2. Jeopardy Big Bang Theory Red Shift Analysis Edwin Hubble Vocabulary Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

3. $100 Question from Big Bang Theory What is the main idea of the Big Bang Theory?

4. $100 Answer from Big Bang Theory That an unimaginably small volume of space suddenly and rapidly expanded to an immense size.

5. $200 Question from Big Bang Theory According to the Big Bang Theory, when did the universe start?

6. $200 Answer from Big Bang Theory Approximately 13.7 billion years ago.

7. $300 Question from Big Bang Theory What did Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover?

8. $300 Answer from Big Bang Theory They discovered cosmic background radiation.

9. $400 Question from Big Bang Theory Who proposed the Big Bang Theory?

10. $400 Answer from Big Bang Theory Belgian priest and physicist Georges Lemaitre.

11. $500 Question from Big Bang Theory Describe how the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite helped prove the occurrence of the Big Bang Theory.

12. $500 Answer from Big Bang Theory The COBE map of cosmic background radiation shows the radiation that scientists believe is left over from the Big Bang expansion

13. $100 Question from Red Shift Analysis What is a spectrum?

14. $100 Answer from Red Shift Analysis The colours that are created when white light passes through a prism.

15. $200 Question from Red Shift Analysis What do we call radiation that is carried in the form of waves?

16. $200 Answer from Red Shift Analysis Electromagnetic radiation

17. $300 Question from Red Shift Analysis What is the purpose of a spectroscope?

18. $300 Answer from Red Shift Analysis To separate light into its basic component colours, and it also allows the user to view the spectral lines produced by a light sourse and to measure their wavelengths

19. $400 Question from Red Shift Analysis Give four examples of electromagnetic radiation.

20. $400 Answer from Red Shift Analysis X-rays, microwaves, visible light and radio waves.

21. $500 Question from Red Shift Analysis What is indicated by a shift of a galaxy’s spectral lines toward the red part of its spectrum?

22. $500 Answer from Red Shift Analysis That the galaxy is receding, or moving away from Earth.

23. $100 Question from Edwin Hubble What can Hubble’s proposal be compared to?

24. $100 Answer from Edwin Hubble It can be compared to a loaf of raisin bread in the oven

25. $200 Question from Edwin Hubble What is the first part of Hubble’s proposal?

26. $200 Answer from Edwin Hubble The universe is expanding in all directions

27. $300 Question from Edwin Hubble Why is a loaf of raisin bread a good comparison to the movement of galaxies?

28. $300 Answer from Edwin Hubble The raisin in the bread is like the galaxies, moving away from each other as the bread expands.

29. $400 Question from Edwin Hubble What was the second part of Hubble’s proposal?

30. $400 Answer from Edwin Hubble All the galaxies have taken the same amount of time to reach their present position

31. $500 Question from Edwin Hubble How many galaxies did Hubble estimate there to be?

32. $500 Answer from Edwin Hubble Hubble estimated that there were 46 galaxies.

33. $100 Question from Vocabulary What are astrononmers?

34. $100 Answer from Vocabulary People who study objects in space.

35. $200 Question from Vocabulary What is a spectroscope?

36. $200 Answer from Vocabulary An optical instrument used to separate light into its basic component colours.

37. $300 Question from Vocabulary What is electromagnetic radiation?

38. $300 Answer from Vocabulary Energy that is carried in the form of waves that range in length from short to long.

39. $400 Question from Vocabulary What are Celestial Bodies?

40. $400 Answer from Vocabulary The general term for all the objects in the sky; including the Sun, Moon, planets and stars

41. $500 Question from Vocabulary What is the cosmological red shift?

42. $500 Answer from Vocabulary Wavelengths of radiated light that are being constantly stretched as the light crosses the expanded universe

43. Final Jeopardy Who is/are the main character(s) of the TV show, The Big Bang Theory?

44. Final Jeopardy Answer Sheldon and Leonard