# SPINOFF:How'd you all get so smart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 23, 1999, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinoff-howd-you-all-get-so-smart/1023 "1999-05-23T05:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
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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) 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.” ---
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The Films of John Hughes Stephen King The NFL Star Trek (Classic Series) The 1980’s Useless Knowledge Final Jeopardy: Saturday Night Live ---
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Ummm… Legal Latin English History Musical Theater American Literature Potent Potables (ah, those days tending bar…) and for final jeopardy… Foods Beginning With “Q” ---
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Jeez, I’m short a category – how embarassing! Add in “The Brady Bunch” – I know a lot about that, too. 🙂 ---
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## DrFidelius:what is about Terri Garr? I don’t do Jeopardy, I’m just a critic. ---
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Aw, allright, I’ll give it a try: “Undiscovered Baroque composers” “Rivers of Siberia” “Herring sauces of Denmark” I tried… ---
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## 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… 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.” ---
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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 * * * “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** _ ---
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Philosophers Science and nature Magicians and skeptics Comedians World History The English Language ---
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Politics Arkansas American History World Events Saxophone Phone Sex Final Jeapordy…Women’s Studies ---
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## Poets and poetry Science Fiction World Mythology World History Astronomy Celtic Folk Music Final Jeopardy:Star Wars! “The universe doesn’t give first warnings or second chances” ---
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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.) ---
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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 ---
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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? ---
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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 ---
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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 * * * ‘Shut your pie hole’-Jbird ---
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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 “I wept because I had no shoes, then I met a man with no feet. So I took his shoes” - Dave Barry ---
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I agree, Microserfs is a good book. Mine are: Oingo Boingo Microsoft Software PC Hardware The Writings of Ayn Rand Cooking Breakfast Cereals * * * To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. ---
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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 ---
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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. Steve Christ God in Training [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinoff-howd-you-all-get-so-smart/1023.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinoff-howd-you-all-get-so-smart/1023.md?page=3)