Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (29 results returned)

#8311, aired 2021-01-11NEW YORK SOCIETY $600: Head to the Hispanic Society of America for a dazzling art collection, like Martín Gómez's 16th century retablo, also known as this type of piece an altarpiece
#7788, aired 2018-06-20& THIS IS THE THANKS I GET?! $600: This town in Honduras was the 16th century capital of all Spanish-conquered Central America, "thank you"! Gracias
#7344, aired 2016-07-1416th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The 1st theatrical performance in America was a Spanish comedy produced in 1598 beside this river near El Paso Rio Grande
#7344, aired 2016-07-1416th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1541 this Spanish explorer headed west across the Mississippi River into what's now Arkansas de Soto
#7344, aired 2016-07-1416th CENTURY AMERICA $600: While in California in 1579, this circumnavigator held the first Protestant religious service in the New World Sir Francis Drake
#7344, aired 2016-07-1416th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1513 he led an expedition from Puerto Rico & found what he thought was an island, which he named "La Florida" Ponce de Léon
#7344, aired 2016-07-1416th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Hundreds of years before the Marines got there, this South Carolina island was settled by French Huguenots in 1562 Parris Island
#7232, aired 2016-02-09A HISTORY LESSON $400: Continent where the kingdom of New Granada was founded in the 16th century South America
#7107, aired 2015-07-07THE 16th CENTURY $800: This colony was founded in North America in 1587, only to be "lost" 3 years later Roanoke
#7029, aired 2015-03-19THE 16th CENTURY $1600: A map printed in France in 1507 was the first with this 7-letter eponym America
#6348, aired 2012-04-04MAPMAKING $4,800 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Greenland is much smaller than South America, but scale is distorted on this type of map named for a 16th century Fleming, so the farther away from the equator you get, the larger the distortion Mercator
#6081, aired 2011-02-07THE 16th CENTURY $400: In 1534 he explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence, helping lay the basis for French claims to North America (Jacques) Cartier
#5850, aired 2010-02-05NAME THAT CENTURY $1600: Virginia Dare is the first white child of English parents born in America the 16th Century
#5252, aired 2007-06-12LET'S CONSULT THE MAP $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a rectangular world map on the monitor.) Because areas far from the equator are enlarged, Greenland is bigger than South America in the 16th century system of projection named for this man Mercator
#4645, aired 2004-11-12NAME THAT CENTURY $800: Cortez conquers the Incas in Mexico the 16th century
#4500, aired 2004-03-1216th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The city of Tuscaloosa in this state is named for a Choctaw leader who fought Hernando de Soto in 1540 Alabama
#4500, aired 2004-03-1216th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Drake's Bay in what's now this West Coast state is believed to be the inlet that Sir Francis Drake sailed into in 1579 California
#4500, aired 2004-03-1216th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: Stories spread by Cabeza de Vaca inspired Coronado to search for the Seven Golden Cities of this Cibola
#4500, aired 2004-03-1216th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: The French established a settlement on this South Carolina island in 1562--tell it to the Marines! Parris Island
#4500, aired 2004-03-1216th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) This Italian explorer sailed past Martha's Vineyard in 1524 & gave it the name Louisa, but it didn't catch on Verrazano
#4334, aired 2003-06-0516th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1540 Garcia Lopez de Cardenas & his group discovered this 277-mile-long, 5,000-foot-deep natural wonder Grand Canyon
#4334, aired 2003-06-0516th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1579 this English circumnavigator put the Golden Hind in for repairs at an inlet north of San Francisco Sir Francis Drake
#4334, aired 2003-06-0516th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: This city was founded in 1565 by Pedro Menendez de Aviles & served as capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years St. Augustine
#4334, aired 2003-06-0516th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: This colony sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh was founded in July 1587 but all the colonists had vanished by 1590 Roanoke
#4334, aired 2003-06-0516th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: This Italian reached the coast of North Carolina in 1524 & sailed up the coast to New York Bay Giovanni de Verrazzano
#4261, aired 2003-02-24HERE BE DRAGONS $200: The phrase "Hic Sunt Dracones" appeared on the 16th century Lenox globe on the eastern coast of this continent Asia
#2157, aired 1994-01-11THE 16th CENTURY $200: In 1501 this explorer for whom America is named made his second voyage to the new world (Amerigo) Vespucci
#1371, aired 1990-07-16GEMS & JEWELRY $1,000 (Daily Double): At the end of the 16th century, these gemstones, favored by the Incas, began to arrive in Europe from S. America emeralds
#346, aired 1986-01-0620TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1914, following 16th Amendment, it was only 6% on amounts over $500,000 income tax

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#8461, aired 2021-08-09BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan

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