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#1. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sometimes your computer is fine, but this, your LAN, is down
   
#2. Season 33
Thursday, November 3, 2016
SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2013 Google commemorated his 85th birthday with a doodle featuring characters from "Where the Wild Things Are"
   
#3. Season 29
Thursday, December 6, 2012
1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Norman Haworth, who synthesized this vitamin aka ascorbic acid, won a 1937 Nobel Prize
   
#4. Season 41
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
NEW TO THEOED
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's a 2-word term for a hinged computer or phone display that can be folded in for storage or out for use
   
#5. Season 18
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Pictures can be e-mailed in this format named for the "group" that developed it
   
#6. 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
   
#7. Season 14
Thursday, March 5, 1998
ELECTRONICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Electronic circuit signals may be classified as analog or this
   
#8. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME
Jeopardy Round: $400
Befriend Red, collect a Rita Hayworth poster, make your getaway via a sewer level & win by finding hope in the end
   
#9. Season 30
Friday, November 29, 2013
SLOGANEERING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This computer company is working to build "a smarter planet"
   
#10. Season 28
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
OUR NEW COMPUTER OVERLORDS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1998 Deep Crack, designed for this science from the Greek for "hidden writing", broke the standard U.S. data cipher
   
#11. 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
   
#12. Season 34
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
5, 5
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In a recording studio, it's an electronic cue to help the musicians keep time
   
#13. Season 28
Thursday, April 26, 2012
"PACE" YOURSELF
Jeopardy Round: $200
Where an Apple computer keyboard has "Delete", a P.C. has this
   
#14. Season 33
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Glitches in this "NFL 17" had a kick returner catching the ball at his own 2, stepping back into his own end zone & scoring a TD
   
#15. Season 28
Monday, October 3, 2011
FOR YOUR REFERENCE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An Internet publisher of great works is named for this Melville scrivener & of course has his tale online
   
#16. Season 35
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
TECHNOLOGY: OLD & NEW
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
1941 Chryslers had "vacamatic transmission"; ads asked, "Why" do this while driving?
   
#17. Season 31
Friday, April 10, 2015
BOOKS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
HAL the computer returns in "____: Odyssey Two"
   
#18. Season 4
Friday, December 11, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
New dishes made to hold this substance play the theme to "General Hospital"
   
#19. 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
   
#20. Season 37
Thursday, April 15, 2021
AUCTION
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2008 this Internet auction site banned ivory products & in 2012 banned hexes & magic spells
   
#21. 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"
   
#22. Season 27
Friday, February 25, 2011
TV
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"Web Redemptions" are a feature of this Internet-based Comedy Central show hosted by comedian Daniel
   
#23. Season 7
Friday, February 15, 1991
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $300
T. I. for short, this company designed "Speak & Spell", the popular learning aid for kids
   
#24. Season 28
Friday, December 30, 2011
THE MOST EXPENSIVE EVER
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2010 sex.com was sold for $13 million, the most ever paid for the part of an Internet address called this "name"
   
#25. Season 27
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
BEER GOOGLES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Google "keg" & you'll discover that one can hold 58.67 of these metric units
   
#26. Season 35
Friday, May 10, 2019
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A 2017 PC World article was about "Why You Should" do this for privacy & security, using the low-teach piece-of-tape solution
   
#27. Season 18
Thursday, December 13, 2001
CLICHES OVER THE CELL PHONE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Boy, it was so quiet you could have heard...
   
#28. Season 27
Thursday, January 13, 2011
WEBSITES
Jeopardy Round: $600
You can keep up with the "Jeopardy!" clue crew on this social networking site
   
#29. 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
   
#30. Season 34
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
ELEMENTARY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,800
This precious metal boasts the highest thermal & electrical conductivity
   
#31. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Try explaining to your kids how this 1972 4-letter arcade game from Atari was the coolest thing ever for a while
   
#32. Season 23
Friday, May 4, 2007
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $800
The Greek letter omega is the symbol for this unit of electrical resistance
   
#33. Season 14
Wednesday, December 17, 1997
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In computers or audio amplifiers, it's the process in which part of the output returns to the input
   
#34. Season 40
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING
Jeopardy Round: $400
The name of this technology that allows local area networks to operate without wiring or cables just sounds cool--that's all
   
#35. Season 28
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Drop 1 letter from the type of creature Sonic is in video games & you get this, one who monopolizes the aisle seat
   
#36. Season 30
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
"O-M-G"!
Jeopardy Round: $400
This type of computer language includes the popular Java & Python
   
#37. Season 22
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
"X" RATED
Jeopardy Round: $200
In February 1998 the World Wide Web Consortium gave its imprimatur to this text format
   
#38. Season 20
Monday, March 15, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
If an atom loses one of these, it becomes a cation, a positively charged ion
   
#39. Season 40
Thursday, March 21, 2024
HISTORIC FIRSTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1993 cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov was the first to play a video game in space, this one created by a countryman
   
#40. Season 36
Thursday, May 28, 2020
MAGNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In the early 1950s IBM gave these better memories with the introduction of magnetic core storage
   
#41. Season 20
Friday, April 23, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On January 3, 2004 a spacecraft named Spirit successfully landed in Gusev Crater here to search for life
   
#42. Season 34
Monday, February 5, 2018
FUN(?) WITH INTERNET COUNTRY CODES
Jeopardy Round: $400
There's diving info at naia.com.fj, this country
   
#43. 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
   
#44. Season 18
Friday, March 22, 2002
ALL BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $400
We predict you'll know that this computer software company has the stock symbol ORCL
   
#45. Season 17
Friday, January 19, 2001
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $100
FYI
   
#46. 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
   
#47. Season 36
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
COLORFUL TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Not a full but a partial loss of electrical power
   
#48. Season 39
Thursday, April 27, 2023
4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Oddly, the Colonel's recipes are overseen by this agency along with Americans' TVs & cell phones
   
#49. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019
PLACES OF LEGEND
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Google Maps doesn't have this island where King Arthur was taken to be healed
   
#50. Season 34
Friday, March 16, 2018
ANY "PORT"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In computer abbreviations, it's the "P" in a PDF
   
#51. Season 39
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
WOMEN OF SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Fei-Fei Li took a sabbatical from Stanford to be Google Cloud's chief scientist of AI/ML, artificial intelligence & this
   
#52. Season 31
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
Appropriately, the highest lance won in this classic game; less appropriately, there were flying ostriches
   
#53. 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
   
#54. 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
   
#55. 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
   
#56. Season 11
Monday, July 17, 1995
THE "BREAKER"s
Jeopardy Round: $300
In electrical circles, a fuse acts as one
   
#57. 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
   
#58. Season 38
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
TWEETS
Jeopardy Round: $400
He tweeted, "Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook doesn't promote hate for profit; evidently, it's just for kicks"
   
#59. Season 28
Thursday, March 15, 2012
TIME TO RESIGN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
June 16, 2011:
This not-so-Internet-savvy N.Y. congressman
   
#60. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015
COMPUTER ACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Releasing someone's personal info on the Internet is this word that can have 1 or 2 "X"s in the middle
   
#61. 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"
   
#62. Season 35
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee gets questions like "Why are links" this color?--"There is no reason"
   
#63. 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
   
#64. Season 12
Tuesday, May 21, 1996
GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the company that introduced the video games Donkey Kong & Super Mario Brothers
   
#65. 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
   
#66. Season 34
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1982 Atari went up an order of magnitude from Centipede to this sequel
   
#67. Season 6
Monday, November 20, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
During the 15th-17th centuries these developed from the matchlock to the wheellock to the flintlock
   
#68. Season 4
Thursday, May 19, 1988
MEDICAL INITIALS
Jeopardy Round: $500
In a "CAT" scan, the "A" & "T" stand for axial tomography, & the "C" stands for this
   
#69. Season 28
Thursday, August 2, 2012
TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"NFL Blitz" lets you experience this sport without getting hit
   
#70. Season 19
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
COMPUTER GENIUSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Mitch Kapor, founder of this company that gave us 1-2-3 & Notes, previously taught transcendental meditation
   
#71. Season 15
Thursday, January 21, 1999
ONLINE LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
When you find those wacky 1970s photos of me online, it's time to do this, meaning transfer them to your computer
   
#72. Season 26
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
BRAND LOGOS
Final Jeopardy
Its original logo, designed in 1976, showed Isaac Newton sitting under a tree
   
#73. Season 32
Thursday, January 7, 2016
CALIFORNIA CITY‑"O"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This city in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains is home to Apple Computer
   
#74. 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
   
#75. Season 36
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
THINK IT WILL WORK?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
A big yes: this, described in a March 2006 patent filing as a "multi-functional handheld device"
   
#76. Season 35
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
DO YOU COMPUTE?
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
A computer acting under a hacker's control is called a zombie or this, & a group of them is a zombie army or this "net"
   
#77. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $600
The ROM of your computer's CD-ROM stands for this
   
#78. Season 20
Monday, November 24, 2003
ALBUMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This "electrical" group's "Back in Black" album has sold over 19 million copies
   
#79. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1973 push-through tabs began to replace the pull tabs on these
   
#80. Season 36
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
WHAT TYPE OF MACHINE AM I?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Hamilton Beach 8-cup with adjustable slicing
   
#81. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Laser beams are "directed" by these optical devices
   
#82. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
In just 3 days in 1996, this company sold 350,000 new N64 systems featuring Super Mario 64
   
#83. Season 32
Monday, February 15, 2016
COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
If your website is DDoSED, you've got problems because DDoS stands for distributed this
   
#84. Season 19
Thursday, April 3, 2003
GOING WIRELESS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Buying one of this company's DynaTAC models in 1984 could have set you back about $4,000
   
#85. Season 22
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
CEOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Thomas J. Watson led this computer company to great heights as its CEO by telling his employees to "Think"
   
#86. Season 32
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
RICHES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Better than first class! I'm flying private in one of these jets named for electrical engineer William
   
#87. Season 20
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
X-2 isn't a Marvel super hero game, it's the sequel to the 10th game in this long-running Japanese RPG series
   
#88. Season 30
Thursday, May 15, 2014
CHESS DRAMA
Jeopardy Round: $600
Some of our champions know how this champion felt when he lost a 1997 match to IBM's Deep Blue computer
   
#89. Season 29
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
MODERN-DAY CHINA
Final Jeopardy
Because Internet censors block mentions of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as "535"
   
#90. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
After hearing this invention of his work, Edison said, "I was never so taken aback in my life"
   
#91. Season 34
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
HODGEPODGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1972 the Pulsar was the first electronic commercial watch of this type; you pushed a button to see the time
   
#92. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Like a villain in darkness, one who reads others' words in a newsgroup but won't contribute is doing this
   
#93. 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
   
#94. 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
   
#95. Season 35
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Depeche Mode & MGMT play this-"pop", from the name of an electronic instrument
   
#96. Season 28
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN OR WOMAN
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This Texas computer maker bought $200 million of his own stock in the summer of 2008
   
#97. Season 22
Monday, October 17, 2005
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $800
Calling itself the birthplace of television, Rigby, Idaho was the boyhood home of this technology pioneer
   
#98. Season 34
Thursday, December 7, 2017
LITERARY CHARACTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Computer hacker & cyber genius, she's the girl with the wasp tattoo as well as the dragon one
   
#99. Season 35
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
THE FACEBOOK OF JOB
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Job changed his profile pic after shaving this, not for the Dwayne Johnson look but in mourning for his 10 children
   
#100. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Geologists say the we're just now reaching the end of this "age" that began over 1 million years ago
   
#101. Season 26
Thursday, February 4, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Fatso from Spokane is the lovable "Keyboard" this animal
   
#102. Season 35
Monday, March 4, 2019
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The traditional setup with separate program & data was this man's creation, so computers built differently are called non-von
   
#103. Season 35
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
A WORD OF ADVICE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
I'm going to give you my this, also an access point on a computer or the info that goes through it
   
#104. Season 34
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
NOT WASTING TIME ON THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Watch Susan Cain's TED Talk on "The Power of" these shy folks, then hit "shut down" & go meet people
   
#105. Season 21
Thursday, February 10, 2005
FROM D TO SHINING D
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2003 Microsoft paid one of these to stockholders for the first time
   
#106. 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
   
#107. Season 33
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
FILL IN THE ____
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Named for physicist Georg:
____'s law of electrical resistance
   
#108. Season 40
Thursday, October 26, 2023
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, also came up with the AI tech used by this Microsoft search engine
   
#109. Season 23
Friday, December 8, 2006
FOOD STUFF?
Jeopardy Round: $400
On May 8, 2006 this computer co. won a dismissal of a trademark infringement lawsuit by this "Corps"
   
#110. 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
   
#111. 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
   
#112. 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
   
#113. Season 19
Friday, October 4, 2002
SCIENCE & NATURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This scientist & author of "2001" wrote, 'Any...advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
   
#114. 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
   
#115. 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
   
#116. 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
   
#117. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
VIDEO GAME TIMELINE
Jeopardy Round: $200
1980:
This pie-shaped character chomps its way into arcades
   
#118. Season 20
Wednesday, January 7, 2004
STUPID ANSWERS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Invented in the late '50s, it's a functional circuit formed when diodes, transistors, etc. are integrated
   
#119. 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
   
#120. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In addition to film, he came up with the Polaroid lenses used in sunglasses
   
#121. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009
COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
"DOS" stands for these 3 words
   
#122. 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
   
#123. Season 23
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
THE "SPACE" AGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Computer key at the top right of the main keyboard grid
   
#124. Season 30
Monday, April 7, 2014
INNOVATION
Jeopardy Round: $400
Computing was changed by the GUI, short for this technology using on-screen icons & a pointing device
   
#125. Season 41
Monday, March 24, 2025
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In computerese: DoS with a little o is denial of service; DOS with a big O is this
   
#126. Season 34
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
"I" 4
Jeopardy Round: $200
A revered religious object, or a symbol on a computer screen
   
#127. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
C. Vanderbilt thought George Westinghouse's idea of stopping a train by this means a fool notion
   
#128. Season 39
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
BUDWEISER & SPORTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2020 Bud Light became the official beer of the championship series of this video game, L.O.L. for short
   
#129. Season 14
Friday, February 20, 1998
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $100
A big name in computers, this company is known as HP for short
   
#130. 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
   
#131. Season 40
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
ACTION MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Jann Mardenborough became a pro race car driver by using this racing simulation video game, also the 2023 biopic about him
   
#132. Season 35
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
ARCHITECTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
4-letter word for an office plan without walls; Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's HQ is the largest one in the world
   
#133. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Erase a hard disk before disposing of a computer: putting personal data out there risks this 2-word crime
   
#134. Season 29
Monday, November 12, 2012
ORGANIZATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $600
OLPC is a learning organization standing for "One" of these computers "Per Child"
   
#135. Season 25
Monday, September 29, 2008
STUPID ANSWERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This magazine has been a popular source of science & technology news since its inception in 1872
   
#136. Season 28
Friday, November 18, 2011
ALMA MATERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Larry Page & Sergey Brin started Google in their dorm room while working on Ph.D.s at this California college
   
#137. 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
   
#138. Season 41
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
GRAB BAG
Jeopardy Round: $1000
As a lab-grown crystal, miassite can act as one of these, meaning it has no electrical resistance once cooled
   
#139. Season 13
Friday, March 28, 1997
ALBUQUERQUE
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1975 Paul Allen & William Gates III founded this company in Albuquerque
   
#140. Season 17
Friday, June 29, 2001
GEE "Q"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Its electrical charge can be equal to one-third of an electron
   
#141. Season 13
Monday, September 23, 1996
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
In 1981 the Solar Challenger was a solar-powered plane & in 1977 the Gossamer Condor was powered by this
   
#142. Season 36
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL
Jeopardy Round: $800
The foundation's kinda shaky... is a 180' tower in this Italian city a good idea? Heck, it's 1173, we have the technology!
   
#143. Season 38
Monday, February 21, 2022
LAS VEGAS HOTEL NAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Lighters--or maybe cell phone flashlights--out! This interjection from the French means "again"
   
#144. 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
   
#145. Season 35
Friday, July 5, 2019
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT
Jeopardy Round: $400
The sound on an electronic device, & an examination you don't want to get from the IRS
   
#146. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: 1000
A text-to-video system by OpenAI is named this, after the Japanese word for sky
   
#147. Season 24
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
2007 NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
In Sept. 2007 Apple reduced the price of the 8GB this to $399, down from $599
   
#148. 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
   
#149. Season 32
Thursday, March 10, 2016
WORDS & THEIR USE
Final Jeopardy
Originally an electronics word for an output signal returning as input, today it means "criticism" or "evaluation"
   
#150. Season 28
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
"ILE" BE BACK
Jeopardy Round: $800
We call it a cell phone, but the chaps in Britain call it this
   
#151. Season 32
Friday, September 18, 2015
SMART PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
The "test" of A.I. named for him is whether a computer can make a person think it's a person
   
#152. Season 3
Thursday, July 16, 1987
WORDS OF THE '80s
Jeopardy Round: $500
MIPS is a computer term meaning "millions of" these "per second"
   
#153. 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
   
#154. Season 38
Monday, March 7, 2022
PHRASE FARMING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
An Apple commercial where a rural fellow finds a lost iPhone is a reference to this idiom
   
#155. 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
   
#156. Season 34
Friday, March 16, 2018
IN A STORM
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Quemado, N.M., known for electrical storms, is home to the art piece of 400 steel poles called this weather event field
   
#157. Season 20
Friday, April 23, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Energy (E) equals the frequency of radiant energy (V) times H, this German physicist's universal constant
   
#158. Season 28
Thursday, December 8, 2011
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
A "nonexistent domain" error on a failed e-mail is kind of the new version of this 1962 Elvis song
   
#159. Season 29
Friday, May 10, 2013
INNOVATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Attach a stick-n-find sticker to a valued item & you can locate it using your phone & this popular headset technology
   
#160. Season 38
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
ON THE INTERNET
Final Jeopardy
This website launched in 2015 with 3 offerings, from James Patterson, Dustin Hoffman & Serena Williams
   
#161. Season 24
Friday, May 23, 2008
FAMOUS FACES IN HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Recent computer analysis determined her face is 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% afraid & 2% angry
   
#162. Season 12
Friday, September 29, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Many of these devices support a feature called redial
   
#163. Season 16
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This computer-driven sci-fi subgenre includes works by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
   
#164. Season 20
Monday, March 1, 2004
BORN NORTH OF THE BORDER, EH?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Winnipeg-born Douglas Rain provided the voice of this soft-spoken killer computer on film
   
#165. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE COULD BE DOING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Gov. Snyder of this Midwest state where Larry Page was born is trying to reverse a trend of population loss
   
#166. Season 28
Monday, October 3, 2011
I'M GAME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This solitaire game goes back to a version Paul Alfille wrote in 1978 for the Plato computer system
   
#167. Season 36
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
SILICON VALLEY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Mix up some of the Portland variety of this building material by combining calcium, silica, iron & aluminum
   
#168. Season 31
Friday, March 13, 2015
ADVERTISING & MARKETING
Jeopardy Round: $200
A long strip of cloth, or an Internet ad in the form of a bar hyperlinked to the advertiser's website
   
#169. Season 20
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
A BRAND NEW DAY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This computer brand founded in 1982 used a "Q" in its name so that it could be trademarked
   
#170. Season 7
Thursday, February 14, 1991
MAGAZINES
Jeopardy Round: $100
PC Novice is a new magazine for beginning users of thse
   
#171. Season 30
Thursday, September 26, 2013
OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
2010:
Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook"
   
#172. Season 35
Monday, July 1, 2019
WHIPS & CHAINS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Bitcoin uses this technology as its transaction record
   
#173. Season 37
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
COMPOSERS ALL AROUND
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Known as "The Bong", the 5-note theme for this chip maker "Inside" a lot of computers was composed in 1994 by Walter Werzowa
   
#174. Season 26
Monday, February 15, 2010
COMPANY NAME ORIGINS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Mitch Kapor named this computer software company after the yoga position also known as the padmasana
   
#175. Season 16
Thursday, September 9, 1999
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Gex is a gecko, Croc is a crocodile & Spyro is one of these
   
#176. Season 33
Thursday, November 10, 2016
WHEN IT WAS NEW
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Big excitement in 1995 when this company launched Windows 95 & the Internet Explorer browser
   
#177. Season 34
Monday, March 12, 2018
"M"TERTAINMENT
Jeopardy Round: $400
You can play with blocks in creative mode or fight monsters in survival mode in this video game
   
#178. Season 7
Wednesday, January 30, 1991
WEATHER
Jeopardy Round: $500
An electrical discharge appearing as a blue or green halo is called this
   
#179. Season 15
Friday, October 16, 1998
YOU HAVE A PET WHAT?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The African pigmy type of this is sold as a pet; the "Sonic" one as a video game
   
#180. 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....
   
#181. Season 23
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
PLAY THIS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This "avian" skateboarding legend has produced several high-flying video games for Activision
   
#182. Season 25
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
RALLY TO THE CAUSE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's to save equal Internet speed for all, aka "net" this
   
#183. 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
   
#184. Season 14
Wednesday, March 4, 1998
GO TO "H"
Jeopardy Round: $200
At best, it's a computer enthusiast; at worst, it's one who illegally taps into your computer
   
#185. 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
   
#186. Season 7
Friday, May 24, 1991
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $300
"Pong"s creator began this video game co. & named it for a Japanese word for "a winner"
   
#187. Season 35
Monday, January 14, 2019
IN THE CLOUD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Launched in 2008, this "Ever"-useful app that stores memos, recipes, warranties etc. joined the Google Cloud in 2017
   
#188. 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
   
#189. 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
   
#190. 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
   
#191. Season 23
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
This 3-letter extension at the end of a web address indicates it's operated by a college or university
   
#192. Season 15
Tuesday, February 2, 1999
AROUND THE OFFICE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Workers may gather around the monitor & boogie along with this Internet infant from Kinetix
   
#193. Season 22
Monday, May 1, 2006
B MINUS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Snip the B from Mr. Ives & you'll get this Internet destination
   
#194. Season 39
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
ONOMATOPOEIA
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's a test signal sent from a computer to check network speed
   
#195. 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
   
#196. Season 15
Thursday, September 17, 1998
WORD ORIGINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Derived from the Greek for "throw", you can throw a floppy one into a computer & store a file
   
#197. Season 21
Monday, July 4, 2005
BANK SHOTS
Jeopardy Round: $400
An EFT stands for an "electronic" one of these
   
#198. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Common fiery name for a nasty or insulting email or newsgroup message
   
#199. Season 35
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This "distant" Ubisoft franchise has had you go prehistoric, futuristic &, most recently, facing a doomsday cult
   
#200. Season 18
Friday, February 22, 2002
FITNESS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's the "electrical" term for the amount of weight or pressure involved in an exercise
   
#201. Season 4
Tuesday, June 7, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
When an airplane is in normal flight, air pressure is higher on this surface of a wing
   
#202. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Your browser's storage of recently visited websites is called a "web" this word for something hidden
   
#203. Season 41
Monday, April 14, 2025
SHAKIN' DAT AX
Jeopardy Round: $600
Video gamers, exhale: Guardian Scouts wield an ancient battle axe in "Breath of the Wild", part of this franchise
   
#204. 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
   
#205. 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
   
#206. 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
   
#207. 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
   
#208. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
If we're talking NiCads, we're talking about these in laptops
   
#209. Season 35
Monday, November 5, 2018
POP CULTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Shinnok is one of the evil karacters in this fighting video game franchise from NetherRealm studios
   
#210. Season 20
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
NON-VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
This singing game in which we "all fall down" may have originally referred to a deadly plague of the 1300s
   
#211. Season 29
Thursday, May 9, 2013
YOU'RE CRAZY, ME DRIVING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Can't we just get one of these? in 2012 Nevada issued Google the first license for one
   
#212. Season 13
Wednesday, April 30, 1997
WHEN THEY WERE TEENAGERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This Microsoft mogul was just 17 when he became president of his first company, Traf-O-Data
   
#213. 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
   
#214. Season 35
Monday, March 4, 2019
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $4,000
In programming, these symbols "are standing by" to represent actions; in C++ some are =, * & of course ++
   
#215. Season 35
Thursday, September 13, 2018
PRINCIPLES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
According to Arthur C. Clarke, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from" this
   
#216. Season 16
Tuesday, October 26, 1999
THE 20th CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
This 26-year-old lowland gorilla fielded questions during an April 1998 Internet chat
   
#217. 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
   
#218. 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
   
#219. 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"
   
#220. Season 6
Thursday, June 21, 1990
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It was first developed as a means of detecting both icebergs & submarines
   
#221. 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
   
#222. Season 4
Monday, September 14, 1987
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Tandy computers are sold exclusively through stores with this name
   
#223. Season 28
Thursday, May 10, 2012
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $600
Acronym for a website section with helpful info; at jeopardy.com it includes "how does one become a contestant?"
   
#224. Season 27
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
eBay acquired this purchasing service company in 2002
   
#225. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
1975:
Microsoft is founded by these 2 college dropouts
   
#226. Season 32
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
To shape molten metal, or the furnace used to melt metal
   
#227. Season 28
Thursday, June 14, 2012
WEBSITES FROM A TO Z
Jeopardy Round: $400
B: Microsoft's search engine
   
#228. 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
   
#229. Season 38
Friday, April 22, 2022
FIRSTS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
On Oct. 13, 1983 the first call on a commercial cell phone was made to a grandson of this inventor
   
#230. 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
   
#231. 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
   
#232. 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
   
#233. Season 21
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
GAME OVER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
You've spoken to Atrus on D'ni so put your mouse down and eject this computer game
   
#234. 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"
   
#235. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME
Jeopardy Round: $200
A kid's life is in your hands as you play as any one of a dozen jurors; the action is all in one room; sway opinions as No. 8
   
#236. Season 20
Monday, November 10, 2003
GRADE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,200
Ninth graders know that electrically neutral atoms have the same number of these 2 particles
   
#237. Season 28
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
THE I.T. FACTOR
Jeopardy Round: $800
Bjarne Stroustrup gets this grade "++" for creating a new computer language
   
#238. Season 5
Tuesday, January 17, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Since the ban on smoking, air crews can no longer spot cracks by the telltale buildup of this substance
   
#239. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011
VIDEO GAME HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
It was joystick to the world in 1977 when this company released its 2600 system
   
#240. Season 26
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
GEEK LOVE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The world's smallest laptops are nicknamed Atom, the name of the processor made by this company
   
#241. Season 33
Thursday, October 27, 2016
WOMEN OF NOTE
Jeopardy Round: $800
This actress invented technology that would become part of cell phone security, & it's Hedy, not Hedley
   
#242. Season 15
Friday, November 6, 1998
4-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
A computer ready to receive information over a modem is "on" this
   
#243. Season 33
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
GENRES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Doom is this 3-word type of video game named for how one sees through a character's eyes while firing
   
#244. Season 26
Monday, June 28, 2010
THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ
Jeopardy Round: $400
Woz was born in 1950, the son of an electrical engineer at this co. that merged with Martin Marietta in 1995
   
#245. Season GOATTOURNAMENT
Thursday, January 9, 2020
CYBERSECURITY
Jeopardy Round: 800
A ransomware attack that encrypted 3,800 City of Atlanta computers demanded 6 of these digital items to unfreeze them
   
#246. Season 41
Monday, May 26, 2025
YOU GET A P+
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2001 Microsoft introduced this new version of Windows that was popular for well over a decade
   
#247. Season 38
Friday, March 4, 2022
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
It's the unit of electrical resistance whose symbol is seen here
   
#248. Season 31
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
TV ODDS & ENDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The Facebook page for the Indiana Office of Tourism said they'd miss this retiring sitcom almost as much as Li'l Sebastian
   
#249. 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
   
#250. Season 35
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
SHOPPING AT THE MALL
Jeopardy Round: $400
Let's go to the Apple Store; I want to get a new Pro one of these tablets with a 12.9" screen
   
#251. Season 26
Thursday, July 22, 2010
AT THE BUSINESS' WEBSITE
Jeopardy Round: $400
You could "See what's new in Windows 7" & "Watch the demos" at this company's site
   
#252. Season 41
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
MIX -OLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's cutting edge:LENGTHY COO
   
#253. 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.
   
#254. Season 38
Friday, May 6, 2022
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GLOSSARY
Jeopardy Round: $800
It makes sense that la carte mère is this component
   
#255. Season 30
Friday, September 20, 2013
DO YOU COMPUTE?
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the top-level Internet domain for universities such as Cornell & Gonzaga
   
#256. Season 38
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
19th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Ella Gaillard's invention of the eyeless this revolutionized surgery
   
#257. Season 29
Monday, June 17, 2013
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Jeopardy Round: $200
"Goodnight iPad" is a parody of this beloved book
   
#258. 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
   
#259. Season 30
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
NET ADVERTISING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Forcing users to do a certain Facebook action before getting more product info is called this "-gating"
   
#260. Season 14
Friday, December 5, 1997
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Number of bulbs in the Magicube that replaced a battery-powered flash on cameras
   
#261. Season 23
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
URBAN DICTIONARY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The first "L" in the Internet acronym "LOL" stands for this, as it does in "ROFL"
   
#262. Season 8
Wednesday, February 5, 1992
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
MacPAINT is a graphics program developed for this Apple computer
   
#263. Season 9
Wednesday, June 30, 1993
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
The 1st automated instrument to analyze this genetic material's structure was developed in the mid-1980s
   
#264. Season 18
Monday, November 19, 2001
CLOSERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
To properly turn off your computer running Microsoft Windows 95 or 98, first click "Start", then this
   
#265. Season 25
Monday, January 19, 2009
SCIENCE FACT
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
As seen on the Internet, dropping Mentos into diet soda releases this gas out of suspension, creating a geyser
   
#266. Season 14
Tuesday, May 12, 1998
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Electronic music master Moby is a descendant of this creator of Moby Dick
   
#267. Season 14
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In the 1950s Grace Hopper created this "Common Business-Oriented Language" for computers
   
#268. Season 41
Friday, November 8, 2024
THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
On its first day in North America August 14, 1989, it was said, "Let there be Sega", & this console was released, & it was good
   
#269. 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
   
#270. Season 24
Monday, November 26, 2007
COMPUTER ON!
Jeopardy Round: $800
To copy video from your camcorder to a computer, use this "blazing" fast connection some call i.Link
   
#271. Season 14
Wednesday, May 27, 1998
1997 BUSINESS NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In Jan. some said this computer chip maker would become the world's most profitable company by 1999
   
#272. 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
   
#273. Season 13
Tuesday, July 1, 1997
INVENTORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1929 this electrical engineer became an Italian marquis
   
#274. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The icon of this button has a one & a zero to show its binary nature
   
#275. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
If you have an extra $44 million, you can buy his & hers Y-MP/832 supercomputers from this company
   
#276. Season 23
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
CORPORATE LOGOS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
The bite taken out of the right side of its corporate logo refers to the story of Adam & Eve & the tree of knowledge
   
#277. 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
   
#278. Season 19
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Common alliterative term for technology that lets your computer install a device without messy configuring
   
#279. 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
   
#280. Season 18
Wednesday, January 23, 2002
VARIETY HEADLINES
Jeopardy Round: $200
This computer-animated character stomped the competition as "Jolly Green B.O. Giant"
   
#281. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
This company that sells Dimension computers now sells a GPS system for the Axim PDAs
   
#282. Season 37
Thursday, May 27, 2021
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Whenever you access a webpage, your browser puts the data in this temporary storage for faster retrieval
   
#283. Season 37
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
INTERNET BUSINESSES
Jeopardy Round: $600
William Shatner has been a longtime advertising pitchman for this site that helps find discounts for travel
   
#284. Season 25
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
COMPUTER RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $800
A device to digitally copy a landed estate
   
#285. Season 5
Monday, October 17, 1988
WORD ORIGINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Since the 1640s this word has meant "one who counts"; the machine arrived over 300 years later
   
#286. Season 29
Friday, October 19, 2012
THE WORLDWIDE WORLD WIDE WEB
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This Central African country's websites are at .td; its name in French has a "T" before the "CH"
   
#287. Season 17
Friday, February 2, 2001
EARTH SCIENCE
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $800
This electrically charged layer of the atmosphere makes long-distance radio communication possible
   
#288. Season 13
Wednesday, November 13, 1996
CURRENT EVENTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This Bill Gates' company introduced its Internet Explorer web browser to compete with Netscape
   
#289. Season 20
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
COMPUTER "I"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
The Epson Stylus C82 is this type of consumer product
   
#290. Season 29
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
COMPUTER LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "HT" in both HTTP & HTML stands for this
   
#291. Season 32
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
VIDEO GAME VILLAINS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A comical A.I. helps you make holes you can move through to beat GLaDOS' tests in this Valve game's sequel
   
#292. Season 34
Monday, July 16, 2018
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Jeopardy Round: $200
This gravity man was a Christmas present in 1642, but a calendar change means he got his Google Doodle on Jan. 4
   
#293. Season 24
Thursday, April 3, 2008
WHO MIGHT HAVE SAID IT?
Jeopardy Round: $200
The leading man on "24": "I can't believe this cell phone works in this lead-lined bunker. Who's our carrier?"
   
#294. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Early successful models of these in the U.S. were Woodstock, Remington & Underwood
   
#295. Season 22
Thursday, December 22, 2005
DIVERSIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This game named for a ship used to clear explosives tempts many away from more important computer tasks
   
#296. Season JM
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
BOOKS & BOOK SERIES
Jeopardy Round: 200
(One more time, Rebecca Yarros.) I write down scenes & plot points on index cards, & even at that stage might include these hidden messages, an alliterative term from the world video games
   
#297. Season 25
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
APT ANAGRAMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This Internet service was big in the '90s:
I ONCE RAN EMAIL
   
#298. 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
   
#299. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the mobile game based on this 1873 novel, you can end up with a different itinerary than the one Jules Verne created
   
#300. Season 20
Friday, October 24, 2003
MECCA
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The Al-Asr watch electronically points to Mecca & sets off an alarm this many times a day, 1 before each prayer time
   
#301. 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
   
#302. Season 12
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
A coin put in a 1615 vending machine opened a locked top so customers could receive a pipeful of this
   
#303. Season 38
Thursday, April 7, 2022
COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Wow! computer for seniors says it has "free anti-virus" & this bad stuff "protection"
   
#304. Season 11
Friday, May 5, 1995
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $500
The stock of this software company headed by William Gates is traded over the counter
   
#305. 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
   
#306. 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
   
#307. Season 9
Wednesday, June 30, 1993
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Using a kite antenna, he received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, the letter S
   
#308. 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
   
#309. Season 23
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
JEFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
You might be a redneck if you know this comic worked at IBM for 5 years; yeah, those are better when he tells 'em
   
#310. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Name given the world's first artificial satellite
   
#311. 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"
   
#312. 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
   
#313. Season 41
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
TRANSPORTATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Advances in braking technology have all but eliminated this traditional last car on a freight train
   
#314. Season 12
Wednesday, May 15, 1996
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
These small, portable computers are divided into clamshell & lunchbox types based on shape
   
#315. 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
   
#316. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1904, this ex-shoe salesman & Illinois medical school graduate patented his arch support
   
#317. Season 33
Monday, October 31, 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
In 2005 Steve Jobs used "It's sort of like TiVo for radio" to describe this new form
   
#318. Season 33
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
IT'S A TOY HALL-ER
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This video game company's 2600 invaded the space of the Hall in 2007, joysticks & all
   
#319. Season 6
Friday, May 11, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Until '39 the clock used to keep Greenwich Mean Time was regulated by one of these crystals
   
#320. Season 31
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
SEE TV
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"Biography" showed this Microsoft man's "Life--From Child Prodigy to Harvard Dropout to Billiionaire"
   
#321. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It was a water sport before it became a term for browsing the web
   
#322. 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
   
#323. Season 36
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
TV SHOW "ME"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
We found out the Almighty is on Facebook on this Brandon Micheal Hall show on CBS
   
#324. Season 19
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's an HTML command that formats a web page; the "meta" type gives general information about the page
   
#325. Season 25
Thursday, January 22, 2009
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
The "ball" in this classic '70s version of table tennis was square--good thing it was played on video
   
#326. Season 17
Thursday, April 5, 2001
DAISY CRAZY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's used as the printing element in certain electric typewriters & older computer printers
   
#327. 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
   
#328. Season 14
Thursday, May 7, 1998
COMPUTER CHARACTERS
Jeopardy Round: $100
Nintendo's official mascot since 1985, he was named for the landlord of the firm's first U.S. warehouse
   
#329. Season 18
Thursday, April 4, 2002
19th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1835 Rene Dutrochet discovered that chlorophyll was necessary for this process
   
#330. Season 4
Thursday, March 24, 1988
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $100
This country is marketing an IBM PC/AT clone called the "Great Wall 0530"
   
#331. Season 23
Friday, July 20, 2007
NOW WE'RE IN BUSINESS!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In July 2004 this tech company said it would give back $75 billion to its shareholders
   
#332. Season 32
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
TOYS & GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A mooshroom is a kind of cow found only in the mushroom biome in this video game
   
#333. 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
   
#334. Season 27
Monday, November 15, 2010
ONLINE SHOPPING
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It traces its roots to 1995 & Pierre Omidyar, a computer programer who wrote the code for an auction website
   
#335. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
COMPUTER NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The first 2 letters in the name of this Sony PC can stand for "Video Audio"
   
#336. Season 41
Monday, March 17, 2025
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Google's mobile O.S. is still named for this software company it bought in 2005 for around $50 million
   
#337. Season 18
Friday, December 28, 2001
DEAR DIARY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,400
1975: One day I'll be so rich I could buy my own island, maybe Australia. Starting Microsoft with my pal Paul is a good start
   
#338. Season 28
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
OUR NEW COMPUTER OVERLORDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Most modern supercomputers run on this operating system developed by Linus Torvalds
   
#339. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $800
Hold on to your hat! 2015 marks 20 years of his controversial but addictive online political report
   
#340. 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
   
#341. Season 27
Thursday, December 9, 2010
IN THE DOGHOUSE
Jeopardy Round: $400
London's Elmtree offers under-floor heating & has installed these so you can view your pet via computer
   
#342. Season 9
Tuesday, November 17, 1992
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Used especially in diagnosing brain disorders, CAT, as in CAT scan, stands for "computerized" this
   
#343. Season 20
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
VOWELS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
On the internet, this vowel can precede "zine", "commerce", "mail" & "bay"
   
#344. 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
   
#345. Season 11
Monday, January 2, 1995
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
As unique as fingerprints, strands of this genetic material are used to establish paternity
   
#346. Season 26
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
ARE YOU TOYING WITH ME?
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
The Fly, the first pentop computer, is made by this company that "jumped" on the educational toys market
   
#347. Season 21
Thursday, September 30, 2004
IN OLD ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A 1970 Grolier's article on these called the magnetic drum the most used storage medium
   
#348. Season 20
Friday, April 23, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Lord Rayleigh & Sir William Ramsey discovered this noble gas in 1894; it forms .94% of the Earth's atmosphere
   
#349. Season 8
Monday, September 23, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
Its 3 blimps that still fly are the only survivors among the 300 airships built by the co. since 1911
   
#350. Season 39
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
GOOGLE EASTER EGGS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Google search the Chicxulub crater that is on the coast of this peninsula & a large asteroid will blaze across your browser
   
#351. Season 27
Friday, February 11, 2011
"WARE"-ING
Jeopardy Round: $600
Malicious computer programs that are secretly installed on a computer to steal the user's private information
   
#352. Season 12
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
17th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
These were made more accurate in the late 1600s with the inventions of the pendulum & balance spring
   
#353. Season 18
Wednesday, December 5, 2001
HOW SOON WE FORGET
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This operating system that drove Microsoft's 1980s growth was bought from programmer Tim Paterson
   
#354. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024
COMPUTER TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's the acronym for the "prove you're not a robot" tests encountered when accessing some websites
   
#355. Season 38
Thursday, December 2, 2021
AIN'T THAT AMERICA
Jeopardy Round: $800
Katherine Johnson was such a genius she made sure the computer was correct in planning the 1962 flight of Friendship 7 for this astronaut
   
#356. Season 40
Friday, June 28, 2024
INTERNET CELEBRITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2024, this streamer announced to his 9 million followers on Twitch that he inked a deal with Nike
   
#357. 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
   
#358. Season 34
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
IF THE HYPHEN BECOMES A LETTER
Jeopardy Round: $800
The hyphen in something you can do to a document via computer becomes an "N":
this Navy rank
   
#359. 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
   
#360. Season 24
Monday, May 19, 2008
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
As part of its salute to this decade, the Post Office created a stamp with a MixMaster on it
   
#361. Season 15
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Now common, before 1400 this device was used only in a few applications like grindstones & hurdy-gurdys
   
#362. Season 22
Thursday, November 10, 2005
GEEK LOVE
Jeopardy Round: $400
Steve Ballmer has big geek shoes to fill for this Washington State software company
   
#363. Season 29
Monday, June 3, 2013
FAMOUS NAMES
Jeopardy Round: $600
He put on a tie for Obama, but met investors ahead of Facebook's IPO in his trademark hoodie
   
#364. Season 13
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
MILLIONAIRES
Jeopardy Round: $300
In his early 20s, programmer Marc Andreessen developed this company's internet "Navigator"
   
#365. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022
OLD TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the 2-word former computer necessity here, & players, if you're not at least of a certain age, you may be toast
   
#366. Season 33
Thursday, February 23, 2017
QUITE A VOCABULARY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Business prof Clayton Christensen put it before "technology" as a buzzword for an innovation that shakes things up
   
#367. Season 37
Thursday, February 11, 2021
STEM
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
(Dr. Frauke Neuser presents the clue.) Marissa Mayer studied AI tech at Stanford before designing the search interface for this company's home page; she'd go on to lead Yahoo!
   
#368. Season 31
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
"FIRE"
Jeopardy Round: $400
This software or hardware barrier is used to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing your computer
   
#369. Season 2
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
1 of 2 metals used for tools in ancient times before iron came into vogue
   
#370. Season 34
Monday, April 16, 2018
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $400
Snapchat, an app on which content disappears after a certain time, has one of these for a logo, also known to fade away
   
#371. Season 31
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
5 BEARS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
Steve Wozniak left Cal to co-found this computer company but returned in 1981
   
#372. Season 38
Friday, December 10, 2021
BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Georgia's Emory University was one of the locations for this 2016 movie about NASA's female "human computers"
   
#373. Season 25
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
TECH-KNOW-LEDGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
On Feb. 17, 2009 this type of TV broadcast technology will end in the U.S.; we're going digital
   
#374. Season 29
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
DIRECTOR
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Executives from Netflix & Bank of America are directors of this company; oh yeah, Bill Gates is still there
   
#375. 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
   
#376. Season 19
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
COMPUTER HISTORY
Final Jeopardy
IBM engineer Dave Bradley is called the father of this multi-key combination
   
#377. Season 38
Friday, October 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Pumping is the process of raising electrons to a higher energy state when creating one of these beams
   
#378. Season 40
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This wireless technology is named for a 10th century Viking king
   
#379. Season 25
Monday, June 29, 2009
AN ALLOCATION OF ALLITERATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
If your cell phone reception is lousy, call back on this
   
#380. Season 5
Monday, December 5, 1988
"SAN" CITIES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Now part of the "Silicon Valley", it was known as the Prune Capital of the World in the early '50s
   
#381. Season 31
Monday, May 4, 2015
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $200
E2EG:
This kind of "grin"
   
#382. Season 13
Friday, February 21, 1997
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is located at this Boston-area "institute"
   
#383. Season 38
Friday, October 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Elisha Otis' invention of the "safety" this led to its regular use for passengers
   
#384. Season 18
Thursday, April 4, 2002
19th CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1803 the British army adopted the metal-scattering shell that this man invented back in 1784
   
#385. Season 40
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
"J-I-T" WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
One of 3 core design languages, this programming mainstay is often used to add interactive features to webpages
   
#386. Season 29
Monday, February 18, 2013
MICRO
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
This field covers the control of bits of matter smaller than 1 /100th the thickness of a sheet of paper
   
#387. Season 30
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK
Jeopardy Round: $800
Chell is back in Aperture Science Labs & must deal with GLaDOS in this platform-puzzle game "2"
   
#388. Season 40
Friday, February 2, 2024
ARMY TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
Bearing the name of a man who died in Iowa in 1838, these began service in 1979 & today number in the thousands
   
#389. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
If you're using a GPS device to get around, you should know GPS stands for this
   
#390. Season 36
Monday, December 9, 2019
SLOWPOKE
Jeopardy Round: $800
This 3-letter word can refer to your slow pace in a race or to your computer's slow response
   
#391. Season 34
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
ACTING UP ON TV
Jeopardy Round: $800
As CEO for 11 days, Kumail Nanjiani's Dinesh dug a $21 billion hole for his tech company on this sitcom
   
#392. Season 40
Thursday, July 18, 2024
POP CULTURE GRAB BAG
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This 2020 Switch game from Nintendo was subtitled "New Horizons"
   
#393. 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
   
#394. Season 34
Friday, January 12, 2018
11-LETTER WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Someone who loves computers & thinks the machines are the solution to everything
   
#395. Season 39
Monday, May 8, 2023
YEET!
Jeopardy Round: $600
In "2001" this computer yeets Frank Poole off into space but still has Dave to contend with
   
#396. Season 25
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
REMEMBER "Y" 2 "K"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
One tap on a computer terminal gives us this compound word
   
#397. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The "tracks" on a printed circuit board are made of this metal
   
#398. 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
   
#399. Season 18
Monday, December 24, 2001
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Jeopardy Round: $200
This company also has a Game Boy camera (sold separately, of course)
   
#400. Season 29
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
VIDEO GAME TIMELINE
Jeopardy Round: $600
2007:
This game from Harmonix is like "Guitar Hero" with mic & drums
   
#401. Season 33
Friday, November 4, 2016
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
An electronic instrument, or someone who puts things together, such as ideas from disparate areas
   
#402. 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
   
#403. Season 30
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
LOW-TECH HIGH TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A hard reboot of your computer can be accomplished with this simple pair of steps
   
#404. Season 32
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
VERY INVENTIVE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This man's first supercomputer was installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976
   
#405. Season 32
Monday, September 28, 2015
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Unveiled in 1977, the TRS-80 got its name from the Tandy Corporation & this retail chain where it was sold
   
#406. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The simple operating system permanently written into main storage, it's what "ROM" stands for
   
#407. 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
   
#408. Season 34
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
2 "U"
Jeopardy Round: $200
Amount produced in a given time, or stuff that comes from a computer
   
#409. Season JM
Friday, May 10, 2024
"M" & "M"s
Jeopardy Round: 200
Newspapers, radio & television, & now the internet, collectively
   
#410. Season 33
Thursday, April 20, 2017
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" shows us the exact moment that this computer system says "Hasta la vista", humans
   
#411. 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?!
   
#412. Season 22
Friday, February 17, 2006
TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Jeopardy Round: $200
Of Flash, Google or AltaVista, the one that's not a popular Internet search engine
   
#413. Season 38
Friday, September 24, 2021
NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Taiwan-born Jerry Yang co-created Jerry & David's Guide to the World Wide Web, which became this Internet giant!
   
#414. Season 26
Friday, December 18, 2009
"BY" NOW
Jeopardy Round: $400
Take a nibble on this 8-part computer unit
   
#415. Season 22
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
ENDS IN AN F SOUND
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In computer animation, it means to transform an image, such as changing a man into a mouse
   
#416. Season 27
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
BEER GOOGLES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A Google hit for this Pottsville, Penn. beer that sounds like a panda reveals that it's America's oldest brewery
   
#417. Season GOATTOURNAMENT
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - 1,800
Last name of Robert, inventor of an electronic music synthesizer; the instrument was on The Doors album "Strange Days"
   
#418. Season 6
Friday, May 4, 1990
IN THE NEWS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Garry Kasparov recently beat a computer program, Deep Thought, in a game of this
   
#419. Season 28
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
COSMOPOLITAN
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Sudan University of Science & Technology, including the Institute of Laser, is in this capital
   
#420. Season 40
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "advanced"
   
#421. Season 31
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHAT GOOGLE IS DOING
Jeopardy Round: $400
No longer in the back pocket, this Google feature that helps in-store or online purchases was unveiled in 2011
   
#422. Season 30
Monday, January 13, 2014
"B" ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
.bw
(an Internet country code in Africa)
   
#423. Season 18
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
An empty Goodyear blimp weighs over 12,000 lbs.; when they fill it with this gas, it weighs only 100 to 200 pounds
   
#424. Season 26
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
ZOMBIELAND
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In this 2002 movie based on a video game, zombies swarm through an underground lab called The Hive
   
#425. Season 28
Monday, April 16, 2012
WORDS ON A FACEBOOK PAGE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It comes before "fun at" to mean mock someone
   
#426. Season 36
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
COMPUTER KEYBOARDS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $6,000
New evidence suggests that the QWERTY keyboard design may have sprung from telegraph operators translating this
   
#427. 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
   
#428. Season 26
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Dating back to the 1920s, this broadcaster precedes .co.uk in a news website
   
#429. Season 16
Monday, April 3, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
In 1933 Marconi set up one of the first microwave radio systems, between Castel Gandolfo & this sovereign state
   
#430. 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
   
#431. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Before "ER" & "Agents of Shield", Ming-Na Wen kicked butt as Chun-Li in the film version of this battle game
   
#432. Season 6
Wednesday, May 2, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The moveable lined glass on a slide rule or the blinking symbol on a computer screen
   
#433. Season 29
Thursday, May 16, 2013
TECH STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $1000
It's a big smartphone, it's a small iPad, it's this 7-letter hybrid word
   
#434. Season 21
Friday, February 4, 2005
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Ferromagnetism, or attraction by an electrically uncharged body, is a property of this element, atomic number 26
   
#435. 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
   
#436. 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
   
#437. Season 30
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
RETAIL THERAPY
Jeopardy Round: $800
"Jeopardy!" has the Clue Crew; this electronics retailer has the Geek Squad
   
#438. 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
   
#439. Season 35
Monday, March 4, 2019
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
256-bit, referring to the length of the key, is a type of this, scrambling data for security
   
#440. Season 39
Thursday, May 4, 2023
SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
This pioneering computer language got its name from its early use in translating formulas
   
#441. Season 29
Thursday, November 29, 2012
RANDOMONIUM
Jeopardy Round: $600
"Lomo-fi" & "1977" are filters to customize photos on this app now owned by Facebook
   
#442. 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
   
#443. Season 31
Monday, July 27, 2015
TECH SAVVY
Jeopardy Round: $200
If this happens to your cell phone, try leaving the frame & battery in uncooked rice
   
#444. Season 32
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the 1940s this company introduced its Land camera, which produced a finished print 60 seconds after exposure
   
#445. Season 33
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
A BUCKET LIST
Jeopardy Round: $600
In this video game you need 3 iron ingots to make a bucket
   
#446. Season 16
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
COMPUTER LITERACY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Po Bronson's 1999 book tells of "The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other True Tales" of this hi-tech "Valley"
   
#447. Season 20
Friday, March 5, 2004
A HEAD FOR BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
Paul Galvin started making car radios -- motorized Victrolas, you might say -- under this name
   
#448. Season 34
Monday, April 16, 2018
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $600
It's the adventurous name of the default Mac web browser
   
#449. Season 34
Friday, February 16, 2018
IN A HALL OF FAME
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
This computer game in which pioneers often die of dysentery is in the World Video Game Hall of Fame
   
#450. 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
   
#451. Season 2
Thursday, September 19, 1985
KID STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $100
The first commercially produced was Pong
   
#452. Season 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $800
In the classic video game "Joust", contestants were placed upon these birds
   
#453. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
You said it with "TWITA"--"that's what" these 3 words
   
#454. 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"
   
#455. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $300
"MK Trilogy" packages all 3 versions of this game on one cartridge
   
#456. Season 38
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
THE LEAGUE LEADER
Jeopardy Round: $600
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, & Blitzcrank & Dr. Mundo as well, fighting champions in this online video game
   
#457. Season 2
Tuesday, September 17, 1985
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1970, an individual atom was 1st seen by using this device
   
#458. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $800
The second "T" in HTTP
   
#459. Season 24
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
TECHNO THRILLERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 2001 IBM sold these types of USB drives called "memory keys" in 8MB size; today you can get them in gigs
   
#460. Season 32
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
THE I.T. GUY
Jeopardy Round: $600
He took the class at Princeton on C.A., short for this, the design of a computing system
   
#461. Season 8
Thursday, May 28, 1992
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This company with another medium in its name created the color TV system we use today
   
#462. Season 33
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"Hyrule Legends" & "Link's Crossbow Training" are Wii options in this "legendary" game series
   
#463. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $800
This word meaning to deal a blow is now a word for one look at a website
   
#464. Season 11
Monday, September 5, 1994
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Akio Morita, who founded this electronics giant, was born into a sake-making family in 1921
   
#465. Season 28
Thursday, June 7, 2012
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $400
"CWOT" stands for a "complete" one of these
   
#466. 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
   
#467. Season 32
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
RECENT SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
2015 computer simulations suggest a collision between 2 of this planet's moons may have created its "F" ring
   
#468. Season 7
Thursday, May 9, 1991
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
The earliest form of capacitor, the Leyden jar, was used for storing this
   
#469. Season 33
Thursday, February 16, 2017
FREE SPEECH
Jeopardy Round: $800
Combine 2 rhyming words to get this term for a freebie computer program
   
#470. Season 36
Monday, September 23, 2019
WORD + WORD = NEW WORD
Jeopardy Round: $200
Elation + a broken-off part of a tree = this video game control lever
   
#471. Season 29
Monday, October 8, 2012
AVIATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The original sperry type of this technology basically kept an airplane going straight; now it can fly patterns
   
#472. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
With its Ofoto online service & Easyshare cameras, you'll never have to develop this company's film
   
#473. Season 28
Thursday, October 13, 2011
VIDEO GAME HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In December 2002 Will Wright moved these virtual people "online"
   
#474. Season 34
Monday, September 11, 2017
REJECTED GREETING CARDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
"It's OK, applicant! You didn't want to go to" this Calif. university a 6-mile drive from the Googleplex "anyway"
   
#475. 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
   
#476. Season 39
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
HOME COMPUTING
Jeopardy Round: $400
Cat 6 is one type of this cable to connect a computer to the Internet; flat ones are easier than round ones to run under the rug
   
#477. Season 23
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006
   
#478. Season 26
Thursday, November 26, 2009
COLLEGE COLLAGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 1931 he established his "Institute" of technology in Chicago & in 1953 it was renamed for him
   
#479. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"Treeware" is this; it comes with software programs
   
#480. Season 36
Monday, January 6, 2020
FOREIGN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
You'll find King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi in this country
   
#481. 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
   
#482. Season 31
Friday, November 21, 2014
McWRITERS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $7,000
In 1962 Marshall McLuhan wrote "Electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global" this
   
#483. Season 26
Monday, July 26, 2010
REMEMBER THE "MAIN"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A central computer that supports peripheral or subordinate ones
   
#484. Season 40
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
MODERN POTPOURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Blockchain technology was intended to keep transactions this, meaning no individual has control, all do
   
#485. Season 27
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
Jeopardy Round: $400
A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders to below the waist
   
#486. Season 37
Monday, October 26, 2020
A QUIET PLACE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Microsoft tests the noise of electronics in a room where you can hear your joints creak; it's measured at negative 20 of these units
   
#487. 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"
   
#488. Season 21
Monday, September 6, 2004
PRUFROCKIAN PONDERINGS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"And how should I begin?" Hmmm, T.S., why not with the alphabetically first country, whose Internet code is .af
   
#489. Season 24
Monday, December 3, 2007
SCI. ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In computer science, GUI is this kind of user interface
   
#490. Season 26
Friday, May 28, 2010
MOVIE TAG LINES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
1982 film that showed "A world inside a computer where man has never been. Never before now"
   
#491. Season 22
Thursday, December 15, 2005
COMPUTER TERMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
On a monitor, 1280 x 1024 pixels is called "native" this, the degree of detail & sharpness
   
#492. Season 38
Thursday, January 27, 2022
MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
The wife of Martin Cooper, "Father of the Cellular Phone", Arlene Harris developed this cell phone brand for seniors
   
#493. Season 13
Friday, February 7, 1997
COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
The "app" in "killer app" stands for this
   
#494. Season 4
Wednesday, February 17, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Lunch pail fixture devised by chemist Sir James Dewar
   
#495. Season 1
Friday, September 28, 1984
CHEMISTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
After oxygen, this element associated with computer chips is the most common in the earth's crust
   
#496. Season 37
Monday, February 8, 2021
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
(Reshma Saujani presents the clue.) Coders fluent in SQL or Structured Query Language can work with information storehouses known as relational these; Oracle is famous for software that creates them
   
#497. Season 4
Thursday, May 26, 1988
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The "boss button" takes this off your screen if the boss comes by, replacing it with data
   
#498. Season 24
Monday, June 2, 2008
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It can mean any computer used by an individual, or an IBM-type machine as opposed to a Mac
   
#499. 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
   
#500. Season 41
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
IT'S PHYSICS!
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A CERN document calls it a material "composed of electrically neutral particles that can... flow without friction"
   
#501. Season 17
Wednesday, December 27, 2000
LET'S GO ONLINE
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
In Internet domain names, .gov stands for government, .net for network & .org for this
   
#502. Season 41
Thursday, November 28, 2024
HOW CONVENTIONAL
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
The 1899 Hague Convention explicitly forbade dropping bombs from these; nice idea, but technology soon passed it by
   
#503. Season 22
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
HACKER CINEMA
Jeopardy Round: $600
In this 1999 film a character named for the god of dreams searches for the one who will destroy a computer world
   
#504. Season 5
Monday, April 3, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Lead in crystal glass not only makes it sturdier, it causes the glass to do this better
   
#505. 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
   
#506. Season 34
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME
Jeopardy Round: $600
Like the film, the game is in real time as you take on the Miller gang as marshal, but try to avoid having Grace Kelly leave you
   
#507. Season 31
Monday, July 6, 2015
OUR MISTAKE!
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In retrospect, we at Excite probably should have given Brin & Page the $750k they wanted for this search engine in 1999
   
#508. 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
   
#509. Season 1
Wednesday, December 12, 1984
INVENTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $300
1899 device for attaching papers that can ruin a computer disc when magnetized
   
#510. Season 19
Thursday, November 28, 2002
HOW AM "I" DOING?
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1981 this company introduced its first home computer, the PC
   
#511. Season 24
Monday, November 26, 2007
COMPUTER ON!
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2006 Apple started using this company's microprocessors in its Macintosh computers
   
#512. Season 30
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
FINLANDIA
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2013 Microsoft agreed to buy this Finnish company's mobile phone business for $7.2 billion
   
#513. Season 23
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
TECH-KNOW
Jeopardy Round: $600
This search engine's Picasa program lets you store, edit & share pictures
   
#514. Season 19
Friday, November 15, 2002
NEW VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
In Microids' "Ben Hur" you race these vehicles
   
#515. Season 24
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
"PUN" JAB
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
William Gibson pioneered this sci-fi genre of characters in a dark, futuristic world dominated by computers
   
#516. Season 16
Tuesday, December 28, 1999
1999 BOFFO B.O.
Jeopardy Round: $500
In this 1999 film Keanu Reeves finds himself in a computer-generated world
   
#517. Season 8
Monday, March 9, 1992
EARTH SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,500
These 2 belts above the earth consist of electrically charged particles
   
#518. Season 8
Thursday, October 17, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The collector on a solar furnace is a parabolic one of these
   
#519. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $800
If you're gaming with a pal online & he doesn't respond, it may be a case of "LD", this "dead"
   
#520. Season 37
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
DOUBLE-VOWEL WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Nickname of 10th century Danish King Harald, or a short-range connectivity wireless standard
   
#521. Season 25
Monday, June 8, 2009
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This company had a thinnovation with its "Air" computer
   
#522. Season 25
Thursday, October 9, 2008
DON'T SAY THE L-WORD
Jeopardy Round: $800
This phenomenon results from the accumulation of electrical charges in cumulonimbus clouds
   
#523. Season 16
Wednesday, January 12, 2000
NEOLOGISMS
Final Jeopardy
In his 1984 novel "Neuromancer", William Gibson coined this 10-letter term for a virtual reality computer network
   
#524. 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
   
#525. Season 18
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
ACRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In your computer:
ROM
   
#526. Season 36
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
YOU DID IT!
Jeopardy Round: $400
Sergey Brin & Larry Page officially founded it on September 4, 1998; look it up!
   
#527. Season 3
Tuesday, June 16, 1987
TRAVEL & TOURISM
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
The National Museum of Science & Technology in Milan is named after this man
   
#528. 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
   
#529. Season 18
Friday, March 29, 2002
I'M GETTING "HOT"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
An Internet search engine that's a part of the Terra Lycos Network
   
#530. Season 41
Friday, November 8, 2024
THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
Thanks to GPS-enabled phones, it's no longer necessary to print out your route using this site acquired by AOL in 1999
   
#531. Season 30
Friday, November 22, 2013
PASSWORD
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The first computers to use passwords was probably this New England university's CTSS computer in the 1960s
   
#532. Season 16
Monday, March 6, 2000
MICROSOFT
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Microsoft originally based this CD-ROM encyclopedia on the Funk & Wagnalls
   
#533. 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
   
#534. Season 37
Monday, January 11, 2021
KNIGHTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
He caught us in the web (the World Wide Web, that is) & snagged a knighthood in 2004
   
#535. 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
   
#536. Season 35
Monday, January 7, 2019
2 CAN PLAY THAT GAME
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2007 a computer program "solved" this game, AKA draughts, proving that best play from both sides leads to a draw
   
#537. Season 4
Thursday, December 31, 1987
LETTER PERFECT
Jeopardy Round: $500
In computer talk, it stands not for 1000, but 1024 bytes
   
#538. Season 38
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Mies van der Rohe headed the College of Architecture & designed its building at IIT, short for this Chicago school
   
#539. Season 20
Monday, October 6, 2003
MADE IN JAPAN
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Electronics maker whose initials come from "Victor Company of Japan"
   
#540. Season 31
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
WORDPLAY
Final Jeopardy
Subtract a letter from the name of a keystroke found in computer commands & you get this violent reaction to social change
   
#541. 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"
   
#542. 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
   
#543. 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
   
#544. 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"
   
#545. 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
   
#546. Season 34
Monday, January 8, 2018
2.0
Jeopardy Round: $600
This 1987 rollout was the first bundled with Word & Excel, making it tough on competing apps
   
#547. Season 34
Monday, March 26, 2018
WRONG
Jeopardy Round: $800
Paul Krugman says he wasn't totally serious in his 1998 call: this will have no more impact on the economy than the fax machines did
   
#548. Season 35
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
CIA WORLD FACTBOOKNO. 1s
Jeopardy Round: $800
China: 731 million users of this technological network
   
#549. Season 34
Monday, October 16, 2017
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this, enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines
   
#550. Season 32
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
ELECTRICITY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Rheostats & potentiometers are types of these devices that oppose the flow of current in electrical circuits
   
#551. Season 34
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
POP "STREET"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Popular video game first released by Capcom in 1987
   
#552. Season 26
Friday, February 26, 2010
20th CENTURY FICTION
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
As this 1943 Ayn Rand novel begins, Howard Roark has just been expelled from the Stanton Institute of Technology
   
#553. 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
   
#554. Season 33
Friday, June 23, 2017
FOUNDING FATHERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
As late as 2004 this future billionaire was still operating Facebook out of a Harvard dorm room
   
#555. 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
   
#556. Season 39
Monday, April 10, 2023
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Someone who writes computer programs
   
#557. Season 38
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
A PART OF IT
Jeopardy Round: $400
Google is this to Alphabet, this being one company owned by another
   
#558. Season 27
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
WHO'S THE BOSS?
Jeopardy Round: $200
...of Microsoft Corporation, 1975-2000
   
#559. Season 22
Monday, September 26, 2005
DEAD MAN WALKEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Trying to destroy Silicon Valley in a 1985 film, Walken tumbles off a blimp fighting this character
   
#560. 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
   
#561. Season 21
Thursday, February 3, 2005
IT'S JUST A GAME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Allied Assault" & "Rising Sun" are from this militaristic video game series
   
#562. Season 26
Thursday, February 18, 2010
THE NANNY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Timmy swears mom lets him play the video game "Assassin's Creed", rated M, short for this; nanny has doubts
   
#563. Season 22
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
ALL THAT JAZZ
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Charlie Christian, 1916-1942, was one of the first to electrically amplify this instrument
   
#564. Season 37
Thursday, May 27, 2021
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $400
This login partner of a password should also be secure; the website nordpass.com can help generate them
   
#565. Season 36
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
IN THE NATIONAL TOY HALL OF FAME
Jeopardy Round: $600
20 years after it was introduced, this handheld console from Nintendo scored a spot in the hall of fame
   
#566. Season 33
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
AWARDS & HONORS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Recipients of the Draper Prize, an engineering award, include this Brit, inventor of the World Wide Web
   
#567. 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
   
#568. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It was a small, flowing body of water before it became a continuous data transfer
   
#569. Season 31
Friday, May 29, 2015
TOOL TALK
Jeopardy Round: $200
In computer-speak, 404 is this "not found"
   
#570. Season 37
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Sharing a name with a type of large snake, this computer language is used in NASA's integrated planning system
   
#571. Season 19
Thursday, July 10, 2003
SCIENCE & TECH DIGEST: 1885
Jeopardy Round: $1000
American electrical engineer William Stanley invents this device for changing energy from AC to DC
   
#572. 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
   
#573. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $300
This 4-letter word from Sanskrit means someone who is a computer knowledge resource
   
#574. Season 4
Thursday, May 26, 1988
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The U.S. Census Bureau destroyed these from the 1930 census, so they have no way to check the figures
   
#575. Season 28
Friday, November 25, 2011
GRHYME TYME
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Unsightly mark on internet "Report"er Matt
   
#576. Season 15
Wednesday, March 10, 1999
"IN"
Jeopardy Round: $200
The initials of computer giant "IBM" stand for this
   
#577. Season 11
Monday, February 13, 1995
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This term for a single point in a graphic image is short for "picture element"
   
#578. Season 26
Monday, December 28, 2009
IBM
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Though it's gone beyond the corporate world, IBM stands for this
   
#579. Season 15
Tuesday, February 23, 1999
SYMBOLS
Final Jeopardy
In 1972 programmer Ray Tomlinson chose it to separate an e-mail user's name from the computer's name
   
#580. Season 20
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
COMPUTER "I"s
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Faster than a modem connection, it's a method of transmitting data digitally over phone lines
   
#581. Season 34
Monday, May 14, 2018
"ED"UCATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1880, while experimenting with lamp filaments, he observed the electrical "Effect" now named for him
   
#582. Season 22
Monday, November 7, 2005
CAROLINIANS ON MY MIND
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Internet users have South Carolina-born sci-fi author William Gibson to thank for this 10-letter term
   
#583. 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
   
#584. Season 5
Thursday, December 8, 1988
INITIALS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In computer jargon, "GIGO" stands for this
   
#585. 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
   
#586. 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
   
#587. Season 25
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
DOT-COM DOOM
Jeopardy Round: $800
The release of adverse findings of fact in the case U.S. v. this company helped spur the dot-com bust
   
#588. Season 30
Thursday, October 17, 2013
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This measure of computer speed equals 1 trillion (with a "T") floating-point operations per second
   
#589. 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
   
#590. Season 37
Friday, July 2, 2021
3's COMPANY
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2011 this tech company launched Office 365
   
#591. Season 5
Friday, June 23, 1989
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Word coined in the '40s meaning the operation of machines performing tasks that humans once did
   
#592. Season 35
Monday, March 4, 2019
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Syntax, logic & runtime are the 3 basic types of these programming boo-boos, also a baseball term
   
#593. Season 30
Friday, January 17, 2014
THE MAYO CLINIC SAYS...
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It "is a disorder that results from the surges in electrical signals inside the brain, causing recurring seizures"
   
#594. Season 24
Monday, May 26, 2008
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Computer hard drives are usually measured in GBs, which are these
   
#595. Season 28
Friday, December 16, 2011
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $400
Jimi Hendrix fans know kissthisguy.com is always good for a laugh, as it's an "archive of misheard" these
   
#596. Season 27
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE
Jeopardy Round: $600
The Queen & the British monarchy have pages on this social networking site; you can "like" them but you can't "friend" them
   
#597. Season 25
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
COMPUTER RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $600
One Air Jordan shoe on your audio component
   
#598. Season 37
Monday, June 7, 2021
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The Caribbean has lost more than 50% of these structures due to problems like overfishing, pollution & thermal stress
   
#599. Season 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
About 1840, an alphabetic code was created for communication via this new invention
   
#600. Season 32
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
VERY INVENTIVE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In addition to creating an all-electronic TV in 1927, he developed a process to sterilize milk via radio waves
   
#601. Season 39
Monday, June 26, 2023
NAMES OF THE 1990s
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Founder Steve Case was the tech tycoon of the moment when this Internet service provider went public in 1992
   
#602. Season 24
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
REALLY OLD MOVIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
After playing a video game in his trailer park in this cosmic 1984 flick, Lance Guest became "The Last" this
   
#603. Season 15
Wednesday, February 3, 1999
C IS FOR...
Jeopardy Round: $400
Cambridge, home of this school opened in Boston in 1865 by geologist William Barton Rogers
   
#604. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's believed that in 1994 WXYC in Chapel Hill in this state became the 1st radio station to webcast
   
#605. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $800
More cardiac arrest patients survive thanks to purposely induced this condition, which cools the blood 5-8 degrees
   
#606. Season 18
Monday, July 1, 2002
DIACRITICAL MARKS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
It may be found above a Polish Z, or in World Wide Web addresses
   
#607. Season 4
Wednesday, April 27, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Experts recommend you choose electrical equipment that has their mark
   
#608. Season 28
Monday, November 28, 2011
GO BLUE!
Jeopardy Round: $600
Nickname of Danish king Harald, killed in a 10th c. battle, maybe for lack of a wireless headset
   
#609. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The "III" version of "A.C.", this game, takes place in part in 1775 Colonial America
   
#610. 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
   
#611. Season 21
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
CAMERA WORK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The Internet Movie Database says a 6 1/2 minute one of actress Meena Kumari in "Daera" is the longest on film
   
#612. 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"
   
#613. Season 39
Friday, March 31, 2023
HEY, BIG SPENDER
Jeopardy Round: $800
If you're going to splurge for the Ferrari, get a GTO; the G & T stand for this Italian phrase, also a video game
   
#614. Season 15
Tuesday, June 15, 1999
INTERNET BUSINESS
Final Jeopardy
A hot stock in 1999, this internet site began as a place to buy & sell Pez dispensers
   
#615. Season 32
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
IVY LEAGUE
Jeopardy Round: $800
Project Ivy is the Home for Technology Innovation for this political group abbreviated DNC
   
#616. Season 33
Monday, March 13, 2017
OPEN THE PODCAST DOORS, HAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The World Wide Web can be wacky, & this 2-word show whose title can be a dangerous click when e-mailing fills in details
   
#617. Season 21
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
One of the goals in the "Star Wars Galaxies" video game is to become one of these knights
   
#618. Season 25
Friday, January 16, 2009
WE BLINDED YOU WITH SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Authorities generally agree that this founding father created such electrical terms as battery & armature
   
#619. 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
   
#620. Season 36
Friday, December 27, 2019
PROVERBS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A computer term, GIGO is short for this
   
#621. 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
   
#622. Season 31
Friday, February 13, 2015
SCIENCE-Y STUFF
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
2 parts gold to one part bismuth yields a substance with this 17-letter quality of very low electrical resistance
   
#623. Season 28
Friday, September 30, 2011
BLUE RAYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In electronics, a blue gun isn't a weapon but part of this in TV sets, also called the picture tube
   
#624. Season 32
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
LIKE A BOSS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2015 this ex-Microsoft man & L.A. Clippers owner was the richest sports team owner in the U.S., with $21.6 billion
   
#625. Season 13
Monday, January 6, 1997
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $500
Abbreviated G or GB in computerese, it's equal to 1,024 MB
   
#626. Season 39
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
SCIENCE & NATURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A dynamo is a device for converting mechanical energy into this type of energy
   
#627. Season 37
Monday, July 5, 2021
STARTS & ENDS WITH "T"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It means to diagnose a problem you're having with a computer or an appliance & then solve it
   
#628. Season 14
Tuesday, September 16, 1997
UNUSUAL TV CHARACTERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Lisa is the computer-generated woman in the USA series based on this John Hughes film
   
#629. Season 19
Monday, June 23, 2003
ENGINEERING
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1963 the AIEE, American Institute of these Engineers, merged with the Institute of Radio Engineers
   
#630. Season 35
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2015 Funny or Die had a picture of a storefront sign of this tech chain; many letters were fritzed out but "adioS" remained
   
#631. 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
   
#632. Season 32
Friday, July 1, 2016
"CON"CENTRATION
Jeopardy Round: $1000
A person used to transmit information, or a structure containing electrical wiring
   
#633. Season 30
Monday, March 31, 2014
ACCESSORIES
Jeopardy Round: $200
Keep your iPhone from dying with a Jonathan Adler stepped diamonds one of these
   
#634. Season 29
Thursday, November 8, 2012
JEOPARDY!ENNUI
Jeopardy Round: $600
I tire of the rows & columns of this Microsoft spreadsheet program introduced in 1985
   
#635. Season 27
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $800
Providing online access, ISP stands for this
   
#636. Season 30
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
INTERNET SLANG
Jeopardy Round: $200
A Spanish speaker might text his amigo "ADM" or "ay Dios mio", this in English
   
#637. Season 24
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
"OFF" CAMPUS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Not connected to the Internet
   
#638. Season 30
Friday, December 27, 2013
POP CULTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
This ex-cop named for what he can either dish out or endure got his third bloody video game installment in 2012
   
#639. Season 26
Friday, February 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Using 8 industrial fans, University of Florida engineers have built a simulator of these with 125-mph winds
   
#640. 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
   
#641. Season 31
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
SPY TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
An NSA career in electrical engineering may include designing these, aka aerials
   
#642. Season 10
Thursday, September 23, 1993
THE GRAPHIC ARTS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This process of changing the details on a photograph can now be done on a computer
   
#643. 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
   
#644. Season 37
Monday, March 1, 2021
BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
"It's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy", said this Apple Computer co-founder
   
#645. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
1997:
A computer with this colorful name defeats a world chess champion
   
#646. Season 32
Friday, November 13, 2015
TIMEMAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
2010:
This Facebook co-founder
   
#647. 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
   
#648. Season 24
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
COMPUTER HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
ARPANET, a 1960s Defense Department project, pioneered the sending of data in small units called these
   
#649. Season 38
Thursday, December 2, 2021
WORDS IN ELEMENTS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Si:
this, a symbol for a program on your computer desktop
   
#650. Season 8
Wednesday, November 6, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
In July 1991 IBM & this rival announced a technology alliance
   
#651. Season 25
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
RING OF "FIRE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A security system designed to prevent unwelcome hacking on your computer
   
#652. 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
   
#653. 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
   
#654. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $400
On May 3, 1978 Gary Thuerk sent the first of this irritating type of communication to 600 users
   
#655. Season 23
Monday, October 9, 2006
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $200
This word for fire is also an abusive note on a message board or in a chat room
   
#656. Season 20
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
PARTS OF THE WHOLE
Jeopardy Round: $600
Operating system,
central processing unit,
mouse
   
#657. 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
   
#658. Season 23
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
This term first appeared in print in 1971 & refers to the many electronics firms in Santa Clara County, California
   
#659. Season 29
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $600
This chipmaker, the world's largest, has announced "systems on a chip" measuring 22 nanometers
   
#660. Season 31
Monday, March 2, 2015
MANY "DO"
Jeopardy Round: $400
Unavoidable ill fortune, or a bestselling 1990s video game
   
#661. Season 32
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
"C" IN SCIENCE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Sounds sweet, but it's actually an electronic footprint that allows websites to monitor a user's online movements
   
#662. Season 16
Friday, March 3, 2000
DISNEY DOGS
Jeopardy Round: $300
The Internet Movie Database says someone actually counted all the black spots in this 1961 film & found 6,469,952
   
#663. Season 32
Monday, May 23, 2016
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO "HM"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A computer is really good at executing this, defined as a series of steps to reach a goal
   
#664. Season 35
Friday, April 19, 2019
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Dwayne Johnson plays a primatologist who cares for a big white gorilla in this 2018 video game adaptation
   
#665. Season 19
Thursday, May 22, 2003
POL POT-POURRI
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1949 Pol Pot went to study radio electronics in this city where he ended up joining the French Communist Party
   
#666. Season 33
Thursday, October 27, 2016
APOCALYPSE NOW
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Galactic apocalypse? No problem for Cortana & Master Chief in this video game series
   
#667. Season 35
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
ENDS WITH "ART"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This brand that popularized food processors in the '70s became a trademark of the Conair Corporation
   
#668. 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
   
#669. Season 38
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
BOOK 'EM
Jeopardy Round: $400
A series of instructional books was launched in 1991 with the title this 3-letter computer acronym "for Dummies"
   
#670. Season 13
Monday, February 10, 1997
ESSAYS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This humorist's collection of essays "In Cyberspace" is formatted like a computer manual
   
#671. Season 26
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1999 Sloan school alum Kenan Sahin made a surprise 9-figure donation to this institute
   
#672. Season 26
Thursday, December 10, 2009
STOP!
Jeopardy Round: $200
In May 1998 the Justice Dept. & 20 states charged Microsoft with violation of these laws designed to stop monopolies
   
#673. Season 25
Friday, June 19, 2009
COMMON COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $400
Hello:
IM
   
#674. Season 21
Monday, January 31, 2005
HANDY TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
"N-Gage" with this company's cell phone, wihch is also a portable game
   
#675. Season 35
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
ARCHITECTURE
Jeopardy Round: $200
Kids know it as a place to go play video games, but it's also a term for a kind of gallery that features arches
   
#676. Season 24
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
NERDVANA
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Music on the iPhone should only be installed from this company's iTunes
   
#677. Season 24
Friday, September 28, 2007
MEASURE TIME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Computer printer image quality is measured in DPI, which stands for this
   
#678. Season 35
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
EDUCATIONAL GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $400
In a geography computer game, you need to find out "Where in the World Is" she
   
#679. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $200
SYSADMIN, one who maintains a computer network, is short for this
   
#680. Season 10
Thursday, September 23, 1993
THE HEART
Jeopardy Round: $200
This small electronic device is sometimes implanted to stimulate the heart to beat properly
   
#681. Season 22
Monday, May 1, 2006
THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE BUSINESS BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1963 the Tandy Corporation bought this company; in 1977 it marketed the TRS-80 personal computer
   
#682. Season 4
Wednesday, October 21, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
Of 1943, 1963, or 1983, the last year Maytag made wringer-type washers
   
#683. Season 37
Monday, September 14, 2020
SENTENCING
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The arrangement of words to make a sentence meaningful; in programming, it's the arrangement of characters so a computer cooperates
   
#684. Season 16
Friday, September 17, 1999
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,200
Radiation belts that surround the Earth are named for this expert on cosmic rays
   
#685. Season 21
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
FLOWER POWER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This computing term for a series of peripherals connected to a computer sounds like a school day flower bracelet
   
#686. Season 32
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
THE ALGORITHM METHOD
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
In 2015 Time magazine told of this website's News Feed algorithm that helped personalize content
   
#687. Season 27
Thursday, February 24, 2011
HODGEPODGE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
In 2009 Facebook overtook this rival to become the biggest social networking website
   
#688. Season 39
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
THE EX-STATE CAPITAL
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
It's about time you found your way to this city, part of Silicon Valley & California's first state capital
   
#689. Season 27
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
I KNOW "UR"
Jeopardy Round: $800
Shorthand for an Internet address
   
#690. 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
   
#691. Season 28
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
INVENTIONS FOR THE HOME
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
MIT gives a prize for design named after Carl Sontheimer, who invented this food processor in the 1970s
   
#692. Season 19
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
FORMER TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Keuffel & Esser, the dominant maker of these calculating devices, made its last one in 1975
   
#693. Season 32
Friday, October 2, 2015
TOP 10 GLOBAL BRANDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
If only there were some kind of way to search the Internet for this $174 billion tech company, No. 2 on the list
   
#694. Season 16
Thursday, October 14, 1999
YOU OUGHTA KNOW
Jeopardy Round: $100
Common in Roman architecture, this term for a row of arches now often means a place to play video games
   
#695. Season 38
Friday, February 4, 2022
BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION
Final Jeopardy
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853
   
#696. Season 35
Friday, October 19, 2018
THE 1980s
Jeopardy Round: $200
Introduced by Nintendo in 1989, this handheld device was for playing cartridge-loaded amusements
   
#697. Season 19
Monday, October 7, 2002
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
VLSI, very large-scale integrated circuits, would be impossible without CAD, this kind of design
   
#698. Season 24
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
THE "M.E."s
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Microsoft released this version of Windows in 2000
   
#699. 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
   
#700. Season 37
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
HODGEPODGE
Jeopardy Round: $400
In the 2010s LoL, this multiplayer game, surpassed WoW as the world's most popular video game
   
#701. Season 15
Thursday, March 11, 1999
AD AGE
Jeopardy Round: $100
Bob Dylan, Pablo Picasso & Albert Einstein "Think different" according to ads for this computer company
   
#702. Season 28
Monday, January 23, 2012
CAN I HAVE A MOMENT?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The Webby Awards' top Internet moments for 2000-2009 include Twitter's role in this country's 2009 election protests
   
#703. Season 40
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING?
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A man... a woman in distress... ladder climbing... a giant ape... this video game that debuted in 1981 had it all!
   
#704. 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"
   
#705. Season 36
Thursday, September 19, 2019
WE INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $5,000
Interruptions at work make you constantly do this, the more technical name for switching between computer windows
   
#706. Season 21
Monday, February 14, 2005
STOCK SYMBOL SHOPPING
Jeopardy Round: $200
For electronics:
RSH
   
#707. Season 12
Wednesday, January 31, 1996
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
The first modern ones of these, called Lucifers, were invented in 1827 & struck on sandpaper
   
#708. Season 39
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY
Jeopardy Round: $200
1946: This city is "Vacuum Tube Valley" when ENIAC, the 1st general purpose digital computer, is demonstrated at U. Penn there
   
#709. Season 34
Thursday, January 11, 2018
THE MOVIES
Final Jeopardy
It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service
   
#710. Season 14
Tuesday, March 10, 1998
THE BUSINESS WORLD
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
Michael Dell made his fortune by eliminating the middleman & selling these directly to customers
   
#711. Season 18
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
In the 1970s it was scientists from this copier company who invented the laser printer, Ethernet & GUI
   
#712. 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
   
#713. Season 38
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Triforce, hookshot & Hylian shield are tokens in the edition based on this video game franchise
   
#714. Season 41
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
SOCIAL MEDIA
Jeopardy Round: $400
This platform traces its roots to an online service at Harvard that got students to rate each others' attractiveness
   
#715. Season 14
Wednesday, July 8, 1998
DON'T DO THIS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In February 1998 the Pentagon said its computers had been invaded by these, the title of a 1995 film
   
#716. Season 38
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES
Jeopardy Round: $400
Sales of these, 55% of Apple's total sales, fell 14% in 2019; never fear, the company's still worth $2 trillion
   
#717. Season 15
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
These devices advocated by firemen can work by detecting either ions or changes in light
   
#718. Season 37
Monday, February 1, 2021
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Chargers' Keenan Allen did not like his attributes in this coach's "NFL 20": "My strength is 69 like I'm a little boy"
   
#719. Season 23
Monday, April 23, 2007
COMPUTER NAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Post-ENIAC (& pre-"Flashdance") came this crazy-sounding 1952 computer that helped create the H-bomb
   
#720. Season 39
Thursday, February 2, 2023
PLAY THAT GAME
Jeopardy Round: $200
It's gotta be hard to catch 'em all when new video games keep coming out, but in 2022 folks gave it a shot with this "Legends: Arceus"
   
#721. Season 19
Monday, June 9, 2003
20th CENTURY PEOPLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In 1900 his institute of technology was founded in Pittsburgh
   
#722. Season 21
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
MED. ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A CAT scan is computerized axial this kind of imaging
   
#723. Season 22
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This institute established in 1824 is Philadelphia's Museum of Science & Technology
   
#724. Season 23
Friday, March 9, 2007
ON THE "TELE"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
I have to work at a studio, so I can't be this type of worker linked electronically to his office from his home
   
#725. Season 32
Friday, May 13, 2016
COMMUNICATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Sherlock Holmes often hears of new developments in a case via this, aka "the Victorian Internet"
   
#726. 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
   
#727. 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
   
#728. Season 20
Monday, November 10, 2003
ABBR.
Jeopardy Round: $600
Computer users should know that BBS stands for this
   
#729. Season 10
Thursday, February 24, 1994
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Device you use to click & drag
   
#730. Season 30
Monday, October 21, 2013
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & birds
   
#731. Season 33
Monday, October 17, 2016
IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE
Jeopardy Round: $600
75 would be users of this communication device
   
#732. Season 35
Friday, April 12, 2019
GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018
Jeopardy Round: $400
The top movie searches of 2006 & 2016 were for this franchise with "The Last Stand" & "Apocalypse" installments
   
#733. Season 16
Monday, October 4, 1999
THINGS I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES
Jeopardy Round: $400
10-year-old kids are the most expert at this activity, illicitly entering computer systems
   
#734. Season 27
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
The computer language COBOL is an acronym: Common this Oriented Language
   
#735. Season 13
Tuesday, June 3, 1997
MAGAZINES
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
This short form of the word "magazine" refers to personal & electronic publications
   
#736. Season 25
Thursday, May 21, 2009
OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEBSITE WE WEAVE
Jeopardy Round: $200
The 2 clickable buttons on the front page of this site are "Search" & "I'm Feeling Lucky"; well, do ya, punk?
   
#737. Season 13
Monday, June 9, 1997
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1938 this electronics firm was founded in David Packard's Palo Alto, California garage
   
#738. 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
   
#739. Season 20
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Charles Proteus Steinmetz did the math & came up with a way for this type of current circuitry to work
   
#740. Season 23
Friday, July 6, 2007
COMPUTER MILESTONES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
1988:
Crafted by Robert Morris, the first known one of these viruses wriggles into computers
   
#741. 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
   
#742. Season 37
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
DOCUMENTARIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" is a comical documentary about 2 rivals trying to outdo each other at this video game
   
#743. Season 28
Thursday, September 29, 2011
IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In 2011 Larry Page took over as CEO of Google, following this man
   
#744. Season 31
Monday, May 4, 2015
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $800
FHO:
"Friends" doing this
   
#745. Season 20
Thursday, July 8, 2004
JUMP ON THE "BAND" WAGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"The Wrath of Cortex" is this Australasian marsupial's new video game
   
#746. 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
   
#747. 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
   
#748. Season 38
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
11
Jeopardy Round: $200
Released in 2021, this Microsoft operating system 11 is the first version in over 20 years shipped without Internet Explorer
   
#749. Season 5
Wednesday, November 2, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The "D" in radar stands for this
   
#750. 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
   
#751. Season 34
Monday, March 19, 2018
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
If your new computer game has DLC, go online because it means it has this kind of "content"
   
#752. Season 29
Friday, May 10, 2013
INNOVATION
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Goodyear's air maintenance technology uses a regulator that adds air when pressure falls in these
   
#753. 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
   
#754. Season 28
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
2-LETTER RESPONSES
Jeopardy Round: $600
This 2-letter Korean company makes a sweet cell phone called the Chocolate Touch
   
#755. Season 29
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
IN THE DICTIONARY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
American Heritage, 1985:
"Under the control of a central computer" or "in progress; ongoing"
   
#756. Season 25
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
4 Es FOR THEE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
A ship that drags a body of water for ordnance, or a time-killing computer game
   
#757. Season 28
Thursday, March 15, 2012
MBAs
Jeopardy Round: $400
She joined Microsoft in 1987, the same year she received her MBA from Duke; today she's Mrs. Microsoft
   
#758. Season 40
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
FLOWER POWER
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
This computing term for a series of peripherals connected to a computer sounds like a flower bracelet
   
#759. 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
   
#760. Season 18
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
COMPUTER HACKERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Hackers on this agency's website changed the middle of its name to "stupidity"
   
#761. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
STOCK UP
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Originally named Sound of Music, this company, BBY, still offers sound electronics & music
   
#762. Season 41
Friday, November 8, 2024
THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1999 Research in Motion released this device, calling it "a breakthrough wireless email solution for mobile professionals"
   
#763. Season 29
Friday, June 14, 2013
A CASE OF A_D_D
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
An automaton, or a type of cell phone
   
#764. Season 40
Friday, December 22, 2023
NEW TO THEOED
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It means to dress up (& maybe perform) as a character from comic books, video games, movies etc.
   
#765. 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
   
#766. Season JM
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: 400
After launching this text-based app, Mark Zuckerberg took to Twitter & posted the meme of Spider-Men pointing at each other
   
#767. 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
   
#768. Season 25
Thursday, June 11, 2009
ENERGY FROM EVERYWHERE
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
To boost fuel cell technology, RISO is working to safely produce & store this, atomic No. 1
   
#769. Season 15
Friday, May 14, 1999
ROGER EBERT ON MOVIES
Jeopardy Round: $500
This 1982 Disney film in which a man gets lost in a computer was part of my 1999 Overlooked Film Festival
   
#770. Season 27
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Proverbially, it's "where the heart is"
   
#771. Season 21
Friday, April 8, 2005
"M"-A-NATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Cyberjaya, a city billed as an Asian Silicon Valley, was recently founded in this Muslim nation of 20 million
   
#772. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
VIDEO GAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In games called this "Defense", like "Unstoppable Gorg", players protect outposts from waves of baddies
   
#773. 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
   
#774. Season 21
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
INVENTIVE MINDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
Around 1930 William Lear invented one of these for the car, marketed under the name Motorola
   
#775. 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
   
#776. Season 16
Friday, January 7, 2000
WE GET LETTERS
Jeopardy Round: $500
This symbol for computer storage is equivalent to 1024 bytes
   
#777. Season 38
Friday, May 27, 2022
YOUR MIND
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the brain, electrical impulses are transmitted between neurons through connections called these
   
#778. 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
   
#779. Season 18
Wednesday, April 3, 2002
NOT IN YOUR OLD DICTIONARY
Jeopardy Round: $800
The name of this computer accessory sounds like a rodent residence
   
#780. Season 39
Thursday, December 22, 2022
TECHNOLOGY HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $200
A 2012 pilot program by police in Rialto, California used BWCs, body-worn these
   
#781. Season 17
Thursday, November 30, 2000
DALLAS
Jeopardy Round: $500
TXN on the New York Stock Exchange, this Dallas electronics firm employs over 38,000 people worldwide
   
#782. Season 4
Tuesday, March 15, 1988
THE 20TH CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1956, 3 U.S. physicists won Nobel Prize for this which allowed electronic miniaturization
   
#783. Season 28
Friday, August 3, 2012
COMMUNICATION
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This 5-letter service that lets you video chat with faraway grandmas over the Internet is part of Microsoft
   
#784. Season 37
Monday, December 7, 2020
LITERARY VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Andrew Ryan, the industrialist villain in "Bioshock", was inspired by this female author with the same initials
   
#785. 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
   
#786. Season 37
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
ALPHABET ROCKERS & RAPPERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Hey, short-pants! An electrical label led to the name of this Angus & Malcolm Young band
   
#787. Season 26
Thursday, February 4, 2010
INTERNET FAVORITES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Thousands of prisoners in the Philippines re-enacted the moves of the video of this Michael Jackson hit
   
#788. Season 20
Friday, April 30, 2004
LITTLE FEAT
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Expressed as a 1 or a 0, it's the smallest unit of information storable on a computer
   
#789. Season 41
Monday, February 24, 2025
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In the computer language COBOL, "B" stands for this word
   
#790. Season 26
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS YOUR HQ?
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Mahindra Satyam Computer Services
   
#791. Season 7
Wednesday, May 22, 1991
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
Still used after 2,000 years, a quern is a set of 2 stones, one on the other, used to do this
   
#792. Season 31
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
HODGEPODGE
Jeopardy Round: $600
In the 1980s this brand's 64 personal computer proudly claimed 64K of memory
   
#793. Season 20
Thursday, December 11, 2003
I-I-I-I
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In this early '90s video game by Sid Meier, you built "an empire to stand the test of time"
   
#794. 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
   
#795. Season 38
Friday, July 15, 2022
MEXICAN HISTORY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Selected for development using a computer, this Yucatan city got its first hotel in 1974 & is now Mexico's No. 1 beach resort
   
#796. Season 37
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
If saw blades with this gemstone in their name seem a bit cheaper than an engagement ring, it's because they use synthetic stones
   
#797. Season 39
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
TRAVEL
Jeopardy Round: $400
Some business road warriors bring an electronics version of this handy toiletries carrier named after Charles Doppelt
   
#798. 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
   
#799. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
"VoIP" means this type of "Internet protocol" to make phone calls over the web
   
#800. Season 34
Friday, July 13, 2018
NAME DESIRED
Jeopardy Round: $400
This "colorful" conservation group asked the internet to name a humpback whale & we got Mr. Splashy Pants
   
#801. Season 17
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
OWNED BY AOL TIME WARNER
Jeopardy Round: $400
This company with its Navigator Internet browser was bought by AOL in 1999
   
#802. Season 15
Tuesday, May 11, 1999
WEALTHY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is the biggest individual shareholder in Apple Computer & this amusement park near Paris
   
#803. Season 37
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
OLD JOBS
Jeopardy Round: $200
No longer needed because of computers, linotype operators made sure these things got to one's doorstep daily
   
#804. Season 30
Thursday, November 28, 2013
COMPUTER TERMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
To describe how you move objects between icons on a desktop, this word is paired with "drop"
   
#805. 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
   
#806. Season 21
Monday, March 21, 2005
HELLO, BB
Jeopardy Round: $800
In Internet domain names, this country of the West Indies
   
#807. Season 31
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
EPONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
One who fears technology; the name honors Ned, who smashed knitting machines
   
#808. Season 28
Thursday, January 26, 2012
FAMOUS FIRSTS
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 1963, for the 1st network use of this technology, Lindsey Nelson cautioned that "Army did not score again"
   
#809. Season 27
Thursday, October 7, 2010
A BUSINESS IS BORN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1998, after renaming their Backrub search engine, Larry Page & Sergey Brin incorporated under this name
   
#810. Season 18
Friday, November 9, 2001
VIDEO GAME WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $200
The game for this 2001 Disney under-the-sea animated feature has a multiplayer online mode
   
#811. Season 41
Monday, March 24, 2025
ABBREV.
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
AED is short for this life-saving device
   
#812. Season 16
Thursday, June 29, 2000
"WORD" PLAY
Jeopardy Round: $400
It's the 2-word term for computer manipulation of text
   
#813. 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
   
#814. Season 35
Monday, September 10, 2018
BUSINESS
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,400
After a $26 billion merger in 2016, this business website might keep nagging Microsoft to update its resume
   
#815. Season 36
Friday, October 18, 2019
ENABLING COOKIES
Jeopardy Round: $200
The Facebook page of this century-old brand of sandwich cookie has more than 42 million "likes"
   
#816. 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
   
#817. Season 8
Tuesday, January 21, 1992
THE SEAS
Jeopardy Round: $500
Electrical resistance is used to measure this in sea water
   
#818. Season 41
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
IT WAS THE 1970s
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
In '77, this chain introduced its TRS-80 computer; at $599.95 it was the most expensive item in stores in history but it sold like crazy
   
#819. Season 22
Friday, December 2, 2005
SPORTS NICKNAMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
The NHL's Mr. Lemieux got this Nintendo-based moniker
   
#820. 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
   
#821. Season 32
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
PORTMANTEAU WORDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
In the late 19th century, new technology made possible this method of capital punishment
   
#822. Season 13
Wednesday, November 20, 1996
PHYSICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
A fuel cell converts chemicals directly into this type of energy
   
#823. Season 31
Thursday, March 12, 2015
COMPUTER ACTIONS
Jeopardy Round: $400
This 4-letter word is "warm" when the computer's power is already on, "cold" when it's off
   
#824. Season 36
Monday, January 27, 2020
THE 2019FORBESGLOBAL 2,000
Jeopardy Round: $600
The most profitable on the list is this technology company that passed $1 trillion in value in 2018
   
#825. Season 40
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
CYBERTALK
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $1,000
It's the diplomatic word for the standards governing an exchange of data between computer systems
   
#826. Season 36
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
OK BOOMER
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Steve Case did OK, building AOL, short for this, into what was the nation's largest Internet service provider
   
#827. 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
   
#828. Season 22
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
"OFF" THE BEATEN PATH
Jeopardy Round: $600
Term for working on a computer that is not on the network
   
#829. Season 36
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Digging up redstone can help power all sorts of projects in this video game that also features creepers
   
#830. Season 29
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
"Video Game Review: In New Tomb Raider", she "Shows a Vulnerable Side"
   
#831. Season 30
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
COMPUTER STUFF
Jeopardy Round: $600
Before a game's release, Joe Gamer may be asked to play a pre-version usually referred to by this Greek letter
   
#832. Season 31
Monday, October 6, 2014
TIME FOR PLAN "B"
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Doing this step to smooth Internet streaming: 63% complete
   
#833. Season 23
Thursday, April 26, 2007
BEFORE COMPUTERS
Jeopardy Round: $600
A type of this counting device is called suan pan in Chinese & soroban in Japanese
   
#834. Season 33
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
1960s COMPUTING
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Bob Bemer was "Father of" the 5-letter standard by which computers read keystrokes & he later had it as his license plate
   
#835. Season 24
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
HAVE I TOLD YOU PHILATELY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The 1990s "Celebrate the Century" set has the World Wide Web; the 1900s set has this W.E.B.
   
#836. Season JM
Monday, May 15, 2023
ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: 400
When talking IP address, IP means this
   
#837. Season 6
Tuesday, June 12, 1990
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
In 1826, a decade before Daguerre, Joseph Niépce took the first one of these
   
#838. Season 12
Monday, May 13, 1996
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $100
A secret character in the Genesis version of NBA Jam is this current Prince of Wales
   
#839. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $600
Hacker Robert Morris' 1988 program with the name of this slithery creature crashed a tenth of the Internet
   
#840. Season 32
Thursday, July 21, 2016
TV CHARACTERS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Pied Piper's Richard Hendricks got an unusual bit of inspiration for TechCrunch-winning computer code on this HBO show
   
#841. Season 19
Monday, February 24, 2003
SHOPPING OFF THE TV
Jeopardy Round: $400
The Telezapper is supposed to help get this removed from computerized databases
   
#842. Season 3
Wednesday, April 22, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $300
Replacing germanium with this in transistors got a California "Valley" named after it
   
#843. Season 13
Friday, January 3, 1997
1990s BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $300
In 1995 NBC & this giant software company announced plans for an all-news television channel
   
#844. Season 19
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
THE LETTER G
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
In Internet domain name extensions, gg stands for Alderney, Sark & this other Channel Island
   
#845. 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
   
#846. Season 37
Thursday, March 25, 2021
ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In many systems, a machinery part is the icon for this basic function of customizing your device with your preferences
   
#847. Season 31
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
"WORK" IT!
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
There's a train stop in this desk+computer combo
   
#848. Season 30
Friday, April 18, 2014
TRANSPORTATION
Jeopardy Round: $600
Maglev is technology that helped one of these achieve a record 361 mph in 2003
   
#849. 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
   
#850. Season 37
Monday, June 7, 2021
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $2,000
A common measure of walking was coined when a Japanese company called its pedometer the Manpo-kei, or this many steps "meter"
   
#851. Season 28
Thursday, July 26, 2012
GIVE 'EM HEALTH!
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
DHA is one of these fatty acids that help stabilize the heart's electrical system; great, now I'm a fish oil salesman!
   
#852. 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
   
#853. 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
   
#854. Season 17
Thursday, February 1, 2001
THE COMPUTER AGE
Jeopardy Round: $500
Among Internet users, the World Wide Web has surpassed the system named for this burrowing rodent
   
#855. Season 37
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
WORD "UP"
Jeopardy Round: $200
To transfer information from your computer to another
   
#856. Season 20
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
INTERNET HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The 411 is that this 4-letter domain name went live in late 2001
   
#857. Season 35
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
LIKES & RAVERS
Jeopardy Round: $200
In 2016 this social network sextupled the ways you can react to a posting, adding emojis to plain old "like"
   
#858. Season 33
Monday, September 12, 2016
I LIKE YOUR COLÓN
Jeopardy Round: $400
Currency traders know the "CRC" on their computer screens is this country's colón
   
#859. Season 24
Thursday, March 6, 2008
CURSES
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
NFL players on the cover of his video game series are said to be cursed with future injury or poor performance
   
#860. Season 5
Monday, November 14, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $200
At the touch of a button on July 1, 1939, this Clay Puett invention made its horse-racing debut
   
#861. Season 21
Thursday, November 11, 2004
COMPUTER JARGON
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
"Egosurfing" means searching the net for this
   
#862. Season 30
Thursday, May 15, 2014
CHESS DRAMA
Jeopardy Round: $200
In the 2006 world title match, the challenger accused the champ of consulting a computer during visits to this room
   
#863. Season 28
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
BESTSELLERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Marc Ostrofsky's "Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet" is punningly titled "Get Rich" this
   
#864. Season 19
Monday, January 20, 2003
"V" LOVE IT!
Jeopardy Round: $200
With names like Michelangelo & Black Widow, they're designed to vandalize your computer system
   
#865. Season 22
Monday, November 21, 2005
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
It's the basic geographic unit of wireless phone service
   
#866. Season 25
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
COMPUTER RHYME TIME
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Temporary memory crushed into a jelly
   
#867. Season 22
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
COMPUTER GAMING
Jeopardy Round: $400
In the '05 version of the EA title named for this ex-Raiders coach, Al Michaels does the play-by-play
   
#868. Season 22
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It was a fine string before it became a series of posts dealing with the same subject
   
#869. Season 20
Monday, March 15, 2004
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1901 Eugene Demarcay discovered Eu, this rare-earth metal that's named for a continent
   
#870. Season 21
Thursday, November 18, 2004
NASA PRODUCTS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
NASA's technology to reduce signal noise from a spacecraft allows this product to receive clear images for your TV
   
#871. Season 26
Friday, November 27, 2009
COMPUTER ABBREV.
Jeopardy Round: $400
Useful for connecting devices, USB is short for Universal Serial this
   
#872. 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"
   
#873. Season 37
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
LET'S "EET"
Jeopardy Round: $800
In this "speak" used in Internet chat rooms, letters are replaced by numbers or other symbols
   
#874. 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
   
#875. Season 1
Friday, September 28, 1984
TRENDS
Jeopardy Round: $400
To use one, stick your floppy in your disk drive & boot
   
#876. Season 26
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
FORBES100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN 2009
Jeopardy Round: $200
Give a shout out to Carol Bartz, CEO of this Internet company & the 12th most powerful woman on the list
   
#877. Season 28
Thursday, April 19, 2012
G TO H
Jeopardy Round: $800
From the Yiddish for "lapse", it's a minor malfunction, often of a computer
   
#878. Season 24
Monday, November 26, 2007
COMPUTER ON!
Jeopardy Round: $200
Often used with ctrl & alt, this computer key will remove the letter to the right of the cursor
   
#879. Season 34
Friday, May 25, 2018
NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
RIT for short, it was one of the first schools to offer an undergraduate degree in software engineering
   
#880. Season 14
Tuesday, June 9, 1998
ODDS & ENDS
Jeopardy Round: $200
Surfers on the internet can check out the "Earth's Biggest" one at www.amazon.com
   
#881. Season 16
Friday, November 5, 1999
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Final Jeopardy
Common name given Douglas Engelbart's device, an "X-Y position indicator for a display system"
   
#882. 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
   
#883. Season 26
Monday, December 7, 2009
NEW TO THEOXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
From the name of an Apple device, this verb means to digitally transmit a broadcast over the Internet
   
#884. Season 27
Thursday, April 21, 2011
AIRLINE LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $600
The TSA's advanced imaging technology is also called FBS, short for this (passengers may have other terms)
   
#885. Season 37
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
GADGET
Jeopardy Round: $200
Introduced in 1989, the GRiDPad was the first of these portable computers that are now smaller & slimmer than laptops
   
#886. Season 5
Monday, February 6, 1989
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Using 400 computers, a team has broken down a 100-digit number into these, used as secret codes
   
#887. Season 38
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
GAME CHANGERS
Jeopardy Round: $400
In 1990 this classic card game was included as part of Windows 3.0, turning millions of casual computer users into gamers
   
#888. 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
   
#889. Season 30
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
TECH TALK
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 2014 Facebook agreed to pay $2 billion for Oculus, a maker of this immersive technology
   
#890. Season 21
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
"Y"? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU!
Jeopardy Round: $400
This web site started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
   
#891. 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
   
#892. Season 26
Friday, March 19, 2010
SAFETY FIRST
Jeopardy Round: $400
BTSI technology makes you apply this when shifting out of park, so your 6-year-old can't drive off
   
#893. 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
   
#894. Season 18
Friday, June 14, 2002
STAR TREK101
Jeopardy Round: $600
Majel Barrett, the computer voice you hear in the TV shows & films, is the widow of this creator of "Star Trek"
   
#895. Season 40
Thursday, November 30, 2023
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED
Jeopardy Round: $400
This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & bird eggs
   
#896. Season 31
Friday, June 19, 2015
I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $200
This satiric news site reported, "Paleontologists Determine Dinosaurs Were Killed By Someone They Trusted"
   
#897. Season 21
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COMPUTING 101
Jeopardy Round: $200
5-letter term for an "infectious" program designed to harm your computer
   
#898. Season 24
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
ON "ICE"
Jeopardy Round: $1000
This woman who once canoodled with Gary Hart has since become a leading Internet safety expert & advocate
   
#899. Season 31
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
IPOs
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 2011 this online discounter raised $700 million in the largest Internet IPO since Google in 2004
   
#900. Season 25
Friday, May 8, 2009
NAME THE DECADE
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The World Wide Web gets its first page
   
#901. Season 28
Friday, February 24, 2012
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
uvvu.com is the website for this "colorful" system that can unite your discs & downloads into 1 digital library
   
#902. 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
   
#903. Season 27
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
SURFIN' USB
Jeopardy Round: $200
USB technology was developed by a core group of companies that included Intel, Microsoft & this 3-letter giant
   
#904. Season 31
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $600
To come up quickly on Google, companies try to increase SEO, this type of optimization of their websites
   
#905. 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
   
#906. Season 26
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
BUSINESSWOMEN
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
Carol Bartz made a deal for Microsoft to power the searches on this engine, where she's CEO
   
#907. Season 25
Thursday, October 30, 2008
RETRONYMS
Jeopardy Round: $800
This retronym for a type of computer also means a screen with icons on it
   
#908. 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
   
#909. Season 32
Monday, April 4, 2016
INTO THIN AIR
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Alexey Pajitinov designed this video game in which falling, rotatable blocks dissappear when complete rows are formed
   
#910. 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
   
#911. Season 20
Monday, February 16, 2004
TECH TOPICS
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
It's Microsoft's answer to the PS2
   
#912. Season 23
Friday, April 6, 2007
THEIR ALBUMS ROCK
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
"Pablo Honey",
"OK Computer",
"Hail to the Thief"
   
#913. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
THE INTERNET
Jeopardy Round: $100
3-letter abbreviation for a type of line that keeps you constantly connected at high speed
   
#914. Season 29
Monday, December 17, 2012
"MAIN"
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Term for a very large computer that was the hub of a system for many users in the 1960s; today we call it a server
   
#915. Season JM
Monday, May 15, 2023
TECH TALK
Jeopardy Round: 200
John Romkey's 1990 computer-controlled toaster was a breakthrough in the IoT, short for this
   
#916. Season 27
Thursday, July 7, 2011
COMPUSTUFF
Jeopardy Round: $800
When an Internet page says "file not found", you're getting this 3-digit error
   
#917. 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
   
#918. Season 3
Friday, March 27, 1987
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
Pronounced "disaster proof", W. Germany's successfully tested MHTGR is a type of this
   
#919. Season 15
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $400
Until a 1967 table top model with a smaller electron tube was introduced, this kitchen device was big & pricey
   
#920. Season 30
Friday, April 4, 2014
COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The "RT" in "RTOS"
   
#921. Season 20
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
HY-ER EDUCATION
Jeopardy Round: $600
Web designers know it's the "HT" in HTTP & HTML
   
#922. 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
   
#923. Season 20
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
ACRONYMBLE
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
To a computer user:
DOS
   
#924. Season 17
Thursday, October 26, 2000
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
This lifesaving device had its first live test in 1946 from a Gloster Meteor aircraft
   
#925. 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
   
#926. 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
   
#927. Season 25
Thursday, June 18, 2009
(WHOOPS)
Jeopardy Round: $600
Researchers found 2/3 of this company's employees use Google instead of its own MSN Search site
   
#928. Season 25
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
WORLD WIDE WEBS
Jeopardy Round: $600
Spiders don't just use their silk to make webs, they also use them to make these egg enclosures
   
#929. Season 37
Thursday, May 27, 2021
COMPUTER SPEAK
Jeopardy Round: $600
An old external modem not communicating fast enough? You may need to increase this measure of speed, bps for short
   
#930. Season 28
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
ISN'T IT "GRAND"?
Double Jeopardy Round: $800
Titles in this mega-selling video game series include "Vice City" & "Chinatown Wars"
   
#931. 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
   
#932. Season 27
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
INVENTED IN THE 20th CENTURY
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The iPods of the Baby Boom were small radios using this device invented in 1947
   
#933. Season 6
Tuesday, May 8, 1990
COMPUTERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Like spouses who don't get along, computers that use different operating systems are said to be this
   
#934. 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
   
#935. Season 12
Thursday, April 11, 1996
"NET"s
Jeopardy Round: $300
Developed by the Dept. of Defense in the 1960s, millions now "surf" this information superhighway
   
#936. Season 32
Friday, July 22, 2016
TECHNO-THRILLERS
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
A data thief targets a giant computer mind orbiting Earth in this William Gibson cyberpunk classic from 1984
   
#937. 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
   
#938. Season 4
Monday, June 27, 1988
BUSINESS '88
Jeopardy Round: $200
Since leaving the astronaut corps, she's joined the board of directors of Apple Computer
   
#939. 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
   
#940. Season 39
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
THE CORPORATE STRUCTURE
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Here's Marc Benioff, head of this company that provides software services, at a topping-off ceremony for its San Francisco tower
   
#941. Season 27
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
CAMERAS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Using an iPhone app, you can shake the phone to make your picture come out faster, like pictures taken with this co.'s cameras
   
#942. Season 15
Friday, April 16, 1999
PC WORLD
Jeopardy Round: $500
It's not a spider, it's the person responsible for maintaining an internet site
   
#943. Season 23
Thursday, September 14, 2006
COMPUTER HISTORY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1993 Intel introduced this new chip, which had 3.1 million transistors
   
#944. Season 30
Monday, December 23, 2013
I AM SOMEBODY
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
I am Susan Bennett & I revealed myself to be the original voice of this iPhone assistant
   
#945. Season 33
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
PARTS OF THE WHOLE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Light-emitting diode,
horizontal & vertical wheels,
roller ball
   
#946. Season 12
Monday, May 13, 1996
VIDEO GAMES
Jeopardy Round: $200
"Harbinger" features Sisko, Dax, Kira & other characters from this TV series
   
#947. Season 4
Friday, October 16, 1987
"BACK" WORDS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
For a computer, it's a duplicate disk
   
#948. Season 13
Wednesday, December 25, 1996
PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH
Jeopardy Round: $200
This electronic test can tell a woman if she's having twins
   
#949. Season 18
Monday, October 8, 2001
INTERNET LINGO
Jeopardy Round: $200
This animated TV mom is symbolized here:
@@@@ :-)
   
#950. Season 5
Monday, November 14, 1988
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $500
The reason the transistor was invented was to make this piece of equipment work better
   
#951. Season 21
Thursday, July 14, 2005
POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
Sometimes the principal uses this state as an electronic amplification apparatus to get the word out
   
#952. Season 10
Monday, July 11, 1994
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD
Jeopardy Round: $200
Thomas Watson, Jr., once this computer co.'s chairman, also served as a U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R.
   
#953. 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
   
#954. Season 35
Thursday, January 10, 2019
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Berlin's Magnetbahn used this technology to move its trains
   
#955. Season 2
Wednesday, February 12, 1986
TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $200
Sex of telephone operators in the 1st exchanges
   
#956. 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
   
#957. Season 31
Friday, September 19, 2014
VANILLA
Jeopardy Round: $800
A comedian's scripted shtick, or a computer's set of instructions
   
#958. Season 41
Friday, December 20, 2024
COMPUTER TECH
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
Cryptocurrency transactions are recorded using this database technology that sounds like a defensive strategy
   
#959. Season 38
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
IT'S A NEW MACHINE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
In 1969, Leonard Kleinrock & his team sent the first message over the internet with the first this, which now connects devices like modems
   
#960. 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
   
#961. Season 12
Friday, December 8, 1995
I ♥ NY
Jeopardy Round: $500
A concert hall in this theatre complex is named for electronics industry pioneer Avery Fisher
   
#962. 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
   
#963. Season 30
Thursday, October 31, 2013
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
Jeopardy Round: $600
"S.L." is this game where you can virtually build a whole other existence
   
#964. Season 36
Friday, June 12, 2020
TROOP-POURRI
Double Jeopardy Round: $1200
A C.O.S., short for this operations specialist, protects the army's computer networks from getting hacked
   
#965. Season 26
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES
Jeopardy Round: $800
For science, technology, automotive & more:
PM
   
#966. Season 26
Thursday, July 1, 2010
STATE YOUR BUSINESS
Jeopardy Round: $800
Microsoft:
They don't own the state... yet
   
#967. Season 16
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
PEOPLE IN SPACE FILMS
Double Jeopardy Round: $600
Douglas Rain, who performed this role in "2001: A Space Odyssey", never visited the set
   
#968. 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
   
#969. Season 41
Monday, December 30, 2024
TRANSPORTATION
Jeopardy Round: $600
In 2016 Google's self-driving car project adopted this company name
   
#970. 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
   
#971. 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
   
#972. 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
   
#973. 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
   
#974. Season 16
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
COMPUTER CLASSES
Jeopardy Round: $100
Title of the person who handles mail to a website; the U.S. has a "General" one
   
#975. 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
   
#976. 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
   
#977. Season 40
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
TECH TALK
Double Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $3,000
This word, from the Greek for "life" & "measure", enabled Apple to introduce Face ID on the iPhone X
   
#978. 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
   
#979. 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
   
#980. 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"
   
#981. 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
   
#982. Season 30
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
DID YOU GET MY LETTER?
Double Jeopardy Round: $1600
In 1976 he wrote an open letter to members of the Homebrew Computer Club asking them not to steal his programs
   
#983. Season 35
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
TAKING STOCK
Jeopardy Round: $800
In 1971 this new U.S. stock exchange introduced the era of all-electronic trading
   
#984. Season 35
Thursday, November 29, 2018
HODGEPODGE
Jeopardy Round: $600
In September 2013 this video game "V" carjacked $1 billion in sales in its first 3 days of release
   
#985. Season 40
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
STARTS & ENDS WITH "L"
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
An Internet aesthetic focuses on these spaces, eerie, transitional places like empty hotel hallways
   
#986. Season 16
Thursday, May 18, 2000
QUASI-RELATED PAIRS
Double Jeopardy Round: $1000
The computer in the movie "Alien" & French Chef Julia
   
#987. 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
   
#988. Season 34
Monday, June 11, 2018
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOKS
Double Jeopardy Round: $400
The technology of a galaxy far, far away is the subject of Patrick Johnson's "The Physics of" this film series
   
#989. 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
   
#990. Season 24
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
ANIMATED MOVIES
Jeopardy Round: $600
Tom Hanks voiced 4 characters in this Christmas film that used motion-capture technology
   
#991. Season 18
Friday, May 31, 2002
TOM WHO...
Jeopardy Round: Daily Double - $600
...founded computer gaming company Red Storm Entertainment
   
#992. Season 29
Thursday, November 15, 2012
APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Jeopardy Round: $1000
Several items packaged together, such as software that comes with the purchase of a computer
   
#993. 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
   
#994. 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
   
#995. Season 39
Friday, December 2, 2022
OLD TECHNOLOGY
Double Jeopardy Round: $2000
Fed with a long sheet of paper, this type of printer you're hearing now has lingered with businesses like airport car rental
   
#996. Season 38
Monday, November 22, 2021
MIX TAPE
Jeopardy Round: $1000
For auxiliary data storage, computers sometimes use this type of tape that often has iron oxide in it
   
#997. Season 39
Friday, May 26, 2023
RESEARCH
Jeopardy Round: $1000
The Internet Archive developed this "Machine" for cached pages that allows users to look at the ghosts of websites past
   
#998. Season 28
Thursday, May 10, 2012
INTERNET SHORTHAND
Jeopardy Round: $400
Someone who types "MorF" is probably trying to determine this
   
#999. Season 39
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
SCI-FI & FANTASY
Jeopardy Round: $400
P. Djèlí Clark uses this subgenre named for Victorian-era technology for his "Dead Djinn" stories set in an alternate 1912 Cairo
   
#1000. Season 9
Tuesday, June 29, 1993
TECHNOLOGY
Jeopardy Round: $100
A box of 64 Crayola crayons has one of these devices "built-in"
   
 
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