| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $800: In a famous photo taken in Hamburg in 1936, August Landmesser stands arms folded in a sea of people making this gesture the Nazi salute |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Booted out of Iceland, set foot in Vinland:
L.E. Leif Erikson |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: P.M. of Israel in the 1970s:
G.M. Golda Meir |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: Pseudonym of an intrepid early 20th century newspaperwoman:
N.B. Nellie Bly |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: Slid into being Russia's P.M. from 2012-2020:
D.M. Dmitry Medvedev |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: 5th wife of Henry VIII & possibly Thomas Culpeper's sneaky link: C.H. Catherine Howard |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | HISTORIC GREATS $1600: King Sejong the Great was responsible for bringing the Hangul alphabet to these people Korea (the Koreans) |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: This woman who had more than a casual relationship to the presidency was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002 Nancy Reagan |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: This man won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent struggle for free trade unions & human rights in Poland Walesa |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: In 1780, this earl won big against Horatio Gates in South Carolina; we can't talk of what happened about a year later at Yorktown Cornwallis |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: Seen here this Lakota leader who resisted U.S. government incursions in search of gold, got his name from a site in the sky, also seen here Red Cloud |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: Like John Harvard & John Marshall, this John who founded Methodism has an American university named for him Wesley |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: This Native American of the Patuxet people aided the Pilgrims at Plymouth & acted as an interpreter Squanto |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: You can sleep in one of the pods overlooking Peru's Sacred Valley of this historic people, not far from Cusco the Inca |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Sir Walter Raleigh, nice photo of you with this woman--must be from before you impregnated her lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton Queen Elizabeth I |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: Not surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson's setup at this home is in front of a lot of books; he estimated he had 9,000+ in 1814 Monticello |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: Ponce de Leon has a very elegant map of this peninsula on which he landed April 2, 1513; too bad it shows it as an island Florida |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: Looks like this composer has pictures of his kids: Catharina, Wilhelm, Carl, Leopold, Elisabeth, Gottfried, Regina... Bach |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: OK Einstein, we see your Nobel Prize specifically for studying this effect, direct conversion of light energy into current the photoelectric effect |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HISTORIC ALLIANCES $400: The Seneca & the Tuscarora were members of an 18th century confederacy bearing the name of this group of Native American people the Iroquois |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | PRE HISTORIC $600: A set of people who rob on a public road, or in a more fun sense, a side project for Willie Nelson & 3 other legends highwaymen |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | HISTORIC SPEECHES $10,000 (Daily Double): "My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States", began the first of these talks in 1933 fireside chat |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | HISTORIC GROUPS $1200: Rome was sacked at least 7 times in its history, including by Alaric & this Germanic people in 410 A.D. Goths |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: These 4 words by which Martin Luther King's August 1963 speech is known come more than halfway through it I have a dream |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: A third century BC event from this general's life is depicted here Hannibal |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: This former New York governor serving in Lincoln's cabinet survived an attempt on his life the night the president was shot (William) Seward |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: Banished from Massachusetts in 1635 over the issue of separation of church & state, he founded Rhode Island Roger Williams |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): Florence Nightingale pioneered modern nursing while tending to wounded soldiers during this 19th century war the Crimean War |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: She spent 2 years in exile in London before returning to Pakistan & winning a historic election Bhutto |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HISTORIC SECONDS $1200: Ratified in 1791, the 2nd Amendment guarantees "the right of the people to" do these 4 words "shall not be infringed" keep and bear arms |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | HISTORIC COUPLES $400: About their cause, his wife Coretta said, "We had been thrust into the forefront of a movement to liberate oppressed people" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $400: In an HBO miniseries, Paul Giamatti was president & accounted for as this title guy born in the 1700s John Adams |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $800: This former Disney child star is seen here around the time he rolled as the King of Rock in the TV movie "Elvis" Kurt Russell |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $1200: In the series "Da Vinci's Demons" Leonardo capers about in this capital of Tuscany Florence |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $1600: On this series Jonathan Rhys Meyers was a slimmer, sexier King Henry VIII The Tudors |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $2000: Robin Weigert played this alcoholic Old West frontierswoman on "Deadwood" Calamity Jane |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | HISTORIC PLEAS $800: An 11th c. chronicle says Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband to lower the people's taxes; he said okay, if you'll do this horseback ride naked through the town |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT CASES $1200: John Quincy Adams won the freedom of members of Africa's Mendi people when he argued their case in U.S. v. this Spanish slave ship Amistad |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | HISTORIC WOMEN $400: In 1952 over 1 million people cried for this political leader, jamming the streets for her funeral procession Evita Peron (or Eva Peron) |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | HISTORIC TRIOS $800: During the 1917 Russian Revolution, this faction promised the people "peace, land & bread" the Bolsheviks |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | REAL PEOPLE ON QUARTERS $400: A quarter honors his national historic site in Washington, D.C., & on the back is the man himself Frederick Douglass |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THIS & THAT $1600: The historic Germanic people known as the Goths can be divided into the Ostrogoths & this western branch the Visigoths |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $1200: Fort Bowie in Arizona marks operations against this Native American people who were led by Geronimo the Apache |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | HISTORIC TV $400: Before "Survivor" & "Big Brother", this MTV show took television into a house where 7 young people lived together The Real World |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $200: In a 16th-century work, the ruler of this empire is receiving tributes the Aztec Empire |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $400: In the 1520s, this ex-priest was painted by his close friend, Lucas Cranach the Elder Martin Luther |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The so-called Pelican Portrait was named for the bird on the brooch, a symbol of motherhood, as it was believed it fed its young with its own blood, just as this woman sacrificed for her country Elizabeth I |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $800: As well as painting
entertainers, Andy Warhol portrayed leaders, like this man Chairman Mao |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $1,800 (Daily Double): A book of psalms
from the 13th century
shows the 12th-century murder of this man Becket |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS $2000: One of the quarters of historic Jerusalem is named for its people Armenia |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | HISTORIC TWITS $200: As people were starving, this queen consort to Louis XVI reportedly said, "Let them eat cake" Marie Antoinette |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AN HISTORIC OCCASION $1000: On Jan. 1, 1993 this republic came into being, & some of its people sought citizenship in the neighboring Czech Republic Slovakia |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union... establish" this document the Constitution |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | HISTORIC "D" TOUR $1,000 (Daily Double): Not only was Henry Ford born in this Michigan city, he also started his first auto company there Dearborn |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | CNN 25: PEOPLE $400: In 2000, CNN reported on the historic summit between South Korea's Kim Dae-jung and this North Korean leader Kim Jong-il |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | BULGARIA $1200: A party representing this political view won historic free elections in 1990; guess the people weren't tired of it communism |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: Sam Maverick, who gave us a word for independence, left this Texas fortress 4 days before the slaughter the Alamo |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: This future French leader's 1934 book "The Army of the Future" helped inspire the Blitzkrieg--oops! (Charles) de Gaulle |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: In a painting by Ilya Repin, he's the ruler lamenting having just killed his own son Ivan the Terrible |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: As Charles II's mistress, this ex-actress is said to have encouraged the founding of Chelsea Hospital Nell Gwynn |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): Cosimo de Medici was Pater Patriae, translating to this title also held by a famous American Father of the Country |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: On January 22, 1901 she died at Osborne House, her seaside home on the Isle of Wight Queen Victoria |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: In 1206 he drew up a code, the Great Yasa, which laid down basic Mongol law Genghis Khan |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: In 1668 this Jesuit (without Joliet) founded Sault Ste. Marie, the first permanent white settlement in Michigan Jacques Marquette |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: This leader of the French Revolution wounded himself in the jaw with a pistol on the same day he was guillotined Robespierre |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: The Turks call this magnificent sultan Kanuni, or "The Lawgiver" Suleiman |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: During World War II, the Allies referred to him as "The Paperhanger" Adolf Hitler |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: Originally named Temujin, this founder of the Mongol Empire took a title which means "universal monarch" Genghis Khan |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: John Ehrlichman, best known as an advisor to this president, later became an exec at a hazardous waste firm (Richard) Nixon |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: Suspecting that a baron was in love with his wife, this Russian poet dueled him; bad move -- he was killed Alexander Pushkin |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: Chile's liberator, he was born the illegitimate son of an Irish-born Spanish officer Bernardo O'Higgins |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | "G" WHIZ! $2000: We rarely mention the Ghibellines without referring to these people, their historic rivals Guelphs |
| #4149, aired 2002-09-19 | PEOPLE IN THE NEWS $800: In 2002 former president Jimmy Carter had a historic meeting with this Cuban president Fidel Castro |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: 1 of 3 Israeli prime ministers to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1 of) Menachem Begin (Peres or Rabin) |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: On Oct. 20, 1944 this general told the Philippine people, "The hour of your redemption is here...rally to me" Douglas MacArthur |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: His Native American name was Goyathlay, meaning "one who yawns" Geronimo |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: In 1822 this liberator & Jose de San Martin held an historic meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador Bolivar |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: Born Lorenzo di Bartolo, this Florentine artist famous for his doors was first trained as a goldsmith Lorenzo Ghiberti |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: The famous pirate Jean Lafitte became a hero when he fought in the Battle of New Orleans during this war the War of 1812 |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: This king of Hawaii was so "Great" that he appears on Hawaii's state seal King Kamehameha |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: Paul Revere's father left France to avoid persecution as a member of this Protestant group the Huguenots |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: 18th century garden designer Capability Brown originally had this first name, like Guinevere's lover Lancelot |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: Ferenc Rakoczi II led a 1703 Hungarian revolt against this Austrian ruling family the Hapsburgs |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: Ogadai had some big stirrups to fill when he succeeded this man as supreme Mongol Genghis Khan |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: (Cheryl at the Waldorf-Astoria) This rocking chair was the very one owned by this American President John F. Kennedy |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: Born in 1725, he created scandals in his home of Italy & in France, made love to a lot of women, & died in 1798 Casanova |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: England's King Charles II was given this jovial sobriquet, maybe because he had at least 13 mistresses Merry Monarch |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2,800 (Daily Double): This 3-time Democratic Presidential candidate was called "The Boy Orator of the Platte" William Jennings Bryan |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: This Nez Perce chief visited Teddy Roosevelt twice to plead for his people's return to their ancestral homeland Chief Joseph |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | HISTORIC HEROES $600: As leaders of these Germanic people, you'd expect Alaric & Theodoric to wear black & listen to depressing music the Goths |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: Enosis isn't a disease, but the historic desire of people on this 3500-square-mile island for union with Greece Cyprus |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $100: In the 990s this son of Erik the Red brought Christianity to Greenland Leif Ericson |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: In 1589 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa Galileo |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $300: "Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting" & "Scouting For Boys" are among the books by this former British soldier Sir Robert Baden-Powell |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $500 (Daily Double): This American was known as the "Napoleon of Luzon" Douglas MacArthur |
| #3582, aired 2000-03-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $500: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was also known by this name that means "red beard" Barbarossa |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | PEOPLE IN VOGUE $800: For Vogue's millennium special issue, she grouped 13 historic supermodels to shoot the gatefold cover Annie Leibovitz |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $100: In 1902 she & her husband isolated pure radium chloride Marie Curie |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: He didn't fiddle around after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 A.D.; he built himself a palace called The Golden House Nero |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $300: Eureka! This Greek mathematician discovered the formulae for the volume & surface of a sphere Archimedes |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: This Italian banker for whom the New World was named organized the supplies for Columbus' voyages Amerigo Vespucci |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $500: Mourners at Monet's 1926 funeral included fellow artists & this WWI French premier known as "The Tiger" Georges Clemenceau |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $100: He's the historic "Babe" seen here Babe Ruth |
| #3006, aired 1997-09-29 | HISTORIC QUOTES $600: "I still believe that people are really good at heart", she wrote in her diary July 15, 1944 Anne Frank |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Earlier in 1775 he rode to warn the patriots to move their military stores from Concord Paul Revere |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: After his father failed several times, this man succeeded in developing the mechanical grain reaper Cyrus McCormick |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: "It's Good To Be Alive" is the autobiography of this 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: This commander of the AEF in WWI taught military science at the University of Nebraska in the 1890s John "Black Jack" Pershing |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: This orator served as Secretary of State under William Henry Harrison & John Tyler Daniel Webster |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: This journalist's book "How I Found Livingstone" was published in 1872 Henry Stanley |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: He explored Greenland in 1607, 2 years before exploring the Albany, New York area Henry Hudson |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: On December 16, 1653 the British parliament installed him as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: In the first decade of the 18th century, this Russian czar taxed beehives, coffins & beards Peter the Great |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: In 1522 this Ottoman ruler repelled the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem from Rhodes Suleiman |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: In 1890 this German emperor forced Otto Von Bismarck to resign as chancellor Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: This Babylonian king's code of laws is said to have been inspired by the sun god, Shamash Hammurabi |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: This Portuguese sailor was known as "The Admiral of the Indian Seas" Vasco da Gama |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: In 1994 the NAACP awarded this poetess its Spingarn Medal for highest achievement by a black American Maya Angelou |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: On January 6, 1066, one day after Edward the Confessor died, he became king of England Harold |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $100: This naturalist's voyage aboard the Beagle lasted nearly 5 years Darwin |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: This captor of the Alamo later tried to enlist U.S. aid in overthrowing Maximilian Santa Anna |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $300: Following the Six-Day War in 1967, he resigned briefly as president of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: This Italian leader of the "Red Shirts" once worked as a candlemaker on Staten Island Garibaldi |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $500: This archduchess of Austria & mother of Marie Antoinette died in 1780 Maria Theresa |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Reza Khan founded this country's Pahlavi Dynasty Iran |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: From 1893 to 1914, this nationalist leader of India practiced law in South Africa Gandhi |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: In the 1860s this French chemist showed that microbes could be killed by applying heat (Louis) Pasteur |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: The Romans finally defeated this Carthaginian general at Zama in 202 B.C. Hannibal |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: In 1513 this Tudor king led his army to victory over the French at the Battle of the Spurs Henry VIII |
| #2565, aired 1995-10-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $300: In the 1830s John Ross, a chief of this tribe, unwillingly led his people on the Trail of Tears the Cherokee |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | HISTORIC MASSACRES $800: Catherine de Medicis was among the people who had a hand in this feast day massacre St. Bartholomew's Massacre |
| #2329, aired 1994-10-20 | FAMOUS WILSONS $200: James Wilson is 1 of only 6 people who signed both of these historic U.S. documents the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: Around 621 B.C. Draco, a chief magistrate, first codified the laws for this Greek city-state's people Athens |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: Fewer than 10 people were present to hear Friedrich Engels' oration at this man's funeral in 1883 (Karl) Marx |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: This conqueror was crowned King of England on Christmas Day 1066 William |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: The Coast Guard traces its history to 1790, when the Revenue Marine was created by this Treasury Secretary (Alexander) Hamilton |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: On Valentine's Day 1779, this English explorer was killed by natives in a struggle over a boat Captain Cook |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: At a February 1956 Communist Party Congress, Khrushchev denounced this former leader as "a tyrant" (Joseph) Stalin |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): This British Prime Minister introduced the Intolerable Acts in response to the Boston Tea Party Lord (Frederick) North |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $100: People called Louis XIII's brother Gaston this, French for "mister" Monsieur |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: Justinian I, who ruled this empire in the 6th century, married an actress with a dubious past the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern Roman Empire) |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | HISTORIC EVENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): People born while this war continued include Chaucer, Leonardo da Vinci, and Joan of Arc The Hundred Years War |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | HISTORIC QUOTES $300: In 1913 he proclaimed, "We demand that big business give the people a square deal" Theodore Roosevelt |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | HISTORIC NAMES $100: Before people referred to him as Lord Tennyson, they called him by this first name Alfred |
| #1064, aired 1989-03-30 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: In 19th century America, she was known as "The Moses of Her People" Harriet Tubman |
