Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (31 results returned)
#11, aired 2023-01-19 | SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $600: In the 17th century Robert Hooke coined the term "cell" for the biological structures he saw using this recently invented instrument a microscope |
#7784, aired 2018-06-14 | 17th CENTURY LIT $800: Francis Bacon penned a vision of society based on 17th century science, "The New" this fabled lost land Atlantis |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: A clock invented by Christiaan Huygens using this feature that oscillates was the accuracy standard until quartz in 1927 a pendulum |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Working at the Royal Observatory in Paris in 1676, Ole Romer demonstrated that this travels at a finite speed light |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: In 1643 Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer, enabling the measurement of this air pressure (or atmospheric pressure) |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: Logarithmic scales are key to this adjustable calculator invented by William Oughtred a slide rule |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: With his telescope in 1610, Galileo focused in on this moon, the largest of Jupiter & of our solar system Ganymede |
#7280, aired 2016-04-15 | 17th CENTURY PEOPLE $1600: With a nose for science, around 1650 this French author wrote tales about imaginary journeys to the Moon & Sun (Cyrano) de Bergerac |
#6440, aired 2012-09-21 | IT'S THE MATH OR SCIENCE LAW $2000: 3 laws of planetary motion, including the law of areas, are named for this 17th century German astronomer (Johannes) Kepler |
#6345, aired 2012-03-30 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 1603, Hieronymus Fabricius noted that these in the legs have valves that control blood flow veins |
#6345, aired 2012-03-30 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Native Americans have used this malaria treatment from the cinchona tree for years before it reached Europe in 1642 quinine |
#6345, aired 2012-03-30 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: Using data from Tycho Brahe, Kepler surmised that the planets' orbits are these shapes, not circles ellipses |
#6345, aired 2012-03-30 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: Though "nature abhors" this, Robert Boyle was able to create one using a pump a vacuum |
#6345, aired 2012-03-30 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: This mathematician came up with his "last theorem" in 1637; it wasn't proved until 1995 Fermat |
#5438, aired 2008-04-09 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: 17th century Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens developed the wave theory of this light |
#4073, aired 2002-04-24 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 1609 English astronomer Thomas Harriot used the new telescope to draw maps of this body before Galileo did the moon |
#4073, aired 2002-04-24 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $800 (Daily Double): The machine Denis Papin built in 1690 was the first to use steam to move one of these in a cylinder a piston |
#4073, aired 2002-04-24 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Johann Magnenus believed there were 3 elements, fire, earth & water, each made up of these, which we can't see atoms |
#4073, aired 2002-04-24 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: In 1656 Christiaan Huygens found time to invent a clock with this new regulator the pendulum |
#4073, aired 2002-04-24 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: John Napier's 1614 table of these took the blues out of calculating logarithms |
#3631, aired 2000-05-22 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $200: Before he made a telescope Hans Lippershey made a living grinding lenses for these Eyeglasses |
#3631, aired 2000-05-22 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: About 1621 William Oughtred invented this device that stuck out of nerds' shirt pockets well into the 20th century the slide rule |
#3631, aired 2000-05-22 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $600: In 1628 this British physician circulated his description of how blood circulates William Harvey |
#3631, aired 2000-05-22 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: In the appendix of his "Discourse On Method" this Frenchman introduced analytic geometry Rene Descartes |
#3631, aired 2000-05-22 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $1000: Wow! In 1660 Otto Von Guericke designed a sulfur globe that when rotated & rubbed produced this Static electricity |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $500: In 1611 Kepler published a paper on the 6-sided nature of these weather phenomena snowflakes |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $1000: About 1645 A. Kircher came up with this device that projects pictures on a wall the magic lantern |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $1500: After John Napier discovered these, William Oughtred invented a slide rule to utilize them logarithms |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: In a 1665 book Robert Hooke described the cells of this plant he saw through his microscope cork |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | 17th CENTURY SCIENCE $2500: In 1675 this astronomer found at least 2 rings separated by a gap encircling Saturn Cassini |
#349, aired 1986-01-09 | 17th CENTURY $600: To help science in 1631, William Oughtred 1st proposed "x" as a symbol of this function multiplication |
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