| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $800: In Cairo in 1978 he said, "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land" Sadat |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1600: He's a comedian, Comedy Store comedy club royalty & the land edge of a body of water (Pauly) Shore |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $600: The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel Wuthering Heights |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG $600: At the X Games in 1999, he became the first pro skateboarder to land a 900--it was epic! Tony Hawk |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | MYSELF $800: His autobio said in 1835 Mr. Freeland hired him from his master, but he wanted "to live upon free land as well as with Freeland" Frederick Douglass |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $1000: This seemingly Utopian land is the title of an 1872 Samuel Butler work, which he "Revisited" in a 1901 sequel Erewhon |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: One legend says this son of Erik the Red came to America in a boat he bought from a merchant who'd told of seeing a land of trees Leif Erikson |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $800: He wrote a verse play about the Scandinavian folk hero Peer Gynt & Edvard Grieg wrote music to go with it Ibsen |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | NEW ORLEANS: NEWS CLUES $800: (Hi, I'm Lee Zurik.) Holding the title of longest continuous bridge over water in the world, the 23-mile Causeway over this lake finds drivers losing sight of land Lake Pontchartrain |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE 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 |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $800: He gets a new job with a Mancha, Mancha man who promises future land ownership, but things don't exactly work out Sancho Panza |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | BEHIND THE SONG $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote this song because he was sick of hearing "God Bless America" "This Land Is Your Land" |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $1600: Before legal novels like "The Burden of Proof", he wrote about the Harvard law experience in "One L" Scott Turow |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $600: In "A Grief Observed", he left the land of Narnia to grapple with his feelings of loss after his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $2,200 (Daily Double): As a title character he's only a prince, but Caspian eventually becomes a king in this fantasy land Narnia |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | THE 15th CENTURY $400: Around 1494 he deluded himself into believing Hispaniola was the biblical "land of Sheba"; he'd later leave his brothers there Columbus |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400: To wander through the land of the Caesars roam Rome |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY $1600: "And" he "went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden" Cain |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $400: The name of this N.J. city across the Hudson from Manhattan comes from Native American words meaning "land of the tobacco pipe" Hoboken |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $800: La Santa Sede is the local version of this official name of Vatican City the Holy See |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $1200: Sapporo is the major city on this island Hokkaido |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $1600: It's the state capital seen on the map here Hobart |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $2000: Denmark & Germany long squabbled over the region known as Schleswig-this Holstein |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $200: In Exodus God says he wants to take the Israelites "unto a land flowing with" this pair milk and honey |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | POUND! SAND! $1600: He dedicated his poem "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound, "il miglior fabbro" ("the better craftsman ") (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $800: ...Iran / who ruled with too firm a hand / according to text / Khomeini was next / he was no longer the king of his land the Shah |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | EXPLORERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Around 980 he sailed west & named the land he found Greenland Erik the Red |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | NEVER TO RETURN $800: In 1194 Richard I left England to fight for disputed land in this country, where he caught an arrow 5 years later France |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $200: In "The Marvelous Land of Oz", he's the ruler of the Emerald City & is still full of straw the Scarecrow |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | ZEBULON PIKE'S PIQUES $800: Pike thought he bought land for the U.S. near the Twin Cities of this state in 1805, but the Sioux seemed to disagree Minnesota |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $1600: Sent to work for an obscure movie co., Clark Gable asked employees, "Why ain't you wearing parkas in" this region? Siberia |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: "Speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land" Exodus |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Yoweri Museveni, in power in this East African land since 1986, says he planted bananas & has to stay to see them bear fruit Uganda |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: This interjection can follow "westward" or "land" ho |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | ONOMATOPOEIA $2000: He's the clockwork man of the land of Oz Tik-Tok |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $200: (Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) Muscle Beach is on the Venice Beach boardwalk; before he was California's governor from 2003 to 2011 he helped make the place famous, with his outdoor workouts Schwarzenegger |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE JOLLY ROGER $200: He founded the town of Providence on land he acquired from the Narragansett Indians (Roger) Williams |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $1600: For committing murder, he was exiled to "the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden" Cain |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | HOLY MOSES! $2000: Mounts that Moses summited include Sinai & this one from which he got a look at the promised land Pisgah |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES $400: In Exodus, God says he'll bring his people to a land flowing with these 2 things milk & honey |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): Tennessee bars holding office if you take part in these, though Tenn.'s Andrew Jackson took part in as many as 100 duels |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $200: This state is about 48 miles long & 37 miles wide Rhode Island |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $400: Named for a freedom fighter, it's a Southeast Asian metro area of 6.4 million people Ho Chi Minh City |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $600: 2 central European countries took its place in 1993 Czechoslovakia |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $800: It's the New Jersey city near Jersey City shown here Hoboken |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $1000: It's the northernmost of the 4 main islands of Japan Hokkaido |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | PUERTO RICO $400: Puerto Rico's anthem says that when this man reached the island he exclaimed, "This is the beautiful land that I seek" Columbus |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | POULTRY IN MOTION $1000: This Marvel Comics hero is a stranger in a strange land, but he did manage to fall in love with human model Beverly Switzler Howard the Duck |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | LAND OF THE "FREE" $800: A.A. Milne moved to London to make his living as this type of writer, though he did eventually join the staff of Punch magazine freelance |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1958 Vivian Fuchs became the first to cross Antarctica by land; he was joined partway by this Everest conquerer Edmund Hillary |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU $2000: He's short & round, he's pink, he's the title video game character in his "Return to Dream Land" Kirby |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | BUSINESS HISTORIES $600: In 1906 William Ramsay began making this shoe polish, which he named for his wife's native land Down Under Kiwi |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | FAMILY PLANNING $400: When he died in 1227, he passed on to his children land that extended from Beijing to the Caspian Sea Genghis Khan |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | OUT WEST IN THE 1850s $800: "Land" ho! This Northern California city was founded in 1852 & named for the trees that grew there Oakland |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BETTER 2-LETTER $400: An exclamation of surprise, it can follow "land" or "westward" ho |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | END OF THE LINE $1600: Martin Luther King Jr.: "He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the ____ ____" promised land |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | UP NORTH $2000: Before he went to the North Pole, Robert Peary explored this huge northern island, & a "land" there is named for him Greenland |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) I made my professional debut on "Another World", so I have extra appreciation for this farce in which Dustin Hoffman goes to great lengths to land a part on a soap opera Tootsie |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | GOD DID IT! $1,000 (Daily Double): In Exodus 3, God promised to smite this land "with all my wonders"; in Exodus 7, he did Egypt |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | MEMPHIS $600: Addressing Memphis sanitation workers on April 3, 1962, he said he'd "seen the promised land" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | STORY WITHIN A STORY $400: Exodus: "and she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been" this, a Robert Heinlein novel a Stranger in a Strange Land |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | NAME THAT BIBLE GUY $400: "He returned to the land of Egypt: and (he) took the rod of God in his hand" Moses |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | NAMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: While on his boat, he sent out a dove to see if there was any dry land yet Noah |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | "LAND", HO! $400: When you defame someone in print, it's libel; do the same verbally & it's this slander |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | "LAND", HO! $800: Sauce for eggs Benedict hollandaise |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | "LAND", HO! $1200: A man who spends time with many different women without becoming attached to any of them a philanderer |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | "LAND", HO! $1600: In a 1961 speech FCC chairman Newton Minow called TV "a vast" this wasteland |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | "LAND", HO! $2000: This American composer's works include "Prairie Journal" & "A Lincoln Portrait" Aaron Copland |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | LAND OF LANDSCAPES $2000: In 1897 Monet painted "Branch of the Seine Near" this small village he grew to know well Giverny |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | IMAGINARY PLACES $400: He is marooned on Houyhnhnms Land, an island in the South Seas Gulliver |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | LAND "HA"! $200: In 1636 Thomas Hooker, a Congregationalist minister, founded what would be this capital of Connecticut Hartford |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | LAND "HA"! $400: This "Big Island" was formed by 5 volcanoes, 2 of which are still active Hawaii |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | LAND "HA"! $600: This world capital lies about 100 miles south of Key West, Florida Havana |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | LAND "HA"! $800: Ho Chi Minh's remains are on display in a mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square in this Vietnamese city Hanoi |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | LAND "HA"! $1,400 (Daily Double): The Potomac River meets the Shenandoah at this West Virginia village famed for an abolitionist's Civil War raid Harpers Ferry |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | SCOTT LAND $1200: He's seen here on his way to winning Olympic gold in 1984 Scott Hamilton |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | SCOTT LAND $1600: He directed 2000's "Gladiator" Ridley Scott |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $2000: (Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) Though its title is a reference to the Land of Nod, this Steinbeck classic, a favorite of mine, is set in California's Salinas Valley East of Eden |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY $400: In 1912 this folk music legend had his 1st chance to say "This land is your land" (which he did not do, as he was a newborn) (Woody) Guthrie |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | GEORGE WASHINGTON $1600: Before he was a military man & a president, George had this job, someone who maps out exact land boundaries a surveyor |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | GETTING TICKED OFF $400: He gave his kids by Cleopatra much of the land once ruled by Alexander the Great; his co-rulers & rivals were not pleased Mark Antony |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | ABBREV. $1600: This metric land measure is abbreviated ha a hectare |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | "C" HERE $1200: The illegal taking of someone else's land that he has already staked out claimjump |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD... $1600: William Wallace likely used one of these large swords that shares a name with a type of land mine claymore |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | GULLIBLE TRAVELS $1000: Antonio de Mendoza, viceroy of New Spain, sent Coronado to find the Seven Cities of this golden land; he didn't Cibola |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | HEADS OF STATE $1000: Hugo Chavez--from Caracas he rules an oil-rich land Venezuela |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | POETS & POETRY $200: He dedicated the 1922 poem "The Waste Land" to his friend Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | SCOTT LAND $400: He was the fourth American in space, if you don't count the chimps Scott Carpenter |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | SCOTT LAND $600: She met Martin Luther King while he was studying theology at Boston University Coretta Scott |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Gardening tool/
interjection following "Westward" or "Land" hoe/ho |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | MORTAL MATTERS $800: In 1908, 27 years after killing Billy the Kid, he was shot to death by a New Mexico rancher in a land dispute Sheriff Pat Garrett |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | "LAND" HO! $200: In 2001 Canada's parliament officially added "and Labrador" to this province's name Newfoundland |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | "LAND" HO! $400: A valley formed by the Cuyahoga River divides this city into East & West sides Cleveland |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | "LAND" HO! $800: Australia's second-largest state in area, it's nearly 5 times the size of Japan Queensland |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | "LAND" HO! $1000: In 1982 King Sobhuza of this southern African country died after a 61-year reign Swaziland |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | "LAND" HO! $3,000 (Daily Double): The Saami live in this 7-letter region that includes parts of Norway, Sweden, Russia & Finland Lapland |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY & CONNECTICUT $1200: (John reports from Radio City Music Hall in New York)
The stock market crash ended this man's dream of putting an opera house here; he ended up building Radio City Music Hall on the land he controlled John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | THE HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $2000: (Jimmy stands in front of a seated statue of Herbert Hoover.) As a young geologist in the 1890s, Hoover found a gold mine near Coolgardie in this country; he called it "a land of red dust, black flies, and white heat" Australia |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: He renewed his ties to his native land by writing his "Hungarian Coronation Mass" in 1867 Liszt |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | MYSPACE.MAN $1000: Freedom 7's pilot in 1961, he also commanded Apollo 14, the 1st mission to land on the Moon & not on the lunar seas (Alan) Shepard |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | CIVIL WAR TIMES $400: On June 26, 1864 near Atlanta, he said, "We have devoured the land and our animals eat up the wheat and corn fields" (William Tecumseh) Sherman |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | QUOTATIONS $2000: From Ft. Sill, Okla. he made the plea, "Arizona is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to... return" Geronimo |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | DEAR JOHN $800: In 1946 he gave the United Nations a gift of $8.5 million to buy land for its NYC headquarters (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | FORBES 2005 TOP FICTIONAL RICH FOLKS $2000: First name Lucius, he's currently incarcerated in Azkaban Prison Malfoy |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | KING JOHN $1000: As he controlled no territory in his youth, John was known as John "Lack-" this land |
| #4929, aired 2006-02-02 | SCIENCE FICTION $1000: He won 6 Hugo Awards for his fiction, including "Starship Troopers" & "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert Heinlein |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | INITIALLY YOURS $600: At Ezra Pound's suggestion, he pared down his "Waste Land" to a mere 434 lines T.S. Eliot |
| #4909, aired 2006-01-05 | LITERARY ROCK & ROLL $1200: He's the actor & director heard here singing a song inspired by "The Hobbit"
"In the middle of the earth, in the land of the shire /
Lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire /
With his long wooden pipe, his fuzzy, woolly toes /
He lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows him..." Leonard Nimoy |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | EPONYMOUS $2000: In 1880 this British land agent in Ireland refused to lower his rents; as a result, he was isolated by protesters Charles Boycott |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | TOM SWIFTIES $1200: When he said, "We'll have to cross a treeless expanse of land", Tom spoke this way, very simply plainly |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | INVENTIVE MINDS $1000: 30 years after inventing an instant camera, he invented Polavision, instant movies Edwin Land |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | QUOTATIONS $600: Ironically, on April 3, 1968 he said, "I've seen the promised land" & "I'm happy tonight... I'm not fearing any man" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4661, aired 2004-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's used to attract attention to something sighted on a ship, like land or a sail ho |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | THE MOVIES: BUT WEIGHT, THERE'S MORE $1000: The pounds he put on for "Cop Land" may have been from a lot of rocky road ice cream Sylvester Stallone |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | WHERE YA FROM? $800: (Hi, I'm Joe Nichols.) It's the proper word for me & others from this state, the "Land of Opportunity" Arkansans |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | AFRICA $400: (Hi, I'm Jeff Probst) Found mainly in Africa, this fastest land mammal is not prospering cheetah |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AMERICAN DREAMS $800: In May 1961 he vowed to land a man on the moon & return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade John F. Kennedy |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | CHUTE FIRST $400: Before his famous transatlantic flight, this man parachuted out of damaged planes 3 times while delivering mail Charles Lindbergh |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | "P"-RUSSIA $200: This czar gave Russia a "window to the west" when he built a new capital on land taken from Sweden Peter the Great |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | POETIC LICENSE $1200: A rural legend says he wrote a nasty ballad about Sir Thomas Lucy after being caught poaching on Lucy's land William Shakespeare |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | THE LUNGS $600: (Hi-ho! Kermit the Frog here!)
On land frogs get a lot of their oxygen through the lungs; under water, we get it only through this organ the skin |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | THE LAND OF OZ $200: (Hi, I'm Elisabeth Filarski from Survivor.) If you watched "Survivor", you know that this sparsely settled interior is known by this 7-letter word the Outback |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | THE LAND OF OZ $1000: (Hi, I'm Colby Donaldson from Survivor 2.) It's a 1971 movie, or a return to Australian Aboriginal life, including survival in the bush Walkabout |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' SONGS $300: He "lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee" Puff the Magic Dragon |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER $200: G'day mate! He's the actor who plays "Crocodile Dundee" Paul Hogan |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | EXPLORATION $200: Fridtjof Nansen didn't know if this was on land or in mid-ocean, but he really, really wanted to reach it the North Pole |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $200: Once Moses' aide, he led the Israelites into the promised land Joshua |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | OLD TRAVEL BOOKS $1000: In the 5th century B.C. he added a great description of the land of Egypt to his great history work Herodotus |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The land purchase he negotiated with Mexico was in part intended for a cross-country railroad he wanted to build James Gadsden |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | GREAT SCOTS! $300: This author was named chancellor of the U. of Edinburgh in 1930, a job he may have thought he'd never-never-land James M. Barrie |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | AMERICAN WRITERS $500 (Daily Double): The land on which he built a small cabin in 1845 was owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | DEUTERONOMY $200: In 4:22 he reveals, "I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan" Moses |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | CHOCK FULL O' NUTS $1000: In "Crazy People" he played an ad exec whose brutally honest ad campaigns land him in an insane asylum Dudley Moore |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | POET-TREE $200: "The dead tree gives no shelter", he observed in "The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | TASMANIAN TIDBITS $200: Discovering the island in 1642, he named it Van Diemen's Land Abel Tasman |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $500: The night before his death King said he had gone up to the mountain, looked over & seen this the Promised Land |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | DON'T DO THIS $100: Richard Josephson got 6 months for joking he had these while on a USAir flight, forcing it to land bombs |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | EXCLAMATION POINTS $200: This word plus an exclamation point is commonly found after "Westward" & "Land" ho! |
| #3089, aired 1998-01-22 | ROBERT FROST SAYS... $600: Fighting the sun at this man's inauguration, he declaimed, "The land was ours before we were the land's" John F. Kennedy |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | INVENTORS $200: At a 1947 meeting of the Optical Society of America, he took 2 instant photos of himself Edwin Land |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | EXPLORERS $500: His family friend Tyrker found vines & grapes in the new land, so he called the area Vinland Leif Ericson |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1994 he said his countrymen were as attached to the land as "The famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria" Nelson Mandela |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | EXPLORERS $800: Some say it was Daytona Beach where, in April 1513, he first claimed land for Spain on the U.S. mainland Ponce de Leon |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | GOOD THINKING $300: After his 3-year-old was impatient to see the photo he'd taken, he set out to invent an "instant" camera Edwin Land |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | INVENTORS $800: When he retired from Polaroid in 1982, he held 533 patents Edwin Land |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | HISTORY $100: In accepting this charter, King John acknowledged that he too was subject to the law of the land Magna Carta |
| #2756, aired 1996-09-02 | WORLD HISTORY $100: When Abel Tasman discovered this island in 1642, he called it Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Concerning this 1803 land acquisition, Thomas Jefferson said he had gone "beyond the Constitution" the Louisiana Purchase |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | EXPLORERS $800: In 1769 he set out on the Endeavour to find out if the Great South Land existed James Cook |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | "LAND" HO! $200: Lyndon Johnson's election victory in 1964 is usually described as this a landslide |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | "LAND" HO! $400: This U.S. satellite studies & photographs the earth's surface Landsat |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | "LAND" HO! $600: A lighthouse built in the 1790s stands on this peninsula, the westernmost point of England Land's End |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | "LAND" HO! $800: It's New Mexico's nickname Land of Enchantment |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | "LAND" HO! $1000: Except for a short border with Mozambique, this small monarchy is surrounded by South Africa Swaziland |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | COLONIAL AMERICANS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1636 he bought land at the head of Narragansett Bay Roger Williams |
| #2600, aired 1995-12-15 | CLASSIC SONG LYRICS $100: He "frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah-Lee" Puff (the Magic Dragon) |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $500: Claudius took elephants when he invaded this island land in 43 A.D. Britain |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: It commonly follows "land" & "heave" ho |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: He sent Igal the Issacharite to scout the Promised Land in Numbers 13:7 Moses |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | INVENTORS $500: In 1977 he unveiled his company's new instant motion-picture system, Polavision (Edwin) Land |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: This interjection can follow "westward" or "land" ho |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BLACK AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1800 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable left this city he founded on Lake Michigan & sold his land for 6,000 livres Chicago |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: In his will, he left a plot of land in Grandview, Missouri to his Masonic lodge Harry S. Truman |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | INVENTORS $1000: In the 1940s he developed a 3-D motion picture process based on polarized light (Edwin) Land |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: Since he couldn't escape from King Minos' prison by land or sea, he devised a way to do it by air Daedalus |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD $400: In 1982 he retired as chairman of Polaroid's board (Edwin) Land |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: He arrived in New Netherland in May 1626, bought land & built Fort Amsterdam Peter Minuit |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | JOHN C. FREMONT $400: His wealth came from a deposit of this found on his Mariposa land; later, he lost it all in railroad deals Gold |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | PHOTOGRAPHY $500: In 1888 he developed the first camera to use roll film (George) Eastman |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | POPES $600: In 1964 he became the first pope in almost 2000 years to visit the Holy Land Paul VI |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Best known for 1961's "Stranger in a Strange Land", he sold his first story in 1939 to "Astounding" (Robert) Heinlein |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | FAMOUS SPEECHES $400: In his last public address, he said, "I've been to the mountaintop...and I've seen the Promised Land" Martin Luther King, Jr |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | THE BIBLE $200: Because of an incident in Zin, God told him he could see the Promised Land but not go into it Moses |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $200: He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, not in Never-Never-Land (James) Barrie |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | TECHNOLOGY $400: In addition to film, he came up with the Polaroid lenses used in sunglasses (Edwin) Land |
| #1719, aired 1992-02-06 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: Edwin Land is the name behind Polaroid & he's the name behind Kodak George Eastman |
| #1704, aired 1992-01-16 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: Deuteronomy says he was buried "in a valley in the land of Moab... but no man knoweth of his sepulchre" Moses |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1853 he was sent to buy land south of the Rio Grande but came back with a different purchase (James) Gadsden |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | POETS & POETRY $500: He said his title for "The Waste Land" was suggested by a book on the Grail legend T.S. Eliot |
| #1533, aired 1991-04-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: The site of Pawtucket is part of the land he purchased from the Narragansett Indians Roger Williams |
| #1494, aired 1991-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He wrote a total of 14 books about the land of Oz Baum |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | THE MIDDLE AGES $200: In 1086 this conqueror ordered the Domesday Book Survey to see how much land he owned William |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | POETRY $500: On Ezra Pound's advice, he cut "The Waste Land" to about half its original length T.S. Eliot |
| #1392, aired 1990-09-25 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $300: It's the "Land of Lincoln", though he was born in Kentucky Illinois |
| #1386, aired 1990-09-17 | QUOTES $100: "At two hours after midnight appeared the land," he wrote in his journal October 12, 1492 Columbus |
| #1376, aired 1990-09-03 | POLITICAL QUOTES $500 (Daily Double): 1 day before his assassination he remarked, "I've looked over, & I've seen the promised land" Martin Luther King (Jr.) |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | BIBLICAL WOMEN $2500: While in the land of Midian, he married Zipporah, a daughter of Jethro Moses |
| #1282, aired 1990-03-13 | MOUNTAINS $400: According to the Bible, he died on Mount Nebo which overlooks the Promised Land Moses |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: English king born on Xmas eve 1167; he had no power or land as a youth & was nicknamed "Lackland" King John |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | '50s SONGS $300: He was "Born on a mountiantop in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free" Davy Crockett |
| #1107, aired 1989-05-30 | MARCH $300 (Daily Double): On March 26, 1955 this "Ballad" hit No. 1 on the charts & stayed there for 5 weeks:
"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee /
Greenest state in the land of the free /
Raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree /
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three..." "Davy Crockett", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" |
| #1103, aired 1989-05-24 | SPIES $400: According to the Book of Numbers, he sent 12 men to spy out the Land of Canaan Moses |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | THE VIKINGS $200: Leif Ericson called the new land he found this, after the many grapes growing there Vinland |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | POETRY $600: He dedicated "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound, whom he called the better craftsman T.S. Eliot |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | INVENTORS $500: In the early '30s he produced the 1st piece of plastic embedded with polarizing crystal (Edwin) Land |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1000: Though called a hermit, he led thousands of crusaders to conquer the Holy Land Peter the Hermit |
| #771, aired 1988-01-04 | MORTAL MATTERS $1000: He was lost at sea in a hurricane in 1638, shortly after buying more land from the Indians Peter Minuit |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | EXPLORERS $400: Nikolai Przhevalsky is noted for the wild horses he found exploring this "Outer" Asian land Mongolia |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | BLUNDERS $200: In 1977, suicidal T. Helms jumped off 86th floor of this building only to land on 85th floor ledge the Empire State Building |
| #297, aired 1985-10-29 | FAMOUS NAMES $500: Legend says the "plum" he took was land deeds hidden in pastry he carried to Henry VIII Little Jack Horner |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | OLD TESTAMENT $1000: He called his son Gershom, meaning "a stranger there", because he was a stranger in a strange land Moses |
| #283, aired 1985-10-09 | WILD WEST $400: He died poor, trying to reclaim his land & mill, which were overrun by miners (John) Sutter |
| #146, aired 1985-04-01 | THE BIBLE $1000: Land to which the Lord sent Cain after he killed his brother the Land of Nod |
| #88, aired 1985-01-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $700 (Daily Double): State this song takes place in:
"...on the deck / With a spyglass in hand / Said the fog was so tarnald thick / That he could not find the land / O the E-ri-e was rising / And the gin was gettin' low / And I scarcely think we'll get a drink / Till we get to Buff-a-lo-o-o / Till we get to Buffalo" New York |
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