Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (190 results returned)

#8937, aired 2023-09-26NEXT STOP, VENUS $1000: Just like Mercury, Venus has this many moons zero
#18, aired 2023-05-23THE UNIVERSE WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $1000: (Neil deGrasse Tyson presents the clue.) I take a special interest in this smallest of Uranus' five major moons; with its high cliffs & low gravity, if you dropped a rock, it would fall for ten minutes; in fact, my wife & I gave my daughter the same Shakespearean name Miranda
#8871, aired 2023-05-15SCIENTISTS $400: In 1610 this Italian scientist & astronomer named the moons of Jupiter the "Medicean Stars" in honor of the powerful family Galileo
#8865, aired 2023-05-05QUICK PLANETS $800: Leda is one of its more than 50 named moons Jupiter
#8790, aired 2023-01-20MOONSTRUCK $800: In 2021 this cereal with moons among its pieces had new boxes in honor of NASA's upcoming Artemis manned moonshot Lucky Charms
#8777, aired 2023-01-03SCIENCE NEWS $1600: In 2019 the IAU announced the discovery of 20 new moons of this planet, putting it 3 ahead of Jupiter's total Saturn
#8598, aired 2022-03-16SCIENCE & MEDICINE $2000: This third largest of Neptune's known moons is named in honor of the numerous daughters of a Greek sea god Nereid
#8439, aired 2021-07-08A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $400: Carpo, Kale & Eirene are 3 of the 79 known moons orbiting this planet Jupiter
#8385, aired 2021-04-23MOON $1600: In 1971 the 9th probe in this "nautical" program took the first up-close pictures of Mars' moons Phobos & Deimos Mariner
#8324, aired 2021-01-28SCIENCE CLASS $1600: It's the outer, smaller & alphabetically first of the 2 moons of Mars Deimos
#8267, aired 2020-10-27ASTRONOMY $800: Including Portia & Juliet, several moons of this 7th planet were discovered by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 Uranus
#8265, aired 2020-10-23HISTORIC OBJECTS $600: At his namesake museum in Florence, you can see his telescopes & the lens with which he discovered 4 large moons of Jupiter Galileo
#8185, aired 2020-03-20THIS PLANET $400: ...has about a dozen moons at least 6 miles in diameter, including Ganymede Jupiter
#8185, aired 2020-03-20THIS PLANET $1000: ...may have used its gravity to capture an independent object that would become one of its moons--Triton Neptune
#8156, aired 2020-02-10SATURN $1600: Saturn has more than 60 moons, including this second-largest named for Zeus' mother Rhea
#8126, aired 2019-12-30SPACE SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Named for the man who first observed them, the "Galilean satellites" are the 4 largest moons of this planet Jupiter
#8024, aired 2019-06-27SPACE SCIENCE $1200: This planet has at least 13 moons, including Naiad, Nereid & Proteus Neptune
#7986, aired 2019-05-06THE PLANETS $3,000 (Daily Double): Some have more than 60, but these 2 planets have no known moons Mercury and Venus
#7977, aired 2019-04-23MERCURY $8,200 (Daily Double): While the planet Mercury doesn't have rings or moons, it's full of these with names like Bach, Beethoven & Tolstoy craters
#7965, aired 2019-04-0518th CENTURY SCIENCE $2000: In 1787, but not on a midsummer night, William Herschel discovered these 2 largest moons of Uranus Oberon and Titania
#7872, aired 2018-11-27MANY MOONS $200: On Dec. 12, 2004 Scott Sheppard & colleagues discovered 12 new moons of this ringed planet Saturn
#7872, aired 2018-11-27MANY MOONS $400: With at least 50 other moons for company, Callisto isn't lonely orbiting this planet Jupiter
#7872, aired 2018-11-27MANY MOONS $600: This ferryman paddles his way around a well-known dwarf planet Charon
#7872, aired 2018-11-27MANY MOONS $800: Discovered in the 1850s, Ariel & Umbriel circle this 7th planet Uranus
#7872, aired 2018-11-27MANY MOONS $1000: Neptune's moons include Nereid, Neso & this other "N" creature, also a water nymph Naiad
#7805, aired 2018-07-13NAME DESIRED $800: After letting the internet vote on the name of 2 moons circling Pluto, SETI chose Kerberos & this river Styx
#7624, aired 2017-11-02HEAVENLY BODIES $800: Titania, Enceladus moons
#7602, aired 2017-10-03MARS $1600: The tininess of Mars' 2 moons suggests that they might have been pulled from this belt between Mars & Jupiter the asteroid belt
#7457, aired 2017-01-31THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE $2,000 (Daily Double): We "fear" that in 10 million years, this largest of Mars' moons will crash into the planet Phobos
#7397, aired 2016-11-08CONTEMPORARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): 1610 saw Hudson discover his bay & this man first observe Jupiter's 4 moons Galileo
#7263, aired 2016-03-23RECENT SCIENCE $1200: 2015 computer simulations suggest a collision between 2 of this planet's moons may have created its "F" ring Saturn
#7216, aired 2016-01-18PLANETARY BOOKSTORE $2000: "The Moons of Jupiter" is a short story collection by this Canadian female author of "Lives of Girls & Women" Alice Munro
#7167, aired 2015-11-10MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM $200: Greek for "fear" & "terror", Phobos & Deimos are the moons of this "belligerent" planet Mars
#7167, aired 2015-11-10MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM $400: The smallest of Jupiter's 4 Galilean moons, it's named not for a continent but for a woman abducted by Zeus Europa
#7167, aired 2015-11-10MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM $600: Discovered in 1787, Titania & Oberon are this planet's largest moons Uranus
#7167, aired 2015-11-10MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Due to its odd, dramatically-inclined orbit, astronomers believe Neptune's moon, Nereid, may be a captured one of these asteroid
#7167, aired 2015-11-10MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM $1000: This shortest-named moon of Jupiter has volcanic regions that are hotter than the surface of Mercury Io
#7145, aired 2015-10-09SCIENTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1877 Asaph Hall discovered its 2 moons, for which he won the Lalande Prize Mars
#6936, aired 2014-11-10FROM OUTER SPACE $1000: Collective 2-word name for the 4 natural satellites orbiting Jupiter that were discovered in 1610 the Galilean moons
#6932, aired 2014-11-04POETRY & THEE $600: Her: "Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise" (Maya) Angelou
#6907, aired 2014-09-30SPACE STUFF $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a telescope image of Jupiter on the monitor.) A triple eclipse shows the shadows of 3 moons in a rare alignment across Jupiter's face: out here is Callisto, whose shadow is here; Ganymede's shadow is here; & the white circle is this moon & here's its shadow Io
#6867, aired 2014-06-24POTPOURRI $1000: The innermost of Jupiter's 4 Galilean moons Io
#6787, aired 2014-03-04SCIENCE TIMELINE $1200: Named for a Shakespearean couple, these 2 large moons of Uranus were discovered in 1787 Titania & Oberon
#6781, aired 2014-02-24BREAKFAST $1600: A "moons over my hammy omelette" is a popular breakfast offering at this chain Denny's
#6742, aired 2013-12-31IT'S A GAS... GIANT $400: Nereid is the third largest of its 13 moons Neptune
#6718, aired 2013-11-27I'M HOLDING A PAIR $1000: In 1877 these 2 moons of Mars got their names from words denoting fear & terror Phobos & Deimos
#6658, aired 2013-07-24COINS OF OUR REALM $1200: From 1913 to 1938 it featured a composite picture, possibly of men named Iron Tail, Two Moons & John Big Tree the buffalo or Indian head nickel
#6582, aired 2013-04-09BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): 4 Indian ballerinas were featured in "Four Moons", a 1967 ballet commemorating the 60th anniversary of its statehood Oklahoma
#6574, aired 2013-03-28MOONS $400: Galatea, one of its moons, is named for the daughter of a sea god Neptune
#6574, aired 2013-03-28MOONS $800: Saturn has a moon named this, also the name of a moon in "Avatar" Pandora
#6574, aired 2013-03-28MOONS $1200: Some astronomers believe that these 2 moons of Mars were asteroids at one time Phobos and Deimos
#6574, aired 2013-03-28MOONS $1600: Uranus' 2 largest moons are Titania & this one, named for a fairy king Oberon
#6574, aired 2013-03-28MOONS $2000: This 2-letter moon of Jupiter is the most volcanically active body in the solar system Io
#6506, aired 2012-12-24SCIENCE & NATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Saturn's moons range from boulder-sized moonlets to this enormous moon that's larger than Mercury Titan
#6386, aired 2012-05-28THE RING CYCLE $400: Saturn's rings aren't perfect circles; they have waves & bends caused by the pull of gravity from shepherd these moons
#6325, aired 2012-03-02ASTRONOMY $400: In 2005, 2 additional moons, Hydra & Nix, were discovered orbiting this dwarf planet Pluto
#6267, aired 2011-12-13MARS NEEDS CONTESTANTS $1600: In 1877 an American astronomer discovered these 2 tiny moons & named them for the sons of Ares Phobos & Deimos
#6102, aired 2011-03-08MYTHOLO-"G" $2000: One of Jupiter's moons is named for this boy, Zeus' cupbearer Ganymede
#6001, aired 2010-10-18IT'S A MARSHMALLOW WORLD $200: Originally the marshmallow bits in this cereal included pink hearts, yellow moons & green clovers Lucky Charms
#5916, aired 2010-05-104 SCORE & 7 $1000: In 2005 we learned that 87 Sylvia, one of these, is unique in that it has 2 moons an asteroid
#5903, aired 2010-04-21SPACE MISSIONS $800: The Cassini project is exploring Titan & Enceladus, moons of this second-largest planet Saturn
#5871, aired 2010-03-0819th CENTURY SCIENCE $200: In 1877 American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Deimos & Phobos, 2 tiny moons of this planet Mars
#5860, aired 2010-02-19NAME THAT MOON $800: One of Saturn's many moons is named for this woman of Greek myth whose name means "all gifts" Pandora
#5860, aired 2010-02-19NAME THAT MOON $1200: One of Saturn's many moons is named for this 2-faced Roman god Janus
#5856, aired 2010-02-15URANUS $800: In addition to 27 moons, 13 of these have been discovered around Uranus, including 2 by Voyager 2 rings
#5849, aired 2010-02-04NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $1600: 1995: "Walk Two" of these celestial bodies Moons
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MOONS $400: Deimos strikes terror orbiting this planet Mars
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MOONS $800: Charon paddles around this dwarf planet Pluto
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MOONS $1600: Io is seduced into orbiting this planet Jupiter
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MOONS $2000: Titan towers as this planet's main moon Saturn
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MOONS $3,000 (Daily Double): Naiad swims around this planet Neptune
#5788, aired 2009-11-11ASTRO-QUIZ $800: In 1801 Ceres became the first of these to be discovered asteroids
#5731, aired 2009-07-06MOONRAKER $600: When translated into English, the names of this planet's moons are fear & terror Mars
#5731, aired 2009-07-06MOONRAKER $800: They are the 2 planets in our solar system that have no known moons Mercury & Venus
#5682, aired 2009-04-28NATIVE AMERICANS $400: In 1898 McClure's magazine published Two Moons' account of this June 1876 event the Battle of Little Big Horn
#5678, aired 2009-04-22400 YEARS OF THE TELESCOPE $800: William Herschel used a Newtonian telescope to discover this planet & its moons Oberon & Titania Uranus
#5569, aired 2008-11-20HEY "U"! $400: Cordelia, Ophelia & Bianca are its 3 closest moons Uranus
#5417, aired 2008-03-11"D" IN SCIENCE $1600: With a diameter averaging about 7 miles, it's the smaller of Mars' 2 moons Deimos
#5388, aired 2008-01-30SMORGASBORD $200: Total number of moons belonging to the closest 3 planets to the sun 1
#5366, aired 2007-12-31GREAT ALEXANDERS $800: Some of the moons of Uranus are named for characters created by this British poet & essayist (Alexander) Pope
#5342, aired 2007-11-27ASTRONOMY $800: A list of this planet's moons, including Oberon & Titania, reads like a who's who of Shakespeare Uranus
#5341, aired 2007-11-262 $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the only planet in the Solar System with exactly 2 moons Mars
#5339, aired 2007-11-22"U" KNOW IT $800: More than 25 moons are circling it Uranus
#5313, aired 2007-10-17FLY ME TO THE MOONS $200: Named for a sea god who could change shape at will, Proteus is a moon of this planet Neptune
#5313, aired 2007-10-17FLY ME TO THE MOONS $400: Phobos, a moon of this planet, was named for a son of Ares in Greek mythology Mars
#5313, aired 2007-10-17FLY ME TO THE MOONS $600: Saturn's largest moon was fittingly named this, also a term for a Greek mythological giant god Titan
#5313, aired 2007-10-17FLY ME TO THE MOONS $800: The most volcanically active satellite in the solar system is this 2-letter moon of Jupiter Io
#5313, aired 2007-10-17FLY ME TO THE MOONS $1000: On its trip out of our solar system, this spacecraft discovered Puck, a moon of Uranus Voyager (2)
#5305, aired 2007-10-05INTRA-VENUS $200: Just like Mercury, Venus has this many moons zero
#5241, aired 2007-05-28DESTINATION: MARS $2000: Using a U.S. Navy telescope in 1877, Asaph Hall discovered the 2 moons of Mars & named them this Phobos and Deimos
#5153, aired 2007-01-24BASIC SCIENCE $800 (Daily Double): At last count, this planet in our solar system had 63 known moons Jupiter
#5076, aired 2006-10-09SPACE EXPLORATION $1000: In 2005 the Hubble Space Telescope found 2 more small moons orbiting this, making 3, including Charon Pluto
#5074, aired 2006-10-05WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? $400: Greater in mass than all the other planets combined, it's surrounded by dozens of moons Jupiter
#4988, aired 2006-04-26AMAZING STORIES $1200: "Under the Moons of" this planet, featuring adventurer John Carter, was Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1st published story Mars
#4953, aired 2006-03-08A SYMPHONY OF NINTHS $400: 7 moons of our solar system are larger than this ninth planet, which some say should be reclassified Pluto
#4846, aired 2005-10-10ANAGRAM ZOO $1000: Asian snake fighter: EGO MOONS a mongoose
#4842, aired 2005-10-04IT'S A "SIN" $3,000 (Daily Double): As well as discovering a famous gap in Saturn's rings, he also discovered 4 of Saturn's moons (Giovanni) Cassini
#4802, aired 2005-06-21OTHER PLANETS' MOONS $400: Jupiter's Callisto is covered with these, but unlike those on our moon they've mostly collapsed on themselves craters
#4802, aired 2005-06-21OTHER PLANETS' MOONS $800: Due to its thick one of these, Saturn's Titan was once thought to be the solar system's biggest satellite atmosphere
#4802, aired 2005-06-21OTHER PLANETS' MOONS $1200: The moon Phobos is only about the same distance from this planet as Chicago is from London Mars
#4802, aired 2005-06-21OTHER PLANETS' MOONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This solid material covers the surface of Jupiter's Europa, so scientists hope to find life there ice
#4802, aired 2005-06-21OTHER PLANETS' MOONS $2000: In June 2004, astronomers got pictures of this Saturn-lite with the same name as a "Friends" character Phoebe
#4784, aired 2005-05-26DREAD $1200: Don't be afraid, it's only this, the larger of Mars' 2 moons Phobos
#4536, aired 2004-05-03ASTRONOMY $800: In 1610 Galileo became the first to find other moons when he saw moons orbiting this giant planet Jupiter
#4408, aired 2003-11-05THE MOONS OF SATURN $400: Closest to the planet, it shares its name with a pipe-playing Greek god Pan
#4408, aired 2003-11-05THE MOONS OF SATURN $800: The second-largest moon of Saturn or the second-billed female on "Cheers" Rhea
#4408, aired 2003-11-05THE MOONS OF SATURN $1200: You'd expect to find Jacques Cousteau riding on this moon of Saturn Calypso
#4408, aired 2003-11-05THE MOONS OF SATURN $1600: After Phoebe was discovered in 1898, the next one was found in 1966 & named for this 2-faced god Janus
#4408, aired 2003-11-05THE MOONS OF SATURN $2000: Dione was discovered by this astronomer in 1684; mind the gap, please Giovanni Cassini
#4373, aired 2003-09-17"UR" HEAD $200: Willam Herschel also discovered 2 moons orbiting this planet that he had discovered in 1781 Uranus
#4245, aired 2003-01-31MANY MOONS $400: It's the closest planet to the sun that has a moon Earth
#4245, aired 2003-01-31MANY MOONS $800: Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, was discovered by this man in 1610 Galileo
#4245, aired 2003-01-31MANY MOONS $1600: Because of its decaying orbit, the moon Phobos will crash into this planet -- in about 40 million years Mars
#4245, aired 2003-01-31MANY MOONS $2,700 (Daily Double): Its moon Charon is about half its size Pluto
#4220, aired 2002-12-27THE PLANET URANUS $600: Uranus' 2 largest moons share their names with characters created by this author William Shakespeare
#4220, aired 2002-12-27THE PLANET URANUS $1000: He discovered Uranus as well as 2 of its moons William Herschel
#4205, aired 2002-12-06TELESCOPES $2000: Florence's Museo Storia Della Scienza has 2 of his telescopes & the lens of the one that found 4 moons of Jupiter Galileo
#4148, aired 2002-09-18IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE $400: When Galileo found 4 of these orbiting Jupiter, he named them after the powerful Medici family moons
#4023, aired 2002-02-13YOU DO THE MATH $400: Total number of known planets in our solar system multiplied by the number of moons around the Earth 9 (9 x 1)
#3922, aired 2001-09-25MARS $300: Phobos & Deimos are the names of these 2 objects that orbit Mars moons
#3855, aired 2001-05-11SCIENCE GUYS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1610 this Italian made his biggest discovery: the 4 largest moons of Jupiter Galileo
#3664, aired 2000-07-06SUN $100: It's defined as the Sun & the planets, moons, & whatever the heck else revolves around it the Solar System
#3517, aired 1999-12-14SCIENCE & NATURE $800: This innermost & larger of Mars' 2 moons orbits the planet every 7.65 hours Phobos
#3458, aired 1999-09-22NEPTUNE $500: Neptune's largest moon, it orbits the planet in the opposite direction of the rest of the moons Triton
#3450, aired 1999-09-10SKY WATCHING $200: There are approximately this many weeks between full moons 4
#3354, aired 1999-03-18THE RED PLANET $1000: Named for the attendants of Ares, the Greek god of war, they are the 2 moons of Mars Phobos & Deimos
#3333, aired 1999-02-17THE SOLAR SYSTEM $600: Degas & Bronte are 2 of these on Mercury, a planet whose topography is like our moons Craters
#3333, aired 1999-02-17THE SOLAR SYSTEM $800: Ganymede is one of its 4 Galilean moons Jupiter
#3273, aired 1998-11-25THE SOLAR SYSTEM $500: It's nothing to fear, but this inner & larger of Mars' 2 moons orbits the planet every 7.65 hours Phobos
#3251, aired 1998-10-26EGGS & HAM $500: At this chain restaurant, you can order an egg & ham sandwich called "Moons Over My Hammy" Denny's
#3169, aired 1998-05-14TV CHARACTERS $100: Daphne Moon is the woman Niles Crane moons over on this sitcom Frasier
#3157, aired 1998-04-28NOTABLE NAMES $1000: A spacecraft sent to explore Jupiter is named for this Italian astronomer who discovered 4 of Jupiter's moons Galileo
#3127, aired 1998-03-17SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS $200: Characters from this play circling Uranus are Ariel & Miranda The Tempest
#3127, aired 1998-03-17SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS $400: Goneril & Regan's sister orbiting Uranus Cordelia
#3127, aired 1998-03-17SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS $600: Othello called her his "Fair Warrior" Desdemona
#3127, aired 1998-03-17SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS $800: When found by a watchman, she was "Bleeding, warm and newly dead"; now she's found around Uranus Juliet
#3127, aired 1998-03-17SHAKESPEAREAN MOONS OF URANUS $1000: Moons III & IV are this royal fairy pair from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Titania & Oberon
#3037, aired 1997-11-11ASTRONOMY $1000: In 1979 Voyagers 1 & 2 transmitted detailed photos of Io, Ganymede, Europa & Callisto -- moons of this planet Jupiter
#2932, aired 1997-05-06POTPOURRI $200: Ganymede & Callisto are the largest moons of this largest planet Jupiter
#2898, aired 1997-03-19SCIENCE $400: A phrase used to remember this planet's main moons is "Met Dr. Thip"; Titan is the second T Saturn
#2861, aired 1997-01-27ASTRONOMY $1,700 (Daily Double): In 1610 he published his discovery of 4 moons of Jupiter in "The Starry Messenger" Galileo
#2844, aired 1997-01-02SCIENTISTS $200: In 1877 American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered this planet's moons, Phobos & Deimos Mars
#2801, aired 1996-11-04SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $400: In January 1610 he discovered the 4 largest moons of Jupiter Galileo
#2738, aired 1996-06-26INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $300: Mandelhalbmonde are German cookies made from these nuts & shaped like crescent moons almonds
#2733, aired 1996-06-19HERALDRY $400: In England the cadency mark of a second son is this shape associated with rolls and moons the crescent
#2643, aired 1996-02-14IN THE NEWS $300: Pictures taken by this orbiting telescope showed new moons orbiting Saturn Hubble
#2506, aired 1995-06-26THE PLANETS $500: William Herschel discovered this planet's 2 largest moons, Oberon & Titania, as well as the planet itself Uranus
#2473, aired 1995-05-10SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $200: Christiaan Huygens discovered its ring & one of its moons, Titan Saturn
#2472, aired 1995-05-09ASTRONOMY $400: American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered this planet's moons Phobos & Deimos Mars
#2383, aired 1995-01-04ASTRONOMY $500: Of these "minor planets", Vesta is the only one sometimes visible to the naked eye asteroids
#2366, aired 1994-12-12JUPITER $400: Jupiter's 4 largest moons are each bigger than this planet Pluto
#2347, aired 1994-11-15ASTRONOMY $1000: Voyager II discovered six more moons around this planet; one is bigger than the previously known Nereid Neptune
#2205, aired 1994-03-182-LETTER WORDS $500: This, the innermost of Jupiter's Galilean moons, always keeps the same face toward the planet Io
#2124, aired 1993-11-25ASTRONOMERS $200: Like this Italian, American astronomer Seth Nicholson discovered 4 moons of Jupiter Galileo
#1939, aired 1993-01-28ASTRONOMY & SPACE $500: With its brilliant coloring, Io has been called the most spectacular of this planet's Galilean moons Jupiter
#1932, aired 1993-01-19THE PLANETS $800: American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered this planet's 2 moons in 1877 Mars
#1913, aired 1992-12-23THE PLANETS $400: When Uranus occulted a star in 1977, the star's blinking light indicated Uranus had these rngs
#1913, aired 1992-12-23THE PLANETS $600: A mnemonic for its major moons is "Met Dr. Thip"; the second T stands for Titan Saturn
#1886, aired 1992-11-16BALLET $800: "Four Moons", an American Indian ballet, was created for the 60th anniversary of its statehood in 1967 Oklahoma
#1881, aired 1992-11-09GENERAL SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Callisto is the outermost of this planet's four Galilean moons Jupiter
#1737, aired 1992-03-03TIME $400: A month was originally the time between these full moons
#1685, aired 1991-12-20JUPITER $600: He discovered the 4 largest moons of Jupiter, but Simon Marius gave them names Galileo
#1571, aired 1991-06-03PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: New, waxing crescent, quarter waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, quarter, waning crescent, new moons (phases of the Moon)
#1487, aired 1991-02-05THE PLANETS $400: In 1610, he looked through his telescope & discovered the four large moons of Jupiter Galileo
#1487, aired 1991-02-05THE PLANETS $1000: In 1986 Voyager 2 discovered this planet has 15 moons & 11 rings Uranus
#1461, aired 1990-12-31THE PLANETS $600: One theory holds that this planet's two moons are captured asteroids Mars
#1455, aired 1990-12-21YE GODS! $800: One of the elder gods that ruled before Zeus, or the largest of Saturn's moons Titan
#1381, aired 1990-09-10SCIENCE $200: 1 of 2 planets in our solar system that have no moons Mercury (or Venus)
#2, aired 1990-06-23THE UNIVERSE $2000: The closest of its 22 known moons is about 85,000 miles away from it; the farthest, 8 mil. miles away Saturn
#1312, aired 1990-04-24ASTRONOMERS $800: While teaching at the Univ. of Padua in 1610, he discovered 4 moons of Jupiter using a 30-power telescope Galileo
#1276, aired 1990-03-05THE PLANETS $600: The 4 largest moons of this planet are called Galilean satellites after Galileo, who saw them in 1610 Jupiter
#1231, aired 1990-01-01MOONS $100: It wasn't until '78 that this planet in our solar system was found to have a moon Pluto
#1231, aired 1990-01-01MOONS $400: Phobos circles Mars, & Phoebe circles this planet Saturn
#1231, aired 1990-01-01MOONS $500: Ariel, Miranda, Titania & Oberon the moons of Uranus
#1166, aired 1989-10-02ASTRONOMY $200: Cassini, a 17th century astronomer, was the first to suggest these were made up of tiny moons, & not a solid disk the rings of Saturn
#949, aired 1988-10-20ASTRONOMY $1000: 4 of this outer planet's moons are named for Shakespearean characters Uranus
#878, aired 1988-06-01THE UNIVERSE $600: One of its moons, Titan, is larger than Mercury & has an atmosphere Saturn
#827, aired 1988-03-22ASTRONOMY $800: As a result of recent discoveries, we now think this planet has the most moons Saturn
#802, aired 1988-02-16FACTS & FIGURES $600: Amateur astronomer Wm. Bradfield holds our country's record of discovering 13 of these comets
#737, aired 1987-11-17ASTRONOMY $200: He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610 Galileo
#639, aired 1987-05-21FULL MOONS $200: Wally Moon was famous for "moon shots" in this sport baseball
#639, aired 1987-05-21FULL MOONS $400: In a huge Madison Square Garden wedding, 4150 of his followers were paired off by this Korean-born preacher Rev. Moon
#639, aired 1987-05-21FULL MOONS $600: In Longfellow's poem, Hiawatha was raised by this "Daughter of the Moon" Nokomis
#639, aired 1987-05-21FULL MOONS $800: In popular Frank Willard comic, this character's full 1st name was Moonshine Moon Mother
#639, aired 1987-05-21FULL MOONS $1000: These 4 girls provided vocal backup for Vaughn Monroe Moon Maids
#531, aired 1986-12-22THE HUMAN BODY $400: Sometimes left uncovered by manicurists, it's what the lunulae are commonly called the moons (the crescents)
#526, aired 1986-12-15THE CALENDAR $200: A month was originally calculated to be the time between these astronomical events full moons
#490, aired 1986-10-24ASTRONOMY $600 (Daily Double): The 2 planets in our solar system with no moons Mercury & Venus
#153, aired 1985-04-10ASTRONOMY $400: In 1980-81, this planet was found to have 14 small moons besides its 9 larger ones Saturn
#41, aired 1984-11-05ASTRONOMY $800: Galileo discovered 4 of this planet's 16 moons Jupiter

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (10 results returned)

#8604, aired 2022-03-24DISNEY CHARACTERS: In the source material from more than 3 centuries ago, her name was badr al-budur, "full moon of full moons" (Princess) Jasmine
#7431, aired 2016-12-26MOONS & PLANETS: The name of this moon refers to the mythical group that its planet’s name belonged to Titan
#5941, aired 2010-06-14MOONS & MYTHOLOGY: This planet is named for a Roman god; its only moons are named for the sons of his Greek counterpart Mars
#5730, aired 2009-07-03THE SOLAR SYSTEM: One of the 2 moons in our solar system larger than Mercury; one orbits Jupiter & one orbits Saturn Ganymede or Titan
#5642, aired 2009-03-03ASTRONOMY: In 1610 Galileo called the moons of this planet the "Medician stars", for the Medici brothers Jupiter
#3844, aired 2001-04-26THE MOONS OF URANUS: Pixie Chasma & Sprite Vallis are features on this moon of Uranus named for a character in "The Tempest" Ariel
#3339, aired 1999-02-25THE SOLAR SYSTEM: This planet's moons include Triton & the recently discovered Naiad Neptune
#3078, aired 1998-01-07ENGLISH LITERATURE: This 1726 satire reported the existence of Mars' 2 moons 151 years before Asaph Hall discovered them Gulliver's Travels
#2963, aired 1997-06-18THE PLANETS: Most of this planet's moons are named for Shakespearean characters Uranus
#2871, aired 1997-02-10THE SOLAR SYSTEM: The 2 planets that have no moons Mercury & Venus

Players (2 results returned)

Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...



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