| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $200: It was a safe bet that this state U. offered gaming management I & also TCA 471, practicum in hotel education UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $200: Medieval Timbuktu was a college town offering university education out of these Islamic houses of worship mosques |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | CULINARY QUOTES $600: Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education" cabbage |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1000: For supporting health & education globally, Rihanna received a 2017 humanitarian award from this oldest U.S. college Harvard |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A '90s KID $400: Many a '90s mom thought all these alliterative stuffed animals would increase in value & pay for her kid's college education Beanie Babies |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $400: Lewis & Clark College prof. Zaher Wahab was among many who returned here after 2001 to build post-Taliban education Afghanistan |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | VEGETABLES $1600: This vegetable was described by Mark Twain as a "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY $800: Santa Fe Community College is in Sante Fe, N.M.; Sante Fe College is in this city home to the Univ. of Florida Gainesville |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $400: Here it's a school building for athletic activities; in Germany, it's a school for students getting ready for college a gymnasium |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $600: In 2015 some college athletes started getting a stipend labeled COA, for "cost of" this, showing up to class attendance |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: Ralph Waldo Emerson started attending this college at age 14, graduated & then began teaching there at age 18 Harvard |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | GET AN EDUCATION $400: From a word for "seed", it's a college that prepares students to be priests, ministers or rabbis a seminary |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | ACC SCHOOLS $600: This school was New England's first Roman Catholic one for higher education Boston College |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | EDUCATION $2000: Students short on cash for college can apply for one of these grants named for a Rhode Island senator a Pell Grant |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | EDUCATION $1600: This test was developed in 1926 by Carl Campbell Brigham for the College Entrance Examination Board the SAT |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | EDUCATION ABBREVIATION $600: 36 is a perfect score on the college entrance test known by these 3 letters, kind of the opposite of "SAT" ACT |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | EDUCATION $400: Apollo Group is the No. 1 operator of the type of college called "for" this, & for Q3 2012 reported $134 million of this profit |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This clause in a law signed June 23, 1972 changed women's college athletics forever Title IX |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $400: Back in 1987 Aspen College began offering an MBA degree online, MBA standing for this master's of business administration |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $600: Since the 1950s the College Board has administered this program that lets high school kids study closer to college level the AP (or Advanced Placement) |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | EDUCATION $800: (I'm Harlem Children's Zone President Geoffrey Canada.) We will do whatever it takes to make sure that your child enters & succeeds in college. That's the promise I make to each family of our students attending the HCZ Promise Academy, which is this type of school named for the contract under which it operates a charter school |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME $400: This major step taken in 1972 was originally supposed to come about through a merger with St. Mary's college co-education |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | "C"OOKING $600: It's been called "nothing but cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | AMERICAN EDUCATION $800: In August 1995 Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at this South Carolina military college The Citadel |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | FINANCIAL PLANNING $400: With a 529 plan, you can give up to $270,000 to a beneficiary for this purpose a college education |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | EDUCATION $800: From the Latin for "doorkeeper", it's sometimes used as the title of the chief administrator of a univ. or college the chancellor |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | EDUCATION $1000: (I'm U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.) The Education Department awards these college grants that don't have to be paid back & are named for a Rhode Island senator Pell grants |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $200: We hope the classrooms are air-conditioned during this session, begun at Harvard in 1871 the summer session |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $400: Greek, Latin & "myth and text" are categories in this one-word department at Bucknell Classics |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $600: A library cubicle or stall used for private study around holiday time could be called a Christmas this a carrel |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $800: The prefix in this term tells you it's a course you have to take before you can take a more advanced one a prerequisite |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | COLLEGE EDUCATION $1000: Wisconsin has one of the oldest of these programs in which univs. "reach out" to non-full-time students extension (outreach later accepted) |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EDUCATION $800: This N.C. univ. built by tobacco magnates once had separate colleges: Trinity College & Woman's College Duke |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE STATE OF EDUCATION $800: Stillman College,
Auburn University Alabama |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE STATE OF EDUCATION $1200: Tougaloo College,
Jackson State University Mississippi |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | CULINARY QUOTES $600: Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education" cabbage |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $800: Poet Dana Gioia, the first in his family to go to college, heads this organization, the NEA the National Endowment for the Arts |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | EDUCATION $1000: The Model Secondary School for the Deaf is a part of this Washington, D.C. college Gallaudet |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | EDUCATION $1000: The SATs are administered by ETS, which is a vendor of the CEEB, which stands for this College Entrance Exam Board |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | "C" FOOD $200: Mark Twain said that this vegetable is "nothing but cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | EDUCATION $200: WRAS-FM in this largest Georgia city is the USA's most powerful student-run college radio station Atlanta |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | EDUCATION $600: In 1836 he became president of Cincinnati College & published his 1st "Eclectic Reader" William McGuffey |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | EDUCATION $200: This college degree is abbreviated B.F.A. a Bachelor of Fine Arts |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | COLLEGE POTPOURRI $600: A Ph.D. is a doctor of philosophy, while an Ed.D. stands for this doctor of education |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $300: Mark Twain called this white vegetable "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #1989, aired 1993-04-08 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1839 the 1st state teachers college in the U.S. opened in this state under Horace Mann's guidance Massachusetts |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | COLLEGE DEGREES $600: An M.S. in C.E. is a Master of Science in Civil Engineering; an M.S. in Ch.E. is this Chemical Engineering |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | TEXAS $500: This university in College Station is the oldest public institution of higher education in Texas Texas A&M |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | "C" FOOD $300: Mark Twain called it "cabbage with a college education" cauliflower |
| #1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $400: This organization was established in 1944 to raise funds for Black education the United Negro College Fund |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: Washington College was renamed in 1871 to honor this general, its president from 1865-1870 Lee |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | EDUCATION $1000: In 1989-90 this Vermont college led the nation in the cost of tuition, room & board Bennington |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | EDUCATION $1000: The 1st U.S. college school of business, the Wharton School is part of this university the University of Pennsylvania |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: His uncle Sardis Birchard, financed his education at Kenyon College & Harvard Law School Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | HIGHER EDUCATION $400: From Latin "to initiate", term which is applied to the final "exercise" you perform at college commencement |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: A 5 month student str!ke in late '60s at this college was not popular with its new president S.I. Hayakawa San Francisco State University (or State College) |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: Texas city whose junior college is famed for its Rangerette drill and dance team Kilgore |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | HIGHER EDUCATION $800: This school, Richard Nixon's alma mater, is named for a famous American Quaker poet Whittier College |
| #696, aired 1987-09-21 | CIVIL WAR $500: In 1828, Jefferson Davis completed his college education, ironically, at this institution West Point |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | COLLEGE GRADS $100: This popular sitcom pop who sells Pudding Pops has a doctorate in education Bill Cosby |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | EDUCATION $400: Of 4, 14, or 24%, the percentage of U.S. population over 25 that had college degrees in 1910 4 |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: President who graduated from Southwest Texas State Teacher's College Lyndon Johnson |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: Emphasizing individual attention, this VT. women's college is the most expensive in the U.S Bennington |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: This D.C. university is America's oldest Roman Catholic-sponsored college Georgetown |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $800: South Carolina military college whose name sound like a fortress The Citadel |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION $1000: In 1804, this merchant got Rhode Island College to rename itself after him by donating $5000 (Nicholas) Brown |
| #299, aired 1985-10-31 | HIGHER EDUCATION $500: In 1971, he founded Virginia's Lynchburg Baptist college, now Liberty University Jerry Falwell |
| #15, aired 1984-09-28 | EDUCATION $400: Brooke Shields recently had her Triangle Club Revue debut at this Ivy League college Princeton |
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