Baby Shower Games: Jeopardy Categories and Sample Clues
If you are looking for baby shower games that get the whole room involved, a Jeopardy-style trivia round is one of the easiest to pull off. Below are the categories that show up again and again on real baby shower Jeopardy boards, with sample clues for each.
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Baby Animal Names
Another category that shows up in almost every baby shower Jeopardy game — no pregnancy knowledge required, just animal trivia.
- This is the name for a baby kangaroo.
- This is the name for a baby swan.
- This is the name for a baby frog.
- This is the name for a baby fox.
- This is the name for a baby alligator.
Nursery Rhymes
One of the most common baby shower Jeopardy categories out there — almost every guest grew up with these.
- This nursery rhyme's cow jumped over the moon.
- This nursery rhyme character sat on a wall before a great fall.
- In this rhyme, someone went to the cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone.
- This lullaby asks a little star to twinkle.
- This rhyme's cradle rocks in a treetop when the wind blows.
Baby Items and Gear
Describe a baby product without saying its name and let guests shout out the answer.
- Babies love stacking these up, even before they can build with them.
- Growing new teeth means babies love chewing on these colorful rings.
- This device automatically seals away dirty diapers so the room doesn't smell.
- This wearable lets a parent carry a baby hands-free.
- This device lets parents listen in on a sleeping baby from another room.
Famous and Celebrity Babies
Pop culture clues are an easy way to get the whole room competing, even guests who don't know the parents-to-be that well.
- Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter after this fruit.
- This royal baby was born at a hospital wing nicknamed the Lindo Wing.
- This Lion King cub is the son of Mufasa and Sarabi.
- This Kardashian-West child shares her name with a compass direction.
- This A-list couple kept their baby's name a secret for months.
Babies in Movies and TV
A category that turns up again and again on real baby shower Jeopardy boards, since almost everyone knows a baby movie or two.
- In this animated movie, a suit-wearing baby tries to stop a rival baby company.
- In this 1989 comedy, Bruce Willis voices a baby's inner thoughts.
- This classic movie line about not putting someone in a corner refers to a character nicknamed Baby.
- This sitcom's youngest Tanner twins were played by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
- This preschool show follows a rocket-ship-riding baby and his robot friends.
Baby and Pregnancy Facts
A staple category on almost every baby shower Jeopardy board, mixing baby facts with a couple of famous-babies-in-history surprises.
- This is about how many bones a newborn has, more than an adult skeleton.
- This is the one sense that's already fully developed at birth.
- This is roughly how many diapers a baby goes through in their first year.
- This future emperor, later exiled to the island of Elba, was born in Corsica in 1769.
- This anti-apartheid leader and future president of South Africa was born in 1918.