Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (69 results returned)

#8981, aired 2023-11-27WOMEN IN SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): With her husband George, Gladys Dick found the cause of this childhood disease named for its red skin rash & came up with a cure scarlet fever
#8971, aired 2023-11-13LIFE SCIENCE $1600: Transporting this protein is the main job of your body's erythrocytes hemoglobin
#8603, aired 2022-03-23SCIENCE IN NATURE $2000: Macropus rufus is the scientific name for this largest living marsupial red kangaroo
#8576, aired 2022-02-14SCIENCE $1200: O say, can you see--SrCO3, this two-word compound that causes the red glare seen here strontium carbonate
#8307, aired 2021-01-05COLORFUL SCIENCE $800: This color "shift" is the increase in wavelength of light emitted by a source moving away from an observer the red shift
#8307, aired 2021-01-05COLORFUL SCIENCE $2000: The Sun is a G2 V star, or this type of dwarf a yellow dwarf
#8053, aired 2019-09-18SCIENCE $400: Similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, this planet once had a Great Dark Spot storm system that was about the size of Earth Neptune
#8053, aired 2019-09-18SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): During a total solar eclipse, you can glimpse this "colorful" layer of the Sun just above the photosphere the chromosphere
#7985, aired 2019-05-03GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $1600: It's the one-word name for a red blood cell erythrocyte
#7791, aired 2018-06-25SCIENCE STUFF $1200: Jupiter has its Great Red Spot; this planet has a Great White Spot, seen at 30-year intervals Saturn
#7337, aired 2016-07-05WOMEN IN SCIENCE $1000: With her husband George, Gladys Dick found the cause of this childhood disease named for its red skin rash & came up with a cure scarlet fever
#7306, aired 2016-05-23PREFIXATED ON SCIENCE $400: Erythro‑ & chloro‑ are these 2 colors; happy holidays! red & green
#7125, aired 2015-07-31AT THE MUSEUM $400: An Oregon science museum has the USS Blueback, one of these; in addition to its navy days, it was in "The Hunt For Red October" a submarine
#6961, aired 2014-12-15ANCIENT SCIENCE $800: Anaxagoras was exiled from Athens for believing that this was a red hot metal larger than the Peloponnese the sun
#6614, aired 2013-05-23FUN WITH SCIENCE $400: One method to show movies this way divides the image into red & blue parts that your brain combines 3-D
#6472, aired 2012-11-06"G", I LOVE SCIENCE $1600: This feature of Jupiter is about 12,400 by 7,500 miles the Great Red Spot
#6372, aired 2012-05-08SCIENCE & NATURE $400: In 1960 Theodore Maiman used a synthetic type of this red gem in producing the world's first laser a ruby
#6273, aired 2011-12-21PHYSICAL SCIENCE $2000: Despite the name, a substance gains electrons in this process, which puts the "red" in redox reduction
#6179, aired 2011-06-23GENERAL SCIENCE $800: In 1674 this Dutchman, using microscopes that he made, became the first to describe red blood cells van Leeuwenhoek
#6167, aired 2011-06-07SCIENCE $400: They're also called erythrocytes red blood cells
#5829, aired 2010-01-07"RED" SCIENCE $400: Found in warm coastal waters, it's an explosion of fish-killing, toxin-secreting dinoflagellates red tide
#5829, aired 2010-01-07"RED" SCIENCE $800: An erythrocyte a red blood cell
#5829, aired 2010-01-07"RED" SCIENCE $1200: This salad ingredient, Capsicum annuum grossum, has been allowed to ripen on the vine a red pepper
#5829, aired 2010-01-07"RED" SCIENCE $1600: A small, dim star; Proxima Centauri is one a red dwarf
#5829, aired 2010-01-07"RED" SCIENCE $2000: Due to the Doppler effect, it's an increase in the wavelength of radiation emitted by a moving celestial body redshift
#5763, aired 2009-10-07SCIENCE TERMS $800: Alkalis are strong these, which turn litmus paper from red to blue bases
#5692, aired 2009-05-12FUN WITH SCIENCE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a little veggie before & after.) Put celery in red-colored water, & after 24 hours, the leaves turn red because of this process by which plants absorb fluids, from the Greek for "push" or "thrust" osmosis
#5586, aired 2008-12-15GENERAL SCIENCE $800: Using spectrometry, you'll find that helium produces a bright line of this color yellow
#5467, aired 2008-05-20GENERAL SCIENCE $8,000 (Daily Double): The IRAS telescope, which revealed 5 new comets, made its observations in this part of the light spectrum infra-red
#5453, aired 2008-04-30COLORFUL SCIENCE $400: A likely problem at traffic signals, the defect called deuteranopia usually causes confusion of red & this color green
#5427, aired 2008-03-25"A" IN SCIENCE $400: This deficiency of hemoglobin is often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells anemia
#5335, aired 2007-11-16IT AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE $600: Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, was a native of this city Geneva
#5176, aired 2007-02-26LITERARY LONDON $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the canal in Regent's Park, London.) In this pioneering science fiction novel about an attack on London the protagonist finds Regent's Canal a spongy mass of dark red vegetation War of the Worlds
#5104, aired 2006-11-16SCIENCE $200: The opposite of a base, it turns blue litmus red an acid
#5067, aired 2006-09-26THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE $800: The father of this "father of antiseptic surgery" was one of the first to describe red blood cells (Joseph) Lister
#4393, aired 2003-10-15SCIENCE BRIEFS $200: The primary colors are red, yellow & this blue
#4340, aired 2003-06-13SCIENCE & NATURE $800: At about 4 1/2 feet in height & 180 pounds, this red-haired great ape is the largest tree-dwelling mammal orangutan
#4306, aired 2003-04-28SCIENCE $600 (Daily Double): When combined with oxygen, this lightest chemical element makes water hydrogen
#4254, aired 2003-02-13SCIENCE CLASS $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park) Autumn leaves turn golden red as shorter days & cooler nights cause the breakdown of this green pigment chlorophyll
#3865, aired 2001-05-25SCIENCE & NATURE $100: About one-millionth as bright as our sun, these small red stars are also known as flare stars dwarfs
#3732, aired 2000-11-21SIMPLE SCIENCE $100: Rhodium got its name because its salts are this color Red
#3673, aired 2000-07-19GENERAL SCIENCE $400: The "super" class of these stars, the largest known, includes Antares & Betelgeuse Red giants
#3390, aired 1999-05-07THE SCIENCE OF COLOR $200: The defect called deuteranopia usually causes confusion of red & this color; a possible problem at traffic signals Green
#3259, aired 1998-11-05ROCKET SCIENCE $300: Rockets developed by William Congreve produced the "red glare" this man saw on Sept. 13-14, 1814 Francis Scott Key
#2578, aired 1995-11-15SCIENCE $200: Like humans, the Red-vented Bulbul bird needs a dietary source of this vitamin, also called ascorbic acid Vitamin C
#2226, aired 1994-04-18SCIENCE $100: Folic acid is necessary for the production of red blood cells in this part of the bones the marrow
#2212, aired 1994-03-29SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Red blood cells are made in this substance that fills the medullary cavity of the bones the marrow
#2140, aired 1993-12-17SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Named from the Greek for "bloodlike", this mineral, often red, is the chief ore of iron hematite
#2130, aired 1993-12-03SCIENCE $300: Scientist John Dalton suffered from the red-green type of this color blindness
#1955, aired 1993-02-19SCIENCE $800: A bloom of tiny marine dinoflagellates produces this colorful tide a red tide
#1861, aired 1992-10-12SCIENCE $600: The color of light depends on this, with the longest one corresponding to red wavelength
#1861, aired 1992-10-12SCIENCE $1000: Though usually black, this volcanic glass is also found in red, brown, & mottled varieties obsidian
#1849, aired 1992-09-24SCIENCE $200: Cinnabar, the most important ore of mercury, is this bright color red
#1620, aired 1991-09-20SCIENCE & NATURE $500: Erythrocyte is the scientific name for a red blood cell & this is the term for a white one leukocyte
#1614, aired 1991-09-12SCIENCE $400: Color of the shift that scientists study to determine the distance of a quasar from Earth the red shift
#1604, aired 1991-07-18SCIENCE & NATURE $200: A red corundum is a ruby, a blue corundum is this a sapphire
#1584, aired 1991-06-20PHYSICAL SCIENCE $300: When these 2 colors mix as light they produce magenta; as paint they make violet red & blue
#1323, aired 1990-05-09SCIENCE $300: Varieties of these simple plants include red, brown, green & blue-green algae
#1220, aired 1989-12-15SCIENCE $300: Warning! Warning! Your litmus paper has just turned red, indicating this type of solution acid
#1097, aired 1989-05-16SCIENCE $100: Chromium compounds make a ruby red & an emerald this color green
#910, aired 1988-07-15SCIENCE $200: If you suffer from Daltonism, you have the red-green type of this colorblindness
#810, aired 1988-02-26SCIENCE $200: If your litmus paper turns red, the substance you tested has this quality acidic
#776, aired 1988-01-11PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: Abbreviated "P", this element comes in red, white, & black forms phosphorus
#767, aired 1987-12-29SCIENCE $200: On a primary rainbow, this is the color on the outside red
#503, aired 1986-11-12SCIENCE $400: Vegetable dye that turns red in acid solutions & blue in alkaline solutions litmus
#419, aired 1986-04-17SCIENCE $300: Derived from lichens, some turn red in acid solutions, some blue in alkaline solutions litmus papers
#419, aired 1986-04-17SCIENCE $500: Heinrich Schwabe not only studied sunspots, but discovered the "Great Red Spot" on this planet too Jupiter
#179, aired 1985-05-16SCIENCE $200: When excited, this gas glows red, which means our Jeopardy! sign gets excited often neon
#113, aired 1985-02-13SCIENCE $400: A even mix of red, green & blue light makes this color white light

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#4811, aired 2005-07-04TERMS IN SCIENCE: Sky & Telescope magazine's contest to replace this term for a single event got 13,000 entries, but chose none the Big Bang

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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan 2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan 2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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