| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $1200: Dearest Helga, my time grows short; "Our America" is "A Photographic History" from this TV documentarian of the Civil War Ken Burns |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | GREEK HISTORY $400: Fought in 2 stages during the 1940s, the Greek Civil War saw those of this political philosophy try & fail to take control Communists |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $5,018 (Daily Double): Civil War generals issued a lot of general orders; this man's No. 9 of April 1865 sent the Army of Northern Virginia home Robert E. Lee |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $1200: With this grain-cutting device, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. helped win the Civil War as Union grain exports kept Europe neutral the reaper |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This fort, built to protect Charleston, South Carolina, saw the first fatality of the Civil War Fort Sumter |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | POLISH HISTORY $600: Weakened by Civil War, in 1772 Poland was partitioned by Austria, Russia & this German kingdom Prussia |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: José Napoleón Duarte tried to end civil war in this country in the 1980s but pressure from rebels thwarted him El Salvador |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MILITARY HISTORY $800: So many African Americans wanted to fight for this state's 54th Regiment in the Civil War, the 55th was created Massachusetts |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | GROUPS IN HISTORY $1200: In England's Civil War, barbers probably rooted for this Puritan group named for keeping their hair short the Roundheads |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $1000: The USA's worst depression before the Civil War began with what's usually called this event "of 1837" the Panic |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | ISLAMIC HISTORY $400: At a 657 battle during the First Fitna, or Civil War, fighting stopped after soldiers put pages of this on their lances the Quran |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | TERMS FROM HISTORY $800: Term for the post-Civil War period in which attempts were made to repair the physical & social damage from the war Reconstruction |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HISTORY $1000: How do you start a Civil War? Agree to the Magna Carta & then turn around & ask the pope to annul it like this king did John |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In the 1850s this state was "Bleeding" as pro- & anti-slavery forces met up in a preview of the Civil War Kansas |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: These 2 Atlanta colleges were both founded soon after the Civil War & "Spelhouse" marriages between alums are not rare Morehouse & Spelman |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: About 380,000 Civil War soldiers, or 10% of those who served, ended up as these, choosing to fight another day (or never) deserters |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | NAVAL HISTORY $1600: After the Civil War began, this "Damn the torpedoes!" naval hero gave up his Virginia home to fight for the Union (David) Farragut |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1861 this Secretary of State suggested the U.S. provoke a foreign war to distract from civil discord at home (William) Seward |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | REFERENCE WORKS $1200: Library Journal's best reference books of 2017 include these sites: "Walking the Trails of History", like at Chickamauga Civil War Battlefields |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: During this conflict, 1936 to 1939, the nationalist rebels were led by Francisco Franco the Spanish Civil War |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | TERMS IN HISTORY $800: During the English Civil War, the Parliamentarians were given this derisive nickname for their close-cropped hair the Roundheads |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | HISTORY IN EUROPE $400: Under the threat of civil war, King John granted this charter on June 15, 1215 the Magna Carta |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1859 future Civil War general Daniel Sickles shot & killed Philip Barton Key, the son of this songwriter Francis Scott Key |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | THE HISTORY BOOKSHELF $800: This university's "Civil War" is about the 20th Massachusetts volunteer infantry & its many officers from that school Harvard |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | HISTORY TIME $3,000 (Daily Double): Orator Dolores Ibarruri coined the Republican battle cry "No pasaran" ("They shall not pass") during this war the Spanish Civil War |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The powder horn belonged to one of 10,000 African-Americans who fought at battles like Monmouth in this war; to them, liberty was not just an abstract concept, but something they personally craved and hoped would be granted by the winning side, and in some cases, it was the American Revolution |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | "D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: You name it, they have it in these retail palaces like Wanamaker's, shown here, that saw big growth after the Civil War a department store |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | AFRICAN HISTORY $2000: In 2003 this southern African country's army & a rival faction, Unita, signed a ceasefire, ending a 27-year civil war Angola |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: Dolores Ibárurri, a heroine of the losing side in this 1930s war, remained honorary president of the Communist Party until 1989 the Spanish Civil War |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: In 2009 Sri Lanka's government defeated the insurgent group called these "Tigers" after a 25-year civil war the Tamil Tigers |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SOUTHERN HISTORY $200: This song was written in 1859 & by the end of the Civil War, its title was a nickname for the South "Dixie" |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | JEWISH HISTORY $1600: During the Civil War this lawyer from Louisiana served as attorney general & sec. of state for the Confederacy Judah P. Benjamin |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: This post-civil war bureau provided jobs, medical care & land to former slaves & destitute whites the Freedmen's Bureau |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | HISTORY BOOKSHELF $2,200 (Daily Double): Bruce Catton's Civil War work "A Stillness at" this 1865 historic site won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for history Appomattox |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | VETERANS $200: (Eric Stonestreet gives the clue.) More than half of America's presidents have been veterans; 7 of them served in the Army during this, the deadliest conflict in U.S. history the American Civil War |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: April 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of these two Civil War foes shaking hands at Appomattox Grant & Lee |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | NONFICTION $800: Shelby Foote is best known for his 3-volume history of this conflict the Civil War |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The 1876 Centennial Exhibition in this city helped heal the wounds after the Civil War Philadelphia |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | WEIRD HISTORY $400: Civil War opponents Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee fought on the same side in this war Mexican-American War |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | OHIO HISTORY $1000: During the Civil War, Ohio rep. Clement Vallandigham was a leader of these "snaky" antiwar northerners the Copperheads |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | THE RIVER OF HISTORY $2000: Many Civil War battles had 1 name from a river & 1 from a settlement, as in Stones River/Murfreesboro in this state Tennessee |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: In 1865 his pursuit hastened Lee's surrender; in 1866 he was sent west to deal with the Indians & passed into history (George Armstrong) Custer |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | BESTSELLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Seth Grahame-Smith revealed an unknown aspect of the Civil War in the horror-history hybrid called Him: "Vampire Hunter" Abraham Lincoln |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COLLEGE COURSES $200: Not surprisingly, at Gettysburg College, the History 340 courses include the Civil War & one on this president Lincoln |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | STRANGE HISTORY $1200: This "rock" of a general was an unpopular teacher at VMI before the Civil War & was often the target of pranks Stonewall Jackson |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MAJOR IN HISTORY $400: During this war Major Martin R. Delany became the U.S. Army's first black field officer Civil War |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: In April 1861 the Times began Sunday issues for all the crucial up-to-date news on this the Civil War |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | THE 1930s $400: W.H. Auden wrote of this civil war-torn country, "History to the defeated may say alas but cannot help nor pardon" Spain |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | THE HISTORY OF APRIL 9th $200: 1865: Ending the Civil War, Lee surrenders at this Virginia site Appomattox (Court House) |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | WORLD HISTORY $800: More than a million died in this country's civil war that ended with the death of Carranza in 1920 Mexico |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | FOOD IN HISTORY $800: Re-enactors still buy hardtack crackers from the G.H. Bent Co. of Mass., which supplied them for this 1860s war the Civil War |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This 14-letter term refers to the period of readjustment & rebuilding after the Civil War Reconstruction |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | ANGOLAN HISTORY $800: In the 1970s this Caribbean country sent several thousand troops to fight in Angola's civil war Cuba |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | "J" WALKING THROUGH HISTORY $600: The post-Civil War laws nicknamed these enforced racial segregation in the south Jim Crow laws |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $700 (Daily Double): This famous nurse was nearly killed when a bullet ripped through her dress at the battle of Antietam Clara Barton |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | BRITISH HISTORY $1600: During the Civil War the Roundheads, members of this religious group, closed the theaters the Puritans |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: During the Civil War the Union's Anaconda plan included capturing this Confederate capital Richmond |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $400: At the start of the Civil War, this crop accounted for 2/3 of U.S. exports cotton |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | WHAT'S ON CABLE? $600: "Civil War Journal" History Channel |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | HISTORY IN ART $800: The painting seen here, "Brother Against Brother",
depicts soldiers in this war the Civil War |
| #3897, aired 2001-07-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: After his 1859 hanging, Civil War troops sang of this abolitionist's body "mouldering in the grave" John Brown |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | AMERICAN BEER HISTORY $400: Formed one year earlier, this "Service" began taxing beer at a dollar a barrel in 1862 to finance the Civil War Internal Revenue Service (IRS) |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The Carpetbaggers were northerners who moved south after the Civil War to take part in this process Reconstruction |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | HISTORY IN MOVIES $1000: In this famous film Scarlett O'Hara doesn't let the South losing the Civil War slow her down Gone with the Wind |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: It's the war that was opposed by some Copperheads Civil War |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $200: An episode of "Civil War Journal" featured this general seen here: Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This 1,500-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War into the eastern & western theaters Appalachians |
| #3047, aired 1997-11-25 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: In this 1936-39 war, the Axis Powers supported the Nationalists & the USSR backed the Loyalists Spanish Civil War |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | "C" IN HISTORY $600: A civil war known as The War of a Thousand Days broke out in this South American country in 1899 Colombia |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | WORLD HISTORY $400: During the Spanish Civil War, this Fascist Party founder sent troops to aid General Francisco Franco Benito Mussolini |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase during this president's administration Andrew Johnson |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: General George Henry Thomas earned the epithet "The Rock of Chickamauga" during this war the Civil War |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: The Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War Dred Scott |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | HISTORY $800: On May 30, 1967 Colonel Ojukwu declared Biafra's independence from this country, starting a civil war Nigeria |
| #2801, aired 1996-11-04 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: During this country's civil war, 1936-1939, an autonomous Basque state was established by the republic Spain |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | U.S. HISTORY $100: As a result of this 1861-65 conflict, over 600,000 died and 375,000 were wounded the U.S. Civil War |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1877 this period following the Civil War ended with the removal of federal troops from the South Reconstruction |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | FASHION HISTORY $400: The couturier Balenciaga moved to Paris in 1937 after Civil War broke out in this, his native country Spain |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: About 620,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, more than half from this, not combat infection (or disease) |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | HISTORY $400: The 1642 Battle of Edgehill was the first major battle of this country's civil war England |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: He organized the corps of men who photographed the Civil War; poor eyesight limited his work Mathew Brady |
| #2372, aired 1994-12-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Bruce Catton completed his 3-volume "Centennial History of" this war in 1965 the Civil War |
| #2360, aired 1994-12-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1877 federal troops were withdrawn from the South, marking the end of this post-Civil War period Reconstruction |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Prior to the Civil War, this secretive network helped as many as 100,000 slaves escape the Underground Railroad |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | NONFICTION $200: "Brother Against Brother" by Time-Life Books is a history of this war the Civil War |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | SPANISH HISTORY $400: He was appointed head of the Nationalist forces in the Civil War October 1, 1936 Franco |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | HISTORY $600: Rose Greenhow flowered into a spy during this war & became known as "Rebel Rose" the Civil War |
| #2090, aired 1993-10-08 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: Disguised as "Frank Thompson", Sarah Edmonds fought in this war's First Battle of Bull Run the Civil War |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $1000: This guerrilla leader who sacked Lawrence, Kansas has been called "The bloodiest man in American history" Quantrill |
| #2039, aired 1993-06-17 | U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1959 Walter Williams, said to be the last surviving veteran of this war, died at age 117 the Civil War |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Americans fought in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in this 1936-39 conflict the Spanish Civil War |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | HISTORY $200: A 1936 military uprising led by this general touched off the Spanish Civil War Francisco Franco |
| #1935, aired 1993-01-22 | HISTORY $300: Thousands of loyalist refugees fled to Mexico from this country's 1930s civil war Spain |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: Shelby Foote wrote several novels before publishing his 3-volume history of this war the Civil War |
| #1883, aired 1992-11-11 | AFRICAN HISTORY $200: In the 1970s, as many as 18,000 troops from this Caribbean country fought in Angola's civil war Cuba |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: Britain's 1st one lasted from 1642-46, about the same length as ours from 1861-65 the Civil War |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: During the Civil War, 29 of these were shot from under General Nathan Bedford Forrest horse |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | HISTORY $300: Roger Fenton did this in the Crimean War, as Mathew Brady later did in the Civil War take pictures |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Some 25 years before our Civil War, this country freed the slaves on Jamaica Great Britain |
| #1251, aired 1990-01-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: He, not FDR, was the only Democrat Vermont supported for president since the Civil War Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) |
| #1190, aired 1989-11-03 | WORLD HISTORY $200: A civil war in Paris during his youth convinced this king to build his palace at Versailles Louis XIV |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $200: In 1861, the year our Civil War began, these peasants were formally freed by Alexander II serfs |
| #1079, aired 1989-04-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In the post Civil War South, most Black tenant farmers paid their rent with this their crop |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1865 Sherman recaptured this fort where the Civil War had started Fort Sumter |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Some felt the widely disputed election of this centennial year put the U.S. on the verge of a 2nd civil war 1876 |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: During the Civil War, Lincoln suspended this, which prevents a person from being detained illegally habeas corpus |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | MILITARY HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Pennsylvania is site of the 1st battle of this war 7 Years War (French & Indian War) |
| #876, aired 1988-05-30 | MILITARY HISTORY $400: Trench warfare, famous from WWI, was used in this U.S. war over 50 years earlier the Civil War |
| #847, aired 1988-04-19 | U.S. HISTORY $200: On Christmas Day, 1868, Andrew Johnson offered amnesty to all who had taken part in this Civil War |
| #844, aired 1988-04-14 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Absentee voting was 1st permitted to the men in the field of this war the Civil War |
| #830, aired 1988-03-25 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: Usually known by name of a Maryland creek, this 1862 battle is known as the bloodiest day of the Civil War Antietam |
| #758, aired 1987-12-16 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: His victories led to his being appointed 1st rear admiral , vice admiral & admiral in U.S. history Farragut |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | HISTORY $800: In pre-Civil War days, Kansas saw so much violence it earned this sanguine nickname "Bleeding Kansas" |
| #710, aired 1987-10-09 | U.S. HISTORY $300: After the Civil War, Andrew Johnson offered $100,000 in gold for the capture of this ex-president Jefferson Davis |
| #633, aired 1987-05-13 | HISTORY $750 (Daily Double): 2 North American wars in which a "Battle of Wilderness" was fought, 1 in 1755 & 1 in 1864 Civil War & French & Indian War |
| #603, aired 1987-04-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Ordered by Lincoln in April 1861, this naval action played a major role in the Union Civil War victory the Union blockade |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500: Some speculate the election of this "Great Compromiser" as President could have prevented civil war Henry Clay |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1000: After the Civil War, this nurse was placed in charge of government-sponsored search for MIAs Clara Barton |
| #533, aired 1986-12-24 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: The Living History display at Petersburg, VA.'s battlefield depicts this side's camp & point of view the North |
| #518, aired 1986-12-03 | ENGLISH HISTORY $400: Before Civil War broke out, Charles I ruled 11 years without convening this Parliament |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | U.S. HISTORY $400: This Confederate Civil War song became a hit single for Mitch Miller in 1955 The Yellow Rose of Texas |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Photographer who was paid $25,000 by the U.S. government for documenting the Civil War Mathew Brady |
| #303, aired 1985-11-06 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: Bloodiest single day's battle in American history occurred at this Maryland creek Antietam |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | LAW $400: For only time in U.S. history, he had Congress suspend habeas corpus during the Civil War Lincoln |
| #122, aired 1985-02-26 | WORLD HISTORY $200: American Abraham Lincoln Brigade fought in this country's Civil War Spain |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: When the Antebellum period occurred in American history before the Civil War |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Henry David Thoreau refused to pay taxes to support this war Mexican-American War |
| #104, aired 1985-01-31 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Backed by Germany & Italy, his rebel forces won the Spanish Civil War Generalissimo Franco |
| #97, aired 1985-01-22 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: Not the Emancipation Proclamation, but this abolished slavery the 13th Amendment |
| #63, aired 1984-12-05 | U.S. HISTORY $400: "Reconstruction" was the 13-year period following this the Civil War |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | WORLD HISTORY $400: This Civil War was fought from 1936-39 the Spanish Civil War |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | U.S. HISTORY $200: On the eve of the Civil War, some 2,000 slaveholders were of this race black (or negro) |
