#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | ALLITERATION $2000: In the 10th century Arab mathematician Abul-Wafa wrote about these, saying they're needed by businessmen who go into debt negative numbers |
#8351, aired 2021-03-08 | THE BOURGEOISIE $400: This French word for "small" is used of small businessmen, civil servants & others aspiring to be haut-bourgeois petite |
#7889, aired 2018-12-20 | RECENT EVENTS $400: In support of its fellow businessmen, Country Time brand paid fines kids got running unlicensed these stands lemonade |
#7463, aired 2017-02-08 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $400: In 1873 this Prussian-American founded a brewery on the banks of Clear Creek in Colorado Coors |
#7463, aired 2017-02-08 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $800: He incorporated his San Francisco company in 1890, the same year his XX waist overalls were given the lot number 501 Levi Strauss |
#7463, aired 2017-02-08 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $1200: This banker preferred to be called by his middle name, Pierpont, which was his mother's maiden name J.P. Morgan |
#7463, aired 2017-02-08 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $2000: When cigarette makers formed the American Tobacco Company in 1890, this North Carolinian became its first president James Buchanan Duke |
#7463, aired 2017-02-08 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): After selling his fur business in 1834, he devoted himself to real estate, building the world's biggest hotel in NYC John Jacob Astor |
#7287, aired 2016-04-26 | MY COUNTRY $600: Businessmen Henri Nestle & Antoine de Patek & Adrien Philippe Switzerland |
#7247, aired 2016-03-01 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: (Hi, I'm Zachary Quinto.) I studied drama at this Pittsburgh university named for 2 businessmen, the first U.S. college to grant degrees in drama Carnegie Mellon |
#7131, aired 2015-09-21 | MONTANA $400: In November 1908 this organization of Christian businessmen placed their first bibles in a Montana hotel Gideon |
#6555, aired 2013-03-01 | WINGS $400: Missouri businessmen financed Charles LIndbergh, allowing him to buy this plane in which he made history The Spirit of St. Louis |
#6209, aired 2011-09-22 | DO YOU LIKE RUSSIAN HISTORY? $1200: Privatization in the 1990s gave power to the wealthy businessmen called these, from a term for government by the few oligarchs |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $200: In 1873 this dry goods salesman began selling his double X blue denim waist overalls (Levi) Strauss |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $400: By the time this Cleveland businessman retired in 1896, his company owned 3/4 of the USA's oil business (John D.) Rockefeller |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $600: In 1873 he bought an abandoned tannery on the banks of Clear Creek in Golden, Colo. & converted it into a brewery (Adolph) Coors |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $800: In 1898 Charles Seiberling borrowed $3,500 to start this company in Akron to produce bicycle & carriage tires Goodyear |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1873 he founded the J. Edgar Thomson works near Pittsburgh, naming the steel mill for the Penn. railroad president Carnegie |
#5509, aired 2008-07-17 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: In 1241 Hamburg & Lubeck businessmen formed an association that grew into this big league the Hanseatic League |
#5279, aired 2007-07-19 | BE A SPORT $2000: In 1895 at a YMCA, this indoor sport was developed for businessmen who found basketball too vigorous volleyball |
#4744, aired 2005-03-31 | EVERYDAY ITEMS $800: Businessmen in London's "The City" carry rolled-up black ones of these, also called bumbershoots umbrellas |
#4668, aired 2004-12-15 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $200: In 1792 the NYSE was established when businessmen came to an agreement under a buttonwood tree on this street Wall Street |
#4560, aired 2004-06-04 | BUSINESSMEN $200: His partnership with Alvah Roebuck began when he placed a classified ad looking for a watchmaker (Richard) Sears |
#4560, aired 2004-06-04 | BUSINESSMEN $400: On Business Week's 2003 list of the 50 most generous philanthropists, he & wife Melinda ranked first Bill Gates |
#4560, aired 2004-06-04 | BUSINESSMEN $600: In the 1890s he stopped selling baking powder to concentrate on a freebie he'd been giving away--chewing gum! (William) Wrigley |
#4560, aired 2004-06-04 | BUSINESSMEN $800: Jeff Bezos, CEO of this giant online retailer, was Time's Person of the Year for 1999 Amazon.com |
#4560, aired 2004-06-04 | BUSINESSMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1913 he spent some of those nickels & dimes to build in NYC what was then the world's tallest building Woolworth |
#4525, aired 2004-04-16 | CARRY ON $1200: Businessmen carry these, though their name suggests they're specially designed for lawyers briefcases |
#4054, aired 2002-03-28 | GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER $1000: Until the 1914 Clayton one of these acts, businessmen could create monopolies by buying stock in competing firms antitrust |
#3919, aired 2001-09-20 | FAMILIAR EXPRESSIONS $300: Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase "captains of" this to mean powerful businessmen industry |
#3768, aired 2001-01-10 | "OLD" ENGLAND $500: They're worn by businessmen who want to be recognizable to their former classmates The old school tie |
#3593, aired 2000-03-29 | NURSERY RHYME HEADLINES $100: These "3 Knavish Businessmen Discovered Together in Tub" The butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker |
#3550, aired 2000-01-28 | MIND YOUR BUSINESS $200: Turn-of-the-century businessmen like Vanderbilt & Rockefeller were known as "robber" these Barons |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | BUSINESSMEN $200: In the 1920s businessman Marcus Loew combined 3 movie production companies to form this one MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | BUSINESSMEN $400: His first mail order catalog in 1872 was 1 page thick Montgomery Ward |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | BUSINESSMEN $600: In 1983 he sold his discount brokerage company to Bankamerica & in 1987 he bought it back again Charles Schwab |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | BUSINESSMEN $800: At age 19 in 1984 he founded PCs Limited, selling souped-up IBMs from his dorm room Michael Dell |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | BUSINESSMEN $1000: The Mirage was the first resort venture he built in Las Vegas; Treasure Island, his second Steve Wynn |
#3136, aired 1998-03-30 | CLOTHES MAKE THE PERSON $200: Working men wear blue ones, businessmen wear white ones & clergymen wear reversed ones collars |
#3024, aired 1997-10-23 | INSURRECTIONS $400: Robert Wilcox led a revolt against the 1887 "Bayonet Constitution" U.S. businessmen forced on these islands Hawaii |
#2952, aired 1997-06-03 | WORD ORIGINS $800: In the late 1880s Americans borrowed this title for powerful businessmen from Japanese shoguns tycoons |
#2706, aired 1996-05-13 | THE 17th CENTURY $200: In 1637 hundreds of businessmen were ruined when the market for these Dutch flowers collapsed tulips |
#1853, aired 1992-09-30 | AVIATION $200: Businessmen of this city put up the money to make Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight possible St. Louis |
#1534, aired 1991-04-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: This Pittsburgh University, named for 2 businessmen, was the first college in the world to grant degrees in drama Carnegie Mellon |
#1317, aired 1990-05-01 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN $200: Accoridng to Forbes Magazine, Steven Spielberg made $70 million or so on this one videotape "E.T." |
#1317, aired 1990-05-01 | 1980 $400: FBI agents posed as foreign businessmen in this investigation that implicated 8 congressmen ABSCAM |
#1317, aired 1990-05-01 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN $600: The 8 richest people in Delaware all belong to this family DuPont |
#1317, aired 1990-05-01 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN $800: In 1887 this man replaced Levi Abt as a partner with Max & Harry Hart & Marcus Marx Joseph Schaffner |
#1317, aired 1990-05-01 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN $1000: In 1963 this Texas hobby store chain owner bought the Boston-based Radio Shack chain Charles Tandy |
#1124, aired 1989-06-22 | MEDIUM & MESSAGE $1000: Dale Carnegie taught this & wrote a text on it for businessmen in 1926 public speaking |
#719, aired 1987-10-22 | FAMOUS QUOTES $800: Defense Sec'y Charles Wilson's 1953 quote: "I thought what was good for the country was good for" them General Motors |
#429, aired 1986-05-01 | MONEY $300: Most businessmen prefer to do risky deals with OPM, meaning this other people's money |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | BUSINESSMEN $100: Hollywood make-up man who introduced false eyelashes in 1919, lip gloss in 1930 & pan-cake in 1937 Max Factor |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | BUSINESSMEN $200: Soapmaker & his German son-in-law who took over a failing St. Louis brewery in 1860 Anheuser & Busch |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | BUSINESSMEN $300: Born in England in 1808, he originated the idea of arranged tours & travel agencies Thomas Cook |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | BUSINESSMEN $400: Former ambassador to the Court of St. James, he founded TV Guide Annenberg |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | BUSINESSMEN $500: In order to buy TV stations from Metromedia, Inc., this Aussie became a U.S. citizen Rupert Murdoch |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | MISSOURI $200: Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic was financed by businessmen from this city St. Louis |