Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (15 results returned)

#9091, aired 2024-04-29NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Brazil's emperor Pedro II was on hand when he demonstrated his telephone at the Philadelphia exhibition in 1876 Bell
#9091, aired 2024-04-29NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: He escaped on a British ship, leaving John André to be hanged; unpopular in America & Britain, he'd die in London in 1801 Benedict Arnold
#9091, aired 2024-04-29NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1895 this Black educator said, "We can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" Booker T. Washington
#9091, aired 2024-04-29NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Starting in 1758 Francis Lightfoot Lee served in this assembly in Colonial Virginia the House of Burgesses
#9091, aired 2024-04-29NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Did he sell the item that is his first name in his Georgia mercantile store? No idea, but he did sign the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett
#8214, aired 2020-04-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The 2012 film "Red Tails" tells the story of the WWII African-American flyers known as these airmen the Tuskegee Airmen
#8214, aired 2020-04-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: William Penn created Pennsylvania as a refuge for religious minorities, like this faith of his Quakers
#8214, aired 2020-04-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This Wild West frontiersman got his name on a state capital in 1864 Kit Carson
#8214, aired 2020-04-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: The public was intrigued when this man's November 1963 8mm film footage was shown on TV in 1975 Zapruder
#8214, aired 2020-04-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Message from Mrs. Madison. She sends her love to Mrs. Wethered" was Dolley's follow-up to this inventor's 1844 message Morse
#7426, aired 2016-12-19NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy, founded the U.S. Naval Academy in this city Annapolis
#7426, aired 2016-12-19NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): Charles Cotesworth Pinckney said no when French agents asked for a bribe in this 1797 "Affair" the XYZ Affair
#7426, aired 2016-12-19NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Gerald Ford succeeded him as vice president of the United States Agnew
#7426, aired 2016-12-19NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: He was inaugurated the president of the Republic of Texas on October 22, 1836 Houston
#7426, aired 2016-12-19NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This great orator gave a 3 1/2-hour speech in favor of the Compromise of 1850; his fellow New Englanders didn't like that Daniel Webster

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (4 results returned)

#8626, aired 2022-04-25NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower
#8506, aired 2021-11-08NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston
#7878, aired 2018-12-05NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder
#7456, aired 2017-01-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe



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