Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (93 results returned)

#8815, aired 2023-02-24BLACK HISTORY $2000: The Boston Women's Memorial includes a bronze of this 18th century poet who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Phillis Wheatley
#8809, aired 2023-02-16"PLAIN" & "SIMPLE" $1600: In the 18th century an explorer applied this 2-word term to a vast area of North America that isn't as flat as the name makes it sound the Great Plains
#7674, aired 2018-01-11EARLY AMERICA $1600: His sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" helped fire the 18th century's Great Awakening religious movement (Jonathan) Edwards
#7597, aired 2017-09-2618th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Just like the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation had one of these introductory statements a preamble
#7597, aired 2017-09-2618th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In the 1770s George Washington enlarged this house by adding smaller wings & erecting many outbuildings Mount Vernon
#7597, aired 2017-09-2618th CENTURY AMERICA $600: "African Slavery in America", a 1770s article by this noted pamphleteer, railed against the practice Thomas Paine
#7597, aired 2017-09-2618th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In the 1780s this Kentucky frontiersman began serving in several offices, including sheriff & deputy surveyor Daniel Boone
#7597, aired 2017-09-2618th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This southernmost colony was the only one not represented at the First Continental Congress in 1774 Georgia
#7059, aired 2015-04-3018th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Annapolis Convention met in 1786 & concluded that the document called these Articles wasn't going to cut it the Articles of Confederation
#7059, aired 2015-04-3018th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1792 Robert Thomas first published this almanac about New England life &, of course, the weather The Farmer's Almanac
#7059, aired 2015-04-3018th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: It's Philadelphia in the 1750s & what has Ben Franklin foisted on us now? Street lamps powered by this animal product whale oil
#7059, aired 2015-04-3018th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In the 1780s this "Gouverneur" proposed the decimal monetary system & devised the name "cent" for the basic coin Gouverneur Morris
#7059, aired 2015-04-3018th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: Built as a NYC home early in the century, it later became a tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers Fraunces Tavern
#7040, aired 2015-04-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $3,200 (Daily Double): Section 1 of the 18th amendment, the only one ever repealed, ends, "is hereby" this verb prohibited
#6559, aired 2013-03-07THE 18th CENTURY $1,200 (Daily Double): Working with Peter the Great's navy, this explorer went "strait" to the water routes between Siberia & North America Bering
#6460, aired 2012-10-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1763 England received Florida from this country in exchange for Havana Spain
#6460, aired 2012-10-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This colony & New York shared the same governor until 1738, when Lewis Morris was named its governor New Jersey
#6460, aired 2012-10-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In a 1789 Congressional race in Virginia, James Madison defeated this future president by 336 votes James Monroe
#6460, aired 2012-10-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1774 Mother Ann Lee brought this religious sect known for its furniture to America from England the Shakers
#6460, aired 2012-10-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): One of these acts passed in 1798 called for the deportation of foreigners considered dangerous the Alien & Sedition Acts
#6332, aired 2012-03-1318th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Every Colonial home had to have "The Compleat Housewife", an early collection of "receipts", i.e. this type of book a cookbook
#6332, aired 2012-03-1318th CENTURY AMERICA $800: When his House of Burgesses speech in 1765 was called treasonous, he replied, "If this be treason, make the most of it" Patrick Henry
#6332, aired 2012-03-1318th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In 1716 the first theater in the colonies was built in this Colonial capital of Virginia Williamsburg
#6332, aired 2012-03-1318th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1793 this lexicographer founded the American Minerva, New York City's first daily newspaper (Noah) Webster
#6332, aired 2012-03-1318th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: William Emerson has been called the U.S. Army's first of these; his grandson Ralph Waldo went into a similar field chaplain
#5668, aired 2009-04-0818th CENTURY AMERICA $400: It was small, but had a big heart: it was the 1st Amer. colony to prohibit the importation of slaves, in June 1774 Rhode Island
#5668, aired 2009-04-0818th CENTURY AMERICA $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Capitol Building in Williamsburg, VA.) In April of 1781, this general, an American traitor, helped British forces seize Williamsburg & raise the English flag over the capitol Benedict Arnold
#5668, aired 2009-04-0818th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: Yum! Chocolate manufacturing in the American colonies began in 1765 in what is now this state, in Dorchester Massachusetts
#5668, aired 2009-04-0818th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Monitcello, Virginia.) Until the early 1790s, this was Monticello's main cash crop, the cultivation of which Jefferson called "productive of infinite wretchedness" tobacco
#5668, aired 2009-04-0818th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: As a teenager, he wrote essays for a New England newspaper under the female pen name "Silence Dogood" Benjamin Franklin
#5325, aired 2007-11-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $400: For most of the 1700s, this city was the cultural center of Virginia as well as the political one Williamsburg
#5325, aired 2007-11-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): From May to Nov. of 1763, Chief Pontiac tried to drive the British from this city, now the biggest in its state Detroit
#5325, aired 2007-11-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Born in 1752, she was trained as an upholsterer & could make & repair curtains, bedcovers, rugs & even umbrellas Betsy Ross
#5325, aired 2007-11-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In April 1777 Congress made this pamphleteer Secretary to the Committee on Foreign Affairs Thomas Paine
#5325, aired 2007-11-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: Samuel Slater settled in R.I. & built America's first successful cotton-spinning machines driven by this power water power
#4987, aired 2006-04-2518th CENTURY AMERICA $200: His wife Abigail wrote to him in a 1776 letter, "Remember the ladies... all men would be tyrants if they could" John Adams
#4987, aired 2006-04-2518th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1792 Robert Thomas founded this almanac that contained useful weather info; the "Old" was added later The Farmers' Almanac
#4987, aired 2006-04-2518th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1796 he said that the U.S. should "steer clear of permanent alliances" in foreign policy George Washington
#4987, aired 2006-04-2518th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On Dec. 26, 1776 Americans killed Col. Johann Rall & captured about 1,000 Hessian troops in this battle the Battle of Trenton
#4987, aired 2006-04-2518th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: These 85 essays arguing for adoption of the Constitution appeared between October 27, 1787 & May 28, 1788 the Federalist Papers
#4626, aired 2004-10-1818th CENTURY AMERICA $400: During a storm in the summer of 1752, he attached a key to a kite string & proved that lightning was electricity Benjamin Franklin
#4626, aired 2004-10-1818th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On Feb. 12, 1733 James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, the first settlement in this new colony Georgia
#4626, aired 2004-10-1818th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In 1790 printing began on Dobson's Encyclopedia, an 18-volume American edition of this British reference work Encyclopaedia Britannica
#4626, aired 2004-10-1818th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1765 the British Parliament passed this act taxing newspapers, legal documents, & other printed materials the Stamp Act
#4626, aired 2004-10-1818th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In 1775 he told the Virginia Convention, "Gentlemen may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace" Patrick Henry
#4525, aired 2004-04-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The "wet" movement in 1930 wanted this amendment repealed the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
#4183, aired 2002-11-0618th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In the 1770s, this pamphleteer wrote "African Slavery in America", an article condemning slavery Thomas Paine
#4029, aired 2002-02-21THE 18th CENTURY $400: Tiradentes, or "tooth puller", lead a revolt against Portugal in this South America colony Brazil
#3374, aired 1999-04-1518th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On Dec. 1, 1776 this commander in chief found himself leading an army of only about 3,000 men George Washington
#3374, aired 1999-04-1518th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1721 Zabdiel Boylston began inoculating Bostonians against an outbreak of this disease Smallpox
#3374, aired 1999-04-1518th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Dashing major Robert Rogers led Rogers' Rangers in this North American part of the Seven Years' War French & Indian War
#3374, aired 1999-04-1518th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Like his father Peter, Thomas Jefferson was a member of this Virginia legislative "House" House of Burgesses
#3374, aired 1999-04-1518th CENTURY AMERICA $1,500 (Daily Double): His gift to a struggling Connecticut collegiate school included a portrait of George I Elihu Yale
#2987, aired 1997-09-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $100: He published his "Poor Richard's Almanack" at the new printing office near the market in Philadelphia Ben Franklin
#2987, aired 1997-09-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $200: As a result of this December 16, 1773 incident, England closed the port of Boston the Boston Tea Party
#2987, aired 1997-09-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1789 this future president was elected to Congress from Virginia, defeating James Monroe James Madison
#2987, aired 1997-09-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1776 this future Secretary of the Treasury served as a captain of a New York artillery company Alexander Hamilton
#2987, aired 1997-09-0218th CENTURY AMERICA $500: On Feb. 5, 1736, this Methodist founder arrived in Georgia at James Oglethorpe's invitation John Wesley
#2807, aired 1996-11-1218th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: He'd only been in America for 2 years when he published his "Common Sense" pamphlet in 1776 Thomas Paine
#2370, aired 1994-12-1618th CENTURY AMERICA $100: After publishing it for 25 years, Benjamin Franklin sold this "Almanack" in 1758 Poor Richard's Almanack
#2370, aired 1994-12-1618th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On Nov. 26, 1789 this holiday was observed nationally for the first time Thanksgiving
#2370, aired 1994-12-1618th CENTURY AMERICA $300: Though founded in 1701, it wasn't until 1716 that this university moved to New Haven Yale
#2370, aired 1994-12-1618th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1766 America's first permanent theatre opened in Phil. with "Katharine and Petruchio", based on this play The Taming of the Shrew
#2370, aired 1994-12-1618th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In July 1741 he delivered his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards
#2361, aired 1994-12-0518th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1774 NJ citizens dressed as Indians for the Greenwich Tea Party, which resembled this 1773 event the Boston Tea Party
#2361, aired 1994-12-0518th CENTURY AMERICA $200: This famous flagmaker was the 8th of 17 children born to Samuel & Rebecca Griscom Betsy Ross
#2361, aired 1994-12-0518th CENTURY AMERICA $300: On Oct. 25, 1764 Abigail Smith married this attorney John Adams
#2361, aired 1994-12-0518th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The first theatre in the American colonies opened in 1716 in this colonial capital of Virginia Williamsburg
#2361, aired 1994-12-0518th CENTURY AMERICA $500: Georgia became a royal province in 1752 when its charter was returned to this man for whom the colony was named George II
#1996, aired 1993-04-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Built in 1763, Touro Synagogue in Newport in this state is the USA's oldest Jewish house of worship Rhode Island
#1996, aired 1993-04-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On January 5, 1776 this "Granite State" became the first of the 13 colonies to adopt its own constitution New Hampshire
#1996, aired 1993-04-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This crop used to make tafia, a type of rum, was first grown in America in 1751 sugar cane
#1996, aired 1993-04-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1794 15,000 state militiamen were sent to Pennsylvania to crush this rebellion the Whiskey Rebellion
#1996, aired 1993-04-1918th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: These 1798 acts allowed the arrest & deportation of foreigners deemed dangerous the Alien & Sedition Acts
#1794, aired 1992-05-21PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: George Bernard Shaw's play "The Devil's Disciple" takes place in America during this 18th century war the American Revolution
#1608, aired 1991-09-0418th CENTURY AMERICA $100: On July 9, 1776, New York's Provincial Congress met in White Plains & ratified this the Declaration of Independence
#1608, aired 1991-09-0418th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On June 12, 1776, its House of Burgesses became the 1st colonial legislature to adopt a bill of rights Virginia
#1608, aired 1991-09-0418th CENTURY AMERICA $400: A phrase used in Parliament gave the group opposed to the Stamp Act the name Sons of this Sons of Liberty
#1608, aired 1991-09-0418th CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): 3 French agents who demanded a bribe from U.S. envoys in 1797 are remembered in history by these 3 letters X, Y & Z
#1608, aired 1991-09-0418th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1753 he was appointed his majesty's deputy postmaster general for all of North America Ben Franklin
#1431, aired 1990-11-19COLONIAL AMERICA $300: The forts built in & near this city were the center of Spanish activity in Texas in the 18th century San Antonio
#1294, aired 1990-03-2918TH CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1777 this land, later a state, was named in honor of the Green Mountain Boys Vermont
#1294, aired 1990-03-2918TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: Term for the American colonists who supported the Redcoats during the revolution Tories/Loyalists
#1294, aired 1990-03-2918TH CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1776, with a membership of 5 students, it became the 1st social fraternity at a U.S. college Phi Beta Kappa
#1294, aired 1990-03-2918TH CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): Year in which Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison, "France will be quiet this year" 1789
#1294, aired 1990-03-2918TH CENTURY AMERICA $500: Known for their simple furniture, this sect came to the U.S. from England in 1774, led by "Mother Ann" Lee Shakers
#847, aired 1988-04-19FURNITURE $500: Popular in 18th century America, highboys & lowboys were these chest of drawers
#733, aired 1987-11-1118TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: It revealed a population of almost four million when first taken in 1790 the first US census
#733, aired 1987-11-1118TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: This act of 1765 taxed legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, dice, and playing cards the Stamp Act
#733, aired 1987-11-1118TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: By its intended opening day, May 14, 1787, only the delegations from Virginia and Pennsylvania had arrived in full the Constitutional Convention
#733, aired 1987-11-1118TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: The threat of Spain led to the charter of this colony, the last of the thirteen to be organized Georgia
#733, aired 1987-11-1118TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: On November 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify this the Bill of Rights
#355, aired 1986-01-1718th CENTURY FRANCE $1000: France simultaneously fought the 7 Years War in Europe & this war in North America the French-Indian War

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (7 results returned)

#8169, aired 2020-02-2718th CENTURY AMERICA: The first Census, in 1790, listed 24 urban places; this port was the most populous one in the South Charleston
#7746, aired 2018-04-2318th CENTURY AMERICA: Congress met in June 1778 to sign these but found errors in the official copy; it had to reconvene with a new set in July the Articles of Confederation
#6740, aired 2013-12-2718th CENTURY AMERICA: There were just 13 of these, the title of an historic document; one offered admission to Canada the Articles of Confederation
#4697, aired 2005-01-2518th CENTURY POETRY: 18th c. poem that says, "Forever cursed be this detested day, Which snatched my best, my favorite curl away!" "The Rape of the Lock"
#4413, aired 2003-11-1218th CENTURY AMERICA: These 2 British astronomers were sent to America in 1763 to settle a land dispute Mason & Dixon
#2249, aired 1994-05-1918th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1785 he became America's first minister to England John Adams
#763, aired 1987-12-2318th CENTURY AMERICA: 2 of the 3 cities that served as capitals of the U.S. while also serving as state capitals (2 of) New York City, Philadelphia & Annapolis

Players (1 result returned)

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