#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 |
#8314, aired 2021-01-14 | LET'S GO TO THE ARCHIVES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Vatican Apostolic (formerly "Secret") archives hold a 200' scroll recording the 14th century trial of these knights the Knights Templar |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | TRIAL OF THE CENTURY $200: Sacco & Vanzetti trial 20th century |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | TRIAL OF THE CENTURY $400: Salem witch trials 17th |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | TRIAL OF THE CENTURY $800: Trial of Thomas More 16th |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | TRIAL OF THE CENTURY $1000: Heresy trial of Joan of Arc 15th century |
#8055, aired 2019-09-20 | TRIAL OF THE CENTURY $3,000 (Daily Double): Amistad mutiny trial 19th |
#6621, aired 2013-06-03 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: In 399 B.C. it was safe to declare the prosecution of this philosopher for impiety the Trial of the Century Socrates |
#6054, aired 2010-12-30 | THE 1990s $400: (Legal commentator Jack Ford gives the clue) The 1995 murder trial that ended in his acquittal was commonly called The Trial of the Century; the 1997 civil trial that found him liable got almost as much attention O.J. Simpson |
#5095, aired 2006-11-03 | CENTURY OF THE TRIAL $400: George Ryan,
for racketeering conspiracy, tax fraud... the 21st century |
#5095, aired 2006-11-03 | CENTURY OF THE TRIAL $800: Henry Ward Beecher
for adultery the 19th century |
#5095, aired 2006-11-03 | CENTURY OF THE TRIAL $1,500 (Daily Double): Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, et al.,
for witchcraft the 17th century |
#5095, aired 2006-11-03 | CENTURY OF THE TRIAL $1600: Henri Philippe Petain,
for treason the 20th century |
#5095, aired 2006-11-03 | CENTURY OF THE TRIAL $2000: Thomas Cranmer,
for heresy the 16th century |
#3453, aired 1999-09-15 | TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $800: At the Gang of Four trial in China his widow said, "I was (his) dog. If he said bite someone, I bit him." Mao Tse-tung |
#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 |
#3362, aired 1999-03-30 | TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $300: This famous orator aided the prosecution of John Scopes during Tennessee's sensational "Monkey" trial William Jennings Bryan |
#3362, aired 1999-03-30 | TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $400: Despite a highly controversial trial, these 2 were executed for murders in 1920 at a Mass. factory Sacco & Vanzetti |
#2783, aired 1996-10-09 | THE 19th CENTURY $1000: Emile Zola's letter "J'accuse" helped win a new trial for this Frenchman who'd been convicted of spying (Alfred) Dreyfus |
#2758, aired 1996-09-04 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In November 1881 Charles Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of this man Garfield |
#1593, aired 1991-07-03 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $500: The 1925 Scopes trial upheld Tennessee's right to ban the teaching of this in school evolution |
#1165, aired 1989-09-29 | STARTS WITH "P" $400: This first century Roman Proconsul of Judea presided over the trial of Jesus Pontius Pilate |