| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: From 1612 to 1614 this Cretan-born artist painted the "Adoration of the Shepherds" for his own burial chapel El Greco |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $400: "Early in the spring of 1750... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Haley |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $400: The last first lady born in the 1800s, she passed away in 1979, outliving Dwight by 10 years Mamie Eisenhower |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENCE $200: For most, birthdays come once a year, except for those born on this date, who in a way, get older slower than the rest of us February 29th |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $400: These twin TV actresses & entrepreneurs were born June 13, 1986 Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LIVED PAST 100 $800: The first foreign-born citizen to hold the post of secretary of state, he lived 6 months past his 100th birthday Henry Kissinger |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $800: Jeff Fischer got the role he was born to play: Jeff Fischer, Hayley Smith's hubby & pal to a talking fish & an alien on this TBS cartoon American Dad! |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1600: The 1996 book "Down in the Garden" was a bestseller for this Australian-born photographer known for her baby pictures Geddes |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $1000: This state's flag bears the words "Battle Born", referring to it becoming a state during the Civil War Nevada |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | BRITISH EXPLORERS $1600: Born in the county of Devon, Francis Drake was knighted in 1581 & made mayor of this English Channel port there Plymouth |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HIP-POP $2000: Hip-hop artist Chris Rivers is the son of this "Big" guy born Christopher Rios, the first Latino solo rapper to go platinum Big Pun |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | COMPOSERS $400: Born in Bergen, Norway, Nina Hagerup married this cousin in 1867 & went on to interpret his songs Grieg |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $800: Stephen Hawking gave us "A Brief History of Time" & this American-born writer gave us "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (Bill) Bryson |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1200: This Swiss-born psychiatrist known for identifying 5 stages of grief Kübler-Ross |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE LOCALS $800: Born within the sound of the St. Mary-leBow church bells, you're one of these colorful-talking Londoners Cockneys |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $800: This Munich-born documentary & film legend played Keg Jeggings on "Parks & Rec" & voiced Shrimply Pibbles on "Rick & Morty" Herzog |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This author born Lula Carson Smith earned fame at the keyboard as a novelist under this married name Carson McCullers |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $800: According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone" Genghis Khan |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $800: This future president was born June 12 in Milton, Massachusetts the first President Bush |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | NAMES IN FASHION $1000: Fashion royalty--here's this Belgian-born designer & icon & Talita, her princess granddaughter, a designer in her own right Diane von Furstenberg |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1200: This Moscow-born captain of the Washington Capitals is seen with the only man ahead of him--for now--in career NHL goals Ovechkin |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $1600: This billionaire was born György Schwartz in Budapest; his family changed their surname to avoid persecution as Jews George Soros |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $10,000 (Daily Double): Born Tafari Makonnen, this emperor died in Addis Ababa in 1975 Haile Selassie |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $800: A statue of this Pennsylvania-born inventor steamed into the Hall in 1889 Fulton |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | I'M CUBAN $400: This Cuban-born man played the "I" in "I Love Lucy" opposite his wife in real life, Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | I'M CUBAN $600: Born in Cuba, this "Havana" singer came to the U.S. at age 6 (Camila) Cabello |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP MUSIC $400: We are rabbit fans of this performer born Benito Martinez Ocasio in Puerto Rico in 1994 Bad Bunny |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | JACKSON $1000: New Orleans-born Mahalia Jackson, "The Queen of" this music style, sang at JFK's inauguration gospel |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $400: His dad was the prime minister when he was born in Ottawa in 1971 Justin Trudeau |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $600: Southampton-born financier who became P.M. of the U.K. in 2022 Sunak |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $800: Born in Amiens, he won a second term in 2022 Macron |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $1000: This prime minister was born in Vadnagar, India & has a MA in political science Modi |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | SOONER $400: Born in Tulsa in 1962, this country singer known for "The Dance" once tried his hand at baseball while already famous Garth Brooks |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $1000: Keeping it real in "Age of Ultron":
"Well, I was born yesterday" Vision |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | SOONER $1200: This Oklahoma-born guy nicknamed "Gordo" & "Hot Dog" had the "right stuff" for NASA's Mercury & Gemini program Gordon Cooper |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | SOONER $4,000 (Daily Double): This folk singer was born in Okemah in 1912 & named for President Wilson Woody Guthrie |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $200: Pliny the Elder mentions Scipio Africanus was born through this surgical delivery method a Caesarean section |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | STARTS WITH SOFT "G" $800: A punk band fronted by Billy Idol, or the group born following the baby boom Gen X (Generation X) |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $1000: Born of ordinary Hawaiian milk caps, they are survived by millions of cardboard "slammers" lying unused in millennial closets Pogs |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $200: She has an impressive résumé:
Princeton,
Harvard Law,
a 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue address Michelle Obama |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | ALLITERATIVE TERMS $400: It's any American born between 1946 & 1964 a baby boomer |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $400: Some point the finger at him in the 1920 whacking of Johnny Torio's boss, "Big Jim" Colosimo Al Capone |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $600: He was born (in 1931) to say, "No... I am your father" & "this is CNN" James Earl Jones |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $800: He was born in Boston in 1706, the 15th of 17 kids in his family; he'd seek his fortune in Philly Benjamin Franklin |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | BORN ON JAN. 17 $1000: The youngest of the Brontes, she wrote "Agnes Grey" at 27 but would die only 2 years later Anne (Brontë) |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $200: A French horn's name is technically just "horn"-- & the modern version was born not in France, but in this land of Oktoberfest Germany |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE ONE AND ONLY... $300: U.S. President born in Hawaii Barack Obama |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $200: Born on the 4th of July, 1804 in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne had a scarlet birthstone: this one ruby |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $400: L. Frank Baum was born in May, so this was his birthstone--might make a great name for a city emerald |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $600: Alice Hoffman, born March 16, 1952, wrote a novel about a mermaid called this, also the name of her watery blue birthstone Aquamarine |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $800: 4th century A.D. Roman emperor Jovian was born in Singidunum, now this Serbian capital Belgrade |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $1000: Born in York in 1570, he would have an annual day in November named for him, but he probably would not appreciate it Guy Fawkes |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | TEX & THE CITY $3,600 (Daily Double): This city of over one million is named for a man born in 1195 San Antonio |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $600: In 2021 Ryan Crouser heaved a metal sphere 76 feet, 8 1/4 inches, breaking a world record set in this sport before Ryan was born the shot put |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1000: Some say the phrase, "Keeping up with the Joneses" refers to the family of this upper-class author of "The House of Mirth" (Edith) Wharton (born Edith Jones) |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | SCIENTISTS $2000: Born into freedom in Maryland, this surveyor & astronomer successfully calculated a solar eclipse in 1789 (Benjamin) Banneker |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | PAINT, BY NUMBERS $2000: Looted by Nazis, "The Father", a 1911 work by this Russian Empire-born painter, got $7.4 million for the rightful heirs in 2022 Chagall |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $200: Charles was born on November 14, 1948 at this residence; his sons & grandchildren were born in a hospital Buckingham Palace |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ELEMENTARY POP CULTURE $200: Superman was born on this planet named after one of the noble gases Krypton |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $300: Sojourner Truth was born into slavery around 1797 as Isabella Baumfree in this state's Hudson Valley New York |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | RELIGION $1600: A Christian doctrine says that humans are born in this 2-word fallen state original sin |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $200: "Now when Jesus was born in" this town, "there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem" Bethlehem |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $1000: This king "gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people" & "demanded of them where Christ should be born" King Herod |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CONTEMPORARIES $10,000 (Daily Double): J.S. Bach & this great German-British composer were born a few weeks & a few dozen miles apart in 1685 Handel |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | LEGEND DAIRY $400: Back in 1936 Louis Meyer drank buttermilk on Victory Lane after winning this auto race & a tradition was born the Indy 500 |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | FAMOUS FINNS $1600: Born Johan & known by the nickname Janne, this great composer took the French form of his first name (Jean) Sibelius |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $2000: The U-2 incident; incidentally, U2's Bono is born 1960 |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $800: "Oh, geez... George, it turns out Bedford Falls would be better off if you'd never been born. Now... this is awkward" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | I JUST WANT A LOVER LIKE ANY OTHER $600: You're a Gemini? An astrologer might suggest a lover born under this water bearer sign for a really deep connection Aquarius |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | DOUBLE TALK $2000: In 2015, a new member of the panda family was born at the Smithsonian National Zoo & given this name, not Newborn Bei Bei |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BARRE TENDERS $1600: Audiences fauned all over this Kyiv-born dancer when he came to Paris with Diaghilev in 1909 Nijinsky |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | MAKING WAVES $2000: Born at the beach--Cocoa Beach, Florida--he became both the youngest & the oldest surfing world champion Kelly Slater |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | "SESAME STREET" SONG PARODIES $400: "Born To Add" & "Barn In The U.S.A." are sung by Bruce Stringbean, the Muppet counterpart of this working-class hero Bruce Springsteen |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $400: In 2007 the first of these, born 1 second after midnight January 1, 1946, filed for Social Security a Baby Boomer |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1600: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 Einstein |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $200: "We gotta get out while we're young 'cause tramps like us..." "Born To Run" |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $2000: This businessman, born in New York City in 1856, got his "Diamond" nickname from the bling he was seldom without Diamond Jim Brady |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $400: Born Frances Gumm, she made her singing debut at age 2 in her dad's theater & then went on to visit Oz Judy Garland |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | CANADIAN ARTISTES $800: Alberta BaIlet's "The Fiddle and the Drum" is set to the songs of this singer born in Alberta Joni Mitchell |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $1600: Born at Lourdes in 1844, she was canonized in 1933 Bernadette |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $800: This early 1900s racer who gave his name to a major GM division was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland Louis Chevrolet |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DESIGNERS $1000: Before "Project Runway" & his own fashion line, he was a child actor, born Karl Anderson Jr. Michael Kors |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | ALBERT CAMUS $1200: Camus was born in this then French colony, the setting of some of his works Algeria |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $200: Born in Beatrice / Worshiped a girl named Florence / Oops, got that backwards Dante |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | FAMOUS PAIRS $400: Born just days apart in 1951, they opened their first ice cream shop in a renovated gas station in Vermont in 1978 Ben & Jerry |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $1000: The "Hans"-on work of this biochemist born in 1900 unraveled the mystery of the citric acid cycle Hans Krebs |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $1000: The U.S. hockey team wins Olympic gold,
Lin-Manuel Miranda is born 1980 |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | FRANK GEHRY $400: Though he's lived for many years in the U.S., architect Frank Gehry was born in this Ontario city of 2.9 million Toronto |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $1600: Capricorns like privacy, but this ultra-rich man born Dec. 24, 1905 took that love of privacy to an unhealthy extreme Howard Hughes |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | LET'S FACE IT $1000: Ohio-born Nobel Prize winner seen here Toni Morrison |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | BRING OUT YOUR FRED $1200: Born in Berlin in 1901, this composer was known for his collaborations with Alan Jay Lerner (Frederick) Loewe |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE USTA $600: In 2017, the USTA opened a 100-court center in this state where stars like Evert & Courier were born & many others trained Florida |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | OLDE ENGLAND $5,600 (Daily Double): This title was re-created in 1301 when Edward I gave it to his son who was born in Caernarfon the Prince of Wales |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $800: Born in Ukraine in 1920, this American violin virtuoso led a '60s fight to save Carnegie Hall from demolition Isaac Stern |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1500: The flags of Puerto Rico & Haiti are on the cover of "Radiant Child", inspired by the early life of this Brooklyn-born artist Basquiat |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $2000: The first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for lit, this Calcutta-born man is seen here with another Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $600: "Conceived on the Fourth of October"--to this 1989 biopic Born on the Fourth of July |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | 'ROUND MIDNIGHT $800: "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie tells of the post-colonial era in this nation, where Rushdie was born India |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $200: Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz", was fittingly born under this zodiac sign symbolized by a lion a Leo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $1500: Before Jennifer Lopez was even born, this "J.Lo" played Timmy's mom on "Lassie" from 1958-'64 June Lockhart |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE VIRTUES $400: We assume that Bill Clinton was born with it; we know he was born in it hope |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | LITERARY POP $2000: This band was born to be wild enough to take its name from a Hermann Hesse novel Steppenwolf |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ART, FOR ART'S SAKE $800: She's the American-born expatriate whose work is seen here (Mary) Cassatt |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $600: Theologian born in Saxony in 1483 + last name = this theologian born in Atlanta, GA in 1929 Martin Luther King |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1200: Born in Flint, this prolific documentarian wrote the book "Dude, Where's My Country?" Michael Moore |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1600: Long before becoming New York's governor, & not beating Truman, this Owosso-born man graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 Dewey |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FURNITURE $2000: Seen here is a set from this Scottish-born furniture maker who was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style Duncan Phyfe |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $800: Born in Poland in 1686, he would heat things up by inventing a mercury thermometer in 1714 Fahrenheit |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $1600: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born" Waylon Jennings |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE SPORTING NEWS $800: Sydney-born tennis star John Newcombe won Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open & (of course) this the Australian Open |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1600: Half-brothers of this southern-born first lady fought for the Confederacy, which could have led to really awkward Thanksgiving dinners Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $800: May 1, 1218:
Rudolf I, the first German king of this royal house, is born Hapsburg |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | ACTIVISTS $2000: In addition to liquor, this hatchet-wielding woman born in 1846 also railed against tobacco & corsets Carrie Nation |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | TO SIR PAUL, WITH LOVE $400: Sir Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942 in this city--3 very important co-workers of his were born there, too Liverpool |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ON THE MONEY $1200: He was born in the British West Indies Hamilton |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): Today an art school stands at the place in this huge metropolis where Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 Mumbai |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $2000: A dual bio covers Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice & this Vienna-born man who was the third Felix Frankfurter |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $400: Born while her dad was making "The Godfather", she's won an Oscar for screenwriting & been named best director at Cannes Sofia Coppola |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $1600: Born in Austria, he learned English while rooming with Peter Lorre, so it's lucky the people in "Some Like It Hot" don't talk like I am Billy Wilder |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $1200: This author of "The Year of Magical Thinking" helped write the 1976 version of "A Star Is Born" (Joan) Didion |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | 5 ABOUT 4 $600: Of the 4 famous folks up on Mount Rushmore, the one who was born first Washington |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $200: Paul Delvecchio Jr., born July 5, 1980, became a Garden State housemate as Pauly D on this MTV show in 2009 Jersey Shore |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $400: "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this showman, who obviously would not be referring to his own 1810 arrival Barnum |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $600: She began kicking around in 1985, won a couple of World Cups & was Sports Illustrated's 2019 Sportsperson of the Year Megan Rapinoe |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $800: You don't need one of his Oxford scholarships to know this diamond mogul was a July 5 baby (Cecil) Rhodes |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $1000: Here's some news: born July 5, 1950, this singer let us know it was "Hip To Be Square" in '86 Huey Lewis |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | COUNTIES OF ENGLAND $1,400 (Daily Double): Legend says King Arthur was born at Tintagel Castle in this pointy county that juts into the Atlantic Ocean Cornwall |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE NAME OF THE DAME $1000: In 2019 the queen said, "You're the one that I want" to be a dame, "you" being this British-born & Australian-raised singer Olivia Newton-John |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 2001 $2000: This Trinidad-born author of "A House for Mr. Biswas" won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $1600: Born Tomas Straussler, he titled his play "Leopoldstadt" after Vienna's Jewish Quarter Tom Stoppard |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $400: Before joining it in 1967, this Baltimore-born man argued & won 29 out of 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | LET'S "T" UP THE MAP $2000: Saddam Hussein was born near this city on the west bank of the Tigris in 1937 & was pulled out of the ground in its vicinity in 2003 Tikrit |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: The ribbon moray species of this fish is born male but later changes its color & its sex an eel |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | LATINO ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: This Colombian-born actress played Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on "Modern Family" for 11 seasons Vergara |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | RANDOM STUFF $800: Jesus was said to be born fully formed, so he looks like a little man in works called the "Throne of" this quality he shares with Solomon Wisdom |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $400: Last name of Albert, born in 1852 & the oldest of 7 siblings including Otto & Charles for whom life was truly a circus Ringling |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | STATE HOLIDAYS $400: Though this suffragist was born in Massachusetts, only Florida observes her February 15 birthday as a state holiday Susan B. Anthony |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $2000: Born in 1815, this English math man gave us many eponymous things: algebra, logic, search & operators (George) Boole |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CITY HAPPENINGS $400: U.S. Steel was born there in 1901 & steel was likely used in The Igloo where Penguins began skating in 1967 Pittsburgh |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $600: Born in Nantes in 1828, he had a hit with his first "scientific fiction" novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Jules Verne |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $1000: "Born Of A Broken Man", they urged us to "Wake Up" to the "Killing In The Name" Rage Against the Machine |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE ROCKEFELLERS $1000: Living to the age of 97, John D. was born when this man of Dutch descent was president, & died during FDR's second term Van Buren |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | LABOR $1600: Born Mary Harris, she was called the "most dangerous woman in America" in 1902 for her success in organizing mine workers Mother Jones |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $800: This Kyiv-born aviation pioneer, for the helicopter Sikorsky |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $1000: Sadly, mental illness ended the career of this Russian-born ballet dancer in 1919 while he was still in his 20s Nijinsky |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | ROCK"ER"S $400: Don't confuse these guys who backed Johnny Thunders on the punk classic "Born To Lose" with the guys who backed Tom Petty The Heartbreakers |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | POP METAL BANDS $1000: "Here I go again on my own, goin' down the only road I've ever known, like a drifter I was born to walk alone" Whitesnake |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $1600: Where have you gone, this man born Michelangelo Merisi who did "Martyrdom of St. Matthew", a nation turns its lonely eyes to you Caravaggio |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $200: Born in Los Alamos, governor Michelle Lujan Grisham can trace her ancestry back 12 generations in this state New Mexico |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $800: Born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1872, she died in Yekaterinburg in 1918 Alexandra (the last Romanov czarina) |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $800: ...was born in Georgia in 1878 (but not the first Georgia you'd think of) Stalin |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1896, this author was named for his distant cousin who penned the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $200: This agency was born in 1865 to combat counterfeiting, as at the Civil War's end, nearly 1/3 of currency in circulation was fake the Secret Service |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | YEET! $1000: In Greek myth, after he was born lame, his mom yeeted him out of heaven, but he returned & made Hermes' winged helmet Hephaestus |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 ALBUM $400: 7 top 10 singles, a big flag, Bruce's behind Born in the U.S.A. |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $800: Born in Venetia, Italy, he began leading the Church around the year 140 Pope Pius |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $200: Born in Boston in 1890, she had 9 children, including John, Robert, Edward & Eunice (Rose) Kennedy |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $400: Middle name used by first baseman Willie Aikens; he was born just after another Willie's heroics in the 1954 World Series Mays |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $800: Born in 1958, baseball legend Rickey Henderson was named after this teen idol pop singer of the day Ricky Nelson |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $200: A person born in the 1980s or early 1990s a millennial |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | BETTER ANGELS $400: On a 1997 episode of her talk show, she asked viewers to help change the lives of others & the Angel Network was soon born Oprah |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $600: Medieval theologian John Duns Scotus, "The subtle doctor", pioneered this doctrine that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin the Immaculate Conception |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | SPORTS GOATs $1,000 (Daily Double): He was born March 30, 1970, in a Virginia stable Secretariat |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "G" AS IN GLOBAL $1200: In Australia Sir Isaac Isaacs was the first native-born holder of this post, representing the queen Governor General |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $2000: In this poet's "The Second Coming", "a shape with lion body and the head of a man... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" Yeats |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: "An Elusive Woman" is the subtitle of a biography of this mystery writer, born a proper Victorian but later an avid surfer Agatha Christie |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | RIHANNA $200: Music superstar Rihanna was born in 1988 in the parish of Saint Michael in this Caribbean island country Barbados |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $400: Born in 1899 in what is now Oak Park, Illinois, the bell tolled for him in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 Hemingway |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $800: From a southern family, his "Fable" began in 1897 & ended in 1962, both in Mississippi Faulkner |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $1200: This romantic poet was born in England in 1792 & drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $1600: This "Trees" poet was born in New Jersey in 1886 & was killed in action in World War I Joyce Kilmer |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | WRITERS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born in Paris in 1905, he went from being to nothingness in 1980 Sartre |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Born into it herself, Edith Wharton wrote about American high society of the 1870s in this Pulitzer-winning novel The Age of Innocence |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $1200: From a '90s animated film: "You were born a street rat, you'll die a street rat & only your fleas will mourn you!" Aladdin |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | HOROSCOPES $200: Those born under this Aug.-Sept. sign associated with both chastity & a fertility goddess can be a bit of a paradox Virgo |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $200: This country superstar & "American Idol" is a real Okie from Muskogee, where she was born in 1983 Carrie Underwood |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | HOROSCOPES $400: You'd expect celebs born under this sign, like Halsey & Donald Glover, to achieve work-life balance Libra |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $600: Tulsa-born Taylor Hanson was just 14 when his band of brothers hit No. 1 with this 1997 smash "MMMBop" |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | HOROSCOPES $600: It sounds like a water sign, but it's an air sign & those born under it, such as Abraham Lincoln, are intellectual & highly social Aquarius |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $800: To win this contest during the 2011 NBA All-Star Weekend, Oklahoma City-born Blake Griffin jumped over a car the slam dunk contest |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $1000: Born in Moore, Oklahoma in 1981, Randy Wayne starred as Bo's cousin Luke in the 2007 TV movie titled them: "The Beginning" The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $400: Last name of hotel chain founder Conrad & Nicky, one of his New York-born great-granddaughters Hilton |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $600: Reagan hired New York-born Nicholas Brady to investigate the 1987 stock market crash & later appointed him to this Cabinet post Secretary of the Treasury |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | WHALES $600: After about a year in its mother's womb, a baby of this whale species is born weighing up to 3 tons & as long as 25 feet a blue whale |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1000: Born into slavery, she wrote under the name Iola, became a newspaper owner & campaigned against lynching Ida B. Wells |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | NATIONAL HEROES $3,000 (Daily Double): A hero of this island nation where he was born, Marcus Garvey has been proposed to appear on its $100 bill Jamaica |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $2000: The idyllic school Hailsham harbors grotesque deeds in "Never Let Me Go" from this Japanese-born author Kazuo Ishiguro |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | "EI", OH! $2000: "Second generation" is the literal meaning of this word for American-born kids whose parents emigrated from Japan Nisei |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | A BABY $1000: This yellow discoloration of a newborn's skin & eyes is common in babies born before 38 weeks' gestation jaundice |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In 1884 Hilary Richard Wright Johnson became this African country's first native-born president Liberia |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CARICATURES! $1200: He's the Polish-born composer tickling the ivories Chopin |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CATS: THE NON-MUSICAL $1000: Though it's known for its lack of a tail, this breed seen here can sometimes be born with one Manx |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | HANS, SOLO $2000: Famous for the citric acid cycle that bears his name, this German-born biochemist received the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1961 (Hans) Krebs |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA $200: Seen here, this iconic confection is made by the family-owned Just Born candy company in Bethlehem Peeps |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $2000: Born in Ireland in 1667, he wrote political pamphlets as well as satires Swift |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LETTER PERFECT $800: Members of Generation this were born after 1996 Z |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THOSE DARN NEBRASKANS $800: Nebraskan through & through:
He was born in Omaha, works & lives in Omaha & is the "Oracle of Omaha" Buffett |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: It's the last name of tennis player Naomi as well as the Honshu city where she was born Osaka |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | HIT ALBUMS $1600: 2020's "Eternal Atake" was a smash for this rapper born Symere Woods Lil Uzi Vert |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: He was born in 1756, created more than 600 works of music before his 36th birthday but never got to his 36th birthday Mozart |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | GET "SET" $2000: The babies of this primate from the forests of South America are usually born as twins a marmoset |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $1600: Born around 470 B.C., this figure from the golden age of Greek culture went around barefoot asking annoying questions Socrates |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | PURE POETRY $2000: In 1950 "Bitter Strawberries" by this Boston-born woman became her 1st nationally published poem; not bad for a 17-year-old Sylvia Plath |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $200: With her 2019 song "Bad Guy", at 17 years old this artist became the first born in the 21st century to have a No. 1 song Billie Eilish |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | VERY ARTISTIC $1000: Victor Hugo didn't want to pose for a bust, so this French sculptor made some quick sketches, &, voilà, a bust was born Rodin |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $400: We have a theorem about this guy who was born in Ionia around 570 B.C.:
a2 + b2 = c2 Pythagoras |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department the Library of Congress |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $400: The last of 4 runs for president by this consumer advocate was in 2008 with running mate Matt Gonzalez Nader |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $800: On his third try in 1981, François Mitterrand became the first French president representing this quite gauche party the Socialists |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $1200: This newspaperman didn't raise much Kane in losing runs for NYC mayor, state governor & then mayor again, all in a 4-year span Hearst |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $1600: India's Congress (this letter) Party formed in 1978; the letter, for the 1st name of the woman who soon regained a seat in parliament I |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $2000: In 1965 he entered politics & won a seat as the member for Mount Royal; 3 years later he was prime minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: Mother Teresa Airport doesn't serve Calcutta but Tirana, the capital of this nation Albania |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $800: She's the first first lady born in continental Europe Melania Trump |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $600: Born in Kansas City, this actor checked into, & got an Oscar nomination for, "The Hotel Rwanda" Don Cheadle |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $800: As this actress was born in Springfield, it was natural for her to lend her voice to "The Simpsons" in "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" Kathleen Turner |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE FINE ARTS $1200: The barcarolle heard here is one of the most famous tunes by this German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | ROLE: MODEL $2000: Born in Kiev, she began modeling at age 11 before starring in "The Fifth Element" & the "Resident Evil" franchise (Milla) Jovovich |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | NOTABLE NAMES $1500: This Polish-born French physicist was not only famous for her research on radioactivity, she also coined the term Marie Curie |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $400: Born 1757 in France: "Hero of Two Worlds" Lafayette |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $1200: Born 1784 in Gordonsville, Virginia: "Old Rough & Ready" (Zachary) Taylor |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $1600: Born 1758 in Norfolk, England:
"Hero of the Nile" Nelson |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $2000: Born 1860 in the Midwest: "Boy Orator of the Platte" (William Jennings) Bryan |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $10,000 (Daily Double): Born 1910:
"Saint of the Gutters" Mother Teresa |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $200: "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this circus showman, but there's no proof he ever really said or wrote it P.T. Barnum |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $300: Born in Drogheda, this actor has played James Bond in film & Remington Steele on TV Pierce Brosnan |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | "NN"YTIME $300: Born in the '80s & early '90s, they're often depicted as tech-savvy & maybe just a bit entitled millennials |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... $200: ...Atlanta honor this leader by visiting his national historical park & touring the home where he was born in 1929 (Dr.) Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | SMALL TOWN AMERICA & CANADA $800: Seymour in this state was the place John Mellencamp was talking about when he sang, "I was born in a small town" Indiana |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | PURE BREAD $1000: Where do we lay our scene? Why, in fair Verona, where this bread named for a slipper may have been born ciabatta |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $400: Died:
In Paris, at 91, this civil engineer famous for his tower Gustave Eiffel |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $800: Born:
This famous French mime Marceau |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I SAID DANCE! $1200: "Just Dance" was the debut single by her, born Stefani Germanotta Lady Gaga |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $1200: Born:
Real name Hiram, this country music legend in Alabama (Hank) Williams |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $1600: Born:
This heavyweight boxing champ from 1952 to 1956 (Rocky) Marciano |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $2000: Died:
This "Divine" French actress in March (Sarah) Bernhardt |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | O CANADA $900: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity? I hope not, as "you oughtta know" this Ontario-born singer who had one of the biggest albums of the 1990s Alanis Morissette |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | DELEGATES $800: Delegates to the 1919 Congress of the Communist International included Stalin & this rival born Lev Bronstein Trotsky |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $1600: In the opening of this P.D. James novel, "The last human being to be born on Earth was killed in a pub brawl" The Children of Men |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $400: Zeus's lack of wisdom had him swallow his wife Metis when she was pregnant with this daughter born unusually, as seen here Athena |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | TRANSPORTATION $2000: The 1912 Classic Six was the first production car to bear the name of this man born in Neuchatel Canton, Switzerland Louis Chevrolet |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $1,300 (Daily Double): "C" is for this word, once one of the divisions of a Roman legion; it now can mean a colleague or a person born in the same year a cohort |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE FIRST FEATURE THEY DIRECTED $400: 2018:
"A Star Is Born" Bradley Cooper |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ALBUM COVERS $400: Springsteen said of this cover, a lot of photos were taken but in the end his behind looked better than his face Born in the U.S.A. |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE 18th CENTURY $1000: The French loved the fur hat Ben Franklin wore to cover his boils & compared him to this Swiss-born philosopher of a state of nature Rousseau |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1600: "There is a sucker born every minute, each time the second hand sweeps to the top like dandelions up they pop" Barnum |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | MAGIC $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in New Jersey in 1956, this magician has "A Christmas Carol" in his top 10 books list, not the 1850 book he's named for David Copperfield |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PUTTING ON HEIRS $400: Born in Buckingham Palace in 1948, he was the heir, apparently, for quite some time, until a sad day in 2022 King Charles III (Prince Charles) |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | BRIEF LIVES $200: Born 1820; heroine of the Crimean War; good night, nurse as of 1910 Florence Nightingale |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $800: In 1997, aboard this space shuttle, Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian-born woman to travel in space the Columbia |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ASIAN AMERICANS $1200: Author Kevin Kwan was born in this southeast Asian city-state where "Crazy Rich Asians" is mostly set Singapore |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | MARK'S BROTHERS & SISTERS $200: This brother of a famous Mark wasn't born to a family of bluebloods Donnie Wahlberg |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $400: Born in Naples in 1873, this opera legend is seen here in costume for the lead role in "Pagliacci" Caruso |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | FAMOUS SOUTH AMERICANS $400: Seen here, this Brazilian-born woman says she launched the Luz Foundation to bring light into the world (Gisele) Bündchen |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | REMEMBERING OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN $400: Though born in Cambridge, England, Olivia spent her formative years living in this country Australia |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | WORLD MUSEUMS $1600: The Tango Museum, where the classic "La Cumparsita" was born, is not in Argentina but in this country to the east Uruguay |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | HUFF & PUFF $1200: A puff one of these holds the record for most live young born from a snake--156 an adder |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: This Dublin-born playwright got the nod in 1925 for works marked by idealism, humanity & stimulating satire George Bernard Shaw |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MISCELLANY $800: Cuban-born Delia Fiallo was known as "The Mother of" these Latin American soap operas, having written more than 40 of them telenovelas |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | RAPPERS WHO ACT $600: (TV) judge for yourself--born in Trinidad, she signed to Lil Wayne's label in 2009 & voiced Pinky in "Angry Birds 2" Nicki Minaj |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | STREAKERS $800: Born in Prague, she got U.S. citizenship in 1981, then won 6 straight Wimbledon titles beginning in 1982 Navratilova |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: The daughter of immigrants, Kamala Harris was born in California to a mother from India & a father from this island country Jamaica |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: From the time he was born in New York City on July 4, 1927, this playwright was "Broadway Bound" (Neil) Simon |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | AROUND PHILLY WITH RYAN LONG $1500: (Ryan Long presents the clue.) America was born in Philly; we're heading to the hall on Chestnut Street where in 1776 John Hancock put his Hancock on this document the Declaration of Independence |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Peregrine White was born on this ship, anchored in Provincetown Harbor in November 1620 the Mayflower |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | SECOND CHANCE SONGS $1200: "I just need one more shot at second chances", sang this Ontario-born heartthrob in his 2016 chart-topper "Sorry" Justin Bieber |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | CELEBRITIES $200: It's the stage name of the rapper born Megan Jovon Ruth Pete Megan Thee Stallion |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | BUT I HAVE THIS HISTORIC MEETING $400: The tough guy born Temüjin got this new name at a meeting of Mongol representatives in 1206 Genghis Khan |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | CURRENT EVENTS $200: The latest sad result of climate change: drought has largely deprived France, where Grey Poupon was born, of this condiment mustard |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $1500: Born in 1965, this mascot also goes by Poppin' Fresh & when you poke his belly, says, "Hoo hoo" the Pillsbury Doughboy |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | HODGEPOURRIPODGE $800: At age 99 this German-born man, Secretary of State in the 1970s, recently published the book "Leadership" Henry Kissinger |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | BIRTH OF AN ARTIST $400: He was born in 1452 in Anchiano but the name he's known by would give a nearby place lasting fame Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | BIRTH OF AN ARTIST $800: She was born in Coyoacán in 1907 & sadly, childhood polio was just the start of her medical issues Frida Kahlo |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | BIRTH OF AN ARTIST $1200: This future star of the graffiti world & beyond was born in 1960 to a Nuyorican mom & a Haitian dad Basquiat |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | BIRTH OF AN ARTIST $2,800 (Daily Double): She was born in what's now part of Pittsburgh in 1844, but Paris would eventually be home (Mary) Cassatt |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | STARS $800: September babies like William Howard Taft & Beyonce were born under the sign of this largest constellation of the zodiac Virgo |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THE EX-COUNTRY $400: This island was independent from 1755 to 1769, the year Napoleon was born there Corsica |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | ONE-NAMED ROCK STARS $1000: It may be "crazy", but this London-born singer switched species as the leopard on "The Masked Singer" Seal |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE 19th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): Born almost with the century in 1800, he was executed in 1859 on charges including treason against Virginia, though he wasn't a Virginian John Brown |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $300: He wrote about growing up in South Africa in "Born a Crime" Trevor Noah |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | MUST BE NICE $600: Not everyone reaches 35 years of marriage, let alone getting the traditional gift made of this natural sea-born substance coral |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $1200: "The year before I was born a group called the Taliban... had taken over the country and was burning girls' schools" Malala |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | BUDWEISER & SPORTS $400: "Born a Donkey" & "Return of the King" were the titles of Super Bowl ads featuring these horses & Budweiser icons Clydesdales |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $200: Norma Jeane Mortenson, later Baker Marilyn Monroe |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $400: "When Harry Met Sally...", Sally used to be Margaret Mary Emily Hyra Meg Ryan |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $600: Fast & Furious family man Mark Sinclair Vin Diesel |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $800: Eric Marlon Bishop shocked Spider-Man as Electro Jamie Foxx |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $1000: Carlos Estévez, from an acting family Charlie Sheen |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | GOVERNORS $1000: She was born in Lansing, where she was sworn in as governor on Jan. 1, 2019 (Gretchen) Whitmer |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | GO IVth & RULE $400: The man born Nicholas Breakspear ruled as Adrian IV, the only Englishman to ever hold this job pope |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | TENNIS ACES $400: This Czech-born woman had a pretty good 1983, winning 86 of 87 matches & 3 Grand Slam titles Martina Navratilova |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A.D. $1600: 1616 saw the death of William Shakespeare at New place, in this place where he was born Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | MIDDLE NAMES $2000: This middle name of Jackie Robinson honored the president who died the year he was born, 1919 Roosevelt |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: This private Catholic university in New Jersey was named for a woman who was one of the first American-born saints Seton Hall |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MODEL BEHAVIOR $1600: The cosmetics line for women of color launched by this Somali-born model in 1994 is still going strong Iman |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | WHO'S IN THAT COMMERCIAL? $800: Born Robert Van Winkle, this '90s rapper is one of the famous Bobs in a Bob's Discount Furniture campaign Vanilla Ice |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | THE ALEXANDER FILES $2000: American inventor Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847 & died in this country in 1922 Canada |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WOOD $2000: This soft, lightweight red wood is named for a man born in what is now Tennessee around 1775 sequoia |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | 19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $400: Born into slavery, Andrew Beard invented a steam engine & an automatic coupler, which joined these transports train cars |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE III $600: Harry Nilsson, born Harry Edward Nelson III, memorably sang "Everybody's Talkin"' for this 1969 Voight-Hoffman film Midnight Cowboy |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $600: The 1st woman to be first lady who was born at a hospital, she made her debut at Southampton Hospital in New York in 1929 Kennedy |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | KENTUCKIAN ENTERTAINERS $800: Like his aunt, "Come On-A My House" singer Rosemary, this Oscar winner was born in Kentucky (George) Clooney |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | I WON AN EMMY FOR THAT DRAMA $1000: 2016:
Tatiana Maslany, in the roles she was born to play Orphan Black |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | KENTUCKIAN ENTERTAINERS $1200: This pioneering director of films like "Intolerance" was born in Oldham County in 1875 (D.W.) Griffith |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | MUNICIPAL MUSIC $800: With the help of Young Thug, Camila Cabello rocked this song that shares its name with the Caribbean capital where she was born Havana |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: For those born in 1960 or later, full retirement benefits from social security are payable at this age 67 |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TRANSPLANTS $800: Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, she brought her danse sauvage to Paris in 1925 & became a French citizen in 1937 Josephine Baker |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BELGIANS $1200: Brussels-born, she created her wrap dress in the '70s, when she was married to a prince; she later wed Barry Diller von Furstenberg |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | POP ROCKS $1000: In 2000 Duncan Jones directed a concert film of this legendary pop, born David Jones, rocking out at the Roseland Ballroom David Bowie |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $1000: Rossini called this Prussian-born composer "our little Mozart of the Champs-Élysées" Jacques Offenbach |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $1600: King George I: from Hanover, Germany but had a claim on the British crown through this man, his great-granddad born a Scot James I |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: This future world leader with the maiden name Nehru was born in Allahabad in 1917 Indira Gandhi |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $800: Born Jacopo Robusti, this painter of biblical subjects like "Susanna & the Elders" had a name meaning "little dyer" Tintoretto |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | A BIT OF LIT $2000: This Japanese-born British author of "The Remains of the Day" & "Never Let Me Go" won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature (Kazuo) Ishiguro |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | TV THEME SONGS $800: Chicago artist Sasha Go Hard singing, "I was born on" this "Side, I was raised on" this "Side" is the theme to an HBO Max show South Side |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | FEMALE PRESIDENTS $1600: In the 1940s Chicago-born Janet Jagan was stripped of this for her Marxist views; in 1997 she became Guyana's president (her U.S.) citizenship |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $1000: "A Star Is Born" & "Get Happy" are titles of books about this song & dance woman Judy Garland |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MY NAME IS STEPHEN $1600: This Toronto-born economist served from 2006 to 2015 as prime minister of Canada Harper |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MY NAME IS STEPHEN $2000: Born a pagan, Stephen I, the first king of this Central European country, brought Christianity to the masses & was canonized in 1083 Hungary |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | TFW... $400: You get good results purely by chance, 'cause you were "born under" this kind of "Star" lucky |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $1000: On April 5, 1936 an F5 tornado hit this Mississippi city; one survivor was very young Elvis Presley, born there the year before Tupelo |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $600: This shock jock & self-proclaimed king of all media was born in Queens; his pal Ronnie the Limo Driver was a longtime resident Howard Stern |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $800: This rapper was born Curtis Jackson III in South Jamaica, Queens (but known as Boo-Boo as a child) 50 Cent |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JAPANESE HISTORY $1200: In 1964 Yoshinori Sakai, born the day Hiroshima was bombed, was chosen to carry this in Tokyo's national stadium the (Olympic) torch |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | AFFAIRS $1600: Infidelity abounds in "Y tu mama tambien", an early effort from this Mexican-born director Alfonso Cuarón |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | ART $400: Born in Crete, he worked in Spain but that country's king did not care for his 1580s "Martyrdom of St. Maurice" El Greco |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | THE 18th CENTURY $400: Widowed at 24, this Philadelphian born Elizabeth Griscom kept herself afloat by making the occasional flag Betsy Ross |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | POLITICIANS IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS $400: Her father was a U.S. Representative when she was born; she'd get her own seat in 1987 & has got the run of the House these days Nancy Pelosi |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: In works like "Philosophical Investigations", this Vienna-born thinker showed how thought is shaped by our language Wittgenstein |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $400: Those born during the first half of April have this sign, the ram Aries |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE SCIENTIST WHO... $2,000 (Daily Double): ...was born into slavery but got his bachelor's in agricultural science in 1894 George Washington Carver |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | FANTASY FICTION $400: Set in ancient China, "A Hero Born" by Jin Yong takes place in a world where this martial art is practiced magically kung fu |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | I HAVE A PLAN $2000: The 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. with diagonal axes over a more conventional grid was named for this Paris-born man (Pierre) L'Enfant |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | TELEVISION $400: A blond mullet topped the head of this subject of Tiger King", a zookeeper & felon born Joseph Schreibvogel Joe Exotic |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | DONE THAT $600: Born in Toronto, this architect designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall for his adopted hometown (Frank) Gehry |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BIRTH OF A WRITER $2000: Born in 1856 in Virginia, this educator went on to write "Up from Slavery" at the turn of the 20th century (Booker T.) Washington |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $1000: Even if you live on a mountain, this multi-word flower is yours if you were born in May lily of the valley |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HOOD ORNAMENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Many believe London-born Eleanor Thornton was the model for Spirit of Ecstasy, seen on the bonnet of this luxury car Rolls Royce |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | NATIONAL DAYS $1200: This nation celebrates the Grand Duke's birthday every June 23, even though no Grand Duke has been born on June 23 Luxembourg |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | SCIENTIFIC INITIALS $800: M.C.
(born M.S.),
a 2-time Nobel winner Marie Curie |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BEASTLY LIT $800: Joy Adamson's nonfiction books "Born Free" & "Living Free" are about Elsa, this type of animal a lion |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $1000: At the DNC in 1988, Texan Ann Richards said of this man, "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | GUYS WHO WEAR GLASSES $1600: Here's this Russian-born innovator of 20th century ballet in not one but two pairs of specs Stravinsky |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY $800: The creator of the Franciscan order was born in this city in the late 12th century Assisi |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY $2000: Seen here is an electroscope capacitor from this physicist born in 1745 who always went with the current Alessandro Volta |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC $400: In may 1958 an electronics tinkerer & a doctor kept a dog's heart going with a gizmo they called tiknik & this device was born a pacemaker |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $800: Like her sister Parthenope who was named for Naples, this founder of modern nursing was named for the city of her birth (Florence) Nightingale |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Born in 1833, he's known for an 1860s "Lullaby" Brahms |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1991 novel by Canadian Douglas Coupland gave a name to a whole cohort born around the same time Generation X |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $200: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Born in 1809 into a frontier family, young Abe Lincoln had only one year of schooling, but read the Bible, Shakespeare, & learned logic from "The Elements" of this ancient Greek mathematician Euclid |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): This actress born in 1982 shares her name with Mrs. Shakespeare, born circa 1556 Anne Hathaway |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $200: Also called the Millennium Bug, this alphanumeric issue thankfully proved to be a non-problem on Jan. 1, 2000 Y2K |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $400: It took 11 years & about $25 million, but in 2001 this landmark was reopened with its tilt reduced by about 16 inches the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $600: Released in 2003, this Pixar film about a dad trying to locate his son earned nearly $1 billion worldwide Finding Nemo |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $800: On Dec. 13, 2003 U.S. forces near Tikrit found this president of Iraq underground; a gun was present, but he did not fire a shot (Saddam) Hussein |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $1000: To collect solar wind particles, in 2001 NASA sent up this spacecraft that shares its name with a Bible book & a dad rock band Genesis |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Born into slavery, the abolitionist & activist seen here adopted this name as she began traveling to preach the Gospel Sojourner Truth |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $800: Czech-born, in 1997 I was confirmed by the Senate to be Secretary of State, 99-0. Think that'd happen today? Madeleine Albright |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | THE MANY MUSICS OF MARK RONSON $400: (Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) We thought it might be heard over the end credits of "A Star Is Born" when I co-wrote this song with Lady Gaga; I was blown away to see it become part of the story "Shallow" |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | SPECIAL DAYS $600: On July 24 Ecuador & Venezuela celebrate the birthday of this man born in 1783 Bolivar |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | FAMOUS AQUARIANS $200: Those born under the sign of Aquarius are said to be assertive, like this billionaire behind the OWN TV network (Oprah) Winfrey |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | FAMOUS AQUARIANS $800: This singer was actually born on Friday, Feb. 16, 1990 in Toronto to parents from Ethiopia The Weeknd |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | AMUSING CANADIANS $400: Cheech Marin was born in L.A. but this "Up in Smoke" partner of his is from Edmonton, man Tommy Chong |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | FROM THE BRITISH ROYAL WEBSITE $2000: Queen Victoria was born & raised in this palace that's today home to the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge Kensington |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | YOUR PARENTS' MUSIC $800: Mom bought tickets over the phone (that used to be a thing) for this rocker's 1984-85 "Born in the U.S.A." tour Springsteen |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in this year at the tail end of the baby boom 1961 |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | CAR"Z" $400: This man whose name is part of a brand of luxury carz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1844 (Carl) Benz |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $800: Havana-born Alicia Alonso was known for her sensual portrayal of the tragic title woman of the ballet based on this Bizet opera Carmen |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | OUTLAWS $1200: The 1930s outlaw born Arizona Donnie Clark was better known by this motherly married name Ma Barker |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $800: Born in 12 A.D.; executed the Praetorian Guard prefect who helped get him the top job; in 41, executed by Praetorian Guards Caligula |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $2000: Born in Halifax, 1787; found a "line" of work sending ships across the Atlantic; made the same journey & died in London, 1865 Cunard |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | SOUTH ASIA $5,000 (Daily Double): Born in Karachi, she served twice as prime minster of her country, from 1988 to 1990 & 1993 to 1996 (Benazir) Bhutto |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | SHORT NOVELS $1600: This British-born author's "Mr. Norris Changes Trains" was later published as part of his "Berlin Stories" Isherwood |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | YOU PLAYED YOURSELF $600: Bottom line, "JCVD" was the role he was born to play but in the film, he loses a part to Steven Seagal Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: "Bombshell" is about this Austrian-born actress whose credits also include developing a communication system during WWII Hedy Lamarr |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $2000: The title of this Salman Rushdie novel refers to Saleem Sinai & other babies born at the stroke of 12 on August 15, 1947 Midnight's Children |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | CUTS FROM THE CLASSIC ALBUM $1600: The No. 3 hit
"The Edge Of Glory" & the No. 1 title track
(2011) Born This Way |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $2000: This Russian-born artist's color field painting "White Center" sold for more than $70 million in 2007 Rothko |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | POP CULTURE MONIKERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Born on the South Side of Chicago, he originally had "Sense" behind his name in his early rap years Common |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | THIS & THAT $200: Born in North Ayrshire, Nicola Sturgeon is first minister of this U.K. division & leader of its National Party Scotland |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | THIS & THAT $800: This rock & roll classic contains the lyric "Get your motor runnin', head out on the highway" "Born To Be Wild" |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | GLOBAL LIT $400: This poet of the afterlife was born in 1265, perhaps with the original first name Durante, like Jimmy Dante |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | I AM WOMAN $800: Korea-born Angela Buchdahl is the first Asian-American to be ordained a cantor, as well as this leader of a Jewish congregation rabbi |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | FIRST RESPONSES $800: Born in 2018, this younger brother of Prince George & Princess Charlotte gets his first response Prince Louis (of Cambridge) |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOTORIOUS $2000: Born Arthur Flegenheimer, he was gunned down in 1935 after his plan to murder prosecutor Thomas Dewey alarmed other mobsters Dutch Schultz |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $800: CR7 is this Portuguese-born star who donated one of his Ballon d'Or trophies to a Make-A-Wish auction Ronaldo |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | MUSIC STARS $1200: Do start now & name this English-born woman of Albanian ancestry who was "Levitating" up the charts in 2021 Dua Lipa |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | "ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO $400: Jon Ossoff, born in 1987, has been called the first of these in the U.S. Senate millennial |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | THEY EARNED A PhD $800: Born into slavery, Anna Julia Cooper became a noted educator & activist, & in her 60s received a PhD from this Paris college the Sorbonne |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | PUT UP YOUR DUKES $2000: In 1717 this German-born man became resident composer to James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, & composed 11 "Chandos Anthems" Handel |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | "T" FOR... $400: Lionel Richie was born in this Alabama city & graduated from its famed institute Tuskegee |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: This Louisianan had ill regard for Jeff Davis for making him a full general after New York-born Samuel Cooper P.G.T. Beauregard |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WE'VE GOT THAT BAND'S NUMBER $4,000 (Daily Double): Matty Healy, lead singer of these Brit rockers, was born 14 years after the year in their name The 1975 |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | TALKING OF MICHELANGELO $200: Michelangelo was born March 6, 1475 in the village of Caprese in the republic of this Italian city Florence |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $800: 1989:
This director cruised to victory for "Born on the Fourth of July" (Oliver) Stone |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | OMAHA $800: In 1913 this future president was born in Omaha as Leslie King Jr. Gerald Ford |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BROADWAY IS BACK $1200: The musical "Six" features a modern take on Henry VIII's 6 wives, including this first wife who was born in Spain
"If you think for a moment /
I'd grant you annulment /
Just hold up there's n-n-n-n-n-n-no way..." Catherine of Aragon |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $2000: I was one of these slaves in Sparta; every year, war was officially declared on us so a well-born Spartan could always kill me helots |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOUR DESTINATION AWAITS $2000: Here's a glimpse of life on this 15-square-mile French Polynesian island whose double name means "first born"; yes, please Bora Bora |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $200: Consolidated this inventor, your history in New York goes back almost 200 years, to before he was even born Edison |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN $400: Last name of Dutch-born "Real Housewife" Yolanda, mom of Gigi & Bella, who got her U.S. citizenship in 2013 Hadid |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN $800: Canadian-born singer, seen here in 2005, the year she became a U.S. citizen Alanis Morissette |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $800: Rabbits are born fur-less & blind; these close relatives are born fully developed, with fur & open eyes hares |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN $1600: British-born, in 2020 she became a U.S. citizen--naturally, in the city of New York Kim Cattrall |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | LIKE A NATURALIZED WOMAN $2000: This South African-born woman got a one-way ticket to California from her mom, so her 2007 naturalization was kind of inevitable Charlize Theron |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: Born around 610 B.C. on Lesbos, this poet integrated elements of Aphrodite's rituals like incense-laden altars into her work Sappho |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | COMPOSERS $14,000 (Daily Double): He was born near St. Petersburg in early June 1882; no wonder his music is rite for spring Stravinsky |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: 2018:
"Shallow", co-written by Lady Gaga A Star is Born |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | RUSSIANS $1600: In the 1960s this Russian-born man designed stained glass windows for Jerusalem's Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center Marc Chagall |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | RUSSIANS $2000: Born in St. Petersburg in 1846, he inherited his dad's small jewelry business at the eggs-act age of 24 Fabergé |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | STATES & SYMBOLS $800: A monument to William McKinley adorns the Capitol Square of this state where 7 U.S. presidents were born Ohio |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $200: I cannot tell a lie: Virginia was still a British colony when he was born there in 1732 George Washington |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $400: Braintree was still Britville when he was born there in 1767 John Quincy Adams |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $600: He was born a British subject in Virginia in 1751; how dare they burn his pretty White House! James Madison |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $800: He wasn't "Old" in 1767, when he fell from the tree in the backwoods of the Carolina colonies Andrew Jackson |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $1000: He was born in the colony of Virginia February 9, 1773, 68 years before his very brief presidency William Harrison |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | ANNE RICE $200: Anne Rice set her book "The Feast of all Saints" in this city where she was born & raised New Orleans |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY $600 (Daily Double): She was born in 2015 as fourth in line to the throne & stayed in that spot even after she had a baby brother Princess Charlotte |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS $400: You might land on Bike Share or Week-Long Meditation Retreat in "Monopoly for" these folks born between 1981 & 1996 Millennials |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | A FORD FIESTA $1000: Born in Texas, this one-time Gucci fashion designer has also directed movies, & appeared on many magazine covers himself Tom Ford |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $1600: The first English child born in the Americas, she disappeared with the rest of the Roanoke colonists (Virginia) Dare |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | ON BASE $600: John McCain was born on a U.S. military base near a strategic waterway in this country Panama |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Hiding in Plain Sight" is the subtitle of Julia Sweig's biography of this first lady born in Karnack, Texas (Lady Bird) Johnson |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1,400 (Daily Double): 1985:
"He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born" Back to the Future |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $400: Taiwan-born Jerry Yang co-created Jerry & David's Guide to the World Wide Web, which became this Internet giant! Yahoo! |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | ITALY $800: This northwestern seaport where Columbus was likely born is at the center of the Italian riviera Genoa |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | SIGNATURE SONGS $1600: A bio of John Fogerty says this CCR signature song shifts "Northern Californian experiences to a southern setting" "Born On The Bayou" |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | ITALY $1600: Catherine de Medici was queen of France & the mother of 3 French kings, but was born in this Tuscan city Florence |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This man who was born & died in Bergen was known for his Norwegian peasant dances Grieg |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $800: Born with an artistic heritage, she's found beauty in designing jewelry & creating a signature perfume Picasso |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ARTISTS $1200: This surrealist painter & printmaker was born in Figueres, Spain in 1904 & died there in 1989 (Salvador) Dalí |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $1600: This martial art, born on Okinawa, made its Olympic debut & Ryo Kiyuna, born on Okinawa, won gold karate |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE WILD WEST $200: Though a Wild West icon, this youthful outlaw who also went by Henry McCarty was born on the East Side of New York City Billy the Kid |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THAT'S CANADIAN ENTERTAINMENT $400: "You Oughta Know" this Ottawa-born singer imported Flea & Dave Navarro to play on that song Alanis Morissette |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | THE GERSHWIN PRIZE $800: Born in Saginaw, Michigan, this 2009 honoree was recording with Motown Records at age 12 Stevie Wonder |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TYPICAL JASON $600: Jason was born in the 1970s when Jason was a wildly popular baby name, also given to Momoa, Mraz, & this actor (Jason) Sudeikis |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HELLO, GOODBYE $200: Born around 1820, heroically conducted a "railroad", passed in 1913 Tubman |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HELLO, GOODBYE $800: Born around 247 B.C. & followed in footsteps of Carthaginian general dad Hamilcar Barca; conquered by death around 183 B.C. Hannibal |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MINNEAPOLIS: NEWS CLUES $600: (I'm Randy Shaver.) Born James Janos in Minneapolis in 1951, this former Navy SEAL & wrestler body-slammed his competition in 1998, winning the election for Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: Bernard Cornwell's low-born soldier has his first adventure in "Sharpe's Tiger", which takes place in this Asian land during British rule India |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | MLB MASCOTS $400: A fuzzy green guy named Southpaw, born on the South Side White Sox |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | AMERICAN NICKNAMES $800: "The Great Orator" was a nickname for this 19th century New Hampshire-born congressman, senator & Secretary of State Daniel Webster |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | AMERICAN NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1876, this author of several doggone adventures was known as the "American Kipling" Jack London |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | TODAY I LEARNED $1000: This Vermont senator is not only 3rd in the succession line to the presidency, he was born blind in one eye & has been in 5 "Batman" movies Leahy |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: The citric acid cycle also goes by the name of this German-born biochemist who discovered it in 1937 Krebs |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | TIME FOR SCIENCE $1200: Born hearing-impaired in 1653, Joseph Sauveur studied sound vibrations & coined this word for the science he pioneered acoustics |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | ARCHITECTS $2000: Appropriately, this French-born man's grave at Arlington overlooks the city beyond, which he designed & laid out Pierre L'Enfant |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF $2,000 (Daily Double): He was born in Furth, Germany Kissinger |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | JULY $1000: On July 26, 1529, this Castile-born conquistador was appointed governor of Peru Pizarro |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | MARSHALL MATTERS $1600: Born in 1834, this Chicagoan revolutionized the department store industry Marshall Field |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | STREET ART $200: The Ecuador-born artist known as Lady Pink became famous for painting on these transports in New York City, 1979-1985 subway cars |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | THEY DON'T LIVE ON SESAME STREET $200: South African-born Ernie Els is a longtime standout performer in this pro sport golf |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | SPORTS & SOCIETY $1000: Born the summer it became law, USC & WNBA star Lisa Leslie has been called "The First Daughter of" this clause Title IX |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $1200: If you're part of a royal family, you are "born to" this color purple |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2003 this Auckland-born man was the first foreigner made an honorary citizen of Nepal Hillary |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $1200: Born in Spain, he was the 2011 James Beard Chef of the Year & the 2018 James Beard Humanitarian of the Year (José) Andrés |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | ANTHROPOLOGY $600: The Tarahumara, who have an incredible ability to win 50-mile races, are the topic of this bestseller with a Springsteen title Born to Run |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: The Reichstag was draped in fabric by the husband & wife team of this man & Jeanne-Claude, who were born on the same day Christo |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $5,000 (Daily Double): Stolen in Israel in 1996, this Russian-born artist's "Jacob's Ladder" was recovered in 2015 & sold at auction in 2020 Marc Chagall |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $1600: In South America, from the name of a man born in 1783 Bolivia |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | MOBITUARIES WITH MO ROCCA $400: (Mo Rocca presents the clue.) Audrey Hepburn suffered hunger & loss as a teen in Nazi-occupied Netherlands & felt a special bond with this girl born in the same year; the girl's diary evoked such painful wartime memories that Hepburn declined to play her on film, even at the request of the girl's father Anne Frank |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | THE WIRE $1000: Born in Germany in 1905, Karl was the patriarch of this family famous for its high-wire act the Wallendas |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES $400: Oct. 20, 1632: This future architect is born in England & within a few years, probably begins to design buildings on the floor Christopher Wren |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | SOME GOOD NEWS $600: In 2020, a pygmy one of these--an endangered species--was born at the San Diego Zoo for the first time in over 30 years a hippo (a pygmy hippopotamus) |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES $1000: August 8, 1866: He is born to sharecropper parents in Maryland; the North Pole awaits Matthew Henson |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | -ISMs $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The Jewish Museum in Budapest, which is part of the Great Synagogue Complex, is built on the site of the house where Theodore Herzl, father of this movement, was born in 1860 Zionism |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | BEHIND THE SONG $200: Paul Schrader asked this singer to act in a film titled "Born in the U.S.A."--he turned Paul down but liked the title Bruce Springsteen |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $3,000 (Daily Double): Born Chloe Wofford, she converted to Catholicism at age 12 & added the name Anthony to hers, from St. Anthony of Padua Toni Morrison |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY $2000: I was born in Edinburgh in 1711, 28 years before I published the first volumes of "A Treatise of Human Nature" (David) Hume |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NON-ITALIAN ROMAN EMPEROR $800: Maximinus Thrax got his heavy metal name because he was born in this ancient region spanning Greece, Turkey & Bulgaria Thrace |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NON-ITALIAN ROMAN EMPEROR $1600: Diocletian was born in what is now this country, not far from his famous palace in Split Croatia |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NON-ITALIAN ROMAN EMPEROR $2000: Born in Syria, a 3rd century emperor was known as Philip the this ethnicity the Arab |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NON-ITALIAN ROMAN EMPEROR $8,000 (Daily Double): Claudius & Caracalla were born in this Roman region in what is now the city of Lyon Gaul |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | 1921 $200: A forerunner of General Mills created this persona to answer questions about baking & an icon was born Betty Crocker |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1000: This Swiss-born American psychiatrist who identified the 5 stages of grief Kübler-Ross |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | MONTANA $400: "Eragon" author Christopher Paolini is a longtime Montana resident, while this 4-time Oscar nominee was born there Michelle Williams |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $2000: This Mumbai-born author opens "Midnight's Children" as India becomes independent Salman Rushdie |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Born John Rogers Stephens, in 2018 he released his first holiday album, "A Legendary Christmas" John Legend |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | THE 2021 WORLD ALMANAC $600: From her profile: She was born to "a Jamaica-born Black economist father & India-born biomedical scientist mother" Kamala Harris |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON BASS $1000: Searching for a bass player, Chris Frantz & David Byrne found Tina Weymouth & this New Wave band was born the Talking Heads |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MR. PRESIDENT $1600: Rutherford B. Hayes was the only president born in Delaware--that's Delaware in this state Ohio |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS' LAST NAMES $800: L.A.-born $inger-$ongwriter Sebert Kesha |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | 18th CENTURY STUFF $600: Born on the Big Island, this king known as "the Great" set out to unify the Hawaiian Islands Kamehameha |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | CHAPTERS IN NONFICTION BOOKS $1600: "Elsa Meets Other Wild Animals" Born Free |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $600: Though income tax was temporarily abolished 10 years after this agency was born, it stuck around to collect other monies the IRS |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | BASEBALL MANAGERS $800: In 2016 Joe Maddon managed this team to its first World Series title since before his own father was born the Chicago Cubs |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | BASEBALL MANAGERS $1200: The nickname of this Yankees manager likely came from Kansas City, where he was born Casey Stengel |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | WOMEN IN CONGRESS $800: Patsy Mink, who was born in this state before it was a state, represented it in Congress from 1965 to 1977 & from 1990 until 2002 Hawaii |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: When figure skater Sonja Henie was born in this city in 1912, it was still known as Christiania Oslo |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $400: Here's something to chew on--this Civil War baby would grow up to create a chewing gum empire Wrigley |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $800: Ernest Lawrence Thayer, who was born in 1863, would hit a home run with this poem published in 1888 "Casey at the Bat" |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $1200: Across the pond Joseph Merrick developed deformities that cruelly earned him this nickname the Elephant Man |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $2000: The son of a Civil War officer, he would become famous for his Wild West artwork like "The Bronco Buster" (Frederic) Remington |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR $4,000 (Daily Double): This president's first wife Alice & his second wife Edith were both born during the early days of the war in 1861 Theodore Roosevelt |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | INITIALLY YOURS $1600: This revered Chinese-born American architect passed away in 2019 shortly after his 102nd birthday (I.M.) Pei |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The town of Falaise in Normandy is home to a statue of this man who was born there around 1028 William the Conqueror |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | GREEN $1200: In 1864 at Caledonia, New York, Seth Green built the USA's first of these places for fish to be born hatcheries |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | ALL ALLITERATION $200: It's when a term paper is supposed to be submitted or a baby is expected to be born a due date |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OVERCOMING OBSTACLES $2000: Born without a right hand, he pitched with his left, playing 10 seasons for 4 different MLB teams Jim Abbott |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | NICKNAMES $200: As 8 were born there, this state is "The Mother of Presidents" Virginia |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | HIT: THE "ROAD" $2000: This Springsteen classic that opens the album "Born To Run" was inspired by a Robert Mitchum movie of the same title "Thunder Road" |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $400: Born in Hamburg, H.A. & Margret Rey are best known for a series of kids' books about this monkey Curious George |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $800: German-born Paul Warburg was a board member of this American central banking authority the Federal Reserve |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $1200: Born in Hamburg in 1833, he rose from his humble beginnings, to become one of the three B's of classical music (Johannes) Brahms |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $1600: Hamburg-born politician Helmut Schmidt held this top job from 1974 to 1982 chancellor |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | POP CULTURE $600: Born in 2012, Beyoncé's oldest daughter has this colorful name Blue Ivy |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | '80s TALK $2000: A 1981 New York Times letter coined this hyphenated numerical term in reference to Wendy Wasserstein, born 1950 thirty-something |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | PUBLIC SCULPTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): A statue of this brewer was unveiled in 2013 in Celbridge, Ireland, near where he was born around 1725 (Arthur) Guinness |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1600: A Cooper/Gaga saga goes Tom Cruise-ing into a 1989 film about a Vietnam vet A Star is Born on the Fourth of July |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | RONALD REAGAN $200: Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in the city of Tampico in this state Illinois |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | CORSICAN $400: He was born in Corsica's capital of Ajaccio on August 15, 1769, the same year the French took over Napoleon |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | FUNNY BUSINESS $1200: "Last One Laughing", hosted by this Sydney-born funny woman, pits comics against one another trying to make each other laugh Rebel Wilson |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | FUNNY BUSINESS $2000: This comedian displayed his drama chops in "A Star is Born", playing Bradley Cooper's longtime friend Dave Chappelle |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NEW TO THE OED $600: From baseball, & said of privileged kids: "to be born" here third base |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | LET'S GO TO THE ARCHIVES $2000: The Vassiliev Notebooks of information from Soviet archives show that yes, this NYC-born man executed in 1953 was an atom spy Rosenberg |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | LYRICAL C.V. $1600: "Born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day, when the New York Times said God is dead" Levon |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | BROOKLYN '99 $200: In 1899 this gangster-to-be was born in Brooklyn's Navy Yard section; no reports of any scars on his face Capone |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | JOCKS $800: This Milwaukee Bucks star was born in Greece to Nigerian parents (don't worry, we'll take just his first name) Giannis (Antetokounmpo) |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | NORWEGIANS $1600: Incidentally, this man born in Bergen wrote the incidental music to "Peer Gynt" (Edvard) Grieg |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | MARCO POLO SLEPT HERE $200: Marco was born in the 1250s to a wealthy merchant family in this Italian city-state famed for its traders & travelers Venice |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | YOU KNOW, I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY $1600: The son of a cobbler, this man whose name adorns high-end shoes was born in Malaysia but opened his first shop in England Jimmy Choo |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Even with his 1997 loss to Deep Blue, an IBM computer (I know how that feels), this Soviet-born chess master ranks as probably the greatest player of all time--though for my money, his Sicilian defense got a bit predictable Kasparov |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: It's no science fiction that in 1948 this prolific Russian-born author received a Ph.D in chemistry from Columbia University Isaac Asimov |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | NICKNAMES $800: Those born under this fourth sign are nicknamed "moon children" Cancer |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM $1000: This woman dreamed a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" & a novel was born Mary Shelley |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $200: On June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky this pirate captain came ashore Johnny Depp |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $400: Once upon a time in Hollywood, November 11, 1974 was his inception Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $600: April 30, 1985 in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel gave us this wonder of a gal Gal Gadot |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $800: This "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" señor was born March 1, 1969 in the Canary Islands Javier Bardem |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A STAR IS BORN $1000: She was born to a Danish-born dad November 22, 1984 in NYC & later found herself "Lost in Translation" (Scarlett) Johansson |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: In 1975, after hearing a mastered version of this now-classic album, Bruce Springsteen threw it in a pool Born to Run |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: "Stories From a South African Childhood" is the subtitle of this memoir by Trevor Noah Born a Crime |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | I GOT THEM HISTORICAL BLUES $200: On the day I was born / In April 1822 / I had no idea I'd be president, or a top general too / I wore the blues / The Union Army blues (Ulysses) Grant |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | EPONYMOUS ELEMENTS $2000: In 2010 the official naming of Cn was announced on February 19, the day this man was born in 1473 Copernicus |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | EPONYMOUS ELEMENTS $3,000 (Daily Double): This element is named for a Polish-born scientist & her husband curium |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | THE CELEBRITY'S BOOZE $2000: Strip away his credit as "Magic Mike" & he was still born & bred to be part of Born & Bred Vodka Channing Tatum |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 27 DRESSES $600: The oversized clothing look has worked well for this pop star born in 1993 Ariana Grande |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ONCE-POPULAR FIRST NAMES $2000: These 2 "E" names of famous Kennedys were fairly big in the 1920s when those ladies were born, but are off the radar now Eunice & Ethel |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1200: In Sept. 2018 this Singapore-born man had 3 books in the top 5 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list Kevin Kwan |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | ANCIENT CONTEMPORARIES $1200: This biographer was born in 46 A.D. during the reign of Claudius but didn't include him in "Parallel Lives" Plutarch |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A NUMBER BETWEEN 3 & 5 $200: 4 kids born at once; it's a cooler way of saying you had twin twins quadruplets |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | THAT IS SO SOCAL $1200: The first of these large birds hatched in captivity was born at the San Diego Zoo in 1983 a California condor |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | EXERCISE YOUR... $1000: This German-born husband of Queen Victoria exercised great influence over her, especially in European affairs Albert |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | SWEDEN LOWS--& HIGHS $1200: High: this man born in Stockholm in 1833 established some very prestigious awards Nobel |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | WORDSWORTH AT 250 $400: Poet William Wordsworth was born 250 years ago in Cumberland in this famous English district the Lake District |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | 1990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $1,500 (Daily Double): "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man" Unforgiven |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | HISTORIC WOMEN $3,000 (Daily Double): Her services refused due to prejudice, Jamaican-born Mary Seacole helped care for British soldiers on her own during this 1850s war the Crimean War |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | GOOD STUFF IN 2020 $400: At the Columbus Zoo, male & female cubs of this fastest land mammal were born via in vitro fertilization for the first time a cheetah |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES $1600: This Canadian-born actress in the title role of "Juno" (Ellen) Page |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Plutarch wrote that the same day Alexander the Great was born, this temple, a wonder of the world, burned in Ephesus the Temple of Artemis |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $200: Born 1890, was a merchant of "murder" & "death", named a dame in 1971, & then there was none of her in 1976 Agatha Christie |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $600: Born 1919, came through the rye to fame in 1951, & we're not too sure what he did from 1965 to his death in 2010 Salinger |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $800: Born in 1903 with the initials E.A.B., took his pen name from an English river in 1933, passed away in 1950, 34 years early George Orwell |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): Born 1898, taught at Oxford & Cambridge, chronicled big cats, enchantresses & closets, died 1963 C.S. Lewis |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $1000: Born 1709 in England, wrote a dictionary, got bio'd, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1784 Samuel Johnson |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $600: Here's this Brooklyn-born legal eagle years before joining the Supremes (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | SOLD! AT SOTHEBY'S $2000: The first sculpture on the auction block ever to sell for over $100 million was "Walking Man 1" by this Swiss-born sculptor Giacometti |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: 100 years after he was born, his "Pygmalion" was turned into the musical "My Fair Lady" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | NICKNAMES $200: Born in Austria, the Governator Schwarzenegger |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $400: Born on the foam of the sea, this "mighty" goddess had a magic girdle that made the wearer amazingly desirable, as girdles do Aphrodite |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | THE FRENCH PRINCE $400: Jean de France, who controlled much of France during this protracted war, was born in 1340 shortly after its start the Hundred Years' War |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! $800: In 1914 this Belorussian-born man painted "The Praying Jew", also called "The Rabbi of Vitebsk" Chagall |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POP CULTURE $2000: This London-born singer of "New Rules" recently won a Grammy for Best New Artist Dua Lipa |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $400: Alexander the Great was born in the city of Pella in this kingdom in 356 B.C. Macedonia |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | MODERN MUSIC $600: This L.A. native, seen here, is the first person born in the current millennium to have a Number One album Billie Eilish |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | DON QUIXOTE $800: Idioms abound in "Don Quixote", like "The haves & the have nots" & the rich being born with one of these "in his mouth" a silver spoon |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE DRAKE PASSAGE $400: Drake was born Aubrey Drake Graham in 1986 in this city he nicknamed "The 6" Toronto |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ALL ABOUT APRIL $1000: The daisy is one special flower for those born in April; another is this sweet one seen here a sweet pea |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | OK BOOMER $800: Born in 1952 in Western Penn., John Kasich did OK in politics in this state, becoming a congressman & governor Ohio |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | OK BOOMER $1600: Born in the middle of the Baby Boom, he's the filmmaker & activist seen here Michael Moore |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | REMEMBER JAMES GARFIELD! $400: Young James was the last U.S. president born in one of these structures, in 1831 on an Ohio farm a log cabin |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | FOUR $600: Of the 4 men carved on Mount Rushmore, he's the one not born in the original 13 Colonies Lincoln |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | DEMOGRAPHY $200: 2-word term for the number of children born in one year per every 1,000 people of a particular group the birth rate |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | DEMOGRAPHY $1,600 (Daily Double): Born between 1980 & 1995, millennials are AKA "Generation" this letter Generation Y |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: William Kennedy was born in this state capital & set a trilogy there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed" Albany |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | CAR "MA" $600: In 1914 a brand name was born when he raced cars up Aston Hill (Lionel) Martin |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: As queen consort & regent of France, Italian-born Catherine takes an "S" on the end of this famed Florentine last name de Medici |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $800: Deirdre Bair's 2019 "Parisian Lives" is a memoir of writing the biographies of Simone de Beauvoir & this Irish-born playwright (Samuel) Beckett |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS $400: Known as O Rei, Portuguese for "the king", this man born in 1940 has the most men's World Cup championships, with 3 Pelé |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | SHE'S A GODDESS! $800: Born full grown & dressed in armor, this Greek goddess missed out on her childhood Athena |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CONGRESS $400: Congress has the power to grant this acquisition of citizenship for those not born in the United States naturalization |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | IMMACULATE INCEPTION $200: Procter & Gamble wanted a genie-like mascot for a new "magic" cleanser, & presto! this bald guy with an earring was born Mr. Clean |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | ART, FLEMING $200: Full-figured women were celebrated by this painter, born June 28, 1577 of Flemish parents Rubens |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $400: In an HBO miniseries, Paul Giamatti was president & accounted for as this title guy born in the 1700s John Adams |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $400: Born in Warsaw, she is still the only woman to win Nobel prizes in 2 different fields Marie Curie |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | HIT & "RUN" $400: Rolling Stone called this 1975 Bruce Springsteen release "a '57 Chevy running on melted-down Crystals records" Born to Run |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | NAMES OF THE 1920s $5,000 (Daily Double): These 2 Italian-born men were executed on August 23, 1927, still maintaining their innocence Sacco & Vanzetti |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AMERICAN WOMEN & POLITICS $800: As secretary of state, she was fourth in line to the presidency, but born in Prague, she was ineligible for the the office (Madeleine) Albright |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | FAMOUS TEXANS $400: This TV comedienne was born in San Antonio Carol Burnett |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | "B" IN MEDICINE $1600: This type of delivery means that the baby is born feet or tushie first instead of head first breech |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | FAMOUS TEXANS $1600: Born to two University of Texas students, this Austin boy is in the Texas Film Hall of Fame Ethan Hawke |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is in Massachusetts.) A national park in Massachusetts preserves the adjacent birthplaces of these two presidents--the first born in 1735, in that cottage, and second, born in 1767 in the other John Adams & John Quincy Adams |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | FRED(E)RIC(K)S OF HOLLYWOOD $400: Born Frederick Austerlitz, this actor was free to create his own dances on film Fred Astaire |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | 1980s POP LYRICS $800: Bruce Springsteen: "I'm ten years burning down the road" "Born In The U.S.A." |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | MARY: ME $2000: Failing eyesight & eventual blindness forced this American-born artist to stop painting around 1914 Mary Cassatt |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | INSPIRING WOMEN $1000: This glamorous Vienna-born actress invented a device that contributed to the development of GPS and WiFi Hedy Lamarr |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | NEIL BEFORE ME $1600: 2 years before Neil Diamond was born there, this "Laughter In The Rain" singer-songwriter was born in Brooklyn Neil Sedaka |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $200: In 2011 this singer said, "'Born This Way' is my answer to many questions over the years: Who are you? What are you about?" Lady Gaga |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | STATES' COMMON SURNAMES $800: Louisiana-born singers Hank Jr. & Lucinda share this surname, the state's most common Williams |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | FAMOUS & HISTORIC WOMEN $600 (Daily Double): Let's tell of her & nothing but her--she was born a slave in the 1790s & once freed, sold a book of her "Narrative" Sojourner Truth |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $400: New Zealand-born Russell Crowe received 3 straight Best Actor nominations, winning in 2001 for this film Gladiator |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Welsh-born man won a Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Fighter" Christian Bale |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1200: Born in Vienna, he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Col. Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds" Christoph Waltz |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1600: Though born in Sweden, she won an Oscar for her supporting role in 2015's "The Danish Girl" Alicia Vikander |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Jean Dujardin didn't have much to say in becoming the first Frenchman to win Best Actor, for this 2011 film The Artist |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | PURPLE REIGN $1600: Porphyrogeniture is succession by the 1st son "born in the purple", while dad was king; this is succession by the 1st son born anytime primogeniture |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $2000: In 1961 the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. became the longtime home of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra Lawrence Welk |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $2000: John Fogerty sounds like he crawled out of the swamp on CCR's song "Born On" this marshy inlet a Bayou |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | THE IRISHMAN $1200: He's the Dublin-born actor & one-time seminary student seen here (Gabriel) Byrne |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WORLD LEADERS $800: This nation's President Dr. Arif Alvi was born in 1949, 2 years after his country achieved independence Pakistan |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | PARADISE BY $1000: "Dark Paradise" is a song on her album "Born To Die" Lana Del Rey |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | TV HOMES & ADDRESSES $600: In West Philadelphia born & raised, Will Smith moved in with his aunt & uncle to a home on St. Cloud Road in "a town called" this Bel-Air |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE GREATEST OF ALL MINDS $400: Destined for greatness, Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942, the 300th anniversary of this famed astronomer's death Galileo |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Born in Rotterdam in 1904, he entered the U.S. as a stowaway & painted houses before becoming an abstract expressionist (Willem) de Kooning |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $2000: This Boston-born architect designed the Massachusetts State House & from 1818 to 1829 served as architect of the U.S. Capitol Bulfinch |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | PHILOSOPHERS $2,800 (Daily Double): This double-first-name philosopher born in 1842 said that the value of a concept is in its practical consequences William James |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $3,800 (Daily Double): Born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong performed songs named for these 2 local "B" streets Bourbon & Basin |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $800: The second, third & fourth Oscars for Best Actress went to Canadian-born women, starting with her, "America's Sweetheart" Pickford |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | CREATURES OF THE DEEP? $2000: Born Emmanuel Radnitsky, this artist, whose work is seen here, was a contributor to the Surrealist & Dada Movement Man Ray |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | MAYORS $400: In 1985 the slogan "Cubano Vota Cubano" led to Puerto Rico-born Mayor Maurice Ferré losing his job in this city to Xavier Suarez Miami |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | IT'S CHARLIE! $1000: Born in England in 1889, he made the comedy short "Making a Living" in 1914 in Los Angeles Charlie Chaplin |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS $1200: Born Lev Davidovich Brownstein, this agitator came up with the concept of permanent revolution Trotsky |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | "B" MY BABY $600: She was born to magazine publisher Marvin Pierce in 1925, 16 years before she met "Poppy" Barbara Bush |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | "B" MY BABY $1000: On May 18, 1872 he was born to Lord & Lady Amberley & proud Grandpa Lord John Russell Bertrand |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $2000: 2018: "La Vie En Rose" & "I'll Never Love Again" A Star is Born |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | COMPOSERS & THEIR WORKS $800: This Polish-born piano man called his E Major Etude his most beautiful melody Chopin |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | THE MARSHALL PLAN $5,000 (Daily Double): $13 billion in aid was distributed to 17 European nations, including this new country born from a recent division West Germany |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) The Vienna State Opera House was built in Neo this style to reflect that 16th century period of artistic rediscovery when the art form of opera was born Renaissance |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | NELLIE BLY $200: Nellie Bly was a reporter for this man's New York World & had she been born later, she might have won one of his prizes (Joseph) Pulitzer |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | 21st CENTURY COMPANIES $400: The idea for this app was born in 2008 after its co-founders were unable to get a cab in France Uber |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | IN THE NATIONAL TOY HALL OF FAME $1000: She was born when cartoonist Johnny Gruelle drew a face on an old doll his daughter owned Raggedy Ann |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | STATUESQUE AUTHORS $2000: The statue of this Victorian author, born Mary Ann Evans, is in Warwickshire, where she set many of her novels George Eliot |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HIT TUNES $400: Bradley Cooper teamed with Lady Gaga to climb the Billboard charts with this song from "A Star is Born" "Shallow" |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | ON THE CUSPS OF GREATNESS $200: Dates shared by Sagittarius & Capricorn in this month are the Cusp of Prophecy, so if born then, you know what next year holds December |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | ON THE CUSPS OF GREATNESS $800: November has the Cusp of Revolution; this woman who revolutionized tennis with "The Battle of the sexes" was born on Nov. 22 Billie Jean King |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | COMEDIANS ON AUDIBLE $1200: He says he was "Born Standing Up": I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining and four were spent in wild success Steve Martin |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: Junk dealer Harry Brock hires a tutor to give his mistress Billie Dawn some culture & class in this play Born Yesterday |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: Only 2 British PMs have been born outside the British Isles: Andrew Bonar Law (Canada) & this 2019 arrival (NYC) Boris Johnson |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | VISIONARIES $1600: With his nation in his name, this 18th c. Stockholm-born author of "Heaven & Hell" used his visions to interpret scripture (Emanuel) Swedenborg |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUIS $600: He was born Donatien Alphonse Francois, but fans of x-rated lit know him better as this the Marquis de Sade |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | NON COMPOSE MENTIS $800: Alexander Scriabin thought he was a musical Messiah; believers point out he was born on this day (true) & died on Easter (no) Christmas |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBS $1000: This Mogadishu-born supermodel was smokin' on the big screen opposite James Kirk in "Star Trek VI" Iman |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | JEOPARDY! KEYWORDS, NOT! $1200: Born in Braintree, this John was a "Founding Father & president"--of the Continental Congress John Hancock |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | JEOPARDY! KEYWORDS, NOT! $2000: Works like the one seen here were created by this Barcelona-born Spanish surrealist Miró |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS III $1200: For TV's Mexican-born "Dog Whisperer" 900 |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL $1600: Born in 1899 in St. Petersburg, he writes in "Speak, Memory" that he could read English before Russian, & he wrote novels in both Nabokov |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | TO THE STARS $800: In 1960 NASA made this German-born man the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center Wernher von Braun |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | THE SYNDROME SYNDROME $800: A person born with the most common type of this condition has an extra copy of chromosome 21 in each cell Down syndrome |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | PEN NAMES $1,200 (Daily Double): A perfect spy could tell you it's the pen name of the British novelist born David John Moore Cornwell John le Carré |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $1000: This deep-voiced actor who played Bradley Cooper's brother in "A Star Is Born" has been the voice of Smokey for over a decade
"Only you can prevent wildfires." (Sam) Elliott |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ONCE UPON A TIME... $1200: This Spanish-born star played El Mariachi for the last time in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" Antonio Banderas |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON $800: Bessie Rayner Parkes described this Scottish region as "hills that were born of ages... like monuments to mighty gods" the Highlands |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | MUSICAL LEGENDS $200: Mexcan-born guitar legend seen here (Carlos) Santana |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SO LONG $800: The anniversary Hanoi celebrated in 2010, or a person born around 1990 a millennial |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | SOCIOLOGIST'S GLOSSARY $600: The counterpart of a certain ceiling, this type of floor prevents screwups born into privilege from falling too far socioeconomically the glass floor |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | WOMEN COMPOSERS $1600: British-born Rebecca Clarke gained notice with her 1919 sonata for this instrument spelled the same as a woman's first name the viola |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | DESIGNING WOMEN $2000: A cultural center in Azerbaijan is one of the notable projects by this late, great dame, and Baghdad-born architect Zaha Hadid |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: This "little woman" was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832 & died in Boston in 1888 (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Dublin born in 1882, he died in Zurich in 1941 (James) Joyce |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1200: "Go Tell It On The Mountain" that he was born in New York in 1924 & said adieu in France in 1987 James Baldwin |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: His story began in Salem, Mass. in 1804 & ended 60 years later during a trip to New Hampshire with Franklin Pierce Hawthorne |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $4,400 (Daily Double): The "Winds of War" carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103 Herman Wouk |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $800: While running "Top Chef", this Indian-born woman wrote "The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs" Padma Lakshmi |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $1200: He was born in Pondicherry, India & named Manoj, which he shortened to M. M. Night Shyamalan |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINNISH LINES $400: In 1943 Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen designed the smooth lines of this St. Louis landmark Gateway Arch |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | NEWER TO THE LANGUAGE $800: Folks born in the late '90s or early 2000s are "Generation" this letter Z |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $1000: In 1759 this German-born composer was buried in Westminster Abbey; with no wife & kids, he paid for his own memorial Handel |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | TED TALK $800: The youngest of 9 kids, he was born into a political dynasty February 22, 1932 in Boston Ted Kennedy |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $1600: The St. Paul Backbone, Jan. 1897: this "party is alive and well. It was not born to die till the last saloon dies" Prohibition |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | RECENT EVENTS QUIZ $800: Their first child, he was born to the Duke Duchess of Sussex May 6, 2019 Archie |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel Beloved |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | WHICH PRESIDENT? $7,000 (Daily Double): 7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north John Adams & John Quincy Adams |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $800: Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote "We Are Going", the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity Aboriginal |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $2000: Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what's now Berdychiv, Ukraine & wrote works like "Typhoon" in English (Joseph) Conrad |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | BEEN AROUND AWHILE $400: History's longest papacy, that of Pius IX, included the 1854 affirmation of this doctrine that Mary was born without original sin the Immaculate Conception |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | VENICE $600: During one season, the winter of 1678, this Baroque music master was born in Venice Antonio Vivaldi |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | LEFT ON THE BOARD $1600: In September 1882 thousands of workers held a march in NYC & this holiday was born Labor Day |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Born in Mass. in 1820, she had abolition & temperance as her main causes before focusing on women's rights (Susan B.) Anthony |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $400: Kate Hudson was born with that name in 1979; this "Firework" singer was born in 1984 as Katheryn Hudson Katy Perry |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $800: This iconic movie star said goodbye, Norma Jeane (Baker when baptized, but Mortenson on her birth certificate) Marilyn Monroe |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $1200: He "Unchained" himself from the name Eric Bishop & went with a gender-neutral name for his stand-up career Jamie Foxx |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $2000: It's no trap, queen, that this rapper was born Willie Maxwell Fetty Wap |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | A STAR IS BORN $4,000 (Daily Double): Amanda Rogers used a first name from "The Merchant of Venice" & an Italian last name to get this stage name Portia de Rossi |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LIEDER $2,000 (Daily Double): This Vienna-born composer was only 17 when he wrote "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel" & changed the lieder game in 1814 Franz Schubert |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | EVERY PITCHER TELLS A STORY $800: "Imperfect" is by Jim Abbott, who though born with one hand, gave up no runs & 5 walks pitching one of these in 1993 a no-hitter |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | A STEEL DAY $2000: January 19, 1813:
This Englishman who'll go on to revolutionize steel production is born Bessemer |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | QUEENS RULE! $2000: Born in Catania in the 14th century, Queen Maria of this island lost her kingdom but returned with a fleet & took it back Sicily |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | BUSINESS PAIRS $600: Fancy British cars were born after 1904, when Charles Stewart Rolls got into business with this Henry Royce |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | TEENS ON TV $400: Sean Giambrone goes back to a time before he was born--the '80s--as Adam, a member of this title sitcom family on ABC the Goldbergs |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | 2018 ESPY WINNERS $600: Born Alexandra, this gymnast was one of the "sister survivors" who won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award Aly Raisman |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | TRUTH OR DARE $800: Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World, in the Roanoke colony in what is now this state North Carolina |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | MACAU $600: Macau-born Ming-Na Wen voiced this title Disney heroine who saves China Mulan |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $400: Lithuanian Sarunas Marciulionis was the first Soviet in this league when he joined the Warriors the NBA |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $800: In 2010 Gori, Georgia took down a statue honoring this once favorite son & moved it into a museum Stalin |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $1200: This man is born in Riga, Latvia in 1898--cut to him directing "Battleship Potemkin" less than 30 years later Eisenstein |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $1600: Chess master Garry Kasparov's first move was made in Baku, now in this country Azerbaijan |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $2000: This Ukrainian-born composer created "Peter and the Wolf" Prokofiev |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $1600: Born in New York, she moved with her family to Greece & was back for her Metropolitan Opera debut as Norma in 1956 Maria Callas |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | ACTRESSES $800: This South African-born beauty won an Oscar for playing a "Monster", serial killer Aileen Wuornos Charlize Theron |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: In Exodus this ruler "charged all his people, saying, every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" Pharaoh |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS $2000: Charles, bro of this Wyo.-born abstract painter, was once thought a better artist but ended up teaching etching at Michigan State (Jackson) Pollock |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | THE MONTHLY MOVIE TITLE $400: Oliver Stone co-wrote this 1989 film with Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, the movie's subject Born on the Fourth of July |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE 2010s $400: At the Oscars held in 2019, this film that was nominated for 8 awards won only one, for Best Original Song A Star is Born |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE 2010s $800: In early 2016 the W.H.O. announced an outbreak of this virus that during pregnancy can cause infants to be born with microcephaly Zika |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | CANADIANA $1000: In 1497 Newfoundland & Labrador were claimed for England by this Italian-born explorer John Cabot (or Giovanni Caboto) |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | TAURUS TYPES $400: Duarte was the maiden name of this First Lady born in the Pampas of Argentina May 7, 1919 Eva Perón |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | TAURUS TYPES $1200: Born April 25, 1917 this jazz legend known for her sweet voice & her scat singing racked up 14 Grammy Awards Ella Fitzgerald |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | TAURUS TYPES $2,000 (Daily Double): Those born under the sign of Taurus are devoted, like this woman, Gertrude Stein's partner & "Autobiography" subject Alice B. Toklas |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | THE PLANETS $2000: This Italian-born astronomer discovered the gap in Saturn's rings & a probe named for him orbited the planet for 13 years Cassini |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $400: From what he wrote about himself in "The Divine Comedy", we know that he was born in 1265 & that he was a Gemini Dante |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $1600: This "Trees" poet was born in New Brunswick & attended Rutgers Joyce Kilmer |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | ROGUES GALLERY $800: Born in Italy, this 18th-century man, whose name is synonymous with "great lover", wrote a scandalous autobiography Casanova |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | MERCURY $1000: Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury was born on this island of Tanzania Zanzibar |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $1000: This human rights lawyer & wife of a famous actor was born in Beirut with the last name Alamuddin Amal Clooney |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Chapter 26 in the biography of this muscle car builder is title "The Cobra is Born" (Carroll) Shelby |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | COLOMBIA PICTURES $800: The world's highest-paid TV actress, this U.S. sitcom star was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1972 Sofía Vergara |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $800: For 2016 & 2017 the most searched athlete was this Dublin-born MMA fighter Conor McGregor |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | I'D LIKE TO SELL A VOWEL $1000: I'll sell you 2 vowels--this network with shows like "Born This Way" & "Intervention" A&E |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LIGHT $600: A motto was born when a boys town boy carrying another boy who had polio said, "He ain't heavy..., he's" this my brother |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | ROOT '66 $400: Born in '66, this former pop singer has become a best-selling country artist without the Blowfish (Darius) Rucker |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $800: The title character of this E.B. White book is born 2 inches long, with a tail & whiskers Stuart Little |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $400: "Twelfth Night" gave us the maxim "Some are born" this, "some achieve" thisness "and some have" thisness "thrust upon them" great |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | THE ZODIAC, KINDA IN PICTURES $1000: The NBA legend seen here wasn't born under it, but the team he won titles with symbolizes this sign Taurus |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | DOCTOR $1200: Helen Taussig is remembered for her work treating babies that were born this unusual color blue |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | BABY BOOMER SOONER $400: This actor/director was born in Duncan, Oklahoma in 1954 & was already in Mayberry by age 6 Ron Howard |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | BABY BOOMER SOONER $800: Born in Vinita, Oklahoma in 1950, this psychologist coached Oprah during a lawsuit & she made him famous Dr. Phil |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | BABY BOOMER SOONER $1200: Though she's repped Massachusetts in the Senate since 2013, she was born in Oklahoma City in 1949 Elizabeth Warren |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | BABY BOOMER SOONER $1600: S.E. Hinton was born in this second-largest city in Oklahoma & set "The Outsiders" there Tulsa |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Akron-born NBA great who wrote "Shooting Stars" while hosting & creating "Inside the Actors Studio" LeBron James Lipton |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | FIVE GUYS $200: This designer was born Ralph Lifshitz in 1939 in the Bronx Ralph Lauren |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $4,000 (Daily Double): Born in Paris in 1804, she's known for her novels, her lovers & writing under a masculine name George Sand |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | A COLONEL OF TRUTH $200: This restaurateur was born Sept. 9, 1890 in Indiana, not Kentucky, & his title was honorary Colonel Sanders |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | THE HERO $1600: ...born Edmond Dantes, of this 1840s novel The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Born on Crete, Domenikos Theotokopolous moved to Spain, where he became better known by this name El Greco |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | SHOW BIZ $400: "You're born naked & the rest is drag" says this drag star RuPaul |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | POLITICIANS $1200: At the 1988 Democratic convention, this fellow Texan said George H.W. Bush was born with a silver foot in his mouth Ann Richards |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | McPEOPLE $1600: This Scottish-born fur trader founded a university in Montreal (James) McGill |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | FRANZ KAFKA $400: Kafka was born in 1883 in this city, then still the capital of the country of Bohemia Prague |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | THE IDES OF FEBRUARY $600: This future First Lady was born in Independence, Missouri February 13, 1885 Bess Truman |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | YOU SAY YOU WANT A FRENCH REVOLUTION $2000: The Declaration of these proclaimed, "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" rights of man |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | THE NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME $400: This ex-"Daily Show" host "was born in New York City but...was raised in N.J., part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963" Jon Stewart |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | EASY LISTENING $1000: This Arizona-born country singer had a No. 1 hit with "Free And Easy (Down The Road I Go)" Dierks Bentley |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | GIRL SCOUT COOKIES $1000: Savannah Smiles are named after the city where this woman was born in 1860 Juliette Gordon Low |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | HAMBURGERS $200: Hamburg-born pacifist Carl von Ossietzky was awarded this in November 1936 while being held in a Nazi prison the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | HAMBURGERS $600: Born in Hamburg in 1954, she was a chemist before joining the CDU political party in 1990 (Angela) Merkel |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | TEDDY ROOSEVELT, MEET JACKIE ROBINSON $400: Teddy was born in 1858 on New York's E. 20th street, just across the river from this borough where Jackie would become famous Brooklyn |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BEARD MAN $4,000 (Daily Double): This bearded guy was born in Colonus around 496 B.C. & wrote more than 120 plays, including "Ajax" & "Antigone" Sophocles |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 30 SOMETHING $1200: Most people are born with 33 of these bones, but reach maturity with fewer because some of them fuse vertebrae |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | 10 LINES ABOUT 5 WOMEN $400: Emily was a poet, Massachusetts born & bred / wrote "I'm Nobody! Who are you?", lived in this town 'til she was dead Amherst |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | BARTLETT'S, A TO Z $1600: P:
This American-born poet for remarking in a 1915 letter, "Poetry must be as well written as prose" (Ezra) Pound |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | GOTTA RUN! $1200: This Steppenwolf song begins, "Get your motor runnin', head out on the highway" "Born To Be Wild" |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | A FISTFUL OF HEROES $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this army guy was born when his author showed proficiency at getting things from high shelves Jack Reacher |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | CENTS OF A WOMAN $1,000 (Daily Double): She graces a gold $1 coin, along with her son Jean Baptiste, born February 11, 1805 Sacagawea |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I GOT! $1600: A grant from the Open Society Foundations, created by this Hungarian-born billionaire to build democracy (George) Soros |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | SAY IT IN LATIN $400: Not sure of the year Chaucer was born? you can use around, about or this Latin word before the year circa |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | MUSICIANS' MEMOIRS $400: 2016:
"Born to Run" Bruce Springsteen |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 1940s AMERICA $400: Born 1 second into the year 1946, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling was the first kid in this huge wave the baby boom |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | BORN IN 1818 $1200: Composer Charles Gounod is known for his opera version of this devilish tale Faust |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | BORN IN 1818 $1600: This abolitionist born a slave got a 200th birthday celebration at his national historic site in Washington, D.C. Frederick Douglass |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | BORN IN 1818 $2000: He invented seed-planting & cotton-thinning machines as well as his crank-operated machine gun Gatling |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | HOPE $200: He was born in Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946 Bill Clinton |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BIOGRAPHIES $200: Lyndal Roper's bio of this man born in 1483 presents his rebellion against the pope as a re-do of his anger at his father Luther |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BLANK NEWS $400: U.K.-born Katty Kay presents it:
"____ World News America" BBC |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | MUSIC OF YESTERDAY & TODAY $1600: Camila Cabello was born in this city & had a 2017 hit singing, "Half of my heart is in" it Havana |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ELEMENTAL $200: This element's name is derived from the Greek for "water" & "born" hydrogen |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | SIBLING $400: This language of Oslo has a word for one born long after his siblings:
attpåklatt Norwegian |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1,000 (Daily Double): He was born in Mecca around 570 & is still changing history Muhammad |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | LADY GAGA $400: Born Stefani Germanotta, Lady Gaga is a huge fan of this band & got her stage name from their song "Radio Ga Ga" Queen |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | LADY GAGA $600: Gaga helped Bradley Cooper rock as they re-re-remade this drama that last starred Streisand & Kristofferson A Star is Born |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | LADY GAGA $800: Lady Gaga is on the right track with her charitable foundation named for this hit with a 3-word title "Born This Way" |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY $1200: This St. Louis-born performer's talent & sensuality made her a music hall star in France in the 1920s and '30s Josephine Baker |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | NO OSCAR FOR YOU! $800: This Vietnam War movie garnered Tom Cruise the first of his 3 nominations Born on the Fourth of July |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM $200: This folk & rock troubadour's gems include the 1965 lyric "He not busy being born is busy dying" (Bob) Dylan |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | THE "HEART" OF COUNTRY $200: Billy Joe Shaver declares this "is where I was born... the Lone Star State's where I'm comin' from" the heart of Texas |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | EXOPHONES $400: Exophonic writers, like this Polish-born author of "Lord Jim", write in languages other than their native one Conrad |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | EXOPHONES $800: While in exile in England from 1726 to 1728, this philosopher born Francois-Marie Arouet wrote in English Voltaire |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | EXOPHONES $1,500 (Daily Double): This Dublin-born man's pre-World War II works were mostly in English; his post-war work primarily in French (Samuel) Beckett |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | DRIVING ALEXIS $1600: You'd want to drive the czarevich Alexis (born 1904) very carefully as he suffered from this condition hemophilia |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: It's the term for the municipality where you were born & raised hometown |
| #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 |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $200: Born in Connecticut in 1811, she went to that "cabin" in the sky July 1, 1896 (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $400: Born in "a little house in the big woods" of Wisconsin in 1867, died in Missouri in 1957 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $600: Born in Denmark in 1885, she went into Africa in 1914 & out of this world Sept. 7, 1962 (Isak) Dinesen |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $800: Born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871, wrote naturally & died Dec. 28, 1945, "An American Tragedy" (Theodore) Dreiser |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Chicago in 1888, made "The Long Goodbye" & went to "The Big Sleep" on March 26, 1959 Raymond Chandler |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | FILMMAKERS FROM MEXICO $200: Sonora-born Bill Melendez directed "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" & voiced this 4-footed character Snoopy |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | FIRST LADIES $400: Melania Trump, the first First Lady born abroad since Louisa Adams, hails from this country next door to Croatia Slovenia |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $800: In 1907 this Bombay-born Englishman who celebrated the empire won the Nobel Prize for Literature Kipling |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | MORE COWBELL $800: Tom Fogerty said, "Man, that sure sounds good when the cowbell comes in" as this band recorded "Born On The Bayou" Creedence Clearwater Revival (or CCR) |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $1200: In "Midnight's Children", No. 2 by Salman Rushdie, Saleem is born Aug. 15, 1947 in this country on its independence day India |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $1000: In a 2012 memoir the widow of this Argentine-born guerrilla fighter tells of how he declared his love for her in a Jeep (Che) Guevara |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | QUEENS OF THE LITERARY REALM $800: In "Henry VIII" Shakespeare has this Spanish-born queen die when Elizabeth is born; in fact, it was 3 years later Catherine of Aragon |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | I WANT TO GO NUTS! $200: John MacAdam was the Scottish-born chemist for whom this nut is named the macadamia |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $1200: This country crooner was born Randy Traywick Randy Travis |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $1600: His first stunt was being born in Hong Kong as Chan Kong-Sang Jackie Chan |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $2000: Born Anne Dudley, she expressed her Puritan faith in her poetry Anne Bradstreet |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | ECO-READER $2000: It's Joy Adamson's 1960 memoir of raising Elsa, an orphaned lion, & returning her to the wild Born Free |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $200: "Born down in a dead man's town, the first kick I took was when I hit the ground" "Born In The U.S.A." |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | BIRTHDAY PARTY $800: Happy 200th in 2018 to this man who was born in slavery but didn't stay in it; not knowing the date, he chose Feb. 14 (Frederick) Douglass |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | A STREETCAR $600: If you are from west this city, born & raised, you've seen its restored SEPTA streetcar on Route 15 Philadelphia |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | NAT GEO $1200: Nat Turner, who was born & died in this state, tried to lead his rebellion through the Dismal Swamp located there Virginia |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | LITERARY TYPES $1200: Korean-born Min Jin Lee wrote a 2017 book with this Japanese pinball game as its title pachinko |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | LITERARY TYPES $2,000 (Daily Double): In Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a street (not Main Street), is named for this author born there in 1885 Sinclair Lewis |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | & THAT'S THE WAY THE NEWS GOES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Hungarian-born physicist later regretted the sexism in his telegram "it's a boy" when an H-bomb test worked Edward Teller |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $600: This president was born on July 4--in 1872--in Vermont Calvin Coolidge |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $400: She was born in Birmingham in 1964, 30 years before becoming your TV friend Monica Courteney Cox |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $800: Born in Cullman in 1980, he moved to "21 Jump Street" in 2012 & "22 Jump Street" in 2014 Channing Tatum |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $1200: In 2014 this Mobile-born "Orange is the New Black" star became the first openly transgender Emmy nominee Cox |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $1600: This singer & writer of "Your Cheatin' Heart", born in Mount Olive in 1923, was only 29 when he died (Hank) Williams |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $200: He was born Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta; died with a dream in his heart in Memphis on April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $400: This First Lady was born in Southampton, New York in 1929 & died in Manhattan in 1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $800: Born in Chicago in 1943, he was checkmated in Reykjavik in 2008 Bobby Fischer |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in Spain in 1881, he "drew" his last breath near Cannes April 8, 1973 Picasso |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $1000: His adventures began in Wales in 1888; he spent some time in the Middle East, then died in a motorcycle accident in 1935 Lawrence of Arabia |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BIRTH OF A SALESMAN $200: Born Oct. 5, 1902, Ray Kroc sold paper cups & blenders before making it big with this fast food chain McDonald's |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BIRTH OF A SALESMAN $600: Born in 1859 in Mass., Horace Hooper sold dictionaries until a London visit led him to upgrade to this encyclopedia the Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BIRTH OF A SALESMAN $800: Born in 1914 in San Francisco, this fitness marvel & juicing guru swam handcuffed from Fisherman's Wharf to Alcatraz Jack LaLanne |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BIRTH OF A SALESMAN $1000: Operators were standing by to give the news when this Ronco pitchman was born May 3, 1935 (Ron) Popeil |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | DIVINITY $2,800 (Daily Double): Born from a golden egg, this multifaced god of creation in Hinduism mediates between Vishnu & Shiva Brahma |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | FRANK SINATRA $200: The son of a tavern owner, Francis Albert Sinatra was born in this New Jersey city in December 1915 Hoboken |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TO THE FUTURE $800: "The Future of God" was penned by this Indian-born spiritualist Deepak Chopra |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN $400: Queen Elizabeth's annual speech on this day in 2016 praised those born humble who do great things, like Jesus Christmas |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | HQ TRIVIA $1000: A 7'4" life-size statue of this French-born man greets you at WWE's HQ in Stamford, Connecticut André the Giant |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | A HARRY CATEGORY $800: Born in New Orleans in 1967, this jazz pianist & singer had released 12 albums by age 30 Harry Connick Jr. |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $200: On Dec. 27, 1822 this Frenchman was born to show the world that microorganisms cause fermentation Pasteur |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $400: He was conducted into the world January 27, 1756, the same year his father published a manual on playing the violin Mozart |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $600: Later to take the pen name Richard Saunders, he was born to a poor family in Boston January 17, 1706 Ben Franklin |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $1000: It's certain he was born Dec. 5, 1901, in Wurzburg, Germany, 26 years before publishing his famous principle Heisenberg |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $2,000 (Daily Double): He was born April 15, 1452, near a little Tuscan town you wouldn't have heard of otherwise Leonardo da Vinci |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $800: The first English king of this name was born in Yorkshire in 1069; there would be VII more Henry |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $1200: Born in The Hague, this future king married his English cousin Mary in 1677 William (of Orange) |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $2,000 (Daily Double): The third English king of this name was the first born in England; the first 2 were born in Lower Saxony George |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | SUPER CONDUCTORS $800: Super conductor Arthur Fiedler was born in this New England city in 1894 Boston |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | LEAN ON ME $800: This guy leans against "The Big Man", sax legend Clarence Clemons, on the cover of "Born to Run" Bruce Springsteen |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | HELLO, "B.B." $800: Someone born in the immediate post-World War II years Baby Boomer |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $800: A very funny person born at the end of January a hilarious Aquarius |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $1600: Someone born in a fabulous Brazilian city in early August a Rio Leo |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | TURNING PHILOSOPHICAL $2000: Born into monotheistic Judaism, Baruch Spinoza shifted to this "all is God" belief pantheism |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $2000: Bob Fosse, born June 23 a Cancer dancer |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | TURNING PHILOSOPHICAL $4,000 (Daily Double): In the 18th century, this Swiss-French philosopher observed, "Man is born free, and everywhere, he is in chains" Rousseau |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $1200: A Golden Globe was just one of the honors this Mexican-born director got in 2018 for "The Shape of Water" Guillermo del Toro |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | SUPERHEROES $400: She was born on the island of Themyscira to her mother Hippolyta Wonder Woman |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DUAL CITIZENS $2000: This "Green Light" singer was born in New Zealand but also holds Croatian citizenship Lorde |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | STOLEN ART RECOVERED $2000: Stolen in 1985, a work by this Dutch-born abstract expressionist was found in 2017 in a New Mexico home Willem de Kooning |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | WE APPRECIATE CANADIAN PERFORMERS! $400: This Vancouver-born actor has "Vancity" as part of his Twitter handle Ryan Reynolds |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | LYDIA, OH LYDIA $1600: Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani, born Lydia Kamakaeha, wrote this song also called "Farewell To Thee" "Aloha Oe" |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD $1000: Mei Xiang to Bao Bao (born 2013) mother |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | PIZARRO WORLD $400: Francisco Pizarro was born around 1475 in this Spanish kingdom that would soon unite with Aragon Castile |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $2000: "Never Let Me Go" is by this Japanese-born British writer, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | CALENDARS $400: January Jones was born in the year of the snake on this calendar that didn't go horse until February the Chinese calendar |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | TV TITLES $1200: The title craft in this 2017 show is named for a man born in 1871 in Dayton, Ohio The Orville |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | GO "BRA" $1000: A person born in Israel a Sabra |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | CHESTER A. ARTHUR $400: Those who said Arthur was born in Canada, not Vermont, have been retroactively called these, like Obama's doubters a birther |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $2000: This Romanian-born playwright based his play "The Bald Soprano" on stilted textbooks he had used to learn English Eugène Ionesco |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AT THE COMO PARK ZOO $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Como Park Zoo.) Like other baby giraffes, Violet, who's 5 weeks old, was close to 6 feet tall when she was born, and her spot pattern is as unique to her as these impressions are to humans fingerprints |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | EPONYMOUS BRANDS $1000: The "Father of the Modern Drugstore" was born Charles Rudolph this, with no 's on the end Walgreen |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $5,600 (Daily Double): The first Spanish explorers in the region noticed silver ornaments worn by natives & this country's name was born Argentina |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ANAGRAMMED WIVES OF HENRY VIII $600: Born far away:
OATH ENFORCER AGAIN Catherine of Aragon |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $1600: Not only was she the first female Secretary of State, she was also the first foreign-born woman in the Cabinet (Madeleine) Albright |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | MEMOIRS ON AUDIBLE $400: (He was born to tell his life's story.) I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth Bruce Springsteen |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | ROAMIN' CATHOLICS $2000: Born in Italy in 1850, this Sacred Heart founder was canonized after her death in Chicago Mother Cabrini |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | A STASH OF MUSTACHES $200: The secret word is this guy, born Julius in New York City in 1890 Groucho Marx |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | PUERTO RICO STRONG $1200: A HOFer in every way, this P.R.-born Pittsburgh Pirate died in a plane crash trying to aid Nicaraguan earthquake victims (Roberto) Clemente |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LOGO A-GOGO $400: Its red & white bullseye logo was born in 1962 along with this retailer's brand name Target |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | BALLET COMPANIES $1600: Born in Novgorod province, Serge Diaghilev was living in Paris when he founded this French-named ballet company the Ballets Russes |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | PITT LIT $2000: A nurse is supposed to institutionalize a girl born with Down syndrome in this novel but instead moves to Pittsburgh with her The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | "HAND" IT OVER $800: This blues composer born in Alabama in 1873 lived to be 84 W.C. Handy |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ $800: Close, but despite the sweetness of his guitar, this Belgian-born Gypsy wasn't known as Mango Seinfeld Django Reinhardt |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | PAINT MISS, BEHAVING $1,500 (Daily Double): 1929's "The Woman and the Roses" has one of the floating females of this Belorussian-born painter who settled in France Marc Chagall |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | A DEDICATED COMPOSER $400: This Polish-born master dedicated a concerto to Friedrich Kalkbrenner, whom he called Europe's best pianist Chopin |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST $1600: This country singer of "Sixteen Tons" & "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" was indeed born in the 16th state Tennessee Ernie Ford |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST $2000: This New Zealand-born physicist is seen here around the time he established the nuclear model of the atom Sir Ernest Rutherford |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | GDANSK $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Gdansk, Poland.) Born in Gdansk in 1927, he's shown here, next to his most famous character, Oscar, who's playing the tin drum Günter Grass |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $400: A beetle with middle femurs that look like bulging biceps was named for this Austrian-born actor Schwarzenegger |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | CAMP DAVID $400: We presume you know this man was born in Blantyre, Scotland in 1813 & died in Chitambo, Africa in 1873 David Livingstone |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | WEBBY AWARDS 5-WORD ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $800: This Athens-born political blog runner: "Goldman Sachs shorted my speech" (Arianna) Huffington |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $1600: The basic style of the color field paintings by this Russian-born man is 2 or 3 soft-edged rectangles of color (Mark) Rothko |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | ELECTRIC $600: Around 1908 William Coolidge improved upon this tungsten wire thread, making it bendable & the modern light bulb was born the filament |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | WRITERS & WRITING $1200: Born in 1812, this writer of limericks was the 20th of 21 children Edward Lear |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: Gore Vidal was born at this military academy & drew on his WWII experiences for his first novel, "Williwaw" West Point |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | "L" ON THE MAP $800: Muhammad Ali & Hunter S. Thompson were born in this city Louisville |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | MOZART $800: Mozart was born in this city in 1756; his birthplace has been a museum there since 1880 Salzburg |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | RUSSIA "N" $400: The II & last czar of this name was born near St. Petersburg in 1868 Nicholas |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS' LAST NAMES $1200: Would you "believe" she was born with the last name Sarkisian? Cher |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | GIRAFFES $800: If a human baby has done this, he's positioned for birth; if a giraffe baby has done it, 6' to the ground, he's been born dropped |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | QUEEN-SIZED $200: Queen Maria II of this country was born in Brazil in 1819 Portugal |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This German-born composer was called the Mozart of the 19th century Mendelssohn |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | TOP BABY NAMES IN BRITAIN $800: This name of a famous woman born in 1820; tell the nurse it's honoring her profession Florence |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | WHERE'D YOU DISAPPEAR TO? $1600: In 1587 she became the first English child born in America but soon, she & her colony were lost Virginia Dare |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | WORD TO THE Y_Ys $2000: This word is in the title of Garson Kanin's play about Billie Dawn, the seemingly dumb blonde mistress of a junk tycoon yesterday |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | MARVEL $1000: Giving him a Muscle Beach Lifetime Achievement Award, Stan Lee said this actor was "born to be the Hulk" Lou Ferrigno |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY $200: The composer of the piece you're hearing was born in 1860 in this country Spain |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: Born with a very low IQ, Charlie Gordon undergoes surgery that increases his intelligence in this Daniel Keyes novel Flowers for Algernon |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | HISTORY, WITH SOUND EFFECTS $1000: Though he turned out a dullard, hopes were high in 1661 when Louis XIV's first son was born & given this title as heir Dauphin |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | HAIL! HAIL! CHUCK BERRY $200: Chuck was born in this Missouri city in 1926 & passed away nearby in 2017 St. Louis |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | THEY WENT TO OXFORD $600: This Australian-born media mogul & News Corp founder cashed in on a master's from Oxford in 1953 (Rupert) Murdoch |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | "AU"THORS $400: She was born in 1775 in Hampshire, England Jane Austen |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $400: The first to be born west of the Mississippi (hope it didn't cause a Depression) Hoover |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $800: Of the 8 presidents born west of the Mississippi River, the one born farthest west Barack Obama |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $1200: The one born farthest west in the continental U.S. Richard Nixon |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $2000: The one who served the shortest time as president Gerald Ford |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | PRESIDENTS BORN WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $4,500 (Daily Double): Of those on the list, he's the most recent from a state that borders the Mississippi Bill Clinton |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 & spent some time "On the Road" before his death in 1969 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: She was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama & died there February 19, 2016 Harper Lee |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: His story began in Salinas, California in 1902 & ended in New York in 1968 (John) Steinbeck |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Allan Poe's tale began in Boston in 1809 & ended in this other "B" city in 1849 Baltimore |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in England in 1920, he died there in 2016; "Watership Down" came in the middle Richard Adams |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $800: This senator & presidential candidate was born in Canada but moved to Houston around age 4 (Ted) Cruz |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $1200: Mexican-born chemist Mario Jose Molina helped find that CFCs, these, damaged the ozone layer in our upper atmosphere chlorofluorocarbons |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ROCK & ROLL! $800: Featured in the movie "Easy Rider", this song was Steppenwolf's first Top 40 hit "Born To Be Wild" |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $800: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was born in this world capital Prague |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | LIBRA-RIANS $1200: A couple in which both are Libras can work, as with Michael Douglas & this wife who was born exactly 25 years later Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | RIGHT ON Q $600: Born Dana Owens, on her road to royal rap stardom, she put in time as the human beat box for "Ladies Fresh" Queen Latifah |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | VICKI LEAKS $800: Austrian-born Vicki Baum wrote "Menschen im Hotel", which became this Oscar-winning 1932 film Grand Hotel |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $600: "Quantum Healing" & other books by this New Delhi-born man aim to put you on the path to wellness Deepak Chopra |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $800: This Scottish-born detective in charge of getting secrets from the South wrote a memoir called "The Spy of the Rebellion" Pinkerton |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE BRIDGE & TUNNEL CROWD $1600: These lions outside Beijing watch people go between them on the bridge named for this European born in 1254 Marco Polo |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | FAMOUS LEFTIES $200: Ask this singer why she's left-handed & she might quote her song, "I was born this way" Lady Gaga |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Eamon de Valera, who led this country's fight for independence, was born in New York City Ireland |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | WEBBY AWARD WINNERS $600: Best Political Website, 2009: this one founded by an Athens-born woman The Huffington Post |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | AVIAN POETRY $1000: John Keats called this bird immortal; "Thou wast not born for death" a nightingale |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) Behind me is this Pacific island whose double-talk name means "first born"; according to Polynesian mythology, it's the first island that the god Ta'aroa fished out of the water Bora Bora |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | WELSH WRITERS $400: Son of Norwegian immigrants, this "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" author was born in Llandaff, Wales Roald Dahl |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | CENTRAL AMERICA $800: (I'm political commentator Ana Navarro.) In 1980 my family & I left Nicaragua, where I was born, after this group overthrew Anastasio Somoza Sandinistas |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | INLANDER $400: When he was born in Greene County, Tennessee in 1786, this frontiersman was just prince of the wild frontier Davy Crockett |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | ON JULY 4th $400: Yankee Doodle Dandy Malia Obama was born July 4, 1998 in this city Chicago |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | INLANDER $800: Before he & his bros. bought the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1907, John of this last name was born in 1866 in McGregor, Iowa Ringling |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | INLANDER $1200: This longtime Cosmo editor was still a single girl when she was born in Green Forest, Arkansas in 1922 Helen Gurley Brown |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | INLANDER $1600: Born in Indianapolis in 1903, he was named Public Enemy No. 1 on his 31st (& last) birthday in 1934 John Dillinger |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | MARY TYLER MOORE $200: Mary was born not in Minneapolis but in this NYC borough & as a child lived in its Flatbush neighborhood Brooklyn |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | SECOND CITY TV $200: On this Chicago-set Fox sitcom, Kelly Bundy was born in February, so that means "I'm an aquarium" Married... with Children |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | PORTUGUESE HISTORY $200: The Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal & Spain dealt with discoveries by this man not born in either country Columbus |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | FOUNDING FATHERS $1600: Born in what is now North Korea, he was the founder & leader of the Unification Church (Sun Myung) Moon |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | HIGH TEX. $800: During his 9 years in the NBA, this Shanghai-born athlete was among the tallest men in Texas Yao Ming |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "Mrs. Warren's Profession" was scandalous when this Irish-born man wrote a 1902 play of that title George Bernard Shaw |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | WE'VE GOT MOMMY ISSUES $600: In Vanity Fair Adele talked about motherhood & her struggles with this, PPD for short, after her son was born postpartum depression |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | BOB DYLAN $400: Bob was born in Minnesota with this last name Zimmerman |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | NAMES YOU SHOULD KNOW $200: 'Scuse me while you name this guitarist who was born in Seattle but rose to fame after moving to England in 1966 Jimi Hendrix |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | MUSIC-"AL"S $2000: She's the London-born singer-songwriter seen here Lily Allen |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | LAST "-IEL" $1600: Yiddish word for a born loser a schlemiel |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | PEOPLE-POURRI $800: Abigail "Dear Abby" Van Buren & this twin sister in the same line of work were born July 4, 1918 Ann Landers |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | THE MANCUNIAN $400: Soccer star Wes Brown was born in Manchester & was a member of this storied local team from 1996 to 2011 Manchester United |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | THE MANCUNIAN $1600: Manchester-born addict Thomas de Quincey wrote 1821's "Confessions of an English" eater of this drug opium |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | THE MANCUNIAN $2000: For actions in France during WWI, Manchester-born John Thomas was awarded this top British award for bravery the Victoria Cross |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1200: In 1940 this Italian-born physicist began his efforts to set up a nuclear reactor at Columbia University (Enrico) Fermi |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | SEOUL MAN & WOMAN $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1971 Seoul-born Kyongwon Ahn founded the UTA, the United this Korean martial art Association taekwondo |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | BULLET POINTS $800: The electrical bullet probe invented by this Scottish-born man didn't save James Garfield but it did save lives in WWI (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | U.S. SENATORS $2000: Born in Chicago, she became Illinois' first female senator and later served as ambassador to New Zealand Moseley Braun |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | "HAT" BOX $800: Commercial setting where Rhode Island Reds might be born a hatchery |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | A LITTLE ENTITLED $200: It's said of some people, "Born on third base & thinks he hit" this a triple |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | A LITTLE ENTITLED $400: Oliver Goldsmith once noted that a certain man was born with one of these in his mouth, another with a wooden ladle a silver spoon |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | CREATURES IN MYTHOLOGY $800: When Apollo was born, his father Zeus gave him a golden chariot pulled by these white water birds swans |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | ASIAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $400: In 2004 New Jersey-born Kal Penn played Kumar, hungry for this title place for some reason White Castle |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | ONCE UPON A TIME $800: Here's a contemporary vision of this character who was born inside a tulip and also went by the name of Tiny Thumbelina |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THIS IS "US" $1,000 (Daily Double): Violinist Jascha Heifetz was born in this Baltic capital in 1901 Vilnius |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | SOUTH AMERICA $4,000 (Daily Double): Before he zinged around por la revolución, he was born in Rosario, Argentina, which has a 12-foot statue of him Che Guevara |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $400: This Secretary was born in Prague Madeleine Albright |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $200: He was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle Bill Gates |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | KENTUCKY $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1818, she's the only First Lady born in Kentucky Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE WIDE WORLD OF SPOTS $200: This breed of dog is pure white when born; the spots appear about a month later Dalmatians |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | THIS CATEGORY IS JUST FLUFF $1000: In 2009, this Southern California-born comedian reminded us, "I'm not fat. I'm fluffy" Gabriel Iglesias |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $400: Author Richard Matheson eats egg rolls & notes that he was born in the year of this cat &, fittingly, went to the U. of Missouri the tiger |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $800: James Madison adds that he was born in the year of the goat, as was the Constitution when it came to be in this year 1787 |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $1200: Nibbling a wonton, Grace Slick says it makes sense she was born in the year of this animal, as she sang about a white one a rabbit |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $1600: Pass the soy sauce to this creator of a famous comic strip dog, born in the year of the dog on Nov. 26, 1922 Charles Schulz |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $2000: Over tea, he notes he was born in 1800, year of the monkey, & invented vulcanization monkeying around with rubber Charles Goodyear |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $400: From 1869 to 1881 3 consecutive U.S. presidents were Ohio-born former Civil War generals of this political party the Republicans |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: At 7 this Polish-born composer wrote a "Polonaise In G Minor" Chopin |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | -GATES $1200: In 2015 when this diminutive singer was caught on camera licking unsold wares, Donutgate was born Ariana Grande |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | "O" BROTHER $400: Born in 1810, Bernhard von Bismarck sank in 1893, 5 years before this younger brother did Otto |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In 2016 Bruce Springsteen released an autobiography called this, a title he'd used before Born to Run |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | PEN NAMES $800: This author of "The Fountainhead" was born Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia Ayn Rand |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | LITERARY EDINBURGH $800: It's elementary! Here's this author who was born in Edinburgh (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: This New York-born Supreme Court justice was the first female U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $2000: Brand of laminate flooring for someone born between August 23 & September 22 Virgo Pergo |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN BABY NAMES $200: For a baby born on February 14, this name of one of "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" is perfect Valentine |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | STATE HOLIDAYS $2000: This Progressive politician known as "Fighting Bob" has his own day, June 14, in Wisconsin where he was born La Follette |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | AUDITIONS FOR A NEW MUSTACHE $400: It bears the name of an artist born in Figueres Dalí |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | PATCHES $1200: In American folklore, a rabbit tricks a fox into throwing him into this patch where Bunny was born & bred the briar patch |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | AMERICAN LIVES $800: This woman born Phoebe Moses could shoot a playing card that was 90 feet away-- & turned edgeways Annie Oakley |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ALBUM COVERS $400: A close-up of Springsteen's denim-clad backside in front of Old Glory Born in the U.S.A. |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: (I'm Dr. Jen Arnold.) In 2015 the U.N. reported the good news that improvements in care over the last 25 years have led to a nearly 50% worldwide drop in this type of mortality, from Latin for "new born" neonatal |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | SOCIOLOGY $800: Also known as Generation Y, this group of young adults was born between 1982 & 2000 Millennials |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | ROAMIN' THROUGH ROMANIA $2000: This late, great author of the Holocaust-set "Night" was born in Romania (Elie) Wiesel |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | EASTERN RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY $800: Throughout China, there are temples honoring this great sage and philosopher, who was born in 551 B.C. Confucius |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | FACTS ON FEBRUARY $400: A baby has a 1-in-1,461 chance of being this & having his 20th birthday also be his 5th being born on February 29th |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | KHAN MEN $1200: Indian-born Mohammad Ayub Khan became this country's president in 1958 Pakistan |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | KHAN MEN $1600: Xanadu you know that Shizu was the temple name of this man born in 1215? Kublai Khan |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $800: From 1969 Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" Easy Rider |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $1000: Elizabeth Grant, whose album debut was "Born to Die" Lana Del Rey |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: He was born July 6, 1832 in Vienna and was executed June 19, 1867 in Mexico Maximilian |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | MOVIE MUSICAL ROLES $1200: At the time Madonna said of this 1996 role, it was the most challenging of her career but one she was born to play Evita |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In 1452 Leonardo da Vinci was born near a small Tuscan hill town called this Vinci |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | ALSO A CANDY BAR $1000: Born to Nathan & Celia Bader March 15, 1933 Baby Ruth |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: Israeli leader Shimon Peres was a cousin of this movie star born Betty Joan Perske Lauren Bacall |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | COMPOSERS $3,400 (Daily Double): This German-born composer wrote 4 coronation anthems for Britain's George II (George Frederick) Handel |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS $800: This abolitionist & orator who was born into slavery in Maryland is often called the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement" (Frederick) Douglass |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WE PREDICT YOUR HOROSCOPE $200: Born June 18, under this sign? Don't let your dual nature make you vacillate Gemini |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA $400: In "Finding Nemo", Marlin says, "I know funny. I'm" this type of fish that's born male but can switch sexes one time a clownfish |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man John Paul Jones |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | LEADING LADIES: NEXT IN LINE: Janet Gaynor,
Judy Garland,
Barbra Streisand,
her Lady Gaga |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS: The first vice president & the first president not born in one of the original 13 states were both born in this state Kentucky |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 7 U.S. presidents were born in the state of Ohio, beginning with this man who entered West Point in 1839 Ulysses Grant |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS: His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only" Joseph Pulitzer |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC FIGURES: Dante gives him, born to a Kurdish family in the 12th century, a place of honor in limbo along with the war heroes of Rome & Troy Saladin |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THE OSCARS: Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS Radio Orchestra, he's been nominated for 53 Oscars John Williams |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ARTISTS: Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us" (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | CORPORATE MASCOTS: Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records Cap'n Crunch |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter (Isabel) Allende |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England Sarah (Wheaton) |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | POETS: Inspired by stories from his grandfather, his "Battle of Lovell's Pond" appeared in the Portland Gazette in 1820 when he was 13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | STATE NAMES: This state was named for a man born in Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover in 1683 Georgia |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | ROCK LEGENDS: A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975 (Bruce) Springsteen |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784 (John Jacob) Astor |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS: After being born this creature would bring the remains of its forebear to Heliopolis & put them on the altar of the sun god the phoenix |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS: With words written by a Bishop of Urgell, its anthem praises Charlemagne & says it "was born a princess... between two nations" Andorra |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | SINGER/ACTRESSES: This California-born woman won a Best Leading Actress Academy Award in 1988, when she had 2 Top 20 hit songs Cher |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1904 this Hungarian-born newspaper publisher wrote, "Our republic and its press will rise or fall together" Joseph Pulitzer |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars, but none of their films has won Best Picture Ang Lee & Alfonso Cuarón |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | EPITAPHS: From his own 1898 poem, the epitaph of this Irish-born man ends, "his mourners will be outcast men, & outcasts always mourn" Oscar Wilde |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | OTHER NATIONS' PRESIDENTS: This nation's 1st 8 presidents were all born in the U.S.; the 1st local-born president came in 1884, 37 years after independence Liberia |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS: Born in 1866, he has been called "the Shakespeare of science fiction" H.G. Wells |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | U.K. PRIME MINISTERS: He was the first U.K. prime minister born after Elizabeth II became queen Tony Blair |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | POETS' BIRTHPLACES: 5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914 Dylan Thomas |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | PRESIDENTS: BORN & DIED: Born the farthest west in the continental U.S. of any president, he would later die farthest from his birthplace Richard Nixon |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NOVELS OF THE 1960s: The line "Once when you are born & once when you look death in the face" follows this title of a 1964 novel & an action-packed 1967 film You Only Live Twice |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The protagonist of this novel "was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945" Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARTISTS & AUTHORS: In 1929 Georgia O'Keeffe painted the tree in New Mexico under which this British-born author used to write D.H. Lawrence |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the '80s to win the Best Actor Oscar Eddie Redmayne |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | A YEAR OF FIRSTS: Year in which the Department of Energy was created, the Indy 500 had its first female driver & the 1st president was sworn in under a nickname 1977 |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | STATE CAPITALS: This Midwestern capital was named for a man who was born in what is now Turkey over 2,000 years ago St. Paul |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1855 he wrote, "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived" P.T. Barnum |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | POP MUSIC MILESTONES: In 1972 this anthemic song became the first Billboard chart-topper by an Australian-born artist "I Am Woman" |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | 20th CENTURY POETS: It was said "his accent which started out as pure American Middle West" became "quite British U" T.S. Eliot |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | ARTISTS' SUBJECTS: The woman seen here, who was born in North Carolina & died in England in 1881, was the subject of this painting Whistler's Mother (Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1) |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | POP MUSIC HISTORY: Appropriately, this 1984 blockbuster was the first music CD mass-produced in the United States Born in the U.S.A. |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | POETRY: Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man T.S. Eliot |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | AMERICAN PRODUCTS: In 1913 this cleaning item was born when its creators named it from a word meaning "bright" or "shining" Brillo |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | LITERARY ANAGRAMS: Vivian Darkbloom, a minor character in a 1955 novel by this foreign-born author, is an anagram of his name Vladimir Nabokov |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | COMPOSERS: 2 of the world's greatest Baroque composers, they were born within a month of each other in Germany in 1685 but never met Johann Sebastian Bach & George Frederic Handel |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | PRESIDENTS & THE WHITE HOUSE: When the current presidential occupant of the White House was born, this president was living there John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | THE AFI's 100 GREATEST FILMS: One of the top 20, this 1946 film was based on a short story published as "The Man Who Was Never Born" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | BODIES OF WATER: First encountered in 1648 by a man born in Russia, it was eventually named after a man born in Denmark the Bering Strait |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | AMERICAN-BORN AUTHORS: In 1915 his reasons for naturalization included "having lived and worked in England for the best part of forty years" Henry James |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | FRENCH FOOD HISTORY: A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar Dijon |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | HISTORICAL FIGURES: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy George Washington |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | ENGLISH MONARCHS: She was born near London; her mother, near Madrid "Bloody" Mary Tudor |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | HISTORIC PLACES: Administered by the Army, its first graves were dug by former slave James Parks, the only one buried there who was born on the site Arlington National Cemetery |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES: The only foreign-born First Lady was the wife of this man who served in the diplomatic corps from age 14 John Quincy Adams |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Although born in the United States, he was the only president who spoke English as a second language Martin Van Buren |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | MOUNT RUSHMORE: 2 of the 4 men on Mount Rushmore were born in Virginia; these 2 states were the birthplaces of the other 2 men New York & Kentucky |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE: Born in what's now Maine in 1807, he's honored with a bust in a special section of Westminster Abbey Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | SPORTS GEOGRAPHY: Though they live elsewhere, Alan Page & Dan Dierdorf will both always be in this Ohio city where they were born Canton, Ohio |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | ART: One of its principal members said, "One morning one of us, having no black, used blue instead, &" this movement "was born" Impressionism |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | MOUNT RUSHMORE: It's the only U.S. state that has more than one native-born son honored on Mount Rushmore Virginia |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | COMPOSERS' BIRTHPLACES: The town where he was born in 1811 is now in far eastern Austria; when he was born there it belonged to another country Franz Liszt |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | BORN & DIED: He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England & died in a skirmish February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Captain James Cook |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | KINGS: The last British monarch to be buried outside the U.K., he was interred in 1727 in the land where he was born King George I |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | HISTORIC RULERS: This ruler of a New World country was born in Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace in 1832 & executed far from home in 1867 Maximilian I |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | PRESIDENTIAL CHILDREN: 1 of his 5 sons was born in New Brunswick, Canada FDR |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1859 a theory was born when he wrote, "from so simple a beginning endless forms... have been, and are being, evolved" Charles Darwin |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | 2011 MUSICMAKERS: According to Billboard, the top 2 music artists of 2011 were these single-named singers, neither born in the U.S. Adele & Rihanna |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | BIOGRAPHIES: "The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century" is a biography of this scientist born in the Balkans Nikola Tesla |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: An entertainer born in 1888 whose original first name was Adolph was one of the best-known players of this instrument the harp |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS: A fellow author called him "a very unique cat--a French Canadian Hinayana Buddhist beat Catholic savant" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This volunteer group was born in May 1898 near the bar in San Antonio's Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days the Rough Riders |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | RULERS IN HISTORY: Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them Peter the Great |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | ROCK ICONS: While he's had 12 Top 10 hits on Billboard, including 7 from a 1984 album, he's never had a No. 1 single Bruce Springsteen |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He was born in NYC on April 3, 1783, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, & named for one of the war's heroes Washington Irving |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | FOREIGN-BORN INVENTORS: His 1922 New York Times obituary mentions that his patent No. 174,465 "has been called the most valuable patent ever issued" Alexander Graham Bell |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | BRANDS: Jack Odell gave his child a tiny vehicle to bring to school inside one of these items, & a toy brand name was born a matchbox |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | BUSINESS PAIRINGS: The names of 2 men, 1 born in Germany in 1834 & 1 in Kansas in 1875, were joined in this company name lasting 1998-2007 Daimler-Chrysler |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | 2010 SCIENCE NEWS: The IUPAC named an element for this man born in 1473 to "highlight the link between astronomy and... nuclear chemistry" Copernicus |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | HISTORIC WOMEN: She was born in Virginia around 1596 & died in Kent, England in 1617 Pocahontas |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | THE ANIMAL WORLD: Born in Brisbane in 1999, Euca & Lyptus are the world's first confirmed identical twins of this animal koala |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | CANADIAN HISTORY: A river is named for this man born in Scotland in 1764, the first European known to have crossed Canada Alexander Mackenzie |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | COLLEGE HISTORY: The Pittsburgh university named for Andrew Carnegie is the USA's first to offer a degree in this musical instrument the bagpipes |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | POETS: In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines T.S. Eliot |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | TV CHARACTERS: She was born on February 22, 10,000 B.C. weighing 6 pounds, 12 ounces Pebbles Flintstone |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | ARTISTS: The 2 famous painters who share a March 30 birthday, one born in Spain in 1746, the other in Holland in 1853 Goya & van Gogh |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | BRITISH ROYALTY: Born in 1683, the second British king of this name was the last one not born in the British Isles George |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS: On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres Corsica |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | PEOPLE ON CURRENCY: Though born 4,000 miles from Havana, he adorns the Cuban 3-peso note Che Guevara |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | WORLD LEADERS: Born in Kiev & later a U.S. citizen, this leader became prime minister in 1969 of a country founded in the 20th century Golda Meir |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES: 4 U.S. presidents serving in 3 different centuries have been born in the same county in this state Massachusetts |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | TV CELEBRITIES: Not an actor, he is the highest-paid foreign-born personality on the 2007 Forbes list of top television earners Simon Cowell |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY CHARACTERS: To the consternation of the title character, we learn that this character was born by C-section Macduff |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Born an infanta in 1485, she died at Kimbolton Castle in England in 1536 with the official title Princess Dowager of Wales Catherine of Aragon |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS: A documentary from ESPN is based on the premise that this Louisville-born man "invented" rap in the 1960s Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay) |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | ISLANDS: In 2003 Emily Rose Christian became the first baby born on this island in 17 years, bringing the population to nearly 50 Pitcairn Island |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | HISTORIC NAMESAKES: Born in Predappio, Italy in 1883, he was named for a famous politician born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1806 Benito Mussolini |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | LITERARY QUOTES: In an 1859 novel, Charles Dickens called this object "the sharp female newly-born" the guillotine |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Decreed by Congress in 1989, National Tap Dance Day falls on the May 25th birthday of this man born in 1878 Bill Robinson |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | NOTABLE NAMES: The fervent patriotism of this man who died in 1919 earned him the nickname "The Star-Spangled Scotchman" Andrew Carnegie |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | LITERARY FIGURES: Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man Oscar Wilde |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch Harper Lee |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | BRITISH ROYAL NAMES: Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486 Arthur |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: 2006 marks the centennial of this absurdist known for his sometimes bleak outlook; he was born on Good Friday, the 13th Samuel Beckett |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | ROYALTY: Originally, this woman born in 1755 had the middle names Antonia, Josepha, & Joanna Marie Antoinette |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | POLITICAL QUOTATIONS: It was said that being with these 2 leaders, born 1874 & 1882, "was like sitting between 2 lions roaring at the same time" Winston Churchill & Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | WORLD LEADERS: The first prime minister of his country to be born in that land, he was assassinated in 1995 Yitzhak Rabin |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WORLD MONEY 2005: This U.S. sports figure (born 1940) became the only living person ever on a Scottish note besides the Queen & her mum Jack Nicklaus |
| #4906, aired 2006-01-02 | ANCIENT BIOGRAPHERS: Born around 46 A.D., he spent time in both Greece & Rome & wrote to encourage respect between the 2 cultures Plutarch |
| #4883, aired 2005-11-30 | IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: The last full 2005 Micropedia article about a person is on the Russian-born man famed as an inventor of this in the 1920s television |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: The first name of this man born February 15, 1564 was derived from his parents' surname, a common Tuscan habit at that time Galileo Galilei |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | AUTHORS: This writer was born in Germantown, Penn. on Nov. 29, 1832, the second of 4 daughters Louisa May Alcott |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Tired of his fragile wares being smashed in transit, this man born in 1730 advocated British turnpike building Wedgwood |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time Roald Dahl |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | HISTORIC PLACES: The towns of Vierville-sur-Mer & Colleville-sur-Mer entered history with this 2-word area named for a U.S. city Omaha Beach |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | ANCIENT WRITERS: Born in 43 B.C., his most famous work begins, "My intention is to tell of bodies changed to different forms" Ovid (in Metamorphoses) |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: It begins, "'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die'" The Satanic Verses (by Salman Rushdie) |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | AMERICAN WRITERS: These 2 writers of lavish prose, born in North Carolina & Virginia 30 years apart, have the same first & last name Thomas Wolfe & Tom Wolfe |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | ASTRONAUTS: Born Edwin in 1930, this Apollo astronaut legally changed his name in 1982 to his popular nickname Buzz Aldrin |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | WRITERS: Born in 1564, he was employed by Elizabeth I's Secretary of State to uncover Catholic plots against her reign (Christopher) Marlowe |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | SPORTS HEROES: Born in January 1919, the month Teddy Roosevelt died, he was given the middle name Roosevelt Jackie Robinson |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | THE 16th CENTURY: In 1582 the man born Ugo Buoncompagni proclaimed this solar dating system still used today the Gregorian calendar |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP: A European city founded in 1703 has at different times been named for these 2 people born 1,800 years apart St. Peter and Lenin |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS: He served 2 terms as Vice President & was the first Vice President who had been born in the 20th century Richard Nixon |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | ACTRESSES IN HISTORY: She was born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the island of Jersey in 1853 Lillie Langtry |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | THE NEW WORLD: All that is known about her life is limited to 9 days in August 1587 Virginia Dare (the first child born in America of English parents) |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: James Fenimore Cooper based the character of Natty Bumppo on this man who was born in 1734 Daniel Boone |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | NOTABLE NAMES: His last direct descendant was a granddaughter, Elizabeth Hall, born to John & Susanna Hall in 1608 William Shakespeare |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | FIRST LADIES: She was the first woman to become First Lady who was born in the 20th century Jackie Kennedy |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | ESPIONAGE: He was born in India; his father worked for the British government & he was nicknamed for a Kipling character Kim Philby |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | ARTISTS: The tapestries in Israel's Knesset were designed by this artist born in Russia in 1887 Marc Chagall |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | WORLD LEADERS: Born into a royal family of the Thembu people & expected to become a chief, he became a president in 1994 Nelson Mandela |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | PLAYWRIGHTS: King Louis XIV was the godfather of this playwright's first child, born in 1664 Molière |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | HISTORIC HEROES: This man born in 1783 is considered the national hero of 5 different countries Simon Bolivar |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | ARTISTS: He was born in 1577 on the eve of the feast day of two apostles Peter Paul Rubens |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | BORN IN THE 1960s: She was on the April 22, 1974 cover of People magazine, holding an Oscar Tatum O'Neal (for Paper Moon) |
| #3687, aired 2000-09-19 | FAMOUS NAMES: The Hopi Indians gave this German-born man the name "The Great Relative" when he visited Arizona in the 1930s Albert Einstein |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | THE MOVIES: 1937 film whose 1954 & 1976 musical remakes each produced soundtracks that hit No. 1 A Star is Born |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | ARTISTS: He was born in 1864 to 2 first cousins Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | SPORTS STARS: Born in 1980, this world champion figure skater was named for a Beatles hit Michelle Kwan |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | ROCK MUSIC: This term for a rock genre came into popular usage from a line in Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" Heavy metal |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | BANDS OF THE '70s: In billing order, this quartet's members were born in Los Angeles, Dallas, Blackpool & Toronto Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | IRISH-BORN AUTHORS: Once a drama critic in his native Dublin, he toured the U.S. as an actor's manager, but never visited Romania Bram Stoker |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | THE PRESIDENCY: In 1998, the highest-ranking person in the line of presidential succession who could not legally be president Madeleine Albright (Secretary of State) |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | FAMOUS NICKNAMES: This famous 20th century nickname is the Argentinian equivalent of "Y'know?" or "Hey, you!" Che (for Che Guevara, who was born in Argentina) |
| #3290, aired 1998-12-18 | PRESIDENTS: 2 of the 3 successive presidents who were Republicans, born in Ohio & generals in the Union army (2 of) Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes & James A. Garfield |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | ACTRESSES & STATESMEN: During the '70s she worked where he works now & she was an ambassador to his country Shirley Temple (Black) & Kofi Annan |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: This author born in 1904 grew up near Mulberry Street in Springfield, Massachusetts Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) |
| #3110, aired 1998-02-20 | POP STARS: This pop star born in 1970 was named for a song in "Paint Your Wagon" Mariah Carey ("They Call The Wind Maria") |
| #3105, aired 1998-02-13 | EUROPEAN CITIES: City where Goethe & Nietzsche died, & a republic & a breed of dog were born Weimar (Weimar Republic & Weimaraner dog) |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The Roosevelt dime made its debut the year this president was born Bill Clinton (born in 1946) |
| #2933, aired 1997-05-07 | ANCIENT PLAYWRIGHTS: This playwright born in Colonus around 496 B.C. wrote one of his finest plays when he was 90 Sophocles ("Oedipus at Colonus") |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Benjamin Franklin was born in this city in 1706 Boston |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last president born in the 19th century Dwight David Eisenhower (1890) |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | FILM DIRECTORS: This actor-writer-director born in 1963 was named for a Burt Reynolds TV character Quentin Tarantino |
| #2684, aired 1996-04-11 | SPORTS: This Major League Baseball manager of the 1950s & 1960s received his nickname because he was born in Kansas City Casey Stengel |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: This American general born in 1820 was called "Cump" by his siblings William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | 20th CENTURY COMPOSERS: This Italian-born American won his 2nd Pulitzer Prize in 1955, for an opera set in NYC's Little Italy (Gian Carlo) Menotti |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | SPORTS NICKNAMES: This French tennis player born in 1905 is nicknamed "The Crocodile" Rene Lacoste |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born Newton Leroy McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1943 Newt Gingrich |
| #2547, aired 1995-10-03 | FAMOUS NAMES: Born June 27, 1880, she called March 3, 1887, the day she met her teacher, the birthday of her soul Helen Keller |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | FAMOUS NAMES: Licensing rights to the likeness of this man born in Germany in 1879 belong to Jerusalem's Hebrew University Albert Einstein |
| #2461, aired 1995-04-24 | OPERA: It was the first opera by a U.S.-born composer performed at La Scala Porgy and Bess |
| #2439, aired 1995-03-23 | U.S. CITIES: This Florida city is named for a man born in Tagaste, Numidia November 13, 354 St. Augustine |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | CLASSIC TV: Sitcom whose title character was born in Baghdad in 64 B.C. I Dream of Jeannie |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | DEMOCRATS: When Grandma Moses was born, this man was president; at her death, JFK was president James Buchanan |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | ASTRONOMY: It was discovered by a Czechoslovak-born astronomer in March 1973 (Comet) Kohoutek |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | OLD RADIO: This comedian said he took his last name from a Revolutionary War hero who was no longer using it Fred Allen |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | SCIENTISTS: By his own account, he was born "in Diamond Grove, Missouri, about the close of the Great Civil War" George Washington Carver |
| #2184, aired 1994-02-17 | PERFORMING ARTS: A famous U.S. school is named for this philanthropist who was born at sea to French parents in 1836 Juilliard |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: The first ballet company founder honored by the Kennedy Center, he was born in St. Petersburg in 1904 George Balanchine |
| #2158, aired 1994-01-12 | HISTORIC NAMES: The town in which he was born in 1870 was later renamed Ulyanovsk Vladimir Lenin |
| #2097, aired 1993-10-19 | LAST WILLS & TESTAMENTS: He left $50,000 to the "poor of Walldorf near Heidelberg in the Grand Duchy of Baden" John Jacob Astor |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | EXPLORERS: This famous explorer was born in Larvik, Norway October 6, 1914 (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: One of Canada's largest universities, it was endowed by a Scottish- born fur trader McGill University |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: President born the earliest in the 20th century (Lyndon) Johnson |
| #1990, aired 1993-04-09 | NEWS OF THE '30s: In 1935 Ontario made this group wards of the crown the Dionne quintuplets |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | MILITARY LEADERS: This U.S. general was born April 5, 1937 to parents who had emigrated from Jamaica Colin Powell |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946 Bill Clinton |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES: Author DuBose Heyward was born in this city & set his most famous work on its waterfront Charleston |
| #1874, aired 1992-10-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first two presidents not born in Virginia were born in what is now this state Massachusetts |
| #1860, aired 1992-10-09 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: Famous nickname of the woman who was born Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson Tipper Gore |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | ENTERTAINERS OF THE PAST: This Missouri-born expatriate starred in the 1935 French film "Princess Tam-Tam" Josephine Baker |
| #1791, aired 1992-05-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: A native Kentuckian, he was the first president born outside of the original 13 states Abraham Lincoln |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BRITISH RULERS: He was the first Hanoverian monarch born in England; his father was Frederick, Prince of Wales George III |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | ACTORS OF THE PAST: Born in 1895, 2 of his greatest film roles were Julio Desnoyers & Ahmed Ben Hassan Rudolph Valentino |
| #1685, aired 1991-12-20 | THEATRE: The patriarch of this family was born Herbert Blythe in 1847; he took a stage name in 1872 the Barrymores |
| #1652, aired 1991-11-05 | WORLD LEADERS: He died in 1965 & was buried in St. Martin's churchyard near the palace where he was born in 1874 Winston Churchill |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Of all the independent agencies of the U.S. government, this one has the most employees the Postal Service (the Post Office) |
| #1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MONARCHS: He was born in 1938 in Rome, where his parents were living with his grandfather, an exiled king Juan Carlos |
| #1406, aired 1990-10-15 | BRITISH AUTHORS: He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature who was born in Asia; he won in 1907 Rudyard Kipling |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | DIRECTORS: Born in Turkey, he won 2 Tonys before directing Marlon Brando in his first Oscar-winning performance Elia Kazan |
| #1367, aired 1990-07-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: President with the most recent birth date Jimmy Carter |
| #1327, aired 1990-05-15 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: This winner of the 1970 Nobel Literature Prize was born in 1918 into a family of Cossack intellectuals Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | BASEBALL: This major league manager was born July 30, 1890 in Kansas City, Missouri Casey Stengel |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | NOTORIOUS: Probably born in France, a U.S. hero in 1815, he burned down his own colony in 1821 & disappeared Jean Lafitte |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859 John Brown |
| #1203, aired 1989-11-22 | THE OSCARS: This Irish-born actor has received 7 "Best Actor" nominations without winning an Oscar Peter O'Toole |
| #1163, aired 1989-09-27 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in what is now Yugoslavia, she became a citizen of India in 1948 Mother Teresa |
| #1133, aired 1989-07-05 | MONARCHS: This late ruler was born in 1892, & his original name was Tafari Makonnen Haile Selassie |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | THE 50 STATES: The 2 states whose names end with the letter "Y" Kentucky & New Jersey |
| #1080, aired 1989-04-21 | FAMOUS PAIRS: One was born in Ulverson, England; the other in Harlem, Georgia, & they 1st teamed up in 1926 Laurel & Hardy |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | LANDMARKS: Irish-born architect J. Hoban designed this building in 1792 & finished rebuilding it 25 years later White House |
| #973, aired 1988-11-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Alice in Wonderland character named after the county in which Lewis Carroll was born Cheshire Cat |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: Born in Bengal in 1903, this author's most famous book was set 81 years later George Orwell |
| #640, aired 1987-05-22 | PRESIDENTS: 1st president who was not born in either the original 13 colonies or the original 13 states Abraham Lincoln (in Kentucky) |
| #620, aired 1987-04-24 | LONDON: Borough in which Henry VIII was born, they say you can stand in 2 different hemispheres there Greenwich |
| #478, aired 1986-10-08 | REPUBLICANS: Born in 1874 during Grant's administration, this President died in 1964 during Johnson's Herbert Hoover |
| #405, aired 1986-03-28 | POP MUSIC: Co-writer of '76s Best Song Oscar winner, she said it was 2nd song she'd ever written Barbra Streisand |
| #329, aired 1985-12-12 | IN THE NEWS: Year when 1st test-tube baby was born, Oscar turned 50, & John Paul II became pope 1978 |
| #316, aired 1985-11-25 | BROADCASTING: Though British born, he has been under contract to NBC continuously since 1938 Bob Hope |
| #313, aired 1985-11-20 | THE OSCARS: Winning Best Actress Oscars in 1964 & 65, these 2 British-born actresses share the same 1st name Julie Andrews & Julie Christie |
| #270, aired 1985-09-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Our 8th president, he was 1st to be born an American citizen & not a British subject Martin Van Buren |
| #265, aired 1985-09-13 | SCIENCE: This Polish-born scientist was 1st person to win 2 Nobel prizes Marie Curie |
| #185, aired 1985-05-24 | ISLANDS: Two of three islands on which Napoleon was born exiled, and died (2 of) Corsica, Elba and St. Helena |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | THE ZODIAC: Appropriate astrological sign shared by Britain's Princesses Anne & Margaret Leo |
