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#1. Season 17
Thursday, November 9, 2000
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $300
The symbol for this unit of electrical resistance is the Greek letter omega
   
#2. 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
   
#3. Season 41
Friday, November 8, 2024
THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
On its first day in North America August 14, 1989, it was said, "Let there be Sega", & this console was released, & it was good
   
#4. Season 24
Monday, November 26, 2007
LOOSE WHEEL
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
If the wheel is loose on your computer's mouse, you may find it hard to do this up & down screen function
   
#5. Season 40
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
ALSO A STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Internet domain for the Holy See
   
#6. Season 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Early phonographs which featured jeweled styluses used cylinders covered with this
   
#7. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
If we're talking NiCads, we're talking about these in laptops
   
#8. 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"
   
#9. Season 16
Monday, June 12, 2000
5-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $100
On the internet www.dol.gov gets you the Department of this
   
#10. 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
   
#11. 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
   
#12. 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!
   
#13. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Leading applications of this type are Lotus 1-2-3 & Excel
   
#14. Season 32
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
"M"TERTAINMENT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Riven" is the sequel to this adventure video game
   
#15. Season 36
Monday, March 16, 2020
RECENT EVENTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This game involving scavenging was first announced at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards but didn't become available until 2017
   
#16. Season 29
Thursday, June 6, 2013
LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Providing antivirus & firewall technology:
MFE
   
#17. Season 24
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
& THE AWARD GOES TO...
Jeopardy Round: $800
The Turing Award for contributions to this field was first given to Alan Perlis for his compiler construction
   
#18. 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
   
#19. Season 41
Monday, February 10, 2025
TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
Murderous blood-splatter specialist Michael C. Hall is addicted to his cell phone & can't stop messaging
   
#20. Season 8
Tuesday, January 21, 1992
THE SEAS
Jeopardy Round: $500
Electrical resistance is used to measure this in sea water
   
#21. Season 32
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
ALSO A CHURCH WORD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The hero of this video game is Master Chief
   
#22. Season 31
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
This verb for what a computer does when it networks with another is used in office jargon to mean "meet & talk"
   
#23. Season 18
Monday, April 15, 2002
FILL IN THE BANK
Jeopardy Round: $800
A collection of information on a subject, stored in a computer: _____ bank
   
#24. Season 41
Friday, December 6, 2024
IN THE KITCHEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This word for applying a sugary coating to a donut or pastry is also Internet slang for cringey adoration
   
#25. Season 38
Friday, July 15, 2022
MEXICAN HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Selected for development using a computer, this Yucatan city got its first hotel in 1974 & is now Mexico's No. 1 beach resort
   
#26. Season 25
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
STARTS WITH FEB, TREBEK
Jeopardy Round: $800
Computer displays in some 2004 Pontiacs showed the wrong day of the week because engineers forgot about this date
   
#27. Season 31
Friday, September 26, 2014
SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $200
This word for an undead person also refers to a computer that's been taken over to send spam
   
#28. 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
   
#29. 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
   
#30. 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"
   
#31. Season 24
Monday, December 31, 2007
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Tim Berners-Lee helped create the World Wide Web at this particle physics lab near Geneva
   
#32. Season 24
Thursday, March 13, 2008
OF A SALESMAN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This 1992 presidential candidate sold IBM computers in Texas before starting his own company, EDS
   
#33. 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
   
#34. Season 23
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
2 WORDS IN ONE
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Avionics" flies from these words
   
#35. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Until '39 the clock used to keep Greenwich Mean Time was regulated by one of these crystals
   
#36. 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
   
#37. Season 39
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
THE "SILVER" STATE
Jeopardy Round: $600
A cosmic hero of the comics, this name can also refer to a senior citizen who regularly uses the Internet
   
#38. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
In just 3 days in 1996, this company sold 350,000 new N64 systems featuring Super Mario 64
   
#39. 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"
   
#40. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
With flowing white hair, Geralt of Rivia is a monster slayer in this video game series based on the stories of Andrzej Sapkowski
   
#41. Season 11
Monday, May 8, 1995
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Tie Fighter from Lucas Arts is based on this film series
   
#42. Season 28
Friday, July 6, 2012
THE WEBS OF WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $200
YouTube & Blogger are part of this company, the No. 1 search engine
   
#43. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: 1600
Widely known as the "Father of the Supercomputer", he built some of the most powerful & expensive computers of the last century
   
#44. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004
DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's not a small Granny Smith, it's a small piece of computer code that can be transferred over the Internet
   
#45. Season 32
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
HEROES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Also the name of an old video game, it precedes "of the faith" in British monarchs' titles
   
#46. Season 5
Thursday, May 18, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Each year, Idaho sends samples of this crop to California's Camp Pendleton to be tested for disease
   
#47. Season 34
Thursday, April 19, 2018
FICTIONAL STUDENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In one "Star Trek" video game, you play David Forester, a cadet at this academy in San Francisco
   
#48. 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"
   
#49. 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
   
#50. Season 34
Monday, November 20, 2017
TECH CRUNCH
Jeopardy Round: $200
Still a giant, especially in supercomputers, in the '60s it had a 70% market share of world computer sales
   
#51. Season 31
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
CEOs
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2013 this Facebook CEO ranked first on a list of the world's highest-rated CEOs
   
#52. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"Cabbie weekly salary"; "Charles Palantine campaign woman name"
   
#53. Season 27
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
THE NEW YORK TIMESIN THE 21st CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The 1st Timescast of newsroom video aired in 2010 & 1 story discussed was this tech co.'s rocky relationship with China
   
#54. Season 20
Friday, April 23, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1913 at a plant in Highland Park, Michigan, a car from his company became the first produced on an assembly line
   
#55. Season 34
Thursday, May 3, 2018
THESE ARE DAYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
On Facebook & Instagram, "TT" can stand for Transformation Tuesday; 2 days later, TBT is this glimpse at the past
   
#56. Season 14
Thursday, March 26, 1998
PUT "IT"
Jeopardy Round: $200
A homer, a murder or a visit to a World Wide Web site
   
#57. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In March '87, Apple introduced the Macintosh SE, the 1st Mac considered a "clone" of this industry "standard"
   
#58. Season 33
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
FILL IN THE ____
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Named for physicist Georg:
____'s law of electrical resistance
   
#59. Season 33
Thursday, April 20, 2017
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Mother is a computer on the Nostromo in this 1979 Ridley Scott movie
   
#60. 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
   
#61. Season 37
Friday, June 11, 2021
EDUCATION
Jeopardy Round: $600
A counterpart of the Rhodes Scholarship, Kennedy Scholarships enable British citizens to study at these 2 Boston-area schools
   
#62. Season 25
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Sealy makes these with "advanced memory foam technology"
   
#63. Season 21
Friday, February 4, 2005
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Ferromagnetism, or attraction by an electrically uncharged body, is a property of this element, atomic number 26
   
#64. Season 14
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In the 1950s Grace Hopper created this "Common Business-Oriented Language" for computers
   
#65. 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
   
#66. 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
   
#67. Season 13
Thursday, May 15, 1997
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FIRSTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Though best known for his pendulum, he also developed the first gyroscope in 1852
   
#68. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $600
Many online games say they are "F2P" , meaning this; beware, there are usually ways to spend cash down the line
   
#69. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004
BLOGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Lawyer Lawrence Lessig started blogging after being thrown off the anti-trust case against this software giant
   
#70. Season 34
Monday, October 16, 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this, enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines
   
#71. Season 31
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
ALL YOU NEED IS "LOVE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Internet is full of tips to get rid of these, the bulges of fat at the sides of the waist
   
#72. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $100
FYI
   
#73. 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
   
#74. Season 3
Friday, March 27, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Manufactured by Seeburg, the M-100-B of 1950 was the 1st of these to play 45s
   
#75. Season 15
Thursday, April 1, 1999
THE BOZO NEWS
Jeopardy Round: $400
A German driver landed in the Havel River after his electronic navigator failed to say: wait for one of these
   
#76. Season 37
Thursday, May 27, 2021
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $800
To "zip" a file is to do this to it, shrink it so that it takes up less memory & can be more easily sent or downloaded
   
#77. 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
   
#78. Season 13
Monday, April 21, 1997
LETTER PERFECT
Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer chip is named for the type of TV programming parents may want to block
   
#79. Season 27
Friday, December 10, 2010
LAST NAME'S THE SAME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Current defense secretary Robert M. & Microsoft-y Bill
   
#80. Season 19
Friday, March 7, 2003
THE PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $600
This Internet service provider can be on your cell phone with its "Anywhere" program
   
#81. Season 28
Thursday, July 26, 2012
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $600
In September 2008 Google unveiled this new web browser
   
#82. 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
   
#83. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011
VIDEO GAME HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
id Software says hardcore PC games went mainstream in 1994 when it unleashed this fatal-sounding game
   
#84. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
Some organisms including certain bacteria are described as this, meaning they don't require oxygen to survive
   
#85. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $600
Abbreviated BB, it's a popular data-transmission method capable of sending multiple channels at once
   
#86. Season 36
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences gives out these awards "honoring the best of the Internet"
   
#87. Season 41
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
"A"CRONYMS & "A"BBREVIATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Internet domain code for this nation is .az
   
#88. Season 37
Friday, April 9, 2021
ACTION FIGURES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the "Left 4 Dead" video games, you can play as an apocalyptic survivor or as one of these undead beings, "the infected"
   
#89. Season 34
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
WORKS LIKE A CHARM
Jeopardy Round: $800
The user's manual says the first step in assembling the Motorola CHARM for use is to insert this card
   
#90. Season 34
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
ELEMENTARY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,800
This precious metal boasts the highest thermal & electrical conductivity
   
#91. Season 13
Tuesday, April 8, 1997
CONTEMPORARIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
While Charles Babbage was trying to build a computer in the 1820s, this Scot invented what would be a "Mac"
   
#92. Season 39
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
ADAPTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Neil Druckmann, creator of this video game partly inspired by the book "The World Without Us", helped adapt it for HBO in 2023
   
#93. Season 36
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
COLORFUL TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Not a full but a partial loss of electrical power
   
#94. Season 17
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
CHEMISTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $400
Sodium & this yellow-green gas are produced when salt is melted down & an electrical current is run through it
   
#95. Season 18
Monday, October 8, 2001
INTERNET LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $100
The advice DQYDJ means don't quit your this
   
#96. Season 5
Wednesday, March 22, 1989
THE MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
An electrical phenomenon, or a 1985 Brat Pack film that did phenomenal success
   
#97. Season 39
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
SCI-FI & FANTASY
Jeopardy Round: $400
P. Djèlí Clark uses this subgenre named for Victorian-era technology for his "Dead Djinn" stories set in an alternate 1912 Cairo
   
#98. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Reportedly, the first call on a commercially sold radio pager was in 1950 to a doctor who was doing this at the time
   
#99. Season 26
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
THE WAY IN
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
An Internet site that offers e-mail & a search engine is called one of these entryways to the web
   
#100. Season 35
Friday, September 21, 2018
ONE GIANT LEAP
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In the '70s Dennis Ritchie created this computer language & your web browser is likely written in it or in it "++"
   
#101. 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
   
#102. 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
   
#103. Season 33
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
ABBREVIATED K
Jeopardy Round: $200
As a unit of computer memory
   
#104. Season 41
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY
Jeopardy Round: $600
"People also ask" on Google, "What is the correct pronunciation?" of this family of bears & "always religious?"
   
#105. Season 14
Wednesday, May 27, 1998
1997 BUSINESS NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In Jan. some said this computer chip maker would become the world's most profitable company by 1999
   
#106. Season 30
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
NET ADVERTISING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Forcing users to do a certain Facebook action before getting more product info is called this "-gating"
   
#107. Season 25
Monday, May 4, 2009
THEFORTUNE500
Jeopardy Round: $600
Fortune's "Most Likely to Succeed" was this Internet search site at No. 119 with 35 different "buy" ratings
   
#108. Season 25
Monday, June 29, 2009
AN ALLOCATION OF ALLITERATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
If your cell phone reception is lousy, call back on this
   
#109. 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"
   
#110. Season 20
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
ACRONYMBLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
To a computer user:
DOS
   
#111. Season 37
Thursday, September 17, 2020
DISCOUNT CEOs?
Jeopardy Round: $400
Mark Zuckerberg asked Facebook for this salary in 2013, making him the lowest-paid guy there
   
#112. Season 21
Friday, May 13, 2005
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
He was born in New York, & his howling early success was helped by his state-of-the-art Internet campaign
   
#113. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
The "D" in a DoS attack
   
#114. Season 39
Monday, October 17, 2022
HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The 2016 Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize of computing", went to this hyphenated Brit "for inventing the World Wide Web"
   
#115. 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
   
#116. Season 32
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
INVENTION & INNOVATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
University of Calgary grad James Gosling created this computer language for Sun Microsystems
   
#117. 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
   
#118. Season 28
Monday, February 27, 2012
SOCIAL STUDIES
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
"The Social" this plural noun "Marketing Book" has chapters on networks like Myspace and Facebook
   
#119. Season 13
Friday, March 21, 1997
AMERICAN MUSEUMS
Jeopardy Round: $100
Scitrek is the science and technology museum of this Georgia capital
   
#120. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1904, this ex-shoe salesman & Illinois medical school graduate patented his arch support
   
#121. Season 6
Tuesday, June 12, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
When the first of these airtight cooking pots appeared in 1679, it was called "Papin's digester"
   
#122. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Term for the small picture that represents an object on a display screen
   
#123. Season 26
Friday, December 25, 2009
TERMS OF ENGINEERMENT
Jeopardy Round: $800
16th c. scientist William Gilbert is called the father of this type of engineering; a device he invented detected charge
   
#124. Season 29
Monday, September 24, 2012
LARRY, MO- & CURLY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Aug. 19, 2004 was a good day for Larry Page--he netted $3.8 billion as this website he co-founded went public
   
#125. Season 8
Thursday, March 12, 1992
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1967 the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with this institute
   
#126. Season 14
Friday, September 5, 1997
BORN IN THE '60s
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned
   
#127. Season 27
Thursday, September 30, 2010
NEW ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $400
Skype uses VoIP, which stands for this "over Internet protocol"
   
#128. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
You had left, middle & right fire buttons in this game, also the name of a U.S. Army unit known as MICOM
   
#129. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
During the 15th-17th centuries these developed from the matchlock to the wheellock to the flintlock
   
#130. Season 16
Monday, April 24, 2000
PLANETARY NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the '90s video game competitors ran rings around this Sega console
   
#131. Season 20
Friday, May 7, 2004
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Using Du Pont technology, the first one of these with synthetic bristles was introduced in 1938
   
#132. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the device that enables one computer to communicate with another by telephone
   
#133. Season 20
Thursday, July 8, 2004
JUMP ON THE "BAND" WAGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"The Wrath of Cortex" is this Australasian marsupial's new video game
   
#134. Season 24
Monday, June 2, 2008
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It can mean any computer used by an individual, or an IBM-type machine as opposed to a Mac
   
#135. 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
   
#136. 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
   
#137. 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
   
#138. Season 20
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
This singing game in which we "all fall down" may have originally referred to a deadly plague of the 1300s
   
#139. 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
   
#140. Season 10
Monday, May 9, 1994
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $100
Sega released its third version of this video game February 2, 1994, Groundhog Day
   
#141. 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"
   
#142. 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
   
#143. Season 34
Monday, June 11, 2018
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOKS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
Recalibrating our emotions & restocking our immune systems are 2 good reasons "Why We" do this in a recent title
   
#144. Season 25
Monday, September 29, 2008
STUPID ANSWERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This magazine has been a popular source of science & technology news since its inception in 1872
   
#145. Season 33
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Wasteland is the result of nuclear war; exit one of these title shelters & rebuild in the 4th edition
   
#146. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,500
If you see the following symbol at the start of a TV show, it means this service is available:
   
#147. Season 35
Friday, May 10, 2019
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
From the Greek for "around", it's an auxiliary device like a keyboard or printer that's attached to a computer
   
#148. Season 35
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
ENDS WITH "ART"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This brand that popularized food processors in the '70s became a trademark of the Conair Corporation
   
#149. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $600
You know what they say -- it isn't..., it's the size of the fight in the dog
   
#150. 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
   
#151. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Far less powerful than today's PC, this 1950s machine was the U.S.A.'s first commercial computer
   
#152. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $800
The 7 rotatable blocks used in this video game have names like Orange Ricky, Hero & Smashboy
   
#153. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009
COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the brains of the operation:
CPU
   
#154. Season 18
Thursday, June 13, 2002
THE COLD WAR YEARS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The launching of this in 1957 shocked the west as it showed the Soviets had the edge in space technology
   
#155. 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
   
#156. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In games called this "Defense", like "Unstoppable Gorg", players protect outposts from waves of baddies
   
#157. Season 31
Thursday, December 18, 2014
U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORTBEST OF 2014
Jeopardy Round: $1000
When it comes to a computer science Ph.D. program, this university in Pittsburgh leads the field
   
#158. Season 38
Thursday, October 7, 2021
U.S. FRANCHISES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Completes the name of the business started in 2009 after the founder cracked his cell phone screen: uBreak...
   
#159. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It was first developed as a means of detecting both icebergs & submarines
   
#160. 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
   
#161. 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
   
#162. Season 23
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
SYMBOLIC STOCKS
Jeopardy Round: $600
ERTS:
The game is on for this company if you're "Madden" got the "Need for Speed"
   
#163. Season 25
Monday, June 1, 2009
CELEBRITY ANECDOTES
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2002 this New Orleans pianist & singer patented a device that lets musicians read the score off computer screens
   
#164. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
These pre-Edison "lamps" worked by forcing current across the gap between conductors
   
#165. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Social insects, termites live in groups of a few hundred to several million called these
   
#166. Season 31
Thursday, October 16, 2014
MUSIC
Jeopardy Round: $600
That's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo & Thomas Bangalter under the helmets of the robots of this electronic duo
   
#167. 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
   
#168. Season 33
Monday, March 6, 2017
THE ILLUMI-NAUGHTY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The Illuminati act all shadowy in the 2016 edition of this video game that doesn't end in "machina"
   
#169. Season 30
Friday, December 27, 2013
POP CULTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This ex-cop named for what he can either dish out or endure got his third bloody video game installment in 2012
   
#170. Season 30
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
INTERNET FIRSTS
Final Jeopardy
A broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995 holds this distinction
   
#171. Season 25
Thursday, March 12, 2009
SHOW BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This company took a big step in computer animation by buying Pixar
   
#172. 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"
   
#173. 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"
   
#174. Season 17
Monday, November 13, 2000
SEATTLE MEANS BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This company had its genesis when 2 Seattle boys read an article about the Altair 8800
   
#175. Season 38
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
THE LEAGUE LEADER
Jeopardy Round: $600
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, & Blitzcrank & Dr. Mundo as well, fighting champions in this online video game
   
#176. Season 22
Thursday, July 20, 2006
ABBREVIATED U.S. STATES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Put the abbreviation for this state with "scan" & you get a computerized diagnostic medical technique
   
#177. Season 34
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
NEW WORDS IN 1988
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Hyphenated term for a work by Camus or Clancy, but on the computer
   
#178. 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
   
#179. Season 25
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
COMPUTER RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $800
A device to digitally copy a landed estate
   
#180. Season 16
Tuesday, November 9, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's the third-largest planet in our solar system
   
#181. 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
   
#182. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
A series of three connected dots is an icon for this 7-letter action with files, not toys
   
#183. Season 30
Monday, December 23, 2013
MERRY CHRIS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Chris Parnell & Andy Samberg rapped their love of Google maps & the Chronic-what?-cles of Narnia on this show
   
#184. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $400
No relation to DC Comics' fastest man, this is the fast-loading animation by Adobe
   
#185. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The smallest units of information stored in a computer, they form bytes
   
#186. 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?"
   
#187. 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
   
#188. 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
   
#189. Season 3
Thursday, July 16, 1987
WORDS OF THE '80s
Jeopardy Round: $500
MIPS is a computer term meaning "millions of" these "per second"
   
#190. Season 38
Monday, July 4, 2022
NON-ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,016
Change one letter in Google's mobile phone operating system to get this type of non-liquid barometer
   
#191. Season 25
Thursday, January 8, 2009
THIS JUSTIN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The core of Justin Long's career is playing the Mac in this company's computer commercials
   
#192. Season 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
About 1840, an alphabetic code was created for communication via this new invention
   
#193. Season 21
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
JOE THE FARMER
Jeopardy Round: $400
Joe's dream vacation is a tour of this company's Technology Center in Moline, Illinois
   
#194. 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
   
#195. 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"
   
#196. Season 24
Thursday, February 21, 2008
GAMERS UNITE!
Jeopardy Round: $800
In "Shadows of Angmar", a video game based on these books, Sauron sends the Nazgul in search of some jewelry
   
#197. Season 25
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
TECH-KNOW-LEDGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
On Feb. 17, 2009 this type of TV broadcast technology will end in the U.S.; we're going digital
   
#198. Season 27
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Electrical activity impeding communication
   
#199. Season 39
Monday, June 26, 2023
METER MADE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Handy for home electrical work, the Klein tools multimeter measures up to 600 of these units
   
#200. 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
   
#201. Season 39
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
HOME COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $400
Cat 6 is one type of this cable to connect a computer to the Internet; flat ones are easier than round ones to run under the rug
   
#202. 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
   
#203. 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
   
#204. Season 38
Friday, February 18, 2022
BRING YOUR "A" GAME
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"Valhalla" is a recent entry in this video game series with a killer title
   
#205. Season 12
Thursday, April 11, 1996
"NET"s
Jeopardy Round: $300
Developed by the Dept. of Defense in the 1960s, millions now "surf" this information superhighway
   
#206. Season 7
Monday, June 24, 1991
BUSINESS LEADERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Deciding the corporate life wasn't for him, he left Apple Computer & Steven Jobs behind in 1985
   
#207. Season 36
Thursday, February 6, 2020
SHAPELY BOOK TITLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film
   
#208. Season 24
Thursday, March 6, 2008
CURSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
NFL players on the cover of his video game series are said to be cursed with future injury or poor performance
   
#209. Season 15
Friday, November 6, 1998
4-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
A computer ready to receive information over a modem is "on" this
   
#210. Season 19
Thursday, June 26, 2003
DRIVING
Jeopardy Round: $200
Tom & Ray of "Car Talk" use the slogan "Drive Now, Talk Later" to alert us to the danger of these
   
#211. Season 37
Monday, June 7, 2021
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1893 this genius made a copper egg stand on end by using his rotating magnetic field device to rapidly spin it
   
#212. Season 18
Tuesday, January 29, 2002
REFERENCE WORKS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Microsoft's Encarta has a feature called this, also the name of Microsoft's Internet browser
   
#213. Season 40
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
The cloud type of this releases a substance such as silver iodide into clouds to increase the chance of rain
   
#214. Season 21
Friday, September 10, 2004
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Mattel has set this classic boxing toy in a video game “arena”
   
#215. Season 41
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
THE DAY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Some things reported on during this day: flying penguins, Google Translate for animals & trees that grow spaghetti
   
#216. Season 28
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
QUASI-RELATED PAIRS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Tiny computer components & a short swim
   
#217. Season 24
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
AFTER MASH
Jeopardy Round: $400
In the actions used to describe grabbing an image from 1 document & moving it onto another on a computer
   
#218. Season 29
Thursday, December 6, 2012
1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered not only Pluto but Shawna, a main-belt one of these
   
#219. 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
   
#220. Season 28
Thursday, December 22, 2011
FLEECE NAVIDAD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
QVC sold out of a Christmas sweater that had reindeer whose noses lit up using this technology with hair-thin filaments
   
#221. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
2-word term for something nice to wear in winter, or for restarting a computer without turning off the power
   
#222. 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
   
#223. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Kratos kills Ares & gets this title, also the name of the video game series
   
#224. Season 9
Monday, November 23, 1992
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
A Volkswagen &, appropriately, an ovulation computer have been named for this animal
   
#225. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
P2P means this type of file sharing, like Kazaa or Limewire
   
#226. Season 31
Monday, March 2, 2015
MANY "DO"
Jeopardy Round: $400
Unavoidable ill fortune, or a bestselling 1990s video game
   
#227. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $200
If you want privacy, do it "BCD", behind these
   
#228. Season 17
Monday, February 5, 2001
RECENT MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Laurence Fishburne shows computer hacker Keanu Reeves that the world isn't what it seems in this film
   
#229. Season 38
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
AN AD JUNKED
Jeopardy Round: $800
Ads blocked on Facebook include those for weapons, spyware & this financial service for those newly arrested
   
#230. Season 29
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
YOU CAN FIND ME ONLINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This renowned physicist's website explains that the batteries for the speech computer are under the wheelchair
   
#231. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
P.M. Job if you have a good remedy for "sore" these skin eruptions, sole to scalp; scraping with a potsherd isn't doing much
   
#232. Season 22
Thursday, February 2, 2006
NEWSPAPERS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,500
"The newspaper of Silicon Valley", this San Jose paper got its name from another element mined in the area
   
#233. Season 24
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
AND SIX
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This TV show's opening narration contained the line "We can rebuild him. We have the technology"
   
#234. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Computer software is generally divided into applications software & this type
   
#235. Season 30
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
AMERICAN NOVELISTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This author of "The Bone Bed" once worked as a computer analyst at the chief medical examiner's office in Richmond
   
#236. Season 25
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This electronics store wants to be female-friendly & now has Magnolia Stores, which have a living room feel
   
#237. Season 34
Monday, April 16, 2018
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $400
Snapchat, an app on which content disappears after a certain time, has one of these for a logo, also known to fade away
   
#238. 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
   
#239. Season 33
Friday, May 26, 2017
BULLET POINTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
The electrical bullet probe invented by this Scottish-born man didn't save James Garfield but it did save lives in WWI
   
#240. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
On a monitor, 1280 x 1024 pixels is called "native" this, the degree of detail & sharpness
   
#241. Season 31
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
COURSES AT CALTECH
Jeopardy Round: $400
4 letters preceding "technology" in a course that explores "miniaturization of devices to the smallest scale"
   
#242. 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
   
#243. Season 34
Monday, October 16, 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The "brain" behind Amazon Echo, she can turn on your thermostat or tell you who won a medieval battle
   
#244. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The forerunner to the Internet known as the ARPANET was a 1960s network by this U.S. government dept.
   
#245. Season 31
Friday, April 10, 2015
BOOKS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
HAL the computer returns in "____: Odyssey Two"
   
#246. Season 11
Tuesday, September 20, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Despite its name, this type of thin plastic disk should not be bent
   
#247. Season 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1986
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
U.S. models of these have included the 1904 Caloric, the 1912 Fwick, & the 1911 Irvington Izzer
   
#248. 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
   
#249. Season 28
Friday, June 22, 2012
20th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
The first major use of simultaneous translation, before adoption by the U.N., was in this European city in 1945 & 1946
   
#250. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME
Jeopardy Round: $400
Befriend Red, collect a Rita Hayworth poster, make your getaway via a sewer level & win by finding hope in the end
   
#251. Season 5
Thursday, February 9, 1989
SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the 1830s Charles Babbage tried to make an "analytical engine", a mechanical one of these
   
#252. Season 38
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
NEW TO THEOED
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
To broadcast an event over the Internet as it happens, or to watch or listen to such a broadcast
   
#253. Season 34
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
IT'S A WIRED WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Japan's K computer was the first to reach 10 of these units of processing speeds, one of which equals 1,000 teraflops
   
#254. 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
   
#255. Season 19
Monday, March 24, 2003
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
A branch of the Internet:
WWW
   
#256. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra is a device which plays music in this alphanumeric format
   
#257. 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
   
#258. 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
   
#259. Season 33
Thursday, January 12, 2017
POP CULTURE "VICE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Harry & Dennis Hopper were just some of the voice talent in this video game, "GTA: VC"
   
#260. 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
   
#261. Season 4
Tuesday, March 15, 1988
THE 20TH CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1956, 3 U.S. physicists won Nobel Prize for this which allowed electronic miniaturization
   
#262. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
In computerese, it's what the P stands for in the abbreviation HTTP
   
#263. Season 32
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
HOW "OD"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Wildly successful electronics product introduced in October 2001
   
#264. Season 23
Thursday, May 3, 2007
TV IS SO DRAMATIC
Jeopardy Round: $600
On this show an Internet stripper has unnatural abilities that would appeal to a genetics professor
   
#265. Season 15
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Hubert Booth, not Herbert Hoover, developed the first practical electric one of these in 1901
   
#266. Season 29
Friday, May 3, 2013
INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Nick Swinmurn founded this .com in '99 after an unsuccessful trip to the mall for some shoes
   
#267. 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
   
#268. Season 9
Wednesday, June 30, 1993
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
The 1st automated instrument to analyze this genetic material's structure was developed in the mid-1980s
   
#269. 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
   
#270. Season 9
Friday, October 2, 1992
U.S.A.
Jeopardy Round: $300
Waterloo in this state is the home of the Hawkeye Institute of Technology
   
#271. Season 13
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
MILLIONAIRES
Jeopardy Round: $300
In his early 20s, programmer Marc Andreessen developed this company's internet "Navigator"
   
#272. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Name given the world's first artificial satellite
   
#273. Season 39
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
TRAVEL
Jeopardy Round: $400
Some business road warriors bring an electronics version of this handy toiletries carrier named after Charles Doppelt
   
#274. Season JM
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
1920s SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: 800
Lewis Fry Richardson proposed doing this with 64,000 computers (those were people then) & data from a world network of balloons
   
#275. Season 27
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Proverbially, it's "where the heart is"
   
#276. Season 25
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
FUN STUFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Sports car video game that's "great touring" in Italian
   
#277. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Even before all the polls closed, CBS used this huge computer to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election
   
#278. Season 40
Thursday, July 18, 2024
POP CULTURE GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This 2020 Switch game from Nintendo was subtitled "New Horizons"
   
#279. Season 28
Thursday, August 2, 2012
TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES?
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
On Sony's PS Vita you can play "Touch My" this Japanese word & roll balls of increasing size around landscapes
   
#280. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This lifesaving device had its first live test in 1946 from a Gloster Meteor aircraft
   
#281. 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
   
#282. Season 26
Thursday, March 25, 2010
WEAK RHYMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
A computer nerd
   
#283. Season 26
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
1984
Jeopardy Round: $400
January 24:
Apple introduces this influential computer model
   
#284. 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!
   
#285. Season 27
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
WHAT'S THE USE
Jeopardy Round: $600
This, named for a 10th C. Danish king, enables short-range wireless communication between electronic devices
   
#286. Season 16
Thursday, January 27, 2000
HISTORIC WEBSITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
It's little known that fake plans for this invasion were posted at www.theallies.com/
060644/overlord/
index.html
   
#287. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $600
She tweeted, "Can't sleep again tonight! Maybe it's because my baby" Kanye West "isn't here to cuddle"
   
#288. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "P" in jpeg
   
#289. Season 32
Thursday, March 17, 2016
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The most common cause of vision loss in people over 55 is age-related this, AMD for short
   
#290. Season 41
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
MIX -OLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's cutting edge:LENGTHY COO
   
#291. Season 13
Wednesday, April 30, 1997
WHEN THEY WERE TEENAGERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This Microsoft mogul was just 17 when he became president of his first company, Traf-O-Data
   
#292. Season 40
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
These organisms that form a class of marine mollusks are named for their 2-part shells connected by a hinged ligament
   
#293. Season 34
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Jeopardy Round: $200
When Eric Schmidt was chairman of this company, it acquired YouTube & started Gmail
   
#294. Season 26
Monday, September 21, 2009
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
In a registered website domain name, it's the only mark allowed that isn't a letter, number or the dot
   
#295. 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
   
#296. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
As unique as fingerprints, strands of this genetic material are used to establish paternity
   
#297. 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
   
#298. 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
   
#299. Season 39
Monday, March 20, 2023
MYSELF
Jeopardy Round: $400
His book "iWoz" is subtitled "Computer Geek to Cult Icon"
   
#300. 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
   
#301. Season 39
Friday, June 30, 2023
COMPOUND WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Headlines on the Internet such as "You won't believe what Mayim said about Charo" are this, to get you to go to the site
   
#302. Season 22
Monday, May 1, 2006
THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE BUSINESS BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1963 the Tandy Corporation bought this company; in 1977 it marketed the TRS-80 personal computer
   
#303. Season 35
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
The first Millennium Technology Prize went to this Brit for his work on HTTP, HTML & the World Wide Web
   
#304. Season 28
Friday, July 13, 2012
IT'S THE TRUTH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Printed by the GPO & also available on the Internet, it's the daily record of House & Senate activities
   
#305. Season 19
Monday, June 9, 2003
20th CENTURY PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1900 his institute of technology was founded in Pittsburgh
   
#306. Season 15
Thursday, March 11, 1999
TENNESSEE, ANYONE?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Almost all of the state's electrical power is generated by this agency, known for its dams
   
#307. Season 27
Thursday, September 30, 2010
BUSINESS BIGGIES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Though it's named for a big state, this firm founded in 1930 makes a lot of tiny electronic stuff
   
#308. Season 20
Friday, September 26, 2003
ENDS IN "OO"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Its website has been called the first large-scale directory of the Internet
   
#309. Season 30
Monday, October 21, 2013
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & birds
   
#310. Season 25
Monday, April 6, 2009
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A German theory that these devices might disorient bees isn't widely accepted, so don't dump your Sprint plan just yet
   
#311. 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
   
#312. 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
   
#313. Season 16
Wednesday, November 3, 1999
COMPUTERAMA
Jeopardy Round: $100
It's what the abbreviation FAQ stands for
   
#314. Season 8
Wednesday, July 15, 1992
ECONOMICS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Named for a video game, this anti-takeover defense has the target company trying to gobble up the acquirer
   
#315. Season 31
Friday, June 26, 2015
DAISY CRAZY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Princess Daisy is the love interest of this brother of video game plumber Mario
   
#316. Season 35
Friday, April 12, 2019
GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018
Jeopardy Round: $600
Each year the most searched-for author has been not a novelist but this man who penned "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
   
#317. Season 27
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
POLL-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
As of 2010, almost 30% of U.S. households can be reached only on these, perhaps skewing pollsters' samples
   
#318. Season 19
Wednesday, July 9, 2003
COMPUTERS
Final Jeopardy
In 2003 Dell made this computer part on its PCs an option; Apple had stopped including it on Macintoshes 5 years earlier
   
#319. Season 34
Friday, April 20, 2018
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
When disbelief abounds & you think there may be deceits, you say "show me" these, rhyming with deceits
   
#320. 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
   
#321. Season 35
Thursday, September 13, 2018
PRINCIPLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
According to Arthur C. Clarke, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from" this
   
#322. Season 19
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
2001: A CATEGORY ODYSSEY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
I'm sorry, Dave, Douglas Rain provided the voice of this ultimately murderous computer
   
#323. Season 22
Thursday, November 10, 2005
GEEK LOVE
Jeopardy Round: $600
This director's geek cred was sealed when he sold his film co.'s computer division & it later became Pixar
   
#324. Season 13
Thursday, February 13, 1997
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This company's new computer products include the Aptiva S & the Thinkpad 560
   
#325. Season 16
Thursday, September 9, 1999
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Meaning "pocket monster" in Japanese, there are about 150 of these Nintendo Game Boy creatures
   
#326. 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
   
#327. 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
   
#328. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024
COMPUTER TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
With bowling, boxing & more, in 2006 this home console from Nintendo pioneered the use of motion sensors
   
#329. Season 37
Monday, February 1, 2021
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Hey, trainers! Take on gym leaders of the Galar region for your next big battle in this series that offers "Sword" & "Shield"
   
#330. Season 38
Monday, October 11, 2021
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
The HT in HTML & HTTP stands for this
   
#331. 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
   
#332. Season 30
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
LOW-TECH HIGH TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A hard reboot of your computer can be accomplished with this simple pair of steps
   
#333. Season 24
Friday, November 16, 2007
ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $200
The 21st century has seen this communist island nation turn from sugar to tourism & biotechnology
   
#334. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $800
This word meaning to deal a blow is now a word for one look at a website
   
#335. Season 37
Monday, March 1, 2021
BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy", said this Apple Computer co-founder
   
#336. Season 33
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Master Chief & Spartan Locke are yours to command in this "5: Guardians"
   
#337. Season 19
Monday, October 21, 2002
DON'T BE SUCH A HEDGEHOG
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1999 this Sega video game hedgehog starred in his own home video
   
#338. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: 400
In classical music an op. is an opus, but over on Reddit, an O.P. is an abbreviation for this
   
#339. Season 36
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
THINK IT WILL WORK?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A big yes: this, described in a March 2006 patent filing as a "multi-functional handheld device"
   
#340. Season 29
Thursday, January 10, 2013
WHERE IS THAT PLANET?
Jeopardy Round: $200
After Google; before wind & fire
   
#341. 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
   
#342. Season 37
Thursday, May 13, 2021
SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This type of supercomputer uses subatomic particles to help processing go quickly; Honeywell is making a really fast one
   
#343. 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
   
#344. 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
   
#345. Season 36
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
GIVE US THE IMPERATIVE VERB!
Jeopardy Round: $800
Do this 6-letter imperative with your debit card at the ATM to begin your electronic transaction
   
#346. Season 23
Friday, June 1, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
If you want true high def, see your way to finding this company's Bravia TV line
   
#347. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Of printed out, erased, or stored, what you've done if you've "dumped" all the info that's in the core
   
#348. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $500
"Battlemage" is a multi-player video game based on this collectible card game
   
#349. 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
   
#350. 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
   
#351. Season 18
Monday, April 29, 2002
WHAT'S YOUR POINT?
Jeopardy Round: $200
The most common pointing device for computers; it first came to fame on the Apple Macintosh
   
#352. Season 36
Monday, February 10, 2020
NO BELL
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Motorola LS350 is this type of device also called a pager
   
#353. Season 38
Friday, May 6, 2022
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Descargar means to do this, like data off the Internet
   
#354. Season 37
Monday, October 5, 2020
YOUR HEART'S CONTENT
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,600
Your heart has a natural this, the sinoatrial node, which emits electrical impulses that cause it to contract
   
#355. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A mini robot that can shape-shift like T-1000 was created using this element, symbol Ga; it's a metal with a low melting point
   
#356. 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"
   
#357. Season 38
Thursday, April 7, 2022
COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Wow! computer for seniors says it has "free anti-virus" & this bad stuff "protection"
   
#358. Season 17
Thursday, October 5, 2000
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In "The World is Not Enough" you're this agent, secret agent
   
#359. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
One-time experiments in "express" delivery of this have included firing a guided missile from a sub in 1959
   
#360. Season 41
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
SOCIAL MEDIA
Jeopardy Round: $400
This platform traces its roots to an online service at Harvard that got students to rate each others' attractiveness
   
#361. Season 26
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's the pre-computer machine on which you'd find a QWERTY keyboard
   
#362. Season 22
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1996 "You Don't Know" this was named Video Game of the Year by the Digital Hollywood Awards
   
#363. Season 22
Friday, October 28, 2005
SCIENCE LAB
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1969 Marcian Hoff Jr. condensed all of a computer's arithmetic functions to this one tiny chip
   
#364. Season 23
Monday, December 4, 2006
SMART STUPID ANSWERS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2004 this company unleashed its legal aces on 17-year-old Mike Rowe in a phonetic dispute over a domain name
   
#365. Season 34
Thursday, July 26, 2018
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Begun as an alternative to SMS messaging & now part of Facebook, it helps a billion people keep in touch
   
#366. 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
   
#367. Season 23
Thursday, May 10, 2007
THE COMPUTER AGE
Final Jeopardy
This term still had "work" on the end when Vinton Cerf & Robert Kahn, 2 of its creators, used it in a key 1974 paper
   
#368. Season 18
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A magnetron is an electronic tube used to produce these waves found in some kitchens
   
#369. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Many of these devices support a feature called redial
   
#370. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
To come up quickly on Google, companies try to increase SEO, this type of optimization of their websites
   
#371. 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
   
#372. Season 18
Friday, July 12, 2002
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the 3-character acronym computer users and non-users alike used for the year 2000
   
#373. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $400
The mental capacity to recall facts, or a show-stopping number from "Cats"
   
#374. Season 41
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
JUST PEACHY
Jeopardy Round: $400
This video game character is the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom
   
#375. Season 21
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
"Y"? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU!
Jeopardy Round: $400
This web site started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
   
#376. 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
   
#377. Season 41
Friday, November 8, 2024
THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Also called a "diskette", this 2-word thingamajig got its nickname since its first varieties were put in bendable jackets
   
#378. 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
   
#379. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Exhaust gas recirculation is one way to clean the emissions of these engines used in trucks & Jettas
   
#380. Season 33
Thursday, April 20, 2017
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The Cardiff Giant was a PC produced on this '80s-set AMC show whose title refers to a destruct command
   
#381. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Civil War's Gatling gun was the 1st practical version of this
   
#382. Season 21
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
SHOCKING!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This unit of electrical resistance is named for a 19th century German physicist
   
#383. 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
   
#384. 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?"
   
#385. 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
   
#386. Season 21
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
MED. ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A CAT scan is computerized axial this kind of imaging
   
#387. 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"
   
#388. Season 3
Wednesday, July 15, 1987
COLLEGES
Jeopardy Round: $500
In the early '80s at Triton College, some classes in this technical subject ran from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m.
   
#389. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1989 scientists using a scanning tunneling microscope saw this double-stranded molecule for the 1st time
   
#390. Season 34
Monday, January 8, 2018
2.0
Jeopardy Round: $200
This company says its 7th generation Core i7 processors speed up your computer with turbo boost technology 2.0
   
#391. Season 24
Thursday, December 20, 2007
BETHLEHEM
Jeopardy Round: $400
A huge electrical many-pointed one of these sits atop nearby South Mountain, perhaps to guide visitors to the town
   
#392. 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
   
#393. Season 27
Thursday, June 23, 2011
"N" THE MIDDLE
Jeopardy Round: $200
You might use this electrical appliance to mix your smoothies
   
#394. Season 5
Thursday, December 8, 1988
INITIALS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In computer jargon, "GIGO" stands for this
   
#395. Season 30
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
"MICRO" OR "MACRO"
Jeopardy Round: $200
Digital behemoth founded in 1975
   
#396. 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
   
#397. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Type of engine credited with making the Industrial Revolution possible
   
#398. Season 36
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
AMERICA'S RICHEST SELF-MADE WOMEN
Jeopardy Round: $200
Meg Whitman's bid for No. 2 on the list started when she made this Internet seller a billion-dollar giant
   
#399. Season 36
Friday, December 27, 2019
PROVERBS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A computer term, GIGO is short for this
   
#400. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $500
"Strap" once completed this word meaning to start a computer by loading software
   
#401. Season 30
Thursday, February 13, 2014
VIDEO GAME VAULT
Jeopardy Round: $600
Notch, the creator of this megahit block-shaping game, made the surface area of its world larger than the earth's
   
#402. Season 5
Tuesday, January 17, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
This building material consists of sun-dried mud brick reinforced with straw
   
#403. Season 19
Friday, January 17, 2003
TEXAS TECH
Jeopardy Round: $600
Founded by Ross Perot in 1962, Electronic Data Systems got its first computer in 1965, this company's 1401
   
#404. Season 31
Monday, July 27, 2015
TECH SAVVY
Jeopardy Round: $200
If this happens to your cell phone, try leaving the frame & battery in uncooked rice
   
#405. 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
   
#406. Season 12
Thursday, October 12, 1995
AROUND THE HOUSE
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
For cooking chicken, you might use one of these small ovens with an electrically-turned spit
   
#407. Season 29
Friday, November 16, 2012
IT'S A TOUGH JOB
Jeopardy Round: $400
A Foxconn factory making iPads in this country has 240,000 workers & suicide prevention nets on the buildings
   
#408. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $200
"Kansas to Emerald City distance in miles, no traffic"; "red slippers from witch, curse?"; "winged monkeys unionized?"
   
#409. Season 33
Monday, January 16, 2017
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This item that identifies a particular cell phone user now comes in nano size, about 12 x 9 millimeters
   
#410. Season 41
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The name of this 2024 song by Post Malone & Taylor Swift sounds just like a popular video game
   
#411. 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
   
#412. Season 37
Monday, February 1, 2021
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2020 it was time to find some "New Horizons" & build your own island paradise with this Nintendo Switch game
   
#413. Season 33
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
ELECTRICITY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Luigi Galvani got a dead frog to twitch by touching metal to these during an electrical storm
   
#414. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $200
Ace & True Value both serve as this type of store
   
#415. Season 38
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
11
Jeopardy Round: $200
Released in 2021, this Microsoft operating system 11 is the first version in over 20 years shipped without Internet Explorer
   
#416. 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
   
#417. Season 33
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
"DEB"-8
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Removed errors from a computer
   
#418. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
It's what you need to operate the 1861 invention of Linus Yale
   
#419. 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
   
#420. Season 26
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
RUPERT MURDOCH, OWNER OF A LOT OF STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
We wonder if Rupe discontinued his Facebook account when he bought this social network site for $580 million in 2005
   
#421. Season 20
Monday, March 15, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
If an atom loses one of these, it becomes a cation, a positively charged ion
   
#422. 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"
   
#423. Season 33
Monday, April 24, 2017
INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1959 Squibb introduced the first one of these with an electrical cord into the U.S. using the brand name Broxodent
   
#424. Season 25
Thursday, April 2, 2009
GEEK CHIC
Jeopardy Round: $200
This smartphone brand is gunning for the iPhone with the "Storm" touchscreen phone
   
#425. Season 37
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Symbol Co, this element is big in the field of nanomagnetism, which could lead to huge steps in information technology
   
#426. Season 21
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
INVENTIVE MINDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Around 1930 William Lear invented one of these for the car, marketed under the name Motorola
   
#427. 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
   
#428. Season 13
Wednesday, June 11, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Used in medicine, waste disposal & agriculture, it's the technology of manipulating organisms for human benefit
   
#429. 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
   
#430. 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
   
#431. Season 27
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
SURFIN' USB
Jeopardy Round: $1000
USB ports on the 1998 first generation of this Apple computer helped make USB an industry standard
   
#432. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
This alloy was cast into tools even before 3000 B.C.
   
#433. Season 32
Friday, April 22, 2016
"Q" NOT FOLLOWED BY U
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This electronic stock exchange began trading on February 8, 1971
   
#434. Season 14
Friday, May 22, 1998
THE CHAIN GANG
Jeopardy Round: $200
This video store chain began renting video games in January 1994; "Wow, What A Difference"
   
#435. Season 32
Monday, December 21, 2015
REMEMBER THE '80s?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This video game was based on a Japanese folk hero known for his voracious appetite
   
#436. Season 6
Wednesday, April 18, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
A semiconductor diode is the most common of these devices that convert A.C. to D.C.
   
#437. Season 16
Monday, April 3, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
In 1933 Marconi set up one of the first microwave radio systems, between Castel Gandolfo & this sovereign state
   
#438. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $400
On May 3, 1978 Gary Thuerk sent the first of this irritating type of communication to 600 users
   
#439. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $600
To keep son from falling off his tricycle, veterinarian John Dunlop improved the tires this way
   
#440. 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
   
#441. Season 12
Wednesday, May 15, 1996
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Times & Helvetica are examples of this, a complete set of characters belonging to one typeface
   
#442. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"Treeware" is this; it comes with software programs
   
#443. Season 8
Wednesday, February 5, 1992
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
MacPAINT is a graphics program developed for this Apple computer
   
#444. Season 20
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
VOWELS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On the internet, this vowel can precede "zine", "commerce", "mail" & "bay"
   
#445. Season 29
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
MODERN-DAY CHINA
Final Jeopardy
Because Internet censors block mentions of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as "535"
   
#446. Season 39
Thursday, May 4, 2023
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
This pioneering computer language got its name from its early use in translating formulas
   
#447. Season 28
Thursday, April 12, 2012
A STATE OF...
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This, a phrase meaning the latest & most sophisticated stage of a technology
   
#448. Season 5
Monday, November 14, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Term for a moving stairway, it was originally a trademark of the Otis Elevator Co.
   
#449. Season 24
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
FUN ACROSS AMERICA
Jeopardy Round: $600
Log on to your computer to learn that Knott's Berry Farm claims to have the very first one of these "log" rides
   
#450. Season 13
Thursday, March 13, 1997
THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK
Jeopardy Round: $400
This paste, an ingredient in marzipan, may be made in a blender or in a food processor
   
#451. Season 14
Friday, February 20, 1998
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $100
A big name in computers, this company is known as HP for short
   
#452. Season 30
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
"B" GOOD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This adjective means having anatomical structures that are enhanced by electronic components
   
#453. 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
   
#454. Season 17
Tuesday, September 5, 2000
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
Among suffixes, .mx is Mexico, .jp is Japan, & in March 2000 .ps was assigned to this
   
#455. Season 13
Wednesday, September 4, 1996
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Final Jeopardy
A 60-foot steel likeness of a transistor stands at its Holmdel, N.J. office
   
#456. Season 16
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
If your PC freezes up, a handy way to restart is to hold down Ctrl & Alt & hit this key
   
#457. Season 32
Thursday, March 3, 2016
TIME OFF
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2015 Microsoft said it would require its vendors to provide workers with 15 total days a year for vacation & this
   
#458. Season 39
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
5 HEARTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Once an agricultural paradise, the "Valley of Heart's Delight" is now this tech-centric California valley
   
#459. Season 35
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
CYBER MONDAY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
You can "cast" your phone's screen to your TV with this Google product
   
#460. Season 22
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
TECHWORD MASH-UP
Jeopardy Round: $800
The product "McAfee Anti-" this 7-letter mashed-up word keeps prying eyes out of your computer
   
#461. Season 34
Monday, July 16, 2018
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This gravity man was a Christmas present in 1642, but a calendar change means he got his Google Doodle on Jan. 4
   
#462. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
More cardiac arrest patients survive thanks to purposely induced this condition, which cools the blood 5-8 degrees
   
#463. Season 28
Monday, July 9, 2012
LIFE OF PI
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1949 this acronymical computer found pi to more than 2,000 digits; modern ones have passed 2 quadrillion
   
#464. Season 26
Friday, October 30, 2009
DROP OUT
Jeopardy Round: $400
Both named Steve, these 2 now fabulously wealthy college dropouts founded Apple Computer
   
#465. Season 19
Friday, March 28, 2003
SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Pioneering computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper coined this term for a mysterious computer problem
   
#466. Season 16
Monday, July 10, 2000
CALVIN-ISM
Jeopardy Round: $100
He attended the High School of Art & Design & graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1962
   
#467. Season 24
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
BLOGS OFTHE NEW YORK TIMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Bits", a technology blog, discusses "blundits", a combination of "blogger" & this word
   
#468. Season 18
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
LARRY, MOE OR CURLY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Leisure-suited lounge lizard who's starred in a series of video games
   
#469. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Term describing materials like silicon, halfway between an insulator & a conductor
   
#470. Season 32
Thursday, March 10, 2016
THE BODY ELECTRIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Saul's brother in "Better Call Saul" suffers from EHS, electromagnetic this, so leave your cell phone outside
   
#471. Season 26
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS YOUR HQ?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Mahindra Satyam Computer Services
   
#472. Season 15
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1982 one of these vehicles deployed a satellite for the first time
   
#473. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
One year after winning an Oscar for "Girl, Interrupted", this actress played "Tomb Raider" Lara Croft
   
#474. 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
   
#475. Season 29
Friday, May 3, 2013
INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This movie & TV show rental .com claims "more than 27 million members in the United States and Canada"
   
#476. Season 38
Monday, April 18, 2022
GEOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This technology, GPR, lets geologists look beneath the surface at things like bedrock, soil layers & hidden water
   
#477. Season 41
Monday, December 30, 2024
TRANSPORTATION
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2016 Google's self-driving car project adopted this company name
   
#478. 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?
   
#479. Season 28
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN OR WOMAN
Jeopardy Round: $600
Mark Pincus, who gave us this crop-growing game, is said to have invested $40,000 in Facebook & made $425 million
   
#480. Season 32
Friday, June 17, 2016
ANIMATED MOVIES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This 1995 film was inspired by a limitation of computer animation of that time: everything looked more like plastic
   
#481. Season 38
Friday, October 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Pumping is the process of raising electrons to a higher energy state when creating one of these beams
   
#482. 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
   
#483. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The icon of this button has a one & a zero to show its binary nature
   
#484. Season 34
Friday, February 9, 2018
THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAMER
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This partner of Steve Jobs "was awarded the National Medal of Technology... in 1985"
   
#485. Season 17
Thursday, November 9, 2000
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $100
Computer hard drives are usually measured in GBs, which are these
   
#486. Season 26
Friday, December 18, 2009
"BY" NOW
Jeopardy Round: $400
Take a nibble on this 8-part computer unit
   
#487. 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
   
#488. 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
   
#489. Season 27
Thursday, January 13, 2011
WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $600
You can keep up with the "Jeopardy!" clue crew on this social networking site
   
#490. Season 31
Monday, April 6, 2015
DOUBLE A
Jeopardy Round: $800
Simple minds know that the Internet acronym AAK stands for this state of activity & well-being
   
#491. 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
   
#492. Season 41
Monday, March 17, 2025
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Google's mobile O.S. is still named for this software company it bought in 2005 for around $50 million
   
#493. 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
   
#494. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Bell invented it in 1876; David Hughes gave it this name in 1878, & don't lean into it when you reply
   
#495. Season 38
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
CELEBRITY ENTREPRENEURS
Jeopardy Round: $200
She was told successful Internet companies have double "O"s in their names; she put them between her initials to make Goop
   
#496. Season 2
Tuesday, September 17, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In a Greek temple in 200 B.C., one dispensed holy water; today they give candy & cigarettes
   
#497. Season 39
Thursday, November 3, 2022
GOTTA KNOW YOUR SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Contained on a microprocessor, the heart of your computer goes by these 3 initials
   
#498. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The "tracks" on a printed circuit board are made of this metal
   
#499. 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"
   
#500. 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
   
#501. 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
   
#502. Season 29
Thursday, May 9, 2013
YOU'RE CRAZY, ME DRIVING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Can't we just get one of these? in 2012 Nevada issued Google the first license for one
   
#503. 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
   
#504. Season 22
Monday, October 17, 2005
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $800
Calling itself the birthplace of television, Rigby, Idaho was the boyhood home of this technology pioneer
   
#505. Season 26
Monday, November 9, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In "Dark Tomorrow", you can battle crooks as this Caped Crusader
   
#506. Season 30
Friday, August 1, 2014
THE STORY OF HIS LIFE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An electrical genius from Europe: "My Inventions"
   
#507. Season 17
Friday, February 16, 2001
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $100
The name of this Japanese electronics company comes from the Latin word for "sound"
   
#508. Season 16
Friday, July 7, 2000
AMERICAN INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In the 1960s this U.S. firm released the first word processor, an adaptation of its Selectric typewriter
   
#509. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $200
When you've got too much data for just 1 of these, try RAID, short for a "redundant array of inexpensive" ones
   
#510. Season 12
Wednesday, May 15, 1996
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This device converts digital data into analog signals for transmission over telephone lines
   
#511. Season 24
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
WHAT THE "H"?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's the "ht" in http & html
   
#512. Season 40
Friday, January 19, 2024
AGRICULTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This founder of Microsoft became America's largest private owner of farm land, with around 250,000 acres in 18 states
   
#513. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $300
This company describes its pentium chip as "The Computer Inside"
   
#514. Season 28
Monday, January 2, 2012
THAT "BIT" AT THE END
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This type of card can be used to make an electronic withdrawal of funds on deposit in a bank
   
#515. 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.
   
#516. Season 40
Friday, March 1, 2024
RHYMES WITH RHYME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In computer jargon, it's an extension that allows the transfer of different types of data files via email
   
#517. 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
   
#518. Season 40
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
ACTION MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Jann Mardenborough became a pro race car driver by using this racing simulation video game, also the 2023 biopic about him
   
#519. Season 9
Friday, November 6, 1992
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The personal computer designed by Steven Jobs & Steve Wozniak was the cornerstone of this company
   
#520. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $400
The many versions of Windows are the flagship products of this company
   
#521. Season 27
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This "colorful" game from Rock Star follows former outlaw John Marston as he tames the West
   
#522. 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
   
#523. Season 37
Thursday, June 10, 2021
BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
William Gibson coined this term that now refers to the Internet in his short story "Burning Chrome"
   
#524. Season 2
Tuesday, September 17, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1970, an individual atom was 1st seen by using this device
   
#525. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
QTest, Fact & ept are home test kits to test for this condition
   
#526. Season 41
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
GET "OUT" OF THE CLUE
Jeopardy Round: $400
This box directs data between all of your devices & the wider internet
   
#527. Season 18
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer device can run up to 2500K on cable, 600K on DSL, but 56K or less on regular phone lines
   
#528. Season 41
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
"DOUBLE"
Jeopardy Round: $600
YouTube user & Yosemite visitor Hungrybear9562 charmed the Internet in 2010 with his awestruck reaction to one of these
   
#529. Season 20
Monday, March 15, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
On Oct. 15, 2003 it became the third country to launch a man into space; the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft orbited the Earth 14 times
   
#530. 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
   
#531. Season 37
Monday, October 26, 2020
A QUIET PLACE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Microsoft tests the noise of electronics in a room where you can hear your joints creak; it's measured at negative 20 of these units
   
#532. 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
   
#533. Season 23
Monday, February 5, 2007
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $800
In order to get online, you'll need one of these, an ISP
   
#534. 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
   
#535. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Tool designed by London blacksmith Charles Moncke
   
#536. 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?
   
#537. Season 39
Monday, June 26, 2023
SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2023 Bob Metcalfe won the Turing Award for inventing this computer networking technology in the 1970s
   
#538. Season 11
Monday, July 17, 1995
THE "BREAKER"s
Jeopardy Round: $300
In electrical circles, a fuse acts as one
   
#539. Season 31
Monday, May 4, 2015
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $200
E2EG:
This kind of "grin"
   
#540. Season 37
Friday, July 2, 2021
3's COMPANY
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2011 this tech company launched Office 365
   
#541. Season 27
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
WE MAKE THAT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
When it comes to laptops, this company's vPro processors are inside
   
#542. 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
   
#543. Season 28
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
THEOEDSEZ
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"A person who uses his skill with computers to try to gain unauthorized access to computer files"
   
#544. Season 39
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
SQUIRRELS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1994 trading on this first electronic stock exchange ceased for 34 minutes after a squirrel chewed through a power line
   
#545. Season 35
Monday, November 26, 2018
CELEBRATING 35 YEARS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This video game featuring 2 plumbers who were not yet "Super" was launched in 1983
   
#546. Season 41
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
WOULD HAVE BROKEN THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Compromising photos of Elizabeth Cady Stanton wearing this scandalous getup of a long skirt plus trousers
   
#547. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Until Matsushita & Sony marketed these devices, people had to race home to catch "Police Woman"
   
#548. 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
   
#549. Season 35
Monday, September 10, 2018
HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The first capital of California following American occupation in 1846 was this city, today the "capital" of Silicon Valley
   
#550. Season 23
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE HEARD
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It took Robert Fripp 18 months to make the opening sound for this Microsoft Windows product released in 2007
   
#551. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Deuterium is also known as heavy this element
   
#552. Season 37
Friday, October 16, 2020
FEEL THE POWER!
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
One of the best electrical insulators is simply this complete absence of materials
   
#553. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024
18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Following his experiments with frogs, he published an essay "On the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion"
   
#554. 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
   
#555. Season 38
Monday, September 13, 2021
TASTY BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Developer Jef Raskin loved this type of apple so much he named an Apple computer after one
   
#556. 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
   
#557. Season 34
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
2 "U"
Jeopardy Round: $200
Amount produced in a given time, or stuff that comes from a computer
   
#558. Season 18
Monday, December 31, 2001
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
A commercial that ran just once for this computer company helped make Chiat/Day Advertising Age's Agency of the Decade
   
#559. Season 30
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $600
Before a game's release, Joe Gamer may be asked to play a pre-version usually referred to by this Greek letter
   
#560. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Word coined in the '40s meaning the operation of machines performing tasks that humans once did
   
#561. Season 14
Thursday, December 11, 1997
TAPE
Jeopardy Round: $500
Used to insulate electrical wires, it's named for the force that resists sliding objects
   
#562. Season 40
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
John Bird made the first of these navigating instruments with an arc of 60 degrees, or one-sixth of a circle
   
#563. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004
DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the "rigid" disk inside your computer magnetized to hold the operating system & lots of data
   
#564. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the mobile game based on this 1873 novel, you can end up with a different itinerary than the one Jules Verne created
   
#565. Season 40
Friday, May 17, 2024
TOUGH 6-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It can refer to territory governed by another, a set of values in math or a group of linked computers on a network
   
#566. Season 35
Monday, September 10, 2018
BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,400
After a $26 billion merger in 2016, this business website might keep nagging Microsoft to update its resume
   
#567. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1985 people from IBM, Apple & Boeing won the first National Medals of this
   
#568. 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
   
#569. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
This company's "Infinity" allowed you to play characters from "The Incredibles" & "Cars", to name a few
   
#570. Season 30
Friday, November 22, 2013
PASSWORD
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The first computers to use passwords was probably this New England university's CTSS computer in the 1960s
   
#571. Season 39
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
THE EX-STATE CAPITAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's about time you found your way to this city, part of Silicon Valley & California's first state capital
   
#572. Season 14
Thursday, January 29, 1998
JIMMY LOVES THAT COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $300
Jimmy learned HTML, hypertext markup language, to create this, addressable at jimmyland.com
   
#573. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019
2018 POP CULTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
You can play as Luigi, Peach or this ape in the Nintendo video game Mario Tennis Aces
   
#574. Season 34
Thursday, March 1, 2018
WE'LL TAKE YOUR MEASURE!
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Consult a galvanometer to measure amperes of this
   
#575. 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
   
#576. Season 30
Friday, November 29, 2013
SLOGANEERING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This computer company is working to build "a smarter planet"
   
#577. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
This Elon Musk company says it aims "to design a fully implantable, cosmetically invisible brain-computer interface"
   
#578. Season 31
Friday, July 10, 2015
PROSPER
Jeopardy Round: $200
Did you buy $2,100 of stock in this Washington-based tech company in 1986 & sell in 1999? You made $1.4 million
   
#579. Season 40
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, also came up with the AI tech used by this Microsoft search engine
   
#580. Season 33
Thursday, September 22, 2016
IT'S RAINING MENSA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Mensa man Markus Persson sold this create-a-world-out-of-blocks computer game to Microsoft for $2.5 billion
   
#581. Season 17
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
SYMBOLIC INDUSTRIES
Jeopardy Round: $500
GTW
AAPL
EEEE
CPQ
   
#582. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009
COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
Your I.T. guy knows "I.T." means this
   
#583. Season 5
Monday, April 3, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
The Europeans felt nature abhorred one, Otto von Guericke created a pretty good one in 1650
   
#584. Season 37
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
FROM S TO T
Jeopardy Round: $800
A key to the early success of Apple was VisiCalc, the first electronic this
   
#585. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
At the 1939 New York World's Fair, the robot Elektro was accompanied by Sparko, a robot one of these
   
#586. Season 32
Thursday, January 21, 2016
ON THE MOVE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A passenger train in China reaches 270 mph using this above-the-rail technology
   
#587. Season 8
Thursday, October 17, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
As its name implies, a hydrophone is used to detect sound here
   
#588. Season 38
Monday, March 7, 2022
3-LETTER INITIALISMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Garmin is a leader in this technology that keeps you on track, wherever you go
   
#589. Season 24
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Starting Google worked out well for Larry Page & him; as of 2007, they were worth $16.6 billion--apiece
   
#590. Season 37
Monday, June 7, 2021
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Topped a year-round ski slope, CopenHill is a waste-to-energy plant in this European nation
   
#591. Season 15
Tuesday, October 13, 1998
1890s TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Edward Acheson failed when he tried to form these, but he did create carborundum
   
#592. Season 22
Thursday, January 19, 2006
STOCK SYMBOLS
Jeopardy Round: $800
In electronics & entertainment:
SNE
   
#593. 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
   
#594. 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
   
#595. Season 41
Thursday, February 13, 2025
YOUR STOCK IS CLIMBING
Jeopardy Round: $600
Though the stock market crashed in 1929, IBM continued to pay investors these at the rate of $1.50 per share all through the 1930s
   
#596. Season 40
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
RHYMING PHRASES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Definitions of this include a country at war, a new night club, a good place for Wi-Fi
   
#597. 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
   
#598. Season 8
Tuesday, March 24, 1992
COMPUTERESE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On a regular typerwriter it's the return key; on a computer keyboard it's usually labeled this
   
#599. Season 39
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
PANTOMIME HORSE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Storm Worm & Zeus are types of these computer viruses that take their name from classical mythology
   
#600. 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
   
#601. Season 18
Friday, May 31, 2002
TOM WHO...
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $600
...founded computer gaming company Red Storm Entertainment
   
#602. Season 14
Monday, October 20, 1997
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $300
In computerese, when referring to capacity, MB is short for this
   
#603. Season 33
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
COLLEGE DISCIPLINES
Final Jeopardy
Embracing the future & new technology in 1962, Purdue established the 1st college dept. in the U.S. for this 2-word discipline
   
#604. Season 38
Monday, September 27, 2021
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
An engineer named Robert Moog developed this instrument in the 1960s
   
#605. Season 33
Monday, January 2, 2017
A GENRE CATEGORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Video games with wide-open worlds & roles are named for this playground spot
   
#606. Season 14
Wednesday, June 24, 1998
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This powerful operating system from Bell Labs replaced an earlier system called Multics
   
#607. Season 29
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
IN THE DICTIONARY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
American Heritage, 1985:
"Under the control of a central computer" or "in progress; ongoing"
   
#608. Season 29
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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
   
#609. 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
   
#610. Season 32
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
A stopcock is an external this 5-letter item used to control a liquid flow through a pipe
   
#611. Season 28
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
I'M DATING MYSELF
Jeopardy Round: $800
This "comp"any gave the first e-mail capability for PC users, & they'll rule the Internet for decades
   
#612. Season 31
Monday, November 10, 2014
WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Douglas Engelbart's 1970 patent for this device calls it a "position indicator control"
   
#613. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004
DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $200
RAM & ROM are 2 types of this important computer storage
   
#614. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
The Argand burner, which ran on oil, revolutionized the lighting of these, like the one at Cape Hatteras
   
#615. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002
COMPUTER "E"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's also called "the bent arrow key"
   
#616. Season 37
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sharing a name with a type of large snake, this computer language is used in NASA's integrated planning system
   
#617. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
COMPUTER GAMING
Jeopardy Round: $200
Installments of this controversial crime-based game include "San Andreas" & "Vice City"
   
#618. 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
   
#619. 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
   
#620. 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
   
#621. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015
COMPUTER ACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This process that maximizes disk space is so named because it joins up pieces of files that were stored separately
   
#622. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Your online shopping cart couldn't stay up to date without these data packets that help websites track you
   
#623. Season 36
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This Facebook bigwig wrote "Option B" about life after the sudden death of her husband
   
#624. Season 39
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
THE PARENT COMPANY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It provides YouTube, & you can Google that
   
#625. 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
   
#626. Season 20
Friday, April 23, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Energy (E) equals the frequency of radiant energy (V) times H, this German physicist's universal constant
   
#627. Season 34
Monday, July 9, 2018
HOMOPHONES
Jeopardy Round: $200
A medieval farm worker, or to browse the internet
   
#628. Season 13
Wednesday, April 30, 1997
POP MUSIC
Jeopardy Round: $200
Selections from this Irish group's "Pop" CD were available on the internet prior to its March 1997 release
   
#629. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
1981:
This company introduces its "Personal Computer" using the MS-DOS operating system
   
#630. Season 7
Thursday, February 14, 1991
MAGAZINES
Jeopardy Round: $100
PC Novice is a new magazine for beginning users of thse
   
#631. Season 28
Thursday, November 24, 2011
NEW WORDS & PHRASES
Jeopardy Round: $200
The name of this search engine launched in 1998 has become a verb meaning "to search on the Internet"
   
#632. Season 26
Friday, July 23, 2010
TOBACCO
Jeopardy Round: $800
4-letter "electrical" word for a flat, compressed wad of chewing tobacco
   
#633. Season 35
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
MapQuest really helped Lewis & Clark when they set out from this Midwest city on the Mississippi on May 14, 1804
   
#634. Season 34
Monday, January 8, 2018
2.0
Jeopardy Round: $600
This 1987 rollout was the first bundled with Word & Excel, making it tough on competing apps
   
#635. Season 17
Thursday, March 8, 2001
LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $100
This company first introduced its MSN Network as part of Windows 95
   
#636. Season 27
Monday, January 3, 2011
TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A Sumerian pictograph shows one in 3500 B.C.: the oldest are wooden disks with 3 carved planks clamped by struts
   
#637. Season 32
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
VIDEO GAME VILLAINS
Jeopardy Round: $200
King Pig is the lazy overlord of this game you can play on your smartphone
   
#638. Season 25
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The farad, a unit used to measure electrical capacitance, is named for this 19th century physicist
   
#639. Season 26
Thursday, February 4, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
"I'm On a Boat" is one of many popular parody songs that started on this TV show & then went viral on the web
   
#640. Season 25
Thursday, February 12, 2009
BRIT SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
Long before it was the name of a computer, it was Brit speak for a raincoat
   
#641. Season 36
Monday, December 9, 2019
SLOWPOKE
Jeopardy Round: $800
This 3-letter word can refer to your slow pace in a race or to your computer's slow response
   
#642. 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
   
#643. 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
   
#644. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
"N-Gage" with this company's cell phone, wihch is also a portable game
   
#645. Season 16
Tuesday, March 14, 2000
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
It's the "A" in the RAM of your computer
   
#646. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022
OLD TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the 2-word former computer necessity here, & players, if you're not at least of a certain age, you may be toast
   
#647. Season 20
Thursday, January 8, 2004
TEDDY BEAR
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the mid-'80s over a million of these talking electronic teddy bears were sold
   
#648. Season 34
Friday, March 30, 2018
IT ALL STARTS WITH "U"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Programs like optimization or defragmentation that help your computer work better
   
#649. Season 16
Thursday, February 10, 2000
COUNTRIES BY COLLEGE
Jeopardy Round: $100
Max Planck Institute for Computer Science,
Braunschweig Tech,
The University of Augsburg
   
#650. Season 14
Friday, July 10, 1998
OXYMORONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Abbreviated VR, it was coined by computer scientist & musician Jaron Lanier
   
#651. Season 35
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
TECHNOLOGY: OLD & NEW
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the 1990s Brent Townshend invented the 56K version of this PC communications device & licensed it at $2.50 each
   
#652. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $400
This 2-letter Windows computer operating system was introduced in October 2001
   
#653. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Thomas Edison's cylindrical ones were superceded by Emile Berliner's flat variety
   
#654. Season 31
Monday, October 6, 2014
TIME FOR PLAN "B"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Doing this step to smooth Internet streaming: 63% complete
   
#655. 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
   
#656. Season 29
Monday, February 18, 2013
MICRO
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
This field covers the control of bits of matter smaller than 1 /100th the thickness of a sheet of paper
   
#657. Season 32
Friday, October 30, 2015
"AB"SOLUTELY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2012 Microsoft introduced its first computer--the Surface, this type of portable PC
   
#658. 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
   
#659. Season 29
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
WEB MUSIC PARODIES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A YouTube cover of this Lana Del Rey song features Princess Peach & the Mario brothers in a love triangle
   
#660. 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
   
#661. Season 16
Friday, July 7, 2000
AMERICAN INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Without this 1947 invention of Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain, we'd have 40-pound Walkmans
   
#662. Season 40
Friday, February 23, 2024
POP CULTURE DRAGONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
After killing the ender dragon in this "blockbuster" video game, players receive a dragon egg as a trophy
   
#663. Season 31
Friday, May 1, 2015
TECHNOLOGY & STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $400
8 adjacent bits processed as a unit by a computer is one of these
   
#664. 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
   
#665. Season 22
Monday, May 15, 2006
OK COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $200
This "high-flying" computer program from Adobe converts other types of documents into a PDF file
   
#666. Season 37
Monday, July 26, 2021
BUSINESS IN THE FRONT
Jeopardy Round: $400
This tech company incorporated on June 25, 1981; 5 years later, it moved to Redmond, Washington & its stock went public
   
#667. Season 34
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
NEWER TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Using satellites, a lab named for this Frenchman good with coordinates made an atlas that updates in real time
   
#668. 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
   
#669. Season 32
Monday, July 25, 2016
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It isn't minted or printed-- it's "mined" by a computer algorithm in blocks called "rewards"
   
#670. Season 40
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
CYBERTALK
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
It's the diplomatic word for the standards governing an exchange of data between computer systems
   
#671. Season 29
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
"MAN"LY PLACES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The name of this city on the Rhine precedes "Steamroller" in the name of an electronic music group
   
#672. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Before "ER" & "Agents of Shield", Ming-Na Wen kicked butt as Chun-Li in the film version of this battle game
   
#673. Season 28
Friday, October 7, 2011
NAME CALLING
Jeopardy Round: $800
Not so computer savvy, are you? You're just a this--like a non-sorcerer in Harry Potter
   
#674. Season 33
Friday, November 25, 2016
FEEL THE BURN
Jeopardy Round: $400
Electrical burns are one result of being shot with this rhyming item
   
#675. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
Without this Wallace Carothers invention, WWII G.I.s would have had only chocolates to offer women
   
#676. Season 37
Monday, September 21, 2020
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Using hydrogels, scientists achieved their goal of creating rudimentary versions of the charged organs in these marine animals
   
#677. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
ESSAYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This humorist's collection of essays "In Cyberspace" is formatted like a computer manual
   
#678. 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
   
#679. Season 34
Friday, January 5, 2018
PORTMANTEAU WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
One installment of an internet TV show like "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"
   
#680. 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
   
#681. Season 31
Friday, September 19, 2014
VANILLA
Jeopardy Round: $800
A comedian's scripted shtick, or a computer's set of instructions
   
#682. Season 30
Friday, August 1, 2014
INTERNET JARGON
Jeopardy Round: $200
Meaning "I approve", "coo" is short for this; saving 1 keystroke adds up
   
#683. 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
   
#684. Season 18
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
COMPUTER HACKERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Hackers on this agency's website changed the middle of its name to "stupidity"
   
#685. Season 27
Monday, November 29, 2010
GUILDING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Shocking! It's the "B" in the IBEW, a union for electrical workers
   
#686. Season 36
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Set not in Hyrule but rather on the Isle of Koholint, "Link's Awakening" is a 2019 Nintendo release in this game series
   
#687. Season 39
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Dr. Robotnik returns to menace Earth in the 2022 sequel starring this furry blue video game character
   
#688. Season 30
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
TECH TALK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2014 Facebook agreed to pay $2 billion for Oculus, a maker of this immersive technology
   
#689. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Morrowind & Skyrim are iterations of this "venerable" set of games
   
#690. Season 24
Thursday, May 15, 2008
THEY HAIL FROM WISCONSIN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1925 Chippewa Falls produced this mathematician hailed as the father of the supercomputer
   
#691. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $300
PGP, a popular e-mail encryption program, stands for "Pretty Good" this
   
#692. 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
   
#693. Season 14
Tuesday, November 4, 1997
CYBER LIFE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Web addresses that end with ".au" are located on host computers in this country
   
#694. 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
   
#695. 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"
   
#696. Season 41
Thursday, January 30, 2025
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Since 1991, this 3-letter abbreviation has referred to familiar text messaging technology
   
#697. Season 7
Thursday, May 23, 1991
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In addition to his electrical work, Georg Ohm helped found this science of sound
   
#698. Season 27
Thursday, April 21, 2011
AIRLINE LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $600
The TSA's advanced imaging technology is also called FBS, short for this (passengers may have other terms)
   
#699. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Like a villain in darkness, one who reads others' words in a newsgroup but won't contribute is doing this
   
#700. Season 28
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"The Victorian Internet" is a book about pioneers of this communication device
   
#701. Season 3
Thursday, March 12, 1987
MYTHOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Tisiphone, the blood avenger; Alecto, the persevering avenger; & Magaera, the jealous
   
#702. Season 32
Thursday, July 7, 2016
PUNNY & NOT-PUNNY DEFINITIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Before a cell phone message", or a reason for taking action
   
#703. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
You said it with "TWITA"--"that's what" these 3 words
   
#704. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Steve Jobs said his new computer, called the NeXT will 1st be sold exclusively to these institutions
   
#705. Season 29
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
AN A-PAUL-ING CATEGORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
After multiple lymphoma bouts, this Microsoft co-founder decided it was time to write a memoir, "Idea Man"
   
#706. 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
   
#707. Season 30
Thursday, January 30, 2014
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the 1960s, this firm introduced the first word processor, the MT/ST, based on its Selectric typewriter
   
#708. Season 17
Friday, June 29, 2001
GEE "Q"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Its electrical charge can be equal to one-third of an electron
   
#709. 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
   
#710. Season 38
Thursday, September 23, 2021
HISTORIC WOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A programming language is named after this daughter of Lord Byron who is called the world's 1st computer programmer
   
#711. Season 7
Friday, April 19, 1991
SECOND PLACE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Dallas-based firm that follows Motorola as America's largest producer of semiconductors
   
#712. Season 36
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
MUSICIANS WHO ACT
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Playing Napster's Sean Parker in "The Social Network", this singer says, "Drop the 'The'. Just 'Facebook'. It's cleaner"
   
#713. 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
   
#714. 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
   
#715. 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
   
#716. 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
   
#717. Season 30
Friday, September 20, 2013
DO YOU COMPUTE?
Jeopardy Round: $400
The top-selling computer imaging software is this program released in 1987 & its related elements from Adobe
   
#718. Season 23
Friday, December 8, 2006
FOOD STUFF?
Jeopardy Round: $400
On May 8, 2006 this computer co. won a dismissal of a trademark infringement lawsuit by this "Corps"
   
#719. Season 25
Friday, May 8, 2009
NAME THE DECADE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The World Wide Web gets its first page
   
#720. Season 24
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
MADE TO MEASURE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Take a nibble if you want 4 of these binary digits of computer code
   
#721. Season 21
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
ABBR.
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In Internet addresses, zw stands for this country
   
#722. Season 39
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
EPOS:It's computer hardware used in retail
   
#723. 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
   
#724. Season 4
Tuesday, June 7, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Probably the most familiar farm machine, it can act as both a power unit & a pulling device
   
#725. Season 21
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
LINGUA TECHNA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
First developed by Xerox, this local access network technology sounds like a device to catch an anesthetic
   
#726. 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
   
#727. Season 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1986
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Of the 1940s, '50s, or '60s, decade in which jet passenger service was inaugurated
   
#728. Season 14
Thursday, March 5, 1998
ELECTRONICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Electronic circuit signals may be classified as analog or this
   
#729. 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
   
#730. Season 37
Friday, October 16, 2020
LV
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Its Internet country code is .lv
   
#731. Season 37
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
WE'LL GET TOGETHER
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2001 Time Warner was acquired by this Internet company for $111 billion; that did not work out so well
   
#732. Season 35
Friday, April 12, 2019
GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018
Jeopardy Round: $200
Every year, this best pal has been the most searched-for type of animal
   
#733. Season 20
Monday, December 15, 2003
BRAND "X"
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
The name of this electronics brand is from the Latin for "great voice"
   
#734. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
This brand of garbage disposer invented by John Hammes is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 1998
   
#735. Season 20
Thursday, October 23, 2003
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
It is named in honor of a Monty Python sketch that used the word more than 100 times in 2 1/2 minutes
   
#736. Season 4
Tuesday, January 5, 1988
ADVERTISING
Jeopardy Round: $500
Japanese electronics corp. who in July '87 ads apologized for a subsidiary's dealings with the Soviet bloc
   
#737. 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
   
#738. Season 38
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
IT'S A NEW MACHINE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1969, Leonard Kleinrock & his team sent the first message over the internet with the first this, which now connects devices like modems
   
#739. 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
   
#740. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This "era" when dinosaurs roamed the earth consisted of the Triassic, the Jurassic & the Cretaceous periods
   
#741. Season 34
Friday, November 17, 2017
STARTS & ENDS WITH "H"
Jeopardy Round: $200
Hyphenated term that's used to describe all the latest cutting-edge electronic devices
   
#742. Season 23
Monday, July 16, 2007
EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
We know that coils inside this appliance are where evaporation takes place; we just don't know if the light stays on
   
#743. Season 22
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
THE NEW YORK TIMESARTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Computer analysis of newly found paintings said the drip patterns weren't consistent with this artist's previous works
   
#744. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Advertisers have discovered they can send ads instantaneously with this telephone technology
   
#745. Season 12
Wednesday, January 17, 1996
THE ELEMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Used to make transistors & semiconductors, it's the most abundant element on Earth after oxygen
   
#746. Season 14
Thursday, January 29, 1998
JIMMY LOVES THAT COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $400
Jimmy created one of these to catalog his coin collection, with fields including date & nation of origin
   
#747. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
INTERNET BUSINESSES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Robert Shapiro co-founded this online law service for wills, incorporating & other needs
   
#748. 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
   
#749. Season 16
Thursday, June 29, 2000
"WORD" PLAY
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the 2-word term for computer manipulation of text
   
#750. Season 27
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Final Jeopardy
John Tukey coined this compound word in 1958 saying it was as important as "tubes, transistors, wires, tapes..."
   
#751. Season 32
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
TECH COMPANY NAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This web-based e-mail service got its name by adding some vowels to "HTML"
   
#752. 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
   
#753. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
In July 1991 IBM & this rival announced a technology alliance
   
#754. Season 34
Friday, November 10, 2017
FRUIT, NOT FRUIT
Jeopardy Round: $600
Nintendo says she "spent her...time in Bowser's castle" but now she "prefers to be the one doing the rescuing"
   
#755. 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"
   
#756. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011
VIDEO GAME HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
It was joystick to the world in 1977 when this company released its 2600 system
   
#757. 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
   
#758. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2012 she surpassed Eminem, her "Love The Way You Lie" duet partner, as the celeb with the most likes on Facebook
   
#759. Season 16
Thursday, September 9, 1999
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Nintendo's "Ocarina of Time" continues "The Legend of" this
   
#760. Season 32
Monday, February 15, 2016
COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
A pun on one of China's claims to fame, this is the nickname for China's Internet barriers
   
#761. Season 40
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
CYBERTALK
Jeopardy Round: $800
It's the 2-word term for the physical separation of a computer system from others, & a good way to protect against hacking
   
#762. Season 17
Thursday, October 5, 2000
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
3-D crowds cheer on Mia Hamm in the SouthPeak Interactive game in this sport
   
#763. 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
   
#764. Season 28
Thursday, August 2, 2012
TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In "Golden Trails 2" you're trying to exonerate a man accused of this crime, like Jack Sparrow might be
   
#765. Season 29
Thursday, December 13, 2012
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1764 weaver James Hargreaves developed this improved spinning machine that has a girl's name
   
#766. Season 30
Thursday, October 17, 2013
TRADEMARKS
Final Jeopardy
Facebook & TiVo have both claimed trademarks for an icon representing this gesture
   
#767. Season 32
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
ELECTRICITY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Rheostats & potentiometers are types of these devices that oppose the flow of current in electrical circuits
   
#768. Season 20
Friday, October 24, 2003
MECCA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The Al-Asr watch electronically points to Mecca & sets off an alarm this many times a day, 1 before each prayer time
   
#769. Season 16
Thursday, September 9, 1999
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Paddles ready? Hasbro has updated this Atari title, the grandfather of video games
   
#770. Season 40
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A man... a woman in distress... ladder climbing... a giant ape... this video game that debuted in 1981 had it all!
   
#771. Season 32
Monday, February 15, 2016
COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
If your website is DDoSED, you've got problems because DDoS stands for distributed this
   
#772. Season 37
Monday, January 18, 2021
BUSINESS PAIRS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
In the 1930s these 2 partners set up shop in a garage that's now known as "The Birthplace of Silicon Valley"
   
#773. Season 22
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
ORIGIN OF THE SPECIOUS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Forwarding an e-mail supposedly sent by this Microsoft chairman got you $1,000 & a free copy of Windows
   
#774. 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
   
#775. Season 40
Thursday, April 11, 2024
A YEAR ENDING IN 4
Jeopardy Round: $400
Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called TheFacebook
   
#776. Season 40
Friday, June 28, 2024
INTERNET CELEBRITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2024, this streamer announced to his 9 million followers on Twitch that he inked a deal with Nike
   
#777. Season 23
Thursday, March 8, 2007
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The Internet country code for this country near Florida is .bs
   
#778. 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
   
#779. Season 33
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
IN THE DICTIONARY
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the holiday-themed term for a hidden bonus in a film or computer game
   
#780. Season 20
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
COMPUTER "I"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Your real desktop may be covered with Post-It notes, while your computer desktop is covered with these images
   
#781. 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
   
#782. Season 1
Monday, November 5, 1984
$ IN THE NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This gov't group has been buying 3¢ transistors for $110
   
#783. Season 36
Thursday, March 12, 2020
THIS & THAT
Jeopardy Round: $400
When it comes to computers, USB stands for universal serial this
   
#784. Season 38
Friday, November 5, 2021
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year
   
#785. 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
   
#786. Season 16
Friday, March 3, 2000
ODD WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
From the first 6 letters at the upper left, it's the arrangement of a standard computer keyboard
   
#787. Season 28
Friday, December 16, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Jimi Hendrix fans know kissthisguy.com is always good for a laugh, as it's an "archive of misheard" these
   
#788. 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
   
#789. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010
STATE YOUR BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Microsoft:
They don't own the state... yet
   
#790. Season 21
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Q BUT NOT U
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This Internet abbreviation provides a newcomer with additional information on a topic
   
#791. Season 36
Thursday, October 31, 2019
BET IT "ALL"!
Jeopardy Round: $400
To remove previously activated software from a computer
   
#792. 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"
   
#793. Season 32
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
IVY LEAGUE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Project Ivy is the Home for Technology Innovation for this political group abbreviated DNC
   
#794. Season 37
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
THE PRANCING PONY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Ponyta evolves into the fiery Rapidash in this Nintendo game series
   
#795. Season 30
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
TECH IQ
Jeopardy Round: $600
Record each letter & number typed on a computer with this type of software that sounds like a lumberjack
   
#796. 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
   
#797. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
C. Vanderbilt thought George Westinghouse's idea of stopping a train by this means a fool notion
   
#798. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
It can be a mix of gas & tiny particles, or a spray can that expels that mix
   
#799. Season 22
Thursday, December 22, 2005
DIVERSIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This game named for a ship used to clear explosives tempts many away from more important computer tasks
   
#800. Season 40
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This wireless technology is named for a 10th century Viking king
   
#801. 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
   
#802. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Machine for which Glenn Curtiss produced the aileron
   
#803. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: 200
Lens is a platform that helps climate scientists affordably access imagery from these craft, like the Planetscope ones
   
#804. Season 34
Thursday, October 26, 2017
AFTER DINNER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This 2-terminal electrical device
   
#805. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In many systems, a machinery part is the icon for this basic function of customizing your device with your preferences
   
#806. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Early successful models of these in the U.S. were Woodstock, Remington & Underwood
   
#807. Season 18
Monday, September 17, 2001
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This firm began in 1897 as Nippon Gakki Company, an organ manufacturer; electronic organs came along in 1959
   
#808. 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
   
#809. Season 39
Monday, May 8, 2023
YEET!
Jeopardy Round: $600
In "2001" this computer yeets Frank Poole off into space but still has Dave to contend with
   
#810. 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
   
#811. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Make your future fighting Ghaul, leader of the Red Legion, in the second iteration of this Bungie game
   
#812. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
While the floppy ones can be removed from the drive, hard ones usually can't
   
#813. Season 29
Thursday, December 6, 2012
1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,400
In 1935 this American became the first to shoot a liquid-fuel rocket faster than the speed of sound
   
#814. Season 20
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
IT'S A WEBSITE
Jeopardy Round: $600
10 to the hundredth power.com
   
#815. 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
   
#816. Season 19
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
ENTERPRISE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This company moved its U.S. base to the Seattle area in 1982, the year after launching Donkey Kong
   
#817. 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"
   
#818. Season 5
Monday, April 3, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Meat packer Gustavus Swift hired an engineer to design this type of railroad car
   
#819. Season 21
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
IT'S ELEMENTAL
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the electronics industry, this element symbolized Si, is made into N- & P-types of semiconductors
   
#820. Season 27
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
Providing online access, ISP stands for this
   
#821. Season 40
Thursday, July 18, 2024
POP CULTURE GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Sam Esmail created this TV drama about a computer programmer by day who's a hacker in his off hours
   
#822. Season 37
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Fairlight CMI type of this electronic instrument is heard on many '80s songs like "Shock the Monkey" & "Shout"
   
#823. Season 25
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
ASIMO, one of these, differentiates multiple voices using 8 microphones & Hark software
   
#824. Season 38
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
Friedrich Koenig's improvements to this machine, not much changed since the 1450s, included self-inking
   
#825. Season 41
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
PIGEON FACTS & LORE
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1850 Paul Julius Reuter started a news service using carrier pigeons where there was a 76-mile gap of this technology
   
#826. Season 29
Thursday, September 20, 2012
THE WORLD ALMANACNO. 1
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's the most-visited social networking website
   
#827. 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
   
#828. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the 1960s Douglas Engelbart invented this device that moves a pointer on the display screen
   
#829. 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
   
#830. Season 25
Monday, November 10, 2008
BESTSELLERS: 2006
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The No. 1 video game was this former coach's "NFL '07"
   
#831. Season 21
Friday, April 29, 2005
QUASI-RELATED PAIRS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Abe Vigoda standout role & Pentiums
   
#832. Season JM
Monday, May 15, 2023
TECH TALK
Jeopardy Round: 200
John Romkey's 1990 computer-controlled toaster was a breakthrough in the IoT, short for this
   
#833. Season 33
Monday, February 13, 2017
REMEMBER 2016?
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This Silicon Valley entrepreneur revealed he had bankrolled the lawsuit that took down Gawker
   
#834. Season 35
Friday, September 14, 2018
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
QuietComfort noise-cancelling headphones are from this high-end audio company that pioneered the technology
   
#835. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
HDTV, which uses more lines to give clearer pictures, stands for this
   
#836. Season 5
Monday, December 12, 1988
BUSINESS '88
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Home video game makers have been hit hard in '88 by a shortage of SRAMs, which are these
   
#837. Season 26
Thursday, December 31, 2009
MARSHALL ARTS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Marshall McLuhan summarized the influence of TV & computers with his aphorism "The medium is" this
   
#838. 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
   
#839. 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
   
#840. Season 28
Thursday, August 2, 2012
TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"NFL Blitz" lets you experience this sport without getting hit
   
#841. Season 39
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
WORLD CITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
You can study physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in this city, like 1900 grad Albert Einstein did
   
#842. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Stephen Fry tweeted, "Books are no more threatened by " this Amazon device "than stairs by elevators"
   
#843. Season 24
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
NERDVANA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Readyboost is a new feature that lets a flash drive become RAM for your computer on this Windows operating system
   
#844. Season 25
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
4 Es FOR THEE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A ship that drags a body of water for ordnance, or a time-killing computer game
   
#845. Season 5
Wednesday, May 17, 1989
GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari, invented this 1st popular video game
   
#846. Season 16
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Intel says it had "the internet in mind" when it designed the new III model of this processor
   
#847. Season 5
Tuesday, January 17, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Since the ban on smoking, air crews can no longer spot cracks by the telltale buildup of this substance
   
#848. Season 41
Friday, December 6, 2024
A "BARREL" OF FUN
Jeopardy Round: $600
Type "do a" this into Google & you get an Easter egg that makes your search results spin 360 degrees
   
#849. 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
   
#850. Season 24
Monday, April 28, 2008
"C" IN PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In a battery, electrical current runs between the anode & this other electrode
   
#851. Season 25
Thursday, June 11, 2009
ENERGY FROM EVERYWHERE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
To boost fuel cell technology, RISO is working to safely produce & store this, atomic No. 1
   
#852. Season 17
Wednesday, December 27, 2000
LET'S GO ONLINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This type of "space" is slang for the Internet
   
#853. Season 18
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
ACRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In your computer:
ROM
   
#854. Season GOATTOURNAMENT
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: 1600
The world's first of these began as a way for Cambridge U. computer scientists to know if the coffeepot in another room was full
   
#855. Season 4
Wednesday, April 27, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Experts recommend you choose electrical equipment that has their mark
   
#856. Season 25
Monday, November 17, 2008
KIDS RULE PRIME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $200
On this series Noah Gray-Cabey is Micah Sanders, who can communicate with electronics by touch
   
#857. Season 33
Monday, March 13, 2017
OPEN THE PODCAST DOORS, HAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The World Wide Web can be wacky, & this 2-word show whose title can be a dangerous click when e-mailing fills in details
   
#858. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Computers were given part of the blame for this October 19, 1987 event
   
#859. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
VIDEO GAME TIMELINE
Jeopardy Round: $200
1980:
This pie-shaped character chomps its way into arcades
   
#860. Season 28
Friday, February 3, 2012
MUSEUMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A museum in Mountain View, Calif. devoted to the history of this has a 1964 IBM mainframe & an Apple II
   
#861. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $100
Title of the person who handles mail to a website; the U.S. has a "General" one
   
#862. Season 15
Friday, February 12, 1999
CORPORATE HISTORIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
The company at 610 Gateway Street in North Sioux City, South Dakota has sold these since 1985
   
#863. 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
   
#864. Season 22
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
CEOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer company chairman gave the keynote address at the "CEO Summit 2004" held in Redmond, Washington
   
#865. Season 36
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
SILICON VALLEY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
This extremely soft silicate with a hardness of 1 is ground up to make a popular body powder
   
#866. Season 15
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
On August 12, 1981 the world saw the first IBM personal computer using this Microsoft operating system
   
#867. Season 28
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
I'D RATHER STAY "HOME"
Jeopardy Round: $600
The civilian part of a country at war, or a 2011 video game in which the U.S. is occupied by North Korea
   
#868. Season 13
Friday, December 27, 1996
CORPORATE AMERICA
Jeopardy Round: $500
Hoover's Handbook says this South Dakota mail-order computer firm is the USA's fastest-growing company
   
#869. Season 23
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
"WORD" PLAY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A word that leads you to useful results in an Internet search
   
#870. Season 22
Monday, November 7, 2005
CAROLINIANS ON MY MIND
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Internet users have South Carolina-born sci-fi author William Gibson to thank for this 10-letter term
   
#871. 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
   
#872. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $400
A stupid or inept internet user can be called this 3-digit number that means "File Not Found"
   
#873. 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
   
#874. 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
   
#875. Season 41
Monday, March 24, 2025
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In computerese: DoS with a little o is denial of service; DOS with a big O is this
   
#876. Season 20
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
SHARED TEAM NICKNAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The Florida Institute of Technology & the University of Pittsburgh
   
#877. Season 26
Friday, December 4, 2009
"FACE" BOOK
Jeopardy Round: $800
To connect a peripheral machine with a computer
   
#878. 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
   
#879. 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
   
#880. Season 39
Friday, April 7, 2023
THE SECRET OF ACRONYM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A series of nearby computers are connected to form a LAN, short for this
   
#881. Season 36
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
WHAT IS THAT PERSON DOING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
With the service Carbonite, doing an alliterative "business" this, an important but often neglected computer task
   
#882. Season 41
Monday, February 24, 2025
LOOK MA, NO WHEELS!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Maglev is short for this technology in which wheelless trains glide over their tracks
   
#883. Season 36
Friday, April 17, 2020
3 G's
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's the process of identifying & removing errors from computer software
   
#884. Season 34
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Final Jeopardy
The desire in his childhood to catch every insect inspired Satoshi Tajiri to create this 1996 game
   
#885. Season JM
Monday, May 15, 2023
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: 400
When talking IP address, IP means this
   
#886. Season 27
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
INVENTED IN THE 20th CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The iPods of the Baby Boom were small radios using this device invented in 1947
   
#887. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This European-sounding game that fans call "G.T." bills itself as "the real driving simulator"
   
#888. Season 24
Monday, June 9, 2008
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
On March 10, 2003 this nation got control of the .af Internet domain
   
#889. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
"Alamut", a 1938 novel by Vladimir Bartol about fanatical killers, inspired the hit video game this "Creed"
   
#890. Season 41
Thursday, January 2, 2025
IDIOT IDIOMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Someone not smart, maybe in the way of computers, is deemed this palindromic number, a webpage error
   
#891. Season 24
Thursday, April 3, 2008
THE 2007FORBES400
Jeopardy Round: $400
"$17.2 billion...
started selling
computers from...
dorm room 1984 with $1,000"
   
#892. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The mimeograph was invented by this man around 1876
   
#893. Season 15
Tuesday, March 2, 1999
"WORLD" DOMINATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Internet surfers know www stands for this
   
#894. Season 28
Monday, December 12, 2011
RAND CORPORATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the first book on this, computers doing tasks associated with human intellect, 6 chapters had been RAND reports
   
#895. 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
   
#896. Season 27
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Through Facebook this company offered a summer sample pack of goods & coupons for items like its macaroni & cheese
   
#897. 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
   
#898. Season 16
Wednesday, April 5, 2000
NEWSPEAK
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Multislacking means playing with one of these instead of working
   
#899. Season 28
Monday, December 12, 2011
RAND CORPORATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Packet switching, the basic idea of the Internet, came from '60s research on communications in case of this awful event
   
#900. 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
   
#901. Season 22
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
FOR THE "MAIN" COURSE
Jeopardy Round: $400
9-letter word for a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users
   
#902. Season 21
Thursday, July 21, 2005
SOUND TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1859 Robert Fouls invented a steam-powered one of these to signal imperiled ships
   
#903. Season 22
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
HACKER CINEMA
Jeopardy Round: $800
Matthew Broderick almost starts WWIII when he hacks into a military computer in this film
   
#904. Season 38
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
PREFIXED PAIRS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Medical condition of abnormally high blood pressure & getaway move to another part of the universe in old video games
   
#905. Season 40
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
Also known as an etherophone, this boxy electronic instrument was used by The Beach Boys
   
#906. Season 15
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Now common, before 1400 this device was used only in a few applications like grindstones & hurdy-gurdys
   
#907. Season 9
Friday, February 26, 1993
ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $500
This part of a computer that interprets & executes instructions is abbreviated CPU
   
#908. Season 9
Wednesday, June 30, 1993
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1611 Johannes Kepler introduced a second convex lens, giving this instrument greater power
   
#909. Season 4
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
When a sewing machine is sewing, the feed dog pushes cloth forward the length of one of these
   
#910. 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
   
#911. 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
   
#912. Season 32
Thursday, July 21, 2016
TV CHARACTERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Pied Piper's Richard Hendricks got an unusual bit of inspiration for TechCrunch-winning computer code on this HBO show
   
#913. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's the term for the place in virtual reality where the virtual objects appear
   
#914. Season 20
Thursday, December 4, 2003
GREAT FIGURES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2001 the U.S. awarded IBM 3,411 of these & we're sure IBM's lawyers defend them vigorously
   
#915. Season 20
Monday, July 19, 2004
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Filemaker Pro is used for this type of application that stores & organizes information (like "Jeopardy!" clues)
   
#916. Season 33
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
COMPANIES' PRODUCTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The IIe computer
   
#917. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022
OLD TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $7,000
On Nov. 18, 1963 AT&T cut in half the time to make a local call, introducing push button phones, officially this alliterative system
   
#918. 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
   
#919. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011
COMPUTER GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Reach" for the latest version of this Bungie game & defend Earth's last line of defense against The Covenant
   
#920. 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
   
#921. 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
   
#922. Season 8
Thursday, October 17, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
The fluid flywheel is a torque converting device in this part of a truck
   
#923. Season 19
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
E.T. 20th ANNIVERSARY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Through computer magic, federal agents no longer brandish guns; instead they carry these rhyming devices, 10-4!
   
#924. Season 28
Thursday, May 3, 2012
TECH STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Connect to the Internet with ease with a wireless one of these--sounds like a seat for your little brother
   
#925. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Of 1943, 1963, or 1983, the last year Maytag made wringer-type washers
   
#926. Season 27
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,800
Not surprisingly, the first architecture dept. at a college was established at this Boston-area school in 1865
   
#927. Season 14
Tuesday, November 4, 1997
CYBER LIFE
Jeopardy Round: $300
This Microsoft chairman addressed 1997's Macworld Expo via satellite on a large screen TV
   
#928. Season 10
Wednesday, September 29, 1993
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
A material with very high electrical resistivity is called this
   
#929. Season 32
Monday, July 25, 2016
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
To transfer large computer files, it might be useful to use a special FTP, a "file transfer" this
   
#930. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
This game uses "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" --but with the ending, "the cube had food ...and immortality"
   
#931. 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
   
#932. Season 30
Thursday, March 6, 2014
IT WAS THE '90s
Jeopardy Round: $200
It was before I had a cell phone, so when I said, "hit me on the hip" I meant contact me via this device
   
#933. 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
   
#934. Season 17
Friday, May 18, 2001
POTENT PORTABLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The VII was the first of this brand's handheld devices with built-in Internet connectivity
   
#935. Season 38
Friday, April 1, 2022
THANK YOU, THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Blind & low-vision people connect with sighted volunteers for visual aid using a free app called Be My these
   
#936. 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
   
#937. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Nations get their own domain extensions; .dk is the one for this country
   
#938. Season 33
Friday, March 10, 2017
& A NEW CAR!
Jeopardy Round: $600
4G Wi-Fi is available in the Impala from this brand
   
#939. Season 12
Wednesday, June 12, 1996
1983
Jeopardy Round: $200
John Sculley was named president & CEO of this company with Steven Jobs remaining as chairman
   
#940. Season 18
Friday, March 8, 2002
COLOSSUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Designed to crack German coded messages, the World War II computer Colossus was created by this nation
   
#941. Season 20
Monday, July 19, 2004
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Word & Powerpoint are part of the Microsoft system named for this place
   
#942. Season 2
Tuesday, September 17, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Invented by Bell Labs in 1947, its name comes from its function, "transfer resistor"
   
#943. Season JM
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
POP CULTURE MASQUERADE
Double Jeopardy Round: 2000
Real name Joel Zimmerman, this electronic dance music superstar is known for numerous iterations of his rodent helmet
   
#944. Season 16
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Po Bronson's 1999 book tells of "The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other True Tales" of this hi-tech "Valley"
   
#945. Season 5
Monday, April 3, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
In September 1988 this Mideast country launched its 1st satellite
   
#946. Season 27
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An additional section placed within the folds of a newspaper
   
#947. Season 28
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
GOOGLE ME THIS!
Jeopardy Round: $800
...sports league & you'll find information on its teams, like Real Salt Lake & D.C. United
   
#948. 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
   
#949. 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
   
#950. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Device you use to click & drag
   
#951. 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
   
#952. Season 30
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
TECH TALK
Jeopardy Round: $400
32 bits long, an ESN is an "electronic" this, used to identify devices
   
#953. Season 35
Thursday, May 23, 2019
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The last letter of the Greek alphabet represents this unit of electrical resistance
   
#954. 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"
   
#955. Season 30
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
STRATEGY GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
A Canadian computer scientist showed that, with best play, this game also called draughts will end in a draw
   
#956. 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
   
#957. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996
ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $300
This entrepreneur's Taj Mahal & Castle have their own web pages
   
#958. Season 41
Friday, September 13, 2024
21st CENTURY FILMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This British actress went from TV assassin to playing both Millie & Molotov Girl in the video game-set "Free Guy"
   
#959. Season 36
Monday, January 20, 2020
COME TO YOUR CENSUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Not exactly a laptop with 5,000 vacuum tubes & weighing 16,000 pounds, this computer was utilized for the 1950 census
   
#960. Season 41
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
THE ELEMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
27.7% of the Earth's crust is made up of this element that's used in computer chips
   
#961. Season 29
Friday, May 3, 2013
INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This Salt Lake City-based online retailer features Mobile O, Club O Rewards & O.biz
   
#962. 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
   
#963. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Le Bureau International de l'Heure in Paris is the keeper of this for the world
   
#964. 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
   
#965. 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
   
#966. 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
   
#967. Season 15
Tuesday, October 13, 1998
1890s TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The collaboration between this man & W.K.L. Dickson led to the production of the kinetoscope in 1894
   
#968. Season 23
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
NOW THAT'S INVENTIVE!
Jeopardy Round: $600
Famous for his jet, he also invented the automobile radio for the company that became Motorola
   
#969. Season 19
Thursday, November 28, 2002
HOW AM "I" DOING?
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1981 this company introduced its first home computer, the PC
   
#970. Season 12
Monday, May 13, 1996
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $100
A secret character in the Genesis version of NBA Jam is this current Prince of Wales
   
#971. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
On YouTube, a little girl asks for help after trying this Japanese version of horseradish for the first time
   
#972. 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
   
#973. Season 29
Monday, January 14, 2013
SCIENCE 101
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1986 the 101-key IBM keyboard, which became the PC standard, moved these keys from the left to a line across the top
   
#974. Season 34
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
POP "STREET"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Popular video game first released by Capcom in 1987
   
#975. Season 27
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
NEWSMAKERS OF 2010
Jeopardy Round: $400
This chief Facebooker is the subject of the biopic "The Social Network"
   
#976. Season 36
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
IN THE NATIONAL TOY HALL OF FAME
Jeopardy Round: $600
20 years after it was introduced, this handheld console from Nintendo scored a spot in the hall of fame
   
#977. Season 24
Monday, May 26, 2008
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Computer hard drives are usually measured in GBs, which are these
   
#978. Season 20
Monday, March 15, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Eli Whitney Museum in New Haven, Connecticut) In the 1940s, Dr. William Sewell created an artificial one of these, using parts from an erector set
   
#979. 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
   
#980. Season 39
Friday, June 16, 2023
NIGHT SKIES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Mizar A & B are what's called a visual this word, like a kind of computer code, for their apparent closeness
   
#981. 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
   
#982. 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
   
#983. 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
   
#984. 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
   
#985. Season 38
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A volley of rain, or a type of movie file sent over the Internet
   
#986. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
1994:
Netscape releases this efficient Internet browser
   
#987. 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
   
#988. Season 34
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In addition to the people type, you must face zombie dogs in this game, called "Biohazard" in Japan
   
#989. Season 37
Thursday, May 20, 2021
ALL ABOUT THAT BASE
Jeopardy Round: $600
A video game called "Zero Wing" gave us the meme "All your base are" these 3 words, a poor translation from Japanese
   
#990. 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
   
#991. Season 38
Monday, January 10, 2022
NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?
Jeopardy Round: $400
Not the Trompowsky but this 3-word attack that renders a computer no good to its legitimate user
   
#992. Season 19
Thursday, April 24, 2003
SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this
   
#993. Season 18
Thursday, February 28, 2002
COMPUTER SPEAK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the acronym BIOS, these 2 words come between "basic" & "system"
   
#994. Season 26
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
"PH"UN WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
From the Greek for "shape", it means to transform an image into something else by computer
   
#995. Season 30
Monday, February 24, 2014
PLANET FILL-IN
Jeopardy Round: $600
Sega ____, a video game console
   
#996. 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
   
#997. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This biologist first gained acclaim for writing in1937 with her article "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly
   
#998. Season 28
Thursday, September 22, 2011
MUSICAL STYLINGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This structure follows "ambient", "tech" & " left- field" in types of electronica music
   
#999. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Eli Whitney's nephew invented a crusher used to grind up rock for surfacing these
   
#1000. Season 19
Thursday, January 2, 2003
FOOD WORDS & PHRASES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's information stored on your computer to record your activities when visiting a website
   
 
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