| #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 |
| #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 |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $800: This future president was born June 12 in Milton, Massachusetts the first President Bush |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In 1884 Hilary Richard Wright Johnson became this African country's first native-born president Liberia |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $800: She's the first first lady born in continental Europe Melania Trump |
| #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 |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THE FIRST FEATURE THEY DIRECTED $400: 2018:
"A Star Is Born" Bradley Cooper |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $400: Those born during the first half of April have this sign, the ram Aries |
| #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 |
| #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) |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 | AWARDS & HONORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2003 this Auckland-born man was the first foreigner made an honorary citizen of Nepal Hillary |
| #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) |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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) |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 $1600: Chess master Garry Kasparov's first move was made in Baku, now in this country Azerbaijan |
| #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 |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | THE IDES OF FEBRUARY $600: This future First Lady was born in Independence, Missouri February 13, 1885 Bess Truman |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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." |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 $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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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" |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | SCIENCE GUYS $2000: This Rome-born physicist designed the first nuclear reactor (Enrico) Fermi |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | THE 19th CENTURY $1600: In 1893 his daughter Esther became the first child of a president to be born in the White House Cleveland |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE SOPRANOS $1200: Born in Laurel, Mississippi, she broke ground as one of the first African Americans to achieve world fame in opera Leontyne Price |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | LITERARY FACTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The first Bombay-born winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907, he wasn't Hindi (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MICHIGAN HISTORY $1200: In 1925 Gertrude Brown was the first this pie fruit queen & Traverse City's annual festival was born cherry |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | "S" FIRST & LAST $2000: Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW $400: The first kitten born via this method was named C.C. by Texas A&M researchers; some say it's for "copy cat" cloning |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | FIRST NAMES $1000: Think of the French for "born", used before a woman's maiden name, & you'll know this female name means "born again" Renée |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $3,000 (Daily Double): Born 26 years apart, these 2 heavyweights of the Protestant Reformation fit the category Martin Luther and John Calvin |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | SENIOR-ITIS $800: This "senior" pastor was born with the first name Michael but changed that to Martin & did the same for his son Martin Luther King |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | PRESIDENTS 101 $600: The first president to be born in a hospital; it was October 1924 Carter |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | PRESIDENTS 101 $1000: The first born outside the original colonies, in 1809 Abraham Lincoln |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | LITERATURE $800: Born in Bombay in 1865, in 1907 he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Rudyard Kipling |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AN EMOTIONAL CATEGORY $1200: In vaudeville, future "I Love Lucy" co-star William Frawley helped popularize the song about this sad "baby" "My Melancholy Baby" |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | ARTS & CULTURE $2000: This Bombay-born conductor was the first to lead 2 major North American orchestras at the same time Zubin Mehta |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | FIRST LADIES $400: She was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 26, 1947 Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| #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 |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $1000: The first person born in the Americas to be canonized was this woman of Lima St. Rose of Lima |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | GRECIAN EARN $400: Born in 1906, this Greek who made his first million at 25 had a philosopher for a middle name too--Socrates Aristotle (Socrates) Onassis |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | COLLEGE PEOPLE $1600: Bishop James Bayley named this Catholic school in South Orange, N.J. for his aunt, the first American-born saint Seton Hall |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: Born Howard Allen O'Brien, this vampire author changed her first name to Anne in first grade (Anne) Rice |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | HIT SONGS $400: In 1984 "Dancing In The Dark" was the first of several hits off his "Born in the U.S.A." Springsteen |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | M.I.A. $1200: The first child born to English parents in the New World, she disappeared along with the rest of Roanoke Colony Virginia Dare |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | 1910 $800: Boutros Ghali, the first native-born prime minister of this country, was assassinated Egypt |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | KIDS & THE BIBLE $400: In the Bible he's the first child born Cain |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS $1000: For works like the one seen here, this Canadian-born architect won the first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 Frank Gehry |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | WORLD LEADERS $600: This leader of the Likud Party is the first prime minister born after the founding of Israel as a nation Netanyahu |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | A VERY "GRAPHIC" CATEGORY $800: In "American Born Chinese", the first of these nominated for a Natl. Book Award, Gene Luen Yang "drew" on his own heritage a graphic novel |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | BORN IN THE USA $400: In 2012 this Ala.-born ex-Sec. of State was one of the first 2 female members of Augusta National Golf Club Condoleezza Rice |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: The first Roman emperor born outside Italy, this slightly deaf & limping man took power in 41 A.D. Claudius |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | POETIC WOMEN $2000: Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in Vicuna, Chile, she was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature Gabriela Mistral |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | "BABY" ON BOARD $1000: A fetus in position to be born butt-first, as in about 1 in 25 full-term births a breech baby (baby breech accepted) |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $400: No. 42, he was the first man to become president who was born after World War II Clinton |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | NBA FINALS MVPs $600: 2007:
He was the first European-born MVP Tony Parker |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | LIFE OF RILEY $1200: The thrill isn't gone for this blues great born with the first name Riley in Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1925 B.B. King |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | NEW YORKERS $200: Born in Southampton in 1929, this first lady studied at Vassar & at the Sorbonne Jackie Kennedy |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | INDIAN FIRSTS $400: The first Indian Nobel Peace Prize winner was this Albania-born Indian citizen in 1979 Mother Teresa |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE $600: The second son born to Queen Elizabeth II, he was the first child born to a reigning monarch in 103 years Andrew |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | IMMIGRANTS $3,000 (Daily Double): He was California's first foreign-born governor since Irishman John Downey, who left office in 1862 Schwarzenegger |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1969 the Alabama-born widow of this man became the first woman to preach in St. Paul's Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE JESUITS $800: The first Jesuit pope was born in this country Argentina |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | COMIC BOOK WOMEN $400: Born on Paradise Island, she was the first prominent female superhero of comics Wonder Woman |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | PLAY BALL MUSIC $800: "When you're born in Chicago you're blessed & you're healed the first time you walk into" this place, rhymed Eddie Vedder Wrigley Field |
| #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 |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | ACTOR FACTOR $200: He's the first James Bond born after the start of the film series Daniel Craig |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | MAYORS OF NYC $800: In 1880 Irish-born William Grace became NYC's first mayor of this faith Roman Catholicism |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | CELEBRITIES $200: Born in Wales, he's the first British actor to play Batman on the big screen Christian Bale |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: First name used by writer Kincaid; she was actually born on another Caribbean island, Antigua Jamaica |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $200: Born in a slum, he was admitted to the University of Copenhagen in 1828; his first book of fairy tales came 7 years later Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | CALL ME ISRAEL $800: Born with the first name Israel, he became famous as his brother George's lyricist under this name Ira Gershwin |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | THE PILGRIMS $2000: William & Susanna White gave the first English child born in New England this first name that can mean "pilgrim" Peregrine |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AMERICAN WOMAN $1000: The first U.S.-born person to be named a saint, she has a "Hall" of a college named for her (Elizabeth Ann) Seton |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | BIBLICAL SPEAKERS BUREAU $2,200 (Daily Double): "I am Esau thy first born" Jacob |
| #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 |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | TERRIERS $1600: Appropriately, the first champion of this breed was Martell's Sapphire Beauty, born in Ireland & named for her coat color the Kerry blue terrier |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $1600: In February 1997 Scottish scientists announced the birth of this first cloned sheep Dolly |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | WHAT'S UP, PIERRE? $1600: Oh, baby! Born in 1754, this French architect & engineer became the first modern city planner in the United States (Pierre) L'Enfant |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | BORN IN 1912 $400: This "drip" artist drew his first breaths January 28 in Cody, Wyoming (Jackson) Pollock |
| #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 |
| #6286, aired 2012-01-09 | BEATLEWOMANIA $400: Ringo Starr wed first wife Maureen Cox in London in 1965; she'd been born in this Mersey River city in 1946 Liverpool |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $600: In 2007 the first of these, born 1 second after midnight January 1, 1946, filed for social security a Baby Boomer |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | "TIVITY" & COMPANY $200: 3 kittens born to mom Saliega in 2005 are the first Iberian lynx to be born here captivity |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $1200: Born Thomas, Williams may have first used his nickname in this Tennessee port for a writing contest Memphis |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | THE OLYMPIAN GODS $1000: This Greek wisdom goddess was born full grown from Zeus' head because he'd swallowed his pregnant first wife Athena |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Casimir Pulaski Day, the first Monday in March, celebrates a Revolutionary War hero born in this country Poland |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: Born just days apart in 1951, in 1976 they opened their first ice cream shop in a renovated gas station in Vermont Ben & Jerry |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | PO BOYS $2000: This Turin-born man, the second of his name, was the first king of a united Italy Victor Emmanuel |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | BORN TO RUN $1200: Patrick of this illustrious family was first elected to Congress from Rhode Island in 1994 the Kennedy family |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | CHRISTIANITY $1000: Born the son of slaves in 1760, Richard Allen became the first bishop & leader of this church, the AME, in 1816 African Methodist Episcopal church |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | BIRTH! HELPED FOUND THE USA! DEATH! $1200: Born Dec. 12, 1745, was the first to sing lead for the Supremes, faced the final decision May 17, 1829 John Jay |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | A BUSINESS IS BORN $400: It was born in Seattle in 1971 & named for the first mate in "Moby Dick" Starbucks |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | A BUSINESS IS BORN $1200: The first drug-store in this chain began operating out of a Chicago hotel in 1901; in 2009 the 7,000th store opened Walgreens |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | THE NP FOR L $2000: In 1913:
R.T., born in India; that first name's a doozie Rabindranath Tagore |
| #5971, aired 2010-07-26 | BIBLE WHO'S WHO $1,600 (Daily Double): His first son, Lamech, was born when he was 187 Methuselah |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEGA-EVENTS $800: 62,000 crowded L.A.'s Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967 for the first of these Super Bowl |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | JASON BORN $1200: In 2009 Jason Mesnick was the title figure on this reality series--the first single dad to do so The Bachelor |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | READ ALL OVER $400: An Indian-born English professor had to read this first Harry Potter novel 35 times before translating it into Hindi Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | LISTED IN THE WORLD ALMANAC $400: Born in 1982, this famous son is second in line to the British throne Prince William |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Former First Lady Barbara Bush is a distant cousin of this 1850s President Franklin Pierce |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $600: (I'm Gail Collins.) I was the New York Times' first female editorial page editor & wrote a book called "America's Women", which begins with "The Extremely Brief Story of" the first English child born in the Americas Virginia Dare |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | 1910 $3,000 (Daily Double): Boutros Ghali, the first native-born prime minister of this country, was assassinated in February Egypt |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: This First Lady was born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16, 1912 in Nevada Mrs. Nixon |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $1000: In 1901 this Hartford-born man financed the creation of U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar company J.P. Morgan |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PICTURE THE PREZ $2,000 (Daily Double): He was the first president to be born an American citizen Martin Van Buren |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | NAME THAT CENTURY $1600: Virginia Dare is the first white child of English parents born in America the 16th Century |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | RED SOX IT TO ME $2000: In 2001 this Osaka-born pitcher tossed Boston's first no-hitter since 1965 (Hideo) Nomo |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | CROWN PLAZA $1200: In 2006 the first male in over 40 years was born into this land's Chrysanthemum Throne imperial family Japan |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $400: The first American-born winner of this Nobel was Robert Millikan, for his study of the elementary electric charge Physics |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | BORN IN DUBLIN $1600: His first major satire, "A Tale of a Tub", was published in 1704 Swift |
| #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 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $1600: The name of this island that's 165 miles northwest of Tahiti means "first born" Bora Bora |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | CHILDREN OF PRESIDENTS $600 (Daily Double): In the 19th c. his daughter Esther was the first & so far only child of a president to be born in the White House Grover Cleveland |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | GRANDMA $200: Born in 1925, this woman had a First Daughter of the U.S. as well as 2 First Granddaughters Barbara Bush |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: Geneva-born Henri Dunant, a founder of this international organization, shared the first Peace Prize in 1901 the Red Cross |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: As the word "born" in the first sentence of this book creeped people out, E.B. White changed it to "arrived" Stuart Little |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $400: He was the first U.S. president born after the country won its independence Martin Van Buren |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WHAT A DECADE IN THE U.S. $400: It was the decade when the first Baby Boomers were born the 1940s |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE NIFTY 1930s $200: This future baseball giant first said "Hey!" to the world when he was born in Alabama in 1931 Willie Mays |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE BELLES $1600: Born in N.C. in 1768, this cupcake was the belle of Washington society even after she was first lady Dolley Madison |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | TRUTH OR DARE $1000: Dare: She was born on Aug. 18, 1587, the first English child born in America Virginia Dare |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: James Bayley founded this N.J. university & named it for his aunt, the first American-born saint Seton Hall |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | BORN TO RUN $1200: In 2003 she returned to London to run her first-ever marathon--in shoes, we might add Zola Budd |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | A STORIED HISTORY $600: Born in Edinburgh in 1771, he's considered the first major historical novelist Sir Walter Scott |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | FIRST LADIES $800: Born Letitia Christian, she was the first to become First Lady upon the death of the previous president (Letitia) Tyler |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The first person known to be born on this continent was Emilio Palma in 1978 Antarctica |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | LITERARY OPENING LINES $2000: Rushdie:
"'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'First you have to die"' The Satanic Verses |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $400: This first sign is a nocturnal animal; those born under it work best in quiet hours; oo, you dirty... rat |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | ROYALTY $3,000 (Daily Double): On Feb. 19, 1960 he became the first child born to a reigning British monarch in 103 years Prince Andrew |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | FOREIGN-BORN LEADERS $400: Born in what is now Poland, he was the first prime minister of Israel Ben-Gurion |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | ESTRELLAS DEL BEISBOL $1600: Born in 1980, this Cardinal first baseman began his career with 8 straight 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons Albert Pujols |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | "E"ASY DOES IT $1600: Born in Norway, he patented the first practical outboard motor for boats (Ole) Evinrude |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | BORN TO BE MILD $1000: No "blockhead", this cartoonist drew his first breath in Minneapolis on Nov. 26, 1922 Charles Schulz |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $200: Yitzhak Rabin was this country's first native-born prime minister Israel |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | PHYSICISTS $800: This Italian-born physicist first split the atom in 1934, although he didn't know it for 4 more years Fermi |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | WHO'S FOR DESSERT? $400: Let's make the chocolate candies named for this First Lady who was born in Virginia in 1731 Martha Washington |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Christmas carol with the line "Born is the King of Israel" becomes a witty English playwright The First Noël Coward |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $200: Zachary Taylor,
Woodrow Wilson,
Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $400: Alexander Graham Bell,
George Washington Carver,
Guglielmo Marconi Alexander Graham Bell |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $600: Harriet Beecher Stowe,
James Fenimore Cooper,
Ernest Hemingway James Fenimore Cooper |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $800: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Johannes Brahms Bach |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $1000: Elizabeth I of England,
Louis XIV of France,
Nicholas II of Russia Elizabeth I of England |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $200: Brad Pitt,
Matt Damon,
George Clooney George Clooney |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $400: Mick Jagger,
Keith Richards,
Charlie Watts Charlie Watts |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $600: Britney Spears,
Jessica Simpson,
Lindsay Lohan Jessica Simpson |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $800: Tiger Woods,
Sergio Garcia,
Michelle Wie Tiger Woods |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $1000: Joan Rivers,
David Letterman,
Larry King Joan Rivers |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | IN LINE FOR BRITAIN'S THRONE $1600: Number 5:
This princess, Fergie's first-born Beatrice |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | FIRST LADIES $1200: As one of her daughters tells it, she was born "in a miner's shack high in the mountains of Eastern Nevada" Pat Nixon |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | OKLAHOMIES $400: Born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, this entrepreneur opened his first namesake "Mart" in 1962 (Sam) Walton |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | OKLAHOMIES $4,100 (Daily Double): Born near Ada, Oklahoma in 1918, he was one of the first evangelists to hold large-scale television revivals Oral Roberts |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | NANCY $400: Though born in Virginia, Nancy, Lady Astor was the first woman to serve in this lower house of Britain's Parliament House of Commons |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | EVERYONE'S A CRITIC $1600: "The Sacred Wood" was the first book of criticism by this Missouri-born "Four Quartets" poet T.S. Eliot |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | PACK TENTH $800: Exodus 12:29 reveals their death as the tenth plague brought upon the Egyptians the first-born sons |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $200: Dr. Jonas Salk,
Dr. Louis Pasteur,
Dr. Benjamin Spock Dr. Louis Pasteur |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $400: Tiberius Caesar,
Augustus Caesar,
Sid Caesar Augustus Caesar |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $600: Ulysses Grant,
Abraham Lincoln,
Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $800: John Irving,
James Michener,
Arthur Miller James Michener |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BORN FIRST $1000: Andy Warhol,
Jackson Pollock,
Judy Chicago Jackson Pollock |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MY MAINE MAN! $200: In 1966 this Portland-born author published his first short story, "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber" Stephen King |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | SCIENTISTS $800: Born in 1686, he invented the first accurate thermometer & devised a temperature scale to go with it Fahrenheit |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | I'M HUNGARIAN $1200: I was born in Budapest in 1908 & was instrumental in making possible the first U.S. hydrogen bomb Edward Teller |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $1000: This New Yorker was the first president born after America declared its independence Martin Van Buren |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | BASEBALL RECORD BREAKERS $1000: While with the Rockies, this outfielder became the first Canadian-born major leaguer to collect 2,000 hits Larry Walker |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $200: Shakespeare,
Milton,
Tennyson Shakespeare |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $400: Giuseppe Verdi,
Wolfgang Mozart,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Wolfgang Mozart |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $600: John F. Kennedy,
Gerald Ford,
George H.W. Bush Gerald Ford |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $800: Pablo Picasso,
Salvador Dali,
Grandma Moses Grandma Moses |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | FIRST BORN $1000: Marco Polo,
Henry the Navigator,
Christopher Columbus Marco Polo |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | EMISSARY TO AMERICA $2000: Vincent Massey was Canada's first minister to the U.S. & later the first non-Brit to hold this post governor-general |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | WORLD AUTHORS $1600: "The House of the Spirits" is the first novel by this Lima-born woman Isabel Allende |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | MEMORABLE MOVIES $1600: The title female is seen here in this 1948 film
"Gamble? She's done it for a living."
"I'll bet you a dollar I've been to the place where you were born."
"Chifu."
"It's on the China coast. Chifu! It's the second wickedest city in the world!"
"What's the first?" The Lady from Shanghai |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | FIRST LADIES $2000: The woman born Sara Delano took her son on a 1904 cruise to quash the romance with this woman Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | COLOGNE RANGER $1000: Born in Cologne in 1876, he was the first chancellor of West Germany following World War II Konrad Adenauer |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | APRIL FOOL'S DAY BABIES $1600: Born April 1, 1578, he was the first to determine how blood circulated through the body & the heart William Harvey |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $400: Hailing from West Branch, Iowa, he was the first president born west of the Mississippi Hoover |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $2000: This early president's British-born wife Louisa was the only First Lady born abroad John Quincy Adams |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | FROZEN FOOD $600: This brand of frozen food is named for Clarence, born in Brooklyn in 1886 Birds Eye |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | FIRST LADIES $5,200 (Daily Double): She was born in 1912; her real first name was Thelma Pat Nixon |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $400: John Milton,
John Grisham,
John Steinbeck John Milton |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $800: Charles Darwin,
Galileo,
Max Planck Galileo |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $1200: Percy Shelley,
Robert Frost,
Pablo Neruda Shelley |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $1600: Igor Stravinsky,
Claude Debussy,
Wolfgang Mozart Wolfgang Mozart |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $2000: English kings:
James I,
Alfred the Great,
George III Alfred the Great |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | BIG "ROCK" $800: Socks the cat, once America's First Feline, was born in this city Little Rock |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | ROANOKE COLONY $800: The first child born of English parents in America, she was the granddaughter of the governor of Roanoke Colony Virginia Dare |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | POLITICAL JOHNS $2000: He was the first president born after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution John Tyler |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Born in 1638, the first child of a 22-year marriage, this king was christened Louis Dieudonne, or "gift of God" Louis XIV |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | GETTING MALL-ED $400: In 1986 ThisCompanyKids opened its first store; in 1990 BabyThisCompany was born The Gap |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | BORN $800: He made his very first exploration into the cold world on July 16, 1872 in Borge, near Oslo, Norway Amundsen |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $200: John Lennon,
Ringo Starr,
George Harrison Ringo Starr |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $400: Stokely Carmichael,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Malcolm X Malcolm X |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $600: Alexander the Great,
Darius the Great,
Frederick the Great Darius |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $800: Leon Trotsky,
Vladimir Lenin,
Josef Stalin Lenin |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | HISTORIC "D" TOUR $1,000 (Daily Double): Not only was Henry Ford born in this Michigan city, he also started his first auto company there Dearborn |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $1000: John Paul Stevens,
William Rehnquist,
David Souter John Paul Stevens |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | "G.G." $2000: Born in France in 1807, he played a leading part in the unification of Italy Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | OH, WITTY WOMAN $1,100 (Daily Double): 1893-born wit who reportedly said, "The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue" Dorothy Parker |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $400: The first name of this cellist born in 1955 means "friendship" Yo-Yo Ma |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $600: He was the first vice president who was born in Washington, D.C. Al Gore |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $5,200 (Daily Double): He was the first president born in New York Martin Van Buren |
| #4738, aired 2005-03-23 | MR. TEA $800: According to one legend, this spiritual leader born in 563 B.C. was the first to discover tea Buddha |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | PARTICLE PHYSICS $1200: In 2000 the tau neutrino was first observed at this Illinois lab named for a foreign-born physicist the Fermilab |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $200: The first First Lady to be born in Texas Lady Bird Johnson |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | A CUP OF KOFI $1000: The first U.N. head from Africa south of the Sahara, Kofi Annan was born in the city of Kumasi in this country in 1938 Ghana |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | THE SCIENCE GEEK $400: As a student in Paris, this Polish-born woman lived on bread & tea but graduated first in her class in physics Marie Curie |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | CHAPTERS IN 19th CENTURY LIT $600: "I Am Born",
"I Observe" &
"I Have a Change"
are the first 3 chapters of this Dickens classic David Copperfield |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | III $800: The first Hanoverian king born in England, he ruled for 60 years, from 1760 to 1820 George III |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | JOE MAMA $400: An American icon, the first of her 4 sons, Joseph Jr., was born in 1915; the last, Edward, in 1932 Rose Kennedy |
| #4682, aired 2005-01-04 | FIRST LADIES $5,600 (Daily Double): Known under this name as First Lady, she was born Elizabeth Wallace Bess Truman |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2000: This poet & painter whose work is seen here had the same first name as a poet born in 1265 Dante Rossetti |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | GREAT BRITS $1000: American-born, this first woman in the House of Commons said, "I am the kind of woman I would run from" Lady (Nancy Witcher) Astor |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | MEET THE PREZ $2000: Of the first 5 U.S. presidents, he was the only one who wasn't born in Virginia Adams |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | ME "FIRST"! $600: The woman born Julia Gardiner is best known to history as one of these a first lady |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | BUNDESTAG PARTY $1600: Born in Mossenberg in 1944, this current German chancellor first won a seat in the Bundestag in 1980 Gerhard Schroder |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Columba Bush, born Columba Garnica Gallo in Mexico, is the first lady of this state Florida |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $400: Ida McKinley was born in this Ohio city that's also home to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Canton |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $1200: Being born in '46 would make you one of the first of the 75 million Americans part of this postwar generation the baby boomers |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | CONNECTICUT $600: Miss Porter's School in Farmington was the alma mater of this Long Island-born first lady Jackie Kennedy |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | "J" PARDY $400: With 6,
more U.S. Presidents were born with this first name than any other James |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | "P"s TIME $2000: From the Old Latin for "first born", it was the feudal law by which only eldest sons got an inheritance primogeniture |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | AN OCTOBER FIRST FEST $1200: Both born Oct. 1, 1924 were Jimmy Carter & this man, a mere associate judge during the Carter administration William Rehnquist |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: 1804:
His first novel was "Fanshawe" & his last was "The Marble Faun" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | A STAR IS BORN $600: Elliott Goldstein, born Aug. 29, 1938, became this actor, Streisand's first hubby Elliott Gould |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | ODDS & ENDS $200: This woman married to our 37th president was born farther west than any other first lady Pat Nixon |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | FIRST NOVELS $400: Amy Tan's first novel, it told of 4 Chinese mothers & their American-born daughters The Joy Luck Club |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | BORN THE SAME DAY $2000: U.S. black leader Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925, like this murdered first prime minister of the Congo Patrice Lumumba |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | SHE'S A SAINT $1000: This Italian-born patron saint of emigrants was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini |
| #4311, aired 2003-05-05 | FIRST LADIES $1,000 (Daily Double): She was 5 foot 2, eyes of blue, & a member of Kentucky's high society Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | "C" FOR YOURSELF $800: This Puerto Rican-born Pittsburgh Pirate was the first Hispanic elected to pro baseball's hall of fame Roberto Clemente |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $600: This future first lady was born Anne Frances Robbins & her stepfather Loyal Davis adopted her when she was 14 Nancy Reagan |
| #4216, aired 2002-12-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: This Australian-born moguls's first U.S. newspaper acquisition was the San Antonio Express & News Rupert Murdoch |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | A TREK TO NEPAL $800: The first of the "Noble Truths" of this man born in Nepal is that existence is suffering Buddha |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | FIRST LADIES $200: Born in Massachusetts, she was descended from the Quincy family on her mother's side Abigail Adams |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ETYMOLOGY $800: The first & last names of this president born in 1809 mean "Father of Many Nations" & "Of the Lake Colony" Abraham Lincoln |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: Born in 1833, his first name means "Son of the Right Hand"; his last, "Son of Harry" Benjamin Harrison |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ETYMOLOGY $2000: Born in 1758, his first name means "One Who Supplants" & his surname means "From the Red River" James Monroe |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $400: In September 1973 he became the first foreign-born citizen to serve as secretary of state Henry Kissinger |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST $1200: In 1985 Oklahoma-born Wilma Mankiller became the first woman chief of this Indian nation Cherokee |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | SCOTTISH HISTORY $2000: This enlightened Scot's "A Treatise of Human Nature" was a flop at first, or as he put it, "Dead-born from the press" David Hume |
| #4129, aired 2002-07-11 | PEOPLE $600: In February 2002 Finnish-born Marutei Tsurunen became the first Caucasian in the country's Diet Japan |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: P.T. Barnum's circus partner, he took his first bow on July 4, 1847 (James) Bailey |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | SCIENCE GUYS $1000: This Italian-born physicist first split the atom in 1934, although he didn't know it for 4 more years (Enrico) Fermi |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | NAME THAT POPE $400: He was the first pope who wasn't born in Italy Saint Peter |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | THE MARCH KING $200: John Philip Sousa was born in this city & his first published work was "Moonlight on the Potomac Waltzes" Washington |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | KING ME! $2000: Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bhumibol Adulyadej grew up to become king of this country Thailand |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: Born Lorenzo di Bartolo, this Florentine artist famous for his doors was first trained as a goldsmith Lorenzo Ghiberti |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | IT HAPPENED ON APRIL FOOL'S DAY $800: This actress was born on April 1, 1938, we doubt her first words were "Love is never having to say you're sorry" Ali MacGraw |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | SAME BIRTHDAY AS DR. KING $400: Lee Teng-hui, born on this island in 1923, became the island's first native born president Taiwan |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | THE ANDREW JACKSON 5 $1,000 (Daily Double): Jackson was the first U.S. president not born in either of these 2 states Virginia & Massachusetts |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | CAMILLA $600: What Prince Charles is to Camilla's first-born son, or the title of a 1969 novel about Don Corleone "The Godfather" |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $200: When their "MmmBop" reached No. 1 in May 1997, they became the first artists born in the 1980s to have a No. 1 single Hanson |
| #3944, aired 2001-10-25 | FIRST LADIES $300: Born Elizabeth Bloomer, she sprang up in Chicago in 1918 Betty Ford |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | "E.T." $600: In 1945 this Hungarian-born physicist helped construct the first atomic bomb Edward Teller |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | I'M 18 & I LIKE IT $300: The mass market versions of these Xavier Roberts dolls first born in 1983 are now ready for college Cabbage Patch Kids |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | TRIVIALICIOUS $400: The first CD pressed for sale in the United States was this album by Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | REAL BOHEMIANS $200: Born in Bohemia in 1884, Edward Benes was the first foreign minister & second president of this country Czechoslovakia |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | DIXIE CHICKS $300: Born in D.C. in 1948 but later calling Tennessee home, she nearly became first lady in 2001 Tipper Gore |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | DIXIE CHICKS $400: Born in Miami in 1938, she was the first woman appointed U.S. attorney general Janet Reno |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1000: The first to hold regular press conferences, he began them 7 years before Helen Thomas was born Woodrow Wilson |
| #3840, aired 2001-04-20 | NEW JERSEYITES $700 (Daily Double): James Bayley, bishop of Newark, named this Jersey school after his aunt, the first U.S.-born saint Seton Hall (after Elizabeth Ann Seton) |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | HIS WIFE $400: The evangelist born Aimee Kennedy first married Robert Semple, then this man Harold McPherson |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | CELEBRITIES $400: Chryssomallis is the last name of this Greek-born New Age pianist who goes by his first name Yanni |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: In 1988 this Karachi-born woman became the first female to head a modern Islamic country Benazir Bhutto |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | SINGERS $800: This "First Lady of Contemporary Christian Music" was born in Augusta, Georgia, & that's the gospel truth Amy Grant |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | HAMBURGERS $600: Hamburg-born Adolf Neuendorff conducted the first American performance of this man's "Lohengrin" in 1871 Richard Wagner |
| #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 |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | I NEED SOME COFFEE! $100: In 1971, before you were born, this coffee company opened its first location, at Seattle's Pike Place Market Starbucks |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | PEOPLE $500: This astronaut who piloted the command module during the first moon landing was born in Rome, Italy Michael Collins |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In the late 1950s he became the first U.S.-born conductor to head the New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | GONE FISSION $300: In 1942 this Italian-born physicist & his team produced the first controlled self-sustaining fission reaction Enrico Fermi |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY $200: In Islamic belief, this man born on Friday was not only the first man but the first prophet Adam |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | LAMA-RAMA $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of Padmasambhava, who established the first order of lamas, means "born of" this flower the lotus |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | CHOPIN $800: Chopin was born in Poland, & his first printed work at age 7 was one of these appropriately named pieces Polonaise |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | CZECHS $100: Czech-born director Forman & Czech prime minister Zeman share this first name Milos |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | THE PILGRIMS $1000: The first English child born in New England, he was born in December 1620 aboard the Mayflower off Massachusetts Peregrine White |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | PROFILES IN CARVAGE $400: He's the first-born of a "2nd": Prince Charles |
| #3461, aired 1999-09-27 | BILLS & WILLS $200: Born in Fabens, Texas in 1931, this legendary jockey won his first of 8,833 races at age 18 Willie Shoemaker |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITS $100: He was the first president born in a log cabin Andrew Jackson |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: He was the first U.S. president born in Missouri -- Lamar, Missouri, to be exact Harry S. Truman |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | MR. OR MS. BROWN $1000: Born July 25, 1978, she was the world's first "Test Tube Baby" Louise Brown |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | CROATIAN POTPOURRI $1000: Serbian in heritage but born in Croatia, he invented the first practical A.C. generator Nikola Tesla |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BIOGRAPHY $100: Born an Air Force brat in Germany in 1959, he won his first Wimbledon in 1981 & married Tatum O'Neal in 1986 John McEnroe |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | BIOGRAPHY $400: Born near Ancona in 1870, she was Italy's first woman to get a medical degree & taught kids in a new way Maria Montessori |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | GORILLA MY DREAMS $100: The first gorilla born in captivity was Colo, who debuted in 1956 in this Ohio capital Columbus |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $200: Calvin Coolidge was the first president born on this patriotic holiday the Fourth of July |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | MORE FIRST LADIES $500: This first lady was born in 1917 on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, hence her nickname Pat Nixon |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | TOUGH HODGEPODGE $1000: In 1913 this Kiev-born aircraft designer built Le Grand, the world's first 4-engine plane Sikorsky |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | THEY HAIL FROM BOSTON $4,000 (Daily Double): Born in Boston in 1931, she was the first female to co-anchor a regular nightly network newscast Barbara Walters |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | THE JEFFERSONS $600: Thomas' first grandchild, Anne, was born, married & buried at this hilltop home Monticello |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | FIRST LADIES $500: Mary Todd Lincoln was born in this state, as was her husband Kentucky |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | THE 1970s $500: The first baby conceived outside a woman's body was born in this country England (Louise Brown) |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | GENESIS $800: The daughter of Eleanor & Ananias, she was the first English child born in the New World Virginia Dare |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | FIRST NAMES $600: December-born playwright Coward Noel |
| #3143, aired 1998-04-08 | SIMON $200: Born in 1927, he wrote his first Broadway hit, "Come Blow Your Horn", in 1960 Neil Simon |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $600: Iceland's first female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, was born in this capital city in 1930 Reykjavik |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE GOLD BUG $100: Name this little man who spun straw into gold or he'll take your first-born child Rumpelstiltskin |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THEIR FIRST FILMS $400: "Born on the Fourth of July" was the 1st film for this Baldwin brother born 5 years after Alec William Baldwin |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | FIRST LADIES $400: This Texas-born conservationist headed the First Lady's Committee for A More Beautiful Capital Lady Bird Johnson |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $200: The American version of rugby, it was first played at college level in 1869 when Rutgers beat Princeton football |
| #3039, aired 1997-11-13 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $100: On Oct. 1, 1924, he was born at the Wise Clinic in Plains, Georgia, the first president born in a hospital Jimmy Carter |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | FIRST LADIES $1000: She was born in 1864, the daughter of a Buffalo, New York attorney Frances Folsom Cleveland |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | NAME CALLING $200: Ironically, this first name of a famous blind woman born in 1880 means "light" Helen (Keller) |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | FAMOUS NAMES $1000: This first prime minister of Israel was born in 1886 in Plonsk, Russia, now a part of Poland David Ben-Gurion |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $600: Nearly everyone is born with this condition because the arches develop slowly over the first 6 years flat feet |
| #2957, aired 1997-06-10 | FIRST LADIES $100: Lady Bird Johnson was the 1st first lady born in this state; she's from Karnack Texas |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | BEFORE YOU WERE BORN $800: In 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first black American appointed to this legal body the Supreme Court |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | HOSPITALS $600: In 1978 Louise Brown, the first of these, was born in the UK's Oldham General Hospital Test-tube baby |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | HORSE HODGEPODGE $300: Racing fans know this date is a racehorse's official birthdate January 1 |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | PEOPLE $400: On Oct. 25, 1993 John Shalikashvili became the first foreign-born chairman of this group Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | PLAYS $1000: Later a movie, this play starring Judy Holliday was the first written by Garson Kanin "Born Yesterday" |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | THE BELLES $1000: This first lady born in Kentucky in 1818 could speak French fluently Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #2832, aired 1996-12-17 | OKLAHOMANS $200: This male heartthrob who first gained notice in "Thelma & Louise" was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma Brad Pitt |
| #2830, aired 1996-12-13 | AUTHORS $200: This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi Mark Twain |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | NOTABLE NONHUMANS $600: Colo was the first of these great apes born in captivity, in 1956 at the Columbus Zoo Gorilla |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: This president from Kinderhook was the first who wasn't born a British subject Martin Van Buren |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: Not only the first president to marry in the White House, he was also the first to have a child born there Grover Cleveland |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | AMERICANA $500: Grace Coolidge was the 1st first lady born in this state; her husband was the 2nd president born there Vermont |
| #2807, aired 1996-11-12 | FIRST LADIES $200: This first lady born in 1768 was a real "cupcake" who liked to wear turbans & low-cut dresses Dolley Madison |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | WOMEN 1975 $800: It was a first when women participated in the ceremony canonizing this 1st U.S.-born saint Elizabeth Ann Seton |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | U.S. CITIES $200: in 1985 Xavier Suarez became this Florida city's first Cuban-born mayor Miami |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: This impressionist whose first name was Camille was born on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas in 1830 Pissarro |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | RUSSIAN RULERS $500: This first Russian czar was born in 1530 to Vasily III, Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan the Terrible |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $800: A native of West Branch, Iowa, he was the first president born west of the Mississippi Herbert Hoover |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | HISTORY $300: In 1848 American-born Joseph Roberts became the first president of this African republic Liberia |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | FIRST LADIES $100: Born in 1731, she was nicknamed the "Mother of Our Country" Martha Washington |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $500: She was the first English child born in America Virginia Dare |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | DOGS $600: When first born this coach dog is pure white; the spots appear in 3 or 4 weeks a Dalmatian |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | FIRST LADIES $200: This second wife of Ronald Reagan was born Anne Frances Robbins Nancy Davis Reagan |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | FIRST LADIES $200: She was born in Chicago on October 26, 1947 (Hillary) Clinton |
| #2547, aired 1995-10-03 | DESIGN $1000: Born in 1860, this designer whose first name was Rene became known for glass perfume bottles Lalique |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $500: The first baby born in the White House was James Madison Randolph, a grandson of this president, in 1806 Thomas Jefferson |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | SINGERS $300: Born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1912, his original first name was Pierino Perry Como |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | HISTORIC DOUBLE Bs $800: Born in Georgia in 1886, he was one of the first 5 players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Ty Cobb |
| #2497, aired 1995-06-13 | BLACK FIRSTS $300: In 1624 at this settlement, William Tucker became the first Black born in England's American colonies Jamestown |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | FIRST LADIES $1000: Her son Thomas, born in 1772, became a chief justice in Massachusetts Abigail Adams |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | UNDER THE SEA $100: The first of these born in captivity was at a Marineland in 1977, Orky & Corky were its parents a killer whale |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | NONFICTION $1000: This Scottish-born naturalist wrote "Our National Parks" & "My First Summer in the Sierra" in the early 1900s John Muir |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | ANIMALS $100: Shasta was the first U.S.-born liger, a cross of these 2 animals, to reach maturity a lion & a tiger |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $600: Irish-born William Paterson became one of this state's first U.S. senators in 1789 New Jersey |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: His granddaughter Letitia was the first girl born in the White House John Tyler |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | THE 1960s $200: The first "Devon Rex" type of this animal was born in 1960 a cat |
| #2351, aired 1994-11-21 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $1000: Born in 1903, this Spaniard was the first flamenco guitarist to perform as a soloist without dancers Carlos Montoya |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | 1983 $600: The first of these birds hatched in captivity was born at the San Diego Zoo a California condor |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1000: This enemy of the colonies was the first of the Hanoverians born in England George III |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | JUNE $300: Known as the "Iron Horse", this New York Yankee first baseman was born June 19, 1903 Lou Gehrig |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | EUROPEAN RULERS $600: Constantine I was the first king of modern Greece born in this city Athens |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Hung-Wu, born a peasant, became the first emperor of this Chinese dynasty in 1368 the Ming Dynasty |
| #2271, aired 1994-06-20 | POETS $200: This Welsh poet born Oct. 27, 1914 had a first name that can mean "son of the waves" Dylan Thomas |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | SAINTS $1000: Elizabeth Ann Bayley was the maiden name of this first native-born American to be canonized Seton |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | FAMOUS CANADIANS $100: This character actor was the brother of Canada's first native-born gov.-general, Vincent Massey Raymond Massey |
| #2220, aired 1994-04-08 | PAULS OF FAME $400: This Minneapolis-born oilman made his first million dollars by the time he was 23 (Jean) Paul Getty |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | VICE PRESIDENTS $200: He was the first vice president born in Virginia Jefferson |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | DANCE $1000: This modern dancer & choreographer was born in Centralia, Washington; his full first name is Mercier Merce Cunningham |
| #2202, aired 1994-03-15 | FIRST LADIES $400: Lady Bird Johnson was the first first lady born in this state Texas |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | COMPOSERS $600: Born in 1892, he was given the first name Ferdinand but you probably remember him as Ferde (Ferde) Grofe |
| #2177, aired 1994-02-08 | VILLAGES $100: She was born in the village of Domremy in 1412 & had her first vision at about age 13 Joan of Arc |
| #2151, aired 1994-01-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: In 1873 she was born in Virginia, not Nebraska, & her original first name was Wilella Willa Cather |
| #2135, aired 1993-12-10 | NOTABLE NAMES $100: 1 of the 2 U.S. first ladies born in Georgia Rosalynn Carter (or Ellen Wilson) |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | PRESIDENTS $1,500 (Daily Double): The first president who wasn't born a British subject was this New Yorker Martin Van Buren |
| #2112, aired 1993-11-09 | POP MUSIC $200: His first single to crack the Top 40 was "Born to Run" in 1975 Bruce Springsteen |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | YANKEES $200: Born in East Derry, N.H., he attended the Naval Academy before he became the first U.S. man in space Alan Shepard |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | JULY 25 $1000: This first test-tube baby was born in Britain July 25, 1978 (Louise) Brown |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $800: Born Aug. 18, 1587 on Roanoke Island, she was the first English child born in America Virginia Dare |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $400: "It Happened One Night" that she became the first French-born actress to win an Oscar (Claudette) Colbert |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | AIRCRAFT $1000: In 1939 this Russian- born engineer built the VS-300, the USA's first successful helicopter Sikorsky |
| #2014, aired 1993-05-13 | FIRST LADIES $100: She was born Anne Frances Robbins & nicknamed Nancy in infancy Nancy Reagan |
| #2000, aired 1993-04-23 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1958 the New York Philharmonic chose him as its first American-born music director Leonard Bernstein |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | FIRST LADIES $200: Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon was born on the eve of this holiday, hence she's known as Pat St. Patrick's Day |
| #1950, aired 1993-02-12 | FIRST LADIES $600: She was born 1731, the year before her husband Martha Washington |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | RELIGION $1000: Supposedly born on the same day, Ananda was this man's first cousin & an important disciple Buddha |
| #1894, aired 1992-11-26 | FIRST LADIES $500: Lucy Hayes was the 1st first lady born in this state; her husband was the 2nd president born there Ohio |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SCIENTISTS $800: This German astronomer born in 1571 was the first to explain how the planets move around the Sun Kepler |
| #1860, aired 1992-10-09 | MUSIC $1000: Born in Bombay in 1936, he won the first Liverpool International
Conductors Competition in 1958 Zubin Mehta |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | KENTUCKY $500: This Kentucky-born author of "All the King's Men" became America's first poet laureate in 1986 Robert Penn Warren |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | THE BIBLE $600: In Exodus, it's the 10th & final plague brought upon Egypt the death of the first-born sons |
| #1835, aired 1992-07-17 | 1956 $100: The first of these rare birds ever born in captivity was hatched on May 29 — Whoopee! a whooping crane |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | ARTISTS $1000: The modern artist who was born Milton Rauschenberg changed his first name to this Robert |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | BLACK HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1847 American-born Joseph Roberts was elected the first president of this African country Liberia |
| #1772, aired 1992-04-21 | JIMMY CARTER $600: He was the first president born in one of these places a hospital |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BORN IN BROOKLYN $100: This comedienne was born in Brooklyn in 1933; we assume her first words were "Can we talk?" Joan Rivers |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | WOMEN $200: When poet Emma Lazarus was born in this city in 1849, it didn't have the statue in the harbor New York |
| #1692, aired 1991-12-31 | NEW ENGLAND $200: This first American to travel in space was born in East Derry, N.H. Alan Shepard |
| #1614, aired 1991-09-12 | FIRST LADIES $400: Mary Todd Lincoln, like her husband, was born in this state Kentucky |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | FIRST LADIES $600: We're not being wry when we tell you this first lady was born in Rye, New York in 1925 Barbara Bush |
| #1548, aired 1991-05-01 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1,300 (Daily Double): This first lady was born on February 13, 1885 to David & Madge Wallace Bess Truman |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | BIRTHPLACES $600: This stripper made her first nude appearance when she was born in Seattle in 1914 Gypsy Rose Lee |
| #1527, aired 1991-04-02 | COMPOSERS $100: Born Louis Bernstein in 1918, at age 16 he changed his first name to this Leonard |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | PRINCESS DI $400: How time flies; this first-born child of Diana's turned 8 on June 21, 1990 Prince William |
| #1508, aired 1991-03-06 | ROYALTY $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1960 he became the first child born to a reigning British sovereign since 1857 Prince Andrew |
| #1455, aired 1990-12-21 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $200: Andrew Jackson & James Garfield were the first & last presidents to be born in this type of dwelling a log cabin |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | ARTISTS $400: Wassily Kandinsky, who's considered the first modern abstract painter, was born in this country in 1866 Russia |
| #1392, aired 1990-09-25 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $2,000 (Daily Double): The only president born in Iowa, he was the first president born west of the Mississippi Hoover |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | RULERS $600: This Eastern European country's first king, Carol I, was born a German prince Romania |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | COMPOSERS $500: The full first name of this French composer born in 1862 was Achille-Claude Debussy |
| #1347, aired 1990-06-12 | COUNTIES $600: North Carolina has the only county named for this first English child born in America Virginia Dare |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | ART $1000: Impressionist born in Pennsylvania in 1844, she died near Paris in 1926 Mary Cassatt |
| #1338, aired 1990-05-30 | TELEVISION $500: Her real baby who was born on the same day as her TV baby, appeared on the first cover of TV Guide Lucille Ball |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | STATE "C"APITALS $100: The first gorilla born in captivity was born in this Ohio city's zoo in 1956 Columbus |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | GOLDEN OLDIES $500: Born Frederick Picariello, his first 2 hits were "Tallahassee Lassie" & "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" Freddy Cannon |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | FASHION DESIGNERS $500: This Havana-born designer is known by his first name, not by his last, Sardina Adolfo |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | FIRST LADIES $600: The 1989 Miss America pageant gave its first Achievement Award to this Chicago-born first lady Betty Ford |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | IOWANS $600: 1 of the 2 first ladies who were born in Iowa Mamie Eisenhower (or Lou Hoover) |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | FIRST LADIES $1,500 (Daily Double): The only president & first lady who were born in the same small town Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1847 Virginia-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the first president of this black African nation Liberia |
| #1262, aired 1990-02-13 | THE VIOLIN $800: This Tel Aviv-born violinist overcame polio & first performed in public at age 9 Yithzak Perlman |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | PRESIDENTS $1000: He was the 8th president & the first born in the United States Martin Van Buren |
| #1205, aired 1989-11-24 | MYSTERIES $600: Born in New Zealand, her unusual first name, Ngaio, is the Maori word for a flowering tree (Ngaio) Marsh |
| #1133, aired 1989-07-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: This famous nurse was born in 1820 in an Italian city--hence, her first name Florence Nightingale |
| #1101, aired 1989-05-22 | FIRST FAMILY TRIVIA $600: First lady who was born Claudia Alta Taylor Lady Bird Johnson |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | PRESIDENTS $200: Wilson was our last president born in Virginia, & he was our first George Washington |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FIRST LADIES $100: His wife, Louisa, was the only First Lady born abroad, but she was buried in Quincy, Mass. John Quincy Adams |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FIRST LADIES $300: Mrs. Nixon was nicknamed Pat because she as born on the eve of this holiday St. Patrick's Day |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FIRST LADIES $400: She was the only first lady born in Kentucky Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | POETS $800: This Bombay-born poet & novelist was a first cousin of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Rudyard Kipling |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | 20TH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Born in Russian Poland in 1886, he became the first prime minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion |
| #966, aired 1988-11-14 | 19TH CENTURY WOMEN $1000: This abolitionist was born into slavery in New York, and the first language she spoke was Dutch Sojourner Truth |
| #935, aired 1988-09-30 | FAMOUS DOCTORS $1000: The first born of a set of triplets, she's famous for the book "On Death & Dying" Dr. (Elizabeth) Kübler-Ross |
| #846, aired 1988-04-18 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $100: Born Karola Siegel, this sex therapist tells her tale in "All in a Lifetime" Dr. Ruth Westheimer |
| #801, aired 1988-02-15 | ELIZABETHS $800: Born E. Wallace, this First Lady from Mo. was the childhood sweetheart of the president she married Bess Truman |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | PRESIDENTS $600: This Iowan was the first President born west of the Mississippi Herbert Hoover |
| #503, aired 1986-11-12 | WOMEN FIRST $400: Louise Brown, born in England in 1978 was the 1st of these test-tube baby |
| #359, aired 1986-01-23 | "FIRST" $400: Form of "currency" useful when paying Rumpelstiltskin first born |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | NEW ENGLAND $600: The first & last of 6 New England-born presidents both had this first name John |
| #184, aired 1985-05-23 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: The first English child born in America Virginia Dare |
| #179, aired 1985-05-16 | FIRST FAMILIES $400: First child born to President or President-elect in office since 1893, he's recently studied in India John Kennedy, Jr. (JFK Jr.) |
