Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (16 results returned)
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | SAY, "BUSTER" $800: In the 1850s, it meant an American who caused conflict in Latin America; a bit later, it came to mean a tactic in a legislature a Filibuster |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SPORTS COMPETITIONS $800: Dating back to the 1850s, the oldest trophy in international sports goes to the winners of this yachting competition the America's Cup |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | 1850s AMERICA $400: In 1857 this new song by James Pierpont rang out under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" "Jingle Bells" |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | 1850s AMERICA $1200: When this was completed between Newfoundland & Ireland in 1858, Queen Victoria & Pres. Buchanan traded messages the transatlantic cable |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | 1850s AMERICA $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Southwest U.S. and northern Mexico on the monitor.) The U.S. wanted to build a railroad across the Southwest, but the land was too mountainous, so in 1853 flatter land for the railroad was purchased from Mexico by this U.S. minister Gadsden |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | 1850s AMERICA $2000: In 1850 Ralph Waldo Emerson told a Concord audience that "No man can obey" this act forcing men back to bondage the Fugitive Slave Law (or Act) |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | 1850s AMERICA $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1855 it was reported that this crop amounted to half of all U.S. exports cotton |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $1000: The house variety of this common songbird was introduced to North America in the 1850s sparrow |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | THE 1850s $1000: In 1852 this singer married her accompanist Otto Goldschmidt in Boston while touring America Jenny Lind |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | 1850s AMERICA $200: Gold was found in Colorado, silver in the Comstock & this new resource in a Titusville, Pennsylvania well Oil |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | 1850s AMERICA $400: As the USA's rail capital, its population went from about 30,000 to about 110,000 in the decade Chicago |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | 1850s AMERICA $600: Pioneers heading west sang, "O don't you remember Sweet Betsy from" this place Pike |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | 1850s AMERICA $1000: To the "Dred" of abolitionists, this man from a slaveholding family was chief justice of the U.S. Roger Taney |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | 1850s AMERICA $1,600 (Daily Double): This poet wrote to Emerson of his intent to confront people with "an American rude tongue" Walt Whitman |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: During the 1850s, these 2 inventors were on opposite sides of the "Sewing Machine War" Elias Howe & Isaac Singer |
| #1368, aired 1990-07-11 | FURNITURE $800: In the 1850s a spool bed was named for this Swedish singer who was touring America when it was designed Jenny Lind |
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