Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (43 results returned)

#3, aired 2024-02-02WILL YOU STILL NEED "ME" $800: The science of climate & weather meteorology
#9000, aired 2023-12-22NEW TO THE OED $2000: From meteorology, it's a long, narrow current of water-soaked air moving horizontally above the Earth an atmospheric river
#12, aired 2023-01-26UNDER STUDY $5,000 (Daily Double): It sounds like it might be the study of shooting stars, but it's the science of the atmosphere, weather & weather forecasting meteorology
#8758, aired 2022-12-07GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $200: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) The first big storm that I covered was this hurricane that slammed into the Gulf Coast in 2005 with major impacts in New Orleans, coastal Mississippi & Alabama Katrina
#8758, aired 2022-12-07GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $600: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) Severe weather events can be predicted earlier & more accurately, thanks to radar using the frequency shifting event named for this man Doppler
#8758, aired 2022-12-07GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $800: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) In 2020, I visited this natural wonder on the Zambezi River to see firsthand how it had recovered from drought that had reduced its spectacular flow to a mere trickle Victoria Falls
#8758, aired 2022-12-07GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $1000: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) Ironically, propeller planes were the first to encounter this atmospheric region of high-speed wind that affects weather across the globe the jet stream
#8758, aired 2022-12-07GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $3,400 (Daily Double): (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) In early 2020, I was in Australia to cover its unprecedented wildfires & learn how the hottest & driest year on record had parched giant stretches of these native trees filled with extremely flammable oil eucalyptus trees
#8568, aired 2022-02-02WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY $200: The Groundhog Day Festival in this Pennsylvania borough celebrated rodent meteorology for the first time in 1887 Punxsutawney
#8525, aired 2021-12-03IT'S A SCIENCE $200: Atmospheric sciences include climatology & this, the study & forecasting of the weather meteorology
#8354, aired 2021-03-11NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: In meteorology, an okta is a unit used to describe the cloud cover of this fraction of the sky 1/8
#8019, aired 2019-06-20METEOROLOGY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows storms on a map.) In the north Atlantic & northeast Pacific, "hurricane" is the regional term; in the northwest Pacific, it's "typhoon", but in the south Pacific & Indian Ocean, this word is used, from Greek for "circle" a cyclone
#8019, aired 2019-06-20METEOROLOGY $800: When one of these devices that measures air pressure is falling, wet weather is likely on the way a barometer
#8019, aired 2019-06-20METEOROLOGY $1600: The 11-year cycle of these solar areas that are a cool 6,500° has been correlated with temperature changes on Earth sunspots
#8019, aired 2019-06-20METEOROLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): This triatomic allotrope of oxygen leaves that peculiar smell in the air after thunderstorms ozone
#8019, aired 2019-06-20METEOROLOGY $2000: The Beaufort scale generally ranges from 0 to 12 in measuring this wind
#7865, aired 2018-11-16-OLOGIES $800: It's the study of the atmosphere & weather, not of shooting stars meteorology
#7637, aired 2017-11-21"INSTA"! $2000: Referring to an unsettled situation, this word used in meteorology can be "regional" in political science instability
#7464, aired 2017-02-09-OLOGIES $400: For a B.S. degree in this -ology, you have to take courses like weather forecasting & climate dynamics meteorology
#7038, aired 2015-04-01METEOROLOGY $400: In these discharges associated with cumulonimbus clouds, temperatures can reach 50,000 degrees lightning
#7038, aired 2015-04-01METEOROLOGY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) It's the 2-word term for a transition zone between an advancing mass of higher temperature air & a retreating cooler one a warm front
#7038, aired 2015-04-01METEOROLOGY $1200: The Doppler type of this enables meteorologists to determine how fast a storm is moving & in what direction a radar
#7038, aired 2015-04-01METEOROLOGY $2000: Typhoons, hurricanes & the lows on weather maps are all examples of these atmospheric circulations cyclones
#7038, aired 2015-04-01METEOROLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): A North American people lend their name to this hot, dry wind of the Rocky Mountains Chinook
#6653, aired 2013-07-17-OLOGIES $800: This -ology practiced by a guy on the 6 o'clock news sounds like it's about bodies falling from space meteorology
#6257, aired 2011-11-29-OLOGIES $200: The name of this -ology, the study of atmosphere & weather, comes from a book title by Aristotle meteorology
#5919, aired 2010-05-13SYMBOLISM $800: In meteorology 2 parallel lines denote this, not as dense as fog mist
#5352, aired 2007-12-11CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $2000: In meteorology, when a cold one has a close encounter with a warm one & takes it over, it's called an occluded one a front
#5348, aired 2007-12-05SMOKIN' "ACE"s $1200: A very small amount of something, or in meteorology, precipitation of less than 0.0005 in. a trace
#4760, aired 2005-04-22METEOROLOGY $200: These can develop from hurricanes that make landfall, or from rotating thunderstorms called supercells tornadoes
#4760, aired 2005-04-22METEOROLOGY $400: Measured with a hygrometer, it causes discomfort at high readings because sweat can't escape into the air humidity
#4760, aired 2005-04-22METEOROLOGY $600: While western Oregon & Wash. are wet, this mountain range functions as a "rain shadow" for the eastern part the Cascades
#4760, aired 2005-04-22METEOROLOGY $800: A current in the Indian Ocean bears the name of this rainy summer weather it helps bring a monsoon
#4760, aired 2005-04-22METEOROLOGY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map with arrows pointing from the upper-right corner.) Diagrammed here, the direction from which the winds come give these rough weather phenomena their name nor'easters
#4676, aired 2004-12-27WILL YOU STILL NEED "ME" $800: The science of climate & weather meteorology
#3641, aired 2000-06-05GIRL SCOUTING $300: A girl studies this science to earn the badge seen here: weather (or meteorology)
#3573, aired 2000-03-01-OLOGIES $100: Though it sounds like it deals with space matter, it's the study of weather Meteorology
#2818, aired 1996-11-27SCIENTISTS $2,500 (Daily Double): His 1637 "Discours de la methode" prefaced a series of essays on optics, meteorology, and geometry Rene Descartes
#2005, aired 1993-04-30WEATHER $300: The word meteorology traces its origin to a 4th cent. B.C. work by this student of Plato Aristotle
#1983, aired 1993-03-31-OLOGIES $100: Nephology is the branch of meteorology that studies these, nimbus or otherwise clouds
#993, aired 1988-12-21ABBREVIATIONS $1,200 (Daily Double): In chemistry Rh is the symbol for rhodium while in meteorology RH stands for this relative humidty
#791, aired 1988-02-01PARIS $300: Once the world's tallest structure, it's still used for navigation, meteorology & broadcasting the Eiffel Tower
#51, aired 1984-11-19SCIENCE $200: It's the study of weather, not meteors meteorology

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (2 results returned)

#8597, aired 2022-03-15METEOROLOGY: It was feared this word caused panic, but in 1950 the U.S. Weather Bureau ended a ban on it in forecasts, saying prediction wasn't impossible tornado
#5936, aired 2010-06-07METEOROLOGY: Low- & high-pressure systems & tropical moisture set the stage for a 1991 nor'easter nicknamed these 2 words "Perfect Storm"

Players (2 results returned)

Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
Tim Wagner, a graduate student of meteorology from Madison, Wisconsin Season 27 player (2011-07-22).



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