| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GETTING HISTORICAL $1000: Wahunsenacawh was another name of the man the Jamestown colonists called this, like the people he led Powhatan |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A British Crown proclamation of 1763 forbade colonists from settling west of these mountains the Appalachians |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: The colonists balked at the taxes on newspapers & pamphlets imposed by this 1765 act & refused to pay the Stamp Act |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1600: King Philip's War, a bloody conflict between colonists & Native Americans in the 1670s, was led by Massasoit's son from this nation the Wampanoag Nation |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | HONORARY U.S. CITIZENS $1600: The law making him a citizen said he "secured the help of France to aid the United States' colonists against Great Britain" Lafayette |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $1000: More than a quarter of English colonists in Virginia are killed in a massacre; John Rolfe also dies 1622 |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | COFFEE BREAK $800: A Seattle coffee co. is named for this 1765 British act that raised tea prices; coffee was soon the patriotic choice for colonists the Stamp Act |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | HISTORY QUICK TAKES $2000: He tried to starve the colonists out but later let his daughter Pocahontas marry one Powhatan |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 650 B.C.Greek colonists founded a city on the Bosporus that they called this; it would later be the capital of empires Byzantium |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $1600: The first English child born in the Americas, she disappeared with the rest of the Roanoke colonists (Virginia) Dare |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER $2000: After Mormons were driven out in the 1840s, French colonists called the Icarians failed to make this Illinois city work Nauvoo |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: Of 500 colonists in this first English settlement in N. America in fall 1609, fewer than 1/5 would survive the coming winter Jamestown |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The British government's Proclamation of 1763 created what the Brits called a vast Indian reserve in which no colonists were allowed to settle west of these mountains the Applachian Mountains |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: A bridge built to give the feeling of walking through the hands of God is at Bà Nà Hills, founded by French colonists in this country Vietnam |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | FAMILY MATTERS $2000: A 1765 speech opposing the Stamp Act called colonists these, giving a rebellious group its name the sons of liberty |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $400: Some of New Zealand's first colonists were convicts from the penal colony in this nearby land Australia |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1000: "The sun never shine on a cause of greater worth" than the colonists', wrote Thomas Paine in this 1776 work Common Sense |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | EMPIRES $1600: The empire of this leader who fought Jamestown's colonists was a confederacy of Algonquian tribes Powhatan |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | HISTORIC BOYCOTTS $2000: The 1767 Townshend Acts taxed imports to America from Britain; a boycott by colonists got the taxes lifted on everything but this tea |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $800: Well, kiss my grits! This dish of whole or ground hulled corn was a gift from Native Americans to the colonists hominy |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | AMERICAN LIVES $4,000 (Daily Double): Manteo, a Native American, helped establish this colony in N.C.; when its colonists went missing, so did he Roanoke |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | WAR STORIES $800: "Rise to Rebellion" marks the start of the Revolution with this 1770 clash of British troops & colonists the Boston Massacre |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $1600: In 1608 this captain & a few other colonists left Jamestown & explored the Chesapeake Bay & its tributaries (John) Smith |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $1200: Willa Cather's 1931 novel "Shadows on the Rock" details the lives of French colonists in the "rock" that is this Canadian city Quebec City |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WOMEN & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: Ann Bates spied for the British & Lydia Darragh spied for the colonists in this city that was also Betsy Ross' home Philadelphia |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY $2000: In 1776 this N.C. tribe supported the British & led by Chief Dragging Canoe attacked the colonists the Cherokee |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA $2000: A 1765 British law named for this act of housing soldiers also ordered colonists to supply fuel & alcohol the Quartering Act |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | THE SCENE IN 1715 $400: Sparking a bloody backlash, Yamassee Indians massacred South Carolina colonists on this day, 2 before Easter Good Friday |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND $1200: In what's now this state, the Mohegans rebelled against the Pequots & made nice with the colonists Connecticut |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1200: A slave, Quamino Dolly, led the British through swamps to attack the Colonists at the 1778 battle of this Ga. port Savannah |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | PLYMOUTH COLONY $800: The colonists had intended to settle near the mouth of this New York river but were blown off course due to stormy weather the Hudson |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | RED ALERT $1000: Around 985 this Viking sailed for Greenland with 25 ships of colonists, but only 14 made it Erik the Red |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | GONE BABY GONE $1000: In August of 1590 2 words carved on trees--Croatoan & Cro--were the last traces of the 100 colonists on this island Roanoke |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | VISITING THE BOSTON AREA $1600: It's hard to miss this monument honoring colonists who died in a 1775 battle--it's 221 feet high the Bunker Hill Monument |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | PAUL REVERE $600: Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonists of coming British troops took place in April of this year 1775 |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: Feb. 1948 riots in Accra sparked a movement that led to this country's becoming one of Africa's first to boot the colonists Ghana |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | RESCUE ME $1000: Short on supplies, Roanoke colonists were rescued in 1586 by this circumnavigator returning from the West Indies Sir Francis Drake |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | "GAME", "SET", "MATCH" $800: An area where a group of colonists live together a settlement |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | SIR FRANCIS DRAKE $1,200 (Daily Double): Starving colonists at this N.C. island settlement were saved in 1586 by Drake returning from the West Indies Roanoke |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | A YEAR ENDING IN '09 $600: The first major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches the Carolinas 1709 |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | GENESIS $800: On May 24, 1607 English colonists named their New World settlement this Jamestown |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | CORSICA $1200: In 1958 Corsica was occupied by those supporting the insurrection of colonists in this North African country Algeria |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $1200: A 1765 British law required of colonists this "fractional" Act, housing British soldiers Quartering |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER $1600: The colonists' response to this act that went into effect Nov. 1, 1765: "No taxation without representation" the Stamp Act |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $600: The "news" is that a Virginia city bears the name of this captain who brought over the Jamestown colonists (Christopher) Newport |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2000: This "royal" Wampanoag leader fought a 1675-76 war against colonists in what was New England's worst Indian war King Philip |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT $1200: In 1616 she & her husband John Rolfe traveled to England to help raise funds for the Virginia colonists Pocahontas |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: In 1765 the Colonists burned Cadwallader Colden in effigy because he tried to administer & enforce this "act" the Stamp Act |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | COWBOYS & INDIANS $1000: Once captured by John Smith, this Pawtuxet taught colonists Indian methods of planting & fertilizing corn Squanto |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | EARLY AMERICA $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) This tavern, opened in Portsmouth in 1766, was named for this British prime minister, a defender of the colonists in Parliament Pitt (the Elder) |
| #4935, aired 2006-02-10 | GOLDEN RULER $400: In a letter to these 2 regents, Columbus states no colonists can look for gold without a license from the gov. Isabella & Ferdinand |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: Colonists protested the Sugar Act of 1764 by famously saying, "No taxation without" this representation |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | THE MAYFLOWER $1600: He served as the first military leader of the Mayflower's colonists Miles Standish |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | MARCH MADNESS $800: March 5, 1770:
British troops gun down 5 American colonists in the event that would become known as this the Boston Massacre |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | YOU GO URUGUAY $800 (Daily Double): Nueva Helvecia is a town founded by colonists from this country to which Uruguay is sometimes compared Switzerland |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | THE 16th CENTURY $800: Before this colony on the Carolina coast was "lost", Sir Francis Drake rescued some of its colonists Roanoke |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | EARLY AMERICA $1200: A British act of 1732 prevented the colonists from exporting these, made out of beaver or anything else hats |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $200: Because of his Hanoverian heritage, American colonists called this monarch "German Georgie" or "Geordie" George III |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This Indian "king" for whom a war against American colonists was named was tracked down & killed in 1676 Philip |
| #4417, aired 2003-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1776 this silversmith set up a mill to make gunpowder after the colonists ran out of it at Bunker Hill Paul Revere |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | 16th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: This colony sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh was founded in July 1587 but all the colonists had vanished by 1590 Roanoke |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | SPIES & SPYING $800: Robert Townsend spied for George Washington by posing as one of these pro-British colonists Tory |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On May 13, 1607 it was founded by more than 100 colonists on the "River of Powhatan" Jamestown |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | BE FRUITFUL $1200: Early New England colonists sang about eating this gourd morning & noon, & not just in October pumpkins |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | HISTORY WITH MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN $200: At Bunker Hill, the colonists can't obey this command because the British have sunglasses on "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $100: The American colonists complained to England about "taxation without" this representation |
| #3713, aired 2000-10-25 | U.S. CITIES $400: Located at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, it was named by Spanish colonists for St. Joseph San Jose |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | COLONIAL AMERICA $600: In February 1733 he & over 100 colonists landed at Yamacraw Bluff in what is now Georgia James Oglethorpe |
| #3489, aired 1999-11-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1,100 (Daily Double): Patriots called colonists loyal to Great Britain this, after a British party which supported the king Tories |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Most of the colonists on this ship that landed at Plymouth in December 1620 were not Pilgrims Mayflower |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | PLACE NAME PEOPLE $500: A Pennsylvania city is named for John Wilkes & this other British friend of the colonists Isaac Barre |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | FEELING POSSESSIVE $800: The Indian policies of Governor Sir William Berkeley fueled this 1676 uprising of Virginia colonists Bacon's Rebellion |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: 1970s sitcom bigot on whom the colonists fought an important Revolutionary War battle Archie Bunker Hill |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | 300 YEARS AGO $200: In 1698, colonists from this European country got refreshment by making Pensacola....Florida, that is Spain |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | THE BOSTON TEA PARTY $200: The colonists darkened their faces & dressed up (admittedly badly) as these American Indians |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | THE BOSTON TEA PARTY $800: In retaliation the British passed a series of laws the Colonists dubbed these Intolerable Acts |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | THE BOSTON TEA PARTY $1000: The tea belonged to this company whose monopoly angered the colonists British East India Company |
| #3213, aired 1998-07-15 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: Colonists called it the elk, though the Shawnee had given it this perfectly good name Wapiti |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | COLONISTS $200: The new charter Virginia got in 1609 amazingly extended its land northwest to this ocean Pacific |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | COLONISTS $400: Pennsylvania colonists sometimes cleaned these by dropping live chickens down them Chimneys |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | COLONISTS $600: You have to "owe it" to Oglethorpe; he wanted GA. to be a haven for men imprisoned for this crime in England Having a debt |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | COLONISTS $1000: The settlement he purchased for a few trinkets & named New Amsterdam is known today as Manhattan Peter Minuit |
| #3038, aired 1997-11-12 | COLONISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Colonist seen here in an early portrait, he's wearing the emblem of a company he founded in 1736: Benjamin Franklin |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: Colonists got their first taste of popcorn at a dinner celebrating this holiday in 1621 Thanksgiving |
| #2899, aired 1997-03-20 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Within 7 months of this colony's founding in 1607, 73 colonists had died of disease & starvation; 32 survived Jamestown |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: In Delaware colonists from this Scandinavian country built some of the first log cabins in America Sweden |
| #2850, aired 1997-01-10 | 1492 $600: Ajaccio, capital of this French Mediterranean island, was settled by Genoese colonists Corsica |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: Native Americans showed the early colonists how to make a sweet sauce from this red fruit the cranberry |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | WOMEN NOVELISTS $200: "Shadows on the Rock" is a novel about French colonists in Quebec by this author of "O Pioneers!" Willa Cather |
| #2444, aired 1995-03-30 | FOUNDERS $800: 1 of the 3 Plymouth colonists who founded Duxbury, Massachusetts John Alden, Miles Standish, William Brewster |
| #2428, aired 1995-03-08 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: World Book says colonists drank lots of beer, rum & wine because they believed this was polluted water |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Squanto is famous for befriending these colonists & teaching them how to plant corn the Pilgrims |
| #2402, aired 1995-01-31 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): On their arrival in April 1607, the colonists of the London Company explored & named this river the James River |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | U.S. CITIES $500: This city near Scranton was named for 2 British politicians who supported the American colonists Wilkes-Barre |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1630 colonists from this company settled Boston the Massachusetts Bay Company |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | HERBS & SPICES $200: American colonists used red bergamot to make this drink while they boycotted British goods tea |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | THE CONTINENTS $300: To colonists coming to the New World, this continent was the "Old World" Europe |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | U.S.A. $100: New Bern, N.C. was founded by European colonists in 1710 & named for a city in this country Switzerland |
| #2030, aired 1993-06-04 | MARQUIS ON THE NAMES $400: He was about 2 when he inherited the title & 19 when he went to fight with the American colonists Lafayette |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | VIRGINIA $800: A museum near this settlement boasts replicas of the 3 ships that brought colonists there in 1607 Jamestown |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | DISAPPEARANCES $300: Virginia Dare disappeared with all the other colonists on this island sometime before 1591 Roanoke (Island) |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | NAME THE DECADE $100: Paul Revere & William Dawes warn colonists that the British are on the march to Concord the 1770s |
| #1952, aired 1993-02-16 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: Great Britain's Proclamation of 1763 forbade the colonists to settle west of these mountains Appalachians |
| #1952, aired 1993-02-16 | COLONIAL AMERICA $600: One of the foods eaten by the colonists was these strips of beef jerky |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | INDIANS $100: In 1616 this Indian princess traveled to London to recruit colonists Pocahontas |
| #1837, aired 1992-09-08 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1000: In 1772 these "Committees" were formed so that Colonists would learn via letters what was happening the Committees of Correspondence |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Spanish colonists named this South American capital for the "good winds" which brought them there Buenos Aires |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | ZOOLOGY $100: Dutch colonists in South Africa gave the gnu this name meaning "wild beast" wildebeest |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | HISTORY $200: Around 986 A.D. he led fewer than 500 colonists to Greenland & founded Brattahlid Eric the Red |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: In 1638 Delaware colonists from this Scandinavian country built the 1st log cabins in America Sweden |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: Until newspapers came into use, colonists got their news from this person who sang it out the town crier |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Tradition says colonists from Tyre founded this city on the N. African coast circa 814 B.C. Carthage |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | HISTORY $800: These eastern Mediterranean traders were the first known colonists in ancient Spain Phoenicians |
| #1484, aired 1991-01-31 | VEGETABLES $200: The colonists sowed it Indian style, putting the kernels in a hole with a couple of fish corn |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | U.S. HISTORY $500: Angered by the Boston Tea Party, Britain passed these laws to punish the colonists the Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) |
| #1356, aired 1990-06-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1655 Dutch colonists conquered New Sweden, an area now part of this state Delaware |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | EARLY AMERICA $900 (Daily Double): Before there were post offices, colonists sent & received mail at this local place of business the tavern (or the inn) |
| #1324, aired 1990-05-10 | HISTORIC TRIVIA $200: Wm. Bradford's first wife drowned while this ship was anchored before the colonists went ashore Mayflower |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | 18TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: Term for the American colonists who supported the Redcoats during the revolution Tories/Loyalists |
| #1263, aired 1990-02-14 | COLONIAL AMERICA $300: When the British parliament passed this March 22, 1765, the colonists put their foot down The Stamp Act |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | FIRSTS $200: Observance at which English colonists 1st ate popcorn the first Thanksgiving |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | FOOD $400: 1st brought to the New World by English colonists, it's America's most popular cheese cheddar |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $300: When Greek colonists founded this city on the Bosporus, they called it Byzantium Istanbul |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | TAXES $600: "No Taxation Without Representation" was the cry of Colonists opposed to this 1765 tax bill the Stamp Act |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | HISTORY $1000: In 1622 this chief's brother Opechancanough led a massacre that killed 1/3 of Virginia's colonists Powhatan |
| #1080, aired 1989-04-21 | FASHION HISTORY $1000: Colonists in Mass. dressed like Roundheads while colonists in Va. dressed like this opposing group the Cavaliers |
| #1062, aired 1989-03-28 | 18th C. AMERICA $400: The Quartering Act required the colonists to do this give rooms to soldiers (and feed them) |
| #1062, aired 1989-03-28 | 18th C. AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): The British Proclamation of 1763 forbad the colonists from settling west of these mountains Appalachian Mountains |
| #1025, aired 1989-02-03 | MONEY $200: American colonists who wanted "2 bits" in change chopped up a dollar coin from this country Spain |
| #1023, aired 1989-02-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,800 (Daily Double): 2 of 3 of the original 13 colonies founded by colonists from Massachusetts New Hampshire, Rhode Island & Connecticut |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | HAITI $400: By 1788, they outnumbered Haitian colonists by at least 8 to 1 slaves |
| #779, aired 1988-01-14 | COLONIAL AMERICA $600: King Wiliam's Queen Anne's & King George's were wars Colonists fought in against this country France |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | SPIDERS $400: Spiders are among the earliest island colonists after these create a new environment, as at Krakatoa volcanoes |
| #707, aired 1987-10-06 | ASTRONOMY $200: Because this force is less powerful on the Moon, colonists may face loss of muscle mass gravity |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | NAMESAKES $300: English colonists named Jamestown after this king James I |
| #617, aired 1987-04-21 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: Anthropologists have stated these peoples were at a Neolithic stage when colonists landed the Indians |
| #511, aired 1986-11-24 | FEBRUARY $300: Day colonists founded Savannah in 1733, & birthday, in 1809 of the 16th president February 12th |
| #466, aired 1986-09-22 | "C" IN HISTORY $200: On his 2nd voyage, he took about 1000 colonists, all men, to the West Indies Christopher Columbus |
| #149, aired 1985-04-04 | ENGLISH HISTORY $300: Among their reasons for revolting were the "Intolerable Acts" of 1774 the American colonists (the 13 Colonies) |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | TAX FACTS $300: American colonists insisted on having this with their taxation representation |
