Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (125 results returned)

#21, aired 2023-11-29FAR OUT $1500: Move over, Galileo! Two astronomers named Alan & Thomas discovered this large comet in 1995 Comet Haleā€“Bopp
#8966, aired 2023-11-06TO THE EXOPLANETS! $3,200 (Daily Double): In 1995 astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, in this "equine" constellation Pegasus
#8785, aired 2023-01-13LET'S TALK GALAXIES $800: Astronomers use "S" to designate this type of galaxy with arms wrapping around a circular nucleus spiral
#7, aired 2022-11-06STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: Astronomers use this 3-letter word to refer to a period of time equaling one billion years; to others, it means a really long time an eon
#8696, aired 2022-09-12DISCOVERIES $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
#8661, aired 2022-06-13ASTRONOMY $2000: Astronomers use this, the difference in an object's direction when observed from 2 points, to measure distance parallax
#8495, aired 2021-10-22PLANETARY SCIENCE $800: Ancient astronomers finally realized Phosphorus, seen in the morning, & Hesperus, in the evening--both this planet Venus
#8480, aired 2021-10-01SCIENCE $1600: Astronomers recently found a cluster of these cosmic bodies & think their collisions were the source of gravitational waves black holes
#8474, aired 2021-09-23WELCOME TO COMET-CON! $1600: In 1997 the world caught sight of this comet named for 2 amateur astronomers Hale-Bopp
#8293, aired 2020-12-02EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $600: 2 English astronomers completed this line in 1767 the Mason-Dixon Line
#8239, aired 2020-09-17SCIENCE & NATURE $1600: Studying flares & the corona, in 2019 U.K. astronomers determined that this field is 10 times stronger than previously thought the Sun's magnetic field
#8048, aired 2019-09-11HOBBIES & PASTIMES $400: Amateur astronomers know of the 5 planets that can be seen with the naked eye, this is the farthest from the Sun Saturn
#8003, aired 2019-05-29SPACE "EX" $800: To astronomers, this isn't the end of a species but the atmospheric dimming of a star when it's low on the horizon extinction
#7978, aired 2019-04-24SCIENCE CENTRAL $800: A 2017 study by astronomers shows that this part of our sun rotates 4 times as fast as the surface the core
#7687, aired 2018-01-30THROWING SHADE $1200: Astronomers sometimes put "pen-" in front of this word for shadow umbra
#7361, aired 2016-09-19MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $800: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) At L.A.'s Griffith Observatory, the Astronomers Monument features 6 giants of the field: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Herschel & this Italian genius Galileo
#7359, aired 2016-09-15ASTRONOMY $800: The Sombrero Galaxy is classified by astronomers as this type of galaxy having a pinwheel shape a spiral galaxy
#7222, aired 2016-01-26SCIENCE UPDATE $1000: In 2015 astronomers found 2 giant ones orbiting each other at the center of a nearby quasar black holes
#7174, aired 2015-11-19RIGHT NOW SCIENCE $800: Astronomers geared up for fireworks when the enormous gas cloud G2 passed Sagittarius A*, one of these a black hole
#7167, aired 2015-11-10MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Due to its odd, dramatically-inclined orbit, astronomers believe Neptune's moon, Nereid, may be a captured one of these asteroid
#6929, aired 2014-10-30ASTRONOMY $2000: In 1992 astronomers Luu & Jewitt found the first of these "objects", KBOs for short Kuiper belt objects
#6843, aired 2014-05-21TO THE EXOPLANETS! $2000: In 1995 astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, in this "equine" constellation Pegasus
#6822, aired 2014-04-22I'VE GOT TIME $400: Astronomers use sidereal time, based on the Earth's rotation in relation to these stars
#6753, aired 2014-01-15ASTRONOMY $400: In September 2011 astronomers announced that just like Tatooine, Kepler-16b orbits 2 of these suns (or stars)
#6736, aired 2013-12-23RADIOASTRONOMY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.) The Byrd Telescope has helped astronomers map the remnants of SN 1006, one of these spectacular events; when it was first observed 1,000 years ago, It was so bright, it was visible to the naked eye in daylight a supernova
#6633, aired 2013-06-19ASTRONOMERS $400: In 2008 this astronomer for whom a space telescope is named was honored on a U.S. postage stamp Hubble
#6633, aired 2013-06-19ASTRONOMERS $800: Giovanni Schiaparelli named several features on this planet &, in 1877, discovered "canali", or channels Mars
#6633, aired 2013-06-19ASTRONOMERS $1200: The first 2 of this German astronomer's laws of planetary motion appeared in his 1609 work "Astronomia Nova" Kepler
#6633, aired 2013-06-19ASTRONOMERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A type of this astronomical object is named for Karl Schwarzschild; his name should give you a hint a black hole
#6633, aired 2013-06-19ASTRONOMERS $2000: His sister Caroline found 8 comets on her own & helped him discover Uranus (William) Herschel
#6584, aired 2013-04-113-"D" $600: Adjective for a clear night good for astronomers, or a Hollywood gala packed with celebs star-studded
#6574, aired 2013-03-28MOONS $1200: Some astronomers believe that these 2 moons of Mars were asteroids at one time Phobos and Deimos
#6505, aired 2012-12-21"D" IN SCIENCE $400: To astronomers, the presence of this type of "matter" is descerned from its gravitational pull dark
#6437, aired 2012-09-18STAR SEARCH $600: This word for what we know to be a very old star is Latin for "new"--silly ancient astronomers! nova
#6414, aired 2012-07-05THE OCCULT $400: Popular with astronomers & astrologers, this word comes from a Greek phrase meaning "circle of little animals" a zodiac
#6115, aired 2011-03-25THE HALEAKALA OBSERVATORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Haleakala Observatory in Maui, Hawaii.) Astronomers at Haleakala are using the Faulkes Telescope North to observe the ongoing gigantic collision of two galaxies that gets this name from the long star trails that extend to each side, like sensory organs from the head of an insect antennae
#6041, aired 2010-12-13ASTRONOMERS $400: In 1690 this comet discoverer designed the forerunner of the modern diving bell (Edmund) Halley
#6041, aired 2010-12-13ASTRONOMERS $800: This Polish astronomer has craters on the moon & Mars named for him Copernicus
#6041, aired 2010-12-13ASTRONOMERS $1600: In 1980 this Cornell astronomer co-founded the planetary society & served as its first president (Carl) Sagan
#6041, aired 2010-12-13ASTRONOMERS $2000: His "belt" about 4.65 billion miles from the sun may contain more than 70,000 objects Gerard Kuiper
#6041, aired 2010-12-13ASTRONOMERS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1609, using a weak 9-power telescope, he discovered that Venus has phases just like our moon Galileo
#5731, aired 2009-07-06DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $600: Astronomers gave this Beatles-inspired name to BPM 37093, a white dwarf star with a 2,500-mile-wide diamond core Lucy
#5571, aired 2008-11-24ASTRONOMERS $400: Oh my heavens! In 1706 Danish astronomer Olaus Roemer published a new catalog listing these stars
#5571, aired 2008-11-24ASTRONOMERS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) In the 200s B.C. Eratosthenes calculated Earth's girth using the difference in the angle of the Sun's rays between Aswan & this Egyptian city Alexandria
#5571, aired 2008-11-24ASTRONOMERS $1600: Giordano Bruno suffered this punishment in 1600 for declaring the Sun the center of the Solar System he was burned at the stake
#5571, aired 2008-11-24ASTRONOMERS $2000: This 2nd century astronomer's theories were the standard for 1,400 years Ptolemy
#5571, aired 2008-11-24ASTRONOMERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Pole's "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" was published with a disclaimer to avoid charges of heresy (Nicolaus) Copernicus
#5472, aired 2008-05-27"ARM"s $2000: (Cheryl reports from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) A new pavilion features a 3500 lb. sculpture of one of these spheres used by early astronomers to represent the circles of the heavens armillary
#5420, aired 2008-03-14THE SOLAR SYSTEM $1000: On March 10, 1977 astronomers discovered this 7th planet from the sun also had rings Uranus
#5175, aired 2007-02-23TOUGH SCIENCE $400: Astronomers classify these clusters of stars as elliptical, lenticular, irregular or spiral galaxies
#5049, aired 2006-07-20TED'S HUES $1200: This color "shift", a change observed in spectral lines, gives astronomers like Ted a good idea of galactic motion red
#4880, aired 2005-11-25DOWN TO EARTH $2000: A clue for alien astronomers looking for life on Earth is the large amount of this gas, CH4, in the atmosphere methane
#4802, aired 2005-06-21OTHER PLANETS' MOONS $2000: In June 2004, astronomers got pictures of this Saturn-lite with the same name as a "Friends" character Phoebe
#4769, aired 2005-05-05RUSSELLMANIA $400: Astronomers Henry Russell & Ejnar Hertzsprung devised a diagram displaying the luminosity of these stars
#4731, aired 2005-03-14SHADES OF BROWN $1000: Astronomers know that the name of this brown comes from the Latin for "shadow" umber
#4707, aired 2005-02-08UNIVERSAL TRUTH $1,400 (Daily Double): Observations from this, launched in 1990, revealed galaxies older than astronomers expected the Hubble (Space) Telescope
#4456, aired 2004-01-12THE HEAVENS $800: Ancient astronomers figured the Earth was 3 times larger than the Moon by timing one of these an eclipse
#4411, aired 2003-11-10AVERAGE $1600: In March 2003 astronomers said this grayish light brown was the average color of the universe beige
#4327, aired 2003-05-27ASTRONOMY'S GREATEST HITS $200: In 1995, 2 Swiss astronomers announced the first known one of these to orbit a star other than the sun planet
#4327, aired 2003-05-27ASTRONOMY'S GREATEST HITS $600: Around 240 B.C. Chinese astronomers observed this, later named for a British astronomer Halley's Comet
#4317, aired 2003-05-13GREEK ALPHABET SOUP $400: It's used by astronomers to designate the second- brightest star in a constellation beta
#4260, aired 2003-02-21BUILDINGS $1600: Gustave Eiffel of tower fame also designed a nice dome for this type of building used by astronomers observatory
#4220, aired 2002-12-27THE PLANET URANUS $800: In 1846 astronomers found this planet from the effects it had on Uranus' orbit Neptune
#4146, aired 2002-09-16A TRIP TO OUTER SPACE $1000: Many astronomers believe the Great Andromeda spiral galaxy has one of these "dark" collapsed stars at its center black hole
#4095, aired 2002-05-24ASTRONOMERS $200: In Polish this heliocentric astronomer's name is Mikolaj Kopernik Copernicus
#4095, aired 2002-05-24ASTRONOMERS $400: Helen Hogg found over 200 of the variable type of these, whose light varies in helpfully regular intervals stars
#4095, aired 2002-05-24ASTRONOMERS $600: There were only 7 known planets in our solar system when John Couch Adams predicted the existence of this one Neptune
#4095, aired 2002-05-24ASTRONOMERS $800: Asteroid observations helped Harold Jones establish this at about 93 million miles distance from the earth to the sun
#4095, aired 2002-05-24ASTRONOMERS $1000: In 1959 Martin Ryle, whose work led to quasars' discovery, became professor of this type of astronomy at Cambridge radio astronomer
#3860, aired 2001-05-18ASTRONOMY $500: In 1986 astronomers found a massive one of these at the center of the Milky Way galaxy Black hole
#3671, aired 2000-07-17LINES $300: Surveyed by 2 astronomers in the 1760s, it settled a dispute between the Calvert & Penn families Mason-Dixon Line
#3434, aired 1999-07-08ASTRONOMERS $200: Galileo's first discovery in 1609 was that the surface of this is not smooth, but pitted Moon
#3434, aired 1999-07-08ASTRONOMERS $400: He predicted a comet he observed in 1682 would return in 1758 (he was right) Edmond Halley
#3434, aired 1999-07-08ASTRONOMERS $600: Edwin Hubble was the first to say the Andromeda nebula was one of these, separate from ours Galaxy
#3434, aired 1999-07-08ASTRONOMERS $800: Aristarchos proposed a heliocentric theory about 1,700 years before this famous Pole Nicolaus Copernicus
#3434, aired 1999-07-08ASTRONOMERS $1000: In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered this new type of star that emits regular bursts of radio waves Pulsar
#3344, aired 1999-03-04THE MASON-DIXON LINE $200: As well as surveyors, Mason & Dixon had this profession, Mason having worked at the Greenwich Observatory Astronomers
#2934, aired 1997-05-08ASTRONOMY $200: Astronomers divide the sky into 88 of these star groups constellations
#2785, aired 1996-10-11ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: Astronomers say they've found 2 new planets, one in the Big Dipper & one in this "chaste" constellation Virgo
#2779, aired 1996-10-03SCIENCE $400: When astronomers got a close-up look at this object in 1985-86, its nucleus looked like a big potato Halley's comet
#2625, aired 1996-01-19ASTRONOMY $200: It's the only star on which astronomers have observed spots Sun
#2588, aired 1995-11-29ASTRONOMY $500: In 1987 astronomers got their best look at one of these exploding stars in almost 400 years a supernova
#2581, aired 1995-11-20THE 1980s $100: Astronomers were astonished to discover a gigantic arc of hot gases near the center of this galaxy Milky Way
#2444, aired 1995-03-30GENERAL SCIENCE $400: Voyager 1 found one of these above Jupiter; astronomers had only known of Saturn's & Uranus' a ring
#2426, aired 1995-03-06STARS $600: Astronomers use a photometer to measure this brightness
#2426, aired 1995-03-06STARS $1000: In 1967 British radio astronomers discovered the first of these spinning neutron stars a pulsar
#2375, aired 1994-12-23STARS $300: Astronomers often measure the distance of stars in these units, equal to about 5.88 trillion miles a light year
#2132, aired 1993-12-07GENERAL SCIENCE $400: Astronomers speculate that quasars are the bright nuclei of these star systems galaxies
#2124, aired 1993-11-25ASTRONOMERS $200: Like this Italian, American astronomer Seth Nicholson discovered 4 moons of Jupiter Galileo
#2124, aired 1993-11-25ASTRONOMERS $400: This PBS host determined that the high temperatures on Venus are caused by the greenhouse effect Carl Sagan
#2124, aired 1993-11-25ASTRONOMERS $600: Karl Schwarzschild has a type of this named after him; Schwarz is a clue Black hole
#2124, aired 1993-11-25ASTRONOMERS $1000: Members of this family found a division in Saturn's rings & ran the observatory in Paris Cassini
#2124, aired 1993-11-25ASTRONOMERS $3,000 (Daily Double): His observatory on the Scandinavian island of Ven lacked a telescope; it hadn't been invented yet Tycho Brahe
#1889, aired 1992-11-19EXPLORERS $800: In 1768 he led an expedition to Tahiti, where astronomers studied the transit of Venus across the sun James Cook
#1693, aired 1992-01-01THE UNIVERSE $1000: For measuring distance, astronomers commonly use these 2 units, abbreviated ly & pc light-years and parsecs
#1648, aired 1991-10-30SCIENCE $800: Astronomers knew very little about Pluto until this moon was discovered in 1978 Charon
#1487, aired 1991-02-05THE PLANETS $800: Because it is smallest & lightest, some astronomers think it should be considered an asteroid Pluto
#1380, aired 1990-09-07THE MOON $700 (Daily Double): 17th century astronomers were the 1st to refer to the large dark areas on the Moon as these seas
#1330, aired 1990-05-18THE UNIVERSE $600: Astronomers think the Andromeda Spiral may have one of these collapsed stars at its center Black hole
#1312, aired 1990-04-24ASTRONOMERS $200: Born Niklas Koppernigk, he was a canon of Frauenberg Cathedral from 1497 until his death in 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus
#1312, aired 1990-04-24ASTRONOMERS $400: Astronomer Frank Drake set up Project Ozma about 1960 to search for this -- didn't work Extraterrestrial Intelligence/Life Elsewhere
#1312, aired 1990-04-24ASTRONOMERS $600: In 1675 Danish astronomer Olaus Roemer announced the 1st real measurement of the speed of this Light
#1312, aired 1990-04-24ASTRONOMERS $800: While teaching at the Univ. of Padua in 1610, he discovered 4 moons of Jupiter using a 30-power telescope Galileo
#1312, aired 1990-04-24ASTRONOMERS $1000: This Italian astronomer discovered the division in Saturn's rings that bear his name Giovanni Cassini
#1121, aired 1989-06-19ASTRONOMY $500: The crab nebula is the remnant of one of these witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 supernova
#1034, aired 1989-02-16FEBRUARY $500: 2 great astronomers born in February--1 in Poland in 1473 & 1 in Italy in 1564 Copernicus & Galileo
#1011, aired 1989-01-16THE PLANETS $300: It's the planet astronomers know least about Pluto
#973, aired 1988-11-23THE UNIVERSE $400: The 2 planets astronomers can view crossing the face of the sun Mercury & Venus
#892, aired 1988-06-21THE SOLAR SYSTEM $600: This planet was discovered in 1781; in 1977, astronomers discovered it has rings Uranus
#833, aired 1988-03-30THE SOLAR SYSTEM $600: Some astronomers abbreviate this feature of Jupiter as "GRS" the great red spot
#808, aired 1988-02-24VENUS $1,400 (Daily Double): Reason early astronomers had 2 different names for Venus--Phosphorus & Hesperus because they thought it was really two different planets
#807, aired 1988-02-23ASTROLOGY $600: While astronomers don't, astrologers call these 2 bodies "planets" the Moon & the Sun
#804, aired 1988-02-18PATRON SAINTS $400: Saint Dominic is patron to "billions & billions" of these scientists astronomers
#781, aired 1988-01-18U.S. HISTORY $600: The 2 English astronomers for whom the famous boundary line between Penn. & Maryland was named Mason & Dixon
#740, aired 1987-11-20MAPS $300: in 1884, astronomers and geographers set this line as the starting point for east-west measurements Prime Meridian (Greenwich)
#589, aired 1987-03-12SCIENCE $600: Cosmology is a branch of metaphysics or, to astronomers, the origin & structure of this universe
#480, aired 1986-10-10ANCIENT WORLDS $200: By 240 B.C., Halley's Comet had been observed by astronomers in this oriental country China
#476, aired 1986-10-06"A" IN SCIENCE $400: Occupation common to Harlow Shapley, Sir John Herschel, & Edwin Hubble astronomers
#457, aired 1986-09-09THE CALENDAR $800: Unlike historians, astronomers include a year numbered this in their calculations 0
#442, aired 1986-05-20CONSTELLATIONS $1000: Each August astronomers watch for these in the constellation Perseus meteors
#314, aired 1985-11-212ND CENTURY $800: "Handy Tables", "Harmonica", & "The Almagest" are among this astronomers surviving works Ptolemy
#188, aired 1985-05-29PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Until the 1700s, astronomers were aware of only this many planets 6
#171, aired 1985-05-06ANCIENT WORLDS $600: It is believed astronomers from this Far East country observed sunspots as early as 28 A.D. China
#148, aired 1985-04-03SCIENCE $200: These stargazers are also called "astrophysicists" astronomers
#65, aired 1984-12-07HISTORY $400: Ancient Yucatan tribe that had no schools but were excellent astronomers the Mayans

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (3 results returned)

#2, aired 2020-01-07ASTRONOMERS: This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon Shoemaker
#5635, aired 2009-02-20ANCIENT WORKS: Astronomers used clues in the text of this epic to figure out the date of its archery contest: April 16, 1178 B.C. The Odyssey
#4413, aired 2003-11-1218th CENTURY AMERICA: These 2 British astronomers were sent to America in 1763 to settle a land dispute Mason & Dixon

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