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#1. Season 23
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 WHO SAYS Jeopardy Round: $600 Research shows no increased risk of brain cancer from using these, but they do cause traffic accidents |
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#2. 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" |
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#3. Season 12
Monday, January 29, 1996 BUSINESS & INDUSTRY Jeopardy Round: $500 In 1962 he founded Electronic Data Systems after working for IBM for 5 years |
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#4. Season 33
Monday, October 10, 2016 THAT'S A FACT Jeopardy Round: $1000 In 1642 this Frenchman whose name became a computer language built a machine that could add & subtract |
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#5. Season 33
Thursday, July 13, 2017 WEBBY AWARD WINNERS Jeopardy Round: $400 Breakout of the Year, 2006: this pioneering social networking site that later got flattened by Facebook |
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#6. Season 28
Thursday, January 12, 2012 WORLD POTPOURRI Jeopardy Round: $600 I'm enjoying the Street View feature of this service introduced in 2005--hey, who parked in my driveway? |
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#7. Season 27
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $600 In 2009 this company gave away 500 Fusion razors a day for a month |
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#8. Season 38
Thursday, December 23, 2021 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 The custom-molded ITC or "in-the-canal" is a type of this, helpful for many older adults |
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#9. Season 25
Thursday, July 23, 2009 BUSINESS AS USUAL Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 So as not to be gobbled up by Microsoft, Yahoo! offered a 20% stake to this company for Myspace |
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#10. Season 13
Tuesday, December 17, 1996 GUINNESS RECORDS Jeopardy Round: $500 This Microsoft co-founder became the youngest U.S. billionaire at age 31 |
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#11. Season 31
Friday, December 26, 2014 MILK & HONEY Jeopardy Round: $200 In 1993 an ad firm hired by the California Milk Processor Board came up with this slogan |
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#12. Season 41
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 WOULD HAVE BROKEN THE INTERNET Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Aurore Dupin's Instagram story confirming rumors she was this celebrated writer of "Indiana" |
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#13. Season 16
Thursday, October 14, 1999 YOU OUGHTA KNOW Jeopardy Round: $100 Common in Roman architecture, this term for a row of arches now often means a place to play video games |
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#14. Season 37
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 MATH IN THE WORLD Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Intersectional analysis is a way to evaluate how multiple variables influence the accuracy of this surveillance technology I have shown to struggle on darker faces |
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#15. Season 34
Thursday, November 16, 2017 INVENTIONS Final Jeopardy When Time Magazine named it Invention of the Year in 2007, it was described as too slow, too big, pretty & touchy-feely |
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#16. 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 |
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#17. Season 24
Friday, January 4, 2008 THE VATICAN ONLINE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 You'll learn that you may not use cell phones or felt-tip pens when researching in the Secret these |
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#18. Season 27
Monday, June 20, 2011 SELLING "B" Jeopardy Round: $800 This shaver brand claims its pulsonic technology breaks the 10,000-micro-vibrations-per-minute barrier |
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#19. Season 33
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $600 This techno-thriller novelist died in 2013 but with the SHD agents in "The Division", he lives on |
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#20. Season 18
Monday, October 8, 2001 INTERNET LINGO Jeopardy Round: $400 The abbreviation "BBFBBM" means "Body by Fisher, brains by" this toymaker |
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#21. 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" |
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#22. 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 |
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#23. Season 28
Friday, June 29, 2012 HEATED WORDS Jeopardy Round: $400 In computer slang, it's an act of angry criticism; in love, it describes an old sweetheart |
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#24. Season 34
Monday, May 7, 2018 ACA"D"MIA Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Form of education focused on methods to help students not on site but attending via the internet or other means |
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#25. Season 23
Friday, July 20, 2007 NOW WE'RE IN BUSINESS! Double Jeopardy Round: $800 In July 2004 this tech company said it would give back $75 billion to its shareholders |
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#26. Season 15
Wednesday, October 14, 1998 GUYS NAMED GARY Jeopardy Round: $500 A Russian chess grandmaster, this man lost to a computer in 1997 |
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#27. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024 18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000 While a professor of astronomy at Uppsala University, he came up with his famous temperature scale |
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#28. Season 14
Wednesday, July 8, 1998 DON'T DO THIS Jeopardy Round: $200 In February 1998 the Pentagon said its computers had been invaded by these, the title of a 1995 film |
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#29. Season 32
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 THE I.T. GUY Jeopardy Round: $600 He took the class at Princeton on C.A., short for this, the design of a computing system |
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#30. Season 24
Thursday, April 3, 2008 WHO MIGHT HAVE SAID IT? Jeopardy Round: $200 The leading man on "24": "I can't believe this cell phone works in this lead-lined bunker. Who's our carrier?" |
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#31. Season 28
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 ALSO A GAME Jeopardy Round: $1000 A command indicating how an HTML file is to be formatted |
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#32. 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?" |
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#33. Season 10
Thursday, September 23, 1993 THE GRAPHIC ARTS Jeopardy Round: $400 This process of changing the details on a photograph can now be done on a computer |
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#34. Season 31
Friday, May 1, 2015 TECHNOLOGY & STUFF Jeopardy Round: $1000 In 1994 Marc Andreessen offered this web browser based on Mosaic commercially to the world |
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#35. Season 24
Monday, September 24, 2007 SCIENCE GRAB BAG Jeopardy Round: $600 A material called URhGe can be manipulated into being this, lacking electrical resistance |
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#36. Season 41
Monday, May 26, 2025 GUYS NAMED RICHARD Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Video game superstar Richard Tyler Blevins is known to his millions of streaming followers by this handle |
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#37. Season 15
Monday, January 25, 1999 IN A NUTSHELL Jeopardy Round: $400 The Mauna Loa Corporation is the world's leading grower, processor & marketer of these nuts |
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#38. Season 32
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 I KINGS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Also known as Bluetooth, this Danish king converted to Christianity in 960 & made it the official religion |
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#39. Season 37
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 DOCUMENTARIES Double Jeopardy Round: $800 "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" is a comical documentary about 2 rivals trying to outdo each other at this video game |
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#40. Season 33
Thursday, February 23, 2017 QUITE A VOCABULARY Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Business prof Clayton Christensen put it before "technology" as a buzzword for an innovation that shakes things up |
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#41. Season 19
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1903 Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Willem Einthoven invented the "string galvanometer" to measure electrical charges here -- be still, mine |
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#42. Season 24
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $800 Setting 5 on the 1935 model of this Sunbeam appliance was "Whipping Potatoes"; setting 6 was "Cream" |
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#43. Season 23
Friday, April 13, 2007 THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Joey Harrington eats & breathes football; we bet this on his cell phone is the NFL films music |
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#44. 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 |
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#45. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $400 Introduced in 1982, this sequel had as big an appetite as her male predecessor |
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#46. Season 29
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 COMPUTING Jeopardy Round: $600 I'm sorry, contestants, it was the name of the murderous computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey" |
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#47. 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 |
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#48. Season 35
Monday, October 15, 2018 DRIVING Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Cruising around Phoenix--that driver must be awfully short--oh, it's Waymo, Google's version of these |
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#49. Season 30
Thursday, October 17, 2013 TRADEMARKS Final Jeopardy Facebook & TiVo have both claimed trademarks for an icon representing this gesture |
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#50. Season 24
Monday, May 19, 2008 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $600 On Feb. 29, 2008 Blu-Ray emerged as the new video disc choice as this Japanese co. abandoned its HD-DVD format |
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#51. Season 5
Monday, April 3, 1989 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $500 Lead in crystal glass not only makes it sturdier, it causes the glass to do this better |
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#52. Season 35
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 TAKING STOCK Jeopardy Round: $800 In 1971 this new U.S. stock exchange introduced the era of all-electronic trading |
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#53. Season 28
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 OUR NEW COMPUTER OVERLORDS Jeopardy Round: $600 In 1998 Deep Crack, designed for this science from the Greek for "hidden writing", broke the standard U.S. data cipher |
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#54. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES Jeopardy Round: $400 Education and Work: Secretary of State, Minister to U.K.; Relationship Status: Single |
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#55. 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 |
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#56. Season 35
Thursday, July 4, 2019 APPLE Jeopardy Round: $1000 Ironically, the name of this iPhone video chat app means a chance to be in the same room |
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#57. 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" |
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#58. 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 |
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#59. Season 36
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 PHENOMENA Double Jeopardy Round: $800 This "super" phenomenon, a lack of electrical resistance, occurs in certain materials below about -425 degrees F. |
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#60. Season 5
Thursday, May 18, 1989 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Also called an electronic oven, it uses high-frequency electromagnetic waves to heat food |
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#61. 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 |
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#62. Season 36
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 SCIENCE Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 F can stand for this unit of electrical capacitance |
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#63. Season 40
Friday, March 22, 2024 TURNING 60 IN 2024 Jeopardy Round: $400 This computer language whose full name tells you it's for beginners was introduced at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964 |
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#64. Season 17
Thursday, November 30, 2000 DALLAS Jeopardy Round: $500 TXN on the New York Stock Exchange, this Dallas electronics firm employs over 38,000 people worldwide |
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#65. Season 23
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $800 This file that gathers users' Internet info & sends it back to its maker sounds like a yummy baked treat |
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#66. Season 40
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 THE CALIFORNIANS Jeopardy Round: $200 In 2010, the Cali Hall of Fame inducted this Facebook dude, even though he's totally from New York, for reals |
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#67. Season 38
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Billed as the "most influential tech event in the world", this event featuring gizmos & gadgets has been held in Las Vegas since 1978 |
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#68. Season 24
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 NERDVANA Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Music on the iPhone should only be installed from this company's iTunes |
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#69. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004 COMPUTER JARGON Double Jeopardy Round: $800 "Treeware" is this; it comes with software programs |
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#70. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 The "D" in radar stands for this |
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#71. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002 DURING THE '90s Jeopardy Round: $400 A top selling 1990s computer game was this one developed by the Miller brothers, set on a puzzling island |
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#72. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 IT HAPPENED IN 2005 Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000 This web-based mapping service introduced in 2005 gives a satellite view of Paris, Tokyo or your own block |
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#73. Season 31
Thursday, June 11, 2015 WAY BACK IN 2012 Jeopardy Round: $400 This Internet giant's IPO raised $16 billion in one day in May |
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#74. 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 |
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#75. 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 |
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#76. Season 32
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 THE I.T. GUY Jeopardy Round: $800 This word means "final", but when the I.T. guy uses it, he means a device that communicates with a computer |
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#77. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024 MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH Jeopardy Round: $1000 "Cabbie weekly salary"; "Charles Palantine campaign woman name" |
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#78. 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 |
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#79. Season 19
Friday, April 11, 2003 A "SHORT" CATEGORY Jeopardy Round: $800 A failure in an electrical path |
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#80. 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 |
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#81. 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 |
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#82. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004 DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER? Jeopardy Round: $800 Lotus & Excel are 2 popular versions of this type of computer program that puts data in rows & columns |
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#83. 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 |
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#84. Season 37
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 WORD "UP" Jeopardy Round: $200 To transfer information from your computer to another |
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#85. Season 38
Friday, January 21, 2022 SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 This element gave us the "tan" in coltan, a metal essential in electronics but also classified as a conflict mineral |
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#86. Season 32
Thursday, March 31, 2016 NATIONAL STATUARY HALL Jeopardy Round: $200 Representing Florida is inventor John Gorrie, who pioneered this technology vital to life there in the summer |
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#87. Season 34
Monday, December 18, 2017 CAMERAS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 In 2008 this brand introduced a PoGo camera that partnered with Zink, zero ink printing technology |
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#88. 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 |
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#89. Season 32
Thursday, May 12, 2016 WEIGHTS & MEASURES Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,700 In computerese, a nybble is defined as a half of one of these |
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#90. Season 19
Monday, January 6, 2003 SHE'S IN CHARGE Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 It computes that Carly Fiorin is chairman & C.E.O. of this computer company abbreviated H.P. |
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#91. Season 29
Thursday, November 29, 2012 RANDOMONIUM Jeopardy Round: $600 "Lomo-fi" & "1977" are filters to customize photos on this app now owned by Facebook |
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#92. Season 30
Thursday, October 17, 2013 WEIGHTS & MEASURES Jeopardy Round: $1000 This measure of computer speed equals 1 trillion (with a "T") floating-point operations per second |
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#93. Season 29
Monday, December 10, 2012 AWARDS & HONORS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, it's the leading award for Internet sites |
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#94. Season 41
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 GLOBAL MUSIC Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Also in the title of a "Legend of Zelda" video game, this type of instrument means "little goose" in Italian |
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#95. Season 19
Monday, December 9, 2002 BRAND NAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Randy Jones' BBQ at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium sells a half-pound hot dog named for this baseball equipment brand |
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#96. 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 |
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#97. Season 26
Thursday, November 5, 2009 LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Based on a video game franchise, this 2009 action fest is subtitled "The Legend of Chun-Li" |
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#98. Season 37
Monday, January 11, 2021 KNIGHTS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 He caught us in the web (the World Wide Web, that is) & snagged a knighthood in 2004 |
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#99. Season 9
Tuesday, May 4, 1993 COMPUTERS Jeopardy Round: $300 The term "boot" came from this word, something the computer would "pull itself up by" when started |
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#100. Season 37
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 OXYMORONS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This computer-generated simulation is abbreviated VR |
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#101. Season 25
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 YOU "GO" FIRST Jeopardy Round: $600 A 1990s computer text retrieval protocol shared its name with this rodent |
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#102. Season 35
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 SHOPPING AT THE MALL Jeopardy Round: $400 Let's go to the Apple Store; I want to get a new Pro one of these tablets with a 12.9" screen |
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#103. Season 13
Friday, November 22, 1996 BUSINESS & INDUSTRY Jeopardy Round: $300 In 1993 Louis V. Gerstner became the first outsider to head this computer giant |
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#104. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME Jeopardy Round: $1000 Choose a restaurant, then 1 of the 2 players--Wallace Shawn or the title guy; max your discussion points as you eat |
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#105. Season 19
Friday, July 11, 2003 B____G Jeopardy Round: $200 It's an error in a computer program |
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#106. 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 |
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#107. Season 7
Friday, February 22, 1991 KID STUFF Jeopardy Round: $400 "Moonwalker" is the video game in which this rock legend outdances bad guys |
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#108. Season 23
Friday, October 20, 2006 10-LETTER WORDS Jeopardy Round: $400 The Internet or the online world |
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#109. 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 |
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#110. Season 37
Friday, October 16, 2020 LV Jeopardy Round: $1000 Its Internet country code is .lv |
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#111. 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 |
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#112. Season 16
Friday, November 5, 1999 MODERN TECHNOLOGY Final Jeopardy Common name given Douglas Engelbart's device, an "X-Y position indicator for a display system" |
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#113. Season 23
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 ONLINE WORDS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This word, Hawaiian for "quick", is technology that allows for open access to add & change a page |
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#114. Season 39
Friday, June 23, 2023 KIDS OF THE '70s, REJOICE! Jeopardy Round: $800 In '72, this tennis-like Atari video game debuted & kids went crazy--such cool graphics! They'll never get better than that! |
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#115. 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 |
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#116. Season 25
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 NEWER WORDS & PHRASES Jeopardy Round: $600 The HS in HSN, it's the browsing & buying of goods from cable TV or the Internet |
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#117. Season 30
Thursday, September 26, 2013 OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 2010: Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook" |
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#118. Season 23
Thursday, June 7, 2007 PUBLISHING Jeopardy Round: $1000 "Electronic Mission Aircraft" & "Fighting Ships" are put out by this publisher with a feminine-sounding name |
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#119. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 It's the basic geographic unit of wireless phone service |
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#120. Season 26
Thursday, July 8, 2010 VIDEO GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 "Attack of the Saiyans" is an installment for the Z series of this Nintendo "ball" game |
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#121. Season 29
Thursday, May 16, 2013 TECH STUFF Jeopardy Round: $1000 It's a big smartphone, it's a small iPad, it's this 7-letter hybrid word |
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#122. 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) |
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#123. 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" |
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#124. Season 36
Thursday, January 9, 2020 AMERICAN "CITY" Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 It's home to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology |
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#125. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021 ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $800 On the road, the icon here means this 4-letter staple of modern life is available |
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#126. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $600 In 1959 the USPS tried sending mail via a cruise type of this--it never took off as a delivery method |
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#127. Season 39
Friday, December 23, 2022 PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES Jeopardy Round: $400 "IOW" is Internet shorthand for this, a different way to say something |
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#128. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011 VIDEO GAME HISTORY Jeopardy Round: $800 OK chums, Deathwing the Dragon has caused a "cataclysm" on Azeroth in a 2010 expansion of this massive game |
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#129. 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 |
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#130. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 This computer has "starred" in 2 films, one in 1968 & its sequel in 1984 |
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#131. 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 |
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#132. Season 34
Monday, March 12, 2018 "M"TERTAINMENT Jeopardy Round: $400 You can play with blocks in creative mode or fight monsters in survival mode in this video game |
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#133. Season 23
Wednesday, October 4, 2006 PLAY THIS Jeopardy Round: $200 This "avian" skateboarding legend has produced several high-flying video games for Activision |
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#134. Season 41
Tuesday, December 24, 2024 JUST PEACHY Jeopardy Round: $400 This video game character is the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom |
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#135. Season 18
Friday, March 29, 2002 MACHINES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 This large central computer may function as a server for many users |
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#136. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996 ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $500 Broadway composer whose "web" site name is "reallyuseful" |
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#137. Season 33
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 IT'S A TOY HALL-ER Jeopardy Round: $1000 This video game company's 2600 invaded the space of the Hall in 2007, joysticks & all |
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#138. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 INTERNET BUSINESSES Jeopardy Round: $800 This search engine began as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" |
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#139. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018 "ADD"/"DROP" Jeopardy Round: $800 This phrase means you can use your mouse to slide the item across the computer screen |
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#140. Season 27
Monday, November 15, 2010 ONLINE SHOPPING Double Jeopardy Round: $400 It traces its roots to 1995 & Pierre Omidyar, a computer programer who wrote the code for an auction website |
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#141. Season 18
Wednesday, January 16, 2002 FULL HOUSE Jeopardy Round: $200 The Consumer Electronics Association defines these as having screens 27 inches or larger |
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#142. Season 31
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 SAME-LETTER SWAP Jeopardy Round: $800 Servers crash as "Google" loses its G's & becomes this artistic endeavor of the idle |
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#143. Season 19
Wednesday, October 23, 2002 "R"RRRRRRRRR Jeopardy Round: $200 Sometimes it's necessary to do this, meaning to reload your computer's operating system |
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#144. Season 24
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 ON "ICE" Jeopardy Round: $1000 This woman who once canoodled with Gary Hart has since become a leading Internet safety expert & advocate |
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#145. Season 32
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 LIKE A BOSS Jeopardy Round: $1000 In 2015 this ex-Microsoft man & L.A. Clippers owner was the richest sports team owner in the U.S., with $21.6 billion |
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#146. Season 11
Thursday, November 10, 1994 COOKING Double Jeopardy Round: $200 If you have leftover pickles, put them in the food processor & make this hot dog topping |
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#147. Season 20
Thursday, December 11, 2003 I-I-I-I Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 In this early '90s video game by Sid Meier, you built "an empire to stand the test of time" |
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#148. Season 19
Friday, November 15, 2002 NEW VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $600 In the game based on this TV series you take on the roles of detective & prosecutor |
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#149. Season 23
Thursday, May 10, 2007 POP CULTURE Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 This quartet became Internet darlings with the treadmill choreography of its video "Here It Goes Again" |
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#150. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011 COMPUTER GAMES Jeopardy Round: $1000 The latest "Fallout" game takes place in this city after your character is left to die in a Mojave grave |
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#151. Season 31
Friday, March 27, 2015 REMEMBER 2014? Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000 The Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant to search these, now "a pervasive and insistent part of daily life" |
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#152. Season 21
Thursday, June 9, 2005 SPACE TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 The last 2 Salyut stations had a port on each end for this spacecraft-linking activity |
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#153. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002 COMPUTER "E"s Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000 This brand name expressed a company's desire to produce "descendants" of its EP, electric printer |
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#154. Season 34
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 TRUST US! Jeopardy Round: $800 Michael Fassbender takes the ultimate trust fall--a leap of faith--in this "killer" 2016 film based on a video game |
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#155. 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" |
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#156. Season 11
Wednesday, May 24, 1995 BLACK AMERICA Double Jeopardy Round: $200 With some electronic magic, she was able to record "Unforgettable" as a duet with her late father |
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#157. Season 37
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 TIME FOR AN APP Jeopardy Round: $800 The "world's largest professional network", it's like Facebook but for finding jobs & making business connections |
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#158. Season 35
Thursday, June 6, 2019 SPELL IT OR SAY IT? Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 DOS is a programming language; DoS. is short for "denial of" this & is a computer attack |
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#159. 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 |
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#160. Season 17
Friday, June 29, 2001 GEE "Q" Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Its electrical charge can be equal to one-third of an electron |
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#161. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000 COMPUTER CLASSES Jeopardy Round: $200 SYSADMIN, one who maintains a computer network, is short for this |
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#162. 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 |
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#163. 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 |
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#164. Season 41
Friday, July 25, 2025 FREAKIER FRIDAYS Jeopardy Round: $200 (Lindsay Lohan presents the clue.) On Friday, June 29, 2007, a newspaper announced "fire, the wheel and now" this item released that day--it retailed around $499 for a model with a whopping four gigabytes of storage |
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#165. 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! |
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#166. Season 18
Friday, January 25, 2002 ALLEN TOWN Jeopardy Round: $800 With Bill Gates, he founded Microsoft |
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#167. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES Jeopardy Round: $600 Religious Views: Quaker; Groups: Navy Vets; Favorite Music: No (expletive deleted) hippie stuff! |
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#168. Season 32
Monday, May 23, 2016 THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO "HM" Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 A computer is really good at executing this, defined as a series of steps to reach a goal |
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#169. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $100 Advertisers have discovered they can send ads instantaneously with this telephone technology |
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#170. Season 37
Thursday, October 29, 2020 BLOCKBUSTERS Jeopardy Round: $800 The premise of this 2017 film: 4 teens are sucked into a magical video game where they meet Nick Jonas |
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#171. 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 |
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#172. 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 |
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#173. 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 |
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#174. Season 34
Friday, November 3, 2017 ALPHABET SOUP WHEN YOU'RE SICK Jeopardy Round: $200 EMR is short for this type of medical record accessed digitally |
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#175. Season 29
Friday, October 19, 2012 THE WORLDWIDE WORLD WIDE WEB Double Jeopardy Round: $400 .ec represents this country; one of its neighbors has .pe |
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#176. Season 28
Friday, December 16, 2011 THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $200 A new rule in this Yahoo sports fantasy game is the Mulligan, which allows you to drop your worst weekly score |
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#177. Season 18
Friday, November 9, 2001 VIDEO GAME WORLD Jeopardy Round: $200 The game for this 2001 Disney under-the-sea animated feature has a multiplayer online mode |
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#178. Season 25
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 WHAT A KNOCKOUT! Jeopardy Round: $1000 Hail "The Queen", indeed! In 2008 this 63-year-old actress was an Internet sensation with bikini pics of her in Italy |
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#179. Season 27
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 BEER GOOGLES Jeopardy Round: $200 beeradvocate.com offers a history of this autumn celebration, begun in 1810 |
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#180. Season 34
Monday, May 14, 2018 "ED"UCATION Double Jeopardy Round: $800 In 1880, while experimenting with lamp filaments, he observed the electrical "Effect" now named for him |
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#181. Season 40
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 YES, I'VE ETON Double Jeopardy Round: $800 As a student at Eton, he did not have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne |
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#182. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007 COMPUTER MILESTONES Double Jeopardy Round: $800 1988: Crafted by Robert Morris, the first known one of these viruses wriggles into computers |
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#183. Season 26
Monday, November 9, 2009 VIDEO GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 "Hot Date" & "Teen Style Stuff" are part of this series in which you create characters & manage their lives |
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#184. Season 38
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 TRIPLE RHYME TIME Double Jeopardy Round: $400 A fashionable Athenian computer wonk |
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#185. 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 |
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#186. Season 20
Tuesday, November 4, 2003 HY-ER EDUCATION Jeopardy Round: $600 Web designers know it's the "HT" in HTTP & HTML |
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#187. 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 |
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#188. 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 |
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#189. Season 41
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 WOULD HAVE BROKEN THE INTERNET Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Leaked footage from Jane Seymour & Henry VIII's gender reveal party for this royal baby: it was a boy! |
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#190. Season 17
Friday, February 2, 2001 EARTH SCIENCE Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $800 This electrically charged layer of the atmosphere makes long-distance radio communication possible |
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#191. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010 COMPUTER MILESTONES Double Jeopardy Round: $400 1996: the first successful PDA takes off--this alliterative one |
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#192. 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 |
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#193. Season 11
Monday, May 8, 1995 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $100 This company brings you Starfox, Donkey Kong Country & Wario Land |
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#194. Season 22
Friday, December 9, 2005 "EN" THE BEGINNING Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Google, Looksmart & Ask Jeeves are search ones |
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#195. Season 29
Monday, February 11, 2013 ON THE DOWNLOAD Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 One mouthwatering iPhone app was this food-cutting game featuring the wise sensei |
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#196. Season 36
Friday, June 12, 2020 TROOP-POURRI Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 A C.O.S., short for this operations specialist, protects the army's computer networks from getting hacked |
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#197. Season 25
Monday, January 19, 2009 SCIENCE FACT Double Jeopardy Round: $400 As seen on the Internet, dropping Mentos into diet soda releases this gas out of suspension, creating a geyser |
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#198. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 VIDEO GAME TIMELINE Jeopardy Round: $400 1995: Sony releases PlayStation, which loads games from these instead of cartridges |
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#199. Season 31
Monday, March 23, 2015 GET THE "URGE" Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Your computer probably has a protector to guard against one of these |
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#200. Season 20
Friday, February 20, 2004 GRAB BAG Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 This company's name is short of Integrated Electronics |
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#201. Season 25
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 VIDEO GAMING Jeopardy Round: $400 Accessories for this Nintendo game system include boxing gloves, a dancing mat & a balance board |
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#202. 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 |
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#203. 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 |
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#204. Season 16
Monday, June 12, 2000 5-LETTER WORDS Jeopardy Round: $100 On the internet www.dol.gov gets you the Department of this |
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#205. Season 26
Friday, February 12, 2010 ONE B & 2 D's Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000 It's the transmission capacity of an electronic communications device |
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#206. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022 OLD TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Ford began offering this "numeric" tape deck in 1966 models; not so much now |
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#207. Season 33
Thursday, July 27, 2017 TRY COLOR Jeopardy Round: $1000 The iPhone 7 comes in a metallic pink with this 2-word name, also popular for jewelry |
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#208. 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" |
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#209. Season 21
Friday, March 25, 2005 PUT OUT THE GOOD SILVER Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Light changes colorless silver ions into black silver atoms, leading to this technology in the 1830s |
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#210. Season 34
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 POTPOURRI Jeopardy Round: $200 This Microsoft program was originally called Presenter |
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#211. Season 35
Monday, November 19, 2018 NOT-SO-ANCIENT HISTORY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 The Y2K bug scared the world in the 1990s because many feared computers would read the year 2000 as this year |
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#212. Season 30
Monday, April 7, 2014 "COM" TO ME Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Able to coexist, as with a spouse or another electronic device |
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#213. Season 34
Monday, April 16, 2018 COMPUTER STUFF Jeopardy Round: $1000 My gamer roommate loves his rig from this "extraterrestrial" company, a division of Dell |
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#214. 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 |
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#215. 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 |
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#216. Season 28
Monday, October 3, 2011 FOR YOUR REFERENCE Jeopardy Round: $1000 An Internet publisher of great works is named for this Melville scrivener & of course has his tale online |
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#217. Season 31
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 ETIQUETTE Jeopardy Round: $800 When you're at the dinner table, turn off this Apple device introduced in April 2010, even if you're winning at Fruit Ninja |
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#218. Season 41
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 MODERN ABBREVIATIONS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Disrupting a computer site by overwhelming it with a flood of fake traffic is a DDOS, one of these attacks |
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#219. Season 7
Friday, January 25, 1991 MAGAZINES Jeopardy Round: $100 Byte magazine covers new trends & technology related to the use of these |
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#220. Season 16
Thursday, September 9, 1999 VIDEO GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $400 In "The Vacation Mystery", Mattel has this dollface detective team up with Ken & Becky |
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#221. Season 15
Thursday, January 21, 1999 ONLINE LINGO Jeopardy Round: $400 When you find those wacky 1970s photos of me online, it's time to do this, meaning transfer them to your computer |
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#222. 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 |
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#223. Season 4
Friday, June 10, 1988 PHYSICS Jeopardy Round: $500 In electronics, it's the reciprocal of resistivity |
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#224. 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" |
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#225. Season 27
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 "SUPER" Jeopardy Round: $200 In this 1986 video game, Luigi & his sibling are trying to rescue Princess Toadstool |
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#226. 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 |
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#227. Season SUPERJEOPARDY
Saturday, August 25, 1990 PHYSICAL SCIENCE Double Jeopardy Round: 2000 Any process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this |
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#228. Season 32
Thursday, March 10, 2016 I SING Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 2011 Google searches for this "colorful" singer jumped more than 10,000%; many searches likely came on Fridays |
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#229. Season 39
Thursday, March 2, 2023 ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 A misfit computer hacker teams up with a reporter in Sweden in this 2005 novel, the first in a series |
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#230. Season 37
Friday, October 9, 2020 OXFORD ALUMNI Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Seriously, this actor who gets big laughs as "Mr. Bean" earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Oxford |
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#231. Season 7
Wednesday, October 17, 1990 ABBREV. Double Jeopardy Round: $600 To a disgruntled computer operator, "GIGO" means this |
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#232. Season 29
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 DIRECTOR Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 1999 Sam Nunn joined the board of this computer company whose roots trace back to the University of Texas in 1984 |
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#233. Season 27
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $600 eBay acquired this purchasing service company in 2002 |
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#234. 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 |
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#235. Season 35
Friday, July 19, 2019 COMPUTER "D"s Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Folder is a synonym for one of these inside a computer's internal filing system |
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#236. Season 36
Monday, November 18, 2019 U.S. CITIES Final Jeopardy Celebrating electricity & technology, an exposition in this U.S. "City of Light" in 1901 was overshadowed by another major event |
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#237. Season 15
Thursday, December 24, 1998 STORES WITHOUT WALLS Jeopardy Round: $500 This computer company founded by a man named Michael does $6 million of business online a day |
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#238. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010 COMPUTER MILESTONES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 1982: this company's 64 computer is introduced, soon becoming the best-selling model of all time |
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#239. Season 13
Wednesday, June 11, 1997 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $200 They clean floors, perform surgery & will go to Mars before people do |
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#240. Season 14
Tuesday, March 10, 1998 THE BUSINESS WORLD Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 Michael Dell made his fortune by eliminating the middleman & selling these directly to customers |
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#241. 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 |
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#242. Season 3
Wednesday, February 4, 1987 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $300 Type of acid in your car battery |
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#243. Season 39
Thursday, May 11, 2023 ASIAN GEOGRAPHY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 The city of Daejeon is known as "South Korea's" this high-tech area near San Francisco |
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#244. Season 32
Monday, November 30, 2015 PHOTOGRAPHY Jeopardy Round: $1000 Using his iPhone, Robert Clark created a visual diary of the West Bank for a 2013 issue of this magazine |
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#245. 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 |
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#246. Season 39
Thursday, July 27, 2023 THE BAR MITZVAH BOY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This Facebook founder had a "Star Wars" theme at Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown, New York |
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#247. Season 23
Friday, March 9, 2007 ON THE "TELE" Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 I have to work at a studio, so I can't be this type of worker linked electronically to his office from his home |
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#248. Season 21
Thursday, February 10, 2005 FROM D TO SHINING D Jeopardy Round: $600 In 2003 Microsoft paid one of these to stockholders for the first time |
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#249. Season 15
Thursday, October 29, 1998 THE LAST MAN Jeopardy Round: $200 In "Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology" is this "Cosmos" astronomer |
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#250. Season 36
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 4-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" Jeopardy Round: $1000 This computer command at Control-Z or Command-Z can save you from awful mistakes |
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#251. 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 |
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#252. Season 26
Monday, July 26, 2010 THE COLDEST PROFESSION Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Cryogenics is used to create greatly reduced electrical resistance in many materials, a phenomenon called this |
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#253. Season 41
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 TAKE ME TO YOUR COMPANY LEADER Jeopardy Round: $800 Ruth Porat is President & Chief Investment Officer for this conglomerate & holding company & you can Google that |
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#254. Season 4
Thursday, May 26, 1988 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $600 This easy language was devised in 1965 at Dartmouth College |
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#255. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 ALSO AN NFL TEAM Jeopardy Round: $200 Weakening cell phone batteries need them |
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#256. Season 39
Friday, October 28, 2022 THE STRONGEST LINK Jeopardy Round: $1000 In the "Skyward Sword" edition of this video game, Link searches for the title character after she's knocked out of the sky |
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#257. 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 |
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#258. Season 38
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Joseph-Marie Jacquard aided the textile industry by using punch cards to automate these machines |
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#259. Season 8
Monday, March 9, 1992 EARTH SCIENCE Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,500 These 2 belts above the earth consist of electrically charged particles |
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#260. Season 25
Friday, February 6, 2009 HIDING ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $400 Typing "PBJ" in the JetBlue search box brought up Brian the dog dancing in a banana suit from this FOX show |
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#261. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $100 In July 1991 IBM & this rival announced a technology alliance |
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#262. Season 38
Monday, March 21, 2022 GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT Double Jeopardy Round: $400 For a while, Hasbro changed this profession of Plum in the game Clue to archaeologist, then to video game designer |
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#263. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $300 After hearing this invention of his work, Edison said, "I was never so taken aback in my life" |
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#264. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 A basic electronic calculator does multiplication by translating it into a series of this simpler operation |
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#265. 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 |
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#266. 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 |
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#267. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 The mimeograph was invented by this man around 1876 |
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#268. Season 32
Friday, January 22, 2016 PRESIDENTS 101 Jeopardy Round: $800 The first to hold an Internet chat with the public |
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#269. Season 38
Thursday, November 25, 2021 IN THE ROOM Jeopardy Round: $600 A hybrid operating room has the table plus imaging technology like the CT & MRI types of these |
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#270. Season 36
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL Jeopardy Round: $800 The foundation's kinda shaky... is a 180' tower in this Italian city a good idea? Heck, it's 1173, we have the technology! |
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#271. Season 32
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 ARE YOU GAME? Jeopardy Round: $400 Steal, shoot, drive recklessly---Vice is nice in this video game series abbreviated "GTA" |
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#272. Season 36
Monday, June 8, 2020 FOR GOOD MEASURE Jeopardy Round: $600 1 Mickey, or about 0.1 millimeter, is defined as the smallest detectable movement of one of these computer devices |
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#273. 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 |
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#274. Season 13
Thursday, May 15, 1997 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FIRSTS Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 The father of modern chemistry, this Frenchman published the first modern chemistry textbook in 1789 |
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#275. 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 |
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#276. Season 13
Monday, December 9, 1996 POTPOURRI Double Jeopardy Round: $200 Willem Einthoven devised a way to measure & record its electrical current, thus producing the EKG |
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#277. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 THE FACEBOOK OF JOB Double Jeopardy Round: $800 TBT: Job back in the day with 3,000 of these humped creatures; after his troubles, the Lord blessed him with 6,000 |
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#278. 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" |
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#279. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024 18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 In the 1780s it was shown that inflammable air & dephlogisticated air, now known as these 2 elements, make up water |
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#280. Season 27
Monday, January 3, 2011 TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST Jeopardy Round: $600 Originating in Asia around 200 B.C., this saddle attachment increased the military value of horses |
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#281. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009 COMPUTER ABBREV. Jeopardy Round: $800 "DOS" stands for these 3 words |
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#282. Season 38
Friday, December 10, 2021 BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Georgia's Emory University was one of the locations for this 2016 movie about NASA's female "human computers" |
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#283. Season 5
Tuesday, January 17, 1989 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $100 In the '60s most U.S. beverage cans were made of steel; now most are made of this |
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#284. Season 36
Thursday, October 31, 2019 BET IT "ALL"! Jeopardy Round: $400 To remove previously activated software from a computer |
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#285. Season 41
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 NEW TO THEOED Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 It denotes a computer program for which the original code has been made freely available to others |
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#286. Season 25
Friday, May 8, 2009 NAME THE DECADE Double Jeopardy Round: $400 The World Wide Web gets its first page |
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#287. 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 |
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#288. 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 |
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#289. Season 25
Monday, May 11, 2009 TECH TALK Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 1971 Intel introduced these integrated circuits that perform all the functions of a CPU |
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#290. Season 17
Tuesday, February 6, 2001 "GOLD"EN NUGGETS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Using his laptop computer, this actor helps save the human race in the 1996 film "Independence Day" |
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#291. Season 32
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 VIDEO GAME VILLAINS Jeopardy Round: $800 A thief of epic proportions, she has a last name like the 8th-most populous U.S. city |
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#292. 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 |
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#293. Season 27
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE Jeopardy Round: $600 The Queen & the British monarchy have pages on this social networking site; you can "like" them but you can't "friend" them |
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#294. Season 22
Monday, March 20, 2006 THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR Final Jeopardy If you'd invested $84 for 4 shares of this company at its March 13, 1986 IPO, you'd have 1,152 shares & $30,124.80 as of Jan. 1, 2006 |
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#295. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $400 Hans Lippershey, who invented this instrument in 1608, called it a "looker" |
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#296. Season GOATTOURNAMENT
Thursday, January 9, 2020 CYBERSECURITY Jeopardy Round: 800 A ransomware attack that encrypted 3,800 City of Atlanta computers demanded 6 of these digital items to unfreeze them |
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#297. Season 33
Thursday, October 27, 2016 WOMEN OF NOTE Jeopardy Round: $800 This actress invented technology that would become part of cell phone security, & it's Hedy, not Hedley |
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#298. Season 34
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 UNPLUGGED Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Bluesnarfing & bluejacking are different ways of using this wireless technology to hack your phone |
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#299. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 INTERNET SLANG Jeopardy Round: 800 NPC, short for this, can be a diss for someone you regard as one of the sheeple |
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#300. Season 5
Monday, April 3, 1989 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $300 In September 1988 this Mideast country launched its 1st satellite |
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#301. 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 |
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#302. Season 38
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 EATING & DRINKING PLACES Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 The Internet is on tap at this place with a 1-word name suggesting you can get a cup of joe there as well |
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#303. Season 29
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $1000 CSIRO has developed technology that helps drain this gas, CH4, released by the mining of coal |
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#304. Season 27
Thursday, January 13, 2011 WEBSITES Jeopardy Round: $600 You can keep up with the "Jeopardy!" clue crew on this social networking site |
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#305. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 INTERNET BUSINESSES Jeopardy Round: $200 Today the largest online retailer in the U.S., when it began in 1995, it sold only books |
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#306. Season 31
Friday, April 10, 2015 BOOKS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE? Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 HAL the computer returns in "____: Odyssey Two" |
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#307. 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 |
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#308. Season 21
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 NOUN TO VERB Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,400 When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online |
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#309. 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 |
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#310. 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 |
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#311. Season 41
Friday, January 31, 2025 "H.R." Jeopardy Round: $400 Despite cell phones & the internet, this is still a popular hobby & can be useful in times of emergency |
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#312. 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 |
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#313. Season 34
Monday, December 18, 2017 ALLITERATION ALL AROUND Jeopardy Round: $1000 The idea that internet service providers should treat everyone's data equally |
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#314. 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 |
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#315. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 INTERNET SLANG Jeopardy Round: $200 A Spanish speaker might text his amigo "ADM" or "ay Dios mio", this in English |
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#316. Season 30
Thursday, January 16, 2014 SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 This antagonist from a 1968 classic got its name from being a computer that's heuristic & algorithmic |
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#317. Season 32
Friday, February 12, 2016 LOL Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 On issues with the Hooli phone on this HBO comedy--"How bad is this?... Is this Windows Vista bad?"; "It's Apple Maps bad" |
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#318. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003 FORMER TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Keuffel & Esser, the dominant maker of these calculating devices, made its last one in 1975 |
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#319. Season 19
Thursday, January 23, 2003 NAMES IN SCIENCE Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This man whose name gave us the electrical current unit called an amp got a bad shock when his father was guillotined |
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#320. Season 34
Monday, April 16, 2018 COMPUTER STUFF Jeopardy Round: $600 It's the adventurous name of the default Mac web browser |
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#321. Season 26
Thursday, November 26, 2009 COLLEGE COLLAGE Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 1931 he established his "Institute" of technology in Chicago & in 1953 it was renamed for him |
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#322. 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 |
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#323. Season 16
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $600 In the electromagnetic spectrum, these rays fall between x-rays & visible light |
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#324. 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 |
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#325. Season 27
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 TASTY MUSICAL ACTS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 This "citrus" electronica band did music for 30 films in the '80s, including "Risky Business" & "Legend" |
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#326. 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 |
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#327. 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 |
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#328. 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 |
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#329. 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 |
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#330. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 COMPUTER GENIUSES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Working in Texas Instruments' semiconductor building, Jack Kilby hit on the idea of this, the IC for short |
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#331. Season 32
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES Jeopardy Round: $1000 In 2004 Morse code added a new character, a combination of the letters A & C, to denote this symbol |
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#332. Season 24
Monday, May 26, 2008 WEIGHTS & MEASURES Jeopardy Round: $600 Computer hard drives are usually measured in GBs, which are these |
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#333. Season 32
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES Jeopardy Round: $200 Dutch lens maker Zacharias Janssen is credited with inventing the compound type of this device around 1590 |
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#334. Season 24
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 THE NEW YORK TIMESTECH BIZ Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,300 The Times cites an estimate that in 2007, its 3rd year, this site used as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000 |
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#335. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $500 Cesium was the first element found by this process using the band of colored light produced by a prism |
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#336. 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" |
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#337. Season JM
Monday, May 6, 2024 VIDEO GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: 800 The classic NES shooter that goes by this name featured a dog known to "fowl"-ly laugh at your misery |
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#338. Season 28
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 "ILE" BE BACK Jeopardy Round: $800 We call it a cell phone, but the chaps in Britain call it this |
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#339. Season 19
Wednesday, May 14, 2003 WHAT IS IT? Jeopardy Round: $400 ENIAC |
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#340. Season 15
Tuesday, June 15, 1999 INTERNET BUSINESS Final Jeopardy A hot stock in 1999, this internet site began as a place to buy & sell Pez dispensers |
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#341. Season 27
Thursday, March 24, 2011 THE GENTLE ART OF RUGBY Jeopardy Round: $200 If the ball is in-goal & you hold it & touch it to the earth, 5 points are scored by what's called this electrical term |
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#342. Season SUPERJEOPARDY
Saturday, August 4, 1990 "X", "Y", "Z" Jeopardy Round: 200 In computer terms it means to erase, in science fiction terms, to hit someone with a ray gun |
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#343. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Computer software is generally divided into applications software & this type |
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#344. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000 PEOPLE IN SPACE FILMS Double Jeopardy Round: $600 Douglas Rain, who performed this role in "2001: A Space Odyssey", never visited the set |
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#345. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $200 The Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia says this tool has largely replaced the axe in forestry |
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#346. Season 37
Friday, September 18, 2020 POTPOURRI Jeopardy Round: $200 In 2010 the Air Force Research Lab built one of the world's fastest computers using more than 1,700 of these Sony game systems |
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#347. Season 31
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 OXFORD DICTIONARIES WORD OF THE YEAR Jeopardy Round: $1000 In 2012 this 3-letter type of computer file of a video sequence was the word |
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#348. Season 3
Thursday, July 16, 1987 WORDS OF THE '80s Jeopardy Round: $500 MIPS is a computer term meaning "millions of" these "per second" |
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#349. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009 COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV. Jeopardy Round: $1000 A regional computer linker: LAN |
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#350. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $200 Count Rumford, who died in 1814, invented the drip version of this |
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#351. Season 16
Thursday, July 13, 2000 HISPANICA Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000 On the Internet, type in www.(this mans name).com & you get the site for rich Colombian coffee |
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#352. Season 39
Friday, June 30, 2023 POP EYE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 A Dungeons & Dragons computer RPG from 1991 is called "Eye of the" this, also the name of a monster watching you there |
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#353. Season 20
Wednesday, February 11, 2004 GENERAL SCIENCE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Check Google on your computer & you'll discover that a googol has this many zeros |
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#354. 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 |
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#355. Season 5
Thursday, October 13, 1988 STAR TREK Jeopardy Round: $300 Act One usually began with Kirk dictating into this special computer file |
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#356. 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 |
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#357. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING Double Jeopardy Round: $800 This virus named for a river in the Congo Basin has up to 90% mortality & there's--hint hint--no vaccine |
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#358. Season 21
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER Double Jeopardy Round: $400 One of the goals in the "Star Wars Galaxies" video game is to become one of these knights |
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#359. Season 20
Friday, April 23, 2004 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 On January 3, 2004 a spacecraft named Spirit successfully landed in Gusev Crater here to search for life |
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#360. Season 29
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 ITALIAN SCIENTISTS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Luigi Galvani figured out the electrical nature of nerve impulses by making this amphibian's legs kick |
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#361. Season 27
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 THE NEW YORK TIMESIN THE 21st CENTURY Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 2011 the Dealbook feature reported on this Wall St. bank's failed plan to let U.S. clients invest early in Facebook |
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#362. Season 20
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 THE U.S. ARMY Jeopardy Round: $800 This corps evolved from flags & torches in the 1850s to advanced electronic communications |
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#363. 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 |
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#364. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015 I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $800 A site called damnyou this function included an unfortunate example where "special" became "suicidal" |
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#365. Season 18
Monday, July 1, 2002 DIACRITICAL MARKS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 It may be found above a Polish Z, or in World Wide Web addresses |
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#366. 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 |
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#367. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 COMPUTING 101 Jeopardy Round: $400 The many versions of Windows are the flagship products of this company |
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#368. 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 |
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#369. 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 |
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#370. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: 400 After launching this text-based app, Mark Zuckerberg took to Twitter & posted the meme of Spider-Men pointing at each other |
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#371. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015 COMPUTER ACTIONS Jeopardy Round: $1000 Releasing someone's personal info on the Internet is this word that can have 1 or 2 "X"s in the middle |
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#372. 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 |
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#373. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010 STATE YOUR BUSINESS Jeopardy Round: $800 Microsoft: They don't own the state... yet |
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#374. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009 COMPUTER ABBREV. Jeopardy Round: $1000 "DSL" is "digital" this "line" |
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#375. Season 30
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 "B" GOOD Double Jeopardy Round: $800 This adjective means having anatomical structures that are enhanced by electronic components |
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#376. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,200 It was a marketplace or public square before it became an online area to post discussions |
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#377. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 This food made from the flint variety is always getting stuck between teeth, & Google has no fix |
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#378. 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" |
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#379. 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 |
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#380. Season 22
Thursday, January 26, 2006 GRADUATE SCHOOL Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000 These 2 institutes of technology are tied atop the latest U.S. News ranking of physics grad schools |
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#381. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014 VIDEO GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Peppermint Palace & Gingerbread Glade are regions in this game from King |
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#382. Season 23
Friday, December 8, 2006 LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 In "2001: A Space Odyssey", this computer is pleasant, logical, calm & deadly! |
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#383. Season 5
Wednesday, December 28, 1988 "DOWN" WORDS Jeopardy Round: $300 Word describing a period when computers can't compute |
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#384. Season 18
Wednesday, February 20, 2002 BEFORE & AFTER Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Kerouac novel in which Sal Paradise has a fit of anger towards another driver & beats him with a cell phone |
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#385. 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 |
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#386. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996 ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $100 www.si.edu doesn't get you into Sports Illustrated, but into this D.C. institution |
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#387. Season 36
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 CURRENT SPORTS NICKNAMES Jeopardy Round: $400 Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli might earn this video game nickname from the way he unclogs defenses |
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#388. Season 29
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 HIS 'DO Jeopardy Round: $400 Hair-wise, Steven Seagal is famous for this, which has its own Facebook page |
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#389. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015 I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $1000 Articles at this site: "14 Animals that Have Swagger for Days" & "Which Harry Potter Character Is Your Drunk Alter Ego?" |
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#390. 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 |
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#391. Season 34
Monday, October 9, 2017 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $400 "The Dog Policeman" is the theme that lets you know it's time for this game--don't croak! |
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#392. Season 27
Thursday, June 23, 2011 "N" THE MIDDLE Jeopardy Round: $200 You might use this electrical appliance to mix your smoothies |
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#393. 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" |
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#394. Season 37
Friday, January 8, 2021 WEARABLE TECH Jeopardy Round: $800 A 2014 BBC review called this alliterative eyewear from a search engine company "promising, sometimes brilliant... but a failure" |
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#395. Season 13
Wednesday, June 11, 1997 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $600 The "Hard-Edge" art movement of the 1960s emerged after the development of these quick-drying paints |
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#396. Season 28
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 COLLEGE "M" Jeopardy Round: $400 "We are" this West Virginia university, home to the Byrd Biotechnology Science Center |
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#397. 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 |
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#398. Season 34
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE Double Jeopardy Round: $400 In 1982 Atari went up an order of magnitude from Centipede to this sequel |
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#399. 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 |
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#400. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $300 Thomas Edison's cylindrical ones were superceded by Emile Berliner's flat variety |
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#401. Season 36
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Referring to a false promise, "The cake is a lie" became a famous meme that sprang from this Valve game |
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#402. Season 19
Tuesday, December 10, 2002 MEMORY TEST Jeopardy Round: $600 Give me an I! It's a surge of electrical power, or a sudden desire |
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#403. Season 21
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 GOOD CONDUCTORS Jeopardy Round: $600 This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals |
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#404. 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 |
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#405. 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 |
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#406. Season 26
Friday, July 16, 2010 A CAPSULE CATEGORY Jeopardy Round: $200 Let's prep one of these--cell phone, credit card, Fritos; that should tell folks in 2110 what our society was like |
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#407. Season 24
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 EYE ON AFRICA Jeopardy Round: $600 This nation has the dubious distinction as the birthplace of the Internet e-mail scams known as 419 Fraud |
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#408. 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 |
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#409. Season 40
Thursday, November 30, 2023 WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED Jeopardy Round: $400 This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & bird eggs |
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#410. 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 |
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#411. Season 39
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 ONOMATOPOEIA Jeopardy Round: $400 It's a test signal sent from a computer to check network speed |
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#412. Season 8
Wednesday, February 5, 1992 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Piece of computer hardware on which you'd be likely to find a daisy wheel |
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#413. 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 |
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#414. Season 29
Monday, October 8, 2012 AVIATION Double Jeopardy Round: $800 The original sperry type of this technology basically kept an airplane going straight; now it can fly patterns |
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#415. Season 34
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 "I" 4 Jeopardy Round: $200 A revered religious object, or a symbol on a computer screen |
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#416. 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" |
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#417. Season 19
Tuesday, May 27, 2003 STOCK HOME Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Microsoft & Starbucks are listed on this exchange that has more companies than the NYSE |
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#418. Season 38
Friday, March 4, 2022 SIGNS & SYMBOLS Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 It's the unit of electrical resistance whose symbol is seen here |
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#419. Season 38
Friday, June 3, 2022 TECHNOLOGY Final Jeopardy Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated |
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#420. Season 28
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 MOVIE QUOTES Jeopardy Round: $200 2010: "Drop the 'the'. Just Facebook, it's cleaner" |
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#421. Season 15
Monday, February 15, 1999 ACRONYM EXCITEMENT! Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 For cybergeeks: MS-DOS |
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#422. Season 28
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2-LETTER RESPONSES Jeopardy Round: $600 This 2-letter Korean company makes a sweet cell phone called the Chocolate Touch |
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#423. Season 18
Tuesday, February 12, 2002 WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS Final Jeopardy Don Hoefler, a reporter for Electronic News, is credited with coining this name for an area south of San Francisco |
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#424. Season 23
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2 WORDS IN ONE Jeopardy Round: $800 "Avionics" flies from these words |
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#425. Season 21
Monday, December 20, 2004 STOCK ANSWERS Jeopardy Round: $800 2-word term for an automatic trading halt during selling frenzies, or for an electrical safety device |
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#426. Season 15
Tuesday, May 11, 1999 WEALTHY Jeopardy Round: $500 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is the biggest individual shareholder in Apple Computer & this amusement park near Paris |
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#427. Season 41
Thursday, March 20, 2025 TV SHOW BY GOOGLE SEARCH Jeopardy Round: $800 "Mandalorian but with Princess Leia as baby Yoda";"Tatooine cave Air BnB";"How do you properly pronounce Ewan McGregor?" |
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#428. Season 38
Monday, December 27, 2021 BUSINESS NAMES Jeopardy Round: $600 Computer chip manufacturer Intel takes its name from a shortening of the words "integrated" these |
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#429. Season 27
Friday, February 25, 2011 TV Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 "Web Redemptions" are a feature of this Internet-based Comedy Central show hosted by comedian Daniel |
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#430. 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 |
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#431. Season 21
Thursday, December 9, 2004 SIGNS & SYMBOLS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 This up-pointing symbol is usually found at the top of the 6 key on a computer keyboard |
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#432. Season 30
Friday, September 27, 2013 THE GOOD Jeopardy Round: $1000 The brainchild of this school's famed media lab, One Laptop Per Child provides cheap computers to kids worldwide |
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#433. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME Jeopardy Round: $600 Like the film, the game is in real time as you take on the Miller gang as marshal, but try to avoid having Grace Kelly leave you |
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#434. 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 |
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#435. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013 COMPUTER TERMS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 To describe how you move objects between icons on a desktop, this word is paired with "drop" |
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#436. Season 5
Wednesday, May 10, 1989 GOVERNMENT & POLITICS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 In '87 buildings of the new U.S. embassy complex in Moscow were found riddled with these |
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#437. Season 21
Monday, March 21, 2005 YOU COULD HURT SOMEONE Jeopardy Round: $800 On a standard computer keyboard it shares a key with the question mark |
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#438. Season 18
Wednesday, January 2, 2002 INVENTORS Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 This partner of Steve Jobs owns Patent 4,136,359 for "Microcomputer for Use with Video Display" |
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#439. Season 31
Friday, July 10, 2015 COLLEGE PEOPLE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 In 1967 philanthropist Leonard Case's Institute of Technology united with this Cleveland school |
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#440. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009 COMPUTER ABBREV. Jeopardy Round: $200 Your I.T. guy knows "I.T." means this |
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#441. Season 25
Friday, May 8, 2009 OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s Jeopardy Round: $1000 Elon Musk is now making rockets & electric cars; before that he co-founded & sold this electronic payment system |
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#442. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: 800 VPN for short, it may use the IPsec protocol suite to tunnel encrypted data across the internet's "series of tubes" |
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#443. Season 40
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 WE PUT IT IN SPACE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Navstar 1 was the first satellite equipped with this technology; it's now in smartphones & dog collars |
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#444. Season 19
Monday, September 30, 2002 I INVENTED THAT Jeopardy Round: $1000 In the '70s, my video game "Tong", in which you pick up olives & drop them into drinks, was eclipsed by his "Pong" |
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#445. Season 41
Friday, June 13, 2025 MOVIE SEQUELS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 John C. Reilly reprised his title voice role in a 2018 sequel as this guy who "Breaks the Internet" |
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#446. Season 32
Thursday, April 7, 2016 "I.M." Jeopardy Round: $1000 .im is the internet domain for the British offshore dependency |
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#447. Season 20
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 COMPUTER "I"s Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Faster than a modem connection, it's a method of transmitting data digitally over phone lines |
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#448. Season 34
Monday, March 19, 2018 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 John Cleese might be delighted to know that the Navy gave its robotic fish prototype this name |
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#449. Season 22
Thursday, April 20, 2006 MICRO Jeopardy Round: $400 With molecules used as beads, IBM researches created the world's smallest one of these counting devices |
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#450. Season 12
Monday, May 13, 1996 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $500 "The 11th Hour" is the sequel to this interactive classic |
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#451. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 COMPUTING 101 Jeopardy Round: $200 5-letter term for an "infectious" program designed to harm your computer |
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#452. Season 40
Friday, June 28, 2024 INTERNET CELEBRITIES Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 2021 a statue of this late gorilla appeared opposite Wall Street's Charging Bull statue |
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#453. 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 |
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#454. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 INTERNET BUSINESSES Jeopardy Round: $1000 Robert Shapiro co-founded this online law service for wills, incorporating & other needs |
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#455. Season 22
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 NEW WEAPONS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 The USA's "E-Bomb" will disable grids & computers and reheat the enemies' lasagna by sending out these waves |
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#456. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013 ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES Jeopardy Round: $400 We'll need to enlist your knowledge of "C.O.D.". this action game series |
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#457. 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 |
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#458. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 It was a small, flowing body of water before it became a continuous data transfer |
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#459. Season 18
Tuesday, September 18, 2001 "E.T." Double Jeopardy Round: $400 A paperless reservation for air travel |
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#460. Season 27
Monday, December 27, 2010 "POWER" LIFTING Jeopardy Round: $600 Popular business presentation program from Microsoft |
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#461. 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 |
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#462. Season 37
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 AN ENCOURAGING VERB Jeopardy Round: $800 Online, you can find "5 Ways to" do it to your confidence, or " 10 Ways to" do it to your Wi-Fi signal |
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#463. Season 29
Thursday, December 13, 2012 18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000 Musicians can thank John Shore, who invented this in 1711; it vibrated at 423.5 cycles a second |
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#464. Season 2
Thursday, September 19, 1985 KID STUFF Jeopardy Round: $100 The first commercially produced was Pong |
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#465. 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 |
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#466. Season 19
Thursday, November 28, 2002 HOW AM "I" DOING? Jeopardy Round: $400 In 1981 this company introduced its first home computer, the PC |
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#467. Season 29
Monday, December 17, 2012 GEORGE, UHHH... Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 It'll come to me... the algebra or logic named for him is central to the design of computer circuits |
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#468. Season 27
Monday, October 25, 2010 THINGS ARE SLOW Double Jeopardy Round: $400 If your computer is slow, try scanning this & then defragmenting it |
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#469. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $100 You can play "Donkey Kong Land" on the new smaller "Pocket" version of this portable device |
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#470. Season 39
Monday, April 24, 2023 NON-VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $600 With names like Sweetie & Bottomless, the hungry, hungry hippos are gobbling these |
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#471. 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 |
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#472. Season 25
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 FUN WITH EPONYMS Jeopardy Round: $200 How shocking! A unit of electrical current is named for this Andre |
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#473. Season 33
Monday, September 12, 2016 I LIKE YOUR COLÓN Jeopardy Round: $400 Currency traders know the "CRC" on their computer screens is this country's colón |
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#474. 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" |
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#475. 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 |
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#476. 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 |
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#477. 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 |
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#478. 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 |
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#479. Season 40
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS Jeopardy Round: $1000 This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "advanced" |
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#480. 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 |
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#481. Season 37
Monday, February 1, 2021 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $600 Battle Royale & Plunder are game modes in this series' "Warzone" |
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#482. Season 30
Friday, May 30, 2014 THE ANIMAL IN THE LOGO Jeopardy Round: $600 MSN (the Microsoft Network) |
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#483. Season 33
Thursday, April 20, 2017 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" shows us the exact moment that this computer system says "Hasta la vista", humans |
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#484. Season 21
Friday, April 29, 2005 QUASI-RELATED PAIRS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Abe Vigoda standout role & Pentiums |
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#485. Season 32
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 NAME'S THE SAME Jeopardy Round: $1000 First Lady Coolidge & computer whiz Hopper |
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#486. Season 20
Friday, January 16, 2004 INVENTIVE MINDS Jeopardy Round: $200 In 1891 this man of Menlo Park got a patent for a "means of transmitting signals electrically" |
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#487. Season 30
Friday, June 20, 2014 A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR Jeopardy Round: $600 Useful in electronics crafts, this process joins circuit components using a low melting point alloy |
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#488. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $200 Tandy computers are sold exclusively through stores with this name |
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#489. Season 32
Monday, February 8, 2016 AWARDS & HONORS Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000 Computer science's equivalent to the Nobel Prize is named for this 20th century British mathematician |
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#490. Season 28
Friday, October 21, 2011 THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR! Jeopardy Round: $800 To remove a no-longer-wanted computer program from your hard drive |
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#491. Season 16
Monday, October 4, 1999 THINGS I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES Jeopardy Round: $400 10-year-old kids are the most expert at this activity, illicitly entering computer systems |
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#492. 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 |
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#493. Season 36
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 DEEP STUFF Jeopardy Round: $400 The Internet that has not been indexed by these is the deep web |
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#494. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004 TAKE IN ORDER! Jeopardy Round: $200 Add this letter to "S" for the Internet domain name of Napoleon's last home |
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#495. Season 20
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 COMMUNICATIONS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Listen up: one of the first commercial items to use transistors was one of these listening devices |
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#496. Season 33
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 VIDEO GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $400 "Clueless gamer" Conan O'Brien hit the streets of Los Santos & died (repeatedly!) at a club in this game's "V" edition |
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#497. Season 14
Monday, October 27, 1997 3-LETTER WORDS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Mantra for a unit of electrical resistance |
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#498. 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 |
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#499. 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?" |
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#500. Season 23
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 TECHNOLOGY Final Jeopardy A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006 |
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#501. 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 |
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#502. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 INTERNET BUSINESSES Jeopardy Round: $600 William Shatner has been a longtime advertising pitchman for this site that helps find discounts for travel |
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#503. 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 |
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#504. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024 MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH Jeopardy Round: $400 "Makeup that makes you look like a rock"; "Panem child labor laws"; "are these berries I found poisonous?" |
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#505. Season 38
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 FITS & STARTS Jeopardy Round: $1000 F.I.T. can stand for this college of design in New York City |
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#506. Season 38
Thursday, July 7, 2022 4-LETTER ACRONYMS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 The M-I is for "musical instrument" in this acronym, the standard that connects instruments with computers |
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#507. Season 22
Monday, July 10, 2006 THE 2005FORTUNE500 Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This Redmond, Washington mega-corporation clicked in at 48, one spot ahead of Intel |
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#508. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 The simple operating system permanently written into main storage, it's what "ROM" stands for |
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#509. Season 30
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 INCREDIBLE MACHINE Jeopardy Round: $400 In 1997 Antares Technology developed this program to correct singers with imperfect pitch |
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#510. Season 15
Monday, March 22, 1999 THE SPORTS BIZ Double Jeopardy Round: $400 In 1997 Paul Allen, who made billions as co-founder of this software giant, bought the Seattle Seahawks for $200 million |
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#511. Season 23
Friday, June 1, 2007 WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $200 Men who hate asking for directions need a product by Garmin or Magellan using GPS, this type of "system" |
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#512. Season 29
Monday, June 17, 2013 CHILDREN'S BOOKS Jeopardy Round: $200 "Goodnight iPad" is a parody of this beloved book |
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#513. Season 19
Wednesday, October 9, 2002 GIMME AN "E"! Jeopardy Round: $1000 Phone home! The computer Internet domain of this country is .et |
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#514. Season 31
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 THROUGH THE YEARS Jeopardy Round: $1000 Centered in Italy 1909-1916, this art movement emphasized the dynamism of modern life & technology |
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#515. Season 4
Friday, December 11, 1987 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $200 In turn, they've used the sun, water or sand, weights, coiled springs, pendulums, etc.... |
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#516. Season 31
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 RHYME TIME Jeopardy Round: $400 An Athenian computer nerd |
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#517. 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 |
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#518. Season 40
Thursday, March 21, 2024 THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,600 Used to determine if a computer can "think", the Turing test was originally known as this, also the name of a 2014 movie about Turing |
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#519. Season 15
Tuesday, May 4, 1999 MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 Ornamental hipposandals were used in ancient times; these didn't evolve until the Middle Ages |
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#520. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006 COMPUTER HISTORY Jeopardy Round: $400 This computer was introduced in 1984 & came with a MacWrite text program & a MacPaint program for graphics |
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#521. Season 36
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 THE 20th CENTURY Jeopardy Round: $200 Stations using this sensing technology installed on Britain's coast in 1938 detected German bombers a few years later |
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#522. 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 |
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#523. Season 9
Wednesday, June 30, 1993 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $100 In 1982 the Jarvik-7, the first permanent one of these, was implanted in patient Barney Clark |
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#524. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 VIDEO GAME TIMELINE Jeopardy Round: $1000 2010: This Xbox motion-sensing system allows players to play games without a controller |
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#525. Season 35
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 WE WALKED TO SCHOOL Jeopardy Round: $200 Though I took the Harvard Bridge across the Charles River, it took me to this tech-savvy university |
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#526. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $100 Your AC, air conditioning, probably runs on AC, this |
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#527. Season 29
Monday, December 17, 2012 "MAIN" Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Term for a very large computer that was the hub of a system for many users in the 1960s; today we call it a server |
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#528. 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 |
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#529. Season 26
Thursday, March 4, 2010 BUSINESS PEOPLE Jeopardy Round: $400 Thank you Akio Morita, who didn't take over the family sake biz but co-founded this electronics giant instead |
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#530. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $200 This process used in energy production is short for hydraulic fracturing |
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#531. Season 19
Tuesday, October 15, 2002 ACRONYMS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 It's the first "I" in ASCII, a computer code for representing letters as numbers |
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#532. Season 22
Tuesday, December 6, 2005 ENDS IN AN F SOUND Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 In computer animation, it means to transform an image, such as changing a man into a mouse |
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#533. Season 24
Friday, May 23, 2008 FAMOUS FACES IN HISTORY Jeopardy Round: $200 Recent computer analysis determined her face is 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% afraid & 2% angry |
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#534. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $600 To turn a computer into a multimedia machine; one of these players is added |
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#535. Season 37
Monday, October 12, 2020 BEHIND THE VOICES Jeopardy Round: $400 Charles Martinet says, "It's-a me!", the catchphrase of this video game character |
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#536. 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 |
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#537. Season 41
Monday, December 16, 2024 SONGWRITING WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Jeopardy Round: $600 (Lin-Manuel Miranda presents the clue.) Computer software makes it possible for any songwriter to have a home recording studio; I wrote most of my first show, "In the Heights", on this Apple program that sounds like a group of kids practicing out by the car |
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#538. Season 28
Thursday, September 22, 2011 MUSICAL STYLINGS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 This structure follows "ambient", "tech" & " left- field" in types of electronica music |
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#539. Season 23
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 BUSINESS PEOPLE Jeopardy Round: $800 He started his company in 1984, building & selling computers out of his dorm at the University of Texas |
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#540. Season 32
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 VERY INVENTIVE Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In addition to creating an all-electronic TV in 1927, he developed a process to sterilize milk via radio waves |
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#541. 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 |
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#542. 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 |
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#543. Season 28
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 GOOGLE ME THIS! Jeopardy Round: $400 ...primate & you'll get the foundation that's the home to Koko, one famous for her sign language skills |
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#544. Season 26
Monday, May 17, 2010 "B"s ON BOTH ENDS Jeopardy Round: $1000 An early name for Google was this type of massage |
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#545. 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 |
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#546. Season 32
Thursday, June 23, 2016 & APPS Jeopardy Round: $600 Dragon Dictation is a speech-to-text app that uses this technology, VR for short |
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#547. 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 |
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#548. Season 41
Monday, April 14, 2025 ELEMENTAL PHRASES Jeopardy Round: $1000 This region around the southern shores of San Francisco Bay stands in for the tech industry |
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#549. Season 41
Thursday, January 30, 2025 COMMUNICATION Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Since 1991, this 3-letter abbreviation has referred to familiar text messaging technology |
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#550. Season 11
Tuesday, September 20, 1994 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $200 On computers this key is marked ESC |
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#551. Season 39
Friday, October 21, 2022 AMERICAN HISTORY Jeopardy Round: $600 Naturally, IBM helped create the technology of this type of missile, one letter longer, first deployed by the U.S. in 1959 |
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#552. 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 |
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#553. Season 17
Monday, May 21, 2001 SCH"WING"! Double Jeopardy Round: $600 An officer in the Royal Air Force, or a space combat video game |
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#554. 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 |
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#555. Season 24
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 U.S. GOVERNMENT Jeopardy Round: $1000 The National Institute of Standards & Technology is administered by this cabinet department |
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#556. Season 29
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 MOVIE JOBS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 By day, Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a computer programmer in this 1999 film |
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#557. Season 29
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 DIRECTOR Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Executives from Netflix & Bank of America are directors of this company; oh yeah, Bill Gates is still there |
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#558. Season 13
Wednesday, November 6, 1996 BUSINESS & INDUSTRY Jeopardy Round: $300 In the 3 years before a profitable 1994, this computer company lost more than $15 billion |
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#559. Season 16
Friday, March 31, 2000 SCULPTORS Double Jeopardy Round: $600 This artist's "Works in Progress" was a 'ballet" with mobiles, stabiles & electronic music |
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#560. Season 26
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 JOKING MATTERS Jeopardy Round: $800 Emo Philips: A computer "once beat me at" this game "but it was no match for me at kickboxing" |
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#561. 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" |
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#562. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $1000 Berlin's Magnetbahn used this technology to move its trains |
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#563. Season 39
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 SOUNDS LIKE A BUG Jeopardy Round: $1000 A computer program that searches & catalogs links on the Internet |
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#564. Season 40
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 TECH TALK Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000 This word, from the Greek for "life" & "measure", enabled Apple to introduce Face ID on the iPhone X |
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#565. Season 25
Thursday, January 22, 2009 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $400 The name of this classic game came from onomatopoetic Japanese for the sound a mouth makes while eating |
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#566. Season 24
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 COMPUTER HISTORY Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 ARPANET, a 1960s Defense Department project, pioneered the sending of data in small units called these |
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#567. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 The main or baseboard of most computers, it has expansion slots to extend the computer's capabilities |
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#568. Season 38
Tuesday, June 28, 2022 THE NIFTY '50s Jeopardy Round: $200 Ushering in a new age, the UNIVAC, developed for the Bureau of the Census, stood for Universal Automatic this |
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#569. Season 37
Friday, January 22, 2021 DISASTROUS TEAMS? Jeopardy Round: $800 MLS: Between the San Andreas & Calaveras Faults, Silicon Valley is prone to these |
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#570. Season 13
Thursday, June 19, 1997 SCIENCE Jeopardy Round: $100 An EEG records the electrical activity of this organ |
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#571. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 The "tracks" on a printed circuit board are made of this metal |
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#572. Season 17
Thursday, April 5, 2001 DAISY CRAZY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 It's used as the printing element in certain electric typewriters & older computer printers |
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#573. Season 39
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION! Jeopardy Round: $200 A rare packaging of a 1985 Nintendo video game featuring "Super" these "Bros." bounced to $114,000 in 2020 |
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#574. Season 32
Thursday, March 10, 2016 TV NETWORK NAMES Jeopardy Round: $800 An electrically charged atom |
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#575. 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 |
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#576. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER? Jeopardy Round: $200 Ace & True Value both serve as this type of store |
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#577. Season 34
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 THAT'S PROPRIETARY, MA'AM Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 This word is trademarked both for a "desk-top... card file" & for electronic use |
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#578. 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 |
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#579. Season 34
Monday, March 19, 2018 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Apple has the App Store; this rival has Play |
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#580. Season 39
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 8-LETTER WORDS Jeopardy Round: $1000 Some workplaces have this network of linked computers, sort of the company-wide web |
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#581. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $500 In 1908 a carbon tetrachloride gas type of this was invented; in 1917 a foam type |
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#582. Season 16
Friday, September 17, 1999 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $200 George Nissen invented this, a "bouncing table", after seeing how circus performers bounced into safety nets |
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#583. Season 9
Friday, February 26, 1993 ABBREVIATIONS Jeopardy Round: $500 This part of a computer that interprets & executes instructions is abbreviated CPU |
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#584. Season 21
Tuesday, December 7, 2004 AFTER "AFTER" Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 1930 the Motorola radio became a popular automobile add-on kit as this type of product |
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#585. Season 20
Thursday, May 6, 2004 WHICH CAME FIRST? Double Jeopardy Round: $400 The personal computer, the light bulb, the transistor radio |
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#586. Season 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1988 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $200 This writing tool was reportedly invented after Lazlo Biro noticed how fast printer's ink dried |
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#587. Season 38
Monday, October 4, 2021 SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Cruise & crafty computer collaborate on crimes not yet committed |
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#588. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 Leading applications of this type are Lotus 1-2-3 & Excel |
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#589. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009 COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV. Jeopardy Round: $200 Windows is one: OS |
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#590. Season 33
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 AWARDS & HONORS Jeopardy Round: $800 Recipients of the Draper Prize, an engineering award, include this Brit, inventor of the World Wide Web |
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#591. Season 31
Monday, July 27, 2015 TECH SAVVY Jeopardy Round: $400 If you'd prefer your buddy's Facebook photos not I.D. you as his wingman, turn off this feature |
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#592. 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 |
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#593. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024 COMPUTER TECH Double Jeopardy Round: $800 You must have attached a PDF to an email once in your life, right? Then you know the "D" stands for this, right? |
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#594. Season 14
Friday, December 26, 1997 MILESTONES IN MATH Double Jeopardy Round: $200 In the '40s Harvard's Howard Aiken developed the Mark I computer with this company's help |
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#595. 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 |
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#596. Season 1
Friday, September 28, 1984 CHEMISTRY Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 After oxygen, this element associated with computer chips is the most common in the earth's crust |
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#597. Season 36
Thursday, April 16, 2020 "H.D." Jeopardy Round: $200 Store copies of your photos on an external this in case the one inside the computer gets fried |
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#598. Season 32
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 MARKS & ANGLES Jeopardy Round: $800 Omega is the symbol of this unit of electrical resistance |
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#599. Season 37
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 THE HIP-HOP ERA Jeopardy Round: $200 T-Pain & Kanye West brought this pitch correction technology to mainstream hip-hop |
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#600. 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 |
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#601. Season 41
Thursday, July 24, 2025 INVENTORS & INVENTIONS Jeopardy Round: $800 Motorola employee Martin Cooper is regarded as the "father of" this, having led the team that built the first one in the 1970s |
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#602. Season 25
Friday, May 15, 2009 FUN WITH FASHION Jeopardy Round: $800 Also a synonym for "amulet", this type of trinket now hangs on handbags & cell phones as well as bracelets |
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#603. 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" |
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#604. Season 28
Thursday, March 15, 2012 MBAs Jeopardy Round: $400 She joined Microsoft in 1987, the same year she received her MBA from Duke; today she's Mrs. Microsoft |
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#605. Season 20
Thursday, September 11, 2003 L'HOMME Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000 A unit of pressure & a computer programming language are named for this mathematician |
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#606. 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 |
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#607. Season 28
Monday, October 17, 2011 THE Is HAVE IT Jeopardy Round: $1000 In 2008 Carl Icahn bought millions of shares in this Internet company with an exclamation point in its name |
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#608. Season 40
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 "J-I-T" WORDS Jeopardy Round: $1000 One of 3 core design languages, this programming mainstay is often used to add interactive features to webpages |
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#609. Season 32
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 "C" IN SCIENCE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Sounds sweet, but it's actually an electronic footprint that allows websites to monitor a user's online movements |
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#610. 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 |
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#611. Season 22
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 WHEN AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS ATTACK Jeopardy Round: $600 This aquatic animal's bill senses electrical fields; a 1980s test found it attacked a 1.5 V battery 88 out of 88 times |
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#612. Season 25
Thursday, June 11, 2009 LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN Jeopardy Round: $800 In 1996 this Russian chess champ bested an IBM computer in a 6-game tourney; in '97, Deep Blue returned the favor |
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#613. Season 22
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 "OFF" THE BEATEN PATH Jeopardy Round: $600 Term for working on a computer that is not on the network |
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#614. 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 |
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#615. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011 VIDEO GAME HISTORY Jeopardy Round: $400 In 1984 this 76er & Larry Bird went "one-on-one" for the Commodore 64 |
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#616. Season 18
Friday, May 3, 2002 THE NEW YORK TIMESHEADLINES Jeopardy Round: $200 In 1988, yes, 1988, the Times reported, "For computers" this year "may prove a bit traumatic" |
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#617. Season 31
Thursday, March 19, 2015 TECH GOOFS Jeopardy Round: $200 Autocorrects at this Mark Zuckerberg site led to many "Happy Bday Grandpa & Grandmaster Flash" messages |
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#618. Season 40
Friday, February 16, 2024 SCIENCE STUFF Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 In 1891 Tesla unveiled his famous this, used in radio technology |
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#619. Season 25
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 WHAT A CARD! Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Hollerith cards, also called punch cards, helped operate these, such as the ENIAC, in the mid-20th century |
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#620. Season 12
Tuesday, January 23, 1996 17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $300 These were made more accurate in the late 1600s with the inventions of the pendulum & balance spring |
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#621. Season 17
Monday, January 22, 2001 SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 His supercomputer earned him a place in the National Inventors Hall of Fame |
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#622. Season 10
Wednesday, September 29, 1993 SCIENCE Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 A material with very high electrical resistivity is called this |
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#623. Season 36
Thursday, January 16, 2020 WEATHER Jeopardy Round: $1000 Doppler weather systems use this type of technology to detect weather patterns |
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#624. Season 20
Wednesday, June 9, 2004 GOING "SOFT" ON US, EH? Jeopardy Round: $600 Applications & programs for computers |
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#625. Season 29
Thursday, November 15, 2012 APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES Jeopardy Round: $1000 Several items packaged together, such as software that comes with the purchase of a computer |
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#626. Season 29
Friday, July 12, 2013 VIDEO GAME HISTORY Final Jeopardy The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife |
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#627. Season 37
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 OLD JOBS Jeopardy Round: $200 No longer needed because of computers, linotype operators made sure these things got to one's doorstep daily |
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#628. Season 23
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 "WORD" PLAY Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 A word that leads you to useful results in an Internet search |
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#629. Season 9
Tuesday, May 4, 1993 COMPUTERS Jeopardy Round: $400 Sim Wong Hoo of Creative Technology invented this board that lets your computer play music & talk |
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#630. Season 41
Monday, January 13, 2025 MacARTHUR FELLOWS Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro delivered a Google lecture about cloning this Pleistocene pachyderm |
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#631. Season 28
Thursday, July 26, 2012 GIVE 'EM HEALTH! Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 DHA is one of these fatty acids that help stabilize the heart's electrical system; great, now I'm a fish oil salesman! |
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#632. 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 |
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#633. Season 16
Friday, July 21, 2000 LOTS OF CHARACTER Double Jeopardy Round: $400 In March 2000 the only way to get "Riding The Bullet", Stephen King's tale of Alan Parker, was by doing this |
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#634. Season 20
Thursday, March 25, 2004 NOTABLE WOMEN Jeopardy Round: $1000 Grace Hopper was perhaps best-known for co-developing this computer language used in business |
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#635. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024 SCIENCE BOOKSHELF Jeopardy Round: $600 Andrew Hodges' "The Enigma" is a bestselling biography of this mathematician & computer pioneer |
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#636. Season 21
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 IN THE SMITHSONIAN Jeopardy Round: $800 The Pulsar was the first all-electronic one of these, & in 1972 it would have set you back $2,100 |
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#637. Season 39
Friday, June 30, 2023 BUSINESS Jeopardy Round: $200 This company released the Xbox video game console in 2001 |
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#638. Season 9
Tuesday, November 17, 1992 HEALTH & MEDICINE Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 Used especially in diagnosing brain disorders, CAT, as in CAT scan, stands for "computerized" this |
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#639. 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 |
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#640. Season 41
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 STANFORD ALUMNI IN YOUR LIFE Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Born in Moscow, he co-developed the pagerank algorithm while studying computer science at Stanford |
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#641. 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 |
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#642. Season 30
Friday, November 29, 2013 SLOGANEERING Jeopardy Round: $1000 This computer company is working to build "a smarter planet" |
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#643. Season 37
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 ANAGRAM THE FIRST NAME Double Jeopardy Round: $400 A video game plumber & a native people of New Zealand |
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#644. Season 11
Friday, May 5, 1995 BUSINESS & INDUSTRY Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $500 On Dec. 20, 1994 this company offered to replace all of its Pentium chips free of charge |
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#645. 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 |
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#646. Season 6
Wednesday, April 18, 1990 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $100 In 1981 this company introduced the PC, its first home computer |
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#647. Season 28
Monday, October 3, 2011 I'M GAME Jeopardy Round: $1000 This solitaire game goes back to a version Paul Alfille wrote in 1978 for the Plato computer system |
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#648. 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 |
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#649. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004 COMPUTER JARGON Double Jeopardy Round: $400 P2P means this type of file sharing, like Kazaa or Limewire |
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#650. Season 12
Wednesday, May 15, 1996 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Many computer operations, such as the speed of memory chips, are measured in this unit, ns |
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#651. 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 |
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#652. Season 29
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 BEASTLY MOVIE TITLES Jeopardy Round: $600 Technology tracks & controls Shia LaBeouf: "____ Eye" |
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#653. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001 INTERNET SHORTHAND Jeopardy Round: $500 GG |
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#654. 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 |
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#655. Season 25
Monday, June 29, 2009 "R" WAY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Bravo Team kills lots of zombies in this video game; Milla Jovovich was in the movie |
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#656. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 GOOGLE EASTER EGGS Jeopardy Round: $600 Search for this Klondike ice cream treat shaped like another food & a banner will display "1983-2022"; may it rest in peace |
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#657. Season 30
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 GUINNESS RECORDS 2014 Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Britain's James Brown "cleans up" with his 322-strong collection of these electrical appliances |
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#658. 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 |
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#659. 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 |
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#660. Season 36
Friday, December 27, 2019 PROVERBS Jeopardy Round: $600 A computer term, GIGO is short for this |
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#661. Season 25
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 2-LETTER RESPONSES Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 In 2006 Nintendo introduced a new sleeker "Lite" version of this handheld game console |
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#662. 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 |
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#663. 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 |
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#664. Season 27
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $200 At dlife.com you may qualify for free products pertaining to this insulin-related condition |
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#665. Season 15
Tuesday, October 13, 1998 1890s TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 It was discovered that these, which share their name with insect parts, improved radio reception |
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#666. 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 |
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#667. Season 31
Monday, May 4, 2015 INTERNET SHORTHAND Jeopardy Round: $800 FHO: "Friends" doing this |
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#668. Season 33
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $1000 Retired fortune hunter Nathan Drake maps out a plan traveling the world in the 4th installment of this franchise |
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#669. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010 ON THE PHONE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Back in 1997 Philippe Kahn jerry-rigged a camera & cell phone & used it to send pictures of this proud event |
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#670. 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% |
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#671. Season 25
Thursday, October 30, 2008 RETRONYMS Jeopardy Round: $800 This retronym for a type of computer also means a screen with icons on it |
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#672. Season 18
Wednesday, January 9, 2002 COMPUTER HACKERS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Like people who break into safes, those who break into systems are called these, which rhymes with "hackers" |
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#673. Season 21
Monday, February 21, 2005 "C.S.", I Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 This cartoonist was nicknamed "Sparky", after Sparkplug the Horse in "Barney Google" |
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#674. Season 23
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 TECH-KNOW Jeopardy Round: $600 This search engine's Picasa program lets you store, edit & share pictures |
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#675. Season 19
Thursday, September 5, 2002 TECHNOLOGY Final Jeopardy After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, "Commercial use in doubt" |
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#676. 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 |
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#677. Season 35
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 ARCHITECTURE Jeopardy Round: $200 Kids know it as a place to go play video games, but it's also a term for a kind of gallery that features arches |
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#678. 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 |
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#679. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007 COMPUTER NAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Naturally, this company's iBook featured iPhoto & iMovie |
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#680. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024 COMPUTER TECH Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 In 1991 a University of Helsinki computer science student completed his first version of this open source computer operating system |
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#681. Season 18
Tuesday, June 18, 2002 COMPUTER TERMS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 This device that connects computer networks shares its name with a type of plane in carpentry |
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#682. 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 |
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#683. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $600 It's what you need to operate the 1861 invention of Linus Yale |
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#684. Season 40
Monday, January 15, 2024 WORLD HISTORY Jeopardy Round: $400 Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power |
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#685. Season 13
Friday, February 21, 1997 COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES Double Jeopardy Round: $600 The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is located at this Boston-area "institute" |
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#686. Season 3
Friday, September 12, 1986 STONES Jeopardy Round: $100 Stone which vibrates at high speeds enabling your electronic watch to work |
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#687. Season 37
Monday, May 17, 2021 TIMEMAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 1997: Andrew Grove, chairman & CEO of this company, a pioneer in the computer chip industry |
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#688. Season 41
Friday, July 4, 2025 YOU'RE ALL GETTING MEDALS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Medals at the last Tokyo Olympics were made from recycled electronics, including more than 6 million of these devices |
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#689. Season 26
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 HOLD THE FORT Jeopardy Round: $800 Fort Monmouth in this state is the headquarters of the U.S. Army Telecommunications-Electronics Command |
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#690. Season 16
Wednesday, September 8, 1999 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $200 Apple made a computer called Lisa before they introduced this famous one in 1984 |
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#691. Season 25
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 FUN STUFF Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Sports car video game that's "great touring" in Italian |
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#692. Season 38
Thursday, March 3, 2022 1972: 50 YEARS AGO Double Jeopardy Round: $800 This company helped launch the video game industry with the release of Pong |
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#693. Season 30
Friday, July 4, 2014 NEWBIES Jeopardy Round: $1000 In 2014 Satya Nadella became the third CEO in this tech company's history, succeeding Steve Ballmer |
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#694. 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 |
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#695. Season 24
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 COMPUTER HISTORY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 1995 brought us the file format known as VRML, which enables 3-D graphics for the web; "VR" stands for this |
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#696. 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 |
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#697. Season 27
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 BEER GOOGLES Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000 Google links to the site for this American beer that's sponsoring a LongShot American Homebrew Contest |
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#698. Season 32
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $200 You can look it up--Susan Wojicicki, employee No. 16 at this search engine company, rented it her garage as its early HQ |
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#699. Season 34
Monday, February 5, 2018 FUN(?) WITH INTERNET COUNTRY CODES Jeopardy Round: $200 This country is the BO in minculturas.gob.bo |
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#700. Season 24
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 I'M GIDDY FOR GADGETS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 This company went after the music player market "Zune" after turning "360" into gaming |
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#701. Season 19
Thursday, July 10, 2003 SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885 Jeopardy Round: $1000 American electrical engineer William Stanley invents this device for changing energy from AC to DC |
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#702. Season 17
Friday, November 10, 2000 "the ONION" Jeopardy Round: $500 It was a sad day when an employee of this computer company was fired for "thinking a little too different" |
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#703. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER Jeopardy Round: $400 On Facebook, Cristiano Ronaldo, a star in this sport, likes Real Madrid (his team) & Pepe (his teammate) |
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#704. Season 4
Thursday, December 31, 1987 LETTER PERFECT Jeopardy Round: $500 In computer talk, it stands not for 1000, but 1024 bytes |
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#705. 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 |
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#706. 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" |
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#707. 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 |
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#708. Season 30
Friday, February 21, 2014 "H"OMONYMS Jeopardy Round: $200 To cut with an axe, or to cut through a computer's defenses |
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#709. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $200 Device that stealth aircraft technology is designed to trick |
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#710. Season 19
Thursday, April 24, 2003 SCIENCE Jeopardy Round: $1000 The process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this |
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#711. 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 |
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#712. Season 34
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 THE NEWSPAPER GAME Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000 A newspaper founded in London in 1855 was named for this, then the hottest new communication technology |
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#713. Season 4
Friday, December 11, 1987 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $600 New dishes made to hold this substance play the theme to "General Hospital" |
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#714. Season 40
Monday, February 12, 2024 POP CULTURE VS. Jeopardy Round: $400 "Red vs. Blue" are 2 armies in an animated series that's an offshoot of this "angelic" video game franchise |
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#715. 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 |
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#716. 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" |
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#717. Season 40
Thursday, March 21, 2024 HISTORIC FIRSTS Jeopardy Round: $200 In 1993 cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov was the first to play a video game in space, this one created by a countryman |
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#718. 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 |
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#719. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $300 To stop staining, Farah makes men's slacks coated with this, usually found on cookware |
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#720. Season 35
Thursday, November 29, 2018 HODGEPODGE Jeopardy Round: $600 In September 2013 this video game "V" carjacked $1 billion in sales in its first 3 days of release |
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#721. Season 8
Tuesday, March 24, 1992 COMPUTERESE Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 It's one instruction that stands for a series of commonly used keystrokes |
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#722. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006 COMPUTER SPEAK Jeopardy Round: $1000 In chat rooms, "YMMV" is this disclaimer often used in car ads; it basically lets you off the hook for anything you say |
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#723. Season 38
Friday, December 24, 2021 FIRST RESPONSES Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Chelsea Clinton, Levi Strauss chair Bob Haas & Google CEO Sundar Pichai all worked at this management consultant McCompany |
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#724. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009 COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV. Jeopardy Round: $600 It's the brains of the operation: CPU |
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#725. 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 |
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#726. Season 30
Thursday, December 12, 2013 NEW TO THE OXFORD DICTIONARIES Double Jeopardy Round: $800 "Obtaining information or services by soliciting from a large number of people, typically via the Internet" |
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#727. 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 |
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#728. 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 |
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#729. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $200 In 1877, to carry meat to France, the "Frigorifique" became 1st ship equipped with this |
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#730. 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 |
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#731. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003 FORMER TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 (Sofia of the Clue Crew next to a fire truck of the Culver City Fire Dept.) Author Robert Holzman says America's first specialized piece of firefighting equipment was a 3-gallon this |
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#732. Season 41
Monday, March 24, 2025 ABBREV. Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 AED is short for this life-saving device |
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#733. Season 14
Tuesday, May 12, 1998 ELECTRONIC MUSIC Double Jeopardy Round: $200 The style called techno evolved in this U.S. city about 20 years after Motown was born there |
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#734. 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 |
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#735. Season 40
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 WHAT "IZ" IT? Jeopardy Round: $1000 It's Sid Meier's video game series where you start at the dawn of history & can get to the Space Age |
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#736. Season 32
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 DODGE PODGE Jeopardy Round: $200 What a cell phone with a low battery needs |
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#737. Season 14
Friday, February 27, 1998 THE 1980s Jeopardy Round: $100 You might want to take this news sitting down: Radio Shack introduced the first laptop type of this in 1983 |
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#738. 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 |
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#739. Season 35
Monday, January 7, 2019 2 CAN PLAY THAT GAME Jeopardy Round: $600 In 2007 a computer program "solved" this game, AKA draughts, proving that best play from both sides leads to a draw |
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#740. Season 28
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 GOOGLE ME THIS! Jeopardy Round: $200 ...president & you'll get his foundation's website listing offices in NYC & Little Rock |
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#741. 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 |
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#742. 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 |
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#743. 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 |
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#744. Season 26
Friday, March 19, 2010 SAFETY FIRST Jeopardy Round: $400 BTSI technology makes you apply this when shifting out of park, so your 6-year-old can't drive off |
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#745. Season 39
Thursday, February 9, 2023 "WORLD" Jeopardy Round: $400 "Battle for Azeroth" is an expansion of this video game |
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#746. 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 |
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#747. 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 |
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#748. Season 31
Thursday, January 22, 2015 IN THE ATMOSPHERE Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 These 2 units measure electrical current & electrical resistance |
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#749. Season 27
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 SCHOOL OF ROCK Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Sam Cooke didn't "know much trigonometry", nor "what" this non-electronic calculating device "is for" |
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#750. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007 BEFORE COMPUTERS Jeopardy Round: $800 This term for a type of penmanship comes from the Greek for "beautiful writing" |
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#751. 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 |
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#752. Season 38
Thursday, May 19, 2022 THE DRUGS OF HUMANITY Jeopardy Round: $400 The bald facts--Minoxidil & tricho-prime technology help this product make the best of a hairy situation |
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#753. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 COMPUTER GAMING Jeopardy Round: $400 In the '05 version of the EA title named for this ex-Raiders coach, Al Michaels does the play-by-play |
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#754. Season 39
Thursday, June 29, 2023 21st CENTURY TELEVISION Jeopardy Round: $400 Mike Judge co-created this comedy about engineers & tech start-ups |
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#755. 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 |
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#756. 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 |
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#757. Season 37
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 BRITISH GOVERNMENT Jeopardy Round: $800 In your house, it's the 2-word room for your computer & paperwork; in Britain, it's a department of domestic affairs |
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#758. Season 28
Thursday, August 2, 2012 TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES? Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Ratchet & this robot buddy of his kick some serious butt in their PlayStation game "All 4 One" |
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#759. Season 26
Friday, May 21, 2010 ABBREV. Double Jeopardy Round: $800 In the computer world, NAVI is Norton this |
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#760. Season 16
Thursday, April 20, 2000 THE BULL Double Jeopardy Round: $200 At 1999's end, this internet bookseller had seen its stock rise 6,000% without showing a profit |
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#761. Season 26
Friday, December 18, 2009 "BY" NOW Jeopardy Round: $400 Take a nibble on this 8-part computer unit |
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#762. Season 27
Friday, March 4, 2011 TECH-KNOW Jeopardy Round: $800 Copying info from a computer to a CD is called burning; doing the reverse is this other destructive term |
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#763. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $600 Inspired by Mexican lore, "Guacamelee!" finds agave farmer Juan gifted with the mask of one of these athletes |
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#764. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024 MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH Jeopardy Round: $600 "Vegas flight for bachelorette but cheap"; "stomach hurts trying on dresses, why?"; "'Hold On' by Wilson Phillips lyrics" |
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#765. Season 29
Thursday, November 22, 2012 DEAD, BUT VERY BUSY Jeopardy Round: $400 This writer has more than 50 posthumous credits on imdb.com, including a "War in Middle Earth" video game |
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#766. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $400 The smallest units of information stored in a computer, they form bytes |
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#767. Season 30
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 SOUNDS LIKE FOOTBALL Jeopardy Round: $800 A sharp momentary surge in electrical current |
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#768. Season 20
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 EASY SPANISH Jeopardy Round: $1000 La impresora for la computadora is this |
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#769. 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 |
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#770. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER? Jeopardy Round: $1000 A swelling under the eye, or a quiet, timid person |
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#771. 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 |
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#772. Season 41
Friday, March 21, 2025 BUSINESS BUSTS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 2011 was the end for this music player from Microsoft |
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#773. Season 27
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 SURFIN' USB Jeopardy Round: $400 USB technology is used to power these "happy" control devices also found in airplanes |
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#774. Season 37
Monday, April 5, 2021 POP CULTURE-POURRI Jeopardy Round: $1000 A Nintendo video game creator used an animal word that symbolizes stubbornness in naming this gorilla villain |
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#775. Season 34
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS Jeopardy Round: $600 It's a malicious computer program that gathers info about a user & then transmits it to an outside entity |
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#776. Season 34
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 POP "STREET" Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Popular video game first released by Capcom in 1987 |
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#777. Season 37
Thursday, March 18, 2021 GREEN Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 Cecil Howard Green helped transform a Dallas geophysics company into the electronics giant now known by this name |
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#778. Season 25
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 MODERN TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $600 The February 2008 decision to abandon HD DVD technology gave a market victory to this rival video format |
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#779. Season 24
Monday, May 12, 2008 NEW MEDIA Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 On your cell phone screen, you can shrink down to size artists like Big Pun & this Latino rapper-- they're "Twinz" |
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#780. Season 37
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 HARD-HITTING WORDS Jeopardy Round: $200 This word paired with "cutting" in a computer term can also mean a heavy beating |
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#781. Season 28
Monday, November 14, 2011 4 STRAIGHT VOWELS Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 A line of waiting people, or a sequence of stored computer data awaiting processing |
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#782. Season 34
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 ELEMENTARY Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,800 This precious metal boasts the highest thermal & electrical conductivity |
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#783. Season 41
Friday, November 8, 2024 THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $800 Thanks to GPS-enabled phones, it's no longer necessary to print out your route using this site acquired by AOL in 1999 |
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#784. 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 |
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#785. Season 28
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES Jeopardy Round: $800 This 9-letter word popped up for a place where you could enjoy a beverage or a light meal while using your computer |
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#786. 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 |
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#787. Season 35
Monday, April 29, 2019 POTENT PORTABLES Jeopardy Round: $400 Sony's portable Bluetooth XB10 one of these boasts the "power of extra bass" |
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#788. 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 |
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#789. Season 27
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 THE IDES OF MARCH Jeopardy Round: $600 On March 15, 1985 this type of site debuted on the Internet; it was soon to be a "revolution" & a "bubble" |
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#790. Season 25
Monday, July 6, 2009 4 I's ONLY Jeopardy Round: $1000 Reducing or making smaller, like one might do to an Internet browser window |
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#791. Season 22
Monday, July 10, 2006 SAMES NAMES AS THE JACKSON 5 Jeopardy Round: $400 Dude, you're getting this first name of the founder of Dell Computer Corp. |
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#792. Season 16
Wednesday, April 5, 2000 NEWSPEAK Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Multislacking means playing with one of these instead of working |
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#793. Season 24
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 GREEK ALPHABET SOUP Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In this type of testing, electronic equipment is subjected to the real world conditions in which it'll be used |
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#794. Season 22
Monday, October 17, 2005 SPEED Jeopardy Round: $600 In 1965 Gordon Moore famously predicted that these would double in processing speed every 18 months |
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#795. Season 22
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY Jeopardy Round: $1000 This institute established in 1824 is Philadelphia's Museum of Science & Technology |
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#796. Season 26
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 GEEK LOVE Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 The world's smallest laptops are nicknamed Atom, the name of the processor made by this company |
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#797. Season 38
Friday, December 3, 2021 YOU GET A "C" Jeopardy Round: $200 It's a movable object on a computer screen, not one who swears a lot |
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#798. Season 34
Friday, April 20, 2018 INTERNET SLANG Jeopardy Round: $1000 A billion-dollar tech company or an ideal mate is this mythic creature, like Charlie of Candy Mountain fame |
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#799. 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 |
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#800. Season 31
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 SEE TV Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 "Biography" showed this Microsoft man's "Life--From Child Prodigy to Harvard Dropout to Billiionaire" |
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#801. 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 |
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#802. Season 28
Thursday, May 10, 2012 INTERNET SHORTHAND Jeopardy Round: $200 NVNG stands for "nothing ventured", this |
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#803. Season 27
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 CAMERAS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Using an iPhone app, you can shake the phone to make your picture come out faster, like pictures taken with this co.'s cameras |
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#804. Season 5
Monday, November 14, 1988 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $200 At the touch of a button on July 1, 1939, this Clay Puett invention made its horse-racing debut |
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#805. 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" |
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#806. Season 36
Monday, November 11, 2019 A GENERIC TITLE Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Prince Noctis has work to do in edition XV of this alliterative role-playing video game |
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#807. Season 34
Monday, July 9, 2018 HOMOPHONES Jeopardy Round: $200 A medieval farm worker, or to browse the internet |
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#808. Season 9
Friday, November 27, 1992 "FOR" WORDS Jeopardy Round: $500 This computer programming language similar to algebra was developed in the 1950s |
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#809. Season 38
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 BOREDOM Double Jeopardy Round: $400 A 2010 computer analysis said the most boring 20th c. day was a Sunday in the middle of this, known as a decade of dull conformity |
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#810. Season 30
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 INTERNET FIRSTS Final Jeopardy A broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995 holds this distinction |
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#811. Season 30
Monday, March 17, 2014 BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS Jeopardy Round: $400 This man: "Billionaire Computer Genius" |
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#812. Season 14
Tuesday, July 7, 1998 CURRENT AFFAIRS Jeopardy Round: $300 He told the U.S. Senate, "At Microsoft we are spending 2.6 billion in R&D this year" |
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#813. Season 26
Friday, December 4, 2009 "FACE" BOOK Jeopardy Round: $800 To connect a peripheral machine with a computer |
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#814. 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 |
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#815. Season 14
Monday, May 11, 1998 THE 1998 GRAMMYS Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 This band from Oxford got their diploma, a Grammy for the album "OK Computer" |
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#816. Season 34
Monday, March 26, 2018 WRONG Jeopardy Round: $800 Paul Krugman says he wasn't totally serious in his 1998 call: this will have no more impact on the economy than the fax machines did |
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#817. Season 30
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 COMPUTER STUFF Jeopardy Round: $200 A class in school, or a record of where you've gone in a web browser |
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#818. Season 16
Thursday, October 14, 1999 YOU OUGHTA KNOW Jeopardy Round: $300 Hungarian-born Andrew Grove rose "inside" this computer chip company & made it dominant today |
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#819. Season 34
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 NOT WASTING TIME ON THE INTERNET Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Join Bill Gates among users of this free language-learning site whose name includes a word meaning "pair" |
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#820. Season 12
Tuesday, January 16, 1996 CALIFORNIA CITIES Jeopardy Round: $500 This Silicon Valley city served as California's first capital from 1849 to 1851 |
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#821. 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 |
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#822. Season 17
Thursday, November 9, 2000 WEIGHTS & MEASURES Jeopardy Round: $300 The symbol for this unit of electrical resistance is the Greek letter omega |
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#823. Season 33
Monday, July 10, 2017 ONLINE LEARNING Jeopardy Round: $1000 internetpolyglot.com can help you learn languages like this one, the basis for Pilipino |
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#824. Season 21
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 WEBSTER'SNEW WORLD COLLEGE DICTIONARY Jeopardy Round: $600 Webster's got down to business with this term for the buying & selling of goods & services over the Internet |
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#825. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013 POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $200 In the game called this company "Ultimate Alliance 2", Hulk works on his rage with poems, creating some Hulk-ku |
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#826. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $600 Using 8 industrial fans, University of Florida engineers have built a simulator of these with 125-mph winds |
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#827. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $800 Hold on to your hat! 2015 marks 20 years of his controversial but addictive online political report |
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#828. Season 27
Monday, January 3, 2011 TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST Jeopardy Round: $800 The earliest man-made examples of this silica & borate material were beads made in the 1500s B.C. |
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#829. Season 34
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 On PlayStation Crash is a genetically mutated type of this mouselike marsupial |
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#830. Season 32
Monday, September 28, 2015 COMPUTER HISTORY Jeopardy Round: $1000 The name of this early programming language is an acronym starting "Beginner's All-purpose" |
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#831. Season 14
Thursday, January 29, 1998 JIMMY LOVES THAT COMPUTER Jeopardy Round: $200 On Jimmy's monitor, this moving image that prevents burn-in is comely model Tippy Sealy |
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#832. 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 |
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#833. Season 4
Tuesday, June 7, 1988 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 When an airplane is in normal flight, air pressure is higher on this surface of a wing |
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#834. Season 19
Monday, April 21, 2003 FAMOUS FIRSTS Jeopardy Round: $600 Charles Babbage got the idea of using these to "program" his computer from the ones used in Jacquard looms |
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#835. 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 |
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#836. Season 33
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 ROBOTS Jeopardy Round: $400 Many computer tablets use this operating system created by Google & named for a humanoid robot |
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#837. Season 29
Friday, May 3, 2013 INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 This matchmaking site says there are "29 key areas that help develop a great long-term relationship"; music to our ears! |
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#838. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000 THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $300 PGP, a popular e-mail encryption program, stands for "Pretty Good" this |
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#839. 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 |
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#840. Season 18
Wednesday, October 24, 2001 BUSINESS & INDUSTRY Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 This athletic shoe company's internet store is located at catshack.com |
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#841. 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 |
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#842. Season 26
Thursday, February 4, 2010 INTERNET FAVORITES Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 A popular animation about a unicorn with this name follows him to Candy Mountain, where he loses a kidney |
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#843. Season 7
Thursday, February 14, 1991 MAGAZINES Jeopardy Round: $100 PC Novice is a new magazine for beginning users of thse |
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#844. Season 37
Friday, October 23, 2020 IT STARTS WITH "U" Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This technology uses sound waves to take images inside the body |
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#845. 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 |
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#846. Season 37
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $400 People famous in this profession, like Jamie Oliver, often use Wüsthof knives from Germany |
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#847. Season 27
Thursday, July 7, 2011 COMPUSTUFF Jeopardy Round: $800 When an Internet page says "file not found", you're getting this 3-digit error |
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#848. Season 38
Thursday, June 16, 2022 THE "O" MEN Jeopardy Round: $800 More than just a mantra homophone, this German has a unit of electrical resistance named for him |
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#849. Season 33
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 VIDEO GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 "Hyrule Legends" & "Link's Crossbow Training" are Wii options in this "legendary" game series |
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#850. Season JM
Monday, May 8, 2023 10-LETTER WORDS Double Jeopardy Round: 800 The act of taking over someone else's computer with the goal of affecting social or political change is this portmanteau word |
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#851. Season 17
Tuesday, May 29, 2001 ISRAEL Double Jeopardy Round: $200 Carried by roughly 40% of Israelis, they were popularized by a 2.5-cents-a-minute offer in 1994 |
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#852. Season 28
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 These 2 similarly spelled words mean a span of time longer than an era & an electrically charged atom |
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#853. Season 31
Friday, September 19, 2014 VANILLA Jeopardy Round: $800 A comedian's scripted shtick, or a computer's set of instructions |
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#854. Season 24
Monday, February 25, 2008 THEY MEAN BUSINESS! Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $400 "Computer, Communication, Compatibility" were combined to describe the business of this Silicon Valley co. |
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#855. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007 COMPUTER MILESTONES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 1975: Microsoft is founded by these 2 college dropouts |
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#856. Season 12
Thursday, January 4, 1996 INVENTIONS Jeopardy Round: $200 In 1947 Arthur Samuel designed a computer that could play this game; chess on the same board came later |
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#857. Season 29
Thursday, June 6, 2013 LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Jeopardy Round: $1000 Providing antivirus & firewall technology: MFE |
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#858. Season 19
Monday, January 20, 2003 "V" LOVE IT! Jeopardy Round: $200 With names like Michelangelo & Black Widow, they're designed to vandalize your computer system |
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#859. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012 INTERNET SLANG Jeopardy Round: $1000 A variation on "LOL" is "LQTM"--laughing this way |
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#860. Season 37
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 POP Jeopardy Round: $800 "Blasphemous Rumours" is a classic track from this British electronic pop band |
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#861. Season 26
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 WEBSITES Jeopardy Round: $800 On holidays, this website's homepage may use a Doodle for its name; Wes Craven created one for Halloween 2008 |
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#862. Season 41
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 GRAB BAG Jeopardy Round: $1000 As a lab-grown crystal, miassite can act as one of these, meaning it has no electrical resistance once cooled |
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#863. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991 COMPUTERS Jeopardy Round: $400 It's the device that enables one computer to communicate with another by telephone |
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#864. Season 21
Monday, July 4, 2005 BANK SHOTS Jeopardy Round: $400 An EFT stands for an "electronic" one of these |
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#865. 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 |
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#866. Season 31
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 SPY TECH Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Facial recognition technology had a great testing ground as casinos used it to spot these alliterative gamblers |
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#867. Season 29
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 FILE Jeopardy Round: $400 A set of letters such as .doc added to the end of a computer file to identify it |
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#868. Season 32
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 HOW "OD" Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Wildly successful electronics product introduced in October 2001 |
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#869. Season 28
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 WEBSITES Jeopardy Round: $200 "What's on your mind?" This site, where you can like, share & poke |
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#870. 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 |
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#871. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 With about 800 trees, the eco-friendly towers in this city in Northern Italy are known as Bosco Verticale |
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#872. Season 41
Thursday, March 20, 2025 3 MEANINGS, 1 WORD Jeopardy Round: $1000 A debit,an electrical accumulation,an attack |
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#873. Season 32
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 THE COLOR PURPLE Jeopardy Round: $400 A tabloid version of the board game Clue made this purple-named character a billionaire video game designer |
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#874. Season 34
Monday, October 9, 2017 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000 Impossible architecture is found in this "valley", a mobile game that shares a name with a place in Utah & Arizona |
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#875. Season 39
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 A LOOK AT SYMBOLS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Get connected with the symbol for this technology standard |
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#876. Season 19
Monday, June 9, 2003 20th CENTURY PEOPLE Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 In 1900 his institute of technology was founded in Pittsburgh |
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#877. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002 COMPUTER "E"s Double Jeopardy Round: $800 It's also called "the bent arrow key" |
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#878. Season 23
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 JEFF Double Jeopardy Round: $400 You might be a redneck if you know this comic worked at IBM for 5 years; yeah, those are better when he tells 'em |
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#879. Season 31
Friday, November 21, 2014 MEDIA Jeopardy Round: $200 In 2011 Antonin Scalia wrote, "like...books, plays and movies," these games "communicate ideas" |
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#880. Season 39
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 MACHINES Jeopardy Round: $600 Not as famous as its chess-playing descendant, in 1962 an IBM 7094 beat a champion named Robert Nealey at this game |
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#881. Season 30
Monday, September 16, 2013 INTELLIGENCE Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 An early fictional example of A.I., he was a humanoid computer from the planet Colu who battled Superman |
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#882. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $200 Try explaining to your kids how this 1972 4-letter arcade game from Atari was the coolest thing ever for a while |
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#883. Season 40
Thursday, April 11, 2024 A YEAR ENDING IN 4 Jeopardy Round: $400 Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called TheFacebook |
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#884. 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 |
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#885. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING Double Jeopardy Round: $400 How about earthquake prediction? FYI, Mountain View is on the Monte Vista one of these |
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#886. Season 24
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 ANIMATED MOVIES Jeopardy Round: $600 Tom Hanks voiced 4 characters in this Christmas film that used motion-capture technology |
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#887. Season 32
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 PORTMANTEAU WORDS Jeopardy Round: $400 In the late 19th century, new technology made possible this method of capital punishment |
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#888. Season 14
Tuesday, November 11, 1997 MIND YOUR BUSINESS Jeopardy Round: $200 In 1955, a transistor radio was one of the first products to carry this brand name founded by Akio Morita |
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#889. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024 COMPUTER TECH Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 Cryptocurrency transactions are recorded using this database technology that sounds like a defensive strategy |
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#890. 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 |
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#891. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019 PLACES OF LEGEND Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Google Maps doesn't have this island where King Arthur was taken to be healed |
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#892. Season 18
Tuesday, April 30, 2002 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000 An empty Goodyear blimp weighs over 12,000 lbs.; when they fill it with this gas, it weighs only 100 to 200 pounds |
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#893. Season 18
Wednesday, January 30, 2002 "THOU" Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 This Microsoft computer system first combined Windows NT technology with the 98 GUI |
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#894. Season 41
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 MIX -OLOGY Jeopardy Round: $600 It's cutting edge:LENGTHY COO |
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#895. Season 14
Wednesday, June 24, 1998 COMPUTER LITERACY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Digital computers use this number system in which the decimal number 12 becomes 1100 |
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#896. Season 31
Thursday, October 23, 2014 THAT IS LIKE SO LATE 20th CENTURY Jeopardy Round: $800 "It's on like" this Nintendo video game |
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#897. 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 |
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#898. Season 35
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 SCI-FI SUBGENRES Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 "-punk" subgenres include this one where you'll find "Snow Crash", about a computer virus & lots else |
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#899. Season 11
Monday, September 5, 1994 BUSINESS & INDUSTRY Jeopardy Round: $400 Akio Morita, who founded this electronics giant, was born into a sake-making family in 1921 |
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#900. Season 41
Friday, October 25, 2024 RETRONYMS Jeopardy Round: $800 Before the IBM Selectric was a hit commercially, you probably had to hunt & peck on this kind of machine |
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#901. 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 |
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#902. Season 26
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 TOYS & GAMES Jeopardy Round: $1000 Ms. Birdy will help if you adopt these plush pets with secret codes for use on the Internet |
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#903. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $200 On damnyouautothis.com: "Do you think Leonardo diva person will win an Oscar...Leonardo fixation...Lombardo DiCaprio" |
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#904. Season 23
Friday, March 16, 2007 "LEP"RECHAUN Jeopardy Round: $600 This neurological disorder marked by seizures can produce disturbances in the brain's electrical activity |
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#905. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $600 This company with another medium in its name created the color TV system we use today |
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#906. Season 38
Monday, January 24, 2022 THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER Double Jeopardy Round: $800 The iPhone is introduced & a marital temptation arises |
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#907. Season 28
Thursday, September 29, 2011 IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 2011 Larry Page took over as CEO of Google, following this man |
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#908. Season 40
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 FUN & GAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $800 A 2023 film pulled back the curtain on how this video game took over the world, one falling block at a time |
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#909. Season 33
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 TELECOMMUNICATIONS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 It's the ability to connect; it can follow "internet" or, in Wayne's World, "cable" |
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#910. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006 COMPUTER SPEAK Jeopardy Round: $200 This word for fire is also an abusive note on a message board or in a chat room |
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#911. Season 40
Monday, July 8, 2024 ENDGAME Jeopardy Round: $800 Sub-Zero is on the ropes, & Sonya has been told to "Finish him!!" in this video game franchise; Sonya shall indeed finish him |
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#912. 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 |
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#913. Season 32
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 RICHES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Better than first class! I'm flying private in one of these jets named for electrical engineer William |
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#914. Season 28
Friday, December 16, 2011 THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $800 Press "Scan" on the social site that bills itself as "Chat" this game & you are visually connected to a random user |
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#915. 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? |
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#916. Season 39
Friday, December 9, 2022 COMPANY NAME ORIGINS Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 The name of this tech company is a shortening of the metropolis where it was founded by 2 Stanford computer scientists in 1984 |
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#917. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $600 The first cable of this type laid across the Atlantic went into service in 1988, doubling call capacity |
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#918. Season 37
Monday, October 12, 2020 ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER Double Jeopardy Round: $800 A small, flat portable computer & a fight between 2 armies |
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#919. 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 |
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#920. Season 22
Monday, February 6, 2006 AT THE MALL Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Found "just what I needed" at this "City", an electronics store |
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#921. 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 |
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#922. Season 38
Thursday, December 9, 2021 IN RECENT YEARS Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 In 2018 it was reported that this British firm had accessed the personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users |
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#923. Season 38
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type |
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#924. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011 COMPUTER GAMES Jeopardy Round: $600 In this game's sequel, we return to the underwater city of Rapture & take a submerged walk in Big Daddy's diving suit |
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#925. Season 16
Tuesday, April 25, 2000 STRING Jeopardy Round: $200 A joke goes, modern kids play cell phones by using 2 of these with no string between them |
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#926. Season 13
Friday, March 21, 1997 AMERICAN MUSEUMS Jeopardy Round: $100 Scitrek is the science and technology museum of this Georgia capital |
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#927. 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 |
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#928. Season 22
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 NEWER WORDS & PHRASES Final Jeopardy The Academie Francaise has officially translated it as "toile d'araignee mondiale" |
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#929. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $200 Bugs Bunny & Foghorn Leghorn are competitors in this basketball game for the Sony PlayStation |
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#930. Season 29
Thursday, December 6, 2012 1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Introduced by DuPont in 1938, Dr. West's miracle toothbrush was the first made of this synthetic polymer |
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#931. Season 21
Thursday, July 14, 2005 POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS Double Jeopardy Round: $400 Sometimes the principal uses this state as an electronic amplification apparatus to get the word out |
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#932. Season 8
Tuesday, March 24, 1992 COMPUTERESE Double Jeopardy Round: $200 They can come in dot, matrix & laser varieties |
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#933. Season 21
Tuesday, January 4, 2005 TECHNOLOGY Final Jeopardy In 1913 this alloy was invented by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England, a city known for its cutlery since before 1400 |
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#934. Season 20
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 INNS Jeopardy Round: $600 Jan. 1, 1996 was Holiday Inn's deadline for all its properties to open room doors with these |
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#935. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004 DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER? Jeopardy Round: $400 It's the decorative term for the background design on your computer screen |
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#936. 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" |
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#937. Season 15
Friday, February 12, 1999 CORPORATE HISTORIES Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This pair has been selling books in stores "Since 1873" & on the internet since 1997 |
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#938. Season 8
Thursday, October 17, 1991 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 The collector on a solar furnace is a parabolic one of these |
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#939. Season 28
Friday, February 17, 2012 BORN IN 1912 Jeopardy Round: $200 This cartoonist's 100th birthday was commemorated with a Google doodle feature a drawing of his ghoulish family. |
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#940. Season 16
Monday, March 6, 2000 MICROSOFT Double Jeopardy Round: $600 Microsoft originally based this CD-ROM encyclopedia on the Funk & Wagnalls |
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#941. Season 26
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 INTERNET FAVORITES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 The online news dispensary called this "Report" isn't named for menial work but for its creator Matt |
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#942. Season 34
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 VIRUSES Jeopardy Round: $200 To hackers, this way into a house also means a security bypass that can let a virus infect a computer |
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#943. Season 16
Tuesday, November 2, 1999 COMPUTER LITERACY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This executive has written of "Business at the Speed of Thought" & "The Road Ahead" |
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#944. Season 23
Thursday, March 8, 2007 COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD Jeopardy Round: $1000 The Internet country code for this country near Florida is .bs |
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#945. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF Jeopardy Round: 800 This underwhelming squadron commander from "Catch-22" got a promotion caused by a computer with a sense of humor |
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#946. 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 |
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#947. 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 |
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#948. Season 14
Friday, May 29, 1998 SCIENCE & NATURE Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 Announced on February 14, 1946, this first electronic digital computer had 18,000 vacuum tubes |
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#949. Season 34
Friday, March 30, 2018 PLAYING THE PALLADIUM Double Jeopardy Round: $2000 You may have palladium in your pocket; cell phones use it in the ceramic type of this "C" device that stores electricity |
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#950. Season 18
Monday, December 3, 2001 INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Keep quiet with .sh, the code for this south Atlantic island, a place of exile for Napoleon |
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#951. Season 27
Friday, October 29, 2010 BIBLE BOOK NAMES Double Jeopardy Round: $1600 12 letters: Why?! Why didn't I buy Microsoft when it hit the market in 1986?! & wearing that Speedo?! What was I thinking?! |
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#952. Season 31
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 WORDPLAY Final Jeopardy Subtract a letter from the name of a keystroke found in computer commands & you get this violent reaction to social change |
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#953. 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 |
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#954. Season 25
Monday, May 18, 2009 RECENT SPACE NEWS Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 This country used its NIGCOMSAT-1 to help provide Internet access to its rural areas |
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#955. Season 38
Monday, March 28, 2022 FROM THE SKY Jeopardy Round: $800 It's the method of delivering supplies seen here, or a method of delivering a cute photo of your niece to your mom's iPad |
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#956. Season 40
Friday, March 15, 2024 ON THE WEB Jeopardy Round: $1000 Called "China's Google", this search engine became the first Chinese company to be listed on the NASDAQ 100 |
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#957. Season 33
Thursday, March 16, 2017 JACK Jeopardy Round: $400 The Sept. 7 2016 announcement that the headphone jack was out on this device was not 100% well received |
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#958. Season 24
Friday, December 7, 2007 TESTING, TESTING Jeopardy Round: $800 In A.I.'s Turing Test, a person asks questions of 2 subjects & has to determine which one is not human but this |
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#959. Season 19
Thursday, May 15, 2003 SCANDINAVIANS Jeopardy Round: $200 Somehow a pulp & paper concern begun by Finn Frederik Idestam in 1865 evolved into this cell phone giant |
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#960. Season 40
Thursday, March 28, 2024 ALPHANUMERICS Jeopardy Round: $800 This technology introduced in 2019 brought faster connectivity all over an area |
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#961. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 A trackball is basically one of these control devices lying on its back |
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#962. Season 20
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 A BRAND NEW DAY Double Jeopardy Round: $400 This computer brand founded in 1982 used a "Q" in its name so that it could be trademarked |
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#963. 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 |
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#964. Season 27
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY Jeopardy Round: $1000 Electrical activity impeding communication |
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#965. Season 34
Monday, March 19, 2018 TECHNOLOGY Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Metallic ink used in a special T-shirt allows it to display the 4th Amendment when you wear it in this TSA machine |
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#966. Season 30
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 NET ADVERTISING Double Jeopardy Round: $400 In computer marketing, "above the fold" refers to the part of a web page seen without doing this |
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#967. Season 16
Thursday, November 11, 1999 TECH BUSINESS & INDUSTRY Double Jeopardy Round: $1000 Linus Torvalds developed this upstart computer operating system that's usually available at no cost |
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#968. Season 27
Thursday, December 9, 2010 IN THE DOGHOUSE Jeopardy Round: $400 London's Elmtree offers under-floor heating & has installed these so you can view your pet via computer |
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#969. Season 23
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 SCIENCE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Electrically speaking, it's the opposite of resistivity |
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#970. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021 ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $400 A 3-letter icon on a piece of technology says that it has been okayed by this government commission |
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#971. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023 RESEARCH Jeopardy Round: $400 The service launched as this search engine company "Print" in 2004 now has more than 40 million titles of scanned books |
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#972. 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 |
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#973. Season 28
Friday, January 20, 2012 PHYSICS Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Add this word to "electro" to get the adjective for electrical phenomena produced by charges at rest |
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#974. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005 HANDY TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $800 This company that sells Dimension computers now sells a GPS system for the Axim PDAs |
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#975. Season 31
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL FIRSTS Jeopardy Round: $200 His 1997 inaugural was the first to be broadcast live on the Internet |
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#976. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001 INTERNET SHORTHAND Jeopardy Round: $200 PLS |
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#977. Season 25
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 APT ANAGRAMS Jeopardy Round: $1000 This Internet service was big in the '90s: I ONCE RAN EMAIL |
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#978. Season 32
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $600 Bobby Murphy was a co-founder of this conversation app once known as Picaboo |
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#979. Season 19
Thursday, May 22, 2003 POL POT-POURRI Jeopardy Round: $200 In 1949 Pol Pot went to study radio electronics in this city where he ended up joining the French Communist Party |
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#980. Season 28
Monday, January 9, 2012 SO VERY JANUARY 9 Jeopardy Round: $400 2007: Ending years of intense speculation, Apple introduced this product |
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#981. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990 COMPUTERS Double Jeopardy Round: $200 Piece of peripheral hardware whose name comes from "Modulator Demodulator" |
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#982. Season 22
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $1000 Put pulped cellulose fiber mixed with water & fillers into a Fourdrinier machine & it comes out as this |
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#983. 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" |
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#984. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $1000 In 2015 Funny or Die had a picture of a storefront sign of this tech chain; many letters were fritzed out but "adioS" remained |
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#985. Season 22
Monday, May 1, 2006 B MINUS Jeopardy Round: $1000 Snip the B from Mr. Ives & you'll get this Internet destination |
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#986. Season 5
Monday, January 16, 1989 MOVIE TRIVIA Jeopardy Round: $200 The WSJ compared the carrot-shredding "Robot-Coupe" food processor to this human-shredding hero |
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#987. Season 26
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 "TEXT" ME Jeopardy Round: $200 This system of linking Internet documents contains cross-references so you can jump easily between them |
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#988. Season 14
Tuesday, March 31, 1998 "BOO"! Double Jeopardy Round: $800 This type of algebra uses "AND", "OR", & "NOT" as operators that restrict searches on the internet |
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#989. 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 |
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#990. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997 COMPUTERS Jeopardy Round: $200 Hewlett-Packard, Epson & Canon all make the ink-jet variety of these peripherals |
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#991. Season 32
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 TECHNOLOGY Jeopardy Round: $1000 Most welding torches use this colorless gas, C2H2, burned with oxygen to produce a heat high enough to cut metal |
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#992. Season 11
Monday, May 8, 1995 VIDEO GAMES Jeopardy Round: $300 As the game's name tells you, he's the "Consulting Detective" |
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#993. Season 7
Friday, May 24, 1991 TOYS & GAMES Jeopardy Round: $300 "Pong"s creator began this video game co. & named it for a Japanese word for "a winner" |
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#994. 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" |
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#995. Season 33
Friday, February 17, 2017 SERIOUS HARDWARE Jeopardy Round: $1000 A computer tool used to connect networks, or a hardware tool that cuts below the main surface |
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#996. Season 24
Friday, September 28, 2007 MEASURE TIME Double Jeopardy Round: $1200 Computer printer image quality is measured in DPI, which stands for this |
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#997. Season 38
Friday, April 1, 2022 THANK YOU, THE INTERNET Jeopardy Round: $600 Shout-out to the man who told a barista at this business his name was Marc with a "C" & posted a pic of his cup... for "Cark" |
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#998. 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 |
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#999. 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 |
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#1000. Season 34
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE Double Jeopardy Round: $800 Bad Piggies is a spin-off of this popular mobile game |
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