Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (733 results returned)

#9027, aired 2024-01-30CHAINS $800: In August 1500 he & his brothers were sent back to Spain in chains for mismanagement & brutality in Hispaniola Columbus
#9018, aired 2024-01-17NOT TO BE CONFUSED $800: Carvel is known for ice cream cakes; a caravel is a light sailing ship, like these 2 used on Columbus' 1492 voyage the Nina & the Pinta
#25, aired 2024-01-16WHO CAME FIRST? $300: Ferdinand Magellan, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus Marco Polo
#8991, aired 2023-12-11CIRCLE TIME $600: All official distances from New York City are measured from this point at the intersection of 59th Street, 8th Avenue & Broadway Columbus Circle
#20, aired 2023-11-15THE SEARCH FOR FOREIGN LANDS $400: Pune, one of this country's 10 most populous cities, is a sister city of Columbus, Indiana India
#20, aired 2023-11-15SCIENCE MUSEUMS $1000: Hey, fulcrum lovers! At Columbus, Ohio's Center of Science & Industry, kids can lift a 2,437-lb. car using this bar a lever
#8972, aired 2023-11-14QUICK CITIES $1200: Its 200-foot-high monument to Columbus is on La Rambla Barcelona
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $100: On a trip to Asia in 1492, he ended up thousands of miles away and still got a U.S. federal holiday in his honor Christopher Columbus
#8944, aired 2023-10-05MADEIRA $600: In the 1470s this explorer worked & lived in Madeira & married Felipa, the daughter of one of its governors Columbus
#15, aired 2023-10-04AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $100: Ohio: Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati Columbus
#8937, aired 2023-09-26IN THE CORPORATE ARENA $400: This insurance company is on your side--& you're in its arena, if you go to Columbus Blue Jackets home games Nationwide
#8931, aired 2023-09-18LATIN AMERICA $400: Aka the Columbus Archipelago, this island group known for its tortoises is 600 miles off the mainland in the eastern Pacific the Galápagos
#8912, aired 2023-07-11CITY FOLK $1600: He directed "Home Alone" as well as the first 2 Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus
#8897, aired 2023-06-20LOVE ISLAND U.K. $2000: In 1493 Columbus named this volcanic island in the West Indies; the French had it for a bit, but the U.K. has had it since 1783 Montserrat
#8885, aired 2023-06-02OHIO GEOGRAPHY $400: The Ohio Agricultural & Mechanical College opened near this city in 1873; now it's much bigger & has another name Columbus
#12, aired 2023-05-16NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1600: When Columbus arrived at the island he named this on October 12, 1492, he wrote that it was green & a pleasure to see San Salvador
#8830, aired 2023-03-17THE CARIBBEAN $400: In 1493, he happened upon the small island of Marie-Galante, which was later named for one of his ships Columbus
#8788, aired 2023-01-18LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $2000: Marcy Kaptur from this city on Lake Erie west of Cleveland is the longest-serving female U.S. Representative ever Toledo
#8776, aired 2023-01-02FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE MAP $4,000 (Daily Double): Santo Stefano Church in Genoa, Italy is where, according to tradition, this sailor was baptized in 1451 Columbus
#8775, aired 2022-12-30U.S. TERRITORIES $200: Visited by Columbus on his second voyage west in 1493, this commonwealth became part of the U.S. in 1898 Puerto Rico
#7, aired 2022-11-06LOST IN EXPLORATION $200: In 1492 Columbus was actually trying to reach this continent--thus the name "West Indies" for the places where he landed Asia
#8734, aired 2022-11-03A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $200: Christopher Columbus lands on an island in the Caribbean & names it San Salvador 1492
#8734, aired 2022-11-03GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $2000: AFLAC is the American Family Life Assurance Company of this Georgia "C"ity where it's headquartered Columbus
#5, aired 2022-10-23HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $4,100 (Daily Double): Many states now designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples' Day rather than this Columbus Day
#8712, aired 2022-10-04CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Beautiful port!" said Columbus, giving this Panama town its name, later applied to a London "Road" after the British captured it Portobelo
#8702, aired 2022-09-20I'LL HAVE SECONDS $1200: The second Monday in October is Columbus Day as well as this day that honors America's first inhabitants & tribal nations Indigenous Peoples' Day
#8655, aired 2022-06-03THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $800: Recent statue topplings by activists have included those of this explorer in St. Paul & in Richmond Columbus
#8651, aired 2022-05-30THE MIDWEST $600: In 2000 this Ohio city welcomed an NHL franchise Columbus
#8601, aired 2022-03-214-LETTER COUNTRIES $600: Columbus landed on this island nation in 1492, but Diego Velazquez began its first permanent settlement in 1511 Cuba
#8585, aired 2022-02-25BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $800: Named for an explorer, this Big Ten capital city is at the junction of the Olentangy & Scioto rivers Columbus
#8580, aired 2022-02-18THE LANDING $800: The island of San Salvador in this archipelago is thought to be where Columbus first landed in the Americas the Bahamas
#8, aired 2022-02-11SPECIAL DAYS $1000: October 2021 brought the first presidential proclamation of this day, celebrated along with Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples' Day
#8564, aired 2022-01-27MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $2000: "1492: Conquest of Paradise" starred this French actor as Christopher Columbus out to find a new route to Asia Gérard Depardieu
#8562, aired 2022-01-25NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $400: "'Independence!' cries the American world; bathed in the blood of its heroes the land of Columbus" Colombia
#8542, aired 2021-12-28THE "C" TEAM $1000: The coach of this Columbus MLS team hopes they don't mutiny the Crew
#8536, aired 2021-12-20O HOLY KNIGHT $200: Father Michael McGivney founded a Catholic service organization & called it the Knights of this sailor of 1492 Columbus
#8534, aired 2021-12-16THE 15th CENTURY $400: After this flagship ran aground in 1492, Christopher Columbus ordered that its wreckage be used to build a fort on Hispaniola Santa Maria
#8485, aired 2021-10-08THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $400: In 1892 Buenos Aires & Bogota both hoped to open new opera houses named for this explorer; only Bogota's was inaugurated on time Columbus
#8475, aired 2021-09-24ITALY $800: This northwestern seaport where Columbus was likely born is at the center of the Italian riviera Genoa
#8435, aired 2021-07-02FAMOUS NAMES $400: This Italian's brother Bartholomew was also an explorer & was an expert chart maker Columbus
#8397, aired 2021-05-11ON THE CALENDAR $2000: In the anniversary year 1892, Benjamin Harrison urged observance of a holiday honoring this "pioneer of progress" Christopher Columbus
#8369, aired 2021-04-01CURRENCIES $400: Costa Rica uses a currency bearing the last name of this sailor in Spanish Christopher Columbus
#8363, aired 2021-03-24I LOVE A PARADE $800: In September 1882 the Knights of this held a giant parade in New York City--the prelude to a new holiday the Knights of Labor
#8356, aired 2021-03-15HISTORIC PLACES $400: St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands has a landing site named for this man's visit on Nov. 14, 1493 Columbus
#8343, aired 2021-02-24CITIES OF THE MIDWEST $800: This Ohio city is known for its zoo & the Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League Columbus
#8302, aired 2020-12-15MARCO POLO SLEPT HERE $600: Back in Italy, Marco Polo dictated his book while jailed in this city-state, later the birthplace of another famous explorer--Columbus Genoa
#8292, aired 2020-12-01SKIPPER $800: In 1492 Martín & Vincente Pinzón commanded these 2 craft while Columbus captained the flagship the Niña & the Pinta
#8290, aired 2020-11-27AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $400: U.S. schoolkids began reciting this as part of Columbus Day observances in 1892 The Pledge of Allegiance
#8282, aired 2020-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $400: Around 1494 he deluded himself into believing Hispaniola was the biblical "land of Sheba"; he'd later leave his brothers there Columbus
#8266, aired 2020-10-26AIRPLANE MODE $1600: In what's called the first air cargo flight, in 1910 a Wright Brothers plane flew silk from this city to Columbus, Ohio Dayton, Ohio
#8241, aired 2020-09-21GOOD STUFF IN 2020 $400: At the Columbus Zoo, male & female cubs of this fastest land mammal were born via in vitro fertilization for the first time a cheetah
#8231, aired 2020-06-083 TO GET READY $600: On Columbus' first voyage, this one of a trio didn't make it back to Spain, having run aground off Hispaniola the Santa Maria
#8178, aired 2020-03-11ISLAND NATIONS $400: Called "the fairest isle that eyes have beheld" by Columbus, this island nation is the birthplace of Usain Bolt Jamaica
#8167, aired 2020-02-25GEOGRAPHY $400: Split between 2 nations, this most populous Caribbean island was named by Columbus Hispaniola
#8141, aired 2020-01-20THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $400: On a high stone pyramid, Aztec priests performed sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli, god of this heavenly body the Sun
#8141, aired 2020-01-20THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $800: Road-building & irrigation--lots of infrastructure investment by this S. American people who ruled an empire of nearly 12 million the Inca
#8141, aired 2020-01-20THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $1200: This "green table" region of southwest Colorado was home to Pueblo cliff dwellers more than 7 centuries ago Mesa Verde
#8141, aired 2020-01-20THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $2000: Existing from about 1200-400 B.C., this civilization of Mesoamerica is closely identified with giant stone heads the Olmecs
#8141, aired 2020-01-20THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1500 B.C. people in Central America were processing rubber in a way similar to this process discovered by Goodyearl" vulcanization
#4, aired 2020-01-08NAME THE DECADE $200: Christopher Columbus makes his last transatlantic trip: the first decade of this century the 1500s (or the 16th)
#8131, aired 2020-01-06POTPOURRI $1000: Back in 1917 the president of Argentina announced an Oct. 12 holiday called not Columbus Day but this "Dia" Dia de la Raza
#8123, aired 2019-12-25HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Legend says when Columbus saw the 3 mtn, peaks on this Caribbean island he chose to name it for the Father, Son & Holy Spirit Trinidad
#8072, aired 2019-10-15EXPLORERS $200: In June 1503, during his fourth voyage, this man & his remaining crew members were marooned on Jamaica Christopher Columbus
#8054, aired 2019-09-19FERDINAND $200: This explorer was joined on his 4th voyage in 1502 by illegitimate son Ferdinand, who later wrote dad's biography Columbus
#8025, aired 2019-06-28EXPLORERS $800: In 1492 he was given the title "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" Christopher Columbus
#7939, aired 2019-02-28CITIES $600: Discovery Drive, Exploration Drive & Genoa Place are streets in this state capital Columbus, Ohio
#7932, aired 2019-02-19WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH? $400: Columbus Day, Boss' Day October
#7911, aired 2019-01-21FOREIGN MONEY $800: This currency of El Salvador gets its name from Christopher Columbus the colon
#7892, aired 2018-12-25THAT WAS SOME CHRISTMAS! $800: On Christmas 1492 this flagship of Christopher Columbus ran aground off Haiti the Santa Maria
#7875, aired 2018-11-30CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) One unusual landmark is Topiary Park--well, sorry, properly it's The Topiary Park, just like it's The Ohio State University in this city Columbus
#7857, aired 2018-11-06RAISING CANE $800: Cuba is known as the "Isle of Rum" largely thanks to this explorer who introduced sugarcane to the island in 1493 Christopher Columbus
#7848, aired 2018-10-24STATE FOSSILS $1,500 (Daily Double): This Southern state's capital & state fossil, a species of mammoth, are both named for Columbus South Carolina
#7838, aired 2018-10-10HISTORY $1000: Born in Italy, he helped prep the ships for Columbus' second & third voyagers before setting to sea himself Vespucci
#7832, aired 2018-10-02SAILING INTO HISTORY $200: This little lady that sailed with Columbus was originally named the Santa Clara the Niña
#7780, aired 2018-06-08STATE OF THE NEWSPAPER $400: The Columbus Dispatch Ohio
#7765, aired 2018-05-18ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah shows a map on the monitor.) Between Cuba and Puerto Rico, you'll find this politically divided island that was named by Columbus, who landed there in 1492 Hispaniola
#7745, aired 2018-04-20EXPLORERS $400: An entry in his log reads, "The people of San Salvador came swimming to our ships and in boats made from one log" Columbus
#7722, aired 2018-03-20BROTHERHOODS $400: This Catholic organization is named for the explorer, not the capital of Ohio Knights of Columbus
#7712, aired 2018-03-06A YEAR ENDING IN 8 $800: Christopher Columbus embarks on his third voyage to the New World 1498
#7709, aired 2018-03-01HISTORIC TRIOS $1,000 (Daily Double): As its name suggests, this caravel was the smallest of Columbus' ships in 1492 the Niña
#7699, aired 2018-02-15HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: In 2017 Los Angeles joined other cities in replacing this holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day Columbus Day
#7696, aired 2018-02-12C.C. & ME $400: 1500 was a bad year for this explorer: he was sent back home in chains by Francisco de Bobadilla, his replacement Christopher Columbus
#7687, aired 2018-01-30AIR FORCE BASE $200: Named for the famous brothers & a WWI-era pilot, Wright-Patterson AFB is just east of this Ohio aviation city Dayton
#7681, aired 2018-01-22CRUSADERS $1600: This knightly order founded 1113 combined the tasks of defending Crusader territory & caring for the sick the Knights Hospitaller or the Knights of Malta
#7659, aired 2017-12-21MAKES SENSE $800: Director Chris Columbus' production company is named for this year 1492
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) I'm at the Columbus, Ohio house of James Thurber, who went on to write "The Secret Life of" this daydreamer Walter Mitty
#7611, aired 2017-10-16THE HISTORY BOOKSHELF $400: Charles C. Mann's work entitled this year, subtitled "New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" 1491
#7593, aired 2017-09-20THE NEXT STATE CAPITAL ALPHABETICALLY $200: After Columbia; 3/4 of the work is already done! Columbus
#7563, aired 2017-06-28PORTUGUESE HISTORY $200: The Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal & Spain dealt with discoveries by this man not born in either country Columbus
#7551, aired 2017-06-12THE SPORTING LIFE $1000: This Columbus, Ohio NHL team pays homage to Union soldiers with its nickname the Blue Jackets
#7539, aired 2017-05-25ISLE BE SEEING YOU $1,200 (Daily Double): Gomera in this Spanish group was the last stop for Columbus before he headed across the Atlantic to the New World the Canary Islands
#7535, aired 2017-05-19FAMOUS SHIPS $1200: When Columbus acquired his flagship, it was called La Gallega; he changed its name to this the Santa María
#7522, aired 2017-05-02THIS IS PBS $2000: "Billy Porter: Broadway & Soul" & "Sinatra: Voice for a Century" were "Live from" this landmark around 64th & Columbus Live from Lincoln Center
#7520, aired 2017-04-28CLUES ACROSS OHIO $800: (Hi, I'm Jerry Henderson from WTOL 11.) One of minor league baseball's best-known teams, the Mud Hens of this Ohio city, got their unusual nickname in 1896 from the duck-like birds in a nearby marsh Toledo
#7520, aired 2017-04-28CLUES ACROSS OHIO $2000: (Hi, I'm Mike Davis from 10TV.) The topiary park in Columbus is best known for a piece based on "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by this French painter (Georges) Seurat
#7512, aired 2017-04-18STATE THE CITY $200: Ohio: The most populous on Lake Erie Cleveland
#7510, aired 2017-04-14HISTORY AT SEA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) On the return trip during his first voyage, Columbus and the crew of the Niña were almost arrested on Santa Maria Island in this group, because the governor may have thought they were pirates the Azores
#7508, aired 2017-04-12BACK TO SCHOOL WITH POLITICIANS $1000: In his senior year at his Columbus, Georgia high school, he was voted most intellectual Newt Gingrich
#7498, aired 2017-03-29IT COMES ONCE A YEAR $600: Closer than Munich, Columbus, Ohio hosts its own version of this event with plenty of beer, polkas & music Oktoberfest
#7479, aired 2017-03-02POTPOURRI $2000: When Columbus reached this alliterative body of water, his crew "saw much weed...& judged themselves to be near land" the Sargasso Sea
#7421, aired 2016-12-12CIRCLE TIME $400: All official distances from NYC are measured from this point at the intersection of 59th Street, Eighth Avenue & Broadway Columbus Circle
#7409, aired 2016-11-24HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $1600: The USA's first federally funded road, the 600-mile National Road reached this current state capital at about its halfway point Columbus
#7408, aired 2016-11-23CAPTAIN $600: Brothers Martin & Vicente Pinzon captained these 2 ships for Columbus in 1492 the Niña and the Pinta
#7405, aired 2016-11-18IN BETWEEN $400: This federal holiday falls between Independence Day & Columbus Day Labor Day
#7403, aired 2016-11-16THE QUEEN $800: She sponsored Columbus' voyages, bringing wealth & power to Spain Isabella of Castile
#7397, aired 2016-11-08CONTEMPORARIES $400: Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492, around the time this Renaissance master drew his "Vitruvian Man" da Vinci
#7380, aired 2016-10-14U.S. COINS $400: This queen who sponsored Columbus turned up on a commemorative U.S. quarter in 1893 Isabella
#7377, aired 2016-10-11THEY COME IN THREES $600: In August 1492 Columbus & his crews set sail on the ocean blue on these 3 ships the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
#7303, aired 2016-05-18WHAT'S "NEW"? $400: Collective term for the Western Hemisphere after Columbus' voyages the New World
#7292, aired 2016-05-03THE HAITI FILE $800: In May 2014 it was announced that substantial evidence indicated this flagship of Columbus had been found off Haiti the Santa María
#7261, aired 2016-03-21WORLD HOLIDAYS $1000: San Salvador Island in this West Indies archipelago nation honors Columbus' New World landfall on Discovery Day the Bahamas
#7246, aired 2016-02-29LEAP DAY $600: In 1504 he used foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to escape a dicey situation with local Jamaicans Christopher Columbus
#7206, aired 2016-01-04STATE CAPITALS $600: Each September this Buckeye capital holds an Oktoberfest in its restored 19th century German village Columbus
#7205, aired 2016-01-01OFFBEAT MUSEUMS $1000: A Columbus, Ga. museum devoted to these food containers has one of Superman valued at over $10,000 a lunch box
#7205, aired 2016-01-01LITERARY AWARDS $1200: In 2001 this author of "Goodbye, Columbus" said hello to $10,000 & the first Franz Kafka Prize Philip Roth
#7199, aired 2015-12-24"SANTA" GOES AROUND THE WORLD $400: Columbus' ship would've been at home on this Arizona river, a tributary of the Bill Williams River Santa Maria
#7191, aired 2015-12-14ITALIAN EXPLORERS $400: In 1492 he reached an agreement with the Spanish crown giving him 10% of any profit from their venture Christopher Columbus
#7169, aired 2015-11-1219th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In 1882 Father Michael McGivney founded this Catholic fraternal organization Knights of Columbus
#7143, aired 2015-10-07FALL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: Explore the calendar & you'll discover that this federal holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October Columbus Day
#7100, aired 2015-06-26SERIOUS NONFICTION $1,200 (Daily Double): With this year for a book title, Charles C. Mann brings to life what civilization was like in the Americas before Columbus 1491
#7094, aired 2015-06-18THE MONEY MAN $200: An 1892 half-dollar commemorated this explorer Columbus
#7070, aired 2015-05-15FINE FOOD $1000: Columbus was a fan of these, also a generic Italian term for cookies, because they resisted mold on voyages biscotti
#7056, aired 2015-04-27"O_U"! $1200: These 3 initials are popular in Columbus & Corvallis O.S.U.
#7034, aired 2015-03-26SCIENCE MUSEUMS $400: Kids love the generator at the Center of Science & Industry in Columbus, Ohio that produces this kind of electricity static
#7031, aired 2015-03-23IT'S MY WAY & THE HIGHWAY $400: I gave my name to I-10, the transcontinental highway that runs from California to Florida, not Spain to the Indies Columbus
#7008, aired 2015-02-18I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $1,200 (Daily Double): Tensions can arise when a Michigan Wolverine exits the state to go to this capital, home to U-M's traditional archrival Columbus
#7006, aired 2015-02-16AVIATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1910 a Wright airplane flew several bolts of silk from this Ohio city to Columbus, possibly the 1st air freight shipment Dayton
#6959, aired 2014-12-11OH, HI, OHIO! $2,000 (Daily Double): Courtesy of Genoa, Italy, a 20-foot statue stands in in City Hall Plaza in this city Columbus
#6947, aired 2014-11-25PUERTO RICO $400: Puerto Rico's anthem says that when this man reached the island he exclaimed, "This is the beautiful land that I seek" Columbus
#6933, aired 2014-11-05HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS $400: In a 1500 letter, he wrote, "I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people" Columbus
#6927, aired 2014-10-28THAT STARTED FROM THIS TROPIC PORT $1200: Puerto Plata in this nation on Hispaniola was founded under the direction of Christopher Columbus the Dominican Republic
#6924, aired 2014-10-23LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO $5,600 (Daily Double): This bookstore on Columbus Avenue at Broadway is also a publisher whose books include "Howl" City Lights
#6887, aired 2014-07-22EVERY YEAR $800: In Hawaii this October holiday was replaced with Discoverers' Day commemorating the Polynesian arrival Columbus Day
#6885, aired 2014-07-18EXPLORERS $2,500 (Daily Double): Fewer than a third of his crew members survived the 1497-99 roundtrip voyage from Lisbon to Calicut, India Vasco da Gama
#6879, aired 2014-07-10GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY $1000: On all 4 voyages to the New World, Columbus' ships stopped for supplies at this island group off Morocco's coast the Canary Islands
#6837, aired 2014-05-13SHIP SHAPE $800: This ship of Columbus was officially the Santa Clara but had a more juvenile nickname the Niña
#6830, aired 2014-05-02QUEEN OF $1200: It was a while ago, so we'll give Longfellow a pass when he called this Ohio city "Queen of the West" Cincinnati
#6808, aired 2014-04-02WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS $1200: With the Columbus commemorative stamps in 1893, she became the first woman to be depicted on a U.S. stamp Queen Isabella
#6806, aired 2014-03-31IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST $800: In 1494 he called Jamaica "the fairest isle that eyes have beheld" Columbus
#6768, aired 2014-02-05IN THE CITY'S NEWSPAPER $600: Its Dispatch: "Beagle Helps Ohio Zoos Tell If Polar Bear Pregnant" Columbus
#6765, aired 2014-01-31A MONTH OF ANNUAL EVENTS $600: Boss' Day, Mother-In-Law's Day, Columbus Day October
#6746, aired 2014-01-06BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This 1959 Philip Roth novella begins, "the first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" Goodbye, Columbus
#6741, aired 2013-12-30BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2,200 (Daily Double): An explorer: "The Man Who Presumed" Henry Morton Stanley
#6716, aired 2013-11-25NEWSPAPERS $1200: Ohio's largest newspapers include The Blade of Toledo & this city's Beacon journal Akron
#6703, aired 2013-11-06IT'S A FEDERAL HOLIDAY $800: Of the 10 U.S. federal holidays, this one honors the oldest event historically Christmas Day
#6701, aired 2013-11-04"C" THE WORLD $400: The West Indies archipelago discovered by Columbus in 1503 isn't the Crocodile Islands but these the Cayman Islands
#6697, aired 2013-10-29NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1000: He has won for "Sabbath's Theater" & "Goodbye, Columbus" Philip Roth
#6694, aired 2013-10-24A DAY ON THE BOAT $800: It's Dec. 25, 1492 & this ship, Columbus' flagship, has run aground off Haiti & will be lost the Santa Maria
#6692, aired 2013-10-22COURTS OF ALL SORTS $800: Court Street is the main drag for nightlife at Ohio University in this city Athens
#6688, aired 2013-10-16YEAR HE, YEAR HE $400: The year Columbus set sail on the ocean blue on his first transatlantic voyage 1492
#6664, aired 2013-08-01EXPLORATION $400: On Oct. 12, 1492 he wrote, "this afternoon the people of San Salvador came swimming to our ships" Christopher Columbus
#6656, aired 2013-07-22.orgANIZATIONS $600: kofc.org: these "Knights" who contribute more than $150 million to charitable needs & projects annually the Knights of Columbus
#6615, aired 2013-05-24HISTORY'S ODDS & ENDS $200: Congressman Peter Rodino, son of an Italian immigrant, introduced the bill establishing this October national holiday Columbus Day
#6603, aired 2013-05-08THE BOOK BOOK $400: In a Margaret Truman novel, a lost diary of one of Columbus' men is linked to a "Murder at" this D.C. library the Library of Congress
#6601, aired 2013-05-06EUROPEAN CITIES $400: Native son Christopher Columbus embodies the maritime tradition of this city Genoa
#6580, aired 2013-04-05THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN $400: Columbus hockey
#6576, aired 2013-04-01BORN IN THE 1400s $1200: This explorer aka Giovanni Caboto, sort of the Columbus of the North Atlantic (John) Cabot
#6572, aired 2013-03-26PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $400: In 1943 Samuel Morison won for "Admiral of the Open Sea" about this explorer Columbus
#6571, aired 2013-03-25OHIO HISTORY $200: What's today known as this was established near Columbus in 1870 as an agricultural & mechanical college (The) Ohio State (University)
#6550, aired 2013-02-22COATS OF ARMS $200: This explorer's 3 ships are represented on Trinidad & Tobago's coat of arms Columbus
#6528, aired 2013-01-23LET'S TAKE A VACATION $400: For a fabulous view of Barcelona, take the elevator to the top of Monument a Colom, a landmark built to honor him Columbus
#6513, aired 2013-01-02SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS $600: Father Michael McGivney founded this fraternal society for Catholic laymen in 1882 the Knights of Columbus
#6510, aired 2012-12-28HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2,000 (Daily Double): At the beginning of each term, Supreme Court justices work one week, then get Monday off for this Columbus Day
#6498, aired 2012-12-12ADVENTUROUS FOLKS $1200: In October 1492 Columbus first landed in the New World on an island that's today in this nation the Bahamas
#6443, aired 2012-09-26IN THE CORPORATE ARENA $400: This insurance company is on your side--& you're in its arena, if you go to Columbus Blue Jackets home games Nationwide
#6383, aired 2012-05-23MADEIRA $400: In the 1470s this explorer worked & lived in Madeira & married Felipa, the daughter of one of its governors (Christopher) Columbus
#6371, aired 2012-05-07THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Jamaica & Grenada are part of this island chain that got its name because Columbus didn't know where he was the West Indies
#6367, aired 2012-05-01HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,800 (Daily Double): Although the first celebration of this holiday occurred in October 1792, it didn't become a federal holiday until 1937 Columbus Day
#6314, aired 2012-02-16U.S. COINS $200: Produced in 1892, the first commemorative U.S. coin featured this non-American Christopher Columbus
#6290, aired 2012-01-13FLOAT SAM & JET SAM $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1937 to 1940 Samuel Eliot Morison researched a 450th anniversary bio by retracing this man's voyages Christopher Columbus
#6271, aired 2011-12-19CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) Gingerbread men & handmade ornaments are but a few of the items offered at the holiday market at this famous circle named for an Italian explorer Columbus Circle
#6262, aired 2011-12-06THE STORY OF O. HENRY $1200: After returning to the U.S., Henry did 3 years in prison in this Ohio city named for an explorer Columbus
#6246, aired 2011-11-14MISSISSIPPI MISTERS $800: In March 2011, Columbus, Mississippi celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of this playwright Tennessee Williams
#6242, aired 2011-11-08TAKE A DRIVE ON I-65 $400: Well, it goes through Indianapolis / Down to Columbus / This largest Kentucky city is oh so pretty Louisville
#6239, aired 2011-11-03IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD $800: Christopher Columbus sampled this grain in Cuba, declaring it "most tasty boiled, roasted or ground into flour" corn (or maize)
#6213, aired 2011-09-28TRIPLE THE FUN $400: Columbus' 3 ships in 1492 the Niña, the Pinta & the Santa María
#6201, aired 2011-07-25ORGANIZATIONS FOR SHORT $800: The K of C, all 1.8 million of them the Knights of Columbus
#6199, aired 2011-07-21THERE SHE IS, MISS AMERICA $200: There she is, again & again--Mary Campbell, from this capital of Ohio, won in 1922 & '23 & was 1st runner-up in '24 Columbus
#6175, aired 2011-06-17FOR THE HOME TEAM $1000: This Columbus, Ohio NHL team pays homage to Union soldiers with its nickname the Blue Jackets
#6168, aired 2011-06-08THE '90s $400: In a jingle, this line follows "in fourteen hundred and ninety-two" "Columbus sailed the ocean blue"
#6138, aired 2011-04-27NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1600: In 1960 for "Goodbye, Columbus" & in 1995 for "Sabbath's Theater" Philip Roth
#6136, aired 2011-04-25FADE OUT $1200: On Nov. 26, 1504, 12 years after saying "Goodbye, Columbus", this queen made her royal exit Isabella
#6130, aired 2011-04-15PAPER $1600: Columbus: A speedy message the Dispatch
#6114, aired 2011-03-24A FAIR TO REMEMBER $400: The World Expo of 1893 was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of one of this man's voyages Columbus
#6097, aired 2011-03-01ON YOUR COLLEGE VISIT... $600: Make sure to put "the" before the rest of the name of this Big 10 university in Columbus The Ohio State University
#6065, aired 2011-01-14MY BOYS $1000: Christopher Columbus the explorer's oldest son, or Dora the Explorer's cousin Diego
#6043, aired 2010-12-15AMERICAN POETRY $400: Ogden Nash wrote that this explorer "discovered America and they put him in jail for it" Columbus
#6039, aired 2010-12-09PRE-1929 U.S. PAPER CURRENCY $400: A 1914 $5 Federal Reserve note depicted the pilgrims & this explorer sighting land on the reverse side Columbus
#6023, aired 2010-11-17MEET ME IN THE "QUAD" $600: The 1892 celebration of Columbus' discovery of America quadricentennial
#6020, aired 2010-11-12WORLD CAPITALS $800: This capital of the Dominican Republic was founded by Columbus' brother Bartolome Santo Domingo
#6011, aired 2010-11-01MAKES SENSE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 4-digit number is the Hollywood production company of director Chris Columbus 1492
#6004, aired 2010-10-21OCTOBERFEAST $200: This California city has the USA's oldest Columbus Day parade & an Italian Banquet at the Fairmont Hotel, too San Francisco
#5997, aired 2010-10-12GOODBYE, COLUMBUS $200: Ya, mon! On June 29, 1504 Columbus was rescued from this island where he'd been shipwrecked for a year Jamaica
#5997, aired 2010-10-12GOODBYE, COLUMBUS $400: Columbus said goodbye for good in this year, 14 years after he set out on his most famous voyage 1506
#5997, aired 2010-10-12GOODBYE, COLUMBUS $600: On Christmas Day 1492, Columbus waved a sad bye-bye to this ship after it ran aground the Santa Maria
#5997, aired 2010-10-12GOODBYE, COLUMBUS $800: Sometime before 1477, Columbus bade farewell to this Italian city of his birth Genoa
#5997, aired 2010-10-12GOODBYE, COLUMBUS $1000: On April 16, 1503, on his last voyage, Columbus left Rio Belen in what's now this narrow country Panama
#5989, aired 2010-09-30ISLAND HOPPING $1600: Christopher Columbus discovered what is today the island nation of Dominica on this day of the week in Nov. 1493 Sunday
#5983, aired 2010-09-22"C"s THE DAY $200: Nixon made the second Monday of October a national holiday & called it this Columbus Day
#5979, aired 2010-09-16SILENCE $400: The journal of this quiet type of institution gives an award for the one "of the Year"; in 2010 it was in Columbus a library
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A CAPSULE CATEGORY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) Russia filled this Resurs 500 space capsule with greetings to the American people & launched it in 1992 to commemorate this man's voyage Christopher Columbus
#5965, aired 2010-07-16MUSEUMS $1000: New York City has many museums, like Columbus Circle's MAD, the Museum of Arts & this Design
#5923, aired 2010-05-19IN THE ARENA $400: For WWE fans Jan. 25, 2010 was this night "Raw" at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio Monday Night
#5918, aired 2010-05-12YOU'RE TRIPPING $800: This Florida explorer was part of the crew on Columbus' second voyage Ponce de León
#5903, aired 2010-04-21MUSICAL PRIME NUMBERS $1200: Counting Crows: "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in ____ he came home across the deep blue sea" 1493
#5861, aired 2010-02-22U.S. COMMEMORATIVE COINS $2,000 (Daily Double): 1992 commemorative coins honored the quincentennial of his greatest achievement Christopher Columbus
#5852, aired 2010-02-09AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, was mayor of this Ohio metropolis from 1967 to 1971 Cleveland
#5846, aired 2010-02-01FRATERNITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Founded in 1882, they were named for the discoverer of the Americas the Knights of Columbus
#5836, aired 2010-01-18"G"EOGRAPHY $1200: Not surprisingly the main airport in this Italian port city is named for Christopher Columbus Genoa
#5827, aired 2010-01-05U.S. TERRITORIES & AREAS $1000: Explored by Columbus in 1493, the main islands of this "chaste" group are split between the U.S. & Britain the Virgin Islands
#5824, aired 2009-12-31HISTORICAL WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? $400: On Oct. 12, 1492 this captain thought he was on an island near Japan--not exactly Columbus
#5814, aired 2009-12-17HAPPY FEDERAL HOLIDAY! $400 (Daily Double): In 1792 NYC honored the 300th anniv. of a famous arrival with the first major U.S. celebration of this holiday Columbus Day
#5793, aired 2009-11-18AMERICAN CITIES $1000: In 1882 the Knights of Columbus was founded in this "new" Connecticut city New Haven
#5781, aired 2009-11-02EXPLORATION $200: In 1493, during his second voyage to the New World, he built a trading post called Isabela on Hispaniola Columbus
#5779, aired 2009-10-29MOST POPULOUS CITY IN THE STATE $2000: Ohio Columbus
#5772, aired 2009-10-20UNIVERSE $200: Even before Columbus, people knew the Earth wasn't this, but NASA's WMAP probe says the universe is flat
#5768, aired 2009-10-14COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Spain in August 1492, Columbus & his 90 men briefly stopped in these islands that had only recently become a Spanish possession the Canary Islands
#5768, aired 2009-10-14COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 34 days into crossing the Atlantic, Columbus quelled a small mutiny on October 10th; just 2 days later on October 12th, he changed history forever by coming ashore on the island he gave this holy name San Salvador
#5768, aired 2009-10-14COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 12 weeks after discovering the New World, the Santa Maria was wrecked on a reef off the north coast of this large island on Christmas Day Hispanola
#5768, aired 2009-10-14COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On the return journey, after becoming separated from the Pinta by a storm, the Nina made landfall back in the Old World in these islands on February 15, 1493 the Azores
#5768, aired 2009-10-14COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In April 1493 & amidst great pomp, Columbus announced the discovery of the New World to his patron, Queen Isabella, in this city Barcelona
#5744, aired 2009-07-23BUSINESS AS USUAL $600 (Daily Double): Despite the name, not much has restricted the growth of this women's clothing company founded in Columbus, Ohio The Limited
#5736, aired 2009-07-13HOLIDAYS $600: A 1968 law passed by Congress stipulated that this holiday be celebrated on the second Monday in October Columbus Day
#5730, aired 2009-07-03JUNGLE FEVER $1200: Go to the Columbus Zoo & see Jungle Jack's Landing, named for this director emeritus of the zoo Jack Hanna
#5727, aired 2009-06-30MULTIPLE-WORD CAPITALS $400: This capital of the Dominican Republic is said to contain the remains of Christopher Columbus Santo Domingo
#5690, aired 2009-05-08AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959 Philip Roth
#5681, aired 2009-04-27SPHERES $200: One made by Martin Behaim in 1492 may have influenced Columbus to sail west to Asia a globe
#5679, aired 2009-04-23THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU THINK IT IS $600: O Pioneers! To get from Lexington to Columbus in this state, take Highway 30, through Kearney Nebraska
#5666, aired 2009-04-06CENTRAL PARK STATUES $200: Funded by subscriptions to NYC's Il Progresso newspaper & unveiled in 1892, his memorial depicts his 3 ships Columbus
#5661, aired 2009-03-30"THE" NATION $2000: It commemorated its discovery by Europeans by issuing a 1971 coin with Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria, on it the Bahamas
#5620, aired 2009-01-30EPIGRAPHS $800: "The heart is half a prophet", Philip Roth's epigraph to "Goodbye, Columbus", is a proverb from this language Yiddish
#5602, aired 2009-01-06WORLD HISTORY $800: Columbus was the first European to reach S. America, landing at the mouth of the Orinoco in what's now this country Venezuela
#5554, aired 2008-10-30AMERICAN RESTAURANTS $200: Prime aged beef is the specialty of Mitchell's Steakhouse, just steps from the Capitol in this Ohio city Columbus
#5544, aired 2008-10-16O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $200: On Oct. 28, 1492 this captain was in the Bay of Bariay off Cuba & not near the Asian mainland Columbus
#5503, aired 2008-07-09ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1000: Jim Victor made parmesan ships with pizza dough sails & spaghetti rigging for a 2005 parade honoring this holiday Columbus Day
#5501, aired 2008-07-07CHRIS COLUMBUS $400: Chris won the job filming the first 2 entries in this franchise after wowing author J.K. Rowling Harry Potter
#5501, aired 2008-07-07CHRIS COLUMBUS $800: Chris Columbus penned the script about this "Young" title character who solved murders aided by John Watson Sherlock Holmes
#5501, aired 2008-07-07CHRIS COLUMBUS $1200: Chris directed the first & second installments of this Macaulay Culkin franchise Home Alone
#5501, aired 2008-07-07CHRIS COLUMBUS $1600: In 2005 Chris directed this movie based on Jonathan Larson's Tony-winning musical Rent
#5501, aired 2008-07-07CHRIS COLUMBUS $2000: Chris wrote three rules for these title characters: no bright lights, don't get them wet & no food after midnight Gremlins
#5495, aired 2008-06-27OF EDEN $2000: When Columbus came upon this Venezuelan river, he thought he'd found the entrance to the Garden of Eden the Orinoco
#5486, aired 2008-06-16"G"-RATED COUNTRIES $2000: Sighted by Columbus in 1498, this island is the world's second-largest producer of nutmeg Grenada
#5478, aired 2008-06-04COLD HARD CASH $600: His quincentenary was celebrated with a coin in 1992 Columbus
#5432, aired 2008-04-01LET'S RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE $1600: Columbus landed here; the 5 stars represent the federation it was once a part of Honduras
#5427, aired 2008-03-25DAYS $800: It's the day of the week that Columbus discovered the island of Dominica Sunday
#5425, aired 2008-03-21SHIPS $800: The name of this caravel of Columbus means "painted one" Pinta
#5416, aired 2008-03-10THE CANARY ISLANDS $400: On his 3 15th century voyages to the New World, his ships stopped off at the Canary Islands for supplies Columbus
#5403, aired 2008-02-20LET'S GO TO OHIO $1200: In 1812 the state legislature chose this name for its capital city, though many wanted to name it Ohio City Columbus
#5348, aired 2007-12-05BIO-SPHERE $200: Samuel Eliot Morison won a Pulitzer for "Admiral of the Ocean Sea", about this man who died in 1506 Christopher Columbus
#5334, aired 2007-11-15HABEAS CORPSES $400: 4 places claimed to be the burial site of this explorer, including crypts in Seville & Santo Domingo Christopher Columbus
#5324, aired 2007-11-01FISH & SHIPS $600: On Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492, brothers Martin & Vicente Pinzon commanded these 2 ships Nina & Pinta
#5307, aired 2007-10-09CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $400: There's no truth to the story that she had to pawn her jewels to finance Columbus' first voyage Queen Isabella
#5307, aired 2007-10-09CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $800: This flagship of Columbus' first voyage was chartered from Juan de la Cosa & was his largest ship the Santa Maria
#5307, aired 2007-10-09CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $1200: Christopher Columbus was born in this Italian seaport where his father was a merchant & wool weaver Genoa
#5307, aired 2007-10-09CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $1600: On Oct. 12, 1492 Columbus reached the New World & landed at an island he called this, Spanish for "holy savior" San Salvador
#5307, aired 2007-10-09CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $2000: One of the only 2 current U.S. territories visited by Columbus, who reached both in 1493 Puerto Rico (or the Virgin Islands)
#5289, aired 2007-09-13EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS $400: In 1500 Francisco de Bobadilla arrived in Santo Domingo & sent this man back to Spain in shackles Christopher Columbus
#5280, aired 2007-07-20NOW WE'RE IN BUSINESS! $1200: Give us your best "Gilbert Gottfried as a duck" impression & name this insurance co. headquartered in Columbus, Georgia Aflac
#5277, aired 2007-07-17NAME THE CENTURY $200: Columbus reaches South America for the first time the 15th century
#5268, aired 2007-07-04YOU WANNA PIZZA THIS? $200: Mamma mia! As Columbus could tell you, it was first designated National Pizza Month in 1987 October
#5235, aired 2007-05-18IT'S ALL A LEGEND $200: When Columbus saw the mouth of the Orinoco River, he thought it flowed from this legendary biblical garden the Garden of Eden
#5229, aired 2007-05-10WHAT'S THE PLAN? $1000: He told Spain he planned to use the proceeds from his trip to Asia to help recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims Christopher Columbus
#5220, aired 2007-04-27HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: In 2006 it was celebrated on October 9, 3 days before its traditional observance Columbus Day
#5208, aired 2007-04-11POSSESSED $2,800 (Daily Double): This U.S. territory was named for "martyred maiden" Saint Ursula by Christopher Columbus the Virgin Islands
#5196, aired 2007-03-26WORLD HISTORY $400: Government House in Nassau has a statue of this man believed to have first made landfall in the Bahamas Columbus
#5191, aired 2007-03-19A ROYAL SUM-UP $200: Her 1469 marriage would unite her Castile with Aragon; without her, no Columbus Day Isabella
#5174, aired 2007-02-2219th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1869 Uriah Stephens founded the Knights of this as a secret society Labor
#5164, aired 2007-02-08STATE CAPITALS $200: We're not sure whether the Spanish ship on its city flag represents the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria Columbus (Ohio)
#5143, aired 2007-01-10GOOD KNIGHT $1200: Founded in 1882 by Father Michael J. McGivney, this fraternal order of Catholic laymen is based in New Haven the Knights of Columbus
#5083, aired 2006-10-18OCTOBERFEST $1000: Instead of Columbus Day, many Latin Americans celebrate their culture in "Dia de" this la Raza
#5066, aired 2006-09-25ON THE WATERFRONT $800: An anchor from Columbus' ship the Santa Maria is on display in a museum in this Haitian port Port au Prince
#5064, aired 2006-09-21"DAD" $600: Discovered by Columbus in 1498, this island is just north of Venezuela Trinidad
#5060, aired 2006-09-15AMERICAN LIT $600: He won National Book Awards for "Goodbye, Columbus" & "Sabbath's Theater" Philip Roth
#5058, aired 2006-09-13OFF COURSE, OFF COURSE $400: On Oct. 12, 1492 he thought he'd reached Asia; in fact, the closest he ever got was an Aegean island as a young man Christopher Columbus
#5036, aired 2006-07-03HULL OF FAME $200: This ship, Columbus' favorite, made at least 5 trips to the New World the Niña
#5025, aired 2006-06-16FIRST BORN $1000: Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, Christopher Columbus Marco Polo
#5011, aired 2006-05-29IT'S CANADA, EH $400: Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of this month, on the same day as our Columbus Day October
#4995, aired 2006-05-05SOUTH DAKOTA $200: South Dakotans celebrate this October holiday as Native American Day Columbus Day
#4975, aired 2006-04-07SHIPS $200: The ships of Columbus' first voyage were 2 caravels & this bigger ship, a type called a nao the Santa Maria
#4942, aired 2006-02-21ORGANIZATIONS $1000: Founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in 1881, it's the world's largest Catholic family fraternal service organization the Knights of Columbus
#4935, aired 2006-02-10GOLDEN 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
#4925, aired 2006-01-27THE SWEET 16th CENTURY $200: Ending in 1504, his fourth voyage to the New World took him to Panama Columbus
#4922, aired 2006-01-24THE EUROPEAN PAST $200: While N. European sailors navigated by stars, Mediterraneans like Columbus relied mainly on this instrument the compass
#4919, aired 2006-01-19WHICH CRAFT $400: Columbus' flagship on the first transatlantic trip the Santa Maria
#4907, aired 2006-01-03HAPPY "NEW" YEAR $400: North & South America, to the Europeans following Columbus' discovery the New World
#4889, aired 2005-12-08STREET SMARTS $800: Columbus, Ohio's main drag is called this, more often the British term for a city's main street High Street
#4881, aired 2005-11-28SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On August 5, 1498 he landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula, becoming the first European to reach South America Columbus
#4875, aired 2005-11-18LESSER-KNOWN EXPLORERS $800: After the Santa Maria was shipwrecked, Columbus joined Pinzon on this ship; Pinzon later explored Brazil the Nina
#4847, aired 2005-10-11NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1492 this man landed on the island of San Salvador & came in contact with Native Americans called Arawaks Columbus
#4840, aired 2005-09-30COLLEGE COLLAGE $400: With close to 50,000 students, this Columbus-based university is one of the USA's largest Ohio State
#4838, aired 2005-09-28ROADSIDE AMERICA $600: On Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio, yell out "Where's the beef?" as you check out the first restaurant in this large chain Wendy's
#4836, aired 2005-09-26RIVERS $1600: Columbus may have spotted the mouth of this Venezuelan river in 1498 the Orinoco
#4831, aired 2005-09-19FROM THE PORTUGUESE $400: In 1484 he tried to get King John II of Portugal to finance his transoceanic trip Columbus
#4820, aired 2005-07-15EXPLORERS $200: He stopped at Gomera in the Canaries for nearly a month, then headed for the New World on Sept. 6, 1492 Columbus
#4812, aired 2005-07-05HISTORY $1000: The cathedral of this city in Spain claims to hold the remains of Christopher Columbus, moved there in 1899 Seville
#4802, aired 2005-06-21HISTORIC GREETING CARDS $600: Sailor who in 1500 got the Father's Day card: To a Great Dad, Someday you'll get your own day! Love, Diego Christopher Columbus
#4802, aired 2005-06-21TAKE ME TO YOUR DIRECTOR $1600: Chris Columbus discovered a whole new world when he directed Elisabeth Shue in these "Adventures" Adventures in Babysitting
#4800, aired 2005-06-17FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: In 1493 Columbus encountered this, Hawaii's most valuable fruit crop, on the island of Guadeloupe the pineapple
#4789, aired 2005-06-02ANNUAL EVENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Maria Bartiromo.) As a proud Italian-American, I've anchored this parade live for several years on New York City TV the Columbus Day Parade
#4786, aired 2005-05-30WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew leans over a pool filled with denizens of the not-so-deep.) I'm at the 190,000 gallon manatee exhibit at the zoo of this city, now Ohio's most populous Columbus
#4762, aired 2005-04-26IN THE "RAW" $1600: Native American people who met Columbus in 1492 the Arawak
#4755, aired 2005-04-15OHIO BIO $800: Born in Columbus in 1890, he was a car-racing champion & a WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker
#4755, aired 2005-04-15CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP $800: Putting its name on Columbus' arena, this company insured that Ohioans would know it's "on your side" Nationwide
#4751, aired 2005-04-11NOVELS OF THE PAST $800: James Fenimore Cooper's "Mercedes of Castile" combines a love story with the voyages of this man (Christopher) Columbus
#4707, aired 2005-02-08COLLEGE TOWNS $800: The Ohio State University Columbus (Ohio)
#4704, aired 2005-02-03ANNUAL EVENTS $800: October is good for explorers: Columbus Day is the 2nd Monday of the month & this Norse guy gets October 9th Leif Ericson
#4676, aired 2004-12-27NOT A STATE CAPITAL $800: Columbus, Philadelphia, Hartford Philadelphia
#4668, aired 2004-12-15SALUTE THE FLAG $600: He's the explorer who used the flag seen here in honor of his royal patrons Columbus
#4663, aired 2004-12-08WHOSE LIME IS IT ANYWAY? $200: Citrus fruits including limes were introduced to the West Indies by this man on his second voyage Columbus
#4640, aired 2004-11-06I'M A PEPPER, YOU'RE A PEPPER $400: Christopher Columbus may have grown up on the salami with white peppercorns named for this hometown of his Genoa
#4630, aired 2004-10-22STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 20-foot tall statue that stands in this capital's City Hall Plaza was a gift from the citizens of Genoa, Italy Columbus (Ohio)
#4625, aired 2004-10-15ORGANIZED RELIGION $400: Knights of Columbus Catholicism
#4622, aired 2004-10-12DISCOVERY $400: In 1493 Christopher Columbus discovered this future U.S. commonwealth & named it San Juan Bautista Puerto Rico
#4593, aired 2004-07-21THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $1200: You'll discover this city is home to the main campus of the Ohio State University Columbus
#4577, aired 2004-06-29GREETINGS FROM AMERICA STAMPS $1600: Though the Ohio stamp featured Cleveland, its first day cover was released in this city Columbus
#4542, aired 2004-05-11TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $400: Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in this Mississippi town named for America's discoverer Columbus
#4538, aired 2004-05-05EXPLORERS $400: After moving to Spain in 1485 he used Colon, the Spanish version of his name Columbus
#4529, aired 2004-04-22NEW YORK CITY HISTORY $600: This geometric area is seen here in the 1890s, when it got its name after a gift from New York City's Italians Columbus Circle
#4500, aired 2004-03-12BORN & DIED $400: He was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 & died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506 Christopher Columbus
#4470, aired 2004-01-30VENEZUELAN HISTORY $400: This explorer first reached the mainland of the Americas on the coast of Venezuela in 1498 (Christopher) Columbus
#4465, aired 2004-01-23FITS HUGH $600: In this 1995 film directed by Chris Columbus, Hugh finds out his girlfriend is pregnant Nine Months
#4464, aired 2004-01-22PEOPLE IN SONG $1200: A big band number said this man "sailed the sea without a compass, when his men began a rumpus" Christopher Columbus
#4449, aired 2004-01-01ANNUAL EVENTS $200: This holiday was first celebrated in the U.S. in 1792, the 300th anniversary of a certain explorer's New World arrival Columbus Day
#4441, aired 2003-12-22GRENADA $2000: Columbus reached Grenada in 1498, but this fierce tribe kept colonizers away until 1650 the Carib
#4418, aired 2003-11-19ARCHIPELAGOS $1200: Columbus' first landing in the New World was probably in this archipelago, now an independent nation The Bahamas
#4416, aired 2003-11-17EXPLORATION $800: (I'm Jeff Probst in Panama.) A wreck found off the coast of Panama is thought to be the Vizcaina, a caravel in his 4th voyage, scuttled in 1503 Christopher Columbus
#4393, aired 2003-10-15BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: The first line of this Philip Roth novella is "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" Goodbye, Columbus
#4385, aired 2003-10-03PANCHO VILLAGE $800: A park named for Pancho Villa in Columbus in this state lies on the site of his 1916 raid into the U.S New Mexico
#4384, aired 2003-10-02MICRO-NATIONS $1200: Discovered by Columbus in 1498, invaded by the U.S. in 1983 Grenada
#4376, aired 2003-09-22THREE'S A CROWD $400: The Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria were under his command Christopher Columbus
#4360, aired 2003-07-11YOU'RE SUCH AN ANIMAL $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo) This 2-word term applied to manatees includes the name of a placid land animal sea cow
#4346, aired 2003-06-23POPULATION UNDER 50,000 $2000: Southeast of Columbus, Georgia you'll find this city named for Amerigo Vespucci Americus
#4342, aired 2003-06-17THE SHIELD $1000: The shield of these Catholic "knights", founded in 1882, bears a sword & axe Knights of Columbus
#4328, aired 2003-05-28FORMER TECHNOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands in front of the ship Santa Maria in Columbus, Ohio.) Columbus used this instrument superseded by the sextant to measure the positions of stars an astrolabe
#4326, aired 2003-05-26CREATURES OF LORE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Columbus Zoo in Columbus, Ohio) Manatees, which are classified as sirenian, may be the origin of these legendary beauties, also called sirens mermaids
#4325, aired 2003-05-23DRAWING A CROWD $800: This Columbus school normally has crowds of about 35,000 at its spring commencement The Ohio State University
#4308, aired 2003-04-30AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: This Spanish king married Queen Isabella in 1469 & sent Columbus off to America in 1492 Ferdinand
#4299, aired 2003-04-17AUTHORS $800: He's won 2 Nat'l Book Awards: for "Goodbye, Columbus" in 1960 & for "Sabbath's Theater" 35 years later Philip Roth
#4276, aired 2003-03-17THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo) The manatee can live in both of these types of environments, or in a mixture of them called brackish salt & freshwater
#4272, aired 2003-03-11THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.) An orbital facility is being built for the ISS that bears the name of this man born in Genoa in 1451 Christopher Columbus
#4271, aired 2003-03-102-WORD COUNTRIES $400: Visited by Columbus, it shares an island with Haiti Dominican Republic
#4265, aired 2003-02-28"Q" & A $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew on the ship Santa Maria in Columbus, Ohio) Generally reserved for officers, it's the rear part of the upper level of an old sailing ship quarterdeck
#4254, aired 2003-02-13VACATION FUN $800: For a fabulous view of Barcelona, take the elevator to the top of the Monument a Colom, built to honor him Christopher Columbus
#4219, aired 2002-12-26WORLD CITIES $1200: Tradition says that Columbus announced his discovery of the New World in a courtyard of this Spanish port Barcelona
#4197, aired 2002-11-26ANNIVERSARIES $1,000 (Daily Double): For a historic anniversary, Pope John Paul II was in the Dominican Republic on October 9-13 of this year 1992 (the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage there)
#4193, aired 2002-11-20COLUMBUS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports in front of the Santa Maria in Columbus) On October 12, 1492 Santa Maria sailor Rodrigo de Triana did this first, but Columbus awarded himself the prize for it, anyway spotting land
#4193, aired 2002-11-20COLUMBUS $800: The first thing Columbus noted in his log about the New World natives was their lack of these clothing
#4193, aired 2002-11-20COLUMBUS $1200: After 7 years living in this country, Columbus asked its King John II for backing, but was turned down Portugal
#4193, aired 2002-11-20COLUMBUS $1600: This settlement Columbus named for its Christmas founding wasn't "feliz" when all its men were killed Navidad
#4193, aired 2002-11-20COLUMBUS $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports on the deck of the Santa Maria in Columbus.) Chris thought he was in Asia because he thought the length of one of these at the equator was 57 miles, not 69 degree of longitude
#4191, aired 2002-11-18SWEET! $400: Columbus native Buster Douglas was a 1990s champion in this sport dubbed "The Sweet Science" boxing
#4172, aired 2002-10-22EXPLORERS $200: On August 3, 1492 he & his crew left Palos, Spain, heading southwest & then west Christopher Columbus
#4163, aired 2002-10-09YOU'RE SCARING ME $800: This captain scared the locals in Jamaica in 1504 when he predicted an eclipse & it happened Christopher Columbus
#4148, aired 2002-09-18IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE $800: On Nov. 7, 1504 this captain arrived back in Spain, his ocean voyaging done Christopher Columbus
#4139, aired 2002-09-05ALL I WANT FOR ISTHMUS $800: This isthmus was explored by Columbus in 1502 & crossed by Balboa in September 1513 Isthmus of Panama
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $200: On his third voyage, Columbus discovered what we now know as this continent South America
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRIS COLUMBUS $400: What's Chris been up to lately? Directing the first 2 films based on this book series Harry Potter
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $400: Christopher's son Diego was a page in the house of Juan, the only son of this royal pair Isabella and Ferdinand
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $600: In 1862 this Italian city erected its big monument to the man Genoa
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRIS COLUMBUS $800: Chris wrote this 1984 film directed by Joe Dante, but not the 1990 "New Batch" sequel Gremlins
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $800: This Catskills author had a theory on where Columbus first landed: Cat Island (Washington) Irving
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $1000: In the lawsuits that followed, a Columbus descendant got the title Duke of this, also Zorro's family de la Vega
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRIS COLUMBUS $1200: 1 of the 2 films Chris directed in which Robin Williams played the title character Mrs. Doubtfire (or Bicentennial Man)
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRIS COLUMBUS $1600: Chris adpated this 1995 comedy with Hugh Grant from the French film "Neuf Mois" Nine Months
#4130, aired 2002-07-12CHRIS COLUMBUS $2000: Sean Astin was one of the treasure-hunting kids in this 1985 Steven Spielberg film with a script by Chris The Goonies
#4121, aired 2002-07-01STATE CAPITALS $400 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this capital built a full-scale replica of the Santa Maria in 1991 Columbus (Ohio)
#4115, aired 2002-06-21MILITARY MATTERS $2000: All U.S. subs with nuclear weapons are of this class named for a state whose capital is named for a 15th c. sailor Ohio
#4114, aired 2002-06-20EXPLORERS $200: Recent evidence indicates that he probably reached the island of Samana Cay, not Watling Island, on October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus
#4103, aired 2002-06-05"B" THERE $800: On Oct. 12, 1492 Columbus reached these islands; he marveled at the colorful fish the Bahamas
#4100, aired 2002-05-31NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $1200: 1960: "Goodbye Columbus" Philip Roth
#4080, aired 2002-05-03KING ME! $400: Maybe Columbus was trying to butter up this king when he gave his son the same name in 1488 Ferdinand
#4078, aired 2002-05-01LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1502, on his fourth voyage, he landed at what is now Trujillo, Honduras Columbus
#4049, aired 2002-03-2119th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In 1886 in Columbus, Ohio, several trade unions merged to form the AFL, which stands for this The American Federation of Labor
#4000, aired 2002-01-11EXPLORERS' LATER YEARS $400: Columbus made out this document May 19, 1506; a good thing, as he was dead within 2 days his will
#3979, aired 2001-12-13THAT'LL BE THE "DAY" $1200: 180,000 dwell in this city southwest of Columbus & northeast of Cincinnati Dayton
#3976, aired 2001-12-10U.S. COMMEMORATIVE COINS $800 (Daily Double): His quincentenary was celebrated with a coin in 1992 Christopher Columbus
#3943, aired 2001-10-24COUPLES $100: Felipa Perestrello married this explorer, but died soon after their son Diego was born in 1480 Christopher Columbus
#3909, aired 2001-09-06OHIO $200: It's Ohio's largest city, as well as the capital Columbus
#3905, aired 2001-07-20SPORTS TEAM NICKNAMES $400: Nickname of the Columbus Major League Soccer team -- we don't know how "motley" they are the Crew
#3900, aired 2001-07-13WHYS $800: Because Columbus thought he had sailed around the world & he called the people what he thought they were why we call them Indians
#3880, aired 2001-06-15BIG SCREEN BIOGRAPHIES $800: 1992: Gerard Depardieu as this explorer Christopher Columbus
#3856, aired 2001-05-14OLD TRAVEL BOOKS $1,500 (Daily Double): By his account, he reached the New World's mainland 14 months before Columbus; that's why we're not in Columbia Amerigo Vespucci
#3846, aired 2001-04-30MEMORABLE MNEMONICS $200: This line of a rhyme tells us what happened "in fourteen hundred and ninety-two" Columbus sailed the ocean blue
#3829, aired 2001-04-05VENEZUELA VITALS $100: In 1498 he first set foot on the South American mainland in what is now Venezuela Christopher Columbus
#3789, aired 2001-02-08LONG LIVE THE KING! $200: King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of Spain sent this explorer on his 1492 voyage Christopher Columbus
#3783, aired 2001-01-31U.S. CITIES $400: John D. Rockefeller began his oil dynasty in this Ohio city Cleveland
#3782, aired 2001-01-30ARCHIPELAGOS $800 (Daily Double): Ecuador calls this island group Archipielago de Colon Galapagos Islands
#3777, aired 2001-01-23PORTUGAL $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1499 King Manuel gave him the title Admiral of the Indian Sea Vasco da Gama
#3764, aired 2001-01-04EXPLORERS $1000: In 1521 Juan Sebastian del Cano took over for this slain captain & made a historic Indian Ocean crossing Ferdinand Magellan
#3763, aired 2001-01-03REALLY BAD DATES $1,000 (Daily Double): On March 9, 1916 Mexican soldiers & this revolutionary general attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico, killing 15 Pancho Villa
#3760, aired 2000-12-29KINGS & QUEENS $200: This queen was one of the few who thought Christopher Columbus' exploration plan made any sense Queen Isabella
#3696, aired 2000-10-02HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400 (Daily Double): The historical event which this holiday celebrates occurred 508 years ago Columbus Day
#3690, aired 2000-09-22THE CENTURY IN WHICH... $800: Columbus made his fourth & final voyage to the New World 16th century
#3675, aired 2000-07-21A HORATIO ALGAE NOVEL $600: Seafaring algae gave their name to this "sea" in the Atlantic that Columbus encountered Sargasso
#3656, aired 2000-06-26COMPLETES THE MAJOR PAPER $800: St. Louis Post-____, Columbus ____ Dispatch
#3642, aired 2000-06-06COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: This Central American country's name means "depths"; it's what Columbus named the region Honduras
#3615, aired 2000-04-28THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $800: This Columbus Zoo Director Emeritus is known to TV audiences across the U.S. "Jungle Jack" Hanna
#3604, aired 2000-04-13HISTORY $200: His second voyage, beginning in 1493, included visits to Jamaica & Puerto Rico Christopher Columbus
#3599, aired 2000-04-06FRUITS & VEGETABLES $200: It's said that Christopher Columbus introduced this "cool" veggie to the New World Cucumber
#3594, aired 2000-03-30PUERTO RICO $300: His accomplishments are celebrated in October 12 November 19 observances Columbus
#3583, aired 2000-03-15TV & MOVIE ACTORS $800: He appeared as Ali MacGraw's dad in "Goodbye, Columbus" before he was TV's Oscar Madison Jack Klugman
#3565, aired 2000-02-18REALLY OLD NEWS $400: Spanish navigator Vincente Yanez Pinzon captained this vessel on a famous 1492 voyage Nina
#3557, aired 2000-02-08EXPLORERS $400: This Icelandic explorer whose statue is seen here visited America almost 500 years before Columbus Leif Ericson
#3542, aired 2000-01-18HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: This Italian banker for whom the New World was named organized the supplies for Columbus' voyages Amerigo Vespucci
#3540, aired 2000-01-14...OR BUST $400: In addition to "Goodbye, Columbus" & "The Anatomy Lesson", he wrote "The Breast" Philip Roth
#3528, aired 1999-12-29COLOMBIA $200: It stands to reason Colombia's highest peak is named for this explorer Christopher Columbus
#3527, aired 1999-12-28FLAGS $600 (Daily Double): Columbus' personal flag bore the initials F & Y, which stood for these 2 Ferdinand & Isabella
#3507, aired 1999-11-30BARCELONA $200: A statue of this explorer points to the sea from atop a 167' column near Barcelona's harbor Christopher Columbus
#3489, aired 1999-11-04STATE CAPITALS $600 (Daily Double): What a discovery! Genoa, Italy is an appropriate sister city of this state capital Columbus, Ohio
#3483, aired 1999-10-27SMALL SCREEN FAMILIES $200: The Keatons of Columbus, Ohio Family Ties
#3470, aired 1999-10-08PRIME NUMBERS $300: Columbus' first voyage to the new world ended in this year 1493
#3460, aired 1999-09-24CITY SEALS $400: This state capital's seal features a ship; we're sure it's the Santa Maria Columbus, Ohio
#3445, aired 1999-07-23THE WRITTEN WORD $600: Neil Klugman & Radcliffe girl Brenda Patimkin have a summer love affair in this Philip Roth novella Goodbye, Columbus
#3440, aired 1999-07-16"TIE" ME UP $200: The Keaton family lived in Columbus, Ohio on this popular '80s sitcom Family Ties
#3421, aired 1999-06-21CHESS MANIA $500: In the U.S. Chess Open at Columbus, Ohio in 1977, one of these named "Sneaky Pete" played a computer
#3415, aired 1999-06-11NAME THE DECADE $100: Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the New World 1490s
#3404, aired 1999-05-27WORLD HISTORY $200: Ferdinand & Isabella promised to make him "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" if he was successful in his 1492 voyage Christopher Columbus
#3395, aired 1999-05-14COLLEGE TOWNS $300: Ohio State University Columbus
#3377, aired 1999-04-20GOING TO... $100: Continent Columbus thought he was going to when he set sail in August 1492 Asia
#3377, aired 1999-04-20GOING TO THE DOGE $800: Simone Boccanegra was the first doge of this city, home to Columbus Genoa
#3365, aired 1999-04-02HOLIDAY CLIP ART $200: This holiday would certainly make "World News Tonight" Columbus Day
#3357, aired 1999-03-23DOWN WITH THE SHIP $200: On Columbus' first voyage, this flagship was wrecked while a cabin boy was at the helm Santa Maria
#3351, aired 1999-03-15THE IDES OF MARCH $100: March 15, 1493: This explorer returns to Spain when the Nina docks at Palos Christopher Columbus
#3341, aired 1999-03-01FANTASTIC VOYAGES $400: On his fourth voyage to the New World in 1503, he was marooned in Jamaica for one year Christopher Columbus
#3324, aired 1999-02-04GORILLA MY DREAMS $100: The first gorilla born in captivity was Colo, who debuted in 1956 in this Ohio capital Columbus
#3322, aired 1999-02-02HISTORIC NAMES $500: Martin Waldseemuller's map of 1507 had 2 portraits on it; Ptolemy on the old world, & this man on the new Amerigo Vespucci
#3318, aired 1999-01-27DAYS OF THE WEEK $200: For federal employees, Columbus always has his day on this one Monday
#3293, aired 1998-12-23AT HOME IN EUROPE $800: La Rabida, a Franciscan monastery in Spain, was home to this explorer in 1485 & later, to Hernando Cortes Christopher Columbus
#3284, aired 1998-12-10BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of Black Profiles In Courage.) The first known black man in the Americas, Pedro Alonzo Nino, was this man's navigator in 1492 Christopher Columbus
#3272, aired 1998-11-24MOVIE CO-STARS $500: This movie based on a Philip Roth novella gave Richard Benjamin & Ali MacGraw their first leading roles on film Goodbye, Columbus
#3270, aired 1998-11-20BEFORE COLUMBUS $100: Centuries before Columbus, these people encountered Native Americans & called them skraelings Vikings
#3270, aired 1998-11-20BEFORE COLUMBUS $200: Around 9000 B.C., herds of these large wild cattle dramatically increased & became a major food source buffalo (or bison)
#3270, aired 1998-11-20BEFORE COLUMBUS $400: In the 1100s the Awatovi Pueblos near what is now Tuba City in this state housed 1,000 people in 1,300 rooms Arizona
#3270, aired 1998-11-20BEFORE COLUMBUS $500 (Daily Double): The name of this light axe used as both weapon & tool comes from the proto-Algonquin for "to cut off" a tomahawk
#3270, aired 1998-11-20BEFORE COLUMBUS $500: The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga & Seneca tribes made up this "League" founded around 1450 the Iroquois League
#3261, aired 1998-11-09THIS IS YOUR LIFE, WOODROW WILSON $600: This foreign general ticked you off when he raided Columbus, New Mexico in 1916; Bienvenido a..... Pancho Villa
#3241, aired 1998-10-12FOR COLUMBUS $200: Named for Columbus, one of these ice masses stretches for 40 miles near Valdez, Alaska Glacier
#3241, aired 1998-10-12FOR COLUMBUS $400: Chris was honored by this NASA program's first vehicle launched into orbit in 1981 the space shuttle
#3241, aired 1998-10-12FOR COLUMBUS $600: City where the Ivy League school named for Columbus is located New York City (Columbia)
#3241, aired 1998-10-12FOR COLUMBUS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the capital of the South American country named for Columbus Bogota, Colombia
#3241, aired 1998-10-12FOR COLUMBUS $1000: James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio; Carson McCullers' birthplace is Columbus in this state Georgia
#3238, aired 1998-10-07HERE ON EARTH $200: When Columbus sailed this ocean blue it was about 33 feet narrower than it is now the Atlantic
#3216, aired 1998-09-07THE 1998 PULITZER PRIZES $100: 39 years after "Goodbye, Columbus", this author won for his novel "American Pastoral" Philip Roth
#3215, aired 1998-07-17AROUND THE WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): Columbus named the island now usually called St. Kitts for this man, his patron saint St. Christopher
#3208, aired 1998-07-08NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $200: This flagship of Columbus appears at the center of the Bahamas' coat of arms the Santa Maria
#3200, aired 1998-06-26HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2,000 (Daily Double): Although first celebrated in 1792, it didn't become a legal holiday until 1971; now it's controversial Columbus Day
#3192, aired 1998-06-16GIRL GROUPS $200: The Columbus Quest & the Seattle Reign are teams of the ABL, a new women's league in this sport Basketball
#3185, aired 1998-06-05WOMEN RULE! $300: If this queen hadn't approved Columbus' voyage to America, we might not be here today Isabella
#3180, aired 1998-05-29THE CARIBBEAN $200: In 1992 Santo Domingo's Quinto Centenario celebration honored this explorer's discovery Christopher Columbus
#3174, aired 1998-05-2119th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On Mar. 29, 1882 this first fraternal society of Catholic men was founded in New Haven, Connecticut Knights of Columbus
#3174, aired 1998-05-21A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $1000: Columbus first sighted this Venezuelan river in 1498, but it wasn't explored until 33 years later Orinoco
#3169, aired 1998-05-14HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: A bill signed in 1968 made it a federal public holiday on the second Monday in October Columbus Day
#3159, aired 1998-04-30TOUGH HISTORY $400: In May 1502, with his son Ferdinand, he set sail on his fourth & last transatlantic voyage Christopher Columbus
#3158, aired 1998-04-29VOYAGERS $200: Of Columbus' 3 ships in 1492, the Nina & Pinta were smaller than this one the Santa Maria
#3152, aired 1998-04-21L.A.'s SISTER CITIES $200: This L.A. sister city is not the one in Georgia or Ohio, but the one in Greece Athens
#3152, aired 1998-04-21UNMENTIONABLES $300: Tyra Banks & Claudia Schiffer have graced the cover of this Columbus, Ohio-based lingerie catalogue Victoria's Secret
#3150, aired 1998-04-17500 YEARS AGO $600: On Columbus' third voyage, he made his first landing on this island that he named for the Holy Trinity Trinidad
#3133, aired 1998-03-25WORLD HISTORY $200: In 1492 he chartered the Santa Maria from Juan de la Cosa, who became its sailing master Christopher Columbus
#3129, aired 1998-03-19WHAT'S IN A NAME? $400: Columbus' ship whose name is Spanish for "little girl" the Nina
#3121, aired 1998-03-09BRAND NAMES $500: This powerboat company was founded by Christopher Columbus Smith Chris Craft
#3108, aired 1998-02-18"EZ" DOES IT $1000: Columbus' first landing on the mainland of the Americas was on the coast of what is now this country Venezuela
#3073, aired 1997-12-31ISLANDS $400: Isabela is the largest island in this Ecuadoran group whose Spanish name honors Columbus Galapagos Islands
#3068, aired 1997-12-24HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORY $400: After this bandit's attack on Columbus, N.M., General Pershing was sent in pursuit Pancho Villa
#3052, aired 1997-12-02THE NEW WORLD $600: Columbus carried a letter from Ferdinand to the Grand Khan not knowing this dynasty was now in power Ming dynasty
#3049, aired 1997-11-27FEDERATIONS $600: It was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1886 by workers wanting an 8-hour day AFL
#3039, aired 1997-11-13LET'S CELEBRATE! $200: The second Monday in October, it's also called Discoverers' Day Columbus Day
#3011, aired 1997-10-06EXPLORERS $600: On his fourth voyage to the New World, 1502-1504, he reached Panama but did not cross the isthmus Christopher Columbus
#2973, aired 1997-07-02WORLD HISTORY $100: Wheat was introduced to the New World by this explorer in 1493 Christopher Columbus
#2965, aired 1997-06-20HISTORY $200: On Oct. 28, 1492 he landed at Cuba, first calling it Juana in honor of the Spanish rulers' daughter Christopher Columbus
#2958, aired 1997-06-11LITERATURE $800: Title novella of the Philip Roth collection that won the 1960 National Book Award Goodbye, Columbus
#2951, aired 1997-06-02PEOPLE IN HISTORY $100: In 1502, during his last voyage to the Americas, he sighted what is now Nicaragua Christopher Columbus
#2947, aired 1997-05-27HISTORIC SHIPS $300: When Columbus left Spain August 3, 1492, he was aboard this ship Santa Maria
#2945, aired 1997-05-23AROUND THE WORLD $100: He "discovered" the island of Saint-Barthelemy in 1493 & named it for his brother, Bartholomeo Christopher Columbus
#2929, aired 1997-05-01EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: In May 1486, he was received by Queen Isabella, to whom he explained his plan to sail west to Asia Christopher Columbus
#2917, aired 1997-04-152nd-LARGEST CITIES $800: This American city, Georgia's 2nd largest, shares its name with Ohio's largest Columbus
#2907, aired 1997-04-01LOSE A TURN $200: Chillicothe was this state's capital twice, losing out to Zanesville once & finally to Columbus Ohio
#2895, aired 1997-03-14HISTORY $100: In 1493 he reached Montserrat in the West Indies & named it for a Spanish mountain Christopher Columbus
#2879, aired 1997-02-20SHIPS $1000: Brothers Martin & Vincente Pinzon commanded these 2 ships on Columbus' first voyage to the New World Nina & Pinta
#2866, aired 1997-02-03HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: New York City was the first to observe it October 12, 1792 Columbus Day
#2860, aired 1997-01-24PUERTO RICO $100: His 1493 stop at Puerto Rico is the foundation for the claim he "discovered America", meaning the U.S. Christopher Columbus
#2856, aired 1997-01-20STATE CAPITALS $200: This Ohio city is home to Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery Columbus
#2847, aired 1997-01-0720th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: "Letting Go" was the 1st full-length novel by this author of "Goodbye, Columbus" Philip Roth
#2833, aired 1996-12-18HAITI $200: Haiti is part of Hispaniola, a corrupted form of Espanola, the name he gave to the island Christopher Columbus
#2826, aired 1996-12-09EXPLORERS $200: In 1502, during his fourth voyage to the New World, he landed in what is now Honduras Christopher Columbus
#2825, aired 1996-12-06NOTABLE NONHUMANS $600: Colo was the first of these great apes born in captivity, in 1956 at the Columbus Zoo Gorilla
#2820, aired 1996-11-29MONTHS $100: Columbus discovered the New World during this month October
#2808, aired 1996-11-13FILM DIRECTORS $600: The name of this "Home Alone" & "Mrs. Doubtfire" director may remind you of a famous explorer Chris Columbus
#2797, aired 1996-10-29EXPLORERS $100: In 1484 he presented his Enterprise of the Indies plan to King John of Portugal Christopher Columbus
#2752, aired 1996-07-16EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Except for a brief time, this birthplace of Christopher Columbus was ruled by a doge from 1339-1797 Genoa
#2750, aired 1996-07-12EXPLORERS $100: After the Santa Maria ran aground in 1492, he used the salvaged lumber to build a fort Christopher Columbus
#2738, aired 1996-06-26IRA GERSHWIN LYRICS $400: "They all laughed at" this man "when he said the world was round" Christopher Columbus
#2732, aired 1996-06-18FRATERNAL SOCIETIES $100: Roman Catholic laymen can be members of the Knights of this, founded by Father McGivney in 1882 Columbus
#2726, aired 1996-06-10FIRST NOVELS $500: "Goodbye, Columbus" Philip Roth
#2722, aired 1996-06-04OHIOANS $400: This author of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" spent his early life in Columbus Thurber
#2722, aired 1996-06-04FAMOUS NAMES $800: This Italian navigator was the first to use "New World" to describe what Columbus had found Vespucci
#2719, aired 1996-05-30ISLANDS $200: Columbus named this Caribbean island group for St. Ursula & her 11,000 maidens the Virgin Islands
#2695, aired 1996-04-26WORLD HISTORY $300: When Columbus reached this island in 1493, he named it San Juan Bautista Puerto Rico
#2690, aired 1996-04-19COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: Capital & Franklin universities, as well as Ohio State University, are located in this city Columbus, (Ohio)
#2678, aired 1996-04-03EXPLORERS $200: Amerigo Vespucci provided supplies for this man's second voyage of exploration in 1493 Columbus
#2661, aired 1996-03-11A GERSHWIN TUNE $400: "They all" did this "at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round" laugh
#2653, aired 1996-02-28NEWSPAPERS $1000: 1 of 2 Ohio newspapers that exceed 250,000 in daily circulation the Cleveland Plain Dealer (or the Columbus Dispatch)
#2647, aired 1996-02-20EXPLORERS $200: On Oct. 12, 1492 he wrote, "This afternoon the people of San Salvador came swimming to our ships" Columbus
#2640, aired 1996-02-09ROMANTIC GETAWAYS $1000: Columbus' "fair weather gulf", this romantic bay is the home of the Bob Marley Performing Centre Montego Bay
#2638, aired 1996-02-07THE MOORS $400: In this year the Moors lost their last major foothold in Spain & Columbus set sail for the New World 1492
#2633, aired 1996-01-31EXPLORERS $400: Columbus named this flagship on his 2nd voyage after the one wrecked on the 1st Santa Maria
#2625, aired 1996-01-19ASTRONOMY $300: In 1504 Columbus scared the locals in Jamaica when he predicted one of these (Lunar) Eclipse
#2615, aired 1996-01-05EXPLORERS $400: This Genoese explorer was in Lisbon in 1488 when Dias returned from rounding Africa Columbus
#2610, aired 1995-12-29FICTION $1000: This Philip Roth book begins, "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" Goodbye, Columbus
#2595, aired 1995-12-08TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: A state park in Columbus in this state is named for Pancho Villa New Mexico
#2576, aired 1995-11-13NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: Columbia is the magazine of this fraternal order of Roman Catholic men Knights of Columbus
#2572, aired 1995-11-07EXPLORERS $200: Juan de la Costa was the master of the flagship on his 1492 expedition to the New World Columbus
#2567, aired 1995-10-31LITERATURE $100: This historic figure is the subject of Joel Barlow's epic 1807 poem "The Columbiad" Christopher Columbus
#2564, aired 1995-10-26U.S. CITIES $300: This capital is home to the Buckeye Farm News Columbus
#2498, aired 1995-06-14HISTORIC DOUBLE Bs $200: In 1493 Christopher Columbus took his first cruise in this sea the Caribbean
#2492, aired 1995-06-06ORGANIZATIONS $200: This organization of Roman Catholic laymen is known as the K. of C. for short the Knights of Columbus
#2488, aired 1995-05-31THE 20th CENTURY $300: On March 9, 1916 this Mexican revolutionary & his men killed 17 in Columbus, New Mexico Pancho Villa
#2476, aired 1995-05-15ANTHROPOLOGY $200: The Arawaks, who once stretched from Florida to Brazil, were the Indians who met this explorer in 1492 Columbus
#2467, aired 1995-05-02NICKNAMES $100: This explorer who set sail in 1492 was nicknamed "Iberia's Pilot" Columbus
#2463, aired 1995-04-26TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: The "Circle" named for him lies at the southwest corner of NYC's Central Park Columbus
#2442, aired 1995-03-28HISTORY $200: On his fourth voyage to the New World, he landed in Costa Rica & gave it its name Christopher Columbus
#2439, aired 1995-03-23QUOTATIONS $100: Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Every ship that comes to America got its chart from" this man Christopher Columbus
#2425, aired 1995-03-03HISTORY $100: His first expedition to the New World began from Palos, Spain on August 3, 1492 Columbus
#2423, aired 1995-03-01HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: It's been a legal holiday in the U.S. since 1892; some folks call it Discovery Day Columbus Day
#2418, aired 1995-02-22ITALIAN CITIES $500 (Daily Double): In 1992 a big Columbus festival was held in this city's Porto Vecchio, or old port Genoa
#2393, aired 1995-01-18EXPLORERS $200: On his fourth voyage to the New World, he was marooned in the Caribbean for one year, 1503-04 Columbus
#2388, aired 1995-01-11NAME THE DECADE $100: Columbus begins his voyages to America & da Vinci begins "The Last Supper" the 1490s
#2382, aired 1995-01-03THE 1880s $400: In 1882 Reverend Michael Joseph McGivney founded this Catholic men's fraternal society in New Haven, Conn. the Knights of Columbus
#2372, aired 1994-12-20FILE UNDER "N" $100: After the Santa Maria was wrecked, this became Christopher Columbus' flagship the Niña
#2369, aired 1994-12-15FAMOUS PAIRS $100: Famous pair that sent Columbus on his merry way in 1492 Ferdinand & Isabella
#2369, aired 1994-12-15U.S. "C"ITIES $400: Parks in this Ohio city include Brookside, Edgewater & Rockefeller Cleveland
#2360, aired 1994-12-02THIS & THAT $400: This explorer landed on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula in August 1489 Columbus
#2349, aired 1994-11-17FLEETS $200: When he left for his second voyage in September of 1493, he had a fleet of seventeen ships, fourteen more than his first trip Christopher Columbus
#2327, aired 1994-10-18LIGHTHOUSES $100: The lighthouse keeper of the Lanterna of Genoa in 1449 was the uncle of this explorer Christopher Columbus
#2325, aired 1994-10-14COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: With about 50,000 students, this school in Columbus is one of the USA's largest Ohio State
#2306, aired 1994-09-19CUBA $100: When he discovered Cuba in October 1492, the island was inhabited by Taino & Ciboney Indians (Christopher) Columbus
#2305, aired 1994-09-16EXPLORERS $300: In the mid-1470s he joined his brother Bartholomew as a map dealer in Portugal Christopher Columbus
#2279, aired 1994-06-30LESSER KNOWN NAMES $100: Navigator Martin Pinzon commanded the Pinta on this explorer's first voyage to the New World Columbus
#2273, aired 1994-06-22HISTORY $500: Amerigo Vespucci made this many voyages to the New World, the same number as Columbus 4
#2263, aired 1994-06-08THE "SAN"s OF TIME $600: Some say this island of the Bahamas, also called Watlings Island, was Columbus' 1st New World stop San Salvador
#2244, aired 1994-05-12EXPLORERS $200: Around 1541 his remains, & those of his son Diego, were taken to the Cathedral of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola Columbus
#2239, aired 1994-05-05STATE CAPITALS $100: This city on Ohio's Scioto River was laid out in 1812 Columbus
#2231, aired 1994-04-25EXPLORERS $200: On his fourth voyage to the New World, 1502-04, he was marooned in Jamaica for a year Columbus
#2224, aired 1994-04-14HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: On December 5 Haiti celebrates its discovery by this man Columbus
#2206, aired 1994-03-21"T" TIME $500: Freud called this plant "the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America" tobacco
#2191, aired 1994-02-28EXPLORERS $100: In 1496 he returned to Spain, leaving his brother Bartolome in charge of Hispaniola Christopher Columbus
#2183, aired 1994-02-16HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: On October 12, the date of this U.S. holiday, Honduras & the Bahamas celebrate Discovery Day Columbus Day
#2172, aired 1994-02-01U.S. COMMEMORATIVE COINS $200: Sold during an 1892-93 exposition, America's first commemorative coin depicted this explorer Columbus
#2154, aired 1994-01-06STATE CAPITALS $200: In 1816 this city succeeded Chillicothe as the capital of Ohio Columbus
#2134, aired 1993-12-09POTPOURRI $200: Berkeley, California has changed the name of this holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day Columbus Day
#2133, aired 1993-12-08TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: The Stowe House in this Ohio "Queen City of the West" often has exhibits on Black history Cincinnati
#2125, aired 1993-11-26STATE CAPITALS $200: State legislator general Joseph Foose suggested that Ohio's capital be named this Columbus
#2124, aired 1993-11-25JOHN PAUL II $500: He visited this Haitian neighbor in 1992 in celebration of Columbus' visit there 500 years earlier Dominican Republic
#2122, aired 1993-11-23THE 1480s $100: In 1484, Portugal rejected his "Enterprise of the Indies" plan, so he sought support in Spain Christopher Columbus
#2115, aired 1993-11-12INTERNATIONAL STARS $400: This Frenchman has played Christopher Columbus & Cyrano de Bergerac Gerard Depardieu
#2109, aired 1993-11-04"ISM"s $200: Columbus lived to tell of his visit with the Carib Indians, who were known for this savage practice cannibalism
#2100, aired 1993-10-22EXPLORERS $300: He may have sailed with Columbus on his 2nd voyage to the New World; 20 years later he discovered Florida Ponce de Leon
#2099, aired 1993-10-21WORLD CITIES $400: You can take an elevator to the top of the 200'-high monument to Columbus in this Spanish port Barcelona
#2084, aired 1993-09-30ISLANDS $1000: This Caribbean island invaded in 1983 was called Concepcion by Columbus Grenada
#2067, aired 1993-09-07NEWSPAPERS $200: This Ohio capital's major daily paper is the Dispatch Columbus
#2053, aired 1993-07-07AUTHORS $600: This novella was Philip Roth's first published book Goodbye, Columbus
#2044, aired 1993-06-24OHIO $200: This capital was established after local residents offered free land & $50,000 for construction Columbus
#2040, aired 1993-06-18ART $800: Van Dyck painted some of his finest portraits in this city, Columbus' hometown Genoa
#2036, aired 1993-06-14COATS OF ARMS $100: The coat of arms of Trinidad & Tobago features this explorer's 3 ships Columbus
#2028, aired 1993-06-02HISTORIC NAMES $200: Though he was in Spain at the time of Columbus' 1st & 2nd voyages, America was named for him anyway Vespucci
#2022, aired 1993-05-25GEOGRAPHY $300 (Daily Double): This Italian city maintains a sister-city relationship with Columbus, Ohio Genoa
#2010, aired 1993-05-07EXPLORATION $400: As a teenager he sailed on a Genoese galley against the pirates of Tunis Christopher Columbus
#2003, aired 1993-04-28ISLANDS $200: When Columbus arrived at this island in 1492, he called it La Isla Espanola, or "The Spanish Island" Hispaniola
#1999, aired 1993-04-22WORLD HISTORY $200: The crew for his 1492 voyage was recruited from Palos, Spain & nearby villages Christopher Columbus
#1971, aired 1993-03-15LESSER KNOWN NAMES $400: Diego, this explorer's only legitimate son, had to sue to get his father's hereditary rights from Ferdinand Columbus
#1969, aired 1993-03-11"GOOD" MOVIES $500: Ali MacGraw's first leading role was in this movie based on a Philip Roth novel Goodbye, Columbus
#1961, aired 1993-03-01WORLD FACTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Columbus discovered the island of Dominica on this day of the week, hence the name Sunday
#1959, aired 1993-02-25OPERA $200: The Met commissioned Philip Glass' "The Voyage" for the 500th anniversary of his voyage in 1992 Columbus
#1946, aired 1993-02-08WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: Columbus discovered these islands in 1493 & named them for an attribute of St. Ursula the Virgin Islands
#1935, aired 1993-01-22HISTORY $200: Columbus' flagship on his first voyage to the New World, she was lost off Haiti the Santa Maria
#1922, aired 1993-01-05DATES $300: Landing on an island he named San Salvador on this traditional date, Columbus claimed the New World for Spain October 12
#1888, aired 1992-11-18AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He wrote "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" & "A History of New York" Washington Irving
#1884, aired 1992-11-12ISLANDS $200: When Columbus reached this future U.S. commonwealth in 1493, he named it San Juan Bautista Puerto Rico
#1879, aired 1992-11-05LATIN AMERICA $1000: In 1498 Columbus first set foot on the South American continent in what's now this country Venezuela
#1852, aired 1992-09-29SAINTS $600: If you're a wayfarer, & you know if you are, then he's your patron saint St. Christopher
#1852, aired 1992-09-29OHIO $1,200 (Daily Double): They are the 3 largest cities in Ohio, & they all begin with the same letter Cleveland, Cincinnati, & Columbus
#1843, aired 1992-09-16FROM THE OLD WORLD $300: Columbus brought this sweet crop to the Caribbean where plantations were set up to grow it sugarcane
#1843, aired 1992-09-16FROM THE NEW WORLD $800: Columbus took back this vegetable, calling it most tasty boiled, roasted or ground into flour corn
#1830, aired 1992-07-10QUOTES $200: According to Emerson, "Every ship that comes to America got its chart from" him Columbus
#1800, aired 1992-05-29SHIPS $100: This ship, Columbus' flagship., was originally called the Marigalanti Santa Maria
#1781, aired 1992-05-04EXPLORERS $400: On Hispaniola in December 1492 he built a fort, La Navidad, from the timber of one of his ships Christopher Columbus
#1780, aired 1992-05-01EXPLORERS $200: A direct descendant of this explorer was chosen to be a grand marshal of the 1992 Rose Parade Christopher Columbus
#1707, aired 1992-01-21STARTS WITH "K" $300: This organization is known as the K. of C. for short Knights of Columbus
#1689, aired 1991-12-26COINS $800: The colon of El Salvador & Costa Rica was named for this explorer Christopher Columbus
#1668, aired 1991-11-27MARCO POLO $200: Unlike most people, this explorer thought Polo's book was true & set off for Cathay in 1492 Columbus
#1643, aired 1991-10-23COTTON $200: In 1492 he reported cotton growing in the Bahamas Columbus
#1638, aired 1991-10-16HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $300: This October day will celebrate its centennial as a national holiday in 1992 Columbus Day
#1630, aired 1991-10-04FLAGS $200: This man's expeditionary flag bore the initials "F & Y" for Ferdinand & Ysabel Christopher Columbus
#1625, aired 1991-09-27QUOTES $400: When Columbus said natives held "a firebrand in the hand", he was describing this habit smoking
#1622, aired 1991-09-24WILDE $100: "Of course America had often been discovered before" him, "but it had always been hushed up" Columbus
#1608, aired 1991-09-04MAPS $200: The only extant map made by this explorer shows the northwest coast of Hispaniola Columbus
#1606, aired 1991-09-02"PORT" CITIES $400: This Haitian capital's national museum has the anchor of Columbus' Santa Maria on display Port-au-Prince
#1599, aired 1991-07-11MONTHS $800: Columbus left Palos, Spain on his 1st voyage in this month, arriving in the New World 2 months later August
#1593, aired 1991-07-03THE RENAISSANCE $200: World Book says that his arrival in the Americas was one of the greatest achievements of the Renaissance Columbus
#1588, aired 1991-06-26FAMOUS NAMES $200: While da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, this man was on his 4th & last voyage to the New World Columbus
#1575, aired 1991-06-07GEOGRAPHY $400: Columbus called this island in the West Indies La Isla Espanola, "the Spanish Island" Hispaniola
#1565, aired 1991-05-24NEW MEXICO $600: Because the U.S. supported a rival, this Mexican bandit raided Columbus, killing about 16 people in 1916 Pancho Villa
#1553, aired 1991-05-08EXPLORERS $200: On his 3rd voyage to the New World in 1498, he became the 1st European to reach South America Columbus
#1532, aired 1991-04-09COLUMBUS, OHIO $100: The Standard Oil Company opened the U.S.A.’s first drive-in one of these in Columbus around 1913 a gas station
#1532, aired 1991-04-09COLUMBUS, OHIO $200: USA Today says this ice cream & tropical fruit dish was invented in 1904 at Foeller’s Drug Store a banana split
#1532, aired 1991-04-09COLUMBUS, OHIO $400 (Daily Double): Columbus was the first U.S. city planned & built to be one of these a state capital (a capital city accepted)
#1532, aired 1991-04-09COLUMBUS, OHIO $400: School in Columbus that’s home to the world’s largest all-brass marching band Ohio State University
#1532, aired 1991-04-09COLUMBUS, OHIO $500: On October 12, 1992 Columbus plans to have a replica of this flagship sitting in its Scioto River the Santa Maria
#1528, aired 1991-04-03LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $500: Columbus discovered gold on this island now shared by Haiti & the Dominican Republic Hispaniola
#1527, aired 1991-04-02HISTORY $800: 400 years before Columbus, Leif Ericson reached North America & called it this Vinland
#1523, aired 1991-03-27"C" IN GEOGRAPHY $300: Cities in Indiana, Georgia & Ohio share this name Columbus
#1519, aired 1991-03-21EXPLORERS $200: In 1478, he served as a purchasing agent for the Genoese traders Di Negro & Centurione Columbus
#1494, aired 1991-02-14"B" IN GEOGRAPHY $500: On his 1492 voyage, Columbus landed at what is now San Salvador in this group of islands the Bahamas
#1489, aired 1991-02-07TRANSPORTATION $1,600 (Daily Double): USAir's flight 1492 flies nonstop from Los Angeles to this city Columbus, Ohio
#1482, aired 1991-01-29EXPLORERS $600: Columbus & Magellan turned to Spain for financing after kings of this country turned them down Portugal
#1474, aired 1991-01-17NATIONAL COAT-OF-ARMS $200: The ship on Grenada's coat-of-arms represents this explorer who discovered the island in 1498 Christopher Columbus
#1454, aired 1990-12-20FOREIGN EXCHANGE $800: This monetary unit of El Salvador is named for Christopher Columbus the Colon
#1431, aired 1990-11-19BASEBALL $100: Joe DiMaggio could tell you the Columbus Clippers are a minor league farm team of this American League club the Yankees
#1428, aired 1990-11-14EXPLORERS $200: The ancestors of the Texas longhorn were brought to the Americas in 1493 by this explorer Columbus
#1425, aired 1990-11-09GEOGRAPHIC "SAINT"s $200: The largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, it was named "Santa Cruz" by Columbus St. Croix
#1386, aired 1990-09-17QUOTES $100: "At two hours after midnight appeared the land," he wrote in his journal October 12, 1492 Columbus
#1380, aired 1990-09-07GEOGRAPHY $400: It's said Columbus named this West Indian island for the Trinity after sighting three peaks in the southeast Trinidad
#11, aired 1990-08-25HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: The earliest date on which this holiday can fall is October 8th Columbus Day
#11, aired 1990-08-25INTERNATIONAL PARKS $2500: This Mexico City park, which antedates Columbus is believed to be the oldest in the Americas Chapultepec
#8, aired 1990-08-04SKYSCRAPERS $2000: The state office tower named for former Gov. James A. Rhodes is this city's tallest building Columbus(, Ohio)
#1371, aired 1990-07-16U.S. TERRITORIES $100: Columbus discovered this future commonwealth in 1493 & named it San Juan Bautista Puerto Rico
#1354, aired 1990-06-21WORLD HISTORY $200: 38 crew members stayed in the Spanish colony he founded on Hispaniola, but they were killed after he left Columbus
#1333, aired 1990-05-23HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $100: This holiday is also known as Discovery Day Columbus Day
#1330, aired 1990-05-18STATE "C"APITALS $100: The first gorilla born in captivity was born in this Ohio city's zoo in 1956 Columbus
#1329, aired 1990-05-17ISLANDS $1000: These islands off the African coast were the last stop Columbus made before he headed west to the New World the Canary Islands
#1324, aired 1990-05-10THE 15th CENTURY $400: In 1482 he submitted his plans for exploration to King John of Portugal Christopher Columbus
#1316, aired 1990-04-30WORLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The year Columbus landed in the West Indies, this first of the Tudor kings ruled England Henry VII
#1301, aired 1990-04-09"C" CITIES $300: A Panamanian town, Cristobal, meaning "Christopher", is next to this town, whose name means "Columbus" Colon
#1289, aired 1990-03-22DECEMBER 25th $100: On Dec. 25, 1492, his ship the Santa Maria was wrecked off Hispaniola Christopher Columbus
#1284, aired 1990-03-1519TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: By 1833 this road, also called the National Road, was completed as far west as Columbus, Ohio the Cumberland Road
#1275, aired 1990-03-02OHIOANS $400: This Columbus native was 22 yrs. old when he won his 1st pro victory, defeating Arnold Palmer in the U.S. Open Jack Nicklaus
#1262, aired 1990-02-13EXPLORERS $200: He overestimated the size of Asia & underestimated the Earth, so he thought he'd reached the Orient Christopher Columbus
#1260, aired 1990-02-09HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: This holiday was first celebrated in the U.S. in 1792, the 300th anniversary of a historic event Columbus Day
#1242, aired 1990-01-16EXPLORERS $300: Columbus called this ship a "dull sailer and unfit for discovery" Santa Maria
#1192, aired 1989-11-07ISLANDS $200: These Ecuadorian islands are known officially as the Columbus Archipelago Galapagos Islands
#1185, aired 1989-10-2719th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1816 this city replaced Chillicothe as capital of Ohio Columbus
#1175, aired 1989-10-13RESORTS $200: In 1493 Columbus named this Virgin Island "Santa Cruz", since then its name has been Frenchified St. Croix
#1163, aired 1989-09-27FOREIGN FESTIVALS $100: His "Day" is celebrated in Spain, Mexico & some Central & South American countries on October 12 Christopher Columbus
#1158, aired 1989-09-20FLAGS $100: Christopher Columbus' flag bore a cross with their initials on either side Ferdinand & Isabella
#1141, aired 1989-07-17EUROPEAN CITIES $600: It's said Columbus announced his discovery of the New World in this largest Spanish port city Barcelona
#1139, aired 1989-07-13THE RIVIERA $4,000 (Daily Double): This city on the Italian Riviera is famous, among other things, as the birthplace of Columbus Genoa
#1106, aired 1989-05-29AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: While working at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, this Knickerbocker knocked out a Columbus bio Washington Irving
#1095, aired 1989-05-12NATIONAL LANDMARKS $600: His landing site on St. Croix became a national landmark over 450 years later Christopher Columbus
#1070, aired 1989-04-07U.S. CITIES $1000: John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in this city on Lake Erie Cleveland
#1041, aired 1989-02-27CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $200: The largest region in North America named after Columbus is this Canadian province British Columbia
#1041, aired 1989-02-27CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $400: In Spanish his name was Cristobal Colon, & in Italian, this Christoforo Colombo
#1041, aired 1989-02-27CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $600: He founded Nueva Isabela, 1st European colony in the New World, now this Dominican capital Santo Domingo
#1041, aired 1989-02-27CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $800: In 1482 King John II of this country turned down Columbus' request for funding Portugal
#1041, aired 1989-02-27CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $1000: Columbus made a total of this many round trip voyages between Spain & the New World 4
#1039, aired 1989-02-23NEW MEXICO $1000: New Mexico's acquiring statehood in 1912 didn't stop his gang from raiding the town of Columbus in 1916 Pancho Villa
#1029, aired 1989-02-09SPAIN $400: 1492 was a banner year for Spain; Columbus reached America & these invaders were finally defeated Moors
#1013, aired 1989-01-18AMERICAN INDIANS $100: He was the 1st to call the Native Americans "Indians" Columbus
#943, aired 1988-10-12EXPLORERS $200: Following his 3rd voyage to the New World, he was put in chains & sent back to Spain Columbus
#927, aired 1988-09-20WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: This largest Spanish seaport has an exact replica of Columbus' flagship the Santa Maria Barcelona
#917, aired 1988-09-06OPERA $600: For the 500th anniversary of this in 1992, the Met has commissioned Philip Glass to write an opera Columbus discovers America
#912, aired 1988-07-19THE YEAR THAT WAS $200: The year Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba 1492
#880, aired 1988-06-03U.S. CITIES $800: It's the 2nd largest city in Georgia & recently became the largest in Ohio Columbus
#872, aired 1988-05-24HAITI $200: The 1st European structure on Haiti was a fort built from timbers of his wrecked flagship Columbus
#824, aired 1988-03-17LYRICS $100: A 1937 song says "They all laughed at" this explorer "when he said the world was round" Columbus
#819, aired 1988-03-10HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 holidays the government moved in 1971 to give federal employees 3-day weekends (2 of) Memorial Day, Washington's Birthday, Columbus Day & Veterans Day
#808, aired 1988-02-24HISTORY $500: It's said a map by Toscanelli inspired this Genoese sailor to seek a westward route to the Far East Columbus
#795, aired 1988-02-053-LETTER FOODS $500: Legend says Columbus brought this vegetable to the New World in 1493 pea
#770, aired 1988-01-01LEMONS $100: In 1493, this Italian navigator planted the 1st lemon trees in the New World Christopher Columbus
#756, aired 1987-12-14MONEY $400: The currency of El Salvador & Costa Rica, the colon, is named in honor of him Columbus
#755, aired 1987-12-11FINAL RESTING PLACES $500: Though his tomb is in Seville, this explorer's remains remain in Santo Domingo Christopher Columbus
#745, aired 1987-11-27THE CARIBBEAN $200: In 1986, a Nat'l Geographic team found that Samana Cay, not San Salvador, was site of this historic event Christopher Columbus's landing in the New World
#741, aired 1987-11-23WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Columbus named an island he found "Dominica", Italian for this day on which he 1st saw it Sunday
#732, aired 1987-11-10WORLD CAPITALS $400: Founded in 1496 by Columbus's brother, this Dominican capitol is the oldest European city in the new world Santo Domingo
#712, aired 1987-10-13NOTORIOUS $200: Luis Colon, grandson of this explorer, was banished to Africa, apparently for having 3 wives Christopher Columbus
#708, aired 1987-10-07OHIO $300: 1st Chillicothe, then Zanesville, then Chillicothe again, then Columbus the (state) capital of Ohio
#686, aired 1987-09-07GEOGRAPHICAL "SAINT"S $300: Columbus named this Virgin Island Santa Cruz, but it's now called this, which means the same thing Saint Croix
#643, aired 1987-05-27ASTRONOMY $200: Though Columbus "proved" it, Pythagoras taught this 21 centuries earlier that the world is round
#628, aired 1987-05-06"PIN"s $100: Santa Maria! It's Columbus' ship that fits this category the Pinta
#625, aired 1987-05-01WASHINGTON, D.C. $200: The 2 individuals honored in the name Washington, D.C. George Washington & Christopher Columbus
#613, aired 1987-04-15GEOGRAPHIC "SQUARE"s $600: Triangular in shape, this Dallas square shares its name with a fall holiday Thanksgiving Square
#611, aired 1987-04-13HONDURAS $100: This explorer landed at Cape Honduras in 1502, claiming the land for Spain Columbus
#608, aired 1987-04-08FLAGS $1000: Among flags Columbus carried in 1492 was one bearing the initials F & Y, which stood for this Ferdinand and Isabella
#606, aired 1987-04-06ORGANIZATIONS $300: This group's headquarters is at 1 Columbus Plaza, New Haven, CT the Knights of Columbus
#568, aired 1987-02-11HOLIDAYS $400: Maryland & Puerto Rico still observe Columbus Day on this date October 12th
#566, aired 1987-02-09U.S. CITIES $200: Major city where Washington is a Square & Columbus is a Circle New York City
#565, aired 1987-02-06SMOKING $600: 1 of Columbus' men, Rodrigo de Jerez, introduced tobacco to Spain & was imprisoned for smoking by this institution Spanish Inquisition
#560, aired 1987-01-30EXPLORERS $1000: Columbus planned to sail westward to "Cipangu", which was the name Marco Polo used for this country Japan
#558, aired 1987-01-28SOUTH AMERICA $500: On his 3rd voyage to the New World, Columbus landed on mainland for 1st time in this country Venezuela
#557, aired 1987-01-27MAY $200: On May 20, 1506, this explorer died in Spain Columbus
#550, aired 1987-01-16GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS $300: Nevada's oldest permanent white settlement, or the birthplace of Columbus Genoa
#543, aired 1987-01-07U.S. STATES $600: Its 3 largest cities all begin with the letter "C" Ohio (Columbus, Cleveland & Cincinnati)
#543, aired 1987-01-07HOLIDAYS $1000: In 1986, Canadian Thanksgiving Day, Yom Kippur & Columbus Day were all observed on this date October 13th
#522, aired 1986-12-09MEDICAL HISTORY $500: It's said a Spanish surgeon 1st described this venereal disease, recognized in members of Columbus' crew syphilis
#516, aired 1986-12-01TOUGH TV TRIVIA $1000: This hero 1st appeared on TV in 1950 & then reappeared "5 centuries later" in 1979 Buck Rogers
#499, aired 1986-11-06SEPTEMBER $200: Leaving on his 2nd voyage Sept. 25, 1493, his ship count was up from 3 to 17 Christopher Columbus
#495, aired 1986-10-311890's $700 (Daily Double): The Chicago Exposition celebrated the 400th anniversary of this discovery of America by Christopher Columbus)
#490, aired 1986-10-24CORN $200: In 1492, members of his crew were the first Europeans to sample corn, which probably stuck in their teeth Columbus
#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
#457, aired 1986-09-09EXPLORERS $100: He died in Spain May 20, 1506, still believing he had reached the East Indies Christopher Columbus
#447, aired 1986-05-27DISCOVERIES $200: Over 400 years before surgeon general's report, Columbus discovered Indians enjoying this tobacco
#439, aired 1986-05-15STATE CAPITALS $300: The North's largest Confederate prisoner of war camp was in this Ohio capital Columbus
#429, aired 1986-05-01EXPLORERS $100: Landing in Venezuela in 1498, Christopher Columbus thought he was near this Biblical paradise the Garden of Eden
#425, aired 1986-04-25BREAD $200: On his second voyage, he introduced wheat to the New World Christopher Columbus
#417, aired 1986-04-15HISTORY $400: Ptolemy's error in calculating this led Columbus to believe Asia could be reached by sailing west the Earth's circumference
#405, aired 1986-03-2812s $400: 2 U.S. holidays honoring historic figures that traditionally fall on the 12th of the month Lincoln's birthday & Columbus Day
#398, aired 1986-03-19UNIVERSITIES $400: Its main campus, located in Columbus, Ohio includes an airport & two 18-hole golf courses Ohio State University
#397, aired 1986-03-18NEWSPAPERS $800: In 1980, Columbus Dispatch became 1st electronic newspaper sending material to these in homes computer terminals
#390, aired 1986-03-07HISTORY $500: Appropriate year in which the 1st known terrestrial globe was constructed 1492
#389, aired 1986-03-06HOLIDAYS $100: It was 1st celebrated in the U.S. on the 300th anniversary in 1792 Columbus Day
#349, aired 1986-01-09SPORTS $200: Considered oldest sport in America, Hawaiians did it before Columbus discovered America surfing
#346, aired 1986-01-06KNIGHTS $800: To belong to this U.S. order, you have to be at least 18 and a practicing Roman Catholic the Knights of Columbus
#331, aired 1985-12-16AMERICAN INDIANS $200: He called the Native Americans "Indians" because he thought he was in the East indies Columbus
#329, aired 1985-12-12VIRGIN ISLANDS $100: Explorer believed to have landed at Salt River Bay, St. Croix in 1493 Columbus
#308, aired 1985-11-13HOLIDAYS $200: October holiday which Mexicans call Dia de la Raza is celebrated in the U.S. as this Columbus Day
#301, aired 1985-11-04QUOTES $400: In 1500, he asked to "be judged as a captain who went... to the Indies to conquer a people" Christopher Columbus
#283, aired 1985-10-09WORLD HISTORY $200: On his 2nd voyage, he discovered Jamaica Christopher Columbus
#277, aired 1985-10-01U.S. STATES $300: The geographic center of this state is Delaware, 25 miles north of Columbus Ohio
#270, aired 1985-09-20FIRST LINES $600: Philip Roth story where Neil tells us, "The 1st time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" Goodbye, Columbus
#263, aired 1985-09-11BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He wrote biographies of Columbus & Washington as well as Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving
#174, aired 1985-05-09"GOOD" & "BAD" MOVIES $100: It could have been called "So Long, Ohio's Capital" Goodbye, Columbus
#133, aired 1985-03-13STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2 state capitals whose names come from the same explorer Columbus (Ohio) & Columbia (South Carolina)
#130, aired 1985-03-08HISTORY $200: Looking for Japan, he landed in Haiti in 1492 Columbus
#128, aired 1985-03-061492 $1000: Later called "Admiral of the Sea of India", he 1st became a naval officer this year Vasco da Gama
#123, aired 1985-02-27HISTORY $200: The Spanish call him Cristobal Colon Christopher Columbus
#122, aired 1985-02-26WORLD HISTORY $300: In 1916, this Mexican revolutionary shot up town of Columbus, NM, killing 17 Pancho Villa
#116, aired 1985-02-18WORLD CITIES $1000: Tradition says Columbus announced his discovery of the New World in this Spanish town Barcelona
#103, aired 1985-01-30ADMIRALS $200: He was proclaimed "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" by Ferdinand & Isabella Christopher Columbus
#94, aired 1985-01-17OCTOBER $400: As we celebrate Columbus Day Oct. 12th, Norwegians celebrate his day Oct. 9th Leif Erikson Day
#91, aired 1985-01-14"C" CITIES $300: Almost all of Ohio lies within 150 miles of this, its capital Columbus
#59, aired 1984-11-29SAINTLY CITIES $400: Reputed site of Columbus' tomb, it's capital of Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
#17, aired 1984-10-02CONQUERORS $400: Pagan Scandinavians who attacked western Europe & reached America before Columbus the Vikings
#14, aired 1984-09-27AUGUST $100: 492 years ago on Aug. 3rd, he set sail across the Atlantic Christopher Columbus
#11, aired 1984-09-24HOLIDAYS $100: Italian-American's have made this their equivalent of St. Patrick's Day Columbus Day
#8, aired 1984-09-19EXPLORERS $200: Norse explorer who landed in America 500 years before Columbus Leif Erikson

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (26 results returned)

#8958, aired 2023-10-25HISTORIC LETTERS: A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Christopher) Columbus
#8794, aired 2023-01-26HISTORY: Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast Santa Maria
#8183, aired 2020-03-18FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS: To celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major event, Seville, Spain & Genoa, Italy both had expositions in this year 1992
#7252, aired 2016-03-08THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: 2 U.S. state capitals & 2 major Panamanian ports are named after this European Christopher Columbus
#5485, aired 2008-06-13HOLIDAYS: The Society for Human Resource Management says, of the 10 federal holidays, it's the least observed by the private sector Columbus Day
#5265, aired 2007-06-29THE CARIBBEAN: Columbus sighted this volcanic island in 1493 & gave it a name meaning "saw-toothed mountain" Montserrat
#4372, aired 2003-09-16PEOPLE IN HISTORY: About the islands he discovered, he wrote, "To the first of these I give the name of the Blessed Savior" Christopher Columbus
#4185, aired 2002-11-08STATE CAPITALS: In the continental United States, this city is the southernmost state capital Austin, Texas (Tallahassee is a very close second, Baton Rouge, third)
#4183, aired 2002-11-06AUTHORS: In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as "The Mighty A" Margaret Mitchell
#3962, aired 2001-11-20CITY NAME ORIGINS: In 1517 the Portuguese modified the name of a port city of western Ceylon in honor of this man Christopher Columbus
#3701, aired 2000-10-09THE 50 STATES: The 2 states that named their capitals for Christopher Columbus Ohio (Columbus) & South Carolina (Columbia)
#3660, aired 2000-06-30MOVIE DIRECTORS: Last name of the director whose production company is called 1492 Pictures (Chris) Columbus
#3111, aired 1998-02-23THE CARIBBEAN: This capital, founded by Columbus' brother, is the oldest European-founded city in the Western Hemisphere Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
#2991, aired 1997-09-08BRITISH ROYALTY: She was 6 years old & still known by the name Catalina when Columbus set sail for the New World Catherine of Aragon
#1984, aired 1993-04-01EXPLORERS: This contemporary of Columbus established the concept of a New World in his 1504 letter "Mundus Novus" Amerigo Vespucci
#1941, aired 1993-02-01ORGANIZATIONS: This service organization's name comes from American Indian dialect meaning "we make ourselves known" Kiwanis International
#1733, aired 1992-02-26EXPLORERS: In the 1480s his brother Bartholomew gave England's Henry VII a world map to show him their plan Christopher Columbus
#1613, aired 1991-09-11HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The day Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving, Americans observe this day Columbus Day
#1206, aired 1989-11-27STATE CAPITALS: Genoa, Italy gave this state capital a 20' statue which was put in front of City Hall Columbus, Ohio
#1132, aired 1989-07-04STATE CAPITALS: The 2 state capitals, both east of the Mississippi, that begin with the same 6 letters Columbus (Ohio) & Columbia (South Carolina)
#1107, aired 1989-05-30COINS: She became the only monarch to appear on a U.S. coin, when a commemorative quarter was issued in 1893 Queen Isabella
#1055, aired 1989-03-17MONARCHS: In her will, she wrote of her hope of just rule for the Indians of the New World Queen Isabella
#934, aired 1988-09-29HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: It didn't become a federal holiday until 1971, though it was 1st celebrated in 1792 Columbus Day
#789, aired 1988-01-28STATE CAPITALS: 1 of 2 letters that begins the names of 6 state capitals, more than any other C or S
#545, aired 1987-01-09STATE CAPITALS: The only person from whom the names of 2 current state capitals are derived Christopher Columbus
#263, aired 1985-09-11EXPLORERS: Of Columbus' 3 ships on his 1st voyage, the one that never returned to Spain the Santa Maria

Players (90 results returned)

Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio "He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
Eric Schwendeman, a bookseller from Columbus, Ohio Season 21 1-time champion: $11,500 + $1,000.
Colin O’Bannon, a pool room owner from Columbus, Ohio Season 34 player (2017-09-29).
Evan Struble, a librarian from Columbus, Ohio Season 30 player (2013-12-13).
Rod Swain, an AmeriCorps recruiter from Columbus, Ohio Season 34 player (2017-10-24).
Tom Moosbrugger, a library worker from Columbus, Ohio Season 27 player (2011-04-04). Last name pronounced like "MOHS-brug-ger".
Carl Aveni, a civil litigation attorney from Columbus, Ohio Season 27 player (2011-05-26).
Doug Tibbs, a firefighter from Columbus, Ohio Season 23 player (2007-03-02).
Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
Neil Thom, an attorney from Columbus, Georgia Season 20 player (2004-06-04). KJL game 3.
Jeannette Harrison, a retired administrator and consultant from Columbus, Ohio Season 23 player (2006-12-22).
Nathan Thornton, a copywriter from Columbus, Ohio Season 22 player (2006-05-01). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: NathanT
Leslie Birdwell, a writer from Columbus, Ohio Season 22 player (2006-01-03).
Mike Drummond, an application scientist from Columbus, Ohio Season 32 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000. JBoard user name: Mike from Columbus
Dave Stern, an accountant from Columbus, Ohio Season 20 1-time champion: $18,800 + $2,000.
Cyn Mayo, a high school librarian from Columbus, Ohio Season 25 player (2009-06-24). First name pronounced like "SIN". Jeopardy! Message...
Nora Corrigan, an English professor from Columbus, Mississippi Season 26 1-time champion: $27,201 + $1,000.
Jennifer Healy, a training system manager from Hilliard, Ohio Season 31 1-time champion: $17,001 + $2,000. JBoard user name: JDHealy
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
Kristen Seigel, a high school Spanish teacher from Columbus, Ohio Season 37 player (2021-01-29).
Kevin Hendricks, a hospital IT analyst from Columbus, Ohio Season 36 player (2020-01-02).
Alex Hookway, an actuary from Columbus, Ohio Season 36 1-time champion: $28,801 + $2,000.
Chip Bell, a telecom engineer from Marysville, Ohio Season 30 2-time champion: $29,300 + $2,000. Chip won $5,000 on...
Amanda Graver, a researcher from Columbus, Ohio Season 34 player (2018-06-22). JBoard user name: AmandaG Amanda won $20,000...
Sean Rooney, a sales manager originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 9 player (1993-01-07).
Brandon Anderson, a communications director from Columbus, Ohio Season 39 player (2023-03-21).
Dale Butland, a press secretary originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 3 1-time co-champion: $1,000 + a trip to New Orleans...
Susan Merett, a financial editor originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 9 player (1992-12-02).
Sarah Schmitt, a podcaster and stay-at-home mom from Columbus, Ohio Season 36 player (2020-03-16).
Tyler Seiple, a voice and speech teacher originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 38 player (2021-10-07). Last name pronounced like "SYE-pull".
Ann Greiner, a retired naval officer originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 10 player (1994-06-15).
Keith Bednarczuk, a letter carrier from Columbus, Ohio Season 37 player (2021-03-12).
Donna Matturri, a librarian from Columbus, Ohio 2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 39 2-time champion: $40,200 + $1,000.
Donna Matturri, a librarian from Columbus, Ohio 2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 39 2-time champion: $40,200 + $1,000.
Lauren Menke, a math teacher from Columbus, Ohio Season 37 player (2021-02-19).
Doug Matthews, an attorney from Columbus, Ohio Season 7 player (1991-01-10).
David Hazen, a retailer originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 9 player (1992-09-16).
Tom Rutledge, a freelance journalist originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 3 1-time champion: $5,201.
Michael Ellis, a law clerk for a federal judge from Hilliard, Ohio Season 29 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
Steve Hinshaw, a professor originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 5 player (1989-06-21).
Alex Wright, a university administrator from Upper Arlington, Ohio Season 28 1-time champion: $25,600 + $2,000. Alex was originally from...
Amanda Burton, a graduate student of library science from Chillicothe, Ohio Season 29 player (2012-10-09).
Kris Hamilton, a computer technician from Dublin, Ohio Season 29 3-time champion: $60,301 + $2,000.
Arman Ramnath, a law student from Columbus, Ohio Season 37 1-time champion: $19,205 + $1,000.
Katie Baker, a staffer for a political organization originally from Mount Vernon, Ohio Season 28 player (2011-10-05).
Lisa Price, a recent college graduate from Columbus, Ohio Season 32 player (2015-11-03).
Eric Felkey, a kitchen manager from Columbus, Ohio Season 33 player (2016-10-05).
Teresa Browning, a home inspector from Columbus, Ohio Season 39 player (2023-04-05).
Mike Day, a finance and marketing MBA student from Columbus, Ohio 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
Charlie Geer, an affordable housing development analyst from Columbus, Ohio Season 33 player (2016-09-23).
Susan Sweet, a former basketball coach originally from Toledo, Ohio Season 1 player (1984-11-09). Johnny Gilbert stumbled over Susan\'s introduction, calling...
Gina George, a consultant and customer service representative from Harrisburg, Ohio Season 20 player (2004-05-24).
Brad Bean, a web assistant from Columbus, Ohio Season 19 2-time champion: $25,200 + $2,000.
Christina Bussmann, a social worker from Columbus, Ohio Season 33 player (2017-01-06).
Heather Colby, a veterinarian from Mount Vernon, Ohio Season 24 player (2008-07-04).
Brad Savage, a law student originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 17 player (2001-04-06). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: zero game...
Peter Paniccia, a bartender from Columbus, Ohio Season 18 player (2002-06-24).
Nicole Reimer, a junior from Columbus, Ohio 2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Kevin Scott, a graduate student from Columbus, Ohio Season 18 3-time champion: $44,001.
Paula Filson, a system programmer from Powell, Ohio Season 20 player (2004-06-08). KJL game 5.
Pat Pauken, an attorney and educator from Columbus, Ohio Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
Jon Woodman, an attorney from Columbus, Ohio Season 13 3-time champion: $32,000.
Aimee Serafini, a technical writer originally from Columbus, Ohio Season 13 player (1997-01-03).
Dave Bergmann, an attorney from Columbus, Ohio Season 7 player (1990-12-03).
Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
Dana Sellke, a customer service representative from Westerville, Ohio Season 29 player (2012-10-30). Last name pronounced like "SELL-kee".
Maria Khrakovsky, a senior from The Ohio State University from Columbus, Ohio 2014 College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000.
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York "A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
Jesse Henning, a children's librarian from Westerville, Ohio Season 31 player (2014-09-18).
Tim Russell, a teacher from Lancaster, Ohio Season 21 2-time champion: $46,000 + $1,000.
Robert Bowsher, a software engineer from Hilliard, Ohio Season 21 2-time champion: $33,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Booder98
Mark Passerrello, a librarian from Westerville, Ohio Season 26 player (2010-06-14).
Michael Day, a financial analyst from Columbus, Ohio 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Laura Ellis, an editor from Columbus, Ohio Season 19 player (2003-01-27).
Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
Ted Miller, a technical service manager from Columbus, Ohio Season 16 player (2000-06-12).
Alex Vulic, an MBA student from Columbus, Ohio Season 17 player (2000-09-07).
Amy Ryan, a stay-at-home mom from Reynoldsburg, Ohio Season 23 player (2007-06-28).
Terri Jones, an auditor from Columbus, Ohio Season 16 player (1999-12-29).
Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois 2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Sue Wright, from Columbus, Ohio Season 17 player (2000-09-19).
Mary Mogan Edwards, a journalist from Columbus, Ohio Season 16 player (2000-05-01).
Lisa Kaiser, a director of communications from Dublin, Ohio Season 20 player (2004-01-30).
Jill Jones-Renger, a graduate teaching assistant from Columbus, Ohio Season 14 player (1997-11-25).
Albert Chu, a software engineer originally from Dublin, Ohio Season 24 player (2007-09-24).
Doug Lach, a product development manager from Columbus, Ohio 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California "As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
Dale Masel, a professor from Lancaster, Ohio Season 21 1-time champion: $10,350 + $1,000. Dale won $1,000 on...
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...



Didn't find what you wanted? Try your J! Archive search using Google, Bing, or Yahoo!

The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.