Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (48 results returned)

#9024, aired 2024-01-25MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $2000: Kary Mullis had to pull off the road when he got his Nobel-winning idea to copy DNA via PCR or polymerase this process a chain reaction
#21, aired 2023-11-29WHAT THE "EFF"?! $800: It's the game-inspired term for a chain reaction, with one event triggering a series of related events the domino effect
#8798, aired 2023-02-01OVERLAPS $2000: The minimum amount of fissionable material to sustain a nuclear chain reaction in the Bay State critical Massachusetts
#8616, aired 2022-04-11CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Atomic number 100, this radioactive element is named for the scientist who directed the first controlled fission chain reaction fermium
#1, aired 2022-02-08BIO 201 $2000: PCR, short for this, allows endless copying of tiny bits of DNA, helping identify diseases & catch killers polymerase chain reaction
#8309, aired 2021-01-07LITERARY KINGS $200: The death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a deadly chain reaction in a novel by this author George R.R. Martin
#8293, aired 2020-12-02SCIENCE BOOKS $1000: Who better to write "Thermodynamics" than this Italian-American physicist who helped create the first nuclear chain reaction (Enrico) Fermi
#8189, aired 2020-03-26CHICAGO $800: At the University of Chicago in 1942, a team led by Enrico Fermi created the 1st self-sustaining one of these sequences a nuclear chain reaction
#8165, aired 2020-02-21FAMILIAR PHRASES $1000: That concert was awesome & totally "off the" this, a word preceding gang or reaction chain
#8026, aired 2019-07-01WHIPS & CHAINS $400: Nuclear fission is an example of this type of self-sustaining process a chain reaction
#7863, aired 2018-11-14"CHAIN" REACTION $400: A group of prisoners fastened together while working outdoors a chain gang
#7863, aired 2018-11-14"CHAIN" REACTION $800: It outlines a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by a higher member a food chain
#7863, aired 2018-11-14"CHAIN" REACTION $1200: Technically, this term for flexible armor made of interlinked rings is redundant chainmail
#7863, aired 2018-11-14"CHAIN" REACTION $1600: Here's a sculpture made using this power tool a chainsaw
#7863, aired 2018-11-14"CHAIN" REACTION $2000: 3-word term for the system in a military or other org. in which instructions are passed from one person to another chain of command
#7809, aired 2018-07-19GOD BLESS AMERICIUM $1600: Americium was discovered in 1944 at the National Lab of this school where the first chain reaction was also achieved (University of) Chicago
#7786, aired 2018-06-18CHEMICAL PROCESSES $800: This radical, self-sustaining type of reaction happens in 3 stages: initiation, propagation & termination a chain reaction
#7767, aired 2018-05-22ILLINOIS AT 200 $1000: In 1942 at the University of Chicago, this Italian-American achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction Enrico Fermi
#7074, aired 2015-05-21"C" IN SCIENCE $800: It's a process, such as nuclear fission, in which the result of one event triggers another, usually of the same kind a chain reaction
#6770, aired 2014-02-07PHYSICS $800: It's the term for the minimum amount of fissile material needed to achieve a self-sustaining chain reaction critical mass
#6749, aired 2014-01-092-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an atomic animation on the monitor.) Absorbing a neutron causes fission in one atom, leading to fission in more and more atoms, creating this process that's usually controlled by nuclear reactors chain reaction
#6073, aired 2011-01-26"ACTION"! $600: 2-word "atomic" term for a series of events in which each event is the result of the one preceding & the cause of the next a chain reaction
#5923, aired 2010-05-19GOING GREENER $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) Some energy on the Sony lot is generated by the sun's photons striking the solar cell surface, making these jump from one atom to the next, creating a chain reaction which can be harnessed electrons
#5850, aired 2010-02-05NUCLEAR ENERGY $2,000 (Daily Double): 2-word term for the amount of fuel required to maintain a chain reaction; it varies according to the reactor critical mass
#5777, aired 2009-10-27PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: An excess of neutrons usually causes fission; fission emits neutrons, causing fission... hence this reaction a chain reaction
#5690, aired 2009-05-08NAME THE DECADE $800: The first controlled nuclear chain reaction the 1940s
#5425, aired 2008-03-21EVERYDAY SCIENCE $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew topples some dominoes.) Once dominoes start to fall, they continue without further outside influence--an example of this self-sustaining sequence a chain reaction
#5326, aired 2007-11-05FISSION $800: Controlled or uncontrolled, this is a process in which neutrons released in fission produce additional fissions chain reaction
#5231, aired 2007-05-14EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $400: In 1939 Leo Szilard told Einstein about this type of "reaction" in uranium, & Al said, "I never thought of that!" a chain reaction
#5128, aired 2006-12-20A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER $600: On Dec. 2, 1942 the first nuclear chain reaction was set off at the University of this Midwest city Chicago
#4999, aired 2006-05-11FIRST IN OUR HEARTS $600: The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was made by this Italian-American physicist in 1942 Fermi
#4872, aired 2005-11-15MEANS OF TRANSMISSION $2000: 1939: "It may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium" a letter
#4681, aired 2005-01-03PHYSICS $400: Leo Szilard's term for the fission process where 1 neutron breaks an atom in 2, which splits more atoms... a chain reaction
#4168, aired 2002-10-16A CHICAGO TOUR $1200: A sculpture titled this "Energy" was unveiled at the U. of Chicago in 1967, exactly 25 years after the first chain reaction Nuclear Energy
#3894, aired 2001-07-05MY PHYSICS PROFESSOR $200: At this U.S. university, I got extra credit for helping Professor Compton set up the first nuclear chain reaction University of Chicago
#3750, aired 2000-12-15HISTORY $400: In 1939 he wrote to FDR to present the military potential of an uncontrolled fission chain reaction Albert Einstein
#3683, aired 2000-09-13IT'S SUPERMAN $100: Destroyed by a radioactive chain reaction, it was Superman's home planet Krypton
#3389, aired 1999-05-06HISTORIC CHICAGO $600: On Dec. 2, 1942 the first nuclear reaction of this type was set off at the University of Chicago Chain reaction
#3165, aired 1998-05-08COLLEGE TOWNS $400: In 1942 the University of this city was the site of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction Chicago
#2653, aired 1996-02-28DECEMBER $500: This Italian-American's atomic pile produced the world's first chain reaction in December 1942 Enrico Fermi
#2244, aired 1994-05-12INVENTORS $1,500 (Daily Double): This Italian-American led the team that produced the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942 (Enrico) Fermi
#1608, aired 1991-09-04NAME THE DECADE $600: The first nuclear chain reaction takes place at the University of Chicago the 1940s
#1541, aired 1991-04-22NUCLEAR PHYSICS $400: Of the 2 types of nuclear reactions, the one that can develop into a chain reaction nuclear fission
#1197, aired 1989-11-14NUCLEAR PHYSICS $400: Term for the least amount of fuel needed to keep up a chain reaction in a reactor critical mass
#1182, aired 1989-10-24ILLINOIS $1000: Enrico Fermi was among a team of scientists at this univ. who set off the 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction the University of Chicago
#446, aired 1986-05-26NUCLEAR PHYSICS $800: Moving these in & out control the chain reaction going on inside the core control rods
#337, aired 1985-12-24NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1000: Mousetraps loaded with ping-pong balls show this effect in Disney's "Our Friend the Atom" chain reaction
#82, aired 1985-01-01NUCLEAR PHYSICS $400: Simple formula used to determine how much energy a chain reaction would release E=mc2

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