| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley Brave New World |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | AWARDS & HONORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Computer science's equivalent to the Nobel Prize is named for this 20th century British mathematician (Alan) Turing |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 20th CENTURY CHINA $400: On April 24, 1970 China launched its first of these, an important achievement for Chinese science a satellite |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: Sivapithecus, once thought to be our ancestor, turned out to be the ancestor of this Sumatran ape the orangutan |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: Vincent du Vigneaud synthesized 2 of these: vasopressin & oxytocin hormones |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: In 1937 Carlo Perrier & Emilio Segre filled in no. 43 on this table, the first entry to be artificially produced the periodic table |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: John Northrop joined this generation when he found that this digestive enzyme is a protein the pepsin generation |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: (I'm astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.) We were just getting used to dark matter being 90% of the universe when in 1998 we were hit with this discovery, which is making the universe expand much faster than anyone had expected dark energy |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | SCIENCE $400: Into the 20th Century it was thought the universe was one big galaxy--this one the Milky Way |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | DOCTOR WHOM? $600: This 20th century president was the first to hold a doctorate; his degree was in political science Wilson |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 1992 Alexander Wolszczan discovered the first ones of these outside our solar system planets |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: From the Greek for "twig", it's a plant or animal made from a portion of another without sex a clone |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $1200: The "M" in MASER stands for this; the rest of the acronym is the same as in "LASER" microwave |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $1600: In 1932 this inventor figured out a better way than using Iceland spar to polarize light Edwin Land |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: In 1921 it was found that this hormone controlled your carbohydrate metabolism insulin |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TIDBITS $200: After Sir James Chadwick's 1932 discovery of this fundamental particle of matter, the world went fission a neutron |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TIDBITS $400: Meredith Gourdine's work on gas dispersion led to a way of clearing this from airport runways fog |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TIDBITS $800: In the '70s Hans Dehmelt took a color photo of Astrid, a single charged ion of this element, Ba barium |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TIDBITS $1,000 (Daily Double): Entomologist Thomas Eisner helped decipher the flash code used by the femmes fatales of these insects fireflies |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TIDBITS $1000: The UNIVAC computer used this format for permanent data storage magnetic tape |
| #3650, aired 2000-06-16 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: Fm is the chemical symbol for this element, discovered in the 20th century Fermium |
| #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 |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $400: The OED lists the first use of "robotic" in a 1941 tale by this author in Astounding Science Fiction Isaac Asimov |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $200: She was a political science professor when she was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: Jeane Kirkpatrick |
| #1198, aired 1989-11-15 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $500: A space telescope to be launched by the space shuttle in 1990 is named for this 20th century astronomer Edwin Hubble |
| #955, aired 1988-10-28 | SCIENCE $400: 20th century Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch discovered the dance of these insects bees |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $1000: The 1556 German science classic "De re metallica" was translated into English by this president & his wife Herbert Hoover |
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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