| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $400: From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school Cornell |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $800: Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might have this & that it might contain life oceans |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $1200: It was Sagan's award-winning PBS TV show about the universe Cosmos |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $1600: A 1990 photo of Earth taken by this probe prompted Carl Sagan to call planet Earth "a pale blue dot" Voyager |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $5,000 (Daily Double): Sagan co-authored a 1983 scientific paper that predicted that this climate condition would follow atomic war nuclear winter |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Carl Sagan was a prominent one of these "star life" scientists an astrobiologist |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $1600: Mentioned in "A Wrinkle in Time", it's a 4-dimensional analogue of a cube, or what Carl Sagan called a hypercube a tesseract |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | LABORATORIES $400: Carl Sagan was director of the laboratory for planetary studies at this Ithaca, New York university Cornell |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | SCIENCE TV $1600: A followup to Carl Sagan's original show, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" explored the universe with this host Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH $1200: In this Carl Sagan novel, astrophysicist Ellie wants a message from outer space; she gets one & goes on quite the adventure Contact |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) To curate the best images, music & messages to put on the two golden records, time capsules of info about Earth the two Voyagers would send outside the solar system, the project created a committee headed by this astronomer & author (Carl) Sagan |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | STARGAZERS $2000: In 1983 this Cornell astronomer introduced the concept of nuclear winter Carl Sagan |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | BLUE BOOKS $2000: In "Pale Blue Dot" this late astronomer talks about humans in space Carl Sagan |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | VOCABULARY $400: Carl Sagan defined this word as "the opposite of chaos" cosmos |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | BODY PART TITLES $800: In "Broca's Brain" this astrophysicist explored the romance of science & the amazing future to come Carl Sagan |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING $800: A posthumous collection of this astronomer's writings is titled "Billions and Billions" (Carl) Sagan |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | ASTRONOMY $1200: A 1990 photo of Earth taken by this space probe prompted Carl Sagan to call planet Earth a "pale blue dot" Voyager 1 |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ORGANIZATIONS $1200: In 1980 Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman & this Cornell Univ. astronomer founded the Planetary Society Carl Sagan |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | NONFICTION $2000: The chapters in his "Cosmos" corresponded to episodes of his TV show Carl Sagan |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | SOMETHING TO READ $1200: Carl Sagan won a Nonfiction Pulitzer in 1978 for "The Dragons of" this Biblical Place The Dragons of Eden |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | ASTROPHYSICS WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $3,000 (Daily Double): (Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) I got my undergrad & graduate degrees at other Ivy League schools, but I did have the inspirational privilege of meeting this man who taught astronomy at Cornell for almost 3 decades Carl Sagan |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $600: 1980 nonfiction by Carl Sagan Cosmos |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $3,200 (Daily Double): In the last chapter of "Billions & Billions", this scientist talked about the disease that took his life Carl Sagan |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS $600: I want to be more scholarly: I will critique "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time" by this physicist Stephen Hawking |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $1200: This astronomer nabbed the prize in 1978 for "The Dragons Of Eden" (Carl) Sagan |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | THEY WROTE FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA $600: Carl Sagan took on this vast topic, with thoughts on the "intelligent" type "beyond the solar system" life |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | C.S., I $400: This astronomer & science writer from Cornell helped select the Mars landing sites for the Viking probes Carl Sagan |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BLUE BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): This astronomer penned "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" Carl Sagan |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ASTRONOMERS $1600: In 1980 this Cornell astronomer co-founded the planetary society & served as its first president (Carl) Sagan |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $1600: With his book & TV show named this, Carl Sagan popularized astronomy for bil--thousands, at least Cosmos |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | NUMBER WORD PLAY $400: Carl Sagan knew that this number is the first to contain a "B" when spelled out billion |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | SCIENTISTS $200: This astronomer hosted only 13 episodes of the PBS series "Cosmos" (not billions & billions) (Carl) Sagan |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | POSTHUMOUS WORKS $400: "Billions and Billions" is a collection of writings by this noted astronomer Carl Sagan |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | "E"ASY DOES IT $400: Carl Sagan pioneered & promoted SETI, the search for this kind of intelligence extraterrestrial |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF EDEN $800: This astrophysicist won the Pulitzer Prize for exploring the human brain in "The Dragons of Eden" Carl Sagan |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | SPACE SCIENCE $800: There are billions & billions of ways to know this "Contact" man was a professor of astronomy & space science at Cornell Carl Sagan |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | SCIENCE CLASS $1200: As a visiting scientist to this Caltech lab, Carl Sagan contributed to the first missions to Venus JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $1600: Appropriately, he wrote the October 1994 story "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life" Carl Sagan |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | CARL SAGAN $400: From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school Cornell |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | CARL SAGAN $800: It was Sagan's award-winning PBS TV show about the universe Cosmos |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | CARL SAGAN $1200: Sagan penned the novel upon which this Jodie Foster film was based, though he didn't live to see the film released Contact |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | CARL SAGAN $2000: Sagan was among the first to suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might have this & that it might contain life water (an ocean) |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | CARL SAGAN $5,000 (Daily Double): Sagan was co-author of the first scientific paper to predict that this weather condition would follow atomic war nuclear winter |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | "C.S.", I $800: Before becoming TV's "Science Guy", Bill Nye studied astronomy with him at Cornell Carl Sagan |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | THE FINAL FRONTIER $1600: It's where you'll find the Sagan Memorial Station, named for Carl Sagan (it used to be called Pathfinder) Mars |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | '80s BESTSELLERS $400: In 1980 his "Cosmos" was one of the top-selling nonfiction books Carl Sagan |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $800: In 1971 he became professor of astronomy & space sciences at Cornell, a post he retained until his death in 1996 (Carl) Sagan |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | EDEN'S CRUSH $2000: His book on the evolution of the human brain is called "The Dragons of Eden" Carl Sagan |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | WAVES $600: The man waving, seen here, was designed by this astronomer Carl Sagan |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | ____ & ____ $200: Carl Sagan said he never uttered this phrase associated with him & checked the "Cosmos" tapes to prove it "Billions & Billions" |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | SPACE EXPLORATION $500: After its July 4, 1997 landing on Mars, this lander was renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station Pathfinder |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | REMEMBER THE '80s? $400: This 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster was based on Carl Sagan's bestselling 1985 book Contact |
| #3466, aired 1999-10-04 | '80s BESTSELLERS $100: His "Cosmos" was a bestseller in 1980; he made "Contact" again in 1985 Carl Sagan |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | THE LAST MAN $200: In "Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology" is this "Cosmos" astronomer Carl Sagan |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: This "Cosmos" host, who also played a role in Mariner & Viking space expeditions, passed away in 1996 Carl Sagan |
| #2882, aired 1997-02-25 | NONFICTION $300: In "The Demon-Haunted World", this astronomer examines the evidence for unexplainable phenomena Carl Sagan |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | POT LUCK $600: This astronomer's "The Dragons of Eden" won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Carl Sagan |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | ASTRONOMY $400: In 1968 he became a professor of astronomy at Cornell & Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies Carl Sagan |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | NONFICTION $600: "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" is his follow-up to "Cosmos" Carl Sagan |
| #2675, aired 1996-03-29 | NONFICTION $600: In 1973 this astronomer published his 1st book for general readership, "The Cosmic Connection" (Carl) Sagan |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | PEOPLE $300: From 1969-1979 he was editor of Icarus, the international journal of solar system studies Carl Sagan |
| #2508, aired 1995-06-28 | HARVARD TEACHERS $200: Prior to 1968 this astronomer taught fewer than billions & billions of Harvard students Carl Sagan |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | NONFICTION $600: With Ann Druyan, this astronomer traces the history of life in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (Carl) Sagan |
| #2144, aired 1993-12-23 | NONFICTION $300: This astronomer was inspired to write "Broca's Brain" after seeing Paul Broca's brain in a jar in Paris Carl Sagan |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | ASTRONOMERS $400: This PBS host determined that the high temperatures on Venus are caused by the greenhouse effect Carl Sagan |
| #1969, aired 1993-03-11 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: This host of "Cosmos" was the subject of a 1987 biography subtitled "Superstar Scientist" (Carl) Sagan |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | HOBBIES $200: Carl Sagan & his "Cosmos" series were credited with creating a renewed interest in this hobby astronomy |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: This noted astronomer's lists of works include "Comet", "Contact" & "Cosmos" Carl Sagan |
| #1457, aired 1990-12-25 | IT'S GREEK TO ME $200: To the Greeks & Carl Sagan, it's the universe the cosmos |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | MIDDLE NAMES $300: This astronomer has 1 middle name: Edward, not "billions & billions" Carl Sagan |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: "Cosmos" author Carl Sagan is a professor of astronomy & space sciences at this eastern university Cornell |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | FLOWERS $200: A tall, graceful summer flower, or a PBS show hosted by Carl Sagan cosmos |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: He was awarded one Pulitzer for "The Dragons of Eden", not billions & billions Carl Sagan |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | THE PULITZER PRIZE $600: TV astronomer who, in 1978, won a Pulitzer for "The Dragons of Eden" Carl Sagan |
| #628, aired 1987-05-06 | WEATHER $200: Carl Sagan & others believe atomic war could lead to this much feared "season" nuclear winter |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | PBS $200: "Billions & billions" of stars were presented to millions & millions of viewers by this astronomer Carl Sagan |
| #127, aired 1985-03-05 | TELEVISION $300: Carl Sagan's saga Cosmos |
