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20th Century.

One of the show's biggest topics with 3,352 clues across 40 seasons. The writers draw from 444 distinct answers, so breadth matters.

Total clues
3,352
Daily Doubles
210
6.3% of clues
DJ skew
45%
Final J!s
54
Stumper rate
12.7%
Avg value
$624
Key Answers 50 gimmes · 7 stumpers
The Stumpers 7
Top answers 444 total answers
The answers every prepared player should know.
Answer Clues Stumper Avg $
01 Indira Gandhi
16 0.0% $400
02 Joseph Stalin
13 0.0% $467
03 the United Nations
11 10.0% $310
04 Richard Nixon
10 0.0% $300
05 Nikita Khrushchev
10 11.1% $567
06 Charles de Gaulle
10 10.0% $650
07 Cuba
9 11.1% $511
08 Adolf Hitler
9 0.0% $300
09 the Soviet Union
8 25.0% $275
10 Portugal
8 37.5% $800
11 Eleanor Roosevelt
8 0.0% $500
12 China
8 14.3% $571
13 Canada
8 12.5% $338
14 Bobby Fischer
8 0.0% $375
15 the League of Nations
8 0.0% $425
16 Henry Ford
8 0.0% $288
17 Spain
7 50.0% $1,083
18 South Africa
7 0.0% $586
19 Greece
7 0.0% $457
20 Chicago
7 14.3% $786
Sample clue 20th Century
This newsmaker is seen here during his 1948 fast to end the violence following the partition of India
What is — Indira Gandhi
Sub-Areas 10 categories

Other

338 answers · 982 clues
Chicago 7 Amelia Earhart 7 Theodore Roosevelt 7 U Thant 6 Princess Diana 6 Israel 6 Germany 6 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 6 Douglas MacArthur 6 Fiorello LaGuardia 6 Fidel Castro 6 Yugoslavia 5 the Ottoman Empire 5 the Hindenburg 5 Texas 5 Taiwan 5 Panama 5 Mother Teresa 5 Marilyn Monroe 5 Korea 5 Italy 5 Iceland 5 Howard Hughes 5 Hawaii 5 Golda Meir 5 France 5 Elvis Presley 5 Chiang Kai-shek 5 = 5 Ronald Reagan 5 Marcos 5 Charles Lindbergh 5 Franklin D. Roosevelt 5 Albert Einstein 5 Tito 4 the Peace Corps 4 the Mona Lisa 4 the English Channel 4 the Bay of Pigs 4 Ralph Nader 4 Prince Charles 4 Pope John Paul II 4 Nicaragua 4 New York City 4 Muhammad Ali 4 Mexico 4 Martin Luther King 4 Jimmy Hoffa 4 Japan 4 Ireland 4 Iraq 4 Iran 4 Hubert Humphrey 4 Hirohito 4 gold 4 Geraldine Ferraro 4 Ethiopia 4 Czechoslovakia 4 baseball 4 Antarctica 4 Alan Shepard 4 Rudolph Valentino 4 Tonya Harding 4 Margaret Thatcher 4 J. Edgar Hoover 4 George Wallace 4 Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier 4

Cold War

30 answers · 107 clues

Ancient

24 answers · 95 clues

World War II

11 answers · 59 clues

World War I

13 answers · 41 clues

Revolutionary Era

9 answers · 31 clues

Colonial / Exploration

9 answers · 30 clues

Civil War

6 answers · 20 clues

Medieval

3 answers · 11 clues

Modern (post-1990)

1 answers · 2 clues
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