| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $400: A 17th century work depicts David with the rather giant head of this man, bearing the wound on his forehead that killed him Goliath |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $2000: In a 1942 speech this progressive V.P. of FDR called the coming post-war period "the century of the common man" Henry Wallace |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $800: This man told a friend, "Palladio is the Bible", as he was something of a fanboy for the 16th century Italian architect Jefferson |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $800: From the name of an 18th century man, it's a profile portrait drawn in black a silhouette |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1600: At 11:35 PM EDT May 1, 2011 President Obama announced the death of this man in Pakistan bin Laden |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | HISTORY $800: In the 16th century an African man in Japan named Yasuke became the first recorded foreigner to join the ranks of this warrior class Samurai |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $400: Before joining it in 1967, this Baltimore-born man argued & won 29 out of 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Beverly Gage's "G-Man" looks at this powerful figure "& the Making of the American Century" J. Edgar Hoover |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CENTURY NOTES $13,200 (Daily Double): 3rd century: the first written reference to this Blue Man Group of present Scotland has them attacking Hadrian's Wall Picts |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $1200: The 19th century man honored in name by Nevada's capital & the fashion expert/TV star of "Queer Eye" & "How to Look Good Naked" Kit Carson Kressley |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | TRAVEL $1000: Eugene was the first name of this man, whose series of guides made travel feel accessible to mid-century Americans (Eugene) Fodor |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | LAKES & RIVERS $1000: This great river system of East-Central North America gets its name from a man martyred in 3rd-century Rome the St. Lawrence waterway |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MEXICAN HISTORY $1600: The era of this man's late 19th & early 20th century rule is known as the Porfiriato Porfirio Díaz |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1600: Seen here is the April 1961 first day of the trial of this man, one of the most important proceedings of the 20th century Adolf Eichmann |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $800: The 19th century railroad sleeping car named for this man was a symbol of splendor equal to the finest hotel Pullman |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $800: In 1938, in one of the great races of the century, this grandson of Man o' War beat War Admiral in a one-on-one match Seabiscuit |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY $2000: This man's 1689 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" dealt with the tabula rasa, or "clean slate" of a newborn mind John Locke |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | IN YOUR PREFACE $2000: This 16th century man's preface to the history of the Reformation in Scotland deems some clergy members "bloody wolves" (John) Knox |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | & PLAYING TRIANGLE $800: This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is Pythagoras |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $1000: Bucephalus carried this man on many of his 4th century B.C. conquests Alexander the Great |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $2000: 19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard" Lear |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DESERT ISLAND READS $3,000 (Daily Double): The term Robinsonade refers to a castaway story that emulates the 18th century works of this man Defoe |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $1200: A quarter century after "Lord of the Flies", this man won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage" (William) Golding |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $2000: According to Billboard, this sax man was the No. 1 instrumentalist of the 1990s Kenny G |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $200: The Era of Good Feelings was a period of post-war calm in the early 19th century, mostly during this man's presidency Monroe |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | 5 OF A KIND $1000: ["Flight Of The Bumblebee" plays]
That music was by one of "The Five" mighty Russian composers of the 19th century--this man with a hyphenated name Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring was among Aug. 9, 1969 victims of the murderous gang controlled by this man the (Charles) Manson family |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | BEARD MAN $1000: Stop the presses. Here's an image of this bearded 15th century German inventor Gutenberg |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $1200: C: Giacomo was the first name of this 18th century man whose "History of My Life" recounts his many amores Casanova |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | THE 11th CENTURY $800: In 1040 Scottish King Duncan I was slain in battle & this man known to readers of Shakespeare succeeded him Macbeth |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: At the end of the 19th century, this man started selling his "In-a-Dor" beds (William) Murphy |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | THAT'S HERESY! $400: 5th century Pelagians thought man was essentially good & denied the doctrine of original this sin |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | HIS-TORY $1600: As prime minister, this man the younger emerged in the late 18th century as the leader of the new Tory party (William) Pitt |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at Grant's Tomb in New York City.) The tomb of Ulysses S. Grant, once New York City's most popular attraction, was partly inspired by the tomb of this other 19th century man who was both a great general and a head of state Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1000: A giant of 19th century politics as well as a novelist, he was the first man of Jewish ancestry to be prime minister Disraeli |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POTPOURRI $2000: 46,368, 75,025, 121,393 & 196,418 are specific to the work of this 12th & 13th century Italian man Fibonacci |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1880 this was a gleam in the eye of William Sawyer & Albon Man; they filed a patent on it & got into years of struggle with Edison a light bulb |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LEGENDARY! $800: Would you trust your dad to shoot an apple off your head using a bow & arrow? The son of this 14th century Swiss man had to William Tell |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | MANLY NICKNAMES $400: The Origen story is Origen was a 3rd century theologian known as Adamantius or "Man of" this, like Superman steel |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | INTO THE SPIDER VERSE $2000: A spider & a moth figure in "Design' by this New England-based man, a giant of 20th century poetry Frost |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | MAN OF THE CENTURY $200: Victor Hugo wasn't always miserable in it the 19th century (or the 1800s) |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | MAN OF THE CENTURY $400: Captain James Cook explored then the 18th century |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | MAN OF THE CENTURY $600: Konstantin Chernenko came to fame the 20th century |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | MAN OF THE CENTURY $800: Richard III lived through all the winters of his discontent the 15th |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | MAN OF THE CENTURY $1000: It's when Petrarch loved Laura the 14th century |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1990 this man succeeded in "rank" to the office of British prime minister (John) Major |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN $1200: Henry Wallace's term as this, 1941-1945, is perhaps best remembered for his "Century of the Common Man" speech vice president |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $800: "No Easy Day" is Navy SEAL Mark Owen's firsthand account of the mission that killed this man Osama bin Laden |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | 20th CENTURY REFERENCES $1600: This cowboy-hatted ad guy was first used in 1954 & became a symbol of the strong, silent American male the Marlboro Man |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | 20th CENTURY ART $1600: The basic style of the color field paintings by this Russian-born man is 2 or 3 soft-edged rectangles of color (Mark) Rothko |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | ANCIENT WISDOM $1600: In the 4th century B.C., Aristotle said that "man is by nature" this type of "animal" a political animal |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | THAT CRAZY 14th CENTURY $2000: 1345: A dying man coughs up ritual food that then wouldn't burn in the Amsterdam "miracle of" this consecrated bread (the) Eucharist |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY $200: The 1997 bout between Evander Holyfield & this man became the "bite of the century" Mike Tyson |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | MOVIE STUDIOS $1200: This man once controlled 1/3 of the world's cinemas; his co. later merged with 20th Century Pictures (William) Fox |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | IT HAPPENED IN THE 20th CENTURY $1000: In 1949 mainland China became a Communist state with this man as its leader Mao Zedong |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $800: From the name of an 18th century man, it's a profile portrait drawn in black a silhouette |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? $800: This 11th century man aka "the Lucky" converted his mom to Christianity; then mom built the first church in Greenland Leif Erikson |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MY ROBOT PAL $1600: Mel Blanc was the voice of Twiki, the ambuquad sidekick for this man in the 25th century Buck Rogers |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $800: E.L. Doctorow's "The Waterworks" is a Gothic thriller set during this man's corrupt 19th century rule of the city Boss Tweed |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | CHICAGO HISTORY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) In 1924, in the crime of the century, Chicago teen Bobby Franks was brutally murdered; these glasses found near the body were traced back to this man, who soon confessed, as did accomplice Richard Loeb (Nathan) Leopold |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | THAT'S OLD STUFF $1200: Since the 8th century, a 230-foot-tall statue of this man has loomed over China's Sichuan Province Buddha |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | SCIENTISTS $800: (I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.) One of my heroes is unquestionably this 17th century man who at various times in his life was a member of Parliament, Warden of the Royal Mint & Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (Sir Isaac) Newton |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN $800: "I know from his 13th century writings that visiting China during the time of Marco Polo means we're also here when this man ruled as emperor."
"That's the khan do spirit Sherman, well done" Kublai Khan |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | I AM HISTORY! $800: The only surviving son of a rector, this 17th century man went on to design more than 50 churches in London (Christopher) Wren |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | LIT BLITZ $800: "Man's disobedience" & "the prime cause of his fall" are the subjects of this 17th century man's most famous poem (John) Milton |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1200: In 1995 this Nation of Islam leader organized & led the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. Louis Farrakhan |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | D.C.-AREA LANDMARKS $1000: The figure of this 20th century man is carved into the "Stone of Hope", which stands past the "Mountain of Despair" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | THE LATE 19th CENTURY $400: After the death of his cousin in 1889, this man became heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $400: The 1st century Book of Jubilees lists this man's wife as Emzara; hope she could swim! Noah |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $600 (Daily Double): On April 3, 1968 he said, "So I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $1,800 (Daily Double): A book of psalms
from the 13th century
shows the 12th-century murder of this man Becket |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | THE LAST CENTURY $400: "The most trusted man in America", he ended his tenure as anchor of the CBS Evening News in 1981 Walter Cronkite |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Usually powdered, a peruke was a man's one of these in the 18th century a wig |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | CENTURY OF THE MAN $200: Emperor Hirohito the 20th century |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | CENTURY OF THE MAN $400: Millard Fillmore 19th |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | CENTURY OF THE MAN $600: Sir Francis Drake the 16th century |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | CENTURY OF THE MAN $800: England's Richard III the 15th century |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | CENTURY OF THE MAN $1000: Baruch Spinoza the 17th century |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $1200: 5 women & 1 man form a title "Book Club" that reads the novels of this 19th century woman Jane Austen |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: One of this circus man's 1st exhibits was Joice Heth, who claimed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington (P.T.) Barnum |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): An 1877 cartoon showed 12 widows crying in bed, mourning the death of this man Brigham Young |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In the 1812 election, President Madison defeated this man, the nephew of his first Veep George Clinton DeWitt Clinton |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | NAME THAT SPEECHMAKER $400: "I am proud to run with a man who will be one of the great presidents of this century, Walter F. Mondale" Geraldine Ferraro |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Name of the man seen here who has presided over the U.S. Senate since 2009 Joe Biden |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | BATTLE OF THE CENTURY $200: The Battle of Waterloo 19th |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $800: In the 19th century a unit of conductance was named the "mho" in tribute to this man who studied current flow Ohm |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | KING OF QUEENS $800: This 16th century man is usually credited with 7 wives, including Marfa Sobakina & Anastasia Romanovina Ivan the Terrible |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew pushes an enclosed plunger.) Pushing a plunger compresses the air inside the cylinder, creating enough heat to ignite a piece of paper; the same principle is used in a type of engine invented by this man (Rudolf) Diesel |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | THE OLD MAN $2000: Seen here is the mummy of this great ruler of 13th-century B.C. Egypt, who reigned until about age 90 Ramses II (or Ramses the Great) |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 20th CENTURY CHINA $1000: The democratic revolution led by this man led to the 1911 fall of the Qing dynasty & the end of Chinese feudalism Sun Yat-sen |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400 (Daily Double): This Mass. man is remembered for introducing a certain pear to the U.S. in the 1800s; he named it for himself (Enoch) Bartlett |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | NIXON'S CABINET $1600: The only Melvin to serve in a cabinet post in the 20th century was this man as Nixon's Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: In April 1955, Great Britain became the garden of this man, Churchill's successor as Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lima, Peru.) From 1990 to 2000, the palace behind me, here in Lima, was the home of this man, the first of Japanese descent to head another country (Alberto) Fujimori |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: This celebrated American photographer exhibited at the first Surrealist exhibition of 1925 Man Ray |
| #5451, aired 2008-04-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Called the "Sick Man of Europe" in the early 20th century, this empire collapsed just after WWI the Ottoman Empire |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | THE LOVE BOAT $1000: The USS Constitution was one of these fast & easy-to-maneuver warships popular in the 18th century a frigate |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | BUTTONS $800: In the course of the 18th century, this part of a man's shirt shrank in size & got buttons a cuff |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | 17th CENTURY ART $1200: Winning favor by glorifying this man in paintings, Charles Le Brun became the arbiter of French taste Louis XIV |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | 21st CENTURY HISTORY $600: Benedict XVI succeeded this man as head of the Roman Catholic church in 2005 John Paul II |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | LET'S CONSULT THE MAP $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a rectangular world map on the monitor.) Because areas far from the equator are enlarged, Greenland is bigger than South America in the 16th century system of projection named for this man Mercator |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | THE GALEN CENTER $2,500 (Daily Double): Galen might have sworn an oath to this 5th century B.C. Greek man he considered the beginning of all medical learning Hippocrates |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | OH, "MAN"! $1600: Leonardo's "Proportions of Man" is also called this, after a 1st century B.C. architect Vitruvian Man |
| #5134, aired 2006-12-28 | 19th CENTURY FACES $200: The life of this man has not been greatly exaggerated Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | THE 19th CENTURY $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands on an Irish seashore at a Martello tower in Dublin, Ireland.) Martello towers were built by the British in the early 19th century to defend against an invasion by this man Napoleon |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | THE LATE 20th CENTURY $600: On April 29, 1994 this man was elected president of South Africa in that country's first interracial national election Nelson Mandela |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | CONQUER $200: This man's 11th century conquest of England gave him the nickname "The Conqueror" William |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | "B" BOYS $400: This man's photos of Abe Lincoln & the Civil War helped fix the popular image of the U.S. in the mid-19th century (Mathew) Brady |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1200: In the late 19th century the Ottoman Empire was disparagingly known as this "Man of Europe" the Sick Man of Europe |
| #4698, aired 2005-01-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY QUOTES $2000: He spent 14 years in "the gigantic structure of the Chateau d'If"--A fortress off Marseilles Edmond Dantes (The Count of Monte Cristo) |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | 20th CENTURY NICKNAMES $400: It's the avuncular nickname of the man seen here "Uncle Milty" |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $200: Albert Einstein was the Person of the Century; in 1949 this British statesman was the man of the half-century Winston Churchill |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | THE OTTO CLUB $2000: He's the late 19th century "Man of Iron" seen here Otto von Bismarck |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | SPELL THE LAST NAME $800: 17th century man with the "I think, therefore I am" plan, Rene... D-E-S-C-A-R-T-E-S |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | HISTORIC WOMEN $800: Beatrice Portinari of 13th century Florence is believed to be the Beatrice in this man's works Dante |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | NEBUCHADNEZZAR $800: In the 20th century this man "of Arabia" dug up the ruins of Carchemish, a city conquered by Nebuchadnezzar Lawrence |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | GEORGE $800: This 18th century man composed the music heard here:
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew sings.)
"Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name..." George Frideric Handel |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: This man who served from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977, had the second shortest term of the 20th Century Gerald Ford |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | BEFORE THE WHITE HOUSE $800: An early 20th century photo of this man who would become president is seen here FDR |
| #3937, aired 2001-10-16 | POCKET BILLIARDS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew takes his turn.) John Carr, a British man, developed this spin technique in the 19th century putting english on the ball |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 20th CENTURY POETS $600: You can hear Johnny Gilbert lower case his voice to read this man's work:
"The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses; nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands..." E.E. Cummings |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | THINKERS $400: Some call this Paris-born man one of the leading minds of the last century Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | TURNS OF THE CENTURY $600: In 1501 this man with a "continental" name began his second trip to the New World Amerigo Vespucci |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY $500: This turn-of-the-century man began his career as a teenager doing card magic as "Eric The Great" Harry Houdini |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | TURNS OF THE CENTURY $600: In 1801, under pressure from King George III, this "younger" man resigned after 17 years as prime minister William Pitt |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | TURNS OF THE CENTURY $1000: Around 2,000,001 B.C., this probable ancestor of ours, whose name means "handy man", was using simple tools Homo habilis |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | THE 18th CENTURY $1000: In 1757 this man led the East India Company's forces to victory in the Battle of Plassey Robert Clive |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | 18th CENTURY THEATER $200: Voltaire thought this man was the greatest sage of all time & wrote "The Chinese Orphan" to show his morals Confucius |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Look up "orator" in the dictionary & you'll see a picture of this man, secretary of state to 3 presidents Daniel Webster |
| #3545, aired 2000-01-21 | FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $500 (Daily Double): An 18th century anti-slavery medal bore the legend "Am I not a man and" one of these a brother |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $1000: The cops' acquittal in the 1992 trial for beating this man resulted in the worst riots in L.A. since 1965 Rodney King |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | THE VICE PREZ SEZ $1000: As FDR's VP, this future Progressive candidate hailed "The century of the common man" Henry Wallace |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $1,400 (Daily Double): Evidence of this man's guilt in a famous 1935 kidnapping case included finding ransom money at his house Bruno Hauptmann |
| #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 |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $900 (Daily Double): He wrote an article "About Man-Eating Lions" for the November 1913 issue of Boy's Life Theodore Roosevelt |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | THE 19th CENTURY $400: One of the 3 large empires of 19th century Eastern Europe was this "Sick Man" the Ottoman Empire |
| #2834, aired 1996-12-19 | THE 20TH CENTURY $100: His bat's in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but this man nicknamed "Charlie Hustle" is ineligible for induction Pete Rose |
| #2807, aired 1996-11-12 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Beaumarchais' plays included "The Barber of Seville" & "The Marriage of" this man Figaro |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: The central character of the first section of this Arthur C. Clarke book is moon-watcher, a man-ape 2001 |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The state of Deseret was established in 1849, & this man became its governor Brigham Young |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In November 1881 Charles Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of this man Garfield |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | 16th CENTURY NAMES $300: George Bernard Shaw sneered at the adulation of this 16th century man, calling it "Bardolatry" William Shakespeare |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | THE 17th CENTURY $1000: Andrew Melville, who succeeded this man as the leader of Scottish Presbyterianism, died in 1622 John Knox |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: This Nation of Islam minister led the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. October 16, 1995 (Louis) Farrakhan |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | THE 18th CENTURY $100: Robert Livingston administered the presidential oath of office to this man April 30, 1789 George Washington |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | THE 18th CENTURY $300: This man born in November 1793 is sometimes called "The Father of Texas" (Stephen) Austin |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | MEDICINE MEN $1,000 (Daily Double): This form of mental deterioration is named for a turn-of-the- century German neurologist Alzheimer's disease |
| #2425, aired 1995-03-03 | THE 16th CENTURY $1000: In 1584 17-year-old Maurice of Nassau succeeded this man, his father, as stadtholder of Holland William of Orange |
| #2413, aired 1995-02-15 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Nadezhda Krupskaya briefly opposed Stalin's takeover after the death of this man, her husband Lenin |
| #2351, aired 1994-11-21 | PEOPLE $500: At the age of 58, he became the youngest man elected pope in the 20th century John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | THE 1950s $500: Tn 1950 he was named the greatest horse of the first half of the century by the Associated Press Man o' War |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | THE 19th CENTURY $400: In 1870 the first rubber company west of the Alleghenies was founded in Akron, Ohio by this man Goodrich |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: A native of Northern Ireland, he's been called "The Man with the Golden Flute" James Galway |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: William Styron grew up near the site of this man's revolt & later wrote a novel about his "confessions" Nat Turner |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | TURN OF THE CENTURY $400: In 1900 this man was on the team that won the 1st international lawn tennis trophy that bears his name (Dwight) Davis |
| #1583, aired 1991-06-19 | THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Gov. Fielding L. Wright of Mississippi was this man's running mate on the 1948 Dixiecrat ticket (Senator) J. Strom Thurmond |
| #1535, aired 1991-04-12 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): James Joyce wrote about the Irish lower middle class in this 1914 story collection The Dubliners |
| #1404, aired 1990-10-11 | YES, NEBUCHADNEZZAR $200: Carchemish, conquered by Nebuchadnezzar in 605 BC, was dug up in the 20th century by this man "of Arabia" Lawrence |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | THE 20TH CENTURY $600: This man who took over Alger Hiss' state dept. duties in 1947 later became JFK's Sec'y of State Dean Rusk |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in this man's losing the 1804 race for governor of N.Y. Aaron Burr |
| #1119, aired 1989-06-15 | BEST SELLERS $1000: This man illustrated "Dear Mili", a newly discovered 19th century story by Wilhelm Grimm Maurice Sendak |
| #894, aired 1988-06-23 | STARTS WITH "J" $600: The ornament cascade of ruffles down the front of an 18th century's man's shirt jabot |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | THE 17th CENTURY $1000: As a young man in England, William Penn was imprisoned in this building for his Quaker beliefs Tower of London |
| #711, aired 1987-10-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: Using this name meaning "man of steel", he ruled the USSR with a steel grip until his death in 1953 Stalin |
| #625, aired 1987-05-01 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $800: It was turn of the century pitcher Joe McGinnity, no Lou Gehrig, who was nicknamed this the "Iron Man" |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | SCIENTISTS $1000: 19th century German mathematician remembered for his "strip", a single-sided loop (August) Möbius |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This Tennessee governor was later president of a country Sam Houston |
| #306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $800: For over 50 years, one of these was “The Man Without A Country's” home ship |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney" the Washington Monument |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted "a flawed process" & vacated a 1954 commission's decision "in the matter of" this man (J. Robert) Oppenheimer |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 20th CENTURY NONFICTION: "Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | 19th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice Horace Greeley |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: The first campaign of this man, who at 36 was the youngest major party nominee ever, was supported by the silver mining industry William Jennings Bryan |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: "Essays to Do Good" by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man Benjamin Franklin |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | 20th CENTURY FAMOUS NAMES: In a 1905 diary entry, Nicholas II wrote of this man, "We have made the acquaintance of a man of God" Rasputin |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist" Lewis Carroll |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 20th CENTURY ENGLISH NOBILITY: In Africa on Nov. 26, 1922, he anxiously asked Howard Carter, “Can you see anything?” Lord Carnarvon |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | RUSSIANS: The subtitle of a biography about this early 20th century man is "The Saint Who Sinned" Rasputin |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | 20th CENTURY BRITS: Dr. Hugh Cairns, who tried but couldn't save the life of this man in May 1935, became a pioneer in the use of motorcycle helmets T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | 16th CENTURY SCIENTISTS: It is often said of this man that he "stopped the Sun and moved the Earth" Copernicus |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 19th CENTURY POEMS: Written about the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, a Kipling poem said, "Take up" this now-controversial phrase the White Man's burden |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881 |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | BIOGRAPHIES: "The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century" is a biography of this scientist born in the Balkans Nikola Tesla |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized Robinson Crusoe |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: A 50th anniversary edition of this fictionalized biography featured the painting seen here on its cover Lust for Life |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 19th CENTURY POETRY: He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die" Oscar Wilde |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | 18th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | THE HALL OF PRESIDENTS: Of the 9 presidents whose images have a beard or mustache, this late 19th century man is the only Democrat Grover Cleveland |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | 20th CENTURY FIRSTS: On Oct. 14, 1947 in the Mojave Desert the first of these sounds was made by man; it was the byproduct of another first sonic boom |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | THE 20th CENTURY: On June 5, 1989 a young man never positively identified became world famous for actions he took in this city Beijing |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: Experts say Glenn McDuffie is the mystery man in the classic Eisenstaedt photo taken in this year 1945 |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | LITERARY FIGURES: Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man Oscar Wilde |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LIT: This work says, "Man is not truly one, but truly two... I learned to recognize the... primitive duality of man" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | 20th CENTURY REPUBLICANS: Never president, he was the youngest man ever to receive the Republican presidential nomination (Thomas) Dewey |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | ENGLISH LIT: This 17th century poetic follow-up begins, "I who ere while the happy garden sung, by one man's disobedience lost..." Paradise Regained |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | THE 18th CENTURY: In 1790 the HMS Pandora sailed thousands of miles specifically to bring back this man, but failed Fletcher Christian |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1920 this man, great-grandson of Sauk leader Black Hawk, became the first president of what is now the NFL Jim Thorpe |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here Jefferson Davis |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence called him "an adventurer into the vaults and...
horrible underground passages of the human soul" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #2903, aired 1997-03-26 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: In 1914 Jan Smuts wrote of this man's departure, "The saint has left our shores, I hope forever" Mahatma Gandhi |
| #2612, aired 1996-01-02 | THE SUPREME COURT: He served as chief justice for more of the 20th century than any other man--17 years Warren Burger |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | 19th CENTURY ARTISTS: He sued a man for libel over a criticism of his painting "Nocturne in Black and Gold"--& won (James Abbott McNeil) Whistler |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: The execution of this man & his followers in 1859 is believed to be the only one for treason against a state John Brown |
| #1950, aired 1993-02-12 | FASHION HISTORY: Listing the great men of the 19th century, Lord Byron ranked himself 3rd, Napoleon 2nd & this man 1st Beau Brummel |
| #1344, aired 1990-06-07 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: 1st & last name of the man who brought insanity proceedings against his famous mother in 1875 Robert Lincoln |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Johnny Carson became permanent host of "The Tonight Show" when this man was U.S. president John Kennedy |
| #122, aired 1985-02-26 | 20th CENTURY: In 1927, he was named "Time" magazine's first "Man of the Year" (Charles) Lindbergh |
