| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: John B. Glen began in veterinary science but won a 2018 Lasker Award for developing propofol, one of these for humans an anesthetic |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | SCIENCE & EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) According to "National Geographic", since 1995, there have been major collapses of sections A and B of the ice shelf named for this Norwegian explorer; an iceberg about the size of Delaware broke off section C in 2017 Carl Anton Larsen |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SCIENCE TIMELINE $200: Around 480 B.C.:
Anaxagoras explains the cause of these events, one of which darkened Greece in 478 B.C. eclipses |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | ANCIENT SCIENCE $400: Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl a compass |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us statues at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) The Hall of Immortals honors medical pioneers, like Madame Curie, ancient Egypt's Imhotep, &
of course, this man, born in Greece around 460 B.C. Hippocrates |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | SCIENCE "B" $1200: The name of this sedative compound synthesized in 1903 is also found after seco-, amo- & pheno- barbital |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | SCIENCE "B" $1600: This simple hydrocarbon, discovered in gas from whale oil, is the word for gasoline in Danish & Hungarian benzene |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | SCIENCE "B" $2000: The higgs type of this elementary particle was postulated by Peter Higgs in 1964 a boson |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | SCIENCE GUYS $1,600 (Daily Double): Born a slave in Missouri, this scientist received a B.S. in Agriculture from Iowa State in 1894 George Washington Carver |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | "B.C." $200: In computer science, ones & zeroes are key to this binary code |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Scholars can't read a 10-word column found in Guatemala but know it means these people had writing in 2300 B.C. the Mayans |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | DUKE UNIVERSITY $600: Got ESP? Then you know in the '20s J.B. Rhine began his famous studies at Duke in this science that researches ESP parapsychology (paranormal psychology accepted) |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | "B" IN SCIENCE $400: This treelike grass with a woody stem is the favored food of pandas bamboo |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | "B" IN SCIENCE $800: Toxins from these single-celled organisms can cause diseases like botulism bacteria |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | "B" IN SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the theory that the universe was created in a cosmic explosion the big bang theory |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | "B" IN SCIENCE $1600: This attraction between atoms may be ionic, covalent or hydrogen the bond |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | "B" IN SCIENCE $2000: This dark volcanic rock is low in silica content but fairly rich in iron & magnesium basalt |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | SCIENCE GUYS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 129 B.C. Hipparchus completed the first known catalog of these, listing about 850 of them stars |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1,600 (Daily Double): In the 2nd century B.C., this Egyptian astronomer thought that stars were fixed points of light in a rotating sphere Ptolemy |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | SHORT SCIENCE BIOS $800: Powered up in Lombardy 1745, shocked world with battery 1800, lost power 1827 Alessandro Volta |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | POTPOURRI $400: If you aspire to be the new Leslie Stahl, you may want to earn a B.S.J., a bachelor of science in this field journalism |
| #2672, aired 1996-03-26 | POLITICAL SCIENCE $400: Julius Caesar was made this for life in 44 B.C.; modern ones include Juan Peron & Manuel Noriega Dictator |
| #1910, aired 1992-12-18 | FEMALE NOBEL LAUREATES $800: Dorothy Hodgkin won in this science for determining the structure of vitamin B chemistry |
| #1905, aired 1992-12-11 | SCIENCE $1000: In the third century B.C. this "principled" Greek showed the value of pi was between 223/71 & 220/70 Archimedes |
| #1717, aired 1992-02-04 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $200: The blowpipe for blowing this was invented about 30 B.C. in the Middle East glass |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | SCIENCE $600: In 1834, Christian Thomsen divided early human history into these 3 ages Stone, Bronze, and Iron |
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