Birthday Jeopardy Questions: Categories and Sample Clues

Birthdays are one of the most popular occasions for a Jeopardy game on Jippis. It's popular to mix questions about the birthday person with a bit of general trivia, so here are seven categories that work well for that, with sample clues for each.

The clues say "they", so swap in the actual name when you build yours. Tick the ones you like as you read, and we'll put them on a board in the Jippis creator. Swap in the name there, change anything else or add your own, and run the game with everyone buzzing in on their phones.

All About [Name]

Start here. Call it "Anna 101" or "Anna Lore" and fill it with the basics everyone thinks they know about her.

Their middle name.
The photo on their phone lock screen right now.
Their biggest pet peeve.
How many siblings they have.
The chore they always leave for someone else.
The nickname only their family uses.

Favorites

Easy to write, and harder to answer than it looks.

Their favorite color.
Their go-to fast food order.
The movie they could watch over and over.
Their favorite animal.
The artist they would keep if they could only keep one.
Their favorite ice cream flavor.

The Early Years

This is where the parents and siblings finally get their moment.

What they wanted to be when they grew up.
Their favorite movie as a kid.
Where the family went on vacation almost every summer.
Their first concert.
The hobby that ate their childhood weekends.
The birthday gift that changed everything.

Born in [Year]

Music, movies, news and prices from the year they were born. Grandparents love this one.

The number one song the week they were born.
The Best Picture winner that year.
Roughly what a gallon of gas or a liter of milk cost.
The gadget everyone wanted that year.
The biggest news story of the year.
A TV show that premiered the same year they did.

Create your own birthday Jeopardy

Finish the Lyrics

Read out the first half of a line from a song they play way too often. Teams sing the rest.

The song they sing in the car every single time.
The chorus from their first concert.
The song they claim is the best ever written.
The song that was playing on a night everyone here remembers.
Their most embarrassing guilty pleasure track.
The song they would pick as walk-out music.

Who Said It?

Things they've actually said. Mix in a few movie quotes if you want to make it harder.

What they say every time the food arrives.
A text the group chat has never let go of.
Something confident they said that turned out completely wrong.
Their standard excuse for leaving early.
A movie line they quote far too often.
What they say when they are clearly being stubborn.

Random Trivia

Keep one category like this so the plus-ones and the new coworker can score too.

The longest bone in the human body.
The national sport of Japan.
The volcano that buried Pompeii in 79 AD.
The best-selling album of all time.
The least common birthday in the calendar, apart from February 29th.
The only planet not named after a god.

Five or six categories is plenty. Make most of them about the birthday person and keep one or two general, so old friends have something to fight over and the new partner can still win a few points.

Build your own birthday Jeopardy board in Jippis