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#1. Season 40
Thursday, November 9, 2023
OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
2010:Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook"
   
#2. 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
   
#3. 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
   
#4. Season 28
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
THE I.T. FACTOR
Jeopardy Round: $800
Bjarne Stroustrup gets this grade "++" for creating a new computer language
   
#5. Season 28
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It follows "sex" to mean a certain urge; once the computer age hit, it also followed "hard"
   
#6. 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
   
#7. Season 27
Monday, November 29, 2010
GUILDING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Shocking! It's the "B" in the IBEW, a union for electrical workers
   
#8. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $400
No relation to DC Comics' fastest man, this is the fast-loading animation by Adobe
   
#9. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $600
The ROM of your computer's CD-ROM stands for this
   
#10. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The mimeograph was invented by this man around 1876
   
#11. Season 14
Thursday, January 29, 1998
JIMMY LOVES THAT COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $100
Jimmy swears by Windows, while his pal Ned sticks to this Apple system that Windows mimics
   
#12. Season 4
Wednesday, April 27, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Earliest Kodak cameras came loaded with film for 100 pictures, all in this odd shape when developed
   
#13. 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
   
#14. Season 33
Thursday, May 4, 2017
STARTS WITH AN NBA TEAM NAME
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The Sidewinder missile is this type that uses infrared technology
   
#15. Season 39
Friday, June 2, 2023
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1642 this Frenchman for whom a computer program is named invented a mechanical adding machine
   
#16. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
A fault in the rotation speed of this device produces a sound called a "wow"
   
#17. Season 17
Thursday, February 22, 2001
THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
A computer programmed by Dr. David Fogel taught itself this game that includes jumping & crowning
   
#18. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the device that enables one computer to communicate with another by telephone
   
#19. Season 2
Tuesday, September 17, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Roving "rodent" attached to some computers
   
#20. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "app" in "killer app" stands for this
   
#21. Season 16
Friday, June 23, 2000
REMEMBER 1999?
Jeopardy Round: $400
E-mails flew as moves were made to name Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of this global system
   
#22. Season 24
Thursday, October 25, 2007
A HOSTEL TAKEOVER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Surf the Internet Hostel or the Mariot Hostel (note the lack of an extra R & T in Mariot) in this Bulgarian capital
   
#23. Season 8
Thursday, February 27, 1992
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This Pasadena, Calif. school operates a seismological laboratory & 4 observatories
   
#24. Season 14
Thursday, May 7, 1998
COMPUTER CHARACTERS
Jeopardy Round: $100
Nintendo's official mascot since 1985, he was named for the landlord of the firm's first U.S. warehouse
   
#25. 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
   
#26. 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
   
#27. Season 14
Tuesday, June 9, 1998
ODDS & ENDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Surfers on the internet can check out the "Earth's Biggest" one at www.amazon.com
   
#28. Season 4
Tuesday, March 15, 1988
THE 20TH CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1956, 3 U.S. physicists won Nobel Prize for this which allowed electronic miniaturization
   
#29. Season 39
Friday, September 23, 2022
GOING HOME
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Internet loves videos of these people coming home & reuniting with their dogs, like Hannah Foraker with Buddy
   
#30. Season 40
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Musicians can thank John Shore, who invented this in 1711; it vibrated at 423.5 cycles a second
   
#31. Season 21
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
When Steve Ballmer became CEO, this man's new role was "Chief Software Architect"
   
#32. Season 25
Monday, April 6, 2009
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A German theory that these devices might disorient bees isn't widely accepted, so don't dump your Sprint plan just yet
   
#33. Season 25
Friday, October 17, 2008
OF THE CRYSTAL
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"Doping" is manipulation of the crystals of these, a class of solids found in transistors
   
#34. 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
   
#35. Season 29
Thursday, March 28, 2013
FATHER FIGURES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2012 "the father of the Internet", Vint Cerf, said the U.S. government really started it via this department
   
#36. 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
   
#37. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $100
FYI
   
#38. Season 24
Thursday, May 15, 2008
THEY HAIL FROM WISCONSIN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1925 Chippewa Falls produced this mathematician hailed as the father of the supercomputer
   
#39. 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
   
#40. Season 20
Thursday, February 19, 2004
SPORTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
For it's auction of game-used collectibles, the NFL uses this popular internet auction site
   
#41. Season 20
Friday, May 7, 2004
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Using Du Pont technology, the first one of these with synthetic bristles was introduced in 1938
   
#42. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002
COMPUTER "E"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A Windows file that starts an application may have this 3-letter extension
   
#43. Season 4
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The battery-operated Interplak is the latest word in these bathroom items
   
#44. Season 41
Friday, December 13, 2024
PEOPLE IN HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A 2018 N.Y. Times obit for this woman who died in 1852 said she "imagined the modern-day, general-purpose computer"
   
#45. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
1993: this company introduces its Pentium processor
   
#46. 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"
   
#47. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Egyptians used sodium carbonate, called natron, to do this to their dead
   
#48. Season 39
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
CARTOON CRITTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The 2022 sequel to the movie about this video game hedgehog finds him jamming to "Here Comes The Hotstepper"
   
#49. 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
   
#50. Season 16
Thursday, March 2, 2000
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Final Jeopardy
This U.S. firm is the world's largest processor of tomatoes
   
#51. Season 40
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The accepted levels of this technology go from 0 (a 1978 Buick Regal) to 5 (no pedals; doesn't exist yet)
   
#52. Season 27
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
eBay acquired this purchasing service company in 2002
   
#53. 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
   
#54. Season 34
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
"I" 4
Jeopardy Round: $200
A revered religious object, or a symbol on a computer screen
   
#55. 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
   
#56. 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
   
#57. Season 37
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
MATH IN THE WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
(Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Video game designers plan out their games using this kind of system, that by definition uses X, Y & Z values to determine the position of a point
   
#58. 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
   
#59. Season 31
Friday, November 21, 2014
MEDIA
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2011 Antonin Scalia wrote, "like...books, plays and movies," these games "communicate ideas"
   
#60. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Number of bulbs in the Magicube that replaced a battery-powered flash on cameras
   
#61. Season 39
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
A LOOK AT SYMBOLS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Get connected with the symbol for this technology standard
   
#62. Season 15
Tuesday, March 2, 1999
"WORLD" DOMINATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Internet surfers know www stands for this
   
#63. 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
   
#64. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
William Gibson coined this portmanteau word that refers to the Internet as a whole
   
#65. Season 40
Friday, June 7, 2024
I GOT RHYTHM
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Blue light from your cell phone affects this, your 24-hour internal clock controlling your sleep-wake cycle, so no scrolling in bed!
   
#66. Season 24
Monday, May 19, 2008
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
As part of its salute to this decade, the Post Office created a stamp with a MixMaster on it
   
#67. 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
   
#68. 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
   
#69. 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
   
#70. Season 33
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
WE'VE GOT COMPANY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1980 69-year-old IBM had this 5-year-old software company create the operating system to run its PCs
   
#71. Season 22
Friday, April 14, 2006
YOU BOT IT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
For this robot vacuum, the company iRobot uses technology developed to clear minefields
   
#72. Season 20
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
GAME NAME
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,500
Known as Jumpman when introduced in Donkey Kong, this video game character has since appeared in over 70 games
   
#73. Season 36
Monday, January 6, 2020
FOREIGN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
You'll find King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi in this country
   
#74. 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
   
#75. Season 13
Wednesday, June 11, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
They clean floors, perform surgery & will go to Mars before people do
   
#76. Season 19
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In computer lingo this punctuation mark is called a bang or pling
   
#77. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
GOOGLE EASTER EGGS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Google search the Chicxulub crater that is on the coast of this peninsula & a large asteroid will blaze across your browser
   
#78. Season 25
Thursday, April 2, 2009
GEEK CHIC
Jeopardy Round: $200
This smartphone brand is gunning for the iPhone with the "Storm" touchscreen phone
   
#79. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Chas. Wm. Beebe & Otis Barton invented this spherical diving apparatus used to study deep-sea life
   
#80. Season 41
Thursday, June 19, 2025
AT THE KEYBOARD
Jeopardy Round: $800
When gaming on a standard computer keyboard, these 4 letter keys are commonly used for directional character movement
   
#81. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
"Egosurfing" means searching the net for this
   
#82. 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
   
#83. Season 32
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
"M"TERTAINMENT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Riven" is the sequel to this adventure video game
   
#84. Season 22
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
CELL
Jeopardy Round: $800
This cellphone maker has jumped back to the No. 2 spot worldwide by a Razr's edge
   
#85. Season 20
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
ACRONYMBLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
To a computer user:
DOS
   
#86. Season 15
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
Dante described Satan waving his arms like a "molin che il vento gira", one of these structures
   
#87. Season 36
Friday, November 1, 2019
BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Charlie Chaplin faces the perils of technology in this 1936 film that was also the last appearance of "The Tramp"
   
#88. Season 19
Friday, November 15, 2002
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
"The Angel of Darkness" takes this Eidos heroine in a new, darker direction & ups her polygons from 500 to 5,000!
   
#89. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009
COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
Windows is one:
OS
   
#90. 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
   
#91. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
COMPUTER GAMING
Jeopardy Round: $800
It's Master Chief versus the Covenant in the first version of this Xbox game named for a ring-like space station
   
#92. Season 33
Friday, November 4, 2016
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
An electronic instrument, or someone who puts things together, such as ideas from disparate areas
   
#93. Season 25
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
WORLD WIDE WEBS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Spiders don't just use their silk to make webs, they also use them to make these egg enclosures
   
#94. Season 39
Thursday, May 4, 2023
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Let's "C" if you can name this electrical property measured in farads
   
#95. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010
ON THE PHONE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The iPhone's intelligent this suggests which word you might want to type next
   
#96. 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
   
#97. Season 16
Monday, June 26, 2000
MEASURED IN INCHES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Computer users today usually use the 3.5" types of these, but probably still remember the old 5.25" type
   
#98. Season 3
Friday, March 27, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Cable services are starting to scramble signals to prevent free viewing by 1.5 mil. owners of these
   
#99. Season 25
Thursday, March 12, 2009
STEVE WIN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
1985 brought a National Medal of Technology to these 2 Steves who co-founded a little company
   
#100. Season 37
Friday, February 26, 2021
"ORIAL"
Jeopardy Round: $400
The part of a computer program that walks you through the instructions
   
#101. Season 35
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
SITCOMEDY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Creator Mike Judge's own experiences as an engineer partly inspired this high-tech HBO sitcom
   
#102. Season 37
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
A rip-cut saws along the grain of the wood, while this cut goes against the grain
   
#103. Season 40
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's the alliterative term for a computer system based on the brain
   
#104. 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
   
#105. Season 34
Monday, April 16, 2018
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $400
Snapchat, an app on which content disappears after a certain time, has one of these for a logo, also known to fade away
   
#106. Season 19
Friday, November 15, 2002
STUDYING ABROAD
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
If you bring along electrical devices, bear in mind that much of the U.S. uses 110 volts but Europe uses this many
   
#107. Season 33
Friday, November 25, 2016
FEEL THE BURN
Jeopardy Round: $400
Electrical burns are one result of being shot with this rhyming item
   
#108. Season 38
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A computer chip shortage caused Peugeot to put old-fashioned analog these to tell you your km/h in some models
   
#109. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This "era" when dinosaurs roamed the earth consisted of the Triassic, the Jurassic & the Cretaceous periods
   
#110. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The "RW" in DVD-RW is for this adjective, meaning users can erase what's on the DVD & put new stuff on it
   
#111. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
HDTV, which uses more lines to give clearer pictures, stands for this
   
#112. Season 18
Thursday, January 3, 2002
GENERAL INFORMATION
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Computerized "circuit breakers" to stop trading were installed after the NYSE's crash on Oct. 19 of this year
   
#113. Season 12
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
While Pascal's could only add & subtract, Leibniz' could multiply
   
#114. Season 20
Monday, October 6, 2003
MADE IN JAPAN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Electronics maker whose initials come from "Victor Company of Japan"
   
#115. 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
   
#116. Season 32
Friday, January 29, 2016
ROTTEN TOMATOES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
On PETA's website you can play a video game where you throw tomatoes at people who wear this
   
#117. Season 30
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
BUSINESS
Final Jeopardy
"The Everything Store" is a book about this company that in 2012 was home to 1% of all North American Internet traffic
   
#118. Season 9
Tuesday, May 4, 1993
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $100
They can be single- or double-sided as well as double- or high-density
   
#119. Season 27
Thursday, May 12, 2011
YOU GET A STAR
Jeopardy Round: $800
Many Milky Way stars pair with another around a common center of gravity & are called this, like a computer code
   
#120. Season 25
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
ASIMO, one of these, differentiates multiple voices using 8 microphones & Hark software
   
#121. 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
   
#122. Season 34
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
IF THE HYPHEN BECOMES A LETTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
The hyphen in something you can do to a document via computer becomes an "N":
this Navy rank
   
#123. 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
   
#124. Season 28
Monday, February 27, 2012
DOUBLE "I"
Jeopardy Round: $800
Games for this product include "Fortune Street", "The Legend of Zelda" & "NASCAR Unleashed"
   
#125. 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
   
#126. Season 5
Tuesday, January 17, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Otis built a new 29 story skyscraper without offices to test these 2 types of transportation systems
   
#127. Season 9
Friday, April 2, 1993
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A good electrical insulator, this yellowish resin produces a charge of static electricity when rubbed
   
#128. Season 13
Thursday, June 12, 1997
WALL STREET LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
Term for the scroll of prices on the electronic board; it comes from the time when it was printed on paper
   
#129. Season 35
Monday, September 10, 2018
BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,400
After a $26 billion merger in 2016, this business website might keep nagging Microsoft to update its resume
   
#130. Season 23
Thursday, March 8, 2007
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The Internet country code for this country near Florida is .bs
   
#131. 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"
   
#132. 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
   
#133. 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
   
#134. 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
   
#135. 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
   
#136. Season 32
Thursday, February 11, 2016
VIDEO GAME SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
Some games have LFG, "looking for group"; in "Lord of the Rings Online", it's LFF, "looking for" this
   
#137. Season 19
Monday, October 7, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1843 the Great Britain became the first oceangoing steamship with the screw type of this, not a paddlewheel
   
#138. Season 30
Thursday, February 13, 2014
VIDEO GAME VAULT
Jeopardy Round: $200
Play this movie series' "Clone Wars Adventures" game & get some experience with lightsabers
   
#139. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,500
If you see the following symbol at the start of a TV show, it means this service is available:
   
#140. Season 32
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
HEROES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Also the name of an old video game, it precedes "of the faith" in British monarchs' titles
   
#141. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $200
Ace & True Value both serve as this type of store
   
#142. Season 28
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
INVENTIONS FOR THE HOME
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's not shocking that in 1928, Philip Labre added a third prong, for grounding, to this
   
#143. Season 37
Monday, June 7, 2021
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 2018 scientists discovered Przewalski's this animal is not truly wild but was once domesticated over 5,000 years ago
   
#144. 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
   
#145. Season 21
Monday, February 28, 2005
THE "B.G."s
Jeopardy Round: $600
As teens, he & Paul Allen ran Traf-O-Data, a company that used a computer to analyze traffic patterns
   
#146. Season 16
Tuesday, November 9, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Because they're less valuable than rubies & diamonds, turquoise & topaz are known as this type of stone
   
#147. Season 41
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
BIOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The U.S. Navy relies on this technology, like to detect submerged objects, but it can make freaked-out whales beach themselves
   
#148. Season 29
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
BEFORE & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Animated film about a video game villain who designs polo shirts
   
#149. Season 36
Monday, September 23, 2019
WORD + WORD = NEW WORD
Jeopardy Round: $200
Elation + a broken-off part of a tree = this video game control lever
   
#150. Season 38
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
EDUCATORS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Last name of Carl, the first computer science graduate at Michigan & a teacher & mentor at Michigan State; he had a famous son, Larry
   
#151. Season 25
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Michael Faraday introduced this term for an electrically charged atom
   
#152. 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"
   
#153. Season 25
Friday, July 17, 2009
THE SECRET LIVES OF TEACHERS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Everyone knows Mr. Lee made $100 million working for this Bill Gates co. & now teaches for $1 a year
   
#154. Season 40
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Link's video game franchise links up with the wife of writer F. Scott
   
#155. Season 27
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
To make a purchase on this department store's website, you click the "Add to Brown Bag" button
   
#156. Season 41
Monday, December 30, 2024
TRANSPORTATION
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2016 Google's self-driving car project adopted this company name
   
#157. 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
   
#158. Season 22
Monday, June 5, 2006
LOST ART
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the 1972 book "Working", a man with this music-related job says computers can't replace the human ear--sorry, pal
   
#159. Season 23
Thursday, May 17, 2007
SPOT THE MISSPELED WORD
Jeopardy Round: $400
Connecting electricle outlets surprises many with its complexity
   
#160. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $400
This 2-letter Windows computer operating system was introduced in October 2001
   
#161. 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"
   
#162. Season 23
Thursday, June 21, 2007
BRAVE NEW WORD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Reusing components in old electronics is termed this, one letter shorter than the word it's derived from
   
#163. Season 3
Wednesday, February 4, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Calculating device developed in ancient times which the Chinese call a "reckoning board"
   
#164. Season 32
Friday, November 27, 2015
DEVICES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Computer input & output devices, like mice & printers, are also known as computer these, referring to their outside placement
   
#165. Season 23
Monday, February 5, 2007
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $800
In order to get online, you'll need one of these, an ISP
   
#166. Season 32
Thursday, March 17, 2016
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The most common cause of vision loss in people over 55 is age-related this, AMD for short
   
#167. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Machine you might have around the house that has a feed dog, a design cam, & a bobbin winder
   
#168. Season 16
Friday, July 21, 2000
"BOR"-ING
Jeopardy Round: $300
Unlike most nonmetals, this element with the atomic number 5 is an electrical conductor
   
#169. Season 41
Monday, February 24, 2025
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the computer language COBOL, "B" stands for this word
   
#170. Season 34
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
5, 5
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In a recording studio, it's an electronic cue to help the musicians keep time
   
#171. Season 29
Friday, April 5, 2013
HOW COLLEGES GOT THEIR NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
NYC's Fashion Institute of Technology got its name in imitation of this school up Boston way
   
#172. Season 16
Thursday, September 9, 1999
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Meaning "pocket monster" in Japanese, there are about 150 of these Nintendo Game Boy creatures
   
#173. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Morrowind & Skyrim are iterations of this "venerable" set of games
   
#174. Season 8
Tuesday, March 24, 1992
COMPUTERESE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On a regular typerwriter it's the return key; on a computer keyboard it's usually labeled this
   
#175. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Birthday: February 9, 1773;
Political Views: Whig;
Activities: Kickin' butt at the Battle of Tippecanoe
   
#176. 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
   
#177. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
1997: Altavista introduces this free online translator
   
#178. Season 39
Monday, October 17, 2022
"IF" AT FIRST...
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In computer programming, this 2-word "statement" means that when a specific condition is met, a specific action follows
   
#179. Season 40
Friday, February 23, 2024
POP CULTURE DRAGONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
After killing the ender dragon in this "blockbuster" video game, players receive a dragon egg as a trophy
   
#180. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
John Roebling designed this bridge across the East River, the oldest suspension bridge in NYC
   
#181. Season 38
Monday, November 22, 2021
MIX TAPE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
For auxiliary data storage, computers sometimes use this type of tape that often has iron oxide in it
   
#182. 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
   
#183. Season 3
Friday, March 27, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Pronounced "disaster proof", W. Germany's successfully tested MHTGR is a type of this
   
#184. Season 35
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
AMONGTIME'S 50 BEST PODCASTS OF 2018
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Endless Thread" had Boston's WBUR & this website go beyond "the front page of the Internet" to get deeper into stories
   
#185. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Oh, wow, "W.O.W." stands for this bestselling multiplayer game
   
#186. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This machine for patients with faulty kidneys was developed during WWII; today some models fit under an airplane seat
   
#187. Season 18
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
"E.T."
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A paperless reservation for air travel
   
#188. Season 20
Monday, March 1, 2004
BORN NORTH OF THE BORDER, EH?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Winnipeg-born Douglas Rain provided the voice of this soft-spoken killer computer on film
   
#189. Season 18
Friday, May 31, 2002
TOM WHO...
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $600
...founded computer gaming company Red Storm Entertainment
   
#190. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It was a water sport before it became a term for browsing the web
   
#191. Season 25
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
STARTS WITH FEB, TREBEK
Jeopardy Round: $800
Computer displays in some 2004 Pontiacs showed the wrong day of the week because engineers forgot about this date
   
#192. 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
   
#193. Season 40
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
An eft is a newt, but E.F.T. is short for this type of monetary transfer
   
#194. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Replacing germanium with this in transistors got a California "Valley" named after it
   
#195. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Dwayne Johnson plays a primatologist who cares for a big white gorilla in this 2018 video game adaptation
   
#196. Season 25
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
HIGH-TECH CINEMA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Shia LaBeouf is tracked & controlled with technology of everyday life in this 2008 film
   
#197. 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
   
#198. Season 38
Monday, January 24, 2022
THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The iPhone is introduced & a marital temptation arises
   
#199. Season 11
Tuesday, September 20, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
On computers this key is marked ESC
   
#200. 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?"
   
#201. Season 38
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
ON THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
This website launched in 2015 with 3 offerings, from James Patterson, Dustin Hoffman & Serena Williams
   
#202. Season 25
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
COMPUTER RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $800
A device to digitally copy a landed estate
   
#203. Season 24
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
NERDVANA
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Music on the iPhone should only be installed from this company's iTunes
   
#204. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Count Rumford, who died in 1814, invented the drip version of this
   
#205. Season 30
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
ART TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
2 art terms are used to describe the orientation of paper in a computer printer: landscape & this opposite
   
#206. Season 38
Friday, November 5, 2021
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
These sealed glass predecessors of the transistor were vital components in early computers
   
#207. Season 24
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
BRIT SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This term for an electrical outlet sounds like a presentations program from Microsoft
   
#208. Season 40
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
STATE THE ITEM
Jeopardy Round: $600
One outcome of this educational video game that bore the name of this 19th c. historical route? "You have died of dysentery"
   
#209. 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
   
#210. Season 41
Monday, November 18, 2024
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This Eastern European country's 2-letter Internet code is .by
   
#211. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Of 1943, 1963, or 1983, the last year Maytag made wringer-type washers
   
#212. 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"
   
#213. 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
   
#214. Season 16
Friday, January 7, 2000
WE GET LETTERS
Jeopardy Round: $500
This symbol for computer storage is equivalent to 1024 bytes
   
#215. 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
   
#216. Season 36
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
THINK IT WILL WORK?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A big yes: this, described in a March 2006 patent filing as a "multi-functional handheld device"
   
#217. Season 37
Monday, September 14, 2020
SENTENCING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The arrangement of words to make a sentence meaningful; in programming, it's the arrangement of characters so a computer cooperates
   
#218. 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
   
#219. 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"
   
#220. Season 21
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
YOU'VE GOT COMPANY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This Donkey Kong company introduced its home video game console in Japan in 1983
   
#221. Season 8
Monday, September 23, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Its 3 blimps that still fly are the only survivors among the 300 airships built by the co. since 1911
   
#222. Season 32
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
I NEED MY "SPACE"
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the key to making text on your computer go away in one click
   
#223. 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
   
#224. 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
   
#225. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $300
A "hot" World Wide Web browser is written in this programming language created by Sun Microsystems
   
#226. Season 38
Monday, December 13, 2021
MODERN SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $600
A text-driven computer RPG can be conducted in a virtual domain called an M.U.D., or multi-user this
   
#227. Season 34
Thursday, March 15, 2018
WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Its article on itself says it's "the largest and most popular general reference work on the internet"
   
#228. Season 36
Friday, December 27, 2019
MAIL-ORDER NOVELS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Little A & 47North are publishers owned by this Internet behemoth that mails out a lot of books
   
#229. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1989 scientists using a scanning tunneling microscope saw this double-stranded molecule for the 1st time
   
#230. 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
   
#231. Season 4
Wednesday, April 27, 1988
POP MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In group names, number of "Stairsteps", "Satins", or men in the "Electrical Band"
   
#232. Season 27
Friday, December 31, 2010
THE COMPANY HE KEPT
Jeopardy Round: $200
Steve Case was chairman of this Internet service provider from 1995 to 2001; then it had a big merger
   
#233. Season 25
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1971, 3 engineers invented this company's 4004 chip, the world's first single-chip microprocessor
   
#234. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
In just 3 days in 1996, this company sold 350,000 new N64 systems featuring Super Mario 64
   
#235. Season 26
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
BACKWORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Internet is inundated with many things: polls. sports, games, maps, news & unfortunately, this
   
#236. Season 31
Friday, July 10, 2015
PROSPER
Jeopardy Round: $200
Did you buy $2,100 of stock in this Washington-based tech company in 1986 & sell in 1999? You made $1.4 million
   
#237. Season 37
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
"AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A set of rules to be followed in computer calculations, it comes from the name of a 9th century mathematician
   
#238. Season 3
Wednesday, July 15, 1987
COLLEGES
Jeopardy Round: $500
In the early '80s at Triton College, some classes in this technical subject ran from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m.
   
#239. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004
DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $200
RAM & ROM are 2 types of this important computer storage
   
#240. 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
   
#241. Season 26
Thursday, February 4, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
There have been more than 130 million views on YouTube for "The Evolution of" this, including the twist & the robot
   
#242. Season 18
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
5-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's the basic unit that makes up a computer image, if you get my point!
   
#243. Season 31
Thursday, September 18, 2014
IT WAS THE '80s
Jeopardy Round: $400
Around 1982 we first heard this new word for amazing new technology: a portable VCR to shoot home movies
   
#244. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
George Takei, who played Sulu on this '60s TV show, often posts about marriage equality & his book "Oh Myyy!"
   
#245. 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
   
#246. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
It's the science of sound
   
#247. Season 35
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
PLASMA
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In physics, plasma, ionized gas with little or no electrical charge, is often called the 4th state of this
   
#248. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In March '87, Apple introduced the Macintosh SE, the 1st Mac considered a "clone" of this industry "standard"
   
#249. Season 23
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Electrically speaking, it's the opposite of resistivity
   
#250. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The "D" in radar stands for this
   
#251. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Microsoft's Internet Explorer uses "favorites" where other browsers use this word from the non-wired world
   
#252. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Rags, preferably linen, were once commonly used to make this, now wood pulp is mostly used
   
#253. Season 29
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
TECHIE DROPOUTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
There was no apple for the teacher after he left Reed College & went to design video games for Atari in 1974
   
#254. 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
   
#255. 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
   
#256. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Like a villain in darkness, one who reads others' words in a newsgroup but won't contribute is doing this
   
#257. 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
   
#258. Season 14
Thursday, March 5, 1998
ELECTRONICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Electronic circuit signals may be classified as analog or this
   
#259. Season 26
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
CHESS
Jeopardy Round: $200
World champ Garry Kasparov lost a 1997 match to a computer program from this company
   
#260. Season 32
Monday, November 2, 2015
MAIL CALL
Jeopardy Round: $200
Rhyming phrase for letters sent via the postal service rather than instantaneously using a computer
   
#261. Season 34
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
"LIGHT" MUSIC
Jeopardy Round: $600
Madonna went electronica in this 1998 album
   
#262. Season 31
Friday, October 24, 2014
FINISH THE C.P. ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Your computer depends on it
   
#263. Season 38
Monday, September 13, 2021
TASTY BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Developer Jef Raskin loved this type of apple so much he named an Apple computer after one
   
#264. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
INTERNET BUSINESSES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This combo of 2 satellite radio companies owns the Internet music service Pandora
   
#265. 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
   
#266. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
1975:
Microsoft is founded by these 2 college dropouts
   
#267. 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
   
#268. Season 16
Monday, December 13, 1999
U.S. HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In the mid-1940s about 10,000 Americans owned these electronic devices; by 1957 about 40 million were in use
   
#269. Season 39
Monday, July 17, 2023
THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The first video game theme to join the Registry is Koji Kondo's iconic "Ground Theme" from this 1985 Nintendo game
   
#270. Season 3
Tuesday, June 16, 1987
TRAVEL & TOURISM
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
The National Museum of Science & Technology in Milan is named after this man
   
#271. Season 30
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
TECH TALK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2014 Facebook agreed to pay $2 billion for Oculus, a maker of this immersive technology
   
#272. Season 13
Monday, September 2, 1996
NONFICTION
Jeopardy Round: $300
This Microsoft CEO talks about the future of computers in his bestseller "The Road Ahead"
   
#273. Season 38
Friday, December 24, 2021
"K" 9
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A single action of pressing a letter or other button on a computer console
   
#274. Season 40
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
MODERN POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Blockchain technology was intended to keep transactions this, meaning no individual has control, all do
   
#275. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The tip of your dentist's high-speed drill is made of tungsten carbide & may contain this gem
   
#276. Season 34
Monday, July 16, 2018
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This gravity man was a Christmas present in 1642, but a calendar change means he got his Google Doodle on Jan. 4
   
#277. Season 20
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
SHARED TEAM NICKNAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The Florida Institute of Technology & the University of Pittsburgh
   
#278. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Civil War's Gatling gun was the 1st practical version of this
   
#279. Season 22
Thursday, October 13, 2005
STAR WARSFOREVER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith", this old Jedi master was entirely computer-generated
   
#280. 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
   
#281. Season 26
Monday, May 17, 2010
TECH-TONICS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The BlackBerry Bold 9000 by R.I.M., this Canadian company, has a 624 MHz processor
   
#282. Season 26
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
Words regularly censored out of Chinese blogs include minzhu, which means this, from the Greek word for "people"
   
#283. Season 29
Thursday, December 6, 2012
1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Norman Haworth, who synthesized this vitamin aka ascorbic acid, won a 1937 Nobel Prize
   
#284. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Like spouses who don't get along, computers that use different operating systems are said to be this
   
#285. 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
   
#286. Season 39
Monday, September 19, 2022
HODGEPODGE
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2021 Facebook rebranded itself with this 4-letter name & an infinity-shaped logo
   
#287. Season 35
Thursday, November 8, 2018
WEIGHT LISTED
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The original model in 2007 came in at 4.8 ounces; it has since expanded, with the 8 weighing 5.2 ounces
   
#288. Season 21
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
MS-DOS for short, this was introduced on IBM personal computers in 1981
   
#289. Season 41
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
SAY IT "AINT" SO
Jeopardy Round: $800
Aka corposant, it's a visible electrical discharge on a ship's mast or a plane's wing during a storm
   
#290. Season 23
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
INVENTIVE MINDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
The differential analyzer Vannevar Bush invented at MIT is a forerunner of the modern one of these
   
#291. 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"
   
#292. 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
   
#293. Season 37
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
DOUBLE-VOWEL WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Nickname of 10th century Danish King Harald, or a short-range connectivity wireless standard
   
#294. Season 22
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
IT'S NOT T.V.
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar merged to form the country that now has this 2-letter Internet domain
   
#295. Season 25
Thursday, January 1, 2009
AMERICAN GRADUATORS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Size doesn't matter--this Calif. school has just 200 grads a year, but its alumni & staff have nabbed 32 Nobel Prizes
   
#296. Season 29
Monday, October 8, 2012
CINEMANIA
Jeopardy Round: $800
Not just animated movies but many live-action films today use the technique known as CGI, which stands for this
   
#297. Season 35
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
From Louisa May Alcott's blog in 1871: "This aptly titled 1st sequel--done! Jo runs a school for boys! Now...party time!"
   
#298. Season 19
Friday, October 4, 2002
SCIENCE & NATURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This scientist & author of "2001" wrote, 'Any...advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
   
#299. Season 24
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
SPIN-AGE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Utah's A.G. got letters to drop an antitrust case against this software company, but the mail was from dead people
   
#300. Season 15
Tuesday, October 13, 1998
1890s TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Whitcomb Judson's "clasp locker" of 1893 was this fastener's forerunner
   
#301. 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)
   
#302. Season JM
Monday, May 13, 2024
ANAGRAMS
Final Jeopardy
One is a procedure foundational to computer science; the other was made in large part obsolete by computers
   
#303. Season 25
Thursday, October 23, 2008
ONE-LETTER TAKE IN ORDER
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It precedes "Bay" on the Internet & also name the state capital spelled out by all 5 responses
   
#304. Season 17
Thursday, February 1, 2001
THE COMPUTER AGE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Dan Bricklin developed VISICALC, the first of these programs, similar to an accounting ledger
   
#305. Season JM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
CONSTRUCTING THE WORD
Jeopardy Round: 600
A window covering+a computer glitch=this enthusiast
   
#306. 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
   
#307. Season 29
Monday, September 24, 2012
LARRY, MO- & CURLY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Aug. 19, 2004 was a good day for Larry Page--he netted $3.8 billion as this website he co-founded went public
   
#308. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Term for any gas that pressurizes the liquid in an aerosol can
   
#309. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Computers were given part of the blame for this October 19, 1987 event
   
#310. Season 12
Thursday, February 22, 1996
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This computer maker whose stock symbol is CPQ reached $1 billion in annual sales in its first 5 years
   
#311. Season 24
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
THE NEW YORK TIMESTECH BIZ
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Times exposed memos from this company's execs who had trouble upgrading to its Vista operating system
   
#312. Season 40
Thursday, January 4, 2024
STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
You've probably talked to a call center in Karnataka's capital, this city known as the "Silicon Valley of India"
   
#313. Season 37
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
COMPOSERS ALL AROUND
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Known as "The Bong", the 5-note theme for this chip maker "Inside" a lot of computers was composed in 1994 by Walter Werzowa
   
#314. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
WAR
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"Jamming" may be a part of this type of warfare abbreviated EW
   
#315. 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
   
#316. Season 19
Monday, June 9, 2003
20th CENTURY PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1900 his institute of technology was founded in Pittsburgh
   
#317. Season 18
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
COMPUTER HACKERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1999 hackers briefly controlled the pipelines of Gazprom, this country's natural gas company
   
#318. Season 21
Friday, July 8, 2005
SCIENCE GUYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In the 1820s this British scientist discovered the laws of electrical induction forming the basis for the magneto & dynamo
   
#319. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009
COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
It's a measure of speed:
BPS
   
#320. Season 28
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the Klondike variant of this card game, spaces in the tableau can only be filled with kings
   
#321. 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
   
#322. Season 12
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
A coin put in a 1615 vending machine opened a locked top so customers could receive a pipeful of this
   
#323. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $100
It's the action of moving an image across the screen by holding the mouse button down
   
#324. Season 24
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This 3-letter abbrev. used for devices from Palm was 1st used in '92 by Apple CEO John Sculley for the Newton launch
   
#325. Season 21
Thursday, June 9, 2005
SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On Aug. 10, 1966 NASA launched a probe to take high-resolution photos of landing sites here
   
#326. Season 14
Wednesday, June 24, 1998
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
This synonym for "fundamental" is the name of a common beginner's programming language
   
#327. Season 35
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
THE GOLDEN HOARD
Jeopardy Round: $400
Princess Toadstool is in trouble in this 1985 Nintendo game, yet her 2 rescuers are all about those gold coins
   
#328. Season 33
Friday, October 7, 2016
COLOR
Jeopardy Round: $600
All colors on your computer screen are generated by a combination of these 3 colors
   
#329. Season 24
Monday, December 3, 2007
SCI. ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In computer science, GUI is this kind of user interface
   
#330. Season 20
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
X-2 isn't a Marvel super hero game, it's the sequel to the 10th game in this long-running Japanese RPG series
   
#331. Season 25
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
RALLY TO THE CAUSE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's to save equal Internet speed for all, aka "net" this
   
#332. Season 33
Monday, January 2, 2017
COMPANY "B"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The company named for him began by selling computer terminals to Wall Street
   
#333. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
1969: He develops the first supercomputer, the CDC 7600
   
#334. Season 40
Friday, February 2, 2024
ARMY TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
Bearing the name of a man who died in Iowa in 1838, these began service in 1979 & today number in the thousands
   
#335. Season 29
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
SLICES OF ORANGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Valve's Orange Box package contains 5 video games, including this doorway-creating game
   
#336. Season 35
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Instagram @timothyosullivan is a downer with shots like "A harvest of death" from this July 1863 battlefield
   
#337. Season 39
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
BUY, & LARGE
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2022 this software giant said it was making a macropayment of $68.7 billion to purchase Activision/Blizzard
   
#338. 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
   
#339. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra is a device which plays music in this alphanumeric format
   
#340. 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
   
#341. Season 23
Friday, July 20, 2007
FAMOUS CANADIANS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
James Gosling helped create this computer language that shares its name with a breakfast beverage
   
#342. 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
   
#343. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Internet's version of the long-awaited video phone, it was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for over $8 billion
   
#344. Season 40
Thursday, September 28, 2023
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Dating back 50 years, "Maze War" & "Spasim" were some of the first of this type of video game, abbreviated FPS
   
#345. Season 35
Friday, May 10, 2019
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Paul Manafort created a paper trail when he needed help converting this type of 3-letter file to Word
   
#346. 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
   
#347. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
This company whose name is synonymous with copying introduced the first hand-held mouse in 1973
   
#348. Season 12
Friday, May 3, 1996
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Robert Redford led a disreputable group of high-tech computer whizzes in this 1992 film
   
#349. Season 30
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK
Jeopardy Round: $800
Chell is back in Aperture Science Labs & must deal with GLaDOS in this platform-puzzle game "2"
   
#350. Season 40
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
ENDS WITH "K"
Jeopardy Round: $200
It precedes "Thursday" in an alliterative nostalgic Internet trend
   
#351. Season 36
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
SILICON VALLEY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
This extremely soft silicate with a hardness of 1 is ground up to make a popular body powder
   
#352. Season 38
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
BOOK 'EM
Jeopardy Round: $400
A series of instructional books was launched in 1991 with the title this 3-letter computer acronym "for Dummies"
   
#353. Season 35
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
ENDS WITH "ART"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This brand that popularized food processors in the '70s became a trademark of the Conair Corporation
   
#354. 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"
   
#355. 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
   
#356. 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
   
#357. Season 38
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION
Jeopardy Round: $600
No joke--this double-talk name comes before Clinton-Dix in the name of an NFL star
   
#358. Season 33
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
TAKE THE "A" TRAINING
Jeopardy Round: $800
Take classes like "Ornament Theory and Design" & "Building Technology" at Yale's School of this
   
#359. Season 28
Thursday, May 3, 2012
TECH STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Connect to the Internet with ease with a wireless one of these--sounds like a seat for your little brother
   
#360. Season 41
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
THE ELEMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
27.7% of the Earth's crust is made up of this element that's used in computer chips
   
#361. Season 3
Wednesday, February 4, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Though not always accurate, a polygraph machine is supposed to show if you are doing this
   
#362. Season 38
Thursday, April 7, 2022
COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Wow! computer for seniors says it has "free anti-virus" & this bad stuff "protection"
   
#363. Season 17
Thursday, October 5, 2000
THEY'RE HOT!
Jeopardy Round: $500
The rainbow from her 1999 "Rainbow" CD was plastered on T-shirts & sold via the Internet
   
#364. 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
   
#365. Season 37
Monday, March 1, 2021
BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy", said this Apple Computer co-founder
   
#366. Season 32
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
RULE OF LAW
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Under the rule of doubt, incomprehensible computer code can't be given this protection
   
#367. 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
   
#368. 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
   
#369. Season 33
Monday, March 6, 2017
THE ILLUMI-NAUGHTY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The Illuminati act all shadowy in the 2016 edition of this video game that doesn't end in "machina"
   
#370. Season 25
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
LETTERS & NUMBERS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This video gamers' TV network calls itself "TV that's plugged in"
   
#371. 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"
   
#372. Season 40
Friday, June 28, 2024
INTERNET CELEBRITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Before "SNL" this comedy troupe featuring Andy Samberg made the web series "The 'Bu", a parody of "The O.C."
   
#373. 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
   
#374. 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
   
#375. 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
   
#376. Season 21
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
"Y"? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU!
Jeopardy Round: $400
This web site started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
   
#377. Season 24
Monday, November 26, 2007
COMPUTER ON!
Jeopardy Round: $800
To copy video from your camcorder to a computer, use this "blazing" fast connection some call i.Link
   
#378. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1960 Theodore Maiman used this gem in his laser
   
#379. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
In 1983 Apple's Lisa computer gave PCs this device that moves the cursor around the screen
   
#380. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $200
SYSADMIN, one who maintains a computer network, is short for this
   
#381. Season 38
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Born into slavery, Andrew Beard invented a steam engine & an automatic coupler, which joined these transports
   
#382. Season 3
Wednesday, October 8, 1986
ENDS WITH "X"
Jeopardy Round: $400
Subject of NBC's historic 1st electronic TV transmission in 1930 was this cartoon hero
   
#383. Season 14
Friday, September 5, 1997
BORN IN THE '60s
Jeopardy Round: $500
29-year-old Melinda French, a manager at this company, married its chairman January 1, 1994
   
#384. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The first modern ones of these, called Lucifers, were invented in 1827 & struck on sandpaper
   
#385. Season 29
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
MODERN-DAY CHINA
Final Jeopardy
Because Internet censors block mentions of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as "535"
   
#386. Season 32
Monday, September 28, 2015
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
A big hit with 1960s scientists, the CDC 1604 was one of the first computers with these instead of vacuum tubes
   
#387. 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"
   
#388. Season 34
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
WORKS LIKE A CHARM
Jeopardy Round: $800
The user's manual says the first step in assembling the Motorola CHARM for use is to insert this card
   
#389. Season 24
Thursday, April 3, 2008
THE 2007FORBES400
Jeopardy Round: $400
"$17.2 billion...
started selling
computers from...
dorm room 1984 with $1,000"
   
#390. 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
   
#391. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2012 she posted on Facebook in English & in Spanish that she was becoming a mom & a coach on "The Voice"
   
#392. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
The digits 0-9 & the letters A-Z are collectively known as this type of characters
   
#393. Season 35
Thursday, May 9, 2019
AN APP FOR TEACHER
Jeopardy Round: $600
This company's app called Classroom helps you streamline your classes & is included free with its G Suite for Education
   
#394. 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
   
#395. 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"
   
#396. 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"
   
#397. Season 33
Monday, October 17, 2016
IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE
Jeopardy Round: $600
75 would be users of this communication device
   
#398. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $200
TV show with Monica, Phoebe & Chandler
   
#399. Season 27
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
THE PARTING OF THE FCC
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This rhyming tech. has its origins in a 1985 FCC ruling that released bands of the radio spectrum for unlicensed use
   
#400. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002
COMPUTER "E"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
To insert an element into your web page, or the 5-letter tag that lets you do it
   
#401. Season 19
Wednesday, November 6, 2002
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $600
This Dallas-based electronics firm started out as Geophysical Service, an oil exploration company
   
#402. Season 16
Wednesday, November 3, 1999
COMPUTERAMA
Jeopardy Round: $400
The last name of Charles, who built a precursor to the computer, the analytical engine, in the early 1800s
   
#403. Season 16
Wednesday, December 29, 1999
COLUMNISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
This industry is the subject of Robert Cringely's column & of his PBS documentary, "Triumph of the Nerds"
   
#404. Season 26
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
FORBES100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN 2009
Jeopardy Round: $200
Give a shout out to Carol Bartz, CEO of this Internet company & the 12th most powerful woman on the list
   
#405. Season 20
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
CBS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The 36th season of this CBS news magazine included stories on Internet piracy, Equatorial Guinea & "Jeopardy!"
   
#406. Season 18
Friday, March 8, 2002
COLOSSUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Designed to crack German coded messages, the World War II computer Colossus was created by this nation
   
#407. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
"N-Gage" with this company's cell phone, wihch is also a portable game
   
#408. Season 36
Friday, December 27, 2019
PROVERBS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A computer term, GIGO is short for this
   
#409. Season 32
Monday, December 21, 2015
REMEMBER THE '80s?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This video game was based on a Japanese folk hero known for his voracious appetite
   
#410. Season 24
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
U.S. GOVERNMENT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The National Institute of Standards & Technology is administered by this cabinet department
   
#411. 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
   
#412. 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
   
#413. Season 37
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
'80s TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The early '80s gave us the computer words "notebook" & this other portable kind
   
#414. Season 8
Tuesday, March 24, 1992
COMPUTERESE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
DOS is an acronym for this
   
#415. Season 10
Wednesday, July 20, 1994
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Final Jeopardy
This electronics company is named for an early product, the first commercially successful car radio
   
#416. Season 24
Friday, September 28, 2007
MEASURE TIME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Computer printer image quality is measured in DPI, which stands for this
   
#417. Season 29
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
COMPUTER LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $600
If your machine is being controlled by someone else, it may have been taken over by this 3-letter piece of malware
   
#418. Season 37
Friday, February 5, 2021
"HAND"Y PHRASES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Going back just to 1969, this hyphenated experience originally meant learning computers using a keyboard
   
#419. Season 34
Friday, April 13, 2018
WE MADE THAT THING
Jeopardy Round: $200
Let's get to the PowerPoint: Office 365 from this company includes Excel
   
#420. Season 39
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
SOMETHING TO READ
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A teen discovers she can communicate via cell phone with her recently deceased boyfriend in Dustin Thao's bestselling "You've Reached" him
   
#421. 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
   
#422. Season 28
Monday, February 27, 2012
SOCIAL STUDIES
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
"The Social" this plural noun "Marketing Book" has chapters on networks like Myspace and Facebook
   
#423. Season 32
Monday, November 23, 2015
WOMEN CEOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
You'll find plenty of videos of Susan Wojicicki on the website of this Google-owned business that she heads up
   
#424. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The two most common types of mechanical clocks are driven by weights or these
   
#425. Season 29
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
YOU CAN FIND ME ONLINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This renowned physicist's website explains that the batteries for the speech computer are under the wheelchair
   
#426. Season JM
Monday, May 6, 2024
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: 1600
George R.R. Martin helped with the lore for this sword & sorcery title that won a 2022 game of the year trophy
   
#427. Season 32
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The spirit of Tom Clancy hovers over the games about this title group & grizzled agent Sam Fisher
   
#428. Season 32
Friday, December 4, 2015
WILL YOU REMEMBER ME?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the name of those large CRT computer monitors of yore, CRT stands for this
   
#429. Season 37
Friday, April 2, 2021
SHAKE!
Jeopardy Round: $400
SMH is Internet slang for this, & I'll be doing it if you miss the clue
   
#430. Season 20
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
HE GOT "GAME"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's Nintendo's handheld video game playing machine
   
#431. Season 35
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In this sport's "The Show 18", Diamond Dynasty mode allows you to build your own team
   
#432. Season 5
Friday, November 11, 1988
SEWING
Jeopardy Round: $500
It's fabric that gives body & shape to a collar, not two computers talking
   
#433. Season 27
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
BEER GOOGLES
Jeopardy Round: $200
beeradvocate.com offers a history of this autumn celebration, begun in 1810
   
#434. 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
   
#435. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $200
"Kansas to Emerald City distance in miles, no traffic"; "red slippers from witch, curse?"; "winged monkeys unionized?"
   
#436. Season 33
Friday, June 23, 2017
FOUNDING FATHERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
As late as 2004 this future billionaire was still operating Facebook out of a Harvard dorm room
   
#437. Season 16
Friday, March 3, 2000
DISNEY DOGS
Jeopardy Round: $300
The Internet Movie Database says someone actually counted all the black spots in this 1961 film & found 6,469,952
   
#438. Season 31
Monday, July 6, 2015
OUR MISTAKE!
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In retrospect, we at Excite probably should have given Brin & Page the $750k they wanted for this search engine in 1999
   
#439. 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
   
#440. 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
   
#441. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
This brand of garbage disposer invented by John Hammes is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 1998
   
#442. Season 31
Friday, February 13, 2015
SCIENCE-Y STUFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
2 parts gold to one part bismuth yields a substance with this 17-letter quality of very low electrical resistance
   
#443. Season 26
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Our writers visit search.eb.com, which brings you to the website for this reference work that's been around since 1768
   
#444. Season 36
Monday, April 6, 2020
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In a computer, a CPU is a central this unit
   
#445. Season 28
Friday, December 16, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Jimi Hendrix fans know kissthisguy.com is always good for a laugh, as it's an "archive of misheard" these
   
#446. Season 24
Thursday, May 29, 2008
WE'RE IN BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Not far apart on the Fortune 500 are these 2 cos., one in Internet services & one in food; the names are homophones
   
#447. Season 18
Friday, December 7, 2001
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $600
He's CEO of both Apple Computer & Pixar Animation Studios
   
#448. 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
   
#449. 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
   
#450. 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
   
#451. Season 27
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
APP-Y DAYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2011, the Pope nixed a iPhone app for guiding people through this penitent act
   
#452. Season 19
Monday, December 16, 2002
CALIFORNIA FOOD FESTIVALS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Carpinteria is home to this festival whose Internet home is avofest.com
   
#453. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
COMPUTER NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Naturally, this company's iBook featured iPhoto & iMovie
   
#454. Season 36
Thursday, February 6, 2020
SHAPELY BOOK TITLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film
   
#455. Season 33
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Available on PS4, "Neverwinter" is a fantasy RPG that takes place within the lore of this tabletop game
   
#456. Season 38
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
AWARDS & PRIZES
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $15,000
Named for a British man, this prestigious award is funded by Google & Intel & given for contributions in computer science
   
#457. Season 37
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, this letter "++" is one of the first computer languages that college students learn
   
#458. Season 39
Friday, June 30, 2023
COMPOUND WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Headlines on the Internet such as "You won't believe what Mayim said about Charo" are this, to get you to go to the site
   
#459. Season 41
Monday, March 24, 2025
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It uses the Internet country code .bf
   
#460. 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
   
#461. Season 18
Monday, December 3, 2001
INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Tune in to .fm, the Federated States of this
   
#462. Season 20
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
GOING "SOFT" ON US, EH?
Jeopardy Round: $600
Applications & programs for computers
   
#463. Season 38
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
A PART OF IT
Jeopardy Round: $400
Google is this to Alphabet, this being one company owned by another
   
#464. Season 32
Friday, October 23, 2015
POWER TRANSMISSION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Megatron, Firestar or an electrical device that converts voltage
   
#465. Season 27
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
STUPID ANSWERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
You can form your own rock band & tour the world with this 2007 video game from MTV games
   
#466. Season 37
Thursday, May 27, 2021
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $600
An old external modem not communicating fast enough? You may need to increase this measure of speed, bps for short
   
#467. Season 32
Thursday, December 3, 2015
THEY OWN IT
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Instagram
   
#468. Season 18
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A magnetron is an electronic tube used to produce these waves found in some kitchens
   
#469. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
The second "T" in HTTP
   
#470. Season 33
Thursday, April 20, 2017
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Mother is a computer on the Nostromo in this 1979 Ridley Scott movie
   
#471. Season 34
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
NOT WASTING TIME ON THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
I'd put this at 1--I'm certain that hippocampus.org has a section called "Statistics and" this
   
#472. Season 30
Monday, March 17, 2014
BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This man: "Billionaire Computer Genius"
   
#473. 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
   
#474. Season 38
Thursday, December 23, 2021
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In the 1950s Sarkis Acopian invented the solar-powered one of these devices, still good to have for emergencies
   
#475. Season 28
Monday, December 12, 2011
RAND CORPORATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Packet switching, the basic idea of the Internet, came from '60s research on communications in case of this awful event
   
#476. 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
   
#477. Season 22
Monday, July 10, 2006
THE 2005FORTUNE500
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Let's see, I need 127 gallons of OJ, 5,050 rolls of paper towels & 4 computers... I'm off to this company, No. 28
   
#478. Season 31
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
OXFORD DICTIONARIES WORD OF THE YEAR
Jeopardy Round: $400
This Facebook way of saying goodbye to a pal forever was the hit of 2009
   
#479. Season 27
Friday, July 29, 2011
BOOK TITLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Why we expect more from technology and less from each other" has the oxymoronic title "Alone" this
   
#480. Season 20
Thursday, March 11, 2004
ALSO A BOOK OF THE BIBLE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sega's video game system from 1989
   
#481. Season 14
Wednesday, September 3, 1997
THE '97 WORLD ALMANAC
Jeopardy Round: $100
In 1983 only 7% of U.S. homes had one of these; in 1996 40%, 18% with modems
   
#482. 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
   
#483. Season 30
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
INTERNET FIRSTS
Final Jeopardy
A broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995 holds this distinction
   
#484. Season 36
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
COMPUTER KEYBOARDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Invented in 1960, much later than its forward pal, this mark gained popularity when used in MS-DOS
   
#485. Season 19
Friday, November 15, 2002
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In battles in the game based on this Oscar-winning film, you probably have to use the "Far East" button on your control
   
#486. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
It's what you need to operate the 1861 invention of Linus Yale
   
#487. Season 17
Friday, July 13, 2001
WEALTHY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Fees reported at $600 an hour separate most men from this litigator who's argued against Microsoft & for Al Gore
   
#488. Season 18
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
"DEF"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Diskeeper is software to do this, reorganize your computer's files
   
#489. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Name given to the simplest electron tubes, as they have just 2 main parts, a plate & an emitter
   
#490. 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
   
#491. 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
   
#492. Season 29
Friday, June 14, 2013
A CASE OF A_D_D
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
An automaton, or a type of cell phone
   
#493. Season 37
Thursday, April 1, 2021
"OUT" AT FIRST
Jeopardy Round: $200
A loss of electrical power
   
#494. 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
   
#495. Season 26
Monday, June 28, 2010
THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ
Jeopardy Round: $400
Woz was born in 1950, the son of an electrical engineer at this co. that merged with Martin Marietta in 1995
   
#496. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
From 1801-1885, forerunners of the automobile had this low-pollution engine
   
#497. Season 28
Thursday, March 8, 2012
TIME TO "ROCK" & "ROLL"
Jeopardy Round: $800
As a noun, it's paper; as a verb, you do it on a computer to move text horizontally
   
#498. 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
   
#499. Season 36
Monday, February 10, 2020
NO BELL
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Motorola LS350 is this type of device also called a pager
   
#500. Season 33
Thursday, November 3, 2016
I LIKE BIG BUCKS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This ex-Microsoft man has fun with his billions, owning 3 pro sports teams & giving away $2 billion to charity
   
#501. Season 23
Monday, February 5, 2007
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $400
This 4-letter term for a small image on a computer screen shares its name with a specialized image of a holy person
   
#502. Season 32
Monday, September 26, 2011
ALSO A ZODIAC SYMBOL
Jeopardy Round: $600
Microsoft recommends that your computer have at least 1 gigabyte of this to run Windows 7
   
#503. Season 20
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
You can download "Wheel of Fortune" onto the Nokia 3650, one of these devices
   
#504. Season 28
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
5-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $600
To surpass, or a Microsoft spreadsheet program
   
#505. 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"
   
#506. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
COMPUTER GENIUSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Mitch Kapor, founder of this company that gave us 1-2-3 & Notes, previously taught transcendental meditation
   
#507. 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
   
#508. Season 30
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
MUSIC MAKERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This "Video Games" chanteuse teams with Cedric Gervais on "Summertime Sadness"
   
#509. Season 25
Monday, May 4, 2009
THEFORTUNE500
Jeopardy Round: $600
Fortune's "Most Likely to Succeed" was this Internet search site at No. 119 with 35 different "buy" ratings
   
#510. Season 34
Friday, April 20, 2018
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
When disbelief abounds & you think there may be deceits, you say "show me" these, rhyming with deceits
   
#511. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Like a waiter, a network computer might say "I'll be your" this & store files or manage printers
   
#512. 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
   
#513. Season 37
Monday, October 12, 2020
ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A small, flat portable computer & a fight between 2 armies
   
#514. Season JM
Monday, May 15, 2023
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: 400
When talking IP address, IP means this
   
#515. 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
   
#516. Season 39
Thursday, December 22, 2022
TECHNOLOGY HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
A 2012 pilot program by police in Rialto, California used BWCs, body-worn these
   
#517. 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
   
#518. Season 36
Thursday, May 28, 2020
MAGNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the early 1950s IBM gave these better memories with the introduction of magnetic core storage
   
#519. Season 23
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
PLAY THIS
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's off to Skull Island for Peter Jackson's official video game adaptation of this ape movie
   
#520. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
COMPUTER NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In the line named for this supercomputer genius, the Y-MP reached the speed of 2.3 gigaflops
   
#521. 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
   
#522. Season 14
Thursday, January 29, 1998
JIMMY LOVES THAT COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $300
Jimmy learned HTML, hypertext markup language, to create this, addressable at jimmyland.com
   
#523. 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?
   
#524. 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
   
#525. Season 12
Wednesday, May 15, 1996
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
H&R Block, Inc. has announced it's spinning off this large online service
   
#526. Season 3
Thursday, October 16, 1986
WW III
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Child's game which convinced computer in "War Games" of the futility of nuclear war
   
#527. Season 31
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
"EBB" & "FLO"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
These awards honor "excellence on the Internet"
   
#528. Season 37
Friday, June 11, 2021
EDUCATION
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2020 the most common apps used by schools for remote learning included Microsoft Teams & this one founded by Eric Yuan
   
#529. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It comes before "fun at" to mean mock someone
   
#530. Season 31
Friday, May 29, 2015
TOOL TALK
Jeopardy Round: $200
In computer-speak, 404 is this "not found"
   
#531. Season 36
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences gives out these awards "honoring the best of the Internet"
   
#532. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
STOCK UP
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Originally named Sound of Music, this company, BBY, still offers sound electronics & music
   
#533. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
FORMER TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This item was about the size of the modern electric refrigerator that replaced it in homes
   
#534. Season 35
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
The first Millennium Technology Prize went to this Brit for his work on HTTP, HTML & the World Wide Web
   
#535. Season 29
Monday, May 13, 2013
ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This electronics firm was named for a certain quality of a mechanical pencil invented by its founder
   
#536. Season 37
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
AWESOME TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Resembling an NFL mouthguard, Y-Brush promises to give these the high-tech cleaning they deserve in 10 seconds
   
#537. Season 29
Thursday, December 13, 2012
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1785, 16 years after his patent for an improved steam engine, he developed a fuel-efficient furnace
   
#538. 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
   
#539. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015
I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
I learned more than I needed to know about Tara Reid on this man's website, originally called PageSixSixSix.com
   
#540. Season 17
Thursday, March 1, 2001
RECENT INNOVATIONS
Final Jeopardy
Known by a 3-letter abbrev., it was first proposed in 1989 by software developer Tim Berners-Lee
   
#541. Season 16
Wednesday, December 15, 1999
THEY WENT TO SCHOOL BACK EAST
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
I.M. Pei,
George Ellery Hale,
Murray Gell-Mann
   
#542. Season 8
Monday, May 18, 1992
SCIENCE & NATURE
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's a piece of metal put in an electrical circuit to melt if current flow is too high
   
#543. 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
   
#544. Season 14
Friday, January 30, 1998
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
As in other electrical systems, the paths of signals in the brain are called these
   
#545. Season 18
Thursday, February 28, 2002
COMPUTER SPEAK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Common term for storing data in less space than usual, such as in the zip or arc format
   
#546. Season 37
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
AWESOME TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Withings ScanWatch wants to help you snooze better by monitoring this sleep disorder where you stop breathing for a bit
   
#547. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This functioned as a message or bulletin board, so Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on it
   
#548. Season 40
Friday, May 3, 2024
NON-CAT & DOG PETS
Jeopardy Round: $600
You can see why this type of frog here was named for this '80s video game, but feed it insects, not power pellets
   
#549. Season 31
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
CAUTION, DECONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Transistor
   
#550. Season 29
Monday, June 10, 2013
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
See them yourself --in 2012 Google & the Antiquities Authority launched deadseascrolls.org.il, il short for this
   
#551. Season 4
Thursday, March 24, 1988
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $100
This country is marketing an IBM PC/AT clone called the "Great Wall 0530"
   
#552. Season 37
Monday, February 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
(Reshma Saujani presents the clue.) Computer scientist Annie Easley wrote code that helped in the development of the first batteries used in this class of car that employs dual power systems
   
#553. Season 37
Monday, May 10, 2021
FROM C TO D
Jeopardy Round: $600
A classic Atari video game of the 1980s was called Missile this
   
#554. Season 15
Tuesday, February 2, 1999
AROUND THE OFFICE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Workers may gather around the monitor & boogie along with this Internet infant from Kinetix
   
#555. Season 31
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
10-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the process of converting computer data into a code
   
#556. Season 15
Wednesday, December 23, 1998
"JOY" TO THE WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $100
It's slang for a control lever on an airplane or on a video game
   
#557. Season 21
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
WE MAKE MONEY THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Dude, you're getting" a lot of this computer company's products, judging by its $41.4 billion in FY 2004 revenues
   
#558. Season 39
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
EPOS:It's computer hardware used in retail
   
#559. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
On YouTube, a little girl asks for help after trying this Japanese version of horseradish for the first time
   
#560. 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
   
#561. Season 16
Tuesday, June 13, 2000
THE RATING GAME
Jeopardy Round: $500
Since 1991 the Billboard charts have used this computerized system to track sales
   
#562. 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
   
#563. Season 29
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
CHEMISTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In a standard lead-acid battery, lead plates & an electrolyte of this diluted acid create electrical energy
   
#564. Season JM
Monday, May 20, 2024
MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE
Jeopardy Round: 600
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) In a 2021 appearance before Congress, I encouraged bold investment in this energy technology that hasn't yet been proven practical but might one day provide virtually limitless clean, safe power
   
#565. Season 22
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Tom Scholz of the band Boston invented an amplifier that worked like a Walkman & called it this
   
#566. Season 35
Monday, November 26, 2018
CELEBRATING 35 YEARS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This video game featuring 2 plumbers who were not yet "Super" was launched in 1983
   
#567. Season 29
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
GREAT IDEAS
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $500
In 1971 3 guys at this company first put a computer CPU on a chip
   
#568. 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
   
#569. Season 40
Thursday, March 28, 2024
ALPHANUMERICS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This technology introduced in 2019 brought faster connectivity all over an area
   
#570. Season 39
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
WORLD CITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
You can study physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in this city, like 1900 grad Albert Einstein did
   
#571. Season 16
Thursday, June 22, 2000
LONDON LANDMARKS
Jeopardy Round: $200
5,000 photos of this complex, home of the Crown Jewels, were taken for the video game "Traitors Gate"
   
#572. Season 20
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
PARTS OF THE WHOLE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Operating system,
central processing unit,
mouse
   
#573. Season 28
Thursday, July 19, 2012
MONEY TALKS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Google held its annual meeting of these people June 2, 2011; proof of ownership was required
   
#574. Season 24
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
WEB SLINGERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This social network similar to Myspace started in a Harvard dorm & originally only allowed students
   
#575. 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
   
#576. Season 37
Monday, February 8, 2021
HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE?
Jeopardy Round: $400
Does your fervor rival Mario's for this "fruity" princess as he daringly risks his life for her in video games?
   
#577. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The smallest units of information stored in a computer, they form bytes
   
#578. Season 24
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
OLD MAJOR
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1882 this Mass. univ. established the 1st curriculum for electrical engineering within its physics department
   
#579. 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
   
#580. Season 31
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
IT'S ALL ABOUT "ME"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Collective term for the main means of a society's communication, including TV, radio, newspapers & the Internet
   
#581. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $300
"MK Trilogy" packages all 3 versions of this game on one cartridge
   
#582. Season 20
Monday, July 19, 2004
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Filemaker Pro is used for this type of application that stores & organizes information (like "Jeopardy!" clues)
   
#583. Season 19
Thursday, November 28, 2002
HOW AM "I" DOING?
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1981 this company introduced its first home computer, the PC
   
#584. Season 26
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
ZOMBIELAND
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In this 2002 movie based on a video game, zombies swarm through an underground lab called The Hive
   
#585. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
4-SYLLABLE WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The word for this type of test you may run on your computer comes from the Greek for "to know"
   
#586. Season 4
Friday, June 10, 1988
PHYSICS
Jeopardy Round: $500
In electronics, it's the reciprocal of resistivity
   
#587. Season 15
Wednesday, April 21, 1999
"FI"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In computer security, this device blocks unauthorized access to a LAN, a local area network
   
#588. Season 16
Monday, March 6, 2000
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1991 this giant corporation ended its 10-year collaboration with Microsoft to pursue the OS/2 operating system
   
#589. Season 25
Thursday, February 26, 2009
GOOD BUY!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Hope you got in when this Page/Brin search engine went public in '04; by 2007, it was up 510%
   
#590. Season 30
Friday, December 13, 2013
THE MOVIE IS COMPLIMENTARY
Jeopardy Round: $800
2010:
"You are probably going to be a very successful computer person"
   
#591. Season 23
Friday, June 1, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,800
This technology used for wireless headsets is named after a Danish king who united parts of Scandinavia
   
#592. 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
   
#593. Season 30
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
IT ENDS WITH "US"
Jeopardy Round: $200
In May 2012 Mark Zuckerberg updated this on Facebook to "married"
   
#594. 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"
   
#595. 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"
   
#596. Season 25
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1963 Charles Tandy bought this nearly bankrupt electronics parts supplier & made it into a top retail chain
   
#597. Season 20
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
A bright red Ford Torino & voice-overs by Antonio Fargas (aka Huggy Bear) are in the game of this '70s cop show
   
#598. 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
   
#599. Season 20
Thursday, June 3, 2004
A VULGAR DISPLAY OF "POWER"
Jeopardy Round: $800
Any of several portable G4 computers made by Apple
   
#600. Season 41
Friday, November 8, 2024
THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1999 Research in Motion released this device, calling it "a breakthrough wireless email solution for mobile professionals"
   
#601. Season 41
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
TAKE A LONG WALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Fitness trackers by this Google-owned brand raise a big question for many users: if my steps aren't tracked, did my walk even happen?
   
#602. Season 21
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
SHOCKING!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This unit of electrical resistance is named for a 19th century German physicist
   
#603. Season 33
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
PARTS OF THE WHOLE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Light-emitting diode,
horizontal & vertical wheels,
roller ball
   
#604. Season 32
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
"iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon" is the 2006 autobiography of this Apple co-founder
   
#605. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
One-time experiments in "express" delivery of this have included firing a guided missile from a sub in 1959
   
#606. Season 20
Thursday, March 4, 2004
WANNA BET?
Jeopardy Round: $400
In the '50s, Edward Thorp fed millions of hands of this game into a computer which figured out how to win at it
   
#607. Season 41
Thursday, February 13, 2025
YOUR STOCK IS CLIMBING
Jeopardy Round: $600
Though the stock market crashed in 1929, IBM continued to pay investors these at the rate of $1.50 per share all through the 1930s
   
#608. Season 41
Monday, May 12, 2025
TEXAS TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
Just 27 in 1992, he's still the youngest-ever CEO of a company when it entered the Fortune 500
   
#609. Season 27
Monday, October 25, 2010
THINGS ARE SLOW
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Even a fountain pen was too much technology for this historian who took 20 years to write "The Civil War"
   
#610. 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"
   
#611. 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
   
#612. Season 17
Monday, November 13, 2000
SEATTLE MEANS BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This company had its genesis when 2 Seattle boys read an article about the Altair 8800
   
#613. Season 28
Friday, September 30, 2011
BLUE RAYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In electronics, a blue gun isn't a weapon but part of this in TV sets, also called the picture tube
   
#614. 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
   
#615. Season 16
Wednesday, December 15, 1999
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
From the Greek ienai, "to go", Michael Faraday coined this term for an atom with an electrical charge
   
#616. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996
ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
At the end of a domain name, .nl would mean this country
   
#617. Season 37
Friday, March 12, 2021
BUSINESS ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
On paper, Larry Page was worth almost $4 billion with Google's 2004 IPO, this offering
   
#618. Season 24
Monday, June 2, 2008
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
You can't have too much RAM, which stands for this
   
#619. Season 6
Wednesday, May 9, 1990
SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $100
In computerese, a "vaccine" is a program that seeks out & destroys these
   
#620. Season 34
Thursday, April 19, 2018
UNBEATABLE WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
To make an electronic switch active, or to help a loved one continue a bad habit
   
#621. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $400
The mental capacity to recall facts, or a show-stopping number from "Cats"
   
#622. Season 30
Friday, May 23, 2014
9-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In computer lingo, it's the reduced "digital" image of a graphic used so that multiple images can be viewed on a page
   
#623. Season 31
Monday, May 4, 2015
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $600
NIFOC:
In this condition "in front of computer"
   
#624. Season 32
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
IN THE "ZONE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Created by electrical discharges in the air, it causes that distinctive odor after a thunderstorm
   
#625. Season 35
Friday, October 12, 2018
C & C ALLITERATION FACTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
When you CC a coworker on an e-mail, "CC" is short for this, representing bygone technology
   
#626. Season 34
Monday, January 15, 2018
JEOPARDY!WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The Tech, a newspaper at this eastern college, maintains the first online edition of Shakespeare's works & we love it
   
#627. Season 28
Friday, January 13, 2012
MAKING CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In "Sixteen Candles" the geek predicts, "Me and her will" do this, the connection of a computer & an outside entity
   
#628. Season 18
Thursday, April 4, 2002
19th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1835 Rene Dutrochet discovered that chlorophyll was necessary for this process
   
#629. Season 9
Tuesday, November 10, 1992
INVENTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In addition to the revolver, he invented an electrically controlled naval mine
   
#630. Season 37
Monday, June 7, 2021
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
A common measure of walking was coined when a Japanese company called its pedometer the Manpo-kei, or this many steps "meter"
   
#631. Season 34
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
This Microsoft program was originally called Presenter
   
#632. Season 23
Friday, October 13, 2006
ASK "Y"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
As head of this Internet company, Terry Semel has made more than $230 million in only 4 years
   
#633. 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
   
#634. Season 24
Monday, December 31, 2007
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Use your digital jukebox software to connect to this No. 1 online music store
   
#635. Season JM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
SCIENCE VOCAB
Double Jeopardy Round: 2000
Here at "Jeopardy!" "top-sup" is what we call Microsoft's purported discovery of this new phase of quantum-chip-empowering matter
   
#636. Season 5
Tuesday, January 17, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Since the ban on smoking, air crews can no longer spot cracks by the telltale buildup of this substance
   
#637. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $400
A spooler, a program that puts jobs in a queue to be done one at a time, is usually associated with this type of job
   
#638. Season 20
Monday, March 15, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1901 Eugene Demarcay discovered Eu, this rare-earth metal that's named for a continent
   
#639. 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
   
#640. Season 33
Monday, September 12, 2016
"BEST" WISHES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This consumer electronics corporation has annual sales of more than $40 billion
   
#641. Season 37
Monday, June 7, 2021
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Caribbean has lost more than 50% of these structures due to problems like overfishing, pollution & thermal stress
   
#642. Season 36
Monday, January 20, 2020
COME TO YOUR CENSUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Not exactly a laptop with 5,000 vacuum tubes & weighing 16,000 pounds, this computer was utilized for the 1950 census
   
#643. Season 27
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An additional section placed within the folds of a newspaper
   
#644. Season 20
Friday, February 20, 2004
GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This company's name is short of Integrated Electronics
   
#645. Season 19
Monday, January 13, 2003
THE MUSIC OF SOUND
Jeopardy Round: $200
One of these "critters" is a hidden electronic listening device used in spying on others
   
#646. Season 38
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
TWEETS
Jeopardy Round: $400
He tweeted, "Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook doesn't promote hate for profit; evidently, it's just for kicks"
   
#647. 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
   
#648. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Condition of zero electrical resistance, it occurs in metals cooled to very low temperatures
   
#649. Season 24
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
WE HAVE MET THE ANIME
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This anime show didn't start on TV; its characters were first part of Nintendo's "Pocket Monsters"
   
#650. Season 36
Friday, May 22, 2020
I'D RATHER HAVE
Jeopardy Round: $800
I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone
   
#651. 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)
   
#652. Season 38
Friday, May 6, 2022
OUR BRAND'S ON THAT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The 2600 "Video Computer System" for gaming, with a switch to select color or black-&-white TV
   
#653. Season 25
Monday, September 29, 2008
STUPID ANSWERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This magazine has been a popular source of science & technology news since its inception in 1872
   
#654. Season 31
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
NICKNAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This nickname of Harald I, unifier of Denmark, was given to technology that enables wireless connectivity
   
#655. Season 37
Monday, January 18, 2021
BUSINESS PAIRS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
In the 1930s these 2 partners set up shop in a garage that's now known as "The Birthplace of Silicon Valley"
   
#656. Season 37
Monday, September 21, 2020
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Instead of contaminating a burger, this bacterium can now make indigo in a process invented by a biotech company
   
#657. Season 19
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
THE RISE OF THE MACHINES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In computers, the ILLIAC IV pioneered the simultaneous processing of many operations, known by this geometric term
   
#658. Season 34
Friday, April 20, 2018
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $400
Someone who asks you for a D.M. on Facebook doesn't want a dungeon master but rather contact via this
   
#659. 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
   
#660. 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
   
#661. Season 8
Monday, September 23, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Now mostly obsolete, these machines record data on cards to be read by computers
   
#662. 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
   
#663. Season 29
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1961 Les Earnest created the first program of this type, now a word processing tool, & yes, computer, his name is Les with 1 S
   
#664. 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
   
#665. 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
   
#666. Season 26
Thursday, December 10, 2009
STOP!
Jeopardy Round: $200
In May 1998 the Justice Dept. & 20 states charged Microsoft with violation of these laws designed to stop monopolies
   
#667. Season 22
Monday, February 6, 2006
AT THE MALL
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Found "just what I needed" at this "City", an electronics store
   
#668. Season 25
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
"HEE" HAW
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A format that allows the user to lay out data in multiple fields on a computer screen
   
#669. Season 31
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
"FIRE"
Jeopardy Round: $400
This software or hardware barrier is used to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing your computer
   
#670. Season 26
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
THE WAY IN
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
An Internet site that offers e-mail & a search engine is called one of these entryways to the web
   
#671. Season 3
Thursday, March 12, 1987
MYTHOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Tisiphone, the blood avenger; Alecto, the persevering avenger; & Magaera, the jealous
   
#672. 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
   
#673. 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
   
#674. Season 40
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION!
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This 1985 educational computer game features the title globetrotting female antagonist
   
#675. Season 40
Friday, June 28, 2024
INTERNET CELEBRITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Forbes said the memes featuring this feline are full of "existential angst" & "nihilism"
   
#676. Season 32
Friday, October 2, 2015
TOP 10 GLOBAL BRANDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
If only there were some kind of way to search the Internet for this $174 billion tech company, No. 2 on the list
   
#677. Season 14
Friday, November 21, 1997
IT CAME FROM SEATTLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Seattleites Bill Gates & Paul Allen started this company in Albuquerque, then moved home to Washington
   
#678. Season 34
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
If you aren't careful, these title rodents will march to their deaths in a 1990s computer game
   
#679. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
GOOGLE EASTER EGGS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Click on a balloon after searching for this K-pop band & get messages from Jungkook & its other members
   
#680. Season 40
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
FLOWER POWER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This computing term for a series of peripherals connected to a computer sounds like a flower bracelet
   
#681. Season 25
Thursday, May 21, 2009
OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEBSITE WE WEAVE
Jeopardy Round: $200
The 2 clickable buttons on the front page of this site are "Search" & "I'm Feeling Lucky"; well, do ya, punk?
   
#682. Season 16
Friday, July 14, 2000
ACTING PRESIDENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Thanks to the magic of digital technology, this man (a method actor?) played the president in 1997's "Contact"
   
#683. Season 35
Friday, May 10, 2019
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
From the Greek for "around", it's an auxiliary device like a keyboard or printer that's attached to a computer
   
#684. Season 34
Monday, September 18, 2017
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"My Inventions", the autobiography of this immigrant, appeared in 1919 in the magazine Electrical Experimenter
   
#685. Season 40
Thursday, July 18, 2024
POP CULTURE GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This 2020 Switch game from Nintendo was subtitled "New Horizons"
   
#686. Season 20
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
CHAT ROOM LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $800
"AATK" means "Always at" this computer accessory
   
#687. Season 7
Thursday, May 23, 1991
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In addition to his electrical work, Georg Ohm helped found this science of sound
   
#688. Season 39
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
HOME COMING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Xanadu was the name of a palatial estate in "Citizen Kane"; the estate owned by this Microsoft billionaire has been dubbed Xanadu 2.0
   
#689. Season 31
Friday, April 10, 2015
BOOKS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
HAL the computer returns in "____: Odyssey Two"
   
#690. 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
   
#691. Season 16
Friday, February 11, 2000
DROPOUTS
Jeopardy Round: $100
He abandoned his studies at Harvard after his junior year to co-found Microsoft & got filthy rich
   
#692. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009
COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
"DOS" stands for these 3 words
   
#693. 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
   
#694. Season 22
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
MONEY MATTERS
Jeopardy Round: $600
If a stock symbol has more than 3 letters, like MSFT, this company, it's probably on the NASDAQ, not the NYSE
   
#695. Season 16
Wednesday, January 12, 2000
NEOLOGISMS
Final Jeopardy
In his 1984 novel "Neuromancer", William Gibson coined this 10-letter term for a virtual reality computer network
   
#696. Season 22
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
A hydroelectric power plant at this U.S. landmark opened in 1881
   
#697. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Christiaan Huygens got into the swing of things in 1656 by adding this to the clock
   
#698. Season 17
Thursday, October 5, 2000
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
3-D crowds cheer on Mia Hamm in the SouthPeak Interactive game in this sport
   
#699. Season 31
Thursday, March 5, 2015
DISNEY MOVIES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Back in the day he starred in "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" & "The Strongest Man in the World"
   
#700. Season 24
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
"PUN" JAB
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
William Gibson pioneered this sci-fi genre of characters in a dark, futuristic world dominated by computers
   
#701. Season 28
Thursday, April 26, 2012
"PACE" YOURSELF
Jeopardy Round: $200
Where an Apple computer keyboard has "Delete", a P.C. has this
   
#702. Season 22
Monday, May 15, 2006
OK COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It can be a hiding place for food or treasure, or a place for memory on a computer's motherboard
   
#703. Season 34
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
THAT ENCYCLOPEDIA
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Microsoft shut down this online encyclopedia in 2009
   
#704. Season 12
Monday, April 1, 1996
APRIL FOOLS' DAY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The "core" of this computer company goes back to its founding, April 1, 1976
   
#705. Season 26
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT
Jeopardy Round: $600
To transfer a file or program from the Internet to your home computer
   
#706. 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
   
#707. 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
   
#708. Season 26
Thursday, February 4, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
"I'm On a Boat" is one of many popular parody songs that started on this TV show & then went viral on the web
   
#709. Season 12
Monday, May 13, 1996
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Sega's Ecco is this type of animal
   
#710. Season 19
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
CAPITAL CITY UNIVERSITIES
Jeopardy Round: $600
D.I. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology
   
#711. Season 34
Thursday, April 19, 2018
FICTIONAL STUDENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In one "Star Trek" video game, you play David Forester, a cadet at this academy in San Francisco
   
#712. Season 34
Monday, November 20, 2017
TECH CRUNCH
Jeopardy Round: $200
Still a giant, especially in supercomputers, in the '60s it had a 70% market share of world computer sales
   
#713. 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
   
#714. Season 24
Monday, December 31, 2007
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
This 4-letter certification is given for equipment that uses the IEEE 802.11 standard
   
#715. Season 16
Tuesday, November 9, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's the third-largest planet in our solar system
   
#716. Season 10
Monday, May 16, 1994
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer company markets the Newton MessagePad
   
#717. Season 27
Friday, July 29, 2011
15 LETTERS OR MORE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Like shy people, computer software also has these flaws or weaknesses that affect the security of the computer
   
#718. Season 34
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
NEWER TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Using satellites, a lab named for this Frenchman good with coordinates made an atlas that updates in real time
   
#719. Season 24
Monday, November 26, 2007
COMPUTER ON!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's what the "ML" stands for in HTML, used for creating Internet documents
   
#720. Season 31
Monday, March 16, 2015
RAGE FOR THE MACHINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Once endorsed by Andre Agassi, this company's Rebel camera was a Consumer Reports Top 10 electronics product of 2013
   
#721. Season 40
Friday, February 16, 2024
SCIENCE STUFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1891 Tesla unveiled his famous this, used in radio technology
   
#722. Season 7
Thursday, February 14, 1991
MAGAZINES
Jeopardy Round: $100
PC Novice is a new magazine for beginning users of thse
   
#723. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
"A" IN SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
Metabolic imbalances can cause this, an electrical disturbance that alters the heartbeat
   
#724. 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
   
#725. Season 34
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
CONTRONYMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
If someone calls you this & you are on a computer, you are skilled; if you are on a golf course, you are bad
   
#726. Season 28
Friday, July 13, 2012
IT'S THE TRUTH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Printed by the GPO & also available on the Internet, it's the daily record of House & Senate activities
   
#727. Season 17
Wednesday, December 27, 2000
LET'S GO ONLINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This type of "space" is slang for the Internet
   
#728. Season 19
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
COMPUTER HISTORY
Final Jeopardy
IBM engineer Dave Bradley is called the father of this multi-key combination
   
#729. Season 40
Monday, February 19, 2024
POP
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This main character of the God of War video game franchise has issues with his dad, Zeus, who hasn't done right by his mom, Callisto
   
#730. 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"
   
#731. 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
   
#732. 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
   
#733. Season 20
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Guinness called his December 1999 concert at Liverpool's Cavern Club the biggest internet concert ever
   
#734. Season 41
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
"A"CRONYMS & "A"BBREVIATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Internet domain code for this nation is .az
   
#735. 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
   
#736. Season 38
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
FREE AS A WORD
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
LTAD, from the Google spinoff Waymo, stands for "let's talk" this kind of "driving", also a word meaning free or independent
   
#737. Season 22
Monday, May 15, 2006
OK COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
From the Old English for "clasp" & "table", it's where anything you "cut" or "copy" is stored until you "paste"
   
#738. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
TAKING "OFF"
Jeopardy Round: $400
When you aren't connected to the Internet, you still may be able to work this way
   
#739. Season 33
Monday, September 26, 2016
A CLOUDY CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Cloud computing holds onto your data with vast arrays or "farms" of these computers that process requests
   
#740. Season 29
Friday, May 3, 2013
INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Nick Swinmurn founded this .com in '99 after an unsuccessful trip to the mall for some shoes
   
#741. Season 33
Monday, October 17, 2016
AN "F" IN SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This technology has virtually replaced copper wire in long-distance telephone lines
   
#742. 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
   
#743. Season 19
Thursday, January 2, 2003
FOOD WORDS & PHRASES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's information stored on your computer to record your activities when visiting a website
   
#744. Season 24
Monday, December 31, 2007
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Tim Berners-Lee helped create the World Wide Web at this particle physics lab near Geneva
   
#745. Season 14
Tuesday, May 5, 1998
JEOPARDY.COM
Jeopardy Round: $100
Our internet address, also known as this type of name, is Jeopardy.com
   
#746. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
Without this Wallace Carothers invention, WWII G.I.s would have had only chocolates to offer women
   
#747. Season 25
Friday, June 26, 2009
MY BOLOGNA
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
The airport in Bologna bears the name of this electrical engineer & inventor born near the city
   
#748. 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
   
#749. Season 37
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
ANAGRAM THE FIRST NAME
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A video game plumber & a native people of New Zealand
   
#750. 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"
   
#751. Season 40
Thursday, April 11, 2024
A YEAR ENDING IN 4
Jeopardy Round: $400
Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called TheFacebook
   
#752. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1984 Apple Computer introduced this model line
   
#753. Season 29
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
THEY WERE RIGHT
Jeopardy Round: $800
Steve Jobs saying to this other Steve that the 2 go into the computer business together? Good idea
   
#754. Season 40
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Technology historian Henry Petroski said that little frill on these in the party meatballs probably began as an anti-swallowing warning
   
#755. Season 34
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
NEWER TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In December 2017 one unit of this cryptocurrency was worth 15 times more than an ounce of gold
   
#756. Season 39
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Dr. Robotnik returns to menace Earth in the 2022 sequel starring this furry blue video game character
   
#757. Season 26
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
21st CENTURY WOMEN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
She retired from a managerial job at Microsoft after marrying the boss & today she co-chairs their foundation
   
#758. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
A dialysis section at the site for the AKF, or American this Fund, recommends a diet limiting potassium & sodium
   
#759. Season 27
Monday, March 14, 2011
LET'S GO ONLINE
Jeopardy Round: $800
This satiric site says, "Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids"
   
#760. Season 38
Monday, March 7, 2022
3-LETTER INITIALISMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Garmin is a leader in this technology that keeps you on track, wherever you go
   
#761. Season 38
Friday, December 24, 2021
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
America welcomed him as a citizen in 1891, the year he invented a coil that's still used in electronics today
   
#762. Season 41
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
NEW TO THEOED
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's a 2-word term for a hinged computer or phone display that can be folded in for storage or out for use
   
#763. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024
18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for this, greatly increasing production in the South
   
#764. Season 5
Friday, March 31, 1989
SOUND
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
You can make 1 by enclosing an electrical coil of wire, a magnet & a paper cone in a box
   
#765. 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
   
#766. 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
   
#767. Season 17
Thursday, September 7, 2000
TO THE MAX
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the 1980s this computer-generated character was featured in Coca-Cola ads & his own ABC series
   
#768. Season 13
Wednesday, November 20, 1996
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A fuel cell converts chemicals directly into this type of energy
   
#769. Season 16
Friday, September 17, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The oldest way to refine oil, this process heats the oil until its component parts vaporize
   
#770. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $400
A stupid or inept internet user can be called this 3-digit number that means "File Not Found"
   
#771. Season 32
Monday, March 21, 2016
ART FOR ART'S SAKE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In the 1990s printmakers took this French word for "squirted" to refer to fine art prints made using inkjet technology
   
#772. Season 35
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In "Assassin's Creed Origins", you travel to this ancient north African city & visit the royal library
   
#773. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1993 Intel introduced this new chip, which had 3.1 million transistors
   
#774. Season 37
Thursday, May 6, 2021
SAINTLY NAMED
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The name of this electrical phenomenon in the atmosphere comes from a corruption of Erasmus, a patron saint of sailors
   
#775. Season 40
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $600
This techno-thriller author's works served as the inspiration for video games like "Splinter Cell" & "Rainbow Six"
   
#776. Season 37
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
POP
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Blasphemous Rumours" is a classic track from this British electronic pop band
   
#777. Season 29
Thursday, July 25, 2013
WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
My team & I have been up for 36 hours finishing the new Internet Explorer browser for this co.; sleep is a fond memory
   
#778. 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
   
#779. Season 36
Friday, April 24, 2020
SPY TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Also the title of a "Call of Duty" video game series, these "colorful" covert missions will be disavowed by your country
   
#780. 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
   
#781. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
With flowing white hair, Geralt of Rivia is a monster slayer in this video game series based on the stories of Andrzej Sapkowski
   
#782. Season 37
Friday, August 13, 2021
THE PROUD PARENT COMPANY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
...of Skype
   
#783. Season 16
Tuesday, November 9, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Common term for the shaft on which a pair of wheels revolves
   
#784. Season 40
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This wireless technology is named for a 10th century Viking king
   
#785. Season 14
Thursday, July 16, 1998
20th CENTURY INVENTION
Jeopardy Round: $500
They were invented in 1947 & by the 1990s millions were being placed on a single chip
   
#786. Season 41
Friday, May 30, 2025
MAMMALS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A non-native species of this largest rodent resides in Florida; the Internet thinks Glen Powell resembles one
   
#787. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
INTERNET BUSINESSES
Jeopardy Round: $800
This search engine began as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
   
#788. Season 32
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In weaving it's the machine used for interlacing the horizontal & vertical elements
   
#789. Season 7
Friday, July 12, 1991
THE '60s
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1961 this electronics firm became the first Japanese co. to sell its common stock in the U.S.
   
#790. Season JM
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: 1600
Mexico's M.I.T., actually with initials T.d.M., is this Nuevo Leon state capital's institute of technology
   
#791. 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
   
#792. Season 27
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Dante's Inferno", which is loosely based on this 14th century poem, involves a hellish journey to find Beatrice
   
#793. Season 30
Thursday, December 5, 2013
THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Internet domain .cy
   
#794. Season 25
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
FUN WITH EPONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $200
How shocking! A unit of electrical current is named for this Andre
   
#795. Season 27
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
SURFIN' USB
Jeopardy Round: $1000
USB ports on the 1998 first generation of this Apple computer helped make USB an industry standard
   
#796. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
While the floppy ones can be removed from the drive, hard ones usually can't
   
#797. Season 29
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
IN THEIR 20s
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1978 Bill Gates & Paul Allen were in their 20s when this company they founded exceeded $1 million in sales
   
#798. Season 27
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
BEER GOOGLES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Google Coors, cold & window & find out about the packaging that shows these mountains blue
   
#799. Season 41
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
I DON'T FEEL SEEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Silicon Valley was the birthplace of this brand that's a clear alternative to braces
   
#800. Season 30
Friday, July 25, 2014
WEBSITES
Final Jeopardy
A slang term for Harvard's freshman register gave this website its name
   
#801. Season 30
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
MAGAZINES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This magazine of "science, technology & the future" has an Urban Skygazer section
   
#802. Season 41
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
LUNAR FEATURES
Jeopardy Round: $800
A mountain on the Moon is named for computer programmer Melba Ray Mouton, & is called this Latin word Mouton
   
#803. Season 36
Friday, November 29, 2019
WOMEN OF SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace created one of these for a machine devised by Charles Babbage
   
#804. Season 23
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
CORPORATE LOGOS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
The bite taken out of the right side of its corporate logo refers to the story of Adam & Eve & the tree of knowledge
   
#805. Season 32
Thursday, February 11, 2016
VIDEO GAME SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $600
NPC stands for this, an avatar not controlled by a human
   
#806. Season 25
Thursday, March 12, 2009
SHOW BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This company took a big step in computer animation by buying Pixar
   
#807. Season 29
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
Jeopardy Round: $200
An ECG measures the electrical activity of the heart, while an EEG measures the activity of this organ
   
#808. Season 39
Monday, November 28, 2022
FOOT, THE BILL
Jeopardy Round: $600
A Calif. ex-con may have to pay for an ankle monitor to track him, using this technology first developed for the U.S. military
   
#809. Season 37
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
AMERICAN HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The first one of these was made in 1973 from a Motorola executive to his competitor at AT&T
   
#810. 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
   
#811. Season 2
Tuesday, September 17, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Leo Hendrik Baekeland's invention of Bakelite in 1909 began this modern industry
   
#812. Season 31
Thursday, January 22, 2015
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
These 2 units measure electrical current & electrical resistance
   
#813. 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
   
#814. Season 28
Thursday, January 12, 2012
SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE?
Jeopardy Round: $600
Easily carried, such as a small TV or software that can run on multiple computers with the same operating system
   
#815. Season 40
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
TIME FOR SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Early electronics used bulky vacuum tubes; beginning in the late 1940s, these compact successors made things portable
   
#816. Season 20
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $400
The British Home Office's crime computer was named the "Home Office Large Major Enquiry System" after him
   
#817. Season 17
Monday, May 21, 2001
01/01/01
Jeopardy Round: $500
This Arkansas-based chicken firm announced it was going to buy the No. 1 U.S. beef processor, IBP Inc.
   
#818. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The 411 is that this 4-letter domain name went live in late 2001
   
#819. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $200
Of Flash, Google or AltaVista, the one that's not a popular Internet search engine
   
#820. Season 32
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A mooshroom is a kind of cow found only in the mushroom biome in this video game
   
#821. Season 19
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
THE LETTER G
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In Internet domain name extensions, gg stands for Alderney, Sark & this other Channel Island
   
#822. Season 21
Friday, February 11, 2005
20th CENTURY SCIENCE TIDBITS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The UNIVAC computer used this format for permanent data storage
   
#823. Season GOATTOURNAMENT
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - 1,800
Last name of Robert, inventor of an electronic music synthesizer; the instrument was on The Doors album "Strange Days"
   
#824. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This visual effect with a portmanteau name was used in a Kendrick Lamar music video where K. Dot's face morphs into Kobe Bryant's
   
#825. Season 5
Wednesday, March 22, 1989
THE MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
An electrical phenomenon, or a 1985 Brat Pack film that did phenomenal success
   
#826. 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
   
#827. Season 18
Friday, October 26, 2001
SOFTWARE THAT BYTES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Every March 6 your computer can be infected by this virus named for a Renaissance artist
   
#828. 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
   
#829. 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
   
#830. Season 27
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Through Facebook this company offered a summer sample pack of goods & coupons for items like its macaroni & cheese
   
#831. Season 31
Monday, May 18, 2015
FEELING CHARITABLE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Help victims of domestic violence by donating old these to Shelter Alliance, a program run by GRC Wireless
   
#832. Season 30
Friday, April 25, 2014
COMPUTERS
Final Jeopardy
The creator of this computer command called it "a 5-minute job"; in 2013 Bill Gates called it "a mistake"
   
#833. Season 37
Thursday, May 20, 2021
ALL ABOUT THAT BASE
Jeopardy Round: $600
A video game called "Zero Wing" gave us the meme "All your base are" these 3 words, a poor translation from Japanese
   
#834. 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
   
#835. Season 16
Friday, November 26, 1999
THE BIG VALLEY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
You'll find the California cities of San Jose & Santa Clara in the valley nicknamed this
   
#836. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Stephen Fry tweeted, "Books are no more threatened by " this Amazon device "than stairs by elevators"
   
#837. Season 7
Friday, April 19, 1991
SECOND PLACE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Dallas-based firm that follows Motorola as America's largest producer of semiconductors
   
#838. Season 9
Thursday, July 22, 1993
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
General Telephone added "Electronics" to its name after acquiring this light bulb company in 1959
   
#839. Season 21
Friday, May 13, 2005
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
He was born in New York, & his howling early success was helped by his state-of-the-art Internet campaign
   
#840. 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
   
#841. 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
   
#842. Season 31
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
SPY TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
An NSA career in electrical engineering may include designing these, aka aerials
   
#843. Season 40
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
DISTRACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Sorry son, missed your soccer tournament playing L4D2, this Deep South-set horror video game
   
#844. Season 38
Thursday, October 7, 2021
U.S. FRANCHISES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Completes the name of the business started in 2009 after the founder cracked his cell phone screen: uBreak...
   
#845. Season 32
Friday, October 30, 2015
DAY OF THE DEAD
Jeopardy Round: $200
December 4, 1965:
The Grateful Dead know the way to this Silicon Valley city where they play their first-ever show
   
#846. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A plug-in in the "Lord Of The Rings" online game lets you recite a poem that ends, "in" this place "where the shadows are"
   
#847. Season 26
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
COLLEGE TOWNS
Jeopardy Round: $400
California Institute of Technology (no, not L.A.)
   
#848. Season 11
Tuesday, September 20, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's the use of personal computers to design & produce professional-quality typeset documents
   
#849. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
On a monitor, 1280 x 1024 pixels is called "native" this, the degree of detail & sharpness
   
#850. Season 17
Friday, May 18, 2001
POTENT PORTABLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Nintendo's 1998 version of this toy can transform your black & white games to color
   
#851. Season 38
Friday, February 4, 2022
BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION
Final Jeopardy
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853
   
#852. Season 23
Friday, October 20, 2006
10-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Internet or the online world
   
#853. Season 19
Monday, March 24, 2003
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
A branch of the Internet:
WWW
   
#854. Season 38
Monday, November 1, 2021
TRIPLE ALLITERATION
Jeopardy Round: $400
Only around since the early 1990s, it takes you practically anywhere you want to go--on the Internet
   
#855. 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
   
#856. Season 33
Monday, January 16, 2017
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
When discussing image quality on your computer screen, you may hear "PPI", meaning these per square inch
   
#857. 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
   
#858. Season 37
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
SUMMER MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Computer & TV screen images are made of these, the title of a 2015 movie about video game characters attacking Earth
   
#859. Season 37
Thursday, November 26, 2020
MOVIE QUOTES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook & everybody else: we don't crash ever!"
   
#860. Season 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Early phonographs which featured jeweled styluses used cylinders covered with this
   
#861. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $600
RDV is a cool way to type this word for a meeting
   
#862. Season 23
Monday, July 16, 2007
EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
We know that coils inside this appliance are where evaporation takes place; we just don't know if the light stays on
   
#863. Season 19
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's an HTML command that formats a web page; the "meta" type gives general information about the page
   
#864. 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
   
#865. Season 34
Monday, February 5, 2018
FUN(?) WITH INTERNET COUNTRY CODES
Jeopardy Round: $400
There's diving info at naia.com.fj, this country
   
#866. Season 17
Thursday, February 1, 2001
THE COMPUTER AGE
Jeopardy Round: $500
Among Internet users, the World Wide Web has surpassed the system named for this burrowing rodent
   
#867. 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
   
#868. Season 25
Thursday, January 22, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
The "ball" in this classic '70s version of table tennis was square--good thing it was played on video
   
#869. Season 8
Wednesday, February 5, 1992
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Producer of 1-2-3, this company's name is the Hindu symbol of enlightenment
   
#870. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Device that stealth aircraft technology is designed to trick
   
#871. Season 21
Monday, November 1, 2004
THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This piece of trading floor technology arrived in 1867 but is now a bit out of date
   
#872. 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
   
#873. Season 17
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
OWNED BY AOL TIME WARNER
Jeopardy Round: $400
This company with its Navigator Internet browser was bought by AOL in 1999
   
#874. 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
   
#875. 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
   
#876. Season 21
Friday, November 12, 2004
MONKEY BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Assume the role of aspiring pirate Guybrush Threepwood in the video game "The Curse of" this place
   
#877. Season 32
Friday, April 15, 2016
WHO'S THERE?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This British scientist, who in the 1820s designed a computerlike machine dubbed a "difference engine"
   
#878. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
In the classic video game "Joust", contestants were placed upon these birds
   
#879. 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
   
#880. Season 4
Tuesday, January 5, 1988
ADVERTISING
Jeopardy Round: $500
Japanese electronics corp. who in July '87 ads apologized for a subsidiary's dealings with the Soviet bloc
   
#881. Season 26
Monday, November 9, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Fight as Anderson Silva or Brock Lesnar in the 2009 "Undisputed" version of this mixed martial arts game
   
#882. Season 24
Thursday, February 21, 2008
GAMERS UNITE!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This Japanese video game involves a sticky little ball that players roll to grow it larger by picking up things
   
#883. Season 35
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
A WORD OF ADVICE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
I'm going to give you my this, also an access point on a computer or the info that goes through it
   
#884. 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
   
#885. Season 37
Monday, March 15, 2021
"T.O.C."
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Make this "sweet" computer change if you want websites to remember you when you revisit them
   
#886. Season 33
Friday, June 30, 2017
STAY WOKE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Blue light from electronics stops the pineal gland from releasing this sleep-inducing hormone, so you stay awake
   
#887. Season 35
Monday, October 15, 2018
SOCIAL MEDIA ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $400
The one who started it all, the "OP" in a Facebook thread is short for this
   
#888. Season 17
Friday, October 6, 2000
THAT'S AMAZING!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This country that has Helsinki as its capital has almost one cell phone for every 2 people
   
#889. Season 41
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
OLD-FASHIONED
Jeopardy Round: $400
Flip phones are making a comeback after 2 decades of being outmoded & this brand has even revived its Razr model
   
#890. 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
   
#891. Season 35
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
TECHNOLOGY: OLD & NEW
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The books "Longships" & "The Vikings" inspired computer engineer Jim Kardach to use this word for his wireless project
   
#892. Season 24
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
HAVE I TOLD YOU PHILATELY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The 1990s "Celebrate the Century" set has the World Wide Web; the 1900s set has this W.E.B.
   
#893. 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
   
#894. Season 18
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
COMPUTER HACKERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This legendary hacker was paroled in 2000 but at first was not allowed any contact with computers
   
#895. Season 23
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
THE "SPACE" AGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Computer key at the top right of the main keyboard grid
   
#896. 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
   
#897. 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
   
#898. Season 19
Friday, March 28, 2003
SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Pioneering computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper coined this term for a mysterious computer problem
   
#899. Season 25
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
RING OF "FIRE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A security system designed to prevent unwelcome hacking on your computer
   
#900. 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
   
#901. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"VoIP" means this type of "Internet protocol" to make phone calls over the web
   
#902. Season 36
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
TECH STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $600
chromium.org is a place for developers to learn about & contribute to this company's browser
   
#903. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Andrew Ryan, the industrialist villain in "Bioshock", was inspired by this female author with the same initials
   
#904. 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
   
#905. Season 27
Thursday, October 7, 2010
A BUSINESS IS BORN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1998, after renaming their Backrub search engine, Larry Page & Sergey Brin incorporated under this name
   
#906. Season 29
Friday, October 19, 2012
THE WORLDWIDE WORLD WIDE WEB
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
.sh is the domain extension for this place, the final home of a famous exile
   
#907. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: 600
The R1S from this car company is an all-electric SUV with a nearly 400-mile battery range
   
#908. Season 32
Thursday, July 7, 2016
PUNNY & NOT-PUNNY DEFINITIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Before a cell phone message", or a reason for taking action
   
#909. Season 30
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
TECH IQ
Jeopardy Round: $600
Record each letter & number typed on a computer with this type of software that sounds like a lumberjack
   
#910. Season 28
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
BEFORE, DURING & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The governmental right to seize property & an Internet address can compel you to guess a song title after a few notes
   
#911. Season 38
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1824 bricklayer Joseph Aspdin patented Portland this, stronger than traditional mortars
   
#912. Season 32
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This video game featured a dog that laughed when you missed a shot
   
#913. Season 30
Friday, September 20, 2013
DO YOU COMPUTE?
Jeopardy Round: $200
All cyber roads lead to "ROM", this unchangeable computer feature
   
#914. 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
   
#915. 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
   
#916. Season 33
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
"BOO"!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Named for a mathematician, it's the type of internet search using "and", "or" & "not"
   
#917. Season 35
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
EDUCATIONAL GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
In a geography computer game, you need to find out "Where in the World Is" she
   
#918. Season 39
Monday, April 24, 2023
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
These are the 2 pieces that can be moved to begin a chess game
   
#919. Season 37
Thursday, September 17, 2020
DISCOUNT CEOs?
Jeopardy Round: $400
Mark Zuckerberg asked Facebook for this salary in 2013, making him the lowest-paid guy there
   
#920. Season 4
Thursday, February 11, 1988
DOUBLE LETTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The high-pitched electronic tone often used to delete some word on radio or TV
   
#921. 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
   
#922. Season 37
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
REQUESTS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
To access a web page, your computer sends this familiar 4-letter type of request
   
#923. Season 41
Thursday, March 20, 2025
3 MEANINGS, 1 WORD
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A debit,an electrical accumulation,an attack
   
#924. 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"
   
#925. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
COMPUTER NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The first 2 letters in the name of this Sony PC can stand for "Video Audio"
   
#926. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Tool designed by London blacksmith Charles Moncke
   
#927. 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
   
#928. Season 28
Monday, November 28, 2011
GO BLUE!
Jeopardy Round: $600
Nickname of Danish king Harald, killed in a 10th c. battle, maybe for lack of a wireless headset
   
#929. Season 14
Tuesday, May 12, 1998
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Ace remixers Tom Rowlands & Ed Simons were the Dust Brothers before becoming these "Brothers"
   
#930. 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
   
#931. Season 32
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
THE ALGORITHM METHOD
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
An algorithm can be a set of steps for a computer; one type covers this process of packing data into files such as mp3s
   
#932. Season 38
Friday, October 29, 2021
SCARY EVERYDAY HALLOWEEN STORIES
Jeopardy Round: $400
I adjusted vertical & horizontal router antennas! Hit reset for 30 secs.! Called my ISP! Why?! Why was this rhyming necessity... dead?!
   
#933. Season 39
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
RHYMER'S DELIGHT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Technology-averse (or even destructive) dramatist
   
#934. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004
DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's not a small Granny Smith, it's a small piece of computer code that can be transferred over the Internet
   
#935. Season 23
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1990 IBM scientists created the first structure made by moving individual ones of these on a surface
   
#936. Season 20
Monday, January 19, 2004
MAYORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Ron Gonzales of this Silicon Valley city is the first Latino mayor of a major California city since statehood
   
#937. Season 26
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
BEFORE & AFTER
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Tainted Love" band's pocket communicator
   
#938. Season 33
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Glitches in this "NFL 17" had a kick returner catching the ball at his own 2, stepping back into his own end zone & scoring a TD
   
#939. Season 26
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
RUPERT MURDOCH, OWNER OF A LOT OF STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
We wonder if Rupe discontinued his Facebook account when he bought this social network site for $580 million in 2005
   
#940. 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?"
   
#941. Season 37
Monday, July 12, 2021
LOGOMANIA
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The logo for this video game company that ruled the '80s is a stylized "A"; it is also based on the Pong screen
   
#942. 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
   
#943. Season 3
Thursday, February 5, 1987
TRAVEL U.S.A.
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
To keep new technology secret, this Battle Creek co. has stopped their 80-year-old plant tour
   
#944. Season 15
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Hubert Booth, not Herbert Hoover, developed the first practical electric one of these in 1901
   
#945. Season 22
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
ORIGIN OF THE SPECIOUS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Forwarding an e-mail supposedly sent by this Microsoft chairman got you $1,000 & a free copy of Windows
   
#946. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "P" in jpeg
   
#947. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Computer software is generally divided into applications software & this type
   
#948. Season 31
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
COURSES AT CALTECH
Jeopardy Round: $400
4 letters preceding "technology" in a course that explores "miniaturization of devices to the smallest scale"
   
#949. 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
   
#950. 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."
   
#951. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Term for the small picture that represents an object on a display screen
   
#952. Season JM
Monday, May 6, 2024
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: 2000
In "Zelda: Breath of the Wild", keep track of your quests in this 6-letter land with Link's adventure log
   
#953. 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
   
#954. Season 41
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
WOULD HAVE BROKEN THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This composer's surprise drop of "Für Elise", an unreleased piano track, almost 40 years after his death
   
#955. 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
   
#956. Season 38
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
PREFIXED PAIRS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Medical condition of abnormally high blood pressure & getaway move to another part of the universe in old video games
   
#957. Season 28
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
OTHER POWER PLAYERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Sheryl Sandberg is the C.O.O. for this website born in a Harvard dorm; its users number over 10% of the world's people
   
#958. Season 36
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Digging up redstone can help power all sorts of projects in this video game that also features creepers
   
#959. Season 39
Monday, January 30, 2023
ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $600
This Nintendo game console first got moving in 2006
   
#960. Season 8
Monday, September 23, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Invented by Ben Franklin, this protective device is attached to the highest point of a structure
   
#961. 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
   
#962. Season 32
Monday, September 28, 2015
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Unveiled in 1977, the TRS-80 got its name from the Tandy Corporation & this retail chain where it was sold
   
#963. 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
   
#964. Season 20
Thursday, September 18, 2003
WALL STREET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Originally the rolls of paper on which stock info was printed, it's come to mean the flow of prices on electronic boards
   
#965. 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
   
#966. Season JM
Friday, May 12, 2023
GROWING UP X
Jeopardy Round: 400
Boasting 64 kb worth of pure computing power, this company's 64 personal computer went for $595 in '80s money
   
#967. Season 41
Monday, March 24, 2025
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In computerese: DoS with a little o is denial of service; DOS with a big O is this
   
#968. Season 34
Friday, February 16, 2018
IN A HALL OF FAME
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This computer game in which pioneers often die of dysentery is in the World Video Game Hall of Fame
   
#969. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $500
This network that encompasses thousands of news groups was created in 1979 by 2 Duke University grad students
   
#970. Season 38
Thursday, December 23, 2021
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This Apple video chat app comes with every iPhone sold in the United States
   
#971. Season 4
Tuesday, June 7, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
While modern computers are usually digital, earlier electronic ones were of this type
   
#972. Season 27
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
WHO'S THE BOSS?
Jeopardy Round: $200
...of Microsoft Corporation, 1975-2000
   
#973. 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
   
#974. Season 21
Monday, September 6, 2004
PRUFROCKIAN PONDERINGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"And how should I begin?" Hmmm, T.S., why not with the alphabetically first country, whose Internet code is .af
   
#975. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $400
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you can choose among many avatars like Link, Donkey Kong or this fast hedgehog
   
#976. Season 11
Tuesday, November 8, 1994
ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
PC can stand for politically correct or for this desktop device
   
#977. Season 36
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
COMPUTER KEYBOARDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's not a veggie, it's the mark above the 6 to show where something is to be inserted
   
#978. Season 4
Thursday, May 26, 1988
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This easy language was devised in 1965 at Dartmouth College
   
#979. Season 13
Friday, January 3, 1997
1990s BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1995 NBC & this giant software company announced plans for an all-news television channel
   
#980. Season 24
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Smile! In 1888 this American introduced the first simple consumer camera to use roll film
   
#981. Season 26
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
"E" IN SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Abnormal electrical activity in the brain causes this seizure-inducing neurological disorder
   
#982. Season 19
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The 500s cover science; the 600s cover this, defined as the application of science
   
#983. 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
   
#984. Season 11
Thursday, July 13, 1995
SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
James Chadwick discovered this electrically uncharged subatomic particle
   
#985. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A monitor's resolution is measured in the number of these on the screen; a common one is 640 X 480
   
#986. Season 23
Friday, March 30, 2007
BILLIONS & BILLIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's used to indicate the speed of a computer operation; one billion of them make up a second
   
#987. Season 25
Monday, January 26, 2009
FICTION SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2001 Hendrik Schön claimed to have created a molecule-sized one of these semiconductors-- bad Hendrik!
   
#988. Season 18
Friday, September 28, 2001
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
With a catalog of 28 million items including books, CDs & audiobooks, it's the world's largest online shop
   
#989. Season 27
Monday, January 3, 2011
TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST
Jeopardy Round: $400
This implement amazed foreign visitors when it gained acceptance with diners in 16th century Italy
   
#990. Season 17
Friday, January 12, 2001
YES SIR, THAT'S MY SCIENTIST
Jeopardy Round: $500
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield helped develop this medical imaging technology introduced in the 1970s
   
#991. Season 10
Wednesday, September 29, 1993
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
A material with very high electrical resistivity is called this
   
#992. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011
HODGEPODGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2009 Facebook overtook this rival to become the biggest social networking website
   
#993. Season 36
Monday, April 6, 2020
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
The last name of this British mathematician is the "T" in CAPTCHA, a computer security test
   
#994. Season 4
Friday, December 11, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
New dishes made to hold this substance play the theme to "General Hospital"
   
#995. 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
   
#996. Season 7
Wednesday, October 17, 1990
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
To a disgruntled computer operator, "GIGO" means this
   
#997. Season 33
Monday, June 5, 2017
IT STARTS WITH THE "END"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The consumer for whom a computer product is designed
   
#998. Season 6
Tuesday, September 26, 1989
AROUND THE HOUSE
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Now over 60% of U.S. homes can save our show forever using one of these electronic devices
   
#999. Season 24
Monday, May 19, 2008
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Fingerprint ID devices are part of this security technology, from the Greek for "life" & "measure"
   
#1000. 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
   
 
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