Jeopardy! fans can prepare for their TV debut by answering these 62 questions (2024)

If you have ever wondered if you have what it takes to make it as a contestant on Jeopardy! you can now put your knowledge to the test, right from the comfort of home.

Buzzfeed has put together a list of questions and answers, which were featured on actual episodes of the game show. The questions will test your knowledge and help you see how you would fare if you were ever put to the test. The questions range across several topics and there are options for every level of difficulty.

While answering questions on your own is not at all comparable to the high pressure of being on a TV show, this list can help any fan gauge what level of prepared they are before they even attempt to sign up for the show. The answer is presented under each question, and in the traditional Jeopardy! question format.

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Take the quiz and see if you would make the legendary hosts, Ken Jennings and the late Alex Trebek, proud or maybe even disappointed.

1. An outer decorative edge, or the official dividing line between two countries.

What is a border?

2. The name of this cold region is from the Greek for "of the bear."

What is arctic?

3. In 2012 Wendi McLendon-Covey shared the MTV Movie Award for Best Gut-Wrenching Performance with Kristen Wiig, Ellie Kemper, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, and Rose Byrne for a scene in this film.

What is Bridesmaids?

4. In business, an extra working period, or in sports, an extra playing period.

What is overtime?

5. Ms. Doe without her makeup.

Who is Plain Jane?

6. He was busy in 2011, with parts in Paul, Horrible Bosses, and The Change-Up.

Who is Jason Bateman?

7. His Airedale, Laddie Boy, had his own chair at cabinet meetings (Laddie kept his nose clean during Teapot Dome).

Who is President Warren G. Harding?

8. A series of kids' books features this third grader with a rhyming name; her last name also hints at her many emotions.

Who is Judy Moody?

9. A tin pot for cooking or boiling water.

What is a metal kettle?

10. After some back and forth, let's stipulate that it's traditionally No. 3 in Kubler-Ross's 5 Stages of Grief.

What is bargaining?

11. Heels in, heels out, repeat; that's the way we do this craze of a dance from the early 1960s.

What is the mashed potato?

12. This song by Salt-N-Pepa says their fella has "a body like Arnold with a Denzel face."

What is "What a Man"?

13. Crockett Johnson colored our world with his tale of this boy "and the Purple Crayon."

Who is Harold?

14. Dr. Seuss books with rhyming titles include Fox with Socks and this one that also has the line "Dad is sad."

What is Hop on Pop?

15. Tammy Wynette said she spent 15 minutes writing this song about devotion and a lifetime defending it.

What is "Stand by Your Man"?

16. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the name of the fictional drug Alz112 indicates it's a possible treatment for this.

What is Alzheimer's?

17. It's believed this explorer introduced potatoes into Ireland around 1585, the year he was knighted.

Who was Sir Walter Raleigh?

18. "A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers" is a chapter in The Lightning Thief, Book 1 about this kid "and the Olympians".

Who is Percy Jackson?

19. The middle name of Francis Powers or filmmaker F. Gray.

What is Gary?

20. An overconfident thoroughbred rider.

What is a co*cky jocky?

21. Billy Crystal so liked the horse he rode in this 1991 comedy that he rode him at the Oscars.

What is City Slickers?

22. In the name of a metropolitan statistical area, it's between Tampa and Clearwater.

What is St. Petersburg?

23. 11-letter word for selecting an actor only on appearance or previous roles.

What is typecasting?

24. It can be the sailors on a boat or the people working on a movie or TV show.

What is crew?

25. If you tally it up in sequence, this Bible book is between Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

What is Numbers?

26. Showcasing innovative homes and design since 1920 with initials AD.

What is Architectural Digest?

27. Elizabeth Taylor's costume budget for this 1963 historical drama was $194,800 and included a gold cloth dress.

What is Cleopatra?

28. Herodotus said this river originated near Feneos in Greece; Dante placed it in the fifth circle.

What is the River Styx?

29. Even though pollution levels are high, Kolkata residents bathe in the Hugli, an arm of this holy river of Hinduism.

What is the Ganges River?

30. Nuclear fission was confirmed when this element, symbol Ba, was produced by zapping Uranium with neutrons.

What is Barium?

31. Patrick Swayze was no ordinary bouncer — his character had a degree in philosophy in this film.

What is Roadhouse?

32. Emma Stone starred as aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this '60s-set drama based on a novel.

What is The Help?

33. It was identified in 1828 and named for a Norse deity, long before it was found to nuclear fuel.

What is Thorium?

34. It's the smart-sounding name for a group of experts who serve unofficially as advisers; FDR had his own.

What is a brain trust?

35. This software program for formatting movie and TV scripts has been around since 1990.

What is Final Draft?

36. Johnny Cash wrote this song to explain his sartorial choices.

What is "Man in Black"?

37. A brand of blue jeans, or a cowboy in charge of saddle horses.

What is wrangler?

38. A Pearl Jam song says, "She lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a _______;" The song's title.

What is "Better Man"?

39. Traffic signal term that also means permission to proceed on a project.

What is a green light?

40. Young Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) gets left behind when his family heads to France for Christmas in this 1990 film.

What is Home Alone?

41. Wonder bakes loaves of this, also an adjective meaning bland.

What is white bread?

42. 25 years after Percy Sledge, Michael Bolton also had a No. 1 hit with this song.

What is "When a Man Loves a Woman"?

43. In 2011 she returned to TV with a reality series about her efforts to run a macadamia farm in Hawaii.

Who is Roseanne Barr?

44. This actress's first Oscar nomination was for 2010's Winter's Bone.

Who is Jennifer Lawrence?

45. A 21-crunch salute to the late Arch West, the Frito-Lay executive credited with creating this brand of tortilla chips.

What are Doritos?

46. Dana Owens took this name, Arabic for "gentle," about 10 years later she put "Queen" in front of it.

What is Latifah?

47. His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird.

Who is Atticus Finch?

48. New daytime talk shows in 2012 included on starring this host of Family Feud.

Who is Steve Harvey?

49. This physician specializes in the care of children, from infancy to adolescence.

What is a pediatrician?

50. General term for an animal without a backbone.

What is an invertebrate?

51. It can mean one's physical health or a 1787 document.

What is constitution?

52. Rosamund Pike starred as disappeared wife Amy Dunne in this film based on a bestseller.

What is Gone Girl?

53. It's the 12-letter adjective for Edison's practical electric bulb, successfully tested at Menlo Park on Oct. 21, 1879.

What is incandescent?

54. To pump, fade, or hang ten, you'll need this piece of equipment.

What is a surf board?

55. The adjective means "thwarting an intended goal," like living on credit while trying to save money.

What is counter-productive?

56. Judicial review tests congressional legislation for this, conformity with a certain US document.

What is constitutionality?

57. This removable footway connects a ship to a pier.

What is a gangplank?

58. The introduction of power-driven machinery in the early 1800s was a big factor in this process.

What is industrialization?

59. A cosmetic treatment that gently sands the skin.

What is microdermabrasion?

60. The philosophy of Thoreau and Emerson.

What is transcendentalism?

61. A collision between two objects; an athlete who helps his team is called that type of "player."

What is impact?

62. Known for his work as a Shakespearean actor, he directed Thor.

Who is Kenneth Branagh?

Jeopardy! fans can prepare for their TV debut by answering these 62 questions (2024)

FAQs

What was the first question asked on Jeopardy? ›

The first clue selected was for $100 in the category "Animals": "These rodents first got to America by stowing away on ships" (Greg Hopkins correctly answered "Rats").

How can you prepare for Jeopardy? ›

How can I get better at Jeopardy?
  1. Watch the show as much as possible.
  2. Study top subjects thoroughly (resources below).
  3. Acquire the right study materials.
  4. Take practice tests regularly.
  5. Practice with a purpose by challenging yourself.
  6. Learn memorization techniques such as "Pavlovs."
  7. Get better at the buzzer.
May 27, 2024

Do Jeopardy contestants see questions beforehand? ›

No, you don't see the categories until the second the viewers at home do.

Do Jeopardy contestants study the questions? ›

enthusiasts, including the producers of Jeopardy! themselves, have found some ways to prep contestants for the trivia experience of a lifetime. Many Jeopardy! contestants do study for the show.

Do Jeopardy contestants get paid? ›

The top scorer in each game is paid their winnings in cash and returns to play in the next match. Non-winners receive consolation prizes instead of their winnings in the game.

Does Jeopardy ever repeat questions? ›

' Season 40 Will Use Repeat Questions and Contestants Due to WGA Strike and Increase Runner-Up Winnings.

Do Jeopardy contestants have to answer with a question? ›

Jeopardy is a quiz show that has a unique answer-and-question format in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers and must phrase their responses in the form of a question.

What is the most common answer on Jeopardy? ›

The most common Jeopardy response is "What is China?" In Double Jeopardy, it is "What is Australia?" The most common category in Final Jeopardy! is "Word Origins." The heat charts on the bottom shows the frequency of the answers and categories coming up over time.

What is the opening script to Jeopardy? ›

"This is Jeopardy! Now, entering the studio are today's contestants. (insert challenger's occupations, hometowns & names). And now, entering the studio for the 2,754th time is the host of Jeopardy!, Art Fleming!"

When did the 20th century start the Jeopardy question? ›

category is "The Calendar" and the clue was "Calendar date with which the 20th century began"; the correct response was "What is January 1, 1901?" All three contestants had an incorrect response of, "What is January 1, 1900?” That was actually the first day of the last year of the 19th century, as years begin with a 1 ...

What were the original Jeopardy question values? ›

On the original Jeopardy! series, clue values in the first round ranged from $10 to $50 in the Jeopardy! round and $20 to $100 in Double Jeopardy! On The All-New Jeopardy!, they ranged from $25 to $125 and $50 to $250.

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