Family Jeopardy Questions: Categories and Sample Clues
The hard part of a family game is that an 8-year-old and an 80-year-old are playing the same game. Jeopardy handles that well, because every category can be aimed at a different part of the table. Here are five categories, from family stories only the grandparents remember to easy ones the kids can win.
The family clues are templates, so swap in your own names and stories. Tick the ones you like as you read, and we'll put them on a board in the Jippis creator. Everyone buzzes in on their phones, and cousins who can't make it can join from home.
Family Lore
The stories that come up every time you're all together. Now someone finally has to get the details right.
Back in the Day
This is the grandparents' category. The kids won't know a single answer, and that's the point.
Who Said It?
Read the line out loud, and teams guess which relative says it. Doing the voice is allowed.
Through the Decades
Pop culture from every generation at the table, so each age group gets one or two they know instantly.
Kids' Corner
Easy questions so the youngest players can win something. Let them pick from this column first.
Mix the ages on each team. A grandparent and a teenager on the same side cover far more of the board than two cousins the same age, and they end up talking to each other too.