| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $800: (Andrew Dymburt delivers the clue.) At a little before 2:00 AM on June 17, 1972, sharp-eyed security guard Frank Wills noticed tape across a door latch in this Washington, D.C. office complex, changing the course of American history Watergate |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 19th c. New York politics, a repeater was a man hired to do this several times in a day, shaving to change his identity vote |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $2000: Known as the "Pathfinder", this soldier-explorer mapped most of the Oregon Trail in the 1840s with Kit Carson John C. Frémont |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1960 at a segregated lunch counter in N.C., 4 African-American students staged one of these immobile protests a sit-in |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1832 S.C. passed "an ordinance to" do this, void certain federal laws; Pres. Jackson said it's your ordinance that's void! nullify or nullification |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) In the 1960s, the rocket-powered North American X-15 went higher and faster than any other aircraft in history with eight pilots who flew it to the fringes of space earning designation as these astronauts |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track & field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority Jesse Owens |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier & became the first African-American to win the French & U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 & 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event Wimbledon |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Argubably "The Greatest" inside the ring & out, Muhammed Ali first won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston in 1964; in the next few days, publicly adopting Islam, he changed from this & became an example of Black pride & defiance of the establishment Cassius Clay |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Say hey! This was used in the 1965 All Star Game by this Giant center fielder; in a 2016 85th birthday message, President Obama called him the greatest living ballplayer Willie Mays |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | FBI HEADQUARTERS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) This phone and wiretapping device help set off one of the most notorious episodes in American history in the early morning hours of June 17, 1972 when five burglars were arrested in this Washington, D.C. hotel and office complex the Watergate |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This man's 1825 inaugural address had to compete with a traveling circus performing in D.C. (John) Quincy Adams |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 1963 Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech at this Washington, D.C. landmark the Lincoln Memorial |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Brother to "The Prophet", this Shawnee leader organized 18th c. Native American resistance in Ohio & Indiana Tecumseh |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The first Atlantic-crossing ship built in what's now the U.S. took French settlers home from this S.C. island now used by the Marines Parris Island |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $200: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop cotton |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $600: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayed here likely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831 Nat Turner |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is a railroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s Jim Crow laws |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) On Easter in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes & sang "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial Marian Anderson |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) At the gift shop, you can pick up a kinara, a candleholder that represents African roots; it'll hold candles in the symbolic colors of black for the people, red for their struggle & green for hope, all to help you celebrate this late December holiday Kwanzaa |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia Monticello |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among Harriet Tubman's most treasured possessions was a lace shawl she received in recognition of her heroic efforts from this woman, who was celebrating her diamond jubilee Queen Victoria |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) "Our feet are tired, but our souls are rested", said Martin Luther King, & then soaked his feet in the bucket on display here after leading thousands on a 5-day, 54-mile freedom march from Selma to the steps of the Capitol in this city Montgomery |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence" Malcolm X |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | "C-U" $200: It's a person in charge of a museum collection; Margaret Mead was one at the American Museum of Natural History a curator |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Washington, D.C. guest house of U.S. Presidents was named for an advisor to Andrew Jackson & built in 1824 Blair House |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | IN THE D.C. AREA $1,600 (Daily Double): The Bill of Rights & the Constitution are on display there the National Archives |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Beginning in 1867 school was in session for what is now Morehouse College & this university in Washington, D.C. Howard University |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the Nat'l Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The museum has one of the original stuffed animals named for this president & avid hunter, after a story spread about him letting a bear go; although, in reality, all he did was refuse to shoot the bear when it was wounded Theodore Roosevelt |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $200: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson designed this small portable desk; he used it for decades & then attached a note to it saying it might someday be of value because this important national document had been composed on it the Declaration of Independence |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The first transcontinental car trip was made by Horatio Nelson Jackson in this 1903 Winton at a time when America had few roads & little support for cars, so, whenever he had a breakdown & needed repairs, he would often have to rely on these workers that the automobile would soon put out of business blacksmiths |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later Woolworth's |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) I'm with one of the earliest locomotives of the U.S. railroad system--it looks like it could still run, doesn't it?--& it actually did in 1981 as it celebrated its 150th birthday; it was built in England, & it is named for this symbolic Englishman John Bull |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) Old 091 here took part in Operation Cedar Falls in January 1967, the largest offensive of the Vietnam War up to that point; she's a Bell UH-1, the workhorse helicopter of the war, known affectionately by this nickname a Huey |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Chilly period of international relations from the mid-1940s to 1991 the Cold War |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: When it was founded as King's College in 1754, classes were held in a little schoolhouse in Lower Manhattan Columbia University |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1614 John Smith came to New England & got rich taking thousands of these fish to sell in Old England cod |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A scout for John C. Fremont's expeditions west, he later became a federal Indian agent in New Mexico (Kit) Carson |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | "C" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1856 a storm felled this Connecticut tree in which the colony's document of rights was held 169 years earlier the Charter Oak |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: (Alex gives us the clue from the stage of the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.) I'm on the set of a Sherman Edwards musical set in this very significant year in American history 1776 |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Financial vultures beware! In 2012 "Jeopardy!" champ Richard Cordray became 1st head of the CFPB, helping these "C"s consumers |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | THE RIVER OF HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) Depicted here is the historic moment when American & Russian forces met on April 25th, 1945, at Torgau, Germany, on this river the Elbe |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands with a grey uniform on a mannequin at the American Red Cross.) Named for their dresses, gray lady volunteers provided hospitality services, especially to sick & wounded soldiers beginning in 1918 at this Washington, D.C. hospital Walter Reed |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES $400: (Alex reports from the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) American history might have been very different if this future country had agreed to the offer of statehood contained in Article XI of the Articles of Confederation Canada |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This Indian civilization, probably the first in the Americas, lived in eastern Mexico from about 1200 to 400 B.C. the Olmec(s) |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | SEX IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Some New Yorkers c. 1910 wanted the Bunny Hug & Slow Rag, types of these, banned as dangerous to morals dances |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1957 it became the USA's first major city with a black majority Washington, D.C. |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: In 1844 John C. Fremont crossed the Sierra Nevada & this John C. became Secretary of State John C. Calhoun |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | "C" IN HISTORY $600: A civil war known as The War of a Thousand Days broke out in this South American country in 1899 Colombia |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In June 1967 LBJ met with this Soviet premier in Glassboro, N.J. to discuss world problems Alexei Kosygin |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The framework for this was worked out in 1944 at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in Washington, D.C. the United Nations |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This Indian civilization developed in what is now Guatemala circa 300 B.C. the Mayas |
| #914, aired 1988-07-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: John C. Calhoun & Spiro Agnew are the only men in U.S. history to have done this resign from the vice presidency |
| #603, aired 1987-04-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: City to which Martin Luther King Jr. marched with over 25,000 people in March 1965 Montgomery, Alabama |
| #381, aired 1986-02-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This 20th century president is the only president buried in Washington, D.C. proper Woodrow Wilson |
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