| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | SCIENCE $800: It's the term for a device used to speed up particles so that they can be collided & studied; it's also another name for a car's gas pedal the accelerator |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | PHYSICS & ENERGY $2000: Menlo Park, California has a 2-mile-long linac, short for this structure, to crack the secrets of matter a linear accelerator |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | SCIENTIFIC DEVICES & INSTRUMENTS $1600: Built by CERN & located on the Swiss-French border, it's the world's most powerful particle accelerator the Large Hadron Collider |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTOMOTIVE ALLITERATION $400: This feature locks a car's accelerator to maintain a constant speed cruise control |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Another word for the gas pedal the accelerator |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | SCIENCE $1600: This accelerator run by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, operates up to 575 feet below ground the Large Hadron Collider |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | LABORATORIES $1600: This European research facility operates the largest particle accelerator in the world CERN |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $1200: The linear type of this device increases the speed of particles as they move toward a target at the end of a tunnel an accelerator |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WEIRD FACTS $800: The name of this weasel relative can mean "to clear out"; in 1971 Fermilabs used one to clean the tubes of a particle accelerator a ferret |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | "TRON" LEGACY $1600: Ernest Lawrence won a Nobel Prize in Physics for this particle accelerator a cyclotron |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | COME UP TO THE LAB $1600: The Tevatron particle accelerator at the Illinois lab named for this Italian had a circumference of 3.9 miles Fermi |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $1000: "Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back" Ghostbusters |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | A NATION OF NATIONAL LABS $1000: Brookhaven in New York has the Relativistic Heavy Ion this, an accelerator that smashes particles together Collider |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Veterinary Hospital at UC Davis, CA.) The state-of-the-art linear accelerator with real-time imaging is designed to treat cancer more quickly by delivering precise doses of this to destroy abnormal cells radiation |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) At the heart of the Neutron Science Center is a powerful linear accelerator that accelerates protons to 84% of this, the "c" in E = mc2 the speed of light |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | CERN $1600: The activation of CERN's first accelerator helped develop the theory of this "anemic" type of force weak force |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | PHYSICS $1600: In the 1930s physicist Ernest Lawrence developed this first circular particle accelerator a cyclotron |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $600: The Van de Graaff generator is a type of this, just like the Large Hadron Collider a particle accelerator |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from CERN in Switzerland.) In an accelerator, particles circulate in a vacuum tube kept in nearly circular orbits by many of the dipole type of these field-producing objects magnets |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1600: This type of particle accelerator utilizes a spiraling path a cyclotron |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | E3 $400: Put the pedal to the metal & increase your speed accelerate |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks down a long corridor.) I'm in one of the longest buildings in the world at SLAC, the Linear Accelerator Center of this California university Stanford |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | BILL MURRAY MOVIE QUOTES $600: "Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back" Ghostbusters |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) The Argonne Lab grew out of World War II fission research in nearby Chicago; the first one of these was built by Fermi on a squash court, & today Argonne is continuing that heritage with new, fast types that destroy their own waste a nuclear reactor |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | WANT TO RACE? $400: (Alex drives a race car at the Toyota Grand Prix.) When braking & downshifting, it's always a good idea to tap this pedal in order to increase your RPMs for a smooth transition an accelerator |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | SPEED UP! $2000: Abbreviated P.A., it's a device used to speed up bits of atoms a particle accelerator |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.) Cooled magnets at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facilitate this super phenomenon; current shows no resistance, & gold ions travel at nearly light speed superconductivity |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Stanford Accelerator Center.) Particle accelerators come in 2 types, circular, & this one here at Stanford, in which particles approach the speed of light, as they zip along a 2-mile track linear |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | BIOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): Not just something in a car, it's a type of neuron that sends signals to an effector, like a muscle a motor |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ACCELERATOR $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls the control room of the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) A detector identifies each particle produced in the accelerator, computing its charge & this measurement that Einstein related to energy mass |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ACCELERATOR $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) In the first of several Nobel Prizes won at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the high rate of new particle production was traced to a new kind of particle, the charm type of this a quark |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ACCELERATOR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the floor of the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) In the 2-mile long linear accelerator, an electromagnetic wave pushes these particles along, kind of like surfers electrons |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ACCELERATOR $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew turns from a computer terminal at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) It took 6 years to build the SLC, Stanford Linear this, to make particles smash into each other at high energy Collider |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ACCELERATOR $2,500 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Stanford Linear Accelerator at Menlo Park, CA.) At one end of the accelerator, particles are fired out of a gun that uses this type of negative electrode, just like the ray on your TV set cathode |
| #5451, aired 2008-04-28 | "C" IN PHYSICS $1600: Ernest Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of this particle accelerator the cyclotron |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | BILL MURRAY FILM QUOTES $1200: "Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back" Ghostbusters |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | DOUBLE Cs $200: It's the pedal "put to the metal" (by professional drivers under controlled conditions) accelerator |
| #4392, aired 2003-10-14 | THE WALTONS $2000: In 1932 physicist Ernest Walton co-developed one of these that sped up protons to smash lithium nuclei particle accelerator |
| #4351, aired 2003-06-30 | YOU'RE THE "TOP" $2000: In 1995 scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab announced the discovery of this subatomic particle top quark |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | TYPE "A" $1200: This term for a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction is also a pedal in a car accelerator |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | WHAT THE ELEMENT $1000: Lawrencium, named for Ernest Lawrence, was discovered in one of these -- the linear type, not a cyclotron Particle accelerator |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): The National Accelerator Lab near Batavia, Illinois is named for this Italian-American physicist (Enrico) Fermi |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | SCIENCE $800: This apparatus for increasing ions to high energies is called a linac for short a linear accelerator |
| #1408, aired 1990-10-17 | "A" IN SCIENCE $100: The gas pedal on a car, or a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction accelerator |
| #896, aired 1988-06-27 | SCIENCE $300: Type of physicist who works with a linear accelerator particle physicist (nuclear physicist) |
| #885, aired 1988-06-10 | PHYSICS $400: It will be an oval-shaped concrete tunnel, 53 miles around, in which speeding atoms crash into each other accelerator |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | PHYSICS $500: Also called a "linac", it's an apparatus for accelerating ions to high energies a linear accelerator |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $800: To show the paths of charged particles, they're sent through this fog-filled enclosure cloud chamber |
