#7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
#7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia Monticello |
#6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $1600: In 38 A.D. this "little boot" emperor executed the Praetorian Guard prefect to whose support he owed his accession Caligula |
#5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $400: In 1581 this world-circumnavigating sailor was made the mayor of Plymouth, England Sir Francis Drake |
#5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $800: Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth man to hold this title, died mysteriously in 1706 the Dalai Lama |
#5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $1200: This man who lost the 1948 presidential election was referred to as "the little man on the wedding cake" (Thomas) Dewey |
#5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $1600: This U.S. mayor who died in 1976 was called the "last of the big-city bosses" (Richard) Daley |
#5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The topic of the paper he gave to the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society in 1794 was color blindness John Dalton |
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