Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
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Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
What six categories would you be happiest to see on a Jeopardy! board that you were playing?
Categories that you know and love and that would probably give you an advantage over other Jeopardy! contestants.
Rules:
(1) To force your picks to be well-rounded, you have to choose one "subtopic" from each of the six classic Trivial Pursuit categories: Geography, Entertainment, History, Arts & Literature, Science & Nature, Sports & Leisure.
(2) They don't have to be Jeopardy! categories that have actually appeared on the show, but they have to be non-specialized enough to have a realistic chance of appearing on the show. So your Geography category can't be "Street names in [my home town of 80,000 people]", and if you have a graduate degree in applied math, your Science & Nature category can't be "Numerical solution of differential equations" (we'd probably all agree that's too specialized for the show).
My picks would be something like this:
Geography: CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY
Entertainment: THE SIMPSONS
History: FAMOUS DEATHS
Arts & Literature: LEWIS CARROLL (or maybe NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS if that counts as "arts")
Science & Nature: MATHEMATICIANS
Sports & Leisure: THE NHL
Categories that you know and love and that would probably give you an advantage over other Jeopardy! contestants.
Rules:
(1) To force your picks to be well-rounded, you have to choose one "subtopic" from each of the six classic Trivial Pursuit categories: Geography, Entertainment, History, Arts & Literature, Science & Nature, Sports & Leisure.
(2) They don't have to be Jeopardy! categories that have actually appeared on the show, but they have to be non-specialized enough to have a realistic chance of appearing on the show. So your Geography category can't be "Street names in [my home town of 80,000 people]", and if you have a graduate degree in applied math, your Science & Nature category can't be "Numerical solution of differential equations" (we'd probably all agree that's too specialized for the show).
My picks would be something like this:
Geography: CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY
Entertainment: THE SIMPSONS
History: FAMOUS DEATHS
Arts & Literature: LEWIS CARROLL (or maybe NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS if that counts as "arts")
Science & Nature: MATHEMATICIANS
Sports & Leisure: THE NHL
- Blue Lion
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography--U.S. STATE CAPITALS.
Entertainment--THEY PERFORMED AT WOODSTOCK.
History--ROMAN EMPERORS.
Arts & Literature--MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS.*
Science & Nature--THE ELEMENTS.
Sports & Leisure--COLLEGE FOOTBALL NICKNAMES.
* These are English-language novels published during the 20th century. The list skews heavily toward titles published before 1960 and authors like Faulkner, Hemingway, and James.
Entertainment--THEY PERFORMED AT WOODSTOCK.
History--ROMAN EMPERORS.
Arts & Literature--MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS.*
Science & Nature--THE ELEMENTS.
Sports & Leisure--COLLEGE FOOTBALL NICKNAMES.
* These are English-language novels published during the 20th century. The list skews heavily toward titles published before 1960 and authors like Faulkner, Hemingway, and James.
- ihavejeoprosy
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: Rhode island
entertainment: family guy or south park
history: potent potables through the ages
art and literature: name the painter / art movement
science: elemental etymology
sports and leisure: snack food and candy
entertainment: family guy or south park
history: potent potables through the ages
art and literature: name the painter / art movement
science: elemental etymology
sports and leisure: snack food and candy
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Can we substitute a word-play category for one of the big six?
ETA: Congrats, Jeoprosy. Will have to miss your first appearance, though, my son has a soccer game.
ETA: Congrats, Jeoprosy. Will have to miss your first appearance, though, my son has a soccer game.
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
GEOGRAPHIC RECORDS (like the highest, deepest, biggest, etc.)
THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 (preferably current, but anything since 2009 works)
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
DO THE MATH
YA CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
THE OLYMPICS
If I could get rid of the geography category and add a wordplay, it would be SPELLING.
THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 (preferably current, but anything since 2009 works)
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
DO THE MATH
YA CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
THE OLYMPICS
If I could get rid of the geography category and add a wordplay, it would be SPELLING.
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: European Capitals
Entertainment: Talkin' Tolkien
History: British Monarchs
Art and Lit: Shakespeare
Science: Preferably none. My scientific knowledge goes about as far as "salt is salty."
Sports and Leisure: Anything Big 4. Sports is my wheelhouse.
Entertainment: Talkin' Tolkien
History: British Monarchs
Art and Lit: Shakespeare
Science: Preferably none. My scientific knowledge goes about as far as "salt is salty."
Sports and Leisure: Anything Big 4. Sports is my wheelhouse.
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: COLLEGE TOWNS
Entertainment: MOVIE QUOTES
History: BRITISH ROYALTY
Arts & Literature: GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Science & Nature: THE GREAT INDOORS
Sports & Leisure: SPORTS MASCOTS
Entertainment: MOVIE QUOTES
History: BRITISH ROYALTY
Arts & Literature: GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Science & Nature: THE GREAT INDOORS
Sports & Leisure: SPORTS MASCOTS
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: WORLD CAPITALS (just memorized all of them!)
Entertainment: CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARIES
History: LGBT LANDMARKS
Arts & Literature: ENGLISH POETRY
Science & Nature: ENGINEERING
Sports & Leisure: STARS OF WOMEN'S SOCCER
Entertainment: CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARIES
History: LGBT LANDMARKS
Arts & Literature: ENGLISH POETRY
Science & Nature: ENGINEERING
Sports & Leisure: STARS OF WOMEN'S SOCCER
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: State Capitals
Entertainment: Firefly (or Buffy)
History: The Civil War
Arts & Literature: Sci-Fi
Science & Nature: Nuclear Physics
Sports & Leisure: NY Mets (or Formula 1 Racing)
Entertainment: Firefly (or Buffy)
History: The Civil War
Arts & Literature: Sci-Fi
Science & Nature: Nuclear Physics
Sports & Leisure: NY Mets (or Formula 1 Racing)
- Ryno
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
Entertainment: CLASSIC ROCK
History: POPES
Arts & Literature: COMPOSERS
Science & Nature: ASTRONOMY
Sports & Leisure: GOLFERS
Entertainment: CLASSIC ROCK
History: POPES
Arts & Literature: COMPOSERS
Science & Nature: ASTRONOMY
Sports & Leisure: GOLFERS
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: Southern Africa
Entertainment: Reality Television
History: Famous Asian Americans
Arts & Literature: Classical Composers
Science & Nature: Entomology
Sports & Leisure: Fruits and Vegetables
Entertainment: Reality Television
History: Famous Asian Americans
Arts & Literature: Classical Composers
Science & Nature: Entomology
Sports & Leisure: Fruits and Vegetables
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: Latin American Geography
Entertainment: Pixar or Disney or Reality Television (many entertainment categories fall in my wheelhouse)
History: The 90s (that's history, right?)
Arts & Literature: Children's Literature
Science & Nature: Marine Mammals
Sports & Leisure: College Sports
Entertainment: Pixar or Disney or Reality Television (many entertainment categories fall in my wheelhouse)
History: The 90s (that's history, right?)
Arts & Literature: Children's Literature
Science & Nature: Marine Mammals
Sports & Leisure: College Sports
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
^^^^ but how do you know you won't get the 1890s!?
Geography: Oh Canada!
Entertainment: Musicals by Character
History: Eastern European Royalty
Arts & Literature: Irish Writers
Science & Nature: Name that Chemical!
Sports & Leisure: The Winter Olympics
Geography: Oh Canada!
Entertainment: Musicals by Character
History: Eastern European Royalty
Arts & Literature: Irish Writers
Science & Nature: Name that Chemical!
Sports & Leisure: The Winter Olympics
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: African Geography
Entertainment: The Simpsons
History: Treaties
Arts & Literature: Painters and Paintings
Science & Nature: Venomous Snakes
Sports & Leisure: The NBA
Entertainment: The Simpsons
History: Treaties
Arts & Literature: Painters and Paintings
Science & Nature: Venomous Snakes
Sports & Leisure: The NBA
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: National Flags
Entertainment: CW Shows
History: English/British Royalty
Arts & Literature: Musical Theatre
Science and Nature: Something relating to Chemicals/ Chemical laws/reactions
Sports and Leisure: College Basketball
CW shows are my guilty pleasure, and I think most highbrow contestants would be thrown by that category. Wasn't sure if musicals would go under entertainment or arts (personally, I think it goes under arts). The alternative would be Shakespeare.
Entertainment: CW Shows
History: English/British Royalty
Arts & Literature: Musical Theatre
Science and Nature: Something relating to Chemicals/ Chemical laws/reactions
Sports and Leisure: College Basketball
CW shows are my guilty pleasure, and I think most highbrow contestants would be thrown by that category. Wasn't sure if musicals would go under entertainment or arts (personally, I think it goes under arts). The alternative would be Shakespeare.
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Making a mental note that if I see more than two of these on tomorrow's (?) show, I've been spoiled on the result.ihavejeoprosy wrote:Geography: Rhode island
entertainment: family guy or south park
history: potent potables through the ages
art and literature: name the painter / art movement
science: elemental etymology
sports and leisure: snack food and candy
Me:
Geography: well, anything, really, but let's go with the obvious FLAGS OF THE WORLD
Entertainment: '80s ROCK
Science & Nature: THE PERIODIC TABLE (not saying that's my greatest wheelhouse in S&N, but I like the periodic table!)
History: 20th CENTURY HISTORY (not because I lived through a scosch more than a quarter of it, or that its recent, but I could do pretty good there, although I'm a history buff of all ages.)
Arts & Literature: THE BIBLE
Sports & Leisure: CANADIAN PRO TEAM NAMES
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- MarkBarrett
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
Geography: U.S. STATE CAPITALS
Entertainment: THE BRADY BUNCH (Yeah, shocker, I know.)
Science & Nature: ELEMENT"S" (S&N is not my area, so I would need the extra help of narrowing the possibles.)
History: U.S PRESIDENTS
Arts & Literature: STEPHEN KING BOOKS
Sports & Leisure: THE 50 GREATEST PBA BOWLERS
Those writing for the SHC (We are still having one, right?) now you have some category ideas.
Entertainment: THE BRADY BUNCH (Yeah, shocker, I know.)
Science & Nature: ELEMENT"S" (S&N is not my area, so I would need the extra help of narrowing the possibles.)
History: U.S PRESIDENTS
Arts & Literature: STEPHEN KING BOOKS
Sports & Leisure: THE 50 GREATEST PBA BOWLERS
Those writing for the SHC (We are still having one, right?) now you have some category ideas.
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
It'd be awesome, but not holding my breath.MarkBarrett wrote:Those writing for the SHC (We are still having one, right?) now you have some category ideas.
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
I know a certain boardie - an incredibly valuable asset to the community too - who will be free from the encumbrance of writing a weekly poll during the summer to run the SHC ...econgator wrote:It'd be awesome, but not holding my breath.MarkBarrett wrote:Those writing for the SHC (We are still having one, right?) now you have some category ideas.
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Re: Your personal Jeopardy! dream board
My 6 categories would be Square Numbers, Harry Potter, U.S. Geography, U.S. History, Animals, and 90s Kids Programs.
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