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#9068, aired 2024-03-27MUSIC COLLABS $1200: In 1986 Run-DMC collabed with Aerosmith on a version of this song that VH1 called history making "Walk This Way"
#9067, aired 2024-03-26MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $800: The newest wing of NYC's American Museum of Natural History includes the Davis family vivarium of these; some may land on you butterflies
#9067, aired 2024-03-26SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $2000: When he retired in 2010 at age 90, he was the third-longest serving justice in the court's history John Paul Stevens
#9066, aired 2024-03-25SO NICE, WE NEED THE ANSWER TWICE $1000: In art history, it preceded Surrealism Dada
#9065, aired 2024-03-22NONFICTION $800: Stephen Hawking gave us "A Brief History of Time" & this American-born writer gave us "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (Bill) Bryson
#9065, aired 2024-03-22TURNING 60 IN 2024 $1000: The First Ladies' Hall was one of its original galleries when it opened to the public on January 23, 1964 the Museum of American History
#9065, aired 2024-03-22IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $2000: Among the class of 2024, this civil rights icon, who at age 6 made history when she integrated one of New Orleans' all white schools (Ruby) Bridges
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $400: It's thought Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element that he believed would make him immortal mercury
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection included robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking with commoners the Code of Hammurabi
#9059, aired 2024-03-14KHAN YOU DIG IT? $800: According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone" Genghis Khan
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is" Marcus Aurelius
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Praising the defense of democracy, Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict the Peloponnesian War
#9059, aired 2024-03-14ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: The Pyramids of Meroë in modern-day Sudan were built in the land of this 4-letter ancient kingdom Kush
#9058, aired 2024-03-13"H" IS FOR HISTORY $400: The period of time from March to July of 1815 when Napoleon escaped Elba & ran wild in France is known as this the Hundred Days
#9058, aired 2024-03-13"H" IS FOR HISTORY $800: "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" was perhaps sung by citizens of these ramshackle areas named for a Depression-era prez Hoovervilles
#9058, aired 2024-03-13"H" IS FOR HISTORY $1200: It's the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca's fall in the year 630 the Hijrah
#9058, aired 2024-03-13"H" IS FOR HISTORY $1600: What's known as this New England city's "Convention" was spurred by dissatisfaction in the War of 1812 Hartford
#9058, aired 2024-03-13"H" IS FOR HISTORY $2000: The "March of the 10,000" involved the heavily armored Greek soldiers known by this name, trapped behind enemy lines Hoplites
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $200: Starting his career at the San Diego Zoo, he's "an embryonic Charles Chaplin in... feathers", says his biography the San Diego Chicken
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $400: From 1979 to 1981 the Yankees fittingly had a mascot named this, also a word for a well-dressed man Dandy
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $600: In 1979 Youppi! suited up for this MLB squad, prior to moving across town (& sports leagues) to the Canadiens the Montreal Expos
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $800: This NFL team notes mascot Captain Fear lamented his lost ship, but friends, it was found & rebuilt at Raymond James Stadium! the Buccaneers
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $1000: Since the 1990s Fred the Red has been a devil indeed for this team from the north of England Man U (Manchester United)
#9053, aired 2024-03-06OLYMPIC HISTORY $200: The 1924 Games saw the debut of the motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius"--faster, higher, this stronger
#9053, aired 2024-03-06OLYMPIC HISTORY $400: This sport got ugly in 1956 as recently invaded Hungary beat the USSR in the "Blood in the Water" match water polo
#9053, aired 2024-03-06OLYMPIC HISTORY $600: In 1912 Martin Klein pinned Alfred Asikainen after an epic 11-hour, 40-minute bout in this hyphenated wrestling style Greco-Roman wrestling
#9053, aired 2024-03-06OLYMPIC HISTORY $800: She took a silver medal in women's figure skating in 1994; Tonya Harding finished a medalless eighth Nancy Kerrigan
#9053, aired 2024-03-06OLYMPIC HISTORY $1000: In 1904 Ralph Rose & Martin Sheridan broke a tie with a "throw-off" in this field event; Sheridan won with a spin of 127' 10 1/4" discus
#9052, aired 2024-03-055 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $200: George III & George Washington figure prominently in the David McCullogh bestseller entitled this pivotal year 1776
#9052, aired 2024-03-055 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $400: A recent bestseller by Kate Moore chronicles the struggles of the "Girls" who applied this element to watch dials radium
#9052, aired 2024-03-055 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $600: With 1920's "The Outline of History", this "Time Machine" man went from bestselling novelist to bestselling educator H.G. Wells
#9052, aired 2024-03-055 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $800: "The Broken Heart of America", about St. Louis & American violence, ends with a 2014 police shooting in this Missouri city Ferguson
#9052, aired 2024-03-055 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $1000: Edward Gibbon wrote "The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"; William Shirer wrote "The Rise & Fall of" this sinister regime the Third Reich
#9051, aired 2024-03-04FRENCH HISTORY $400: A 2023 movie led to lively debate, e.g. historians: She died when Napoleon was on Elba, not on his way back; Ridley Scott: Shut up Josephine
#9051, aired 2024-03-04FRENCH HISTORY $800: The Vichy regime put these in public schools; the 2004 law banning head-scarves on students also banned large these on chains crosses
#9051, aired 2024-03-04FRENCH HISTORY $1200: In the 5th century this eastern city, today home to the European Union's parliament, was Strateburgum, "Crossroads" Strasbourg
#9051, aired 2024-03-04FRENCH HISTORY $1600: France's first socialist president, he served two terms from 1981 to 1995 Mitterrand
#9051, aired 2024-03-04FRENCH HISTORY $2000: In 1598 this edict named for the city where it was signed gave religious freedom to the French Protestants called Huguenots Nantes
#9046, aired 2024-02-26HISTORY $200: Lasting from Aug. 1786 to Feb. 1787, Shays' Rebellion in our young republic was in protest of economic conditions, mainly high these taxes
#9046, aired 2024-02-26HISTORY $400: The litter of broken glass in the streets of Germany gave this name to the pogroms of 1938 Kristallnacht
#9046, aired 2024-02-26HISTORY $600: In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic Bible Trent
#9046, aired 2024-02-26HISTORY $800: This Italian family gave the world 4 popes: Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV & Leo XI the Medici
#9046, aired 2024-02-26HISTORY $1000: Japan returned to the control of an emperor in the 19th century in what is called this 5-letter restoration Meiji
#9046, aired 2024-02-26LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $1000: History 383 at this military college of South Carolina examined patterns of war to 1763 the Citadel
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ITALIAN AMERICANS $2000: In 1984 she made history as the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party Ferraro
#9044, aired 2024-02-22BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death)
#9042, aired 2024-02-20THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $400: One of the most famous errors in postal history occurred in 1918 when a Jenny biplane was printed on stamps this way upside-down
#9039, aired 2024-02-15MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE $1600: With a Russian name meaning "union" & launched in the '60s, it's the longest operational manned spacecraft program in history Soyuz
#9035, aired 2024-02-09ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $400: Italian city with some history, about 15 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea & wherefore art thou, village? Near Pontiac, Michigan Rome & Romeo
#9035, aired 2024-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $400: First elected to the House of Representatives in 1987, she became its first female speaker in 2007 Nancy Pelosi
#9035, aired 2024-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Clara Barton served as a nurse at this Sept. 17, 1862 Maryland battle where nurses were badly needed Antietam
#9035, aired 2024-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A century before she was on a dollar coin, she was convicted & fined for casting a vote in the 1872 pres. election Anthony
#9035, aired 2024-02-09ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $1600: Virginia county home to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier & South Carolina home to a museum commemorating NASCAR history Arlington & Darlington
#9035, aired 2024-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first women's club in New York was La Liga de las Hijas de this island where a rebellion against Spain was sending refugees norte-ward Cuba
#9035, aired 2024-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Still going in Macon, a college with this Methodist-conscious name was the USA's first chartered to grant degrees to women Wesleyan College
#9030, aired 2024-02-02WE'VE GOT HISTORY $400: A descendant of Tamerlane, Babur founded this dynasty that ruled in India from 1526 until 1858 the Mughal
#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
#9030, aired 2024-02-02WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1200: The Aztecs claimed descent from these people who dominated Central Mexico from about 900 to 1200 the Toltecs
#9030, aired 2024-02-02WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1600: An estimated 36,000 people in & around Indonesia lost their lives due to the eruption of this volcano in 1883 Krakatoa
#9030, aired 2024-02-02WE'VE GOT HISTORY $2000: While searching for the Northwest Passage, this British explorer & his crew perished during an expedition in 1847 Sir John Franklin
#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
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $800: In 2021 El Salvador's govt. made all businesses accept this as payment & introduced the digital "Chivo Wallet" bitcoin
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1200: Unemployment is supposed to fall as inflation rises & vice versa; under Pres. Ford, both rose & economists coined this word stagflation
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1600: Casa Loma, in this city, a financial center, was the passion of Henry Pellatt, who had to sell it when the Home Bank of Canada collapsed Toronto
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $2000: In 1720 the value of this trading company's stock rose from 128 1/2 to 1,000, creating a disastrous "bubble" the South Sea Company
#9027, aired 2024-01-30HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $200: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) The 369th Infantry Regiment has its origins as the 15th New York Infantry Regiment of this reserve section of the Army; before the U.S. entered World War I, they trained in a second floor dance studio in Harlem the National Guard
#9025, aired 2024-01-26COACHING BASKETBALL $800: Coaching 1899-1907, this pioneer of the sport is the only basketball coach in Kansas Jayhawks history with a losing record Naismith
#9024, aired 2024-01-25START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $400: Falstaff's first line in this non-history play is "Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?" The Merry Wives of Windsor
#26, aired 2024-01-23COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $100: Located twelve miles outside of it, Villanova offers a course on the "History of" this Pennsylvania city Philadelphia
#26, aired 2024-01-23COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall
#26, aired 2024-01-23COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton
#26, aired 2024-01-23COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $400: At Brown, the history course "Conspiracy?" includes this 1692 event dramatized by Arthur Miller in "The Crucible" the Salem Witch Trials
#26, aired 2024-01-23COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $500: "The Wealth of Nations" & "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" are two texts assigned for a Duke seminar on this economist Adam Smith
#26, aired 2024-01-23I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns
#9017, aired 2024-01-1620th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin
#25, aired 2024-01-16IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $300: February 18, 1930: self-taught astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers this distant heavenly body Pluto
#25, aired 2024-01-16IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $600: July 11, 1804: Aaron Burr mortally wounds this Founding Father during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey Alexander Hamilton
#25, aired 2024-01-16IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $900: May 21, 1927: Charles Lindbergh & this airplane complete the first nonstop, solo flight across the Atlantic ocean The Spirit of St. Louis
#25, aired 2024-01-16IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1200: August 30, 1967: this civil rights lawyer is confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall
#25, aired 2024-01-16IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1500: November 11, 1620: before going ashore, Pilgrim leaders sign this agreement outlining self-rule in the New World the Mayflower Compact
#9016, aired 2024-01-15WORLD HISTORY $200: This largest Caribbean island's struggle for independence led to the Spanish-American War Cuba
#9016, aired 2024-01-15WORLD HISTORY $400: Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power Peter the Great
#9016, aired 2024-01-15WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1475 at Picquigny Edward IV & Louis XI agreed to a truce that seems to be holding in this war the Hundred Years' War
#9016, aired 2024-01-15WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1989 Japan got a new emperor for the first time in most of its citizens' lives, as Akihito succeeded this ruler Hirohito
#9016, aired 2024-01-15WORLD HISTORY $1000: This mystical form of Islam began c. 800 in part with a woman from Basra who introduced a new concept of the love of Allah Sufism
#9015, aired 2024-01-12UFOs $1000: A History Channel show dramatized the story of this real-life U.S. Air Force "Project" that investigated UFOs Project Blue Book
#9015, aired 2024-01-12BOOK TITLES $1600: This 1997 history bestseller postulates that the 3 things in its title enabled the European conquest of the Americas Guns, Germs and Steel
#2, aired 2024-01-12NBA HISTORY $200: In the 1990s this Chicago Bulls guard was the MVP of the NBA Finals a record 6 times Jordan
#2, aired 2024-01-12NBA HISTORY $400: In June 2002 this Lakers coach became the all-time leader in playoff victories by winning his 156th game Phil Jackson
#2, aired 2024-01-12NBA HISTORY $600: In 2001 the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to this U.S. city Memphis
#2, aired 2024-01-12NBA HISTORY $800: In 1995 this Houston Rockets center scored a then-record 131 points in a 4-game NBA Finals Hakeem Olajuwon
#2, aired 2024-01-12NBA HISTORY $1000: The NBA's Coach of the Year Trophy is named for this longtime Celtics coach Auerbach
#9014, aired 2024-01-11FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1200: This former name of Kinshasa reflects its nation's history as a colony of the Belgian monarchy Leopoldville
#24, aired 2024-01-09NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $400: This north African capital's name reflects its history as one of 3 ancient neighboring cities Tripoli
#9011, aired 2024-01-08THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $400: These "States" ruled by His Holiness were created in 756 & lasted about 1,100 years Papal States
#9011, aired 2024-01-08THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $1200: Known as an "enlightened despot", Joseph II ruled as a member of this dynastic family aka the House of Austria the Habsburgs
#9011, aired 2024-01-08THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $1600: In the 10th century this kingdom "roared" as it allied with Castile to become a daunting force on the Iberian Peninsula León
#9011, aired 2024-01-08THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $2000: To link the Yangtze & Yellow Rivers, this was rebuilt during the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal
#9011, aired 2024-01-08THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $13,200 (Daily Double): Around 1,000 years ago, this island's parliament, the Althing, said everyone is getting baptized Iceland
#9010, aired 2024-01-05BLACK HISTORY YEAR $200: Barack Obama quickly resigns from the Senate for a very good reason 2008
#9010, aired 2024-01-05BLACK HISTORY YEAR $400: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C. 1963
#9010, aired 2024-01-05BLACK HISTORY YEAR $600: Rosa Parks stays seated on mass transit & makes history 1955
#9010, aired 2024-01-05BLACK HISTORY YEAR $800: At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight 1962
#9010, aired 2024-01-05BLACK HISTORY YEAR $1000: Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball 1947
#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
#9008, aired 2024-01-03HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $400: This empire of the Andes had some 25,000 miles of roads & a relay system that was like the Pony Express but on foot the Inca
#9008, aired 2024-01-03HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $800: Canada's biggest city, Toronto once had this name, in honor of the same noble title as the USA's biggest city York
#9008, aired 2024-01-03HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $1200: In 1590 one of the only traces of the "Lost Colony" on this island off North Carolina was the word "Croatoan" carved on wood Roanoke
#9008, aired 2024-01-03HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $2000: El Pípila is the nickname of a Mexican folk hero who was said to have aided this revolutionary priest in 1810 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
#9008, aired 2024-01-03HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $3,600 (Daily Double): In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it Guyana
#9007, aired 2024-01-02STOCKS & INVESTMENTS $400: Also used in a different type of gambling, this colorful term describes a stock with a history of paying out a blue chip stock
#23, aired 2024-01-02AFRICAN HISTORY $200: Medieval Timbuktu was a college town offering university education out of these Islamic houses of worship mosques
#23, aired 2024-01-02AFRICAN HISTORY $600: In 1975, both Angola and Mozambique gained their independence from this Iberian country Portugal
#23, aired 2024-01-02AFRICAN HISTORY $800: This country, where "Casablanca" is set, is often considered the first to have recognized the U.S. by a 1777 shipping decree Morocco
#23, aired 2024-01-02AFRICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Agojie, an all-female army corps in the Kingdom of Dahomey, is at the center of this Viola Davis film The Woman King
#23, aired 2024-01-02AFRICAN HISTORY $1000: Seen here is the flag of this country where Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office as Africa's first elected female head of state in 2006 Liberia
#9006, aired 2024-01-01LONG TIME $2000: Mao's Red Guards shut down schools & attacked thinkers during this decade-long period in China's history the Cultural Revolution
#9004, aired 2023-12-28SPEED DATING $200: D-Day launches as the Allies invade Normandy in the largest sea & airborne invasion in history 1944
#9002, aired 2023-12-26BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1000: In 2002, Halle Berry made history taking the Best Actress award for her role as a grieving mother in this film Monster's Ball
#9002, aired 2023-12-26LITERAL NATIONAL NAMES $4,400 (Daily Double): Throughout its history, it's been the "island of copper" Cyprus
#9001, aired 2023-12-25AGES, EPOCHS & ERAS $400: The "Convict Era" of this nation's history spans 1788 to 1868, when some 160,000 prisoners were transported there Australia
#9001, aired 2023-12-25HOBBIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a period in British history, or a hobby involving refurbishing old cars the Restoration
#9000, aired 2023-12-22HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS $800: Not much is named for Eliot Spitzer, but the Hall of Human Origins in this Central Park West museum is named for his parents the Museum of Natural History
#8997, aired 2023-12-19AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: The title of a novel about settler/indigenous conflict is from a quote about "a secret river of" this in Australian history blood
#8994, aired 2023-12-14IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $200: Trace Jesus' steps in this city as he walked down the Via Dolorosa toward Golgotha Jerusalem
#8994, aired 2023-12-14IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East tube station Jack the Ripper
#8994, aired 2023-12-14HIGH WATER $800: The Zuiderzee Flood of 1287 killed 50,000 but also connected this then-village to the sea, & the rest is Dutch history Amsterdam
#8994, aired 2023-12-14IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $800: Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state Mississippi
#8994, aired 2023-12-14IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1000: Retracing this 1930s journey will take you thousands of miles from Ruijin to Yan'an the Long March
#8994, aired 2023-12-14IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): Starting at the Boston Common & ending at the Bunker Hill Monument is this 2-word path the Freedom Trail
#8992, aired 2023-12-12BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $200: Partly set in Kingston, the plot of "A Brief History of Seven Killings" includes the attempted murder of this reggae singer Bob Marley
#8990, aired 2023-12-08A MUSE ME $800: Need help in this subject in school? Call up Clio--as the muse of it, she'll fill you in on facts & dates history
#22, aired 2023-12-06PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High
#22, aired 2023-12-06CHORUS LINES $6,000 (Daily Double): "I like to be in America, okay by me in America, everything free in America, for a small fee in America" West Side Story
#21, aired 2023-11-29THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $100: January 9, 1863: London opens the world's first underground railway, now commonly known as this the Tube
#21, aired 2023-11-29THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $200: October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches this beach-ball-sized satellite into orbit, kicking off the Space Race Sputnik
#21, aired 2023-11-29THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $300: February 22, 1997: Scientists in Scotland introduce the first clone of an adult mammal, a sheep named after this country singer Dolly Parton
#21, aired 2023-11-29THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $400: November 17, 1869: After ten years of grueling construction, this country officially opens the Suez Canal Egypt
#21, aired 2023-11-29THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): April 21, 1918: World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, best known by this nickname, is shot down & killed the Red Baron
#8979, aired 2023-11-23NAME THAT REBELLION $2000: Virginia, 1831: Led by this man, it was the bloodiest in the history of American slavery Nat Turner's Rebellion
#20, aired 2023-11-15ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $100: One of history's first travel writers, the 4th-century pilgrim Egeria explored the Holy Land using this book as a guide the Bible
#20, aired 2023-11-15COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $400: This university's Lexington-based cheer team is the winningest in UCA Division IA history, with 24 national titles; go Wildcats! Kentucky
#20, aired 2023-11-15"N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $800: Showcasing life in the 18th century, this Virginia attraction calls itself "the world's largest living history museum" Colonial Williamsburg
#8971, aired 2023-11-13CITY MUSEUMS $1200: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh
#8961, aired 2023-10-30CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $4,600 (Daily Double): Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage
#8959, aired 2023-10-26"HOUSE" $1600: The AMA says, "physicians making" these "may sound like fabled history", but they have a place in medicine today house calls
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $100: On a trip to Asia in 1492, he ended up thousands of miles away and still got a U.S. federal holiday in his honor Christopher Columbus
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $200: Comic Trevor Noah's biracial background proved that this system designed to keep races separate in South Africa just didn't work apartheid
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $300 (Daily Double): A poll of historical writers named this Tudor king the worst monarch in history and his six wives would probably agree Henry VIII
#18, aired 2023-10-25FAILING HISTORY $300: Understandably, noted traitor Benedict Arnold isn't buried in the U.S., but at St. Mary's church in this city London
#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
#18, aired 2023-10-25OH, BROTHER! $1000: These NFL siblings made history in 2023 by becoming the first brothers to compete against each other in the Super Bowl the Kelce brothers (Jason & Travis Kelce)
#8956, aired 2023-10-23THE HISTORY CHANNEL $400: We know the conqueror seen here by this name Genghis Khan
#8956, aired 2023-10-23THE HISTORY CHANNEL $800: After being banished from Iceland, this colorful guy established a colony in Greenland around 985 Erik the Red
#8956, aired 2023-10-23THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1200: Irish teenager Annie Moore made history here January 1, 1892 Ellis Island
#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
#8956, aired 2023-10-23THE HISTORY CHANNEL $2000: This 6th century Byzantine emperor, lawgiver & Christian expelled pagan teachers from the Athens Academy Justinian (I)
#8955, aired 2023-10-20OLDE ENGLAND $400: Her reign from 1558 until her death in 1603 is often called the golden age of English history Elizabeth I
#17, aired 2023-10-18NONAGENARIANS $11,400 (Daily Double): Making comedy fans wait over 40 years for a sequel, this 97-year-old released "History of the World, Part II" in 2023 Mel Brooks
#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
#8950, aired 2023-10-13BACK TO SCHOOL, SPORTS STAR $800: The most decorated figure skater in U.S. history, she started college in 1999 & returned to get her B.A. in 2009 Michelle Kwan
#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
#16, aired 2023-10-11ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $100: A company called "London" this "tours" provides "a whirlwind tour of the history of the British public toilet" loo
#16, aired 2023-10-11AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $200: Shark Lori Greiner won the bidding war for this smiley-faced cleaning implement, and the rest is sponge history Scrub Daddy
#16, aired 2023-10-11AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $300: This company with a bumblebee-inspired name has the highest lifetime sales in "Shark" history; that's a lot of socks Bombas
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $200: Thyme honey from the Iblei Mountains on this large Mediterranean isle has been a delicacy for centuries Sicily
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $400: On Dec. 31, 2005 a this second (not a this year) was added at 23:59:60, the first extra second in 7 years a leap second
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $400: Thyme is part of this plant family the mint family
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $600: This "Elder" Roman encyclopedist referred to thyme as a fumigant Pliny
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $800: In 1687 this Brit differentiated "absolute, true, and mathematical time" & "relative, apparent, and common time" Newton
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $800: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B Bénédictine
#8946, aired 2023-10-09THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $1000: Rocky before "Rocky", this 1950s legend retired as the sole undefeated heavyweight champ in history, going 49-0 with 43 KOs Rocky Marciano
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $1000: Thyme contains about 1% this type of "oil" used in fragrances & pharmaceuticals essential
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1600: TAI, the French abbreviation for "international" this "time", was introduced in 1955 atomic time (Temps Atomique International)
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1,990 (Daily Double): An 1884 conference chose the meridian of this facility's transit instrument as the "prime" starting point for time zones the Observatory of Greenwich
#8946, aired 2023-10-09A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $2000: Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept "time" this dilation
#8942, aired 2023-10-0320th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $400: In 1940, this odd couple comedy duo left Hal Roach Studios & soon signed with 20th Century Fox Laurel & Hardy
#8942, aired 2023-10-0320th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $800: 10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
#8942, aired 2023-10-0320th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $1200: This actor plies Zac Efron with showbiz dreams, shots of booze & dancing in "The Greatest Showman" Hugh Jackman
#8942, aired 2023-10-0320th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $1600: The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this 2008 Baz Luhrmann epic Australia
#8942, aired 2023-10-0320th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $2000: In this 1952 film assassins gun down the title Mexican revolutionary but miss his horse Viva Zapata!
#8940, aired 2023-09-29BACK TO SCHOOL $800: History: This one of the 7 Ancient Wonders was said to be laid out on several brick terraces & 75 feet above the ground the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
#8939, aired 2023-09-28FASHION HISTORY $400: No spy should be without one of these aptly named outer garments worn by British soldiers in WWI a trench coat
#8939, aired 2023-09-28FASHION HISTORY $800: Although this company's name was trademarked in 1871, its logo didn't appear on men's underwear until many decades later Fruit of the Loom
#8939, aired 2023-09-28FASHION HISTORY $1200: From 1915 to 1947 the Tirocchi sisters brought haute couture to this capital of a tiny U.S. state Providence
#8939, aired 2023-09-28FASHION HISTORY $1600: This French designer's "New Look" for 1947 included a narrow waist & padded hips Christian Dior
#8939, aired 2023-09-28FASHION HISTORY $2000: In 1939, she closed her Paris shop & spent the rest of World War II in the Ritz hotel with her German boyfriend Coco Chanel
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $100: A children's book tells of how this emperor met his "Bunnyloo" in 1807 when he was forced to flee an attacking pack of rabbits Napoleon
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $200: Constructed for the 1889 World's Fair, this iconic structure was originally scheduled to be torn down by 1910 the Eiffel Tower
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $300: Known for her lavish spending sprees, this wife of Louis XVI must've lost her head after being nicknamed "Madame Deficit" Marie Antoinette
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $500: The peace treaty that ended World War I was signed here, in this stately residence's Hall of Mirrors Versailles
#14, aired 2023-09-27OUI, OUI, HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): After being given the key to this prison overthrown in 1789, the Marquis de Lafayette re-gifted it to his pal George Washington the Bastille
#8937, aired 2023-09-26MEDICINE & HISTORY $400: When Queen Victoria's grand-daughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her hemophilia
#8937, aired 2023-09-26MEDICINE & HISTORY $800: Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease yellow fever
#8937, aired 2023-09-26MEDICINE & HISTORY $1200: In 1996, Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life Yeltsin
#8937, aired 2023-09-26MEDICINE & HISTORY $1600: Napoleon's invasion of Russia was partly doomed by epidemic typhus, primarily carried by bacteria on this parasite lice
#8937, aired 2023-09-26MEDICINE & HISTORY $2000: This Flemish anatomist served as court physician to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & then to his son, Spain's Philip II Vesalius
#8936, aired 2023-09-25A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: In 1066 William the Conqueror had the first documented coronation at this site Westminster Abbey
#8936, aired 2023-09-25A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: The last major conflict of the War of 1812, the battle of this city took place in January 1815, after the war had ended Battle of New Orleans
#8936, aired 2023-09-25A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon
#8936, aired 2023-09-25A PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: In 1309 Clement V moved the papacy to what is now this French city, using lack of security in Rome as an excuse Avignon
#8936, aired 2023-09-25A PLACE IN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): After taking up on another island, the Knights of Rhodes became the Knights of this place the Knights of Malta
#8935, aired 2023-09-22DO I WANT THAT NAMED FOR ME? $2000: Who exactly Norman was is lost to history, but Norman's Woe is the reef made famous in the poem "The Wreck of" this ship the Hesperus
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $200: William Hedley invented Puffing Billy, this type of locomotive, which began pulling coal cars in 1813 a steam engine (steam locomotive)
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $400: The 86th of these asked why the pope builds St. Peter's Basilica with the money of the poor & not his own the 95 Theses
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $400: As a verb, it means "to pawn"; as a noun, it comes after "ham" hock
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $600: In February 1846, over a thousand of these people began to trek west from Nauvoo, Illinois, eventually settling in Utah the Mormons
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $800: Born in Poland in 1686, he would heat things up by inventing a mercury thermometer in 1714 Fahrenheit
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $800: This "mind", collective consciousness seen in humans, also refers to sentience in bee colonies hive
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $1000: After Richard II was deposed, this king took over, ushering in the House of Lancaster Henry IV
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $1200: Mentioned more than 40 times in the Bible, they were a people of Asia Minor & Syria the Hittites
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $1600: "Up until this time" is the meaning of this old-timey 8-letter word hitherto
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $2000: Cut out these melodramatic displays of emotion that seem insincere histrionics
#8931, aired 2023-09-18AMERICAN HISTORY $200: After fleeing Philly in 1776, Congress entrusted newspaper publisher Mary Katharine Goddard with printing this document the Declaration of Independence
#8931, aired 2023-09-18AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Many scientists came from the Nazi rocket program to get NASA off the ground, like Kurt Debus, the first director of this space center from 1962 to 1974 the Kennedy Space Center
#8931, aired 2023-09-18AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In this presidential election year, U.S. women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment 1920
#8931, aired 2023-09-18AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded what's now this Florida city St. Augustine
#8931, aired 2023-09-18AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Native American leaders at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn included Sitting Bull & this Oglala chief, killed the following year Crazy Horse
#8931, aired 2023-09-18ACTIVISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Investigative journalist Ida Tarbell's "History of" this petroleum company helped end its monopolistic ways Standard Oil
#8923, aired 2023-07-26DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $800: Delve into this country's history with "Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins & de Valera" Ireland
#8919, aired 2023-07-20A DEEP DIVE INTO... $800: Movie history: In 1939 Hollywood released 365 films, including all-time classics & this jungle hero "Finds a Son!" Tarzan
#8918, aired 2023-07-19HISTORY $400: A participant in this Boston Harbor event said most of the people chosen were journeymen & apprentices the Boston Tea Party
#8918, aired 2023-07-19HISTORY $800: In the 16th century an African man in Japan named Yasuke became the first recorded foreigner to join the ranks of this warrior class Samurai
#8918, aired 2023-07-19HISTORY $1200: Oddly, the names of the agents involved in this 1798 scandal were Jean, Pierre & Lucien, not Xena, Yolanda & Zara the XYZ Affair
#8918, aired 2023-07-19HISTORY $1600: This political organization was founded by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale in 1966 the Black Panthers
#8918, aired 2023-07-19HISTORY $2000: A recent exhumation of this eccentric 16th century Danish astronomer found his prosthetic nose was more likely brass than gold Tycho Brahe
#8917, aired 2023-07-18STARS ON THE NATION'S FLAG $200: The 12 stars on Uzbekistan's flag represent this group of 12, a reminder of the nation's history as a center of astrology the zodiac
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Founded in 1908, this agency battled less glamorous issues like copyright violations until the gangsters came along the FBI
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A British Crown proclamation of 1763 forbade colonists from settling west of these mountains the Appalachians
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Sally Ride rocketed into orbit aboard this Space Shuttle that shared its name with a 19th century research vessel Challenger
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The daughter of an Italian immigrant, she had been a U.S. representative for 3 terms when tapped in 1984 to be a vice presidential nominee Ferraro
#8917, aired 2023-07-184 LETTERS, ENDS IN "Y" $2000: This ancient scholar wrote a 142-volume history of Rome that includes accounts of the battles against Hannibal Livy
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1886 a riot in this city's Haymarket Square led to the deaths of several police officers & demonstrators Chicago
#8915, aired 2023-07-14FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $200: Last name of William Howard, the 27th president, & his brother Charles Phelps, owner of the Chicago Cubs Taft
#8915, aired 2023-07-14FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $400: The company founded by this publisher & politician still includes Men's Health, A&E & our own affiliate KSBW Monterey-Salinas Hearst
#8915, aired 2023-07-14FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $600: Marjorie Durant, who set out to popularize airplane travel in 1931, was the daughter of the founder of this Big 3 car company General Motors
#8915, aired 2023-07-14FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A week after this rich guy IV perished on the Titanic, an inquiry into the disaster began in a hotel with his name on it Astor
#8915, aired 2023-07-14FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1000: This old Boston family produced poet Robert & Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell
#8914, aired 2023-07-13NONFICTION $1000: "A Natural History of Four Meals" is the subtitle of this eater's "Dilemma" by Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma
#8910, aired 2023-07-07WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY $2000: This French thinker's multi-volume "History of Sexuality" discusses power dynamics in society Michel Foucault
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $400: The name of Shakespeare's acting troupe, the King's Men, honored this benefactor James I
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $800: This given name of Maimonides, Judaism's greatest medieval thinker, honors Judaism's greatest prophet Moses
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $1200: Last name of Bronson, a teacher & abolitionist who lived in poverty until his daughter made it big in books in the 19th century Alcott
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $2000: During World War II this Norwegian sold out his country & made his name a synonym for traitor Quisling
#8909, aired 2023-07-06NAMES IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Famed Roman talker Marcus Tullius, who ended up talking himself to death, was better known by this one name Cicero
#8906, aired 2023-07-03RIOTS IN HISTORY $200: In the Rebecca Riots of the 1840s, Welsh men dressed as women attacked the gates that levied these charges for using public roads a toll
#8906, aired 2023-07-03RIOTS IN HISTORY $400: An uprising of industrial workers, the Poznan riots of 1956 brought Wladyslaw Gomulka back to power in this country Poland
#8906, aired 2023-07-03RIOTS IN HISTORY $600: The 7th New York Infantry returned from this big battle to help deal with the July 1863 draft riots in New York City Gettysburg
#8906, aired 2023-07-03RIOTS IN HISTORY $800: The 1969 riots outside this Greenwich Village bar served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement Stonewall
#8906, aired 2023-07-03RIOTS IN HISTORY $1000: U.S. servicemen attacked young Latino men in 1943 Los Angeles riots named for this rhyming style of attire zoot suit
#8904, aired 2023-06-29BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Chinese-American female architect who brought Tony-winning hip-hop history to Broadway Maya Lin-Manuel Miranda
#8901, aired 2023-06-26TV $400: Mel Brooks' 1981 film was really "Part I" after all; a 2023 Hulu series is called this: "Part II" History of the World
#8900, aired 2023-06-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: He made history in November 2008 when, as the New York Times reported, he swept away "the last racial barrier in American politics" Barack Obama
#8898, aired 2023-06-21HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $400: The Tin Lizzie was a nickname for this revolutionary car made from 1908 to 1927 the Model T
#8898, aired 2023-06-21HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $800: In 1962 John Glenn commanded Friendship 7 in a historic flight that was part of this program the Mercury Program
#8898, aired 2023-06-21-OLOGIES $1000: The history of words & the study of them, its own goes back to Greek for "true meanings" etymology
#8898, aired 2023-06-21HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $1200: Gold Beach was the middle of the 5 landing spots during this June 6, 1944 event D-Day (the Invasion of Normandy)
#8898, aired 2023-06-21HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $1600: Sebastian Cabot gave this body of water between Uruguay & Argentina its silvery name in the early 16th century the Rio de la Plata
#8898, aired 2023-06-21HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $2000: Otto von Bismarck's manner of rule led to him getting this nickname that includes an element & a title the Iron Chancellor
#8897, aired 2023-06-20AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. flag was flown at this location for the first time on July 20, 1969 & the original flag is still there the Moon
#8897, aired 2023-06-20AMERICAN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal in New York, Burr & Hamilton had their deadly 1804 clash at a secluded spot in Weehawken in this state New Jersey
#8897, aired 2023-06-20AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The only signer of both the Declaration & Constitution to sit on this body, James Wilson, took his oaths on October 5, 1789 the Supreme Court
#8897, aired 2023-06-20AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The demand for decorations on women's hats led Theodore Roosevelt to set up the USA's first 50 reserves for these birds
#8897, aired 2023-06-20AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: A golden spike ceremony on May 10, 1869 near this Utah "Point" marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad Promontory
#8894, aired 2023-06-15FACT: NONFICTION $1200: Dearest Helga, my time grows short; "Our America" is "A Photographic History" from this TV documentarian of the Civil War Ken Burns
#8892, aired 2023-06-13LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $200: In 1434 this family wrested control of Florence from the rival Albizzi family & stuck around a bit the Medici
#8892, aired 2023-06-13LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $400: Last name of Albert, born in 1852 & the oldest of 7 siblings including Otto & Charles for whom life was truly a circus Ringling
#8892, aired 2023-06-13LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $600: Last name of Frank, who invented the Milky Way bar; his family is still one of the USA's richest Mars
#8892, aired 2023-06-13LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $800: Built in 1020, what's translated as "Hawk's Castle" gave this royal European dynasty its family name Habsburg
#8892, aired 2023-06-13LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $1000: In 1566 this "beefy" family got its estates included in the oprichnina, or in land run under the czar's personal hand Stroganov
#8892, aired 2023-06-13DEEP BOOKS $1200: A term for the alternative history genre, or a book of "Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" What If?
#8889, aired 2023-06-08HISTORY HYSTERIA $200: On June 10, 1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged on Gallows Hill in this Mass. place; Bridget would be far from the last Salem
#8889, aired 2023-06-08HISTORY HYSTERIA $400: 400 people danced uncontrollably for days, some until death, in 1518's dancing plague in Strasbourg in this country France
#8889, aired 2023-06-08HISTORY HYSTERIA $800: In 1950 this senator said 205 Communists worked in the state department but later testifying in the Senate, couldn't document one McCarthy
#8889, aired 2023-06-08HISTORY HYSTERIA $1,000 (Daily Double): On the Daily News' Oct. 31, 1938 front page: "Fake radio 'war' stirs terror through U.S.", with a picture of this actor Orson Welles
#8889, aired 2023-06-08HISTORY HYSTERIA $1000: In 1483 he was made Grand Inquisitor for Castile & León & by 1498, an estimated 2,000 people had been burned at the stake Torquemada
#8881, aired 2023-05-29HISTORY $400: To protect an ancestral cemetery, in 1910 attorney Lyda Conley became the 3rd woman & 1st Native American to argue a case here the Supreme Court (of the United States)
#8881, aired 2023-05-29HISTORY $800: Fake guns nicknamed for this peaceful religious group fooled the Union into canceling an 1862 attack on Centerville, Virginia the Quakers
#8881, aired 2023-05-29HISTORY $1200: The byname of this 11th century Castilian military leader, a national hero of Spain, is from Arabic for "lord" El Cid
#8881, aired 2023-05-29HISTORY $1600: This paramilitary group of young people was used in the 1960s to enforce the Cultural Revolution the Red Guard
#8881, aired 2023-05-29HISTORY $2000: A 6th c. outbreak of bubonic plague bears the name of this Byzantine Emperor; it nearly killed him & devastated his empire Justinian
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT'S ADORABLE $1000: The cute critter on the left shares this name with the guy on the right, an important partner in retail history a roebuck
#17, aired 2023-05-23BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $200: This wedding tradition may have once had to do with sweeping away evil spirits & today symbolizes a new beginning jumping the broom
#17, aired 2023-05-23BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $400: In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show Nat King Cole
#17, aired 2023-05-23BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $600: While Ebony is for the black community in general, this magazine launched in 1970 is geared especially to black women Essence
#17, aired 2023-05-23BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Seen here are these heroic aviators, the first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II the Tuskegee Airmen
#17, aired 2023-05-23BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women Spelman
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE REST IS HISTORY $200: Developed from his senior thesis at Harvard in 1940, "Why England Slept" became a bestseller for this man JFK
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE REST IS HISTORY $400: These 3 words, a cliché about our first president, are really on a plaque about what he did at a Georgia inn on May 16, 1791 Washington slept here
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE REST IS HISTORY $600: Awakened at the 1862 Battle of Malvern Hill, Stonewall Jackson said this cautious Union Gen. was "only fighting to get away" McClellan
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE REST IS HISTORY $800: He died in his sleep after getting married in 453; his sons Ellac, Dengizich & Ernak would soldier on Attila the Hun
#16, aired 2023-05-22THE REST IS HISTORY $1000: By Georges, this orator & firebrand of the French Revolution said, "I shall go to sleep in glory" before he got the guillotine Georges Danton
#8874, aired 2023-05-18HISTORY $400: Prior to becoming general of the Continental Army, George Washington caught this disease & bore the scars for life smallpox
#8874, aired 2023-05-18HISTORY $800: In the 3rd century Ardashir became the king of Fars, & would found the Sasanian Empire, sometimes called the second this empire the Second Persian Empire
#8874, aired 2023-05-18HISTORY $1200: Marco Polo made friends with this world leader, who asked him to bring back sacred oil from Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre Kublai Khan
#8874, aired 2023-05-18HISTORY $1600: The switch to this in 1752 confusingly moved James Boswell's birthday 11 days later the Gregorian calendar
#8874, aired 2023-05-18HISTORY $2000: After ceding João Franco immense power, in 1908 King Carlos I was assassinated in this capital along with son Luís Filipe Lisbon
#14, aired 2023-05-17HEADGEAR & HISTORY $400: In 2022 Iranians were posting video of themselves knocking this wrapped headgear off of clerics & running away turbans
#14, aired 2023-05-17THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1986 it was the site of the worst nuclear accident in history, spreading radioactive material across Europe Chernobyl
#14, aired 2023-05-17HEADGEAR & HISTORY $800: In 1049 Pope Leo IX said, Eberhard, you can wear this high hat that curves to a point, & bishops still do a mitre
#14, aired 2023-05-17HEADGEAR & HISTORY $1200: Catherine of Aragon rocked the headwear called this type of hood because it looks like the triangular end of a roof a gable (a gabled hood)
#14, aired 2023-05-17HEADGEAR & HISTORY $1600: The feathers of this species, not the U.S. national symbol, are a symbol of prowess in war, as in the bonnet of an Arapaho chief a golden eagle
#14, aired 2023-05-17HEADGEAR & HISTORY $2000: The "steel pot" helmet of World War II had this more formal alphanumeric name, like the Garand rifle the M1
#11, aired 2023-05-16WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: She taught school in Milwaukee before moving to what was then Palestine, then eventually becoming prime minister of Israel Golda Meir
#11, aired 2023-05-16WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: As part of a truce in the Hundred Years War, in 1445 Margaret of Anjou married him & became his queen consort Henry VI
#11, aired 2023-05-16WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: Known for her extreme piety & care of Peru's needy, she was the first woman of South America to be declared a saint Rose of Lima
#11, aired 2023-05-16WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: Last name of pioneering doctors & sisters Elizabeth & Emily, subjects of a recent biography on how they changed medicine Blackwell
#11, aired 2023-05-16WOMEN IN HISTORY $2000: In 1996, Ann Richards eulogized this Texas congresswoman as "an American original... a national treasure" & a friend Jordan
#10, aired 2023-05-15MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER $400: Let's bring American history class to life! Take a look at this Revolutionary group pouring tea down the throat of a Crown official Sons of Liberty
#9, aired 2023-05-15WE'VE GOT HISTORY $400: The final scenes of the Bayeux Tapestry show the English fleeing this battle Hastings
#9, aired 2023-05-15WE'VE GOT HISTORY $800: Born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1872, she died in Yekaterinburg in 1918 Alexandra (the last Romanov czarina)
#9, aired 2023-05-15WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1200: Greek for "upright slab", this type of decorated or inscribed stone marker was common in the ancient world a stele
#9, aired 2023-05-15WE'VE GOT HISTORY $1600: This notorious ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv is the site of a mass grave of tens of thousands of Holocaust victims Babi Yar
#9, aired 2023-05-15WE'VE GOT HISTORY $2000: This historic kingdom of West Africa employed the Agojie, a force of female warriors Dahomey
#7, aired 2023-05-12REVOLT-ING HISTORY $200: Not long after British taxes led to U.S. independence, Congress passed a tax on liquor that led to this rebellion the Whiskey Rebellion
#7, aired 2023-05-12REVOLT-ING HISTORY $400: After being part of a failed wave of revolt in Europe in 1848, this political writer began a lifelong exile in England in 1849 Marx
#7, aired 2023-05-12REVOLT-ING HISTORY $800: After 4 years of negotiations, in 2016 the government of this South American country made a peace deal with FARC rebels Colombia
#7, aired 2023-05-12REVOLT-ING HISTORY $1000: The Mexican Revolution of 1910 would be televised in the miniseries this peasant leader: "Amor en Rebeldía" Zapata
#7, aired 2023-05-12REVOLT-ING HISTORY $4,400 (Daily Double): The Cranberries marked the date of Ireland's Easter Rising when they sang, "It's the same old theme since" this year 1916
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $200: March 1, 1781: Finally! The states fully ratified this document! No way it isn't a document guiding U.S. democracy forever! the Articles of Confederation
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $400: Oooof, this year: Matthew Flinders died. The White House, set on fire. 1,200 killed by the Philippines' Mayon volcano eruption 1814
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $600: Dec. 29, 1170: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?! I'm Henry II, for heaven's sake! You did? OK, awkward Thomas à Becket
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $800: July 28, 1794: Hold up, he dominated the Committee of Public Safety! Guillotine?! You just can't do that to this guy! Oh... I guess you can Robespierre
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $1000: 1494: This business league is comin' apart, man! Ivan III nixed Novgorod from being one of its kontors, or trading posts the Hanseatic League
#2, aired 2023-05-08COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $600: So much history in this city! The 16th century Red Fort, the Jami Masjid, or Friday Mosque, & oh yeah... the Taj Mahal Agra
#2, aired 2023-05-08A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $800: This 135-year-old magazine has helped fund more than 15,000 grants in its history; recipients include Richard Byrd & Jacques Cousteau National Geographic
#1, aired 2023-05-0820/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes
#1, aired 2023-05-08ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $400: Nickname of the First Volunteer Cavalry, which blazed into history books at the 1898 Battle of Santiago the "Rough Riders"
#1, aired 2023-05-08ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $800: Born in Venetia, Italy, he began leading the Church around the year 140 Pope Pius
#1, aired 2023-05-08ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $1200: In Roman history, young girls were chosen to be these priestesses who tended the eternal flame of a hearth goddess vestal virgins
#1, aired 2023-05-08ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner were members of this "extreme" group in Lincoln's party advocating emancipation Radical Republicans
#1, aired 2023-05-08ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2000: In the late 19th century, the Pinkertons infiltrated this cabal of coal miners named for a widowed Irishwoman Molly Maguires
#8865, aired 2023-05-05TAKE ME TO CHURCH $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2023 16th St. Baptist in this city marks 150 years of the congregation, a history marred by a 1963 bombing Birmingham, Alabama
#8856, aired 2023-04-24GREEK HISTORY $400: Fought in 2 stages during the 1940s, the Greek Civil War saw those of this political philosophy try & fail to take control Communists
#8856, aired 2023-04-24GREEK HISTORY $800: In 1967 Greece's politicians worried about a coup by generals, but a group of this lower rank took over for 7 years the colonels
#8856, aired 2023-04-24GREEK HISTORY $1200: The cities of the Achaean League situated on the northern part of this peninsula met defeat in 146 B.C. at the hands of Rome the Peloponnesian Peninsula
#8856, aired 2023-04-24GREEK HISTORY $1600: In 1864 Britain ceded to the Greeks these islands off Greece's West Coast that bespangle the sea of the same name the Ionian Islands
#8856, aired 2023-04-24GREEK HISTORY $2000: In 2010 Greece was on the financial brink dealing with these "measures" whose name comes from a word meaning "severe" austere measures (austerity)
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $200: This 19th century American's demand for "unconditional surrender" matched his first 2 initials Grant
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $400: This was invented during the Han Dynasty, which built an efficient civil service that needed plenty for its bureaucrats to push paper
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $600: Rasputin entered history when he was called in to help Czar Nicholas' son Alexei, who suffered from this hereditary bleeding disorder hemophilia
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $800: After losing power, this dictator fled in the Alfa Romeo seen here; at least he bought local Mussolini
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $1000: As king of these people, Clovis I united most of Gaul in the late 5th century the Franks
#8853, aired 2023-04-19MY KID GOT INTO AN IVY LEAGUE MUSEUM $600: My daughter saw David Rockefeller's personal collection of these insects, scarabs & all, at Harvard's Museum of Natural History beetles
#8849, aired 2023-04-13THE BOOK OF ROMANS $2000: This 4-letter abbreviation of a Roman slogan is the title of Mary Beard's bestselling history of ancient Rome SPQR
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth Cleopatra
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Elis, an ancient Greek polis, or this hyphenated type of community, won a struggle for control of the Olympic games city-state
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here the Bronze Age
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Mental Floss summed up the difference: "Neanderthals are more primitive but stronger"; these prehistoric humans "are us" Cro-Magnons
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites
#8842, aired 2023-04-04TARANTINO FILMS $1600: Quentin got creative with World War II history as well as the spelling of the title of this 2009 pic Inglourious Basterds
#8840, aired 2023-03-31ANCIENT VIPs $1200: Though better known as "The Father of History", some critics called him "The Father of Lies" Herodotus
#8838, aired 2023-03-29EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES $200: At different times in its history, this nation has been called Hibernia & the Celtic Tiger Ireland
#8837, aired 2023-03-28WORLD HISTORY $400: The Thirty Years' War began in 1618 as a conflict between these 2 major religious groups the Catholics & the Protestants
#8837, aired 2023-03-28WORLD HISTORY $800: This good guy of Christmas carol fame was actually a duke of Bohemia; he was only declared a king (& a saint) after his death Wenceslas
#8837, aired 2023-03-28WORLD HISTORY $1200: During the Mexican Revolution, U.S. Marines seized this "true cross" port & occupied it for 7 months Veracruz
#8837, aired 2023-03-28WORLD HISTORY $1600: In 1884 Hilary Richard Wright Johnson became this African country's first native-born president Liberia
#8837, aired 2023-03-28WORLD HISTORY $2000: The French did not allow the Germans to pass in this 1916 battle that lasted 10 months the Battle of Verdun
#8836, aired 2023-03-27WE QUOTE MR. Ts $1200: Harry Truman said this man's "Plan" "will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world" Marshall
#8827, aired 2023-03-14SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $400: 1930s calamity: O DESPERATE GRINS the Great Depression
#8827, aired 2023-03-14SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $800: Big deal in 1803: A USUAL HIP SCENARIO the Louisiana Purchase
#8827, aired 2023-03-14SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $1600: 1794 uprising: SOBER WHINE LIKELY the Whiskey Rebellion
#8827, aired 2023-03-14SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $2000: One was on the radio April 28, 1935: CHIEFS TIRADE a fireside chat
#8827, aired 2023-03-14SCRAMBLED U.S. HISTORY $12,400 (Daily Double): 1820s announcement: NO CREDO ON MERIT the Monroe Doctrine
#8823, aired 2023-03-08TV REALITY & COMPETITION SHOWS $1000: Contestants are judged on their bladesmithing & weapon-making skills on this "hot" History Channel show Forged in Fire
#8821, aired 2023-03-06HISTORY $200: At Caracas in 1811 he said, "Let us lay the cornerstone of South American freedom without fear" Simón Bolívar
#8821, aired 2023-03-06HISTORY $400: In 1617 a British diplomat promised "calm & halcyonian days" just before this decades-long conflict erupted the Thirty Years' War
#8821, aired 2023-03-06HISTORY $800: In recent history, he announced in December 2016 that he'd run against Vladimir Putin; as it turned out, a dangerous decision Alexei Navalny
#8821, aired 2023-03-06HISTORY $1000: In 1522 this "Magnificent" Ottoman man used more than 100,000 troops to besiege & finally capture Rhodes Suleiman the Magnificent
#8821, aired 2023-03-06HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): Between 1776 & 1783, Thomas Paine wrote "Crisis" papers, each signed with these 2 words from a familiar early pamphlet Common Sense
#8820, aired 2023-03-03U.S. SIGHTS $400: On Wisconsin's 1,000-mile trail named for this period in Earth's history, you can see rocks left from the Wisconsin glaciation the Ice Age
#8819, aired 2023-03-02U.S. HISTORY $200: The U.S. had this kind of convention in 1787; the states later held hundreds, but the last full one was Rhode Island's of 1986 (a) constitutional (convention)
#8819, aired 2023-03-02U.S. HISTORY $400: In the 1930s, Charles Evans Hughes resisted FDR's ultimately failed plan to pack this body the Supreme Court
#8819, aired 2023-03-02COURSE DESCRIPTIONS $400: History 400: A dive into the 20 active years of this party, including 32 days of riding high during the William Henry Harrison presidency the Whig Party
#8819, aired 2023-03-02U.S. HISTORY $800: A 1915 article says of this modern type of woman, "her hair, newly coiled... exposed... her neck" a flapper
#8819, aired 2023-03-02U.S. HISTORY $1000: Starting in 1821 it was a commercial trail southwest from Missouri; in 1846 Stephen Kearny & his troops used it to invade Mexico the Santa Fe Trail
#8819, aired 2023-03-02U.S. HISTORY $5,018 (Daily Double): Civil War generals issued a lot of general orders; this man's No. 9 of April 1865 sent the Army of Northern Virginia home Robert E. Lee
#8816, aired 2023-02-27COMPANIES IN HISTORY $400: In the 1960s Benjamin Rubin of Wyeth Laboratories invented the 2-prong bifurcated one of these that helped eliminate smallpox a needle
#8816, aired 2023-02-27COMPANIES IN HISTORY $800: This company still markets bananas from Guatemala; when it was United Fruit Co., it helped kill a 1950s land redistribution there Chiquita
#8816, aired 2023-02-27COMPANIES IN HISTORY $1200: With this grain-cutting device, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. helped win the Civil War as Union grain exports kept Europe neutral the reaper
#8816, aired 2023-02-27COMPANIES IN HISTORY $1600: The Universal Co. of the Maritime Canal of this place was formed in 1858 & nationalized by the government of Egypt in 1956 Suez
#8816, aired 2023-02-27COMPANIES IN HISTORY $2000: This British company made treaties like the 1776 one of Purandar with the Maratha people of present-day Maharashtra state the British East India Company
#8815, aired 2023-02-24BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1930 "Don't buy where you can't work" was a slogan of this economic strategy vs. stores that wouldn't hire African Americans a boycott
#8815, aired 2023-02-24BLACK HISTORY $800: From around the mid-1910s, families vacationed in "Black Eden", Idlewild in the central region of this state's Lower Peninsula Michigan
#8815, aired 2023-02-24BLACK HISTORY $1200: Ed Bradley & Bayard Rustin are alumni of Cheyney U., founded in 1837 & claiming the title first of these, often abbrev. to 4 letters HBCUs (historically black colleges & universities)
#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
#8815, aired 2023-02-24BLACK HISTORY $2000: The Boston Women's Memorial includes a bronze of this 18th century poet who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Phillis Wheatley
#8814, aired 2023-02-23OLD HISTORY $400: From 1588 to 1629 Abbas the Great was shah of this country & its empire Persia
#8814, aired 2023-02-23OLD HISTORY $1200: Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca, was captured & executed by this conquistador in 1533 Pizarro
#8814, aired 2023-02-23OLD HISTORY $1600: Greek cities of the 3rd century B.C. formed the Achaean League to expel invaders from this kingdom of Philip & Alexander Macedonia
#8814, aired 2023-02-23OLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): These Easterners were poised to invade Western Europe in 1241 when the death of their supreme leader called them back the Mongols
#8814, aired 2023-02-23OLD HISTORY $2000: From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the Huron peoples were in conflict with this multi-tribe confederacy to the east the Iroquois
#8811, aired 2023-02-20AN "F" IN HISTORY $400: These essays were written "in favor of the new Constitution" the Federalist Papers
#8811, aired 2023-02-20AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: One month after this royal was killed in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia Archduke Franz Ferdinand
#8811, aired 2023-02-20AN "F" IN HISTORY $1200: U.S., British & Iraqi forces retook this Iraqi city in the second battle of it at the end of 2004 the Battle of Fallujah
#8811, aired 2023-02-20AN "F" IN HISTORY $1600: The son of Japanese immigrants, he was the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000; his daughter ran for the job 3 times Fujimori
#8811, aired 2023-02-20AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: Like a university, a river in British Columbia is named for this explorer who reached its mouth in 1808 Simon Fraser
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $200: Its website says it opened in 1864 in the South End to educate its city's "predominantly Irish, Catholic immigrant community" Boston College
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $400: In 1872 this New York school chose its official colors--pink & green; its students chose orange in 1890 Syracuse
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $800: The founder of this university willed his South Carolina home & 814 acres to start an agricultural college Clemson
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $1000: The founder of what would be this univ. petitioned the Pennsylvania state assembly & got the school started in a log cabin in 1787 Pitt
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami
#8806, aired 2023-02-13WORD HISTORY $200: Norman Mailer added a suffix to "fact" to get this, now meaning a fact of little importance a factoid
#8806, aired 2023-02-13WORD HISTORY $400: We didn't have this word for a person who studies the natural & physical world until William Whewell invented it in 1834 a scientist
#8806, aired 2023-02-13WORD HISTORY $800: Translating a work by Goethe, Thomas Carlyle used this hyphenated term for forgetful, though not to describe a professor absent-minded
#8806, aired 2023-02-13WORD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Reviewing a murder mystery in 1930, Donald Gordon coined this inquisitive 3-words-in-one word for a detective story a whodunnit
#8806, aired 2023-02-13WORD HISTORY $1000: Lewis Carroll coined this word, perhaps as a portmanteau of "chuckle" & "snort" chortle
#8804, aired 2023-02-09AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $400: Chris Kyle's memoir & basis for a film is subtitled "The Autobiography of the Most Lethal" this "in U.S. Military History" American Sniper
#8804, aired 2023-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On January 1, 1892 the first of millions of immigrants was processed here Ellis Island
#8804, aired 2023-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Approved by Congress in 1861 but not ratified, a proposed this number amendment would instead have protected slavery the 13th
#8804, aired 2023-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Thousands of this people also called the Keetoowah died during their forced 1830s relocation to Oklahoma via the "Trail of Tears" the Cherokee
#8804, aired 2023-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1672 Spain began building a large masonry fort on the shore of this city in Florida St. Augustine
#8804, aired 2023-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: On November 21, 1620 41 male passengers signed this document while anchored at a Massachusetts harbor the Mayflower Compact
#8801, aired 2023-02-06HOT TUNES $1600: This Billy Joel song /history lesson references the Rosenbergs, Dien Bien Phu, the Edsel & of course, "Wheel of Fortune" "We Didn't Start The Fire"
#8796, aired 2023-01-30CHANNELING THE TV SHOWS $600: It has destinations like "Ice Hotels... Not Impossible" & "Portals to Hell" the Travel Channel
#12, aired 2023-01-26WORLD HISTORY $300: In 1935 Persia officially became this country Iran
#12, aired 2023-01-26WORLD HISTORY $600: In 1922 Howard Carter made a huge discovery in Egypt, the tomb of this royal Tutankhamun (King Tut)
#12, aired 2023-01-26WORLD HISTORY $900: This French peasant girl is seen here as 3 saints appear to tell her to fight the English; now, she's a saint herself Joan of Arc
#12, aired 2023-01-26WORLD HISTORY $1200: Not too appealing, this king of the Huns was described as short & squat with a large head & a flat nose Attila
#12, aired 2023-01-26WORLD HISTORY $9,800 (Daily Double): This dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644 was noted for its arts & culture including, of course, ceramics & porcelain vases Ming
#8792, aired 2023-01-24JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $400: After decades as a member, in January 2020 the U.K. ceased its membership in this organization the EU
#8792, aired 2023-01-24JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $800: At the 2007 Macworld Conference in San Francisco, Steve Jobs introduced this product the iPhone
#8792, aired 2023-01-24JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $1600: A false emergency alert that a missile was headed for this U.S. state caused panic there in January 2018 Hawaii
#8792, aired 2023-01-24JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $2000: In 2009 Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned after the collapse of this European island nation's banking system Iceland
#8792, aired 2023-01-24JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $4,100 (Daily Double): In his 2002 State of the Union Address, George W. Bush used "axis of evil" to describe Iran, Iraq & this non-Mideast country North Korea
#8791, aired 2023-01-23THE OSCAR-WINNING FORMULA $200: Tom Hanks + a feather x history Forrest Gump
#11, aired 2023-01-19WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $200: A new day dawned for civil rights in 1920 when the 19th one of these gave women the right to vote an amendment
#11, aired 2023-01-19I AM A CHAMPION! $400: In 2019 she surpassed Vitaly Scherbo to become the most decorated gymnast in world championship history Simone Biles
#11, aired 2023-01-19WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $600: This northeast state got its name in the 1620s from a county in England where the scene was dull--time for something "new" New Hampshire
#11, aired 2023-01-19WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $800: Around 1001 a whole New World beckoned this Norse explorer who established a settlement in Vinland in North America Leif Erikson
#11, aired 2023-01-19WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $1000: To get back in sync with the solar year, this new calendar named for a pope made Oct. 15, 1582 the day after Oct. 4 (the) Gregorian (calendar)
#11, aired 2023-01-19WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): In January 1959 moderate liberal Manuel Urrutia was Cuba's new president, but by July, this man was fully in charge Fidel Castro
#8787, aired 2023-01-17EMMY WINNERS $400: In 2022 Lee Jung-jae made Emmy history winning as Lead Actor for a non-English show, this Korean one Squid Game
#8787, aired 2023-01-17A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $800: Having time to draw a cross of his own blood on the ground, Francisco Pizarro was killed in this city in 1541 Lima, Peru
#8787, aired 2023-01-17A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $1200: This gruesome weapon named for its smell that some called more like garlic was used in World War I, skirting an 1899 international treaty mustard gas
#8787, aired 2023-01-17A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $1600: In what's known as the South Sea this of 1720, stock in a British company skyrocketed, then crashed, "bursting" investors' hopes a bubble
#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
#8786, aired 2023-01-16ROYAL HISTORY $400: In 1685 this French king revoked the Edict of Nantes, banned Protestant worship & forced kids to be baptized as Catholic Louis XIV
#8786, aired 2023-01-16ROYAL HISTORY $800: Sultan Mehmed V, seen here, was ruling this empire in 1914, but time would soon be running out for both the Ottoman Empire
#8786, aired 2023-01-16ROYAL HISTORY $1200: Mary, Queen of Scots was the mother of King James I, the first king of England from this dynastic family the Stuarts
#8786, aired 2023-01-16ROYAL HISTORY $1600: Under the Kalmar Union, these 3 Scandinavian countries were under the rule of a single monarch from 1397 to 1523 Denmark, Norway & Sweden
#8786, aired 2023-01-16ROYAL HISTORY $2000: The establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613 ended the Russian "Time of" these, a period of political & social crisis Troubles
#10, aired 2023-01-12A TORY PARTY $100: Jonathan Boucher was a Loyalist or Tory during this event, but dedicated his history of it to his friend George Washington the American Revolution
#8782, aired 2023-01-10ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ $400: 1978: T.A., science at Stanford; 1979: completed her NASA training; 1983: made history aboard Challenger Sally Ride
#8782, aired 2023-01-10NYC SUBWAY STOPS $1000: If you want a day at the museum, take the C train to 81st Street to enjoy this "Night at the Museum" museum the Museum of Natural History
#9, aired 2023-01-05VIRGINNY & GEORGIA $500: You can experience early American history up close at the Virginia sites called "Historic Jamestowne" & "Colonial" this burg Williamsburg
#8777, aired 2023-01-03KID CUISINE $5 (Daily Double): History professor Paul Josephson's definitive article on these breaded items is titled "The Ocean's Hot Dog" fish sticks
#8777, aired 2023-01-03HERE'S LOOKING AT "U" $800: Here are ancestors of this tribe that let Salt Lake City college athletes use its name to build respect for its history & culture the Utes
#8776, aired 2023-01-02HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $200: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My bestseller "The Devil in the White City" told the incredible true story of how a prolific serial killer lured his victims using the 1893 World's Fair in this Midwest city Chicago
#8776, aired 2023-01-02HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $400: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) In "Dead Wake", I explore the infamous 1915 torpedoing by a U-boat of this luxury liner; with a loss of over 1,000 lives, including some 130 Americans, that tragedy helped convince the U.S. to join World War I in 1917 on the side of the Allies the Lusitania
#8776, aired 2023-01-02HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $600: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "The Splendid and the Vile", set during the early days of World War II, takes readers inside Chequers, this prime minister's country home where he figured out how to keep his family & his nation together Churchill
#8776, aired 2023-01-02HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $800: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "Thunderstruck" examines how in 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippen nearly committed the perfect murder & fled across the Atlantic, only to be captured later that year with the help of this man's invention of wireless telegraphy Marconi
#8776, aired 2023-01-02HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $1000: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) Do you know monsters when you see them? My book "In the Garden of Beasts" tells the story of Martha Dodd, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany & her affair with the first head of this political police organization the gestapo
#8776, aired 2023-01-02THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW $1000: "The tragicall history" tour is coming to take you away with this Christopher Marlowe play featuring Mephistopheles Doctor Faustus
#8775, aired 2022-12-30I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $400: In World War I the soldiers of the USA's all-Black 92nd infantry division put this animal on their patch buffalo
#8775, aired 2022-12-30I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $800: The 2020 killing of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani by a U.S. drone took place at the airport of this world capital Baghdad
#8775, aired 2022-12-30THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $800: 1890: 14.8% are this, highest in history, finding the streets paved with gold immigrants
#8775, aired 2022-12-30I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $1600: After continually losing elections for Israeli prime minister since 1948, he won the office in 1977 in what's known as "the upset" (Menachem) Begin
#8775, aired 2022-12-30I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $2000: This word meaning a spectacular mining find was given to the creek where gold was found in the Klondike in 1896 bonanza
#8775, aired 2022-12-30I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In exile in Jamaica in 1815, he wrote a letter outlining unity among the to-be-liberated nations of Spanish America Bolívar
#8770, aired 2022-12-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Havasupai are the "guardians of" this landmark & live on a reservation below its south rim the Grand Canyon
#8770, aired 2022-12-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $800: These residential "schools" like the Carlisle Indian School founded in 1879 suppressed the language & culture of Native kids the Indian boarding schools
#8770, aired 2022-12-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Shawnee leader Tecumseh sided with the British during this conflict, helping in the capture of Detroit the War of 1812
#8770, aired 2022-12-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name Chief Seattle
#8770, aired 2022-12-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Osceola was a leader of this people who resisted removal from their land in Florida in the 1830s the Seminoles
#8769, aired 2022-12-22TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $200: A 2012 pilot program by police in Rialto, California used BWCs, body-worn these cameras
#8769, aired 2022-12-22TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $400: The genius & importance of Eli Whitney's cotton gin was that it easily removed these from raw cotton seeds
#8769, aired 2022-12-22TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $600: Early on Dec. 7, 1941, a new SCR-270 radar device detected but didn't recognize Japanese aircraft over this island Oahu
#8769, aired 2022-12-22TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $800: In 1998, Campbell Aird got what was called the first this arm, electronically controlled like on TV's "Six Million Dollar Man" a bionic arm
#8769, aired 2022-12-22TECHNOLOGY HISTORY $1000: Paul II, pope from 1464 to 1471, set up Rome's first of these new machines a printing press
#8768, aired 2022-12-21GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $200: On May 29, 1953 2 adventurers finished boldly going where no man had gone before & stood here the top of Mount Everest
#8768, aired 2022-12-21GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $400: On Dec. 16, 1773 this body of water sipped on 342 chests of tea formerly belonging to the British East India Company Boston Harbor
#8768, aired 2022-12-21GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $600: We keep it 100s (A.D.) as we talk about this landmark that ran 70+ miles from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth Hadrian's Wall
#8768, aired 2022-12-21GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $1000: You can visit the Central High School National Historic Site at 2120 West Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive in this city Little Rock
#8768, aired 2022-12-21GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): N.E. of Bilbao, this town was the site of tragedy on April 26, 1937, when 1/3 of its people were killed or wounded in a German attack Guernica
#8764, aired 2022-12-15HISTORY IN ART $400: Charles Benazech painted 4 scenes in the life of King Louis XVI, the last showing him about to go to this device the guillotine
#8764, aired 2022-12-15HISTORY IN ART $800: John Trumbull's painting in the Capitol titled this document shows the submission of a draft in June 1776, not the signing the Declaration of Independence
#8764, aired 2022-12-15HISTORY IN ART $1200: Neoclassical artist Vincenzo Camuccini went big; 13 x 23 feet, to depict this event from 44 B.C. the assassination of Julius Caesar
#8764, aired 2022-12-15HISTORY IN ART $1600: Benjamin West took artistic license in depicting "The Death of General Wolfe", an event from this 18th century war the French and Indian War
#8764, aired 2022-12-15HISTORY IN ART $2000: Some depictions show the 1st century A.D. Trung sisters riding elephants to launch a Vietnamese revolt against this 3-letter dynasty the Han Dynasty
#8763, aired 2022-12-14THE "J.C"s $400: In 2019, at age 94 years & 172 days, he became the longest-living president in U.S. history Jimmy Carter
#8763, aired 2022-12-14THE NONFICTION SECTION $400: Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower" examines the events & failures that led up to this history-changing date 9/11
#8763, aired 2022-12-14HISTORIC NAMES $1000: In 1271 this teen set out with his father & uncle on a journey from Europe to the Far East & into history Marco Polo
#8762, aired 2022-12-13THAT'S SOME OF WHAT SHE WROTE $400: Her resumé includes 2 novels published 55 years apart & a 1983 essay about the history of Alabama Harper Lee
#8760, aired 2022-12-09HISTORY $400: Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was the daughter of this royal couple Ferdinand & Isabella
#8760, aired 2022-12-09HISTORY $800: The unanimous election of Martin V in 1417 led to the end of the reign of these alternate religious rulers the antipopes
#8760, aired 2022-12-09HISTORY $1200: After Robert E. Lee told him to reorganize his men after an attack at Gettysburg, he replied, "General, I have no division" (George) Pickett
#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
#8760, aired 2022-12-09HISTORY $2000: This activist with a parental nickname led a 1903 march to protest the evils of child labor Mother Jones
#8759, aired 2022-12-08"U" IN HISTORY $200: Arthur Miller & Pete Seeger were among those investigated for being this, the "U" in HUAC Un-American
#8759, aired 2022-12-08"U" IN HISTORY $400: A Black resident of Philadelphia, William still kept meticulous records of enslaved people he helped escape via this network the Underground Railroad
#8759, aired 2022-12-08"U" IN HISTORY $600: In 1369 the V pope of this name tried to pull off a union of the Eastern & western Christian churches Urban
#8759, aired 2022-12-08"U" IN HISTORY $800: This "Incident" resulted in the exchange of Rudolf Abel for Francis Gary Powers the U-2 Incident
#8759, aired 2022-12-08"U" IN HISTORY $1000: In what was meant to be a limited operation, in 1969 U.K. troops were sent to parts of this region as a result of "Troubles" Ulster
#8756, aired 2022-12-05HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $400: Just months after their 1862 battle ended in a draw, these 2 ironclad ships were underwater the Monitor & the Merrimack
#8756, aired 2022-12-05HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $800: Henri Bertrand stuck by Napoleon all through his 1814-1821 exiles on these 2 islands Elba & St. Helena
#8756, aired 2022-12-05HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $1200: In the 1990s these 2 territories were returned to Chinese control Hong Kong & Macau
#8756, aired 2022-12-05HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $1600: These 2 men who explored the Arctic in 1909 are buried next to each other at Arlington Peary & Henson
#8756, aired 2022-12-05HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra
#8755, aired 2022-12-02WORD HISTORY $400: Makes sense--it once meant the piece of wood behind others in a fireplace; now it's a bunch of unfilled orders a backlog
#8755, aired 2022-12-02WORD HISTORY $800: Its obsolete meanings include meek & obedient; its solete meaning is bosomy buxom
#8755, aired 2022-12-02WORD HISTORY $1200: Originally liquid poured out as a sacrifice to a deity, now it's just a fancy word for an alcoholic drink libation
#8755, aired 2022-12-02WORD HISTORY $1600: It sounds odd now that in "Dracula" the count says, "You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your" this toilet
#8755, aired 2022-12-02WORD HISTORY $2000: From Greek for "people" & "leader", historically it meant any popular leader as well as one who misleads the people demagogue
#8751, aired 2022-11-28BRITISH HISTORY $400: This invader's brutal 1069-70 campaign to bring Upper Britain under Norman control was called "The Harrying of the North" William the Conqueror
#8751, aired 2022-11-28BRITISH HISTORY $800: The Marquess of Salisbury, who retired in 1902, was the last prime minister to lead a government from this body the House of Lords
#8751, aired 2022-11-28BRITISH HISTORY $1600: Abbreviated NHS, this government agency created to provide free public medical care began in 1948 the National Health Service
#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)
#8751, aired 2022-11-28BRITISH HISTORY $9,000 (Daily Double): Alan Turing devised a method for breaking messages encrypted by this Nazi cypher machine Enigma
#8748, aired 2022-11-23NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: On January 18, 2021 she officially resigned her California Senate seat; 2 days later, she made history (Kamala) Harris
#8745, aired 2022-11-18PAINT SAMPLES $800: Benjamin West nailed history painting depicting this man's "Treaty with the Indians" on the Delaware River William Penn
#8744, aired 2022-11-17HEAD FOR THE HILLS $600: History remembers Bunker Hill as the big battle site, but it was actually this hill that saw most of the action on June 17, 1775 Breed's Hill
#8743, aired 2022-11-16AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This fort, built to protect Charleston, South Carolina, saw the first fatality of the Civil War Fort Sumter
#8743, aired 2022-11-16AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A 1965 civil rights march started in Selma & ended 54 miles & 4 days later in this city, where MLK spoke on the steps of its capitol Montgomery
#8743, aired 2022-11-16AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Named for a U.S. minister to Mexico, this 1850s purchase gave the U.S. an additional strip of land south of the Gila River the Gadsden Purchase
#8743, aired 2022-11-16A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS $600: Found from Mexico to Peru, these orchids bear the name of a horrific figure from Eastern European history & the movies Dracula orchids
#8743, aired 2022-11-16AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The work of this New Deal program, CCC for short, included planting trees--more than 3 billion in all Civilian Conservation Corps
#8743, aired 2022-11-16AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): At this New York battle in the fall of 1777, nearly 6,000 British troops surrendered to Colonial forces Saratoga
#8742, aired 2022-11-15A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $400: Not a game show prize, the San Francisco Treaty of 1951 says in Article 1 the state of war between this country & the Allies is over Japan
#8742, aired 2022-11-15A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $800: As part of the 1994 peace process between Israel & this neighbor, King Hussein was allowed to fly over Jerusalem Jordan
#8742, aired 2022-11-15A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $1600: On March 27, 1802 Britain & France signed a treaty at this city whose name begins with "Ami"; they stayed friends for 14 months Amiens
#8742, aired 2022-11-15A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $2000: This late U.S. diplomat was the architect of the Dayton Accords that brought peace to the Balkans Holbrooke
#8742, aired 2022-11-15A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $10,000 (Daily Double): The 2006 Greentree Agreement, settling a fight by shifting a peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon, was brokered by this African (Kofi) Annan
#8741, aired 2022-11-14YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $400: An early experiment in representative government, the House of Burgesses met for the first time in 1619 in this settlement Jamestown
#8741, aired 2022-11-14YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $800: The assassination of James Garfield made this man the 21st president Arthur
#8741, aired 2022-11-14YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $1200: The Compromise of 1850 admitted this Western state to the Union, with slavery banned there California
#8741, aired 2022-11-14YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $1600: MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech called for freedom to ring from Stone Mountain in Georgia & this mountain in Tennessee Lookout Mountain
#8741, aired 2022-11-14YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $2000: An eyewitness account of the Boston Massacre said this man hit several soldiers with a club before he was shot Crispus Attucks
#8, aired 2022-11-13THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $100: Physicist Stephen Hawking penned 1988's "A Brief History of" this--I'll get to it, briefly Time
#8738, aired 2022-11-093-NAMED PEOPLE $800: Many students learn the history of African Americans from John Hope Franklin's antonym-titled history "From ____ to ____" From Slavery to Freedom
#7, aired 2022-11-06HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood
#7, aired 2022-11-06BERNIE & BERNADETTE $400: He died in 2021 while serving 150 years for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, with paper losses of $64.8 billion Bernie Madoff
#7, aired 2022-11-06HISTORY IN COMEDY $600: Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder gets involved in this type of one-on-one affair with the Duke of Wellington--to be fought with cannons a duel
#7, aired 2022-11-06HISTORY IN COMEDY $900: Bob Newhart on the phone with Walter Raleigh about this stuff: "shred the leaves... between your lips... set fire to it!" tobacco
#7, aired 2022-11-06HISTORY IN COMEDY $1200: On "Drunk History", he's "like, 'No... I'm not gonna defect to the British side! That's insane! George Washington is my daddy, kind of'" Benedict Arnold
#7, aired 2022-11-06HISTORY IN COMEDY $1500: On "Our Flag Means Death", Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet & Taika Waititi is this more notorious pirate Blackbeard
#8735, aired 2022-11-04HISTORY $400: The Battles of Queenston Heights & Lake Erie were both fought during this war the War of 1812
#8735, aired 2022-11-04HISTORY $1200: In the 18th century the Apache lost dominance to this other people whose name ends with the same 3 letters a Comanche
#8735, aired 2022-11-04HISTORY $1600: Giovanni Cornaro II, Doge of Venice until 1722, was the last one to rule over the Morea, an old name for this Greek peninsula the Peloponnesian
#8735, aired 2022-11-04HISTORY $2000: This Zulu warrior & chief used amabutho, or age-based regiments, to unite & control his kingdom before his 1828 death Shaka
#8735, aired 2022-11-04HISTORY $11,600 (Daily Double): Post-WWII British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said this Secretary of State threw "a lifeline to sinking men" Marshall
#8734, aired 2022-11-03A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $1200: (Questlove presents the clue.) In 1975, Parliament released the album "Mothership Connection", an early example of what's called Afro-this-ism, blending Black pride with history & science fiction Afrofuturism
#8731, aired 2022-10-31STREETS OF AMERICA $200: Seen here are some buildings with history on Chartres Street between Iberville & Bienville Streets in this city New Orleans
#8730, aired 2022-10-28DAYS OF YORE $400: Chinese alchemists in the 9th century mixed saltpeter, sulfur & carbon, creating this history-changing substance gunpowder
#8729, aired 2022-10-27THE SECOND CHAPTER $400: Holden's history teacher says, "I flunked you in history because you knew absolutely nothing" The Catcher in the Rye
#8729, aired 2022-10-27RADCLIFFE COLLEGE $1000: A center of women's history studies, the Schlesinger Library opened at Radcliffe in 1943 on the anniversary of this amendment the 19th
#5, aired 2022-10-23WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $200: On making history: "It has taken 232 years & 115 prior appointments for a black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court" Ketanji Jackson
#8725, aired 2022-10-21AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Peregrine White was born on this ship, anchored in Provincetown Harbor in November 1620 the Mayflower
#8725, aired 2022-10-21AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The destruction of the battleship Maine in 1898 was a precursor to this war the Spanish-American War
#8725, aired 2022-10-21AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Naturally, IBM helped create the technology of this type of missile, one letter longer, first deployed by the U.S. in 1959 an ICBM
#8725, aired 2022-10-21AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Shantytowns that sprang up during the Great Depression were given this presidential nickname Hoovervilles
#8725, aired 2022-10-21AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1840 a U.S. judge ruled the unwilling passengers on this ship were kidnap victims, not merchandise the Amistad
#8723, aired 2022-10-19A PLACE IN HISTORY $200: O say can you see--OK, just say--the name of this fort that defended Baltimore from the Brits on Sept. 13 & 14, 1814 Fort McHenry
#8723, aired 2022-10-19A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: Yo, this Philly building dating back to 1732 hosted the adopting of the Articles of Confederation Independence Hall
#8723, aired 2022-10-19A PLACE IN HISTORY $600: In the 17th century Cardinal Richelieu began using this as a state prison; in the 18th, it drew a big crowd outside the Bastille
#8723, aired 2022-10-19A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Excavations showed that this English site begun around 3000 B.C. was connected to the Avon River by a paved avenue Stonehenge
#8723, aired 2022-10-19A PLACE IN HISTORY $1000: & that's the ballgame for the Yorkists here at the 1485 Battle of this; Tudor's your winner, as Plantagenet takes a tough loss the Battle of Bosworth Field
#4, aired 2022-10-16HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $300: On July 4, 1826 this ex-president declared independence from life in Monticello, Virginia Thomas Jefferson
#4, aired 2022-10-16AUTUMN $500: October is the history month for this Asian-American ethnic group that includes Olivia Rodrigo & Jo Koy Filipinos
#4, aired 2022-10-16HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $600: In 2010 this nation paid off its war debt--that'd be its WWI debt--forking over the last 70 million euro in reparations Germany
#4, aired 2022-10-16DRAMA QUEENS $600: Daughter of Sigurd & Brunhilde, Queen Aslaug is seen in the History Channel drama about these title Norse warriors Vikings
#4, aired 2022-10-16SHAKESPEARE $800: In a history play a woman complains that this chubby knight "hath eaten me out of house and home" Falstaff
#4, aired 2022-10-16HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $1200: What became known as this atomic "Project" traces back to Feb. 1940, when 86,000 was given to start research the Manhattan Project
#4, aired 2022-10-16HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $1500: A U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961 at the Bahía de Cochinos, or this, ended in failure the Bay of Pigs
#4, aired 2022-10-16HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Parr became wife No. 6 to this man on July 12, 1543, & beating the odds, outlived him (but only by a year) Henry VIII
#8719, aired 2022-10-13IS HISTORY $200: Though some was at first described as "of a byting tast", it became Colonial Virginia's No. 1 cash crop tobacco
#8719, aired 2022-10-13IS HISTORY $400: In 1988 Benazir Bhutto became the first woman elected to lead an Islamic nation--this one Pakistan
#8719, aired 2022-10-13IS HISTORY $600: In 1956 this Soviet leader made a secret speech to a party congress denouncing Joseph Stalin Khrushchev
#8719, aired 2022-10-13IS HISTORY $800: This father of Alexander the Great was assassinated in 336 B.C. Philip of Macedon
#8719, aired 2022-10-13IS HISTORY $1000: The job of emperor of this country was long dominated by the Amhara, who also gave their name to a major language there Ethiopia
#8717, aired 2022-10-11POLISH HISTORY $200: In June 1979 his second trip abroad in his new job was to his homeland & encouraged many Poles to defy the Communist regime Pope John Paul II
#8717, aired 2022-10-11SUBTITLED NONFICTION $400: Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" was subtitled "From" this alliterative event "to Black Holes" the Big Bang
#8717, aired 2022-10-11POLISH HISTORY $400: This city was still the capital when Jagiellonian University, Poland's oldest, was founded there in 1364 Kraków
#8717, aired 2022-10-11SUBTITLED NONFICTION $600: "Turn The Beat Around" explores "The Secret History of" this often derided music genre of the 1970s disco
#8717, aired 2022-10-11POLISH HISTORY $600: Weakened by Civil War, in 1772 Poland was partitioned by Austria, Russia & this German kingdom Prussia
#8717, aired 2022-10-11POLISH HISTORY $800: In 1943 an uprising against the Nazis took place in this largest Jewish enclave in Poland Warsaw Ghetto
#8717, aired 2022-10-11SUBTITLED NONFICTION $1000: Yuval Noah Harari gives "A Brief History of Humankind" in this book with a one-word title Sapiens
#8717, aired 2022-10-11POLISH HISTORY $1000: This shipyard worker & labor union activist became president of Poland in 1990 Wałęsa
#3, aired 2022-10-09A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $300: (Ken delivers the clue.) Sometimes you become part of a show that's well into its history, like me & like this Muppet, who first appeared on "Sesame Street" in 1980 in the song "We Are All Monsters" Elmo
#8714, aired 2022-10-06INSIGNIFICANT IDIOMS $400: Something no longer of importance is this type of academic reference "to history" a footnote
#8713, aired 2022-10-05HELPFUL HISTORIC FIGURES $600: This man built a big racecar in 1902, & hired bicyclist Barney Oldfield to drive it; together, they would race into history Henry Ford
#8712, aired 2022-10-04CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Fort George one of these navigational aids was one of the gifts of Belize benefactor Baron Bliss a lighthouse
#8712, aired 2022-10-04CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Pineapples & bananas are now tops in Costa Rican exports, but historically this crop was their number one pick-me-up coffee
#8712, aired 2022-10-04CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: José Napoleón Duarte tried to end civil war in this country in the 1980s but pressure from rebels thwarted him El Salvador
#8712, aired 2022-10-04CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1979 this group overthrew Nicaragua's president, ending almost 50 years of dictatorship by the Somoza family the Sandinistas
#8712, aired 2022-10-04CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Beautiful port!" said Columbus, giving this Panama town its name, later applied to a London "Road" after the British captured it Portobelo
#8711, aired 2022-10-03WHEN POLK WAS PRESIDENT $400: In Feb. 1846 this piece of history got its famous zig-zag crack as it was used to celebrate Washington's birthday the Liberty Bell
#2, aired 2022-10-02HISTORY QUIZ $200: In 1880 this inventor was granted a patent for the first practical light bulb Thomas Edison
#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
#2, aired 2022-10-02HISTORY QUIZ $700 (Daily Double): Now a kids' swimming pool game, he was originally an Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century Marco Polo
#2, aired 2022-10-02HISTORY QUIZ $800: Nobody expected the Spanish this notorious institution to be abolished in 1834, but everybody was glad it was the Inquisition
#2, aired 2022-10-02HISTORY QUIZ $1000: A Paris airport is named for this general who led the Free French forces during WWII & later served as France's president Charles de Gaulle
#8708, aired 2022-09-28HISTORY $200: In 1914 19-year-old Serb Gavrilo Princip triggered World War I by assassinating this man Franz Ferdinand
#8708, aired 2022-09-28HISTORY $400: Also known as the Temple of Kukulcán, El Castillo was built circa 1000 AD in a city founded by these people, in the Yucatán Peninsula the Maya
#8708, aired 2022-09-28HISTORY $600: Japan annexed this peninsula in 1910 & suppressed the March First Independence Movement in 1919 Korea
#8708, aired 2022-09-28HISTORY $800: Babylonian king for 40 years, he is best remembered for his legal wisdom, known from an inscribed stone slab discovered in 1901 Hammurabi
#8708, aired 2022-09-28HISTORY $1000: On Friday the 13th of October 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of this military group the Knights Templar
#1, aired 2022-09-25DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTOR $600: He takes liberties with history in the endings of "Inglourious Basterds" & "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Tarantino
#8705, aired 2022-09-23SO GALLANTLY STREAMING $200: In 2022 people still wished to keep up with this title reality show family; their U.S. premiere was the biggest in Hulu's history the Kardashians
#8705, aired 2022-09-23AMERICAN HISTORY $400: 1947's National Security Act established this government entity now based in Langley, Virginia the CIA
#8705, aired 2022-09-23AMERICAN HISTORY $800: People who entered the Oklahoma District before the designated time were first called this about 6 months after the Land Run of 1889 Sooners
#8705, aired 2022-09-23AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This 1797 "Affair" in which 3 French diplomats demanded bribes led to the cry "millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" the XYZ Affair
#8705, aired 2022-09-23AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Speaking at the opening of a World's Fair, he was the first U.S. president to appear on television FDR
#8705, aired 2022-09-23AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: An early champion of free speech & religious liberty, Anne Hutchinson was put on trial in 1637 & banished from this colony the Massachusetts Bay Colony
#8704, aired 2022-09-22BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $200: They let them eat cake at this royal palace when Marie-Antoinette married the dauphin in 1770 Versailles
#8704, aired 2022-09-22BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $400: Both Americans & Europeans were jubilant on May 8, 1945, called this "Day" V-E Day
#8704, aired 2022-09-22BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $600: In the 1820s Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs on this ancient object found in 1799 the Rosetta Stone
#8704, aired 2022-09-22BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $800: By 1834 this institution was abolished, though 8 years late for its last victim, a Valencia Teacher hanged for heresy the Inquisition
#8704, aired 2022-09-22BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $1000: On Nov. 9 of this year, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, the German Walter Cronkite, declared, "The gates of the wall are wide open" 1989
#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
#8702, aired 2022-09-20WORLD WAR II $400: The 1943 Battle of Kursk was history's biggest battle of these machines, like the Soviet T-34 & the German Tiger tanks
#8701, aired 2022-09-19FLAGS $2,000 (Daily Double): The blue & white in Somalia's flag were influenced by the flag of this body that has played a role in Somali history the United Nations
#8699, aired 2022-09-15A LITTLE HISTORY $400: Salmon P. Chase, before George Washington, was the first person on the face of this the dollar
#8699, aired 2022-09-15A LITTLE HISTORY $800: In 1897 Boston opened the first of these in America, running from Park Street to Boylston Street a subway
#8699, aired 2022-09-15A LITTLE HISTORY $1200: A 1785 scandal called the Affair of the Diamond Necklace unjustly discredited this queen; a few years later, she was executed Marie Antoinette
#8699, aired 2022-09-15A LITTLE HISTORY $1600: Many of Shakespeare's history plays were based on the "Lives" of this ancient Greek Plutarch
#8699, aired 2022-09-15A LITTLE HISTORY $2000: On August 20, 1741 this Dane sailed into the Gulf of Alaska (Vitus) Bering
#8697, aired 2022-09-13BROADCASTING HISTORY $200: Long before Netflix, in 1998 a Hong Kong company invested $1.5 billion in video on demand, pioneering this kind of service streaming
#8697, aired 2022-09-13BROADCASTING HISTORY $400: In 1991 this young broadcast TV network became the first in the U.S. to run a commercial for condoms Fox
#8697, aired 2022-09-13BROADCASTING HISTORY $600: In 1974 this Broadcasting System, Inc. shortened things up & became CBS Inc. Columbia
#8697, aired 2022-09-13BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera
#8697, aired 2022-09-13BROADCASTING HISTORY $1000: A 1934 act of Congress established this agency, initially to regulate the radio, telephone & telegraph industries the FCC
#8696, aired 2022-09-12CANADIAN HISTORY $400: Normally a dozy institution, this 105-member upper house of Parliament was news in 2012 with a housing expenses scandal the Senate
#8696, aired 2022-09-12CANADIAN HISTORY $800: In 1880 the Arctic Islands became part of these territories between the Yukon & Nunavut the Northwest Territories
#8696, aired 2022-09-12CANADIAN HISTORY $1600: Asked to yield this city to the English in 1690, Count Frontenac said, "My only reply will be from the mouths of my cannons" Quebec City
#8696, aired 2022-09-12CANADIAN HISTORY $2000: A World Heritage Site, these Newfoundland meadows contain the first evidence of Europeans in the New World L'Anse aux Meadows
#8696, aired 2022-09-12CANADIAN HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): Founded by a royal charter, the company named for this body of water employed "voyageurs" who explored Canada by canoe Hudson Bay
#8695, aired 2022-07-29HISTORY $400: Agrarian reforms in this country beginning in 1915 involved the turnover of lands from haciendas to ejidos Mexico
#8695, aired 2022-07-29HISTORY $800: In 2001 55-year-old Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, this country's king, was assassinated in Kathmandu by his own son Nepal
#8695, aired 2022-07-29HISTORY $1600: Dido was the legendary founder of this Phoenician city-state later ruled by the Romans & Vandals Carthage
#8695, aired 2022-07-29ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $1,800 (Daily Double): 55 mi. from Siberia, the westernmost point of the North American continent is on this peninsula named for a man big in Alaskan history the Seward Peninsula
#8695, aired 2022-07-29HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In January 1536 this royal gave birth to a stillborn male child; by May she was deceased Anne Boleyn
#8695, aired 2022-07-29HISTORY $2000: A statue of a speakers' wagon stands in this Chicago square to commemorate the 1886 riot that occurred there Haymarket Square
#8694, aired 2022-07-28WEST VIRGINIA & REGULAR VIRGINIA $1000: Charleston's Intl. Airport is named for this test pilot, a West Virginian who sounded off & made history in 1947 (Chuck) Yeager
#8692, aired 2022-07-26ACROSS HISTORY $200: In June 1215 King John accepted the Articles of the Barons, a basis for this document the Magna Carta
#8692, aired 2022-07-26ACROSS HISTORY $400: Around 630 B.C. this militaristic city-state basically turned Messenia's people into serfs Sparta
#8692, aired 2022-07-26ACROSS HISTORY $800: In 1586 the first colony on this island went back to England with Sir Francis Drake; no one knows where a later colony went Roanoke
#8692, aired 2022-07-26ACROSS HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): From the 1600s to the 1780s, "guests" were sent to this structure, a state prison, via lettre de cachet, a direct order from the king the Bastille
#8692, aired 2022-07-26ACROSS HISTORY $1000: I am this pharaoh I, founder of the 19th Dynasty! How did my mummy spend years in the Niagara Falls Museum? Ramses I
#8691, aired 2022-07-25EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: Roman emperor Trajan made Dacia a Roman province, hence this country's very Roman name Romania
#8691, aired 2022-07-25EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Winston Churchill gave the speech that mentioned this ideological barrier that separated Eastern Europe the Iron Curtain
#8691, aired 2022-07-25EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: The Alma River entered history when Russia lost an 1854 battle there during this war the Crimean War
#8691, aired 2022-07-25EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest Cyrillic
#8691, aired 2022-07-25EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: Bulgaria is one of many countries on this peninsula that won freedom by breaking the cruel Ottoman yoke the Balkan Peninsula
#8691, aired 2022-07-25LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $2000: This "venerable" guy completed his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" around 731 Bede
#8690, aired 2022-07-22A MONTH OF HISTORY $200: Capone's guys dress like cops & kill Bugs Moran's men in a garage February
#8690, aired 2022-07-22A MONTH OF HISTORY $400: FDR reports "The attack yesterday... caused severe damage to American naval & military forces" December
#8690, aired 2022-07-22A MONTH OF HISTORY $600: Pre-20th Amendment, Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as president March
#8690, aired 2022-07-22A MONTH OF HISTORY $800: Guy Fawkes blows it--or rather, doesn't blow it--& gets arrested November
#8690, aired 2022-07-22A MONTH OF HISTORY $1000: The Tet Offensive begins, surprising U.S. commanders January
#8688, aired 2022-07-20HISTORY $400: In 1474 at the age of 23, this queen began her rule of the Spanish kingdom of Castile Isabella
#8688, aired 2022-07-20HISTORY $800: China pledged to leave this region's system in place for 50 years after 1997 Hong Kong
#8688, aired 2022-07-20HISTORY $1200: In 1453 the fall of the city then called this marked the end of the Byzantine Dynasty Constantinople
#8688, aired 2022-07-20HISTORY $1600: During this 1870-71 war, Napoleon III was captured & eventually deposed & Paris fell to a neighboring nation's army the Franco-Prussian War
#8688, aired 2022-07-20HISTORY $2000: This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built Pericles
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $200: Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging fire
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $400: This group of 10 guarantees (out of the 12 sent to the states) was ratified in December 1791 a Bill of Rights
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there Copernicus
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $800: In the 1960s, Stanley Lebar of Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here the Moon
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $1000: In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel the Abraham Accords
#8685, aired 2022-07-15MEXICAN HISTORY $400: 1821's "Three Guarantees" were independence, equality of Spaniards & Creoles & supremacy of this religion Catholicism
#8685, aired 2022-07-15MEXICAN HISTORY $800: From the 1940s to the 1960s, millions of Mexicans known as braceros got temporary U.S. permits to work in this sector agriculture
#8685, aired 2022-07-15MEXICAN HISTORY $1200: Selected for development using a computer, this Yucatan city got its first hotel in 1974 & is now Mexico's No. 1 beach resort Cancun
#8685, aired 2022-07-15MEXICAN HISTORY $1600: The era of this man's late 19th & early 20th century rule is known as the Porfiriato Porfirio Díaz
#8685, aired 2022-07-15MEXICAN HISTORY $2000: This 1860s presidente & national hero gave his name to a ciudad along Mexico's border with Texas Juarez
#8680, aired 2022-07-08THE JACKSONS, 5 $1600: In 2022, Erin Jackson made history as the first Black woman to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, winning for this sport speed skating
#8673, aired 2022-06-29LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $800: Superman used a phone booth to change clothes; these 2 title guys, to totally go back in time to ace a history report Bill & Ted
#8673, aired 2022-06-29STANNING THAT SHIP $800: Leaving the less seaworthy Speedwell behind, the Mayflower left this English port on Sept. 16, 1620 & sailed into history Plymouth
#8670, aired 2022-06-24NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Here's the path on which this duo led their expedition between 1804 & 1806, covering around 8,000 miles Lewis & Clark
#8670, aired 2022-06-24NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Mexican army's win in the spring of 1862 over Napoleon III's forces is still honored today with this annual celebration Cinco de Mayo
#8670, aired 2022-06-24NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In early 2022, things got eventful in this Canadian city with traffic-paralyzing protests Ottawa
#8670, aired 2022-06-24NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 2003 this Canadian territory dropped "Territory" to go by a single name Yukon
#8670, aired 2022-06-24NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Elected president of Mexico in 1833, this Alamo general would serve in the post 11 times over the next 22 years (Antonio López de) Santa Anna
#8667, aired 2022-06-21HISTORY $400: When Pompey took this metropolis in 63 B.C., Judea fell under the heel of the Romans Jerusalem
#8667, aired 2022-06-21HISTORY $800: In 1632 Maryland was granted to this lord, son of George Calvert, as a Catholic haven Baltimore
#8667, aired 2022-06-21HISTORY $1200: The Yuan Dynasty was ousted in 1368 by this other 4-letter dynasty that would last a while the Ming Dynasty
#8667, aired 2022-06-21HISTORY $1600: 18th century military prowess forced others to refer to this Prussian as "The Great" Frederick the Great
#8667, aired 2022-06-21HISTORY $2000: Around 5,000 years ago bronze objects were being produced in this 2-letter Mesopotamian city Ur
#8665, aired 2022-06-17THINK PINK $400: In 1939 Paul & Betty Pink began selling soda & these from a cart on La Brea & Melrose in L.A. & the rest is history hot dogs
#8661, aired 2022-06-13U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1915 the Revenue Cutter Service & the Life-Saving Service merged to create this branch of the military the Coast Guard
#8661, aired 2022-06-13FINANCE BROS $800: In September 2008 Lehman Brothers, with $639 billion in assets, filed the largest one of these in U.S. history bankruptcy
#8661, aired 2022-06-13U.S. HISTORY $800: The Dorr Rebellion in 1842 was directed against the government of this "Ocean State" Rhode Island
#8661, aired 2022-06-13U.S. HISTORY $1200: In 1912, the U.S. flag gained its 47th & 48th stars after these two neighbors, highlighted here, joined the Union Arizona & New Mexico
#8661, aired 2022-06-13U.S. HISTORY $1600: In 1973 this retired Chief Justice returned to California to swear in Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles (Earl) Warren
#8661, aired 2022-06-13U.S. HISTORY $2000: Known as "Mother", she emigrated from Italy in 1889 & in 1946 she became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint (Mother) Cabrini
#8660, aired 2022-06-10A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $400: At age 13 he married Kasturba, whom he would later call his teacher in nonviolence Gandhi
#8660, aired 2022-06-10A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $800: Seen here, Stokely Carmichael replaced John Lewis as head of SNCC, short for their Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Student
#8660, aired 2022-06-10A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $1200: St. Elizabeth of this country rode between 2 armies & quelled hostilities between her son Afonso & her husband, King Dinis Portugal
#8660, aired 2022-06-10A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $2000: This eldest son of Victoria was called "The Peacemaker"; the memorial here notes his Entente Cordiale with France Edward VII
#8660, aired 2022-06-10A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $2,200 (Daily Double): One story of this Lakota leader recalls him entering a battlefield, taking a seat & smoking a pipe Sitting Bull
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano (Mount) Vesuvius
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Consulting the oracle at this site was opened wide with the destruction of the nearby town of Krisa, which taxed visitors Delphi
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over Seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple Hanukkah
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses elephants
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa the Phoenicians
#8658, aired 2022-06-08LAUREL $800: In 2022 Diébédo Francis Kéré became the first Black winner of this architecture prize in its 43-year history the Pritzker Prize
#8655, aired 2022-06-03THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $400: It went up in 1936 in Friedrichshafen, Germany & went down for good in Lakehurst, New Jersey a little over a year later the Hindenburg
#8655, aired 2022-06-03THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $800: Recent statue topplings by activists have included those of this explorer in St. Paul & in Richmond Columbus
#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
#8655, aired 2022-06-03THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1600: This country's flag was said to have fallen from heaven in 1219, a sign of support for Valdemar II in war with the Estonians Denmark
#8655, aired 2022-06-03THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1979 the S.F. Examiner awarded $10,000 to the first person who produced a piece of this, which had just fallen from the sky Skylab
#8653, aired 2022-06-01U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $200: In 1989 he became the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell
#8653, aired 2022-06-01U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $400: This 29-year-old was made acting director of the Bureau of Investigation in May 1924; "acting" was gone by December (J. Edgar) Hoover
#8653, aired 2022-06-01U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $600: 1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these import duties... anyone? Anyone? By about... anyone? 20%, rattling Wall Street badly tariffs
#8653, aired 2022-06-01U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $800: Big from 1834 to 1854, this political party took its name from a British one opposed to royal prerogatives the Whigs
#8653, aired 2022-06-01U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $1000: On March 1, 2003 FEMA & 21 other organizations got a new boss with the creation of this department the Department of Homeland Security
#8653, aired 2022-06-01LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $2,000 (Daily Double): Roll up, roll up for the history tour... "The Tragical History of doctor Faustus" is a play by this Shakespeare-era man (Christopher) Marlowe
#8651, aired 2022-05-30PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: To retcon is to go back & fill in a fictional character's history & comes from these 2 words of 4 & 5 syllables retroactive continuity
#8650, aired 2022-05-27QUICK HISTORY $200: In 1378 the French took issue with this & decided on their own anti-one--Clement VII the pope
#8650, aired 2022-05-27QUICK HISTORY $400: Beijing fell to this big-time conqueror in 1215 Genghis Khan
#8650, aired 2022-05-27QUICK HISTORY $600: A time of stability under Augustus is known by this peaceful name in Latin Pax Romana
#8650, aired 2022-05-27QUICK HISTORY $800: Adding to the Winter Palace, Catherine the Great began this museum in 1764 Hermitage
#8650, aired 2022-05-27QUICK HISTORY $1000: In 1840 the Boers helped Mpande oust Dingane from the throne of this people the Zulu
#8647, aired 2022-05-24U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $400: Despite the slogan "54-40 or" do this, in 1846 the U.S. settled for 49-00 as the northern border of the Oregon Territory fight
#8647, aired 2022-05-24U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $800: This waterway completed in 1825 helped connect the urban East to the newly settled lands of what was then the West the Erie Canal
#8647, aired 2022-05-24U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $1200: When the U.S. annexed this republic in 1845, it added about 390,000 square miles to the nation's territory the Republic of Texas
#8647, aired 2022-05-24U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Reflecting the name of Istanbul's harbor, c. 1846 the strait connecting this U.S. bay to the ocean was dubbed "Chrysopylae" the San Francisco Bay
#8647, aired 2022-05-24U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $2000: A 1787 land ordinance set policy & was named for this large region acquired in the Revolutionary War the Northwest Territory
#8645, aired 2022-05-20HISTORY PAINTINGS $400: Seen here is Washington's capture of these German mercenaries caught off guard after Christmas celebrations the Hessians
#8645, aired 2022-05-20HISTORY PAINTINGS $800: This Spaniard depicted a struggle in Madrid during the Dos de Mayo uprising in "The Second of May 1808" (Francisco) Goya
#8645, aired 2022-05-20HISTORY PAINTINGS $1200: Here's a depiction of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot & the containment of this conspirator (Guy) Fawkes
#8645, aired 2022-05-20HISTORY PAINTINGS $1600: Géricault's masterpiece called "The Raft of" this depicts the aftermath of a shipwreck, not a Gorgon Medusa
#8645, aired 2022-05-20DISEASES $2,000 (Daily Double): William Howard Taft was among history's many sufferers of this painful joint disorder Hippocrates called the "unwalkable disease" gout
#8645, aired 2022-05-20HISTORY PAINTINGS $2000: Britain's National Maritime Museum has a painting showing this captain's 1779 death at the hands of Hawaiians (James) Cook
#8643, aired 2022-05-18HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: A memorial park & museum in Alabama honors this track-&-field legend who made history at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin Jesse Owens
#8642, aired 2022-05-17MILITARY HISTORY $400: Revolutionary War heroine Margaret Corbin performed many valorous acts as part of this army the Continental Army
#8642, aired 2022-05-17MILITARY HISTORY $800: So many African Americans wanted to fight for this state's 54th Regiment in the Civil War, the 55th was created Massachusetts
#8642, aired 2022-05-17MILITARY HISTORY $1200: After this lengthy journey in 1935, Mao joined other Red Army soldiers with his surviving troops the Long March
#8642, aired 2022-05-17MILITARY HISTORY $1600: In 1298 the circular battle formations of this Scots hero held off the English at Falkirk, but only for a while Wallace
#8642, aired 2022-05-17MILITARY HISTORY $2000: An impressment ordinance got this author of "The Pilgrim's Progress" caught up in the English Civil Wars John Bunyan
#8641, aired 2022-05-16SWEDISH HISTORY $400: Founded in 1252, this Swedish city is today the most populous in the Nordic countries with more than 1.5 million residents Stockholm
#8641, aired 2022-05-16SWEDISH HISTORY $800: Around 1000 King Olaf underwent this rite, aiding the conversion of Sweden to Christianity baptism
#8641, aired 2022-05-16SWEDISH HISTORY $1600: Queen Christina of Sweden was mentored by this French "cogito, ergo sum" man when he lived there in 1649 & 1650 Descartes
#8641, aired 2022-05-16SWEDISH HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Warrior King Charles XII did this in 1708 with 44,000 troops; as military wisdom would suggest, it didn't work invade Russia
#8641, aired 2022-05-16SWEDISH HISTORY $2000: "Talent & Taste" is the motto of the Swedish this institution, founded in 1786, which hands out the Nobel Prize for Literature the Academy
#8640, aired 2022-05-13TAYLOR'S VERSION $400: "Yellowstone" creator Taylor Sheridan's version of Western history is seen in "1883" with this singer as Margaret Dutton (Faith) Hill
#8639, aired 2022-05-12SUBTITLED NONFICTION $200: "An Oral History of" this cable TV channel's "Golden Age" in the 1980s & '90s is shared in "Slimed!" Nickelodeon
#8639, aired 2022-05-124-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: This period in English history refers to the return of Charles II to the throne Restoration
#8638, aired 2022-05-11AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The 1783 Treaty of Paris set the western boundary of the new United States in the middle of this river the Mississippi
#8638, aired 2022-05-11AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1846, Elias Howe patented one of these; his model is seen here a sewing machine
#8638, aired 2022-05-11AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans participated in this event for jobs & freedom the March on Washington
#8638, aired 2022-05-11AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): These 4 words of advice from newspaper editor Horace Greeley were followed by "and grow up with the country" Go West, young man
#8638, aired 2022-05-11AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Before becoming Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier governed this prospective state that existed for all of 4 years Franklin
#8637, aired 2022-05-10JAPANESE HISTORY $400: According to tradition, this religion was introduced to Japan in 552 A.D. Buddhism
#8637, aired 2022-05-10JAPANESE HISTORY $800: In 946 A.D. Suzaku abdicated in favor of his brother Murakami, who became the 62nd of these the emperor
#8637, aired 2022-05-10JAPANESE HISTORY $1200: In 1964 Yoshinori Sakai, born the day Hiroshima was bombed, was chosen to carry this in Tokyo's national stadium the (Olympic) torch
#8637, aired 2022-05-10JAPANESE HISTORY $1600: Certain World War II fighter planes were produced in the year 2600 of the Japanese empire, leading to this nickname the Zero
#8637, aired 2022-05-10JAPANESE HISTORY $2000: By 1543 traders from this southern European nation had become the first Westerners to reach Japan Portugal
#8633, aired 2022-05-04NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $200: This capital was founded as Fort Nassau in the early 1600s Albany
#8633, aired 2022-05-04NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $400: In 1906 Willis Carrier of the Buffalo Forge Company patented an "apparatus for treating air", now known as this the air conditioner
#8633, aired 2022-05-04NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $600: Said to be the USA's oldest state park is the one encompassing this natural wonder formed about 12,000 years ago Niagara Falls
#8633, aired 2022-05-04NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $800: Making his name as a prosecutor, he was elected governor in 1942, 1946 & 1950 but lost twice for president in that time (Thomas) Dewey
#8633, aired 2022-05-04HUNDREDS $1000: The Dewey decimal system puts history & geography in the group starting with this 3-digit number the 900s
#8633, aired 2022-05-04NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $1000: He was the governor of New Netherland before surrendering the region to the British in 1664 Peter Stuyvesant
#8632, aired 2022-05-03HISTORY $400: One of the crimes for which this French saint was sentenced to death in 1431: dressing in men's clothes Joan of Arc
#8632, aired 2022-05-03HISTORY $800: John Champe faked a desertion in 1780 to try to capture this traitorous general & served under him as part of his cover Benedict Arnold
#8632, aired 2022-05-03HISTORY $1200: Think of the name of Ho, its leader, to get the name of this organization that fought the French in Indochina in the 1940s the Vietminh
#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
#8632, aired 2022-05-03HISTORY $2000: Operation Willi was a Nazi plot to restore this former king to the British throne Edward VIII
#8631, aired 2022-05-02COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $200: Hail! to the victors valiant--Charles Woodson, Desmond Howard & Tom Harmon, Heisman winners from this Big Ten school the University of Michigan
#8631, aired 2022-05-02MIAMI NEWS CLUES $200: (I'm Nicole Perez.) 17-0 was Super Bowl terrific in 1973, & all Miami was cheering as the Dolphins became the first & only NFL team in history to have a perfect winning season, led by this coach who has the most NFL wins all time Don Shula
#8631, aired 2022-05-02COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $400: In 2019 this Clemson QB became the second true freshman to win a national title as a starter Trevor Lawrence
#8631, aired 2022-05-02COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $600: The 1951 Army football team that lost to Navy 42-7 had been decimated by cadet expulsions for this cheating on exams
#8631, aired 2022-05-02MIAMI NEWS CLUES $600: (I'm Jenise Fernandez.) Hitting South Florida in 1992 with 165-mile-per-hour winds, destroying around 25,000 homes, taking 44 lives, & causing more than $25 billion in damage, it made news as the then most expensive Atlantic hurricane in history Hurricane Andrew
#8631, aired 2022-05-02COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $800: From 2002 to 2008, this coach seen here led USC to seven straight BCS bowls & two title games Pete Carroll
#8631, aired 2022-05-02COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $1000: This Notre Dame hero who died at age 25 in 1920 helped pay his school expenses as a pool shark George "The Gipper" Gipp
#8628, aired 2022-04-27ARCHITECTS $1200: Israel's most famous architect, Moshe Safdie designed the Holocaust History Museum for this Jerusalem Remembrance Center Yad Vashem
#8621, aired 2022-04-18ONE E, DOUBLE E $800: A purebred dog's genealogical history pedigree
#8618, aired 2022-04-13AROUND THE USA $1600: Seafood plus history mark this area, named for its location on Chesapeake Bay, birthplace of both Harriet Tubman & Frederick Douglass the Eastern Shore
#8616, aired 2022-04-11U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $800: In 1921 New Orleans became the first city in the U.S. to declare a historic district, this one the French Quarter
#8614, aired 2022-04-07THAT PAINTING HAS A TITLE $800: In 1851, this iconic painting of an incident from American history sold for what was then a huge sum--$10,000 Washington Crossing the Delaware
#8614, aired 2022-04-07QUOTE-POURRI $3,000 (Daily Double): Providing a later history book title, Stephen Vincent Benet wrote, "Bury my tongue at Champmedy... bury my heart at" this place Wounded Knee
#8613, aired 2022-04-06IN YOUR PREFACE $800: This sir wrote his "History of the World" (& its preface) in the early 1600s when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London Sir Walter Raleigh
#8613, aired 2022-04-06IN YOUR PREFACE $2000: This 16th century man's preface to the history of the Reformation in Scotland deems some clergy members "bloody wolves" (John) Knox
#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
#8610, aired 2022-04-01HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $600: In 1963, JFK, the first Catholic president, purposefully shook hands with the pope in place of doing this kissing the ring
#8610, aired 2022-04-01HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $1000: Paiute prophets saying the dead would return were part of this 19th c. Native American movement named for a circle dance Ghost Dance
#8610, aired 2022-04-01HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1989, Poland's regime & this union-based opposition movement held roundtable talks that led to the transition to democracy Solidarity
#8608, aired 2022-03-30HISTORICAL NONFICTION $400: "Milk of Paradise: A History of" this drug examines its use & abuse from ancient times up to our own opium
#8608, aired 2022-03-30GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $1000: Karl Marx stated that history appears twice, "the 1st time as tragedy, the 2nd time as" this ludicrous form of comedy farce
#8607, aired 2022-03-29AFRICAN-AMERICANA $1000: An online ancestry project is named for this, a West African storyteller who maintains a family's oral history a griot
#8606, aired 2022-03-28RHYME TIME $1000: Single eyeglass history a monocle chronicle
#8605, aired 2022-03-25HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $400: He was "lucky" to find Vinland after getting blown off course around the year 1000 (Leif) Erikson
#8605, aired 2022-03-25HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $800: Director John Ford said he based the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in "My Darling Clementine" on this man's recollections Wyatt Earp
#8605, aired 2022-03-25HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $1200: A successful capitalist by day, he gave his pal Marx a yearly stipend of 350 pounds Engels
#8605, aired 2022-03-25HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $1600: Robert Devereux, Earl of this, was one of Elizabeth I's favorites, but she had him beheaded for inciting rebellion Essex
#8605, aired 2022-03-25HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $2000: This great 16th century Dutch humanist was also known as Roterodamus Erasmus
#8604, aired 2022-03-24FEUD ORIGINS $400: In 1878 a member of this family accused Floyd Hatfield of pig theft & the rest is violent history the McCoys
#8603, aired 2022-03-23TRIPLE THE DOUBLE LETTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): For much of its history, the USSR was run by the Central this group the Central Committee
#8601, aired 2022-03-21GROUPS IN HISTORY $400: Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians the plebeians
#8601, aired 2022-03-21GROUPS IN HISTORY $1200: In England's Civil War, barbers probably rooted for this Puritan group named for keeping their hair short the Roundheads
#8601, aired 2022-03-21GROUPS IN HISTORY $1600: Lower-class people eager to see aristocratic French heads roll were "sans" these fancy breeches culottes
#8601, aired 2022-03-21THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $2000: From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it" Pliny
#8601, aired 2022-03-21GROUPS IN HISTORY $2000: Abbreviated KMT, it once battled Mao & is now one of Taiwan's main political parties the Kuomintang
#8601, aired 2022-03-21GROUPS IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Term for businessman like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of "The Modern" these who "Plunder at Will" Robber Barons
#8600, aired 2022-03-18SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1822 Brazil declared independence from this country, which recognized that action 3 years later Portugal
#8600, aired 2022-03-18EASY PEASY $600: This HBO miniseries recounted the daunting history of Easy Company, the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Band of Brothers
#8600, aired 2022-03-18SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1919 South America got its first commercial airline: Avianca, now headquartered in this capital of Colombia Bogotá
#8600, aired 2022-03-18SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead Paraguay
#8600, aired 2022-03-18SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba "Che" Guevara
#8600, aired 2022-03-18SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In the early 2000s this ex-president of Chile lost his immunity from prosecution & was charged with human rights abuses Pinochet
#8599, aired 2022-03-17HISTORY QUICK TAKES $400: Rebellion is in the air & in the photo seen here, showing fighters in this 1900 uprising Boxer Rebellion
#8599, aired 2022-03-17HISTORY QUICK TAKES $800: Ferdinand & Isabella wed in 1469, uniting these 2 kingdoms Castile & Aragon
#8599, aired 2022-03-17HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1642 Mongols deposed Tibet's ruling dynasty & gave rule to the man with this title the Dalai Lama
#8599, aired 2022-03-17HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1600: Abu Bakr became the first of these rulers in 632 after the death of Muhammad a caliph
#8599, aired 2022-03-17HISTORY QUICK TAKES $2000: He tried to starve the colonists out but later let his daughter Pocahontas marry one Powhatan
#8597, aired 2022-03-15BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $400: Martin Luther King wrote his famous letter on the need for civil rights action from a jail in this city Birmingham
#8597, aired 2022-03-15BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $800: At the Waitangi Treaty House, Chiefs like Tamati Pukututu & Lt. Gov. William Hobson signed this country's founding document in 1840 New Zealand
#8597, aired 2022-03-15BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $1200: The Yusupov Palace on St. Petersburg's Moyka River was the location of the rather lengthy killing of this man in December 1916 Rasputin
#8597, aired 2022-03-15BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $1600: Paris' Hotel de Rambouillet was the site of a famous one of these female-run gatherings of artists & intellectuals a salon
#8597, aired 2022-03-15BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $2000: At Sengakuji Temple in Tokyo, visitors honor the 47 these, samurai who avenge their dead master & are buried there ronin
#8597, aired 2022-03-15AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Best known for his detective stories, in his later years, he gave lectures on spiritualism & wrote a 2-volume history of it (Arthur Conan) Doyle
#8594, aired 2022-03-10EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: On December 2, 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte had this title officially bestowed upon him, by himself emperor
#8594, aired 2022-03-10EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: The Venice basilica named for this gospel writer & said to contain his earthly remains was rebuilt starting around 1063 Mark
#8594, aired 2022-03-10EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: The second Russian czar of this name had abolished serfdom but was assassinated by revolutionaries in 1881 Alexander
#8594, aired 2022-03-10EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In 1618 longstanding hostility between Protestants & Catholics in central Europe sparked this long war the Thirty Years' War
#8594, aired 2022-03-10EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: Back in 1688 Norway regulated many sawmills to fight this problem; in 2016 it became the world's first country to ban it deforestation (clear-cutting)
#8590, aired 2022-03-04HISTORY $200: Vessels lost by this flotilla in 1588 included La Trinidad, El Gran Grifón & Castillo Negro the Spanish Armada
#8590, aired 2022-03-04ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $400: This colorful challenger to Sir Gawain turns out to be Sir Bertilak in disguise the Green Knight
#8590, aired 2022-03-04HISTORY $400: In 1867 young Erasmus Jacobs found the "Eureka" this "upon which the future success of South Africa will be built" diamond
#8590, aired 2022-03-04HISTORY $800: Crete's Bronze Age civilization is sometimes named for this king who ruled from Knossos King Minos
#8590, aired 2022-03-04HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Built by a Ming Dynasty emperor, this place is so named because most people in the empire were denied access the Forbidden City
#8590, aired 2022-03-04HISTORY $1000: The USA's worst depression before the Civil War began with what's usually called this event "of 1837" the Panic
#8590, aired 2022-03-04ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $1200: Named parts of Arthur's fighting gear included "Excalibur" , his sword, "Ron", his lance, & "Pridwen", this his shield
#8590, aired 2022-03-04ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $1600: The son of Lancelot, this noblest of Arthur's knights was among the few virtuous enough to find the Holy Grail Sir Galahad
#8590, aired 2022-03-04ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $2000: Arthur's mother was Igraine, duchess of this peninsular region Cornwall
#8590, aired 2022-03-04ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $7,600 (Daily Double): The figure best known by this name appears in some versions as Ambrosius, a prophet & adviser to King Vortigern Merlin
#8589, aired 2022-03-03DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $1000: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) December 10, 2014 was a bright day in a long saga as Detroit officially exited the largest municipal one of these in the history of the United States, & emergency manager Kevyn Orr's resignation took effect a bankruptcy
#8586, aired 2022-02-28AMERICAN HISTORY $200: During this period that began in 1920, keg parties weren't for drinking but for the dumping of liquor Prohibition
#8586, aired 2022-02-28AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The tracks of the Central Pacific & this railroad met in Utah in 1869 the Union Pacific
#8586, aired 2022-02-28THE PICKLE BARREL $800: Musing on history, Ralph Waldo Emerson wondered why the New World must bear the name of this thieving pickle-dealer (Amerigo) Vespucci
#8586, aired 2022-02-28AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The "separate but equal" doctrine in the case of Plessy v. this judge upheld racial segregation for almost 60 years Ferguson
#8586, aired 2022-02-28AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): 5 years before his famous ride, Paul Revere made a print depicting this bloody March 5, 1770 event the Boston Massacre
#8586, aired 2022-02-28AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, the Pilgrims shared a feast with these native people of Massachusetts the Wampanoag
#8584, aired 2022-02-24HISTORIC WOMEN $2000: She made history when she became the first woman in space & more recently she's served in the Russian parliament Valentina Tereshkova
#17, aired 2022-02-22A CAREER IN TECH $800: (Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) If you come to work at our campus, you'll be part of a history predating Google; this city, which has a strange name for part of a valley, was the home of Shockley Semiconductor, the area's first high-tech silicon-based manufacturer Mountain View
#16, aired 2022-02-18WORLD HISTORY $200: A government crackdown on protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989 took place in this square Tiananmen Square
#16, aired 2022-02-18WORLD HISTORY $400: When papal armies threatened Florence in 1529, this native son & genius with stone drew up plans to fortify the city Michelangelo
#16, aired 2022-02-18WORLD HISTORY $600: Spain's second queen of this name took the throne in 1833 Isabella
#16, aired 2022-02-18WORLD HISTORY $800: 52 Americans who were held hostage in 1979 & 1980 were seized from the U.S. embassy in this city Tehran
#16, aired 2022-02-18WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Under revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo, this country declared its independence from Spain in 1898 the Philippines
#15, aired 2022-02-18A MINOR IN HISTORY $200: Enrique Esparza was about 8 on March 6, 1836 & a witness who would "remember" the battle at this mission for decades; Enrique died in 1917 the Alamo
#15, aired 2022-02-18A MINOR IN HISTORY $400: Akhenaten's son, he got the pharaoh gig at age 9 & benched Aten in favor of a return to the worship of Amun King Tut (Tutankhamun)
#15, aired 2022-02-18A MINOR IN HISTORY $600: Saints be praised! On March 22, 1429 this feisty teen dictated a letter to English commanders, insisting they leave France Joan of Arc
#15, aired 2022-02-18A MINOR IN HISTORY $800: In 1998 the 9 teens who integrated Central High in this Southern capital in 1957 were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Little Rock
#15, aired 2022-02-18A MINOR IN HISTORY $1000: As a teen, this Frenchman whose name became a computer language wrote an essay on conic sections that impressed Descartes Pascal
#8579, aired 2022-02-17ABRAHAM LINCOLN $1000: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) On April 4, 1865, Lincoln made a daring & dangerous visit to this newly captured capital, walking its still-burning streets to the cheers of jubilant former enslaved people Richmond
#14, aired 2022-02-17NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $800: (Andrew Dymburt delivers the clue.) At a little before 2:00 AM on June 17, 1972, sharp-eyed security guard Frank Wills noticed tape across a door latch in this Washington, D.C. office complex, changing the course of American history Watergate
#14, aired 2022-02-17NONFICTION $800: He covered stuff like how did the universe begin in "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking
#12, aired 2022-02-16EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: In the 20th century Portugal's Antonio Salazar created the "Estado Novo", or this New State
#12, aired 2022-02-16EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: At the Battle of Salamis, the Greeks defeated the fleet of this empire Persia (the Persian Empire)
#12, aired 2022-02-16TOY STORIES $1000: The National Toy Hall of fame calls this, created in 1974, the "most popular puzzle in history" the Rubik's Cube
#12, aired 2022-02-16EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: In 1979 Canton Jura in this country split from Canton Bern Switzerland
#12, aired 2022-02-16EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: In the 15th century Erik of Pomerania waged war with this mercantile league while trying to solidify his Baltic empire the Hanseatic League
#12, aired 2022-02-16EUROPEAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): The largest ghetto uprising of World War II was mounted in this capital in 1943 Warsaw
#11, aired 2022-02-16THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS $800: "The Living" this document is part of "Magruder's American Government", written for decades after Magruder by William McClenaghan Constitution
#11, aired 2022-02-16THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Anthony Kenny of "A New History of Western Philosophy" also covered it in books on Descartes, Wittgenstein & this 13th century saint Thomas Aquinas
#9, aired 2022-02-15COURSE SYLLABLES $800: 2 syllables: This double-talk art history course on the style of Duchamp & Man Ray Dada
#8576, aired 2022-02-14HISTORY BOOKS $400: Unfortunate Martha Corey was one of "The Witches" in Stacy Schiff's narrative of events surrounding this village in 1692 Salem
#8576, aired 2022-02-14HISTORY BOOKS $800: From the ancient Maya to the 21st century, "The Smoke of the Gods" is Eric Burns' history of this plant & its effects upon society tobacco
#8576, aired 2022-02-14HISTORY BOOKS $1200: "Blood & Iron", a history of Germany 1871-1918, gets its title from a quote by this chancellor who's big in the book Bismarck
#8576, aired 2022-02-14HISTORY BOOKS $1600: Reversing a phrase from the book of Isaiah, Arno Mayer's history of the state of Israel is titled these "into Swords" Plowshares
#8576, aired 2022-02-14HISTORY BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Rise & Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors" is the subtitle of a recent history of this medieval order of knights the Knights Templar
#8573, aired 2022-02-0920th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $400: "Charlie Wilson's War" is about a Texas congressman's covert dealings to arm anti-soviet rebels fighting in this country Afghanistan
#8573, aired 2022-02-0920th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $800: A monarch working to overcome his stammer is central to the plot of this Oscar winner The King's Speech
#8573, aired 2022-02-0920th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1200: The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton Judas and the Black Messiah
#8573, aired 2022-02-0920th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1600: Peter O'Toole played "the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey" in this epic film set in the Mideast Lawrence of Arabia
#8573, aired 2022-02-0920th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $2000: Andrew Garfield played pacifist & Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in this movie set in part at the Battle of Okinawa Hacksaw Ridge
#2, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Now a university, this Alabama school opened in 1881 with about 30 students & one teacher, Booker T. Washington Tuskegee
#2, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY $800: A Boston newspaper coined this phrase for the period of optimism during James Monroe's presidency the Era of Good Feelings
#2, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Favoring free silver, in a rousing 1896 speech this orator & statesman said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan
#2, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, she would later open a hospital for women & children with her sister Emily Elizabeth Blackwell
#2, aired 2022-02-08SHAKESPEARE $1600: A Stratford-upon-Avon statue of the Bard is surrounded by four characters, including this young prince from the history plays Henry
#2, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Killing 146 workers, mostly women, this tragic fire at a New York City garment factory in 1911 led to new safety laws the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
#8567, aired 2022-02-014-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: A natural history museum, the Koenig is in this city, once the capital of West Germany Bonn
#8566, aired 2022-01-31STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $200: A famous speedway was built to test cars for this city's many early 20th c. automakers, like the National Motor Vehicle Company Indianapolis
#8566, aired 2022-01-31STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $400: The first Pony Express rider reached this capital of a West Coast state on April 13, 1860 Sacramento
#8566, aired 2022-01-31STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $600: Located 50 miles east of Louisville, it was the only Union state capital captured by Confederate forces Frankfort
#8566, aired 2022-01-31STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $800: In 1683, this leader of a neighboring colony decreed the founding of Dover, Delaware (William) Penn
#8566, aired 2022-01-31STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $1000: Explorer Hernando de Soto & his men spent the winter of 1539-40 at what is today this southern capital Tallahassee
#8565, aired 2022-01-28AMERICANA $200: A bit confusingly, the first big attraction in the history of Florida's Gatorland was Bone Crusher, a 1/2-ton one of these a crocodile
#8558, aired 2022-01-19WORLD LEADERS $200 (Daily Double): At age 39 in 2017 he became the youngest president in the history of modern France Macron
#8557, aired 2022-01-18MEDICAL HISTORY $200: Daniel Fahrenheit invented an alcohol one of these in 1709 & the mercury one 5 years later a thermometer
#8557, aired 2022-01-18WORLD HISTORY $400: The Latin for fief, a vassal's domain, gave this political & social system of Europe's middle ages its name feudalism
#8557, aired 2022-01-18MEDICAL HISTORY $400: It took a while for people to become "stuck on" this brand introduced in 1921, because initially they were 18" long Band-Aid
#8557, aired 2022-01-18MEDICAL HISTORY $600: In 1928 Alexander Fleming found that mold in a Petri dish had inhibited bacterial growth, leading to this antibiotic penicillin
#8557, aired 2022-01-18WORLD HISTORY $800: During a forced exile, he wrote "The Prince" & began his "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli
#8557, aired 2022-01-18MEDICAL HISTORY $800: An 1880s medical publication talked about Louis Pasteur's treatment for this rabies
#8557, aired 2022-01-18MEDICAL HISTORY $1000: Ernst Gräfenberg developed this birth control device that's inserted into the uterus an IUD
#8557, aired 2022-01-18WORLD HISTORY $1200: In the 1950s riots broke out between the Tamils & Sinhalese after Sinhala was made this country's sole official language Sri Lanka
#8557, aired 2022-01-18WORLD HISTORY $1600: This 12th century warrior who battled the Crusaders was known as "The Chivalrous Saracen" Saladin
#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
#8555, aired 2022-01-14WORLD HISTORY $400: These large, rolling weapons of war were used for the first time in 1916's First Battle of the Somme tanks
#8555, aired 2022-01-14WORLD HISTORY $800: One of Millard Fillmore's few marks on world history was in 1852 when he put this man in charge of a naval expedition to Japan (Matthew) Perry
#8555, aired 2022-01-14WORLD HISTORY $1600: In the 13th century the Mongols destroyed the first East Slavic state, the "Rus", which had this city, not Moscow, as capital Kiev
#8555, aired 2022-01-14WORLD HISTORY $2000: Scholars struggle to decipher the language of the IVC, the civilization of this river valley, a power in south Asia in the 2000s B.C. the Indus River
#8555, aired 2022-01-14WORLD HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): Led by King Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden entered this decades-long European conflict, a major turning point in that war the Thirty Years' War
#8554, aired 2022-01-13PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: In 1959 she became president of India's Congress Party & would join Parliament 5 years later Indira Gandhi
#8554, aired 2022-01-13PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: Before becoming the first American woman in space, she was a star tennis player at Stanford & Billie Jean King told her to go pro Sally Ride
#8554, aired 2022-01-13PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: Westminster Abbey's Coronation Chair included this 336-pound symbol in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England the Stone of Scone
#8554, aired 2022-01-13PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: In 2010 the remains of this "father of modern astronomy" were reburied in Poland with full Catholic honors Copernicus
#8554, aired 2022-01-13PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: This Frenchman discovered Prince Edward Island in 1534 & gets credit for naming Canada; you can set your fancy watch by that Cartier
#8553, aired 2022-01-12AUTHORS' NONFICTION $2000: Best known for his novel "Infinite Jest", he also wrote "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" David Foster Wallace
#8549, aired 2022-01-06JOB DESCRIPTION $1000: Take in 4,500 years of history; 12 basic meridians & qi are key; get to the multiple points & max around 0.4 inches deep an acupuncturist
#8546, aired 2022-01-03HISTORY PLAYS $400: Dame Sybil Thorndike was truly a lady made for burning: she played this saintly G.B. Shaw heroine more than 2,000 times on stage Joan of Arc
#8546, aired 2022-01-03HISTORY PLAYS $800: Shimon Peres is a character in this J.T. Rogers play, named for a Scandinavian capital & its 1993 peace accords Oslo
#8546, aired 2022-01-03HISTORY PLAYS $1600: In Shakespeare's take on the life of this monarch who died in 1216, he is fatally poisoned by a monk King John
#8546, aired 2022-01-03HISTORY PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1934 December was an apt month for the Broadway opening of a play about this Penn. place where George Washington was tested Valley Forge
#8546, aired 2022-01-03HISTORY PLAYS $2000: This creator of "The Crown" also depicts Elizabeth II onstage, as when she meets with her prime ministers in "The Audience" (Peter) Morgan
#8544, aired 2021-12-30QUICK HISTORY $400: Atahualpa was the ruler of this empire when the Spanish arrived the Incan Empire
#8544, aired 2021-12-30QUICK HISTORY $800: In 1520 Suleyman took this empire to new heights the Ottoman Empire
#8544, aired 2021-12-30QUICK HISTORY $1200: He launched a dirigible from a floating hangar in 1900 Zeppelin
#8544, aired 2021-12-30QUICK HISTORY $2000: A big assembly or diet took place in this German city in 1521 Worms
#8544, aired 2021-12-30QUICK HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This group smashed labor-saving machinery in England in 1811 the Luddites
#8542, aired 2021-12-28ASIAN HISTORY $200 (Daily Double): Into the 20th century, Uzbekistan had rulers with this title reminiscent of the Mongols; the Soviets finally got rid of them khan
#8542, aired 2021-12-28ASIAN HISTORY $400: In 1620 the 2nd Tokugawa shogun cemented his power by marrying his daughter off to the guy with this important title emperor
#8542, aired 2021-12-28ASIAN HISTORY $1200: In the 1960s, many Indian farmers transitioned for a mix of crops to high-yield wheat as part of this colorful revolution the Green Revolution
#8542, aired 2021-12-28ASIAN HISTORY $1600: The Javanese Wars of Succession involved local potentates & this Dutch entity the Javanese called "Kumpeni" the Dutch East India Company
#8542, aired 2021-12-28ASIAN HISTORY $2000: Today the victims of persecution in China, this Muslim group had a Central Asian empire from about 750 to 850 A.D. the Uyghurs
#8540, aired 2021-12-24IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $400: In what was then the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, this energy giant filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2001 Enron
#8538, aired 2021-12-22AVIATION $1600: In April 2021, this resourceful helicopter made history, taking off on Mars for a series of experimental flights Ingenuity
#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
#8537, aired 2021-12-21PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: In 1956 Goldie Myerson changed her name & 13 years later became prime minister of this nation Israel
#8537, aired 2021-12-21NEW ORLEANS: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Kelsey Davis.) In 2007, this man who took his name from a "Brady Bunch" kid became the first Indian-American governor in Louisiana & in American history (Bobby) Jindal
#8537, aired 2021-12-21PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: Truly "The People's Princess", Diana crusaded against these weapons of war & after her death, 160-plus nations agreed to ban them land mines
#8537, aired 2021-12-21PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600: The Tehran tomb of this man is a pilgrimage site, such as on the 40th anniversary of his 1979 return from exile Khomeini
#8537, aired 2021-12-21PEOPLE IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Gold found on his land in 1848 ruined this California man; people destroyed his property looking for more & by 1852 he was bankrupt Sutter
#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
#8535, aired 2021-12-17THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $400: A 2017 book by Ian Dunt has a title many are asking--this 6-letter word: "What the Hell Happens Now?" Brexit
#8535, aired 2021-12-17THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $600 (Daily Double): One eye, one arm but all man to Lady Hamilton, in 1799 this naval hero disobeyed an order to leave Naples (& the lady) Horatio Nelson
#8535, aired 2021-12-17THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $800: In January 1606, 2 months after the foiled Gunpowder Plot, Parliament established this date as an annual day of Thanksgiving November 5th
#8535, aired 2021-12-17THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $1000: These twins who ran a criminal empire in the east end in the 1950s were among the last prisoners to be held in the Tower of London the Krays
#8533, aired 2021-12-15SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $200: This event off Huntington Beach in 2021 brought memories of the 3-million-gallon disaster off Santa Barbara in 1969 an oil spill
#8533, aired 2021-12-15SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $400: Founded in 1891 as a vocational & liberal arts school, this Pasadena college became famous for physics & space science Caltech
#8533, aired 2021-12-15SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $600: In the 1920s, author Zane Grey built a Pueblo-style house near Avalon Bay on this island Catalina
#8533, aired 2021-12-15SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $800: In 1769 in San Diego, this priest, now a controversial figure, founded his first California mission; he went on to found 8 more Serra
#8533, aired 2021-12-15SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $1000: This evangelist opened the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles & preached there to a flock of thousands Aimee Semple McPherson
#8527, aired 2021-12-07RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: Apologizing to the Russian people for the failures of his administration, he abruptly resigned as president December 31, 1999 (Boris) Yeltsin
#8527, aired 2021-12-07RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Russian for "peace" or "world", this space station hosted more than 100 people from 12 countries during its time in orbit Mir
#8527, aired 2021-12-07RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $1200: Until DNA tests in the 1990s proved otherwise, many claimed to be this youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II Anastasia
#8527, aired 2021-12-07RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $1,600 (Daily Double): In the early 1900s members of the faction that opposed Lenin were called these, meaning "one of the minority" the Mensheviks
#8527, aired 2021-12-07RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $2000: As the result of his "Gulag Archipelago", this author was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 & wouldn't return for 20 years Solzhenitsyn
#8525, aired 2021-12-03CANADIAN SPORTS $200: Floridian Tim Raines learned "bonjour" & "merci beaucoup" as one of the greatest players in this MLB team's history the Expos
#8524, aired 2021-12-02EXAM TIME $600: These exams are required for many Ph.D. degrees; for a Stanford history doctorate, you take them in your third year oral exams
#8523, aired 2021-12-01EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: After 36 years, this military alliance that was behind the iron curtain was officially dissolved on July 1, 1991 the Warsaw Pact
#8523, aired 2021-12-01EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Signed in this small northwest nation in 1985, the Schengen Agreement covers the free movement of peoples through the European Union Luxembourg
#8523, aired 2021-12-01PUTTING YOU THROUGH SOME HOOPS $1000: He went from the Warriors to the Nets & in 2021 became the top scorer in U.S. Olympic men's basketball history Durant
#8523, aired 2021-12-01EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: Living comfortably in Nice in the 1840s, he could not resist joining the then-unlikely movement to make Italy one country Garibaldi
#8523, aired 2021-12-01EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: This Dutch humanist wrote, "In Praise of Folly" in part to critique the church but stopped short of signing on to the Reformation Erasmus
#8523, aired 2021-12-01EUROPEAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): He fought both the Spanish Christians & the Moors before conquering Muslim Valencia in 1094 El Cid
#8522, aired 2021-11-30AWARD-WINNING WOMEN $400: In 2021 she added 4 Grammys to her collection including R&B performance, &, with 28, is now the winningest singer in Grammy history Beyoncé
#8520, aired 2021-11-26L'HISTOIRE FRANCAISE $1200: Tracking history, when Louis XVI was executed there it was Place de la Révolution, later it was Place Louis Seize, now it's this Place de la Concorde
#8519, aired 2021-11-25WORLD HISTORY $400: In Xanadu (really Shangdu) did this man become emperor of the Mongols in 1260 Kublai Khan
#8519, aired 2021-11-25WORLD HISTORY $800: With the USSR crumbling, this Baltic nation in 1990 became the first Soviet republic to declare independence Lithuania
#8519, aired 2021-11-25AUTHORS OF TODAY $1600: This New Yorker regular & bestselling author of "Talking to Strangers" co-hosts the "Revisionist History" podcast Malcolm Gladwell
#8519, aired 2021-11-25WORLD HISTORY $1600: As a result of his Munich conference with Hitler in 1938, this British leader promised, "Peace for our time" Chamberlain
#8519, aired 2021-11-25WORLD HISTORY $2000: In July 1776 he set sail from England aboard the Resolution in search of a Northwest Passage James Cook
#8519, aired 2021-11-25WORLD HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1893 he went to South Africa to do some legal work; he stayed for 21 years to work for Indian rights Gandhi
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $800: This cookie company was founded in 1937 by a Connecticut woman & named for her family's country home Pepperidge Farm
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $1600: In 2020 the Justice Dept. wound up its case against this Sackler Family opioid maker, which agreed to pay $8 billion in penalties Purdue (Pharma)
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $2000: In 1667 Londoner Nicholas Barbon set up the first office for this type of insurance fire insurance
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This pair's first computer venture, Traf-O-Data for the Washington Roads Department, helped them launch a bigger company soon after Bill Gates & Paul Allen
#8516, aired 2021-11-22YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $2000: After getting 17 publisher rejections, Irving Stone hit it big in 1934 with this "bio-history" of van Gogh Lust for Life
#8515, aired 2021-11-19SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $200: Consolidated this inventor, your history in New York goes back almost 200 years, to before he was even born Edison
#8515, aired 2021-11-19ESSAYS $200: He shared "A Brief History of a Brief History" in his "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays" Hawking
#8514, aired 2021-11-18DANCE IN HISTORY $200: In the Dakota Territory city of Medora, there was a real account of cowboys making new hands dance by doing this shooting at their feet
#8514, aired 2021-11-18DANCE IN HISTORY $400: With 27 straight hours of waltzing, Alma Cummings started this fad with an athletic contest name, big in the desperate 1930s dance marathons
#8514, aired 2021-11-18DANCE IN HISTORY $600: The hornpipe was associated with this British force & helped its men maintain fitness in a confined space the Navy
#8514, aired 2021-11-18DANCE IN HISTORY $800: Now meaning an easy-to-win contest, it originated as enslaved peoples' mockery of their masters' elaborate dances a cakewalk
#8514, aired 2021-11-18DANCE IN HISTORY $1000: In this German "Aa" city in 1374, summer was here & the time was right for the 1st major episode of compulsive dancing in the street Aachen
#8513, aired 2021-11-17IT'S HISTORY $400: It began to tilt in 1178, while still under construction; luckily (for us), war interrupted & gave time for the soil to settle the Leaning Tower of Pisa
#8513, aired 2021-11-17IT'S HISTORY $800: This dread tribunal passed its judgments in a ceremony called the auto-da-fé, or act of faith the Inquisition
#8513, aired 2021-11-17IT'S HISTORY $1600: In the 8th century the Abbasid one of these dynasties named for its Muslim ruler overthrew the Umayyad one caliphate
#8513, aired 2021-11-17IT'S HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1756 Voltaire wrote that this, which had lasted nearly a thousand years, was none of the 3 elements in its name the Holy Roman Empire
#8513, aired 2021-11-17IT'S HISTORY $2000: The 1805 battle of this Austrian empire town has been called "Napoleon's masterpiece" Austerlitz
#8509, aired 2021-11-11THE REST IS HISTORY $200: Robert E. Lee & George Meade were the commanding generals at this decisive July 1863 battle Gettysburg
#8509, aired 2021-11-11THE REST IS HISTORY $400: In 1936, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie appealed for help against Italian aggression to this organization, which was no help the League of Nations
#8509, aired 2021-11-11THE REST IS HISTORY $600: In 2019 it was revealed Harold "Pie" Keller was one of 6 Marines raising the flag in a photo taken Feb. 23, 1945 on this island Iwo Jima
#8509, aired 2021-11-11THE REST IS HISTORY $800: In exile in Mexico, this Soviet bigwig survived a machine gun attack on his home in may 1940 but an axe did the trick a bit later Trotsky
#8509, aired 2021-11-11THE REST IS HISTORY $1000: Locally, this early 1900s Chinese secret society was called the Righteous & Harmonious Fists; foreigners gave them this name Boxers
#8508, aired 2021-11-10CARIBBEAN HISTORY $400: In 2000 Sila Calderon, San Juan's mayor, was elected this island's first female governor Puerto Rico
#8508, aired 2021-11-10CARIBBEAN HISTORY $800: Barbados was known to be good for those suffering from diseases of these organs; George's brother Lawrence Washington tried it the lungs
#8508, aired 2021-11-10CARIBBEAN HISTORY $1200: Juan Pablo Duarte worked to free what is now this country from Haiti; independence was declared in 1844 the Dominican Republic
#8508, aired 2021-11-10CARIBBEAN HISTORY $1600: Until 1973 this country was known as British Honduras Belize
#8508, aired 2021-11-10CARIBBEAN HISTORY $2000: In 1636 Aruba was colonized by this country & occupied by its West India Company the Netherlands
#8505, aired 2021-11-05COMPUTER HISTORY $400: In December 1998 the U.N. convened a conference on this alphanumeric computer "bug" that ended up getting squashed a Y2K (the Y2K bug)
#8505, aired 2021-11-05COMPUTER HISTORY $800: How punk--considered the first computer, Charles Babbage's 19th century Analytical Engine was designed to be powered by this steam
#8505, aired 2021-11-05JOKERS $1000: In a 1984 film Rob Reiner said they "earned a distinguished place in rock history as one of England's loudest bands" Spinal Tap
#8505, aired 2021-11-05COMPUTER HISTORY $1200: Brothers John & Thomas Knoll created this image-editing program in the '80s & sold it to Adobe in 1995 Photoshop
#8505, aired 2021-11-05COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year (Gordon) Moore
#8505, aired 2021-11-05COMPUTER HISTORY $2000: These sealed glass predecessors of the transistor were vital components in early computers vacuum tubes
#8502, aired 2021-11-02COMPLETE THE TONY-WINNING PLAY TITLE $1600: 2006, set at a British grammar school: "The ____ Boys" History
#8501, aired 2021-11-01THE MAN'S PEN NAME $1000: A rip-ping storyteller, he covered "A History of New York" in 1809 under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving
#8496, aired 2021-10-25TELEVISION HISTORY $400: The first program to incorporate this mirthful addition in the finished product was "The Hank McCune Show" in 1950 canned laughter
#8496, aired 2021-10-25TELEVISION HISTORY $800: This cable network was formed in 1972 to air uncut, commercial-free movies & subscribers paid extra for it from the beginning HBO (Home Box Office)
#8496, aired 2021-10-25TELEVISION HISTORY $1200: The first live nationwide color TV broadcast was of this event on California streets January 1, 1954 the Rose Parade
#8496, aired 2021-10-25TELEVISION HISTORY $1600: For years, Americans had two events each Sunday--church & the show hosted by this man who brought many new artists into their homes Ed Sullivan
#8496, aired 2021-10-25TELEVISION HISTORY $2000: A 1996 law mandated all TVs have this chip to help parents control kids' viewing, but it was never used much a V-chip

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (510 results returned)

#9067, aired 2024-03-26ELEMENTS: In his "Natural History" Pliny described it as "argentum vivum" mercury
#9053, aired 2024-03-06AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY: "The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon", says "The Fire Next Time", published in this year 1963
#9047, aired 2024-02-27MILITARY HISTORY: A prototype of this craft was deployed in August 1955; it made headlines in May 1960 the U-2
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ART HISTORY: The Royal Academy of Arts has this man's "La Fornarina" & in the 1800s the RAA's love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style Raphael
#9027, aired 2024-01-30NAMES IN HISTORY: The scientific name of Jamaica's ackee fruit honors this captain who brought it to England in 1793 Captain Bligh
#9019, aired 2024-01-1820th CENTURY HISTORY: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979 Pol Pot
#24, aired 2024-01-09TELEVISION HISTORY: According to the BBC, this 1953 event "did more than any other to make television a mainstream medium" the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
#9000, aired 2023-12-22THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill
#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
#8986, aired 2023-12-0420th CENTURY NOVELS: The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936 Gone with the Wind
#8984, aired 2023-11-30AMERICAN HISTORY: Established in 1963, this group had its conclusions questioned in books, reports & a special 1970s congressional committee the Warren Commission
#8967, aired 2023-11-07WORLD HISTORY: This African capital renamed an area Mexico Square to honor Mexico's WWII-era support of its sovereignty during Italian occupation Addis Ababa
#8965, aired 2023-11-03BRITISH HISTORY: At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch Richard III
#8954, aired 2023-10-19NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" Guinevere
#8952, aired 2023-10-17MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (carrier or homing) pigeons
#8940, aired 2023-09-29U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr
#8911, aired 2023-07-10ART HISTORY: At the 1865 Paris Art Salon, the elder of these 2 men said if the younger were successful, it would be "because his name sounds like mine" Manet & Monet
#8910, aired 2023-07-07HISTORY & NATURE: In March 1519, these were again seen in mainland North America for the first time in 10,000 years with the arrival of 16 of them horses
#8889, aired 2023-06-08BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam
#8880, aired 2023-05-26GROUPS IN HISTORY: The third-most famous group that invaded Britain in the 5th century, they gave their name to the continental part of Denmark the Jutes
#18, aired 2023-05-23OPERA & HISTORY: Appropriately, the last performance at the Vienna State Opera before it was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs was this opera from 1876 Götterdämmerung
#8869, aired 2023-05-11HISTORY: His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, "Sometime general in the army of George Washington" Benedict Arnold
#4, aired 2023-05-09WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti
#8862, aired 2023-05-02MEDICAL HISTORY: A vaccine against this respiratory illness came out in the U.S. in 1914 & eventually combined with 2 other vaccines whooping cough (pertussis)
#8858, aired 2023-04-26HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before Warner
#8857, aired 2023-04-25TV HISTORY: The 1980s "Magnum, P.I." used a soundstage of this long-running drama that had just ended, & even referred to its lead character Hawaii Five-O
#8844, aired 2023-04-06FASHION HISTORY: These decorative items get their name from their origin in the port city of Strasbourg, on the border of France & Germany rhinestones
#8840, aired 2023-03-31CITY HISTORY: Over 700 years after its traditional 1252 founding date, this port city became associated with a psychological response Stockholm
#8821, aired 2023-03-06U.S. HISTORY: An 1869 presidential pardon was granted to this man, due in part to a plea by the Medical Society of Harford County, Maryland Dr. Samuel Mudd
#8818, aired 2023-03-01LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act
#8805, aired 2023-02-10EUROPEAN HISTORY: Until 1806, some German nobles included among their honors the title of "Elector" for their role in selecting this personage Holy Roman Emperor
#8804, aired 2023-02-09THEATER HISTORY: In 1904, wearing a harness, actress Nina Boucicault became the first to play this character onstage Peter Pan
#8794, aired 2023-01-26HISTORY: Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast Santa Maria
#8788, aired 2023-01-18EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that ten suspected" these "escape, than that one innocent person... be condemned" witches
#8752, aired 2022-11-29NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown
#8748, aired 2022-11-23SECONDS IN HISTORY: The Fortune, the 2nd ship to land at this harbor, disappointed those already there, carrying 35 new residents & "not so much as bisket-cake" Plymouth
#8742, aired 2022-11-15NAME'S THE SAME: Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase (Thomas) Hardy
#8733, aired 2022-11-02PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule
#8731, aired 2022-10-31PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow Wounded Knee
#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
#8721, aired 2022-10-17FAMOUS ANIMALS: In September 1964 the New York Times announced the passing of this pet, a gift, "used as symbol of honesty in 1952" Checkers
#8695, aired 2022-07-29TECH HISTORY: For about 20 years after its invention, it had few practical uses; then suddenly it revolutionized grocery checkouts & home audio the laser
#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
#8673, aired 2022-06-29TELEVISION HISTORY: In the opening scene of its July 21, 1969 pilot episode, a man carves the letter D into wet cement Sesame Street
#8666, aired 2022-06-20BRITISH HISTORY: From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous" the monarchy
#8658, aired 2022-06-08AMERICAN HISTORY: A participant in this 1773 event recalled, "Some of our numbers jumped into the hold... I never labored harder in my life" the Boston Tea Party
#8648, aired 2022-05-25FAMOUS SPEECHES: In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word infamy
#8626, aired 2022-04-25NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower
#8619, aired 2022-04-14WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr
#8618, aired 2022-04-13HISTORY: Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war" the Seven Years' War
#8606, aired 2022-03-28SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige
#8602, aired 2022-03-22HISTORIC NICKNAMES: Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle "The Little Corporal"
#8586, aired 2022-02-28MODERN WAR: Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996 Sarajevo
#8578, aired 2022-02-1618th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror
#8576, aired 2022-02-14THE MIDWEST: At about 90,000 it's the most populous U.S. city on North America's biggest lake Duluth, Minnesota
#1, aired 2022-02-08AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad
#8559, aired 2022-01-20WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier
#8550, aired 2022-01-0720th CENTURY NONFICTION: "Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man (Thor) Heyerdahl
#8524, aired 2021-12-02JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer
#8514, aired 2021-11-18HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars)
#8506, aired 2021-11-08NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston
#8501, aired 2021-11-011960s HISTORY: After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again Eagle
#8500, aired 2021-10-29SONGS & U.S. HISTORY: Victory in 1805's Battle of Derna on the coast of North Africa inspired a lyric in this song made official in 1929 the "Marines' Hymn"
#8493, aired 2021-10-2019th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott
#8489, aired 2021-10-14U.S. HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1788 William Maclay & Robert Morris, both of Pennsylvania, were chosen as the first 2 these (U.S.) senators
#8480, aired 2021-10-01AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco
#8475, aired 2021-09-24HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania
#8445, aired 2021-07-16HISTORY: Completed around 1455, it sometimes gets another name because a famous copy was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin the Gutenberg Bible
#8432, aired 2021-06-29COLORS & HISTORY: A blue pigment & a shade of blue popular in shirts are named for these, the 2 opposing nations in an 1870-71 war France & Prussia
#8396, aired 2021-05-10U.S. HISTORY: On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before George Washington & John Adams
#8395, aired 2021-05-07SHAKESPEARE & HISTORY: Macbeth has a vision of a line of 8 Scottish kings, the 8th holding a mirror to reflect this 9th in line who may have been in the audience James I of England (James VI of Scotland)
#8372, aired 2021-04-0620th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson
#8367, aired 2021-03-30AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth
#8361, aired 2021-03-22SHAKESPEAREAN REFERENCES: This name given to U.K. labor strife in December 1978 & January 1979 was taken from the first line of a Shakespeare history play the Winter of (our) Discontent
#8351, aired 2021-03-08RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds"
#8346, aired 2021-03-01GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS: In "Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes" Charles de Brosses coined this term for the many islands of the region Polynesia
#8345, aired 2021-02-26EARLY U.S. HISTORY: Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney & John Marshall were the diplomats in this 1797 incident that led to a quasi-war with France the XYZ Affair
#8343, aired 2021-02-24BUSINESS HISTORY: David McConnell's cosmetics & perfume co. was rebranded in 1939 with this name, honoring the home of his favorite playwright Avon
#8334, aired 2021-02-11THE OSCARS: The first time an individual won 4 awards at a single ceremony was in 1954, when his wins included Best 2-Reel Short Subject Walt Disney
#8330, aired 2021-02-05POPES & HISTORY: Late 16th century Pope Sixtus V regarded this invasion force as a crusade & promised indulgences to all who participated the Spanish Armada
#8325, aired 2021-01-29BRITISH ARMY HISTORY: The Army's longest continuous campaign, 1969-2007, began in this Northern Ireland city known by either of 2 different names Londonderry/Derry
#8278, aired 2020-11-11HISTORY OF MEDICINE: 2020 marks the 55th birthday of the first piece of equipment dedicated to this process, now used for regular screenings mammogram
#8277, aired 2020-11-10HISTORY IN THE MOVIES: Vehicles in "2001: A Space Odyssey" featured this airline's logo, but the company went bankrupt in 1991 Pan Am
#8242, aired 2020-09-22DIPLOMACY: The book "The Eagle & the Elephant" is about the relationship between the U.S. & this Asian country beginning in 1833 Thailand (Siam)
#8234, aired 2020-06-11MEDICAL HISTORY: One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks Julius Caesar
#8226, aired 2020-06-01EUROPEAN HISTORY: Once Europe's leading military power & later the largest state in Germany, it was abolished by the Allies in 1947 Prussia
#8204, aired 2020-04-16SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: An account of a deposed Duke of Genoa in a 1549 "History of Italy" is a presumed source for this play The Tempest
#8197, aired 2020-04-07AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1711 bill cleared the names of 22 people who were tried in this town, including Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey & John Proctor Salem, Massachusetts
#8190, aired 2020-03-27PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY: He was the first president to deliver the State of the Union Address on television Harry Truman
#8184, aired 2020-03-1920th CENTURY HISTORY: 1946 was the last year this place, now a country, was represented in the U.S. House of Representatives the Philippines
#8179, aired 2020-03-12ACTORS: Speaking of his role in a 1964 film, he apologized for "the most atrocious Cockney accent in the history of cinema" Dick Van Dyke
#8157, aired 2020-02-11AMERICAN HISTORY: After statesman & banker Robert Morris turned down a job offer from George Washington, this man took the job Alexander Hamilton
#8153, aired 2020-02-05AMERICAN HISTORY: At Harpers Ferry, John Brown & his rebels were defeated by troops commanded by this man who 2 years later led a rebel army himself Robert E. Lee
#5, aired 2020-01-09U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century Democratic-Republican & Whig
#8133, aired 2020-01-08EUROPEAN HISTORY: It took the French army until 1995 to declare him innocent, 101 years after he was convicted of treason (Alfred) Dreyfus
#8124, aired 2019-12-2619th CENTURY HISTORY: Wanting more French influence in the area he called Latin America, Napoleon III installed an emperor in this country Mexico
#8117, aired 2019-12-17MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: Congress declared September 6, 2008 Louisa Swain Day because Louisa did this in Wyoming on that date in 1870 voted
#8110, aired 2019-12-06EUROPE: A tourism website for this country noted its colorful history "filled with barbarians", royalty, "& even a movie star" Monaco
#8099, aired 2019-11-21AMERICAN HISTORY: One a Civil War hero & one a U.S. Senator, brothers with this last name were both considered for the 1884 Republican presidential nomination Sherman
#8086, aired 2019-11-04ANCIENT HISTORY: According to Herodotus, a messenger was sent 150 miles from Athens to Sparta, just before this 490 B.C. battle the Battle of Marathon
#8080, aired 2019-10-25BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women's this Suffrage
#8079, aired 2019-10-24THE HISTORY OF FRANCE: This modern regime that lasted 4 years changed the national motto to "Travail, Famille, Patrie"--"Work, Family, Fatherland" Vichy France
#8069, aired 2019-10-10ENGLISH HISTORY: In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to "parts of Asia and Africa" in search of "trade and traffic" British East India Company
#8053, aired 2019-09-18THE 1940s: This nickname for a history-changing weapon of 1945 came from a character in "The Maltese Falcon" Fat Man
#8047, aired 2019-09-101960s TV HISTORY: The 1967 finale of "The Fugitive" drew in 78 million viewers, surpassing the 73 million who tuned into this show Sunday, February 9, 1964 The Ed Sullivan Show
#8014, aired 2019-06-13WORD HISTORY: This word for a bug or malfunction was popularized in the 1962 book "Into Orbit" by the Mercury astronauts glitch
#7998, aired 2019-05-2219th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia
#7992, aired 2019-05-14AMERICAN WOMEN: In 2006 Arizona State University renamed its college of law in honor of this history-making woman & longtime Arizona resident Sandra Day O'Connor
#7977, aired 2019-04-23AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1869 these 2 men met at the White House, 4 years & 3 weeks after a more historic meeting between them Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee
#7968, aired 2019-04-10EUROPEAN HISTORY: In 2000 the Russian Orthodox church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths the Romanovs
#7966, aired 2019-04-08HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: On June 6, 2018 the Chinese Theatre dimmed its lights to honor Jerry Maren, who lived to the greatest age of any of this 1939 group the Munchkins
#7947, aired 2019-03-1220th CENTURY HISTORY: Constructed in the 1930s, it extended from La Ferté to the Rhine River, though it also had sections along the Italian frontier Maginot Line
#7938, aired 2019-02-2720th CENTURY HISTORY: Interpreting for Vaclav Havel, future ambassador Rita Klimova gave us this phrase for a smooth change of government the velvet revolution
#7935, aired 2019-02-22WOMEN IN U.S. HISTORY: In 1901 this activist was jailed for inspiring the assassination of William McKinley, but the charge was later dropped Emma Goldman
#7915, aired 2019-01-25LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY: This U.S. group was formed to protect settlers in an area that had recently gained independence from Spain the Texas Rangers
#7899, aired 2019-01-031940s HISTORY: Air Force pilot Gail Halvorson earned the nickname "Candy Bomber" for his actions during this 1948-49 event the Berlin airlift (or Berlin air drop)
#7878, aired 2018-12-05NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder
#7850, aired 2018-10-26EUROPEAN HISTORY: Legend says this, weighing 336 lbs., came from the Holy Land & Kenneth MacAlpin brought it to Perthshire c. 840 the Stone of Scone
#7835, aired 2018-10-05MILITARY HISTORY: Prepared by the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, the "COSSAC Plan" outlined the details of this D-Day
#7833, aired 2018-10-03CITIES IN HISTORY: The Cathedral of St. Pierre was the center of the Calvinist Reformation in this lakeside city Geneva
#7815, aired 2018-07-27AMERICAN HISTORY: The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 & more men marched at his funeral than fought with him the Battle of Lexington
#7787, aired 2018-06-1920th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey
#7766, aired 2018-05-21U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY: In 1794 George Washington selected this spot, where today 3 states meet, for the site of a new armory Harpers Ferry
#7765, aired 2018-05-18GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY: 230 miles long, it defined a boundary between a colony founded by Quakers & one founded by Catholics the Mason-Dixon line
#7760, aired 2018-05-11U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn't sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned a pocket veto
#7732, aired 2018-04-03AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899, a reunion of this alliterative squad took place, with the governor of New York fittingly on horseback the Rough Riders
#7730, aired 2018-03-30U.S. STATE HISTORY: During Ulysses Grant's 2-term presidency, only one state joined the Union: this one Colorado
#7722, aired 2018-03-20ROMAN HISTORY: Of this battle in 31 B.C., Virgil wrote, "Neptune's fields grow red with fresh slaughter" the Battle of Actium
#7711, aired 2018-03-05OSCAR HISTORY: In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actor, director & writer for the same film Orson Welles
#7691, aired 2018-02-05CABLE TV HISTORY: "You need us... for everything you do" was a slogan used by this channel, one of the first to customize content by location The Weather Channel
#7626, aired 2017-11-06MUSIC & HISTORY: This 1880 piece was written more than 6 decades after the Battle of Borodino, the conflict it commemorates the 1812 Overture
#7624, aired 2017-11-02U.S. HISTORY: Only 4 men have been both VP & president & served in both houses of Congress; 2 of them shared this last name Johnson
#7609, aired 2017-10-12MOVIE HISTORY: A 1947 FBI study chided this holiday film's "attempt to discredit bankers ...a common trick used by Communists" It's A Wonderful Life
#7588, aired 2017-09-13ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal
#7533, aired 2017-05-17ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction
#7492, aired 2017-03-21FASHION HISTORY: These pants first became popular when Pratap Singh, a maharaja's son, visited Queen Victoria with his polo team in 1897 jodhpurs
#7482, aired 2017-03-07YEARS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: The representative body called the Estates-General met in 1614 & didn't meet again until this year 1789
#7473, aired 2017-02-22PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864
#7456, aired 2017-01-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe
#7448, aired 2017-01-18U.S. HISTORY: On Dec. 7, 1787 30 delegates at Battell's Tavern gathered & made history in what's now this state capital Dover
#7446, aired 2017-01-1620th CENTURY HISTORY: Villages like Zalesye, Kopachi & Lubyanka remain abandoned 3 decades after this event nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
#7443, aired 2017-01-11SHAKESPEARE: With a backdrop of war, the 1609 play titled "The History of" this pair takes place earlier than any Shakespeare history play Troilus and Cressida
#7430, aired 2016-12-23RECORDING HISTORY: Guinness recognizes his 1902 version of Leoncavallo's "Vesti La Giubba" as the 1st million-selling record Enrico Caruso
#7409, aired 2016-11-24FOOD HISTORY: In 1525 Spanish New World official Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo wrote, "The flesh of these peacocks is very good" turkeys
#7401, aired 2016-11-14HISTORY REPEATS: This practice officially began in Pakistan in 1977, 44 years after an amendment ended it in the United States Prohibition
#7395, aired 2016-11-04HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: William Seward objected to its timing, saying "it may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government" the Emancipation Proclamation
#7344, aired 2016-07-14CIVIL WAR HISTORY: Of the 4 prewar states that permitted slavery but did not secede, it was the largest in area & latest to join the Union Missouri
#7309, aired 2016-05-26ART HISTORY: "Escalier" is in the original title of a work by this artist that scandalized New York City's International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913 Marcel Duchamp
#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
#7288, aired 2016-04-27AMERICAN HISTORY: "A stimulus to the courageous", the $25,000 Orteig Prize offer of 1919 resulted in his success 8 years later Lindbergh
#7274, aired 2016-04-07BRITISH HISTORY: On January 1, 1801, George III relinquished this royal title claimed by English monarchs since the Hundred Years' War King of France
#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
#7249, aired 2016-03-03AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1690s its legislature referred to this place as "his Majesty's ancient colony and dominion" Virginia
#7228, aired 2016-02-03MOMENTS IN HISTORY: This word follows January (China, 1967); March (Germany, 1848); July (France, 1830) & famously, October Revolution
#7220, aired 2016-01-22ANCIENT HISTORY: Pantites, sent to recruit troops, & Aristodemus, sent off to treat his eye disease, were the only known Greeks to survive this event the Battle of Thermopylae
#7206, aired 2016-01-04MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: This president began a State of the Union Address by congratulating the historic 100th Congress Ronald Reagan
#7181, aired 2015-11-30U.S. HISTORY: It's the only odd-numbered year in which a U.S. presidential election has been held 1789
#7164, aired 2015-11-05ART HISTORY: Although it's a statue of a giant's foe, an observer who saw its 1504 unveiling called it "the marble giant" David (Michelangelo's statue)
#7156, aired 2015-10-26POP MUSIC HISTORY: Appropriately, this 1984 blockbuster was the first music CD mass-produced in the United States Born in the U.S.A.
#7141, aired 2015-10-05WORD HISTORY: From the Latin for "buy back", it once referred to buying a slave's freedom & today can refer to being saved from sin redeem (or redemption)
#7118, aired 2015-07-22MILITARY HISTORY: This country smaller than England was a colonial rival with which England fought 4 wars, the last from 1780 to 1784 the Netherlands
#7087, aired 2015-06-09HUMANITIES & HISTORY: Echoing the Morse code for V, in WWII the BBC's "V for Victory" campaign used this classical work as a theme Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
#7040, aired 2015-04-03EUROPEAN HISTORY: A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world's most vast, & this one Belarus
#6984, aired 2015-01-15BUSINESS HISTORY: Found near Amsterdam in 2010, a 1606 stock certificate from this long-defunct company has been valued at $750,000 the Dutch East India Company
#6924, aired 2014-10-23FRENCH FOOD HISTORY: A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar Dijon
#6907, aired 2014-09-30WORLD LEADERS: He came to power 34 days before FDR & left it 19 days after him Adolf Hitler
#6886, aired 2014-07-21RELIGIOUS HISTORY: This term comes from a 1529 event in which a group of Lutherans formally disagreed with a decision by a Catholic council Protestantism
#6874, aired 2014-07-03FAMOUS OBJECTS: In 1950 the England-Scotland border was closed for the first time in 400 years to try to recover this stolen item the Stone of Scone
#6854, aired 2014-06-0519th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: A dignitary at the dedication of this said it was "keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America" The Statue of Liberty
#6830, aired 2014-05-02BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1945 this product added a plaid design to its "snail" dispenser Scotch Tape
#6827, aired 2014-04-29U.S. HISTORY: Messrs. Gusenberg, Gusenberg, May, Weinshank, Clark, Heyer & Schwimmer famously died on this day in 1929 February 14 (or Valentine's Day)
#6728, aired 2013-12-11SPORTS TERM HISTORY: After throwing a long, last-second touchdown in 1975, Roger Staubach said, "I closed my eyes & said" this Hail Mary
#6705, aired 2013-11-08OLYMPIC HISTORY: In London in 2012, judo & the 800m run included the first female Olympians ever from this Mideastern country Saudi Arabia
#6682, aired 2013-10-08PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY: In 1948 he won South Carolina with 72% of the vote & 3 other states but finished a distant third overall Strom Thurmond
#6659, aired 2013-07-25FRENCH HISTORY: Starting in 1349, this marine animal was on the coat of arms of the heir apparent to the French throne a dolphin
#6650, aired 2013-07-12VIDEO GAME HISTORY: The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife The Legend of Zelda
#6628, aired 2013-06-1220th CENTURY HISTORY: In terms of British monarchs, it's next in the sequence Seventh, Fifth, Eighth, Sixth... Second
#6621, aired 2013-06-03EUROPEAN HISTORY: This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber Louis XIV
#6558, aired 2013-03-06U.S. HISTORY: Congress has passed 11 of these: the first in 1812, the last in 1942 declarations of war
#6555, aired 2013-03-01BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1938 his company began installing instruments in U.S. homes to record the frequencies to which a radio was tuned A.C. Nielsen
#6549, aired 2013-02-21RUSSIAN HISTORY: Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger 5-year plan
#6502, aired 2012-12-18PEOPLE IN BRITISH HISTORY: In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do" (Horatio) Nelson
#6471, aired 2012-11-05BROADWAY MUSICALS: Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it's now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history Chicago
#6423, aired 2012-07-18BRITISH HISTORY: This 17th century king was the last British monarch to enter the House of Commons Charles I
#6420, aired 2012-07-13BRITISH HISTORY: This appointed position first held by John Dryden echoes a "Versificator Regis" of Richard I in the 12th century Poet Laureate
#6389, aired 2012-05-31AIRLINE HISTORY: Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991 Pan Am
#6375, aired 2012-05-11AMERICAN HISTORY: When the future state of Iowa became part of the United States, this man was President Thomas Jefferson
#6374, aired 2012-05-10OLYMPICS HISTORY: Besides Antarctica, the 2 continents that have never hosted the Summer or Winter Olympic Games Africa & South America
#6361, aired 2012-04-23AMERICAN HISTORY: This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776 New Jersey
#6323, aired 2012-02-29THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: The Catholic & Eastern churches separated in 1054, when the Pope & Patriarch did this to each other; it was undone in 1965 excommunicated
#6314, aired 2012-02-16PEOPLE IN HISTORY: The name of this assassin is Latin for heavy, dull, insensitive, oafish Brutus
#6306, aired 2012-02-06COLONIAL HISTORY: A 1763 letter said that these 2 men were equipped with "instruments... to look at the posts in the line for ten or twelve miles" Mason & Dixon
#6296, aired 2012-01-23AMERICAN HISTORY: This volunteer group was born in May 1898 near the bar in San Antonio's Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days the Rough Riders
#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
#6284, aired 2012-01-05CALIFORNIA HISTORY: Surname of the employer of James W. Marshall, who found gold in a stream near the Sacramento River in 1848 Sutter
#6278, aired 2011-12-28BUSINESS HISTORY: Crosby, Sinatra & Hope starred in the October 13, 1957 CBS-TV special that launched this short-lived product the Edsel
#6270, aired 2011-12-16WORD HISTORY: A Roman legal term for a debtor sentenced to servitude is the origin of this term for a slave to a vice addict
#6244, aired 2011-11-10HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland
#6243, aired 2011-11-09FRENCH HISTORY: She said, "I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people" Charlotte Corday
#6216, aired 2011-10-03REMEMBERING U.S. HISTORY: Issued in 2011, a stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of a major event in U.S. history depicts this stronghold Fort Sumter
#6204, aired 2011-07-28WORLD HISTORY: Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C. an elephant
#6192, aired 2011-07-12COMIC BOOK HISTORY: On the cover of the 1941 first issue of this comic book, the title hero punches Hitler in the jaw Captain America
#6189, aired 2011-07-0720th CENTURY HISTORY: On September 2, 1945 New Zealand Air Marshal Leonard Isitt put the final signature on the document that ended this World War II
#6175, aired 2011-06-17MEDICAL HISTORY: In December 1967 Louis Washkansky, a patient in this country claimed, "I am a new Frankenstein" South Africa
#6165, aired 2011-06-03WORLD HISTORY: Traditionally said to be founded in 421, this city was later built up on islands in a lagoon by refugees from invading Lombards Venice
#6154, aired 2011-05-19LONG-RUNNING FILMS: Playing in theaters since 1975, this film has had the longest continuous theatrical run in movie history The Rocky Horror Picture Show
#6153, aired 2011-05-18CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: The longest period in American history with no changes to the Constitution was from 1804 to this year 1865
#6135, aired 2011-04-22BIOGRAPHERS: As many mourned, this minister wrote in a letter, "Washington is gone! Millions are gasping to read... about him" Parson Weems
#6079, aired 2011-02-03WORD HISTORY: Since the 1600s this 8-letter word has meant men of letters; a punning form of it refers to celebrities literati
#6048, aired 2010-12-22U.S. HISTORY: The day after the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st Afr. American to do this under its provisions vote
#6042, aired 2010-12-14OLYMPICS HISTORY: In 1988 this country boycotted the Summer Olympics after its demand to co-host the games was refused North Korea
#6038, aired 2010-12-08WORLD HISTORY: After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled Brazil
#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
#6002, aired 2010-10-19HOLIDAY HISTORY: Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man Pope John Paul II
#5969, aired 2010-07-22SCIENCE HISTORY: This concept dates to a 1783 paper by John Michell, who theorized about a body with the sun's density & 500 times its diameter a black hole
#5968, aired 2010-07-21U.S. PRESIDENTS: Excluding honorary degrees, he's the only president to have degrees from both Harvard & Yale George W. Bush
#5955, aired 2010-07-025-LETTER LITERARY TERMS: The "History" by Herodotus has been called the earliest surviving European work of this form, from Latin for "straightforward" prose
#5947, aired 2010-06-22BILLBOARD HOT 100 HISTORY: Besides Frank & Nancy Sinatra, they're the only other father & daughter who each had No. 1 solo hits Pat & Debby Boone
#5938, aired 2010-06-09ARTISTS: She's seen wearing a rebozo in her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" Frida Kahlo
#5937, aired 2010-06-08U.S. MILITARY HISTORY: This general commanded the first official American force to fight on the European continent John Pershing
#5934, aired 2010-06-03FILM HISTORY: Written by Thomas Dixon, 1916's film "The Fall of a Nation" is considered the first of these ever made a sequel
#5916, aired 2010-05-10ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY: Immediately before the Caroline era came this one, also from the monarch's Latin name Jacobean
#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
#5908, aired 2010-04-28SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo
#5907, aired 2010-04-27CANADIAN HISTORY: A river is named for this man born in Scotland in 1764, the first European known to have crossed Canada Alexander Mackenzie
#5902, aired 2010-04-20THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY: Joining such pop culture icons as Dorothy's ruby slippers, this was donated to the museum by Jerry Seinfeld in 2004 the puffy shirt
#5891, aired 2010-04-05FASHION HISTORY: It was unveiled July 5, 1946, at Paris' Piscine Molitor & created a scandal the bikini
#5880, aired 2010-03-191940s MUSIC HISTORY: While writing for Billboard, legendary producer Jerry Wexler coined this phrase to replace "race music" rhythm & blues
#5868, aired 2010-03-03BRITISH HISTORY: Dying in 2009 at age 113, British WWI vet Henry Allingham was the last original surviving member of this group, formed 1918 the Royal Air Force
#5854, aired 2010-02-11COLLEGE HISTORY: The Pittsburgh university named for Andrew Carnegie is the USA's first to offer a degree in this musical instrument the bagpipes
#5850, aired 2010-02-05RECENT BOOKS: In a lecture called "Storia Senza Storia" (Story Without History), an Italian cardinal rebutted claims in this 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code
#5829, aired 2010-01-07TV HISTORY: When this animated TV show premiered, it was sponsored by One-A-Day vitamins & Winston cigarettes The Flintstones
#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
#5825, aired 2010-01-01ROSE BOWL HISTORY: The only time the game wasn't held in Calif. was 1942, when it was in N.C., amidst fears of another event like this one Pearl Harbor
#5821, aired 2009-12-28AMERICAN HISTORY: On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln authorized this govt. agency; its main job then was to protect against counterfeiting the Secret Service
#5809, aired 2009-12-101989 NO. 1 HITS: The Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits says this song brought mail from history teachers who hailed it as an educational aid "We Didn't Start The Fire" (by Billy Joel)
#5763, aired 2009-10-07AMERICAN HISTORY: He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself Gerald Ford
#5753, aired 2009-09-2317th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY: The lantern with which he planned to initiate his most famous act is in the possession of England's Ashmolean Museum Guy Fawkes
#5752, aired 2009-09-22WORD HISTORY: Once a type of Roman arena, in the 18th century this 6-letter word gained its current meaning as a type of entertainment circus
#5742, aired 2009-07-21BOOKS INSPIRED BY HISTORY: "Follow the Drinking Gourd" tells how slaves escaped to freedom guided by a song about this star group the Big Dipper
#5736, aired 2009-07-13AMERICAN HISTORY: The area that's now the State of Indiana was acquired in this war the Revolutionary War
#5729, aired 2009-07-02U.S. TRANSPORTATION HISTORY: Not standardized as the shape we know, the first of these alliterative items, black on white metal, appeared in Detroit in 1915 a stop sign
#5727, aired 2009-06-30AMERICAN HISTORY: History was made on December 1, 1955 when bus driver James Blake called the police & had this person arrested Rosa Parks
#5716, aired 2009-06-15ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: Her 48-year span between her first & last Oscars, 1933 & 1981, is the longest for a performer in Academy history Katharine Hepburn
#5698, aired 2009-05-20ENGLISH HISTORY: It was the "they" in the medal issued by Elizabeth I reading, "God breathed and they were scattered" the Spanish Armada
#5693, aired 2009-05-13THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT: In 1784 these 2 future presidents saw an early manned balloon flight in Paris &, in 1793, America's 1st, in Philadelphia John Adams & Thomas Jefferson
#5690, aired 2009-05-08EUROPEAN HISTORY: He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing" Henry VIII
#5675, aired 2009-04-17BROADWAY HISTORY: On Oct. 30, 2008 Playbill changed its logo color to green for a special edition marking this show's 5th anniversary on Broadway Wicked
#5666, aired 2009-04-06SCIENCE HISTORY: An experiment with mirrors on Mt. Wilson & Mt. San Antonio, Calif. determined what became an accepted figure for this the speed of light
#5644, aired 2009-03-05FRANCO-AMERICAN HISTORY: After a large French army was wiped out by yellow fever on this island in 1802, Napoleon decided to sell Louisiana Hispaniola (or Haiti)
#5610, aired 2009-01-16CULINARY HISTORY: This fruit dessert was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's decades on the British throne cherries jubilee
#5600, aired 2009-01-02EUROPEAN HISTORY: On April 13, 1895 he entered the Devils Island penal colony to serve a life sentence, but he was out by 1899 Alfred Dreyfus
#5544, aired 2008-10-16PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY: Due to the large numbers of men away from home, it was the first year a majority of states counted absentee votes 1864
#5513, aired 2008-07-23CIVIL WAR HISTORY: Though 1863's Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Confederacy, this Union state, one of the original 13, ended slavery November 1, 1864 Maryland
#5508, aired 2008-07-16RECENT HISTORY: In 1986 & again in 2001, people power protests in this nation pushed out male presidents & replaced them with females the Philippines
#5505, aired 2008-07-11BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team the Chicago Cubs
#5468, aired 2008-05-21WORLD HISTORY: One of history's largest refugee migrations, about 15 million people, took place 1947-1951 between these 2 countries Pakistan & India
#5463, aired 2008-05-14AMERICAN HISTORY: In the last week of the John Tyler administration, this republic was offered statehood Texas
#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
#5453, aired 2008-04-30BUSINESS: In 1952 Glen Bell was selling burgers; he then added these to the drive-in menu for 19¢, & the rest is history tacos
#5440, aired 2008-04-11WORLD HISTORY: Beginning in 1932 all this country's kings have been the country's founder or his sons Saudi Arabia
#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
#5407, aired 2008-02-261910s HISTORY: World Book said it "ranks as one of the greatest engineering achievements in the world" the Panama Canal
#5405, aired 2008-02-22U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams
#5372, aired 2008-01-08WORLD HISTORY: This world-changing event was first announced in a Barcelona banquet hall in April 1493 discovery of the New World
#5369, aired 2008-01-03AVIATION HISTORY: He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Charles Lindbergh
#5362, aired 2007-12-25FRENCHMEN IN HISTORY: He was nicknamed "The Robespierre of the Brush", but unlike his friend Robespierre, he was jailed but not guillotined Jacques-Louis David
#5345, aired 2007-11-30WORD HISTORY: This term for a deadly substance may derive from the name of a love goddess venom
#5341, aired 2007-11-26WOMEN IN HISTORY: Born an infanta in 1485, she died at Kimbolton Castle in England in 1536 with the official title Princess Dowager of Wales Catherine of Aragon
#5315, aired 2007-10-19AMERICAN HISTORY: It was the main cause of the 1803 jump in the national debt to $86.4 million the Louisiana Purchase
#5292, aired 2007-09-18MUSICAL HISTORY: It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work London Bridge
#5271, aired 2007-07-09U.S. HISTORY: A 1924 law gave citizenship to all these members of what were called "domestic dependent nations" Native Americans
#5269, aired 2007-07-05MEDICAL HISTORY: A patient who told this Frankfurt doctor "I have lost myself" was the basis for a paper he gave in 1906 Alois Alzheimer
#5260, aired 2007-06-22FOOD & DRINK HISTORY: The world's first pure food & beverage law, one pertaining to beer, was proclaimed by the Duke of this region in 1516 Bavaria
#5234, aired 2007-05-17CRIME TIME: The largest art theft in U.S. history was at 1:24 a.m. on this date in 1990, while Boston slumbered after partying March 18
#5216, aired 2007-04-23EUROPEAN HISTORY: So Prussia could dominate Germany, Bismarck excluded this country that lost the 1866 Battle of Koniggratz Austria
#5197, aired 2007-03-27ART HISTORY: Carel Fabritius, whose self-portrait is seen here, is considered this man's greatest pupil Rembrandt
#5193, aired 2007-03-21MUSIC HISTORY: In this building Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughan both won amateur talent contests, one in 1934 & the other in 1942 the Apollo Theater
#5192, aired 2007-03-20OLYMPIC HISTORY: This event was inspired by a legend mentioned in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens" the marathon
#5144, aired 2007-01-11AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY: This 1943 musical is based on a 1931 play that featured Tex Ritter as a cowboy & Lee Strasberg as a peddler Oklahoma!
#5135, aired 2006-12-29BROADWAY: In 2006 this show based on a 1911 work became the longest-running show in Broadway history The Phantom of the Opera
#5133, aired 2006-12-2719th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Against bitterly divided Democrats, he won with the second-lowest percentage of the popular vote in history, 39.8% Abraham Lincoln
#5115, aired 2006-12-01BROADCASTING FIRSTS: In 2005, at New Mexico State, Cuyler Frank made history by being the first to call a football game in this language Navajo
#5114, aired 2006-11-30PLAY CHARACTERS: He is based partly on a philologist who wrote "A History of English Sounds" & "A Handbook of Phonetics" Henry Higgins
#5106, aired 2006-11-20ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY: Originally known as the Missouri Rockets, they performed at the opening of an East Coast theatre in 1931 the Rockettes
#5103, aired 2006-11-15MOVIE HISTORY: Producer David Selznick was fined $5,000 by censors for using this word in a 1939 film damn
#5093, aired 2006-11-01PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: This phrase linking 2 entities was in Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, elaborating on the 1st Amendment separation of church and state
#5086, aired 2006-10-23RELIGIOUS HISTORY: The 1549 Act of Uniformity imposed upon England this single liturgical volume to be used by everyone the Book of Common Prayer
#5044, aired 2006-07-13U.S. HISTORY: He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive William Tecumseh Sherman
#5009, aired 2006-05-25MILITARY HISTORY: Lasting about a month, it's the battle for which the most marines earned the Medal of Honor Iwo Jima
#4992, aired 2006-05-02WORD HISTORY: One Mongol tribe or army, it came to mean "a vast number" because the fierce Mongol warriors seemed so numerous a horde
#4989, aired 2006-04-27WOMEN IN HISTORY: In an 1863 essay Harriet Beecher Stowe called this woman whom she had met with "The Libyan Sibyl" Sojourner Truth
#4966, aired 2006-03-27MILITARY HISTORY: In 2005 a single sapling was planted at an army barracks in Australia to mark the 90th anniversary of this battle Gallipoli
#4956, aired 2006-03-13AMERICAN HISTORY: Henry Laurens, Thomas Mifflin & Richard Henry Lee were presidents of this body that only lasted for about 15 years the Continental Congress
#4955, aired 2006-03-10HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: Clause 39 of this reads "No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned... except by the legal judgment of his peers" the Magna Carta
#4951, aired 2006-03-06AMERICAN HISTORY: This legislative body first met on March 4, 1789 in New York City, but only 8 of its 22 members were present the U.S. Senate
#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
#4915, aired 2006-01-13LITERARY HISTORY: Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1930 mystery novel "The Door" turned blaming this character into a cliche the butler
#4904, aired 2005-12-29SOVIET HISTORY: He died in Moscow September 11, 1971 following nearly 7 years of house arrest Nikita Khrushchev
#4882, aired 2005-11-29SPORTS HISTORY: In a famous incident, it's the school at which William Webb Ellis disregarded the rules in 1823 Rugby
#4840, aired 2005-09-30THE NOBEL PRIZES: For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year 1914
#4810, aired 2005-07-01U.S. SENATE HISTORY: Of the 15 expulsions of senators in the Senate's 215-year history, 11 took place in this year 1861
#4783, aired 2005-05-2520th CENTURY AMERICANS: These names of 2 original Mercury astronauts, who orbited Earth in May 1962 & May 1963, are also occupations Scott Carpenter & Gordon Cooper
#4764, aired 2005-04-28BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY: He commanded the forces that rescued the survivors of the infamous Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 Robert Clive
#4763, aired 2005-04-27RELIGIOUS HISTORY: From the Greek, the name of this movement of the early Christian era means that its members had knowledge of God Gnosticism
#4747, aired 2005-04-05HISTORIC PLACES: The towns of Vierville-sur-Mer & Colleville-sur-Mer entered history with this 2-word area named for a U.S. city Omaha Beach
#4745, aired 2005-04-01AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: In 1959 the ad firm of Doyle Dane Bernbach began using the slogan "Ugly is only skin-deep" for this import model Volkswagen Beetle
#4720, aired 2005-02-25WOOD: The remarkable elasticity of yew led to this new weapon that made history at a 1346 battle the longbow
#4719, aired 2005-02-24THE U.S. CENSUS OF 1790: It was the only state in the 1790 census to claim a slave population of zero Massachusetts
#4688, aired 2005-01-12DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: On this date Philadelphia partied with fireworks & music from a Hessian band captured 6 months earlier July 4, 1777
#4666, aired 2004-12-13BUSINESS HISTORY: Last names of the 2 men, both engineers, who met & formed a partnership at England's Midland Hotel in May 1904 Rolls and Royce
#4663, aired 2004-12-08THE CABINET: He's been both the youngest & the oldest U.S. Secretary of Defense in history Donald Rumsfeld
#4655, aired 2004-11-2619th CENTURY U.S. HISTORY: Of the 5 times Congress has declared war, the 3 during the 19th century were against these 3 nations Britain, Spain & Mexico
#4641, aired 2004-11-08COMPANY ORIGINS: This Fortune 100 company got its name from what it bought from sailors & sold to natural history collectors Shell Oil
#4634, aired 2004-10-28HISTORIC AREAS: In 1893, as it was disappearing, F.J. Turner wrote a famous essay on "The Significance of" it "in American History" the Frontier
#4565, aired 2004-06-11UNITED NATIONS HISTORY: In 1960 this new national leader made the longest speech in United Nations history, 4 hours & 29 minutes Fidel Castro
#4528, aired 2004-04-2119th CENTURY ART & HISTORY: The red sky in Munch's "The Scream" may be from the debris in the Oslo air from this volcano half a world away Krakatoa
#4522, aired 2004-04-13WORD HISTORY: Circa 1860 Robert FitzRoy of Britain's meteorological office rejected prediction & prophecy in favor of this word forecast
#4519, aired 2004-04-08ISLANDS: 1200 miles from the nearest continent, it entered history because of its isolation (here's a map that shows you where it is) St. Helena
#4471, aired 2004-02-02BASEBALL HISTORY: On August 10th, 2003, Rafael Furcal of the Braves became only the 12th man in MLB history to perform this single-handedly a triple play
#4467, aired 2004-01-27THE BUSINESS BOOKSHELF: F. Paul Pacult's "American Still Life" is the history of this over 200-year-old Kentucky company Jim Beam
#4459, aired 2004-01-15POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: This man's successful 2001 campaign was the most expensive non-presidential campaign in history Michael Bloomberg
#4451, aired 2004-01-05INVENTIONS: On April 25, 1792 Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person in history to have a bad encounter with this the guillotine
#4409, aired 2003-11-06SCIENCE HISTORY: It's the simple 6-letter name of the journal that published the 1953 paper revealing the structure of DNA Nature
#4390, aired 2003-10-10PEOPLE IN HISTORY: The spear that killed him in 1779 sold at auction in 2003 for over $400,000 Captain James Cook
#4373, aired 2003-09-17ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: "Chicago" was the first musical to win the Best Picture Oscar since this film won for 1968 Oliver!
#4372, aired 2003-09-16PEOPLE IN HISTORY: About the islands he discovered, he wrote, "To the first of these I give the name of the Blessed Savior" Christopher Columbus
#4346, aired 2003-06-23U.S. HISTORY: For evading taxes on profits earned, former CIA agent Thomas Clines was the only one sent to prison over this scandal Iran-Contra
#4324, aired 2003-05-22ECONOMIC HISTORY: Before the first income tax was levied, the U.S. government got 90% of its revenue in the form of these tariffs
#4316, aired 2003-05-12MOVIE INDUSTRY HISTORY: The company that produced most of Marion Davies' films was named for this magazine; the same person owned both Cosmopolitan
#4315, aired 2003-05-09ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: Emperor Constantine commissioned several of these buildings, named from the Greek for "royal house" basilicas
#4312, aired 2003-05-06LEGAL HISTORY: After killing his wife's lover in Washington, D.C. in 1859, Rep. Daniel Sickles was the 1st to claim this, a 2-word term temporary insanity
#4302, aired 2003-04-22MUSICALS: The 2 longest-running musicals in Broadway history; Cameron Mackintosh produced both of them Cats & Les Miserables
#4274, aired 2003-03-13EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Sept. 8, 1565 the first Catholic parish in what is now the U.S. was founded at this settlement St. Augustine (in Florida)
#4272, aired 2003-03-11ACTRESSES IN HISTORY: She was born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the island of Jersey in 1853 Lillie Langtry
#4250, aired 2003-02-07THE HISTORY OF CLIFFS NOTES: In 1985 Cliffs Notes' "The Scarlet Letter" retook the top-selling spot; this book had briefly replaced it "1984"
#4210, aired 2002-12-13U.S. HISTORY: In 1992 Nathan E. Cook, the last veteran of this war, died the Spanish-American War
#4188, aired 2002-11-13COMPUTER HISTORY: IBM engineer Dave Bradley is called the father of this multi-key combination Control-Alt-Delete
#4187, aired 2002-11-12AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY: 5 of the women condemned in Salem in 1692 were finally exonerated by a bill signed on this day in 2001 Halloween (October 31)
#4144, aired 2002-09-12U.S. HISTORY: Dating back to the revolution, it's the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States West Point
#4140, aired 2002-09-06SPORTS STARS: He's the only athlete in history to play in both the Super Bowl & the World Series Deion Sanders
#4137, aired 2002-09-03SEPTEMBER 1984: History-making woman whose Sept. 1984 itinerary included speeches in Dallas, Spokane, Syracuse & Youngstown Geraldine Ferraro
#4130, aired 2002-07-12ENGLISH LITERATURE: Literary history was shaped in 1905 when this female author moved from 22 Hyde Park to 46 Gordon Square Virginia Woolf
#4126, aired 2002-07-08AMERICAN HISTORY: When Washington took office on April 30, 1789, it was the largest state in area, covering what is now 3 states Virginia
#4096, aired 2002-05-27TV HISTORY: The 1979 sequel to this miniseries is set in Henning, Tennessee, beginning in 1882 Roots
#4073, aired 2002-04-24RECENT HISTORY: In 1993 this country of over 35 million people had 2 official languages; now it has 11 South Africa
#4048, aired 2002-03-20FAMOUS AMERICANS: The most requested photo in the history of the National Archives is of the 1970 meeting of these 2 men Richard Nixon & Elvis Presley
#4024, aired 2002-02-14AMERICAN HISTORY: German officer Johann Rall led this group when they were defeated in battle in December 1776 the Hessians
#3991, aired 2001-12-31LAW HISTORY: In 1964 he was the prosecutor of Jack Ruby; in 1973 he was the defendant in a landmark Supreme Court case Wade
#3943, aired 2001-10-24SPORTS ON TV: The highest-rated sports program in TV history, other than a Super Bowl, took place on February 23, 1994, in this sport ladies' figure skating
#3907, aired 2001-09-04NATIONAL ANTHEMS: "Land Of Two Rivers" is the anthem of this country whose history goes back thousands of years Iraq
#3906, aired 2001-09-03AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This Ford with a name from Native American myth was the first model to be Motor Trend Car of the Year the Thunderbird
#3897, aired 2001-07-10ORGANIZATIONS: "A Simple, Decent Place to Live" is Millard Fuller's book about the history of this organization Habitat For Humanity
#3884, aired 2001-06-21HISTORY & LITERATURE: At the beginning of "A Tale of Two Cities", these 2 kings sit on the thrones of England & France George III & Louis XVI
#3856, aired 2001-05-14MILITARY HISTORY: This man commanded the last organized military force to invade the lower 48 states Pancho Villa
#3822, aired 2001-03-27BUSINESS HISTORY: By the time it was disbanded in 1858, this company controlled an area the size of Europe & home to 200 million people The British East India Company
#3817, aired 2001-03-20THEATRE HISTORY: This playwright died in 406 B.C., so he never saw his famous tragedy at Colonus produced Sophocles
#3816, aired 2001-03-19AFRICAN HISTORY: Ruth Perry, modern Africa's first female head of state, headed a transitional government in this country in 1996 Liberia
#3809, aired 2001-03-08U.S. HISTORY: This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn't live to see its completion Abraham Lincoln
#3783, aired 2001-01-31-OLOGIES: In 1908 Hermann Ebbinghaus said this field "has a long past, but only a short history" Psychology
#3752, aired 2000-12-19POLITICAL HISTORY: Between 1894 & 1901 adherents of this political theory killed the heads of state of France, Spain, Italy & the U.S. Anarchy
#3746, aired 2000-12-11CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY: By 1948, all but one of the 9 in this group charged in a 1931 crime had been freed the Scottsboro Boys
#3743, aired 2000-12-06AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1939 this state finally finished paying off a $12.4-million debt to the state from which it had separated West Virginia (paid debt to Virginia)
#3732, aired 2000-11-21COLLEGE SPORTS HISTORY: To prevent rivals from reading its hand signals, this university is said to have originated the huddle around 1892 Gallaudet University
#3731, aired 2000-11-20BRITAIN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY: In April 2000 the portrait of this living woman was moved from the Contemporary section to History Margaret Thatcher
#3679, aired 2000-09-07'50s POP HITS: A No. 1 hit in 1959, this song was originally written by a teacher as a history lesson for his students on the War of 1812 "The Battle Of New Orleans"
#3664, aired 2000-07-06ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: The first African-American Best Actress nominee, her life was the subject of a 1999 HBO film Dorothy Dandridge
#3662, aired 2000-07-04U.S. HISTORY: In 1965 President Johnson flew to this state to sign the Medicare bill with a former president as witness Missouri
#3635, aired 2000-05-26BASEBALL HISTORY: Current name of the National League team that started out in the 1870s as the Boston Red Stockings Atlanta Braves
#3630, aired 2000-05-19ASIAN HISTORY: This peninsula of 85,000 square miles was ruled by a single dynasty from 1392 to 1910 Korea
#3550, aired 2000-01-28FRONT PAGE HISTORY: An August 6, 1945 Associated Press story described this as a "Japanese army base" Hiroshima (story about the dropping of the first atomic bomb)
#3537, aired 2000-01-11TELEVISION HISTORY: In the late '60s this character was created to show children it's okay to be grumpy Oscar the Grouch (from "Sesame Street")
#3536, aired 2000-01-10MEDICAL HISTORY: Anne Miller, the first person whose life was saved by this drug, lived 57 more years, dying in 1999 penicillin
#3535, aired 2000-01-07YANKEE STADIUM HISTORY: A plaque in Monument Park honors this ex-"Cardinal" for a 1979 event held at the stadium Pope John Paul II
#3523, aired 1999-12-22FOOD & SPORTS: In August 1999, for the first time in its 75-year history, Wheaties began featuring players of this sport on its boxes Soccer
#3513, aired 1999-12-08AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY: This man for whom a car is named previously worked for Daimler-Benz & designed the Volkswagen Ferdinand Porsche
#3487, aired 1999-11-02SCIENCE HISTORY: In 1672 Christiaan Huygens sketched its southern ice cap Mars
#3482, aired 1999-10-26RELIGIOUS HISTORY: Anglicanism got its name from the Latin "Anglicana Ecclesia", a phrase in this 13th century document Magna Carta
#3476, aired 1999-10-18INDUSTRIALISTS: In 1916 he said, "The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today" Henry Ford
#3382, aired 1999-04-27ENGLISH HISTORY: 11th century England had 2 kings with this name, one a Dane & one a Saxon Harold
#3374, aired 1999-04-15MUSIC: In 1997 Agnes Grossmann took over as the 1st woman artistic director of this group in its 500-year history The Vienna Boys' Choir
#3360, aired 1999-03-26AMERICAN HISTORY: As minister to Mexico, he was authorized by President Pierce to buy border land for the railroads James Gadsden
#3334, aired 1999-02-18MODERN AFRICAN HISTORY: Africa's newest independent state, it was an Italian colony until WWII, & later incorporated into another country Eritrea (formerly part of Ethiopia)
#3329, aired 1999-02-11MEDICAL HISTORY: In the 1850s he held the posts of demonstrator of & lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital Henry Gray ("Gray's Anatomy")
#3327, aired 1999-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY: At the outbreak of hostilities of the Civil War, he was president of the Senate Hannibal Hamlin
#3307, aired 1999-01-12U.S. GOVERNMENT: In its history this government body has had a total of 108 members, 106 of them men The Supreme Court
#3245, aired 1998-10-16TELEVISION: It's the longest-running prime time sports show in the history of network television Monday Night Football
#3243, aired 1998-10-14ROCK & ROLL HISTORY: The name "Beatles" was inspired by the backup group of this singer Buddy Holly (his backup group was called The Crickets)
#3225, aired 1998-09-18SPORTS HISTORY: He was president of France the first time France won soccer's World Cup Jacques Chirac
#3221, aired 1998-09-141998 BUSINESS NEWS: The Silver Seraph, the 9th new model in its 92-year history, is its first built on a moving assembly line Rolls-Royce
#3214, aired 1998-07-16TELEVISION & HISTORY: When "60 Minutes" premiered, this man was U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson (show premiered Sept. 24, 1968)
#3138, aired 1998-04-01APRIL 1 IN HISTORY: April 1 is the anniversary of the Battle of Five Forks, the last decisive battle of this war the Civil War
#3130, aired 1998-03-20FINANCE HISTORY: In the 19th c., selling stock you didn't yet own, hoping it would fall, was called selling this animal's skin a bear
#3123, aired 1998-03-11TRANSPORTATION HISTORY: In 1807 he wrote, "The distance from New York to Albany is 150 miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours" Robert Fulton (of the steamship Clermont)
#3095, aired 1998-01-30MOVIE HISTORY: This resort island lent its name to a 1948 Bogart film; the African Queen is now moored there Key Largo
#3072, aired 1997-12-30FOOD HISTORY: 13th century invading Asian people who brought the idea of eating raw, chopped meat into the Germany area the Tatars
#3065, aired 1997-12-19HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: It was the first, first, first, first film to use Cinerama's single-projector system It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
#3049, aired 1997-11-2720th CENTURY HISTORY: The NKVD, which liquidated its own first 2 chiefs in the 1930s, developed into this group in 1954 the KGB
#3023, aired 1997-10-22MODERN U.S. HISTORY: This group consisted of the Chief Justice, 4 members of Congress, & ex-heads of the CIA & the World Bank The Warren Commission
#3001, aired 1997-09-22FOOD & DRINK HISTORY: Its original name meant "bitter water" & it was made palatable to Europeans after the Spaniards added sugar chocolate
#2957, aired 1997-06-10FASHION HISTORY: In 1849 Americans traveling to the California gold fields via boat popularized this hat the Panama hat
#2930, aired 1997-05-02SCIENCE HISTORY: Announced by Ole Romer in 1676, the first measurement of this was 140,000 miles per second the speed of light
#2913, aired 1997-04-09WORD HISTORY: Before this word came to mean an extraterrestrial, it was used as an adjective meaning "warlike" Martian
#2890, aired 1997-03-07ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY: Performed in England since the restoration of Charles II, shows featuring this pair often include a dog named Toby Punch & Judy
#2848, aired 1997-01-08ANCIENT HISTORY: Man with whom Cleopatra had the most children Mark Antony
#2826, aired 1996-12-09AMERICAN HISTORY: Some attribute these 1692 proceedings to the psychotic effects of ergot poisoning The Salem Witch Trials
#2815, aired 1996-11-22TELEVISION HISTORY: Set in the 1870s, it ran from 1955 to 1975 Gunsmoke
#2807, aired 1996-11-12AMERICAN HISTORY: Lincoln said it was "the central act of my administration & the greatest event of the 19th century" the Emancipation Proclamation
#2759, aired 1996-09-05TELEVISION HISTORY: On 1/19/96 in real life & fictionally on CBS, Marlee Matlin gave birth, duplicating this woman's 1/19/53 feat Lucille Ball
#2748, aired 1996-07-10MODERN HISTORY: The airlift of aid to this city, which ran from July 3, 1992 to January 9, 1996, was the world's longest Sarajevo
#2741, aired 1996-07-01BLACK HISTORY: In 1920 he was named provisional president of Africa with a mandate to free it from white domination Marcus Garvey
#2735, aired 1996-06-21AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henry's Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word Treason
#2658, aired 1996-03-06ANCIENT HISTORY: He started the Third Servile War in 73 B.C. Spartacus
#2540, aired 1995-09-22ART HISTORY: Prior to 1508 it was covered by Pier Matteo d'Amelia's representation of a starry sky the (ceiling of the) Sistine Chapel
#2507, aired 1995-06-27ANCIENT HISTORY: In 41 B.C. Mark Antony named him tetrarch of Galilee Herod (the Great)
#2466, aired 1995-05-01SCIENCE HISTORY: In 1317 Pope John XXII called these people evil: "They present a false metal for gold and silver" alchemists
#2429, aired 1995-03-09AMERICAN HISTORY: This British monarch authorized the first English colony in North America Elizabeth I
#2414, aired 1995-02-16AMERICAN HISTORY: This South Dakota community was the site of 2 clashes between the U.S. gov't & Indians, in 1890 & 1973 Wounded Knee
#2391, aired 1995-01-16U.S. HISTORY: John Sevier, the only gov. of the self-proclaimed state of Franklin, later became the 1st gov. of this state Tennessee
#2372, aired 1994-12-20HISTORY: The 7-year revolt by the Front de Liberation Nationale led this country to independence in 1962 Algeria
#2367, aired 1994-12-13AMERICAN HISTORY: Appointed minister to Mexico in 1853, he was recalled in 1856 James Gadsden
#2320, aired 1994-10-07ART HISTORY: In 1894 Alphonse Mucha began designing posters of Sarah Bernhardt that popularized this decorative style art nouveau
#2319, aired 1994-10-06HISTORY: Henry VIII made Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury; she had him burned at the stake for heresy Mary I (Bloody Mary)
#2261, aired 1994-06-06BRITISH HISTORY: Over 300 years after his 1658 death, his head was laid to rest by his alma mater, a college at Cambridge Oliver Cromwell
#2174, aired 1994-02-03U.S. HISTORY: Laura Keene, who first came to the U.S. in the 1850s, was best known for her starring role in this play Our American Cousin
#2133, aired 1993-12-08TELEVISION HISTORY: Connie Chung & Dan Rather are the 2nd male-female network news pair; Barbara Walters & this man were 1st Harry Reasoner
#2128, aired 1993-12-01U.S. HISTORY: Frank Harris' 1908 novel "The Bomb" deals with this 1886 U.S. incident the Haymarket Riot
#2125, aired 1993-11-26THE CABINET: In the 1970s he held more cabinet posts than anyone in U.S. history—4, including Attorney General Elliot Richardson
#2066, aired 1993-09-06AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1919 he became the first General of the Armies of the U.S. John Pershing
#2060, aired 1993-07-16TELEVISION HISTORY: The Texaco Star Theater debuted on June 8, 1948, this day of the week Tuesday
#2030, aired 1993-06-04U.S. HISTORY: Albert Gallatin played the leading role in the negotiations that ended this war the War of 1812
#1982, aired 1993-03-30MEDICAL HISTORY: The first triple transplant, performed in 1986, involved these 3 different organs the heart, the lungs & the liver
#1957, aired 1993-02-23AMERICAN HISTORY: Of the 9 tried for this 1770 event, 7 were acquitted & 2 charged with manslaughter, branded & let go the Boston Massacre
#1954, aired 1993-02-18TELEVISION HISTORY: When this service hit the air August 1, 1981, the first act it presented was The Buggles MTV
#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
#1877, aired 1992-11-03AMERICAN HISTORY: His left arm is buried at Ellwood Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia Stonewall Jackson
#1827, aired 1992-07-071991: Time's 1991 Man of the Year, he made viewers around the world "instant witnesses to history" Ted Turner
#1790, aired 1992-05-15AMERICAN HISTORY: John Alden was the last surviving signer of this the Mayflower Compact
#1621, aired 1991-09-23WOMEN IN HISTORY: In 1909 she became the 1st woman pres. of what later became the National Conference of Social Work Jane Addams
#1570, aired 1991-05-31TELEVISION: This documentary series was the highest-rated series in PBS history The Civil War
#1565, aired 1991-05-24BRITISH HISTORY: The last name of Lord Darnley, whose son became King of England in 1603 Stuart
#1556, aired 1991-05-13BRITISH HISTORY: In 1661, 2 1/2 years after his death, his body was exhumed & hanged at Tyburn Oliver Cromwell
#1552, aired 1991-05-07AMERICAN HISTORY: The only 1 to sign the Declaration of Independence, 1778 alliance w/France, peace treaty w/G.B. & Constitution Benjamin Franklin
#1525, aired 1991-03-29WOMEN IN HISTORY: Her 1st husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, fought in both the American & French Revolutions Empress Josephine
#1493, aired 1991-02-13FRENCH HISTORY: He was in his 70s when he commanded the French National Guard during the Revolution of 1830 Lafayette
#1491, aired 1991-02-11AMERICAN HISTORY: Edward Everett gave the principal speech here November 19, 1863 Gettysburg
#1479, aired 1991-01-24WORLD HISTORY: On July 15, 1815 he surrendered to the captain of the Bellerophon Napoleon (I)
#1459, aired 1990-12-27ANCIENT HISTORY: The group who fought over his empire after his death was called the "Diadochi", successors Alexander the Great
#1454, aired 1990-12-20AMERICAN HISTORY: 2 of the 4 Americans who negotiated the Treaty of Paris with the British in 1782 (2 of) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, or Henry Laurens
#1438, aired 1990-11-28AMERICAN HISTORY: He was elected Governor of New York in 1817, right after the state agreed to finance his pet project Dewitt Clinton
#1428, aired 1990-11-14U.S. HISTORY: After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other Tennessee
#1427, aired 1990-11-13WORLD HISTORY: The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947 Pakistan & India
#1414, aired 1990-10-25HISTORY: It was the first elected legislative body in the New World House of Burgesses
#1392, aired 1990-09-25BRITISH HISTORY: She & her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, were executed on Tower Hill February 12, 1554 Lady Jane Grey
#1375, aired 1990-07-20AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1839 & '40 France & Great Britain signed commercial treaties with this new republic Texas
#1333, aired 1990-05-23BRITISH HISTORY: The 14th Earl of this was prime minister in 1852; the 12th Earl of this had a race named for him Earl of Derby
#1314, aired 1990-04-26U.S. HISTORY: Some say he was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett, & other believe he killed himself John Wilkes Booth
#1301, aired 1990-04-09AMERICAN HISTORY: Virginia's motto since 1776; it was shouted in another context on April 14, 1865 "Sic Semper Tyrannis"
#1295, aired 1990-03-30WORLD HISTORY: He became a nat'l hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s Gen. Francisco Franco
#1279, aired 1990-03-08FAMOUS NAMES: He published a history of Virginia & New England in 1624, after escaping from Turks, Indians & pirates Captain John Smith
#1274, aired 1990-03-01WORLD HISTORY: City that was the seat of government of the viceroyalty of New Spain Mexico City
#1266, aired 1990-02-19ANCIENT HISTORY: Crassus, Julius Caesar & this man formed the 1st Triumvirate Pompey
#1256, aired 1990-02-05FAMOUS QUOTES: One of the most famous questions in history, it was asked in 1871 in the village of Ujiji "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
#1247, aired 1990-01-23AMERICAN HISTORY: He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859 John Brown
#1223, aired 1989-12-20MODERN HISTORY: In 1980 Vigdis Finnbogadottir became this country's 1st female president Iceland
#1211, aired 1989-12-04AMERICAN HISTORY: He was captured near Irwinville, Georgia on May 10, 1865 Jefferson Davis
#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
#1146, aired 1989-09-04SOVIET HISTORY: He was Premier when Yuri Gagarin, the 1st cosmonaut, went into space Nikita Khrushchev
#1145, aired 1989-07-21AMERICAN POETS: He wrote a biography that won Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940 & won for his poetry in 1951 Carl Sandburg
#1136, aired 1989-07-10AMERICAN HISTORY: Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia was the only person to hold this office Vice President of the Confederacy
#1089, aired 1989-05-04THE ACADEMY AWARDS: "Best Actress" for 1968, she was the only one in Oscar history to win for playing a queen Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter)
#1088, aired 1989-05-03HISTORY: At the request of the king of England, Pope Innocent III annulled this in 1215 Magna Carta
#1056, aired 1989-03-20BRITISH HISTORY: Since 1700 Britain has had only 3 reigning queens: Victoria, Elizabeth II, & this woman Queen Anne
#977, aired 1988-11-29AMERICAN HISTORY: Historically significant event of June 17, 1972 the Watergate break-in
#951, aired 1988-10-24WORLD HISTORY: On May 20, 1902 U.S. rule ended & this country became independent Cuba
#950, aired 1988-10-21EUROPEAN HISTORY: Germany's 3rd Reich was the Nazi regime, the 2nd was the 1871-1918 monarchy, while the 1st Reich was this Holy Roman Empire
#949, aired 1988-10-20THE UNITED NATIONS: In the course of its 43-year history, the UN has had this many Secretaries-General 5
#945, aired 1988-10-14WORLD HISTORY: An allied army of Americans, Britons, Germans, Frenchmen, Russians & Japanese ended this in 1900 Boxer Rebellion
#927, aired 1988-09-201978: Upon Golda Meir's death, this leader said, "I must, for history's sake, praise her as an honest foe" (Anwar) Sadat
#884, aired 1988-06-09AMERICAN HISTORY: With only 115 days of hostilities, it was the shortest declared war in U.S. history the Spanish-American War
#837, aired 1988-04-05U.S. HISTORY: Of those who served as president or vice president, more men have had this surname than any other Johnson
#831, aired 1988-03-28TELEVISION HISTORY: 2 of only 3 women who have been inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame (2 of) Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett & Mary Tyler Moore
#824, aired 1988-03-17WORLD HISTORY: 1st U.S. President to visit the U.S.S.R. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#811, aired 1988-02-29WOMEN IN HISTORY: Famous woman depicted on the Crimean monument in Waterloo Place, London Florence Nightingale
#797, aired 1988-02-09THE PRESIDENT'S CABINET: Only individual in U.S. history to receive a cabinet appointment from his brother Robert F. Kennedy (from his brother John)
#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
#771, aired 1988-01-04TELEVISION HISTORY: This variety show that replaced the Smothers Brothers on CBS 20 years ago is still in production Hee Haw
#722, aired 1987-10-27BRITISH HISTORY: The 1st Tudor monarch of England, he was grandfather of the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I Henry VII
#697, aired 1987-09-22RELIGIOUS HISTORY: Because founder George Fox told a judge to "Tremble at the word of the Lord", his sect was called this Quakers
#580, aired 1987-02-27U.S. HISTORY: The presidential message delivered to Congress December 2, 1823 is better known as this Monroe Doctrine
#573, aired 1987-02-18HISTORY: It arrived in the U.S. in June of 1885 in 214 cases aboard the French ship Isere Statue of Liberty
#511, aired 1986-11-24MILITARY HISTORY: The famous "Damn the torpedoes" command was shouted by a rear admiral during this war the Civil War
#507, aired 1986-11-18U.S. HISTORY: Of 9 "wars" in which the U.S. has been actively involved, these 2 lasted the longest Vietnam and the Revolutionary War
#494, aired 1986-10-30GENERALS: 1 of the only 2 generals in American history to serve as Secretary of State (1 of) (Alexander) Haig or George Marshall
#488, aired 1986-10-22WORLD HISTORY: Its 25th anniversary, Aug. 13, 1986, was celebrated with parades to the east & mourning to the west the Berlin Wall
#437, aired 1986-05-13THE OLD WEST: He made the longest single ride--322 miles--in the brief history of the Pony Express William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
#366, aired 1986-02-03THE SUPREME COURT: This 20th century president was only 1 in history to serve full term but appoint no Supreme Court justice Jimmy Carter
#347, aired 1986-01-07AMERICAN HISTORY: McLean House in Virginia was site of this event the Confederate surrender
#333, aired 1985-12-18RECENT HISTORY: Total number of men who have been U.S. President during the current British monarch's rule 8
#300, aired 1985-11-01WORLD HISTORY: In 1794, 1830, 1846, 1848, 1861, & 1863 this neighbor unsuccessfully revolted against Russia Poland
#276, aired 1985-09-30RECENT HISTORY: President under whom the U.S. gave full recognition to Communist China Jimmy Carter
#187, aired 1985-05-28HISTORY: It was the world's largest city for the entire 19th century London
#173, aired 1985-05-08ANCIENT HISTORY: Cornelia was his 1st wife; Calpurnia his 2nd Julius Caesar
#145, aired 1985-03-29WORLD HISTORY: It's the oldest independent country in the Western Hemisphere the United States of America
#96, aired 1985-01-21HISTORY: In 1952, it became the 3rd country to test an atomic bomb Great Britain (England)
#87, aired 1985-01-08EUROPEAN HISTORY: On May 1, 1945, Admiral Karl Doenitz assumed this office in Germany Fuhrer (or dictator)
#67, aired 1984-12-11WOMEN IN HISTORY: Arrested for voting in 1872 election, she died 14 years before the 19th Amendment Susan B. Anthony
#64, aired 1984-12-06WORLD HISTORY: In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule Haiti
#8, aired 1984-09-19AMERICAN HISTORY: He served as congressman from 1 state, senator from another, governor of both & president of Texas Sam Houston
#7, aired 1984-09-18WORLD HISTORY: Country where Napoleon met his "Waterloo" Belgium

Players (385 results returned)

Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas "His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas "A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California "He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times "He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
Tina Baybay-Bykov, an AP world history teacher from Orlando, Florida "Ballet used to keep her on her toes. Now it's her...
Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida "He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
Jeff Pandin, a history teacher from Alexandria, Virginia Season 22 1-time champion: $18,000 + $2,000.
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Cypress, Texas "He was a history professor when he became a 5-day champion...
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia "This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Andrew Chrzanowski, a high school history teacher from Dover, Delaware Season 26 player (2010-01-14). Last name pronounced like "sher-NOV-skee".
Matt Brannagan, a high school history teacher from Bowie, Maryland Season 34 player (2018-01-10). Matt wore a patterened tie for his...
Timothy Shuker-Haines, a high school history teacher from Williamstown, Massachusetts "He teaches at a small school where the students chop the...
Scott Montanaro, a high school history and psychology teacher from Portland, Oregon 2018 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 grant. At...
Maryanne Lewell, a high school history teacher from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada "She teaches at the oldest publicly funded school in Canada. From...
Ellie Walsh, a high school world history and U.S. government teacher from Nashville, Tennessee 2019 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. At the time of the Teachers...
Conor Quinn, a high school world history teacher from Albany, New York 2019 Teachers Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000. At the time of the...
Matthew Bunch, a middle school civics and world history teacher from Miami, Florida 2019 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. At the time of the...
Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California "He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
Shawn Selby, an adjunct history professor from Canton, Ohio Season 29 player (2013-04-17).
Stephanie Jass, a history professor from Milan, Michigan 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2013 Tournament of champions...
Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas "This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland "He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
Bryan Givens, a history lecturer originally from Dallas, Texas Season 20 player (2004-06-24). KJL game 17. At the time of...
Rebecca Baird, a college history teacher from Thousand Oaks, California Season 30 player (2014-04-11).
David Clemmons, an 11th grade U.S. history teacher from Fort Worth, Texas 2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2017 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000....
Sarah Thompson, an art history professor from Rochester, New York Season 32 1-time champion: $16,999 + $2,000.
Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He won the Teacher's Tournament and the Tournament of Champions last...
Lisa McClain, a history professor and Director of Gender Studies from Boise, Idaho Season 23 1-time champion: $20,500 + $2,000.
Stephanie Jass, a history professor from Milan, Michigan "She is a history professor who won seven games last year...
Chris Grinvalds, a high school history teacher and coach from Bennington, Nebraska 2014 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Chris taught world history and computer...
Lydia Cuffman, a high school history teacher from Redwood City, California 2015 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Lydia taught world, U.S., and Latin...
Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia "A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
Christian Burks, a history student from Austin, Texas Season 31 player (2014-09-23).
Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut "Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan "In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida "It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
Chris Staaf, a history professor from Dallas, Georgia Season 26 player (2010-04-22).
Rice Whaley, a high school history teacher from Hermitage, Pennsylvania Season 20 player (2004-02-02).
Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida 2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida "Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia "He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois "He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar "She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
Martina Navratilova, a former tennis pro and novelist originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia "With 9, she's won more singles titles at Wimbledon than any...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas 2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C. Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland 2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky 2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon 2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan "He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah "Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College "His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska 2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show "He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand \"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University 2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Aman Birk, from Irvine, California "He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia "This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York 2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Steve Hall, a nurse and "Mr. Mom" from Hamden, Connecticut Season 20 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000.
Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room "Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island "His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee "As a member of bug club, it's only natural that he...
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California 2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington "Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
Tim Cho, a senior at Columbia University from Champaign, Illinois \"When he first appeared on Jeopardy!, he was a senior in...
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas 2019 All-Star Games member of 1st runner-up Team Ken: a share...
Greg Ferrara, a history teacher from Canton, Ohio Season 1 player (1985-02-01).
Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida \"A sophomore from Pensacola, Florida in the 2018 Teen Tournament, she\'s...
Ben Coller, a history teacher from East Brunswick, New Jersey Season 38 player (2022-07-12).
Val Sullivan, a retired history teacher from Brooklyn, New York 1991 Seniors Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
Stacy Meyers, a graduate student of education from Fredericksburg, Virginia Season 30 player (2014-01-16).
Osei Boakye, a graduate student of history from Clearwater, Florida Season 30 player (2014-01-14). Name pronounced like oh-SAY-ee boh-AH-chee.
Patrick Wyman, a history podcaster and writer from Los Angeles, California Season 35 player (2018-10-11).
Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, an assistant professor of U.S. and African-American history from University of Colorado 2021 Professors Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Howard Seftel, a history teacher originally from Brooklyn, New York Season 1 player (1985-05-30).
Bianca Ligon, a history professor from Baltimore, Maryland Season 35 player (2019-03-15).
Eliza Eaton-Stern, a middle school history teacher from Aurora, Colorado Season 37 player (2021-05-03).
Kian Barry, a high school history teacher from Hopewell, New Jersey Season 35 player (2018-10-04).
Ike Barinholtz, an actor from Chicago, Illinois \"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he appeared on Fox\'s Mad TV,...
Kelly Gerhold, an adjunct history teacher from Bakersfield, California Season 36 player (2019-12-05). Kelly won $20,000 on Master Minds on...
Whitney Wood, a history professor from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Season 38 player (2022-06-23).
Elliott Goodman, a history and Latin teacher from Culver City, California 2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 37 player (2021-05-05).
David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey • 19-game champion • 3rd longest winning streak 2019 All-Star Games...
Rachel Hirsch, a high school history teacher from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 30 player (2013-12-12).
Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee 2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee 2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
Craig Cornish, Jr., a graduate student of history from Welcome, Maryland Season 30 2-time champion: $46,800 + $1,000.
Shadi Peterman, a high school history teacher from St. Louis, Missouri Season 33 2-time champion: $18,000 + $2,000.
Elliott Goodman, a history and Latin teacher from Culver City, California 2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $2,000. Season 37 player (2021-05-05).
Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey \"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
Bill Pitassy, a labor attorney from Cranford, New Jersey 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
Bill Pitassy, an attorney from Cranford, New Jersey 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
Justin Vossler, a high school history teacher from Homer, New York 2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 33 5-time champion: $110,000 + $2,000.
Eli Barrieau, a high school history teacher from Hardwick, Massachusetts "He found working in a window factory a 'pain'. Now it's...
Aaron Gulyas, a community college history instructor from Grand Blanc, Michigan Season 38 player (2022-05-27).
Steven Jones, a 7th grade history teacher originally from Portland, Oregon Season 37 player (2020-11-06).
T.J. Tallie, an assistant professor of African history from San Diego, California 2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 37 1-time champion: $18,200 + $1,000.
T.J. Tallie, an associate professor of African history from San Diego, California 2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 37 1-time champion: $18,200 + $1,000.
Jennifer Kosmin, a history professor from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 36 player (2020-06-11).
Dan Wohl, a high school history teacher from Brooklyn New York 2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 39 1-time champion: $26,799 + $2,000.
Dan Wohl, a high school history teacher from Forest Hills, New York 2024 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 39 1-time champion: $26,799 + $2,000.
Stephanie Pierson, a junior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from Macon, Georgia "Originally competing as a high school junior from Macon, Georgia, she's...
Justin Yaeger, a high school history teacher from Studio City, California Season 37 player (2021-03-08).
Beth Kitts, a history professor from Oak Ridge, Tennessee Season 36 player (2019-10-04).
Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California \"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
Enver Casimir, a history teacher from Albany, California Season 38 player (2022-05-03).
Matt Joyal, a high school history teacher from Hampstead, New Hampshire 2020 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Ashley Chapman, a history teacher from West Roxbury, Massachusetts Season 34 player (2018-04-03).
Justin Vossler, a high school history teacher from Homer, New York 2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 33 5-time champion: $110,000 + $2,000.
David Clemmons, an 11th grade U.S. history teacher in Keller, Texas from Fort Worth, Texas 2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2017 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000.
Melissa Smight, a retired history teacher from Thousand Oaks, California Season 37 player (2020-10-05).
Erhard Konerding, a librarian and instructor from Middletown, Connecticut Season 10 1-time champion: $6,002. Erhard appeared on Remember This in...
Molly Lower, a high school history teacher from Pasadena, California Season 37 player (2020-09-29). Last name pronounced like "Lauer".
Scott Perry, an associate professor of history from St. Petersburg, Florida Season 39 player (2023-02-09).
Barbara Fox, a history instructor from Tucson, Arizona Season 33 player (2017-06-19).
Justin Broughman, a high school social studies teacher from Strasburg, Virginia Season 34 player (2017-10-19).
Debra Burgess, an adjunct assistant professor of history from Cincinnati, Ohio Season 38 player (2022-03-18).
Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida 2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
Padraic Scanlan, a Ph.D. student in history originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada Season 29 1-time champion: $11,400 + $1,000.
Mike Dolber, an American history teacher from Medford, New York Season 7 player (1991-03-11).
Sally Hadden, a college history professor from Kalamazoo, Michigan Season 19 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000.
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois 2019 All-Star Games captain of 2nd runner-up Team Colby: a share...
Stephanie Jass, a history professor from Milan, Michigan 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2013 Tournament of champions...
Aaron Gulyas, a community college history instructor from Grand Blanc, Michigan 2022 Second Chance Competition semifinalist: $1,000. Season 38 player (2022-05-27).
Suzanne Judson-Whitehouse, an education program director from Greenfield, Massachusetts Season 28 player (2011-12-02).
Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia "Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
Colleen McCormick, a graduate student of history from Odenton, Maryland Season 28 player (2012-06-13).
Bonnie Anderson, a history professor from New York City, New York Season 5 player (1988-09-15).
Max Niles, a senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island 2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Max was majoring in history...
Sam Claussen, a history professor from Santa Clarita, California 2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $3,000. Season 39 player (2023-04-20).
Sam Claussen, a history professor from Santa Clarita, California 2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $3,000. Season 39 player (2023-04-20).
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky "A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C. "Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
Ben Wong, a high school history teacher originally from San Francisco, California Season 27 player (2011-07-01). Ben won $64,000 on the College Edition...
Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee "And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
David Hillinck, a teacher and administrator from Pasadena, California 1994 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $7,500. Season 10 4-time champion:...
Emmey Harris, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota 2022 National College Championship semifinalist: $20,000. Emmey was majoring in history....
Michelle Bemis, a high school history teacher from Allen Park, Michigan Season 38 player (2022-02-09).
Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri "He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil "With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show "He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas "John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday "In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland "As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly "As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
Dawn Hart, a bookkeeper from Laughlintown, Pennsylvania Season 27 player (2011-03-07).
Morgan Flood, a junior from Pequea, Pennsylvania 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Jonathan Shulman, a high school history teacher from San Diego, California Season 29 player (2013-03-20).
Drew Denton, a graduate student of American religious history from Decatur, Georgia Season 28 player (2011-10-13).
Matthew McElroy, a high school history teacher from Wildwood, New Jersey Season 38 player (2022-01-31).
Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California 2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT "Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana 2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
David Cuneo, a former history teacher from Reisterstown, Maryland 1996 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. 1995-B Seniors Tournament winner: $28,000.
Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Mark Reeves, a graduate student of history from Bowling Green, Kentucky Season 29 player (2013-05-03).
Kerr Houston, a professor of art history from Baltimore, Maryland Season 28 player (2012-04-20). First name pronounced like "KUR".
Laura Sikes Jambon, a graduate student of American history from Rochester, New York Season 28 player (2012-07-12). Last name pronounced like "zham-BOHn" (French-style pronunciation)....
Bob McGoff, a history teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania Season 5 2-time champion: $26,201 Bob died in November 2015. [Obituary]
Laura Bowen, an upper-school history teacher from Wilmington, North Carolina Season 15 player (1999-03-08).
Brandon Broughton, a local history librarian from Ozark, Missouri Season 39 player (2023-04-05).
Doug Butler, a graduate student in medieval history from Columbia, Missouri Season 31 player (2015-04-15).
Laura Paquet, a romance novelist and travel writer from Ottawa, Canada Season 20 player (2004-05-17). Laura's website. An interview concerning her Jeopardy!...
Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona 2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Sami Siegelbaum, a professor of art history from Chicago, Illinois Season 30 player (2014-05-30).
Bruce Higginbotham, a U.S. history teacher from Houston, Texas Season 8 player (1991-12-20).
Kevin Hozey, a history teacher from Jacksonville, Florida Season 31 1-time champion: $27,601 + $2,000.
Sara Orel, a professor of art history from Kirksville, Missouri Season 24 player (2008-05-23).
Steve Atkinson, a history teacher originally from Glasgow, Scotland Season 18 player (2002-07-08).
Ed Hashima, a community college history professor from Sacramento, California 2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2021 Professors Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000....
Kate Reed Hauenstein, a high school history teacher from Cedar Park, Texas Season 33 player (2017-02-09).
Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press "He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
Ed Hashima, a history professor from American River College in Sacramento, California 2023 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2021 Professors Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000.
Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania 2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California 2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida "He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois 2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin "He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charity: The Sisters of Life.
Brian MacKenzie, a history teacher originally from Federal Way, Washington Season 24 player (2008-06-17).
Lucas Miner, a junior at Yale University from Miami, Florida \"He finished third in the 2019 Teen Tournament as a junior...
Tim Russert, a journalist from Meet the Press "The host of the longest-running show in the history of television,...
Andrea Keppers, a history educator from Denver, Colorado Season 33 player (2017-01-17).
Hank Robinson, a senior from Lithia Springs, Georgia 2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the...
Matthew Weiner, a series creator and executive producer from Mad Men "He is the creator and executive producer of one of the...
Eric Huff, a history teacher from Spartanburg, South Carolina Season 19 player (2002-11-04).
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland "His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
Giulio Ongaro, a college professor originally from Venice, Italy Season 10 player (1993-09-16). At the time of his appearance, Giulio...
Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University 2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
Jeff Grimes, a history teacher from Paris, Texas Season 15 2-time champion: $8,400.
Mallory Howe, an eighth grade history teacher from Brea, California Season 30 player (2014-04-30).
Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press "He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
Erin Weller, a history teacher from Evanston, Illinois Season 15 1-time champion: $5,800.
Darryl Scott, an Air Force lieutenant colonel originally from Washington, D.C. Season 9 2-time champion: $13,402 + the Jeopardy! '92 home game....
Lesley Cordell, a history teacher from Seattle, Washington Season 17 player (2001-04-09).
Kevin Butterfield, a history professor from Norman, Oklahoma Season 32 player (2015-09-16).
Peter Buchholz, a 6th grade U.S. history and language arts teacher from Minneapolis, Minnesota 2016 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
Terrie Trebilcock, a high school history and economics teacher from Glen Rock, Pennsylvania 2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
Amy Kobrzynski, a high school history teacher from Bridgeport, Pennsylvania Season 18 player (2002-06-05). Last name pronounced like "ko-BRIN-skee."
A.K. Subramanian, a high school history teacher from Villa Park, California Season 22 player (2006-07-04). A.K. also appeared on Weakest Link on...
Michael Wille, a delivery driver manager from Washington, D.C. Season 31 player (2014-10-28). Last name pronounced like "WILL-ee".
Ian Miller, a high school history, government, and economics teacher from Woodland Hills, California 2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
Christianne Gadd, an adjunct professor of history and American studies from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Season 31 player (2015-07-16). No relation to 2015 Celebrity Jeopardy! player...
Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania 2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
Lauren Gilmore, a high school history teacher from Lake Wales, Florida 2016 Teachers Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant...
Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois 2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
Michelle Clum, an executive assistant from Wichita, Kansas 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
Kevin Comer, a history student from St. Petersburg, Florida Season 17 player (2001-05-17).
Tom Flemma, a high school history teacher from Lakeville, Connecticut Season 17 2-time champion: $13,800.
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana 2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland 2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
Sam Weaver, a sophomore at Bradley University from Pleasanton, California 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Sam was 20 at the time...
Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio 2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia 2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado 2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey 2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of...
Katie Wroblewski, a graduate student in history from Ypsilanti, Michigan Season 30 1-time champion: $9,201 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "roo-BLEF-skee".
David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts 2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
Mita Choudhury, a history instructor from Chicago, Illinois Season 13 player (1997-01-14).
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
Matt Kish, a high school history teacher from Brunswick, Ohio Season 30 1-time champion: $23,201 + $2,000.
Matt Pressman, a graduate student in history from Somerville, Massachusetts Season 31 3-time champion: $46,700 + $2,000.
Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
Lee Barrow, a history and economics teacher from Denver, Colorado Season 33 player (2017-04-13).
Tori Lewis, a student of art history from San Diego, California Season 29 player (2012-10-26).
Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama 2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
Peter Ellis, a senior at North Carolina State University from Cary, North Carolina 2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon "She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin "This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas "Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah 2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
Matt Tick, from Escondido, California "Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey 2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of...
Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California "He plans on making the world a better place as an...
Beth Andreasen, a history professor from San Marcos, Texas Season 6 player (1990-06-01).
Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas "This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California "This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
Karen Rhodes, a history teacher from Dalton, Georgia Season 14 player (1997-09-02).
Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts "Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York "A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California "She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
Katie Bruton, a grad student and European History teaching assistant from Huntsville, Alabama Season 26 player (2010-06-28).
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
Jim Holton, a history professor from Lakeland, Florida Season 17 player (2000-11-03).
Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Tessa Fleming, a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California Season 31 player (2014-09-16). Tessa's father was a 2-time champion on...
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California "From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
Bill Cossen, a Ph.D. candidate in history originally from Lexington, South Carolina Season 31 3-time champion: $50,602 + $1,000. JBoard user name: JeopardyBill
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California "A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
Addison Godel, a Ph.D. student in architectural history from Brooklyn, New York Season 31 1-time champion: $24,400 + $1,000. JBoard user name: PurpleAddison
Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona "He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
Terrill Wilkins, a high school history teacher from Spartanburg, South Carolina Season 26 player (2010-06-21).
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer "In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost "He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California "His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California "This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts "He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada 2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
Kara Mohler, a history teacher from Silver Spring, Maryland Season 25 1-time champion: $23,199 + $2,000.
Liz Lynch, a part-time art history teacher from Manassas, Virginia Season 20 player (2004-04-23).
Elliott Rountree, a high school history and government teacher from Marietta, Georgia Season 25 player (2009-05-18).
Kori Tyler, a high school history teacher from Cordova, Tennessee Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
Aaron Rodgers, the reigning NFL MVP from the Green Bay Packers "He's the reigning NFL MVP, leading his team to victory in...
Marty Christy, a language arts middle school teacher from Alexandria, Virginia Season 27 player (2011-02-03).
Vince Gilligan, an executive producer, director, and writer from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul "This award-winning executive producer, director, and writer created one of the...
Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
Kara French, a Ph.D. student in history originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan Season 27 player (2011-01-27).
Alexandra Helprin, an art history graduate student from New York, New York Season 26 player (2010-04-28).
Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
Elaine Thompson, an assistant professor of history originally from Clinton, Louisiana Season 27 player (2011-01-24).
Diane Armstrong, a consultant and retired Navy officer from Alexandria, Virginia Season 26 player (2009-09-21).
James Richardson, a history student from Belton, Texas Season 26 player (2010-07-30).
Stan Brown, a high school history teacher from Macon, Georgia Season 20 2-time champion: $40,600 + $2,000.
Tyler Allard, a senior from Garrett Park, Maryland 2003 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $28,400.
Nikki Lindsey, a history teacher and graduate student from Urbana, Illinois Season 19 player (2003-01-31).
Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan 2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Michael Muller, a seventh grade history teacher originally from Springfield, Illinois Season 26 player (2010-07-19).
Phil Bucska, a high school history teacher originally from Woodhaven, Michigan Season 26 2-time champion: $32,401 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like "BUSH-ka".
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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...
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network "His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Alice Jackson, an adjunct instructor of art history from Birmingham, Alabama Season 27 player (2010-12-28).
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California 2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana "Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York "He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
Eric LaForest, a high school history teacher originally from Jacksonville, Florida Season 25 1-time champion: $9,762 + $2,000.
Heather Menzel, a high school history teacher from South Fork, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $15,599 + $1,000. Won $68,500 on Who...
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune "A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
Reggie White, a minister and defensive end from the Green Bay Packers "From the Green Bay Packers, nobody in the history of the...
Lisa Karahalios, a history teacher originally from Lewiston, Maine Season 17 player (2001-06-22). Lisa won $20,000 on Who Wants to...
Bob Black, a history teacher from Canandaigua, New York Season 24 1-time champion: $18,700 + $1,000.
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Fideleon Damian, a Ph.D. student in history originally from San Francisco, California Season 26 player (2010-01-18).
Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
Pam Tyler, a professor of history from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 14 1-time champion: $10,600.
Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California "Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
Emily Bruemmer, a history and East Asian studies student from Orleans, Massachusetts Season 25 player (2009-07-24). Last name pronounced like "BREM-mer".
Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah "The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
Annie Bienvenue, a high school history teacher from Lowell, Massachusetts Season 17 player (2000-10-17).
Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California "All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland "She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
Brian Lamb, a teacher from Bakersfield, California Season 23 player (2007-06-26). Season 22 2-time champion: $39,201 + $1,000....
Rod Jackson, a high school history teacher from Jacksonville, Florida Season 13 player (1997-04-07).
Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York "He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
Sarah Workman, a history teacher from Pomona, California Season 4 1-time champion: $9,400 + a trip to Florida on...
Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University 2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox "In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
Kim McShane, a freelance business writer from Tallahassee, Florida Season 20 player (2004-02-04).
John O'Leary, a middle school history teacher from Walpole, Massachusetts Season 24 player (2007-12-04).
Jason Russell, a history student from Cleveland, Tennessee Season 14 2-time champion: $16,799.
Caroline Lampert, a history teacher from Poland, New York Season 18 player (2002-01-09).
Jim George, a history teacher from Hazleton, Pennsylvania Season 6 player (1990-04-17).
Elizabeth Borja, a history and biology major from Derwood, Maryland Season 16 player (2000-04-07).
Maureen McCuen, a U.S. history teacher from Paris, Texas Season 23 player (2006-11-22).
Craig Hendricks, a history teacher from Long Beach, California Season 1 player (1984-09-20).
Wilson York, a graduate student of history from Atlanta, Georgia Season 24 player (2007-09-12).
Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia "In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
Susan Lucci, an actress from All My Children "One of daytime TV's most beloved actresses, she's played Erica Kane...
Rich Canedo, a history teacher from Providence, Rhode Island Season 13 player (1997-06-05).
Leszek Pawlowicz, a materials scientist from Phoenix, Arizona 2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Bev Schwartzberg, a history teacher originally from Amherst, Massachusetts 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 1993 Tournament...
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California 2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois 2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
Carrie Pfeiffer, a high school history and government teacher from Columbia, Tennessee Season 18 player (2001-09-04).
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California "He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
Babu Srinivasan, a graduate student and history teacher from Houston, Texas 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland 2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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...
Chris Capozzola, a graduate student from Washington, D.C. "Ten years ago, he was a junior in Worcester, New York....
Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California "When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan "She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska "She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York "He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania "He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
Melanie Perreault, a college history professor from Salisbury, Maryland Season 22 player (2006-03-01). Melanie uses the French pronunciation for her...



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