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

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Nursery Rhymes

$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?
$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?
$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?
$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?
$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

$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?
$400
This baby animal, the offspring of a horse, can often stand and walk within hours of being born.
What is a foal?
$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?
$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?
$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

$200
This wheeled item is used to push an infant or toddler around while out and about.
What is a stroller?
$400
This piece of furniture, with barred or slatted sides, is where a baby sleeps.
What is a crib?
$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?
$800
This tall chair with a tray attachment lifts a baby up to table height for feeding.
What is a high chair?
$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

$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?
$400
In this classic tale, a woodcarver's newly made wooden puppet longs to become a real boy.
What is Pinocchio?
$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?
$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?
$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

$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?
$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?
$600
In this 1995 film, a talking pig raised among sheepdogs learns to herd sheep on an English farm.
What is Babe?
$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?
$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

$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?
$400
This milestone, typically reached around six months, is when a baby can sit upright without needing support.
What is sitting up?
$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?
$800
This milestone, usually reached around a baby's first birthday, is when a baby takes their first unassisted steps.
What is walking?
$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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