#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENTISTS AS PARENTS $1600: Keep making that face & it'll freeze that way... absolute zero, mister! On this scale named for a British scientist (Lord) Kelvin |
#7295, aired 2016-05-06 | NON-ROCKET SCIENTISTS $400: This British woman discovered that chimpanzees are not vegetarian but omnivorous (Jane) Goodall |
#6795, aired 2014-03-14 | "P"SCIENTISTS $1600: In 1774 this British chemist discovered a gas he called "dephlogisticated air", what we now call oxygen Joseph Priestley |
#5824, aired 2009-12-31 | SCIENTISTS $800: In the 1670s this British genius wrote, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" Newton |
#5824, aired 2009-12-31 | SCIENTISTS $2000: This 17th c. British physician said the pulse comes from the heart pumping blood, not from the arteries contracting (William) Harvey |
#5666, aired 2009-04-06 | TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE $1200: British scientists refer to bee vanishings as Mary Celeste syndrome, after one of these found deserted in 1872 a ship |
#5613, aired 2009-01-21 | SCIENTISTS AS PARENTS $1600: Keep making that face & it'll freeze that way... absolute zero, mister! on this scale named for a British scientist Kelvin |
#5525, aired 2008-09-19 | WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG $800: In 1996 British scientists successfully cloned this type of animal & named her Dolly a sheep |
#4872, aired 2005-11-15 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1867 this British surgeon published "On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery" (Joseph) Lister |
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 | SCIENTISTS $2000: In 1794 this British chemist made a study of red-green color blindness, a visual deficiency now named for him John Dalton (Daltonism) |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | SCIENTISTS $400: This British naturalist's grandfather Erasmus had earlier developed his own theory of evolution Charles Darwin |
#3026, aired 1997-10-27 | SCIENTISTS $800: Namesake of a British rock band, he invented the seed drill to sow tidy rows Jethro Tull |
#2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: British scientists announced that they had found organic material in a second meteorite from this planet Mars |
#2540, aired 1995-09-22 | INVENTORS & SCIENTISTS $200: Colin Maclaurin met this British scientist in 1719 & later extended his work in gravitation & calculus Newton |
#1556, aired 1991-05-13 | SCIENTISTS $600: Calculus was developed independently by Gottfried Leibniz & this British scientist Newton |
#1266, aired 1990-02-19 | SCIENTISTS $1000: For developing a process of converting pig iron to steel, this British inventor was knighted in 1879 Sir Henry Bessemer |
#1228, aired 1989-12-27 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $800: British scientist who died in 1829 & left his fortune to the U.S. to endow a scientific institution Smithson |
#784, aired 1988-01-21 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $200: British scientists report a seasonal "hole" in the ozone layer above this southern continent Antarctica |
#636, aired 1987-05-18 | SCIENTISTS $600: British chemist remembered not for his steel process but for his raincoat (Charles) Macintosh |