| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $600: Recorded aboard the ISS, Chris Hadfield's zero-g version of this Bowie song has gotten 52 million+ views on YouTube "Space Oddity" |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) One of the first two men to summit Everest and a part of my personal Mount Rushmore of all-time climbers, he also tractored to the South Pole five years later in 1958 Edmund Hillary |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PSYCHOLOGY $1200: G. Stanley Hall, the 19th C. founder of child psychology, said, "men grow old because they stop" doing this, not the other way around playing |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $1000: These two men, an actor-director & a writer, have a nice chat, perhaps about their last names being homophones Orson Welles and H.G. Wells |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $800: Long before "Sliders" or "Fringe" hit TV screens, Wells talked about these universes in "Men Like Gods" parallel universes |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | NOTORIOUS $400: Upon his arrest in 1933, "Machine Gun" Kelly inadvertently gave this nickname to the FBI agents who nabbed him G-men |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $800: Sci-fi author James Graham (J.G.) Ballard |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TALES $2000: Men are just beasts--or is that beasts are just men?--in this 1896 H.G. Wells tale about the world's worst vet The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $1200: This, the G.A.O., is the auditing agency that assists Congress the General Accounting Office |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | TOUGH DAY AT $1200: East Liverpool, Ohio on October 22, 1934 for this "Pretty Boy", gunned down by vengeful G-men (Pretty Boy) Floyd |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | NICKNAMES $200: In the 1920s agents who worked here came to be known as G-men the FBI |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | LUNAR FICTION $1200: In 1901 this Brit, a sci-fi pioneer, had his "First Men in the Moon" encounter insect-men called Selenites H.G. Wells |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE NOVELS OF H.G. WELLS $200: In a 1901 sci fi romance, Wells told a tale of "the first men in" this heavenly body, where they meet the Selenites the Moon |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1200: The very British Pelham Grenville... (P.G.) Wodehouse |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $200: For his leadership during 9/11, this New York City mayor received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth Giuliani |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $400: In a Gallup poll of the most admired people of the 20th century, this evangelist ranked seventh (Billy) Graham |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $600: Wellington's last words, "Yes, if you please", came when asked if he'd like some tea, maybe this P.M. who followed him Earl Grey |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $800: In the 1970s this future veep was a reporter for the Tennessean newspaper (Al) Gore |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $1000: His custom-made King Silver Flair trumpet is part of the Smithsonian collection (Dizzy) Gillespie |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? $600: "The Island of" this doctor by H.G. Wells concerns a man trying to turn animals into men Dr. Moreau |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $1000: (Alex stands in front of an exhibit at the Newseum.) The exhibit "G-men and Journalists" contains the very first ledger in which this list was kept; it began when a reporter asked the FBI, "Who are the toughest guys you're looking for?" the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | BAD TIME CHARLIE $600: Charles Arthur Floyd, better known as this, was shot dead by G-men in 1934 "Pretty Boy" Floyd |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR $1200: One of the 4 of all the president's men convicted by a federal court Jan. 1, 1975 (1 of) John Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, or Robert Mardian |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" & "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic H.G. Wells |
| #4526, aired 2004-04-19 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $400: Herbert George... H.G. Wells |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | "G" MEN $400: He said of the Mercury capsule that carried him into orbit in Feb. 1962, "You don't get into it, you put it on" John Glenn |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | "G" MEN $800: In 1957 he preached to a crowd of 100,000 at Yankee Stadium Billy Graham |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | "G" MEN $1200: In 1882 a religious fanatic named Charles Guiteau was hanged for the murder of this man James Garfield |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | "G" MEN $1600: This king donated the "Royal Library" of the English kings to the British Museum in 1757 George II |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | "G" MEN $2000: Of the men on the front of currently printed U.S. paper bills he was the most recent to have been president Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | "G" MEN $400: When we say he invented movable type, we mean he invented the mold which made movable type practical Johannes Gutenberg |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | "G" MEN $800: "The Kingdom of Swing" was this man's 1939 autobiography Benny Goodman |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | "G" MEN $1200: On April 12, 1961 this Soviet air force pilot made a trip around the world in 108 minutes Yuri Gagarin |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | "G" MEN $1600: He actually formed his Italian Legion, later known as the Red Shirts, in South America in the 1840s (Giuseppe) Garibaldi |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | "G" MEN $2,000 (Daily Double): This U.S. composer wrote "geographical" suites about the Hudson River & Niagara Falls, among others Ferde Grofe |
| #4435, aired 2003-12-12 | MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "G" $600: Disney dwarf, or "Old Men" adjective (6) Grumpy |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | G-MEN & WOMEN $400: (Cheryl gives the clue from the National Air and Space Museum.) This is the actual Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, in which he orbited the Earth February 20, 1962 John Glenn |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | G-MEN & WOMEN $800: This Hungarian actress once remarked, "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back" Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | G-MEN & WOMEN $1200: It was the Buddha's family name Gautama |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | G-MEN & WOMEN $1600: This existential Frenchman's plays include "The Maids" & "The Balcony" Jean Genet |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | G-MEN & WOMEN $2000: She was the first woman to lead the world's largest democracy Indira Gandhi |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | MILITARY MEN $1600: Known as "The G.I.'s General", he's the five-star hero seen here with only three during World War II (Omar) Bradley |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | SINNERS $800: Despite the nickname, this man said to have coined the term "G-men" reportedly never fired a shot during a crime "Machine Gun" Kelly |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | WHAT UP, "G"? $400: Practicing typists know that "Now is the time for all" these "to come to the aid of the party" good men |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | "G" MEN $200: This influential modern jazz trumpeter was born in Cheraw, South Carolina in 1917 Dizzy Gillespie |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | "G" MEN $400: In 1957 this comrade became Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | "G" MEN $600: He was Mary Wollstonecraft's husband & Mary Shelley's father William Godwin |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | "G" MEN $800: This general skillfully led the left side of American forces at the battles of Trenton & Brandywine Nathanael Greene |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | "G" MEN $1000: The theories of this 2nd century Greek physician influenced medical practice for centuries Galen |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | G-MEN $100: In 1985 Richard Miller became the first FBI agent to go on trial for this espionage (or spying) |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | G-MEN $200: Janet Reno was made U.S. Attorney General during the 1993 FBI-Branch Davidian standoff near this city Waco |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | G-MEN $300: In the 1960s the FBI sent infiltrators into this militant black organization founded by Newton & Seale the Black Panthers |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | G-MEN $400: The famous 1980 FBI sting dubbed this was just too sheikh for the room Abscam |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | G-MEN $500: Agents-to-be undergo 15 weeks of training at the FBI Academy in this Virginia city Quantico |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | "G" MEN $200: In 1919 this producer/director found United Artists along with Charlie Chaplin & 2 others D.W. Griffith |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | "G" MEN $400: At the end of his 1633 trial he is said to have muttered with regard to the Earth, "Even so, it does move" Galileo |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | "G" MEN $600: He sold several paintings to finance his 1891 trip to Tahiti to observe & paint its customs Paul Gauguin |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | "G" MEN $700 (Daily Double): In the 1850s this inventor wrote a 2-volume work about his discovery titled "Gum Elastic and its Varieties" Charles Goodyear |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | "G" MEN $1000: During World War I, this future Bauhaus founder was wounded & received the Iron Cross for bravery Walter Gropius |
| #3278, aired 1998-12-02 | MEN OF LETTERS $100: Herbert George... H.G. Wells |
| #3278, aired 1998-12-02 | MEN OF LETTERS $200: Pelham Grenville... P.G. Wodehouse |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | "G" MOVIES $200: Lucky Walter Matthau got to romance Sophia Loren in this 1995 sequel to "Grumpy Old Men" Grumpier Old Men |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN GREY $600: Pierre G.T. Beauregard was known as "The Little" this from his admiration of the French leader Napoleon |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | 1999 $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1950 Ray Bradbury classic begins in 1999 with men blasting off for another planet "The Martian Chronicles" |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | "G" WHIZ! $100: Seneca said, "Fire is the test of" this metal; "adversity, of strong men" gold |
| #2287, aired 1994-07-12 | FILMS OF THE '50s $1000: Jack Klugman was Juror 5 & E.G. Marshall Juror 4 in this 1957 release 12 Angry Men |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | MEN OF LETTER $400: For directing the Watergate burglary, he got a sentence of 2 1/2 to 8 years but served only 32 months E. Howard Hunt |
| #1937, aired 1993-01-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): In an 1896 novel by H.G. Wells, this doctor attempts to turn animals into men Dr. Moreau |
| #1601, aired 1991-07-15 | CRIME TIME $400: According to the FBI, it was Machine Gun Kelly who coined this nickname for their agents G-Men |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | MEN OF LETTERS $400: He used his science training to write novels like "The Time Machine" & "The War of the Worlds" H.G. Wells |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | "G" MEN $100: In 1980, at age 19, he became the youngest player named MVP of the NHL Gretzky |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | "G" MEN $200: He was Benson DuBois on TV before playing the "Phantom of the Opera" in L.A. Robert Guillaume |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | "G" MEN $300: Under the pen name A.A. Fair, he created private eyes Bertha Cool & Donald Lam Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | "G" MEN $400: After helping to organize the AFL, he headed it for almost 40 years Samuel Gompers |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | "G" MEN $500: Convinced the novel was evil, he burned the second part of "Dead Souls" shortly before he died Gogol |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | MEN OF LETTERS $600: He wrote about the honorable Bertie Wooster & his impeccable valet, Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | POLITICAL QUOTES $400: 1 of the 3 things which, according to John Fremont's 1856 G.O.P. campaign, should be free Soil, men & speech |
| #1167, aired 1989-10-03 | MEN'S FASHION $300: In March 1989 Bloomingdale's presented H.O.G. night to display clothes with this motorcycle insignia the Harley-Davidson logo |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | "G" WHIZ $300: From Japanese for "art person", she's trained in the art of entertaining men geisha |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | OUTLAWS $600: He never killed anyone or even fired his famous weapon in anger, & supposedly nicknamed the FBI "G-men" Machine Gun Kelly |
| #145, aired 1985-03-29 | GREAT LOVERS $300: His obsessive lifelong search was for "Venus", though he's famous for his book about men from Mars H.G. Wells |
