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Jeopardy was created in 1964 by Merv Griffin and is the longest running game show on television. Winning over 25 Emmy's, the show has created the pop culture phenomenon of stating the answer and requiring the contestant to come up with the question.

This quiz will check your Jeopardy skill in the category of Science.

Jeopardy Category: Science

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  1. It's the science dealing with the relationship between organisms & their environment - ecology

  2. Because the Earth orbits faster when it's closer to the sun, the vernal & autumnal these are not exactly 1/2 year apart - equinoxes

  3. Different from astronomical autumn, meteorological autumn begins on the first of this month, as did WWII - September

  4. William Jennings Bryan called this theory a "program of infidelity masquerading under the name of science" - evolution

  5. With cups that rotate horizontally, an anemometer measures the speed of this, anemos in Greek - wind

  6. Newton's second law is expressed as the equation F=ma, where F stands for this, m is mass & a is acceleration - force

  7. This principle says it's impossible to measure a particle's position & momentum at the same time - the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

  8. Atomic weight is one stat for each of these, a substance that can't be decomposed to a simpler substance - an element

  9. Heavier objects have more this, the tendency of an object to resist a change in its state of motion - inertia

  10. Glycine is the simplest one of these, the essential building blocks of all proteins - amino acid


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  • Dec 31, 2010 @ 9:04 pm | delete
    I'm afraid i didn't do very well on the quiz...back to the science books for me!
    Those blooper are pretty funny.
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