Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (44 results returned)

#9, aired 2023-01-05VIRGINNY & GEORGIA $500: You can experience early American history up close at the Virginia sites called "Historic Jamestowne" & "Colonial" this burg Williamsburg
#7620, aired 2017-10-27AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: This Jack of many trades sought fortune in the 1897 Klondike gold rush & used the experience in his books Jack London
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh
#6867, aired 2014-06-24WHEN? IN '64 $1000: A June 2014 "American Experience" covers young people working for civil rights in this state in what was called Freedom Summer Mississippi
#6711, aired 2013-11-18AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $400: An analyst said, "We've never seen this before", as Kennedy dealt with the situation in this country in October of 1962 Cuba
#6711, aired 2013-11-18AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $800: Captain JFK swam three miles while towing an injured crewman to shore after the August 2, 1943, sinking of this boat the PT-109
#6711, aired 2013-11-18AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $1200: On September 12, 1953, in front of 750 guests at mass & 450 more at the reception, JFK & Jackie wed in this Rhode Island resort city Newport
#6711, aired 2013-11-18AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $1600: Here is JFK on May 12, 1963, having sent 3,000 federal troops to this Alabama city to keep the peace Birmingham
#6711, aired 2013-11-18AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JFK $2000: During his 1946 run for Congress, the skinny JFK already suffered from this disease of adrenal insufficiency Addison's Disease
#6313, aired 2012-02-15AMERICAN EXPERIENCE CLINTON $200: Young Bill won so many honors, the high school principal barred him from running for student body pres in this Arkansas town Hot Springs
#6313, aired 2012-02-15AMERICAN EXPERIENCE CLINTON $400: After setbacks, Clinton's campaign roared to life in the 1992 New Hampshire primary, giving the candidate this nickname The Comeback Kid
#6313, aired 2012-02-15AMERICAN EXPERIENCE CLINTON $600: Finish the Clinton quote from the 1992 Democratic National Convention "I end tonight where it all began for me. I still believe in a place called--" Hope
#6313, aired 2012-02-15AMERICAN EXPERIENCE CLINTON $800: Here's Clinton in 1993, signing the bill named for this man to his left, instituting background checks for anyone buying a firearm (James) Brady
#6313, aired 2012-02-15AMERICAN EXPERIENCE CLINTON $1000: Clinton added clauses to protect American workers, greasing congressional ratification of this international agreement NAFTA
#6143, aired 2011-05-04BILLIONS & BILLIONS $600: A PBS "American Experience" film about his family describes him as "history's first billionaire" (John D.) Rockefeller
#5938, aired 2010-06-09VIRAL VIDEO $400: There's a DVD of the PBS "American Experience" show "The Great Fever", about Walter Reed & this "colorful" viral disease yellow fever
#5912, aired 2010-05-04AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1600: He wrote a 10-play cycle of the black experience, each covering a decade; "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" was set in the '20s (August) Wilson
#5840, aired 2010-01-22WYATT EARP $600: Wyatt Earp worked as a guard for this company that was founded to handle the banking business of the California gold rush Wells Fargo
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $200: (Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives the clue.) In a recent essay, I cited the election of Barack Obama as one of the 4 "transformative moments" in African-American history; this 1863 event was the first the Emancipation Proclamation
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $400: (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) In the "African American National Biography" series, which I co-edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the second entry is a profile of this baseball great Hank Aaron
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $600: (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) My ancestor, Revolutionary War soldier John Redman, was one of an estimated 5,000 black soldiers in this army, the first regular U.S. fighting force the Continental Army
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1000: (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) In 2003, I published "The Trials of" this woman, a book about America's first black poet & her encounters with the Founding Fathers Phillis Wheatley
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1,600 (Daily Double): (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) I direct a research institute at Harvard University named for this author of "The Souls of Black Folk", black America's leading public intellectual through most of his long life, 1868-1963 W.E.B. Du Bois
#5552, aired 2008-10-28AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE PRESIDENTS $200: In his second week as president, Jimmy Carter evoked memories of an earlier president with this type of informal speech on energy a Fireside Chat
#5552, aired 2008-10-28AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE PRESIDENTS $400: The 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit made progress on arms issues but snagged over this Reagan defense plan "Star Wars"
#5552, aired 2008-10-28AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE PRESIDENTS $600: The wedding of this younger daughter in 1966 was a break for LBJ amid the mounting problems in Vietnam Luci Baines Johnson
#5552, aired 2008-10-28AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE PRESIDENTS $800: When you take a deep breath, you can thank Bush Sr. for signing a strengthened version of this 1970 law the Clean Air Act
#5552, aired 2008-10-28AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE PRESIDENTS $1000: Through his pursuit of Alger Hiss & others, Richard Nixon gained national fame on this House committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
#5320, aired 2007-10-26THEATRE HISTORY $2000: "Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience August Wilson
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $400: The first jazz record was made by a lame-o white band from this city where black musicians had created jazz New Orleans
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $800: This great Alabama educator also founded the National Negro Business League in 1900 (Booker T.) Washington
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) In 1962, federal marshals escorted James Meredith, the first black student at the university of this state in Oxford; in 1964, he graduated Mississippi
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1600: As slavery wasn't yet legal in Virginia, the 20 black arrivals at Jamestown in 1619 were considered these indentured servants
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.) At a recreation of a famous march, Bill Clinton said that the Voting Rights Act was signed in ink in Washington, but signed in blood in this Alabama city Selma
#4412, aired 2003-11-1119th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Having no war experience of his own, he wrote "The Red Badge of Courage" based on information from reading Tolstoy Stephen Crane
#3709, aired 2000-10-19AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $100: He's the performer seen here Harry Houdini
#3709, aired 2000-10-19AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $200: River seen here before the building of the Hoover Dam Colorado River
#3709, aired 2000-10-19AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $300: Site of the historic attack seen here Pearl Harbor
#3709, aired 2000-10-19AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $400: Richard Byrd is seen here preparing to visit this geographic extreme South Pole
#3709, aired 2000-10-19AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $500: This president is seen here with his camera-shy wife Ida William McKinley
#3661, aired 2000-07-03DOCUMENTARIES $400: Subject of the Rick Burns film seen here & shown as part of the "American Experience" on PBS (skyline with the World Trade Center) New York City
#2395, aired 1995-01-20AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The 1776 New York campaign gave him his first experience as a commander in a major battle George Washington
#1595, aired 1991-07-05LITERATURE $1000: Historian who won her second Pulitzer for "Stilwell and the American Experience in China" Barbara Tuchman
#1443, aired 1990-12-05THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: This president said of his war experience, "San Juan was the great day of my life" Teddy Roosevelt

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#1468, aired 1991-01-09AMERICAN LITERATURE: Name of the 1883 autobiographical work whose 6th chapter is titled "A Cub-Pilot's Experience" Life on the Mississippi

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