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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This inert gas alters your voice because sound travels more than twice as fast in it as in air

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helium

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Lignin, a substance in wood, changes when exposed to oxygen; that makes white paper turn this color as it ages

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yellow

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue as she and Kelly demonstrate a potato gun.</a>) A potato gun demonstrates Boyle’s Law using a simple tube & a stick; pushing the stick reduces the volume of air and increases this 8-letter term, making the potato go ballistic

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pressure

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Slow-motion video shows this bug evading a swat in 250 milliseconds; for 240 of those, it’s repositioning itself to jump

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a fly

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the form of glucose that rotates a plane of polarized light clockwise

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dextrose

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| They’re also called erythrocytes

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red blood cells

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$3200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The name of this noble gas is from the Greek for “new”

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neon

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Haber process uses nitrogen & hydrogen to synthetically produce this pungent gas

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ammonia

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays a chemical formula on the monitor.</a>) When acetic acid in vinegar reacts with CaCO3, this compound in the eggshell, bubbles of CO2 form in the vinegar & dissolve the shell, leaving just the membrane

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calcium carbonate

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This unit of pressure is equal to about 14.7 pounds per square inch or 1 bar

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one atmosphere

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In November 2009 science news, a NASA probe found water here, & not a little bit, either

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the Moon

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.</a>) The flame appears to be underwater, but actually the water is cooling the candle’s outer layer, preventing the wax from burning, because it can’t do this, from the Latin for “to disperse to vapor”

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evaporate

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| About 65% of iron in humans is in the form of this, which transports molecular oxygen from the lungs through the body

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hemoglobin

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.</a>) The keys weigh much more than the paper clips and fall to the ground, but a pencil acts as this support, pulling the clips sideways, where gravity & friction stop the keys’ descent

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a fulcrum

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the largest number in the Fibonacci sequence that’s also a day in a month

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21

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A hemodialyzer is a medical device known as an artificial this organ

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a kidney

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.</a>) An egg sinks in tap water, but in saltwater, the egg gains this, defined as the upward force of a liquid on an object less dense than itself

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buoyancy

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The second law of thermodynamics says that this will of its own accord only move to a colder object

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heat

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.</a>) When you press the nozzle of an aerosol can, the contents are pushed out by pressurized gas; the gas is called one of these, a general term for chemicals that create thrust

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a propellant

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This division separates Saturn’s rings & is named for the man who spotted them in 1675

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the Cassini division

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The word rubber comes from the discovery that the stuff could be used to rub out marks made with this

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pencil

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| As it’s caused by a lack of niacin, pellagra is termed this type of deficiency disease

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vitamin deficiency

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In parts of the Caribbean, these are on a diurnal cycle: one high, one low a day, that’s it

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tides

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$2500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s a substance that conducts current; sodium & potassium are 2 of the ones Gatorade restores to your body

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an electrolyte

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Dimitri Mendeleyev made modern chemistry possible when he set this grouping of the elements

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the periodic table

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This green pigment is required for photosynthesis

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chlorophyll

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| One meter equals 39.37 of these

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inches

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$3000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Fructose is a monosaccharide, a simple one of these

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a sugar

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| pH, the measure of acidity, stands for “potential of” this most abundant element

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hydrogen

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Black spot is a serious fungal disease that affects these flowers; rugosas have good resistance

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roses

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Polarized lenses are one method used in these items that make some movie theater experiences more exciting

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3-D movies

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| William Jennings Bryan called this theory a “program of infidelity masquerading under the name of science”

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evolution

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| With cups that rotate horizontally, an anemometer measures the speed of this, anemos in Greek

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wind

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Don’t blame me–the most common cause of earthquakes is movement along these lines

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fault lines

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Of copper, iron or aluminum, the one that would be most attracted to a magnet

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iron

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In a month, this object ranges from about 225,000 miles to 252,000 miles from the Earth

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the Moon

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jimmy of the clue tries to crack a whip.</a>) Like a jet plane traveling faster than mach 1, a whip makes a cracking noise because it’s traveling faster than the speed of this

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sound

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| By definition, it’s what a carnivore eats

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meat

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew levitates a ping-pong ball over a hair dryer.</a>) What goes up stays up when the force of air moving up from the hair dryer equals this force pulling down on the ping-pong ball

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gravity

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He was in Shanghai in 1921 when he found out he had won a Nobel Prize for Physics

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Einstein

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Isaac Newton published his first mathematical formulation for this fundamental force in 1687

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gravity

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1996 (seems late) researchers announced a new one of these body parts, the spheno-mandibularis

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a muscle

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| During an epidemic of this disease in 1796, Edward Jenner discovered the power of vaccines & used it to save lives

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smallpox

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When boiling water, energy absorbed that escapes as vapor is this type of heat, from Latin latere, “to hide”

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latent energy

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew discusses earthquakes</a>.) The hypocenter is where an earthquake originates. The point on the surface, vertically above the hypocenter, is known as <a>this</a>

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the epicenter

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Termed “The Last Sorcerer” in a recent biography, in 1705 he became the first scientist to be knighted for his work

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Isaac Newton

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue</a>.) Because of the intense magnetic fields that block heat from the core, <a>these</a> solar phenomena can be thousands of degrees cooler than the surrounding surface

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sunspots

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Latin for “about a day”, these body rhythms govern cycles of wakefulness & sleep

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circadian rhythms

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue</a>.) Carbon, one of the most common elements, has been discovered in 60-atom configurations called <a>these</a>, named for an architect

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buckyballs (fullerenes)

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Each of these organs contains about 1 million nephrons, which filter blood

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the kidneys

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew sucks on a straw in a sealed-up bottle that has a marshmallow inside.</a>) The marshmallow in the bottle will expand when I suck on the straw because this property inside the bottle will decrease

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(air) pressure

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These were first seen in human cells in 1882; the exact number, 46, was determined in 1956

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chromosomes

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew pushes a straw into a cupcake, then extracts the result.</a>) Using a cupcake & straw, we’re approximating 1 of these 2-word scientific readings used in undersea & underground prospecting

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core sampling

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1758 this Swedish biologist introduced binomial nomenclature

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Linnaeus

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Around 1910 Thomas Morgan found that these hereditary units are located on chromosomes within cells

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genes

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Some minerals can readily be identified by taste; halite has this type of taste

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salty

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Cilia later! These long hairlike extensions help bacteria move by means of a whipping motion

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flagella

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$5000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Sugars, alcohols & starches are all formed by different combos of these 3 elements

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hydrogen, carbon & oxygen

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The fundamental forces are electromagnetism, gravity & these 2 “opposite” nuclear forces

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the strong & the weak

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s what the “L” stands for in “laser”

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light

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Celsius temperature scale is also called this, meaning “divided into one hundred parts”

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centigrade

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew performs a science experiment.</a>) By mixing baking soda, a chemical base, with the acid in the lime juice, this gas is produced, resulting in a bubbly liquid

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carbon dioxide

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This one of the simple machines is made by using a wheel & a rope

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a pulley

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Shock researcher Walter Cannon coined this word for an organism’s ability to maintain internal equilibrium

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homeostasis

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A whole lot of shakin’ goes on in this science that deals almost exclusively with earthquakes

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seismology

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Mass number is defined as the number of neutrons & these particles in an atom’s nucleus

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protons

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Like you, dicotyledonous plants have a network of these, but theirs carry food & water

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veins

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$1400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Pauling found an “alpha” type of this spiral in proteins; Watson & Crick found a “double” one in DNA

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a helix

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a chemical reaction</a>) A chemical reaction between food coloring and bleach, which contains <a>this</a> chemical, NaClO3, turns the color liquid into a colorless compound

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sodium chlorate

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment.</a>) When the glass is pushed into the water, molecules of <a>this</a> don’t escape, but are pressed together and act as a shield between the water and the paper, keeping it dry

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air

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The 2nd law of this covers equal distribution of resources; thus cream in coffee blends evenly even when not stirred

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thermodynamics

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment.</a>) The iron wire heats up as electricity flows through it; if you shorten the wire, it melts a result of <a>this</a> electrical condition, an excess flow of charge

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a short circuit

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Part of a corkscrew is this type of simple machine reworked into a spiral form

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an inclined plane (ramp later ruled acceptable)

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a science experiment.</a>) Using a centuries-old experiment, pour water into a cup, to specifically illustrate <a>this</a> Newtonian law

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Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a coffee can & an inclined plane.</a>) A ball of clay inside the can is enough to reposition the can’s natural center of this, so the can rolls uphill

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gravity

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Every second, fusion reactions in the Sun convert about 600 million tons of this element into helium

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hydrogen

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Edward Doisy won a 1943 Nobel Prize for synthesizing this hemorrhage-inhibiting vitamin; <a>isn’t that “special”?</a>

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vitamin K

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Of the 3 basic rock types, the type that was once one form but has changed to another due to heat & pressure

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metamorphic

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew holds a white rock at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.</a>) Because it’s water-soluble, <a>this</a> form of calcium sulfate is rarely found in sand, but here in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin, there are no rivers to carry it away, so it forms the famed white sand

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gypsum

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| You have “receptors” in your ears for this fundamental force, & they get upset when you’re weightless

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gravity

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the <i>Jeopardy!</i> science lab.</a>) Iodine reacts with this carbohydrate in food; if it’s present, the iodine turns a <a>bluish-black color</a>

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starch

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Darwin defined it as “preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations”

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natural selection

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew rubs a balloon on her hair in the <i>Jeopardy!</i> science lab.</a>) Rubbing a balloon builds up electrons that then attract this type of particle in a <a>metal can</a>, from the Greek for “first”

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protons

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Below the atmosphere is this “sphere”, from the Greek for “stone”

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the lithosphere

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the weakest of the 4 basic forces, but it’s strong enough to keep the moon orbiting the Earth

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gravity

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A cubic inch of material contains a million billion billion of these, each with protons & neutrons in its nucleus

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atoms

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew puts a lid on it–literally.</a>) The candle in the small jar will <a>burn out first</a> because it has the least amount of this to burn

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oxygen

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Changes in the tropospheric layer of this are what gives us weather

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the atmosphere

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M.</a>) To test deep water structures the wave tank generates waves, wind, and this water flow,from the Latin for running

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currents

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The third law of thermodynamics implies that a system can never be brought to this temperature point

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absolute zero

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 2006, Israeli scientists claimed to have created the “ball” type of this stormy phenomenon using a microwave oven

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a lightning storm

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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This type of “cell” sounds like it causes disease, but it refers to a gamete, such as an egg cell

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a germ cell

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$2021 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| We went underground to learn that this unit is equal to about 6.022 x 1023 molecules of a given substance

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a mole

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 2007 Intel announced a new faster chip design replacing silicon with this element, symbol Hf

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hafnium

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| ( <a>Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a science lab.</a> ) The heat from the lamp causes the snake to dance, as hot air is less this five-letter term than cold air and therefore rises and spins the snake

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dense

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the nervous system, calcium ions crossing the gap between these cause a release of acetylcholine

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neurons

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| ( <a>Kelly delivers the clue from the lab.</a> ) Normally, an ice cube floats; <a>this one, however, sinks right to the bottom</a> because it’s made of heavy water, or D2O; the D standing for this isotope

A

deuterium

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| As opposed to what arthropods have, vertebrates have this internal framework

A

endoskeleton

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| ( <a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.</a> ) Though the top book appears to be suspended in air, more than half the weight of the stack rests on the table - the principle is used to build this type of bridge

A

cantilever bridge

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The fishlike amphioxus has a structure called a notochord which in humans develops into this column

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the spinal column

101
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Newton’s Third Law of Motion is usually quoted as “For every action there is” this 3-word type of “reaction”

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equal and opposite

102
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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In geologic theory, the Earth’s outer shell has about 12 big these, moving around tectonically

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plates

103
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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Boric acid, a weak acid, is used as this bacteria-killing infection-preventing type of substance

A

antiseptic

104
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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This unit represents the explosive power of 2 billion pounds of TNT

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megaton

105
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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This type of rain forms when nitrogen oxides & sulfur dioxide react within growing droplets

A

acid rain

106
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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew points to two diagrams of the Earth’s tilt on the monitor.</a>) Because of the tilt of the Earth’s axis both in summer & winter, solar panels in the United States facing this direction receive the most sun

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south

107
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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This branch of study is for the birds… actually, it’s of the birds

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ornithology

108
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1633 the Church condemned him to house arrest for astronomical heresy

A

Galileo

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew reading points to a fly’s eye on the monitor.</a>) An insect’s compound eye can detect 300 flashes of light per second compared to a human’s 50, using thousands of <a>tiny lenses</a> known as these, as in a diamond

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a facet

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The universe’s background radiation is thought to be left over from this primordial event

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the Big Bang

111
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Electrically speaking, it’s the opposite of resistivity

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conductance

112
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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Ossification, the formation of this, begins in the embryo at the end of the second month

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bone

113
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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| C2H5, it’s found before “alcohol” & is a homophone of a female first name

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ethyl

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a formula on a monitor.</a>) In Newton’s law, “F” is the attractive force, “G” is the gravitational constant, “m” is the masses of two bodies, & “d” stands for this

A

distance

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Into the 20th Century it was thought the universe was one big galaxy–this one

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the Milky Way

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew enlightens us with his scientific knowledge</a>) It’s a term for a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. We’ve turned a <a>motor</a> into one by making it light up the bulb

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a generator

117
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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Vauquelin found Beryllium in 1798, the year after he found this, symbol Cr

A

Chromium

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jimmy is in his Jeopardy! lab coat delivering the clue this time</a>) You can take a <a>simple nail</a>, coil wire around it, connect it to a battery, and turn it into this attractive 13-letter item

A

an electromagnet

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Predicted in 1928, the first known antiparticle was the anti-this, also called the positron

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the antielectron

120
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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The opposite of a base, it turns blue litmus red

A

an acid

121
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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver disease, type A, B or C

A

hepatitis

122
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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The 10th to 12th of these body parts that form a “cage” articulate with single vertebrae

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ribs

123
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Echocardiography can tell you whether this doublespeak heart issue is caused by an abnormal valve

A

heart murmur

124
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$3000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Also known as epinephrine, this hormone is secreted in response to stress, like fear or injury

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adrenaline

125
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$None ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The symbol of this element first isolated in 1783 comes from its German name

A

tungsten

126
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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This medal metal is usually an alloy of tin & copper

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bronze

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Copenhagen, Denmark.</a>) In 1883, Carlsberg developed <a>Saccharomyces carlsbergensis</a>, a special strain of this to ferment the sugars in beer

A

yeast

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In testing out gases by smelling them (not a good idea) Humphry Davy found in 1800 that this one made him feel giddy

A

nitrous oxide (or laughing gas)

129
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The name of this disorder in which the bones become porous comes from the Greek for “bone” & “passage”

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osteoporosis

130
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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In astronomy, this unit of measure is abbreviated pc

A

parsec

131
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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| At sea level at 70 degrees this travels 1,129 feet per second; it speeds up over 1 foot per sec. for each rising degree

A

sound

132
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The largest tree, the General Sherman in California, is this type, also called a Sierra Redwood

A

a sequoia

133
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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the pole vault at Duke University’s track in Durham, NC.</a>) In bending an elastic solid, stress is the force causing deformation & this is the 6-letter term for <a>the deformation</a>

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strain

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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| 6 elements once known as inert gases are now known by this aristocratic name

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noble gases

135
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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>A honey-colored retriever named Max tries to lick Cheryl of the Clue Crew as she pets him at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.</a>) Veterinarians refer to this area of an animal’s body as the posterior or this region, from the Latin for “the tail”

A

the caudal region

136
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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An enzyme in saliva called ptyalin converts these into maltose, a sugar

A

carbohydrates (or starches)

137
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A dry Sirocco is a warm wind that carries particles of sand from this African desert across the Mediterranean

A

the Sahara

138
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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1729 this Swede wrote “Praeludia Sponsaliorum Plantarum”, which described the sexual processes of plants

A

Linnaeus

139
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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Leroy Chow aboard the International Space Station reads the clue.</a>) We breathe thanks to this process: electricity from the solar panels splits water into hydrogen & oxygen

A

electrolysis

140
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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This metal’s name is from the Greek for “rose”; it forms salts that give rose-colored solutions

A

rhodium

141
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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A deuterium atom is a hydrogen atom that has this keeping its proton company in the nucleus

A

a neutron

142
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This largest nerve in the body arises in the sacral plexus, leaves the pelvis & runs down the thigh

A

the sciatic

143
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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Bears appeared during this epoch right before the Pliocene

A

the Miocene

144
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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a classroom.</a>) Meaning not at a right angle, it can refer to slanting abdominal muscles, or a geometric angle like this

A

oblique

145
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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It equals mass divided by volume & is often expressed in pounds per cubic foot

A

density

146
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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Cosmic rays were first detected by V. F. Hess during a flight by one of these

A

a hot air balloon

147
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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The crepe ring is the transparent C ring in this planet’s ring system

A

Saturn

148
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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Albert Ghiorso at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab holds the record for discovering the most of these

A

elements

149
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In MS-DOS, the .bak file extension meant the file was this type

A

back-up file

150
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$1800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An isohel on a weather map is a line showing connecting places with an equal amount of this

A

sunshine

151
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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s that line off in the distance where the sky meets the land or the sea

A

the horizon

152
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| What makes Rigel the brightest star in this constellation is that it’s really 3 stars (& they’re not in the belt)

A

Orion

153
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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 1970s it was found that when CFCs break down, this is the main 1 of the 3 elements in them that harms the ozone

A

chlorine

154
Q

$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Amoebas use temporary extensions called these to move or to surround & engulf food

A

pseudopods

155
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$2200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This amino acid is the sodium salt of glutamic acid

A

monosodium glutamate (or MSG)

156
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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This thermometer developer discovered that the boiling point of a liquid varies with atmospheric pressure

A

Fahrenheit

157
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Of the noble gases, this one has the lowest atomic weight

A

helium

158
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$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From 1838 to 1841 this naturalist was Secretary of the Geological Society of London

A

Darwin

159
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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This 2-letter-named moon of Jupiter is the most volcanically active body in the solar system

A

Io

160
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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Kelp is an especially rich source of this halogen

A

iodine

161
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the early 1830s Michael Faraday found that a moving one of these can produce an electric current

A

magnet

162
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1953 Watson & Crick built a model of the molecular structure of this, the gene-carrying substance

A

DNA

163
Q

$1200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 2002 an 800-mile-diameter planetoid called Quaoar was found 1 billion miles past this 1430-mile-diameter planet

A

Pluto

164
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$1600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 1920s scientists discovered fossilized dinosaur eggs in this huge Mongolian desert

A

Gobi

165
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$4000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Among the compounds called alkanes, the hexanes are C6H14 – & these hydrocarbons are C8H18

A

octanes

166
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These electromagnetic rays used to take pictures of your insides were originally known as Roentgen rays

A

X-rays

167
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This German-born American physicist won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics

A

Albert Einstein

168
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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When combined with oxygen, this lightest chemical element makes water

A

hydrogen

169
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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Also a term for someone from Warsaw, it’s one of the 2 strongest points in a magnetic field

A

Pole

170
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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The symbol of this radioactive element is Pu & it sounds like it’s named after Mickey Mouse’s dog

A

plutonium

171
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The leatherback variety of this reptile is one of the few animals that primarily eat jellyfish

A

turtle/tortoise

172
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This “prefrontal” medical procedure involves the destruction of sections of the brain’s cortex

A

lobotomy

173
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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This process of making rubber harder & more elastic by heating it with sulfur bears the name of a Roman god

A

vulcanization

174
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| His 1543 book “Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres” started an astronomical revolution

A

Nicholas Copernicus

175
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this

A

ionization

176
Q

$None ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| As it has no mass, this particle travels at about 186,000 miles per second

A

photon

177
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The vast majority of this second-lightest gas comes from natural gas fields in the U.S.

A

helium

178
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Sialia mexicana is the scientific name of the western bluebird: Sialia is the genus & mexicana tells you this

A

the species

179
Q

$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In a first-class type of this, the fulcrum is between the applied force and the load

A

a lever

180
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The tail of this body is formed when ice turns into gas as it gets closer to the sun

A

a comet

181
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This 5-letter word is the opposite of attract

A

repel

182
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$None ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It takes approximately 24,840 MPH to achieve this

A

escaping the Earth’s gravity (and go off into outer space, on your way to the moon, for instance)

183
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| His 1905 paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” contained his special Theory of Relativity

A

Albert Einstein

184
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1935 the daughter of this famed pair won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of artificial radioactivity

A

Pierre & Marie Curie

185
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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (Hi, I’m Nobel laureate Rudy Marcus) It’s the chemical formula for dry ice

A

CO2

186
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The term geotropism refers to the effect that this has on the direction plants grow or bend

A

gravity/the Earth

187
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the Arctic, some of these organisms consisting of an alga & a fungus may be 4,000 years old

A

lichens

188
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 1970s sign language was taught to Koko the gorilla & Washoe, one of these

A

chimpanzee

189
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A magnetron is an electronic tube used to produce these waves found in some kitchens

A

microwaves

190
Q

$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles) The bubbling seen here is caused by this gas, a major part of Jupiter’s atmosphere

A

methane

191
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports) The spin of a frisbee keeps it stable in flight, illustrating angular this

A

momentum

192
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1869 this Russian chemist published his periodic table

A

Dmitri Mendeleev

193
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Snakes come equipped with a special tooth named for this & used to break out of it

A

Egg

194
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1992 scientists found ripples in the CBR, Cosmic Background this, whose existence supports the Big Bang Theory

A

Radiation

195
Q

$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Several centuries after the Chinese used negative numbers, people in India came up with the concept of this number

A

Zero

196
Q

$1500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The books in Libbie Hyman’s 6-volume study of these have spines; by definition, the creatures in them don’t

A

Invertebrates

197
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| 7 years after Darwin published his natural selection theory, this man published his laws of genetics

A

Gregor Mendel

198
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| While we have 23 pairs of these in each cell, the fruit fly makes do with 4, only 1 of them sex-related

A

chromosomes

199
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| 2000 news: the Gunnison sage grouse isn’t just another northern sage grouse, but a new one of this classification

A

species

200
Q

$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An acre of soil contains billions of nematodes, the round type of these seen here under the microscope

A

worms

201
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Latin for “parchment”, this semi-permeable barrier surrounds a cell’s cytoplasm

A

membrane

202
Q

$1100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| At Prague Tech, we wonder if this physics professor’s voice got higher as he moved toward you

A

Christian Doppler

203
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Silver iodide & silver bromide are sensitive to this, hence their use in photography

A

light

204
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Term for the edible endospermic seeds of an ear of corn

A

kernels

205
Q

$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Sore, stiff joints are one symptom of this condition suffered by sailors off the C, vitamin C

A

scurvy

206
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Though his work was “uncertain”, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932, just on “principle”

A

Werner Heisenberg

207
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The element named for him wasn’t one of the ones he left a gap for in the periodic table; it came in at 101

A

Dmitri Mendeleev

208
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Only a few living things, like some germs, can live without this gas symbolized O

A

oxygen

209
Q

$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Though the Earth isn’t a perfect sphere, its eastern & western halves are each called this

A

hemispheres

210
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| No Doubt sang, “Thank You for turning on the lights. Thank You, now you’re” this organism that lives off a host

A

parasite

211
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This man seen here, born in Oxford in 1942, is among the greatest physicists of our time

A

Stephen Hawking

212
Q

$None ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He invented carbonated water as a byproduct of his investigations into the chemistry of air

A

Joseph Priestley

213
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1633 Descartes suppressed his book “The World” because it supported the ideas of this Italian

A

Galileo

214
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Rust is a slow example of this process: combustion is defined as a “rapid” one

A

Oxidation

215
Q

$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Don’t worry about exploding when using this heart medicine – it’s too diluted

A

Nitroglycerin

216
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This family of trees has 2 genera, populus & salix; we wonder to which one Alyson Hannigan belongs

A

Willow

217
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Some protozoans’ bodies can be divided into the fluid inner endoplasm & this more rigid outer part

A

Ectoplasm

218
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It can be fatty matter on the wall of an artery, or a buildup of matter on a tooth

A

Plaque

219
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The 4 dimensions in the Einsteinian space-time continuum are time, length, width & this

A

Height

220
Q

$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| NaOCl, sodium hypochlorite, is this common laundry product

A

Bleach

221
Q

$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Put this in your “notebook”: Andromeda (M 31), like the Milky Way, is a galaxy of this shape

A

Spiral

222
Q

$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Abbreviated lm, it’s a measurement of light

A

Lumen

223
Q

$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In biology it’s a finger; in math, a figure like 1

A

a digit

224
Q

$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A free-falling body accelerates at a rate of about 1 g, g coming from this word

A

gravity

225
Q

$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Pre-Y1K scientists figured this organ gave out light; they were, of course, wrong

A

eye

226
Q

$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These in the skies of Albuquerque on October 3, 1999 were a fine example of Charles’ Law in action

A

hot air balloons

227
Q

$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The 5-kingdom system is made up of animals, bacteria, plants, protists & these

A

fungi

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