| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This Venezuelan president said in 2019 that protesters would not go unpunished & accused the U.S. of plotting against him Nicolás Maduro |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | DEALING WITH THINGS DIPLOMATICALLY $1200: In 1994 U.S. diplomats got this country's deposed President Aristide reinstated just in time to head off an invasion Haiti |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $800: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) When the U.S. entered World War I, some Black Americans enlisted thinking it would better their station in life; at the same time, President Woodrow Wilson was a supporter of having the armed forces enforce these segregation laws bearing the name of a stereotypical minstrel character Jim Crow |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE ONE AND ONLY... $300: U.S. President born in Hawaii Barack Obama |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $800: He's the U.S. president whose cumpleaños is celebrated ten days after El Cumpleaños de Lincoln Washington |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SECONDS $1000: In 1974 he became the second U.S. vice president appointed under the terms of the 25th Amendment Nelson Rockefeller |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | HOSPITALS $800: In 2008 the UCLA Medical Center was renamed for this U.S. president who lived in nearby Bel Air Reagan |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | GROOVY $1000: The wife of this U.S. president opposed his career as a judge, feeling it was a "fixed groove" Taft |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $500: A lover of European cuisine, this 3rd U.S. president once created a design for his own pasta-making machine Thomas Jefferson |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SEXY STUFF $600: In 1873 this U.S. president signed a bill banning anything obscene, lewd or lascivious from the mails (Ulysses S.) Grant |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $300: Seen here, the U.S. Constitution says the president must take one of these before entering office an oath |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $600: In 2019, he surpassed George H.W. Bush as longest-living U.S. president; he was 96 when Biden was inaugurated Jimmy Carter |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $600: Even though it anagrams to "vote loser", it's the surname of two men who were elected U.S. president Roosevelt |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | LATIN AMERICA $2000: A large region of this landlocked nation is named for U.S. President Hayes who ruled in its favor in an 1878 territory dispute Paraguay |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | KIN $1000: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I descend from two U.S. presidents, my father & grandfather, but I'm also related to this 19th century president from New Hampshire though my grandmother, Barbara Bush; just think of her maiden name Franklin Pierce |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $200: Last name of William Howard, the 27th president, & his brother Charles Phelps, owner of the Chicago Cubs Taft |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $1000: This old Boston family produced poet Robert & Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | NO CAP $400: There's no upper age limit for U.S. president; some want one set at this age that Joe Biden blew past in 2012 70 |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $800: In 1888 this grandson of a president won in the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote Benjamin Harrison |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $400: Serving under Andrew Jackson, I gained the U.S. greater trading access; later I succeeded AJ as president Van Buren |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $1000: Although this president's wife, Martha (nee Wayles), served as first lady of Virginia, she never served as U.S. first lady Jefferson |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: In 1872, as a candidate of the new Equal Rights Party, she was the first woman to run for U.S. president Victoria Woodhull |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT $800: U.S. vice president after Fillmore Gerald Ford |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THE LONG-AGO 20th CENTURY $600: Announced in a 1947 speech, this president's "Doctrine" provided the basis for U.S. Cold War policy Truman |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $600: Stephen Colbert called President Biden's 2022 pardon for people convicted of possession of this "a green New Deal" marijuana |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $900: The person elected to this position casts the deciding vote if the Senate is tied, so he or she always votes on the winning side the vice president |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FUN WITH 21 $1200: The U.S. 21-gun salute is fired to honor our president, a visiting head of state or this symbol of our nation the flag |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $400: In 2019, at age 94 years & 172 days, he became the longest-living president in U.S. history Jimmy Carter |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $800: The assassination of James Garfield made this man the 21st president Arthur |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | ADVERBS $600: Meaning in a loyal manner, it's how the incoming U.S. president vows to "execute the office" faithfully |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | CONDUCTING THE HISTORIC JOB INTERVIEW $800: In 1874 you were president of the Freedman's Bank & 3 years later, became the first Black U.S. marshal... extensive résumé! Frederick Douglass |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $600: Article 1 says the vice president shall be president of the Senate; the House of Representatives elects this leader itself the Speaker of the House |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $800: In the 1950s Captain Hyman Rickover selected this future president for his new nuclear submarine program Jimmy Carter |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | U.S. DIPLOMACY $1000: Ignorant of Japan, Commodore Perry carried a letter from the president to the figurehead emperor rather than this real ruler the Shogun (Tokugawa Ieyoshi) |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Speaking at the opening of a World's Fair, he was the first U.S. president to appear on television FDR |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $400: This president made a secret deal to take U.S. nukes out of Turkey, helping end the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: Among this president's stable of horses were Reb, Billy Button & Jeff Davis U.S. Grant |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | FEMALE PRESIDENTS $1600: In the 1940s Chicago-born Janet Jagan was stripped of this for her Marxist views; in 1997 she became Guyana's president (her U.S.) citizenship |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WARTIME U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: As president-elect, Eisenhower said, "Small attacks on small hills would not end this war" that ended months later the Korean War |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WARTIME U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: The War of 1812 was called this president's war (James) Madison |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: George Clooney travels around firing people while flying with U.S. President Harrison Ford Up in the Air Force One |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: The president and his top advisors manage crises in the White House's John F. Kennedy Conference Room, best known as this the Situation room |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THEY NAMED A CITY FOR HIM $200: This capital & second-largest city of Wisconsin was named for the fourth U.S. president Madison |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $600: Several future U.S. presidents served in the war; this man was president during it Polk |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: Less than a year after he was chosen supreme commander of U.S.-led forces, he was relieved of all duties by President Truman MacArthur |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $800: On Dec. 13, 2003 U.S. forces near Tikrit found this president of Iraq underground; a gun was present, but he did not fire a shot (Saddam) Hussein |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | YOU'LL HAVE PEAKS & VALLEYS $200: This tallest mountain in North America was formerly named for a U.S. president Denali |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | THE LEADER IN BETWEEN $400: He was U.S. president between Grover Cleveland & Grover Cleveland (Benjamin) Harrison |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: A personal friend of this president, Nathaniel Hawthorne was appointed U.S. consul at Liverpool in 1853 Franklin Pierce |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST $200: If the president & veep can no longer serve, this person becomes president the Speaker of the House |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | 1800s U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1801 he headed back to Braintree, skipping his successor's inauguration, the first president to do so Adams |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $1200: Of the sixth U.S. president Quincy |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: 12th U.S. president who topped the pop charts with "Shake It Off" Zachary Taylor Swift |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2011: 10 YEARS AGO $400: In May President Obama announced on live TV that this man had been killed in a U.S. military operation Osama bin Laden |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | THEY DON'T LIVE ON SESAME STREET $600: Accompanying him on his post-White House trek to the Amazon, Kermit was the second son of this U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): He is the only U.S. president to have received the medal John F. Kennedy |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | MOTHER! $200: She was the first woman to be both wife & mom to a U.S. president Abigail Adams |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | U.S. COINS $200: In 1971 Nixon presented the first proof of the dollar coin featuring this president to his widow Mamie Eisenhower |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | 2 MIDDLE NAMES $400: These 2 middle names belong to the U.S. president who flew nearly 60 WWII combat missions Herbert Walker |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | U.S. HISTORY $800: The Senate didn't ratify the Treaty of Versailles, so this G.O.P. president proclaimed peace between the U.S. & Germany in 1921 Harding |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | OXFORD ALUMNI $400: A Rhodes scholar, he's the only U.S. president to have attended Oxford Clinton |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: In 2019 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of this island territory let the U.S. president know it's "not for sale" Greenland |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution set up this body to choose the president & vice president the Electoral College |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | SECOND... $3,000 (Daily Double): ...U.S. president to be impeached Bill Clinton |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | REMEMBER JAMES GARFIELD! $400: Young James was the last U.S. president born in one of these structures, in 1831 on an Ohio farm a log cabin |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | JANUARY IN HISTORY $1000: Angered at the U.N.'s support of Malaysia, this Indonesian president withdrew his country from the U.N. in January 1965 Sukarno |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | NOT AN ARMCHAIR EXPERT $800: (Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) William Maples was an expert in forensic anthropology, working on the bodies of the Romanovs, the Elephant Man & this U.S. president whose mysterious death in 1850 turned out to be less from arsenic & more from too many cherries (Zachary) Taylor |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $600: Later to play U.S. President Bartlet, in 1974 he played the title deserter facing death in "The Execution of Private Slovik" (Martin) Sheen |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | STUFF $200: British composer James Sanderson used a folk tune as the basis for this, now the U.S. president's entrance music "Hail To The Chief" |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS III $800: For a U.S. president during the Jazz Age 200 |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | NAMED FOR A PRESIDENT $600: Founded in Africa in 1822, it's the only world capital (besides Washington, D.C.) that's named for a U.S. president Monrovia |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $2,000 (Daily Double): The first novel ever published by a U.S. president was "The Hornet's Nest", his saga of the Revolutionary War in the South Jimmy Carter |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | CHIEFS OF STATE $400: Like the U.S., Italy chooses its president by this 2-word body, but Italy's is mostly members of parliament electoral college |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | CAREER HIGHLIGHTS $400: U.S. congressman & senator from Calif., vice president, president;
played by Anthony Hopkins in a biopic Richard Nixon |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | CAREER HIGHLIGHTS $800: U.S. congressman & senator from Massachusetts, president;
played by Cliff Robertson in a biopic John F. Kennedy |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | CAREER HIGHLIGHTS $1200: U.S. congressman & senator from Virginia, vice president;
president, 1841-45;
never been played in a biopic Tyler |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He's the only U.S. president who never lived in the White House George Washington |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: Andrew Johnson worked as one of these in his youth & even as president may have made his own suits a tailor |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: This 20th century president's middle initial "S" didn't stand for anything specific Truman |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | 23 & YOU $2000: The 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution permitted citizens of this place to vote for president Washington, D.C. |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1828 future president Van Buren quit the Senate, won the race to be gov. of this state, then quit that job within 12 weeks New York |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: Zachary Taylor succeeded him, the first president who chose not to seek re-election after one term (James) Polk |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | U.S. SENATE GLOSSARY $800: Title of the senator who presides over the Senate in the absence of the vice president president pro tem |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | WHICH TALL CHIEF? $400: After more than 150 years, he's still the tallest president in U.S. history Lincoln |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | THEY GOT THE MEMO $400: This U.S. president helped broker the 1998 Wye River memorandum between Israeli & Palestinian leaders Clinton |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (I'm Jim Gardner from 6ABC.) The Franklin Institute has the only intact Model B made by these 2 men; it was the first plane to carry air freight, live bombs & a U.S. president Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | IT'S A DATE $400: June 12, 2018:
The first meeting between a U.S. president & a leader of this country North Korea |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S SOME GIFT! $3,000 (Daily Double): After President Nixon visited China in 1972, China gifted the U.S. with 2 giant these pandas |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | OOPS ON STAMPS $1200: On the stamp seen here, Monaco "oops"ed by putting 5 fingers & a thumb, too, on this New Deal U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS $200: In 2000 this man won the popular vote for U.S. president by 500,000 but did not get the job Al Gore |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | THE COLD WAR $400: This U.S. president declared his "doctrine" in 1947 promising to help any country facing a Communist takeover Truman |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | THE ABCs OF THE CIA $1600: Presented to the CEO of the U.S. govt. each morning, the PDB is the president's daily this briefing |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $1200: Nicaragua v. the U.S. was brought before the International Court of Justice when this man was U.S. president Reagan |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | GOLFER IN CHIEF $1600: The 45th president enjoys time at Trump National in Bedminster in this state, where he watched the 2017 U.S. Women's Open New Jersey |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | PUTTING THE VICE IN VICE PRESIDENT $400: John Breckinridge, veep to this president, 1857-1861, hightailed it out of the U.S. to escape treason charges Buchanan |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | HERE'S THE CUSTOMS MAN $1600: As N.Y.'s customs collector, this future president was the highest-paid public employee in the U.S.--nice, Chet! Chester A. Arthur |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $800: Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented Miss. not long after this Confederate president did Jefferson Davis |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This sitting U.S. president won the 1919 prize for his efforts to make peace an part of international law Wilson |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY $200: March 2016 saw Obama become the first sitting U.S. president in 80 years to visit this nation Cuba |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | NOTORIOUS $2000: On July 7, 1865, this boardinghouse operator became the first woman executed by the U.S. government Mary Surratt |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | "A-C"/"D-C" $600: Late in 2016 President Obama expelled from the U.S. several Russian members of this corps the diplomatic corps |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | STRIKE! $400: As a concession to workers during a 1894 railroad strike, President Cleveland created this U.S. holiday Labor Day |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: This state capital was named for the fourth president of the United States Madison |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BACK TO SCHOOL WITH POLITICIANS $400: Though he lost his bid to become U.S. president, he was class president at his Brooklyn high school Bernie Sanders |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 2 TICKETS TO PARAGUAY $1000: A national department is named for this 19th U.S. president, who helped settle a boundary dispute in Paraguay's favor Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Chicago.) Thousands of the USA's aircraft carrier pilots of World War II were trained at Chicago's Navy Pier; one was this future U.S. president who said, "Flying off Lake Michigan was the coldest I ever was in my life" George H.W. Bush |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | BUSINESSES $600: In 1903 William Ellis Corey became the second president of this iron-strong company U.S. Steel |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $1200: U.S. President Leslie Lynch King Jr. Gerald Ford |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TEXAS $600: This U.S. president received his college degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | PARTY TIME! $400: Active from the 1790s to the 1810s:
This party of the second U.S. president the Federalists |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $600 (Daily Double): A Wyoming peak was named for this man soon after his 1924 death; there are said to be 14 points on its ridges Woodrow Wilson |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | "READY" WHEN YOU ARE $1600: 4-word nickname of President Zachary Taylor, who had served 40 years in the U.S. military "Old Rough and Ready" |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This Nebraska Democrat lost an 1894 bid for the U.S. Senate but was nominated for president 2 years later William Jennings Bryan |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | FOX(X) NEWS $2000: In 2016 this ex-president of Mexico had a few choice words about a certain candidate for U.S. president Vicente Fox |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1600: The only U.S. president to win a Pulitzer is JFK, for this series of biographies Profiles in Courage |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | 1866 $800: Putting him at odds with Congress, this U.S. president vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (Andrew) Johnson |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | PREFECTURES OF JAPAN $400: In 2016 Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit this capital of the prefecture of the same name Hiroshima |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | AMERICA SINCE 1900 $600: On Sept. 26, 1971 Nixon greeted this man in Anchorage, the first meeting of a U.S. president & a Japanese monarch Hirohito |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | FRIENDS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography of this college pal, later the 14th U.S. president Franklin Pierce |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | U.S. CODE TALKING $1000: Title 3, Section 102: "The President shall receive...compensation in the aggregate amount of _____ a year" $400,000 a year |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): U.S. president:
"The Duel Fighter" Andrew Jackson |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $400: President Obama's 2016 visit to this city was the first by a U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge showed up on a battleship Havana |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | BUT LET'S FACE IT $800: Two-term U.S. president seen here Grover Cleveland |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | U.S. GOVERNORS $600: Governor of Texas in the 1960s, this politician welcomed President Kennedy on his last trip Connally |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | NAME IN COMMON $600: Musician Blind Lemon,
non-U.S.-president Davis Jefferson |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: This former haberdasher was Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1945 & 1948 Harry Truman |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | THINK OF A NUMBER BETWEEN... $1200: 15 & 20:
Andrew Johnson's, as U.S. president 17 |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $400: On Aug. 2, 1939 this scientist wrote to the U.S. president to recommend that atom bombs be made, to his later regret Einstein |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | A SPEECH TO CONGRESS $1,000 (Daily Double): In September 2014 president Poroshenko of this country asked for more U.S. help against Russian incursions Ukraine |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | WORLD CAPITAL"IA" $600: It's named for a U.S. president Monrovia |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $2000: This neighbor of Provo was named for the president of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad Orem |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.)
Flying a TBM Avenger in 1944, this 20 year old naval aviator bailed out after his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire over the island of Chichi-jima, making him the only U.S. president to have literally been shot down in combat George H. W. Bush |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 1865 $2000: The Monroe Doctrine is invoked as the U.S. supports this Mexican president against Maximilian Benito Juarez |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE TITAN MISSILE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona.) This president, associated with a military buildup, including a missile defense initiative, was the one who decided to end the Titan II program as part of modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal Reagan |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | GOVERNMENT JOBS $1000: Chief lawman for the U.S. House; says, "Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States" the sergeant at arms |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: Fitzhugh Lee, U.S. Consul General in Havana, advised President McKinley not to send this ship to the city; he was ignored the Maine |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | HISTORY $600: In 2013 this Brazilian president was not happy that the U.S. was listening in on her phone calls Dilma Rousseff |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | IT'S U.N. ANIMUS $1000: "President Reagan, Rambo only exists in movies", said Daniel Ortega, warning the U.S. against invading this country Nicaragua |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: In 2013 President Obama proclaimed a national week for this meal served in schools, boasting of better nutrition lunch |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: If the president vetoes a bill, it can still become law if passed by at least this fraction of each house of Congress 2/3 |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE JAMES $200: The third James to be president, he led the U.S. during the Mexican War Polk |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $500 (Daily Double): Appointed by Gerald Ford, he's the only man to serve as both C.I.A. director & U.S. president George H.W. Bush |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $1200: In 1955 Churchill left office as PM for good at this round age that no sitting U.S. president has reached 80 |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | 19th CENTURY POLITICIANS $400: Taking office in 1809, he was the first U.S. president who had previously served in Congress Madison |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago Board of Trade.) He was the first U.S. President to appear here on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade; he ended his remarks on the state of the economy by saying, "Maybe I could learn a few new hand gestures" George H.W. Bush |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $2000: He served as Tennessee's first U.S. representative Andrew Jackson |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | WORLD HERSTORY $200: In 1953 this country's Vijaya Pandit became the first woman president of the U.N. General Assembly India |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $400: Mississippi's state toy, it was named for a U.S. president a teddy bear |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE ROARING '20s $1,800 (Daily Double): In May 1926 President Coolidge sent U.S. marines into this nation to quell an uprising led by General Augusto Sandino Nicaragua |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | BETWEEN $400: He was the U.S. president between Andrew Johnson & Rutherford B. Hayes Grant |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: Grant County, Kansas is named for President Grant, as is this county seat Ulysses |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): Year in which a U. S. president remarked, "this is the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation" 1969 |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | MISCELLANEOUS $400: During a return visit to the U.S. by this Frenchman in 1825, he gave president John Quincy Adams an alligator as a pet the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1600: After his years as vice president, he served as U.S. ambassador to Japan under Bill Clinton Walter Mondale |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | 1914--WHAT A YEAR $400: Remember the Dolphin! Sailors from its crew were detained in Mexico, leading to this U.S. president sending in the Marines Wilson |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | THE CONFEDERACY $200: The president's term was this, 1 1/2 times that of the U.S. President; then he was to be termed out, but that didn't come up 6 years |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: The almost 93 1/2 years between his birth in Nebraska in 1913 & his death in Calif. in 2006 is the longest life of any president Gerald Ford |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1856 this West Pointer cast his only vote for president before his own election--for Buchanan Ulysses Grant |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | A "MAD" CATEGORY $800: It's the northernmost state capital named for a U.S. president Madison, Wisconsin |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | U.S. GOVERNORS $1600: This former New Mexico governor was the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012 Gary Johnson |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | THE BATTLESHIP U.S.S. IOWA $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the atop the forward battery of the U.S.S. Iowa.) In 1986,
President and Mrs. Reagan stood on the bow of the Iowa in New York Harbor to watch
the celebrations marking the restoration and the centennial of this monument the Statue of Liberty |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | HAIL MARY $800: Later a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson served as this nation's president from 1990 to 1997 Ireland |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | INTERESTED IN A JOB, KID? $400: Let's get you this govt. job... Wait! You're not 35 & you haven't lived in the U.S. at least 14 years, 2 of the 3 requirements president |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | U.S. RIVERS $1600: This northern Indiana river from which a U.S. president received his nickname is fed by 88 natural lakes Tippecanoe |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE U.S. $1,500 (Daily Double): This Chief Justice once wrote, "I don't remember that I ever was President" (William Howard) Taft |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | WASHINGTON MATH $1000: States outside the contiguous U.S.
minus people on the dais behind the president at the State of the Union zero (2 minus 2) |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | THE 1970s $200: In 1973, he became the second man in U.S. history to resign as Vice President Agnew |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | BETTER FOLLOW ME $400: This Northern general & war hero followed Southerner Andrew Johnson as U.S. president Grant |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | THE ROOSEVELTS $3,000 (Daily Double): TR was the first president to leave the U.S. while in office, traveling to this Central American country in 1906 Panama |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $200: Article II, section 2 gives the president this military title Commander in Chief |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $600: The term of office for the president & vice president shall end at this time on the 20th of January noon |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $800: The U.S. first conducted atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Truman |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | GEO-POLITICIANS $800: The last U.S. president to have a county named for him (in N.M.), he may be best known for the Teapot Dome scandal (Warren G.) Harding |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. $1200: On August 1st, 2005, the President named this man to the job in a recess appointment (John) Bolton |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | BREAKING NEWS $1600: (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) In 2006 I broke the story that this man, the ex-governor of Virginia, had decided not to run for president in 2008--he went for the U.S. Senate instead & won Mark Warner |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Name of the man seen here who has presided over the U.S. Senate since 2009 Joe Biden |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The second U.S. president born in Virginia, he enrolled at the College of William & Mary at age 16 Thomas Jefferson |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Her resume includes president of the American Red Cross & U.S. senator from North Carolina Elizabeth Dole |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | FIRST NAMES $600: Originally a surname, it probably gained popularity as a first name in honor of the 18th U.S. president Grant |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | MBAs $600: The first U.S. president with an MBA, he received his from Harvard Business School in 1975 George W. Bush |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | HUD SECRETARIES $800: HUD secretary under Nixon, he earlier served as American Motors president & sired a candidate for U.S. president George Romney |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone.) From Davis Guggenheim, the Academy Award-winning director of "An Inconvenient Truth", comes this deeply personal exploration of the state of public education in the U.S., a 2010 clarion call of our times Waiting for "Superman" |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $200: This 9-letter word for a procession of cars is often used to refer to that of the U.S. president a motorcade |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | ACAPULCO $400: Later president of the U.S., he caught a sailfish on his honeymoon in Acapulco in 1953 (John F.) Kennedy |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | JEOPORTMANTEAU $200: U.S. chief executive plus prosthetic teeth presidentures |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $800: This U.S. president was named for his great-grandfather, a signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Harrison |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA $600: This man's impeachment trial brought Senate president pro tem Ben Wade within 1 vote of being U.S. president Johnson |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | AT SIXES & SEVENS $600: He was a Harvard graduate & our sixth U.S. president John Quincy Adams |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GENERAL RELATIVITY $800: In 1968 this grandson of a general & U.S. president married Julie Nixon with Norman Vincent Peale officiating David Eisenhower |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | MONOGRAM MADNESS $200: A U.S. president:
USG (Ulysses) Grant |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This Missouri capital is one of the 4 named after a U.S. president Jefferson City |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | THINK FAST WITH U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: The one who had Al Gore as his Vice President Clinton |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | THINK FAST WITH U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: The only President to be elected 4 times to the job FDR |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | 1923 TIME COVERS $600: Late in the year, Time showcased this fading former U.S. president who died the following year (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE BOOKS OF DAVID McCULLOUGH $200: McCullough gave this 33rd U.S. president the biography treatment in 1992 & won a Pulitzer for his efforts Truman |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | FATHERS-IN-LAW $800: Jefferson Davis' was this U.S. president Zachary Taylor |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | FACTS FROM THE WORLD ALMANAC $600: The arrival of this U.S. govt. official merits a 19-gun salute, 4 ruffles & flourishes & the playing of "Hail, Columbia" the vice president |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: In October 1973 he resigned as vice president & pleaded no contest to one count of income tax evasion Spiro Agnew |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | LOUISIANA LORE $400: This U.S. president doubled the size of the country when he completed the Louisiana Purchase Jefferson |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | BORN TO RUN $400: His dad was the second U.S. president; he was No. 6 John Quincy Adams |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | BORN TO RUN $800: His grandpa was the ninth U.S. president; he was No. 23 Benjamin Harrison |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | PRE-1929 U.S. PAPER CURRENCY $800: This 22nd & 24th president's portrait graced the $20 bill from 1914 to 1928, when Jackson replaced him Cleveland |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | MIDDLE NAMES $2,400 (Daily Double): A U.S. president: Birchard Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | THIS & THAT $400: He was U.S. President when the stock market crashed in 1929 Hoover |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: (Former President Bill Clinton presents the clue.) My work with the first President Bush helps groups that create & carry out their own projects; a 2005 effort focused on the U.S. Gulf Coast in the wake of these 2 hurricanes Katrina & Rita |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | FLIES & FLYING $800: During WWII this future U.S. president flew a Grumman Avenger & was shot down over the Pacific George H.W. Bush |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $1000: Article II establishes the powers of this branch of government that's headed by the president the executive branch |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: Only 5'6", this 8th President was a mini-van Martin Van Buren |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1600: This early 20th century president's foreign policy style was known as "big stick diplomacy" Theodore Roosevelt |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2000: On Dec. 6, 1973 he took the oath of office as Vice President; 8 months later he succeeded to the presidency (Gerald) Ford |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | PEOPLE FROM PENNSYLVANIA $400: Now vice president of the U.S., he was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1942 Joe Biden |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | JULY $400: In July 1932 this U.S. president ordered the forcible eviction of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. Hoover |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) The Newport 28 at the Museum of Flight was the model used by Quentin, the son of this U.S. president; Quentin was killed in aerial combat over France in July 1918 Theodore Roosevelt |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | IMMANUEL CAN'T... $400: Immanuel can't become U.S. president because he's not yet this minimum age 35 |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | WORLD OF GESTURES $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a picture of the President making a gesture on the monitor.) The President can tell you the Shaka gesture means "Hang loose, brah" & comes from this U.S. state Hawaii |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: The 1999 New Jersey state quarter includes a depiction of this president on the reverse Washington |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Former First Lady Barbara Bush is a distant cousin of this 1850s President Franklin Pierce |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | TREATIES $800: This U.S. president negotiated the
Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War Teddy Roosevelt |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | MILITARY SPECTACLES $200: Seen here, the first President Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with the Golden Knights, a parachute team of this military force the U.S. Army |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | YEAR ONE $400: Sept. 26, 1971:
This man meets with President Nixon, the first meeting of a Japanese emperor & a U.S. president Hirohito |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | INFO PLEASE $800: Number of U.S. presidents named George 3 |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | THE CENTRAL POWERS $2,000 (Daily Double): They're the favorite team of the U.S. president; Harold Baines is his favorite player (Chicago) White Sox |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $600: Seen here in the background, this highest peak in North America was named for a U.S. president Mount McKinley |
| #5837, aired 2010-01-19 | U.S. HISTORY $800: This president's second inaugural address was 135 words long; he had us at "Fellow citizens" Washington |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | "U" COUNTRIES $800: This country's president Museveni, seen as a godsend after leaders like Idi Amin, has been in power since 1986 Uganda |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | AGENTS & MANAGERS $200: Fittingly, in 4 films Ronald Reagan played Brass Bancroft, one of these agents who guard the U.S. president the Secret Service |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Florida city was first called Cowford but was renamed in 1822 for a man who would soon become president Jacksonville |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $400: He was the first U.S. president born after the country won its independence Martin Van Buren |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WHAT A DECADE IN THE U.S. $1200: 2 of the 4 men who were president in the 1920s; they each must have said "vo dee oh do" at least once (2 of) Coolidge, Hoover, Wilson & Harding |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | FIRST & LAST NAME, PLEASE $400: U.S. vice president:
____ Horatio ____ Hubert Humphrey |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | U.S. ARMY 5-STAR GENERALS $200: He was the last one who also served as a U.S. president Eisenhower |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | U.S. COINS $800: In 2006 his image on the nickel was changed to one based on an 1800 portrait when he was vice president Thomas Jefferson |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $400: The U.S. celebrated its bicentennial Gerald Ford |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $600: British troops set fire to the U.S. Capitol Madison |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | INTERNATIONAL NEWS $400: In 2009 this country's president Lula da Silva offered to mediate in the icy U.S.-Venezuelan relationship Brazil |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | IN FLORIDA $600: In 1822 Isaiah Hart honored the provisional governor of Florida, later a U.S. president, in naming this city Jacksonville |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | GOOD "BI" $800: The 47th U.S. vice president Biden |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS $200: With 10, he's the only U.S. president who appointed more justices to the Supreme Court than FDR, who appointed 9 George Washington |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: Once a teacher, this president who guided the U.S. through WWI was nicknamed "The Professor" Wilson |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: This U.S. president agreed to the ceasefire that ended the conflict & that remains in effect to this day Eisenhower |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST 100 DAYS $1000: Signs the U.N. charter in San Francisco Truman |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST LETTER $400: ...in the last name of the current U.S. president O |
| #5671, aired 2009-04-13 | SAM ADAMS $200: Samuel Adams & U.S. President John Adams were related in this way second cousins |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | WHAT'S THAT NUMBER? $2,600 (Daily Double): Millard Fillmore's, as U.S. President 13 |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | PREZ DISPENSERS $200: Bill Clinton unseated this U.S. president George H. W. Bush (George Herbert Walker Bush) |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $1600: Nathaniel Hawthorne died while traveling with this N.H.-born U.S. president, his close friend (Franklin) Pierce |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | POISONING $600: When this randy U.S. president died suddenly in Frisco after a trip to Alaska, rumors swirled his wife had poisoned him Warren G. Harding |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Wild & crazy guy" who starred in "Shopgirl" & became U.S. president in 1837 Steve Martin Van Buren |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | THE GADSDEN PURCHASE $800: This U.S. president authorized the deal in 1853 Franklin Pierce |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | ODDPODGE $1200: Sworn in following an assassination, he's the only U.S. president who was not sworn in on a Bible Theodore Roosevelt |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | NIAGARA FALLS $600: (Alex reports from Niagara Falls.) The tradition of honeymooning here at the Falls began way back in 1801, when the daughter of this then-U.S. vice president came here with her new husband; three years later, Dad fought a famous duel Aaron Burr |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | JEFFERSON DAVIS $1600: Davis' vice president was this former U.S. representative from Georgia Alexander Stephens |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president the Philippines |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | ALL ABOUT PRESIDENTS $600: By 1905 football had gotten so violent that this U.S. president urged rule changes Teddy Roosevelt |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | DE-ELECTABLE $600: Like his son, he served only one term as U.S. president John Adams |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR $400: (I'm U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne.) From 1901 to 1907 Ethan Hitchcock helped this president institute his forest-preserving policies Theodore Roosevelt |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Duke of Gloucester St. in Colonial Williamsburg.) I'm on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, which this U.S. president called "the most historic avenue in all America" when he visited in 1934 FDR |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: This inventive president invented a "mouldboard of least resistance" for a plow Jefferson |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Warren Harding chose this future president as his Secretary of Commerce Hoover |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NAVY SEALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on shore as 2 attack boats approach at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) The Navy SEALs were created by this U.S. president who had been a small-unit naval commander & who knew what a small, tough force could do JFK |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | NEBRASKA: THE GOOD LIFE $800: Born in 1913, this 38th U.S. president was the only chief executive whose life began in Nebraska Ford |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: A fascist named Berzelius Windrip becomes president of the U.S. in this "Dodsworth" author's novel "It Can't Happen Here" Sinclair Lewis |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $1600: Earl Warren became Chief Justice of the U.S. Eisenhower |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | THE BRITISH ROYALS $400: Prince Michael of Kent was born during WWII, & this U.S. president was one of his godfathers FDR |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | TIME FOR A ROUND OF GOLF $200: First awarded in 1958, an amateur golf trophy is named for this U.S. president Eisenhower |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | 5 "G"s $1000: This U.S. president won his election by fewer than 2,000 popular votes Garfield |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | ART-PODGE $400: The family of this often-depicted U.S. president said sculptor John Rogers created the best likeness of him Abraham Lincoln |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | THE VEEP $600: Once a pharmacist, he was serving in the U.S. Senate when elected Vice President in 1964 Humphrey |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | THE VEEP $800: He was Vice President of the U.S. from 1921 to 1923 before succeeding to the presidency Coolidge |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | THE VEEP $1000: He was the eighth U.S. Vice President & the eighth U.S. President Martin Van Buren |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: Before she was First Lady, this woman from New England was the wife of the first U.S. vice president Abigail Adams |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: He appointed more justices (9) to the Supreme Court than any other president in the 20th century FDR |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | ALL ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1000: After serving as U.S. president, Millard Fillmore became president of the historical society in this upstate N.Y. city Buffalo |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | TEXAS $1600: Anson Jones was the last president of this entity, serving until 1845, when it joined the U.S. the Republic of Texas |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | HOLD THE FORT $400: The Texas fort named for this president of the Republic of Texas is home to the U.S. Army Medical Command Sam Houston |
| #5440, aired 2008-04-11 | POLITICAL ASYLUM $2000: When this U.S. president suspended habeas corpus, some critical reporters went to jail Abraham Lincoln |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK $2000: The present presiding officer of the U.S. Senate is this vice president Charles Gates Dawes |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU $2000: In 1835, this U.S. president survived an assassination attempt when both pistols used by the gunman misfired Andrew Jackson |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | GOULASH $1200: The U.S. hasn't minted real gold coins as legal tender since the administration of this 32nd president FDR |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | NAPOLEON $1200: Early U.S. vice president who was known as the "Napoleon of the West" for his intrigues there Aaron Burr |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | NAPOLEON $1600: Eloquent orator & 11th president of the U.S. known as the "Napoleon of the Stump" Polk |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | AN ABBREV. CATEG. $400: A U.S. president:
LBJ Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | DESCRIBING THE PRESIDENT $800: "Texas tea" man, enjoy's his dad's office, seems to have a problem saying "nuclear" (nuke-u-lar just isn't right, kids) George W. Bush |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1000: This aide-de-camp to "Mad" Anthony Wayne went on to become the first U.S. president to die in office William Henry Harrison |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: The federal holiday listed in the U.S. code as Washington's birthday is generally known by this name President's Day |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | ATTORNEYS GENERAL $800: In the 1840s Nathan Clifford served for this president & negotiated the treaty that made California part of the U.S. (James K.) Polk |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: An arctophile loves these cuddly items named for a U.S. president teddy bears |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | U.S. POLITICS $800: (I'm Julie Chen.) In 1999, on our first "Early Show" broadcast on CBS, I reported on a possible N.Y. Senate race between these 2 people; it didn't happen, but they may still face off for president (Hillary) Clinton & Rudolph Giuliani |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | U.S. POLITICS $3,000 (Daily Double): The idea of these people who actually vote for president comes from the Holy Roman Empire the electors |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | "EVE"NING $600: In 1905 this former U.S. president remarked, "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote" Grover Cleveland |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | YOU PICKED A FINE TIME $1600: We had pleasant sensations learning about this era in U.S. history covering President Monroe's 2 terms "Era of Good Feelings" |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | POTLUCK $1000: This U.S. president was called Bert for short Herbert Hoover |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | GREEN $400: He was never president, but he is the little green man on the front of the U.S. $100 bill Benjamin Franklin |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | FARK.com HEADLINES $1000: "Bush says he'll welcome" this Palestinian president "to U.S. but only if they agree to play 'Dancing Queen'" Abbas |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reads from the marble-columned rotunda of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) The rotunda is named after this U.S. president who collected specimens for the museum Teddy Roosevelt |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CHIPS $800: This U.S. president's 4 children include Amy & Chip Carter |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | GOVERNORS $800: These 2 cousins both served as governor of New York & president of the U.S. Theodore & Franklin Roosevelt |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $1200: The U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces; U.S. forces rescued the crew of 39 Gerald Ford |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $2000: The Telstar Communications satellite relayed the first live TV pictures from the U.S. to Europe John F. Kennedy |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | HEY, MR.! $2000: This U.S. Senator from Ohio, the son of a president, was known in the media as "Mr. Republican" Robert Taft |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The "New Deal" refers to the economic recovery & social reforms implemented by this U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | U.S. CITY HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): It was uninhabited when it was chosen as a terr. capital in 1836 & named for a president who died that year Madison, Wisconsin |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | "HOW"s $200: U.S. President & 5-star general Eisenhower |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | U.S. HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): Seen here, he was the earliest president ever to be photographed, & the first to have a middle name John Quincy Adams |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE FABULOUS FIFTIES $400: When the Monorail opened at Disneyland in 1959, it was dedicated by this man who was then the U.S. vice president Nixon |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | JOHN LEGEND $3,200 (Daily Double): As the U.S. Constitution was vague, this V.P. decided to name himself President instead of calling for an election John Tyler |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PRESIDENTIAL HUMOR $3,000 (Daily Double): This president criticized Ed Asner for opposing U.S. foreign policy by asking, "What does an actor know about politics?" Ronald Reagan |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | YOU'VE NEVER LOOKED LOVELIER $1000: Theodosia, the daughter of this third U.S. vice president, was a beautiful child prodigy who spoke 4 languages Aaron Burr |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | SAN ANTONIO $800: While in the Military, this 34th president of the U.S. was stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio Eisenhower |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | NAME THAT YEAR $200: U.S. elects 46-year-old Bill Clinton president 1992 |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $1000: "The Teapot Scandals" is a rollicking new musical funfest inspired by the life & loves of this U.S. president Warren Harding |
| #5239, aired 2007-05-24 | TOUGH TIMES, KID $800: Though he couldn't read until after he was 10, he became the only U.S. President to earn a doctoral degree Woodrow Wilson |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | THE MAN OF STEEL $200: In 1942 Philip Murray became the first President of the U.S.A., this labor union United Steelworkers of America |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | GHANA IN 60 SECONDS $400: President Ford named this former child star the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana in 1974 (Shirley) Temple (Black) |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $400: The rather tall monument on his grave mention that he was President & Chief Justice of the U.S. Taft |
| #5234, aired 2007-05-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,600 (Daily Double): It's the world capital named for our fifth U.S. president Monrovia |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | THE THIRD CATEGORY $400: This U.S. president was elected to an unprecedented third term in 1940 FDR |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $800: As a midshipman, Ross Perot was elected president--not of the U.S., but of his class at this school the Naval Academy |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | FIRST NAMES $800: Real first name of U.S. president Grover Cleveland; it was also that of Texas pioneer Austin Stephen |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | PACK TENTH $1200: Serving from 1841 to 1845, the tenth president of the U.S. was this big Whig Tyler |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT... $5,000 (Daily Double): He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan 13 straight times (Gerald) Ford |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | AMERICAN PHOTO ALBUM $1000: 19th-century war hero & short-term U.S. president seen here William Henry Harrison |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | LAST BUT NOT LEAST $2,000 (Daily Double): He was the last U.S. president not sworn in by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Lyndon Johnson |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | FRIDAY THE 13th $600: Friday October 13, 1967: This president signs an executive order banning sex discrimination in the U.S. govt. (Lyndon) Johnson |
| #5208, aired 2007-04-11 | POLITICAL NICKNAMES $1200: A 20th century U.S. President: Poppy George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: In 1959 this vice-president participated in an impromptu "kitchen debate" at a U.S. exhibit in Moscow Nixon |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | ISLANDS IN LITERATURE $600: Jules Verne's "Mysterious Island" was named for this U.S. president who was assassinated Abraham Lincoln |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | FAMOUS "M"EN $200: The lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" were penned during this U.S. president's second term of office (James) Madison |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | ORIGINAL PRANKSTA $400: On April 1, 1992 NPR reported that this disgraced U.S. president was running again for the job, prompting a flood of calls Nixon |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | 1840 $600: This big Whig is elected president of the U.S. in November; he enjoyed the job for a short time Willam Henry Harrison |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | RECONSTRUCTION $400: In April 1866 this president vetoed a bill granting citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.; Congress overrode his veto Andrew Johnson |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Alphabetically, he's the first U.S. vice president John Adams |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a state capital.) I'm in this state capital, the last one to be named for a U.S. president Lincoln, Nebraska |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY: THE 1980s $800: In early 1981 assassination attempts were made on these 2 men, a U.S. president & a religious leader Ronald Reagan & Pope John Paul II |
| #5161, aired 2007-02-05 | YOU GET AN "A" $400: ...in American History, if you know that this man was the only U.S. president named Chester Arthur |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | THE MIDDAY SUN $400: Per the Constitution, a U.S. president's term ends at noon on the 20th of this month January |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | DEFENDING THE U.S. $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from NORTHCOM's offices.) NORTHCOM doesn't defend just against military threats; in 2005, President Bush was here to watch the monitoring of this hurricane on Katrina's heels Rita |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | 4 PLAY $1600: 3 of the 4 people to have assassinated a U.S. president (3 of) Guiteau, Booth, Oswald, & Leon Czolgosz |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | IOWA $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a smithy.) Born in 1874, this U.S. president & famed humanitarian was the son of an Iowa blacksmith, whose shop is replicated here Herbert Hoover |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | SHIPWRECKS $800: The largest diveable wreck, U.S.S. President Coolidge, sank in 1942 when it hit one of the USA's own these mines |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | MONTHS $400: It's the only month for which the U.S. can have a President-elect from beginning to end December |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Article I, Section 3 states that this person shall preside when a president is tried under articles of impeachment the Chief Justice of the United States |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | THE '70s $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.) This capsule was the U.S. half of this project; President Ford said it opened a new era in international cooperation the Apollo-Soyuz Project |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA? $800: In 1826 James Madison succeeded this other former U.S. president as rector of the University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of this U.S. president in 1974 Nixon |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | YOU'RE HISTORY! $1000: This future U.S. president graduated from West Point in 1915, 61st in a class of 164 President Eisenhower |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | STATE GOVERNORS $600: By law, this ex-Texas governor can never be elected U.S. president again George W. Bush |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: Bill Clinton is officially listed as this number U.S. president 42 |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | PARENTS $800: A college student studying voice when her father was U.S. president, she went on to be a bestselling author (Margaret) Truman |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHO... $200: was the youngest man to be elected president John F. Kennedy |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHO... $400: celebrated his 80th birthday October 1, 2004 Jimmy Carter |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHO... $600: was the first Republican president Lincoln |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHO... $1000: as the sheriff of the Erie County Jail in Buffalo, sprang the trap to hang 2 criminals Grover Cleveland |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHO... $1,800 (Daily Double): has a foreign capital named for him Monroe |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $800: This U.S. president was the first president for whom all women were eligible to vote Warren G. Harding |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | U.S. CITIES $400: President Taft wasn't a Communist, but he was from this city that's home to Reds Cincinnati |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | BROWNIE POINTS $1,000 (Daily Double): As per President Bush's 2001 request, U.S. Brownies gave $1 each to children of this country due east of Iran Afghanistan |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | CITY OF THE DAY: RALEIGH $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads.) This U.S. president was born in Raleigh in 1808; he never went to school but was apprenticed to a tailor at about 13 Andrew Johnson |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | SHERMANS $800: Sherman Minton was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949 by this president Truman |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | THE VEEP $600: Once a pharmacist, he was serving in the U.S. Senate when elected vice president in 1964 (Hubert) Humphrey |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | THE VEEP $1000: He was the eighth U.S. vice president & the eighth U.S. president Van Buren |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This U.S. president designed more than one home for himself--this is the one at Poplar Forest Jefferson |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | FIRST IN OUR HEARTS $200: The first U.S. coin with the likeness of a president was this coin based on a photo taken in Mathew Brady's studio (the Lincoln) penny |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN... $800: ...the U.S. last won Winter Olympic men's ice hockey gold Jimmy Carter |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN... $1,000 (Daily Double): ...the last U.S. citizens were airlifted out of Saigon as it fell (Gerald) Ford |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THIRTYSOMETHING $200: Minimum age to be eligible to be U.S. president 35 |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2000: On June 28, 1919 he married Elizabeth Wallace Harry Truman |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | SLOTH $200: This U.S. president gave a 1797 talk on a fossil he thought was a primitive feline; it was really a ground sloth Jefferson |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | TWELFTH NIGHT $1000: This twelfth U.S. president died in office, & his daughter married Jefferson Davis Zachary Taylor |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | 23 SKIDOO $200: Early in the morning of August 3, 1923 he was sworn in as U.S. president (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | POT LUCK $1200: In the Scarecrow's song "If I Only Had a Brain" from "The Wizard of Oz", this U.S. president is mentioned Lincoln |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | THE 1800s $600: In 1835 Richard Lawrence tried to kill this seventh U.S. president, the first time such an attempt was made Andrew Jackson |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: James Thurber shared this middle name with the 22nd & 24th president of the U.S. Grover |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | COLLEGE "N" SHOTS $800: Bob Kerrey never became U.S. president, but he is president of this school for social research in the Big Apple the New School |
| #4921, aired 2006-01-23 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $200: the U.S. Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty Wilson |
| #4921, aired 2006-01-23 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $1000: The U.S. Battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor McKinley |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | SEXY STUFF $600: In 1873 this U.S. president signed a bill banning anything obscene, lewd or lascivious from the mails Grant |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | ALEXANDER THE NOT-SO-GREAT $400: Staffer Alexander Butterfield shocked the U.S. by saying that this president taped his Oval Office conversations Richard Nixon |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | TV DRAMA MAMAS $800: This actress balances the duties of mom, wife & U.S. president on "Commander in Chief" Geena Davis |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | POLITICAL JOHNS $2000: He was the first president born after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution John Tyler |
| #4893, aired 2005-12-14 | U.S. HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $2000: Named for a president, it was the USA's first transcontinental road for cars the Lincoln Highway |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | LIBRARIES $1000: For aural thrills go to the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State & hear a recording of this 23rd U.S. president Benjamin Harrison |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $2000: In the absence of the vice president, it's the title of the person who heads the U.S. Senate the president pro tem |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | ATTORNEYS GENERAL $600: This man appointed Harry Daugherty, who'd helped him become lt. gov. of Ohio & a U.S. senator as well as president Warren G. Harding |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | ATTORNEYS GENERAL $800: A.G. Roger Taney wrote this president's speech announcing the veto of the bill renewing the Bank of the U.S. Andrew Jackson |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $600: Some say David Atchison was President of the U.S.; his "term" lasted this long 1 day |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | IF I'M ELECTED... $2000: In 1948 he was elected as the oldest U.S. vice president ever (Alben) Barkley |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL $400: It's the only team that has a U.S. president on its roster of former owners the Texas Rangers |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | WE GET LETTERS $1200: Alphabetically, it's the first letter that doesn't have a U.S. president's last name filed under it D |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | CIVIL SERVANTS $2000: The U.S. Civil Service Commission was established as a result of this would-be civil servant shooting President Garfield (Charles) Guiteau |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT... $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a desk at NYPD headquarters.) This future U.S. president sat at this desk when he was president of the board of police commissioners Theodore Roosevelt |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT... $2,500 (Daily Double): He was Tennessee's first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives (Andrew) Jackson |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls the grassy grounds of the mystery location.) I'm in this town that's home to a U.S. president's house & library, & was named for a New York governor accused of cross-dressing Hyde Park |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: When a bill reaches the President's desk, he may sign it, do nothing or do this veto |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: On Jan. 8, 2002 the President signed this act making schools more accountable No Child Left Behind |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $600: He was the first vice president who was born in Washington, D.C. Al Gore |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $600: E.G. Marshall, Robert Duvall & Tom Selleck have all played this U.S. president Eisenhower |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: Somewhat prophetically, he became the first sitting president to visit Hawaii FDR |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2000: He became pres. 100 years after George Washington, so he was called the "Centennial President" Benjamin Harrison |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | PANAMANIA $200: (I'm Jeff Probst in Panama.) He was the U.S. president when the Panama Canal officially opened in 1914 Woodrow Wilson |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | ALTERNATIVE HISTORY NOVELS $2000: In this Robert Harris book, the Nazis won WWII & JFK's dad, Joseph, is U.S. President Fatherland |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | BORN IN THE U.S.A. $1000: North Carolina-born on Nov. 2, 1795, he was the 11th U.S. president Polk |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | SKI $800: An amphitheater in Vail, Colorado is named for this U.S. president, a skiing aficionado Gerald Ford |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | FULL NELSON $200: He was the 41st vice president of the U.S. Nelson Rockefeller |
| #4723, aired 2005-03-02 | GIVE ME "MORE" $400: 13th U.S. president Fillmore |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN... $200: ...Hawaii gained statehood Eisenhower |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN... $400: ...the Hindenburg Zeppelin crashed F.D. Roosevelt |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN... $600: ...the U.S. extended full diplomatic recognition to Vietnam Clinton |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN... $800: ...Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel Nixon |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN... $1000: ...the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan Carter |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | SECRETARY'S DAY $600: In the 1930s this future U. S. president was secretary to former King Ranch foreman Richard Kleberg Lyndon Johnson |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: A George W. was the first U.S. President & George W. Bush is counted as this number 43 |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2000: After serving one term, this first Quaker president was defeated for re-election in 1932 by FDR (Herbert) Hoover |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | A RANK CATEGORY $400: It's the military rank the Constitution gives the U.S. President Commander in Chief |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | "HAPPY" NEW YEAR $1000: She was married to the 41st vice president of the U.S. Happy Rockefeller |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST $1600: "Water" was the first word learned by Helen Keller & the last word spoken by this 18th U.S. president Grant |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | STAY ON THE GRASS $1000: In November 1988 President Reagan signed a law banning the sale of these outdoor toys in the U.S. lawn darts |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | OUR FOUNDING FATHERS $1,000 (Daily Double): One of the leading architects of the Revolution was this second cousin of the second U.S. president Samuel Adams |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Seen here at a Senate hearing, he was the first U.S. Attorney General to be convicted of a felony John Mitchell |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | STATE-LY HOMES $1,600 (Daily Double): You can go Polk around the home of this 11th U.S. president in Columbia in this state Tennessee |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | U.S. MILITARY MEN $4,000 (Daily Double): This future president gained national fame after defeating Santa Anna at Buena Vista, Mexico in 1847 Zachary Taylor |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $300 (Daily Double): They're the only 2 sons of U.S. presidents to be elected president George W. Bush and John Quincy Adams |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: Confederate General Richard Taylor was the son of this U.S. President Zachary Taylor |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | OCEANIA $400: In the Solomons, you can tour Olasana Island, where this future U.S. president was rescued in August 1943 JFK |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | WHITE HOUSE BEFORE & AFTER $400: 43rd president of the U.S. who flies supplies to remote Alaskan villages every week George W. Bush pilot |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | HOMOPHONIC NAMES $400: A tree that's a national symbol of Slovenia, or a Texan U.S. president's first name linden (or Lyndon) |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | SPORTS VENUES $1000: (I'm Moe Williams from the NFL.) The Minnesota Vikings play their home games in a domed stadium named for this former U.S. vice president Humphrey |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | NATIONAL PARKS $800: Located in North Dakota, the only U.S. national park named for a president is named for him Teddy Roosevelt |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $200: "The Surveyor President" George Washington |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $400: "The Illinois Baboon" &
"The Martyr President" Abraham Lincoln |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands next to a bust of President Hoover at the Hoover Dam Visitor Center.) Herbert Hoover, for whom the dam is named, was known as "The Great" this, his prepolitics profession Engineer |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | THE EMERALD ISLE $1200: This U.S. president visited his family's ancestral village of Ballyporeen in 1984 Reagan |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | THE BLUE & THE GRAY $800: On Jan. 21, 1861 he bade farewell to the U.S. Senate; 28 days later he was sworn in as president of the Confederacy Jeff Davis |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | EARLY 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1809 President Madison appointed this future president the first U.S. minister to Russia John Quincy Adams |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | "H" NAMES $1600: This man took office as the 19th president of the U.S. in 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | WHO WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT WHEN... $800: ...Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female on the U.S. Supreme Court George Bush |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: Abigail, known as "Little Abby", was the oldest child of this U.S. president John Adams |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | SIMPLY GEOGRAPHIC $1000: Named for a former U.S. president, this mountain peak in Denali N.P. is the highest point in the United States Mount McKinley |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | THE BUSH FAMILY TREE $400: Before he was president George H.W. Bush served as U.S. ambassador to this organization from 1971 to 1973 the United Nations |
| #4536, aired 2004-05-03 | RIGHT ON THE MONEY $400: You're looking at the back of a U.S. bill; on its face, you'll see the face of this president (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | FAIRBURY, NEBRASKA $400: Fairbury is the seat of this county named for the U.S. president known as the "Sage of Monticello" (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: A president "shall have the power to grant reprieves and" these "for offenses against the United States" pardons |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $200: Article 2 says the president occasionally has to report to Congress "Information on the State of" this the Union |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $400: By Article 2, the president doesn't have to do this in his oath; he's given the option to "affirm" swear |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $200: In 1805 an agricultural society gave this U.S. president a gold medal for one of his inventions Thomas Jefferson |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | VICE PRESIDENTS WHO BECAME PRESIDENT $800: In the early '40s he was among the youngest pilots in the U.S. Navy George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | A THOUSAND SOMETHING $400: His term as U.S. president was just 1,036 days John F. Kennedy |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | KANSAS CITY HERE WE COME $400: Later to become U.S. President, this "man from Missouri" attended the Kansas City Law School in the 1920s Harry Truman |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: Daniel Webster's son gave this man the news of William Henry Harrison's death, which made him president (John) Tyler |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | "G" MEN $2000: Of the men on the front of currently printed U.S. paper bills he was the most recent to have been president Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4467, aired 2004-01-27 | "W"HODUNNIT? $400: He was the first U.S. president to be unanimously elected George Washington |
| #4466, aired 2004-01-26 | MAY I BE FRANK WITH YOU? $200: U.S. president known as "Handsome Frank" Franklin Pierce |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Elected the 19th U.S. president in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was a member of this political party Republican |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | A HOOSIERS WHO'S WHO $200: At 33 this future vice president was the youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Indiana Dan Quayle |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Queen of Soul" who got R‑E‑S‑P‑E‑C‑T as the 32nd president of the U.S. Aretha Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | THE U.S. ARMY $1,000 (Daily Double): Washington was the first 3-star General; this President the first 4-star General Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | THE LONG & WINDING ROAD $400: Before numbered U.S. roads, a 3,300-mile highway from Newark, N.J. to San Francisco was named for this President Abraham Lincoln |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | BETTER KNOWN AS... $800: U.S. President Leslie Lynch King, Jr. Gerald Ford |
| #4416, aired 2003-11-17 | EXPLORATION $1200: This American explorer of the U.S. far west was also the first Republican candidate for President John C. Fremont |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: Criticized by colleagues in 1839 he said, "I had rather be right than be President" Henry Clay |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Open a drawer in the museum & you can peruse the gallstones of this 20th century U.S. President & General Eisenhower |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | A CHURCH WEDDING $2,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from All Hallows Church in London.) This man got married here at All Hallows Church on July 26, 1797, soon after his dad became U.S. president John Quincy Adams |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | WILLIAMS $800: This orator who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. President 3 times was known as "The Great Commoner" William Jennings Bryan |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY $200: This man became President of the Senate in 2001 Dick Cheney |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | THE OLD SOUTH $1,000 (Daily Double): This ex-president of a South Carolina railroad negotiated a purchase from Mexico for a new U.S. route James Gadsden |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | THE TWENTIETH $600: He was the 20th president of the U.S. but sadly served only in 1881 Garfield |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | THE GRIZZLIES $1200: This U.S. president's pet grizzly bears were a present from Lewis & Clark Thomas Jefferson |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: He served as both the third U.S. president & the first president of the Confederate States of America Thomas Jefferson Davis |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $800: The U.S. Embassy in Tehran was taken over by Islamic militants Jimmy Carter (1979) |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $1200: The U.S. invaded Grenada Ronald Reagan (1983) |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $4,000 (Daily Double): The U.S. Embassy in Saigon was permanently evacuated Gerald Ford (1975) |
| #4332, aired 2003-06-03 | COMPOSERS $2000: The 9/11 tribute "On the Transmigration of Souls" is by this composer with the same name as a U.S. president John Adams |
| #4331, aired 2003-06-02 | BENNY $400: While in office, he admitted 6 states, more than any other U.S. president Benjamin Harrison |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | DOUBLIN' $1600: The only U.S. president to marry the same woman twice, once in 1791 & once in 1794 Andrew Jackson |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | MAY DAYS $200: On May 13, 1958 this U.S. Vice President's limousine was pelted with rocks in Caracas, Venezuela Nixon |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | SURVIVORS $400: In 1943 the 11 survivors of the sunken PT Boat 109 were led to rescue & safety by this future U.S. president John F. Kennedy |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | PCH POUNDER $2,000 (Daily Double): Casa Pacifica in San Clemente was the western White House of this U.S. president Richard Nixon |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | TRUMAN $1000: Shortly after leaving office as Truman's Vice President, he was reelected to the U.S. Senate from Kentucky Alben Barkley |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VERBS $1000: An incoming U.S. president swears to preserve, protect & do this to the Constitution defend |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | KITCHEN DUTY $800: In the 1830s this U.S. president began formulating policy with a group of advisors called the "Kitchen Cabinet" Andrew Jackson |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $800: This large Texas city was named for James K. Polk's vice president Dallas |
| #4255, aired 2003-02-14 | THE UNITED NATIONS $800: Later U.S. president, in 1971 he was appointed the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations George H.W. Bush (the father) |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1972 George McGovern called this president's administration the "most corrupt" in U.S. history Richard Nixon |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | NAME IN COMMON $400: Name in common to a mother of a 20th century U.S. president & a WWII propaganda broadcaster Rose (Rose Kennedy & Tokyo Rose) |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | MR. PRESIDENT $400: This former U.S. president led a scientific expedition into the Amazon jungle in 1914 Theodore Roosevelt |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | THE HENRY FORD MUSEUM $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit) With a spin in a Stanley Steamer in Ohio in 1901, this man became the first U.S. president to ride in a car William McKinley |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | THE WHITE HOUSE $200: This was the second U.S. president to live in the first White House John Adams |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | 1999 $200: In January 1999, 100 people in this job were sworn in as jurors at the president's impeachment trial U.S. senators |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: This man was president when the Warsaw Pact was signed Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #4216, aired 2002-12-23 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In March 1836 he was named commander of the Texas army; by October he was president of the republic Sam Houston |
| #4216, aired 2002-12-23 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: On July 8, 1853 Matthew Perry presented a letter from President Fillmore to the emperor of this country Japan |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): This Civil War figure was born in 1808 & named after the President of the U.S. Jefferson Davis |
| #4198, aired 2002-11-27 | THANKSGIVING AT ALEX'S HOUSE $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew has dibs on a drumstick.) We should all give thanks to this U.S. president who proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving in 1789 George Washington |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | THE FIFTH $600: This former governor of Virginia seen here was also our fifth U.S. president James Monroe |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | '70s U.S. $1600: Shortly after this U.S. president declared Iran "an island of stability", the Shah was overthrown Jimmy Carter |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | EDITORS' CHOICES $600: The editors of the 2002 World Almanac chose this man as "The Most Obscure U.S. President" Millard Fillmore |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | THE FABULOUS (18)50s $800: On August 16, 1858 the first cable message across the Atlantic was sent from Queen Victoria to this U.S. president James Buchanan |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | SECURITY $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) I'm illustrating both parts of this famous security-related advice from a U.S. president "Speak softly and carry a big stick" |
| #4149, aired 2002-09-19 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Article 1, Section 3 states that this person "shall be president of the Senate" & vote only in case of ties the vice president |
| #4149, aired 2002-09-19 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $1600: This fourth president, the "Father of the Constitution", kept a record of the delegates' debates & decisions James Madison |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $400: Speaking to WWI troops in 1919, this man became the first U.S. president to make a radio broadcast Woodrow Wilson |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | 19th CENTURY QUOTES $400: Henry Clay told the U.S. Senate that he'd "rather be" this "than be President" right |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | 19th CENTURY QUOTES $3,000 (Daily Double): This President said that the second bank of the U.S. is "trying to kill me, but I will kill it" Andrew Jackson |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1000: (Sarah gives the clue from San Francisco.) This U.S. president was staying here at the Palace Hotel when he passed away suddenly in 1923 Harding |
| #4123, aired 2002-07-03 | THE HAYES CODE $200: This U.S. President was born in Delaware-- Delaware, Ohio, that is Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | GIMME SOME MONEY $1200: Hopefully not the site of any of his duels, the White House is on the back of the U.S. bill faced by this president Andrew Jackson |
| #4089, aired 2002-05-16 | NAMES ON THE MAP $400: It's the only U.S. state named for a president Washington |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | MOTHER'S DAY $200: She's the most recent first lady to have her son run for U.S. president Barbara Bush |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | WORLD WAR I VETS $400: Future U.S. president seen here on his military ID (Harry) Truman |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $200: The last Freemason to be U.S. president, he served for 2 years in the 1970s Gerald Ford |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | LONG LIVE THE KING! $800: When George Washington became President of the U.S., this king reigned over France Louis XVI |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | OF MADISON $2,000 (Daily Double): James Madison succeeded Thomas Jefferson as President of the U.S. & as rector of this university the University of Virginia |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | WEST POINT $200: The U.S. Military Academy at West Point was established by legislation signed by this president in 1802 Thomas Jefferson |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | SPELLING BEE $400: Last name of the only California Governor to become U.S. President R-E-A-G-A-N |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | THE CLINTON YEARS $1200: (The 42nd U.S. President delivers our next clue.) In July 1995, following better cooperation on the MIA issue, I normalized U.S. relations with this country Vietnam |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW? $800: In 2001 this president of Pakistan gave the U.S. his support against the Taliban General Musharraf |
| #4028, aired 2002-02-20 | PEACHES & HERB $1000: Elected only the year before, this man was U.S. President when the stock market crashed in 1929 Herbert Hoover |
| #4027, aired 2002-02-19 | 19th CENTURY ART $800: The family of this often-depicted U.S. President said sculptor John Rogers created the best likeness Lincoln |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | THE BARBARY WARS $1200: In 1802 Congress authorized this president to use force to protect U.S. ships from the Tripoli pirates Jefferson |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $6,000 (Daily Double): What couldn't he do? James K. Polk was the only U.S. president to have held this congressional title, 1835-1839 Speaker of the House |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1,400 (Daily Double): When a bill reaches the President's desk, he may approve & sign it, do nothing, or do this veto |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1976 he was the first incumbent president to take part in a campaign debate with a rival candidate Gerald Ford |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1921 Harding appointed this man Secretary of Commerce; 8 years later he was the president Hoover |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,500 (Daily Double): (Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Waldorf Astoria.) A circle of five stars marks the doorway of the suite that this U.S. president once lived in Eisenhower |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1600: At his second inauguration, Coolidge took the oath of office from this former president, a first William Howard Taft |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2000: Before becoming president, he was a professor at Harvard John Quincy Adams |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | WHEN $1200: Down the aisle they went in this year, the same year a new U.S. president took office 1981 |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | A DATE WITH DESTINY $200: On August 1, 1946 this president signed the McMahon Act creating the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Harry S. Truman |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | THE ANDREW JACKSON 5 $1,000 (Daily Double): Jackson was the first U.S. president not born in either of these 2 states Virginia & Massachusetts |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | BY GEORGE! $800: He's the only man to have served as U.S. president & U.S. ambassador to the U.N. George H.W. Bush |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | WAR $800: On June 1, 1812 this U.S. president formally asked Congress for a declaration of war against Great Britain James Madison |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | SUDDENLY SUDAN $400: In 1995 this former U.S. president oversaw a ceasefire in Sudan to allow relief workers into war-torn areas Jimmy Carter |
| #3956, aired 2001-11-12 | E BEFORE I $1,700 (Daily Double): The only U.S. President whose last name fits the category Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | THE BIG WHIGS $1,000 (Daily Double): He was the second Whig party member elected U.S. president who had also been a general (Zachary) Taylor |
| #3948, aired 2001-10-31 | SPELL THE LAST NAME $600: Soldier, statesman & 34th president of the U.S. E-I-S-E-N-H-O-W-E-R |
| #3937, aired 2001-10-16 | OH, HENRY! $1000: At the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this man was vice president of the U.S. Henry Wallace |
| #3931, aired 2001-10-08 | MARSHALL MATTERS $200: Appointed by President Johnson, he was the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | DISABILITY AWARENESS $100: Congress first designated Disability Awareness Month in 1945, the year of this U.S. president's death Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3926, aired 2001-10-01 | TIME FOR A ROUND OF GOLF $200: First awarded in 1958, an amateur golf trophy is named for this U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: On January 8, 1835 this man known as "Old Hickory" became the only president to pay off the national debt Andrew Jackson |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1989 this president dispatched troops to help clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill George Bush |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER $800: A fan of Robin Hood, Tom would rather be an outlaw for a year in this forest than president of the U.S. "forever" Sherwood Forest |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | OUR FUNNY ACCENTS $100: State that produced the accent of the U.S. president seen here
"At my direction, after complete and thorough consultation and agreement with the government..." Texas |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's named for the third president of the U.S. Jefferson City |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | UP & ATOM $400: An honorary "Atoms for Peace" award went to this ex-U.S. president in 1969, the year of his death Eisenhower |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | U.S. MONEY $2,600 (Daily Double): The 2 Federal Reserve notes now being issued that don't feature a president the $10 bill & the $100 bill |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | THE HALL OF FAMOUS MISSOURIANS $100: He's the only U.S. president in The Hall of Famous Missourians Harry S. Truman |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS $600: Later president, in 1920 he lost as a U.S. vice presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | HISTORY $400: Every president since Taft has been an honorary president of this organization founded in the U.S. in Feb. 1910 the Boy Scouts |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | "PO" FOLKS $400: He was U.S. President during the "Fabulous '40s" (the 1840s, that is) Polk |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $800 (Daily Double): This Alaska town was founded by prospectors in 1902 & named for a U.S. vice president (Charles) Fairbanks |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | IT'S ALL POLITICS $400: Before Cheney, he was the last U.S. vice president born west of the Mississippi River; he left office in 1981 Walter Mondale |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | THE ONION $300: "I will not move my army without onions!" once declared this 18th U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | THE ONE & ONLY $200: He was the one & only U.S. president to take the oath of office aboard an airplane Lyndon Johnson |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1878 the first of this breed arrived in the U.S., a gift to the wife of President Hayes from the American consul in Bangkok Siamese |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He was the only U.S. president to die in the 18th century George Washington |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: This Mexican War hero & winning 1848 candidate had never voted for president before Zachary Taylor |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This former general was the first Republican to serve 2 full terms as president Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY $200: The vice president serves as the presiding officer, or president, of this U.S. government body the Senate |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | QUAKERS $1000: Francis, the father of this 37th U.S. president, became a Quaker after marrying Hannah Milhous Richard Nixon |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1,000 (Daily Double): As of Jan. 20, 2001, it's the annual salary of the U.S. president, double what it was for the previous office holder $400,000 |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | THE LAST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY $200: In 1990 Guillermo Endara became Panama's president after this strongman surrendered to U.S. officials Manuel Noriega |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THAT'S MY NICKNAME, DON'T WEAR IT OUT $400: This 19th century U.S. president was known as "Old Three Stars" Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | WHEN BENJY WAS PREZ $100: Toward the end of Benjamin Harrison's term, this man was elected president of the U.S. for a second time Grover Cleveland |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $200: In 1968 this widow of a U.S. president married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #3783, aired 2001-01-31 | THE DATING GAME $500: John Paul II shot; Iran releases U.S. embassy hostages 1981 |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS $500 (Daily Double): He was Indiana governor for 12 years, 144 times longer than he was U.S. president William Henry Harrison |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | 20 QUESTIONS $200: In 1937 he became the first man sworn in as U.S. president on a January 20 FDR |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | "R-U" SERIOUS? $1000: Former president Gerald Ford's middle name Rudolph |
| #3763, aired 2001-01-03 | STREET SMARTS $100: It's the stately street where the U.S. president lives Pennsylvania Avenue |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1961 this president appointed his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver as director of the Peace Corps John F. Kennedy |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: Almost defeating President Ford in the 1976 GOP primary, he won the nomination & the presidency 4 years later Ronald Reagan |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This president is seen here in his 1947 class portrait at the U.S. Naval Academy Jimmy Carter |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | WHITE HOUSE WOMEN $200: A U.S. Coast Guard cutter was named for Harriet Lane, this bachelor president's hostess James Buchanan |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | SEEING "RED" $800: The president of the U.S. is the honorary chairman of this organization founded by Clara Barton Red Cross |
| #3720, aired 2000-11-03 | CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS $500: John Hanson is considered by some the first U.S. president, as he was the first to serve under these Articles of Confederation |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | MAO, MAO, MAO, MAO $100: The 1st U.S. president Mao received on an official state visit was this man in the 1970s Richard Nixon |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: Some politicians made fun of this president's fussiness by referring to him as "Granny Hayes" Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $900 (Daily Double): (Former president Jimmy Carter delivers the clue from the Carter Center in Atlanta.) This man was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C. Thomas Jefferson |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | JUDAICA $400: U.S. president who recognized the new state of Israel; first president Chaim Weizmann gave him a Torah Harry S. Truman |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | WHO WAS THE U.S. VEEP? $200: On Nov. 3, 1992, the day Bill Clinton was elected president Dan Quayle |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | WHO WAS THE U.S. VEEP? $600: When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima no one |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP $400: This daughter of a U.S. president turns 33 on Oct. 19, 2000 Amy Carter |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | THE ADAMS FAMILY $100: In 1767 his wife gave birth to a future U.S. president John Adams |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: Co-host of "The View", this newswoman has interviewed every U.S. president & first lady since the Nixons Barbara Walters |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | THE HISTORY OF LIBYA $400: In 1986 this president ordered U.S. warplanes to bomb Libyan military installations Ronald Reagan |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | INTERNATIONAL DATEBOOK $800: On May 2, 1965 President Johnson sent 14,000 U.S. troops to this Caribbean "republic" Dominican Republic |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $1000: In 1949 this 71-year-old became the only U.S. vice president ever to marry while in office Alben Barkley |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: (Former President Jimmy Carter speaks from the Carter Center in Atlanta.) While I was in the U.S. Navy, I worked closely with this admiral, the "Father of the Atomic Submarine" Hyman Rickover |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ACTING PRESIDENTS $200: Peter Sellers had 3 roles in this film, U.S. President Merkin Muffley, Captain Lionel Mandrake & this title character Dr. Strangelove |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Kevin Kline played both the U.S. president & a man who looked just like him in this 1993 comedy Dave |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A stone obelisk dedicated to President William McKinley stands in this New York city's Niagara Square Buffalo |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: The only U.S. national park named for a president, its area includes the Badlands of North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt National Park |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | BEFORE & AFTER $300: 14th U.S. president who changed careers & became a big-screen James Bond Franklin Pierce Brosnan |
| #3648, aired 2000-06-14 | 4 YEARS $200: He was the first U.S. president to serve just 4 years John Adams |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: The only man with "man" in his last name to be U.S. president Harry S. Truman |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1000: This Ohioan was the first sitting U.S. senator elected president Warren G. Harding |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $500: This U.S. president was nicknamed "Matty" Martin Van Buren |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | STATE RIVERS $200: This river shares the spelling of its name with the state in which the 42nd U.S. president was born Arkansas |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400 (Daily Double): The White House was burned by the British while he was president James Madison |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS $100: This president appointed the first female attorney general Bill Clinton |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | WHERE THERE'S A VILLE $1,500 (Daily Double): The seal of this Southern city shows the seventh U.S. president on horseback Jacksonville, FL (Andrew Jackson) |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | HISTORIC LEADERS $300: U.S. President:
1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $100: Bill Clinton's middle name, it's also the last name of another president Jefferson |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: In 1927 this future president created the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation to help polio victims Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: Stephen was the real first name of this president who served 2 non-consecutive terms Grover Cleveland |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | '65 $300: On January 20, 1965 he was inaugurated as U.S. vice president Hubert H. Humphrey |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | IT'S MY PARTY $2,000 (Daily Double): U.S. president John Adams Federalist |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: The senator with this title presides over the Senate in the absence of the vice president president pro tempore |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $400: This president's 1904 "Corollary" to the doctrine allows for U.S. intervention in Latin America Theodore Roosevelt |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | UFO REVIEW $400: This future governor & U.S. president filed a report of a UFO sighting in 1969 Jimmy Carter |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1912 at the suggestion of this president William Howard Taft |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | THE VIRGINIAN $800: Berkeley Plantation was the birthplace of this U.S. president whose grandson was president, too William Henry Harrison |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He lived to see his son become president as well, but died during his son's term in office John Adams |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800 (Daily Double): This president's grandfather, James Knox, was a captain in the American Revolution James Knox Polk |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: His tenure as president from 1817 to 1825 is often referred to as the "Era of Good Feeling" James Monroe |
| #3483, aired 1999-10-27 | COLLEGE FOLK $500: In 1982 this former U.S. president founded his own center at Emory University Jimmy Carter |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | HEE HAW $400: This man elected U.S. president in 1988 once declared that "Hee Haw" was his favorite show George H.W. Bush |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | 1999 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS $100: Texas A&M grads got this former U.S. president telling them to "Dream Big" George H.W. Bush |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | JIMMY $100: The Kentucky Derby-winning jockey in 1878, or the president of the U.S. in 1978 Jimmy Carter |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | "MIS" QUOTES $200: The U.S. Constitution says a president can be impeached for "high crimes and" these Misdemeanors |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | SIXTEENTH $100: This sixteenth president of the U.S. followed James Buchanan into the White House Abraham Lincoln |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | THE ROARING '20s $800: Maybe it was the campaign song Al Jolson wrote that got him elected U.S. president in 1920 Warren G. Harding |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | FLOWER GIRLS $200: She gave birth to 3 20th century U.S. senators, one of whom became president Rose Kennedy |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: He was reelected vice president of the U.S. in 1996 Al Gore |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | THE '80s $400: On Jan. 20, 1985 this man was sworn in for his second term as U.S. president Reagan |
| #3442, aired 1999-07-20 | HERE COMES THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE! $800: The first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, was appointed by this president Ronald Reagan |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | JOHN $200: Second U.S. president John Adams |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: 18th U.S. president who painted "American Gothic" Ulysses S. Grant Wood |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | MILITARY SCIENCE $200: It's the military rank the Constitution gives the U.S. president Commander-in-Chief |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | YEAR OF THE HEADLINE $800: Mondale Nominated for U.S. President! 1984 |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | LEADERS $200: U.S. president:
1961-1963 John F. Kennedy |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | LEADERS $800: U.S. vice president:
1989-1993 Dan Quayle |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | U.S. HISTORY 101 $300: This president who vetoed the bill to establish the Second Bank of the U.S. is on the $20 bill today Andrew Jackson |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | SPELL THE LAST NAME $200: U.S. president Dwight... E-I-S-E-N-H-O-W-E-R |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $100: In 1997 a Houston airport was renamed in honor of this recent president George H.W. Bush |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: Nearly 91 when he died the same day as Thomas Jefferson, he was the longest-lived president John Adams |
| #3390, aired 1999-05-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Grammy-winning ex-Menudo singing sensation who became the 8th U.S. president Ricky Martin Van Buren |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: He was the first U.S. president born in Missouri -- Lamar, Missouri, to be exact Harry S. Truman |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | U.S. HISTORY $100: Radical Republicans impeached & tried to remove this president in 1868 Andrew Johnson |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | ACTRESSES $600: This daughter of a U.S. president appeared as a French newscaster in "Curse of the Pink Panther" Patti Davis |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200 (Daily Double): On July 9, 1850 this president died in office; Millard Fillmore was sworn in the following day Zachary Taylor |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: In 1965 he became the first sitting president to meet a pope in the U.S. when he met Paul VI Lyndon Johnson |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | HAIR $600: He's the 20th century U.S. president whose "do" is seen here Ronald Reagan |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | STATE CAPITALS $400 (Daily Double): In the 1860s, it became the last of 4 capitals to be named for a U.S. president Lincoln |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | THE DAY THEY DIED $400: A U.S. president:
April 22, 1994 Richard M. Nixon |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | THEY ALSO RAN $500: It was wait, loss, wait, loss when this comedian failed at tries to be mayor of Chicago & U.S. president Dick Gregory |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | THE 1880s $200: President Hayes said in March 1880 that one of these across the Isthmus of Panama would be under U.S. control a canal |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | DICKENSIANA $300: Dickens met this U.S. president a few weeks before the impeachment proceedings Andrew Johnson |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | LYING IN STATE $400: Last name of the father & son, a U.S. president & a longtime senator, who both lay in state Taft (William Howard & Robert) |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | LYING IN STATE $1,000 (Daily Double): The last U.S. president to lie in state in the rotunda, he did it Jan. 24-25, 1973 Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $1000: The Orange, Virginia museum devoted to this president is a few miles from his estate, Montpelier James Madison |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | PITCHERS $1000: This pitcher named for a U.S. president was played by Ronald Reagan in "The Winning Team" Grover Cleveland Alexander |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | LET'S DEMONSTRATE $500: In March 1988 students at this U.S. university demonstrated in favor of hiring a deaf president Gallaudet |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS $100: Honest, Abe was the first person run by this party to be elected U.S. president Republican |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | THE AMBASSADORS $200: This future president was the first U.S. ambassador to England in 1785 John Adams |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | twentysomething $200: At arrival or departure, this "salute" is fired for a U.S. president or a visiting head of state a 21-gun salute |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $500: After the Civil War this vice president of the Confederacy served in the U.S. Congress Alexander Stephens |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING $400: U.S. president whose middle initial "S" stood for nothing Harry S. Truman |
| #3249, aired 1998-10-22 | POLITICIANS $600: In 1920, Eugene V. Debs, this party's candidate, ran for U.S. president from his jail cell Socialist Party |
| #3242, aired 1998-10-13 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $200: Per Article II Luke Perry can become president in 2001, since he'll be this age 35 |
| #3242, aired 1998-10-13 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $400: The president has the power to make these agreements, "provided two-thirds of the senators present concur" Treaties |
| #3240, aired 1998-10-09 | LOW SELF-ESTEEM $100: The 38th president of the U.S. said he was one of these, "not a Lincoln" Ford |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $600 (Daily Double): John Ashbery wrote of this U.S. president, "He wasn't a bad egg. Just weak, he loved women and Ohio" Warren G. Harding |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC $500: The first issue cost 6 pence & was published during this U.S. president's first term George Washington |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | U.S. HISTORY $600: At noon April 30, 1789 George Washington was sworn in as president in this city New York City |
| #3199, aired 1998-06-25 | U.S. HISTORY $300: President who signed the Alaskan Pipeline Act during the energy crisis Richard Nixon |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | WHAT'S "NEW"? $4,000 (Daily Double): He's the only U.S. vice president who fits the category Spiro T. Agnew |
| #3176, aired 1998-05-25 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $200: Issued in 1862, a 10-dollar note depicting him was the first U.S. currency to feature a living president Lincoln |
| #3176, aired 1998-05-25 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $300: Although he served longer than any other U.S. President, he only managed 82 days of his last term FDR |
| #3165, aired 1998-05-08 | ARMY MAJORS $400: In 1923 he was an obscure major stationed in Panama; 30 years later he was U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | GOLDEN BEAR HISTORY $1000: Commencement 1903, the first event held at the Hearst Greek Theatre, had an address from this U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: He was the first California native to become vice president & the first to become president Richard Nixon |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $500 (Daily Double): Taking office in 1869, he was the first West Point graduate to become president Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | ON THE BOARDS $300: The Chief Justice & Vice-President of the U.S. are "institutionalized" on its board of regents the Smithsonian |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | FIGURE IT OUT $300: He was the first U.S. president who was not a college graduate George Washington |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | COMMUNICATION $400: Woodrow Wilson was the first U.S. president to hold one of these open audiences with reporters press conference |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $400: He's the only U.S. president you can step on Ronald Reagan |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $300: This third U.S. president was the third president of the American Philosophical Society Thomas Jefferson |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | JACK LEMMON FILMS $200: In 1996's "My Fellow Americans", Lemmon, James Garner & Dan Aykroyd played men who held this office President of the U.S. |
| #3046, aired 1997-11-24 | TRINIDAD $400: U.S.O.C. president Leroy Walker, not Runner, once coached this Trinidadian Olympic team track & field |
| #3040, aired 1997-11-14 | BRAIN FREEZE! $500: The second U.S. president to serve only one term John Quincy Adams |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $500: On Jan. 20, 1993 he became a former president George H.W. Bush |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | SMALL MIDWESTERN COLLEGES $400: Eureka College in Illinois is the alma mater of this U.S. president born not far off in Tampico Ronald Reagan |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | POLITICAL POSTS $200: This future president was U.S. envoy to China in 1974 & 1975 George H.W. Bush |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | JOHN BROWN $1000: In 1858 this president of the U.S. with the same initials offered a reward for Brown's capture James Buchanan |
| #2991, aired 1997-09-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1997 this U.N. secy.-general became the first international guest of President Clinton's second term Kofi Annan |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: He was the first president to serve 2 terms in office George Washington |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1832 this president vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States Andrew Jackson |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: On March 4, 1853 this president gave his inauguration address from memory without notes Franklin Pierce |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: His 1934 trip to Cartagena, Colombia was the first by a sitting U.S. president to South America Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The last Whig elected president, he was James Madison's distant cousin Zachary Taylor |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | HISTORY $200: On September 23, 1949 President Truman announced that this country had detonated a nuclear device the Soviet Union (or the U.S.S.R. or Russia) |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | GOVERNMENT $600: Chicago's Richard M. Daley is the president of the U.S. Conference of people in this post mayors |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: This future president graduated from Abilene High School in 1909 Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: In 1820 this president ran unopposed for reelection James Monroe |
| #2936, aired 1997-05-12 | ECONOMICS $300: It represents one-seventh of the U.S. economy; President Clinton tried to reform it in his first term Healthcare |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | WORLD FAMOUS $2,000 (Daily Double): U.S. president seen here George H.W. Bush |
| #2931, aired 1997-05-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: In 1859, before he was president, he wrote, "He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave" Abraham Lincoln |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | U.S. HISTORY $400: On December 6, 1847 this future president took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois Abraham Lincoln |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | U.S. HISTORY $800: This president commuted Patty Hearst's jail sentence & was instrumental in a Mideast peace treaty Jimmy Carter |
| #2929, aired 1997-05-01 | MONEY $600: In 1971 President Nixon ended the convertibility of U.S. currency into this metal gold |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: As head of the Union Army, this future president accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox Ulysses S. Grant |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: Living to the age of 90, this president was able to see his son become president as well John Adams |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800 (Daily Double): He was president during WWI Woodrow Wilson |
| #2927, aired 1997-04-29 | TOUGH HISTORY $600: In 1823 the U.S. lacked the military power to back up this president's "Doctrine" James Monroe |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | POT LUCK $200: Clark Mills' statue of this U.S. president stands in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter Andrew Jackson |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | PEOPLE ON STAMPS $300: Though living presidents can't appear on U.S. stamps, this living 40th president is on Grenada's stamps Ronald Reagan |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | JAPAN $600: In 1996 Bill Clinton became the second U.S. president to address this, this Japanese parliament Diet |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $500: The first president who had been a U.S. senator, he represented Virginia from 1790 to 1794 James Monroe |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: This "Centennial President" took office 100 years after Washington & nearly 50 years after his grandfather Benjamin Harrison |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1972 he resigned as attorney general to head CREEP, the president's reelection committee John Mitchell |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: This Denison, Texas native had never held elective office before he was U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | BEER $700 (Daily Double): The Boston Beer Co. makes a lager named for this brewer, patriot & cousin of a U.S. president Samuel Adams |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $200: In 1971 President Nixon proposed the disbanding of several cabinet departments including this one, the USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | MAY DAY $400: The Croats opened fire again May 1, 1995 after the ceasefire negotiated by this ex-U.S. president expired Jimmy Carter |
| #2889, aired 1997-03-06 | U.S. CITIES $1000: This Montana city was founded in 1882 by the Northern Pacific Railroad & named for its president Billings |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1981, just minutes after President Reagan was sworn in, the 52 hostages in this country were released Iran |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1950 2 Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on this president's life Harry S. Truman |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: In 1906 he became the first president & the first American to win a Nobel Prize Teddy Roosevelt |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1849, less than a week before his death, this first "dark horse" president was baptized Polk |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: The Cincinnati home of this President & Chief Justice is now a national historic site Taft |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | MOST STRESSFUL JOBS $300: It's ranked as America's most stressful job; only one person at a time holds it President of the U.S. |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1856 he defeated an incumbent president to win the Democratic nomination James Buchanan |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $300: The committee that drafted the league's covenant included this U.S. president Woodrow Wilson |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | EXPLORERS $200: In 1804 this U.S. president hired George Hunter to explore the Red River Thomas Jefferson |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | U.S. MUSEUMS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 38th president's museum displays a selection of bicentennial items Gerald Ford |
| #2822, aired 1996-12-03 | DECEMBER $300: On December 20, 1994, this former U.S. President announced the Bosnian ceasefire he'd arranged Jimmy Carter |
| #2821, aired 1996-12-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: From 1895 to 1897 he served as president of the New York City police board Teddy Roosevelt |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: This president's middle initial, "S", honored both of his grandfathers Harry S. Truman |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: This president from Kinderhook was the first who wasn't born a British subject Martin Van Buren |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: Not only the first president to marry in the White House, he was also the first to have a child born there Grover Cleveland |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2,500 (Daily Double): When he took office in 1853 at age 48, this New Englander was the youngest president to that time Franklin Pierce |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | 1796 $600: In 1796 this future U.S. president helped draft Tennessee's new constitution Andrew Jackson |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: As his novel "Executive Orders" begins, Jack Ryan has just become president of the U.S. Tom Clancy |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $1000: He was the 1st veteran of the U.S. Navy to serve as president JFK |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | EXPLORERS $400: Brazil renamed its River of Doubt in honor of this ex-U.S. president who explored the area Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2767, aired 1996-09-17 | MINNESOTANS $500 (Daily Double): He was the last Minnesotan to serve as U.S. vice president Walter "Fritz" Mondale |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1,000 (Daily Double): This 30th U.S. president is buried in the family plot in Plymouth, Vermont Coolidge |
| #2757, aired 1996-09-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: On March 4, 1885 this president took the oath of office for the first of his 2 nonconsecutive terms Cleveland |
| #2757, aired 1996-09-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): President heard here:
"The principles for which we stand are the principles of fair play and a square deal for every man and every woman in the United States." Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | PRESIDENTS $200: This 36th U.S. president died on his Texas ranch January 22, 1973 Lyndon Johnson |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: After leaving office, this generally "silent" president wrote a syndicated news column Coolidge |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $500 (Daily Double): He was the first president to preside over all 50 states Eisenhower |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: This early U.S. president often practiced the violin 3 hours a day Jefferson |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | U.S. HISTORY $200: He was the first vice president of the United States John Adams |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $200: He's the only U.S. president inaugurated in New York City George Washington |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: Grover Cleveland reportedly told this future president, "Franklin, I hope you never become president" Franklin Roosevelt |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: When elected president in 1856, he had just served 3 years as minister to Great Britain James Buchanan |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1845 this "dark horse" became the first man inaugurated as president under age 50 -- he was 49 James K. Polk |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This president's estate, Spiegel Grove, in Fremont, Ohio, was inherited from his uncle Sardis Birchard Rutherford B. Hayes |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | QUOTATIONS $200: On Jan. 9, 1959 this U.S. president told Congress, "America is best described by one word. Freedom" Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1987 Romare Bearden was awarded the National Medal of Arts by this U.S. president Ronald Reagan |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: On May 4, 1941 FDR dedicated the Staunton, Va. birthplace of this president known for his "Fourteen Points" Woodrow Wilson |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: Within a week after receiving the 1952 GOP nomination for president, he resigned as general Eisenhower |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | IRELAND $300: In 1984 this U.S. president visited Ballyporeen, his ancestral village Ronald Reagan |
| #2703, aired 1996-05-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: As the first President to die in office, he was also the first to lie in state at the White House William Henry Harrison |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | U.S.A. $100: Jim Boren, Earl Dodge & Isabelle Masters each received under 1,000 votes for this highest office in 1992 the president |
| #2677, aired 1996-04-02 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: He's the only U.S. president to have served as director of the CIA George (H.W.) Bush |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | GOLF $300: Bobby Jones is president in perpetuity of Augusta National, the course that's home to this top tournament The Masters |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | LBJ $200: While LBJ was president, U.S. troop strength in this country went from 16,000 to over 500,000 Vietnam |
| #2653, aired 1996-02-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: In 1990 this president made his first nomination to the Supreme Court-- David H. Souter George Bush |
| #2653, aired 1996-02-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In June 1812 this president asked for & received a Declaration of War against Great Britain Madison |
| #2653, aired 1996-02-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: From 1923 to 1925, this president attended the Kansas City Law School Harry S. Truman |
| #2653, aired 1996-02-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: He was the first president to serve in the 20th century McKinley |
| #2643, aired 1996-02-14 | FILE UNDER "Q" $200: He's the only U.S. vice president filed under "Q" Dan Quayle |
| #2640, aired 1996-02-09 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $400: In 1976 this former child star became the 1st woman named Chief of Protocol for a U.S. president Shirley Temple Black |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $100: As a teenager in the 1940s, this president of the Philippines attended convent schools in the U.S. Corazon Aquino |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800 (Daily Double): Before a bill is considered by the president, the vice president & this person must sign it Speaker of the House |
| #2628, aired 1996-01-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: A railroad president named Aberdeen, South Dakota for his birthplace in this country Scotland |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: In 1910 lawyer Moorfield Storey became the first president of this oldest U.S. civil rights organization the NAACP |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: In 1991 reformer Ronald Carey was elected president of this largest U.S. labor union the Teamsters |
| #2618, aired 1996-01-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): As envoy extraordinary to France, this future president helped arrange the Louisiana Purchase James Monroe |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | U.S.A. $500: This city the starting point of the Santa Fe Trail & the home of President Truman Independence |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | AMERICANA $1000: An archive in Plymouth, Vermont has photos, family films & voice recordings of this U.S. president Coolidge |
| #2609, aired 1995-12-28 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Soon after taking office in 1981, this president lifted the grain embargo on the Soviet Union Reagan |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | POETRY $400: One of Longfellow's last poems was on the 1881 death of this U.S. president Garfield |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He was the only Catholic president Kennedy |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: He began his first Inaugural speech with "President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends" FDR |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: This president was named for Chester Abell, the Doctor who delivered him Chester Arthur |
| #2598, aired 1995-12-13 | HISTORIC NAMES $100: U.S. president who was a founder of the League of Nations Woodrow Wilson |
| #2598, aired 1995-12-13 | 1987 $600: Due to possible involvement in Nazi war crimes, this Austrian president was barred from entering the U.S. Kurt Waldheim |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $300: About a month after this president's April 27, 1822 birth, he was named Hiram (U.S.) Grant |
| #2597, aired 1995-12-12 | MEN NAMED JOSEPH $800 (Daily Double): The first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, his son became a U.S. president Joseph Kennedy |
| #2586, aired 1995-11-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: This second president was nicknamed "The Father of American Independence" John Adams |
| #2586, aired 1995-11-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: He was the first vice president to become acting president, for about 8 hours in 1985 George Bush |
| #2586, aired 1995-11-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: Nicknamed "Handsome Frank", he was the only president to affirm, not swear to, the oath of office Franklin Pierce |
| #2586, aired 1995-11-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: As an army captain, this future president commanded artillery in France during WWI Truman |
| #2586, aired 1995-11-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): Jackson won the popular vote in the 1824 election, but this New Englander became president John Quincy Adams |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $200: On August 9, 1974, he became the first U.S. president to resign Richard Nixon |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $600: This 5th president was the 1st to serve previously as a U.S. senator James Monroe |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | OOPS! $500: In July 1995 the RCMP & the Secret Service had to rescue this former U.S. president from a Canadian peat bog George Bush |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: On July 4, 1798 he became the only former president named commander-in-chief of American forces George Washington |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: This president was named for the Reverend Stephen Grover of Caldwell, New Jersey Grover Cleveland |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): With Republicans split between Taft & Teddy Roosevelt, this Democrat was elected president in 1912 Woodrow Wilson |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $200: During his term & after, the U.S. president is protected by members of this federal agency the Secret Service |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: In 1994 this former president went to Haiti to help restore the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jimmy Carter |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: Sadly, he was the first president whose parents survived him JFK |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS $600: On Oct. 14, 1912 this former U.S. president was shot in Milwaukee Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: In 1981 U San Yu succeeded U Ne Win as this country's president Burma |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: Located in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square, America's first equestrian statue honors this seventh president (Andrew) Jackson |
| #2544, aired 1995-09-28 | WE'RE NO. 2 $800: He was the 2nd-youngest person inaugurated U.S. president John F. Kennedy |
| #2544, aired 1995-09-28 | HISTORIC THOMASES $3,000 (Daily Double): Thomas was the first name of this U.S. president nicknamed the "Schoolmaster in Politics" Thomas Woodrow Wilson |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | STATE CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Alphabetically, it's the last state capital named for a U.S. president Madison (Wisconsin) |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | 1994 OBITS $200: This former president's funeral cost the U.S. military $311,039 Nixon |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | 1994 OBITS $600: She was the mother of the 42nd U.S. president Virginia Kelley |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | MARTINS $200: Running for reelection in 1840, this 8th U.S. president failed to carry even his home state Martin Van Buren |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | AMERICAN WHIGS $600: Whig Speaker of the House John Bell opposed this president's campaign against the Bank of the U.S. (Andrew) Jackson |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | D-DAY $1,000 (Daily Double): At a 50th anniversary tribute to the U.S. Warriors of D-Day, he said, "They gave us our world" President Clinton |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS $400: On June 8, 1994 this U.S. president received an honorary degree in civil law from Oxford Bill Clinton |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: This U.S. president was nicknamed the "Sword of the Revolution" Washington |
| #2477, aired 1995-05-16 | U.S.A. $200: This estate of George Washington expanded from about 2,000 to 8,000 acres during his lifetime Mount Vernon |
| #2476, aired 1995-05-15 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: Congress overrode 15 of this post-Civil War president's vetoes, a record number Andrew Johnson |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: The first book written by this president was "crusade in Europe" in 1948 Eisenhower |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: When named chief justice of the U.S. in 1921, this former president was a professor of law at Yale Taft |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: He took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 1953, becoming the 36th U.S. Vice President Nixon |
| #2468, aired 1995-05-03 | JOHNs IN HISTORY $1000: In 1856 this explorer & politician was the first Republican candidate for U.S. president John C. Fremont |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | U.S. HISTORY $600: In 1923 his father swore him in as president at their Plymouth, Vermont house Coolidge |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: As president-elect in 1980, Ronald Reagan appointed her U.S. Representative to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick |
| #2461, aired 1995-04-24 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $2,000 (Daily Double): This president who died almost penniless on July 4, 1831 saw the U.S. through the Panic of 1819 Monroe |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | U.S. HISTORY $600: On May 11, 1950 President Truman traveled to Washington State to dedicate this dam the Grand Coulee Dam |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | THE MOVIES $500: Charlton Heston played this U.S. president in 2 films, "The President's Lady" & "The Buccaneer" Andrew Jackson |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: Of the 3 branches of government, the one the vice president doesn't work in the judiciary |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | 1885 $800: This 18th U.S. president & his vice president Schuyler Colfax both died during the year (Ulysses) Grant |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $500: On July 3, 1826, the day before he died, this U.S. president asked, "Is it the fourth?" Jefferson |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $300: U.S. diplomat Charles Francis Adams. this president's son, sought to keep the British neutral John Quincy Adams |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | U.S. U.N. AMBASSADORS $200: Though he served less than 2 years as a U.N. ambassador, he served 4 years as a U.S. president George Bush |
| #2381, aired 1995-01-02 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Later U.S. Sec. of State, John Milton Hay served as asst. private secretary to this man during the war President Lincoln |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | U.S. HISTORIC SITES $200: This house is known for the dumbwaiter installed by the third president Monticello |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | 1978 $500: This 85-year-old Yugoslav president paid a 3-day official visit to the U.S. Tito |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: He was the first president to graduate from West Point Grant |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1909 U.S. troops left this Caribbean island after overseeing J.M. Gomez' election as president Cuba |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $100: Before becoming U.S. president, he was president of the Georgia Crop Improvement Association Jimmy Carter |
| #2358, aired 1994-11-30 | POLITICIANS $800 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 Ohio governors elected president of the U.S. in the late 19th century William McKinley (or Rutherford B. Hayes) |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1902 he became the first layman chosen as president of Princeton Woodrow Wilson |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: This president's nephew & the editor of the Washington Globe were part of his "Kitchen Cabinet" Andrew Jackson |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He broke the tradition of serving only 2 terms as president & in 1945 was sworn in for a 4th Franklin Roosevelt |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): President to whom Edwin Stanton was referring when he said, "Now he belongs to the ages" Abraham Lincoln |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: In his last will & testament, this president left Mount Vernon to his nephew Bushrod George Washington |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: This U.S. president died in San Francisco on August 2, 1923 after an exhausting tour of Alaska Harding |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: This Whig was only the second U.S. president to have a middle name William Henry Harrison |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: In 1827 this future U.S. president was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire Franklin Pierce |
| #2316, aired 1994-10-03 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $100: Try as he might, this President couldn't get the Senate to vote the U.S. into the League in 1920 Wilson |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 1, 1992 the president ordered Marine & Army troops to this U.S. city in the aftermath of riots Los Angeles |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | HISTORIC AFFAIRS $400: It led to the resignation of a U.S. president the Watergate affair |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $500: Assassinated in 1881, he had the second-shortest term of any president Garfield |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: The 4 members of this Council are the President, Vice President, Secretary of State & Secretary of Defense the National Security Council |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1889 this Ohio congressman & future U.S president was selected to chair the Ways & Means Committee President McKinley |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | DENTISTRY $100: John Greenwood, who made dentures for this first U.S. president, also invented a dental drill George Washington |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | 1913 $2,100 (Daily Double): This future U.S. president was born to Leslie King & Dorothy Gardner King in July Gerald Ford |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | FOUR! $300: On Jan. 20, 1949 this president unveiled his Point Four Program for U.S. foreign policy Truman |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: In 1921 this Socialist leader's 10-year prison sentence was commuted by President Harding (Eugene) Debs |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | U.S. HISTORY $400: When he became president in 1801, it was the first transfer of executive power between rival parties Jefferson |
| #2251, aired 1994-05-23 | MINNESOTANS $1,000 (Daily Double): in 1977 he was voted deputy president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, a position created for him (Hubert H.) Humphrey |
| #2243, aired 1994-05-11 | U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1931 President Hoover signed a bill designating this as America's national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #2243, aired 1994-05-11 | U.S. HISTORY $300: In 1987 President Reagan submitted the first budget to exceed this amount $1 trillion |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | U.S. COINS $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1926 commemorative half dollar depicted profiles of Washington & this president at the time Calvin Coolidge |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $100: This second U.S. president approved the first appropriation for the library (John) Adams |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: This Democrat is the third youngest man inaugurated as president Bill Clinton |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: He was president during "The Era of Good Feelings", which lasted from about 1817-1825 Monroe |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): Herbert Hoover's oath of office was administered by this former president (William Howard) Taft |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | AWARDS $100: In 1993 this former U.S. president received Kuwait's highest civilian medal, the Mubarak the Great Award Bush |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | "F" IN HISTORY $300: This U.S. president was known as "The American Louis Philippe" (Millard) Fillmore |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: He was the first U.S. president who had a father named John & a son named John John Adams |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | HISTORY $300: In 1963 several generals overthrew President Diem of this country with U.S. complicity South Vietnam |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | FRANKLIN PIERCE $600: At 48, Pierce was the youngest president to that time; he'd been a member of this body at 32 the U.S. Senate |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $100: This Civil War general was the first G.O.P. president to serve 2 full terms Grant |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: This president was actually born in Lamar, Missouri, not Independence Truman |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: This 39th president's maternal grandfather was postmaster in Richland, Georgia Carter |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: He succeeded Thomas Jefferson as president of the U.S. & as rector of the University of Virginia James Madison |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1,500 (Daily Double): Appointed by President Reagan in 1983, she was the first woman Secretary of Transportation (Elizabeth) Dole |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | GUINNESS RECORDS $500: The oldest man ever to take this U.S. office was Alben Barkley, who was 71 at the time the vice president |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: There's an international park named for this 20th century U.S. president on Canada's Campobello Island Franklin Roosevelt |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: Brazil's River of Doubt was renamed for this president who explored it in 1914 Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $700 (Daily Double): Both North Carolina & South Carolina claim this president, born in 1767, as a native son Andrew Jackson |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1973 President Nixon nominated this man to succeed William Rogers as Secretary of State Kissinger |
| #2175, aired 1994-02-04 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: This U.S. president garnered just 8 electoral votes when defeated by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 Taft |
| #2164, aired 1994-01-20 | THE 1970s $1,000 (Daily Double): This U.S. president served longest during the 1970s Nixon |
| #2163, aired 1994-01-19 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $500: Now called U.S. Highway 30, the first coast-to-coast road for automobiles was named for this U.S. president Abraham Lincoln |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | U.S. MUSEUMS $500 (Daily Double): At the Tennessee State Museum, you can see Mrs. Sam Houston's guitar & this 7th president's inaugural hat Andrew Jackson |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | SPORTS $200: This general who vowed to return to the Philippines was president of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1928 MacArthur |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | HISTORY $800: This U.S. president was nicknamed "Purse", a rather lame play on his last name Franklin Pierce |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | JOHN PAUL II $100: John Paul II visited this U.S. city in August of 1993, & President Clinton visited him there Denver |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | VIOLINISTS $600: The first U.S. president we know was a violinist Thomas Jefferson |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: Prior to becoming the 16th President, he declined an offer to be governor of the Oregon Territory in 1849 Abraham Lincoln |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: The year this 22nd & 24th president died, 1908, his book "Good Citizenship" was published Cleveland |
| #2105, aired 1993-10-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1896 & 1900 this president's Democratic opponent was William Jennings Bryan McKinley |
| #2097, aired 1993-10-19 | LEGAL "E"s $400: One of the people who form the "College" that chooses the U.S. president electors |
| #2097, aired 1993-10-19 | MASSACHUSETTS $1,300 (Daily Double): After John Quincy Adams, he was the next U.S. president born in Massachusetts John (F.) Kennedy |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | 1894 $600: This "Republic" with Sanford Dole as president was recognized by the U.S. in August Hawaii |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | HISTORY $100: This president laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol in 1793 George Washington |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | 1973 $200: On October 10 he became the first U.S. vice president since John C. Calhoun to resign Spiro Agnew |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $2,000 (Daily Double): Within a 3 1/2 year period, he became Mayor of Buffalo, Governor of N.Y. & President of the U.S. Grover Cleveland |
| #2064, aired 1993-07-22 | REPUBLICANS $600 (Daily Double): Son of a U.S. president, he served as a senator from Ohio from 1939 until his death in 1953 Robert Taft |
| #2064, aired 1993-07-22 | MOUNTAINS $800: It's the highest mountain in the world named for a U.S. president Mount McKinley |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $100: In 1976 he became the first Deep Southerner elected president since before the Civil War Jimmy Carter |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: In Feb. 1993 Margaret Thatcher was on hand to help this former president celebrate his 82nd birthday Ronald Reagan |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $500: He was born August 20, 1833 at the Ohio home of his grandfather who was also president Benjamin Harrison |
| #2054, aired 1993-07-08 | BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY $500 (Daily Double): This 30th U.S. president was born July 4, 1872 at Plymouth Notch, Vermont Calvin Coolidge |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | ASSASSINATIONS $1000: Descended from a freed U.S. slave, William Tolbert was president of this country when killed in a 1980 coup Liberia |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | WORLD ALMANAC 1868 $1,000 (Daily Double): This U.S. president earns a big $25,000 a year Andrew Johnson |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Geronimo rode in this U.S. president's 1905 inaugural parade Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: The Constitution provides for the selection of this Senate officer when the Vice President is absent the President Pro Tem |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | BIRTHPLACES $900 (Daily Double): The only U.S. President born in Milton, Massachusetts George Bush |
| #2037, aired 1993-06-15 | PEOPLE $1000: A U.S. senator from Kentucky before becoming vice president, he returned to the Senate in 1955 Alben Barkley |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | PARDON ME $400: This French pirate was pardoned by President Madison but continued to attack U.S. ships Jean Lafitte |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | JUNIORS $2,000 (Daily Double): He was the last U.S. president to fit the category James Earl Carter Jr. |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The first coins minted by the U.S. government were half dimes made from the table silver of this president's wife Washington |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: This president had 6 children: Alice, Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archie & Quentin Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2009, aired 1993-05-06 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: The U.S. vice president gets a salute of this many guns, 2 fewer than the President 19 |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | IN THE NEWS-1987 $500: This Austrian president was barred from entering the U.S. due to claims about his WWII activities Kurt Waldheim |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: While Congress is in session, a president has this many days, excluding Sundays, to act on a bill or it becomes law 10 |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1,000 (Daily Double): President Reagan's 1st Sec. of State, he previously served as supreme commander of NATO (General Alexander) Haig |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: One of Barbara Bush's distant cousins was this dark horse president who succeeded Fillmore Franklin Pierce |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | THE LITTLE BIGHORN $800: He was U.S. president when the battle occurred Grant |
| #2001, aired 1993-04-26 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In 1800 this Democratic-Republic an candidate for vice president almost became president Aaron Burr |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: In 1933 he became the last president whose term of office ended on March 4 Hoover |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: When the Prince of Wales visited the White House in 1860, this president had to sleep in the hallway Buchanan |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | "O" NO! $100: It's a great shape for an egg or for the U.S. president's office oval |
| #1958, aired 1993-02-24 | JANUARY 1, 1993 $400: President Bush spent the day wishing happy new year to the U.S. troops in this country Somalia |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The Social Security Act was part of this president's New Deal FDR |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: This president campaigned for reelection in 1900 using the slogan "The Full Dinner Pail" William McKinley |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | COLLEGE STUFF $500: The first college graduate elected to U.S. President, he belonged to Harvard's class of '55—that's 1755 John Adams |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | WORLD WAR I $600: Charles Dawes, the chief purchasing agent for U.S. troop supplies, was elected this in 1924 vice president |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | 1923 $1000: In July he became the first U.S. president to visit Alaska while in office Harding |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | U.S.A. $300: This Alaskan city was named for a vice president, not for Mary Pickford's husband Fairbanks |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | U.S. HISTORY $600: Over President Wilson's veto, Congress passed this act in 1919 to enforce prohibition the Volstead Act |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | U.S. HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Of the 3 authors of the "Federalist Papers", the one who went on to become president James Madison |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | POLITICIANS $600: This West Virginian is President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Robert Byrd |
| #1902, aired 1992-12-08 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $200: She was the first woman nominated for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket Geraldine Ferraro |
| #1896, aired 1992-11-30 | U.S. HISTORY $500: In 1948 this party split from the Democrats & ran Strom Thurmond for president the Dixiecrats |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | WORLD HISTORY $200: In 1960 rioting in Japan caused by a new treaty with the U.S. forced this president to cancel his trip there Eisenhower |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | NAPOLEONS $200: This third U.S. vice-president was nicknamed "The Napoleon of the West" Aaron Burr |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT $400: The Treasury Department ranks second to this department in the president's cabinet State Department |
| #1882, aired 1992-11-10 | THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT $1000: In 1971 President Nixon appointed this former Texas governor Secretary of the Treasury John Connally |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Named for a U.S. president, it's Florida's most populous city Jacksonville |
| #1862, aired 1992-10-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: Confederate General John C. Breckinridge previously held this U.S. office under Pres. Buchanan vice president |
| #1848, aired 1992-09-23 | PEOPLE $500: In 1957, this future U.S. President won the Hollywood Citizenship Award Ronald Reagan |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In the 1840s, all 4 of this president's grandparents left Kentucky for what's now Kansas City, Mo. Truman |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: After serving as US President, he became rector of the University of Virginia in 1826 James Madison |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: In 1833, this president forced removal of the federal deposits from the vaults of the Bank of the U.S. Andrew Jackson |
| #1841, aired 1992-09-14 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Some senators wanted to call him "His Elective Majesty", but settled for "Mr. President" George Washington |
| #1838, aired 1992-09-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: A coed college in Rindge, N.H. is named for this New Hampshire-born U.S. president Franklin Pierce |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: He was nicknamed "Old Buck" & "The Bachelor President" Buchanan |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | U.S. HISTORY $100: Though subpoenaed, this president refused to appear at Burr's trial in 1807 Jefferson |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | U.S. FLAGS $400: While he was vice president in 1975, the office's flag was redone, giving it a bolder bird Nelson Rockefeller |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: In 1793 this future president, resigned as Sec'y of State over differences with George Washington Thomas Jefferson |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: On August 2, 1923 this president died in room 8064 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco Harding |
| #1765, aired 1992-04-10 | U.S. HISTORY $100: President Ford appointed this future president director of the CIA in 1975 George Bush |
| #1753, aired 1992-03-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Among the books written by this U.S. president were "The Strenuous Life" & "The Rough Riders" Theodore Roosevelt |
| #1750, aired 1992-03-20 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: Jefferson Davis' 2nd inauguration took place Feb. 22, 1862 in front of a statue of this U.S. president George Washington |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: To date, he's the only elected U.S. president born in Missouri Truman |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: He was known as the "Surveyor President" George Washington |
| #1729, aired 1992-02-20 | U.S. HISTORY $500: Van Buren was president during the Panic of 1837, & he led the country during the Panic of 1873 Grant |
| #1727, aired 1992-02-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: Among those listed under this Guinness record are John F. Kennedy & John Moschitta fast-speaking people |
| #1727, aired 1992-02-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: He was the only ex-president alive during the Ford administration Nixon |
| #1723, aired 1992-02-12 | PRESIDENTIAL CITIES $1000: This city on Africa's west coast is named for the man who was U.S. president in 1822 Monrovia |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This Kennedy is the president of the U.S. in Jeffrey Archer's 1977 novel "Shall We Tell the President?" Edward (Teddy) |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $100: Latin for "I forbid", it's the president's power to reject legislation veto |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: After a June 1991 autopsy, coroners concluded that this president did not die by poisoning (Zachary) Taylor |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | MINNESOTA $500 (Daily Double): The last Minnesotan the Democrats ran for U.S. president, he lost in 1984 Walter Mondale |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | U.S. COAST GUARD $300: On January 28, 1915 this president signed into law a bill creating the Coast Guard Woodrow Wilson |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | FORESTRY $200: This president established the U.S. Forest Service Teddy Roosevelt |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | U.S. HISTORY $400: When this Vice President was Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade in 1959, the theme was "Tall Tales and True" Nixon |
| #1665, aired 1991-11-22 | HODGEPODGE $800: The last major party candidate for U.S. president who had the initials W.W. Wendell Wilkie |
| #1665, aired 1991-11-22 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In 1896 the Democratic, Populist & National Silver parties all nominated him for president William Jennings Bryan |
| #1661, aired 1991-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In July 1958, at the request of President Chamoun, U.S. Marines were sent into this Mideast country Lebanon |
| #1649, aired 1991-10-31 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $600: It was during his tenure as U.S. president that Sputnik I went into orbit Eisenhower |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: The Monroe Doctrine was masterminded by this Secretary of State who later became president John Quincy Adams |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: He's the only 20th century president depicted on Mt. Rushmore Theodore Roosevelt |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: He was the fourth president to die in office & the second to be assassinated Garfield |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | THE 1970s $600: His 1975 visit to the U.S. was the first by an Egyptian president (Anwar) Sadat |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | 1950 $200: In March, President Truman denounced this Wisconsin senator as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy Joseph McCarthy |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | U.S. HISTORY $500: In 1924, this former Wisconsin governor received almost 5 million votes for president, but carried only his home state Bob La Follette |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: He was the first U.S. president to visit the Berlin Wall Kennedy |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: This president told Harriet Beech Stowe, "I shall never live to see peace, this war is killing me." Lincoln |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: This president was the 1st inductee into the Conservation Hall of Fame Teddy Roosevelt |
| #1585, aired 1991-06-21 | FAMOUS SURVEYORS $100: He was the first surveyor to become U.S. President George Washington |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1948, he turned over command of the U.S. Army and became president of Columbia University Dwight Eisenhower |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | LESS FAMOUS NAMES $400: Anson Jones was the last president of this republic; he resigned in 1846 after the U.S. annexed it Texas |
| #1571, aired 1991-06-03 | U.S. HISTORY $100: In 1969 this vice president said, those opposed to the Vietnam War were an "effete core of impudent snobs" Spiro Agnew |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | THE U.S. ARMED FORCES $100: Pass this birthday & you're too old to enlist, but you can now become president 35 |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | MODERN HISTORY $200: In 1978 Pres. Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to this Confederate president Jefferson Davis |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | LEFTOVERS $800: He was elected president in 1868 without 3 Southern states voting & with the black vote putting him over (U.S.) Grant |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: When he came to power in the USSR, he was 20 years younger than his predecessor & the U.S. president Gorbachev |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | 1971 $500: On February 10 he was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Bush |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | 1791 $800: Born in Cove Gap, Penn. on April 23, he later became the 15th U.S. president James Buchanan |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | POLITICAL HISTORY $200: He became provisional Confederate president 2 weeks before Lincoln became U.S. president Jefferson Davis |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | SPORTS $200: He's the only U.S. president in the National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Hall of Fame Ronald Reagan |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: This U.S. president won the 1919 prize for advocating the League of Nations & world peace Woodrow Wilson |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $300: It's the collective name for the group which does the actual voting for president & vice president the Electoral College |
| #1490, aired 1991-02-08 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1,000 (Daily Double): While president, he became one of the first judo students in the U.S. Teddy Roosevelt |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | WORLD LEADERS $300: To date, he's the only former U.N. secretary- general to be elected president of a country (Kurt) Waldheim |
| #1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MIDDLE NAMES $500: This socialist ran for U.S. president five times, but despite his middle name, Victor, he never won (Eugene) Debs |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | U.S. CITIES $500: This city named for a president is Florida's largest Jacksonville |
| #1476, aired 1991-01-21 | U.S. HISTORY $400: He was the first Vice President appointed under the terms of the 25th Amendment & he later became President Gerald Ford |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: The Department of the Navy was established in 1798 under this second president John Adams |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | BALTIMORE $400: A Baltimore monument whose cornerstone was laid in 1815 was the U.S.'s first to honor this president Washington |
| #1456, aired 1990-12-24 | U.S. CITIES $2,400 (Daily Double): Texas city southeast of Dallas named for the 10th president of the United States Tyler |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | NATIONAL PARKS $600: North Dakota's only national park, it's also the only one named for a U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt |
