#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $400: In 1880's Strauder v. West Virginia, the court struck down a state law requiring these impaneled people to be white jurors |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $2000: Lincoln & this Confederate V.P. met in February 1865 & unsuccessfully talked about trying to end the war Alexander Stephens |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | OK BOOMER $2000: Bobby Muller, almost killed in action in 1969, became the first president of the V.V.A., these brave people of America the Vietnam Veterans of America |
#8129, aired 2020-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $2000: Sarah Paulson nabbed a trophy for playing this prosecutor in "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" (Marcia) Clark |
#8060, aired 2019-09-27 | CABLE TELEVISION $600: FX's "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" followed up with the story of this man's assassination (Gianni) Versace |
#8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): As Chief Justice he presided over the Roe v. Wade & Pentagon Papers cases Warren Burger |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT CASES $1200: John Quincy Adams won the freedom of members of Africa's Mendi people when he argued their case in U.S. v. this Spanish slave ship Amistad |
#7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $1000: Dear friends, this king's army won a decisive battle in France in 1415 Henry V |
#7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WARNER BROS $1200: In "The People v. O.J. Simpson", this former "Cosby Show" actor got behind the wheel as Al Cowlings Malcolm-Jamal Warner |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | POP CULTURE $1200: Sarah Paulson got rave reviews for playing this prosecutor in "The People v. O.J. Simpson" Marcia Clark |
#7358, aired 2016-09-14 | THE STARS OF FRIENDS: UPDATE $600: In 2016's "The People v. O.J. Simpson", he played defense attorney Robert Kardashian (David) Schwimmer |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: The 2016 TV series "The People v. O.J. Simpson" put this late attorney, seen here at the trial, front & center Johnnie Cochran |
#7215, aired 2016-01-15 | TURN ON YOUR T-V $800: In 1920 Gimbels in Philadelphia staged a parade of about 50 people on this holiday Thanksgiving |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | THE SUPREME COURT $2,600 (Daily Double): (Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivers the clue.) A lot more people got to know what we sounded like on December 11, 2000, when the oral argument in this case became the first one released for same-day broadcast Bush v. Gore |
#4547, aired 2004-05-18 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS $400: 1903's Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock gave Congress power over these people's lands the Indians |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | "V" THE PEOPLE $400: It describes the people of late 19th century England or their somewhat prudish morality Victorian |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | "V" THE PEOPLE $800: In a 1989 film spoof Tim Robbins was Erik, one of these Norse warriors Viking |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | "V" THE PEOPLE $1200: In 1989 their affairs got a cabinet department Veteran Affairs |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | "V" THE PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the '60s Muhammad Ali said, "On the war...I sing this song, I ain't got no quarrel with" this group Viet Cong |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | "V" THE PEOPLE $2000: High-tech start-up firms know these financial risk-takers are known as v.c.'s for short venture capitalists |
#3654, aired 2000-06-22 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $300: In 1991 this founder of the Bolshevik Party had his name stripped from a city V.I. Lenin |
#3067, aired 1997-12-23 | "V"ERBS $1000: Petty annoyances can do this to the most patient of people Vex |
#2991, aired 1997-09-08 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): He wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade Harry Blackmun |
#2188, aired 1994-02-23 | QUOTATIONS $1000: In Cohens v. Virginia, he wrote, "The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it" John Marshall |
#2082, aired 1993-09-28 | THE SUPREME COURT $400: In 1944's Korematsu v. U.S. the court upheld the detention of people of this ancestry Japanese |
#1262, aired 1990-02-13 | LANGUAGES $600: Among languages spoken by more than 1 million people, it's the only one whose name begins with "V" Vietnamese |
#364, aired 1986-01-30 | "WIN"NING WORDS $400: Indian tribe whose name means "people of the filthy water", not "people of the R.V." Winnebago |
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