| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $2000: In 1884 General Charles Gordon wrote that if help didn't come soon, "the town may fall", the town being this African city Khartoum |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODY QUOTES $400: Rudy Giuliani after 9/11: these "are broken, but they continue to beat, and the spirit of our city has never been stronger" hearts |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | QUOTES ABOUT PLACES $400: The first word of "Bleak House" is this city; the next paragraph begins, "Fog everywhere" London |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | QUOTES ABOUT PLACES $1200: A Byron poem says, "I stood in" this city, "on the Bridge of Sighs; a palace and a prison on each hand" Venice |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | HELLISH QUOTES $800: Shelley wrote, "Hell is a city much like" this one--"a populous and smoky city" London |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | QUOTES FROM BRUCE WILLIS MOVIES $1200: "The army is a broadsword, not a scalpel. Trust me, Senator--you do not want the army in an American city" The Siege |
| #5134, aired 2006-12-28 | ACTUAL MLB BROADCAST QUOTES $400: At then-Royals Stadium, in Kansas City: "The sky is so clear today, you can see all the way to" this state Missouri |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $200: In a July 14, 1940 speech, he told England, "We shall defend every village, every town and every city" Winston Churchill |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | 19th CENTURY QUOTES $800: In 1807 this inventor went from New York City to Albany "wholly by the power of the steam engine" (Robert) Fulton |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | CITY QUOTES $200: Radio comedian Fred Allen said this part of L.A. is "A great place to live--if you're an orange" Hollywood |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | CITY QUOTES $400: A character in a Joyce story says, "I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty" this city Dublin |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | CITY QUOTES $600: It's the "Stormy, Husky, Brawling City of the Big Shoulders" Chicago |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | CITY QUOTES $800: According to the Harper Book of Amer. Quotations, Sally Quinn called this city the "News Capital of the World" Washington, D.C. |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | CITY QUOTES $1,200 (Daily Double): This city is "where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God" Boston |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | CITY QUOTES $200: Thomas Carlyle described this British capital as a "monstrous tuberosity of civilized life" London |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | CITY QUOTES $400: To Pope Innocent II, it was "the capital of the world"; to us, it's a world capital Rome |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | CITY QUOTES $600: Metternich said, "The emperor is everything," this city "is nothing"--nice waltzes, though Vienna |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | CITY QUOTES $800: Joris K. Huysmans held a dark view of this "City of Light": he called it "a sinister Chicago" Paris |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | CITY QUOTES $1000: "I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin", he wrote in "Dubliners" James Joyce |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | CAPITAL QUOTES $200: Mark Twain called this city "That grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless" Washington, D.C. |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | CAPITAL QUOTES $800: Field Marshal Montgomery said, "Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on'" this Russian city Moscow |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | CAPITAL QUOTES $1000: Disraeli described it as "A nation, not a city" London |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | CAPITAL QUOTES $1,500 (Daily Double): In his poem "Hellas", Shelley wrote, "Let there be light!" said Liberty; and this city "Arose!" Athens |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | GEOGRAPHICAL QUOTES $100: Lillian Gish described this cinema city as "an emotional Detroit" Hollywood |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | GEOGRAPHICAL QUOTES $300 (Daily Double): Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed this city "Is the thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet" Boston |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | CITY QUOTES $100: Walter Winchell called it "a city where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors" Hollywood |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | CITY QUOTES $200: To S.J. Perelman, this City of Brotherly Love was "the city of bleak November afternoons" Philadelphia |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | CITY QUOTES $300: William G. Shepherd nicknamed it "The Winded City" Chicago |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | CITY QUOTES $400: Around 1900 Edgar Saltus called this Northeast metropolis "a nightmare in stone" New York |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | CITY QUOTES $500: Emerson said this city is "where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time" Washington, D.C. |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | CELEBRITY QUOTES $100: The former NYC "How'm I doin'?" mayor, I've turned author with "Murder at City Hall" Mayor Koch |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | CELEBRITY QUOTES $200: I was Michael J. Fox's mom on film & am "Caroline in the City" on TV Lea Thompson |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | CITY QUOTES $100: The 15th c. poet Francois Villon claimed, "There's no good speech save in" this French city Paris |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | CITY QUOTES $200: Heywood Broun called this Illinois city "a double Newark" Chicago |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | CITY QUOTES $300: Pindar called it "O bright and violet-crowned and famed in song, bulwark of Greece... divine city!" Athens |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | CITY QUOTES $500: Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of" this city, "he is tired of life" London |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | CITY QUOTES $1,300 (Daily Double): According to a 1910 toast, it's "Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots and the Cabots talk only to God" Boston |
| #2157, aired 1994-01-11 | QUOTES $200: On arriving in this city, Robert Benchley telegramed, "Streets full of water. Please advise" Venice |
| #1864, aired 1992-10-15 | CAUSTIC QUOTES $100: William G. Shepherd called it "the winded city" Chicago |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): Milton Friedman said, "There's only one place where inflation is made: that's in" this city Washington (D.C.) |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $100: Isaiah 13:19 says "Babylon...shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and" this city Gomorrah |
| #1664, aired 1991-11-21 | QUOTES $800: In his novel "Slapstick" he called New York City "Skyscraper National Park" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | CITY QUOTES $200: "When falls the Colosseum, this city shall fall & when it falls, the world" Rome |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | CITY QUOTES $400: Matthew Arnold called this British university city,
"that sweet city with her dreaming spires" Oxford |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | CITY QUOTES $600: Nietzsche said, "As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in this city" Paris |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | CITY QUOTES $800: On June 26th, 1963, JFK said, "All free men wherever they may live are citizens of this city" Berlin |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | CITY QUOTES $1,200 (Daily Double): Oliver Wendell Holmes said, this city's state house "is the hub of the solar system" Boston |
| #1590, aired 1991-06-28 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $200: "The men of" this city "were wicked and sinners"; the same could be said of Gomorrah Sodom |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | CITY QUOTES $100: Washington Irving said it was the "renowned & ancient city of Gotham New York |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | CITY QUOTES $200: William Cooper Brand wrote this city "runs to brains as well as to bread and baked beans" Boston |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | CITY QUOTES $300: Carl Sandburg called it "Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders" Chicago |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | CITY QUOTES $400: "They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one" Kansas City |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | CITY QUOTES $500: "North Beach to Tenderloin, over Russian Hill, The grades are something giddy, and the curves are fit to kill!" San Francisco |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | FAMOUS QUOTES $100: Completes "Up and down the city road, in and out the eagle, that's the way the money goes--" "Pop Goes the Weasel" |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | LITERARY QUOTES $200: Carl Sandburg called this city "Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat" Chicago |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BARTLETT'S QUOTES $800: Illinois city that concludes John Ehrlichman's quote "It'll play in..." Peoria |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | QUOTES $200: In a toast, John Collins Bossidy referred to this "good old" city as "the home of the bean & the cod" Boston |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $800: This general reportedly said, "Venice would be a fine city if it were drained" Ulysses S. Grant |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | QUOTES $400: Baum wrote "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with..." this yellow bricks |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | POLITICAL QUOTES $200: The "Daily News" said this president in effect told New York City to "drop dead" in 1975 President Ford |
| #154, aired 1985-04-11 | CITY QUOTES $200: Sandburg's "City of Big Shoulders" Chicago |
| #154, aired 1985-04-11 | CITY QUOTES $400: Fred Allen called it "a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars" Hollywood |
| #154, aired 1985-04-11 | CITY QUOTES $600: "The home of the bean & the cod, where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, & the Cabots talk only to God" Boston |
| #154, aired 1985-04-11 | CITY QUOTES $800: JFK called it "a city of southern efficiency & northern charm" Washington, D.C. |
| #154, aired 1985-04-11 | CITY QUOTES $1000: According to "Mad" Magazine, it's "not really dull", just overshadowed by exciting Camden, NJ Philadelphia |
