Most Frequent JEOPARDY! Categories

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Name the categories that have appeared most often on Jeopardy! (according to the J! Archive)

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#	Category	Sample responses or clue
94		The name of this birthstone is from the Latin for 'red' (What is 'ruby'?)
92		Who is Spiro Agnew? What is the French & Indian War?
85		What is Topeka? What is Juneau?
81		What is Kodak? What is Del Monte?
80		_{(General category, not confined to any topic. 'Rotten pot' in French)}
79		What is the McKenzie River? What are the Andes?
78		Who is Attila? What is the Inquisition?
77		What is San Francisco? What is Amarillo?
75		Who is Fillmore? Who is Ford?
75		Who are the Boston Celtics? Who is Rafael Nadal?
75		What are tadpoles? What is a mastodon?
72		What is Caracas? What is Accra?
69		What is Shia? What is Wiccan?
69		What is Crete? What is Puerto Rico?
68		What is Brigham Young? What is Rice?
68		What is Maracaibo? What is the Bosporus?
66		Who are the Bourbons? What is Rhodesia?
64		What is Prison Break? What is My Two Dads?
64		Who is Banquo? What is The Tempest?
64		Who is Scout Finch? Who is Robert Langdon?
62		What is Lake Mead? What is Pikes Peak?
62		Who is Sartre? Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
60		What is Tosca? Who is Donizetti?
60		What is Memorial Day? What is Happy Days Are Here Again?
59		What is a private jet? What is a canoe?
58		Who is Suri Cruise? Who is Rupert Murdoch?
58		Who is Isaac Newton? Who is Idi Amin?
57		Who is Martin Luther King? What is the Louisiana Purchase?
57		What is Lombard? What is Afrikaans?
57		Who is Nijinsky? What is The Nutcracker?
56		Who is Judas? What is Exodus?
55		What is vegemite? What is roughy?
55		What is The Thinker? Who is Monet?

#	Category	Sample responses or clue
55		What is Roots? Who is Herman Melville?
54		What is true blue? What is near beer?
52		What is District 9? What is Pretty In Pink?
52		Who is Roy Orbison? What is Pokerface?
52		What is the National Portrait Gallery? What is Uffizi?
52		What is the Tropic of Cancer? What is Belarus?
52		What is The Golden Compass? Who is Sue Grafton?
51		What is Guernica? Who is El Greco?
50		What is Mother's Day? What is Kwanzaa?
49		Bermuda Rolfe was the 1st English girl born on this island (What is Bermuda?)
49		Who is Abner Doubleday? Who is Amelia Earhart?
49		What is the summer solstice? What is Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade?
48		What is Lagos? What is Rio de Janeiro?
48		What is a stegasaurus? What is platinum?
48		What is NATO? What is the Red Cross?
47		Who is Handel? What is An American In Paris?
46		Who is Sacagawea? Who is Leon Trotsky?
46		Feet, eyebrows, McDonald's (What are 'arches'?)
46		What is roe? What is ska?
45		Who is Kim Jong-Il? Who is Nursultan Nazarbayev?
45		Who is Odin? What is the Gordian Knot?
45		Who is Verdi? Who is Copland?
44		Henry Kissinger said this 'is the ultimate aphrodisiac' (What is 'power'?)
44		Who is Yeats? What is 'The Waste Land'?
44		What is'Tuesdays with Morrie'? What is 'The Purpose Driven Life'?
44		What is an equinox? What is the Hubble?
43		Who is Vitus Bering? Who is Balboa?
42		What is fortissimo? What is a soprano?
41		What is the Gettysburg Address? Who was Jefferson Davis?
41		Who is Copernicus? Who is Wernher von Braun?
41		What is a triangle? What is an organ?
41		_{(General category, not confined to any topic. 2 rhyming syllables.)}
41		What is a Black Russian? What is garlic?

#	Category	Sample responses or clue
41		What is Lake Michigan? What is Andorra?
41		Its license plates bear a flag depicting the Big Dipper & the North Star (What is Alaska?)
40		What is Fuji? What is the Matterhorn?
39		What is acupuncture? What is anthrax?
39		Who is Modigliani? Who is Klimt?
38		What is 'doge'? What is Prussia?
38		What is Georgia? What is Belize?
38		What is the genome? What is meiosis?
38		What is veto? What is aura?
37		What is the Aer Lingus? What is the Space Needle?
37		What is a Salty Dog? What is a Gibson?
37		What is Mad? What is People?
36		What is a furlong? What is a cord?
36		Who is Rosalynn Carter? Who is Lucy Hayes?
36		What is the Congressional Medal of Honor? What are the Tonys?
34		What is 98.6°F? What is the vena cava?
34		As an adjective, it can mean proper; as a verb, 'to grade papers' (What is 'correct'?)
34		Who is Boss Tweed? What is the Battle of Tippecanoe?
33		What is Titanic? What is Supporting Actor?
33		Corn, or a labyrinth (What is maize/maze?)
33		Who is Samuel Morse? Who is Estes Kefauver?
33		What is a frieze? Who is Gehry?
32		What are jellyfish? What is phylum?
32		What is lactovegetarian? What is synecdoche?
32		What is Spring Awakening? Who is Tom Stoppard?
32		Who is Pablo Neruda? Who is Peter the Great?
32		What are wasps? What are fungi?
32		What is an avocado? What are cabbages?
30		Nicknamed the 'Mother of Presidents', it's the birthplace of 7 presidents, (What is Ohio?)
30		Who is Gustav III? Who is Eleanor of Aquitaine?
30		Who is Nancy Pelosi? Who is Gordon Brown?
30		What is poltergeist? What is coup de grace?
30		What are neutrons? What is sodium chloride?