The 7 Jeopardy Categories of Your Life

[firecat]

Seemed appropriate to infect Livejournal with this as well...

if by some chance I got on Jeopardy & was facing the screens, if these were the categories that appeared, I would be grinning b/c I would know that I was about to ace the game. So what would they be? -- L1

1. Indie Punk Bands of 1982
2. Group Dynamics of Eclectic/Dianic Covens
3. Care and Feeding of Non-Tenured Scholarly Book Authors and the Correct Use of Commas
4. Product Team T-shirts of Apple Computer
5. Polyamory: Theory and Practice on the Internet
6. Cat Photography Tips
7. Homeowning on Fifty Cents a Day

Comments

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I'm still not very sure what Jeopardy is, as we don't have it here. I know it's a quiz show, and I think you have to answer in the form of a question, but how does it work?

Subjects I know lots about:
1) The music and history of The Wildhearts.
2) Trivia of London Transport.
3) Neil Gaiman's Sandman books.

um... I'll think of some more later. I'm sure I must remember something from my degree, for example...

Oh yes! 4) 101 things not to do in an organic chemistry lab :)

Everything you never wanted to know about Jeopardy

[firecat]

Right. Instead of questions, you are given answers and you have to ask the question that goes with the answer. The answers are in a grid, 7 categories with something like 5-6 answers in each. Each answer is hidden behind a block with an amount of money on it ($100, $200, etc.). So when it's your turn, you tell the MC which answer you'd like by saying, e.g., "I'd like 'Neil Gaiman's "Sandman"' for $100, please." If you get the question right, you get to ask for another answer, and if you get it wrong, the turn passes to your opponent.

Also, Jeopardy has a silly, singsong theme tune that some USian folks sing when they are waiting for something to happen. (On Jeopardy it plays during another part of the game, where the same answer is posed to both contestants and they write down the question on a board.)