SPINOFF:How'd you all get so smart?

I agree with the concept that manny of us read & post to topics which interest us or are something we know well. Here's a novel way to announce these interests...

On another board I read, a new poster introduced herself by listing the categories in her "dream Jeopardy board". Everyone else quickly posted a list & I learned more about some of the people who'd been posting in the week or so that followed than I'd learned in 2 years of reading their "normal" posts. I'll post dream Jeopardy categories here:

Glands (or any other medical topic)
Olympic Swimmers
Horses
Detroit Tiger history
Chocolate
Middle Earth

and for Final Jeopardy:
Songs by Harry Chapin



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Sue from El Paso
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Interesting idea. . . let's see, my favorite Jeopardy board would have:

Sci-Fi Authors
Relativity (I'd clean this one up)
Southeast Asia
Cartoon Characters
The Taming of the Shrew

Why The Taming of the Shrew? I changed high schools three times and each time the drama department decided to put on The Taming of the Shrew. I got to where I could almost recite the whole bloody thing myself. . .

--Sylence

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"A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here'." - Steven Wright

Dream Jeopardy Game:

Veterinary Medicine
Animal Behavior
Horror Movies
Anthropology
Psychology
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors

...only on account of villainy...

Sports Team Nicknames
Stephen King
20th Century Poetry
Potent Potables
Human Anatomy
Spelling

And for Final Jeopardy, The Kinsey Report.

--elm

"I'll take Famous Titties for $200, Alex."

Dream Jeopardy board:

Famous Titties
Things That Go "Boom"
Toxins
The Funny Papers
Plumbing
The Windy City

And for final, John Steinbeck

This is a great thread.

Football (the real American kind)
The Secret of Flight
Human Anatomy
Esoteric Science
Star Wars (Modern films)
Classical Civilizations

Final Jeapordy
The Windy City

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The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is
yours to draw...

Omniscient; BAG

Trafalger
The Golden Age of Science Fiction
Surfing
The Sixties
Sun Records
World War I Aviation

Final Jeopardy:
Film Noir

New Age
Science & Nature
Construction
Comics
TV
Mammals

Final: Spider-Man

Sure, the final category isnt a broad topic, but it would gaurantee me a correct answer!

I knew I'd seen this in a book but couldn't remember which one :-)

mine are:
The Bee Gees
The Simpsons
MST3K
the works of Douglas Adams
the works of John Irving
This Old House

final: the Pet Shop Boys

I don't know much, but what I do know, no one else does, hahaha -- sweep!

BTW, for those of you who haven't yet visited the online version of jeopardy, hop on over to http://www.station.sony.com/jeopardy . Cool.

The Indianapolis 500
Science and Technology
Desserts
JRR Tolkien
US History
Card Games

Final Jeopardy:
The Beatles

Jeopardy Board:

Geography
British/Canadian Military History
Obscure British Comedians
Bad 70s TV & Music
Obscure Jangly Brit-Pop of the 1980s
Those Darn Romans

Final Jeopardy:

Famous Canadians Who Made a Wad in the USA.


Alternate Reality Jeopardy Categories:

What's That Smell?
Does This Look Infected to You?
Things That Ooze
Painful Rectal Itch
Dan Quayle Aphorisms
Say It in Urdu, Please

Final Alternate Reality Jeopardy:

Stuff Found Under Alex's Fingernails



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"A friend will help you move house. A best friend will help you move a body."--Alexi Sayle

Hmm..good question.

Mine would be

Hacking
Frank Miller and Comics
Mardi Gras
Customizing 50's cars
Monty Python
Japanese Anime

and the final:
Major characters in the world of Shadowrun

Physics
The Internet
Taoism
Scotland
The Eighties
Pink Floyd

Final Jeopardy: Star Trek

Sex
How to Pick up women
TTY's
Closed-captions
Words with one letter
Signs for sex

let's see....I'd go with

Shakespearean drama
Dickens
soccer
Kate Chopin
child psychology
and Scooby Doo trivia

final Jeopardy: Maya Angelou

The idea is swiped from Douglas Coupland's Microserf. Very good read BTW.

My categories:
The works of Robert A Heinlein
The history of Radio & Television
#1 songs from the 70's, 80's & 90's
James Bond in the movies
Capitals of the world
Spanish history & Culture

and for final jeopardy:
Disney Theme parks (don't ask)

CT
38 yo (no kids) and just returned from 10 days in Disneyland Paris



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Ummm....

Literary Characters (or Fictional Characters)
The Middle Ages
Colonial America
SF/Fantasy
Country Music
Greek/Roman Mythology

Final Jeopardy:
Urban Legends

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"We're gonna have lawyers here. It'll be a fun time."
--R.R.S.

Wow, all the good one's seem to be taken already. Let's see what I can come up with.

Bible History
Star Trek
Composers
Carl Sagan
The Comics Page
Jazz

Final Jeopardy: Things Only Pathunt Knows

Karasses, foma and granfaloons
Archery
4th dimensional imagery
Shakelton and the Endurance
Insurance contractual issues
How to pet a dog
Eurovan Campers
The best things about Colorado

I'll take all of the above for $1000.

Mine would be:

Chemistry
Comic book superheroes
Naval History
Mormons
Composers
Bad Songs of the 70's and 80's

Final Jeopardy---Classic Automobiles

Circus People
Sharp Pointy Things
Snake Oil and Nostrums
Beer and Brewing
Films of Terri Garr

Final Jeopardy:
Scotland the Brave (If it's nae Scottish, it's cr-r-r-rap)


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Dr. Fidelius, Charlatan
Associate Curator Anomalous Paleontology, Miskatonic University
"You cannot reason a man out of a position that he did not reach through reason."

The Films of John Hughes
Stephen King
The NFL
Star Trek (Classic Series)
The 1980's
Useless Knowledge

Final Jeopardy:

Saturday Night Live

Ummm...

Legal Latin
English History
Musical Theater
American Literature
Potent Potables (ah, those days tending bar...) and for final jeopardy...

Foods Beginning With "Q"

Jeez, I'm short a category -- how embarassing! Add in "The Brady Bunch" -- I know a lot about that, too. :)

DrFidelius:what is about Terri Garr?
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I don't do Jeopardy, I'm just a critic.

Aw, allright, I'll give it a try:
"Undiscovered Baroque composers"
"Rivers of Siberia"
"Herring sauces of Denmark"

I tried....

Sunbear--
You ask about Terri Garr? She's my girlfriend. Has been for years. I know that she is starting to realize this fact. The last restraining order was positively flirtatious...


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Dr. Fidelius, Charlatan
Associate Curator Anomalous Paleontology, Miskatonic University
"You cannot reason a man out of a position that he did not reach through reason."

Damn, this question is tougher than it looks! I usually do well playing imaginary Jeopardy! when I watch it on TV, but you can never tell which questions are going to be asked in a given category. My suggestions:

American History
Animation
Major League Baseball
Cinema
The plays of William Shakespeare

Final Jeopardy!
Washington Redskins--The Joe Gibbs Years

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"Interested in fashion, Harmonica?"
"There were three dusters like these waiting for a train.
Inside the dusters were three men. Inside the men were
three bullets..."
--Once Upon A Time In The West

Philosophers
Science and nature
Magicians and skeptics
Comedians
World History
The English Language

Politics
Arkansas
American History
World Events
Saxophone
Phone Sex

Final Jeapordy...Women's Studies

Poets and poetry
Science Fiction
World Mythology
World History
Astronomy
Celtic Folk Music


Final Jeopardy:Star Wars!


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"The universe doesn't give first warnings or second chances"

Here's my shot:

Royalty
Quotes
World History
Marx Brothers
Identify famous Voices

Final Round:
Lakes
(what is the largest fresh water lake in the world. Clue, it is also the deepest.)

Shirley:
"(what is the largest fresh water lake in the world. Clue, it is also the deepest.)"

That lake in Russia: Lake Bakul, or Bayul.

sports
geography
pop culture
science
comedy
computers

final...tv

The Soviet Union
Linguistics
The Simpsons
Drug invented before 1980
US Highways
Semiotics

and for final jeopardy:
The Grateful Dead
They didn't have to be categories that could possibly ever appear on Jeopardy, did they?

How many jeopardy categories are there? Consensus seems to be six, but some of you are stretching that a bit, I think...

Here are mine:

Famous TV and Book Aliens
British Royalty
Greek Philosophers
History of Literature
Canadian Geography
Botany

Final Jeopardy: The Works of Edmund Spenser

Sweet thread...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Indiana Pacers
James Bond
Slang names for women's breasts
Embarrassing your wife
Auto Racing

Final Jeopardy:
Making fun of Alex Trabek and his stupid ass foreign pronunciations





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'Shut your pie hole'-Jbird

Musical Instruments
Potent Potables (I always clean up on this one, but I'm not proud of it)
Bible
English Language History
Numbers (I kill on this one too)
Camping and Backpacking

Final Jeopardy:
Civil War


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"I wept because I had no shoes, then I met a man with no feet. So I took his shoes" - Dave Barry

I agree, Microserfs is a good book.

Mine are:
Oingo Boingo
Microsoft Software
PC Hardware
The Writings of Ayn Rand
Cooking
Breakfast Cereals




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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Cheesehead...I applaud your intellengence and ability to use a search engine :)

I have stumped more people with that question than I can tell you.

New Jeopardy Catagories:

Acroynms
Spelling
Words that end in GRY
Oxymorons
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon

Final Jeopardy:
Presidenital Interns

Psychology and Neuroscience
Computer Software and Security
Explosives
What Women Don't Want
20th Century Literature
Cunnilingus

Final Jeopardy:
Professional Wrestling

There's a lot more, since I know a great deal about everything. These are just the first things that come to mind.


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Steve Christ
God in Training

Dear Steve, you better be careful.

Languages
Women Authors
Bad Movies
Psychotropic Meds
Car Repair
Jack the Ripper

Final Jeopardy:
Judaism

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--Rowan

If my mother had been in charge of the War on Drugs,
it would be "Just say 'No thank you.'"

My turn...

Environmental Legislation
90's Music
Washington Redskins - from Joe Gibbs onward
Colonial History
Boooks by David Eddings

Final Jeopardy:
Songs by Rush



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"There is such a fine line between stupid and clever." -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap

Dear Steve, you better be careful.

Why popokis, whatever do you mean?


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Steve Christ
God in Training

hey, sly!
so you think you know the Beatles.....well maybe you do but this here talking is THE BEATLES QUEEN :) Betcha dont know half as much as I. I challenge yout o a beatles trivia duel. Email me.

You can do it here, in the MP Trivia forum. If you don't mind a few people meddling in your duel.

Where is the MP Trivia forum? I'm up for it...are you, sly???

Give me:

World Languages
Spain
Kansas
Baseball
Dirty Joke Punchlines
American History

and for Final Jeopardy!: Guns and Ammunition

<sigh> I'm not a specialist. No matter what I'm into, I know a few wackos (from my subjective and relative perspective, of course) who know more than I do. But once we get out of the other guy's specialty, I wind up knowing a little bit more about everything else. Thus, my ideal Jeopardy (c) board would be:

General Knowledge
Words That Begin with a Letter
People
Potpourri
Things People Usually Get Wrong
Trivia

Final Jeopardy:

Random Stuff


Peace.

And our Double Jeopardy categories are... (beep bop boop beep bop boop beep beep bop)...

The U.S. Constitution
Star Wars
The Beatles
The Beauty of Katie Holmes
Movies that Parody other movies
History of the Catholic Church

And our final jeopardy category is: (DING!)
RADIOHEAD

All right...here goes:

U.S. Geography
The Bible
Greek/Roman Mythology
Math
Fish
Chemistry

Final Jeopardy:
Michael Crichton

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"Give a man a match and he'll be warm for an hour... Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

Ok, criticize me! Here I go... :)

Amateur astronomy
Stupid websites
World History
Hot Stupid websites
Skepticism
Weird Stupid websites
The works of Isaac Asimov
So-so Stupid websites
Aviation Stuff

And for final Jeopardy:
How the Spaniards conquered Mexico

--"Chick Rock" (as my husband likes to call it)
--Jeff Goldblum Movies
--Magazines
--Kidstuff
--Interior Decorating 101
--Shopping
--Frivolous Ways to Waste Time

Final Jeopardy: Traits of the oddly dressed twentysomething mommy/homeowner who lives in the suburbs amongst normal-looking baby boomers.
Alternate Final Jeopardy: Why the teenaged kids of my baby boomer neighbors would rather hang out with me than their parents.

More catagories for me:

Bad jokes ( you finish the punch line)
Opening lines. ( as in books)
Movie trivia
Regency England
Pronouce this: (show a difficult or British word like Worchester....its Woooster)

Final :Dexy's Midnight Runners as in, what was their only hit?

Shirley, that would be Com'on Eileen.
Now for Jepordy. Hmm.

One Hit Wonders
Greek Mythology
British Royalty
Cooking
History
True Crime
Final Jepordy-Kevin Sorbo

Shirley, that would be Com'on Eileen.
Now for Jeopardy! Hmm.

One Hit Wonders
Greek Mythology
British Royalty
Cooking
History
True Crime
Final Jeopardy!-Kevin Sorbo

Sorry for the double post-I thought I stopped the first one so I could correct the spelling-oh well.*sigh*