Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (213 results returned)

#8794, aired 2023-01-2620th CENTURY AMERICA $200: During the 1930s, many Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl adopted the motto, this state "or bust" California
#8794, aired 2023-01-2620th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1926 this magician spoke to Congress supporting a bill criminalizing fortune telling & mediums Harry Houdini
#8794, aired 2023-01-2620th CENTURY AMERICA $600: 1926's War Paint Club evolved into the Indian Actors Association, co-founded by this super-athlete Jim Thorpe
#8794, aired 2023-01-2620th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): On November 27, 1924 New Yorkers were treated to the first annual this, sponsored by the world's largest store the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
#8794, aired 2023-01-2620th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: The World's Fair held in this city in 1904 was formally called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis
#10, aired 2023-01-12THE 20th CENTURY $600: The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 allowed the U.S. to build & operate this waterway in Central America the Panama Canal
#8687, aired 2022-07-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1954 Senator Joe McCarthy provoked televised hearings after accusing the army of "coddling" these people communists
#8687, aired 2022-07-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Tragically, on January 28, 1986 this exploded 73 seconds after liftoff the Challenger
#8687, aired 2022-07-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1925, this high school teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution in his Tennessee classroom Scopes
#8687, aired 2022-07-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Its 1980 eruption was the first by a volcano in the continental U.S. outside Alaska since 1917 Mount St. Helens
#8687, aired 2022-07-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1960 4 students in Greensboro, N.C. staged a sit-in at this store's whites-only lunch counter, sparking other sit-ins in the South Woolworth's
#8556, aired 2022-01-1720th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed the first of these at the White House; one is now at his presidential library solar panels
#8556, aired 2022-01-1720th CENTURY AMERICA $800: The Immigration Act of 1903 banned these no-government types with their wild eyes & smoking bombs from entering the United States anarchists
#8556, aired 2022-01-1720th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: The May 24, 1934 Dallas Morning News had a hometown angle with the headline these "Dallas desperadoes shot to death in Louisiana" Bonnie & Clyde
#8556, aired 2022-01-1720th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: Named for a god, this line of cars from Ford got cooler when James Dean drove one in "Rebel Without a Cause' a Mercury
#8556, aired 2022-01-1720th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: This naturalist died in California in 1914, shortly before a dam flooded his beloved Hetch Hetchy Valley (John) Muir
#8279, aired 2020-11-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In December 1917 just one representative in Congress said no to war with this dual monarchy Austria-Hungary
#8279, aired 2020-11-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: A 1920s song asked, "How ya gonna keep em down on" this place? Many didn't, as in that decade, the U.S. became majority city folk the farm
#8279, aired 2020-11-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: Thanks to the 23rd Amendment, on November 3rd, 1964, residents of this city cast their first votes for president Washington, D.C.
#8279, aired 2020-11-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): As the dot-com bubble swelled, this tech-heavy stock index rose from 1,000 to 5,000 between 1995 & 2000 the Nasdaq
#8279, aired 2020-11-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: Eugene Hasenfus survived a shoot-down by the Sandinistas, leading to the exposure of this 1980s scandal Iran-Contra
#8112, aired 2019-12-10AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Real name Mary, this "maternal" organizer of mine workers in the early 20th century was called the "Most Dangerous Woman in America" Mother Jones
#7956, aired 2019-03-25LET'S HEAD NORTH $800: Every year since the turn of the 20th century, this geog. feature "of balance" has moved 6" toward North America the north pole
#7940, aired 2019-03-0120th CENTURY BESTSELLERS $600: The disaster movie genre really took off when this 1968 novel about Trans America flight No. 2 out of Chicago came to the screen Airport
#7526, aired 2017-05-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On April 16, 1963 he wrote, "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here" Martin Luther King Jr.
#7526, aired 2017-05-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $400: We weren't at war yet when this organization was founded in 1941, but it was soon busy making the troops' lives better the USO
#7526, aired 2017-05-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): A sign at the 1912 Progressive Party convention read, "I want to be" one of these "with antlers on my forehead" a bull moose
#7526, aired 2017-05-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In August 1992 the U.S. military began relief efforts in this African nation but soon got involved in interclan fighting Somalia
#7526, aired 2017-05-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $800: This first Disney animated feature had its world premiere on December 21, 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
#7040, aired 2015-04-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The first televised presidential debate took place in 1960 between these 2 men Nixon & Kennedy
#7040, aired 2015-04-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1975, it was the first monster truck & shared its name with an American legend Bigfoot
#7040, aired 2015-04-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $800: These items that caused a 1983 holiday season frenzy were later immortalized on a stamp Cabbage Patch Kids
#7040, aired 2015-04-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Mark Twain died in this year in which Halley's Comet reappeared 1910
#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
#7033, aired 2015-03-25ANTS $1600: These ants with a burning sting arrived in the U.S. from South America via Mobile, Alabama early in the 20th century fire ants
#6596, aired 2013-04-29THE 20th CENTURY $400: In a 1964 address LBJ called for an "unconditional war on" this "in America" poverty
#5803, aired 2009-12-0220th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Citizen soldiers of the Revolutionary War couldn't have dreamed of this U.S. ICBM first deployed in 1962 the Minuteman
#5803, aired 2009-12-0220th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: 1958's Cooper v. Aaron was one of several Supreme Court decisions aimed at ending this policy in schools segregation
#5803, aired 2009-12-0220th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: On April 21, 1976 FDA administrator Harry Meyer got the first vaccination in the campaign against this piggish strain swine flu
#5803, aired 2009-12-0220th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In 1922 he & Ub Iwerks started a business to make animated cartoon "Laugh-O-Grams", but it went bankrupt (Walt) Disney
#5803, aired 2009-12-0220th CENTURY AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1985 this company said that it hadn't seen the "deep emotional" ties people had to its traditional product Coca-Cola
#5131, aired 2006-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1990 after signing the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, this president declared the Cold War over George H.W. Bush
#5131, aired 2006-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On October 6, 1955 the U.S. Army comissioned its first male one of these nurses
#5131, aired 2006-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Kelly Ingram Park.) Defying the notorious "Bull" Connor, thousands came to this city's Kelly Ingram Park to demonstrate for civil rights in May 1963 Birmingham
#5131, aired 2006-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: From 1903 to 1907 this San Francisco-born publisher was a congressman from New York William Randolph Hearst
#5131, aired 2006-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: In the late '50s junior high student Bob Heft designed a new arrangement of these, now known to every American stars on the U.S. flag
#4829, aired 2005-09-15YEARS $200: 20th century year in which America celebrated the tercentennial of the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth 1920
#4805, aired 2005-06-24I AM I SAID $1600: 20th century New Yorker who wrote, "I am the darker brother" but "I, too, am America" Langston Hughes
#4568, aired 2004-06-16MIAMI NICE $800: Called "America's Riviera", Miami's South Beach is home to 800 buildings built in this early 20th century style Art Deco
#4525, aired 2004-04-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Wasn't Santana awesome at this event in August 1969? Woodstock
#4525, aired 2004-04-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The "wet" movement in 1930 wanted this amendment repealed the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
#4525, aired 2004-04-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Back in 1960, 95% of all soft drinks were sold in these reusable containers bottles
#4525, aired 2004-04-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Norman Bel Geddes, father of actress Barbara, created the Futurama exhibit for this event that began in 1939 the New York World's Fair
#4525, aired 2004-04-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In the '50s Norman Vincent Peale was pushing "The Power of" this Positive Thinking
#3999, aired 2002-01-1020th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: America's most collected living artist, he's the painter of light whose work is seen here Thomas Kinkade
#3663, aired 2000-07-0520TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1976 this former president was disbarred in New York State Richard Nixon
#3663, aired 2000-07-0520TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1987 he claimed God would take him if he didn't raise $8 million Oral Roberts
#3663, aired 2000-07-0520TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1901 after 2 years in the pen, William Sydney Porter continued to write under this pen name O. Henry
#3663, aired 2000-07-0520TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1917 tons of fruit pits, especially peach pits, were collected to make filters for these gas masks
#3663, aired 2000-07-0520TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1943 Selman Waksman discovered streptomycin, a drug classified under this term he coined in 1941 antibiotics
#3337, aired 1999-02-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 22, 1964 this president told America, "The great society rests on abundance and liberty for all" Lyndon Johnson
#3337, aired 1999-02-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On April 1, 1976 2 engineers with $1,300 in capital began this computer company in Cupertino, California Apple
#3337, aired 1999-02-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This tanker leaked 1.26 million barrels of crude oil into Prince William Sound in March 1989 Exxon Valdez
#3337, aired 1999-02-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On April 11, 1951 President Truman relieved this general of his U.N. command in Korea Douglas MacArthur
#3337, aired 1999-02-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This 1935 act set up a system of old-age benefits for Americans Social Security Act
#3286, aired 1998-12-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $100: The Wrigleys of chewing gum fame were stuck on this baseball team for over 60 years until selling it in 1981 Chicago Cubs
#3286, aired 1998-12-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In March 1976 a Bay Area jury convicted this kidnapped heiress of bank robbery Patricia Hearst
#3286, aired 1998-12-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $300: This president's memorial with a 19-foot bronze statue was dedicated in Washington in 1943 Thomas Jefferson
#3286, aired 1998-12-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $500: Though it never went into space, this first shuttle did make a short flight in 1977 co-piloted by Fred Haise, Jr. Enterprise
#3286, aired 1998-12-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $600 (Daily Double): On March 8, 1996 this 93-year-old broke the record, becoming the oldest person ever to serve in the U.S. Senate Strom Thurmond
#3081, aired 1998-01-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Date on which the U.S. celebrated its bicentennial July 4, 1976
#3081, aired 1998-01-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Hearings to determine whether this president should be impeached began May 9, 1974 Richard Nixon
#3081, aired 1998-01-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $300: This hillbilly comic strip by Al Capp made its debut in newspapers in August 1934 "Li'l Abner"
#3081, aired 1998-01-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This service academy moved to its permanent site near Colorado Springs in 1958 U.S. Air Force Academy
#3081, aired 1998-01-1220th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In March 1951 Morton Sobell was found guilty of espionage, along with this couple Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
#3062, aired 1997-12-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In August 1974 he returned to his home in San Clemente, California, reportedly in a deep depression Richard Nixon
#3062, aired 1997-12-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $200: When completed in 1936, it was the world's tallest dam Hoover Dam
#3062, aired 1997-12-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $300: During every decade from the 1920s to 1960, some member of this family was governor of Louisiana Long
#3062, aired 1997-12-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1912, in Savannah, Georgia she organized the first troop of Girl Scouts Juliette Gordon Low
#3062, aired 1997-12-1620th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1987, 30 years after they were expelled, the Teamsters were permitted to rejoin this group AFL-CIO
#2648, aired 1996-02-2120th CENTURY AMERICA $200 (Daily Double): In 1915 this city celebrated its rebirth from a fire as well as the opening of the Panama Canal San Francisco
#2648, aired 1996-02-2120th CENTURY AMERICA $200: This Nation of Islam minister led the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. October 16, 1995 (Louis) Farrakhan
#2648, aired 1996-02-2120th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On December 10, 1915, this company's one millionth automobile rolled off the assembly line Ford Motor Company
#2648, aired 1996-02-2120th CENTURY AMERICA $600: On Wake Island in October 1950, President Truman met this general for the first time to discuss the Korean War MacArthur
#2648, aired 1996-02-2120th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On May 3, 1973 this 110-story Chicago building topped out at 1,450 feet the Sears Tower
#2626, aired 1996-01-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1907 "A. Mutt", the 1st successful daily comic striip was launched; it would later be called this Mutt and Jeff
#2626, aired 1996-01-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $200: "Energy Turns the World" was the theme of the 1982 World's Fair held in this Tennessee city Knoxville
#2626, aired 1996-01-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1950 eating out became easier with the introduction of this first credit card Diners Club
#2626, aired 1996-01-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1916 Fania Mindell, Ethel Byrne & this woman opened America's first birth control clinic Margaret Sanger
#2626, aired 1996-01-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $500: He served as Secretary of the Navy before becoming governor of Texas in 1963 John Connally
#2624, aired 1996-01-1820th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In April 1964, Ford introduced this new sporty car with a $2,368 sticker price the Mustang
#2624, aired 1996-01-1820th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On July 5, 1975 this Hawaiian volcano erupted for the first time in over 26 years Mauna Loa
#2624, aired 1996-01-1820th CENTURY AMERICA $600: On April 6, 1917 America entered World War I & this composer wrote "Over There" George M. Cohan
#2624, aired 1996-01-1820th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In March 1925 this state passed a law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools Tennessee
#2624, aired 1996-01-1820th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: He served in the House for 30 years before becoming FDR's first vice president in 1933 John Nance Garner
#2600, aired 1995-12-1520th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In July 1976 this mystery ailment killed 29 people at a Philadelphia convention Legionnaires' disease
#2600, aired 1995-12-1520th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On July 16, 1943 the U.S. detonated the first atomic bomb at Trinity site near this New Mexico city Alamogordo
#2600, aired 1995-12-1520th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1994 this Pontiac, Michigan stadium became the first indoor facility to hold a World Cup soccer match the Silverdome
#2600, aired 1995-12-1520th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1922 DeWitt Wallace & his wife Lila Acheson founded this monthly magazine Reader's Digest
#2600, aired 1995-12-1520th CENTURY AMERICA $500: On January 31, 1958, it became the first U.S. satellite to reach Earth orbit Explorer I
#2562, aired 1995-10-2420th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The passage of this state's Proposition 13 in 1978 sparked similar tax revolts in other states California
#2562, aired 1995-10-2420th CENTURY AMERICA $400: When completed over the Hudson in 1931, it was the world's longest suspension bridge the George Washington Bridge
#2562, aired 1995-10-2420th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Commercial radio broadcasting began in America in 1920 with Detroit's WWJ & this city's KDKA Pittsburgh
#2562, aired 1995-10-2420th CENTURY AMERICA $800: In 1948 this Democrat was elected Illinois governor by the largest majority in the state's history Adlai Stevenson
#2562, aired 1995-10-2420th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1909 this Swiss disciple accompanied Sigmund Freud to America on a speaking tour (Carl) Jung
#2509, aired 1995-06-2920th CENTURY AMERICA $100: This 888-page summary of the Kennedy assassination investigation was made public on Sept. 27, 1964 Warren Commission
#2509, aired 1995-06-2920th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Of 108, 308 or 508, the number of points the stock market plunged October 19, 1987 508
#2509, aired 1995-06-2920th CENTURY AMERICA $300: On May 7, 1975 President Ford declared that this "era" was over Vietnam
#2509, aired 1995-06-2920th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1934 Frank Merriam defeated this author of "The Jungle" to become governor of California Upton Sinclair
#2509, aired 1995-06-2920th CENTURY AMERICA $500: When it was set up in 1942, the presidential retreat, now Camp David, was called this Shangri-La
#2504, aired 1995-06-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1979 it was the site of the worst nuclear accident in the history of the U.S. Three Mile Island
#2504, aired 1995-06-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1917 James Montgomery Flagg designed a famous recruitment poster depicting this U.S. symbol Uncle Sam
#2504, aired 1995-06-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1958 this company produced its one millionth electric typewriter IBM
#2504, aired 1995-06-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1925 this explorer who claimed to have reached the North Pole was imprisoned for mail fraud Frederick Cook
#2504, aired 1995-06-2220th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): His 11th child, Rory Elizabeth Katherine, was born December 12, 1968, 6 months after his death Robert Kennedy
#2494, aired 1995-06-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1956, in Pittsburgh, this circus gave its final performance under the "Big Top" the Ringling Bros. (& Barnum & Bailey)
#2494, aired 1995-06-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1977 he was elected to the first of 3 terms as mayor of New York City Ed Koch
#2494, aired 1995-06-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1907 the printmaking firm of this late pair was formally dissolved Currier & Ives
#2494, aired 1995-06-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1947 this committee began its investigation of Communist activity in the movie industry the House Un-American Activities Committee
#2494, aired 1995-06-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1925 he broke the Silence, becoming the 1st president to broadcast his inauguration on radio Coolidge
#2371, aired 1994-12-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1954 a Chevrolet Sport Coupe became the 50 millionth car to roll off this company's assembly line General Motors
#2371, aired 1994-12-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In March 1963, after more than 50 years in operation, the prison on this California island closed Alcatraz
#2371, aired 1994-12-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $300: When completed in 1913, the NYC skyscraper built by this dime store magnate was the tallest in the world the Woolworth Building
#2371, aired 1994-12-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1993 8 names were added to this memorial, bringing the total to 58,191 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
#2371, aired 1994-12-1920th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1960 Del Webb opened the first of these retirement towns just outside of Phoenix Sun City
#2353, aired 1994-11-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1908 he had the misfortune of piloting the first plane in which there was a fatality Orville Wright
#2353, aired 1994-11-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $200: With the passage of this act in 1935, seniors began looking forward to a pension Social Security Act
#2353, aired 1994-11-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1948 the results of his studies of sexual behavior in the human male were published Alfred Kinsey
#2353, aired 1994-11-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1982 this retired dentist became the 1st person to receive an artificial heart Barney Clark
#2353, aired 1994-11-2320th CENTURY AMERICA $500: It was America's "Man In Space" program immediately after Project Mercury Project Gemini
#2347, aired 1994-11-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In 1942 she published "And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America" Margaret Mead
#2312, aired 1994-09-2720th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 1, 1992 the president ordered Marine & Army troops to this U.S. city in the aftermath of riots Los Angeles
#2312, aired 1994-09-2720th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 eventually made this the standard number of hours for a work week 40
#2312, aired 1994-09-2720th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In Walter Reed Hospital April 5, 1964, he faded away at age 84 Douglas MacArthur
#2312, aired 1994-09-2720th CENTURY AMERICA $800: He & Frederic Pryor were prisoners exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel February 10, 1962 Francis Gary Powers
#2312, aired 1994-09-2720th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1974 he was the chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee Sam Ervin
#2216, aired 1994-04-0420th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1931 this skyscraper opened on the site once occupied by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the Empire State Building
#2216, aired 1994-04-0420th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On July 7, 1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill making it the 49th state Alaska
#2216, aired 1994-04-0420th CENTURY AMERICA $300: America's first reported skyjacking took place in 1961 when a plane was forced to this country Cuba
#2216, aired 1994-04-0420th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1949 William Schwann published the first catalog of these; there were 674 listings phonograph records
#2216, aired 1994-04-0420th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In April 1936 he was executed for the kidnapping & murder of the Lindbergh baby (Bruno) Hauptmann
#2215, aired 1994-04-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In a 1982 report, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop called this the chief preventable cause of death smoking
#2215, aired 1994-04-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $200: When introduced in the comics in 1930, her last name was Boopadoop; now it's Bumstead Blondie
#2215, aired 1994-04-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $300: President Johnson was among the sports fans who attended the 1st game at this Houston stadium in 1965 the Astrodome
#2215, aired 1994-04-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1942 Grand Coulee Dam began generating power on this river the Columbia
#2215, aired 1994-04-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1968 Terence Cooke succeeded this late cardinal as Archbishop of New York Spellman
#2197, aired 1994-03-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The existence of these tapes was revealed by Alexander P. Butterfield on July 16, 1973 the Nixon tapes
#2197, aired 1994-03-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Louise de Koven Bowen became president of this settlement house after Jane Addams' death in 1935 Hull House
#2197, aired 1994-03-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This novelist refused the Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" but accepted the Nobel Prize 4 years later (Sinclair) Lewis
#2197, aired 1994-03-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: On Dec. 4, 1952 this president of the United Auto Workers was elected head of the CIO Walter Reuther
#2197, aired 1994-03-0820th CENTURY AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): On April 26, 1980 this Secretary of State resigned in opposition to Jimmy Carter's Iran hostage rescue attempt Cyrus Vance
#2091, aired 1993-10-11THE DESSERT TRAY $200: Advertising in the early 20th century called this jiggly sweet America's most famous dessert Jell-O
#2083, aired 1993-09-29THE 20th CENTURY $600: This Tennessee Senator wrote the 1951 book "Crime in America" after heading a crime committee Estes Kefauver
#1836, aired 1992-09-0720th CENTURY AMERICA $100: On Oct. 18, 1965 David Miller was the first to be arrested under a new law prohibiting burning these draft cards
#1836, aired 1992-09-0720th CENTURY AMERICA $200: To save copper in 1943, the U.S. government made these out of zinc-coated steel pennies
#1836, aired 1992-09-0720th CENTURY AMERICA $300: Between August 9 & December 19, 1974 the country had no VP; then he got the job Nelson Rockefeller
#1836, aired 1992-09-0720th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On September 8, 1935 this Louisiana senator was shot by Dr. Carl Weiss in Baton Rouge Huey Long
#1836, aired 1992-09-0720th CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): In 1920, the same year this number amendment was ratified, the National League of Women Voters was organized the 19th Amendment
#1649, aired 1991-10-3120th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Establishment of a general association of nations was his 14th point Wilson
#1649, aired 1991-10-3120th CENTURY AMERICA $400: It's the 1960s organization founded by Bobby Seale & Huey Newton the Black Panthers
#1649, aired 1991-10-3120th CENTURY AMERICA $600: It was during his tenure as U.S. president that Sputnik I went into orbit Eisenhower
#1649, aired 1991-10-3120th CENTURY AMERICA $800: He served with Pershing in Mexico, set up a tank training school in France & headed the 3rd Army in WWII George S. Patton
#1649, aired 1991-10-3120th CENTURY AMERICA $2,201 (Daily Double): Spiro Agnew & this man ran as Nixon's V.P. candidates (Henry Cabot) Lodge
#1593, aired 1991-07-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1945 Grand Rapids, MI & Newburgh, NY became the first U.S. cities to add this to drinking water fluoride
#1593, aired 1991-07-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1954 he led televised hearings into alleged Communist influence in the Army (Joseph) McCarthy
#1593, aired 1991-07-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In the Nov. '90 elections, this ex-Washington mayor lost his bid for a seat on the D.C. city council Marion Barry
#1593, aired 1991-07-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1967, while awaiting a retrial, this assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald died Jack Ruby
#1593, aired 1991-07-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $500: The 1925 Scopes trial upheld Tennessee's right to ban the teaching of this in school evolution
#1567, aired 1991-05-28THE 20th CENTURY $200: Every bank in America had to close the day after he took office as president Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#1457, aired 1990-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The academy for this branch of the service opened in 1955 the Air Force
#1457, aired 1990-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On August 2nd, 1964, in this gulf, the destroyer Maddox fired at three North Vietnamese torpedo boats the Tonkin Gulf
#1457, aired 1990-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This US chemist won the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded in 1963 Linus Pauling
#1457, aired 1990-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $800: Later called the First Lady of the World, she was the first to hold regular White House press conferences Eleanor Roosevelt
#1457, aired 1990-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This son of a railroad magnate was the chief US negotiator of the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty Averell Harriman
#1419, aired 1990-11-01THE 20th CENTURY $400: John L. Lewis led this union for 40 years from 1920-1960 the United Mine Workers of America
#1381, aired 1990-09-1020th CENTURY AMERICA $100: On his 1st full day as president he pardoned most of the Vietnam War draft evaders (Jimmy) Carter
#1381, aired 1990-09-1020th CENTURY AMERICA $200: For those who held some illegally, May 1, 1933 was the last day to return it to the Treasury gold
#1381, aired 1990-09-1020th CENTURY AMERICA $300: After Gov. Faubus shut down the schools in this city Sept. 1958, classes continued via television Little Rock
#1381, aired 1990-09-1020th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1937 Philadelphia threw a 4-month-long celebration to mark its 150th anniversary the Constitutional Convention
#1381, aired 1990-09-1020th CENTURY AMERICA $500: The U.S. decided not to take part in the 22nd Olympic games after the Soviets did this invaded Afghanistan
#1195, aired 1989-11-1020TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: A work week of this many days was not generally accepted until the 1930s 5
#1195, aired 1989-11-1020TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: Gerald Ford, Hale Boggs & Allen Dulles were among those appointed to this commission 11/29/63 The Warren Commission
#1195, aired 1989-11-1020TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: In 1904, Ida Tarbell published the muckraking history of this oil company Standard Oil
#1195, aired 1989-11-1020TH CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Between '46-51 this organization was headquartered at the Sperry gyroscope plant at Lake Success on Long Island The United Nations
#1195, aired 1989-11-1020TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: At 1st this "radio priest" supported FDR but in later years opposed the New Deal Fr. Charles Coughlin
#1160, aired 1989-09-2220th CENTURY WRITERS $400: Tennessee Williams called this "Virginia Woolf" writer "The only great playwright we've ever had in America" Edward Albee
#726, aired 1987-11-02LATIN AMERICA $600: 20th century Mexican artists Rivera, Orozco, & Siqueiros are best known for painting these murals
#546, aired 1987-01-12THE 20TH CENTURY $600: Though written in 1917, this Irving Berlin tune wasn't heard until Kate Smith sang it in 1938 "God Bless America"
#518, aired 1986-12-0320TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1903, the 1st coast-to-coast trip using this transportation took about 2 months an automobile
#518, aired 1986-12-0320TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: Some feel if N.Y. Times had printed its info on this '61 invasion, it wouldn't have happened the Bay of Pigs
#518, aired 1986-12-0320TH CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): It's reported that by the early '30s the author of this 1928 Rep. slogan was begging for food "A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage"
#518, aired 1986-12-0320TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: The Dance Theatre of Harlem was 1st permanently est. Black co. to perform this type of dance ballet
#518, aired 1986-12-0320TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: 1924 saw election of 2 women governors, Nellie Ross of Wyoming & Miriam Ferguson of this SW state Texas
#473, aired 1986-10-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $100: In 1927, sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving the presidential portraits here Mount Rushmore
#473, aired 1986-10-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On January 16, 1935, this bank robber became the first woman shot by the FBI Ma Barker
#473, aired 1986-10-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $300: Of Atlanta, Boston or Charlotte, the city in which large-scale busing to integrate schools first began Charlotte
#473, aired 1986-10-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1947, President Truman urged Americans to observe poultryless Thursday & this meatless day Tuesday
#473, aired 1986-10-0120th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1959, this play by Lorraine Hansberry was the first by a Black female writer to reach Broadway A Raisin in the Sun
#416, aired 1986-04-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In his 1st of 4 inaugural. addresses, he put forth his "Good Neighbor Policy" Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#416, aired 1986-04-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Started in 1947, Levittown, N.Y. was built to provide housing for them the returning soldiers (the veterans of World War II)
#416, aired 1986-04-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $800: 38 Marines died to rescue the 39 crew members of this ship, seized by Cambodia in 1975 the Mayaguez
#416, aired 1986-04-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1935, "NRA" stood for both this federal agency & this private organization the National Recovery Administration & the National Rifle Association
#416, aired 1986-04-1420th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: On the books since 1940, the Smith Act makes it unlawful to advocate this overthrow of the government
#346, aired 1986-01-0620TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: Year the Washington-Moscow "hot line" was set up & President Kennedy died 1963
#346, aired 1986-01-0620TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1914, following 16th Amendment, it was only 6% on amounts over $500,000 income tax
#346, aired 1986-01-0620TH CENTURY AMERICA $600: Though not Southern, this tiny state sent no Republicans to the house from 1938 to 1980 Rhode Island
#346, aired 1986-01-0620TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: By 1930, with 1200 miles of track, this city's Pacific Electric was the longest U.S. interurban rail system Los Angeles
#346, aired 1986-01-0620TH CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1939, he & Queen Elizabeth became the 1st British monarchs to visit the U.S. George VI
#345, aired 1986-01-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Since 1904, when a woman was arrested in NYC for doing this, women have "come a long way" smoking cigarettes
#345, aired 1986-01-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $200: Around 1912, popular ones included "the fish walk", "the bunny hug", & "the turkey trot" dances
#345, aired 1986-01-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1926, he declined a Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" Sinclair Lewis
#345, aired 1986-01-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Year of Senate Watergate hearings, V.P. Agnew's resignation & the Arab oil embargo 1973
#345, aired 1986-01-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $500: In 1901 J.P. Morgan formed the world's largest steel corporation, U.S. Steel, after buying him out Andrew Carnegie

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (8 results returned)

#8885, aired 2023-06-0220th CENTURY AMERICA: In bold letters, it was the 2-word historic N.Y. Times headline for August 9, 1974, followed by "He urges a time of 'healing"' "Nixon Resigns"
#8231, aired 2020-06-0820th CENTURY AMERICA: 10-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. sang with his church's choir at the celebrated premiere of this film Gone with the Wind
#8088, aired 2019-11-0620th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1939, turned down by 2 local theaters, Howard University was able to get an outdoor venue for this singer's yearly concert Marian Anderson
#7222, aired 2016-01-2620th CENTURY AMERICA: The 1970 follow-up line "We've had a main B bus undervolt" was addressed to a listener in this city Houston
#6975, aired 2015-01-0220th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1923 Fanny Brice made news by having this procedure, later rejected by a woman portraying her a nose job
#5531, aired 2008-09-2920th CENTURY AMERICA: Experts say Glenn McDuffie is the mystery man in the classic Eisenstaedt photo taken in this year 1945
#5261, aired 2007-06-25RELIGION IN AMERICA: This Protestant movement got its name from an early 20th century text that listed 5 basic elements Fundamentalism
#671, aired 1987-07-0620th CENTURY AMERICA: The 2 contenders in the closest U.S. presidential popular vote in the 20th century John Kennedy & Richard Nixon

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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show "He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...



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