#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $200: Ancient cliff dwellings in Bandelier National Monument were crafted from tuff, a rock formed of ash from these volcanoes |
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 | COME SAIL AWAY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) To show how ancient America's people could colonize Polynesia, in 1947 Thor Heyerdahl sailed 4300 miles in 101 days, on this raft, named for an Incan god Kon-Tiki |
#6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: For more than 100 years, archaeologists have explored this ancient city in South America Machu Picchu |
#6155, aired 2011-05-20 | ANCIENT MEASURES $1000: "America's Got" this Hebrew unit of sacred weight equal to 60 minas, or about 66 pounds talent |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: The Zapotec Empire in what is now this country developed one of the first written texts in Middle America Mexico |
#3963, aired 2001-11-21 | "BI"-BYE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the Page Museum.) Correct scientific name of this ancient beast; 60 million of his descendants once roamed North America bison |
#3939, aired 2001-10-18 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 5 $200: In 1970 he crossed the Atlantic on Ra II to prove the ancient Egyptians could have sailed to America Thor Heyerdahl |
#2282, aired 1994-07-05 | RELIGION $200: This religious book used by the Latter-Day Saints is called "a sacred record of peoples in ancient America" the Book of Mormon |
#1192, aired 1989-11-07 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Thor Heyerdahl said Polynesians may have come from South America on rafts made of this wood Balsa |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | SOUTH AMERICA $600: The finest emeralds are found in the ancient mines of this country Colombia |
#783, aired 1988-01-20 | SOUTH AMERICA $200: Ancient empire whose capital was Cuzco, in what is now Peru the Inca Empire |
#495, aired 1986-10-31 | ANCIENT AMERICA $100: These equines disappeared from N. America some 8000 years ago & were brought back by white explorers horses |
#495, aired 1986-10-31 | ANCIENT AMERICA $200: At height of glaciation, the amount of ice in N. America exceeded that on this icy continent today Antarctica |
#495, aired 1986-10-31 | ANCIENT AMERICA $300: As far back as 5000 B.C., this was the most important crop grown in what is now Mexico maize (corn) |
#495, aired 1986-10-31 | ANCIENT AMERICA $400: Mayans played a sacred game on special courts using a ball made from this substance unknown in Europe rubber |
#495, aired 1986-10-31 | ANCIENT AMERICA $500: Since Aztec p.o.w.s were sacrificed to the gods, their method of warfare was meant to do this, not kill capture |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | ANCIENT AMERICA $100: The "Red Paint People" were Paleolithic inhabitants of this state, now home of red lobsters Maine |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | ANCIENT AMERICA $200: 10 million years ago you couldn't get to the bottom of this 217-mile-long Arizona gorge; it didn't exist the Grand Canyon |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | ANCIENT AMERICA $300: It was only 10,000 years ago the last of these retreated over N. America, leaving the now Great Lakes glaciers |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | ANCIENT AMERICA $400: All the encyclopedias used by Jeopardy! have the same painting of this ancient Cal. cat, genus "Smilodon" the sabre-toothed tiger |
#405, aired 1986-03-28 | ANCIENT AMERICA $500: They were only connected from 26,000-8000 B.C., which is why Am. human finds date back just 20,000 years the land bridge between North America and Asia |
#392, aired 1986-03-11 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $1000: Ancient Mesoamerican cultures used these fatty seeds as money cacao beans |