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20th Century.

One of the show's biggest topics with 3,321 clues across 40 seasons. The writers draw from 441 distinct answers, so breadth matters.

Total clues
3,321
Daily Doubles
208
6.3% of clues
DJ skew
44%
Final J!s
52
Stumper rate
12.7%
Avg value
$623
Key Answers 50 gimmes · 7 stumpers
The Stumpers 7
Top answers 441 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 Portugal
8 37.5% $800
10 Eleanor Roosevelt
8 0.0% $500
11 China
8 14.3% $571
12 Canada
8 12.5% $338
13 Bobby Fischer
8 0.0% $375
14 Henry Ford
8 0.0% $288
15 the Soviet Union
7 28.6% $257
16 Spain
7 50.0% $1,083
17 South Africa
7 0.0% $586
18 Greece
7 0.0% $457
19 Chicago
7 14.3% $786
20 Amelia Earhart
7 0.0% $271
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

339 answers · 981 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt 5 Albert Einstein 5 Tito 4 the Peace Corps 4 the English Channel 4 the Bay of Pigs 4 Ralph Nader 4 Prince Charles 4 Pope John Paul II 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 Rudolph Valentino 4 Tonya Harding 4 Margaret Thatcher 4 Charles Lindbergh 4 J. Edgar Hoover 4 George Wallace 4 Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier 4

Cold War

29 answers · 114 clues

Ancient

23 answers · 87 clues

World War II

10 answers · 46 clues

World War I

12 answers · 39 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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