First, a big shout-out to ArtVark, a poster at ken-jennings.com, who did a digital "screenscrape" of every Jeopardy! episode listed at the site J-Archive.com, and determined the most frequently appearing category names.
Obviously, you'll see as you try this quiz, there's a lot of overlap in categories. For example, Art is one category, Artists a second and Art & Artists a third. I've tried to credit players who get "close enough" to the actual category name in most answers, so several times a specific answer will score you one point, but a less precise answer may score you 3 or more. I can't really think of another fair way to go about it.
Let me know if you have any further "alternates" that you think should be added.
As ArtVark indicated when compiling the list, it can't be considered to be definitive. The J!-Archive is not complete, and of course, if you watch the show you know they go for multiple variations of many of these categories.
Even under something like American History, they've used "Early American History", "An 'A' in American History", "Old American History", "Odd American History", "African-American History", "American Beer History", "Native American History", & "American Legal History". But I hope you still find it interesting, challenging and above all fun. |
SNL Celebrity Jeopardy Responses
Fill-in-the-Letters by Category
Fill-in-the-Letters by Category II
