| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $400: On a high stone pyramid, Aztec priests performed sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli, god of this heavenly body the Sun |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $800: Road-building & irrigation--lots of infrastructure investment by this S. American people who ruled an empire of nearly 12 million the Inca |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $1200: This "green table" region of southwest Colorado was home to Pueblo cliff dwellers more than 7 centuries ago Mesa Verde |
| #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 |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | HISTORY $1000: Born in Italy, he helped prep the ships for Columbus' second & third voyagers before setting to sea himself Vespucci |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | THE HISTORY BOOKSHELF $400: Charles C. Mann's work entitled this year, subtitled "New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" 1491 |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | ISLE BE SEEING YOU $1,200 (Daily Double): Gomera in this Spanish group was the last stop for Columbus before he headed across the Atlantic to the New World the Canary Islands |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | SERIOUS NONFICTION $1,200 (Daily Double): With this year for a book title, Charles C. Mann brings to life what civilization was like in the Americas before Columbus 1491 |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | ON YOUR COLLEGE VISIT... $600: Make sure to put "the" before the rest of the name of this Big 10 university in Columbus The Ohio State University |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | GOODBYE, COLUMBUS $800: Sometime before 1477, Columbus bade farewell to this Italian city of his birth Genoa |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | UNIVERSE $200: Even before Columbus, people knew the Earth wasn't this, but NASA's WMAP probe says the universe is flat |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959 Philip Roth |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: In 2006 it was celebrated on October 9, 3 days before its traditional observance Columbus Day |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | OLD TRAVEL BOOKS $1,500 (Daily Double): By his account, he reached the New World's mainland 14 months before Columbus; that's why we're not in Columbia Amerigo Vespucci |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | A HORATIO ALGAE NOVEL $600: Seafaring algae gave their name to this "sea" in the Atlantic that Columbus encountered Sargasso |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $800: He appeared as Ali MacGraw's dad in "Goodbye, Columbus" before he was TV's Oscar Madison Jack Klugman |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | EXPLORERS $400: This Icelandic explorer whose statue is seen here visited America almost 500 years before Columbus Leif Ericson |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | BEFORE COLUMBUS $100: Centuries before Columbus, these people encountered Native Americans & called them skraelings Vikings |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | BEFORE COLUMBUS $200: Around 9000 B.C., herds of these large wild cattle dramatically increased & became a major food source buffalo (or bison) |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | BEFORE COLUMBUS $400: In the 1100s the Awatovi Pueblos near what is now Tuba City in this state housed 1,000 people in 1,300 rooms Arizona |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | BEFORE COLUMBUS $500 (Daily Double): The name of this light axe used as both weapon & tool comes from the proto-Algonquin for "to cut off" a tomahawk |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | BEFORE COLUMBUS $500: The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga & Seneca tribes made up this "League" founded around 1450 the Iroquois League |
| #1622, aired 1991-09-24 | WILDE $100: "Of course America had often been discovered before" him, "but it had always been hushed up" Columbus |
| #1527, aired 1991-04-02 | HISTORY $800: 400 years before Columbus, Leif Ericson reached North America & called it this Vinland |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | ISLANDS $1000: These islands off the African coast were the last stop Columbus made before he headed west to the New World the Canary Islands |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | DISCOVERIES $200: Over 400 years before surgeon general's report, Columbus discovered Indians enjoying this tobacco |
| #349, aired 1986-01-09 | SPORTS $200: Considered oldest sport in America, Hawaiians did it before Columbus discovered America surfing |
| #17, aired 1984-10-02 | CONQUERORS $400: Pagan Scandinavians who attacked western Europe & reached America before Columbus the Vikings |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | EXPLORERS $200: Norse explorer who landed in America 500 years before Columbus Leif Erikson |
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