Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (450 results returned)

#9085, aired 2024-04-19AFRICAN HISTORY $1600: After a pilgrimage in 1324, Mali emperor Mansa Musa built the Great Mosque in this trading post Timbuktu
#9082, aired 2024-04-16VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1600: Not great with numbers, val doesn't end up in 1966 watching the launch of Gemini 10 but in London, in this year of the Great Fire 1666
#9072, aired 2024-04-02U.S. HISTORY $800: The War of 1812 ended when Great Britain & the U.S. came to terms in this Belgian city Ghent
#9030, aired 2024-02-02WE'VE GOT HISTORY $800: Queen Anne was the first monarch of a united Great Britain & the last from this ruling house Stuart
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $400: Peter the Great introduced regular minting of this currency in silver & here he is, on one of his coins the ruble
#9016, aired 2024-01-15WORLD HISTORY $400: Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power Peter the Great
#9010, aired 2024-01-05FAMOUS OBJECTS $1200: The National Museum of American History has this great swing bandleader's clarinet, though probably not his corset & pen (Benny) Goodman
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $500: Genghis Khan had a breakthrough when he "broke through" this fortified Asian structure that was built over 2000 years the Great Wall of China
#8956, aired 2023-10-23THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1600: Around the 1850s archaeologists unearthed the great library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, capital of this ancient empire the Assyrians
#8952, aired 2023-10-17THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS $600: Termed by history "the father" of it, in 1696 Peter the Great created this branch of the Russian military Navy
#16, aired 2023-10-11FRENCH HISTORY $0: Drink up! A famous New Orleans street is named after this dynasty that ruled France for most of the 17th & 18th centuries Bourbon
#8827, aired 2023-03-14SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $400: 1930s calamity: O DESPERATE GRINS the Great Depression
#8815, aired 2023-02-24BLACK HISTORY $1600: Around 1910 there was no such thing as Chicago blues; this 2-word exodus of Black folks brought the music north the Great Migration
#8814, aired 2023-02-23OLD HISTORY $400: From 1588 to 1629 Abbas the Great was shah of this country & its empire Persia
#8787, aired 2023-01-17A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): He reunited the Eastern & Western Roman Empires in 324 A.D., & the new capital soon bore his name Constantine the Great
#8760, aired 2022-12-09HISTORY $1600: To decide important matters of faith, in 325 A.D. this emperor called the Council of Nicaea Constantine the Great
#8751, aired 2022-11-28BRITISH HISTORY $2000: The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in the Crystal Palace, built to house it in this London park Hyde (Park)
#8725, aired 2022-10-21AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Shantytowns that sprang up during the Great Depression were given this presidential nickname Hoovervilles
#8719, aired 2022-10-13IS HISTORY $800: This father of Alexander the Great was assassinated in 336 B.C. Philip of Macedon
#2, aired 2022-10-02HISTORY QUIZ $600: "Black Tuesday", October 29 of this year, was part of the stock market crash that helped set off the Great Depression 1929
#8703, aired 2022-09-21GREAT AMERICAN PAIRS $600: A bestseller of 1814 was the "History of the Expedition Under the Command of" these 2 men Lewis and Clark
#8667, aired 2022-06-21HISTORY $1600: 18th century military prowess forced others to refer to this Prussian as "The Great" Frederick the Great
#8655, aired 2022-06-03THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1200: Herod the Great died in this city whose wall came tumbling down in the book of Joshua Jericho
#8650, aired 2022-05-27QUICK HISTORY $800: Adding to the Winter Palace, Catherine the Great began this museum in 1764 Hermitage
#8632, aired 2022-05-03HISTORY $1600: It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great the Persian Empire
#8610, aired 2022-04-01HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $200: In 1922 the Bolsheviks let reporters try on this, made with 5,000 diamonds & a 400-carat spinel for Catherine the Great a crown (the Russian Imperial Crown)
#8610, aired 2022-04-01HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $400: A recent theory about this stone circle in England: it was part of a great raised altar with long-gone wooden ramps Stonehenge
#8605, aired 2022-03-25HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $2000: This great 16th century Dutch humanist was also known as Roterodamus Erasmus
#8557, aired 2022-01-18WORLD HISTORY $2000: The first great land battle of the Hundred Years' War was the 1346 battle of this village in northern France the Battle of Crécy
#8537, aired 2021-12-21PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: In 1773 an ex-officer of the Don Cossacks led a rebellion against this empress; in 1775 the ex-officer was headless Catherine the Great
#8535, aired 2021-12-17THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $200: In 1665 the Great this hit London, killing thousands; the next year, the Great Fire took out 13,000 houses & much of the city the Great Plague
#8478, aired 2021-09-29EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Seen here is a tsunami map of the great earthquake of this European capital that took place in 1755 Lisbon
#8477, aired 2021-09-28ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) This costume was worn by Diana Ross in her Oscar-nominated role as jazz great Billie Holiday in this film based on Holiday's autobiography of the same name Lady Sings the Blues
#8471, aired 2021-09-20GREATS IN HISTORY $400: Term for the worldwide economic crisis that lasted throughout the 1930s the Great Depression
#8471, aired 2021-09-20GREATS IN HISTORY $800: Here's a portrait of this empress of Russia, who did not go by her original name of Sophie Catherine the Great
#8471, aired 2021-09-20GREATS IN HISTORY $1600: During the period in the Catholic church called the "Great" this, there were 2 & even 3 rival popes at the same time the Schism
#8471, aired 2021-09-20GREATS IN HISTORY $7,000 (Daily Double): A great & prolific builder, this pharaoh dedicated one of his temples at Abu Simbel to his favorite queen, Nefertari Ramses (the Great)
#8455, aired 2021-07-30AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This historic American document was addressed to King George III of Great Britain the Declaration of Independence
#8451, aired 2021-07-26HISTORY $800: Not Peter or Catherine but a "Great" ruler of this name won independence for Moscow from the Golden Horde in 1480 Ivan (the Great)
#8449, aired 2021-07-22ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Ptolemy & Antigonus were generals of this man whose empire was divided up after his death in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great
#8443, aired 2021-07-14ODD HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): The Great Emu War of 1932 proved disastrous for this country's army; the big birds were no chickens Australia
#8416, aired 2021-06-07HISTORY BEFORE 1738 $1600: This restored king of Great Britain reigned during the great plague & Great Fire that struck London in the 1660s Charles II
#8415, aired 2021-06-04ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Seen here is a depiction of this great guy, the ruler of the Persian Empire who defeated the Babylonians in 539 B.C. Cyrus (II the Great)
#8409, aired 2021-05-27HISTORY $2000: When he was broke after editing his "Encyclopedie", Catherine the Great bought his library in 1765 & also gave him a salary Diderot
#8406, aired 2021-05-24NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $400: "The Great Secret" tells how a military doctor found cancer-fighting uses in this type of poison gas mustard gas
#8401, aired 2021-05-17AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: The Great Sioux War of 1876 is also called this war, after the sacred region the Sioux were fighting for Black Hills War
#8344, aired 2021-02-25HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): One of Russia's foremost reformers, he was proclaimed imperator in 1721 Peter the Great (Peter I)
#8329, aired 2021-02-04HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES $1600: Great wealth was held by but a few while large numbers of people lived in poverty in this 1800s "Age" with a novel name the Gilded Age
#8305, aired 2020-12-18CHINESE HISTORY $400: World Book says this "protected China from minor attacks but provided little defense against a major invasion" the Great Wall
#8305, aired 2020-12-18CHINESE HISTORY $1600: Only a few thousand of the roughly 100,000 Communists survived the trek begun in 1934 & called this the Long March
#8290, aired 2020-11-27AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $1200: In the 1859 "Pig War", the U.S. & this country nearly came to blows over ownership of the San Juan Islands Great Britain
#8290, aired 2020-11-27AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE $1600: In 1892 John Muir co-founded this organization dedicated to protecting the great outdoors the Sierra Club
#8260, aired 2020-10-16AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Lyndon Johnson's 1965 State of the Union address renewed the War on Poverty by promoting a "Great" this Society
#8242, aired 2020-09-22EUROPEAN HISTORY IS A DOWNER $400: The USSR's 1930s Great Purge included the notorious "show" type of these, with defendants forced to confess trials
#8232, aired 2020-06-09HISTORY OF HUNGARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from , Szentendre, Hungary at the Hungarian Open Air Museum.) A section of the Hungarian Open Air Museum is devoted to the Great Hungarian Plain where this group swept in around the year 895; they're still the majority in what's now Hungary the Magyars
#8224, aired 2020-05-28ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Plutarch wrote that the same day Alexander the Great was born, this temple, a wonder of the world, burned in Ephesus the Temple of Artemis
#8202, aired 2020-04-14HISTORY 101 $1200: The Midwest region of the Great Plains known by this 2-word nickname had 1930s soil blizzards that blocked the sun the Dust Bowl
#8202, aired 2020-04-14HISTORY 101 $2000: A 1225 copy of this document is one of the few to still have its Great Seal, the seal of Henry III, King John's son the Magna Carta
#8198, aired 2020-04-08OLD HISTORY $2000: Cyrus the Great of this empire wanted to conquer Egypt; the next ruler Cambyses II did it Persia
#8164, aired 2020-02-20HISTORY TIMELINE $800: This czar & later emperor of Russia was christened on June 29, 1672, the feast day of the saint for whom he was named Peter (the Great)
#8135, aired 2020-01-10AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This Great Compromiser introduced the Compromise Tariff of 1833 (Henry) Clay
#8094, aired 2019-11-14BRITISH HISTORY $1000: This Liberal man was 84 in 1894 when he stepped down after his fourth & final time as prime minister of Great Britain (William) Gladstone
#8067, aired 2019-10-08HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES $600: 19th: This feat of engineering was completed in 1825, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean the Erie Canal
#8067, aired 2019-10-08HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES $1000: 18th: In 1723 Russia captures Baku from Persia in this leader's last great military campaign Peter the Great
#8043, aired 2019-07-24HISTORY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks Marathon
#7994, aired 2019-05-16EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Kitchen ovens left unattended by King Charles II's bakers may have led to this 1666 disaster the Great London Fire
#7940, aired 2019-03-01HISTORY WITH LESSER-KNOWN PAINTERS $2000: Adolph Menzel painted a concert with this great Prussian king on Flute & C.P.E. Bach at the keyboard Frederick the Great
#7901, aired 2019-01-07EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Bad weather & crop failure caused a "Great" one of these in the 1300s; the Irish also had a "Great" one, 1845-1850 a famine
#7856, aired 2018-11-05BRITISH HISTORY $7,400 (Daily Double): King of Wessex, this great monarch prevented England from completely falling to the Danes in the 800s Alfred the Great
#7845, aired 2018-10-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In a series, artist Jacob Lawrence depicted this "Great" movement of rural Southern blacks to the North in the 20th century the Great Migration
#7823, aired 2018-09-19WORLD HISTORY $1000: Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great & Marcus Licinius Crassus were the 3 men who made up the first this the triumvirate
#7770, aired 2018-05-25"ZZ" MIDDLE $600: Spring buds were blooming, but "The Great" one of these of March 1888 was one of the worst ever in American history a blizzard
#7670, aired 2018-01-05TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $800: Recalling a great moment in state history, bronze seagulls perch on a monument in this square named for a building Temple Square
#7647, aired 2017-12-05A TRIP TO ITALY $800: Lists of the great builders of history leave out Giovanni di Simone, chief engineer of this structure in the 1270s the Leaning Tower of Pisa
#7594, aired 2017-09-21"D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Soil Conservation Service was created to counter this disaster that struck the Great Plains in the 1930s the Dust Bowl
#7563, aired 2017-06-28PORTUGUESE HISTORY $600: The Visigoths were kicked out of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyads, one of the first great dynasties of this religion Islam
#7447, aired 2017-01-17COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $200: Doubtful we'll see a rematch of the 1919 version of this "Granddaddy of Them All" bowl game: Great Lakes 17, Mare Island 0 the Rose Bowl
#7426, aired 2016-12-19NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This great orator gave a 3 1/2-hour speech in favor of the Compromise of 1850; his fellow New Englanders didn't like that Daniel Webster
#7369, aired 2016-09-29MICHIGAN HISTORY $2000: FDR's 1940 phrase "the great" this "of democracy" was later applied to Detroit as it turned out jeeps, tanks & bombers arsenal
#7356, aired 2016-09-12COLLEGE FOOTBALL $800: (Dan Patrick delivers the clue as Will Ferrell does some sportscasting.) Will Ferrell appeared on my show in character as Ron Burgundy to re-create some of the great calls in sports history, including Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass... "Oh, he got it! Did he get it? He got it! Touchdown! Touchdown! Touchdown! Touchdown!" ...that won the game for this school over Miami in 1984 Boston College
#7354, aired 2016-07-28HISTORY $1200: Dams built by this government agency created in 1933 spawned "the Great Lakes of the South" the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
#7294, aired 2016-05-05A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $800: (I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.) I got my first taste of stargazing as a 9-year-old kid in New York City when I took a trip to this facility at the American Museum of Natural History; later I took classes there & today I'm its director the Hayden Planetarium
#7229, aired 2016-02-04OTTOMAN HISTORY $800: The expedition of this European into Egypt from 1798 to 1801 forced Sultan Selim III to ally with Great Britain Napoleon
#7224, aired 2016-01-28CHICAGO HISTORY $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) The museum houses many relics that survived the Great Fire of 1871, including a cowbell that was allegedly worn by this woman's cow, who was once blamed for kicking over a lantern & starting the fire Mrs. O'Leary
#7172, aired 2015-11-17HISTORY 101 $1600: Around 101 the Moche began a great civilization on the west coast of South America in this country Peru
#7122, aired 2015-07-28HISTORY SINCE 1950 $800: In China his Great Leap Forward program took a great leap back, contributing to a famine & millions of deaths Mao
#7100, aired 2015-06-26AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Great White Fleet, 16 battleships that toured the world in 1907, were a show of TR's foreign policy called this the Big Stick
#7095, aired 2015-06-19HISTORY $1600: In 1783 Catherine the Great made this city in the Crimea a base for the Russian navy Sevastopol
#7087, aired 2015-06-09WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: This 18th-century Russian ruler hinted that none of her three children was fathered by her hubby--ouch Catherine the Great
#7017, aired 2015-03-03DRUNK HISTORY $800: Peter the Great's 51st birthday party included mandatory drinking of this from a barrel; Peter died at 52 vodka
#7012, aired 2015-02-24AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Depleted fields, drought & wind created the climate that led to this name for an area of the Great Plains in the 1930s the Dust Bowl
#6951, aired 2014-12-01ANCIENT HISTORY $800: He was Tetrarch of Galilee before he was King of Judea at the time of Jesus' birth Herod (the Great)
#6896, aired 2014-09-15THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY $800: Referring to this volunteer regiment & their victorious charge in Cuba, Teddy called it "the great day of my life" the Rough Riders
#6876, aired 2014-07-07CHINESE HISTORY $400 (Daily Double): A folk tale tells of Meng Jiangnu, who searches for her husband along this public works project the Great Wall of China
#6876, aired 2014-07-07CHINESE HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a portrait and a map on the monitor.) Huangdi won a great battle that consolidated his power among the tribes of the Huang He River, so it's fitting that he is referred to in English as the this emperor the Yellow Emperor
#6873, aired 2014-07-02A HISTORY LESSON $800: In 1185 Minamoto Yoritomo defeated the Taira clan in Japan & later was given this title meaning "great general" shogun
#6858, aired 2014-06-11A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY $600: A great builder, this pharaoh of Egypt's 19th dynasty sealed peace by marrying a Hittite princess Ramses (the Great)
#6800, aired 2014-03-21FLYING INTO HISTORY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Most of the more than 3,000 Bell P-63 Kingcobra fighters built during World War II were delivered as part of the lend-lease program to this country for use in what was called the Great Patriotic War the Soviet Union
#6778, aired 2014-02-19FRENCH HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): At Castillon in 1453, French troops defeated the English in the final great battle of this war the Hundred Years' War
#6751, aired 2014-01-13VALLEY FORGE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) One of the great feats in military history was the training at Valley Forge, turning a ragtag army into a professional fighting force; the architect of the training was this Prussian who didn't even speak English von Steuben
#6744, aired 2014-01-02AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) With Missouri as its starting point, the Great Plains, the Rockies & the present state capitals of Salt Lake City, Carson City & Sacramento were on the route of this 19th century service the Pony Express
#6740, aired 2013-12-27WORLD HISTORY $400: He's depicted here dealing with a tough knot In one of the storied moments of his career. Alexander the Great
#6740, aired 2013-12-27WORLD HISTORY $1000: Before the Aztec, the prior great Mexican civilization was of these other people in -tec support Toltecs
#6663, aired 2013-07-31WORLD HISTORY $800: On Sept. 3, 1939 Great Britain & then France declared war on Germany, & this war was on World War II
#6630, aired 2013-06-14WEIRD HISTORY $800: In the 1700s, Peter the Great imposed a 100-ruble tax on nobles who wore one of these & a 1-kopeck tax on commoners beard
#6630, aired 2013-06-14WEIRD HISTORY $1000: Once bodyguard to Alexander the Great, he founded an Egyptian dynasty that lasted 300 years, until Cleopatra Ptolemy
#6622, aired 2013-06-04HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): He redesigned more than 50 of the 87 churches lost in London's Great Fire Christopher Wren
#6550, aired 2013-02-22ANCIENT ANGKOR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia.) Ta Prohm has a pediment of what's known as the Great Departure, when Buddha, still known by this name, begins the quest that will change him & history Siddhartha Gautama
#6540, aired 2013-02-08HISTORY IS HAPPENING $800: On Sept. 21, 1931 Herbert Hoover faces the obvious & says, "The world is passing through a Great" one of these Depression
#6539, aired 2013-02-07"A" "P" HISTORY $600: At age 20 he became king of Macedonia; by 32, his empire stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India Alexander the Great
#6480, aired 2012-11-16AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A recent drought recalls the 1930s, when part of the Great Plains turned into this, seen in Ken Burns' new film of that name the Dust Bowl
#6476, aired 2012-11-12YOU'RE HISTORY! $400: In 1703 he founded a city that served as Russia's capital until 1918 Peter the Great
#6441, aired 2012-09-24THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1,400 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) In 1955, the Met made history with the debuts of its first African-American singers; the first man was Bobby McFerrin's father Robert & the first woman was this great contralto of the day Marian Anderson
#6392, aired 2012-06-05MEDICAL HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us statues at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) The Hall of Immortals honors medical pioneers, like Madame Curie, ancient Egypt's Imhotep, & of course, this man, born in Greece around 460 B.C. Hippocrates
#6377, aired 2012-05-15GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In 1983 she made history as the first American woman in space Sally Ride
#6311, aired 2012-02-13HISTORY IS STRANGE $400: In the great fire of this capital city in 1666, as much as 80% of the city burned down but fewer than a dozen people perished London
#6292, aired 2012-01-17NORWAY'S CULTURE & HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway.) King Harald V lives here, in Norway's Royal Palace; he & his second cousin, England's Queen Elizabeth, are both great-grandchildren of this British king, who ruled from 1901 to 1910 Edward VII
#6289, aired 2012-01-12HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Before his death in 323 B.C., he expanded his empire until it stretched from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Indus River Alexander the Great
#6254, aired 2011-11-24HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA.) Suspended above the museum's dramatic Great Mammal Hall are the skeletons of three whale species--a finback whale, a right whale, & this, the largest of the toothed whales a sperm whale
#6240, aired 2011-11-04CANADIAN HISTORY $800: Between 1913 & 1932 Canada dug a new & deeper version of the Welland Canal that connects these 2 Great Lakes Erie & Ontario
#6220, aired 2011-10-07HISTORY $200: Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions Ivan the Terrible
#6209, aired 2011-09-22DO YOU LIKE RUSSIAN HISTORY? $800: In 1783, during her reign, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from the Turks Catherine (the Great)
#6209, aired 2011-09-22DO YOU LIKE RUSSIAN HISTORY? $1600: Founded by this "Great" guy, the Life Guards protected Russia's royalty through the end of the Romanovs Peter the Great
#6146, aired 2011-05-09THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $400: History is riveting in "The Great Bridge", about the building of this American span opened in 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge
#6130, aired 2011-04-15ANCIENT HISTORY $200: In 331 B.C. this Macedonian traveled to the Siwa Oasis where the oracle pronounced him a god Alexander the Great
#6074, aired 2011-01-27STRANGE HISTORY $400: When this Russian empress learned she had dandruff, she locked up her hairdresser so he couldn't tell Catherine the Great
#6008, aired 2010-10-27AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a map.) The Oregon Trail started at Independence, Missouri & crossed the Great Plains by following this river the North Platte River
#6004, aired 2010-10-21BLAME IT ON THE CASANOVA $1000: A battleship in history & cinema was named for this prince, lover of Catherine the Great Potemkin
#5951, aired 2010-06-28TABLOID HEADLINES ACROSS HISTORY $2000: Around 342 B.C.: "Aristotle Tutors Tot"; 323 B.C.: He's "Gone in Babylon" Alexander the Great
#5886, aired 2010-03-29YOU'RE HISTORY! $1000: When Alexander the Great became king, this tutor of his returned to Athens & founded his Lyceum Aristotle
#5855, aired 2010-02-12AFRICAN HISTORY $1600: Aksum, centered in Ethiopia, became a great trading empire around 100 A.D. by controlling this sea the Red Sea
#5826, aired 2010-01-04BRITISH HISTORY DATEBOOK $600: September 2, 1666: This deadly conflagration begins the Great Fire of London
#5699, aired 2009-05-21THE WORLD AT WAR $1000: Unprepared for this man leading an army force over the Andes in 1817, the Spanish Empire lost Chile & Argentina José de San Martín
#5664, aired 2009-04-02THE TUDORS $800: Sir Reginald Pole, seen here, doesn't get to be king but was the last Catholic archbishop of this "There is another Catholic with a legitimate claim, a scion of the Plantagenets who ruled before the Tudors and would gladly rule after them." Canterbury
#5618, aired 2009-01-28DON'T SAY MOBY DICK $400: He began serializing his "Child's History of England", but he's a bit better known for "Great Expectations" Charles Dickens
#5602, aired 2009-01-06WORLD HISTORY $400: In the 3rd century B.C., during the reign of Shih Huang Ti, at least 1 million slaves were used to build this the Great Wall
#5562, aired 2008-11-11ANCIENT HISTORY $400: His father told him to "Seek out a kingdom worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee" Alexander the Great
#5502, aired 2008-07-08WORLD HISTORY $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Ginza in Tokyo.) Not much keeps the spirit of Tokyo down; this event in 1923 basically destroyed the city, but it was completely rebuilt in 1930 an earthquake
#5439, aired 2008-04-10EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: In 1862 this Prussian said that "The great questions of the day" would be decided "by iron and blood" Bismarck
#5427, aired 2008-03-25WORLD HISTORY $1600: In the 5th century B.C., this Greek historian wrote that it took 100,000 men 20 years to complete the Great Pyramid Herodotus
#5245, aired 2007-06-01BETTER, STRONGER $1000: In the longest heavyweight title bout in modern history, in 1915 "Great White Hope" Jess Willard beat this man in 26 rds. Jack Johnson
#5239, aired 2007-05-24THE HISTORY BOYS $1600: Charlotte Corday is "like a star; cruel-lovely" in Thomas Carlyle's 1837 book titled this event The French Revolution
#5200, aired 2007-03-30RUSSIAN HISTORY $800: Wanting to Westernize Russia, Czar Peter the Great moved the capital west to this city in 1712 St. Petersburg
#5196, aired 2007-03-26WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1200 Africa's Shona people had a mighty city called "Great" this, adopted in 1979 as Rhodesia's new name Zimbabwe
#5166, aired 2007-02-12ANCIENT HISTORY: THE 1980s $1600: The first female British prime minister, she lead Great Britain for the entire 1980s Margaret Thatcher
#5157, aired 2007-01-30HISTORY A LA HARLEQUIN $800: Lovers? Oh yes, there was Orlov, Potemkin & Zubov, but 34 years as Russian Empress taught her love came with a price Catherine the Great
#5138, aired 2007-01-03JOE BUCK CALLS HISTORY $800: It's July 3, 1863 & what a great day for a battle; Gen. Pickett's confident but this borough is a tough win on the road Gettysburg
#5078, aired 2006-10-11EGYPTIAN HISTORY $2000: (Jimmy is in Giza, Egypt.) The pyramid of this son of Khufu is smaller than his dad's Great one, but he got his face on the Great Sphinx Khafre
#5054, aired 2006-07-27GREAT PEOPLE OF HISTORY $200: Aristotle was a tutor of this world conqueror Alexander the Great
#5054, aired 2006-07-27GREAT PEOPLE OF HISTORY $400: It's the more familiar way that Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great is known Charlemagne
#5054, aired 2006-07-27GREAT PEOPLE OF HISTORY $600: King Darius the Great of this empire sent an army into Greece in 490 B.C., but it was defeated at Marathon the Persian Empire
#5054, aired 2006-07-27GREAT PEOPLE OF HISTORY $800: A prolific fighter & builder, he ruled Egypt from about 1290 to 1223 B.C. Ramses the Great
#5054, aired 2006-07-27GREAT PEOPLE OF HISTORY $1000: The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem was a retaining wall this "Great" king had built to shore up the temple platform Herod the Great
#5038, aired 2006-07-05GREAT BRITONS $1600: Who knows where he found the time to write over 100 books like "Kipps" & "The History of Mr. Polly"; maybe he had a machine (H.G.) Wells
#4986, aired 2006-04-24NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE $2000: This legendary Boston defenseman is seen here scoring a championship-winning goal Bobby Orr
#4973, aired 2006-04-05OLD HISTORY $2000: In 44 B.C. Caesar was assassinated & fell dead at this foot of the statue of this rival, his son-in-law Pompey the Great
#4958, aired 2006-03-15JAPANESE HISTORY $2000: In 1192 Yoritomo, the leader of the Minamoto Clan controlling Japan, was given this title that means "great general" shogun
#4957, aired 2006-03-14CHINESE HISTORY $2000: This "Great" program launched by Mao in 1958 cost millions of lives in an attempt at industrial development the Great Leap Forward
#4944, aired 2006-02-23HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $800: According to Plato, Solon, a great Greek lawgiver, went to Egypt & received the story of this lost land Atlantis
#4939, aired 2006-02-16GREAT BRIT $1200: In 1974 this "Brief History of Time" author calculated that black holes aren't completely black Stephen Hawking
#4777, aired 2005-05-17WORLD HISTORY $800: This "Great" Brit was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf Alfred
#4777, aired 2005-05-17WORLD HISTORY $1200: Around 500 B.C. this Persian king built Persepolis; parts of the city's audience hall & palace are still standing Darius the Great
#4773, aired 2005-05-11WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: In 2004 this tennis great, at 47, became the oldest tennis competitor in Olympic history Martina Navratilova
#4741, aired 2005-03-28TYLERS & TAYLORS $800: He led the first great popular rebellion in English history Wat Tyler
#4699, aired 2005-01-27TEENS IN HISTORY $800: Betrothed as a teen to her creepy cousin in 1744, she later became a "Great" empress of Russia Catherine the Great
#4699, aired 2005-01-27TEENS IN HISTORY $1000: Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific Captain Cook
#4647, aired 2004-11-16MUSIC ON MY iPOD $1000: This group's song is more than great listening, it's a history lesson "...Springsteen, Madonna / Way before Nirvana there was / U2 and Blondie..." Bowling for Soup
#4629, aired 2004-10-21HISTORY $400: During the 1930s America went through a period of hardship and poverty known as the "Great" this Depression
#4607, aired 2004-09-21GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY $400: The first brewery in the New World was opened in 1612 in the city that then had this "Dutch" name New Amsterdam
#4607, aired 2004-09-21GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY $800: His establishment of the St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. in 1878 enabled his beer to be distributed on a large-scale basis Busch
#4607, aired 2004-09-21GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY $1200: Cheers to Congress for adopting this number amendment in 1933 to deal with a drier former one 21st
#4607, aired 2004-09-21GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY $1600: In the 1890's William Painter invented the top, seen here, whose projections got it this "regal" name the crown bottlecap
#4607, aired 2004-09-21GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY $2000: Inspired by a glass of beer, Donald Glaser made this device in 1952 to track cosmic rays the bubble chamber
#4551, aired 2004-05-24BRITISH HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Ancient Romans built this across Britain from the mouth of the Tyne River to Solway Firth Hadrian's Wall
#4539, aired 2004-05-06"A" IN HISTORY $800: In 336 B.C., at age 20, he became king of the Macedonians Alexander the Great
#4511, aired 2004-03-29ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Alexander the Great routed this Persian king at the Battle of Issus & captured his wife, mother & daughters Darius (the III)
#4509, aired 2004-03-25THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1,000 (Daily Double): Canada's southernmost point lies on Middle Island in this Great Lake Erie
#4401, aired 2003-10-27EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: This 9th century king of Wessex is the only English king called "the Great" Alfred the Great
#4350, aired 2003-06-27CRACK OPEN A U.S. HISTORY BOOK $600: The National Endowment for the Arts & the Truth in Packaging Act were part of LBJ's plan for a "Great" this Society
#4298, aired 2003-04-16HOLIDAY HISTORY $800: Mexicans under Gen. Zaragoza won a great victory on this date in 1862, celebrated with a fiesta on L.A.'s Olvera Street the fifth of May (Cinco de Mayo)
#4260, aired 2003-02-21FRENCH HISTORY $800: Reigning from 1715 to 1774, he was the successor & great-grandson of the "Sun King" Louis XV
#4251, aired 2003-02-10ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In 332 B.C. this Macedonian conquered the Phoenician seaport of Tyre after a 7-month siege Alexander the Great
#4227, aired 2003-01-07HISTORY OLDER THAN YOU $2000: Around 336 B.C., this "great" king of Macedonia began building an empire from Africa to India Alexander
#4215, aired 2002-12-20HISTORY ART $800: An elephant pulls this man's chariot in Charles Le Brun's depiction of his 331 B.C. entry into Babylon Alexander the Great
#4185, aired 2002-11-08HISTORY $1200: In 333 B.C. this leader defeated Darius III, king of Persia, at Issus in Syria but was unable to capture him Alexander the Great
#4161, aired 2002-10-07ANCIENT HISTORY $800: The latter years of his reign were marked by building projects, including the temple of Abu Simbel Rameses the Great
#4064, aired 2002-04-11HISTORY $400: This canal linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic was opened in 1825 the Erie Canal
#4064, aired 2002-04-11HISTORY $2000: In the 1600s this country had mastered the seas with the world's largest fleet, an aid to its East India Company Holland (the Netherlands)
#4037, aired 2002-03-05"GREAT" HISTORY $200: This long defensive barrier was designated a World Heritage site in 1987 the Great Wall of China
#4037, aired 2002-03-05"GREAT" HISTORY $400: Once a spokesman for General Electric, Ronald Reagan earned this nickname as President "the great communicator"
#4037, aired 2002-03-05"GREAT" HISTORY $600: It began in the house of the king's baker in Pudding Lane on September 2, 1666 the Great Fire of London
#4037, aired 2002-03-05"GREAT" HISTORY $800: In 1954 Khufu's (or Choeps') funeral ship was discovered near this landmark, his tomb the Great Pyramid
#4037, aired 2002-03-05"GREAT" HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Flinders' passage through this was named for the British explorer who ran aground on it in 1803 the Great Barrier Reef
#4007, aired 2002-01-22EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: The religious movement that began to sweep through the colonies in the 1730s was called the "great" this Awakening
#3971, aired 2001-12-03AMERICAN HISTORY $400: From 1757 to 1762 this man was ambassador extraordinaire of the American colonies to Great Britain Benjamin Franklin
#3930, aired 2001-10-05A BRIEF HISTORY OF RHYME $1000: "Great" Persian king's parasitic microscopic organisms Cyrus's viruses
#3923, aired 2001-09-26AMERICAN HISTORY $500: In April 1682 La Salle claimed the area from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, dubbing it this for his king Louisiana
#3858, aired 2001-05-16BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $1000: In January 1955 this great contralto integrated the Metropolitan Opera Marian Anderson
#3856, aired 2001-05-14OLD TRAVEL BOOKS $1000: In the 5th century B.C. he added a great description of the land of Egypt to his great history work Herodotus
#3819, aired 2001-03-22FOOTNOTES IN HISTORY $400: Etienne Brule was the first European to see this second-largest Great Lake (4) (4) And was killed by the tribe of the same name Huron
#3794, aired 2001-02-15EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: In 338 B.C., under this king, Macedonia defeated the Greeks in the Battle of Chaeronea Philip of Macedon
#3786, aired 2001-02-05HISTORY FROM HOLLYWOOD $200: 1927's "Wings" features great dogfight scenes set in this war World War I
#3770, aired 2001-01-12EUROPEAN HISTORY $500: A major goddess of this first great Cretan civilization was often depicted holding snakes Minoan
#3764, aired 2001-01-04THE HISTORY OF JANUARY $400: Spain ceded these south Atlantic islands to Great Britain January 22, 1771 Falkland (or Malvinas) Islands
#3718, aired 2000-11-01HISTORY $300: Ivan the Great made the great decision to gain independence from this group known as the Golden Horde the Mongols
#3712, aired 2000-10-24WORLD HISTORY $100: He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch... Alexander the Great
#3712, aired 2000-10-24WORLD HISTORY $200: Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster the Great Fire of London
#3700, aired 2000-10-06YOU'RE HISTORY! $300: A great gold rush in 1848 sent thousands of people rushing to this state California
#3654, aired 2000-06-22HISTORY $500: This "Great" king who died in 4 B.C. married Mariamne, the last princess of the Maccabees' line Herod the Great
#3644, aired 2000-06-08HISTORY $600: In 1840 regular transatlantic steamship service was inaugurated between Great Britain & this Nova Scotia capital Halifax
#3632, aired 2000-05-23"D" IN HISTORY $600: In 1868 he became the first person of Jewish ancestry to become prime minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli
#3626, aired 2000-05-15EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: In 1709 Sweden was defeated by this Russian czar in the Battle of Poltava, losing its dominance in the Baltic area Peter the Great
#3604, aired 2000-04-13HISTORY $1000: Russia's Peter I was just "Great"; the Turkish Suleiman I was this Magnificent
#3603, aired 2000-04-12JAPANESE HISTORY $500: In the 13th C., Kublai Khan's invading navy was destroyed by a great storm later called this, or "divine wind" Kamikaze
#3602, aired 2000-04-11BOOKS OF 1970 $1000: His "Hard Times" was "An Oral History of the Great Depression" Studs Terkel
#3589, aired 2000-03-23THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART 1 $300: In 325 A.D. this "Great" leader presided over the Religious Council of Nicaea Constantine
#3559, aired 2000-02-10ASIAN HISTORY $500: In 1192 Japan's emperor gave military leader Yoritomo this title which means "great general" Shogun
#3541, aired 2000-01-17WORLD HISTORY $700 (Daily Double): The day America declared its independence, this person was on the throne of Russia Catherine the Great
#3508, aired 1999-12-01PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: This great Zulu leader was the son of Nandi & Senzangakona, a Zulu chief Shaka Zulu
#3502, aired 1999-11-23EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: In 1862 this Prussian said that "The great questions of the day" would be decided "by iron and blood" Otto von Bismarck
#3494, aired 1999-11-11AMERICAN HISTORY $300: A Ute legend says the Great Spirit created all life on this peak discovered in 1806 Pikes Peak
#3462, aired 1999-09-28WORLD HISTORY $600: During his 46-year reign, this 18th c. king doubled the size of Brandenburg-Prussia Frederick the Great
#3461, aired 1999-09-27AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Aug. 2, 1826 at Boston's Faneuil Hall, this great orator delivered a eulogy on Jefferson & Adams Daniel Webster
#3445, aired 1999-07-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1791 Little Turtle won a great victory over white forces on the banks of this Indiana river Wabash
#3445, aired 1999-07-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $500: In 1649 the Iroquois, armed with Dutch guns, decimated this tribe that shares its name with a Great Lake Huron
#3442, aired 1999-07-20LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1862 Great Britain formally took control of this country, then called British Honduras Belize
#3419, aired 1999-06-17ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In 303 A.D. Diocletian forbade Christian worship; this man, his "Great" successor, revoked the edict 10 years later Constantine
#3403, aired 1999-05-26WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea Catherine the Great
#3400, aired 1999-05-21FUN COUPLES IN HISTORY $400: This "Great" Russian czar sent his wife Eudoxia off to a convent (he preferred his German mistress, Anna Mons) Peter the Great
#3335, aired 1999-02-19AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Jonathan Edwards was among the leaders of this "great" religious movement of the 1700s Great Awakening
#3324, aired 1999-02-04PEOPLE IN HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): Rumor has it that Cleopatra hatched plots against this king of Judea after she tried to seduce him & failed Herod the Great
#3315, aired 1999-01-22BRITISH LITERATURE $100: This great dramatist's works include "Tamburlaine the Great" & "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus" Christopher Marlowe
#3230, aired 1998-09-25EUROPEAN HISTORY $500: In the 18th C. Catherine the Great's son Paul I established an order of male succession in this dynasty Romanov
#3221, aired 1998-09-14ANCIENT HISTORY $400: The life of this great Persian ruler is idealized in Xeniphon's "Cyropedia" Cyrus the Great
#3181, aired 1998-06-01GENESIS $1000: His 12-volume "A Study Of History" probed the genesis, growth & decline of the world's great civilizations Arnold Toynbee
#3159, aired 1998-04-30TOUGH HISTORY $800: This "Great" czar, born in 1672, was prone to violent anger & sometimes beat his subordinates with a stick Peter the Great
#3156, aired 1998-04-27WILD WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: Rumor has it this "Great" Russian empress had insomnia; with all those lovers, who could sleep? Catherine the Great
#3152, aired 1998-04-21LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $1,500 (Daily Double): "Santa Filomena", about this woman, states: "A lady with a lamp shall stand in the great history of the land" Florence Nightingale
#3141, aired 1998-04-06THEY'RE HISTORY! $400: During his long reign, this Egyptian king built temples at many sites, including Abu Simbel Ramses II (or Ramses the Great)
#3141, aired 1998-04-06THEY'RE HISTORY! $500: A little birdie "ptold" me: after Alexander the Great's death, this general took control of Egypt Ptolemy
#3109, aired 1998-02-19HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $500: He conquered more of the world than any other man in history Genghis Khan
#3048, aired 1997-11-26PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300: Born in 1519, this Medici queen of France was the great-niece of Pope Leo X Catherine de' Medici
#3042, aired 1997-11-18AMERICAN HISTORY $300: The U.S. made this great buy from France in 1803 & would have been happy with just New Orleans Louisiana Purchase
#3011, aired 1997-10-06EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: Spreading Greek culture far & wide, he inaugurated the Hellenistic Age in the 4th century B.C. Alexander the Great
#3007, aired 1997-09-30"C" IN HISTORY $400: An alphabetical list of this empress' lovers might end with Zubov -- but we can't be sure Catherine the Great
#2983, aired 1997-07-16RECENT HISTORY $400: Drugs called protease inhibitors show great promise in the fight against this disease AIDS
#2954, aired 1997-06-05SOUTHERN HISTORY $200: After a real estate boom, one of these events struck Florida in 1926, 3 years before the "great" one Depression
#2948, aired 1997-05-28HISTORY $500: Great Britain gained most of Eastern Canada from France as a result of this war the French & Indian War
#2935, aired 1997-05-09HISTORY $400: By the end of his reign in 1786, Frederick the Great doubled this kingdom's area Prussia
#2927, aired 1997-04-29EASY HISTORY $300: As of 1206 he formally wore the title "Great Khan of the Mongols" Genghis Khan
#2927, aired 1997-04-29EASY HISTORY $500: When this country won its independence from Great Britain in 1921, Ulster didn't go with it Ireland
#2922, aired 1997-04-22WORLD HISTORY $300: In 1740 he became king of Prussia & elector of Brandenburg Frederick the Great
#2913, aired 1997-04-09AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On April 4, 1949, the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France & 8 other nations signed this mutual defense pact NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
#2878, aired 1997-02-19AMERICAN HISTORY $400: It was the name of FDR's domestic program to end The Great Depression New Deal
#2876, aired 1997-02-17HISTORY $400: She was ruler of Russia when it fought 2 wars against the Ottoman Empire, 1768-1774 & 1787-1791 Catherine the Great
#2872, aired 1997-02-11PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: This great beauty, the wife of Akhenaton, had 6 daughters; 2 of them became queens of Egypt, like their mom Nefertiti
#2866, aired 1997-02-03EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: The Great Northern War of 1700-1721 pitted Sweden's King Charles XII against this great czar Peter the Great
#2857, aired 1997-01-21PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: This father of Alexander the Great seized the throne of Macedon in 359 B.C. Philip of Macedon
#2836, aired 1996-12-23ANCIENT HISTORY $400: In 337 Constantine The Great abolished this form of execution out of respect for Jesus Crucifixion
#2832, aired 1996-12-17WORLD HISTORY $400: Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony Caligula
#2830, aired 1996-12-13HISTORY $600: In 1835 these Dutch farmers began their "Great Trek" from Cape Colony to South Africa's interior Boers
#2829, aired 1996-12-12HISTORY $400: Elizabeth Petrovna, the daughter of this czar, became empress of Russia in 1741 Peter the Great
#2777, aired 1996-10-01WORLD HISTORY $400: This "Great" Russian czar's 43-year reign, 1682-1725, was the longest in the Romanov line Peter the Great
#2777, aired 1996-10-01WORLD HISTORY $800: In the mid-1500s Akbar the Great, son of Humayun, ruler of Delhi, reigned over this empire in India the Mogul Empire
#2761, aired 1996-09-09HISTORY $400: In 1740 this Prussian king began his reign by taking Silesia from the Austrian Hapsburgs Frederick the Great
#2757, aired 1996-09-03WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1936 Italy conquered this Ethiopian capital & Haile Selassie fled to Great Britain Addis Ababa
#2756, aired 1996-09-02WORLD HISTORY $200: The Chinese plan called the Great Leap Forward was initiated by this leader in 1958 Mao Tse-tung
#2755, aired 1996-07-19CHINESE HISTORY $1000: A treaty ending the first of these wars ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain the Opium Wars
#2753, aired 1996-07-17WORLD HISTORY $1000: It's said the epitaph on Cyrus the Great's tomb called him the founder of this empire Persian Empire
#2739, aired 1996-06-27WORLD HISTORY $600: The last Piast ruler, Casimir the Great, reigned over this country from 1333 to 1370 Poland
#2722, aired 1996-06-04BRITISH HISTORY $100: It began in a baker's house in Pudding Lane September 2, 1666 the Great Fire (of London)
#2712, aired 1996-05-21WORLD HISTORY $600: In 336 B.C. this father of Alexander the Great was killed while preparing to go to war against Persia Philip of Macedonia
#2701, aired 1996-05-06HISTORY $600: This Macedonian named about 10 cities for himself & one for his horse Bucephalus Alexander the Great
#2668, aired 1996-03-20MIDDLE EAST HISTORY $200: In 331 B.C. the Greek & Macedonian armies under this general conquered the Persians Alexander the Great
#2661, aired 1996-03-11HISTORY $400: This great Carthaginian general won decisive victories at Lake Trasimene & Cannae Hannibal
#2650, aired 1996-02-23WORLD HISTORY $200: Grolier says this great king of Macedonia was the first monarch to be called "Great" Alexander the Great
#2590, aired 1995-12-01HISTORY $500: She took the Russian throne in 1762 after her husband Peter III, was deposed Catherine the Great
#2579, aired 1995-11-16ECONOMICS $600: 2-word economic phrase that describes the period of U.S. history from 1929-1939 Great Depression
#2554, aired 1995-10-12WORLD HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): From 1682 to 1689 this Czar shared the throne with half brother Ivan V under half sister Sophia's regency Peter the Great
#2551, aired 1995-10-09HISTORY $200: Of Russia's 4 empresses, she reigned the longest–34 years Catherine the Great
#2545, aired 1995-09-29ASIAN HISTORY $100: In 326 B.C. this "great" Macedonian reached what is now India Alexander
#2539, aired 1995-09-21HISTORY $200: This 18th c. ruler ordered a new codification of Prussian law, the Codex Fridericianus Frederick the Great
#2537, aired 1995-09-19U.S. HISTORY $600: At about 9:30 P.M. on Oct. 8, 1871, it was noticed by a lookout on top of the Chicago courthouse (The Great Chicago) fire
#2536, aired 1995-09-18"A" IN HISTORY $300: While passing through Phrygia in 333 B.C., he's said to have cut the Gordian Knot Alexander the Great
#2522, aired 1995-07-18WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1947 Great Britain gave control of Sikkim to this country India
#2517, aired 1995-07-11AMERICAN HISTORY $400: From 1818 to 1846 the area of Oregon was occupied jointly by the U.S. & this country Great Britain
#2493, aired 1995-06-07AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Before the great debates, he drew up the Kansas-Nebraska Act Stephen Douglas
#2485, aired 1995-05-26HISTORY $400: The slow-witted Ivan V reigned as co-czar with this "Great" man 1682-1696 Peter (the Great)
#2477, aired 1995-05-16HISTORY $600: This "Great" division in the Catholic Church ended in 1417 with the election of Pope Martin V the Great Schism
#2472, aired 1995-05-09PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: This great chief died in 1618, one year after his daughter Pocahontas Powhatan
#2460, aired 1995-04-21WORLD HISTORY $500: A young nobleman named Pausanias assassinated this father of Alexander the Great Philip (of Macedonia)
#2453, aired 1995-04-12HISTORY $600: On June 13, 323 B.C., Alexander the Great died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in this city Babylon
#2448, aired 1995-04-05HISTORY $200: Shortly after it was issued, this "Great Charter" of England was annulled by the Pope the Magna Carta
#2439, aired 1995-03-23PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: The great military hero Alexander Nevsky took the name "Nevsky" after winning a battle at this river the Neva River
#2426, aired 1995-03-06WORLD HISTORY $1000: In 1745 her husband, Francis Stephen, became Holy Roman Emperor Francis I Maria Theresa
#2422, aired 1995-02-2819th CENTURY HISTORY $300: He became Prussian prime minister in 1862 & dedicated himself to uniting Germany Otto von Bismarck
#2412, aired 1995-02-14TEENS IN HISTORY $300: At 15 she was betrothed to Grand Duke Peter; she later became a "Great" empress Catherine the Great
#2412, aired 1995-02-14TEENS IN HISTORY $400: He was a student in what is now Albania when he learned that his great-uncle Julius Caesar had been killed Octavian (Augustus)
#2410, aired 1995-02-10WORLD HISTORY $200: In 333 B.C. this Macedonian king's men captured the Persian army's treasure at Damascus Alexander the Great
#2379, aired 1994-12-29HISTORY $400: The first great railroad tunnel through the Alps, the St. Gotthard, opened in this country in 1882 Switzerland
#2357, aired 1994-11-29ANCIENT HISTORY $200: This Macedonian visited Siwa Oasis in 331 B.C. & was hailed as a son of Amon by the oracle Alexander the Great
#2357, aired 1994-11-29ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A few years after the death of Antipater in 43 B.C., Rome made this "Great" ruler King of Judea Herod
#2354, aired 1994-11-24WORLD HISTORY $400: Upon his death in 1725, this Russian czar's second wife, Catherine I, succeeded him Peter I (Peter the Great)
#2331, aired 1994-10-24RUSSIAN HISTORY $400: In 1698, wishing to modernize Russia, this czar instituted a beard tax Peter the Great
#2330, aired 1994-10-21HISTORY $300: In 27 B.C. this great-nephew of Julius Caesar took the name Augustus & became the first Roman emperor Octavian
#2314, aired 1994-09-29HISTORY $800: Cyrus the Great added Babylonia to this empire in 539 B.C. the Persian Empire
#2311, aired 1994-09-26WORLD HISTORY $200: After his death in 323 B.C., wars divided his empire into 3 parts: Egypt, the Seleucid Empire & Macedon Alexander the Great
#2294, aired 1994-07-21SENIORS IN HISTORY $100: This Russian empress was a sexy sexagenarian when she finished fighting the Turks in 1792 Catherine the Great
#2294, aired 1994-07-21SENIORS IN HISTORY $200: In her late 60s, this Duchess of Aquitaine wielded great power while her son King Richard I was on crusade Eleanor
#2288, aired 1994-07-13AMERICAN HISTORY $800: James K. Polk won the 1844 presidential election over this "Great Compromiser", the Whig candidate Henry Clay
#2277, aired 1994-06-28GREAT BRITS $400: Famous for his jasperware, he's been called the most important figure in British ceramic history Wedgewood
#2274, aired 1994-06-23PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: This explorer whose Italian name was Giovanni Caboto was nicknamed "The Great Admiral" John Cabot
#2244, aired 1994-05-12WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: Some of his wives are buried in small pyramids near the Great Pyramid he built at Giza Cheops (Khufu)
#2215, aired 1994-04-01BRITISH HISTORY $200: In 1979 Charles Haughey became Prime Minister of Ireland & she became PM of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher
#2212, aired 1994-03-29HISTORY $200: German by birth, she took her seat on the throne of Russia in 1762 Catherine the Great
#2208, aired 1994-03-23HISTORY $800: Dutch for "migration", the Dutch in South Africa made a "great" one in the 1830s & '40s trek
#2169, aired 1994-01-27WHAT THE "H" $500: Oscar Wilde said, "Anybody can make" this; "only a great man can write it" history
#2164, aired 1994-01-20HISTORY $100: During the reign of this "Great" empress, Russia gained about 200,000 square miles Catherine the Great
#2164, aired 1994-01-20HISTORY $500: Defeated by Alexander the Great, Darius III was the last Achaemenid ruler of this country Persia
#2161, aired 1994-01-17WORLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Around 1400 B.C. a fire on Crete destroyed this Minoan city & its great palace Knossos
#2151, aired 1994-01-03EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In the 100s B.C., this once-powerful kingdom under Alexander the Great, became a Roman province Macedonia
#2147, aired 1993-12-28HISTORY $800: After killing his son in a fit of rage, this czar tried to abdicate but was refused Ivan the Terrible
#2125, aired 1993-11-26RUSSIAN HISTORY $200: Ukraine was fully absorbed into the Russian Empire during the 1762-1796 reign of this empress Catherine the Great
#2116, aired 1993-11-15HISTORY $200: In 1712 this Russian czar moved his capital to St. Petersburg Peter the Great
#2110, aired 1993-11-05HISTORY $1000: Around 547 B.C. this "Great" Persian king conquered Croesus & his kingdom of Lydia Cyrus (the Great)
#2090, aired 1993-10-08WOMEN IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Mary Surratt was among the 4 people hanged for this crime the murder of Abraham Lincoln
#2086, aired 1993-10-04ANCIENT HISTORY $400: After conquering Tyre in 332 B.C., he went to Egypt & was crowned pharaoh Alexander the Great
#2050, aired 1993-07-02HISTORY $200: This czarina gave her lover Grigori Potemkin the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg Catherine the Great
#2027, aired 1993-06-01AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This "Great" railroad begun by James J. Hill in 1878 connects Lake Superior with Puget Sound the Great Northern
#2023, aired 1993-05-26RUSSIAN HISTORY $300: During her reign in the 1700s, this empress legalized serfdom in Ukraine Catherine the Great
#2010, aired 1993-05-07HISTORY $400: The Orlov diamond, given to this Russian empress by a lover, was sort of a lovely parting gift Catherine the Great
#2009, aired 1993-05-06WORLD HISTORY $100: In 1206 this Mongol conqueror drew up his code of laws called the Great Yasa Genghis Khan
#1994, aired 1993-04-15HISTORY $200: In 1667 this country gave New York to Great Britain & in exchange received what is now Suriname Holland (the Netherlands)
#1994, aired 1993-04-15HISTORY $600: In the 1550s this czar annexed Kazan & nAstrakhan, the 1st non-Slavic states in the Russian Empire Ivan IV (the Terrible)
#1986, aired 1993-04-05HISTORY $200: After his death in 323 B.C., many years of conflict among his successors dismembered his empire Alexander the Great
#1984, aired 1993-04-01WORLD HISTORY $400: Great Britain was twice rejected for membership in this economic union; it became a member in 1973 the Common Market
#1983, aired 1993-03-31WORLD HISTORY $400: This Macedonian conqueror campaigned along the Indus River in 327-326 B.C. Alexander the Great
#1942, aired 1993-02-02THEATRE HISTORY $600: The great Greek tragic playwrights also wrote comedies about these lecherous goat-men Satyrs
#1940, aired 1993-01-29RECENT HISTORY $200: Sheep in Great Britain were contaminated by this 1986 nuclear disaster Chernobyl
#1909, aired 1992-12-17HISTORY $200: At 13, Akbar the Great became Mogul ruler of this country & reigned for nearly 50 years India
#1891, aired 1992-11-23WORLD HISTORY $400: As a youth, this future ruler's education was supervised by Aristotle Alexander the Great
#1883, aired 1992-11-11AFRICAN HISTORY $400: Sadiq Al-Mahdi, great-grandson of the Mahdi, led this largest African country from 1986-1989 The Sudan
#1856, aired 1992-10-05WORLD HISTORY $1000: This Prussian ruler's invasion of Silesia in 1740 led to the War of the Austrian Succession Frederick the Great
#1838, aired 1992-09-09HISTORY $600: During his reign from 1740-1786, Frederick the Great nearly doubled the size of this country Prussia
#1834, aired 1992-07-16WORLD HISTORY $1000: She became Great Britain's queen 349 years after the death of Good Queen Bess Elizabeth II
#1774, aired 1992-04-23WORLD HISTORY $100: This flag was adopted as the national flag of Great Britain in 1801 the Union Jack
#1774, aired 1992-04-23WORLD HISTORY $300: The Great Leap Forward refers to the radical policies pursued in this country from 1958-1960 China
#1773, aired 1992-04-22ANCIENT HISTORY $100: To keep invaders out, Emperor Shih Huang-ti of China's Ch'in Dynasty ordered this built in the 200s B.C. the Great Wall of China
#1773, aired 1992-04-22ANCIENT HISTORY $200: His father said, "O, my son, seek out a kingdom worthy of thyself for Macedonia is too little for thee" Alexander the Great
#1766, aired 1992-04-13THEATRE HISTORY $300: Pisistratus established a tragedy contest as part of this city's Great Dionysia Festival around 534 B.C. Athens
#1766, aired 1992-04-13THEATRE HISTORY $400: Victorien Sardou wrote the 1882 play "Fedora" for this great French actress who triumphed in it Bernhardt
#1746, aired 1992-03-16HISTORY $800: This Dane in the service of Peter the Great established Russia's claim to Alaska in 1741 (Vitus) Bering
#1739, aired 1992-03-05WORLD HISTORY $800: This country's first great empire was established about 321 B.C. by Chandragupta Maurya India
#1736, aired 1992-03-02TEENS IN HISTORY $400: At age 16 this Macedonian served as regent during Philip II's absence in Byzantium Alexander the Great
#1685, aired 1991-12-20WORLD HISTORY $1000: During his 67-year reign, this pharaoh completed many projects, including the temple at Karnak Ramses (the Great)
#1673, aired 1991-12-04HISTORY $200: Ironically, Russia's Ivan the Great was succeeded by this Ivan Ivan the Terrible
#1667, aired 1991-11-26U.S. HISTORY $800: It's estimated on May 11, 1934 the Great Plains lost 300 million tons of this topsoil
#1657, aired 1991-11-12EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: This country got its bill of rights 100 years before our constitution was adopted Great Britain
#1640, aired 1991-10-18ANCIENT HISTORY $400: When he died at age 33 in 323 B.C. he left behind many cities named after him Alexander the Great
#1626, aired 1991-09-30WORLD HISTORY $200: In the late 17th c., this "Great" czar worked in Holland as a carpenter to learn shipbuilding Peter the Great
#1606, aired 1991-09-02PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: In the 1890s this great French actress bought a Paris theatre & renamed it for herself (Sarah) Bernhardt
#1601, aired 1991-07-15WORLD HISTORY $400: Saying he wanted "a window on Europe", Czar Peter the Great founded this city in 1703 (St.) Petersburg (Leningrad)
#1596, aired 1991-07-08ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In his "Cyropaedia", the Greek Xenophon depicted this Persian king as the model sovereign Cyrus the Great
#1596, aired 1991-07-08ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: The Parthenon was built during the great public building program begun by this Athenian statesman Pericles
#1585, aired 1991-06-21ANCIENT HISTORY $400: He became king of Macedonia after the assassination of his father Philip II Alexander the Great
#1569, aired 1991-05-30WORLD HISTORY $500: In 1780 Prussia was ruled by this "Great" man, Russia by this "Great" woman Frederick & Catherine
#1559, aired 1991-05-16HISTORY $400: From 1834-36 these South Africans went on a "Great Trek" Boer
#1557, aired 1991-05-14ANCIENT HISTORY $2,100 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 men who formed Rome's First Triumvirate in 60 B.C. Julius Caesar*, Pompey the Great, & Marcus Licinius Crassus
#1527, aired 1991-04-02HISTORY $200: The Great Plague in 1665 & the Great Fire in 1666 nearly wiped out this city London
#1522, aired 1991-03-26HISTORY $600: From 1898-1956, this country was jointly controlled by Great Britain & its northern neighbor, Egypt Sudan
#1509, aired 1991-03-07WORLD HISTORY $500: This "great" king of Wessex defeated the invading Danes at the Battle of Eddington in 878 Alfred the Great
#1494, aired 1991-02-14TEENS IN HISTORY $200: This "Great" czar was 17 when his mother arranged for him to marry a beautiful girl named Eudoxia Peter the Great
#1494, aired 1991-02-14TEENS IN HISTORY $800: He was a student in Appolonia when he heard that his great-uncle Julius had been assassinated Octavius
#1480, aired 1991-01-25WORLD HISTORY $200: Both Lord Protectors of Great Britain, Oliver & Richard had this last name Cromwell
#1467, aired 1991-01-08HISTORY $500: Darius the Great ruled this empire from 522-486 BC & standardized coins, weights & measures the Persian Empire
#1424, aired 1990-11-08WORLD HISTORY $100: Peter the Great abolished the aristocratic Boyar class in this country Russia
#1403, aired 1990-10-10U.S. HISTORY $800: In 1937 FDR made him ambassador to Great Britain, & he resigned the post in 1940 Joseph P. Kennedy
#1394, aired 1990-09-27ANCIENT HISTORY $600: In 332 B.C. he completed his conquest of Phoenicia when Tyre fell flat Alexander the Great
#1389, aired 1990-09-20HISTORY $400: Colliers Encyclopedia says this bizarre czar was entirely lacking in mental stability Ivan the Terrible
#1378, aired 1990-09-05WORLD HISTORY $400: Great floods in the 13th century created the Zuider Zee in this country the Netherlands
#11, aired 1990-08-25U.S. HISTORY $500: Legend says this October 8, 1871 event began in a stable at Jefferson & DeKoven Streets in Chicago Great Chicago Fire
#9, aired 1990-08-11ANCIENT HISTORY $1500: The Seleucid Kingdom which once stretched from Thrace to India was a fragment of his empire Alexander the Great
#1358, aired 1990-06-27SPANISH HISTORY $600: Sapin lost this to Great Britain in the Succession Wars of 1701-14 & still wants it back Gibraltar
#1354, aired 1990-06-21WORLD HISTORY $100: China's Great Wall provided little protection; in the 1200s his forces swept across it Genghis Khan
#1345, aired 1990-06-08AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Mass. Senator Charles Sumner gave this area its name, based on the Aleut word meaning "the great land" Alaska
#1339, aired 1990-05-31HISTORY $600: The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland was established on the first day of this century 19th Century
#1317, aired 1990-05-01HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This czar established a parliament called the Duma Nicholas II
#1299, aired 1990-04-05HISTORY $100: After Peter, the next ruler of Russia who was called "the Great" Catherine
#1271, aired 1990-02-26WORLD HISTORY $400: Some 25 years before our Civil War, this country freed the slaves on Jamaica Great Britain
#1271, aired 1990-02-26WORLD HISTORY $500: It's widely believed that this great pharaoh is the one written about in the Book of Exodus Ramses II
#1261, aired 1990-02-12TEENS IN HISTORY $800: From age 13-16 he studied with Aristotle; at 20 he was King of Macedon Alexander the Great
#1233, aired 1990-01-03EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: He replaced Winston Churchill as prime minister after the 1945 elections in Great Britain (Clement) Attlee
#1231, aired 1990-01-01ANCIENT HISTORY $300: Built around 2500 B.C., this structure's base covers 13 acres the (Great) Pyramid of Cheops
#1226, aired 1989-12-25HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): It's considered the world's 1st industrial nation England (Great Britain)
#1210, aired 1989-12-01ANCIENT HISTORY $200: The Hellenistic Age began with the death of this Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great
#1207, aired 1989-11-28U.S. HISTORY $400: It began shortly after 5 PM November 9, 1965 & affected parts of 8 states & 2 Canadian provinces the great blckout
#1190, aired 1989-11-03WORLD HISTORY $400: The 1st great building of the Acropolis was this one built between 447-438 B.C. The Parthenon
#1170, aired 1989-10-06RUSSIAN HISTORY $800: In 1547 this prince crowned himself Russia's 1st czar & made Moscow the country's capital Ivan the Terrible
#1166, aired 1989-10-02WORLD HISTORY $200: Russia had 3 czars named this, but only 1 was "great" Peter
#1166, aired 1989-10-02WORLD HISTORY $400: Great Britain & China fought 2 wars named for this poppy derivative opium
#1143, aired 1989-07-19EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: He was emperor of Rome when a great fire destroyed much of the city in 64 A.D. Nero
#1141, aired 1989-07-17AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Because of his work on the Mo. Compromise, this Kentuckian became known as "The Great Pacificator" Henry Clay
#1082, aired 1989-04-25HISTORY $400: Around 100,000 began this in 1934; about 10% survived, & Mao Tse-tung was one of them the Long March
#1074, aired 1989-04-13ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: The Minoan civilization, the 1st great civilization of Europe, flourished on this island Crete
#1028, aired 1989-02-08TEENS IN HISTORY $400: At 19 he went into exile after his parents broke up, but a few years later he was king of Macedonia Alexander the Great
#1012, aired 1989-01-17AMERICAN HISTORY $600: It began on the Niagara grid at 5:17 p.m. on November 9, 1965 & spread out from Canada to Pennsylvania Great Blackout, New York City Blackout
#979, aired 1988-12-01RELIGIOUS HISTORY $300: The Quaker movement was founded in this country in the 17th century England (Great Britain accepted)
#969, aired 1988-11-17WORLD HISTORY $600: "Great" King of Prussia whose last words were "I am tired of ruling over slaves" Frederick the Great (Frederick II)
#969, aired 1988-11-17WORLD HISTORY $800: He had a wife named Cleopatra, a daughter named Cleopatra, & a famous son, Alexander the Great Philip of Macedon (Philip II)
#961, aired 1988-11-07EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: When England's Queen Anne died, this German became king because he was a great grandson of James I George I
#953, aired 1988-10-26FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Hatshepsut, 1 of the 1st great women in history, ruled this country for some 20 years Egypt
#942, aired 1988-10-11ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This small country included the great ports of Tyre & Sidon Phoenicia
#942, aired 1988-10-11ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Upon his assassination in 336 B.C., he was succeeded by his son, Alexander the Great Philip II of Macedon
#902, aired 1988-07-05WORLD HISTORY $500: In 1835, many of them left Cape Colony & began their historic "Great Trek" to what's now the Transvaal the Boers
#855, aired 1988-04-29RUSSIAN HISTORY $100: When he tired of his 1st wife, this "Great" czar banished her to a monastery Peter the Great
#816, aired 1988-03-07HISTORY $200: Frederick the Great was king of this Germanic country Prussia
#806, aired 1988-02-22U.S. HISTORY $400: The treaty to end the Revolutionary War was signed by the U.S. & Great Britain in this city Paris
#804, aired 1988-02-18ANCIENT HISTORY $200: The Roman Empire went as far east as the Tigris River, while this man's empire reached all the way to India Alexander the Great
#725, aired 1987-10-30WORLD HISTORY $400: Napoleon's "Continental System" tried to stop continental Europe from trading with this country Great Britain
#708, aired 1987-10-07WORLD HISTORY $200: Great fleet destroyed in 1588 by a combination of the British & bad weather the Armada
#693, aired 1987-09-16SHOES $400: USA Today's "Great Moments in Shoe History" lists this foreign ex-first lady's birth Imelda Marcos
#666, aired 1987-06-29U.S. HISTORY $400: Ben Franklin helped start regular postal service in both the U.S. & this country Canada
#654, aired 1987-06-11ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Father of Alexander the Great who hired Aristotle to tutor his son Philip of Macedon
#568, aired 1987-02-11ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Chinese emperor Shih Hwang-ti of the 3rd cent. B.C. ordered works of Confucius burned & this built the Great Wall
#568, aired 1987-02-11ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In 323 B.C., age 32, he died of exhaustion at Babylon Alexander the Great
#562, aired 1987-02-03TV TRIVIA $400: Billy Crystal called this "mahvelous" man "1 of the great guests in the history of 'The Tonight Show'" Fernando Lamas
#553, aired 1987-01-21AMERICAN HISTORY $500: Some speculate the election of this "Great Compromiser" as President could have prevented civil war Henry Clay
#521, aired 1986-12-08ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: This ancient biographer linked various great Greeks & Romans into 23 pairs in his "Parallel Lives" Plutarch
#517, aired 1986-12-02ANCIENT HISTORY $200: This Old Testament term for Egyptian kings actually means "great house" pharaoh
#515, aired 1986-11-28WORLD HISTORY $400: 1st Russian czar ever to visit the "west", he built his capital as a "window on the west" Peter the Great
#477, aired 1986-10-07U.S. HISTORY $500: The unknown plot tn this Penn. city's Grandview Cemetery honors 777 victims of 1889 flood the Great Johnstown Flood
#462, aired 1986-09-16U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1930, investments in miniature golf were hailed by some as a cure for this economic disaster the Great Depression
#439, aired 1986-05-15GOLF $500: Still used today, this great golf course's history dates back to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the 16th century St. Andrews
#433, aired 1986-05-07FOOTBALL $1000: It's said more pro football players have come from this Southern university than any other Grambling
#400, aired 1986-03-21HISTORY $600: He was the 1st to take the title "Tsar of all Russia" Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible, Ivan Vasilyevich)
#399, aired 1986-03-20ANCIENT HISTORY $400: It's estimated 100,000 men worked 20 years to build great pyramid for this Egyptian king Cheops (Khufu)
#384, aired 1986-02-27MODERN HISTORY $200 (Daily Double): 4 of 6 countries that formed the Common Market in 1958 (4 of) France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands or Luxembourg
#369, aired 1986-02-06U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1818, this country & the U.S. agreed to joint occupation of the Oregon territory Great Britain
#368, aired 1986-02-05ENGLISH HISTORY $800: In the 16th C., this great Tudor king abolished the privilege of clergy issuing coins Henry VIII
#356, aired 1986-01-20BRITISH HISTORY $700 (Daily Double): The year we began this war against Great Britain, Napoleon burned Moscow the War of 1812
#356, aired 1986-01-20BRITISH HISTORY $1000: Egbert's grandson, he was the only English king to be acclaimed "the Great" Alfred the Great
#328, aired 1985-12-11MODERN HISTORY $500: In 1903, Zionist Congress rejected this European country's offer to set up Jewish state in Uganda Great Britain
#304, aired 1985-11-07BRITISH HISTORY $400: The great charter of English liberty the Magna Carta
#165, aired 1985-04-26HISTORY $100: 13,000 houses were destroyed, but no one died in this city's "Great Fire" of 1666 London
#164, aired 1985-04-25ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Achilles was ancestor of this Greek-Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great
#151, aired 1985-04-08BRITISH HISTORY $1000: Government official & diarist who gave us 1st-hand account of London's Great Fire (Samuel) Pepys
#105, aired 1985-02-01ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Gladiator who led Great Slave Revolt against Rome, 73-71 B.C. Spartacus
#78, aired 1984-12-26ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: He founded the Persian Empire Cyrus the Great
#67, aired 1984-12-11ENGLISH HISTORY $600: In 1707, the Act of Union united these 3 countries to form Great Britain England, Scotland, and Wales
#15, aired 1984-09-28U.S. HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Episode in history this song is associated with: "Once I built a railroad, I made it run / Made it race against time..." the Great Depression

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (19 results returned)

#8990, aired 2023-12-08ANCIENT HISTORY: Before visiting Achilles' tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent "spear-won" Alexander the Great
#8723, aired 2022-10-19AMERICAN HISTORY: Ben Franklin, John Adams & John Jay succeeded as a trio in this city, though Adams wrote of fearing the other 2 would gang up on him Paris
#8681, aired 2022-07-11MUSICAL THEATER: It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina Porgy and Bess
#7305, aired 2016-05-20U.S. HISTORY: In 1790 a deal made Washington the nation's capital; the room where it happened was at Jefferson's house & negotiators included Madison & this Cabinet member Alexander Hamilton
#7259, aired 2016-03-17GREAT BRITONS: A pair of shoes that he wore when making history in 1954 sold at auction in 2015 for more than $400,000 Roger Bannister
#6287, aired 2012-01-10RULERS IN HISTORY: Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them Peter the Great
#6020, aired 2010-11-12DOCUMENTS: It says, "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" the Declaration of Independence
#5913, aired 2010-05-05MOVIE HISTORY: During the making of this classic, sets from "King Kong" & "The Garden of Allah" were intentionally burned down Gone with the Wind
#5827, aired 2010-01-05ART HISTORY: Unique quality of "First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow", shown at the 1883 Arts Incoherents exhibit it was all white
#5455, aired 2008-05-02ANCIENT HISTORY: Circled 7 times by the Israelites in Joshua, it's said to be the world's oldest walled city Jericho
#5430, aired 2008-03-28PROS & CONS IN HISTORY: The two 3-letter words applied to those for & against the 18th Amendment, & states with differing laws on the issue dry & wet
#4922, aired 2006-01-24WORLD HISTORY: This person was the reigning monarch of Great Britain when the U.S. national anthem was written George III
#2507, aired 1995-06-27ANCIENT HISTORY: In 41 B.C. Mark Antony named him tetrarch of Galilee Herod (the Great)
#1950, aired 1993-02-12FASHION HISTORY: Listing the great men of the 19th century, Lord Byron ranked himself 3rd, Napoleon 2nd & this man 1st Beau Brummel
#1459, aired 1990-12-27ANCIENT HISTORY: The group who fought over his empire after his death was called the "Diadochi", successors Alexander the Great
#1375, aired 1990-07-20AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1839 & '40 France & Great Britain signed commercial treaties with this new republic Texas
#1200, aired 1989-11-17U.S. HISTORY: The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3 Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma
#783, aired 1988-01-20WORLD HISTORY: Ironically, the 1958 Communist Chinese economic drive that fell flat on its face was called this the Great Leap Forward
#96, aired 1985-01-21HISTORY: In 1952, it became the 3rd country to test an atomic bomb Great Britain (England)

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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada 2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune "A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah "The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox "In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
Susan Lucci, an actress from All My Children "One of daytime TV's most beloved actresses, she's played Erica Kane...
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California "A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...



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