Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (35 results returned)
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $200: Fittingly, these teeth used to grind food take their name from the Latin for "millstone" molars |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: From Greek for "snail", it's a tube in the inner ear that's coiled like a snail's shell cochlea |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $600: The name of these neck veins goes back to Latin words for throat & yoke jugular |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: From the Greek word for "kidney", these units, about a million per kidney, filter waste from the blood nephrons |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1000: Used when sitting cross-legged, this longest muscle derives its name from Latin for "tailor", as tailors often sat that way the sartorius |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: From a Latin word for "hair", it's the name of the body's tiniest blood vessels capillary |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: Fittingly, the name of this colorful part of the eye goes back to a Greek word for "rainbow" iris |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: The name of this organ that produces digestive juices comes from words meaning "all flesh" the pancreas |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1600: When seen from the side, your tailbone somewhat resembles the beak of a cuckoo bird, hence this other name for it coccyx |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $2000: Associated with memory, this curved area in the brain's temporal lobe takes its name from a Greek word for "seahorse" hippocampus |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: The name of this joint means "arm bend" the elbow |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: From the Latin for "neck", it's the narrow, necklike lower end of the uterus cervix |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: The name of this hard protein found in hair & nails derives its name from a Greek word for "horn" keratin |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1600: This other word for the windpipe comes from the Greek for "rough"; it was the "rough artery" the trachea |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $4,600 (Daily Double): Aristotle was the first to call the bones of the fingers these; they are arranged in rows like Greek soldiers phalanges |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $200: From a Latin word meaning "to turn", they're the bones that make up the spine vertebrae |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: Even smaller than a strand of hair, these tiniest blood vessels get their name from a Latin word for hair capillaries |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $600: The flap of cartilage known as the epiglottis is so named because it lies at the root of this organ the tongue |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800 (Daily Double): This small gland in the brain is named for its resemblance to a conifer's cone the pineal gland |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates on himself.) A large muscle that covers the shoulder joint is what determines your shoulder's shape & definition; its resemblance to a certain Greek letter gives it this name a deltoid |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: From the Latin for "to hang", it's the thin, closed tube with no known function that hangs from the large intestine the appendix |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: No insult intended, but the name of this muscle means "biggest butt" gluteus maximus |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1600: Prone to inflammation, this membrane that covers the eyeball & inner eyelid is from the Latin for "to join together" conjunctiva |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $2000: Though it doesn't look like one, the name of this piece of flesh that hangs from the soft palate means "little grape" uvula |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): Used as a synonym for thorn, this structure's name comes from a Latin word for "thorn" the spine |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: This alternate name for the kneecap is from the Latin for "little plate" patella |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: Italian anatomist Alfonso Corti gave his name to the organ of Corti, which is the actual organ of this sense hearing |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: This scientific name for the tailbone comes from its resemblance to a cuckoo bird's beak coccyx |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1600: This tough membrane that forms the outermost covering of the brain is Latin for "hard mother" dura mater |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) The hyoid bone, which supports the tongue, takes its name from the Greek word hyoeides, meaning shaped like the lowercase form of this Greek letter upsilon |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: This closed tube that may become inflamed is from Latin for "hanging from", as it hangs at the end of the large intestine the appendix |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $800: This rubbery connective tissue gets its name from a Latin word meaning "gristle" cartilage |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: The name of this gland near the stomach literally means "all flesh" the pancreas |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1,600 (Daily Double): The heart is completely enclosed in this membranous sac from the Greek for "surrounding the heart" the pericardium |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $2000: From the Greek for "hard", it's the dense white part of the eye the sclera |
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