| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $10,000 (Daily Double): Born Tafari Makonnen, this emperor died in Addis Ababa in 1975 Haile Selassie |
| #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 |
| #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) |
| #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 |
| #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 | 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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This man who was born & died in Bergen was known for his Norwegian peasant dances Grieg |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ARTISTS $1200: This surrealist painter & printmaker was born in Figueres, Spain in 1904 & died there in 1989 (Salvador) Dalí |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | THE QUEEN $400: She was queen when William Shakespeare was born, & died when he was almost 40 Elizabeth I |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: Born in Germany, he died & was buried in London, where his grave says, "Workers of all lands unite" (Karl) Marx |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | HISTORY REPEATS $600: Like Abraham Lincoln, this president was also born in a log cabin & died from wounds inflicted by an assassin, in 1881 Garfield |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | WHOSE LIFE IS IT? $200: Born Michigan, 1863,
assembled quite a resume as an industrialist,
died Michigan, 1947 (Henry) Ford |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | WHOSE LIFE IS IT? $5,200 (Daily Double): Born New York, 1929,
lived briefly in Camelot,
died New York, 1994 Jackie Kennedy |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: This master of the techno-thriller was born in Baltimore in 1947 & died there in 2013 Tom Clancy |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born in 1932 in Boston, she died by her own hand in London in 1963 Sylvia Plath |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $600: This Nobel Prize winner's story began in Colombia in the 1920s & ended in Mexico City in 2014 (Gabriel García) Márquez |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1905, she died in capitalist New York in 1982 Ayn Rand |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1000: Born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he died in 1951 near Rome Sinclair Lewis |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | EUROPEAN PAINTERS $800: "The Cardinal" by this master, who was born 31 years after Leonardo but died just one year after him, is based on the "Mona Lisa" Raphael |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THAT'S A LOT OF KIDS! $2,000 (Daily Double): He came from a family of 9 kids & had 11 of his own; sadly, he died before his youngest, Rory, was born in 1968 Robert Kennedy |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $800: Pope when you were born, he died in 2005 John Paul II |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | SAY MY NAME $1000: Born Josephine Esther Mentzer, she died in her mid-90s, but due to her own products, probably looked a mere 88 Estée Lauder |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: His father, William Jefferson Blythe, died in a 1946 car accident before the future president was born Bill Clinton |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ON THE WALL $400: ...of Madonna's house are works by this woman who died in Coyoacan 4 years before Madonna was born Frida Kahlo |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $400: Born in Arkansas in 1932, he walked the final line in Nashville in 2003 Johnny Cash |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $1200: He was born in Scotland in 1813; his mission came to an end in Chitambo (now in Zambia) in 1873 (David) Livingstone |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $1600: He was born in Sussex, England August 4, 1792 & died off the coast of Tuscany July 8, 1822 Percy Shelley |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $2000: This U.N. Secretary-General was born July 29, 1905 in Sweden & died September 18, 1961 near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia Hammarskjöld |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1925 & died in Los Angeles June 6, 1968 RFK |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | CAPE TOWN LADIES $1600: Cape Town-born Sybil Jason, who died in 2011, was a child star rival of this "Little Curly Top" 20th Century Fox star Shirley Temple |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $400: Born June 2, 1840 in England; went far from the madding crowd Jan. 11, 1928 Hardy |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1920; died some 500 books & 72 years later in New York City Isaac Asimov |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1600: Born in Scotland in 1850; died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born in 1913 in Algeria; died in a car accident in France in 1960 (Albert) Camus |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1917 in England;
died in 2008 (not 2001) in Sri Lanka (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $400: Born 1958 in Gary, Indiana; died 2009 in Los Angeles Michael Jackson |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $800: Born 1945 in St. Ann, Jamaica; died 1981 in Miami Bob Marley |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $1200: Born 1943 in Liverpool; died 2001 in Los Angeles George Harrison |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $2000: Born 1942 in Seattle; died 1970 in London Jimi Hendrix |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | MUSIC LEGENDS: BORN & DIED $3,000 (Daily Double): Born 1967 in Hoquiam, Washington; died 1994 in Seattle Kurt Cobain |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | OVER MY DEAD BODY $800: Hers is in an English church, "F.N. Born 12 May 1820, Died 13 August 1910" Florence Nightingale |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | OVER MY DEAD BODY $2,000 (Daily Double): "Born Nov. 23, 1860 Killed July 14, 1881 /
The Boy Bandit King /
He died as he had lived Billy the Kid |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | ON YOUR MARKS $400: Born 83 B.C.,
died 30 B.C. Mark Antony |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $400: Born & died in New York (1819-1891), wrote a whale of a tale in between Herman Melville |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $800: Born September 1897 in Mississippi, was in Byhalia, Mississippi July 6, 1962 as he lay dying Faulkner |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | ROYAL RELATIVES $1000: On Oct. 24, 1537, just 12 days after her son Edward was born, this wife of Henry VIII died Jane Seymour |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $1200: Born in Moscow November 11, 1821, gave "Notes From the Underground", headed underground February 9, 1881 Dostoyevsky |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $1600: Let out his first "Howl" June 3, 1926, might have said, "I'm really Beat" April 5, 1997 (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | BORN & DIED: AUTHORS EDITION $3,000 (Daily Double): Born 1894, became Hellman's man in 1930, case solved for good 1961 Dashiell Hammett |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $2000: Born Elizabeth Wallace, she was 97 when she died in 1982, the longest-living First Lady Bess Truman |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | KENTUCKY KERNELS $200: Born in Kentucky the year before Lincoln, he became president the same year as Lincoln & died 24 years after Lincoln Jefferson Davis |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $400: Her story began in Atlanta November 8, 1900 & ended there as well in August 1949 Margaret Mitchell |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $1200: This world leader was born in September 1917 on Luzon; he died in September 1989 in Honolulu (Ferdinand) Marcos |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $1600: He was born December 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio & died in battle, June 25, 1876 in the Montana Territory Custer |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in Sweden in 1823, he went out without a bang in San Remo, Italy in 1896 (Alfred) Nobel |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $2000: Born in Germany in 1685, he tuned out April 14, 1759 in London Handel |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $200: Born: Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: Aug. 25, 2009, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts Ted Kennedy |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $400: Born: 570, Mecca. Died: June 8, 632, Medina Muhammad |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $500 (Daily Double): Born: Nov. 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria. Died: Oct. 16. 1793, Paris, France Marie Antoinette |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $600: Born: Oct. 2, 1869, Porbandar, India. Died: Jan. 30, 1948, New Delhi, India Gandhi |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BORN & DIED $1000: Born: June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina. Died: Oct. 9, 1967, Bolivia Che Guevara |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: Chang & Eng, born in May 1811 & died in January 1874, were known as this pair Siamese twins |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | POETS' MONOGRAMS $400: Born & died in Amherst:
ED Emily Dickinson |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | BIRTH! HELPED FOUND THE USA! DEATH! $1600: Born July 26, 1739, later served as veep but not as the leader of Parliament/Funkadelic, died April 20, 1812 (George) Clinton |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $400: Russian-born Sept. 1849, must love dogs, his name rings a bell, died Feb. 27, 1936 Pavlov |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $800: Born May 15, 1859 in Paris, physics was his main (radio)activity, died April 19, 1906 Pierre Curie |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $1200: Jolted to life in Como, Italy Feb. 18, 1745, generated a lot of static, his electricity went out March 5, 1827 Volta |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $1600: Great Dane born Oct. 7, 1885, built atomic models, died Nov. 18, 1962 (Niels) Bohr |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | BORN & DIED: SCIENCE EDITION $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in Siberia in 1834, we obey his periodic law, died in 1907 in St. Petersburg (Dmitri) Mendeleev |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | CONTEMPORARIES $1000: Herbert Hoover was born Aug. 10, 1874 & this statesman Nov. 30, 1874 at Blenheim Palace; they died 3 months apart (Winston) Churchill |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | CALIFORNIA $800: The "Almanac of Famous People" lists 1 person born in this desert resort, 56 who died there, including Zeppo Marx Palm Springs |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $200: Be-bopped into the world Aug. 29, 1920; found the joy of sax & flew away March 12, 1955 Charlie Parker |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $400: Tough guy actor born Nov. 3, 1921; had no "Death Wish" but made his "Great Escape" Aug. 30, 2003 Charles Bronson |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $600: New Yorker cartoonist, drew his first breath Jan. 7, 1912; left his ooky family Sept. 29, 1988 (Charles) Addams |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $800: Seismologist born April 26, 1900; shook the world with his Sept. 30, 1985 death (Charles) Richter |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Lille, Nov. 22, 1890; said a general au revoir Nov. 9, 1970 Charles de Gaulle |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Leonardo da Vinci was born near this small Tuscan town in 1519 Vinci |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | KILLED BY DEATH $1000: In 1940 this Jamaican-born journalist & black nationalist died after reading his own mistakenly printed obituary (Marcus) Garvey |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne died while traveling with this N.H.-born U.S. president, his close friend (Franklin) Pierce |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BIRTH, ART, DEATH $400: Born Aug. 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh,
"Mao",
died Feb. 22, 1987 Andy Warhol |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BIRTH, ART, DEATH $800: Born 1606 in the Netherlands,
"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp",
died 1669 Rembrandt |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BIRTH, ART, DEATH $1200: Born 1834 in Massachusetts,
"Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Thomas Carlyle",
died 1903 Whistler |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BIRTH, ART, DEATH $1600: Born 1912 in Wyoming,
"Lavender Mist",
died 1956 in East Hampton, New York Pollock |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BIRTH, ART, DEATH $2000: Born 1859 in Paris,
"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
died 1891 (Georges) Seurat |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | LET'S GO TO SANTA $1600: Simon Bolivar was born in Venezuela & died in Santa Marta, in this country on Venezuela's west border Colombia |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $200: Once upon a time she was born July 1, 1961 in Norfolk, England; the fairy tale ended in Paris August 31, 1997 Princess Diana |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $400: This seamstress born Feb. 4, 1913 took a long bus ride home out of Detroit in 2005 Rosa Parks |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $600: His adventures began in Wales in 1888 & ended with a motorcycle accident in England in 1935 Lawrence (of Arabia) |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $800: He was born May 5, 1818 in Germany & died in das kapital of England in 1883 (Karl) Marx |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | BORN & DIED $1000: Act I:
Born in Dublin, October 16, 1854; Final act: died November 30, 1900 in Paris Oscar Wilde |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | REDS $400: Born in Argentina, this commie helped take over Cuba & later died in Bolivia Che Guevara |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | STAR WARS $1200: Born Christopher Wallace, he died less than a year after his West Coast rival Tupac Shakur Notorious B.I.G. |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | COMPOSERS $800: Robert Schumann died age 46 in an asylum near Bonn, the city where this musical titan was born in 1770 Beethoven |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $400: A religious leader born June 1, 1801 in Whitingham, Vermont; died Aug. 29, 1877 in Salt Lake City Brigham Young |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $800: An artist, born Sept. 7, 1860 in Greenwich, New York; died Dec. 13, 1961 in Hoosick Falls Grandma Moses |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $1200: An actor, born Feb. 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana; died Sept. 30, 1955 near Paso Robles, California James Dean |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $1600: An author, born Nov. 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland; died Dec. 3, 1894 in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $2000: A statesman born March 19, 1860 in Salem, Illinois; died July 26, 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee William Jennings Bryan |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $200: Born October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, he died tragically December 8, 1980 in New York City John Lennon |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $400: He was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta & died in Memphis April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $600: A profile of this film director says he was born in Britain in 1899 & died in Los Angeles in 1980 Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $800: He was born on an Army post in Little Rock in 1880 & faded away at a D.C. hospital in 1964 (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $1000: Born in Houston in 1905, he died en route from Acapulco to Houston in 1976; his money couldn't save him Howard Hughes |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | DESCARTES $1000: Though born in France, Descartes died in this country where he had gone to teach Queen Christina Sweden |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | 1902 $400: In 1902 this senator was born in Edgefield, South Carolina; 101 years later, he died there Strom Thurmond |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | MINNESOTANS $800: Reportedly the richest man in the world when he died in 1976, he was born in Minneapolis in 1892 Jean Paul Getty |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1,500 (Daily Double): Born one year before the Civil War began, she died 101 years later during John F. Kennedy's administration Grandma Moses |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | COMPOSERS $2000: This Italian operatic composer's infant daughter Virginia died in 1838, just after her brother Icilio was born Giuseppe Verdi |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | TWAIN TWIP $800: As he predicted he would, Twain died in 1910, a year in which this appeared, just as it did in 1835 when he was born Halley's Comet |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS $2000: "More butcher than king in England" is seen as this leader born in 1599, 33 years after Nostradamus died Oliver Cromwell |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $2,600 (Daily Double): Graham Greene was born 10 years after this distant writer relative of his died in the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | TAKE ME TO YOUR DIRECTOR $800: Born NYC 1928; directed "2001" 1968; died England 1999 Stanley Kubrick |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | PICK ME A WIENER $3,000 (Daily Double): Born near Vienna in 1797, he died at age 31 after being a "lieder" in his field Schubert |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $200: He was born in 1786 in Eastern Tennessee & died in 1836 at the Alamo Davy Crockett |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | CHAPLIN $1200: Chaplin was born April 16, 1889 in England & died Christmas day in 1977 in this country Switzerland |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | AUTHOR BIOS $400: Born in 1775, showed "Sensibility" in 1811, never married, died in 1817 Jane Austen |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | AUTHOR BIOS $800: Born in Prague in 1883, worked in insurance until 1922, died in '24, yet went on "Trial" in '25 (Franz) Kafka |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | "I" LADS $1200: Born in Romania in 1912, this absurdist playwright died in 1994 Ionesco |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | LIFETIME $400: Born October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India, didn't eat much, died January 30, 1948 in New Delhi (Mohandas) Gandhi |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | LIFETIME $800: Born in Oklahoma in 1879, had a lot of laughs, died near Point Barrow, Alaska in 1935 Will Rogers |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | LIFETIME $1200: Born around 1507, married a king & gave birth to a future queen, died 1536 in London Anne Boleyn |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | LIFETIME $2000: Born Belfast 1824, gifted scientist, whole life remembered as an absolute zero, died 1907 Lord Kelvin |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | LIFETIME $3,200 (Daily Double): Born in St. Louis in 1888, became a Brit in 1927, wrote poems & plays, won a Nobel Prize in 1948, died 1965 T.S. Eliot |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | SPANIARDS $200: This artist was born in Figueras, Spain on May 11, 1904 & died there Jan. 23, 1989 (Salvador) Dalí |
| #4553, aired 2004-05-26 | 20th CENTURY COUNTRIES $1600: The 1968 photo seen here is from this country that was born & died in the 20th century Czechoslovakia |
| #4511, aired 2004-03-29 | ALL MY LIFE $800: Born 1485 in Spain, thought a god in Mexico, died in Spain in 1547 Cortes |
| #4511, aired 2004-03-29 | ALL MY LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in Connecticut in 1800, helped capture an arsenal in 1859, died a martyr that same year John Brown |
| #4511, aired 2004-03-29 | ALL MY LIFE $2000: Born in 1820, found the manifesto of his dreams in 1848, put up das kapital for a Marx work, died 1895 Engels |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $400: He was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 & died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506 Christopher Columbus |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $800: Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899; closed the book on himself in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961 (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $1200: Born in Ulm, Germany in 1879, he died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955 (Albert) Einstein |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $1,600 (Daily Double): Born in Paris in 1840, he got the final brush off at Giverny in 1926 Monet |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $2000: He was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1741 & died in London in 1801 Benedict Arnold |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | HE DID IT! $800: Born Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashivili in 1879, died suddenly under a different name in 1953 Joseph Stalin |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | BIOGRAPHY $800: Born in England in 1919, formed a famous partnership with Nureyev, died a dame in 1991 Margot Fonteyn |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | IT'S TYLER TIME! $400: John Tyler was born in this state in 1790 (don't say naked) & he died in it in 1862 (don't say naked) Virginia |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $200: Born 1530, died 1584, known for his extreme despotism Ivan the Terrible |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $400: Born 1868, died 1918, 'nuff said Nicholas II |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $800: Born 1551, died 1605, inspired a drama by Pushkin & an opera by Mussorgsky Boris Godunov |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $1000: Born 1818, died 1881, freed the serfs & sold Alaska Alexander II |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $3,800 (Daily Double): Born 1672, died 1725, built Russia's second-largest city Peter the Great |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | CAR MEN $400: Automaker David Buick was born in Scotland in 1854 & died in this U.S. city in 1929 Detroit |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $800: (Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Nuku Hiva.) Born in Paris, this artist lived in Peru as a child & died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903 (Paul) Gauguin |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | THEY LIVED PAST 100 $1200: She was born July 22, 1890 in Boston & died Jan. 22, 1995 in Hyannisport Rose Kennedy |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | AIMING TO SUCCEED $1,000 (Daily Double): He died at Castel Gandolfo on August 6, 1978 & was succeeded for a short time by the man born Albino Luciani Pope Paul VI |
| #4052, aired 2002-03-26 | COMEDIANS $400: This "divine" comedian was born in the 19th century & died over 100 years later George Burns |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: Born in 1725, he created scandals in his home of Italy & in France, made love to a lot of women, & died in 1798 Casanova |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | ROBERT SCHUMANN $1000: Robert Schumann died age 46 in an asylum near Bonn, the city where this musical titan was born in 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #3964, aired 2001-11-22 | 20th CENTURY LIVES $800: This clubfooted Nazi propagandist was born in Rheydt in 1897 & died in 1945 Joseph Goebbels |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | COUPLES $100: Felipa Perestrello married this explorer, but died soon after their son Diego was born in 1480 Christopher Columbus |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | ORANGE YOU GLAD? $4,000 (Daily Double): This royal was born in The Hague in 1650 & died in London in 1702 William of Orange |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | MUSIC OLDER THAN YOU $800: 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake was born in 1981, 10 years after this band's Jim Morrison died The Doors |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | FAMOUS UKRAINIANS $800: Seen here, he was born in Kiev in 1890 & died in London in 1950 Vaslav Nijinsky |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Born in Tennessee, Davy Crockett died in what's now this state Texas |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | SHORT SCIENCE BIOS $200: Born Paris 1859, found piezoelectricity 1880, married Marie 1895, radiated success, died 1906 Pierre Curie |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | SHORT SCIENCE BIOS $1000: Born in Copenhagen, remodeled the atom, died in Copenhagen, reborn in the play "Copenhagen" Niels Bohr |
| #3732, aired 2000-11-21 | BONE UP ON YOUR BONAPARTE $3,000 (Daily Double): The 3 islands where he was born, first exiled & died Corsica, Elba & St. Helena |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | ITALIAN COMPOSERS $200: Bertolucci's movie "1900" is about 2 men born the day this "Aida" composer died Giuseppe Verdi |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | BORN IN IRELAND $1,300 (Daily Double): Nickname of labor activist Mary Jones, born in Ireland in 1830, died in Maryland in 1930 "Mother" Jones |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | BRIEF BIOS $1000: Born 1903, untouchable in Chicago, cleaned up Cleveland, died 1957 Eliot Ness |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | MISSISSIPPI WRITERS $800: This "Native Son" was born near Natchez in 1908 & died in Paris in 1960 Richard Wright |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | QUICK BIOS $200: Born in Porbandar in 1869; fasted, iconoclasted; died in New Delhi, 1948 Mahatma Gandhi |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | QUICK BIOS $400: Born c. 470 B.C.; taught a bit, tried & died c. 399 B.C.; met Bill & Ted in 1989 Socrates |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | QUICK BIOS $600: Born 1557 in Temple Grafton, England; married a Stratford boy, 1582; died 1623 Anne Hathaway |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | QUICK BIOS $800: Born near Gzhatsk in 1934; promoted to major in 1961 shortly before liftoff, just in case; died 1968 Yuri Gagarin |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | "RO" IS ME $500: Italian composer who was born on Leap Day, 1792 & died on Friday the 13th, 1868; no wonder he was superstitious Gioachino Rossini |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | MAFIA FAMILY TIES $600: Powerful family leader Carlo Gambino was born on this island in 1902 & died on Long Island in 1976 Sicily |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $200: She was born once upon a time in Philadelphia, & saw the end in Monaco in 1982 Princess Grace (Grace Kelly) |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $400: He got his start in Sarrat in the Philippines in 1917 & died in Honolulu in 1989 Ferdinand Marcos |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $600: This author was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850 & died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $800: 2-time Nobel Prize winner who was born in Warsaw in 1867 & died in France in 1934 Marie Curie |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | BORN & DIED $1,200 (Daily Double): This businessman checked in on Christmas Day 1887 in New Mexico & checked out in 1979 in Santa Monica, CA. Conrad Hilton |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | BORN ON THE THIRD OF JULY $600: Born July 3, 1883 in Prague, this author died after a "Trial" with TB in an Austrian sanitarium June 3, 1924 Franz Kafka |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | SHORT BIOS $400: Born in 1770, studied with Salieri, became totally deaf in 1819, died 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: This philosopher whose "Analects" shaped Chinese society died a few years before Socrates was born Confucius |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | BUCHANAN...JAMES BUCHANAN $400: Buchanan was born in the town of Stony Batter in this state; he died & was buried in Lancaster there Pennsylvania |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600 (Daily Double): Since his father died before he was born, his uncle Sardis Birchard helped raise him Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | HODGEPODGE $1000: 3 U.S. presidents died on this date & one, Calvin Coolidge, was born on it July 4 |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: Born of Chinese parents in 1811, they died in 1874, having literally lived their whole lives together Chang & Eng Bunker (Siamese twins) |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | BRITISH ROYALTY $800: While visiting what is now this country, George I died at Osnabruck in the room where he was born Gemany |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: This Scottish-born founder of a U.S. detective agency died July 1, 1884 Pinkerton |
| #2695, aired 1996-04-26 | ISAAC NEWTON $600: Isaac was born in 1642, the same year this Italian astronomer died Galileo |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | THE ELEMENTS $800 (Daily Double): Marie Curie named this rare element for the country where she was born polonium |
| #2613, aired 1996-01-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: This last president born in a log cabin was shot by Charles Guiteau July 2, 1881 & died Sept. 19 James Garfield |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | LEFTOVERS $500: He was born August 31, 1908 in Fresno, had "The Time of his Life" & died there May 18, 1981 William Saroyan |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | THE CIRCUS $400: Red Skelton's father, who died before Red was born, was one of these circus performers a clown |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | J LETTER MEN $200: This agency director was born in Washington, D.C. January 1, 1895 & died there May 2, 1972 (J. Edgar) Hoover |
| #2437, aired 1995-03-21 | 1919 $400: This Scottish-born steel magnate died of pneumonia on August 11 (Andrew) Carnegie |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | AUTHORS $1000: This novelist was born in New Albany, Miss. & died 65 years later in Byhalia, near Oxford William Faulkner |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | BLACK AMERICA $400: In 1994 this New Jersey-born boxer, the oldest man to win the heavyweight title, died at age 80 Jersey Joe Walcott |
| #2281, aired 1994-07-04 | THE 1930s $200: This Scottish-born tea company founder died on October 2, 1931 Lipton |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | GREAT BRITS $600: The simple inscription on her tombstone reads, "F.N. Born 1820. Died 1910." Florence Nightingale |
| #2268, aired 1994-06-15 | SAINTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This mystic & foundress of an order was born at Avila & died at Alba de Tormes St. Teresa |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: This author of "Silent Spring" was born in the springtime in Springdale, Penn. & died in Silver Spring, Maryland Rachel Carson |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $100: He was born October 2, 1869 to a merchant caste family in Porbandar, India & died January 30, 1948 in New Delhi Mohandas Gandhi |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $200: Born September 9, 1754 in Cornwall, England he led a "bountiful" life, then died in London December 7, 1817 Captain William Bligh |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $300: He was born August 17, 1786 in Tennessee & died March 6, 1836 in San Antonio, Texas Davy Crockett |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $400: He was born December 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio & died in Montana, June 25, 1876 George Custer |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $500: Born in Ulm, Germany March 14, 1879, he died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey Albert Einstein |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: He was born at Pella, Macedonia in 356 B.C. & died in Babylon in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | WORLD HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): This king of England was born at Sandringham in 1895 & died there in 1952 George VI |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | PRESIDENTS' FATHERS $600: His father died before he was born so he was raised by an uncle, Sardis Birchard (Rutherford Birchard) Hayes |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | BY GEORGE $300: Prince Andrew's maternal grandfather, he died 8 years before Andrew was born George VI |
| #1855, aired 1992-10-02 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: Born in Calcutta, this "Vanity Fair" author was sent to live in England after his father died Thackeray |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $2,500 (Daily Double): With the exception of Reagan, every U.S. pres. born under this sign, including Lincoln, died in office Aquarius |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $600: He was born near Limestone, Tenn. in 1786 & died at the Alamo Davy Crockett |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | IOWA $400: This "American Gothic" painter was born in Anamosa & died in Iowa City Grant Wood |
| #1573, aired 1991-06-05 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $100: Born Maria Kalogeropoulos, this temperamental star soprano died of a heart attack in 1977 Maria Callas |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | SCIENTISTS $200: This Italian astronomer was born three days before Michelangelo died Galileo |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: This author of "The Group" was born in 1912 & orphaned in 1918 when her parents died in a flu epidemic Mary McCarthy |
| #1518, aired 1991-03-20 | PEOPLE $500: This Spanish-born bandleader who died at age 90 in 1990 was a child concert violinist Xavier Cugat |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | COMPOSERS $200: He was born Israel Baline in Russia in 1888 & died in the U.S. in 1989 (Irving) Berlin |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | SCIENCE $200: Sir Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the year this great Italian scientist died Galileo |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | ISLANDS $400: Napoleon was born on Corsica, exiled to Elba & died on this island off the coast of Africa St. Helena |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $200: He was born in 1884 in Missouri & died there in 1972 Truman |
| #1347, aired 1990-06-12 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: Empress Eugenie of France was born the daughter of a grandee in this country, where she also died Spain |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | ART $1000: Impressionist born in Pennsylvania in 1844, she died near Paris in 1926 Mary Cassatt |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $500: With the exception of R. Reagan, all the presidents born under this sign died in office Aquarius (W.H. Harrison, Lincoln, McKinley & FDR were the presidents who died in office) |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | HISTORY $200: When he died he was using the name Wm. H. Bonney, but that probably wasn't the one he was born with Billy the Kid |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | OHIOANS $3,500 (Daily Double): She was born in Darke Co., met her husband, Frank Butler, near Cincinnati & died in Greenville Annie Oakley |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: His father died before he was born, so he was raised by his uncle Sardis Birchard Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #1216, aired 1989-12-11 | ILLINOISIANS $600: This 3-time presidential candidate was born in Illinois but died in Tennessee after the Scopes trial William Jennings Bryan |
| #1212, aired 1989-12-05 | "T" TIME $400: The states in which Davy Crockett was born & died Tennessee & Texas |
| #1209, aired 1989-11-30 | PRESIDENTIAL SONS $200: Dwight Doud was the name of this president's 1st-born son who died before age 3 in 1920 Eisenhower |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | ART $200: Born Anna Mary Robertson, this artist died in 1961 at age 101 Grandma Moses |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $200: Harper's Bible Dictionary says he was born in 5 or 6 B.C. in Judea & died in 28 or 29 A.D.in Jerusalem Jesus |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $400: She was born at 280 Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830 & died there in 1886 Emily Dickinson |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $600: He was born in U.S. Indian Territory in 1879 & died near Point Barrow, Alaska in 1935 Will Rogers |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $1000: Artist who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834 & died in London in 1903 James MacNeil Whistler |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $2,000 (Daily Double): Author who was born in Edinburgh in 1850 & died in Samoa in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | ARTISTS $400: Though he died in France, van Gogh was born in this country Holland (the Netherlands) |
| #1105, aired 1989-05-26 | NEW YORKERS $1000: This 19th c. politician was born at 1 Cherry Street, Manhattan & died in the Ludlow St. jail Boss Tweed |
| #966, aired 1988-11-14 | WYOMINGITES $100: Nickname of frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannary, who was born in Missouri, lived in Wyoming, and died in South Dakota "Calamity Jane" |
| #941, aired 1988-10-10 | THOSE FABULOUS ROMANS $1000: Though he died a Roman citizen, Plutarch, author of "Parallel Lives", was born in this country Greece |
| #935, aired 1988-09-30 | PEOPLE $500: Profession of Russian-born Louise Nevelson, who died in 1988 at the age of 87 a sculptress |
| #880, aired 1988-06-03 | STEPHEN FOSTER $800 (Daily Double): The day & year when Foster was born, it was also the day Jefferson & Adams died July 4, 1826 |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | RELIGION $300: Legend says a German-born woman was once elected to this holy office but died in childbirth pope |
| #753, aired 1987-12-09 | KANSANS $800: Born & died in Manhattan, (Kansas & NYC respectively), this writer gave us "Guys & Dolls" Damon Runyon |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | POE-POURRI $700 (Daily Double): The major East Coast cities in which Poe was born & died, they both begin with "B" Boston & Baltimore |
| #673, aired 1987-07-08 | NAME CHANGES $1000: After death of Admiral Nelson, this mistress, born Amy Lyon, served time in prison & died penniless Lady Emma Hamilton |
| #661, aired 1987-06-22 | PRESIDENTS $600: He was born in & died in Kinderhook, New York Martin Van Buren |
| #581, aired 1987-03-02 | DIRECTORS $1000: Few knew that this director of westerns who died in 1985 was born Henri de Fiennes, a Belgian marquis Henry Hathaway |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | AUGUST $400: On Aug. 23, 1926, Italian-born R. Valentino died; exactly 1 year later, this Italian-born pair was executed Sacco and Vanzetti |
| #539, aired 1987-01-01 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $600: In some legends, this relative of King Arthur died on the same day Arthur was born Uther Pendragon |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | 1879 $1000: The Soviet leaders born in 1879 who were destined to clash after Lenin died Trotsky & Stalin |
| #297, aired 1985-10-29 | FURNITURE $400 (Daily Double): Piece of furniture featured in this 1878 song: It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born And was always his treasure and pride But it stopped, short never to go again When the old man died grandfather clock |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | MARK TWAIN $800: It appeared in the sky the year he was born & the year he died Halley's Comet |
