| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $200: A:
Present plural of "to be" are |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | THERE WILL BE "RAM"IFICATIONS $200: The first pharaoh of this name ruled around 1293 B.C. Ramses |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $1600: "Beggars
C. B. C." can't be choosers |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | WHEN THEY WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL $800: As a teen in B.C., she said her goal was "to be a California beach bum"--she got her wish on "Baywatch" Pamela Anderson |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | GEOLOGY $600: In the 5th century B.C., Empedocles argued that everything that exists can be reduced to these 4 elements earth, air, water & fire |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | THE ANCIENTS $800: In 55 B.C. Cicero published "On" this type of person who may be described as silver-tongued an orator |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | EPIC POEMS AS COUNTRY SONGS $800: 800s B.C., maybe:
"I might be a long-lost husband, but that don't mean you get my wife" the Odyssey |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | EPIC POEMS AS COUNTRY SONGS $1600: Around 20 B.C.:
"I left Troy behind me 'cause I had to be a Roman" the Aeneid |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | SCIENCE $400: Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver disease, type A, B or C hepatitis |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $600: In 45 B.C. this Roman's army defeated the 2 sons of Pompey; it would be his final battle Julius Caesar |
| #4977, aired 2006-04-11 | CANDLE IN THE WIND $800: Candles can be made of animal fat or this nonglycerine substance used as early as 3000 B.C. beeswax |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | BE B.C. $400: This noted writer was actually the nephew, not the son, of Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | BE B.C. $800: This physician was referred to as the Asclepiad of Cos--I'd swear an oath on it Hippocrates |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | BE B.C. $1,800 (Daily Double): This "great" guy got a gig as governor of Galilee in 47 B.C.; a few years later, he was king of Judea Herod the Great |
| #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 |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | RELIGION $800: It can be any person who's reached Nirvana, or a specific one of the 6th century B.C. buddha |
| #4511, aired 2004-03-29 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In 621 B.C. this Greek lawmaker introduced a code of law so harsh it was said to be written in blood Draco |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | C D "B" $600: Be prepared to fly along at breakneck speeds using one of these transports bobsled |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | SOMETIME, B.C. $600: Dying in 149 B.C. finally stopped Roman statesman Cato from nagging, this African city "must be destroyed" Carthage |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $800: Written in 405 B.C., this comedy by Aristophanes really is all it's "croaked" up to be The Frogs |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | JUST A THOUGHT $1600: All this Chinese philosopher born in 551 B.C. wanted was to bring back a golden age & for people to be respectful Confucius |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | AS EASY AS A,B,C $800: Of adagio, bellagio & collegio, what UNLV would be to an Italian collegio |
| #4063, aired 2002-04-10 | B.C. $2000: Carved out near Aswan around 1250 B.C., the temples at this Egyptian site were moved in the 1960s A.D. Abu Simbel |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $100: Adjective for an expense that can be subtracted from earnings in regards to income taxes D-E-D-U-C-T-I-B-L-E |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $1000: Smyrna, which claimed to be the birthplace of this poet, put him on a 2nd century B.C. coin Homer |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | EARLY MAN $100: Evidence from Israel shows c. 10,000 B.C. these were the first animals to be domesticated Dogs |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | POT LUCK $400: This Latin motto on our coins can be traced back to Virgil's "Moretum" in the first century B.C. E Pluribus Unum |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: This instrument also known as a mouth organ can be traced back to the Chinese sheng of 1100 B.C. the harmonica |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $300: The tomato type of this gelatin salad can be made with canned tomato juice aspic |
| #1750, aired 1992-03-20 | THE CALENDAR $600: This calendar counts its years from what would be 3761 B.C. on the Gregorian calendar the Jewish calendar |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: The pharaoh of the biblical Exodus is believed to be this king who ruled until about 1224 B.C. Ramses (Ramses II) |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | SWITZERLAND $400: In 58 B.C., his armies conquered the Helvetians, a Celtic people living in what is now Switzerland Julius Caesar |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: Hatshepsut, who ruled this country 1503-1482 B.C., claimed to be the daughter of the god Amon Egypt |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | HISTORY $200: This Roman general invaded Britain in 55-54 B.C. Julius Caesar |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | FRANCE $500: Vercingetorix was the last chieftain in Gaul to be defeated by this conqueror in 52 B.C. (Julius) Caesar |
| #843, aired 1988-04-13 | MATHEMATICS $500: About 300 B.C., he postulated "a straight line can be drawn from any point to any other point" Euclid |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | TESTS $100: Type of test in which you might be asked to select A,B,C, or none of the above a multiple choice test |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | ALPHABET SOUP $400: Caveman comic strip created by Johnny Hart "B.C." |
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