest city anyway, in August 2005 Louisiana |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | LETTER-WORD $400: This shortened term for a weapon appeared as early as August 1945 A-bomb |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | INGRID BERGMAN $200: Ingrid was born August 29, 1915 in this capital city Stockholm |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | CELEBRATED ON HIS BIRTHDAY $400: Take a Walk on the Moon Day,
August 5 Neil Armstrong |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | CALENDAR GIRLS $2000: Pernilla August once worked with Ingmar Bergman, but we know her best for playing Shmi in the fourth film in this series the Star Wars series |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | SHIPS $400: It initially left England August 15, 1620 along with another ship, the Speedwell the Mayflower |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | HISTORY VIA STICK FIGURES $400: His August 9, 1974 exit is recreated here (Richard) Nixon |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Spain in August 1492, Columbus & his 90 men briefly stopped in these islands that had only recently become a Spanish possession the Canary Islands |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | BUMMER OF '69 $1600: The Battle of the Bogside, one of the early events in "The Troubles", began in Derry in this U.K. country on August 12 Northern Ireland |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | HARRY TRUMAN $800: It's the month Truman began a famous speech with the line "We have just dropped a new bomb..." August (of 1945) |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | SIMILES $1000: In "South Pacific" Nellie, unashamed of her cliched feelings, sings, "I'm as" this "as Kansas in August" corny |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | HOBO A GO GO $200: In August, hop a freight train to the city of Britt in this "Hawkeye State" for its annual "Hobo Days" convention Iowa |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | BIRTHSTONES... MEET THE BIRTHSTONES $600: Jim Brady was born on August 12, 1856 but April would have been more appropriate, with this as its stone diamond |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | BRITISH BANDS $1000: Bananarama had a hit with this song, appropriately enough, in the mean, hot days of August 1984 "Cruel Summer" |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | GOING ALPHANUMERIC $1000: Triple-engined McDonnell Douglas plane whose maiden flight was August 29, 1970 the DC-10 |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | 9-LETTER POTPOURRI $400: You won't see Edyta Sliwinska performing this, done by Southwest Indians in August to bring precipitation a rain dance |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | HISTORIC NEWS PHOTOS $400: Month & year of the famous first seen here July 1969 |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | ENGINEERING $1200: On August 1, 1977 the Arco Juneau became the first tanker to carry crude delivered by this 48-inch diameter system the Alaska Pipeline |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | OPENING ACTS $400: Cannibal & the Headhunters were one of 5 opening acts when these guys headlined Shea Stadium in August 1965 The Beatles |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR $200: The first week of August honors these circus performers & is appropriately followed by Smile Week clowns |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $800: In August 1995 Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at this South Carolina military college The Citadel |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | DEATH BY... $400: By plane crash,
near Point Barrow, Alaska,
August 15, 1935 Wiley Post (or Will Rogers) |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | 1890s CINEMA $1200: A film of this president reviewing troops was shot in Pittsburgh on August 28, 1899; he was shot in 1901 McKinley |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | THEY GOT STRUCK $2000: By the Teamsters in August (at least not December) 1997 UPS |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | 1958 $200: In August this jumped to 4 cents, the first increase in 26 years a postage stamp |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $200: Once upon a time she was born July 1, 1961 in Norfolk, England; the fairy tale ended in Paris August 31, 1997 Princess Diana |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | LABOR $800: In August 1981 more than 11,000 of these federal workers were fired for participating in an illegal strike air traffic controllers |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | POETRY $1000: 4-word German first line of the August Heinrich Hoffmann verse that became Germany's national anthem "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles" |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2008 $200: On August 16 this "Material Girl" became a real middle-aged girl, reaching the half-century mark Madonna |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2008 $1000: We wonder if he sang "Through the Years" when he celebrated his 70th birthday in August Kenny Rogers |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | PAKISTAN LAURELS $200: Pakistan gained its independence on August 14, 1947, one day before this neighbor India |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $400: In August 1814 State Dept. Clerk Stephen Pleasonton hid these 2 documents from the invading British the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | PAKISTAN LAURELS $400: In August 2008 this man, president since 1999, gave a resignation speech touting all his achievements Musharraf |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | DON'T SAY THE L-WORD $400: An August zodiac sign Virgo |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | YEARS $800: Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August" has also been published as "August" this fateful year 1914 |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | BUBBA FETE $400: August 12, 2000's Hollywood gala salute to Bill Clinton was a benefit for Hillary's campaign for this office U.S. Senate |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | BRIDGES $200: On August 1, 2007 Minneapolis' I-35W bridge collapsed into this river the Mississippi River |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | OZ $400: The MGM classic "The Wizard of Oz" premiered in August of this year 1939 |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | PAPERS $200: Woodward & Bernstein were working for this newspaper in August 1972 the Washington Post |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her Dolley Madison |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | IT'S AN OLYMPIC YEAR $800: In August 2004, the shot put competition was held not in this main host city but at Olympia Athens |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | AVIATION $800: Col. Paul Tibbets commanded the bomber nicknamed this over Japan in August 1945 Enola Gay |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | THEATRE $1600: In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson" August Wilson |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | THE CALENDAR $800: 2 of the 4 months without a U.S. federal holiday (2 of) March, April, June & August |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | 1960s SPORTS LEGENDS $1000: On August 1, 1964 this man nicknamed "Big Daddy" became the first in drag racing history to exceed 200 mph Don Garlits |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $800: In August 2005 this "Siberian Siren" became the first Russian ranked No. 1 in Women's tennis Maria Sharapova |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $1200: Sweden's most "August" playwright
(10) Strindberg |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | THE 20th CENTURY $1600: In August 1936 this Zeppelin took off from Lakehurst, N.J. & headed over to Frankfurt, Germany the Hindenburg |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | EXITING GEORGE W. BUSH'S CABINET $400: His August 26, 2007 Attorney General resignation letter to the President ended with "I remain by your side" (Alberto) Gonzales |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | GIVING YOU THE BIRD $400: Aka a redbird & protected by law, this bird may have up to 4 broods from April to August each year a cardinal |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | THE SECRET OF NYM $1600: Capitonyms like "job", "herb" & "august" change meaning & this when the first letter is capitalized pronunciation |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | YOU GET A "D" $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a radar image of a storm.) On August 23, 2005, Katrina had winds of 35 miles per hour & was considered one of these gloomy storms; 2 days later, it was a hurricane a tropical depression |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | LANDING AT JFK $1200: It was the number assigned to JFK's PT boat that was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer on August 2, 1943 109 |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | STATE THE GOVERNOR $600: On August 26, 2005 this state's Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency Louisiana |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: This Argentine city honors the tango many times, including the annual world championship in August Buenos Aires |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | BRIT "B"ITS $2000: The Wars of the Roses ended in August 1485 with the battle at this field Bosworth |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | I RESIGN! $400: His August 8, 1974 speech began, "Good evening. This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office" Nixon |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | 1960s TV $1600: On August 29, 1967 he finally caught up with the one-armed man Richard Kimble (the "Fugitive") |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Faulkner novel about Joe Christmas that's the Swedish playwright of "The Dance of Death" The Light in August Strindberg |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: The Times said in 2007 that August's ugly job market turn could be signaling one of these, the first since 2001 a recession |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | SPORTS $200: On August 5, 1991 Sergei Bubka became the first to exceed 20 feet in this track & field event the pole vault |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THEATRE HISTORY $2000: "Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience August Wilson |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | THE 1930s $1600: The Baltic States' fate was decided by a secret protocol to the August 1939 non-aggression pact of these 2 nations Germany & the Soviet Union |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | BOOKS OF THE MONTH $1200: By Barbara Tuchman: "The Guns of ____" August |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | THE U.S. AIR FORCE $600: (Alex reports in front of a U.S. Air Force aircraft.) AWACS-E3s were among the very first airborne assets to deploy during this August 1990 operation, establishing round-the-clock radar capability Desert Shield |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THE ARCTIC OCEAN $1600: On August 3, 1958 this nuclear-powered submarine became the first to cross the North Pole under the ice the Nautilus |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Pittsburgh's African American Cultural Center was renamed for this "Piano Lesson" author who was born in Pittsburgh August Wilson |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Rowan Oak Home) Faulkner was using "Dark House" as a novel title but on this porch, his wife said there was something about the light in this month August |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | WHAT A 19th CENTURY YEAR! $1600: On August 24 of this year, British troops captured Washington, D.C. & burned the White House 1814 |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | U.S. HISTORY $400: On August 21, 1959 it became our 50th state Hawaii |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | ADVENTURES IN THE AIR $800: August 1983 saw the first night launch of this reusable U.S. orbital vehicle the space shuttle |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | PROMENADE DATES $200: It's the city where this civil rights march took place in August of 1963 Washington, D.C. |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | PROMENADE DATES $1000: Seen here are men in Times Square celebrating V.J. Day in August of this year 1945 |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | VATICAN CURIOSITIES $1,400 (Daily Double): Members of this august group are automatically citizens of Vatican City no matter where they live the College of Cardinals |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: (Hi, I'm Curt Schilling.) On August 30, 2006, I got my 3,000th one of these, only the 14th pitcher in Major League history to reach that milestone a strikeout |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | PLANE CRAZY $600: On August 6, 1945 this B-29 airplane became the first to drop an atomic bomb in warfare the Enola Gay |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | '90s TV $3,000 (Daily Double): This sitcom debuted on Fox in August, 1998, 22 years after its setting That '70s Show |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | UP IN THE SKY! $1000: Usually reaching its peak on August 12, it's been called the "Old Faithful" of meteor showers a perseid |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | ON THE "GO" $800: If you were born between August 23 & September 22, this is your zodiac sign Virgo |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $1000: At Vassar, Meryl Streep starred in this Swede's play "Miss Julie"; at Yale, she was in his play "The Father" August Strindberg |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | PITFALL $1600: Putting an army officer in charge of this fleet was one reason for its poor showing in an August 1588 naval battle the Spanish Armada |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $600: August 17, 1935:
"Will Rogers" & this aviator "Die in Airplane Crash in Alaska; Nation Shocked by Tragedy" (Wiley) Post |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1000: August 21, 1968:
This nation "Invaded by Russians and Four Other Warsaw Pact Forces" Czechoslovakia |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | KISS ME! $3,000 (Daily Double): Month & year of the historic kiss seen here August 1945 |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | PRIME MADONNA $200: In January 1985 Madonna & this actor had their first date; they'd be married by August Sean Penn |
| #5173, aired 2007-02-21 | ROGUE $1600: In August of 2006, the man seen here said this country would not give up its homegrown nuclear technology Iran |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | MONTHLY NAME ORIGINS $400: Named in 8 B.C. for the reigning emperor August |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | 1807 $1600: In August, this Robert Fulton-built steamship left NYC for Albany on the Hudson River the Clermont |
| #5148, aired 2007-01-17 | TV FINALES $800: Narrator William Conrad says "Tuesday, August 29, 1967. The day the running stopped" The Fugitive |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | WORLD WAR I $1600: On August 4, 1914, Germany invaded the fort city of Liege despite this country's neutrality; the city soon fell Belgium |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | R.C. $400: She was born in Plains, Georgia on August 18, 1927 Rosalynn Carter |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | RECORD LABELS $200: Between July 1954 & August 1955 this Memphis label released 5 Elvis Presley singles Sun Records |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | MOVERS & QUAKERS $1600: Quaker Bayard Rustin was the main organizer of this historic August 1963 event the March on Washington |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $2000: William Faulkner shined this, "Luz de Agosto" Light in August |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | THE LATE 20th CENTURY $800: The U.S. launched Operation Desert Shield soon after Iraq's August 2, 1990 invasion of this country Kuwait |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | IT'S "TEA" TIME $1000: One of the 2 plays with "tea" in their title that earned Tony Awards for their actors in 1954 (1 of) Teahouse of the August Moon & Tea and Sympathy |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | ROCK 'N' ROLL HISTORY $200: It premiered on August 1, 1981 at 12:01 A.M. with John Lack saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll" MTV |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | ROCK 'N' ROLL HISTORY $400: In August 1994 about 30,000 gathered in Bethel, New York to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this festival Woodstock |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | 1945 $200: In August this country was divided in two at the 38th parallel Korea |
| #5069, aired 2006-09-28 | THE WAR OF 1812 $800: In August 1812 the U.S. lost Fort Dearborn, where, oddly, this city now stands Chicago |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | "E" BAY $1200: Colonel Paul Tibbets was at the controls of this B-29 bomber on August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS $400: On August 18, 1988 he told the GOP National Convention, "I want a kinder, gentler nation" George H.W. Bush (George... Bush... the dad accepted) |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | DURING THE FILLMORE PRESIDENCY $5,000 (Daily Double): On August 22, 1851 this U.S. yacht defeated 14 British vessels in a race around the Isle of Wight the America |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | NEWS OF 2005 $400: To the relief of many, on August 8 this Space Shuttle returned safely to Earth following launch problems Discovery |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | POLISH HISTORY $400: In August 1939 Germany & this country secretly agreed to divide Poland the Soviet Union |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | 1966 $800: August 5:
This man gets hit in the head by a rock while leading a civil rights march in Chicago Martin Luther King |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | HIPPO-POURRI $400: On August 12, 1861 this showman exhibited what may have been the first hippo in the U.S. at his American museum P.T. Barnum |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | CALENDAR LIT $1200: His "Light in August" tells the story of Joe Christmas, who deals with his demons in Mississippi Faulkner |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | THE ROMANOV DYNASTY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Peterhof in St. Petersburg, Russia.) On August 12, 1904, Russia rejoiced when Empress Alexandra gave birth to this child, her only son, here on the estate at Peterhof Alexis |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the title of the late August Wilson's Tony-nominated play, this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | THE DAYS OF WORLD WAR II $1000: At 8:15 A.M. on the 6th of this month in 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima August |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LARCENY DELL'ARTE $2000: The august painting seen here by this Frenchman was stolen from Paris, along with 8 others, in 1985 (Pierre-Auguste) Renoir |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | AROUND FORT BRAGG $1000: (Kelly reads near a water tower in Fort Bragg, NC.) The skies above Fort Bragg are busy; it's home to the Golden Knights parachute team & to this division that became airborne August 15, 1942 the 82nd Airborne |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | MOVIES OF THE MONTH $1600: (1987)
"The Whales of ___" August |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | 23 SKIDOO $200: Early in the morning of August 3, 1923 he was sworn in as U.S. president (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BANGLADESH SLOWLY $800: Held August 1, 1971 at Madison Square Garden, the Concert for Bangladesh was organized by this Brit George Harrison |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $400: Originally established in 1813, the Iron Cross was re-established by this German leader on August 5, 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | TEEN POTPOURRI $200: 3 teens were on the Team USA that won gold in August 2005 at the 26th World Championships of Twirling these batons |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | GLOBETROTTING $400: His 129-country international travels ended in August 2004 with a trip to Lourdes Pope John Paul II |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | A DATE WITH HISTORY $400: The S.S. Ancon made the first complete trip through this, August 15, 1914 the Panama Canal |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $400: Now a congressman, John Lewis was a featured speaker at this August 1963 event when he was just 23 the March on Washington |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | DRAMATISTS $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Golden Hall in Stockholm, Sweden.) Among the famous Swedes depicted here, in the Golden Hall of Stockholm City Hall, is this dramatist August Strindberg |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | NOTIFY $800: In August 1858 the first transatlantic cable message was sent from this monarch to Pres. Buchanan Queen Victoria |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | BIZARRE MLB INJURIES $200: Outfielder Rickey Henderson fell asleep with an ice pack on his ankle & ended up suffering from this (in August) frostbite |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On August 5, 1498 he landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula, becoming the first European to reach South America Columbus |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Oprah's Book Club read Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound & the Fury" & this aptly titled one in summer 2005 Light in August |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | THERE'S A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING $1,500 (Daily Double): This overture, first heard on August 3, 1829 in Paris, debuted as a radio show's theme in 1933 the William Tell Overture |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: National Aviation Day is on the August 19 birthday of this pioneer who made the first powered flight in Dec. 1903 Orville Wright |
| #4858, aired 2005-10-26 | AVIATION FIRSTS $400: On August 28, 1884 John Montgomery made the first manned flight of one of these engineless planes at Otay, Calif. a glider |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | SPEECH! SPEECH! $400: He gave the plea for mercy speech at Leopold & Loeb's trial on August 22, 1924 Clarence Darrow |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | ALMOST ASSASSINATED $2,800 (Daily Double): August 22, 1962 when his limousine was attacked near Paris Charles de Gaulle |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $400: 1st used in police work by Berkeley, Ca.'s chief August Vollmer in the 1920s, this tool measures pulse, B.P. & respiration a lie detector |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | ALL OF OUR "STONE" $1000: The August 1799 discovery of this by members of Napoleon's army translated into a major historical find the Rosetta Stone |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | SCARFACE $1000: Capone's home from August 1934 through November 1939 Alcatraz |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN $200: 18th century clergyman Augustus Montague Toplady wrote the verses, not heard here, to this hymn "Rock Of Ages" |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN $400: A work from around 1910 by this Auguste gentleman is seen here Rodin |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN $600: St. Ambrose himself converted & baptized this longtime influential bishop of Hippo (St.) Augustine |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN $800: Augusto is the first name of this controversial onetime South American dictator Pinochet |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN $1000: Augustus was the middle name of this "Lucky" hero born in 1902 (Charles A.) Lindbergh |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $1600: This document approved on August 27, 1789 proclaimed that "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" The Declaration of the Rights of Man |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | "PEPPER" $400: She first called Charlie Brown "Chuck" in a comic strip that appeared on August 24, 1966 Peppermint Patty |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | LET'S CELEBRATE! $1600: On August 20 this country honors its first king with St. Stephen's Day Hungary |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In August of 1807 this steamboat made its first run, traveling from NYC to Albany the Clermont |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | "D" DAY $400: In August 2003 this cable TV network aired the popular documentary "Nefertiti Resurrected" the Discovery Channel |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | PILOTS $800: Pilot who made an "unplanned" trip to Ireland & got a parade for his trouble on August 5, 1938 "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | 2004 PASSINGS $1200: August 7:
This "colorful" oil field firefighter who inspired John Wayne's "Hellfighters" Red Adair |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | 2004 PASSINGS $2000: August 3:
This hyphenated 95-year-old photographer died at his home in Provence, France Cartier-Bresson |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | AROUND THE HORN $400: In August 1578 this English navigator sailed around Cape Horn Drake |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | ASTRONOMY $400: In August 1609 he demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the Senate of Venice, who then doubled his salary Galileo |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | PARTY ANIMALS $400: Animal symbol of the political party that convened in New York City in August 2004 the elephant |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | THE COMETS $1200: This meteor shower seen each August is from the rubble of comet Swift-Tuttle the Perseids |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | IT HAPPENED IN THE '70s $400: On August 18, 1977, this sad event took place in the living room at Graceland Elvis Presley's funeral service |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | CHAPTERS IN 19th CENTURY LIT $800: You'll find "What Happened at Portsmouth on 25 August 1628" & "Porthos' Mistress" in this 1844 novel The Three Musketeers |
| #4676, aired 2004-12-27 | TIMES SQUARE AT 100 $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Times Square.) On the night of August 14th of this year, an estimated 2 million people spontaneously celebrated in Times Square 1945 |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: There are a number of Chanel fragrances, including this one that immortalizes her birthday, August 19 Chanel No. 19 |
| #4670, aired 2004-12-17 | JACQUES IN THE BOX $1200: On August 27, 1783 Jacques Alexandre Charles & the Robert brothers launched the first balloon filled with this gas hydrogen |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | 18th CENTURY QUOTES $2000: When this Prussian king died on August 17, 1786, his last words were "I am tired of ruling over slaves" Frederick the Great |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | CARS $1000: This German car make got its name from the Latin translation of founder August Horch's name Audi |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | THE "K" TEAM $1200: On August 10, 1996 Bob Dole picked this man to be his running mate Jack Kemp |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | CINEMA TRIVIA $1200: The voice of Princess Fiona in "Shrek", she broke her nose while surfing in Hawaii on her August 30, 2003 birthday Cameron Diaz |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | PITTSTORY $800: The photo of this national hero seen here was taken in Pittsburgh on August 3, 1927 (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | REPORTING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the White House.) One year ago he represented Michigan's 5th District. Today, August 9th 1974, he enters the Oval Office as President Gerald Ford |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | THE TRUMAN LIBRARY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Truman Library in Independence, MO.) Among the library's historic artifacts is the safety plug from the bomb dropped on this city on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $1200: John Patrick:
"The Teahouse..." of the August Moon |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DAYTON PLACE $400: This famous brother, the younger of the two, flew into the world in Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1871 Orville Wright |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | HISTORY $1200: This country won the battle of Stalingrad, August 1942-February 1943 Russia |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | OCEANIA $400: In the Solomons, you can tour Olasana Island, where this future U.S. president was rescued in August 1943 JFK |
| #4618, aired 2004-10-06 | WORLD HISTORY $4,600 (Daily Double): On August 1, 1798 Admiral Nelson delivered a fatal blow to the French fleet near the Rosetta mouth of this river the Nile |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | SEARCH: ENGINES $800: Originally a traveling salesman, Nikolaus August Otto invented the 4-stroke type of this engine gas |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | A PEANUTS TIMELINE $600: August 23, 1959:
She joins Charlie Brown's family as his younger sister Sally |
| #4600, aired 2004-09-10 | SAM I AM $400: Samuel Chase, Samuel Nelson, Samuel Miller & Samuel Blatchford all served on this august body the Supreme Court |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | LOTS OF SPACE $800: On August 27, 2003 this planet reached its closest point to Earth in nearly 60,000 years Mars |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | "ROCK"Y $800: National Guard troops escorted Black students to class in this Southern state capital in August 1959 Little Rock |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | MIAMI NICE $1000: The Fontainebleau Hotel was the HQ for this political event that took place in Miami in early August 1968 the Republican National Convention |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company August Wilson |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: In August 1934 this president was made an honorary member of the Blackfoot tribe & given the name "Lone Chief" FDR |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: On August 17, this country honors the death of native son & freedom fighter Jose de San Martin Argentina |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | OUR FLAG $800: On August 3, 1949 Pres. Truman signed a resolution designating this date as Flag Day June 14 |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Wasn't Santana awesome at this event in August 1969? Woodstock |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | THEY PUT ME ON HOLD AGAIN! $400: This song is not the hold music you want to hear on your air conditioner repairman's machine in August "Heat Wave" |
| #4520, aired 2004-04-09 | LITERARY EUROPE $600: August Strindberg's last home, in a building called "The Blue Tower", is now a museum in this capital Stockholm |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $400: 122 degrees must have melted the stripes off the barber poles in this Spanish city August 4, 1881 Seville |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | SPICE $400: In August 2003 Pepsi introduced its cola flavored with this; Coke had done it back in 2002 vanilla |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | STAPLES CENTER $400: He accepted his party's nomination for the presidency at the Staples Center August 17, 2000 (Al) Gore |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $800: August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, California (Warren G.) Harding |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | U.S. HISTORY $800: August 28, 2003 marked the 40th anniversary of his famous speech heard here:
"My poor little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin..." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | POP CULTURE $400: Every August Elvis Presley fans gather at this Memphis mansion for a week-long celebration of his life Graceland |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | GO FORTH ON AUGUST FOURTH $400: Aug. 4, 1944:
Police raid a house in Amsterdam; this 15-year-old girl is one of 8 arrested Anne Frank |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | GO FORTH ON AUGUST FOURTH $800: Aug. 4, 1892:
She allegedly axes her father & stepmother to death in Fall River, Massachusetts Lizzie Borden |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | GO FORTH ON AUGUST FOURTH $1200: Aug. 4, 1916:
The U.S. buys these "unspoiled" Caribbean islands from Denmark for $25 million the Virgin Islands |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | GO FORTH ON AUGUST FOURTH $1600: Aug. 4, 1977:
Electrifying news as Jimmy Carter signs the measure establishing this cabinet department Energy |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | GO FORTH ON AUGUST FOURTH $4,400 (Daily Double): Aug. 4, 1987:
A stamp honoring this author is first sold at the Oxford, Miss. post office where he once worked William Faulkner |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | GUINNESS RECORDS $1000: He set a Guinness record by officiating at 35,000 marriages simultaneously on August 25, 1995 Sun Myung Moon |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | THE 1840s $200: The discovery of this in California on Jan. 24, 1848 was kept quiet until the N.Y. Herald ran the news in August gold |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT $2000: "The Piano Lesson" August Wilson |
| #4432, aired 2003-12-09 | "D" TALKS $1600: This French seaport on the English Channel was the site of a disastrous Allied commando raid August 19, 1942 Dieppe |
| #4430, aired 2003-12-05 | '90s NAMES IN THE NEWS $800: In August 1999 this Russian President fired his fourth Prime Minister in 18 months Boris Yeltsin |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | THE KING IS DEAD $800: August 22, 1485
Bosworth, England Richard III |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: On August 5, 1864 this Rear Admiral attacked Forts Morgan & Gaines, which guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay Farragut |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | IT OPENED IN NEW HAVEN $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT.) His play "Fences" was originally staged here at Yale Rep.; it moved to Broadway & won him his first Pulitzer Prize August Wilson |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | THE DEANS LIST $1600: On August 11, 2003 he was on the cover of both Time & Newsweek magazines Howard Dean |
| #4404, aired 2003-10-30 | STATE HOLIDAYS $200: LBJ's August 27 birthday is a holiday in this state Texas |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | THE 1930s $800: This Al Capp comic strip made its debut August 13, 1934 "Li'l Abner" |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | UTAH $400: In August in Salt Lake City there's a festival for this Mideastern dance (& you thought Utahans were a staid bunch...) belly dancing |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The "War on" this, approved by Congress in August of 1964, included VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America poverty |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | AROUND THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): When there are 190 days left in the year, it's this month June |
| #4373, aired 2003-09-17 | "UR" HEAD $1000: This author who had his Genesis August 3, 1924 published his "Exodus" in 1958 Leon Uris |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | U.N. GOODWILL AMBASSADORS $800: Appointed in August 2001, this movie "Tomb Raider" is tackling the refugee problem Angelina Jolie |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: This N.M. national park has a Bat Flight Breakfast in August so that visitors can view bats returning to their caves Carlsbad Caverns |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | OOPS! $400: In August 1998 a TV station in this largest Canadian city bought Howard Stern's show, then refused to air it Toronto |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | CRACK OPEN A U.S. HISTORY BOOK $800: In August 1900 in Chicago, this group, the GAR, held its 34th annual encampment Grand Army of the Republic |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | LATIN AMERICA $2000: On August 17, 1961 this aid program for Latin America was signed in Punta del Este, Uruguay by the U.S. & 19 nations Alliance for Progress |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "May All Your Fences Have Gates" is a book of "Essays on the Drama of" this African-American playwright August Wilson |
| #4331, aired 2003-06-02 | "SHOW" $1000: Official nickname of the entity that joined the United States on August 10, 1821 "Show-Me State" (Missouri) |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1,000 (Daily Double): This Virginia stream was the site of battles in July 1861 & August 1862 Bull Run |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | PARDON MY FRENCHMAN $1200: Sheep farmer Jose Bove got 3 months for ransacking this restaurant in southern France in August 1999 McDonald's |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | HISTORIC BATTLES $1600: Shattering the myth of Japanese invincibility, U.S. Marines stormed this island in the Solomons on August 7, 1942 Guadalcanal |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | BRITISH HEIR WAYS $400: He was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the music room at Buckingham Palace on August 4, 1982 Prince William |
| #4311, aired 2003-05-05 | GEOGRAPHIC QUOTATIONS $200: Hitler asked, "Is" this city "burning?" on August 25, 1944, the day it was liberated Paris |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | WE'RE NOT MAKING THIS UP $200: In August you may see more than a million bats fly out from the Congress Ave. Bridge in Austin in this U.S. state Texas |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | HISTORIC MOMENTS $1200: He's seen here standing up for democracy in August 1991 Boris Yeltsin |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | ASIA $400: The August 1883 volcanic eruption on this island blew away 2/3 of the island; the sound was heard 3,000 miles away Krakatoa |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | REGIONAL THEATRE $2000: "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by this playwright first came & went with the Yale Repertory August Wilson |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY $800: On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on this Asian city on the Ota River in western Honshu Hiroshima |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | ICH BIN EIN BERLINER $2000: This Berliner developed a cholera inoculation but is best known for his syphilis test August von Wassermann |
| #4238, aired 2003-01-22 | FUN WITH COLORS $800: It's official! In August 2002 this color joined the regular M&M line-up purple |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1200: His first major work, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", received a 1985 N.Y. Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play August Wilson |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $1600: In August 1779 naval hero John Paul Jones took command of the ship Duras, which he renamed this Bonhomme Richard |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | HISTORIC DATES $400: After hiding for 760 days in a secret room, this diarist & her family were found by Nazis on August 4, 1944 Anne Frank |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | HISTORIC DATES $2000: On August 8, 1588 the English defeated this Spanish fleet in the Battle of Gravelines the Spanish Armada |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $200: In August 1977 she opened her first cookie store in Palo Alto, California Debbi Fields |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $400: In August 1964, in a televised address, he told Americans, "We still seek no wider war" Johnson |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: In August 2002 Los Angeles celebrated the seventh annual festival of this, another name for soybean curd tofu |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | 1902 $1000: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet & essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | GOLD & SILVER $1000: On August 17, 1896 gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of this Yukon Territory river the Klondike |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT $200: August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas Bill Clinton |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | EXPLORERS $200: On August 3, 1492 he & his crew left Palos, Spain, heading southwest & then west Christopher Columbus |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | MONTHS $1000: Leo & Virgo are both Zodiac signs for this month August |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | CANADIAN PROVINCES $800: In August 1998 Canada's highest court ruled this province cannot secede simply by majority vote Quebec |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | INVASIONS $400: Within hours of an August 1990 invasion, this country had complete control of one of its neighbors Iraq |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | THE FABULOUS (18)50s $800: On August 16, 1858 the first cable message across the Atlantic was sent from Queen Victoria to this U.S. president James Buchanan |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | PLANE & SIMPLE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside an airplane at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.) It's the alphanumeric designation of this type of plane, which made history on August 6, 1945 B-29 (the one that carried the atomic bomb) |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: This man who served from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977, had the second shortest term of the 20th Century Gerald Ford |
| #4144, aired 2002-09-12 | 2001 $400: In August a textile maker popped into the news with a new fabric made with polymers from this food corn |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | RANDOM STUFF $800: In August of 1971 David Scott dropped a feather & a hammer here; they landed at the same time the Moon |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | HALLMARK HALL OF FAME $2000: There's plenty to learn from this 1995 presentation seen here, written & produced by August Wilson
"You're always talkin' about your daddy, but you ain't never stopped to look at what his foolishness cost your mama." The Piano Lesson |
| #4134, aired 2002-07-18 | STATE CAPITALS $400: In August Illinoisans attend the State Fair in this capital Springfield (Illinois) |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | THE WAR OF 1812 $3,000 (Daily Double): In August 1814 this President rode out to review the ragtag bunch who were the remaining American troops James Madison |
| #4099, aired 2002-05-30 | NOT SO LONG AGO... $400: This costly disaster hit the southeast U.S. August 24, 1992 hurricane Andrew |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | GRAVE MATTERS $400: In August 1996 tests proved that the body dug out of a Kearney, Missouri grave was this old west outlaw Jesse James |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | PEOPLE $200: This wrestler nicknamed his daughter born in August 2001 Pebbles The Rock |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | AIMING TO SUCCEED $1,000 (Daily Double): He died at Castel Gandolfo on August 6, 1978 & was succeeded for a short time by the man born Albino Luciani Pope Paul VI |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WINNERS $400: Denise M. Quinones August from this commonwealth was crowned Miss Universe in 2001 Puerto Rico |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | 20th CENTURY BRITAIN $1600: On August 3 of this year, British Diplomat Edward Grey said, "The lamps are going out all over Europe" 1914 |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | 2000 NEWS $400: On August 9, 2000 this company recalled 6.5 million of its tires Firestone |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | 2000 NEWS $800: A coach ride past cheering throngs was part of her 100th birthday celebration August 4, 2000 the Queen Mother |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | DOWN THE VIDEO TUBE $400: In August 2001, after 33 years, he took off his loafers for his last new show Mister Rogers (or Fred Rogers) |
| #4029, aired 2002-02-21 | GOODBYE $400: Only weeks after attending Gianni Versace's funeral, she was killed in an August 1997 car crash in Paris Princess Diana |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: In August 1999 a 7.4 one of these struck Turkey along the North Anatolian fault an earthquake |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | E BEFORE I $2000: You can catch this famous meteor shower every year from about the end of July to the end of August the Perseids |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | READING $400: In August 2001 Chicago kicked off a new literacy program by urging everyone to read this Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | THE BARBARY WARS $800: In a 3-hour battle on August 1, 1801 this ship under Lt. Andrew Sterrett, not Lt. Uhura, beat the Tripoli Enterprise |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | A DATE WITH DESTINY $200: On August 1, 1946 this president signed the McMahon Act creating the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Harry S. Truman |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | VERMONT $800: This city's annual Battle Day Parade commemorates a Revolutionary War battle that took place on August 16, 1777 Bennington |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | MILITARY MATTERS $100: This Lexington school abbreviated VMI began admitting women in August 1997 Virginia Military Institute |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | THEY WERE EXPELLED $400: Assassinated in August 1940, this Russian Communist leader was expelled in his youth for howling at his teacher Trotsky |
| #3942, aired 2001-10-23 | OH, DANNY BOY $200: This former member of the Partridge Family turned 40 in August 1999 Danny Bonaduce |
| #3942, aired 2001-10-23 | WORKING TITLES $600: He used "Dark House" as the working title for both "Absalom, Absalom!" & "Light in August" William Faulkner |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | '60s POP QUIZ $200: (Hi, I'm Randy Travis, here at the Hollywood Bowl.) On August 23, 1964 18,000 frenzied fans got to see this group in their Hollywood Bowl debut The Beatles |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | DO YOU LIKE ME.? $100: The Great Kennebec Whatever Festival begins in June & the festival for this crustacean is held in August lobster |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | 1946 $300: This former first lady suffered minor injuries when she crashed her car in Yonkers, N.Y. on August 14, 1946 Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | RANDOM HOUSES $1000: John Patrick's post-WWII comedy was this "of the August Moon" Teahouse |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | LATIN $1,000 (Daily Double): The ancient Roman Quintilis, the fifth month, is our July; their Sextilis is now this month August |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | MUSICAL FLYERS $800: The dreadlocked Adam Duritz fronts this band whose debut album was "August and Everything After" the Counting Crows |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | TRUE STORY $100: John Hersey wrote about 6 survivors of an August 6, 1945 explosion in this title city Hiroshima |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED $100: August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee Elvis Presley |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED $500: August 9, 1995 in Forest Knolls, California Jerry Garcia |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | THE FRENCH CONNECTION $200: Dans le mois d'aout (August), we complain about "l'humidite, non pas la chaleur", chaleur meaning this the heat |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | TRAVEL FUN $300: If it's August & you're in Austin, Texas, indulge in a romantic dinner cruise to watch these flying mammals Bats |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $500: He died of a stroke on August 2, 1923, right after his wife read an article about him, "A Calm View of a Calm Man" Warren G. Harding |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $600 (Daily Double): Lt. Col. Paul Tibbetts commanded this bomber over Japan in August 1945 the Enola Gay |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | LAS VEGAS HISTORY $700 (Daily Double): On August 18, 2000 Barbara Eden crossed her arms & blinked to open this rebuilt hotel Aladdin |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | 1801-1810 $500: On August 3, 1807 his treason trial began in Virginia; he was acquitted on September 1 Aaron Burr |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | AMERICA SINCE 1865 $200: On August 26, 1958 it voted by a 5-1 margin for statehood Alaska |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | HOLIDAYS & CELEBRATIONS $200: That's Wright! National Aviation Day, August 19, is celebrated on the birthday of this man Orville Wright |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | COOL YOUR JETS $400: Originally flown August 27, 1939, the world's first jet plane was the Heinkel He 178 from this country Germany |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | FEMALE FLYERS $100: On August 1, 1911 Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to get one of these Pilot's license |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | GIANTS OF SCIENCE $600: This German mathematician is best known for his "strip" that has only one edge & one side Dr. August Mobius |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | ANNUAL EVENTS $100: Pearl Harbor Day is observed on this date December 7 |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | WHERE WERE YOU IN WORLD WAR II? $200: Jailed by the British in Poona, August 1942 to May 1944 Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WAY BACK ON AUGUST 1 $100: The British Empire abolished this practice August 1, 1834, decades before the U.S. Slavery |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WAY BACK ON AUGUST 1 $200: August 1, 1779 marked the birth of this lawyer who penned the poem that became our national anthem Francis Scott Key |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WAY BACK ON AUGUST 1 $300: This innovative performer, seen here, was born August 1, 1942 Jerry Garcia |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WAY BACK ON AUGUST 1 $400: For defense against the Austrians, this confederation was formed August 1, 1291 by 3 cantons the Swiss Confederation |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WAY BACK ON AUGUST 1 $500: On August 1, 1849 this missionary became the first European to reach Africa's Lake Ngami Dr. David Livingstone |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | PLAY REVIVALS $100: In August 2000 Lea Thompson sallied forth as Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of this musical "Cabaret" |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: In August 1858 this American financier succeeded in laying the first successful Transatlantic cable Cyrus Field |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $500: On August 31 the people of Kyrgyzstan celebrate its break from this country Soviet Union/Russia |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | WHEN BENJY WAS PREZ $200: On August 24, 1891 he filed a patent for his motion picture camera Thomas Edison |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES $200: In August 2000 she gave Lourdes a baby brother, Rocco Ritchie Madonna |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | 1982 $100: In August 1982 Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be sent here by Russia Space |
| #3783, aired 2001-01-31 | AFTER AFTER $600: It's after "after" in the 3.2 earthquake that hit Encino, California on August 20, 1997 shock |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $1000: The Gravenstein variety of these is harvested in August & September Apples |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | DICTATORS BY BIRTHPLACE $200: August 29, 1941:
Pozarevac, Serbia Slobodan Milosevic |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800 (Daily Double): Held each August in Akron, Ohio, it's been called "The Greatest Amateur Youth Racing Event in the World" the National Soap Box Derby |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | THE SECOND $400: Union general John Pope proved very fallible at the second battle of this in August 1862 Bull Run/Manassas |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 3 $800: On August 22, 1922 gunmen took the life of this Irish leader played by Liam Neeson on the big screen Michael Collins |
| #3739, aired 2000-11-30 | HEY MR. WILSON! $1000: Many of his plays, including "Joe Turner's Come & Gone", are set in Pittsburgh, where he was born August Wilson |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | NICKNAMES $100: This nickname of Mrs. Gore comes from a song recorded by Jan August & The Harmonicats Tipper |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | THE ROARING '20s $400: On August 3, 1923 at 2:47 A.M. he was sworn in as President of the United States by his father Calvin Coolidge |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: He was born on a farm near the Pedernales River on August 27, 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | THEATRE $500: (Hi, I'm S. Epatha Merkerson.) I won a Tony nomination for playing Berneice in this playwright's 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson" August Wilson |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | SHORT STORIES $200: Hemingway's "The Snows of" this mountain was first published in Esquire in August 1936 Kilimanjaro |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her Dolley Madison |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | WORKING ON THE RAILROAD $200: In the famous August 28, 1830 race between Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb & one of these, Tom lost Horse |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | WAY BACK IN 1999 $200: In August one of these, the size of Rhode Island, threatened ships between South America & Antarctica an iceberg |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | INDEPENDENCE! $300: India got its independence August 15, 1947, the day after this neighbor got its own Pakistan |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This Englishman born August 19, 1939 was the drummer in "Ginger Baker's Air Force" Ginger Baker |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | JOHN HANCOCK $300: Hancock was one of 2 men to do this on July 4, 1776; he did it again, with a flourish, in August Sign the Declaration of Independence |
| #3635, aired 2000-05-26 | ROMAN HOLIDAY $400: On August 9, Romans, like beach bunnies, paid homage to this god whose Greek equivalent was Helios Sol |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | BEADS $700 (Daily Double): In Europe, around lunchtime August 11, 1999, Baily's Beads became visible around this the sun (during an eclipse) |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | PRO SPORTS $100: She retired from tennis in August 1999 & was soon seen getting cozy with Andre Agassi Steffi Graf |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | NEWSPAPERS $200: Woodward & Bernstein were working for this newspaper in August 1972 The Washington Post |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | THE PC $600: Apple launched this popular computer line August 15, 1998 iMac |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | BOOKS OF THE MONTHS $800 (Daily Double): Barbara Tuchman walked the battlefields of WWI before writing this book "The Guns of August" |
| #3568, aired 2000-02-23 | HOUSES OF THE HOLY $1000: Turkey's August 1999 earthquake didn't damage this colorful Istanbul landmark that has 6 minarets Blue Mosque |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | KENNETHS $100: On August 8, 1994 he was sworn in as an independent counsel Kenneth Starr |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | KENNETHS $200: This country music Kenny was born Kenneth in Houston on August 21, 1938 Kenny Rogers |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | ROBERT REDFORD $200: On August 18, 1937 Robert Redford was born in this "saintly" California beach city that borders Los Angeles Santa Monica |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES $200: On August 28, 1999 he began his 34th season as Penn State head coach by defeating Arizona, 41-7 Joe Paterno |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | NOTABLE NAMES $100: The first entry in her diary was dated June 14, 1942, the last, August 1, 1944 Anne Frank |
| #3528, aired 1999-12-29 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WARS $200: The August 1857 Indian Massacre of surrendered American & English troops is in this 1826 Cooper novel "The Last of the Mohicans" |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | L.A. 2000 $100: This political party brings its national convention to Los Angeles August 14, 2000 the Democratic Party |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | BROADWAY STARS $500: A broken foot delayed her, but Sandy Duncan finally joined the cast of this murderous musical in August 1999 Chicago |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $800: The Post smelled the blood of this tabloid rival with August 7, 1992's "Save-the-News Talks in Chaos" New York Daily News |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | LET'S GO SHOPPING! $300: The initials in the name of this world-famous toy store stand for Frederick August Otto FAO Schwarz |
| #3495, aired 1999-11-12 | FUHGEDDABOUDIT! IT'S BROOKLYN $600: Brooklyn was the scene of the August 1776 "Battle of" this island Long Island |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS $300: On August 2, 1999 he outdueled David Duval in a televised golf shootout billed as the "Showdown at Sherwood" Tiger Woods |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER $100: A U.S. court ruled in August 1998 that sampling would not be allowed during the one of these conducted in 2000 Census |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | LETTERS & NUMBERS $100: With John F. Kennedy in command, this boat was sunk by the Japanese August 2, 1943 PT-109 |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | SOUTH DAKOTA $500: On August 2, 1876 this gunfighter was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall in Deadwood Wild Bill Hickok |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | "ALLEY" WAYS $400: On August 25, 1991 she took home an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy Series Kirstie Alley |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On August 5, 1864 David Farragut barreled full speed ahead into this Alabama bay, defeating the Confederate navy Mobile Bay |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | THE WINTER'S TALE $400: In "Don Juan" he quipped, "The English winter -- ending in July, to recommence in August" Lord Byron |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | FAMOUS FACES $600: This man was half of the duo that went down in a plane August 15, 1935 near Point Barrow, Alaska Wiley Post |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | "GAY"IETY $400: In August 1945 the B-29 named this dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Enola Gay |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | GOING "NATIONAL" $600 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm political commentator Al Franken) In 1996 I addressed this august Washington, D.C. club on the topic "Neo-Post-Multilateralism" National Press Club |
| #3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THE MEXICAN WAR $400: This exiled Mexican general headed back home from Cuba in August 1846 to aid in the fight Santa Anna |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | THE YUKON $400: On August 17, 1896 gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, a tributary of this river the Klondike |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $600: "Rhapsody in August",
"Ikiru",
"Yojimbo" Akira Kurosawa |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | THE '60s $200: Lack of public demand led the U.S. Treasury to officially discontinue these bills August 10, 1966 $2 bills |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | CHRISTIANITY $400: You can assume correctly it is this person's assumption that is celebrated each August 15 the Virgin Mary |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | HISSSTORY $200: Tradition says that in August 30 B.C., she committed suicide with the bite of an asp, a symbol of divine royalty Cleopatra |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | THE 1840s $200: On August 19, 1848 the New York Herald reported the discovery of this, 7 months after the event California Gold Rush |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | FAMOUS DATES $500: This amazingly swift of foot Olympian won 4 gold medals between August 1 & 16, 1936 Jesse Owens |
| #3390, aired 1999-05-07 | FAMOUS VEHICLES $600: The Speedwell was this famous ship's companion in August 1620 Mayflower |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | HISTORIC CHICAGO $400: In August 1968 clashes between demonstrators & police riveted the nation's attention at this political gathering Democratic National Convention |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: On August 1 this country isn't neutral about celebrating the 1291 Confederation of the 3 Forest Cantons Switzerland |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | GOING TO... $100: Continent Columbus thought he was going to when he set sail in August 1492 Asia |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | TECHNOLOGY $500: On August 12, 1981 the world saw the first IBM personal computer using this Microsoft operating system MS-DOS |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | HEADS OF STATE $800: On August 29, 1995 Eduard Shevardnadze, president of this country, was wounded by a car bomb Georgia |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | ANY PORT $2,000 (Daily Double): (Alex: I'm at the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit at the World Trade Center, Boston. This 16-ton piece of the hull of R.M.S. Titanic was raised from the floor of the north Atlantic in August of 1998.) The Titanic was still considered unsinkable when it sailed April 10, 1912 from this English port city Southampton |
| #3334, aired 1999-02-18 | "N" THE ATLAS $300: This city was bombed by "Bock's Car" on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | QUOTATIONS $600: Jogging on August 19, 1997 he said, "It's the longest I've been able to go since I hurt myself on March 14" President Bill Clinton |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | LIGHTEN UP! $800: On August 9, 1988 the Cubs' first game under this stadium's new lights was postponed due to rain Wrigley Field |
| #3318, aired 1999-01-27 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $300: Dan August,
Wood Newton Burt Reynolds |
| #3309, aired 1999-01-14 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' MEN $1000: Amid allegations of personal indiscretions, this aide & advisor to President Clinton resigned in August 1996 Dick Morris |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | 1997 $200: In the largest meat recall in U.S. history, 25 million pounds of this were recalled in August beef (hamburger meat) |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | THE LIST LIST $400: Supplying info that led to the arrest of everyone on this list in August 1998 could have netted you over $1,500,000 FBI Ten Most Wanted List |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | COMING UP IN '99 $500: The only Friday the 13th of 1999 occurs in this summer month the Romans called "Sextilis" August |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | TURN OF THE CENTURY FILMS $600: On August 28, 1899 a film of this president reviewing troops was shot in Pittsburgh; he was shot in 1901 William McKinley |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | RESOLUTIONS $800 (Daily Double): Senators Wayne Morse & Ernest Gruening cast the only dissenting votes against this August 7, 1964 resolution the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | QUOTATIONS $200: In August 1997 Steve Jobs told him via cell phone, "Thank You. The world's a better place" Bill Gates |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | CELEBRATE CANADA $1000: "Somewhere in the World..." is a pageant presented each July & August in Charlottetown in this province Prince Edward Island |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL $300: Brokenhearted fans of this man gather in Memphis each August 16th Elvis Presley |
| #3290, aired 1998-12-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Lanford Wilson won a Pulitzer for "Talley's Folly" in 1980 & this Wilson won for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990 August Wilson |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | NYC IN THE '70s $400: On August 7, 1974 Philippe Petit traveled via this between the towers of the World Trade Center a tightrope (or highwire) |
| #3288, aired 1998-12-16 | PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $300: August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977 Gerald Ford |
| #3286, aired 1998-12-14 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale life ended in this capital August 4, 1875 Copenhagen |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $400: In 1997 this "Fences" playwright debated the state of black theater with critic Robert Brustein August Wilson |
| #3263, aired 1998-11-11 | "CAT"s & "DOG"s $1000: This term refers to the hot, sultry period between July & September Dog Days of August |
| #3251, aired 1998-10-26 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: On August 21, 1983 he was murdered at Manila Airport while protected by government troops Benigno Aquino |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | THE 19-AUGHTs $100: In '06 these events devastated San Francisco in April & Valparaiso, Chile in August Earthquakes |
| #3237, aired 1998-10-06 | DR. NO...GUCHI $200: Dr. Noguchi autopsied this actress whose death in August 1962 is still the subject of debate Marilyn Monroe |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | THE VIETNAM WAR $500: The closest the U.S. came to actually declaring it a war was this August 7, 1964 "resolution" Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BETTE DAVIS FILMS $600: This 1987 film set in Maine featured Lillian Gish as Bette's sister "The Whales of August" |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | AND $500: This pair was electrocuted August 23, 1927 Sacco & Vanzetti |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | BOOKS BY WOMEN $1,200 (Daily Double): Judith Rossner's book about the month when psychoanalysts go on vacation & patients fend for themselves "August" |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | SPORTS HEADLINES $600: August 22, 1989: This pitcher "Fans 5,000th" Nolan Ryan |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | SCOOPS $1,500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Andrea Mitchell of NBC News.) As a campaign reporter I got the scoop that George Bush had made this controversial choice August 16, 1988 selecting Dan Quayle as his running mate |
| #3180, aired 1998-05-29 | THE CARIBBEAN $400: Every August this country is home to the Reggae Sunsplash Jamaica |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | CANADIAN STUFF, EH? $400: On some weekdays in July & August, you can have tea with the mayor in this Nova Scotia capital Halifax |
| #3176, aired 1998-05-25 | WIRED FOR CABLE $200: On August 1, 1981 this channel aired its first video, titled "Video Killed the Radio Star" MTV |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | HISTORIES $800: Barbara Tuchman won her first Pulitzer for this history of the beginning of World War I "The Guns of August" |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | WISCON-SIN $400: On August 9, 1966 the Milwaukee HQ of this venerable civil rights organization was bombed the NAACP |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | NOTORIOUS $800: Bang! Bang! An assassin's deadly ax came down on his head, August 20, 1940 in Mexico Leon Trotsky |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | ATHLETIC CUPS $300: This cup was first presented by England's Royal Yacht Squadron on August 22, 1851 the Americas Cup |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | POP MUSIC $200: Released August 29, 1997, her album "You Light Up My Life" went platinum October 10 LeAnn Rimes |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This 16-year-old "Black Prince" led his men to victory at the battle of Crecy in August 1346 Edward |
| #3126, aired 1998-03-16 | PLAY TIME $1000: In this author's "Fences" Troy Maxson complains that black men don't get to drive garbage trucks August Wilson |
| #3126, aired 1998-03-16 | '70s TV DETECTIVES $1000: CBS reran this 1970-71 series in 1973 & 1975 after its star Burt Reynolds made it big in the movies Dan August |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | 1930s TV $800: This Dodger manager was interviewed by Red Barber before an August 1939 game telecast Leo Durocher |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | 1930s TV $1000: Joseph Goebbels had his hands in the telecast of this August 1936 event the Summer Olympics (from Berlin) |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | WHEN $500: These Americans got the right to vote on August 26, 1920 Women |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | SPEAKING "ENGLISH" $1000: Byron wrote of this season "Ending in July, to recommence in August" English winter |
| #3121, aired 1998-03-09 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $200: George Taylor signed this August 2, 1776 after replacing a Pennsylvania delegate who refused Declaration of Independence |
| #3109, aired 1998-02-19 | HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $200: In August 1825 Upper Peru changed its name to honor this man, the liberator of South America Simon Bolivar |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | THE CHINESE THEATRE $200: When this star left his handprints on August 8, 1984 he wrote, "You made my day" Clint Eastwood |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | PEOPLE OF THE MONTH $500: This Swedish playwright represented himself as "The Stranger" in his trilogy "To Damascus" August Strindberg |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | FAULKNER TITLES $500: "Light in..." August |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $300: This hillbilly comic strip by Al Capp made its debut in newspapers in August 1934 "Li'l Abner" |
| #3075, aired 1998-01-02 | TRACK $1,000 (Daily Double): On August 16, 1995 this country's Haile Gebrselassie set the world record in the 5,000-meter run at 12:44:39 Ethiopia |
| #3071, aired 1997-12-29 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: In August these "reclusive" crabs compete in a Miss Crustacean beauty pageant in Ocean City, N.J. hermit crabs |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In August 1974 he returned to his home in San Clemente, California, reportedly in a deep depression Richard Nixon |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | TRANSPORTATION $600: In August 1995 this company introduced the Outback, a hybrid station wagon & sport utility vehicle Subaru |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE 1960s $200: Up to 400,000 fans attended this August 1969 folk-rock festival on Max Yasgur's farm near Bethel, N.Y. Woodstock |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE 1960s $600: On August 2, 1964 North Vietnamese PT boats attacked the U.S. destroyer Maddox in this gulf the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | INVENTORS $100: He called his steamboat launched August 17, 1807 "The Steamboat", not "The Clermont" Robert Fulton |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $100: August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas Bill Clinton |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $400: August 27, 1908 near Stonewall, Texas Lyndon Johnson |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | BLASTS FROM THE PAST $1,000 (Daily Double): Indonesia August 26, 1883 explosion or eruption of Krakatoa |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | ANNIVERSARIES $1000: How time flies: August 16, 1997 was the 20th anniversary of his untimely death Elvis Presley |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $100: Between August 5 & Sept. 6, 1953 Operation Big Switch was the final exchange of these prisoners (of war) |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | BIG DATES $200: On August 2, 1964 a U.S. destroyer was attacked by the North Vietnamese in this gulf the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | RESORT CITIES $700 (Daily Double): This resort known for its spa was capital of occupied France from November 1942 to August 1944 Vichy |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | 1971 $500: In August 1971 this Republican mayor of New York City became a Democrat John Lindsay |
| #2970, aired 1997-06-27 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Frank Langella starred in a 1996 revival of this Swedish playwright's 1887 drama "The Father" August Strindberg |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In August 1996, Cross Creek, Florida & nearby Micanopy celebrated the 100th anniversary of her birth Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | 1999 $100: On August 11, 1999 a total one of these will occur Solar eclipse |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In August 1995 this nation's first stock exchange, based in Ulan Bator, began trading Mongolia |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: This Longfellow chief is the subject of an outdoor pageant each July & August in Pipestone, Minn. Hiawatha |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | THE 1940s $500: On August 3, 1948 Whittaker Chambers testified before this committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $800: Running from July 19 to August 17, this month was so hot... you could cook a lobster on the sidewalk Thermidor |
| #2947, aired 1997-05-27 | HISTORIC SHIPS $100: In August 1851 this schooner won the Hundred Guinea Cup & the cup was later renamed for it America |
| #2947, aired 1997-05-27 | HISTORIC SHIPS $300: When Columbus left Spain August 3, 1492, he was aboard this ship Santa Maria |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: Women's Equality Day, August 26, celebrates the enactment of this number amendment in 1920 19th Amendment |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | THE 19th CENTURY $300: In August 1807 this steamboat made the NYC to Albany round trip on the Hudson in 62 hours Clermont |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This author of "The Piano Lesson" founded the Black Horizons Theatre Company in 1968 August Wilson |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | 1988 $300: In August this Indiana senator was chosen as the Republican vice-presidential nominee Dan Quayle |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | CLINTON'S FIRST TERM $400: In August 1996 Clinton signed a bill reforming this system but vowed to correct some of its provisions Welfare |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: A count's daughter seduces a servant in this Swede's 1880s drama "Miss Julie" August Strindberg |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $300: At 12:03 P.M., August 9, 1974 he was sworn in as president in the East Room of the White House Gerald Ford |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | THE 1990s $100: On August 28, 1990 he declared that Kuwait was now Iraq's 19th province Saddam Hussein |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | THE PLANETS $200: In August 1996 NASA announced life may have existed on this planet, based on evidence from a meteorite Mars |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: In August 1996 this chain, the world's largest retailer, opened its first outlets in China Wal-Mart |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | AUGUST $100: On August 14, 1935 FDR signed this act establishing old-age benefits & unemployment insurance Social Security |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | AUGUST $200: On August 12, 1867 President Johnson named this Civil War general his new Secretary of War Ulysses S. Grant |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | AUGUST $300: In 1936 this American tied or set 3 Olympic records in individual track & field events Jesse Owens |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | AUGUST $400: On August 14, 1900 more than 2,000 U.S. troops helped capture Peking, thus halting this uprising Boxer Rebellion |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | AUGUST $500: On August 2, 1927 this president said, "I do not choose to run for president in 1928" Calvin Coolidge |
| #2903, aired 1997-03-26 | 1930 $500: In August 1930 this judge made headlines when he disappeared Joseph F. Crater |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | THE 1930s $400: When Howard Hughes set an air speed record August 13, 1935, she was flying by to help confirm it Amelia Earhart |
| #2889, aired 1997-03-06 | THE STARS $100: This constellation abbreviated Sgr is best seen in August Sagittarius |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | HISTORY $100: After years of construction, this canal finally opened for business August 15, 1914 Panama Canal |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: Every August, Gresham, Oregon holds a jazz festival named for this mountain Mount Hood |
| #2885, aired 1997-02-28 | SCIENCE $400: This "project" to develop a fission bomb was established in August 1942 The Manhattan Project |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | U.S. FESTIVALS $100: On the first weekend in August, a festival in Rockland, Maine honors this crustacean Lobster |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In August 1995 this labor leader stepped down as president of the AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | PRESIDENTS' BIRTHDAYS $400: He was born August 20, 1833 & named for his great-grand-father, not his grandfather who was president Benjamin Harrison |
| #2876, aired 1997-02-17 | PRESIDENTS' BIRTHDAYS $500: He was born to a blacksmith's wife August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa Herbert Hoover |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY $400: This country singer could serve his sausage to Rosanna Arquette on their mutual birthday, August 10 Jimmy Dean |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | ASTRONOMY $1000: Famous ones of these include the Perseids in August & the Leonids in November meteor showers |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: This empire existed from Christmas Day 800 until August 6, 1806, when Francis II dissolved it Holy Roman Empire |
| #2846, aired 1997-01-06 | NOTORIOUS $200: He began his famous murder spree in the slums of London's Whitechapel on August 7, 1888 Jack The Ripper |
| #2843, aired 1997-01-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: He described his "Miss Julie" as the first naturalistic play in Scandinavian literature August Strindberg |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | THE EARLY 1900s $300: This car company was founded in Detroit August 22, 1902 & named after an 18th century French explorer Cadillac |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | THE 20TH CENTURY $600 (Daily Double): On August 1, 1975 35 nations signed accords on human rights in this city Helsinki |
| #2820, aired 1996-11-29 | PLAYS $200: "Teahouse" is a 1957 Chinese play, and this is the longer title of a 1953 work set in Japan "Teahouse of the August Moon" |
| #2820, aired 1996-11-29 | RELIGION $400: The Mandir Mahotsav, which opened in England in August of 1995, is this religion's largest temple outside India Hinduism |
| #2820, aired 1996-11-29 | SPORTS STARS $500: In August of 1995 she became the youngest national all-around gymnastics champ in U.S. history at age 13 Dominique Moceanu |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | LABOR UNIONS $600: When their union struck in August 1994 these workers' average salary was $1.2 million Major League Baseball Players |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | NONFICTION $800: She wrote about WWI in "The Guns of August" & about the American Revolution in "The First Salute" Barbara Tuchman |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | POLITICS $200: On August 10, 1996 Bob Dole chose this former Buffalo Bills quarterback as his running mate Jack Kemp (of Occidental College) |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | WOMEN SAINTS $200: August 23 is the feast of St. Rose of this capital city; she's credited with starting social services in Peru Lima |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | TRAITORS $300: To this Scottish hero, executed as a traitor, August 23, 1305, we raise not our martinis but our Gibsons William Wallace |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | SPORTS STARS $200: Close but no; on August 10, 1996 this horse failed to break Citation's record of 16 straight victories Cigar |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | SPORTS STARS $400: This Olympic gold medal-winning tennis player won the ATP title for the second year in a row August 11, 1996 Andre Agassi |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | CURRENT EVENTS $400: On August 15, 1996 this Bosnian capital's airport opened for commercial flights after a 4-year closure Sarajevo |
| #2808, aired 1996-11-13 | CURRENT EVENTS $500: On August 19, 1996 this consumer advocate accepted the Green Party's nomination for president Ralph Nader |
| #2804, aired 1996-11-07 | U.S. HISTORY $400: John Quincy Adams was in this Flemish town in August 1814 negotiating the treaty to end the War of 1812 Ghent |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | HISTORY $1000: When this island nation obtained its independence August 16, 1960, Archbishop Makarios III was its leader Cyprus |
| #2781, aired 1996-10-07 | REGIONAL THEATRES $200: Many of August Wilson's plays have been produced by this college's Repertory Theatre in New Haven Yale |
| #2777, aired 1996-10-01 | WORLD HISTORY $200: On August 8, 1588, the English defeated this fleet of Philip II at the Battle of Gravelines the Armada |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $1000: "Seven Guitars" is the seventh in a series of dramas by this "Piano Lesson" playwright August Wilson |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | STRIKES $300: On August 3, 1981, these federal workers went on strike; their union was decertified October 22 the air traffic controllers |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | PARKS $600 (Daily Double): A peace ceremony is held in this Asian city's Peace Memorial Park every August 6 Hiroshima |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | ANTONYMS $1000: Month whose name is spelled the same as an antonym of humble August |
| #2762, aired 1996-09-10 | IN THE NEWS $400: The August 3, 1981 Time cover story was on their wedding; the July 22, 1996 cover story concerned their divorce Prince Charles & Lady Di |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | HISTORY $500: In January of 1926, Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator of this country - he was deposed in August Greece |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In June 1959 its voters approved statehood by almost 17 to 1; it became the 50th state on August 21 Hawaii |
| #2735, aired 1996-06-21 | MEDICAL MILESTONES $800: In 1906 August von Wassermann developed a well-known test for this sexually transmitted disease syphilis |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | LEFTOVERS $300: Every August Williamsport, Pennsylvania hosts this organization's World Series Little League |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | 1983 $300: On August 5 a federal judge approved plans for this company to divest 22 local phone companies AT&T |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | MONTHS $100: For awhile it was 29 days long but one of its days was transferred to August February |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: Texas remembers the birth of this 36th president on August 27 Lyndon Johnson |
| #2697, aired 1996-04-30 | 1980s ROCK MUSIC $800: At the August 12, 1984 closing of the Summer Olympics, he sang "All Night Long" Lionel Richie |
| #2696, aired 1996-04-29 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: It finally proved vincible August 8, 1588 The Spanish Armada |
| #2694, aired 1996-04-25 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: Celebrations in August 1995 marked the 75th anniversary of this amendment that gave women the right to vote the 19th Amendment |
| #2682, aired 1996-04-09 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $400: "August 1914" is a novel about the first days of WWI by this author of "The Gulag Archipelago" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| #2672, aired 1996-03-26 | CHICAGO $100: Riots marred this convention in August 1968 Democratic National Convention |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | DRAMA $1000: One critic called "A Streetcar Named Desire" a rewrite of this author's "Miss Julie" August Strindberg |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | 1959 $400: In August William F. Quinn was sworn in as its first governor Hawaii |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY $200: Kathie Lee Gifford & this man, her husband, were both born on August 16, but in different years Frank Gifford |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: In August 1995 this former NBA player & Senator from New Jersey announced he wouldn't run for reelection Bill Bradley |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | 1992 $200: In August she announced she'd quit acting to devote herself to fitness videos & life with Ted Turner Jane Fonda |
| #2638, aired 1996-02-07 | 1899 $400: In 1899 August Strindberg moved from Lund to this capital city Stockholm |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | SPORTS $400: On August 30, 1991, Mike Powell set the world record in this event with a leap of 29' 4 1/2" the long jump |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | STARTS WITH "A" $200: Formerly the sixth month, it was originally called Sextilis August |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: On August 29, 1877, this leader of the Mormon Church died Brigham Young |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: On August 30 this state observes Huey P. Long Day Louisiana |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THEATRE $1000: "The Dance of Death" may be this "Miss Julie" playwright's most depressing drama August Strindberg |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | LEFTOVERS $500: He was born August 31, 1908 in Fresno, had "The Time of his Life" & died there May 18, 1981 William Saroyan |
| #2595, aired 1995-12-08 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: From June to August, the "Trail of Tears" drama is staged near Tahlequah in this state Oklahoma |
| #2585, aired 1995-11-24 | SPACE MISSIONS $400: Launched May 4, 1989, the Magellan craft arrived at this planet August 10, 1990 Venus |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $200: On August 9, 1974, he became the first U.S. president to resign Richard Nixon |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: Recovered from a knife attack 2 years earlier, she returned to women's tennis in August 1995 Monica Seles |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT 1994 $100: Because of its $135 ticket prices, some called this August festival "Greedstock" Woodstock |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $1000: Fish were flung into the fire during this Roman fire god's chief festival on August 23 Vulcan |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | NOTABLE WOMEN $400: This beloved member of the royal family turned 95 on August 4, 1995 the Queen Mother |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | PSEUDONYMS $400: In August 1994 the French arrested terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as this Carlos (the Jackal) |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: In 1985 this president proclaimed August 26 as Women's Equality Day Reagan |
| #2540, aired 1995-09-22 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS $200: On August 18, 1988, George Bush said, "Read my lips", followed by these 3 words no new taxes |
| #2534, aired 1995-09-14 | 1994 BESTSELLERS $400: A top seller in August & September was his "Debt of Honor" Tom Clancy |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | HALLMARK HALL OF FAME $800: His first play on the big or small screen was 1995's Hall of Fame production of "The Piano Lesson" (August) Wilson |
| #2531, aired 1995-09-11 | THE 1950s $400: Between August 23 & October 6, 1958 this country bombed Quemoy Island China |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | THE 1930s $200: A plane crash in Alaska killed this cowboy humorist on August 15, 1935 Will Rogers |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | BIRTHDAY'S THE SAME $300: On August 15 this "French Chef" could bake a cake for herself, "Mannix" star Mike Connors & Linda Ellerbee Julia Child |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | ASTRONOMY $500: Taking place in August, it's been called the most spectacular of the meteor showers a Perseid shower |
| #2521, aired 1995-07-17 | OPERA $300: His story "The Little Match Girl" inspired an 1897 opera by Danish composer August Enna Hans Christian Andersen |
| #2521, aired 1995-07-17 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: In August 1227 this Mongol leader died in Kansu Genghis Khan |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $800: "Honor wears different coats to different eyes", she wrote in "The Guns of August" Barbara Tuchman |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | 1938 $800: Returning from Ireland to NYC in August, this aviator was given a parade down…er, up Broadway "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In August 1994 he was sworn in as the 108th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Stephen Breyer |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | 1994 $200: With one strike this sport was out of commission August 12, 1994 baseball |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | RAIN POTPOURRI $400: Guinness says one of these phenomena appeared for over 3 hours in North Wales on August 14, 1979 a rainbow |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: Caraquet, New Brunswick holds an annual festival in August honoring these French residents the Acadians |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Indian's war ended August 27, 1832 with his capture Black Hawk |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | THE CALENDAR $500: This month honors an emperor born in 63 B.C. August |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: The beheading of this forerunner of Jesus is commemorated on August 29 John the Baptist |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | LINCOLN $400: Abe's 7 joint debates with this man ran from August 21 to October 15, 1858 Stephen Douglas |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Women's Equality Day is observed on August 26, the date this amendment went into effect the 19th Amendment |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | U.S. HISTORY $400: These 85 essays supporting ratification of the Constitution appeared in N.Y. newspapers Oct. 1787-August 1788 the Federalist (Papers) |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: When this play opened at NYC's Palace Theatre on August 21, 1983, Georges was played by Gene Barry La Cage aux Folles |
| #2452, aired 1995-04-11 | WOMEN $400: For the August 1992 Vanity Fair cover, she covered her body with a painted-on suit Demi Moore |
| #2442, aired 1995-03-28 | THE COLD WAR $300: This U-2 pilot went on trial in Moscow in August 1960, pled guilty to espionage & was sentenced to 10 years (Francis Gary) Powers |
| #2437, aired 1995-03-21 | 1919 $400: This Scottish-born steel magnate died of pneumonia on August 11 (Andrew) Carnegie |
| #2425, aired 1995-03-03 | HISTORY $100: His first expedition to the New World began from Palos, Spain on August 3, 1492 Columbus |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | 1885 $400: The first U.S. street railroad employing this type of power opened in Baltimore on August 10 electricity |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | ANNUAL EVENTS $100: Bucyrus in this "Buckeye State" has a 3-day Bratwurst Festival every August Ohio |
| #2418, aired 1995-02-22 | HODGEPODGE $400: People born during this month have either Leo or Virgo as their astrological sign August |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | U.S. HISTORY $200: The Battle of Bladensburg in August 1814 preceded the burning of this city by the British Washington, D.C. |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | PAN-AMERICA $500: In August 1993 Pope John Paul II visited Merida on this Mexican peninsula the Yucatan Peninsula |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: Florence, Alabama has a festival each August honoring this "Father of the Blues" W.C. Handy |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: Constitution Week, September 17-23, was proclaimed on August 29, 1956 by this president Dwight Eisenhower |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | 1920 $400: In August this country led by Pilsudski defeated the Soviets at the Battle of the Vistula Poland |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | 1978 $400: Under this name Albino Luciani was Pope for 34 days in August & September Pope John Paul I |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | MONTHS $300: It's named for Julius Caesar's grandnephew August |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | EUROPE $600 (Daily Double): Albert II has been king of this country since August 9, 1993 Belgium |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | THIS & THAT $400: This explorer landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula in August 1489 Columbus |
| #2355, aired 1994-11-25 | WORLD WAR I $200: Britain was drawn into the war when this Low Country was invaded August 4, 1914 Belgium |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | BALLET $600: Choreographer Birgit Kolberg based her 1950 ballet "Miss Julie" on an 1888 play by this fellow Swede August Strindberg |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | U.S. CITIES $200: On August 11, 1683 William Penn issued a warrant to lay out this Delaware capital Dover |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | SPORTS $200: On August 6, 1994 Jeff Gordon won the Brickyard 400, the first stock car race on this track Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: This U.S. president died in San Francisco on August 2, 1923 after an exhausting tour of Alaska Harding |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | MUSEUMS $1000: The home of this author of "The Red Room" is now a museum in Stockholm August Strindberg |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | CRIME TIME $200: He committed murders in the Whitechapel area of London between August & November 1888 Jack the Ripper |
| #2334, aired 1994-10-27 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Her book "The Proud Tower" describes the world that led to "The Guns of August" Barbara Tuchman |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: The rose of Tralee Festival is held in late August or early September in this country Ireland |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | HISTORY $200: P.W. Botha resigned as this country's president on August 14, 1989 South Africa |
| #2329, aired 1994-10-20 | FAMOUS WILSONS $1000: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is part of his cycle of plays about Blacks in America August Wilson |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $400: In Japan a cha-shitsu is one of these; a famous one is "of the August Moon" a teahouse |
| #2292, aired 1994-07-19 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: Each August this large city hosts the Elvis International Tribute Week Memphis |
| #2289, aired 1994-07-14 | 1993 $800: On August 2 this 2-year-old was returned to her biological parents, Dan & Cara Schmidt Baby Jessica |
| #2285, aired 1994-07-08 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In an August 13, 1905 plebiscite, only 184 Norwegians voted against independence from this country Sweden |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: In August 1948 Whittaker Chambers accused this former State Dept. official of Communist activities Alger Hiss |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | U.S. RIVERS $300: Fulton's steamboat Clermont was sent up this river August 17, 1807 the Hudson River |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | BALLET $1000: The Ballets Russes disintegrated soon after the August 19, 1929 death of this impresario Sergei Diaghilev |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | U.S. HISTORY $900 (Daily Double): In August 1826 this famed orator eulogized Thomas Jefferson & John Adams, who'd died a month earlier Daniel Webster |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | QUEEN VICTORIA $800: In August 1858 Queen Victoria & James Buchanan exchanged greetings via this new pathway the transoceanic cable |
| #2243, aired 1994-05-11 | ASTRONOMY $600: In August 1993 the Observer probe sent to study this planet was lost in space Mars |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | 1949 $100: On August 23 a manslaughter charge was filed against the cabbie who killed this "Gone with the Wind" author (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: He first used the pseudonym Boz in the August 1834 issue of “The Monthly Magazine” Dickens |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $100: Women's Equality Day, August 26, is the anniversary of U.S. women getting the right to do this the right to vote |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Jordan observes his accession on August 11 & his birthday on November 14 King Hussein |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | 1961 $500: This Kenyan leader, imprisoned since 1952, was released on August 21 (Jomo) Kenyatta |
| #2218, aired 1994-04-06 | THE COLD WAR $200: In August 1963 the U.S. & USSR set up this communications link to reduce the risk of war the Hot Line |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | HISTORY $400: In August 1910 this country annexed Korea, renaming it Chosen Japan |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | THE SUPREME COURT $400: In August 1993 she was confirmed as the second woman justice on the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #2208, aired 1994-03-23 | MONTHS $800 (Daily Double): Month named for the emperor during whose reign Jesus was born August |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $500: It was expelled from the Federation of Malaysia in August 1965 & became a republic a month later Singapore |
| #2204, aired 1994-03-17 | LANGUAGES $1000: August Strindberg's plays & novels were originally written in this language Swedish |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $600: In August 1789 the new National Assembly gave this king the title "Restorer of French Liberty" Louis XVI |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | DRAMA $800: This playwright won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1987, for "Fences" August Wilson |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | POLITICIANS $600: After his 1973 death, this president's birthday, August 27, was made a holiday by the Texas legislature Lyndon Johnson |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: He took the oath of office at 2:47 A.M. on August 3, 1923 Coolidge |
| #2177, aired 1994-02-08 | MUSIC FESTIVALS $200: Over 300,000 showed up for this August 1969 rock festival Woodstock |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | JFK $400: This boat commanded by JFK collided with the Japanese destroyer Amagiri in August 1943 PT-109 |
| #2167, aired 1994-01-25 | THE PLANETS $400: In August 1989 this became the last planet visited by the Voyager 2 spacecraft Neptune |
| #2166, aired 1994-01-24 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Each August this U.S. city hosts the Three Rivers Regatta Pittsburgh |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1922 $200: This inventor of the telephone died in Nova Scotia on August 2 (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | 1922 $800: On August 22 Michael Collins was ambushed by Independent Republicans in this country Ireland |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: August 30 is Huey P. Long Day in this state Louisiana |
| #2142, aired 1993-12-21 | 1989 $200: In August Kristin M. Baker became this academy's first female first captain of the Corps of Cadets West Point |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | THE 1960s $300: Soviet & other Communist forces invaded this country in August 1968 Czechoslovakia |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | RUSSIAN RULERS $400: In August 1918 this Communist was shot twice in an assassination attempt Lenin |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | 1985 $200: In August this country pledged to find the remains of all U.S. MIAs inside its borders within 2 years Vietnam |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: On August 21, 1863 Quantrill's Raiders set fire to the town of Lawrence in this state Kansas |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In August 1894 the American Railway Union declared that this 3-month strike was over the Pullman strike |
