Quiz Night Questions: Jeopardy Categories with Answers
You've got the snacks, the room and a group of people who think they're good at trivia. What you need now are questions that are hard enough to argue about and easy enough that every team scores something. Here are six general knowledge categories with answers, each running from easy to tricky.
Tick the clues you like as you read, and we'll put them on a board in the Jippis creator. Change anything you want, add a category about your own crowd, and let the teams buzz in on their phones.
Around the World
Geography is a quiz night classic. Everyone thinks they know it until the capital of Canada comes up.
Science and Nature
Start easy and finish with something only the person who paid attention in chemistry gets.
Movies and TV
Mix decades here, so the room doesn't split cleanly between the over-40s and the under-25s.
Music
This is the category where people start humming the answer before they buzz.
History
Dates are hard on a buzzer, so lean on people and events and keep years for the bigger moments.
Food and Drink
A good one to end on, especially if there are snacks on the table.
The best quiz nights have one category nobody saw coming. Swap one of these for something about your group, like the local area, the host's terrible taste in music or last year's quiz night, and watch the regulars lose to the newcomers.