Tagged: trivia


Jeopardy and 19th Century Novelists

Here are bunch of 19th century authors taken from listcoholic’s The 100 Best Novels of the 19th Century. We took the list and sorted it by authors, then compared it...

African Flags and Capitals

Here is a video that shows the capital cities of African countries and their flags (we looked up the leaders, too). There are also lots of jingles and even a...

Oscar Winning Writers in the 1980s

We took a look at the Oscar winning writers in the 1990s recently. Now we are taking a look at the people who won Oscars in the writing categories in...

Presidential Also Rans

Recently we have seen Jeopardy! contestants not know the names of two men who ran for the presidency of the United States and lost. One was Barry Goldwater. The clue...

Memorizing the Bible Books

So you’re studying for Jeopardy! And you’re hoping that they don’t ask you anything about Bible books because you don’t know them all. Probably the best overview is when you...

Oscar Winning Writers in the 1990s

Oscar Winning Writers was the Final Jeopardy category in the last game of 20x champ Julia Collins. There was a discussion about Julia’s chances of knowing the answer based on...

Learning Some Opera

Opera is a dreaded category for many Jeopardy! contestants, but it doesn’t have to be. Here is a 10-minute film that gives you a unique overview of some of the...

Memorizing the English Monarchs

We don’t know how much this song would help Jeopardy players in getting the English kings straight, but it certainly is entertaining. Probably a better method is to go by...

Alex Trebek Favorites

Here is some Alex Trebek trivia collected from Season 29 of Jeopardy! where the game show host shared some personal information about himself with the contestants: 3/11/13 – Cincinnati, OH...

Pope Benedict XVI Facts and Trivia

We were pretty much bowled over by the announcement that Pope Benedict the XVI was resigning mainly because we didn’t know popes could resign. We thought it was one of...