#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $400: The founder of the Russian Communist Party, he was also leader of the USSR until his death in 1924 Lenin |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $800: In 1935 Congress passed this act that established unemployment relief & old age pensions the Social Security Act |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $1200: This 4-time Olympic gold medalist got a parade in NYC but had to ride the freight elevator to his reception at the Waldorf Jesse Owens |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $1600: The Dawes Plan outlined how Germany would make these payments compensating the Allies for the cost of the war reparations |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $2000: This guerrilla leader murdered by Nicaraguan national guardsmen in 1934, gave his name to a revolutionary movement Sandino |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $200: Article 8 of the covenant of this world organization mandated reducing armaments to prevent war the League of Nations |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $400: Leading into the Great Depression was the great stock market crash in October of this year 1929 |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $600: An organized march on Rome in October 1922 brought this man & his Fascist Party to power Mussolini |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $800: In March 1925 the Butler Act was passed, prohibiting the teaching of this in Tennessee schools evolution |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $1000: In 1936, Edward VIII advised Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that he planned to marry this American divorcée (Wallis Warfield) Simpson |
#6928, aired 2014-10-29 | MALTIN ON MOVIES $2000: (Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) Wes Anderson's filmmaking is inspired in this flamboyant movie mostly set between World Wars in Eastern Europe; I called it the first great movie of 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel |
#3729, aired 2000-11-16 | BETWEEN WORLD WARS $100: A 1925 storm spelled disaster for the helium-filled Shenandoah, one of these transports Zeppelin/airship |
#3729, aired 2000-11-16 | BETWEEN WORLD WARS $200: The Allies had a "fixed" income after WWI, asking 132 billion marks in these German compensation payments Reparations |
#3729, aired 2000-11-16 | BETWEEN WORLD WARS $300: In 1924 Ramsay MacDonald, son of a servant girl, became Britain's first PM from this working man's party Labour |
#3729, aired 2000-11-16 | BETWEEN WORLD WARS $400: He's the bright light of '20s lit, seen here F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#3729, aired 2000-11-16 | BETWEEN WORLD WARS $500: In 1933 the League of Nations voted 42-1 to condemn the invasion of Manchuria, the 1 being this invader Japan |
#1007, aired 1989-01-10 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Wars between Italy & this African country broke out in 1887, 1895 & 1935 Ethiopia |
#147, aired 1985-04-02 | DRAMA $800: The women in "Lysistrata" swear to be celibate until this is brought to an end the Peloponnesian Wars |