| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $2000: This British naval captain "Endeavour"ed to sail around the Horn--& did in 1769 Cook |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHY $600: The highest peak in New Zealand is this 12,200-foot mount named for an 18th century sea captain Mount Cook |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $800: Including Palmerston & Pukapuka, this vast expanse of islands was named after a British captain who visited in 1773 (the) Cook (Islands) |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands Abel Tasman |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $600: Steep cliffs line the shores of both the N. & S. Islands of New Zealand separated by this strait named for a British captain (the) Cook (Strait) |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $800: An 18th century British captain gave his name to these South Pacific islands, now a popular tourist destination the Cook Islands |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ON A HOLIDAY $800: This English explorer got stabbed in Hawaii on Valentine's Day 1779 (Captain James) Cook |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | HISTORY PAINTINGS $2000: Britain's National Maritime Museum has a painting showing this captain's 1779 death at the hands of Hawaiians (James) Cook |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | FEB BE WARY $800: This sea captain should have been warier in February 1779; he was killed by locals after a kerfuffle at Kealakekua Bay Cook |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | ISLAND FOLK $1200: Tupaia was a Polynesian who guided Captain Cook as a star one of these, meaning he used the stars a navigator |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | BRITS IN BOATS $400: After being cast adrift by the rebellious crew of the Bounty, this captain & his men eventually made it to Indonesia Captain Bligh |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | ANTARCTICA $1200: In 1773 this British captain crossed the Antarctic Circle; icepack kept his ship from reaching the continent Cook |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | À LA CARTOGRAPHY $1600: It's a general term for maps used by ocean navigators; there's a book of these "& Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages" charts |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $800: Captain Cook brought this forbidding word into English from the south seas taboo |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $800: On landing in the Hawaiian islands, Captain Cook named them this, after an earl the Sandwich Islands |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) On his last voyage to search for the Northwest Passage, this captain discovered the Hawaiian Islands Cook |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY $200: This British captain sighted New Zealand in 1769 & accurately charted its coast Captain Cook |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $800: Valentine's Day in Hawaii sounds perfect for most, but in 1779, this captain was killed in a dispute over a stolen cutter Captain Cook |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | MAN OF THE CENTURY $400: Captain James Cook explored then the 18th century |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | EXPLORERS $1200: In 1770 this British captain's ship the Endeavour almost sank when it got stuck on the Great Barrier Reef Cook |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | AIRLINES $400: In 2016 this airline transported a relic:
a feathered cloak & helmet given to Captain James Cook 237 years before Hawaiian Airlines |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 1776 $400: In 1776 he captained the Resolution in search of the NW Passage but later should not have taken a Hawaiian vacation Captain Cook |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CAPTAIN $200: In 1770 he sailed through a body of water Tasman thought was a bay & showed that New Zealand is made up of 2 large islands (Captain) Cook |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | ARCHIPELAGOS $1200: You might say that Manihiki in this group named for a British sea captain has the blessing of the black pearls the Cook Islands |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | THE 18th CENTURY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Easter Island.) When Captain Cook reached Easter Island in 1774, he found many of the great statues toppled & the Polynesian population decimated by this type of localized conflict a civil war |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | NEW ZEALAND $800: New Zealand's 5-dollar note features a penguin on the back & this explorer on the front Sir Edmund Hillary |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | THIRD $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) His third voyage went around the Cape of Good Hope, past Australia & New Zealand, up to Vancouver island, then the Bering Sea, & the final stop for this captain was in Hawaii in 1779 Cook |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | FICTIONAL CAPTAINS $1,400 (Daily Double): He relieves Captain De Vriess of his duty in "the Caine Mutiny" Captain Queeg |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | RED-LETTER DAY $2000: On April 29, 1770 Captain James Cook arrived at this bay in present-day Sydney, Australia, naming it Sting-Ray Harbour Botany Bay |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GETTING OFF THE GROUND $1600: (Hi, I'm Mark Kelly.) In 2011 I commanded the final mission of this space shuttle named for the ship commanded by Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery in the Pacific the Endeavour |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | HUMAN ENDEAVOR $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the California Science Center in Los Angeles.) The Space Shuttle Endeavour is 122 feet long and 78 feet wide, more than 20 feet longer & 50 feet wider than its 18th-century namesake commanded by this intrepid Englishman (Captain) Cook |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $1600: In 1936, 47 years after his death, his body was moved from Molokai to Leuven, Belgium Father Damien |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | MAUI? WOWIE! $1600: Europeans first set foot on Maui in 1786; this Englishman sighted it in 1778 but couldn't find a landing spot (Captain) Cook |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | TRAVEL BOOKS $400: In "Blue Latitudes", Tony Horwitz sailed on a replica of this English captain's ship to retrace his Pacific travels (Captain) Cook |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $8,000 (Daily Double): In January 1770 this explorer wrote, "Natives brought... the heads of the men they had lately kill'd" Captain Cook |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | POLYNESIA $400: In 1774 this British captain wrote in his journal that the Marquesans were "the finest race of people in this sea" Captain Cook |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | MADEIRA $1000: When this captain's ship Endeavour stopped at Madeira, naturalist Joseph Banks explored the unique flora Captain Cook |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | IN A BIG COUNTY $800: This Illinois county of more than 5 million people is named for a pioneer lawyer, not a sea captain Cook County |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: To combat scurvy on his voyages, Captain Cook used this briny shredded cabbage as well as lime juice sauerkraut |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $400: Cook was 26 when he joined the navy; he'd spent the previous years mainly ferrying this fuel around the North Sea coal |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $1200: Cook's first visit to Australia was tagged onto a voyage to this South Seas island later visited by Captain Bligh Tahiti |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $1,600 (Daily Double): Young Cook's charts of this river's estuary were vital to the British victory at Quebec in 1759 the St. Lawrence |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $1600: On Jan. 17, 1773 Cook & crew became the first people to cross this geographic circle the Antarctic Circle |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | CAPTAIN COOK $2000: In 1770, Cook made the map seen here, using "Ea Hei Nom Auwe" & "Toai Poonamo O" where atlases now use these two names the North and South Islands |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from about the National Geographic Explorer.) Today we're crossing 66 degrees, 33 minutes south latitude; it was 250 years ago that Captain Cook was the first to cross this same borderline the Antarctic Circle |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a boomerang at the Australian Museum.) Boomerangs often feature designs that reflect aboriginal culture & history; on the one I'm holding, the warriors, body of water & ship represent this man's landing at Botany Bay Captain Cook |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $400: William Hodges, official artist to this captain & explorer, painted "Tahitian War Canoes" in 1774 (Captain) Cook |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $800: As Shakespeare was the Sweet this bird of Avon, Anna "Elegy on Captain Cook" Seward was this bird of Lichfield Swan |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | IT HAPPENED ON CHRISTMAS EVE $600: Christmas Island in the Pacific gets its name from its Christmas Eve 1777 discovery by this British explorer (Captain) Cook |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | EXPLORATION $1000: In 1769 this British captain charted the coast of Tahiti & then set sail for New Zealand Captain Cook |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $1000: In the 1770s he & his crew became the first Europeans known to have visited Hawaii--didn't end well, though Captain Cook |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: The Society Islands in French Polynesia got their name from a visit by Captain Cook & this society the Royal Society of London |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | OF THE SEA & SHIPS $800: Apollo 15's command module was named in honor of this ship commanded by captain James Cook the Endeavour |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | BLIGH ME, CAPTAIN! $800: Young Lieutenant Bligh sailed with Captain Cook but was no help when Cook died in what is today this state Hawaii |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | THE 1700s $1600: The painting seen here depicts this newsworthy fatality of 1779 Captain Cook |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | SURF'S UP $1200: This English sea captain & his crew discovered the natives surfing in Hawaii in the 1770s (James) Cook |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | EXPLORATION $800: William Bligh served as master of the HMS Resolution during this captain's third voyage to the Pacific Captain Cook |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | EXPLORATION $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1769 this Brit found Tahiti by sailing west until he ran into it (Captain) Cook |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | COLORFUL CHARACTERS $400: Also called the sea cook, he leads mutineers against Captain Smollet on board the Hispaniola Long John Silver |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | DISCOVERY $400: Discovery is named for 2 ships, one sailed by Henry Hudson & one sailed by this man when he discovered Hawaii Captain James Cook |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | STATE FLAGS $1,600 (Daily Double): It's the only U.S. state whose flag includes the Union Jack Hawaii |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | REVISED CANTERBURY TALES $800: Woe unto the decision to take a Hawaiian chief hostage in 1779; this naval legend was slain Captain Cook |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | THE 18th CENTURY WORLD $800: Gisborne on Poverty Bay was the site of this Britsh explorer's first landing in New Zealand in 1769 (Captain) Cook |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION $800: In January 1773 this British sea captain crossed the Antarctic Circle but never sighted land Captain Cook |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | THE GREAT & NEAR-GREAT $1200: In 1792 this British captain finally managed to bring breadfruit to the Americas Bligh |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $1600: (Jeff Probst reads the clue.) In 1774, Captain James Cook charted the islands that now compose Vanuatu & named them this for an island group off Scotland the New Hebrides |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | AROUND THE HORN $2000: This British naval captain "Endeavour"ed to sail around the Horn--& did in 1769 Cook |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1000: Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific Captain Cook |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | THE FOUR-LEGGED ZOO $1,400 (Daily Double): One of these long-lived animals that died in 1966 was reportedly given to the King of Tonga by Captain Cook a tortoise |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | CAPTAIN O' THE SHIP $800: Looking for a NW Passage, sandwiched between a rock & a Hawaiian hard place:
The Resolution (Captain) Cook |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | JAMES $800: This captain set out on his third voyage in 1776, one from which he'd never return James Cook |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | THE SAILOR MAN $1600: On April 20, 1770 he reached the unexplored east coast of Australia, naming it New South Wales (Captain) Cook |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | PEAKING AT NAMES $800: The highest peak in this island nation bears the name of Captain James Cook New Zealand |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | SHOW ME THE WAY $1600: After Britain took his ship The Half Moon, he should have quit; but no, he got The Discovery & sailed off to his death Henry Hudson |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | HISTORIC MOMENTS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew strolls the shores of Waimea Bay, Kauai.) When this man arrived here on Kauai in the late 1770s, he was welcomed as the harvest god Lono Captain Cook |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | LOGICAL GEOGRAPHIC NAMES $800: Captain Cook stayed on this island, later used for nuclear testing, December 25, 1777 Christmas Island |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | MUSEUMS $400: Built as a convent school, an Australian museum honoring this British sea captain has his cannon & anchor on display Captain James Cook |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $800: In 1901 N.Z. annexed these Pacific islands named for a British sea captain; Rarotonga is the largest of the group Cook Islands |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | MARINERS $400: William Bligh was the master of the Resolution during this captain's third Pacific expedition Captain James Cook |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | HAWAII $800: In the 1790s, cattle were brought to Hawaii by George Vancouver who served under this discoverer of the islands Captain James Cook |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | VOYAGER $400: In 1774 this English captain reached 71 deg., 10 min. south latitude -- the most southerly point then achieved Captain Cook |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | CAPES $1000: Knowing that Captain Cook named this cape on Washington's strait of Juan de Fuca "will get you nowhere" Cape Flattery |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $600: William Hodges journeyed to the south Pacific as an artist to this captain & painted the portrait of him seen here Captain James Cook |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | EXPLORATION $200: When Captain Cook left England in July 1776, this future Bounty captain was master of his ship the Resolution Captain William Bligh |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | EXPLORERS $1,500 (Daily Double): This captain discovered the Great Barrier Reef the hard way, by running the Endeavour onto it Captain James Cook |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: NASA honored this English navigator by naming the Endeavour & Discovery shuttles after his ships Captain James Cook |
| #3686, aired 2000-09-18 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: Landing at Kauai in 1778, this captain named the area after the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Sandwich Captain James Cook |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | REALLY BAD DATES $500: This captain was killed in a skirmish with natives at Kealakekua Bay on Feb. 14, 1779 Captain James Cook |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | THE MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA $400: Captain Cook "rounded" it with little difficulty in early 1769 Cape Horn |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $200: This explorer's January 20, 1778 landing site in Hawaii is an historic landmark Captain James Cook |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | MOUNTAINS $800: Named for a famed English sea captain, this New Zealand peak is called Aorangi by the Maoris Mount Cook |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | AS THE WORLD TURNS $400: This inlet of the Tasman Sea was the site of Captain Cook's first landing in Australia Botany Bay |
| #3403, aired 1999-05-26 | WORLD HISTORY $500: This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands Vasco da Gama |
| #3401, aired 1999-05-24 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300: The first Englishman to sail around the world, he later served in the British Parliament Sir Francis Drake |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | FOREVER 39 $600: In 1768 at age 39 this captain left England on his first voyage to the South Seas James Cook |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | HISTORIC NAMES $1,200 (Daily Double): In the 1770s this British sea captain received the Copley Medal for his efforts in preventing scurvy James Cook |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | FANTASTIC VOYAGES $900 (Daily Double): Set adrift in a 1789 mutiny, he & 18 men sailed in an open boat over 3,500 miles across the Pacific to Timor William Bligh |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | RESOLUTIONS $400: In July 1772 he commanded the Resolution on a voyage to the South Pacific in search of Terra Australis (Captain) Cook |
| #3236, aired 1998-10-05 | THE 18th CENTURY $400: George Vancouver once went to the bow of this captain's ship to be the man the farthest south in the world Captain James Cook |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | DOWN UNDER $400: This now popular tourist attraction almost wrecked the Endeavour, Captain Cook's ship the Great Barrier Reef |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | WHERE THE "H" ARE WE? $100: Parker Ranch,
Kilauea Volcano,
Monument to Captain Cook Hawaii |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In the 1770s this British sea captain circled Antarctica but ice packs kept him from sighting land James Cook |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | THE 18th CENTURY $1000: As a navigator, this future Pacific explorer helped capture Quebec in 1759 Captain James Cook |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | DIBS! $400: The Dutch had already sighted Australia, & Aborigines lived there, when he claimed it for England in 1770 Captain James Cook |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | EXPLORERS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1770 this British sea captain nearly wrecked the Endeavour on the Great Barrier Reef Captain James Cook |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | EXPLORERS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1769 he & the crew of the Endeavour built Fort Venus on Matavai Bay in Tahiti Sir James Cook (Captain Cook) |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | HOTELS, MOTELS & INNS $500: The Hotel Captain Cook covers a city block in this Alaskan city on Cook Inlet Anchorage |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | WORLD EXPLORATION $300: His ship the Endeavor was a coal ship refitted to explore the South Pacific 1768-1771 (Captain) Cook |
| #2761, aired 1996-09-09 | HISTORY $100: When this British sea captain first reached Botany Bay in 1770, he named it Stingray Bay Cook |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | MAN-MADE LAKES $400: Lake Burley Griffin in this Australian capital contains the Captain Cook Memorial Water Jet Canberra |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | EXPLORERS $400: His third expedition continued under Charles Clerke after he was killed in Hawaii in 1779 (Captain) Cook |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | HISTORY $400: A skirmish over the theft of one of the Discovery's boats led to this explorer's murder in 1779 Captain James Cook |
| #2662, aired 1996-03-12 | BAYS $800: A monument on the shores of this bay commemorates Captain Cook's first landing in Australia Botany Bay |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | HISTORY $200: In 1770, during the first of his 3 Pacific voyages, he discovered a passage between Australia & New Guinea Captain Cook |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | EXPLORERS $600: William Bligh sailed with this explorer on his second voyage around the world Captain James Cook |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | HISTORIC NAMES $300: This British explorer left on his third & final voyage in July 1776 (Captain) Cook |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | MALAYO- POLYNESIAN WORDS $200: Captain Cook brought back this word for "forbidden" from the South Pacific taboo |
| #2404, aired 1995-02-02 | EXPLORERS $800: John Montagu, the Earl of this, was First Lord of the Admiralty during Captain Cook's last voyage Sandwich |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | FEBRUARY $400: Hawaii signed a treaty of annexation to the U.S. Feb. 14, 1893, the 114th anniv. of this explorer's death Captain Cook |
| #2305, aired 1994-09-16 | EXPLORERS $400: Before exploring the South Pacific, this British captain charted the St. Lawrence River in 1759 (Captain) Cook |
| #2259, aired 1994-06-02 | EXPLORERS $200: 7 years after serving as Captain Cook's sailing master, he took command of the Bounty Capt. Bligh |
| #2194, aired 1994-03-03 | AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $700 (Daily Double): In 1770 Captain Cook reached the east coast of Australia & gave it this name New South Wales |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: On Valentine's Day 1779, this English explorer was killed by natives in a struggle over a boat Captain Cook |
| #2078, aired 1993-09-22 | HISTORY $600: By sailing through it in 1770 this British captain proved a strait separated Australia from New Guinea Cook |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | COINS $600: In 1928 a Hawaiian sesquicentennial coin was issued with this explorer on the obverse Captain Cook |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | EXPLORATION $600: In 1769 & 1770 this British seaman charted New Zealand's North & South Islands (Captain) Cook |
| #2001, aired 1993-04-26 | EXPLORATION $1000: This Briton, looking for a so. continent, traveled all the way around Antarctica but never saw it (Captain James) Cook |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | ANIMALS $200: Some say the Kangaroo was given its name, Aboriginal for "I do not know", by this British sea captain Cook |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | 1776 $500: In July this English captain set out on his final voyage, this time to find the Northwest Passage Captain Cook |
| #1865, aired 1992-10-16 | LANDMARKS $700 (Daily Double): The Yorkshire, England cottage this explorer lived in is now in Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne, Australia Captain Cook |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | EXPLORERS $800: This British sea captain named Australia's east coast New South Wales Cook |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | CAPTAIN COOK $200: Captain Cook's first name James |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | CAPTAIN COOK $400: On his third voyage, he sailed the Arctic, looking for this the Northwest Passage |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | CAPTAIN COOK $600: He won the Copley Medal for preventing this disease by giving his crew sauerkraut scurvy |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | CAPTAIN COOK $800: Cook named the east coast of Australia this after a part of Britain New South Wales |
| #1702, aired 1992-01-14 | CAPTAIN COOK $1,000 (Daily Double): The new U.S. space shuttle is named after this ship Cook took on an astronomy mission in 1768 the Endeavour |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | HAWAII $1000: In 1778 Captain James Cook landed at Waimea Bay & named the islands for his sponsor, this earl the Earl of Sandwich |
| #1649, aired 1991-10-31 | EXPLORERS $800: On the 1st of his 3 voyages to the Pacific, this Englishman charted the coast of New Zealand (Captain) Cook |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: In 1789 the Marquis de Sade was stuck in an insane asylum & this captain was stuck in a boat & set adrift Captain Bligh |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | EXPLORERS $400: Tasman discovered New Zealand in 1642, but the 1st European to set foot on it was this Briton in 1769 (Captain) Cook |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | SCIENTISTS $600: To continue his own work, this developer of the smallpox vaccine turned down a post with Captain Cook (Edward) Jenner |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | HISTORIC SITES $800: The British erected a monument at Kealakekua, Hawaii, where this explorer was killed Captain Cook |
| #1461, aired 1990-12-31 | "CAPTAIN"S $300: Captain Bligh wouldn't tell the Tahitians that this English explorer had been killed in Hawaii Captain Cook |
| #1403, aired 1990-10-10 | FAMOUS SAILORS $200: In 1580 he completed a 3-year voyage around the world, the 1st Englishman to do so Sir Francis Drake |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | EXPLORERS $600: Explorer who claimed Australia's east coast for Britain, naming it New South Wales (Captain) Cook |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | THE 18th CENTURY $4,000 (Daily Double): He discovered New Zealand & spent 6 mos. there before exploring Australia & its Great Barrier Reef Captain James Cook |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | HAWAII $400: A monument at Kealakekua Bay honors this man killed there in 1779 Captain Cook |
| #989, aired 1988-12-15 | BRITISH HISTORY $200: Known for his Pacific explorations, he was killed by Hawaiian natives in 1779 (Captain) Cook |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: Avarua is the capital of these Pacific islands, which were named for an English captain the Cook Islands |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | PLACE NAMES $1000: South Sea island group which Captain Cook named for the "royal" group that sponsored his voyage there Society Islands |
| #864, aired 1988-05-12 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Named by Captain Cook for the many plants along the shore, Botany Bay is on this continent Australia |
| #808, aired 1988-02-24 | SURFING $100: In 1778, this captain mentioned in his log the surfers he saw around the Sandwich Islands Captain Cook |
| #639, aired 1987-05-21 | EXPLORERS $400: In the 1770s, Capt. William Bligh served as chief officer on the ship Resolution under this English explorer Captain Cook |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | NAUTICAL HISTORY $1000: In the 1770s, to help prevent scurvy, he served sauerkraut aboard his ship, the Endeavor Captain Cook |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | TATTOOS $400: He introduced the word "tattoo" into English in the record of his expedition to Tahiti in 1769 Captain Cook |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | EXPLORERS $1000: Captain of the "Endeavour", he was 1st voyager to stop scurvy with cleanliness & careful diet Captain Cook |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | EXPLORERS $500: In 1776, the infamous Capt. Bligh was sailing master for this South Seas explorer Captain Cook |
| #400, aired 1986-03-21 | NAMED FOR $500: Captain Cook gave this name to a Pacific island group in honor of Earl John Montagu the Sandwich Islands |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | EXPLORERS $300: Let go by English Muscovy Co., Dutch East India Co. hired him to captain the "Half Moon" Henry Hudson |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | CAPTAINS $600: Some believe this legendary English pirate's treasure is yet to be found Captain Kidd |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | CAPTAINS $800: He discovered Australia, New Zealand & Hawaii Captain Cook |
