Where Can I Find a List of Jeopardy Categories?

Where can I find a list of Jeopardy categories?  The best Website to visit if you are looking for Jeopardy categories is at the official Website for the Jeopardy television game show. The Website is located at J-Archive. On this site you can find an archive of all the season’s shows dating as far back as 1983.

In addition to the official website for the Jeopardy show, there are also other places where you can find a list of Jeopardy categories. Another good site to visit for this information is World Lingo. This site provides a list along with a description of the categories that occur the most commonly on the television show.

Fans of the show are used to seeing these categories because they are the most popular ones for the show to use over and over again when quizzing contestants on their trivia knowledge.

Classic Categories

Some categories reappear again and again and have become part of Jeopardy culture.  Some famous examples from the World Lingo listing include:

• Get Your Facts Straight
• Potent Potables
• Rhyme Time
• Name's The Same
• Potpourri

These categories can be used in your classroom games, although Jeopardy often uses "Nonpotent Potables" for its games with kids.

The Jeopardy Game Show

Since the first season of Jeopardy aired in 1983, the show has had continued success that continues to this very day.

• The television quiz show set itself apart from other television trivia shows by asking contestants to respond with the correct question after viewing an answer that was read aloud to them by the show’s host Alex Trebek.
• The answers are listed according to categories and progress in degree of difficulty according to the amount of money that they are worth.
• The show has been on the air since 1983 and has had its original host since that time.
• The show became so popular that it became a fun way for teachers to help students in the classroom study for upcoming tests by creating answers and having students come up with the correct questions and awarding or taking away points from teams depending on whether they asked the correct question or not.

Using these online resources, now you too can find a list of Jeopardy categories.