Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (317 results returned)

#8368, aired 2021-03-31NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1680 Spaniards chased off by a revolt left these animals the Indians called "sacred dogs", changing native life forever horses
#8285, aired 2020-11-20EVERYTHING'S JAKE $600: The ballpark of this American League team was once known as Jacobs Field, or "The Jake" the Cleveland Indians
#8064, aired 2019-10-03FOOTWEAR $800: Originally worn by Plains Indians, these soft shoes get their name from a Native American language moccasins
#7429, aired 2016-12-22NICARAGUA $1200: Central American Indians, not insects, gave this coast of Honduras & Nicaragua its name the Mosquito Coast
#7295, aired 2016-05-06NOT TO BE CONFUSED $800: The Seminoles are American Indians; this is coarsely ground durum wheat used to make pasta semolina
#6809, aired 2014-04-03EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Feb. 29, 1704 in this queen's war, the French & Indians burned Deerfield, Massachusetts Queen Anne
#6221, aired 2011-10-10THIS YEAR IN HISTORY $200: 1969: American Indians begin a 2-year occupation of this island in San Francisco Bay Alcatraz
#6178, aired 2011-06-22NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $400: This tribe was formed in the 18th century from refugee Creeks & other Georgia Indians who moved into Florida the Seminoles
#6178, aired 2011-06-22NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a large clay figure in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) A popular figure in the Southwest, Mudhead is the cultural & spiritual deity specific to this family of Indians whose Western tribes include the Hopi & the Zuni the Pueblo Indians
#5874, aired 2010-03-11THE NFL $800: Members of the NFL in 1922 & '23, the all-Native American Oorang Indians were led by this legend (Jim) Thorpe
#5649, aired 2009-03-12NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $400: To preserve the buffalo, the Oglala branch of these Indians tried to keep folks from using the Bozeman Trail the Sioux
#5421, aired 2008-03-17THE COURAGE TO "B" $1200: This organization was based in part on 2 American groups, the Sons of Daniel Boone & the Woodcraft Indians the Boy Scouts
#5240, aired 2007-05-25"P"s ON EARTH $400: A council or conference among North American Indians a powwow
#5163, aired 2007-02-07NATIVE AMERICANS $400: American Indians used this small ax or hatchet to chop wood & to chop down enemies in battle a tomahawk
#4903, aired 2005-12-28GET YOUR GROUP TOGETHER $400: The conversion of the American Indians was mostly done by the Franciscans & these "Black Robes" founded in 1534 the Jesuits
#4878, aired 2005-11-23CITY SEALS $1000: New York City's seal features an American eagle, a sailor & an Indian representing this tribe the Manhattan Indians
#4863, aired 2005-11-02"ROSS" $400: A "stick"y game originated by North American Indians lacrosse
#4786, aired 2005-05-30ENDS IN "EE" $800: Native American Indians inhabited this Georgia swamp as early as 2500 B.C. the Okefenokee
#4771, aired 2005-05-09REALITY SHOWS OF THE PAST $800: On "American Idol", Creek & Cherokee Indians performed the Busk ceremony when this crop was ready for roasting maize (or corn)
#4491, aired 2004-03-01EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Hernando De Soto died of a fever on May 21, 1542 & his body was sunk in this river to keep his death a secret from the Indians the Mississippi
#4188, aired 2002-11-13NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: This New York island is named for the Indians who sold it to Peter Minuit in 1626 Manhattan
#4147, aired 2002-09-17AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1774 New Jerseyites dressed as Indians burned this in Greenwich; a similar "Party" occurred earlier in Boston tea
#3593, aired 2000-03-29AMERICAN HISTORY $100: In 1692 the Spanish regained control of this future New Mexico capital from the Pueblo Indians Santa Fe
#3581, aired 2000-03-13SOUTH AMERICAN BEAUTY $500: The name of this tree, seen here, comes from the language of Brazil's Tupi indians Jacaranda
#3549, aired 2000-01-27U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS $500: 2 of the 4 states that have over 100,000 American Indians, according to the 1990 Census Arizona, California, New Mexico & Oklahoma
#3544, aired 2000-01-20BASEBALL -- 1999 $500: This team's Manny Ramirez led the American League with 165 runs batted in -- the highest league total in 61 years the Cleveland Indians
#3530, aired 1999-12-31NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $600 (Daily Double): The Stinkards were the common class of these Mississippi Indians of whom hardly a "trace" remains Natchez
#3489, aired 1999-11-04THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $200: About 60 members of the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians for this December 16, 1773 incident Boston Tea Party
#3445, aired 1999-07-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: What may be the USA's oldest continuously inhabited town, Old Oraibi, was settled c. 1150 by these Arizona Indians the Hopi
#3323, aired 1999-02-03SUGAR $200: American Indians boiled down this tree's sap & called the sugary result "sweetwater" Maple
#3223, aired 1998-09-16THE BOSTON TEA PARTY $200: The colonists darkened their faces & dressed up (admittedly badly) as these American Indians
#3214, aired 1998-07-16DOUBLE TALK $400: It's a hand-beaten drum used by American Indians a tom-tom
#3075, aired 1998-01-02ANCIENT HISTORY $600: About 20,000 years ago, hunters crossed what's now this strait to become North American Indians Bering Strait
#3016, aired 1997-10-13FRUITS & VEGETABLES $800: American Indians referred to this holiday fruit by a name meaning "bitter berries" Cranberries
#2933, aired 1997-05-07COMMUNICATION $200: American Indians sent signals using this vaporous substance Smoke
#2878, aired 1997-02-19AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): On Dec. 16, 1773 60 members of this patriotic group dressed as Mohawk Indians & dumped tea into Boston Harbor Sons of Liberty
#2841, aired 1996-12-30AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1818 this general ordered 2 traders arrested & executed for inciting the Seminole Indians Andrew Jackson
#2757, aired 1996-09-03FASHION $300: Worn by South American Indians for centuries, it's square, has a hole in the middle & doubles as a blanket a poncho
#2720, aired 1996-05-31AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In 1837 Osceola, a leader of this Florida tribe, was captured by government troops the Seminole
#2720, aired 1996-05-31AMERICAN INDIANS $400: A poignant marker stands at the South Dakota gravesite of the Sioux Indians killed here in 1890 Wounded Knee
#2720, aired 1996-05-31AMERICAN INDIANS $600: The Algonquians lived in these dome-shaped dwellings often covered with reed mats wigwams
#2720, aired 1996-05-31AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A tribal group consisting of 6 nations, its name in its own language means "real adders" the Iroquois
#2720, aired 1996-05-31AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: This tribe of Central Idaho was noted for breeding the Appaloosa horse the Nez Perce
#2703, aired 1996-05-08RELIGION $600: Viracocha was the creator god of these South American Indians, many of whom lived in Peru Incas
#2687, aired 1996-04-16SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $200: The site of this capital was occupied by Quitu Indians before the 11th century Quito (Ecuador)
#2643, aired 1996-02-14AMERICAN HISTORY $400: After defeating the Indians at Fallen Timbers, this "Mad" general built a fort on the Maumee River (General) Wayne
#2633, aired 1996-01-31TRANSPORTATION $300: This runnerless sled was first used by North American Indians to haul supplies & game over the snow Toboggan
#2625, aired 1996-01-19AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In 1990 the Shoshone-Bannocks of Idaho petitioned for the sockeye species of this to be protected Salmon
#2625, aired 1996-01-19AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Typically, this dwelling was made with 10 or more bison skins & 20 or more cedar poles Tepee
#2625, aired 1996-01-19AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Smoked in pipes, kinnikinnick was a mixture of sumac, the inner bark of dogwood or red willow & this plant Tobacco
#2625, aired 1996-01-19AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A monument in Nespelem, Washington marks the grave of this Nez Perce chief who died in 1904 Chief Joseph
#2625, aired 1996-01-19AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: The name of this tribe centered in northeast Arizona means "peaceful ones" Hopi
#2623, aired 1996-01-17AMERICAN HISTORY $500: This man who bought Manhattan from the Indians later served as governor of New Sweden Peter Minuit
#2554, aired 1995-10-12POTPOURRI $200: Some American Indians ornamented their moccasins with this rodent's quills a porcupine
#2512, aired 1995-07-04TREES $2,500 (Daily Double): South American Indians called this tree, Hevea brasiliensis, cahuchu, which means "weeping wood" the rubber tree
#2487, aired 1995-05-30AMERICAN HISTORY $200: He served under Andrew Jackson in the campaign against the Creek Indians before he became president of Texas Sam Houston
#2453, aired 1995-04-12FOOD $100: This nut produced by oak trees was eaten by American Indians acorn
#2410, aired 1995-02-10BODIES OF WATER $1000: To make boats, local Indians use reeds from this South American lake 12,500 feet above sea level (Lake) Titicaca
#2408, aired 1995-02-08AMERICAN INDIANS $100: As a youngster, Geronimo lived in the state of Chihuahua in this country Mexico
#2408, aired 1995-02-08AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Squanto is famous for befriending these colonists & teaching them how to plant corn the Pilgrims
#2408, aired 1995-02-08AMERICAN INDIANS $300: The name of these Florida Indians means "runaways" the Seminole
#2408, aired 1995-02-08AMERICAN INDIANS $400: This ceremonial object, also called a calumet, was sometimes decorated with feathers a peace pipe
#2408, aired 1995-02-08AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Traditionally, these Navajo dwellings are built with the doorways facing east hogans
#2379, aired 1994-12-29ANTHROPOLOGISTS $100: In the 1920s Ales Hrdlicka claimed that most American Indians were originally from this continent Asia
#2325, aired 1994-10-14AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Many Chumash Indians once lived in the Santa Barbara area of what is now this state California
#2325, aired 1994-10-14AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Dragging a buffalo skull is sometimes part of the Plains Indian dance named for this heavenly body the Sun
#2325, aired 1994-10-14AMERICAN INDIANS $600: On an alphabetical list of North American Indians, this tribe is usually last the Zuni
#2325, aired 1994-10-14AMERICAN INDIANS $800: When this Chiricahua Apache died in 1874, his son Taza succeeded him as Chief Cochise
#2325, aired 1994-10-14AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Lake Cayuga, the longest of these lakes, is named for the Cayuga Indians who once lived near it the Finger Lakes
#2314, aired 1994-09-29RELIGION $1000: For American Indians, doing this with a calumet reaffirms the cosmic network of relationships smoking it
#2300, aired 1994-09-09"AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $500: This group was founded in 1968 by Dennis Banks & others to improve the lives of Indians in Minneapolis the American Indian Movement
#2211, aired 1994-03-28DUCK POTPOURRI $300: Ducks are classified in separate groups called these, a term often associated with American Indians tribes
#2193, aired 1994-03-02POTPOURRI $600: Many adult Africans, Asians & American Indians lack the enzyme used to digest this milk sugar lactose
#2163, aired 1994-01-19AMERICAN HISTORY $500: In 1849 Congress created this Cabinet dept. to supervise Indians & huge government land holdings the Department of the Interior
#2160, aired 1994-01-14AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On June 15, 1924 congress passed a law making these native-born people U.S. citizens the Native Americans (or the Indians)
#2103, aired 1993-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $200: After he led two Indian uprisings in what's now this state, Opechancanough was killed in Jamestown in 1644 Virginia
#2103, aired 1993-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Osceola, a leader of these Florida Indians, was tricked into attending peace talks & then captured Seminoles
#2103, aired 1993-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $600: A Paiute prophet named Wovoka popularized the religious ritual known by this "spectral" name ghost dance
#2103, aired 1993-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $800: These Plains Indians known by a bird's name call themselves Absaroka, which means "bird people" the Crow
#2103, aired 1993-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: It's said this great Apache chief escaped from U.S. troops in 1861 with 3 bullets in his body Cochise
#2047, aired 1993-06-29AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In 1777 Chief Joseph Brant led his fellow Mohawks in the Battle of Oriskany during this war the Revolutionary War
#2047, aired 1993-06-29AMERICAN INDIANS $400: A woman claiming to be this Lewis & Clark companion died in 1884; she would have been about 100 Sacagawea
#2047, aired 1993-06-29AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Geronimo rode in this U.S. president's 1905 inaugural parade Theodore Roosevelt
#2047, aired 1993-06-29AMERICAN INDIANS $800: When this chief, Pocahontas' father, died in 1618, he was succeeded by his brother Opitchapam Powhatan
#2047, aired 1993-06-29AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: This chief once called "The Apache Napoleon" died in the Arizona territory in 1874 Cochise
#2046, aired 1993-06-28FOOD $100: American Indians called the eastern, hard-shell variety of these shellfish quahogs clams
#2037, aired 1993-06-15FOOD FACTS $2,000 (Daily Double): What American Indians once called "sweet water" came from these trees maples
#1944, aired 1993-02-04THE "I"'s HAVE IT $300: Encyclopedia Americana says these South American Indians once made cloth from bat hair Incas
#1904, aired 1992-12-10INDIANS $200: In 1920 he was named first president of the American Professional Football Association Jim Thorpe
#1874, aired 1992-10-29AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Until the 1880s, this animal was the principal source of food for the Plains Indians the buffalo
#1874, aired 1992-10-29AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In addition to cultivating Pocahontas, John Rolfe learned to cultivate this cash crop from the Indians tobacco
#1874, aired 1992-10-29"G"EOGRAPHY $500: Most of the Indians in this Central American country speak one of the Maya languages Guatemala
#1874, aired 1992-10-29AMERICAN INDIANS $600: The Chippewa name for this bird is kookookoo-ooh the owl
#1874, aired 1992-10-29AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Red Cloud & Crazy Horse were members of the Oglalla branch of this tribe the Sioux
#1874, aired 1992-10-29AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: In 1828 this tribe began publishing a weekly newspaper using their new alphabet the Cherokee
#1751, aired 1992-03-23PRESIDENTS $600: Indians at the 1901 Pan-American Expo nicknamed him "Big White Feather" William McKinley
#1618, aired 1991-09-18AMERICAN INDIANS $100: After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull led his remaining followers into this country Canada
#1618, aired 1991-09-18AMERICAN INDIANS $200: This inventor of the Cherokee syllabary died in Mexico in 1843; his burial place is unknown Sequoyah
#1618, aired 1991-09-18AMERICAN INDIANS $300: Collier's Encyclopedia says this Apache chief was sometimes called "Chiz" for short Cochise
#1618, aired 1991-09-18AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In 1609 this powerful chief, Pocahontas' father, was crowned by order of Christopher Newport Powhatan
#1618, aired 1991-09-18AMERICAN INDIANS $500: He was captured & sold into slavery in Spain a few years before he befriended the Pilgrims Squanto
#1610, aired 1991-09-06ALL AMERICAN FOOD $600: Despite its name, this stuffing ingredient isn't really rice, but the seed of an aquatic grass Indians harvest wild rice
#1571, aired 1991-06-03AMERICAN INDIANS $200: As you might guess, the Chinook Indians had rites & rituals involving this fish salmon
#1571, aired 1991-06-03AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In the 1800s runaway slaves often found safety in these Indians of Florida the Seminole
#1571, aired 1991-06-03AMERICAN INDIANS $600: The Nez Perce Indians received their name from engaging in this practice piercing their nose
#1571, aired 1991-06-03AMERICAN INDIANS $800: The Navajo were known for building this type of home, usually of logs & earth a hogan
#1571, aired 1991-06-03AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: These circular underground chambers were built by the Pueblo Indians for religious ceremonies kivas
#1543, aired 1991-04-24AMERICAN INDIANS $100: The Apache Wars ended in 1886 with his formal surrender to the U.S. Geronimo
#1543, aired 1991-04-24AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The clan or family symbols Indians of the Northwest carve on poles totems
#1543, aired 1991-04-24AMERICAN INDIANS $300: 6 million people still speak Quechua, the language of these South American Indians the Incas
#1543, aired 1991-04-24AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The Spanish gave this name, meaning "town", to tribes they found living in apartment-like structures a pueblo
#1543, aired 1991-04-24AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Activists of the "Red Power" movement took over this abandoned island from 1969 to 1971 Alcatraz Island
#1486, aired 1991-02-04FILE UNDER "A" $300: It's a violent dance performed by Parisian couples, not by American Indians, as its name implies Apache Dance
#1427, aired 1990-11-13AMERICAN INDIANS $200: From 1881-86 he led the Chiricahua Apaches in the last major Indian stand Geronimo
#1427, aired 1990-11-13AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Coinciding with the '84 Olympics in L.A. was a memorial powwow & games honoring this athlete Jim Thorpe
#1427, aired 1990-11-13AMERICAN INDIANS $600: This 6-nation group has not accepted U.S. citizenship & considers itself a separate nation the Iroquois
#1427, aired 1990-11-13AMERICAN INDIANS $800: They call themselves the Dine; since their language has no "V", they found this name unpronounceable the Navajo
#1427, aired 1990-11-13AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Among tribes this Spanish explorer met & alienated were the Cherokee, Creek & Choctaw de Sotò
#1392, aired 1990-09-25GEOGRAPHY $1000: 1 of 2 Central American lands that share the Mosquito Coast, an area named for Indians not insects (1 of) Nicaragua (or Honduras)
#1383, aired 1990-09-12AMERICAN HISTORY $400: American Indians used the shells of whelks & clams to make these beads used for money wampum
#1368, aired 1990-07-11AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The Creek word for "runaways" was given to this group of Creeks who went to Florida in the 18th c. the Seminoles
#1368, aired 1990-07-11AMERICAN INDIANS $600 (Daily Double): Tho this Ottawa chief's attack on Fort Detroit failed, a car & a nearby city are named for him Pontiac
#1368, aired 1990-07-11AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Prior to the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he had a vision of soldiers falling into the Indian camp Sitting Bull
#1368, aired 1990-07-11AMERICAN INDIANS $800: This tribe's reservation, the nation's largest, includes part of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah & Colorado the Navajo
#1368, aired 1990-07-11AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: In 1890 about 200 Sioux were killed during the "Ghost Dance war" at this S. Dakota site Wounded Knee
#1331, aired 1990-05-21WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: More American Indians live in this country on South America's Pacific coast than any other Peru
#1286, aired 1990-03-19FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: The South American Indians called them "papas", a name that's still used today potatoes
#1227, aired 1989-12-26ZOOLOGY $400: South American Indians use the jaws of these fish as scissors Piranhas
#1208, aired 1989-11-29AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Those of the Woodland Indians had the typical "puckered toe" stitching moccasins
#1208, aired 1989-11-29AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The practice of building these, whether effigy, temple or burial, ended with European contact mounds
#1208, aired 1989-11-29AMERICAN INDIANS $300: One of the other leaders supporting Geronimo was Nachez, son of this Apache leader Cochise
#1208, aired 1989-11-29AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Spooky craze that swept the Plains & led to the death of Sitting Bull the Ghost Dance
#1208, aired 1989-11-29AMERICAN INDIANS $500: The Sauk leader Keokuk is buried in the city named for him in this state Iowa
#1201, aired 1989-11-20AMERICAN INDIANS $100: One of the villages of the Miami was this "skunk place" on Lake Michigan Chicago
#1201, aired 1989-11-20AMERICAN INDIANS $200: This Pawtuxet Indian who befriended the Pilgrims was also known as Tisquantum Squanto
#1201, aired 1989-11-20AMERICAN INDIANS $400: "Dark Bird" name of the man for whom a tragic 1832 war was named Black Hawk
#1201, aired 1989-11-20AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Some say this president died after a month in office because Tecumseh's brother put a curse on him William Henry Harrison
#1201, aired 1989-11-20AMERICAN INDIANS $1,000 (Daily Double): This ceremonial object is also known as a calumet peace pipe
#1197, aired 1989-11-14GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $300: The Constitution originally held that untaxed members of this ethnic group were not to be counted in the census American Indians
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#1148, aired 1989-09-06AMERICAN INDIANS $400 (Daily Double): = =
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#1107, aired 1989-05-30AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Iroquois villages were often surrounded by these water barriers moats
#1107, aired 1989-05-30AMERICAN INDIANS $200: During the Revolutionary War, the Cherokee fought for this side the British
#1107, aired 1989-05-30AMERICAN INDIANS $300: The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been an arm of this government department since 1849 the Department of the Interior
#1107, aired 1989-05-30AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The birth of her son, Baptiste, was recorded by Meriwether Lewis February 11, 1805 Sacajawea
#1107, aired 1989-05-30AMERICAN INDIANS $500: A city near Detroit is named for this Ottawa chief who united the Great Lakes tribes in 1763 Pontiac
#1095, aired 1989-05-12SOCIAL SCIENCE $600: Ancestral symbols used by many cultures, they're carved into poles by American Indians totem poles (totems)
#1057, aired 1989-03-21AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The only 1 of "The 5 Civilized Tribes" whose name doesn't begin with "C", many of them live in Fla. Seminoles
#1057, aired 1989-03-21AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The largest city in Nebraska was named for this tribe whose name means "going upstream" Omaha
#1057, aired 1989-03-21AMERICAN INDIANS $600: When he took his alphabet to Tenn., the tribal council put him on trial for practicing black magic Sequoyah
#1057, aired 1989-03-21AMERICAN INDIANS $800: This American Indian food consists of meat, fat & berries pressed into small cakes pemmican
#1057, aired 1989-03-21AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: This "regal" Indian war has been called "the bloodiest conflict in 17th century New England" King Philip's War
#1054, aired 1989-03-16AMERICAN INDIANS $100: The Plains Indians performed a dance to these animals to ensure a steady supply of meat & hides buffalo
#1054, aired 1989-03-16AMERICAN INDIANS $200: U.S. cavalry leader who defeated the Cheyenne at the 1868 Battle of the Washita George Armstrong Custer
#1054, aired 1989-03-16AMERICAN INDIANS $300: Subgroups of this tribe include the Tonto, the Lipan, & the Mescalero the Apache
#1054, aired 1989-03-16AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Merle Haggard sang about this Oklahoma city named for the Creek Indians' name for themselves Muskogee
#1054, aired 1989-03-16AMERICAN INDIANS $500: A brand of R.V., or a Michigan tribe that did not live in them Winnebago
#1037, aired 1989-02-21AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In many tribes husbands regarded this relative by marriage as taboo & never spoke to her the mother-in-law
#1037, aired 1989-02-21AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Of the Mayas, Aztecs or Incas, the Indian civilization that lived in South America the Incas
#1037, aired 1989-02-21AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Manabozho, an Ojibwa hero, was the actual subject of this Longfellow poem Hiawatha
#1037, aired 1989-02-21AMERICAN INDIANS $800: State with Mohawk, Oneida & Onondaga reservatioons New York
#1015, aired 1989-01-20AMERICAN REVOLUTION $100: New Jerseyites disguised as Indians burned this, unlike the Bostonians who dumped it in the harbor tea
#1013, aired 1989-01-18AMERICAN INDIANS $100: He was the 1st to call the Native Americans "Indians" Columbus
#1013, aired 1989-01-18AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Long before baseball was invented, Indians built dugouts, which they used as these canoes
#1013, aired 1989-01-18AMERICAN INDIANS $300: While Indiana, Kansas & Ohio all have counties named for this Algonquin tribe, Florida doesn't Miami
#1013, aired 1989-01-18AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Guns obtained from early Dutch settlers helped this confederation dominate its neighbors Iroquois
#1013, aired 1989-01-18AMERICAN INDIANS $500: The potlatch ceremony, in which they did this, impoverished many a northwest Indian giving away all of one's possessions
#979, aired 1988-12-01DID YOU NOTICE? $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 American League teams with a mascot but no letters on its caps (1 of) the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays or Baltimore Orioles
#973, aired 1988-11-23AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The Western Band of this tribe is now in Oklahoma, & the Eastern Band in North Carolina Cherokee
#973, aired 1988-11-23AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Adopting the loom from the Pueblos & sheep raising from the Spanish, they became master weavers Navajo
#973, aired 1988-11-23AMERICAN INDIANS $800: After securing the Chiricahua Apaches a reservation in Arizona in 1872, this chief stopped fighting Cochise
#973, aired 1988-11-23AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: A type of salmon is named for this tribe along the Columbia River Chinook
#931, aired 1988-09-26ANIMALS $300: Skin secretions of the South American treefrog, genus Dendrobates, are used by Indians as this poison
#926, aired 1988-09-19AMERICAN INDIANS $100: The Hopi 1st rode on these in the 16th century horses
#926, aired 1988-09-19AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Famous Seneca orator Red Jacket got his name from the scarlet coat they gave him the British
#926, aired 1988-09-19AMERICAN INDIANS $300: The Natchez were known for flattening this part of their bodies their foreheads (heads)
#926, aired 1988-09-19AMERICAN INDIANS $400: According to historian Clark Wissler, it was the only language Sequoya knew Cherokee
#926, aired 1988-09-19AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Until the Tuscarora joined, the Iroquois consisted of this many "nations" 5
#907, aired 1988-07-12AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Though some may shave their heads, this inherited trait is all but unknown among Indian males baldness
#907, aired 1988-07-12AMERICAN INDIANS $400: A Pueblo tribe, it's the only major U.S. tribe that begins with "Z" Zuni
#907, aired 1988-07-12AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Numbering about 140,000, most of whom live in the Southwest, it's the largest Indian group in the U.S. the Navajos
#907, aired 1988-07-12AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A N.Y. political society was named for this chief of the Delawares Tammany
#907, aired 1988-07-12AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: The word "wigwam" comes from this language group spoken by the 1st Indians to greet the Pilgrims the Algonquian
#888, aired 1988-06-15BASEBALL $500: In 1944, he led the American League in batting while at the same time managing the Cleveland Indians Lou Boudreau
#832, aired 1988-03-29WEDDINGS $100: Commoners could be lined up by sex & paired off for mass marriages among these South American Indians the Incas
#824, aired 1988-03-17AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Famed for a legendary jump, his name was yelled by WWII paratroopers as they jumped Geronimo
#824, aired 1988-03-17AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Of the 5 Great Lakes, the only one whose name isn't derived from an Indian word Superior
#824, aired 1988-03-17AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Their tribal name means "stone people" but you see it mostly on silverware the Oneida
#824, aired 1988-03-17AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Andrew Jackson broke the power of this tribe at 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend in what is present-day Alabama the Creeks
#824, aired 1988-03-17AMERICAN INDIANS $1,300 (Daily Double): Though named for a bird, this tribe's members were called "the handsome men" by the French the Crowes
#790, aired 1988-01-29ARCHITECTURE $600: DOI & AFL-CIO run a construction trade school for this ethnic group known for not fearing heights American Indians
#770, aired 1988-01-01AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Algonquins were famous for their canoes made from the bark of this tree the birch tree
#770, aired 1988-01-01AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Largest city named for the Hueco Indians is in this state Texas
#770, aired 1988-01-01AMERICAN INDIANS $600: When Coolidge posed in Indian garb, this humorist wired him, "Politics makes strange red-fellows" Will Rogers
#770, aired 1988-01-01AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A textile mill is named for this son of Massasoit & brother of King Philip Wamsutta
#770, aired 1988-01-01AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: William Henry Harrison got nickname "Old Tippecanoe" from a battle against this Shawnee leader Tecumseh (or "The Prophet", referring to Tenskwatawa)
#731, aired 1987-11-09AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Tourists can view most of the annual puberty rites of the Mescalero branch of this tribe Apache
#731, aired 1987-11-09AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The famed memorial to this Indian who fought and defeated Custer is near Custer, SD Crazy Horse
#731, aired 1987-11-09AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Usually pulled by a dog, it could have been described as a "Plains Indians wagon without wheels" a travois
#731, aired 1987-11-09AMERICAN INDIANS $800: "Indian Napoleon" who led his band on a 1,000 mile retreat, but was caught 40 miles short of his goal, Canada Chief Joseph (of the Nez Perce)
#731, aired 1987-11-09AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: American Indian Movement activist who came in 2nd for the 1988 Libertarian Party Presidential nomination Russell Means
#722, aired 1987-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $200: It's said expression "on the warpath" isn't from Indians, but from this 1826 J.F. Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans
#722, aired 1987-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The Choctaw used to do this to their babies' heads bind them
#722, aired 1987-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Memphis, Tenn.'s baseball team, the Chicks, is not named for poultry but for this Indian tribe Chickasaws
#722, aired 1987-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $800 (Daily Double): Called "Big Chief" & proud of his Indian ancestry, Charles Curtis held this office from 1929-33 Vice President of the United States
#722, aired 1987-10-27AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Tho to them it is an age-old religious symbol, since WWII the Navajo have limited its use swastika
#692, aired 1987-09-15AMERICAN INDIANS $200: A papoose an Indian infant
#692, aired 1987-09-15AMERICAN INDIANS $400: 1 of the 6 tribes that made up most efficient N. American Indian organization, the Iroquois League (1 of) the Mohawk (Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora)
#692, aired 1987-09-15AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Sometimes called "Indian rice", it isn't really rice but the grains of a marsh grass wild rice
#692, aired 1987-09-15AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Chief Joseph has been called the outstanding personality in the history of this tribe the Nez Perce
#692, aired 1987-09-15AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: He told A. Oakley, "The white man knows how to make everything, but he doesn't know how to distribute it" Sitting Bull
#670, aired 1987-07-03AMERICAN INDIANS $200: There's a city named for the Munsee Indians in this state named for Indians Indiana
#670, aired 1987-07-03AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Indians called these northern people "eaters of raw meat" Eskimo or Inuit
#670, aired 1987-07-03AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Washington Irving coined this term, alleged to be American Indians' version of heaven the happy hunting ground
#670, aired 1987-07-03AMERICAN INDIANS $800: This Indian guide of Lewis & Clark only lived to age 25 Sacajawea
#670, aired 1987-07-03AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: The French called them "Pierced Nose", though few of them had one the Nez Perce
#656, aired 1987-06-15NATURE $400: Time-Life says before 1600, American Indians used to do this to forests to flush out game burn them (set forest fires)
#647, aired 1987-06-02AMERICAN INDIANS $200: James Fenimore Cooper was wrong; some 900 members of this tribe presently live in Connecticut the Mohicans
#647, aired 1987-06-02AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The land which became this NYC borough was obtained from the Canarsee Indians Brooklyn
#647, aired 1987-06-02AMERICAN INDIANS $800: A supporter of Indian rights, Davy Crockett tried to stop forced "Trail of Tears" removal of this tribe the Cherokee
#647, aired 1987-06-02AMERICAN INDIANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of 7, 18 or 26, number of U.S. states that have Indian names 26
#647, aired 1987-06-02AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Member of 1 of the tribes of the Iroquois, or a philosopher of ancient Rome Seneca
#643, aired 1987-05-27FLORIDA $300: The name of these Florida Indians is from Spanish-American "Cimarron", meaning wild Seminole
#608, aired 1987-04-08AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Sioux Indian greeting 1st heard by whites about 1815 háu
#608, aired 1987-04-08AMERICAN INDIANS $400: With New Mexico 2nd, this state has more land set aside for reservations than any other Arizona
#608, aired 1987-04-08AMERICAN INDIANS $600: It's said our union of states may have been patterned after this 6-tribe league centered in N.Y. the Iroquois
#608, aired 1987-04-08AMERICAN INDIANS $800: If you visited someone at home in his hogan, you'd be visiting a member of this tribe the Navajo
#608, aired 1987-04-08AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Abraham Lincoln was company captain in brief war against this Sauk chief Black Hawk
#576, aired 1987-02-23COWBOYS & INDIANS $800: In the 16th cent., Manteo & Wanchese became 1st American Indians to visit this country England
#573, aired 1987-02-18AMERICAN INDIANS $200 (Daily Double): Colorful reason large number of whites flocked to Black Hills leading to war with the red man gold
#573, aired 1987-02-18AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Tribes which carve totem poles live in this part of the U.S. Pacific Northwest
#573, aired 1987-02-18AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Bands of this Arizona tribe include the Tonto, Chiricahua & Mescalero Apache
#573, aired 1987-02-18AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Johnny Cash James Garner & Burt Reynolds are all partly descended from this tribe Cherokee
#565, aired 1987-02-06DANGEROUS ANIMALS $400: Teeth of these S. American fish are so sharp, some Indians use them as scissors & razor blades piranha
#497, aired 1986-11-04AMERICAN INDIANS $200: In reality, it was a dime novelist, not the Indians, who coined the term "Great White Father" for him the President
#497, aired 1986-11-04AMERICAN INDIANS $300: In a 1971 #1 hit, Paul Revere & the Raiders said this tribe was "so proud to live, so proud to die" the Cherokee
#497, aired 1986-11-04AMERICAN INDIANS $500: The tribe called itself "Dakota" meaning "allies" while others called them "Sioux" meaning this enemies
#481, aired 1986-10-13AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Pontiac was a chief of this tribe for whom Canada's capital is named Ottawa
#481, aired 1986-10-13AMERICAN INDIANS $400: George Guess was English name of this inventor of the Cherokee alphabet Sequoyah
#481, aired 1986-10-13AMERICAN INDIANS $600: He's revered among the Sioux as their greatest warrior Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó)
#481, aired 1986-10-13AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Each year, Arapaho Indians do this dance for 72 consecutive hours the sun dance
#460, aired 1986-09-12AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Florida tribe which was famous for sheltering runaway slaves Seminoles
#460, aired 1986-09-12AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Only East Coast Indians originally used this word for money made of shells wampum
#460, aired 1986-09-12AMERICAN INDIANS $300: 1st college on an Indian reservation is this tribe's community college in Arizona Navajo
#460, aired 1986-09-12AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In 1661, the 1st of these printed in America was published in the language of the Massachusett tribe the Bible
#460, aired 1986-09-12AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Wahunsonacock, Pocahontas' father, is better known by this name, which was really name of his tribe Powhatan
#411, aired 1986-04-07AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Osceola, who conducted guerilla war in the Everglades, was a leader of this tribe Seminoles
#411, aired 1986-04-07AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The Osage were once considered richest people per capita in the world, due to wealth from this oil
#411, aired 1986-04-07AMERICAN INDIANS $300 (Daily Double): Tribe for whom this tune is named: the Apaches
#411, aired 1986-04-07AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Conn. settlers survived Pequot attacks thanks to this Mohegan chief made famous by J.F. Cooper Uncas
#411, aired 1986-04-07AMERICAN INDIANS $500: French called Hidatsa of North Dakota "Gros Ventres" after this anatomical feature large stomach (big belly)
#395, aired 1986-03-14AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The state of Utah is named for this tribe the Utes
#395, aired 1986-03-14DOUBLE MEANINGS $400: Range of country singer Johnny's voice, or the place to ring up sales a Cash register
#395, aired 1986-03-14AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Mohawk Indian who played Lone Ranger's "faithful Indian companion, Tonto" on TV Jay Silverheels
#395, aired 1986-03-14AMERICAN INDIANS $600: In 1722, the Tuscarora, formerly of North Carolina, became "Sixth Nation" of this league the Iroquois League
#395, aired 1986-03-14AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Dull Knife was a chief of this tribe which aided the Sioux against Custer the Cheyenne
#394, aired 1986-03-13AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The Indians called this "Long Knife" "Long Hair" George Custer
#371, aired 1986-02-10AMERICAN INDIANS $100: Though often credited with winning it, this Sioux medicine man sat out of the Battle of Little Big Horn Sitting Bull
#371, aired 1986-02-10AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Imposing Duwamish Indian chief for whom Washington State's largest city was named Seattle
#360, aired 1986-01-24AMERICAN INDIANS $100: After 1510, Africans began replacing the Indians as these in the new world slaves
#360, aired 1986-01-24AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Hard quartz used by Indians as arrowheads & firestarters flint
#360, aired 1986-01-24AMERICAN INDIANS $300: This S.W. tribe of Indians came to name a criminal element in faraway Paris Apache
#360, aired 1986-01-24AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The English named this tribe for the many streams that ran through their southern U.S. domain the Creek Indians
#360, aired 1986-01-24AMERICAN INDIANS $500: This same Indian word means a ceremony, a medicine man, or most often, a political meeting a pow-wow
#347, aired 1986-01-07GAMES $300: American Indians made them by dipping gourds into latex & curing them with smoke balls
#331, aired 1985-12-16AMERICAN INDIANS $200: He called the Native Americans "Indians" because he thought he was in the East indies Columbus
#331, aired 1985-12-16AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The smallest of these, near Trumbull, Conn., consists of 1/4 acre & 4 people a reservation
#331, aired 1985-12-16AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Spanish for "villages", women traditionally own the houses in these Hopi & Zuni communities pueblos
#307, aired 1985-11-12AMERICAN INDIANS $100: A more accurate translation of his name would be “wild” or “unbroken” horse Crazy Horse
#307, aired 1985-11-12AMERICAN INDIANS $200: When Indians made peace, they symbolically buried this weapon hatchet
#307, aired 1985-11-12AMERICAN INDIANS $300: Canadian Indians played 1st version of this sport with few rules & up to 1000 players in a game lacrosse
#307, aired 1985-11-12AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Side the Iroquois supported in the French & Indian War British (English side)
#307, aired 1985-11-12AMERICAN INDIANS $500: Inter-tribal language of the North American Plains Indians sign language
#300, aired 1985-11-01REVOLUTIONARY WAR $600: Henry Hamilton, British Lt. Gov. of Detroit, was called "hair buyer" & accused of this putting a bounty on scalps (encouraging Indians to bring in American scalps)
#291, aired 1985-10-21AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Hopatcong, Hackensack, & Hoboken are Indian names of places in this state New Jersey
#291, aired 1985-10-21AMERICAN INDIANS $400: In 1847, Choctaws raised money to aid victims of potato famine in this country Ireland
#291, aired 1985-10-21AMERICAN INDIANS $600: A variety of salmon is named for this NW tribe, for whom it was mainstay of their diet Chinook
#291, aired 1985-10-21AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Sachem, to the Algonquins a chief (a leader)
#288, aired 1985-10-16AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Andrew Jackson pushed a bill through congress to push all the Indians west of this natural border the Mississippi River
#277, aired 1985-10-01AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Until their near extinction in the 1880s, they were the plains Indians main source of food buffalo (bison)
#277, aired 1985-10-01AMERICAN INDIANS $400: An American Indian word for food, now the basis for a common style of grits hominy
#277, aired 1985-10-01AMERICAN INDIANS $600: The 2 "superpower" adversaries of the French & Indian War French & English
#277, aired 1985-10-01AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Gall & he led the attack on Custer's 7th cavalry Crazy Horse
#277, aired 1985-10-01AMERICAN INDIANS $1,500 (Daily Double): 2 of the 5 "Civilized Tribes", so called because they resembled European nations in structure (2 of) the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, the Cherokee, the Creek & the Seminole
#180, aired 1985-05-17AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Actor who turned down '73 Oscar to protest treatment of Indians Marlon Brando
#180, aired 1985-05-17AMERICAN INDIANS $400: 19th C. Plains Ind. Ghost Dance religion promised disappearance of Whites & return of these animals buffalo (or bison)
#180, aired 1985-05-17AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Their name is said to derive from rubbing their moccasins in ashes the Blackfeet
#180, aired 1985-05-17AMERICAN INDIANS $800: State whose name comes from 2 Choctaw words meaning "red people" Oklahoma
#180, aired 1985-05-17AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: When the pilgrims got to America, they met this English-speaking Indian who had lived in England Squanto
#169, aired 1985-05-02AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Iroquoian tribe for whom a punk hairstyle is named a Mohawk
#169, aired 1985-05-02AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Cochise, whose name means "firewood", led Chiricahua band of this tribe the Apache
#169, aired 1985-05-02AMERICAN INDIANS $800: "Sorrowful" term for long forced march of the Cherokee to Oklahoma, on which many died the Trail of Tears
#169, aired 1985-05-02AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Allies of the Kiowa, they eluded bullets & arrows by hanging on side or under horses the Comanche
#169, aired 1985-05-02AMERICAN INDIANS $1,400 (Daily Double): Title of this song protesting the treatment of the Indians: "Well I was a red man / I was proud, I was strong / You were the white man / And you stole away my home...the way you bring me down / Make me wish that I was dead" "Wooden Indian"
#142, aired 1985-03-26AMERICAN INDIANS $200: After Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull & his followers fled to this country Canada
#142, aired 1985-03-26AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Algonquin tribe for whom New York City’s central island is named Manhattan
#142, aired 1985-03-26AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Before whites introduced horses, this animal was Plains Indians’ main beast of burden a dog
#142, aired 1985-03-26AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Last Indian war battle took place at this S. Dakota site Wounded Knee
#142, aired 1985-03-26AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Shawnee chief who tried to unite Indians against whites and died helping British in War of 1812 Tecumseh
#121, aired 1985-02-25AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Indians used this ax as both tool & weapon a tomahawk
#121, aired 1985-02-25AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Sacajawea, the bird woman, guided these American explorers Lewis & Clark
#121, aired 1985-02-25AMERICAN INDIANS $600: Though only Massasoit was invited to this, he showed up with 90 hungry warriors the first Thanksgiving
#121, aired 1985-02-25AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Northern Plains tribe known to other Indians as "Children of the Large-Beaked Bird" the Crows
#121, aired 1985-02-25AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: King James complained a commoner had married royalty w/out permission when this man wed Pocohontas John Rolfe
#93, aired 1985-01-16AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Tribe for whom Wyoming's capital is named Cheyenne
#93, aired 1985-01-16AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Jicarilla, San Carlos & Mescalero are tribes of this Indian nation Apache
#93, aired 1985-01-16AMERICAN INDIANS $600: In 1877, this Nez Perce chief said "I will fight no more forever" Chief Joseph
#89, aired 1985-01-10NICKNAMES $300: Name Indians gave white men because they carried swords the Long Knives
#16, aired 1984-10-01AMERICAN INDIANS $800: He, not Sitting Bull, led the Indians at Custer's Last Stand Chief Crazy Horse
#16, aired 1984-10-01AMERICAN INDIANS $1000: Numbering some 140,000, this Southwest tribe is America's largest Navajo
#14, aired 1984-09-27AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Device Indians smoked as sign of friendship a peace pipe
#14, aired 1984-09-27AMERICAN INDIANS $400: They symbolize family trees of N.W. Indians totem poles
#14, aired 1984-09-27AMERICAN INDIANS $600: To keep Indians out, Dutch settlers built a wall across this New Amsterdam street Wall Street
#14, aired 1984-09-27AMERICAN INDIANS $800: Runaway slaves used to hide with this tribe in Florida swamps the Seminoles

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#4765, aired 2005-04-2919th CENTURY AMERICAN ART: Some versions of this painting based on a Bible verse show William Penn making a treaty with the Indians in the background Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom
#2414, aired 1995-02-16AMERICAN HISTORY: This South Dakota community was the site of 2 clashes between the U.S. gov't & Indians, in 1890 & 1973 Wounded Knee
#734, aired 1987-11-12AMERICAN INDIANS: This famed Sauk Indian had both a war and a pro sports team named for him Black Hawk
#539, aired 1987-01-01AMERICAN INDIANS: America's largest reservation houses mainly members of this tribe Navajo

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