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Can You Answer These Real Jeopardy! Clues About Planet Earth?
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“Jeopardy!” premiered in 1964 as a daytime TV show. Due to its growing popularity, it was moved to primetime television in 1984 and Alex Trebek took over as host. During the show, three contestants battle it out in trivia while answering clues from different categories. They can vary wildly – from basics like history and geography to more odd ones like “Slowly I turned” or “Impostor!”
Several “Jeopardy!” categories contain questions about the planet Earth. 24/7 Tempo went through J! Archives — a site created by fans of the show that lists clues going back to 1984 — to find real clues about Earth.
Wonder how you’d rate on the game show? Take the following pop quiz and see how you stack up. You can test your knowledge in another area — U.S. states: Here are 50 real “Jeopardy!” questions about each state.
Click here to see if you can answer these real Jeopardy! clues about Earth
THIS PLANET $200:
…Is called Earth’s twin, but it must be fraternal, as we don’t enjoy the same thick clouds of sulfuric acid
[in-text-ad]
Venus
OUR PLANET $400:
The innovative use of drones helped the crew capture one of these, the largest animals on Earth, alongside her curious young
A blue whale
PLANET EARTH $400:
Home to 10% of the world’s known species, this rainforest covers 1.2 billion acres, 60% of it in Brazil
Amazon Forest
PLANET EARTH $800:
They’re sometimes called grasslands or savannahs, but in “God Bless America”, they’re called these
[in-text-ad-2]
Prairies
PLANET EARTH $1200:
This field around Earth weakens before the 2 poles reverse, every 300,000 years or so
The magnetic field
PLANET EARTH $1600:
2-word name for the U.S. region where a high frequency of its namesake vortexes can appear every year
[in-text-ad]
Tornado Alley
PLANET EARTH $2000:
An annual 1-million-strong migration of these animals crosses the Mara River through a gauntlet of crocs
The wildebeest
PLANET EARTH $400:
The sun’s surface can reach 10,000 degrees; this part of the Earth can get even hotter
The core
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PLANET EARTH $1600:
The world’s highest volcano, 22,500-foot Ojos del Salado, straddles these 2 South American countries
Argentina and Chile
PLANET EARTH $2,000 (Daily Double):
Striations are the scratches these large masses leave behind as they travel over thousands of years
[in-text-ad]
Glaciers
LET’S SET SOME BOUNDARIES $2000:
The PBL, or planetary boundary layer, is a region of this lowest part of the Earth’s atmosphere
The troposphere
ALTERNATIVE FACTS $400:
The planets & sun were thought to revolve around the Earth; in the 16th century, this Polish astronomer proved otherwise
Copernicus
[in-text-ad-2]
PLANET EARTH $1000:
These 5 letters follow “rock” or “mud” in a type of event that killed thousands in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
Slide
PLANET EARTH $1,000 (Daily Double):
This dark, organic substance found in soil & formed from decaying matter is good for plants; some might try to eat it with pita
[in-text-ad]
Humus
TIME FOR SPACE $1600:
This planet that comes the closest to Earth rotates so slowly that a “day” there lasts longer than its “year”
Venus
EARTH SCIENCE $2000:
From the Latin for “whiteness”, it’s the amount of sunlight reflected back from a planet; for Earth it’s about 33%
Albedo
GENERAL SCIENCE $200:
In 2014 scientists found the first evidence of tectonic plates outside the Earth on a moon of this largest planet
[in-text-ad-2]
Jupiter
PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM $400:
It’s the only planet not named for a Greek or Roman god
Earth
TO THE EXOPLANETS! $400:
NASA has found an Earthlike planet within a “habitable zone”–the area in a star system where this could exist in liquid form
[in-text-ad]
Water
WE LOVE PLANET EARTH $400:
The emmer type of this was one of the first cultivated crops over 10,000 years ago
Wheat
WE LOVE PLANET EARTH $800:
This period, the “age of fishes”, was named for a fossil-rich part of southwest England
[in-text-ad-2]
The Devonian period
GOOD OLD PLANET EARTH $200:
This desert extends more than 3,500 miles across northern Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
The Sahara
GOOD OLD PLANET EARTH $400:
It’s wet, sticky earth; it’s also a term for nasty accusations politicians throw at each other
[in-text-ad]
Mud
GOOD OLD PLANET EARTH $600:
In hardness, pellets called graupel that fall from the sky are partway between snow & this
Hail
GEOLOGY $800:
This layer of rock between the Earth’s core & crust makes up about 85 percent of the planet’s mass
The mantle
DOWN TO EARTH $400:
When it’s closest to the Earth, this planet with a 687-day year is about 33 million miles away
[in-text-ad-2]
Mars
PLANETS ON EARTH $200:
Drive through the village of Mercury in the Rhone-Alpes region of this country
France
[in-text-ad]
LOTS OF SPACE $800:
On August 27, 2003 this planet reached its closest point to Earth in nearly 60,000 years
Mars
ONE “PLANET” $1600:
2-word descriptive term for Mercury, Venus, Earth or Mars because of their orbits nearest the sun
The inner planets
THE PLANETS $200:
This ringed planet is the farthest one from earth that can be seen with the naked eye
[in-text-ad-2]
Saturn
THE PLANETS $800:
Astrologers say that when this “Planet of Communication” goes retrograde, stuff on Earth falls apart
Mercury
DISCOVERY CHANNEL $400:
Earth’s longest mountain range is the mid-oceanic this, over 30,000 miles long
[in-text-ad]
The ridge
SPACE EXPLORATION $300:
On February 14, 1990, it took its final photo from 3.7 billion miles: of the sun & 6 planets, including the Earth
Voyager
THIS IS PLANET EARTH $600:
Surprisingly, the Earth is closest to the sun during this winter month
January
THIS IS PLANET EARTH $800:
Chilly name for historical periods when significant, extended cooling of the atmosphere & oceans takes place
[in-text-ad-2]
Ice Age
THE SOLAR SYSTEM $200:
To those on Earth, 8 of the planets appear in the band of constellations known as this
[in-text-ad]
Zodiac
EARTH SCIENCE $200:
This central part of the Earth is larger than the planet Mars
Core
PLANET EARTH $400:
Due to irregularities in the Earth’s rotation, this amount of time was added to the end of 1987
One second
[in-text-ad-2]
PLANET EARTH $1000:
Peat is the first stage in the transformation of vegetable matter into this fuel
Coal
Final Jeopardy! Round clues:PLANET EARTH
Despite its name, this ocean current outdoes any river; at maximum flow off the Carolinas, its flow is 3,500 times the Mississippi’s
The Gulf Stream
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