What is Wheel of Fortune?
- After Alex Trebek’s death, a controversial selection process for hosts on this show ensued. Final choices Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik are not well liked by fans.
What is Jeopardy?
- As hard as it is to believe, Drew Carey has been the host of this long-running game show for the last 16 years.
What is “The Price Is Right”?
New category: Science
- This astrophysicist was captain of his Harvard wrestling team.
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
- This 17th century polymath is believed by many to have died a virgin
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
- This scientific field studies celestial objects and phenomena; it has nothing to do with prediction via horoscopes.
What is astronomy?
- Now considered pseudoscience, this field deals with the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits.
What is phrenology?
New category: Languages
- This person, widely believed to be illiterate, created a writing system which is still in use today for his people.
Who is Sequoyah?
- This language is not closely related to any Chinese language, but is written using three separate scripts derived from written Chinese
What is Japanese?
- The Latin language was the precursor tongue to each of the modern languages in this language subgroup.
What are Romance languages?
- Early research in linguistics was complicated by a belief among European scholars that all human languages originally derived from this language used only for liturgical purposes at the time
What is Hebrew?
Pass cuz I’m not sure that’s correct.
Hebrew is correct.
Since you’ve passed, I’m gonna go right ahead with a new category: Gen Z Slang.
- This term for an obsessed fan, which can be used as a noun or verb, is derived from the title of an Eminem song about such an individual
What is ‘Stan’?
Why are we switching categories after only four? Monty did it after the fourth question in the ‘Science’ category too, so I’m gonna go back and post the fifth Science question to close out that bracket…
- This branch of botany is concerned with the study of mushrooms and other fungi.
-“BB”-
What is mycology?
Back to Gen Z Slang;
- While many exceptional people are worthy of being goated, only a lucky few earn the privilege of being goated with this
What is stan?
Still in play:
What is “with the sauce?”
- Something that is this is not at all trendy
What is… (guessing here) cheugy?
- If your teenager thinks you’re out of touch, they might tell you to touch this
What is grass?
- This synonym for dead owes its existence to social media posting restrictions.
What is unalive?
New category: Rock Opera.
- This 1976 sci-fi tale is partially inspired by the 1812 Overture and Ayn Rand’s Anthem
What is Rush’s 2112?
- This actor in Jesus Christ Superstar was also in The Color Purple, where he played the father of Shug.