| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This mystical form of Islam began c. 800 in part with a woman from Basra who introduced a new concept of the love of Allah Sufism |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $1000: On Sept. 2, 44 B.C. you could take in the first of his 14 Philippic orations; he sure did love to orate, until it got him executed Cicero |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WHAT IS LOVE... $1600: His "Symposium" from around 360 B.C. states, "Love is the eldest & noblest & mightiest of the gods" Plato |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $800: Begun in 1938, his D.C. memorial is in the Roman style, in keeping with his love of classical architecture (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king Alexander the Great |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: This Roman poet's "Art of Love" from around 1 B.C. is a hedonistic seduction manual still useful today Ovid |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $400: We love Dirk Taubert, M.D. & the other researchers who've reported in medical journals on the benefits of this sweet dark chocolate |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | I LOVE THE CORE $2000: Inspired by Gandhi, James Farmer created C.O.R.E., the "congress of" this racial equality |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | GHOST-POURRI $1200: The ghost of this 19th c. Louisiana pirate is said to sail Galveston Bay searching for a lost love who fell overboard (Jean) Lafitte |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | SCIENCE "C" STUFF $2000: (Alex Trebek stands by railroad tracks.) I love the smell of this in the morning; it's a distillation of coal & wood tar, & for years & years, it has been the main preservative for wooden railroad ties (don't say napalm) creosote |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | I LOVE METAL $200: Vitamin C helps increase your absorption of this element, Fe, so drink some OJ with your eggs & toast iron |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $400: "How do I love thee?"
L.M.C.T.W. Let me count the ways |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | JOHNNY GILBERT RAPS & ROCKS ON $1600: "C'mon, take a bottle, shake it up, break the bubble, break it up, pour some sugar on me, in the name of love" Def Leppard |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | LOVE & MARRIAGE $800: Sort of the Sanskrit "Joy of Sex", this classic Indian love manual dates back to the 4th century B.C. the Kama Sutra |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | THE POETRY OF LOVE $1000: "Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love", wrote this epic poet around 39 B.C. in ancient Rome Virgil |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | SESAME STREET EATS $200: (Alex chats with Elmo on Sesame Street.)
"Elmo, did you know that kiwis are an excellent source of vitamin C, which is also known as this acid?"
"Well, Elmo love kiwis!"
"Good!" ascorbic acid |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | -ISMs $600: Said to Fan Chi around 500 B.C., "Love men" is a basic tenet of this philosophy Confucianism |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | MUSIC IN "C" $1600: Oh baby, it's the 1990 hit heard here
"It burned like a ball of fire /
When the rebel took a little child bride /
To tease yeah /
So go easy yeah" "Cradle Of Love" |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | B.C. PEOPLE $200: At the Academy, Plato nicknamed this student "The Reader" because of his love of books Aristotle |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $800: "Of Love and Shadows",
"The House of the Spirits" Isabel Allende |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | THE KIDS LOVE THAT ROCK & ROLL $200: Of King Ad Rock, Thugmuffin C, MCA or Mike D, the one who's not a member of the Beastie Boys Thugmuffin C |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | "C" OF LOVE $100: The title of a 1958 Connie Francis song calls this love god "stupid" Cupid |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | "C" OF LOVE $200: If you didn't show up for a blind date, you have these kind of "feet" cold feet |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | "C" OF LOVE $300: From an old word for "cape", it's an older person who, for propriety's sake, accompanies young unmarrieds a chaperone |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | "C" OF LOVE $400: The youngest daughter of King Lear; the only one who really loved him Cordelia |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | "C" OF LOVE $500: Italian for "with love", it's the musical direction to play or sing lovingly con amore |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | SILLY SONGS $500: Where K-K-K-Katy will be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door |
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