Circus People
Sharp Pointy Things
Snake Oil and Nostrums
Beer and Brewing
Films of Terri Garr
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. 
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…
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
“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
“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
‘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
“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
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
Steve Christ
God in Training