Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (756 results returned)

#9068, aired 2024-03-27WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Made into a Scorsese film with Andrew Garfield, this novel by Shusaku Endo follows 17th century Jesuit priests in Japan Silence
#9063, aired 2024-03-20VIOLENT ART $400: A 17th century work depicts David with the rather giant head of this man, bearing the wound on his forehead that killed him Goliath
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $400: In his first speech in "Paradise Lost", he says let's not rebel against one prohibition--we have pruning to do! Adam
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $800: As you see, there are geese in France but Jean La Fontain's book of fables included the hen that laid these valuables golden eggs
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $1600: Loving a good sequel like the rest of us, this author completed "The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2" around 1684 Bunyan
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $2000: In "To Althea, from Prison", poet Richard Lovelace wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars" one of these a cage
#9058, aired 2024-03-1317th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith
#9057, aired 2024-03-12IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $800: This expression meaning you have to suffer to advance was used in the 17th century, in plural form, by Robert Herrick no pains, no gains
#9048, aired 2024-02-28A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $400: In French this 17th & 18th century "Age" is the Siècle des Lumières Enlightenment
#9043, aired 2024-02-21ART & ARTISTS $1600: 17th century Dutch people you can see at the Rijksmuseum include 34 in "The Night Watch" by Rembrandt & one in the work seen here by him Vermeer
#9038, aired 2024-02-14SNAKES IN A BOOK $400: To tempt Eve in this 17th century epic poem, Satan takes the form of a serpent (he sneaks into its mouth as it sleeps) Paradise Lost
#9030, aired 2024-02-02WEIGHTS & MEASURES $3,600 (Daily Double): This unit of force named for a 17th century man is equal to about .225 pound-force a Newton
#9028, aired 2024-01-31THE ENGLISH PAST $600: This man became Lord Protector after leading a Roundhead army in the 17th century English Civil War Cromwell
#9010, aired 2024-01-05LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $400: In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Sancho Panza
#9009, aired 2024-01-04OF THRONES $1000: A fancy-looking bird is in the name of this golden throne that was built for the emperor Shah Jahan in the 17th century a Peacock (Throne)
#23, aired 2024-01-02URANUS, SHMURANUS $1000: Uranus was first discovered in the 18th century; Shakespeare wrote "Coriolanus" in this century the 17th century
#8990, aired 2023-12-08CAR"EER" OPPORTUNITIES $1600: It's another term for a 17th century pirate of the Caribbean a buccaneer
#8951, aired 2023-10-16& TAKIN' NAMES $2,600 (Daily Double): Matoaka, Amonute & Rebecca Rolfe (hey, things happened fast in the 17th century) Pocahontas
#16, aired 2023-10-11HI, I'M J.LO $1200: A 17th century philosopher who defended "life, liberty and property", this "J.Lo" influenced the founding fathers John Locke
#8943, aired 2023-10-04WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $1200: This 17th century French philosopher & mathematician accepted Queen Christina's refuge in Sweden & died there Descartes
#8895, aired 2023-06-16CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY $200: In the 17th century this continent was given the name New Holland Australia
#8886, aired 2023-06-05FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: 17th century essayist who was Lord Chancellor of England & 20th century painter of "Head of a Woman (Lisa Sainsbury)" Francis Bacon
#18, aired 2023-05-23FICTIONAL CASTLES $800: In this 17th century work, Great-Heart & Old Honest rescue Mr. Despondency & Much-Afraid, prisoners in Doubting Castle Pilgrim's Progress
#18, aired 2023-05-23CENTURY NOTES $800: 17th century: in 1642 the Mongols depose Tibet's rulers & offer the job to the guy with this title Dalai Lama
#12, aired 2023-05-1616th & 17th CENTURY ART $400: Vermeer was obviously a fan of this gem, featuring it in an earring & in a necklace, both around 1665 a pearl
#12, aired 2023-05-16POSSESSIVE GEOGRAPHY $400: This resort island is named for a daughter of 17th century colonist Bartholomew Gosnold Martha's Vineyard
#12, aired 2023-05-1616th & 17th CENTURY ART $800: The Duke of Ferrara commissioned Titian to spend the early 1520s on this boozy title Roman god "& Ariadne" Bacchus
#12, aired 2023-05-1616th & 17th CENTURY ART $1200: In 1519 this German painter the elder dipped into the "Fountain of Life", which depicts the Virgin & child Holbein
#12, aired 2023-05-1616th & 17th CENTURY ART $1600: Where have you gone, this man born Michelangelo Merisi who did "Martyrdom of St. Matthew", a nation turns its lonely eyes to you Caravaggio
#12, aired 2023-05-1616th & 17th CENTURY ART $2000: It takes a genius like this German painter & printmaker to get people excited about a work called "The Large Piece of Turf" Dürer
#1, aired 2023-05-08ART TERMS $600: Though some Dutch vanitas paintings of the 17th century contain people, most involve inanimate objects & are called these still life
#1, aired 2023-05-08MATHSTERS $1200: In the 1990s Andrew Wiles--subsequently Sir Andrew Wiles--shook up the math world by proving this 17th century man's "last theorem" Fermat
#8842, aired 2023-04-04PAINT ME A PICTURE $4,400 (Daily Double): This 17th century masterpiece has been called "The Dutch Mona Lisa" the Girl with a Pearl Earring
#8832, aired 2023-03-21THE LIFE SCIENCES $400: Prior to the 17th century work of William Harvey, it was thought that 2 separate systems distributed this around the body blood
#8824, aired 2023-03-09TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER $1600: As shown in a 17th century painting, Jesus is taken before Caiaphas who is this religious boss, kohen gadol, in Hebrew the high priest
#8816, aired 2023-02-27WHAT'S THAT SCI. ABBREV.? $1000: Pa: This unit of pressure named for a 17th century Frenchman pascal
#8816, aired 2023-02-27THE GOLDEN AGE $1200: This nation's 17th century golden age included paintings of its maritime success; note the ship's red-, white- & blue-striped flag the Netherlands
#8805, aired 2023-02-10AN ENDLESS CATEGORY $800: Do the math: Seen here, the symbol for this dates back to the 17th century infinity
#8802, aired 2023-02-07WHOA, "O"! $400: 17th century painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became one of these by age 10 & often painted kids who looked to be ones as well an orphan
#8798, aired 2023-02-01INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $800: In the 17th century physicist Christiaan Huygens brought this swingin' device into clocks a pendulum
#8793, aired 2023-01-25GARDEN VARIETY STORIES $200: Deborah Moggach's "Tulip Fever" is set in this European city in the 17th century, when lust for the bulbs was all too real Amsterdam
#11, aired 2023-01-19SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $600: In the 17th century Robert Hooke coined the term "cell" for the biological structures he saw using this recently invented instrument a microscope
#9, aired 2023-01-05PHILOSOPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 17th century Rene Descartes introduced his dictum cogito, ergo sum: "I" do this, "therefore I am" I think
#8757, aired 2022-12-06AN "ARM" $400: This 2-word term for a perfect, idealized suitor is modeled on a royal character in a 17th century fairy tale Prince Charming
#8745, aired 2022-11-18HISTORIC CASTLES $1600: Home to the Vatican Observatory, this castle complex was first used as a summer papal residence in the 17th century Castel Gandolfo
#8733, aired 2022-11-02BAROQUE $600: This 17th century Italian painter & sculptor also wrote comedies & oh yeah, did some Vatican City architecture Bernini
#8723, aired 2022-10-19A PLACE IN HISTORY $600: In the 17th century Cardinal Richelieu began using this as a state prison; in the 18th, it drew a big crowd outside the Bastille
#8718, aired 2022-10-12THE 17th CENTURY $200: This mausoleum complex in Agra, India was built by 20,000 workers between 1632 & 1648 the Taj Mahal
#8718, aired 2022-10-12THE 17th CENTURY $400: 1667 saw the completion of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's great curving colonnade enclosing the piazza in front of this building St. Peter's Cathedral
#8718, aired 2022-10-12THE 17th CENTURY $600: Dutch optician Hans Lippershey invented this in 1608, supposedly after seeing one lens held in front of another the telescope
#8718, aired 2022-10-12THE 17th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1642 this explorer made landfall at the Australian island now named for him (Abel) Tasman
#8718, aired 2022-10-12THE 17th CENTURY $1000: In 1673 this one-named dramatist collapsed onstage while performing in his play "The Imaginary Invalid" & died soon after Molière
#8716, aired 2022-10-10REMEMBERING PAST LIVES $200: As if "Lord Protector" wasn't enough for his resumé, this 17th century man was also chancellor of Oxford University Cromwell
#8698, aired 2022-09-14LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Part I of a 17th century novel is titled "The Ingenious Hidalgo" this character "of La Mancha" Don Quixote
#8695, aired 2022-07-29LET'S GO FISHING $2000: There's a synonym for a fisher in the title of this, Izaak Walton's classic 17th century treatise on fishing The Compleat Angler
#8684, aired 2022-07-14LITERARY CASTLES $1200: In this 17th century religious allegory, Christian & Hopeful are imprisoned for a time at Doubting Castle The Pilgrim's Progress
#8657, aired 2022-06-07A WRITER BY ANY OTHER NAME... $800: Ahead of his time in going by one cool name, 17th century actor-playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin went by this, professionally Molière
#8644, aired 2022-05-19IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $1000: A 17th century British hangman lent his name first to a gallows & then to this oil well structure used to hoist pipes Derrick
#8615, aired 2022-04-08AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY $400: You spend 22 years having this 42-acre Indian landmark built, & what thanks do you get? Getting deposed by your son in 1658! the Taj Mahal
#8615, aired 2022-04-08AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY $800: This London theater most associated with Shakespeare was torn down in 1644, 2 years after the Puritans closed all the theaters the Globe
#8615, aired 2022-04-08AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY $1200: San Antonio got its name in 1691 when explorers camped at the site on June 13, the feast day of St. Anthony of this Italian city Padua
#8615, aired 2022-04-08AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY $1600: In 1685 this edict that had granted freedom of worship to French Protestants was revoked the Edict of Nantes
#8615, aired 2022-04-08AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY $2000: This man's 1689 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" dealt with the tabula rasa, or "clean slate" of a newborn mind John Locke
#8595, aired 2022-03-1117th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $400: William Bradford had quite the task set before him after winning the governorship of this fledgling colony in 1621 Plymouth
#8595, aired 2022-03-1117th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $800: Axed by Urban VIII in 1631, a female religious community modeled on this order founded by Ignatius of Loyola began in 1609 the Jesuits
#8595, aired 2022-03-1117th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $1200: In 1697 Spain ceded to France a third of what's now called this island; the new territory was dubbed Saint-Domingue Hispaniola
#8595, aired 2022-03-1117th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $1600: Called the first modern physics text, Galileo's "Discorsi" deals with the motion of projectiles, now called this study ballistics
#8595, aired 2022-03-1117th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $2000: This mercantile "Company" defeated the Portuguese in India in 1612, setting up trade deals with the Mughals the East India Company
#8594, aired 2022-03-10U.S. MILITARY BRANCHES $1,800 (Daily Double): This term for a U.S. Naval Academy cadet comes from a 17th century practice of placing experienced sailors in the center of a vessel midshipmen
#8593, aired 2022-03-09THE APOLLO PROGRAM $1000: Apollo 16 landed in mountainous Moon terrain, in highlands named for this French 17th century philosopher Descartes
#15, aired 2022-02-18DON'T BE SO THIRSTY $400: Introduced to Europe around the 17th century, it was sometimes referred to as "Arabian wine" coffee
#8572, aired 2022-02-08THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS $400: Precisionists was another name for these very serious Christians who basically ran 17th century New England Puritans
#8572, aired 2022-02-08HIS BIG PAINT SALE $800: In 2015 the Dutch government pledged $90 million to bring home 2 works by this local 17th century man who needed but one name Rembrandt
#8556, aired 2022-01-17PALACES $2000: Once a home of Henry VIII, Hampton Court Palace was expanded at the behest of William & Mary by this 17th century architect (Sir Christopher) Wren
#8541, aired 2021-12-27GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): The ruins of the 17th century Fort Ceperou overlook this capital of French Guiana, which shares its name with a type of pepper Cayenne
#8536, aired 2021-12-20ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH $200: At least back to the 17th century angels have been depicted playing this stringed instrument, still part of the modern orchestra the harp
#8536, aired 2021-12-20SALE OF THE CENTURY $800: 17th century: for 60 guilders, Peter Minuit picks up this prime island property Manhattan
#8534, aired 2021-12-16ENDS WITH A SILENT CONSONANT $600: The 17th century painting seen here depicts Anthonij de Bordes & his this whose name is not given his valet
#8533, aired 2021-12-15A CUT ABOVE $200: 17th century Venetian craftsman Vicenti Peruzzi is said to have come up with this smart-sounding cut for diamonds the brilliant cut
#8533, aired 2021-12-15BALANCES $2000: This 17th century Dutch scientist was among the first to use a balance spring in the design of watches Christiaan Huygens
#8531, aired 2021-12-13LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT $400: The 17th & 18th century era of the Enlightenment is also known as the "Age of" this Reason
#8505, aired 2021-11-05I HELPED IN THE 17th CENTURY $400: Shivaji, who founded the Maratha kingdom in this country, valued religious toleration India
#8505, aired 2021-11-05I HELPED IN THE 17th CENTURY $800: Descartes invented the analytic type of this math coordinate geometry
#8505, aired 2021-11-05I HELPED IN THE 17th CENTURY $1200: John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" was seminal to this "illuminating" period Enlightenment
#8505, aired 2021-11-05I HELPED IN THE 17th CENTURY $1600: Microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scoped out this type of organism whose name means "first animal" protozoa
#8505, aired 2021-11-05I HELPED IN THE 17th CENTURY $2000: Around 1644 Evangelista Torricelli used mercury & a glass tube to create this device a barometer
#8496, aired 2021-10-25MEN OF LA MANCHA $400: A large, arid plateau in Central Spain, La Mancha was made famous in a 17th century novel by this man Cervantes
#8479, aired 2021-09-30OLD-SCHOOL SELFIES $1600: This great Spaniard needed just oil & canvas to snap a selfie 17th century style (Diego) Velázquez
#8467, aired 2021-09-1417th CENTURY NAMES $400: His writings gave rise to a type of philosophy called Cartesianism (René) Descartes
#8467, aired 2021-09-1417th CENTURY NAMES $800: World Book says this author & soldier was "known for his skill in sword fighting and for his long nose" Cyrano de Bergerac
#8467, aired 2021-09-1417th CENTURY NAMES $1200: Around 1665, this Dutchman painted one of his smallest works, "Girl with the Red Hat" Vermeer
#8467, aired 2021-09-1417th CENTURY NAMES $1600: The "Father of" North America's New France, he also gave his name to a large lake Champlain
#8467, aired 2021-09-1417th CENTURY NAMES $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1637 this poet wrote "Lycidas" to commemorate the death of a Cambridge schoolmate John Milton
#8465, aired 2021-08-13IDIOMS $1000: In the 17th century it was a feather & a horse; today we use this idiom for one more burden you just can't take the straw that broke the camel's back
#8461, aired 2021-08-09LET'S SEA $2000: The Cook Strait leads into this sea named for a 17th century navigator Tasman
#8460, aired 2021-08-06OLD SYNONYMS $1600: Syrup of soot & ninny-broth were 17th century words for this; go-juice & mud came later coffee
#8457, aired 2021-08-03LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $2,400 (Daily Double): In this novel inspired by a painting, Griet is the title 17th century portrait sitter the Girl with a Pearl Earring
#8443, aired 2021-07-14MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $1600: The "Bride's Book of Etiquette" suggests "Canon In D" by this 17th century German as the party heads down the aisle Pachelbel
#8399, aired 2021-05-13"LIGHT" AT THE END $1600: 17th century artist Georges de la Tour was known as the "Master of" this type of illumination candlelight
#8395, aired 2021-05-07MONKS $800: Cheers to this 17th century monk & cellar master at the Abbey of Hautvillers; he was a pioneer of fine champagne Dom Perignon
#8395, aired 2021-05-07LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $1200: This Italian's 17th century law of falling bodies relates the distance fallen by a body to the elapsed time Galileo
#8393, aired 2021-05-05AFRICAN CITIES $400: A 17th century fortress called the Kasbah des Oudaias overlooks this nation's capital, Rabat Morocco
#8392, aired 2021-05-04THE WITCH IS DEAD $600: Agnes Nutter, a 17th century witch whose predictions are central to the plot in "Good Omens", gets punished in this predictable way by being burned at the stake
#8371, aired 2021-04-05FIRST, COFFEE $800: Originally grown only in Arabia, in the 17th century coffee plants first made it to this 50,000-square-mile Indonesian island Java
#8345, aired 2021-02-2617th CENTURY LIT $400: Thomas Ellwood said he got this poet to write a late epic by asking him, what about paradise found? Milton
#8345, aired 2021-02-2617th CENTURY LIT $800: Ben Jonson wrote popular comedies like the 1610 play about one of these magical gold-changers the alchemist
#8345, aired 2021-02-2617th CENTURY LIT $1200: Keira Knightley made her West End debut in a modern version of this Frenchman's "The Misanthrope" Molière
#8345, aired 2021-02-2617th CENTURY LIT $1600: An early English novel is "Oroonoko, or, the Royal" this, about an African prince sold to a Suriname plantation Slave
#8345, aired 2021-02-2617th CENTURY LIT $2000: Published in 1697, this Frenchman's collection of fairy tales includes "Sleeping Beauty" & "Puss in Boots" Charles Perrault
#8330, aired 2021-02-05ARTISTS $1200: In the 17th century this Dutch painter charged students the princely sum of 100 guilders; Flinck & Bol were 2 star pupils Rembrandt
#8321, aired 2021-01-25PHILOSOPHY $800: His 17th century "Discourse on Method" contained radical ideas of the self exemplified by the dictum "Cogito ergo sum" Descartes
#8313, aired 2021-01-13POSSESSIVE HISTORY $1600: Nine Men's Misery was an incident in the 17th century conflict called this Wampanoag chief or "King"'s war King Philip
#8232, aired 2020-06-09WOMEN ARTISTS $400: Clara Peeters was a 17th century artist who specialized in this type of painting on inanimate objects still life
#8228, aired 2020-06-03LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The number in each cell is the sum of the two numbers directly above it in the triangle named for this 17th century French mathematician and philosopher (Blaise) Pascal
#8227, aired 2020-06-02HEAVEN OR HELL $3,000 (Daily Double): The line "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" is from this 17th century poem Paradise Lost
#8198, aired 2020-04-08STRAIGHT C'S $400: 17th century pirates who raided Spanish colonies, or a 21st century team that may take on the Raiders buccaneers
#8182, aired 2020-03-17THAT'S OLD SCHOOL $1000: Chartered near the end of the 17th century, this 2-named college severed formal ties with Britain in 1776 William & Mary
#8181, aired 2020-03-16THE WOMAN OF THE CENTURY $400: Pocahontas marries & dies the 17th century
#8160, aired 2020-02-14TREES GROW ON MONEY $1200: One of the earliest American coins, the 17th century Massachusetts pine tree shilling was minted from this precious metal silver
#8152, aired 2020-02-04TL;DR $800: This 17th century adventure opens in La Mancha & about 800 pages later, its title guy renounces chivalry as foolish & dies Don Quixote
#5, aired 2020-01-09I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS $400: In the 17th century the belted plaid developed into this garment a kilt
#5, aired 2020-01-09I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS $1000: Here's this early 17th-century British monarch wearing a trim doublet jacket with matching skirt & hose James I
#1, aired 2020-01-07DANCING WITH THE CZARS $400: 17th century czar Fyodor III of this dynasty was highly educated & reform minded but died young Romanov
#8126, aired 2019-12-3017th CENTURY HISTORY $400: This 1611 book had what were known as "He" & "She" editions, after variants in the last words of Ruth 3:15 the King James Bible
#8126, aired 2019-12-3017th CENTURY HISTORY $800: A 1609 law in this country banned Moriscos (Muslims baptized as Christians) & shipped 300,000 of them to north Africa Spain
#8126, aired 2019-12-3017th CENTURY HISTORY $1200: In 1628 privateer Piet Heyn captured a Spanish fleet & put 12 million of these Dutch monetary units ($165 million today) in the treasury a florin (a guilder)
#8126, aired 2019-12-3017th CENTURY HISTORY $2000: He got up late on New Year's Day 1660, ate some turkey & began writing his diary (Samuel) Pepys
#8126, aired 2019-12-3017th CENTURY HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This Virginia Native American died in 1618, but wars that bore his name were fought on & off between 1622 & 1646 Powhatan
#8086, aired 2019-11-04POETS & POETRY $1000: John Dryden said this other 17th century man "affects the metaphysics"; in fact he's the leading metaphysical poet (John) Donne
#8084, aired 2019-10-31THE BEST LAID PLANS $1600: Étienne-Louis Boullée wanted to honor this 17th century British scientist with a monument that was taller than the Great Pyramid Newton
#8075, aired 2019-10-18DOUBLE TALK $200: It weighed 50 pounds, had small, useless wings & was extinct by the end of the 17th century the dodo
#8067, aired 2019-10-081890s LITERATURE $800: Edmond Rostand set this 1897 play about the pursuit of the lovely Roxane in 17th century Paris Cyrano de Bergerac
#8063, aired 2019-10-02THE 17th CENTURY $400: Taking over for Elizabeth I after her death, he told parliament he was "an old and experienced king" James I
#8063, aired 2019-10-02THE 17th CENTURY $800: In 1633 he was charged with heresy for believing "the sun is the center of the world" Galileo
#8063, aired 2019-10-02THE 17th CENTURY $1600: Add 3 letters to the title held by Tokugawa Ieyasu to get this type of regime he began in 1603 that would last for over 2 centuries a shogunate
#8063, aired 2019-10-02THE 17th CENTURY $1,800 (Daily Double): Around 1612 in Virginia, John Rolfe began growing this "brown gold"; soon the colony started shipping it to England tobacco
#8056, aired 2019-09-23GOD SAVE THE "U", "K" $1200: A 17th century matchlock is part of the British Museum's collection of these firearms musket
#8055, aired 2019-09-20TRIAL OF THE CENTURY $400: Salem witch trials 17th
#8054, aired 2019-09-19BRITISH NICKNAMES $1200: A 17th century writer: "The Blind Poet" Milton
#8034, aired 2019-07-11A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $1200: This country's 17th century civil wars are also known as "The Great Rebellion" England
#8032, aired 2019-07-09PICTURE IN PICTURE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) 17th-century artist David Teniers the Younger was the curator of an archduke's collection & painted it, showing himself & dozens of artworks, including this Biblical heroine before the king of Persia Esther
#8024, aired 2019-06-27MASKS $200: The Medico de la Peste mask was originally worn in the 17th century by a doctor treating victims of this bubonic contagion the Black Plague
#8008, aired 2019-06-05BUILDINGS $1200: A building at the College of William & Mary is named for this 17th century British architect (Christopher) Wren
#8006, aired 2019-06-03CAPITAL "A" $2000: The Dutch colonized this national capital in the 17th century, but the Dutch were Ghana by 1872 Accra
#8005, aired 2019-05-31COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA $600: A group of 17th century immigrants was called "Pennsylvania" this because of the German word for "German" Dutch
#8004, aired 2019-05-30WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $400: Developed by 2 17th century thinkers & rivals, it's used to calculate rates of change & to torment high school students calculus
#7962, aired 2019-04-02BOTANICAL GARDENS $800: The Hortus Botanicus Leiden began the 17th century "mania" for these bulb flowers tulips
#7947, aired 2019-03-12FROM THE MERMAID'S LOCKER $2000: A bar of silver from a 17th century Spanish one of these treasure ships, such as the Atocha a galleon
#7937, aired 2019-02-26THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $400: Saddle up for "Don Quixote" the 17th (or the 1600s)
#7937, aired 2019-02-26THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $600: "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", not a Welsh singer the 18th century (or the 1700s)
#7924, aired 2019-02-07A MAN OF CONSTANT $400: A universal constant of gravitation is named for this 17th & 18th century man Newton
#7903, aired 2019-01-09HISTORY $1000: Originally it was a fortress; Cardinal Richelieu began using it as a state prison in the 17th century the Bastille
#7890, aired 2018-12-21DREAMY LITERATURE $800: This 17th century John Bunyan allegory ends with the line "so I awoke, and behold it was a dream" Pilgrim's Progress
#7879, aired 2018-12-06MAN OF THE CENTURY $400: Captain James Cook explored then the 18th century
#7875, aired 2018-11-30OLD SPICE $800: 17th century European traders battled over Myristica fragrans, this eggnog spice nutmeg
#7845, aired 2018-10-19WHERE THERE'S SMOKE $1000: By the 17th century keepers of these had developed a screen veil & had learned the value of smoke in controlling them bees
#7830, aired 2018-09-28COLORFUL LANGUAGE $400: This old word for a British soldier dates to the early 17th century a Redcoat
#7817, aired 2018-09-11"V"ACATION SPOTS $400: A town 14 miles southwest of Paris developed around this 17th century palace that tourists flock to Versailles
#7811, aired 2018-07-23FUNK & GAMES $200: The 17th-century painting seen here shows a game of tric-trac, a variant of this dice & counters game backgammon
#7804, aired 2018-07-12YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $600: Jacobus, the Latin name for this British king, gave us the Jacobean Age of the 17th century King James I
#7784, aired 2018-06-1417th CENTURY LIT $400: Perrault's "Tales of Mother Goose" includes early versions of "Sleeping Beauty" & this shoe-losing lass Cinderella
#7784, aired 2018-06-1417th CENTURY LIT $800: Francis Bacon penned a vision of society based on 17th century science, "The New" this fabled lost land Atlantis
#7784, aired 2018-06-1417th CENTURY LIT $1200: This French playwright had a flop with his 1665 take on the Don Juan legend Moliere
#7784, aired 2018-06-1417th CENTURY LIT $1600: An allegorical play about human destiny, Pedro Calderon's "La Vida es Sueño" translates as "Life is" one of these a dream
#7784, aired 2018-06-1417th CENTURY LIT $2000: For imagery about the nature & meaning of the universe, John Donne & others were dubbed these poets metaphysical
#7777, aired 2018-06-0517th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: A clock invented by Christiaan Huygens using this feature that oscillates was the accuracy standard until quartz in 1927 a pendulum
#7777, aired 2018-06-0517th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Working at the Royal Observatory in Paris in 1676, Ole Romer demonstrated that this travels at a finite speed light
#7777, aired 2018-06-0517th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: In 1643 Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer, enabling the measurement of this air pressure (or atmospheric pressure)
#7777, aired 2018-06-0517th CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: Logarithmic scales are key to this adjustable calculator invented by William Oughtred a slide rule
#7777, aired 2018-06-0517th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: With his telescope in 1610, Galileo focused in on this moon, the largest of Jupiter & of our solar system Ganymede
#7774, aired 2018-05-31COMIC BOOKS WITHOUT CAPES $800: Usagi Yojimbo is a 17th century ronin, a masterless this warrior, who also happens to be a rabbit a samurai
#7766, aired 2018-05-21BEAUX BRIDGES $800: In the 17th century, the shah built the Khaju Bridge in what is now this country Iran
#7763, aired 2018-05-16EUROPEAN PAINTINGS $1600: This 17th century Spaniard's portraits of Philip IV "On Horseback" & "In Hunting Garb" are in the Prado Velazquez
#7761, aired 2018-05-14"ED"UCATION $2000: The first Icelandic myth collection called this was discovered in the 17th century the Edda
#7725, aired 2018-03-23WHERE'D THAT HAPPEN? $200: In the 17th century it took 20,000 workers 22 years to complete this project in Agra the Taj Mahal
#7686, aired 2018-01-29JAPANESE AUTHORS $400: In the 17th century the 17 syllables were mastered by Basho, who pioneered the "new style" of this poetry haiku
#7673, aired 2018-01-10HISTORY TIME $800: He's the 17th-century English king shown here with his co-ruler--note what color he's wearing William of Orange
#7666, aired 2018-01-01SIKH $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 17th century Gobind, the 10th leader, asked all Sikh men to add this word meaning "lion" to their names Singh
#7651, aired 2017-12-11WHERE & WHEN $800: The Thirty Years' War: the century the 17th
#7635, aired 2017-11-17WORLD THEATER $1200: This gentleman was a typical character in the 17th century's golden age of Spanish theater; Disney had 3 of him a caballero
#7629, aired 2017-11-09WHERE & WHEN? $400: The King James Bible is first published: Country, century England in the 17th century
#7628, aired 2017-11-08RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT $1000: A 17th century merchant named Alexeyev was the first Russian on this peninsula well known to players of Risk Kamchatka
#7613, aired 2017-10-18INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS $2000: Noted for its triangular body, this Russian instrument traces its origins to a 17th century 3-stringed lute the balalaika
#7609, aired 2017-10-12GEOGRA"P" $7,200 (Daily Double): In the 17th century its location at England's southwest tip made it the target of pirate raids Penzance
#7606, aired 2017-10-09SOMETHING ABOUT MARY $800: 4 signers of the Declaration of Independence were alumni of this school chartered in the 17th century William & Mary
#7601, aired 2017-10-02HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $2000: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Many patients died from the first blood transplants of the 17th century, but the ABO blood system of 1901 & this one from 1940 named for a species of monkey have made them routine medical procedures rhesus
#7579, aired 2017-07-20HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $800: This learned 17th century Swedish queen was known as "The Minerva of the North" Christina
#7560, aired 2017-06-234-LETTER WORDS $1200: 16th & 17th century chamber music often featured this bowed instrument a viol
#7556, aired 2017-06-19THE CENTURY OF THE FIGHT $2000: King Philip's War the 17th century
#7541, aired 2017-05-29PAINTERS OF MOTION $800: Nicolas Poussin's 17th century painting, titled this, shows Mary being lifted to heaven by cherubs The Assumption
#7523, aired 2017-05-03IT'S "DA" END $400: Material used to advance a cause; it's original sense was the early 17th century advancement of the Catholic cause propaganda
#7500, aired 2017-03-31EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1200: This 17th century Dutch master who had at least 7 daughters painted "The Milkmaid" & "A Maid Asleep" (Johannes) Vermeer
#7448, aired 2017-01-18CERAMICS $2,000 (Daily Double): This tin-glazed earthenware named for a city just southeast of The Hague was first made in the 17th century Delftware
#7443, aired 2017-01-11THE BISHOP $800: 17th century bishop James Ussher dated this event to Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.; scientists don't think so anymore creation (of the universe)
#7437, aired 2017-01-03LEGO $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) In 2016 NASA's Juno probe completed its 5-year voyage to Jupiter; on board is a minifigure of this 17th-century Italian, telescope in hand Galileo
#7420, aired 2016-12-09EPONYMS $400: This Mennonite sect found in rural Pennsylvania & Ohio was named for a 17th century Swiss bishop the Amish
#7329, aired 2016-06-23FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $400: An antique furniture style is named for this long-reigning French king of the late 17th century Louis XIV
#7297, aired 2016-05-10LITERARY POTPOURRI $2000: Piscator teaches his friend Venator to bait a hook & catch fish in this 17th century classic The Compleat Angler
#7280, aired 2016-04-1517th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: Painting Dr. Tulp, which means "Dr. Tulip", was one of this artist's first big jobs in Amsterdam Rembrandt
#7280, aired 2016-04-1517th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: A Japanese woman named Okuni began this theater for the common people in 1603 kabuki
#7280, aired 2016-04-1517th CENTURY PEOPLE $1200: Catholic ruler Ferdinand II's persecution of Protestants in Bohemia in 1618 sparked this long European war the Thirty Years' War
#7280, aired 2016-04-1517th CENTURY PEOPLE $1600: With a nose for science, around 1650 this French author wrote tales about imaginary journeys to the Moon & Sun (Cyrano) de Bergerac
#7280, aired 2016-04-1517th CENTURY PEOPLE $2000: Made famous in a Longfellow poem, in 1621 this man was named military leader of Plymouth Colony Myles Standish
#7217, aired 2016-01-19EARLY START $2000: We'll "wager" you can name this 17th century French philosopher who published an important math essay at age 16 Pascal
#7215, aired 2016-01-15HOLY HOUSES $1,800 (Daily Double): This Turkish mosque built by Mehmet Aga in the 17th century is named for its 20,000-plus colored tiles the Blue Mosque
#7204, aired 2015-12-31STATUE-ESQUE WOMEN $200: The Jamestown statue honoring this Native American of the 17th century was erected in 1922 Pocahontas
#7200, aired 2015-12-25LIBRARIES $1200: Named for its architect, this 17th century library at Cambrige U. has many books from Isaac Newton's own library Wren Library
#7194, aired 2015-12-17THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE $1600: Temps fell in the 17th century, hurting the North Atlantic fisheries based on this food fish of the genus Gadus cod
#7161, aired 2015-11-02AESOP ASAP $800: To visit Diego Velazquez's 17th century portrait of Aesop, you'll have to visit this Madrid museum the Prado
#7150, aired 2015-10-16SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS $2000: In the 17th century John Napier was all about that base, inventing these quantities that simplify calculations logarithms
#7146, aired 2015-10-12RELIGIOUSI-"T" $1600: This monastic order founded in 17th century France is known for keeping quiet the Trappists
#7145, aired 2015-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Puritan minister Alexander Whitaker baptized this Indian princess to Christianity around 1613 Pocahontas
#7145, aired 2015-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1652 Massachusetts defied English law & established this facility to produce the pine tree shilling the mint
#7145, aired 2015-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1680 Boston mathematician Thomas Brattle observed the orbit of one of these celestial wanderers a comet
#7145, aired 2015-10-09SCIENTISTS $800: (I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.) One of my heroes is unquestionably this 17th century man who at various times in his life was a member of Parliament, Warden of the Royal Mint & Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (Sir Isaac) Newton
#7145, aired 2015-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $800: The first European settlement in Texas, Ysleta was founded on the site of this present-day city on the Rio Grande El Paso
#7145, aired 2015-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This founder of Providence, Rhode Island published the first Native American language dictionary in 1643 (Roger) Williams
#7142, aired 2015-10-06I AM HISTORY! $800: The only surviving son of a rector, this 17th century man went on to design more than 50 churches in London (Christopher) Wren
#7125, aired 2015-07-31CRITTERATURE $1200: The name Volpone, the devious title character of a 17th century Ben Jonson play, is from the Italian for this animal the fox
#7122, aired 2015-07-28LIT BLITZ $800: "Man's disobedience" & "the prime cause of his fall" are the subjects of this 17th century man's most famous poem (John) Milton
#7103, aired 2015-07-01THE WRITE STUFF $1000: This 17th century French playwright collapsed while performing in his own play "The Imaginary Invalid" Molière
#7097, aired 2015-06-23A WORLD OF ART $800: The lesser known St. Roderick of Cordoba is depicted by one of this country's great 17th-century artists Spain
#7086, aired 2015-06-08THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME $800: The Salem witch trials burn into history the 17th century
#7083, aired 2015-06-03FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: "Pleased as" this refers to a 17th century puppet, not a fruit drink Punch
#7077, aired 2015-05-26ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the 17th century this Italian designed the papal canopy at St. Peter's as well as St. Peter's Bernini
#6990, aired 2015-01-23SHIPS DON'T LIE $400: Go to vasamuseet.se & you can see a 17th century warship from this country Sweden
#6989, aired 2015-01-22THE BIG PICTURE $1000: This 17th century work originally 13x16 feet has been cut down to a much more manageable 12x15 The Night Watch
#6985, aired 2015-01-16THE 17th CENTURY $400: In 1647 astronomer Johannes Hevelius published "Selenographia", an atlas of the surface of this the Moon
#6985, aired 2015-01-16THE 17th CENTURY $800: In the Kalmar War these 2 countries fought over a region that is now part of northern Norway Denmark & Sweden
#6985, aired 2015-01-16THE 17th CENTURY $1200: The peasants uprising led by Li Zicheng ended this Chinese dynasty in 1644 the Ming
#6985, aired 2015-01-16THE 17th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): Under the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699, most of Hungary was ceded to this country by the Ottoman Empire Austria
#6985, aired 2015-01-16THE 17th CENTURY $2000: After coming down from Canada, in 1605 he & his party became the first Frenchmen to visit the site of Boston Samuel de Champlain
#6976, aired 2015-01-05DEFOE $800 (Daily Double): "Memoirs of a Cavalier" was a fictional account of this decades-long war of 17th century continental Europe the Thirty Years' War
#6963, aired 2014-12-17THAT'S MY CUP OF TEA $800: Developed in 17th century China, this type of tea is sometimes spelled starting "wu" instead of "oo" oolong
#6939, aired 2014-11-13MOVIE CENTURY SETTINGS $1200: "The Three Musketeers" (Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland &, of course, Oliver Platt) the 17th century
#6898, aired 2014-09-17PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING $1600: Him & load! This 17th century man said a baby's mind is "white paper, void of all characters" John Locke
#6882, aired 2014-07-15FAMILIAR PHRASES $1600: A 17th century prince reportedly said he'd fight until he died in this, now found before "effort" (till he died in the) last ditch
#6825, aired 2014-04-25SOCIETIES $1600: A 17th century Fox production (George Fox) was founding the Quakers or "Society of" these Friends
#6812, aired 2014-04-0817th CENTURY THINKERS $400: Last name of Sir Francis, who crisply published "The Advancement of Learning" in 1605 Bacon
#6812, aired 2014-04-0817th CENTURY THINKERS $800: Christoph Scheiner said sunspots were satellites; this Italian armed with a telescope said, uh, no Galileo
#6812, aired 2014-04-0817th CENTURY THINKERS $1200: Before founding the "Quaker State", he upheld Quaker doctrines in a pamphlet called "Truth Exalted" William Penn
#6812, aired 2014-04-0817th CENTURY THINKERS $1600: His 1637 "Discourse on Method" was unusual in that it was written in French, not Latin René Descartes
#6812, aired 2014-04-0817th CENTURY THINKERS $2,000 (Daily Double): This seminal Dutch thinker of the Enlightenment was the son of parents who fled the Inquisition in Portugal Spinoza
#6797, aired 2014-03-18QUICK LIT $600: Century of Milton's "Paradise Lost" the 17th (the 1600s)
#6770, aired 2014-02-07NO LONGER AROUND $2000: This large flightless bird of New Zealand was hunted to extinction by the Maori in the 17th century the moa
#6769, aired 2014-02-06BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1600: The lover's plea "To His Coy Mistress" is this 17th century poet's best-remembered work Andrew Marvell
#6734, aired 2013-12-19LIBRARIES $400: A small library named for this man at Cambridge's Magdalene College contains his 17th century diary Samuel Pepys
#6690, aired 2013-10-18HERE COMES 30! $1000: The 30 Years' War bloodied Europe in this century the 17th century
#6687, aired 2013-10-15HATS ALL, FOLKS $1000: The hat seen here was worn by this stern 17th century religious group that got its name during a vestments controversy the Puritans
#6606, aired 2013-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $400: Between June & September 1692, 19 people were hanged as witches in this New England town Salem
#6606, aired 2013-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $800: It was fought from 1618 to 1648, ending with the Peace of Westphalia the Thirty Years' War
#6606, aired 2013-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $1200: Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Bancroft supervised & oversaw the 1611 publication of this the King James Bible
#6606, aired 2013-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $1600: After abdicating this country's throne in 1654, Queen Christina declared herself a Catholic & moved to Rome Sweden
#6606, aired 2013-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): In the painting seen here, this Dutch artist portrayed another girl with a pearl earring--possibly his daughter (Jan) Vermeer
#6605, aired 2013-05-10CENTURY OF THE MAN $1000: Baruch Spinoza the 17th century
#6597, aired 2013-04-30THEY WERE RIGHT $1000: This 17th century Italian stated that pendulums of equal length swing at the same rate whether their arcs are large or small Galileo
#6588, aired 2013-04-17SWITZERLAND $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew travels the Toblerone Trail in Switzerland.) The Toblerone Trail of antitank barriers was created in case Nazi Germany failed to respect this Swiss policy that dates back to the war-torn Europe of the 17th century neutrality
#6577, aired 2013-04-02CARE FOR SOME WINE? $800: This 17th century "champagne" monk came up with many wine production practices still in use, like low yields for better quality Dom Perignon
#6569, aired 2013-03-21CENTURY OF THE INVENTION $1000: The telescope the 17th century
#6567, aired 2013-03-19AROUND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE $1200: Named for a 17th century British explorer, this country's Baffin Island is about the size of Spain Canada
#6552, aired 2013-02-26MAYORS OF NYC $400: 17th century mayor Cornelius van Steenwyck was born in this country--maybe in Haarlem the Netherlands
#6480, aired 2012-11-1617th CENTURY WORDS $400: The first printed reference to this North American marsupial was in promotional literature for the Jamestown Colony an opossum
#6480, aired 2012-11-1617th CENTURY WORDS $800: In Newton's day this word was first used to mean the band of colors produced when light passes through a prism a spectrum
#6480, aired 2012-11-1617th CENTURY WORDS $1600: Around 1680 this element, symbol P, got its name meaning "morning star" or "light bearer" phosphorus
#6480, aired 2012-11-1617th CENTURY WORDS $2000: In the 1640s English physician Sir Thomas Browne coined this word to mean "before Noah's flood" antediluvian
#6480, aired 2012-11-1617th CENTURY WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): Meaning one who flees home or seeks asylum, it was first applied to Huguenots who fled France refugees
#6475, aired 2012-11-09BOOK OF THE CENTURY $800: 17th: "Tartuffe", by this actor & playwright Molière
#6470, aired 2012-11-0219th CENTURY AMERICA $6,900 (Daily Double): On March 1, 1803 it became the 17th state & the first created from the Northwest Territory Ohio
#6440, aired 2012-09-21IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW $2000: 3 laws of planetary motion, including the law of areas, are named for this 17th century German astronomer (Johannes) Kepler
#6434, aired 2012-08-02ART CLASS $1,500 (Daily Double): This term for a painting depicting outdoor scenery was first used in English in the early 17th century landscape
#6413, aired 2012-07-04TITLE CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 17th century French comedy, mankind hater Alceste The Misanthrope
#6366, aired 2012-04-30WHAT A CENTURY $600: King George III is born in London the 18th century
#6366, aired 2012-04-30WHAT A CENTURY $800: Newton invents calculus the 17th century
#6345, aired 2012-03-3017th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 1603, Hieronymus Fabricius noted that these in the legs have valves that control blood flow veins
#6345, aired 2012-03-3017th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Native Americans have used this malaria treatment from the cinchona tree for years before it reached Europe in 1642 quinine
#6345, aired 2012-03-3017th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: Using data from Tycho Brahe, Kepler surmised that the planets' orbits are these shapes, not circles ellipses
#6345, aired 2012-03-3017th CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: Though "nature abhors" this, Robert Boyle was able to create one using a pump a vacuum
#6345, aired 2012-03-3017th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: This mathematician came up with his "last theorem" in 1637; it wasn't proved until 1995 Fermat
#6328, aired 2012-03-07AT THE JERSEY SHORE $400: This resort "cape" wasn't named for the 5th month but for a 17th century Dutch explorer Cape May
#6317, aired 2012-02-21A HELL OF A QUOTE $6,000 (Daily Double): "All hell broke loose" comes from this 17th century epic poem Paradise Lost
#6289, aired 2012-01-12IT'S GOOD TO BE "KING" $400: This 17th century translation has become a standard for Bibles the King James version
#6284, aired 2012-01-05BIBLICAL ART $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In this 17th-century painting, you see Sarah turn her back, as Hagar the handmaid & her son Ishmael are rejected & sent away by this patriarch Abraham
#6274, aired 2011-12-22A MATTER OF SOME GRAVITY $200: British scientist Henry Cavendish made the first reliable measurement of gravity late in this century the 18th century
#6270, aired 2011-12-16A STONY CATEGORY $1200: According to 17th century poet Richard Lovelace, "stone walls do not" one of these "make" a prison
#6259, aired 2011-12-01THE JEOPARDY! TIME MACHINE $2000: You'll learn from Corneille & La Rochefoucauld if you visit Madame de Rambouillet's 17th century one of these gatherings a salon
#6226, aired 2011-10-17ON A LAST-NAME BASIS $400: 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei
#6226, aired 2011-10-17ON A LAST-NAME BASIS $2000: 17th century Dutch master painter Rembrandt van Rijn
#6205, aired 2011-07-29RONS, DONS & JOHNS $800: This 17th century philosopher was a court favorite of William & Mary; his name also turned up on "Lost" John Locke
#6174, aired 2011-06-16POETS & POETRY $600: First name of the 16th & 17th century poet whose "Hymn to God the Father" uses the word "done" 7 times in 18 lines John
#6152, aired 2011-05-17THE 2nd MILLENNIUM $400: The too-short 63-year lifespan of Rembrandt van Rijn was all in this century the 17th century
#6145, aired 2011-05-06"NEW" IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: First published in the late 17th Century, it was for 50 years the only elementary school textbook in the American colonies The New England Primer
#6135, aired 2011-04-22LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT! $200: About 635 violins still exist among the 1,100 instruments this 17th century man constructed Stradivarius
#6054, aired 2010-12-30PORTUGUYS $400: In the 17th century Pedro Teixeira, one of the early explorers of this river, traversed it from Belem to Quito the Amazon
#6042, aired 2010-12-14LANGUAGES $800: In the 17th century Jesuit missionaries developed a written form of this Asian language known as Quoc Ngu Vietnamese
#6026, aired 2010-11-22I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) Legend says the Royale was created in an attempt to do the harder entrechat quatre by this 17th-century French king, under whom ballet became a strict art form Louis XIV
#6009, aired 2010-10-28PROPER NAMES $400: The name of this towerlike framework over an oil well comes from that of a 17th century hangman a derrick
#5981, aired 2010-09-20LAST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: 17th century philosopher Sir Francis & 20th century painter Francis Bacon
#5979, aired 2010-09-16SILENCE $1000: The name of this branch of monks known for keeping silent comes from a 17th century Cistercian Abbey the Trappists
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A MINOR IN LITERATURE $1000: In a 17th century children's tale, the captain of the Unicorn sells this boy's cat to the king of Barbary Dick Whittington
#5952, aired 2010-06-29REBELS WITH A CAUSE $2,000 (Daily Double): The 17th & 18 century Jacobite Rebellions attempted to return this royal house to the British throne the House of Stuart
#5935, aired 2010-06-04EPONYMS $800: This religious sect living primarily in Ohio & southeast Pennsylvania gets its name from a 17th century Swiss Mennonite bishop the Amish
#5916, aired 2010-05-10CARRIAGES $400: This 17th century carriage had a separate hooded seat at the rear & was named for the capital of Germany a Berlin carriage
#5908, aired 2010-04-28"C" HERE $1600: This 17th century form of Italian popular theater was marked by stock characters & familiar plots commedia dell'arte
#5899, aired 2010-04-15THE CENTURY OF ITS INVENTION $2000: The telescope the 17th century
#5891, aired 2010-04-05THE 17th CENTURY $200: In the 17th century this student of Nicolo Amati was putting his designer label on his own violins Stradivarius
#5891, aired 2010-04-05THE 17th CENTURY $400: At the end of the century, the British East India Company founded this city, later famous for a black hole Calcutta
#5891, aired 2010-04-05THE 17th CENTURY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a micrograph on the monitor.) In the 1660s, Robert Hooke looked at cork under a microscope; the empty spaces reminded him of a monastery's rooms, so he called them these cells
#5891, aired 2010-04-05THE 17th CENTURY $800: Blaise Pascal proved the atmosphere has weight by sending a man up a mountain with this instrument a barometer
#5891, aired 2010-04-05THE 17th CENTURY $1000: The Dutch East India Company sponsored his 1609 search for the Northwest Passage Henry Hudson
#5880, aired 2010-03-19BIBLICAL PAINTINGS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In a 17th-century painting, Isaac, now blind in his old age, is blessing Jacob, who, you'll notice, is wearing gloves to hide the fact that he isn't this hairier brother Esau
#5855, aired 2010-02-12MICROBIOLOGY MILESTONES $1000: Grinding his own lenses, this 17th century Dutchman discovered bacteria with a home-made microscope (Antonie) Leeuwenhoek
#5850, aired 2010-02-05NAME THAT CENTURY $1600: Virginia Dare is the first white child of English parents born in America the 16th Century
#5848, aired 2010-02-03PORTRAIT OF WHOM? $400: A 17th-century holder of this holy office in a 20th-century portrait the Pope
#5831, aired 2010-01-11...& THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON! $1200: In the 17th century this type of wild horse numbered between 2 & 4 mil.; today, only about 20,000 remain, mostly in the West mustangs
#5786, aired 2009-11-09NAME THEIR CENTURY $2000: John Milton the 17th
#5751, aired 2009-09-21THE POPE-ARAZZI $800: Urban VIII, captured by telephoto here, told this 17th-century astronomer to go ahead & publish, but be careful Galileo
#5745, aired 2009-07-24WORLD CITY WALK $400: In the 17th century the Corsairs controlled this current capital of Morocco Rabat
#5709, aired 2009-06-04"IN" SENSE $2000: From the 17th to 19th century, it was a person who was placed under contract to work, usually for 7 years an indentured servant
#5702, aired 2009-05-26EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Joseph Smith, British consul in Venice, was a patron of this mid-17th century view painter Canaletto
#5684, aired 2009-04-30ALSO A COLOR $800: In the 17th century Frederick Henry, Count of Nassau, was also called the Prince of this Orange
#5658, aired 2009-03-25TASMANIA MANIA $400: Abel Tasman, the explorer for whom the island is named, first charted it in this century the 17th Century
#5645, aired 2009-03-06THE ART OF WORK $1600: The 17th century work "Village Lawyer", seen here, is by this Flemish painter, the Younger Pieter Bruegel
#5645, aired 2009-03-06"IT" HAPPENS $2,000 (Daily Double): Members of this 17th century religious movement were called Roundheads the Puritans
#5603, aired 2009-01-07NAME THAT CONFLICT'S CENTURY $600: The English Civil War that brought Cromwell to power the 17th
#5566, aired 2008-11-17FIRST NAMES $600: Until the 17th century, this first name of nurse Nightingale was used for both men & women Florence
#5559, aired 2008-11-06WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: A keel of this fuel is 21.2 tons, the approx. weight of the fuel carried on barges on the River Tyne in 17th century England coal
#5546, aired 2008-10-20NAME THAT CENTURY $400: The Mayflower first drops anchor off the coast of Massachusetts the 17th century
#5545, aired 2008-10-17GREAT BRITS $2000: In the 17th century this British empirical philosopher opined, "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience" John Locke
#5536, aired 2008-10-06EUROPEAN HISTORY $2,600 (Daily Double): This major league was a political & commercial confederacy of European towns from the 13th to the 17th century the Hanseatic League
#5514, aired 2008-07-24A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND $1200: Genius! In the 17th century, Italian lapidary Vincenzo Peruzzi developed this rounded cut that has 58 facets brilliant
#5438, aired 2008-04-09SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: 17th century Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens developed the wave theory of this light
#5427, aired 2008-03-25THE "BAY" STATE $400: This rifle attachment was first developed in France in the 17th century bayonet
#5420, aired 2008-03-14LOCKE $400: The English philosopher John Locke lived most of his life in the latter part of this century the 17th Century
#5410, aired 2008-02-2917th CENTURY FRANCE $400: In the 17th century, Andre le Notre was the chief designer of the gardens of this palace Versailles
#5410, aired 2008-02-2917th CENTURY FRANCE $800: This religious & political figure created the Academie Francaise in 1635, & it's still around today Richelieu
#5410, aired 2008-02-2917th CENTURY FRANCE $1200: Ironically, he collapsed on stage in 1673 while performing in his play "The Imaginary Invalid" Molière
#5410, aired 2008-02-2917th CENTURY FRANCE $1600: Assassinated in 1610 by a religious zealot, King Henry IV was the first French king of this royal house Bourbon
#5410, aired 2008-02-2917th CENTURY FRANCE $2000: In an effort to unite France under a Catholic banner, King Louis XIV revoked this edict in 1685 the Edict of Nantes
#5387, aired 2008-01-29ART-IFICIAL $1600: Once derogatory, the name of this 17th century style may come from the Portuguese word for an irregular pearl baroque
#5363, aired 2007-12-26ART $800: A Gerrit Dou work is sometimes known as "The Mother of" this painter with whom Dou studied in 17th century Leiden Rembrandt
#5353, aired 2007-12-12DEAR JOHN $1,400 (Daily Double): This 17th century poet believed that studying until midnight each night is what first injured his eyes John Milton
#5322, aired 2007-10-3017th CENTURY ART $400: Though he was Flemish, van Dyck is best known for the portraits he did in this British city in the 1630s London
#5322, aired 2007-10-3017th CENTURY ART $800: Pietro da Cortona spent 1633 to 1639 painting a vast fresco on this part of the Great Hall of the Barberini Palace the ceiling
#5322, aired 2007-10-3017th CENTURY ART $1200: Winning favor by glorifying this man in paintings, Charles Le Brun became the arbiter of French taste Louis XIV
#5322, aired 2007-10-3017th CENTURY ART $1600: Claude Lorrain gave new status to this genre with works like "A Pastoral" one, now at Yale landscape
#5322, aired 2007-10-3017th CENTURY ART $2000: This 17th-century Spaniard was a technical master even at the age of 20: just look at the light on the glass Diego Velázquez
#5320, aired 2007-10-26THEATRE HISTORY $800: Pulcinella, a Commedia dell'arte character, evolved into his pugilistic puppet of 17th century England Punch
#5317, aired 2007-10-23NAME THAT CENTURY $600: London experienced its deadly "Great Fire" the 17th century
#5316, aired 2007-10-22STEIN TIME $2000: Bohemian General Albrecht von Wallenstein won decisive battles during this decades-long 17th century war the Thirty Years War
#5287, aired 2007-09-11"AA" $1200: Also called the Taal, this language developed from the 17th century Dutch Afrikaans
#5277, aired 2007-07-17NAME THE CENTURY $400: John Smith comes to Virginia to help found the Jamestown colony the 17th century
#5251, aired 2007-06-11"F" STOP $1000: A 17th Century conspirator against British royalty, he has his own "day" each November Guy Fawkes
#5249, aired 2007-06-07PUBLISHING $200: In the 17th century Oxford University Press got the right to print this "royal" version of the Bible, quite a cash cow King James Bible
#5206, aired 2007-04-0910 DOWNING STREET $1600: An early resident was the countess of Lichfield, the daughter of this 17th century king who returned from exile Charles II
#5178, aired 2007-02-28TALKING "HEAD"s $1000: 17th century British anti-royalists Roundheads
#5176, aired 2007-02-26OPERA $400: The title libertine of this 1787 Mozart opera seduces women in 17th century Seville Don Giovanni
#5158, aired 2007-01-31EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: The Rokeby Venus is the only surviving example of a female nude by this 17th century Spanish portrait artist Velázquez
#5136, aired 2007-01-01NAME THE CENTURY $2000: The English defeat a vastly superior French force at Agincourt the 15th century (1415)
#5136, aired 2007-01-01NAME THE CENTURY $4,000 (Daily Double): The King James version of the Bible is first published the 17th century (1611)
#5130, aired 2006-12-22SANTA CLAUS $800: The mythology of Santa Claus came to the Americas with this ethnic group as "Sinter Klaas" in the 17th century the Dutch
#5121, aired 2006-12-11HISTORICAL NOVELS $800: "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of Griet, who works in the Delft household of this 17th century painter Johannes Vermeer
#5113, aired 2006-11-29A LITTLE DEITY $800: He's the Titan & friend of mankind seen here in a 17th-century painting Prometheus
#5095, aired 2006-11-03CENTURY OF THE TRIAL $1,500 (Daily Double): Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, et al., for witchcraft the 17th century
#5092, aired 2006-10-31MEN OF TRINITY COLLEGE $400: Biblical research by Bishop Ussher, a 17th century Trinity prof, dated this event to Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. the creation of the world
#5082, aired 2006-10-17"JOHN"s $1200: Thomas Ady's bedtime rhyme from the 17th century begins by naming this famous New Testament quartet Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
#5077, aired 2006-10-10WHAT THE "H"? $400: The 17th-century work seen here shows a landscape in this country Holland
#5067, aired 2006-09-26HIPPO-POURRI $1000: Is it any wonder that this Flemish artist, whose early 17th century work is seen here, painted hippopotami? Rubens
#5034, aired 2006-06-29MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $600 (Daily Double): The bellows of this instrument, as a substitute for lung power, was developed in 17th century France & Ireland the bagpipes
#5025, aired 2006-06-1617th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $400: On Feb. 23, 1667 he wrote in his "Diary", "This day I am, by the blessing of God, 34 years old, in very good health" Samuel Pepys
#5025, aired 2006-06-1617th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $800: This scientist wrote to Robert Hooke, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" Newton
#5025, aired 2006-06-1617th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $1200: In this 1650s work you'll find the line, "I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing" The Compleat Angler
#5025, aired 2006-06-1617th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $1600: In his "Second Treatise of Government", John Locke wrote, "Wherever law ends", this "begins" tyranny
#5025, aired 2006-06-1617th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $2000: In his "Pensees", this French mathematician philosophized, "Evil is easy, and has infinite forms" Blaise Pascal
#5023, aired 2006-06-14& TAKIN' NAMES $600: Matoaka, Amonute & Rebecca Rolfe (hey, things happened fast in the 17th century) Pocahontas
#4956, aired 2006-03-13THE CONSTANT GARDENER $400: In 17th century Holland, fortunes were invested in the bulbs of this flower a tulip
#4917, aired 2006-01-17COLORIFIC $2000: These rules got their name from the paper color they were printed on in New Haven Colony in the 17th century blue laws
#4899, aired 2005-12-22BELLY UP TO THE BAROQUE $800: A form of Baroque was applied in his 17th century design of London's St. Paul's Cathedral Christopher Wren
#4899, aired 2005-12-22BELLY UP TO THE BAROQUE $1200: This 17th century Antwerp painter's portrait of Charles I hunting is seen here Anthony van Dyck
#4880, aired 2005-11-25LITERARY QUOTATIONS $800: This 17th century work says, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Don Quixote
#4878, aired 2005-11-23IT'S A "CIN" $1600: It's a tragedy that this 17th century French author is known for "Britannicus" & "Berenice" Jean Racine
#4865, aired 2005-11-04BIO SUBJECTS $1000: "His Invention So Fertile" is "A Life of" this reshaper of 17th century London (Christopher) Wren
#4859, aired 2005-10-27HELLO, POTPOURRI $800: Named after a 17th century draper, it's any small, ornamental mat, as of lace; hello... doily
#4845, aired 2005-10-0717th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $200: Her death in 1603 ended her 45-year reign, & a total of 118 years for the Tudors Elizabeth I
#4845, aired 2005-10-0717th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $400: Because plague closed this university, Newton went home to Woolsthorpe, where he saw that apple fall Cambridge
#4845, aired 2005-10-0717th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $600: The mutineers who left this navigator on James Bay in 1611 were jailed when they got back to England (Henry) Hudson
#4845, aired 2005-10-0717th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $800: As Charles I couldn't attend this in Paris in May 1625, the Duke of Buckingham was his proxy his wedding
#4845, aired 2005-10-0717th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY $1000: Charlie Brown could have joined this group of Oliver Cromwell's that beat the Cavaliers in battle in July 2, 1644 the Roundheads
#4840, aired 2005-09-30WORLD LITERATURE $400: Chapter 8 of this 17th century work begins, "They came in sight of thirty, forty windmills" Don Quixote
#4819, aired 2005-07-14SHALL WE "DANCE"? $2000: 17th century name for the medical condition today known as Sydenham's Chorea St. Vitus' Dance
#4816, aired 2005-07-11THE PERE LACHAISE LOUNGE $1000: Finally finishing his performance in "The Imaginary Invalid", it's this great 17th century playwright (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Molière
#4796, aired 2005-06-13"VE" DAY $2000: It's his 17th century work seen here Velázquez
#4794, aired 2005-06-09ARTISTS $800: This 17th-century Flemish artist brought women to vivid life in paintings like the one seen here Rubens
#4764, aired 2005-04-28"V" $2000: It's his 17th century young woman seen here (Johannes) Vermeer
#4711, aired 2005-02-14PHILOSOPHY $1600: This idea that God & the universe are identical was powerfully stated by Spinoza in the 17th century pantheism
#4645, aired 2004-11-12NAME THAT CENTURY $400: The Pilgrims arrive in Massachusetts the 17th century
#4638, aired 2004-11-045-LETTER WORDS $7,800 (Daily Double): It means in a particular area; put a hyphen in the middle & it helps you lose weight local
#4616, aired 2004-10-04HOMOPHONIC NAMES $2000: Sadly for him, the 17th century gunpowder plotter wasn't quite as sly as the animal Fawkes (or fox)
#4582, aired 2004-07-06PEARLS OF WISDOM $5,000 (Daily Double): A 17th century writer: "Angling can be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt" Izaak Walton
#4581, aired 2004-07-059-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): A descendant of 17th century Dutch settlers in South Africa Afrikaner
#4555, aired 2004-05-28THE SOLAR SYSTEM $2000: This 17th century German astronomer's 1st law states that the planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun Kepler
#4547, aired 2004-05-18HARLEQUIN & COLUMBINE $800: Harlequin & Columbine were characters in this form of theater popular in Italy in the 17th century commedia dell'arte
#4525, aired 2004-04-16PAINTING OF THE CENTURY $800: Century in which young Leonardo da Vinci painted the work seen here the 17th
#4525, aired 2004-04-16PAINTING OF THE CENTURY $1200: The portrait of a scholar seen here dates from this century the 16th
#4525, aired 2004-04-16PAINTING OF THE CENTURY $1600: Century that gave us the master work seen here the 17th
#4471, aired 2004-02-02"D" COMPOSING $400: Based on a 17th century satire, this tone poem from composer Richard Strauss features a viola as Sancho Panza Don Quixote
#4464, aired 2004-01-22CELEBRITY RELATIVES $400: The family tree of actress Leelee Sobieski includes Jan Sobieski, a 17th century king of this country Poland
#4457, aired 2004-01-13THE ART WORLD $1200: 17th century artist born in Delft known for his paintings that have a cool, silvery light Jan Vermeer
#4457, aired 2004-01-13PIRATES: FACT & FICTION $1600: Tortola in this island group was a popular spot for 17th century pirates (British) Virgin Islands
#4450, aired 2004-01-0217th CENTURY NAMES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Provincetown, Massachusetts.) William Bradford's wife Dorothy died tragically in 1620 when she fell overboard here in Provincetown harbor, from this ship The Mayflower
#4450, aired 2004-01-0217th CENTURY NAMES $800: Around 1630 Mogul ruler Shah Jahan ordered this built as a memorial to his favorite wife the Taj Mahal
#4450, aired 2004-01-0217th CENTURY NAMES $1200: In 1622 he became a Cardinal; 6 years later he became First Minister of France Richelieu
#4450, aired 2004-01-0217th CENTURY NAMES $1600: Because it dealt with religious hypocrisy, his French comedy "Le Tartuffe" was banned until 1669 Moliere
#4450, aired 2004-01-0217th CENTURY NAMES $2000: In 1653 Izaak Walton reeled readers in with this treatise on fishes & fishing The Compleat Angler
#4421, aired 2003-11-24NAME THAT CENTURY $800: Ben Franklin dies 18th century (1790)
#4421, aired 2003-11-24NAME THAT CENTURY $1600: The English Civil War is waged 17th century
#4403, aired 2003-10-29LEFTOVERS $800: By the 17th century the once-glorious Roman Forum had become the Campo Vaccino, a place for these animals cows
#4360, aired 2003-07-11HISTORIC HOPEWELL, VIRGINIA $400: City Point, the oldest part of Hopewell, was founded by Sir Thomas Dale in the 13th year of this century 17th century
#4358, aired 2003-07-09"M"MMMMM GOOD! $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew does some show and tell.) 17th century thinker Athanasius Kircher is credited with inventing this device that projected pictures onto a wall magic lantern
#4346, aired 2003-06-23SPELL THE LAST NAME $800: 17th century man with the "I think, therefore I am" plan, Rene... D-E-S-C-A-R-T-E-S
#4343, aired 2003-06-1817th CENTURY NOTABLES $400: She died, perhaps of smallpox, while preparing to return home from England in 1617 with hubby John Rolfe Pocahontas
#4343, aired 2003-06-1817th CENTURY NOTABLES $800: In 1693 this royal pair chartered a college in the Virginia colony William and Mary
#4343, aired 2003-06-1817th CENTURY NOTABLES $1600: He's the famous Flemish painter seen here (notice the beard) Anthony van Dyck
#4343, aired 2003-06-1817th CENTURY NOTABLES $2000: In 1656 this freethinking Dutch philosopher was excommunicated by the Jewish community Baruch Spinoza
#4343, aired 2003-06-1817th CENTURY NOTABLES $3,000 (Daily Double): Just months after publishing "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", he was tried for heresy Galileo
#4330, aired 2003-05-3017th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Swedes founded Fort Christina in 1638 & this group founded Schenectady in 1661 Dutch
#4330, aired 2003-05-3017th CENTURY AMERICA $800: These ended in 1692 with a total of 30 convictions & 20 executions Salem Witch Trials
#4330, aired 2003-05-3017th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1692 this father of Cotton received Harvard's first doctor of sacred theology degree Increase Mather
#4330, aired 2003-05-3017th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In 1619 this representative body in Virginia met for the very first time House of Burgesses
#4330, aired 2003-05-3017th CENTURY AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): Debuting in 1690, Boston's Publick Occurrences, the first one of these in America, was quickly suppressed newspaper (it only lasted one issue)
#4285, aired 2003-03-28LETTER PERFECT $600: In the word seen here in 17th-century-style printing, the first letter isn't an F, but this S
#4266, aired 2003-03-03WE THINK $800: This 17th century French mathematician's philosophy called Cartesianism was laid out in his "Discourse" Rene Descartes
#4262, aired 2003-02-2517th CENTURY DRAMA $400: The 1620s comedy "The Spanish Gipsy" took its plot from this Spanish novelist Cervantes
#4262, aired 2003-02-2517th CENTURY DRAMA $800: Pierre Corneille's masterworks "Horace" & "Cinna" are set in this city Rome
#4262, aired 2003-02-2517th CENTURY DRAMA $1200: "Carolus Stuardus" by Andreas Gryphius is about this executed king of England Charles I
#4262, aired 2003-02-2517th CENTURY DRAMA $1600: As their name implies, disguises were a usual element in these dramas performed at court masques
#4262, aired 2003-02-2517th CENTURY DRAMA $3,000 (Daily Double): This playwright's "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" is stunned to find that he's been speaking prose all his life Moliere
#4235, aired 2003-01-1717th CENTURY DUTCHMEN $400: Willem Janszoon made the first European sighting of this continent, but thought it was part of New Guinea Australia
#4235, aired 2003-01-1717th CENTURY DUTCHMEN $800: Philips Wouwerman painted about 1,000 pictures & most included a white one of these animals horse
#4235, aired 2003-01-1717th CENTURY DUTCHMEN $1200: Leeuwenhoek made the first drawings of these microorganisms, which he scraped off teeth bacteria
#4235, aired 2003-01-1717th CENTURY DUTCHMEN $2000: After buying Manhattan for the Dutch, he bought what's now Wilmington, Delaware for the Swedes Peter Minuit
#4235, aired 2003-01-1717th CENTURY DUTCHMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): Hugo Grotius helped found international law with "De Jure Belli ac Pacis", "On the Law of" these 2 things War and Peace
#4167, aired 2002-10-15WHAT CENTURY ARE YOU LIVING IN? $800: Rembrandt 17th century
#4161, aired 2002-10-07REMAKES $200: In 1957 a recreation of this ship made a recreation of its 17th century trip from England to Massachusetts the Mayflower
#4154, aired 2002-09-26TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT $800: Bred in 17th century Virginia, this horse with a "fractional" name is the oldest all-American breed quarter horse
#4113, aired 2002-06-19STONEHENGE $800: In the 17th Century John Aubrey wrongly opined that Stonehenge had been built by these Celtic priests Druids
#4100, aired 2002-05-31STREET SMARTS $1600: Home to the P.M., this London street was named for the man who was M.P. for Morpeth in the 17th century Downing Street
#4073, aired 2002-04-2417th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 1609 English astronomer Thomas Harriot used the new telescope to draw maps of this body before Galileo did the moon
#4073, aired 2002-04-2417th CENTURY SCIENCE $800 (Daily Double): The machine Denis Papin built in 1690 was the first to use steam to move one of these in a cylinder a piston
#4073, aired 2002-04-2417th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Johann Magnenus believed there were 3 elements, fire, earth & water, each made up of these, which we can't see atoms
#4073, aired 2002-04-2417th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: In 1656 Christiaan Huygens found time to invent a clock with this new regulator the pendulum
#4073, aired 2002-04-2417th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: John Napier's 1614 table of these took the blues out of calculating logarithms
#4028, aired 2002-02-20WHAT CENTURY ARE YOU LIVING IN? $800: Sir Francis Drake 16th century
#4028, aired 2002-02-20WHAT CENTURY ARE YOU LIVING IN? $1200: John Milton 17th
#4025, aired 2002-02-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $400: After about 5 months in America, this ship left Plymouth, Massachusetts for England in April 1621 the Mayflower
#4025, aired 2002-02-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1631 this New Amsterdam governor was recalled for granting too many privileges to landowners Peter Minuit
#4025, aired 2002-02-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In 1668 Marquette founded Sault Ste. Marie, the first permanent European settlement in this future state Michigan
#4025, aired 2002-02-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1607 the Popham Colony was founded on the Kennebec River in what is now this state; it lasted 1 winter Maine
#4025, aired 2002-02-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: This Rhode Island minister compiled a dictionary of the Narragansett language Roger Williams
#3985, aired 2001-12-21THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO $400: Century in which Johannes Rebmann became the first European to see & describe Kilimanjaro & its snows 19th
#3982, aired 2001-12-1817th CENTURY AMERICA $200 (Daily Double): In January 1636 this clergyman fled Massachusetts & settled in the Narragansett Bay area Roger Williams
#3982, aired 2001-12-1817th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On May 13, 1607 it was founded by more than 100 colonists on the "River of Powhatan" Jamestown
#3982, aired 2001-12-1817th CENTURY AMERICA $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew holds a plastic jack-o-lantern.) Prithee, tell a maiden this name for the religion of the pilgrims from their wish to cleanse the church Puritan
#3982, aired 2001-12-1817th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1675 he was admitted to Harvard at the age of 12 while his father Increase was a fellow there Cotton Mather
#3982, aired 2001-12-1817th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: After arriving in America, the Pilgrims signed a mutual peace treaty with this chief of the Wampanoag tribe Massasoit
#3922, aired 2001-09-25PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: This 17th century English sea captain gave his name to a large North American bay, a river & a strait (Henry) Hudson
#3916, aired 2001-09-17GLOBETROTTING $400: This sixth-largest country in the world was first sighted by Europeans in the 17th century Australia
#3912, aired 2001-09-11WEAPONS OF WAR $200: These rifle additions gained their first prominence in the 17th century bayonets
#3911, aired 2001-09-10OOH, A WISE GUY $200: Therefore it's this 17th century mathematician and philosopher--I think Descartes
#3881, aired 2001-06-18AT THE MOVIES $800: In 1970 Richard Harris played this 17th century British "protector" at odds with King Charles I Oliver Cromwell
#3867, aired 2001-05-29NO OIL PAINTING $500: In the work seen here, the artist obeyed this 17th century English leader's wish to be shown, warts & all Oliver Cromwell
#3865, aired 2001-05-25GAMING $100: One story credits 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal with the invention of this ball-&-wheel game roulette
#3809, aired 2001-03-08"PEP" BOYS $1000: We thought we'd sneak this 17th century diarist into the category even though his name has a long "E" sound Samuel Pepys
#3788, aired 2001-02-07HISTORIC TABLOID HEADLINES $600: She's the subject of the 17th century headline seen here: "LOCA POCA!! Saves Boy Toy From Fatal Clubbing" Pocahontas
#3744, aired 2000-12-07THE "FIRST" $500: The page seen here is from this 17th century publication: [picture of William Shakespeare] "The First Folio"
#3714, aired 2000-10-26WALTON $400: Walton lived the majority of his life in this century the 17th century
#3703, aired 2000-10-11LITTLE-HEARD LAST NAMES $500: The 17th century's Rembrandt van Rijn
#3694, aired 2000-09-28GOULASH $500: The roots of this largest producer of soy sauce date back to 17th century Japan Kikkoman
#3637, aired 2000-05-30FAMOUS PAINTINGS $400: His 17th century work seen here is known as "The Jewish Bride": Rembrandt
#3631, aired 2000-05-2217th CENTURY SCIENCE $200: Before he made a telescope Hans Lippershey made a living grinding lenses for these Eyeglasses
#3631, aired 2000-05-2217th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: About 1621 William Oughtred invented this device that stuck out of nerds' shirt pockets well into the 20th century the slide rule
#3631, aired 2000-05-2217th CENTURY SCIENCE $600: In 1628 this British physician circulated his description of how blood circulates William Harvey
#3631, aired 2000-05-2217th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: In the appendix of his "Discourse On Method" this Frenchman introduced analytic geometry Rene Descartes
#3631, aired 2000-05-2217th CENTURY SCIENCE $1000: Wow! In 1660 Otto Von Guericke designed a sulfur globe that when rotated & rubbed produced this Static electricity
#3618, aired 2000-05-03"H.H." $300: Back in the 17th century, they were for both sexes; Louis XIV wore them to look taller High heels
#3604, aired 2000-04-13PRO SPORTS $300: (Hi, I'm Marcus Camby, forward for the New York Knicks) Knicks is short for this longer name which dates back to a style of pants worn by Dutch settlers in the 17th century Knickerbockers
#3576, aired 2000-03-06WINDOWS $1000: This type of window named for its 2 sashes first appeared in the late 17th century Double-hung windows
#3495, aired 1999-11-12SPEARS $600: Considered a type of spear, this dagger attached to a rifle muzzle dates from the 17th century Bayonet
#3477, aired 1999-10-1917th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Most of the colonists on this ship that landed at Plymouth in December 1620 were not Pilgrims Mayflower
#3477, aired 1999-10-1917th CENTURY AMERICA $200: It's the crop John Rolfe planted in Virginia that became a major cash crop Tobacco
#3477, aired 1999-10-1917th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1652, in defiance of English law, Massachusetts set up one of these producing the pine tree shilling Mint
#3477, aired 1999-10-1917th CENTURY AMERICA $400: John Smith, hurt in an explosion, was ousted from his leadership of this settlement & sailed back to England Jamestown
#3477, aired 1999-10-1917th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1684 William Penn tried to settle his boundary dispute with Maryland, & this lord Lord Baltimore
#3474, aired 1999-10-14BANNED! $1000: This Daniel Defoe work about a lusty 17th century wench has often been banned from U.S. mails Moll Flanders
#3451, aired 1999-09-1317th CENTURY ARTS $200: Composer Jean-Baptiste Lully brought this French country dance to Louis XIV's court Minuet
#3451, aired 1999-09-1317th CENTURY ARTS $400: Then the largest church in the Christian world, this basilica was dedicated in 1626 St. Peter's Basilica
#3451, aired 1999-09-1317th CENTURY ARTS $800: This Dutch master was barely 22 in 1628 when he started teaching in Leiden Rembrandt
#3451, aired 1999-09-1317th CENTURY ARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now a museum, its Grande Galerie was completed by Henri IV around 1606 the Louvre
#3451, aired 1999-09-1317th CENTURY ARTS $1000: This Dutch artist turned out "The Jolly Toper" & "The Laughing Cavalier" Frans Hals
#3444, aired 1999-07-22ARTISTIC MASTERS $400: An example of this 16th & 17th century master's distinctive distortion of figures is seen here: El Greco
#3436, aired 1999-07-12IN THE FIRE $100: Many 17th century New York City households had one of these to form a brigade in case of fire Bucket
#3417, aired 1999-06-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1609 this settlement had about 500 people, but disease & starvation cut the number to 60 by spring 1610 Jamestown
#3417, aired 1999-06-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1614 this husband of Pocahontas sent the first export cargo of tobacco to England John Rolfe
#3417, aired 1999-06-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1635 the Public Latin School, the first public school in British America, was established in this city Boston
#3417, aired 1999-06-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On January 5, 1665 the New Haven colony was formally annexed by this colony Connecticut
#3417, aired 1999-06-1517th CENTURY AMERICA $500: On April 9, 1682 this Frenchman reached the mouth of the Mississippi River & claimed the region for Louis XIV La Salle
#3391, aired 1999-05-10U.S. CITIES $300: Paul Revere's house in this capital is the city's only 17th century building downtown Boston
#3382, aired 1999-04-27ART & ARTISTS $1000: This 17th century Spaniard created the intriguing & complex portrait seen here: Diego Velazquez
#3322, aired 1999-02-02HISTORIC NAMES $300: Jules Mazarin was one in the 17th century, Stan Musial in the 20th a cardinal
#3256, aired 1998-11-0220th CENTURY ART $1,000 (Daily Double): This controversial painter was a descendant of the 17th C. English essayist of the same name Francis Bacon
#3240, aired 1998-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Hey, wait a Minuit! This island was bought for only 60 guilders worth of goods in 1626 Manhattan
#3240, aired 1998-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $200: It was signed November 21, 1620 in Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts The Mayflower Compact
#3240, aired 1998-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $300: The first book printed in the colonies was Stephen Day's "Whole Book of" these biblical songs in 1640 Psalms
#3240, aired 1998-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In March 1643 he left Rhode Island for England to get a formal charter for the colony Roger Williams
#3240, aired 1998-10-0917th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In the spring of 1699 this pirate visited Narrangansett & may have buried treasure there Captain Kidd
#3219, aired 1998-09-10FUN WITH OPERA $400: Cavalli's 17th century opera "Ercole Amante" tells the story of this mythological laborer in love Hercules
#3164, aired 1998-05-07ALL ABOUT CALCULUS $400: It's the century in which calculus was created 17th century
#3108, aired 1998-02-18THE 17TH CENTURY $200: In 1682 he founded the "City of Brotherly Love" William Penn (Philadelphia)
#3108, aired 1998-02-18THE 17TH CENTURY $400: Nearly 13,000 homes & 100 churches were destroyed in this city's Great Fire of 1666 London
#3108, aired 1998-02-18THE 17TH CENTURY $600: In his 1613 "Letters on Sunspots", he openly supported the Copernican theory Galileo
#3108, aired 1998-02-18THE 17TH CENTURY $800: Cheers to this Benedictine monk who pioneered the making of champagne in 1698 Dom Perignon
#3108, aired 1998-02-18THE 17TH CENTURY $1000: In 1673 this pair explored the Mississippi River all the way to the mouth of the Arkansas Marquette & Joliet
#3059, aired 1997-12-11YOU CAN LOOK IT UP $1000: This machine for hoisting & moving heavy objects was named for an early 17th century English hangman Derrick
#3036, aired 1997-11-10ART $1,800 (Daily Double): 17th century Flemish master known for painting women like the one seen here: Peter Paul Rubens
#3030, aired 1997-10-31SMALL MIDWESTERN COLLEGES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Here is a video clue I recorded far, far away from here.) Beneath me is the Vasa, launched by this 17th century Swedish king for whom a St. Peter, Minn. college is named Gustavus Adolphus
#3012, aired 1997-10-07FAMOUS 17th CENTURY NAMES $100: Jan Vermeer, who made only about 40 of these in his life, gave 2 to a baker in exchange for credit paintings
#3012, aired 1997-10-07FAMOUS 17th CENTURY NAMES $200: On Jaunuary 1, 1660 this Englishman began his diaries in shorthand; he stopped 9 years later (Samuel) Pepys
#3012, aired 1997-10-07FAMOUS 17th CENTURY NAMES $300: Real playwright who wrote "The Imaginary Invalid" Molière
#3012, aired 1997-10-07FAMOUS 17th CENTURY NAMES $400: This Dutch explorer discovered & named Van Diemen's Land, an island now named for him Abel Tasman
#3009, aired 1997-10-02MEDIEVAL WOMEN $800: Passionate love letters by nuns include Marianna Alcoforado's in the 17th century, & hers in the 12th to Abelard Heloise
#2955, aired 1997-06-0617th CENTURY FASHION $100: For the most part Puritan fashions were unadorned, but their underwear was embroidered with quotes from this the Bible
#2955, aired 1997-06-0617th CENTURY FASHION $200: The embroidery patterns on these were called clocks & when they ran it was time to replace them stockings
#2955, aired 1997-06-0617th CENTURY FASHION $300: Louis XIV's Croatian mercenaries introduced this early form of necktie a cravat
#2955, aired 1997-06-0617th CENTURY FASHION $500 (Daily Double): A pickadil was the framework used to support a ruff type of this a collar
#2955, aired 1997-06-0617th CENTURY FASHION $500: Wig is a short form of this 17th century term periwig
#2899, aired 1997-03-2017th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Within 7 months of this colony's founding in 1607, 73 colonists had died of disease & starvation; 32 survived Jamestown
#2899, aired 1997-03-2017th CENTURY AMERICA $200: By 1665 the New Haven Colony was absorbed by this colony Connecticut
#2899, aired 1997-03-2017th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1636 he established Rhode Island's first permanent European settlement at Providence Roger Williams
#2899, aired 1997-03-2017th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Mennonites were the first from this country to found a permanent settlement in America Germany
#2899, aired 1997-03-2017th CENTURY AMERICA $500: On April 6, 1650 he granted Maryland a bicameral legislature Cecil Calvert (the 2nd Lord Baltimore)
#2886, aired 1997-03-03ASTRONOMY $600: In the early 17th century this German discovered that the planets orbit the sun in ellipses Johannes Kepler
#2870, aired 1997-02-07NOVELS & NOVELISTS $600: Alfred de Vigny's historical novel "Cinq-Mars" concerns a 17th century plot against this French cardinal Cardinal Richelieu
#2866, aired 1997-02-03COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: This Milwaukee university is named for a 17th century French Jesuit missionary & explorer Marquette
#2863, aired 1997-01-2917TH C. LIT $600: His "Compleat Angler" went through 5 editions during the 17th century Izaak Walton
#2811, aired 1996-11-18ART & ARTISTS $800: 17th century Dutch painter Samuel van Hoogstraten was proficient in this "fool the eye" style trompe-l'œil
#2734, aired 1996-06-20SPORTS $500: This basic fencing weapon weighs about 1 pound & is derived from a short dress sword of the 17th century foil
#2729, aired 1996-06-13THE MOVIES $600: This singer played a 17th century witch named Winifred in Disney's 1993 comedy "Hocus Pocus" Bette Midler
#2706, aired 1996-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $200: In 1637 hundreds of businessmen were ruined when the market for these Dutch flowers collapsed tulips
#2706, aired 1996-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $400: James I thought this practice brought from the New World "harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs" smoking
#2706, aired 1996-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $600: Reportedly, in an English orchard in Woolsthorpe in 1666, he saw an apple fall & got ideas Newton
#2706, aired 1996-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $800: In 1648 Shah Jahan completed this mosque & mausoleum for his wife, who had died some 17 years earlier Taj Mahal
#2706, aired 1996-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1623 this empire's Mad Sultan Mustafa I was forced to abdicate & was confined in the Seraglio Ottoman
#2691, aired 1996-04-22FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS $400: This 17th century Frenchman is considered the founder of modern philosophy (René) Descartes
#2677, aired 1996-04-0217TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: On Nov. 21, 1620, after a 66-day voyage, this ship reached Cape Cod The Mayflower
#2677, aired 1996-04-0217TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1607 Edward M. Wingfield was ousted as president of the Virginia colony at this site Jamestown
#2677, aired 1996-04-0217TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: George Fox, leader of this British religious group, toured the American colonies in 1672 The Quakers
#2677, aired 1996-04-0217TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1631 this governor of New Netherland was removed due to liberal policies toward wealthy landowners Peter Minuit
#2677, aired 1996-04-0217TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: On April 9, 1682 this Frenchman reached the mouth of the Mississippi & claimed the valley for France LaSalle
#2676, aired 1996-04-01THE 17th CENTURY $200: George Chapman's translation of this Homer work was completed in 1611; his "Odyssey" appeared in 1616 The Iliad
#2676, aired 1996-04-01THE 17th CENTURY $400: Sophia Alexeyevna served as regent of this country from 1682 to 1689 Russia
#2676, aired 1996-04-01THE 17th CENTURY $600: A royal observatory was founded in this London borough in 1675 Greenwich
#2676, aired 1996-04-01THE 17th CENTURY $800: In 1660 this author of "The Pilgrim's Progress" was arrested for preaching without a license John Bunyan
#2676, aired 1996-04-01THE 17th CENTURY $1000: Andrew Melville, who succeeded this man as the leader of Scottish Presbyterianism, died in 1622 John Knox
#2656, aired 1996-03-0417th CENTURY WORD ORIGINS $100: This black-masked, bushy-tailed nocturnal carnivore got its name around 1607 a raccoon
#2656, aired 1996-03-0417th CENTURY WORD ORIGINS $200: This Malay word once referred to fish sauce; today it's a common condiment made of pureed tomatoes Ketchup
#2656, aired 1996-03-0417th CENTURY WORD ORIGINS $300: Paddy whack, give a dog a bone; from 1682, it's an ornamental object a knickknack
#2656, aired 1996-03-0417th CENTURY WORD ORIGINS $400: This word from 1671 refers to the band of colors produced when light passes through a prism a spectrum
#2656, aired 1996-03-0417th CENTURY WORD ORIGINS $500: Person to find you a find, catch you a catch whose title appeared around 1639 a matchmaker
#2641, aired 1996-02-12DECORATIVE ARTS $200: A popular type of 17th century woodwork was made to resemble this ocean vegetation seaweed
#2627, aired 1996-01-2317th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $100: A coin put in a 1615 vending machine opened a locked top so customers could receive a pipeful of this Tobacco
#2627, aired 1996-01-2317th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $200: The first practical machine powered by this was used in 1698 to pump water out of mines Steam
#2627, aired 1996-01-2317th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $300: These were made more accurate in the late 1600s with the inventions of the pendulum & balance spring Clocks
#2627, aired 1996-01-2317th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $400: In mid-century Otto Von Guericke was the first to use this device to predict the weather Barometer
#2627, aired 1996-01-2317th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $500: While Pascal's could only add & subtract, Leibniz' could multiply Calculator
#2599, aired 1995-12-14RELIGIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Pietism began within this denomination in 17th century Germany Lutheranism
#2554, aired 1995-10-12WORLD HISTORY $300: In the early 17th century, the college of James VI became the university of this Scottish city Edinburgh
#2534, aired 1995-09-14QUOTATIONS $300: In his 17th century play "The Rehearsal", George Villiers wrote, "Ay, now" this "thickens" the plot
#2501, aired 1995-06-19THE 17th CENTURY $200: On Nov. 24, 1632 Baruch Spinoza was born to Jewish parents in this Dutch capital Amsterdam
#2501, aired 1995-06-19THE 17th CENTURY $400: At age 15 this future Queen of England married Prince William of Orange Mary
#2501, aired 1995-06-19THE 17th CENTURY $600: In 1668 Jacques Marquette founded a mission at Sault Sainte Marie, now in this state Michigan
#2501, aired 1995-06-19THE 17th CENTURY $800: This author of the "Pilgrim's Progress" was confined to Bedford County Jail from 1660 to 1672 (John) Bunyan
#2501, aired 1995-06-19THE 17th CENTURY $1000: In 1658 this builder of the Taj Mahal was deposed by his son Aurangzeb & imprisoned Shah Jahan
#2470, aired 1995-05-05COMPOSERS $800: His name can be traced back to Sibbe, a 17th century Finnish peasant name (Jean) Sibelius
#2408, aired 1995-02-08FICTION $600: Century in which "The Scarlet Letter" is set the 17th century (the 1600s)
#2406, aired 1995-02-06QUOTATIONS $200: In the 17th century John Selden observed that "Preachers say, do as I say, not" this as I do
#2375, aired 1994-12-23ARTISTS $600: The 17th century artist Jan Hals painted in the manner of this Dutch artist, his father Frans Hals
#2353, aired 1994-11-23PHILOSOPHY $100: Cartesianism is named for this 17th century French philosopher René Descartes
#2351, aired 1994-11-21THE 17th CENTURY $200: In 1687, the Parthenon was badly damaged when the Venetians tried to conquer this city Athens
#2351, aired 1994-11-21THE 17th CENTURY $400: In 1610 Cosimo de Medici made this astronomer his court mathematician Galileo
#2351, aired 1994-11-21THE 17th CENTURY $600: In 1610 this Dutch firm shipped tea from China to Europe for the first time Dutch East India Company
#2351, aired 1994-11-21THE 17th CENTURY $800: This Jamaican city was founded around 1693 after an earthquake destroyed Port Royal across the harbor Kingston
#2351, aired 1994-11-21THE 17th CENTURY $1000: The 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk fixed China's border with this country along the Amur River valley Russia
#2330, aired 1994-10-21ARTISTS $2,500 (Daily Double): 17th century artist who made the etching seen here: Rembrandt
#2304, aired 1994-09-15JAPAN $200: One of the most famous of these shrunken trees was first owned by a 17th century shogun bonsai
#2263, aired 1994-06-0817th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On April 5, 1621 it sailed back to England, leaving the Plymouth Colony to fend for itself the Mayflower
#2263, aired 1994-06-0817th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion that burned down this Virginia settlement Jamestown
#2263, aired 1994-06-08JOBS ON THE WATER $400: From French for "barbecuer", it's a 17th century pirate who raided Spanish ships a buccaneer
#2263, aired 1994-06-0817th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Between 1661 & 1663, the first of these printed in the American colonies appeared in Algonquian the Bible
#2263, aired 1994-06-0817th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1630 colonists from this company settled Boston the Massachusetts Bay Company
#2263, aired 1994-06-0817th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: He arrived in New Netherland in May 1626, bought land & built Fort Amsterdam Peter Minuit
#2244, aired 1994-05-12LITERARY ALLUSIONS $500: Tartuffery, a synonym for hypocritical piety, was inspired by his 17th century play "Tartuffe" Moliere
#2176, aired 1994-02-07THE 17th CENTURY $200: This authorized translation of the Bible was issued in 1611 the King James
#2176, aired 1994-02-07THE 17th CENTURY $400: On January 8, 1642, this Italian astronomer died in Arcetri Galileo
#2176, aired 1994-02-07THE 17th CENTURY $600: In 1652 Jan Van Riebeeck founded this South African port as a supply base for the Dutch East India Company Cape Town
#2176, aired 1994-02-07THE 17th CENTURY $800: Under the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz, this country obtained most of Hungary from the Turks Austria
#2176, aired 1994-02-07THE 17th CENTURY $1000: In 1627 this explorer was named governor of New France in North America Samuel de Champlain
#2138, aired 1993-12-15DANCE $200: Anglaise, the name of a 17th & 18th century dance, is the French word for this nationality English
#2135, aired 1993-12-10NOTABLE NAMES $400: Last name of the 17th century Italian artist known as "Il Bolognese", or of Monaco's royal family the Grimaldis
#2116, aired 1993-11-15MYTHOLOGICAL OPERAS $400: Henry Purcell's 17th century opera about Dido & this Virgil hero may be his masterpiece Aeneas
#2091, aired 1993-10-11COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: The library at this Big Ten school in Evanston, Illinois has a collection of pre-17th century German books Northwestern University
#2054, aired 1993-07-08CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Local legends about 17th century outlaws in the Doone Valley inspired Richard Blackmore's novel about her Lorna Doone
#2051, aired 1993-07-05RULERS $200: This 17th century French monarch boasted, "I am the State" Louis XIV
#2036, aired 1993-06-14WORLD HISTORY $800: This 17th century Mogul emperor founded the city of Delhi & built the Peacock Throne & the Taj Mahal Shah Jehan
#2017, aired 1993-05-18LIBERTY SYMBOLS $300: In the 17th century this 1215 document became a symbol of English liberty the Magna Carta
#1967, aired 1993-03-09DESIGN $600: The auricular style of the 17th century used this sense organ as a motif, hence its name the ear
#1966, aired 1993-03-08"NICK" NAMES $300: It's a sobriquet applied to the devil, especially in the 17th century Old Nick
#1908, aired 1992-12-1617th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote", "There are only two families in the world, the Haves and" these Have-Nots
#1908, aired 1992-12-1617th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: His sonnet published in 1609 began, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (William) Shakespeare
#1908, aired 1992-12-1617th CENTURY LITERATURE $600: Matsuo Basho was bashing out these 3-line poems in Japan during the 17th century haiku
#1908, aired 1992-12-1617th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: In "Alexander's Feast" John Dryden wrote, "None but the brave deserves" them "the fair"
#1908, aired 1992-12-1617th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: The romantic troubles in his personal life inspired his "The School for Husbands" & "The School for Wives" Molière
#1896, aired 1992-11-30THE 17th CENTURY $200: Peregrine White was born on this ship November 20, 1620 the Mayflower
#1896, aired 1992-11-30THE 17th CENTURY $400: In a 1687 book he codified Galileo's research on falling bodies into 3 laws of motion Newton
#1896, aired 1992-11-30THE 17th CENTURY $600: When this house took over Russia in 1613, it ended the Time of Troubles the Romanovs
#1896, aired 1992-11-30THE 17th CENTURY $800: When Shah Jahan's son took over this country in 1658, he tried to rid it of vice & all that wasn't Muslim India
#1896, aired 1992-11-30THE 17th CENTURY $1000: 1 of the 2 dynasties that ruled China during the 17th Century the Ming (or Ching)
#1880, aired 1992-11-06ISLANDS $200: Some 17th century maps show this Massachusetts island as Martin's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard
#1833, aired 1992-07-15THE 17th CENTURY $200: "His" authorized version of the Bible, published in 1611, was the work of 47 scholars King James
#1833, aired 1992-07-15THE 17th CENTURY $400: In 1663 this architect began his first major building, a chapel at Pembroke College, Cambridge Christopher Wren
#1833, aired 1992-07-15THE 17th CENTURY $600: In 1608 this explorer founded Quebec & a year later discovered the lake now named for him Champlain
#1833, aired 1992-07-15THE 17th CENTURY $800: Born Armand Jean du Plessis, he was chief minister to Louis XIII from 1624 to 1642 Richelieu
#1833, aired 1992-07-15THE 17th CENTURY $1000: In his 1619 "Harmonies of the World", this Ger. astronomer published his 3rd law of planetary motion (Johannes) Kepler
#1795, aired 1992-05-22QUOTES $800: 17th century poet Jean de la Fontaine said, "A hungry" one of these organs "cannot hear" a stomach
#1792, aired 1992-05-19THE 17th CENTURY $200: In 1609 Christianized Muslims called Moriscos were expelled from this country Spain
#1792, aired 1992-05-19THE 17th CENTURY $400: In 1647 astronomer Johannes Hevelius published the 1st detailed atlas of this heavenly body the Moon
#1792, aired 1992-05-19THE 17th CENTURY $800: In the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, he led a group of conspirators in trying to blow up the English Parliament Guy Fawkes
#1792, aired 1992-05-19THE 17th CENTURY $1000: When his half brother died in 1696, he became the sole ruler of Russia Peter the Great
#1792, aired 1992-05-19THE 17th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): After a fire destroyed this Scandinavian capital in 1624, it was rebuilt & renamed Christiania Oslo
#1748, aired 1992-03-18CLOTHING $500: The fontange, a tall lace one of these worn in the 17th century, was named for a mistress of Louis XIV hat
#1723, aired 1992-02-12SCIENTISTS $800: This 17th century English scientist explained how a rainbow is formed Sir Isaac Newton
#1719, aired 1992-02-06ART $1000: "The Toilet of Venus" was the only female nude painted by this 17th century Spanish court artist Velazquez
#1709, aired 1992-01-23PHILOSOPHY $1000: 17th century Dutch Jewish philosopher who said, "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue" Spinoza
#1632, aired 1991-10-08FASHION HISTORY $100: A morion was a crested metal one of these worn by soldiers in the 16th and 17th century a helmet
#1592, aired 1991-07-02WORLD HISTORY $400: 17th century explorers found ruins of the Norse settlement founded by Erik the Red here around 985 Greenland
#1591, aired 1991-07-01FASHION HISTORY $100: 17th century men's rhinegraves breaches were trimmed with these, which you may tie around gifts ribbons
#1563, aired 1991-05-22TECHNOLOGY $100: By the end of the 17th century the English upper crust were using the 3-prong type of these forks
#1520, aired 1991-03-22ART $200: In the 17th century, Velazquez was one of this country's most important painters Spain
#1485, aired 1991-02-01ARTISTS $200: 17th-century painter Jan van Goyen was one of this country's most gifted landscape artists Holland
#1441, aired 1990-12-0317th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $100: Shun-chih was about 6 yrs. old when he became the 1st Manchu emperor of this country in 1644 China
#1441, aired 1990-12-0317th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: Juan Martinez Montanes, a sculptor from this country, was admired for his wood carving Spain
#1441, aired 1990-12-0317th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $300: The Marquise de Montespan, a mistress of this "Sun King", was rumored to be involved with witchcraft Louis XIV
#1441, aired 1990-12-0317th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $400: Oliver Cromwell was buried secretly in this church weeks before his state funeral Westminster Abbey
#1441, aired 1990-12-0317th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $500: This father of Cotton Mather married his own stepsister, Maria Cotton, in 1622 Increase Mather
#1426, aired 1990-11-1217th CENTURY QUOTES $200: In his 1659 "Proverbs", James Howell wrote, "All work and no play makes Jack" this a dull boy
#1426, aired 1990-11-1217th CENTURY QUOTES $400: Spinoza is credited with being the first to conclude "Nature abhors" one a vacuum
#1426, aired 1990-11-1217th CENTURY QUOTES $600: "As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler", he wrote in "The Compleat Angler" Izaak Walton
#1426, aired 1990-11-1217th CENTURY QUOTES $800: "You shall now give place to better man", he told the Rump Parliament in 1654 Oliver Cromwell
#1426, aired 1990-11-1217th CENTURY QUOTES $1000: "To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize", wrote this mathematician in his "Pensees" (Blaise) Pascal
#1417, aired 1990-10-30RELIGION $200: Member of a religious order founded in the 17th century in La Trappe, France Trappist monk
#1405, aired 1990-10-12THE 17TH CENTURY $100: In France, Henry IV said every peasant should afford to have one of these in the pot on Sundays a chicken
#1405, aired 1990-10-12THE 17TH CENTURY $200: Some British barristers now believe this affectation from 17th-century France has had its day wearing wigs
#1405, aired 1990-10-12THE 17TH CENTURY $300: The revolt that began in 1618 against the Hapsburg ruler of Austria lasted this many years 30
#1405, aired 1990-10-12THE 17TH CENTURY $500: Ornate furniture, Rubens paintings, & Bernini's gilded churches represent this art style Baroque
#1405, aired 1990-10-12THE 17TH CENTURY $1,500 (Daily Double): Champlain founded this city in 1608; 12 years later, it had only 60 people and showed little promise Quebec City
#1381, aired 1990-09-10FASHION HISTORY $200: 17th & 18th century women carried fancy little boxes full of these which they stuck on their faces mouches (beauty marks)
#13, aired 1990-09-0817th CENTURY SCIENCE $500: In 1611 Kepler published a paper on the 6-sided nature of these weather phenomena snowflakes
#13, aired 1990-09-0817th CENTURY SCIENCE $1000: About 1645 A. Kircher came up with this device that projects pictures on a wall the magic lantern
#13, aired 1990-09-0817th CENTURY SCIENCE $1500: After John Napier discovered these, William Oughtred invented a slide rule to utilize them logarithms
#13, aired 1990-09-0817th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: In a 1665 book Robert Hooke described the cells of this plant he saw through his microscope cork
#13, aired 1990-09-0817th CENTURY SCIENCE $2500: In 1675 this astronomer found at least 2 rings separated by a gap encircling Saturn Cassini
#1380, aired 1990-09-07THE MOON $700 (Daily Double): 17th century astronomers were the 1st to refer to the large dark areas on the Moon as these seas
#1377, aired 1990-09-04ROYALTY $800: It's believed that this 17th century Queen of Sweden was the lover of Cardinal Decio Azzolino Queen Christina
#1376, aired 1990-09-03ACTORS OF THE PAST $400: '40s film star whose family, the Lupinos, performed in Europe in the 17th century Ida Lupino
#9, aired 1990-08-11NON-POTENT POTABLES $800: Introduced into Spain by Cortes, in the 17th century it became a fashionable drink chocolate
#6, aired 1990-07-21USA $1,600 (Daily Double): Now known as this, in the 17th century this island ws owned by a man named Isaac Bedloe Liberty
#1373, aired 1990-07-18POTLUCK $1000: In the 17th century this English physician discovered how blood circulates in the human body (William) Harvey
#3, aired 1990-06-30LANDMARKS $2000: The Cappella della Sacra Sindone was built in the 17th century to house this relic the Shroud of Turin
#2, aired 1990-06-23FRENCH HISTORY $500: From the 14th to the 17th century, France's flag had 3 of these “flowers” on a blue field lillies or fleur-de-lis
#1309, aired 1990-04-19HORSES $1000: This harness breed shares its name with a 17th century English coach for hire Hackney Pony
#1266, aired 1990-02-19COMMUNICATION $500: In the 17th century Aphra Behn wrote this "speaks sense in a language all nations understand" money
#1166, aired 1989-10-02ASTRONOMY $200: Cassini, a 17th century astronomer, was the first to suggest these were made up of tiny moons, & not a solid disk the rings of Saturn
#1166, aired 1989-10-02ASTRONOMY $400: In the 17th century it was thought the dark areas on the moon were these, & that's what we still call them seas
#1144, aired 1989-07-20BOTANY $200: Speculation in these bulbs in Holland in the 17th century caused financial chaos tulips
#1128, aired 1989-06-28ARCHITECTS $1000: Last name of 17th century British architect Inigo, who designed sets & costumes as well as buildings Jones
#1085, aired 1989-04-28JEWELRY $500: These irregularly shaped pearls were named for an elaborate 17th century style of art Baroque
#1070, aired 1989-04-07CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: This 17th century French critic's collection of fairy tales popularized the story of Cinderella Charles Perrault
#1066, aired 1989-04-03THE 17th CENTURY $100: This series of wars ran from 1618 to 1648, so the name makes good sense Thirty Years' War
#1066, aired 1989-04-03THE 17th CENTURY $200: The Durants said of this French king's reign, "It was an age of strict manners and loose morals" Louis XIV
#1066, aired 1989-04-03THE 17th CENTURY $400: In 1689 this czar overthrew his half sister Sophie & forced her to enter a convent Peter the Great
#1066, aired 1989-04-03THE 17th CENTURY $500: Derisive name given Puritans who cut their hair short in reaction to the long-haired Cavaliers Roundheads
#1066, aired 1989-04-03THE 17th CENTURY $800 (Daily Double): Charles XII of Sweden is famous for having done this at his coronation a century before Napoleon did it crowning himself
#1057, aired 1989-03-21AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: This "regal" Indian war has been called "the bloodiest conflict in 17th century New England" King Philip's War
#1039, aired 1989-02-23NEW MEXICO $400: Santa Fe holds a yearly festival marking its reconquest by this country at the end of the 17th century Spain
#1024, aired 1989-02-02PIRATES $800: Name of a 17th century Caribbean pirate or a 20th century TV panelist on "I've Got a Secret" Henry Morgan
#983, aired 1988-12-07WORLD CAPITALS $400: To see the Wasa, a sunken 17th century warship salvaged in 1961, go to this Scandinavian capital Stockholm, Sweden
#980, aired 1988-12-02THEATER HISTORY $1000: Developed in the 17th century, this form of theater features men called "onnagata" in female roles kabuki
#979, aired 1988-12-01RELIGIOUS HISTORY $300: The Quaker movement was founded in this country in the 17th century England (Great Britain accepted)
#948, aired 1988-10-19THE 17th CENTURY $200: This Russian dynasty began with the crowning of Michael in 1613 the Romanov Dynasty
#948, aired 1988-10-19THE 17th CENTURY $400: In 1642 a civil war broke out in this country that pitted Cavaliers against Roundheads England
#948, aired 1988-10-19THE 17th CENTURY $600: Clergyman who, in 1639, founded the 1st Baptist church in the U.S. in Providence, R.I. Roger Williams
#948, aired 1988-10-19THE 17th CENTURY $800: Elaborate style of art & architecture that was dominant in 17th century Europe Baroque
#948, aired 1988-10-19THE 17th CENTURY $1000: In 1609 Johannes Kepler announced his 1st 2 laws on the motions of these the planets
#939, aired 1988-10-06MATHEMATICS $1000: 1 of the 2 people usually credited with creating a calculus system in the 17th century Newton (or von Leibniz)
#921, aired 1988-09-12PIRATES $100: Iberian country whose holdings & ships were the main target of 17th century buccaneers Spain
#917, aired 1988-09-06"UP" & "DOWN" $600: This short London street was named for a 17th- century diplomat who built houses there Downing Street
#909, aired 1988-07-14THE 17th CENTURY $100: “Timetables of History" says this hand 1st appeared on watches in 1670; about time! the minute hand
#909, aired 1988-07-14THE 17th CENTURY $200: A 1699 treaty forced the Ottoman Empire to give most of Hungary to this country Austria
#909, aired 1988-07-14THE 17th CENTURY $300: His 72-year reign over France began in 1643 Louis XIV
#909, aired 1988-07-14THE 17th CENTURY $400: In 1687, his "Principia Mathematica" scientifically transformed our concept of the universe Newton
#909, aired 1988-07-14THE 17th CENTURY $500: New World foods such as potatoes, peanuts & this grain helped spark a population increase in China corn (maize)
#899, aired 1988-06-30FASHION HISTORY $600: A 17th century woman wore her "commode", a silk-covered wired form 2 or 3 tiers high, on this her head
#885, aired 1988-06-10WOMEN IN HISTORY $200: In the 17th century, Mary Frith was known as "Moll Cutpurse" because she did this for a living stealing
#841, aired 1988-04-11DOUBLE C $200: A pirate, especially of the 17th century a buccaneer
#836, aired 1988-04-04BACTERIA $100: In the 17th century, Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria while using this instrument a microscope
#830, aired 1988-03-25GOING FOR BAROQUE $600: Most authorities recognize the beginning of this century as the start of the Baroque period the 17th century
#825, aired 1988-03-18FRENCH LITERATURE $1000: Known for his violent tragedies, this 17th century playwright's "Phedre" includes suicide & a sea monster Jean Racine
#822, aired 1988-03-15FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: This 17th century phrase meaning to hesitate is a corruption of "Shall I, shall I?" shilly-shally
#821, aired 1988-03-14ARTILLERY $600: 1st use of artillery with true efficiency was in the 17th century by this country's King Gustavus II Sweden
#733, aired 1987-11-11CHEMISTRY $1000: The ideal gas law combines Charles's law with the law of this 17th century Anglo-Irish scientist Robert Boyle
#730, aired 1987-11-06FOOD $800: These 2 widely consumed beverages were unknown in England until the 17th century coffee and tea
#722, aired 1987-10-27THE 17th CENTURY $200: In 17th c. Japan, Matsuo Basho developed this into a great poetic form haiku
#722, aired 1987-10-27THE 17th CENTURY $400: In March 1649, under Cromwell, the English monarchy & this house of Parliament were abolished House of Lords
#722, aired 1987-10-27THE 17th CENTURY $600: It was fought from 1618-1648 over many European political & religious issues Thirty Years' War
#722, aired 1987-10-27THE 17th CENTURY $800: Thru mediation of England's Charles II, in 1668 Spain finally recognized this country's independence Portugal
#722, aired 1987-10-27THE 17th CENTURY $1000: As a young man in England, William Penn was imprisoned in this building for his Quaker beliefs Tower of London
#698, aired 1987-09-23THE 17th CENTURY $100: During the 17th c. London plague, this was established as the proper depth for graves six feet
#698, aired 1987-09-23THE 17th CENTURY $200: During Louis XIV's reign the French court permanently moved here, to the suburbs Versailles
#698, aired 1987-09-23THE 17th CENTURY $300: Fear of angering the army made this leader of the English Revolution refuse the crown Cromwell
#698, aired 1987-09-23THE 17th CENTURY $400: The reign of Czar Michael established this dynasty which ruled Russia until the 20th c. the Romanovs
#698, aired 1987-09-23THE 17th CENTURY $500: Profits of the East India Company made this canal city the financial capital of the world Amsterdam
#633, aired 1987-05-13HISTORY $1000: The century in which England last had any queen named Elizabeth prior to Elizabeth II 20th century
#631, aired 1987-05-11FINE CHINA $100: First made in the 17th century, this country's Imari ware includes blue & white sake bottles Japan
#616, aired 1987-04-20DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME $300: Mademoiselle Antonia, a 17th century Belgian woman, reportedly grew one that reached down to her hips a beard
#613, aired 1987-04-15THE NEW WORLD $400: Potosi, Bolivia was largest city in the Americas in the 17th century due to mines producing this silver
#593, aired 1987-03-18BALLET $400: This 17th century French "Sun King" confirmed his nickname by dancing as the sun in a ballet Louis XIV
#571, aired 1987-02-16QUOTES $800: 17th century English diarist known for the phrase "and so to bed" Samuel Pepys
#561, aired 1987-02-02LITERATURE $600: 17th century actress Armande Bejart, wife of this French playwright, was rumored to be his daughter Molière
#541, aired 1987-01-05ART $1000: "Girl with a Red Hat" is 1 of only some 35 known paintings by this 17th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer
#540, aired 1987-01-02THEATER $800: Founded in the 17th century, this French national theater was also called "La Maison de Moliere" the Comédie-Française
#530, aired 1986-12-19FASHION HISTORY $800: Until imported from India in the 17th century, this fiber was not important in European fashion cotton
#490, aired 1986-10-24ASTRONOMY $200: A 17th century Danish astronomer 1st noted the speed of this by observing Jupiter & its satellites the speed of light
#464, aired 1986-09-18SCIENTISTS $400: Guillaume Amontons' 17th century thermometer was 1st filled with this & corrected for air pressure mercury
#433, aired 1986-05-07RELIGION $400: Many in this group, founded by Jakob Ammann in the 17th century, shun cars & fancy clothes the Amish
#433, aired 1986-05-07DON QUIXOTE $600: Century in which "Don Quixote" was written the 17th century
#396, aired 1986-03-17PROVERBS $100: According to 17th century writer John Ray, one is "never too old to" do this learn
#392, aired 1986-03-11CARDS $800: It's believed 17th century poet John Suckling invented this card game cribbage
#384, aired 1986-02-27ART $400: From Portuguese barocco for "rough pearl", it refers to period of 17th century Europe an art of elaborate style baroque
#349, aired 1986-01-0917th CENTURY $200: Upon death of last of these birds in 1680, the phrase "as dead as one" could be officially used dodo
#349, aired 1986-01-0917th CENTURY $400: 1st of these ever to appear in a newspaper was for book "Divine Right of Church Government" advertisement
#349, aired 1986-01-0917th CENTURY $600: To help science in 1631, William Oughtred 1st proposed "x" as a symbol of this function multiplication
#349, aired 1986-01-0917th CENTURY $800: Featuring a dome designed by Michelangelo, this Vatican landmark was dedicated in 1626 St. Peter's Basilica
#349, aired 1986-01-0917th CENTURY $1000: It began operation as London's Produce & Flower Market in 1671 Covent Garden
#346, aired 1986-01-06COINS $300: In the 17th century one of these Scandinavian country's coins weighed 44 lbs. Sweden
#314, aired 1985-11-21THEATER $200: Before the 17th century, the word theater referred only to this the building itself
#305, aired 1985-11-08ODDS & ENDS $800: 17th century short-pointed beard style named for the artist who used them in his portraits Van Dyke
#292, aired 1985-10-22EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: It was the middle rank between apprentice & master workman in a 17th century craft guild a journeyman
#119, aired 1985-02-21LITERATURE $400: Century in which Defoe penned "Robinson Crusoe", one of 1st English novels the 18th century

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#8866, aired 2023-05-08NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES: This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib A Thousand Splendid Suns
#8445, aired 2021-07-16HISTORY: Completed around 1455, it sometimes gets another name because a famous copy was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin the Gutenberg Bible
#8415, aired 2021-06-0417th CENTURY WRITING: This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, "Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them" Leviathan
#8414, aired 2021-06-0317th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu
#8038, aired 2019-07-1717th CENTURY NAMES: In the 1670s English author Charles Cotton built a fishing cabin on the banks of the River Dove to honor this friend & author Izaak Walton
#7475, aired 2017-02-2417th CENTURY GERMANS: Astronomer who began his epitaph, "I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of Earth" Johannes Kepler
#7188, aired 2015-12-09DOG BREEDS: This small breed is named for a member of the 17th century House of Stuart the King Charles spaniel
#7086, aired 2015-06-08LITERARY CHARACTERS: This name made famous in a 17th century novel is derived from the Spanish for "sweet" Dulcinea
#6621, aired 2013-06-03EUROPEAN HISTORY: This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber Louis XIV
#6423, aired 2012-07-18BRITISH HISTORY: This 17th century king was the last British monarch to enter the House of Commons Charles I
#5753, aired 2009-09-2317th CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY: The lantern with which he planned to initiate his most famous act is in the possession of England's Ashmolean Museum Guy Fawkes
#5290, aired 2007-09-14BREAD: Larousse spread the tale that after a 17th Century triumph, the victors ate this as a symbol of the beaten Muslims croissants (crescent rolls)
#5280, aired 2007-07-2017th CENTURY PEOPLE: Rev. John Robinson, Minister to these people, wrote them a letter saying how upset he was not to be going with them the Pilgrims
#5245, aired 2007-06-0117th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Despite being the personal physician of 2 British kings, he was derogatorily known as "The Circulator" (William) Harvey
#4744, aired 2005-03-31ENGLISH LIT: This 17th century poetic follow-up begins, "I who ere while the happy garden sung, by one man's disobedience lost..." Paradise Regained
#3779, aired 2001-01-25SCIENTISTS: Bertrand Russell said that "What Galileo and Newton were to the 17th century," this man "was to the 19th" Charles Darwin
#3368, aired 1999-04-07THE GREAT LAKES: Now called Lake Michigan, the 17th century French called it the "Lake of" this Indian tribe Illini
#3249, aired 1998-10-22THE 17th CENTURY: The 1648 Peace of Westphalia ended a war that began on May 23 of this year 1618 (when The Thirty Years' War began)
#3202, aired 1998-06-30ASTRONOMY: It's the century during which Saturn's rings were first observed the 17th century (first observed by Galileo in 1610)
#3052, aired 1997-12-0217th CENTURY LITERATURE: Part one of this English allegory ends, "So I awoke, and behold it was a dream" "Pilgrim's Progress"

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