| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 $1200: After 1400 B.C. this city near Crete's northern coast reverted from mighty capital to just another town Knossos |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: After this queen died in 30 B.C., Egypt fell under Roman domination Cleopatra |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | B.C. KING $600: After his father died, Artaxerxes I became king of this empire the Persian Empire |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | A ROYAL SUM-UP $800: King of Judah from 873 to 849 B.C.; succeeded by son Jehoram; name now generally found after "jumpin'" Jehoshaphat |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | OH, "MAN"! $1600: Leonardo's "Proportions of Man" is also called this, after a 1st century B.C. architect Vitruvian Man |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | ALL'S PHARAOH $800: After this man died in 323 B.C., Ptolemy, one of his generals, declared himself Pharaoh Alexander The Great |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | EGYPTIAN HISTORY $800: After the death of this Egyptian queen in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire Cleopatra |
| #4918, aired 2006-01-18 | REBUILDING $200: In 689 B.C. Sennacherib destroyed this city; its hanging gardens came after it was rebuilt Babylon |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE $800: This roamin' Roman led the invasions of Gaul in 58 B.C. & Britain in 55 B.C.; he'd be dead 11 years after that Julius Caesar |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | A VISIT TO ANCIENT EGYPT $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Luxor, Egypt.) Around 1500 B.C., after expelling Hyksos invaders, proud Egyptian rulers began the vast tomb area that we now call this the Valley of the Kings |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IT CHANGED THE WORLD $400: His empire collapsed after he died of a fever in 323 B.C.; guess he forgot to feed a cold Alexander the Great |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $800: Number of lost tribes of Israel after the defeat by the Assyrians in 721 B.C. 10 |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | DESPOTPOURRI $800: After an anti-Roman uprising in 40 B.C., this despot fled to Rome, where the Senate elected him King of Judea Herod (the Great) |
| #4401, aired 2003-10-27 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): After this 490 B.C. battle, a messenger ran 25 miles to Athens to announce the Athenian victory (the Battle of) Marathon |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In 332 B.C. this Macedonian conquered the Phoenician seaport of Tyre after a 7-month siege Alexander the Great |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $2,500 (Daily Double): He died on January 22, 1973; after services in Washington, D.C., he was buried on his Texas ranch Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | HISTORY OLDER THAN YOU $800: Around 1200 B.C. this Biblical man led his people to Canaan after their escape from slavery Moses |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | ENDS IN "X" $400: Dating from around 2500 B.C., it's 240 feet long, 66 feet tall & its face was modeled after the pharaoh Khafre the Sphinx |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | "J" WALKING $1200: After Solomon's death in 922 B.C., the Hebrews divided into 2 kingdoms: Israel & this one Judah |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | THE HISTORY OF INDIA $200: In the 200s B.C., after the bloody Kalinga campaign, King Ashoka embraced this religion & nonviolence Buddhism |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | DON'T MESS WITH SICILY $400: Sicily was ceded to the Romans in 241 B.C. after they won the first of these wars Punic |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | WEIRD SCIENCE $600: Georg Brandt isolated the metal that miners called Kobold, after an Earth spirit, & re-spelled it this way C-O-B-A-L-T |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | BEAUTY $400: B.C. (Before Christ) beauties include this woman who married King David 1 verse after mourning her previous husband Bathsheba |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | HISTORY $100: 7 years after crossing the Alps, he reached the gates of Rome with his troops in 211 B.C., but didn't get in Hannibal |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | WAY BACK WHEN $100: The earliest of these pictorial symbols used as writing by the Egyptians date back to around 3000 B.C. hieroglyphics |
| #3167, aired 1998-05-12 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY, MAN $600: After Judah refused to pay taxes in 602 B.C., this Babylonian king took over the kingdom Nebuchadnezzar |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | HISTORY $1000: Octavian became emperor after defeating this Roman at the 31 B.C. Battle of Actium Mark Antony |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | WORLD RELIGIONS $600: His enlightenment has been dated to around 528 B.C. after a 7-week stay under the bodhi tree Buddha |
| #2628, aired 1996-01-24 | "BEFORE" & "AFTER" $100: B.C. Before Christ |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: He became king of Babylonia in 605 B.C., after the death of his father, Nabopolassar Nebuchadnezzar |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | ODDS & ENDS $300: After this Roman dictator's murder in 44 B.C., the office of dictator was abolished Julius Caesar |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A few years after the death of Antipater in 43 B.C., Rome made this "Great" ruler King of Judea Herod |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | WORLD HISTORY $600: In 241 B.C. the first of these wars ended soon after Rome defeated Carthage in a naval battle off Sicily Punic Wars |
| #2323, aired 1994-10-12 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: After he became a magistrate of Carthage in 196 B.C., he went into exile to avoid being turned over to the Romans Hannibal |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | WORLD HISTORY $200: After his death in 323 B.C., wars divided his empire into 3 parts: Egypt, the Seleucid Empire & Macedon Alexander the Great |
| #2192, aired 1994-03-01 | ANCIENT EGYPT $400: Soon after the death of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of this empire Rome |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: After conquering Tyre in 332 B.C., he went to Egypt & was crowned pharaoh Alexander the Great |
| #2026, aired 1993-05-31 | PLATO $300: Plato wanted to enter politics but was disillusioned after this friend's execution in 399 B.C. Socrates |
| #1986, aired 1993-04-05 | HISTORY $200: After his death in 323 B.C., many years of conflict among his successors dismembered his empire Alexander the Great |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | "A" "B" "C"s $100: After a day of sunbathing, your mother might tell you you're as "red as" this vegetable a beet |
| #1791, aired 1992-05-18 | WORLD HISTORY $800: After the king of Caria died in 353 B.C., his widow had this memorial built at Halicarnassus the Mausoleum |
| #1773, aired 1992-04-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $300: After the palace of Knossos burned in the 1300s B.C., the Minoan culture on this island began to decline Crete |
| #1736, aired 1992-03-02 | CLICHES $800: In 447 B.C. Polycrates found a treasure after the Delphi oracle told him to "leave no stone" this unturned |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | ANCIENT HISTORY $700 (Daily Double): The Maurya Empire in this country began to fall apart after the death of Asoka c. 237 B.C. India |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: When he died at age 33 in 323 B.C. he left behind many cities named after him Alexander the Great |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | 19th C. AMERICANS $800: After Jim Bowie fell ill at the Alamo, Texans fought under the sole command of this lieutenant colonel William B. Travis |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | ANCIENT ROME $800: After the 1st 2 Punic Wars, this city paid big fines to Rome; after the 3rd war, in 146 B.C., Rome razed it Carthage |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | ANCIENT WORLD $600: He died in 323 B.C. at age 32 when he took ill after a long party with heavy drinking Alexander the Great |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | HISTORY $1000: After killing the defenders of the pass at Thermopylae, the Persians destroyed this city in 480 B.C. Athens |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | CONQUERORS $600: After conquering this African country around 1650 B.C. the Hyksos introduced horses & chariots Egypt |
| #1074, aired 1989-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: After Cleopatra's death in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of this ruling nation Rome |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: His philosophical works weren't known as the "Metaphysics" until after his death in 322 B.C. Aristotle |
| #942, aired 1988-10-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: After his death in 922 B.C., the 12 tribes of Israel split into 2 kingdoms Solomon |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | THE CALENDAR $500: The only month named after someone who dies in 44 B.C. July |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | WONDERS $1000: Finished after 12 years in 280 B.C., this giant statue was destroyed by earthquake about 50 years later the Colossus (of Rhodes) |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | ANCIENT TIMES $600: Three years after the Gauls attacked in 390 B.C., this city began building a wall around its 7 hills Rome |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | BATTLES $400: After the Gauls besieged this city in 390 B.C., they were bought off so they'd go home Rome |
| #438, aired 1986-05-14 | DRAMA $800 (Daily Double): In the 4th century B.C., this type of play was forbidden in Greece as demoralizing in time of war satire (comedy) |
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