#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | GETTING TOGETHER $800: These corporate meetings are often dull, but not when Ross Perot challenged GM's leadership in November 1985 a board (of directors) meeting |
#8866, aired 2023-05-08 | YEET! $400: In 2003 the board of directors decided to jettison these 3 letters that preceded Time Warner AOL |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | REMEMBERING PAST LIVES $6,200 (Daily Double): After a life as a political wife, she co-founded an addiction treatment center & chaired the board of directors until 2005 Betty Ford |
#7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THERE IS ROOM ON THAT BOARD! $400: If you want to join the board of directors, we need to put your name in for a vote by these people the shareholders |
#6683, aired 2013-10-09 | IRISH LITERATURE $1600: Prolific short story writer Frank O'Connor once served in the I.R.A. & on the board of directors of this playhouse the Abbey Playhouse |
#6517, aired 2013-01-08 | DIRECTOR $800: He joined Halliburton's board of directors in August 1995 & became CEO 2 months later Dick Cheney |
#6219, aired 2011-10-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: This medal given by the NAACP is named for a former chairman of its board of directors the Spingarn Medal |
#5698, aired 2009-05-20 | THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS $600: The volunteer board of directors includes Scott Hamilton & this perfect 10 Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci |
#5624, aired 2009-02-05 | FUNDRAISING $200: Keep a big donor's gifts flowing: put him on this "of directors" or "of governors" board |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $200: Edsel II has been a director of this, his family company, since 1988 Ford |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $400: Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn is on the board of this soda company Coca-Cola |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $800: Drinking & driving do mix: Andrew Taylor, CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, is a director of this hyphenated beer company Anheuser-Busch |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): It sounds odd that James Firestone joined this Ohio company's board in 2007 Goodyear |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $1000: The chief of medicine at Mass. General is on this company's board, so he can keep an eye on the Lipitor & Xanax Pfizer |
#5320, aired 2007-10-26 | LIBRARIES $1600: This Shakespeare library is administered by a board of directors under the auspices of Amherst College the Folger Library |
#5088, aired 2006-10-25 | GROUPS $800: William R. Howell (no relation to Thurston III) is on this body for Pfizer, Halliburton & Exxon Mobil a board of directors |
#4846, aired 2005-10-10 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $600: The people on the board that assigns these, such as G & R, have to have had kids ratings |
#4596, aired 2004-09-06 | "BOARD" $200: In 2003 Roy E. Disney left it after being on it since 1967 the Disney board of directors |
#4158, aired 2002-10-02 | "T" FOR ONE? $600: In July 2001 Liberty Media's John C. Malone resigned from this company's board of directors AT&T |
#3129, aired 1998-03-19 | ON THE BOARDS $400: In 1991, Ben Bradlee retired as the editor of this newspaper & joined its board of directors the Washington Post |
#2961, aired 1997-06-16 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: A 1996 Business Week survey called this soup company's board of directors "America's Best" Campbell's |
#2207, aired 1994-03-22 | TELEVISION HISTORY $400: He was named to the CBS board of directors after he gave up his news anchor position to Dan Rather Walter Cronkite |
#2096, aired 1993-10-18 | WORLD RELIGIONS $400: This church is run by a Board of Directors whose first members were appointed by Mary Baker Eddy the Christian Scientists |
#2029, aired 1993-06-03 | 1970 $200: He resigned from the board of directors of the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. he'd founded Colonel Sanders |
#896, aired 1988-06-27 | BUSINESS '88 $200: Since leaving the astronaut corps, she's joined the board of directors of Apple Computer (Sally) Ride |
#679, aired 1987-07-16 | WORDS OF THE '80s $400: It's a set of rules by a company's board of directors to ward off unwanted mergers, not "Jaws" shark repellent |
#640, aired 1987-05-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: It may not be news to you, but this newsman emeritus is on the CBS board of directors Walter Cronkite |
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