#11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: Last name of pioneering doctors & sisters Elizabeth & Emily, subjects of a recent biography on how they changed medicine Blackwell |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $200: In 1991 William Martin called this North Carolina evangelist a "Prophet With Honor" Billy Graham |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $400: Robert Massie's detailed biography of this Russian ruler is subtitled "Portrait of a Woman" Catherine the Great |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $800: "The Professor and the Madman" is about the insane murderer who helped create this reference work the OED, or the Oxford Dictionary |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Peter Guralnick's book about "The Rise of Elvis Presley" is aptly titled "Last Train to" this city Memphis |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1000: "The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters" is about "The Tragic and Glamorous Lives" of Jackie Kennedy & this sis, who died in 2019 Lee Radziwill |
#6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $200: "Nevermore: A Photobiography of" him (Edgar Allan) Poe |
#6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $400: This man: "Billionaire Computer Genius" Bill Gates |
#6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $800: "The General": this man "and the France He Saved" (Charles) de Gaulle |
#6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): By Joe McGinniss, "The Rogue: Searching for the Real" this politician Sarah Palin |
#6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1000: This woman: "Daring to Vote" Susan B. Anthony |
#6741, aired 2013-12-30 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $400: A botanist & chemist: "Wizard of Tuskegee" George Washington Carver |
#6741, aired 2013-12-30 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1200: A British film director: "The Dark Side of Genius" Alfred Hitchcock |
#6741, aired 2013-12-30 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1600: An American novelist: "Just One Catch" (Joseph) Heller |
#6741, aired 2013-12-30 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2000: A religious leader: "Here I Stand" Martin Luther |
#6741, aired 2013-12-30 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2,200 (Daily Double): An explorer: "The Man Who Presumed" Henry Morton Stanley |
#6139, aired 2011-04-28 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $400: Catherine Reef's biography of this Austrian is subtitled "Pioneer of the Mind" (Sigmund) Freud |
#6139, aired 2011-04-28 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $800: Erin Arvedlund's "Too Good to be True" follows the rise & fall of this Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff |
#6139, aired 2011-04-28 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1600: "The Irregulars" chronicles this creator of Willy Wonka & "The British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington" Roald Dahl |
#6139, aired 2011-04-28 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Noel Riley Fitch chronicled this chef's "Appetite for Life" Julia Child |
#6139, aired 2011-04-28 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2000: "We Two" calls this 19th century royal couple "rulers, partners, rivals" Victoria & Albert |
#5041, aired 2006-07-10 | BIO SUBJECTS $1600: Joseph J. Ellis' biography of this 18th century man is called "His Excellency" Washington |
#4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BIO SUBJECTS $600: This writer's name precedes "and the Lost Boys" in the title of a biography by Andrew Birkin J.M. Barrie |