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#1. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
In "Middle-Earth: Shadow of War" these evil minions learn from defeat & come back later with a grudge
   
#2. Season 41
Thursday, March 20, 2025
TV SHOW BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $400
"East Highland High School dress code";"Who sings 'Still Don't Know My Name"';"Zendaya last name"
   
#3. 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
   
#4. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
In 1908 a carbon tetrachloride gas type of this was invented; in 1917 a foam type
   
#5. Season 24
Monday, May 19, 2008
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
As part of its salute to this decade, the Post Office created a stamp with a MixMaster on it
   
#6. Season 19
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
GIMME AN "E"!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Phone home! The computer Internet domain of this country is .et
   
#7. Season 32
Friday, January 29, 2016
ROTTEN TOMATOES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
On PETA's website you can play a video game where you throw tomatoes at people who wear this
   
#8. Season 11
Monday, May 8, 1995
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Doom is this type of program: it's distributed free, but you have to pay for continuing adventures
   
#9. 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
   
#10. 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"
   
#11. Season 37
Monday, June 7, 2021
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 2018 scientists discovered Przewalski's this animal is not truly wild but was once domesticated over 5,000 years ago
   
#12. Season 17
Friday, May 18, 2001
POTENT PORTABLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Osborne, the first portable one of these, weighed 24 pounds but could fit under an airline seat
   
#13. Season 18
Friday, December 7, 2001
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $600
He's CEO of both Apple Computer & Pixar Animation Studios
   
#14. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015
I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
I learned more than I needed to know about Tara Reid on this man's website, originally called PageSixSixSix.com
   
#15. Season 24
Monday, December 31, 2007
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Names for this keyboard symbol include "cat's tail" in Finnish & "Strudel" in Hebrew
   
#16. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024
18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In the 1780s it was shown that inflammable air & dephlogisticated air, now known as these 2 elements, make up water
   
#17. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
GOOGLE EASTER EGGS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Google search the Chicxulub crater that is on the coast of this peninsula & a large asteroid will blaze across your browser
   
#18. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015
COMPUTER ACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Giving a play-by-play of an event while on Twitter is called doing this
   
#19. 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
   
#20. Season 23
Thursday, June 7, 2007
PUBLISHING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"Electronic Mission Aircraft" & "Fighting Ships" are put out by this publisher with a feminine-sounding name
   
#21. 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
   
#22. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Bugs Bunny & Foghorn Leghorn are competitors in this basketball game for the Sony PlayStation
   
#23. Season 28
Monday, January 9, 2012
SO VERY JANUARY 9
Jeopardy Round: $400
2007:
Ending years of intense speculation, Apple introduced this product
   
#24. Season 24
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Laszlo Biro was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007 for developing this type of pen in the 20th century
   
#25. Season 22
Monday, May 1, 2006
B MINUS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Snip the B from Mr. Ives & you'll get this Internet destination
   
#26. Season 29
Thursday, December 13, 2012
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1784 this American wrote in praise of bifocals, "serving for distant objects as well as near ones"
   
#27. Season 40
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "advanced"
   
#28. Season 18
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The Celsius temperature scale is also called this, meaning "divided into one hundred parts"
   
#29. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
It's the science of sound
   
#30. Season 6
Monday, May 14, 1990
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the '30s Laurens Hammond patented the 1st commercially practical electronic one of these
   
#31. Season 31
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL FIRSTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
His 1997 inaugural was the first to be broadcast live on the Internet
   
#32. Season 16
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Apple made a computer called Lisa before they introduced this famous one in 1984
   
#33. Season 40
Friday, January 5, 2024
BLACK HISTORY YEAR
Jeopardy Round: $800
At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight
   
#34. Season 21
Monday, March 21, 2005
YOU COULD HURT SOMEONE
Jeopardy Round: $800
On a standard computer keyboard it shares a key with the question mark
   
#35. Season 23
Friday, June 1, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "Pearl" model of this Research In Motion device is an e-mail client, media player, camera & cell phone
   
#36. Season 41
Thursday, January 23, 2025
FOR THE "GRAM"
Jeopardy Round: $600
Prince called this technology "demonic", so if you ever see one of him, know the man would not approve
   
#37. 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
   
#38. 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
   
#39. Season 37
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
DOCUMENTARIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" is a comical documentary about 2 rivals trying to outdo each other at this video game
   
#40. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $600
The ROM of your computer's CD-ROM stands for this
   
#41. Season 13
Thursday, May 15, 1997
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FIRSTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1984 this company revolutionized the computer world with the introduction of its Macintosh
   
#42. Season 27
Monday, June 20, 2011
SELLING "B"
Jeopardy Round: $800
This shaver brand claims its pulsonic technology breaks the 10,000-micro-vibrations-per-minute barrier
   
#43. Season 27
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
BEER GOOGLES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A Google hit for this Pottsville, Penn. beer that sounds like a panda reveals that it's America's oldest brewery
   
#44. Season 35
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
GOVT. ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
To the FAA, MWP is the meteorological processor of this; (sounds redundant)
   
#45. Season 19
Friday, October 4, 2002
THAT'S SO '90s
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1994 a flaw found in this company's new Pentium processor cost it $475 million in a recall
   
#46. 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
   
#47. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
These devices advocated by firemen can work by detecting either ions or changes in light
   
#48. Season 37
Thursday, April 1, 2021
"OUT" AT FIRST
Jeopardy Round: $200
A loss of electrical power
   
#49. Season 11
Tuesday, September 20, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
When this device is moved along a tabletop, it causes a pointer to move across the screen
   
#50. Season 26
Monday, May 17, 2010
"B"s ON BOTH ENDS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An early name for Google was this type of massage
   
#51. Season 19
Monday, January 6, 2003
PRO SPORTS TEAMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This San Diego team's Qualcomm Stadium has a seating capacity of nearly 67,000, the most in Major League Baseball
   
#52. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This company with another medium in its name created the color TV system we use today
   
#53. Season 32
Friday, July 22, 2016
TECHNO-THRILLERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A data thief targets a giant computer mind orbiting Earth in this William Gibson cyberpunk classic from 1984
   
#54. 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
   
#55. Season 26
Monday, June 28, 2010
THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ
Jeopardy Round: $400
Woz was born in 1950, the son of an electrical engineer at this co. that merged with Martin Marietta in 1995
   
#56. Season 40
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
DISTRACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sorry son, missed your video game tournament watching Euro 2024 soccer from this city's 1936 Olympiastadion
   
#57. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
These drone aircraft controlled from Nevada have been attacking targets in Pakistan
   
#58. 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
   
#59. Season 41
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
IN THE JUNK DRAWER
Jeopardy Round: $800
Still can't find the scissors, but I've got three of these proprietary Apple cables for charging an old iPhone circa 2014
   
#60. Season 28
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
COLLEGE "M"
Jeopardy Round: $400
"We are" this West Virginia university, home to the Byrd Biotechnology Science Center
   
#61. Season 23
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
PLAY THIS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This "avian" skateboarding legend has produced several high-flying video games for Activision
   
#62. Season 27
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
STUFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
StuffIt, which makes computer files smaller, is this type of program, also a kind of wave or bandage
   
#63. Season 4
Monday, June 27, 1988
BUSINESS '88
Jeopardy Round: $200
Since leaving the astronaut corps, she's joined the board of directors of Apple Computer
   
#64. Season 35
Friday, November 9, 2018
SCHOLARSHIPS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's going to take more than a baking soda volcano to win a scholarship from the Google-sponsored contest called this event
   
#65. Season 36
Monday, November 11, 2019
A GENERIC TITLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Prince Noctis has work to do in edition XV of this alliterative role-playing video game
   
#66. 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
   
#67. Season 28
Thursday, September 22, 2011
MUSICAL STYLINGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This structure follows "ambient", "tech" & " left- field" in types of electronica music
   
#68. Season 29
Friday, May 10, 2013
INNOVATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Goodyear's air maintenance technology uses a regulator that adds air when pressure falls in these
   
#69. Season 30
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
DID YOU GET MY LETTER?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1976 he wrote an open letter to members of the Homebrew Computer Club asking them not to steal his programs
   
#70. Season 32
Friday, October 2, 2015
TOP 10 GLOBAL BRANDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
If only there were some kind of way to search the Internet for this $174 billion tech company, No. 2 on the list
   
#71. Season 8
Monday, September 23, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Its 3 blimps that still fly are the only survivors among the 300 airships built by the co. since 1911
   
#72. Season 14
Monday, March 23, 1998
FLYING
Jeopardy Round: $100
"Low-observable technology" earned the Air Force's B-2 bomber this nickname
   
#73. Season 29
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"Video Game Review: In New Tomb Raider", she "Shows a Vulnerable Side"
   
#74. Season 32
Thursday, February 11, 2016
VIDEO GAME SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $600
NPC stands for this, an avatar not controlled by a human
   
#75. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Job changed his profile pic after shaving this, not for the Dwayne Johnson look but in mourning for his 10 children
   
#76. 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
   
#77. Season 2
Friday, December 13, 1985
SLANG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
New words "jik", "dweeb" & "zod", meaning nerdy, are said to arise from the sounds made by these
   
#78. Season 20
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
INNS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Jan. 1, 1996 was Holiday Inn's deadline for all its properties to open room doors with these
   
#79. 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.
   
#80. Season 27
Thursday, January 13, 2011
WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $200
The website incorporated a double helix into its logo on the 50th anniversary of understanding DNA
   
#81. Season 34
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
2 "U"
Jeopardy Round: $200
Amount produced in a given time, or stuff that comes from a computer
   
#82. Season 32
Friday, March 11, 2016
IT'S THE WURST
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A 2013 Google doodle celebrated the 100th birthday of Herta Heuwer, inventor of this Indian-spiced Berlin specialty
   
#83. Season 33
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
GENRES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Doom is this 3-word type of video game named for how one sees through a character's eyes while firing
   
#84. Season 41
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
IT'S PHYSICS!
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A CERN document calls it a material "composed of electrically neutral particles that can... flow without friction"
   
#85. Season 26
Thursday, July 22, 2010
AT THE BUSINESS' WEBSITE
Jeopardy Round: $800
"It's in the game" at this gamemaker's site where you can get into the "community" of its Madden NFL 10
   
#86. Season 36
Thursday, January 9, 2020
AMERICAN "CITY"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's home to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
   
#87. 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
   
#88. Season 35
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
CIA WORLD FACTBOOKNO. 1s
Jeopardy Round: $800
China: 731 million users of this technological network
   
#89. Season 20
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1885 one of these explosions, the brightest to appear for the next century, appeared in the Andromeda galaxy
   
#90. Season 41
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
TAKE ME TO YOUR COMPANY LEADER
Jeopardy Round: $800
Ruth Porat is President & Chief Investment Officer for this conglomerate & holding company & you can Google that
   
#91. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
During tough times Job's DW, this person, urged him to "Curse God, and die"
   
#92. 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?
   
#93. 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
   
#94. 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
   
#95. Season 41
Thursday, February 27, 2025
POP CULTURE 2000
Jeopardy Round: $600
This hot new video game of the year had players controlling the day-to-day lives of virtual people
   
#96. Season 22
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
ENDS IN AN F SOUND
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In computer animation, it means to transform an image, such as changing a man into a mouse
   
#97. Season 35
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
ARCHITECTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
4-letter word for an office plan without walls; Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's HQ is the largest one in the world
   
#98. Season 39
Friday, December 9, 2022
COMPANY NAME ORIGINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The name of this tech company is a shortening of the metropolis where it was founded by 2 Stanford computer scientists in 1984
   
#99. Season 23
Monday, February 5, 2007
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $400
This 4-letter term for a small image on a computer screen shares its name with a specialized image of a holy person
   
#100. Season 9
Tuesday, November 17, 1992
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Used especially in diagnosing brain disorders, CAT, as in CAT scan, stands for "computerized" this
   
#101. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
A box of 64 Crayola crayons has one of these devices "built-in"
   
#102. Season 31
Monday, September 29, 2014
PREMIUM CABLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This HBO series that debuted in 2014 makes talk about compression algorithms & tech incubators really funny
   
#103. Season 14
Thursday, March 26, 1998
PUT "IT"
Jeopardy Round: $200
A homer, a murder or a visit to a World Wide Web site
   
#104. Season 37
Friday, February 12, 2021
ALL THE "RAGE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's a measure of the strength of an electrical current
   
#105. Season 27
Monday, January 3, 2011
TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST
Jeopardy Round: $800
The earliest man-made examples of this silica & borate material were beads made in the 1500s B.C.
   
#106. Season 23
Friday, April 6, 2007
THEIR ALBUMS ROCK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Pablo Honey",
"OK Computer",
"Hail to the Thief"
   
#107. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
MUSIC I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In June 2018 "Random Access Memories" was one of 2 albums this helmet-headed duo had on the Dance/Electronic Top 25
   
#108. Season 35
Friday, July 19, 2019
COMPUTER "D"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A pair of 4-letter words are in this action that moves a file, like putting a photo of an ex into the recycle bin
   
#109. 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
   
#110. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022
OLD TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Fed with a long sheet of paper, this type of printer you're hearing now has lingered with businesses like airport car rental
   
#111. 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
   
#112. Season 22
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
TECHWORD MASH-UP
Jeopardy Round: $600
It was named because it's a resistor that can "amplify electrical signals... transferred through it"
   
#113. 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
   
#114. Season 25
Monday, November 10, 2008
BESTSELLERS: 2006
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The No. 1 video game was this former coach's "NFL '07"
   
#115. 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
   
#116. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996
ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Appropriately, web pages abound devoted to this female star of "The Net"
   
#117. Season 20
Thursday, December 11, 2003
I-I-I-I
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In this early '90s video game by Sid Meier, you built "an empire to stand the test of time"
   
#118. Season 24
Monday, June 9, 2008
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
On March 10, 2003 this nation got control of the .af Internet domain
   
#119. Season 14
Thursday, May 7, 1998
COMPUTER CHARACTERS
Jeopardy Round: $100
Nintendo's official mascot since 1985, he was named for the landlord of the firm's first U.S. warehouse
   
#120. 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
   
#121. Season JM
Friday, May 10, 2024
"M" & "M"s
Jeopardy Round: 200
Newspapers, radio & television, & now the internet, collectively
   
#122. 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
   
#123. Season 33
Friday, April 14, 2017
HIDDEN GENIUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This code breaker & computer genius was persecuted for his sexuality; sounds like a non sequitur in Great Britain
   
#124. Season 26
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
4chan.org is a collaborative community known for posting these on the net, usually in .jpeg or .gif form
   
#125. Season 28
Thursday, May 10, 2012
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $200
NVNG stands for "nothing ventured", this
   
#126. Season 35
Monday, March 4, 2019
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's the basic unit of information in the powerful machines called quantum computers
   
#127. 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
   
#128. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $200
Of Flash, Google or AltaVista, the one that's not a popular Internet search engine
   
#129. Season 8
Friday, April 24, 1992
SAINTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
A patron of sailors, his name is given to electrical discharges sometimes seen at ships' mastheads
   
#130. 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
   
#131. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $600
RDV is a cool way to type this word for a meeting
   
#132. Season 37
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
TV SHOW QUOTES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An argument vs. naming a tech co. "Pied Piper"--that's "a predatory flautist who murders children in a cave"
   
#133. Season 3
Friday, March 27, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Letter name of new Chrysler/Maserati car Iacocca calls "The best looking Italian...since my mother..."
   
#134. Season 25
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1971, 3 engineers invented this company's 4004 chip, the world's first single-chip microprocessor
   
#135. 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
   
#136. Season 24
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
HAVE I TOLD YOU PHILATELY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The 1990s "Celebrate the Century" set has the World Wide Web; the 1900s set has this W.E.B.
   
#137. Season 35
Monday, January 7, 2019
2 CAN PLAY THAT GAME
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2007 a computer program "solved" this game, AKA draughts, proving that best play from both sides leads to a draw
   
#138. Season 6
Friday, September 29, 1989
AWARD-WINNERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The 1st woman to receive the Lowell Thomas Electronic Journalism Award was this "20/20" co-host
   
#139. Season 33
Thursday, April 20, 2017
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" shows us the exact moment that this computer system says "Hasta la vista", humans
   
#140. 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
   
#141. Season 6
Tuesday, September 26, 1989
AROUND THE HOUSE
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Now over 60% of U.S. homes can save our show forever using one of these electronic devices
   
#142. 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
   
#143. Season 36
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
TECH STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $600
chromium.org is a place for developers to learn about & contribute to this company's browser
   
#144. Season 32
Friday, December 4, 2015
WILL YOU REMEMBER ME?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the name of those large CRT computer monitors of yore, CRT stands for this
   
#145. Season 34
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Since 1902 it's focused on science & technology & new innovations like cars & TV:
PM
   
#146. Season 40
Thursday, March 21, 2024
HISTORIC FIRSTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1993 cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov was the first to play a video game in space, this one created by a countryman
   
#147. 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
   
#148. 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
   
#149. Season 40
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
YES, I'VE ETON
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
As a student at Eton, he did not have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne
   
#150. Season 38
Friday, April 22, 2022
FIRSTS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
On Oct. 13, 1983 the first call on a commercial cell phone was made to a grandson of this inventor
   
#151. Season 4
Thursday, May 19, 1988
MEDICAL INITIALS
Jeopardy Round: $500
In a "CAT" scan, the "A" & "T" stand for axial tomography, & the "C" stands for this
   
#152. Season 36
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
COMPUTER KEYBOARDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Invented in 1960, much later than its forward pal, this mark gained popularity when used in MS-DOS
   
#153. Season 31
Friday, December 26, 2014
MILK & HONEY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1993 an ad firm hired by the California Milk Processor Board came up with this slogan
   
#154. Season 38
Thursday, January 6, 2022
"MAL" PRACTICE
Jeopardy Round: $400
An "attack" using this disrupts normal functioning of a computer via Trojans & viruses
   
#155. Season 30
Friday, February 28, 2014
THE COOKIE AISLE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Nabisco had the technology to make a Mega Stuf version of this cookie
   
#156. 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
   
#157. Season 35
Friday, April 12, 2019
GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018
Jeopardy Round: $800
For 2016 & 2017 the most searched athlete was this Dublin-born MMA fighter
   
#158. 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
   
#159. 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
   
#160. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
1982: this company's 64 computer is introduced, soon becoming the best-selling model of all time
   
#161. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The smallest units of information stored in a computer, they form bytes
   
#162. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Egyptians used sodium carbonate, called natron, to do this to their dead
   
#163. Season 25
Friday, November 21, 2008
THE NET WORKS
Jeopardy Round: $600
For some strange reason, this company's Live.com site has system requirements that don't include Macs or Firefox
   
#164. Season 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1986
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Sex of telephone operators in the 1st exchanges
   
#165. 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"
   
#166. Season 36
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
THE 1990s
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1997 Steve Jobs thanked Bill Gates for saving Apple from bankruptcy after this company invested $150 million
   
#167. Season 23
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
This 4-letter word, a shortened version of a 6-letter word, is a popular term for an e-journal
   
#168. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Religious Views: Quaker;
Groups: Navy Vets;
Favorite Music: No (expletive deleted) hippie stuff!
   
#169. Season 24
Thursday, February 21, 2008
RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Desires an assortment of letter types & characters for the computer
   
#170. Season 30
Thursday, September 26, 2013
THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
The animal for which this computer program is named is actually a red panda
   
#171. Season 29
Thursday, June 6, 2013
LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Providing antivirus & firewall technology:
MFE
   
#172. 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
   
#173. Season SUPERJEOPARDY
Saturday, August 4, 1990
"X", "Y", "Z"
Jeopardy Round: 200
In computer terms it means to erase, in science fiction terms, to hit someone with a ray gun
   
#174. Season 29
Friday, May 10, 2013
MAGAZINES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2010 Adweek named this magazine covering technology, business & culture the "magazine of the decade"
   
#175. Season 24
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
WEB SLINGERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This social network similar to Myspace started in a Harvard dorm & originally only allowed students
   
#176. Season 13
Monday, June 9, 1997
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1938 this electronics firm was founded in David Packard's Palo Alto, California garage
   
#177. Season 41
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
GIVING YOU THE CREEPS
Jeopardy Round: $400
In the video game "Batman: Arkham Knight", our caped crusader vies with this foe played by Cillian Murphy on film
   
#178. Season 16
Tuesday, October 26, 1999
THE 20th CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This 26-year-old lowland gorilla fielded questions during an April 1998 Internet chat
   
#179. Season 5
Monday, November 14, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber, and this Charles used rubber to waterproof cloth
   
#180. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1984 Apple Computer introduced this model line
   
#181. Season 38
Thursday, February 17, 2022
PLUS
Jeopardy Round: $800
At Bell Labs Bjarne Stroustrup designed this programming language released in 1985
   
#182. 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
   
#183. 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
   
#184. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Gov. Snyder of this Midwest state where Larry Page was born is trying to reverse a trend of population loss
   
#185. Season 27
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
loc.gov is the website for this place, home to about 745 miles of bookshelves
   
#186. 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
   
#187. Season 24
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
EYE ON AFRICA
Jeopardy Round: $600
This nation has the dubious distinction as the birthplace of the Internet e-mail scams known as 419 Fraud
   
#188. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In "The Legend Of Zelda", a poem called the Sun's Song inspires you to play a tune on this egg-like instrument
   
#189. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996
ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $300
This entrepreneur's Taj Mahal & Castle have their own web pages
   
#190. Season 41
Thursday, October 10, 2024
BBL, BUSY
Jeopardy Round: $200
I'm busy updating my iPhone with iOS 18, the OS short for this
   
#191. Season 21
Friday, July 8, 2005
SCIENCE GUYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In the 1820s this British scientist discovered the laws of electrical induction forming the basis for the magneto & dynamo
   
#192. Season 31
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
ETIQUETTE
Jeopardy Round: $800
When you're at the dinner table, turn off this Apple device introduced in April 2010, even if you're winning at Fruit Ninja
   
#193. Season 18
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Automaton is sometimes just a fancy name for one of these mechanical beings
   
#194. Season 40
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
5-LETTER "X" WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's the smallest element of an image on your computer monitor
   
#195. Season 40
Thursday, July 18, 2024
POP CULTURE GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This 2020 Switch game from Nintendo was subtitled "New Horizons"
   
#196. Season 28
Thursday, May 24, 2012
ANIMAL VERBS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Pester, or equip a room with electronic listening devices
   
#197. Season 33
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Glitches in this "NFL 17" had a kick returner catching the ball at his own 2, stepping back into his own end zone & scoring a TD
   
#198. Season 27
Monday, November 15, 2010
ONLINE SHOPPING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It traces its roots to 1995 & Pierre Omidyar, a computer programer who wrote the code for an auction website
   
#199. Season 27
Friday, December 31, 2010
THE COMPANY HE KEPT
Jeopardy Round: $200
Steve Case was chairman of this Internet service provider from 1995 to 2001; then it had a big merger
   
#200. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
In 1981 the Solar Challenger was a solar-powered plane & in 1977 the Gossamer Condor was powered by this
   
#201. Season 13
Monday, March 17, 1997
ON-LINE LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
One of a race of brutes in "Gulliver's Travels", it's now the name of a famous internet directory
   
#202. Season 40
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1764 weaver James Hargreaves developed this improved spinning machine that has a girl's name
   
#203. Season 27
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
VS.
Jeopardy Round: $400
Home computer buyers choose between these 2 types played by Justin Long & John Hodgman in commercials
   
#204. Season 13
Monday, May 19, 1997
WHAT'S HOT
Jeopardy Round: $300
This company created the Virtual Boy, a 3-D game system
   
#205. Season 17
Wednesday, November 8, 2000
NEW WORDS & PHRASES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
A variation of couch potato, a mouse potato is someone who spends a lot of time with this
   
#206. 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
   
#207. Season 40
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR
Jeopardy Round: $400
Useful in electronics crafts, this process similar to welding joins circuit components using a low melting point alloy
   
#208. Season 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1986
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Wheels with these allowed greater speed & maneuverability than solid wheels
   
#209. Season 22
Thursday, October 27, 2005
MOB HITS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the video game based on this film, players use violence & negotiation to become the next don
   
#210. Season 30
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK
Jeopardy Round: $600
Use 3 boosts & detonate as many gems as you can in 60 seconds in this alliterative Popcap app
   
#211. Season 4
Thursday, November 19, 1987
ODD ALPHABETS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In ASCII, this kind of computer code, A is 01000001
   
#212. Season 23
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1990 IBM scientists created the first structure made by moving individual ones of these on a surface
   
#213. Season 24
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
GREEK ALPHABET SOUP
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In this type of testing, electronic equipment is subjected to the real world conditions in which it'll be used
   
#214. 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
   
#215. Season 18
Friday, November 9, 2001
VIDEO GAME WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $200
The game for this 2001 Disney under-the-sea animated feature has a multiplayer online mode
   
#216. 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
   
#217. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
With its Ofoto online service & Easyshare cameras, you'll never have to develop this company's film
   
#218. Season 24
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This 3-letter abbrev. used for devices from Palm was 1st used in '92 by Apple CEO John Sculley for the Newton launch
   
#219. Season 38
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Many health plans now cover this 12-letter practice of consulting with your doctor via your cell phone or computer
   
#220. 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
   
#221. Season 38
Thursday, April 7, 2022
COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
Smaller networks can be secured with the packet-filtering type of this protective program
   
#222. Season 33
Thursday, November 17, 2016
TEXTING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
While working for Microsoft, Dean Hachamovitch invented this texting feature that suggests words for you
   
#223. Season 33
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
ONLINE LEARNING
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
codeacademy.com has a section on "HTML &" this 3-letter mechanism for adding color & style to web pages
   
#224. 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
   
#225. 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
   
#226. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $500
"Strap" once completed this word meaning to start a computer by loading software
   
#227. Season 38
Monday, November 22, 2021
MIX TAPE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
For auxiliary data storage, computers sometimes use this type of tape that often has iron oxide in it
   
#228. Season 22
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1946 Del Harder of this auto co. coined the term "automation" to describe the way its engines were assembled
   
#229. Season 30
Friday, April 25, 2014
COMPUTERS
Final Jeopardy
The creator of this computer command called it "a 5-minute job"; in 2013 Bill Gates called it "a mistake"
   
#230. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
If you have an extra $44 million, you can buy his & hers Y-MP/832 supercomputers from this company
   
#231. Season 15
Wednesday, March 31, 1999
OLYMPIC MASCOTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
The computer-generated "Whatizit" that symbolized the '96 games in Atlanta was called this for short
   
#232. Season 39
Monday, December 26, 2022
THE OFFICE
Jeopardy Round: $600
A popular office snack is the granola bar made since 1975 & named for this place we think is between Death Valley & Silicon Valley
   
#233. Season 30
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK
Jeopardy Round: $400
In February 2014 this addictive game about a little winged creature was taken down by its developer
   
#234. Season 35
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
BRICK BY BRICK
Jeopardy Round: $200
Using bricks can keep creepers out of your house in this video game
   
#235. Season 36
Monday, January 13, 2020
THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED
Jeopardy Round: $1000
At the 1999 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, ReplayTV won a best in show prize for unveiling this technology
   
#236. Season 17
Tuesday, October 10, 2000
THAT'S A MOVIE TITLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
This 2000 computer virus was considerably more destructive than Herbie
   
#237. Season 26
Thursday, September 24, 2009
BEYOND MEASURE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
A mickey, used to measure movement of this computer part, equals 1/200th of an inch
   
#238. Season 34
Friday, April 20, 2018
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A billion-dollar tech company or an ideal mate is this mythic creature, like Charlie of Candy Mountain fame
   
#239. 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
   
#240. Season 17
Monday, January 22, 2001
SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
His supercomputer earned him a place in the National Inventors Hall of Fame
   
#241. Season 40
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The accepted levels of this technology go from 0 (a 1978 Buick Regal) to 5 (no pedals; doesn't exist yet)
   
#242. 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
   
#243. 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
   
#244. Season 5
Friday, December 2, 1988
SCHOOL DAYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
It used to be a student who kept order in the halls; now it's a screen for your computer
   
#245. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
The name of this pivoted frame for the combustion chamber & nozzle of a rocket sounds like Macy's one-time rival
   
#246. 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
   
#247. Season 18
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
ACRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In your computer:
ROM
   
#248. Season 22
Monday, July 10, 2006
THE 2005FORTUNE500
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Let's see, I need 127 gallons of OJ, 5,050 rolls of paper towels & 4 computers... I'm off to this company, No. 28
   
#249. 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
   
#250. Season 3
Tuesday, June 16, 1987
TRAVEL & TOURISM
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
The National Museum of Science & Technology in Milan is named after this man
   
#251. 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
   
#252. Season 40
Thursday, April 11, 2024
A YEAR ENDING IN 4
Jeopardy Round: $200
Apple introduced its Macintosh computer
   
#253. Season 34
Friday, March 16, 2018
ANY "PORT"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In computer abbreviations, it's the "P" in a PDF
   
#254. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "app" in "killer app" stands for this
   
#255. Season 33
Monday, July 10, 2017
DRESS LIKE WOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
An invite-only Facebook group devoted to Hillary Clinton is called this Nation, after HRC's signature ensemble
   
#256. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Your browser's storage of recently visited websites is called a "web" this word for something hidden
   
#257. 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
   
#258. Season 26
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
1984
Jeopardy Round: $400
January 24:
Apple introduces this influential computer model
   
#259. Season 19
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
GEEK TRAGEDY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Nodding off at 9 P.M., you missed the 10:00 CNN interview with this Microsoft chairman
   
#260. Season 14
Tuesday, May 12, 1998
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Electronic music master Moby is a descendant of this creator of Moby Dick
   
#261. Season 25
Thursday, January 22, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Computer Space, the first arcade video game, makes a cameo in this 1973 sci-fi film (spoiler: the title is people!)
   
#262. 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
   
#263. Season 18
Thursday, November 29, 2001
I'M JUST A BILL
Jeopardy Round: $200
A hacker stole this billionaire's credit card number off the Internet & used it to order Viagra for him
   
#264. Season 21
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
FLOWER POWER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This computing term for a series of peripherals connected to a computer sounds like a school day flower bracelet
   
#265. Season 31
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
IPOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2011 this online discounter raised $700 million in the largest Internet IPO since Google in 2004
   
#266. Season 30
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
MASCOTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Originally named Jumpman, this Nintendo mascot got a new name for Donkey Kong Jr.
   
#267. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $300
T. I. for short, this company designed "Speak & Spell", the popular learning aid for kids
   
#268. 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
   
#269. Season 32
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
RICHES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Better than first class! I'm flying private in one of these jets named for electrical engineer William
   
#270. Season 29
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
"DOO-" "-DAH"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Funky versions of the Google logo are called these
   
#271. Season 38
Friday, September 24, 2021
NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Taiwan-born Jerry Yang co-created Jerry & David's Guide to the World Wide Web, which became this Internet giant!
   
#272. 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
   
#273. Season 18
Wednesday, January 16, 2002
FULL HOUSE
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Consumer Electronics Association defines these as having screens 27 inches or larger
   
#274. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009
COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A regional computer linker:
LAN
   
#275. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Actors might memorize these rectangles that appear onscreen to present information, then vanish
   
#276. 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
   
#277. Season 29
Monday, December 10, 2012
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, it's the leading award for Internet sites
   
#278. Season 31
Thursday, January 15, 2015
DOUBLE "O"
Jeopardy Round: $400
A row of icons on a computer screen representing tasks within a program
   
#279. 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
   
#280. 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
   
#281. 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
   
#282. 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
   
#283. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This removable item used for data storage was introduced in 1971; the first one was 8 inches square
   
#284. 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?
   
#285. Season 22
Monday, February 6, 2006
AT THE MALL
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Found "just what I needed" at this "City", an electronics store
   
#286. Season 40
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
STATE THE ITEM
Jeopardy Round: $600
One outcome of this educational video game that bore the name of this 19th c. historical route? "You have died of dysentery"
   
#287. 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
   
#288. Season 30
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
INTERNET FIRSTS
Final Jeopardy
A broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995 holds this distinction
   
#289. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $800
The first search engine had this comic book name; the original "Archives" was too long of a filename
   
#290. Season 17
Monday, November 27, 2000
SWISS WATCHING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Graduate of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who won the first Nobel Physics Prize
   
#291. Season 38
Thursday, December 23, 2021
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Good manners, or the kind of airport phone you can use to reach Avis
   
#292. Season 38
Monday, June 6, 2022
MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK)
Jeopardy Round: $400
It was this two-word Internet sensation's "Worst Christmas Ever" in 2014
   
#293. 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
   
#294. 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"
   
#295. Season 33
Monday, September 26, 2016
A CLOUDY CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Cloud computing holds onto your data with vast arrays or "farms" of these computers that process requests
   
#296. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
FORMER TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This item was about the size of the modern electric refrigerator that replaced it in homes
   
#297. Season 37
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
'80s TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The early '80s gave us the computer words "notebook" & this other portable kind
   
#298. Season 24
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
NERDVANA
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Music on the iPhone should only be installed from this company's iTunes
   
#299. Season 16
Thursday, February 10, 2000
COUNTRIES BY COLLEGE
Jeopardy Round: $100
Max Planck Institute for Computer Science,
Braunschweig Tech,
The University of Augsburg
   
#300. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
COMPUTER NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The first 2 letters in the name of this Sony PC can stand for "Video Audio"
   
#301. Season 16
Tuesday, April 4, 2000
THE PC
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Apple launched this popular computer line August 15, 1998
   
#302. Season 26
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
BEFORE & AFTER
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Tainted Love" band's pocket communicator
   
#303. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Common fiery name for a nasty or insulting email or newsgroup message
   
#304. Season 31
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
"I. C."
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $6,000
Interconnected transistors, resistors & capacitors built on a single wafer
   
#305. Season 33
Thursday, May 4, 2017
ELECTRICITY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Electrical impulses come form the heart's natural pacemaker, the S-A node, short for this
   
#306. 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
   
#307. 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
   
#308. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "P" in jpeg
   
#309. Season 28
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
QUASI-RELATED PAIRS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Tiny computer components & a short swim
   
#310. Season 23
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
YOU GOTTA HAVE ART
Jeopardy Round: $600
This Spanish "Still Life with Chair Caning" artist said, "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers"
   
#311. Season 9
Thursday, July 22, 1993
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
General Telephone added "Electronics" to its name after acquiring this light bulb company in 1959
   
#312. 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
   
#313. Season 36
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Computer innovator Grace Hopper popularized the saying that it's better to ask forgiveness than this
   
#314. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
"The Book Of The Blind" gives rhyming tips on how to survive a level in this game, Spanish for "devil"
   
#315. 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
   
#316. Season 32
Monday, September 26, 2011
LOOK WHAT THE CAT SCAN DRAGGED IN
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
CAT stands for computerized this tomography, because it moves across the body's transverse plane
   
#317. Season 5
Friday, January 6, 1989
MEDICINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A recent study indicates working long hours at these computer stations may cause vision problems
   
#318. Season 30
Monday, April 7, 2014
"COM" TO ME
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Able to coexist, as with a spouse or another electronic device
   
#319. Season 18
Friday, March 22, 2002
ALL BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
We predict you'll know that this computer software company has the stock symbol ORCL
   
#320. Season 23
Monday, February 5, 2007
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $600
A flatbed one of these optical devices is used to get images into your computer to use on your website
   
#321. 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"
   
#322. Season 22
Monday, October 17, 2005
SPEED
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1965 Gordon Moore famously predicted that these would double in processing speed every 18 months
   
#323. 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...
   
#324. Season 14
Tuesday, September 16, 1997
NAME CALLING
Jeopardy Round: $500
Nintendo immortalized this first name of one of the company's landlords
   
#325. Season 29
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
MISSION
Jeopardy Round: $800
This co.'s mission is "to organize the world's information & make it universally accessible & useful"
   
#326. 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
   
#327. Season 29
Friday, January 18, 2013
TO YOUR HEALTH
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Used in biofeedback, an electromygraph is an instrument that records the electrical impulses emitted by these
   
#328. 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"
   
#329. Season 40
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
An eft is a newt, but E.F.T. is short for this type of monetary transfer
   
#330. Season 34
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
THE NEWSPAPER GAME
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
A newspaper founded in London in 1855 was named for this, then the hottest new communication technology
   
#331. 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
   
#332. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $500
An unauthorized person who breaks into a computer system is called this
   
#333. Season 29
Friday, July 19, 2013
THE APPLE STORE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
For a computer introduced in 1984, Apple Inc. added an "A" to the name of this all-purpose apple
   
#334. Season 14
Monday, October 27, 1997
RESEARCH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Search engines like Alta Vista help you explore the vast maze of this information system
   
#335. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
ALSO AN NFL TEAM
Jeopardy Round: $200
Weakening cell phone batteries need them
   
#336. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Resembling
   
#337. Season 30
Thursday, February 13, 2014
VIDEO GAME VAULT
Jeopardy Round: $400
You don't need to be a spelunker to enjoy this Sega game named for the place spelunkers explore
   
#338. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
If you're gaming with a pal online & he doesn't respond, it may be a case of "LD", this "dead"
   
#339. Season 31
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS
Jeopardy Round: $200
allmovie.com's review of "Run All Night" noted "the constant hissing of threats into cell phones" by this Irish actor
   
#340. 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
   
#341. 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
   
#342. 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
   
#343. Season 12
Wednesday, November 15, 1995
1995
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In June, Lotus Development Corporation agreed to be taken over by this computer giant
   
#344. Season 24
Friday, January 4, 2008
THE VATICAN ONLINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
You'll learn that you may not use cell phones or felt-tip pens when researching in the Secret these
   
#345. Season 22
Monday, December 5, 2005
YES "I.M."
Jeopardy Round: $200
To Internet users, I.M. is this real-time communication service
   
#346. 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
   
#347. Season 19
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
THE LETTER G
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In Internet domain name extensions, gg stands for Alderney, Sark & this other Channel Island
   
#348. Season 24
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
2007 NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
In Sept. 2007 Apple reduced the price of the 8GB this to $399, down from $599
   
#349. 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
   
#350. Season 4
Thursday, May 26, 1988
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The initials IBM stand for this
   
#351. Season 32
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
VERY INVENTIVE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In addition to creating an all-electronic TV in 1927, he developed a process to sterilize milk via radio waves
   
#352. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Advertisers have discovered they can send ads instantaneously with this telephone technology
   
#353. Season 33
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
WE'VE GOT COMPANY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1980 69-year-old IBM had this 5-year-old software company create the operating system to run its PCs
   
#354. Season 38
Friday, October 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
First patented in 1952, center pivot devices used for this agricultural task caused the green circles seen from planes
   
#355. Season 20
Monday, July 19, 2004
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Word & Powerpoint are part of the Microsoft system named for this place
   
#356. 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
   
#357. Season 23
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
ONLINE WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This phrase was used of an appliance that connected to an electrical outlet; now it's an add-on for a browser
   
#358. 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
   
#359. Season 17
Friday, March 23, 2001
"DO", "RE", "MI"
Jeopardy Round: $400
This kind of "name" is also known as an Internet address
   
#360. Season 20
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
CHAT ROOM LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $800
"AATK" means "Always at" this computer accessory
   
#361. 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
   
#362. 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
   
#363. Season 14
Friday, May 29, 1998
SCIENCE & NATURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Announced on February 14, 1946, this first electronic digital computer had 18,000 vacuum tubes
   
#364. 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
   
#365. Season 21
Thursday, June 23, 2005
AWARDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This auction site won a 2003 Webby Award for best Services Website on the Internet
   
#366. Season 32
Thursday, January 7, 2016
CALIFORNIA CITY‑"O"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This city in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains is home to Apple Computer
   
#367. Season 18
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This pointing device has one button on Macs & 2 on a PC (I like the ones with a wheel)
   
#368. Season 22
Monday, May 15, 2006
OK COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It can be a hiding place for food or treasure, or a place for memory on a computer's motherboard
   
#369. Season 19
Monday, April 21, 2003
FAMOUS FIRSTS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Charles Babbage got the idea of using these to "program" his computer from the ones used in Jacquard looms
   
#370. Season 18
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This athletic shoe company's internet store is located at catshack.com
   
#371. Season 21
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
In 1913 this alloy was invented by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England, a city known for its cutlery since before 1400
   
#372. 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
   
#373. 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
   
#374. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2015 Funny or Die had a picture of a storefront sign of this tech chain; many letters were fritzed out but "adioS" remained
   
#375. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's believed that in 1994 WXYC in Chapel Hill in this state became the 1st radio station to webcast
   
#376. Season 3
Thursday, March 12, 1987
MYTHOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Tisiphone, the blood avenger; Alecto, the persevering avenger; & Magaera, the jealous
   
#377. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
1994:
Netscape releases this efficient Internet browser
   
#378. 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
   
#379. Season 38
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION
Jeopardy Round: $800
A palindromic exclamation of amazement
   
#380. Season 41
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
BIOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The U.S. Navy relies on this technology, like to detect submerged objects, but it can make freaked-out whales beach themselves
   
#381. Season 18
Thursday, May 30, 2002
IT'S FALLING "DOWN"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
To transfer computer data
   
#382. 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
   
#383. 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
   
#384. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Piece of peripheral hardware whose name comes from "Modulator Demodulator"
   
#385. Season 37
Friday, January 22, 2021
DISASTROUS TEAMS?
Jeopardy Round: $800
MLS:
Between the San Andreas & Calaveras Faults, Silicon Valley is prone to these
   
#386. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1993 Intel introduced this new chip, which had 3.1 million transistors
   
#387. Season 30
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's estimated that more than 40% of Americans visit this website on any given day; how very social! (& good for business)
   
#388. Season 40
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
____ & ____ BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $200
On its website, it boasts of being "the Internet's largest bookstore"
   
#389. Season 39
Friday, June 23, 2023
KIDS OF THE '70s, REJOICE!
Jeopardy Round: $800
In '72, this tennis-like Atari video game debuted & kids went crazy--such cool graphics! They'll never get better than that!
   
#390. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
If we're talking NiCads, we're talking about these in laptops
   
#391. Season 23
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
This 3-letter extension at the end of a web address indicates it's operated by a college or university
   
#392. Season 17
Monday, November 6, 2000
I FEEL SHEEPISH
Jeopardy Round: $500
To access the Internet, you need at least 16 megabytes of this acronym
   
#393. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
COMPUTER GAMING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This role-playing game out in 2004 returns to the "World" of Azeroth, where heroes like Leeroy Jenkins do battle
   
#394. Season 41
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
TAKE A LONG WALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Fitness trackers by this Google-owned brand raise a big question for many users: if my steps aren't tracked, did my walk even happen?
   
#395. Season 26
Monday, July 26, 2010
THE COLDEST PROFESSION
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Cryogenics is used to create greatly reduced electrical resistance in many materials, a phenomenon called this
   
#396. 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
   
#397. Season 23
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
WHO SAYS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Research shows no increased risk of brain cancer from using these, but they do cause traffic accidents
   
#398. Season 25
Thursday, January 22, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Spacewar, the first shoot-'em-up game, was created in the early '60s by programmers at this Mass. school
   
#399. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Tandy computers are sold exclusively through stores with this name
   
#400. Season 41
Friday, December 13, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
One of the keys to the Industrial Revolution, the Bessemer process revolutionized the production of this metal
   
#401. Season 27
Monday, June 13, 2011
ENTERPRISE
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,500
This website was originally "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"
   
#402. Season 23
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
PC MAGAZINE
Jeopardy Round: $600
For 16 years this computer maker put an ad on the back page of PC Mag to promote & pioneer its direct PC sales
   
#403. Season 35
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
SCI-FI SUBGENRES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
"-punk" subgenres include this one where you'll find "Snow Crash", about a computer virus & lots else
   
#404. Season 35
Monday, October 15, 2018
DRIVING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Cruising around Phoenix--that driver must be awfully short--oh, it's Waymo, Google's version of these
   
#405. Season 22
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1995 Wells Fargo became the first bank whose customers could securely view their accounts here
   
#406. Season 37
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
During WWII this computer scientist & code breaker converted his money into silver & buried it; he never found his buried treasure
   
#407. Season 14
Tuesday, March 10, 1998
THE BUSINESS WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Michael Dell made his fortune by eliminating the middleman & selling these directly to customers
   
#408. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Area 51 & Heartland are "neighborhoods" in this web page hosting service from Yahoo!
   
#409. 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
   
#410. 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
   
#411. Season 28
Monday, September 26, 2011
ALSO A ZODIAC SYMBOL
Jeopardy Round: $600
Microsoft recommends that your computer have at least 1 gigabyte of this to run Windows 7
   
#412. Season 37
Monday, May 17, 2021
TIMEMAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
1997: Andrew Grove, chairman & CEO of this company, a pioneer in the computer chip industry
   
#413. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,200
It was a marketplace or public square before it became an online area to post discussions
   
#414. Season 20
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
PHARM TEAM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
An Internet site about this product from Bayer can be found at wonderdrug.com
   
#415. Season 38
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type
   
#416. Season 37
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
The Oliver 777 is one of these machines that bakeries find handy when a customer wants bread for sandwiches
   
#417. Season 34
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
5, 5
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In a recording studio, it's an electronic cue to help the musicians keep time
   
#418. Season 26
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Dating back to the 1920s, this broadcaster precedes .co.uk in a news website
   
#419. Season 40
Thursday, February 29, 2024
SCI. ABBR.
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
If you're a web developer, you probably use HTML (HyperText Markup Language) & CSS, short for this
   
#420. Season 39
Monday, March 20, 2023
MYSELF
Jeopardy Round: $400
His book "iWoz" is subtitled "Computer Geek to Cult Icon"
   
#421. Season 37
Thursday, February 11, 2021
STEM
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
(Dr. Frauke Neuser presents the clue.) Marissa Mayer studied AI tech at Stanford before designing the search interface for this company's home page; she'd go on to lead Yahoo!
   
#422. Season 23
Thursday, May 17, 2007
SPOT THE MISSPELED WORD
Jeopardy Round: $400
Connecting electricle outlets surprises many with its complexity
   
#423. 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
   
#424. Season 9
Tuesday, May 4, 1993
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
A circuit to connect a peripheral to the CPU, it may be serial or parallel
   
#425. Season 24
Thursday, January 24, 2008
HOUSEHOLD NAMES
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
Carl Sontheimer combined his electronics expertise with his love of cooking to create this food processor
   
#426. Season 29
Friday, May 10, 2013
INNOVATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Attach a stick-n-find sticker to a valued item & you can locate it using your phone & this popular headset technology
   
#427. 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
   
#428. Season 25
Friday, July 17, 2009
THE SECRET LIVES OF TEACHERS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Everyone knows Mr. Lee made $100 million working for this Bill Gates co. & now teaches for $1 a year
   
#429. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: 200
Slang like "fanum tax" & "skibidi" baffle many; it's associated with this generation, a name that unfittingly follows Gen Z
   
#430. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011
VIDEO GAME HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $800
OK chums, Deathwing the Dragon has caused a "cataclysm" on Azeroth in a 2010 expansion of this massive game
   
#431. 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"
   
#432. Season 34
Monday, September 18, 2017
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"My Inventions", the autobiography of this immigrant, appeared in 1919 in the magazine Electrical Experimenter
   
#433. Season 37
Monday, January 11, 2021
KNIGHTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
He caught us in the web (the World Wide Web, that is) & snagged a knighthood in 2004
   
#434. Season 31
Monday, March 16, 2015
RAGE FOR THE MACHINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Once endorsed by Andre Agassi, this company's Rebel camera was a Consumer Reports Top 10 electronics product of 2013
   
#435. Season 17
Wednesday, July 11, 2001
HOLD THE MAYO CLINIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1973 Mayo introduced to North America this scanner that uses a computer & X-rays
   
#436. Season 15
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
Dante described Satan waving his arms like a "molin che il vento gira", one of these structures
   
#437. 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
   
#438. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Choose a restaurant, then 1 of the 2 players--Wallace Shawn or the title guy; max your discussion points as you eat
   
#439. Season 26
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
VERB-ATIM
Jeopardy Round: $400
This verb meaning to no longer be someone's pal dates back to 1659, long before Facebook
   
#440. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Name given to the simplest electron tubes, as they have just 2 main parts, a plate & an emitter
   
#441. Season 33
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
ONLINE LEARNING
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
Michael Hart started e-books & Project Gutenberg when he typed this famous document into a computer on July 4, 1971
   
#442. 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
   
#443. Season 19
Friday, June 27, 2003
LIBRARIES
Jeopardy Round: $800
This inventor's historical site library includes his Oscar for his work in motion picture technology
   
#444. Season 28
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
UPDATING THE NOVEL
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"We'll track the cell phone signal of the chief choir boy, Jack Merridew. The lads will be off that island by supper"
   
#445. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A plug-in in the "Lord Of The Rings" online game lets you recite a poem that ends, "in" this place "where the shadows are"
   
#446. Season 8
Monday, September 23, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
In April 1989 this country became the first to begin experimental broadcasts in high definition TV
   
#447. 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
   
#448. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Dioxide of this element, symbol Cr, is used to make recording tape for cassettes
   
#449. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
COMPUTER GAMING
Jeopardy Round: $200
Installments of this controversial crime-based game include "San Andreas" & "Vice City"
   
#450. Season 20
Thursday, September 18, 2003
WALL STREET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Originally the rolls of paper on which stock info was printed, it's come to mean the flow of prices on electronic boards
   
#451. 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
   
#452. Season 28
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
SALESWOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
KarenWare.com sells "Power Tools" apps for this computer operating system introduced in November 1985
   
#453. Season 39
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
A LOOK AT SYMBOLS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Get connected with the symbol for this technology standard
   
#454. Season 13
Monday, June 23, 1997
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This computer company's new Presario 4402 features an infrared remote control
   
#455. 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"
   
#456. 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
   
#457. Season 20
Friday, December 12, 2003
RHYME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's the lottery option that lets the computer randomly select some numbers
   
#458. 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
   
#459. Season 25
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
COMPUTER RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $800
A device to digitally copy a landed estate
   
#460. Season 38
Monday, October 4, 2021
SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Cruise & crafty computer collaborate on crimes not yet committed
   
#461. Season 38
Friday, May 6, 2022
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
President Xi apologizes; his email left off the fù jiàn, this
   
#462. Season 7
Wednesday, May 22, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
By the end of the 17th century the English upper crust were using the 3-prong type of these
   
#463. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
It's the "M" in RAM or ROM
   
#464. Season 33
Monday, September 12, 2016
"BEST" WISHES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This consumer electronics corporation has annual sales of more than $40 billion
   
#465. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Thomas Edison's cylindrical ones were superceded by Emile Berliner's flat variety
   
#466. Season 22
Monday, November 7, 2005
OFF TO COLLEGE
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1993 Google co-founder Sergey Brin graduated from Maryland with honors in math & this field
   
#467. Season 18
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
BEFORE & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Kerouac novel in which Sal Paradise has a fit of anger towards another driver & beats him with a cell phone
   
#468. Season 40
Thursday, November 9, 2023
OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
2010:Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook"
   
#469. 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
   
#470. Season 30
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
RETAIL THERAPY
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Jeopardy!" has the Clue Crew; this electronics retailer has the Geek Squad
   
#471. Season 41
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
TECH OF THE TIME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
2017 brought the launch of Nadi X (from Sanskrit for "flow"), Bluetooth-enabled pants for this activity to fix problem poses
   
#472. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $200
The "B" in COBOL
   
#473. 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
   
#474. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Post-apocalyptic mecha-dinosaurs are just part of the fun in the PlayStation game called this "Zero Dawn"
   
#475. Season 27
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
"SUPER"
Jeopardy Round: $200
In this 1986 video game, Luigi & his sibling are trying to rescue Princess Toadstool
   
#476. Season 37
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
A rip-cut saws along the grain of the wood, while this cut goes against the grain
   
#477. Season 39
Monday, March 6, 2023
PIVOTAL WOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
(Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) Depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures" & described as one of NASA's "human computers", this mathematician overcame institutional racism & sexism doing the complex calculations that put America's first astronauts into space & on the Moon
   
#478. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Education and Work: Secretary of State, Minister to U.K.;
Relationship Status: Single
   
#479. Season 5
Friday, October 28, 1988
SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $500
It's the special field of computer science trying to come up with machines that think for themselves
   
#480. 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
   
#481. Season 24
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
CURRENT AMERICAN BUSINESS
Final Jeopardy
This co.'s name is a variation on a word coined by Milton Sirotta & used in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination"
   
#482. Season 26
Friday, June 11, 2010
LEAD OR NO LEAD
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2004 this Santa Clara, Calif. chip giant began shipping 95% lead-free microprocessor packages
   
#483. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996
ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $100
www.si.edu doesn't get you into Sports Illustrated, but into this D.C. institution
   
#484. Season 4
Monday, December 28, 1987
COMMODORES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The 64, the 128, & the Amiga, for example
   
#485. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
First built in 1960, it's also been called an optical maser
   
#486. Season 27
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Football position that can be split or tight
   
#487. 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
   
#488. Season 34
Monday, September 11, 2017
BACK IN BLACK
Jeopardy Round: $400
On the verge of going bust in 1997, it was saved by a $150 million investment by rival Microsoft
   
#489. Season 30
Friday, May 23, 2014
9-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In computer lingo, it's the reduced "digital" image of a graphic used so that multiple images can be viewed on a page
   
#490. Season 20
Monday, November 10, 2003
ABBR.
Jeopardy Round: $600
Computer users should know that BBS stands for this
   
#491. Season 27
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The computer language COBOL is an acronym: Common this Oriented Language
   
#492. Season 38
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
A PART OF IT
Jeopardy Round: $400
Google is this to Alphabet, this being one company owned by another
   
#493. Season 32
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
ARE YOU GAME?
Jeopardy Round: $400
Steal, shoot, drive recklessly---Vice is nice in this video game series abbreviated "GTA"
   
#494. Season 37
Friday, October 9, 2020
OXFORD ALUMNI
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Seriously, this actor who gets big laughs as "Mr. Bean" earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Oxford
   
#495. Season 16
Tuesday, April 25, 2000
STRING
Jeopardy Round: $200
A joke goes, modern kids play cell phones by using 2 of these with no string between them
   
#496. 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
   
#497. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010
STATE YOUR BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Microsoft:
They don't own the state... yet
   
#498. Season 22
Monday, October 24, 2005
THE 2004FORTUNE500
Jeopardy Round: $600
This Round Rock, Texas computer maker was No. 28, up 3 spots from 2003
   
#499. 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
   
#500. Season 29
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
TECHIE DROPOUTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
There was no apple for the teacher after he left Reed College & went to design video games for Atari in 1974
   
#501. Season 38
Friday, May 6, 2022
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Descargar means to do this, like data off the Internet
   
#502. Season 18
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
"THOU"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This Microsoft computer system first combined Windows NT technology with the 98 GUI
   
#503. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE IS DOING
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2004 Google acquired Keyhole, a digital mapping company that would later become Google this
   
#504. Season 16
Wednesday, January 12, 2000
NEOLOGISMS
Final Jeopardy
In his 1984 novel "Neuromancer", William Gibson coined this 10-letter term for a virtual reality computer network
   
#505. Season 20
Friday, January 16, 2004
INVENTIVE MINDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1891 this man of Menlo Park got a patent for a "means of transmitting signals electrically"
   
#506. Season 36
Monday, December 23, 2019
THEIR JOBS IN 2019
Jeopardy Round: $800
She's the C.O.O. of Facebook
   
#507. Season 7
Friday, March 29, 1991
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $100
This biggest computer company is biggest also among companies in philanthropic contributions
   
#508. Season 23
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
JEFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
You might be a redneck if you know this comic worked at IBM for 5 years; yeah, those are better when he tells 'em
   
#509. Season 20
Friday, January 16, 2004
PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Aah, the life of a billionaire: this Microsoft co-founder owns the Seattle Seahawks & the Portland Trail Blazers
   
#510. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $400
I can use whatever you bring me -- it's all just...for the mill
   
#511. Season 34
Monday, October 16, 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Founded in Israel in 2006, this Google app to map the fastest route for drivers often takes you down side streets
   
#512. Season 39
Thursday, December 22, 2022
TECHNOLOGY HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Paul II, pope from 1464 to 1471, set up Rome's first of these new machines
   
#513. Season 19
Wednesday, January 8, 2003
"P" ENDINGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's the type of computer display abbreviated BMP
   
#514. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $600
"S.L." is this game where you can virtually build a whole other existence
   
#515. Season 3
Monday, May 18, 1987
ODD JOBS
Jeopardy Round: $300
Before computer terminals, you called this person to carry your newspaper story to the editor
   
#516. Season 39
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
THE PARENT COMPANY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It provides YouTube, & you can Google that
   
#517. Season 16
Friday, September 17, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The oldest way to refine oil, this process heats the oil until its component parts vaporize
   
#518. Season 19
Monday, June 9, 2003
20th CENTURY PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1900 his institute of technology was founded in Pittsburgh
   
#519. Season 22
Monday, September 26, 2005
DEAD MAN WALKEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Trying to destroy Silicon Valley in a 1985 film, Walken tumbles off a blimp fighting this character
   
#520. Season SUPERJEOPARDY
Saturday, August 25, 1990
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: 2000
Any process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this
   
#521. 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
   
#522. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015
COMPUTER ACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In Windows hitting Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V performs these 2 artsy & crafty actions
   
#523. Season 37
Friday, October 23, 2020
IT STARTS WITH "U"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This technology uses sound waves to take images inside the body
   
#524. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
1969: He develops the first supercomputer, the CDC 7600
   
#525. 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
   
#526. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011
VIDEO GAME HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In December 2002 Will Wright moved these virtual people "online"
   
#527. 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
   
#528. Season 39
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
CARTOON CRITTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The 2022 sequel to the movie about this video game hedgehog finds him jamming to "Here Comes The Hotstepper"
   
#529. Season 31
Friday, March 20, 2015
"HAT"s ON!
Jeopardy Round: $600
Internet place where users can communicate in real time
   
#530. Season JM
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
SCIENCE VOCAB
Double Jeopardy Round: 2000
Here at "Jeopardy!" "top-sup" is what we call Microsoft's purported discovery of this new phase of quantum-chip-empowering matter
   
#531. 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
   
#532. 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
   
#533. Season 40
Thursday, November 30, 2023
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED
Jeopardy Round: $400
This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & bird eggs
   
#534. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010
ON THE PHONE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The iPhone's intelligent this suggests which word you might want to type next
   
#535. Season 30
Monday, January 13, 2014
"B" ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
.bw
(an Internet country code in Africa)
   
#536. 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
   
#537. 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
   
#538. Season 19
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
THE RISE OF THE MACHINES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In computers, the ILLIAC IV pioneered the simultaneous processing of many operations, known by this geometric term
   
#539. Season 29
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Gooo--wait, is it? Yes! Gooooooal! In 2012 this sport's FIFA approved the use of goal-line technology
   
#540. Season 37
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
DENNIS, ANYONE?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Dennis Crowley co-founded this "numeric" technology platform that in 2009 unveiled its check-in
   
#541. 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
   
#542. Season 39
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
EPOS:It's computer hardware used in retail
   
#543. Season 29
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
DIRECTOR
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Executives from Netflix & Bank of America are directors of this company; oh yeah, Bill Gates is still there
   
#544. Season 19
Thursday, July 10, 2003
SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885
Jeopardy Round: $1000
American electrical engineer William Stanley invents this device for changing energy from AC to DC
   
#545. Season 40
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
STARTS & ENDS WITH "L"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
An Internet aesthetic focuses on these spaces, eerie, transitional places like empty hotel hallways
   
#546. Season 28
Friday, December 30, 2011
THE MOST EXPENSIVE EVER
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2010 sex.com was sold for $13 million, the most ever paid for the part of an Internet address called this "name"
   
#547. Season 40
Thursday, May 9, 2024
18th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The 1740s brought the first electrical capacitor, this "jar" named for a Dutch city
   
#548. Season 37
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
THE HIP-HOP ERA
Jeopardy Round: $200
T-Pain & Kanye West brought this pitch correction technology to mainstream hip-hop
   
#549. Season 17
Friday, July 13, 2001
WEALTHY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Fees reported at $600 an hour separate most men from this litigator who's argued against Microsoft & for Al Gore
   
#550. Season 41
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
EARTH SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
As its name suggests, this part of the atmosphere that begins about 50 miles up is rich in electrically charged particles
   
#551. 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
   
#552. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Hans Lippershey, who invented this instrument in 1608, called it a "looker"
   
#553. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Early successful models of these in the U.S. were Woodstock, Remington & Underwood
   
#554. 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
   
#555. 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
   
#556. Season 33
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
COMPANIES' PRODUCTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The IIe computer
   
#557. 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
   
#558. Season 14
Wednesday, September 3, 1997
THE '97 WORLD ALMANAC
Jeopardy Round: $100
In 1983 only 7% of U.S. homes had one of these; in 1996 40%, 18% with modems
   
#559. 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
   
#560. 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
   
#561. Season 23
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
SPORTS BARRIERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
At the Mexico City Olympics, the USA's Jim Hines was the 1st electronically timed in this race at under 10 sec., recording a 9.95
   
#562. Season 32
Thursday, April 21, 2016
SHORT "E"
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's the symbol over the one on your computer keyboard
   
#563. 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
   
#564. Season 32
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
GEEK OUT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Over 100,000 home computers are helping Stanford study protein assembly in the program called this@home
   
#565. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A swelling under the eye, or a quiet, timid person
   
#566. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Device that stealth aircraft technology is designed to trick
   
#567. Season 28
Monday, June 11, 2012
GO WIDE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The filtration technology produced at Israel's Kibbutz Amiad can handle municipal & industrial waste treatment down to two of these units, each .001 millimeters
   
#568. Season 27
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
SCHOOL OF ROCK
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Sam Cooke didn't "know much trigonometry", nor "what" this non-electronic calculating device "is for"
   
#569. Season GOATTOURNAMENT
Thursday, January 9, 2020
AN "OK" CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: 600
"Subterranean Homesick Alien" is on this Radiohead album
   
#570. 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
   
#571. Season 37
Thursday, May 27, 2021
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $400
This login partner of a password should also be secure; the website nordpass.com can help generate them
   
#572. Season 33
Thursday, March 30, 2017
MICROSOFT WORD
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's like a fog but less dense
   
#573. Season 19
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
STOCK HOME
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Microsoft & Starbucks are listed on this exchange that has more companies than the NYSE
   
#574. 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
   
#575. Season 40
Thursday, September 28, 2023
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Dating back 50 years, "Maze War" & "Spasim" were some of the first of this type of video game, abbreviated FPS
   
#576. Season 41
Friday, May 30, 2025
MAMMALS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A non-native species of this largest rodent resides in Florida; the Internet thinks Glen Powell resembles one
   
#577. 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
   
#578. Season 39
Thursday, December 22, 2022
TECHNOLOGY HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The genius & importance of Eli Whitney's cotton gin was that it easily removed these from raw cotton
   
#579. Season 14
Wednesday, June 24, 1998
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This term for diplomatic procedure also refers to an agreed format for data to be communicated
   
#580. Season 38
Thursday, March 31, 2022
BUSINESS NAME ORIGINS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In Korean this electronics company's name means "three stars"
   
#581. Season 32
Monday, February 15, 2016
COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
A circuit that allows data to travel between a peripheral & a computer is a "local" this vehicle
   
#582. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $100
To play games on your computer, you often need one of these "happy" handles
   
#583. Season 35
Friday, February 1, 2019
BETTER CALL PAUL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2011 Paul Allen's memoir "Idea Man" looked at the rise of this tech co. that made Paul a billionaire
   
#584. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In LOGO, a program to teach kids to use computers, the cursor resembles this shelled reptile
   
#585. 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
   
#586. Season 36
Monday, January 27, 2020
THE 2019FORBESGLOBAL 2,000
Jeopardy Round: $600
The most profitable on the list is this technology company that passed $1 trillion in value in 2018
   
#587. Season 20
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
AKA Zidovudine, the drug AZT was approved in 1987 to fight this virus
   
#588. Season 32
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Most welding torches use this colorless gas, C2H2, burned with oxygen to produce a heat high enough to cut metal
   
#589. Season 32
Friday, October 23, 2015
POWER TRANSMISSION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Megatron, Firestar or an electrical device that converts voltage
   
#590. Season 18
Monday, October 8, 2001
INTERNET LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
The abbreviation "BBFBBM" means "Body by Fisher, brains by" this toymaker
   
#591. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
HDTV, which uses more lines to give clearer pictures, stands for this
   
#592. Season 16
Friday, October 22, 1999
19th CENTURY LITERATURE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $500
Edward Bellamy's 1888 book "Looking Backward" sends a man to this year & doesn't mention computer bugs
   
#593. Season 17
Friday, September 29, 2000
AT LAST COUNT
Jeopardy Round: $300
Undergrad tuition at this Cambridge "institute" is over $26,000; room, board & books add another $10,000
   
#594. 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
   
#595. Season 30
Friday, August 1, 2014
INTERNET JARGON
Jeopardy Round: $800
In "kk", the first K replaces this letter
   
#596. Season 34
Thursday, January 11, 2018
THE MOVIES
Final Jeopardy
It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service
   
#597. Season 20
Thursday, October 23, 2003
MARINE SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Computers can model these, neap type & all, so sailors don't have to rely totally on tables
   
#598. 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
   
#599. 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
   
#600. Season 13
Friday, February 21, 1997
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is located at this Boston-area "institute"
   
#601. 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
   
#602. 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
   
#603. Season 36
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
COMPUTER KEYBOARDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Helping you with a soft reboot, this 3-key step was chosen as it was nigh impossible to engage using only one hand
   
#604. Season 41
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
STANFORD ALUMNI IN YOUR LIFE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Born in Moscow, he co-developed the pagerank algorithm while studying computer science at Stanford
   
#605. Season 18
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
BEFORE, DURING & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
If a marriage held at the point of a firearm advertised added electronic frills, they'd be these
   
#606. 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
   
#607. Season 32
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
THE I.T. GUY
Jeopardy Round: $600
He took the class at Princeton on C.A., short for this, the design of a computing system
   
#608. 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
   
#609. Season 14
Wednesday, July 8, 1998
DON'T DO THIS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In February 1998 the Pentagon said its computers had been invaded by these, the title of a 1995 film
   
#610. 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"
   
#611. 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
   
#612. Season 34
Friday, November 3, 2017
ALPHABET SOUP WHEN YOU'RE SICK
Jeopardy Round: $200
EMR is short for this type of medical record accessed digitally
   
#613. Season 21
Monday, December 13, 2004
RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
At many Starbucks you can surf the Internet cordless with this type of rhyming computer network card
   
#614. Season 34
Monday, September 11, 2017
REJECTED GREETING CARDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
"It's OK, applicant! You didn't want to go to" this Calif. university a 6-mile drive from the Googleplex "anyway"
   
#615. Season 40
Monday, March 18, 2024
BUSINESS PARTNERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Google "Who founded Google?" & it's this pair, Stanford grad students in 1998
   
#616. Season 27
Friday, March 4, 2011
TECH-KNOW
Jeopardy Round: $200
This Apple product that was rolled out in 2010 has a 9.7-inch screen & is 1/2 inch thick
   
#617. Season 18
Monday, October 8, 2001
INTERNET LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $200
This animated TV mom is symbolized here:
@@@@ :-)
   
#618. Season 32
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the 1940s this company introduced its Land camera, which produced a finished print 60 seconds after exposure
   
#619. Season 26
Monday, July 26, 2010
REMEMBER THE "MAIN"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A central computer that supports peripheral or subordinate ones
   
#620. Season 26
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
CURSES
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Madden video game cover curse claimed this QB; first he got hurt & we won't even get into the dog thing
   
#621. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
You said it with "TWITA"--"that's what" these 3 words
   
#622. Season 35
Thursday, September 13, 2018
PRINCIPLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
freepress.net is a website that's interested in "net" this, "the internet's guiding principle"
   
#623. Season 31
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
10-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the process of converting computer data into a code
   
#624. Season 25
Friday, November 7, 2008
THE COMPLETELY GUILTY BYSTANDER
Jeopardy Round: $800
I did give the guy a crowbar, but I never dreamed he would steal a car & commit this 3-word crime, also a video game
   
#625. Season 24
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
"OFF" CAMPUS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Not connected to the Internet
   
#626. Season 28
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Before computer games, this "happy" term referred to a control rod used by pilots
   
#627. Season 33
Friday, October 7, 2016
COLOR
Jeopardy Round: $600
All colors on your computer screen are generated by a combination of these 3 colors
   
#628. Season 27
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
To make a purchase on this department store's website, you click the "Add to Brown Bag" button
   
#629. Season 29
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
MOVIE JOBS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
By day, Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a computer programmer in this 1999 film
   
#630. Season 21
Monday, November 1, 2004
THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This piece of trading floor technology arrived in 1867 but is now a bit out of date
   
#631. Season 16
Wednesday, November 3, 1999
COMPUTERAMA
Jeopardy Round: $400
The last name of Charles, who built a precursor to the computer, the analytical engine, in the early 1800s
   
#632. Season 18
Monday, May 27, 2002
THAT'S LIKE, SO TOTALLY "RAD"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This electronics chain first opened in 1921 on Brattle Street, near the site of the Boston Massacre
   
#633. Season 41
Friday, January 10, 2025
PLUG
Jeopardy Round: $800
An early computer program that maxed out plug-in features was this image-processing program from Adobe
   
#634. 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"
   
#635. 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"
   
#636. 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
   
#637. Season 13
Thursday, March 13, 1997
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The DeVry Institute of Technology with campuses in several states began in 1931 in this Illinois city
   
#638. Season 25
Thursday, October 23, 2008
ONE-LETTER TAKE IN ORDER
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It precedes "Bay" on the Internet & also name the state capital spelled out by all 5 responses
   
#639. Season 24
Thursday, January 3, 2008
JUST SAY "NI"
Jeopardy Round: $400
This company introduced its Game Boy handheld device in 1989
   
#640. Season 20
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
PARTS OF THE WHOLE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Operating system,
central processing unit,
mouse
   
#641. Season 16
Friday, January 14, 2000
COMPUSPEAK
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Logically enough. sending a file from computer to network, the opposite of downloading, is called this
   
#642. Season 20
Friday, April 23, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On January 3, 2004 a spacecraft named Spirit successfully landed in Gusev Crater here to search for life
   
#643. Season 27
Friday, March 4, 2011
TECH-KNOW
Jeopardy Round: $800
Copying info from a computer to a CD is called burning; doing the reverse is this other destructive term
   
#644. Season 15
Friday, February 12, 1999
CORPORATE HISTORIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This pair has been selling books in stores "Since 1873" & on the internet since 1997
   
#645. Season 20
Thursday, April 8, 2004
FIELDS OF SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The strength of this type of field is expressed in volts per meter
   
#646. Season 32
Thursday, June 23, 2016
& APPS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Dragon Dictation is a speech-to-text app that uses this technology, VR for short
   
#647. 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
   
#648. Season 34
Monday, April 16, 2018
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $200
I'm always out & about with my tablet, so I need my Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation, an external one of these
   
#649. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
1 of 2 metals used for tools in ancient times before iron came into vogue
   
#650. Season 26
Thursday, July 8, 2010
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"The Adventure Continues" is the second installment in the Lego game starring this state-named movie hero
   
#651. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Term describing materials like silicon, halfway between an insulator & a conductor
   
#652. 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
   
#653. Season 37
Monday, July 5, 2021
STARTS & ENDS WITH "T"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It means to diagnose a problem you're having with a computer or an appliance & then solve it
   
#654. 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
   
#655. Season 35
Friday, May 10, 2019
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Paul Manafort created a paper trail when he needed help converting this type of 3-letter file to Word
   
#656. 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
   
#657. Season 14
Friday, February 27, 1998
THE 1980s
Jeopardy Round: $100
You might want to take this news sitting down: Radio Shack introduced the first laptop type of this in 1983
   
#658. Season 39
Monday, January 9, 2023
RUNS "HOT" & "COLD"
Jeopardy Round: $800
Frequently free, it's a place in public where you can connect to Wi-Fi & access the Internet
   
#659. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Dwayne Johnson plays a primatologist who cares for a big white gorilla in this 2018 video game adaptation
   
#660. Season 40
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Technology historian Henry Petroski said that little frill on these in the party meatballs probably began as an anti-swallowing warning
   
#661. Season JM
Monday, May 15, 2023
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: 400
When talking IP address, IP means this
   
#662. 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
   
#663. 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
   
#664. Season 23
Monday, February 5, 2007
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $200
In computerese, it's the "app" in "killer app"
   
#665. Season 36
Thursday, March 12, 2020
THIS & THAT
Jeopardy Round: $400
When it comes to computers, USB stands for universal serial this
   
#666. Season 14
Wednesday, March 4, 1998
GO TO "H"
Jeopardy Round: $200
At best, it's a computer enthusiast; at worst, it's one who illegally taps into your computer
   
#667. Season 4
Friday, December 11, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
New dishes made to hold this substance play the theme to "General Hospital"
   
#668. Season 26
Friday, October 30, 2009
DROP OUT
Jeopardy Round: $400
Both named Steve, these 2 now fabulously wealthy college dropouts founded Apple Computer
   
#669. Season 31
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $400
An Athenian computer nerd
   
#670. Season 27
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Electrical activity impeding communication
   
#671. 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
   
#672. Season 25
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
RALLY TO THE CAUSE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's to save equal Internet speed for all, aka "net" this
   
#673. Season 16
Tuesday, May 23, 2000
CLASSIC AD LINES
Jeopardy Round: $400
"The Power To Be Your Best"
   
#674. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Tom Clancy lent his name to this shooter series that might leave your finger smarting
   
#675. 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
   
#676. Season 38
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION
Jeopardy Round: $200
When it follows "and the", it means "similar things"
   
#677. Season 6
Wednesday, April 18, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
The Museum of Broadcasting is transferring masters of all its shows from analog videotape to this type
   
#678. Season 34
Thursday, April 19, 2018
UNBEATABLE WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
To make an electronic switch active, or to help a loved one continue a bad habit
   
#679. Season 13
Wednesday, June 4, 1997
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer maker's NASDAQ symbol is AAPL, not MAC
   
#680. Season 34
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
THAT ENCYCLOPEDIA
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Microsoft shut down this online encyclopedia in 2009
   
#681. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
TBT: Job back in the day with 3,000 of these humped creatures; after his troubles, the Lord blessed him with 6,000
   
#682. Season 28
Thursday, April 12, 2012
A STATE OF...
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This, a phrase meaning the latest & most sophisticated stage of a technology
   
#683. Season 16
Tuesday, November 16, 1999
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
If your computer has this kind of "base", you should know it's the plural of "datum"
   
#684. 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
   
#685. Season 24
Monday, February 25, 2008
THEY MEAN BUSINESS!
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $400
"Computer, Communication, Compatibility" were combined to describe the business of this Silicon Valley co.
   
#686. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Originally intended for lab use, his burner advanced gas lighting technology
   
#687. Season 27
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
SPANISH TO ENGLISH
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In computer lingo: the 4-letter equivalent of correo basura
   
#688. Season 41
Friday, June 6, 2025
CYBERCRIME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Less of a risk with newer cell phones, but these cards can be swapped or hijacked, giving hackers access to your info
   
#689. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
This alloy was cast into tools even before 3000 B.C.
   
#690. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018
"ADD"/"DROP"
Jeopardy Round: $800
This phrase means you can use your mouse to slide the item across the computer screen
   
#691. 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
   
#692. Season 18
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
COMPUTER HACKERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Matthew Broderick toys with NORAD in this film that helped bring hacking into popular culture
   
#693. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $200
TV show with Monica, Phoebe & Chandler
   
#694. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024
SCIENCE BOOKSHELF
Jeopardy Round: $600
Andrew Hodges' "The Enigma" is a bestselling biography of this mathematician & computer pioneer
   
#695. 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
   
#696. Season 39
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
SOUNDS LIKE A BUG
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A computer program that searches & catalogs links on the Internet
   
#697. 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
   
#698. 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
   
#699. Season 38
Friday, May 6, 2022
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,800
It's literally porta sul retro, but Italian hackers use this English term
   
#700. Season 24
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Unlike modern computers that use microprocessors, ENIAC used 18,000 of these tube to process data
   
#701. 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
   
#702. 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"
   
#703. Season 13
Tuesday, February 4, 1997
ENDS IN "ICK"
Jeopardy Round: $200
Computer or video game cursor mover
   
#704. 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
   
#705. 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
   
#706. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Boy, it was so quiet you could have heard...
   
#707. 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
   
#708. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
With about 800 trees, the eco-friendly towers in this city in Northern Italy are known as Bosco Verticale
   
#709. Season 20
Monday, March 15, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The tokamak, this type of nuclear reactor, uses plasma heated to 180 million degrees as fuel
   
#710. Season 25
Thursday, May 7, 2009
MUSICAL GENRES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Electronic style that can precede -logical, -babble or -crat
   
#711. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
COMPUTER GENIUSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Working in Texas Instruments' semiconductor building, Jack Kilby hit on the idea of this, the IC for short
   
#712. Season 15
Thursday, September 17, 1998
WORD ORIGINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Derived from the Greek for "throw", you can throw a floppy one into a computer & store a file
   
#713. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
The "D" in a DoS attack
   
#714. Season 4
Thursday, May 26, 1988
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Though it's part of most computers, it was designed in the 1870s by Sholes & Gliden
   
#715. Season 27
Thursday, January 20, 2011
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $800
Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America
   
#716. Season 11
Tuesday, September 20, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
On computers this key is marked ESC
   
#717. Season 22
Friday, October 21, 2005
THE BOYS IN BLUE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Police now use speed guns with this technology first constructed by Theodore Maiman using a ruby rod
   
#718. Season 29
Thursday, November 29, 2012
RANDOMONIUM
Jeopardy Round: $600
"Lomo-fi" & "1977" are filters to customize photos on this app now owned by Facebook
   
#719. Season 41
Friday, November 22, 2024
I TINKER
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1977 he developed the Apple II computer which, aided by Steve Jobs' marketing skills, was the first affordable home PC
   
#720. Season 34
Monday, June 11, 2018
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOKS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In his memoir "Endurance", NASA astronaut Scott Kelly recounts his one year here
   
#721. Season 31
Monday, February 23, 2015
17-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's having a business meeting in 2 or more locations at once, linked by "v"isual technology
   
#722. Season 21
Monday, January 10, 2005
20th CENTURY AUTHORS
Final Jeopardy
This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them"
   
#723. Season 31
Thursday, January 22, 2015
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
These 2 units measure electrical current & electrical resistance
   
#724. 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
   
#725. 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
   
#726. Season 32
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
THE ALGORITHM METHOD
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
An algorithm can be a set of steps for a computer; one type covers this process of packing data into files such as mp3s
   
#727. 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
   
#728. Season 32
Monday, September 28, 2015
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
A big hit with 1960s scientists, the CDC 1604 was one of the first computers with these instead of vacuum tubes
   
#729. Season 41
Friday, October 25, 2024
RETRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Before the IBM Selectric was a hit commercially, you probably had to hunt & peck on this kind of machine
   
#730. Season 2
Thursday, September 19, 1985
KID STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $100
The first commercially produced was Pong
   
#731. Season 21
Thursday, November 18, 2004
NASA PRODUCTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Fans of computer flight simulations are ecstatic about this type of controller, developed for the lunar rover
   
#732. Season 29
Thursday, March 28, 2013
FATHER FIGURES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2012 "the father of the Internet", Vint Cerf, said the U.S. government really started it via this department
   
#733. Season 15
Tuesday, June 8, 1999
THE Y2K BUG
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
The bug partly stems from 6-digit dates in this 1960s "business-oriented" computer language
   
#734. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It comes before "fun at" to mean mock someone
   
#735. Season 34
Monday, October 9, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2016 Minecraft became the second-bestselling video game of all time--No. 1 is this other "blocky" game
   
#736. Season 41
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
TRANSPORTATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Advances in braking technology have all but eliminated this traditional last car on a freight train
   
#737. Season 19
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
MEMORY TEST
Jeopardy Round: $600
Give me an I! It's a surge of electrical power, or a sudden desire
   
#738. Season 41
Friday, February 7, 2025
CEOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 2015 Larry Page handed over the reins of Google to this CEO born in Tamil Nadu, India
   
#739. Season 41
Monday, January 27, 2025
IT'S GOT A MOTOR
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The fan that cools the CPU, short for this part of your computer, is essentially a little brushless motor
   
#740. 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
   
#741. 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"
   
#742. Season 18
Friday, March 29, 2002
MACHINES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This large central computer may function as a server for many users
   
#743. 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"
   
#744. Season 32
Friday, January 1, 2016
BRIT SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's what a Brit calls his raincoat (or his Apple computer)
   
#745. 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
   
#746. Season 14
Monday, May 11, 1998
THE 1998 GRAMMYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This band from Oxford got their diploma, a Grammy for the album "OK Computer"
   
#747. 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
   
#748. Season 24
Friday, February 22, 2008
NERDS RULE!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In college, Larry Page, co-founder & co-pres. of this Internet search company, built an inkjet printer out of Legos
   
#749. Season 37
Monday, February 1, 2021
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Slaughtering demons in outer space was the goal when this "fateful" 1st-person shooter came out in 1993; by 2020, it was "Eternal"
   
#750. 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
   
#751. Season 41
Monday, December 2, 2024
SPORTS STAR RECORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2022 this former Laker aka DJ Diesel joined Steve Aoki on the electronic song "Welcome To The Playhouse"
   
#752. Season 28
Friday, January 20, 2012
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Add this word to "electro" to get the adjective for electrical phenomena produced by charges at rest
   
#753. Season 35
Monday, November 26, 2018
PREDICTIONS BY 2030
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2018 this social network site got a few "thumbs up", with a market cap of about $540 billion; by 2030, that number will be...more?
   
#754. Season 14
Friday, October 3, 1997
RICH & FAMOUS
Jeopardy Round: $500
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen owns this Portland sports team
   
#755. Season 37
Thursday, May 6, 2021
SAINTLY NAMED
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The name of this electrical phenomenon in the atmosphere comes from a corruption of Erasmus, a patron saint of sailors
   
#756. 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"
   
#757. 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
   
#758. Season 41
Thursday, November 14, 2024
& THE HOME OF THE RAVE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Ellie & Joel were back in their awful world in "Part II" of this video game, which Rolling Stone dubbed "an absolute (bleeping) banger"
   
#759. Season 40
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
ALSO A STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Internet domain for the Holy See
   
#760. Season 24
Thursday, May 29, 2008
WE'RE IN BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Not far apart on the Fortune 500 are these 2 cos., one in Internet services & one in food; the names are homophones
   
#761. Season 36
Friday, December 27, 2019
PROVERBS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A computer term, GIGO is short for this
   
#762. 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!
   
#763. Season 27
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE
Jeopardy Round: $600
The Queen & the British monarchy have pages on this social networking site; you can "like" them but you can't "friend" them
   
#764. Season 38
Thursday, December 23, 2021
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This Apple video chat app comes with every iPhone sold in the United States
   
#765. Season 29
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
To save a cell phone that's been dropped in water, remove the battery & SIM card, pat dry & cover it with the white type of this
   
#766. Season 29
Monday, July 29, 2013
SPORTS STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An iPhone commercial featured these 2 sisters playing ping pong instead of tennis
   
#767. Season 38
Thursday, December 23, 2021
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
As its name indicates, this device on a satellite responds to a signal, sending it out again on another frequency
   
#768. Season 37
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
TOURNAMENTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Just like soccer, in July 2019 this video game had a World Cup, in NYC's Arthur Ashe Stadium with a $3 million grand prize
   
#769. Season 25
Monday, July 6, 2009
4 I's ONLY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Reducing or making smaller, like one might do to an Internet browser window
   
#770. Season 31
Friday, July 10, 2015
COLLEGE PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1967 philanthropist Leonard Case's Institute of Technology united with this Cleveland school
   
#771. 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
   
#772. Season 19
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
WHAT IS IT?
Jeopardy Round: $400
ENIAC
   
#773. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Nations get their own domain extensions; .dk is the one for this country
   
#774. Season 36
Thursday, April 16, 2020
"H.D."
Jeopardy Round: $200
Store copies of your photos on an external this in case the one inside the computer gets fried
   
#775. Season 28
Monday, October 3, 2011
FOR YOUR REFERENCE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An Internet publisher of great works is named for this Melville scrivener & of course has his tale online
   
#776. 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
   
#777. 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
   
#778. Season 31
Monday, May 4, 2015
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $800
FHO:
"Friends" doing this
   
#779. Season 32
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
NAME'S THE SAME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
First Lady Coolidge &
computer whiz Hopper
   
#780. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996
ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $500
Broadway composer whose "web" site name is "reallyuseful"
   
#781. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011
COMPUTER GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In this game's sequel, we return to the underwater city of Rapture & take a submerged walk in Big Daddy's diving suit
   
#782. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
P2P means this type of file sharing, like Kazaa or Limewire
   
#783. 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
   
#784. Season 35
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
GAMES OF THE VIDEO VARIETY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The 2017 release of the Nintendo Switch also gave us this series: "Breath of the Wild"
   
#785. Season 26
Monday, November 2, 2009
iPHONE APPS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Several apps are available to test this, IQ for short
   
#786. Season 22
Friday, April 14, 2006
YOU BOT IT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
For this robot vacuum, the company iRobot uses technology developed to clear minefields
   
#787. Season 29
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
SLICES OF ORANGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Valve's Orange Box package contains 5 video games, including this doorway-creating game
   
#788. Season 37
Friday, April 2, 2021
SHAKE!
Jeopardy Round: $400
SMH is Internet slang for this, & I'll be doing it if you miss the clue
   
#789. 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
   
#790. Season 10
Thursday, September 23, 1993
THE HEART
Jeopardy Round: $200
This small electronic device is sometimes implanted to stimulate the heart to beat properly
   
#791. Season 23
Monday, December 25, 2006
YEAR 2056 HEADLINES INTHE ONION
Jeopardy Round: $800
The "Final Installment Of" this amphibious '80s video game trilogy is "Poised To Sweep Oscars"
   
#792. Season 25
Thursday, February 26, 2009
GOOD BUY!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Hope you got in when this Page/Brin search engine went public in '04; by 2007, it was up 510%
   
#793. 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
   
#794. Season 41
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
NEW TO THEOED
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's a 2-word term for a hinged computer or phone display that can be folded in for storage or out for use
   
#795. Season 25
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
The February 2008 decision to abandon HD DVD technology gave a market victory to this rival video format
   
#796. Season 5
Thursday, December 15, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
In 1984, for the 1st time, the Census Bureau began keeping track of these non-human workers
   
#797. Season 34
Monday, November 20, 2017
TECH CRUNCH
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $500
In 2013 this .com had the youngest CEO in the Fortune 500 when it debuted on the list at 482
   
#798. Season 30
Monday, January 13, 2014
CHEMISTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Creating modern electronics depended largely on doping, adding impurities to pure silicon to increase this quality
   
#799. 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"
   
#800. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A company that makes personal electric aerial vehicles is called this, last name of the cartoon George who zoomed around in the 1960s
   
#801. Season 14
Friday, July 10, 1998
OXYMORONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Abbreviated VR, it was coined by computer scientist & musician Jaron Lanier
   
#802. 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
   
#803. Season 21
Monday, February 21, 2005
"C.S.", I
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This cartoonist was nicknamed "Sparky", after Sparkplug the Horse in "Barney Google"
   
#804. Season 24
Monday, December 3, 2007
RETRONYMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The computer age necessitated this rhyming term for letters delivered through the post
   
#805. Season 41
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
GLOBAL MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Also in the title of a "Legend of Zelda" video game, this type of instrument means "little goose" in Italian
   
#806. 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
   
#807. Season 11
Thursday, November 10, 1994
COOKING
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
If you have leftover pickles, put them in the food processor & make this hot dog topping
   
#808. Season 39
Monday, October 24, 2022
I PLAYED A REAL PERSON
Jeopardy Round: $800
Josh Gad & Seth Rogen have both played this electrical engineer--in "Jobs" & "Steve Jobs", respectively
   
#809. 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
   
#810. Season 5
Monday, October 17, 1988
WORD ORIGINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Since the 1640s this word has meant "one who counts"; the machine arrived over 300 years later
   
#811. 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
   
#812. Season 27
Friday, November 12, 2010
AVATAR
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2008, the OED added a definition of "avatar" as a representation of "a user in an interactive" one of these
   
#813. Season 40
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This "fruity" smartphone was a big hit when it debuted in 2002... then came the iPhone & Android
   
#814. Season 34
Monday, October 2, 2017
LEAP YEARS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
January 24:
Apple's Macintosh computer goes on sale
   
#815. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
GOES, INSAT & METEOSAT are satellites used for this purpose
   
#816. Season 37
Monday, October 12, 2020
THEIR BAR OR BAT MITZVAH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This future Facebook executive had a symbolic bat mitzvah "twin", a girl in the Soviet Union, where Jews were oppressed
   
#817. Season 6
Wednesday, April 18, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
In 1981 this company introduced the PC, its first home computer
   
#818. Season 31
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
"WORK" IT!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
There's a train stop in this desk+computer combo
   
#819. 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"
   
#820. Season 26
Thursday, December 10, 2009
STOP!
Jeopardy Round: $200
In May 1998 the Justice Dept. & 20 states charged Microsoft with violation of these laws designed to stop monopolies
   
#821. Season 16
Wednesday, November 3, 1999
COMPUTERAMA
Jeopardy Round: $100
It's what the abbreviation FAQ stands for
   
#822. Season 29
Monday, June 10, 2013
ZOMBIES ARE COMING!
Jeopardy Round: $200
Nazi zombies are in the "world at war" version of this video game sometimes shortened to CoD
   
#823. Season 29
Monday, October 8, 2012
AVIATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The original sperry type of this technology basically kept an airplane going straight; now it can fly patterns
   
#824. Season 36
Friday, January 10, 2020
#
Jeopardy Round: $200
#TBH is short for this, when users try to be truthful about an idea they post...on the Internet...noted home of the truth
   
#825. Season 36
Friday, May 22, 2020
I'D RATHER HAVE
Jeopardy Round: $800
I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone
   
#826. Season 39
Friday, February 17, 2023
SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Animation purists said, "The sky is falling" when this computer-animated film was released in 2005
   
#827. Season 39
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
SCIENCE & NATURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A dynamo is a device for converting mechanical energy into this type of energy
   
#828. 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
   
#829. Season 18
Monday, December 3, 2001
INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Tune in to .fm, the Federated States of this
   
#830. Season 5
Friday, March 31, 1989
SOUND
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
You can make 1 by enclosing an electrical coil of wire, a magnet & a paper cone in a box
   
#831. Season 13
Thursday, December 26, 1996
BRITISH TV
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This computer-created Matt Frewer character had a British music video show before the U.S. drama
   
#832. 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
   
#833. Season 40
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1784 this American wrote in praise of bifocals, "serving for distant objects as well as near ones"
   
#834. 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
   
#835. Season 18
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
When a plane travels faster than the speed of sound, it creates this thunderous noise
   
#836. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
QTest, Fact & ept are home test kits to test for this condition
   
#837. Season 27
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An additional section placed within the folds of a newspaper
   
#838. Season 18
Thursday, February 28, 2002
COMPUTER SPEAK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the acronym BIOS, these 2 words come between "basic" & "system"
   
#839. 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
   
#840. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $400
The outline of the human face as seen from the side
   
#841. Season 5
Monday, April 3, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Lead in crystal glass not only makes it sturdier, it causes the glass to do this better
   
#842. Season 29
Monday, June 3, 2013
CALL TRIPLE A
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A graphical image that represents the user on the Internet
   
#843. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
INTERNET BUSINESSES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This combo of 2 satellite radio companies owns the Internet music service Pandora
   
#844. Season 18
Friday, May 3, 2002
THE NEW YORK TIMESHEADLINES
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1988, yes, 1988, the Times reported, "For computers" this year "may prove a bit traumatic"
   
#845. Season 34
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
VIRUSES
Jeopardy Round: $200
To hackers, this way into a house also means a security bypass that can let a virus infect a computer
   
#846. Season 32
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
"iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon" is the 2006 autobiography of this Apple co-founder
   
#847. 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
   
#848. Season 24
Monday, May 19, 2008
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The engine control unit, a car's smartest computer, monitors systems like injection of this
   
#849. Season 32
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
VIDEO GAME VILLAINS
Jeopardy Round: $800
A thief of epic proportions, she has a last name like the 8th-most populous U.S. city
   
#850. Season 20
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
You can download "Wheel of Fortune" onto the Nokia 3650, one of these devices
   
#851. Season 40
Monday, February 19, 2024
POP
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This main character of the God of War video game franchise has issues with his dad, Zeus, who hasn't done right by his mom, Callisto
   
#852. Season 18
Monday, May 27, 2002
ACRONYMBLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
For Internet geeks:
WYSIWYG
   
#853. 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
   
#854. Season 41
Friday, June 6, 2025
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This specific unit of measure for calculating computer speed consists of a prefix meaning "trillion" & an acronym
   
#855. 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
   
#856. Season 29
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1961 Les Earnest created the first program of this type, now a word processing tool, & yes, computer, his name is Les with 1 S
   
#857. Season 27
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
THE NEW YORK TIMESIN THE 21st CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 2011 the Dealbook feature reported on this Wall St. bank's failed plan to let U.S. clients invest early in Facebook
   
#858. Season 29
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $600
I'm sorry, contestants, it was the name of the murderous computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
   
#859. Season 35
Thursday, May 9, 2019
AN APP FOR TEACHER
Jeopardy Round: $600
This company's app called Classroom helps you streamline your classes & is included free with its G Suite for Education
   
#860. 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
   
#861. Season 17
Friday, November 10, 2000
"the ONION"
Jeopardy Round: $500
It was a sad day when an employee of this computer company was fired for "thinking a little too different"
   
#862. Season 41
Thursday, October 24, 2024
SNAKES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Hooli head honcho Gavin Belson on this HBO comedy parodies any number of tech slime balls
   
#863. Season 41
Monday, December 16, 2024
SONGWRITING WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
Jeopardy Round: $600
(Lin-Manuel Miranda presents the clue.) Computer software makes it possible for any songwriter to have a home recording studio; I wrote most of my first show, "In the Heights", on this Apple program that sounds like a group of kids practicing out by the car
   
#864. Season 31
Friday, December 26, 2014
THERE'S A J IN THERE SOMEWHERE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Control item for an airplane or video game
   
#865. Season 30
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK
Jeopardy Round: $200
Help fight the Cold War in the third title in this series; "Black Ops" is rated M, so you'll have to wait for that... right?
   
#866. Season 26
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
NON-EDIBLE FRUIT TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1983 this company introduced the Lisa, the first commercial computer to feature a mouse
   
#867. Season 34
Friday, February 9, 2018
CRIME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Designated a crime in more & more states each year, it's using the internet to threaten or harass others
   
#868. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
George Takei, who played Sulu on this '60s TV show, often posts about marriage equality & his book "Oh Myyy!"
   
#869. Season 25
Monday, January 19, 2009
SCIENCE FACT
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
As seen on the Internet, dropping Mentos into diet soda releases this gas out of suspension, creating a geyser
   
#870. Season 28
Friday, November 18, 2011
ALMA MATERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Larry Page & Sergey Brin started Google in their dorm room while working on Ph.D.s at this California college
   
#871. Season 32
Friday, February 5, 2016
DROPPED OUT OR EXPELLED
Jeopardy Round: $400
He founded a computer company, named it for himself & dropped out of the University of Texas to focus on it
   
#872. Season 14
Wednesday, June 10, 1998
THE "N" CROWD
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A compact laptop computer
   
#873. Season 11
Monday, May 8, 1995
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Thanks to Sony Imagesoft, you can play these 2 top game shows on your Sega CD
   
#874. 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
   
#875. Season 24
Friday, May 30, 2008
3-LETTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
Readouts on digital watches & calculators use this 3-letter technology invented by James Fergason
   
#876. Season 30
Monday, September 16, 2013
REAL LITERARY PARODIES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This parody of "Goodnight Moon" is a reminder to power down, especially a device kids love
   
#877. Season 35
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Sure, you could send a letter using this horseback service; let's see--200 miles a day for 2,000 miles...or maybe just email
   
#878. Season 24
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
OLD MAJOR
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1882 this Mass. univ. established the 1st curriculum for electrical engineering within its physics department
   
#879. Season 29
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
CHEMISTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In a standard lead-acid battery, lead plates & an electrolyte of this diluted acid create electrical energy
   
#880. Season 35
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Depeche Mode & MGMT play this-"pop", from the name of an electronic instrument
   
#881. Season 26
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
DUMB CRIMINALS
Jeopardy Round: $200
While robbing a West Virginia home, a man logged into this social network site but did not log out
   
#882. Season 34
Thursday, September 28, 2017
IPOs
Jeopardy Round: $200
This tech co. didn't get as many likes as it wanted after raising $16 billion for its 2012 IPO but it returned 105% within 2 years
   
#883. 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
   
#884. Season 19
Wednesday, May 7, 2003
IT'LL TAKE AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT
Jeopardy Round: $800
A 2002 act made it illegal to reprogram one of these to a new number unless you're the manufacturer
   
#885. Season 40
Thursday, March 28, 2024
ALPHANUMERICS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This technology introduced in 2019 brought faster connectivity all over an area
   
#886. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $100
3-letter abbreviation for a type of line that keeps you constantly connected at high speed
   
#887. Season 20
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
When playing Geography, if your opponent says "Maryland" you can say this state that borders Maryland
   
#888. 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
   
#889. Season 28
Friday, March 23, 2012
HYPHENATED TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Broadband has largely replaced this type of internet connection using a phone line
   
#890. Season 2
Tuesday, September 17, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Roving "rodent" attached to some computers
   
#891. Season 5
Thursday, June 15, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
French scientist Rene de Reaumur got the idea to make this out of wood from watching a wasp
   
#892. Season 13
Tuesday, April 22, 1997
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
This New England school is known as M.I.T. for short
   
#893. Season 35
Monday, January 14, 2019
IN THE CLOUD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Launched in 2008, this "Ever"-useful app that stores memos, recipes, warranties etc. joined the Google Cloud in 2017
   
#894. 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
   
#895. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
WAR
Jeopardy Round: $1000
"Jamming" may be a part of this type of warfare abbreviated EW
   
#896. Season 17
Thursday, July 19, 2001
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Nikola Tesla won a 1916 award for meritorious achievement in electrical science named for this former employer
   
#897. 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
   
#898. Season 26
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
HOLD THE FORT
Jeopardy Round: $800
Fort Monmouth in this state is the headquarters of the U.S. Army Telecommunications-Electronics Command
   
#899. Season 2
Tuesday, September 24, 1985
MAGAZINES
Jeopardy Round: $300
"InCIDER" is a magazine for users of this company's computers
   
#900. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $500
GG
   
#901. Season 16
Monday, October 18, 1999
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA
Jeopardy Round: $400
The U. of N. College of Agriculture helped develop the technology for this McDonald's McPork sandwich
   
#902. Season 13
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
MILLIONAIRES
Jeopardy Round: $300
In his early 20s, programmer Marc Andreessen developed this company's internet "Navigator"
   
#903. Season 34
Monday, October 9, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
"The Dog Policeman" is the theme that lets you know it's time for this game--don't croak!
   
#904. Season 39
Monday, February 27, 2023
DESCRIBING THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Jeopardy Round: $600
This word for an electronic keyboard instrument capable of creating numerous sounds reflects its ability to combine signals
   
#905. 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
   
#906. 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
   
#907. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF
Jeopardy Round: 800
This underwhelming squadron commander from "Catch-22" got a promotion caused by a computer with a sense of humor
   
#908. Season 15
Tuesday, June 15, 1999
IT'S ABOUT TIME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Time in the U.S. is determined by the National Institute of Standards & Technology whose atomic clock is in this Colorado city
   
#909. Season 38
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A computer chip shortage caused Peugeot to put old-fashioned analog these to tell you your km/h in some models
   
#910. Season 30
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
MUSIC MAKERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This "Video Games" chanteuse teams with Cedric Gervais on "Summertime Sadness"
   
#911. Season 22
Friday, December 2, 2005
SPORTS NICKNAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The NHL's Mr. Lemieux got this Nintendo-based moniker
   
#912. Season 4
Wednesday, April 27, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Experts recommend you choose electrical equipment that has their mark
   
#913. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
COMPUTER GENIUSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A real mensch, William D. Mensch, designed the processors in Wozniak & Jobs' early computers from this company
   
#914. Season 35
Monday, May 20, 2019
A PRINCE AMONG MEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
You could call Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, by this title, also the name of a popular video game series
   
#915. Season 36
Monday, November 11, 2019
MATH GUYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A 1970s computer language is named for this Frenchman who invented a 1640s calculating machine
   
#916. Season 25
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
TRAFFIC
Jeopardy Round: $600
Traffic on the Internet can be measured by "sniffing" bunches of data collectively called these
   
#917. Season 29
Monday, January 7, 2013
2000: THE YEAR IN QUOTATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In January, the spokesman for a presidential council on this computer issue: "It's a lot quieter"
   
#918. Season 36
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Referring to a false promise, "The cake is a lie" became a famous meme that sprang from this Valve game
   
#919. Season 24
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
THE RICH LIST
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Start your search engines, please-- in 2007 Forbes' youngest U.S. billionaire was Sergey Brin, 33 of this company
   
#920. Season 9
Tuesday, February 23, 1993
BIOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Recombinant DNA technology is the manipulation of these
   
#921. 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
   
#922. Season 39
Monday, April 24, 2023
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In using your 40-piece army, a good st--um, a good plan in this game is to save your miners for the endgame
   
#923. Season 25
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
FUN WITH EPONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $200
How shocking! A unit of electrical current is named for this Andre
   
#924. Season 36
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
THE DIGITAL AGE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Google recently decluttered this browser by simplifying the tab menu
   
#925. Season 39
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
FAANG:Coined in 2017 by Jim Cramer to denote 5 top tech companies at the time
   
#926. Season 35
Friday, July 19, 2019
COMPUTER "D"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This mouse move to open a program may be tricky for elderly computer users; you can adjust the speed of the 2 actions
   
#927. 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
   
#928. Season 19
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Hi-fi is for playing records; this rhyming term is a standard for network technology
   
#929. Season 28
Thursday, January 26, 2012
RETRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Typewriter keyboards had only one kind of slash; on computer keyboards, it's now called this "slash"
   
#930. Season 39
Friday, June 30, 2023
POP EYE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A Dungeons & Dragons computer RPG from 1991 is called "Eye of the" this, also the name of a monster watching you there
   
#931. 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
   
#932. Season 22
Monday, May 15, 2006
OK COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
From the Old English for "clasp" & "table", it's where anything you "cut" or "copy" is stored until you "paste"
   
#933. 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
   
#934. 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
   
#935. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 2003 Billboard magazine started this new chart; the first No. 1, "Crazy In Love", had a total of 1,500
   
#936. Season 26
Monday, May 17, 2010
TECH-TONICS
Jeopardy Round: $200
On Jan, 27, 2010 this CEO announced his company's latest creation, the iPad
   
#937. 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
   
#938. Season 37
Monday, November 16, 2020
A 20th CENTURY DECADE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, is built
   
#939. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
VIDEO GAME TIMELINE
Jeopardy Round: $800
2009:
Batman wins new fans as he fights bad guys who've seized this mental hospital
   
#940. 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
   
#941. Season 32
Monday, September 28, 2015
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The alternative to hard disk wasn't called soft disk but this, & 5 billion a year were sold in the mid-'90s
   
#942. Season 38
Friday, March 18, 2022
GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This agency, the IAEA, has been much in the news in recent years with its inspectors' attempts to monitor nuclear technology
   
#943. Season 21
Monday, February 14, 2005
GEEK LETTER SOCIETIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The U.S. Internet Industry Association posts an FBI-esque list of these, like worm netsky.p
   
#944. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
GOOGLE EASTER EGGS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Click on a balloon after searching for this K-pop band & get messages from Jungkook & its other members
   
#945. Season 19
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
COMPUTER HISTORY
Final Jeopardy
IBM engineer Dave Bradley is called the father of this multi-key combination
   
#946. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
On a single digit LED readout, number shown when all 7 LEDs are lit
   
#947. 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
   
#948. Season 13
Wednesday, June 11, 1997
4-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
On a computer screen this small picture represents a specific program
   
#949. Season 35
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
WE WALKED TO SCHOOL
Jeopardy Round: $200
Though I took the Harvard Bridge across the Charles River, it took me to this tech-savvy university
   
#950. 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
   
#951. Season 18
Monday, December 3, 2001
INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's no B.S. that these islands in the West Indies are coded .bs
   
#952. Season 37
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
This Sega video game character originally was a hedgehog named Mr. Needlemouse; things have sped up since then
   
#953. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002
COMPUTER "E"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
To insert an element into your web page, or the 5-letter tag that lets you do it
   
#954. Season 28
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
5-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $600
To surpass, or a Microsoft spreadsheet program
   
#955. Season 39
Friday, June 2, 2023
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1642 this Frenchman for whom a computer program is named invented a mechanical adding machine
   
#956. 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"
   
#957. Season 22
Friday, December 9, 2005
"EN" THE BEGINNING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Google, Looksmart & Ask Jeeves are search ones
   
#958. 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
   
#959. Season 12
Wednesday, October 4, 1995
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A flex is one of these items that runs between a lamp & the wall
   
#960. Season 23
Monday, May 21, 2007
FORBES'CARS FOR THE RICH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Things get personal for personal computer mogul Michael Dell in a 2005 H2 from this manufacturer
   
#961. Season 19
Monday, June 23, 2003
ENGINEERING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1963 the AIEE, American Institute of these Engineers, merged with the Institute of Radio Engineers
   
#962. Season 27
Thursday, September 30, 2010
BUSINESS BIGGIES
Jeopardy Round: $600
(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Microsoft's headquarters.) After Microsoft moved to Bellevue, Washington, this company asked them to write the operating system for their new PC; MS-DOS would soon become an industry standard
   
#963. Season 39
Monday, September 19, 2022
HODGEPODGE
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2021 Facebook rebranded itself with this 4-letter name & an infinity-shaped logo
   
#964. Season 19
Monday, October 7, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 2000 news, an experiment appeared to accelerate a pulse of this to 300 times its already high speed
   
#965. Season 23
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
ONLINE WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This word, Hawaiian for "quick", is technology that allows for open access to add & change a page
   
#966. 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
   
#967. Season JM
Friday, May 12, 2023
GROWING UP X
Jeopardy Round: 400
Boasting 64 kb worth of pure computing power, this company's 64 personal computer went for $595 in '80s money
   
#968. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Of 1943, 1963, or 1983, the last year Maytag made wringer-type washers
   
#969. Season 41
Friday, April 4, 2025
SKILL SET
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The computer skills section of a resumé may include programming languages like this one once called C with Classes
   
#970. Season 28
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
A "nonexistent domain" error on a failed e-mail is kind of the new version of this 1962 Elvis song
   
#971. Season 28
Thursday, August 2, 2012
TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Ratchet & this robot buddy of his kick some serious butt in their PlayStation game "All 4 One"
   
#972. Season 33
Friday, November 4, 2016
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
An electronic instrument, or someone who puts things together, such as ideas from disparate areas
   
#973. 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
   
#974. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $300
A "hot" World Wide Web browser is written in this programming language created by Sun Microsystems
   
#975. 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"
   
#976. Season 28
Friday, August 3, 2012
COMMUNICATION
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This 5-letter service that lets you video chat with faraway grandmas over the Internet is part of Microsoft
   
#977. 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
   
#978. Season 31
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
NICKNAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This nickname of Harald I, unifier of Denmark, was given to technology that enables wireless connectivity
   
#979. Season 19
Monday, March 24, 2003
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
A branch of the Internet:
WWW
   
#980. Season 24
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Smile! In 1888 this American introduced the first simple consumer camera to use roll film
   
#981. Season 14
Tuesday, March 31, 1998
"BOO"!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This type of algebra uses "AND", "OR", & "NOT" as operators that restrict searches on the internet
   
#982. Season 22
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
KID LIT
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,400
This young detective didn't have a cell phone & a hybrid car when she debuted 75 years ago, but she has 'em now
   
#983. 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
   
#984. Season 24
Thursday, October 25, 2007
A HOSTEL TAKEOVER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Surf the Internet Hostel or the Mariot Hostel (note the lack of an extra R & T in Mariot) in this Bulgarian capital
   
#985. 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
   
#986. Season 39
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
A CENTURY OFTIMEMAGAZINE COVERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A 1994 cover story alerted us to "The Strange New World of" this technology, including Gopher from the University of Minnesota
   
#987. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $400
Someone trying to get your goat is one of these, just like the foe of the Billy Goats Gruff
   
#988. Season 26
Friday, February 12, 2010
ONE B & 2 D's
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
It's the transmission capacity of an electronic communications device
   
#989. Season 28
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
"F" IN SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $800
This technology uses hair-thin transparent filaments to transmit light or infrared signals
   
#990. Season 25
Thursday, January 22, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This game's Japanese designer thought his proposed English title meant "stupid ape"; nope, but Nintendo used it
   
#991. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Civil War's Gatling gun was the 1st practical version of this
   
#992. Season 28
Monday, January 30, 2012
PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug
   
#993. Season 37
Friday, July 2, 2021
3's COMPANY
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2011 this tech company launched Office 365
   
#994. 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"
   
#995. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
IT HAPPENED IN 2005
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
This web-based mapping service introduced in 2005 gives a satellite view of Paris, Tokyo or your own block
   
#996. Season 15
Monday, January 11, 1999
THE LIST LIST
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1988 Microsoft came in at No. 137 out of the 500 companies on this magazine's famous list
   
#997. Season 5
Thursday, May 18, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Some 85% of water used in the western U.S. is used for this purpose
   
#998. Season 13
Wednesday, June 11, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $800
This company's C90 Supercomputer can perform 16 billion calculations per second
   
#999. Season 18
Thursday, January 3, 2002
GENERAL INFORMATION
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Computerized "circuit breakers" to stop trading were installed after the NYSE's crash on Oct. 19 of this year
   
#1000. Season 37
Monday, April 5, 2021
POP CULTURE-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A Nintendo video game creator used an animal word that symbolizes stubbornness in naming this gorilla villain
   
 
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