#8890, aired 2023-06-09 | EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $1600: The Drake equation, which estimates the number of advanced alien civilizations in our galaxy, was created as part of SETI, short for this search for extraterrestrial intelligence |
#8754, aired 2022-12-01 | WORLD MUSEUMS $2000: Naturally a skull of Homo senegalensis was part of the 2018 inaugural exhibit of this capital's Museum of Black Civilizations Dakar |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $400: The classical age often refers to the time of these 2 ancient Western civilizations Greece & Rome |
#7742, aired 2018-04-17 | HIT THE BOOKS $800: Samuel P. Huntington on the struggle between East & West:
"The Clash of ____ and the Remaking of World Order" civilizations |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LET'S EXPLORE $400: On TV in the 1960s we learned that its mission was "to seek out new life and new civilizations" Star Trek, the Enterprise |
#7597, aired 2017-09-26 | CAPITAL CITIES $400: The Ataturk Mausoleum & the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations are both in this capital Ankara |
#7223, aired 2016-01-27 | INFLUENTIAL NONFICTION $1200: Arnold Toynbee's 12-volume "Study of" this school subject provoked debate on the decline & fall of civilizations History |
#7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: (I'm Elon Musk, C.E.O. of Spacex) My belief in the importance of space travel & planetary colonization for the survival of the human species was influenced in part by the epic depiction of the rise & fall of civilizations in this author's "Foundation" series Isaac Asimov |
#6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: Babylonia & Sumer were civilizations in this ancient region that gave us a little something called civilization Mesopotamia |
#6774, aired 2014-02-13 | VIDEO GAME VAULT $1000: This Bioware game series follows Commander Shepard as he fights Reapers by uniting various civilizations Mass Effect |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $400: The Achaemenid empire lasted for about 200 years until it was defeated in the battle of Arbela by this Macedonian Alexander the Great |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Around 3000 B.C. the Harappan civilization around this river in what's now Pakistan began cultivating cotton the Indus |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $1200: In the 5th century B.C., Herodotus wrote that these people of northeastern Italy were from Lydia in Asia Minor the Etruscans |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $2000: The Tiahuanaco empire based around this lake now in Bolivia & Peru flourished between 500 & 900 A.D. Lake Titicaca |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $4,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) At its peak in the 14th century, this West African empire that bears the name of a present-day country covered almost half a million square miles Mali |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Civilizations in the Middle East & the Mediterranean basin began in the agricultural region with this 2-word nickname the Fertile Crescent |
#5356, aired 2007-12-17 | STAR TREK JARGON $400: This Star Fleet missive prohibits interference with other civilizations the Prime Directive |
#4786, aired 2005-05-30 | ENDS IN "EE" $1000: In his 12-volume "A Study of History", he traced the rise & fall of 26 civilizations (Arnold) Toynbee |
#4334, aired 2003-06-05 | WILD CATS $2000: Pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico & Central America worshiped this largest New World cat as a god jaguar |
#4058, aired 2002-04-03 | EQUATIONS $400: (Sofia is at the board.) In the Drake equation for the communicating civilizations in our galaxy, Fp refers to the fraction of stars that have these planets |
#3725, aired 2000-11-10 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Mespotamia, where many early civilizations developed, was located between these 2 rivers the Tigris & the Euphrates |
#3700, aired 2000-10-06 | A COUNTRY IN EUROPE $200: Most ruins of the civilizations of the ancient Spartans & Athenians can be found in this European nation Greece |
#3655, aired 2000-06-23 | HEY, ARNOLD! $800: This "Study of History" author saw history as a succession of civilizations, not political entities Arnold Toynbee |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $200: The Sumerians, who invented cuneiform writing, date back to 5500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, in what is now this country Iraq |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $400: While conquering this ancient empire, Alexander the Great burned the buildings of Persepolis, its capitol Persia |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $600: It took more than 2,000,000 2-ton blocks of stone to build the great pyramid of this man Cheops |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: In 1700 B.C. this civilization's great palace at Knossos was destroyed by an earthquake Minoans |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $1000: The civilization that grew up along this Pakistani river had planned streets & houses with bathrooms Indus |
#3181, aired 1998-06-01 | GENESIS $1000: His 12-volume "A Study Of History" probed the genesis, growth & decline of the world's great civilizations Arnold Toynbee |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | SALT $600: Some ancient civilizations used salt cakes as a form of this, as Indians used wampum Currency |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $200: The Sumerians' pottery was the first made on this device Potter's wheel |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $400: Ezekiel prophesized for the Israelites during this "captivity" Babylonian Captivity |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $600: This city's different ages are given Roman numerals; it's believed the "Homeric" one was VIIa Troy |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Persia kept switching sides in this 424-405 B.C. war depending on who was winning , Sparta or Athens The Peloponnesian War |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $1000: The Incas called their area Tawantinsuyu, The Land of the 4 Quarters, with this Peruvian city as its center Cuzco |
#2637, aired 1996-02-06 | "A" IN GEOGRAPHY $800: The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in this capital is renowned for its Hittite collection Ankara |
#1642, aired 1991-10-22 | THE HIMALAYAS $800 (Daily Double): 1 of the world's first 4 civilizations grew in this river valley, at the foot of the Himalayas the Indus Valley |
#513, aired 1986-11-26 | ART $500: Term for the art created before 16th century A.D. in Mesoamerican civilizations pre-Columbian art |