Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (64 results returned)
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ASTROLOGY TIME $6,000 (Daily Double): According to astrology, we are influenced not only by the planets but also by these objects, like Pallas & Vesta asteroids |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $600: A class of objects the size of asteroids but resembling comets in composition is named for these man-horse hybrids centaurs |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | DISCOVERIES $4,000 (Daily Double): 4 of these were discovered by 1807; astronomers sulked that they weren't full planets but got over it when Astraea was found in 1845 asteroids |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BRING YOUR "A" GAME $1600: Save your ship by shooting space rocks in this Atari arcade game introduced in 1979 Asteroids |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | SPACED OUT $1600: A group of these called the Trojans isn't in the main belt but follows Jupiter's orbit asteroids |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $1600: Vesta, in the belt of these objects, is the brightest one in our solar system asteroids |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | TALK NERDY $1,000 (Daily Double): (Cara Santa Maria gives the clue.) Caltech scientist Carrie Nugent explained how to track & predict the impact these would have if on a collision course with Earth; the method used in the movie "Armageddon" is not very practical asteroids |
| #7792, aired 2018-06-26 | SPACED-OUT BUSINESS $600: Slow, floating objects were the bane of the triangle-shaped ship's existence in this 1979 Atari video game Asteroids |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | NO MAN'S SKY $2000: By the mid-'90s Carolyn Shoemaker had discovered more of these than anyone else alive, including Shoemaker-Levy 9 comets |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | THE APOLLO $800: Because of their proximity to us, Apollo asteroids are on NASA's table of NEOs, short for these near-Earth objects |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | SOLAR SYSTEM RHYME TIME $1000: The thawing of the area filled with asteroids belt melt |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | ASTROMANIA $400: The majority of our solar system's asteroids, including Ceres, are found in a wide belt between Mars & this planet Jupiter |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | MOONS $1200: Some astronomers believe that these 2 moons of Mars were asteroids at one time Phobos and Deimos |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | LADY CEREBELLUM $400: Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered 800 asteroids & 32 of these zooming through space comets |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1600: A downloadable app called this company's "Greatest Hits" features Asteroids & Missile Command Atari |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | INSIDE THE BELTWAY $800: These objects also known as planetoids are mainly found in a "belt" of them between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter asteroids |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | THE HALEAKALA OBSERVATORY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Haleakala Observatory in Maui, Hawaii.) The world became a safer place when Haleakala's Pan-STARRS telescope went into operation in 2010; its mission is to search the skies for NEAs, these unwelcome visitors to our cosmic neighborhood near-earth asteroids |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | GENERAL SCIENCE $800: Unusual names borne by these celestial objects include 3834 Zappafrank & 10221 Kubrick asteroids |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | ASTRO-QUIZ $800: In 1801 Ceres became the first of these to be discovered asteroids |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES $400: Putting your initials next to your high score was an early innovation of this game Asteroids |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $400: Damocloids aren't astronaut curse words; they're an unusual type of these with elliptical orbits asteroids |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF 2007 $400: NASA is studying the possibility of a manned mission to one of these hurtling objects; it could help with deflection plans asteroids |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | FUN WITH PROBABILITY $1200: NASA's Spaceguard Survey watches for the "extremely small" probability of these 2 objects coming to smash Earth comets & asteroids |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | ASTRONOMY $400: These objects, aka minor planets, range in size from about 20 feet in diameter to around 485 miles in diameter asteroids |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | "ITE"S NOT IN THE BIBLE $400: These objects that fall from the heavens to smite the Earth are often fragments of asteroids meteorites |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | ASTROLOGY TIME $1000: According to astrology, we are influenced not only by the planets but also by these objects, like Ceres & Vesta asteroids (or minor planets) |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | CHANCE $1000: The 2 main types of object whose danger is gauged on the Torino scale; a 3 means a 1% chance of destructive impact comets & asteroids |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | SCIENCE $600: Albert Ghiorso at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab holds the record for discovering the most of these elements |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | THE NIGHTTIME SKY $1200: It's estimated that more than 1,000 of these bodies greater than 18 miles in diameter orbit between Mars & Jupiter asteroids |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | FAMOUS NAMES $2000: By 1946, he'd catalogued over 29,000 galaxies, almost 4,000 asteroids & 1 new planet--Pluto Clyde Tombaugh |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | AT THE ARCADE $1000: In the original Asteroids game, this was the term for jumping to a random location warping to hyperspace |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | ASTRONOMY $600: Among the most distant of these, the Trojan Group actually travels in the same orbit as Jupiter Asteroids |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | STARDUST $800: To honor the Beatles, 4 of these mini-planets were named McCartney, Lennon, Harrison & Starr Asteroids |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | ASTEROIDS $200: In December 1994 asteroid 1994 XM1 came within 65,000 miles of this planet -- too close for comfort Earth |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | ASTEROIDS $400: Jupiter is a planet; this wife of his, just an asteroid Juno |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | ASTEROIDS $600: Ceres, the largest & first minor planet discovered, orbits among the asteroids just beyond this planet Venus |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | ASTEROIDS $800: Ida, photographed by the Galileo probe in 1993, has its own little one of these, named Dactyl Moon |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | ASTEROIDS $1000: The fourth asteroid discovered was named for this Roman goddess of the hearth Vesta |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | ASTRONOMY $400: Most of these minor planets revolve around the sun in a "belt" between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter asteroids |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | ASTRONOMY $600: At about 600 miles in diameter, Ceres is the largest first discovered of these minor planets asteroids |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | ASTRONOMY $400: The total mass of these minor planets in the solar system is less than that of our moon asteroids |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | ASTRONOMY $200: The Trojan asteroids lie in 2 groups moving 60ยบ ahead & behind the orbit of this largest planet Jupiter |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ASTRONOMY $500: Of these "minor planets", Vesta is the only one sometimes visible to the naked eye asteroids |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: It's believed that the majority of meteorites are fragments of these minor planets asteroids |
| #2364, aired 1994-12-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $500: Icarus & Apollo, 2 of these, have diameters of about 1100 yards asteroids |
| #1924, aired 1993-01-07 | "A" IN SCIENCE $200: Sighted in 1801, Ceres is the first discovered & largest of these minor planets asteroids |
| #1848, aired 1992-09-23 | OUTER SPACE $600: Over 2,000 of these have been cataloged, including Ceres, Pallas, & Vesta asteroids |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | "A" IN ASTRONOMY $200: Also called "minor planets", thousands of these circle the sun asteroids |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | ASTRONOMY $1000: This aptly named group of asteroids includes Hector, Priam & Aeneas the Trojans |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $1000: Scientists have plotted the orbits of over 2500 of these, including those of Hidalgo & Amor asteroids |
| #1583, aired 1991-06-19 | ASTRONOMY $500: In 1801, Ceres became the 1st of these bodies to be discovered asteroids |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | COMETS & ASTEROIDS $200: Like atoms, comets also have this distinct inner core nucleus |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | COMETS & ASTEROIDS $400: Mainly composed of dust & ice, comets have been called "dirty" ones of these snowball |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | COMETS & ASTEROIDS $600: Most asteroids are found between the orbits of these two planets Mars & Jupiter |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | COMETS & ASTEROIDS $800: Large comets often travel through space within a cloud of this gas hydrogen |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | COMETS & ASTEROIDS $1000: In 1973 Skylab astronauts had a chance to study this comet, which appears every 75,000 years Kohoutek |
| #1461, aired 1990-12-31 | THE PLANETS $600: One theory holds that this planet's two moons are captured asteroids Mars |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | ASTRONOMY $200: 4 asteroids named Lennon, McCartney, Harrison & Starr honor this rock group The Beatles |
| #977, aired 1988-11-29 | ASTRONOMY $1,500 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 types of orbiting bodies classed as minor planets in our solar systems asteroids |
| #973, aired 1988-11-23 | THE UNIVERSE $600: Leonids are these that seem to radiate from the constellation Leo meteors |
| #576, aired 1987-02-23 | THE UNIVERSE $400: Also known as the minor planets, the 1st & largest of these rocky bodies discovered was Ceres asteroids |
| #476, aired 1986-10-06 | "A" IN SCIENCE $100: Minor planets smaller than our moon, those with names include Ceres, Juno & Eros asteroids |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | ASTRONOMY $200: Most meteors are bits of debris left by these passing by comets |
| #340, aired 1985-12-27 | ASTRONOMY $3,000 (Daily Double): Most asteroids are found between the orbits of these 2 planets Mars & Jupiter |
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