| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: A draft document called the Articles of the Barons preceded this one to which the king set his seal in 1215 the Magna Carta |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: This Shakespearean actor was knighted in 1947 and became Baron of Brighton in 1970 for his theater work Laurence Olivier |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $800: This baroness had a cameo in "The Sound of Music"; she can be seen in the background as Julie Andrews sings "I have confidence" von Trapp |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1200: This Danish author became a baroness upon marrying her cousin, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, in 1914 (Isak) Dinesen |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1600: Instrumental in the revival of the Olympic games, this Frenchman served as president of the IOC from 1896 to 1925 de Coubertin |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | BARONS & BARONESSES $2000: The sky is blue because of the dispersion of light called this "scattering" named for a British baron Rayleigh scattering |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | ACROSS HISTORY $200: In June 1215 King John accepted the Articles of the Barons, a basis for this document the Magna Carta |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Term for businessman like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of "The Modern" these who "Plunder at Will" Robber Barons |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE! $2000: In 1215 the Articles of Barons, or Magna Carta, was sealed by King John in this mede or meadow Runnymede |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $400: This Brazilian city's Avenida Paulista, laid out in 1891, was once lined with the villas of coffee barons São Paulo |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | SOME TIMES $1000: A volume of the "Oxford History of the United States" covers "Reconstruction &" this "Age" of robber barons the Gilded Age |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $400: Financier James Fisk, "The Barnum of" this NYC street, was shot to death by a business & love rival Wall Street |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $800: Carnegie chairman Henry Clay Frick survived being shot & stabbed during an 1892 labor dispute in this industry the steel industry |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $1,000 (Daily Double): 1860s Calif. governor & university founder: it's said he used bribery & intimidation to help amass his fortune (Leland) Stanford |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $1200: Rich enough to be almost a one-man central bank, he got his middle initial P. from the Pierponts, who helped found Yale (J.P.) Morgan |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $2000: A true pioneer of robber baroning, he incorporated the American Fur Company way back in 1808 (John Jacob) Astor |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | A MAN FOR 2 SEASONS $400: In 1994 he took a basketball time out to hit .202 for the Birmingham Barons Michael Jordan |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | CROOKS & NANNIES $400: Unscrupulous 19th century financiers like James Fisk were known as "robber" these barons |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | AND SO IT BEGINS... $400: "John, by the grace of God, king of England... to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons..." the Magna Carta |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: A draft document called the Articles of the Barons preceded this one to which the king set his seal in 1215 the Magna Carta |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP $2000: Captured by barons, Henry III was freed in 1265 by his son, the future first king of this name Edward |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BARONS & BARONESSES $200: In 1992, 2 years after leaving Downing Street, she became Baroness of Kesteven (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: Baroness Bertha von Suttner, author of the 1889 novel "Lay Down Your Arms", pushed for the creation of this Nobel Prize the Peace Prize |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BARONS & BARONESSES $600: On April 21, 1918 this commander of Germany's flying circus was shot down & killed over the Somme the Red Baron |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BARONS & BARONESSES $800: This star of "Freaky Friday" & "True Lies" became a baroness when her husband Christopher Guest inherited his title Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1000: In 1885 Nathan of this banking family became the first Jewish member of Britain's House of Lords Rothschild |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $400: Henry Frick made a fortune supplying the Pittsburgh steel industry with this product made from heating pulverized coal coke |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $1200: The "P." in the name of this preeminent banker of the Gilded Age stood for Pierpont, his mother's family (J.P.) Morgan |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $1600: 5 years after this act was passed, the Supreme Court gutted it in 1895's United States v. E.C. Knight the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $2000: Montana's Marcus Daly owned this, the USA's richest copper mine, as well as the town named for it Anaconda |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $7,100 (Daily Double): In 1890 he became president of the American Tobacco Company in Durham, North Carolina (James Buchanan) Duke |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1200: He's the baron who wrote the lines "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die" Tennyson |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BARONS & BARONESSES $2000: In 1955 this Woolworth heiress married her 6th husband, German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm Barbara Hutton |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BARONS & BARONESSES $7,000 (Daily Double): Rudolf Erich Raspe wrote a 1785 booklet of tall tales about him; the real baron disapproved Baron von Munchausen |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | BASKETBALL $600: In 1994 he hit 3 HRs for the Double-A Birmingham Barons; in '96 he was the NBA's season & finals MVP Michael Jordan |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | THEY'RE BIG $2000: The Big 4 transcontinental railroad barons:
Hopkins,
Huntington,
Crocker,
him Leland Stanford |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | THE MAGNA CARTA $800: This English king was forced to agree to the Magna Carta after a group of Barons captured London King John |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | WHACK $1000: Thomas a Becket was killed by 4 of this king's men after excommunicating some bishops & barons Henry II |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | MICHAEL JORDAN $400: During his first retirement, Michael played minor league baseball for the Barons of this Alabama city Birmingham |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | CITY OF THE DAY: BIRMINGHAM $1200: Michael Jordan could tell you this name for Birmingham's current minor league baseball team the Barons |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | CLEVELAND ATHLETES $600: Nolan Schaefer of Yellow Grass, Sask. & Glenn Olson of Port McNeil, B.C. play this sport for the Cleveland Barons hockey |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | ALL THE "RIGHT" MOVES $1000: It's the correct 2-word prefix to the titles of earls & barons Right Honourable |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: In 1979 she became the first woman prime minister in Europe; 13 years later she became a baroness (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $800: In 1927 this Austrian baron married his children's governess, Maria Augusta Kutschera Baron von Trapp |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1200: In June 1960 this future baroness established a camp at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve to study chimps (Jane) Goodall |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1600: A sports trophy is named for the Canadian baron who donated it, Frederick Arthur, who was Lord this of Preston Stanley |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $2000: For his role in training Revolutionary War troops, this Prussian was awarded 16,000 acres in New York Baron von Steuben |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | ESPN's TOP 10 ALL-TIME ATHLETES $400: No. 8: 30 steals for the Birmingham Barons; 2,306 steals for the Bulls Michael Jordan |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | THE OLD NEGRO LEAGUES $1200: This ageless pitcher who played with the Birmingham Black Barons later made it to the majors with Cleveland Satchel Paige |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): 5 brothers of this influential banking family were all made barons in 1822 Rothschild |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | SPORT-O-RAMA $800: Michael Jordan once played outfield for the minor league Barons of this Southern city Birmingham |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | SPRING $300: In 1994 this NBA star was in spring training with the Class AA Birmingham Barons baseball team Michael Jordan |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | ALL THINGS BRITISH $200: (Alex Trebek reads from England.) In 1214 barons fed up with King John met at the abbey whose ruins we see here; the result a year later was this charter Magna Carta |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | MIND YOUR BUSINESS $200: Turn-of-the-century businessmen like Vanderbilt & Rockefeller were known as "robber" these Barons |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | MY LIFE OF "E"S $300: Viscounts & barons needn't bother inviting me over -- I only hobnob with at least this grade of nobleman Earl |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | LOUIS $800: In 1216 a group of British barons offered Louis VIII the throne if he'd help them get rid of this king John |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB $100: He played outfield for the Birmingham Barons before returning to the Bulls Michael Jordan |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $350 (Daily Double): Famed member of the 1994 Birmingham Barons seen here: Michael Jordan |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | BARONS $200: This "Red Baron" commanded Fighter Group I with its fancifully decorated scarlet planes Manfred von Richthofen |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | BARONS $400: This actor was knighted in 1947 & was created a baron in 1970 (Laurence) Olivier |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | BARONS $600: This founder of the Boy Scouts also organized the South African Constabulary Baden-Powell |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | BARONS $800: Rudolf Erich Raspe wrote an account of this German soldier's marvelous travels & campaigns Baron von Munchausen |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | BARONS $1000: This Prussian-American general participated in the 1780 trial of Major John Andre Baron von Steuben |
| #2757, aired 1996-09-03 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Barons & churchmen drew up this 1215 document to reduce the power of England's King John The Magna Carta |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BRITISH HISTORY $100: King John's failure to honor this document in 1215 led to a rebellion by the barons Magna Carta |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | RANKS & TITLES $500: Some barons, like Tennyson, write their names this way:
first name, comma, this title, last name Lord |
| #1886, aired 1992-11-16 | "B" IN LITERATURE $1000: His historical novels include "The Last of the Barons" & "The Last Days of Pompeii" Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | BARONS & BARONESSES $200: Diana might tell you his many titles include Lord of the Isles & Baron Renfrew Prince Charles |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: Add 1 letter to "baron" to get this word for a baron's domain barony |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | BARONS & BARONESSES $600: Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke as this authoress' cousin & her husband, too Isak Dinesen |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | BARONS & BARONESSES $800: This German baron who fought in the American Revolution had a city in Ohio named for him (von) Steuben |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1000: A loose overcoat & a style of sleeve were named for this baron, a field marshal Raglan |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $200: In Great Britain a baron is entitled to a seat in this house House of Lords |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: After his war service Baron Von Steuben became a citizen of this country the U.S. |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $600: This baron married his children's governess in 1927, not on the eve of World War II as the film implies Baron von Trapp |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $800: Meryl Streep played this famous baroness in "Out of Africa" Blixen (Isak Dinesen) |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1000: Baroness Orczy wrote novels about this fictional hero of the French Revolution the Scarlet Pimpernel |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | BARONS & BARONESSES $200: Baroness von Suttner, a pacifist, encouraged the creation of this prize & won it herself in 1905 a Nobel Peace Prize |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: Derisive epithet used to describe some powerful American capitalists of the late 1800s robber barons |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | BARONS & BARONESSES $600: 5 sons of the founder of this banking dynasty became barons of the Austrian Empire the Rothschilds |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | BARONS & BARONESSES $800: After serving with the Russians against the Turks, this German retired & became famous for his tall tales Baron Munchausen |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1000: This poet who wrote "Idylls of the King" wasn't a king, but he was a baron (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $200: Flying an airplane of this color, Baron Manfred von Richthofen was shot down April 21, 1918 red |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $400: This hockey trophy was named for the baron who donated it in 1893 the Stanley Cup |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $600: This late Shakespearean actor became a baron in 1970 Laurence Olivier |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $800: This Woolworth heiress' 6th husband was the tennis-playing Baron Gottfried von Cramm Barbara Hutton |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1,500 (Daily Double): Rogers & Hammerstein based their last musical on the life of this baroness Maria von Trapp |
| #960, aired 1988-11-04 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: From French for "a discussion", it evolved from a medieval assembly of Barons & prelates parliament |
| #932, aired 1988-09-27 | N. AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Barons, earls, viscounts & 1 woman, Jeanne Sauve, have all been governors gen. of this country Canada |
| #170, aired 1985-05-03 | THE MIDDLE AGES $200: English barons forced King John to affix his seal to it at Runnymede the Magna Carta |
| #61, aired 1984-12-03 | ENGLAND $600: English barons forced this royal enemy of Robin Hood to sign the Magna Carta King John I |
