| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $600: In "Poor Things", this Oscar winner becomes kind of a combination of Eliza Doolittle & Frankenstein (Emma) Stone |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | DON'T EAT THAT! $200: It comes before poor, nap, cheap & bag dirt |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $1200: Poor Geoffrey was on the menu at Pompeii; archaeologists have dug up a bone of this tall African animal in the ancient city a giraffe |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $1200: The "Angel of Rome", Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, was the last of these singers, many "sold" by poor parents castrati |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $1200: Full of humor, weather predictions & practical advice, it was first published in December 1732 under a pseudonym Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $500: The Financial Times called this ABBA song, "a lament about being poor in a rich man's world" "Money, Money, Money" |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THOMAS AQUINAS, ADVICE COLUMNIST $600: Dear Struggling: Sorry, but the poor must pay these, whether the traditional tenth of income or more tithe |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | NUN BUT THE BRAVE $800: In 1831 Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy in this world capital to care for the poor & destitute Dublin, Ireland |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST 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 |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $800: "It's terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller" The Glass Menagerie |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ishmael & crew ready their harpoons in preparation to capture a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" star Moby-Dick Van Dyke |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $200: Forbes cited "investor fears about" him "adding yet another CEO job" after a $44 billion purchase; he fell to No. 2 on the list Elon Musk |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | WALKING & TALKING $1200: The title character of this play says, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player" Macbeth |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | WHAT AN IDIOM! $1200: If you are impoverished, you are as poor as this rodent a church mouse |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | BAKER'S DOZEN $200: The southernmost of the 13 colonies, it was meant to be a place where England's poor could get a new start Georgia |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $2000: The belief that members of the highest social ranks are duty-bound to help the poor is the crux of this 2-word French phrase noblesse oblige |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $800: A follower of St. Francis & a patron of the poor, St. Anthony of this city Padua |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | THE "END"s OF THE EARTH $800: One posh & home to famed theaters & one notoriously poor, these 2 London districts are on opposite sides of the city's center the West End & East End |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $200: If you're neglected, you may fall through these; in 2020 President Obama said our health systems allow it to happen to the poor the cracks |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY 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 |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | QUICK LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): He's a real bit player in "Hamlet"--just a skull Yorick |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | A LITTLE POETRY $600: Emma Lazarus wrote "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" to raise funds for the pedestal of this the Statue of Liberty |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: At his death in 1616, he left 10 pounds to the poor of Stratford & his second best bed to wife Anne Shakespeare |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $200: "It's a poor craftsman" who does this; how's a hammer going to respond anyway? blames his tools |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $800: "In the small town of Hannibal... everybody was poor, but didn't know it: and everybody was comfortable, and did know it" Mark Twain |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | PRIMING THE PUMP $800: Oxygen-poor blood is pumped to the lungs through the pulmonary valve by the right this, a chamber of the heart ventricle |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | ESSAYS $800: Charles Lamb's 1823 "The Tombs in the Abbey" argued that the poor shouldn't be charged admittance to visit this London spot Westminster Abbey |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $800: Poor Mimi in this Puccini opera dies from tuberculosis La bohème |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $1000: At first, "Martin Chuzzlewit" had poor sales, so Dickens added a section set in this country he'd just visited the United States |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $2000: Ben Stiller cited this "international" thriller from 1962 as an inspiration for "Zoolander"; poor Derek is an assassination patsy The Manchurian Candidate |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $2000: This Jonathan Swift title "suggestion" prevented "the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents" A Modest Proposal |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | SITCOMS $600: He was the poor mountaineer who struck oil & became rich on "The Beverly Hillbillies" Jed Clampett |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | WHICH COMES FIRST $800: The first of these says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" the Beatitudes |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE LEAGUE LEADER $600: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, & Blitzcrank & Dr. Mundo as well, fighting champions in this online video game the League of Legends |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN $400: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) In Franklin's day almanacs outsold all books except Bibles, and this one of Ben's was especially popular; to weather & crop info, he added maxims like "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees" Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | INVESTING $400: Warren Buffett says most people should simply hold a fund that tracks the S&P 500, short for this index Standard & Poor's |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $400: "You stay in your place while I sit here and rule", says this turtle king, pulling a serious top 1% job on a poor turtle named Mack Yertle (the Turtle) |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $800: A Pietà Michelangelo made for his own tomb, struggling with poor-quality this stone, was unveiled after a major restoration marble |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER? $2000: Reading:
This O. Henry story about a poor couple at Christmastime makes a good read in the New York Sunday World "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $2000: This bird is named for its call, first & third syllables accented, which it may repeat 400 times without stopping a whip-poor-will |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | I WANT 2 B $200: Poor Bart Simpson has been writing on one after school for over 30 years a blackboard |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $600: In "Othello", Cassio tells this man, "I have very poor & unhappy brains for drinking" & he replies, "I'll drink for you" Iago |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | PLANETARY SCIENCE $1200: 15 years before its official discovery, it was photographed in 1915 by Lowell Observatory, which didn't know what it was Pluto |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 5 BURROS $1000: In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the mischievous Puck gives this poor weaver the head of an ass (Nick) Bottom |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $2,400 (Daily Double): In this novel inspired by a painting, Griet is the title 17th century portrait sitter the Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $1600: No stuffed tiger, he wrote in "Leviathan" that life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" Thomas Hobbes |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AT FREDDY'S $1200: While holding this British title as heir apparent for 20-plus years, the 18th century's "Poor Fred" lived in Cliveden House the Prince of Wales |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | WELCOME TO THE PARTY $600: This Mass. senator switched from Rep. to Dem. after she studied credit card companies that fleeced poor families Elizabeth Warren |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | ALL ABOUT THAT BASE $600: A video game called "Zero Wing" gave us the meme "All your base are" these 3 words, a poor translation from Japanese belong to us |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE STOCK MARKET $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1941 Standard Statistics merged with this man's investment information publishing company Poor's (Henry Poor) |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1,000 (Daily Double): In December 1732 Benjamin Franklin published his first edition of this, for the coming year Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $1200: The Ming bought horses on a huge scale from these previous rulers (it's hard to breed horses in China's selenium-poor soil) the Mongols |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | THIS & THAT $400: In December 2020 Tesla joined this stock market index that lists many more companies than the Dow Standard & Poor's |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | GOING FROM FIRST TO THIRD $400: In a holiday song, this title precedes "the angels did say, was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay" "The First Noel" |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | A PIRATE'S LIFE $1200: Proud to plunder the rich who plunder the poor, Black Sam Bellamy called himself this English forest guy of the sea Robin Hood |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | ADD A VOWEL $1000: U: stationery becomes a very poor person paper & pauper |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $400: For the first time ever, in 2011 the credit rating for the U.S. was downgraded from AAA to AA+ by this financial info. co. Standard and Poor's |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | COUNTRY CLUBS? $2000: This 11-letter word is the "D" in IDA, a 173-member association that grants loans to foster growth in poor countries development |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $1000: From this Bill Watterson comic strip: "In the past, you've been a remarkably poor judge of what your mom cares about" Calvin and Hobbes |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Accommodations were poor at this Crimean conference that shaped postwar Europe: bad beds, lice, & Stalin had no private bathroom Yalta |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | NOTABLE ITALIANS $2000: The musicians had scores, but he didn't. With poor eyesight, this 20th century maestro conducted from memory Arturo Toscanini |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | JUST SAY "N.O." $800: It's a French phrase whose sentiment is that the rich should take care of the poor noblesse oblige |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | SONGS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY $600: Elmo & Patsy:
"____ Got Run Over By A Reindeer" Grandma |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $400: Emma Lazarus wrote, "Give me your tired, your" these poor |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $2000: J.D. Vance analyzes the culture of poor white Americans in this 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $1000: "A Christmas Carol" says, "However & whenever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget poor" him Tiny Tim |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Giant bell in the London clock tower that published "Poor Richard's Almanack" Big Ben Franklin |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "P" $200: It's a person's style of handwriting; a doctor's is stereotypically poor penmanship |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS $200: Last name of 18th century printer James, who used the pen name "Poor Robin" for some of his almanacs Franklin |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | HER STORY $400: From her pen: "The dirty scallawags, the lousy trashy poor whites, boasting they would live at Tara!" (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FICTION $600: She says to Mr. Rochester, "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?" Jane Eyre |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | LET'S MAKE A NEW DEAL $600: This 2019 resolution calls for renewable energy, healthy food, high-speed rail & help for the poor, elderly & homeless the Green New Deal |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | GALA $400: This Brit took from the rich & gave to the poor & a charity named for him does the same; its annual gala can bring in $50 million plus Robin Hood |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This O. Henry story about a poor husband & wife trying to buy each other Christmas presents has a twist ending "Gift of the Magi" |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia):
Visit the Franklin Institute gift shop, buy a copy of "Poor Richard's Almanack,"and take some of Ben Franklin's wisdom with you, like, "He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with" these fleas |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | TAKING STOCK $1000: Running its own market index as well as providing credit ratings, "S&P" stands for this company Standard & Poor's |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1200: David McCullough's book on this year shows Washington in December writing of "the poor remains of our debilitated army" 1776 |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | SHORE LINES $800: A poem by her rhymes "your poor" with "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" (Emma) Lazarus |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | BROTHERS GRIMM FAIRY TALES $4,000 (Daily Double): After a poor peasant's wife grows ill, she gives birth to a tiny son whom they name this Tom Thumb |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE CUDGELINGS $200: 1936:
He dished out the biggest beatdown in Electoral College history, thumping poor Alf Landon 523-8 FDR |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $400: The 1733 edition of this character's "Almanack" has wisdom like "Great talkers, little doers" Poor Richard |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM $600: In an encyclical he wrote, "Earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most... maltreated of our poor" Pope Francis |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | UNDER THE SEA $800: Georges Bank off Mass. once teemed with this "fish that changed the world", but the stock is overfished & in poor shape codfish |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: The 1935, 1964 & 2018 State of the Union addresses used this word for the poor & needy underprivileged |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | OUR FAVORITE SUFF-ICS $400: Aristotle's "Politics" says in this system, the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them democracy |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | GENIUSES ARE BORN $600: Later to take the pen name Richard Saunders, he was born to a poor family in Boston January 17, 1706 Ben Franklin |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | FAKE CLUES $1000: German for replacement gives us this word for a poor substitute ersatz |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $1000: This orphan was written into existence just after the passing of the Poor Law of 1834 Oliver Twist |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | MOVIE TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS $600: To Mexican moviegoers, Macaulay Culkin was left behind as "My Poor Little Angel", aka this film Home Alone |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $800: A proverb from "Poor Richard's Almanack":
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are ____" dead |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | REVERSIBLE COMPOUND WORDS $1000: Chores around the domicile & a Dickensian institution where the poor exchanged labor for lodging housework and a workhouse |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION $800: In the 1800s it was an industry of recycling wool for cheap blankets & such; today it's an adjective for poor workmanship shoddy |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | 1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Ralph Abernathy took over as president of this organization and led the Poor People's March to Washington Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $400: Poor grammar was one reason the Concord, Mass. library banned this Twain novel 1 month after it was published in 1885 Huckleberry Finn |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | GOOD CAUSES $600: Sister Donna Markham is the president of these Charities USA, which helps millions of poor people a year the Catholic Charities |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | NEEDLES $1600: Though beautiful, the Norway type of this evergreen isn't the best Christmas tree because of poor needle retention a spruce |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | BOOK-POURRI $1000: Saul Bellow's "Adventures of" this character follows a poor Jewish kid growing up in Chicago in the Depression Augie March |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | CONFUCIUS SAID $200: "Not to grumble at being ____ is hard, not to be proud of wealth is easy" poor |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | ONCE UPON A TIME $1000: This "poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet" tries to keep warm on New Year's Eve but ends up freezing to death the Little Match Girl |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This condition affecting millions worldwide is the result of a poor or insufficient diet malnutrition |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $1200: A champion of social welfare reform, Jane Addams founded Hull House to help the poor in this Midwest city in 1889 Chicago |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | CHEESY ANAGRAMS $1000: Often stretched into sticks:
POOR NOVEL provolone |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $800: In the satiric 1729 "A Modest Proposal", this author suggested dining on poor Irish children to control poverty Jonathan Swift |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $400: "London!--that great place!--Nobody--not even Mr. Bumble--could ever find him there!" thinks this poor Dickens lad Oliver Twist |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | GOOD FELLERS $1600: This poor woodcutter of fable watches 40 thieves hide their plunder in a cave Ali Baba |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: The first Beatitude says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is" this place, also the title of a Crusades movie the kingdom of heaven |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "L"ITERATURE $2000: Ever the optimist, Hobbes wrote in this work: "The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" Leviathan |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | THEOLOGY BRANCHES $1200: This controversial theology centered in Latin America tries to combine Catholicism & social justice for the poor liberation theology |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $1600: It means as penniless as a rodent at a Christian house of worship poor as a church mouse |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | BESTSELLERS $400: When it was finally published in the U.S. in 1959, this D.H. Lawrence novel promptly became a bestseller Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: Seen here around 1340 are nuns of the group called "the Poor" these, after the name of their founder, a woman of Assisi the Poor Clares |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | POETRY, NON-POETICALLY $200: So, this poet writes of a massive military mess-up, & the poor soldiers--600, to be precise--man, they are just hosed! Tennyson |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | WHEN THINGS WERE ROTTEN $1600: Avalanches of this are not uncommon in poor areas of large cities; in 1993 one killed more than 30 near Istanbul garbage |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has officially said that bad weather & poor navigation were to blame for any loss of transports in the area between Miami, Puerto Rico & this island Bermuda |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WORDS OF DESIRE $1000: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" doing this "to breathe free" yearning |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | A GRAVE MISTAKE $200: A case of mistaken identity Poor Richard |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | "UV" PROTECTION $400: We always hear about this French word preceding "riche", but it also is found in front of "pauvre" for a newly poor person nouveau |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | MEMOIRS $2000: In this 2005 memoir Jeannette Walls writes about growing up poor in a dysfunctional family constantly on the move The Glass Castle |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | BREAKFAST $800: You can use almost any kind of bread for this breakfast dish that the Brits call "Poor Knights of Windsor" French toast |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | THE FILMS OF STANLEY TUCCI $1000: Deceptively ordinary Stanley kills poor young Susie Salmon in this 2009 film The Lovely Bones |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | PHILOSOPHIC PHIL IN $1200: Hobbes:
"The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and ____" short |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | BETTER CALL SAUL $2000: Better not mention "the witch of" this town who called up a ghost that gave poor Saul a real fright Endor |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | MUSIC MISHMASH $400: In 1958 this magazine debuted its "Hot 100" chart with Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" as the first No. 1 Billboard |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | LITERATURE $200: This Brit's own poor childhood inspired him to write books like "David Copperfield" Charles Dickens |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | 500 $1000: The S&P of the S&P 500 index stands for this; half of it sounds like something a businessman tries to avoid Standard & Poor's |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | NOVELS' SEQUELS $10,200 (Daily Double): "Beggarman, Thief" Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | DRAMA MAMAS $1,200 (Daily Double): Mama buys a home in a mostly white neighborhood in this drama about the Youngers, a poor black family A Raisin in the Sun |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | MEMORABLE METAPHORS $800: "Glass, china and reputation, are easily crack'd, and never well mended" is from "Poor Richard's Almanack" by him Benjamin Franklin |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | "J" MOVIES $800: 1979:
Steve Martin is "born a poor black child" The Jerk |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | DOUBLE TALK $400: In 1983 there was no harmony at this New York prison when inmates rioted over poor conditions Sing Sing |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | SYMPTOMS OF LOVE $1600: Poor coordination & tingling--could be love or a lack of thiamine, also called this alphanumeric vitamin B1 |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | HERE'S YOUR HAT $400: This Mexican hat with a tall, tapered crown & upturned brim is straw for the poor & felt for richer folks a sombrero |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | WHEN? IN '64 $800: In an October 14 surprise, he quit after a coup as head of the USSR due to--ahem--"advanced age and poor health" Khrushchev |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | OF CHAMPIONS $1000: For helping poor people improve their own areas, Saul Alinsky was known as the "Father of" this type of organizing community |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | FOOD IN THE BIBLE $400: In Leviticus, God says thou shalt not gather every one of these "of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor" grapes |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | MAKING THE GRADE $800: One of these is below investment grade if it is rated "BB+" or lower by Standard & Poor's a bond |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a sign labeled "Delancey Street Christmas Trees" in San Francisco, California.) Delancey Street, the country's leading residential self-help organization, empowers the poor, substance abusers, and former felons. It's been helped by politicians like this former San Francisco mayor, now a US senator Dianne Feinstein |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | WORLD NEWSPAPERS $2000: This German tabloid whose name means "Picture" was founded in 1952 for those with poor reading skills Bild |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | DOUBLE "Z" $400: This 2-word phrase for a large vehicle with poor fuel economy became popular in the 1970s gas guzzler |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | BESTSELLING NONFICTION $1000: Frank McCourt won a 1997 Pulitzer for this poignant account of his growing up poor in New York & Ireland Angela's Ashes |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | JUST A WORD BEFORE GOING $1000: Concerned about his mistress Nell Gwynn, this restoration king requested, "Let not poor Nelly starve" Charles II |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BUSINESS & THE MARKET $400: Since 1957 Standard & Poor's has had an index of this many stocks 500 |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | THE PAUPER $200: As a poor boy, 6-year-old Harland Sanders had to feed his younger siblings before he fed us all with this chain KFC |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | THE BEATITUDES $400: 2 groups that are blessed are "the poor in spirit" & "the pure in" this heart |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | THE PAUPER $800: Hugo Chavez grew up poor in Sabaneta in this country but rose to power & fame Venezuela |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY $200: (The star of Cinderella, Laura Osnes, gives us the clue from the New York Broadway Theatre.) In costumes by William Ivey Long, I'm magically transformed from a poor servant girl to a princess ready for the ball; however, the magic all wears off at this hour midnight |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MAKING A BEE LINE $1600: In "Henry V" Shakespeare mentions "the lazy yawning" this bee that dies after mating drone |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ALAS, POOR... $200: This order of classical architecture characterized by austere columns Doric |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ALAS, POOR... $400: This, the "intake" you should regulate if you're trying to drop weight caloric |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ALAS, POOR... $600: This word for things that happened before the written word prehistoric |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ALAS, POOR... $800: This acid produced in the stomach hydrochloric |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ALAS, POOR... $1000: Alas, poor this castle that brings tourists to the English Midlands Warwick |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | LET'S TWIST AGAIN $400: The Poor Law of 1834 & the resulting lure of crime led Dickens to pen this 1838 novel Oliver Twist |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | YEAR HE, YEAR HE $2000: George Orwell completed the manuscript for "1984" 1948 |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In print for about 25 years, this annual publication by Benjamin Franklin sold about 10,000 copies a year Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | POKER WORDS $400: You get poor treatment if you get a "raw" one of these deal |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: In this 1866 Russian novel, a poor student named Raskolnikov kills an old woman pawnbroker Crime and Punishment |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | SILENT P WORDS $200: This was bare when a certain old mother went to it "to give her poor dog a bone" the cupboard |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | COMPOSERS & THEIR MUSIC $1200: Even when poor, this 19th century opera composer made sure to dress exquisitely Richard Wagner |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) As a child, I dreamed of living among wild animals, influenced by my favorite book characters, Dr. Dolittle & this "Lord of the Jungle" (I knew I'd be a better jungle companion for him than that other wimpy Jane) Tarzan |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE POOR MAN'S $200: Azam Shah built the structure seen here; it's called the poor man's this, built by Azam's grandfather the Taj Mahal |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE POOR MAN'S $400: This 3-letter North Atlantic fish has been called "the poor man's lobster" cod |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE POOR MAN'S $600: We hope it "hurts so good" that he's known as "the poor man's Bruce Springsteen" (John) Mellencamp |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE POOR MAN'S $800: Mailing yourself your own novel is "the poor man's" this type of protection but doesn't have legal standing copyright protection |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE POOR MAN'S $1000: An Iranian president called CBW, short for these weapons, "the poor man's atomic bomb" chemical and biological weapons |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | BRITISH LITERARY QUOTES $1600: She plans to draw a picture of herself & write under it, "Portrait of a governess, disconnected, poor, and plain" Jane Eyre |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1600: This ex-minister's first novel for boys, "Ragged Dick", told the story of a poor shoeshine boy who rises to wealth Horatio Alger |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | BUSINESS LETTERS $600: It's what the S & P stand for in the S&P 500 Standard & Poor's |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | PLACES IN TEXAS, PLUS $1000: It's an Air Force base & a nickname of England's property-poor King John Lackland |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $600: "Poor as a church ____" mouse |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | RULE OF THIRDS $800: In credit rating: Fitch, Moody's... Standard & Poor's |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | THE QUOTABLE KEATS $800: Keats rhymed, "life is but" this long; "a fragile dew-drop on its perilous way" (especially for poor John) a day long |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | CHRISTMAS PARTIES $800: This holiday song says, "I am a poor boy too...I have no gift to bring...shall I play for you" "The Little Drummer Boy" |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | CHARLES DISCHARGED $800: He vulcanized rubber but bounced out of the world a poor man July 1, 1860 Goodyear |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | BOOK OF THE CENTURY $200: 18th:
His almanac, edited by Ben Franklin Poor Richard |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | LET'S HAVE A "BALL" $400: In a kids' song, "I lost my poor" this "when somebody sneezed" meatball |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $400: He says, "Merry Christmas! ...What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): Her work as an obstetrical nurse for poor women made her an advocate of birth control, a term she coined Margaret Sanger |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $1000: The senior frightener seen here, he showed many faces in his career Lon Chaney, Sr. |
| #6395, aired 2012-06-08 | POETRY, THY NAME IS HIM $1200: "Death be not proud... Die not, poor death; nor yet canst thou kill me" John Donne |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | THE FIRST LETTER IS... $800: U:
Different from peptic ones, chronic leg ones may result from poor blood circulation caused by diabetes ulcer |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | TO INFINITY & BEYOND $1000: When John Dryden wrote, "Darest thou, poor worm, offend infinity?", by infinity he meant this God (the Deity) |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | AMERICAN "H"ISTORY $200: To provide poor & minority children a better chance for success in school, this 1965 program was directed at preschoolers Head Start |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | A FEW THINGS HAPPENED IN 1865 $1,400 (Daily Double): William Booth formed this Christian service organization to help the working class & the poor The Salvation Army |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | NEW FADS $400: Vanna's caught up in the Internet fad seen here that goes by this wooden name planking |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | ANAGRAMMAR $400: "He" is one:
POOR NUN a pronoun |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE NUNS $2000: Rubens portrayed Archduchess Isabella in the habit of the sisters of this poor saint Saint Clare |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | THE MIDDLE AGES $800: He was 48 when he created Charlie Bucket, a poor child who finds a golden ticket Roald Dahl |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | RICH COUNTRY, POOR COUNTRY $200: It's the world's third-biggest economy, with 2010 GDP of $4.3 trillion--that's more than 300 trillion yen Japan |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | RICH COUNTRY, POOR COUNTRY $400: Among individual nations, it was the world's biggest exporter in 2010 China |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | RICH COUNTRY, POOR COUNTRY $600: Bailout talk heated up in Europe when Standard & Poor's downgraded its credit to junk status in April 2010 Greece |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | RICH COUNTRY, POOR COUNTRY $800: More than 80% of its exports go to the U.S. & Canada; its trade with them has nearly tripled since 1994 Mexico |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | RICH COUNTRY, POOR COUNTRY $1000: More than 80% of Angola's GDP stems from the production of this resource; much is found offshore oil |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | POEMS ON POETS $400: To hear about "My Highland Lassie" / My poor heart, it yearns / For he wrote 'em, I just quote 'em / He is... (Rabbie) Burns |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | THIS YEAR IN HISTORY $600: 2011:
This company founded by a 1941 merger downgrades the USA's long-term credit rating to AA+ Standard & Poor's |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | HYBRIDS $800: Poor Richard's tome that's a slang term for a drug enforcement agent an almanarc |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE $1000: In "Little Women" she tells sisters Jo, Amy & Beth, "It's so dreadful to be poor" Meg |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | 3 $1000: The 3 orders of these monks are the Friars Minor, the Poor Clares & the Brothers & Sisters of Penance the Franciscans |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | FATHER'S IN LAW $1600: Father learned about the quaint problems of the poor at Chicago's "Edwin F. Mandel" this type of "Clinic" legal aid |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN $800: 1758 will b last yr of me writing & pub. this: been at it 4 25 yrs, that's enuf Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | A DICKENSIAN NIGHTMARE $400: That wedding gown, that faded gown--I cannot get it, or poor Miss Havisham, out of my head Great Expectations |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | "GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION $800: The U.N.'s website says this job is "a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor" the Secretary-General |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | GRUMPY $1600: Who would hold it against this poor fisherman for being grumpy after sharks ate his prized marlin catch? Santiago |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | DISCOVERIES $1200: James Marshall, whose discovery began this 1849 frenzy, died poor in Kelsey, California the California Gold Rush |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | "OP" CULTURE $1600: Garment factory employing workers for long hours in poor conditions a sweatshop |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | FAMILIAR SAYINGS $2000: It's a poor workman who blames these tools |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | IT'S REIGNING MEN $200: According to World Book, France's Louis XVI "often relied on her poor advice" Marie Antoinette |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | MUSICAL LODGINGS $400: The Animals said this place was "the ruin of many a poor boy" the House of the Rising Sun |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $800: "Give me your tired, your poor, your (blank) masses yearning to breathe free" huddled |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | WHISTLER $400: Whistler was a cadet at this service academy but was dismissed because of his poor academic record West Point |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | GET "OUT" WHILE YOU CAN $600: A condition in polar regions where snow makes visibility poor a whiteout |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | '90s BEST PICTURE PLOT POINTS $400: Poor Jack Dawson leaves Southampton in 1912 to go to America for a new start; has trouble along the way Titanic |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CATS & DOGS $1200: An English greyhound in miniature, this speedy dog has been called the "poor man's racehorse" a whippet |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | GANGSTER RAP $800: Grew up poor in Texas / Wasn't rollin' in no Lexus / Ms. Parker was my matey / I was played by Warren Beatty Clyde Barrow |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | VICTORIAN NOVELISTS $400: He wrote "Oliver Twist" against the background of the Poor Law of 1834, which ended the supplemental dole to the poor Dickens |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | ABLE ANIMALS $1200: Rats have poor vision but can enhance their perception by using these, also called vibrissae whiskers |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | THAT AIN'T IN YOUR TYPICAL COUNTRY SONG $400: I never grew up poor / I have no old blue jeans / My suits are all from these siblings' store / In business since 1818 Brooks Brothers |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | TIME LINES $400: "You may delay, but time will not", he wrote in "Poor Richard's Almanack" Benjamin Franklin |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | A JOURNEY THROUGH ISRAEL $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is in a boat.) You can ride in a boat reminiscent of Jesus' time on this sea, beside which he preached & performed miracles like the one of the loaves & fishes the Sea of Galilee |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $2000: Born into a poor Jewish family, this Russian-French artist painted the dreamy "Lovers in the Moonlight" Marc Chagall |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | ALLITERATIVE NOVEL PERSONAGES $2000: Agreeing with her sister Jo's despair over a lack of Christmas gifts, she says, "It's so dreadful to be poor" Meg March |
| #5764, aired 2009-10-08 | LITERARY SEQUELS $2000: Irwin Shaw continued the story of the Jordache family in this 1977 sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man" Beggarman, Thief |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | THE VICTORIANS $400: The plight of the poor was shown in works like "Horrible" this city & "The Bitter Cry of Outcast" this city London |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | MOVIE SYNOPSES $200: 2008:
Poor Mumbai teen wins big on a game show, is accused of cheating Slumdog Millionaire |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | YOU NEED A DRINK $600: A person used to be smashed onto a new boat as a sacrifice; this effervescent drink is less painful champagne |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | (WHOOPS) $400: This Aegean country increased its GDP by including the black market but lost EU aid as it was no longer poor enough Greece |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | POETRY IN EARLY AMERICA $800: Ben Franklin ventured into verse for this alter ego's song of his plain country wife Joan Poor Richard |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | PERSONAL FOWLS $200: It follows "whip" in the sound that gives a little brown bird its name -poor-will |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | LESSER-KNOWN LINES $1000: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" is the last line of this poem "The New Colossus" |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | AMERICANA $1000: She wrote the poem that says, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" Emma Lazarus |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | MISHEARD LYRICS $400: Their "Every Breath You Take" went, "How my poor heart aches", not "I'm a pool hall ace" The Police |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $600: Talk about poor coping skills! In this 2008 action film Edward Norton turns into a monster when he's stressed The Incredible Hulk |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $1600: A poem on the statue reads "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to" do this breathe free |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | JAY LENO'S HEADLINES $400: This centuries-old book for sale: "Original signed copy, poor shape, very holy , $20" a Bible |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | AN ALPHANUMERIC CATEGORY $2000: Based in Thames house, the United Kingdom's domestic security service has this name MI5 |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | FUN WITH A PORPOISE $600: In contrast to sharks, porpoises have a poor sense of taste & lack this sense altogether smell |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | PROJECT RUNWAY $400: In the 1920s, her "poor girl" look of simple & comfortable clothes attracted wealthy women tired of corsets (Coco) Chanel |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | WAR $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV.) In 1972, responding to poor combat performance in this war, the United States Air Force began the Aggressor program to provide adversaries during training the Vietnam War |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | ANIMATION THAT'S A PUZZLE $2000: Robin Hood's creed take from the rich, give to the poor |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | PLEASE DON'T SET THE DORM ON FIRE $1000: No oily rag heaps; poor air circulation plus oxidation leads to this 2-word term, as Spinal Tap's drummer learned spontaneous combustion |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BREAKFAST $1000: In England this dish, bread dipped in an egg-&-milk batter & fried, is called "Poor Knights of Windsor" French toast |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | DRINK UP! $800: This liquor that's made from agave has been called "tequila's poor cousin" mescal |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | CURSES $1200: NFL players on the cover of his video game series are said to be cursed with future injury or poor performance John Madden |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | FAMILY-FRIENDLY MUSICALS $800: This Mark Twain tale about a rich kid & a poor kid who trade places inspired a musical that opened off Broadway in 2002 The Prince and the Pauper |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Impossible to read because of poor handwriting illegible |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $1200: Poor family makes big move from Oklahoma to California; it doesn't work out The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT $1000: If you spend your last dime on one of these New Orleans-style hero sandwiches, you really will turn into one a poor boy |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | FINANCE $800: It's often set up by the wealthy for their kids, but California has a state children's one for poor folks a trust fund |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | SHAKESPEARE $200: This title queen uses an asp, a "poor venomous fool", to kill herself Cleopatra |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | THAT'S MY "MA" $400: In 1758 Ben Franklin issued his last publication of this annual Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | ART-FULLY STOLEN $1,000 (Daily Double): A note said "Thanks for the poor security" after this painting was stolen during the Lillehammer Olympics in 1994 The Scream |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEN OF LETTERS $1200: 2 "poor folk" exchange letters in this Russian's psychologically penetrating first novel, from 1846 Dostoevsky |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | MEDICATIONS $600: L-DOPA treats the tremors, spasms & poor muscle control associated with this neurological disease Parkinson's Disease |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | I'M STARVING! $1600: On his deathbed, this English king remarked, "Let not poor Nelly starve"--referring to his mistress Charles II |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | TOUGH TIMES, KID $400: Before success with brands like Tommy Jeans, he was a class clown to cover for the embarrassment of poor grades Tommy Hilfiger |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | PITFALL $1600: Putting an army officer in charge of this fleet was one reason for its poor showing in an August 1588 naval battle the Spanish Armada |
| #5214, aired 2007-04-19 | EUROPEAN COMPOSERS $800: Due to the poor reception of his 1904 premiere of "Madame Butterfly", he withdrew it to revise the score Puccini |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | A REAL BEATITUDE PROBLEM $1600: According to the Beatitudes, "blessed are" these people, "for they shall be called the children of God" the peacemakers |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | LOVE & MARRIAGE $400: "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards", he advised in "Poor Richard's Almanack" Benjamin Franklin |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | ROMANS $1000: Vespasian, a poor man's son who became emperor in 69 A.D., began this dynasty that lent its name to an amphitheater the Flavian dynasty |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | PUPPET-POURRI $800: A puppet show called "Percy, the Poor Little Penguin" premiered at this store's Herald Square location in 2001 Macy's |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD $200: Around 1948 she moved into slums to help the poor; on Oct. 19, 2003 she was beatified Mother Teresa |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | A 5-CHAPTER STORY ABOUT STORIES $800: Ch. 2: Rich boy (Oliver) falls for poor girl (Jenny) in this 1970 first novel Love Story |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | GOOD KNIGHT $4,500 (Daily Double): The Poor Knights of Christ became known by this name after occupying a house near the Temple of Solomon the Knights Templar |
| #5141, aired 2007-01-08 | TV NUMBERS $200: Poor Jack Bauer--he always seems to be having a really bad day on this Fox drama 24 |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: One of the 2 Erskine Caldwell novels of the 1930s that were censored for their portrayals of poor whites Tobacco Road (or God's Little Acre) |
| #5093, aired 2006-11-01 | IDENTITY THEFT $400: The work of "The Saint of the Gutters", Paris Hilton, with India's sick & poor earned her the 1972 Nehru Award Mother Teresa |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $400: It's the city where you'd find "The House Of The Rising Sun", the ruin of many a poor boy New Orleans |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THE ELEMENTS $5,200 (Daily Double): The Venus' flytrap catches & digests insects mainly to absorb this element nitrogen |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | 1960s ROCK LYRICS $1600: "On a cold and gray Chicago mornin', a poor little baby child is born" here, "and his mama cries" "In The Ghetto" |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | ED ASNER $800: Ed had the Axel Jordache look when he took home an Emmy for this 1976 Peter Strauss miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #4935, aired 2006-02-10 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: Agnes was the original first name of this nun who became "Mother" to the poor of Calcutta Mother Teresa |
| #4909, aired 2006-01-05 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $2000: In 1832 Daniel Webster said his veto of the Bank Bill "manifestly seeks to influence the poor against the rich" Andrew Jackson |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | Rx MARKS THE SPOT $400: "Oxy" for short, this painkiller has been widely abused in poor rural areas in the U.S. Oxycontin |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: Its first edition contained "The Lunations, Eclipses" & "Judgment of the Weather" for the year 1733 Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #4858, aired 2005-10-26 | SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE $2000: In "Vanity Fair" this poor, scheming girl secretly marries Rawdon Crawley, who is then disinherited Becky Sharp |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | "POO" POURRI $1600: It's the 1741 publication that contains the line "Beauty, like supreme dominion, is but supported by opinion" Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #4843, aired 2005-10-05 | HEALTH CARE $400: Serving the poor, it's the nation's largest public health insurance program Medicaid |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | ANIMAL QUOTATIONS $600: "Honesty dwells like a miser... in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul" this an oyster |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | RUSSELLMANIA $1000: A collection of this New York Times columnist's work was titled "Poor Russell's Almanac" Russell Baker |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | WE "EARN" IT $800: The 4 words that follow the classic "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..." yearning to breathe free |
| #4682, aired 2005-01-04 | LITERARY SHORTS $2000: Swift advocates the eating of poor children as a way to combat poverty A Modest Proposal |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER $800: The full name of the crusading Knights Templar was "The Poor Fellow-soldiers of Christ and of" this man's "Temple" Solomon |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE $200: "On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball, when" this happened somebody sneezed |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | BEN FRANKLIN $400: "A house without a woman and firelight is like a body without soul or sprite" is from this Ben Franklin annual Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #4650, aired 2004-11-19 | RUSSIAN AROUND $1200: In 1762 Peter III was deposed, she became reigning empress & poor ol' Pete was murdered shortly thereafter Catherine the Great |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | REPORTING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE $400: Aug. 22, 1996: Pres. Clinton's signature reforms this system that sent federal cash grants directly to poor families welfare |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS $800: He was called the poor man's candidate in 1896; a campaign button quoted his "Cross of Gold" speech William Jennings Bryan |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING $1000: It "is the poor man's bread" but one "who lives by" it "will die by hunger" hope |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: She went to the baker's to buy her dog some bread; "when she came back the poor dog was dead" Old Mother Hubbard |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | THE ANATOMY OF EVEL $600: Alas, poor Yorick, do not leap forth at Caesars, for verily, Evel fractured this upon landing in the year 1969 his skull |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | UNICEF $200: UNICEF is the world's largest buyer of these for poor countries, a shot in the arm for the survival of kids vaccinations |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | TELEVISION MILESTONES $1000: One of the first TV miniseries was this 1976 adaptation of a bestselling Irwin Shaw novel about 2 brothers Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | BOX IT UP $400: This 1969 Simon & Garfunkel hit begins, "I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told" "The Boxer" |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | MILITARY MATTERS $2000: This medieval order of knights was aka "the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ & the Temple of Solomon" the Knights Templar |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | CAR TALK? $2000: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that" does this "and frets his hour upon the stage" struts |
| #4536, aired 2004-05-03 | MOTHER GOOSE $400: In later verses, this title woman goes to the alehouse, the tavern & the cobbler, all for her poor dog Old Mother Hubbard |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: One version of this story begins, "There was once a poor miller who had a very beautiful daughter" "Rumpelstiltskin" |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: If your command of the German language is poor, it wouldn't hurt to ask, "Sprechen sie Englisch?", which means this Do you speak English? |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | U.S. HISTORY $800: August 28, 2003 marked the 40th anniversary of his famous speech heard here:
"My poor little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin..." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4466, aired 2004-01-26 | OPERA TITLE CHARACTERS $1,400 (Daily Double): The title characters of this opera are a poor boy, King Kaspar, King Melchior & King Balthazar Amahl and the Night Visitors |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | BROTHERS ON BROTHERS $800: I played Dr. O'Dell in this "Rich Man, Poor Man" sequel that's about coping with the loss of a brother Beggarman, Thief |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | IN THE BIG INNING $2000: Up 5-3 in the 10th, this team lost game 6 & later the '86 Series after a ball went through Bill Buckner's legs the Boston Red Sox |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | PASS THE "P"s $1,000 (Daily Double): This publication is credited to an imaginary astronomer & appeared from the early 1730s to 1757 "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | PLACES TO GO AFTER YOU'RE DEAD $800: The friendless poor & strangers are buried in one of these, mentioned in Matthew 27:7 a potter's field |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | THE GIANTS $1200: Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel "Giant" Edna Ferber |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | EDITH WHARTON PIECES $2000: A poor farmer falls in love with his wife's cousin in this 1911 tale of tragic irony Ethan Frome |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | PEN NAMES $400: He was "Poor" Richard Saunders Ben Franklin |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | HE DID IT! $1000: Mockingly suggested that poor children should be fed to rich people in his pamphlet "A Modest Proposal" Jonathan Swift |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO? $400: Cleopatra:
"Leave the fishing-rod...to us poor sovereigns of Pharos...your game is cities, provinces & kingdoms" Mark Antony |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | SHAPES $800: Apple introduced this style for the Powermac in 2000 & discontinued it in 2001 due to poor sales cube |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | AMERICAN NICKNAMES $2000: Gloria Vanderbilt or Doris Duke; it's also the translation of the Victoria Ruffo telenovela title "Pobre Nina Rica" Poor Little Rich Girl |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $800: It's the Ricky Nelson hit heard here "Poor Little Fool" |
| #4311, aired 2003-05-05 | NUN BUT THE BRAVE $800: In 1831 Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy in this world capital to care for the poor & destitute Dublin |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | "POT" LUCK $400: A public burial ground for poor or unidentified people a potter's field |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $800: Furnisher of financial data on Wall St.:
S&P Standard & Poor's |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | MOTHER GOOSE $400: She wanted "to give her poor dog a bone", but her cupboard was bare Old Mother Hubbard |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | OO, SORRY YOU'RE POOR $400: These manufacturing centers that make workers "perspire" were originally in the workers' homes sweatshops |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | OO, SORRY YOU'RE POOR $800: Poet John Clare lived out the cliche, ending his days both penniless & this insane |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | OO, SORRY YOU'RE POOR $1200: This federal-state health insurance program covers 36 million low-income people including children & the disabled Medicaid |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | OO, SORRY YOU'RE POOR $1600: Aussie slang for a pub, it's also a shack; poor people may live in a "town" of them shanty |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | OO, SORRY YOU'RE POOR $2000: Completes the title of Michael Harrington's book that inspired the War on Poverty, "The Other..." America |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | NATIONAL FOODS $1,200 (Daily Double): Its other names include Poor Knights of Windsor & Pain Perdu (lost bread) French toast |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | AUNTIE UP $800: In this 1958 film Rosalind Russell says, "Life is a banquet & most poor suckers are starving to death!" Auntie Mame |
| #4184, aired 2002-11-07 | FITNESS & HEALTH $400: Kids as young as 7 swim, bike & run at the Ironkids one of these events -- poor tykes triathlon |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | LOOK WHO'S TALKING $1000: 1685:
"Let not poor Nelly starve" King Charles II |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | THOMAS AQUINAS, ADVICE COLUMNIST $600: Dear Struggling:
Sorry, but the poor must pay these, whether the traditional tenth of income or more tithes |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | BEN $400: This publication that Ben first put out in 1732 often sold 10,000 copies a year Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | REAL ROMANTICS $1600: This composer was the great-grandson of a poor Jewish scribe named Mendel (Felix) Mendelssohn |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | SAINTS $1000: A follower of St. Francis, this "poor" saint is the patroness of television Clare |
| #4061, aired 2002-04-08 | WHAT'S "D" MATTER? $1200: Sammy Sosa, who grew up poor in this country, uses much of his earnings to help the people there the Dominican Republic |
| #4052, aired 2002-03-26 | SEE: $800: If you go to poor "Garfunkel, Art", you'll be told to see: this man for info Paul Simon |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | THE "ODD" COUPLE $600: Of poor quality or inferior material shoddy |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | IS SAID $1600: Porfirio Diaz bemoaned, "Poor Mexico! So far from God & so close to" this country the United States |
| #4017, aired 2002-02-05 | McPEOPLE $400: Poor guy! He finished the 2001 baseball season with 29 fewer homers, 41 fewer than in 1998 Mark McGwire |
| #4009, aired 2002-01-24 | 11 O'CLOCK LITERARY NEWS $2000: Jonathan Swift joins us with this 1729 "editorial" favoring the rich devouring poor Irish kids; oh, the letters we'll get A Modest Proposal |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | NARESH, MY E-PAL $1600: In Calcutta Naresh once saw Mother Teresa, one of these religious women who helped the poor nuns |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | EGYPT BEYOND THE PYRAMIDS $400: All classes of society wore these accessories; the poor wore vegetable fiber, while the rich got real hair Wigs |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | MMM...PIE $400: Use the eating variety of this gourd for pies; the jack o' lantern type produces poor pies Pumpkin |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | MISC. $100: Long before it was newburged or thermidored, it was so plentiful it was a food for the poor lobster |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | "DEC" ME $800: Old, overused & in poor condition Decrepit |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WRITERS BY QUOTE $800: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" Emma Lazarus |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | MOTHER GOOSE $300: It's the reason "Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard" To get her poor dog a bone |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | DEVILISH MOVIES $200: Poor little Regan MacNeil is possessed by the devil in this 1973 classic The Exorcist |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | "YO"! $500 (Daily Double): Looking at a skull, Hamlet says, "Alas, poor" this fellow of infinite jest Yorick |
| #3771, aired 2001-01-15 | THE WEATHER FORECAST $1000: Poor air quality will result from this layer in which the atmosphere warms as you go higher Inversion layer |
| #3732, aired 2000-11-21 | REVERSED DECISIONS $200: 1942's Betts v. Brady greatly limited a poor defendant's right to this Counsel |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | CIVIL ENGINEERING $400: Name shared by a tunnel-digging machine & a mammal with poor eyesight Mole |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | TOTALLY 1680s! $500: On his deathbed, speaking of his mistress Nell Gwyn, King Charles II said, "Let not poor Nelly" do this starve |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | NURSERY RHYMES $100: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to fetch this poor creature a bone Her dog |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | PATRON SAINTS $800: Lost items & the poor Saint Anthony of Padua |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $500: After a poor reception in Naples in 1901, this tenor vowed never to sing there again & never did Enrico Caruso |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | BOOKS OF 1970 $400: This 1970 Irwin Shaw book became a TV miniseries in 1976 Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | MATH $800: The type of statement seen here, or the relationship between rich & poor:
x3 - 23 < 91 an inequality |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? $200: Completes the title of a book & TV movie about heiress Barbara Hutton, "Poor Little..." Rich Girl |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | FERDINAND & ISABELLA $1000: Isabella took an interest in helping religious orders, especially this "poor" order of nuns the Poor Clares |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | MY "BAD" $500: This sailor recounts his 7 voyages to a poor porter named Hindbad Sinbad |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | CONDUCTORS $600: This Italian-born maestro of the NBC Symphony conducted from memory due to poor eyesight Arturo Toscanini |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | BESTSELLERS $400: In 1970 Irwin Shaw gave us this bestselling saga of the Jordache family "Rich Man, Poor Man" |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | WHOSE IS IT? $600: Ben Franklin used a pen name to publish this almanac from 1732 to 1757 Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #3444, aired 1999-07-22 | DRAMA $200: It's the play where you'll find the line "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio" Hamlet |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | "WHIP"s & "CHAIN"s $300: This North American bird is named for its odd call, which it may repeat several hundred times without stopping the whip-poor-will |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | SAY CHEESE! $200: His "Poor Richard's Almanac" says that "Cheese and salt meat should be sparingly eat" Benjamin Franklin |
| #3390, aired 1999-05-07 | "MOTHER"s DAY $100: She "went to the cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone" Old Mother Hubbard |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $100: Poor family makes big move from Oklahoma to California; it doesn't work out "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| #3374, aired 1999-04-15 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: He also created Bridget, a wife for his Poor Richard Saunders Benjamin Franklin |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | CINDERELLA STORIES $200: This former partner of Dean Martin played the poor stepson in "Cinderfella" Jerry Lewis |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | LITTLE HOUSE $400: The word for this little house is from Canadian French; a "town" of them is a poor or depressed area Shanty |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | QUOTATIONS $1000: Benjamin Franklin wrote in "Poor Richard's Almanack", "A little neglect may breed" this Mischief |
| #3320, aired 1999-01-29 | CHOCOLATEY QUOTES $500: His play "Arms And The Man" includes the line "Oh, you are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!" George Bernard Shaw |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $300: In 1968 King was planning a second march on this city, to unite poor people Washington, D.C. |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | DUBLINERS $400: In "A Modest Proposal", this Dublin satirist suggested poor Irish children be sold as food Jonathan Swift |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | THE STOCK MARKET $300: Known as S&P, it tracks the market with reports, guides & indices Standard & Poor's |
| #3226, aired 1998-09-21 | FISH $400: This scary-looking eel has razor-sharp teeth but extremely poor eyesight Moray eel |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | CLASSIC RHYMES $400: "Come 'N listen to my story 'bout a man name Jed, poor mountaineer, barely" did this Kept his family fed |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $300: In 1997 Pope John Paul II called this late nun "The unforgettable mother of the poor" Mother Teresa |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | WHO SAID THAT? $200: The 1758 preface to his “Poor Richard's Almanac” says, “He that lives upon hope will die fasting” Benjamin Franklin |
| #3195, aired 1998-06-19 | PEOPLE IN SONG $200: The Kingston Trio told this “poor boy” to “hang down” his “head and cry” Tom Dooley |
| #3189, aired 1998-06-11 | WHEN STATES FIGHT $300: Maine split from this state in 1819 in protest of high taxes, poor roads & the distance to the capital Massachusetts |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | HAIKU $1000: In a great haiku / by Basho, a poor boy grinds / this grain by moonlight Rice |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | LITERATURE $400: In this novel, Sancho Panza is described as a poor, honest man "without much salt in his brain-pan" "Don Quixote" |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | BLESS YOU $600: Term for Jesus' 8 statements beginning with "Blessed are the poor in spirit..." the Beatitudes |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | DEATH SENTENCES $800: Speaking of his mistress, this English king's last request was "Let not poor Nelly starve" King Charles II |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | OLD YORK $400: Alas, poor York! It was burned by this new ruler of England in the 11th century William the Conqueror |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | DECEMBER 1963 $500 (Daily Double): In Dec. 1963, The 4 Seasons split with their record label, signed with a new one & had a hit with this song:
"Think! Think! Oh the places you'll see /
Now think what the future would be /
With a poor boy like me..." "Dawn" |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | QUOTATIONS $600: It concludes the Sophie Tucker quote that begins, "I've been rich and I've been poor" but believe me, rich is better |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX $500: "Golden Boy" playwright who defined sex as "the poor man's polo" Clifford Odets |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | TV HISTORY $200: This limited-run dramatic format came into vogue in the '70s with "Rich Man, Poor Man" & "Roots" Miniseries |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY $500: This "house in New Orleans" has "been the ruin of many a poor boy" the House of the Rising Sun |
| #3110, aired 1998-02-20 | G.B. SHAW PLAYS $600: In a dream scene this title saint asks, "Can a poor burnt-up lass have a ghost?" St. Joan (Joan of Arc) |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | ESSAYS $600: He attacked poor writing in 1946's "Politics and the English Language" before inventing Newspeak George Orwell (Eric Blair) |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $100: A.A. Milne boy who stole from the rich to give to the poor Christopher Robin Hood |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | QUOTATIONS $400: "Poor Richard's Almanack" says, "To lengthen thy life, lessen" these Meals |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | 1974 $300: The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped this heiress & demanded food for the poor as a ransom Patty Hearst |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | POP MUSIC $1000: During his long career, he had only 2 No. 1 hits: "Travelin' Man" & "Poor Little Fool" Ricky Nelson |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | POOR & FAMOUS $200: He drank up the money he got for songs like "Oh! Susanna" & died with 38c in his pocket Stephen Foster |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | POOR & FAMOUS $400: Despite help from Engels in the 1850s, he & his family often subsisted on bread & potatoes Karl Marx |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | POOR & FAMOUS $600: He spent years in poverty after selling his sewing machine invention to corset maker William Thomas Elias Howe |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | POOR & FAMOUS $800: This Russian's 1866 novel "The Gambler" is based on his own ruinous passion for roulette Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | POOR & FAMOUS $1000: She fled her rich Assisi family to found an order of "poor" nuns Saint Clare |
| #2991, aired 1997-09-08 | NUN SENSE $400: Around 1830 Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of this to care for Dublin's poor & sick Sisters of Mercy |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $100: He published his "Poor Richard's Almanack" at the new printing office near the market in Philadelphia Ben Franklin |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | OPERETTAS $900 (Daily Double): The 1879 operetta about this title group ends with the song heard here: The Pirates of Penzance |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1000: He wrote "I, Claudius" for adults & "The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star" for children Robert Graves |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES $3,100 (Daily Double): Shortly before he dies this king laments, "And my poor fool is hang'd!" King Lear |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): While Richard the Lion-Hearted was on a Crusade in the 1190s, this youngest brother tried to usurp the crown John ("John Lackland", "Poor John") |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | FOREIGN FILMS $600: 1994's "Bandit Queen" told the story of Phoolan Devi, a hero to the poor people of this country India |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | FRIED FOOD $200: In England, this breakfast dish of bread dipped in an egg-milk mixture & fried is called "Poor Knights of Windsor" French toast |
| #2929, aired 1997-05-01 | FASHION STATEMENTS $100: Symbolically, a person who starts out poor & becomes wealthy goes "from" these "to riches" rags |
| #2910, aired 1997-04-04 | MEDICINE $600: Poor bone marrow function is the leading cause of the aplastic type of this hemoglobin deficiency Anemia |
| #2892, aired 1997-03-11 | ALMANACS $500: Last name of Benjamin almanack alter ego, Poor Richard Saunders |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | ZOOLOGY $600: Having tiny eyes & poor vision, these small, flightless New Zealand birds hunt by scent Kiwi |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | 1796 $200: Ben Franklin sold this publication in 1757, but it continued until 1796 Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | WOMEN SAINTS $800: Originally called The Poor Ladies, they are now called this, after their founder from Assisi Poor Clares (St. Clare) |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | DOGS $500: Sometimes called "the poor man's race horse", it resembles a greyhound in miniature a whippet |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | GIFTS $100: This saint associated with Christmas gave bags of gold as dowries for poor girls St. Nicholas |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | LITERATURE $400: In the "Thousand and One Nights", Scheherazade tells the story of this poor Chinese boy & his magic lamp Aladdin |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: Jesus said, "We have" this group "with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good" the poor |
| #2697, aired 1996-04-30 | SAINTS $400: With the help of this man, Saint Clare of Assisi founded the order known as the Poor Clares St. Francis of Assisi |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | PEOPLE $1,200 (Daily Double): This woman who inspired a musical was quoted, "I was a pest. That poor convent couldn't have stood me." Maria von Trapp |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | POETS & POETRY $600: Emma Lazarus wrote, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to" do this "breathe free" |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): It begins, "In the ancient city of London... a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty..." The Prince and the Pauper |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | PROVERBS $200: "Poor Richard's Almanack" said this animal "in gloves catches no mice" a cat |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | ABBREVIATIONS $300: To an investor, the S & P in the S & P 500 stands for this Standard and Poor |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | GRAVESITES $300: The grave of the creator of Poor RIchard's Almanack is at this city's Christ Church Philadelphia |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | LITERARY SEQUELS $400: It was Irwin Shaw's 1977 sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man" Beggarman, Thief |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: He organized the corps of men who photographed the Civil War; poor eyesight limited his work Mathew Brady |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: This hero of "Les Miserables" became the prototype of a poor man suffering social injustice Jean Valjean |
| #2516, aired 1995-07-10 | QUOTATIONS $200: Poor Richard's Almanack tells us, "A fine genius in his own country, is like" this metal "in the mine" gold |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Among the Black heroes of this June 1775 battle near Boston were Peter Salem & Salem Poor The Battle of Bunker Hill |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | QUOTATIONS $200: In this publication, Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others" Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | HODGEPODGE $200: When this poet died in Baltimore in 1849, it's claimed his last words were "Lord help my poor soul" (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: In Edna Ferber's "Giant", he's a poor ruffian who becomes an oil baron Jett Rink |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | ODDS & ENDS $100: He published "Poor Richard's Almanack" under the pseudonym Richard Saunders Ben Franklin |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | PULITZER COMMENTATORS $400: His columns were collected as "Poor Russell's Almanac" Russell Baker |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $100: After publishing it for 25 years, Benjamin Franklin sold this "Almanack" in 1758 Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | OPERA $400: Title shared by the Puccini and Leoncavallo operas about Mimi, a poor seamstress La bohème |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | DRAMA $600: It completes the title of the play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet..." and I'm Feeling So Sad |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: First published in 1733, it "contained the lunations, eclipses, judgment of the weather..." Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #2229, aired 1994-04-21 | MEDICINE $200: Poor hygiene or tight-fitting shoes can cause this to become ingrown toenails |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Jett Rink, a poor ruffian, becomes an oil baron in this Edna Ferber work Giant |
| #2218, aired 1994-04-06 | QUOTATIONS $300: "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to" this country is attributed to Porfirio Diaz the United States |
| #2206, aired 1994-03-21 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $300: "The American Socrates" & "Poor Richard" Franklin |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | STARTS WITH "L" $500: It's been called a "poor substitute for the truth but the only one discovered up to date" a lie |
| #2184, aired 1994-02-17 | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN $1000: Poor Richard's last name Saunders |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | QUOTES $800: "Poor Richard's Almanac" included the line "Eat to live, and not" this live to eat |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | SHAKESPEARE $200: This title character holds Yorick's skull when he says, "Alas, poor Yorick!" Hamlet |
| #2102, aired 1993-10-26 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: Diestl is a Nazi ski instructor in "The Young Lions", this "Rich Man, Poor Man" author's first novel Irwin Shaw |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | TV NOSTALGIA $100: This leading character was "a poor mountaineer, barely kept his fam'ly fed" Jed Clampett |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | THEATRE $1000: The poor women of Canterbury are the first characters to speak in this T.S. Eliot play Murder in the Cathedral |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Irwin Shaw introduced brothers Thomas & Rudolph Jordache in this 1970 bestseller Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $400: “Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” is the 1st of these declarations the Beatitudes |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | ANIMALS $500: You should "gnaw" that beavers belong to this order of mammals rodents |
| #2028, aired 1993-06-02 | ISLAM $800: Individuals who cannot fast during this holy month may feed 30 poor people a day instead Ramadan |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: Poor health forced William Howard Taft to retire from this post in Feb. 1930; he died a month later Chief Justice (of the Supreme Court) |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | LITERATURE $200: It was 30 yards long, 9 feet high, & saddened poor Tom Sawyer the fence |
| #1980, aired 1993-03-26 | AUTHORS $600: This author of "Rich Man, Poor Man" began by writing "Andy Gump" & "Dick Tracy" on radio Irwin Shaw |
| #1952, aired 1993-02-16 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: First published in 1732, its authorship was attributed to a Richard Saunders Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | ROOMS $500: From an Old French word for "watchtower", it's an attic in which a poor author might live a garret |
| #1932, aired 1993-01-19 | QUOTES $200: Henry IV said he wanted no peasant so poor that he couldn't have one of these "in his pot every Sunday" a chicken |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | 1960s ROCK $300: The song in which "She's afraid to come out of the water, and the poor little girl's turning blue" "The Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini" |
| #1873, aired 1992-10-28 | FAMOUS COUPLES $200: When this royal couple announced they were separating, People Magazine sighed, "Alas, Poor Yorks!" Fergie & Andrew |
| #1865, aired 1992-10-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $300: 1 of his disciples, Yen Hui, was so poor he had only a single bamboo bowl of rice to eat Confucius |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | HAMLET $1000: This friend hears Hamlet's "Alas, poor Yorick" speech & his last words too Horatio |
| #1749, aired 1992-03-19 | BOOK SEQUELS $800: Much of this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man" centers on the 2nd generation of Jordaches Beggarman, Thief |
| #1740, aired 1992-03-06 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $400: Soon after Hamlet finishes his "Alas, poor Yorick!" speech he sees this woman's funeral procession Ophelia |
| #1739, aired 1992-03-05 | FIRST AID $200: People with poor circulation are especially susceptible to this type of freezing of a body part frostbite |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | FAMOUS FOLKS $200: In 1948 she got permission to leave her convent to help the poor of India Mother Teresa |
| #1719, aired 1992-02-06 | BRITISH ROYALTY $1000: When a woman tried to stab this king in 1786, he said, "The poor creature is mad! Do not hurt her" George III |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: Frank & Charles Seiberling named their tire company after this rubber pioneer who dies poor Goodyear |
| #1659, aired 1991-11-14 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: Actress to whom Charles II referred when he supposedly said, "Let not poor Nelly starve" Nell Gwyn |
| #1657, aired 1991-11-12 | 18TH CENTURY QUOTES $200: "After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy", he said in his almanac Poor Richard |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $100 (Daily Double): The operetta that features the following song:
"For I'm called Little Buttercup--dear Little Buttercup / Though I could never tell why / But still I'm called Buttercup-- poor little Buttercup / Sweet Little Buttercup I!..." H.M.S. Pinafore (Dear Little Miss Buttercup or The Lass That Loved a Sailor) |
| #1638, aired 1991-10-16 | POETRY $4,100 (Daily Double): Title of the poem that includes "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" "The New Colossus" |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND $100: One historian says he lived in the woods, allowed no woman to be molested & spared poor men's goods Robin Hood |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | CELEBRITY QUOTES $200: This Welshman was quoted as saying, "I'm really the poor man's Olivier" Richard Burton |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $300: Order founded in 1119, also called "Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ & the Temple of Solomon" Knights Templar |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | SIMILES $300: We hope you're never as poor as one of these rodents, who dwells in a place of worship a church mouse |
| #1568, aired 1991-05-29 | NOT SO FAMOUS QUOTES $100: Thomas Hardy said this "makes rattling good history, but peace is poor reading" war |
| #1549, aired 1991-05-02 | ANIMAL KINGDOM $600: The whippet, which was bred by crossing terriers with these, is called the poor man's race horse a greyhound |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Hamlet gives his “Alas, poor Yorick!” soliloquy in this location a graveyard |
| #1433, aired 1990-11-21 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $300: Jeeter Lester, a poor Georgia sharecropper, is the central figure in this Erskine Caldwell novel Tobacco Road |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | FICTION $1000: His first novel, "The Young Lions", appeared in 1948, 22 years before "Rich Man, Poor Man" Irwin Shaw |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | MUSIC MEN $300: As a child he was known as "Baby Traps the Drum Wonder", which wasn't a poor nickname Buddy Rich |
| #1373, aired 1990-07-18 | LITERARY QUOTES $200: "Poor people know poor people, & rich people know rich people," he wrote in "Act One" Moss Hart |
| #1347, aired 1990-06-12 | LITERARY OCCUPATIONS $600: In the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments", Sinbad was a sailor & he was a poor woodcutter Ali Baba |
| #1339, aired 1990-05-31 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: They were the son & daughter of Peter, a poor broom maker & his wife, Gertrude Hansel & Gretel |
| #1333, aired 1990-05-23 | THE CRUSADES $500: Walter the Penniless & this Peter led early groups of poor peasants into the fray Peter the Hermit |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | COMPLETES THE FILM TITLE $300: "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and..." I'm Feelin' So Sad |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | TV TRIVIA $500: At the end of "Book II" of this miniseries, Rudy Jordache was shot by Falconetti "Rich Man, Poor Man" |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | MOVIE QUOTES $1000: Eccentric character who said "Life is a banquet & most poor suckers are starving to death!" Auntie Mame |
| #1263, aired 1990-02-14 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: 1732 saw the birth of Washington & this almanack's first issue Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #1209, aired 1989-11-30 | FICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the 1858 book in which you'd you'd see this illustration: Gray's Anatomy |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $300 (Daily Double): A disembodied head or pumpkin was thrown at this poor country bumpkin Ichabod Crane |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | PROVERBS $400: They are "poor men's riches" but should be "seen and not heard" children |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | LETTERS IN SONG $200: Pat Boone lamented, "Now my poor heart just aches with every wave it breaks over" these Love Letters in the Sand |
| #1141, aired 1989-07-17 | PENNSYLVANIANS $100: "Little Women" was based on her own "poor but happy" family of mom, dad, 3 sisters & herself Louisa May Alcott |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | "GIVE" & "TAKE" $500 (Daily Double): In a 19th C. poem, this line follows "'Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she With silent lips." "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses..." |
| #1105, aired 1989-05-26 | U.S. HISTORY $500: The verdict in the 1982 trial of John Hinckley Jr. for attempting to murder the president not guilty by reason of insanity |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | HOLLYWOOD QUOTES $500: Frank Capra dubbed this director of "The Birth of a Nation" "The Poor Man's Shakespeare" D.W. Griffith |
| #1101, aired 1989-05-22 | MUSICALS $600: Title character who starts out as a poor girl from Missouri & ends up a rich passenger on the Titanic The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| #1092, aired 1989-05-09 | MYTHICAL CREATURES $400: The Sphinx did this to poor travelers who couldn't answer her riddle ate them |
| #1057, aired 1989-03-21 | LYRICS $100: "Hang down your head Tom Dooley, poor boy you're bound to" do this die |
| #1052, aired 1989-03-14 | AUTHORS $200: Lord Byron spent most his poor but happy childhood in Aberdeen, in this country Scotland |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | NUMBER, PLEASE $300: Number of companies used for the Standard & Poor's stock index 500 |
| #1035, aired 1989-02-17 | MEDICINE $600: Gingivitis is an inflammation of this part of the body caused by poor nutrition or hygiene the gums |
| #982, aired 1988-12-06 | POTPOURRI $500: Original source of the proverbs "Lost time is never found again" & "Little strokes fell great oaks" Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | WORD ORIGINS $400: An Arabic word for "poor" gave us this term for a Muslim or Hindu beggar said to have mystical powers fakir |
| #949, aired 1988-10-20 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $500: In France, this onion-like vegetable is known as the "asparagus of the poor" a leek |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | 18th C. AMERICA $300: Ben Franklin began publishing this the year George Washington was born Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | ROCK TRIVIA $400: In 1956, Elvis' initial 2-week run at this famous resort city was shortened due to poor audience response Las Vegas |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | "POOR" $200: While the Dow-Jones Industrial Average is based on 30 stocks, this company's index is based on 500 Standard & Poor's |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | "RICH" $200: Unlike most outlaws, Robin Hood did this stole from the rich and gave to the poor |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | "POOR" $3,100 (Daily Double): Of all Johnny Rivers' Billboard Top 10 hits, it's the 1st he wrote himself & the 1st to make No. 1:
"How can you tell me how much you miss me /
When the last time I saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me..." "Poor Side Of Town" |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | HETERONYMS $200: To conduct an orchestra, or a poor conductor lead [leed] & lead [led] |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | ACTORS OF THE PAST $800: King Charles II's deathbed request, "Let not poor Nelly starve", referred to this actress Nell Gwyn |
| #844, aired 1988-04-14 | MOVIE TRIVIA $500: Guinness says this distinction is held by the 1930 movie "The Poor Millionaire" the last silent film made |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | ZOOLOGY $400: Called "the poor man's cow", it often gives more milk than a cow for the amount of food it eats goat |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | JACKIE GLEASON $300: While most of Jackie's TV characters were poor, this 1 was described as "insufferably wealthy" Reginald Van Gleason III |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | COLORFUL SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Color in title of this 1967 No. 1 hit for The Lemon Pipers:
"Drop your silver in my tambourine /
Help a poor man build..." "Green Tambourine" |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | CLASSIC CINEMA $1000: Object in title of a late 1940's DeSica film, it's stolen from a poor Italian a bicycle |
| #748, aired 1987-12-02 | TRIPLE TALK $100: The Whiffenpoofs' words following "We're poor little lambs who've lost our way" baa, baa, baa |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | THE 1890s $400: Going to road test his 1st car June 4, 1896, he found the shed door wasn't wide enough to get the car out Henry Ford |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | ENDS WITH "C" $400: Your poor, old uncle is crazy; your rich, old uncle is this eccentric |
| #719, aired 1987-10-22 | "B" IN SHAKESPEARE $200: No matter what she does, poor Lady Macbeth can't get this off her hands blood |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | U.S. HISTORY $100: Ben Franklin published it annually from 1733 through 1758 Poor Richard's Almanac |
| #707, aired 1987-10-06 | #1 HITS $400: 1 of 2 #1 hits for Ricky Nelson (1 of) "Poor Little Fool" or "Travelin' Man" |
| #698, aired 1987-09-23 | HISTORICAL NICKNAMES $400: "Father of Continental Congress" or "Poor Richard" Benjamin Franklin |
| #689, aired 1987-09-10 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In "Hamlet", the 4 words that follow "Alas, poor Yorick!" "I knew him, Horatio" |
| #640, aired 1987-05-22 | BEEF $200: Cows bred for this function become poor beef animals milk |
| #630, aired 1987-05-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: He sings "I wear the black for the poor & beaten down, livin' on the hopeless hungry side of town" Johnny Cash |
| #630, aired 1987-05-08 | MOVIES $400: Due to poor reactions at previews, Frank Oz "planted" a happy ending on this 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors |
| #610, aired 1987-04-10 | MICE $100: Because this sense in mice is poor, they may enter a lighted room even if people are there sight |
| #599, aired 1987-03-26 | BEN FRANKLIN $400: Of Richard Rush, R. Saunders, or R. Franklin, pen name he used to sign "Poor Richard's Almanac" Richard Saunders |
| #590, aired 1987-03-13 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Dirt poor, riding a borrowed horse & carrying everything with him, Lincoln arrived here on April 15, 1837 Springfield, Illinois |
| #574, aired 1987-02-19 | FIRST LINES $100: "Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor woodcutter with his wife & his 2 children" "Hansel & Gretel" |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | CELEBRITY QUOTES $600: 8-time Oscar winner who said, "what I need is a script about a girl who isn't poor & doesn't hate clothes" Edith Head |
| #551, aired 1987-01-19 | NEW ENGLAND $200: The Upper New England climate has been described as "9 months o'" this, "& 3 months o' darn poor sledding" winter |
| #545, aired 1987-01-09 | U.S. HISTORY $500: Fraction of the nation Roosevelt saw as "ill-housed", "ill-clad", "ill-nourished" in 1937 one-third |
| #522, aired 1986-12-09 | "POOR" $200: Alas & alack, it's Linda Ronstadt's hard luck hit of 1978 "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" |
| #522, aired 1986-12-09 | "RICH" $200: From the song, "Ain't We Got Fun", phrase that precedes "and the poor get poorer" the rich get rich |
| #522, aired 1986-12-09 | "POOR" $400: It's why Dracula might crave Geritol after one too many anemic victims iron poor blood |
| #522, aired 1986-12-09 | "POOR" $600: Commonly attributed to Shakespeare, but actually a misquote, is this saying which ends "but mine own" a poor thing but my own |
| #522, aired 1986-12-09 | "POOR" $800: You might become rich by investing in the companies listed on this company's 500 index the Standard & Poor's |
| #522, aired 1986-12-09 | "POOR" $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the following:
[Instrumental music plays.] "The Poor People Of Paris" |
| #503, aired 1986-11-12 | SCIENCE $200: Poor amoebas! They reproduce by doing this dividing (splitting in two) |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | POST OFFICE $400: 4th class mail, including merchandise, printed matter, & mailable live animals, is better known as this parcel post |
| #492, aired 1986-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Surname shared by the authors of "Rich Man, Poor Man," & "Man & Superman" Shaw |
| #473, aired 1986-10-01 | "RICH" & "POOR" $100: Robin Hood's mission take from the rich & give to the poor |
| #473, aired 1986-10-01 | "RICH" & "POOR" $200: A bestseller since 1733,
it was written under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, philomath Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #473, aired 1986-10-01 | "RICH" & "POOR" $300: Of the traditional Christian marriage vows,
it's the vow least likely to appeal to Zsa Zsa for richer or poorer |
| #473, aired 1986-10-01 | "RICH" & "POOR" $500: The Joe E. Lewis
aphorism which ends "as long as you've got money" Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor |
| #473, aired 1986-10-01 | "RICH" & "POOR" $1,000 (Daily Double): For some, this couplet ends, "Indian chief";
for others, it's "merchant chief" rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief |
| #472, aired 1986-09-30 | BASEBALL NICKNAMES $400: Poor fielder Dick Stuart had this nickname based on a Peter Sellers title role in a '63 film "Dr. Strangeglove" |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | COLORFUL CLOTHING $400: AFC team whose jerseys are the same color as their name the Cleveland Browns |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | FINANCIAL AFFAIRS $500: Reason Uncle Sam added a $3,200 tax on that new $90,000 Ferrari Testarossa you just bought because it has poor gas mileage |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | TV GUYS $400: 1976 mini-series in which Peter Strauss & Nick Nolte played brothers Rich Man, Poor Man |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | POLITICAL QUOTES $500: British historian Arnold Toynbee said it's "the worst country to be poor in" the United States |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "POOR" MOUTHINGS $100: New Orleans' answer to the submarine sandwich the poor boy |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "POOR" MOUTHINGS $200: In Will Rogers Depression quip, America was 1st nation to go there in an automobile the poor house |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "POOR" MOUTHINGS $300: The 3 words preceding "I knew him, Horatio" "alas, poor Yorick" |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "POOR" MOUTHINGS $400: In the '30s, Shirley Temple played one & Gloria Vanderbilt was said to be one Poor Little Rich Girl |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | "POOR" MOUTHINGS $500: Theirs is "the kingdom of heaven" the poor in spirit |
| #352, aired 1986-01-14 | ATHLETIC SONGS $200 (Daily Double): Title of the following 1969 song by Simon & Garfunkel:
"I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told / I have squandered my resistance..." "The Boxer" |
| #346, aired 1986-01-06 | KNIGHTS $1000: The Poor Knights of Christ were called this because their quarters were on the site of Solomon's Temple the Knights Templar |
| #339, aired 1985-12-26 | RHODE ISLAND $200: In 1727, his brother published "The Rhode Island Almanack" under the name "Poor Robin" Benjamin Franklin |
| #330, aired 1985-12-13 | FASHION $400: This "Poor Little Rich Girl's" company grew up into a beautiful swan Gloria Vanderbilt |
| #329, aired 1985-12-12 | "DOWN" SONGS $600: One of the year's Top 40 songs, it's where "poor" B.J. Royal was in 1965 "Down In The Boondocks" |
| #291, aired 1985-10-21 | TENNESSEE $100 (Daily Double): Tennessean who sold 2,000,000 copies of this record in just 9 weeks:
"Some people say a man is made outta mud / A poor man's made outta muscle and blood / Muscle and blood and skin and bones / A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong..." Tennessee Ernie Ford |
| #289, aired 1985-10-17 | MAMMALS $200: In poor light, this sense in cats can be 6 times sharper than man's vision (sight) |
| #283, aired 1985-10-09 | WILD WEST $400: He died poor, trying to reclaim his land & mill, which were overrun by miners (John) Sutter |
| #278, aired 1985-10-02 | TRIVIA $500: Lt. George Patton lost a medal in 1912 Olympics due to poor scores in this warlike skill shooting |
| #266, aired 1985-09-16 | "BAD" WORDS $100: South Dakota region named for its poor farmland, not for rough frontiersmen the Badlands |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | OUTLAWS $400: Sam Bass was a Texas cowboy who stole from the rich & gave to the poor until captured by these lawmen the Texas Rangers |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | NEW TESTAMENT $800: Jesus said you always have them with you the poor |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | LAW $400: Since 1914, the poor have relied on these state-paid officials for criminal defense public defenders |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | LAST WORDS $1000: This British Restoration king's last concern was for his mistress: "Let not poor Nelly starve" Charles II |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | SCHOOL DAYS $300: Federal preschool program for the poor that gives kids what its title promises head start |
| #124, aired 1985-02-28 | HOMOPHONES $500: To skin a spud, or a poor poker hand pare/pair |
| #124, aired 1985-02-28 | WARS $1,000 (Daily Double): War in which the subject of this song served:
"Hang down your head, Tom Dooley / Hang down your head and cry / Hang down your head, Tom Dooley / Poor boy, you're bound to die..." the American Civil War |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | GAMBLING $300: Illegal daily lottery common in poor areas of large cities the numbers |
| #56, aired 1984-11-26 | BEN FRANKLIN $200: "Fish & guests stink in 3 days" are among this almanac's wise words Poor Richard('s Almanack) |
