#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $1000: A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this "Row" in the opera "Porgy & Bess" Catfish Row |
#8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $400: In 2016, aged 94, Pulitzer winner George Walker composed a tribute to the dead of the Emanuel AME Church in this S.C. city Charleston |
#7935, aired 2019-02-22 | LET'S "C" SOME DANCING $400: This dance that shares its name with a Southern city was popularized by a 1923 Broadway show the Charleston |
#7457, aired 2017-01-31 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Every even year watch the world's top sailors in the Atlantic Cup, a 1,000-mile race from this S.C. port to Portland, Me. Charleston |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $1000: A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this "Row" in the opera "Porgy & Bess" Catfish Row |
#5222, aired 2007-05-01 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It's where you'll find the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse Charleston |
#3659, aired 2000-06-29 | MEET THE PERRYS $200: Matt & Ollie's father served at this S.C. city in the Revolution; their nephew was killed there in the Civil War Charleston |
#3297, aired 1998-12-29 | THE CAROLINAS $300: In 1995 the first woman was admitted to this Charleston, S.C. military academy The Citadel |
#2787, aired 1996-10-15 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: Founded by Gian Carlo Menotti, this music & arts festival has been an annual event in Charleston, S.C. since 1977 Spoleto |
#2404, aired 1995-02-02 | FEBRUARY 8 $500: The first opera staged in the colonies was "Flora: Or, the Hob in the Well" at this S.C. port in 1735 Charleston |
#1680, aired 1991-12-13 | RELIGION $600: The first reform congregation of this religion in the U.S. was founded in Charleston, S.C. in 1824 Judaism |
#1265, aired 1990-02-16 | U.S.A. $200: To keep Charleston, S.C. clean, these animals who pull the carriage tours wear diapers Horses |
#922, aired 1988-09-13 | PLACES OF WORSHIP $600: Charleston. S.C. has the oldest synagogue in the world belonging to this branch of Judaism Reform |
#757, aired 1987-12-15 | CHARLESTON, S.C. $100 (Daily Double): Though written in ’35 & set in Charleston, this show, featuring the following, didn’t play there until ’70:
"There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York /
Come wid me /
Dat's where you belong..." Porgy and Bess |
#757, aired 1987-12-15 | CHARLESTON, S.C. $100: The Union suffered its 1st defeat of this war at Charleston’s Fort Sumter the war between the Union and the Confederacy (the Civil War) |
#757, aired 1987-12-15 | CHARLESTON, S.C. $200: The British suffered 1 of their 1st defeats of this war at Charleston’s Fort Moultrie the American Revolutionary War |
#757, aired 1987-12-15 | CHARLESTON, S.C. $300: The most damaging of these geologic disasters ever in eastern U.S. hit Charleston in 1886 an earthquake |