| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $800: In P. Djèlí Clark's "Ring Shout", klansmen summon demons during a viewing of this 1915 D.W. Griffith film The Birth of a Nation |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ENTERTAINMENT $2000: AFI's first "100 Greatest American Movies" list included this D.W. Griffith silent epic; on an updated list, it was gone Birth of a Nation |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | LIBRA-RIANS $1600: In the film "The Birth of a Nation", Scorpio Nate Parker played this Libra, leader of a slave rebellion Nat Turner |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THE SILENT MOVIE ERA $1200: 1915's "The Birth of a Nation" is controversial today, as it glorified this sheety group the Ku Klux Klan |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | INITIALLY YOURS $800: "Intolerance" was this director's answer to critics of his earlier film "Birth of a Nation" D.W. Griffith |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | BEFORE THE EURO $1200: In 1997 this nation issued a coin to honor the 100th anniversary of Paavo Nurmi's birth Finland |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BIRTH OF A NATION $400: The Republic of Ireland: April 18, 1949, this significant Monday Easter Monday |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BIRTH OF A NATION $800: The Czech Republic: January 1, 1993, with this author as its first president Václav Havel |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BIRTH OF A NATION $1200: This country: September 21, 1991, with Levon Ter-Petrosyan as its first president Armenia |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BIRTH OF A NATION $2,000 (Daily Double): This country: June 17, 1944, with Sveinn Bjornsson as its first president Iceland |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BIRTH OF A NATION $2000: Indonesia: August 17, 1945, though this nation that had ruled it didn't recognize it until 1949 the Netherlands |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | INITIALLY YOURS $400: When this director's "The Birth of a Nation" was released in 1915, tickets were an unheard of $2 D.W. Griffith |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | L.A. STORY $800: An observatory & a park in L.A. are named not for a"Birth of a Nation" but rather a colonel with this surname Griffith |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | THUNDER & LIGHTNING $1600: Upon seeing "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915, this president said, "It is like writing history with lightning" Wilson |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | RALEIGH PEOPLE $1600: Thomas Dixon, a minister in Raleigh, penned "The Clansman"; this director filmed it as "The Birth of a Nation" D.W. Griffith |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BOOK TO MOVIE $400: 1905's "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon, Jr. became this silent D.W. Griffith classic Birth of a Nation |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | BOX OFFICE BLOCKBUSTERS $2000: This 1915 historic American epic directed by D.W. Griffith grossed over $10M Birth of a Nation |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | BIRTH OF A NATION $200: July 4, 1946:
The U.S. grants full independence to these Asian islands Philippines |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | BIRTH OF A NATION $400: Aug. 14 & 15, 1947:
These 2 nations are granted independence by Great Britain India & Pakistan |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | BIRTH OF A NATION $600: June 30, 1960:
This country's King Baudouin grants independence to its large Congolese colony Belgium |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | BIRTH OF A NATION $800: May 1967:
Biafra unilaterally declares its independence from this African country Nigeria |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | BIRTH OF A NATION $1000: Nov. 11, 1975:
Angola becomes this country's last African colony to gain independence Portugal |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $800: Set in Biblical times, this "racy" classic by Civil War general Lew Wallace is subtitled "A Tale of the Christ" Ben-Hur |
| #3843, aired 2001-04-25 | HOLLYWOOD $1000: This landmark D.W. Griffith epic interweaves 4 stories of prejudice & inhumanity from ancient times on Intolerance |
| #3686, aired 2000-09-18 | FORD $100: John Ford, then billed as Jack Ford, was a Klansman in this 1915 D.W. Griffith epic Birth of A Nation |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | SILENT MOVIES $600: Future director Raoul Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in this 1915 D.W. Griffith film Birth of a Nation |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | ODD COUPLES $400: "Birth of a Nation"'s director casts his matrimonial net over Antonio Banderas' wife D.W. & Melanie Griffith |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | NOEL $400: As a teenager, Noel appeared in this "Birth of a Nation" director's silent film "Hearts of the World" in 1918 D.W. Griffith |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $900 (Daily Double): Joseph Henabery played Abraham Lincoln in this classic film, seen here: (directed by D.W. Griffith in 1915) The Birth Of A Nation |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | MOVIE DEBUTS $400: Mike Myers' first film was "Birth of a Nation" -- Not! It was really this 1992 hit, with Dana Carvey Wayne's World |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: This director of "The Birth of a Nation" was the son of a Confederate army officer D.W. Griffith |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | SILENT MOVIES $400: "Way Down East" was this director's second biggest moneymaker, after "The Birth of a Nation" D.W. Griffith |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | SILENT MOVIES $200: He made "Intolerance" in part due to what he thought was intolerant reaction to "The Birth of a Nation" D.W. Griffith |
| #2404, aired 1995-02-02 | FEBRUARY 8 $400: In 1915 this silent film originally titled "The Clansman" premiered in L.A. at Clune's Auditorium Birth of a Nation |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | THE MOVIES $600: Joseph Henabery not only played this president but 13 other roles in "The Birth of a Nation" Lincoln |
| #2162, aired 1994-01-18 | SILENT MOVIES $500: This "Birth of a Nation" director wrote some screenplays under the pseudonym Irene Sinclair D.W. Griffith |
| #1924, aired 1993-01-07 | SILENT MOVIES $300: This D.W. Griffith film premiered in 1915 under the title "The Clansman" Birth of a Nation |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: Most of his profits from "The Birth of a Nation" were lost when he made "Intolerance" D.W. Griffith |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | AWARDS $600: The Directors Guild of America's top honorary award is named for this "Birth of a Nation" director (D.W.) Griffith |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: John Ford said he played one of the Ku Klux Klan members in this D.W. Griffith film Birth of a Nation |
| #1143, aired 1989-07-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $500: When John Gielgud played Hamlet in 1936, this "Birth of a Nation" star was his Ophelia Lillian Gish |
| #1127, aired 1989-06-27 | "FREEDOM" $1000: In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln pledged that our "nation, under God, shall have" this a new birth of freedom |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | HOLLYWOOD QUOTES $500: Frank Capra dubbed this director of "The Birth of a Nation" "The Poor Man's Shakespeare" D.W. Griffith |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | SILENT MOVIES $400: He was White Arm Joe in "The Birth of a Nation", but is better known as the screen's first "Tarzan" Elmo Lincoln |
| #960, aired 1988-11-04 | QUOTES $1000: "Birth of a Nation" star who said in 1987, "Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit" Lilian Gish |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | KENTUCKYIANS $800: Son of a Confederate col., this filmmaker's "Birth of a Nation" was sympathetic to the Confederacy D.W. Griffith |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" was based on this 1905 book by Thomas Dixon The Clansman |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $400: In 1915 film, "Birth of a Nation", Joseph Henabery played this president Abraham Lincoln |
| #357, aired 1986-01-21 | THE CONFEDERACY $200: D.W. Griffith classic which told of war & aftermath from Southern point of view The Birth of a Nation |
| #334, aired 1985-12-19 | THE '20s $600: Though shown in the White House in 1915, this D. W. Griffith film was banned in Boston in 1921 Birth of a Nation |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | CLASSIC CINEMA $800: "It is like writing history with lightning," Wilson said of this first film shown in the White House Birth of a Nation |
| #62, aired 1984-12-04 | NOTORIOUS $200: White supremacy group depicted as heroes in film classic "Birth of a Nation" the Ku Klux Klan |
