Your 5 Dream Jeopardy Categories

[buffcoat]

- Oz the TV show

I'm trying to think of a good answer that would require Trebeck to read the words "spoon" and "sexual assault" but I just can't come up with good phrasing.

I had many iterations, but ultimately I decided not to use the r-word, the a-r word, the m-r word, the s-a word or the m-on-m-r word.  Anyone who's watched 5 seconds of Oz would get it immediately anyway.

PS There CAN'T be that many murders in prison, right?  Cause Oz-style prisons would get the whole "too many Americans in prison" ratio down in about a week.

PPS That "spoon" thing was totally gratuitous and they only threw it in cause the show was almost over.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

-Boot(sies) on the Ground
-Rapper or Liqueur?
-1970s Hostess Fruit Pies Comics Ads
-Famous Hazelnuts
-Antonin Artaud

[Gibby]

- The History of English Test Cricket
- Neil Young
- The formation of the National Health Service
- Great peaks and volcanoes
- The birth of cinema: pre-1915

[yesno]

- Great peaks and volcanoes

I've never been able to figure out what the world's tallest mountain is.  Not Everest, it's just the highest elevation.  I'm not taller than people in New York because I'm in Colorado.  And not Mauna Kea because it's mostly underwater.  I want to know what the tallest mountain, bottom to top is, regardless of elevation, and all on dry land.

[Jack from Arkansas]

-crockpot cookery
-National Parks
-Dremel tool usage
-U.S. Open
-celebrity chefs

these aren't necessarily things I love, just categories I believe I can dominate.

[tenspeed]

I've never been able to figure out what the world's tallest mountain is.  Not Everest, it's just the highest elevation.  I'm not taller than people in New York because I'm in Colorado.  And not Mauna Kea because it's mostly underwater.  I want to know what the tallest mountain, bottom to top is, regardless of elevation, and all on dry land.

Colorado?  In that case I'll take "E. Colfax Street Urchins" for 500, please.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

-crockpot cookery

i both love and would dominate in this category.  it's the laziest and easiest way to cook delicious, melt-in-your-mouth food.

[jbissell]

PPS That "spoon" thing was totally gratuitous and they only threw it in cause the show was almost over.

True story: I had never seen an episode of Oz and had turned on HBO to watch whatever was on after it (Sopranos maybe?). Literally the first image of the show I ever saw was the spoon incident.

[emma]

Theatre
Swearing In French
Lies
Poetry
Illustrators Who Use Root Beer To Colour Their Drawings

Bonus:
Mild Social Awkwardness
Tea

[Amplituden]

Guitars
90's Indie Rock
80's Wrestling
Skateboarding
Post Production

[Fido]

- Is this photoshopped? (where I get to pick out if a picture is or isn't manipulated)

If you can really do this well, I'm told that you can do it profitably. I don't exactly know how to advise you, but from what I've heard it's a business opportunity. Erika might have ideas about this also.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

Guitars
90's Indie Rock
80's Wrestling
Skateboarding
Post Production

I thought this was 5 dream jeopardy categories, not 5 characteristics of a dream date.


PS I'm not hitting on you.

[Martin]

Yes you are.

[Julie]

I didn't want to be make obscure references that the little people wouldn't understand, but I could really clean up on a category about the history of the epidemiology of infectious diseases.

we all remember how much you hate the little people, Julie.

I never said I hate little people. I'm trying to be helpful.

[Sarah]

Emma, swearing in French or in French-Canadian?

G(B)uff:  I just started watching Oz, and I was thinking it would make a great board game. 

Julie, thanks for keeping it simple for me.  I appreciate it.