#8915, aired 2023-07-14 | SCIENCE $800: If your test paper is reading a 7, you know your garden soil's pH is this, neither acidic nor basic neutral |
#8309, aired 2021-01-07 | SCIENCE & MATH GROUPINGS $400: Of the 4 basic math operations, the one that produces a quotient division |
#8151, aired 2020-02-03 | SCIENCE $800: It's a simple, fundamental synonym for alkaline basic |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | SCIENCE AROUND US $600: By taking away needed oxygen, a mix of baking soda & vinegar can work as a basic type of this safety device a fire extinguisher |
#7941, aired 2019-03-04 | COMPUTER SCIENCE $400: Syntax, logic & runtime are the 3 basic types of these programming boo-boos, also a baseball term errors |
#7941, aired 2019-03-04 | COMPUTER SCIENCE $1600: It's the basic unit of information in the powerful machines called quantum computers a qubit |
#7200, aired 2015-12-25 | BREWING BEER $2,800 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the UC Davis Malting & Brewing Science program.) The two basic types of brewing yeast are top-fermenting & bottom-fermenting, corresponding to these two basic kinds of beer, one including stouts & one including pilsners lagers & ales |
#7106, aired 2015-07-06 | KNOWLEDGE $800: The name of this basic branch of learning is from the Latin for "to know" science |
#7098, aired 2015-06-24 | MOVING FORWARD IN SCIENCE $400: Positive, negative or zero, the electric type of this is a basic property of elementary particles charge |
#6470, aired 2012-11-02 | SCIENCE "C" STUFF $400: A basic component of bones, this metallic element is also used to make plaster, alloys & cement calcium |
#6308, aired 2012-02-08 | YAY, PHYSICS! $2000: James Clerk Maxwell formulated the 4 basic laws of this science of charge & the associated fields & forces electromagnetism |
#6302, aired 2012-01-31 | SCIENCE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us molecular models in the lab.) We're using models of ethanol to show the 2 basic types of molecular models; 1 clarifies the bonds between these particles, while the other shows better what the molecule looks like in actual space atoms |
#6068, aired 2011-01-19 | BASIC SCIENCE $200: This basic unit of heredity acts by directing the production of RNA a gene |
#6068, aired 2011-01-19 | BASIC SCIENCE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some high-tech devices.) Both LCD TVs & mood rings use liquid crystals, however, the crystals in LCDs reflect color by using electricity & mood rings use this type of energy heat |
#6068, aired 2011-01-19 | BASIC SCIENCE $600: It's the 5-letter term for the transparent solid that disperses light into a spectrum a prism |
#6068, aired 2011-01-19 | BASIC SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this organ that stores fat may come from a word that means "fat" liver |
#6068, aired 2011-01-19 | BASIC SCIENCE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew rolls two ping-pong balls on the table.) The tack in a ping-pong ball shifts this 3-word directional term from the middle to the side, affecting its roll the center of gravity |
#5624, aired 2009-02-05 | BASIC SCIENCE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a sugar cube.) At sea level, at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, 1 cubic centimeter of air, the size of a sugar cube, contains 45 billion billion of these, from the Latin for "little mass" a molecule |
#5624, aired 2009-02-05 | BASIC SCIENCE $800: The name of this green pigment found in plants is partly from the Greek for "green" chlorophyll |
#5624, aired 2009-02-05 | BASIC SCIENCE $1200: Newton's first law, about bodies at rest & in motion, is also called the law of this the law of inertia |
#5624, aired 2009-02-05 | BASIC SCIENCE $1600: Graphite is a soft form of this element carbon |
#5624, aired 2009-02-05 | BASIC SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) Symbolized lambda, the total distance covered by one complete cycle of oscillation from peak to peak or trough to trough is called this a wavelength |
#5430, aired 2008-03-28 | SCIENCE $800: Of the 3 basic rock types, the type that was once one form but has changed to another due to heat & pressure metamorphic |
#5403, aired 2008-02-20 | THE SCIENCE LAB $1000: Through his experiments with pea plants, he discovered the basic principles of heredity Mendel |
#5306, aired 2007-10-08 | SCIENCE $400: It's the weakest of the 4 basic forces, but it's strong enough to keep the moon orbiting the Earth gravity |
#5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with beakers.) In a force-&-movement experiment, the reason the water doesn't fall out of the cup is because this force pushing up against the card is greater than the weight of the water air pressure |
#5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $800: In old science, it's a type of "generation" of life from nonliving matter; it's also a type of "combustion" spontaneous |
#5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays with his own beaker.) The cold of the ice causes the air in the balloon to do this, from the Latin for "to draw in" contract |
#5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $1600: Heavily promoted by Wal-Mart, they work by electrifying a mix of argon gas & mercury vapor fluorescent lights |
#5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $2000: Look! Gold! Ha!--Fooled you, it's really this mineral pyrite |
#5201, aired 2007-04-02 | SCIENCE CLASS $400: In a human being, each cell has about 25,000 of these basic units of heredity genes |
#5153, aired 2007-01-24 | BASIC SCIENCE $200: In North America, these tiny birds are the main birds that pollinate flowers hummingbirds |
#5153, aired 2007-01-24 | BASIC SCIENCE $400: Nitrogen makes up around 78% of the atmosphere; this gas, only about 20% oxygen |
#5153, aired 2007-01-24 | BASIC SCIENCE $800 (Daily Double): At last count, this planet in our solar system had 63 known moons Jupiter |
#5153, aired 2007-01-24 | BASIC SCIENCE $800: 8 years before "The Origin of Species" was published, this British naturalist wrote a paper on barnacles Darwin |
#5153, aired 2007-01-24 | BASIC SCIENCE $1000: At the Earth's surface, this force produces acceleration of about 32 feet per second per second gravity |
#4952, aired 2006-03-07 | SCIENCE "T"ALK $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a science lab.) There are two basic types of flow--laminar, which is smooth & regular, & this more common one with swirls & eddies turbulent |
#4482, aired 2004-02-17 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1200: Through his experiments with pea plants, he discovered the basic principles of heredity (Gregor) Mendel |
#4263, aired 2003-02-26 | -OLOGIES $2000: Cornell's medical website calls this study of the functions of living organisms the oldest basic medical science physiology |
#4000, aired 2002-01-11 | ROCKET SCIENCE $200: Rocket propellants come in these 2 basic types, combined in hybrid systems solid or liquid |
#3390, aired 1999-05-07 | THE SCIENCE OF COLOR $800: This 3-letter word for a basic color like blue is one element of the Munsell Classification System Hue |
#3063, aired 1997-12-17 | SCIENCE $800: This basic aerodynamic force acts on a wing, putting greater pressure on its lower surface than on its upper Lift |
#3063, aired 1997-12-17 | SCIENCE $1000: The 3 basic bacterial types are the coccus, the spirillum & this type that causes TB Bacillus |
#2847, aired 1997-01-07 | SCIENCE & NATURE $100: This basic state of matter has no fixed volume or fixed shape Gas |
#2482, aired 1995-05-23 | SCIENCE $1000: In physics, the 3 basic methods of heat transfer are conduction, convection & this radiation |
#2236, aired 1994-05-02 | SCIENCE $200: Of the 3 basic states of matter, only this one, when unconfined, tends to expand indefinitely gas |
#1673, aired 1991-12-04 | LIFE SCIENCE $500: The basic unit of biological classification; members of one can breed with one another species |
#634, aired 1987-05-14 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): In aerodynamics, 2 of the 4 basic forces that act on an aircraft (2 of) thrust, drag, lift & weight |