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#1. Season 24
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
& THE AWARD GOES TO...
Jeopardy Round: $800
The Turing Award for contributions to this field was first given to Alan Perlis for his compiler construction
   
#2. Season 37
Monday, November 23, 2020
BIRDLIKE VERBS
Jeopardy Round: $200
To send a short message on an Internet microblogging site
   
#3. Season 19
Monday, June 9, 2003
20th CENTURY PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1900 his institute of technology was founded in Pittsburgh
   
#4. Season 30
Monday, May 12, 2014
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2009 service was no longer state of the art at the last brick & mortar stores of this alliterative electronics chain
   
#5. Season 37
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
COULD YOU?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Build a resort to make your city into a tourist destination in this video game also released as Micropolis
   
#6. Season 38
Thursday, March 3, 2022
1972: 50 YEARS AGO
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This company helped launch the video game industry with the release of Pong
   
#7. Season 32
Thursday, January 7, 2016
TRAINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This country's Maharajas' Express features wi-fi & a luxurious presidential suite that is an entire car
   
#8. Season 36
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
THERE'S A NATIONAL DAY FOR THAT
Jeopardy Round: $200
The second Monday in February is Clean Out Your this Day, so shake the crumbs out of that keyboard & delete those unused .exes
   
#9. Season 39
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
SOMETHING TO READ
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A teen discovers she can communicate via cell phone with her recently deceased boyfriend in Dustin Thao's bestselling "You've Reached" him
   
#10. 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
   
#11. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
A big gaming story of 2018 is "Fortnite:" this genre of game where the winner is last shooter or last team standing
   
#12. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Rags, preferably linen, were once commonly used to make this, now wood pulp is mostly used
   
#13. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
It's the science of sound
   
#14. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $200
The "B" in COBOL
   
#15. 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
   
#16. Season 36
Friday, December 27, 2019
PROVERBS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A computer term, GIGO is short for this
   
#17. Season 22
Friday, March 10, 2006
LET'S SPLIT!
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2000 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that this computer company should be split in two
   
#18. Season 32
Friday, February 19, 2016
AN ACTOR'S LIFE FOR ME
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
J.K. Simmons played this newspaper man in "Spider-Man" movies & voiced him in many cartoons & a video game
   
#19. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
The digits 0-9 & the letters A-Z are collectively known as this type of characters
   
#20. Season 14
Friday, January 30, 1998
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
As in other electrical systems, the paths of signals in the brain are called these
   
#21. Season 17
Thursday, October 5, 2000
THEY'RE HOT!
Jeopardy Round: $500
The rainbow from her 1999 "Rainbow" CD was plastered on T-shirts & sold via the Internet
   
#22. 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
   
#23. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $200
TV show with Monica, Phoebe & Chandler
   
#24. Season 20
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1885, 14 years after a more famous find, this German archaeologist excavated Tiryns in Greece
   
#25. Season 20
Monday, January 5, 2004
TECH TV
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A "Cybercrime" episode showed how students at Washington's Highline High used computers to change these
   
#26. Season 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1986
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Sex of telephone operators in the 1st exchanges
   
#27. 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
   
#28. Season 38
Thursday, December 23, 2021
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The custom-molded ITC or "in-the-canal" is a type of this, helpful for many older adults
   
#29. 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
   
#30. 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
   
#31. Season 28
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
I'D RATHER STAY "HOME"
Jeopardy Round: $600
The civilian part of a country at war, or a 2011 video game in which the U.S. is occupied by North Korea
   
#32. Season 40
Thursday, March 28, 2024
ALPHANUMERICS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This technology introduced in 2019 brought faster connectivity all over an area
   
#33. Season 35
Thursday, October 4, 2018
ON THE ROOF
Jeopardy Round: $200
Go green using solar panels on your roof; each can generate about 200 of these electrical units
   
#34. Season 8
Thursday, February 27, 1992
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This Pasadena, Calif. school operates a seismological laboratory & 4 observatories
   
#35. 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
   
#36. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
A dialysis section at the site for the AKF, or American this Fund, recommends a diet limiting potassium & sodium
   
#37. Season 34
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Bad Piggies is a spin-off of this popular mobile game
   
#38. Season 26
Friday, December 4, 2009
"FACE" BOOK
Jeopardy Round: $800
To connect a peripheral machine with a computer
   
#39. 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
   
#40. Season 28
Friday, February 17, 2012
BORN IN 1912
Jeopardy Round: $200
This cartoonist's 100th birthday was commemorated with a Google doodle feature a drawing of his ghoulish family.
   
#41. Season 6
Wednesday, April 18, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The USSR lost contact with its Phobos 2 craft before it landed on Phobos, a moon of this planet
   
#42. 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
   
#43. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In March '87, Apple introduced the Macintosh SE, the 1st Mac considered a "clone" of this industry "standard"
   
#44. 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"
   
#45. Season 20
Monday, January 19, 2004
MAYORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Ron Gonzales of this Silicon Valley city is the first Latino mayor of a major California city since statehood
   
#46. Season 7
Tuesday, November 6, 1990
"TRANS" SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $200
The inventors of this tiny device won the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics
   
#47. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Count Rumford, who died in 1814, invented the drip version of this
   
#48. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Birthday: February 9, 1773;
Political Views: Whig;
Activities: Kickin' butt at the Battle of Tippecanoe
   
#49. Season 20
Friday, February 20, 2004
GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This company's name is short of Integrated Electronics
   
#50. 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
   
#51. Season 16
Wednesday, November 3, 1999
COMPUTERAMA
Jeopardy Round: $100
It's what the abbreviation FAQ stands for
   
#52. Season 17
Thursday, October 5, 2000
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In "The World is Not Enough" you're this agent, secret agent
   
#53. 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
   
#54. 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
   
#55. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
You said it with "TWITA"--"that's what" these 3 words
   
#56. Season 24
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
I'M GIDDY FOR GADGETS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Cybershot G1 camera can transfer pictures to your TV or computer using this cable-free technology
   
#57. Season 15
Monday, January 25, 1999
FAMOUS AMERICANS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
In 1938 he developed a way to electronically measure the size of a radio show's audience
   
#58. Season 28
Friday, February 24, 2012
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
You'll never be lonely with an iPhone 4S-- just talk to her, named after the research hub SRI
   
#59. Season 9
Friday, November 6, 1992
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The personal computer designed by Steven Jobs & Steve Wozniak was the cornerstone of this company
   
#60. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
This brand of garbage disposer invented by John Hammes is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 1998
   
#61. Season 23
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The first name of this company's search engine was Backrub, as it analyzed the back links pointing to websites
   
#62. Season 14
Monday, March 23, 1998
FLYING
Jeopardy Round: $100
"Low-observable technology" earned the Air Force's B-2 bomber this nickname
   
#63. Season 14
Tuesday, May 12, 1998
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"Firestarter" & "Breathe" are hit singles by this band that emerged from the British rave scene
   
#64. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
It's what you need to operate the 1861 invention of Linus Yale
   
#65. 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
   
#66. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Your AC, air conditioning, probably runs on AC, this
   
#67. Season 24
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Patented in 1965, this stadium ground covering was first used commercially on a large scale in Texas
   
#68. Season 12
Wednesday, May 15, 1996
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
H&R Block, Inc. has announced it's spinning off this large online service
   
#69. Season 34
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
"INSTA"!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"A community of more than 600 mil. who capture & share the world's moments" is promised by this internet service
   
#70. Season 35
Monday, November 5, 2018
DRUM SCHTICK
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Atlas, a type of this developed in the 1950s, used magnetic drum memory
   
#71. Season 35
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
TECHNOLOGY: OLD & NEW
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
We call television this 4-letter word because of the cathode ray ones the sets once contained
   
#72. Season 12
Wednesday, September 27, 1995
WOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Grace Murray Hopper, who helped develop COBOL, also coined this term for a computer glitch
   
#73. Season 38
Thursday, December 2, 2021
POP CULTURE-POURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A landmark in video game music is Koji Kondo's score for this "Legend of Zelda" edition with an instrument in the title
   
#74. Season 23
Friday, June 1, 2007
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Men who hate asking for directions need a product by Garmin or Magellan using GPS, this type of "system"
   
#75. 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
   
#76. Season 16
Wednesday, September 29, 1999
ABBREVIATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
A computer designer's goal:
AI
   
#77. Season 5
Thursday, May 18, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Each year, Idaho sends samples of this crop to California's Camp Pendleton to be tested for disease
   
#78. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In chat rooms, "YMMV" is this disclaimer often used in car ads; it basically lets you off the hook for anything you say
   
#79. Season 24
Thursday, February 21, 2008
GAMERS UNITE!
Jeopardy Round: $800
In "Shadows of Angmar", a video game based on these books, Sauron sends the Nazgul in search of some jewelry
   
#80. Season 18
Friday, November 9, 2001
VIDEO GAME WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $100
To compete with the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft has the Xbox & this company has the GameCube
   
#81. Season 28
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
These 2 similarly spelled words mean a span of time longer than an era & an electrically charged atom
   
#82. Season 24
Friday, February 22, 2008
SOUTH PARK
Jeopardy Round: $600
S. Montana's Electric Peak, named for the electrical charge experienced by climbers in 1872, is in this natl. park
   
#83. Season 25
Thursday, July 23, 2009
BUSINESS AS USUAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
So as not to be gobbled up by Microsoft, Yahoo! offered a 20% stake to this company for Myspace
   
#84. Season 26
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PRESIDENTIAL FACEBOOK PAGES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Hometown: Plymouth Notch, Vt.;
Interests: Quiet time;
Email: dont_email_
me_i_wont_reply@
whitehouse.gov
   
#85. Season 4
Tuesday, June 7, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Some thermometers use a bimetallic strip in place of this
   
#86. 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
   
#87. 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
   
#88. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Boy, it was so quiet you could have heard...
   
#89. Season 33
Friday, September 30, 2016
SWEEPING THE NATION
Jeopardy Round: $800
No surprise--in 2016 the Labor Secy. met a tech firm janitor "who works in" this California area "but can't afford to live there"
   
#90. Season 39
Monday, November 14, 2022
THE LONG HALL
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The "Infinite Corridor" in this Boston-area school can get crowded with engineering & computer science majors
   
#91. Season 20
Monday, November 17, 2003
ANAGRAMMED COUNTRIES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Some of the computers in this southwest African country are analog
   
#92. 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
   
#93. Season 17
Wednesday, December 27, 2000
LET'S GO ONLINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This type of "space" is slang for the Internet
   
#94. 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
   
#95. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $600
RDV is a cool way to type this word for a meeting
   
#96. Season 4
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $700
Common instruments found in one of these include a gyrocompass & a turn-bank indicator
   
#97. Season JM
Friday, May 17, 2024
AN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Jeopardy Round: 200
In 2023 IBM introduced a platform called this name "X", "to train, tune and distribute models with generative AI"
   
#98. Season 41
Thursday, April 24, 2025
THE LIGHT
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
Converting light to electrical signals, rods & cones are the 2 main types of these cells, partly from Greek for "light"
   
#99. Season 16
Thursday, October 14, 1999
YOU OUGHTA KNOW
Jeopardy Round: $300
Hungarian-born Andrew Grove rose "inside" this computer chip company & made it dominant today
   
#100. Season 17
Thursday, March 1, 2001
RECENT INNOVATIONS
Final Jeopardy
Known by a 3-letter abbrev., it was first proposed in 1989 by software developer Tim Berners-Lee
   
#101. Season 32
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Spreading the jam is a goal in the "soda" version of this sweet game you can play on your smartphone
   
#102. Season 17
Thursday, March 8, 2001
LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $100
This company first introduced its MSN Network as part of Windows 95
   
#103. 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
   
#104. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
TAKING "OFF"
Jeopardy Round: $400
When you aren't connected to the Internet, you still may be able to work this way
   
#105. 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
   
#106. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010
ON THE PHONE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Back in 1997 Philippe Kahn jerry-rigged a camera & cell phone & used it to send pictures of this proud event
   
#107. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
1975:
Microsoft is founded by these 2 college dropouts
   
#108. Season 27
Monday, January 3, 2011
TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST
Jeopardy Round: $400
This implement amazed foreign visitors when it gained acceptance with diners in 16th century Italy
   
#109. Season 24
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Tim Berners-Lee of CERN developed the WWW, allowing users to connect to documents through these "overactive" links
   
#110. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Of the 4 ghosts in the original English version of the Pac-Man game, the one that doesn't rhyme with the others
   
#111. 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
   
#112. Season 27
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
THE IDES OF MARCH
Jeopardy Round: $600
On March 15, 1985 this type of site debuted on the Internet; it was soon to be a "revolution" & a "bubble"
   
#113. Season 34
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
GREEK LETTER PHRASES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Computer software goes through a "secondary" quality control in this type of trial run
   
#114. Season 23
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
2 WORDS IN ONE
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Avionics" flies from these words
   
#115. 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
   
#116. Season 37
Friday, March 5, 2021
TEXT MESSAGE ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $600
Occurring away from the Internet:
IRL
   
#117. Season 33
Monday, January 2, 2017
COMPANY "B"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The company named for him began by selling computer terminals to Wall Street
   
#118. Season 25
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
HIGH-TECH CINEMA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Shia LaBeouf is tracked & controlled with technology of everyday life in this 2008 film
   
#119. Season 33
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's essentially a Wi-Fi access point that provides network or internet access to mobile devices like laptops
   
#120. Season 38
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
THE NIFTY '50s
Jeopardy Round: $200
Ushering in a new age, the UNIVAC, developed for the Bureau of the Census, stood for Universal Automatic this
   
#121. Season 34
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
This Microsoft program was originally called Presenter
   
#122. Season 26
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
RUPERT MURDOCH, OWNER OF A LOT OF STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
We wonder if Rupe discontinued his Facebook account when he bought this social network site for $580 million in 2005
   
#123. 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
   
#124. 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
   
#125. Season 39
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
HOME COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
You can get an encrypted connection to the Internet with a VPN, short for this
   
#126. Season 21
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
MY PC LIFE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Like the asbestos partitions on my house, I use ZoneAlarm as this type of software to keep my computer secure
   
#127. Season 38
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
BOREDOM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A 2010 computer analysis said the most boring 20th c. day was a Sunday in the middle of this, known as a decade of dull conformity
   
#128. Season 27
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
TASTY MUSICAL ACTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This "citrus" electronica band did music for 30 films in the '80s, including "Risky Business" & "Legend"
   
#129. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002
COMPUTER "E"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's also called "the bent arrow key"
   
#130. 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
   
#131. Season 29
Friday, October 19, 2012
THE WORLDWIDE WORLD WIDE WEB
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
.ec represents this country; one of its neighbors has .pe
   
#132. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sometimes your computer is fine, but this, your LAN, is down
   
#133. Season 28
Monday, February 27, 2012
SOCIAL STUDIES
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
"The Social" this plural noun "Marketing Book" has chapters on networks like Myspace and Facebook
   
#134. Season 37
Friday, March 12, 2021
BUSINESS ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
On paper, Larry Page was worth almost $4 billion with Google's 2004 IPO, this offering
   
#135. Season 12
Wednesday, June 12, 1996
1983
Jeopardy Round: $200
John Sculley was named president & CEO of this company with Steven Jobs remaining as chairman
   
#136. 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
   
#137. Season 28
Friday, December 16, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Established in 2007, this microblogging site that sounds like an acrobat handles 40 million posts a day
   
#138. 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
   
#139. Season 25
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
THE HELOISE WITH YOU
Jeopardy Round: $600
Take these off & clean their undersides individually (that open parens/9 is always especially grungy)
   
#140. Season 29
Thursday, May 23, 2013
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Bill Moggridge set the standard with his design for this: a clamshell case with a hinged lid that folded over a keyboard
   
#141. 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"
   
#142. 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..."
   
#143. 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
   
#144. Season 22
Thursday, February 2, 2006
NEWSPAPERS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,500
"The newspaper of Silicon Valley", this San Jose paper got its name from another element mined in the area
   
#145. Season 15
Thursday, December 24, 1998
STORES WITHOUT WALLS
Jeopardy Round: $500
This computer company founded by a man named Michael does $6 million of business online a day
   
#146. Season 33
Friday, April 14, 2017
SHALLOW THOUGHTS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Shigeru Miyamoto did much of the design of this game, the origin of Mario, in a Nintendo company bathtub
   
#147. Season 26
Monday, November 2, 2009
iPHONE APPS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Several apps are available to test this, IQ for short
   
#148. Season 15
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1982 one of these vehicles deployed a satellite for the first time
   
#149. Season 35
Thursday, January 3, 2019
ACRONYMS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
TED talks began in 1984 at a conference on this, entertainment & design
   
#150. 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
   
#151. Season 16
Friday, September 17, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
George Nissen invented this, a "bouncing table", after seeing how circus performers bounced into safety nets
   
#152. 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
   
#153. Season 39
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
HOMOPHONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A coastal bay & a computer memory unit
   
#154. Season 14
Wednesday, January 14, 1998
CARTOONS
Jeopardy Round: $100
Director John Lasseter earned a 1995 Oscar for this first all-computerized animated feature
   
#155. Season 34
Monday, January 15, 2018
JEOPARDY!WRITERS' ONLINE GO-TOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The Tech, a newspaper at this eastern college, maintains the first online edition of Shakespeare's works & we love it
   
#156. 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
   
#157. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's considered fragmented when the spaces it allocates to a file are not contiguous, but scattered
   
#158. Season 33
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
SLANGUAGE
Jeopardy Round: $400
This verb for breaking into a computer morphed into a noun for a clever solution to a tricky problem
   
#159. Season 28
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
OUR NEW COMPUTER OVERLORDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2008 an IBM supercomputer named for this speedy state bird broke the 1 petaflop barrier--that's really fast
   
#160. Season 20
Monday, February 16, 2004
TECH TOPICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's Microsoft's answer to the PS2
   
#161. Season 28
Thursday, May 10, 2012
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $800
If someone texts CD9, it means "code 9", these are around
   
#162. Season 35
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
CIA WORLD FACTBOOKNO. 1s
Jeopardy Round: $800
China: 731 million users of this technological network
   
#163. 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
   
#164. Season 34
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
"LIGHT" MUSIC
Jeopardy Round: $600
Madonna went electronica in this 1998 album
   
#165. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The smallest units of information stored in a computer, they form bytes
   
#166. Season 30
Friday, August 1, 2014
INTERNET JARGON
Jeopardy Round: $800
In "kk", the first K replaces this letter
   
#167. Season 28
Thursday, February 2, 2012
ENTRANCE EXAM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This entrance to a house is also a secret way of gaining access to a computer system
   
#168. Season 31
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
"EBB" & "FLO"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
These awards honor "excellence on the Internet"
   
#169. Season 37
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Symbol Co, this element is big in the field of nanomagnetism, which could lead to huge steps in information technology
   
#170. Season 31
Thursday, December 18, 2014
U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORTBEST OF 2014
Jeopardy Round: $1000
When it comes to a computer science Ph.D. program, this university in Pittsburgh leads the field
   
#171. Season 39
Monday, February 20, 2023
A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN
Jeopardy Round: $600
(John Green presents the clue.) With a mission to increase awesome & decrease suck & to champion causes to help others, fans of my brother Hank & I & our VlogBrothers videos are called these from the misreading of the name of a video game
   
#172. Season 31
Friday, November 21, 2014
MEDIA
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2011 Antonin Scalia wrote, "like...books, plays and movies," these games "communicate ideas"
   
#173. Season 28
Monday, October 17, 2011
THE Is HAVE IT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2008 Carl Icahn bought millions of shares in this Internet company with an exclamation point in its name
   
#174. Season 26
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
JOKING MATTERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Emo Philips: A computer "once beat me at" this game "but it was no match for me at kickboxing"
   
#175. 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
   
#176. Season 16
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It works like a photocopy machine, but it copies images into the computer
   
#177. 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
   
#178. Season 24
Monday, December 31, 2007
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Use your digital jukebox software to connect to this No. 1 online music store
   
#179. Season 17
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
ISRAEL
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Carried by roughly 40% of Israelis, they were popularized by a 2.5-cents-a-minute offer in 1994
   
#180. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $500
GG
   
#181. Season 37
Friday, September 18, 2020
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2010 the Air Force Research Lab built one of the world's fastest computers using more than 1,700 of these Sony game systems
   
#182. Season 17
Thursday, January 25, 2001
ALMOST REAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This computer-generated Gungan from Naboo didn't get good reviews from the "Star Wars" fans
   
#183. 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
   
#184. Season 13
Wednesday, April 30, 1997
POP MUSIC
Jeopardy Round: $200
Selections from this Irish group's "Pop" CD were available on the internet prior to its March 1997 release
   
#185. 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"
   
#186. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
"Alamut", a 1938 novel by Vladimir Bartol about fanatical killers, inspired the hit video game this "Creed"
   
#187. Season 38
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION
Jeopardy Round: $800
A palindromic exclamation of amazement
   
#188. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
A push-button distress signal onboard ships will soon eliminate the need for this type of code
   
#189. Season 14
Tuesday, May 12, 1998
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The style called techno evolved in this U.S. city about 20 years after Motown was born there
   
#190. Season 38
Thursday, March 31, 2022
BUSINESS NAME ORIGINS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In Korean this electronics company's name means "three stars"
   
#191. Season 33
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
KEEP IT 100
Jeopardy Round: $600
Search for it on the internet-- it's the term for 1 followed by 100 zeroes
   
#192. Season 41
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
I DON'T FEEL SEEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Silicon Valley was the birthplace of this brand that's a clear alternative to braces
   
#193. Season 32
Friday, November 27, 2015
DEVICES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Computer input & output devices, like mice & printers, are also known as computer these, referring to their outside placement
   
#194. Season 21
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
After his release from maximum security, Tommy Vercetti tries to take over Vice City in this game
   
#195. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
ALSO AN NFL TEAM
Jeopardy Round: $200
Weakening cell phone batteries need them
   
#196. Season 20
Monday, February 9, 2004
DO YOU SPEAK COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $800
Lotus & Excel are 2 popular versions of this type of computer program that puts data in rows & columns
   
#197. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
P.M. Job if you have a good remedy for "sore" these skin eruptions, sole to scalp; scraping with a potsherd isn't doing much
   
#198. 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
   
#199. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015
COMPUTER ACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This process that maximizes disk space is so named because it joins up pieces of files that were stored separately
   
#200. Season 32
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2004 Morse code added a new character, a combination of the letters A & C, to denote this symbol
   
#201. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
In July 1991 IBM & this rival announced a technology alliance
   
#202. Season 25
Monday, January 26, 2009
FICTION SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2001 Hendrik Schön claimed to have created a molecule-sized one of these semiconductors-- bad Hendrik!
   
#203. 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
   
#204. 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
   
#205. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
A 3-letter icon on a piece of technology says that it has been okayed by this government commission
   
#206. Season 27
Monday, October 25, 2010
THINGS ARE SLOW
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Even a fountain pen was too much technology for this historian who took 20 years to write "The Civil War"
   
#207. Season 34
Monday, June 11, 2018
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOKS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
Recalibrating our emotions & restocking our immune systems are 2 good reasons "Why We" do this in a recent title
   
#208. 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
   
#209. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The mimeograph was invented by this man around 1876
   
#210. 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
   
#211. 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
   
#212. Season 18
Friday, September 21, 2001
THE NEW YORK TIMESBOOK REVIEWS
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
In a 1999 review Stephen King called this title character a Count Dracula for the computer age
   
#213. Season 24
Friday, February 15, 2008
DON'T TOY WITH ME
Jeopardy Round: $600
You might say "Wii" while using the wireless controller for this company's game system
   
#214. 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
   
#215. Season 6
Thursday, April 19, 1990
EDUCATION
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $500
The first U.S. school of architecture was established at this Mass. school founded in 1861
   
#216. Season 30
Friday, September 27, 2013
THE GOOD
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The brainchild of this school's famed media lab, One Laptop Per Child provides cheap computers to kids worldwide
   
#217. Season 29
Friday, May 17, 2013
POEMS IN VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
This game uses "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" --but with the ending, "the cube had food ...and immortality"
   
#218. Season 32
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Nintendo released a dual game in 1995 that paired "centipede" with this similar creature
   
#219. Season 20
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
"EPI"SODES
Jeopardy Round: $600
From the Greek for "seizure", it's a medical condition involving abnormal electrical brain activity
   
#220. Season 20
Wednesday, October 8, 2003
COMMUNICATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Listen up: one of the first commercial items to use transistors was one of these listening devices
   
#221. 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
   
#222. Season 34
Monday, November 20, 2017
TECH CRUNCH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Pong! In the 1970s its 2600 console had a whopping 128 bytes of RAM--a 2017 iPhone has about 3.2 billion
   
#223. Season 39
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION!
Jeopardy Round: $200
A rare packaging of a 1985 Nintendo video game featuring "Super" these "Bros." bounced to $114,000 in 2020
   
#224. Season 35
Friday, September 14, 2018
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
QuietComfort noise-cancelling headphones are from this high-end audio company that pioneered the technology
   
#225. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
Aunt May & Norman Osborn show up in this superhero's Marvel-ous high-flying game
   
#226. Season 13
Friday, September 13, 1996
BUSINESS '96
Jeopardy Round: $100
In February this computer company agreed to let Motorola use its Macintosh operating system
   
#227. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A trackball is basically one of these control devices lying on its back
   
#228. Season 8
Monday, September 23, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Now mostly obsolete, these machines record data on cards to be read by computers
   
#229. Season 8
Thursday, October 17, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the 1850s he came up with the first cheap, large-scale way of making steel from pig iron
   
#230. Season 37
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, this letter "++" is one of the first computer languages that college students learn
   
#231. Season 40
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Musicians can thank John Shore, who invented this in 1711; it vibrated at 423.5 cycles a second
   
#232. Season 36
Monday, April 6, 2020
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In a computer, a CPU is a central this unit
   
#233. Season 22
Monday, May 15, 2006
OK COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $600
This popular Internet service provider began as QCS, Quantum Computer Services
   
#234. Season 14
Tuesday, December 9, 1997
HODGEPODGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1997 this chess champ was blue over this defeat in a match by IBM's Deep Blue computer
   
#235. Season 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
About 1840, an alphabetic code was created for communication via this new invention
   
#236. Season 13
Thursday, June 19, 1997
SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $100
An EEG records the electrical activity of this organ
   
#237. Season 24
Friday, September 28, 2007
MEASURE TIME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Computer printer image quality is measured in DPI, which stands for this
   
#238. Season 33
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
TAKE THE "A" TRAINING
Jeopardy Round: $800
Take classes like "Ornament Theory and Design" & "Building Technology" at Yale's School of this
   
#239. Season 32
Monday, November 2, 2015
MAIL CALL
Jeopardy Round: $200
Rhyming phrase for letters sent via the postal service rather than instantaneously using a computer
   
#240. 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
   
#241. Season 25
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
REMEMBER "Y" 2 "K"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
One tap on a computer terminal gives us this compound word
   
#242. Season 24
Thursday, May 15, 2008
THEY HAIL FROM WISCONSIN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1925 Chippewa Falls produced this mathematician hailed as the father of the supercomputer
   
#243. Season 34
Friday, April 20, 2018
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $400
Someone who asks you for a D.M. on Facebook doesn't want a dungeon master but rather contact via this
   
#244. Season 38
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION
Jeopardy Round: $600
No joke--this double-talk name comes before Clinton-Dix in the name of an NFL star
   
#245. Season 32
Monday, February 15, 2016
COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
You'll be A-OK with a TFT-LCD one of these basic parts of a desktop computer
   
#246. Season 27
Friday, October 29, 2010
BIBLE BOOK NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
12 letters: Why?! Why didn't I buy Microsoft when it hit the market in 1986?! & wearing that Speedo?! What was I thinking?!
   
#247. Season 34
Friday, November 10, 2017
FRUIT, NOT FRUIT
Jeopardy Round: $600
Nintendo says she "spent her...time in Bowser's castle" but now she "prefers to be the one doing the rescuing"
   
#248. Season 26
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Our writers visit search.eb.com, which brings you to the website for this reference work that's been around since 1768
   
#249. Season 35
Thursday, January 31, 2019
"M.C."
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
AKA John-117, he's the main man in the Halo video games
   
#250. 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
   
#251. Season 24
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS SAN DIEGO?
Jeopardy Round: $600
The San Diego stadium now named for this telecom company is known as "The Q"
   
#252. Season 41
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
TIMEPIECES
Jeopardy Round: $200
This type of watch first gained traction in the 1970s, starting with the Pulsar W--sorry, "time computer"
   
#253. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
One type of atomic clock is based on the actions of molecules of this Windex ingredient
   
#254. 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
   
#255. Season 28
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the Klondike variant of this card game, spaces in the tableau can only be filled with kings
   
#256. Season 41
Thursday, March 20, 2025
TV SHOW BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $200
"Why was Pete Campbell 'not great?"';"man falling in opening credits, survive?";"whiskey & cigarettes healthy?"
   
#257. Season 19
Thursday, April 3, 2003
GOING WIRELESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Kyocera QCP 6035 Smartphone combines a cell phone with one of these multifunction organizers
   
#258. Season 21
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
GOOD CONDUCTORS
Jeopardy Round: $600
This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals
   
#259. Season 34
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
ELEMENTARY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,800
This precious metal boasts the highest thermal & electrical conductivity
   
#260. Season 34
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
UNPLUGGED
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Bluesnarfing & bluejacking are different ways of using this wireless technology to hack your phone
   
#261. Season 32
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
DODGE PODGE
Jeopardy Round: $200
What a cell phone with a low battery needs
   
#262. Season 24
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
AFTER MASH
Jeopardy Round: $400
In the actions used to describe grabbing an image from 1 document & moving it onto another on a computer
   
#263. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
1996: the first successful PDA takes off--this alliterative one
   
#264. 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
   
#265. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Resembling
   
#266. Season 38
Thursday, December 23, 2021
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In the 1950s Sarkis Acopian invented the solar-powered one of these devices, still good to have for emergencies
   
#267. 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
   
#268. Season 6
Monday, May 28, 1990
IN THE NEWS
Jeopardy Round: $100
You can punch in the chapter & verse you want in the hand-held computer version of this book now available
   
#269. Season 39
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
SHOE GAZING
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
On March 10, 2023, the Nintendo New York flagship store displayed a real-life version of the shoes worn by this character
   
#270. 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
   
#271. Season 19
Monday, December 23, 2002
WORDS WITHIN WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
You may have to do this to a computer disk to enable it to store information
   
#272. Season 39
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This device delivers an electrical shock to correct an abnormal heartbeat in cases of cardiac arrest
   
#273. Season 25
Thursday, April 2, 2009
GEEK CHIC
Jeopardy Round: $200
This smartphone brand is gunning for the iPhone with the "Storm" touchscreen phone
   
#274. Season 39
Monday, April 24, 2023
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
These are the 2 pieces that can be moved to begin a chess game
   
#275. Season 37
Monday, July 12, 2021
LOGOMANIA
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The logo for this video game company that ruled the '80s is a stylized "A"; it is also based on the Pong screen
   
#276. 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?
   
#277. 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
   
#278. 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
   
#279. Season 38
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
4-SYLLABLE WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This word refers to the smallest detail that can be seen by a telescope or to the number of pixels on your computer screen
   
#280. Season 20
Thursday, February 19, 2004
SPORTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
For it's auction of game-used collectibles, the NFL uses this popular internet auction site
   
#281. Season 26
Thursday, April 8, 2010
SOUNDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
The name of this Southwest Airlines computer application represents the seatbelt-sign-is-off sound
   
#282. Season 31
Friday, March 27, 2015
REMEMBER 2014?
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
The Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant to search these, now "a pervasive and insistent part of daily life"
   
#283. Season 18
Thursday, June 6, 2002
"UP" WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
To improve your computer by incorporating new advances
   
#284. Season 18
Thursday, February 7, 2002
COMPUTER "E"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A Windows file that starts an application may have this 3-letter extension
   
#285. Season 32
Monday, July 25, 2016
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
To transfer large computer files, it might be useful to use a special FTP, a "file transfer" this
   
#286. Season 4
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Lunch pail fixture devised by chemist Sir James Dewar
   
#287. 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
   
#288. Season 15
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Suggestions on what to call this device ranged from farscope to telebaird
   
#289. Season 26
Friday, July 16, 2010
A CAPSULE CATEGORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Let's prep one of these--cell phone, credit card, Fritos; that should tell folks in 2110 what our society was like
   
#290. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Machine you might have around the house that has a feed dog, a design cam, & a bobbin winder
   
#291. Season 7
Wednesday, January 30, 1991
WEATHER
Jeopardy Round: $500
An electrical discharge appearing as a blue or green halo is called this
   
#292. Season 7
Wednesday, October 17, 1990
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
To a disgruntled computer operator, "GIGO" means this
   
#293. Season 38
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Billed as the "most influential tech event in the world", this event featuring gizmos & gadgets has been held in Las Vegas since 1978
   
#294. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "P" in jpeg
   
#295. Season 32
Friday, November 13, 2015
TIMEMAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
2010:
This Facebook co-founder
   
#296. 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
   
#297. 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"
   
#298. Season 16
Friday, June 30, 2000
LIFE OF A SALESMAN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
An IBM salesman in the '50s, he founded Electronic Data Systems in the '60s & made a billion
   
#299. Season 26
Monday, October 26, 2009
"EEN"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A program that constantly shifts the pattern on your computer monitor to prevent damage to it
   
#300. 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"
   
#301. Season 14
Thursday, March 26, 1998
PUT "IT"
Jeopardy Round: $200
A homer, a murder or a visit to a World Wide Web site
   
#302. Season 21
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
A back-stabbing friend tries to keep you from going pro in the underground game named for this skateboarder
   
#303. 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
   
#304. Season 38
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ALSO A FACEBOOK REACTION
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's an acronym for depression caused by the gloomier winter months
   
#305. Season 32
Thursday, May 19, 2016
THE AL FRANKEN DECADE
Jeopardy Round: $400
On May 22, 1980 Namco began gobbling up the competition by releasing this video game
   
#306. Season 36
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences gives out these awards "honoring the best of the Internet"
   
#307. 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
   
#308. Season 29
Monday, May 13, 2013
ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This electronics firm was named for a certain quality of a mechanical pencil invented by its founder
   
#309. 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
   
#310. Season 19
Monday, October 21, 2002
DON'T BE SUCH A HEDGEHOG
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1999 this Sega video game hedgehog starred in his own home video
   
#311. Season 40
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Link's video game franchise links up with the wife of writer F. Scott
   
#312. 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
   
#313. Season 26
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
BRAND LOGOS
Final Jeopardy
Its original logo, designed in 1976, showed Isaac Newton sitting under a tree
   
#314. Season 29
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
ITALIAN SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Luigi Galvani figured out the electrical nature of nerve impulses by making this amphibian's legs kick
   
#315. Season 32
Thursday, April 21, 2016
SHORT "E"
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's the symbol over the one on your computer keyboard
   
#316. Season 32
Friday, February 12, 2016
LOL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
On issues with the Hooli phone on this HBO comedy--"How bad is this?... Is this Windows Vista bad?"; "It's Apple Maps bad"
   
#317. Season 36
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
COLORFUL TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Not a full but a partial loss of electrical power
   
#318. Season 22
Thursday, July 20, 2006
ABBREVIATED U.S. STATES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Put the abbreviation for this state with "scan" & you get a computerized diagnostic medical technique
   
#319. 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
   
#320. Season 23
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"iWOZ" tells how he went "from computer geek to cult icon" by inventing the personal computer
   
#321. 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
   
#322. 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
   
#323. 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
   
#324. Season 34
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
HOW ARE "THINGS"?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
I.O.T. stands for this, when all your devices are connected
   
#325. Season 16
Friday, February 11, 2000
DROPOUTS
Jeopardy Round: $100
He abandoned his studies at Harvard after his junior year to co-found Microsoft & got filthy rich
   
#326. Season 15
Wednesday, October 14, 1998
GUYS NAMED GARY
Jeopardy Round: $500
A Russian chess grandmaster, this man lost to a computer in 1997
   
#327. 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"
   
#328. Season 37
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
MUSIC FESTIVALS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
200,000 people crowd a Belgian town of 18,000 for Tomorrowland, a festival of EDM, short for this "music"
   
#329. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1989 scientists using a scanning tunneling microscope saw this double-stranded molecule for the 1st time
   
#330. Season 31
Friday, September 19, 2014
VANILLA
Jeopardy Round: $800
A comedian's scripted shtick, or a computer's set of instructions
   
#331. Season 18
Thursday, April 4, 2002
19th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The year Bell founded the phone company, this man invented the phonograph
   
#332. 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
   
#333. 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
   
#334. 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"
   
#335. Season 32
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
HEROES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Also the name of an old video game, it precedes "of the faith" in British monarchs' titles
   
#336. Season 16
Friday, July 7, 2000
AMERICAN INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In the 1960s this U.S. firm released the first word processor, an adaptation of its Selectric typewriter
   
#337. 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
   
#338. 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
   
#339. Season 21
Friday, September 10, 2004
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Mattel has set this classic boxing toy in a video game “arena”
   
#340. Season 12
Thursday, June 20, 1996
DANISH RULERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
10th century ruler Harold Bluetooth, son of Gorm the Old, introduced this religion into Denmark
   
#341. Season 12
Wednesday, May 15, 1996
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This device converts digital data into analog signals for transmission over telephone lines
   
#342. Season 41
Friday, July 25, 2025
FREAKIER FRIDAYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
(Lindsay Lohan presents the clue.) On Friday, June 29, 2007, a newspaper announced "fire, the wheel and now" this item released that day--it retailed around $499 for a model with a whopping four gigabytes of storage
   
#343. Season 35
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
TEEN MATH
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
In 1952 an early computer was used to discover the 13th Mersenne one of these numbers
   
#344. Season 13
Tuesday, April 8, 1997
CONTEMPORARIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
While Charles Babbage was trying to build a computer in the 1820s, this Scot invented what would be a "Mac"
   
#345. 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!
   
#346. 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
   
#347. Season 30
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
SOME 4-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A vulcanized piece of rubber used in a certain sport, it's also what the Brits call a computer mouse
   
#348. 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
   
#349. Season 39
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
THE PARENT COMPANY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It provides YouTube, & you can Google that
   
#350. Season 32
Friday, October 9, 2015
VIDEO GAMES
Final Jeopardy
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration in 2014, this video game used the slogan "We all fit together"
   
#351. Season 5
Thursday, May 18, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In Jan. 1988 this company announced it would sell VHS format VCRs in addition to Betamax
   
#352. 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
   
#353. 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
   
#354. Season 13
Thursday, November 21, 1996
ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Appropriately, web pages abound devoted to this female star of "The Net"
   
#355. Season 20
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
HALF A NICE DAY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2003 AMD introduced its 64-this chip; that's a lot of personal computing power & beats the standard 32
   
#356. Season 21
Friday, October 1, 2004
BLOGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Lawyer Lawrence Lessig started blogging after being thrown off the anti-trust case against this software giant
   
#357. Season 30
Friday, February 28, 2014
LEADER OF THE "PACK"
Jeopardy Round: $800
In information technology, breaking up a message to transmit it more efficiently is this type of switching
   
#358. 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"
   
#359. Season 17
Tuesday, November 7, 2000
HOW SOON WE FORGET
Jeopardy Round: $500
"Colorful" name of the IBM computer that lost to Garry Kasparov in 1996 & beat him in '97
   
#360. 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
   
#361. Season 12
Thursday, June 20, 1996
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1988 IBM & Sears, Roebuck joined forces to launch this online computer service
   
#362. Season 16
Friday, March 3, 2000
ODD WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
From the first 6 letters at the upper left, it's the arrangement of a standard computer keyboard
   
#363. 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
   
#364. Season 27
Thursday, January 27, 2011
THE "KO" CORRAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Electronic guidance has phased out navigation by compass & clock, this morbid-sounding art
   
#365. Season 22
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Jeopardy Round: $200
The 2 founders of Yahoo! & the 2 founders of Google all attended this California school
   
#366. Season 36
Monday, October 7, 2019
VIDEO GAME-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $600
Many online games say they are "F2P" , meaning this; beware, there are usually ways to spend cash down the line
   
#367. Season 33
Monday, January 16, 2017
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This item that identifies a particular cell phone user now comes in nano size, about 12 x 9 millimeters
   
#368. Season 27
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2009 this company gave away 500 Fusion razors a day for a month
   
#369. Season 37
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
FROM S TO T
Jeopardy Round: $800
A key to the early success of Apple was VisiCalc, the first electronic this
   
#370. 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
   
#371. 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
   
#372. Season 32
Thursday, February 11, 2016
VIDEO GAME SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $1000
To defeat an enemy with overwhelming numbers is to do this, a term from "StarCraft"
   
#373. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Device you use to click & drag
   
#374. Season 24
Monday, November 26, 2007
COMPUTER ON!
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,400
Robert Metcalfe was inducted into the Inventors' Hall of Fame for this computer network that sounds like an anesthetic
   
#375. Season 25
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Sealy makes these with "advanced memory foam technology"
   
#376. 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
   
#377. Season 30
Friday, December 27, 2013
FUN WITH ACRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
To program in a venerable computer language, you might wear this type of "black"
   
#378. Season 33
Friday, November 25, 2016
MAKE NO MYTHTAKE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Type of Norse dwarf that lives in caves & under bridges (& on the Internet)
   
#379. Season 21
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
IN THE SMITHSONIAN
Jeopardy Round: $800
The Pulsar was the first all-electronic one of these, & in 1972 it would have set you back $2,100
   
#380. Season 33
Thursday, March 30, 2017
MICROSOFT WORD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
To get the coarser parts out of your flour
   
#381. Season 13
Friday, March 21, 1997
AMERICAN MUSEUMS
Jeopardy Round: $100
Scitrek is the science and technology museum of this Georgia capital
   
#382. Season 41
Friday, November 8, 2024
THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Also called a "diskette", this 2-word thingamajig got its nickname since its first varieties were put in bendable jackets
   
#383. Season 23
Thursday, June 21, 2007
BRAVE NEW WORD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Reusing components in old electronics is termed this, one letter shorter than the word it's derived from
   
#384. Season 41
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
"A"CRONYMS & "A"BBREVIATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Internet domain code for this nation is .az
   
#385. Season 35
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
PLASMA
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In physics, plasma, ionized gas with little or no electrical charge, is often called the 4th state of this
   
#386. Season 21
Monday, March 21, 2005
HELLO, BB
Jeopardy Round: $800
In Internet domain names, this country of the West Indies
   
#387. Season 28
Monday, December 12, 2011
RAND CORPORATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the first book on this, computers doing tasks associated with human intellect, 6 chapters had been RAND reports
   
#388. Season 33
Friday, June 9, 2017
THE I.T. DEPARTMENT
Jeopardy Round: $200
What can we do with users who can't even plug into their computers this "drive" named for a part of the hand
   
#389. Season 3
Thursday, October 16, 1986
WW III
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Child's game which convinced computer in "War Games" of the futility of nuclear war
   
#390. Season 41
Thursday, April 17, 2025
GAME OVER, MAN! IT'S GAME OVER!
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
An 11th point is won in a table tennis video game with the best graphics Atari could imagine in 1972
   
#391. Season 4
Friday, December 11, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Edison designed his movie camera to use the roll film invented by this man
   
#392. Season 26
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Ms. Birdy will help if you adopt these plush pets with secret codes for use on the Internet
   
#393. Season 40
Thursday, July 18, 2024
POP CULTURE GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This 2020 Switch game from Nintendo was subtitled "New Horizons"
   
#394. 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
   
#395. Season 18
Friday, February 1, 2002
BRIEFLY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The movie "The Mummy Returns" used CGI, this kind of imagery
   
#396. 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
   
#397. Season 4
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The battery-operated Interplak is the latest word in these bathroom items
   
#398. Season 30
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
SOUNDS LIKE FOOTBALL
Jeopardy Round: $800
A sharp momentary surge in electrical current
   
#399. Season 29
Monday, July 29, 2013
SPORTS STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An iPhone commercial featured these 2 sisters playing ping pong instead of tennis
   
#400. Season 14
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
COMPUTERESE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Like a waiter, a network computer might say "I'll be your" this & store files or manage printers
   
#401. Season 31
Friday, May 29, 2015
TOOL TALK
Jeopardy Round: $200
In computer-speak, 404 is this "not found"
   
#402. Season 34
Monday, November 20, 2017
TECH CRUNCH
Jeopardy Round: $200
Still a giant, especially in supercomputers, in the '60s it had a 70% market share of world computer sales
   
#403. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
To stop staining, Farah makes men's slacks coated with this, usually found on cookware
   
#404. Season 18
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Automaton is sometimes just a fancy name for one of these mechanical beings
   
#405. Season 31
Friday, January 9, 2015
COACHING IN THE NFL
Jeopardy Round: $400
More than just a name on a massive NFL video game, he went an amazing 103-32-7 as the Raiders' head man
   
#406. Season 34
Friday, April 13, 2018
WE MADE THAT THING
Jeopardy Round: $200
Let's get to the PowerPoint: Office 365 from this company includes Excel
   
#407. 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
   
#408. Season 17
Thursday, February 22, 2001
THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
A computer programmed by Dr. David Fogel taught itself this game that includes jumping & crowning
   
#409. Season 40
Monday, February 12, 2024
POP CULTURE VS.
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Red vs. Blue" are 2 armies in an animated series that's an offshoot of this "angelic" video game franchise
   
#410. 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
   
#411. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This process used in energy production is short for hydraulic fracturing
   
#412. Season 17
Wednesday, December 27, 2000
LET'S GO ONLINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Yeehaw! It's the world's most popular Internet directory
   
#413. 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
   
#414. 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
   
#415. 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
   
#416. Season 4
Wednesday, April 27, 1988
"P"S & "Q"S
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Planck's "Theory" involving radiant energy, it can be applied to electronics, mechanics, etc.
   
#417. Season 15
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
12th C. mathematician Bhaskara had an idea for this type of machine that hasn't been made yet
   
#418. Season 38
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
THE SCIENTIST WHO...
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
...has his own principle of pressure & has a computer language named for him
   
#419. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,500
If you see the following symbol at the start of a TV show, it means this service is available:
   
#420. Season 20
Monday, November 10, 2003
ABBR.
Jeopardy Round: $600
Computer users should know that BBS stands for this
   
#421. Season 35
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
AWARDS & HONORS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
The first Millennium Technology Prize went to this Brit for his work on HTTP, HTML & the World Wide Web
   
#422. 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
   
#423. Season 28
Thursday, May 10, 2012
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $200
NVNG stands for "nothing ventured", this
   
#424. 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
   
#425. Season 39
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
DISCOVERY & INVENTION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In the 1950s Grace Hopper & her team created FLOW-MATIC, the first one of these to follow English commands
   
#426. Season 23
Thursday, May 10, 2007
GETTING A JOB DOs & DON'Ts
Jeopardy Round: $800
If you email your resume, make sure the attachment doesn't contain this infectious computer agent
   
#427. Season 39
Friday, September 23, 2022
CUTTING BACK ON THE BRAND
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2007, the same year it introduced the iPhone, Apple dropped this 8-letter word from its corporate name
   
#428. Season 25
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This "hip" communications device got its present form in a 1974 Motorola version, but it had no display
   
#429. 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"
   
#430. Season 25
Monday, December 1, 2008
POTENT PORTABLES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Cansha hear me now, shweetie? Franmara, Inc. has a 3-oz. flask shaped like this ...$24.99 & no roaming charges!
   
#431. Season 40
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
JUST FOR FUN "Z"s
Jeopardy Round: $600
Shigeru Miyamoto designed a video game in which players try to defeat the evil Ganon & rescue this princess
   
#432. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Le Bureau International de l'Heure in Paris is the keeper of this for the world
   
#433. Season 36
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
WHAT IS THAT PERSON DOING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
With the service Carbonite, doing an alliterative "business" this, an important but often neglected computer task
   
#434. Season 35
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
TECHNOLOGY: OLD & NEW
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the 1990s Brent Townshend invented the 56K version of this PC communications device & licensed it at $2.50 each
   
#435. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde were 4 of these in a series of classic Namco arcade games
   
#436. Season 25
Friday, February 6, 2009
HIDING ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
You'll hear this web search site's name yodeled if you click the exclamation mark on the home page
   
#437. Season 36
Monday, February 10, 2020
NO BELL
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Motorola LS350 is this type of device also called a pager
   
#438. Season 19
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
MIT
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
MIT announced in April 2001 that it plans to make almost all of its course materials available free via this
   
#439. Season 6
Wednesday, September 27, 1989
MIKES & MICHAELS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The Farad, a unit of electrical capacitance, was named for this British physicist
   
#440. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
You can feel your way around a game using the Dualshock controller for this video game console
   
#441. Season 32
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
THE LONG HOURS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2014 a "world" record was set as someone played this online video game for 29 hours, 31 minutes straight
   
#442. 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"
   
#443. 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
   
#444. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015
I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
A site called damnyou this function included an unfortunate example where "special" became "suicidal"
   
#445. Season 39
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
ADAPTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Neil Druckmann, creator of this video game partly inspired by the book "The World Without Us", helped adapt it for HBO in 2023
   
#446. 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
   
#447. Season 20
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
LISA
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1983 Apple introduced the Lisa personal computer, the first PC with one of these controls
   
#448. Season 14
Thursday, January 29, 1998
JIMMY LOVES THAT COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $300
Jimmy learned HTML, hypertext markup language, to create this, addressable at jimmyland.com
   
#449. Season 4
Tuesday, June 7, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
A "Lucifer" was an early type of this made by Samuel Jones of London in the early 19th century
   
#450. Season 16
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
If your PC freezes up, a handy way to restart is to hold down Ctrl & Alt & hit this key
   
#451. Season 28
Thursday, September 22, 2011
MUSICAL STYLINGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This structure follows "ambient", "tech" & " left- field" in types of electronica music
   
#452. Season 36
Thursday, January 16, 2020
REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN
Jeopardy Round: $600
An entrepreneur: Anthony Michael Hall in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" & Steve Sires in "The Social Network"
   
#453. Season 32
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
The 2 most abundant elements in Earth's crust are oxygen & this one used in making electronic circuits
   
#454. Season 17
Friday, October 6, 2000
THAT'S AMAZING!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This country that has Helsinki as its capital has almost one cell phone for every 2 people
   
#455. 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
   
#456. Season 32
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
"M"TERTAINMENT
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Riven" is the sequel to this adventure video game
   
#457. Season 32
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
I NEED MY "SPACE"
Jeopardy Round: $800
It's the one-word realm of electronic communication
   
#458. Season 12
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
While Pascal's could only add & subtract, Leibniz' could multiply
   
#459. Season 36
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
DEEP STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Internet that has not been indexed by these is the deep web
   
#460. Season 24
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
SPIN-AGE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Utah's A.G. got letters to drop an antitrust case against this software company, but the mail was from dead people
   
#461. Season 7
Wednesday, May 22, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
General Electric introduced this form of office illumination in the 1930s
   
#462. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $600
She tweeted, "Can't sleep again tonight! Maybe it's because my baby" Kanye West "isn't here to cuddle"
   
#463. Season 18
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This athletic shoe company's internet store is located at catshack.com
   
#464. Season 25
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
"HEE" HAW
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A format that allows the user to lay out data in multiple fields on a computer screen
   
#465. Season 30
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $400
A single processor sharing multiple jobs is doing this, like when Mom tries to drive & put on makeup
   
#466. Season 14
Thursday, July 16, 1998
20th CENTURY INVENTION
Jeopardy Round: $500
They were invented in 1947 & by the 1990s millions were being placed on a single chip
   
#467. Season 27
Monday, January 3, 2011
TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST
Jeopardy Round: $200
It dates back to 3000 B.C., when it was made with beeswax; by the Middle Ages tallow ones were in wide use
   
#468. 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
   
#469. 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
   
#470. 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
   
#471. Season 29
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
CSIRO has developed technology that helps drain this gas, CH4, released by the mining of coal
   
#472. 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
   
#473. Season 22
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
CEOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer company chairman gave the keynote address at the "CEO Summit 2004" held in Redmond, Washington
   
#474. Season 34
Monday, May 7, 2018
ACA"D"MIA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Form of education focused on methods to help students not on site but attending via the internet or other means
   
#475. Season 22
Friday, March 17, 2006
RECORD LOSSES IN 2005
Jeopardy Round: $200
A computer with 98,000 names & SSNs was reported stolen from this oldest campus of the Univ. of Calif.
   
#476. 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
   
#477. 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
   
#478. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: 600
The R1S from this car company is an all-electric SUV with a nearly 400-mile battery range
   
#479. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Term for a system of interconnected computers & devices; a LAN is a "local area" one
   
#480. 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
   
#481. Season 35
Thursday, June 6, 2019
SPELL IT OR SAY IT?
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
DOS is a programming language; DoS. is short for "denial of" this & is a computer attack
   
#482. Season 36
Friday, April 24, 2020
SPY TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Also the title of a "Call of Duty" video game series, these "colorful" covert missions will be disavowed by your country
   
#483. 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
   
#484. Season 28
Thursday, March 8, 2012
TIME TO "ROCK" & "ROLL"
Jeopardy Round: $800
As a noun, it's paper; as a verb, you do it on a computer to move text horizontally
   
#485. Season 37
Friday, October 23, 2020
IDIOMS
Jeopardy Round: $200
A part of a garment is mentioned in this phrase that means "I accidentally called you from my cell phone"
   
#486. 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
   
#487. 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"
   
#488. Season 26
Friday, May 21, 2010
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In the computer world, NAVI is Norton this
   
#489. 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
   
#490. Season 25
Friday, October 31, 2008
JUST SAY "NO"
Jeopardy Round: $800
This Finnish co. started by making paper--the original communications technology; mobile phones came in the 1960s
   
#491. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $400
The mental capacity to recall facts, or a show-stopping number from "Cats"
   
#492. Season 40
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $600
This techno-thriller author's works served as the inspiration for video games like "Splinter Cell" & "Rainbow Six"
   
#493. 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
   
#494. Season 34
Friday, November 10, 2017
INDIAN AMERICANS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A Forbes headline: "One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How" his academy "Is Reinventing Education"
   
#495. 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
   
#496. Season 7
Friday, April 19, 1991
SECOND PLACE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Dallas-based firm that follows Motorola as America's largest producer of semiconductors
   
#497. Season 4
Wednesday, April 27, 1988
POP MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In group names, number of "Stairsteps", "Satins", or men in the "Electrical Band"
   
#498. Season 31
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
BRITISH ENGLISH
Jeopardy Round: $600
Instead of "cell phone", the Brits use this adjective, reflecting the fact that you can take the phone with you
   
#499. Season 16
Thursday, September 9, 1999
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Nintendo's "Ocarina of Time" continues "The Legend of" this
   
#500. Season 28
Monday, February 6, 2012
EPIC FAIL WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A computer message that something's wrong; a classic one in DOS said, "Abort, Retry, Fail?"
   
#501. 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
   
#502. Season 39
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
HOME COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $200
Your laptop's displayport or HDMI port can be hooked up to one of these just like the nice big one you had at the office
   
#503. 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"
   
#504. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
A clock with 2 hands is not called digital but this
   
#505. Season 39
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Deuterium is also known as heavy this element
   
#506. Season 38
Monday, September 27, 2021
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
An engineer named Robert Moog developed this instrument in the 1960s
   
#507. Season 16
Friday, November 26, 1999
THE BIG VALLEY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
You'll find the California cities of San Jose & Santa Clara in the valley nicknamed this
   
#508. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022
OLD TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2022 Apple said they'd no longer make this MP3 player, which is now unbelievably in an old tech category
   
#509. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
On the road, the icon here means this 4-letter staple of modern life is available
   
#510. 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
   
#511. Season 39
Friday, October 28, 2022
THE STRONGEST LINK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the "Skyward Sword" edition of this video game, Link searches for the title character after she's knocked out of the sky
   
#512. Season 26
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
HELLO, DOLL-Y
Jeopardy Round: $600
Mattel has announced 2 new "I Can Be..." dolls of her: news anchor & computer engineer
   
#513. Season 21
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
GUNS N' ROSES
Jeopardy Round: $600
He invented an electrically controlled naval mine as well as the 6-shooter
   
#514. Season 38
Thursday, September 23, 2021
HISTORIC WOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A programming language is named after this daughter of Lord Byron who is called the world's 1st computer programmer
   
#515. Season 38
Thursday, May 19, 2022
THE DRUGS OF HUMANITY
Jeopardy Round: $400
The bald facts--Minoxidil & tricho-prime technology help this product make the best of a hairy situation
   
#516. Season 40
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
The cloud type of this releases a substance such as silver iodide into clouds to increase the chance of rain
   
#517. 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
   
#518. 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
   
#519. Season 21
Thursday, July 21, 2005
SOUND TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1859 Robert Fouls invented a steam-powered one of these to signal imperiled ships
   
#520. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The "tracks" on a printed circuit board are made of this metal
   
#521. Season 38
Friday, February 25, 2022
3-SYLLABLE VERBS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In electronics, it means to increase the current or voltage of something; it can also mean to make anything stronger
   
#522. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
To turn a computer into a multimedia machine; one of these players is added
   
#523. Season 29
Monday, October 8, 2012
CINEMANIA
Jeopardy Round: $800
Not just animated movies but many live-action films today use the technique known as CGI, which stands for this
   
#524. Season 37
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
AN ENCOURAGING VERB
Jeopardy Round: $800
Online, you can find "5 Ways to" do it to your confidence, or " 10 Ways to" do it to your Wi-Fi signal
   
#525. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
4-SYLLABLE WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The word for this type of test you may run on your computer comes from the Greek for "to know"
   
#526. 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
   
#527. 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
   
#528. Season 40
Friday, June 28, 2024
INTERNET CELEBRITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Kyle Craven is the real name of the hapless guy in the meme format "Bad Luck" this first name
   
#529. Season 25
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2007 16-year-old Ayan Tariq bested 31 others to win $100,000 playing this title ex-coach's football video game
   
#530. Season 40
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
DISTRACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Sorry son, missed your soccer tournament playing L4D2, this Deep South-set horror video game
   
#531. Season 24
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
NERDVANA
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Music on the iPhone should only be installed from this company's iTunes
   
#532. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The laser beam on a compact disc player is equivalent to this on a phonograph
   
#533. Season 29
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
WEB MUSIC PARODIES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A YouTube cover of this Lana Del Rey song features Princess Peach & the Mario brothers in a love triangle
   
#534. 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
   
#535. Season 34
Thursday, April 26, 2018
IMAGE
Jeopardy Round: $200
No, that movie battle scene didn't really have 50,000 extras--too expensive! They used CGI, short for this
   
#536. 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
   
#537. Season 41
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
WOULD HAVE BROKEN THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Aurore Dupin's Instagram story confirming rumors she was this celebrated writer of "Indiana"
   
#538. Season 24
Monday, October 8, 2007
WE MAKE THAT!
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A tech company:
Internet Explorer, Vista
   
#539. Season 28
Friday, December 16, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
A new rule in this Yahoo sports fantasy game is the Mulligan, which allows you to drop your worst weekly score
   
#540. Season 29
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
NEW INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A new eye"glass" from this company aims to bring computer images & info directly to your vision to augment reality
   
#541. Season 35
Friday, July 19, 2019
COMPUTER "D"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Folder is a synonym for one of these inside a computer's internal filing system
   
#542. Season 32
Friday, July 1, 2016
"CON"CENTRATION
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A person used to transmit information, or a structure containing electrical wiring
   
#543. Season 24
Friday, March 14, 2008
GEEK SPEAK
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This 4-letter type of new electronic output offers the best quality uncompressed digital video & audio
   
#544. Season 14
Friday, May 22, 1998
GREEK LETTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Computer games & programs undergo this test period to work out bugs before their final retail release
   
#545. Season 20
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
THE U.S. ARMY
Jeopardy Round: $800
This corps evolved from flags & torches in the 1850s to advanced electronic communications
   
#546. Season 19
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
WHAT IS IT?
Jeopardy Round: $400
ENIAC
   
#547. 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"
   
#548. Season 12
Wednesday, February 21, 1996
NOTABLE NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1976 these 2 Steves founded Apple Computer, Inc.
   
#549. Season 36
Monday, April 6, 2020
WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
The last name of this British mathematician is the "T" in CAPTCHA, a computer security test
   
#550. 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
   
#551. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: 800
NPC, short for this, can be a diss for someone you regard as one of the sheeple
   
#552. 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
   
#553. 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
   
#554. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $300
OTOH
   
#555. Season 35
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In the deluxe edition of the 8th "Kart" game named for this plumber, Bowser Jr. & King Boo make appearances
   
#556. 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
   
#557. Season 21
Monday, December 6, 2004
GENERAL SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This new field of science whose name in part means "billionth" constructs superminiature devices
   
#558. Season 36
Monday, December 2, 2019
5 CLICKS
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's Internet content designed to get you to navigate to a website where you may possibly be disappointed
   
#559. Season 10
Monday, May 9, 1994
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $100
Sega released its third version of this video game February 2, 1994, Groundhog Day
   
#560. Season 32
Thursday, March 31, 2016
NATIONAL STATUARY HALL
Jeopardy Round: $200
Representing Florida is inventor John Gorrie, who pioneered this technology vital to life there in the summer
   
#561. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
COMPUTER GENIUSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1967 Richard Greenblatt's program Mac Hack 6 became an hon. member of the U.S. Federation for this game
   
#562. Season 39
Friday, September 23, 2022
GOING HOME
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Internet loves videos of these people coming home & reuniting with their dogs, like Hannah Foraker with Buddy
   
#563. Season 13
Wednesday, June 4, 1997
POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer maker's NASDAQ symbol is AAPL, not MAC
   
#564. 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
   
#565. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Introduced in 1982, this sequel had as big an appetite as her male predecessor
   
#566. Season 2
Tuesday, September 17, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Roving "rodent" attached to some computers
   
#567. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015
I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Articles at this site: "14 Animals that Have Swagger for Days" & "Which Harry Potter Character Is Your Drunk Alter Ego?"
   
#568. Season 27
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
Providing online access, ISP stands for this
   
#569. Season 38
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
BOREDOM
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This 2-word computer task that begins with a Latin plural is often very repetitive & boring
   
#570. 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
   
#571. 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!
   
#572. Season 14
Friday, May 22, 1998
THE CHAIN GANG
Jeopardy Round: $200
This video store chain began renting video games in January 1994; "Wow, What A Difference"
   
#573. Season 4
Friday, December 11, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In turn, they've used the sun, water or sand, weights, coiled springs, pendulums, etc....
   
#574. Season 27
Thursday, September 30, 2010
NEW ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $400
Skype uses VoIP, which stands for this "over Internet protocol"
   
#575. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In "Fairway Fever", you're navigating this sport's "courses"
   
#576. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This food made from the flint variety is always getting stuck between teeth, & Google has no fix
   
#577. 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
   
#578. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
HDTV, which uses more lines to give clearer pictures, stands for this
   
#579. 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
   
#580. 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"
   
#581. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
On damnyouautothis.com: "Do you think Leonardo diva person will win an Oscar...Leonardo fixation...Lombardo DiCaprio"
   
#582. Season 22
Friday, November 11, 2005
WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Created in 2003, this site where 27 million people have home pages passed Google in hits in 2005
   
#583. Season 29
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2012 she surpassed Eminem, her "Love The Way You Lie" duet partner, as the celeb with the most likes on Facebook
   
#584. Season 24
Monday, June 30, 2008
THEONION'S GLOSSARY OF ELECTION TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This company's voting machine "electronically changes your vote into a vote for Mitt Romney"
   
#585. Season 30
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
"MICRO" OR "MACRO"
Jeopardy Round: $200
Digital behemoth founded in 1975
   
#586. Season 37
Friday, February 19, 2021
DR. YES (M.D., NO)
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
One of the 1st women to get a doctorate in this 2-word field, Barbara Jane Liskov won a Turing Award, the field's highest honor
   
#587. Season 18
Friday, March 8, 2002
COLOSSUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Designed to crack German coded messages, the World War II computer Colossus was created by this nation
   
#588. Season 41
Thursday, July 24, 2025
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Motorola employee Martin Cooper is regarded as the "father of" this, having led the team that built the first one in the 1970s
   
#589. 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
   
#590. Season 13
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
MILLIONAIRES
Jeopardy Round: $300
In his early 20s, programmer Marc Andreessen developed this company's internet "Navigator"
   
#591. 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
   
#592. Season 38
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Born into slavery, Andrew Beard invented a steam engine & an automatic coupler, which joined these transports
   
#593. Season 33
Thursday, February 16, 2017
FREE SPEECH
Jeopardy Round: $800
Combine 2 rhyming words to get this term for a freebie computer program
   
#594. Season 32
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
HOW "OD"
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Wildly successful electronics product introduced in October 2001
   
#595. Season 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
In 1910, Georges Claude created a new form of lighting by passing electricity thru this inert gas
   
#596. 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
   
#597. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Leading applications of this type are Lotus 1-2-3 & Excel
   
#598. 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
   
#599. Season 16
Friday, March 31, 2000
SCULPTORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This artist's "Works in Progress" was a 'ballet" with mobiles, stabiles & electronic music
   
#600. 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
   
#601. Season 37
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
AWESOME TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Resembling an NFL mouthguard, Y-Brush promises to give these the high-tech cleaning they deserve in 10 seconds
   
#602. Season 35
Friday, September 21, 2018
ONE GIANT LEAP
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In the '70s Dennis Ritchie created this computer language & your web browser is likely written in it or in it "++"
   
#603. 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
   
#604. Season 24
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
THE NEW YORK TIMESTECH BIZ
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Times exposed memos from this company's execs who had trouble upgrading to its Vista operating system
   
#605. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Number of bulbs in the Magicube that replaced a battery-powered flash on cameras
   
#606. Season 32
Friday, December 25, 2015
STARTS WITH A FRUIT
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A small computer program that you can use to work in another program
   
#607. Season 8
Tuesday, January 21, 1992
THE SEAS
Jeopardy Round: $500
Electrical resistance is used to measure this in sea water
   
#608. Season 30
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
INCREDIBLE MACHINE
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1997 Antares Technology developed this program to correct singers with imperfect pitch
   
#609. 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
   
#610. Season 18
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
MUSEUMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
You can learn the history of the microprocessor & how it's made at this computer chip maker's Santa Clara, Ca. museum
   
#611. Season 16
Friday, June 23, 2000
REMEMBER 1999?
Jeopardy Round: $400
E-mails flew as moves were made to name Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of this global system
   
#612. 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
   
#613. Season 32
Friday, October 23, 2015
POWER TRANSMISSION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Megatron, Firestar or an electrical device that converts voltage
   
#614. Season 31
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
ABBR-"E"-VIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Are you listening to Penguin Prison? Then you are enjoying this, EDM for short
   
#615. Season 18
Monday, October 8, 2001
INTERNET LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $300
Nixon could have used "IANAC" -- "I am not" this
   
#616. Season 37
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
UP RISING
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Up" rises to the top of a truck's cargo so you can move data from your computer to a server
   
#617. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
INTERNET BUSINESSES
Jeopardy Round: $800
This search engine began as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
   
#618. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: 800
VPN for short, it may use the IPsec protocol suite to tunnel encrypted data across the internet's "series of tubes"
   
#619. 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
   
#620. Season 25
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This electronics store wants to be female-friendly & now has Magnolia Stores, which have a living room feel
   
#621. Season 40
Friday, March 15, 2024
ON THE WEB
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Called "China's Google", this search engine became the first Chinese company to be listed on the NASDAQ 100
   
#622. Season 4
Wednesday, June 22, 1988
COLLEGES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This state university in Ames claims to be the birthplace of the electronic digital computer
   
#623. Season 38
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN
Jeopardy Round: $200
Ultrasound won't tell us litter size; for that we use this diagnostic technology that's several decades older
   
#624. 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%
   
#625. Season 31
Friday, December 5, 2014
HI, TECH!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
howstuffworks.com: this "colorful" way of connecting different types of tech "is wireless, inexpensive and automatic"
   
#626. Season 25
Monday, September 29, 2008
TURNING 25
Jeopardy Round: $200
Featuring games like Super Mario Bros., this video game system marks 25 years in 2008
   
#627. Season 38
Friday, October 29, 2021
SCARY EVERYDAY HALLOWEEN STORIES
Jeopardy Round: $400
I adjusted vertical & horizontal router antennas! Hit reset for 30 secs.! Called my ISP! Why?! Why was this rhyming necessity... dead?!
   
#628. Season 27
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The computer language COBOL is an acronym: Common this Oriented Language
   
#629. 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
   
#630. Season 24
Friday, November 16, 2007
IT AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $200
This electronically recorded graphic representation is unique to each individual speaker
   
#631. Season 21
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
AFTER "AFTER"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1930 the Motorola radio became a popular automobile add-on kit as this type of product
   
#632. 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
   
#633. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009
COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
Your I.T. guy knows "I.T." means this
   
#634. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Reportedly, the first call on a commercially sold radio pager was in 1950 to a doctor who was doing this at the time
   
#635. Season 40
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
FEELING JITTERY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
If you're this, you're tense with excitement, you're over-caffeinated or you're a technology news magazine
   
#636. Season 30
Thursday, December 5, 2013
THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Internet domain .cy
   
#637. 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
   
#638. Season 38
Monday, July 4, 2022
NON-ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,016
Change one letter in Google's mobile phone operating system to get this type of non-liquid barometer
   
#639. Season 31
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Add 4 letters to a term for messing with a computer to get this word for streamlining your daily existence
   
#640. Season 29
Thursday, December 13, 2012
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
Musicians can thank John Shore, who invented this in 1711; it vibrated at 423.5 cycles a second
   
#641. Season 27
Thursday, June 23, 2011
"N" THE MIDDLE
Jeopardy Round: $200
You might use this electrical appliance to mix your smoothies
   
#642. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
1994:
Netscape releases this efficient Internet browser
   
#643. Season 3
Tuesday, January 13, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $600
To keep son from falling off his tricycle, veterinarian John Dunlop improved the tires this way
   
#644. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009
COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the abbreviation JPEG, the "P" is this 12-letter adjective
   
#645. 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
   
#646. Season 17
Thursday, November 9, 2000
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $300
The symbol for this unit of electrical resistance is the Greek letter omega
   
#647. Season 39
Monday, June 26, 2023
SCIENTISTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2023 Bob Metcalfe won the Turing Award for inventing this computer networking technology in the 1970s
   
#648. Season 21
Friday, November 12, 2004
MONKEY BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Assume the role of aspiring pirate Guybrush Threepwood in the video game "The Curse of" this place
   
#649. Season 24
Thursday, March 13, 2008
OF A SALESMAN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This 1992 presidential candidate sold IBM computers in Texas before starting his own company, EDS
   
#650. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A mini robot that can shape-shift like T-1000 was created using this element, symbol Ga; it's a metal with a low melting point
   
#651. Season 32
Monday, June 27, 2016
SAINTS & THEIR CITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A patron saint of the Internet, but not of barbers, Spanish theologian St. Isidore of here
   
#652. Season 28
Friday, November 25, 2011
GRHYME TYME
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Unsightly mark on internet "Report"er Matt
   
#653. Season 28
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
INVENTIONS FOR THE HOME
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's not shocking that in 1928, Philip Labre added a third prong, for grounding, to this
   
#654. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,500
Job added a "surprised" GIF when he posted the Lord's info that behemoth "can draw up" this river into its mouth
   
#655. Season 35
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
DOMAIN
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the country-code top-level internet domain for Putin's domain
   
#656. 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
   
#657. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Zone names include com, gov, net & this one found after www.stanford & www.hofstra
   
#658. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Oh, wow, "W.O.W." stands for this bestselling multiplayer game
   
#659. Season 37
Thursday, April 1, 2021
"OUT" AT FIRST
Jeopardy Round: $200
A loss of electrical power
   
#660. Season 40
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1785, 16 years after his patent for an improved steam engine, he developed a fuel-efficient furnace
   
#661. 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
   
#662. Season 16
Thursday, June 22, 2000
LONDON LANDMARKS
Jeopardy Round: $200
5,000 photos of this complex, home of the Crown Jewels, were taken for the video game "Traitors Gate"
   
#663. Season 36
Monday, March 16, 2020
RECENT EVENTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This game involving scavenging was first announced at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards but didn't become available until 2017
   
#664. Season 33
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
FILL IN THE ____
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Named for physicist Georg:
____'s law of electrical resistance
   
#665. Season 3
Friday, February 13, 1987
YELLOW SONGS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Song which predicted a future craze for "electrical banana"
   
#666. Season 25
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
ASIMO, one of these, differentiates multiple voices using 8 microphones & Hark software
   
#667. Season 13
Tuesday, May 13, 1997
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This internet provider's 1996 switch to flat-rate pricing generated more business than it could handle
   
#668. 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
   
#669. Season 29
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
BEASTLY MOVIE TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Technology tracks & controls Shia LaBeouf:
"____ Eye"
   
#670. Season 41
Friday, December 13, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1942 test pilot Helmut Schenck became the first aviator saved by one of these, which used compressed air to blast him to safety
   
#671. Season 20
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
If I open this game by sinking a left-handed hook shot & you miss the same shot, you get an "H"
   
#672. Season 33
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Wasteland is the result of nuclear war; exit one of these title shelters & rebuild in the 4th edition
   
#673. Season 9
Tuesday, May 4, 1993
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $300
The term "boot" came from this word, something the computer would "pull itself up by" when started
   
#674. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This functioned as a message or bulletin board, so Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on it
   
#675. 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
   
#676. Season 22
Friday, October 28, 2005
SCIENCE LAB
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1969 Marcian Hoff Jr. condensed all of a computer's arithmetic functions to this one tiny chip
   
#677. Season 31
Thursday, May 14, 2015
LITERATURE
Jeopardy Round: $600
The first book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy about computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is "The Girl with" this
   
#678. 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"
   
#679. Season 21
Thursday, September 16, 2004
IT'S IN "DE" DICTIONARY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Remove a hidden electronic device
   
#680. 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
   
#681. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
GOOGLE EASTER EGGS
Jeopardy Round: $400
A Google search for what's the answer to life, the universe & everything gives you this number
   
#682. Season 31
Thursday, February 26, 2015
"V"ERBS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Please have your cell phones on this, to shake rapidly
   
#683. Season 38
Friday, February 18, 2022
BRING YOUR "A" GAME
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"Valhalla" is a recent entry in this video game series with a killer title
   
#684. Season 31
Friday, May 1, 2015
TECHNOLOGY & STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $200
The 2014 World Series MVP got a Colorado from this car brand, whose rep noted its "technology & stuff"
   
#685. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $400
"Makeup that makes you look like a rock"; "Panem child labor laws"; "are these berries I found poisonous?"
   
#686. Season 18
Monday, November 12, 2001
FAMOUS NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"Father of the Supercomputer" who once said, "I was one of those nerds before the name was popular"
   
#687. Season JM
Monday, May 15, 2023
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: 400
When talking IP address, IP means this
   
#688. Season 18
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
"E.T."
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A paperless reservation for air travel
   
#689. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Hans Lippershey, who invented this instrument in 1608, called it a "looker"
   
#690. Season 40
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
FUN & GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A 2023 film pulled back the curtain on how this video game took over the world, one falling block at a time
   
#691. Season 32
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
To shape molten metal, or the furnace used to melt metal
   
#692. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Term for the small picture that represents an object on a display screen
   
#693. Season 39
Thursday, July 27, 2023
THE BAR MITZVAH BOY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This Facebook founder had a "Star Wars" theme at Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown, New York
   
#694. Season 8
Wednesday, February 5, 1992
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Piece of computer hardware on which you'd be likely to find a daisy wheel
   
#695. Season 40
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,800
This biologist first gained acclaim for writing in 1937 with her article, "Undersea" in the Atlantic Monthly
   
#696. Season 41
Monday, February 24, 2025
LOOK MA, NO WHEELS!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Maglev is short for this technology in which wheelless trains glide over their tracks
   
#697. 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
   
#698. Season 16
Monday, July 10, 2000
CALVIN-ISM
Jeopardy Round: $100
He attended the High School of Art & Design & graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1962
   
#699. Season 14
Thursday, March 12, 1998
1980s LIT
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Type of machine referred to in the title of Tracy Kidder's nonfiction work "The Soul of a New Machine"
   
#700. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Far less powerful than today's PC, this 1950s machine was the U.S.A.'s first commercial computer
   
#701. Season 37
Monday, September 21, 2020
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Dogs take notice: a new A.I. with neuromorphic computing may recognize these emitted by narcotics & explosives
   
#702. Season 41
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY
Jeopardy Round: $600
"People also ask" on Google, "What is the correct pronunciation?" of this family of bears & "always religious?"
   
#703. Season 31
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
This verb for what a computer does when it networks with another is used in office jargon to mean "meet & talk"
   
#704. Season 40
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
CYBERTALK
Jeopardy Round: $800
It's the 2-word term for the physical separation of a computer system from others, & a good way to protect against hacking
   
#705. 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
   
#706. Season 28
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
5-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $600
To surpass, or a Microsoft spreadsheet program
   
#707. Season 30
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
I SAW IT ON BUZZFEED
Jeopardy Round: $400
A monkey in a coat became an Internet star after it was left at this Swedish furnishings store
   
#708. Season 16
Tuesday, May 23, 2000
CLASSIC AD LINES
Jeopardy Round: $400
"The Power To Be Your Best"
   
#709. Season 24
Thursday, February 21, 2008
RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Desires an assortment of letter types & characters for the computer
   
#710. Season 39
Monday, April 10, 2023
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Someone who writes computer programs
   
#711. 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
   
#712. Season 27
Monday, October 4, 2010
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
1969: He develops the first supercomputer, the CDC 7600
   
#713. Season 30
Thursday, October 17, 2013
TRADEMARKS
Final Jeopardy
Facebook & TiVo have both claimed trademarks for an icon representing this gesture
   
#714. Season 21
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
VOCABULARY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Differing by a letter, the 2 words meaning an electrically charged atom & a very long time
   
#715. Season 38
Friday, December 24, 2021
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
America welcomed him as a citizen in 1891, the year he invented a coil that's still used in electronics today
   
#716. 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
   
#717. Season 37
Friday, October 16, 2020
LV
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Its Internet country code is .lv
   
#718. Season 31
Monday, March 2, 2015
MANY "DO"
Jeopardy Round: $400
Unavoidable ill fortune, or a bestselling 1990s video game
   
#719. Season 29
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
The name of this colorful wireless headset technology refers to a tech trade association founded in 1998
   
#720. 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
   
#721. 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
   
#722. 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
   
#723. Season 38
Monday, May 2, 2022
FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires" became this movie about the startup of Facebook
   
#724. Season 37
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
CLOTHES MINDED
Jeopardy Round: $200
To a Brit a mackintosh isn't an apple or a computer, it's this article of clothing
   
#725. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Chess-playing computers & expert systems are examples of this branch of computer science, AI for short
   
#726. 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
   
#727. 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
   
#728. Season 36
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Set not in Hyrule but rather on the Isle of Koholint, "Link's Awakening" is a 2019 Nintendo release in this game series
   
#729. 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
   
#730. Season 37
Thursday, June 17, 2021
POTPOURRI
Jeopardy Round: $600
The country of Tuvalu gets nearly 10% of its gross national income licensing this Internet domain extension
   
#731. Season 28
Monday, December 12, 2011
RAND CORPORATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Packet switching, the basic idea of the Internet, came from '60s research on communications in case of this awful event
   
#732. Season 33
Thursday, April 20, 2017
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The Cardiff Giant was a PC produced on this '80s-set AMC show whose title refers to a destruct command
   
#733. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $300
"MK Trilogy" packages all 3 versions of this game on one cartridge
   
#734. Season 25
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
WHAT A KNOCKOUT!
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Hail "The Queen", indeed! In 2008 this 63-year-old actress was an Internet sensation with bikini pics of her in Italy
   
#735. Season 31
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
SPANISH CLASS
Jeopardy Round: $800
I've got una computadora, a computer, un raton, a mouse & this, un teclado
   
#736. 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
   
#737. 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
   
#738. Season 25
Thursday, March 12, 2009
TECHNO LUST
Jeopardy Round: $400
This search site's browser called Chrome has an incognito mode for anonymous surfing
   
#739. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $400
A spooler, a program that puts jobs in a queue to be done one at a time, is usually associated with this type of job
   
#740. Season 18
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
HELLO, GOOD BUY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Stock in this "systems" company that's "Empowering the Internet Generation" doubled in value in 1998 & in 1999
   
#741. Season 37
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
AWESOME TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
This "charismatic" toilet paper brand recently rolled out its bear-faced RollBot that will deliver its product to you in the loo
   
#742. Season 39
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
SQUIRRELS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1994 trading on this first electronic stock exchange ceased for 34 minutes after a squirrel chewed through a power line
   
#743. Season 18
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
5-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's the basic unit that makes up a computer image, if you get my point!
   
#744. Season 19
Monday, September 30, 2002
I INVENTED THAT
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the '70s, my video game "Tong", in which you pick up olives & drop them into drinks, was eclipsed by his "Pong"
   
#745. Season 38
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
EDUCATORS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Last name of Carl, the first computer science graduate at Michigan & a teacher & mentor at Michigan State; he had a famous son, Larry
   
#746. Season 31
Monday, May 4, 2015
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $200
E2EG:
This kind of "grin"
   
#747. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia says this tool has largely replaced the axe in forestry
   
#748. Season 19
Friday, January 17, 2003
TEXAS TECH
Jeopardy Round: $600
Founded by Ross Perot in 1962, Electronic Data Systems got its first computer in 1965, this company's 1401
   
#749. Season 8
Thursday, October 17, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
The fluid flywheel is a torque converting device in this part of a truck
   
#750. Season 41
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
PIGEON FACTS & LORE
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1850 Paul Julius Reuter started a news service using carrier pigeons where there was a 76-mile gap of this technology
   
#751. 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
   
#752. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015
COMPUTER ACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In Windows hitting Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V performs these 2 artsy & crafty actions
   
#753. 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
   
#754. 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
   
#755. Season 25
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
WHAT A CARD!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Hollerith cards, also called punch cards, helped operate these, such as the ENIAC, in the mid-20th century
   
#756. 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
   
#757. Season 26
Monday, November 9, 2009
"B.C."
Jeopardy Round: $200
In computer science, ones & zeroes are key to this
   
#758. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022
OLD TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $7,000
On Nov. 18, 1963 AT&T cut in half the time to make a local call, introducing push button phones, officially this alliterative system
   
#759. Season 20
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1919 this rocket pioneer published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"
   
#760. Season 34
Monday, October 9, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Try to settle the world as one of dozens of cultures in the 6th version of this Sid Meier game
   
#761. Season 27
Friday, January 28, 2011
WORDS REJECTED BY THEOED
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Wurfing" is the act of cruising the Internet while here
   
#762. Season 24
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
THE NEW YORK TIMESTECH BIZ
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,300
The Times cites an estimate that in 2007, its 3rd year, this site used as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000
   
#763. Season 37
Monday, February 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
(Reshma Saujani presents the clue.) Tech pioneer Adele Goldberg helped develop a programming language used to create the first GUI, short for this, featuring icons & menus
   
#764. 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
   
#765. Season 13
Friday, May 2, 1997
NONFICTION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Between his novels "Congo" & "Sphere", he published "Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers"
   
#766. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
GOOGLE EASTER EGGS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Search for this Klondike ice cream treat shaped like another food & a banner will display "1983-2022"; may it rest in peace
   
#767. Season 35
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
CYBER MONDAY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
You can "cast" your phone's screen to your TV with this Google product
   
#768. Season 33
Thursday, July 27, 2017
TRY COLOR
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The iPhone 7 comes in a metallic pink with this 2-word name, also popular for jewelry
   
#769. 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
   
#770. Season 4
Friday, October 9, 1987
TRADE & FINANCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Accusing the Japanese of dumping these, Pres. Reagan slapped a tariff on some TVs & tools
   
#771. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the 1960s Douglas Engelbart invented this device that moves a pointer on the display screen
   
#772. 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
   
#773. 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
   
#774. Season 21
Thursday, June 9, 2005
SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The last 2 Salyut stations had a port on each end for this spacecraft-linking activity
   
#775. Season 3
Friday, March 27, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Overcoming 1974 shortage of yams used in making these pills, Japan found way to synthesize the hormones
   
#776. 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
   
#777. Season 26
Thursday, February 4, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A popular animation about a unicorn with this name follows him to Candy Mountain, where he loses a kidney
   
#778. Season 18
Tuesday, January 29, 2002
REFERENCE WORKS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Microsoft's Encarta has a feature called this, also the name of Microsoft's Internet browser
   
#779. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer was introduced in 1984 & came with a MacWrite text program & a MacPaint program for graphics
   
#780. Season 40
Friday, June 28, 2024
INTERNET CELEBRITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Before "SNL" this comedy troupe featuring Andy Samberg made the web series "The 'Bu", a parody of "The O.C."
   
#781. Season 27
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1982 Time magazine named this machine its "man of the year"
   
#782. Season 36
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
WHAT TYPE OF MACHINE AM I?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Hamilton Beach 8-cup with adjustable slicing
   
#783. Season 20
Monday, January 5, 2004
DO I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE?
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1984, with a thousand bucks & a dream, he founded the computer company named for himself
   
#784. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
This company whose name is synonymous with copying introduced the first hand-held mouse in 1973
   
#785. Season 40
Thursday, May 23, 2024
NAME, THE EXPRESSION
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
A nickname for Friedrich is in this expression used of broken electronics
   
#786. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
VIDEO GAME TIMELINE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
2010:
This Xbox motion-sensing system allows players to play games without a controller
   
#787. 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
   
#788. Season 26
Monday, November 23, 2009
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR
Jeopardy Round: $800
The incarnation of a god in Hindu myth, or an Internet graphical image representing a person
   
#789. 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
   
#790. Season 41
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
THE ELEMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
27.7% of the Earth's crust is made up of this element that's used in computer chips
   
#791. Season 27
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Dante's Inferno", which is loosely based on this 14th century poem, involves a hellish journey to find Beatrice
   
#792. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "app" in "killer app" stands for this
   
#793. Season 38
Thursday, April 7, 2022
COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,200
Old monitors needed a screensaver, which moved so it wouldn't burn in; today you can use this static image, also a home decorating item
   
#794. Season 18
Thursday, December 6, 2001
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
Engineers Jerry Yang & David Filo chose this name for their company in 1994; it's what each considered himself
   
#795. 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
   
#796. Season 34
Friday, July 13, 2018
NAME DESIRED
Jeopardy Round: $800
After letting the internet vote on the name of 2 moons circling Pluto, SETI chose Kerberos & this river
   
#797. Season 41
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The name of this 2024 song by Post Malone & Taylor Swift sounds just like a popular video game
   
#798. 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
   
#799. Season 5
Monday, April 3, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Meat packer Gustavus Swift hired an engineer to design this type of railroad car
   
#800. Season 23
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
BUSINESS PEOPLE
Jeopardy Round: $800
He started his company in 1984, building & selling computers out of his dorm at the University of Texas
   
#801. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Machine for which Glenn Curtiss produced the aileron
   
#802. Season 36
Monday, January 20, 2020
COME TO YOUR CENSUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Not exactly a laptop with 5,000 vacuum tubes & weighing 16,000 pounds, this computer was utilized for the 1950 census
   
#803. 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
   
#804. Season 20
Friday, March 5, 2004
SEW WHAT?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
If your pincushion is this, keep it away from your computerized sewing machine; it could erase the memory
   
#805. Season 27
Monday, December 27, 2010
"POWER" LIFTING
Jeopardy Round: $600
Popular business presentation program from Microsoft
   
#806. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
GOOGLE EASTER EGGS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Google this HBO show with Pedro Pascal & keep clicking the mushroom icon for your screen to be enveloped by some humongous fungus
   
#807. 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
   
#808. Season 38
Monday, April 18, 2022
GEOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This technology, GPR, lets geologists look beneath the surface at things like bedrock, soil layers & hidden water
   
#809. Season 19
Friday, May 2, 2003
TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,500
Time's Man of the Year for 1982 wasn't a man at all but this electronic device
   
#810. Season 38
Friday, November 5, 2021
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
How punk--considered the first computer, Charles Babbage's 19th century Analytical Engine was designed to be powered by this
   
#811. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $600
"Vegas flight for bachelorette but cheap"; "stomach hurts trying on dresses, why?"; "'Hold On' by Wilson Phillips lyrics"
   
#812. Season 23
Thursday, May 10, 2007
POP CULTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This quartet became Internet darlings with the treadmill choreography of its video "Here It Goes Again"
   
#813. 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
   
#814. Season 25
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES
Jeopardy Round: $600
The HS in HSN, it's the browsing & buying of goods from cable TV or the Internet
   
#815. 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
   
#816. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
In 1654 a famous demonstration had 2 horses trying to pull apart halves of a sphere with this inside it
   
#817. 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
   
#818. 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
   
#819. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024
COMPUTER TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
With bowling, boxing & more, in 2006 this home console from Nintendo pioneered the use of motion sensors
   
#820. Season 12
Thursday, October 12, 1995
AROUND THE HOUSE
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
For cooking chicken, you might use one of these small ovens with an electrically-turned spit
   
#821. Season 23
Friday, October 20, 2006
TECH TONIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
NASA technology used to detect a star's birth is now used in the ear type of this, which measures your infrared energy
   
#822. Season 30
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
"B" GOOD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This adjective means having anatomical structures that are enhanced by electronic components
   
#823. 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"
   
#824. Season 39
Monday, February 27, 2023
BEFORE & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A hidden feature in a video game becomes evidence of public embarrassment
   
#825. Season 32
Monday, June 6, 2016
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
What a feeling! This disco & electronic dance music pioneer won for "Flashdance" in 1983
   
#826. 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
   
#827. Season 18
Thursday, February 28, 2002
COMPUTER SPEAK
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Not a king or ace, but a circuit board that adds capabilities like sound
   
#828. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
QTest, Fact & ept are home test kits to test for this condition
   
#829. Season 27
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,800
Not surprisingly, the first architecture dept. at a college was established at this Boston-area school in 1865
   
#830. Season 15
Tuesday, October 13, 1998
1890s TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Whitcomb Judson's "clasp locker" of 1893 was this fastener's forerunner
   
#831. Season 16
Monday, March 6, 2000
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Microsoft's success has funded the $17 billion foundation named for these 2 people
   
#832. Season 33
Friday, March 10, 2017
& A NEW CAR!
Jeopardy Round: $600
4G Wi-Fi is available in the Impala from this brand
   
#833. Season 28
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
GOOGLE ME THIS!
Jeopardy Round: $600
...automaker & you'll find information on its models like the Touareg & the GTI
   
#834. Season 11
Friday, May 5, 1995
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $500
On Dec. 20, 1994 this company offered to replace all of its Pentium chips free of charge
   
#835. Season 37
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
AMERICAN HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The first one of these was made in 1973 from a Motorola executive to his competitor at AT&T
   
#836. 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
   
#837. Season 35
Thursday, September 13, 2018
PRINCIPLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
According to Arthur C. Clarke, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from" this
   
#838. 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
   
#839. 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
   
#840. Season 30
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
TECH TALK
Jeopardy Round: $400
32 bits long, an ESN is an "electronic" this, used to identify devices
   
#841. Season 23
Monday, November 6, 2006
P TIMES 3
Jeopardy Round: $800
A fun kind of this is a children's book with 3-D cutout artwork; a not-so-fun kind happens while Internet surfing
   
#842. 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
   
#843. Season 14
Thursday, March 5, 1998
ELECTRONICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The scanners used at checkout counters are equipped with these light-emitting devices
   
#844. Season 13
Tuesday, April 22, 1997
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
This New England school is known as M.I.T. for short
   
#845. Season 26
Thursday, July 8, 2010
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In a recent release from Sega, this title character & his pal Sonic visit the 2010 Winter Olympics
   
#846. Season 27
Thursday, September 30, 2010
NEW ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $200
In computers "DOS" can either stand for disk operating system or this type of attack that keeps users from a site
   
#847. Season 35
Monday, January 28, 2019
GEOGRAPH"E"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This seaport about 25 miles north of Seattle is home to aircraft & technology industries, like Boeing
   
#848. 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
   
#849. Season 7
Wednesday, November 14, 1990
POISONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
It's used in making transistorized circuits or deadly dinner wine
   
#850. Season GOATTOURNAMENT
Thursday, January 9, 2020
CYBERSECURITY
Jeopardy Round: 200
This type of hacker referred to by a colorful bit of headwear helpfully tests computer systems for vulnerability
   
#851. 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
   
#852. Season 30
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
STRATEGY GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Aztecs, Romans & Ottomans are all part of the fifth iteration of this Sid Meier computer game
   
#853. Season 32
Monday, December 21, 2015
REMEMBER THE '80s?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This video game was based on a Japanese folk hero known for his voracious appetite
   
#854. Season 19
Thursday, December 5, 2002
Q WITHOUT U
Jeopardy Round: $600
Many companies that qualify for the NYSE choose to sell their stock on this electronic service instead
   
#855. Season 25
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
SELF-CONTRADICTORY WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's to put to death legally, or to start, as in a computer program
   
#856. 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
   
#857. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This visual effect with a portmanteau name was used in a Kendrick Lamar music video where K. Dot's face morphs into Kobe Bryant's
   
#858. Season 25
Monday, November 10, 2008
BESTSELLERS: 2006
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The No. 1 video game was this former coach's "NFL '07"
   
#859. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's the term for the place in virtual reality where the virtual objects appear
   
#860. Season 22
Friday, December 9, 2005
"EN" THE BEGINNING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Google, Looksmart & Ask Jeeves are search ones
   
#861. Season 19
Monday, October 14, 2002
RHYME TIME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Someone who hunts down people who break into computer networks
   
#862. Season 40
Monday, January 15, 2024
WORLD HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power
   
#863. Season 8
Tuesday, March 24, 1992
COMPUTERESE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's one instruction that stands for a series of commonly used keystrokes
   
#864. Season 8
Wednesday, February 5, 1992
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
These rigid disks have much greater storage capacity than floppy disks
   
#865. Season 17
Thursday, February 1, 2001
THE COMPUTER AGE
Jeopardy Round: $300
Coherent & Xenix are 2 of these, part of the abbreviation in the better-known MS-DOS
   
#866. Season 27
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
SURFIN' USB
Jeopardy Round: $600
In computer speak, "USB" stands for "universal serial" this--but don't try waiting for one at a stop
   
#867. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $200
5-letter term for an "infectious" program designed to harm your computer
   
#868. Season 23
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
THAT'S SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1971 this company brought out the 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor
   
#869. 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
   
#870. Season 17
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
CHEMISTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $400
Sodium & this yellow-green gas are produced when salt is melted down & an electrical current is run through it
   
#871. Season 26
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Did Chris Hughes write on Mark Zuckerberg's wall & send a friend request when they started this website?
   
#872. Season 21
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
YOU'VE GOT COMPANY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This Donkey Kong company introduced its home video game console in Japan in 1983
   
#873. Season 16
Monday, April 24, 2000
PLANETARY NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the '90s video game competitors ran rings around this Sega console
   
#874. Season 6
Friday, December 8, 1989
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
GOES, INSAT & METEOSAT are satellites used for this purpose
   
#875. Season 27
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
SPANISH TO ENGLISH
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In computer lingo: the 4-letter equivalent of correo basura
   
#876. Season 30
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
MASCOTS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Originally named Jumpman, this Nintendo mascot got a new name for Donkey Kong Jr.
   
#877. Season 28
Monday, April 23, 2012
COMPLETE THE COMPANY NAME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Ingersoll ____,
an industrial technology company
   
#878. 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?
   
#879. Season 22
Thursday, November 10, 2005
GEEK LOVE
Jeopardy Round: $600
This director's geek cred was sealed when he sold his film co.'s computer division & it later became Pixar
   
#880. 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
   
#881. Season 25
Friday, February 6, 2009
HIDING ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Typing "PBJ" in the JetBlue search box brought up Brian the dog dancing in a banana suit from this FOX show
   
#882. 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
   
#883. 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
   
#884. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In the U.S. most of these devices have 525 lines per image; soon they may have over 1,000
   
#885. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Replacing germanium with this in transistors got a California "Valley" named after it
   
#886. Season 16
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This psychotic computer is repaired in Arthur C. Clarke's "2010: Odyssey Two"
   
#887. Season 16
Monday, March 6, 2000
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1991 this giant corporation ended its 10-year collaboration with Microsoft to pursue the OS/2 operating system
   
#888. Season 37
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
REQUESTS
Jeopardy Round: $400
On Facebook if you delete this request, the sender can't send you another one for a year
   
#889. Season JM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: 1600
Widely known as the "Father of the Supercomputer", he built some of the most powerful & expensive computers of the last century
   
#890. 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
   
#891. Season 34
Thursday, April 12, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This European-sounding game that fans call "G.T." bills itself as "the real driving simulator"
   
#892. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra is a device which plays music in this alphanumeric format
   
#893. Season 16
Monday, June 12, 2000
5-LETTER WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $100
On the internet www.dol.gov gets you the Department of this
   
#894. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $600
You know what they say -- it isn't..., it's the size of the fight in the dog
   
#895. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE IS DOING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2013 Time put Google on the cover for the company's new effort to extend this... indefinitely?
   
#896. 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
   
#897. 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
   
#898. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Nations get their own domain extensions; .dk is the one for this country
   
#899. Season JM
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: 1600
Mexico's M.I.T., actually with initials T.d.M., is this Nuevo Leon state capital's institute of technology
   
#900. Season 38
Friday, May 27, 2022
YOUR MIND
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the brain, electrical impulses are transmitted between neurons through connections called these
   
#901. 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
   
#902. Season 37
Friday, November 20, 2020
RAINBOW COALITION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This Thom Yorke band was innovative in 2007, releasing its album "In Rainbows" via Internet download
   
#903. Season 13
Monday, September 30, 1996
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Florida Institute of Technology is sometimes called "Countdown College" from its proximity to this site
   
#904. Season 35
Thursday, July 4, 2019
APPLE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Ironically, the name of this iPhone video chat app means a chance to be in the same room
   
#905. Season 33
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
COMPOUND WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This type of publishing is done using a personal computer with graphics capabilities
   
#906. Season 14
Tuesday, July 7, 1998
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Jeopardy Round: $300
He told the U.S. Senate, "At Microsoft we are spending 2.6 billion in R&D this year"
   
#907. Season 34
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
IT'S A WIRED WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Japan's K computer was the first to reach 10 of these units of processing speeds, one of which equals 1,000 teraflops
   
#908. Season 32
Thursday, May 12, 2016
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,700
In computerese, a nybble is defined as a half of one of these
   
#909. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Computers were given part of the blame for this October 19, 1987 event
   
#910. Season 36
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
PHENOMENA
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This "super" phenomenon, a lack of electrical resistance, occurs in certain materials below about -425 degrees F.
   
#911. Season 14
Tuesday, May 12, 1998
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Ace remixers Tom Rowlands & Ed Simons were the Dust Brothers before becoming these "Brothers"
   
#912. 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
   
#913. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $100
Mattel Media has created a program that lets the user design fashions for this doll
   
#914. Season 5
Monday, January 16, 1989
MOVIE TRIVIA
Jeopardy Round: $200
The WSJ compared the carrot-shredding "Robot-Coupe" food processor to this human-shredding hero
   
#915. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
WILLIAM HURT FILMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Hurt could have used a cell phone in this 1985 film set in a South American prison
   
#916. Season 16
Tuesday, June 13, 2000
THE RATING GAME
Jeopardy Round: $500
Since 1991 the Billboard charts have used this computerized system to track sales
   
#917. Season 34
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
THAT'S PROPRIETARY, MA'AM
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This word is trademarked both for a "desk-top... card file" & for electronic use
   
#918. Season 33
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
TANGLED UP IN BLUE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Blu-Ray video technology uses a blue one of these beams instead of the red one used by DVD
   
#919. Season 36
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
COMPUTER KEYBOARDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's not a veggie, it's the mark above the 6 to show where something is to be inserted
   
#920. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $200
PLS
   
#921. 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
   
#922. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
While the floppy ones can be removed from the drive, hard ones usually can't
   
#923. Season 25
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
LET'S GET I.T. ON
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This programming language isn't a little worse than "B minus"; it's a 1980s improvement of a language called "Combined"
   
#924. Season 20
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
TECHIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
RHD, Robert H. Dennard, came up with RAM, this, used in computers since the '70s
   
#925. Season 26
Monday, December 28, 2009
IBM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Though it's gone beyond the corporate world, IBM stands for this
   
#926. Season 33
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Available on PS4, "Neverwinter" is a fantasy RPG that takes place within the lore of this tabletop game
   
#927. Season 37
Monday, January 18, 2021
BUSINESS PAIRS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
In the 1930s these 2 partners set up shop in a garage that's now known as "The Birthplace of Silicon Valley"
   
#928. 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
   
#929. Season 38
Friday, June 24, 2022
SPIES LIKE THEM
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1951 electrical engineer Morton Sobell was tried along with this pair in the nation's first atom spy trial
   
#930. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
These pre-Edison "lamps" worked by forcing current across the gap between conductors
   
#931. Season 7
Wednesday, May 15, 1991
FAMOUS FIRSTS
Jeopardy Round: $400
ENIAC, which weighed over 30 tons, was the first electronic one of these
   
#932. Season 19
Friday, November 15, 2002
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In battles in the game based on this Oscar-winning film, you probably have to use the "Far East" button on your control
   
#933. Season 20
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
ACRONYMBLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
To a computer user:
DOS
   
#934. 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
   
#935. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
If we're talking NiCads, we're talking about these in laptops
   
#936. Season 36
Friday, November 29, 2019
WOMEN OF SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace created one of these for a machine devised by Charles Babbage
   
#937. 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
   
#938. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Christiaan Huygens got into the swing of things in 1656 by adding this to the clock
   
#939. Season 30
Thursday, February 13, 2014
VIDEO GAME VAULT
Jeopardy Round: $600
Notch, the creator of this megahit block-shaping game, made the surface area of its world larger than the earth's
   
#940. Season 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1986
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Of the 1940s, '50s, or '60s, decade in which jet passenger service was inaugurated
   
#941. 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
   
#942. Season 34
Friday, February 9, 2018
THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAMER
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This partner of Steve Jobs "was awarded the National Medal of Technology... in 1985"
   
#943. 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
   
#944. Season 38
Monday, September 13, 2021
TASTY BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Developer Jef Raskin loved this type of apple so much he named an Apple computer after one
   
#945. Season 17
Monday, October 30, 2000
FILE UNDER "M"
Jeopardy Round: $200
A type of lizard, or a desktop computer necessity
   
#946. Season 41
Thursday, June 19, 2025
AT THE KEYBOARD
Jeopardy Round: $800
When gaming on a standard computer keyboard, these 4 letter keys are commonly used for directional character movement
   
#947. Season 35
Thursday, May 23, 2019
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The last letter of the Greek alphabet represents this unit of electrical resistance
   
#948. Season 17
Thursday, October 5, 2000
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Simon & Schuster sent Red (plain) & Yellow (peanut), stars of this candy line, on a search for "The Lost Formulas"
   
#949. Season 4
Thursday, November 19, 1987
ODD ALPHABETS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In ASCII, this kind of computer code, A is 01000001
   
#950. Season 26
Thursday, December 31, 2009
PILLOW TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Meaning "conjugal faithfulness", this word also describes the quality of electronic sound reproduction
   
#951. Season 30
Friday, August 1, 2014
THE STORY OF HIS LIFE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An electrical genius from Europe: "My Inventions"
   
#952. Season 41
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
OLD-FASHIONED
Jeopardy Round: $400
Flip phones are making a comeback after 2 decades of being outmoded & this brand has even revived its Razr model
   
#953. Season 41
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
JUST MOVED IN?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
For Internet access, you can set up this device combining a modem & a router, once the name of a computer retailer from cow country
   
#954. Season 19
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
NOVEMBER 2001
Jeopardy Round: $200
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. said they did this with a cow, then 2 days later said they did it with a human embryo
   
#955. Season 25
Friday, February 6, 2009
HIDING ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Typing in 600673.com brings up this search engine in online leet speak
   
#956. Season 37
Friday, February 26, 2021
"ORIAL"
Jeopardy Round: $400
The part of a computer program that walks you through the instructions
   
#957. Season 18
Monday, December 31, 2001
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
A commercial that ran just once for this computer company helped make Chiat/Day Advertising Age's Agency of the Decade
   
#958. Season 20
Friday, November 21, 2003
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
This saint presides over the internal search engine at americancatholic.org
   
#959. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
AM is short for amplitude modulation & amp is short for this unit of electricity
   
#960. Season 24
Friday, November 16, 2007
ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $200
The 21st century has seen this communist island nation turn from sugar to tourism & biotechnology
   
#961. Season 21
Friday, May 13, 2005
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
He was born in New York, & his howling early success was helped by his state-of-the-art Internet campaign
   
#962. Season 36
Thursday, September 26, 2019
NEWER TO THE LANGUAGE
Jeopardy Round: $200
On an iPhone this "mode" disables Wi-Fi features
   
#963. 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
   
#964. 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
   
#965. Season 21
Thursday, November 18, 2004
ROCKS & STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Soapstone, used as an electrical insulator, is a greenish-gray variety of this soft mineral
   
#966. Season 33
Monday, March 6, 2017
THE ILLUMI-NAUGHTY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The Illuminati act all shadowy in the 2016 edition of this video game that doesn't end in "machina"
   
#967. Season 21
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $600
This 6-letter .com claims to find "the right answer for... every one" of the 200 million queries its users have daily
   
#968. Season 18
Friday, May 31, 2002
WORD ORIGINS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Once a carnival performer who bit the heads off chickens, today it often refers to a computer nerd
   
#969. Season 31
Thursday, January 22, 2015
IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
These 2 units measure electrical current & electrical resistance
   
#970. Season 34
Monday, October 16, 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1865 the pantelegraph was the first commercial service for this document-sending technology
   
#971. 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
   
#972. Season 16
Monday, December 13, 1999
U.S. HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In the mid-1940s about 10,000 Americans owned these electronic devices; by 1957 about 40 million were in use
   
#973. Season 28
Friday, November 11, 2011
BUSINESS
Final Jeopardy
A 2005 sale of 14,159,265 shares prompted the headline "Google offers shares, seeks global piece of" this
   
#974. Season 13
Tuesday, October 29, 1996
BRAND NAMES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Carl Sontheimer revamped a French food processor & introduced it under this name in 1973
   
#975. Season 33
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
SEASONAL SONGS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Fall Out Boy played on the name of a video game:
"Grand Theft _____"
   
#976. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Eminem knows that if someone calls you a "stan" it's not a compliment, it means you're one of these
   
#977. Season 28
Friday, July 13, 2012
IT'S THE TRUTH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Printed by the GPO & also available on the Internet, it's the daily record of House & Senate activities
   
#978. 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
   
#979. Season 41
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
MODERN ABBREVIATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Disrupting a computer site by overwhelming it with a flood of fake traffic is a DDOS, one of these attacks
   
#980. 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
   
#981. Season 14
Friday, September 5, 1997
BORN IN THE '60s
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned
   
#982. Season 33
Monday, April 24, 2017
INVENTIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1959 Squibb introduced the first one of these with an electrical cord into the U.S. using the brand name Broxodent
   
#983. Season 29
Thursday, July 18, 2013
BABY REGISTRY ITEMS
Jeopardy Round: $400
You can see baby & even communicate with baby from somewhere else in the house with Motorola's MBP line of these
   
#984. Season 37
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
HARD-HITTING WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This word paired with "cutting" in a computer term can also mean a heavy beating
   
#985. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Laser beams are "directed" by these optical devices
   
#986. Season 28
Thursday, April 12, 2012
A STATE OF...
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This, a phrase meaning the latest & most sophisticated stage of a technology
   
#987. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Many of these devices support a feature called redial
   
#988. Season 32
Thursday, December 3, 2015
THEY OWN IT
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Instagram
   
#989. Season 20
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
MACHINERY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2002 China unveiled its first homegrown "super" one of these, with 272 gigabytes of RAM
   
#990. Season 27
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
STUFF FOR YOUR COMPUTER?
Jeopardy Round: $200
Ace & True Value both serve as this type of store
   
#991. Season 23
Friday, October 13, 2006
ASK "Y"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
As head of this Internet company, Terry Semel has made more than $230 million in only 4 years
   
#992. Season 27
Thursday, September 16, 2010
SILENCE
Jeopardy Round: $800
No cell phone use is permitted on "quiet cars", begun in 2000 on this service's Philly-Washington run
   
#993. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The tip of your dentist's high-speed drill is made of tungsten carbide & may contain this gem
   
#994. Season 38
Monday, March 7, 2022
3-LETTER INITIALISMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Garmin is a leader in this technology that keeps you on track, wherever you go
   
#995. Season 39
Thursday, May 4, 2023
ABBRE-V-ATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
.vu is the Internet country code for this nation of the southwestern Pacific formerly known as the New Hebrides
   
#996. 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
   
#997. 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
   
#998. 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
   
#999. Season 40
Monday, January 1, 2024
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $800
"How to get rid of fairy tale creatures in swamp", "can you cook waffles if you have hooves?", "donkey-dragon power couples"
   
#1000. Season 5
Tuesday, January 17, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
In the '60s most U.S. beverage cans were made of steel; now most are made of this
   
 
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