Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (36 results returned)
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: With uses in the 19th c. compared to plastics' in the 20th, trade in this material led to exploitation of Africans & animals ivory |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $1200: It's the year in the title of a 2021 bestseller, when captive Africans arrived in America a year before the Mayflower did 1619 |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | BOATS & SHIPS $400: John Quincy Adams argued the case of the Africans who had mutinied aboard this slave ship & won their freedom the Amistad |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | "B" SIEGE $1200: The British were under siege from these South Africans at Mafikeng for more than 200 days before reinforcements came the Boers |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | EXPLORERS $1000: In 1855 he saw the falls Africans called Mosi-oa-Tunya ("smoke that thunders"), which he renamed for his queen (Dr.) Livingstone |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | SHAKA $800: Shaka's elimination of local tribes helped the great trek of these Euro-Africans pass easily through South Africa the Boers |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | YES, MR. MOVIE PRESIDENT $600: Nigel Hawthorne's Martin Van Buren challenged a lower court's ruling in favor of Africans aboard this 1997 title ship Amistad |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | OUT OF AFRICA $2000: A surf fashion brand made in Africa by Africans is named for this language group that includes Swahili & Zulu Bantu |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | THE OLYMPIC GAMES $1200: In 2000, 2008 & 2012 Africans swept the medals in this longest men's running race the marathon |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | THEY DRINK BLOOD $3,000 (Daily Double): An estimated 55,000 Africans die each year from being bitten by this fly whose name means "fly" in the Tswanna language the tsetse fly |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | MINORITY POPULATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Marseilles has a large number of North Africans, most coming from this former colony Algeria |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | PHOENICIA PHUN $1,500 (Daily Double): Until the 500s A.D., Africans near Carthage spoke this Phoenician dialect, also the name of 3 wars Punic |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ANTHONY HOPKINS FILMS $2000: In "Amistad", about an 1839 uprising of Africans on a slave ship, Hopkins played this former president arguing for the defense John Quincy Adams |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | WORLD OF GESTURES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew cups her hands in front of her.) South Africans in the service sector have a gentle but insistent gesture to ask for this a tip |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | FILM"Z" $2000: 1964: British forces keep a stiff upper lip fighting Africans at the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift Zulu |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $1200: In February 2010 the Times reported on the decoding of the genomes of 5 South Africans, including this Bantu clergyman Desmond Tutu |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: Once known as the Gold Coast, it was the first member of the Commonwealth of Nations governed by Black Africans Ghana |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | IS IT SAFE? $800: Though the pygmy & river varieties look comical, Africans consider this 8,000-lb. mammal extremely dangerous the hippopotamus |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | HOMECOMING $1600: A Supreme Court ruling from 1841 said Africans from this ship should be free & not become Cuban slaves the Amistad |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | HISTORIC CHARLESTON $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a boat off Charleston, SC.) Sullivan's Island held thousands of quarantined Africans who survived the Atlantic crossing known by this 2-word term the Middle Passage |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | CONTEMPORARY ART $400: Basquiat got attention, not detention, for this type of wall writing in "Hollywood Africans" graffiti |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | HODGEPODGE $200: Don't slip on this one: some Africans eat matoke & drink waragi, both made from this fruit bananas |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | THE WORLD IN 1901 $200: These "wild" South Africans carried on their war with guerrilla actions against the British Boers |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | AFRICANS $200: The Dogon supposedly have remarkable knowledge in this field, including the existence of Sirius B Astronomy |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | AFRICANS $400: Quarried from the desert, it's been used as currency by Ethiopians, presumably not in shakers salt |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | AFRICANS $600: The Mbuti of the Congo are the best-known group of these short statured people Pygmies |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | AFRICANS $1000: Mount Kenya is in the heart of the homeland of this largest ethnic group in Kenya Kikuyu |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | AFRICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Numbering roughly 5 million, they're the descendants of early Egyptian Christians Copts (the Coptic Church) |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | AFRICAN HISTORY $400: This trade in Africans was long practiced by Arabs but increased with the New World's plantations Slavery |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 Africans to serve as U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (or Boutros Boutros-Ghali) |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | GRAINS & STAPLES $400: Millet seed, an important food for North Africans, is most often fed to these pets in the U.S. birds |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | POTPOURRI $600: Many adult Africans, Asians & American Indians lack the enzyme used to digest this milk sugar lactose |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | HISTORY $400: From 1834-36 these South Africans went on a "Great Trek" Boer |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | 1989 $100: The Vatican said some S. Africans wrongly interpret the Bible in an attempt to justify this policy apartheid |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | AFRICA $200: To protect themselves from the western world, many Africans are reviving juju, the practice of this voodoo (charms) |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $100: After 1510, Africans began replacing the Indians as these in the new world slaves |
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