Family Reunion Jeopardy

Famous dynasties, TV households, and kitchen-table classics for the reunion crowd, plus room to add your own lore. Free to copy; phones do the buzzing.

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Family Words

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This word describes the brother of one's mother or father.
What is an uncle?
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This word describes the children of one's aunt or uncle.
What are cousins?
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This term describes a parent's parent.
What is a grandparent?
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This term describes relatives gained through marriage, such as a spouse's parents or siblings.
What are in-laws?
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This term describes a woman's husband's sister, or a man's wife's sister.
What is a sister-in-law?

Famous Families in History

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This British royal family has reigned continuously since 1917, when its name was changed from a German one during World War I.
Who are the House of Windsor?
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This wealthy American family made its fortune in oil, led by John D. Rockefeller in the late 1800s.
Who are the Rockefellers?
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This political family produced a U.S. President in 1961 and several other prominent senators and officials throughout the twentieth century.
Who are the Kennedys?
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This Renaissance-era Italian family, based in Florence, rose to power through banking and produced multiple popes and powerful patrons of the arts.
Who are the Medici?
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This French royal family, whose most famous member was executed during the French Revolution alongside his wife Marie Antoinette, ruled France for centuries.
Who are the House of Bourbon?

TV Families

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This animated family, headed by a bumbling father, lives in the fictional town of Springfield.
Who are the Simpsons?
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This 1950s sitcom family, headed by a father named Ward, was famous for depicting an idealized American suburban household.
Who are the Cleavers?
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This wealthy Beverly Hills family struck oil while living in the rural Ozarks and moved to a mansion in a 1960s sitcom.
Who are the Clampetts?
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This eccentric, macabre television family includes a couple named Gomez and Morticia and their children Wednesday and Pugsley.
Who are the Addams Family?
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This animated prehistoric family, headed by Fred, lives in the town of Bedrock and rides in a foot-powered car.
Who are the Flintstones?

Traditions Around the World

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In this Mexican holiday tradition, families build altars called ofrendas to honor and remember deceased relatives.
What is Day of the Dead?
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In this Jewish tradition, a boy or girl reaches religious adulthood at age thirteen or twelve and often celebrates with a ceremony and party.
What is a bar or bat mitzvah?
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In this Chinese festival, families gather for a reunion dinner and give red envelopes containing money to children.
What is Lunar New Year?
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In this Indian festival of lights, families light small oil lamps and set off fireworks to celebrate the victory of light over darkness.
What is Diwali?
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In this Korean harvest festival, families gather to honor their ancestors and share a feast of rice cakes.
What is Chuseok?

Genealogy Basics

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This diagram maps out a person's ancestors and descendants, usually branching upward or outward from one individual.
What is a family tree?
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This term describes a person from whom one is descended, typically a relative further back than a grandparent.
What is an ancestor?
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This term describes someone who comes after a person in a family line, such as a child, grandchild, or great-grandchild.
What is a descendant?
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This U.S. government population count, conducted every ten years, is a key resource genealogists use to trace family history.
What is the census?
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This DNA-based test can reveal a person's ethnic background and help identify unknown relatives by comparing genetic matches.
What is a DNA test?

From Grandma's Kitchen

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This baked dish layers pasta, cheese, and tomato sauce, and is a classic comfort food often passed down through family recipes.
What is lasagna?
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This slow-cooked dish combines meat and vegetables in a covered pot with liquid, cooked low and slow until tender.
What is a stew?
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This dessert layers thin apple slices with cinnamon and sugar inside a flaky, buttery crust.
What is apple pie?
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This Southern dish batters and deep-fries chicken pieces until golden and crispy.
What is fried chicken?
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This baked dish combines shredded or diced potatoes, cheese, and cream in a casserole.
What is a potato casserole?

Final Jeopardy — Genealogy Basics

From an Old French phrase meaning crane's foot, after the branching shape of a descent chart, this word means a documented line of ancestry.

What is a pedigree?

How to run this board

Reunions gather people who share a last name and not much else in common, and a trivia game gives them something to do besides compare traffic stories. The categories lean into the theme: family words, famous families in history, TV families, traditions around the world, genealogy basics, and classic home cooking.

After copying the board, consider swapping a few clues for your own family lore; the cousins will talk about it for years. Then it is just a TV, a stack of phones, and an uncle with a good announcer voice.

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