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#1. Season 31
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
SPANISH CLASS
Jeopardy Round: $800
I've got una computadora, a computer, un raton, a mouse & this, un teclado
   
#2. Season 34
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
2 "U"
Jeopardy Round: $200
Amount produced in a given time, or stuff that comes from a computer
   
#3. Season 25
Friday, February 6, 2009
HIDING ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
You'll hear this web search site's name yodeled if you click the exclamation mark on the home page
   
#4. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Of 1943, 1963, or 1983, the last year Maytag made wringer-type washers
   
#5. Season 14
Tuesday, November 4, 1997
CYBER LIFE
Jeopardy Round: $300
This Microsoft chairman addressed 1997's Macworld Expo via satellite on a large screen TV
   
#6. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1985 people from IBM, Apple & Boeing won the first National Medals of this
   
#7. Season 28
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
OUR NEW COMPUTER OVERLORDS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1998 Deep Crack, designed for this science from the Greek for "hidden writing", broke the standard U.S. data cipher
   
#8. Season 39
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
THEY MAKE THAT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Game with its Core X-series processors
   
#9. Season 16
Tuesday, December 28, 1999
1999 BOFFO B.O.
Jeopardy Round: $500
In this 1999 film Keanu Reeves finds himself in a computer-generated world
   
#10. Season 24
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Patented in 1965, this stadium ground covering was first used commercially on a large scale in Texas
   
#11. Season 37
Thursday, May 27, 2021
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Whenever you access a webpage, your browser puts the data in this temporary storage for faster retrieval
   
#12. Season 14
Wednesday, January 14, 1998
CARTOONS
Jeopardy Round: $100
Director John Lasseter earned a 1995 Oscar for this first all-computerized animated feature
   
#13. Season 21
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Now both an NFL & NBA team owner, he co-wrote a "BASIC" computer language for the Altair 8800 in 1975
   
#14. Season 28
Friday, November 11, 2011
BUSINESS
Final Jeopardy
A 2005 sale of 14,159,265 shares prompted the headline "Google offers shares, seeks global piece of" this
   
#15. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Deuterium is also known as heavy this element
   
#16. Season 16
Friday, September 17, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
George Nissen invented this, a "bouncing table", after seeing how circus performers bounced into safety nets
   
#17. Season 28
Thursday, September 29, 2011
IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 2011 Larry Page took over as CEO of Google, following this man
   
#18. Season 14
Thursday, December 11, 1997
TAPE
Jeopardy Round: $500
Used to insulate electrical wires, it's named for the force that resists sliding objects
   
#19. Season 27
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
THE NEW YORK TIMESIN THE 21st CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The 1st Timescast of newsroom video aired in 2010 & 1 story discussed was this tech co.'s rocky relationship with China
   
#20. Season 21
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
SHOCKING!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This unit of electrical resistance is named for a 19th century German physicist
   
#21. Season 14
Friday, May 29, 1998
SCIENCE & NATURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Announced on February 14, 1946, this first electronic digital computer had 18,000 vacuum tubes
   
#22. Season 41
Thursday, December 26, 2024
FROM J TO K
Jeopardy Round: $400
It can mean to remove built-in limitations from an electronic device as well as an escape from the slammer
   
#23. Season 38
Friday, May 6, 2022
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
President Xi apologizes; his email left off the fù jiàn, this
   
#24. Season 11
Monday, May 8, 1995
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Tie Fighter from Lucas Arts is based on this film series
   
#25. Season 6
Wednesday, April 18, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
The Museum of Broadcasting is transferring masters of all its shows from analog videotape to this type
   
#26. Season 11
Tuesday, September 20, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In CAD/CAM, called the "new Industrial Revolution", it's what the D stands for
   
#27. Season JM
Friday, May 17, 2024
AN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Jeopardy Round: 200
In 2023 IBM introduced a platform called this name "X", "to train, tune and distribute models with generative AI"
   
#28. Season 30
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
MUSIC MAKERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This "Video Games" chanteuse teams with Cedric Gervais on "Summertime Sadness"
   
#29. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
1996: the first successful PDA takes off--this alliterative one
   
#30. Season 15
Friday, February 12, 1999
CORPORATE HISTORIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This pair has been selling books in stores "Since 1873" & on the internet since 1997
   
#31. Season 35
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
"RE" NOUN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
As a noun, it started up in a 1980 computer handbook
   
#32. Season 30
Friday, August 1, 2014
INTERNET JARGON
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Writer Adam Gopnik was among parents who made their kids snicker by thinking "LOL" meant this, not "laugh out loud"
   
#33. Season 28
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This 2-word term for the idea that a computer could think like a human was coined in the 1950s
   
#34. Season 36
Thursday, October 24, 2019
YOUNGER THANTHE SIMPSONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This video-sharing service premiered in 2005 & was sold to Google a year later for $1.6 billion
   
#35. Season 23
Monday, December 4, 2006
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This Pasadena school, often called Caltech, operates several observatories, including Palomar near San Diego
   
#36. Season 33
Friday, April 14, 2017
FENCING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In "Hamlet" Laertes says "A" this, "I do confess"; today he wouldn't have to, as the electronics would record it
   
#37. Season 23
Friday, June 1, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "Pearl" model of this Research In Motion device is an e-mail client, media player, camera & cell phone
   
#38. Season 41
Monday, February 24, 2025
LOOK MA, NO WHEELS!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Maglev is short for this technology in which wheelless trains glide over their tracks
   
#39. Season 5
Wednesday, May 10, 1989
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In '87 buildings of the new U.S. embassy complex in Moscow were found riddled with these
   
#40. Season 28
Friday, February 24, 2012
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Sony's micro vault line of these lets you carry photos, data or state secrets in a 1.6-inch package
   
#41. Season 27
Monday, June 13, 2011
ENTERPRISE
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,500
This website was originally "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"
   
#42. Season 38
Thursday, December 2, 2021
AIN'T THAT AMERICA
Jeopardy Round: $800
Katherine Johnson was such a genius she made sure the computer was correct in planning the 1962 flight of Friendship 7 for this astronaut
   
#43. Season 33
Thursday, September 22, 2016
IT'S RAINING MENSA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Mensa man Markus Persson sold this create-a-world-out-of-blocks computer game to Microsoft for $2.5 billion
   
#44. Season 11
Monday, May 8, 1995
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $100
This company brings you Starfox, Donkey Kong Country & Wario Land
   
#45. Season 40
Thursday, March 28, 2024
ALPHANUMERICS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This technology introduced in 2019 brought faster connectivity all over an area
   
#46. Season 15
Tuesday, March 9, 1999
IN A STORM MOVIE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
During an electrical storm in this 1931 horror film, a monster comes "alive"
   
#47. Season JM
Monday, May 6, 2024
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: 400
Mario gets super-duper powering up on these, based on a type called Amanita muscaria
   
#48. Season 8
Tuesday, March 24, 1992
COMPUTERESE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
DOS is an acronym for this
   
#49. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sometimes your computer is fine, but this, your LAN, is down
   
#50. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $600
"EBCAK" is "error between chair and" this
   
#51. Season 33
Friday, April 14, 2017
HIDDEN GENIUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This code breaker & computer genius was persecuted for his sexuality; sounds like a non sequitur in Great Britain
   
#52. Season 37
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
COULD YOU?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Build a resort to make your city into a tourist destination in this video game also released as Micropolis
   
#53. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It was first developed as a means of detecting both icebergs & submarines
   
#54. Season 30
Thursday, May 15, 2014
CHESS DRAMA
Jeopardy Round: $600
Some of our champions know how this champion felt when he lost a 1997 match to IBM's Deep Blue computer
   
#55. Season 5
Monday, January 16, 1989
MOVIE TRIVIA
Jeopardy Round: $200
The WSJ compared the carrot-shredding "Robot-Coupe" food processor to this human-shredding hero
   
#56. Season 27
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
THE PARTING OF THE FCC
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
An FCC FAQ--"Is there any evidence" these devices "cause cancer?" No, but the FCC is still monitoring it
   
#57. Season 38
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
THE NIFTY '50s
Jeopardy Round: $200
Ushering in a new age, the UNIVAC, developed for the Bureau of the Census, stood for Universal Automatic this
   
#58. Season 32
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
ELECTRICITY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Rheostats & potentiometers are types of these devices that oppose the flow of current in electrical circuits
   
#59. Season 38
Friday, December 3, 2021
YOU GET A "C"
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's a movable object on a computer screen, not one who swears a lot
   
#60. Season 29
Thursday, July 18, 2013
BABY REGISTRY ITEMS
Jeopardy Round: $400
You can see baby & even communicate with baby from somewhere else in the house with Motorola's MBP line of these
   
#61. Season 35
Thursday, November 29, 2018
HODGEPODGE
Jeopardy Round: $600
In September 2013 this video game "V" carjacked $1 billion in sales in its first 3 days of release
   
#62. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
RESEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The Internet Archive developed this "Machine" for cached pages that allows users to look at the ghosts of websites past
   
#63. Season 12
Monday, January 29, 1996
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $500
In 1962 he founded Electronic Data Systems after working for IBM for 5 years
   
#64. Season 37
Monday, February 1, 2021
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Chargers' Keenan Allen did not like his attributes in this coach's "NFL 20": "My strength is 69 like I'm a little boy"
   
#65. Season 24
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
THE NEW YORK TIMESTECH BIZ
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The David Pogue blog says the iPhone with push email is gunning for this most popular smartphone
   
#66. Season 15
Friday, April 16, 1999
PC WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $300
To take fleas off your dog, or to detect, locate & correct errors in a computer program
   
#67. Season 37
Monday, February 1, 2021
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2020 it was time to find some "New Horizons" & build your own island paradise with this Nintendo Switch game
   
#68. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Charles Proteus Steinmetz did the math & came up with a way for this type of current circuitry to work
   
#69. Season 32
Thursday, February 11, 2016
VIDEO GAME SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $600
NPC stands for this, an avatar not controlled by a human
   
#70. Season 5
Tuesday, January 17, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Because it was 1st to use steel-wire cables & among 1st to use pneumatic caissons, it was a good buy in 1883
   
#71. Season 39
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION!
Jeopardy Round: $200
A rare packaging of a 1985 Nintendo video game featuring "Super" these "Bros." bounced to $114,000 in 2020
   
#72. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009
COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
"DOS" stands for these 3 words
   
#73. Season 15
Tuesday, October 13, 1998
1890s TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It was discovered that these, which share their name with insect parts, improved radio reception
   
#74. Season 41
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
SAME VOWEL PAIR TWICE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Process by which atoms may become electrically charged
   
#75. Season 21
Friday, February 4, 2005
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Ferromagnetism, or attraction by an electrically uncharged body, is a property of this element, atomic number 26
   
#76. Season 30
Monday, April 21, 2014
ABOARD "SHIP"
Jeopardy Round: $800
In a 2013 film Owen Wilson got a coveted one of these title positions at Google
   
#77. Season 26
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1999 Sloan school alum Kenan Sahin made a surprise 9-figure donation to this institute
   
#78. Season 24
Friday, May 30, 2008
3-LETTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
Readouts on digital watches & calculators use this 3-letter technology invented by James Fergason
   
#79. Season 36
Monday, January 20, 2020
SECOND CITY ALUMNI
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Told he babbles on under pressure on this tech sitcom, Thomas Middleditch's Richard asks, "Why does this thing people say?"
   
#80. Season 36
Monday, January 27, 2020
THE 2019FORBESGLOBAL 2,000
Jeopardy Round: $600
The most profitable on the list is this technology company that passed $1 trillion in value in 2018
   
#81. Season 20
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
INNS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Jan. 1, 1996 was Holiday Inn's deadline for all its properties to open room doors with these
   
#82. Season SUPERJEOPARDY
Saturday, August 4, 1990
"X", "Y", "Z"
Jeopardy Round: 200
In computer terms it means to erase, in science fiction terms, to hit someone with a ray gun
   
#83. Season 39
Friday, June 23, 2023
KIDS OF THE '70s, REJOICE!
Jeopardy Round: $800
In '72, this tennis-like Atari video game debuted & kids went crazy--such cool graphics! They'll never get better than that!
   
#84. Season 26
Friday, December 25, 2009
TERMS OF ENGINEERMENT
Jeopardy Round: $800
16th c. scientist William Gilbert is called the father of this type of engineering; a device he invented detected charge
   
#85. Season 23
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
SPORTS BARRIERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
At the Mexico City Olympics, the USA's Jim Hines was the 1st electronically timed in this race at under 10 sec., recording a 9.95
   
#86. Season 15
Monday, January 25, 1999
IN A NUTSHELL
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Mauna Loa Corporation is the world's leading grower, processor & marketer of these nuts
   
#87. Season 9
Wednesday, June 30, 1993
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Using a kite antenna, he received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, the letter S
   
#88. Season 32
Friday, November 13, 2015
TIMEMAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
2010:
This Facebook co-founder
   
#89. Season 32
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
VIDEO GAME VILLAINS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A comical A.I. helps you make holes you can move through to beat GLaDOS' tests in this Valve game's sequel
   
#90. Season 25
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
COMPUTER RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Temporary memory crushed into a jelly
   
#91. Season 37
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
ALPHABET ROCKERS & RAPPERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Hey, short-pants! An electrical label led to the name of this Angus & Malcolm Young band
   
#92. Season 23
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
2 WORDS IN ONE
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Avionics" flies from these words
   
#93. Season 32
Thursday, May 5, 2016
SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN GERMAN
Jeopardy Round: $800
Informatik
(a thoroughly modern one)
   
#94. Season 34
Thursday, March 1, 2018
WE'LL TAKE YOUR MEASURE!
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Consult a galvanometer to measure amperes of this
   
#95. Season 20
Tuesday, February 3, 2004
LOSING, LOSING, & MORE LOSING
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's an atom that can become electrically charged by losing one or more electrons
   
#96. Season 40
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
____ & ____ BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $200
On its website, it boasts of being "the Internet's largest bookstore"
   
#97. Season 39
Thursday, April 27, 2023
4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Oddly, the Colonel's recipes are overseen by this agency along with Americans' TVs & cell phones
   
#98. Season 18
Monday, April 15, 2002
FILL IN THE BANK
Jeopardy Round: $800
A collection of information on a subject, stored in a computer: _____ bank
   
#99. Season 41
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY
Jeopardy Round: $600
"People also ask" on Google, "What is the correct pronunciation?" of this family of bears & "always religious?"
   
#100. Season 15
Thursday, October 29, 1998
THE LAST MAN
Jeopardy Round: $200
In "Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology" is this "Cosmos" astronomer
   
#101. Season 31
Friday, November 21, 2014
McWRITERS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $7,000
In 1962 Marshall McLuhan wrote "Electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global" this
   
#102. Season 33
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"Hyrule Legends" & "Link's Crossbow Training" are Wii options in this "legendary" game series
   
#103. Season 41
Monday, April 14, 2025
ELEMENTAL PHRASES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This region around the southern shores of San Francisco Bay stands in for the tech industry
   
#104. Season 16
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This psychotic computer is repaired in Arthur C. Clarke's "2010: Odyssey Two"
   
#105. Season 30
Monday, October 21, 2013
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & birds
   
#106. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Of printed out, erased, or stored, what you've done if you've "dumped" all the info that's in the core
   
#107. Season 31
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
ABBR-"E"-VIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Are you listening to Penguin Prison? Then you are enjoying this, EDM for short
   
#108. Season 6
Tuesday, April 24, 1990
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1892 the Edison Co. merged with the Thomson-Houston Electrical Co. to form this company
   
#109. Season 41
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
HISTORICALSHARK TANK
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Philo Farnsworth could convince Mark Cuban to invest in this electronic medium that can beam Mavs games into anyone's home
   
#110. Season 27
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
loc.gov is the website for this place, home to about 745 miles of bookshelves
   
#111. Season 30
Monday, February 17, 2014
TALK NERDY TO ME
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
I love it when you say that "I.P. address" is short for "Internet" this "address"
   
#112. Season 33
Thursday, November 10, 2016
WHEN IT WAS NEW
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Big excitement in 1995 when this company launched Windows 95 & the Internet Explorer browser
   
#113. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004
DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $200
RAM & ROM are 2 types of this important computer storage
   
#114. Season 31
Friday, September 19, 2014
VANILLA
Jeopardy Round: $800
A comedian's scripted shtick, or a computer's set of instructions
   
#115. Season 22
Thursday, November 10, 2005
GEEK LOVE
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Woz, Steve Wozniak, built the first computer for this company
   
#116. Season 16
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
If your PC freezes up, a handy way to restart is to hold down Ctrl & Alt & hit this key
   
#117. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $500
GG
   
#118. Season 19
Thursday, April 3, 2003
GOING WIRELESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Kyocera QCP 6035 Smartphone combines a cell phone with one of these multifunction organizers
   
#119. Season 5
Monday, November 14, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber, and this Charles used rubber to waterproof cloth
   
#120. Season 26
Monday, November 2, 2009
iPHONE APPS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
You can figure out square roots & find coordinates on the x- & y-axes with the app called "Graphing" this
   
#121. Season 18
Friday, December 7, 2001
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $600
He's CEO of both Apple Computer & Pixar Animation Studios
   
#122. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Introduced in 1982, this sequel had as big an appetite as her male predecessor
   
#123. Season 23
Monday, May 21, 2007
FORBES'CARS FOR THE RICH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Things get personal for personal computer mogul Michael Dell in a 2005 H2 from this manufacturer
   
#124. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's considered fragmented when the spaces it allocates to a file are not contiguous, but scattered
   
#125. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "app" in "killer app" stands for this
   
#126. Season 13
Thursday, December 26, 1996
BRITISH TV
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This computer-created Matt Frewer character had a British music video show before the U.S. drama
   
#127. Season 35
Friday, April 12, 2019
GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018
Jeopardy Round: $800
For 2016 & 2017 the most searched athlete was this Dublin-born MMA fighter
   
#128. Season 31
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
THE MARIAN KIND
Jeopardy Round: $600
In this classic video game named for 2 mythic serpents, Marian has been kidnapped by street thugs
   
#129. Season 28
Friday, October 21, 2011
THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR!
Jeopardy Round: $800
To remove a no-longer-wanted computer program from your hard drive
   
#130. Season 23
Monday, December 4, 2006
SMART STUPID ANSWERS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2004 this company unleashed its legal aces on 17-year-old Mike Rowe in a phonetic dispute over a domain name
   
#131. Season 22
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
ENDS IN AN F SOUND
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In computer animation, it means to transform an image, such as changing a man into a mouse
   
#132. Season 18
Friday, March 22, 2002
ALL BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
We predict you'll know that this computer software company has the stock symbol ORCL
   
#133. Season 16
Monday, March 6, 2000
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
From the Latin for "to rise", the name of this spreadsheet program implies that it rises above the others
   
#134. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024
COMPUTER TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's the acronym for the "prove you're not a robot" tests encountered when accessing some websites
   
#135. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: 1000
A text-to-video system by OpenAI is named this, after the Japanese word for sky
   
#136. Season 38
Thursday, September 23, 2021
HISTORIC WOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A programming language is named after this daughter of Lord Byron who is called the world's 1st computer programmer
   
#137. Season 34
Friday, April 20, 2018
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A billion-dollar tech company or an ideal mate is this mythic creature, like Charlie of Candy Mountain fame
   
#138. Season 25
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
THE HELOISE WITH YOU
Jeopardy Round: $600
Take these off & clean their undersides individually (that open parens/9 is always especially grungy)
   
#139. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It was a fine string before it became a series of posts dealing with the same subject
   
#140. Season 14
Monday, October 27, 1997
RESEARCH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Search engines like Alta Vista help you explore the vast maze of this information system
   
#141. Season 17
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
CHEMISTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $400
Sodium & this yellow-green gas are produced when salt is melted down & an electrical current is run through it
   
#142. Season 16
Tuesday, April 4, 2000
THE PC
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This company that makes the Celeron processor celebrated its 30th anniversary in 1998
   
#143. Season 28
Monday, January 23, 2012
CAN I HAVE A MOMENT?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The Webby Awards' top Internet moments for 2000-2009 include Twitter's role in this country's 2009 election protests
   
#144. Season 32
Thursday, May 12, 2016
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,700
In computerese, a nybble is defined as a half of one of these
   
#145. Season 41
Friday, February 7, 2025
CEOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 2015 Larry Page handed over the reins of Google to this CEO born in Tamil Nadu, India
   
#146. Season 30
Monday, November 18, 2013
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An E.M.P. or electromagnetic this was first noticed in the U.S. when electronics quit working after nuclear tests
   
#147. Season 33
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the ability to connect; it can follow "internet" or, in Wayne's World, "cable"
   
#148. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $400
The outline of the human face as seen from the side
   
#149. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Hewlett-Packard, Epson & Canon all make the ink-jet variety of these peripherals
   
#150. Season 33
Monday, July 24, 2017
20th CENTURY WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A spot of light on a radar screen, it appeared in a 1945 issue of Electronic Engineering Magazine
   
#151. Season 14
Tuesday, May 12, 1998
WORD PROCESSING
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Term for the printer or margins your computer is set for unless you tell it otherwise
   
#152. Season 19
Monday, October 7, 2002
11-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's a work page containing a multicolumn analysis of related entries, such as in Microsoft Excel
   
#153. Season 14
Thursday, March 5, 1998
ELECTRONICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Electronic circuit signals may be classified as analog or this
   
#154. Season 28
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
OUR NEW COMPUTER OVERLORDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2008 an IBM supercomputer named for this speedy state bird broke the 1 petaflop barrier--that's really fast
   
#155. Season 36
Monday, March 16, 2020
RECENT EVENTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This game involving scavenging was first announced at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards but didn't become available until 2017
   
#156. Season 31
Thursday, May 14, 2015
LITERATURE
Jeopardy Round: $600
The first book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy about computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is "The Girl with" this
   
#157. Season 24
Thursday, January 24, 2008
HOUSEHOLD NAMES
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
Carl Sontheimer combined his electronics expertise with his love of cooking to create this food processor
   
#158. Season 15
Tuesday, October 13, 1998
1890s TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Whitcomb Judson's "clasp locker" of 1893 was this fastener's forerunner
   
#159. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Job changed his profile pic after shaving this, not for the Dwayne Johnson look but in mourning for his 10 children
   
#160. Season 37
Friday, January 8, 2021
WEARABLE TECH
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's just a blue T to me, but the men's UA Tech 2.0 vibe print short sleeve by this sports brand somehow has "anti-odor technology"
   
#161. Season 22
Friday, March 17, 2006
RECORD LOSSES IN 2005
Jeopardy Round: $200
A computer with 98,000 names & SSNs was reported stolen from this oldest campus of the Univ. of Calif.
   
#162. Season 35
Thursday, May 23, 2019
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The last letter of the Greek alphabet represents this unit of electrical resistance
   
#163. Season 33
Thursday, May 4, 2017
ELECTRICITY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Electrical impulses come form the heart's natural pacemaker, the S-A node, short for this
   
#164. Season 31
Friday, May 1, 2015
TECHNOLOGY & STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $200
The 2014 World Series MVP got a Colorado from this car brand, whose rep noted its "technology & stuff"
   
#165. Season 18
Monday, December 3, 2001
INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Keep quiet with .sh, the code for this south Atlantic island, a place of exile for Napoleon
   
#166. Season 38
Friday, April 1, 2022
THANK YOU, THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Blind & low-vision people connect with sighted volunteers for visual aid using a free app called Be My these
   
#167. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
1993: this company introduces its Pentium processor
   
#168. Season 34
Monday, January 8, 2018
2.0
Jeopardy Round: $200
This company says its 7th generation Core i7 processors speed up your computer with turbo boost technology 2.0
   
#169. Season 37
Friday, October 23, 2020
IT STARTS WITH "U"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This technology uses sound waves to take images inside the body
   
#170. Season 36
Monday, November 11, 2019
A GENERIC TITLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Prince Noctis has work to do in edition XV of this alliterative role-playing video game
   
#171. Season 37
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
REQUESTS
Jeopardy Round: $400
On Facebook if you delete this request, the sender can't send you another one for a year
   
#172. Season 41
Monday, May 26, 2025
GUYS NAMED RICHARD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Video game superstar Richard Tyler Blevins is known to his millions of streaming followers by this handle
   
#173. Season 41
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
JUST MOVED IN?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
For Internet access, you can set up this device combining a modem & a router, once the name of a computer retailer from cow country
   
#174. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This process used in energy production is short for hydraulic fracturing
   
#175. Season 20
Thursday, March 25, 2004
NOTABLE WOMEN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Grace Hopper was perhaps best-known for co-developing this computer language used in business
   
#176. Season 16
Monday, March 6, 2000
THE "ND"
Jeopardy Round: $500
On a computer keyboard this symbol is usually on the same key as the 7
   
#177. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE IS DOING
Jeopardy Round: $400
No longer in the back pocket, this Google feature that helps in-store or online purchases was unveiled in 2011
   
#178. Season 33
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
NUMERICAL LIT
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In a sci-fi story by Arthur C. Clarke, computer experts help Buddhist monks determine the "9 billion names of" this being
   
#179. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Before "ER" & "Agents of Shield", Ming-Na Wen kicked butt as Chun-Li in the film version of this battle game
   
#180. Season 32
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
MARKS & ANGLES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Omega is the symbol of this unit of electrical resistance
   
#181. Season 41
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
PLAYING GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Sega designers initially considered making this speedy blue video game character an armadillo or a porcupine
   
#182. Season 38
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
ELEMENTS & THEIR USES
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $7,000
Predynastic Egypt used this element in glassmaking; today, we'd be pretty lost without it as a semiconductor in computers
   
#183. Season 18
Tuesday, July 9, 2002
PRODUCTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Introduced in 1982, this company's 64 model soon became the bestselling home computer
   
#184. Season 30
Friday, February 7, 2014
NOTABLE NAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
The co-founders of Google are Larry Page & him
   
#185. Season 5
Thursday, May 18, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Some 85% of water used in the western U.S. is used for this purpose
   
#186. Season 34
Friday, May 25, 2018
NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
RIT for short, it was one of the first schools to offer an undergraduate degree in software engineering
   
#187. Season 14
Tuesday, September 16, 1997
SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $300
It's defined as an atom or group of atoms that has an electrical charge
   
#188. Season 18
Friday, November 9, 2001
VIDEO GAME WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $400
You like action? Hunt for this author's Red Storm games like "Rainbow Six" & "Ghost Recon"
   
#189. Season 16
Thursday, June 29, 2000
"WORD" PLAY
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the 2-word term for computer manipulation of text
   
#190. Season 17
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
MY BRITISH HOME
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Be careful around one of these, known as a power point; you may get a shock
   
#191. Season 17
Monday, November 27, 2000
SWISS WATCHING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Graduate of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who won the first Nobel Physics Prize
   
#192. Season 35
Monday, November 5, 2018
DRUM SCHTICK
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Atlas, a type of this developed in the 1950s, used magnetic drum memory
   
#193. Season 7
Friday, March 29, 1991
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $100
This biggest computer company is biggest also among companies in philanthropic contributions
   
#194. Season 19
Friday, September 13, 2002
FORBES MAGAZINE'S RICHEST
Jeopardy Round: $200
This man is Number 1 with $53 billion; just turn on any computer if you need a clue
   
#195. Season 26
Thursday, July 8, 2010
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"The Adventure Continues" is the second installment in the Lego game starring this state-named movie hero
   
#196. Season 7
Monday, July 15, 1991
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $300
The ohm, a unit of electrical resistance, is symbolized by this last Greek letter
   
#197. Season 28
Friday, April 27, 2012
SPYING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A spy for one country who says he's working for another, or a Tom Clancy splinter cell video game
   
#198. Season 27
Thursday, September 30, 2010
BUSINESS BIGGIES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Though it's named for a big state, this firm founded in 1930 makes a lot of tiny electronic stuff
   
#199. Season 33
Thursday, March 16, 2017
JACK
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Sept. 7 2016 announcement that the headphone jack was out on this device was not 100% well received
   
#200. Season 21
Friday, September 10, 2004
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Mattel has set this classic boxing toy in a video game “arena”
   
#201. Season 38
Monday, July 4, 2022
NON-ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,016
Change one letter in Google's mobile phone operating system to get this type of non-liquid barometer
   
#202. Season 27
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An additional section placed within the folds of a newspaper
   
#203. Season 21
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
GUNS N' ROSES
Jeopardy Round: $600
He invented an electrically controlled naval mine as well as the 6-shooter
   
#204. Season 28
Monday, November 21, 2011
THE U.S. AIR FORCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
By the end of the Vietnam War, the USAF was guiding bombs with this acronymic technology dating from around 1960
   
#205. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: 1000
It's a portmanteau word for someone who makes internet content with an animal, like with Esther the Wonder Pig on Instaham
   
#206. Season 38
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
AN AD JUNKED
Jeopardy Round: $800
Ads blocked on Facebook include those for weapons, spyware & this financial service for those newly arrested
   
#207. Season 39
Monday, May 8, 2023
YEET!
Jeopardy Round: $600
In "2001" this computer yeets Frank Poole off into space but still has Dave to contend with
   
#208. Season 25
Friday, January 16, 2009
WE BLINDED YOU WITH SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Authorities generally agree that this founding father created such electrical terms as battery & armature
   
#209. Season 38
Monday, September 27, 2021
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
An engineer named Robert Moog developed this instrument in the 1960s
   
#210. Season 31
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
ALL YOU NEED IS "LOVE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Internet is full of tips to get rid of these, the bulges of fat at the sides of the waist
   
#211. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $600
Abbreviated BB, it's a popular data-transmission method capable of sending multiple channels at once
   
#212. Season 21
Thursday, November 18, 2004
NASA PRODUCTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Fans of computer flight simulations are ecstatic about this type of controller, developed for the lunar rover
   
#213. Season 39
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
TV SIDEKICKS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Computer whiz Chloe O'Brian was introduced on Season 3 (or Day 3) of this drama
   
#214. Season 13
Friday, May 2, 1997
NONFICTION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Between his novels "Congo" & "Sphere", he published "Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers"
   
#215. Season 34
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
INVENTION & DISCOVERY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,100
William Shockley shared a Nobel Prize for creating this device that supplanted vacuum tubes in electronics
   
#216. Season 24
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
REALLY OLD MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
After playing a video game in his trailer park in this cosmic 1984 flick, Lance Guest became "The Last" this
   
#217. Season 13
Wednesday, September 4, 1996
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Final Jeopardy
A 60-foot steel likeness of a transistor stands at its Holmdel, N.J. office
   
#218. Season 27
Thursday, January 27, 2011
THE "KO" CORRAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Electronic guidance has phased out navigation by compass & clock, this morbid-sounding art
   
#219. Season 24
Monday, December 3, 2007
RETRONYMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The computer age necessitated this rhyming term for letters delivered through the post
   
#220. Season 39
Friday, December 9, 2022
COMPANY NAME ORIGINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The name of this tech company is a shortening of the metropolis where it was founded by 2 Stanford computer scientists in 1984
   
#221. Season 17
Friday, May 18, 2001
POTENT PORTABLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Osborne, the first portable one of these, weighed 24 pounds but could fit under an airline seat
   
#222. Season 25
Thursday, April 2, 2009
GEEK CHIC
Jeopardy Round: $200
This smartphone brand is gunning for the iPhone with the "Storm" touchscreen phone
   
#223. Season 30
Monday, November 11, 2013
OLD PAINT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1970, long before iPhones, this realist from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania painted "Siri"
   
#224. Season 20
Friday, June 18, 2004
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Denmark's Gorm dynasty began with Gorm; next was Harald Bluetooth, then Sven Fork-this facial feature
   
#225. Season 33
Thursday, April 20, 2017
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Edi & Legion are artificial intelligence entities helping the puny humans in the video games this "Effect" 2 & 3
   
#226. Season 13
Monday, March 17, 1997
ON-LINE LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
One of a race of brutes in "Gulliver's Travels", it's now the name of a famous internet directory
   
#227. Season 25
Thursday, October 9, 2008
DON'T SAY THE L-WORD
Jeopardy Round: $800
This phenomenon results from the accumulation of electrical charges in cumulonimbus clouds
   
#228. Season 39
Thursday, March 2, 2023
ODD WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
To egosurf is to search the Internet for mentions of this
   
#229. Season 32
Monday, February 15, 2016
COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
You'll be A-OK with a TFT-LCD one of these basic parts of a desktop computer
   
#230. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $400
On May 3, 1978 Gary Thuerk sent the first of this irritating type of communication to 600 users
   
#231. Season 18
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
COMPUTER HACKERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Hackers on this agency's website changed the middle of its name to "stupidity"
   
#232. Season 21
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
IT'S ELEMENTAL
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the electronics industry, this element symbolized Si, is made into N- & P-types of semiconductors
   
#233. Season 38
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
THE LEAGUE LEADER
Jeopardy Round: $600
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, & Blitzcrank & Dr. Mundo as well, fighting champions in this online video game
   
#234. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
On damnyouautothis.com: "Do you think Leonardo diva person will win an Oscar...Leonardo fixation...Lombardo DiCaprio"
   
#235. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024
18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
While a professor of astronomy at Uppsala University, he came up with his famous temperature scale
   
#236. Season 24
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
& THE AWARD GOES TO...
Jeopardy Round: $800
The Turing Award for contributions to this field was first given to Alan Perlis for his compiler construction
   
#237. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
The main or baseboard of most computers, it has expansion slots to extend the computer's capabilities
   
#238. Season 31
Friday, December 26, 2014
THERE'S A J IN THERE SOMEWHERE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Control item for an airplane or video game
   
#239. Season 35
Friday, July 5, 2019
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT
Jeopardy Round: $400
The sound on an electronic device, & an examination you don't want to get from the IRS
   
#240. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Number of bulbs in the Magicube that replaced a battery-powered flash on cameras
   
#241. Season 35
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
SHOPPING AT THE MALL
Jeopardy Round: $400
Let's go to the Apple Store; I want to get a new Pro one of these tablets with a 12.9" screen
   
#242. Season 28
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
GOING TOO "FUR"
Jeopardy Round: $200
These electronic toys were a must-have item during the Christmas season of 1998
   
#243. Season 26
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
STAR-SPANGLED BANNERWORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
It describes sound or video played in real time over the Internet
   
#244. Season 20
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
PHARM TEAM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
An Internet site about this product from Bayer can be found at wonderdrug.com
   
#245. Season 33
Thursday, November 17, 2016
TEXTING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
While working for Microsoft, Dean Hachamovitch invented this texting feature that suggests words for you
   
#246. Season 27
Friday, December 10, 2010
LAST NAME'S THE SAME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Current defense secretary Robert M. & Microsoft-y Bill
   
#247. Season 11
Tuesday, September 20, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
When this device is moved along a tabletop, it causes a pointer to move across the screen
   
#248. Season 14
Wednesday, July 8, 1998
DON'T DO THIS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In February 1998 the Pentagon said its computers had been invaded by these, the title of a 1995 film
   
#249. Season 22
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
CEOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer company chairman gave the keynote address at the "CEO Summit 2004" held in Redmond, Washington
   
#250. Season 18
Monday, June 24, 2002
THE "CRU" CLUE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This processor from Transmeta is supposed to make your laptop run longer on every battery charge
   
#251. Season 24
Monday, June 30, 2008
THEONION'S GLOSSARY OF ELECTION TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This company's voting machine "electronically changes your vote into a vote for Mitt Romney"
   
#252. Season 23
Monday, February 5, 2007
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $800
In order to get online, you'll need one of these, an ISP
   
#253. Season 39
Monday, March 20, 2023
MYSELF
Jeopardy Round: $400
His book "iWoz" is subtitled "Computer Geek to Cult Icon"
   
#254. Season 27
Friday, November 12, 2010
AVATAR
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2008, the OED added a definition of "avatar" as a representation of "a user in an interactive" one of these
   
#255. Season 24
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
THE "M.E."s
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Microsoft released this version of Windows in 2000
   
#256. Season 34
Monday, February 5, 2018
FUN(?) WITH INTERNET COUNTRY CODES
Jeopardy Round: $200
This country is the BO in minculturas.gob.bo
   
#257. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Choose a restaurant, then 1 of the 2 players--Wallace Shawn or the title guy; max your discussion points as you eat
   
#258. Season 38
Monday, May 2, 2022
FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires" became this movie about the startup of Facebook
   
#259. Season 36
Monday, April 20, 2020
DIFFERS BY A LETTER
Jeopardy Round: $600
A small electronic device, & a surfer girl played on TV by Sally Field
   
#260. Season 24
Thursday, February 21, 2008
RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Desires an assortment of letter types & characters for the computer
   
#261. Season 32
Monday, July 25, 2016
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It isn't minted or printed-- it's "mined" by a computer algorithm in blocks called "rewards"
   
#262. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
A series of three connected dots is an icon for this 7-letter action with files, not toys
   
#263. Season 39
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
HOMOPHONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A coastal bay & a computer memory unit
   
#264. Season 16
Tuesday, April 25, 2000
STRING
Jeopardy Round: $200
A joke goes, modern kids play cell phones by using 2 of these with no string between them
   
#265. Season 24
Thursday, March 6, 2008
CURSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
NFL players on the cover of his video game series are said to be cursed with future injury or poor performance
   
#266. Season 35
Thursday, December 20, 2018
STATE CONSTITUTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1864 Nevada was so eager to become a state, it sent its new constitution to Washington using this technology
   
#267. Season 35
Friday, July 19, 2019
COMPUTER "D"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This mouse move to open a program may be tricky for elderly computer users; you can adjust the speed of the 2 actions
   
#268. Season 22
Thursday, January 19, 2006
STOCK SYMBOLS
Jeopardy Round: $800
In electronics & entertainment:
SNE
   
#269. Season 32
Monday, April 4, 2016
INTO THIN AIR
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Alexey Pajitinov designed this video game in which falling, rotatable blocks dissappear when complete rows are formed
   
#270. Season 19
Friday, November 15, 2002
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Rolling Stone magazine's choice for Console Game of the Year 2002 is the third installment of this carjack game
   
#271. Season 19
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
COMPUTER HISTORY
Final Jeopardy
IBM engineer Dave Bradley is called the father of this multi-key combination
   
#272. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015
I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
This satiric news site reported, "Paleontologists Determine Dinosaurs Were Killed By Someone They Trusted"
   
#273. Season 20
Monday, July 19, 2004
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Word & Powerpoint are part of the Microsoft system named for this place
   
#274. Season 12
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
These were made more accurate in the late 1600s with the inventions of the pendulum & balance spring
   
#275. Season 28
Friday, January 13, 2012
"AND"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Developed by the Open Handset Alliance, this platform brings "internet-style innovation... to mobile phones"
   
#276. Season 35
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
GAMES OF THE VIDEO VARIETY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The 2017 release of the Nintendo Switch also gave us this series: "Breath of the Wild"
   
#277. Season 41
Thursday, March 20, 2025
TV SHOW BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"Noir TV show but with aliens";"forgot Apple account password";"Colin Farrell joins Blue Man Group?"
   
#278. Season 20
Friday, April 23, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On January 3, 2004 a spacecraft named Spirit successfully landed in Gusev Crater here to search for life
   
#279. Season JM
Monday, May 6, 2024
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: 800
The classic NES shooter that goes by this name featured a dog known to "fowl"-ly laugh at your misery
   
#280. Season 40
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
DISTRACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sorry son, missed your video game tournament watching Euro 2024 soccer from this city's 1936 Olympiastadion
   
#281. Season 38
Friday, December 24, 2021
FIRST RESPONSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Chelsea Clinton, Levi Strauss chair Bob Haas & Google CEO Sundar Pichai all worked at this management consultant McCompany
   
#282. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Its nicknames include eggbeater, flying windmill, & whirlybird
   
#283. Season 27
Monday, December 27, 2010
"POWER" LIFTING
Jeopardy Round: $600
Popular business presentation program from Microsoft
   
#284. Season 25
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
STOCK SYMBOL SHOPPING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
For a good deal on electronics & appliances:
BBY
   
#285. Season 8
Wednesday, July 15, 1992
ECONOMICS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Named for a video game, this anti-takeover defense has the target company trying to gobble up the acquirer
   
#286. Season 41
Friday, November 22, 2024
I TINKER
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1977 he developed the Apple II computer which, aided by Steve Jobs' marketing skills, was the first affordable home PC
   
#287. Season 40
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
John Bird made the first of these navigating instruments with an arc of 60 degrees, or one-sixth of a circle
   
#288. Season 16
Monday, October 18, 1999
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA
Jeopardy Round: $400
The U. of N. College of Agriculture helped develop the technology for this McDonald's McPork sandwich
   
#289. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The "tracks" on a printed circuit board are made of this metal
   
#290. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Computers were given part of the blame for this October 19, 1987 event
   
#291. Season 41
Friday, June 6, 2025
CYBERCRIME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Less of a risk with newer cell phones, but these cards can be swapped or hijacked, giving hackers access to your info
   
#292. Season 21
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
MY PC LIFE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Like the asbestos partitions on my house, I use ZoneAlarm as this type of software to keep my computer secure
   
#293. Season 40
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
ENDS WITH "K"
Jeopardy Round: $200
It precedes "Thursday" in an alliterative nostalgic Internet trend
   
#294. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $400
FCOL
   
#295. Season 29
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
COMPUTER LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $800
To set up the pictures & clips on my blog, I might need a VGA, this "array"
   
#296. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
WILLIAM HURT FILMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Hurt could have used a cell phone in this 1985 film set in a South American prison
   
#297. Season 19
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
MARKS
Jeopardy Round: $400
On the Internet, these three marks separate http from www
   
#298. Season 38
Thursday, April 7, 2022
COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,200
Old monitors needed a screensaver, which moved so it wouldn't burn in; today you can use this static image, also a home decorating item
   
#299. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
WAR
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"Jamming" may be a part of this type of warfare abbreviated EW
   
#300. Season 33
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
TANGLED UP IN BLUE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Blu-Ray video technology uses a blue one of these beams instead of the red one used by DVD
   
#301. Season 39
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
SCI-FI & FANTASY
Jeopardy Round: $400
P. Djèlí Clark uses this subgenre named for Victorian-era technology for his "Dead Djinn" stories set in an alternate 1912 Cairo
   
#302. Season 16
Friday, November 5, 1999
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
Common name given Douglas Engelbart's device, an "X-Y position indicator for a display system"
   
#303. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
More cardiac arrest patients survive thanks to purposely induced this condition, which cools the blood 5-8 degrees
   
#304. Season 1
Wednesday, April 24, 1985
SIGHT & SOUND
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Electronically recorded visual record of the human voice now used for identification of criminals
   
#305. Season 4
Friday, March 18, 1988
RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $300
A less expensive electronic paging device
   
#306. Season 32
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
I JUST GOT OUT OF PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Well, since my Mamiya is outdated now, can I just use the 12-megapixel one of these on your iPhone?
   
#307. Season 22
Thursday, April 6, 2006
THAT'S "SUPER"!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Seymour Cray was hailed as "the father of" this
   
#308. Season 25
Friday, May 8, 2009
OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s
Jeopardy Round: $600
Linus Torvalds is the father of this operating system used on cell phones & supercomputers
   
#309. Season 34
Monday, October 16, 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this, enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines
   
#310. Season 30
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
MAGAZINES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This magazine of "science, technology & the future" has an Urban Skygazer section
   
#311. Season 30
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
"O-M-G"!
Jeopardy Round: $400
This type of computer language includes the popular Java & Python
   
#312. Season 33
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
COMPOUND WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This type of publishing is done using a personal computer with graphics capabilities
   
#313. Season 34
Thursday, October 26, 2017
AFTER DINNER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This 2-terminal electrical device
   
#314. Season 27
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
WHAT'S THE USE
Jeopardy Round: $600
This, named for a 10th C. Danish king, enables short-range wireless communication between electronic devices
   
#315. Season 13
Monday, June 9, 1997
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1938 this electronics firm was founded in David Packard's Palo Alto, California garage
   
#316. Season 17
Friday, February 16, 2001
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $100
The name of this Japanese electronics company comes from the Latin word for "sound"
   
#317. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE IS DOING
Jeopardy Round: $600
Just say "OK" to this wearable product & it'll send a message, give directions or record your neighbor
   
#318. Season 37
Monday, February 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
(Reshma Saujani presents the clue.) In the 1970s, Moore's Law surmised that the number of these central components on microchips would double every two years, but Moore later admitted, it probably won't last
   
#319. Season 37
Friday, April 9, 2021
ACTION FIGURES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the "Left 4 Dead" video games, you can play as an apocalyptic survivor or as one of these undead beings, "the infected"
   
#320. Season 14
Monday, March 23, 1998
FLYING
Jeopardy Round: $100
"Low-observable technology" earned the Air Force's B-2 bomber this nickname
   
#321. Season 30
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
DID YOU GET MY LETTER?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1976 he wrote an open letter to members of the Homebrew Computer Club asking them not to steal his programs
   
#322. Season 30
Friday, June 6, 2014
SCIENCE STUFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Scientists have generated electrical currents by intentionally disrupting this process in plants
   
#323. Season 31
Monday, November 10, 2014
WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Douglas Engelbart's 1970 patent for this device calls it a "position indicator control"
   
#324. Season 32
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
MEMORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
RAM, computer memory used for the temporary storage of data, is short for this
   
#325. Season 18
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It mean any computer used by an individual, or an IBM-type machine as opposed to a Mac
   
#326. Season 35
Monday, March 4, 2019
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's the basic unit of information in the powerful machines called quantum computers
   
#327. Season 37
Monday, October 26, 2020
A QUIET PLACE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Microsoft tests the noise of electronics in a room where you can hear your joints creak; it's measured at negative 20 of these units
   
#328. Season 14
Wednesday, June 24, 1998
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This term for diplomatic procedure also refers to an agreed format for data to be communicated
   
#329. Season 28
Monday, February 27, 2012
DOUBLE "I"
Jeopardy Round: $800
Games for this product include "Fortune Street", "The Legend of Zelda" & "NASCAR Unleashed"
   
#330. Season 28
Monday, February 6, 2012
POP CULTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Tech blog Boing Boing made its site look like an old Mac computer to pay tribute to this late Apple visionary
   
#331. Season 23
Monday, February 5, 2007
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $200
In computerese, it's the "app" in "killer app"
   
#332. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Get the sensation when you click on the York peppermint patty link at this Pennsylvania-based company's site
   
#333. Season 34
Friday, November 17, 2017
EPONYMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A 1965 observation that computer capacity keeps on doubling is called this Intel co-founder's "law"
   
#334. Season 12
Monday, March 25, 1996
GEOGRAPHY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Capital of this nation's Karnataka state, Bangalore is a major producer of computer software
   
#335. Season 23
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
BUSINESS PEOPLE
Jeopardy Round: $800
He started his company in 1984, building & selling computers out of his dorm at the University of Texas
   
#336. Season 29
Thursday, December 6, 2012
1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,400
In 1935 this American became the first to shoot a liquid-fuel rocket faster than the speed of sound
   
#337. Season 23
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This imaging procedure doesn't use radiation; it uses radio waves, a large magnet & a computer to generate images
   
#338. Season 26
Monday, November 2, 2009
iPHONE APPS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Several apps are available to test this, IQ for short
   
#339. Season 34
Monday, March 12, 2018
EDUCATION
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
There was a 21st C. boom in boot camps for this activity, a less scary version of computer programming
   
#340. Season 36
Thursday, September 19, 2019
WE INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
Interruptions at work make you constantly do this, the more technical name for switching between computer windows
   
#341. Season 30
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
ALSO ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM
Jeopardy Round: $800
The part of a stereo system that gets the electrical signals & converts them so you can listen
   
#342. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Your online shopping cart couldn't stay up to date without these data packets that help websites track you
   
#343. Season 25
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Originally a computer term, it now refers to doing any number of jobs at the same time
   
#344. Season 39
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
HOME COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $200
Your laptop's displayport or HDMI port can be hooked up to one of these just like the nice big one you had at the office
   
#345. Season 41
Thursday, November 28, 2024
HOW CONVENTIONAL
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
The 1899 Hague Convention explicitly forbade dropping bombs from these; nice idea, but technology soon passed it by
   
#346. Season 25
Friday, February 6, 2009
HIDING ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
Flickr listed the language option "Arrr" on Sept. 19, this annual day
   
#347. Season 30
Friday, December 27, 2013
FUN WITH ACRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
To program in a venerable computer language, you might wear this type of "black"
   
#348. Season 26
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The online news dispensary called this "Report" isn't named for menial work but for its creator Matt
   
#349. Season 10
Thursday, September 23, 1993
THE GRAPHIC ARTS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This process of changing the details on a photograph can now be done on a computer
   
#350. Season JM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
CONSTRUCTING THE WORD
Jeopardy Round: 600
A window covering+a computer glitch=this enthusiast
   
#351. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
A clock with 2 hands is not called digital but this
   
#352. Season 15
Thursday, January 21, 1999
ONLINE LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
When you find those wacky 1970s photos of me online, it's time to do this, meaning transfer them to your computer
   
#353. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010
ON THE PHONE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Back in 1997 Philippe Kahn jerry-rigged a camera & cell phone & used it to send pictures of this proud event
   
#354. Season 15
Tuesday, February 23, 1999
SYMBOLS
Final Jeopardy
In 1972 programmer Ray Tomlinson chose it to separate an e-mail user's name from the computer's name
   
#355. Season 27
Monday, November 15, 2010
ONLINE SHOPPING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It traces its roots to 1995 & Pierre Omidyar, a computer programer who wrote the code for an auction website
   
#356. Season 20
Friday, January 16, 2004
INVENTIVE MINDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1891 this man of Menlo Park got a patent for a "means of transmitting signals electrically"
   
#357. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The laser beam on a compact disc player is equivalent to this on a phonograph
   
#358. Season 18
Thursday, May 30, 2002
NOT SO LONG AGO...
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1997 internet traffic records were broken when the NASA website had new images from the surface of this planet
   
#359. Season 21
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1995, this product "95" sold more than 1 million copies in 4 days
   
#360. Season 25
Thursday, October 30, 2008
RETRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This retronym for a type of computer also means a screen with icons on it
   
#361. Season 29
Thursday, January 10, 2013
WHERE IS THAT PLANET?
Jeopardy Round: $200
After Google; before wind & fire
   
#362. Season 20
Monday, April 5, 2004
THUMB ENCHANTED EVENING
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's a miniature version of an image on a computer screen that when clicked on will load the full-size image
   
#363. Season 23
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
WHO SAYS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Research shows no increased risk of brain cancer from using these, but they do cause traffic accidents
   
#364. Season 18
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
Final Jeopardy
Don Hoefler, a reporter for Electronic News, is credited with coining this name for an area south of San Francisco
   
#365. Season 36
Thursday, September 26, 2019
FINNISH LINES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Finnish computer scientist Linus Torvalds wrote his master's thesis on this operating system of his
   
#366. Season 29
Monday, February 4, 2013
FICTIONAL FEMALES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Cortana makes A.I. sexy in this video game series
   
#367. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
2 years after winning an Oscar for "The Danish Girl", this actress played "Tomb Raider" Lara Croft
   
#368. Season 38
Monday, May 16, 2022
I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In this movie, Ryan Reynolds is a bank teller; fortunately, it's a video game, as his day usually doesn't go well
   
#369. Season 23
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Using this Time Warner ISP, you can see if "you've got mail" or sign up for its Instant Messenger
   
#370. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
At the 1939 New York World's Fair, the robot Elektro was accompanied by Sparko, a robot one of these
   
#371. Season 25
Friday, March 27, 2009
"P.D." QUEUE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
Type Cleveland P.D. into Google & you'll get hits for the police department & this newspaper
   
#372. Season 9
Tuesday, May 4, 1993
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
A circuit to connect a peripheral to the CPU, it may be serial or parallel
   
#373. Season 39
Monday, January 30, 2023
ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $600
This Nintendo game console first got moving in 2006
   
#374. Season 38
Thursday, June 9, 2022
PRESENTING JEOPCOIN!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
We're clean crypto!--power for this, the computing by computers of new Jeopcoins, is from recycled glitter & doll hands
   
#375. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $600
"S.L." is this game where you can virtually build a whole other existence
   
#376. Season 35
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
SAY THE WORD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In Hindu myth, it's the incarnation of a god; on the internet, it's a graphic image that represents you
   
#377. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,500
Job added a "surprised" GIF when he posted the Lord's info that behemoth "can draw up" this river into its mouth
   
#378. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1861, Elisha Otis patented an elevator driven by this, not electricity
   
#379. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
This unit of weight is abbreviated mg.
   
#380. Season 21
Thursday, November 18, 2004
ROCKS & STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Soapstone, used as an electrical insulator, is a greenish-gray variety of this soft mineral
   
#381. Season 38
Thursday, May 19, 2022
THE DRUGS OF HUMANITY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The bald facts--Minoxidil & tricho-prime technology help this product make the best of a hairy situation
   
#382. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $400
We'll need to enlist your knowledge of "C.O.D.". this action game series
   
#383. Season 26
Friday, June 11, 2010
LEAD OR NO LEAD
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2004 this Santa Clara, Calif. chip giant began shipping 95% lead-free microprocessor packages
   
#384. Season 27
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
CAMERAS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Using an iPhone app, you can shake the phone to make your picture come out faster, like pictures taken with this co.'s cameras
   
#385. Season 30
Monday, December 23, 2013
I AM SOMEBODY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
I am Susan Bennett & I revealed myself to be the original voice of this iPhone assistant
   
#386. Season 41
Friday, December 6, 2024
A "BARREL" OF FUN
Jeopardy Round: $600
Type "do a" this into Google & you get an Easter egg that makes your search results spin 360 degrees
   
#387. Season 20
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
VOWELS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On the internet, this vowel can precede "zine", "commerce", "mail" & "bay"
   
#388. Season 34
Friday, July 20, 2018
MUSIC OF 20 YEARS AGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
We hit the dance floor with this star who asked--in an electronic, distorted way--"Do You Believe In Life After Love?"
   
#389. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This removable item used for data storage was introduced in 1971; the first one was 8 inches square
   
#390. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1835 C.S.A. Thilorier froze this gas to create the first "dry ice"
   
#391. Season 31
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Add 4 letters to a term for messing with a computer to get this word for streamlining your daily existence
   
#392. Season 39
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
PANTOMIME HORSE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Storm Worm & Zeus are types of these computer viruses that take their name from classical mythology
   
#393. Season 7
Thursday, April 25, 1991
"LAST" FILMS
Jeopardy Round: $500
In this 1984 film, Lance Guest uses his video game skills to fight an interstellar war
   
#394. Season SUPERJEOPARDY
Saturday, August 25, 1990
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: 2000
Any process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this
   
#395. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Word coined in the '40s meaning the operation of machines performing tasks that humans once did
   
#396. Season 38
Friday, June 3, 2022
TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated
   
#397. Season 17
Friday, February 2, 2001
EARTH SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $800
This electrically charged layer of the atmosphere makes long-distance radio communication possible
   
#398. Season 28
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
ISN'T IT "GRAND"?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Titles in this mega-selling video game series include "Vice City" & "Chinatown Wars"
   
#399. Season 32
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2014 co-founder John Zimmer shaved the pink mustaches off the grills of its rides when it began servicing New York City
   
#400. Season 11
Monday, July 17, 1995
THE "BREAKER"s
Jeopardy Round: $300
In electrical circles, a fuse acts as one
   
#401. Season 23
Friday, April 13, 2007
THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Joey Harrington eats & breathes football; we bet this on his cell phone is the NFL films music
   
#402. Season 36
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
WHAT TYPE OF MACHINE AM I?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Hamilton Beach 8-cup with adjustable slicing
   
#403. Season 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This writing tool was reportedly invented after Lazlo Biro noticed how fast printer's ink dried
   
#404. Season 38
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
11
Jeopardy Round: $200
Released in 2021, this Microsoft operating system 11 is the first version in over 20 years shipped without Internet Explorer
   
#405. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Milla Jovovich has been Alice in all 6 films in this franchise based on a horror game
   
#406. Season 32
Thursday, January 7, 2016
TRAINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This country's Maharajas' Express features wi-fi & a luxurious presidential suite that is an entire car
   
#407. Season 31
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
IPOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2011 this online discounter raised $700 million in the largest Internet IPO since Google in 2004
   
#408. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Originally intended for lab use, his burner advanced gas lighting technology
   
#409. Season 5
Friday, December 2, 1988
SCHOOL DAYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
It used to be a student who kept order in the halls; now it's a screen for your computer
   
#410. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $200
TV show with Monica, Phoebe & Chandler
   
#411. Season 28
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
5-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $600
To surpass, or a Microsoft spreadsheet program
   
#412. Season 25
Thursday, January 22, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Spacewar, the first shoot-'em-up game, was created in the early '60s by programmers at this Mass. school
   
#413. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A variation on "LOL" is "LQTM"--laughing this way
   
#414. Season 41
Friday, July 25, 2025
FREAKIER FRIDAYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
(Lindsay Lohan presents the clue.) On Friday, June 29, 2007, a newspaper announced "fire, the wheel and now" this item released that day--it retailed around $499 for a model with a whopping four gigabytes of storage
   
#415. Season 13
Monday, June 23, 1997
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This computer company's new Presario 4402 features an infrared remote control
   
#416. Season 4
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
A soda-acid extinguisher is designed to produce this fire-fighting gas
   
#417. Season 30
Friday, February 28, 2014
THE COOKIE AISLE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Nabisco had the technology to make a Mega Stuf version of this cookie
   
#418. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $400
On Facebook, Cristiano Ronaldo, a star in this sport, likes Real Madrid (his team) & Pepe (his teammate)
   
#419. Season 18
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This pointing device has one button on Macs & 2 on a PC (I like the ones with a wheel)
   
#420. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
The first cable of this type laid across the Atlantic went into service in 1988, doubling call capacity
   
#421. Season 34
Monday, December 18, 2017
CAMERAS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2008 this brand introduced a PoGo camera that partnered with Zink, zero ink printing technology
   
#422. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
A 3-letter icon on a piece of technology says that it has been okayed by this government commission
   
#423. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
AM is short for amplitude modulation & amp is short for this unit of electricity
   
#424. Season 37
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
WE'LL GET TOGETHER
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2001 Time Warner was acquired by this Internet company for $111 billion; that did not work out so well
   
#425. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
INTERNET BUSINESSES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This combo of 2 satellite radio companies owns the Internet music service Pandora
   
#426. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This 7-letter "easily split" type of material needs to be secured from nuclear terrorists, like, now
   
#427. Season 23
Friday, July 20, 2007
NOW WE'RE IN BUSINESS!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In July 2004 this tech company said it would give back $75 billion to its shareholders
   
#428. Season 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1986
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Sex of telephone operators in the 1st exchanges
   
#429. Season 21
Friday, April 29, 2005
THE NAME OF THE GAME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
You had a ghost of a chance in this 1980 video game; a "Ms." version launched in 1982
   
#430. Season 23
Friday, June 1, 2007
BARELY ALIVE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Defined as asystole, no cardiac electrical activity on the EKG is also known by this "level" term
   
#431. Season 18
Friday, February 1, 2002
BRIEFLY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The movie "The Mummy Returns" used CGI, this kind of imagery
   
#432. Season 23
Friday, June 1, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
If you want true high def, see your way to finding this company's Bravia TV line
   
#433. Season 31
Thursday, February 26, 2015
"V"ERBS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Please have your cell phones on this, to shake rapidly
   
#434. Season 28
Friday, November 18, 2011
ALMA MATERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Larry Page & Sergey Brin started Google in their dorm room while working on Ph.D.s at this California college
   
#435. Season 39
Monday, April 24, 2023
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Drawn cards in Monopoly include Community Chest & this type that could tell you to "Advance token to Boardwalk"
   
#436. Season 9
Tuesday, May 4, 1993
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $100
They can be single- or double-sided as well as double- or high-density
   
#437. Season 38
Friday, November 5, 2021
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year
   
#438. Season 17
Friday, May 18, 2001
POTENT PORTABLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The VII was the first of this brand's handheld devices with built-in Internet connectivity
   
#439. Season 36
Monday, January 13, 2020
THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED
Jeopardy Round: $1000
At the 1999 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, ReplayTV won a best in show prize for unveiling this technology
   
#440. Season 37
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
FROM S TO T
Jeopardy Round: $800
A key to the early success of Apple was VisiCalc, the first electronic this
   
#441. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015
I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Articles at this site: "14 Animals that Have Swagger for Days" & "Which Harry Potter Character Is Your Drunk Alter Ego?"
   
#442. Season 36
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
YOU DID IT!
Jeopardy Round: $400
Sergey Brin & Larry Page officially founded it on September 4, 1998; look it up!
   
#443. Season 14
Tuesday, March 10, 1998
THE BUSINESS WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Michael Dell made his fortune by eliminating the middleman & selling these directly to customers
   
#444. Season 14
Friday, December 26, 1997
MILESTONES IN MATH
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the '40s Harvard's Howard Aiken developed the Mark I computer with this company's help
   
#445. Season 30
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Leap into this Lima Sky app with jet packs & propeller hats, but see if you can avoid black holes
   
#446. Season 35
Friday, September 21, 2018
ONE GIANT LEAP
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In the '70s Dennis Ritchie created this computer language & your web browser is likely written in it or in it "++"
   
#447. Season 22
Thursday, November 10, 2005
GEEK LOVE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Steve Ballmer has big geek shoes to fill for this Washington State software company
   
#448. Season 32
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the 1940s this company introduced its Land camera, which produced a finished print 60 seconds after exposure
   
#449. Season 32
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
"C" IN SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Sounds sweet, but it's actually an electronic footprint that allows websites to monitor a user's online movements
   
#450. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $800
"How to get rid of fairy tale creatures in swamp", "can you cook waffles if you have hooves?", "donkey-dragon power couples"
   
#451. Season 28
Friday, June 1, 2012
THE WRIGHT STUFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2000 Will Wright gave us this computer game that lets the user control the daily life of families of virtual people
   
#452. Season 24
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
"OFF" CAMPUS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Not connected to the Internet
   
#453. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: 200
Slang like "fanum tax" & "skibidi" baffle many; it's associated with this generation, a name that unfittingly follows Gen Z
   
#454. Season 26
Friday, July 16, 2010
A CAPSULE CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Let's prep one of these--cell phone, credit card, Fritos; that should tell folks in 2110 what our society was like
   
#455. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Make your future fighting Ghaul, leader of the Red Legion, in the second iteration of this Bungie game
   
#456. Season 26
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
HELLO, DOLL-Y
Jeopardy Round: $600
Mattel has announced 2 new "I Can Be..." dolls of her: news anchor & computer engineer
   
#457. Season 20
Friday, January 16, 2004
INVENTIVE MINDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
A team headed by Seymour Cray introduced the first "super" one of these in 1963
   
#458. Season 18
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
LARRY, MOE OR CURLY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Leisure-suited lounge lizard who's starred in a series of video games
   
#459. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
I know you want to say what you think, but you catch more flies with honey...
   
#460. Season 16
Thursday, October 14, 1999
YOU OUGHTA KNOW
Jeopardy Round: $100
Common in Roman architecture, this term for a row of arches now often means a place to play video games
   
#461. Season 41
Thursday, June 5, 2025
WEIRD SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A protein involved in embryonic development is named for this video game speedster because of its spiky look
   
#462. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
FORMER TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The 19th century spring tooth one of these plow-like devices was useful for breaking up rocky soil
   
#463. Season 37
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
TESTING, TESTING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This Greek letter "test" is often the last stage of testing for a computer product
   
#464. Season 29
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
GIVE ME A "C"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In the Internet exclamation acronym FCOL
   
#465. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $200
5-letter term for an "infectious" program designed to harm your computer
   
#466. Season 38
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Triforce, hookshot & Hylian shield are tokens in the edition based on this video game franchise
   
#467. Season 36
Monday, December 23, 2019
THEIR JOBS IN 2019
Jeopardy Round: $800
She's the C.O.O. of Facebook
   
#468. Season 15
Friday, October 16, 1998
YOU HAVE A PET WHAT?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The African pigmy type of this is sold as a pet; the "Sonic" one as a video game
   
#469. Season 40
Monday, February 26, 2024
MEMORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In comparing computer memory info, think before you give us this, the number of megabytes in a gigabyte
   
#470. Season 15
Wednesday, February 3, 1999
C IS FOR...
Jeopardy Round: $400
Cambridge, home of this school opened in Boston in 1865 by geologist William Barton Rogers
   
#471. Season 21
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Q BUT NOT U
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This Internet abbreviation provides a newcomer with additional information on a topic
   
#472. Season 27
Friday, October 29, 2010
BIBLE BOOK NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
12 letters: Why?! Why didn't I buy Microsoft when it hit the market in 1986?! & wearing that Speedo?! What was I thinking?!
   
#473. Season 38
Friday, September 24, 2021
NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Taiwan-born Jerry Yang co-created Jerry & David's Guide to the World Wide Web, which became this Internet giant!
   
#474. Season 31
Monday, May 4, 2015
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $1000
YGTI:
"You get" this
   
#475. Season 37
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
MATH IN THE WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
(Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Intersectional analysis is a way to evaluate how multiple variables influence the accuracy of this surveillance technology I have shown to struggle on darker faces
   
#476. Season 20
Monday, July 19, 2004
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
As a sort of e-mail post office, this program from Qualcomm is named for the author of "Why I Live at the P.O."
   
#477. Season 18
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
EarthLink & CompuServe are 2 of these, abbreviated ISP
   
#478. Season 30
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
LOW-TECH HIGH TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A hard reboot of your computer can be accomplished with this simple pair of steps
   
#479. Season 23
Monday, May 21, 2007
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Dahalo, a language of Kenya, uses only one of these, like Amazon.com's online shopping technology
   
#480. Season 34
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
"INSTA"!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"A community of more than 600 mil. who capture & share the world's moments" is promised by this internet service
   
#481. Season 34
Monday, March 19, 2018
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
These plural units of computer processing power stand for floating-point operations per second
   
#482. Season 12
Tuesday, January 16, 1996
CALIFORNIA CITIES
Jeopardy Round: $500
This Silicon Valley city served as California's first capital from 1849 to 1851
   
#483. Season 22
Thursday, December 22, 2005
DIVERSIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This game named for a ship used to clear explosives tempts many away from more important computer tasks
   
#484. Season 27
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
acuvue.com was offering a certificate for a free trial pair of these
   
#485. Season 30
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
BUSINESS & THE MARKET
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2013 Facebook dangled $3 billion in cash in front of this photo-messaging company, which said no
   
#486. Season 41
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
MIX -OLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's cutting edge:LENGTHY COO
   
#487. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
STOCK UP
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Originally named Sound of Music, this company, BBY, still offers sound electronics & music
   
#488. Season 8
Wednesday, February 5, 1992
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
These rigid disks have much greater storage capacity than floppy disks
   
#489. Season 33
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
COMPANIES' PRODUCTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The IIe computer
   
#490. Season 38
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Ella Gaillard's invention of the eyeless this revolutionized surgery
   
#491. Season 5
Thursday, April 27, 1989
TELEVISION HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $100
1 of the 2 changes computers made to "Casablanca" before TBS aired it on November 9, 1988
   
#492. Season 35
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This president is on Twitter again--"People are saying I'm ill. Tippecanoe is fine--no cold! Best month ever, that I can tell you"
   
#493. Season 39
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
RHYMER'S DELIGHT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Colorfully" authorize a personal or corporate location on the Internet
   
#494. Season 25
Monday, October 13, 2008
SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Grace Murray Hopper is credited with applying this 3-letter term to a mysterious computer problem
   
#495. Season 32
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
ALL THE LYRICS IN THE SONG
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This "Punk" electronic group had nothing to say in a 1997 song except "Around the world"
   
#496. Season 28
Thursday, August 2, 2012
TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In "Mystery Legends: Sleepy Hollow", players solve puzzles as this character searches for his noggin
   
#497. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $800
The 7 rotatable blocks used in this video game have names like Orange Ricky, Hero & Smashboy
   
#498. Season 40
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This wireless technology is named for a 10th century Viking king
   
#499. Season 16
Tuesday, March 7, 2000
"I" DO
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
IBEW is the abbreviation for this U.S. labor union
   
#500. Season 25
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This electronics store wants to be female-friendly & now has Magnolia Stores, which have a living room feel
   
#501. Season 4
Tuesday, June 7, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Some thermometers use a bimetallic strip in place of this
   
#502. Season 16
Monday, July 10, 2000
CALVIN-ISM
Jeopardy Round: $100
He attended the High School of Art & Design & graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1962
   
#503. Season 14
Tuesday, September 2, 1997
INVENTORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
He found his assistant, electrician Tom Watson, in a store where he bought electrical supplies
   
#504. Season 28
Thursday, May 24, 2012
ANIMAL VERBS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Pester, or equip a room with electronic listening devices
   
#505. Season 39
Monday, June 26, 2023
NAMES OF THE 1990s
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Founder Steve Case was the tech tycoon of the moment when this Internet service provider went public in 1992
   
#506. Season 19
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
2001: A CATEGORY ODYSSEY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
I'm sorry, Dave, Douglas Rain provided the voice of this ultimately murderous computer
   
#507. Season 39
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
RHYMER'S DELIGHT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Technology-averse (or even destructive) dramatist
   
#508. Season 4
Monday, January 11, 1988
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $100
A rectifier is an electrical device used to convert alternating current to this
   
#509. Season 16
Thursday, April 20, 2000
THE BULL
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
At 1999's end, this internet bookseller had seen its stock rise 6,000% without showing a profit
   
#510. Season 38
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type
   
#511. Season 31
Thursday, January 22, 2015
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
These 2 units measure electrical current & electrical resistance
   
#512. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Using 8 industrial fans, University of Florida engineers have built a simulator of these with 125-mph winds
   
#513. Season 35
Friday, November 9, 2018
SCHOLARSHIPS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's going to take more than a baking soda volcano to win a scholarship from the Google-sponsored contest called this event
   
#514. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009
COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the brains of the operation:
CPU
   
#515. Season 18
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
When a plane travels faster than the speed of sound, it creates this thunderous noise
   
#516. Season 26
Friday, July 23, 2010
TOBACCO
Jeopardy Round: $800
4-letter "electrical" word for a flat, compressed wad of chewing tobacco
   
#517. Season 30
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
INCREDIBLE MACHINE
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1997 Antares Technology developed this program to correct singers with imperfect pitch
   
#518. Season 20
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
ACRONYMBLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
To a computer user:
DOS
   
#519. Season 12
Wednesday, October 4, 1995
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A flex is one of these items that runs between a lamp & the wall
   
#520. Season 33
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
ROBOTS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Many computer tablets use this operating system created by Google & named for a humanoid robot
   
#521. Season 20
Wednesday, October 8, 2003
COMMUNICATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Office fixture that lent its name to what early Internet users posted their messages on
   
#522. Season 37
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
THE PRANCING PONY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Ponyta evolves into the fiery Rapidash in this Nintendo game series
   
#523. Season 8
Wednesday, February 5, 1992
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
All modern PCs are this type of computer, as opposed to analog computers
   
#524. Season 12
Tuesday, May 21, 1996
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Bill Gates co-founded this Redmond, Washington firm when he was only 19 years old
   
#525. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Gasoline engines commonly use a fuel injector or this to mix fuel & air
   
#526. Season 14
Wednesday, June 24, 1998
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Digital computers use this number system in which the decimal number 12 becomes 1100
   
#527. Season 31
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
TV ODDS & ENDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Facebook page for the Indiana Office of Tourism said they'd miss this retiring sitcom almost as much as Li'l Sebastian
   
#528. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
In computerese, it's what the P stands for in the abbreviation HTTP
   
#529. Season 25
Monday, May 11, 2009
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1971 Intel introduced these integrated circuits that perform all the functions of a CPU
   
#530. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
The second "T" in HTTP
   
#531. Season 24
Friday, February 22, 2008
SOUTH PARK
Jeopardy Round: $600
S. Montana's Electric Peak, named for the electrical charge experienced by climbers in 1872, is in this natl. park
   
#532. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Term for the small picture that represents an object on a display screen
   
#533. Season 40
Friday, June 28, 2024
INTERNET CELEBRITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2024, this streamer announced to his 9 million followers on Twitch that he inked a deal with Nike
   
#534. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: 1600
Widely known as the "Father of the Supercomputer", he built some of the most powerful & expensive computers of the last century
   
#535. Season 33
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
FILL IN THE ____
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Named for physicist Georg:
____'s law of electrical resistance
   
#536. Season 23
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
ONLINE WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This phrase was used of an appliance that connected to an electrical outlet; now it's an add-on for a browser
   
#537. Season 31
Monday, September 29, 2014
PREMIUM CABLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This HBO series that debuted in 2014 makes talk about compression algorithms & tech incubators really funny
   
#538. Season 27
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
NEWSMAKERS OF 2010
Jeopardy Round: $400
This chief Facebooker is the subject of the biopic "The Social Network"
   
#539. Season 27
Friday, February 25, 2011
TV
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"Web Redemptions" are a feature of this Internet-based Comedy Central show hosted by comedian Daniel
   
#540. Season 14
Monday, October 20, 1997
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $300
In computerese, when referring to capacity, MB is short for this
   
#541. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $600
When a device can be attached to your computer & install itself, it's PnP, short for this
   
#542. Season 14
Thursday, March 12, 1998
1980s LIT
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Type of machine referred to in the title of Tracy Kidder's nonfiction work "The Soul of a New Machine"
   
#543. Season 23
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This term first appeared in print in 1971 & refers to the many electronics firms in Santa Clara County, California
   
#544. Season 16
Thursday, January 27, 2000
HISTORIC WEBSITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
It's little known that fake plans for this invasion were posted at www.theallies.com/
060644/overlord/
index.html
   
#545. Season 36
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
WHAT IS THAT PERSON DOING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
With the service Carbonite, doing an alliterative "business" this, an important but often neglected computer task
   
#546. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $200
A Spanish speaker might text his amigo "ADM" or "ay Dios mio", this in English
   
#547. Season 38
Friday, October 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The 2 gases that make up the "plasma" in a plasma TV are usually these 2, Ne & Xe
   
#548. Season 33
Monday, September 12, 2016
"BEST" WISHES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This consumer electronics corporation has annual sales of more than $40 billion
   
#549. Season 41
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The name of this 2024 song by Post Malone & Taylor Swift sounds just like a popular video game
   
#550. Season 30
Thursday, May 22, 2014
TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
When Apple sued for iPad patent infringement, Samsung cited this 1968 movie as the originator of the design
   
#551. Season 28
Friday, December 30, 2011
THE MOST EXPENSIVE EVER
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2010 sex.com was sold for $13 million, the most ever paid for the part of an Internet address called this "name"
   
#552. Season 21
Thursday, February 10, 2005
FROM D TO SHINING D
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2003 Microsoft paid one of these to stockholders for the first time
   
#553. Season 37
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
TOURNAMENTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Just like soccer, in July 2019 this video game had a World Cup, in NYC's Arthur Ashe Stadium with a $3 million grand prize
   
#554. Season 28
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
THEOEDSEZ
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"A person who uses his skill with computers to try to gain unauthorized access to computer files"
   
#555. Season 22
Thursday, November 10, 2005
GEEK LOVE
Jeopardy Round: $600
This director's geek cred was sealed when he sold his film co.'s computer division & it later became Pixar
   
#556. Season 26
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
JOKING MATTERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Emo Philips: A computer "once beat me at" this game "but it was no match for me at kickboxing"
   
#557. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The "D" in radar stands for this
   
#558. Season 38
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
BOREDOM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A 2010 computer analysis said the most boring 20th c. day was a Sunday in the middle of this, known as a decade of dull conformity
   
#559. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Appropriately, the highest lance won in this classic game; less appropriately, there were flying ostriches
   
#560. Season 18
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
"THOU"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This Microsoft computer system first combined Windows NT technology with the 98 GUI
   
#561. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
As unique as fingerprints, strands of this genetic material are used to establish paternity
   
#562. Season 18
Monday, May 27, 2002
THAT'S LIKE, SO TOTALLY "RAD"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This electronics chain first opened in 1921 on Brattle Street, near the site of the Boston Massacre
   
#563. Season 13
Tuesday, July 1, 1997
INVENTORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1929 this electrical engineer became an Italian marquis
   
#564. Season 33
Friday, May 26, 2017
BULLET POINTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
The electrical bullet probe invented by this Scottish-born man didn't save James Garfield but it did save lives in WWI
   
#565. Season 25
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Sealy makes these with "advanced memory foam technology"
   
#566. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1888 George Eastman began marketing a low-cost, easy-to-use one of these
   
#567. Season 24
Monday, December 31, 2007
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
Ordinary analog phone lines that deliver a low-cost broadband data connection use this 3-letter technology
   
#568. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Kratos kills Ares & gets this title, also the name of the video game series
   
#569. Season 15
Monday, January 25, 1999
FAMOUS AMERICANS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
In 1938 he developed a way to electronically measure the size of a radio show's audience
   
#570. Season 13
Wednesday, November 13, 1996
CURRENT EVENTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This Bill Gates' company introduced its Internet Explorer web browser to compete with Netscape
   
#571. Season 19
Monday, October 7, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
VLSI, very large-scale integrated circuits, would be impossible without CAD, this kind of design
   
#572. Season 40
Monday, March 18, 2024
BUSINESS PARTNERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Google "Who founded Google?" & it's this pair, Stanford grad students in 1998
   
#573. Season 27
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
TASTY MUSICAL ACTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This "citrus" electronica band did music for 30 films in the '80s, including "Risky Business" & "Legend"
   
#574. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
COMPUTER GAMING
Jeopardy Round: $200
Installments of this controversial crime-based game include "San Andreas" & "Vice City"
   
#575. Season 20
Monday, November 17, 2003
ANAGRAMMED COUNTRIES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Some of the computers in this southwest African country are analog
   
#576. Season 38
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
Friedrich Koenig's improvements to this machine, not much changed since the 1450s, included self-inking
   
#577. Season 16
Tuesday, November 9, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In the electromagnetic spectrum, these rays fall between x-rays & visible light
   
#578. Season 19
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
MIT
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
MIT announced in April 2001 that it plans to make almost all of its course materials available free via this
   
#579. Season 20
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1885, 14 years after a more famous find, this German archaeologist excavated Tiryns in Greece
   
#580. Season 30
Monday, April 7, 2014
INNOVATION
Jeopardy Round: $400
Computing was changed by the GUI, short for this technology using on-screen icons & a pointing device
   
#581. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $200
This word for fire is also an abusive note on a message board or in a chat room
   
#582. Season 16
Tuesday, November 16, 1999
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
If your computer has this kind of "base", you should know it's the plural of "datum"
   
#583. Season 38
Thursday, November 11, 2021
MUSIC STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $600
Internet Money & Gunna had a 2020 hit titled this sweet drink; Beyoncé named an album for it
   
#584. Season 32
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Bobby Murphy was a co-founder of this conversation app once known as Picaboo
   
#585. Season 41
Thursday, April 17, 2025
GAME OVER, MAN! IT'S GAME OVER!
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
An 11th point is won in a table tennis video game with the best graphics Atari could imagine in 1972
   
#586. Season 12
Wednesday, January 17, 1996
THE ELEMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Used to make transistors & semiconductors, it's the most abundant element on Earth after oxygen
   
#587. Season 26
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
THE BLUES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Jabra Freespeak BT250 is this type of headset for cellphones
   
#588. Season 26
Thursday, December 31, 2009
MARSHALL ARTS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Marshall McLuhan summarized the influence of TV & computers with his aphorism "The medium is" this
   
#589. Season 22
Thursday, January 26, 2006
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
These 2 institutes of technology are tied atop the latest U.S. News ranking of physics grad schools
   
#590. Season 17
Thursday, November 30, 2000
DALLAS
Jeopardy Round: $500
TXN on the New York Stock Exchange, this Dallas electronics firm employs over 38,000 people worldwide
   
#591. Season 40
Monday, February 12, 2024
POP CULTURE VS.
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Red vs. Blue" are 2 armies in an animated series that's an offshoot of this "angelic" video game franchise
   
#592. Season 21
Thursday, September 30, 2004
IN OLD ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A 1970 Grolier's article on these called the magnetic drum the most used storage medium
   
#593. Season 40
Thursday, May 23, 2024
NAME, THE EXPRESSION
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
A nickname for Friedrich is in this expression used of broken electronics
   
#594. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Until Matsushita & Sony marketed these devices, people had to race home to catch "Police Woman"
   
#595. Season 27
Friday, March 4, 2011
TECH-KNOW
Jeopardy Round: $800
Copying info from a computer to a CD is called burning; doing the reverse is this other destructive term
   
#596. Season 14
Wednesday, July 15, 1998
BY 2000
Jeopardy Round: $200
Computers that recognize 00 as this date have to be fixed by the year 2000
   
#597. Season 40
Thursday, April 11, 2024
A YEAR ENDING IN 4
Jeopardy Round: $200
Apple introduced its Macintosh computer
   
#598. Season 33
Monday, October 17, 2016
IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE
Jeopardy Round: $600
75 would be users of this communication device
   
#599. Season 15
Tuesday, June 15, 1999
INTERNET BUSINESS
Final Jeopardy
A hot stock in 1999, this internet site began as a place to buy & sell Pez dispensers
   
#600. Season 30
Thursday, September 26, 2013
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
The animal for which this computer program is named is actually a red panda
   
#601. Season 26
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
BUSINESSWOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Carol Bartz made a deal for Microsoft to power the searches on this engine, where she's CEO
   
#602. Season 28
Thursday, November 10, 2011
LADS NAMED VLAD
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
In 1929, while working for RCA, this inventor & engineer demonstrated the first practical all-electronic TV
   
#603. Season 25
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
WHAT A CONCEPT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This music trade group tried suing Gertrude Walton for piracy, but she was dead & had never owned a computer
   
#604. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
COMPUTER GENIUSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Ed Roberts built the first true personal computer & named it this model 8800, after a star
   
#605. Season 35
Friday, July 19, 2019
COMPUTER "D"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Folder is a synonym for one of these inside a computer's internal filing system
   
#606. Season 29
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
CSIRO has developed technology that helps drain this gas, CH4, released by the mining of coal
   
#607. Season 35
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
TEEN MATH
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
In 1952 an early computer was used to discover the 13th Mersenne one of these numbers
   
#608. Season 33
Thursday, February 16, 2017
FREE SPEECH
Jeopardy Round: $800
Combine 2 rhyming words to get this term for a freebie computer program
   
#609. Season 41
Thursday, January 30, 2025
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Since 1991, this 3-letter abbreviation has referred to familiar text messaging technology
   
#610. Season 16
Tuesday, April 4, 2000
THE PC
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Apple launched this popular computer line August 15, 1998
   
#611. Season 26
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's the pre-computer machine on which you'd find a QWERTY keyboard
   
#612. Season 28
Friday, April 27, 2012
SPYING
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
Normally a verb, in spy jargon it's a noun meaning acquisition of an electronic message not meant for you
   
#613. Season 13
Friday, September 13, 1996
BUSINESS '96
Jeopardy Round: $100
In February this computer company agreed to let Motorola use its Macintosh operating system
   
#614. Season 34
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
POKE OUT AN I
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Without its "I", a synonym for "landed" becomes this computer key
   
#615. Season 29
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
WEB MUSIC PARODIES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A YouTube cover of this Lana Del Rey song features Princess Peach & the Mario brothers in a love triangle
   
#616. Season 36
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
COMPUTER KEYBOARDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Helping you with a soft reboot, this 3-key step was chosen as it was nigh impossible to engage using only one hand
   
#617. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "P" in jpeg
   
#618. Season 24
Thursday, February 21, 2008
GAMERS UNITE!
Jeopardy Round: $800
In "Shadows of Angmar", a video game based on these books, Sauron sends the Nazgul in search of some jewelry
   
#619. Season 37
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
CLOTHES MINDED
Jeopardy Round: $200
To a Brit a mackintosh isn't an apple or a computer, it's this article of clothing
   
#620. Season 39
Friday, October 28, 2022
THE STRONGEST LINK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the "Skyward Sword" edition of this video game, Link searches for the title character after she's knocked out of the sky
   
#621. Season 17
Friday, March 23, 2001
"DO", "RE", "MI"
Jeopardy Round: $400
This kind of "name" is also known as an Internet address
   
#622. Season 32
Thursday, March 10, 2016
TV NETWORK NAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
An electrically charged atom
   
#623. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In addition to film, he came up with the Polaroid lenses used in sunglasses
   
#624. Season 21
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
CYBER-GLOSSARY
Final Jeopardy
In computerese this word from the Hindu faith means an icon of a user in virtual reality
   
#625. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Gov. Snyder of this Midwest state where Larry Page was born is trying to reverse a trend of population loss
   
#626. Season 26
Thursday, February 4, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Thousands of prisoners in the Philippines re-enacted the moves of the video of this Michael Jackson hit
   
#627. Season 37
Friday, January 8, 2021
WEARABLE TECH
Jeopardy Round: $800
A 2014 BBC review called this alliterative eyewear from a search engine company "promising, sometimes brilliant... but a failure"
   
#628. Season 37
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This Sega video game character originally was a hedgehog named Mr. Needlemouse; things have sped up since then
   
#629. Season 34
Monday, October 16, 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The "brain" behind Amazon Echo, she can turn on your thermostat or tell you who won a medieval battle
   
#630. Season 41
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
GLOBAL MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Also in the title of a "Legend of Zelda" video game, this type of instrument means "little goose" in Italian
   
#631. Season 31
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS
Jeopardy Round: $200
allmovie.com's review of "Run All Night" noted "the constant hissing of threats into cell phones" by this Irish actor
   
#632. Season 30
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
LOW-TECH HIGH TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Keeping a computer secure by disconnecting it from a network is using this type of 3-letter "gap"
   
#633. Season 32
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
IVY LEAGUE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Project Ivy is the Home for Technology Innovation for this political group abbreviated DNC
   
#634. Season 30
Friday, September 20, 2013
DO YOU COMPUTE?
Jeopardy Round: $400
The top-selling computer imaging software is this program released in 1987 & its related elements from Adobe
   
#635. Season 16
Friday, June 30, 2000
LIFE OF A SALESMAN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
An IBM salesman in the '50s, he founded Electronic Data Systems in the '60s & made a billion
   
#636. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Actors might memorize these rectangles that appear onscreen to present information, then vanish
   
#637. Season 29
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
HIS 'DO
Jeopardy Round: $400
Hair-wise, Steven Seagal is famous for this, which has its own Facebook page
   
#638. Season 4
Friday, December 11, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1899 this Italian-born inventor sent a radio wave across the English Channel
   
#639. Season 34
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
ENTERTAINING INSPIRATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The structures in Larry Niven's novel "Ringworld" inspired this video game series with a more angelic ring in the title
   
#640. Season 36
Thursday, January 9, 2020
AMERICAN "CITY"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's home to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
   
#641. Season 20
Friday, November 7, 2003
UNPOPULAR MECHANICS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Stopzilla is software to stop these from constantly appearing on your computer screen
   
#642. Season 4
Tuesday, June 7, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Probably the most familiar farm machine, it can act as both a power unit & a pulling device
   
#643. Season 35
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Sure, you could send a letter using this horseback service; let's see--200 miles a day for 2,000 miles...or maybe just email
   
#644. Season 9
Wednesday, June 30, 1993
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
The 1st automated instrument to analyze this genetic material's structure was developed in the mid-1980s
   
#645. Season 39
Friday, June 16, 2023
NIGHT SKIES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Mizar A & B are what's called a visual this word, like a kind of computer code, for their apparent closeness
   
#646. Season 17
Thursday, February 1, 2001
THE COMPUTER AGE
Jeopardy Round: $400
This programming language was named for calculating-machine inventor Blaise
   
#647. Season 23
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
NOW THAT'S INVENTIVE!
Jeopardy Round: $600
Famous for his jet, he also invented the automobile radio for the company that became Motorola
   
#648. Season 28
Friday, February 24, 2012
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
You'll never be lonely with an iPhone 4S-- just talk to her, named after the research hub SRI
   
#649. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
2-word term for something nice to wear in winter, or for restarting a computer without turning off the power
   
#650. Season 41
Monday, December 2, 2024
SPORTS STAR RECORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2022 this former Laker aka DJ Diesel joined Steve Aoki on the electronic song "Welcome To The Playhouse"
   
#651. Season 1
Wednesday, December 12, 1984
INVENTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $300
1899 device for attaching papers that can ruin a computer disc when magnetized
   
#652. Season 35
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
DOMAIN
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the country-code top-level internet domain for Putin's domain
   
#653. Season 26
Thursday, July 22, 2010
AT THE BUSINESS' WEBSITE
Jeopardy Round: $400
You could "See what's new in Windows 7" & "Watch the demos" at this company's site
   
#654. Season 33
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
SAVING UP
Jeopardy Round: $200
The U.S. Treasury introduced the savings type of these in 1935 & made them electronic-only in 2012
   
#655. Season 25
Monday, May 18, 2009
RECENT SPACE NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This country used its NIGCOMSAT-1 to help provide Internet access to its rural areas
   
#656. Season 26
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES
Jeopardy Round: $800
For science, technology, automotive & more:
PM
   
#657. Season 7
Wednesday, May 22, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Antron & Cordura are 2 types of this synthetic fiber made by Du Pont
   
#658. Season 31
Friday, January 23, 2015
FINNISH HIM!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Linus Torvalds completed the earliest version of this computer operating system at age 21 at the Univ. of Helsinki
   
#659. Season 27
Thursday, September 30, 2010
BUSINESS BIGGIES
Jeopardy Round: $600
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Microsoft's headquarters.) After Microsoft moved to Bellevue, Washington, this company asked them to write the operating system for their new PC; MS-DOS would soon become an industry standard
   
#660. Season 30
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK
Jeopardy Round: $200
Help fight the Cold War in the third title in this series; "Black Ops" is rated M, so you'll have to wait for that... right?
   
#661. Season 36
Thursday, April 30, 2020
"F"
Jeopardy Round: $400
This type of imprecise "logic" used by certain computers would net you a fine Scrabble score
   
#662. Season 30
Thursday, October 17, 2013
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This measure of computer speed equals 1 trillion (with a "T") floating-point operations per second
   
#663. Season 37
Thursday, June 17, 2021
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $600
The country of Tuvalu gets nearly 10% of its gross national income licensing this Internet domain extension
   
#664. Season 41
Friday, March 21, 2025
BUSINESS BUSTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
2011 was the end for this music player from Microsoft
   
#665. Season 41
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
"A"CRONYMS & "A"BBREVIATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Internet domain code for this nation is .az
   
#666. Season 4
Monday, June 27, 1988
BUSINESS '88
Jeopardy Round: $200
Since leaving the astronaut corps, she's joined the board of directors of Apple Computer
   
#667. Season 29
Thursday, September 20, 2012
WHAT THE "H"?
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In HTTP & HTML
   
#668. Season 29
Monday, February 18, 2013
MICRO
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
This field covers the control of bits of matter smaller than 1 /100th the thickness of a sheet of paper
   
#669. Season 35
Thursday, September 13, 2018
PRINCIPLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
freepress.net is a website that's interested in "net" this, "the internet's guiding principle"
   
#670. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $500
"Strap" once completed this word meaning to start a computer by loading software
   
#671. Season 33
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
"GRAND" SLAM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"Race 'n' Chase" was the working title for this video game series
   
#672. Season 24
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Tim Berners-Lee of CERN developed the WWW, allowing users to connect to documents through these "overactive" links
   
#673. Season 37
Friday, June 11, 2021
EDUCATION
Jeopardy Round: $600
A counterpart of the Rhodes Scholarship, Kennedy Scholarships enable British citizens to study at these 2 Boston-area schools
   
#674. Season 5
Thursday, December 29, 1988
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
A 1986 U.S.-Japan agreement set prices on these electronic parts to avoid undercutting U.S. producers
   
#675. Season 19
Friday, June 27, 2003
LIBRARIES
Jeopardy Round: $800
This inventor's historical site library includes his Oscar for his work in motion picture technology
   
#676. Season 26
Friday, May 28, 2010
MOVIE TAG LINES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
1982 film that showed "A world inside a computer where man has never been. Never before now"
   
#677. Season 21
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
NOUN TO VERB
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,400
When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online
   
#678. Season 39
Friday, September 23, 2022
CUTTING BACK ON THE BRAND
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2007, the same year it introduced the iPhone, Apple dropped this 8-letter word from its corporate name
   
#679. Season 28
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
SALESWOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
KarenWare.com sells "Power Tools" apps for this computer operating system introduced in November 1985
   
#680. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Hometown: Plymouth Notch, Vt.;
Interests: Quiet time;
Email: dont_email_
me_i_wont_reply@
whitehouse.gov
   
#681. Season 31
Monday, March 23, 2015
GET THE "URGE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Your computer probably has a protector to guard against one of these
   
#682. Season 32
Friday, July 1, 2016
"CON"CENTRATION
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A person used to transmit information, or a structure containing electrical wiring
   
#683. Season 38
Friday, April 1, 2022
THANK YOU, THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
Shout-out to the man who told a barista at this business his name was Marc with a "C" & posted a pic of his cup... for "Cark"
   
#684. Season 24
Friday, February 15, 2008
DON'T TOY WITH ME
Jeopardy Round: $600
You might say "Wii" while using the wireless controller for this company's game system
   
#685. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
1997: Altavista introduces this free online translator
   
#686. Season 14
Wednesday, March 4, 1998
GO TO "H"
Jeopardy Round: $200
At best, it's a computer enthusiast; at worst, it's one who illegally taps into your computer
   
#687. Season 19
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
ACRONYMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's the first "I" in ASCII, a computer code for representing letters as numbers
   
#688. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $300
This 4-letter word from Sanskrit means someone who is a computer knowledge resource
   
#689. Season 34
Friday, November 10, 2017
FRUIT, NOT FRUIT
Jeopardy Round: $600
Nintendo says she "spent her...time in Bowser's castle" but now she "prefers to be the one doing the rescuing"
   
#690. Season 40
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
FUN & GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A 2023 film pulled back the curtain on how this video game took over the world, one falling block at a time
   
#691. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $800
The first search engine had this comic book name; the original "Archives" was too long of a filename
   
#692. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024
18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Following his experiments with frogs, he published an essay "On the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion"
   
#693. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Oh, wow, "W.O.W." stands for this bestselling multiplayer game
   
#694. Season 5
Monday, November 21, 1988
THE FUNNIES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Snuffy Smith used to share title billing with this character
   
#695. Season 39
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
THE PARENT COMPANY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It provides YouTube, & you can Google that
   
#696. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Bell invented it in 1876; David Hughes gave it this name in 1878, & don't lean into it when you reply
   
#697. Season 40
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
"J-I-T" WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
One of 3 core design languages, this programming mainstay is often used to add interactive features to webpages
   
#698. Season 3
Thursday, July 16, 1987
WORDS OF THE '80s
Jeopardy Round: $500
MIPS is a computer term meaning "millions of" these "per second"
   
#699. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
Aunt May & Norman Osborn show up in this superhero's Marvel-ous high-flying game
   
#700. Season 21
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
WEBSTER'SNEW WORLD COLLEGE DICTIONARY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Webster's got down to business with this term for the buying & selling of goods & services over the Internet
   
#701. Season 20
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
This singing game in which we "all fall down" may have originally referred to a deadly plague of the 1300s
   
#702. Season 35
Thursday, January 3, 2019
ACRONYMS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
TED talks began in 1984 at a conference on this, entertainment & design
   
#703. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011
COMPUTER GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2010 this latest "Call of Duty" title sold 5.6 million copies in 24 hours
   
#704. Season 19
Thursday, January 23, 2003
NAMES IN SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This man whose name gave us the electrical current unit called an amp got a bad shock when his father was guillotined
   
#705. Season 29
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $400
A set of operating rules for computer information exchange; it can also mean proper diplomatic etiquette
   
#706. Season 28
Friday, July 6, 2012
THE WEBS OF WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $200
YouTube & Blogger are part of this company, the No. 1 search engine
   
#707. Season 29
Thursday, May 9, 2013
YOU'RE CRAZY, ME DRIVING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Can't we just get one of these? in 2012 Nevada issued Google the first license for one
   
#708. Season 23
Thursday, July 26, 2007
ONLINE INSULTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
If you lack technology like Gameboys & iPods, you could be called "Urban" this, like a Mennonite sect
   
#709. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
This alloy was cast into tools even before 3000 B.C.
   
#710. Season 37
Thursday, October 22, 2020
CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Google co-founder Sergey Brin
   
#711. Season 29
Friday, July 12, 2013
VIDEO GAME HISTORY
Final Jeopardy
The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife
   
#712. Season 15
Thursday, March 11, 1999
AD AGE
Jeopardy Round: $100
Bob Dylan, Pablo Picasso & Albert Einstein "Think different" according to ads for this computer company
   
#713. Season 38
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
GAME CHANGERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1990 this classic card game was included as part of Windows 3.0, turning millions of casual computer users into gamers
   
#714. Season 21
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
JOE THE FARMER
Jeopardy Round: $400
Joe's dream vacation is a tour of this company's Technology Center in Moline, Illinois
   
#715. Season 13
Monday, December 9, 1996
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Willem Einthoven devised a way to measure & record its electrical current, thus producing the EKG
   
#716. Season 38
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION
Jeopardy Round: $200
When it follows "and the", it means "similar things"
   
#717. Season 36
Monday, February 24, 2020
ELECTRICITY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's any device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy, not just when the power is out
   
#718. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $200
A length of hair added to your own, or 3 letters, such as EXE, added to a filename
   
#719. Season 34
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
VIRUSES
Jeopardy Round: $200
To hackers, this way into a house also means a security bypass that can let a virus infect a computer
   
#720. Season 32
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
LIKE A BOSS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2015 this ex-Microsoft man & L.A. Clippers owner was the richest sports team owner in the U.S., with $21.6 billion
   
#721. Season 39
Thursday, July 27, 2023
THE BAR MITZVAH BOY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This Facebook founder had a "Star Wars" theme at Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown, New York
   
#722. Season 20
Friday, November 21, 2003
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
This saint presides over the internal search engine at americancatholic.org
   
#723. Season 17
Thursday, March 8, 2001
LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $100
This company first introduced its MSN Network as part of Windows 95
   
#724. Season 16
Thursday, March 2, 2000
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Final Jeopardy
This U.S. firm is the world's largest processor of tomatoes
   
#725. Season 32
Monday, February 15, 2016
COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
A circuit that allows data to travel between a peripheral & a computer is a "local" this vehicle
   
#726. Season 4
Thursday, May 26, 1988
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The "boss button" takes this off your screen if the boss comes by, replacing it with data
   
#727. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
1997:
A computer with this colorful name defeats a world chess champion
   
#728. Season 36
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This computer command at Control-Z or Command-Z can save you from awful mistakes
   
#729. Season JM
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
BOOKS & BOOK SERIES
Jeopardy Round: 200
(One more time, Rebecca Yarros.) I write down scenes & plot points on index cards, & even at that stage might include these hidden messages, an alliterative term from the world video games
   
#730. Season 28
Monday, January 30, 2012
PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug
   
#731. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015
COMPUTER ACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Giving a play-by-play of an event while on Twitter is called doing this
   
#732. Season 25
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
SELF-CONTRADICTORY WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's to put to death legally, or to start, as in a computer program
   
#733. Season 37
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
During WWII this computer scientist & code breaker converted his money into silver & buried it; he never found his buried treasure
   
#734. Season 15
Monday, January 18, 1999
AMERICA SINCE 1900
Jeopardy Round: $200
On Oct. 20, 1997 the Justice Dept. filed a petition accusing this high-tech company of anticompetitive acts
   
#735. Season 20
Thursday, March 11, 2004
ALSO A BOOK OF THE BIBLE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sega's video game system from 1989
   
#736. Season 28
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"The Victorian Internet" is a book about pioneers of this communication device
   
#737. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2012 she surpassed Eminem, her "Love The Way You Lie" duet partner, as the celeb with the most likes on Facebook
   
#738. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022
OLD TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2022 Apple said they'd no longer make this MP3 player, which is now unbelievably in an old tech category
   
#739. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
If you're gaming with a pal online & he doesn't respond, it may be a case of "LD", this "dead"
   
#740. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
In 1654 a famous demonstration had 2 horses trying to pull apart halves of a sphere with this inside it
   
#741. Season 41
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
EARTH SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
As its name suggests, this part of the atmosphere that begins about 50 miles up is rich in electrically charged particles
   
#742. Season 37
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
LET'S "EET"
Jeopardy Round: $800
In this "speak" used in Internet chat rooms, letters are replaced by numbers or other symbols
   
#743. Season 23
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
PC MAGAZINE
Jeopardy Round: $600
For 16 years this computer maker put an ad on the back page of PC Mag to promote & pioneer its direct PC sales
   
#744. Season 12
Monday, September 25, 1995
THE 1980s
Jeopardy Round: $400
This Texan sold his Electronic Data Systems to General Motors for $2.5 billion
   
#745. Season 32
Monday, September 26, 2011
LOOK WHAT THE CAT SCAN DRAGGED IN
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
CAT stands for computerized this tomography, because it moves across the body's transverse plane
   
#746. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
In the classic video game "Joust", contestants were placed upon these birds
   
#747. Season 33
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
A BUCKET LIST
Jeopardy Round: $800
Google uses "bucket" to mean a basic container for data in this type of storage platform
   
#748. Season 28
Thursday, June 14, 2012
WEBSITES FROM A TO Z
Jeopardy Round: $400
B: Microsoft's search engine
   
#749. Season 34
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
IF THE HYPHEN BECOMES A LETTER
Jeopardy Round: $600
The hyphen in a mixed dorm becomes a "D":
you've done this, written a computer program
   
#750. Season 18
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer device can run up to 2500K on cable, 600K on DSL, but 56K or less on regular phone lines
   
#751. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Thomas Edison's cylindrical ones were superceded by Emile Berliner's flat variety
   
#752. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
He was a bouncing orange critter with a big nose & an asterisk in his name
   
#753. Season 30
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
NET ADVERTISING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Forcing users to do a certain Facebook action before getting more product info is called this "-gating"
   
#754. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Drawings discovered in 1967 showed this artist invented the chain drive around 1492
   
#755. Season 27
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2009 this chain halted a promotion for a free meal after too many people downloaded the coupon from oprah.com
   
#756. Season 36
Friday, January 10, 2020
#
Jeopardy Round: $200
#TBH is short for this, when users try to be truthful about an idea they post...on the Internet...noted home of the truth
   
#757. Season 30
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
TOY STORY
Jeopardy Round: $400
There are actually world championships for the trading card game & video game featuring these "pocket monsters"
   
#758. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This company with another medium in its name created the color TV system we use today
   
#759. Season 39
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
ONOMATOPOEIA
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's a test signal sent from a computer to check network speed
   
#760. Season 19
Friday, March 7, 2003
THE PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $600
This Internet service provider can be on your cell phone with its "Anywhere" program
   
#761. Season 7
Monday, June 24, 1991
BUSINESS LEADERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Deciding the corporate life wasn't for him, he left Apple Computer & Steven Jobs behind in 1985
   
#762. Season 28
Thursday, May 10, 2012
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $800
If someone texts CD9, it means "code 9", these are around
   
#763. Season 41
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Way bigger than a harmonica but with most of the same letters, it's also called a reed organ & was replaced by electronic organs
   
#764. Season 33
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
NOTHING BUT NET
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This forerunner of the internet that also ends in "net" was an arm of the U.S. Defense Department
   
#765. Season 34
Friday, January 19, 2018
FINANCIAL GOBBLEDYGOOK
Jeopardy Round: $400
Don't get them mixed up: ETF means "exchange-traded" these; EFT means "electronic" these "transfer"
   
#766. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
These devices advocated by firemen can work by detecting either ions or changes in light
   
#767. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This unit relating to the speed of a modem is named for Jean Maurice Emile Baudot
   
#768. Season 20
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
THE U.S. ARMY
Jeopardy Round: $800
This corps evolved from flags & torches in the 1850s to advanced electronic communications
   
#769. Season 27
Thursday, March 24, 2011
THE GENTLE ART OF RUGBY
Jeopardy Round: $200
If the ball is in-goal & you hold it & touch it to the earth, 5 points are scored by what's called this electrical term
   
#770. Season 37
Monday, May 3, 2021
VICE
Jeopardy Round: $800
A 1998 study showed release of dopamine, a pleasure-bringing neurotransmitter, in subjects during a tank-driving one of these
   
#771. Season 15
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1982 one of these vehicles deployed a satellite for the first time
   
#772. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009
COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $400
Useful for connecting devices, USB is short for Universal Serial this
   
#773. Season 32
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
ARE YOU GAME?
Jeopardy Round: $400
Steal, shoot, drive recklessly---Vice is nice in this video game series abbreviated "GTA"
   
#774. Season 34
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
"I" 4
Jeopardy Round: $200
A revered religious object, or a symbol on a computer screen
   
#775. Season 38
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN
Jeopardy Round: $200
Ultrasound won't tell us litter size; for that we use this diagnostic technology that's several decades older
   
#776. Season 23
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
TOP 10 LISTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
The top 10 video game titles of 2005 included 2 from LucasArts about this film series
   
#777. Season 11
Monday, May 8, 1995
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Thanks to Sony Imagesoft, you can play these 2 top game shows on your Sega CD
   
#778. Season 34
Thursday, May 3, 2018
THESE ARE DAYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
On Facebook & Instagram, "TT" can stand for Transformation Tuesday; 2 days later, TBT is this glimpse at the past
   
#779. Season 39
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This device delivers an electrical shock to correct an abnormal heartbeat in cases of cardiac arrest
   
#780. Season 28
Thursday, August 2, 2012
TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Ratchet & this robot buddy of his kick some serious butt in their PlayStation game "All 4 One"
   
#781. Season 32
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
VERY INVENTIVE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In addition to creating an all-electronic TV in 1927, he developed a process to sterilize milk via radio waves
   
#782. Season 27
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
Providing online access, ISP stands for this
   
#783. Season 37
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
ENGINEERING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
(Erica Joy Baker presents the clue.) Early streetlights tended to hiss & flicker until the problem was solved by Hertha Marks Ayrton, a pioneer in this branch of engineering abbreviated E.E.
   
#784. Season 23
Thursday, May 10, 2007
GETTING A JOB DOs & DON'Ts
Jeopardy Round: $800
If you email your resume, make sure the attachment doesn't contain this infectious computer agent
   
#785. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF
Jeopardy Round: 800
This underwhelming squadron commander from "Catch-22" got a promotion caused by a computer with a sense of humor
   
#786. Season 29
Friday, May 10, 2013
INNOVATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Attach a stick-n-find sticker to a valued item & you can locate it using your phone & this popular headset technology
   
#787. Season 34
Monday, September 11, 2017
BACK IN BLACK
Jeopardy Round: $400
On the verge of going bust in 1997, it was saved by a $150 million investment by rival Microsoft
   
#788. Season 19
Thursday, July 10, 2003
SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885
Jeopardy Round: $1000
American electrical engineer William Stanley invents this device for changing energy from AC to DC
   
#789. Season 33
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
"DEB"-8
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Removed errors from a computer
   
#790. Season 26
Monday, December 28, 2009
IBM
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Originally an adding machine maker, in 1944 IBM made its first steps toward one of these with the Harvard Mark I
   
#791. Season 21
Thursday, September 16, 2004
IT'S IN "DE" DICTIONARY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Remove a hidden electronic device
   
#792. Season 22
Monday, September 26, 2005
DEAD MAN WALKEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Trying to destroy Silicon Valley in a 1985 film, Walken tumbles off a blimp fighting this character
   
#793. Season 35
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Depeche Mode & MGMT play this-"pop", from the name of an electronic instrument
   
#794. Season 39
Thursday, May 4, 2023
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
This pioneering computer language got its name from its early use in translating formulas
   
#795. Season 13
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
MILLIONAIRES
Jeopardy Round: $300
In his early 20s, programmer Marc Andreessen developed this company's internet "Navigator"
   
#796. Season 30
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
"B" GOOD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This adjective means having anatomical structures that are enhanced by electronic components
   
#797. Season 38
Monday, June 6, 2022
MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK)
Jeopardy Round: $400
It was this two-word Internet sensation's "Worst Christmas Ever" in 2014
   
#798. Season 22
Friday, October 21, 2005
THE BOYS IN BLUE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Police now use speed guns with this technology first constructed by Theodore Maiman using a ruby rod
   
#799. Season 32
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
VIDEO GAME VILLAINS
Jeopardy Round: $200
King Pig is the lazy overlord of this game you can play on your smartphone
   
#800. Season 38
Friday, July 15, 2022
MEXICAN HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Selected for development using a computer, this Yucatan city got its first hotel in 1974 & is now Mexico's No. 1 beach resort
   
#801. Season 23
Friday, March 9, 2007
ON THE "TELE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
I have to work at a studio, so I can't be this type of worker linked electronically to his office from his home
   
#802. Season 37
Thursday, April 1, 2021
"OUT" AT FIRST
Jeopardy Round: $200
A loss of electrical power
   
#803. Season 25
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
FUN WITH EPONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $200
How shocking! A unit of electrical current is named for this Andre
   
#804. Season 34
Monday, April 16, 2018
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
My gamer roommate loves his rig from this "extraterrestrial" company, a division of Dell
   
#805. Season 35
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
9...9
Jeopardy Round: $600
9-volt batteries were introduced to power these radios pressed to 1950s teenagers' ears
   
#806. Season 33
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
ONLINE LEARNING
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
Michael Hart started e-books & Project Gutenberg when he typed this famous document into a computer on July 4, 1971
   
#807. Season 20
Monday, January 12, 2004
LETTER & LETTER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Xerox produces about 70% of the technology it develops in these labs
   
#808. Season 20
Friday, March 5, 2004
SEW WHAT?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
If your pincushion is this, keep it away from your computerized sewing machine; it could erase the memory
   
#809. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the U.S. most of these devices have 525 lines per image; soon they may have over 1,000
   
#810. Season 20
Thursday, December 11, 2003
I-I-I-I
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's the process of converting data into a form that can be used by computers
   
#811. Season 15
Thursday, December 24, 1998
STORES WITHOUT WALLS
Jeopardy Round: $500
This computer company founded by a man named Michael does $6 million of business online a day
   
#812. Season 35
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
ARCHITECTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
4-letter word for an office plan without walls; Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's HQ is the largest one in the world
   
#813. Season 18
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
MUSEUMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
You can learn the history of the microprocessor & how it's made at this computer chip maker's Santa Clara, Ca. museum
   
#814. Season 3
Friday, March 27, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Letter name of new Chrysler/Maserati car Iacocca calls "The best looking Italian...since my mother..."
   
#815. Season 37
Friday, March 12, 2021
BUSINESS ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $600
The C.T.O. is this officer who might deal with data & cloud storage
   
#816. Season 37
Monday, February 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
(Reshma Saujani presents the clue.) Tech pioneer Adele Goldberg helped develop a programming language used to create the first GUI, short for this, featuring icons & menus
   
#817. Season 37
Monday, April 5, 2021
POP CULTURE-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A Nintendo video game creator used an animal word that symbolizes stubbornness in naming this gorilla villain
   
#818. Season 34
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It was estimated that it could take 585 billion years to explore all the planets in this PlayStation video game
   
#819. Season 18
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Automaton is sometimes just a fancy name for one of these mechanical beings
   
#820. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
COMPUTER GENIUSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A real mensch, William D. Mensch, designed the processors in Wozniak & Jobs' early computers from this company
   
#821. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This European-sounding game that fans call "G.T." bills itself as "the real driving simulator"
   
#822. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Hacker Robert Morris' 1988 program with the name of this slithery creature crashed a tenth of the Internet
   
#823. Season 27
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE
Jeopardy Round: $600
The Queen & the British monarchy have pages on this social networking site; you can "like" them but you can't "friend" them
   
#824. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
In 1981 the Solar Challenger was a solar-powered plane & in 1977 the Gossamer Condor was powered by this
   
#825. Season 3
Thursday, March 12, 1987
MYTHOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Tisiphone, the blood avenger; Alecto, the persevering avenger; & Magaera, the jealous
   
#826. Season 33
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
COLLEGE DISCIPLINES
Final Jeopardy
Embracing the future & new technology in 1962, Purdue established the 1st college dept. in the U.S. for this 2-word discipline
   
#827. Season 38
Friday, January 21, 2022
SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This element gave us the "tan" in coltan, a metal essential in electronics but also classified as a conflict mineral
   
#828. Season 13
Wednesday, December 25, 1996
PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH
Jeopardy Round: $200
This electronic test can tell a woman if she's having twins
   
#829. Season 34
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1982 Atari went up an order of magnitude from Centipede to this sequel
   
#830. Season 27
Friday, February 11, 2011
"WARE"-ING
Jeopardy Round: $600
Malicious computer programs that are secretly installed on a computer to steal the user's private information
   
#831. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Of the 4 ghosts in the original English version of the Pac-Man game, the one that doesn't rhyme with the others
   
#832. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A type of this counting device is called suan pan in Chinese & soroban in Japanese
   
#833. Season 32
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
A stopcock is an external this 5-letter item used to control a liquid flow through a pipe
   
#834. Season 12
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The first practical machine powered by this was used in 1698 to pump water out of mines
   
#835. Season 41
Thursday, October 10, 2024
BBL, BUSY
Jeopardy Round: $200
I'm busy updating my iPhone with iOS 18, the OS short for this
   
#836. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024
18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The 1740s brought the first electrical capacitor, this "jar" named for a Dutch city
   
#837. Season 28
Friday, October 7, 2011
NAME CALLING
Jeopardy Round: $800
Not so computer savvy, are you? You're just a this--like a non-sorcerer in Harry Potter
   
#838. Season 35
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
LIKES & RAVERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2016 this social network sextupled the ways you can react to a posting, adding emojis to plain old "like"
   
#839. Season 31
Thursday, March 19, 2015
TECH GOOFS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Autocorrects at this Mark Zuckerberg site led to many "Happy Bday Grandpa & Grandmaster Flash" messages
   
#840. Season 20
Monday, February 16, 2004
TECH TOPICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's Microsoft's answer to the PS2
   
#841. Season 35
Friday, April 12, 2019
GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018
Jeopardy Round: $600
Each year the most searched-for author has been not a novelist but this man who penned "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
   
#842. Season 17
Thursday, November 16, 2000
"V" SHALL SEE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
Meaning word-for-word, it's also a brand of computer disk
   
#843. Season 7
Thursday, May 9, 1991
COLLEGE DEGREES
Jeopardy Round: $500
A B.E.E. is a bachelor of this, not of beekeeping
   
#844. Season 28
Thursday, May 10, 2012
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $600
Acronym for a website section with helpful info; at jeopardy.com it includes "how does one become a contestant?"
   
#845. Season 37
Monday, October 5, 2020
YOUR HEART'S CONTENT
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,600
Your heart has a natural this, the sinoatrial node, which emits electrical impulses that cause it to contract
   
#846. Season 29
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
To save a cell phone that's been dropped in water, remove the battery & SIM card, pat dry & cover it with the white type of this
   
#847. Season 20
Thursday, January 29, 2004
YOU BETTER KNOW SOME SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A device known as a rectifier makes this electrical conversion
   
#848. Season 24
Thursday, April 3, 2008
THE 2007FORBES400
Jeopardy Round: $400
"$17.2 billion...
started selling
computers from...
dorm room 1984 with $1,000"
   
#849. Season 20
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
HE GOT "GAME"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's Nintendo's handheld video game playing machine
   
#850. Season 38
Friday, April 22, 2022
FIRSTS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
On Oct. 13, 1983 the first call on a commercial cell phone was made to a grandson of this inventor
   
#851. Season 14
Tuesday, September 16, 1997
NAME CALLING
Jeopardy Round: $500
Nintendo immortalized this first name of one of the company's landlords
   
#852. Season 33
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
KEEP IT 100
Jeopardy Round: $600
Search for it on the internet-- it's the term for 1 followed by 100 zeroes
   
#853. Season 16
Friday, March 10, 2000
THE ROTARY CLUB
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
After testing, this technology began to replace the rotary dial in November 1963
   
#854. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It was slang for coffee before it became a programming language that could run on any platform
   
#855. Season 16
Thursday, September 9, 1999
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Gex is a gecko, Croc is a crocodile & Spyro is one of these
   
#856. Season 15
Tuesday, June 15, 1999
IT'S ABOUT TIME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Time in the U.S. is determined by the National Institute of Standards & Technology whose atomic clock is in this Colorado city
   
#857. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
QTest, Fact & ept are home test kits to test for this condition
   
#858. Season 39
Thursday, February 2, 2023
PLAY THAT GAME
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's gotta be hard to catch 'em all when new video games keep coming out, but in 2022 folks gave it a shot with this "Legends: Arceus"
   
#859. Season 16
Friday, October 22, 1999
19th CENTURY LITERATURE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $500
Edward Bellamy's 1888 book "Looking Backward" sends a man to this year & doesn't mention computer bugs
   
#860. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This food made from the flint variety is always getting stuck between teeth, & Google has no fix
   
#861. Season 41
Monday, December 16, 2024
SONGWRITING WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
Jeopardy Round: $600
(Lin-Manuel Miranda presents the clue.) Computer software makes it possible for any songwriter to have a home recording studio; I wrote most of my first show, "In the Heights", on this Apple program that sounds like a group of kids practicing out by the car
   
#862. Season 12
Tuesday, May 21, 1996
GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the company that introduced the video games Donkey Kong & Super Mario Brothers
   
#863. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011
VIDEO GAME HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
id Software says hardcore PC games went mainstream in 1994 when it unleashed this fatal-sounding game
   
#864. Season 31
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
10-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the process of converting computer data into a code
   
#865. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011
COMPUTER GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Reach" for the latest version of this Bungie game & defend Earth's last line of defense against The Covenant
   
#866. Season 5
Tuesday, January 3, 1989
GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $300
A computer version of this, the world's most popular board game, cuts playing time by ⅔
   
#867. Season 28
Thursday, January 26, 2012
RETRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Typewriter keyboards had only one kind of slash; on computer keyboards, it's now called this "slash"
   
#868. Season 30
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
INTERNET FIRSTS
Final Jeopardy
A broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995 holds this distinction
   
#869. Season 39
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
SQUIRRELS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1994 trading on this first electronic stock exchange ceased for 34 minutes after a squirrel chewed through a power line
   
#870. Season 28
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
PHENOMENA
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
This term for a lucky type of visible electrical discharge is a corruption of Erasmus, a patron saint of sailors
   
#871. Season 33
Monday, March 13, 2017
OPEN THE PODCAST DOORS, HAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The World Wide Web can be wacky, & this 2-word show whose title can be a dangerous click when e-mailing fills in details
   
#872. Season 23
Monday, April 9, 2007
THE HOME OFFICE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Also a wood-milling tool, this device directs data between a network & the Internet & can have a firewall
   
#873. Season 15
Thursday, May 13, 1999
FAMOUS FOLKS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Billionaire business giant who said, "In the personal computer industry, innovation is the path to success"
   
#874. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
After hearing this invention of his work, Edison said, "I was never so taken aback in my life"
   
#875. Season 29
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
ITALIAN SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Luigi Galvani figured out the electrical nature of nerve impulses by making this amphibian's legs kick
   
#876. Season 29
Monday, July 29, 2013
SCREENS
Jeopardy Round: $800
For this iPad, the screen shrank to 7.9 inches
   
#877. Season 24
Friday, November 16, 2007
ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $200
The 21st century has seen this communist island nation turn from sugar to tourism & biotechnology
   
#878. Season 19
Friday, September 20, 2002
SCIENCE PRIZES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
An annual half-million-dollar prize for invention & innovation is given by MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of this
   
#879. Season 24
Monday, December 3, 2007
SCI. ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In computer science, GUI is this kind of user interface
   
#880. Season 34
Monday, March 19, 2018
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
John Cleese might be delighted to know that the Navy gave its robotic fish prototype this name
   
#881. Season 41
Friday, September 13, 2024
21st CENTURY FILMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This British actress went from TV assassin to playing both Millie & Molotov Girl in the video game-set "Free Guy"
   
#882. Season 9
Tuesday, February 23, 1993
BIOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Recombinant DNA technology is the manipulation of these
   
#883. Season 37
Monday, February 1, 2021
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Hey, trainers! Take on gym leaders of the Galar region for your next big battle in this series that offers "Sword" & "Shield"
   
#884. Season 34
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
NOT WASTING TIME ON THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Watch Susan Cain's TED Talk on "The Power of" these shy folks, then hit "shut down" & go meet people
   
#885. Season 18
Friday, March 29, 2002
MACHINES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This large central computer may function as a server for many users
   
#886. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011
HODGEPODGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2009 Facebook overtook this rival to become the biggest social networking website
   
#887. Season 33
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"Clueless gamer" Conan O'Brien hit the streets of Los Santos & died (repeatedly!) at a club in this game's "V" edition
   
#888. Season 38
Thursday, November 25, 2021
IN THE ROOM
Jeopardy Round: $600
A hybrid operating room has the table plus imaging technology like the CT & MRI types of these
   
#889. Season 7
Wednesday, January 30, 1991
WEATHER
Jeopardy Round: $500
An electrical discharge appearing as a blue or green halo is called this
   
#890. Season 38
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
WAR MACHINE
Jeopardy Round: $600
On "My Grandparents' War" on PBS, Carey Mulligan learns about her grandpa, a specialist in this new technology to detect aircraft
   
#891. Season 38
Monday, January 10, 2022
NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?
Jeopardy Round: $400
Not the Trompowsky but this 3-word attack that renders a computer no good to its legitimate user
   
#892. Season 40
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The top secret payload when this company first launched its Dragon space capsule in 2010? A wheel of cheese
   
#893. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015
I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Oops! An MI6 agent put his used camera (with undeleted pics of suspected Al-Qaeda agents) on this site; the winning bid--$31
   
#894. Season 37
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
DOCUMENTARIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" is a comical documentary about 2 rivals trying to outdo each other at this video game
   
#895. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
GOES, INSAT & METEOSAT are satellites used for this purpose
   
#896. Season 30
Friday, September 20, 2013
DO YOU COMPUTE?
Jeopardy Round: $200
All cyber roads lead to "ROM", this unchangeable computer feature
   
#897. Season 12
Wednesday, May 15, 1996
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This device converts digital data into analog signals for transmission over telephone lines
   
#898. Season 20
Thursday, June 3, 2004
A VULGAR DISPLAY OF "POWER"
Jeopardy Round: $800
Any of several portable G4 computers made by Apple
   
#899. Season 40
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A man... a woman in distress... ladder climbing... a giant ape... this video game that debuted in 1981 had it all!
   
#900. Season 34
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
HODGEPODGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1972 the Pulsar was the first electronic commercial watch of this type; you pushed a button to see the time
   
#901. Season 29
Monday, January 7, 2013
2000: THE YEAR IN QUOTATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In January, the spokesman for a presidential council on this computer issue: "It's a lot quieter"
   
#902. Season 20
Thursday, May 6, 2004
WHICH CAME FIRST?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The personal computer,
the light bulb,
the transistor radio
   
#903. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The icon of this button has a one & a zero to show its binary nature
   
#904. Season 39
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The base unit of electrical current is named for this Frenchman, initials A.M.A.
   
#905. Season 20
Thursday, December 4, 2003
GREAT FIGURES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2001 the U.S. awarded IBM 3,411 of these & we're sure IBM's lawyers defend them vigorously
   
#906. Season 27
Thursday, December 9, 2010
IN THE DOGHOUSE
Jeopardy Round: $400
London's Elmtree offers under-floor heating & has installed these so you can view your pet via computer
   
#907. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
During the 15th-17th centuries these developed from the matchlock to the wheellock to the flintlock
   
#908. Season 3
Wednesday, February 4, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Type of acid in your car battery
   
#909. Season 13
Tuesday, April 22, 1997
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
This New England school is known as M.I.T. for short
   
#910. Season 16
Tuesday, March 14, 2000
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
It's the "A" in the RAM of your computer
   
#911. Season 30
Monday, September 16, 2013
INTELLIGENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
An early fictional example of A.I., he was a humanoid computer from the planet Colu who battled Superman
   
#912. Season 13
Thursday, February 13, 1997
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This company's new computer products include the Aptiva S & the Thinkpad 560
   
#913. Season 28
Thursday, July 26, 2012
GIVE 'EM HEALTH!
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
DHA is one of these fatty acids that help stabilize the heart's electrical system; great, now I'm a fish oil salesman!
   
#914. Season 26
Thursday, July 8, 2010
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In a recent release from Sega, this title character & his pal Sonic visit the 2010 Winter Olympics
   
#915. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In "The Legend Of Zelda", a poem called the Sun's Song inspires you to play a tune on this egg-like instrument
   
#916. Season 33
Thursday, September 29, 2016
HONORS & AWARDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A social media account called Goats of Anarchy was a 2016 winner of one of these, honoring Internet excellence
   
#917. Season 40
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,800
This biologist first gained acclaim for writing in 1937 with her article, "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly
   
#918. Season 15
Thursday, April 15, 1999
LETTERS & NUMBERS
Jeopardy Round: $300
Many computers won't recognize 00 as the year 2000 because of this problem, also known as "The Millennium Bug"
   
#919. Season 11
Thursday, November 10, 1994
COOKING
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
If you have leftover pickles, put them in the food processor & make this hot dog topping
   
#920. Season 25
Friday, February 6, 2009
HIDING ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
When you click the invisible link on this website, you'll see CEO Jeff Bezos' page honoring a past worker
   
#921. Season 26
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
20 IS PLENTY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Jamie Oliver has an iPhone app of 20-minute these
   
#922. Season 41
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
IT'S PHYSICS!
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A CERN document calls it a material "composed of electrically neutral particles that can... flow without friction"
   
#923. Season 5
Wednesday, May 17, 1989
GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari, invented this 1st popular video game
   
#924. Season 22
Monday, July 10, 2006
THE 2005FORTUNE500
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This Redmond, Washington mega-corporation clicked in at 48, one spot ahead of Intel
   
#925. Season 26
Monday, November 9, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Hottest Party" is an installment in the Wii game called this "Revolution"
   
#926. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004
TAKE IN ORDER!
Jeopardy Round: $200
Add this letter to "S" for the Internet domain name of Napoleon's last home
   
#927. Season 38
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION
Jeopardy Round: $800
A palindromic exclamation of amazement
   
#928. Season 40
Friday, February 9, 2024
21st CENTURY SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Honored in 2007, Frances E. Allen was the first woman to win the Turing Award for work in this science
   
#929. Season 27
Monday, December 6, 2010
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE "MOTHER"s?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The main circuitry of a computer is found here
   
#930. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
In the game called this company "Ultimate Alliance 2", Hulk works on his rage with poems, creating some Hulk-ku
   
#931. Season 41
Monday, April 14, 2025
SHAKIN' DAT AX
Jeopardy Round: $600
Video gamers, exhale: Guardian Scouts wield an ancient battle axe in "Breath of the Wild", part of this franchise
   
#932. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Social insects, termites live in groups of a few hundred to several million called these
   
#933. Season 31
Friday, December 26, 2014
HOW IT WORKS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
These devices get their name because coverage areas are divided into small sections, so many users can share a frequency
   
#934. Season 28
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Before items like the HP Color LaserJet 2600N, this term referred to people like Gutenberg
   
#935. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002
COMPUTER "E"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's also called "the bent arrow key"
   
#936. Season 19
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
GEEK TRAGEDY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Nodding off at 9 P.M., you missed the 10:00 CNN interview with this Microsoft chairman
   
#937. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Based on "Hamlet", "Elsinore" has you play as this character; perhaps you might not drown
   
#938. Season 33
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
ABBREVIATED K
Jeopardy Round: $200
As a unit of computer memory
   
#939. Season 19
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
MEMORY TEST
Jeopardy Round: $600
Give me an I! It's a surge of electrical power, or a sudden desire
   
#940. Season 36
Monday, January 13, 2020
THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Sony X800G is one of these "clever" TVs with Internet connectivity
   
#941. Season 36
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Referring to a false promise, "The cake is a lie" became a famous meme that sprang from this Valve game
   
#942. Season 18
Monday, October 8, 2001
INTERNET LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
The abbreviation "BBFBBM" means "Body by Fisher, brains by" this toymaker
   
#943. Season 28
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
COLLEGE "M"
Jeopardy Round: $400
"We are" this West Virginia university, home to the Byrd Biotechnology Science Center
   
#944. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Machine for which Glenn Curtiss produced the aileron
   
#945. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This lifesaving device had its first live test in 1946 from a Gloster Meteor aircraft
   
#946. Season 27
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
SURFIN' USB
Jeopardy Round: $600
In computer speak, "USB" stands for "universal serial" this--but don't try waiting for one at a stop
   
#947. Season 40
Thursday, November 30, 2023
WE SELL FUN
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This gaming company merged with Blizzard in 2008; Microsoft bought the combined co., maker of Candy Crush & Call of Duty
   
#948. Season 38
Thursday, April 7, 2022
COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
Smaller networks can be secured with the packet-filtering type of this protective program
   
#949. Season 4
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
When a sewing machine is sewing, the feed dog pushes cloth forward the length of one of these
   
#950. Season 19
Friday, November 15, 2002
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
In Microids' "Ben Hur" you race these vehicles
   
#951. Season 21
Thursday, November 18, 2004
NASA PRODUCTS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
NASA's technology to reduce signal noise from a spacecraft allows this product to receive clear images for your TV
   
#952. Season 35
Monday, March 4, 2019
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Syntax, logic & runtime are the 3 basic types of these programming boo-boos, also a baseball term
   
#953. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
COMPUTER NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Post-ENIAC (& pre-"Flashdance") came this crazy-sounding 1952 computer that helped create the H-bomb
   
#954. Season 21
Monday, October 4, 2004
CHAT ROOM LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $200
"CAD" stands for these 3 computer keys (often used together)
   
#955. Season 18
Friday, September 14, 2001
IN THE MARCH 28, 2000 NEWSPAPER
Jeopardy Round: $200
In business, Cisco edged this rival led by the world's richest man to become the world's most valuable company
   
#956. Season 29
Thursday, December 13, 2012
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1784 this American wrote in praise of bifocals, "serving for distant objects as well as near ones"
   
#957. Season 13
Wednesday, June 4, 1997
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer maker's NASDAQ symbol is AAPL, not MAC
   
#958. Season 40
Thursday, November 30, 2023
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED
Jeopardy Round: $400
This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & bird eggs
   
#959. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004
DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the "rigid" disk inside your computer magnetized to hold the operating system & lots of data
   
#960. Season 4
Friday, October 9, 1987
TRADE & FINANCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Accusing the Japanese of dumping these, Pres. Reagan slapped a tariff on some TVs & tools
   
#961. Season 24
Thursday, April 3, 2008
WHO MIGHT HAVE SAID IT?
Jeopardy Round: $200
The leading man on "24": "I can't believe this cell phone works in this lead-lined bunker. Who's our carrier?"
   
#962. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This term for a type of penmanship comes from the Greek for "beautiful writing"
   
#963. Season 30
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $200
A class in school, or a record of where you've gone in a web browser
   
#964. Season 33
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
LANGUAGES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Computer fonts are now available to writers of this most widely spoken Native American language in the United States
   
#965. Season 22
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
KID LIT
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,400
This young detective didn't have a cell phone & a hybrid car when she debuted 75 years ago, but she has 'em now
   
#966. Season 9
Friday, October 2, 1992
U.S.A.
Jeopardy Round: $300
Waterloo in this state is the home of the Hawkeye Institute of Technology
   
#967. Season 34
Monday, October 16, 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Founded in Israel in 2006, this Google app to map the fastest route for drivers often takes you down side streets
   
#968. Season 36
Monday, November 11, 2019
MATH GUYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A 1970s computer language is named for this Frenchman who invented a 1640s calculating machine
   
#969. Season 20
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
COMPUTER "I"s
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
A 1994 article in Wired magazine said privacy was "Roadkill Along" this
   
#970. Season 28
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
COSMOPOLITAN
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Sudan University of Science & Technology, including the Institute of Laser, is in this capital
   
#971. Season 32
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
GEEK OUT
Jeopardy Round: $400
3D touch, already a feature of reality, is found on this 2015 model of the iPhone
   
#972. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's the basic geographic unit of wireless phone service
   
#973. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009
COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A regional computer linker:
LAN
   
#974. Season 31
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
5 BEARS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
Steve Wozniak left Cal to co-found this computer company but returned in 1981
   
#975. Season 19
Tuesday, March 4, 2003
2 "P"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This Microsoft presentation graphics program has been ubiquitous in the business world
   
#976. Season 30
Monday, May 12, 2014
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2009 service was no longer state of the art at the last brick & mortar stores of this alliterative electronics chain
   
#977. Season 29
Thursday, May 16, 2013
TECH STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $200
Wi-Fi technology uses these waves that brought us "The Chase & Sanborn Hour" in the 1930s
   
#978. Season 38
Friday, June 24, 2022
5-SYLLABLE WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's the process of verifying yourself in order to use a computer system; some might require "2 factor"
   
#979. Season 40
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
CYBERTALK
Jeopardy Round: $800
It's the 2-word term for the physical separation of a computer system from others, & a good way to protect against hacking
   
#980. Season 18
Monday, December 3, 2001
INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Existing country codes range from .ac (Ascension Island) to .zw (this country)
   
#981. Season 30
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
IT ENDS WITH "US"
Jeopardy Round: $200
In May 2012 Mark Zuckerberg updated this on Facebook to "married"
   
#982. Season 24
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
2007 NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
In Sept. 2007 Apple reduced the price of the 8GB this to $399, down from $599
   
#983. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
Hold on to your hat! 2015 marks 20 years of his controversial but addictive online political report
   
#984. Season 30
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
OCEANIA
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Its .tv Internet domain has been a source of income for this Pacific island country
   
#985. Season 34
Monday, November 20, 2017
TECH CRUNCH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Pong! In the 1970s its 2600 console had a whopping 128 bytes of RAM--a 2017 iPhone has about 3.2 billion
   
#986. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A basic electronic calculator does multiplication by translating it into a series of this simpler operation
   
#987. Season 20
Thursday, January 8, 2004
TEDDY BEAR
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the mid-'80s over a million of these talking electronic teddy bears were sold
   
#988. Season 25
Monday, September 29, 2008
TURNING 25
Jeopardy Round: $200
Featuring games like Super Mario Bros., this video game system marks 25 years in 2008
   
#989. Season 41
Thursday, January 23, 2025
JUST WANNA HAVE FUN
Jeopardy Round: $600
If your jam is EDM, short for this, check out the legends at the Lost Lands Festival in Legend Valley, Ohio
   
#990. Season 29
Thursday, May 23, 2013
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Bill Moggridge set the standard with his design for this: a clamshell case with a hinged lid that folded over a keyboard
   
#991. Season 37
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
The Oliver 777 is one of these machines that bakeries find handy when a customer wants bread for sandwiches
   
#992. Season 20
Friday, March 5, 2004
A HEAD FOR BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
Paul Galvin started making car radios -- motorized Victrolas, you might say -- under this name
   
#993. Season 38
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Mies van der Rohe headed the College of Architecture & designed its building at IIT, short for this Chicago school
   
#994. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
COMPUTER GENIUSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Working in Texas Instruments' semiconductor building, Jack Kilby hit on the idea of this, the IC for short
   
#995. Season 18
Friday, November 9, 2001
VIDEO GAME WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $100
To compete with the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft has the Xbox & this company has the GameCube
   
#996. Season 29
Friday, May 10, 2013
INNOVATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Goodyear's air maintenance technology uses a regulator that adds air when pressure falls in these
   
#997. Season 38
Friday, December 10, 2021
BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Georgia's Emory University was one of the locations for this 2016 movie about NASA's female "human computers"
   
#998. Season 15
Tuesday, October 13, 1998
1890s TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Edward Acheson failed when he tried to form these, but he did create carborundum
   
#999. Season 18
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
ACRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In your computer:
ROM
   
#1000. Season 22
Monday, February 6, 2006
AT THE MALL
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Found "just what I needed" at this "City", an electronics store
   
 
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