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Baby Shower Jeopardy

Nursery rhymes, tiny animals, and gear only parents can name, arranged as a shower game guests join by phone. The board is free for any host to copy.

6 categories, 30 clues, Final Jeopardy. Everyone buzzes in from their phone.

For game night

Hosting opens the presenter screen with a join code for everyone's phones. Either way the board is a copy of your own. Free, no account needed.

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Every clue on this board

This page is public, so anyone can read the answers — copy the board and swap a few clues before game day.

Nursery Rhymes

  1. $200

    This nursery rhyme describes an egg-shaped character who has a great fall and cannot be put back together by all the king's horses and all the king's men.

    Who is Humpty Dumpty?

  2. $400

    In this nursery rhyme, a young girl loses track of her sheep and is told to leave them alone so they will come home wagging their tails behind them.

    Who is Little Bo-Peep?

  3. $600

    This nursery rhyme describes a spider that climbs up a water spout, gets washed out by rain, then climbs back up once the sun dries up the rain.

    What is the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

  4. $800

    This lullaby promises that when the wind blows, a cradle resting in a treetop will rock and eventually fall.

    What is Rock-a-bye Baby?

  5. $1,000

    This nursery rhyme describes three young rodents whose tails are cut off by a farmer's wife after they run after her.

    What is Three Blind Mice?

Baby Animals

  1. $200

    This baby animal is the offspring of a cow and is typically called by this name during its first year.

    What is a calf?

  2. $400

    This baby animal, the offspring of a horse, can often stand and walk within hours of being born.

    What is a foal?

  3. $600

    This baby animal, the offspring of a dog, is typically born blind and deaf, opening its eyes after about two weeks.

    What is a puppy?

  4. $800

    This baby animal, the offspring of a frog, breathes through gills and swims with a tail before its legs develop.

    What is a tadpole?

  5. $1,000

    This baby animal, the offspring of a goose, follows the first moving object it sees after hatching, a behavior known as imprinting.

    What is a gosling?

Baby Gear

  1. $200

    This wheeled item is used to push an infant or toddler around while out and about.

    What is a stroller?

  2. $400

    This piece of furniture, with barred or slatted sides, is where a baby sleeps.

    What is a crib?

  3. $600

    This soft carrier, worn on the front or back of a caregiver, holds a baby close against the body while keeping the wearer's hands free.

    What is a baby carrier?

  4. $800

    This tall chair with a tray attachment lifts a baby up to table height for feeding.

    What is a high chair?

  5. $1,000

    This device, used to keep watch on a sleeping infant from another room, transmits sound or video back to a receiver.

    What is a baby monitor?

Storybook Babies

  1. $200

    In a classic tale, a swan hatches among a group of duck eggs and is mocked for looking different, before growing into a beautiful adult bird.

    What is The Ugly Duckling?

  2. $400

    In this classic tale, a woodcarver's newly made wooden puppet longs to become a real boy.

    What is Pinocchio?

  3. $600

    In this Beatrix Potter tale, a mischievous young rabbit sneaks into a farmer's garden despite his mother's warnings.

    Who is Peter Rabbit?

  4. $800

    In this classic tale, a family of three bears returns home to find a young girl has eaten their porridge and fallen asleep in their beds.

    Who is Goldilocks?

  5. $1,000

    In this story, an infant is placed in a basket among the reeds along a riverbank to protect him, and is later found and raised by royalty.

    Who is Moses?

Babies on Screen

  1. $200

    In this 1987 comedy, three bachelors find an abandoned infant on their doorstep and must learn to care for her together.

    What is Three Men and a Baby?

  2. $400

    In this 1994 animated Disney film, animal kingdom subjects gather to witness the presentation of a newborn lion cub prince.

    What is The Lion King?

  3. $600

    In this 1995 film, a talking pig raised among sheepdogs learns to herd sheep on an English farm.

    What is Babe?

  4. $800

    In this 2017 animated film, a seven-year-old boy gains a talking baby brother delivered by a briefcase-carrying infant executive.

    What is The Boss Baby?

  5. $1,000

    In this 1989 comedy, a baby's inner thoughts are voiced by Bruce Willis while the baby's single mother searches for the right father figure.

    What is Look Who's Talking?

First-Year Milestones

  1. $200

    This early milestone, often reached around two to four months, is when a baby first turns their lips upward in response to a person or object.

    What is smiling?

  2. $400

    This milestone, typically reached around six months, is when a baby can sit upright without needing support.

    What is sitting up?

  3. $600

    This milestone, often reached around nine to twelve months, is when a baby moves across the floor on hands and knees.

    What is crawling?

  4. $800

    This milestone, usually reached around a baby's first birthday, is when a baby takes their first unassisted steps.

    What is walking?

  5. $1,000

    This milestone, often reached around six months, is when a baby begins eating pureed or mashed food in addition to milk.

    What is starting solid foods?

Final Jeopardy — Baby Animals

This one word names a baby kangaroo, a baby koala, and a baby opossum alike.

What is a joey?

How to run this board

Shower games can make guests wince, but trivia respects the room: nobody has to taste anything or guess measurements. The categories stay on theme with nursery rhymes, baby animals, baby gear, storybook babies, babies on screen, and first-year milestones.

Set the board on any TV or laptop and have guests buzz from their phones, seated, snacks in hand. Teams of table-mates keep it social rather than cutthroat.

One tip: let the parents-to-be serve as judges rather than players. They get the best seat, every debate defers to them, and nobody has to beat the guests of honor.

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