Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (34 results returned)
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | WE ARE FUNGI $400: Hounds & hogs have been trained to hunt for these underground fungi, like the PĂ©rigord or the Burgundy truffles |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | WE ARE FUNGI $800: Some fungi release these reproduction units like a catapult; one species can shoot them 6 feet in the air spores |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | WE ARE FUNGI $1200: This mushroom that grows on fallen timber has a Japanese name whose first part refers to a type of oak shiitake |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | WE ARE FUNGI $1600: This type of edible mushroom with a French name is also called a Girolle Chanterelle |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | WE ARE FUNGI $2000: If you follow stars of "my"cology like Suzanne Simard & Merlin Sheldrake, you know this name of the network of fungal threads mycelium |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $400: 360 to 300 million B.C. is sometimes called the "Age of" these nonflowering, spore-producing plants Ferns |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $800: All animals possess this protein that keeps skin firm & is used as a dietary supplement & cosmetic lip injection collagen |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $1200: The Greek for "mushroom" gives us this word for the study of fungi mycology |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $2000: Plants, animals, fungi & protists are the 4 kingdoms of these organisms, from Greek for "good" & "kernel" eukaryotes |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $2,600 (Daily Double): To the Romans, Robigus was the god of this fungus that appears as red, orange or yellow spots on plants a rust |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $400: These prized edible fungi come from the genus Tuber truffles |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $800: A fungus is the culprit in white nose syndrome, killing more than 6 million of these animals in North American caves bats |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $1200: A type of rust that infects this beverage crop was discovered in Africa around 1870 & kept out of Brazil for a century coffee |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $1600: The giant type of this mushroom is named for the way it releases spores; it can contain 7 trillion puffball |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $2000: LSD was created from this fungal disease of cereals known to create its own hallucinations ergot |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | FUNGI $400: "Unearthed" is a Discovery Channel show in which foragers dig up these valuable black fungi in the forests of Oregon truffles |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | FUNGI $800: Fungi requiring a host to live are called these; some chitonomyces fungi depend on just one species of water beetle parasites |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | FUNGI $1200: In the 1840s late blight caused by the water mold Phytophthora infestans destroyed this crop in Ireland potatoes |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | FUNGI $3,000 (Daily Double): Seed is to plant as this is to fungus spore |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $200: In 1845 & 1846 the Phytophthora infestans fungus destroyed this crop in Ireland, causing a famine potatoes |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $400: The Jack-o'-lantern mushroom, whose cap & gills are this color, gets its name because it glows in the dark orange |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $600: This antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 in a mold penicillin |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $800: Fungi lack this green coloring matter that plants use to make food chlorophyll |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | RETURN OF THE FUNGI $1000: The name of this dark brown mushroom whose cap can be up to 10 inches across is Japanese for "oak mushroom" shiitake |
#3607, aired 2000-04-18 | I'M SUCH A FUNGI $100: To leaven your bread, add this fungus to it yeast |
#3607, aired 2000-04-18 | I'M SUCH A FUNGI $200: Take a look: Fungal amphibian furniture seen here toadstool |
#3607, aired 2000-04-18 | I'M SUCH A FUNGI $300: Expensive chocolates are made to look like these edible underground fungi truffles |
#3607, aired 2000-04-18 | I'M SUCH A FUNGI $400: From the Greek for "sowing", these are a fungus' "seeds" spores |
#3607, aired 2000-04-18 | I'M SUCH A FUNGI $500: This "dry" fungal disease turns timber into powder dry rot |
#1750, aired 1992-03-20 | FUNGI $200: A downy mildew wiped out these in Ireland beginning in 1845 potatoes |
#1750, aired 1992-03-20 | FUNGI $400: This unicellular fungus is used in leavening yeast |
#1750, aired 1992-03-20 | FUNGI $600: Dogs & hogs root out these delicacies in the forests of Perigord, France truffles |
#1750, aired 1992-03-20 | FUNGI $800: Originally from Japan, it's now grown in the U.S. & called the black mushroom a shiitake |
#1750, aired 1992-03-20 | FUNGI $1000: It's the study of fungi mycology |
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