| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Scholars can't read a 10-word column found in Guatemala but know it means these people had writing in 2300 B.C. the Mayans |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: The Shan-Yang one of these waterways was built in China as early as the 300s B.C. a canal |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $1200: During this Carthaginian's crossing of the Alps in 218 B.C., he lost at least 10,000 men & most of his elephants Hannibal |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $1600: In the 700s B.C., the Kingdom of Kush conquered this neighbor to the north, establishing its 25th dynasty Egypt |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $2000: The first palace at Knossos on this Mediterranean island was built around 2000 B.C. Crete |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion Buddhism |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | B.C. TIMES $200: He was about 45 when he invaded Britain in 55 B.C. & 50 when he conquered Gaul Julius Caesar |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | B.C. TIMES $400: In 1998 Egypt unveiled the results of its 10-year-long facelift on this landmark built around 2540 B.C. the sphinx |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | B.C. TIMES $600: Of the few extant plays from the great ancient playwrights, 2 are about this sister of Orestes Electra |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | B.C. TIMES $800: During the Third Punic War, Rome destroyed this city, killing many & enslaving 50,000 Carthage |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | B.C. TIMES $1000: We never "Tyre" of hearing about the seafarers with this Greek name whose major cities included Sidon & Byblos the Phoenicians |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: This Macedonian General began his war against the Persian Empire by crossing the Hellespont in the spring of 334 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | ANCIENT TIMES $1200: This Greek was condemned to death in 399 B.C. for "impiety" & "corrupting the youth" Socrates |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | ANCIENT TIMES $2000: This ancient wonder was built around 353 B.C. as a tomb for a provincial ruler of the Persian Empire the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | SCIENCE OF THE TIMES $800: 4th century B.C.:
Aristotle writes, "It is agreed that there are...only two solids, the pyramid and" this geometric one cube |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | ANCIENT TIMES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 31 B.C., Mark Antony's army camped on this cape before his battle with Octavian off its gulf Actium |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | B.C. TIMES $200: Ancient miners using one of these to filter out gold may have inspired the object of Jason's quest a fleece |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | B.C. TIMES $400: The condemned Socrates had a choice of going into exile or drinking this; he chose the latter Hemlock |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | B.C. TIMES $600: With his temple finished around 950 B.C., he built palaces for himself & his wife, the daughter of a pharaoh Solomon |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | B.C. TIMES $800: In 1792 B.C. this Semite sat down on the throne of Babylon; he ruled until 1750 Hammurabi |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | B.C. TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): His laws for Athens in 621 B.C. were said to have been written in blood, due to the number of death penalties Draco |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $200: In a 1976 Playboy interview, Jimmy Carter said he'd committed this in his heart many times adultery |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | ANCIENT TIMES $1000: In 422 B.C. Athenians were all "abuzz" over this Aristophanes comedy that features a chorus of insects The Wasps |
| #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 |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | ANCIENT TIMES $1,500 (Daily Double): Artaxerxes III, who ruled this empire, was murdered by a eunuch named Bagoas in 338 B.C. the Persian Empire |
| #2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ANCIENT TIMES $500: At his death in 323 B.C., Alexander the Great's empire covered parts of these 3 continents Europe, Asia & Africa |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | ANCIENT TIMES $1000: Ashurbanipal, who assembled a great ancient library at Nineveh, ruled this kingdom 668-627 B.C. Assyria |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | ANCIENT TIMES $200: Around 500 B.C. Greek kids were playing with this toy popularized in the U.S. by Donald Duncan in the 1920s a yo-yo |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: Acrobatic leaping over charging bulls was popular in this civilization on Crete c. 1600 B.C. the Minoan civilization |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | ANCIENT TIMES $1000: The Lydians used to mint gold coins about 560 B.C. under the reign of this rich king (King) Croesus |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: This Thracian slave & gladiator was finally defeated by Crassus in 71 B.C. Spartacus |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | ANCIENT TIMES $1000: This greatest of Greek orators killed himself by taking poison in 322 B.C. Demosthenes |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | ANCIENT TIMES $1,500 (Daily Double): In 331 B.C. his troops plundered Persepolis & burned the palace of Xerxes Alexander the Great |
| #964, aired 1988-11-10 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: With the defeat of this man at Actium in 31 B.C., Octavian had full control of the Roman Empire Mark Antony (or Marcus Antonius) |
| #731, aired 1987-11-09 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: In 55 and 54 B.C., his forces invaded Britain Julius Caesar |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: Modern-day country in which the Olmecs, or "rubber people", flourished from 1200 to 100 B.C. Mexico |
| #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 |
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