#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE HEAVENS & EARTH $400: It's the type of rock found in many of Yosemite's rock formations & in New Hampshire's nickname granite |
#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE HEAVENS & EARTH $800: The Cassini Division & the Roche Division surround this celestial body Saturn |
#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE HEAVENS & EARTH $1200: The name of this volcanic vent through which steam & gas are emitted comes from the Latin for "smoke chamber" a fumarole |
#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE HEAVENS & EARTH $2000: In these seismically active zones, one of Earth's tectonic plates sinks as another one slides over it subduction zones |
#9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE HEAVENS & EARTH $11,800 (Daily Double): Cepheids are the pulsating type of these stars that fluctuate in brightness variable stars |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | MODELS OF THE HEAVENS $400: In Sweden's scale model of the solar system, Stockholm's 230-foot Globe Arena is the Sun & this dwarf planet is 5" wide, 185 miles away Pluto |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | MODELS OF THE HEAVENS $800: Almost 2,000 years old, a celestial globe called the Farnese Atlas does not show individual stars but only these constellations |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | MODELS OF THE HEAVENS $1200: The model here shows a grain of dust from one of these traveling bodies, magnified 20,000 times a comet |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | MODELS OF THE HEAVENS $1600: A model kit for this last moon mission contains parts to make a lunar module & lunar rover Apollo 17 |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | MODELS OF THE HEAVENS $2000: A NASA scale model uses a grapefruit-sized sun in D.C.; the Sun's "neighbor", Proxima this, would be a cherry in California Centauri |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | HEAVENS $400: Happiness due to the ignorance of your problems puts you in this person's "paradise" the fool's paradise |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | HEAVENS $800: A Pennsylvania rescue farm with this alliterative name rescues hoofed animals, porcine or not Hog Heaven |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | HEAVENS $1200: Fats Domino sang, "Just Molly & me, & baby makes 3, we're happy in" this place my blue heaven |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | HEAVENS $1600: These heavenly gates are one route to climb Oregon's Mount Hood the Pearly Gates |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | HEAVENS $2000: The Heavens, a gabled section above the stage, provides shade & allows for overhead effects in this theatre the Globe |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $200: The star Algol in the constellation Perseus represents the severed head of this Gorgon Medusa |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $400: The head of this "hunter" is marked by the binary star Meissa Orion |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $600: They represent the heads of Gemini, but these 2 stars are not twins; one is a giant, the other a triple binary Castor & Pollux |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $800: Hamal, the alpha star in this constellation, is from the Arabic al ras al hamal, "head of the sheep" Aries |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $1000: M15, one of the brightest globular clusters in the sky, is near the head of this winged stallion Pegasus |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | MY HEAVENS! $200: Because of the greenhouse effect, the surface temperature on this planet is over 800 degrees F. Venus |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | MY HEAVENS! $400: The hottest stars, such as Rigel, are this color & have surface temperatures over 30,000 degrees blue |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | MY HEAVENS! $600: In the northern hemisphere, latitude is equal to the angle above the horizon of this star, Alpha Ursae Minoris the North Star (or Polaris) |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | MY HEAVENS! $800: In 1801 Ceres became the first one of these to be discovered an asteroid |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | MY HEAVENS! $1000: This Frenchman prepared the first systematic catalog of nebulous objects; each object has an "M" number (Charles) Messier |
#4768, aired 2005-05-04 | MY HEAVENS! $400: In 1610, while serving as court mathematician for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he first observed the rings of Saturn Galileo |
#4768, aired 2005-05-04 | MY HEAVENS! $1200: In his 1573 work "De Nova Stella", this Dane wrote down his observation of his newly discovered star Brahe |
#4768, aired 2005-05-04 | MY HEAVENS! $1600: As assistant to her planet discoverer brother, she herself discovered 8 comets (Carolyn) Herschel |
#4768, aired 2005-05-04 | MY HEAVENS! $2000: In the 1850s this American stargazer visited the Vatican Observatory, which would only admit her by day (Maria) Mitchell |
#4768, aired 2005-05-04 | MY HEAVENS! $3,000 (Daily Double): He developed the 3rd of his laws of planetary motion while serving as provincial mathematician in Linz, Austria (Johannes) Kepler |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | HEAVENS TO BETSY! $400: If you can't visit her home at 239 Arch Street in Philadelphia, take a virtual tour of it on the web Betsy Ross |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | HEAVENS TO BETSY! $800: Betsy Blair was nominated for a 1955 Oscar for playing Ernest Borgnine's shy girlfriend in this film Marty |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | HEAVENS TO BETSY! $1600: She was perhaps best-known as a game show panelist before she played Jason's mother in "Friday the 13th" Betsy Palmer |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | HEAVENS TO BETSY! $2000: A 19th century song tells the tale of this gal "who crossed the wide prairie with her lover Ike" Betsy from Pike |
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 | HEAVENS TO BETSY! $2,600 (Daily Double): In the film "The Betsy", the Betsy is one of these that Laurence Olivier names for his great-granddaughter a car |
#4456, aired 2004-01-12 | THE HEAVENS $400: Telescopes on Earth can only view this galaxy from the inside out the Milky Way |
#4456, aired 2004-01-12 | THE HEAVENS $800: Ancient astronomers figured the Earth was 3 times larger than the Moon by timing one of these an eclipse |
#4456, aired 2004-01-12 | THE HEAVENS $1600: Like her late husband Eugene, Carolyn Shoemaker hunts these comets |
#4456, aired 2004-01-12 | THE HEAVENS $2000: In 1664 Robert Hooke discovered this still largely mysterious feature of Jupiter the Great Red Spot |
#4456, aired 2004-01-12 | THE HEAVENS $5,000 (Daily Double): In terms of light speed, it's 8 minutes away from the Earth the sun |
#3196, aired 1998-06-22 | MY HEAVENS! $200: When you've reached this Buddhist heaven, you've broken the cycle of rebirth Nirvana |
#3196, aired 1998-06-22 | MY HEAVENS! $400: Welcome! Odin receives the souls of slain heroes in this heavenly hall Valhalla |
#3196, aired 1998-06-22 | MY HEAVENS! $600: The "white man"'s name for the Native American heaven where there's plenty of fish & game "Happy Hunting Ground" |
#3196, aired 1998-06-22 | MY HEAVENS! $800: To the ancient Greeks, these fields were the home of the blessed dead Elysian Fields |
#3196, aired 1998-06-22 | MY HEAVENS! $1000: In Islam, it's the numerical heaven where the most high live Seventh Heaven |