| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | HISTORICAL FIGURES $400: Arsinoe IV, the sister of Cleopatra, fought the Roman army at this Egyptian port city around 48 B.C. Alexandria |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $200: Nomi-No-Sukune, considered the founder of this form of wrestling, is said to have won its first bout in 23 B.C. sumo wrestling |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $1000: Of
the "Analects", a collection of sayings dating back to around the fifth century B.C. Chinese |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $800: A papyrus dated to 35 B.C. calls her Philopatris, "she who loves her country", the country being Egypt Cleopatra |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $1200: For obvious reasons these Roman priestesses faced dire consequences if found unchaste, like Aemilia, Licinia & Marcia in 114 B.C. the Vestal Virgins |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The Israelites' foes in the Book of Judges, these people were brought under Assyrian control by around 800 B.C. the Philistines |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: The Southern or Shan-Yang part of this waterway may date from the 500s B.C.; the adjective-worthy part wasn't dug until much later the Grand Canal |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $1000: The refusal by the island of Melos to surrender to Athens in 416 B.C. is chronicled in this historian's "Melian Dialogue" Thucydides |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $400: "A":
This clear fluid surrounds a baby in its mother's womb amniotic fluid |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1200: "A":
You get one set of these alternative forms of genes from mom & one from dad alleles |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1600: "B":
This pigment gives bile its yellowish color & can lead to gallstones bilirubin |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $2000: "C" "C":
2-word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself the cell cycle |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $6,400 (Daily Double): "C":
In myth, it's a fire-breathing hybrid monster, in genetics, it's an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA chimera |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $800: Solve the this TV host problem: 3 shut doors, new car-junk-junk. You pick A. He shows you B is junk. Do you switch to C? Monty Hall |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Praising the defense of democracy, Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict the Peloponnesian War |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $1000: The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life 45 B.C. |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $400: Dating back to 4000 B.C. fortified settlements, it's the largest city in Jordan & the residence of the king Amman |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THE MOURNING NEWS $400: A 10,000-talent funeral pyre--we can only assume that was expensive--burned in 324 B.C. for Hephaestion, a dear pal of this leader Alexander the Great |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | HISTORIC BATTLES $800: 490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire the Persian Empire |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | ON MY HISTORIC CV $1000: 1351 B.C.: Egyptian queen 1,300 years before Cleopatra; 1912: portrait bust discovered in ruins of Amarna workshop, big hit at museum Nefertiti |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $2000: Rome put Carthage on the mat for the final time with the third of these wars in a campaign that lasted from 149 to 146 B.C. the Punic Wars |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: Thunderbird Park in Victoria, B.C. is renowned for its collection of these monumental carvings, some more than 40 feet high totem poles |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $200: Horse-riding style without a saddle bareback |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $600: It means to construct, or to fake, as in your excuse for being late fabricate |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $800: The title of a Lewis Carroll poem, it now means meaningless words or gibberish "Jabberwocky" |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $1000: This gem of a word can precede rattlesnake, terrapin & moth diamondback |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $1,000 (Daily Double): Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $200: Alphabetically, it's the first letter that does not begin a state name B |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $400: Not a blood type C |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $800: A vitamin found in vegetables & dairy products, it's also called retinol vitamin A |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A, B OR C $1000: Used as an abbreviation for the standard unit of weight for gems C |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | COLLEGE PRESS $1500: Hint: say its name quickly! The Ubyssey is the student newspaper of the university of this Canadian province British Columbia |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $600: Seen here, this breed originated around 800 B.C. a Lhasa Apso |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $1600: When the Nabateans ruled Jordan from about 400 B.C. to 106 A.D., their capital was this city, carved from stone Petra |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $400: Dating to circa 1650 B.C., the Rhind Papyrus, a scroll from this civilization, put the value of pi at about 3.16 the Egyptians |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $1200: Eureka! Around 250 B.C., this sage of Syracuse estimated pi at around 22/7 Archimedes |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | LET'S TAKE A BATH $1000: The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the palace of Knossos on this island Crete |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | ANCIENT TIMES $600: Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion Buddhism |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $2000: In the 400s B.C. this scholar of Halicarnassus opined that the Etruscans originally migrated to Italy from Lydia in Asia Minor Herodotus |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $4,600 (Daily Double): Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $800: According to legend, he was a Phrygian slave who may have lived from 620 to 560 B.C. Aesop |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $200: 390 B.C.:
These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome the Gauls |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $10,000 (Daily Double): This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms Plato |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love Y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Mark Antony |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE $600: Around 335 B.C., this Greek founded the Lyceum, where he taught logic & observation Aristotle |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CANDLE IN THE WIND $800: Candles have been made of animal fat or this nonglycerine substance used as early as 3000 B.C. beeswax |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1200: The Georgian city of Batumi dates from around 1000 B.C. & is an important port on this sea the Black Sea |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Yerevan, the capital of this country, dates back to a settlement of the 700s B.C. Armenia |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: His last play, "Oedipus at Colonus", was produced posthumously in 401 B.C. Sophocles |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $1600: This powerful dynasty that began ruling China in 202 B.C. ushered in a golden age of culture & prosperity the Han Dynasty |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $2,000 (Daily Double): 3 times was not the charm for Carthage which lost all 3 of these wars against Rome between 264 & 146 B.C. the Punic Wars |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | B.C.-ING YOU $2000: In 480 B.C. the Battle of Salamis saw Greek navies take on the navies of this Persian ruler, son of Darius Xerxes |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $400: Appropriately, the Trundholm sun chariot was cast around 1400 B.C. in this alloy bronze |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $400: "B":
an especially big payment that comes due at the end of a loan a balloon |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $800: "A":
this type of interest that has accumulated but not yet been paid accrued |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $1200: "C.C.":
the expenses incurred in finalizing the transfer of property ownership closing costs |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2,000 (Daily Double): "A":
this word meaning to pay off a debt in installments comes partly from Latin for "dead" amortize |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2000: "B.B.":
securities with no registered owner payable to whoever holds the certificate bearer bonds |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | QUI"ZZ"ICAL $2000: Mentioned in the book of Daniel as the son of Nebuchadnezzar, this ruler was killed during the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. Belshazzar |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GETTING AN EYEFUL $200: A call for an act of retribution, it's No. 196 in the 18th century B.C. code of Hammurabi eye for an eye |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $1600: Fed by an aqueduct built in 19 B.C., this fountain in Italy got its name from its location at the convergence of 3 roads the Trevi |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | 4-LETTER WORLD CITIES $400: Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C., but it wasn't built in a day Rome |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $200: In 413 B.C. a failed Athenian campaign became a disaster when Nicias saw this astronomical event as a bad omen & put off leaving Sicily a lunar eclipse |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $600: If he could have found time to name a successor before dying in 323 B.C., it would have saved a lot of war & trouble Alexander the Great |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $200: 6th c. B.C. assassin Zhuan Zhu spent months learning to prepare & fillet these so he could hide a dagger in one & kill king Liao a fish |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN $400: Druids didn't build this stone circle begun around 3000 B.C., but modern-day Druids gather there at solstice time Stonehenge |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $200: After defeating Pompey's army, this leader returned to Rome & became dictator for life in the 40s B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | EURO COINS $1200: The image of an owl on this nation's 1-euro coin was copied from a 4-drachma coin from the 5th century B.C. Greece |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" The Frogs |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $2000: Many an artist has lived in this neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village that runs through avenues A, B, C & D Alphabet City |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Hittite Empire may have collapsed around 1200 B.C. due to a severe drought as indicated in the width of these from juniper trees tree rings |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $200: In a totally metal move, this age took over for bronze in southeastern Europe around 1200 B.C. iron |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $1200: An audio clue on Robert Schumann's "Träumerei", meaning this activity that interested Freud, has to be long b/c it's played so slow dreaming |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $1000: It's surrounded by phenomena named
A, B, C, D, E, F & G Saturn |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $600: Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was) Socrates |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $1200: The cities of the Achaean League situated on the northern part of this peninsula met defeat in 146 B.C. at the hands of Rome the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $2000: Take six pals & be seven against this Greek city where you can check out what's left of the circa 1400 B.C. Palace of Cadmus Thebes |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OLD WAR $400: Lysander, an admiral of this city-state, starved Athens into surrendering in 404 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War Sparta |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: The Attica region of Greece includes this plain, the site of a pivotal 490 B.C. battle the Plains of Marathon |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth Cleopatra |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here the Bronze Age |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | THE LAST BATTLE $1200: The Second Punic War ended when this general went down to defeat at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | 3 MEN $200: Formed around 60 B.C., the First Roman Triumvirate was made up of Crassus, Pompey & this guy Julius Caesar |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $400: This ruler's legal decisions were codified in cuneiform in the Old Babylonian language in the 18th century B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $1600: Born around 470 B.C., this figure from the golden age of Greek culture went around barefoot asking annoying questions Socrates |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $200: Details are sketchy on him; was he a 9th century B.C. guy? 8th? From Ionia? Did he really create the 2 epic poems he's credited with? Homer |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $400: We have a theorem about this guy who was born in Ionia around 570 B.C.:
a2 + b2 = c2 Pythagoras |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $600: The first great civilization to emerge around Greece flourished circa 2000 B.C. with the Minoans on this island Crete |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $1000: This 400s B.C. physician had a school at Cos where he taught for fees; no word on if he had a loan program Hippocrates |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $1600: Greek cities of the 3rd century B.C. formed the Achaean League to expel invaders from this kingdom of Philip & Alexander Macedonia |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the long run, you'll know General Miltiades lost only around 200 men & the Persians, 6,400, in the 5th century B.C. Battle of this Marathon |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $2000: Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C. Assyria |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | EPONYMS $400: A teaching method using questions & answers & provoking discussion bears the name of this 5th century B.C. philosopher Socrates |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHICH WAR? $600: In 431 B.C., Spartan ally Thebes goes after Plataea, an Athenian pal, & it's on the Peloponnesian War |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | TRAIN ROUTES $1200: The Rocky Mountaineer offers routes from Vancouver, B.C. to Jasper or Banff in this neighboring province Alberta |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GOING UNDERGROUND $600: Analysis shows that a 700s B.C. altar excavated in Israel has traces of this psychoactive 3-letter compound found in cannabis THC |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | WHIRLED EVENTS $200: 3-word name for an infamous date in 44 B.C.:
SCARED OF HIM Ides of March |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | STREET SMARTS $800: The 1960 Olympic marathon was run along this "Way", a road begun in 312 B.C. the Appian Way |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $1600: The Edict of Cyrus from the mid-500s B.C. insists on tolerance for those conquered by this, Cyrus' empire Persia |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $200: As a patrician, you could not do this with a plebeian until 445 B.C.'s Lex Canuleia marry |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $1000: On Sept. 2, 44 B.C. you could take in the first of his 14 Philippic orations; he sure did love to orate, until it got him executed Cicero |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now that's a construction project! 13,000 miles long & found in part in Gansu province, this dates to the 600s B.C. the Great Wall of China |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $200: Around 546 B.C. Pisistratus took power as tyrant of this city & ruled there for 2 decades Athens |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $200: These were first recorded in Greece in 776 B.C. & Greece led the medal standings with 1 as Coroebus of Elis won the only event the Olympics |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $600: Title for Egyptian king Ramses the Great, remembered for his wars & building projects around 1250 B.C. pharaoh |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $1000: By 2500 B.C. the Chinese were breeding a special "worm" in order to make thread & garments from this material silk |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | AFRICA $800: Head to Tunisia to visit the ruins of this city whose name means "new town", founded around 800 B.C. Carthage |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WORD PUZZLES $800: New drivers may find it challenging
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B backing up |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | 2, 3 OR 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1200: Ancient Mesopotamian city of 3500 B.C., in ruins today & known as Tell el-Muqayyar Ur |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $1200: Neoclassical artist Vincenzo Camuccini went big; 13 x 23 feet, to depict this event from 44 B.C. the assassination of Julius Caesar |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | GERMAN CITIES $1600: The site of a Roman fortress in the 1st century B.C., this city was the seat of federal government for 50 years until 1999 Bonn |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | ONLY HALF THE BATTLE $1600: The Greeks were holding their own at this pass in 480 B.C.; then Ephialtes showed the Persians the way around Thermopylae |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | "SECOND" CHANCES $2000: Formed in 43 B.C., this alliance was made up of Mark Antony, Lepidus & Octavian the Second Triumvirate |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HISTORIC SECONDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The second one lasted from 218 to 201 B.C. & at the end, Rome was boss of the Mediterranean the Second Punic War |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Excavations showed that this English site begun around 3000 B.C. was connected to the Avon River by a paved avenue Stonehenge |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $400: Bracelets featuring butterflies inlaid with gems, circa 2500 B.C., are made from this metal, at that time, more precious than gold silver |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $1200: Looking ready to begin, a statue of a scribe from about 2400 B.C. holds a representation of a scroll of this material in his lap papyrus |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $1600: A pendant from the tomb of Princess Mereret from around 1800 B.C. features two of these, a fierce hybrid of a raptor & lion a griffin |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | TRYING TO GET SOME WORKS DONE $800: "The Calf Bearer" from the 500s B.C. discovered on this Athens elevation in 1864--sad that parts are missing, but now we can show it the Acropolis |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $800: This father of Alexander the Great was assassinated in 336 B.C. Philip of Macedon |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE TEMPLES IN JERUSALEM $1200: The First Temple was built around 950 B.C. & was destroyed by an invading army of this empire in 586 B.C. the Babylonians |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $200: This general & statesman became dictator in 46 B.C. but was assassinated on the ides of March by Brutus & others (Julius) Caesar |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1000: In the 70s B.C. this gladiator led a slave revolt; Kirk Douglas played him on film Spartacus |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: In the 200s B.C., the first Qin emperor ordered existing defensive structures to be linked, helping to create this Great Wall of China |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | ROMANS $600: From Latin for "of a noble father", it was the exclusive ruling class until the third century B.C. the patricians |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | "R"ELIGION $800: The cult of this 2-letter sun god of ancient Egypt reached its peak during the Old Kingdom around 2500 B.C. Ra |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HERSTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Roxana married this conqueror in 327 B.C. & after his death, killed another wife or wives & consolidated the throne Alexander the Great |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | EUROPEAN PLACES $1600: After being extended around 244 B.C., this famous ancient road ended in Brindisi in the "heel" of Italy the Appian Way |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | GO IVth & RULE $1200: 2nd century B.C. efforts by Syrian King Antiochus IV to suppress Judaism led to a revolt by this family, including Judah the Maccabees |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $400: It's slang for basic training of new military recruits boot camp |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $800: In 1921 at age 16 Clara Bow won one of these, winning a part in a Hollywood movie a beauty contest |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1200: It's one of the few animals commonly called by its genus and species names a Boa constrictor |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1600: It's the Chinese veggie seen here bok choy |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $2000: Jenny Lind was a master of this operatic singing technique bel canto |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $400: Around 630 B.C. this militaristic city-state basically turned Messenia's people into serfs Sparta |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORY $2000: This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built Pericles |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GOOD HISTORY $200: Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging fire |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | TRIAL & ERA $2000: This lawyer & statesman used his trademark rhetoric to convict corrupt Sicilian magistrate Gaius Verres in 70 B.C. Cicero |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WHAT IS LOVE... $1600: His "Symposium" from around 360 B.C. states, "Love is the eldest & noblest & mightiest of the gods" Plato |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $800: Founded as far back as the 7th century B.C., Constanta is one of Romania's main ports on this sea the Black Sea |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | HISTORY $400: When Pompey took this metropolis in 63 B.C., Judea fell under the heel of the Romans Jerusalem |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano (Mount) Vesuvius |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over Seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple Hanukkah |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses elephants |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa the Phoenicians |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1600: It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great the Persian Empire |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Built in what's now this country in the 300s B.C. & still in use today, the theater at Epidaurus seats about 13,000 Greece |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | THE ORIGIN TRAIL $1600: Legend says this, outside Tokyo, was created in the year 286 B.C. by an earthquake Mount Fuji |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | ASIAN MONARCHS $400: Emperor Ashoka the Great ruled much of India in the 200s B.C. & converted to this faith after witnessing the destruction of war Buddhism |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | ASIAN MONARCHS $1200: Darius the Great led this empire at its peak around 500 B.C. & tried to conquer Greece several times Persia |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT $400: In the 330s B.C. a Macedonian tough guy took over in Egypt & founded this city that's named for him Alexandria |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $400: Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians the plebeians |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $800: Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things water |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | DYNASTIES OF CHINA $800: The first recorded dynasty, the Shang, emerged 1600 B.C. & produced works like the Tiger vase, seen here, during this metallic age the Bronze Age |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | DYNASTIES OF CHINA $2000: This 3-letter dynasty ruled from around 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. & saw the invention of paper & the introduction of Buddhism the Han dynasty |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | MILITARY MEMOIRS $200: He recounted some of his campaigns in the 50s B.C. in "Commentaries on the Gallic Wars" Julius Caesar |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | EDUCATORS $400: I'd like to thank this school founded in the 380s B.C. that employed Aristotle, who left after not getting a big promotion the Academy |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AFRICAN EMPIRES $1200: The Punic Wars were punitive to this North African empire, destroyed in 146 B.C. Carthage |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | THE INNER "EAR" $200: In the 15th century B.C. Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was depicted wearing men's attire & a fake one of these a beard |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $1000: Commemorating the lifting of a siege on this city, a bronze colossus was built in the harbor in the 3rd century B.C. Rhodes |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A LOFTY CATEGORY $1000: Around 2500 B.C. Menkaure, a king of the fourth dynasty, began building a 215-foot-tall one of these a pyramid |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $800: In 218 B.C. Hannibal left Spain with at least 37 of these animals; it's said the one-tusked Surus lasted the longest elephants |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $2000: The "Long Walls" of Athens were destroyed at this war's end to the accompaniment of flute music, but rebuilt in 393 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | NAVAL CONFLICT $200: In 394 B.C. Conon the Athenian found what is best in life, crushing the fleet of this rival city-state Sparta |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $1000: Around 342 B.C. I got the call from Philip II of Macedonia to tutor his 13-year-old kid, Al; well, that's just great Aristotle |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | ANGLES $1000: Using the difference in the angles of shadows at 2 distant places, Eratosthenes calculated this around 200 B.C. to be 250,000 stadia the circumference of the Earth |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | WAR $200: In 49 B.C., this Roman led his forces from Gaul into Italy, starting a civil war Julius Caesar |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $2000: Dating from B.C. times, this faith with similarities to Hinduism & Buddhism emphasizes ahimsa, nonviolence to all creatures Jainism |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: Scholars struggle to decipher the language of the IVC, the civilization of this river valley, a power in south Asia in the 2000s B.C. the Indus River |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | ANCIENT FAITH $1600: A famous ziggurat dedicated to the moon god Nanna was built in this 2-letter city around 2000 B.C. Ur |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HOW PROVINCIAL $1000: This province in the Iberian Peninsula went down to Pompey in 73 B.C.; the ocean liner of the same name, in 1915 (sans Pompey) Lusitania |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STARS $800: Around 2700 B.C., Alpha Draconis had the distinction of being the North Star; now this one stakes the claim Polaris |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | MOVE IT! $1000: The Ara Pacis, an altar built to honor this Roman emperor c. 9 B.C., was long forgotten, rescued in the 1930s & moved to a new home Augustus |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $400: 360 to 300 million B.C. is sometimes called the "Age of" these nonflowering, spore-producing plants Ferns |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | GIRL GROUPS $400: I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want is for you to name this group that included Mel B & Mel C the Spice Girls |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Lex Cornelia de Maiestate said no general could lead an army out of his province, so the 49 B.C. crossing of this stream... huge the Rubicon |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | THE X FACTOR $200: Xerxes I took the reins of this empire in 486 B.C. the Persian |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Born around 610 B.C. on Lesbos, this poet integrated elements of Aphrodite's rituals like incense-laden altars into her work Sappho |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 650 B.C.Greek colonists founded a city on the Bosporus that they called this; it would later be the capital of empires Byzantium |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | THE CITY HAS FALLEN $1200: In 222 B.C. Milan to these southerners the Romans |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | EPONYMOUS -ISMs $400: It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy Confucius |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WHAT HAPPENED WHEN $1200: Around 387 B.C. he founded his academy in Athens Plato |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $800: Dead by her own hand in 30 B.C., she was thought to have been buried in Alexandria, but her tomb has never been found Cleopatra |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LIBRARIES $400: The ancient library in this North African city was founded by the Ptolemaic Dynasty around the 3rd century B.C. Alexandria |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | & PLAYING TRIANGLE $800: This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is Pythagoras |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $1000: Bucephalus carried this man on many of his 4th century B.C. conquests Alexander the Great |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS $1000: When talking about dates, B.C.E. stands for this Before Common Era |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | TIME FOR SECONDS $800: Around 19 B.C. King Herod expanded the second of these & built a retaining wall that still stands today temple |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Her death & that of son Caesarion in 30 B.C. ended the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt Cleopatra |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HELLO, GOODBYE $800: Born around 247 B.C. & followed in footsteps of Carthaginian general dad Hamilcar Barca; conquered by death around 183 B.C. Hannibal |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | HISTORICAL NONFICTION $1600: "1177 B.C." marks the decline of this ancient North African empire following invasions by marauding "sea peoples" that year Egypt |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | MARK YOUR CALENDARS $800: Using a biblical chronology, Archbishop James Ussher determined that this event occurred on Oct. 22, 4004 B.C. the creation of the Earth |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Ptolemy & Antigonus were generals of this man whose empire was divided up after his death in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The philosopher Anaximander was credited with making an early world map & one of these time-telling devices around 560 B.C. a sundial |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $200: The c. 300 B.C. "De Historia Plantarum" helped establish Plato's student Theophrastus as the founder of this 6-letter science botany |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | 21st CENTURY MONARCHIES $400: The monarchy of this Asian nation of 125 million has a legendary history dating back to the 7th century B.C. Japan |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | THE "DR" IS IN $1200: The original value of this Greek coin in the mid-6th century B.C. was equivalent to that of a handful of arrows drachma |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | WORLD OF EMPIRES $800: Around 27 B.C., the Pax Romana began during the reign of this emperor & would last for 200 years Caesar Augustus |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOLIE OLD FRANCE $400: In the 50s B.C. this man led Roman military campaigns into France, which was then part of Transalpine Gaul Caesar |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | LIGHTNING $200: The B.C. scientific work "On the Nature of Things" ignores Prometheus & says it was lightning that first brought this to Earth fire |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | CINEMAPOURRI $400: C.B. DeMille made 21 huge Sphinxes for a 1923 version of this Bible epic & now they're being dug from the dunes where they were left The Ten Commandments |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | KEEP THE FAITH $400: Nearly 80% of the people of India follow this religion that dates back to around 1500 B.C. Hinduism |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Beginning around 1200 B.C. in what is today Mexico, this people built the 1st major pre-Columbian civilization in Mesoamerica the Olmecs |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Seen here is a depiction of this great guy, the ruler of the Persian Empire who defeated the Babylonians in 539 B.C. Cyrus (II the Great) |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king Alexander the Great |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | HISTORY CLASS $1200: In the 300s B.C. Chinese society was divided into 4 classes: scholars, merchants, artisans & these rent collectors landlords |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | I'LL REPEAT MYSELF AGAIN, TOO $1200: We'll string you along & say you can "walk the dog" with this item that dates back to the 400s B.C. a yo-yo |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $1000: In the 600s B.C. Cypselus of Corinth seized power with this title related to a dino name, but was so popular he had no bodyguard tyrant |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $200: Look, nothing's written in this--well, the tablet of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta from the 1200s B.C. is stone |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | HISTORY $200: Around 1530 B.C. Queen Ahhotep rallied this kingdom's troops to victory against a Hyksos invasion Egypt |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. the Persian army found out the hard way this mountain pass was about 50 feet wide at its narrowest Thermopylae |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | LATIN PHRASEBOOK $1600: Famously spoken in 49 B.C. at the crossing of a river, "iacta alea est" means this "is cast" the die |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | BLOW-POURRI $1600: Syrian artisans working in this medium back in the 1st century B.C. are credited with creating blow molding glass (glassmaking) |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HISTORIC WEAPONS $400: The 1275 B.C. Battle of Kadesh saw 5,000 of these battle vehicles rolling around in a melee chariots |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BRITISH HISTORY $1600: In 55 B.C. an army under this commander invaded Britain near Dover, bringing the island into contact with the Roman world Julius Caesar |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $1000: Around 3000 B.C. the Sumerian settlement of Uruk was the first big city in this historic region, at its southeast end Mesopotamia |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): This book is aptly titled--it consists of 5 chapters of woe over the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Lamentations |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $200: The city of Larsa wasn't up to this Babylonian's code, so he conquered it in the 1760s B.C. Hammurabi |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Among the treasures he was buried with around 1325 B.C., was the gold mask seen here King Tut |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $600: Shortly after he attained enlightenment, he gave a sermon in which he presented the 4 noble truths Buddha |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: The Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C. brought a temporary end to the fighting in this Greek war Peloponnesian |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | B.C.-ING YOU $1000: X marks the spot for this king who succeeded his father Darius I as ruler of the Persian Empire Xerxes |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | HISTORY $1200: This writing system arose in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. & disappeared early in the 1st millennium A.D. cuneiform |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | SOLDIERING ON $1200: A man who crossed a stream, he was taken by pirates in the 70s B.C., ransomed, then raised a naval force & crucified the pirates Julius Caesar |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $1000: Meaning not proceeding from event A to event B to event C, this "non" word applies to "Tristram Shandy" & "House of Leaves" nonlinear |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | VALLEY $1600: The Harappan civilization of South Asia began around 2500 B.C. along the valley of this 2,000-mile river the Indus |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES $800: Around 10,000 B.C. the paleolithic phase of this age ended in Europe the Stone Age |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES $1200: The Iron Age in Britain began around 800 B.C. & ended with the invasion of this empire about 800 years later the Romans |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Found in 1982, a ship that sank off Turkey c. 1300 B.C. carried 1 ton of tin & 10 tons of copper, the perfect mixture to make this alloy bronze |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: Mohism, in 5th century B.C. China, argued for doing "what is beneficial to the world", like this -ism that arose in 19th c. Britain utilitarianism |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: B or C, but not A or E a consonant |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD $800: After Crassus died in battle in 53 B.C., this other "Great" triumvirate member allied with senators against Caesar...ooooops Pompey |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | FORTIFY YOURSELF $200: Taking no chances, Pharaoh Nectanebo I fortified all 7 mouths of this river, around 380 B.C. the Nile |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | SCIENCE CENTER $800: These distinctive carnivores roamed North America for millions of years until about 10,000 B.C. a saber-tooth tiger |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | QUEENS $400: In 30 B.C. her decades of rule were ended, probably via the bite of a cobra Cleopatra |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | A ROYAL PAIN $1600: In 336 B.C. Pausanias, a young Macedonian, killed this king; no trial--the assassin got killed on the spot Philip (II) |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th CENTURY RAIDER? $2000: Attila raided his way deep into the Balkans & was only stopped at this pass where the Persians were stopped in the 400s B.C. Thermopylae |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE $600: The Thirty Years' Peace, beginning in the 440s B.C., was between Sparta & the Delian League, led by this city Athens |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: Kong qiu was the birth name of this Chinese philosopher of the 500s & 400s B.C. Confucius |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1600: In the 7th century B.C., Sennacherib of this front-of-the-alphabet empire made Nineveh his capital Assyria |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $400: One side in the Cold War was often called the "Eastern" this group the bloc |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $800: Pressure measured in millibars barometric |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | 37 IS HEAVEN $1000: According to legend, on his journey of conquest in 218 B.C. this man brought 37 elephants with him Hannibal |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $1200: This variety of pear is crisp & in season from September to April Bosc |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $1600: Religious territorial jurisdiction aka a diocese a bishopric |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | FROM B TO C $2000: A legal opinion by all the judges of an appeals court, not just a smaller panel, is given "en" this, French for "bench" en banc |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOLOGY $200: An event around 8,000 B.C. called the Flims rockslide created Ruinaulta, the Grand Canyon of this Alpine country Switzerland |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Leading the Spartan forces, Lysander defeated the Athenian navy, ending this war in 405 B.C. the Peloponnesian |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | HISTORICAL FACTS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Gladiator or Third Servile War in the 70s B.C., this rebel & his forces gained control over most of southern Italy Spartacus |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ANTHROPOLOGY $2000: The 1st prehistoric individual IDed with parents of different human groups lived around 90,000 B.C. & was half Denisovan, half this group Neanderthal |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $200: pga.com says a good one of these assistants "can be worth several strokes a round" a caddy |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $400: 3-letter aka for a hole in one ace |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a golf grip.) All ten fingers are placed on the club in this type of grip, named for another sport baseball |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $800: It's the amount of sideways curve or bend to a putt break |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $1000: Often traveling 100 yards plus, it's a shot hit to get up close to the green on a longer hole an approach |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In 279 B.C. the Celts attacked this sacred site in Greece on the slope of Mount Parnassus; should have seen that coming the Oracle at Delphi |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: Ranging from about 2600 to 1000 B.C., its 3 major kingdoms are termed the Old, the Middle & the New Egypt |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | HITTITES $400: The Hittites entered history in the 2nd millennium B.C. in Anatolia, today the Asian portion of this nation Turkey |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Tradition says here's the roughly 25-mile route Pheidippides ran in 490 B.C., bringing news of victory to Athens from this plain whose name is known beyond ancient history Marathon |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | HEADS UP! & OFF! $2,600 (Daily Double): After his death in 43 B.C., this Roman orator made a final appearance on the speakers' platform at the Forum--well, his head & hands did Cicero |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The Persian Empire fell to him in the 330s B.C., then Western Asia Minor, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, on into India; not bad for a guy barely over 30 Alexander the Great |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | FONTS OF WISDOM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) California’s 3rd and Texas 3th district make the A; Ohio’s 12th and 7th districts make the B, and Connecticut’s 1st district is the C in a new font called Ugly Gerry in which “Gerry” stands for this partisan process gerrymandering |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? $200: Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work the Parthenon |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Around 1500 B.C. the kings who ruled from the city of Knossos on this Greek island dominated the Aegean Crete |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: In art from the 400s B.C., Odysseus is offered a drink by this sorceress who had already turned his men into swine Circe |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: Dating back to the 3rd Millenium B.C., the Iranian city of Rayy was sacked by Mongols in 1220 & the survivors moved to this new capital Tehran |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $200: A triangle with sides A, B & C all equal in length is in this form equilateral |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $200: The sculptor Phidias supervised this building's construction beginning in the year 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Back in the day, those on the island of Tyre felt pretty safe off the mainland, but when this great conqueror showed up in 332 B.C., he built a causeway and ended a siege by marching across the newly created path Alexander |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | HISTORY 101 $1600: A pedestal honoring Agrippa, victor in the 31 B.C. naval Battle of Actium, is on this Athenian hilltop the Acropolis |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $400: Alexander the Great was born in the city of Pella in this kingdom in 356 B.C. Macedonia |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Around 2650 B.C. in Saqqara, an early one of these, rising in a series of 6 big steps, was made for King Zoser a pyramid |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | OLD HISTORY $800: Greek words meaning "people" & "rule" gave this form of government its name back in the 5th century B.C. democracy |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | OLD HISTORY $1200: Built in the 3rd century B.C. on an island in the harbor, the Pharos of Alexandria was one of these structures a lighthouse |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | LATIN PHRASES $1600: Julius Caesar summed up his victory in a 47 B.C. campaign with these 3 Latin words Veni, vidi, vici |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | BRUSHING UP ON YOUR SPANISH HISTORY $2000: In 206 B.C., in the second of these wars, a Roman victory near Seville evicted Carthage from Spain for good the Punic Wars |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | & THEN WHAT HAPPENED? $400: In 44 B.C. this man became dictator for life... & then had it ended by his political opponents (Julius) Caesar |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | HISTORY TIMELINE $400: By one account, nude competition in these games began in 720 B.C. when Orsippus of Megara found he was faster with no loincloth the Olympics Games |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | OFFBEAT HISTORY $400: The Medians & Lydians who were on the battlefield in 585 B.C. saw one of these in the sky & laid down their arms an eclipse |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | GET YOUR "B.A." DEGREE $1600: This prehistoric period began around the 4th Millenium B.C. Bronze Age |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $2000: Existing from about 1200-400 B.C., this civilization of Mesoamerica is closely identified with giant stone heads the Olmecs |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1500 B.C. people in Central America were processing rubber in a way similar to this process discovered by Goodyearl" vulcanization |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | MEDICAL MATTERS $400: A risk factor for liver cancer is a chronic infection with the B- or C-type of this virus hepatitis |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | STATUE OF NO LIMITATIONS $1000: Some are up in arms over this marble statue carved around 150 B.C., saying she's really the sea goddess Amphitrite the Venus de Milo |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | I'M SO THERE FOR IT! $200: It's 399 B.C. & I'm ready for my trial; 500 Greek jurors are sure to give this harmless elderly philosopher a fair shake Socrates |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $800: This Persian ruler of the 500s B.C. is mentioned in the books of Ezra, Haggai & Zechariah Darius |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Of the 7 Ancient Wonders, the name of this one from the 200s B.C. reflected its huge size the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $600: This British dame sets the mystery in "Death Comes as the End" in Egypt way back in 2000 B.C. Agatha Christie |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare play is set in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $800: I'm walkin' in this capital of Ancient Egypt, founded around 3000 B.C., but do I really feel the way I feel? Memphis |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $1200: Noted for his wisdom, this B.C. ruler organized Ancient Israel into 12 districts, appointing his own gov. for each one Solomon |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $1600: Newsflash, 338 B.C.! I'm hearing Philip II, ruler of this land, has taken Greece & I, for one, welcome our new overlord Macedonia |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | "B" SIEGE $800: After a siege by Nebuchadnezzar, Jerusalem fell to this empire around 586 B.C. the Babylonian Empire |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $400: Before 500 B.C. the Greeks had reached westward to colonize much of southern Italy, including Neapolis, now this city Naples |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $800: In the 800s B.C. Assyrian armies began moving west of this 1,700-plus-mile river, eventually conquering most of the Middle East the Euphrates |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Much of her 6th century B.C. poetry is lost, but her reputation as a female writing pioneer remains Sappho |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | HISTORIC MERCENARIES $1200: In the 400s B.C., Athenian soldier & historian Xenophon fought in a rebellion in this empire against its ruler Artaxerxes II the Persian Empire |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $400: You get an "A" if you know this mathematician of the 200s B.C. wrote a treatise on centers of gravity Archimedes |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | SCIENCE & EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) According to "National Geographic", since 1995, there have been major collapses of sections A and B of the ice shelf named for this Norwegian explorer; an iceberg about the size of Delaware broke off section C in 2017 Carl Anton Larsen |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $200: It's a less appealing 2-word name for tofu bean curd |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $400: Starting around 600 B.C. many Jews were deported east from the kingdom of Judah in what's known as the Babylonian this forced departure Babylonian Exile (or diaspora) |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $400: People who have these snakes as pets favor the red-tailed species boa constrictors |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $600: This musical notation sets the position of the F below middle C bass clef |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $800: Human occupation on Corsica dates from at least the 3rd millennium B.C., as evident from dolmens & menhirs, standing these stones |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $800: It's the slang term for the ideological barrier separating China from the West Bamboo Curtain |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | "B.C." $1000: This desert plant is named for its cylindrical shape a barrel cactus |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $1200: Ostia, at the mouth of this river, served as Rome's naval base & commercial harbor the Tiber |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $1,500 (Daily Double): In the 1st century B.C. Philo of Larissa taught his skeptical Philo-sophy at this school founded by Plato the Academy |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | B.C. $2000: The 6th century B.C. Temple of Artemis was a mainstay of this city whose residents St. Paul would later pen a letter to Ephesus |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: The Tribune (not a newspaper but a guy named Clodius) got this orator exiled from Rome in 58 B.C. Cicero |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | EX-SPORTS $400: The UFC of the ancient world, pankration debuted at the XXXIIIrd of these in 648 B.C. the Olympics |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $400: It's been speculated that Halley's Comet in 12 B.C. was this star from Matthew 2:2 the Star of Bethlehem (the star that the Magi followed accepted) |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | GET HIM TO THE ANCIENT GREEK $2000: We can give you at least 300 reasons you should know this king of Sparta who headed the Persians off at the pass in 480 B.C. Leonidas |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks Marathon |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | LETTER IMPERFECT $2000: It was one of the 3 original blood groups discovered in 1900 but got changed to O C |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVS. $400: B.C. stands for "before Christ", B.C.E. stands for "before" this before common era |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | ANCIENT EGYPT $400: In the 12th century B.C., hungry necropolis workers staged one of the earliest ones of these, demanding back pay a strike |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $400: Rather than surrender to the Romans, this great Carthaginian general took his own life Hannibal |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $1200: Ankhesenamun, one of the daughters of King Akhenaten & this beautiful queen, married King Tut Nefertiti |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $1600: Farmer/soldier Cincinnatus saved ancient Rome, then refused to stay on as a dictator, preserving this Roman form of govt. the republic |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $2000: One of the 7 wise men of Greece, his code of laws formed the foundation of Athens' democracy Solon |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $5,200 (Daily Double): In 399 B.C. he told a jury, "I am not grieved, men of Athens, at this vote of condemnation" Socrates |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | WOMEN SOLDIERS $800: Telesilla led an army defending Argos from a 490s B.C. attack by this warlike city-state Sparta |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | HISTORY $600: The 3 centuries from 323 to 30 B.C. are called this era, reflecting the spread of Greek culture in Europe & Asia Hellenistic |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | RELIGION FOUNDERS $1600: Tradition says in the 500s B.C. this Iranian prophet learned of the spirits of truth & falsehood Zoroaster |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | FILL IN THEIR DATES $400: Julius Caesar:
circa July 13, 100 B.C. -
March ____, 44 B.C. 15 |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | V.I.P.! V.I.P.! $1200: Friends, this Roman led his countrymen in an occupation of Armenia in 34 B.C., 10 years after his most famous speech Mark Antony |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | ANCIENT BATTLES $400: This man defeated Vercingetorix at the 52 B.C. Battle of Alesia, & Gaul was Rome's Julius Caesar |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | MATH, TEACHERS $800: The equation A(B + C) = AB + AC shows that multiplication is this with respect to addition distributive |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | ANCIENT BATTLES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) At the decisive 331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great's phalanxes opened ranks to let these wheeled Persian weapons pass through, then wipe them out chariots |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | ANCIENT BATTLES $2000: Muwatallis, not Uriah, led these people against the Egyptians in the 1274 B.C. Battle of Kadesh the Hittites |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | ANCIENT BATTLES $3,500 (Daily Double): Horses were terrified of these war beasts, which routed Roman cavalry at the 280 B.C. Battle of Heraclea elephants |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | ROMAN NAMES $400: In 27 B.C. Octavian was awarded this title meaning "revered one", & it became part of his name Augustus |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | ROMAN NAMES $1200: The name of this rebel who died in 71 B.C honors a Greek city Spartacus |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | IN JERUSALEM $600: In 1000 B.C. David conquered Jerusalem & made it his capital; about 40 years later, this man, his son, built the first temple Solomon |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | GREEK & ROMAN LIT $800: Concerning a war & its aftermath, these 2 great epics were written around the 8th century B.C. the Odyssey and the Iliad |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | IN JERUSALEM $1000: This legislative body meets in Jerusalem & is named after the "Great Assembly" that met there in the 5th century B.C. the Knesset |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | BEER $1000: The 1st brewers may have been this Mesopotamian people c. 6000 B.C.; they even had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi the Sumerians |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | OLD TIMES $800: Lysander was an admiral of this Greek city & in 405 B.C. his victory over the Athenian navy ended the Peloponnesian War Sparta |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | OLD TIMES $1200: Around 539 B.C. Cyrus the Great of this land conquered Babylon, the greatest city of the ancient world Persia |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | THE GIRLS IN THE GROUP $200: Emma, Geri, Mel B, Mel C, & Victoria the Spice Girls |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | HOBBIES $400: Collecting coins can be lucrative if you have one from 44 B.C. minted by Marcus Mettius showing this Roman Julius Caesar |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | "E"PONYMOUS $7,400 (Daily Double): The plane truth is that this 2-word branch of math is named for a Greek who lived around 300 B.C. Euclidean geometry |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A first century B.C. writer said of sculptor Praxiteles that he imbued this material with the passions of the soul marble |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | A LONG, LONG TIME AGO $1200: Don't call Ayla in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" a Neanderthal--she's this kind of human that emerged later, around 40,000 B.C. a Cro Magnon |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | ANTEBELLUM $1600: When Rome booted a Carthaginian garrison on Sicily in the 200s B.C., the first of these conflicts was soon afoot the Punic Wars |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FROM B TO C $200: The "B" in ICBM stands for this kind of missile ballistic |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FROM B TO C $400: Also a simple programming language, it means unoriginal or mainstream in modern slang basic |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FROM B TO C $600: It's a cockroach's least favorite acid boric acid |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FROM B TO C $800: Adjective meaning related to the countryside, especially its pleasant aspects bucolic |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FROM B TO C $1000: He wrote more than 90 stories examining the complexities of 19th century French society Balzac |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | SPELLEMENTS $400: C C-A-R-B-O-N |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | THE TV BIZ $2000: A leading mag of the biz, founded in 1931 as Broadcasting, became Broadcasting & this in the '90s & now goes by B&C Broadcasting & Cable |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BEARD MAN $4,000 (Daily Double): This bearded guy was born in Colonus around 496 B.C. & wrote more than 120 plays, including "Ajax" & "Antigone" Sophocles |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $2000: This man's 414 B.C. comedy "The Birds" features a chorus of them that directly addresses the audience Aristophanes |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AIRPORT CODES $1000: BWI--these 2 cities are the B & the W Baltimore and Washington, D.C. |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $400: In the B.C. (before Carson) era, Steve Allen & Jack Paar were hosts of this show The Tonight Show |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | TEEN TITANS $1,500 (Daily Double): 18-year-old Octavian won over the Roman army when he held games in honor of this slain leader in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE BIG LEAGUES $1600: By the 2nd century B.C., the Achaean League controlled most of this 8,000-square mile peninsula the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | HERSTORY $200: Around 50 B.C. this queen was forced to flee Egypt to Syria, but she came back with an army a few years later Cleopatra |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | TRAITOROUS ACTIVITY $400: 60 conspirators helped knock off Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., but as far as we know, only he got the "et tu" thrown at him Brutus |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | TRAITOROUS ACTIVITY $2000: In 480 B.C. the traitorous Ephialtes helped the Persians outflank the Greeks at this mountain pass Thermopylae |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $1200: Ancient Olympians were nude, including in this sport introduced in 708 B.C. that has a move called the flying mare wrestling |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | MY WIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): Pompeia, who married him in 67 B.C. & must be above suspicion Julius Caesar |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | TOMB RAIDER $2000: In the 1100s B.C. robbing of royal tombs in this ancient Upper Egyptian capital was already a problem Thebes |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | IN OVATION $2000: 1300s B.C. Egyptian sun god Aton |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | OR BUST $1200: A bronze head of this man who became Rome's sole ruler in 27 B.C. was found in 1910 Augustus |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | HISTORIC HISTORY FROM THE PAST $800: Time to cross this stream near Rimini, Italy that got immortalized on Jan. 10, 49 B.C. the Rubicon |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Around 509 B.C. the Romans formed this kingless type of government mentioned in the U.S. pledge of allegiance a republic |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $800: Constructed in 312 B.C., this major Roman road originally ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua in Campania the Appian Way |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: In 390 B.C. an army of this Celtic group had the distinction of being the first group to sack Rome the Gauls |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | POET-POURRI $1200: In the 600s B.C. the Greek poet Tyrtaeus composed verses to inspire this militaristic city's people to fight bravely Sparta |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | CAN I GET AN "AMEN"? $800: Teen pharaoh of the 14th century B.C. Tutankhamen |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Around 200 B.C. an anonymous Chinese innovator froze rice, milk & spices in a paste, creating a type of this dessert ice cream |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | MEANWHILE... $1600: The Sumerians settled the city of Ur in the 3000s B.C., the beginning of this civilization's "long count" calendar the Maya |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS $200: Prehistoric Villanovans in the 700s B.C. cremated their dead, created geometric art & made use of this alloy bronze |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS $800: According to legend, refugees of this 1200 B.C. conflict first fled to Thrace, then north Africa & finally Italy the Trojan War |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Around 600 B.C. the Insubres, a tribe in northern Italy, founded Mediolanum, today this city Milan |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 400s B.C. Greek cities like Thebes & Megara had not a monarchy but this form of rule by a small group an oligarchy |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | MONARCHS FLUTTER BY $1200: His reign ended around 1000 B.C., when he fell on his sword to escape the Philistines King Saul |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | SWISSTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Celtic Helvetii tried to move from Switzerland to Gaul but this man, then Roman governor, barred them in 58 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | AS YOU GO DOWN $200: Guess Nike wasn't taking calls when the 413-404 B.C. Ionian War did not go the way of this city-state Athens |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $200: By the 600s B.C. the Etruscans were more advanced than these neighbors who eventually absorbed them Romans |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | LIFE SCIENCE MILESTONES $800: On our oath, around 400 B.C. this Greek doc taught that diseases have only natural causes Hippocrates |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $200: The first event in history recorded by the ancient Greeks were these contests that took place in 776 B.C. the Olympics |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $800: In 335 B.C. he brought many more than seven against Thebes when it foolishly rose against his leadership Alexander the Great |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: Just before dying in Cleopatra's arms, he urged her to make peace with Octavian Antony |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: Flourishing from around 300 B.C., El Mirador in Guatemala was one of the largest cities ever built by these people the Maya |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $1,200 (Daily Double): Called the "Father of History", he wrote a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars Herodotus |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $1200: This epic poem of Rome that consists of 12 books was modeled largely after the "Iliad" & the "Odyssey" the Aeneid |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | B.C.-ING YOU $1600: Emperor Wu promoted this philosophy, helping it spread through China Confucianism |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | ANCIENT STUFF $200: In the 5th century B.C., Xerxes, the king of this empire, invaded Greece & occupied Athens Persia |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | ANCIENT STUFF $400: Demosthenes urged the Greeks to fight, lest they be enslaved by this 359 to 336 B.C. Macedonian king & famous dad Philip |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | EXTINCT PEOPLES $1600: The Morini Celts of Gaul revolted against this empire in 30 B.C., & that's the last anyone heard of the Morini the Roman empire |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | BATTLES $1600: At the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., this Spartan king led the stalwart defenders King Leonidas |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | CHINESE EMPERORS $400: In the 200s B.C. Emperor Zheng connected a number of fortresses into what became this single system the Great Wall of China |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | "X" IN THE CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Antony & Cleopatra died there in 30 B.C. Alexandria |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | DUMB CRIMINALS $600: At a hockey game, a Fargo man with a .314 B.A.C. crashed into the boards driving this, yelling for AC/DC to perform a Zamboni |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | HISTORY NEAR & FAR $400: In 202 B.C. at Zama Roman general Scipio won the name Africanus by defeating this Carthaginian in battle Hannibal |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | THE PHARAOHS $400: At 9 he was the youngest pharaoh in history & his sarcophagus from the 1300s B.C. is a classic symbol of Ancient Egypt King Tut |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | THE PHARAOHS $800: The pharaoh Khufu had this pointy marvel built during the last decades of his rule, around 2500 B.C. the Great Pyramid |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | HISTORIC LOSERS $600: Of the 431-404 B.C. Peloponnesian War:
This city-state that headed an alliance Athens |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: Still in use, China's "Grand" one of these man-made waterways may date back to the 300s B.C. a canal |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: This Egyptian port was founded around 332 B.C. by--well, let's just say by a pretty great guy Alexandria |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $1200: Though we have no writings of his, this Greek who died in 399 B.C. invented a little thing called moral philosophy Socrates |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | PUTTING UP A SMOKE SCREEN $1600: Dating back to the 1600s B.C., this long fortification used smoke mounds to send military communications the Great Wall of China |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | BYE, PHOENICIA! $1200: In 64 B.C. Phoenicia was absorbed into this province just north of Judea Syria |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $200: Hollywood slang for a movie that tells the story of a real person's life a biopic |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $400: Quarterback Jameis Winston, or any other member of the NFL's Tampa Bay team Buc |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $600: In the name of a rodeo riding event, it follows saddle bronc |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $800: Seen here are two pairs of this pear Bosc |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | FROM B TO C $1000: This temporary military encampment is often set up without shelter or protection from enemy fire a bivouac |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | COUNTRIES BY FIRST LETTER $400: Heading southwest across South America, it's B, B, C--Brazil & these 2 Bolivia & Chile |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE $800: Scholars have identified monks with this job who wrote out the Book of Kells, but only know them as Hands A, B & C scribes |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | THIS...WAS...SPARTA! $2,000 (Daily Double): In 480 B.C. King Leonidas & his men perished to the last Spartan defending this mountain pass from invasion Thermopylae |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE $400: I'm this man from Thrace who led a 90,000-man slave rebellion vs. Rome until his death in 71 B.C.--No! I'm this man! Spartacus |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | THE PERSIAN PAST $2,000 (Daily Double): One story says the Persians diverted the Euphrates to help them take this great city in 539 B.C. Babylon |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | THE PERSIAN PAST $2000: Around 550 B.C. this great king founded the Persian empire by overthrowing Astyages, king of the Medes Cyrus the Great |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | QUEEN-SIZED $600: As queen of Egypt in the 1300s B.C., she played a prominent role in the cult of the sun god Aton Nefertiti |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | WHERE & WHEN? $2000: Alexander the Great dies:
Continent, millennium Asia, the first millennium B.C. |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $400: Around 700 B.C., long after the war told of by Homer, Greeks occupied this city's site & called it Ilion Troy |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $800: This ship-building civilization made of independent city-states began trading with Egypt around 3000 B.C. Phoenicia |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $1200: After 1400 B.C. this city near Crete's northern coast reverted from mighty capital to just another town Knossos |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $1600: During this Babylonian king's reign, he captured Jerusalem twice, the second time destroying the city's temple Nebuchadnezzar |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | B.C. PLACES $2000: Hattusa, a vast fortress city, served as the capital of this empire that covered most of ancient Anatolia the Hittite Empire |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | GREAT BOOKS OF SCIENCE $1200: Written around 350 B.C., this Greek's work "Physics" held sway over science for 2,000 years Aristotle |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $600: On the vase dating from the 5th century B.C., this hero is tied to the mast of his ship to resist the singing of the sirens Ulysses (or Odysseus) |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | ANCIENT WISDOM $1600: In the 4th century B.C., Aristotle said that "man is by nature" this type of "animal" a political animal |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | THE INUIT $400: As far back as 3000 B.C. on this type of weapon, the Inuit used the togglehead seen here; it rotates to stay in the whale harpoon |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | MELLOW FELLOWS $800: This Chinese philosopher of the 500s B.C.: "When anger rises, think of the consequences" Confucius |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | TIME FOR A DRINK $400: I'm gonna party like it's 44 "B.C."! Mix me one of these, a Bloody Mary with clamato rather than tomato juice a Bloody Caesar |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: This Roman poet's "Art of Love" from around 1 B.C. is a hedonistic seduction manual still useful today Ovid |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | TRAVEL FRANCE $1600: The 3,000 granite megaliths at Carnac in this farthest-west region of France may date back to 4000 B.C. Brittany |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $800: Tragedy is "the imitation of an action... arousing pity and fear... to accomplish its catharsis" (c. 330 B.C.) Aristotle |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT $800: Based in Patna in what's now this country, the Mauryan empire declined after Emperor Ashoka died c. 232 B.C. India |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | PHILOSOPHERS $1,500 (Daily Double): When this philosopher died around 347 B.C., his nephew Speusippus took over the Academy Plato |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Seen at its height around 500 B.C., this empire once led by Darius I ended in 330 B.C. at the hands of Alexander the Great Persia |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $400: A tiny silver denarius coin from around 32 B.C. depicts both Mark Antony & her Cleopatra |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $1200: Around 43 B.C this assassin issued a coin with his image on one side & 2 daggers & "Ides of March" on the other Brutus |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $1600: Dating back to 2000 B.C., the first Chinese coins were known as cowrie money, meaning they were made of these shells |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | LITERARY THREESOMES $2000: In his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Three Tall Women", the women are not known by names but by the letters A, B & C Edward Albee |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 195 B.C. this Carthaginian fled the Romans & went into exile under the protection of the Seleucid Empire Hannibal |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: During the reign of Egypt's Ptolemy II around 280 B.C., Sostratus completed this ancient wonder the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | THE YOUNG POPE $1600: In 27 B.C. a Roman of this name became Emperor Augustus; in 955 a Roman of this name became the teen Pope John XII Octavian |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | A LONG TIME AGO IN AMERICA $1600: By about 9,000 B.C., many large animals in North America were extinct, including this "breast tooth" species a mastodon |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE THRILL OF VICTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): At 18 in 338 B.C. he helped his dad's army to victory at Chaeronea, bringing Greece under Macedonian control Alexander the Great |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | MY BIG FAT ANCIENT GREEK LIBRARY $1200: Around 700 B.C., Hesiod wrote "Works & Days", one of these handbooks for farmers to know when to plant an almanac |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | LIFE $2000: This king of Babylonia captured Judea & destroyed Jerusalem around 587 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $200: (Alley Mills and Dick Christie give the clue as Pamela and Charlie from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"You go ahead, Charlie, I'll be home in a few hours."
"Pammy, do I need to steal you away like this beautiful Grecian woman abducted by Paris around 1100 B.C." Helen of Troy |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | ROMAN BRITAIN $800: This leader liked raiding Britain so much in 55 B.C., he tried again a year later Julius Caesar |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $1600: In the movie "300" King Leonidas & his forces fight the Persians at this fateful battle in 480 B.C. Thermopylae |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | CHINESE HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): In 210 B.C. Emperor Shi Huangdi was buried with an honor guard, thousands of clay soldiers known as this "army" the Terracotta Army |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | SHALLOW THOUGHTS $200: Around 500 B.C. Heraclitus said change is constant, so you can't step into the same one of these twice river |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Around 304 B.C. Agathocles, "The Tyrant of Syracuse" & king of this island, gained control of southern Italy Sicily |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In the 1200s B.C., warring Egyptians & Hittites produced the document seen here, said to be the first of these in history a peace treaty |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: After destroying this African city in 146 B.C., Scipio Aemilianus looked at the burning city & said, "It is glorious" Carthage |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: After the defeat at Leuctra in 371 B.C., Spartan power declined & this league went out of existence the Peloponnesian League |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | IT'S EPIC $1,400 (Daily Double): This Roman poet wrote his own epic around 19 B.C. & in 1321 A.D. appeared as a character in one Virgil |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PLAY TIME $400: This mythic woman launched some ships & a play by Euripides in 412 B.C. Helen of Troy |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | PREPOSITION 5 $1000: This Latin word meaning "around" is found before years like 3000 B.C. circa |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $800: This commander's victory over Pompey in 48 B.C. at Pharsalus took him to the pinnacle of power Julius Caesar |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Defeat at the 207 B.C. Battle of the Metaurus River ended this man's efforts to conquer Italy Hannibal |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $1200: 7,000 Thebans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C. broke the power this Greek city had enjoyed for a generation Sparta |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | COINS FROM EVERYWHERE $400: The Lydian Lion from 600 B.C. was made from electrum, an alloy of mainly these 2 precious metals gold & silver |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | UNCHARTED $2000: In the 500s B.C. Scylax sailed the length of this longest river of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea & beyond the Indus River |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | EASTERN RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY $800: Throughout China, there are temples honoring this great sage and philosopher, who was born in 551 B.C. Confucius |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | IN OLDEN TIMES $600: 5th century B.C.: Athenians carry out an ambitious building program on this hill with a name meaning "upper city" Acropolis |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | PUTTIN' OUT THE WELCOME MUTT $400: A likeness of this "fast as a bus" breed was found on an Egyptian tomb dating from about 3000 B.C. a greyhound |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | HISTORY $400: In the 8th century B.C., Phoenician traders founded this future capital of Sicily Palermo |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | HISTORY $2000: The ancestors of this Aboriginal people of Hokkaido Island are thought to have reached Japan around 1000 B.C. the Ainu |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | WORLD HISTORY $800: The Olmecs flourished form around 1200 to 400 B.C. along Mexico's Gulf Coast in what became Veracruz & this "hot" state Tabasco |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THE BIG 3-0 $1000: The 30 Tyrants were appointed to administer Athens after its defeat by this city in 404 B.C. Sparta |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | YAS QUEEN $800: The name of this Egyptian queen of the 1300s B.C. translates as "a beautiful woman has come" Nefertiti |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $400: (Darin Brooks and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood give the clue as Wyatt Spencer and Steffy Forrester from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"Please, Steffy, I need to be sure."
"Stop talking, Wyatt. You've conquered my heart like this bold warrior king overcoming Persia in 330 B.C." Alexander the Great |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BISHOP $800: 17th century bishop James Ussher dated this event to Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.; scientists don't think so anymore creation (of the universe) |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | ANCIENT BABYLON $400: This Babylonian king laid down the law & go things going for the empire around 1792 B.C. Hammurabi |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | SCULPTURE $800: Myron's most famous bronze was made around 425 B.C. & depicts an Olympic athlete throwing this object a discus |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $800: It arose from the teachings of a man who lived in northeastern India sometime between the 6th & 4th centuries B.C. Buddhism |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $1200: In the 1st century B.C., this epistle apostle called for God to curse competing preachers (St.) Paul |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | NOTHING BUT NET $1600: In July 1996 these 3 letters first preceded .ca & you could get online news from P.E.I. to B.C. CBC |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | EVERY CLAIM YOU STAKE $400: In the 300s B.C. he crossed the Hellespont, threw his spear in the soil & claimed all Asia to be his Alexander the Great |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $800: It's the sea that surrounds Jamaica & Cuba C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: After defeating the Shang dynasty around 1000 B.C., the Zhou dynasty ruled this empire for nearly 800 years ancient China |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2000: Menes is credited with unifying the upper & lower sections of this kingdom around the 3rd millennium B.C. Egypt |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY $1,200 (Daily Double): A silver tetradrachm from the 300s B.C. features a "Great" portrait of him Alexander the Great |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | KINGS & QUEENS $400: She became queen in 51 B.C. when her father the pharaoh died Cleopatra |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | KINGS & QUEENS $1200: Under Roman control, this monarch became king of Judea in 37 B.C. & later of all of Palestine King Herod |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | MILITARY MEMORIES $800: Octavian sank the forces of this man 8 ways to Sunday to win the 31 B.C. naval Battle of Actium Marc Antony |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | "C"ITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Rome razed it in 146 B.C. Carthage |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | HORRIBLE HISTORY $1600: In 48 B.C. Caesar looted scrolls from this Egyptian institution, later destroyed the Library at Alexandria |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | GREEK HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. this son of Darius invaded Greece but the Greek navy defeated him at the Bay of Salamis & he returned to Persia Xerxes |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | GREEK HISTORY $2000: In the 5th century B.C., Sparta led a league of city-states on this peninsula to combat Athens' Delian League the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BRITISH HISTORY $1600: Perhaps referring to the White Cliffs of Dover, this earliest-known name for Britain was used as far back as 300 B.C. Albion |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | THE ____ OF ____ $600 (Daily Double): This one of the Ancient Wonders was toppled by an earthquake around 225 B.C. the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | ERAS OF HISTORY $200: Around 1200 B.C. this period followed the Bronze Age & provided more lethal weapons to more people the Iron Age |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | ERAS OF HISTORY $1000: Instead of B.C. some prefer the less religious B.C.E., for "before" this "Era" the Common Era |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE $200: August 30 B.C.
in Alexandria Cleopatra |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Kidd O'Shea from ABC 7 News.) All vice presidents have worked out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, starting with this man, who in 1961 wanted an office in the White House but was moved next door as part of his sidelining by the administration Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | POTPOURRI $2000: The 421 B.C. Peace of Nicias was a break in this decades-long war the Peloponnesian War |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | I KINGS $1600: In the 490s B.C. this Persian king tried to invade Greece twice, losing the second time at the Battle of Marathon Darius |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | SCULPTURE $400: Around the 330s B.C., Praxiteles sculpted this Greek messenger god "Carrying the Infant Dionysus" Hermes |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | INDOORS $1000: Mausolus' widow raised a splendid indoor tomb at this Turkish site in the 300s B.C. & it was quite a wonder the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: A golden age of culture, the Age of him in Greece lasted from about 460 B.C. to 430 B.C. Pericles |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | MEET THE PRESS $200: Back in the 1st century B.C., the Acta Diurna was the daily news sheet of this ancient republic Rome |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | ROMAN AROUND $1,400 (Daily Double): On Dec. 7, 43 B.C. this orator lost the power of speech... permanently Cicero |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $2000: Aeschylus won victory in a drama tournament in 458 B.C. with this trilogy that includes "Agamemnon" the Oresteia trilogy |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | JUDEAN HISTORY $400: Around 1000 B.C. this king from Judea united all Israel into one kingdom with Jerusalem as its capital David |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | JUDEAN HISTORY $2,600 (Daily Double): Around 587 B.C. this empire conquered Judea & exiled most of the Jews the Babylonian Empire |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | 7 UP $200: In the 100s B.C. Antipater of Sidon made one of the earliest known references to this group of sites the Seven Wonders of the World |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | WORLD LANDMARKS $800: Around 1400 B.C. Thutmose IV ordered a team to dig out the buried front paws of this landmark the Sphinx |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | VICTOR $400: The 48 B.C. Battle of Pharsalus: This comer, seer & conqueror Julius Caesar |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | VICTOR $2000: The 431-404 B.C. Peloponnesian War: The alliance headed by this city-state Sparta |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $2,200 (Daily Double): One of the oldest known legal codes is this Babylonian one from around 1760 B.C. the Hammurabi code |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | PHILOSOPHY $400: In the 5th century B.C., Protagoras (not Pythagoras) wrote, "there are" this many "sides to every question" two |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SPEARS $2000: Around 350 B.C. this father of Alexander the Great introduced the sarissa, a spear up to 21 feet long Philip (of Macedon) |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | INFLUENTIAL NONFICTION $400: This ancient Greek wrote his "Poetics" around 340 B.C. Aristotle |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $200: A:
Present plural of "to be" are |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $400: B:
A towering building project in Genesis 11:4-9 Babel |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $600: C:
A hood like Batman wears a cowl |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $800: D:
Adjective meaning "sweet", like a pleasant tone dulcet |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $1000: E:
Latin plural for mistakes in a text errata |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 478 B.C. this city-state led the Delian League to remove the Persians from Greece Athens |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Devised in 46 B.C. & named for a Roman leader, it marked time for more than 1,500 years before being replaced Julian calendar |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | THE EMPIRE HAS FALLEN $800: In the 300s B.C. this young conqueror took down the Persian Empire Alexander the Great |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | GRAB BAG $2000: One of the oldest known literary works, the "Epic of" this Mesopotamian hero dates to the 2nd millennium B.C. Gilgamesh |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | ST. PAUL $2000: Paul was born Saul in this Asia minor city around 4 B.C. Tarsus |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | BROOKFIELD ZOO $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.) The giraffe got its species name, camelopardalis, because ancient Romans who saw one imported by this caesar in 46 B.C. thought it had the body of a camel & the spots of a leopard Julius Caesar |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: In 73 B.C. this former gladiator led a slave revolt that threatened Rome Spartacus |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | THE TUTORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Around 343 B.C. he was summoned by Philip II to be tutor to his son Aristotle |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SCIENCE TIMELINE $200: Around 480 B.C.:
Anaxagoras explains the cause of these events, one of which darkened Greece in 478 B.C. eclipses |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SCIENCE TIMELINE $800: Around 450 B.C.:
Empedocles posits that all matter is made of these 4 classical elements earth, fire, air & water |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WHAT'S THE WORD? $2000: For unusually severe laws like those promulgated by a 600s B.C. Athenian statesman draconian laws |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | HISTORY 101 $1,600 (Daily Double): Berenice III, who became queen of Egypt in 101 B.C., was the daughter of the IX pharaoh of this name Ptolemy |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS $800: This ancient scientist worked out the principles of the lever & other simple machines around 250 B.C. Archimedes |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SPANISH CITIES $800: According to legend, this second-largest city was founded by Hamilcar Barca around 230 B.C. Barcelona |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $1200: Better known name of Titus Livius, author of a history of Rome from its founding to 9 B.C. Livy |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $2000: Julius Caesar described his victories in the 50s B.C. in what's now France in his "Commentaries on" these "Wars" the Gallic Wars |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: In 30 B.C. this co-ruler of Rome took his own life after Octavian reached Egypt Antony |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: 475-221 B.C. witnessed what's known as the Warring States period in this Asian country China |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | ANCIENT TIMES $1200: Around the 4th millennium B.C., this 2-letter city was founded in Mesopotamia Ur |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Dating back to the 700s B.C., the ruins of this ancient city can be found outside Tunis Carthage |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | ROMAN CIVICS $1600: Passage of the 445 B.C. law known as the Lex Canuleia allowed plebeians to marry this other "P" class of Romans patricians |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | "A"+ IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Flourishing between 3000 & 1100 B.C., Cycladic & Minoan were 2 of the cultures named for this sea the Aegean |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES & AESCHYLUS $400: Aeschylus fought against these people who invaded Greece around 490 B.C., & also wrote a play about them the Persians |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | WE 3 $400: Octavian, Marcus Lepidus & Mark Antony, formed the second one of these in 43 B.C. a triumvirate |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | VICTORY $1000: Victory over Mark Antony in this 31 B.C. naval battle made Octavian the undisputed ruler of Rome the Battle of Actium |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | SHADOW PLAY $1200: By comparing shadows in wells during the summer solstice, Eratosthenes calculated this around 240 B.C. the circumference of the Earth |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | X2: NOT UNITED $800: Defeats like Platea in 479 B.C. ended the hopes of this Persian king to conquer Greece Xerxes |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | HISTORY $800: This dictator's last battle was the defeat of Pompey's sons at Munda in 45 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | ONLY THE LONELY $400: In the 500s B.C. the Jews were in the Babylonian this type of expulsion from one's land exile |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $400: The water buffalo is aka the buffalo of this country, where it's been enjoying the Ganges since at least 1000 B.C. India |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | AREA CODE REPRESENTIN' $400: 604 will B.C.ing you up north, eh, in this port city Vancouver |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | ZIGGURATS $2000: Around 550 B.C., King Nabonidus of Babylon remodeled the ziggurat of this city with a 2-letter name Ur |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | ZIGGURATS $4,000 (Daily Double): In the 500s B.C. this king who conquered Jerusalem restored the main ziggurat of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | LEADER OF THE PACK $800: In 334 B.C. this "Great" guy led 35,000 Greeks into Persia Alexander the Great |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | WOMEN ON A PEDESTAL $800: D.C. is the suffragette city to see Stanton, Mott & this woman, carved from an 8-ton block of marble (Susan B.) Anthony |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | HERE COMES THE SUN $600: In the 200s B.C. Aristarchus of Samos first put forth this idea later made famous by Copernicus the Earth revolving around the Sun (heliocentricity) |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | HANNIBAL LECTURE $400: Born in 247 B.C., Hannibal became the greatest general of this North African city Carthage |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | THE STATE OF WASHINGTON $400: From 5000 B.C. to the 1800s A.D., Native American tribes lived in the foothills of this mountain they called "Takhoma" Mount Rainier |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | WHEN I'M KING... $800: Israel, from around 1000 to 960 B.C. David |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BUDS $200: After the death of his closest friend Hephaestion in 324 B.C., this Macedonian never re-filled his top cavalry post Alexander the Great |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $1000: We're handing out this multiplication property that says a(b + c) = ab + ac the distributive property |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $400: Bollywood wasn't even a gleam in Ashoka's eye when he ruled this island city in the 3rd century B.C. Mumbai |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $1200: This Biblical city's first walls, dating to 8000 B.C., were some 13 feet high & supported by a 28-foot watchtower Jericho |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $2000: Erech & Kish were cities of this earliest known civilization that flourished in Iraq in the 3rd millennium B.C. Sumeria |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ABOUT TIME $400: The oldest surviving examples of these time-telling devices date from about 1500 B.C. in Egypt a sundial |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury vote of 280-221 of corrupting the youth Socrates |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad Philip |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $1600: The thirty tyrants was a Sparta-imposed oligarchy that ruled Athens for a year after this war ended in 404 B.C. Peloponnesian War |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $800: Circa 45 B.C., Decimus Laberius & Publilius Syrus engaged in a mime contest at this man's command; Publilius won Caesar |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $200: The official language of Syria Arabic |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $400: To illegally seize & take away abduct |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $600: If you're "taken" this, you're disconcerted aback |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $800: The mood or atmosphere of a place such as a restaurant ambience |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $1000: A deviation from the normal type, way or course aberrance |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | SECOND LETTER "Z" $1000: Exiled with many others in 597 B.C., he predicted the downfall of Jerusalem Ezekiel |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | ALEXANDER THE GREAT $200: Alexander the Great was born in 356 B.C. to King Philip II & Queen Olympias of this kingdom Macedonia |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | ALEXANDER THE GREAT $400: Against an Indian army in 326 B.C., Alexander faced these beasts, including the one ridden by King Porus elephants |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | ALEXANDER THE GREAT $600: A pair of decrees Alexander made in 324 B.C. said that exiles could return home & that he was now this a god |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! $400: Early images show this Roman god as a handsome man; by the mid-300s B.C. he was a chubby, naked infant toting a weapon cupid |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | THE BIBLE $800: This great & wise king built his temple around 1000 B.C. Solomon |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: The Olympic Games began in 776 B.C., took a long break & reappeared in 1896 in this country Greece |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: After this queen died in 30 B.C., Egypt fell under Roman domination Cleopatra |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Born in China in 551 B.C., this teacher & philosopher is also referred to as Kongfuzi, or "Master Kong" Confucius |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | TRANSPORTATION $800: In 1294 B.C. Egyptians & Hittites waged a battle involving the use of thousands of these 2-wheeled vehicles chariots |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $2000: Ancient Greek for "hot gates", this mountain pass was the site of a famous battle in 480 B.C. Thermopylae |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $400: Some Ancient Egyptian coins dating to around 40 B.C. show her as the goddess Isis Cleopatra |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $800: A coin from around 500 B.C. features this mythological monster on one side, the Labyrinth on the other the Minotaur |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $1600: A tetradrachm from 5th century B.C. Athens depicts Athena wearing a helmet on one side & this bird on the other the owl |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $2000: The first coins of this ancient land, roughly modern Lebanon, were minted around the 400s B.C. Phoenicia |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The beginning of this metallic age varied geographically, with China being a latecomer in around 600 B.C. the Iron Age |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | SPEAKING IN CODE $800: If your wife got sick, it was cool to re-wed, but you had to take care of your sick wife until she passed, said his 1700s B.C. code Hammurabi |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | TITLE CHARACTERS $200: Egyptians did not call their ruler by this title until the 18th Dynasty, roughly 1500 to 1300 B.C. pharaoh |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | WORLD HIGH & LOW POINTS $2000: High or low? In the 400s B.C. Sophron of Syracuse uses this as an art form, perhaps walking against the wind mime |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: When war broke out between Athens & Sparta in 431 B.C., he began writing an 8-book history of the war Thucydides |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | 31 FLAVORS $600: Around 500 B.C. in northern India, he preached on the 31 planes of existence Buddha |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | DATE NUT $1000: On the plain of Marathon in September 490 B.C., an Athenian army defeated a much larger force from this empire Persian |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | WORKS OF ART $800: Sculptures that turned heads because of this quality include ones of Aphrodite (350 B.C.) & Justin & Selena (2011) nudity |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $400: Begun in 486 B.C., China's "Grand" this is the world's longest manmade waterway Canal |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | ANCIENT SCIENCE $400: Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl a compass |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | ANCIENT SCIENCE $800: Around 270 B.C. Aristarchus calculated that its distance was 60 times the radius of the earth -- he was pretty darn close (distance to) the moon |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | ANCIENT SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Around 400 B.C. Democritus proposed that all matter is composed of these tiny units atoms |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE IRON AGE $2000: Iron expertise was spread after the c. 1200 B.C. defeat of this Anatolian empire the Hittites |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Marc Anthony |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | HISTORY, ON THE MOVE $400: Around 218 B.C. this Carthaginian led 20,000 infantry into Italy via the Alps while dealing with the elephant out of the room Hannibal |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: In the 400s B.C. Callicrates designed the temple of Athena Nike on this hill the Acropolis |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Shihuangdi unified the Chinese empire but was paranoid & held a burning of these items in 213 B.C. books |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THAT'S ALL IN THE PAST $800: Once called Lacedaemon, it was a city-state that eventually came under Rome's control in 146 B.C.; this is...! Sparta |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $200: 586 B.C.:
Nebuchadnezzar burns this city's first temple Jerusalem |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $800: Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | EMPIRE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) The map here shows the growth
of this empire, from 275 B.C. to 133 B.C.
to 14 A.D. & to 117 A.D. the Roman Empire |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: According to tradition, in 490 B.C., Pheidippides ran 25 miles to announce a Greek victory in this battle Marathon |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | COME AT THE KING $400: This king who lends his name to a costly type of victory was killed in a 272 B.C. battle to capture Argos Pyrrhus |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | COME AT THE KING $2,600 (Daily Double): In 336 B.C. a young Macedonian noble named Pausanias killed this king but was killed on the spot himself King Philip |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: According to legend, the wife of Chinese Emperor Huangdi was the first to cultivate this fiber around 2700 B.C. silk |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: On Lesbos she ran an academy for unmarried women, teaching them social graces, poetry & singing Sappho |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $1200: The festival of Hanukkah commemorates this Jewish hero's restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem Judah Maccabee |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $1600: This system of wedge-shaped writing originated in Sumer around 3000 B.C. cuneiform |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | B.C.-ING YOU $2000: When Alexander the Great razed Thebes in 335 B.C., he spared the home of this lyric poet Pindar |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $600: Around 428 B.C. Athens kept control of Lesbos but by 404 things had swung Sparta's way in this war the Peloponnesian War |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | GOVT. MED. ABBREV. $2000: Figuring out which pays first when 2 insurers are responsible for the same claim is this, C.O.B. coordination of benefits |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On September 2, 31 B.C., this man's fleet was fighting the Battle of Actium against Octavian's fleet; an opening in the lines allowed his girlfriend to slip away with her ships; he followed her, & all was lost Marc Anthony |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | FACTS ABOUT FIGURES $400: As seen here, red figure pottery flourished in this country from the 6th to the 4th century B.C. Greece |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | HISTORIC BATTLES $800: At Zama in 202 B.C., he sent 80 elephants charging into Roman ranks but lost the battle Hannibal |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | INNOVATION $1000: By 500,000 B.C., fire was being controlled & used by this "upright" species Homo erectus |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | A LEAGUE $1200: Founded in 478 B.C., the Delian League united several city-states in the fight against Persia & was led by this city Athens |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | MEDICAL PROBLEMS $800: This viral disease that causes inflammation of the liver has A, B, C, D & E types hepatitis |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | COMIC STRIPS IN OTHER WORDS $200: Initials frequently seen following Vancouver B.C. |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRE-'80s HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) By law, Roman generals couldn't lead forces out of their assigned province; Caesar's 49 B.C. crossing of this stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy acted as a war declaration the Rubicon |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | BATTLE NATIONS $400: Marathon was fought in this present-day country in 490 B.C. Greece |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $1200: Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the third Punic war resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | TUNNELS $400: Around 2180 B.C. a brick-lined walkway was built in Babylonia under this river to connect a palace & temple The Euphrates |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 219 B.C. this Carthaginian attacked the Roman ally of Saguntum in Spain, & Rome soon declared war. Hannibal |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | ANCIENT CHINESE EMPERORS $200: Ruling from about 1600 B.C., it was this man whose name sounds like a breakfast drink Tang |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | ANCIENT CHINESE EMPERORS $600: From 180 to 157 B.C. it was this man whose name sounds like the female symbol of a burger chain Wen Di |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | STREET SMARTS $1000: Manhattan's Alphabet City gets its name from these, lettered A, B, C & D (no Q) Avenues |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | T.C.L.T. $400: "O.H.B."
by Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | T.C.L.T. $800: "T.U.L.O.B."
by Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $400: Alexander the Great's tutelage under this Greek ended in 336 B.C. after the assassination of Alexander's dad Aristotle |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $600: This 200s B.C. man demonstrated 467 propositions of plane & solid geometry from axioms & postulates Euclid |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | PASSWORD $200: One of the earliest accounts of the use of passwords is by Polybius, describing their use by this army around 150 B.C. the Roman army |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! $600: In the 20s B.C., after Octavian took this imperial name, he established the Praetorian Guard to guard his body Caesar Augustus |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | VOLCANOES $800: Some scientists believe that this civilization on Crete ended with the eruption of the volcano Thera around 1500 B.C. the Minoan civilization |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: Used instead of B.C. as a secular date reference, B.C.E stands for this Before Common Era |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | SAILING THE 3 C's $800: This college degree is total B.S. a Bachelor of Sciences |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | ETYMOLOGY $400: The kids of 15th century B.C. Mesopotamia might have liked Samassamu Street; samassamu gave us this word sesame |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | PARDON ME $400: He pardoned Marcus Junius Brutus, around 48 B.C. (big mistake!) (Julius) Caesar |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Around 3000 B.C. the Harappan civilization around this river in what's now Pakistan began cultivating cotton the Indus |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $1200: In the 5th century B.C., Herodotus wrote that these people of northeastern Italy were from Lydia in Asia Minor the Etruscans |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $3,400 (Daily Double): Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire" is an epic novel about this battle lost by the Spartans in 480 B.C. (the Battle of) Thermopylae |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS $400: Around 226 B.C. a "colossal" earthquake destroyed the statue of Helios on this island Rhodes |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: The legendary wealth of this king in what's now Turkey didn't help in 546 B.C. when the Persians defeated him Croesus |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | TV LOGOS $200: B.C. or A.D., this is one of my favorite spots on the dial the History channel |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In 597 B.C., this Babylonian king captured Jerusalem & took 18-year-old King Jehoaichin back to Babylon as a captive Nebuchadnezzar |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | FLAVOR OF THE MONTH $2,000 (Daily Double): The most infamous event of 44 B.C. occurred on this day the Ides of March |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: In 399 B.C. it was safe to declare the prosecution of this philosopher for impiety the Trial of the Century Socrates |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) When conquered in 586 B.C., the Jewish people were resettled along the Kebar River, hundreds of miles from their home; hence the verse, "By the rivers of" this place, "we wept when we remembered Zion" Babylon |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | POCKET CHANGE $400: A silver denarius from 44 B.C. depicts this Roman & calls him "dictator for life"; his life ended soon after Julius Caesar |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: A classic syllogism concludes "Socrates is" this absolute, proved true in 399 B.C. mortal |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | BUT THE END IS ROUGH $200: Of the 23 stab wounds he received on March 15, 44 B.C., only one was fatal, but one is always enough Julius Caesar |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | ANCIENT BABYLON $800: This Macedonian wanted to combine Asia & Europe into one country & make Babylon its capital; he died in the city in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ON THE GREEK DEITY'S RESUMÉ $5,000 (Daily Double): Awards & Honors:
•400s B.C.--
The Parthenon dedicated to me, wisely Athena |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | PINTEREST $800: In his Nobel Prize lecture, Pinter said he always started a play with 3 characters called these--must have sped up the typing A, B & C |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | EDICTS $800: The Edicts of Ashoka issued in 3rd century B.C. India spread the teachings of this religious leader Buddha |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | STONES $800 (Daily Double): Carved in 196 B.C., its text lists the good things the pharaoh has done for the priests & people of Egypt the Rosetta Stone |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | THE HITTITES $800: Around 1400 B.C. the Hittites began working with this metal that's softer than bronze, helping to usher in its "Age" Iron |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | THE HITTITES $1200: Hattusa, the Hittite capital from around 1650 B.C., was just east of this present-day Turkish capital Ankara |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | PINS & NEEDLES $1000: Gold & silver needles used in this medical practice were found in the tomb of Liu Sheng, who was buried in 113 B.C. acupuncture |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | TOUCHED BY AN ANGLE $2000: Mathematical term for the ratio of the length of side B to side C in the angle seen here the cosine |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | WINGS $2000: This B-29 that dropped the "Fat Man" bomb over Nagasaki was named for flyer Frederick C. Bock Bockscar |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $1200: A god rose from the sea... or a 460 B.C. statue of one did, & it's at this capital's Natl. Archaeological Museum Athens |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | RELIGIONS $400: In the 180s B.C. the orgiastic worship of this wine god was suppressed by the Roman Senate Bacchus (or Dionysus) |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $400: A Murphy one comes out of the wall a bed |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $800: A taxi, or to travel in one cab |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1200: To recede, like the tide; it's often paired with "flow" ebb |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1600: To yield territory cede |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $2000: A work of classical Icelandic poetry an edda |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Much of what is known about Babylonian society comes from this 18th century B.C. king's code Hammurabi |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of ancient Italy.) Around 300 B.C. Rome controlled the area seen here; within about 25 years it had conquered most of the Italian peninsula, including the Umbrians & these people occupying what is now Tuscany the Etruscans |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | B.C. KING $200: Around 1000 B.C. he became the first king of Israel Saul |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | B.C. KING $400: At the time Jesus was born, this man, the Great, was king of Judea Herod |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | B.C. KING $600: After his father died, Artaxerxes I became king of this empire the Persian Empire |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | B.C. KING $800: This father of Alexander the Great wasn't so bad himself, extending his dominion over all of Greece Phillip |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | B.C. KING $1000: This legendary king of Uruk ruled in the third millennium B.C.; the "Epic" thought to be about him would come later Gilgamesh |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS $2000: 480 B.C.: Crossing the Hellespont, supported by 700 ships; it's good to be the Persian king! Xerxes |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: In the 400s B.C. this Chinese philosopher went into exile for 12 years Confucius |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: The Ammonites held sway in this Mideast country in the 1200s B.C. & the capital is named for them Jordan |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1,000 (Daily Double): This roadway begun in 312 B.C. would eventually extend from Rome to the heel of Italy The Appian Way |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS $400: The 11th letter, it's rarely used in languages that developed from Latin K |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The Venn diagram here contains three sets: A, B & C, but, there's another set that includes all possible things that's called this the universal set |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $1000: Francis Smith, the 19th c. "king" of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland's streetcar system borax |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | GEOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): Naturally, plenty of coal was formed in this geologic period, 360 million to 300 million B.C. the Carboniferous Period |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | PYRAMIDS $200: The pyramid built for Cestius around 12 B.C. still stands as part of the Aurelian Wall in this city Rome |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | A LONG TIME AGO $200: Around 1600 B.C. the Shang became the first recorded ruling dynasty of this country China |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | A LONG TIME AGO $800: By the waters of the Euphrates, this city became a Mesopotamian capital in the early 2nd millennium B.C. Babylon |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | A LONG TIME AGO $1000: Athens & Sparta squared off in this war that lasted from 431 to 404 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | EARLY AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION $1200: Built between 200 B.C. & 500 A.D., the earthworks called the Hopewell Mounds are in this Great Lakes state Ohio |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | LIKE A VESTAL VIRGIN $1,600 (Daily Double): The Vestal virgins received the wills of dignitaries, like this man who died in 30 B.C. & requested to be buried in Egypt Mark Antony |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $1200: This resident of the labyrinth is seen here in a Greek artwork from the 500s B.C the Minotaur |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | SEARCHING "HI" & "LOW" $400: By about 300 B.C., there were more than 6,000 symbols used in this Egyptian writing hieroglyphics |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | NOT SO GAY PAREE $800 (Daily Double): In his 52 B.C. "Commentaries", he wrote that the Parisii burned their town rather than surrender to him Julius Caesar |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | LIFE OF PI $400: Dating to c. 1650 B.C., the Rhind Papyrus, a scroll from this civilization, put the value of pi at about 3.16 Egypt |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | LIFE OF PI $1,200 (Daily Double): Eureka! around 250 B.C., this sage of Syracuse estimated pi at around 22/7 Archimedes |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1,500 (Daily Double): He died in Babylon in 323 B.C., a few days after a drinking bout & a few months after declaring himself a god Alexander the Great |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $1200: Known for her 600s B.C. lyric poetry, she was married & had a daughter named Cleis Sappho |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | ON YOUR MARKS $400: Born 83 B.C.,
died 30 B.C. Mark Antony |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | BAD ENDINGS FOR WRITERS $1200: This Roman orator & writer was executed on Dec. 7, 43 B.C.; his head & hands were then put on display at the forum Cicero |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | LEFTOVERS $600: In 63 B.C. Tiro invented a system of this to record Cicero's speeches shorthand |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS $400: No. 1 is the inner coffin of Hornedjitef, an ancient priest of this kingdom, from the 3rd century B.C. Egypt |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | AUTHORS' TRILOGIES $1200: The "Oresteia", first performed in 458 B.C. Aeschylus |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us statues at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) The Hall of Immortals honors medical pioneers, like Madame Curie, ancient Egypt's Imhotep, &
of course, this man, born in Greece around 460 B.C. Hippocrates |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | "A"UTHORS $800: By tradition, he was a Phrygian slave who probably lived from 620 to 560 B.C. Aesop |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | SOUTHPAWS $800: Perhaps he used his left hand when, as legend says, he cut the Gordian Knot in 333 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ROMAN THE ROADS $1200: In 12 B.C., the emperor Augustus ordered the Via Aurelia be extended through the mountains near modern Nice, connecting Rome with this Roman province Gaul |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | B.C.-ING YOU $400: She was still a teen when she became queen of Egypt in 51 B.C. Cleopatra |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | B.C.-ING YOU $800: Originally featuring only 1 sport--a foot race--the Olympics added this 5-event competition in 708 B.C. the pentathlon |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | B.C.-ING YOU $1200: It's believed this rock group was built in England in three phases over 1,500 years, beginning around 3100 B.C. Stonehenge |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | B.C.-ING YOU $1600: Shortly before drinking poison hemlock, this philosopher discussed with friends the fate of the human soul Socrates |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | B.C.-ING YOU $2,400 (Daily Double): A popular TV & movie subject, this gladiator led a slave revolt that ended with his death in battle in 71 B.C. Spartacus |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ALL WE NEED IS A TITLE $2000: Alan Paton's "C, the B C" Cry, the Beloved Country |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $1200: Reporting on his victory in 47 B.C., he declared, "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered) Julius Caesar |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | IN CONJUNCTION $800: The earliest known use of this whitish metallic element was around 3500 B.C. in what's now Iran tin |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | HUSBANDS $800: Octavia's (we'll give you Gaius Marcellus, whom she married around 54 B.C., but you supply this second hubby) Mark Antony |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | ALL ABOUT D $1200: Around 800 B.C. the Greeks made their letter D in the form of this shape & called it delta a triangle |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | WE ALL MAKE CHOICES IN LIFE $200: The math section of the S.A.T. a) is 70 minutes long; b) covers algebra; c) is mainly multiple choice; d) all of the above d) all of the above |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM $400: This king wisely had the First Temple built in the 10th century B.C. Solomon |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM $1200: In 586 B.C. this Babylonian king & his army destroyed the First Temple Nebuchadnezzar |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | ENGINEERING $1600: The first section of this waterway was dug around 400 B.C.; Kublai Khan added a link to Beijing in the 1200s the Grand Canal |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Heavily outnumbered, the Greeks repelled the invading Persians on this plain in 490 B.C. Marathon |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | THE 21st CENTURY $400: In 2009 C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger became a national hero after demonstrating his prowess at this job flying airplanes |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN WAR $1200: Charge! Composed of lesser nobles who could afford horses, weapons & armor, it first appeared around 1000 B.C. cavalry |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | THE OLD BALL GAME $2000: Irish manuscripts of the 1200s B.C. describe this stick-&-ball sport that's now the national pastime hurling |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | JUDEA $200: The territory of Judea became part of this empire in 63 B.C. the Roman Empire |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Before his death in 323 B.C., he expanded his empire until it stretched from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Indus River Alexander the Great |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | THIS... IS... HEGEMONY! $400: Around 274 B.C. this republic, which later went full-blown empire, gained dominance over Italy with the defeat of Pyrrhus the Roman Empire |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | THIS... IS... HEGEMONY! $1200: In 386 B.C. Persia ratified this city-state's hegemony, about 100 years too late for Leonidas & his 300 Sparta |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | THIS... IS... HEGEMONY! $2000: In the first half of the 3rd millennium B.C., this 2-letter city established its hegemony over the rest of Sumer Ur |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | A STONY CATEGORY $2000: From about 1,200 to 400 B.C., these people carved stone heads, like the one seen here, & lived along the Gulf of Mexico Olmec |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $400: In the 200s B.C. Indian emperor Ashoka converted to this religion that had been founded about 300 years earlier Buddhism |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | TRANSPOSITION WORDS $200: These dried grapes were grown as early as 2000 B.C. in Egypt raisins |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | "PRE"-CISELY $600: The Ebers Papyrus of 1550 B.C. contains many of these, including one for asthma calling for herb fumes a prescription |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | AMMAN, JORDAN $400: In the 200s B.C. Bruce Springsteen could have sung "Streets of" this, as the city was then called Philadelphia |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER $1600: By Jove, kids, it was around 41 B.C. when your mother sailed up the Cydnus in a barge, dressed as Venus Mark Antony |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $200: Around 447 B.C. this group led by the "Scourge of God" devastated the Balkans & drove south into Greece the Huns |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $600: This king who died in 1750 B.C. left a code dealing with family laws, loans, debts & even witchcraft Hammurabi |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | LETTER PERFECT $1600: The first letter alphabetically to appear alone as a periodic table element symbol B (for boron) |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | LET'S TAKE A BATH $1000: The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the Palace of Knossos on this island Crete |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | PETRA $600: (Alex presents the clue from Petra, Jordan.) The approach to Petra is through a narrow cleft which in 312 B.C. helped it withstand a siege by the army of Antigonus of these people; he was an heir to Alexander the Great the Macedonians |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | CATCHING A BREAK $200: To signal that you are about to start transmitting a message on one of these, start by saying, "Breaker" a C.B. radio |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | CENTURY OF THE CRIME $1600: Brutus earns an et tu from Julius Caesar the 1st century B.C. |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds bags of blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Every unit of blood is screened & tested for many different viruses, including HIV, & infections, including this--both B & C hepatitis |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: When he sacked Thebes in 335 B.C., he ordered that the house in which Pindar the poet once lived be saved Alexander |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $2000: Despite the Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C., this war picked up again & continued for another 11 years the Peloponnesian War |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | A CELTIC CATEGORY $400: Celtic independence on the European continent came to an end with this leader's 58 to 51 B.C. conquest of Gaul Julius Caesar |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | JULIUS CAESAR SALAD $2000: In 45 B.C. Caesar was given permission to wear this, which he appreciated as it covered his baldness a laurel wreath |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | TRIAL PARTICIPANTS $1000: The accusers in his 399 B.C. trial were Meletus, Anytus & Lycon Socrates |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | ALSO A BLOOD TYPE $2000: The sixth tone in the scale of C minor A |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | VERY NON-BREAKING NEWS $800: This Greek "Father of Medicine" could not heal himself, dying around 377 B.C.; he was buried at Larissa in Thessaly Hippocrates |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?! $200: I died around 965 B.C. & my son Solomon succeeded me as King of Israel David |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | SPELL IT! $400: Spell this Christian group that's often found before "Oats" Q-U-A-K-E-R |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | THERE WILL BE "RAM"IFICATIONS $200: The first pharaoh of this name ruled around 1293 B.C. Ramses |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. $400: Lysander of this rival Greek city defeated Athens in 404 B.C. & established the government of the 30 tyrants over it Sparta |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | TURIN! TURIN! TURIN! $1000: In 218 B.C. this Carthaginian general captured & heavily damaged Turin; he loved it when a plan came together Hannibal |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. $1200: In a tragedy of the time, a guy named Rhesus monkeys around in this war on the side of the Greeks' foes the Trojan War |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. $1600: Themistocles led the Athenians defending against this "great" Persian's invasion in 480 B.C. Xerxes |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. $2,000 (Daily Double): The philosopher Anaxagoras discovered the true cause behind these lunar phenomena but wasn't believed eclipses |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. $2000: Thucydides said the "golden age of" this leader was democracy in theory, but the rule of its first citizen in practice Pericles |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | "N" THE MIDDLE $1000: In the 1st century B.C., Publilius Syrus wrote that this "alone sets all the world in motion" money |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | 27 IS HEAVEN $800: This Roman emperor began his 40-year reign in 27 B.C. Caesar Augustus |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY $1000: Who needs Megan Fox or Eva Mendes? We remember Raquel Welch busting out in this prehistoric potboiler One Million Years B.C. |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $200: The 4 Seasons, or Fergie: "B.G.D.C." "Big Girls Don't Cry" |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $800: Carrie Underwood & her Louisville Slugger: "B.H.C." "Before He Cheats" |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | EUROPEAN NATIONALITIES $2000: The Elgin marbles helped establish this architectural style, based on 5th century B.C. works Greek revival |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WAR STUFF $400: Around 1250 B.C., with Moses dead, the Israelites, led by this man, conquered the land of Canaan Joshua |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | NOTABLE EDUCATORS $200: In the 6th century B.C. Sariputra was an early pupil of this Indian religion founder Buddha |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | NOTABLE EDUCATORS $400: Around 387 B.C. this student of Socrates founded the Athens school known as the Academy Plato |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | ARRIVALS $400: On his arrival in Egypt in 48 B.C., he was presented with his rival Pompey's pickled head Julius Caesar |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG $600: Robbie Nevil & B*witched had tunes called this French phrase meaning "that's life" "C'est La Vie" |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | WAR! $2,400 (Daily Double): The 431 to 421 B.C. Archidamian war, named for a Spartan king, was the first of 3 parts of this war the Peloponnesian War |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: In 392 B.C. Isocrates founded a school to teach this skill of using language effectively & persuasively rhetoric |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | BATTLE STARS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the 216 B.C. Battle of Cannae, the Romans charged the center as this Carthaginian general executed a double envelopment maneuver, surrounding & destroying the Romans Hannibal |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | FADE OUT $400: This Egyptian whose reign ended around 1322 B.C. would never be old enough to drink legally in the United States King Tut |
| #6134, aired 2011-04-21 | I'M GETTING MARRIED! $3,000 (Daily Double): Xanthippe (c. 450 B.C.) Socrates |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | LET ME MAKE A PREDICTION $1600: These Greek female prophets made their predictions from the 500s B.C. until suppressed in 393 A.D. the Oracles |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | "A" IS FOR AUTHOR $400: ...of "Metaphysics" in the 300s B.C. Aristotle |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: In 331 B.C. this Macedonian traveled to the Siwa Oasis where the oracle pronounced him a god Alexander the Great |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: This Thracian gladiator organized a revolt of gladiators & slaves & defeated 2 Roman armies in 72 B.C. Spartacus |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: This Athenian lawmaker revised most of Draco's 7th century B.C. code of justice Solon |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $400: Seen here, this breed originated around 800 B.C. a Lhasa Apso |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $1200: Around 418 B.C. Euripides wrote a play named for this "complex" woman of myth Electra |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | ANCIENT EGYPT $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Egypt on the monitor.) Egypt originally hugged the Nile River, but over the next 1,200 years, it gradually grew to cover an area reaching as far north as this river by the 1400s B.C. the Euphrates |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $800: This road was named for the Roman official who began its construction in 312 B.C. the Appian Way |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | AN ANCIENT GREEK NEWSCAST $200: It's 404 B.C. & here is our top story: Athens has been forced to accept a humiliating peace treaty with this city-state Sparta |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | AN ANCIENT GREEK NEWSCAST $600: Breaking news 479 B.C.: Greece has beaten the remaining forces of this Xerxes-led empire! Let's party! the Persian Empire |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BATTLES $400: The Battle of Hydaspes in 326 B.C. opened the way for this conqueror to enter India Alexander the Great |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | JULIUS CAESAR $600: In 47 B.C., after defeating the King of Pontus, Caesar boasted, "Veni, vidi, vici!"; I came, I saw, I did this I conquered |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | JULIUS CAESAR $800: From 46 to 44 B.C. Julius Caesar literally ruled as one of these, having been appointed so by the Roman Senate dictator |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | JULIUS CAESAR $3,000 (Daily Double): It took from 58 to 50 B.C., but Caesar decisively overcame this fractious French region Gaul |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $400: "To Anacreon In Heaven" mentions this rollicking Roman god's vine
(7 letters) B-A-C-C-H-U-S |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | WHAT A NICE PAIR! $600: According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by these twins; one died & the other named the city for himself Romulus & Remus |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | ENGINEERING $200: Built at a cost of more than $200 million, it stretches from Victoria, B.C. to St. John's, Newfoundland the Trans-Canada Highway |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | "C" IT, SAY IT $1200: Some of these small engravings date as far back as the 3rd century B.C. cameos |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | DEATH BY... $2000: Possible dropping of a tortoise on his head by an eagle, in 456 B.C. Aeschylus |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | SIGNIFICANT OLD BOOKS $400: Dating from the 5th century B.C., this Asian philosopher's "Analects" Confucius |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST $200: It dates back to 3000 B.C., when it was made with beeswax; by the Middle Ages tallow ones were in wide use candles |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST $600: Originating in Asia around 200 B.C., this saddle attachment increased the military value of horses a stirrup |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST $800: The earliest man-made examples of this silica & borate material were beads made in the 1500s B.C. glass |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST $1000: A Sumerian pictograph shows one in 3500 B.C.: the oldest are wooden disks with 3 carved planks clamped by struts a wheel |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | ELEMENT-ARY SCHOOL $600: Around 3500 B.C. people were mixing copper & arsenic to make this; they soon found copper & tin worked better bronze |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1600: Turning 70, this fabulous star of "One Million Years B.C." took readers "Beyond the Cleavage" Raquel Welch |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WINTER OF $600: ...330 B.C. was when he had his army march on Persepolis & burn the palaces Alexander the Great |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | GO! $400: Go, one of the world's oldest games, is thought to have originated c. 2000 B.C. in this Asian mainland country China |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | HOLE $800: Dating from 3000 B.C., the Aubrey holes are a series of burial pits found near this English megalithic site Stonehenge |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE $200: The ides of March 44 B.C.:
He is murdered as he enters a Senate meeting Julius Caesar |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | EXPLORING AFRICA $800: Around 2750 B.C. Hannu, an Egyptian, sailed down this sea, reaching what is now Ethiopia & Somalia the Red Sea |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | TIME FOR A HAIRCUT $800: This haircut named for a guy who died in 44 B.C. is a short cut for a man, with longer bangs a Caesar |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | ARMCHAIR GENERAL $400: I'm all for youth, but can you believe this guy led an army to victory over the Thracians in 340 B.C. at age 16 Alexander the Great |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | THE NUMBER OF YEARS FROM... $400: New Year's Day 5 B.C. to New Year's Day 5 A.D. 9 |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $400: This adjective describes the fear of small places or being closed in claustrophobic |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $800 (Daily Double): Any of a group of chemical substances such as doxycycline or streptomycin an antibiotic |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $800: The names Alex, Lucretia, Ulrich & Zedidiah are listed in this order alphabetical |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $1200: Here's looking at you, kid, if you can tell me this name of Morocco's chief seaport and largest city Casablanca |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $1600: It's the state of being away; your heart may grow fonder because of it absence |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | BLAME IT ON THE CASANOVA $400: By late 32 B.C., he had divorced his wife Octavia for an Egyptian lady; ex-brother-in-law Octavian declared war on him Mark Antony |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO $400: In Egypt in the 2nd millennium B.C., a typical daily laborer's wage included 1 or 2 jugs of this beer |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1200: In the 3rd century B.C., while discussing the lever, he said, "give me where to stand, and I will move the earth" Archimedes |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1,600 (Daily Double): Epaminondas the Theban defeated this militaristic power in 371 B.C., sending it into decline Sparta |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | ESCAPE $600: He escaped gladiator school in the 1st century B.C. & formed an army that threatened Rome Spartacus |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | SHOWTIME AT THE ACROPOLIS $200: In a 480 B.C. invasion, the Persians demolished many buildings on the Acropolis in this city Athens |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | I KNOW UR $2000: Founded in the 4th millennium B.C., Ur was a capital city of this oldest Mesopotamian civilization Sumeria |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | I KNOW UR $4,000 (Daily Double): Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C. a ziggurat |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | COMMANDERS AT WAR $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C., the Macedonian cavalry attacked the Persian left flank, then wheeled around to complete a smashing triumph for this great general Alexander the Great |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | HISTORICAL YEARBOOK ENTRIES? $600: Rome H.S. football rules! Voted most popular, most likely to cross the Rubicon in 49 B.C. & to have a month named for him Julius Caesar |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | GET SOME CULTURE $1200: The Natufian culture of ancient Palestine dates to circa 9000 B.C.--the Mesolithic or Middle this age the Stone Age |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | GET SOME CULTURE $2000: The Villanovan culture of Italy was obliterated in the 500s B.C. by this people familiar to longtime "Jeopardy!" fans the Etruscans |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | B.C. $400: In the 100s B.C. this statue was completed by Alexandros; its farewell to arms would come later the Venus de Milo |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | B.C. $800: This man born in Lumbini, India founded a religion the Buddha |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | B.C. $1200: In 195 B.C. this North African leader fled to Syria with the Romans in hot pursuit Hannibal |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | COMIC STRIPS $1200: The prehistoric-set B.C. included this blonde character whose name sounds like that of a cartoon coyote Wiley |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | B.C. $1600: Under Augustus, construction began on this "all gods" temple the Pantheon |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | B.C. $2000: This "Great" Persian leader freed the Jews from their Babylonian captivity Cyrus the Great |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | THOUGHT FOR FOOD $1200: A good source of vitamin C & some B vitamins, it's German for "sour cabbage" sauerkraut |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | NAME-RO UNO $400: This philosopher was born in Stagira in Macedonia around 384 B.C. Aristotle |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | TABLOID HEADLINES ACROSS HISTORY $2000: Around 342 B.C.:
"Aristotle Tutors Tot";
323 B.C.:
He's "Gone in Babylon" Alexander the Great |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN JUNE $1,000 (Daily Double): According to calculations by Eratosthenes, it was June 11, 1184 B.C. that this mythic city was sacked & burned Troy |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | KEEP ON TRUCKIN' $1000: Truckers know these have a range of about 25 miles in motor vehicles & federally limited power of 4 watts C.B. radios |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | ANCIENT TIMES $200: Around 5000 B.C. channels were dug along the Nile for this agricultural purpose irrigation |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: Around 1200 B.C. in the Middle East & 600 B.C. in China, the Bronze Age was replaced by this metallic age the Iron Age |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | ANCIENT TIMES $1000: In 2000 B.C. the Israelites conquered this land whose people probably gave them the Hebrew language Canaan |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | CHINESE HISTORY $800: Around 1766 B.C. the Shang kingdom arose along the valley of this river, also known as the Huang He the Yellow River |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | HERE, KING! $400: Around 1332 B.C. this pre-teen became king of Egypt; his reign was kinda meh, but the stuff he left behind... wow! Tutankhamen |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | BABE $200: In 51 B.C. she became co-ruler of Egypt after the death of her father, Ptolemy XII Cleopatra |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | MILITARY FIRSTS $200: The first recorded battle on English soil occurred when his forces invaded in 55 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | FACTS & FIGURES $400: Fact:
She had bit parts on "McHale's Navy" & "Bewitched" before her bust-out part in "1 Million Years B.C." Raquel Welch |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | & CROWN THY GOOD $200: In 336 B.C. at age 20, he succeeded his murdered father as Macedonia's king & was just super...wait, that's not the right word Alexander the Great |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | & CROWN THY GOOD $1000: The heroic 480 B.C. death of this king of Sparta at Thermopylae made him famous; c'mon, one of you saw "300", right? Leonidas |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | A PARIS CHRONOLOGY $200: Paris was founded around 250 B.C. by the Celtic Parisii tribe, who built a settlement on an island in this river the Seine |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | A PARIS CHRONOLOGY $400: After its forces put down a revolt led by Vercingetorix, the area came under this empire's control in 52 B.C. Rome |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | PAST LIVES $800: Women force their husbands to stop warring in this man's 411 B.C. play "Lysistrata" Aristophanes |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | HE DIED A DEADLY DEATH $2000: After the second battle of Philippi in 42 B.C., this Roman general could have said, "Et tu, me?" as he killed himself Brutus |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Right on, Willy! The phrase "right on" appears in Act III of this Shakespeare play that takes place in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GET OUTTA TOWN! $2000: If you're in this Phoenician city in 146 B.C.; the Romans are coming, & they say it must be destroyed Carthage |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | 360 $1000: Around 360 B.C. this Greek philosopher wrote about Socrates & Atlantis Plato |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | ROOTS $800: To this day, a list is kept of the descendants of this Chinese thinker of the 500s B.C.--it now numbers 2 million Confucius |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | LIFE'S A (MILITARY) CAMPAIGN $200: The 49 B.C. campaign of Ilerda led to victory by this Roman over Pompey's forces Julius Caesar |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | CLEO $400: In 31 B.C. a huge Roman fleet led by Augustus & Agrippa defeated the fleets of Cleopatra & this man at Actium Mark Antony |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | CLEO $800: Her brothers didn't fare well with Cleopatra; fleeing from his sister in 47 B.C., one drowned in this river the Nile |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE KILLERS $1000: Pausanius, a young Macedonian noble, killed this man, Alexander's dad, in 336 B.C. Philip |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | WE GO WAY BACK $400: Between 770 & 476 B.C., a time of struggle is called the Spring & Autumn Period in this Asian country's history China |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | WE GO WAY BACK $800: Athens put larger Greek interests first & joined other cities to defeat this nation in the 480 B.C. battle of Salamis Persia |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $400: Son of Philip II of Macedonia who became the world's largest coral system Alexander the Great Barrier Reef |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $800: Period of time named for an alloy of copper & tin & the new water-bearing Zodiacal era the Bronze Age of Aquarius |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $1200: "Wonder"-ful giant statue of Helios that brings financial aid to study at Oxford The Colossus of Rhodes Scholarship |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $1600: Sophoclean tragedy about the killing of a father & his friend, the actor who portrayed Henry Higgins on film Oedipus Rex Harrison |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $2000: Homo erectus archaeological find on Jakarta's island by an expatriate U.S. photographer Java Man Ray |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | PREY LATER $600: 3-letter name for the Egyptian snake that played a deadly role in world affairs back in 30 B.C. the asp |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $1000: Located at Halicarnassus, this monumental marble tomb was built for a king who died in 353 B.C. the Mausoleum |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $400: Dating to the 600s B.C., the first Western coins were made of electrum, an alloy of gold & 20 percent this stuff silver |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $200: This branch of mathematics uses letters to symbolize numbers in equations algebra |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $400: To shake or wave a weapon menacingly brandish |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $600: From the Latin for "to come round", it's what you do when you want to avoid something circumvent |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $800: If you're on the "horns" of one of these situations with unpleasant options, good luck with your choice dilemma |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $1000: A European car maker, or an authoritative decree fiat |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | IT'S THE 26th $1600: Little is known about this 26th century B.C. ruler, but his fame was assured by the tomb he built, the Great Pyramid Cheops (or Khufu) |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | EXPEDITION WEEK $2000: (National Geographic archaeologist Byron McCane delivers the clue.) The Gabriel Revelation tablet, sometimes called a Dead Sea Scroll in stone, allegedly tells of a Jewish revolt against Rome in 4 B.C. & mentions a king of evil countenance, this emperor Augustus (Caesar) |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | "B.C." $200: In computer science, ones & zeroes are key to this binary code |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | "B.C." $400: Basic training is also known as this boot camp |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | "B.C." $600: A type of stock that is highly valued because the company is substantial & established blue chip |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | HISTORY VIA STICK FIGURES $600: His 218 B.C. leadership of an armed trip to Italy is shown here Hannibal |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | "B.C." $800: Its provincial capital is Victoria British Columbia |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | "B.C." $1000: This Massachusetts Jesuit campus is in Chestnut Hill Boston College |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a stone sculpture on the monitor.) At Saqqra, Egypt, & probably from around 2500 B.C., the seated this worker was found; he still has his papyrus roll, but someone took his brush a scribe |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | GEMSTONES $600: As early as 3000 B.C., this gemstone was known in China as yu, or the "royal gem" jade |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | REALLY OLD BOOKS $1600: The "Five Classics" of ancient China are traditionally attributed to this sage born in 551 B.C. Confucius |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | MILITARY DUDES $600: In the 3rd century B.C., this man & his army crossed the Alps & invaded Italy from the north Hannibal |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | BATTLE DESCRIPTIONS $2000: In 31 B.C. Octavian & Agrippa best Cleo & Antony on the open water the Battle of Actium |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | NIP/TUCK $4,000 (Daily Double): Repairs to the paws of this over 4,000-year-old structure started around 1400 B.C. the (Great) Sphinx |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | THE OLD MAN $2000: Seen here is the mummy of this great ruler of 13th-century B.C. Egypt, who reigned until about age 90 Ramses II (or Ramses the Great) |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE HISTORY $800: In 490 B.C. Miltiades' runner pouts & says he's only going to run 1 mile & walk the other 24 from Marathon to here Athens |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | HEART & SOUL $800: Around 375 B.C. in "The Republic", he opined that "astronomy compels the soul to look upwards" Plato |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | PRODUCE $200: I heard it through some kind of vine that 2440 B.C. Egyptian tomb paintings depict the cultivation of this fruit grapes |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $200: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It is term for each word in clue; ape man good at speak this way monosyllabic |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $600: It means to construct, or to fake, as in your excuse for being late fabricate |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $800: Lewis Carroll coined this term for meaningless words or gibberish jabberwocky |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $1000: This gem of a word can precede rattlesnake, terrapin & moth diamondback |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | PREHISTORIC TIMES $1000: One of the earliest known uses of this metal alloy was in Sumer in Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C. bronze |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | KILLED BY DEATH $200: Around 207 B.C. the Greek Stoic philosopher Chrysippus died this way while watching a drunk donkey eat figs laughing |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | KILLED BY DEATH $600: In 163 B.C. Eleazer Maccabeus was crushed to death in battle by one of these enormous war animals an elephant |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | ALPHABETICA $1200: The word for "alphabet" is seen here in this alphabet, in use since the 5th century B.C. Hebrew |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | KIDS RULE! $400: This "boy king" was about 9 years old when he became a pharaoh around 1333 B.C. Tutankhamen |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $200: This S-T-E-E-L C-I-T-Y is the seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | MARK ANTONY $400: It was good to be Antony around 40 B.C., when he went to Athens & had himself declared this, as the "New Dionysus" a god |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | MARK ANTONY $1,500 (Daily Double): Defeated in his quest to rule Rome, Mark Antony committed suicide in this country in 30 B.C. Egypt |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE! $400: This roamin' Roman conquered Brittany in 56 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | HISTORICAL HOME SHOPPING $1000: Now up, a 4-ton bluestone dating from 2100 B.C. from this English structure! FYI, you pay your own shipping! Stonehenge |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | LIKE A SURGEON $1200: Sushruta pioneered this reconstructive process around 600 B.C.; he'd make more money in 90210 today plastic surgery |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | ISLANDS $200: The Celts first arrived on this island around 500 B.C. Ireland |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | I KILLED A GUY ONCE $200: On March 15, 44 B.C. Gaius Cassius Longinus (& 20 or so other guys) took a stab at this man Julius Caesar |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | THAT'S HISTORIC $400: Following a military victory in 34 B.C., she dressed up as Isis & he dressed up as Dionysus Mark Antony & Cleopatra |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | ALEXANDER $600: Alexander became king in 336 B.C. when this man, his father, was assassinated Philip |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | ALEXANDER $800: In 333 B.C. Alexander defeated Darius III, the king of this empire Persia |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | FOUNDERS $800: Tradition says this "great" rival of Julius Caesar founded a colony in Pamplona in 75 B.C.; the city's name honors him Pompey (the Great) |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | HISTORICAL MILITARY THERAPY SESSIONS $200: I brought 37 elephants on my 218 B.C. crossing of the Alps, but only 1 survived; I feel bad about that Hannibal |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | LET'S GET I.T. ON $800: This programming language isn't a little worse than "B minus"; it's a 1980s improvement of a language called "Combined" C++ |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | FROM B TO C $400: Pertaining to an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, all too common in the 14th century bubonic |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | FROM B TO C $800: A group of nations acting together, like the old Soviet one bloc |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | FROM B TO C $1600: 1829 novelist of "Les Chouans" Balzac |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | FROM B TO C $2000: Branch of the Indo-European family of languages Baltic |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | FROM B TO C $4,000 (Daily Double): Pompous; overblown bombastic |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE DOLPHINS $2000: In the 400s B.C. this Greek historian told the story of the rescue of the poet Arion by a dolphin Herodotus |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | "J" PEG $400: The month named in 44 B.C. July |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) If side a equals 3 & side B equals 4, it's the length of side C 5 |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $400: In 1901 C.A. Yont & W.B. Felker became the first to drive a car to the top of this Colorado peak Pike's Peak |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | THEY RULED! $1600: Roman around
(27 B.C. to 14 A.D.) Augustus (Caesar) |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): Carved in 196 B.C., its text was written by priests to honor Ptolemy V the Rosetta Stone |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | THE SPORTING LIFE $200: This sport was introduced in the 688 B.C. Olympics; the modern sport has its origins in bare-knuckle contests boxing |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | THAT'S MY KID! $400: 47 B.C.:
Cleopatra
(think again) Julius Caesar |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | THAT'S MY KID! $800: 40 B.C.:
Cleopatra
(don't think again) Mark Antony |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | AS A YOUNG MAN $1200: …in the 1300s B.C. he made Thebes Egypt's capital & changed his name to honor Amon Tutankhamon |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | MAYBE WE'LL INVADE BRITAIN! $600: A Brit named Cassivellaunus opposed this Roman's invasion in the 50s B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | SELDOM IS HEARD $600: "He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another" is a moral from this Greek B.C. guy Aesop |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | POISONING $200: She may have tried out different poisons on prisoners before deciding on an asp for herself in 30 B.C. Cleopatra |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | PIGEONS $400: Rock pigeons were domesticated in this kingdom around 3000 B.C. Egypt |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | POISONING $400: Sentenced to death by poison for corrupting the youth of Athens, he took the fatal swig in 399 B.C. Socrates |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | LATER $600: In 2 B.C. Emperor Augustus was given this title, "Pater Patriae"; 1,800 years later, Geo. Washington was known by it Father of the Country |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | I THINK $800: Upon this thinker's death in 347 B.C., the Greek philosopher Speusippus, his nephew, took over the academy Plato |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | "MULTI" TASKING $200: Get your daily dose of A, B & C with a One-A-Day one of these a multivitamin |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $400: The statue was based on this giant Greek statue destroyed by an earthquake around 225 B.C. the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | SCULPTURE MATERIAL $1600: "Doryphorus" or "Spear Bearer" by Polyclitus, around 450 B.C. bronze |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | THE LOUVRE $1000: This statue was probably an offering by the people of Rhodes in commemoration of a naval triumph in the 100s B.C. the Winged Victory of Samothrace |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a right triangle on the monitor.) It's the sum of angles B & C 90 degrees |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In the 3rd century B.C., during the reign of Shih Huang Ti, at least 1 million slaves were used to build this the Great Wall |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | CORSICA $2000: In 259 B.C. Corsica was conquered by Rome in the first of these wars against Carthage the Punic Wars |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | GREECE IS THE WORD $400: Tradition says in 490 B.C. Pheidippides began his long run at this coastal plain; go, P-Dippy! Go! Marathon |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | PLANTS $600: Archaeologists have found that varieties of this grain, like Emmer & Einkorn, were grown in the 7th millennium B.C. wheat |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | POETRY $200: Some believe this epic poet was born in Ionia in the 9th century B.C. Homer |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | ASTRONOMERS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) In the 200s B.C. Eratosthenes calculated Earth's girth using the difference in the angle of the Sun's rays between Aswan & this Egyptian city Alexandria |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | HEROD'S LOST TOMB $800: The Bible tells us Herod was troubled by the news of this great event and was soon dead in 4 B.C. the birth of Jesus |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | TIME FLIES $4,000 (Daily Double): A child born in 1995 turns 15 in 2010; a child born in 5 B.C. turned 15 in this year 11 |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $400: Around 1325 B.C. this boy king was buried in a gold mask inside 4 coffins, one of which was made of gold King Tut |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: In 1700 B.C. the palace of Knossos on this Minoan island was destroyed by an earthquake Crete |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: The son of Suddhodana, a wealthy ruler, he was born in what's now Nepal around 563 B.C. Buddha |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This Indian civilization, probably the first in the Americas, lived in eastern Mexico from about 1200 to 400 B.C. the Olmec(s) |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | -ISMS $1,600 (Daily Double): Sometime in the 6th century B.C., Lao Tzu found "the Way" & founded this religion Taoism |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $400: Marcus Agrippa's triremes proved too much for this couple's naval forces at Actium in 31 B.C. Antony & Cleopatra |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $800: In 413 B.C. a Corinth/Syracuse fleet defeated this city's navy, & so left all the Greeks vulnerable Athens |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | B FOLLOWS A $1000: These 1st & 2nd century B.C. Jewish patriots were active in liberating Judea from Syrian rule the Maccabees |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | GEOMETRY $5,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a triangle with two angles labeled on the monitor.) In this triangle, if angle A is 42 degrees & angle B is 60 degrees, then angle C has to equal this 78 degrees |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | TUNISIA $1,400 (Daily Double): Ruins in Tunisia today are from the later Roman occupation of this city founded by the Phoenicians around 814 B.C. Carthage |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $1600: "Beggars
C. B. C." can't be choosers |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | MIDDLE "C" $400: It's the "B" in a BLT bacon |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | SPELLING "B" $200: Acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining the lungs B-R-O-N-C-H-I-T-I-S |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | I'M LIBYAN $400: Around 950 B.C., a Libyan military officer seized this neighboring kingdom & ruled it as Pharaoh Sheshonk I Egypt |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | THEY ARE "US" $2000: Persian prophet of the 6th century B.C. Zarathustra |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | MILITARY MATTERS $1600: Study guide from the 4th century B.C. by Sun-Tzu The Art of War |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Thessaly, the land from which this Argonaut leader set out, also had a 4th century B.C. ruler of that name Jason |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $1600: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | WORLD UP! $1200: This African country may have been first settled by Phoenicians as early as the 12th century B.C. Tunisia |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | GET YOUR "B.A." $3,600 (Daily Double): The introduction of ironworking around 1100 B.C. brought it to an end the Bronze Age |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BATTLES $200: The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end & the start of Sparta's rise Athens |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BATTLES $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 490 B.C. battle of this plain, the Greeks ran up their first important victory over the Persians Marathon |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | THE GOOD OLD, OLD DAYS $800: Around 480 B.C. this North African city-state controlled most of the western Mediterranean Carthage |
| #5451, aired 2008-04-28 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 73 B.C. this Thracian gladiator began a 2-year slave revolt against Roman rule Spartacus |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | YELLOW THERE! $800: Around 4000 B.C. communities of people settled in the Yellow River Valley in what is today this country China |
| #5448, aired 2008-04-23 | MUSICAL INITIALS $1600: Maybe more cowbell will help you remember this band whose acronym is B.O.C. Blue Öyster Cult |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | SNAKES $200: This Egyptian queen didn't make an asp of herself, but she did use an asp snake to kill herself in 30 B.C. Cleopatra |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $2000: These mystical scriptures of Hinduism date from about 900 B.C. the Upanishads |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: In 338 B.C. this Macedonian king ended Greece's independence with victory in the battle of Chaeronea Philip |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | VIVA ITALIA $1200: Begun in 312 B.C. & originally 20 feet wide, this first & most famous Roman road still handles traffic today the Appian Way |
