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Family Game Night Jeopardy

Six all-ages categories tuned so a ten-year-old and a grandparent both get their moments. Households copy it for free and buzz in from their phones.

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Animals

  1. $200

    This large African mammal has the longest neck of any living land animal, letting it reach leaves high in trees.

    What is a giraffe?

  2. $400

    This flightless bird, native to Antarctica, huddles together in large groups to survive extreme cold.

    What is a penguin?

  3. $600

    This big cat, the largest of all cats, is known for its orange coat with black stripes and lives mainly in Asia.

    What is a tiger?

  4. $800

    This marine mammal, the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth, can grow to about 100 feet long.

    What is a blue whale?

  5. $1,000

    This Australian mammal is one of the few egg-laying mammals in the world and has a duck-like bill and a venomous spur.

    What is a platypus?

Around the World

  1. $200

    This is the largest country in the world by land area, spanning eleven time zones across Europe and Asia.

    What is Russia?

  2. $400

    This ancient Egyptian structure, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was built as a tomb for a pharaoh.

    What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?

  3. $600

    This wall, one of the longest structures ever built, stretches thousands of miles across northern China.

    What is the Great Wall of China?

  4. $800

    This South American mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world.

    What is the Andes?

  5. $1,000

    This is the smallest country in the world by both area and population, located entirely within the city of Rome.

    What is Vatican City?

Family Movies and TV

  1. $200

    In this 1994 Disney film, a lion cub is destined to become king of the Pride Lands.

    What is The Lion King?

  2. $400

    In this 1995 Pixar film, a cowboy toy and a spaceman toy learn to get along as their owner's favorite playthings.

    What is Toy Story?

  3. $600

    This musical animated film, set in the kingdom of Arendelle, follows a princess and her sister who has the power to create ice and snow.

    What is Frozen?

  4. $800

    This live-action and animated hybrid film follows a boy raised by wolves in the jungle who must confront a tiger.

    What is The Jungle Book?

  5. $1,000

    This long-running animated sitcom follows a family in the fictional town of Springfield.

    What is The Simpsons?

Sports and Games

  1. $200

    This bat-and-ball sport, often called America's pastime, is played between two teams of nine players across nine innings.

    What is baseball?

  2. $400

    This word-forming board game challenges players to place letter tiles on a grid, scoring more points for letters like Q and Z.

    What is Scrabble?

  3. $600

    This card game, popular for family game nights, has players match and discard cards by color or number to be the first to empty their hand.

    What is Uno?

  4. $800

    This sport, played on ice, has two teams try to shoot a small rubber disc into the opposing net.

    What is hockey?

  5. $1,000

    This indoor sport is played with small paddles and a lightweight ball batted back and forth across a net-divided table.

    What is table tennis?

Science and Nature

  1. $200

    This closest star to Earth provides the light and heat that sustains nearly all life on the planet.

    What is the Sun?

  2. $400

    This is the largest planet in our solar system, a gas giant known for its Great Red Spot storm.

    What is Jupiter?

  3. $600

    This natural process describes water evaporating, condensing into clouds, and falling back to Earth as precipitation.

    What is the water cycle?

  4. $800

    This gas, essential for human respiration, makes up about twenty-one percent of Earth's atmosphere.

    What is oxygen?

  5. $1,000

    This natural phenomenon occurs when sunlight is refracted and reflected in water droplets, creating a multicolored arc in the sky.

    What is a rainbow?

Grab Bag

  1. $200

    This yellow, curved fruit grows in bunches and is a good source of potassium.

    What is a banana?

  2. $400

    This shape has three sides and three angles, and its interior angles always add up to 180 degrees.

    What is a triangle?

  3. $600

    This U.S. federal holiday, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, centers on a large family meal and giving thanks.

    What is Thanksgiving?

  4. $800

    This piece of playground equipment lets two people sit on opposite ends of a plank that pivots up and down.

    What is a seesaw?

  5. $1,000

    This tool, used to tell direction, has a magnetized needle that points toward magnetic north.

    What is a compass?

Final Jeopardy — Board Games

The classic American version of Monopoly takes nearly all of its street names from this New Jersey resort city.

What is Atlantic City?

How to run this board

The hard part of family trivia is pitching questions a fourth grader and a retiree can both sometimes get, and this board is tuned for exactly that. Animals, world places, family movies and TV, sports and games, science and nature, and a grab bag give every generation a lane.

Game night setup is quick: board on the TV, one phone per player or per parent-kid pair, and the most theatrical family member hosting.

A tip that keeps the peace: let the youngest player have a three-second head start on buzzing for one category of their choosing. Negotiating which category is part of the fun.

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