Supposing that all the questions from that particular show would be on one subject. What subject would it be that you could go on that “type” of Jeopardy and win or do very well at least.
For instance, if it was “Simpson’s Jeopardy,” I think I’d do very well, though with the total die hard fans, I am not sure. I think I could win “Prisoner Cell Block H (An Australian soap opera) Jeopardy.” Where all the questions were about the Aussie soap opera Prisoner (Called Prisoner: Cell Block H elsewhere)
So what “TYPE” or “KIND” of Jeopardy could you go on and win
“Cooking Chicken” Jeopardy for instance, where all the questions would be about how to cook chickens and ways to cook it, and type of chicken dishes type questions
Or “How To Fix a Computer - Jeopardy,” Where all the questions would be on how to fix broken compuers questions.
Are we assuming it’s against the standard Jeopardy fare? Then math and science questions. I tend to find that when they have those categories, the people on the show are horrible.
I once did Mystery Jeopardy at a mystery readers/writers conference. I came in second.
The guy who won had actually won a bunch of money on the Jeopardy show.
The weird thing was that the answer that I missed, which if I’d gotten it right, I’d have won, was something I knew. It was Raymond Chandler (or “who is Raymond Chandler”). I have a small shrine to Raymond Chandler in my writing area and I knew the answer, but my mind went blank. Perfectly blank. Especially since, up to that point, I had been answering questions I was not entirely sure of and getting them right.
I did three years on “Reach For the Top” (Canadian show comparable to College Bowl, but for high schoolers) and found that I was hopeless at doing math under the gun; my best subjects were history, current affairs, music history and literature.
Incidentally, Alex Trebek also started his career doing RFTT for the CBC in London, Ontario.
