| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $400: This famed Western landscape photographer wrote a 1947 essay for the Encyclopedia Britannica on "Photographic Art" Adams |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): Britannica describes this type of literature as "pseudomedieval", with "a prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror" Gothic |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $1200: Britannica:
He "was blaming the depression on events abroad & predicting" his foe's win "would only intensify the disaster"; it didn't Hoover |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Britannica says this woman who wore turbans, gambled & took snuff "may be said to have created the role of the first lady" (Dolley) Madison |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THIS & THAT $800: Hugh Chisholm edited the 11th edition (1910-11) of this, an edition called the greatest encyclopedia ever Britannica |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AGES, EPOCHS & ERAS $1600: Britannica says this late 19th c. era featured "gross materialism & blatant political corruption" in the United States the Gilded Age |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | OTHER RED, WHITE & BLUE FLAGS $2000: Britannica says the white disk on this landlocked Asian nation's flag seen here honors the Japanese Laos |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | MAMMALS $1000: According to Britannica, though called "naked", these rodents actually "have about 100 fine hairs on their skin" a (naked) mole rat |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $600: Britannica noted "the eerie light of an all-night coffee stand" in this 1942 Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $600: Britannica says during this mostly 19th century era, "Britain was a powerful nation with a rich culture"; the past tense... ouch the Victorian |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | CLICHÉS REPHRASE $400: An ambulatory Britannica a walking encyclopedia |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $500 (Daily Double): Britannica says this Munch painting "can be seen as a symbol of modern spiritual anguish" but it reminds us of a loud "Home Alone" moment The Scream |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CONTRACTIONS $400: Britannica notes that this word "can be used to mean am not, are not, is not, have not & has not" ain't |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE FOUNDING FATHERS $200: Encyclopedia Britannica calls him "The Foundingest Father of them all" (really!) George Washington |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | "STAN" COUNTRIES $200: Britannica says its "forbidding landscape of deserts & mountains has laid many imperial ambitions to rest" Afghanistan |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | A REIGN OF ERROR $600: Britannica, on one of this czar's many errors: he "met the rising groundswell of popular unrest with intensified police repression" Nicholas II |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE 1920s $200: The first volume of this reference work was published in 1884; it became complete with the tenth in 1928 the OED (the Oxford English Dictionary) |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | MYTHICAL MISSES $200: Britannica lists this child of Zeus as the "indirect cause of the Trojan War" Helen of Troy |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ARTISTS $400: Britannica says this artist who illustrated the "Vitruvian Man" "epitomized the renaissance humanist ideal" Leonardo |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | AMERICAN ACCESSIONS $400: The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it "the greatest land bargain in U.S. history" the Louisiana Purchase |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | FOOD $800: Encyclopedia Britannica says this quick bread "became an integral part of the fashionable ritual of 'taking tea"' scones |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $800: In 2012 this iconic 244-year-old reference company announced that its 2010 32-volume edition would be its last in print Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | "ISM"s $600: Britannica says this "both reached its peak & began its decline" during a series of televised hearings in 1954 McCarthyism |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | PLURALIZE IT $1000: Codex (7 letters--as per the Encyclopedia Britannica entry) codices |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $800: Britannica said this writer in college in the 1870s distinguished himself "as a classical scholar, a poseur, and a wit" Oscar Wilde |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | SPEAKING VOLUMES $1200: The most recent edition of this lexicon in book form was published in 20 volumes in 1989 the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED) |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET $400: The Encyclopedia Britannica notes that break-dancers often wear these "sideways or backward" baseball caps |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: Britannica notes that this Russian ruler "had young lovers up to the time of her unexpected death...at...67" Catherine the Great |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | MUSICAL STYLES $600: Britannica calls this 3-letter genre "Jamaica's first indigenous urban pop style" ska |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | QUOTED IN THE OED $3,000 (Daily Double): The OED loves this other reference work founded in the U.K., quoting it more than 14,500 times the Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | REFERENCE GOES DIGITAL $2000: This multivolume encyclopedia debuted in 1917, began "Childcraft" in 1934 & first went online in 1998 World Book |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $200: "Visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by... Picasso and Georges Braque" Cubism |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $400: He "felt and heard a 'scream throughout nature'" (Edvard) Munch |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $600: "Though it was reconstructed to a standing posture, the statue's arms were never found" the Venus de Milo |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $800: "In 1894 he conceived a plan to publish a book of his impressions of Tahiti, illustrated with his own woodcuts" Gauguin |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $1000: "He created works that cantilevered off bases that allowed the mobile element to rotate 360 degrees" (Alexander) Calder |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | LITERATURE $800: Britannica says this John Bunyan allegory was at one time second only to the Bible in popularity Pilgrim's Progress |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | HERSTORY $600: Britannica notes that this Russian "would not have become empress if her husband had been at all normal" Catherine the Great |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | GET ME REWRITE! $1000: An 18th c. Philly printer put out a work called simply "Encyclopaedia", with less London bias & this title word removed Britannica |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BIRTH OF A SALESMAN $600: Born in 1859 in Mass., Horace Hooper sold dictionaries until a London visit led him to upgrade to this encyclopedia the Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | FAKE CLUES $1,000 (Daily Double): Britannica cites the Piltdown man & the Feejee mermaid in its articles on this type of 4-letter scam a hoax |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | YOU SHOULD BE DANCING $400: Britannica credits this man with transforming "traditional Irish dancing into a popular spectator attraction" (Michael) Flatley |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THAT ENCYCLOPEDIA $400: I hate to break it to you, but this encyclopedia that dates back to the 18th century is headquartered in Chicago now Britannica |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | "B" A SPORT $1,000 (Daily Double): Britannica's entry on it notes early Scandinavians revered the Norse god Ull as both a ski god & a hunting god biathlon |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AROUND THE JEOPARDY! LIBRARY $200: We still browse Encyclopedia Britannica, last printed in 2010 & first printed in this U.K. country in 1768 Scotland |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | BRITANNICA BYLINES $400: He conjured up the entry on conjuring for the 1926 edition, the same year as his untimely death Harry Houdini |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | BRITANNICA BYLINES $800: Noted anarchist Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin wrote a 19th century entry on this capital Moscow (or Saint Petersburg) |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | BRITANNICA BYLINES $1200: No poser, Tony Hawk busted out the rad entry on this skateboarding |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | BRITANNICA BYLINES $1600: This naturalist's 1902 article on Yosemite stated that Vernal Falls was "famous for its afternoon rainbows" (John) Muir |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | BRITANNICA BYLINES $2000: Who better than this holy man to write the entry on South Africa's 1995 Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Desmond Tutu |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $800: Britannica, on this Ugandan:
"Noted for his abrupt changes of mood... often extreme in his nationalism" Idi Amin |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): On his 1914-16 expedition to the South Pole, Ernest Shackleton carried 2 sets of the 11th edition of this multi-volume work the Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $600: Britannica says in this Arabian Peninsula nation, "The sun is hot. It is worse when the wind blows; then it is like a furnace" Oman |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | LET'S VISIT SCOTLAND $200: The staid Encyclopedia Britannica says this lake "is said to be inhabited by an aquatic monster" Loch Ness |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $800: Britannica describes this type of literature as "pseudomedieval", with "a prevailing atmosphere of mystery & terror" Gothic |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | WITH LOVE $2000: Britannica calls this Roman poet's "Ars Amatoria" "a manual of seduction and intrigue for the man about town" Ovid |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | BOOKS OF THE YEAR $800: 1771:
The third & last volume of the first edition of this esteemed compendium of knowledge Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | A FORCE OF NATURE $1200: We all feel it, but Britannica calls this "by far the weakest known force in nature" gravity |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | OH, THE HUMANITIES! $800: Keep incredibly calm & carry on; Britannica says "tranquillity of mind" is key to this ancient Greek philosophy Stoicism |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | ADORABLE ANDORRA $1000: Britannica dates the end of this European "system" to the 12th c. but in Andorra to 1993 & a new constitution the feudal system |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | I HAVE A THEORY $2000: Britannica calls this theory the study of seemingly "random...behavior in systems governed by deterministic laws" chaos theory |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | ON THE OLD MAP $1,200 (Daily Double): In the 1939 Britannica Book of the Year, this entry says the king is Ananda Mahidol & a chief town is Bangkok Siam |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | AUTH"ER"S $800: The life & death dates for this poet in Britannica simply say, "flourished 9th or 8th century BCE?, Ionia? (now in Turkey)" Homer |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT $200: Britannica says the human digestive system begins at these fleshy bits; mum's the word on where it ends the lips |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | ON THE FIRST OF THE MONTH $400: Feb. 1, 1884:
You could look it up in the first volume of this, published in London the Oxford English Dictionary |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SAYS SO $200: "Its '57 varieties' slogan was devised in 1896, but today the company markets more than 5,700 products" Heinz |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SAYS SO $400: "Institution of higher learning in Durham, N.C. ... affiliated with but not controlled by the United Methodist Church" Duke (University) |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SAYS SO $600: "Born... 1990" in Kentucky, "actress who by ... 22 had been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actress" Jennifer Lawrence |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SAYS SO $800: "A series of intl. treaties... between 1864 & 1949 for... ameliorating the effects of war on soldiers and civilians" the Geneva Conventions |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SAYS SO $1000: This French artist portrayed "the personalities and facets of Parisian nightlife and... entertainment in the 1890s" Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! $1000: Britannica, on the Battle of this, as the Yorkists faded: "Richard, preferring death, was unhorsed and killed in the bog" the Battle of Bosworth Field |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | BETWEEN JOBS $600: Encyclopedia Britannica lists Judd Apatow as "American writer," this, & then "producer" director |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $1200: In 1790 Dobson's Encyclopaedia, the American version of this, began printing, taking 7 years to complete the Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $400: "Founder and head of the Israelite priesthood, who, with his brother Moses, led the Israelites out of Egypt" Aaron |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $800: "Chairman (1969-2004) of the Palestine Liberation Organization" Arafat |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $1200: "Died August 25, 2012...resigned from NASA in 1971...awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969" (Neil) Armstrong |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $1600: "The most famous mathematician and inventor of Ancient Greece" Archimedes |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $2000: "Pastor and civil rights leader who was Martin Luther King's chief aide and closest associate" Ralph Abernathy |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY $200: Britannica notes that the Canis Major dwarf galaxy "contains only about a billion" of these stars |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | NOTABLE NAMES $1200: This happily married "Rob Roy" author wrote the "Romance" article for the 4th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica Sir Walter Scott |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | OTHER RED, WHITE & BLUE FLAGS $2000: Britannica says the white disc on this landlocked Asian nation's flag, seen here, honors the Japanese Laos |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $600: The 5th-most frequently quoted source is this compendium of knowledge that's been around since 1768 the Encyclopædia Britannica |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | STOP THE PRESSES! $400: In 2012 this encyclopedia announced it was discontinuing its 244-year-old print version & going online only the Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | THEY WROTE FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA $200: Marie Curie's 1926 entry on this element said one could use it to make luminous paints to use in watches radium |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | THEY WROTE FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA $400: Almost half of his 1926 entry on conjuring was about himself, mentioning such tricks as the milk-can escape Houdini |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | THEY WROTE FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA $600: Carl Sagan took on this vast topic, with thoughts on the "intelligent" type "beyond the solar system" life |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | THEY WROTE FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA $800: The article on ventriloquism for the 1958 edition was penned by this man, not Charlie McCarthy (Edgar) Bergen |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | THEY WROTE FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA $1000: Sir Walter Scott wrote that this refers to "the laws, rules and customs by which" knighthood "was governed" chivalry |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | THE OLD BALL GAME $800: The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it "the oldest of equestrian sports", dating to ancient Persia polo |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU $800: This exhaustive reference work first published in 1768 is not British; it has been American-owned for over 100 years the Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | OLD KING COAL $800: Britannica says coal "was the basic energy source that fueled the" this "of the 18th and 19th centuries" the Industrial Revolution |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | THE HILLS ARE ALIVE $400: Encyclopedia Britannica says Wels, Austria is in these lower parts of the Eastern Alps the foothills |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | MEN OF SCIENCE $400: On a scale of 1 to 10, his "Earthquakes" article for the 15th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica was a 10 Richter |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | RULE, BRITANNICA! $400: Encyclopedia Britannica has been U.S.-owned since 1901; in the '20s & '30s, this U.S. mail-order company owned it Sears |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | RULE, BRITANNICA! $800: This now-standard back-of-the-book feature first appeared in the 7th edition of 1830-1842 the (general) index |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | RULE, BRITANNICA! $1200: The 10th edition of 1902 was sponsored by this London newspaper; thanks to a lawsuit, it quit before the 11th The Times of London |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | RULE, BRITANNICA! $2000: The 15th edition of 1974 was the first divided into a "Propaedia" outline of knowledge & these 2 "large" & "small" sections the Macropedia & the Micropedia |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | RULE, BRITANNICA! $4,000 (Daily Double): EB's thistle logo is a reminder that it was first published in this country, one of whose symbols is the thistle Scotland |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | BALLET HIGH $400: Britannica says the high point of classical ballet under the czars came with 19th C. ballets from this composer Tchaikovsky |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Britannica says this animal observed on Feb. 2 is "basically a giant North American ground squirrel" a groundhog |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | WINTER SPORTS $1600: Encyclopedia Britannica calls this sport "a game similar to lawn bowls but played on ice" curling |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | "G"ROCERIES $400: Even the Encyclopedia Britannica says that this bulb was carried in Medieval times as a charm against vampires garlic |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | SHE'S A LADY $400: Britannica calls Lady Augusta Ada, daughter of this rakish 19th c. poet, "the world's first computer programmer" Lord Byron |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | DREAMS OF FIELDS $800: Britannica says this '30s film star was famed "for his distinctive nasal voice... and his fondness for alcohol" W.C. Fields |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | DRAWN-OUT DRAMAS $800: Britannica says, "among his most-celebrated long plays is 'Anna Christie"' Eugene O'Neill |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | THAT'S IN BRITOONICA $200: Britannica notes that his owner Shaggy was "one of the first serial abusers of the word 'like'" Scooby-Doo |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | THAT'S IN BRITOONICA $1000: Britannica calls him "perhaps the most celebrated lagomorph in worldwide popular culture" Bugs Bunny |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | INTERNET FAVORITES $400: Our writers visit search.eb.com, which brings you to the website for this reference work that's been around since 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | DOG CATCHING $400: Suitable encyclopedias include Britannica, Collier's & World Book collie (in Collier's) |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: Britannica says her 1852 novel helped "solidify both pro- and antislavery sentiment" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | JAZZ ODYSSEY $1200: The Encyclopedia Britannica calls this Hot Five bandleader "the first superstar of jazz" Louis Armstrong |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | THEY SHOULD HAVE PLAYED VEGAS $800: Britannica says this WWI spy was "willing to appear virtually nude in public"--can't wait to see her dance in Vegas Mata Hari |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HODGEPODGE $200: Encyclopedia Britannica says this basic shape of roof is used "where the climate is arid" flat |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | MAMMALS $2000: Britannica says that the black type of this beast can charge at 30 mph, & also turns quite quickly if it misses you a rhino(ceros) |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | MUSICAL STYLES $400: Encyclopedia Britannica calls it a "cultural movement" as well as "backing music"
sample hip-hop |
| #5081, aired 2006-10-16 | WHO'S THAT GUERRILLA? $1200: For Encyclopedia Britannica, he wrote a "Guerrilla Warfare" article based on the Arab revolt of 1916-18 Lawrence (of Arabia) |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: Encyclopedia Britannica calls his "The Hunting of the Snark" "nonsense literature of the highest order" Lewis Carroll |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | O' $4,000 (Daily Double): Britannica says that in his time, after Shaw & Shakespeare, this dramatist was the most translated & produced (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | LITERATURE $400: Britannica states that the name "Agora" was first found in the work of this ancient Greek poet Homer |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | GEOGRAPHY $800: Britannica's article on this Sicilian volcano states its name comes from the Greek for "I burn" Etna |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ENCYCLOPEDIA: BROWN $1600: According to Encyclopedia Britannica, his raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause John Brown |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1000: Encyclopedia Britannica says this amphibian was originally an eft, then its name evolved into neft, & finally to this a newt |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | LET'S DANCE! $800: Britannica calls the Milonga, a dance from this South American country, "fast, sensual, and disreputable" Argentina |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | I READ THE ARTICLES, TOO $400: Scottish-born John Muir wrote the 1902 Ency. Britannica article on this valley in the Sierra Nevada of California Yosemite |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | I READ THE ARTICLES, TOO $800: You can't escape the fact that the 1926 Encyclopedia Britannica article on conjuring was done by him Houdini |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In 1790 printing began on Dobson's Encyclopedia, an 18-volume American edition of this British reference work Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | IN OLD ENCYCLOPEDIAS $400: Britannica's third edition (1788) says, "the utility of" this tuber "to the common people is well known" the potato |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | SEA CREATURES $400: Britannica says that the pygmy sperm type of this creature "is of no commercial value" (probably a blessing) a whale |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | LUXEMBOURG $400: Encyclopedia Britannica says this, not French, is the lingua franca of Luxembourg German |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | NANA $2000: Britannica notes that this French author's 1880 work "Nana" is known as "Nana" in its English translation (Emile) Zola |
| #4467, aired 2004-01-27 | COLLECT THE WHOLE SERIES $1,400 (Daily Double): 98 CDs, running over 100 hours, contain Arkangel Productions' versions of all 38 of these the complete plays of Shakespeare |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | KING OF SPAIN $1600: Goya painted Charles III in costume for this sport, to which Britannica says he had a fanatical addiction hunting |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | PARDON MY FRENCHMAN $400: Britannica states that Michel-Louis-Etienne Regnault was the man who talked this emperor into abdicating again Napoleon |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | DOGGY BAG $400: Encyclopaedia Britannica says if raised from a puppy, this wild dog of Australia may become an affectionate pet dingo |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | BRITANNICA $400: Ancient Romans founded this English city as Aquae Sulis, named for its mineral hot springs Bath |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | BRITANNICA $800: This song says, "Send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us" "God Save the Queen" |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | BRITANNICA $1200: Cambridge University dates back to this century; so does the Magna Carta the 13th century |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | BRITANNICA $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in London) After St. Paul's was destroyed by fire in 1666, this man was commissioned to design a new building Sir Christopher Wren |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | BRITANNICA $2000: Running from Charing Cross to Parliament, this street has lent its name to the British civil service Whitehall |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | "E.B." $800: When we put down EB as a source, we mean this reference work that dates back to 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | IRREGULARS $2000: Britannica calls the shape of the constellation Cassiopeia "a slightly irregular" one of these letters a W |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | POETIC LICENSE $400: Britannica suggests that the out-of-wedlock children fathered by this "Good Gray Poet" were imaginary Walt Whitman |
| #4001, aired 2002-01-14 | PETER MARK ROGET $800: Roget was a big contributor to the 7th edition of this Encyclopædia ; the entry on him in the current one is 6 sentences Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $100: Couched in the 13th edition was Britannica's first article on psychoanalysis & it was written by this expert Freud |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $200: As he found the time to write an article in 1926, Britannica found space for it under "space-time" Einstein |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $300: In a 1929 bio on his brother Wilbur, he wrote that in 1890 Wilbur joined him in publishing a newspaper (Orville) Wright |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $400: T.E. Lawrence's article on this type of warfare notes its name is the Spanish diminutive of "war" guerrilla warfare |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $500: In the 13th edition, the article on socialism signed G.B.S. was written by him (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | BRITANNICA $200: If you're awarded one of these, you get to put VC after your name Victoria Cross |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | BRITANNICA $400: This body is the final court of appeals in England the House of Lords |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | BRITANNICA $800: The Welsh village of Portmeirion was made famous from its use in this Patrick McGoohan TV series The Prisoner |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | BRITANNICA $1000: Name of the saint credited with founding Glasgow, it's also the first name of Scottish explorer Park Mungo |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | BRITANNICA $3,600 (Daily Double): Number of Henrys who ruled England between 1000 & 1600 A.D. 8 |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE $200: In 1974 Britannica was split into 2 main parts, Micropedia (ready reference) & this (knowledge in depth) Macropedia |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | "WORLD" DOMINATION $200: The 1999 version of this encyclopedia on CD-ROM includes the San Diego Zoo's Cyber Safari World Book Encyclopedia |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | BRIT BITS & PIECES $1,400 (Daily Double): Reference work conceived in 1857; the As were published in the 1880s & they got the Zs out in 1921 the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED) |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | THE 18th CENTURY $800: The French encyclopedists inspired this publication which first appeared across the Channel in 1768 Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $200: Britannica calls this man born in New Orleans in 1900 "the leading trumpeter in jazz history" Louis Armstrong |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | ARTISTS $800: Encyclopaedia Britannica calls this diminutive Frenchman "The Documenter of Montmartre" Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | ROYALTY $600: Britannica says King Francis I of this country so revered his mother that he knelt when he spoke to her France |
| #1968, aired 1993-03-10 | FAMOUS BAKERS $200: Look up this name in the Encyclopaedia Britannica & it says "see Monroe, Marilyn" Norma Jean Baker |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | DANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Britannica called her "the high priestess of modern dance in the U.S." Martha Graham |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | ENDS ON "OO" $100: According to Britannica,
an experienced Eskimo can build one of these homes in 1 to 2 hours an igloo |
| #1719, aired 1992-02-06 | FILE UNDER "Q" $400: Britannica says this ring toss game was 1 of the 5 in the ancient Greek pentathlon quoits |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $800: Encyclopaedia Britannica called Winston a "gifted amateur" at this hobby painting |
| #1681, aired 1991-12-16 | BALLERINAS $400: Look up "plie" in Britannica & you'll find a photo of Gelsey Kirkland as this Stravinsky bird the Firebird |
| #1680, aired 1991-12-13 | RELIGION $1000: Britannica defines it as "the ancient pre-Islamic religion of Iran" Zoroastrianism |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | CHARLES DICKENS $200: Britannica says Dickens tossed off this holiday story while writing "Martin Chuzzlewit" A Christmas Carol |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | AFRICAN HISTORY $600: Britannica says this tribe had only about 1500 members when Shaka became chief in 1816 Zulu |
| #1538, aired 1991-04-17 | RELIGION $1000: Britannica says this Creed, not the Apostle's, is the only one accepted by all major Christian groups the Nicene Creed |
| #1514, aired 1991-03-14 | ARISTOTLE $100: According to Britannica, Aristotle said the perfect age for this was 37 for men, 18 for women marriage |
| #1456, aired 1990-12-24 | U.S. CITIES $200: Britannica calls this Georgia capital the artistic center of the Southeast Atlanta |
| #1435, aired 1990-11-23 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: This "Man of 1,000 Faces" wrote an Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on makeup Lon Chaney |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | GEMS $500: According to Britannica, this August birthstone is also called precious olivine peridot |
| #1393, aired 1990-09-26 | POT LUCK $100: Britannica calls this the most famous, although not the highest, geyser in North America Old Faithful |
| #1372, aired 1990-07-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: The Encyclopaedia Britannica was founded in 1768 in this Scottish capital Edinburgh |
| #1355, aired 1990-06-22 | BEER $200: This Japanese rice drink is listed under "beer" in both Britannica & Encyclopedia Americana sake |
| #1317, aired 1990-05-01 | LITERARY CLASSICS $1000: Britannica calls this John McCrae poem the only important Canadian verse related to WWI "In Flanders Fields" |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | PLANTS $200: Britannica defines it as "any plant growing where it is not wanted" Weed |
| #1137, aired 1989-07-11 | CATS $100: Encyclopedia Americana says this breed originated in China: Britannica says Thailand Siamese |
| #1101, aired 1989-05-22 | REFERENCE BOOKS $800: Britannica calls this dictionary "the supreme completed achievement in all lexicography" The Oxford English Dictionary |
| #1064, aired 1989-03-30 | STARTS WITH "S" $500 (Daily Double): Ency. Britannica says this is 1 of most frequently recorded pop songs of all time: "Stardust" |
| #1051, aired 1989-03-13 | REFERENCE BOOKS $200: Look up "goober" in the current Encyclopedia Britannica & you're referred to this entry peanuts |
| #943, aired 1988-10-12 | MONARCHS $200: Encyclopaedia Britannica says this 20th century emperor's first name is Michinomiya Emperor Hirohito |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | WEATHER $300: Encyclopaedia Britannica says this has no predictive value; it's just sunlight reflected in rain rainbows |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | PLACE NAMES $800: Britannica says this city got its name from the Greek phrase "Eis ten Polin", meaning "in the city" Istanbul |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | 1974 $400: Encyclopedia Britannica says this "Liberation Army" probably never had more than 11 or 12 members Symbionese Liberation Army |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | WEAPONS $300: In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, this weapons designer falls between poets Elizabeth & Robt. John Browning |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | REFERENCE BOOKS $400: Ben Franklin was one source for the 1st article in Encyclopaedia Britannica on this subject electricity |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | MONA LISA $600: Encyclopedia Britannica says there exist at least a dozen of these copies |
| #760, aired 1987-12-18 | NATIONAL SPORTS $400: Encyclopedia Britannica says it's generally considered England's national summer sport cricket |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | GEOGRAPHIC AKA's $500 (Daily Double): In the current Ency. Americana, Britannica & World Book, Cambodia is found under this heading Kampuchea |
| #739, aired 1987-11-19 | IDAHOANS $200: "Encyclopedia Americana" says this guide of Lewis and Clark lived to about one hundred while the "Britannica" says she died at twenty-six Sacajawea (Bird Woman) |
| #711, aired 1987-10-12 | "M.M." $100: Encyclopaedia Britannica says this star's real name was Norma Jean Mortenson, not Baker Marilyn Monroe |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | FIRSTS $1000: Originally only 3 volumes, this reference work was 1st published in Edinburgh in 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | WARS $1000: Ency. Britannica calls this Kurdish opponent of the crusaders "the most famous of Muslim heroes" Saladin |
| #669, aired 1987-07-02 | WEATHER $200: According to Encyclopedia Britannica, its sounds can be described as peals, rolls, rumbles & claps thunder |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA $600: Started in 1768, its original subtitle was "A Dictionary of Arts & Sciences Compiled on a New Plan" Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #511, aired 1986-11-24 | GEOGRAPHY $800: According to the Britannica, geographic distinction of the city of Ushuaia, Argentina southernmost city in the world |
| #440, aired 1986-05-16 | REFERENCE BOOKS $200: It's the oldest & largest English language general encyclopedia, & its entry on itself says so Britannica |
| #429, aired 1986-05-01 | 1956 $100: Ency. Britannica called his recording of "Blue Suede Shoes" a "rhythmic monstrosity" Elvis |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | 1958 $500: Encyclopedia Britannica said much of this represented "some form of... illiterate savage noise" rock & roll |
| #359, aired 1986-01-23 | 1959 $200: Britannica said this kind of music "reached a new low of illiteracy, vulgarity, & dullness" rock and roll |
