Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (50 results returned)

#8534, aired 2021-12-16THE 15th CENTURY $200: Mid-century, Lorenzo Ghiberti completed his set of bronze baptistery doors with Old Testament scenes called "The Gates of" this Paradise
#8534, aired 2021-12-16THE 15th CENTURY $400: After this flagship ran aground in 1492, Christopher Columbus ordered that its wreckage be used to build a fort on Hispaniola Santa Maria
#8534, aired 2021-12-16THE 15th CENTURY $600: 2 short years after attending Charles VII's coronation at Reims, she was burned at the stake Joan of Arc
#8534, aired 2021-12-16THE 15th CENTURY $800: At the tender age of 13, this member of the Borgia family was married off to Giovanni Sforza Lucrezia Borgia
#8534, aired 2021-12-16THE 15th CENTURY $1000: Noted for his brutality & fanaticism, he was made Grand Inquisitor in Spain in 1483 Torquemada
#8282, aired 2020-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $400: Around 1494 he deluded himself into believing Hispaniola was the biblical "land of Sheba"; he'd later leave his brothers there Columbus
#8282, aired 2020-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $1200: In 1458 the Ottoman Turks took the Acropolis & soon turned the Parthenon into one of these a mosque
#8282, aired 2020-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $1600: Putting to work hundreds of mounted couriers, Louis XI in 1477 created a "royal" type of this a postal service
#8282, aired 2020-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $2000: This "lame" conqueror blew into Damascus in 1401, massacring & pillaging Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)
#8282, aired 2020-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $5,000 (Daily Double): The Spanish Inquisition began by asking those seen as religious offenders to do this, from the Latin for "sing again" recant
#6742, aired 2013-12-31THE 15th CENTURY $400: This religious suppression began in earnest in 1481 with its first auto-da-fe punishments the inquisition
#6742, aired 2013-12-31THE 15th CENTURY $800: Already king of Hungary & Bohemia, Sigismund ascended to this imperial title in 1433 Holy Roman Emperor
#6742, aired 2013-12-31THE 15th CENTURY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Ottoman Empire.) In 1462 the mighty Ottoman army retreated after a large massacre by this Wallachian prince and his forces Vlad (Tepes, Count Dracula)
#6742, aired 2013-12-31THE 15th CENTURY $2000: Hangul was developed and made the official writing system of this peninsula Korea
#6742, aired 2013-12-31THE 15th CENTURY $2,200 (Daily Double): Losing the battle of Grunwald in 1410 in Poland led to the end of the military power of these knights the Teutonic Knights
#6528, aired 2013-01-23THE 15th CENTURY $200: In 1471 Tupac became emperor of this South American people the Incas
#6528, aired 2013-01-23THE 15th CENTURY $400: England lost all of France except Calais as this conflict ended in 1453 the Hundred Years War
#6528, aired 2013-01-23THE 15th CENTURY $600: In 1451 Nicholas of Cusa prescribed concave lenses to remedy this nearsightedness (myopia)
#6528, aired 2013-01-23THE 15th CENTURY $800: This 1450s tome changed the course of culture & history the Gutenberg Bible
#6528, aired 2013-01-23THE 15th CENTURY $1000: Around 1401 Baghdad fell to this lame conqueror Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)
#6023, aired 2010-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $200: In the 1480s he designed a flying machine that used revolving paddles instead of wings da Vinci
#6023, aired 2010-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $400: On July 17, 1453 the French defeated the British at Castillon, the last battle in this conflict that began in 1337 the Hundred Years' War
#6023, aired 2010-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $600: A papal bull of 1478 introduced the Spanish version of this tribunal; executions began several years later the Inquisition
#6023, aired 2010-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $1000: In 1433 & 1472, as these scared ordinary folk, Toscanelli calmly tracked their paths in the skies comets
#6023, aired 2010-11-17THE 15th CENTURY $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1421 the Ming Dynasty moved its capital from Nanking to this city Beijing
#5354, aired 2007-12-13THE 15th CENTURY $400: On July 3, 1450 peasant leader Jack Cade entered this capital in triumph; by July 12 he was dead London
#5354, aired 2007-12-13THE 15th CENTURY $800: A rebellion of his brothers Andrei & Boris was stopped by this ruler III-- come on, how many Russian names are left? Ivan
#5354, aired 2007-12-13THE 15th CENTURY $1200: This Portuguese prince wasn't just about exploration--he & his brother Fernando tried to conquer Tangier & failed miserably Prince Henry the Navigator
#5354, aired 2007-12-13THE 15th CENTURY $1600: In 1453 the last Byzantine emperor, the XI of this name, died in the vain defense of his city Constantine
#5354, aired 2007-12-13THE 15th CENTURY $2000: A masterpiece of illumination is the circa 1415 book "Les Très Riches Heures du" this duke the Duke of Berry
#3890, aired 2001-06-29THE 15th CENTURY $100: Burned at the stake in 1431, she was pronounced innocent by the Pope 25 years later (oops) Joan of Arc
#3890, aired 2001-06-29THE 15th CENTURY $200: As part of a dowry, the Orkney & Shetland Islands were turned over to this country in 1472 Scotland
#3890, aired 2001-06-29THE 15th CENTURY $300: From 1495 to 1497 Leonardo Da Vinci was busy painting this mural in the refectory of a Milan monastery The Last Supper
#3890, aired 2001-06-29THE 15th CENTURY $400: The Byzantine Empire came to an end in 1453 with the fall of this capital city to the Ottomans Istanbul (Constantinople or Byzantium)
#3890, aired 2001-06-29THE 15th CENTURY $500: This country's oldest institution of higher learning, the University of Uppsala, was founded in 1477 Sweden
#1858, aired 1992-10-07THE 15th CENTURY $200: In 1473 construction began on this chapel, named for Pope Sixtus IV the Sistine Chapel
#1858, aired 1992-10-07THE 15th CENTURY $400: By the end of the century this Indian empire extended from Peru into parts of Bolivia, Chile & Ecuador the Incas
#1858, aired 1992-10-07THE 15th CENTURY $600: With Constantinople's capture by Ottoman Turks, the empire came to an end the Byzantine Empire
#1858, aired 1992-10-07THE 15th CENTURY $800: Having spent his fortune on exploration, this Portuguese prince died in debt in 1460 Prince Henry the Navigator
#1858, aired 1992-10-07THE 15th CENTURY $1000: In 1479, under the rule of Ferdinand & Isabella, these two powerful kingdoms were united Aragon & Castile
#1699, aired 1992-01-09THE 15th CENTURY $200: The Byzantine Empire ended in 1453 with the Turkish conquest of this city Constantinople
#1699, aired 1992-01-09THE 15th CENTURY $400: This court was established about 1480 to try those suspected of not following Roman Catholic teachings the (Spanish) Inquisition
#1699, aired 1992-01-09THE 15th CENTURY $600: When this "long" war ended in 1453, England had lost all territories on the continent except Calais the Hundred Years' War
#1699, aired 1992-01-09THE 15th CENTURY $800: This school's King's College chapel, begun in 1446, was built in English perpendicular style Cambridge
#1699, aired 1992-01-09THE 15th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1497 Leonardo da Vinci completed "The Last Supper" in this Italian city Milan
#1324, aired 1990-05-10THE 15th CENTURY $200: It was captured by the Ottoman Turks & renamed Istanbul in 1453 Constantinople
#1324, aired 1990-05-10THE 15th CENTURY $400: In 1482 he submitted his plans for exploration to King John of Portugal Christopher Columbus
#1324, aired 1990-05-10THE 15th CENTURY $800: A 15th C. antipope had the same name as this popular 20th C. pope, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Pope John
#1324, aired 1990-05-10THE 15th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): The notebooks he left containing his anatomical drawings are written in mirror writing Leonardo da Vinci
#1324, aired 1990-05-10THE 15th CENTURY $1000: The marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon to Isabella of this kingdom led to Spanish unity Castille

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