Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (47 results returned)
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY $400: Chemists won an Ig Nobel for finding the right airborne amount of a compound from this Japanese horseradish to wake sleepers wasabi |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $200: This element's "footprint" is everywhere: by definition, every compound studied by organic chemists contains it carbon |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $1600: This Russian seen here set the table for future chemists Mendeleev |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | THE ELEMENTS $800: In 1955 a bunch of chemists created an element & named it for this chemist who devised the periodic table Mendeleev |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $2000: Organic chemists John Roberts & this double Nobel winner made Caltech accept its first female Ph.D. candidate, Dorothy Semenow Linus Pauling |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | CHEMISTRY $2000: Known to early chemists as "oil of vitriol", this corrosive, colorless acid is found in car batteries sulfuric |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | CHEMISTS $400: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) August Laurent & Jean-Baptiste Dumas hated each other, but they worked together to pioneer this branch of chemistry that focuses on carbon & the carbon compounds found in living things organic |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | CHEMISTS $800: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Visitors at Paris' Bibliothèque Nationale must wear protective gear & sign a liability waiver to study her notebooks, which are stored in heavily shielded boxes Marie Curie |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | CHEMISTS $1200: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Many folks weren't happy with the Nobel committee's decision to give the 1918 Chemistry Prize to ammonia synthesizer Fritz Haber, as he had also overseen Germany's production & use of this on World War I's western front mustard gas (or poison gas) |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | CHEMISTS $1600: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) The Russian Academy of Sciences rejected this great man's 1880 nomination for membership--maybe because of his progressive political leanings, & maybe because he proposed to a much younger woman while he was still married to his first wife Mendeleev |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | CHEMISTS $2000: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Real-life scientists whose names came up on "Breaking Bad" included, of course, Heisenberg, & also this Frenchman guillotined at age 50 after making chemistry a modern science Lavoisier |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | POTPOURRI $400: Chemists say roasting is the key factor driving bitter taste in this beverage; wake up & smell it! coffee |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | GEEK HOLIDAYS $1000: If it's October 23 between 6:02 AM & 6:02 PM, it's Mole Day, on which chemists celebrate this man's number Avogadro |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THE ELEMENTS $1600: "God bless" this radioactive element, atomic No. 95, that was first produced by a team of U.S. chemists in 1944 americium |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | RECENT SCIENCE $400: Using a process powered by the sun, chemists at GWU are capturing this greenhouse gas & turning it into nanofibers carbon dioxide |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | THINKING VERBS $1600: To join different ideas together into a coherent whole; chemists do it to create new compounds to synthesize |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | GENERAL SCIENCE $800: This metal was discovered by 2 Spanish chemists in 1783 in samples of the mineral wolframite tungsten |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT $1200: In 1989 chemists Pons & Fleischmann announced they had created a new energy source, cold this; it was soon debunked fusion |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CHEMISTS $400: In 1933 Gilbert Lewis isolated Deuterium oxide, AKA this type of water, which is used in nuclear reactors heavy water |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CHEMISTS $800: Melvin Calvin won a Nobel Prize for using carbon-14 to map the chemical reactions in this plant process photosynthesis |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CHEMISTS $1200: A statue of this chemist stands outside the Institute of Metrology in Saint Petersburg, Russia Mendeleyev |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CHEMISTS $1600: 2-time Nobel Prize winner Frederick Sanger helped determine the structure of this pancreatic hormone insulin |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | CHEMISTS $2000: In 1897 this Midland, Michigan chemist founded what became one of the world's largest chemical firms (Herbert Henry) Dow |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | CHEMISTS $400: He improved a smokeless lab burner & in 1841 invented the carbon-zinc electric cell (Robert) Bunsen |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | CHEMISTS $800: In 1935 Percy Julian synthesized physostigmine, used in the treatment of this eye-pressure disease glaucoma |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | CHEMISTS $1200: Ernst Chain found that this animal substance does its deadly work by destroying a respiratory coenzyme snake venom |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | CHEMISTS $1600: In 1958 this American chemist & vitamin C advocate published the book "No More War!" Linus Pauling |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | CHEMISTS $2000: In the 18th century Antoine Lavoisier gave this element its name, from the Greek for "acid forming" oxygen |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $1600: This Russian seen here set the table for future chemists Mendeleev |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BRAND NAMES $800: The last names of chemists Franklin & Aldam combined in this brand name when they came up with a new oil filter Fram |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | A MOLE $1000: Instead of counting atoms, chemists simplify with the unit called a mole or this scientist's number (Amedeo) Avogadro |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS $200: Last names of the pair of chemists in Worcester, England who made up a food sauce requested by a British nobleman Lea & Perrins |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | BRITISH BUSINESS $1600: Lea & Perrins of sauce fame both started their careers as these, meaning druggists or pharmacists chemists |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | STARTING HERE $200: To come up with Lanacane, the chemists "started from" this Scratch |
| #3461, aired 1999-09-27 | CLASSICAL GASES $400: Discovered separately in the 1770s by British & Swedish chemists, it was found to be a gas by a Frenchman Oxygen |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | THE 1930s $600: In 1931 chemists discovered a growth hormone in this gland Pituitary gland |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE 1980s $500: On March 23, 1989 2 chemists in Utah announced they had perfected this process -- n"ice" try Cold fusion |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | CHEMISTRY $400: Chemists use this whirling device to separate solids from liquids or one liquid from another a centrifuge |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | CHEMISTS $200: In 1783 J.A.C. Charles, known for Charles' law, made an ascent in one of these a balloon |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | CHEMISTS $400: Johannes Bronsted & T. Lowry are famous for describing the transfer of protons between acids & these bases |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | CHEMISTS $600: When Mendeleyev made his periodic table in 1869, this was the only element in the first period hydrogen |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | CHEMISTS $800: Scheele & Priestley told of discovering this gas at about the same time, so they're both credited oxygen |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | CHEMISTS $1000: 19th century Italian chemist famous for his "number" of entities in 1 mole (Amadeo) Avogadro |
| #2111, aired 1993-11-08 | THE ELEMENTS $200: Chemists distinguish elements by their ability to conduct this, silicon being a semiconductor electricity |
| #1726, aired 1992-02-17 | NAME BRANDS $300: In its initial testing stage, this product was found by chemists to be 99 44/100% pure Ivory soap |
| #879, aired 1988-06-02 | THE ELEMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Though chemists call it a noble gas, the EPA calls it the #1 U.S. radiation health risk radon |
| #173, aired 1985-05-08 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $200: In 1938, German chemists Hahn & Strassmann were 1st to do this to the atom split the atom |
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